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The Bering Sea is a place of relentless danger, and no one knows that better than Chris Scambler, the first-time greenhorn who faced a life-threatening ordeal on Deadliest Catch Season 8. Episode 5, "Alien Abduction," marked a turning point for Scambler as he began questioning his decision to join the Wizard's crab fishing crew. Despite his pleas, Captain Keith Colburn showed no mercy, leaving Scambler no choice but to get back to work. As Season 8 of the reality series unfolds, Scambler's challenges only escalated. What started as neck pain and numbness evolved into convulsions, leading to a life-threatening medical emergency for the greenhorn.

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In last Tuesday's (May 22) episode of Discovery's "Deadliest Catch," viewers watched as a Coast Guard helicopter airlifted a 28-year-old novice deckhand -- greenhorn Chris Scambler -- from the deck of the F/V Wizard, after he collapsed with mysterious and frightening symptoms.

Tonight's (Tuesday, May 29) episode has the rest of the story.

Wizard Capt. Keith Colburn led the effort by the boat's crab-fishing crew to stabilize Scambler and made the call to bring in the Coast Guard -- and he was also in the audience watching the episode as it aired.

"I'll tell you this," Colburn tells Zap2it from Indianapolis, a couple of days before attending the Indy 500. "I don't like watching that. I watch the show because, at the end of the day, I like to fish. We start in September, we end in April, we come home, and we're happy we're home. We remember the high points,...

On last week’s Deadliest Catch, viewers watched as Wizard greenhorn Chris Scambler went into convulsions in the gear room and Capt. Keith Colburn made the decision to call the Coast Guard. In Tuesday’s episode (Discovery, 9 p.m. Et), we’ll see the actual rescue. Watch an exclusive preview below. “We train and we drill — we do all kinds of things for man overboard, abandon ship, fire drills, oil spill response drills, it goes on and on and on. We do them all the time. We don’t have a drill for evacuating a guy off the boat,” Colburn tells EW.

"Deadliest Catch" (Tue., 9 p.m. Et on Discovery) highlights the very real dangers faced by the men fishing the Bering Sea for Alaska King Crab.

Tuesday night's episode featured a medical emergency onboard the Wizard after newbie deckhand Chris Scambler collapsed and started having convulsions.

At first, the crew assumed he was suffering the effects of severe dehydration, but when he started seeing double Captain Keith Colburn realized the gravity of the situation and called the Coast Guard for a Medevac. Something that no captain ever does lightly.

"Deadliest Catch" continues on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Et on Discovery.

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"Deadliest Catch" (Tue., 9 p.m. Et on Discovery) highlights the very real dangers faced by the men fishing the Bering Sea for Alaska King Crab.

Tuesday night's episode featured a medical emergency onboard the Wizard after newbie deckhand Chris Scambler collapsed and started having convulsions.

At first, the crew assumed he was suffering the effects of severe dehydration, but when he started seeing double Captain Keith Colburn realized the gravity of the situation and called the Coast Guard for a Medevac. Something that no captain ever does lightly.

"Deadliest Catch" continues on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Et on Discovery.

TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.

Last week on Discovery’s Deadliest Catch, viewers met Chris Scambler, a young dad who took a job on the Wizard to provide for his family despite the fact that he’d never seen the ocean before, let alone the Bering Sea in a storm. Halfway through his first shift, he told Capt. Keith Colburn that he was “terrified” and the job wasn’t for him. Colburn, having seen countless exhausted greenhorns come into his wheelhouse and threaten to quit, asked Chris if that’s the example he wanted to set for his daughters. Chris, to his credit, went back on deck.