History Series / DeadliestCatch

** '''Prominent crew''': Jason Shaw (deckhand), Bumper Del Mar (engineer), William Manchester (deckhand), Kyle Craig (deckhand), Daniel "Deejay" Campbell (greenhorn)

One prominent boat is the ''Cornelia Marie'', formerly captained by Phil Harris. Among its crew were his sons, Jake and Josh, and current ''Wizard'' deckhand Freddy Maugatai. Phil [[DownerEnding suffered a stroke and died]] during the sixth season (2010 opilio season). His sons tried to work toward buying their dad's boat in the seventh season, but friction with new captains thwarted that. They went to different boats in the eighth season--Josh to the ''Time Bandit'', and Jake to the ''Northwestern'' (where he spent a few weeks on a crew exchange in the sixth season, 2009 King Crab). Jake also has serious recurring drug issues; in the ninth season, at least during the King Crab season, he left the crab grounds to "deal with his demons". Josh has since bought the ''Cornelia'' outright and the boat has returned to the Opie grounds for the 2014 season, with longtime Harris family friend Casey [=McManus=] recruited as captain until Josh gets some experience.

''Deadliest Catch'' is a long-running (18 seasons and counting) DocuSoap RealityTV show on The Creator/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 with season 18 set to start airing in April 2022. Starting with season 17, new episodes air first on the [=Discovery+=] streaming service before airing on Discovery Channel a week later (though the Season 18 premiere was simulcast on both platforms).

''Deadliest Catch'' is a long-running (17 seasons and counting) DocuSoap RealityTV show on The Creator/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 with season 18 set to start airing in April 2022. Starting with season 17, new episodes air first on the [=Discovery+=] streaming service before airing on Discovery Channel a week later.

''Cape Caution'' was no longer featured after Season 12 when Wichrowski moved to ''Summer Bay'', which took the former's place as a featured boat. ''Brenna A'' was no longer featured after Season 15. The fleet was rocked at the start of Season 17 when it received word that ''Summer Bay'' deck boss Nick [=McGlashan=] died of a drug overdose in Tennessee. Season 18 sees the fleet struggling with Alaska's shutdown of the Bristol Bay king crab fishery for the 2021–22 season, the first such closure in 25 years.

** "[[PrecisionFStrike F***]], we lost ''Dad,'' dude..."

** Season nine piled downer ending on top of downer ending. Between Junior committing betrayal after betrayal on his fellow captains and [[spoiler:Jake's confrontation with Edgar effectively bringing an end to his time on the ''Northwestern'']], it was one major bad ending after another. Not to mention a deckhand on one of the other boats in the fleet (that isn't covered on the show) got his fingers caught in the bait chopper and possibly lost his index and middle fingers from the first joint onward.

''Deadliest Catch'' is a long-running (16 seasons and counting) DocuSoap RealityTV show on The Creator/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 with season 18 set to start airing in April 2022. Starting with season 17, new episodes air first on the [=Discovery+=] streaming service before airing on Discovery Channel a week later.

''Deadliest Catch'' is a long-running (16 seasons and counting) DocuSoap RealityTV show on The Creator/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 with season 17 airing in 2021. Starting with season 17, new episodes air first on the [=Discovery+=] streaming service before airing on Discovery Channel a week later.

''Cape Caution'' was no longer featured after Season 12 when Wichrowski moved to ''Summer Bay'', which took the former's place as a featured boat. ''Brenna A'' was no longer featured after Season 15. The fleet was rocked at the start of Season 17 when it received word that ''Summer Bay'' deck boss Nick [=McGlashan=] died of a drug overdose in Tennessee.

* NecessaryEvil:

** 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.

* AerosolFlamethrower: Edgar Hansen ''loves'' these.

* BadassBeard: Several captains (and many deckhands) sport these. Captain Scott Campbell, Jr. has an especially prominent one.

** HulaAndLuaus:
*** The 2011 series is in Hawaii (hulas yes, luau no, at least not that I remember). Additionally, the closing music of the preceding episode sounded like a Hawaiian-language choir -- perfect background music for attacking a "cathedral of ice".
*** The 2020 spinoff ''Deadliest Catch: Bloodline'' is set in the waters off Hawaii. During a refitting of ''Cornelia Marie'', Josh Harris and Casey [=McManus=] investigated Hawaiian fishing charts left behind by Josh's late father Phil, and went to Hawaii and teamed with veteran local fisherman Jeff Silva to focus on yellowfin tuna.

** In New Orleans, Mike Fourtner beat everyone in a oyster-eating contest by eating 25 in, like, half a minute.
*** Fourtner's always been a big eater, after he joined the ''Time Bandit'' he gained many pounds, grew a few inches, and added $10,000 to the boat's food bill[[note]]Mike demonstrated a "typical" breakfast on an episode of ''The Bait'', explaining that he'd eat an entire box of cereal with a gallon of milk, a box of frozen waffles, a carton of eggs (raw!), and piles of anything else he could get his hands on[[/note]].

*** Guess what mistake Lynn made ''again'' during the June 12th episode?

*** This goes beyond Jake's dad and applies to the bulk of the guys on the ''Northwestern'' in terms of their own drug abuse. Edgar, Matt, and Jake are all recovering addicts (Matt=Meth, Edgar=Drugs and Alcohol, and Jake= Alcohol), though the show goes out of their way to cryptically reference their vices.
*** Played straight with Jake Harris's drug problem, as being caught stealing his dad's medication red-handed by his father led to him confessing his problems.
*** Elliott Neese is also a recovering addict. When he suffers a relapse in season 10 due to another argument with Val, he checks into a rehab center after his father calls him out. It did't take, as he was all but shown using on the ''Saga'' during Season 11 and checked back into rehab.
*** And even more recently, Nick [=McGlashan=] of ''Summer Bay'' died of an overdose.

** "[[PrecisionFStrike F***]], [[TearJerker we lost ''Dad,'' dude...]]"

*** And it's not over yet: the crew of the ''Northwestern'' declared war on the ''Time Bandit'' at the beginning of 2011's king crab season by sneaking aboard the ''Time Bandit'' while the crew was asleep and inflating a life raft in the middle of the crew's kitchen/living area. Then Jake Harris threw a bucketful of flour into his brother Josh's face when he came up to the wheelhouse to investigate.

*** Bad accidents aren't even limited to being out on sea. Johnathon Hillstrand fell into the sea while attempting to board the ''Time Bandit'' after a Halloween pub crawl. A ''Wizard'' greenhorn was medically removed from the crew after slipping on some ice while in Dutch Harbor.

*** The trope is more downplayed. He is rather unremarkable with way more colorful characters around him. He had speaking-parts in most seasons, but he says little and he gets lost in the background with Sig, Edgar, Matt, Jake and Nick around.

*** Even the rain gear room "no more bullshit" speech Keith gave in the next episode to get his crew back under control after Lenny told Monte to "fuck off" (which Keith took as a sign of Dane's malignant influence on crew discipline) was remarkably restrained compared to the Keith from even just a couple years ago.

*** Season 10 featured some improvised skeet shooting between Edgar and Norman Hansen. Norman won handily.

*** Just before Jonathan shoved Keith, he made a reference to Keith "killing his brother", in reference to an accident with a [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom giant wave]] that severely injured Keith's brother Monte. [[BerserkButton As might be expected]], Keith did not take that insult well.

*** He repeated that "advice" to answer a question from Website/{{Facebook}} about how much it costs to get started in the fishing industry.

*** The ''Cornelia Marie''[='s-=] renovations were so expensive that Josh and Casey had to get investors, and if they fail to make their quota they'll be fired.
*** In season 3, the ''Cornelia Marie'' had a propeller blade break in two, causing them to sail into town for repairs. Phil buys a new propeller and, after receiving the wrong one from the company, has to have expensive labor costs to get it on. Meanwhile, his sons rack up $1,500 charges on the boat's credit card as they go shopping for new rain gear. Phil was pretty much unintelligible in his anger.

*** In season 12, when John was talking about the bigger quotas during El Nino: "... and that's our mission, [[Series/MissionImpossible should we choose to accept it]]. 'This tape will self-destruct' (hums theme tune)".

** The wife of the ''Maverick'''s captain took part in watching the helm, cooking good food, waking up deckhands, and boosting morale.
*** She herself called herself the crew's mother, nurse, cook, and psychologist.

*** And continuing the theme:

** Getting high-speed internet to watch the Super Bowl on the ''Cornelia Marie'' cost $5000.

** As a treat to the ''Cornelia Marie'' crew (as well as the ''Wizard'', which happened to be nearby), Casey decides to stream the Super Bowl from his home TV to his phone and cast it to the TV in the galley. He estimated that it cost around $5,000 in data charges.

** '''Prominent crew''': Edgar Hansen (co-owner/relief captain/deck boss, youngest Hansen brother), Norman Hansen (co-owner/engineer/deckhand, middle Hansen brother), Nick Mavar Jr. (deckhand, Jake Anderson's uncle), Matt Bradley (deckhand), Rick [=McLeod=] (deckhand), Karl Rasmussen (greenhorn)