Dead or Alive

I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride....


So lately I have become very enticed with the show "The Deadliest Catch", as I explained in my last update, it shows one of the most awesome jobs ever. I'll explain myself by telling you about it.

The Time Bandit (my favorite) is lead by John who is a very sporadic man. In the world of any high seas fishing you're never supposed to leave port on a Friday. You can leave at 11:59 on a Thursday night or 12:01 on a Saturday morning, but you never leave on a Friday; it's bad luck. Well everyone stayed docked because it was a Friday and there was a storm coming. John said fuck that and left dock on Friday. But being the superstitious man he is he did a Swedish left hand circle to prevent bad luck when he left port. It helped him and he beat the bad weather and got all of his crabs pots (cages) out before everyone else.

Then there is the Cornelia Marie lead by a father whose son works on deck with him. His son is a greenhorn which basically means he's a rookie of the seas. I forgot the captains name but his son's name was Jake. Anyways, Jake proved he was tough enough to work on the ship when his father bet he could beat him at a game of chicken. Not like racing cars head to head chicken. No it's when two men put one arm against the other man's and drop a lit cigarette in between them; first to flinch loses. Needless to say Jake won. They're a very good team but on their first day off on the first episode their ship had engine troubles and they were in the midst of a bad storm. So they had to dump all their pots as soon as they could to prevent from flipping. In a storm if the ship has too many pots on it, it ruins the ships balance and makes it easier to flip.

The Northwestern was headed by Sib, who beared some resemblance to William Defou (spelled his name wrong, think of Platoon & Green Goblin guy). But he's blond and very funny. They left port on Saturday with the rest of the fleet and got caught in the storm. Not much happened on Sib's end but his crew is awesome.

My second favorite is the Maverick, which in the first season was headed by a different captain. Now it's headed by one of the young guys who was a deck hand and that kid's got some talent. On the first episode they failed their inspection and had to get a new quota on how many pots they could hold. There is a restriction on how many you can hold now due to the fact ships have flipped from being unbalanced and severe storms. Well their last inspection like that was in 1988 and the guy who wrote the warrant is dead. So they had to get a whole new inspection and got demoted from being able to hold 100 pots to only 70. Which sucks because the more pots you have, the better chance you have of catching more crab. They got off to a late start and probably didn't do good that season, I forget.

There's also the Rollo but I didn't pay close attention to them. All I know is they're a husband and wife team.

Anyways it's a great show, go watch and figure out what I'm talking about.

Anyone wanna go fishing?