The Deadliest Catch!

[excel]

I don't know what Phil will do to him but you can bet that there will be pay back, and it will go WAY beyond just welding one pot shut!!!

I hope you are right. Would love to see it. He screwed a lot of people when he did that.

[excel]

I read some story somewhere about the camera men? Might have posted it. Yes, they are risking it just doing that. Must be exciting though to get those wave shots and expessions.

[atout]

Excel - stopping by to say hi!
Not specifically addicted to Deadliest Catch show but very often tuned to Discovery Channel and Travel Channel among others from the Discovery Communications networks. All the best with the board.

[mimurray]

That show was a trip. When he was on the chopper and telling what happened that guy had to sit right next to one of his friends that had passed. You could tell he was in shock because the way he was talking about his friend was like he wasn't even dead.

It must be one hell of an adrenalin rush to live life right on the edge like those guys do. IMO they don't get paid enough for what they do!!!

[the green mile]

yeah the episode where that ship went down with one survivor was crazy..

[mimurray]

I can only imagine what was going thru Phil's mind when he was listening in on the radio and he heard Blake telling Corky about that fishing spot. As far as I know they haven't had a face to face yet, at least not on the show, I did hear Phil call Blake a bush league skipper a couple of episodes after that incident so he is clearly pissed.

What makes it even worse is the Maverick and the Cornelia Marie are sister ships. That is a relationship that Phil and Rick have cultivated over the years and by Blake acting like such a jerk who knows what kind of strain it will put on that situation. I'm sure Phil and Rick will still be best of friends but Blake is going to skipper that boat for the Opie seasons and that could make for a pretty awkward relationship between the Maverick and the CM during that season.

I just can't believe what a bone head move he pulled. As a rookie skipper he should have been very humble with the other skippers. Instead he took this attitude like "I'm gonna show them what I can do". The ironic thing is with the exception of one string of pots, all the fishing spots Blake got were given to him from other skippers. He then turns around and acts like he's gonna show the whole fleet just how good he is.

I don't know what Phil will do to him but you can bet that there will be pay back, and it will go WAY beyond just welding one pot shut!!!

[Lex_Luthor]

If this don't beat all! What a great show: too bad there isn't a consortium of these guys listed in the pinks! Yeah, I've watched the show from day 1 too! and of course OCC was on before or after or somewhere close. Discovery Channel really got on the map with those 2 shows.

I have always wondered about the cameramen and how much they get paid. I mean hell, the risk life too, but I guess they do in IRAQ, but still seems pay would be fairly good. Food's not bad. I wonder how much crab they eat on the way back. LOL!

O/T Anyone ever cook crab on a Bar-B-Q pit?

[excel]

LOL! I hear ya there.

[excel]

i'll never look and alaskan crab the same i'll tell you that.

I think a lot of us have that same thought now after watching that show. At least we know now.

[excel]

Mimurray. I agree completely. That guy imo should be glad he wasn't tossed off the dock. Phil handled it a bit better then I probably would. I probably would have welded about ten pots shut to begin with. That cockiness is going to cost him big time in the future. You know if I was his deck hands and I found out he did that I'd round up the deck hands and have every one take a few shots to the jaw at him. He took money out of their pocket. And hurt their future earnings.
I can't stand people like him.

[Minddoc7]

Being in my 50's, I never thought being in your 40's was old until I saw that rookie 40 year old ( last season? ) try his hand at crabbing. Heck, I was sore the next day just from watching him on the show!!!

P.S. Thanks for the board. It's comforting knowing that I'm not alone with my addiction!

[the green mile]

i live in anchorage, ak and i must say that show is crazy! i watch it and hear about the crew dying n stuff..now wonder they go for 12.99-19.99 per pound! i'll never look and alaskan crab the same i'll tell you that.

[mimurray]

excel...that would be Blake, that rookie punk. I couldn't believe it when he gave up that "honey hole" spot that Phil told him about. And even when Phil told him to keep his yap shut about it, no more than a couple hours later he's spillin' the beans to another skipper.

Then he kept going on and on about winning the captains bet for catching the most crab per pot for the first 100 thousand pounds. Saying I'm gonna win them 9 bones. It was poetic justice for betraying Phils confidence when he made the 5000 pound error on their catch when they were totaling up at the off load. And they rail dumped 5000 pounds of crab because they thought they were over quota!!! How ironic. THAT was karma biting him in the ass for being a punk. But then OF COURSE, he took the money for the error out of the deck hands pay!!! What a jerk!!

If anything he should be REALLY humble the first couple years about getting advice from the seasoned skippers. Instead he chose to act like a jerk about the whole deal. I'm still waitin' to see if him and Phil have a little "face to face" about that butt head move Blake made.

Suffice it to say I love the show, and don't care much for Blake. His actions have been REALLY cocky at a time when he should be very GRATEFUL for any help the seasoned guys will give him.

[XV19]

haha :) Nice board :)

[excel]

LOL!

[upbeatmofool]

I'm there yesterday.I gots to have in my belly,somehow,somewhere,some crabs.My jones concerning oceanic decopods is now all consuming.I plan to leave my wife and familily resultant in pursuit of my personal love of crab.

[excel]

We rented a vacation house on Puget Sound a few summers back. You could wade out there and pick up all the crabs you wanted. After four days of crab meals it actually got old. Lot of fun grabbing them and hunting for them. Family had a blast.
We took the small boat they had there and stuck an electric motor on it. The tides were scary. LOL!
I lost two pots the tides were to strong.
That was before we discovered you could wade out there and grab them standing up. LOL!

[upbeatmofool]

I am amending my previous post concerning the lengths that I would go to eats me some crab...I would also willinly give up a kidney or some other non-vital organ to get me some crabs...

[upbeatmofool]

DAMMIT..I GOTS TO HAVE ME SOME CRABS!!!!!!!!!!!.....I am craving them.I gots to have them.

[excel]

Sure do get a new appreciation for why it costs what it does.

[upbeatmofool]

Everytime I watch that damned show,I am compelled to consume prodigious quantities of them sea spiders.They are the equivilant of gastronomic heroin.I prepare a concoction of butter,fresh chopped basil,and ginger,and dip they legs into it, and reach gustatory nirvana...I'd ride them boats,to be sure.I'd take the chance,but I doubt I'd ever eat another crab leg afterword.

[Billy9565]

lol, no doubt, with your life on the line

[excel]

The lure of 'Deadliest Catch'
(DISCOVERY CHANNEL)
April 3, 2007

Brothers Sig and Edgar Hansen have been Alaskan crab fishermen for most of their lives. It's only recently that they've become celebrities -- featured players on the Discovery Channel reality hit "Deadliest Catch," which begins its third season at 9 tonight. The skipper and deck boss of the Northwestern came to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center last month to speak and sign autographs at the International Boston Seafood Show. Between cigarette breaks, they joined us for a chat.



Q What made you first decide to do the show?

Sig: We did it because of our family's heritage. Fourth generation and all that. Our dad is a pioneer of the crab industry, so we thought it was kind of like a tribute.


Q How did other fishermen react?

Sig: Friends that I've known for 20 years turned their backs to me. We said, "It's good for industry, you know? Don't worry about it. We're not going to do anything stupid on television. We're just going to be professional."

Q By now, do you think people in the industry have come around?

Sig: Absolutely. Now they see the flip side, what we predicted. The benefit.


Q You guys seem to have a little bit of sibling rivalry. What was your dynamic growing up?

Sig: It wasn't the kissy-huggy family.

Edgar: Yeah, it wasn't "I love you! Merry Christmas!"

Sig: And then think about it -- your dad's got three boys, he's not exactly going to be all kissy-huggy with you, either, if he's going to train you to be fishermen. And then when [Edgar] started fishing, I had already progressed to the wheelhouse at a young age. So then I can't favor him because he's family, so then he got it worse. Basically, I was telling the rest of the crew, just treat him like [expletive]. Make him feel at home.

Q (To Edgar) And did you feel at home?

Edgar: No. Not for three years. I was pretty much a fish out of water.


Q Did you ever consider doing something different? Not fishing?

Edgar: No . . . just waiting for Psycho Sig to settle down


Q Somehow on TV, you guys look like giants. In real life . . .

Edgar: It's all camera angles

Sig: It's a Tom Cruise thing. I've had women go, "You look so much taller on TV." And my comment is, "You don't have to be big to fish. Sorry. You've got to have heart." I get that a lot, man.


Q I didn't mean it badly! It's just because it all looks so physically hard . . .

Sig: I've got friends that are skippers, they've had guys who are ex-military, big giant guys, [who] bawl out crying. They can't do it anymore. You've got to have it in your head if you want to fish like that.

Q Have you gotten used to public speaking?

Sig: No. Not at all.



Q Is that the reason for the cigarettes?

Sig: (Nods, then starts to interview himself.) Do you smoke a lot? Yes. Today? Three. Do you smoke more when you're fishing? Yes. Are you going to quit? Yes. We got hypnotized last week. It lasted for three days.

[excel]

KILLER CRABS
WHY 'DEADLIEST CATCH' IS TV'S MOST DANGEROUS SHOW
By DON KAPLAN


Each year, $300,000 worth of production equipment is destroyed during filming.
March 30, 2007

"DEADLIEST Catch" is the only reality show where someone is almost guaranteed to die each season.

The show follows the hardships and occasionally tragic ends of fishermen working hundreds of miles off the coast of Alaska in some of the world's most violent waters. It has been a staple on the Discovery Channel for three years.

"It's got to be the dumbest place to work in January," says executive producer Thom Beers.

"It's all about the working class guy," says Beers of both the fishermen and the camera crews he sends out to sea with them. "These are guys who go out and earn a living. What they're doing is modern-day prospecting and nature, in all its violence, is the great leveler. It's about how a working-class guy makes it rich."

The latest season starts on Tuesday.

Depending on the catch, fishermen can make nearly $10,000 in a week - or almost nothing. Little has been said, however, about the production crews who make the harrowing journey each year to film the dangers on a fleet of crab boats.

Each ship frequently battles 60-foot waves, while the crews work outside during the wild storms that toss around 1,000-lb. steel crab traps like toys and leave tons of ice clinging to the already unbalanced fishing boats.

Occasionally sleep-deprived fishermen slide off of the slick, rolling decks or worse. If someone gets their legs tangled in the ropes attached to the traps, they're instantly dragged down to the sea bottom, never to be seen again.

Statistically, each year at least one crewman who sails with the Alaska crab fleet will not be coming back. By the second episode of this season, three men are dead, killed when their boat sinks into the icy waters.


The men who film the show assume the same risks. "Normally it's guys between the ages of 25 and 30 who are looking for this great adventure and come from this pool of adventure cameramen who have been doing this sort of thing for years on shows like 'Survivor' ," says Beers. After the show was nominated for a cinematography Emmy last year, more seasoned cameramen have applied for the job.

So far, none of the cameramen have been seriously hurt, but the job is not for the fainthearted. Each season, about $250,000 to $300,000 worth of high-definition TV production equipment is destroyed by seawater and the extreme weather. Sometimes the cameras are sacrificed so that the operator can survive.

"Two years ago one of the boats caught fire [it was put out] but a few days later another one, The Big Valley, went down. Between the fire and then the loss of a ship, the guy we had on the boat that caught fire was so freaked out he locked himself in his cabin and didn't come out for eight days," says Beers.

[excel]

Billy. those guys can make a years salary in a couple of weeks.


It is kind of like watching the gold rush in fast forward. LOL!

[Billy9565]

great show, been watching since day 1, those guys can make a years salary in a couple of weeks.

[excel]

What I want to see is this one.
"After The Catch"
This should be a great series.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadliestcatch/episode/after-the-catch/after-the-catch.html

This four-part special invites the many fans of Deadliest Catch into a fishermen's bar in Seattle, Wash., where they can watch and listen to their favorite captains and deckhands tell the tales from their lives on the Bering Sea. After the Catch allows its viewers to witness these colorful characters together, on land, celebrating their exciting, dangerous and recently popular career. Sitting at the table with our heroic fishermen is Mike Rowe, friend to the crab fleet and host for After the Catch. In addition to showing footage never before seen on television, there will also be several surprise guests, including famous crab fisherman and storyteller Spike Walker, author of Coming Back Alive, Nights of Ice and Working on the Edge.

Don't miss these special episodes, Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT, starting May 29.

[excel]

Masontrend. My best boat is the CORNELIA MARIE

I like their skipper best. He is a bottom line kind of guy and he put the rookie Skipper in his place. LOL!
Here is their website.......
http://www.corneliamarie.com/

This show has done amazing things to the crews lifes.
Some are now recognized on the street.
T-shirts, hats, etc.
They are smart marketing themselves real well.

[excel]

You couldn't get me out on one of those boats trying to catch some crab in the middle of winter with those seas!

I hear you there. I'd need to be the skipper in that warm cabin with all the skills instantly put in my head by some chip because no way is this wimp going to start as a deck hand and work my way up. LOL!
From what I saw you start out baiting the pots and work your way up from there.
Oh man you must have a good back for that.

Saw a story last night on 20/20 on some girl who was working on a boat doing something similar in the Bering Sea. She was cleaning out some sort of fish grinder when a wave hit the boat and another guy hit the button to turn it on. I didn't catch the full story, but it was something like 14 hours before the coast guard helicopter could get to her and they flew to another base nearby where they transferred her to a CG plane to fly to Anchorage. Over 20 hours after the incident, she was finally into surgery. It was unfortunate she lost both of her legs but it was amazing she lived after the blood loss!

That girl if I remember correctly now lives in Edmonds Washington. The Seattle PI did a story on her.
If anyone cares to read this amazing story of survival start right here at the link below. I think you'll be amazed!

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=12821151&txt2find=boat

[TITAN]

My best boat is the CORNELIA MARIE

[jarsch501]

You couldn't get me out on one of those boats trying to catch some crab in the middle of winter with those seas! Saw a story last night on 20/20 on some girl who was working on a boat doing something similar in the Bering Sea. She was cleaning out some sort of fish grinder when a wave hit the boat and another guy hit the button to turn it on. I didn't catch the full story, but it was something like 14 hours before the coast guard helicopter could get to her and they flew to another base nearby where they transferred her to a CG plane to fly to Anchorage. Over 20 hours after the incident, she was finally into surgery. It was unfortunate she lost both of her legs but it was amazing she lived after the blood loss!

I have no problem paying the price to eat the crab if I like as they couldn't pay me enough to spend that much time in such conditions.

[excel]

Welcome to "The Deadliest Catch" board where people admit they are strangly addicted to this show! LOL!

If you have never seen the show or need to get a good fix Monday morning at 9:00 they are having a 17 hour marathon!

Are you a fan of the show? What is it that brings you back. Been doing some thinking on this.

I like to see that cocky young skipper get beat.
He radioed the location of where the crabs were after being given it by another vetern skipper who was trying to help him. Acting like a big shot he passed the info on to another skipper. They ended up welding his crab pot shut. LOL!

I think he should be glad that's all that happened to him.
Really glad!

[excel]

Discovery Channel's Emmy-nominated series Deadliest Catch returns Tuesday, April 3, for a third season of daring adventures on the high seas. Viewers once again voyage to the Bering Sea and follow the brave captains and crew of eight crab-fishing vessels as they struggle against the treacherous weather conditions doing one of the deadliest — and most lucrative — jobs in the world.

This season, which is currently being filmed as boats head out to catch opilio crab, viewers experience life above and below the Alaskan waters. Submersible cameras capture unprecedented underwater images of crabs migrating on the bottom of the Bering Sea and entering the crab pots.

In addition, footage shot from a "chase boat" shows just how diminutive these crab boats actually are in the midst of the Bering Sea. For the first time, viewers see the fishing vessels being tossed around by the high winds and rough seas. The unique angle will also offer a new perspective of the fishermen working the rails, setting and hauling the massive 800-pound crab pots as their boats fight the crashing waves.

This season, viewers will get a more in-depth look at the men who put their lives on the line in search of modern-day buried treasure — Alaskan crab.

Returning to Deadliest Catch this year are the men of the Northwestern, led by Captain Sig Hansen; Captain Phil Harris and his crew of the Cornelia Marie, including sons Jake and greenhorn Josh; Captain Johnathan Hillstrand (king crab season) and Captain Andy Hillstrand (opilio crab season) of the Time Bandit; and greenhorn Captain Blake Painter (king crab season) of the Maverick and his new hand-picked crew, along with Rick Quashnick (opilio crab season) with his wife Donna.

New to Deadliest Catch this season are the men of the Wizard, led by Captain Keith Colburn; Captain Greg Moncrief of the Farwest Leader, who is joined on board by his wife Ragnhild; Captain Allen Oakley of the Early Dawn and his crew, including greenhorn Bryan Mezich; and the crew of the Aleutian Ballad, with Captain Corky Tilley at the helm and son Matthew and daughter Nicole on deck.