Sean Kendall, 42, disappeared on March 6, 2025, after a work trip across the Susitna River near the confluence with Fish Creek went wrong when the ice gave way beneath a side-by-side utility vehicle. He and four other adults were en route to a remote job site at Point MacKenzie; three people escaped the frigid water, but Kendall and a colleague, 32-year-old Skye Rench of Wasilla, were swept away under the ice. Survivors reached a nearby work camp and were later picked up by helicopter.

Alaska State Troopers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers searched downstream from the break point, primarily by air because of unstable ice, with assets including a DPS aircraft and the Civil Air Patrol. Despite those efforts, neither Kendall nor Rench was found, and both are believed to have drowned. Kendall, originally from Colorado and raised in Alaska, worked as an experienced lineman specializing in horizontal drilling. He leaves his wife Gina and son Koen.

Did anyone in the area see the vehicle or activity on the Susitna River that day, or have information about the crossing?