Career
Hansen started as a deckhand on his father's boat before his teenage years, working his way up the ranks and proving himself to be a capable and steady presence at sea. At age 22, he became a “relief skipper”, relieving other captains on the Northwestern, as well as doing short-haul stints on other boats in the fleet.
By age 24, he began running the Northwestern full time and over the years, the Northwestern has become a top producer with an excellent safety record; the Northwestern has never had a single death at sea in the nearly 20 years Hansen has been at its helm, and its serious injury rate is significantly lower than other boats in the Bering Sea fleet as well. In 2005 for King Crab and 2006 for Opilio The Northwestern won the final derby seasons taking home the titles for both the highest poundage caught and the highest dollars earned between the featured boats in the Deadliest Catch.
As of 2011, Sig Hansen serves as the full-time captain during king and opilio crab seasons, as well as the pot cod fishery on the Northwestern. His younger brothers, Edgar and Norman, are deck boss and deckhand, respectively.
In March 2010, Hansen became a published author with the release of his book (co-written with Mark Sundeen), North By Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters, which reached the bestseller lists of the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
On April 29, 2010, Hansen was a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. During the show, he expressed his desire to be a contestant on the next season of the hit ABC reality television series Dancing with the Stars. Leno's staff set up a Facebook page to gather support for Hansen to be selected to appear on the show. In September 2010, Hansen announced he would not be returning for the seventh season of Deadliest Catch. However, on October 8 it was announced that Hansen would return to the show.
He provided the voice of a boat named Crabby (modeled after The Northwestern herself) in the Disney Pixar film Cars 2.
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