Josiah Dale Bracken II, 31, and his companion, 50-year-old Quinn Whitten, were last seen the evening of December 13, 2025, leaving Back Beach in a 14-foot Lund skiff bound for a float house in Camp Coogan Bay about five nautical miles away. They planned to return the next day but never arrived, and neither the men nor the boat have been located.

An official search began after friends reported them overdue on December 15, 2025. The U.S. Coast Guard, Alaska State Troopers, Sitka Search and Rescue and volunteers searched by air and sea across more than 158 square miles before the active search was suspended on December 17, 2025. Weather that night was reported as poor, with high winds and snow. In the weeks afterward a theft from the float house was reported and an acquaintance of Whitten was later indicted on allegations of stealing firearms from the residence, but that development has not resolved what happened to the two men.

The Alaska State Troopers list the disappearance as an active missing persons investigation. If anyone was in the Eastern Channel or Camp Coogan Bay area on or after December 13, 2025, can you share what you saw or heard?