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NO BANANAS - It may be an old wives tale, but it’s a fact that Bananas are Bad Luck on a fishing boat. History tells us that this tale originated from early years when boats with bananas in the cargo, ran aground, got lost at sea, or lost many of their crew members to a deadly sickness. Also, bananas were said to spoil the other rations on the ship or boat because of some chemical reaction. Further investigation indicated that the bananas were prone to carry the deadly tarantula spiders and the highly venomous Brazilian Wadering Spider and when bitten, many crewmen died as a result. These things all blended together over time and eventually were believed to be fact.

Ancient Hawaiian folklore stated that bringing bananas out fishing would bring bad luck. But research shows that many fishermen have caught fish even though there’s been bananas on the boat. However.... Some also had some of the strangest BAD luck things happen while out fishing only to find out later that there were bananas on the boat.

Seems like the folklore started in Hawaii and spread to the Bahamas and is prevalent in Florida these days! I have heard of Captains on the east coast of Florida who have refused to go out fishing after finding out charters had bananas in their cooler. As a matter of fact, there is a Charter Captain in Naples, FL who posts these words on his website, “WARNING!!! This is not a joke: Don’t bring bananas or anything banana-related on your charter.” Some even announce it on their PA system to avoid problems! And worse, when Fruit-of-the-Loom company had bananas on the logo, there was one Captain who checked everyone’s T-shirts to see and if they had bananas on them he made them leave them at the dock and gave them a T-shirt from his charter!

There has been much written on the subject over the years. The Internet and magazines are full of conflicts as well. Some articles do not mention bananas but claim eggs onboard will cause the fish to stay away!!

Sport-fishing superstition is rampant in some areas and it has spilled over to recreational fishing. Some crews believe their fate can be altered by specific habits. Much of this comes from a time when the oceans were a terrifying mystery to crewmembers.

Even famous and successful angler, George Poveromo of Florida, tested the theory on his friend’s charter boat out of Miami. He smuggled a banana aboard. “That day we tried for hours and couldn’t catch bait so had to rely on another boat’s catch. Then the hydraulic steering went out. After we got it fixed, we hooked two big saifish and lost them, hooked two big dolphin and lost them and hooked two big yellowfin tuna and lost them! We lost everything that bit.”

Well, anyway, here is some more food for thought from a Charter Captain from Maryland...
“There is a long standing superstition for most fishermen that you don’t bring bananas on a fishing boat. They’re just bad luck. So early on the morning of our outing, I told the chef at the lodge to have one of the mates hide a banana aboard my friend Wade’s boat. Unaware of the superstition, the mate complied.
While I was having a great day fishing (we caught, I believe, 12 sailfish), I had to wonder how Wade’s day was going. We returned to the lodge and waited for the other boats to return. Finally Wade and Debbie arrived and you could see in Wade’s expression that they had not had a good day. Everyone else was talking about how many sailfish they had caught, and being the competitor that he is, you could see Wade’s pain.
Eventually, the banana rumor made it back to Wade. Until now, he never knew who got him that day. Sorry, Wade.”

To explain how the myth probably got started... The merchant ships of old used to store all their rations together and that’s where the problem lied. Bananas release ethylene gas that promotes ripening. In a closed area such as the hold of a ship the gas is concentrated and caused other fruits and vegatables to ripen, in some cases prematurely and making them “go bad.” After awhile they figured it was the bananas that were causing the problem and started to blame all their misfortune on the bananas!
I rest my case..............Better safe than sorry. Let’s leave the bananas at home.....!!]]> no_email@example.com (FishFinder) http://southcarolina-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=9823#9823 http://southcarolina-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=9822#9822
The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach. “I think he thinks you’re drowning,” the husband said to his wife. They had been splashing each other and she had screamed but now they were just standing, neck-deep on the sand bar. “We’re fine, what is he doing?” she asked, a little annoyed. “We’re fine!” the husband yelled, waving him off, but his captain kept swimming hard. ”Move!” he barked as he sprinted between the stunned owners. Directly behind them, not ten feet away, their nine-year-old daughter was drowning. Safely above the surface in the arms of the captain, she burst into tears, “Daddy!”

How did this captain know – from fifty feet away – what the father couldn’t recognize from just ten? Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. The captain was trained to recognize drowning by experts and years of experience. The father, on the other hand, had learned what drowning looks like by watching television. If you spend time on or near the water (hint: that’s all of us) then you should make sure that you and your crew knows what to look for whenever people enter the water. Until she cried a tearful, “Daddy,” she hadn’t made a sound. As a former Coast Guard rescue swimmer, I wasn’t surprised at all by this story. Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for, is rarely seen in real life.

The Instinctive Drowning Response – so named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D., is what people do to avoid actual or perceived suffocation in the water. And it does not look like most people expect. There is very little splashing, no waving, and no yelling or calls for help of any kind. To get an idea of just how quiet and undramatic from the surface drowning can be, consider this: It is the number two cause of accidental death in children, age 15 and under (just behind vehicle accidents) – of the approximately 750 children who will drown next year, about 375 of them will do so within 25 yards of a parent or other adult. In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening (source: CDC). Drowning does not look like drowning – Dr. Pia, in an article in the Coast Guard’s On Scene Magazine, described the instinctive drowning response like this:

Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs.
Drowning people’s mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people’s mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water’s surface. Pressing down on the surface of the water, permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people’s bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs.

This doesn’t mean that a person that is yelling for help and thrashing isn’t in real trouble – they are experiencing aquatic distress. Not always present before the instinctive drowning response, aquatic distress doesn’t last long – but unlike true drowning, these victims can still assist in their own rescue. They can grab lifelines, throw rings, etc.

Look for these other signs of drowning when persons are in the water:

Head low in the water, mouth at water level
Head tilted back with mouth open
Eyes glassy and empty, unable to focus
Eyes closed
Hair over forehead or eyes
Not using legs – Vertical
Hyperventilating or gasping
Trying to swim in a particular direction but not making headway
Trying to roll over on the back
Appear to be climbing an invisible ladder.

So if a crew member falls overboard and everything looks OK – don’t be too sure. Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning. They may just look like they are treading water and looking up at the deck. One way to be sure? Ask them, “Are you alright?” If they can answer at all – they probably are. If they return a blank stare, you may have less than 30 seconds to get to them. And parents – children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why.]]> no_email@example.com (Capt_Keith) http://southcarolina-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=9822#9822 http://southcarolina-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=9817#9817 We needed the rain... but it woulda been nice if it had held off till you got in for ya.
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