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Serving the commercial marine and recreational boating industries, John Sabella & Associates, Inc. of Seattle is a technical communications firm that specializes in creating media resources for public and private clients. The firm helps its clients pursue goals that range from market development to consumer education. In addition to undertaking public relations, corporate image and sales promotion

projects, the firm creates instructional books and manuals, educational and documentary videotapes, and computer based training products distributed by its subsidiary enterprise, Nautical Media.

02/29/2016

Not long before the Department of Justice broke up Standard Oil, The Alaska Packers Association treated the canned salmon industry in America's remotest territory as if it was a private fiefdom. Salmon canning was frontier capitalism at its purest. The supply of raw material was abundant, the technology was simple, labor was cheap, there were no limits on entry and the competition was cutthroat.

01/12/2016

Throwbacks is a documentary film that profiles the great naval architects of Seattle’s early years, and the famous boatyards and shipwrights that applied world-renowned craftsmanship to their nautical visions. It follows the classic boats and yachts through the rowdy 1920s when everyman dreamed of owning a boat, the grim Depression years when Hollywood wealth was all that sustained Seattle boatyards...

01/11/2016

Ship Safety Orientation is a generic adaptation of a vessel familiarization program Nautical Media has produced on a proprietary basis for vessel operations ranging from Bering Sea factory trawlers and motherships to domestic and international tanker fleets. The basic content has proven its value over two decades of real world safety training.

11/12/2015

In a quest for greater speed the turn of the 20th Century, the world's ship owners mothballed their sailing ships in favor of steam. Companies like the Alaska Packer's Association that were engaged in the Alaska salmon canning industry didn't care about speed. They needed low cost cargo haulers to ferry men and supplies north each spring, and to return in the fall with holds laden with non-perishable canned fish.

11/12/2015

While every emergency is unique, the Seven Steps represent a philosophy of sea survival that should help in any circumstance:

Recognition
Inventory
Shelter
Signals
Water
Food
Play

10/12/2015

Your ship has extensive plans and procedures in place for coping with the catastrophic emergencies that can impact a vessel at sea. While preparing for the threat of catastrophic emergency is critical, everyday workplace tasks pose a greater threat with respect to the number and frequency of accidents and injuries that occur aboard ships.

10/07/2015

Beginning in the late 1960s, Alaska fishermen encountered a gold rush that outproduced the Klondike many times over. Pots of Gold: The Profit and the Sorrow is a half-hour documentary that chronicles the history of king crabbing beginning with the World War II era when fishing pioneers like Lowell Wakefield used trawls and tangle nets to launch the king crab industry in the Bering Sea.

06/01/2015

Everybody understands the importance of eliminating industrial accidents and injuries…but there’s a more subtle health hazard that isn’t nearly as obvious. Overuse or wear and tear injuries associated with everyday job tasks can take months or even years to become apparent, but they can be just as debilitating as a traumatic injury.

05/08/2015

The crew that boarded the square rigged sailing ship Star of Bengal at the Alaska Packer's Association Wrangel cannery in September, 1908 were about to become unwilling participants in one of the great maritime disasters in Pacific Northwest history. There were 134 sailors and cannery hands on the ship, laden with 52,000 cases of canned salmon valued at $216,000.

05/06/2015

No one is ever 100 percent ready for an emergency at sea. Emergency situations always develop unexpectedly, and every situation is unique. Nearly all vessel casualties are the result of human error. In a crisis, making good decisions is the only thing that stands between the vessel and catastrophe, but fear and confusion can easily overwhelm good judgment.

04/20/2015

Launched in 1911 on the Seattle waterfront, the historic longline schooner Tordenskjold has steamed into her second century as a working fish boat. Remarkably, she is neither relic nor museum piece. The Tordenskjold leads a small fleet of hard working commercial fishing schooners that compete head-to-head with modern boats on the Alaska fishing grounds.

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