Lost Footage
You may have seen some of the incredible scenes on Deadliest Catch. Those scenes are the result of meticulous planning and years of experience to always capture the precise moment. There is a lot of waiting, and it takes the camera and editing crew a heck of a lot of time to go through 30,000 hours of footage per season.
That’s a lot of information for editors to sort through. Camera crews go through more than a dozen cameras per season, and not because they keep tossing them overboard. The ocean, mist, and high gusts of wind basically destroy the cameras.