Monday, April 14, 2008

A Show Worth Watching

My favororite show of all time is Deadliest Catch and the season premier is tomorow and I could not be any more exited. Deadliest Catch is a schow about crab fisherman in the bearing sea off the coast of Alaska. The reason it is called Deadliest Catch is becouse by statistics crab fishing is the deadliest job on earth, more people die doing that job than any other. It makes for a great show not only the suspence but just waatching them pull up full metal pots of crab is one of the coolest things ever. A "pot" is what they use to trap the crab until they are brought up onto the serface and stored on the boat a full pot can hold up to a few thousand dollars worth of crab and since everyone is payed on commission more or less on how much the boat can catch throughout the season it is really important to everyone to catch as much as possible. the seasons themselfs only last about a month or less but each deckhand on the boats can earn any where from twenty thousand to on the bigger boats up to forty thousand. There are two main seasons for crab fishing so one can make up to eighty thousand dollars a year by just working two months a year. To me this is amazing, these men are taking amazings risks for their jobs but they can make an amazing amount of mony at the same time.

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