Douglas Stephen Rowe was 48 and working aboard the 91-foot trawler Amber Dawn when the vessel sank in heavy weather about six miles north of Atka Island in the Aleutian Islands on March 5, 2001. The Amber Dawn reportedly flooded through the lazarette, a stern storage compartment, and sent a distress call that brought the 267-foot processing vessel Katie Ann to the scene.

Katie Ann rescued three of the five crew, but Douglas Rowe and fellow crewman Roman Telak were not found. At the time he was wearing a red and orange survival suit stenciled Amber Dawn on the back, wore glasses, and had a scar on his right thigh. Official search efforts concluded without locating them and their ultimate fate remains unknown.

If anyone knew Douglas, sailed with him, or has information about that voyage or debris sightings in March 2001, please share what is known.