Crossing the Columbia Bar

  • brucea
    Maplewood,MN
    Posts: 431
    December 13, 2013 at 9:01 am #1356042

    Video of fishing boats returning from fishing off the coast of Washington and Oregon.
    They are crossing the Columbia Bar, which is the site the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean .

    This is designated as one of the most dangerous ports of entry anywhere in the world.

    There are at least eight to 10 deaths per year with people trying to get in or out in boats that are not made for this kind of severe beating – the kind you will see these boats going through.

    These boats are self-righting, have a super low center of gravity, sealed engine compartments,
    basically bullet proof glass windows, double steel hulls.

    They are commercial shrimp and fishing boats.
    The Coast Guard has closed it to any other boats due to waves of 35 to 45 feet.

    http://www.youtube.com/embed/ByGSMmenPDM?rel=0

    happycampin
    New Richmond, WI
    Posts: 667
    December 13, 2013 at 9:35 am #1363327

    Unreal…makes LOTW rollers look small!!!

    redrnger
    Posts: 216
    December 13, 2013 at 9:35 am #1363326

    No way in h*** would you get me on one of those boats.That is just crazy….

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25025
    December 13, 2013 at 10:36 am #1363314

    Quote:

    No way in h*** would you get me on one of those boats.That is just crazy….


    X2

    I’m trembling just from watching that.

    wheres_waldo
    The Big Pond
    Posts: 478
    December 13, 2013 at 10:50 am #1371130

    Why were those two vessels in such close proximity?

    brucea
    Maplewood,MN
    Posts: 431
    December 13, 2013 at 12:00 pm #1371146

    I questioned that also.

    pantherpop
    Kalispell, MT
    Posts: 264
    December 13, 2013 at 12:48 pm #1371157

    Discovery Channel needs get a film crew on one of those boats to capture the boats perspective.

    trumar
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 5967
    December 13, 2013 at 1:24 pm #1371167

    Quote:

    Why were those two vessels in such close proximity?

    I would guess the waves kinda pushed them where ever it wanted at times.

    As one boat is in the bottom of the swell it is being held almost dead stopped(dropping no forward movement)and the other which may be high on the wave moves forward with little or no control.

    Atleast that is the way it was explained to me a few years back.

    desperado
    Posts: 3010
    December 13, 2013 at 1:39 pm #1371170

    I suppose they have to carry a lifeboat (by regulation)
    but when I saw that little canoe looking one, I immediately thought “what’s the point?”

    Tom P.
    Whitehall Wi.
    Posts: 3452
    December 13, 2013 at 2:49 pm #1371179

    Now that is what yea call a morning or evening commute. I would bet those guys have been thru there so many times they don`t think much to it or about it. Just a fact of going to work.

    jon_jordan
    St. Paul, Mn
    Posts: 10908
    December 13, 2013 at 2:59 pm #1371182

    Quote:

    Now that is what yea call a morning or evening commute. I would bet those guys have been thru there so many times they don`t think much to it or about it. Just a fact of going to work.

    X2. (That video has been posted here a couple 3 times since 2011. )

    For you LOW guys. You can have a similar effect on a smaller scale running the gap. Big blow out of the north in conjunction with flood level water entering the lake from the Rainey River. Can get spokey making that run!

    -J.

    prieser
    Byron, MN
    Posts: 2274
    December 13, 2013 at 3:02 pm #1371184

    I wonder how many packs of cigarettes it takes to make it in?

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