Faisal Mawari was 42 and serving in the engine room crew of the SS Northern Lights when he was last seen on June 25, 1997. The ship was en route from Anchorage, Alaska, to Tacoma, Washington and was near Ketchikan when he departed the lower engine room in the afternoon or early evening; no one reported seeing him after that.

The crew searched the vessel and found no trace of him. There were no signs indicating foul play or that he intended to leave the ship, and the working theory is that he went overboard and was lost to the sea; in the absence of contrary evidence he is presumed drowned. The case remains unresolved and filed with the Alaska State Troopers.

If anyone worked aboard the SS Northern Lights in June 1997 or was in the Ketchikan area that day and has information, can you help fill in what happened to Faisal Mawari?