Victor Vane Burgess Jr., 23, disappeared on May 6, 1978 after setting out from Hydaburg, Alaska, with four companions for a routine boat trip to Craig. The group was last seen at the Waterfall Resort, about 15 miles from their intended destination.

Searchers later found one of the skiffs submerged near Cruz Island in San Alberto Bay and the other tied to a rock at Canoe Pass. With no survivors and only the boats recovered, the men were presumed to have drowned and the investigation concluded they were victims of a boating accident in the cold Alaskan waters.

Nothing else has been recovered that explains what happened that day, and the final moments remain unknown. If anyone knew Victor, the other boaters, or was in the Prince of Wales Island area on May 6, 1978, please share what you remember.