A greenhorn photo-documents the lives of crabbers on Alaska’s remote Saint Paul Island during a winter week on a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea. It took just 20 minutes for my stomach to flip.
The owner of an Alaska crab boat that sank on New Year’s Eve, leaving five crew members presumed dead, said he never could have predicted the tragedy from a vessel that had been described as “a ...
Building crab boats fit for the Bering Sea is no easy task, as they have to withstand the harsh weather conditions of Alaska. “We have stability reports onboard and we try to follow them to the letter ...
The crab fishing boat Pinnacle eases through an icy patch of water north of St. Paul on Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Most fishing boats that operate in the Bering Sea can travel through some amount of ...