A new season of Deadliest Catch starts tonight on Discovery Channel. This is one of the few shows I still bother to watch. What really happens on a king crab fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor, during the January fishing season, in the Bering Sea.
Why do they call it "Deadliest Catch?" Because a worker's chances of dying on the job are over 20 times higher fishing in Alaska than working anywhere else in the US. On average 34 fishing boats are lost each year, with 24 deaths. Crabbing is the most hazardous type of fishing since they work all night with heavy equipment during the winter.
Give these guys a watch and see if you don't think they are either nuts or masochists.
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