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Category Archives: Alex Haley

Classroom

February 10, 2004

A boarding at first light, of 123- foot longliner fishing for Pacific cod. “This is the only place in the world you’d call that a small boat,” says XO Phil Thorne. “In any other fishery it would be illegal.” The swells were only five feet and the wind only 15, but people in Anchorage will […]

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Flight Quarters

February 9, 2004

Man, I’m tired, and all I did was watch.

More or less clear skies (what’s a little hail between friends?). We spent most of the day in the lee of St. George in the Pribilofs, waiting on weather. You should see the NOAA weather forecasts for the Bering Sea, they alternate between “gale” and “hurricane.”
This morning […]

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Box Ops

February 8, 2004

Today we are on holiday routine as we do what the Coast Guard calls “box ops”, essentially running a repetitive route inside a box we draw on the radar, to remain in the lee of St. George Island (one of the Pribilofs) which is protecting us from gale force winds. We’re in a sucker hole, […]

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