Robert Nakashima Sr., age 80, did not return from a solo fishing trip on Kauai on September 15, 2008. He had gone to Rock Quarry Beach in Kilauea, a place he frequented. When he failed to come home his family found his pickup truck parked near the area and alerted authorities.

A multi-agency search began at first light the next day. The U.S. Coast Guard, the Kaua’i Fire Department Air-1 helicopter, lifeguards on personal watercraft and divers swept the coastline and waters, and friends and relatives also joined the effort. Searchers recovered Nakashima’s fishing bag at Makaili Point, near Secret Beach, but no other trace of him was ever found and the official search was called off.

Authorities’ prevailing view is that he was lost at sea. His truck and fishing bag were the only physical items recovered. If anyone was in the Kilauea area that day or remembers seeing an elderly man fishing near Rock Quarry Beach, please share what you know.