How Deadliest Catch Navigates a Deadly Pandemic (w/ Captain Sig Hansen)
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Captain Sig Hansen from “Deadliest Catch” discusses the surprising ways the coronavirus pandemic made the world’s most dangerous job even harder. Then, you’ll learn about our moon’s comet-like tail that collides with Earth every month.
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The moon has a comet-like tail and it collides with the Earth each month by Grant Currin
- The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth. (2021). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/science/moon-tail-beam.html
- Baumgardner, J., Luettgen, S., Schmidt, C., Mayyasi, M., Smith, S., Martinis, C., Wroten, J., Moore, L., & Mendillo, M. (2021). Long‐Term Observations and Physical Processes in the Moon’s Extended Sodium Tail. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020je006671
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, Captain Sig Hansen from Deadliest Catch, we'll discuss the surprising ways the coronavirus pandemic |
| 0:14.3 | has made the world's most dangerous job even harder. Then you'll learn about our |
| 0:18.7 | Moon's comet-like tail and what it looks like when it collides with Earth. |
| 0:22.3 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. and what it looks like when it collides with Earth. |
| 0:23.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.6 | The coronavirus pandemic has affected everything, even things you wouldn't expect. |
| 0:32.3 | Like get this, the virus is so deadly |
| 0:35.4 | that even folks with some of the world's deadliest jobs |
| 0:39.1 | don't want to mess with it. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm talking about the crabfishers of Deadliest Catch on Discovery. |
| 0:45.0 | The newest season premiered just a couple weeks ago and the season was filmed during the pandemic. |
| 0:51.0 | And today Deadliest Catches Captain Sig Hansen will tell us about the many |
| 0:55.1 | surprising ways that COVID-19 gave them a run for their money and teach us about |
| 1:00.4 | sustainability in the process. |
| 1:03.0 | You know, we were looking at the preview of this season, |
| 1:05.0 | and it says it's been a tough year for everybody, |
| 1:08.0 | especially for the crabbing fleet, |
| 1:10.0 | because due to government imposed lockdowns, |
| 1:12.9 | Alaska Department of Fish and Game |
| 1:14.6 | weren't able to conduct their summer crab survey. |
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