The Deadly Life Of A Deep Sea Fishing Expedition | Risking It All: Catch In The Extreme

It is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world and yet, despite the risks, most fishermen would never change their job or their

life

style. What motivates these men. Which makes them defy nature and the elements. Some of the answers may lie in the search for sandbars. herring in the cold waters of the northern hemisphere the techniques may vary from one part of the world to another but the physical and mental efforts unite this Brotherhood of the Seas the fields are down that means

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in Alaska the sailors on board The facts of the shadow They need to

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the most herring in the shortest time possible in Europe the sandeti men trawl the North Sea and the canal in a huge factory ship money you wouldn't stay long the sailors spend weeks at a time here and are often face

extreme

ly hostile seas The journey to the heart of this unique Universe begins off the coast of Alaska, in the Sitka archipelago, every spring hundreds of thousands of herring head towards Sitka Bay to reproduce and spawn.

The

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banks are preceded by an impressive fleet of fishermen. ships from all Alaska ports Jamie Ross, the captain of The Shadow Facts, is trying his luck once again after five days at sea. His young crew will soon enter The Fray as they confront their rivals and the rules. Now we need to make money here, so. Don't get me wrong, it's also very important in that sense. You know we're all in a tough financial situation this time of year because the last time we made money was in September. You know it wouldn't be like that. spring without coming to Sitka and, uh, I think I personally feel like it's a privilege to be a part of this fishery, it's the smallest fishery in Alaska, as far as the number of participants in Sitka, the regulations for herring fishing are very strict before leaving.

They go out to see the fishermen, they are subjected to a scientific ritual organized by the authorities, everyone is waiting for news from Dave Gordon, a marine biologist who is in charge of fishing in this part of Alaska and has a nickname known as Almighty God because he is the one who makes the decision when to open the fishing season and how long it should last. Sometimes when the fish are in shallow water you can't see them from The Vessel, so the plane gives you a chance to see those fish. You can better control the volume of fish in the area, so it is obviously a big determination to determine where we fish and if there are too many fish, so you could exceed your harvest goals or also, the other side is too few fish. and mobilize this huge fleet and it can be very painful if you put them in two little fish, so let's see there are about 10 20 30 40 50 50 sea lions there, yeah, underwater, oh, they're so fast, amazing, hey Ben , mom and dad are watching. the sea lions Ben right here with the marine mammals starting to arrive to feed on the herring Jamie isn't the type to sit idly in the harbor, he's already out at sea looking for fish between waypoints, wow, that's amazing, the fish were there yesterday.

They're not, so it's looking in a place where we expected with a good fish, that's very strange, huh, so that's the good thing about fish, they're just in this mode, they're just running around all over the place trying to find where. They want, yes, Ice. Pilots watch on mobile devices or the big screen, all free, no subscription, to download Fire daily. Now he orders the Nets to go out briefly to

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some herring to judge the quality of the fish, specifically their eggs, something the Japanese are. He especially likes the eggs known as Sacro, they are the ones that have a real value in the catch, the grammar 40, 140 grams and then green, green, green, very immature row, there is a white one, see the white neck, this one is good , this Maturo, so see the difference in the two. golden color the sticky this is hard and this is sticky so this is good this is the biologist Dave Gordon seems satisfied with his flight over the bay the entire fishing fleet has set sail for the north of the archipelago the official start of the Sitka herring season It will start there in about an hour.

There is a lot of pressure on the cruise ship as they will have at most an hour or two, at worst only a few minutes to cast their nets. The duration of fishing depends on the number of herring in the bay and also. his age after the green light is given is the first to reach the fishing banks, the approximately 50 fishing boats hire a pilot to guide them to the fish and Jamie, the captain of the Shadow, is no exception, there is some potential so that that is the fish. up there on its belly because it seemed to be a fish moving in that direction, yeah okay, it looks like there are definitely some ships there, uh, a very small seaplane is taking off and the pilots will quickly spot the Telltale dive patches just below the surface of my boat. that has one of my ships designed and built for speed, he just came flying in to be fully in robot mode, just do exactly what he says and you know, and that's where this ship really shined in the past, you just have to make the pilot say Jamie Jamie Jamie. come here and there's just no racing and pass everyone and get in there worrying about Joe Buck go here wow oh maybe a quarter mile away the throttle is full aboard the wild horses the

deep

sea diver The Mitch's coven is late, it's time to swing baby We didn't come here to play Scrabble at 60 miles an hour, yeah, wild horses.

I don't think anyone passed us today. I'm sure the entire fleet has left before us. We're just catching up. Mitch is in charge of security and he. is on standby to deal with any emergency its presence will soon be needed thousands of kilometers from Alaska, where strictly regulated fishing is about to begin, another crew prepares to set sail on the bus from Brittany, in western France r27 Sailors from ports such as San Marlo Fercamp and Bologna 27 men some of whom, like their fathers and grandfathers before them, are known as ter new four times at sea than on land up to 300 days a year in the North Sea, the channel and the Gulf of Gascogne following the herring and mackerel shoals his big boat is the Sunday Tea registered at the fair camp.

It is a 90 meter long

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water trawler that flies under the French flag, but its home port is on the North Sea coast. The trip, like most others, will last three weeks together for For some it's painful to be away For others like Frank it's a relief Let him walk here boy It's a pain to leave But we're fine here It's a sailor's

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That's all what you're looking for on land you can get it here where you would never talk to your wife about something here, you talk about it with your mates little things like that, is that good?

It's the life of a sailor like I said. Sailors on the high seas often talk about freedom or adventure when asked why they do it. In this work they certainly go to places that few visit and witness sites that can leave them breathless, but few mention the challenges of living together in crowded conditions and always at the mercy of a temperamental ocean in the bridge is one of the key members of the sundati crew. getting ready his name is eric he is number two on the ship the boson this is not like being on land it's a different society here people's true characters emerge very quickly in this environment you need to mark your own territory and then don't let people walk everywhere You, the captain, can see what's going on even from the bridge, but you can't get involved directly, so it's up to me to intervene if there's a little problem to warn the guys to avoid certain places and things like that, and That's all, mainly.

The biggest risk is being swept overboard and then you have to wait for the boat to turn around and catch you or not. There are foreign fishing nets in the water. Schools of fish are starting to appear on the boat's radar for Captain Vincent Liberto. It is a crucial question. moment with an east wind blowing at more than 50 knots at about 100 kilometers per hour putting the nets in the water it is difficult to direct five five the fish are right under the boats at this moment and at this time at the end of the day that It should be fine on board the sandetti once the fish has been hoisted to the deck the sailors work day and night in six hour shifts in a few minutes Eric the boson will know if the catch is good while the French fishermen prepare to hoist the big net on board off the Pacific coast of Alaska the show is about to begin the pilots make a final sweep over the ocean to spot the Herring Shoals and in the water the crews are ready to go into action the Department of Fish and Game The ship has arrived and now it is marine biologist Dave Gordon who takes the lead.

This is the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The second city sacred fishery will occur in about a minute and a minute. Well, get ready guys, I could do the hawthorn here, 45 seconds, okay, get ready. the countdown has begun 15 seconds 10 9 8 7 6 5 definitive facts about the shadows Jamie is on the starting blocks, stay open Jamie has been following the instructions of Billy, his pilot, he has managed to detect a large school of herring in waters shallow coastal what Billy says again with I get scared, the fish sinks, the bubbles scare the fish, it makes a crunching sound in the water, look, look where all the corks are, that means the fish slows down, I'm over the top of the boat, okay, go, okay, go, go, go, go, go, foreigner.

Okay, now get the highlighter Ben, now get the highlighter. What happened to the first one? Okay, here we go. Okay, go, go, go hurry up to complete the maneuver. Shadowfax's fishing nets have become snagged on the ocean floor. The herrings have escaped and the net could be. damage to the crew this could become a catastrophe given the magnitude of the damage Jaime decides to abandon the fishing banks to look for another net on the French coast the sandeti sailors are about to check if the first catch is of quality thank you we will call it doormat because you can walk on it there must be 70 tons, I would say foreign, the day's catch allows the factory to finally catch up with each

expedition

.

More than 1,000 tons of fish are packaged refrigerated and then stored in the sandeti's enormous hold. For now, the belly of the ship is relatively empty. The

expedition

is just beginning and the man who will be trapped in temperatures of -30 degrees is Frank, who with four others Sailors will take turns in the warehouse to stack sixty thousand boxes of 25 kilos each. In the end all the frozen fish will arrive in Africa. Sometimes we feel a little sad. What am I doing here? Well, it's like that everywhere, I tried to settle on dry land because I had a girlfriend that I don't want to leave anymore, but I tried for a while and then I got bored, it's boring, it's not the same rhythm and here we have a second family, our friends, our habits, you might think it's the same old thing, but it's not, we wouldn't say we were unlucky to be on land, but then it became routine.

After a while I got bored and broke too, so I came back to see things other than the bridge. Only Breton has been informed of an incident in the engine room. I went down and looked at the compressor. The foreigner noticed that there is a freon gas leak and a part of the cooling system is no longer working. There is a leak inside the compressor well. When it is positive, it means that there is freon, so we will have to replenish it. Okay, the factory has to close, it's leaking Freon, and if it continues, we'll have to refill it.

The mechanic has only a few hours to find the leak. If he doesn't, the captain will have to head to the nearest port for repairs. The crew members make the most of it and take some downtime to get over this. We need to fill it with fish. It's that easy. This is how we get out of this. Get back up and running when things go wrong, it's often because fishing. It is poor therefore it makes everyone think about it but when the factor is working well then there is no time to think about anything else and that is important that is how we get out of this hello hello in the warehouse the mechanics finally found the problem and we can start to repair the cooling system the factory ship can start up again and on the bridge the ship's maneuvers can resume if there is passion for the work there are also some things that we must face in a selfish job in some way for us it is interesting because It's something we like to do, but we won't be popular because of what we do from time to time.

Eric the Boson, like most professional fishermen, questions his career and the reaction of some on land to what he does. I don't understand why fishermen are still considered to be plundering the sea and cleaning the oceans in deep waters. Herring fishing takes place just below the surface and the nets remain underwater long enough to catch the daily quota. I don't knowlooks nothing like the trawlers that use trawl nets to graze on the ocean floor for hours at a time another fishing boat that Prince Bernhardt joins only for Sunday tea the two boats will cruise the area and divide the huge school of herring into Sitka however is much more hectic Jaime weaves in and out of the other boats heading to port to repair the broken Nets these idiots damn it get out of the way what she skips John tells her on the radio that he is in promiscilla Bay my address It's upstairs so I have to use this thing I think it's too far Ben I don't know where the hell it is all the way in prison we're still 20 minutes away sorry but I don't know I just have to concentrate here this is already over the place just destroyed a hundred thousand sane dollars for nothing and he didn't catch anything why he's in Promiscilla Bank.

Damn, sorry for my language. I'm sorry. Jamie and his crew hope to get the boat into shape before Dave Gordon closes the fishery. As the other fishermen continue with their harvest, about 5,000 tonnes of herring have been caught so far. 2012 Harry Fishery agrees that this year's Hazel is slim so far, but it's still good enough to celebrate and spend money in the local pubs aboard the hidden facts they're doing everything they can to ensure May the next 24 hours not be another day lost at sea. Not only did they break their nets but they also broke one of their hydraulic motors, the seal and blue shaft exploded and they saw a constant flow of hydraulic oils. going out and we need to have this is very important we can't bring the net we can't bring the net without this I always say just do it that's my motto so I haven't really been taught I just learned out of necessity to do things myself so, Alright, keep going, come on, we got them.

I got the hydraulic system. My wife before we had kids, she fished with me for many, many years, for nine years before we had kids, and she's always around. she's been my lucky charm, so I haven't done that well personally in the last few years, so I miss my, she needs to be here, so I don't know, we're talking about maybe bringing her here. For the rest of the fishery, she is my everything so I need my lucky charm, so foreigner Dave Gordon is flying in again to determine where and when fishing can resume, but what's happening underneath is strange.

C is completely white, it means the breeding period is approximately spawning. to begin with, but if egg laying begins and the fish empty all their eggs, then the fishing fleet might as well pack its bags. This is our future right here. The future of the fishery is spawning that returns every year, every year, it's 10 o'clock. Sharp, we'll have an announcement in an hour and we could fish as early as one or two, I imagine, but we just need to, we'll have to stay away from these fish and focus on other areas. It's really cool, but Mother Nature at her best here it's very impressive to watch as Shadowfax sets a course north as Jaime believes the fishing will take place in a stream he knows well.

I know well anyway, Matt changed dramatically again. There is a right to get out of this. point in the middle Eric, there is a huge school right next to this sacred point, but anyway, now the damn fish are spawning en masse inside a crow past the entire South Middle Island, it's only a 13 since the area It happened out of nowhere yesterday and now I'm going crazy so I'm going to get this, this is it, this is what we want, this is what you want, this is a perfect set because it would be yes, if we get them this will be a huge set and then just having phenomenal images look at that look look that's thousands of tons that's incredible it's really incredible that's what we want during the inauguration on board some are celebrating while in other places others have to deal with the bad weather that suddenly descended on the canal in the sandeti the factory ship The infernal pace continues despite the terrible conditions there is nothing better than a ship in bad weather somehow we are not exactly thrilled but I have photos it looks like a completely calm ship Waters but a ship that's being tossed around well that's beautiful anyway yeah there are some pretty heavy seas overseas that's what I like we gotta watch out for the stacks of boxes let's say they collapse well we gotta keep an eye out , sometimes they catch you by surprise if you feel that the ship is going well.

It's a pity for the boxes, even if they fall, they can't do anything about it if it goes. It's gone, the tooth is gone. It happens that most accidents occur at the stern in high seas and Stormy Weather throws the working crew member out. To maintain your balance, all you need to do is be careless for a second and a large wave can sweep you away or a cable that coils up too quickly can pass through you. This is not man's natural habitat, so there are some risks one should never take. It is necessary to know the limits if we are outside in bad weather there will be some guys on the bridge how much risk we take that is my decision it is risky to go quickly to maneuver on the bridge and the ocean we are small you have to be humble you must have a feeling This time it is more powerful than the elements, however, is not on the decks but below, where an accident occurred with waves crashing violently against the sides of the ship.

One of the mechanics broke his leg while he was repairing a machine on the factory ship. When he can, the ship will. Detour to the nearest port to save time, the captain turns to the French Navy's rescue helicopters for help for his broken leg, ample evidence of how fragile humans are when the sea unleashes its power and a reminder to the who are on board to pay attention or risk worse. all you have to do is fill the hold and unload the fish as quickly as possible the fishermen are paid a percentage and wasting time brings nothing the sunday tea life is hard and the hard earned wages the crew earn A simple sailor who works in the warehouse can make a lot of money.

In Alaska we also earn up to 60,000 euros a year. Fishermen make a good living off herring, but only if they are the fastest do we try to find a school of fish. I think there is a pretty good amount. of herring in this little cove right here, so if you can line us up in a place that, uh, not too much, Rocky could place or say one more time and I hope you get a good set, although it's debatable towards this coast towards inland point for see if there's anything, the obturadorfax crew is impatiently waiting for the second round of herring fishing and a lot, okay, look, I've got them.

I use them the closer the opening gets, there are those noise canceling aviation headphones and I can concentrate. There could be a lot of noise around me, you know, people talking, etc., and I don't even tune in so I can concentrate, listen to what everyone is saying and look at things. A good place this time. Billy Jamie's pilot has spotted a School of fish just a few hundred meters from the bow of the Shadowfax. At three in the afternoon the Sitka fishing boats are told they can return. Mitch, the deep sea diver, is in charge of security at the fishing area and has a bad feeling.

Three two. one this year with the herring starting to spawn early the season could be compromised at the back Trawlers Bridge nothing seems to happen as planned there is a growing number of problems some fishermen have used explosives and smoke canisters to direct the herring towards their nets but without success, diver Mitch Coven is called in to help Brenda has caught her nets in her propellers. Look at the maps on the ship. Can you film this? It's a total disaster and they will have to resynchronize the network. uh, they could go for the rest of the day to the foreign side for a little over six hundred dollars.

Mitch frees the boat, but for the crew on the water, the fishing is over here, the hidden facts, however, focus on the school of herons in my life. Get help and Eric over here Billy, he's very good, yeah, okay, hold on, if you can, Mike, tell me when Ben talks to the captain, there are about 90 tons of herring writhing in the giant mass. Jesus, that's what happens all the time, okay, John. on that hook over there, John John, okay, let's break the rig, boys, okay, Mike, and this time Jamie comes down, he found himself at the right time, today's fishing will only last an hour, I forget how we do it, I think it's like a, it's very similar to how a sporting event is the team aspect, you know, I have the three boats that I fish with together, I have the pilot and we have worked together for a long period of time, so this It's the team camaraderie, like any sport, you know, football. there is that, there is that aspect and there is the competitive aspect of victory.

I get nervous, you see, I'm an American. Oh, I'm not a big accident after being eliminated, but it's still cool, it's an adrenaline rush. I love 4:00 p.m. They mark exactly the end of hostilities in Sitka Bay. Jamie seems relieved that all his efforts have been rewarded. Walter, it's a very harsh and rugged environment and I think that's why the things that people do tend to be hard and carpet and a little more on the edge, so you're taking a certain measure of calculated risk and it's like fishing and fishing, we're very used to calculated risk, so I think it goes with the territory when we say, you know, we. play hard, work hard, but yeah, it's very rewarding, very rewarding.

Jamie and his team at Hidden Facts did everything they could to save the herring fishing season this year, the fish with the golden eggs started spawning too early and so nature seems to have won out. up before returning home to Homer, to the north, the sailors take advantage of the rising swell to ride the waves oh, I say it at Sunday tea, the end of three long weeks at sea is in sight, in a few days the hold will be full to bursting Captain Vincent Liberton can relax a little in these rare times the crews say the captain is a great defender of birds the boys often see me taking photos of the birds when we turn there are always many birds near the boat yes, In fact, they think I'm a member of a bird society or something, some of them bait the birds a little, which I don't care too much, but I do mention it, that's why they think I'm a member of some club , but It's not just that I like seabirds, this is their place here, they make the boat tour on the other side with the wind, they glide while they break, if they see something, they die, so it's strange, it's fun to see them.

Just like the gannets that They try to find their balance between the wind and the rhythm of the fishing boat, the men of the deity of sound also seek to reconcile life at sea and life on land, the great fishing boat moves away and it is the end of a journey towards a different universe For the men who work at sea in such

extreme

conditions, nothing can be taken for granted, their pay often matches the high risks they take, but when the elements start to go crazy, sailors will have to be content with whatever they get. have the sea offer foreigners foreigners