Chronicles here are the lives of ordinary men, set in the circumstances fraught with danger. Men doing their utmost to assure the safe transit of ship and crew under perilous conditions…these are the pilots who bring the ships in and out of Coos Bay.
Sea stories from 1850 to the present are told with excitement and accuracy, including the first-person account by the pilot who attempted to recover the New Carissa after she ran aground on the north spit of Coos Bay in 1999.
