HOMER, Alaska — It has been exactly one month since the Maynard family was lost at sea after their boat capsized off the coast of Homer, Alaska.
On Saturday, Aug. 3, 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 around 7 p.m. The four others survived, but the Maynards were never found, despite search efforts by the U.S. Coast Guard.
For the first time, family members are speaking to 6 News. Rhonda Rizzo, aunt of David Maynard, shared how their family has been dealing with the tragedy.
"It's very frustrating because we have no idea what happened," Rizzo said. "We have no idea what happened and it's, I mean, we've got multiple stories but nothing definite and it's just frustrating."
The family continues to mourn the losses of the four, Rizzo said Colton had a heart of gold and Brantley was a lot like his father and had a big personality.
"Colton had a heart of gold. He was a beautiful child. He loved everybody. I mean, everybody, he loved everybody, everybody he saw, he gave them a hug and Brantley was a little, like they said, he was a little spit fire. He had a personality that's for sure, he was a lot like David," Rizzo said.
Rizzo adds that she spoke with the Maynards the same day they went missing. It was a call the family will never forget.
"We talked to them that morning," Rizzo said. "Colton called that morning and then boom, we get a call. They're lost at sea, boat capsized. Nobody knows what happened."
A lot of the family's frustration comes from the fact that there were four survivors who know what happened that day, yet what those survivors have told investigators has not been made public.
6 News has filed an open records request with the Alaska Department of Public Safety and once that returns we will share what the survivors said happened that day.
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