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Deadliest Catch
|Deadliest Catch
Season 9 title card
|Created by
|Thom Beers
|Narrated by
|NA: Mike Rowe
EU: Bill Petrie
|Opening theme
|"Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi
|Country of origin
|United States
|Original language(s)
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|142 (List of episodes)
|Running time
|40–45 minutes
|Production company(s)
|Original Productions
Image Entertainment
|Discovery Communications
|Original channel
|Discovery Channel
|Picture format
|1080i (HDTV)
|Original run
|April 12, 2005– present
Deadliest Catch is a reality television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and C. opilio crab fishing seasons.
The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, is the base of operations for the fishing fleet. The show's title derives from the inherent high risk of injury or death associated with the work.
Deadliest Catch premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005 and currently airs in over 150 countries. The first season consisted of ten episodes, with the finale airing on June 14, 2005. Subsequent seasons have aired on the same April to June or July schedule every year since the original 2005 season. On October 17, 2012, the ninth season of Deadliest Catch was announced. Season 9 premiered on April 16, 2013.[1]
- 1 Format
- 2 Production
- 3 Computer generated imagery
- 4 Subject matter
- 5 Theme music
- 6 Vessels
- 7 Episodes
- 8 Awards
- 9 Related extras
- 10 See also
- 11 References
- 12 External links
The series follows life on "the vast Bering Sea" aboard six crab fishing boats during two of the crab fishing seasons, the October king crab season and the January opilio crab (C. opilio; often referred to as "snow crab" or "opies") season. The show emphasizes the dangers on deck to the fishermen (and the Discovery Channel camera crews recording their work) as crews duck heavy crab pots swinging into position, maneuver hundreds of pounds of crab across a deck strewn with hazards (i. e., holding tank hatches, uneven surfaces, maintenance access plates, wet decks), and lean over the rails to position pots for launch or retrieval as gale-force winds and high waves constantly lash the deck. The series also documents the dangers of being on a boat in the Bering Sea, in the midst of some of the coldest and stormiest waters on earth, where even a minor problem may become complex with the nearest port often hundreds of miles away.
Each episode focuses on a story, situation or theme that occurs on one or more boats, while side stories delve into the backgrounds and activities of one or two crew members, particularly the "greenhorns" (rookie crew members) on several boats. The fleet's captains are featured prominently, highlighting their camaraderie with their fellow captains and relationships with their crews, as well as their competition with other boats in the hunt for crab. Common themes include friendly rivalries among the captains (particularly between Sig Hansen of the Northwestern, and Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand of the Time Bandit), the familial ties throughout the fleet (brothers Sig, Norm, and Edgar Hansen, who own the Northwestern; the Hillstrand brothers and Johnathan's son Scott on the Time Bandit; brothers Keith and Monte Colburn of the Wizard), the stresses of life on the Bering Sea, and the high burnout rate among greenhorns.
Because Alaskan crab fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, the U.S. Coast Guard rescue squads stationed at Integrated Support Command Kodiak (Kodiak, Alaska) and their outpost on St. Paul Island, near the northern end of the crab fishing grounds, are frequently shown rescuing crab boat crew members who fall victim to the harsh conditions on the Bering Sea. The USCG rescue squad was featured prominently during the episodes surrounding the loss of F/V Big Valley in January 2005, the loss of F/V Ocean Challenger in October 2006, and the loss of F/V Katmai in October 2008. Original Productions keeps a camera crew stationed with the Coast Guard during the filming of the show.
The show has no on-camera host. A narrator provides commentary connecting the storylines as the show shifts from one boat to another. Discovery Channel voice artist Mike Rowe narrates the action for North American airings; UK voice artist Bill Petrie, reading from a slightly altered script, offers a regionally familiar accent for the English speaking viewers of the show in Europe. The show transitions between boats using a mock-up radar screen that shows the positions of the boats relative to one another and to the two ends of the fishing grounds, St. Paul Island to the north and Dutch Harbor to the south.
Rowe was originally supposed to be the on-camera host as well and he appeared in taped footage as himself during the first season of shooting. As filming of the first season was nearing completion, Discovery greenlighted production on another Rowe project, Dirty Jobs, under the condition that Rowe choose only one show on which to appear on camera. As Rowe relates the story, Discovery told him that the two shows would be airing back-to-back on the same night, thus, "We can't have you telling us stories about six dead fishermen on camera and making a fart joke with your arm in a cow's ass."[2] Most of the footage Rowe shot during the first season became part of the first season's "Behind the Scenes" episode. After the third season of Deadliest Catch, Rowe began hosting a post-season behind-the-scenes miniseries entitled After the Catch, a roundtable discussion featuring the captains relating their experiences filming the preceding season's episodes. A season 3 episode of Dirty Jobs (2007-2008) saw Rowe return to Alaska to take part in a job tangentially related to the fishing industry — diesel fuel spill cleanup. Another episode that same season featured Rowe at work on board the F/V Legacy doing trawl fishing and at-sea shellfish and other seafood processing, during which Rowe made numerous references to the crab fishing of Deadliest Catch.
Changes required for parental guidance ratings[edit]
Because Deadliest Catch is essentially a filmed record of everyday life in a stressful working environment, the producers have to censor gestures and language deemed inappropriate for television audiences. For example, under the U.S. Television Ratings system, Deadliest Catch is rated TV-14 with inappropriate language ("L") as a highlighted concern.[3] For visual disguise of such items as finger gestures, bloody injuries, or non-featured crew member anonymity, the producers use the traditional pixelization or simple blurring. However, due to the sheer volume of profanities used in the course of everyday crew member conversation, the producers occasionally employ alternate methods of censoring profanities, using sound effects such as a ship's horn, the "clang" of a hatch door, or a burst of radio static in place of the traditional "bleep".
The Behind the Scenes special provided insight on how the program is produced. A two-person TV crew lives on each boat profiled. They use handheld Sony HVR-Z5U and HVR-Z7U HDV cameras to shoot most of the series (one on the main deck, one in the wheelhouse). Additional footage is provided by four stationary cameras that are permanently mounted around the ship and are constantly recording. Shots from vantage points outside the boat are accomplished through a variety of methods, including the use of a helicopter for footage near the harbor and a cameraman on a chase boat (in season 1, the main chase boat was the Time Bandit). The crew also makes use of underwater cameras, including one attached to a crab pot for a "crab's eye view" of the pot being retrieved in season 2, one mounted in the main crab tank on the Northwestern beginning in season 2, and one mounted to a submersible watercraft beginning in season 3.
Because of a lack of space on the boats, the crews do not have an audio mixer. Audio is recorded using wireless microphones worn by the fishermen and shotgun microphones attached to the cameras.
Although the equipment is carefully waterproofed, the cameras are routinely damaged by corrosion, ice and accidents.
The camera crews[edit]
Shooting episodes of Deadliest Catch is a dangerous occupation for the camera crews on board the boats. In the early seasons, when many of the camera crews had little or no experience on crab boats, they frequently ran into dangers not normally encountered when shooting a documentary. Northwestern captain Sig Hansen told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that he saved a cameraman's life during the first season, screaming at him to get out of the way just seconds before a 900-pound crab pot swinging from a crane crossed the space where the cameraman was standing.[4] In another incident, showcased on the behind the scenes special, an inattentive cameraman had his leg fall through an open hatch on the deck of one of the boats when he unwittingly stepped into the hole, suffering three broken ribs (and, according to the cameraman, having to buy a case of beer for the entire crew as per tradition on crab boats).
Film crews interacting with boat personnel[edit]
Personal and sensitive situations[edit]
Interactions between the film crew and the fishermen appear in the show occasionally. During an episode of season 4, Wizard captain Keith Colburn demanded that cameras be turned off when he got into a heated argument with his brother Monte. The cameras were turned off, but the Colburns neglected to remove their wireless mics and the subsequent exchange was recorded and featured in the episode. Also in season 4, Cornelia Marie Captain Phil Harris asked the cameraman filming him not to tell anyone else about his injuries, for fear it would stall his fishing. Later on, crew member and later acting captain Murray Gamrath, concerned for Phil's well-being, asked a cameraman to keep an eye on him and to report any problem. During season 5, the camera crew on the Northwestern were requested not to film crew member Jake Anderson being informed of his sister's death, which the camera crew honored.
The death of Captain Phil Harris[edit]
On January 29, 2010, as Original Productions' crews shot footage for season 6 of the Cornelia Marie offloading C. opilio crab at St. Paul Island, Phil Harris, who had earlier complained of being excessively tired, went to his stateroom to retrieve pain medicines and collapsed. Second-year Engineer Steve Ward discovered him on the floor of his stateroom, conscious but unable to move his left leg or his left hand. Ward immediately got Phil's sons Josh and Jake to come to his stateroom while he called for paramedics. According to Thom Beers, producer and creator of Deadliest Catch, Harris insisted that the camera crews continue to film him. "We want to remember Phil as who he was," Beers told Zap2it.com writer Kate O'Hare. "We want to remember all the dynamics, but at the same time the guy was insistent when we were doing this, saying, 'Dude, you've got to. We've got to have an end to the story [about the strength and resiliency of familial bonds, especially the father/son bond]. You want to film this, film this.'"[5] Beers said he honored Harris' wishes and continued to shoot as Harris was airlifted to Anchorage, Alaska, where doctors performed emergency brain surgery to relieve the pressure building up in the cranial vault and avoid further brain damage. Harris spent eleven days in ICU before succumbing to complications from his stroke on February 9, 2010.[5]
The Soul Rebels Brass Band performed a New Orleans style Jazz Funeral for the late Captain Phil Harris on After The Catch.[6]
Computer generated imagery[edit]
Some shots that would be difficult to capture with cameras are computer-generated imagery (CGI):
- CGI was used in the first two seasons, and again in season 5 after the sinking of the Katmai, to demonstrate how the severely cold water of the Bering Sea causes men without survival suits to drown within minutes, showing the decrease in blood flow and the gradual failure of vital organs.
- In the second episode of the first season, CGI was used to show how a crab pot works.
- In the early episodes of season 2, CGI was used to show how the overloaded deck of the Big Valley caused her to sink.
- In season 3, CGI was used to show sea lions playing with crab pot buoys, as what was believed to happen with Northwestern's crab pots before opilio season that year.
- In season 4, episode 6, CGI was used to show how the falling cable of the picking hook of the Time Bandit would have killed greenhorn Shea Long had it failed a few seconds later when a pot was attached to it.
- In season 4, episodes 9 & 10 used CGI to show how ice build-up would prove hazardous to the Coast Guard helicopter if its deicing systems failed. Also, how a rope that had fallen into the female crab release hole could get wrapped around the propellor and pull the pot across the deck, possibly crushing a man.
- In season 5, CGI was used to illustrate the sinking Katmai deploying liferafts amidst battering waves.
- In season 5, episode 8, CGI was used to show how a tarp would protect the Wizard's pots from freezing.
- In season 6, episode 6, CGI was used to illustrate the grounding of a vessel in False Pass.
- In season 6, episode 15, CGI was used to illustrate the (failing) hydraulic system on the Kodiak.
- In season 7, episode 11, CGI was used to illustrate an anchor cable snapping during deployment on the Time Bandit.
Sig Hansen, captain of the Northwestern, serves as a technical advisor to the series' producers.
On September 28, 2010, it was reported that three of the principal captains featured throughout the series' run, the brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand and Sig Hansen, would not return to the show due to litigation initiated by Discovery Communications involving the Hillstrands.[7] On October 8, 2010, it was announced that the three captains had reached an agreement with Discovery and would return for the seventh season.[8]
Subject matter[edit]
Dangers of commercial fishing[edit]
Commercial fishing has long been considered one of the most dangerous jobs in America. In 2006, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ranked commercial fishing as the job occupation with the highest fatality rate with 141.7 per 100,000, almost 75% higher than the fatality rate for pilots, flight engineers and loggers, the next most hazardous occupations.[9] However, Alaskan king crab fishing is considered even more dangerous than the average commercial fishing job, due to the conditions on the Bering Sea during the seasons they fish for crab. According to the pilot episode, the death rate during the main crab seasons averages out to nearly one fisherman per week, while the injury rate for crews on most crab boats is nearly 100% due to the severe weather conditions (frigid gales, rogue waves, ice formations on and around the boat) and the danger of working with such heavy machinery on a constantly rolling boat deck. Alaskan king crab fishing reported over 300 fatalities per 100,000 as of 2005,[10] with over 80% of those deaths caused by drowning or hypothermia.[11]
Rationalization: derby vs. quota[edit]
The series' first season was shot during the final year of the derby style king crab fishery. The subsequent seasons have been set after the change to a quota system as part of a process known as "rationalization". Under the old derby style, a large number of crews competed with each other to catch crab during a restrictive time window. Under the new Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) system, established owners, such as those shown on the series, have been given quotas which they can fill at a more relaxed pace. In theory, it is intended to be safer, which was the main rationale for the change in the fishing rules. The transition to the quota system was also expected to increase the value of crab, by limiting the market of available crab. An influx of foreign crab negated some of these gains during the 2006 season.[12] The rationalization process put many crews out of work because the owners of many small boats found their assigned quotas too small to meet operating expenses. During the first season run under the IFQ system, the fleet shrank from over 250 boats to about 89 larger boats with high quotas.[13]
Society of Fisherman[edit]
One of the series main features is the portrayal of the harsh life at sea, including the behavior and mannerism of the fisherman who are engaged in a very dangerous lifestyle with little tolerance for low performance or ineptitude. Several of the series shows have featured "greenhorn" fisherman who are usually the brunt of harsh criticism and sometimes bullying by veteran deckhands. In one case, a new fisherman entered a ship's bridge to berate his captain for what he saw as unfair comments (the fisherman was fired as soon as the ship hit port). Another filmed incident was a fight on-board the fishing vessel Wizard in which a greenhorn sailor with a week on board sucker punched a veteran fisherman who had been engaged in harassment and bullying.[14] Again, the greenhorn was fired as soon as the ship hit port, leading to mixed reactions by fans of the show.
Theme music[edit]
The opening theme for the U.S. TV airings is "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi, although this song is not used on the official DVD releases nor in the European version of the show.
Commercials for season 3 shown on the Discovery Channel family of networks featured an updated and faster version of the hit Styx song "Come Sail Away", performed by the punk rock cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Commercials for Season 7 featured the song "Ain't No Grave", by Johnny Cash.
Incidental music used in the episodes themselves is provided by Amygdala Music, a music production group run by Leslie Beers, wife of Deadliest Catch creator/producer Thom Beers.
Bruce Hanifan was credited as composer for the first seven seasons of Deadliest Catch and has also composed the incidental music for many other Thom Beers projects such as : Ice Road Truckers, Axeman, Deadliest Roads, Pitchmen, Fugitive Strike Force as well as other shows such as Swamp People, The Alaska Experiment and Ultimate Survival Alaska. The musical themes he created have been used in the show since the beginning.
In addition to incidental music, entire compositions written and performed by well-known recording artists are also added as "episode themes." An example would be the song "Always a Rebel," written, performed, and produced by folk-rock recording artist Vinnie James, at the request of the show's producer, Matt Renner, when the two met in Dutch Harbor during the filming of the 2008 season of Deadliest Catch. The song appeared as the theme track to "The Final Hour," which was the season finale for the 2008 season. Lines of the song were inspired by accounts of life on the Bering Sea by Josh Harris of the Cornelia Marie and series director of photography Zac McFarlane.[15]
The song "Between" by singer/songwriter Vienna Teng was used on a few episodes during season 2.
The final four minutes of the season 6 episode "Redemption Day" features Johnny Cash's rendition of Sheryl Crow's "Redemption Day"; the song plays over a montage of the crab vessels fighting through a massive Arctic squall and of Josh Harris sitting in a waiting room with friends as doctors struggle to revive Phil Harris, whose health has suddenly taken a turn for the worse. As Josh calls his brother Jake to deliver the news that "we lost Dad, dude", the song's final chorus—"Freedom"—repeats solemnly four times and fades out over a simple shot of the Bering Sea raging. The instrumental version of the song was used on Discovery Canada.
The show is shot aboard various fishing vessels, some of which change from season to season.
Featured fishing vessels[edit]
|Fishing Vessel
|Aleutian Ballad
|Jerry "Corky" Tilley
|2, 3.
|Arctic Dawn
|Ole Helgevold
|Big Valley1
|Gary Edwards
|1 (Opilio season)
|Jeff Weeks
|1 (Opilio season)
|Cape Caution
|Bill "Wild Bill" Wichrowski
|Cornelia Marie
|Phil Harris2
|1 (Opilio season), 2, 3, 4, 5 (start of King Crab season, Opilio Season), 6 (King Crab season, start of Opilio season); After the Catch 1, 2, 3
|Murray Gamrath
|4 (End of Opilio season), 5 (King Crab season); "After the Catch" 3
|Derrick Ray
|6 (End of Opilio season), 7 (King Crab season); After the Catch 5
|Tony Lara
|7(Opilio season)
|Early Dawn
|Allen Oakley
|Rick Fehst
|Bing Henkel
|Farwest Leader
|Greg Moncrief
|Fierce Allegiance
|Tony LaRussa3
|Pilot, 1 (King crab season)
|Harry Lewis
|5 (Opilio season); After the Catch 3
|Kiska Sea
|Mike Wilson
|9 (Opilio season)
|Bill "Wild Bill" Wichrowski
|6, 7, 8; After the Catch 5, 6
|Murray Gamrath
|Lady Alaska
|Pete Liske
|1 (Opilio season)
|Lisa Marie
|Wade Henley
|5 (King crab season)
|Lucky Lady
|Vince Shavender
|1 (King crab season)
|Rick Quashnick
|1 (Opilio season), 2, 3 (Opilio season); After the Catch 1
|Blake Painter
|3 (King crab season)
|North American
|Sten Skaar
|Sig Hansen
|Pilot, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10 (King, Opilio); "After the Catch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
|Edgar Hansen
|9 (Blue Crab),(End of Opilio season)
|Ramblin' Rose
|Elliott Neese
|7, 8; After the Catch 5, 6
|Jim Stone
|1 (Opilio season)
|Eric Nyhammer4
|Roger Strong
|Pilot, 1 (Opilio season)
|Elliott Neese
|Scott "Jr." Campbell
|7, 8, 9,10; "After the Catch 5, 6
|Sea Star
|Larry Hendricks
|Pilot, 1, 3, 4, 5 (chase boat); After the Catch 1, 2, 3
|Time Bandit5
|Johnathan Hillstrand (King crab season)
Andy Hillstrand (Opilio season)
|2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10; "'After the Catch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
|Wayne Baker
|3, 5
|Shaun Miles
|1 (Opilio season)
|Western Viking
|Coleman Anderson
|1 (King crab season)
|Keith Colburn
|3 (King Crab season), 4, 5, 6 (King crab season), 7, 8, 9,10; "After the Catch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
|Monte Colburn
|3 (Opilio season), 6 (Bairdi season),8(End of Opilio season)
^1 During shooting of the first season of Deadliest Catch, the F/V Big Valley sank on January 15, 2005, sometime after 0734 Alaska Standard Time when the Coast Guard first detected her EPIRB signal. Five members of the six man crew perished; three were never found. Cache Seel was the only survivor. Discovery Channel camera crews on the Maverick and Cornelia Marie captured the first footage of the debris field, confirming that the boat had capsized and gone down. The search for the ship is featured in the episode "Dead of Winter".
^2 Harris was forced to leave during the C. opilio season in season 4 due to what turned out to be a pulmonary embolism, and his medical issues prevented him from going out during the king crab portion of season 5. Murray Gamrath relieved him as captain in both seasons. A camera crew stayed with Harris both when he was hospitalized in season 4 and after his forced departure at the start of season 5. He continued to make occasional appearances during season 5. Harris suffered a massive stroke on January 29, 2010, during filming of the C. opilio season for season 6 and died on February 9, 2010, from complications. Derrick Ray took over as captain for the remainder of the season.[16][17]
^3 Not to be confused with former Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics, and St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa.
^4 Nyhammer, captain of the F/V Rollo, served as a senior deckhand on the North American during the King crab portion of season 4.
^5 The F/V Time Bandit can be seen in the background of the behind the scenes episode serving as the main chase vessel during season 1, though she is never officially identified during the season itself.
^6 The F/V Trailblazer was seen in the season 3 episodes "Man Overboard!" and "Cheating Death". She was also featured in the fifth season.
^7 The F/V Vixen did have a film crew on the boat; none of the footage aired in the U.S. version, but did air in some of the international editions.
Fishing vessels with no embedded film crew[edit]
|Fishing Vessel
|Alaska Ranger
|Took on water in her rudder room and stern and sank on March 23, 2008. The forty-seven people on board were forced into the water; all but five were rescued.[18]
|Alaskan Leader
|Called Coast Guard when crewmember suffered heart attack. A nighttime rescue attempt by a Coast Guard helicopter was unsuccessful, and had to abort. A second rescue attempt the next day was successful. The deckhand, Chad Smith, 40, was medevaced to Anchorage via Saint Paul, and ultimately survived.[19]
|Alaskan Monarch
|Ran aground at St. Paul Island due to ice in 1990. All of the crew was saved, but the boat was destroyed.
|2, 3
|Chase boat, shown in behind the scenes special
|American Star
|Caught fire and ran aground in January 2000; all five crewmen plus one dog were rescued.[20]
|Beauty Bay
|Fisherman medevaced by Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk after suffering hand injury from fish grinder.[21]
|Big Valley
|Sank at the start of the 2005 C. opilio season; five of six crew died. Coast Guard investigation later determined that the boat was severely overloaded, carrying 30% more pots than normal, causing her to tip over during a storm the morning of January 15, 2005.[22]
|Carly Renee
|Cod fishing vessel, capsized and partially sank 22 miles from Dutch Harbor at start of 2009 King Crab season; four-man crew abandoned ship and rescued by a "good samaritan vessel", the Guardian. The Carly Renee eventually ran aground on a nearby island and was left for junk.
|Caught fire at sea during 2002 king crab season. All 23 crew members were rescued by Coast Guard; three men later died from injuries sustained during the fire.
|Rescued 4-man crew of the Carly Renee after they abandoned ship.
|Icy Mist
|Took on water and grounded on western shore of Akutan Island; four-man crew evacuated to shore and rescued by Coast Guard.[23][24]
|Jennifer A
|Partner boat of Time Bandit. Pranked by Time Bandit with a flour pot during the season 3 wrap-up.
|A head and gut fishing vessel capsized and sank in the Aleutian Islands early in the morning on Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Only four of the 11 crew members were saved; two were never found.[25][26][27] One of the survivors, the vessel's captain, appears on After the Catch 3.
|Master Carl
|Sank in April 1976 returning home from tanner crab season. All four crew members abandoned ship and made it into the life raft, but only two were found alive.
|Nuka Island
|Hit by large rogue wave north of St. Paul island, temporarily disabled.
|Ocean Challenger
|Four-man crew abandoned ship as boat capsized and took on water in October 2006. One survivor; two bodies found; one body lost. Debris field, EPIRB, and an empty life raft found along with an empty survival suit indicated vessel ultimately sank. Rescue efforts were featured in the season 3 episodes "A Tragic Beginning" and "The Unforgiving Sea".
|Capsized. All crew rescued by Coast Guard. Later towed to Dutch Harbor and repaired.
|Roaming McGee
|Built in the early 1980s, this craft was seen briefly at the docks in the season 3 episode "The Hammer and Ice".
|Rosie G
|Sank in 1997. Six-man crew escaped in a life raft and were rescued by the Coast Guard.
|Sea Rover
|Assisted in the search for Big Valley.
|Sandra Five
|Jake Anderson was transferred to Sandra Five from Northwestern to go to Saint Paul Island so he could fly home to his family after his sister died.
|Man fell overboard while on the pot stack in 2004 and drowned.
|St. Patrick
|Tipped 90 degrees and took on water in engine compartment in December 1981. Eleven-man crew tied themselves together and leapt into the sea when the life boat was lost. Only two men survived. It was later discovered that the boat had righted herself after the crew abandoned ship; the vessel was found adrift by the Coast Guard and towed into port still afloat before she finally sank while moored in port.[28]
|Man fell overboard and drowned, becoming the sixth fatality within the first 24 hours of the 2005 opilio season.
|Man fell overboard while tying pot stacks in October 2006; rescued by Time Bandit.
|Unidentified vessel
|Shadowed the Wizard and was accused of tampering with the Wizard's pots. The vessel is shown on screen but its markings are digitally obscured.
Non-fishing vessels[edit]
|Vessel name/Type
|Cougar Ace
(Pure Car Carrier)
|Rolled over during ballast exchange operations off the Aleutian Islands, and was towed into Dutch Harbor in the first episode of Season 3
|Offloaded the opilio from the Time Bandit, anchored at St. Paul in the middle of a dangerous ice pack.
|Westward Wind
|Processor for the Cornelia Marie, anchored at Dutch Harbor for king crab off load
|2, 4 & 5
|Island Enterprise
|Crewmember med-evaced by United States Coast Guard rescue helicopter.
|USCGC Acushnet8
(U.S. Coast Guard cutter)
|Assisted in the search and rescue efforts when the Katmai sank.
|USCGC Bertholf
(U.S. Coast Guard cutter)
|Conducted an at-sea boarding of the Northwestern. Misidentified as "Bertoff" in caption of radio transmission.
|Ever Unique
|Crewmember critically injured with a broken neck and smashed leg, medivaced by Coast Guard rescue helicopter.
|USCGC Midgett
(U.S. Coast Guard cutter)
|Conducted an at-sea boarding of the Rollo.
|USCGC Munro
(U.S. Coast Guard cutter)
|Assisted in search and rescue efforts when the Ocean Challenger sank.
|MV Overseas Joyce
(U.S.-flag Pure Car Carrier)
|Witnessed sinking of Ocean Challenger, unable to render aid.
|Stellar Sea
|Suffered an engine room fire at the start of the opilio season, forcing the crab boat crews to suspend fishing or look for bairdi crab. Towed back to Dutch Harbor and repaired.
|P/V Stimson
(Alaska Marine Enforcement Section Patrol Vessel)
|Assisted in search and rescue efforts when the Big Valley sank, and recovered a crew member's body.
^8 Instead of footage of USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) being shown, footage of USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) was shown.
As of the end of season 5 in 2009, a total of 69 episodes of Deadliest Catch have been shown, not counting the pilot series America's Deadliest Season, which had four episodes. The show draws consistently high ratings for Discovery Channel; season 3 attracted more than 49 million viewers over the course of the season and over 3 million viewers per first-run episode, making it one of 2007's most successful programs on cable TV.[29]
Overall ratings for season 6 exceeded season 5's by more than 10%; as a result, Deadliest Catch regularly wins its U.S. prime time telecast timeslot (Tuesdays, 9:00-10:00 p.m. EST).[30] Ratings for the season opener "Slow Burn" drew a record 4.6 million viewers;[30] on June 22, 2010, "Blown Off Course", the first of five episodes that dealt with Phil Harris's stroke and its impact, drew 5.2 million viewers, more than 10% over "Slow Burn".[31] On July 13, 2010, the episode "Redemption Day", which dealt with the death of Harris at its close, set another record audience for the show with 8.5 million viewers, making the episode the third-most-viewed broadcast in Discovery Channel's history.[32]
Deadliest Catch was nominated for four Primetime Emmy Awards for the 2007 television season. The series itself was nominated for Outstanding Nonfiction Series; the third season episode "The Unforgiving Sea" received nominations for Outstanding Cinematography For Nonfiction Programming, Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming, and Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming (Single or Multi-camera).[33] In 2012, the series won two of its three Emmy nominations for the eighth season episode "I Don't Wanna Die".[34]
Related extras[edit]
The show was created as a regular series after two well-received pilots about Alaskan crabbing were produced by Thom Beers for the Discovery Channel.
The first pilot was a one-hour documentary entitled Deadliest Job in the World, which appeared in 1999. The show, which started with the sinking of the Rosie G (5 on board, all rescued alive), followed the Fierce Allegiance through the 1999 opilio crab season.
The second pilot was a three-part miniseries entitled America's Deadliest Season, which premiered on July 18, 2004, and covered the 2003-04 king and opilio crab seasons. The miniseries followed the vessels Northwestern, Erla-N and Sea Star during king crab, and Erla-N, Saga and Arctic Dawn during opilio crab. The series also features several crises, including the half-capsized Raven (5 on board, all rescued alive), man-overboard calls from Shaman (recovered dead) and Saga (greenhorn Kevin Davis, rescued alive), and the constant threat of cold water and freezing spray.
Beers did the voiceover narration for both series. Discovery picked up the show and ordered an 8-episode season to premiere in 2005. Beers turned the narration duties over to fellow Discovery Channel voice artist Mike Rowe, allowing Beers to continue working on new show development through his production company, Original Productions.
After the Catch[edit]
After the Catch is a roundtable documentary-style television mini-series that follows the captains from Deadliest Catch when they're not fishing. The captains and crew members swap stories about the experiences and sights while fishing the Bering Sea. The spin-off series is produced in partnership with Original Productions and Silent Crow Arts. The first season aired in 2007, filmed at the Lockspot Cafe, a bar in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood, hosted by Deadliest Catch narrator Mike Rowe. After the Catch II aired in 2008, filmed at Pratty's Bar in Gloucester, Massachusetts and hosted by Rowe. The third season, titled After the Catch III, aired in 2009 and was filmed at RTs Longboard Bar and Grill in San Diego with Cash Cab's Ben Bailey hosting. After the Catch IV aired in 2010, and was filmed at the Blue Nile bar in New Orleans, with Rowe returning as host.
The After the Catch miniseries was one of Discovery Channel's highest rated miniseries in 2007 and spawned several additional after-the-series type follow-up documentaries such as Everest: After the Climb, the 2007 follow-up to Everest: Beyond the Limit.
The Bait[edit]
The Bait is a "pre-game" roundtable documentary-style television mini-series that previews the 9th season of Deadliest Catch. The captains swap stories about the off-season and hints on what the viewers can expect in the upcoming season. The spin-off series is produced in partnership with Original Productions and Silent Crow Arts. The first episode, "Opening Day: King Crab", aired on April 16, 2013, filmed in Dutch Harbor, hosted by Sig Hansen, Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand, and Keith Colburn, with narration by Deadliest Catch narrator Mike Rowe.
In April 2008, Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, co-captains of the Time Bandit, with Malcolm MacPherson, released a book titled Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs (ISBN 978-0345503725) on their experiences as crab fishermen.
Also in April 2008, Discovery Channel released the book Deadliest Catch: Desperate Hours (ISBN 978-0696239427). Edited by Larry Erikson, the book contains true stories of life and death at sea, as related by the captains and deckhands featured on the series.
In December 2009, Travis Arket, deckhand of the North American, released a book titled Deadliest Waters: Bering Sea Photography (ISBN 978-1935359210). This book is the first photography collection to be published about Bering Sea crab fishing, and includes many people from Deadliest Catch.
In March 2010, Sig Hansen, captain of the Northwestern, released the book North by Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters (ISBN 978-0312591144), co-written with author Mark Sundeen. The book details the Hansen family's history and that of Norwegian Americans in the fishing industry of the Pacific Northwest.
Video games[edit]
In February 2008, Sig Hansen and Liquid Dragon Studios announced the upcoming release of a video game for Xbox 360 and PC inspired by the Deadliest Catch series entitled Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm. Liquid Dragon designers spent time with the Hansens on the Northwestern in the safety of Dutch Harbor and out on the Bering Sea to give them a sense of the real conditions that needed to be duplicated in the game. The game itself features the Northwestern, Cornelia Marie, and Sea Star as crab boats that can be chosen by the player, along with the Bering Star and the Shellfish.[35] On June 17, 2008, the game was released in stores around North America.[36]
A second game, titled Deadliest Catch: Sea of Chaos, was announced in June 2010 and released in November 2010. It is developed by DoubleTap Games and published by Crave Entertainment.[37]
See also[edit]
- Flying Wild Alaska
- Gold Rush (TV series)
- Great Lake Warriors
- Ice Pilots
- Ice Road Truckers
- Lobster Wars
- Lobstermen: Jeopardy at Sea
- Swords: Life On the Line
- Whale Wars
- Wicked Tuna
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- ^ DDiscovery Communications. "Discovery Channel::TV Listings::Deadliest Catch". Retrieved 2011-06-27.
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- ^ Ess, Charlie. "Flood of Russian kings negates price gains expected with rationalization". National Fisherman. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
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- ^ "Vinnie James blog". Retrieved 2008-09-01.
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- ^ "Update: Coast Guard saves Icy Mist fishermen in hurricane force winds" (Press release). United States Coast Guard. 2009-02-25. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ "Coast Guard Recovers 4 Survivors From Missing Fishing Vessel, 3 Deceased, Search Continues for 4" (Press release). United States Coast Guard. 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
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- ^ "Coast Guard Suspends Search for Missing Katmai Fishermen" (Press release). United States Coast Guard. 2008-10-26. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
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- ^ Total viewership numbers are stated in commercials for season 4.
- ^ a b Stanley, T.L. (June 16, 2010). "The rest of Deadliest Catch season devoted to Captain Phil Harris". Show Tracker via Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
- ^ Stelter, Brian (June 24, 2010). "A Large Audience for 'Catch' Episode About Captain's Stroke". Media Decoder via The New York Times. Retrieved July 8, 2010.
- ^ Fernandez, Maria Elena (July 14, 2010). "Captain Phil Harris's final 'Deadliest Catch' episode sets records". Show Tracker via Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
- ^ "Complete list of the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations". Retrieved 2007-07-26.
- ^ "'Games of Thrones' top creative arts Emmy winner". The Denver Post. Associated Press. September 15, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ^ "Life and Death on the Bering Sea, Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm for Xbox 360 and PC" (Press release). Greenwave. 2008-02-26. Retrieved 2008-04-05.
- ^ "Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm official website". Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- ^ Bush, Eric (June 10, 2010). "Crave Announces the Deadliest Catch: Sea of Chaos Game". PlanetXBox360.com. Retrieved June 12, 2010.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Deadliest Catch (series).
- Deadliest Catch Network at Discovery.com
- Deadliest Catch at the Internet Movie Database
- 2005 American television series debuts
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Sony Xperia ZLCompare8 reviewIf you thought Xperia Z is amazing, but could make do without the waterproof part of it, Sony's got you covered, as it introduced the Xperia ZL sibling, with an even more compact design. With its 5.18" x 2.74" x 0.38", it is shorter than the Z, and a soft-touch curved back nestles it comfortably in your palm grip. The microSIM and microSD slots are situated under a large flap at the back bottom, and the phone is graced with a dedicated shutter key, unlike the glassy, watertight Z. Specswise it is identical - a 5" Full HD screen with Mobile BRAVIA Engine 2, and the typical for the tech weak viewing angles, a quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro, and a 13 MP rear cam with HDR video capabilities. The funky part here is not only the circular power/lock key on the right, but also the front-facing camera, which is situated in the lower right corner of the phone, where you are used to find one of the Android navigational keys, which here are on-screen. Besides the shape and size, there is a slight difference in battery capacity between the two - the ZL has a sealed 2,370 mAh unit, which is a tad bigger than the one in the Z. The long-rumored IR blaster is indeed here, with the accompanying app that allows you to use the phone as a remote control for a wide variety of TVs, home stereos and other assorted electronics around the house.+ View Specs
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Google Nexus 5Compare9.5 reviewThe Nexus 5 is an affordable device packing top-shelf specs. Made in collaboration with Google and LG, the Nexus 5 runs on the newest Android 4.4 KitKat. It is a solid performer featuring a Snapdragon 800 system chip and 2GB of RAM. It is also the first Nexus to put the focus on camera performance as it comes with an 8-megapixel shooter with optical image stabilization (OIS).+ View Specs
9.5Google Nexus 5
BlackBerry Z10Compare7 reviewThe Z10 is a fully touchscreen BB10 device sporting modern specs, with cool patterned soft-touch material on the back. The screen is 4.2" LCD with 1280 x 768 pixels, making for a pixel density of 356 pixels per inch. A 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and 2 GB of RAM are the power under the hood, and there are 16 GB of internal storage, as well as the all-important microSD card slot. You will need all the RAM, because BB10 is a true multitasking system, like Android, so everything remains how you left it, or moves on under the hood, but is available at all times.+ View Specs
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LG G2Compare9.4 reviewThe LG G2 is a high-end Android smartphone - an embodiment of cutting-edge hardware and precision-polished software, sprinkled with a handful of innovative goodies all over. It comes with top-of-the-line specifications, including a 5.2-inch, 1080p display made using IPS LCD technology, a quad-core Snapdragon 800 chip running at 2.3GHz, and 2GB of RAM. In terms of performance, the device should rank among the best handsets to date. Further down the list we have an advanced 13MP camera that stands out with cool features like optical image stabilization and 1080p video capturing at 60 frames per second. A notable multimedia feature is the support for 24-bit, 192kHz audio. The design of the LG G2 is quite unusual for its volume and power buttons are placed on the back. Its thickness of 9 millimeters is acceptable considering that inside the phone you'll find a 3000mAh removable battery. 32GB of on-board storage are present, expandable further through the use of a microSD card (in some markets).+ View Specs
Samsung Galaxy S4Compare9.3 reviewSamsung prides itself in the differentiation the AMOLED screen technology brings to its high-ends, and it has indeed achieved the unthinkable with the Galaxy S 4 this time around - a five-inch panel with the amazing for OLED screen 441ppi pixel density. Not only that, but it debuts the first octo-core Exynos 5 Octa processor in the international version, as well as a temperature and depth sensor for the first time. With features like Floating Touch and hand gestures you can control the phone without even touching the display, while the S Health and S Translator integration add to the unique aura around the S 4 as a truly human companion.+ View Specs
9.3Samsung Galaxy S4
Google Nexus 10Compare9 reviewGoogle Nexus 10 is a beast of a device, with the main feature: a 2650x1600 display clocking in at 299 pixels per inch. As for the rest of the specs, the Nexus 10 will be packing Samsung's new 1.7GHz Cortex A15-based Exynos 5 chip, and quad-core Mali-T604 GPU, 2GB of RAM, NFC, a 5MP rear camera, and 1.9MP front camera. The tablet will also be running Android 4.2, just like the LG Nexus 4. One downside for some users is that the Nexus 10 will not have an SD card slot, so the storage is what it is.+ View Specs
9Google Nexus 10
Nokia Lumia 925Compare7.8 reviewNokia is taking to the stage today, and announced the Lumia 925, a pretty metal-rimmed Windows Phone 8 device, which was long-rumored under the Catwalk codename. We've got a 4.5" 1280x768 pixels HD AMOLED display with the ClearBlack filter, which Nokia said is its brightest OLED used to date, and can be operated with gloves. The phone is made of polycarbonate, but sports an aluminum side frame, which also serves as the antenna, and the 8.7 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, dual LED flash and optical image stabilization, as found on the Lumia 920. Nokia said the camera algorithms have been significantly improved as well, so all that is left now is to gauge what changes are there from the first samples. The wireless charging capabilities from its predecessor are here as well, but via a cover, hence the phone is much, much thinner and lighter than the 920, at 8.5 mm and 139 grams, respectively. There is LTE and HSPA+ 4G connectivity, a dual-core 1.5 GHz Snapdragon inside, the typical 1 GB of RAM plus 16 GB of internal memory, and a 2000 mAh battery to back it all up.+ View Specs
7.8Nokia Lumia 925
ZTE GrooveCompareThe ZTE Groove is an entry level smartphone. It comes with a 3.5" HVGA display, Android 2.3 and features a 3.2MP rear-facing camera and a VGA front-facing camera for video conferencing. It also offers Android's standard functions.+ View Specs
ZTE Groove
Huawei Premia 4GCompareThe Huawei Premia 4G is a smartphone running Android 4.0 ICS. Among its features are a 4'' display, 5 MP rear camera with LED flash, 1.3 MP front shooter, GPS navigation, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities, 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and 4G LTE connectivity.+ View Specs
Huawei Premia 4G
Sony Xperia ZCompare8.5 reviewThe specs on the Xperia Z are what we expected from the rumors. It will be a 5" 1080p display, a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor, 2GB of RAM, LTE, a 2330mAh battery, and the highly anticipated new 13MP Exmor RS camera sensor. As we saw in leaked images, the Exmor RS camera sensor will allow for HDR video recording, and a newly announced feature is that it will also offer a 10fps burst mode at 9MP. The phone also has NFC and a microSD card for those of you looking for that. An interesting addition to the Xperia Z is that the phone will be water resistant to a depth of one meter. To achieve this, the Xperia Z has glass panels on the front and back, as well as plastic strips on the sides that cover the ports. And, they cover all of the ports from microSD card slot, to headphone jack, to microUSB. The phone will be running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, which is part of the reason why the March release date is so disappointing, because that will be coming up on Google I/O and the expected announcement of Android 5.0, although Sony has promised an upgrade to 4.2 "soon after launch".+ View Specs
8.5Sony Xperia Z
Motorola Moto GCompare9 reviewLooking at its specs sheet, we're surprised to see how much bang the Moto G can deliver for its money. First and foremost, our eyes are treated to a 4.5-inch "edge-to-edge" LCD display with a resolution of 720 by 1280 pixels. This gives us a figure of around 329ppi, which nothing short of great given the phone's cost. A layer of Gorilla Glass 3 protects the screen against light scratches. Then there's the processor ticking inside of the Moto G – a 1.2GHz, quad-core Snapdragon 400 silicon, which is no slouch by any means. 1GB of RAM is available on the device.+ View Specs
9Motorola Moto G
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SINGAPORE China Steel
Corp. will spend Taiwan $2.27 billion ($78.1 million) on a
five-year revamp of its No. 2 hot-strip mill, which has been in
operation for 16 years.
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reduce the risk of equipment breakdown as well as increase
processing capacity for new steel grades, the Kaohsiung,
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January, is expected to be completed by December 2017.
Benefits of revamping the line include minimizing delays,
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