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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Atlanta zoo names cockroach after Patriots quarterback Brady
Associated Press
ATLANTA — More than
a week after the Falcons
fell victim to the biggest
comeback in Super Bowl
history, an Atlanta zoo has
named a cockroach after
Patriots quarterback Tom
Brady.
Zoo Atlanta says on its
Facebook page that it had
a bet with Rhode Island’s
Roger Williams Park Zoo that
called for the loser to name
a baby animal after the win-
ning team’s star quarterback.
Both zoos figured the loser
would be pretty bitter about
the game, so they agreed the
animal in question would
be a Madagascar hissing
cockroach.
The zoo introduced a
whole family of cockroaches
in a video Monday, including
a tiny Tom Brady.
Brady and the Patriots
came back from a 25-point
deficit to defeat Atlanta 34-28
in overtime to win the team’s
fifth Super Bowl title.
A juvenile
Madagascar
hissing cockroach
at the Atlanta
Botanical Garden.
Wikimedia Commons
Ex-crewman mourns loss of brother, friends in boat disaster
By DAN JOLING
Associated Press
ANCHORAGE,
Alaska
— Dylan Hatfield got one last
chance to see his brother and
five other crewmen on the Des-
tination, a 98-foot crab boat
missing and presumed sunk in
the Bering Sea.
The Destination was tied
up Thursday in the Aleutian
Islands port of Dutch Harbor,
preparing to leave. Hatfield, 29,
had just come in from the Ber-
ing Sea on a different boat. He
had worked on the Destination
off and on for seven years, and
when he left, his older brother,
36-year-old Darrik Seibold,
replaced him.
“We went down to the boat,
brought a case of beer, said
hello to everybody, gave every-
body big hugs, told stories and
had laughs,” Hatfield said.
Afterward, they all went out
for pizza at the Norwegian Rat
Saloon.”
“I got to tell the fellas I
loved them, I got to hug my
brother and tell him that I loved
him, and then they left,” Hat-
field said.
Early Friday, the Destina-
tion left for St. Paul Island, one
of the tiny Pribilof Islands in
the vast Bering Sea.
On Saturday morning, Hat-
field got the call: the Desti-
nation was missing 2 miles
off another Pribilof Island, St.
George. The Coast Guard had
received an emergency loca-
tion radio transmission from a
device that transmits when it
hits saltwater.
Searchers rushed to the
scene. They found an oil slick,
a life ring and buoys. They
emergency location beacon
was floating in the slick.
The lack of debris, the fail-
ure to make a mayday call, the
absence of lifeboats or mari-
ners in survival suits pointed to
a sudden tragedy.
“In my mind, they rolled
over,” Hatfield said. “I’m
almost positive that those boys
are still on the boat.”
Inherently dangerous
Commercial fishing is
inherently dangerous, and crab
fishing in the Bering Sea is
notoriously so. Fishermen work
winters in icy, heaving plat-
forms handling heavy, unfor-
giving equipment.
The National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
notes that fishermen drop crab
pots, each weighing 750 to 850
pounds empty, rigged to hun-
dreds of feet of coiled line and
buoys used to recover them
from the ocean bottom.
Just getting to the fishing
grounds is dangerous. Vessels
stack the heavy pots on their
main deck in three to five tiers
high as they travel in shallow
ocean that sees big waves, high
wind and icing that can make a
boat top-heavy.
‘The only
people who
know what
happened
are on the
bottom of
the ocean.’
Dylan Hatfield
brother of Darrik Seibold,
who is presumed drowned
after boat disaster
In the 1990s, 73 people died
in the Bering Sea crab fishery
as the result of capsizing, sink-
ing, falling overboard or an
industrial accident. Two fac-
tors, however, have dramati-
cally lowered that rate of nearly
eight deaths annually.
The Coast Guard and the
Alaska Department of Fish
and Game in 1999 instituted an
upgraded inspection program
with an emphasis on stability
and safety. Vessels found lack-
ing were not allowed to leave
port.
Federal managers also
changed the fishery. Before
2005, boats rushed out from
ports “derby style,” trying to
catch as much crab as possible
until a quota was met, even if
it meant fishing in dangerous
conditions.
That was replaced with
“crab rationalization,” in which
most of the catch was guaran-
teed to boat owners. That meant
they could use fewer boats, take
longer to catch their quota and
sit out dangerous conditions.
It also meant hundreds of
crew members lost their jobs.
However, safety improved.
From October 1999 through
last year, 10 lives have been
lost, according to the national
institute.
Heading out
The Destination was on its
way to St. Paul and planned
to drop off bait on the island
before heading out for a week
or two to fish. The boat was car-
rying 200 crab pots and proba-
bly about 15,000 pounds of
bait, Hatfield said.
The boat had just rounded
the northeast quarter of St.
George Island, an area known
for turbulent water, when it
went down.
“You get the shelf shallow-
ing-up there, and lots of tide,”
Hatfield said. “It’s always really
cold around those islands.”
A number of factors prob-
ably led to a capsizing, he
said. The boat may have iced
up from sea spray freezing in
20-degree temperatures. An
alarm in the engine or steering
room may have malfunctioned.
The boat had three tanks
for holding crab. Pumps keep
water circulating to them. If a
pump shut off, it could cause
a tank to go slack — partially
emptied of water that provides
stability, Hatfield said.
When a big wave hits, and
the boat rolls in one direction,
a slack tank makes it harder to
recover.
“It’s never the first one,”
Hatfield said. “They probably
took a big one, laid ‘em over,
and they didn’t recover. Then
they took another one, and
another one, until she probably
just rolled over.”
The vessel owners, F/V Des-
tination, Inc., have not released
name of the six crewmen.
He agreed that whatever
happened probably came on
suddenly. A half hour before
the boat disappeared, it was
in calm water on the lee of St.
George Island, Barcott said by
email.
Seibold leaves a 3-year-
old son. The cause of the trag-
edy likely will never be known,
Hatfield said.
“The only people who know
what happened are on the bot-
tom of the ocean,” he said.
Courtesy of Dylan Hatfield
Dylan Hatfield, left, and his brother Darrik Seibold in Sand Point, Alaska. Hatfield said his
36-year-old brother was one of six men missing and presumed drowned when a crab-
bing vessel Destination went missing Saturday, near St. George, Alaska.
F EBRUARY 23
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Erik Knoder has lived in Oregon since 1988. He received
his master’s degree in natural resource economics from
Oregon State University in 1999. Aside from labor market
economics his research interests include land use, growth
and development, and the fi shing industry. Erik joined
the Oregon Employment Department as a regional
economist June of 2003 and works in Newport. He is
responsible for generating and disseminating labor market information for
Lincoln, Tillamook, Clatsop and Columbia counties.
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Josh Lehner is an Economist with the Oregon Offi ce of
Economic Analysis. He develops the quarterly Oregon
Economic forecast, including outlooks for employment,
income and housing. Additional responsibilities include
forecasting revenues for the Oregon Lottery, Oregon
Judicial Department and state tobacco taxes.
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