In late summer 1998, six people left Wales, Alaska, bound for Little Diomede in the middle of the Bering Strait and were last seen on August 27, 1998. One of the group was 45-year-old Mevlin Edward Kayouktuk, an American Indian/Alaska Native man with black hair and brown eyes. He was reported wearing yellow rain gear, a blue or gray Levi jacket over a black leather jacket, black jeans and black knee-high boots with brown trim.

The party included five adults and one child: Jason Ozenna, Kevin Omiak, Gene L. Ozenna, Mary J. Milligrock, Emery Omiak and Kayouktuk. They were traveling by boat across the Bering Strait, a difficult and unpredictable stretch of water. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System lists the circumstance as boating, and the Alaska State Troopers handled the case under number 980058186.

Does anyone have additional information about the trip, the boat, or sightings around Wales or Diomede in late August 1998 that could help this case?