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<p>No profession pits man against nature more brutally than king crab fishing in the frigid, unpredictable waters of the Bering Sea. The yearly death toll is staggering (forty-two men in 1988 alone); the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90-mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and super-human stretches of on-deck labor); but the payback, if one survives can be tens of thousands of dollars for a month-long season.</p><p>In a breathtaking, action-packed account that combines his personal story with the stories of survivors of the industry's most harrowing disasters, Spike Walker re-creates the boom years of Alaskan crab fishing-a modern-day gold rush that drew hundreds of fortune-and adventure-hunters to Alaska's dangerous waters-and the crash that followed.</p> <p>Now in paperback, a dramatic insider's account of the world's most dangerous profession: king-crab fishing in the frigid waters of the Bering Sea where the conditions are beyond most imaginations (90 mph Arctic winds, 25-foot seas, and superhuman stretches of on-deck labor). But the payback, if one survives, can be tens of thousands of dollars for a month-long season. Photographs.</p>

Author

Spike Walker

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312060022

Subjects

Agriculture, Memoir, Biography

Rating

4.11 / 5 (342 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14