World’s Deadliest Catch – Season 7, Episode 14
Onboard the ‘Seabrooke’
[Show beginning of episode to introduce the series, then jump fwd to ‘The Seabrooke” just after min 11:00]
Vocabulary (Preview)
Gear = equipment, stuff, things
Set (your sights) on = try to achieve, aim for
Big numbers = many, a large number of (in this case, a large number of crab)
Flake out on someone = to not do what you said you would do, to quit
On deck = on the top of the boat
Pulled this (stunt/game) = did this kind of thing, played this kind of game – pretended there was a problem
Pulled muscle = injured, strained, sprained, hurt – usually a minor injury, not serious
Torn = cut, ripped, injured badly
Triumphant return – successful return to work
Charge him up = give energy, ‘charge a battery,’ or a cheerleader ‘charges up’ the fans at a football game.
Sense of pride = feeling of honor, self-respect, wanting to do something so you feel good about yourself
Report = verb meaning to come and present yourself to a superior officer, like in the military ‘report for duty’
Really going on – really happening, the truth
Come clean = tell the truth
Work through it / Push through the pain / Suck it up = continue work even though you have a painful injury
Freakin(g) = adj. used to emphasize, ‘!!!!’ (in place of adj. ‘fucking’)
Dead serious = really serious, 100% honest
Episode: The Seabrooke (read the script first together)
Announcer:435 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor is the 109-foot Seabrooke.
Skipper: There’s a 450, 500 plus. [He’s talking about how many crabs there are]
Announcer: Captain Scott Campbell Junior has set his gear on big numbers. But the skipper’s in no mood to celebrate thanks to his brother, Chris “Whipper” Welch.
Skipper: Short-handed on the deck, and lots of crab on ______. Whipper flaked out on me.
I was trying to teach him some work ethic and you know, give him an opportunity that very few
people had.
Announcer: 36 hours ago …
Skipper: (answers phone) Yo.
Whipper: My stomach is killing me.
Skipper: If you pull this on me and you go home because of that you can never come back to this ______.
Hmm, no Whipper on deck. He was perfectly fine until he had a phone conversation with his
______and it really upset him – whatever it was; I don’t know the particulars. And
uh, he told me that his stomach was hurting him again. The last time he pulled this there was
nothing wrong with him. A pulled stomach muscle - apparent pulled stomach muscle – let’s get
this clear. Whether he’s going to make a triumphant return I have no idea.
Worker: I don’t know what’s gonna to happen. Junior will try to charge him up I’m sure, work on his
sense of pride. See if that can get him back out here.
Skipper: Wipper! Report to the wheelhouse.
Worker: A lot of times when guys make up their minds to ______, there’s no getting em (them) out of it. They just – when they’re done, they’re done.
Skipper: I wanna know what’s really going on. I don’t want to hear about your stomach, I want to know what’s really going on. I want you to come clean, tell me exactly what it is – what is really going on?
Wipper: That’s what’s really going on.
Skipper: Whipper, how in a 12 hour period you all of a sudden now your stomach hurts so bad that you felt that you couldn’t work?
Wipper: Dude, ______.
Skipper: A pulled stomach muscle is not something that you can’t not work through (you can work through it)
Whipper: It was not pulled – it was torn.
Skipper: A torn stomach muscle you can work through. For !@# sakes, these guys got torn muscles left
and right. Do you realize what kind of a situation you’re putting yourself into? How are you
going to put food on the table for ______? That’s what I want to know. You know what I had to do when I was hurting like you? I had to push through the pain so my family could #%$#! survive. You have a family now Whip. Have you thought about that?
Wipper: Yes, I’ve been ______that.
Skipper: Well okay, I would say that would be a good enough indicator (means reason) to provide for
your family to push through a little pain and suck it up. That’s part of fishing. What else are you
going to do? You’re an uneducated man. There’s no work for ______people right now.
It’s a tough deal. I worked through a freakin blown shoulder. A freakin missing digit. You’re
tough when it comes to physical pain. You’ve got something mental that’s making your physical
seem worse. And you’re not coming clean with me Whip.
Whipper: Dude, I’m dead serious. I’m not even @#! with you. If I didn’t want to be here I would have
said something.
Skipper: Okay, so what are you ______?
Whipper: Push through it. I plan on going out there.
Skipper: I would say that’s probably a pretty good decision there Whip.
All these guys are hurtin just as bad as he is. It’s just, you know, he’s gotta understand that he’s
no different than anybody else. He’s still gotta go out there, he’s still gotta perform ______.
If there’s not a bone sticking out – suck it up and deal with it, you know…
Whipper: My brother thinks I wanna go home. That there’s something going on ..
Worker: ______back.
[Time: about 15:45]
Part 2: [just after 22:00 into video]
Announcer: 180 miles from Saint Paul Harbor is the 109 foot Seabrooke
Worker:These crab are big – what we’re looking for. I mean, It doesn’t get much better than that.
Announcer: The crew is in ______- stretch”. Hauling their final 15 pots, before heading in to offload.
The skipper's brother, Whip, is still complaining of ______pain.
Skipper: How's it goin Whip?
Whip: It @%! sucks right now to be me. It's gettin pretty bad right now. It feels like I'm going to explode.
Skipper: Every time he’s gone over a month, something like this happens. I mean, I don't like to be $#@! at all, but you know, I mean it’s not an easy job out there, you know. At times everybody has their breaking point where they try and look for an excuse to you know, bail out.
Whip: Every time I take a piss, every time I bend down, it’s getting bad.
Skipper: Usually guys do it when the fishing’s ______, not when the fishing’s like this.
Announcer: After the final pod of the trip is sorted, [we are done, we’re headed to town]
The crew heads inside.
Whip: I need to know what’s going on because your mind is a ______miles from being on the boat
right now. Something’s going on at home, and if you need to go deal with it then, let’s get it dealt with and you know . . . I mean, I just . . .
[Stop the video and discuss it]
Discussion
1. Do you think you would like to do a job like this? Why or why not? What if the money were really good?
2. What do you think Whip's problem is? Is it physical or mental?
3. What kinds of problems would be really bad if they happened on a boat like this? How do you think people are taken off the boat in case of an emergency?
Now, watch the next couple minutes of the video [til about 25:20] and discuss these questions:
1. What does Whip's brother (the skipper) mean when he tells Whip “your mind's not in the game” ?
2. What does the skipper think will happen to Whip if his mind is “not in the game” ?
3. In the end, what does Whip admit is the real problem? Who in the class was right?
4. How is Whip going to get off the boat?