Discovery's Deadliest Catch Premiere May Have Been Just-Sorta-Dangerous

Oops.  First, Discovery Net’s Bear Grylls (Man vs. Wild) is caught sleeping snug and safe in a hotel room. 

Now, Hollywood Reporter’s James Hibberd is questioning the editing practices of Discovery’s Emmy-nominated Deadliest Catch.

Says Hibberd:

Tuesday’s fourth-season premiere of Discovery Channel’s "Deadliest Catch" opens during a raging nighttime storm in the Bering Sea. Mammoth waves smash an Alaskan crab fishing boat called the Wizard, sending large swells crashing over its deck. Inside, alarmed crew members discover that their stateroom is flooding with incoming seawater.

The sequence suggests that the fishermen are in danger of sinking as a violent tempest tosses huge waves against the boat.

But here’s the not-so-deadliest catch: The boat flooded in September. The huge storm waves were from October. And a producer may have filmed extra footage to help stitch the two events together….