Deadliest Catch

[aklap]

Anybody beside me and Os watch the start of the new season? I missed it as 8:00 so I had to stay up and catch it at 12:00.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[ostrich]

I watched the first episode last night. The first season (king crab) is always my favorite. The men don't get hurt as much and the crabs actually look like crabs, not brown spiders.

Although...I'm debating if I want to keep watching it. I really love the series, but I feel bad for the people. They're just regular, hard working guys, trying not to get themselves killed while doing a dangerous job. And now they have Hollywood-born, "green" camera men (and their +$10,000 equipment) to worry about.
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Ostrich :>--O==={

I lie below, you float above
In the pretty white ships that I am dreaming of

[aklap]

I'm sure Discovery is making it very worth their while to have them on board. Those Captains are businessmen. They are not letting Discovery film them just out of the goodness of their hearts. Since they share the wealth in the catch...I suspect they also share the Discovery Wealth too.

I would also venture to guess that those camera men are probably out of harms way [a much as you possibly can be and out of the deck hands way] most of the time. It may look like the camer is right there - but they long lenses and have great zoom properties
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[ostrich]

All true, and I'm sure some of them appreciate showing the rest of us how that steaming crab actually gets to your plate. It's probably just me, but I was getting a "leave us alone, just let us fish" vibe when Mike Rowe was interviewing them.
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I lie below, you float above
In the pretty white ships that I am dreaming of

[The Edifying Conscience]

[aklap]

Dirty Jobs is cool too. The host of Dirty Jobs [Mike Rowe], narrates DC.

You could have a DC pool...betting on who gets the most crab since they have a crab count through out the season.

DC puts a whole different light on what it takes to put food in our mouths. These guys bust their butts and put their butts on the line to keep us in seafood. Here's to you, Crab fisherman guy!
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[The Edifying Conscience]

So, it's always about crab...just different varieties. I could google the answer, but you know.

Let's have a pool! I'm always up for a friendly wager especially if the prize is bragging rights.

[aklap]

Here's their website. Lots of stuff there!

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadliestcatch/deadliestcatch.html

Most crab - Snow Crab and King Crab. Last year one of the ships did some Cod Fishing before the crab season.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[Fidissimus]

I Mike Rowe...

he cracks me up... Dirty Jobs is the best show ever...
I get too worked up watching them nearly down trying to catch crab.
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[ostrich]

[aklap]

Os - that special does look cool. I have not seen it tho.

I've been thinking about the pool...there's only a handful of ships [maybe 5 or so, I can't remember]. I'm thinking assigning #s to the ships - you'd randomly pick a number and then thats your ship for the season. Thats kinda how we do the Survivor pool - we draw names from a hat.
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Al

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

[cruelshoes]

[ostrich]

My favorite is still the ostrich episode. "They're not right. They're not right in the head!"

I think that's a great idea Al, but it sounds like it'd be a small betting pool. You might also have to figure out # of crabs/size of boat, versus just # of crabs. Some of those boats literally can't hold as much as their larger brothers (sisters?).
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Ostrich :>--O==={

I lie below, you float above
In the pretty white ships that I am dreaming of

[Fidissimus]

[aklap]