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After a long time of battling brutal waters and risking his life on the tumultuous Bering Sea, “Deadliest Catch” star Captain Sig Hansen admits he’s beginning to see issues in another way – particularly relating to retirement.
The longtime star of the hit Discovery Channel collection confessed that worry, loss and household have modified his perspective, and though the 59-year-old mentioned final yr that he had no plans to name it quits, he has now reconsidered.
“Nicely, I am a fisherman. You have to bear in mind, you are speaking to an expert liar right here,” Hansen joked in an interview with Individuals. “No, I believe I’ve received a couple of extra years left in me. I give it some thought on a regular basis and after I do take into consideration ‘retiring,’ it is solely as a result of I’ve misplaced so many individuals, and I am extra fearful each time we exit on the water.”
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Northwestern Captain Sig Hansen posing on Adak Island (Discovery Channel)
Hansen added that the worry has turn out to be more durable to disregard as he and his crew braved unforgiving 50-foot seas in treacherous waters.
“A part of it’s simply, you consider your individual mortality, and I am fearful,” Hansen mentioned.
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“I haven’t got the identical mentality I did as earlier than, the place you have a look at every thing as a problem. And it is nonetheless difficult, but it surely’s not the identical.”
Hansen continued, “I have been there, executed that, and now I need to spend extra time with my household, my spouse, have a look at all of the years and a long time that she’s given up for me ready. It is received to go the opposite approach, and so that you see issues in another way, that is all.”
The most recent season of “Deadliest Catch” premiered Friday. (Discovery Channel)
The Norwegian-American has weathered numerous storms and private well being scares throughout his time on “Deadliest Catch,” together with a coronary heart assault in 2016 and the emotional toll of shedding fellow fishermen through the years.
Whereas Hansen isn’t fairly prepared to hold up his boots, he defined that his priorities could also be shifting, as the decision of house is rising louder than the decision of the ocean.
“I’ll proceed to do it,” he says of captaining the Northwestern. “However retirement is clear.”
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Sig Hansen of “Deadliest Catch” beforehand informed Fox Information Digital that retaining his males secure is a problem. (Getty Photographs)
Today, Hansen has a brand new motive to remain nearer to dwelling.
“I’ve received 4 grandkids now,” he continued to share with Individuals. “I used to giggle in any respect these old-timers after they’d brag about their grandkids and discuss how that is their complete world. I am like, ‘You guys are nuts. Cannot we discuss fishing?’ And now, I am a kind of guys. Can not help it. And I adore it, I actually do.”
Within the Season 21 premiere of “Deadliest Catch,” which aired Friday, Hansen teamed up with returning captain Johnathan Hillstrand as the 2 headed to the deserted Adak Island looking for a rumored large king crab.
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Co-captaining the Time Bandit, the veteran fishermen kicked off a modern-day gold rush – however the race for the uncommon crab took a harmful flip when chaos erupted aboard the Titan Explorer and compelled Captain Jake Anderson’s crew to desert ship.
Sig Hansen mentioned he desires to place extra give attention to his household. (Getty Photographs)
Because the crews pushed into uncharted waters to safe the profitable haul, they had been met with brutal situations and harmful mechanical failures — turning the high-stakes hunt for crab right into a combat for survival.
“Deadliest Catch” airs Fridays at 8PM ET/PT on Discovery Channel.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an Leisure Author for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas might be despatched to stephanie.giang@fox.com and on Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.
