Corocks From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 1199 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 727 times:
I think that I heard that swordfisherman was one of the most dangerous in the world. Scenes like in "The Perfect Storm" where the guy gets hung up in the line evidentaly happens all of the time.
Transactoid From Canada, joined Mar 2001, 788 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 721 times:
Yeah, fishing in general. I saw some show on TLC I think about the 10 most dangerous jobs. #1 was fishing, of some sort (perhaps swordfish, sa Corocks said).
JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13 Reply 9, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 711 times:
No one got it!!!!!
Statistically, based on deaths/injuries per 1000, the most dangerous occupation in America is........drumroll........fire-fighter!!!!
DeltaRNOmd-80 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 692 times:
no, no, no. Statistically, the most dangerous job in America is a high rise construction worker. The ones that put together the iron beams (soon to be skyscrapers) hundreds of feet in the air. the second most dangerous is working on a flight line on a military aircraft carrier. Think of it as an international airport crammed on to a boat, with a runway maybe a couple hundred feet long, and instead of turbines to look out for, you have afterburners.
Watewate From Canada, joined Nov 2000, 2283 posts, RR: 2 Reply 13, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 684 times:
Those workers that catch king crabs for living were supposed to be working the most dangerous job in the world according to some TV show on TLC. Good ol' TLC.
Us330 From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 3742 posts, RR: 14 Reply 16, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 663 times:
Yep, it is a Bering Sea Fisherman. I too saw that same program on the Discovery channel about that. Anybody else think it was somewhat creepy for them to narrate a hypothetical death situation every step of the way.
737doctor From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1332 posts, RR: 48 Reply 20, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 631 times:
Well, we may not be killed on the job all that often, but your friendly, neighborhood aircraft mechanics are exposed to a lot of peril day in and day out...
Long term exposure to chemicals: Acetone, alodine, MIBK, paints, primer, dinitrol, denatured alcohol, parting agent, Skydrol, jet fuel, etc...
We work in confined spaces, way up high, with high voltages, around high pressure hydraulics & compressed gases, on slick wing surfaces, and around machinery that can crush and mangle...
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 21, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 616 times:
It is the guys that do the winter King Crab and Snow Crab fisheries in the Bering Sea. The estimated survival time if you go in the water up there is about 4 minutes if you don't have a survial suit or Dry Suit on. I worked with a guy who's nephew got killed doing it. His leg got hung up in the line for a pot that was being set. When the launcher put it over the side it took him with it. I don't think they ever recovered the body.
Just for everybody's information. During the Winter fisheries you can be facing storms blowing over 60 mph, 20 foot waves or more, Ice from the polar pack, the 750 lb weight of the crab pots themselves, Ice from sea spray freezing to the boat making it top heavy.
Not a particularly easy line of work.
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Victor Hotel From Australia, joined Aug 2000, 305 posts, RR: 1 Reply 22, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 613 times:
I saw the Discovery Channel show on the King Crab fishermen and according to that, it is the most dangerous job in the world. Another I thought of is oil rig divers, both get paid rather well though.
VH
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 23, posted (12 years 2 weeks 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 605 times:
I should add that I went to high school with a couple of guys who have big scars that run from the back of their hand and then between their index finger and thumb. That was because they where longlinin just as they where in "Perfect Storm" and the same thing happened to them with the hook.
The difference was that they where tied to the boat so they only thing was that they had to let the hook pull through the hand.
Also everytime school started up in the fall there was always somebody who wasn't there because they where on their dad's or uncles boat that went down during the summer salmon fishing.
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