[Warning: The below contains spoilers for Deadliest Catch Season 21]
It’s six weeks into the fishing season on Deadliest Catch, and a controversial determine has made a dramatic return to the present because the strain is on to ship. Through the September 26 episode, Sig Hansen wasn’t having an excessive amount of luck within the midst of a really aggressive bairdi crab season. The Northwestern was amongst 33 boats chasing 700,000 kilos of quota. Sig observed pots within the space belonged to Keith Colburn. Conflicted on his subsequent transfer, he referred to as on son-in-law Clark Pederson for enter.
Sig needed to take a bit peek at how Keith’s pots had been doing, however did it go in opposition to his ethical and moral fibers? “If you’d like, I’ll haul it,” Clark supplied. Sig responded, “I can’t let you know what to do.” Good psychological transfer by Sig as he didn’t must be the one to get his arms soiled. The pot they picked up had 60 crabs, which confirmed the waters had been teeming with product. Sig ordered to set off his personal gear parallel to Keith’s pots.
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Keith’s brother Monte observed The Northwestern within the neighborhood. Keith referred to as Sig, “a sneaky bastard.” The Wizard captain made the choice to go darkish on the radar system. “You need a shoving match? Sport on,” Keith mentioned. He checked out Sig’s pot the identical manner. This advanced right into a race as the 2 went head-to-head. That was till The Northwestern hit a snag. In a second of generosity, Keith supplied to assist Sig because the vessel had a one-inch thick polyurethane line wrapped across the propeller shaft, Sig trusted Keith to attach the road from the tangle to The Wizard’s hydraulic powered hauler. The technique labored t. “I owe you on this one,” Sig mentioned to Keith. It then was again to enterprise for crab.
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Elsewhere, Rick Shelford and Sophia “Bob” Nielsen had been going through tough situations aboard the Aleutian Woman. The waves got here in robust with the 2 trying to offload, however they wanted one other 3,000 kilos. That meant a 55 common of their pots. Rick misplaced energy on his controls after cables and displays had been tousled. Sophia’s technique was to make use of the GPS on her cellphone to find their pots. This meant all was driving on cellular navigation. The string of pots hit double-digits and was sufficient to make their supply. The crew in the end ended up with 90,081 kilos, which translated to greater than $2.4 million in king crab. Rick summed it up with, “It don’t get higher than that.”
Within the Dutch Harbor, Steve “Harley” Davidson was awaiting a brand new co-captain after he confronted a mutinous crew aboard the Confidence. Harley introduced Greg Wallace on to help for the remainder of the season within the hope he may help ship outcomes. Wallace garnered some controversy final season aboard the Seabrooke with how he handled his daughter, deckhand Megan, who suffered a dislocated hip. He acclimated rapidly, figuring out he and Harley needed to hustle to make up for misplaced time with greater than 1,000,000 greenback quota over their head. Harley observed one thing was flawed along with his throttle and controls.
“I want eyes within the engine room proper now,” Harley demanded. Greg had throttles on his finish at the least. The crew believed it’s the breaker. The plan was for Greg to function controls whereas Harley handles steering. Their hope was their second string of pots would convey them some luck. They obtained encouraging outcomes with a 57 per pot common. Greg and Harley look to be group.
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