# Deadliest Catch starts tonight. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 3, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543 "2007-04-03T11:52:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/41 "2007-04-04T14:15:56Z")
[QUOTE=Honey] I loved watching the grocery shopping for supplies. The woman was carefully selecting items for each menu she had planned. The men were just sweeping stuff off the shelves into the cart. [/QUOTE] That was funny, and I liked the $5400 grocery bill. But, it was also just about the only part of the episode that looked slightly doctored for reality TV. Who, really, just sweeps boxes of food into a grocery cart by the arm load? Part of what’s cool about this show is that when they’re working. . .it’s dramatic enough. I loved it last night when Jake set a fire by mistake (or something) and the other guy goes, “that was not a full share move.” I’ve already used it twice. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/42 "2007-04-04T14:29:36Z")
I’m going to miss Hiram. He always seemed just a bit off. And I don’t know what it is about Blake, but there’s something about him I don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/43 "2007-04-04T14:56:26Z")
As I sat with a heat pad on my sore back, watching the show on my sectional sofa, I said to my wife “I am such a pussy”… I can’t imagine working for an hour in those conditions, let alone for sleepless days on end… love this show, though! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/44 "2007-04-04T14:57:42Z")
[QUOTE=Honey] I loved watching the grocery shopping for supplies. The woman was carefully selecting items for each menu she had planned. The men were just sweeping stuff off the shelves into the cart. [/QUOTE] I liked how they switched from heavy metal type music to “50’s housewife doing domestic chores” type music as they switched the shot from the Captain to the wife. I wonder how Blake got the Captain’s job on the Maverick? Last season it seemed pretty certain that Rick wasn’t handing him the keys any time soon. His crew looks pretty young too - I wonder if all the veterans quit when they found out Blake was the new Captain. Wasn’t it Hiram who said he’d never get on a boat with Blake as the captain? ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/45 "2007-04-04T15:16:39Z")
[QUOTE=muldoonthief] Wasn’t it Hiram who said he’d never get on a boat with Blake as the captain? [/QUOTE] I can’t find the cite right now, but I read that Rick let Hiram go and he’s working in construction now. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/46 "2007-04-04T15:19:42Z")
[QUOTE=Scruloose] Here’s a [video of a crabber](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_8hOai9hGQ), with a TV crew aboard, that was hit by rogue wave estimated to be about 60 feet in height. Everyone on board was lucky to have survived. Had the boat rolled over, **it is unlikely that anyone could have donned survival suits**. If they could make it to the water’s surface, their only chance of survival would have been the life raft & EPIRB. Searching for survivors in those conditions would be next to impossible. Even if they survived the event, they’d be on their own out there for quite awhile. [/QUOTE] Keee-rist. I’d be wearing it 24/7. Without a doubt. ---
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/47 "2007-04-04T17:38:32Z")
I just got into this show, and I love it. There was a marathon on the other day and it I caught the tail end of it. I saw that one of the guys was able to give his son a full cut of the profits. He seemed so excited. Last nights episode was great. The ending got me a little worried though ☹ ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/48 "2007-04-04T17:46:45Z")
[QUOTE=Honey] The [full article](http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/8740988p-8642674c.html) also tells about the filiming, how the cameras are set up, etc. [/QUOTE] I was wondering how they were able to do the shooting without being a liability to the crew. Only a third of the video gear survives in that climate…yikes! ---
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/49 "2007-04-06T16:29:48Z")
wow that is crazy! I guess that is how they get all of those great shots. This only makes the show like a million times better. ---
**Author:** ![8675309](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ea5d25/32.png) [@8675309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/8675309)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/50 "2007-04-06T17:06:34Z")
Don’t they fish for cod and other things during the non-crab season? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/51 "2007-04-06T19:28:50Z")
Yes, from what I’ve seen on the show, the big money is in king crab, but they also fish for cod (oddly enough, with crab pots) and another species of crab called opilio, aka snow crab. The opilio season is in January. They start and only fish until a predetermined quota is caught, usually only for a month. King crab season is very short - typically four to five days until the quota is caught, and starts in November. Cod looks to have two seasons - in April and September. ---
**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/52 "2007-04-07T01:22:24Z")
I’ve been looking for this show on Discovery Channel Canada. Either I’ve overlooked it or the new season has a different start date in Canada. The Canadian website doesn’t seem to help clarify this for me. Anyone have any information on this? ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/53 "2007-04-07T02:21:48Z")
I just wanted to say how strange it is that this seemingly overlooked show is really so very fantastic and oft-viewed. At the bar a week or so ago a past season was on the TV and me and a friend got into a big conversation about it with several strangers. Seems lots of folks have seen it from every walk of life and everybody likes and respects it. ---
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2007, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/54 "2007-04-08T16:14:31Z")
Yeah they do I was watching the best of season 2 last week and they showed how much the guys made with the cod and the crab and each got to take home close to 50grand each. They really did some hard work to get all that. ---
**Author:** ![iluvurmom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iluvurmom/32/7276_2.png) [@iluvurmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iluvurmom)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/55 "2007-04-11T14:22:06Z")
Anyone check it out last night? Blake’s team caught an impressive amount of crab, which it not bad for him considering he is the rookie Capitan. The next time scenes looked pretty serious, someone’s finger gets damaged pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/56 "2007-04-11T15:00:41Z")
Blake was hauling HUGE pots last night. I get pyched whenever they haul up big ones. I loved when the guy said, “who needs a little blue pill when you’re hauling in pots like this.” I like the guy who captains the boat with his wife on it. He’s new this year. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/57 "2007-04-11T15:11:59Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] I like the guy who captains the boat with his wife on it. He’s new this year. [/QUOTE] I felt bad for his wife. If I were seasick like that, the last thing I’d want to do is cook. I loved that she made them roast beef and mashed potatos for breakfast, that’s the type of rib sticking food they need. Was Sig crying at the end? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/58 "2007-04-11T15:18:25Z")
If the wife/cook/greenhorn is getting a share (effectively taking money from the other crabbers), they I don’t feel sorry for her. Seasick or not, she’s got a job to do. She seemed to suck it up towards the end, and was getting a feel for sorting crab (and stuffing bait pots). With half-full pots, it was a good time to learn. The one I felt sorry for was the survivor from the fishing boat. That was sad. Sig was crying at the end. The lack of sleep, stress, and the deaths that day may have gotten to him. Or maybe he was missing American Idol. They didn’t really say. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/59 "2007-04-11T15:37:44Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] If the wife/cook/greenhorn is getting a share (effectively taking money from the other crabbers), they I don’t feel sorry for her. Seasick or not, she’s got a job to do. She seemed to suck it up towards the end, and was getting a feel for sorting crab (and stuffing bait pots). [/QUOTE] Wow, it never even occured to me that she is getting a share. If she is, then yes, she needs to work. ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/60 "2007-04-11T18:52:06Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] Sig was crying at the end. The lack of sleep, stress, and the deaths that day may have gotten to him. Or maybe he was missing American Idol. They didn’t really say. [/QUOTE] My first thought was that he probably knew at least one of the guys who died. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543.md?page=4)