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Deadliest Catch isn’t like other reality shows. Just ask longtime narrator Mike Rowe. He’s admitted that he didn’t know exactly what he was getting into when he agreed to work on the Discovery Channel series .

But when a tragic disaster occurred while filming the first season, it brought home exactly how real this reality series was. Mike Rowe recalled the ‘chaos’ of filming ‘Deadliest Catch’ Season 1 “Twelve years ago, I was in Dutch Harbor , shooting the first season of Deadliest Catch ,” Rowe recalled in a 2017 Facebook post. “Originally, I had been asked to host the show, and frankly, I had no idea how to do such a thing.



” “No one really understood what the show was back then, or what it would ultimately become,” he added. “Sometimes it felt like a reality show, sometimes a documentary. Mostly, we were just trying to capture the drama and the difficulty of fishing for Alaskan King Crab.

” Filming “was chaos,” Rowe recalled. “Fascinating, unforgettable chaos.” The days were long and intense, so he was glad when he was finally able to retreat to his hotel room for some much-needed rest.

Then, one of his producers woke him up to deliver some terrible news. A boat called had gone down, and its entire crew was missing. “I can’t begin to tell you what a wake-up call that was,” he wrote.

The tragedy was ‘unreal,’ the ‘Deadliest Catch’ host recalled Until then, Rowe had built “an invisible wall” to cope with the danger of fil.

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