On Saturday, January 25, 1986, 16-year-old Keith Humenik and two classmates, Anthony Beirnes and Mitchell Zimny, left Anacortes, Washington, in a borrowed homemade white aluminum skiff about ten to eleven feet long with a 7.5-horsepower engine. The boys, all juniors in high school, planned a short one-and-a-half-mile trip to Young Island and were last seen near Fidalgo Island. Keith had brown hair and brown eyes and was wearing a blue ski jacket, jeans, a white or red shirt, and a white K-2 baseball hat.

The teens never returned. A search recovered only a single oar from the skiff on the south side of Burrows Island; the United States Coast Guard searched through January 29th with no further trace of the boat or the boys. Authorities have long presumed the three drowned after a capsizing or other boating accident, but no remains have been recovered and key questions about what happened on that calm, sunny day remain unanswered.

Did anyone in the area that afternoon see a small skiff or notice anything unusual near Young Island or Burrows Island?