Good sea, by Antonio Lucas

The immensity fascinates as much as it can extend the feeling of monotony. It all depends on the observation time. Because it is not the same to go into the sea to immerse yourself in its calm waters clean stroke or to get on its waves, board at the ready, to go to spend a few days of work in a habitat that is not your own.

Fish gasp out of the water, man knows that a bad storm can be the difference between sailing the seas or plunging into them. In the meantime every voyage is a trip to nowhere relying on instrumentals and good luck. The chores of the deep sea fisherman take him away from that "natural estrangement" of man gasping out of the mainland.

The narrator of Good sea embarks, in the most literal way possible, on a business trip. He does it because he is a journalist and wants to discover how those men who spend their lives on the high seas live and work so that we can eat fresh fish. This journey into the unknown - he has never sailed and he hardly knows the sea more than the beach - is also a journey towards his own interior, because what he knows on land actually seems to be sinking: his job, his partner, his house, his vocation, his whole life.

How to live surrounded by water, how the days go by between the rings that announce that the network is full, what the horizon looks like from a trip that is unlike any other, what to expect on the journey to Gran Sol, one of the fishing grounds most complicated in the world. With this experience, lived through his own innocence but also through the gaze and wisdom that the crew is lending him little by little, Antonio Lucas brings into our hands the epic of exhausting work that is as unknown as it is exciting.

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