Dangerous Catch

cyrusdvirus · 29-05-2007 9:17pm #1

There a thread about this show around these here parts? Been watching it for the past couple of weeks, and I personally find it engrossing. anyone else or am I in a minority of 1??

GBX · 29-05-2007 9:19pm

Dangerous Catch? or Deadliest Catch?

If its the latter ... I think its cool. Been watching it for quite some time now. Its good to see how crab fishing is done.

cyrusdvirus · 29-05-2007 9:48pm

GBX wrote:

Dangerous Catch? or Deadliest Catch?

If its the latter ... I think its cool. Been watching it for quite some time now. Its good to see how crab fishing is done.

That'd be the one alright!!

That one tonight was pretty good. It was good to see the reactions of the 'Time Bandits' crew to the man overboard situation. Don't want to spoil it if people haven't seen it yet

wyndham · 02-06-2007 1:59am

I've watched it a few times. Its fairly repetitive and don't think the topic justified one TV series, let alone several. If you have seen one episode, you have seen them all and an hour long once-off documentary would have killed it off. Something I could never understand is why the fishermen aren't harnessed to the deck of the fishing boat by something similar to a bungee cord. An average of 50 guys a year are killed falling off the boats so why don't they tie them on?

padi89 · 02-06-2007 7:30am

wyndham wrote:

Something I could never understand is why the fishermen aren't harnessed to the deck of the fishing boat by something similar to a bungee cord. An average of 50 guys a year are killed falling off the boats so why don't they tie them on?

Ah come on now ,use your noggin.

wyndham · 02-06-2007 11:28am

padi89 wrote:

Ah come on now ,use your noggin.

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Holsten · 02-06-2007 2:37pm

Yeah I watch this now and then, but really if you seen one episode you've seen them all.

And I agree, why not have some safty cord?

daveirl · 02-06-2007 3:26pm

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padi89 · 02-06-2007 8:08pm

wyndham wrote:

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Pretty much as Daveirl said.Can you imagine 5 guys working on deck in huge seas all with bungee cords handing out the back of them????? They would be constantly getting caught up,extremely restrictive,slow down the work process and most of all dangerous.
For example launching a pot,someones cord gets caught in the line they get pulled straight down underwater and easily someone else with them.These guys are constantly crossing each others paths it would be a complete disaster.

Utopia Parkway · 04-06-2007 2:20pm

LOL @ the image of five fishermen all trailing 40 feet of bungee cord behind them.:D

Redshift · 04-06-2007 4:18pm

Having trained years ago as a deckhand in the NFTC and worked on fishing trawlers I have to say that being attached to anything on the deck of a fishing boat is asking to get pulled overboard, decapitated, lose a limb or just plain dead.

I know from experience that it's probably the hardest job in the world and deadly dangerous. I was told by an insurace company at the time that my life was uninsurable.
I saw some amazing close calls and dangerous sitautions in the short time I did this, on my last trip out the boat I was on came within 30 seconds of being rammed and probably sunk by another trawler going full ahead with nobody at the wheel.:eek:
We were half way through hauling nets and couldn't get out if the way it was that close in the end I could the the expression of terror on the face of the idiot on the other boat when he appeared back in his wheel house and i'm sure he saw ours.

Back on topic the series is great but I don't watch it as much as I used to as it's getting to the stage where it's getting repetitive.
As mentioned one series would have been plently.

Dangerous Catch

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