Computer Generated Imagery
Some shots that would be difficult to capture with cameras are computer-generated imagery (CGI):
- CGI was used in the first two seasons, and again in season 5 after the sinking of the Katmai, to demonstrate how the severely cold water of the Bering Sea causes men without survival suits to drown within minutes, showing the decrease in blood flow and the gradual failure of vital organs.
- In the second episode of the first season, CGI was used to show how a crab pot works.
- In the early episodes of season 2, CGI was used to show how the overloaded deck of the Big Valley caused her to sink.
- In season 3, CGI was used to show sea lions playing with crab pot buoys, as what was believed to happen with Northwestern's crab pots before opilio season that year.
- In season 4, episode 6, CGI was used to show how the falling cable of the picking hook of the Time Bandit would have killed greenhorn Shea Long had it failed a few seconds later when a pot was attached to it.
- In season 4, episodes 9 & 10 used CGI to show how ice build-up would prove hazardous to the Coast Guard helicopter if its deicing systems failed. Also, how a rope that had fallen into the female crab release hole could get wrapped around the propellor and pull the pot across the deck, possibly crushing a man.
- In season 5, CGI was used to illustrate the sinking Katmai deploying liferafts amidst battering waves.
- In season 5, episode 8, CGI was used to show how a tarp would protect the Wizard's pots from freezing.
- In season 6, episode 6, CGI was used to illustrate the grounding of a vessel in False Pass.
- In season 6, episode 15, CGI was used to illustrate the (failing) hydraulic system on the Kodiak.
- In season 7, episode 11, CGI was used to illustrate an anchor cable snapping during deployment on the Time Bandit.
Sig Hansen, captain of the Northwestern, serves as a technical advisor to the series' producers.
On September 28, 2010, it was reported that three of the principal captains featured throughout the series' run, the brothers Andy and Johnathan Hillstrand and Sig Hansen, would not return to the show due to litigation initiated by Discovery Communications involving the Hillstrands. On October 8, 2010, it was announced that the three captains had reached an agreement with Discovery and would return for the seventh season.
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