Taken from the wheelhouse of a 45' ice-reinforced trawler, this photo a sunset about 10 years ago in the North Atlantic off the coast of Cape Breton. The ice you see is called slog ice, or pancake ice. It's semi-hard slushy/mushy ice in 10-20' diameters. Since you sleep in the V berth of these boats, it an interesting noise as it slams up against the hull a couple of inches from your head. You're always wondering which one is going to be the one to open up a hole into your bunk. An interesting side note here is between the 4-5 day trips I stayed at a hotel, where reading the paper one morning I just happened upon the obit of a friend I had gone to high school with, along with being in the same basic training class for the navy a 7 years earlier. He had joined the regular navy as a diver, and while conducting hull searches in a foriegn port, he was sucked into a cooling intake of an American ship. Cause of death? Ineptitude, possibly drug use.....who knows on US ships. They aren't a well motivated military.....just blindly loyal.
Taken from the wheelhouse of a 45' ice-reinforced trawler, this photo a sunset about 10 years ago in the North Atlantic off the coast of Cape Breton. The ice you see is called slog ice, or pancake ice. It's semi-hard slushy/mushy ice in 10-20' diameters. Since you sleep in the V berth of these boats, it an interesting noise as it slams up against the hull a couple of inches from your head. You're always wondering which one is going to be the one to open up a hole into your bunk. An interesting side note here is between the 4-5 day trips I stayed at a hotel, where reading the paper one morning I just happened upon the obit of a friend I had gone to high school with, along with being in the same basic training class for the navy a 7 years earlier. He had joined the regular navy as a diver, and while conducting hull searches in a foriegn port, he was sucked into a cooling intake of an American ship. Cause of death? Ineptitude, possibly drug use.....who knows on US ships. They aren't a well motivated military.....just blindly loyal. 
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