The Ship, the Saint, and the Sailor
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Bonus material includes 20-30 color photographs (in inserts), line drawings, maps, historical quotes, drawings, and figures. Regional title with national appeal to history, science, adventure, environment and mystery buffs. Well-connected, he is Tenured Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Distinguished Research Scientist with the NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center. He is an excellent speaker and his research program focuses on ecology and reproductive biology of invertebrates (primarily crabs), and impacts of fishing on fish and invertebrate populations and their habitats. Of interest to fans of Alaska Reality TV shows and readers interested in environment. As part of the original discovery grant, a curriculum was developed for middle school classes by a Kodiak teacher, so the book could be used in school classrooms. He is an accomplished scuba diver with certifications from PADI, NAUI, and NOAA, and writes from personal experience about diving, kayaking, and working and living aboard fishing boats. Has authored or co-authored over 65 publications and one other book, «King Crabs of the World.»
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CAPTAIN ARKHIMANDRITOV WAS WELL KNOWN throughout Alaska. Unlike most ship captains, he was a Creole, the product of a Russian father and a Native mother, and was born on St. George Island, one of the Pribilof Islands, way out in the Bering Sea, probably in 1820. His status in society was somewhat below that of a full-blooded Russian. That he was also a ship captain was an anomaly. When Arkhimandritov was seven, his father paid to have him enrolled in the Mission school in Unalaska. A few years later he started going to sea on sailing ships, and at the age of thirteen he was sent to the School of Merchant Seafaring in St. Petersburg to learn navigation. After graduation, he returned to Russian America, where he was required to earn back the investment the RAC had made in him. Early in his career, at the age of 22, he proved his mettle by saving the company ship Naslednik Alexander from what should have been complete disaster.
In September of 1842, the Naslednik Alexander was sailing back from California to New Arkhangelsk under Captain Kadnikov, with Arkhimandritov serving as navigator. On September 27, the ship was running before a southeastern wind at a comfortable 11 knots. Captain Kadnikov turned the ship over to First Mate Krasil’nikov and went down to his cabin to change out of his wet clothes. But toward evening, the barometer dropped as the wind and rain increased. Suddenly, a rogue wave rolled the ship onto its port side and caused it to pitch sideways to the waves. The first mate and two helmsmen were instantly washed overboard. The main boom, gaff, ship’s wheel, binnacle, and lifeboats were lost, and the ship half filled with water. Below decks, the mass of seawater knocked down the cabin bulkheads and pushed Captain Kadnikov back and forth in his cabin among furniture and debris. Arkhimandritov found himself in a similar situation, but he managed to swim through the wreckage and water and escaped onto deck.
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