Bad weather condition engulfing the waters of Bali within the past few days did not only make the crossing vigilant, but also made fishers reluctant to go to sea. Weather conditions changing rapidly and sometimes erratic made the fishers feel to be fooled when going to sea. However, they did not get the fish as expected, strong winds accompanied by heavy downpours often occurred suddenly and unexpectedly. This condition made a number of fishers at Pengambengan and Cupel not sail.
One of the fishers at Pengambengan, Mulyadi, 46, last Sunday (Jan 10), said that since the past three days he was forced to idle. According to him, the current weather was not friendly for fishers and it was ever changing. As recently, Mulyadi could sail by his boat due to the sunny weather. However, when he got him in the middle of the sea suddenly it rained and strong winds blew. “My boat was nearly toppled by the wind,” he said.
To kill his spare time during absent from going to sea, Mulyadi chose to take side job as a coolie at a building construction. Not only fishers suffering from this bad weather, had crossing at Bali Strait to be alert, too. Gilimanuk harbormaster, Dewa Nyoman Kari, said that currently his party only increased the alertness. The reason, bad weather at any time could happen. On that account, when the weather was bad and not worthy used to cross, his party applied the lid pattern. It was necessary because heavy rains will make the captain’s visibility limited so that it could make the ship in the wrong direction or collision with another ship.
News by International Bali Post
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