- And really, we were able to socialize with real fishermen.

It was like being surrounded by a bunch of Popeyes, how they walked, how they talked, how they behaved.

There was like fist fights in the bars.

It was a dangerous job out in the fishing boat.

They get up at two o'clock in the morning, and when they get off work they go to the bar at 10 o'clock in the morning.

And really, even the costume affected my signing.

And so with the thick, rubber gloves and all of the tools that they have to use, and there were some signs in ASL that didn't exist for some of this fishing equipment, so we had to develop almost a fisherman sign language and develop these gestures for what tools to use, and then when our gloves came off we could go back to adapting to ASL with our hands without these thick, rubber gloves.

So we had to adapt to this environment.

And when you get off the boat, you don't quite, you have your sea legs, but you feel like the ground is moving beneath you as you're walking on land.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for these hard working fishermen, and my hat's off to them.