Hand-built from Sitka spruce by Christopher Saal, a former fisherman and commercial floatplane pilot, the quirky but gorgeous lodge attracts jet-setters. (Forbes 400 member Vinod Khosla visited with a party of 12 in 2003.) Saal, 54, moved to Alaska in 1974 and was here during the spill.

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Step off the floatplane here and you are plunged into a towering landscape with broad, glinting sweeps of water alive with orcas, sea lions, otters, dolphins, and salmon--lots of salmon.

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Sixty-seven percent of victims killed in floatplane accidents die from drowning because they cannot exit the plane as it sinks, a CTV report said.

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