Richard Guy Condon, a 43-year-old associate professor at the University of Arkansas and editor of Arctic Anthropology, was last seen on September 7, 1995, during a research voyage across the Bering Strait. He and three colleagues were traveling in a small skin boat from Nome, Alaska, along the coast of the Chukotka Peninsula toward Provideniya, accompanied by five Siberian Yup’ik navigators from Sireniki. Reports say the party encountered rough seas and disappeared; another skin boat carrying five Native hunters was also lost in the same area around the same time.

No survivors were found and Condon and the other occupants are presumed to have drowned in the Bering Sea. He was survived by his wife, who was also an anthropologist, and their two young daughters. The precise circumstances of the boat’s loss remain unexplained. Does anyone who worked in Arctic research or knew this expedition have additional details that could clarify what happened?