Ethan Goolsby, 20, was serving as an Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Apprentice aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt when he was reported missing on December 10, 2020, off the coast of Southern California. A ship-wide muster found him absent after a lookout earlier observed a person in the water. The Navy launched an immediate search and rescue using helicopters and boats; the effort lasted about 55 hours and covered more than 600 square nautical miles.

The Navy ended active searching on December 12, 2020, after consulting with the family and concluding further rescue attempts were unlikely to succeed. He had joined the Navy in 2019 and been stationed aboard Theodore Roosevelt in July 2020; he was originally from San Antonio, Texas. The circumstances of his disappearance remain under investigation.

Did anyone onboard or in the area that day see anything relevant to Ethan’s disappearance?