Tonights episode was good.. Looks like the season will be really good

I only caught the last half of the show, what is wrong with Phil?

Last season he had a blood clot pass through his heart, which most times would kill you. As they were about to leave for this season of fishing his doctor called and said there were still some clots present and if it happened at sea again it could kill him.

I love the show and will watch it but really, if you saw a random episode you would have no clue what season it is from, they are all the same.

GO TIME!

It only looked like a scrape, but I wonder how bad Keith banged up his melon.

Good start to the season, the anticipation was killing me because they started later than the past couple years.

It looked like it was gonna bruise up pretty good too, but that might've just been puddin head from the wet suit.

That had to be one of the STUPIDEST moves I have ever seen anyone make on this show.. What the hell was he thinking?

Gotta save the gear!! How stressed would you have been though?

Well there were several factors coming into play here. As BA already said, gotta save the gear. He was already stuck a few grand on pots and the lines on others were showing wear. The fact that his wife, the book keeper, called and said she's got enough to pay the bills and then they'll be at zero didn't help. Not to mention a couple days and extra fuel wasted to head to harbor, get it fixed, then head back out all would drive up his cost for the trip. So he took a huge risk.

I know all of that.. but is it worth risking your life for? Is is worth knowing that you are probably gonna ende up hurt or dead? He knew he was going to get in trouble.. it is something he is going to look back on and say.. Yeah.. it wasn't worth almost dying for.. if he is ok.

He could have went in to port, had it fixed and came back out to save his pots. The lines weren't showing "wear", they were being torn apart by pulling them back in. They would have been perfectly fine to leave them soaking longer while the boat got fixed.

And gone into huge debt to do that.

The point I'm making is that desperation isn't conducive to making the safest decision.

It's called Deadliest Catch for a reason. Kind of like working on a farm, there's a thousand way to get badly hurt or die.

I don't think diving under the boat in open ocean is nearly as dangerous as what the guys on deck do during ice storms or high seas. Dude's in a dry suit, tethered to a safety line and I assume he's a diver.

I have no idea why he swam back under the boat so closely to the hull. He even mentioned how dangerous it was at neutral buoyancy with the boat rocking with the swell.

After he checked the zinc cover and understood the problem, it's time to let some air out of your BCD and drop below the boat to make the swim back to the dingy.

Rough ending this week. What they've found so far doesn't bode well.

Yeah.. that was pretty sad..

I have to wonder though.. When the boat is going down and they are getting survival suits on. They are trained to have them on in less than 1 minute. The captain seemed to be on the radio for a while broadcasting his mayday.. which means they may have had time to grab the life-raft and get into it.. don't you think?

I mean, I know we never know the circumstances behind the sinking. We have no idea what happened because no one will be alive to tell about it, but I just find it weird that no one ever makes into the life-raft. Even if the ship sank in 5 minutes flat.. 1st priority survival suit, 2nd get to the raft!

I just don't understand how they always find the life-rafts empty

Re: Keith making the underwater dive, I really think he was pressured by the production staff of the show to do it. Even with money troubles on his mind, common sense should have prevailed when they had trouble with the pot lines getting torn and just headed back in to have it repaired. I just don't think the camera crew on the boat just so happened to include a diver who had his gear and an underwater camera at the ready by coincidence. The whole scene was just plain stupidity in an attempt to make better tv. Keith is lucky he only got his bell rung.

As for the crew from the boat that sunk, it was implied at the end of the episode that there were 10 people hopefully still alive. I really hope they do rescue them, as that would be awesome from a human standpoint, and also far better tv than the idiotic open water dive.

I don't think there was a diver holding a camera. I believe it was on a boom.

That dive was pretty stupid and he knows it too.

the crew of that capsized boat is in big trouble. Seeing the coast guard rescue party is pretty interesting. Did they have a camera man standing by all along?

That episode was really sad..

+1. Really tough to watch, but it's what they face daily.

Check!!


Yes they do. I think it was last season they did a behind the scenes special and they have a camera guy standing by with the coast guard.

didn't get too watch the newest episode but damn that episode about the boat that went down was some of the most, sorry just can't think of a better word, some amazing TV. The stories those guys could tell were crazy. It seemed like we were watching that other show I shouldn't be alive but something that was just so much more raw.

why didn't they put the tarp up sooner, like as soon as they left harbor?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_capt_ph...TyCCcp30hN0fNdF

Phil is dead.

fyp

I usually just post links to stories, but I'm going to post the entire story. It's very good.
'Deadliest Catch' captain's brave last days

Before his death on February 9 at 53, Phil Harris, the tough and colorful captain of the Cornelia Marie on Discovery's "Deadliest Catch," fought against all odds, came out of a medically induced coma following lengthy surgery, spent a few more days with friends and family -- and set his two sons on a course for a strong future.

"I think that miraculous recovery that happened so rapidly and blew the doctors' minds away was so that he could say the things that he had to say to the people he had to say them to," said Dan Mittman, Harris's best friend for 36 years.

As Harris recovered from his recent stroke at an Anchorage, Alaska, hospital, "I got five days to actually talk with him," said son Josh, 26. "We had nine days total that we were there to enjoy a few moments with him. We had our closest people there and it was awesome. "

Coping with pain

Phil Harris began this January's opilio crab-fishing season dealing with injury and concerns about his health on the high seas, according to friends and family.

"You talk about pain," Josh said, "but my dad had four crushed disks in his back, so he had been in pain the whole trip and that affected his fishing, too."

According to Todd Stanley, the "Catch" producer and cameraman who'd spent years with Harris, "he seemed like he'd just gotten tireder and tireder. I mean, his pulmonary embolism [in 2008] really did it in for him."

After hurricane-force winds knocked Harris from his bunk to a desk two years ago, and Stanley and the men on the boat forced Harris back to port to address his blood clot and bad health, the man who had an on-the-job habit of smoking cigarettes, eating high-calorie diets with his crew, drinking cases of Red Bull and downing pots of coffee knew he had to alter his lifestyle.

"He did cut back on energy drinks, quite a bit from what he'd usually do," Josh said, "but [doctors] have determined that smoking was the cause of this, and that was always his biggest habit. He had changed a lot of his habits but just could never kick the smoking. He started working with that electronic cigarette but, not used to it, he didn't know how to charge it. He just kept smoking."

'Just paralyzed'

While off-loading crab in Alaska on January 29, Cornelia Marie engineer Steve Ward found Phil Harris on the floor of his room, unable to move. Harris called for son Josh, who in turn, got Todd Stanley to stay with him while Josh called 911.

"The whole left side of his face was in paralysis, and that was hard," Josh said. "He couldn't move his arms or anything, he was just paralyzed on the floor."

After being treated "damn near two years to the day," Josh added, at the same St. Paul Sound clinic that helped him with his blood clot, Phil was medevacked to a hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, and underwent a long operation.

Crucial days in Anchorage

A few days after January 31, Phil Harris came out of a medically induced coma and right away started asking for friends to spend time with him.

"Phil and I have sat up and had many arguments about what it is to produce a good story," said cameraman Stanley.

"When he called me into the room that day, after 20 minutes of trying to understand what he was saying, because he could barely talk, he scribbled on a piece of paper, 'Got to get the ending, ending to the story.' I said, 'Do you want me filming?' He just looked at me with those blue eyes, man, and he was shaking his head yes, and shaking his hand with excitement," Stanley said.

'So he could be at peace'

In the four days prior to his death, "he was Phil," said Mittman. "We sat up and talked until midnight, not constantly because of catnaps, but that was our quiet time away from the cameras. We talked in detail, and he had regrets, and he shared them with me and he probably shared them with his sons. He accomplished what he needed to get done so he could be at peace."

Harris talked to younger son Jake, 24, whom he told PEOPLE in 2008 "has fishing in his blood," about the business.

"I'm going to be looking at that [captain's] chair in a different way," Jake said. "We definitely talked about it, but I just didn't expect this to happen so soon. That's definitely something where I would take over and take the responsibility."

As for his older son, "he told me to get out of fishing," Josh said. "I do love fishing, don't get me wrong, but it was one of those deals where he wanted to see me do something better. He gave me the encouragement. My life goal was to show him I could be a man, you know, and I could fish, and I did the best job that I could, and he recognized that as being a good job and gave me kudos."

But on February 9, after walking for a bit and working on physical therapy, Phil Harris sat down in his bed next to best friend Dan Mittman to take a break.

"He said, 'Danny, I don't feel as good as I did yesterday,' " Mittman recalled. "They rolled about five doctors through there and they said, 'You can stay here,' but, I understood, though."

Later that day, Phil died with his closest family and friends surrounding him.

For more on the life of Phil Harris, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. For information on memorials to Phil, go to CaptainPhilHarris.com.

thanks for posting. That was a great story

Thanks Captain Phil for the memories.