Deadliest Catch
Ice and Open Water
TV Flash files “Ice and Open Water” as hour 33 of 380 in the TV Flash guide — Deadliest Catch (2005–present) on Discovery, season 3, episode 11, aired 2007-06-12, 45 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E11: listed hour 33 of 380 in the Deadliest Catch guide, hour 11 of 12 in season 3. It aired 2007-06-12 (45 min). The listed hour before it is “Trials of the Greenhorns” (S03E10). Next is “A Frozen Finish” (S03E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Time Bandit enjoys unseasonable weather and unprecedented catches. But when the weather drastically changes the boat is caught in a crippling ice pack.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Ice and Open Water sit in the Deadliest Catch guide?
S03E11 is listed hour 33 of 380 — hour 11 of 12 in season 3, season 3 episode 11.
When did Deadliest Catch S03E11 air?
Ice and Open Water aired 2007-06-12 and is listed at 45 minutes.
Is Deadliest Catch produced danger?
Weather is the antagonist. Reality television where the danger is survived on camera more than invented for it — crab boats, sleep debt, the Bering Sea.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Deadliest Catch is Discovery labor documentary as flagship — Captain Phil Harris lore, memorial episodes, reality television where the danger is not produced so much as survived on camera.
Deadliest Catch does not need a writers' room for weather. Thom Beers's Discovery series premiered in 2005 and became a long-running flagship: cameras riding with Alaskan crab fishermen through brutal seasons, nature and labor and mortality without a studio audience. Captains Phil Harris, Sig Hansen, Keith Colburn, Johnathan Hillstrand. A deck that does not care about your edit. Danger not so much produced as survived on camera. Workplace documentary-reality elevated into high-stakes seasonal event television.…
Filed against
- Phil Harris as Captain
Phil Harris was the captain on Deadliest Catch, Discovery’s 2000s Alaskan crab-boat flagship — weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Labor documentary as series, memorial episodes, reality television where…
- Sig Hansen as Captain
Sig Hansen captains Deadliest Catch as himself — Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Discovery labor documentary as flagship, danger survived on camera rather than produced. TV Flash…
- Keith Colburn as Captain
Keith Colburn captains through Deadliest Catch as Discovery labor documentary, not a produced dare — Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Reality television survived on camera. TV Flash…
- Johnathan Hillstrand as Captain
Johnathan Hillstrand captained Deadliest Catch as Alaskan crab-boat weather — Discovery labor documentary as flagship, a deck that does not care about your edit, danger not so much produced as survived on camera. Captain Phil Harris lore,…