Northwestern Captain Has To Be Put To Bed By His Crew After 48-Hour Shift I Deadliest Catch 

No wonder Sig has heart problems. He has always been my favorite captain and I wish him the best. That kind of stress on top of chain smoking is not good for a man

My longest was about 42 hours on a QRF mission that was only supposed to last a few hours, but we ended up stuck on our trucks guarding a downed MRAP with sensitive material on it for 6 days before it could be extracted (flipped on its side into an irrigation canal during an ambush while my unit was en route). It was 110-115 degrees during the day in the middle of July in Helmand province, and I got a total of maybe 8-10 hours of sleep across those 6 days. I was awake for the last 42 hours straight. I was in the turret behind a 50 cal for the 90 minute ride back to our FOB. I was so delirious I'll never forget it. It was 3 AM as our truck plodded across the unimproved roads. I was being bounced around in the turret pretty badly and hallucinated that I was actually back in the states dancing in a nightclub. It was far past the point of imagination or daydreaming, I literally believed I was in a nightclub dancing.

Done 37 hours when I was 18 harvesting. Done plenty of 24 since lambing and such, doesn't even come close to how rough I felt after that day. And at his age, he's a bloody animal.

Gotta be honest, some of the best sleep I’ve ever had was after 24-36 hour shifts. I’m usually laying in bed for hours before I can get to sleep. To just fall in, instantly go to sleep and waking up 10-12 hours later is amazing

There’s a difference between “hard work” and insanity. One should never be confused with the other.

Ambition is deadly. I did a 40+ hour shift and started hallucinating and getting dizzy. Doesn't help that I barely slept the day before. BE SMART and rest, even if its a couple hours at a time because mistakes will be made eventually

I worked in st.paul unloading these boats and i will say from what I seen of sig Hansen he is a humble and kind man to be around

I laughed at Sig Hansen around 7:36 when he said "Alright, Edgar... You win.". He toughed it out for as long as he could & finally gave up after 40-something hours.

Didn’t believe sleeping standing up was possible, until I worked 3rd shift. The worst part I remember when being up 24+ hrs was how bad my eyes would burn & my brain felt so ‘wired’ as the only way I can describe it. The sleep you get after is honestly some of the best sleep I’ve ever gotten.

I did 36 hours on a call once and when I was done I handed things over and basically walked involuntarily to my car. I should not have driven but it was only 8 miles to my bed and that was the hardest sleep I have ever had. I was OUT. This guy is a machine.

Been crab fishin 20 years worked with sig and hes a machine and straight work horse

I’m convinced there’s a lot of stimulants on this show.

It's amazing to observe how strong his focus on work.

Sleep is so important as someone who’s stayed up for 72 hours straight I can tell you the delirium and hallucinations hit so idk how he was driving the boat

These guys are beasts. Much respect.

I rewatch these shows all year every year. Love it.

As an old ER doc, I can say that by 24 hours with no sleep, your IQ goes from 140 to 120. After that, every 12 hours drops your IQ by about 10 points. At 36 hours you have auditory hallucinations, which you're supposed to work through. After 48 hours you're experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations. The next 24 hours are erased from memory. Dr. Bob All this time I was evaluating, admitting, and writing orders for care in the ICU. That's the way it used to be in Medical School! BRUTAL!!! Dr. Bob On the 3rd day the nurses found me asleep in the hall! YooHooHoo!!

48hrs is about the limit before it becomes really nasty and your head starts to play crazy tricks on you. I stayed up for 72hrs once because of nasty bacterial infection in my intestines that made impossible to sleep. All I remember from it were the crazy hallucinations about Sammy Sosa controlling an alien race of Wasabi people. The infection came from taking the wrong antibiotic prescribed by my dentist for an abscessed tooth. Thankfully I was only 20yrs old or I probably would’ve died because it was about a month before I sought medical help and the infection did a number on my body. Brush your teeth kids!

Man not only not sleeping but having back pain these man are tough cookies. I live in Seattle where alot of these boats port from and know a bunch of crab and salmon fishermen and a family that owns a few boats. They are a special group of people.

Anything beyond that any Captain going that long without sleep becomes a danger to his crew, their needs to be someone he can trust to handle the wheel house so he can sleep every so often.

I applaud Sig going 56 + hours awake. 👏 My max was 64 hour's straight. Traveling from NY to JPN that's 20 hours from the time I woke up + a 15 hour flight. Arrived in JPN had a 16 hour layover. Finally from JPN to PHP another 5 hours, landed 2 hrs for🧳, 1 hr through traffic missed local flight to town wasted another 2 hrs, hired a van service to drive 12 hrs down to my hometown.Arrived got cleaned up+ 1hr and attended a wedding + 4 hrs and finally 1 hour drive back home passed out asleep 😴 on couch when i arrived for 16 hours straight. One of best sleep I had in year's but never again.

Being that tired is a danger to his crew. He needs to have a co-captain to let him rest

I love Sig... His dedication to success is off the charts... Best damn captain in the fleet..

I've always said, "sleep deprivation is a hell of a drug." It can be as dangerous or even more dangerous than operating drunk.

Done 72hr sleep deprivation training in the military. I don’t even remember falling asleep afterwards and felt like a zombie when I woke.

I loved this show back in 2000's. True hard workers these guys are.

I’m SO obsessed with this Captain!!! 😩🔥😍😘🫠⛵️🎣🐠🙏🏼

I’ve done 36hrs tarping roofs after a bad tornado hit my home town. Anything past 24hrs you are constantly fighting yourself to stay awake. I can’t imagine pulling a 48!!!

As someone wise once say and I'm paraphrasing "The ship and crew will not benefit from the leadership from an exhausted captain"

I drove like 32 hours and by the end of it..it was really hard to see road signs on the highway..barely made it into a truck stop without falling asleep

I remember railway suburban shutdowns here in Australia we would kick off at midnight Friday and go until 0500 Monday. Somehow we found 2 nights at the pub straight after. Sig is a beast, I can't do that anymore.

I've done 36 hours in 32-38-degree heat, and 90% humidity when I was younger, I couldn't do it again now. You start to get tired and grumpy at around 16-18 hours, by around 22 hours you get a second wind and feel great, from around the 26th hour you're ready to rip someone's head off for looking at you the wrong way. The worst thing was I got 4 hours of sleep and had to do another 18 hours. When our relief crew arrived and wanted a handover I pointed at the gear, said it's all working, and goodnight. This was on an offshore drilling rig back in 2003 when they preached safety but would throw all that out the window to get the job done.

I thought he had all those health problems and nearly died and was deciding whether to go back fishing or not and now i see him smoking and pulling a double all nighter . Its in his blood for sure , that is where he is the happiest , pulling crab pots . Amazing guy . See alot of myself in him .

Ive done a 30 hour shift, well cementing. I had to drive a semi back to GP. After we got back I quit because they just wanted you to tough it out. 12-15 hours is easily doable.

I like the lullaby tunr when Sig dose off.

I was a tow boater for a while, which isn’t nearly as stressful as working on a crab boat but still dangerous, especially when you’ve been up for 48+ hours with maybe an hour nap here or there that you question if they’re helping or just making you more tired when you wake up. Defiantly not fun

I remember getting to the end of a ruck March after 2 days plus without sleep. Pure delirium. You’re so happy and goofy but the second your head rests on something boom you’re done. Those long bus rides back to base 😂

I did over 72 hours with a 2 hour nap during a particularly busy weekend of rideshare. I kept getting jobs so I kept working. Finally went home when my vision started to scroll like an old cable TV

YOU, YOU THAR. YOU ARE DE CAPTON NOW. "Collapses and passes out".

2:40 Edgar got them cross eyes going! Haha

I have insomnia and the longest i've gone without sleep is 50 hours straight. Almost crashed my car. But this guy had it worse because he's working in an intense physical environment. Can't even imagine.

Ive done 30 pulling lobster traps , it gets dangerous cause you start just turning off your mind and going through the actions. I almost rode a trap off the back just standing in front off a stack as the trawl was setting. I been trying to get on a crab boat for 10 years but its a hard circle to crack, Im getting old and worn out now, starting to think about anchor handling or some other "Light" duty work as support for offshore exploration and production in the N.Atlantic.

Sig's a beast !

My man Matt hit us with the perfect impression of Sig

I did stay up for 36 hours in boot camp. You do get second winds fairly often but its the quiet moments in between that really make it so hard

As someone who has had severe anxiety-induced insomnia that lasted 3 straight nights (and not 1 minute of sleep--not once), I can assure you that when you finally conk out, you're going to have to cycle through a couple nightmares/sleep paralysis/confused arousals before your body is ready to dive into true sleep. It's absolutely awful.

Pure beast!🔥

Sig is a legend always will be

I did crabbing one season and it's no joke. When you're on the crab you got to get them. I mostly fished halibut. It's tedious as well.

This is so dangerous! You can’t think straight after being awake for 24Hours, everything after that. Makes it more dangerous for every single hour that passes.

That dudes got some big f…..balls Respect that determination Holding the line like a boss

Dedication at its finest

Quero aqui no Brasil parabenizar todos os responsáveis por essa equipe todos. Os cinegrafistas. Sonoplastia impecável. O desempenho dos capitães e seus encarregados dessas pescarias difíceis em alto mar que é uma aventura onde participamos aí no convés de cada embarcação seja qual for o capitão da vez. Parabenizar os nossos dubladores que com vozes no nosso idioma facilita dá mais veracidade à essas aventuras de vocês pra nós aqui no BRASIL. Excelente trabalho desses rapazes filmando com chuva intensa . Neve. Ondas GIGANTES. ESTÃO lá todos nessa viagem que adoro embarcar também. Levem para o cinema . PORQUE SINCERAMENTE IRIAM GANHAR o OSCAR DE MELHOR ROTEIRO DA VIDA REAL. Porque é extasiante essas pescarias difíceis do caranguejo. Do bacalhau. E às brigas. O capitão que teve um ataque cardíaco. E sua filha como à capitã. VOCÊS TODOS São atores sem pretensões de ser mas que DÃO UM SHOW NESSES MARES. NESSAS PESCARIAS. OBRIGADA ABRAÇO APERTADO PRA TODOS VOCÊS AÍ DESSE LADO DO MUNDO. DESSA FÃ DE VOCÊS.

This is an older episode. Both edger, and Jake Anderson are aboard. 48h at the wheel. That's dedication. It's dangerous too. But they pull crazy hours all the time fishing. We just don't see it.

God bless and be safe out there everyone.

5:35 lmao that guy had one too many uppers

I stay awake 3 days straight and took off driving as a truck driver I drove for 30mins and started seeing cartoon like families crossing the road it was INSANE.. NEVER Attempted again

The longest I've ever made it was 58 hours.... it took me 3 full days to feel normal after that and I was 19.... can only imagine how he feels

Man every captain pushes his body to a breaking point

That’s a real man. No complaints at all wow

Man, I've always loved Sig, mans needs to start thinking about his health. You only get so many times you can stay up for two days straight on adrenaline, cigarettes and caffeine. I dunno how old this episode is, but I hope he's not still doing this

48 hrs puts crew in danger. Imagine doing that as a truck driver. I'm surprised the Coast Guard allows this nonsense.

Bro honestly I hate that feeling when you can not sleep but you know you need it. Then it hits 48 hrs and it scares you. Good his crew had his back.

My buddy was on a crab boat that was down 2 deckhands and he worked 72 hours straight at a point. Crab fishermen are just built different

Sig needs to take care of his health

Longest I ever did was 32 watching my dying mom in an emergency ward

Without a doubt..he is the MAN..

When you sacrifice one thing you get blessed with something else

Best boat i was on actually gave you 4 hours every 20...or when running to gear, of course...back when trips were 18-24 days long and seasons lasted for months. Some stretches were 30 plus with starts and fits between gear and such.

This headline is hilarious

Worked a 60 hour shift one time at my job and by hour 50-55 every time I blinked it felt like my eyes were going to explode

What a stud of a captain. I guarantee sig would go down with it and not think twice.

Props to the camera crew, apparently they were awake longer than the Captain ⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓⚓

Not by any means as bad, but felt the need to share. Used to work four jobs in kitchens, and the only sleep I got was on the bus home. I recall being at a specific BBQ joint and feeling like I was floating.

I just woke up. Now I want to go back to bed after watching this.

Many times as a FF/Paramedic I found my Mac was 32-37 no sleep. I actually had to sleep at the station before driving home. No complaints here as I chose that career and when your doing something you love and believe in it’s worth it.

It isn't "focus" that keeps crab fisherman awake. Lol.

To all captains and crew! Take a 4 hour nap 😴 everyday to stay on the top of your game!Its way to dangerous to be up for days on end with no sleep 🛌 Be safe 🎣👍🏻

I love those gloves in the winter.

Good job

Oh yea he was about to start seeing shadow people he was gone 🤣

I would start seeing things (hallucinate) after 72 hours ! And I have actually fallen asleep while steering a Navy Carrier ! We were in Black Out Conditions while slipping through the Panama Canal Had to tell the CO that I was no longer to stay awake .. the Boxer LPH4.

Well said John stamps 31. He’s my fave too.

I just know that sleep was hittin soooo good 😫

This is some old school stuff right here. One of my favorite crews.

This show has been pretty transparent about the money these guys make for the amount of time they’re actually on the boat but it’s got to be more, much more otherwise they’re just abusing themselves for no reason. There’s hard work and a strong work ethic and then there’s stupid and dangerous

used to watch this ten yeas ago,,,,glad to see this guy is still alive. Chain smoking people don't usually see 60.

Hauled Turbot gear 36 hrs straight quite a few years ago, he’s a tough skipper.

Got to believe there was some nose candy involved in Sig's MI. These captains take every advantage they can get. And they can afford it.

I'm not ashamed to admit I would not be cut out to do this work. Unless I get 8hrs of sleep a night I might have a chance 😂

Edgar was one of the coolest deckhands.

I have issues staying up for 12 hours these guys are badass

Sig is a robot! Jst needed a recharge!! I love jewellery and I've always been curious about sigs Solid Gold & blue watch if anyone can expand on maybe a maker or anything! I've tried to find pictures of it or of him close enough I could see it but no cigar!

Was once up for 72 HR straight. Was in Iraq and we had a mission come down that was time dependent so we had to grind for about a week. After that second day, I was audibly hallucinating, sounded like someone turning the dial on an FM radio back and forth, felt fine besides that lol.

Sig feels like real life version of Robert Duvall's character from Apocalypse Now lol

I’ve worked super long hours in all kinds of weather and it gets weird. Seeing things that aren’t there wanting to give up but you have others lives in your hands losing track of what day it is forgetting when you last ate. Having to remind your body that you Brian is in charge . I couldn’t imagine doing all that and being on a boat !

I never had a problem with 48 hour shifts, it was anything of 72 hours and more than really screws with your brain function. It is like living in a blur and feels almost like your brain is drowning.

I'm curious what the coast guard has to say about captians operating in that fashion. 48 hrs straight is legal? truck drivers can't operate for more than like 14 max with all special provisions and then they are forced to take a break. when are they going to require boat captians to comply to such rules? I can't see that being safe for the crew having a captian nodding off in those seas. if an emergency happened, a captain that tired wouldn't be able to respond properly in my opinion. they say driving tired is as dangerous as driving drunk. where is the safety protocols for stuff like this???

After 2 weeks of 16 hour shifts out there you will start falling asleep on your feet and the strangest dreams will blend together with the waking illusions.

Ahh seeing the shadows that aren’t there, get some great sleep after that lol😂. Miss those days