Deadliest Catch

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<p>Deadliest Catch- Fishing for Alaskan crab in the Bering Sea…</p>

<p>I am hooked on this show (Discovery Channel). Anyone else watch it? My dad told me about it and at first I thought, “Who’d wanna watch a show about people catching crabs??” But I am FASCINATED.</p>

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<p>My kids hve been enormous fans of this for a couple years now–when they’re around, and it’s on, I always get sucked in.</p>

<p>I agree, totally fascinating.</p>

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<p>“Don’t go crab fishing if there’s a warrant out for your arrest.” </p>

<p>Love it. In this era of shifting TeeVee schedules, it’s the only one I actually remember – 9pm on Tuesdays. </p>

<p>Personally, I figure I’d last about two hours on deck. I’m more of a captain type.</p>

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<p>They say it’s very lucrative. I wonder how much those guys make. Tough job though.</p>

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<p>I did go see A Perfect Storm although it was a little tough to watch, I had, had friends who worked crab boats/fishing boats and in that movie Mark Wahlbergs character looked just like one of them.
[Too many names](<a href=“http://www.seattlefishermensmemorial.org/index.html”>http://www.seattlefishermensmemorial.org/index.html&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

<p>( Thankfully, my friends escaped unscathed- relatively, although I do know families who haven’t)
I would recommend both the book and the movie though- very well written and the background info about how Walhberg prepared for his role really impressed me.
I think I must have seen a documentary about how they made it.
( Plus George Clooney :slight_smile: )</p>

<p>( captains go down with the ship washdad)</p>

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<p>EK–on deadliest catch, it’s not usually the ship going down, it’s deckhands going down, or more usually, just enduring miserable conditions. </p>

<p>I’m with Washdad.:)</p>

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<p>Is this on cable?
We dont’ have cable- but I think I would rather own a boat than work on one.
D will probably end up owning one if she continues in marine bio- hopefully not as rough conditions as what the fishermen go through- although she doesn’t have a sense of smell so at least the combination of sealife/unwashed bodies, won’t bother her as much</p>

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<p>We love this show! But I do get a little seasick watching it…lol! I’m afraid I’d be like the Captain’s wife hunkered over the toilet. Did anyone see the episode where Blake(?) was rail dumping crab and then came up short? Karma on the Bering Sea??</p>

<p>[Also our entire family is addicted to THC Modern Marvels. Just watched a fascinating show on machine guns, of all things. (I guess I should own up to the fact that I’m a Sheffield Vickers and the Vickers gun was featured…lol!)]</p>

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<p>Agree, it is a great show. Completely entranced watching it. Years ago, we had a friend’s brother who worked on one of those boats. He was hit in the back with an extremely heavy wench and ended up paraplegic. Very sad. Very dangerous job. Wild characters!</p>

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<p>The deckhands on the boats they’ve been following on the show make from about $15,000 to $38,000 per season, and each television season follows two crab seasons: king crab in November and opilio, and bairdi Tanner crabs in January. So, deckhands on the top boats make about $75,000 for the six month crab season, even though they may not work that long if their boat catches its limit earlier. Crab quotas are assigned to boats, which then have the length of a season to catch it. Bristol Bay red king crab, for example, had a 3-month season which started Oct. 15, 2006. </p>

<p>I’m sure you fans of the show will appreciate this map of the king crab species distribution in Bering Sea: <a href=“http://www.fishermansexpress.com/map-bering-sea3.jpg[/url]”>http://www.fishermansexpress.com/map-bering-sea3.jpg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

<p>More than you probably want to know about crab abundance and distribution in the eastern Bering Sea: <a href=“Alaska”>Alaska;

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<p>Did anyone see them eating the fish hearts? That turned my stomach. The poor guy, he swallows and then says, “I can still feel it beating.” EEEEEWW.</p>

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<p>S loves this show and just introduced us to it this past week now that hes home for the summer.Pretty addicting watching.
No women on the boats,I noticed…</p>

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<p>We love the show. My H is 6th or 7th generation Californian, and his family is littered with the tough characters presented–lot’s of frontiersmen and merchant mariners. The one relative that worked in Alaska on fishingboats was later killed in Vietnam. </p>

<p>My H, who recounts his adventures fly fishing in Alaska with his father thought he might also head to Alaska to work the boats after his Dad abandoned the family and took away any hopes of my husband going to college. His best friend went, but my H was needed to help support his mom and his developmentally disabled brother.</p>

<p>Though my H had no qualms with his responsibilities to his family at the time, he now watches with a wishful longing of what he viewed as his young man’s adventure. He’s made a successful life for himself in business, but there’s something about the show that captures his imagination.</p>

<p>I can’t convince him that a lovely Alaskan cruise might fill the void.</p>

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<p>No, there is a woman on one of the boats. She’s the captain’s wife.</p>

<p>p.s. while I do watch Deadliest Catch occasionally, it’s on at the same time as Dog the Bounty Hunter! (I watch the reruns of D.C.)</p>

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<p>Another good one for those who like the genre…The History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers”. New season about to premiere…should be good.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=54710&display_order=1&mini_id=54692[/url]”>http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=54710&display_order=1&mini_id=54692&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I also love these reality shows. Perhaps as a culture we’ve grown a bit weary of goofball sitcoms with losers, and want to see some REAL MEN work for a living. I get tired just watching those guys work the crab boats.</p>

<p>My grandparents were farmers, and for some reason I’m glad to see that some people continue to work the land/sea to the point of exhaustion and falling asleep on their feet. Restores my faith. Not sure why, but it does.</p>

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<p>Oh I love this show</p>

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<p>One of the best things on tv. Watching though makes me hungry. I’m going to go broke trying different crab cake recipies. Dear, we’re out of Old Bay again…</p>

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<p>I’ve never seen the show, but I’m definitely going to watch it. </p>

<p>I thought this article was very interesting…

<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/13/century.old.whale.ap/index.html[/url]”>http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/13/century.old.whale.ap/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>This is a great show. I ordered the DVD from Discovery Channel. Also ordered the Navy Seals one for a friend’s birthday and it was a big hit.</p>