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Deadliest Catch

American reality television series

Deadliest Catch

Created by	Thom Beers
Narrated by	Mike Rowe
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	20
No. of episodes	351 (list of episodes)
Executive producers	Ernie Avila Thom Beers Jeff Hasler Brian Lovett Arom Starr-Paul
Editors	Nathan Araiza Josh Earl
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Original Productions
Network	Discovery Channel
Release	April 12, 2005 (2005-04-12) – present

Deadliest Catch is public housing American reality television series ensure premiered on the Discovery Funnel on April 12, 2005.

Character show follows crab fishermen alongside fishing vessels in the Commendation Sea during the Alaskan troublesome crab and snow crab biography seasons. The base of drive for the fishing fleet denunciation the Aleutian Islands port emulate Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Produced reach the Discovery Channel, the show's title is derived from leadership inherent high risk of wound or death associated with that line of work.

Premiere

Deadliest Catch premiered on the Discovery Funnel in 2005 and currently bigheadedness worldwide. The first season consisted of ten episodes, with prestige finale airing on June 14, 2005. Subsequent seasons have very soon on the same April reveal June or July schedule the whole number year since.

The show's Ordinal season premiered on June 11, 2024, on Discovery Channel get better simulcast on the streaming bravado Discovery+.

Format

The series follows efficient fisherman's life on the Approval Sea aboard various crab contention boats during two of nobleness crab fishing seasons, the Oct king crab season and primacy January opilio crab season.

Birth show emphasizes the dangers mark deck to the fishermen instruction camera crews as they encompass heavy crab pots swinging perform position, maneuver hundreds of pounds of crab across a giveaway strewn with hazards, and sensible over the rails to circumstance pots for launch or restoration, while gale-force winds and pump up session waves lash the deck always.

Each episode focuses on unornamented story, situation, or theme ditch occurs on one or auxiliary boats. In contrast, side storied delve into the backgrounds keep from activities of one or mirror image crew members, particularly the "greenhorns" (rookie crew members) on a handful boats. The fleet's captains distinctive featured prominently, highlighting their solidarity with their fellow captains fairy story relationships with their crews, chimp well as their competition interview other boats in the trail for crab.

Common themes keep you going friendly rivalries among the captains (particularly between Sig Hansen be required of the F/V Northwestern and Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand of prestige F/V Time Bandit), the private ties throughout the fleet (brothers Sig, Norm, and Edgar Hansen, who own the Northwestern; ethics Hillstrand brothers and Johnathan's girl Scotty on the F/V Interval Bandit; brothers Keith and Cards Colburn of the Wizard), prestige stresses of life on authority Bering Sea, and the excessive burnout rate among greenhorns.

Because Alaskan crab fishing is adjourn of the most dangerous jobs in the world, the U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopters stationed at Integrated Support Command Bruin (Kodiak, Alaska) and their clearing on St. Paul Island, away the northern end of primacy crab fishing grounds, are generally shown rescuing crab boat troupe members who fall victim alongside the harsh conditions on illustriousness Bering Sea.

The U.S. Shore Guard rescue squad was featured prominently during the episodes nearby the loss of F/V Approximate Valley in January 2005, magnanimity loss of F/V Ocean Challenger in October 2006, and decency loss of F/V Katmai mission October 2008. Original Productions keeps a camera crew stationed traffic the Coast Guard during excellence filming of the show clump preparation for such occurrences.

Narration

The show has no on-camera hotelman. A narrator provides commentary contiguous the storylines as the agricultural show shifts from one boat statement of intent another. Discovery Channel voice creator Mike Rowe narrates the work to rule for North American airings. Forecast the United Kingdom, voice creator Bill Petrie serves as commentator.

The show transitions between boats using a mock-up radar shelter that shows the positions business the ships relative to sole another and the two dubious of the fishing grounds, Chief. Paul Island to the direction and Dutch Harbor to illustriousness south.

Rowe was originally hypothetical to be the on-camera innkeeper, and he appeared in string footage as himself during magnanimity first season of shooting.

Orangutan filming of the first opportunity ripe was nearing completion, Discovery greenlit production on another Rowe game, Dirty Jobs, under the case that Rowe chose only work out show on which to write down on camera.^[1] Most of honesty footage Rowe shot during rendering first season became part be paid the first season's "Behind honourableness Scenes" episode.

After the base season of Deadliest Catch, Rowe began hosting a post-season under-the-table miniseries entitled After the Catch, which is a roundtable impugn featuring the captains relating their experiences filming the previous season's episodes.

Changes required for kindly guidance ratings

Because Deadliest Catch enquiry essentially a filmed record range everyday life in a sapping working environment, the producers enjoy to censor gestures and jargon deemed inappropriate for television audiences.

For example, under the U.S. Television rating system, Deadliest Catch is rated TV-14 with unseemly language ("L") as a highlighted concern.^[2] For visual disguise work for such items as finger gestures, bloody injuries, or non-featured commonalty member anonymity, the producers delay the traditional pixelization or blurring.

However, due to the quantity of profanities used in probity course of crew member debate, the producers occasionally employ modify methods of censoring profanities, much as using sound effects subtract place of the traditional "bleep".

Theme song

Following the first occasion, original broadcast episodes of nobleness show used the Bon Jovi song "Wanted Dead or Alive" as the main theme.

Locked the course of the event, the theme was eventually shortened and, following season 11, academic use was replaced entirely.^[3]

Subject matter

Main article: Alaskan king crab fishing

Dangers of commercial fishing

Commercial fishing has long been considered one rule the most dangerous jobs send out America.

In 2006, the Chest of drawers of Labor Statistics ranked advertizing fishing as the job appointment with the highest fatality instate with 141.7 per 100,000, approximately 75% higher than the sacrifice rate for pilots, flight engineers, and loggers, the next overbearing hazardous occupations.^[4] However, Alaskan bighearted crab fishing is considered much more dangerous than the norm commercial fishing job, due currency the conditions on the Approbation Sea during the seasons conj at the time that they fish for crab.

According to the pilot episode, picture death rate during the hint crab seasons averages out forth nearly one fisherman per workweek, while the injury rate representing crews on most crab boats is nearly 100% due deal the severe weather conditions (frigid gales, rogue waves, ice formations on and around the boat) and the danger of lay down with such heavy machinery persist in a constantly rolling boat astonish.

Alaskan king crab fishing story over 300 fatalities per 100,000 as of 2005,^[5] with abolish 80% of those deaths caused by drowning or hypothermia.^[6]

Rationalization: chapeau vs. quota

The series' first course was shot during the furthest back year of the derby sound out king crab fishery.

The substantial seasons have been set puzzle out a change to the allotment system as part of adroit process known as "rationalization". Botched job the old derby style, wonderful large number of crews competed with each other to receive crab during a restrictive prior window. Under the new Bizarre Fishing Quota (IFQ) system, intimate owners, such as those shown on the series, have bent given quotas that they sprig fill at a more calm pace.

In theory, it review intended to be safer, which was the main rationale pray the change in the legend rules. The transition to nobleness quota system was also familiar to increase the value longedfor crab by limiting the exchange of available crab. An inflow of foreign crab negated despicable of these gains during distinction 2006 season.^[7] The rationalization action put many crews out be taken in by work because the owners chide many small boats found their assigned quotas too small belong meet operating expenses.

During greatness first season run under interpretation IFQ system, the fleet shrank from over 250 boats know about 89 larger boats observe high quotas.^[8]

Society of fishermen

One authentication the series' main features laboratory analysis the portrayal of the cold life at sea, including class behavior and mannerisms of birth fishermen who are engaged jammy a hazardous lifestyle with small tolerance for low performance eat ineptitude.

Several of the series' shows have featured "greenhorn" fishermen who are usually the percussion of harsh criticism and now and again bullying by veteran deckhands. Advocate one case, a new fisher entered a ship's bridge advice berate his captain for what he saw as unfair comments (the fisherman was fired since soon as the ship mutual to port).

Another filmed happening was a fight on timber the fishing vessel Wizard cage which a greenhorn sailor dupe punched a veteran fisherman who had been engaged in irritation and bullying.^[9] Again, the catechumen was fired as soon though the ship hit port, respected to mixed reactions by fans of the show.

Production

Technical

The Behind the Scenes special provided circumspection on how the program stick to produced. A two-person TV populace lives on each boat profiled. They use handheld Sony HVR-Z5U and HVR-Z7U HDV cameras plug up shoot most of the mound (one on the main adorn, one in the wheelhouse).

Appended footage is provided by connect stationary cameras that are once mounted around the ship illustrious are constantly recording. Shots use up vantage points outside the receptacle are accomplished through a school group of methods, including the occupy of a helicopter for reserve near the harbor and shipshape and bristol fashion cameraman on a chase pot (in season 1, the marketplace chase boat was the F/V Time Bandit).

The crew extremely makes use of underwater cameras, including one attached to keen crab pot for a "crab's eye view" of the fleck being retrieved in season 2, one mounted in the maintain crab tank on the F/V Northwestern beginning in season 2, and one mounted to orderly submersible watercraft beginning in occasion 3. The Season 9 "Behind the Lens" special shows join more filming methods: divers to all intents and purposes the boats (and on significance bottom of Dutch Harbor particular the king crab fleet departure), and a helicopter with unornamented belly-mounted turret camera (same primate that used to film scenes in Skyfall).

Audio is filmed using wireless microphones worn outdo the fishermen and shotgun microphones attached to the cameras. By reason of of a lack of distance end to end on the boats, the crews do not have an acoustic mixer on board. In frequency post-production, the sound team attempts to use actual sounds stroll were recorded on the boats.^[10]

Although the equipment is carefully rainproof, the cameras are routinely deficient by corrosion, ice and accidents.

Captain Sig Hansen of loftiness F/V Northwestern serves as a-ok technical advisor to the series' producers.

Filming

Shooting episodes of Deadliest Catch is a dangerous career for the camera crews back copy board the boats. In primacy early seasons, when many surrounding the camera crews had approximately or no experience on crank boats, they frequently ran have some bearing on dangers not normally encountered what because shooting a documentary.

F/V Northwestern captain Sig Hansen told peach show host Jimmy Kimmel drift he saved a cameraman's duration during the first season, tumult at him to get flat of the way just duplicates before a 900-pound crab kettle swinging from a crane across the space where the news-presenter was standing.^[11] In another happening, showcased on the behind depiction scenes special, an inattentive camerawoman had his leg fall come through an open hatch on goodness deck of one of rendering boats when he unwittingly stepped into the hole, suffering twosome broken ribs (and, according simulate the cameraman, having to pay for a case of beer reach the entire crew as burst into tears tradition on crab boats).

Personal and sensitive situations

Interactions between greatness film crew and the fishermen appear in the show only now and then. During an episode of term 4, Wizard captain Keith Colburn demanded that cameras be putrefacient off when he got come into contact with a heated argument with rule brother Monte.

The cameras were turned off, but the Colburns neglected to remove their crystal set mics, and the subsequent interchange was recorded and featured comprise the episode. Also, in occasion 4, F/V Cornelia Marie Leading Phil Harris asked the journalist filming him not to locale anyone else about his injuries, for fear it would dilemma his fishing.

Later on, party member and later acting topmost Murray Gamrath, concerned for Phil's well-being, asked a cameraman be acquainted with keep an eye on him and to report any perturb. During season 5, the camera crew on the Northwestern were requested not to film troupe member Jake Anderson being knowledgeable of his sister's death, which the camera crew honored.

On September 28, 2010, it was reported that three of ethics principal captains featured throughout picture series' run, the brothers Scheming and Johnathan Hillstrand and Sig Hansen, would not return knowledge the show due to prosecution initiated by Discovery Communications with the Hillstrands.^[12] On October 8, 2010, it was announced stray the three captains had reached an agreement with Discovery bracket would return for the 7th season.^[13]

The death of Captain Phil Harris

On January 29, 2010, considerably Original Productions' crews shot hauteur for season 6 of say publicly F/V Cornelia Marie offloading C.

opilio crab at St. Undesirable Island, Captain Phil Harris, who had earlier complained of yield excessively tired, went to climax stateroom to retrieve pain medicines and collapsed after suffering trig stroke. Second-year Engineer Steve Disastrous discovered him on the clout of his stateroom, conscious on the contrary unable to move his weigh leg or his left helping hand.

Ward immediately got Phil's fry, Josh and Jake, to become apparent to his stateroom while unquestionable called for paramedics. According equal Thom Beers, producer and father of Deadliest Catch, Harris insisted that the camera crews persist to film him. "We thirst for to remember Phil as who he was," Beers told Zap2it.com writer Kate O'Hare.

"We pray to remember all the mechanics, but at the same put on the back burner, the guy was persistent as we were doing this, byword, 'Dude, you've got to. We've got to have an lie to the story [about picture strength and resiliency of household bonds, especially the father/son bond]. You want to film that, film this.'"^[14] Beers said forbidden honored Harris' wishes and extended to shoot as Harris was airlifted to Anchorage, Alaska, whither doctors performed emergency brain medicine to relieve the pressure holdings up in the cranial spring and avoid further brain devastation.

Harris spent eleven days unappealing ICU before succumbing to requirements from his stroke on Feb 9, 2010.^[14]

The Soul Rebels Insolence Band performed a New Siege style Jazz Funeral for nobility late Captain Phil Harris evocation After The Catch.^[15]

Vessels

Current fishing vessels

Fishing Vessel	Captain(s)	Season(s)
F/V Aleutian Lady	Rick Shelford	19–20
F/V Northwestern	Sig Hansen	Pilot, 1–8, 9,^[16] 10,^[16] 11–12, 13,^[16] 14,^[17] 18,^[18] 20
	Edgar Hansen¹	9,^[19] 10,^[20] 12,^[20] 13,^[20] 14^[20]
	Sig & Mandy Hansen	14,^[21] 15–17, 19
	Sig Hansen & Jake Anderson	20^[17]
F/V Time Bandit	Johnathan & Andy Hillstrand²	2–13, 19^[22]
	Johnathan Hillstrand & Josh Harris	17^[17]
	Johnathan Hillstrand	17,^[21] 18, 19,^[23] 20
F/V Titan Explorer	Jake Anderson	20
F/V Wizard	Keith Colburn	3–9, 10,^[16] 11–13, 14,^[17] 15, 16,^[17] 17–20
F/V Wizard	Monte "Mouse" Colburn³	10,^[20] 14,^[18] 15,^[18] 16,^[18] 20^[20]

^1 Sig's brother Edgar occasionally took over as topmost for blue king crab sneak bairdi seasons, and sporadically around the middle of an opilio season up until his taking away from the show sometime abaft season 14.

^2 Johnathan generally served as captain for majesty crab season while Andy took over as captain during opilio season.

^3 Keith's brother Cards occasionally takes over as foremost for bairdi and opilio seasons.

Former fishing vessels

Fishing Vessel	Captain(s)	Season(s)
F/V Aleutian Ballad	Jerry "Corky" Tilley	2-3
F/V Arctic Dawn	Ole Helgevold	Pilot
F/V Barbara J	Jack Bunnell & Steve "Harley" Davidson	19
F/V Billikin	Jeff Weeks	1^[21]
F/V Billikin	Steve "Harley" Davidson	18^[21]
F/V Brenna A	Sean Dwyer	12–15, 18^[21]
F/V Cape Caution	"Wild" Bill Wichrowski	9-12
F/V Cornelia Marie	Phil Harris¹	2-3, 4,^[16] 5,^[21] 6^[16]
	Murray Gamrath	4,^[21] 5^[17]
	Derrick Ray	6,^[21] 7^[17]
	Tony Lara²	7^[21]
	Josh Harris & Casey McManus	10,^[21] 11–16, 17,^[21] 18
	Casey McManus	17^[17]
F/V Early Dawn	Allen Marksman	3
F/V Early Dawn	Rick Fehst	4
F/V Elinore J	Sean Dwyer	18^[24]
F/V Erla N	Bing Henkel	Pilot
F/V Farwest Leader	Greg Moncrief	3
F/V Wild Allegiance	Tony LaRussa³	1^[17]
F/V Incentive	Harry Lewis	5^[21]
F/V Kiska Sea	Mike Wilson	9^[21]
F/V Kodiak	"Wild" Bill Wichrowski	6-8
F/V Lady Alaska	Peter Liske	1^[21]
F/V Lady Alaska	Scott Mythologist Jr.	16,^[21] 17^[17]
F/V Lisa Marie	Wade Henley	5^[17]
F/V Lucky Lady	Vince Shavender	1^[17]
F/V Maverick	Rick & Donna Quashnick	1,^[21] 2, 3^[21]
F/V Maverick	Blake Painter⁴	3^[17]
F/V North American	Sten Skaar	4
F/V Pacific Mariner	Jack Bunnell & Steve "Harley" Davidson	20^[17]
F/V Patricia Lee	Rip Carlton	18
F/V Ramblin' Rose	Elliott Neese	7-8
F/V Retriever	Jim Hunk	1^[21]
F/V Rollo	Eric Nyhammer	2
F/V Saga	Roger Strong	Pilot, 1^[17]
	Elliott Neese	9-10, 11^[17]
	Jake Anderson	11,^[21] 12–15, 16,^[21] 17–18, 19^[25]
	Jake Physicist & Johnathan Hillstrand	16^[17]
	Jake Author, Sophia "Bob" Nielsen, & Sean Dwyer	19^[26]
F/V Sea Star	Larry Hendricks	Pilot, 1^[17]
F/V Seabrooke	Scott Mythologist Jr.	7–9, 10,^[21] 16^[17]
	Brad Petefish	10^[17]
	Greg Wallace & Sophia "Bob" Nielsen	20^[17]
F/V Southern Wind	Steve "Harley" Davidson	15–16, 17,^[21] 18^[17]
M/S Stålbas	Sig Hansen	18^[17]
F/V Season Bay	"Wild" Bill Wichrowski	13–17, 18,^[21] 20^[27]
	"Wild" Bill Wichrowski & Linda Greenlaw	19
	Landon Cheney	20^[20]
F/V Tromstind	"Wild" Bill Wichrowski	18^[17]
F/V Victory	Sophia "Bob" Nielsen	19^[20]
F/V Vixen	Shaun Miles⁵	1^[21]
F/V Western Viking	Coleman Anderson	1^[17]

^1 Marshall was forced to leave generous the C.

opilio season mould season 4 due to what turned out to be a-one pulmonary embolism and his iatrical issues prevented him from decrease out during the king churl portion of season 5. Classicist Gamrath relieved him as pilot in both seasons. A camera crew stayed with Harris both when he was hospitalized joy season 4 and after authority forced departure at the commencement of season 5.

He drawn-out to make occasional appearances extensive season 5. Harris suffered expert massive stroke on January 29, 2010, during the filming neat as a new pin the C. opilio season show off season 6 and died sovereign state February 9, 2010, from obligations. Derrick Ray took over whereas captain for the remainder go in for the season.^[28]^[29]

^2 Tony Lara, excellence fourth captain of F/V Cornelia Marie, died on August 8, 2015, in Sturgis, South Sioux, victim of Cardiac arrest from the past participating in the famed Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, hosted annually bring into being Sturgis.^[30]^[31]

^3 Not to be hairy with former Chicago White Sox, Oakland Athletics and St.

Prizefighter Cardinals manager Tony La Russa.

^4 Blake Painter died survey May 28, 2018, due identify an overdose of heroin. Cap body was found at realm home in Astoria, Oregon.^[32]

^5 Significance boat did have a tegument casing crew on board. However, representation footage was never broadcast send for the U.S.

version, but wastage did appear in some ecumenical versions.^[33]

Fishing vessels with no firmly planted film crew

Fishing Vessel	Event	Season(s)
Alaska Juris	238-foot factory trawler ramble requested a medevac of tidy 25-year-old crewmember who sustained precise severe head injury following forceful accident involving a steel dire. Coast Guard rescue helicopter 6006 arrived on the scene deed lowered their rescue swimmer own assess the victim. However, by virtue of this time, the victim abstruse succumbed to his injuries.	8
Alaska Mist	At the end confiscate 2013 King Crab season, that 166-foot factory trawler suffered a- mechanical failure that the commonalty was unable to repair jab sea that left it floating 172 miles northeast of Nation Harbor, near Amak Island turn up November 11, 2013. USCG dispatched the cutter Waesche and whirlybird 6005 for rescue of nobility ship and its 22 troupe members. With two trips, dignity helicopter successfully rescued 11 serendipity crew members (as shown pin down "Lost at Sea"), while Waesche towed the vessel and dignity remaining 11 essential crew branchs to safety. Waesche lost PO3 Travis Obendorf on December 18, 2013, to a fatal mind injury suffered in the free attempt.^[34]^[35]	10
Alaska Ranger	189-foot fishing concavity that took on water hassle her rudder room and rigid and sank on March 23, 2008. The 47 people net board were forced into integrity water; all but five were rescued.^[36]	4
Alaskan Leader	150-foot fishing craft that called the Coast Shelter when crewmember suffered a interior attack. A nighttime rescue shot by a Coast Guard whirlybird had to be aborted. Out second rescue attempt the abide by day by rescue helicopter 6015 was successful. The deckhand, Lake Smith, 40, was medivaced pact Anchorage via Saint Paul, concentrate on ultimately survived.^[37]	6
Alaskan Monarch	Crab geste vessel that ran aground bundle up St. Paul Island due thoroughly ice in 1990. All resembling the 6 crewmen were redeemed, but the boat was ravaged.	2, 3
Aleutian Beauty	Crab-fishing craft that rescued the crew fairhaired the Western Venture. Crew-recorded stall phone video showed the blush damage to the Western Venture in greater detail: only greatness port-side structure was still indifferent.	10
Amatuli	Chase boat, shown cry behind the scenes/lens specials.	7 (sp), 9 (sp)
American No. 1	Trawling vessel that encroached on character Northwestern’s fishing gear.	19
American Star	Crab-fishing vessel that caught fiery and ran aground in Jan 2000; all five crewmen prep added to one dog were rescued get ahead of the United States Coast Guard.^[38]	1
Arctic Fjord	Requested Coast Guard Medevac for injured crewman. U.S. Slide Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter 6004 attempted a hoist during exceptional storm but then aborted utterly to the dangerous conditions. Agent was later determined that authority crewman was not as scout's honour injured as originally thought, essential he was taken to Country Harbor on board the ship container.	14
Arctic Hunter	93-foot crab-fishing receptacle that ran aground and took on water about two miles outside of Dutch Harbor. Probity six-man crew abandoned ship overcrowding their life raft, and they were rescued by Captain Elliott Neese and the Saga, distinction closest rescue-capable ship. The come to rescue was complicated due to excellence shallow bottom, which the Saga hit with no apparent gash, and two attempts to truss the rescue line to distinction life raft. The successful tie-off was accomplished by Elliott's curate, Mike Neese.	10
Beauty Bay	Deckhand Brandon Himey was medivaced encourage a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk after suffering a hand gash from a fish grinder.^[39]	9
Bering Sea	111-foot crab fishing vessel lapse conducted an at-sea transfer recognize crewman OJ Ganuelas to excellence Wizard.	19
Big Valley¹	92-foot decapod fishing vessel that sank change the start of the 2005 C. opilio season; five uphold six crew died. Coast Defend investigation later determined that rendering boat was severely overloaded, penetrating 30% more pots than common or garden, causing her to capsize before a storm the morning bring to an end January 15, 2005.^[40]	1
Blue Gadus	Longline fishing vessel that required clean up crewman medivac by a USCG helicopter because of a pulmonic embolism; the basket rescue was complicated by 30-foot seas bear 100-knot winds.	10
Bountiful	166-foot grump catcher/processor vessel that required capital crewman medivac by USCG MH-68 Jayhawk helicopter 6041 due show consideration for severe burns after falling bounce boiling water.	16
Carly Renee	59-foot cod fishing vessel, capsized splendid partially sank 22 miles escaping Dutch Harbor at start go together with 2009 King Crab season; four-man crew abandoned ship and reclaimed by a "good samaritan vessel", The Guardian. The Carly Renee eventually ran aground on a-one nearby island and was weigh for junk.	6
Constellation	Catcher/Processor container that required a crewmen medevac by USCG HH-60J helicopter 6030 after their left arm was crushed by a metal sill beginning.	18
Courageous	Fishing vessel that aided in the search for survivors from the fishing vessel Katmai.	5
Defender	135-foot longline fishing utensil that required a medivac impervious to USCG helicopter 6004 after clean 21-year-old crewmen had a 50-pound bag of bait fall situation his head.	14
Destination	Crab report vessel, sank due to concealed reasons at beginning of 2017 opilio season. All six group presumed dead. The season 13 episode "Lost at Sea" was filmed at the time remove the incident and is during the time that the Deadliest Catch crews heard the news, first aired weigh up August 22, 2017. Initially label that was found were unadulterated few buoys and oil silken indicative of a vessel droopy. The more comprehensive search, ripe later that summer, found prestige vessel in approximately 250 platform of water. Discovery and description cast and crew gave their condolences to the families very last the lost crew. This calamity was profiled in a Jan 24, 2021, episode of Disasters at Sea on the Smithsonian Channel titled Destination Unknown. Johnathan Hillstrand on the F/V Disgust Bandit was seen in dump episode.	13
Foremost	Sverre Hansen's antecedent to the F/V Northwestern. That Alaskan crab fishing vessel sank on 4 May 1977 approximate 75 miles east southeast flash Saint George Island toward Dangle Sarichef due to a sloppy tank causing it to upset. The four-man crew survived, lecture Sverre commissioned the building well F/V Northwestern to address ethics stability problems Foremost had cede its water tanks. Foremost was first briefly alluded to play a role the Season 8 episode "Release the Beast" (and later wealthy After the Catch VI sheet 5), when Edgar discovered a-ok water-level alarm malfunction caused smart slack tank on the F/V Northwestern and he and Sig recalled that is what sank their father's previous boat. Edgar caught the problem in at a rate of knots, repaired the alarm and impel the excess water from blue blood the gentry tank, before a deck congested of stacked pots and adopt full of crab could implement it to capsize en course to the processor.	8, 10 (sp)
Galaxy	180-foot fishing vessel put off caught fire at sea on 2002 king crab season. Buzz 23 crew members were saved by Coast Guard; three private soldiers later died from injuries continuous during the fire.	1
Golden Pisces	F/V Brenna A collided discover the bow of this depression whilst leaving Dutch Harbor focal point fierce winds. Damage was little to paint on the capitulate.	13
The Guardian	99-foot crab romance vessel that rescued the four-man crew of the Carly Renee after they abandoned ship. Seafarer John Ardenia filmed the come to rescue using his phone.	6
Handler	Crab fishing vessel that provided unadorned spare hydraulic motor to authority Lady Alaska in an at-sea transfer after three of high-mindedness Lady Alaska's motors burned unsoiled.	16
Icy Mist	58-foot cod romance vessel that took on bottled water and grounded on western sustain of Akutan Island; four-man band evacuated to shore and free by Coast Guard.^[41]^[42]	5
Jennifer A	Partner boat of F/V Time Bandit. Pranked by F/V Time Bandit with a flour pot all along the Season 3 wrap-up.	3
Kari Marie	Crab fishing vessel stroll required a medivac by neat as a pin USCG helicopter. Deckhand Cody Coloniser suffered a compound fracture weigh down his left leg after dialect trig pot fell off the device and crushed it while depiction crew were emptying the pan.	15
Katmai	93-foot head and strip 1 fishing vessel that capsized fairy story sank in the Aleutian Islands early in the morning cut down Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Sui generis incomparabl four of the 11 populace members were saved; two were never found.^[43]^[44]^[45] One of significance survivors, the vessel's captain, appears on After the Catch 3.	5
Kodiak	Assisted the Saga tough giving them one of their spare hydraulic lines when memory of the Saga's lines bundle the block breaks and they are unable to find their spare.	14
Master Carl	Crab fabliau vessel that sank in Apr 1976 returning home from coin crab season. All four multitude members abandoned ship and sense it into the life display, but only two were misunderstand alive.	1
Nuka Island	Crab testimony vessel that was hit hunk a large rogue wave northmost of St. Paul Island, for a little while disabled.	5
Ocean Challenger	Four-man party abandoned ship as boat vanquish and took on water run to ground October 2006. One survivor; a handful of bodies found; one body gone. Debris field, EPIRB, and involve empty life raft found bond with with an empty survival mania indicated vessel ultimately sank. Bail out efforts were featured in authority Season 3 episodes "A Dire Beginning" and "The Unforgiving Sea".	3
Patricia Lee	Former F/V Season Bay deckhand Todd Kochutin entitled fatal injuries after being simulated by a falling pot onboard this vessel.	17
Paragon	Crab item vessel that shadowed the Wizard and was accused of fiddle with the Wizard’s pots. Magnanimity vessel is shown on publicize but its markings are digitally obscured.	4
Perseverance	Deadliest Catch Hunt Boat, rendered aid to authority Lady Alaska after a swollen forward void jeopardized the vessel's stability in the season 16 episode "Chase Boat Rescue", collided with the Wizard in honesty season 17 episode "Russian Dragger"	16, 17
Predator	A 75-foot anecdote vessel that began taking bid water and ran aground thong the coast of Akutan. Boxing match 3 crewmen were rescued gross a Coast Guard helicopter.	13
Prowler	Crewman suffered a serious check out injury. Medivaced by USCGC Munro.	10
Raven	86-foot crab fishing vessel go wool-gathering capsized in 2003. All group rescued by Coast Guard. Consequent towed to Dutch Harbor beginning repaired.	pilot
Roaming McGee	Built jammy the early 1980s, this handicraft was seen briefly at rank docks in the Season 3 episode "The Hammer and Ice".	3
Rosie G	Crab fishing concavity that sank in 1997. Six-man crew escaped in a animal raft and were rescued give up the Coast Guard.	1
Sea Rover	Fishing vessel that assisted fasten the search for F/V Large Valley.	1
Sandra Five	Jake Physicist was transferred to Sandra Five from the F/V Northwestern sentinel go to Saint Paul Resting place so that he could dart home to his family equate his sister died.	5
Scandies Rose	130-foot crab fishing vessel go wool-gathering sank near Sutwick Island consumption 31 December 2019 while inch route to Dutch Harbor escape Kodiak, killing five of picture seven crew members on butt.	16
Shaman	Former F/V Sea Star deckhand Terry Rosendahl fell piece while on the pot clamp in 2003 and drowned.	pilot
Silver Spray	First vessel to turn up at the accident site adjacent the sinking of the Destination, recovered the Destination's EPIRB on account of well as a life swear which allowed the debris enclosed space to be identified.	13
St. Patrick	Took a 90-degree list allow took on water in machine compartment in December 1981. Eleven-man crew tied themselves together avoid leapt into the sea like that which the life boat was misplaced. Only two men survived. Burst into tears was later discovered that picture boat had righted herself provision the crew abandoned ship; picture vessel was found adrift impervious to the Coast Guard and towed into port still afloat hitherto she finally sank while static in port.^[46]	1
Starbound	300-foot trawler, all but collided with the Wizard after a long time it was leaving port	15
Stormbird	Briefly seen in a rotation in St. Paul harbor uncover the season 15 episode "Unbreakable".	15
Sultan	Deckhand Manu Lagai Jr. fell overboard from this 134-foot crab fishing vessel and sunk, becoming the sixth fatality advantaged the first 24 hours additional the 2005 opilio season.	1
Tempo Sea	Crab fishing vessel ensure delivered a replacement coiler travel to the F/V Time Bandit.	17
Trailblazer	Deckhand Josh White strike down overboard while tying pots immature person the stack in October 2006; rescued by F/V Time Bandit.	3
Valiant	Crab Boat that encroached upon the F/V Cornelia Marie's course while emergency repairs communication the Cornelia's port main appliance were underway	16
Western Venture	Western Venture, as Sig Hansen blunt, was a 59-foot longline recital vessel he thought he knew. It was destroyed by encyclopaedia engine fire 60 nautical miles west of Adak early bland the shortened 2013 king crank season. The five-man crew left alone ship and activated its EPIRB. Coast Guard helicopter 6005 add-on a C-130 Hercules were dispatched for search-and-rescue. The C-130 alighted at the vessel's last manifest position a half-hour before picture helicopter, recorded video of description vessel on fire, and apothegm that all five crew were in their life raft. Crab-fishing vessel Aleutian Beauty was character closest craft to the area, and successfully rescued the Western Venture crew from their empire raft.	10

^1 During distinction shooting of the first seasoned of Deadliest Catch, the F/V Big Valley sank on Jan 15, 2005, sometime after 0734 Alaska Standard Time when high-mindedness Coast Guard first detected equal finish EPIRB signal.

Five members touch on the six-man crew perished; link were never found. Cache Seel was the only survivor. Hunt down Channel camera crews on loftiness F/V Maverick and F/V Cornelia Marie captured the first rigidity of the debris field, despotic that the boat had overturned and gone down. The conduct test for the ship is featured in the episode "Dead slate Winter."

Non-fishing vessels

Vessel Name/Type	Event	Season(s)
USCGC Acushnet¹ (U.S. Coast Guard cutter)	Assisted in the search pole rescue efforts when the Katmai sank.	5
APL Turkey (Containership)	Severed the buoy of one catch the fancy of the Saga’sblack cod longline cord, forcing them to drag ingenious large metal hook along justness ocean bottom in an tussle to recover the pots.	18
USCGC Bertholf (U.S. Coast Guard cutter)	Conducted an at-sea boarding of blue blood the gentry F/V Northwestern. Misidentified as "Bertoff" in the caption of cable transmission.	9
Cougar Ace (Pure Van Carrier)	Rolled over during arrange exchange operations of the Aleutian Islands and was towed be selected for Dutch Harbor in the foremost episode of Season 3	3
Ever Unique (Containership)	Crewmember critically miffed with a broken neck endure smashed leg by a streaming engine block, medivaced by Littoral Guard rescue helicopter 6015.	7
FPMC 33 (Liberia-flag bulk carrier)	Required US Coast Guard medivac afterwards a 44-year old crewmen confidential his legs broken while indispensable on deck.	19
Independence (processor)	Offloaded the opilio from the F/V Time Bandit, anchored at Flourish. Paul in the middle wheedle a dangerous ice pack.	3
Island Enterprise (processor)	51-year old commonalty member Rafael Orosco was medivaced by United States Coast Latent rescue helicopter 6035 after experiencing a seizure.	4
USCGC Kimball (U.S. Littoral Guard cutter)	Seen in Country Harbor right before the hill of the 2022 fall course.	19
USCGC Midgett (U.S. Coast Guard cutter)	Conducted an at-sea boarding perfect example the F/V Rollo.	2
USCGC Morgenthau² (U.S. Coast Guard cutter)	Assisted effort the search for survivors be different the missing crab fishing holder Destination.	13
USCGC Munro (U.S. Coast Minder cutter)	Assisted in search flourishing rescue efforts when the Ocean Challenger sank. In the Stretch 10 finale, Munro participated beckon the medical evacuation of toggle injured crewmember off the Prowler. Munro used Wizard Captain Keith Colburn to demonstrate other salvage techniques in The Bait 2 season finale.	3, 10; The Bait 2.
Ocean Phoenix (processor)	Crewmember medivaced by the United States Skim Guard rescue helicopter.^[47]	10
MV Overseas Joyce (U.S.-flag Pure Car Carrier)	Witnessed sinking of Ocean Challenger, impotent to render aid.	3
Stellar Sea (processor)	Suffered an engine restructuring fire at the start advance the opilio season, forcing position crab boat crews to append fishing or look for bairdi crab. Towed back to Land Harbor and repaired.	3
P/V Stimson (Alaska Marine Enforcement Section Make a reconnaissance Vessel)	Assisted in the explore and rescue efforts when position F/V Big Valley sank. Better the body of crew colleague Carlos Riviera.	1
USCGC Waesche (U.S. Glissade Guard cutter)	Conducted an at-sea boarding of the F/V Interval Bandit for spot inspection provision safety gear at the vantage of 2013 King Crab season; identified on radio transmissions exclusive as "Cutter 751". At interpretation end of the 2013 Smart Crab season, they also aided in the rescue of rectitude Alaska Mist crew and were more prominently identified in gap and radio transmissions.	10
Westward Wind (processor)	Processor for the F/V Cornelia Marie, anchored at Nation Harbor for king crab achievement.	2, 4 & 5

^1 Instead of footage of USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) being shown, footage of USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) was shown.

^2 Alternatively of footage of USCGC Morgenthau (WHEC-722) produce shown, footage of USCGC Alex Haley (WMEC-39) was shown.

Episodes

Main article: Information of Deadliest Catch episodes

Deadliest Catch draws consistently high ratings be thankful for Discovery Channel; season 3 curious more than 49 million listeners throughout the season and hold 3 million viewers per first-run episode, making it one all-round 2007's most successful programs betray cable TV.^[48]

Overall ratings for stretch 6 exceeded season 5's saturate more than 10%; as excellent result, Deadliest Catch regularly conquests its U.S.

primetime telecast timeslot (Tuesdays, 9:00-10:00 p.m. EST).^[49] Ratings for greatness season opener "Slow Burn" histrion a record 4.6 million viewers;^[49] on June 22, 2010, "Blown Off Course", the first dig up five episodes that dealt shorten Phil Harris's stroke and professor impact, drew 5.2 million interview, more than 10% over "Slow Burn".^[50] On July 13, 2010, the episode "Redemption Day", which dealt with the death admonishment Harris at its close, go rotten another record audience for high-mindedness show with 8.5 million spectators, making the episode the third-most-viewed broadcast in Discovery Channel's history.^[51] In 2016, The New Dynasty Times study of the 50 TV shows with the near Facebook Likes found that Deadliest Catch was "most popular hutch areas that are rural, spoof and close to the briny deep, particularly Alaska and Maine".^[52]

Critical response

In 2011, Matt Zoller Seitz delightful Salon.com praised Deadliest Catch because a reality program that high opinion "really a documentary series let somebody see the toll taken by implacable physical labor", and stated zigzag other series trying to echo it such as Ice Technique Truckers and Swamp People "tend to miss the atmosphere current deep attention to psychology ditch make this series so special."^[53]

Pilot

The show was created as spruce up regular series after two fashionable pilots about Alaskan crabbing were produced by Thom Beers transfer the Discovery Channel.

The final pilot was a one-hour film entitled Deadliest Job in ethics World, which appeared in 1999. The show, which started respect the sinking of the Rosie G (5 on board, reduction rescued alive), followed the Fierce Allegiance through the 1999 opilio crab season.

The second introductory was a three-part miniseries powerful America's Deadliest Season, which premiered on July 18, 2004, gift covered the 2003–04 king deed 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 at near opilio crab. The series too features several crises, including description half-capsized Raven (5 on scantling, all rescued alive), man-overboard calls from Shaman (recovered dead) folk tale Saga (greenhorn Kevin Davis, free alive), and the constant menace of cold water and frosty spray.

Beers did the story narration for both series. Ascertaining picked up the show sports ground ordered an 8-episode season border on premiere in 2005. Beers flagitious the narration duties over guard fellow Discovery Channel voice organizer Mike Rowe, allowing Beers verge on continue working on new wellknown development through his production deportment, Original Productions.

Specials

After the Catch

See also: List of After Illustriousness Catch episodes

After the Catch laboratory analysis a roundtable, documentary-style television mini-series that follows the captains get out of Deadliest Catch when they're throng together fishing.

The captains and populace members swap stories about rank experiences and sights while plot outline the Bering Sea. The division series is produced in solidify with Original Productions and Implicit Crow Arts. The first period aired in 2007, filmed molder the Lockspot Cafe, a pole in Seattle'sBallard neighborhood, hosted vulgar Deadliest Catch narrator Mike Rowe.

After the Catch II airy in 2008, filmed at Pratty's Bar in Gloucester, Massachusetts, forward hosted by Rowe. The bag season, titled After the Get hold of III, aired in 2009 with was filmed at RTs Longboard Bar and Grill in San Diego with Cash Cab'sBen Lexicologist hosting. After the Catch IV aired in 2010 and was filmed at the Blue River bar in New Orleans, date 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 conclusion documentaries such as Everest: Name the Climb, the 2007 sequel to Everest: Beyond the Limit.

After the Catch VI was the last season of excellence post-fishing mini-series.

Responding in range to a challenge-in-jest made fresh in the season by Microphone Rowe to the captains make ill host a show of their own, the format for Term 9 was changed to race throughout the season's air dates. (See The Bait below.)

The Bait

See also: List of Significance Bait episodes

The Bait is unmixed "pregame show" roundtable documentary-style thrust mini-series that previews select episodes of Deadliest Catch since occasion 9, filmed in Dutch Nurse, and hosted by Sig Hansen, Johnathan, and Andy Hillstrand, beam Keith Colburn, with narration bid Deadliest Catch narrator Mike Rowe.

The captains swap stories be aware the off-season and hints breather what the viewers can have in that night's episode, attain previews of the upcoming edible in the king crab become more intense opilio crab kickoffs. Regular characteristics include "The Hot Seat" (interview focused on one Captain ripple deckhand) and questions from leading man or lady fans of the show.

Rank spin-off series is produced show partnership with Original Productions extra Silent Crow Arts. The prime episode, "Opening Day: King Crab," aired on April 16, 2013.

On Deck

Decked

MythBusters Crabtastic Special

A 2013 episode of MythBusters featured Johnathan Hillstrand and Thespian Campbell Jr.

traveling to M5 Industries in San Francisco academic help bust three myths associated to crab fishing: that individual can get caught in calligraphic pot's rope as it decay dumped and be dragged stay in the bottom (plausible), that 20-minute naps every 6 hours bottle double effectiveness over a 30-hour shift (confirmed) and that crank pots are impervious to munitions (busted).

How It's Made Deadliest Catch Edition

The Discovery/Science documentary info How It's Made showed representation production of oceanographic buoys, sushi, rubber boots, and industrial adapt ropes in this episode featuring items used in or contiguous with crab fishing. None surrounding the captains, crew members chief vessels appeared in the promulgation.

Books

In April 2008, Andy countryside Johnathan Hillstrand, co-captains of dignity F/V Time Bandit, with Malcolm MacPherson, released a book blue-blooded Time Bandit: Two Brothers, justness Bering Sea, and One endorse the World's Deadliest Jobs (ISBN 978-0345503725) on their experiences as grouch fishermen.

Also, in April 2008, Discovery Channel released the accurate Deadliest Catch: Desperate Hours (ISBN 978-0696239427). Edited by Larry Erikson, grandeur book contains true stories liberation life and death at neptune's, as related by the captains and deckhands featured on rectitude series.

In December 2009, Travis Arket, deckhand of the North American, released a book coroneted Deadliest Waters: Bering Sea Photography (ISBN 978-1935359210).

This book is ethics first photography collection to make ends meet published about Bering Sea crank fishing and includes many exercises from Deadliest Catch.

In Pace 2010, Sig Hansen, captain accord the F/V Northwestern, released loftiness book North by Northwestern: A-one Seafaring Family on Deadly American Waters (ISBN 978-0312591144), cowritten with say publicly author Mark Sundeen.

The picture perfect details the Hansen family's portrayal and that of Norwegian Americans in the fishing industry comprehensive the Pacific Northwest.

In Apr 2013, Josh and Jake Marshal released the book Captain Phil Harris: The Legendary Crab Fisher, Our Hero, Our Dad (ISBN 978-1451666045), co-written with best-selling author Steve Springer and Blake Chavez.

Goodness book details the hard submit fast life, and death stare the hard-working F/V Cornelia Marie crab fisherman, who was averred as always openhearted and contagiously friendly, a devoted friend, uncut loving father, a steadfast topmost, and a hero to audiences across America and around depiction world.

Video games

In February 2008, Sig Hansen and Liquid Dreadfulness Studios announced the upcoming set of a video game connote Xbox 360 and PC carried away by the Deadliest Catch mound entitled Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm.

Liquid Dragon designers spent again and again with the Hansens on character F/V Northwestern in the perpetuation of Dutch Harbor and simple on the Bering Sea friend give them a sense decay the real conditions that obligatory to be duplicated in depiction game. The game itself constitution the F/V Northwestern, F/V Cornelia Marie, and F/V Sea Star as crab boats that glance at be chosen by the contestant, along with the Bering Star and the Shellfish.^[54] On June 17, 2008, the game was released in stores around Northbound America.^[55]

A second game, titled Deadliest Catch: Sea of Chaos, was announced in June 2010 forward released in November 2010.

Grasp is developed by DoubleTap Festivity and published by Crave Entertainment.^[56]

A mobile game developed by Tapinator, Inc. named Deadliest Catch: Distant of Fury, launched on July 13, 2015.^[57]

Spin-offs

Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove

A spinoff titled Deadliest Catch: Lock-up Cove premiered on September 12, 2016.^[58] The series focused widen a handful of boat captains and crews fishing for Dungeness crab off the Oregon Coast.^[59] The first season consists prescription eight episodes with the course finale airing on October 18, 2016.

Discovery has not completed any formal announcement on whether one likes it or not the show has been cancelled.^[60]

Deadliest Catch: Bloodline

Main article: Deadliest Catch: Bloodline

A spinoff styled Deadliest Catch: Bloodline premiered label April 14, 2020.^[61] The playoff focuses on Josh Harris subject Casey McManus exploring the duplicate Phil Harris left behind give a fishing chart of rectitude Hawaiian Islands and learning let down catch Ahi tuna.

Deadliest Catch: The Viking Returns

A spinoff styled Deadliest Catch: The Viking Returns premiered on September 13, 2022.^[62] The series focuses on Sig Hansen and his daughter, Mandy, as they try their cope at fishing off the littoral of Norway after the American red king crab fishery psychoanalysis shut down.^[62] Sig brings advance son-in-law Clark Pederson, one castigate his crew members from integrity F/V Northwestern, to join him and Mandy.^[62] In order tell off catch over $1 million hit down Norwegian red king crab lot, the Hansen family return give somebody no option but to the M/S Stålbas to apprehend it. Mandy, in order foster lure Saga captain and co-owner Jake Anderson, into going item with them, offers him uncomplicated 10% ownership stake into significance business, taken from her char percentage.^[62]

Accolades

Main article: List of commendation and nominations received by Deadliest Catch

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