Preliminary Report: The Mysterious Loss of Fishing Vessel Emmy Rose

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Great vid Brick Immortar. I really appreciate your in-depth narration style. RIP to the souls lost and condolences to their families.

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Commercial fishing is tough. The fishermen want to get as much money as possible when they go out on a trip so they push as hard they possibly can to be as profitable as they can. Us "normies" on land with 9 to 5 jobs in the US usually have all sorts of state and federal labor law protections that prevent fatigue casualties. There are factories that have shift work (10-12+ hour shifts) but shortened work weeks. The AMA along with OSHA don't recommend workers to do shift work for more than 5 years consecutively as long term shift work is shown to lead to high blood pressure contributing to strokes and heart attacks, gastrointestinal problems and mood changes along with a higher risk of motor vehicle and work related accidents. Commercial fishermen are a different breed of human in my opinion. They are more capable to deal with sustained pain and suffering along with fatigue than the average person. Over the years of working in this environment they become hardened but also suffer from mounting physical injuries and many battle substance abuse problems as they turn to alcohol/drugs as a stress coping mechanism which in the end can be deadly. I was a deputy sheriff for 15 years and have experienced my fair share of stress and witnessed horrible trauma and tragedy but I still don't see it as damaging a career path as being a commercial fisherman. I have a tremendous amount of respect for the captains of those boats large, medium and small! They not only carry the weight of catching a profitable quota but they are responsible for the lives and safety of every soul on the boat and the boat itself! Many captains use caffeine and nicotine (smoking, chewing tobacco) as a stress coping mechanism which destroys their cardiovascular health and stay up for periods of 24+ hours without relief! I understand they choose their path and all that comes with it but I can't help but see them a bit as heroic characters who live storied lives.

Ive said it in other videos, but your attention your detail, research, reading interviews, looking up schematics and giving laymans terms for those of us not familar, just what a fantastic job you do with these videos. Thank you so much for a professional video series

20:38, I enjoy the use of "indiscernible" in the transcripts – I think we can all be fairly sure that it was profanity there.

Make one about the Deepwater Horizon please

If you're on any sort of F/V and you see the name "ROSE", got off ASAP because that thing is gonna sink.

This channel is amazing because it shines light on these seemingly small communities. The thing that amazes me the most is how many people that personally know the victims actually comment on these videos. It adds another layer of authenticity to these videos

I live north of Portland,Maine where she sailed out of and I don’t remember hearing about this story.

When you smoke weed everyday you don’t get high enough to mess up.

I don't think "drugs" have an important impact in the industry. Weed is no worse than cigarettes or alcohol. There should only be watch standing testing for priority crew. We don't need to demonize weed!

I’m from New England and worked on a few fishing boats in my life and I learned a lifetime of information from my captain. That to this day is still ingrained into my brain cause he was constantly all over me about it. When I was young and a rookie still certain things I thought he was being overly obsessive about safety which is fine but he had certain things he was really paranoid about. And drove me nuts in the beginning but after a very very rough day and having a following sea all the way home I realized how important everything that he would nit pick me about. I can still hear it now “BALANCE THE BOAT!” Until I had many years under my belt did I realize how quickly and without warning we could all be in the cold water. After finally making it home which is usually a 3 hour run, it took us 8 hours , there was no atheists on the boat that day. And randomly he would have me open the aft hatch so see if there was water in it. He didn’t ever trust the alarms. Another was the shaft log we called it. You referred to it as shaft seal. He was 80 so he had different names for everything. Getting in a dark hole with a flashlight to make sure it’s not pouring in water. Anyway this brought back memories. Also. Worked on a bottom fishing gill net boat in January for monkfish couldn’t resist the money. Worst week of my life. The bycatch kill was just unbelievable and indiscriminate and if some of the mile long gill nets were soaking too long is was just bones and rotten things that resembled fish consistency of toothpaste. So I’m wrestling a 5 foot blue shark out of the net cause he’s tangled and it turns to toothpaste right in my hands. Worst thing ever. Dolphins dead in net. Didn’t see any sea turtles but he was working the rail and might have got rid of them before it got to me. Giant lobsters were caught in the net. I’m talking giant. From a few 100 ft 30-40 miles offshore. Like aquarium display size. Anyway I always thought I’m in good hands if the captain is always yelling at me to balance the boat. He was one of the boats that came to the aid of the f/v pelican when the charter boat was overloaded and was cold and spray was comin over the rail in October/November so all went to other side to avoid the spray and took a wave just right and the boat capsized something like 30+/- people were killed and most of the current rules were instituted after that tragedy. I had to read the book “the pelican” to understand why I must balance the boat the capt ordered me to do. Another thing I was in a mandatory random drug testing program or I couldn’t work on the boat. I had to have my drug card they called it. If coast guard ever stopped us and that would be on the list of requirements. Pain in the ass. Anyway great video rip Emmy rose.

Great watch. Really interesting.

Was literally JUST thinking how we did not have a ton of information on this incident just last week. Thanks for all your research and fact-finding efforts. You do a great job approaching these incidents from a non-biased angle and respecting those that lost their lives. Keep up the great work.