![]() Then there is the killing of the swordfish when hauled in, gutting and icing them. The hooks are so big they could rip right through a man's palm if the spool should run on. It is an extremely physical job, setting hooks and squid bait, on spooled longlines that run for miles and rip your fingers. An aside - there are very few countries and vessels in the world where a woman would have the opportunity to swordfish let alone be a captain. So I could not just see but feel what a difficult position they were in. It prevented us going into Fernando do Noronha, our next stop, we couldn set a course for the archipelago at all. It wasn't a 'perfect storm' but it was still rough, with huge seas and a constant exhausting beating against the wind. It had a lot of impact on me because I have been in a small boat, a 34' catamaran in a 4 day storm out in the Atlantic before Brazil. ![]() I didn't see the film so I came fresh to the book. ![]()
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