Fisherman’s Hard Hat
date: label: date made
content: 2007
label: Associated Date
content: 2007
name: label: used
content: Prebezac, Matt
label: maker
content: Bullard
notes: label: Description
content: The weather deck on a factory trawler like the <I>Alaska Ocean</I> can be a dangerous place, especially when the huge net is being launched or hauled aboard. While mechanical winches do the heavy lifting, deck hands have to be present during such operations to attach or change cables, to secure or launch the trawl doors, to open the cod end of the net into the fish bins in the hold, and to accomplish a range of other tasks accurately and efficiently. To protect themselves while working on the deck, fishermen wear hard hats, earplugs, and other gear.
label: Description
content: This hard hat was worn by <I>Alaska Ocean</I> deck hand Matt Prebezac in 2007. Like other fishermen aboard, he customized the standard white hard hat so there would be no confusion over which hat to grab when the call came to report to the deck. Using a black permanent marker, he wrote the words “Rock Star” on the back of the hat. This ensured it wouldn’t be mistaken for his buddy Ben Boyok’s hat, which was adorned with the profile of a hawkeye, the team mascot of the University of Iowa, in Ben’s home state. Throughout the 2007 season, the Rock Star and the Iowa hawkeye, with four other deck hands, a lead fisherman, and a deck officer, worked 12-hour shifts in two teams.
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Pacific Coast
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Alaska
label: Associated Place
content: United States: Washington
label: Associated Place
content: North Pacific
label: Associated Place
content: Bering Sea
topic: label: Subject
content: Fishing
label: related event
content: Contemporary United States
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Work
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: Natural Resources
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content: On the Water exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alaska Ocean thru Jeff Hendricks
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0178.02
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0178.02
label: accession number
content: 2007.0178
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hard hat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: high-density polyethylene (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in x 12 in; 16.51 cm x 24.13 cm x 30.48 cm