What Alaskan Crab Deckhands Actually Do
The Bering Sea crab fleet once had a fatality rate 80 times the American average — and seasons as short as four days. What do deckhands actually do with their hands? How does the pay work when there's no wage at all, just a share of the catch? And why did the fishery get dramatically safer right as it became a television icon? This episode digs into the pot-by-pot reality of one of the most physical jobs on earth, the incentive structure that drives the risk, and how the show's own title became a pre-1999 artifact. Episode 5590 — myweirdprompts.com/n/5590 (permanent short link…
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