So lately I'm really considering doing commercial Alaskan crab fishing, and I'm looking to see if anyone on this forum has experience with this or other types of commercial fishing.
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Anyone done commercial fishing? experiences?
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Never done it. My question is, have you watched Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel? that is some brutal s***.....
Yeah, the other night I saw a documentary about crab fishing and seemed like hard work but good pay, and adrenaline filled. Then, after I saw that, Discovery started doing their Deadliest Catch marathon. I've done a little bit of research and it seems like if you can get a job on a good boat after you've worked your way up you can make some good money. I figure if I try it for about 2 months and don't like it I don't have to go back, and I'll still have the life experience from it.
Well I plan on conditioning myself to work on low amounts of sleep before ever going out for a commercial fishing job, the cold I can't really get my body used to it in Texas where I currently live, but I do well in the cold, much better than in the heat.
I did low sleep and long hours of school and work for a summer semester once in my life, it was really really odd taking catnaps and scheduling a day off to sleep a week in the future.
Now I cannot do it, get something akin to itchy toes and restless leg syndrome after about 20 hours -- if I wait 20-30 hours longer the caffeine jitters and itchy skin will have me raving and running around naked.
Now I cannot do it, get something akin to itchy toes and restless leg syndrome after about 20 hours -- if I wait 20-30 hours longer the caffeine jitters and itchy skin will have me raving and running around naked.
I'll be up 24 hours at a time sometimes because I work graveyard shift then sometimes have stuff to do during the day, but then I have to crash and catch up on sleep for like 8-12 hours. That's something I need to work on so I can be up 24 hours and only sleep about 4 hours. If I'm only out at sea for 2 months I think I could do on little sleep for that long, but not much longer than that.