'Deadliest Catch': Jake Anderson and Sig Hansen Play 'Who Said It?'
As the late great Captain Phil Harris used to say, “The difference between a fisherman’s story and a fairy tale is, a fairy tale starts out, ‘Once upon a time,’ a fisherman’s story starts out, 'This is no bulls--t.'”
Eleven seasons in, Discovery’s Deadliest Catch is still telling those kinds of stories. We know fans don’t forget the pranks, fights, and ice. In the video above, we play a game of “Who Said It?” with the Northwestern’s Captain Sig Hansen and Jake Anderson to test their memories.
In the interview below, the duo tease what’s to come in Season 11, including viewers seeing them weather last fall’s Typhoon Nuri.
While there’s no mistaking the kind of danger the Bering Sea fleet is in this time, Anderson admits the deckhands often don’t know just how precarious their situation is. “Sig’s obtaining information hourly or every 10 minutes sometimes through the radio and Internet. For us on deck, it’s just going through the motions. We only know what he tells us,” he says. “So a lot of the time, he’s very cryptic in what he says and has to be very careful what he tells us about storms.”
“I remember Jake’s uncle Nick came up [to the wheelhouse] once, and he’s just like, ‘Jesus Christ, are we haulin’ in this?!’” Hansen says with a laugh. “They can’t really see what’s goin’ on. When you get in the wheelhouse, you’re really gettin’ a bird’s-eye view.”
“We’re outside laughing, and we’re like, ‘Why is he so stressed out?’” Anderson says. “And then we go up in the wheelhouse, and you’re raised another 15-20 feet off the waterline. It’s just a whole other animal.”
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All joking aside, watch the wheelhouse interview above with Hansen — whose daughter Mandy doesn’t join his crew this season (she’s at Cal Maritime studying for her 3rd Mate Unlimited license) — to hear just how seriously he takes his job.
Deadliest Catch airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on Discovery.
