[Blarg]

I've read the stories about some of the things that happen on those boats, and it's scary as hell. People of course take drugs to stay up more hours and work harder, and everybody gets pretty crazy.

One story that was really disturbing was about a guy having to swim deep into a holding container to unjam something, a fish presumably, that got caught in the tube leading from the deck to the holding container. Basically, the nets sweep up anything and everything in the ocean that can't get out in time. And the ocean is filled with sharp, poisonous, extremely scary things. There was no way to get him out when he dove in, so he was on his own, and had to muscle past thousands of pounds of sometimes still moving and crawling fish in the pitch black to go jam his own body in the chute trying to unjam the fish. Could have gotten chomped, stuck, clamped, poisoned, whatever, at any time, or just held down by the weight off all that stuff in his swim through the ice cold pitch black into the narrow chute, with only a single breath of air. What a crazy, scary way that would be to die.

But someone had to do it. If he didn't, he would have had to forfeit his share, which I understand some of them do when they go out and find out it's just too hard or scary for them.

I think I could handle a lot of stuff, but that sounds like too much for me.