You might have seen the news story yesterday that one of the crew of the Alaskan fishing vessel “Time Bandit”, which features prominently on the Discovery series “Deadliest Catch”, was found dead in a hotel room in Alaska. The cause of death is not yet known, though he was found with booze and drugs in the room. The crabbing fleet has apparently just finished its winter fishing season and had returned to port.
While it sounds like hard living caught up to this unfortunate young man, the dangers of the profession he belonged to are well-known, even to people who aren’t necessarily fans of the TV show. This n+1 magazine article from November of last year is a first-person account of the hardship of living and working on a fishing boat in the vast Bering Sea.
