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Whenever the vessel wasn't fishing, the captain and crew used a fixed time schedule, letting the captain steer the vessel for six hours before letting each crew member steer the boat for an hour each. Every twelfth hour, the schedule restarted. At 02:00 on 31 December, she left the Kupreanof strait, continuing into the Shelikof Strait. She ...
The vessel and her six-man crew had been fishing the North Atlantic Ocean out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her last reported position was 180 mi (290 km) northeast of Sable Island on October 28, 1991. The story of Andrea Gail and her crew was the basis of the 1997 book The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger, and a 2000 film adaptation of the ...
F/V Northwestern is an Alaskan crab, Pacific cod, and salmon tendering commercial fishing vessel featured in the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch.To date the Northwestern is the only vessel to have featured on all 20 seasons of Deadliest Catch as well as the pilot series America's Deadliest Season.
The vessel's Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon station (EPIRB) went off around 8:00am AST (UTC−9), at the beginning of the 2005 opilio crab hunting season. Three fishing vessels (FV Cornelia Marie, FV Maverick and Sea Rover), United States Coast Guard ship USCGC Sherman, [1] the Alaska state patrol boat Stimson, and a Coast Guard helicopter out of Saint Paul Island were involved in ...
FV Alaska Ranger was a fishing factory ship owned and operated by the Fishing Company of Alaska of Seattle, Washington. The ship was constructed in 1973 for use as an oil field service vessel. The ship sank 23 March 2008, after reporting progressive flooding only hours earlier. Of the 47 on board, 42 were rescued.
FV Northern Belle was a fishing vessel that sank in the Gulf of Alaska on April 20, 2010. Three of her four crew were rescued alive; her captain, Robert Royer, died before rescue teams arrived. Three of her four crew were rescued alive; her captain, Robert Royer, died before rescue teams arrived.
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A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals (e.g. shrimps/prawns, krills, coleoids, etc.) in the sea, lake or river. Humans have used different kinds of surface vessels in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing. Prior to the 1950s there was little standardisation of fishing boats.