Bryan Kyle Lee: A Shipboard Timeline
An offshore record, reporting and a family’s perspective.
Abstract
NamUs MP153238 gives February 4, 2025 as Lee’s Date of Last Contact. Its narrative describes a shipboard contact aboard USCGC Waesche off Mexico.1
Case Record
The narrative gives 0500Z; the Missing From field lists Alameda. The entry does not identify the observer.1
Family Perspective
On February 27, 2025, Sindie Lee posted a public appeal describing his Coast Guard career beginning in Alameda in May 2023. The appeal portrays him as a devoted son and brother who enjoyed his work and felt pride in serving. It preserves the family’s perspective on his life and their concern. It provides no eyewitness account of the circumstances aboard the cutter.2
Contemporary Reporting
Alex Wilson’s February 7 report described an unidentified Waesche crewmember discovered missing Tuesday morning, about eight hours after the last observation. Coast Guard spokeswoman Jeannie Shaye told him no further details were available.3
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you find a public explanation for the agency’s June 13, 2025 report date?1
Can you distinguish the observation from the discovery in an original public chronology? Keep dated sources in a Research File in Almost Solved.3
Show later developments and reported outcomes
Later Search Report
Gary Warner’s February 10 report named Lee and said the Coast Guard had suspended the search pending new information. U.S. and Mexican assets searched about 19,000 square nautical miles. That operational decision does not establish his fate.4
Scope and Method
Current outcome remains unverified.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- NamUs, MP153238; reviewed November 2026.
- Sindie Lee, public family appeal, February 27, 2025.
- Alex Wilson, Stars and Stripes, February 7, 2025.
- Gary Warner, Stars and Stripes, February 10, 2025.