Georges Bank is a dangerous fishing ground located about 180 miles east of Cape Cod. Frequently fished in the early days of Gloucester’s fishing industry, its popularity has given way to the Grand Banks by the time of The Perfect Storm.
Georges Bank Quotes in The Perfect Storm
The The Perfect Storm quotes below are all either spoken by Georges Bank or refer to Georges Bank. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Graveyard of the Atlantic
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The Andrea Gail crew, all experienced fishermen, are probably trying to shrug it off as just another storm—they’ve been through this before, they'll go through it again, and at least they're not puking. Billy's undoubtedly working too hard at the helm to give drowning much thought. Ernie Hazard claims it was the last thing on his mind. "There was no conversation, just real business-like," he says of going down off Georges Bank. "You know, 'Let’s just get this thing done.'” […]
Be that as it may, certain realities still must come crashing in. At some point Tyne, Shatford, Sullivan, Moran, Murphy, and Pierre must realize there's no way off this boat.
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Georges Bank Term Timeline in The Perfect Storm
The timeline below shows where the term Georges Bank appears in The Perfect Storm. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Georges Bank, 1896
In the winter of 1896, on the dangerous fishing grounds known as Georges Bank , the crew of a fishing boat discovered a message in a bottle. The note...
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Gloucester, Mass., 1991
...epidemic of heroin addiction and, at the end of the 1980s, the collapse of the Georges Bank ecosystem, which adversely affected the town’s economy.
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God’s Country
...out into the ocean and cross directly over the Grand Banks. Even more dangerous is Georges Bank , a spot located 180 miles east of Cape Cod. Georges Bank is home to...
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Over time, the draw of plentiful fish overcame people’s dread of Georges Bank . When people turned complacent, though, the Bank grew deadly. If a storm blew in,...
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The Flemish Cap
...order to feed his family. And in 1980, while lobster fishing with a crew off Georges Bank , his boat, the Fair Wind, foundered in a winter storm, and one crewman, Ernie...
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