TUESDAY, AUG. 25
Aug 13, 2020
1 minute
—Kate Hahn
Deadliest Catch
8/7c, Discovery
Rogue waves. Supermoon tides. A cyclonic snowstorm. These conditions are a Bering Sea captain’s nightmare. Add in a, the vessel he’s lovingly rebuilt. The rough-and-ready skipper must make the crucial repair, but with it comes the risk of capsizing in freezing water. Still haunted by the tragic New Year’s Eve sinking of fellow crab boat , all hands braced for the worst. “Everyone was ready to abandon ship,” Anderson reports. How they survive makes for gripping TV. “If I hadn’t learned welding and fabrication from the rebuild, the boat would have sank,” he says. “We got lucky.”
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