Hell to Catch - please tell me you've seen this show!

[diver 85]

Told to be over-dramatic for a reality show??? Hmmm... I guess real life is not exciting enough for TV.

Never believe anything you hear----& only a quarter of what you see.......

 

[iamrushman]

i have seen the show a few times...love the underwater footage but another reality show that shows us Americans as dysfunctional idiots....shame on them.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I hate the impression non divers must get when they see super macho adventurers killing everything in sight. There was a show a couple of years ago that focused on divers going to resorts mainly to drink. I guess focusing on marine life, shipwreck history and dive travel is too boring for reality show viewers.

 

[Mike]

Oh boy, I just can't stop watching this thing, it's like a train wreck.

I caught about 5 minutes of an episode yesterday. The diver was having a major catastrophic, highly dangerous, super dramatic, dangerous incident...

... his tank strap came loose!


I actually only saw it up to the commercial break where they broke away as they showed a close up of his tank moving around loose on his back, and didn't see how he managed to escape this death defying incident, I wish now that I had went back to it, I might have learned something that might save my life someday.

 

[tech_diver]

I knew people working for a dive salvage/recovery company that was approached for the potential of a reality TV show. Some producer reps spent a week with them and found out it was slow, meticulous work in water that wasn't 'shark infested' and it was done safely with virtually no accidents. They decided to look for a show somewhere else.

 

[HIGHwing]

... his tank strap came loose!

Which is now a skill in the PADI Open Water Diver course.

BTW - It seems like a lot of us know one or more of the divers and I think it has to be understood that money changed and fish were shot. The rest of the storyline appears to be developed in the editing room. I'm curious why the camera crew appears to be all closed circuit and using almost zero lighting. Seems if you're going to go through all the effort of spearfishing, working comms, and running cameras with CCR divers you'd at least spend a few bucks making the environment appear a little more interesting than washed out Go-Pro blue ocean stuff.

 

[ozzydamo]

Which is now a skill in the PADI Open Water Diver course.

BTW - It seems like a lot of us know one or more of the divers and I think it has to be understood that money changed and fish were shot. The rest of the storyline appears to be developed in the editing room. I'm curious why the camera crew appears to be all closed circuit and using almost zero lighting. Seems if you're going to go through all the effort of spearfishing, working comms, and running cameras with CCR divers you'd at least spend a few bucks making the environment appear a little more interesting than washed out Go-Pro blue ocean stuff.

How many divers, that you have taught can tread their own cam band without a diagram?

 

[MMorgan]

"Reality TV" is an oxymoron.

Mike

 

[Water Boy76]

I hear that if you watch all ten episodes if counts as a PADI OW certification.

 

[fire_diver]

I hear that if you watch all ten episodes if counts as a PADI OW certification.

HA! Best response in the whole thread!