bdowning
01-22-2003, 05:29 PM
I unearthed this article from the NYT a few years back about Siberian ice fishing on the River Tom near Tomsk. These people are crazy. Here's an excerpt:
"Ice fishing may sound sedate, but it is often deadly. So far in Russia, more than 50 people have died ice fishing this winter. Some fell through unexpected cracks in the ice. Two froze to death. Several simply drifted on a broken ice floe out to sea.
Last year, so many people near St. Petersburg came unmoored on giant hunks of ice that the police started a regular boat patrol patrol along the coast. Fishermen complained that it scared their prey.
"There is a little risk to everything that's wonderful," said Sergei Shubov, 44, an electrician. He argues that serenity and isolation are well worth the small chance of frostbite or death.
And so on...
:eek:,
-bd
"Ice fishing may sound sedate, but it is often deadly. So far in Russia, more than 50 people have died ice fishing this winter. Some fell through unexpected cracks in the ice. Two froze to death. Several simply drifted on a broken ice floe out to sea.
Last year, so many people near St. Petersburg came unmoored on giant hunks of ice that the police started a regular boat patrol patrol along the coast. Fishermen complained that it scared their prey.
"There is a little risk to everything that's wonderful," said Sergei Shubov, 44, an electrician. He argues that serenity and isolation are well worth the small chance of frostbite or death.
And so on...
:eek:,
-bd