Keith Colburn has been fishing the Bering Sea for more than two decades, and in that time, he has seen huge transformations in how his work is done. Many of those changes have been evolutions in the technology he and his crew use to navigate the seas. "During my career of 24 years," Colburn said, "we've gone from the difficulty of getting your position on the water using radio and other older instruments to using GPS, I also have email capabilities, phone capabilities, and a kind of a walkie-talkie communication with anyone on the mainland."
He added that while advances have also been made in his crew's ability to track potentially hazardous weather patterns, they were still somewhat limited in their ability to react to the information they get.
"We can track weather a lot better," he said, "but the fact of the matter is that we're several hours off shore and whatever Mother Nature wants to unleash upon us we have to take it."
