La Push image of a La Push Coast Guard boat doing surf rescue training.
Matt Hinton wrote me, "Very dramatic place in winter... And the scene of a tragedy a couple of years back. A sailboat made a distress call -- caught in high winds and
heavy seas a few
miles north of La Push. The skipper of the Coast Guard lifeboat at La
Push made a rash decision that he and his crew should go to the rescue.
Their boat was wrecked almost immediately, overwhelmed by huge waves and
destroyed on the rocks. Only one crewmember survived. The crew on the
sailboat, meanwhile, were rescued by helicopter. Their boat ended up
crammed deep in a narrow channel in the rocks, and created a huge fight
over salvage rights."
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