[nightfighter]

26 year old kid I have gotten to know over the past dozen years just returned from a four month trip longline cod fishing on the Bering Sea. Some very cold conditions, like 5 days of 15 degree highs on deck. Big seas off Russia. Good prices for cod. Buyer was Northcoast here in Mass. which was weird. And three weeks in town getting the 140' former crabber repaired after they were struck broadside by a fifty foot rogue wave. (captain had his head in his iPhone watching his daughter's ballgame.....) Lost a rail, crew shelter house on deck crushed, lost a beam and a huge deck hatch. But no serious injuries... This is big boy stuff for young healthy bodies. He did mention a crew member on another boat who snapped and jumped overboard. Dead. His boat was in immediate proximity, but nothing they could do.