captain caution
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a word of' captain caution' ,
john a. tures .
the war of 1912 magazine ,
issue 14, october 2010 .
the nickname of' captain caution' is given to dan marvin by a frustrated corunna, because he won' t commit to a relationship with her .
: created by ron smith. captain caution' s one and only comic strip was published as an a4 public information flier to highlight to children the dangers of playing on railway tracks .
, the legendary caveman adventure featuring mature as a prehistoric warrior in animal skins battling dinosaurs. dan is branded with the
captain caution
nickname by a bitter corunna, but caution aside, mature was definitely cast for his beefy physique and he gets to brawl with the best of them as a two - fisted american patriot .
when a ship'''' s captain dies at war, his daughter takes command .
1812, headed home to maine from the orient, handsome sailor dan (victor mature) not quite sure what to do with the captain' s daughter corunna (louise platt), her father (robert barrat) intruding as an unknown ship approaches, early in the low - rent hal roach swashbuckler captain caution, 1940. >
captain sean lays down the law on the brenna a after becoming frustrated with the bullying of a veteran deckhand .
i love kenneth roberts' historical fiction. arundel, rabble in arms, and oliver wiswell are among the best novels ever written about the revolutionary war. , captain caution is not in their league, but is a quick and entertaining read and a fun adventure .
with sig now off the boat, it' s up to captain edgar hansen to finish out opilio season strong .
having taken her dead father' s ship back from british captors, vengeful yankee corunna (louise platt) taking command with support from mercenary slade (bruce cabot), sailors george lloyd, j. pat o' malley and especially victor mature as
marvin ,
not happy, in captain caution, 1940 .
having taken her dead father' s ship back from british captors, vengeful yankee corunna (louise platt) taking command with support from mercenary slade (bruce cabot), sailors george lloyd, j. pat o' malley and especially victor mature as
marvin ,
not happy, in captain caution, 1940. >
, based on the kenneth roberts novel
captain caution, a chronicle of arundel ,
was the third of such projects. the film plays on the history of sailors and ships who aided the american navy in the war of 1812 by serving as privateers, a mix of private contractor and pirate preying upon enemy ships with the blessing of the government. like the earlier
here' s a little oddity... a comic strip issued as an a4 flyer by british rail warning youngsters of the dangers of playing on railway lines. along the lines of the green cross code man, the br campaign features captain caution, drawn by ron smith. i believe this was published in may 1986, at which time smith was drawing judge dredd for the
captain keith makes the decision to continue fishing during a massive storm. as a 40 - foot wave rolls over the wizard, his crew holds on for dear life .
jake anderson has been on deadliest catch for 11 years and we' ve seen quite a transformation. the young captain looks back at his journey in this exclusive interview .
: when school pupils billy and paul trespassed on the railway lines for a lark and nearly got hit by a train as a result, captain caution spotted them and swooped down in the nick of time, snatching them from the path of the oncoming vehicle and averting a tragedy. he then lectured the pair on the dangers of trespassing on railway lines, and escorted them off british rail property .
it was all right, but the main guy seems a bit wooden, lifeless. the french captain is far more lively. perhaps that is for contrast. in fact almost all of the other characters seems a lot more alive than captain caution himself. the sailing facts seem to be a little off as well. i don' t know who would ship long 24 pounders in the bow. long nine pounders where the preferred chase guns. that' s a mere quibble though. i' m fairly certain that the
gangway pendulum
was actually developed by the brit
in the midst of the war of 1812, a british frigate fires upon a peaceful, unwitting mercantile ship. in the attack, the trader' s captain is killed and the british take the surviving crew prisoner, including sailor dan marvin (victor mature) and the late captain' s willful daughter corunna dorman (louise platt). in captivity, marvin and corunna form an uneasy alliance and, along with the other prisoners, plot an escape. their goal: reclaim their ship and avenge the murder of their captain .
it is 1812 and america has declared war on britain. the american ship olive branch is waylaid by a british cruiser. captain dorman is killed, and his crew is taken prisoner, including the captain' s pretty and strong - willed daughter, corunna. widely recognized for his careful attention to historical details, kenneth roberts portrays the bravery of american seamen, their suf
a featured captain since season six, “wild” bill wichrowski has piloted two boats on the show, including his current cape caution. with his prominent mane of white hair and occasionally fiery relationship with his deckhand and son zack larson, wichrowski has become one of the show’s most beloved curmudgeons. the a. v. club talked to him about the show’s filming process, life at sea, and the difficulties of landing a good greenhorn .
hal roach stretching out away from doing just comedies producing a b - swashbuckler with a pretty good cast and solid action. what made captain caution (1940) for me was bruce cabot' s sleazy villain. an early starring part for victor mature as the so - called good guy, but he was so serious and emotional it was it was difficult to warm up to the character. the film also does have period where it' s not very thrilling, but for a independent production it' s quite good .
it is 1812 and america has declared war on britain. the american ship olive branch is waylaid by a british cruiser. captain dorman is killed, and his crew is taken prisoner, including the captain' s pretty and strong - willed daughter, corunna. widely recognized for his careful attention to historical details, kenneth roberts portrays the bravery of american seamen, their sufferings in the mist - shrouded walls of dartmoor prison, the invention of the gangway pendulum, and the sailors' dangerous and dramatic escape .
the deadliest catch captains aren' t so sure this will be johnathan' s last season, despite what the time bandit captain is claiming. one thing' s for sure though: they' re all going to miss him when he does retire .
thanks to my entertainment world, it looks like january 8, 2018 will be the official start of production for the captain marvel film. while this hasn' t been confirmed by marvel, it falls in line with the necessary time table for the movie .
it is 1812 and america has declared war on britain. the american ship olive branch is waylaid by a british cruiser. captain dorman is killed, and his crew is taken prisoner, including the captain' s pretty and strong - willed daughter, corunna. widely recognized for his careful attention to historical details, kenneth roberts portrays the bravery of american seamen, their sufferings in the mist - shrouded walls of dartmoor prison, the invention of the gangway pendulum, and the sailors' dangerous and dramatic escape. genre: historical
we have elliott [ neese ] who is a young captain but has years of experience—not all of it good—but to see what’s happening with him, i’m amazed he doesn’t have more problems with insurance companies. josh [ harris ], he’s happy - go - lucky, not a real knowledge of anything mechanical on the boat. and what happens is that if something goes wrong on the boat, you can have the best engineer on the boat with you, but all in all, if things really hit the fan and you’re looking at loss of vessel and loss of life, everyone’s looking at the wheelhouse. you need to be able to make that decision to save these guys and a lot of these guys are so far from that point, it’s unbelievable. and they want to jump up and down and call themselves captain and it’s kind of scary, really. i wonder what’s going to happen to the industry down the road .
bw: you know, that’s a big step. up in alaska we’re trying to work on the boat so he can gain more of a mechanical background. you see these young kids and for some reason, all of a sudden, someone says, “okay, you’re the captain” and well, they’re not. you have people’s lives at stake. politically, i don’t want to get involved in this one, but it takes years of being an expert before entering the wheelhouse and a lot of them shouldn’t .
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music (original score) - leigh harline, paul j. smith, ned washington
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i love the historical novels written by kenneth roberts, starting with arundel as my favourite. this is the second book by him which i have read and is an altogether different setting with the same ingredients that make it an enjoyable and quick read. in my opinion arundel is superior in both its story and historical content while this book is great fun for any maritime enthusiast with an interest in the circumstances surrounding the war of 1812 .
not my fave from roberts, his characters were a bit derivative (esp the frenchman and the black fighter, little white) that said, it was the 30' s. his nautical knowledge and sailing terms were, however exemplary - making the book worth reading and keeping for reference .
this is the final volume in kenneth roberts' arundel series. it is not the best of series, but i recommend it highly. roberts had a unique way of presenting history in the novel form. the book was written in 1934 and its language is a bit archaic. the other books in the series are more exciting and describe the revolutionary war in the far north of america and canada .
oliver wiswell
takes a unique perspective on the american struggle because it approaches history from the viewpoint of a britis
the book is small by roberts standards. it has many strengths and is fairly under rated. often when reading kenneth roberts the lead is the weakest part of the book. the exceptions are in arundel, northwest passage and this book. the lead in this book is excellent and the side kick is pretty good. many people beat this book up unfairly in the reviews. one should judge this book on its own merits and not by the impossible standards of rabble in arms or northwest passage. word of warning after page
the book is small by roberts standards. it has many strengths and is fairly under rated. often when reading kenneth roberts the lead is the weakest part of the book. the exceptions are in arundel, northwest passage and this book. the lead in this book is excellent and the side kick is pretty good. many people beat this book up unfairly in the reviews. one should judge this book on its own merits and not by the impossible standards of rabble in arms or northwest passage. word of warning after page 100 the book picks up nicely .
how on earth could you make the naval campaign of the war of 1812 boring? the fact that i read this at the height of my age of sail kick and during my trip to san diego where i visited the navy museum and still hated it speaks volumes all these years later .
and thus i finish my 40 year quest to read all of the novels of kenneth roberts, known in his time in the 1930s to 50s as america' s greatest historical novelist. his novels can be read today with pleasure. this book is about the war of 1812 .
adventure on the seas during the impressment of americans by the british. good story .
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kenneth lewis roberts (december 8, 1885 – july 21, 1957) was an american author of historical novels. roberts worked first as a journalist, becoming nationally known for his work with the saturday evening post from 1919 to 1928, and then as a popular novelist. born in kennebunk, maine, roberts specialized in regionalist historical fiction. he often wrote about his native state and its terrain, als
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. once aboard the ship, corunna appoints the brash slade first mate and orders the ship to france, where she seeks papers from the american consul that would commission the ship to fight against the british and enable her to avenge the death of her father. upon docking in france, slade betrays corunna by making a deal with the british to capture the ship and turn it over to him. while corunna meets ashore with the american consul, the british board the ship and sail away with its crew. afterward, the distraught corunna meets slade, who tells her that marvin turned the ship over to the english and convinces her to sail away with him. meanwhile, marvin and the crew are held prisoner aboard a british ship, where he devises an escape plan. while marvin distracts the soldiers by fighting a boxing match with a brute, the crew escape and commandeer a pleasure yacht. marvin then convinces the british commander to sail the yacht after corunna and the
. corunna discovers slade' s treachery when he fires upon the unarmed yacht, but marvin remains undeterred, and in a scathing sea battle, he and his men take control of the ship. with slade brought to justice, corunna discovers her misjudgment of marvin, and the lovers sail for home .
a great movie from a robert' s historical novel... too bad it' s black & white. . try and find a bit part by a then nobody alan ladd... . .
i remember seeing this movie in the late 40' s and the acting was superb. hope you could salvage it and put it on a dvd. please let me know. thank you ...
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this 1934 novel is a part of the classic arundel series. the action scenes and the depiction of life on board privateers during the 1812 - 1814 era ring true, based on my reading of other novels and non - fiction histories. just two cavils: the portrayal of the frenchman is overdone to the point of being a caricature, and the general theme is quite sexist: whether that is a reflection of the author' s views, a reflection of the mores of the early 19th century, or the 1930s, i leave to the reader. the novel is readable and has stood the test of time .
i had to look up some of the nautical terms, but the story caught me and kept my full interest while i read it. it is a good example of the excellent historical fiction of kenneth roberts, one of my very favorite authors .
i' m a great kenneth roberts fan. this was another in his fine books. very readable and holds your interest, as well as providing a flavor of early americana .
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saga deck boss hannes accidentally gets his hand caught in the bay freezer door. the gruesome result could put him out of action for the rest of the season .
before the quota system was put into place, bering sea crab captains used to have a set number of days where they were allowed to catch as many crab as they could. it wasn' t only wilder - it was dangerous !
sig finds out that the f / v destination and the six men aboard have gone missing on the bering sea .
after receiving a distress signal from the f / v destination, the u. s. coast guard rushes to the scene to investigate .
the deadliest catch gives one final salute - time bandit style! - to johnathan hillstrand as he ends his final season .
sig checks in with johnathan to wish him luck on his last opilio string ever .
while tying up the pots at the top of the stack, saga deckhand luce takes a nasty fall all the way down to the deck .
the number 414 has a special meaning for the dwyer family - it' s sean' s dad' s birthday and was also the time he passed away. will it bring any luck to the brenna a ?
wild bill suspects that one of his crew members isn' t taking his job seriously after a major mishap on deck .
after sig feels pain in his sides again, the decision is made to take him off the northwestern and fly him back to anchorage for further testing .
something' s up with this string: wizard deck hand roger schlosstein keeps getting snake bit by the block. is it a coincidence or just bad luck ?
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when her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the british during the war of 1812 .
every film that has ever been nominated for an academy award in any category. enjoy !
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. roach had built his studio on silent comedies, starting with a series of shorts starring harold lloyd and growing to include will rogers, charley chase, thelma todd, zasu pitts, the long - running
our gang
shorts, and the fortuitous (and extremely profitable pairing) of two longtime silent comics who became legendary as the team laurel and hardy .
with the coming of sound, he focused more on features than shorts and expanded his repertoire, adding low - budget adventures to his slate of comedies .
( 1940), the spectacle of sea battles were created with special effects, specifically detailed miniatures in a tank, while the sailor brawls and boarding raids play out on sets safely on dry land .
with no stars left in his stable by 1940, roach groomed his own leading man .
filling out the cast is a roster of colorful character actors. the spirited leo carrillo, usually relegated to outsized latino roles and mexican characters (including pancho in the fifties tv series
), plays the french canadian lucien with a flamboyant accent and plenty of comic commentary. former vaudeville comic el brendel brings his smiling swede schtick to the role of the ship' s resident character and troubadour with his heavy dialect and broken english. completing the rainbow coalition of international character types is j. pat o' malley, who made the jump from british music hall singer to recording artist to actor in a small bit as a fish peddler. it was the first of over two hundred movie, tv, and stage roles for the popular character actor, including memorable voices in such disney features as
( 1933). and you can spot alan ladd in a small but memorable role as a desperate, wild - eyed prisoner who goes mad with revenge in the final act. in just a couple of years, ladd would break out of bit parts and supporting roles with
cast: victor mature (daniel marvin), louise platt (corunna dorman), leo carillo (lucien argandeau), bruce cabot (lehrman slade), robert barrat (capt. dorman), vivienne osborne (victorine argandeau) .
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when corunna is playing her piano in the opening scene she hits the wrong notes. she seems to miss the notes with her right hand, which would indicate a higher - sounding note, though the sound heard is a bass (lower) note .
in entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling tv shows to organizing music festival lineups. while the public sees the end product on tvs, movie screens, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get there. in expert witness, the a. v. club talks to industry insiders about the actual business of entertainment in hopes of shedding some light on how the pop - culture sausage gets made .
now in its tenth season, deadliest catch has become one of the discovery channel’s best and most respected reality series. currently airing in over 200 countries, the show follows (and everyone should already know this, because everyone’s seen deadliest catch) a number of different fishing boat captains and their crews as they hit the bering sea in search of both alaskan king and opilio crab, as well as the occasional bairdi .
bill wichrowski: we were all kind of skeptical in the beginning about hooking up [ with discovery ] except for a few. sig [ hansen ] jumped right on the bandwagon and keith [ colburn ] was not far behind. then a few other guys got on the bandwagon, but just didn’t hold interest. but as time went on, i stayed in touch with my buddies up there since i was working out of costa rica and mexico. i could see how this thing was growing and the notoriety was growing and when the economy took a dip, i decided to get a hold of discovery to see if they had room for me .
bw: originally, there were upward of 300 boats, but they changed the format of the season from a derby to a quota system. it’s kind of a lengthy explanation, but they gave everybody a percentage of the catch over the history of your performance and now the quota that’s given to you can be transferred to other boats so you can stack it up. so now, you’ve gone from over 300 boats with five or six guys on each boat to… we’re down to under 100 boats. i think last season there might have been 78 boats that participated. don’t quote me on that number, but it’s less than 100 .
bw: yeah. the state takes your catch history because it’s all documented over the years and then they arbitrarily pick a certain number of years, like this time they did seven. then, out of that, you could take your five best years and that’s how they developed the percentile for the quotas. your percentile is applied against the quota and that’s what you get to catch. but in my case, one year i was on a boat that sank so i lost out on my quota years, so i only ended up with four years. it’s all scientific, mathematic, and controlled by the government .
bw: right. last year we didn’t get to fish blue king, all we got was red king. there’s also a brown king fishery that doesn’t get a lot of press, but that runs a lot longer than the red or the blue king, but that’s just a small number of boats that participate in that and it’s not on the show .
we also got to fish some bairdi. it’s a fishery where the numbers aren’t that great, and we’ve been out of production for a while, because we exploited the industry a few years ago and, consequently, the season was closed for quite a few years and the market kind of went away. so it’s like an opilio on steroids. a big bairdi can be two and a half pounds, but a big opilio is about 1. 1 pounds, so it’s twice the size and you get a lot more bang for your buck. it’s actually one of my favorite crabs to eat .
anyway, in october we do king crab, and at the same time, bairdi is open so you can elect to do your bairdi before king crab or after. the same is true with the bairdi in the second half of the season. it’s open at the same as the opis, but a lot of the guys get the opis out of the way and get the bairdi at the end .
the last couple of years with the ice situation, we ended up fishing a lot longer than we ever had. last year, on our particular boat we basically went from the end of september until the beginning of october, took a short break for the holidays and christmas, and then we finished up in the beginning of march .
bw: i have a home in mexico, but i’ve slept in my bed 12 days since christmas .
bw: i’m on the road. i’ve been doing fundraisers, nascar events, fishing tournaments. i just did a wounded warrior thing. we took 14 wounded warriors from the phoenix area and took them swordfishing. now i’m on my way to daytona beach tomorrow for a nascar event and i’ve got a few other fishing tournaments coming up. i hand out the big cardboard checks sometimes, and sometimes i fish .
bw: there are other fisheries involved. there’s herring tendering where you take the boat and go around to the seiners and the gill netters and you collect their herring and weigh it and keep it cold so it stays fresh and then you take it to a processor. they do the same thing with salmon .
last year was my 36th or 37th year on the boat. for 30 years, i did all of it for nine or 10 months; some years i did it for 10 and a half months. i’m kind of over that. i don’t need to do that supplemental stuff. i’m trying to live life a little more, but i am sick of airports. i think i’ve been in 15 cities since march and it’s wearing a guy out .
bw: it’s hard enough on deck without a camera. you see our guys getting bounced around on deck and they have their full peripheral vision and they’re supposed to be trained professionals. then you put these film crew guys on there and they’re stumbling around looking through a view finder and it’s amazing that these guys don’t get banged up more .
there are two guys here shooting. there’s one on the deck, in addition to the four crew members there, and then there’s also a guy in the wheelhouse 100 percent of the time. the guy in the wheelhouse has a better vision of what’s happening on deck and he’s usually the senior guy so he orchestrates how things go with his deck shooter. there are also up to four fixed cameras in the wheelhouse and two to three fixed cameras on the deck. every shooter carries a camera with them and then there are the gopros. these guys have gotten so creative and innovative and that’s how the bar for the show has been raised—because they use this portable little camera to get some pretty amazing shots: hook shots, shots going over the side, inside the crab tanks. the camera guys have really stepped up and i think that’s why the interest in the show is still so high .
bw: everybody’s different. some of these guys refuse to sleep when you’re awake and then there are other ones that like their sleep .
we have six cameras, so there’s going to be some record of what happened. there’s a camera focused on me all of the time, there’s a camera focused on areas on the deck at all times, and those cameras are rolling, so there’s going to be some recollection. but there’s something to be said for having that guy there that knows what he’s looking at and is going to get the right angles and the right lighting and ask questions and get right in the heat of it .
over the years i’ve had guys that are just there 100 percent of the time and i’ve had some that weren’t. everybody is different and everybody has a different level of how seriously they do it. it varies. a lot of boats get a lot of airtime and part of it is material and part of it is the drive of the camera guy. the last few seasons we’ve had great guys .
bw: they basically participate with us. they eat with us, they sleep with us. we’re not uncivil, so we’ll ask if anyone has any kind of strict meds or can’t eat certain things. we check it out just as we would with our own crew .
many of them have flexibility to where they can go down and make themselves something quick in between when our guys do. if you watch the show, especially on my boat, eating is of a high priority, though it comes few and far between. a lot of times the camera guys will make themselves something real quick. i’ve had guys that make meals or they’ve made sandwiches and took them out on deck .
bw: he’s always asking what’s going on. if an event is happening on deck, he’ll obviously see my reaction and he’ll ask questions and it can be tied into the show .
in the first season it’s strange, because there’s never anybody in the wheelhouse. and actually, after the last season, i’ve really gotten to enjoy having somebody up there. i’d say 85 percent of the guys i had ended up being buddies. the guy we had last season has been trying to get down to mexico so we can swordfish and we stay in touch all the time. we actually spend more time with the cameramen on the boat than we do with our own families, if you think about it. you’re with them 24 / 7 essentially for five or five and a half months and you don’t see your own family that much. so you either grow to really like these guys or not; it’s one way or the other .
avc: the past few seasons, discovery will also have somebody with the coast guard. when something goes down with the coast guard that the show is going to cover, the captains will oftentimes be listening in on the radio. are you told to do that ?
bw: it depends. if it’s a dangerous situation with another boat, we’re always monitoring to see if we can give some assistance. we also want to know if there’s anyone around here, because you’re going to want them to look out for you. so 90 percent of the time, we’re already aware of it. but every once in a while, we’ll get the news through the phones or communications or the internet that, say, there’s a boat way out west and it’s on fire. and it’s something that the public wants to see and it’s an additional danger on the ocean so what they’ll do is alert us of it and once they alert us of it, we’re aware of it .
avc: you’ve had notoriously bad luck with greenhorns, even though some of the guys have come from other commercial fishermen jobs. do you think the show has made it so that more people want to fish crab or has shown how real it is and that it’s actually dangerous ?
bw: that’s probably one of the best questions we’ve had so far. you would think with the realism of the show that people would realize this is a job that 90 percent of guys fail at. but i had one guy from down south that bothered me for two years for a job, said he was an ex - marine, said he was an ex - commercial fisherman in the gulf, and both things should have been perfect intros to being a good deckhand. he worked on sport boats, as have i, which means he should pay attention to detail, because sport boats are valuable vessels and you have to keep them clean and shined up and perfect. so i thought this guy would be perfect and potentially could have been one of the best guys we ever had, but he ended up actually being one of the worst .
what the show has done is created an effect where people come up to me and say, “oh, i want to just try this once. ” well, we’re not looking for someone to buy a ticket and go for a ride for 20 minutes and get off and say, “i rode that ride. ” we want guys that are going to stick it out. one of the questions i always ask is when someone will ask me for a job, i’ll say, “i don’t have a job on my boat, but i have some buddies that aren’t on the show that have boats. would you be interested? ” and if they turn their noses up, i’ll know right then that the only thing they want to do is be on a damn tv show, and i won’t give them the time of day. someone really needs to have the motivation and the drive to do this and to want to come up. if someone wants us to give them a ticket and take the ride so they can say they did this one year, we don’t want anything to do with those guys .
avc: you want guys that’ll fish cod as much as they’ll fish crab on tv .
bw: exactly. you want someone who wants to have it as a career .
what’s funny is the best guys are the ones that are really on their last legs; guys that don’t have a family business to go back to. if a guy is engaged to be married, he’s the worst one to get, because he’s going to be sad and he’s going to be lonely from leaving his girl at home. the question i ask is if they’re happily married; if they say yes, i say, “stay that way. don’t go fishing. ” if you have a girlfriend and you’re like, “yeah, we’re talking about getting married, ” well go find something else to do. don’t come up here; stay away .
the other thing is if they’re part of a family business. because if someone has something else to fall back on, as soon as this job gets to be too much to handle, they know they have something to fall back on and they’re out the door and ready to leave. so i always try to find out if they have something to go back to, like if their dad has a concrete business or are they carpenters or something, because if they have an out, they’ll take it. basically, you want to find a guy that’s desperate and he’s going to get through this no matter what it takes. they’re so hard to find .
the allure of being on the show has made it really crazy. i’m on the road all the time. like i said, i’ve done 15 cities since march and i get the greenhorn question everywhere i go. and i spend time in the south where it’s warm and the southeast and the southwest, too, and those are the worst guys, because they’ve never been around the cold. i tell them to go sit in a meatpacking plant for two days straight and have someone come in there about every 20 minutes and throw a glass of ice water in their face and then call me. and they’ll say, “well that sounds silly” and i’ll tell them it’s not far from what we do. you’ve never seen snow and you’re telling me you’re going to go out on the boat in the cold and have your beard freeze into your mustache and your nostrils freeze together when you inhale? and people get mad, too. they’re like, “how do you know i’m not going to make it? ” well, i’ve only done it for 37 years and it’s about a 10 percent success rate. i think i’ve got about a 90 percent chance that you’re not going to make it, ding - a - ling .
avc: the show obviously documents the rough conditions, but it doesn’t show the length of it all—the show can’t realistically document a 30 - hour grind or the pain that comes from the repetitive motion of bending over and picking up bait all day; it can’t convey that stuff, really .
bw: that’s what i tell people. they’re like, “is it as bad as it looks? ” and i tell them, “no, it’s worse. ” you can’t show cold on tv. it looks cold, but you can’t feel how cold that is. you don’t see the 30 hours where all we did was haul pots. discovery shows really bad pots and really good pots, but they don’t show the middle - of - the - road stuff, because who cares about average? they want to see someone be a zero or a hero. so if you’re just on so - so fishing and nothing’s going on, it goes on for hours and hours and days and days and you’re not going to see them. they don’t get that part of it; all they see are these exciting moments on the show and all this craziness and they think that it’s always this pinnacle of activity and, a lot of times, it’s just a hard grind in lousy conditions .
what do the hillstrands say? “it’s like being in jail with a chance of drowning. ”
bw: oh, i’ve known all of these guys. i’ve been fishing longer than anyone on the show, i think. johnathan [ hillstrand ] started really early at like 14 or 15, and i think he’s within a year of me, but as far as the guys on the show, i’ve got more years experience than all of them .
andy [ hillstrand ] and i were fishing partners. we did tinder herring together. it was a really aggressive form of tendering and we had the best equipment, so he and i made a ton of money and had a great time and we set up our boats quicker than anybody. we’d raft up and harpoon for days at a time and barbecue and shoot clay pigeons and it was a lot of fun .
i’ve known sig for years. sig’s been sig, he’s a hardcore guy and my hat’s off to him; he’s a great guy .
avc: deadliest catch shows you making a ton of money, but crab fishing isn’t cheap. you can answer this to the extent you want, but how much is a crab boat and how much are you spending a season? like how much is a gallon of gas? is marine gas more expensive and how much gas do you use ?
bw: i’ll put it this way: i started 35 or 37 years ago or whatever it was, and i made more money on the deck than i do in the wheelhouse now. the government is coming in. i think 27 percent of it is taxes and fees off the top. the cost of fuel has gone up astronomically, the cost of insurance is through the roof, the cost of steel to make the pots is higher, the lines are more, the bait is more—they used to be in the teens, now they’re 65 cents, squid is 90 cents. the cost of crab hasn’t come up to the same level as all the things it takes to catch it.
captain caution is a 1940 american adventure film directed by richard wallace set during the war of 1812 . the film stars victor mature , bruce cabot and alan ladd . it was based on the novel of the same name by kenneth roberts . elmer a. raguse was nominated for an academy award for sound recording . 
captain caution is a 1940 american adventure film directed by richard wallace set during the war of 1812. the film stars victor mature, bruce cabot and alan ladd. it was based on the novel of the same name by kenneth roberts. elmer a. raguse was nominated for an academy award for sound recording.
captain caution is a 1940 american adventure film directed by richard wallace set during the war of 1812. the film stars victor mature, bruce cabot and alan ladd. it was based on the novel of the same name by kenneth roberts. elmer a. raguse was nominated for an academy award for sound recording.