I saw some of this stuff online and decided to add to it and enhance it. The first annual DCDG will take place this weekend. Here are the “rules” so far:
Drink once when
- A pot gets stuck or falls off the stack
- A pot is left for a “deep soak”
- Captain Sig discusses “soak time”
- A skipper is worried about not getting full pots
- A greenhorn is yelled at
- Greenhorn is mentioned
- Someone curses (for each beep you must drink)
- The weather gets so bad that someone’s life is in danger
- The captain argues with someone
- Caffeine and/or nicotine are the only thing keeping someone going
- Dutch Harbor is mentioned
- St. Paul is mentioned
- Mike Rowe equates the pounds of crab to the amount of money its worth
- The pot contains 0-40 King Crab or 0-200 Opilio Crab
- The crew eats
- A crab boat battles ice
- There are 30+ foot seas
- They talk about how dangerous it is to stack pots
- Someone makes a bet
- Captain Sig mentions coffee, cigarettes, or chocolate
- A boat has trouble navigating through the ice
- Gear is trapped in the ice
- They mention the ice pack
- Crab migration is mentioned
- The crab pot cam is shown
- Anything related to rescue gear or the Coast Guard is shown
- Any member of the crew gets excited before you can actually see the pot
- Someone falls
- A non-featured boat is discussed
- A crew member uses hand signals to relay the crab count to the skipper
Drink twice when
- More than one greenhorn is shown on the screen at the same time
- The skipper has a “sit down” with someone in the galley or calls someone to the wheelhouse to “chat”
- Brothers fight
- The pots contain more than 40 King Crab and 200 Opilio Crab
- A prank is performed with fire
- The captain considers lying low for a bit to avoid the weather
- A boat has to head in for emergency repairs
- Captain Andy of the Time Bandit is shown wearing his cowboy hat
- Someone eats something repulsive
- A woman is shown on the boat
- The crab count is jacked up
- They show a graphic of a crab pot on the sea floor or a boat and what can happen to it in various conditions
- Two captains talk (split screen)
- Someone’s crab season comes to an end due to injury
- A crab boat is stuck in “the trough”
- A boat is “dead in the water”
- They fish for something other than King or Opilio Crab
- Someone almost gets dragged overboard, hit with something, etc
Take a shot when
- A greenhorn makes a mistake
- Someone has a mental breakdown (threatens to jump ship, etc)
- When someone gets hurt and Narrator Mike Rowe says, “Not a big deal.. On a crab boat”
- A boat makes a run to Akutan Island for any reason
- A prank is performed on another boat’s gear
- There are more cod than crab in the pot
- A boat is fined
- Someone dances
- Someone is removed from the boat
- A deckhand is fired
- Someone’s crab season comes to an end not due to an injury
- There is a power failure
- A chunk of ice lands on someone
Notes
In some cases, the drinks can really pile up. For example, if a boat has to head to Akutan Island for emergency repairs, not only would you take a shot for the Akutan Island run, you would also take two drinks for the repairs.
