Deadliest Catch

Cheating Death

Season 3, Episode 4, Aired 4/24/07

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Despite the tragedies, fatigue, equipment problems, and weather the crews push on. Boats and crews are working forty hours with no sleep, making this dangerous job even more dangerous. With the Bering Sea still claiming victims crews are questioning decisions, working who will be the next victim.moreless

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Sig Hansen

Northwestern, Captain
Tico Tyson

Farwest Leader, Deckhand
Russ Newberry

Time Bandit, Deckhand

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Tough seas and tempers pushed to the limit, as the fishing season wears on.

9.5

"Superb"

By Lokar, Jul 23, 2008 Report Abuse

It might be easy to be fooled into thinking that nature is predictable. Watch this show and you'll see that the workers on the Bering Sea crab fishing fleet know better. Captain Phil Harris of the "Cornelia Marie" has at least two crises on the front burner. His kids bought far more gear than they can use or afford; on top of that, Phil's blood pressure is a mess. Then we see the most dreaded factor of all: Josh White of the "Trailblazer" is sideswiped by the high waves and topples into the water. The "Time Bandit" rushes to respond in time. Competition is one thing; however, human safety is another. For these fishermen, neither success nor coming home at the end of the trip are guaranteed. One of the most exciting and engrossing shows on television.moreless

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The end made this one of the best episodes ever!

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By starwolf99, May 30, 2007 Report Abuse

In a fishing boat in the Bering Sea, there are two words you do not want to hear: MAN OVERBOARD

I'll get to that later. In addition to the suspenseful end, this episode was full of real life drama as captains deal with mechanical failures and less-than-perfect deckhands. You are sucked into their lives. I felt it when Phil is trying to get the Cornelia Marie back in the water while dealing with both his sons. I wanted to see the Northwestern pull in large numbers to finish in time to meet the court date. I cringed when I saw a 800-lb pot crash in the Farwest Leader, glad that no one was right behind it. I enjoyed the prank war between the Cornelia Marie and the Maverick.

Then there was the Time Bandit.

You first see one of the most dangerous jobs as deckhand Josh of the Trailblazer is brushed by the sea trying to tie the pots together. The crew of the Time Bandit watching nervously because the conditions were brutal. Everyone jumps the second Captain Jonathan shouts "MAN OVERBOARD, DA*N IT!!!!!!" The captain had prior experience when he was unsuccessful in a previous rescue years ago. You heard "never again" in his mind as his crew rushed to pull him out.
Then there was the scene in which Jonathan meets deckhand Josh and they both breakdown in tears of relief. "You saved my life, man!"

It set the stage for the Time Bandit's fishing karma in the next two episodes.moreless

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One word for this episode:WOW!(which is the reason behind the long review here)

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By Minarvia, Apr 27, 2007 Report Abuse

This is just one word to describe this episode and that is: WOW! Even if I did know that this was going to happen, it still didn't lessen the actions or the emotional reaction that I got while watching the saving of the Trailblazer's deckhand(that was the name of the boat that the Time Bandit was next to) by the crew of the Time Bandit. Once again I was almost brought to tears at hearing what was being said by Josh while he was in the water to one of the Time Bandit's deckhands. While, we have seen numerous of water rescues in the course of this series, and they all have emotional reactions to them, because we all know that this real deal and people's lives are in dangers, what makes this one special when compare to the others that we have seen in the past is the fact that this was caught by Andy Hillstrand, a fishermen, not a professional cameramen, is what makes it different from the others, which is the reason behind all of the jerky monuments in the film.

While, the rescue of Josh from the icy waters of the Bering Sea was the best monument in the entire episode, there were other lead boats that were in this episode and lets move onto them. Let's start with the Northwestern, that in the pervious episode has been doing poorly when compare to her efforts in the past two seasons is now back to her true form, racking in huge numbers King Crab and sitting on top of the crab count board, even if it might be a temporary thing, it was still nice seeing them jump from 2nd to last to top, and filling up the boat, a feat that we haven't seen since the 1st season of Opies. But it was a real shame seeing the Cornelia Marie, another top performer and fan favorite, fall to the basement like that, because of a common, but expensive breakdown, in the form of a huge chuck of his propeller blade breaking off like that. But, Phil was lucky that a piece of debris didn't fly up and do some damage to his haul, if that happen his season would have been completely over.

I also feel sorry for Phil as well, because this is the second straight King Crab season where his boat went through a major breakdown, last year his engine blew a head casket , and then right after that the very same engine shattered a piston, no wonder his blood pressure was so high, mine would be to, when he found this out. To add insult injury for Phil was the fact that they flew in the wrong part, poor guy. But, that is something that can be managed, but the real kicker and would of caused me to have a heart attack if I was him, was the fact that his kids were using his credit card without his permission. It one thing to do with the blessing of the owner of the credit card, and it other to do it behind the back of the owner, even if they were buying things that were work required. The whole thing reminded me of "American Chopper" and for a monument I thought was watching another program. But, I am happy that Phil was able to get his boat fixed up to head back to grounds to try to recoup his losses.

Now, lets move on to the Farwest Leader, a boat that I didn't warm up it the start of the season, but of late I starting to like them and it seems that they have a good working relationship with each other despite the fact that some of the crew aren't experience with some of the equipment. This lack of experience by one of the deckhands comes up and rear its ugly head by the fact that the guy didn't lock in the pot, because of that the thing come crashing down on the deck, lucky nobody was behind the table when it come down, because of it could of easily killed a person, and I was surprised that the shorting table didn't get any damage from that impact. But, what I like about this, is the fact that nobody yelled at the guy because of what he did, they just worked to fixed the problem and continued to work and even let him to work with hydraulics despite what happen before, which is something that I don't agree with, but I do understand why Greg allow him to work with it again, to give him a second shot at working with it again. Like before, he screwed up with it and this causes Greg to kept him off the hydraulics and I can understand why he vented the way he did, it called be human. But I also like the fact that Greg didn't hold it against him, because he understand that we all make mistakes, even if that mistake was a $500 one. On a side note, it seem this year, we are learning more and more about these modern boats, and we are learning that they are a lot more complex then were first thought and there a lot of things that these guys lives depends on.

Next is the Maverick, and this season the Maverick has been one of the more talked about boats, because of the issue of Blake talking command over for Rick. While some people blame the editors in making Blake look like a cocky SOB(I already talk about this issue in last week episode and my feelings about it), I don't think they reaching to far with it, but with this episode it seemed that the editors are saying that they are sorry to Blake and paint him in a much better light that last week episode, with calling him the Maverick's best engineer and him working on a fix job for the boat. With his crew acting a little upset at him for girding them, that's nothing new, we have seen that before on boats with more seasoned skippers.

I am not totally upset with no footage of the Wizard this week, there were no many other important issues in this episode that they felt needed to be told.moreless

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What an amazing ending!

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By ILredsoxfan, Apr 27, 2007 Report Abuse

The rescue of the fisherman was amazing. The guys on the Time Bandit were watching the man for what must have been quite a while. They must have sensed that something bad was going to happen. Once he did fall, they way the responded as soon as the "Man overboard" call went out was incredible. They raced like it was their own family member to save this man that they didn't know. Yet, you saw why when they pulled out a real person, who would have easily been dead if they hadn't been keeping an eye on him. This is the kind of incredible life and death struggle that makes this show great!moreless

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The crews are mid-season in King Crab. Phil is stuck in port with problems, Sig and Blake are pushing hard and the Time Bandit Crew deals with a man overboard

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By DJ_Wikkid, Apr 25, 2007 Report Abuse

Whew, that was close! A standing ovation to the crew of the Time Bandit for saving a fellow crabber from a nearby boat who fell overboard in rough seas while climbing the stack. Bravo!
Phil of the Cornellia Maria is at port for most of the show dealing with a busted fluke on one of his propellers. Blake pushes his crew as well as Sig on the Northwestern. These two boats fished for almost three days straight. Also, Blake monkeys with one of Phil's pot, with a poor attempt at a comeback. Little does he know, he's got it coming again, cuz the pot Phil messed with was for giving out information to other boat captains that Phil gave him.

Well, just saw Edgar and Sig on the Tonight Show and heard another side of the show we dont see on Discovery. This episode was great! I loved every minute. Jonathan on the Time Bandit was clearly shaken up after they rescued a man from the water, as he should be. And dam that other boat(unnamed) had a lot more pots than any boat that we see weekly. Plus I noticed it had two cranes, so the boat must have been much larger than the ones in our fleet. Another great installment to the world's deadliest job.moreless

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- In the oversea versions, including the Canadian edition, the name of the boat wasn't blured out. Plus in the Canadian edition Mike Rowe refers to the boat as the "133ft Trailblazer and not the 133ft boat" as it was refered in the US edition. Edit
- The Timebandit rescue of Josh White is listed as the #3 greatest moment in the past nine months by the newspaper, The Phoniex. Edit
- Crab Count: The Northwestern: 194,500 The Wizard: 160,000 The Cornelia Marie: 150,000 The Farwest Leader: 70,000 The Time Bandit: 23,000 Edit
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- Mark Anderson:(referring to Phil's 185/120 blood pressure)It's a package deal, Phil. We need you and the boat. Edit
- Johnathan Hillstrand: We're going bodly where no man has gone before. Edit
- Andy Hillstrand: I wasn't gonna let go of him once I had a hold of him, man. Edit
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- Johnathan Hillstrand: We're going bodly where no man gone before. A reference to the TV show Star Trek that at end of the monolog with "To boldly go where no man has gone before." Edit
- Edgar Hansen: Dude it like the Bermuda Triangle of crab. This is where they all disappered to. A reference to the Bermuda Triangle, that is a region of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, whom boundaries are the somewhere on the Atlantic coast of Flordia, USA, San Juan Puerto, and the island of Bermuda, where numberous of ships and planes have disappeared. Edit