So fuckin' baller. NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE I might just have to subscribe to Deca. Great find.When they got close enough to the rig’s snapped emergency towline, he would throw the hook. He would reel it in by hand. Then he would get the Alert’s own tow cable and tie the two together with the knot he suggested: a bowline... They worried that if they got too close, the Kulluk, half the weight of the Titanic, would crash on top of them.
The shore was only a few miles away, and now Matthews had to figure out how to untie his knot. His bosses called and suggested that he cut the thick cable with an acetylene torch tied to a broomstick. When he peered out the back window at the tow winch, three feet of water was surging over the tug’s weather deck. He put on foul-weather gear and tried to time the waves.