Deadliest Catch

[autobaun70]

I am still trying to figure out why they would talk about the tarp at the dock, and then wait until they got out to sea to put it out. I am sure there is a reason, seems like they would be explaining it.

[RI Builder]

I am still trying to figure out why they would talk about the tarp at the dock, and then wait until they got out to sea to put it out. I am sure there is a reason, seems like they would be explaining it.

When I was about 17 I was working for a roofer. We were doing a new construction job, but some materials where delivered that could not get wet. At the end of the day, the owner told us that if it looked like the forecasted storms were going to materialize, he would call us to come put the tarps on. Later on we got the call, and as we got there the skies opened up with T storms, hail, wind etc. Watching 5 of us try to put a tarp on the roof would have been prime youtube material I am sure. Two of us fell off the roof (including me), another fell, was sliding off and fell through a skylight opening, and one of the tarps ended up blowing away to god knows where.

In the end, the owner siad to us, you know we should have covered the roof before we left, or we should have roofed the section that was covering the area where the materials were stored.

I recon this to what the Wizard did - it made absolutely no sense, but nobody questioned it at the time.

[twentynine]

I think autobaun and RIB hit the nail on the head.

Why wait until you are miles and miles out at sea, in gale force conditions to try to rig a chicken $h!t tarp. Seems to me you could cover the whole dang shootin match front to back side to side, safely at the dock. Then come what he!! or high water you are prepared.

[roadkill]

Good olde Captain Keith. All the money he made during the king crab season looks like it will be lost during the opie season. He put a real hurt on his crew and he knows it. Those guys may be out for the season. Mother Nature has no mercy.

[paul h]

Not to bash the captains and crews, but as to why folks would head out w/o having everything dialed in, checked out, etc, well it takes a certain type of person to work in that industry given the risks, hard work, and the resulting compensation. They are gamblers, work hard, play hard and maybe you get the big haul, maybe you go home broke, maybe you don't go home.

The type of person that would make sure everything was lined out, properly maintained, tested etc, would be the type of person to look at the money invested in capital, operating expenses, risks, current and future catch tonages etc and say it just doesn't pencil out to work in this industry.

A good analogy would be the commercial fishermen and boat owners in Valdez at the time of the oil spill in 1989. Many boat owners became "spilloinaires" They could have easily retired after the cleanup was over, but most of them kept on fishing, and basically pizzed away all that money. A few were bright enough to cash out. There is a bumper sticker that says just let their be one more spill, and I promise not to waste the money.

[BIG O]

I had a chance to talk with Phil, the Cornela Marie was made in Bayou Labatri

Alabama, I was told the boats get 20 grand per season, were they are getting

bank is from all the exposure and if you notice now they all have product lines

Thats some extra income in a big way for them, Sig even has his own line of frozen

fish.

[seagull22]

I think Capt. Keith wanted to see if the traps were going to get iced before deploying the tarp. I think it would have been easier to move the tarp later, as I have done not to get things wet when rain is expecteed.