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NWWC May 23: Edgar Hansen in studio this Saturday as “Deadliest Radio” continues
We’re thinking about changing the name of the show to “NORTHWESTERN Wild Country”. As in F/V Northwestern. As in, another member of the most popular television show on cable, Discovery’s “Deadliest Catch”.Last week, Northwestern skipper Sig Hansen visited the Wild Country. This week, it’s the Northwestern’s deck boss: Edgar Hansen LIVE IN STUDIO from 7 to 8 a.m! CALL IN!!! – Got “Deadliest Catch” questions? LET’S HEAR ‘EM!! Stow these numbers away:
(800) 829-0950 or (206) 286-9595
Sig will be in New York this week doing a few international interviews and wrapping it up with Jimmy Fallon Friday night on NBC. Get a sixer of Rogue Northwestern Ale or set your DVR.
EPISODE FIVE — Tuesday, May 12 at 9 PM (ET/PT)
Crab pots continue to come up empty and the skippers are out of ideas. Low bait and long grinds take our crews to dark places — the smallest infractions from a Greenhorn or fellow Deckhand cause tempers and even violence to flare. Aboard the Cornelia Marie the brothers Harris have a war of words. On the Wizard, low bait forces Keith to turn his back on his brother and reach out to an old enemy: Sig Hansen. While the rest of the fleet fight it out amongst themselves — it’s a wild, swinging pot that could do fatal damage on the Time Bandit.
EPISODE THREE — Tuesday, April 28 at 9 PM (ET/PT)
The storm has taken its toll. The 93-foot fishing vessel Katmai has sunk and bone-chilling accounts of the fate of its men relay around the fleet. As soon as the weather clears, the skippers of the Time Bandit, Cornelia Marie, Wizard, and Northwestern send their men right back to fishing. On a crab boat, there’s no time to dwell on tragedy. Hauling and setting pots is treacherous work and if the crews don’t stay focused on their work — they could die.
EPISODE TWO — Tuesday, April 21 at 9 PM (ET/PT)
The boats have encountered low crab numbers creating even more tension among the crew. When the fleet wakes up to ominous red dawn skies, the captains speculate that a severe storm is on the way. But with crab quota to catch, the boats keep fishing. The Time Bandit hits pay dirt, while the Cornelia Marie strikes out. When 20-foot seas and high winds kick up — even the bravest skippers call in their men to wait out the storm. One boat, with 11 souls on board, sends out a Mayday. In an all too familiar scene, the Coast Guard launches rescue helicopters, and the skippers stay glued to their radios — anxiously awaiting news of the fate of their fellow fishermen.
To celebrate tonight’s season five premiere of Deadliest Catch, we spoke with the cranky and cool Captain Sig Hansen about hallucinations, freaked-out greenhorns, and Desperate Housewives.
Read The Dish with Captain Sig
EPISODE ONE — TUESDAY, APRIL 14 at 9 PM (ET/PT)
Captain Phil Harris
The 2008 King crab season opens with life and death stakes — before boats even cast off. The fleet is aging and so are the Captains. The Wizard’s Skipper Keith and the Cornelia Marie’s Skipper Phil have ominous health symptoms. Nerves are raw, as the two men await medical test results — and their doctors’ clearance to fish.
- Luckiest Catch Komo 4
Seattle viewers set your DVR and/or free your schedule for November 29th, 2008. Starting @ 10:00PM Mike Ferreri for the next hour will take you on a look behind the scenes of a Captain, Father & Husband Sig Hansen.
Join Mike and Sig as they travel coast to coast for a special 1 hour look of Captain Sig Hansen.
KOMO’s Mike Ferreri has spent most of the summer with Sig Hansen, a Seattle native and Bering Sea crab fisherman. Sig’s new found popularity has taken him all over the country and he has finally reeled in the “Luckiest Catch.”
Sig Hansen
This one is what it is.. From the homeland..
Jeg er veldig stolt av å være en del av den fiskeritradisjonen Åkrehamn står for. Allerede som tolv, tretten-åring var jeg med ut på makrellfiske her om sommeren, forteller mannen som i dag er en av verdens mest kjente fiskere, gjennom TVprogrammet «Livsfarlig Fangst», på Discovery Channel.
Sig Hansen skippers the Northwestern on Discovery Channel’s hit reality series, World’s Deadliest Catch, which is the summer’s top cable hit. During the past two years, when not risking his life and that of his crew hunting for crab in the Bering Sea, he’s been working on a video game that simulates that experience.
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Source: Das Gamer
