Bering Sea Blues: A Crabber's Tale of Fear in the Icy North - Softcover

Joe Upton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193534711X ISBN 13: 9781935347118

Publisher: Epicenter Press, 2011

Synopsis

This is a gripping memoir of a winter season of crab-fishing in the Bering Sea, filled with scary moments, killer ice, risky work, and for the lucky ones financial rewards. For others, surviving was their reward. Just 25, Joe Upton was the youngest guy aboard when the 104-foot Flood Tide pulled out of Seattle in March 1971 headed for Dutch Harbor with 700-pound crab pots stacked three deep on her deck. The top-heavy load caused some anxious moments later when the vessel iced up. The crew went to work with hammers and baseball bats as howling winds roughed up the seas and the Flood Tide rolled from side to side, threatening to capsize while everyone held their breath. BERING SEA BLUES is a thinking-man's book of the TV series 'Deadliest Catch' because Joe Upton did a lot of thinking that winter working 12- to 14-hour days in weather that would scare most mariners away. He figured if he challenged fate in the Bering Sea crab fishery too long he would wind up either rich or dead, or both.

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About the Author

Joe Upton was a commercial fisherman for 25 years in Alaska and Maine. He is the author of seven books about Alaska. Joe lives with his wife on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and Vinalhaven Island, Maine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Epicenter Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193534711X
• ISBN 13: 9781935347118
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336