Told me he's seen more than a couple of huge sharks during those years, a couple over twenty feet and one day they saw one estimated at nearly thirty feet.
They took a stainless steel meat hook from the galley and put a good sized roast on it, hooked a chain to it and warped the chain into a mooring bit.
The shark took it and swam off, they pulled the chain back to find the shark had straitened out the hook, needless to say nobody went swimming after that, they were on the hook (anchor) and always got to go for a swim each day with armed men watching but after that there were no takers.
Dad had some interesting story's about wild animals, took out the garbage on the north slope and found a huge wolverine between him and the mess hall, he got into a bulldozer ( they left them running 24-7 due to the cold ) and it walked back and forth on the track smiling at him for over an hour.
Or the time on a tugboat near Nome they were in the ice early in the winter picking up a tow, was going to go out on deck with the garbage that they dumped once back at sea, opened the hatch to find a Polar Bear about ten feet away on the deck eating garbage, nobody went out on deck for a few hours.
But he loved all the worlds critters, never hunted in his life but he got closer to wildlife than most.
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