Robert Leo Mccord, a 35-year-old observer from Englewood, Colorado, was last seen on March 22, 1990, aboard the 142-foot fish processing vessel Aleutian Enterprise out of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The vessel capsized and sank in the Bering Sea about 60 miles south of Saint Paul Island at around 1:40 p.m. after a net filled with cod spilled onto the deck, causing a severe list and progressive flooding through side openings that lacked watertight closures.

Of 31 people on board, 22 were rescued; Mccord was among nine who were lost at sea. Survivors and the U.S. Coast Guard identified multiple safety failings, including no assigned load line, blocked emergency exits, inaccessible survival suits, inadequate abandon ship drills, and delayed orders to abandon ship. A subsequent search failed to recover the missing, who are presumed dead.