Ricardo Sainz was a 42-year-old U.S. Forest Service fisheries biologist working in the Bakewell Lake area, about 40 miles east of Ketchikan, when he disappeared on November 4, 2004. He and two colleagues were in a small motorless skiff dismantling parts of a fish ladder and weir when high water created a severe current that pulled the boat toward a 35-foot waterfall. The three men abandoned the skiff and tried to swim to shore; the two colleagues reached land but Sainz was swept away.

A large search followed involving Alaska State Troopers, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Forest Service and the Ketchikan Volunteer Rescue Squad. Searchers found some of his belongings, including his hard hat and torn pieces of chest waders near the waterfall, and used an underwater camera below the falls, but Sainz was not located. He is presumed to have drowned and the case remains an open missing persons investigation.

Did anyone who worked in the Bakewell Lake drainage or the Ketchikan Forest Service at that time have information that could help close this case?