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  • Guarding the Golden Gate

    Anyone who has ever sailed in and out through the Golden Gate can attest as to how dangerous it can be. Between storms, from the north, with their pounding waves to the tides flooding in and out through the Gate. Things can look calm in most of the bay but looks are very deceiving. You can be casually sailing south of Treasure Island but once you head north and out from behind it you can be in 3-4 foot swells already. Naturally a lot of ships have gone down trying the enter the Bay. This little article on San Francisco history shows how the dangerous passage through the Gate, many times in fog, was dealt with. I have seen the current version sitting out there from the old Nike Missile Base and always wondered what it was.

    Mile Rocks a reminder of tower, tragedies - SFGate

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