Missing Since: 2017-03-26 Location: Newtok, Alaska
John was last seen in Newtok, a small village on the Bering Sea in western Alaska, on March 26, 2017. He left the village at 10:00 a.m. to go seal hunting in his red and yellow fiberglass single-person kayak, and never returned. He has never been heard from again. John had hunted seals regularly throughout his life, and learned the traditional method from his father. He preferred to use an old-fashioned canvas-covered wooden kayak. The day he disappeared was the first time he went hunting in his new fiberglass one. His Arctic Cat snow machine and equipment were found next to a seal carcass on the edge of the ice eighteen miles west of Newtok at 12:30 p.m. There was no sign of John or his kayak. He disappeared on a sunny day and the water was clear and warm, good hunting weather. An extensive search turned up no indication of his whereabouts and he is presumed lost at sea. Investigating Agency Alaska State Trooper 907-543-2294 Source Information Alaska State Troopers KYUK: Public Media for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta The Anchorage Daily News When the Water Took the Land Updated 2 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated June 8, 2018; middle name added.