History Series / DeadliestCatch

In the 8th season(2012) Jake and Josh Harris are no longer on the ''Cornelia Marie'' but instead working as deckhands on, respectively, the ''Northwestern'' and the ''Time Bandit''. According to the season premier, the brothers didn't make enough money to finance another trip, with owner Cornelia Devlin instead having the boat fish as a trawler, again under captain Tony Lara.

** '''Prominent crew''': Monte Colburn (relief captain, Keith's brother), Lynn Guitard (deckhand), Freddy Maughtai (deckhand), Lenny Lekanoff (deckhand)

Promos released for the 8th season(2012) show Jake and Josh Harris no longer on the ''Cornelia Marie'' but instead working as deckhands on, respectively, the ''Northwestern'' and the ''Time Bandit''. The reason for this is as yet unknown.

''DeadliestCatch'' is a long-running (in its 7th season and counting) RealityTV show on The DiscoveryChannel that follows crews of fishermen during their two seasons on the rough Bering Sea seeking a valuable commodity -- the [[GiantEnemyCrab enormous red king crab]] around October, and the opilio or snow crab around January. It is repeatedly stated that this is the "deadliest job in the world", and tragedy does occur, such as the sinking of other ships, as well as serious injuries and near-fatal accidents on the featured boats. The opilio season is particularly dangerous due to weather concerns. The show debuted in April, 2005 and is still ongoing.

The show currently revolves around five main boats:

** '''Prominent crew''': Edgar Hansen (co-owner/deck boss, Sig's younger brother), Jake Anderson (apprentice deck boss), Nick Mavar (Jake's uncle)

** '''Prominent crew''': Neal Hillstrand (co-owner/deck boss, John and Andy's brother), Mike Fourtner, Eddie Uwekoolani Jr., Scotty Hillstrand (John's son)
* ''Cornelia Marie''
** '''Captain''': Tony Lara
** '''Prominent crew''': Josh and Jake Harris (co-owners/deckhands, deceased captain/co-owner Phil Harris's sons), Ryan Simpson

Two boats featuring "new blood" have been added to the seventh season:

* ImportantHaircut: The crew of the ''Cornelia Marie'' (excluding Phil) will give each other Mohawks to "appease the Crab God(s)" when the catch is poor. This has happened twice, and both times it worked. Phil ''did'' shave his beard once, just for good measure, as he was stuck in the harbor and needed some luck. The tradition seems to have carried over to the ''Wizard'' with Freddie and hasn't lost any of its effectiveness.

* TeamMom: The wife of the ''Maverick'''s captain took part in watching the helm, cooking good food, waking up deckhands, and giving morale support.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Derrick Ray did not come across as the best (or nicest) of captains, and he certainly was not loved by his crew, he ''did'' discover drug paraphernalia in the engine room (as documented on camera), so his prior suspicion that Jake (or at least ''someone'') in the crew was using marijuana was almost certainly correct.

* TropeCoTropeOfTheWeek - The Coors Light Crab Count

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Captain Sig yelling at the cameraman to "GET THE #$%# DOWN!" when a REALLY big wave loomed in front of them. "Sig" is worried.. Oh Crap, this is BAD.

* [[AuthorExistenceFailure Captain Existence Failure]]: Captain Phil Harris of the ''Cornelia Marie'' suffered a stroke on January 29th, 2010, and passed away 11 days later on February 9. The boat was captained by someone else to finish out the season's taping, but Jake, Josh, and the rest of the ''Cornelia Marie'' crew's involvement in both fishing and the show is currently up in the air. In Phil's episode of "After The Catch" Josh said that although Phil left them his part-ownership of the boat, they were going to take at least one season off to give it a major refurbishing after they scattered Phil's ashes at the start of the next king crab season. In the end, though, they went back to fishing that very next season.

* [[AuthorExistenceFailure Captain Existence Failure]]: Captain Phil Harris of the ''Cornelia Marie'' suffered a stroke on January 29th, 2010, and passed away 11 days later on February 9. The boat was captained by someone else to finish out the season's taping, but Jake, Josh, and the rest of the ''Cornelia Marie'' crew's involvement in both fishing and the show is currently up in the air. In Phil's episode of "After The Catch" Josh says that although Phil left them his part-ownership of the boat, they're going to take at least one season off to give it a major refurbishing after they scatter Phil's ashes at the start of the next king crab season.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Opie season, which is in ''the middle of winter in the Arctic ocean.''

* {{Detractor Nickname}}: "Sucker Punch Hillstrand!" - Keith's off-the-cuff insult to John Hillstrand. See {{Rant Inducing Slight}}, below--it's not clear whether Keith was reacting to the comment about "killing his brother", being shoved into a pile of scrap, or both.

* CameraAbuse: They have something like 20-30 cameras per boat, and killing practically all of them during a season is ''normal''. Also camera''man'' abuse by the elements...and the fishermen (more so in the beginning).

* {{Detractor Nickname}}: "Sucker Punch Hillstrand!" - Keith's off-the-cuff insult to John Hillstrand after the latter's comment about Keith "killing his brother" (see {{Rant Inducing Slight}}, below).

* FollowTheLeader: ''Swords'', ''Lobstermen'', ''WhaleWars''...

** The Hillstrands love fire: They've shot rockets at each other, flares in memory of their father, sent up about a dozen flying lanturns just to screw with Sig, and shot off a semi-automatic rifle at Phil's burial at sea.

* MeaningfulFuneral: Phil's funeral was attended by family, friends, and biker buddies; half his remains were placed in a beautifully airbrushed Harley-Davidson gas tank(the other half will be scattered at sea during king season), which was buried next to his mother's grave. There was also a huge memorial for the fans which took place at a convention center in Seattle, he got a nice send-off in New Orleans, and finally a burial-at-sea attended by all his friends.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: After a very good season, the Harris brothers have gotten a bit boastful. Jake Harris gets a friendly beatdown, after which he tells his father that he will be dependant on the two sons. Cue a few years later...

** Phil's last few seasons have been like this: first he broke a/several rib/s when a rogue wave hit the boat, which dislodged a blood clot that could've killed him, and when he returned his boat kept breaking down. More recently he had horrible pain that caused him to stop fishing, [[spoiler:which in turn led to the discovery that his son was stealing his pain killers. He then he had a stroke when they got back to shore, was put into a coma, emerged from the coma, then passed away.]] And then the next season every single thing went to hell without him.

* ProductDisplacement: A lot of brands in the ships' kitchens get blurred out, while others, such as Dunkin' Donuts, or [[SellOut Geico]] get prominent placement.
** In one scene, Josh Harris is wearing a hat with the Hurley logo covered with gaffer's tape -- poorly: it barely covered the middle of the logo; the next scene has him shot from the other side, and ''word'' Hurley (with tiny version of the logo) is uncovered. Currently, any boardsports logos are just ignored.

* GettingTooOldForThis: The ''Cornelia Marie''s engineer (I think) retired; Edgar Hansen quit after several years of health problems and general dissatisfaction with a job that wasn't fun anymore. [[spoiler: A few months later he wants to come back.]] Considering how few greenhorns last longer than one trip it's amazing ''anyone'' gets to feel they're too old.

* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler: After several seasons of saying he's GettingTooOldForThis, Edgar Hansen retired after red crab season in 2010. Two episodes later he says he'd like to return for red crab; as for opies he'd like to ''run the ship'' (Sig: (long pause) "We didn't discuss this....").]]

* FunctionalAddict: And not just to fishing, IfYouKnowWhatIMean. Probably the DarkSecret of this and other TheRealHeroes-style reality shows.

* EndOfAnAge: Season 1 ended on an awfully bittersweet note. On the one hand two of the ships hit records; on the other hand six had died, and it was the final season for Derby style fishing. While safer, it would be harder for the crews to make money, as well putting a lot of crews out of work. This change has caused a number of tough captains to shed ManlyTears.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Thousand-pound crab pots swing from cranes like giant piñatas[[hottip:*:Insert "[[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou Soviet Russia]]" joke here]]. The water is so cold that, without a survival suit, you will die of hypothermia before you have a chance to drown if you fall in. Ice floes in the water can smash through the hull of the boat. Ice can build up on the superstructure until it either breaks and falls on you, or gets so heavy it capsizes the boat. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking You get a lot of second-hand smoke from all the cigarettes your shipmates smoke]].