Peter Jerome Siefner was 28 when he was swept from the deck of the fishing vessel Karin Lyn into the Bering Sea on February 22, 1981, while the crew was setting crab pots off Dillingham, Alaska. He was washed overboard into frigid, powerful waters; the crew’s immediate response led to a search, but no trace of him was ever recovered.

The circumstances that led to him going overboard are not detailed in surviving accounts, and with no body recovered the incident moved from active search and rescue to a missing person case that is treated as a maritime accident. The Alaska State Troopers would have documented the event and the transition in status.

If anyone worked on the Karin Lyn or was in the Dillingham fishing community in February 1981 and has memories or information about that day, please share what you know.