A bone found on a Northern California beach has officially been identified as belonging to a fisherman who was lost at sea in 1999 after a rogue wave smashed into his boat in Humboldt Bay.
Jonathan Raxa, 37, was last seen when the commercial fishing boat carrying him and three others was struck by an 18-foot wave that ripped the ship’s pilot house from the boat and tossed it into the water.
The 35-foot boat then sank under the large waves.
A skipper managed to grab onto a five-gallon oil can and float until two other crew members pulled him safely aboard their raft, the Los Angeles Times reported at the time.
Three of the four people on the boat…
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