Chris Parley Mclain, 34, was last seen in late summer 1985 while working aboard the F/V Western Sea, a 58-foot wooden seine boat operating in Marmot Bay between Kodiak and Afognak Islands. The last contact with Mclain and the vessel was on August 15, 1985; debris later turned up east of Long Island but the boat itself has never been located.

Search efforts recovered the bodies of three crewmen: Peter Barry, found August 20 wearing a life jacket, and later skipper Jerald Bouchard, 58, and Stewart Darling, 25. Chris Mclain, along with crew members Chris Hofer, 27, and Bill Posey, 24, were never found. Reports say the elderly vessel lacked a life raft, survival suits, an EPIRB and an emergency pump.

The disappearance spurred advocacy that contributed to the Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Act of 1988. The exact cause of the sinking remains undetermined and Mclain’s final whereabouts are unknown. Does anyone have information about Mclain, the Western Sea or that 1985 Marmot Bay trip?