Liam O’Donoghue has seen some wild stuff in his seven years running his East Bay Yesterday tour on a fishing boat in the San Francisco Bay, like breaching whales and crashing Jet Skis. But none compared to what happened Friday afternoon as O’Donoghue was getting ready to deliver a talk on the East Bay’s mass transit system.
“Did you see a guy in the water?” the boat’s first mate asked as O’Donoghue, who also hosts the “East Bay Yesterday” podcast, was about to take to the microphone. Instead, he grabbed his binoculars.
There he was — a man bobbing in the water on the other side of the Bay Bridge, about 200 yards behind them. Three people on the north side of the bridge screamed “Be careful” and pointed at the man…