Overlooked & Overloaded: The Loss & Rescue of FV Northern Belle



On Tuesday April 20, 2010 The Fishing Vessel Northern Belle sank suddenly in the Gulf of Alaska. The US Coast Guard, Kodiak Alaska received the Captain’s Mayday call and were able to mount a harrowing rescue. Sadly, the Captain and his dog, Baxter were lost.

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28 thoughts on “Overlooked & Overloaded: The Loss & Rescue of FV Northern Belle”

  1. Understand you have 4 on board….
    Request make, color, year, oil type, coffee or tea, bagel type, milk, cream or sugar, shoe size, ring size, birth weight, eyesight
    OMG we're going down!!!!
    Say again?

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  2. Great video. I know you don't typicall delve into airplane crashes. But here are a few that would seem to fall more within your wheelhouse. Whereby they are stunning examples of neglect, cheating safety rules, or corporate malfeasance. Alaska Airlines Flight 261 off the California Coast, Fine Air Flight 101 in Miami, and one that you would enjoy disentangling the corporate shenanigans Manx2 Flight 7100 in Northern Ireland

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  3. That sign off of yours, "Your Safety Matters". Its so deeply impactful.

    I heard a story once, of someone learning various labor laws for the first time. They had a chuckle at something like "Moving toxic materials is hazardous" or something of the like. An older co worker turned to them and said "These laws were written in blood".

    And I think, after all this time, with protections being rolled back and times changing, now more than ever, everyone deserves to hear that their safety matters.

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  4. The two most important rules I've picked up when I entered the manufacturing industry and still remains with me today are:

    1. Safety regulations are written in blood
    2. It's the "normal" things that will kill you

    I'm not the safety guy (I used to be the process guy of the company) but this has been something I've tried my best to instill to all of the new hires we got back in my former company, no matter their position or their work location. I've lost count of the number of times I'd gotten in arguments behind closed doors with supervisors about there being too much dust in their site or have too much unsegregated scrap. I've had to make too many incident recreations and reports to ever let minor things become "normal"

    I hope your channel brings this sort of thing more into the mainstream

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  5. As someone who’s done marine emergency response, that last monologue you did hit deep. The sheer difference between the standards I’ve seen between our safety standards and those I’ve seen on other commercial vessels is staggering sometimes.

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  6. I don’t really know about boats, or regulations. I don’t even live near the ocean. But I am captivated by harrowing stories. The more I watch videos like this, the more I learn that tragedy don’t just happen, they start over a period of time.

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  7. Your op-ed highlights my exact thoughts, especially as someone who works in the trucking industry as dispatcher and fleet managing. I really wished more people understood that regulations are written in blood and are placed for the safety of your person and of others around you. It's unfortunate that regulations in industry are just not up to par as they should be.

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  8. Please please see if you can find out what happened to the JUMBO Floating Restaurant ship that was "capsized" in the Paracel Islands. The story seems to have disappeared without resolution.

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