The gap between the responsibilities assigned to the crab catching deckhands of a boat, compared to those of the captain, is as wide as the Bearing Sea, itself. When it comes to brothers Sig and Edgar Hansen, this positional set-up has been working for them since 2005, when their vessel, Northwestern, began being featured on “Deadliest Catch.” For Edgar, his responsibilities include hauling 700-pound pots, dodging freezing waves, and sorting crab into the tanks. For Sig, he gets to work the long hours in a heated cabin, sitting on a comfortable chair. But, Edgar explains how this set-up doesn’t cause any sort of sibling rivalry.
Edgar knows he’s put in enough time to take a go at the captain’s chair, whenever he wants to. However, that transition would go against the instinctive feelings he has inside. “It’s just that some guys are meant to run and some guys are meant to be the grunts. I think I work a lot better in the trenches, that’s where my heart’s at,” he said. Not only is Edgar’s heart connected to the painstaking hours on deck, but also to the coworkers who experience it with him.
Edgar revealed, in an interview with Mike Fourtner, that a certain connection with fellow deckhands cannot be achieved from the room hoisted above. “You can be buddy-buddy with your crewmates, and then once you come up into the wheelhouse, now they take that for granted,” he said. Edgar may very well choose to take the reins during a full crab season for the Northwestern one day, that is, if he doesn’t retire first. “I’m either ready to step up or step off. I’m not sure which.”
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