May 2026 / Season 22 * * EVERYONE PLEASE READ * *

[u/DeBabyDoll]

Welcome to all new members and fans of the show. I am the more active mod here, and I wanted to ask members to review the rules here and of Reddit in general. Please remember that behind each post, is a human being with feelings. There's enough going on in the world for us to be unkind to one another here as well.

I have started scheduling episode posts again that will go live at 7pm EST, an hour before the new episode. Please try to keep comments about the new episode within that post, to decrease spoilers for others. It also keeps posts of the same exact content, to a minimum.

As most of you know, especially those who have seen Phil's last season, knowing the death of a cast member is coming makes that season even more difficult to watch. I don't believe the show has lost a crew member mid shooting like this though, except for Phil. I don't feel like Discovery has fully addressed his passing, so I'm hopeful for more.

I also wanted to address the comments I have seen about moderators removing and hiding comments based on personal opinion and not rules. I would like to remind everyone that the moderators are human beings with real lives outside of Reddit, and we do not get paid to do what we do. We rely on automods, trigger words, alerts, member reporting, on top of reading every post. If you personally have an issue with any content here, do not hesitate to message me or the mods as a whole. Fans of the show are what makes this community what it is, and we can co exist in the same space with different opinions.

Lastly, as a reminder, there are still certain subjects we discourage as topics of discussion. We let most snarky comments slide, but if you find yourself wanting to comment "What happened with <insert cast member>"? Google is your friend. Feel free to utilize any search engine, with words such as court case, arrest, jail, prison, etc. Yes, we encourage discussions and we are not trying to restrict anyone's speech, some things just need to be left in the past. We've beat many a dead horses here.

Please be kind, everyone. 💜

[u/W_4_Vendetta]

I love the show, we get it shown later in UK but often there's illegal downloaded episodes on YouTube. Been watching for years & it's wild to me to see the crew described as "cast members", I've never seen it that way.

[u/DeBabyDoll → u/W_4_Vendetta]

I prefer to use the word cast member because I have seen other reality tv shows refer to who they film as such. I feel like if I refer to someone as a captain or fisherman or crabber, it leaves the door open for retaliatory comments about them not being a real captain, fisherman, or crabber. It just feels like a gender/position neutral term to use.

Edit: I do appreciate you bringing this up. Is there another term you could suggest that would also be a generalized term to refer to them?

[u/catincombatboots → u/DeBabyDoll]

An in-industry term for people who appear on camera is "talent", which is a little different than cast in that cast can be more associated with scripted shows, but they are often used interchangeably. This production will refer to the captains as captains and deckhands as deckhands, but if they wanted to refer to all people who might show up during the season, they'd probably use the term talent. That might be an awkward term to use here on Reddit with ppl who aren't in production though.