Steven Scott Austin, 42, and his companion William Kent Watkins, 50, were last seen on the afternoon of October 21, 1997, in Seldovia, Alaska. They were aboard a private vessel named the Loose Goose Too and stopped in the small Kenai Peninsula community to buy fuel; that transaction is the last confirmed sighting of either man.

An extensive U.S. Coast Guard search of Kachemak Bay and the lower Cook Inlet turned up no trace of the vessel or the men. The Alaska State Troopers formally took the report on October 26, 1997, and described Steven as having brown, collar-length wavy hair, a three-inch beard, blue eyes, scars near his eyes and on his chin and upper lip, a chest scar from prior heart surgery, and tattoos of an eagle on his right forearm and another tattoo on his right arm. No wreckage or debris was ever recovered.

With no vessel found and no further evidence, the circumstances of their disappearance remain unresolved. Did anyone in Seldovia or who traveled those waters in late October 1997 see the Loose Goose Too after it fueled up, or have information about Steven’s movements that afternoon?