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March 26 - April 2, 2023
The Grand Banks are so dangerous because they happen to sit on one of the worst storm tracks in the world.
Every night, in other words, a sword boat drops $20,000 worth of gear into the North Atlantic.
Finally, you want to avoid the dark of the moon when you plan your trips. No one knows why, but for several days before and after, the fish refuse to feed.
More people are killed on fishing boats, per capita, than in any other job in the United States.
The circumstances that place a boat at a certain place at a certain time are so random that they can’t even be catalogued, much less predicted,
Oceanographers have calculated that the maximum theoretical height for wind-driven waves is 198 feet; a wave that size could put down a lot of oil tankers, not to mention a 72-foot sword boat.
A mature hurricane is by far the most powerful event on earth; the combined nuclear arsenals of the United States and the former Soviet Union don’t contain enough energy to keep a hurricane going for one day. A typical hurricane encompasses a million cubic miles of atmosphere and could provide all the electric power needed by the United States for three or four years.
Wind is simply air rushing from an area of high pressure to an area of low; the greater the pressure difference, the faster it blows.
Meteorologists see perfection in strange things, and the meshing of three completely independent weather systems to form a hundred-year event is one of them. My God, thought Case, this is the perfect storm.
Water is the only element that offers more resistance the harder you hit it, and at fifty miles an hour it might as well be concrete.
Fishing continues to be one of the easiest ways in America to die while earning a paycheck. The yearly fatality rate for commercial fishermen is thirty to forty times the national workplace average.
