Deadliest Catch’s season 20 trailer: Bill Wichrowski, 67, is unstoppable as he fearlessly takes on the Bering Sea amid ‘aggressive’ cancer treatment
Deadliest Catch’s season 20 trailer: Bill Wichrowski, 67, is unstoppable as he fearlessly takes on the Bering Sea amid ‘aggressive’ cancer treatment
Bill Wichrowski made the brave decision to document his cancer journey on Discovery Channel’s long-running reality show, Deadliest Catch.
The latest preview for the series’ 20th season, which returns next Tuesday, begins with the crab fishermen, 67, being told by his doctor that he has prostate cancer that needs to be ‘treated aggressively.’
ater as he seemingly drives over to the hospital to receive treatment, he tells cameras that he doesn’t know how he’s going to feel, but he’s ‘here.’
‘How many people get diagnosed with this, and just shut down and crawl into a shell?’ he asked. ‘And, it just makes it worse.’
While ‘officially starting’ his cancer treatment, Wichrowski puts on a brave face as he checks in, before saying: ‘Oh, boy.’
‘The fact that I allowed the news to be broadcast, I heard from a million people, ‘I hope you’re alright,’ he recalled. ‘There saying you’re going to have all these symptoms that are going to stop you and I said, ‘There’s no way.”’
Wichrowski said he was inspired to show others that if they are battling cancer they can keep working and their lives will keep ‘moving’ along too.
‘I wasn’t going to stop, unless I had too,’ he declared.
Ultimately, the Deadliest Catch’s social media team teased that ‘cancer couldn’t conquer Bill’s spirit, or stop him from fearlessly taking on the Bering Sea.’
Under the recording, shared on X, fans of the show praised Wichrowski’s courage and sent him well-wishes on his recovery.
‘What a guy, through all the adversity he has suffered he’s just dusted himself down and got on with it, a true hero of a guy!’ one wrote.
Another tweeted: ‘Congratulations to him for never giving up.’
Sending prayers your way,’ a third added.
Wichrowski’s diagnosis was first publicly revealed on the show’s season 19 finale.
