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I have a friend who worked on that fleet up until this year.
Brutal conditions.
He'd make some awesome money. Like 30 40 thou in a few months.
But he also lost a few friends and almost lost his life several times.
Once they dropped the crab pot and he turned around and his deck partner was just gone...over the side when the line snagged him. Never heard him go over or found him.
They told him if the line comes around your ankles to kick your legs and feet out and up so the line has a better chance of just slideing off!!
He also had a boat get so ice-ed up in a huge gale that it turned over. Fortunately the whole crew was on alert so they all got into their survival suits and made it to the life raft. They all got picked up by the coast gaurd.
He finally quit I think after he got hit on the top of his head by one of the huge crab post while loading up at the dock. Split the top of his head open a good 4 inches. Always wears a hat now.
Brutal conditions.
He'd make some awesome money. Like 30 40 thou in a few months.
But he also lost a few friends and almost lost his life several times.
Once they dropped the crab pot and he turned around and his deck partner was just gone...over the side when the line snagged him. Never heard him go over or found him.
They told him if the line comes around your ankles to kick your legs and feet out and up so the line has a better chance of just slideing off!!
He also had a boat get so ice-ed up in a huge gale that it turned over. Fortunately the whole crew was on alert so they all got into their survival suits and made it to the life raft. They all got picked up by the coast gaurd.
He finally quit I think after he got hit on the top of his head by one of the huge crab post while loading up at the dock. Split the top of his head open a good 4 inches. Always wears a hat now.
Down our way in the southern hemisphere when I was at sea we used to wear sea boots a couple of sizes too big - so if the cray pots down lines got you - you could kick you boots off as you went down.I have heard of cray boats actually winching themselves under when a pot got hooked up.The Skipper and I were the last people to see a guy alive who actually did this.I only had the lines wrap around me once - scared the cr** out of me and you should have seen me jump!We never had ice like those Bering fleets though.
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i didn't write that - what happened to the rest of the anecdote i did write?? if i'd used a naughty word, i'd be happy to have the word edited. feel free to substitute 'stuffing' for the 'c' word in your ps, or cr** like jutte if that will allow the rest of the story back. was unaware that only mods can use it.
I have watched this on cable, it appears to be the same episode repeated again and again.
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lol-
i guess it might look that way -lol
after a few seasons you get to know who the capt and crews are-so they dont look so much alike-
i personally have no inclination to take a trip out on the bearing seas with 30-40ft plus waves on a 100ft boat during a blizzard to make some money-
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kronckew - I apologize...been overworking and must have messed up what I was trying to do...thought I was quoting you when I had actually accidentally hit the edit button.
Mea culpa...again, I apologize.
I will see if it made it into the record.
Mea culpa...again, I apologize.
I will see if it made it into the record.
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bad nasty, bad, bad, no cookie for you today..... 
for those of you who are confused, i'd posted an anecdote re the ice buildup on the fishing boat that turned over & the crew recued by a CG Cutter, i was the EO (engineer officer) on a coast guard cutter where that almost happend to us in the bering sea and we all had to go out and beat the ice off the superstructure with pick and axe handles for two days in shifts, being the EO i used a ball peen hammer when it was my turn, that was exhausting and very scary.
for those of you who are confused, i'd posted an anecdote re the ice buildup on the fishing boat that turned over & the crew recued by a CG Cutter, i was the EO (engineer officer) on a coast guard cutter where that almost happend to us in the bering sea and we all had to go out and beat the ice off the superstructure with pick and axe handles for two days in shifts, being the EO i used a ball peen hammer when it was my turn, that was exhausting and very scary.
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Were you brought up cathlic Nasty? Or was life just hard?
No sarcasm from me , been through hard myself, just cureas , my personal hazard from counseling training.
if the questian os innapropriate for public forum, no worrys, quite understand.
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Bruise would have been proud of you.
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And also a quite accomplished singer as well! Mike Rowe used to be a singer with an opera group.:thumbup:
I keep hoping for some new shows to come out, getting tired of the reran, reran, rerans.:yawn:
And also a quite accomplished singer as well! Mike Rowe used to be a singer with an opera group.:thumbup:
I keep hoping for some new shows to come out, getting tired of the reran, reran, rerans.:yawn:
I figured he had that kind of background when he broke into an aria while paddling a dingy in a Dairy farm's manure pond.
The intro where he says "I'm Mike Rowe, and this is my job". While standing behind a cow with his arm, shoulder deep, up the cows rectal passage trying to determine if the old girl is pregnant or not is about as priceless as good writing can get. I guess waiting for her to pee on a little strip wouldn't make for entertaining television.
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Yup, that one is hilarious but then a lot of his shows are.:thumbup: Mike does things for Discovery Television that I would never dream of doing, let alone doing it every day like some of the people in his shows do.
The summer I worked as a plumber's helper with my grandpa made up my mind really quick that I didn't want to be a plumber!!!!
Being an apprentice machinist for the years I was an apprentice and having to clean the occasional sump was bad and stinky enough for me!!!!:thumbdn: :barf: