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[big_giant_head]

The new season started last night.  Anyone else watching?

I place this show in the category of "no job on earth could possibly be more different from what I do each day."  Hence, it's utterly fascinating.

I watched poor Moi, one of this season's greenhorns, try so desperately not to cry last night, and it actually made me cry in sympathy.  But Dude, have you not watched this show?  Did you really not understand what this work involves?  Aren't you over 40? 

And the poor captain who can't begin a fishing season without his Cup O Noodles spittoon?  I was giggling every time they showed him.  He really, really meant it, too. Missing out on his styrofoam spit cup seemed more disturbing to him than the whole frightening incident when the radio cut out halfway through the Blessing of the Fleet. 

[noof_]

I've never watched the show, but my students love it.

I saw two of the guys on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

[locutus]

I've seen a bunch of episodes. It's pretty amazing.

[jrscholar]

I have caught a couple episodes over the last few days, so I'm not sure I've seen them in order, but I did think it was very cool.  Is that John Tesh doing the narration? 

[barrelofmonkeys]

Love it!  I don't have cable but everytime I travel it's the first thing I look for on the tube.  My family makes fun of me when I am home (free cable!) because I can watch a marathon of it--think 12 hours in a row--without having to eat or sleep. 

It's like a rush of testosterone, and I love the (occasionally overly) dramatic narration.

[post_doc4now]

I've recently discovered this show and I am hooked. 

I was up late/waking up in the middle of the night earlier this week with strep throat and I would watch hours worth of this show.

I agree that it's so far from what I do that it's utterly fascinating.  They're all amazingly superstitious!  The foam cup, not leaving on Friday's, biting the head of a fish. They're worse than baseball players.

[baka_janai]

I hadn't heard of this, but am downloading the 1st episode of season one as I type this.  It looks like good entertainment.  But what seems incongruous to me is that the world's "deadliest job" should have no grander goal than to put tasty titbits on our plates.  Would people risk death for trouffles?

[aandsdean]

I hadn't heard of this, but am downloading the 1st episode of season one as I type this.  It looks like good entertainment.  But what seems incongruous to me is that the world's "deadliest job" should have no grander goal than to put tasty titbits on our plates.  Would people risk death for trouffles?

Those truffle pigs have nasty sharp teeth, grrrr <makes clawing gestures with crabbed hands>

[helpful]

What is the name of the show and what network is it on and what is it about? About fishing?

[bronze]

Is that John Tesh doing the narration? 

Nope, it's Mike Rowe, former opera singer and current host of Dirty Jobs.  He's also my husband's boy crush.

I love this show, though it tends to make me buy more crab in the summer than I can really afford.

helpful, the show is called Deadliest Catch, and it's on Discovery. It's about crab fishing on the Bering Sea. 

[collegekidsmom]

One of the tough captains was on a cooking show recently with Paula Deen. That struck me as funny-he was so out of context cooking stuffed mushrooms with crab, of course. Very refined.

Usually, you see him trying to save someone from flying over the starboard to his death, and smoking.

[the_honey_badger]

Loved this from episode 1 of season 1 but this season's premier came off a little flat to me---there seemed to be an increased awareness of the camera in some way. But, still, its my favorite equal to that other "rough and tough" show: Project Runway.

Go figure. I can't.

[dapperpoet]

I really love it.  I even listen to the podcasts.  It's probably the only show except Antiques Roadshow that I go out of my way to see.

[big_giant_head]

What is the name of the show and what network is it on and what is it about? About fishing?

The show is called "Deadliest Catch," it's on Discovery on Tuesday nights, and it's about crab fishing in Alaska.  Supposedly, that's the most dangerous job you can get.  If you get swept overboard, you probably aren't coming back--but you might get lucky: last season had a fantastically, incredibly dramatic incident in which a man was working on the outside of the stack of crab pots, hanging over the edge of the deck, and probably 40 feet above surface.  Big wave swept him away.  But the captain of another boat had had a bad feeling, was watching as it happened, and he managed to get over there and pick the guy up before he had been in the water for more than a couple of minutes.  The whole crew dropped what they had been doing, went into emergency mode, worked like a team of rescuers who had homed in on tiny little humans floating in great big oceans a million times before.  They got the crane out over him, matched speed, dropped him a life preserver, and all hung out over the sea to keep ahold of him when his strength gave out.   They saved him.

The boat he came off of could not have picked him up before he froze to death--the seas were too rough and the wind was wrong, I think (said the Kansas girl, who knows nothing at all of the sea except that she wants to be nowhere near it). 

The scene where the rescuing captain finally got downstairs to meet the guy was one of those things that makes you glad to be human.  There was no pretense, no macho swaggering, no self-consciousness.  The crew had wrapped the man in blankets and gotten him hot things to drink, and he was beginning to come back to consciousness and realize what had happened.  The captain, one of those grizzled, tobacco-spittin', laconic fellers, just impulsively hugged him.  "I saw you go down!  I got you!"   And then he cried--actually cried--with relief.  And this for a man he had never met.

I just love this show.

[doctorious]

I had never watched it before but somehow stumbled into it the other night -- I am the most seasick person you've ever met but I could not stop watching. Arr, matey!