Wave Flips Fishing Boat, Kills 4 Off Sonoma

A crabbing trip went horribly awry yesterday morning off the coast of California's Sonoma County, when a wave hit a fishing boat upon its return to Bodega Bay, flipping it over and killing four of those aboard. As the LA Times reports, a sheriff's helicopter plucked the lone survivor, a 66-year-old man, from a rock; he suffered abrasions in the incident and was "very cold." The US Coast Guard later recovered four victims, three men and a woman, from the water; nobody was wearing a life jacket. A Coast Guard rep described conditions on the water as "fairly decent." (More fishing boat stories.)