Bodega Bay’s crab season offers allure of sea’s bounty, but treacherous waters await

Bodega Bay is a special place on opening day of recreational crab season, home to an abundance of one of the most sweet, tender and tastiest meats in the sea.

Its waters also hold great peril. On Saturday night, one person died, one was rescued and four others went missing after their boat capsized; on Monday, another vessel capsized, leaving one more person dead and another missing.

“You can get into a lot of trouble really easily and really quickly,” said Paul Kanive of the California White Shark Project...