Sig, I've been watching the show since it started and the whole time I've been wondering, how could I be a greenhorn on one of the boats? I live in Wisconsin so I'm used to some really cold weather, (never really been in water and cold at the same time besides falling through ice on Lake Michigan a few times) and I'm pretty sure I could help out a bit.
Sig, Edgar has said that he was the worst greenhorn ever, at first. What was your greenhorn experience like? Can you speak Norwegian?
Also,just putting this out there, I hope the answers, or anything interesting in live chat will be posted somewhere. When Sig comes on, the boards go nuts, in case my computer explodes with all the activtity.
I was checking this out earlier today before coming to the discovery.com website and it caught my attention as i read your question: http://www.alaskafishingjobs.com/
Thought you might like to check that out. It isn't as much info as somelike Capt. Hansen could give you, but until the chat you might find something helpful until the chat in April.
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Originally posted by greasemonkey310: Sig, I've been watching the show since it started and the whole time I've been wondering, how could I be a greenhorn on one of the boats? I live in Wisconsin so I'm used to some really cold weather, (never really been in water and cold at the same time besides falling through ice on Lake Michigan a few times) and I'm pretty sure I could help out a bit.
My only contact with fishing of any sort has been 'Deadliest Catch' and I am totally in awe at every level from the extreme conditions in which you work to the very 'human' stories of those who participate.
I work for a Business Consultancy firm in Southern England, miles from the sea, but one of our offerings is High Performance Team Work. From my perspective, you absolutely personify everything we try to impart to other people ... the unknown being the weather, the technology being the huge cranes, crab pots etc that you manipulate and above all, the people and how they approach it all. (Guess I should say here I am not one of the Consultants, I just do the admin so I'm not ripping off ideas, I promise you).
My question is, how do you co-ordinate it all? People in the right place at the right time, without even looking it seems to me, and yet the deck is at a crazy angle, the pots swinging everywhere ... do you practice ... is it what you learn the hard way .. how on earth do the crews do it?!?
Sorry if this is a silly quetion, but as I say, I've never been part of a crew on a working boat of any discription but I find it all totally riveting.
Hello SIG, I would like to know what your opinion is about the new style of Crab fishing instead of the Derby.Are yow all still going to go after them like always,just like there is a derby....Love the show,Prayers always...Kevin
Capt. Sig, What is your worse fear going out for the season? What do you think of the new fishing rules? Do you think it will change anything for the Northwestern?
My question was this first season under the new rules and regulations all you expected? Was it worse or better? Also and you or Edgar may have already answered this last year but how did the NW make out with the quotas?
I was wondering if your ship, or any other of the crab-fishing ships for that matter, is used for anything else during the off-season? Or is it kept at the dock all year until it's time to head off for crab again?
How do manage the physics of the weight distribution (pots, and load), wind, weather, cold et al. Do you have computers aiding your navigation or are you standing awake for 24 hours straight at the "wheel" constantly adjusting?
Hello Sig. I was just wondering if you have kids of your own and if you do are they going to follow in your footsteps and I was also wondering how some of the other fisherman have taken change since it's not derby fishing anymore?
Hi Sig, I love the show and pull for you and your guys to come out on top everytime. I was wondering if you ever get a vacation, and do you even go near a boat when you do?
First off, you're my favorite captain of all the ships. Alright, now that we got that through, as a seasoned fisherman on Lake Erie, I would like to hear you tell me what it feels like when you get a big load that you know will pay off. So let me pose it in the form of a question, how's it feel like to get a big load that will most definitely pay off?
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