Life-Sized Fishermen’s Memorial Planned for Unalaska
An accomplished artist from the Czech Republic who has spent years in the maritime industry plans to erect a life-sized fishermen’s memorial at the Carl Moses Boat Harbor in Unalaska in 2023, honoring lives lost in pursuit of the Bering Sea’s bounty.
The memorial would include life sized statues of long-line, crab and cod harvesters, on an octagon shaped, five-foot high base constructed of a stainless steel frame, adorned with stainless steel sea life figures.
The names of vessels and lives lost are planned to be displayed on the memorial on plaques and in other creative ways, according to the artist, Karel Machalek. Machalek was born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia, which is now the Czech Republic. There he learned to weld and worked as a tradesman.
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