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Deadliest Catch

A Tragic Beginning

Season 3, Episode 1, Aired Apr 03, 2007

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The 2006 Crab season is underway in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Fishing vessels and crews are preparing for the harsh conditions they will endure. Fierce seas, high winds, and ice build-up will make this season of Deadliest Catch…deadly.

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GUEST STAR
Larry Hendricks

Himself

Jake Harris

Cornelia Marie, Deckhand
Sig Hansen

Northwestern, Captain
Phil Harris (II)

Cornelia Marie, Captain
Norman Hansen

Northwestern, Deckhand
Blake Painter

Maverick, Captain
Mike Rowe

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This episode may have seemed to start a little slow but the beginning is where we get to know the teams and the personal lives of the members. The show hangs on to deliver a nail bitting ending.moreless

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By Queenbanana, Apr 13, 2007

By getting to know the members it makes the season that much more interesting. This episode we see the teams take off again in troubled weather and the anticipation of the season is felt the whole time. The teams take off to search for hunting grounds and soon we are well aware of the dangers that these ships navigate into an a seasonal basis. The rescue call came closer to the end of the episode and it left me wanting to know what the outcome will be. They teased us with the drama and I like that. I also want to know how this season will go now with this big accident hanging over the heads of the rest of the teams. I think that the drama we get to see later on in the episode is what this show is all about. It left me thinking about how crazy this job is and how these people leave everything behind for the hunt. It was a great touch seeing a father on the phone with his family when he overhears the rescue call go out. What must be going through his mind as he says goodnight to his children and his wife. Great starter episode for the season.moreless
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The most anticipated season premiere for the series and it started a little slow, but toward the end of the episode it really picked up with the footage of the Coast Guard Coast rescue.(which is the reason for the high ratting)moreless

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By Minarvia, Apr 04, 2007

The most anticipated season premiere for the series and it started a little slow. But toward the end of the episode it really picked up with the footage of the Coast Guard Coast rescue operation and with the boats heading out to the grounds to make their living(which is the reason behind the high ratting).

First at all it seems that Discovery has totally go over the top with of the new graphics, but that was totally expected with the fact that season is the first time that it would be filmed in HD, which makes the series a lot crisper then in the pervious two seasons. In this new improved title segment that only includes the captains of the featured boats, but also their crews, with I liked because it shows that the Captain of a boat can't do it all himself. Also a more colorful RADAR map graphic, gone is the black screen with the checked board, which I like because it mimic the RADAR screen in which is seen on real-life RADAR screens. What really irked me, was the fact that every time we jumpped to the RADAR map graphic, there was a Lexus logo right there, it clearly puts a question in the credibility that is truely a documentary type show.

Now, let's get on to the show, once again we are reintroduced to some of the boats of last year, with includes the return of the Northwestern, the Maverick, the Time Bandit, and the Cornelia Marie, like what happen in the two pervious years changes are afoot with includes a couple of new crew members for the Northwestern, the Cornelia Marie, but the real big change was the fact that the Maverick isn't being commanded by Rick, but this time Blake and his very own crew. We are also introduced to a few new boats, which includes the Wizard, the Early Dawn, and the Farwest Leader, but it seems that they aren't going to get a lot footage to them.

But, as the old saying goes "The more things change, the more things stay the same", holds true with this series, which includes a pratical joker Sig, which we saw for the first time last year, but this time Sig isn't shutting the water off a shower on a fellow crew member or welding a pot shut of a follow boat, but time he put a dead fish in the Maverick's wheelhouse and I am waiting to see how Blake will react to this pratical joke done by Sig. Also the dangerous decks of these boats while the crew unload their pots and the mistakes that young crew members can make while getting their boats ready to fish, which include the deck of the Wizard.

The real kicker of this episode is the Coast Guard rescue opperation toward the end of the episode and the lack of background music and Mike's narration. This forces the viewer of the episode to read and listen the sub titles on the opperation, and while I did know about this boat sinking back in October when it really did happen. It didn't lessen the emtional impact of seeing the rescue opperation done by the Coast Guard and seeing the empty suit and raft or seeing a surrivor in water holding on a piece of debris in the water waiting for the Coast Guard to get himself out of the water.

All in all, a great start for the new season, but by expections are high for this new season and I hope that my expection will by meet.moreless
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- Sig, captain of the Northwestern, and his brother put a dead decaying fish in Blake's (new captain) seat aboard the Maverick the night before everyone leaves port as a joke.
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- The captains of all the boats make a bet totaling $900.00 for the man who pulls the most with the first string the night before they leave port to start the season.
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- The Cornelia Marie was the first boat featured on the show to drop a pot for the King Crab season.
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- When the Coast Guard found the life boat from the sinking ship there was no one in the life boat. So the coast guard sank the life boat to prevent anyone else from search an empty boat.
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QUOTES (8)
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- Andy Hillstrand: Let the rodeo begin, my friend
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- Sig Hansen: A monkey can go out here and set pots but you gotta read what you see. You've got to understand what you're looking at.
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- Josh Harris: There's something about coming up here and risking your life. Sounds weird but it makes you feel alive.
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- Phil Harris: Well, you just hope it isn't your time. Every day you're out there it's just more risk and more risk.
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- Phil Harris: (on his two sons) They're okay with each other now, but let's see when they got 30 and 40 under their butt. And that they're sore and ass tired will see how they'll be.
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- Narrator: The Time Bandit's crew descends on the market like a band of mercenaries. Get it, get out, and take no prisoners.
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- Nick Maurer: Extreme bumper boats in the Bering Sea.
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- Blake: It's a crab boat. It's not a democracy. There's one guy in charge and now I'm that guy.
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- In the book Time Bandit: Two Brother, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs, Johnathan states that the bet wasn't about the money but what crew and captain where the better fishermen in that year.
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- Like in the first season, the Time Bandit was used as the chase boat, but this time unlike the first season they were credited.
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- The Crab Count: The Cornelia Marie: 0 The Maverick: 0 The Northwestern: 0 The Time Bandit: 0 The Wizard: 0
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- This episode marks the coverage of three new boats: The Wizard captained by Keith Colburn The Eary Dawn captained by Allen Oakley The Farwest Leader captained by Greg Moncrief
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- Changes were make to the opening sequence, where a crabber is seen traveling over the open water, the boat has been changed to the Time Bandit it used to be the Retriever. Also, a brand new opening title sequence, that not only included the captains of the featured boats, but also their crews.
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- Blake Painter takes over the helm as captian of the Maverick. Rick Quashnick, the owner and previous captian, told Blake he would allow him to be captain last season, but Rick went back on the offer due to the ferocity of the winter storm that froze over a sizable portion of the Bering Sea as well as some misgivings from the crew concerning Blake becoming captain.
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- For yet unknown reasons, the fishing boat Ocean Challenger capsized. Of the four hands on board, only one was successfully rescued by the Coast Guard. At the conclusion of the episode, the fate of the other three hands remains unknown, but it appears they have succumbed to the freezing water and died.
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