Deadliest Catch: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about Deadliest Catch. Pick one to read it.

• Shockingly Expensive Billin 141 titlesCrab pots cost about $1000 each; it costs roughly half a million dollars for one season's worth of fuel for the Wizard; the Time Bandit used all of season 8's opilio profits to upgrade their hull and…Read →
• Injury TropesRare · in 2 titlesThe injury rate for crab fishermen is near 100%, and the variety of injuries sustained is astounding.Read →
• George Jetson Job Securityin 179 titlesAverted, despite how close-knit some of the crew can become. In the end, fishing, especially high-dollar fishing like crabbing, is about bringing money home, and if you jeopardize that, you're gone.Read →
• Dark Secretin 357 titlesAn LA Timesarticle revealed that film crews for this and other action-filled reality shows aren't unionized and can't get insurance because they're so dangerous.Read →
• Crossoverin 307 titlesOne of the Northwestern deckhands got a tattoo on L.A. Ink in honor of his father.Read →
• Everything Trying to Kill Youin 254 titlesThousand-pound crab pots swing from cranes like giant piñatas, and can fall off the launcher if not properly secured.Read →