Rachel and I will now and then watch a television series called "Dangerous Waters." It is the story of the crab boats that fish in the Bering Sea. It is the ultimate in a job I would not want to have.
Yet again there is an entire culture of crab boat families that include second or third generation ship captains who do this for a living. God bless them!
I am amazed at the whole sequence. Stop and think that someone pitched the idea for this show to get it put on the air. Stop and think of all the obstacles just to convince people to put up money to make the show and then air it. Someone really believed in this show and had a lot of passion around it.
When we see one of the ships picking up crab pots in the midst of a storm I think of it as a modern miracle.. Not only are the ship's crew doing all the work to get a crab pot up on deck while avoiding waves that could sweep them off into the cold water; they are also processing and counting the crabs and eliminating pregnent crabs and crabs that are too small. There is also a camera man or two taking all the shots of 30,000 gallons of water breaking over the bow of the ship at the top of twenty-foot waves. Every time there is a confrontation among the crew or there is a precious moment there is a camera man right there.
It is so interesting that when the ship is out at sea there is no one to turn to for immediate resolution on things except the people on the ship. If the deck hand refuses to obey the captain, then as the captain you have to figure it out. You need a full crew to do the work.
Feeling crappy? Get off the deck but get right back so that the entire crew is working.
Then of course the crew goes through all the human parts of relationships. At one poiint, one of the workers on the deck does his 'own thing' and messes up the overhead crane. Another crew member during one 20 hour crab pot pick-up had three or four incidents when he was wounded over and over again. The captains finally sends him below deck to take a 'begin again' time out.
Again we get to see how people come together to form bonds in the most unusual ways.
We see people showing up with a positive attitude who have no reason to have a positive attitude.
Emily Blunt talked about working with Tom Cruise. They were filming a section of the movie "Mission Impossible." It involved the actors wearing special suits (it was a major task to put them on and take them off for any reason). They then sat in an unheated small area of a cargo plane crowded in with the camera crew. They could not move and were bouncing off the walls and each other. This lasted for hours.
Emily finally glared at Tom Cruise. He grinned with his boyish smile and said something to the effect that this was a tough filming. She answered him by saying, "No, this sucks!" He continued to grin and finally said, "Well, it is a challenge!" Her reply? "It still sucks!"
So again the point ends up being we are dealt a hand and the hand is what it is. It is up to us to decide how we are going to live through it. Someone once said to me that if my job was to dig a ditch day after day three feet deep, I would set up internal ompetitions and make a game of the whole thing. I would ask questions about the dirt. I would remind everyone that if we are going to do this, let's have some fun doing it. What's in the hand that you've been dealt?
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