Mar
20
steel-toed boots
Tagged Under : Bering Sea, photo
One of the coolest pieces of gear I’ve had to get for my trip:
Steel-toed rubber fisherman’s boots! They’re not just tough, they’re xtratuf! I’ll wear these whenever there’s heavy stuff moving around on deck. Every time we get to a sampling station, a bunch of big equipment will have to go overboard. There will be cables and winches and whatnot, and steel-toed boots are required. I’ll also be wearing a big red flotation suit…I should dig that out and take a picture in it.
Wow – serious.
I read “a bunch of big equipment will have to go overboard” as “Look at all these samples! No room on the ship! Someone dumb the cables and winches over the side!” But now I don’t think that’s what you meant.
Er, that’s “someone dump the cables and winches”.
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