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jlf1961 -> Deadliest Catch Fan thread.... or maybe we need to get a life.... (4/28/2009 5:49:13 PM)
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Alright, for all deadliest catch fans on these boards, here are the links you have been wishing for, links to the home pages for the four main boats in the show!!!!
http://www.crabwizard.com/ The FV Wizard
http://www.corneliamarie.com/ The FV Cornelia Marie
http://www.fvnorthwestern.com/ The FV Northwestern
http://www.timebandit.tv/ The FV Timebandit
For those who dont know, FV is the US Coast Guard Designation for Fishing Vessel.
The full story on the Katmai can be found here... http://search.nwsource.com/search?topic=Local&from=ST&similarto=MB%3A2008493792
Included are reports on the hearings on the sinking, survivor testimonies, and all related information. The show will not have the hearing results dealing with the vessel's sinking.
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This is the third time in eight years that a head-and-gut vessel has sank off Alaska. The trio of sinkings have claimed at least 25 lives, and the fleet has been under a Coast Guard safety spotlight, which will ramp up again next week as a Marine Board of Investigation convenes in Anchorage to delve into the latest sinking and how to prevent future casualties.
As for the possibility of the Wizard sinking, as hinted at in the previews of at least two episodes, I am happy to inform all that the vessel is, as of the end of the crabbing season, safely anchored in her home port.
As for Captain Phil of the Cornelia Marie, I have not found any information on his health, however, his myspace page and the webpage has been updated recently.
Finally, for the record, and speaking as someone that actually repaired fishing vessels that worked the waters of the North Atlantic, I have seen vessels limp into port with steel hulls leaking from the wave impacts in the north Atlantic. I am not saying that the Bering Sea is a cake walk, but, I have replaced sections of steel hulls that ranged in size from 20 square feet to an entire bow quarter that have been buckled due to the heavy seas.
Weather changes by the hour, seas routinely run as high as 80+ feet. So the thirty to 60 foot seas the crabbers would be considered a calm day on the North Atlantic, the meanest bitch of an ocean on the planet.
When you consider the age of the crabbing fleet, and they survive the seasons in the Bering, compared to fishing vessels less than ten years old on the north Atlantic that have been retired due to the repeated structural damage to the vessels by the heavy seas, it should tell you something about the differences in the oceans.
The Bering sea is dangerous, simply because of the fact that there is the added threat of ice that can damage a hull. The North Atlantic is dangerous because the weather is unpredictable. With the warm waters of the gulf stream, the converging tropical weather fronts, arctic weather fronts, AND the weather fronts coming off the continent creates a permanently unstable environment.
Other more dangerous waters than the Bering for fishing vessels are those off the west coast.
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