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Deadliest Catch- Season 7

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Lionel Mandrake said:
Is anyone else watching this? Really good premiere so far. I'm not liking the new captain of the Cornelia though.
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He is trying too hard to be a hardass, but he was right about them being late.
 
I always thought that Sig Hansen looked like a cross between a Busey brother and William Fichtner.

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I can't be the only one who sees the resemblance?
 
dumb question: Don't they have tech that they could scan the seafloor and see if they are over crab or I am watching too much sci-fi movies?
 
Oh wow, at the preview.

Ripclawe said:
dumb question: Don't they have tech that they could scan the seafloor and see if they are over crab or I am watching too much sci-fi movies?
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I have no idea, but it seems like they would be too small to actually get a definitive reading on them.
 
Ripclawe said:
dumb question: Don't they have tech that they could scan the seafloor and see if they are over crab or I am watching too much sci-fi movies?
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They had sidescan sonar, but the resolution isn't good enough to pick up crab.
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
Is anyone else watching this? Really good premiere so far. I'm not liking the new captain of the Cornelia though.
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Of course, being a fan since S2, although i have to confess that i missed almost completely the last 2 seasons but i keeped in touch by watching some reruns and in the oficial forum. Really a tragedy what happened to the Cornelia Marie. RIP Captain Phil....

Also, i've watched halfway to this season premiere and so far so good, it's great to see some of the problems resolved (it's great to see the Hilstrands again and that legal stuff with Discovery solved) between the crews solved and to see new crews too.
 
I think at this point I find the coast guard rescues almost better than the rest of the show. Of course, if they had to take up an entire episode instead of 5 minutes, they'd probably get as tedious as the fishermen yelling at each other over whatever infraction has come up.
 
firehawk12 said:
I think at this point I find the coast guard rescues almost better than the rest of the show. Of course, if they had to take up an entire episode instead of 5 minutes, they'd probably get as tedious as the fishermen yelling at each other over whatever infraction has come up.
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When the swimmer slammed into the side of the boat last night, my jaw hit the floor.
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
Oh wow, at the preview.



I have no idea, but it seems like they would be too small to actually get a definitive reading on them.
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I really would like them to devote a special on how the tech works on the boats. They seem to have charts of where scallop movement is and stuff like that and I would love to know a lot of those small details.

Dai101 said:
Anyone knows the name of the song they are using in the promos for this season?
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"Ain't No Grave" by Johnny Cash I believe.
 
I feel as if this one dude on the "Seabrooke" is a plant by the show to make it more interesting, it's really over the top and unbelievable that this asshole is real.
 
LAUGHTREY said:
I feel as if this one dude on the "Seabrooke" is a plant by the show to make it more interesting, it's really over the top and unbelievable that this asshole is real.
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Yeah that dude is a weird dude. He gets off the plane, says he can run circles around these vets, and then cries in the wheelhouse when his hands cramp up.. Can't wait to see him go.
 
if anyone is still watching, you should know about the ads for the next episode. it's gonna be a doosie. the tension aboard the Cornelia is already bad, but if Jake gets arrested thanks to the captain, I fear a mutiny
 
aparisi2274 said:
Yeah that dude is a weird dude. He gets off the plane, says he can run circles around these vets, and then cries in the wheelhouse when his hands cramp up.. Can't wait to see him go.
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I just catch up to this week episode and i'm glad he's gone, now let's see how his replacement works. Throwing up in the first hours you're in a boat doesn't gives much confidence.

Also, the situation in the Cornelia Marie seems serious. In the beginning i really feel that the new captain could handle that boat, now it doesn't seems so
 
Interesting interview with the captain of the Cornelia Marie.

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2011/05/deadliest_catch_captain_derric.html

It's been a dramatic season on Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch," which began with a memorial for the late Capt. Phil Harris -- who died after suffering a stroke last season -- and continued with fireworks between Harris' sons, Jake and Josh, and the new captain of Harris' ship, the Cornelia Marie.

Derrick Ray, a Seaside native who still lives there part time, took over Harris' ship after Harris was rushed to the hospital last crab season. Ray's no-nonsense ways clashed with a looser style the crew had been accustomed to under Harris. Ray quickly became a polarizing figure, with some fans calling him a jerk (and much worse) in online message boards while others defended his tough tactics with 25-year-old Jake and 28-year-old Josh.

Ray, 49, is currently working as a tour boat captain in Ketchikan, Alaska, but he gets back to Oregon about three months out of the year. He's been a commercial fisherman since graduating high school and spent more than a decade as captain of The Siberian Sea, a fishing vessel designed specifically for the Bering Sea. For 20 years he was friends with Phil Harris and Cornelia Marie Devlin, a majority owner of the Cornelia Marie (Jake and Josh own a smaller percentage of the boat).

'Deadliest Catch'
When: 9 p.m. Tuesdays
Channel: Discovery Channel
Our coverage: For more with Derrick Ray after Tuesday's episode, visit oregonlive.com/tv Tuesday night
Ray clashed with Jake and Josh and other crew members early in the season over their work ethic and whether Jake, who has been through a stint in rehab, was using drugs on the boat. Their conflict reaches a boiling point in Tuesday night's episode. Questions and answers have been edited for brevity and clarity.

Q: Where did you grow up?

A: In Seaside. I was raised there, I haven't grown up yet. I'm working on that. I took off outta there in 1980. My dad was a logger and I was going to be a logger. I sucked at school. I knew how to work, I wasn't stupid, I just didn't want to be in school. They laid off 400 people two months before I graduated, so logging wasn't an option. I jumped on the first boat out of Astoria for Alaska.

Q: How did you end up on "Deadliest Catch"?

A: Phil was a friend and Cornelia needed someone she could count on. Phil had said my name when he was sick, along with a couple of other guys.

Q: Who hired you to captain the Cornelia Marie?

A: It was Cornelia. Phil got sick and they called and I packed a bag. Two hours later I was headed to the Portland airport. They filmed the whole time during Opilio crab season last year but the boys weren't on the boat. They brought Josh back for 24 hours so they could film him on the boat. You read some of the blog sites and they think the boys were on the boat.

The part they did show of me that season I was an easy-going nice guy -- and I am. The best way to explain it is when I step on a fishing boat, my ego is as big as the Bering Sea. I'm the captain, it's my boat and it's my job to take care of it. I ran boats for 26 years in the Bering Sea and I only had one guy who had to get four stitches and we never had to stop fishing or anything. People are worked up. There's just a bunch of crazy fans out there.





Q: Did you have any qualms about being brought in to take over the reins of Phil's ship?

A: When I got the phone call from Cornelia, after I hung up the phone, I sat in my house for 10 minutes and thought, "Do I really want to go do this?" I've watched the show, I know how they're portraying the job I've loved my whole life and it's not as accurate as it could be. And then I was like, "I'm not going to worry about that part of it."

Q: You're more of a rules guy than the Cornelia Maria crew is used to. I'm sure some people wonder if you were hired to captain a boat or if you were cast as the anti-Phil.

A: I was hired to captain a boat.

Everybody knew my history and how I ran boats. I've always been a no-B.S. kind of guy and Cornelia knew that. Basically, there wasn't any problems until the boys showed up for King crab season this year.

Q: Did you know Jake and Josh in advance of becoming captain of the Cornelia Maria?

A: I knew them when they were little kids back in the '90s. I never saw either one past the age of 12 until I went up to take the boat out. I had watched "Deadliest Catch" -- so I'd seen them on TV. I knew the stories and I knew Phil and what they were like from guys who fished with them, but I didn't realize it was as bad as it was.

Q: Some "Deadliest Catch" fans dislike you and others think you're trying to teach the Harris boys lessons they need to learn. Did you expect to be a polarizing figure?

A: I didn't even think about it. We were going crab fishing. ... Josh came up to me in the wheelhouse on the third day of fishing, he looked at me and said, "We're not here to catch crab, we're here to make TV and when we've made enough TV, we're going home," and I just about fell over. Right at that moment I knew I was screwed and I knew it would get worse. I knew the relationship I had with Steve, the engineer, who was a complete bumbling buffoon, was going to get worse.

Q: Was the exchange with Josh caught on film?

A: It's on film but they ain't gonna use it. They got a lot of things on film they're not gonna use. They're telling the story they want to tell. One of these days when "Deadliest Catch" is over if they want to wake up and be truthful with themselves, the truth will come out. It's not my place to tell it all. I just shared what happened on the boat when I was there.

Q: At one point early this season you got mad at Jake and Steve for being away too long and you yelled, "Phil's not here, he's [bleeping] dead, OK?" when the boys were in earshot. Do you regret saying that?

A: No, I don't regret that at all. The cameras were there and that's how I felt at the time. Maybe it came across a little heavy handed but so what? I'm captain of the boat. There ain't no cryin' in crabbin'. It's a job. It's a dangerous job, but the job is no harder than most people who've got to get up everyday. I don't think I'm super-human. A lot of people work a hell of a lot harder than we do. We get a lot of time off the ocean.

The problem is, a lot of guys go out there and do the job and get the perception that they're bigger than life and they're not. You're crab fishermen. One of my favorite saying is "We're all hired for from the neck down; the only thing your head is for is to hold up your [bleeping] raincoat." Just do your job, that's all it's about.

Q: Do you regret any of your actions toward the boys or the crew?

A: Absolutely not. I was trying to teach them, and they didn't want to listen. They were trying to make TV. They wanted to twist it their way. Whenever it's convenient for them, they pull out their "Poor, Pitiful Pearl" card and that ... don't fly with me. "My dad died, look at me, it's so tough."

The problem is they believe the editing. In their minds, Phil was a crab fisherman, a legend in the Bering Sea who will never be replaced. But he was really just an above-average fisherman in the Bering Sea. There are no legends out here, just guys who went and did their jobs. Some did it better than others. Real legends are firemen who rush into burning buildings. Legends are young men and women we send overseas to get shot, not crab fishermen.
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The situation on the Cornelia Marie's pretty intense. Derrick's comments sort of make him look like a jerk. Not for going after the film crew, I'm sure he's right in many regards, but attacking Phil's legacy like that. Maybe he was just a fishing captain, but there has to be a more respectful way to say that.
 
This season has been kind a mess, seems like they are trying to prove to sig and the time bandit that they don't need them. And it isn't working.
 
osh came up to me in the wheelhouse on the third day of fishing, he looked at me and said, "We're not here to catch crab, we're here to make TV and when we've made enough TV, we're going home," and I just about fell over.
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Disappointing if true.
 
You know, I know they edit the show in a way to tell a story, but the way Jake just left the boat tonight, and went straight to the airport with no luggage is pretty convincing to me that he was smoking. Then to refuse a drug test, well that just really put him in a bad light...
 
Wow, Jake was such an idiot walking away like that then still denies and refuses to take a blood test.... If his dad was still alive, he'd beat the living shit outta him..... smh....
 
soujiro_seta said:
Wow, Jake was such an idiot walking away like that then still denies and refuses to take a blood test.... If his dad was still alive, he'd beat the living shit outta him..... smh....
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I don't think the kids really care about the job since their dad is dead. *shrug*

In any case, Deadliest Catch has kinda been in a "meh" rut for about four seasons now. So I haven't been actively watching. Jake and Josh are gone?
 
TheSeks said:
I don't think the kids really care about the job since their dad is dead. *shrug*

In any case, Deadliest Catch has kinda been in a "meh" rut for about four seasons now. So I haven't been actively watching. Jake and Josh are gone?
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Jake and Josh aren't gone. The Cornelia Marie has gotten a new captain since Phil died, and the crew hated him. This combined with the extremely low crab count caused them to ask the captain to call the season early and head back to port. The captain was pissed, and set out to find some sign that Jake was still using drugs. He found a makeshift pipe below deck and called him out on that (which he denied), then alerted the authorities to be there when they made it to shore. As soon as they got there, Jake jumped off the ship and headed to an airport. He was halted and refused to be given a drug test. They let him go for insufficient evidence. Now the Cornelia Marie's future remains unsure.

Anyway, tonight's episode was really good. Season closers are always interesting.

Slayven said:
This season has been kind a mess, seems like they are trying to prove to sig and the time bandit that they don't need them. And it isn't working.
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Can't happen. Sig is the heart of the show to me.
 
I loved watching this when it first started. I caught a few episodes a while back, but I haven't felt the need to continue watching this show.

I always thought Jake was cute.
 
They start filming After the Catch next week in Hawaii. Should be interesting, especially with some of the behind the scenes stuff I been reading.
 
Man watching After the Catch, they brought Derrick and Josh out. Josh is full of venom, while the captains are backing up Derrick. Pretty interesting.
 
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