''Swords: Life on the Line'' is a
reality
Reality is the sum or aggregate of everything in existence; everything that is not imagination, imaginary. Different Culture, cultures and Academic discipline, academic disciplines conceptualize it in various ways.
Philosophical questions abo ...
television series produced by
Original Productions
Original Productions, LLC is a television production company based in Burbank, California. It was founded in 1999 by Thom Beers.[Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience.
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. The series documents the events aboard New England
fishing boats
A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to fishing, catch fish and other valuable nektonic aquatic animals (e.g. shrimps/prawns, krills, coleoids, etc.) in the sea, lake or river. Humans have used different kinds of surface vessels in commercial ...
fishing for
Swordfish
The swordfish (''Xiphias gladius''), also known as the broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill. They are the sole member of the Family (biology), family Xiphiidae. They ...
. See
Longline fishing
Longline fishing, or longlining, is a commercial fishing angling technique that uses a long ''main line'' with baited hooks attached at intervals via short branch lines called ''snoods'' or ''gangions''.[Deadliest Catch
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''. In the first season, television crews are placed on four boats to tape their fishing season: The Eagle Eye II, Big Eye, Sea Hawk, and Frances Anne.
In Season 2, the Sea Hawk was replaced by the Bjorn II by the boat's captain. In the third season, the Bjorn II was replaced by
Linda Greenlaw's first boat the Hannah Boden.
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Featured boats
* F/V Eagle Eye II - Scotty Drabinowicz
* F/V Big Eye - Chris "Chompers" Hanson
* F/V Sea Hawk - Linda Greenlaw
* F/V Frances Anne - Chris "Slick" Kleme
* F/V Destiny - Billy Kingett: F/V Desinty was seen giving charts to the Big Eye
* F/V Eagle Eye: F/V Eagle Eye dropped off crewmen for the Eagle Eye II
Season 2 (2010)
Featured boats
*F/V Eagle Eye II - Scotty Drabinowicz
*F/V Big Eye - Chris "Chompers" Hanson
*F/V Bjorn II - Linda Greenlaw
*F/V Frances Anne - Chris "Slick" Kleme and Rick Mears (Mears replaced Kleme partway through the season)
Season 3 (2011)
Featured boats
*F/V Eagle Eye II - Scotty Drabinowicz
*F/V Big Eye - Chris "Chompers" Hanson
*F/V Hannah Boden - Linda Greenlaw
*F/V Frances Anne - Chris "Slick" Kleme
*F/V Alex Marie:The Alex Marie was seen giving mechanical parts to the Hannah Boden, tied up during
Hurricane Igor behind the Big Eye, and eventually being towed in by the Big Eye when the Alex Marie became disabled
See also
* ''
Deadliest Catch
''Deadliest Catch'' is an American reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005. The show follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing ...
''
* ''
Lobster Wars''
* ''
Wicked Tuna
''Wicked Tuna'' is an American reality television series about commercial tuna fishermen based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, who fish for the lucrative Atlantic bluefin tuna in the North Atlantic Ocean. The teams of fishermen battle each other to ...
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Discovery Channel original programming
2009 American television series debuts
2000s American reality television series
Fishing television series
Television series by Original Productions
American English-language television shows
2011 American television series endings