After this season, I can’t imagine it getting better, but I know it can.
What I’d like to see on Season 4:
The Rollo. What happened to those guys? I thought Eric and his crew were great.
The new boats (The Wizard and Farwest Leader) back for another season. Both captains had solid crews that brought some competition to the other boats in the fleet.
More Episodes. I know, I might be greedy, but it seems like if Lexus can advertise on the radar, etc. We can have more episodes and more filming. However, I’m not going to volunteer to film extra hours.
Behind the Scenes Episodes or Never before seen footage. I know there has to be some interesting stuff going on behind the camera or when the camera is supposed to be off. I’d also like to see who’s the brave people behind filming this great show.
What would you like to see or not see in the next Season?
From deadly storms to bone crippling ice, Season 3 of Deadliest Catch was (in my opinion) the best and most engaging season yet. Broken Engines & Propellers, Daring Rescues, and new greenhorns tested the seasoned crews.
Will there be a Season 4? I sure hope so. I can’t imagine spending Tuesday nights watching anything else.
Let us know your final thoughts and hopes for next season.
During this season, we’ve polled viewers and fans (Over 4,000+ votes cast!) about a variety of different questions and have seen some interesting results:
So far, Season 3 has been, in my opinion, the best season yet. With breathtaking film angles to daring rescues, I’ve been on the edge of my seat all season.
Here is the recap of the episodes past and the next few left in the season.
The Discovery Channel is airing a four part mini series entitled, “After The Catch”, starring the captains of the vessels from Deadliest Catch. Along with Mike Rowe, the captains will relive some of the previous aired video and talk about some fishing stories.
The Mini-Series aires tonight 10PM EST on the Discovery Channel. You won’t want to miss it!
Here are the mini-series overviews:
SHOW 1: Overboard
The series opens with some of the Bering Sea’s greatest stories of successful and failed rescue attempts. Spike Walker himself will retell the great Master Carl story, and the ship’s two survivors will meet in person for the first time since their rescue over 30 years ago. The fishermen will talk about their own losses at sea, and they’ll get a chance to swap stories with two of the greatest Coast Guard personnel ever: superstar chopper pilots Jimmy Ng and Laura Guth. As always, there will be no shortage of laughs, as the guys inflate a raft (at the table) and make Mike wear a survival suit. Premiere: May 29, 10 p.m. ET/PT
SHOW 2: Man vs. Nature
The fishermen will swap stories of the worst storms they remember; these are harrowing near-death tales of extraordinary focus at the helm. They will talk about what it’s like to face the ice pack and just how terrifying it is to know it could rip their boat and sink it like the Titanic. They’ll talk about what it takes to scare a sea captain, namely gigantic rogue waves that come from nowhere. They’ll relive the Big Valley tragedy and talk about what might have been done differently. Then, they’ll lighten the mood and have some fun with stories of exhaustion, notorious seasickness and crazy antics at sea. Premiere: June 5, 10 p.m. ET/PT
SHOW 3: Mysteries at Sea
Our captains and deckhands shed light on some of the more peculiar aspects of crab fishing. What are the rituals these guys go through every time they head out? What kind of toughness is expected from a crab fisherman? Viewers will hear the incredible story of the Ghost Ship, the Golden Viking, told by Phil Harris’ dad, who was her captain. Spike Walker will return to lend a new angle to the St. Patrick story. The guys will also share their own “close call” stories, where they were barely spared their ships and their lives. Viewers will understand how many of these guys escape TO the Bering sea because of their troubled lives on land, and they’ll get a chance to meet the series creator, Thom Beers, who will explain how and why Deadliest Catch came to be. Finally, all the captains will disappear from the room, and the deckhands will take over. At that point, Mike can get the straight scoop on those captains. Premiere: June 12, 10 p.m. ET/PT
SHOW 4: On the Edge
First, the guys will talk about the lineage connected to their career, starting right at the table, with the Hansens, Hillstrands, Harrises and even the Hendricks. Viewers will delight in tales of the glory days of crab fishing, when money flowed as freely as the booze and crab fishermen were the new breed of prospectors. Mike will have them weigh in on how they feel about those noteworthy “chickens” who abandoned ship, and he’ll invite a couple of Deadliest Catch’s most high-profile women to toss in their perspective as well. The guys will have a little send-up for the “Deadliest Greenhorn,” as they bring Kevin Davis to the table, and finally, they’ll celebrate some of the most notorious pranks, both at sea and onshore. Premiere: June 19, 10 p.m. ET/PT
Rogue waves, also known as freak waves, are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves which are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners. In oceanography, they are more precisely defined as waves that are more than double the significant wave height (SWH), which is itself defined as the mean of the largest third of waves in a wave record.
Once thought to be only legendary, they are now known to be a natural ocean phenomenon, not rare, but rarely encountered. Anecdotal evidence from mariners’ testimonies and damages inflicted on ships suggested they occurred; however, their scientific measurement was only positively confirmed following measurements of a rogue wave at the Draupner oil platform in the North Sea on January 1, 1995. During this event, minor damage was inflicted on the platform, confirming that the reading was valid.
In the course of the Project MaxWave, researchers from the GKSS Research Centre, using data collected by ESA satellites, identified a large number of radar signatures that may be evidence for rogue waves. Further research is underway to verify the method that translates the radar echoes into sea surface elevation.
Freak waves have been cited in the media as a likely source of the sudden, inexplicable disappearance of many ocean-going vessels. However, although this is a credible explanation for unexplained losses, there is to date little clear evidence supporting this hypothesis nor any cases where the cause has been confirmed, and the claim is contradicted by information held by Lloyd’s Register. One of the very few cases in which evidence exists that may indicate a freak wave incident is the 1978 loss of the freighter MS München, detailed below. In February 2000, a British oceanographic research vessel sailing in the Rockall Trough west of Scotland encountered the largest waves ever recorded by scientific instruments in the open ocean.
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