On the rainy night of April 14, 1971, seven college students pushed off from a Tacoma marina in a 22-foot Catalina sailboat and headed into Puget Sound. Sometime after they slipped away from the dock, they vanished. The sailboat, everyone on board, and all of their belongings have never been found, and the mystery is still officially open more than five decades later.
What happened
According to KING 5, the group left the marina at about 9:30 p.m. on April 14. When they did not return, the Coast Guard launched a sweeping search that stretched across Puget Sound. Aircraft and boats combed the water for days, but the effort was called off on April 20, 1971 at 6:00 p.m. without a single confirmed piece of wreckage or debris from the missing vessel or its…..