Alaska dive team finds remains believed to be missing Troy family
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Source: KCEN TV
The Maynard family went missing on Aug. 3, 2024 off the coast of Alaska. A dive team says their boat has now been located.
TROY, Texas — A dive team in Alaska has found the remains of whom they believe to be a missing family from Troy, the Alaska Dive Search Rescue and Recovery Team has announced. The team announced on May 28 that a group consisting of Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Support Vessels of Alaska, Vision Subsea and Benthic Geoscience Inc. found a vessel positively identified as a boat that went missing in August 2024, with four members of the Maynard family of Troy, Texas on board.
David Maynard, 42, his wife Mary, 37, and their two sons, Colton, 11, and Brantley, 7, were aboard a 28-foot aluminum boat with four others when it capsized 16 miles west of Homer Spit, Alaska around 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024. The four others on the boat survived and were rescued, but the Maynard family has been missing ever since.
Alaska DPS listed the four members of the Maynard family as missing persons, as multiple attempts to find them and the boat were unsuccessful. The Alaska Dive Search Rescue and Recovery Team said the boat was found in 180 feet of water in early May. Using a remotely operated vehicle, the team was reportedly able to positively identify the boat as the one that had gone missing. On May 27 and 28, 2025, volunteers from the team conducted dives to the boat with the help of Alaska Wildlife Troopers, recovering three sets of remains. The remains have reportedly been sent to the State Medical Examiner's Office for positive identification and autopsy. Next of kin has been notified, according to the team. Operations are still being conducted to search the boat for any more remains, the team said.
I re-read the story and there were initially 8 people on the boat and four of them survived.
"They were just gone," one of the survivors we are choosing not to identify said. "It had to have been, I mean, it was 10 minutes, maybe 10 minutes from us having fun to the boat. The boat rolled like this tipped on its side and then the engines went down and just the nose up."
The captain of the boat told the jury while they were out on the water, one of the engines had sputtered. He saw another fishing boat nearby, so he anchored the boat.
"At one point. David asked me, got my attention and he pointed to the back corner of the deck where there was a drain hole for water that would come up get on deck," the captain said. "He pointed to it and he said, is that normal? I said no, at that point, went into the cabin and I just got ready to fire up the engine to pull anchor, but engines wouldn't start and I kept trying."
At one point in his testimony the captain said he didn't know where the Maynard family was while he was saving his own family. He then testified that he tried to reach inside the boat window but the boat was sinking too fast while he was looking for the Maynards.
https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/it-was-10-minutes-us-having-fun-boat-tipping-survivors-capsized-boat-alaska-speak-presumptive-death-hearing/500-40cf44d9-d80b-46ef-9d6c-6bc8bea3f3e7
Read more: https://www.kcentv.com/article/life/people/alaska-dive-team-finds-remains-believed-maynard-family/500-9e88c070-1c64-44e1-b44b-9f5d057c3f22
I have relatives who live in Homer Alaska, where the family went on their trip, so the story caught my eye
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