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'Deadliest Catch' Capt. Sig Hansen: The bigger the boat, the bigger the ego
NEW YORK – Discovery’s hit show “Deadliest Catch” is hitting the high seas for its eleventh season. Captain Sig Hansen and deckhand Jake Anderson spoke to FOX411 about why a big ego is mandatory to run a ship, and what it takes to be initiated on a boat -- and it's not appetizing.
FOX411: Why do you think the audience has been so loyal to this show?
Sig Hansen: A lot of guys live vicariously through us because they’re 9-5. My job number one, I’m the boss, I love it! I can work as hard as I want as long as I want and I think a lot of guys are weekend warriors and love to get into that scene. So for me it’s pretty nice.
FOX411: You went from being captain of a ship to being a celebrity. Has the impacted your ego?
Hansen: Every captain has a big ego because you have to have it to be a winner. You got to go get ‘em. I still believe that I’m humble in a sense. I love my wife. I love my life and my family but when you get out on the ocean you have to be aggressive.
Jake Anderson: You’ll see that a lot.
FOX411: Jake, you left the Northwestern and then you came back. How has that transition been?
Anderson: I think what gets confused is that I left to run a boat, so I thought. I didn’t leave to be a deckhand anywhere else. The only place I would want to work on deck is for him. It’s great over there and coming back it was really rough, and I struggled ever since to regain my confidence and my ego, which was shattered, so it’s been tough, but I’m going to keep fighting. And I think at the end of this people will see that I will accomplish my goal someday.
FOX411: Jake, you had a fisherman eat a raw fish lit on fire with brake fluid. Is this an initiation thing?
Anderson: First, it was microwaved, and the young man is a fisherman who comes from a fishing family, so I knew biting the head off of a herring wasn’t going to be that crazy for him. Traditions are really important to us on the Northwestern. I couldn’t make it easy for him, the whole idea is to make the guy puke.
"Deadliest Catch" premieres Tuesday April 14th on Discovery.
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