Widowmaker Waves | Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks

The commercial fishing boat, Risky Business, was on his way across the ocean bar. But it was struck by two freak waves. Lion Bridge was nearly ripped away from the hull. That just gave me anxiety! I wish you know, welcome back to the OBX. Yes, they both had its tower and roof ripped off in freak waves while trying to cross the bar. A few days ago, the doghouse was lucky not to have the same thing happen to them. We just took 15 feet of whitewater right over top of her.

This place is just an absolute hellhole, and that bar is, you know, a Widowmaker. I mean, one bad wave, one bad decision will take you out. What do you guys think about that? I mean, am I the only one that sketches out your nightmare all over again? You ain't kidding. You have to make the right choices. If you go out there and get caught in a bad situation, it's gonna slap you in the face real quick or just idle down that way anyway.

TJ takes safety very seriously, and he doesn't want to see anybody get hurt. I 100% trust TJ with whatever decision he makes. If I get down there and look at that bar and I think that it's unsafe, or if he advises me to wait a few hours, I'm gonna wait. The bar is the transition point from the sound to the ocean. It's a sandbar where the water depth can go from deep around it to very shallow on top of it, as well as from the open ocean break on the bar.

Those waves can be treacherous, so we have to physically get across that safely without taking one of those waves over the bow. That's tuna fish in the ocean worth me blowing out my windows and destroying my boat and possibly hurting someone on my crew.