On February 18, 1996, 24-year-old Rodney Charles Allen of Dillingham, Alaska, fell overboard from the fishing vessel Bluefin while setting crab pots about 60 miles west-northwest of St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea. He was not wearing a survival suit when he went into the frigid water and vanished from sight.

At the time he was last seen he was 6 feet tall, 170 pounds, with black hair and hazel eyes. He was wearing orange Grudgen rain pants, an oil skin rain jacket, a dark hooded sweatshirt over a white hoodless sweatshirt, and a Guy Cotton belt holding a Victor’s knife attached to his rain gear. The Alaska State Troopers’ report records the incident as a man swept overboard; his body was not recovered and he remains missing.

Anyone who knew Rodney or has information about that day is asked to come forward.