Deadliest Catch

[jeninflorida]

is anyone going to watch this tonight? we like the show...so sad that "Phil" had passed...and what a week after learning his son is addicted to drugs? i'm sure that tonights show will be a tear jerker

 

[clutch1]

It would've been better if they didn't milk it for all it's worth.

 

[Christopher2012]

is anyone going to watch this tonight? we like the show...so sad that "Phil" had passed...and what a week after learning his son is addicted to drugs? i'm sure that tonights show will be a tear jerker

I was going to start a thread, but I cry like a little schoolgirl when I get flamed.

Yeah, I'm going to watch. The only reason why I started watching the show was because my TV stays on the Discovery Channel and Deadliest Catch is about 50% of what they air. I mean, it's on right now for God's sake.

 

[jeninflorida]

It would've been better if they didn't milk it for all it's worth.

we spend a lot of time on the water...but we've never been in 20-100ft seas. I'm sure they will milk it...get more eyes on the show so that they can charge $$$

 

[RoryN]

It would've been better if they didn't milk it for all it's worth.

That's what I'm worried about: that his final show will be an over-produced piece of junk. Hopefully the format stays pretty much the same.

 

[thør]

I wonder if Phil's last request was to be used for bait?

 

[Luk]

It would've been better if they didn't milk it for all it's worth.

That's what I'm worried about: that his final show will be an over-produced piece of junk. Hopefully the format stays pretty much the same.

For the first time since I've been listening to the same sports radio station for years, they played a commercial for Deadliest Catch. I almost puked.

 

[clutch1]

we spend a lot of time on the water...but we've never been in 20-100ft seas. I'm sure they will milk it...get more eyes on the show so that they can charge $$$

That's what I'm worried about: that his final show will be an over-produced piece of junk. Hopefully the format stays pretty much the same.

That's what I'm talkin about, these reality shows film hours and hours of footage and condense it down to a couple of minutes of what they think the veiwers will find compelling.

This has been a four week ongoing death pool.

 

[GrumpyOldGoat]

we spend a lot of time on the water...but we've never been in 20-100ft seas. I'm sure they will milk it...get more eyes on the show so that they can charge $$$

100 foot seas

 

[jeninflorida]

100 foot seas

I don't remember seeing 100ft seas on that, but the QE2 was built to take 100ft seas!

on Deadlist catch, how many of those ships rolled over in the past 5 years?

 

[Ishmael]

I wonder if Phil's last request was to be used for bait?

Pretty jaded attitude thor. Thom Beers and the Deadliest Catch program have done more for the Alaska Fisheries than any other single event, not to mention the captains and crews of the boats involved.

Phil KNEW he wasn't long for this world and he went out with a film crew on board anyway. His family, the boat, and hopefully the crew, will all recieve some renumeration from the show and given the questionable status of the Cornelia Marie as far as fishing is concerned they're all going to need it.

If you go to the boats website you find that they are behind the airing of this episode and look at it as a celebration of Phils life. The show is, and has always been about the fisherman of those waters. It's not like the networks that slap together some special about the death of a Micheal Jackson from which the family recieves absolutely nothing, that's true exploitation.

This is about a real man doing what he loved to do in a very dangerous environment. There was nothing false about Phil Harris, you saw exactly who he was week by week. In a media populated by pretenders, seeing folks like that was a refreshing change. A person worthy of respect. His life is worth celebrating.

Ishmael

 

[Killswitch]

is anyone going to watch this tonight? we like the show...so sad that "Phil" had passed...and what a week after learning his son is addicted to drugs? i'm sure that tonights show will be a tear jerker

Won't miss it.

I'm surprised they talked about Phil being dead last week on after the catch.

Before tonites show. Was odd.

 

[Killswitch]

I don't remember seeing 100ft seas on that, but the QE2 was built to take 100ft seas!

on Deadlist catch, how many of those ships rolled over in the past 5 years?

I don't think theres a ship on earth that can take 100 foot seas hun.

 

[jeninflorida]

I don't think theres a ship on earth that can take 100 foot seas hun.

hum...pretty sure it was on the travel channel about QE2 and how she was built...

 

[Killswitch]

hum...pretty sure it was on the travel channel about QE2 and how she was built...

They said the Titanic was unsinkable too. I'm positive I saw that somewhere.

 

[thør]

Pretty jaded attitude thor.

This is about a real man doing what he loved to do in a very dangerous environment. There was nothing false about Phil Harris, you saw exactly who he was week by week. In a media populated by pretenders, seeing folks like that was a refreshing change. A person worthy of respect. His life is worth celebrating.

Ishmael

The reason I'm in Alaska is that I'm descended from fisher-folk who settled here in the early 1900's. I have my share of relatives on the bottom of the Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, and Shelikof Strait. I've fished and I know fishermen. I've seen the big paydays and I've seen the poor ones. I retired my commercial license years ago.

Phil was just another fisherman.

 

[Killswitch]

The reason I'm in Alaska is that I'm descended from fisher-folk who settled here in the early 1900's. I have my share of relatives on the bottom of the Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, and Shelikof Strait. I've fished and I know fishermen. I've seen the big paydays and I've seen the poor ones. I retired my commercial license years ago.

Phil was just another fisherman.

Another fisherman who showed hundreds of millions of people what it takes to be a fisherman like you and your dead relatives and how dangerous and often thankless a job it is and how it affects families.

You're an idiot.

 

[Ishmael]

The reason I'm in Alaska is that I'm descended from fisher-folk who settled here in the early 1900's. I have my share of relatives on the bottom of the Bering Sea, Bristol Bay, and Shelikof Strait. I've fished and I know fishermen. I've seen the big paydays and I've seen the poor ones. I retired my commercial license years ago.

Phil was just another fisherman.

I don't doubt you in the least. Changes nothing though.

When I was in the service there was a fellow that I served with who was a fisherman out of Kodiak. Came from a family of fisherman and boat owners. His attitude was very much like you see on the series. He worked as hard as he played. Kept his head in tight situations. I had an open invitation to go up there and go fishing with him, but life got in the way and we lost touch along the years.

Ishmael

 

[thør]

I don't doubt you in the least. Changes nothing though.

When I was in the service there was a fellow that I served with who was a fisherman out of Kodiak. Came from a family of fisherman and boat owners. His attitude was very much like you see on the series. He worked as hard as he played. Kept his head in tight situations. I had an open invitation to go up there and go fishing with him, but life got in the way and we lost touch along the years.

Ishmael

You missed an experience you'd always remember.......

 

[Ishmael]

You missed an experience you'd always remember.......

I figure I've missed more than one, but I prefer to dwell on the ones I didn't miss.

Ishmael

 

[Slowlane]

Not to take away anything from the fishermen, but, the show is pretty lame. It may be more interesting to someone who never worked in the elements or had to worry about whether their job would kill them or not.

To me it's just another job, more dangerous than most - but it pays better as well.

I was sorry about Phil though. It would suck to have a job as dangerous as his and die of a stroke. How mundane.

 

[thør]

Not to take away anything from the fishermen, but, the show is pretty lame. It may be more interesting to someone who never worked in the elements or had to worry about whether their job would kill them or not.

To me it's just another job, more dangerous than most - but it pays better as well.

I was sorry about Phil though. It would suck to have a job as dangerous as his and die of a stroke. How mundane.

But he could have taken someone with him, had the stroke occurred at the wrong time. Mundane isn't so bad.

 

[Saint Peter]

Pretty jaded attitude thor. Thom Beers and the Deadliest Catch program have done more for the Alaska Fisheries than any other single event, not to mention the captains and crews of the boats involved.

Phil KNEW he wasn't long for this world and he went out with a film crew on board anyway. His family, the boat, and hopefully the crew, will all recieve some renumeration from the show and given the questionable status of the Cornelia Marie as far as fishing is concerned they're all going to need it.

If you go to the boats website you find that they are behind the airing of this episode and look at it as a celebration of Phils life. The show is, and has always been about the fisherman of those waters. It's not like the networks that slap together some special about the death of a Micheal Jackson from which the family recieves absolutely nothing, that's true exploitation.

This is about a real man doing what he loved to do in a very dangerous environment. There was nothing false about Phil Harris, you saw exactly who he was week by week. In a media populated by pretenders, seeing folks like that was a refreshing change. A person worthy of respect. His life is worth celebrating.

Ishmael

I thought you did not own a television.

 

[Slowlane]

But he could have taken someone with him, had the stroke occurred at the wrong time. Mundane isn't so bad.

Still............

 

[wayfarm]

I dig the show. Not necessarily all of the cast, but each person has flaws, just like my family and friends.

I enjoy getting to sea the ocean in conditions, I wouldn't dare go out in.

However, that show was one of the motivators in getting me to spend some time on the water in a kayak.