Jeffrey Allen Houston was 21 and working as a crewman aboard the factory trawler Aleutian Enterprise when the vessel capsized and sank in the Bering Sea on March 22, 1990. The ship was about 60 miles south of St. Paul Island when a hauling operation went catastrophically wrong: a net full of fish snapped, dumping its load onto the deck and causing a severe list. Water then flooded the processing deck through side openings, and the vessel went down in roughly 15 minutes in about 400 feet of water.

Rescue efforts by nearby fishing vessels recovered 22 of the 31 crew; Jeffrey and eight others were not found and the Coast Guard later suspended the search. The NTSB later attributed the sinking to failures in crew training, maintenance, and safety oversight by the operating company, and criticized the captain for continuing to haul the net and not ordering abandonment sooner.

If anyone has memories of the Aleutian Enterprise or knew Jeffrey Houston, can you share what you remember?