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cold fish

jonson — Mon, 03 May 2004 22:12:13 -0800

Frozen seas. A brief but kind of amazing collection of photos of the deck of a fishing trauler in fridgid conditions, where every exposed surface has layers of frozen saltwater accumulated. This condition can cause the boat to become topheavy and capsize, as well as just plain making life more miserable for those that work on the deck.

By: sklero

sklero — Mon, 03 May 2004 22:23:33 -0800

pretty amazing.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Mon, 03 May 2004 22:27:34 -0800

This is very cool, no doubt, and yet I couldn't help thinking what a better photographer (i.e. with a better eye) could have done with this...

By: jeblis

jeblis — Mon, 03 May 2004 23:19:40 -0800

I think I'm gonna go make some hot chocolate. Anyone want a cup?

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Tue, 04 May 2004 02:04:04 -0800

Nice post, jonson.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Tue, 04 May 2004 07:43:20 -0800

My brother in law has some pictures from when he was working on a fishing boat in Alaska. They look a lot like this, only it wasn't sunny and the boat was much smaller than that Coast Guard cutter. Lots of ice though - hanging and encrusting everything.

By: nelleish

nelleish — Tue, 04 May 2004 08:18:30 -0800

of the deck of a fishing trauler in fridgid conditions This is an amazing post! My father has a segement of video he took of his own cutter at the time, around 1990 off the Eastern seaboard which shows very similar conditions. You can see crew beating off ice with baseball bats. He's been very frank with me, once he brought the video home safely, how annoying and dangerous ice encrusting the desk is, it adds an enourmous amount of weight. But being a (U.S.) Coastie brat, I must point out that these photos are of the deck of a Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker, the Sir Williams Alexander. The phrasing of the site makes this confusing, but what it was saying is that a small fishing trauler (the El Loda Cash ) went down in the Bay of Fundy, and these are photos of one of the rescue vessels out looking for it, hence similar conditions were probably what caused a smaller boat to capsize.

By: vito90

vito90 — Tue, 04 May 2004 08:48:14 -0800

Hey jonson, this is (at LEAST) the second great post you've had about tough commercial boating conditions. Do you have some connection to the industry? Or just a morbid curiousity with sea tragedies?

By: vito90

vito90 — Tue, 04 May 2004 08:50:06 -0800

For those that missed it, this was the first one I had in mind

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Tue, 04 May 2004 09:20:02 -0800

Oh yeah, I remember that post! That was a great one! jonson, nice stuff once again.

By: widdershins

widdershins — Tue, 04 May 2004 09:35:42 -0800

And I remember this one on sharks - yeah, jonson, what gives with the fascination with scary things in the ocean? ; )

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 04 May 2004 09:42:14 -0800

I'm on a mailing list for scary ocean related photo collections. Actually, I typed that meaning to be sarcastic, but then given the absurd scope of interests on the net, there probably IS just such a list. No, I've just happened to run across these photos by pure accident.

By: rglasmann

rglasmann — Tue, 04 May 2004 10:10:29 -0800

There probably IS just such a list If anyone knows the signup address, please let me know. I would definitely subscribe! :-) Cool pictures. Thanks jonson.