The Columbia River Bar Pilots, Part III By Nancy Lloyd For The Astorian On the centennial of the Columbia River Bar Pilots’ ...
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The Most Dangerous Waters in America - And the Pilots Who Brave Them
Where the Columbia River collides with the Pacific Ocean lies one of the deadliest maritime chokepoints in the world — a shifting battlefield of sandbars, explosive waves, and unpredictable storms.
Columbia River Pilots is an association of independent pilots, a unique organization that uses a network of pilots and independent boats to manage a long stretch of river in the U.S. Pacific Northwest ...
The Columbia River Bar Pilots organization was officially chartered in 1846 in Astoria, Oregon, 12 miles upriver, where today Victorian houses still crowd the steep hills to the waterfront and the ...
ASTORIA — Clicking through pictures on his computer screen, Columbia River Bar Pilot Capt. Robert Johnson detailed his ride on a liquefied natural gas tanker as it entered Boston Harbor, where the ...
Columbia River Pilots is an association of independent pilots, a unique organization that uses a network of pilots and independent boats to manage a long stretch of river in the U.S. Pacific Northwest ...
Just as the 1849 discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill brought hordes of fortune-seeking immigrants to the hillside streams of what would become California, so did the natural wealth of the Oregon ...
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