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This picture was taken in 1995 three days after we had to call in a mayday because we were going down. This picture is the bow of the 110 footer I worked on and as you can see there is so much ice you can hardly move. We ran into a storm with 60-70 knot winds with the temperature around -40 for a week+ straight. If you notice off the starboard side you can see ice in the water, thats what saved the boat. When you get really strong storms like that one for a period of time huge fields of ice the size of the town of Marshfield or bigger sometimes will break off from the Bering straight and float down to the fishing grounds. What we did was plow the boat into the ice field and float with it until we cleared the ice. Even thought it was still a nasty storm and we were 700+ miles out there were no waves because the field of ice was bigger than 7 miles and the waves would only pound the outside edge.
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