Bryan Lagrimas Adona was a 29-year-old Asian male who was last seen on February 19, 1992, in Haleiwa, Hawaii, on the North Shore of Oahu. His last known contact came in the water at a surf spot known as Leftovers, where he had gone with his boogie board. What began as a day in a place familiar to many local ocean users became a heartbreaking disappearance when Bryan did not return home.
According to NamUs, he was reported missing from Haleiwa, and the Honolulu Police Department is listed as the investigating agency in the case.
The known circumstances place Bryan in the ocean with his boogie board at Leftovers, a North Shore surf area west of Waimea Bay. When he failed to come back, concern grew quickly. Later that night, a friend found Bryan’s vehicle and belongings in the area, a discovery that suggested he had not simply left on his own. His recovered vehicle was a 1991 Ford Ranger with Hawaii plate ECT 997, and the case information notes that the vehicle was recovered at the scene and later released to his family.
The next day, Bryan’s boogie board was found washed ashore. The board reportedly had damage that appeared consistent with a large shark bite. A Honolulu Star-Bulletin report later summarized the incident by noting that Bryan did not return from bodyboarding at Leftovers on February 19, 1992, and that his bodyboard was found the following morning with a 16-inch crescent-shaped piece missing. Other reporting and compiled shark-incident material described the board as having a large chunk torn out, believed by marine scientists to have been caused by a large tiger shark.
In the days after Bryan disappeared, an extensive search was conducted in the area, but he was never found. Public case summaries do not describe a recovery of Bryan himself, and the available NamUs information does not list the case as resolved as Alive or Deceased. That leaves the public record with a painful lack of final answers: a young man entered the water with his boogie board, his belongings and vehicle were later found, his damaged board came ashore, and the search that followed did not bring him home.
Bryan is described in public memorial information as an Oahu-born man, the son of Ben and Betty Adona, employed as a mechanic for Aloha Airlines and engaged to marry Dayna Kuboi. That same memorial account says he had taken up bodyboarding after a car accident left him with weakened and injured legs, because being in the water allowed him to stay active and gave him relief from pain. Those personal details add depth to the official case record: Bryan was not just a name in a missing person database, but a loved son, fiancé, worker, and ocean enthusiast whose life was connected to the water long before the day he vanished.
The disappearance of Bryan Lagrimas Adona remains a sorrowful North Shore case built around a small number of known facts and many unanswered questions. He was 29 years old, male, last seen on February 19, 1992, in the water at Leftovers near Haleiwa, Hawaii, with his boogie board; he did not return home; his vehicle and belongings were found nearby; his board later washed ashore with damage believed to be from a large shark; and despite an extensive search, Bryan himself was never located. The case stands as an enduring reminder of how quickly a familiar place can become the center of a family’s grief, and how the absence of a final recovery can leave loved ones carrying uncertainty for decades.Last Seen: Feb 19, 1992
