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Deadliest Catch
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Deadliest Catch is quite simply the most astonishing documentary series broadcast today. These extreme fishermen, from rookie ‘greenhorns’ to grizzled captains, perform the most dangerous job in America.
While they hunt down a fortune – killer storms hunt them. Bad luck and bad decisions can ruin more than just a fistful of fishing dollars.
Every day is an exhausting battle against the elements, economics and every other boat.
Yet what really makes Deadliest Catch must-see TV is something that touches us all: the incredible bond between these men. When lives are lived at the edge, every human emotion is played out in extremes: bravery, bonding, pranks, personal pain and loss. These are some of the toughest men in the world, riding fate as well as 50ft waves. But they’ve got a lot of lessons to send back to us from the icy wastes they battle every day.
- The 50 cameras used to film deadliest Catch are so damaged during the brutal month-long crabbing season they have to be thrown away after each series.
- Discovery’s cameras have captured the triumphs and the tragedy. In one of the most powerful episodes, the crew of the Cornelia Marie pulled a fisherman from the freezing sea, just seconds before death.
- The crab they catch can net them more in the months’ season than many Americans earn in a year. But with an average of an hours’ sleep every two days, they earn it!
- Deadliest Catch has even spawned its own video game – captain Sig Hansen, famous for skippering the Northwestern, helped write the game, bringing a real flavour of the treacherous seas to the armchair gamer.
- After The Catch, the Mike Rowe-hosted round-table talk about the season just gone – and the crabbing life in general – is one of Discovery’s most popular annual specials.
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