Though his first love has always been sport fishing, for his first fifteen years in Alaska Dave Atcheson made his living in the commercial fishing industry, working in various capacities for Icicle Seafoods and as a crewman on various salmon and herring seiners, setnetting in Prince William Sound, and drifting on the Copper River Flats outside of Cordova. Those experiences, including a night of terror that would reshape the lives of all those involved, are the basis for his new book, Dead Reckoning, Navigating a Life on the Last Frontier, Courting Tragedy on its High Seas.
A story of survival and an ode to the outdoors. Reminiscent of The Perfect Storm and Into the Wild, Dead Reckoning, Navigating a Life on the Last Frontier, Courting Tragedy on its High Seas, is not only an intimate look at life in Alaska's fishing industry, but also an insider's view into one of Alaska's small communities and the myriad of upstarts, dropouts, and rogues that color its landscape.
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