“If I am assigned to reposition myself out to the pilot station to be available for inbound ship traffic expected later that day, I drive from Seattle out to the pilot station in Port Angeles. “I pick ...

When a pilot comes off an outbound ship, he will stay at the pilot station on Ediz Hook in Port Angeles to await an inbound vessel. The station has dormitory-style sleeping quarters, a small living ...

For over 40 years, Capt. Efraín Hallax, 73, has been steering vessels through the canal, and he has seen it all, from a dictator’s fall to the rise of U.S. interest in retaking the waterway.