Richard Thomas Basgier was 33 when he left Lynnhaven Inlet on October 3, 1987, to go fishing off Virginia Beach with 27-year-old Marc McDaniels. They took a bright green 17-foot Sea Eagle Trihull with a white 85-horsepower Johnson outboard and Virginia plate 2525K, heading toward the Chesapeake Light Tower and expected to return before dark. Basgier had brown hair, brown eyes, a mustache, and a scar on his forehead above one eye; he was reported to be wearing a blue jacket and either brown or blue shorts.

A sudden storm moved through the Hampton Roads area that day, producing 10 to 12-foot waves that would have posed extreme danger to a small open-cabin boat. Neither man, nor the boat, was ever seen again. The Virginia Beach Police Department maintains the case file and both men are presumed lost at sea. Little detail is available about the immediate search and rescue efforts that followed.

If anyone has information about Richard Basgier, Marc McDaniels, or the green Sea Eagle Trihull, please share what you know with the Virginia Beach Police.