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Newly built fishing vessel from Sungdong shipyard, seen here arriving at Busan Gamcheon Port.
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Fishing vessel loa 70ft/21m and over - 2 photos
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In the western Pacific, most tuna seiners have helidecks and a large proportion of them carry helicopters, mainly Hughes 500 type machines (5seaters). We also had no interest in dolphins. In our part of the world, they do not hang out together, in fact if we found a large pod of dolphins it generally meant that there were no tuna in the area (different scenario in other fisheries I believe). We actually searched for birds feeding, as they were a sign that bait fish were about and hence tuna (maybe. . . . ).
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tropic
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Vlad
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Pity about Martinac, I did a couple of trips on one of their boats and they certainly were well built (25+ years old at the time). Unfortunately the current builds out of Asian yards are not quite of the same quality, and will probably be lucky to see out 15-20yrs. I guess you get what you pay for. . . .
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tropic
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Right state, wrong city. J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding in Tacoma was actually the yard responsible for a significant chunk of tuna clippers for many years. The yard just declared bankruptcy earlier this year after 89 years in operation.
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Kyle
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Helicopters are used extensively, drone technology not up to it yet, sometimes we were up to 60nm from the boat on a search ! And the amenities on any of the boats I was on were pretty ordinary actually. The heli pilot/engineer had reasonable digs, but the Asian crews had much more basic facilities.
Don't think that this one has a helicopter, too much junk on the helideck. . . .
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tropic
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Kind Regards,
Kyle
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