A Captain Goes Crazy
Deadliest Catch goes Jersey Shore with on-air brawl: Is Discovery's hit jumpingthe shark?
The Deadliest Catch, the Discovery Channel's popular show about Alaskan crabbers, is veering into MTV-esque territory.
Local Alaskan KOMO News reports that the captain of one of the featured fishing vessels, the Wizard's Keith Colburn, was caught on tape attacking a member of the camera crew after he was interrupted in the wheelhouse during a particularly inopportune moment.
Although the captain and the cameraman have reportedly reconciled, the footage of the incident — which was first posted by TMZ and shows the captain cursing at cameraman Brad Carper before shoving him repeatedly — will be aired during Tuesday night's episode.
We're fans of the show and hope this kind of debauchery — more worthy of the Jersey Shore than the Bering Sea — is a one-off incident.
New episodes of The Deadliest Catch air on the Discovery Channel Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
