Now Chevron May 24, 2001. The fuel dock at Shilshole Bay Marina is now a Chevron dealer. The fuel dock remains under the same ownership. Autopilot Problems in Admiralty Inlet May 21, 2001. The cruise ship Norwegian Sky made an unanticipated violent turn in Admiralty Inlet recently, injuring a number of passengers.
News reports blame an autopilot malfunction.
Perhaps so, but on several occasions we have made violent unanticipated turns while under autopilot in Admiralty Inlet. Another time we made a violent turn in Puget Sound. A large Navy warship was operating a few miles away. We have no way of knowing, but we suspect that powerful military radio signals hit the autopilots' fluxgate compasses, throwing the boats into immediate hard-over turns. We don't want to be alarmists or conspiracy-theorists, but we think something is going on in Admiralty Inlet, and we tend to turn our autopilot off when we're in those waters.