by Té Rowan » Thu Dec 13, 2012 4:50 am
I like to watch these occasionally, if only to feel good about having both feet on 'dry' land:
Rough seas Iceland and
Rough seas Iceland, uncut.
Aside: The ship in the videos is the F/V Smáey VE144 from Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands)
A fisherman's life is not an easy one. A moment's inattention...
and it's rendezvous with tweeting bluebirds.
It was junk, but as it stood in the flickering glow, it had a dark, organic quality – not exactly life, but something dynamic and disquieting and coiled and potent that was making the Dean vibrate on his feet. It radiated something that suggested that, just by existing and looking like it did, it was breaking at least nine laws and twenty-three guidelines.
(From "Soul Music" by Terry Pratchett)