Deadliest Catch on TV, a Marathon, and Season 5 first eppy!

For lucky ‘Deadliest Catch’ fans at home during the day, you can catch repeats every day at 1pm and 4pm!

And heads up for everyone on Tues, April 7th!  Catch the Best of seasons 3 And 4.  That’s right, the best of season 4 is coming right up next week and keep your eyes peeled for potential new scenes!

And these for those of us who can’t watch crab fishermen in the afternoons, catch the ‘Deadliest Catch’ marathon coming up April 11th and 12th (Sat & Sun).  ‘Deadliest Catch’ all day and night!

And last but not at all the least,  first brand new episode of season 5 is debuting at the usual time and usual day–Tues nights at 9pm eastern–on April 14th and here’s Discovery’s description:

Episode 1–Everything On The Line

The 2008 King crab fleet faces huge stakes – before boats even cast off. Skippers Keith and Phil could be sidelined by life threatening illnesses and all the boats are in debt from summer repairs. A skipper is pressured to take a potentially fatal risk.

Deadliest Catch: Behind The Scenes…Great Show!

 Last night’s Behind The Scene’s special was just that–Pretty Special!  Not only was it great to see the work that goes into the production of Deadliest Catch, we also got to see some of the extra footage that the most avid of Deadliest Catch fans have been clammering about for the last 2 years…Specifically, some of those “really special” moments when the fishing crews aren’t having the best of days!  Kudos to Sig Hansen for not being afraid to show when he “could care less”–about the filming that is.

 I was already aware of the hard work the Original Productions crews do when it comes to filming Deadliest Catch, nevertheless the amount of prep work that goes into it and  the injuries the production crews suffer is amazing and somewhat painful to watch…specifically the cameraman who stepped in the tank and lost it and the numerous vomitting sessions suffered by film crew members…Acclimating to the rocking motion of fishing vessels that travel the Bering Sea must be one tough job in of itself! Obviously it not only takes a special kind of person to fish for crab…it takes some pretty adventurous types to do the filming as well!   

 One thing for sure, the amount of equipment and people working on Deadliest Catch season 3 was double from previous seasons according to a comment made on the show.  The number of fishing vessels that have gone down since Discovery/Original Productions starting filming crab fishermen: 6.  The number of lives lost in the Bering sea in that same amount of time: 44. 

Deadliest Catch filming and production crew…Unsure of which season.

Deadliest Catch numbers from Discovery

8,000: The hours of footage shot over the course of the king and opilio crab seasons, filling 5,000 videotapes. This footage is painstakingly edited down to 12 one-hour episodes.

5,000: The pounds (2,268kg) of equipment the production team has to ship from Los Angeles to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to film Deadliest Catch. 

200: The number of hours a Deadliest Catch producer/cameraman flew in US Coast Guard rescue helicopters this season.

60: The number of cameras the film crews starts with each season. Only a third of the cameras are still working when they return to land. The others are ruined by saltwater and freezing temperatures.

60: The maximum number of seconds it takes a cameraman to put on their survival suit before they are allowed to go out to sea.

36: The average number of days a cameraman will spend at sea over the course of one season of Deadliest Catch.

32: The record number of consecutive days a Deadliest Catch cameraman has spent at sea (aboard the F/V Northwestern during the 2006 cod and opilio crab seasons).

18: The number of cameramen used to film the third series of Deadliest Catch.

4: The number of minutes someone can survive in the Bering Sea without a survival suit.

3: The number of lives saved by the US Coast Guard during those rescue flights

The Lockspot Cafe in AFTER THE CATCH

06/12/07  I guess we could call this a little bit of Deadliest Catch–or should I say–After The Catch geography…

 As comfortable as a well-worn loafer, the wood-paneled Lockspot has the flavor of a favorite hang-out in a coastal hamlet. Crusty old-timers can be found hunched over the bar pool table while mothers with babies in strollers gossip in a nearby booth. For everyone, however, whether they grab a quick bite at the outdoor stand or dine indoors, the main attraction is the fish and chips. Skip the cod and go straight for the halibut, fresh, meaty and tender…and bring on the tartar sauce! Go to Lockspot Café for a place that offers American dishes an emphasis on sandwiches and seafood.

Located right across from the entrance to the Ballard Locks, this little café will prove to be the perfect place to stop and get fish and chips. You can sit down inside or you can walk right up to the counter they have accessible from the outside. Grab your food and head to the Locks and enjoy your Lockspot seafood picnic on the grass!

Behind The Scenes of Deadliest Catch

     Have you wondered just how the show is put together?  Today I learned that the Original Production filming crew loses almost all their cameras when out at sea.  They operate with two man crews on each fishing vessel and after each day of filming they call in what they captured to executive producer Jeff Conroy and others.  As the information gets downloaded from those filming, a storyboard is created–each fishing vessel being “a story”.  This is the way the production crew starts to craft the storylines that we end up watching. 

Of course you’ve heard of the Discovery Channel show Deadliest Catch. The show where crab fishermen (as well as cameramen) risk life and limb in the cold waters off of the coast of Alaska. It’s amazing and addicting to watch all the hard work these men go through. 

“Jeff Conroy takes us behind the scenes of the Discovery Channel’s reality show “the Deadliest Catch”.  Jeff shares the trials and tribulations of capturing the worlds most dangerous job, catching Alaskan King Crab in the Bering Sea, on tape and delivering one of the most engaging reality shows on television

Here is the PODCAST