Every Alaskan king crab season, brother Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand risk their lives and seek fortunes upon the treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. Sons of a hard-bitten, highly successful fisherman, and born with brine in their blood, the Hillstrand boys couldn't imagine a life without a swaying deck underfoot and a harvest of mighty king crabs waiting to be pulled from the ocean floor. In pursuit of their daily catch, the brothers brave ice floes and heavy waves sixty feet high, the perils of thousand-pound steel traps thrown about by the punishing wind, and the constant menace of the open, hungry water--epitomized in the chorus of a haunting sailor's sing-along: "Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep, so beware, beware."

Their first-person accounts matter-of-factly explain what it's like to constantly face death on the Bering Sea and what it does to your life back on land."
-- Rochester Democrat and Chronicle