The most dangerous job in the world.

Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did...backwards.
 ...in high heels.
Hers was not the most dangerous job in the world.

Alaskan crab fishermen face the highest on-the-job mortality rates. I've not been counting, but several sources back this up. It looks like hard work done by hard men and (some) women. It's definitely someone else's job. It struck me some time ago that hanging out with these people with a camera on your shoulder would also be crazy work. There have been a couple of behind the scenes shows which document the plight of the Deadliest Catch production crew. My suspicions were confirmed. Nutters, the lot of them. Often, these camera crews gain the respect of the fishermen and by the evidence of Deadliest Catch, that's not easy to do. These camera crews must be brave, tough, and more than a little bit unhinged themselves. The camera crews on board the Alaskan crab fishing fleet do not have the highest on-the-job mortality rates but they will be up there if this documentary continues indefinitely.
Bear Grylls does not have the highest on-the-job mortality rate. To the best of my knowledge, right now as I type, he's still alive. I watch his survival shows on Discovery not particularly to learn survival techniques, nor to watch him die - as with Steve Irwin, I suspect we'll be spared footage of his demise - but probably just to see what scrapes he'll get himself into and out of, and how. I know that Grylls has broken himself quite a lot in action, but he's a survivor, and he's surviving....although I'm guessing his bank balance is doing better than survival due to his TV shows. Like Ray Mears, it probably transpires that the best method of survival in the modern world is to turn your knowledge into money and buy the stuff you need. I'm guessing not all Ray's cutlery is carved from wood.
Anyway, what amazes me is Bear's camera crew. I don't know how many he travels with. I think it varies, but specifically it's the guy holding the close action third party view. This is a guy doing everything Bear does.....one handed.
He might get put up in hotels. He might get a warm dinner of not sheeps eye, and not squirming headless reptile, and not the inside a camels stomach. But this guy swims Arctic rivers, climbs trees, scales cliffs, pots holes, jumps off stuff, out of stuff and into stuff...one handed. To the best of my knowledge (and I know nothing more than that that camera still had legs on today's episode) he's still alive as well. He doesn't have the highest on-the-job mortality rate purely on that basis.
But his is surely in contention for the most dangerous job in the world.