Bearing drift

By Peter Sloan Eident

Subjects: Boats and boating, Collisions at sea, Lifesaving, United States, Shipwrecks, Boats, History, United States. Coast Guard, Santa Cruz II (Cargo Ship)

Description: The author's personal tale of surviving the sinking of the Coast Guard vessel Cuyahoga, which along with the sinking of the USCG Blackthorn changed the course of the over-taxed and under-funded Coast Guard in the 1970s and 1980s.