On a March afternoon in 2006, 21-year-old Navy sailor Zachary Ryan Johnson went to Spitting Caves in the Portlock neighborhood of Honolulu with a friend and jumped from a ledge estimated at about 15 to 20 feet into turbulent water. Wearing white swim shorts, he was unable to climb back onto the rocky ledge and was pulled farther out by strong currents and a high tide. His friend witnessed him being swept away and by the time rescue crews arrived Johnson was more than 400 yards from shore and struggling against the ocean.

A multi-agency search followed, with the U.S. Coast Guard deploying a helicopter, patrol boat and later the Coast Guard Cutter Assateague, the Honolulu Fire Department providing a helicopter and rescue divers, the Navy sending a P-3 airplane, and other crews searching from Kahala to Makapu u. After several days of exhaustive searching no trace of Johnson was found and the search was called off.

Does anyone who was in the Portlock area that day recall seeing Johnson or the rescue operations?