Aboard ocean fishery support ship Miranda.
January 1976, Arctic Ocean, storm force 12, sea temperature 3 degrees (the sea never falls below 3 degrees).
Sea survival time in a survival suit 10/15 minutes.
Chance of rescue after falling overboard, nil.
Two engineers from the Miranda go across to save the distressed and sinking trawler Benella.
Trawler skipper gives them a 7-foot cod and a crate of Newcastle Brown Ale as a reward. The fish is stored in Miranda's hospital mortuary.
There are no longer 7-foot cod anywhere in the world's oceans because of overfishing by massive super trawlers.
The trawlers of the 1970s have grown into super freezer trawlers that are emptying the seas.
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