Deadliest Catch

In preparation for the next season of Deadliest Catch (Yes, there is a light ahead in the tunnel), four memebers of the production and film team recently received training from the U.S. Coast Guard. The training was designed to hopefully keep the crew safe while working in the harsh Bering se...

Just a clip from Season 1, episode 1 of Deadliest Catch. A lot has changed since that first season. Gone is the derby style of fishing when the boats and crews would be competing against each other as well as the clock atempting to haul as many crab as possible before the season [...]

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As the end of Oplio season draws to a close the entire fleet is being pummeled by a fierce Artic storm. With more crab left to catch to fulfill their quota, Captain Keith has the crew on the Wizard playing a game of cat and mouse with the weather. The crew scrambles out on deck [...]

WASHINGTON, DC - The Discovery Channel’s Keith Colburn, captain of the F/V Wizard on cable’s number one series “The Deadliest Catch,” is joining with the Coast Guard Boating Safety Division this summer to promote life jacket wear and recreational boating safety on the nation’s waterw...

Sig Hansen Sig Hansen Sig Hansen aboard the F/V Northwestern Born April 28, 1966 (1966-04-28) (age 43) United States Occupation Captain Sigurd Lille Hansen (born April 28, 1966) is the Seattle, Washington-based Captain of the fishing vessel Northwestern. Hansen has been prominentl...

ALASKAN CRAB FISHING 101 DEADLIEST CATCH boats follows 2 crab seasons: red king crab and opilio crab. Red king crabs are the largest crab species, weighing an average of six to 10 pounds (with the record female and male weighing 10.5 and 24 pounds, respectively. The male’s leg span was nearly...

After plenty of requests for the song that played during the “Bitter Tears” episode when Jake got the call that his sister had passed away, we were able to dig up the song as well as a video made by a fan of the show. Enjoy…

As Opilio season draws closer to an end the crews of the crab fleets are getting ready to battle a fierce Artic storm. On board the Wizard, Captain Keith is running out of time as he needs to catch the rest of his quota and meet a rapidly approaching deadline. They also need [...]

After three consecutive 25 hour shifts, the crew of the Northwestern is closer to the end and ready to go home. Thoughts of home and family is on the minds of everyone as the season draws closer to an ending. On top of all this Jake Anderson is also battling the stomach flu. [...]

The Northwestern is currently stuck two miles outside of the ice-locked island of Saint Paul having been stuck there for four straight days. The crab aren’t doing much better as each passing day means more and more dead loss as they have spent too much time in the hols since being caught. Desp...

On board the Northwestern Captain Sig has a lot on his mind. Years of sleep deprivation, a bad diet and stress have certainly taken a toll on his body and his recent chest pains have only served as a reminder of his condition. Taking matters into his own hands, the Captain decides to [...]

On board the Northwestern the exhausted crew is confronted with another serious problem, ice. The string they are about to haul has been covered by the approaching ice flow making it difficult work to find and haul their gear. They need to haul and stack it quickly before the twenty five thou...

Although the fishing has been pretty good, the weather and especially the ice have been wreaking havoc on the boats and their crews. The Wizard returns to try once again to get their season strated this time with Monty left behind. Upon reaching his favorite grounds he realized Sig and the re...

In the final seconds of last weeks show, Monty and the other full shares aboard the Wizard were trying to secure a tarp over the pots in the bow. The plan was keep the freezing spray from sticking to the pots causing the dangerous weight to make the boat unstable. However, [...]

After a warm welcome for returning Captain Phil Harris on the Cornelia Marie it’s back to business as the weather is nothing short of nasty. Captain Sig Hansen finally arrives back on the Northwestern two days later than planned after blizzard like conditions made flying in impossible. In...

Opilio season always is a nail biter as the weather is even more of a factor with the dangerous ice packs and frozen spray, and the 2009 Opilio crab season is certainly fitting that description so far. Right from the beginning, while on a routine fuel run, the Wizard runs into huge problems as...

So just how much did each boat and crew member earn this past season? Cornelia Marie $2,600,000 total and $54,000 per deckhand Northwestern $2,270,000 total and $51,000 per deckhand Wizard $1,780,000 total and $32,000 per deckhand Time Bandit $1,250,000 total and $30,000 per deckhan...

Final King Crab 2009 Season Episode May 26, 2009 As a grueling season comes close to the end, the crew of the Wizard has taken the opportunity to get a few minutes of rest between strings. As Captain Keith approaches the first pot, he decides to grab a guitar and serenade his crew from [...]

EPISODE SIX — Tuesday, May 19 at 9 PM (ET/PT) With the upcoming drop of the price of king crab, the skippers are scrambling to finish of the quotas and race back to Dutch Harbor. On board the Wizard that has meant working straight through 40 hours with no relief in sight as [...]

As the Time Bandit continue to haul stuffed pots over the side of their boat, the other skippers are not having any luck at all.  After working long hours and still not finding the crab the crews are on the breaking point and are quick to jump down each others throats.   Captain [...]

Meet the crew of the Lisa Marie. Being the smallest boat in the crab fleet has its challenges and has the crew wondering whether they can compete with the big boys.

It’s already week four of King Crab season and seven souls have already perished However the fishermen soldier on, in the hunt for crab. Over on the Time Bandit, the good luck continues as the crab gods continue to smile on the Hillstrand boys. Full pots are consistently coming over the side [......

Red skies in the morning sailors take warning… As Capt. Keith is pulled back on board the Wizard, after having the vessel roll over on his skull as it pitched in the waves, he completely dazed and bleeding a bit but otherwise tragedy was averted. A good eight hours of rest and all he’ll have [...]

Fighting erupts onboard as the crew of the Time Bandit works late into night pulling in their crab catch. Take a sneak peak at this Tuesday’s episode of Deadliest Catch.

Keith Colburn gets battered and bruised while taking an exploratory dive under the Wizard’s hull. Will he make it out alright?

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Sig Hansen gets the short end of the stick and keeps an old fishing tradition alive by taking a big bite out of a herring. Yum!

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The Catch captains head to the “Burn Barrel,” a pre-crabbing season tradition to wish each other good luck and full pots for the upcoming season and set some stuff on fire too!

THERE’S ONLY ONE DEADLIEST CATCH – HIGH STAKES, HIGH SEAS AND HIGH DRAMA ARE BACK Fifth Season Premieres Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 9 PM (ET/PT) on Discovery Channel (Silver Spring, Md) – The seas are rougher, the stakes are higher and the intensity has never been stronger as the original, u...

All eyes points to 53° 52 North / 166° 31 West: Dutch Harbor, Alaska, where Captains Sig Hansen (Northwestern), Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand (Time Bandit), Phil Harris (Cornelia Marie) and Keith Colburn (Wizard) are all back for another season of crab fishing, but storms — personal, n...

By Betty Chu Well, what else can you look forward to this April?  Wait 'til you meet the newest addition to the fleet: the crew of the Lisa Marie fishing vessel. Capt. Wade Henley leads his crew of five aboard this lovely lady.  With a capacity of only 55 pots, she's the smallest boat fishing in the fleet this...

By Betty Chu What other types of fishing take place in the waters surrounding Alaska?  Check out the breakdown of fishing seasons across the Last Frontier state in this PDF from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Happy New Year! The Deadliest Catch Production Crew

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Discovery Channel, along with Deadliest Catch producer Thom Beers are working on a new project, which will be a rare scripted movie effort by the network coming off he success of their Deadliest Catch series. The two hour movie will be based off the book, of the same title, Working on the Edg...

Well the boats are all done with the king crab season and in port for the next few weeks until Opilio season begins.  More importantly that means Discovery is working hard on putting together the episodes for next season.  Season 5 of Deadliest Catch will hit the airwaves some time in April wi...

By Robin Bennefield Last month, we posted a news story about the Katmai, a long-line fishing boat, succumbing to the Bering with only a few survivors. While none of the Deadliest Catch boats were involved, the Coast Guard was there and the Deadliest Catch film crew has the footage of their daring search and res...

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This Thanksgiving, give turkey the bird and try something different. Take a cue from the Deadliest Catch guys: get crabs. Why fight over two legs when you can fight over 8. All great reasons to tune in to Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch Thanksgiving Day marathon. This Thanksgiving, give turkey the bird and try something different. Take a cue from the Deadliest Catch guys: get crabs. Why fight over two legs when you can fight over 8. All great reasons to tune in to Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch Thanksgiving Day marathon.   [read the full post]

Battle 40-foot waves, storms, ice and a nearly 100 percent crew member injury rate in the dangerous hunt for undersea riches on the Bering Sea with the new video game Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm, to be launched on the Xbox 360® video ...

Download Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm. August 31st, 2008. Can’t find the game in stores? Don’t want to wait or Amazon to ship. Now you can download the game. directly from Direct2Drive and be playing it today. ...

The series premiere of America’ Toughest Jobs takes the 13 contestants to Dutch Harbor Alaska to work theBering Seas aboard a crab boat, which happens to be the world most dangerous job (ala Deadliest Catch). Many of the contestants are ...

Order Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm Game · Visit Fan Forum · Bering Sea Dementia. October 5th, 2008. One of the funniest clips from this past season… Posted in Deadliest Catch Season 4, Videos |. 2 Responses to “Bering Sea Dementia” ...

This one tribute to another great show , hosted by Deadliest Catch narrator Mike Rowe. If you’ve never seen Dirty Jobs you are missing out on some good television. Each week Mike Rowe heads out to do some of the dirtiest (And sometimes ...

Check out this interview with Jon and Andy Hillstrand from the Time Bandit as they talk about just how dangerous crab fishing in the Bering Sea can be. So why do they do it? They also talk about bringing home $40000 a month. ...

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Mike Rowe Since it’s going to be a few more months before we get some new episodes of Deadliest Catch, I thought I would use the down time to work on another site.  This one tribute to another great show , hosted by Deadliest Catch narrator Mike Rowe.  If you’ve never seen Dirty Jobs you are missing out on some good television.  Each week Mike Rowe heads out to do some of the dirtiest (And sometimes toughest) jobs America has to offer.  Originally Discovery wanted Mike to host both shows.  However, they thought it would be inappopriate to see the same guy talking about the serius perils of crab fishing the Bering Sea and then an hour later making “poo” jokes on Dirty Jobs.  Actually Mike was on board for part of the first season but the footage never aire...   [read the full post]

By Robin Bennefield Production Note: The fishing boat mentioned in the following news story was a long-liner named the Katmai out of Seattle. Long-liners typically fish swordfish, tuna, halibut and sablefish.* The Katmai was fishing cod in the same area as the Deadliest Catch boats when it sank. None of the De...

By Robin Bennefield The Deadliest Catch Production Crew King crab season has begun! October 15 is the official start of this year's season. The Northwestern, Time Bandit, Cornelia Marie and the Wizard are docked, stocked and ready to roll from Dutch Harbor for the fifth television season of...

Heard enough? Click below to buy and download Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm… The game was inspired by Sig, Edgar and Norman Hansen — three brothers who have made their living crab fishing on the Bering Sea aboard their family’s fishing vessel, the Northwestern. The Hansen brothers started game development with Liquid Dragon Studios in October 2005. With waves over 40 feet high, Deadliest Catch Alaskan Storm features the best wave effects in a video game to date. In the words of Capt. Sig Hansen, “It may not be life or death, but chills went up my spine the first time I saw Northwestern sink in the game.”   [read the full post]

Here is a snippet from Discovery Channel’s live chat transcript with Capt. Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie…. slushie000: What’s the rest of your family like? Phil Harris: Well, there’s only my two boys, my dad and myself. I think everybody knows what my kids are like. And then my dad, He’s kind of the rock of all of us. Here is a snippet from Discovery Channel’s live chat transcript with Capt. Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie…. Discovery: Welcome to our weekly Deadliest Catch chat series. Tonight’s guest is Capt. Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie. How’s he doing these days? Find out, and see what he thinks about life at sea with his sons, [...]   [read the full post]

For the Northwestern the mood is much more upbeat as a record season has Sig and crew smiling from ear to ear.  Edgar even gives up the opportunity for some long overdue rest to work on a practical joke to play on his elder brother.  Creating a “dummy” of a deckhand he climbs on top of the wheelhouse with it, and mischievously throws the dummy downwards as if a deckhand had fallen.  But the Captain, knowing his brother all too well, doesn’t even flinch realizing it was a prank all alone.  With the throwing of the flaming torch, meant to bring good luck the following season, the last pot is hauled the the crew and boat head to port to offload from another successful season.   [read the full post]

For the North American the season is finally winding down, and by all means has been a successful return into fishing after the boat’s three year hiatus.  Not nearly as successful as the crew had been hoping for, was the greenhorn nicknamed D-BO, who Captain Sten gracefully has to explain that he just wasn’t fit for crab fishing.  Regardless, there is no shame as D-Bo is well aware he was able to at least in part hold his own out on the Bering Sea.  While returning back to St. Paul to offload they also pause to reflect on the life of the brother of greenhorn Davin Nes, who was killed as the season started.  Jeff Nes had fallen from a stack of crab pots stacked four high on the deck of the Sea Warrior and perished.   Davin and his other brother Jonathan had flo...   [read the full post]

On board the Wizard the crew is just starting to get some rest after 3 days of nonstop fishing, when they are awakened by an alarm. A quick inspection reveals a water piper has begun leaking spraying sea water used to in the holding tanks into the engine room bilges. If the leak cannot be repaire...

Damage done to the boats is easy to fix, however on the Cornelia Marie it is Captain Phil Harris who was beat up the most. While laying in his bunk he was jarred loose by a heavy wave rolling the boat, throwing him into the corner of some furniture and possibly breaking several ribs. The resultin...

Over on the Time Bandit, the crew continues pulling up strong numbers of crabs per pot, in a race to beat the approaching weather. The help out as an extra man on deck, Captain Jonathan Hillstrand head down on deck to lend a helping hand. Trying to add more flair to the task at hand, his attempt at...

Having similarly bad luck is Capt. Keith on the Wizard.  Although mechanically everything has been sound, the equipment has not been kept in proper shape and pots are being pulled up with holes and open doors.  Leading to the Captains frustration, is the greenhorn Moi who has given Captain a...

Over on the Northwestern, Capt. Sig and most of the crew has a bad case of the flu, making a tough job even more miserable.  Regardless, they soon leave port and steam towards the approaching storm.  Making good time, they arrive on the crab grounds ahead of the powerful storm.  So, in Norwegian...

It’s a fight for bragging rights between the Time Bandit and the Wizard on who will win the weekly Captain’s challenge.  Each boat was allowed to designate one string of 25 pots as the Captains string and the winner would be chosen based on the most crabs during those strings.  Although the Wi...

Tempers flare onboard Wizard and Northwestern. Time Bandit has a dangerous electrical short. On Cornelia Marie, Phil’s health deteriorates. Early Dawn runs headlong into high seas when its greenhorn falls asleep at the wheel. ...