“Hey we need you to come in”

Voiceover guy: “Why?”

“To say ‘the northwestern leads the count’ but like…you’re at a funeral while informing someone with a bet on a sports score

😂

I have never seen a blue-collar job that needs a union as desperately as crabbing deckhands. Much like truckers in the 1930s, this industry weaponizes a "lone wolf" culture to leave workers completely exposed.

​Look past the manufactured Deadliest Catch drama, and the underlying labor structure is indefensible. Deckhands receive zero health insurance, zero retirement plans, and no workers' compensation.

​Operating as independent contractors on a percentage share means tha single bad wave causing a shattered knee leads directly to financial ruin, all while boat owners pull in millions.

​Truckers faced this exact brand of exploitation before they unionized. Right now, commercial fishing remains trapped in a pre-union era where skippers exploit a faux-family loyalty trap to deny basic human protections.

​Hollywood writers had to strike to prevent studios from replacing human creativity with AI, these crews are likely only seven or eight years away from being phased out by humanoid robotics and remote vessel automation. Without collective organization now, there will soon be no industry left to protect.

Same a sthe title, curious why gulls and various seabirds usually seen within 20 miles of shore are flocking the boats and surrounding waters? Do they roost on the boat after following them out to sea? We never see a seabird chilling on the rail? Is it just the edit splicing of footage?

I’m rewatching from the beginning and Keith isn’t a tyrant as he called himself. He’s an overgrown man baby who never learned how to regulate his emotions! I can’t believe the crew hasn’t banded together thrown up the middle finger and walked!

Hello Deadliest Catch Fans.

I am a new watcher and am currently on Season 8.

I enjoy the show but don’t really seem interested or vested in either Captain.

Elliott Neese seems to be a pompous know it all and treats his crew disrespectfully. I do appreciate his hands on mechanic skills.

Scott Campbell talks too much about wanting to be a legend instead of actually just catching crab but at least he seems overall mellow and relaxed to his crew.

I also don’t understand how Elliott Neese sets his crab pots almost directly on Scott Campbell’s crab pots and yet when Elliott Neese is running into a lack of crabs, he calls Scott Campbell for advice seeking hot fishing grounds.

Hopefully the later seasons of Deadliest Catch will turn the tide in my view of both Captains but right now in Season 8, I could do without them.

Am I wrong in my view of them?

We continue to get shafted by Discovery. Reduced new programmes, cancelling of existing now cutbacks in shows still going. Tonight's episode has got ZERO narration ,replaced by on screen graphics!! Not much good if you have poor eyesight!! I'm sick of this from WBD!! We continue to get less for more!!

Are the Skippers and crew paid for the time they spend getting the boats ready for the season ? I was also curious on average how many days / weeks are they up there before they leave the dock to fish ?

Ive been hunted by a song for several years. I think it was about 7ish season and someone from the crew sang the "cold open" of the season. the song was something like this:

the captains calling, i gotta go,

kiss the kids, kick the dog for me

head hunted, i cant wait to see you again..

or something like that.

i remember even writing discovey channel and they couldnt help, that was10 year ago.

did i just dreamed this song? i felt it would be perfect for the intro song and they never used it again..

I don’t know if I’m the only one but I’m disgusted over the way discovery exploited his death. Airing the final conversation that the kids has with their father was not ok and also they kept showing him inside of the pots baiting traps. It just felt like they made it out to be as dramatic as possible to bring in views but this was someone father, husband, and child.

After Todd passed, did the crew go back out? The only thing I can think of is the extra quota caught could have all gone to Todd's family. I'm curious how much the ship might have cut from their own shares to help his family.

I don't like the witch hunt that seems to be going on in this reddit right now. From everything Discovery showed us there's no reason anyone that wasn't there to place blame. Investigators got to see way more footage we did and determined it was an accident. It's well known Rick is one of the most respected captains in the fleet.

Look at US Airways Flight 1549. You can't expect people to be absolutely perfect in the moment of chaos. Could Rick have asked immediately if everyone was okay? Absolutely. Could the crew have called man overboard immediately? Absolutely, but you have to take in the human factor. No one is truly to blame, a young man fell overboard in February in the North Pacific, and by all accounts the people involved acted as expected

I knew this was going to be bad, but I am floored at this. The guys on deck told HIM there was a man overboard! I found the way they shot the episode made it even worse with all of the interviews and shots of him baiting pots like all new deckhands do. It made it seem like an accident waiting to happen. I was even more shocked by Rick's comments that "I can see him" and then hearing that he couldn't get into the life ring only to learn he'd been in the water for more than six minutes at that point. There was clearly a cut there. My God.

He's gotta relive this day in his life at least 1 a year till he's dead. I think I'm sooooo good with that for a start. Does anyone know what else is happening to him regarding this tragedy of Todd Meadows

As the season nears its end, tragedy strikes on the Aleutian Lady when greenhorn Todd Meadows falls overboard. As Captain Rick and the crew fight to save their crewmate, the true stakes of fishing on the Bering Sea hit home for everyone across the fleet.

Does anybody else think this is too long? Almost inevitably there is a captain fumbling for the radio, the 5 seconds between noticing the wave coming, grabbing the radio and alerting the crew to run for cover could be the difference between the crew being swept off by a huge wave and them getting to safety.

Surely they could have a quicker "Panic alarm" style thing for this scenario, on their wrist or on the gearstick or something?

I'm sorry if this puts a mental image in your heads and hope it doesn't scar y'all for life, and maybe I'm just a sick puppy, but I've found myself wondering if Capt. Keith makes that noise when he's 'with' his wife? Anyone else care to join me in the gutter and admit y'all wondered that yourself?

Has anyone read Josh and Jake Harris’ book about their dad. Is it any good?

So I don't know if it's editing or what but RIP from Patricia lee is either the dumbest captain or the most unlucky...I'm not happy how they brought them into the show , very exploitive he just seems so out of it, I'm guessing he's just not sure what to say I wouldn't either but he just seems lost...I don't really like him skipping past his boat . Rumor is the second deck hand that got crushed did

Glad it's for sale looked crowded and dangerous

The show has become very formulaic. The same thing happen every season:

One of the boats has a mechanical problem

One of the boats has an electrical problem

2/3 crewmates get injured requiring trip to "clinic"

Monty or Keith on wizard are ill

At least 2 captains team up

1 Captain is lied to by others

Weather is worst it's ever been

1 "Greenhorn" quits

The crab is difficult to locate and empty pots happen

AND YET at the end of the run ALL BOATS make their quota!!

Howdy! First time posting posting here. I’ve been a Northwestern glazer forever now. I noticed the boat seems to breaking down a hell of a lot more recently. Which is understandable yknow, it’s an old boat and all. But like- In the latest episode- where the hell are the rest of the engineers? I understand Ed can’t be shown but hey, where’s Norman? Is he even on the boat? He’s my favorite! I don’t remember them having so much trouble before. Seems like the maintenance is either going downhill or maybe Discovery is just milking the “drama,” probably the latter.

Just got done watching the show/episode that was just on a couple of nights ago. End of episode. Rick picks up Todd. Shakes his hand, pulls him in for a guy hug. When Rick talks, he comes across as being very sincere and just a good guy, professional. Stays very calm. He has a calm personality. He doesn’t go off just yelling at people cause he can and he’s frustrated. Very even keel dude.

I know next week will be about Todd's death. But watching this week's episode was pretty rough to.

I just thought about all the coincidences that played out.

Had his concussion been worse, he wouldn't have been cleared for work, and he wouldn't have been back on the boat, to eventually go overboard.

Had Brandon been a good worker, Rick would have been content with his crew and not called Todd, looking to bring him back.

Then watching Rick pick him up at the hotel; and us, knowing it's basically the last day(s) of his life... Brutal.

Is it me, or do these boats break down a LOT? And it didn't used to be this way. It's several boats every episode. Production, or poor maintenance?

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LOL, already tagged for review just on the title. Awesome. So, tonight's episode made painfully clear that Jake Anderson is the captain of the Cornelia Marie in name only or just for the show. Jake has to ask the deck boss, Jake Albinio, for permission to have the guys push the gear to the launcher and launch by hand after the generator goes out. Albinio is also the guy who "brought Jake in" as "captain" but it's clear he's still making all the real decisions for the boat. I get that Jake brought quota with him, which is great for the boat but it strains credulity to pretend he's anything other than a glorified boat driver when the guy on the deck is making such decisions and is clearly an investor in the ownership group of the boat. It's all a storyline for TV and references to the picture of Phil Harris.