Olen Seth Nash, also reported as Olin, was a 20-year-old White man from Southeast Alaska who vanished on November 12, 1999, when the steel-hulled longline halibut vessel Becca Dawn sank in the Fairweather fishing grounds west of Yakutat. The four-member crew encountered a violent winter storm with heavy snow, 35 to 45 foot seas, powerful winds and freezing spray. During the foundering Olen was wearing an orange survival suit over blue polypropylene clothing and was reportedly tethered to the sinking vessel by a rope. He was last seen attempting to swim toward a life raft that had broken loose while the raft and vessel moved apart in the storm.

A US Coast Guard HH-60J helicopter rescued the three surviving crew members after a difficult hoist in gale conditions that included gusts reported near 65 knots and severely limited visibility. Crews conducted an extensive search over a wide area afterward but found no trace of Olen. No recovery has been reported and Alaska State Troopers continue to list him as a missing person tied to the Becca Dawn sinking. Olen was about six feet tall, 175 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes at the time he disappeared.

Did anyone who worked in Gulf of Alaska fisheries at that time or who has information about the Becca Dawn disaster ever encounter details that could help explain what happened to Olen?