Deadliest Catch season 10 begins with red crab season, and features ship captains Keith Colburn (Wizard), “Wild” Bill Wichrowski (Cape Caution), and Johnathan Hillstrand (Time Bandit).
One clip shows Hillstrand getting a hook to his face and breaking his nose.
A clip also shows the Hillstrands buckling down to catch crab. Axel pukes at the rail but sticks to his post.
Hillstrand was asked to describe the season in general.
“It’s bloody,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
“We got to see quite a few of the shows for filming “The Bait” [the captains’ pre-game roundtable airing April 22 at 8 p.m. EDT]. It’s the most blood I’ve ever seen. We were watching people gettin’ hit in the face with hooks, and it makes us laugh, because we’re that sort of weird, demented person. But then it started showin’ some of the faces with the blood, and then none of us were laughin’ at all.”
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Colburn added:
“Every year in the Bering Sea is different: One thing we do know for sure, we will never get a year in the Bering Sea that’s easy. Either we got too much ice, big storms, or just crazy crap like we had this year. A couple boats go down. There’s a bunch of helicopter rescues.”
And Wichrowsky added:
“At the end of the season, they clocked winds at the tower at 120. We were in some pretty horrific seas, and my boat’s not that big. You can fit my boat on the deck of [Colburn’s], and we took one wave that was so big, there were plates stacked in the cupboard and some of the plates in the middle broke. So they obviously went up in the air. The plate inside the microwave broke. And the [wheelhouse] door was shut, but there was so much water pressure on the door, it shot all the way across the wheelhouse like a big pressure washer. The crew comes up into the wheelhouse, and they’re lookin’ to see if you’re afraid, so you kinda go, ‘Oh, we’re all right. It’s fine. Just go downstairs.’ But it was a pretty nasty ride.”
