Timothy Allen Adkins, 27, disappeared on July 19, 1987, while scuba diving about sixteen miles west of Tarpon Springs, Florida. He and a friend surfaced and began swimming back to their boat; the friend reached the boat but Adkins did not. The U.S. Coast Guard conducted an extensive search and recovered Adkins’s oxygen tank and wetsuit but not his body.

Adkins is described as 5 feet 9 inches, 125 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Authorities believe he drowned in a diving accident, but his body was never found and the case remains open as a lost/injured missing person.

Did anyone who was diving in the Gulf near Tarpon Springs on July 19, 1987, or who knew Timothy, see or hear anything that could help explain what happened?