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firstdown · 02-11-2010, 11:40 AM

You just don't walk onto a boat and become a captain. You start from the very bottom and do every job on the boat before you ever get a chance to sit in the captains chair. It does help to get there maybe a little faster if your family owns the boat but they still work their way up. About the only job they don't have to work at is as the engineer/mechanic but by the time they become captains they know the boat pretty well. I believe I read he started working on boat at the age of 9 but it was not in the Bering Sea.

02-11-2010, 11:40 AM	#10
firstdown Living Legend Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: chesapeake, va Age: 61 Posts: 15,817	Re: 'Deadliest Catch' captain dies You just don't walk onto a boat and become a captain. You start from the very bottom and do every job on the boat before you ever get a chance to sit in the captains chair. It does help to get there maybe a little faster if your family owns the boat but they still work their way up. About the only job they don't have to work at is as the engineer/mechanic but by the time they become captains they know the boat pretty well. I believe I read he started working on boat at the age of 9 but it was not in the Bering Sea.