Production Diary #3: Doug Stanley Blogs About His Adventure on the Timebandit

Entry No. 3: Storm Tossed
Read about Doug Stanley’s travels with the Timebandit fishing vessel during the filming of Deadliest Catch season 3.  Previous blog entries are also available on the Discovery website.   
Sometime in the middle of the Time Bandit’s storm-tossed journey out to the king crab fishing grounds I found myself jarred suddenly awake.  The [...]

MARITIME SUPERSTITIONS

By Laine Welch 
…For centuries, seafarers who face a life of danger and uncertainty have observed a strict set of rules steeped in myth and superstition. Many beliefs are based on the Bible, for example, the well known notion that Friday is the worst day to set out to sea.
Most sources credit that to the belief that [...]

CASH COUNTS From Season One and Two

 If it appears odd, please remember that season 1 of Deadliest Catch was the last Derby-style season and what the fishing vessels brought in was all theirs.  Not so in season 2.  In season 2, IFQs (individual fishing quotas) applied and quota leasing as well, so the numbers in season 2 are larger but a  [...]

Discovery Livechat with Greg and Ragnhild Moncrief of the Farwest Leader

Discovery: Welcome to our weekly Deadliest Catch chat series. Tonight’s guests are Greg and Ragnhild Moncrief. Ask the Deadliest Catch husband and wife team about their first season on the show and life on the Bering Sea together.
Ragnhild Moncrief: We’re glad to be here and look forward to answering some questions.
rEvA:Greg, what is it like [...]

The Tale of ‘Deadliest Catch’s’ Two Crews

By Lynn Smith, LATimes 
The fisherman’s life captured on the Discovery Channel show is tough. The cameraman’s life at sea is no picnic either.
Like most people who work day and night aboard crab vessels in the Bering Sea, Doug Stanley has stories.
There was the time he couldn’t get his footing on an ice-covered deck in minus [...]

Crewman’s Association asks for share of crab quota

By Margaret Bauman
Alaska Journal of Commerce
The Crewman’s Association, based in Kodiak, is asking the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to reallocate to crewmen a percentage of individual fishing quotas for crab. Shawn Dochtermann, a veteran commercial fisherman and secretary of the Crewmen’s Association, made the proposal to the council April 2, at the conclusion [...]

Discovery’s LiveChat With Sig Hansen in 2006

Discovery: Welcome to our live chat with Sig Hansen, captain of the Northwestern and one of the stars of “Deadliest Catch.” He’s ready and willing to answer as many questions as you can ask in one hour’s time. So ask away.
Kevin: Sig, I’ve been watching the show since it started and the whole time I’ve [...]

Production Diary #2 From Discovery

Follow producer Doug Stanley as he writes about his travels with the TimeBandit during Deadliest Catch filming. To read more about Deadliest Catch, as always, visit Discovery.
Entry No. 2: Tossing Lines
With the majority of the eight Deadliest Catch vessels rigged with cameras and sound equipment, I finally step aboard the Time Bandit, dragging my own seabags [...]