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Article: You'll catch your death... With 50ft waves, sub-zero temperatures and fist-sized claws never far away, it's no wonder a job on board an Alaskan crab fishing boat is one of the world's deadliest. Fisherman-turned-photographer Corey Arnold lived to tell the tale
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- March 1, 2009
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When I was old enough to walk I began going out on my dad's boat.
I've got a picture of myself, I must be two-and-a-half years old,
and I'm holding the first fish I caught. It was a baby shark.
I was still fishing when I was in art school in San Francisco,
but I could only fish in the summer. I heard from all these people
about crab fishing, about how these guys make a ton of money. I knew
that a lot of the boats were based in Seattle. One year I just
decided, I'm going to go and I'm going to try to get a regular job
on a fishing boat, make $10,000 to $20,000 working for two to three
months and I'll take pictures of it. I thought of all the historical
black-and-white photos of old fishermen ...