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Deadliest Catch

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osugrad21;1458799; said:
No doubt. That faraway haunted look in the kid's eyes as he was telling the story about the raft was awful.
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I think when it hit me the hardest was when Keith from the Wizard was talking about it.. he looked absolutely devastated, and the way he put it. Something like "to know that every year, someone isn't coming home." Sad.
 
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The Captain never should have let the Engineer go back down to try to fix the leak when he himself intended to jump ship. He should have ordered him
off the boat. They never really explained what exactly happened to cause the breack, but I googled and read an article about what happened. Either way, those guys have balls as big as church bells, even going out in those waves.
 
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Brutus1;1458823; said:
The Captain never should have let the Engineer go back down to try to fix the leak when he himself intended to jump ship. He should have ordered him
off the boat. They never really explained what exactly happened to cause the breack, but I googled and read an article about what happened. Either way, those guys have balls as big as church bells, even going out in those waves.
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if im remembering correctly the captain ordered abandon ship and had the life rafts deployed. the engineer took it apon himself to try to save the ship anyway. extremely brave man. the guy that got me was the deck hand who took half his gumby suit off to secure the cover for the raft. with the way they were tossed around all night. he saved all 4 of their lives no question about it.

i can't imagine what it would be like going through something like that. you think to yourself, i would have made the engineer leave. or i would have helped him try to save the ship. or i would have gotten in the water to help the 18 yr old kid with the hole in his survival suit or the deckhand who took his survival suit off to secure the raft. but the reality is the chances of leaving the raft and finding them at all is remote. let alone getting to them and helping them back to the raft. they were in the water for 17 hours. my understanding is 18 hours is the limit for the survival suits and i suspect thats under optimal conditions. thats got to be the worst feeling in the world. listening to someone who is in absolute mortal danger screaming for help knowing there isn't a single thing you can do to help them. worst still, even trying would likely get yourself killed in the process. unfun.
 
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Brutus1;1458823; said:
The Captain never should have let the Engineer go back down to try to fix the leak when he himself intended to jump ship. He should have ordered him off the boat.
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My guess is the engineer decided a long time ago that if this ever happened he wasn't going in the water in a survival suit. I think his plan was to get the pumps going... and, if he couldn't... well, that's how it goes.
 
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I'll never wear a life jacket again...
 
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Yea, he was pretty hazard looking (the engineer). Where was the 4th guy that survived ? That happened in October.

If Discovery was smart, they'd have a show about the Coast Guard. Maybe not enough footage, but those people are equally amazing. I had a friend that was in the CG and for exercises, they'd take out the ship in bad seas, attach the crew to the rails and purposely roll the ship upside down.
 
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iirc the ship's rudder broke, and they couldn't maneuver the boat in the waves, and ended up taking on water. The same thing happened to the Alaska Ranger on the last season, but that ship must have been a lot bigger. It had something like 50 crew and 5 didn't make it.

You're pretty much on your own when you're 800 miles away from the nearest Coast Guard station. Unless they stationed a boat in the middle of the sea that could deploy search helicopters. I was surprised the copters could go that far, spend a few hours searching, and make it back without needing to refuel. I thought they had a much shorter range.
 
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opie season started tonight. phil is back. that is when the true craziness transpires, imo.

last episode of king crab season was hillarious when they said 4000 miles south of dutch harbor is the time bandit. then it showed them in tank tops fishing for marlin.
 
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fourteenandoh;1477046; said:
opie season started tonight. phil is back. that is when the true craziness transpires, imo.

last episode of king crab season was hillarious when they said 4000 miles south of dutch harbor is the time bandit. then it showed them in tank tops fishing for marlin.
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Opie is, what, january + ??? crazy time to be out there fishing.

And, yeah, I loved them down in Mexico. Amazed me that, after all that, those fucking guys were out on a boat fishing. I'd LOVE to be doing the same thing - love me some deep sea, warm water fishing.
 
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[quote='BusNative;147713;4]Opie is, what, january + ??? crazy time to be out there fishing.

And, yeah, I loved them down in Mexico. Amazed me that, after all that, those fucking guys were out on a boat fishing. I'd LOVE to be doing the same thing - love me some deep sea, warm water fishing.[/quote]

The other crazy part was that after all the dead loss on the Cornelia Marie...each deckhand still got over $50,000
 
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