Behind the Scenes Special!
Just realized my Tivo caught Deadliest Catch: Behind the Scenes this week - going to watch it tonight, I can’t wait! This is exactly the sort of thing I’ve been waiting for… insight into how the show is actually produced, what the cameramen have to go through to get some of those AMAZING shots. I always wondered how well they interacted with the crews; whether the deckhands grudgingly accepted them, were outright hostile to them, or actually enjoyed their company.
We’ll find out soon enough. 
UPDATE:
What a great show! It really made me admire the camera crew, if only because they make themselves so relatively invisible during the season, and this documentary showed just how difficult that was within such cramped quarters.
We got to see also that the captains and crews are pretty good natured about having the cameramen onboard. Phil and Sig seemed pretty much at ease dealing with cameramen getting in the way, falling over, or asking them to repeat the same line 2, 3 or more times. Of course there were a few shots where the deckhands or captains basically tell the camera guys to f*ck off, but hey, when you’re in a high-stress environment like that, such things happen.
Its amazing that pretty much all their equipment gets thrown away at the end of every season… not because they’re wasteful, but just because the Bering Sea gets into the electronics and either breaks the instruments or corrodes them with salt water and ice.
All in all a good show. Makes me sad that Season 3 is over, but just remember - Season 4 is just around the corner. 
June 30th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
your show is realy cool my fravret boat and crue is the boat captoned by phill.
July 2nd, 2007 at 1:15 am
First show I saw made me an addict. I don’t see how I can get along until Season 4 begins. I miss all the crabbers (well, a couple I don’t miss…but they turned out not to be crabbers) I understand very well why Phil blows his stack when Jason won’t let up - I am familiar with button-pushing offspring. I understand Greg’s occasional experation too, just as much as I sympathize with Ragnhild. These are real men. They have real lives and they do real work. I admire them more than they want to know. I can hear Sig saying, “It’s just what we do…nothing admirable about it.” that’s okay. I admire them all anyway. They are, to a man and woman, admirable people. I cried when Jake got his jacket. That kind of people. The proudest moment of my life - and it’s been long - was the moment when the skipper of a Lake Michigan fish tug said to me “To go that way turn the wheel that way, to go the other way, turn it the other way. See that red light off there? Head for it”. and walked off forward and out of sight, leaving me with his boat and four men’s welfare in my utterly inexperienced hands. The proudest, absolutely. How I came to be on the tug is too long a story for here. Those men were men like the crabbers, the kind of people I like best - not rich men, not CEOS, not movie stars, certainly not rock stars or professional celebrities. Men who live and work in a world of reality that is not contrived, whether the cameras roll and the fans write or not. And men with real faces, real hair, real teeth, real work, real lives. I’m off to order Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD. I’ve already started buying and eating crab, and adjusting the budget…By the way, it was a Discovery Channel piece on the Coast Guard teams in Alaska, and the Ocean Monarch, that introduced me to your work. I thank them, and the producers for the only regular TV program I watch every moment it’s on, including most of the recent reruns all day last Saturday. I could go on, but it’s my bedtime - I have to take out my glass eye and my plastic teeth and unscrew my left leg…
I rejoice in your existence, Phil, Sig, Andy, Greg, Edgar, and you whose names I can’t recall at this moment.
Goodnight and good fishing.
July 10th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Hey Everyone,
It really has been great to produce and shoot this show for all of you.
Have you checked out “Production Diaries” at the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch Site.
These are my behind the scenes stories of life on the Time Bandit.
Enjoy,
Oh, and keep watching. You keep tuning in and we keep heading out to make more deadliest catch. That’s how it works!
Doug Stanley
Producer/DP “catch”
July 12th, 2007 at 2:38 am
I absolutely loved this episode. I am very interested in film and videography so i am taking a few multimedia and broadcast classes at my high school. Does anyone know how to score an amazing job like these fine men and women have? What steps to get there and such.
Thanks so much! and bravo to the crew and fisherman! Can’t wait till Season 4!
July 27th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
I LOVE THE SHOW I LOVE SIG AND PHIL ALSO LIKE CAPTAIN KEITH I GUESS I LIKE THAT NAME SINCE THATS MY SONS NAME.
July 27th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
OH I FORGOT I ALSO LIKE THE HILLSTRAND BOYS THANKS
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