COLUMBIA RIVER RESCUE - INFO NEEDED

I’ve been reading National Fisherman Magazine for at least 30 years, and if you consider yourself any kind of seadog, it’s something you should be reading as well. In the February issue they started a story about a rescue off the Columbia Rivermouth back in 1980

I’ve been privileged to have done a story with the Coast Guardsmen from the National Motor Life Boat School located at Cape Disappointment right at the rivermouth. It’s a wild area that I can only imagine in storm conditions.

Anyway … the story is called Staying Alive and it’s written by Spike Walker, author of Working the Edge (which is as good a look at Bering Sea crab fishing as the Discovery Channel series), as well as others (most recently Coming Back Alive). The NF story is about the March 1980 rescue of the Miss Kim

Walker is doing another book and wants to include the details of the story he’s written in NF, but has discovered that the CG records — and newspaper records — are missing.

Anyone with any first hand knowledge about the rescue can contact Walker at PO Box 1141, Cannon Beach, OR 97110 or e-mail him at mrcrabbs1@excite.com.