Why the pandemic may be causing a rising tide of abandoned boats in the San Francisco Bay

In early November, two boats washed ashore on the rocks just off the Safe Harbor Emeryville... The battered boats are not so mysterious, however, to Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director at SF Baykeeper, a nonprofit that patrols the bay monitoring for pollution and environmental threats. Speeding around in her patrol boat — SF Baykeeper emblazoned just above the water line — she says her team sees abandoned vessels, like the two marooned in Emeryville, almost every day; and the number has grown significantly since the pandemic began.