Tom John John, 59, of Newtok, Alaska, disappeared after setting out to hunt seals on the morning of March 26, 2017. He left in clear, calm conditions wearing a black jacket and black pants and was using a new red and yellow fiberglass single-person kayak for the first time, instead of the canvas-covered wooden kayaks he usually used.

When he failed to return, authorities in Bethel were notified the next day and mounted a coordinated search involving the Rescue Coordination Center, the Civil Air Patrol, the U.S. Coast Guard, and local village searchers. Ground teams found his Arctic Cat snow machine and other equipment at the edge of the ice about eighteen miles west of Newtok, alongside a seal carcass, but there was no sign of Tom John or his kayak. Despite extensive air, ground, and water searches, no further trace was located and he was presumed lost at sea.

Does anyone in the Newtok area or who hunted those waters know more about that stretch of ice or recall any unusual activity on March 26, 2017?