I've fished commercially since '97. For most of that time I was either Engineer or Mate. Spent a lot of time on boats right similar to the Andrea Gail, including some time on the Hanna Boden when she was in the lobster/Jonah crab fleet. If I were to make a guess as to what did the Andrea Gail in, I'd be likely so suspect her fuel, not the barrels, but her tanks, specifically her fuel vents which were on deck. Typical fuel vents on boats like that have a u shaped pipe coming up from the deck usually right up under the gunwales as far outboard as practical. On the open end of the pipe there is a bell fitting which functions as a check valve, a form of float valve really, that if the fitting gets submerged the ball floats up in the housing and mates with a ring in the top of the bell, which seals most to all of the seawater from getting in and contaminating the fuel. Now I'm not sure which tanks they were drawing from at the time (no-one is) but I would bet significant money it would have been her saddle tanks as they were fairly close to her LCG and LCB while in a loaded state, with her lazarette tanks likely having been used earlier in the trip and topped off with the fuel from the barrels to avoid getting her too far out of trim at any time. Now back to those vents, a goodly few of the boats I've been on have had issues with their vents, fills or some times both; they are all just pipes welded to the deck which also forms the top of the fuel tank, and it is precisely that weld which caused four out of the seven fuel contamination issues I've had to deal with. There is often dissimilar metals between the pipe and the deck and whatever rod was used to weld it in place, its a hotspot for corrosive problems, and is pretty good for letting seawater into the fuel, and diesels do not like trying to burn seawater. Now if the aluminum ball in the bell housing for the tank vent is also shot; and I've only ever encountered a few what weren't you can get a surprising amount of seawater into your tanks. Ideally you would re-weld the fill pipe and slop some paint on it, and you also typically know what tank is know for leaking the worst and which one leaks the least, when you are expecting foul weather the in the next day or so, you align the fuel system so that the main is drawing from the best tank and you also probably go and change the filters on the racors and while you're down there also drain the bowls all around for the racors on the main and any generators you have aboard to make sure that there is as little chance of water getting to the engines and stalling them out as possible. Now for my theory, there is lots of stuff that is lashed all over the deck of a working boat like that and some of it is quite heavy. It wouldn't take much of a knock to snap off a vent or a fill that was already not in the best of shape, and with no record of her vents being repaired for her midships tanks in the previous 5 or so years there is very little reason to assume they were in good shape and a fair bit to recommend that they were in fact at least partially corroded at or around their junction with the deck plates. It is also very likely that something lashed to the deck or gunwales would come totally or partially adrift in the weather they were steaming through. Letting fairly small but continuous amounts of water into the tank, until it got to the point that the fuel/water separators and racor bowls could no longer keep the fuel to the engine clean enough for it to continue running. This would naturally cause it to stall out and necessitate the realignment of the fuel system to draw on a different tank and to have the fuel lines downstream of the racors or at the very very barest minimum downstream of the engine mounted fuel pump to need to be purged. Not an evolution they would have had time for. Now the best they could hope for is to have enough steerage way left to lay the boat onto the port tack and have heave to after a fashion, with the raised "wave wall" what you call her raised bulkhead on the port side offering some shelter to the deck. It's her most stable option at that point however it does mean that she will have been drifting beam to the seas, which you don't have to be to nautically inclined to figure is probably not ideal, but without power it would be the best option. Unfortunately before there was any chance of regaining powered, it is entirely probable that she took a coamer that knocked her down and she down flooded from there, likely going down in less than 3 minutes from that point. Main points of water ingress likely being through the fish hold hatch and through the wheel house door, as I am fairly certain at that point in time she was fitted with a partition door there instead of a true water tight door. But that's just my take on it. Two boats I've been on that had particularly bad fuel problems were the old Genesis and the old William Bowe. Genesis had the issue that her tanks were just flat out dirty as the day is long from years of bad ownership. you had to change the racors on an almost daily basis in good weather to keep the engine and generator going. On the Bowe it was a pure crap show, there was not only dirt and gunk in the tanks but algae and seawater a well, with known deck leaks on all 4 of her fuel tanks that would let water in. The Bowe also had a lot of other problems as well, not the least of which was centered around her generators. The #1 produced somewhat questionable voltage and the frequency was a bit wonky varying between 58 and 62 hz for not particular reason, which on its own not great, but the kicker was that the #2 gen would randomly kick off line. There being no mechanical backup for the steering pumps, and they not starting back up on their own after a loss of electrical power meant that they would have to be manually reset. I'd like to say that such issues are unique to those vessels but that would be a lie. As the fleet ages such problems only become more and more common, don't forget that most of the US boats that were around when the Andrea Gail was built are still fishing. It's a problem that needs to be addressed however I'll not be the one holding my breath for it to happen.
@@engste678yes and if you want FACTS (or the admission that there are few facts) then read the official reports. Certainly don't rely on this highly speculative YT video.
There is an equally fascinating book "Hungry Ocean" from Linda Greenlaw, the captain of Andrea Gail's sister ship Hannah Boden at the time of the storm
True. The book was way much better than the movie. To be honest, I got way, way annoyed at the whiny actress's portrayal of Cap. Linda Greenlaw.@@engste678
I was on a 210 ft supply boat coming back from iceland when that storm came together. It was the worst storm I have ever been in. We had 42 containers on our back deck and it was the scarriest 24 hours of my life working offshore. We heard maydays from several vessels but in 80-90 ft seas there was nothing we could do even if we were closer to them.
Must be a truly haunting experience hearing multiple mayday calls like that, especially without any meaningful way to respond and the possibility of joining them.
The scariest part was when the sun went down the waves seemed to get bigger with each passing hour. We wore our survival suits 24 hours until the storm was over.
They didnt steam into a hurricane- did you watch the video? They steamed into a storm fuelled by a low that turned into a '100 year storm'... Try harder before taking the p1ss my bru, have some respect.
@@SchmozzleGTO An overloaded fishing vessel shouldnt steam into either, what are you talking about exactly? Sounds like you have some personal issues to work out and you are just here venting. Why dont YOU show some respect and go rake your zen garden instead of snapping at people for no good reason?
I feel like I'd be that guy. I can't stomach the idea of the hunting/ fishing trades for myself personally. But then again, I don't like killing spiders so long as their outside and not crawling on me... so killing a swordfish on an industrial level would be too much for me. I probably am lucky I live in this time period...
I grew up in New Jersey, right on the water. I remember that storm, and, how bad the flooding from the surge was. Half my town was uner 4 feet of water.
Across the Bay from you. Lewes. Lived there (a kid) during the '62 Storm. "The Great Storm" really was a great storm. I was 7 years old and lived on 2nd Street and the water level came up to our backyard.@@TheRealBelisariusCawl
Definitely my favourite maritime channel. I bet that guy that looked into the swordfish's eye, and gave the game away will remember that sword fish for the rest of his life.
I lived right in the ocean in 1991 with my gf, when you opened the sliding glass door to the deck, the deck butted right up against the seawall, when the waves started crashing up on the deck it was beautiful, high tide was still hours away, then the waves started crashing up over the roof, dark green ocean water running down the windows, it was awesome, my gf kept saying we gotta go but I loved it, then a wave brought a boulder and smashed through the sliding glass door, by the time we left both sides street were flooded, i backed the car across the street, we had front row seats to waves ripping the house apart, washing it out to sea, in the morning the only thing left was the foundation and us in the car. 1991 Marshfield, Mass. The perfect storm.
Let me guess, our tax dollars built you a new home? Our gubmint is such a wreck. It would be nice if homes were restricted to about a quarter mile inland so us people in the rest of the country dont have to keep building new homes every few years. Idiocy.
@@nunyabizness9216I don’t know wtf you’re on about. Insurance would cover rebuilding costs of a home, not tax dollars. Always some dumbass on youtube talking out of their ass. 😂
And the thought never crossed your mind the whole time you were watching the pretty waves destroy everything you have to maybe get some of it and put it in the car. Oh wait, you’re living on seafront and have a fat bank account. You do not need to worry about it.
I saw the movie in the theater when it came out and I wasn't expecting much but I was very pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed the movie, the story and the acting. I actually shed a few tears towards the end and that's not something I do often without good reason.
Having seen more than l care to of bad weather at sea, especially on big sailboats, which are generally better able to handle extreme conditions than western rigged long liners, like the "Andrea Gale," the end of this film reawakened PTSD from earlier experiences. No thanks.
I'm on the West Coast. Fuel tanks above the waterline are shunned; and I've never seen fuel drums loaded on the bow. It sounds like they needed a bigger boat to long line that area.
@@wallacejeffery5786 if your running inside waters you can get away with a lot. These guys were equivalently out past Kodiak, well outside their boats operating envelope. As for icing the load, it seems to me that they were cutting the delivery date close.
Took my Motorcycle to Nova Scotia on the Scotia Prince, a 470-foot-long ferry that would take passengers, vehicles and cargo from Portland Maine to Yarmouth Nova Scotia. Kind of like a mini cruise ship with food, gambling and cabins. Made the trip around 5 or 6 times in my life but during one of the first few we went through a pretty bad Nor'easter . Every so often you could hear the explosion of the Bow crashing into a huge wave and then view out the cabin window would be obscured by water and then clear. Scared the hell out of me. Can't imagine being in something like that storm in a little vessel like the Andrea Gale. RIP Boys
fun fact: I lived in Gloucester during 99-00. When they were filming The perfect Storm. The Crow's nest pictured at 9:43 is not the real bar. That was a set built for the movie; at the end of the pier.
i was on the water that night passing threw the area were the Andera was .that night the storm came threw and just grew and grew ,the captain never turn in ,and i the second engineer made none stop rounds , the captain and i talked some ,he told me then that he knew some boats were in trouble , our ship was 297 feet with 3000 horse power and plow threw the sea ,the waves where 50 to 70 feet and even bigger ones .
I've been waiting forever for someone to do a good telling of this particular story. And it's YOU of all people, love it! Finally man, thank you! Love your videos brother.
There was an incredible documentary about this I saw in the mid 90s. Really chilling. It had interviews with a woman on another boat who was there t monitor what the Japanese were catching. I can recall her saying the last communication she had with the Andre Gail was the captain saying I've rhe radio ' she's coming on, and she's coming on strong" about the storm. Iirc it was a weather presenter who first called it the perfect storm.
This is an interesting idea, the fuel and water leading to the loss, but the ship was sunk after an extended voyage, where a lot of that extra fuel and water would have been used. The crew knew they were sailing into bad weather and probably would have transferred fuel to the main tanks to lower the center of gravity and reduce free surface effect from partially filled tanks. They might have even dumped the extra fresh water to increase freeboard and increase stability. This was a crew of experienced sailors.
The fuel in those drums was likely long gone by the time of the storm. What sank boat was not free surface, but as the USCG so elegantly describes it, "free communication" better characterized as more water entering the hull than the bilge pumps, aka "dewatering devices" can handle. That the free communication was likely the result of a loss of stability is immaterial. The end result was loss of sufficient buoyancy to stay afloat, better known as sinking.
@@frankmiller95 How would water enter a watertight hull on a boat going into the weather? A 75-foot swordboat would easily weather 30-foot seas (the AG was slammed during fishing on the Banks by a 30-footer that broadsided her and put her on her side and yet with only 20,000lbs of fish in the hold she recovered with no damage). Barring some catastrophic engine failure (unlikely) she was almost certainly pitch-poled like we see in the film.
@@pc_buildyb0i935 "Watertight" is a relative term. Any vessel without positive stability will only retain its watertight integrity for a very short time, as in seconds, minutes at most, after it has capsized. On the other hand, a "modern" monohull sailboat will generally recover to an upright condition after a knockdown, or even a 360. lf its hull retains sufficient watertight integrity for bilge pumps and other dewatering devices to stay ahead of the inevitable leaks, it will stay will afloat. Since a vessel without positive stability will not recover after exceeding its GM, it will sink, sooner rather than later.
Your presentation and story telling here is fantastic. Ignore the idiots in the comments who think they know better but clearly have done no research or have any knowledge on what they speak. Excellent work as usual.
I wonder if it really makes a difference if you just made a non bait more sober title like the sinking of xyz, some of the clickbait titles dont even have the name of the ship and I also wonder whether they are actually detrimental for example for non subscriber specifically searching for an incident by name... @@waterlinestories
Another theory,based on a similar long liners sinking,is that the Andrea Gail stuffed her bow several times with such force that the hull compressed and her sides split.Kinda like stepping on a beer can that’s standing up .As the beer can compresses the sides split open.She was a steel hull and all that energy pushing on the bow has no place to go and she can’t displace all that energy by flexing.That energy has to go somewhere so it may have forced its way out the sides by splitting the sides of the hull.Ive been fishing commercially for Tuna for 38 seasons and have been caught it some extremely nautical conditions,where I could feel the entire boat flexing and torquing under the strain and they were fiberglass hulls that flexed.
God bless all the fishermen who risk their lives on the sea. RIP to the crew of the Andrea Gail & all others who have lost their lives at sea. Fair winds & following seas shipmates. 🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️ 🫡 🇺🇸
Fellow fisherman. My fathers boat, the Carla Ann (family boat) nearly sank for the same reason. Fuel Drums loaded on board. Full of fuel for an extended trip. The extra weight proved seriously dangerous. My father said he would never do it again.
The things some people have to perform and endure just so we can buy our groceries conveniently is truly incredible. The next time you buy a slab of swordfish, say a prayer for the men who have perished trying to get that piece of fish to you.
this is one of my absolute favorite movies. perfect cast, perfect soundtrack, the perfect storm. And for a year 2000 movie it has friggin great cgi. This is my Titanic. Not gonna lie, when the Andrea Gail sinks at the end and Marky Mark is there alone in the ocean, in the storm, i always tear up a bit lol
I still remember watching it on the news when the Andrea Gail went missing, the fleet pulled together looked for survivors for a couple of weeks, even the Coast Guard looked for well over a week until they found items from her. It was also the quietest movie theater I ever sat in when the movie cam out.
That story about the fish looking up at Koskogot to me. I don’t like killing anything. I rescue spiders out of my house. It’s probably a girl thing lol
i spent that storm deckhanding a 40 ft launch boat in NY harbor. even as protected as the harbor was, it was HORRIBLE. 15 ft chop on the leeward side of tankers, 50 plus mph steady wind, gusts that wanted to blow you right off the deck. 12 hours of that had me beaten down. the idea of facing that unprotected in the open ocean of the north atlantic in a 66 ft boat is the stuff of nightmares
"The sea's getting colder." That is one hell of an understatement. It will drop to just a few degrees over freezing (from somewhere in the 60s F during summer). In the area off Cape Cod at least. (which isn't too far from the area discussed here) My father lives on Cape Cod year round. One year I went and jumped into Nantucket sound in Jan. or Feb. Lets just say I'll never do that again. Holy hell that was cold. I have never felt anything like that before in my life.
Very happy to see that you did this because the movie was so vapid. The story about the cook is beautiful and tragically poetic. Is he a writer? Who would hear that powerful small piece but for this video?
I thought I knew everything there was to know about the sinking of the Andrea Gail but you have some excellent nuggets included that I was unaware of. Thanks
Are we just going to ignore that John C Riley survived so that he could spend time with his stepbrother and document their time together? Boats & hoes ⛵️
I remember that storm. There were 30' to 35 ' breakers throwing boulders the size of small cars over the sea wall. Boats were blown hundreds of yards in land. The lobster traps were all over the beaches and the fishing fleets took a pounding.
If they were at the end of the trip you generally always burn your tanks down and then would transfer all the fuel from the drums down into the hull as soon as you can. No captain with any experience would leave all that weight on the bow longer than they had to, especially knowing there is weather coming
Most of the Andrea Gail's plastic drums that were recovered were empty, so this tracks. Tyne was an experienced mariner and would know better than to leave any weight high up.
It was a clickbait title- he said at the end that nobody knows, so why use a title like that? I agree with you,though- whatever vehicle it is, extra fuel (or water) should always be properly stowed/stored as soon as there’s room.
I was an actor in the movie 8 Seconds the life and death story of Lane Frost a young Champion Rodeo Bull Rider that died in the arena after the bull he just rode turned around and gored him. Luke Perry, Steven Baldwin, Cynthia Gery and many other good actors were in this 1994 hit. The director had made Rocky movies, Karate Kid and many other block busters. I was from Texas and knew of Bull riding and Rodeos so I was hired to be a Rodeo Clown, bar fighter, EMT and just being one of the bull riders too. The way the studio portrayed the family dynamic was terrible. They made his father look like a cold hearted azz that didn't love or care about his son. Which was the complete opposite of the truth. Hollywood got the basics wrong and made the family seem like they didn't love each other when they did completely. Just because they say "based" on a true story. Very little of the story is actually true. This goes for all movies that were based on a real person or event. It's heartbreaking to see how Hollywood can just make things up to make the movie seem more than it really was. Lane had a great story to tell without lying about so many things in his life. Sorry this is so ling. 30 years and several movies later it still stings.
My sub was stuck on the surface waiting for permission to go to Nova Scotia and a Nor Easter popped up out of nowhere. I was stationed as Look Out and the waves were pounding me and the Officer of the Deck. We got beat up for 3 hours before the XO called it and brought us down. I had never seen waves so big as in the North Atlantic. They would tower over us and each time a big wave hit it would go completely black. I had bruises on my entire back like someone kept hitting me with a sledge hammer.
I've heard that the waves in the roaring 40s circling Antarctica are ridiculous and relentless all year round, thanks to the Coriolis Effect and not having any landmass to slow it down. 10m waves are regular for that latitude apparently.
I just finished the book today the perfect storm feeling really bad for Billy tyne and his crew not just Andrea Gail also terrie lie got dissappear too poor souls lost their life , one para rescue jumper die too
@@waterlinestories I'm well, hope you are too?! I've been listening to your older vidoes with my eyes closed drinking in your awesome accent. Thank you 😉😉
@@waterlinestories you are most welcome. I really appreciate the high quality of the research and the skill of how it is presented. I also think it is marvellous how you present all the measurement conversions from miles to kilometres and so on. It means that for some of us, we don’t have to multitask and try to make the calculations on our own! I always get excited about new episodes and I always really enjoy the high quality presentation. Keep up the excellent work, 👏🏻 🥇☝🏻
I have always hoped a good maritime channel would cover the Andrea Gail. I have read about it but not seen anyone cover it yet on yt. Great job as always.
You'll notice in the photos that the Andrea Gale had a stern ramp. Having one indicates she was originally built with the capability of being rigged as a stern trawler. Thus rigged she would have had net reels, nets, gallows frames, winches and more lifting righing aloft. All of this equipment would weigh significantly more than longline gear for swordfish and would have been accounted for by her designer. The barrel theory is doubtful as that wayer and fuel would hae been consumed by the time of the storm. I worked on trawlers in the North Atlantic and Bering Sea for forty five years with 30 as captain and while i can imagine how the Andrea Gale sank the fact is no one knows.
The Andrea Gail did not have a stern ramp. The FV Lady Grace, which was used to portray the AG in the movie, does. The AG, originally "Miss Penny" was designed and purpose-built as a longliner. She most likely was pitch-poled by the 100-foot seas in the area, if she didn't sink earlier in the storm.
More likely. The violent rocking of the boat caused the fuel to splash around in the fuel tanks. The engines sucked some air and stalled. With no propulsion, they ended up sideways and got hit broadside from a large wave and capsized
I'd more suspect that seawater contamination would be more likely since the fuel pickups are at the bottom of the tank, but either way the results would be the same. Engine dies, boat goes broadside, gets knocked down and down floods, sinks right quickly especially if the fish hold hatch lets go...
Wow - another absolutely fascinating WaterlineStories video - it reminds me of when my folks and I went on a Whale-Watching Boat Trip off the coast of Boston,MA (fortunately the seas were still and the weather was perfect) but the North Atlantic can change on a dime. Thank you again for bringing us these world-class productions my friend. Subscribing to your channel is one of the best things I've done this year.
You need to get out more. I've eaten it, bought it in the store and seen it on the menu in restaurants. I used to buy my dog a piece of fish every friday, cook it and give it to her. She liked the swordfish.
The A./G. At the time, was considered on the smaller side of boat's fishing sword in the areas they were. However, At those times and on The Grand banks, everything in this video was common practice. Pushing weather, boats & Men to their limits just was an accepted way of life. It was a really nice boat w/great crew on board from everything I have heard. Long lining for sword must have been pretty cool in those days. I remember the day of the storm. Knowing how it was on land I can NOT imagine just how vicious it was off shore. Measured waves in a few places were 90 ft.+
The Perfect Storm is my favorite movie ever made and the reason i love being on boat's as well as fishing regardless of how bad the weather may become I'll die happy doing what i love any day
It’s one of the last true bar rooms in town. Gloucester used to have a bar on every corner. Now there are less than 5 and that may be exaggerating a bit. I think there are 3 left.
In a room full of blind men who can truely see? They payed the price for a butt load of fish and cash. Because thats what you do. It payes the bills. No fish- No money. Maintnance and weather be damned. Its sad and tragic. My heart to the families and friends of the men and women who fish the big water.
I fished many years offshore and all of the EPRIBS (Emergency Position Radio Indicating Beacon) that I have owned had a giant screw that prevented the switch being moved, accidentally or intentionally to the off position, for example, off season storage or servicing of the unit. You would need a phillips screwdriver to take out the screw and it would take a few minutes due to its length. With the screw in, the switch then could only be in the armed position or manual on position. In the armed position the EPIRB activates when it is submerged and floats to the surface where it transmits, or the switch could be manually placed in the on position by someone needing the EPRIB transmitting at that time.
I was crewing on a yacht delivery from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean when this happened. Hurricane Grace was forming to the North of us and a tropical storm to the South. Luckily we navigated between the two and made landfall safely. Whilst at sea we could hear fishing vessels over the radio to the North who were caught in the tempest. Years later when the book and movie The Perfect Storm were released I found out about what had happened to the Andrea Gail. I still think about those brave men who lost their lives that day and all the countless others who have sacrificed themselves working at sea. I have also crewed on fishing boats and so have an even deeper respect for these guys. RIP all the brave men and women who died so we could have a fish supper.
After more than a month at sea, it would be my guess all those extra barrels/drum of fuel and water(to use and make ice) would have been used up and empty. That was the whole point of having them , not to bring them back to port full of fuel and water . I venture by the time of their return trip they had little fuel* and water left. They had a ship full of fish and a bad storm. I don't think empty drums would have meant anything. * note- low fuel tanks might have been more of issue than full fuel tanks in a storm.. In older boats especially. The fuel has more room to "slosh" around in the tank stirring up all the sediment and crud in the tank and also mixing up any water in the fuel tank, which normally "sits" in a bottom layer. Other ships have had engine failure because of water/sediment contamination caused by rough seas.
We had seawater get into one of our tanks not far from off Hinchinbrook in Queensland that left both main engines and the generator dead. It was coming on dark with heavy seas so we had to switch tanks then drain all the fuel lines, filters and assorted fittings, all the while testing the diesel and dropping heaps into the bilges. Being side on to the swell had everybody getting seasick, this being aided by the 46 degree engine room temperature and the diesel in the bilges. Anyway whilst sweating and spewing profusely we managed to bleed one main engine to not only turn us into the swell but prevent us from dropping an anchor in an effort to not go into the cliffs that we were steadily approaching. We kept at it down below and bled the port engine then the generators. It was the harshest conditions I’ve ever worked in by far and as we had our children on this trip there was always that background pressure spurring us on to get the job done.
This is an excellent video, one of your best. I would just say that a more accurate and probably more exciting title would be "This ship sailed into a perfect storm" or something similar,especially since we don't have more info on the boat's final moments.
I've fished commercially since '97. For most of that time I was either Engineer or Mate. Spent a lot of time on boats right similar to the Andrea Gail, including some time on the Hanna Boden when she was in the lobster/Jonah crab fleet.
If I were to make a guess as to what did the Andrea Gail in, I'd be likely so suspect her fuel, not the barrels, but her tanks, specifically her fuel vents which were on deck.
Typical fuel vents on boats like that have a u shaped pipe coming up from the deck usually right up under the gunwales as far outboard as practical. On the open end of the pipe there is a bell fitting which functions as a check valve, a form of float valve really, that if the fitting gets submerged the ball floats up in the housing and mates with a ring in the top of the bell, which seals most to all of the seawater from getting in and contaminating the fuel. Now I'm not sure which tanks they were drawing from at the time (no-one is) but I would bet significant money it would have been her saddle tanks as they were fairly close to her LCG and LCB while in a loaded state, with her lazarette tanks likely having been used earlier in the trip and topped off with the fuel from the barrels to avoid getting her too far out of trim at any time.
Now back to those vents, a goodly few of the boats I've been on have had issues with their vents, fills or some times both; they are all just pipes welded to the deck which also forms the top of the fuel tank, and it is precisely that weld which caused four out of the seven fuel contamination issues I've had to deal with. There is often dissimilar metals between the pipe and the deck and whatever rod was used to weld it in place, its a hotspot for corrosive problems, and is pretty good for letting seawater into the fuel, and diesels do not like trying to burn seawater. Now if the aluminum ball in the bell housing for the tank vent is also shot; and I've only ever encountered a few what weren't you can get a surprising amount of seawater into your tanks.
Ideally you would re-weld the fill pipe and slop some paint on it, and you also typically know what tank is know for leaking the worst and which one leaks the least, when you are expecting foul weather the in the next day or so, you align the fuel system so that the main is drawing from the best tank and you also probably go and change the filters on the racors and while you're down there also drain the bowls all around for the racors on the main and any generators you have aboard to make sure that there is as little chance of water getting to the engines and stalling them out as possible.
Now for my theory, there is lots of stuff that is lashed all over the deck of a working boat like that and some of it is quite heavy. It wouldn't take much of a knock to snap off a vent or a fill that was already not in the best of shape, and with no record of her vents being repaired for her midships tanks in the previous 5 or so years there is very little reason to assume they were in good shape and a fair bit to recommend that they were in fact at least partially corroded at or around their junction with the deck plates. It is also very likely that something lashed to the deck or gunwales would come totally or partially adrift in the weather they were steaming through. Letting fairly small but continuous amounts of water into the tank, until it got to the point that the fuel/water separators and racor bowls could no longer keep the fuel to the engine clean enough for it to continue running. This would naturally cause it to stall out and necessitate the realignment of the fuel system to draw on a different tank and to have the fuel lines downstream of the racors or at the very very barest minimum downstream of the engine mounted fuel pump to need to be purged. Not an evolution they would have had time for.
Now the best they could hope for is to have enough steerage way left to lay the boat onto the port tack and have heave to after a fashion, with the raised "wave wall" what you call her raised bulkhead on the port side offering some shelter to the deck. It's her most stable option at that point however it does mean that she will have been drifting beam to the seas, which you don't have to be to nautically inclined to figure is probably not ideal, but without power it would be the best option. Unfortunately before there was any chance of regaining powered, it is entirely probable that she took a coamer that knocked her down and she down flooded from there, likely going down in less than 3 minutes from that point. Main points of water ingress likely being through the fish hold hatch and through the wheel house door, as I am fairly certain at that point in time she was fitted with a partition door there instead of a true water tight door.
But that's just my take on it.
Two boats I've been on that had particularly bad fuel problems were the old Genesis and the old William Bowe. Genesis had the issue that her tanks were just flat out dirty as the day is long from years of bad ownership. you had to change the racors on an almost daily basis in good weather to keep the engine and generator going. On the Bowe it was a pure crap show, there was not only dirt and gunk in the tanks but algae and seawater a well, with known deck leaks on all 4 of her fuel tanks that would let water in. The Bowe also had a lot of other problems as well, not the least of which was centered around her generators. The #1 produced somewhat questionable voltage and the frequency was a bit wonky varying between 58 and 62 hz for not particular reason, which on its own not great, but the kicker was that the #2 gen would randomly kick off line. There being no mechanical backup for the steering pumps, and they not starting back up on their own after a loss of electrical power meant that they would have to be manually reset.
I'd like to say that such issues are unique to those vessels but that would be a lie. As the fleet ages such problems only become more and more common, don't forget that most of the US boats that were around when the Andrea Gail was built are still fishing. It's a problem that needs to be addressed however I'll not be the one holding my breath for it to happen.
holy crap dude TLDR!
Amazing detail👍🏻
@@jochenheiden I read the whole thing easily
@@jochenheidenreading is good for you mate!
@@thindigital meh. Overrated.
Dang man you’ve added so much back story to Billy Tyne that we never got from “The Perfect Storm”
If you want detail, read the book!
Sebastian Junger. You'll be glad you did, it's fascinating 👍
@@engste678yes and if you want FACTS (or the admission that there are few facts) then read the official reports. Certainly don't rely on this highly speculative YT video.
There is an equally fascinating book "Hungry Ocean" from Linda Greenlaw, the captain of Andrea Gail's sister ship Hannah Boden at the time of the storm
True. The book was way much better than the movie. To be honest, I got way, way annoyed at the whiny actress's portrayal of Cap. Linda Greenlaw.@@engste678
Major respect to the folk who work on ships like this one. Such hard, dangerous work - they definitely earn what they make
I was on a 210 ft supply boat coming back from iceland when that storm came together. It was the worst storm I have ever been in. We had 42 containers on our back deck and it was the scarriest 24 hours of my life working offshore. We heard maydays from several vessels but in 80-90 ft seas there was nothing we could do even if we were closer to them.
Must be a truly haunting experience hearing multiple mayday calls like that, especially without any meaningful way to respond and the possibility of joining them.
The scariest part was when the sun went down the waves seemed to get bigger with each passing hour. We wore our survival suits 24 hours until the storm was over.
You're a lot braver than me. I could never work on the sea.
"Dont steam through a hurricane, you wont get paid if you are dead"
Me.
History is full of moronically arrogant captains that have ignored reality and ended their ships and crews.
"And if you have to, do it in a submarine"
- Not me, but I was standing close by, when that other guy said it.
Very pithy.
They didnt steam into a hurricane- did you watch the video? They steamed into a storm fuelled by a low that turned into a '100 year storm'... Try harder before taking the p1ss my bru, have some respect.
@@SchmozzleGTO An overloaded fishing vessel shouldnt steam into either, what are you talking about exactly? Sounds like you have some personal issues to work out and you are just here venting. Why dont YOU show some respect and go rake your zen garden instead of snapping at people for no good reason?
Compassion and empathy saved one crewman.
kudos.
I feel like I'd be that guy. I can't stomach the idea of the hunting/ fishing trades for myself personally. But then again, I don't like killing spiders so long as their outside and not crawling on me... so killing a swordfish on an industrial level would be too much for me. I probably am lucky I live in this time period...
Felt bad for that old swordfish.
Oh magic rainbow swordfish, pass your double rainbow energy into my so's I can hit some blackjacks tonight at the casino.
I agree completely.
This story could make a great movie!
George Clooney would make a great captain!
@@CEngineering-pv8uwjust imagine if Mark Walberg also starred in it! I would watch it.
It is a movie called the “perfect storm”.
@@jackallen9780 they are being sarcastic bro
@@jackallen9780That's such a perfect name for such a movie. Man those Hollywood people...that's why the get the big bucks.
The Flemish Cap? Went there once... in '62. Lots of fish...and lots of weather...
Classic
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I saw him say it to
Good to know
“Your full of shit”
“True, I am”😂❤
Great story of full of shit fisherman…seen so many😅
I grew up in New Jersey, right on the water. I remember that storm, and, how bad the flooding from the surge was. Half my town was uner 4 feet of water.
What part of NJ? I’m from SJ myself.
Im tjinking Thats a good thing for New Jersey.
Point Plessant Beach,N.J. here.We had epic flooding from this system.
@@kennethkobylakiewicz3157He said SJ not east Philadelphia 😂😂.
Cape May now in the chat 👍
Across the Bay from you. Lewes. Lived there (a kid) during the '62 Storm. "The Great Storm" really was a great storm. I was 7 years old and lived on 2nd Street and the water level came up to our backyard.@@TheRealBelisariusCawl
Definitely my favourite maritime channel.
I bet that guy that looked into the swordfish's eye, and gave the game away will remember that sword fish for the rest of his life.
I lived right in the ocean in 1991 with my gf, when you opened the sliding glass door to the deck, the deck butted right up against the seawall, when the waves started crashing up on the deck it was beautiful, high tide was still hours away, then the waves started crashing up over the roof, dark green ocean water running down the windows, it was awesome, my gf kept saying we gotta go but I loved it, then a wave brought a boulder and smashed through the sliding glass door, by the time we left both sides street were flooded, i backed the car across the street, we had front row seats to waves ripping the house apart, washing it out to sea, in the morning the only thing left was the foundation and us in the car. 1991 Marshfield, Mass. The perfect storm.
Let me guess, our tax dollars built you a new home?
Our gubmint is such a wreck.
It would be nice if homes were restricted to about a quarter mile inland so us people in the rest of the country dont have to keep building new homes every few years. Idiocy.
@@nunyabizness9216 Maybe they were insured?
@@nunyabizness9216I don’t know wtf you’re on about. Insurance would cover rebuilding costs of a home, not tax dollars. Always some dumbass on youtube talking out of their ass. 😂
And the thought never crossed your mind the whole time you were watching the pretty waves destroy everything you have to maybe get some of it and put it in the car. Oh wait, you’re living on seafront and have a fat bank account. You do not need to worry about it.
Just in case you were wondering, people are still cranky on the internets. Thanks for sharing your story!
Kosko's remarks about the dying swordfish kinda got to me, I won't lie.
The dude had a sixth sense.
I saw the movie in the theater when it came out and I wasn't expecting much but I was very pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed the movie, the story and the acting. I actually shed a few tears towards the end and that's not something I do often without good reason.
Having seen more than l care to of bad weather at sea, especially on big sailboats, which are generally better able to handle extreme conditions than western rigged long liners, like the "Andrea Gale," the end of this film reawakened PTSD from earlier experiences. No thanks.
Usually it’s hubris, poor planning, or lack of regard for safety that causes these kinds of accidents. This is just plain awful luck. RIP.
This is gonna be hard on my little boy! John C Reilly
The Perfect Storm
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Wasn't he reincarnated as a Nascar driver?
I'm on the West Coast. Fuel tanks above the waterline are shunned; and I've never seen fuel drums loaded on the bow. It sounds like they needed a bigger boat to long line that area.
I have loaded fuel on board a 31 Bertram, but transferred it quickly to main fuel tanks
@@wallacejeffery5786 if your running inside waters you can get away with a lot. These guys were equivalently out past Kodiak, well outside their boats operating envelope. As for icing the load, it seems to me that they were cutting the delivery date close.
The side about the former cook’s reasons for leaving was fascinating. Great story-telling instincts to have included that!
Took my Motorcycle to Nova Scotia on the Scotia Prince, a 470-foot-long ferry that would take passengers, vehicles and cargo from Portland Maine to Yarmouth Nova Scotia. Kind of like a mini cruise ship with food, gambling and cabins.
Made the trip around 5 or 6 times in my life but during one of the first few we went through a pretty bad Nor'easter . Every so often you could hear the explosion of the Bow crashing into a huge wave and then view out the cabin window would be obscured by water and then clear. Scared the hell out of me. Can't imagine being in something like that storm in a little vessel like the Andrea Gale. RIP Boys
fun fact: I lived in Gloucester during 99-00. When they were filming The perfect Storm. The Crow's nest pictured at 9:43 is not the real bar. That was a set built for the movie; at the end of the pier.
Ssssh, don't give away the secret location
I got absolutely shitfaced there one night back in '96, good times.
i was on the water that night passing threw the area were the Andera was .that night the storm came threw and just grew and grew ,the captain never turn in ,and i the second engineer made none stop rounds , the captain and i talked some ,he told me then that he knew some boats were in trouble , our ship was 297 feet with 3000 horse power and plow threw the sea ,the waves where 50 to 70 feet and even bigger ones .
I'll just stick to inland lakes and my rowboat. Fresh fish for the family is good enough for me.
*through. Threw is the past tense of "throw."
I've been waiting forever for someone to do a good telling of this particular story. And it's YOU of all people, love it! Finally man, thank you! Love your videos brother.
🤣 thanks
That’s almost a wonderful compliment!
There was an incredible documentary about this I saw in the mid 90s. Really chilling. It had interviews with a woman on another boat who was there t monitor what the Japanese were catching. I can recall her saying the last communication she had with the Andre Gail was the captain saying I've rhe radio ' she's coming on, and she's coming on strong" about the storm. Iirc it was a weather presenter who first called it the perfect storm.
This is an interesting idea, the fuel and water leading to the loss, but the ship was sunk after an extended voyage, where a lot of that extra fuel and water would have been used.
The crew knew they were sailing into bad weather and probably would have transferred fuel to the main tanks to lower the center of gravity and reduce free surface effect from partially filled tanks. They might have even dumped the extra fresh water to increase freeboard and increase stability.
This was a crew of experienced sailors.
The only fuel drums recovered were empty, as per the Coast Guard report. It seems the crew did exactly this.
The fuel in those drums was likely long gone by the time of the storm. What sank boat was not free surface, but as the USCG so elegantly describes it, "free communication" better characterized as more water entering the hull than the bilge pumps, aka "dewatering devices" can handle. That the free communication was likely the result of a loss of stability is immaterial. The end result was loss of sufficient buoyancy to stay afloat, better known as sinking.
@@frankmiller95 How would water enter a watertight hull on a boat going into the weather? A 75-foot swordboat would easily weather 30-foot seas (the AG was slammed during fishing on the Banks by a 30-footer that broadsided her and put her on her side and yet with only 20,000lbs of fish in the hold she recovered with no damage).
Barring some catastrophic engine failure (unlikely) she was almost certainly pitch-poled like we see in the film.
@@pc_buildyb0i935 "Watertight" is a relative term. Any vessel without positive stability will only retain its watertight integrity for a very short time, as in seconds, minutes at most, after it has capsized. On the other hand, a "modern" monohull sailboat will generally recover to an upright condition after a knockdown, or even a 360. lf its hull retains sufficient watertight integrity for bilge pumps and other dewatering devices to stay ahead of the inevitable leaks, it will stay will afloat. Since a vessel without positive stability will not recover after exceeding its GM, it will sink, sooner rather than later.
Many members of my grandfathers family are listed on that memorial. Fishing was and still can be so dangerous. It’s a hard life for sure.
Your presentation and story telling here is fantastic. Ignore the idiots in the comments who think they know better but clearly have done no research or have any knowledge on what they speak. Excellent work as usual.
🤣 thanks. I think I just rile people up with the title.
I wonder if it really makes a difference if you just made a non bait more sober title like the sinking of xyz, some of the clickbait titles dont even have the name of the ship and I also wonder whether they are actually detrimental for example for non subscriber specifically searching for an incident by name... @@waterlinestories
Another theory,based on a similar long liners sinking,is that the Andrea Gail stuffed her bow several times with such force that the hull compressed and her sides split.Kinda like stepping on a beer can that’s standing up .As the beer can compresses the sides split open.She was a steel hull and all that energy pushing on the bow has no place to go and she can’t displace all that energy by flexing.That energy has to go somewhere so it may have forced its way out the sides by splitting the sides of the hull.Ive been fishing commercially for Tuna for 38 seasons and have been caught it some extremely nautical conditions,where I could feel the entire boat flexing and torquing under the strain and they were fiberglass hulls that flexed.
I’m good friends with Linda Greenlaw. She is an amazing woman.
The perfect storm I love that movie
God bless all the fishermen who risk their lives on the sea. RIP to the crew of the Andrea Gail & all others who have lost their lives at sea. Fair winds & following seas shipmates. 🙏♥️🙏♥️🙏♥️ 🫡 🇺🇸
Fellow fisherman. My fathers boat, the Carla Ann (family boat) nearly sank for the same reason. Fuel Drums loaded on board. Full of fuel for an extended trip. The extra weight proved seriously dangerous. My father said he would never do it again.
Another excellent story well documented and clearly told.
Congratulations!
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The things some people have to perform and endure just so we can buy our groceries conveniently is truly incredible. The next time you buy a slab of swordfish, say a prayer for the men who have perished trying to get that piece of fish to you.
never bought swordfish in my life
You're doing a really great job! I'm glad that I've come across your channel!
👍🏻 thanks. Welcome aboard
Thank you for the info. You are always so respectful of the lives lost, I truly appreciate that
this is one of my absolute favorite movies. perfect cast, perfect soundtrack, the perfect storm. And for a year 2000 movie it has friggin great cgi.
This is my Titanic. Not gonna lie, when the Andrea Gail sinks at the end and Marky Mark is there alone in the ocean, in the storm, i always tear up a bit lol
I still remember watching it on the news when the Andrea Gail went missing, the fleet pulled together looked for survivors for a couple of weeks, even the Coast Guard looked for well over a week until they found items from her. It was also the quietest movie theater I ever sat in when the movie cam out.
That story about the fish looking up at Koskogot to me. I don’t like killing anything. I rescue spiders out of my house. It’s probably a girl thing lol
i spent that storm deckhanding a 40 ft launch boat in NY harbor. even as protected as the harbor was, it was HORRIBLE. 15 ft chop on the leeward side of tankers, 50 plus mph steady wind, gusts that wanted to blow you right off the deck. 12 hours of that had me beaten down. the idea of facing that unprotected in the open ocean of the north atlantic in a 66 ft boat is the stuff of nightmares
"The sea's getting colder." That is one hell of an understatement. It will drop to just a few degrees over freezing (from somewhere in the 60s F during summer). In the area off Cape Cod at least. (which isn't too far from the area discussed here)
My father lives on Cape Cod year round. One year I went and jumped into Nantucket sound in Jan. or Feb. Lets just say I'll never do that again. Holy hell that was cold. I have never felt anything like that before in my life.
Very happy to see that you did this because the movie was so vapid. The story about the cook is beautiful and tragically poetic. Is he a writer? Who would hear that powerful small piece but for this video?
I don't know if he's a writer. Would make sense.
You did an EXCELLENT job describing this story Paul. Love hearing you tell these exciting/terrible ocean incidents step-by-step.
Thanks 👍🏻
You have real talent for explaining things to where a person like me. Who has never been on a ship can understand! Great job
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I thought I knew everything there was to know about the sinking of the Andrea Gail but you have some excellent nuggets included that I was unaware of. Thanks
I love your channel and stories! (I have a very soft spot for ships of all kinds.)Thank you for presenting this to us.
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I believe that swordfish did indeed communicate with him and love little gems of the supernatural in real life. Divine intervention.
This was very sad. George Clooney died in the incident.
Ha ha
Mark Wahlberg was also lost.
Are we just going to ignore that John C Riley survived so that he could spend time with his stepbrother and document their time together?
Boats & hoes ⛵️
i cried when he yelled " I REGRET NOTHING". it was so stunning and brave. sadly they made it before the disabled dog was invented.
Good one ! 👌🏻👍🏻 lol. 😂
I remember that storm. There were 30' to 35 ' breakers throwing boulders the size of small cars over the sea wall. Boats were blown hundreds of yards in land. The lobster traps were all over the beaches and the fishing fleets took a pounding.
If they were at the end of the trip you generally always burn your tanks down and then would transfer all the fuel from the drums down into the hull as soon as you can. No captain with any experience would leave all that weight on the bow longer than they had to, especially knowing there is weather coming
Most of the Andrea Gail's plastic drums that were recovered were empty, so this tracks. Tyne was an experienced mariner and would know better than to leave any weight high up.
It was a clickbait title-
he said at the end that nobody knows,
so why use a title like that?
I agree with you,though-
whatever vehicle it is,
extra fuel (or water) should always be properly stowed/stored as soon as there’s room.
Nice touch with the animations man 👏🏻
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I was an actor in the movie 8 Seconds the life and death story of Lane Frost a young Champion Rodeo Bull Rider that died in the arena after the bull he just rode turned around and gored him. Luke Perry, Steven Baldwin, Cynthia Gery and many other good actors were in this 1994 hit.
The director had made Rocky movies, Karate Kid and many other block busters. I was from Texas and knew of Bull riding and Rodeos so I was hired to be a Rodeo Clown, bar fighter, EMT and just being one of the bull riders too. The way the studio portrayed the family dynamic was terrible. They made his father look like a cold hearted azz that didn't love or care about his son. Which was the complete opposite of the truth. Hollywood got the basics wrong and made the family seem like they didn't love each other when they did completely. Just because they say "based" on a true story. Very little of the story is actually true. This goes for all movies that were based on a real person or event. It's heartbreaking to see how Hollywood can just make things up to make the movie seem more than it really was. Lane had a great story to tell without lying about so many things in his life. Sorry this is so ling. 30 years and several movies later it still stings.
excellent coverage, thank you!
The perfect storm staring George Clooney. Great movie, sad event.
Always exciting to see a new Waterline Stories post... Keep up the great work, love all of it.
May all involved in these stories rest in peace.
My sub was stuck on the surface waiting for permission to go to Nova Scotia and a Nor Easter popped up out of nowhere. I was stationed as Look Out and the waves were pounding me and the Officer of the Deck. We got beat up for 3 hours before the XO called it and brought us down. I had never seen waves so big as in the North Atlantic. They would tower over us and each time a big wave hit it would go completely black. I had bruises on my entire back like someone kept hitting me with a sledge hammer.
Wouldnt it be safer if the sub had dived down and waited?
WTF....
@@DBBMedI could be wrong, but I believe they could only communicate when up on the surface. Once they dive, communications are limited/terminated.
You've never been hit with a sledge hammer...
I've heard that the waves in the roaring 40s circling Antarctica are ridiculous and relentless all year round, thanks to the Coriolis Effect and not having any landmass to slow it down. 10m waves are regular for that latitude apparently.
Thank you for another very well-done documentary. You're the best!
Thanks, I really appreciate that
Important: Don’t name your ship Andrea.
I just finished the book today the perfect storm feeling really bad for Billy tyne and his crew not just Andrea Gail also terrie lie got dissappear too poor souls lost their life , one para rescue jumper die too
The name of the boat is irrelevant.
Another great video from my favorite site. Glad you back to normal 😉😉😉
Thanks Beverly. Hope all is well
@@waterlinestories I'm well, hope you are too?! I've been listening to your older vidoes with my eyes closed drinking in your awesome accent. Thank you 😉😉
@@waterlinestories Have you been sick, wat is fout boeta?
@2esquared No. Just took a break over Xmas and then it took a while to get up to speed
@@waterlinestories Well, hope you had a great holiday, your all rested up and will be bringing some great video's in the near furture. 😉😉😉
My absolute favourite channel ANYWHERE! Love your work!👏👏👏
Thanks, I really appreciate that
@@waterlinestories you are most welcome. I really appreciate the high quality of the research and the skill of how it is presented. I also think it is marvellous how you present all the measurement conversions from miles to kilometres and so on. It means that for some of us, we don’t have to multitask and try to make the calculations on our own! I always get excited about new episodes and I always really enjoy the high quality presentation. Keep up the excellent work, 👏🏻 🥇☝🏻
I have always hoped a good maritime channel would cover the Andrea Gail. I have read about it but not seen anyone cover it yet on yt. Great job as always.
👍🏻 Thanks. Great to see you here
You'll notice in the photos that the Andrea Gale had a stern ramp. Having one indicates she was originally built with the capability of being rigged as a stern trawler. Thus rigged she would have had net reels, nets, gallows frames, winches and more lifting righing aloft. All of this equipment would weigh significantly more than longline gear for swordfish and would have been accounted for by her designer. The barrel theory is doubtful as that wayer and fuel would hae been consumed by the time of the storm. I worked on trawlers in the North Atlantic and Bering Sea for forty five years with 30 as captain and while i can imagine how the Andrea Gale sank the fact is no one knows.
The Andrea Gail did not have a stern ramp. The FV Lady Grace, which was used to portray the AG in the movie, does. The AG, originally "Miss Penny" was designed and purpose-built as a longliner. She most likely was pitch-poled by the 100-foot seas in the area, if she didn't sink earlier in the storm.
More likely. The violent rocking of the boat caused the fuel to splash around in the fuel tanks. The engines sucked some air and stalled. With no propulsion, they ended up sideways and got hit broadside from a large wave and capsized
I'd more suspect that seawater contamination would be more likely since the fuel pickups are at the bottom of the tank, but either way the results would be the same. Engine dies, boat goes broadside, gets knocked down and down floods, sinks right quickly especially if the fish hold hatch lets go...
It could also be shaking up sludge from the tank bottom too.
@naughtiusmaximus830 maybe. But dead engines is a surefire way to get in trouble in a storm
Wow - another absolutely fascinating WaterlineStories video - it reminds me of when my folks and I went on a Whale-Watching Boat Trip off the coast of Boston,MA (fortunately the seas were still and the weather was perfect) but the North Atlantic can change on a dime. Thank you again for bringing us these world-class productions my friend. Subscribing to your channel is one of the best things I've done this year.
Thanks, that's great to hear
Interesting content! I've Subscribed. Keep up your waterworld tales. Greetings from the French Alps.
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Not too sure about this one! Saw the Hannah Boden a few days ago on the Norfolk fishing lobster gear 🤘🏼
The Hannah Boden was sold and turned into a lobster boat. I know this for a fact because I worked in new Bedford on fishing boats.
That’s what I said. She’s been catching red crabs. Saw her at the dock this AM.
Y’all have to know chomps lol
Who eats swordfish?45 yes old and I've never eaten or saw swordfish on a menu.
It's good, might want to try it
Don't know where you live, but here in New England, you can find it at most decent seafood restaurants. Location, location...
You need to get out more. I've eaten it, bought it in the store and seen it on the menu in restaurants. I used to buy my dog a piece of fish every friday, cook it and give it to her. She liked the swordfish.
Vegas buffets
It’s delicious
Another great presentation. Thanks!
Can’t wait for the Baltimore bridge video
This is a story that will stay close to me for the rest of my life.
The A./G. At the time, was considered on the smaller side of boat's fishing sword in the areas they were. However, At those times and on The Grand banks, everything in this video was common practice. Pushing weather, boats & Men to their limits just was an accepted way of life. It was a really nice boat w/great crew on board from everything I have heard. Long lining for sword must have been pretty cool in those days. I remember the day of the storm. Knowing how it was on land I can NOT imagine just how vicious it was off shore. Measured waves in a few places were 90 ft.+
i wish they could find that boat.
Why. The fish that was on the boat is gone by now😂
Great, thanks for this. Nice to hear some facts
The Perfect Storm is my favorite movie ever made and the reason i love being on boat's as well as fishing regardless of how bad the weather may become I'll die happy doing what i love any day
These maritime stories are captivating
The Crows Nest is still around! Been a fair few times when I used to work in the area
It’s one of the last true bar rooms in town. Gloucester used to have a bar on every corner. Now there are less than 5 and that may be exaggerating a bit. I think there are 3 left.
I absolutely love this channel!
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Excellent video. Thank you for covering this one 🤘
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In a room full of blind men who can truely see? They payed the price for a butt load of fish and cash. Because thats what you do. It payes the bills. No fish- No money. Maintnance and weather be damned. Its sad and tragic. My heart to the families and friends of the men and women who fish the big water.
Well done . Thank you doing this , nice to know the reel story , Not Hollywood Stlye. Rest in Peace Longliners.
I fished many years offshore and all of the EPRIBS (Emergency Position Radio Indicating Beacon) that I have owned had a giant screw that prevented the switch being moved, accidentally or intentionally to the off position, for example, off season storage or servicing of the unit. You would need a phillips screwdriver to take out the screw and it would take a few minutes due to its length. With the screw in, the switch then could only be in the armed position or manual on position. In the armed position the EPIRB activates when it is submerged and floats to the surface where it transmits, or the switch could be manually placed in the on position by someone needing the EPRIB transmitting at that time.
Your best work to date. Well done
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Thank you for this story. I've always wanted to know the details.
I was crewing on a yacht delivery from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean when this happened. Hurricane Grace was forming to the North of us and a tropical storm to the South. Luckily we navigated between the two and made landfall safely. Whilst at sea we could hear fishing vessels over the radio to the North who were caught in the tempest. Years later when the book and movie The Perfect Storm were released I found out about what had happened to the Andrea Gail. I still think about those brave men who lost their lives that day and all the countless others who have sacrificed themselves working at sea. I have also crewed on fishing boats and so have an even deeper respect for these guys. RIP all the brave men and women who died so we could have a fish supper.
You take from the sea , it takes from you .
My daughter was born 15 days earlier and lived right on the Ocean
Great cover!
Out catching fish for food, only to become fish food. Nuts
After more than a month at sea, it would be my guess all those extra barrels/drum of fuel and water(to use and make ice) would have been used up and empty. That was the whole point of having them , not to bring them back to port full of fuel and water . I venture by the time of their return trip they had little fuel* and water left.
They had a ship full of fish and a bad storm. I don't think empty drums would have meant anything.
* note- low fuel tanks might have been more of issue than full fuel tanks in a storm.. In older boats especially. The fuel has more room to "slosh" around in the tank stirring up all the sediment and crud in the tank and also mixing up any water in the fuel tank, which normally "sits" in a bottom layer. Other ships have had engine failure because of water/sediment contamination caused by rough seas.
I agree. I also think the drums would have been cut loose if they were in trouble.
Perfect timing!
Bro been waiting for you to do this!
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Thanks again friend.
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excellent presentation. like this channel. brings to mind william halsey's typhoon "cobra", december 1944.
How terrifying. It was probably an immediate capsize
This was a superb and principled video.
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We had seawater get into one of our tanks not far from off Hinchinbrook in Queensland that left both main engines and the generator dead. It was coming on dark with heavy seas so we had to switch tanks then drain all the fuel lines, filters and assorted fittings, all the while testing the diesel and dropping heaps into the bilges. Being side on to the swell had everybody getting seasick, this being aided by the 46 degree engine room temperature and the diesel in the bilges. Anyway whilst sweating and spewing profusely we managed to bleed one main engine to not only turn us into the swell but prevent us from dropping an anchor in an effort to not go into the cliffs that we were steadily approaching. We kept at it down below and bled the port engine then the generators. It was the harshest conditions I’ve ever worked in by far and as we had our children on this trip there was always that background pressure spurring us on to get the job done.
This is an excellent video, one of your best. I would just say that a more accurate and probably more exciting title would be "This ship sailed into a perfect storm" or something similar,especially since we don't have more info on the boat's final moments.
Thanks, man. Fair winds
Hannah Boden is still fishing too. Saw her a couple years ago in New Bedford
Excellent video!!
Thanks
You're very welcome, I appreciated the in-depth back story, it was what made it great.
Nice job-read the book, saw the movie and now I now the real parts.
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Keep them coming :D
That was a great movie.