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homerjack



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 03, 2019 10:46 pm    Post subject: F/V Destination Sinking: Coast Guard Report Reply with quote

For those interested:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/overloading-heavy-ice-and-an-open-hatch-coast-guard-details-what-sank-the-seattle-based-destination/
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, saw this earlier. Crazy story
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

For much more on background of this story:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/no-return-final-voyage-crab-boat-destination-sinks-bering-sea/
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw that report too, and didn't think there was much surprising in it:
Fatigued crew, Overloaded with more and oversize traps, Several modifications to increase load carry capacity, Pushing into heavy weather, failure to comply with stability eval requirements. Sounds like a not so atypical crabber story, only this time they didn't fool mother nature.

Sad to see, but hopefully the USCG report and recommendations will help avert similar situations in the future.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We had king crab last night to celebrate Dotty's 80th birthday. Here's Seattle's Fishermen's terminal memorial to those brave souls lost at sea.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow, that "no-return" article is powerful
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homerjack



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Agree Ken. Thought it was an outstanding piece of reporting. Gave three dimensional life to all the principal characters as well as the details of the doomed voyage. Ever since Moby Dick some 50 years ago, I've been a sucker for a good man vs sea story.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 8:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stuff happens.

Maybe seamen are some of the bravest among us.

By chance, about this time some years back (actually 07 Mar 2010),
I was aboard the M/N Via Australis. We not only "rounded the Horn",
we walked on it where there was a large albatross memorial with a
moving inscription dedicated to those who have perished in the sea
not far away from that point:

"I am the albatross who
awaits you at the end of the world.

I am the forgotten soul of the dead seamen
who sailed across Cape Horn from all the
seas of the world.

But, they have not died in the fury of the waves,
today they fly on my wings, towards eternity, in
the last crevice of the antarctic winds."

---Sara Vial

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=albatross+memorial%3b+cape+horn&qpvt=albatross+memoria%3b+Cape+Horn&FORM=IGRE

Aye.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice.
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