nazar: good morning, sir. joe: captain joe nazar of san francisco whale tours. nazar: come on. joe: and man's best friend. nazar: dressing bear for work. joe: on board the kitty cat. nazar: i'm just getting our vessel ready to go. joe: it's a german shepherd named bear who's learning to pull his weight. nazar: get it, bear. good boy. nazar: bear was a gift from my wife and my daughter in the year 2019. nazar: all right, i'm gonna do line 2. nazar: from the day he was on the boat, the crews have always interacted with him. they would play with him, they would throw him a rope. he would grab the lines and help me. nazar: good boy. joe: unlike most deckhands, when bear goes to work, he draws a crowd. nazar: i have a rail full of people watching me untie the boat every morning. nazar: that's all you got? nazar: it became really a lot of help during the pandemic because when we were short-staffed, how would you throw a line to yourself? nazar: all right, we gotta take people whale-watching. let's go. nazar: good morning, whale watchers. welcome aboard the kitty cat. joe: when the ki