"Trying To Tame The (Real) Deadliest Fishing Jobs"

"On the fishing-boat piers of New England, nearly everyone knows a fisherman who was lost at sea."



"Boat captain Joe Neves remembers when a crew member got knocked overboard. 'We heard him screaming 'Help me!' ' Neves says, grimacing. 'But you know, on the water at night, your head is like a little coconut.' They didn't find him.

Mike Gallagher discovered a friend who was entangled in still-running hydraulics. 'I knew right away he was dead,' he says.

And Fred Mattera was fishing 125 miles off the coast of Cape Cod when the 21-year-old son of a close friend succumbed to poisonous fumes in a nearby boat. 'That was a brutal week in this port,' he says."

Curt Nickisch reports for NPR's Morning Edition August 22, 2012.

SEE ALSO:

"Fishing Without a Safety Net" (Mother Jones/Center for Public Integrity)
 

Source: NPR, 08/22/2012