Posted on :Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2004
Prelude to Linda Greenlaw's Hungry Ocean
Last night I had a conversation with Mak & Bapak; my parents. "Mak, nak tau tak...jack eh, jack eh {imitating Mr Barney's 'wait a while eh' while opening a particular page of Junger's Perfect Storm and carrying out a quickie translation}ikan mako, walaupun dah dikerat kepalanya, masih menggigit? Mak: Mako tu ikan apa? mysanc: Alah, macam jerung tu...{like I've seen one ;) } Bapak: Hmm, ikan haruan pun menggigit. Selagi perutnya masih bersambung dengan kepala, ikan tu aktif lagi... Mak: Oh, nyawa ikan tu kat perutlah ye ? {New theory ;) }. Eh, kat dalam kuali pun dia melompat-lompat lagi. mysanc: Patutlah ikan tu dibuat ubat penyembuh luka pembedahan ...{ {Another new theory ;) } Tonight I'm continuing my 'kembara minda samudera' with Linda Greenlaw's Hungry Ocean. In a way, she became famous after Junger publish his 'Perfect Storm'. She's a real life woman fishboat captain. An excerpt from amazon.com:"I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster. See ya! ---
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