Re: Deadliest Catch
Not from Alaska, but I'm in the industry. One of our salesmen worked a couple seasons back in the early 80's fishing for king crab. Read a couple good books on the topic, one called 'Working on the Edge' was written by one of the captains of the ships.
King crab season is only a couple of days long, and a full deck-hand can earn anywhere from $1000 - $30000 for under 72 hours work. It's actually a huge gamble, everyone gets hurt, either nasty cuts, pulled/strained muscles, or worse, and if your boat isn't catching you don't make any money. Most of the boats do more than just the king crab, so their 'season' is a few weeks long, but if they are catching they can pull down $75K - $100K for only a few weeks worth of work.
The show doesn't do the danger justice though. My wife says I'll never get to go do it, but listening to people that have it sounds like one helluva adrenaline rush.
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