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Season 5 Episode 19: Shipwrecked
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Goof: While the episode states that it was the final 24 hours of the Opilio season, but that isn't so. The Icy Mist got grounded on the island on February 25, 2009, so in fact the Opilio season while well on the way. However, it may have been the final 24 hours for the Four Vessel fleet the show revolves around.
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Season 5 Episode 16: Deadliest Sea
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The story of the St. Christopher seems to be based on the real life story of the St. Patrick. All 11 hands abandoned the ship, but she righted herself after abandoned and was later found afloat and remained so for a time. She was towed to port and sank while moored there. There were two survivors, one of them a greenhorn.
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Season 5 Episode 13: Ends of the Earth
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Goof: In the crab count there are two errors, the One, Time Bandit's crab count is above the the Cornelia Marie despite the fact that there only caught 340,000 pounds of crab while the the Cornelia Marie's count is 360,000. The Cornelia Marie's count should of been about the Time Bandit's count. Also with the Incentive's crab count is 355,000 is above the Northwestern's crab count is 430,000. The Northwestern's crab count should of been above the Incentive's.
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Season 5 Episode 11: Lockout
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Goof:During the intro to this boat, Mike Rowe, mistakenly refers to the Incentive as 100ft long, in fact she is 106ft long.
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Season 5 Episode 5: Long Haul, Short F...
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There appears to several discrepancies in this episode. One:The narrator said they were 40 days into the season, but John Hillstrand said "That they were a week in and "stuffed the boat in one day." Two: Last episode the Northwestern's offload day was Thursday and now Sig states that it was Sunday.
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Season 5 Episode 3: Stay Focused or Die
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Goof: In the tribute at the end of the episode there was an error,Carlos Martin Zabala was listed as from Helena, WA, actually he was from Helena, Montana.
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Editing Goof: In the montage of footage that showed all of the Coast Guard assets coming on-line. While the Coast Guard Cutter, Acushnet, was involved with locating the crew of the Katmai, the cutter that they showed was the Alex Haley,
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Season 4 Episode 3: A Number Game
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Goof: When Mike Rowe is refering that the Time Bandit is head back to Dutch Harbor to offload, the RADAR map has to arrow that is representing the Time Bandit pointing in the wrong direction. It was point upward, it should of been pointed downward. In the UK version (aired 20 May 2008) the narrator (Bill Petrie) said the Time Bandit was heading to St. Paul Island to offload - making the radar graphic correct.
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Season 4 Episode 2: Striking Out
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Factal Error: When Mike Rowe says "The Bering Sea gives up her bounty" in reguards to the Early Dawn reeling in huge numbers of Brown King crab is wrong. Brown King crabs are caught on the southwest side of the Aleutian Chain off the coast of Alaska which is consided the North Pacific Ocean and not the Bering Sea.
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Season 4 Episode 1: Get 'Em Back Safe!
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Editing Goof:In the pan-out of the exterior of the bar man and kid in the shot are walking backward.
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Season 3 Episode 3: Pain and Paybacks
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The Cornelia Marie pulls the first prank of the season when they weld shut one of the pots of the Maverick.
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Wizard deckhand Lenny Lekanoff suffers the first major injury on a featured boat this season. His left pinky finger is smashed by a swinging pot.
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Season 3 Episode 2: The Unforgiving Sea
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The Northwestern is the last ship featured on the show to pull its first string of pots for King Crab season.
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The Maverick is the first ship featured on the show to head to St. Paul to unload its crab.
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Season 3 Episode 1: A Tragic Beginning
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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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Season 2 Episode 5: The Finish Line
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Crab that are keepers are commonly referred to as "keeper crab", they measure over 6 ½ inches across.
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Season 2 Episode 3: Batten Down the Ha...
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While fishing for crab it is illegal to keep females, they must be tossed back along with juveniles.
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