life on the boat

the lady helen, is actually a tender boat. what we do is go out to sea and use a giant pump to vacuum all of the fish out of the smaller siegner boats at sea. once we do that we supply them with fresh water and oil. so i don't have to worry about falling overboard by ropes and what not.

theres only a few things to keep my eyes open for though.

one. we operate heavy machinery on the waves. using cranes and a giant hydrolic pump that looks like one of those giant vats of beer you see brewing if you go to gordon birsch. so i'm constantly looking around seeing if theres tons of metal being lifted or this enormous hose that sucks all the fish out of the boats. it's nuts to see just hundreds of salmon being sucked upwards. so yeah those are my only worries when i'm working.

the other concern, is my captain. he has a reputation for falling asleep at the wheel. which is the most dangerous thing you can do. he likes to throw on the autopilot and sit back., and hes in his 50's so the sleep depravation gets to him a lot quicker. the good news is, i set my alarm every hour to check on him. and when he is too tired, he lets me do wheel watch and goes to bed. i actually get to sit in the captains seat and drive a over 100ft 9 ton vessel! i'll get the exact measurements soon. but its nuts sitting that high up, dodging icebergs and other boats. changing turnd by mere degrees. staying on course is like watching a slow motion video game.

so yeah, it's totally amazing.