This a gripping memoir of a winter season of crabfishing in the Bering Sea, filled with scary moments, killer ice, dangerous work, andfor the lucky onesfinancial rewards. For others, survival was their reward. Just 25, Joe Upton was the youngest guy aboard when the 104foot Flood Tide pulled out of Seattle in March 1971 headed for Dutch Harbor with 700pound crab pots stacked three deep on her deck. The topheavy 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 thinkingmans book version of the TV series Deadliest Catch, because Joe Upton did a lot of thinking that winter working 12 to 14hour 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.

Binding: Paperback;330 pages; Publisher: Epicenter Press Inc.; Classification: N/A; Weight: 521.43 g; Dimensions: N/A

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