‘Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove’ Preview: Lost at Sea
“Every fisherman’s story comes with chapters of pain and sacrifice and passages that some would rather forget,” narrator Mike Rowe says near the start of Tuesday’s episode of Discovery’s Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove. It’s the franchise at its finest.
Another storm moves into the Pacific Northwest, and the Dungeness crab fleet off Newport, Ore., must make life-and-death decisions: Will rookie Capt. Kenny Ripka risk his 50-foot boat going up against the expected 19-foot breakers to prove himself? Will fledgling Bering Sea transplant Capt. Marc Sehlbach try to fetch gear that is now too dangerously close to shore? Will Capt. Chris Retherford be able to make a run out through the treacherous bar before the worst of the weather arrives?
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It’s a nail-biting hour that, as you see in the exclusive sneak peek above, does not bring everyone home. The fishing vessel Eagle III (not one of the boats followed on the show) capsizes near the Coos Bay entrance, and four men go into the 45-degree water in the dark of night. The Deadliest Catch cameras capture the Coast Guard’s search and rescue, which sadly turns into a recovery, and the reactions of the captains as they follow the mission on the radio.
The episode is dedicated both to those who lost their lives during the 2016 Dungeness crab season and to the Coast Guard, and it honors them by showing the latter in action as well as the grieving but proud families of the men who didn’t return. It also shows the look on an adult daughter’s face when she sees the wreckage of her father’s boat and later hears the veteran captain recount his survival and the survivor’s guilt he’ll carry with him. And it shows a newborn daughter being held by the teary-eyed father who chose to be in town for her birth. In short, it reminds us that family is both the reason these crews go to sea — to provide, by doing what’s in their blood and what they love — and what’s at stake.
Deadliest Catch: Dungeon Cove airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on Discovery.
