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Mr. Ahmed, a six-year veteran, was promoted from deckhand about 18 months ago, said James DeSimone, the chief operations officer of the ferry system.

By the time it reaches shore, to a dock paved with crushed oyster shells, the crew has 30 sacks filled and knotted — about $90 each for the deckhands, and about $420 for the captain, who has paid for the gas and food and must now fix the broken equipment.

It includes Commodore Matthew C. Perry, who stopped here on the 1853 voyage in which he opened Japanese ports at gunpoint, and Jack London, who visited as a 17-year-old deckhand and later wrote about the Bonins.

Tom makes sixty-thousand dollars working half the year… Tells about deckhands Rick Walker and Jason Beuke.

Typically deckhands are paid about 10% of the gross landed value, depending on their skill and how many deckhands are on the vessel.

So far, payments have been fairly small, averaging about $2,500 a month for a deckhand or $5,000 for a fisherman.

"They come up with this thing on the Web site about supplemental payments and I went ballistic," said Michelle Brooks, 49, a deckhand on a commercial shrimp boat who has yet to have her claim paid.

Don't worry about it instead, watch Thomas Morton share the slang he learned as a tugboat deckhand on Daily VICE.

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"Grande," the deckhand says.

He's a deckhand.