Rod and the Rogue Wave
Channel: Bob Bossin
Date: 09/04/2023

I first met Rod Palm in 1979 when I was researching my book “Settling Clayoquot”.  A couple people said, “Be sure to ask Rod Palm about the rogue wave.” When I did, Rod insisted on taking me out onto the open Pacific off Wickaninnish Island, to the scene of the crime, as it were. He cut the engine and as we bobbed up and down – “flat calm” to him, to my stomach, not so much – I recorded the story. At the end he said, “You’re looking kind of green. Are you OK?”
“No,” I replied. Thus began a friendship that lasted 44 years.
Rod died last month, March 2023, at 80; and the west coast lost one of its great divers, shipwreck historians, whale researchers, and all-round salty dogs.
“See ya someday in Fiddler’s Green.”