A routine spring boat trip from Hydaburg to Craig in May 1978 ended in disappearance for 20-year-old Verne Edenshaw, Jr. and four companions — Victor Jay Burgess, Glenn Cook, Delbert Kelley, and William Hamilton Jr. The men were last seen at the Waterfall Resort, about 15 miles from Craig, on what was roughly a 30-mile marine journey common in the region.

Searchers found one of the skiffs submerged in San Alberto Bay near Cruz Island and the other tied to a rock at Canoe Pass, but none of the five men’s bodies were recovered. Reports point to a drowning accident as the prevailing explanation, given the area’s strong currents, unpredictable weather, and cold water, but the exact sequence of events that day remains unknown.

Please share any information that might shed light on what happened.