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towed. up by. tug, and were ;
five days late starting for the.

grounds: -On..the way up we
“ran into.a gale, blowing 40 to
60 knots, and the tug: Ocean
Master, Rivetow Straights,

-was unable. to make: any .

head-way with .the Ultra
Processor in tow. The barge
is quite high out of the water
and. very long. The waves
were not much. of .a problem
but. the windage - .the
pressure : ‘of. the wind against

the barge:- was so high that.

the tug couldn't make. “any
headway: :We. sheltered in
Kamishak Bay, at the North
end of Kodiak Island and

. waited for the weather in the

Straights to diminish. |

“The gale ‘blew for a a long t
time, and it never did really —

clear. We left the shelter
twice and.came back each
time. After.a while the wind
‘dropped to 25 knots, but
after we left it came up
again.

“We were forced to take
shelter behind Shumagin
Island for a few hours. These
small islands are less than 12
feet tall, and there really
wasn’t much shelter there.
The weather became better

_ then.and we had fair weather
crossing Bristol Bay in the
Bering Sea. .

“We anchored at Summit
Island, in Togiak Bay, which
is off Bristol Bay, just north
of the Alaska Peninsula.

"7k FEW-BUGS. -—-

“We spent the next three
days unloading cartons, and -

then started to take on fish.
There were a few bugs in the
machinery, nothing very
serious, and as’ we began
processing things were
falling more or less smoothly
into place.

“We processed for 14
days. Then it started to blow
again, a 70 knot storm from
the south-east. We were
working 24 hours a day, and
I was in bed when the an-
chors began to drag. I was
on deck within minutes. The
barge turned sideways to the
wind as the anchors dragged,
and sailed a quarter of a mile
in 20 to 25 minutes. The tug,
which was anchored nearby,

‘was not able to get her
engine started and anchor up
in time to save us.

“The barge pounded for 2C
minutes to a half an hours
before any leaks started. ]
evacuated the processing
staff from
deck

the processing
up to

the 3 ac-

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commodation. deck and
. ordered them all to wear life- |

pump. It was high tide at the
.time,, and the

: minutes there was 12 feet of

jackets. It was .interesting to.

watch our equipment on the
‘lower ‘deck moving up and

down two to four feet, with
the flexing of the bottom as
it pounded on the rocks..The
tug was trying to float a line

into us over the-shallows that |

had drifted over to us, but by

the time it-was in place a two

foot hole had appeared.

“We were- down 12 feet
with ballast and product,
and this hole. let in such a

_volume of’. water. that. we. -

couldn’t cope with it even.
with .all.our pumps going.

Even with our attempt to ©

modify. the

refrigeration

barge sank
immediately. Within
water in the barge.and the
processing “floor was un-
derwater.

NO MOVING

“The . barge stopped
pounding after it sank, and
then didn’t move at all: We
radioed the United States
Coast Guard and notified
them that we were on the
rocks and leaking oil, as the

rocks had punctured our fuel
‘tanks. We had 54 people on

board, and it was too tough
to take them off by lifeboat.
The Coast Guard sent their
big helicopter. It was there
in 30minutes much tomy joy,
and took our people off ten
at a time, landing them on a
nearby sandy point.

“There was little con-.

possibilities of someone else
salvaging their barge. They

THE INVENTOR AND OWNER of the Ultra Processor I, , Glen Voakes, 4 40, a North
Shore resident for many years, used to own Norlympia | Seafoods on Lonsdale Avenue.

“We knew there was a lot
of damage. All of our

panic. The crew ‘were taken

‘by tender to one of the

nearby canneries, and then
sent home the following
day.”

LAST OFF

Glen Voakes was the last _

person off. He flew with the
Coast Guard to the sand spit.
Then he and his chief
refrigeration engineer began
to be concerned about he

hiked over the rocky island—

and made their way back onto

* the barge by means of a rope
that had been. taken ashore
earlier, cet OR

“I got really wet and
cold,” said Voakes..“But by
3:30 in the afternoon you

_could walk around = the
barge, as the tide had gone
out. I could see the damage,
as the barge was supported
by four points and other than
that was clear of the bottom.

electrical—-equipment was
under water except the
generators. We. had at-
tempted to run our. herring

‘catch-up out of the freezers

after the accident, but soon
the electric motors were
under- water and we shut
them off. The real after
effects of the shock didn’t hit
me until I took my wet
clothes off and said to myself
‘what the hell am I doing

here?’ It’s about time to go °

back to good old B.C. I
thought.

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_“We stayed on board for
five days. It was cold and
dark for most of the day, as
we didn’t have enough fuel
to run our generators for a
long time. The barge never
moved. and it was only dark
outside for four hours a day,
from about 11 in the evening
to 3:30 in the morning. We
went to bed at seven after
listening to the radio all day.

“We had cold beans, cold
milk, juices, cold canned

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