![]() We just started walking away from each other just tearing, and then he left a salt stain in the room of the outline of his body, and I locked the door, and we didn't go in there for over a year. We just - we couldn't even look at each other. We're two and a half hours from the harbor, and we got him in, and they pronounced him dead when we got to the harbor. We got him to breathe like twice, and he died in the stateroom. I got mad because we practice this all the time, how to pull a guy out of the water, and we have a guy in a survival suit with a life sling on, and we have our boat ready with our crane ready.Īnd I swooped in just as he'd drowned, and he took that breath of water into his lungs and it just cooled him. The boat that was trying to rescue him dropped him a couple of times, and I said, heave haw. ![]() He could have gotten into his survival suit. MARTIN: You illustrate that really well in this particular story about the fishing vessel, the Troika. HILLSTRAND: You know, we're very competitive in fishing, but when it comes to that, you don't even think about it because it could be you in the water. HILLSTRAND: It could be your archenemy, and you'll still save them. MARTIN: Even though you may feel so isolated at times for long stretches, you are part of a community, and you're really dependent on one another when you're out there, because you can be out there and the only - if you get in trouble, the only person who's going to come help you is another crabber, or another fisherman out there. If your heart drops below 86 degree Fahrenheit, you die. It keeps the water off your body, and the 38-degree water is what takes your life from you. HILLSTRAND: It's like a wetsuit, but it keeps you totally dry. MARTIN: Explain what that survival suit is. HILLSTRAND: And if you don't get in your survival suit, you're going to die within five minutes. HILLSTRAND: It can be 38 degrees to 34 degrees, and when it gets really cold, it'll freeze over. HILLSTRAND: If we go in that water for five minutes, we're going to die from hypothermia. Being in the water, that's what scares us. I mean, even down to the element that you spend so much time in water itself, right? MARTIN: I mean, so much of this book - you come away with it thinking this is truly one of the most dangerous jobs there is. HILLSTRAND: You start hearing the slapping on the boat instead of just a little lapping on the boat. HILLSTRAND: You're going to get hit by a big wave. HILLSTRAND: You can feel the wind starting to blow, and man you know something. HILLSTRAND: There's a scraping sound, or. MARTIN: And when is - are there sounds that you hear them and you think that's it, that is a bad sound, I do not want to hear that sound? A HILLSTRAND: It's something bad is coming. HILLSTRAND: You might say, why is it too quiet? But we're used to hearing loud sounds all the time, so when you hear the laughing of the hull, it's not like you're in the harbor tied up just sleeping like a baby. You know, and I was helpless with no radios, so I'm just floating out, and then getting flushed out into the Bering Sea, up by the Bering Islands, which Captain Cook named as - deemed as the second-worst spot to navigate in the world, and he sailed everywhere, you know. HILLSTRAND: It was so calm, and the quiet, it was scary. So, we want to start out talking about this scene that - really, the book is anchored around this episode when, Johnathan, you get stranded after the engine of your boat blows up, and based on this particular scene in the book it sounds like there's this tension between the fear of silence, and the fear of sound. JOHNATHAN HILLSTRAND (Co-Author, "Time Bandit"): Glad to be here. ANDY HILLSTRAND (Co-Author, "Time Bandit"): Thanks, thanks for having us. The New York Post called that show, "the one reality show where someone is almost guaranteed to die each season." Now, the Hillstrand brothers have a book out about their adventures called "Time Bandit," and Johnathan and Andy join me in the studio now. They have one of the deadliest jobs in the world, Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand are crab fishermen in the Bering Strait, and you may have seen them on the Discovery Channel's "The Deadliest Catch." By all accounts, really, they should probably just be dead by now. Our next guests shouldn't even really be here.
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