Lane Nelson Smyth was 22 when he and his father, Carter Eugene Smyth, disappeared after their small boat was swamped near Narrow Cape, south of Kodiak Island, on November 7, 1976. The two men were last seen attempting to beach the vessel after trouble on the water; neither was ever found.

Search efforts by authorities covered the waters and coastline around Narrow Cape but failed to locate either man. The Alaska State Troopers opened a case file the day of the incident, and the Alaska Department of Public Safety’s Missing Persons Clearinghouse continues to list the case. Official accounts point to a boating accident with both men presumed drowned, but no remains or new evidence have been recovered.

Did anyone in the Kodiak or Narrow Cape area have contact with Lane or his father around that date, or remember the search operations that followed?