2 men missing after ATV with 5 riders breaks through ice on Alaska river, cops say
Two men are missing after an ATV fell through ice on an Alaska river, officials said.
Three other people also on the side-by-side ATV “were able to get out of the water” when it broke through the ice Thursday, March 6, but the two missing men “were reported to have gone under the ice in the current,” Alaska State Troopers said in a March 7 dispatch.
The missing men are Sean Kendall, 42, from Anchorage, and Skye Rench, 32, from Wasilla, troopers said.
They were on the Susitna River in the Matanuska-Susitna area of south central Alaska, according to troopers.
The three people who escaped made it on foot to a work camp in the area “and were later picked up by chartered helicopter,” troopers said.
Rench’s fiancee, Heidi Goozen, said she was told they tried to grab Kendall and Rench when the ATV’s back section went into the water, but ultimately couldn’t, KTUU reported. She said Rench — whom she was set to wed later this year — was on a work trip for a drilling company, the outlet reported.
A helicopter and planes were used in the search for the missing men, troopers said.
In an update March 8, troopers said the effort is “transitioning to a reactive search.”
This story was originally published March 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM with the headline "2 men missing after ATV with 5 riders breaks through ice on Alaska river, cops say."
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