What captain from the show deadliest catch died yesterday?

Answer 1

These captains gross well over a million each season, yet they have to pay the crew... buy fuel... make a boat payment.. pay their insurance.. pay for boat maintenance because the boats take a beating every year.

Answer 2

In my opinion there is no 'popular' character. Each captain, deckhand and greenhorn are shown just as much as the others. But to me the people who stand out the most are Capt. Keith and Crosby from the Wizard, Capt. Andy and Capt. John from the Time Bandit, Jake and Josh Harris along with their father Capt. Phil from the Cornelia Marie and Capt. Sig and his brother Edgar from the Northwestern.

Answer 3

The captains on deadliest catch are, as of the 2010 season...

Captain Phil Harris of the Cornilia Marie

Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern

Captain Kieth Colburn of the Wizard

Captains AndY and Johanthan Hillstrand of the Time Bandit

And Captain Bill Wichrowski of the Kodiak.

Hope this is helpful!

Answer 4

Discovery Channel: 'Deadliest Catch' captain dies

(AP) - 11 hours ago

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show "Deadliest Catch", has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.

Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. The fisherman was flown to Anchorage for surgery.

The reality show, which has filmed five seasons, has been one of the Discovery Channel's most popular and depicts the crab fishing industry in the dangerous waters off Alaska.

"It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad - Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end," sons Josh and Jake Harris said in a statement released by the network. "For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down."

In a statement, Discovery Channel senior vice president Elizabeth Hillman says, "Phil was a devoted father and loyal friend to all who knew him."

"We will miss his straightforward honesty, wicked sense of humor and enormous heart," she said.

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, she said no additional information was immediately available Tuesday night.

Harris had seemed to be improving, and in a posting last Saturday on the ship's Web site, he was described as "talking to friends and family today; showing his greatest progress" since the stroke.

His sons wrote in a Feb. 3 posting that "No one ever said Captain Phil Harris wasn't tough. Today, dad showed some good signs of improvement, squeezing our hands and even summoning his trademark Captain's bluntness ... We are encouraged but still very cautious."

According to the ship's Web site, Harris started working on fishing boats at age 7 and started work 10 years later on a crab boat. When Harris turned 21, he ran a fishing vessel out of Seattle, making him one of the youngest to captain a vessel in the Bering Sea.

When Harris suffered the stroke, the family said a friend, Derek Ray, had flown to St. Paul to take over the role of relief skipper for the rest of the opilio crab season.

Harris' fishing vessel was based in Seattle

Answer 5

Personaly, I think that Captain Sigurd (Sig) Hansen, of the Northwestern, is the best captain

Yes i agree Sig always finds the jackpot of crab

Answer 6

Keith Colburn.... the little ahole that's always screamin is what I call him

Answer 7

Captain Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie passed away on February 9, 2010

Answer 8

2 million dollars a year

Answer 9

phil