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Bob Brown is the owner of the Andrea Gail. Though Bob is respected as a self-made businessman, people in Gloucester have nicknamed him “Suicide Bob” because of his tendency to take risks while fishing, and he has become a controversial figure because of the risks he takes with other men’s lives—even before the Andrea Gail, he lost crew members on the Fair Wind and the Hannah Boden. His wife, Susan, assists him on the business side of his work. After the storm, Bob writes a letter to the lost fishermen’s family members, asking them to exonerate him financially.
Bob Brown Quotes in The Perfect Storm
The The Perfect Storm quotes below are all either spoken by Bob Brown or refer to Bob Brown. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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God’s Country Quotes
A longliner might pull up ten or twenty swordfish on a good day, one ton of meat. The most Bob Brown has ever heard of anyone catching was five tons a day for seven days—70,000 pounds of fish. That was on the Hannah Boden in the mid-eighties. The lowest crew member made ten thousand dollars. That's why people fish; that’s why they spend ten months a year inside seventy feet of steel plate.
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The Dreams of the Dead Quotes
And then, on the afternoon of November 5th, an EPIRB washes up on Sable Island. […] Like the bottled note thrown overboard from the schooner Falcon a century ago, the odds of something as small as an EPIRB winding up in human hands are absurdly small. And the odds of Billy Tyne disarming his EPIRB—there's no reason to, it wouldn’t even save batteries—are even smaller. Bob Brown, Linda Greenlaw, Charlie Reed, no one who knows Billy can explain it.
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Bob Brown Character Timeline in The Perfect Storm
The timeline below shows where the character Bob Brown appears in The Perfect Storm. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Gloucester, Mass., 1991
...Andrea Gail caught 15 tons of swordfish, which they sold for $136,812. The boat’s owner, Bob Brown , first deducted the expenses for things like fuel, tackle, bait, and repairs, then took...
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...on the East Coast. Both the Hannah Boden and the Andrea Gail are owned by Bob Brown .
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God’s Country
...marriage, he kept doing it. When Charlie Reed stepped down as the Andrea Gail’s captain, Bob Brown , offered Billy the role.
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...good day, a crew might haul up 10 or 20 swordfish—that’s one ton of meat. Bob Brown remembers one Hannah Boden trip in the mid-80s which yielded five tons a day for...
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The Flemish Cap
Bob Brown believed that his boat was sound. In Gloucester, though, people seem less sure about Bob...
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Into the Abyss
Bob Brown tries to reach his boats all day. That night, he finally gets through to the...
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...captains confer over the radio and speculate about where the Andrea Gail may have drifted. Bob Brown also alerts the Canadian Coast Guard, and soon, half a dozen vessels near Sable Island...
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The Dreams of the Dead
Weeks later, family members receive a letter from Bob Brown asking them to exonerate him from any responsibility—the Andrea Gail, he claims, was fully seaworthy....
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