On April 27, 1989, 30-year-old James Dave Garner was aboard the 42-foot fiberglass fishing vessel Legend, fishing near Cape Douglas in southwest Cook Inlet. The Legend was homeported in Homer and had four crew that day: James Garner, Richard Wiard, Doug Cundiff, and Mike Barney. The vessel overturned and sank in hazardous conditions, casting the crew into Cook Inlet.

Search and rescue operations began immediately and the overturned vessel was located on April 30, 1989, but no signs of the men were ever found. Official searches were suspended and the investigation concluded the men were lost at sea; their bodies were never recovered. The sinking of the Legend is recorded as a major loss to Homer’s commercial fishing community in 1989.

If anyone was in the Cape Douglas area that late April or has information about the Legend’s final voyage, please share what is known.