Did you ever accidentally lose a crate over the side?
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ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I used to work in aquaculture and would often work low tides.
Just so happens the best aquaculture beaches are intertidal shelves. I would often be walking the beach hauling crates of shellfish to a barge that would be perched over 20+ foot deep water.
During the salmon runs the Orca would come right up to the water’s edge.
I will never forget seeing the sheen of at least two Orca a few feet away from me pacing the edge. Could just feel them watching me. They stayed away from the motorized pump on the barge but once I’d go out a hundred or so feet to where the diggers left crates I’d sense them in the dark.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I personally did not lose a whole crate. A few times with a certain set of crew some product was left on the beach uncrated and caught in the incoming tide. Keeping pace with the tides was a big part of the job so it was mostly a rookie mistake.
A few times some crates spilled or flipped on the lift and haul up onto the barge when you were chest deep and lifting over your head, but I only ever lost maybe a dozen in the six years I did it. A full crate actually sinks at a fairly slow rate so if you lose your grip you can just let it drop and scoop any floaters trying to escape.
Now I did have to dive couple feet a few times for a sinking crate but nothing far out of reach of my headlamp. Definitely spooky though.
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Damn that must have been an eerie feeling, thanks for sharing.