It Returns Tonight!

The best reality show of all time is back starting tonight!
The Deadliest Catch!

I've been a fan of this show since Discovery did a documentary episode on it called The Deadliest Season, it served as a spring board for the current show.

Deadliest Catch documents the lives and struggles of crab fishermen on the Bering Sea in Winter. Frequently ships become disabled due to the horrible conditions around them. Men stay up for thirty hours at a time or longer to finish a string, nerves are shot, and the weather is always below freezing.

They start with king crab season and then when that ends it is time for snow or opilio crab season which is worse weather wise as the pack ice comes south into the crab grounds.

My dad loved this show. After a new episode aired we would discuss it the next day. You long time readers will recall the time I almost called his number a few days after he had passed last year after the night's new episode. I caught myself before it rang though.

This season will have a more melancholy tone as Captain Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie died a few months after my dad did. The fleet will continue to go out with the Hansen brothers with the Northwestern, the Hillstrand Brothers and the Time Bandit, Harris's sons with the Cornelia Marie, and Keith and Mouse with the Wizard.

Yes, this is one of the only shows I watch as it airs instead of a season at a time like most others.

If you haven't seen it, watch it.