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"US Army combat veteran Daniel "Mac" MacCormick, now a charter boat captain, who is about to set sail on his most dangerous cruise. Daniel Graham MacCormick--Mac for short--seems to have a pretty good life. At age thirty-five he's living in Key West, owner of a forty-two-foot charter fishing boat, The Maine. Mac served five years in the Army as an infantry officer with two tours in Afghanistan. He returned with the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts,...
6) Serenity
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Fishing boat captain Baker Dill leads a quiet life as he provides tours in the beautiful waters near Plymouth Island. Despite trying to live in solitude and peace, Dill is soon wrapped up in a much more complex situation. His ex-wife Karen shows up seeking help for her and her son. She asks Dill to get rid of her new violent husband in the ocean waters for good. Now Baker must contemplate the weight of his decisions while he also questions the reality...
Author
Series
Fisherman's library volume 30
Publisher
Fishing News
Pub. Date
1967
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations, tables, diagrams ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Documentary Media
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book focuses on the development of commercial fishing vessel designs in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, starting with the surprisingly sophisticated small craft of the indigenous people, followed by the different directions resulting from the importation of designs by European settlers, and concluding with today's complex ships that catch fish in hundred-ton sets and deliver finished product to shoreside wholesalers. A wonderful collection...
10) Leviathan
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this cinema verite work set entirely on a groundfish trawler out of New Bedford, Mass., the filmmakers have avoided the standard equipment of interviews, analysis and explanation. A product of the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard, the film offers not information but immersion in wind, water, grinding machinery and piscine agony. The brutality of fishing, as opposed to its romance, is emphasized here. The experience is often unnerving and sometimes...
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Language
English
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The Andrea Gail is a sword fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Billy Tyne is her captain, down-on-his-luck from a recent losing streak, looking to bring back one big score so he and his crew will have the money to stay ashore during the coming winter. So out they go, and they hit it big, hauling in what the crew estimates is a quarter-million-dollars worth of fish. Unfortunately, they haven't paid attention to the weather forecasts or the...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiv, 313 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of the #1 New York Times bestseller (and Academy-Award nominated film) The Perfect Storm, and with a nod to Steven Gaines' dishy tell-all, Philistines at the Hedgerow, a riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island -- a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it -- and the stunning repercussions of that loss for the families and...
Publisher
Department of Health and Human Services
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 18 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Falls overboard: Second leading cause of death among commercial fishermen. Preventable with proper equipment and training. Learn how to prevent falls overboard and successfully recover a person in the water.
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