Natalia Molina Valenzuela, 24, was a crew member on the Norwegian Pearl and was last seen on September 8, 2016, while the ship was in Funter Bay waters west of Juneau, Alaska. She had been working aboard the eight-day cruise that departed Seattle and was known to friends and family as Naty. She studied at the College Institution of Cultural Integration in Bogota before joining the cruise line.

Natalia failed to report for an early shift on September 8 and ship security footage showed her going overboard while the vessel was underway. The United States Coast Guard and Alaska State Troopers mounted a 42-hour search covering about 340 square miles in Lynn Canal, with air and boat crews from Sitka and Ketchikan and the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Liberty participating. No sign of Natalia was found and the official search was suspended; she is presumed to have drowned though her body was never recovered.

Anyone who was aboard the Norwegian Pearl on that voyage or who has information about Natalia’s movements that day is asked to come forward.