A former local lifeguard released a book that pays homage to a group of lifeguards who were recruited to patrol the notoriously dangerous Sonoma Coast.
Ed Vodrazka’s 2021 collection of 39 true tales, "Stories from Sea Level: The Heroic and Humorous Adventures of California’s Ocean Lifeguards," pulls in a reader like the treacherous rip currents he writes about. The stories are thrilling, frightening, harrowing and at times funny.