'Deadliest Catch' Captain Sig Hansen admits to creating harmful selections at sea

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"Deadliest Catch" star Captain Sig Hansen is not any stranger to danger.

Whereas Hansen, 59, has spent many years navigating the brutal, icy waters of the Bering Sea, he advised Fox Information Digital that it’s not simply the storms and freezing temperatures which have put his life in danger.

The veteran crab fisherman obtained candid in regards to the harmful selections he is made at sea, together with one name pushed by ego that almost value him every little thing.

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Northwestern Captain Sig Hansen posing on Adak Island. "Deadliest Catch" airs Fridays at 8pm on Discovery Channel. (Discovery Channel)

"Properly, it was the icing down… that was ego-driven," Hansen remarked. "And if you're ego-driven, and also you're apprehensive if you wish to earn more money and your greed is pondering greater than your frequent sense, it is not good."

"Once you're ego-driven, and also you're apprehensive if you wish to earn more money and your greed is pondering greater than your frequent sense, it is not good."

— Captain Sig Hansen Hansen mirrored on a profession filled with high-stakes selections and even greater penalties. Regardless of surviving a number of the most treacherous fishing situations, he admitted there are moments he’ll by no means cease regretting.

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"There’s numerous regrets. I imply, good Lord, I had a coronary heart assault at sea… Perhaps I ought to have hung up the spurs a very long time in the past," Hansen stated. "And to a fisherman, it is all the time that one dangerous season, proper? So, there's numerous regrets. Made numerous errors. However we have been lucky, haven’t misplaced anyone and all people's OK. In order that’s good."

One near-tragic second from early in his profession that also haunts him was a mistake that led to a crew member’s severe harm.

Hansen stated one mistake from early in his profession led to a crew member's severe harm. (Discovery Channel)

"There was one man that obtained harm. I will not say the identify. That was a few years in the past. I believe I used to be like 27, 28 years outdated," Hansen recalled. "It was after a storm... I noticed the wave coming, after which I did not handle to hit the alarm… [to] notify him. When it hit him, it knocked him clear throughout the deck, and he actually did injury to his again."

Although the crew member recovered and returned to fishing, the accident shook Hansen.

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"Typically you are not speaking minutes — you are speaking seconds to the place issues can occur. It did, and I discovered a helpful lesson."

Captain Sig Hansen's boat, Northwestern, at dock with a full stack of pots. (Discovery Channel)

Hansen stated his takeaway from that boating accident was to not be distracted within the wheelhouse.

"It was that one break up second... you are taking it with no consideration, and that is what occurred. And after that, I by no means performed music up there ever once more," he laughed. "Not less than whereas I’m fishing."

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Even with many years of expertise beneath his belt, the ocean has continued to humble Hansen — most notably throughout a terrifying second when his boat began to ice over in sub-zero situations.

Then there was the fireplace — a second caught on digicam and made all of the extra intense by the truth that his daughter, Mandy, was on board.

"We had a fireplace on board… My daughter was with us, and so that actually is horrifying," he shared with Fox Information Digital. "I maintain pondering again — had that fireplace broke out like an hour earlier, I believe we’d have been in massive, massive hassle."

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Fortunately, the crew was alert and prepared, the "Deadliest Catch" star defined.

"We managed as a result of the fellows have been so attentive. And when the fireplace broke out, they have been already prepared to start out fishing on deck... However they only had been of their bunk sleeping."

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Northwestern deckhand Clark Pederson sorting crab on the desk. (Discovery Channel)

Hansen’s time at sea has examined not simply his bodily endurance, however his coronary heart — each actually and figuratively.

He suffered a coronary heart assault on the job, and it was that well being scare — together with the tragic lack of the F/V Vacation spot in 2017 — that first made him query whether or not it was time to stroll away from the ocean for good.

Since then, he is been extra cautious and extra conscious of what is at stake, as he advised Fox Information Digital what retirement might appear to be for him sooner or later.

"I’ve been fascinated about it ever since… extra fearful if you put pots on the boat, extra fearful for everyone else," he stated. "And then you definitely begin pondering, my spouse has spent many years ready for me. Why not… give the final no matter I obtained to her. That is what I am doing."

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Captain Hansen advised Fox Information Digital, "my spouse has spent many years ready for me. Why not… give the final no matter I obtained to her. That is what I am doing." (Brian To/WireImage)

In Season 21 of "Deadliest Catch," Hansen teamed up with returning captain Johnathan Hillstrand as the 2 headed to the deserted Adak Island searching for a rumored big king crab.

Co-captaining the Time Bandit, the veteran fishermen kicked off a modern-day gold rush — however the race for the uncommon crab took a dangerous turn when chaos erupted aboard the Titan Explorer and compelled Captain Jake Anderson’s crew to desert ship.

Because the crews pushed into uncharted waters to safe the profitable haul, they have been met with brutal situations and harmful mechanical failures — turning the high-stakes hunt for crab right into a struggle for survival.

"Deadliest Catch" airs Fridays at 8 p.m. on Discovery Channel.

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Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an Leisure Author for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas will be despatched to stephanie.giang@fox.com and on Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.