Three fishing vessels, including Maverick and the Cornelia Marie, started the search, joined just before dawn by a Coast Guard helicopter, but found nothing at the position indicated by the EPIRB. As the rest of the boats neared the fishing grounds, a Coast Guard alert was issued to the fleet: An EPIRB, belonging to the F/V Big Valley, had been activated, and no one on the Big Valley was answering radio hails or satellite phone calls. The Northwestern headed out to the far northern Opilio fishing grounds, near the Russian border. The Lady Alaska had to return to port due to electrical problems, costing them a day of the already short season. The weather was treacherous, with heavy gale warnings and high seas predicted. The ships left Dutch Harbor for the deadlier opilio crab season, the last one to be held under the derby-style rules. After a very successful offload at the Northwestern traditional offload port, Akutan, Bradford, the Northwestern greenhorn, is awarded 10% of a deckhand's share for his hard work and good attitude-about $1600-and finally gets a greeting and handshake from Captain Sig Hansen. The greenhorns make decisions about whether to continue with their new careers or to go on with their lives. The crews rush to finish pulling in the last of the crab pots for the season and head back to Dutch Harbor to get in line for the crab processor. The Hansen brothers on board the Northwestern decide not to launch any more pots and instead go after a string of pots in the northern king crab waters that Sig dubs "Long Tall Sally" the decision is rewarded when the pots come in huge, enabling the Northwestern to win the final King Crab Derby title. The fleet is forced to make difficult decisions about whether to continue last-minute pot placements or pull in all of their gear and cut their losses on the short season rather than violate the law. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the end of the season after only 2 days and the captains started to worry that they would not be able to catch enough crab to be profitable. The crews continued to set their crab pots with mixed results-highliner boats like the Fierce Allegiance and the Northwestern were pulling lower numbers than expected the Western Viking finally found the crab after an extremely bad first string. The Northwestern greenhorn, Bradford, was unnerved by the sight of his first king crab-"they look like aliens," he observed-but was corrected by deck boss Edgar Hansen: "They're gorgeous! Look just like giant dollar bills!" Some ships immediately had large crab catches-the Northwestern had two "riders" on pots kept in underwater storage to add to their tanks before even pulling their first official pots-while others experienced problem after problem with both equipment and finding the crabs. The greenhorns started to feel fatigued after only one night. The crews of the ships set all of their crab pots and waited to retrieve them. The ships departed to sea for the king crab season. Introductions to the crews of the ships and the backgrounds for the greenhorns who would be working for the first time on some of the ships, as well as some boats' traditions for dealing with greenhorns-Sig Hansen, captain of the Northwestern, refuses to greet or acknowledge greenhorn Bradford Davis until after he sees how he will work out on board.
Subsequent seasons have aired on the same April to June/July schedule every year since the original 2005 season, with more recent seasons airing until August/September.Įpisodes Season 1 (2005) No. The first season consisted of ten episodes, with the finale airing on June 14, 2005. The show's title derives from the inherent high risk of injury or death associated with the work.ĭeadliest Catch premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005, and the show currently airs worldwide.
The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska, is the base of operations for the fishing fleet. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab, bairdi crab, and opilio crab fishing seasons.
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Deadliest Catch is a documentary television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel.
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