It was always good for
some nice atmospheric pictures though, fishing in this
manner. You can just about see a pointy thing about
knee-high to the left of the black bucket. This is a harpoon
head taken from Grytviken whaling station on South Georgia
that we used to get people to collect if they called in
there on their way south. These very heavy iron tips to the
harpoon would be filled with explosives and screwed onto a
harpoon that would reach to about a mans shoulder. We just
used them as weights to keep the net down on the sea-bed.
If it wasn't too cold, fish
could be removed from the net on the ice and then the net
re-set immediately. If it was too cold, the net would have
to be taken back to base and then taken back out to be
re-set. The difference about 2-3 hours work! We used to
avoid taking the net back to base if it was at all possible.
Paul Ward -
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