Gene Lee Ozenna, 41, was last seen August 27, 1998, while traveling by boat from Wales, Alaska, to Little Diomede. An American Indian / Alaska Native man known as Jean Ozenna, he had black hair, brown eyes, a scar on his left arm and tattoos on his left forearm. At the time he went missing he wore a yellow and black jacket, blue Levi pants, a yellow rain jacket and tennis shoes.

Gene was on the vessel with four other adults and one child when the group vanished en route across the Bering Strait. Few details about what happened on the boat have been reported, and no conclusive account has emerged. The Alaska State Troopers list his disappearance as an open case.

Did anyone who was in coastal western Alaska in late August 1998 see or hear anything about a small boat traveling toward Little Diomede?