Kodiak Maritime Museum
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Lowell Wakefield and the Birth of the Alaska King Crab Fishery
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The Alaskan king crab fishery began in the late 1940s and rocketed into legend by the 1960s, fueled by a huge swarm of crab, new fishing and...
Friday, February 11, 2022
The Barbarossa and Its High Seas Desperado
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In the early morning hours of February 10, 1991, the 98 foot crabber Barbarossa disappeared near the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, m...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
The Wreck of the Selendang Ayu, December 2004
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Flight Mechanics on Coast Guard helicopters, the people who hang out the door and run the rescue hoist, wear a gunner’s harness to keep from...
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
“Of knots it is necessary that I speak,” - A Naval Repository, 1762
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For fisherman and sailors, the ability to tie a few useful knots is essential and among the first things a greenhorn learns. Knots can be ...
Monday, March 8, 2021
Two Men and Three Centuries of Alaskan Shipwrecks
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Warren Good arrived in Kodiak in 1972 and like a lot of other young men in those years, went crab fishing. Kodiak was booming, deckhand jobs...
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