The study pointed out that without a survival suit, death comes quickly for humans in icy ocean waters. But the four crew members who survived when the fishing boat Katmai sank Wednesday off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands were wearing survival suits and in a life raft, which authorities say may have helped save their lives. Even after the survivors rescued from the spot they have to spend 15 hours floating on rough seas. Coast Guard Petty Officer Levi Read informed that before the ship sank all crew members were able to get into survival suits.
Read told that without a survival suit it is hard to live for long in that sea. The Coast Guard accounted that surviving Katmai crew members were in a raft, but if they’d been in the 43-degree water they would have lived three hours at the most. As for other missing crew members the search is still on as they were not in life rafts.
It is not doubt that commercial fishing is a deadly profession in the country, killing more men and women each year, proportionately, than any other job. According to the most recent federal Bureau of Labor Statistics report one-third (327) of all work-related deaths that took place in Alaska during 1990-2007, for example, involved fishermen.
