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Port of L.A. pilot boat operators have a swell job

It's chilly and hard to see at 4 a.m. as Martin Maher throttles up his turbocharged work boat against the swells. He is set to rendezvous with a Chinese container ship three miles beyond the Port of Los Angeles breakwater.

By Louis Sahagun

December 22, 2009

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