Coast Guard Convenes Marine Board of Investigation into FV Scandies Rose Loss

gCaptain ^ | February 28, 2020 | Mike Schuler

[artichokegrower]

The U.S. Coast Guard has convened a Marine Board of Investigation into the loss of crabbing vessel Scandies Rose and five of its seven crew members in the Gulf of Alaska over the New Year.

[artichokegrower]

The loss of the Scandies Rose marked the worst accident to hit Alaska’s commercial fishing industry since the sinking of the FV Destination with the loss of all six crew members in February 2017.

Deadliest Catch

[PROCON]

Those crab fishermen get big bucks and earn every nickle of it.

Even as a young man I couldn't/wouldn't do that job.

RIP, I suppose for those lost at sea, death came quickly.

[dsc]

I like crab, but they don’t have to go out there and *die* just so I can eat it.

[Rebelbase]

I wonder if she iced up?

[AlaskaErik]

Icing up, top-heavy with crab pots, rough seas...what could possibly go wrong? Many a fishing vessel in Alaska has been lost that way.

[cpdiii]

“The search was eventually suspended January 2 after covering 1,400 square miles over 20 hours.”

After 20 hours in those waters even with a survival suit, you are dead from hypothermia.

I worked three years in the North Sea and do know of which I speak. Oddly it is a painless death. You just go to sleep and die.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#5. Similar to the movie “The Perfect Storm”.

[PIF]

Yes in 15 minutes or less - you go into shock immediately on hitting the water without a survival suit, you go completely white, then as the waves wash over you, you realize you are going under water, then you are dead.

A rollover takes maybe 15-20 seconds throwing on deck crews into the water or running over the keel and jumping in on the other side. Below deck crew have no chance.

A slow sinking gives some of the crew time to get into a suit, but that is no guarantee they can get in the life raft or that the life raft wont be blown away.

1983 loss of the Ocean Grace:

Memorial for a Lady

When i go to the cafe
for morning coffee
And you are not there
I remember you

You caught as many Salmon
as anyone, and often more
Your boat filled with Sockeye, Silver, Chum
I remember you

When i set my gillnet
Four hundered fathoms long ten fathoms deep
i say, “Send me some salmon, Lady Annette”
remembering you

Long blond hair streaming
Your green eyes closed
In the cold bering sea, thirty fathoms deep
I remember you

Always my Lady Annette

She was 24 her body never recovered

[PIF]

I like crab, but they don’t have to go out there and *die* just so I can eat it.

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think of it this way: when you eat Bering Sea crab, you are perhaps eating a morsel of them and so honoring their sacrifice

[PIF]

The Perfect Storm

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Not even close. Those guys had time - most Bering Sea crab boats go in seconds, often without any warning. No time for a May Day - just gone. all dead

[Bull Snipe]

Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!

[dsc]

Not attracted to cannibalism.

[dsc]

Anybody remember the story of the Plimsoll line?

Maybe we need a minimum size for Bering Sea boats.

[PIF]

Don’t eat seafood then

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Gordon Lightfoot
https://youtu.be/rFkyDB2InTs

[dsc]

It’s Sunday, and I just don’t have the energy to explain all the ways in which your reply is wrongheaded. Why don’t you work hard at figuring it out for yourself?

[PIF]

Sorry you have no sense of humor, perhaps you have never crabbed the Bering or worked the ocean for a living.

[dsc]

I have never crabbed the Bering; but when I was in the Navy I spent time intercepting signint off of Kamchatka.

[dsc]

Oh, and I just don’t see how your remark is humorous.

[Slicksadick]

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/02/06/when-the-scandies-rose-sunk-west-of-kodiak-he-survived-now-he-grapples-with-losing-his-crew-mates/
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