U.S. Coast Guard Aids to Navigation crew members service shore aids and buoys using a 26-ft Trailerable Aids to Navigation Boat on Lake Roosevelt in Washington, May 14, 2026. ANT Kennewick members travel once a year to Lake Roosevelt in order to service distant aids to navigation. (U.S. Coast Guard Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class William Kirk)
Station Cape Disappointment is known around the Coast Guard as an unforgiving and challenging place to operate. Notorious for 2000 shipwrecks and 700 deaths since its discovery, people across the world recognize it as the Graveyard of the Pacific. But to the crew of Station Cape Disappointment, it is both a home and a training ground.
There is nothing more valuable to human life than the knowledge and skills required to preserve it. A recent course held in Astoria, Ore., offered students exactly that sort of value. The course, specifically designed to educate commercial fishermen on how to survive maritime emergencies, offered a host of information and practical experience aimed at saving their lives.
