A late-summer boating accident on September 2, 1980, left a Kodiak family without two young men. Fifteen-year-old Daniel Ignatin, described as American Indian or Alaska Native with brown hair and brown eyes, was with Peter Ignatin in the channel between Old Harbor and Sitkalidak Island when their boat went missing. Daniel was reportedly wearing red jeans that day.

Both Daniel and Peter disappeared after the incident and were never located despite search efforts. The Alaska State Troopers in Anchorage investigated under case number LE800001295. The file was later entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System on March 17, 2020. Both young men are presumed deceased, but many factual details about the accident remain sparse.

If anyone knew Daniel or Peter, or has information about boating activity in the Old Harbor–Sitkalidak Island channel in early September 1980, please share what is known.