It is a good show. I've been a fan since it first came out. The main thing I like about it is the reality. I have a good friend who went up there and hired on a crab boat the last year they had what they called the "Derby". Apparently, that was some type of all out run to catch "the mostest the fastest". Anyhow, he said what they show is actually the way it is. Miserable conditions most of the time, very little sleep and lots of hard hard work. He even said the people on the show are a very good example of the type of guys that do that kind of work. According to him most of the deckhands were just a little off (his words, not mine) and kind of crazy, but tougher than hell and hardworkers. Any other way and a person wouldn't make it. He said he wouldn't ever do it again, but he was sure glad he did it once. Me, him and a few other guys were having a "Tackroom Fellowship" one Friday night when he was telling us all about his time in the Bering Sea. I told him in no uncertain terms just how crazy I thought he was. The next morning he came back out and I happened to be working a colt. Not knowing any better, he accidentally spooked the colt I was on. After a couple of minutes I got the colt to calm down and quit buckin' and actin' up. C.J. looked at me and said I was the crazy one. A man that spent a crab season on a boat in the Bering Sea allowed how there was not enough money on this earth to get him on a horse that might possibly do what that colt had just got finished doing. I still don't understand that logic. But then again, he did say those guys were a little off.