Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Shrimping accident

Tales from the Backyard…  Generally, Salt water is heavier than fresh water, but when the fresh water is laden with glacier till, the reverse is true.  In Alaska, no-one learns to swim, the water is just too cold, so when a couple of friends went out Shrimping one night and one fell overboard and with water temp in the low 40’s, he was doomed.  When one drowns at the mouth of a glacial stream, he sinks to the stratification layer in between the fresh and salt water and is never seen again and that’s exactly what happened. But that’s the life he wanted to live and he did it to the fullest.  RIP my friend.

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