Why do people watch deadliest catch

Those perils include foot waves, pound crab pots that can easily crush a careless crewman, and freezing temperatures around the clock. Did you know Edit. User reviews 35 Review. Top review. Highly addictive. This part series came out about a year after "America's Deadliest Season.

Of particular interest are the traditions and superstitions of the various crews. You will be drawn in and will find yourself so concerned about a ship that has gone down or about an injured deckhand, that you almost have to keep watching just to find out how things turn out.

You will find yourself rooting for your favorite boat as the crab counts come in. Once again, we get to follow the dangerous lives of fishermen hunting for Alaskan Crab. You get to see a first-hand account of several boats journeying hundreds of miles from the beautiful Aleutian Islands into the unpredictably treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. These brave men demonstrate unbelievable endurance as they fish non-stop day and night.

They fish "derby style," which means every boat is competing to catch as much as possible in a fixed amount of time. They hope to earn up to a year's worth of salary in one week in what some call America's last great Gold Rush. This series has the potential to appeal to a broad audience - whether the taste is for action, adventure, sport, drama, documentary, or reality.

My friends and family or even myself could not understand why a series about crab fishing would be so intriguing, yet anyone who has ever been around while an episode was on always ended up planted on the couch until it ended. Details Edit. Release date March 15, United States. United States. Discovery United States Official Facebook. Alaskan Crab Fishing. Discovery Network Original Productions. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 55 minutes. Related news. Aug 24 Gold Derby. Aug 13 FilmExperience.

Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap. I'm a retired oilfield and shipyard worker. And, many times when jobs were scarce in those fields, I worked on fishing boats. Even on a few in the Bering Sea no crab boats though. I mention this because it helps me understand the 'real' from the 'scripted drama'.

The series has become almost nothing other than bad behavior and manufactured drama. You have Jake who's a crybaby and admitted addict. He didn't earn his place as captain and is only there because the producers think he'll bring in younger viewers.

I've watched him abuse his workers to the point of now, I record the program and fast forward past his segments. Respect is earned Jake, you haven't earned any respect. Then you have Keith. I've watched him belittle and abuse his brother for years. Casey and Josh. They're co-owners. He's a little shady. But, a good guy for the most. Then we have a new captain can't remember his name who 'checks' other peoples pots.

Make no mistake here. If the cameras weren't rolling, he would empty them also. No one makes a long-standing habit of doing that just for a 'looksie'. Then you have the Hansen's. Use to be my favorite guys on the show. Then all the secrets about them came out. One of Sig's daughters says he molested her for years during her child hood.

And Edgar just confessed to a sex-crime against a minor last year in a sweet-heart deal that only gave him probation. Hey, the perks of being rich! It's mainly just a bunch of misfits and nasty old people these days. Maybe it always was. Sure did used to like it though.

I never really watched this series and paid any attention to it until about a month ago when Discovery debated their "Planet Earth" series, and this was on afterwords.

This is the kind of show that sucks you in so far you don't even realize you've been tensely waiting to see what happens next, and the great part is, you least expect it. A highly addicting show as you see the struggles, hours and long shift these brave men throw forward in order to meet their quota of crab. They're braver than I am, I hate the cold. You also get to know the crew and the different personalities.

As serious and dangerous as a job as this is it's nice to see the lightened mood, and the subtle pranks played on each other, and the pots of other boats. This beats the heck out of tired reality shows with rich has been celebrities wining about everything and anything never watched them anyhow.

If you want to see real people, and exciting situations, I highly suggest this show! Discovery channel makes more of a fan out of me each year, first "Mythbusters", "Dirty Jobs" and the occasional mini series event ie: "Planet Earth" The Medical Mystery programs are also fascinating. EdIsInHell 13 August Enough said. This show is disgusting. Edgar Hansen is a PIG. The show sucks. G-Joshua-Benjamin 18 August My dad liked boating. I hated it. When him and my got split up we lived in our house and he lived in a sail boat.

It was two different worlds. I hated going over his house and out on that boat. But for some reason I loved this show. It was exciting. Now though it's all fake. It's like they don't even try to make it real. Here are my reasons. They always cry about money. I believe they get paid for being on the show.

So I mean maybe stop crying. They have a job that is really hard. Yet they always act surprised when things don't work out. The episode I'm watching now, something broke on one of their boats. Another boat calls and says his fishing is bad and asks the captain on the boat with the broken part how his fishing is going. The captain tells him the exact part that broke.

The first thing he tells him. The other captain has the exact part. I mean what in the heck are the odds that would happen randomly? This kind of this has been happening over and over again. It's just not a fun show anymore. It's all about making it seem dramatic and adventurous. I think if they let it be what it naturally is it would be much better.

I guess nothings lasts forever. I'm not sure I will even waste my time finishing the episode. Great show, but some people make you wonder. Especially Captain Keith. He likes to snap way to easily and has major anger management issues.

Makes one wonder what his family life is like off the boat. The one and only actual reality show. It's real life for these guys. If the boats go down the crew and camera guys go down with it. Some is scripted obviously, but there's no getting around the fact that they're on the Bering Sea in the winter.

Not for the faint of heart. Great show. The show gives you an in-depth view of the trouble the crew faces doing everyday tasks, like baiting and dropping crab pots, and how these tasks are made harder by the unforgiving Bering Sea. We see everyone from the "greenhorns" rookies to the "old salts" and the danger they face every day. As evidence of this, as Discovery was filming one boat sank and another lost a crewman overboard, totaling six deaths in the first episode of the Opilio season.

Next time you sit down at Red Lobster and wonder why Alaskan Crab Legs are so much, tune in to Discovery and see why they are worth every penny. Deadliest Catch: whether its season 1 or 16, its all the same.

I first watched a couple of episodes for season one and now only 1 episode for season So if you're a inlander then you'll not care at all about this show With the usual close-up soapy faces and climatic editing and manipulations by the producers! No not just the show, but the fake nonsense, oh look the fishery will close down if the hillstrands dont go fishing, oh freddies not here and we are pulling out, oh my look who just showed up just in the nick of time as they are throwing the lines.

Highly addictive. This part series came out about a year after "America's Deadliest Season. Of particular interest are the traditions and superstitions of the various crews.

You will be drawn in and will find yourself so concerned about a ship that has gone down or about an injured deckhand, that you almost have to keep watching just to find out how things turn out. You will find yourself rooting for your favorite boat as the crab counts come in.

Once again, we get to follow the dangerous lives of fishermen hunting for Alaskan Crab. You get to see a first-hand account of several boats journeying hundreds of miles from the beautiful Aleutian Islands into the unpredictably treacherous waters of the Bering Sea. These brave men demonstrate unbelievable endurance as they fish non-stop day and night. They fish "derby style," which means every boat is competing to catch as much as possible in a fixed amount of time.

They hope to earn up to a year's worth of salary in one week in what some call America's last great Gold Rush. This series has the potential to appeal to a broad audience - whether the taste is for action, adventure, sport, drama, documentary, or reality. My friends and family or even myself could not understand why a series about crab fishing would be so intriguing, yet anyone who has ever been around while an episode was on always ended up planted on the couch until it ended.