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78-595: Cadborosaurus , nicknamed Caddy by journalist Archie Wills, is a sea serpent in the folklore of regions of the Pacific Coast of North America . Its name is derived from Cadboro Bay in Greater Victoria , British Columbia , and the Greek root word " saurus " meaning lizard or reptile . Cadborosaurus willsi is said by witnesses to resemble a serpent with vertical coils or humps in tandem behind

156-426: 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

234-494: A stroke . 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

312-531: A "huge sea serpent with a horse-like head" in Georgia Strait . Later, "with a pair of binoculars, Sgt. Russell saw that the strange apparition was a huge bull sea lion leading a herd of six sea lions... Their undulations as they swam appeared to form a continuous body, with parts showing at intervals as they surfaced and dived. To the naked eye, the sight perfectly impersonated a sea monster." Some suggestions have been made that Caddy could be an example of

390-682: A 35 m (115 ft) long skeleton claimed as belonging to an extinct sea serpent was put on a show in the New York City by Albert C. Koch. The claim was debunked by Prof. Jeffries Wyman, an anatomist who went to see the skeleton for himself. Wyman declared that the skull of the animal had to be mammalian in origin, and that the skeleton was composed of bones of several different animals, including an extinct species of whale. On 6 August 1848 Captain McQuhae of HMS  Daedalus and several of his officers and crew (en route to St Helena ) saw

468-620: A Norwegian sea serpent: Those who sail up along the coast of Norway to trade or to fish, all tell the remarkable story of how a serpent of fearsome size, from 200 feet [60 m] to 400 feet [120 m] long, and 20 feet [6 m] wide, resides in rifts and caves outside Bergen . On bright summer nights this serpent leaves the caves to eat calves, lambs and pigs, or it fares out to the sea and feeds on sea nettles, crabs and similar marine animals. It has ell -long hair hanging from its neck, sharp black scales and flaming red eyes. It attacks vessels, grabs and swallows people, as it lifts itself up like

546-758: 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

624-449: 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. 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

702-613: A challenge-in-jest made late in the season by Mike Rowe to the captains to host a show of their own, the format for Season 9 was changed to run throughout the season's air dates. (See The Bait below.) The Bait is a " pregame show " roundtable documentary -style television mini-series that previews select episodes of Deadliest Catch since season 9, filmed in Dutch Harbor, and hosted by Sig Hansen , Johnathan, and Andy Hillstrand, and Keith Colburn, with narration by Deadliest Catch narrator Mike Rowe . The captains swap stories about

780-470: A column from the water. Norwegian Bishop Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764) did not disbelieve the existence of sea serpents themselves, but doubted they would prey on ships and feed on humans, being more cautious-minded in that respect than Archbishop Olaus (of Upsala). Nevertheless, a number of reports were made by sailors at the time that sea serpents would destroy ships by wrapping the ship in coils of their body and pulling it underwater. Sailors threatened by

858-456: A dead sea creature sighted by Poseidonius on the coast of the northern Levant. He reports the following: "As for the plains, the first, beginning at the sea, is called Macras, or Macra-Plain. Here, as reported by Poseidonius, was seen the fallen dragon, the corpse of which was about a plethrum [30 m or 100 feet] in length, and so bulky that horsemen standing by it on either side could not see one another, and its jaws were large enough to admit

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936-431: A decomposing basking shark is often mistaken for Caddy and has fooled experts and laymen. A rotting basking shark may also resemble a decomposing plesiosaur . A native image that fits Caddy's description has been traditionally used throughout Alaska. The image indicates that Caddy or a Caddy-like creature moves north to Vancouver when the waters warm. The Inuit of Alaska have even put the picture on their canoes to keep

1014-520: A man of my acquaintance I should have easily have recognized his features with the naked eye." According to seven members of the crew, it remained in view for around twenty minutes. Another officer wrote that the creature was more of a lizard than a serpent. Evolutionary biologist Gary J. Galbreath contends that what the crew of Daedalus saw was a sei whale . A report was published in the Illustrated London News on 14 April 1849 of

1092-528: A man on horseback, and each flake of its horny scales exceeded an oblong shield in length." The creature was seen sometime between 130 and 51 BC. Swedish ecclesiastic and writer Olaus Magnus included illustrations of sea serpents and other various marine monsters on his illustrated map, the Carta marina . In his 1555 work History of the Northern Peoples , Olaus gives the following description of

1170-496: 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. 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

1248-455: A pot's rope as it is dumped and be dragged to the bottom (plausible), that 20-minute naps every 6 hours can double effectiveness over a 30-hour shift (confirmed) and that crab pots are impervious to explosives (busted). The Discovery/Science documentary program How It's Made showed the production of oceanographic buoys, sushi, rubber boots, and industrial wire ropes in this episode featuring items used in or connected with crab fishing. None of

1326-436: A reality program that is "really a documentary series about the toll taken by relentless physical labor", and stated that other series trying to emulate it such as Ice Road Truckers and Swamp People "tend to miss the atmosphere and deep attention to psychology that make this series so special." The show was created as a regular series after two well-received pilots about Alaskan crabbing were produced by Thom Beers for

1404-443: A result, Deadliest Catch regularly wins its U.S. primetime telecast timeslot (Tuesdays, 9:00-10:00 p.m. EST). Ratings for the season opener "Slow Burn" drew a record 4.6 million viewers; 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". On July 13, 2010, the episode "Redemption Day", which dealt with

1482-414: A sea serpent were said to have thrown large objects such as paddles or shovels overboard in the path of the serpent, hoping that the serpent would take the object and leave without destroying the ship. Rev. Hans Egede , a Dano-Norwegian clergyman who was an early explorer and surveyor of Greenland, gave an 18th-century description of a sea serpent witnessed by his party. In his journal he wrote: On

1560-650: A sea serpent which was subsequently reported (and debated) in The Times . The vessel sighted what they named as an enormous serpent between the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena. The serpent was witnessed to have been swimming with 1.2 m (4 feet) of its head above the water and they believed that there was another 18 m (60 feet) of the creature in the sea. Captain McQuahoe also said that "[The creature] passed rapidly, but so close under our lee quarter, that had it been

1638-540: A sighting of a sea serpent off the Portuguese coast by HMS  Plumper . On the morning of the 31st December, 1848, in lat. 41° 13'N., and long. 12° 31'W., being nearly due west of Oporto, I saw a long black creature with a sharp head, moving slowly, I should think about two knots [3.7 km/h; 2.3 mph] ... its back was about twenty feet [6 m] if not more above water; and its head, as near as I could judge, from six to eight [1.8 to 2.4 m] ...There

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1716-494: A sketch in this otherwise well-illustrated book, but the missionary named Bing who was his comrade drew a sketch, which is reproduced in Henry Lee 's work. Bing further described this creature as having reddish eyes, almost burning with fire. This convinced Bishop Pontoppidan that this was different from the type of sea serpent seen by others. From Bing's drawing, Pontoppidan estimated the creature to be considerably shorter than

1794-621: Is an expanded episode of Deadliest Catch featuring previously unaired footage, production notes, facts, and on occasion, social media comments. On Deck debuted April 23, 2013, and paralleled Season 9. Decked is a rebroadcast episode of Deadliest Catch featuring webcam CatchChat with one or more Captains between episode segments. A 2013 episode of MythBusters featured Johnathan Hillstrand and Scott Campbell Jr. traveling to M5 Industries in San Francisco to help bust three myths related to crab fishing: that someone can get caught in

1872-412: 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, with over 80% of those deaths caused by drowning or hypothermia. The series' first season was shot during the final year of

1950-485: Is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, the U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopters 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 U.S. Coast Guard rescue squad was featured prominently during

2028-513: Is recorded using wireless microphones worn by the fishermen and shotgun microphones attached to the cameras. Because of a lack of space on the boats, the crews do not have an audio mixer on board. In audio post-production, the sound team attempts to use actual sounds that were recorded on the boats. Although the equipment is carefully waterproofed, the cameras are routinely damaged by corrosion , ice and accidents. Captain Sig Hansen of

2106-706: The Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons. The base of operations for the fishing fleet is the Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska . Produced for the Discovery Channel , the show's title is derived from the inherent high risk of injury or death associated with this line of work. Deadliest Catch premiered on the Discovery Channel in 2005 and currently airs worldwide. The first season consisted of ten episodes, with

2184-686: The Baal Cycle etc. The Hebrew Bible also has mythological descriptions of large sea creatures as part of creation under Yahweh's command, such as the Tanninim mentioned in Book of Genesis 1:21 and the "great serpent" of Amos 9:3. In the Aeneid , a pair of sea serpents killed Laocoön and his sons when Laocoön argued against bringing the Trojan Horse into Troy. Claudius Aelianus in his work On

2262-733: The F/V Northwestern and Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand of the F/V 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 Scotty on the F/V 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

2340-457: The F/V Northwestern serves as a technical advisor to the series' producers. 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. F/V Northwestern captain Sig Hansen told talk show host Jimmy Kimmel that he saved

2418-553: 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. The Soul Rebels Brass Band performed a New Orleans style Jazz Funeral for the late Captain Phil Harris on After The Catch . ^1 Sig's brother Edgar occasionally took over as captain for blue king crab or bairdi seasons, and sporadically during

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2496-471: The 2003–04 king and opilio crab seasons. The miniseries followed the vessels F/V Northwestern , Erla-N , and F/V 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

2574-416: The 6th of July, 1734, there appeared a very large and frightful sea monster, which raised itself so high out of the water that its head reached above our main-top (top of the mainmast ). It had a long, sharp snout, and spouted water like a whale; and very broad flappers. The body seemed to be covered with scales, and the skin was uneven and wrinkled, and the lower part was formed like a snake. After some time

2652-525: 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 ,

2730-593: 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

2808-603: The Hillstrands. On October 8, 2010, it was announced that the three captains had reached an agreement with Discovery and would return for the seventh season. On January 29, 2010, as Original Productions' crews shot footage for season 6 of the F/V Cornelia Marie offloading C. opilio crab at St. Paul Island , Captain Phil Harris , who had earlier complained of being excessively tired, went to his stateroom to retrieve pain medicines and collapsed after suffering

2886-620: The Hilstrand brothers (from Deadliest Catch ) apparently saw Nash's footage and unsuccessfully attempted to find one of the creatures. Sea serpent The Drachenkampf mytheme, the chief god in the role of the hero slaying a sea serpent, is widespread both in the ancient Near East and in Indo-European mythology , e.g. Lotan and Hadad , Leviathan and Yahweh , Tiamat and Marduk (see also Labbu , Bašmu , Mušḫuššu ), Illuyanka and Tarhunt , Yammu and Baal in

2964-542: The January opilio crab season. The show emphasizes the dangers on deck to the fishermen and camera crews as they duck heavy crab pots swinging into position, maneuver hundreds of pounds of crab across a deck strewn with hazards, and lean over the rails to position pots for launch or retrieval, while gale-force winds and high waves lash the deck constantly. Each episode focuses on a story, situation, or theme that occurs on one or more boats. In contrast, side stories delve into

3042-467: The Nature of Animals mentions a giant sea centipede, which has a tail that is similar to a crayfish and which moves using numerous feet on each side of its body. Guillaume Rondelet mentions a similar imaginary creature called centipede cetacean in his work L'histoire entière des poissons . In Nordic mythology , Jörmungandr (or Midgarðsormr ) was a sea serpent or worm so long that it encircled

3120-437: 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

3198-444: 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 returned to port). Another filmed incident was a fight on board the fishing vessel Wizard in which a greenhorn sailor sucker punched a veteran fisherman who had been engaged in harassment and bullying. Again,

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3276-432: 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. 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

3354-551: The cameraman, having to buy a case of beer for the entire crew as per tradition on crab boats). 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

3432-455: The captains, crew members or vessels appeared in the program. In April 2008, Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand, co-captains of the F/V 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

3510-537: The characteristics found in over 200 sightings collected over a century, noting that Caddy is described as having flippers both anteriorly and posteriorly. Darren Naish contends that LeBlond and Blousfield are engaging in "bad science" and have incorrectly assumed that different, conflicting eyewitness reports are all descriptions of one species when various accounts "are most parsimoniously interpreted as descriptions of many things." In 1943, two police officers, Inspector Robert Owens, and Staff Sergeant Jack Russell, saw

3588-406: The constant threat of cold water and freezing spray. Beers did the voice-over 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

3666-740: The creature away. The Cadborosaurus is called hiyitl'iik by the Manhousat people who live on Sidney Inlet, t'chain-ko in Sechelt mythology, and numkse lee kwala by the Comox band of Vancouver Island. However, it has also been argued that these Native stories reflect a diversity of different animals. Some mythical, some real, and to just lump them into the Cadborosaurus category ignores their diverse origins and often independent backgrounds. There have been more than 300 claimed sightings during

3744-555: The creature plunged backwards into the water, and then turned its tail up above the surface, a whole ship-length from the head. The following evening we had very bad weather" ―translated in Henry Lee (1883). Egede also wrote on the same sea-monster sighting in his book, noting that the beast was spotted at the 64th degree of latitude , and was as thick or "bulky as the Ship, and three or four times as long". Egede himself did not supply

3822-477: 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. In 2016, The New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that Deadliest Catch was "most popular in areas that are rural, cold and close to the sea, particularly Alaska and Maine". In 2011, Matt Zoller Seitz of Salon.com praised Deadliest Catch as

3900-434: The derby style king crab fishery. The subsequent seasons have been set after a change to the 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 that they can fill at

3978-442: The dynamics, but at the same time, the guy was persistent 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.'" 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

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4056-665: The entire world, Midgard . Sea serpents also appear frequently in later Scandinavian folklore , particularly in that of Norway, such as an account that in 1028 AD, Saint Olaf killed a sea serpent in Valldal in Norway, throwing its body onto the mountain Syltefjellet. Marks on the mountain are associated with the legend. An apparent eye-witness account is given by Aristotle in his work Historia Animalium on natural history . Strabo makes reference to an eyewitness account of

4134-519: 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 in preparation for such occurrences. The show has no on-camera host. A narrator provides commentary connecting the storylines as

4212-743: The 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. ^2 Tony Lara, the fourth captain of F/V Cornelia Marie , died on August 8, 2015, in Sturgis, South Dakota , victim of Cardiac arrest while participating in the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally , hosted annually in Sturgis. ^3 Not to be confused with former Chicago White Sox , Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa . ^4 Blake Painter died on May 28, 2018, due to an overdose of heroin . His body

4290-423: The finale airing on June 14, 2005. Subsequent seasons have aired on the same April to June or July schedule every year since. The show's 20th season premiered on June 11, 2024, on Discovery Channel with simulcast on the streaming service Discovery+ . The series follows a fisherman's life on the Bering Sea aboard various crab fishing boats during two of the crab fishing seasons, the October king crab season and

4368-486: The first season run under the IFQ system, the fleet shrank from over 250 boats to about 89 larger boats with high quotas. One of the series' main features is the portrayal of the harsh life at sea, including the behavior and mannerisms of the fishermen who are engaged in a hazardous lifestyle with little tolerance for low performance or ineptitude. Several of the series' shows have featured " greenhorn " fishermen who are usually

4446-470: 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 , which is a roundtable discussion featuring the captains relating their experiences filming the previous season's episodes. Because Deadliest Catch is essentially a filmed record of everyday life in a stressful working environment,

4524-464: The greenhorn was fired as soon as the ship hit port, leading to mixed reactions by fans of the show. 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

4602-706: The horse-like head and long neck, with a pair of small elevating front flippers, and either a pair of hind flippers, or a pair of large webbed hind flippers fused to form a large fan-like tail region that provides forward propulsion. Dr. Paul LeBlond, director of Earth and Ocean Sciences at UBC , and Dr. Edward Blousfield, retired chief zoologist of the Canadian Museum of Nature , state every elongated animal has been put forward as an explanation for Caddy. These animals include Conger eels, humpback whales, elephant seals, ribbon or oarfish, basking sharks, and sea lions. LeBlond and Blousfield state no known creature matches

4680-477: The king of herrings or giant oarfish ( Regalecus glesne ). This species can reach 17 m (56 feet) in length and weigh up to 300 kg (660 pounds). "They're long and silvery and they undulate like a serpent would as they swim through the water," said H. J. Walker, a senior museum scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography , which has several oarfish in its collection. The carcass of

4758-494: The length of a cable rope, or 100 fathoms (200 m (220 yd)) attested by multiple witnesses, and the pair of fins which were attached "below the waist ( Danish : liv )" in Pontoppidan's view, was another unusual feature. Lee proposed a rational explanation that this sea-serpent was a misapprehended sighting of what was actually the exposed head and one tentacle of a giant squid (Cf. figure above left). In 1845,

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4836-515: The main crab tank on the F/V Northwestern beginning in season 2, and one mounted to a submersible watercraft beginning in season 3. The Season 9 "Behind the Lens" special shows two more filming methods: divers near the boats (and on the bottom of Dutch Harbor for the king crab fleet departure), and a helicopter with a belly-mounted turret camera (same as that used to film scenes in Skyfall ). Audio

4914-427: The middle of an opilio season up until his removal from the show sometime after season 14. ^2 Johnathan usually served as captain for king crab season while Andy took over as captain during opilio season. ^3 Keith's brother Monte occasionally takes over as captain for bairdi and opilio seasons. ^1 Harris was forced to leave during the C. opilio season in season 4 due to what turned out to be

4992-407: The next most hazardous occupations. 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 when 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

5070-472: The off-season and hints on what the viewers can expect in that night's episode, with previews of the upcoming season in the king crab and opilio crab kickoffs. Regular features include "The Hot Seat" (interview focused on one Captain or deckhand) and questions from celebrity fans of the show. 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. On Deck

5148-678: The past 200 years, including Deep Cove in Saanich Inlet , and Island View Beach , both of which are also on the Saanich Peninsula , and at San Francisco Bay , California. In 2009, fisherman Kelly Nash purportedly filmed several minutes of footage featuring ten to fifteen (including young) creatures in Nushagak Bay . In 2011, a very short segment of the footage was shown on the Discovery TV show Hilstranded , where

5226-435: The producers have to censor gestures and language deemed inappropriate for television audiences. For example, under the U.S. Television rating system, Deadliest Catch is rated TV-14 with inappropriate language ("L") as a highlighted concern. For visual disguise of such items as finger gestures, bloody injuries, or non-featured crew member anonymity, the producers use the traditional pixelization or blurring. However, due to

5304-449: 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 F/V 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

5382-484: The show shifts from one boat to another. Discovery Channel voice artist Mike Rowe narrates the action for North American airings. In the United Kingdom, voice artist Bill Petrie serves as narrator. The show transitions between boats using a mock-up radar screen that shows the positions of the ships relative to one another and the two ends of the fishing grounds, St. Paul Island to the north and Dutch Harbor to

5460-532: The six-man crew perished; three were never found. Cache Seel was the only survivor. Discovery Channel camera crews on the F/V Maverick and F/V 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." ^1 Instead of footage of USCGC  Acushnet  (WMEC-167) being shown, footage of USCGC  Alex Haley  (WMEC-39)

5538-424: The south. Rowe was originally supposed to be the on-camera host, and he appeared in taped footage as himself during the first season of shooting. As filming of the first season was nearing completion, Discovery greenlit production on another Rowe project, Dirty Jobs , under the condition that Rowe chose only one show on which to appear on camera. Most of the footage Rowe shot during the first season became part of

5616-482: The subsequent exchange was recorded and featured in the episode. Also, in season 4, F/V 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,

5694-456: The volume of profanities used in the course of crew member conversation, the producers occasionally employ alternate methods of censoring profanities, such as using sound effects in place of the traditional " bleep ". Following the first season, original broadcast episodes of the show used the Bon Jovi song " Wanted Dead or Alive " as the main theme. Through the course of the show, the theme

5772-510: Was eventually truncated and, following season 11, its use was replaced entirely. 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,

5850-710: 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 new after-the-series type follow-up documentaries such as Everest: After the Climb , the 2007 follow-up to Everest: Beyond the Limit . After the Catch VI was the last season of the post-fishing mini-series. Responding in part to

5928-565: Was found at his home in Astoria, Oregon . ^5 The boat did have a film crew on board. However, the footage was never broadcast on the U.S. version, but it did appear in some international versions. ^1 During the 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

6006-495: Was shown. ^2 Instead of footage of USCGC  Morgenthau  (WHEC-722) being shown, footage of USCGC  Alex Haley  (WMEC-39) was shown. Deadliest Catch draws consistently high ratings for Discovery Channel; season 3 attracted more than 49 million viewers throughout the season and over 3 million viewers per first-run episode, making it one of 2007's most successful programs on cable TV. Overall ratings for season 6 exceeded season 5's by more than 10%; as

6084-469: Was something on its back that appeared like a mane, and, as it moved through the water, kept washing about; but before I could examine it more closely, it was too far astern Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch is an American reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005. The show follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during

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