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R U Interested in working in Alaska Fishing or Crabbing?
- Thread starter NOKUY
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http://www.bunac.org/uk/workamerica/ if anyone in the UK is interested in doing this... Then that's one way to get a work VISA
john cutter
Member
thinking about doing this, maybe take the ferry up from seattle and try and get on at a processor. Would I be too late in 3 weeks?
Mad Logistics
Member
I would love to do that, but i can't swim... 
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im surprised there aren't any incidents of piracy up there - just wait off the coast for a boat to come in with a 10 million dollar king crab haul
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arcticsun
here is a pic from my neck of the woods, from earlier this week
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crab pirates sunk it?!
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arcticsun
hahaha 
it got sucked through that narrow point there, engine failed and it came out sideways and keeled. tipped the towboat also while they were trying to save the fisherman. i think he survived barely at the cost of 2 boats.
its one hell of a strong tidal currant.
it got sucked through that narrow point there, engine failed and it came out sideways and keeled. tipped the towboat also while they were trying to save the fisherman. i think he survived barely at the cost of 2 boats.
its one hell of a strong tidal currant.
Old Man Time
Member
hahaha
it got sucked through that narrow point there, engine failed and it came out sideways and keeled. tipped the towboat also while they were trying to save the fisherman. i think he survived barely at the cost of 2 boats.
its one hell of a strong tidal currant.
Did you take these photos? Or did you snag them from the net?
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arcticsun
snagged em got some of my own of the currant if u wanna see?
got some of my own of the currant if u wanna see?
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arcticsun
here is one of my pics, i wasnt there for the boats going down.
peace guys.
peace guys.
familystone
New member
I would also like to know how this math adds up. Did anyone interested in this thread actually go through with it? Does anyone have any experience with this. I am really interested and would be able to go up around late Spring or Summer and work for awhile if it was worthwhile. I wouldn't want to start out on a crab boat, maybe smaller fishing vessel or cannery, etc. But I am hesitant to look further into this because the pay doesn't add up and I had an ex gf that went there a few years back and could hardly find work (although, I don't know how hard she looked).
It just seems a bit like the stories told during the gold rush and we all know that the only people that profited doing that were the people selling the shovels
