Interview and gameplay with Captain Sig Hansen
Sig, Edgar, and Norman Hansen, the Northwestern, Deadliest Catch. If these names and titles mean nothing to you then you're obviously living under a rock. Deadliest Catch is the number one non-fiction show on cable TV. The Northwestern is one of the featured boats on the show and the Hansen brothers operate her and head up the crew. Captain Sig Hansen, deck boss Edgar Hansen, and engineer Norman Hansen come from a family of fisherman, men who have braved the untold dangers and perils of the arctic waters of the Bering Sea, untold until now.
The Discovery Channel originally ran a ten episode pilot season of Deadliest Catch in 2005. The Northwestern was part of the inaugural season and has been a mainstay of the series ever since. The show takes place in the Bering Sea around the Aleutian Islands and the tiny fishing town of Dutch Harbor. While fishing of various species of fish and crab are a year round industry in Dutch Harbor, Deadliest Catch focuses primarily on the king crab and opilio crab seasons which take place during the brutal winter months and result in the most dangerous conditions for the ships and their crews. Sadly, it's not a rare occurrence to lose a crew member or an entire vessel to these frigid and often stormy seas.
We were fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to spend some one on one time with Sig aboard the Northwestern, and we had the opportunity to ask him some questions about the show, the soon to be released Xbox 360 & PC game, Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm, and how it all came to be. He shared with us his thoughts on a lot of topics, and we'd like to share some of the question and answers with our readers in an effort to give them a better understanding of the man and the game.
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