Landing in Dutch Harbor, AK

Arriving in Dutch Harbor to go Crab Fishing season 2007/2008...................................................................
Dutch Harbor is a pretty tricky airport. Dutch Harbor is surrounded by water and high terrain. The weather is about the same as Cold Bay but a little warmer since it is farther south. It has a 3900 foot paved runway. There is a 1600-foot mountain (Ballyhoo) to the NNW, water on the SSE, water off the departure end of runway 30 and a road, then water off the departure end of runway 12. If you are landing or departing on 30, you have to click the mike seven times to close a set of gates to close off the runway from the road. After you pass the threshold, you click the mike again three times and the gates open. The road is so close to the runway that you are pretty much in the flare as you cross it, so you really want to make sure not to forget about the gates. Three hundred-foot cranes line that road too.

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[terryraykurtz]

unisea its hard to get a job with them but am not given up i want to work there

[poweredparagliding]

@terryraykurtz

Keep trying and you will succeed.

If you can get a job @ ANY of their other plants take it, a later transfer to Dutch will be no problem once you have successfully finished a season.

But let me warn you here...working in Dutch is TOUGH. Most never come back. For a reason.

[itb222]

the shipwrecked boat at the very beginning of this video was the one where keith colburn and jonathan hillstrand of Deadliest Catch knocked heads this season.

[poweredparagliding]

@itb222

Yeah...there is a shooting range near by that wreck. Maybe that's where they went (I didn't watch DC)

[homiehomerson13]

Dutch Harbor is a hell hole...

[two0sixTay]

one of the scariest fucking landings ive ever experienced....catching the mean ass cross wind coming off the ocean and the mountain...

[DieselMoak]

Getting a job in Dutch is extremely easy. Living there is the hard part. Everything is soooooo expensive. Apartment $1,600 month, Shampoo $15, and crab isn't any cheaper there than in Mississippi. There are only 2 bars, Cape cheerful ( at the hotel ) and the sports bar. The Alaskan ship supply is what they call wal-mart and everything there is outrageous. Getting s job is the easy part, leaving Dutch with any money saved is the hard part.

[bigmarco85]

hey man what do you know or have heard about westward seafoods?? cuz i went to an orientation a week ago and am interested in going

[poweredparagliding]

@SymAmineC8H11N

Yeah

[SymAmineC8H11N]

you were like a deckhand??