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The famed Seattle-based crab fisherman of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch will kick off season five tonight at 9 p.m. with new episodes. Yay!

• In the dark of night, a two-story house was pulled across Fremont. Check out the story on the newly launched Fremont Universe.
• Someone stole a tow truck from Gene's Towing in Tacoma. Not the most inconspicuous getaway car.
• Do some good, go to Dutch Harbor and swig a few beers with Sig and the crew of The Deadliest Catch. The Nordic Heritage Museum is auctioning off the trip on September 21st, according to MyBallard.

Either there's some serious Heisenberg Effect happening on Discovery Channel's Alaskan fishing Reality show The Deadliest Catch, or the producers are giving us a severe whitewashing. If you're like us and everything you know about Alaskan fishing comes directly from the show you might think that while there are some hard dudes around they are mostly serious professionals interested in carrying out family traditions safely and effectively under the watchful eyes of benevolent and all-powerful captains.

The fire started in the boat's laundry room and spread throughout the boat. The fire burned for five hours before being extinguished by 16 crew members, who stayed on board to fight the blaze. Eighty percent of the Pacific Glacier's crew calls the Seattle-area home. The entire crew survived the fire without incident or injury, despite the whole floating in the Bering Sea in the middle of February in a life raft or fighting a fire in an enclosed space thing.

We've thus far deferred on shipping news to Editor Dan, primarily because we are lame and don't contribute enough. Yet his last post about one of our favorite shows got us to thinking. We've tried to figure out why we find the show so compelling --maybe because it's reality/documentary about real people rather than people who want to be stars. We have in the past jokingly ranked the show more interesting than some of our own friends.

Last night on the Discovery Channel there was a Deadliest Catch wrap-up-type episode where Mike Rowe had all the assorted captains gathered at the Lockspot in Ballard for some "why do you do it?" commiseration. It's like in their blood or something. There was no satisfactory answer, actually. Seattlest can understand why people fish crab up in Alaska. You can get hurt, sure, but you make some money and you don't have to put up with a lot of other people. Why do the Deadliest Catch guys do it, though? There's definitely a Heisenburg thing going on with the main characters of this show--for some reason the Seattle tubes are more or less vacant of any mention of the Deadliest Catch, but the show's near 24-hour domination of the Discovery Channel suggests that it is, in fact, wildly popular. These Captains and crew are reality TV stars. Not the kind of MTV/Fox stars who change careers to making pro bar appearances five nights a week after they get voted off the island, but reality TV stars nonetheless. If you could chose between somehow parlaying that reality TV stardom into some cash or continuing on in the world's most dangerous profession, well, you'd step to parlaying.

You're watching this show "The Deadliest Catch" on Discovery right? If you're not the second season is just starting and typical of modern day television they show every episode eight hundred million times over and over again so you'll have no troubles catching up with the fleet. The show follows a handful of crab fishing vessels up in Alaska through their season with a bunch of cool videography and a ridiculous narrator ("DEATH IS ALWAYS PRESENT AT SEA" and that kind of thing). It's awesome.