...great videography, how come the video guy didn't go all over the place too? Bigger boat?

perhaps he's on an iceberg

Thanks, Kate, that's really beautiful footage.
Man, what a wonderful species we humans are.

Looks like a lumpy day for sure. As long as everything keeps working it's just uncomfortable but....that close to the rocks and a power failure.

It'll be nice to get inside that anchorage and drop the hook.

Lumpy ride and green water on the foredeck.

Maybe seasick brew

That last one - it looked like it was about to dive in ?

A load of crab or a load of gravol :(

I would think the most important person on that ship is not the Captain, but the Engineer. If the engines or the pumps ever failed, they'd be dead.

From what I understand, crab fishermen make a lot of money in a short season, but I'd say they earn it!

I'm swearing off crab meat from here on in because it is likely to have been contaminated with fisherman vomit.

That's only about sea state 6, maybe 7. Have them film sea state 8 and get back to me.... /grin

Have seen the search light ripped off the bridge top along with most of the railings on a couple of this class of ship:

http://www.engsoc.org/~pat/log/20050731-1.jpg

Of course the real bonus is that meal line ups are dead short in those conditions! The drawback is learning to hold onto your bunk while remaining asleep. Strangly enough, I miss that after being ashore for a couple years.

I'm going to show this to my Dad.

He's from the Aran Islands and was basically born on the water. (In fact the most fish I've ever caught was with my Dad and one of my Uncles in a curragh.)

He was recruited to work on the big fishing trawlers out of Milford Haven in Wales (that's actually how he got to Britain). These are huge ships but he was still in some storms that were unbelievably bad and they were being smashed by unbelievably big waves from all sides and on one occasion they thought they would not make it through - and he never went back.

He has a healthy respect for the sea and a healthy respect for fishermen (whether in a small boat or a bigger ship) and so do I.

I do this for relaxation?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NKusg6Jyc9Y

"I would think the most important person on that ship is not the Captain, but the Engineer. If the engines or the pumps ever failed, they'd be dead."

Engineer second, helmsman first. But then, they're joined at the hip. Pounding into a head sea is a ride, but having to come about in such a froth is where the mettle is.

To the international earth-mother death cult this activity expends too much energy for the food retrieved.

The bourgeois at the Algonquin hotel will have to do without crab cocktails to preserves sustainability and climate stability.

Actually. as far as the urban-centric mythos of sustainability dogmatism goes, food production should expend no more energy and resources than that taken from it...so essentially making food should be as easy as pedalling your Cannondale eco-bike 4 blocks to ministry of food Supermart and retrieving a biodeg-pak of soylent green from the freezer.

Aren't you glad these forlks are at the helm of humanity steering it the right direction?

And for those still oblivious to the forces at play in situations such as filmed here, recall that a single cubic foot of sea water weighs 64 lb. Now imagine someone chucking that at your chest.

Skip - amen; remember "The Caine Mutiny?"

b-C, I don't have to imagine it... LOL

Like I said, strange the things that you miss after a while!

I know several crab fisherman personally and I can tell you that, yes, they earn a heck of a lot of money in a very short time period (basically 1-2 months), but they also put their lives on the line practically every day they're on the water.

Not for crab meat, but for crab meat money.

who will supply our UN overlords with proper canapes if it isnt the global warming fueling fishing ships. even the environmentalists are starting to take notice on a full stomach.

http://www.the-environmentalist.org/

No way. No frickin' way. Lubber I was born, and lubber I will die - you'll never get me out in one of those things. AtlanticJim, you're a braver man than I.

Actually, my grandfather was in the merchant marine before the Boer War - tough little mick. Watching that video, however, I realize how well his sense of adventure was probably bred out of me, deep inland.

That looks a little energetic for me. I'll stick to motorcycles and off road racing, stuff where if you wipe out you don't drown. ~:D

Guys, guys... I've got a much easier way! I just go down to the Safeway and they've got them sitting in a fish tank ready to go!

But really, all that for crab? Maybe if those were New York Strips they were pulling up in the nets, sure, but not crab. Ugh.

They are coming home through that?? I'll never complain about my commute again.

There is a reason you see that gently amused look on a sailor's face after getting off the latest monster roller coaster.

At least these guys have an end product. When I bop around in those sea states it is to practice hunting subs or a fun in the sun air defence exercise ;)

Sure there were days like those, but there are also days like this. Folks pay big bucks for this view,

http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/cms_images/ship_site_images/ship_gallery/333/sunset1.jpg

Watch the History channel's "Deadliest Catch". Then you you will never wonder why Alaskan king crab is so expensive. Great documentary.

My worst trip was on a 95' Cutter on the way to a rescue off of Cape St James from Pt Hardy, we wern't sure if we were going to make it, and if we did what we could do. Luckily a larger ship was able to get there and provide a lee for the Rescue by a helicopter.

On one of the episodes of "Deadliest Catch", one of the crab ship's crew pulled a crab pot of one of the other ship's, and replaced it with a wrecked car. Humor on the high seas. It was pretty funny.

"The Deadliest Catch" has started a new season on the Discovery Channel this week, so has "Ice Road Truckers", I forget the cable channel, but, both are so well done.

Bless those that procure our food and stuff under dangerous conditions, conditions that we take for granted.

Mmmm, Alaska and Rupert King Crab is one of the best tasting foods going.

I*ve been in seas about half that big once or twice. If you are midship and secure on rail it can be quite enjoyable when you get *adjusted*. Maybe it*s the ozone or somthing but rough seas can be a pleasure if not too rough and you*ve been out past the *green* week.

Atlantic Jim, That hull looks fairly light and riding high. Maybe not much catch in the hold or does a skipper dump some water ballast in big seas? = TG

Is that crab mear that was caught illegally in Canadian coastal waters?? Up periscope..Hurry Shultz...load the torpedo tubes...ve vill teach dem a lesson...kabooooom

Is that crab meat that was caught illegally in Canadian coastal waters?? Up periscope..Hurry Shultz...load the torpedo tubes...ve vill teach dem a lesson...kabooooom

Did you hear what those noregans did to a bunch of GREENPEACE wackos? they realy cleaned up on those green peace green weenies

...how come Greenpeace isn't out there in their zodiac's?

Most of those noregianers resent the greens like mant in ALASKA do i mean GREENPEACE and SIERRA CLUB are PUBLIC ENEMY #1 IN MANY PARTS OF ALASKA

Heres a Video of HMCS VANCOUVER a few years back... a much larger ship than that crab boat.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D4GRpZ0KV2s