Dead reckoning
Subtitle: navigating a life on the Last Frontier, courting tragedy on its high seas
By: Dave Atcheson
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781628736816
Subjects: Fisheries; Anecdotes; Fishers
Description: This is the true story of a journey to a seaside town and the always unpredictable torrent of dark escapades that accompany a life at sea. It's a story of a world peopled by those who often live on the frayed edges of society, who shun the world in which most people thrive. It's a story in which college students and "fish hippies" work in canneries alongside survivalists, rednecks, religious freaks, and deckhands with damning secrets in dangerous waters, driven by the need to feed an insatiable appetite for adventure. This is the heart of the world Atcheson found himself in at the age of eighteen. Having never even seen the ocean, he took his first job on the Lancer with Darwin Wood, a man so confounding, so complex and so frightening, that it's hard to believe Atcheson walked away from that job unscathed. Forced to buddy up with a murderer in order to cope, Atcheson began to question his deeply ingrained ideas of success and status. The resulting conflict would finally resolve itself fifteen years later, in the least likely of places: on the Bering Sea, aboard a boat in peril, during a night of terror that would reshape the lives of everyone involved.
Table of contents: title: Time to flee (into battle); title: The usual nerves; title: Welcome aboard; title: Alaska or bust; title: Spit rat; title: Second thoughts and second chances; title: A great opportunity; title: Gearing up; title: So you want to be a fisherman?; title: Confidence and nerve; title: Setting sail; title: False start; title: The old man and the sea; title: All the wrong moves; title: Making ends meet; title: Better than prison; title: Ignoring omens; title: Just like a real fisherman; title: A good omen and an early lesson; title: Like the pros we are; title: Oh shit moments and miracles; title: Attempted piracy on the high seas; title: Fish, bears, whiskey, and the deal of a lifetime; title: The goods are odd; title: An unwelcome truth; title: The onset of SWs and the larger whole; title: Cruising to the sound (of the engine); title: The deckhand from hell; title: What gives?; title: Playing the odds; title: The cycle of life; title: The edge of the abyss; title: Sometimes catching them, that's the easy part; title: Cutting losses; title: Hitting the fan; title: Aftermath; title: The long voyage home; title: New beginnings.