Plans for the weekend

[digimon7068]

lol....I don't get why it's so dangerous!

you're kidding, right? other than soldiers during wartime. . .there's no other job on the planet that has a higher mortality rate. . .it's crazy fuggin' dangerous. . .one of the most ungodly and unforgiving places on the planet from a hostile environment perspective. . .you go for a dip, you die, it's that simple. . .plus the crab pots weigh about 2,000 lbs a piece and you can get your ass smashed if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time. . .which is real easy to do in 50-foot seas. . .

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

Your right, there is no law... its parts per million shit.

I would get pooped on atleast 50 times aday by seagulls. The fun thing to do (and this was fucked up) was after we pull a pot you rebait it. Now take the old left over bait and dump it right where your going to launch the next pot. Seagulls LOVE bait and we could get 50-100 seagulls all in a frenzy at the side of the boat... Hit the launcher button and BOOM the pot lands right on the pile of the. Captian got pissed cause a few pots had dead seagulls in them and no crab. Yeah i'm a dick and I will most likely burn in hell for that shit lol.

that is hilarious... really. You are my new hero.


STFU.

 

[jnevin]

Well let me put it to you like this lol... The boat was 110' long, we had a quite a few days of 50ft seas and one day of 70ft and seas were we all had our survival suits on thinking the ship was going down. We also do a thing called jogging which we each take one hour on the helm so we can each get a few hours of sleep. You jog in a strait like via GPS back and forth for an hour then wake the next guy up to take your place. I was jogging one night and it was really ruff out and when I went to turn the boat around and a wave hit the port side and almost rolled the boat over, we had so much lisp the captian flew out of his bed.

Ice was also a problem, we would spend hours and hours with sledge hammers pounding ice off the boat. To much ice and the boat gets top heavy and can flip over.

Pick and boom and crane in foul weather is also a killer. After you pull a set of strings (pots) you have to stack them on deck, try doing this in 50ft seas with some n00b on the crane. It's fuckin so dangerous, the pots weigh 1100lbs. Launching pots is also dangerous... 300 fathoms of rope and if your leg gets tangled your going with it nothing you can do. I could go on and on about how dangerous, you think of it, it happened.

My boss did that for a few seasons. He was on the Shishaldin. He said it was retarded hard work and that the shifts were up to 3 days. He was telling me you start to play games with yourself to keep from jumping in the water and ending it all b/c it gets so tiring and you start to fuck with yourself.

He was saying the show is good, but there are things it'll never capture like the smell of bait. I guess it gets so ripe and nasty when it starts to melt, when it hits you, you barf instantly.

 

[SaladFork]

My boss did that for a few seasons. He was on the Shishaldin. He said it was retarded hard work and that the shifts were up to 3 days. He was telling me you start to play games with yourself to keep from jumping in the water and ending it all b/c it gets so tiring and you start to fuck with yourself.

He was saying the show is good, but there are things it'll never capture like the smell of bait. I guess it gets so ripe and nasty when it starts to melt, when it hits you, you barf instantly.

My job when I first got on the boat was stuffin bait bags. I was seasick for 3 days and you HAVE to work... Imagine grinding bait all day. I would puke in the bait bin nonstop, it was horrible. Squid is worst than herring bait. We would catch those and use it for cod bait. We would hang them on the deck for a few weeks to let them rot. Good stuff right there. Longest I was up was 4 days and I got an hour of sleep before I had to do it again. It sucked ass bro, coffee and smokes are your best friend. Also went two weeks without a shower... I woke up and remember seeing fish scales on my arm and almost puked.

 

[digimon7068]

I was seasick for 3 days and you HAVE to work

i wondered about that. . .so. . .you eventually get used to it and you don't get sick anymore, or you just get used to being sick all the time??

 

[jnevin]

My job when I first got on the boat was stuffin bait bags. I was seasick for 3 days and you HAVE to work... Imagine grinding bait all day. I would puke in the bait bin nonstop, it was horrible. Squid is worst than herring bait. We would catch those and use it for cod bait. We would hang them on the deck for a few weeks to let them rot. Good stuff right there. Longest I was up was 4 days and I got an hour of sleep before I had to do it again. It sucked ass bro, coffee and smokes are your best friend. Also went two weeks without a shower... I woke up and remember seeing fish scales on my arm and almost puked.

lol @ the smokes. He said the entire boat smoked but the captain was trying to quit. So when they went to Costco for all of their supplies, the capt wouldn't let anyone buy cigs. Apparently, there was almost a mutiny.

 

[velvett]

whereabouts?

NY

 

[SaladFork]

i wondered about that. . .so. . .you eventually get used to it and you don't get sick anymore, or you just get used to being sick all the time??

Yeah you get used to it and you get your sea legs. It was fun hitting land after being out at sea for 2 weeks. Was hard to walk a strait line, pissing was also fun cause you sway lol.

I went on a deep sea fishing trip a few years ago and I was bragging "Oh I won't get sea sick I worked in Alaska." Guess who got sea sick the entire time lol <-- me.

 

[SaladFork]

lol @ the smokes. He said the entire boat smoked but the captain was trying to quit. So when they went to Costco for all of their supplies, the capt wouldn't let anyone buy cigs. Apparently, there was almost a mutiny.

Yeah everyone smoked, we all smoked weed also (Minus the captian).

Samething goes for the plants we would drop off at... 99% are Filipino and must have rice with every meal. The plant ran out of rice and all the workers stopped untill they got rice. We had to wait two days to offload, kinda funny shit actually.

 

[SaladFork]

Sorry didn't mean to hijack the thread (back on track)....