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

Sig Hansen, the captain of the Northwestern, refuses to go to bed, even after pulling a 48-hour shift. He is starting to struggle, and the crew decides it's in everyone's best interests that their captain gets some much-needed rest.

From season 11 episode 1.

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[johnstamos]

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

[Kreege]

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.

[neilhatch]

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.

[Malkumecks]

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

[MikeLaRock]

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

[ChMMPBoi]

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

[justinupshaw]

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

[jamesmilburn]

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.

[tthomaselli]

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.

[katdog]

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

[robertgoodwin]

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!!

[KBarron]

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.

[LudiCrust.]

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!

[frogsplease]

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

[mountainbiker]

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

[dominicpaoletta]

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

[TheRespectful]

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

[paulreza]

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.

[alje]

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.

[critter]

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