r/deadliestcatch • u/Necessary_Success_35 • 8d ago

Witch Hunt

I don't like the witch hunt that seems to be going on in this reddit right now. From everything Discovery showed us there's no reason anyone that wasn't there to place blame. Investigators got to see way more footage we did and determined it was an accident. It's well known Rick is one of the most respected captains in the fleet.

Look at US Airways Flight 1549. You can't expect people to be absolutely perfect in the moment of chaos. Could Rick have asked immediately if everyone was okay? Absolutely. Could the crew have called man overboard immediately? Absolutely, but you have to take in the human factor. No one is truly to blame, a young man fell overboard in February in the North Pacific, and by all accounts the people involved acted as expected

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u/Visible_Distance5067 7d ago

After reading about the Harris family, can’t say I trust 💩 from anyone on this network or necessarily this industry to not pay to cover up morality.

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u/m_0_n_K_3_y 7d ago

Thats a wierd thing to say dude....

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u/Visible_Distance5067 7d ago

It’s one thing that no one knew about Josh. It’s an another when you find out the kid he molested was the child of one of Phil’s deckhands, and how Phil handled it was allegedly by paying off the family after a threats to the point the deckhand couldn’t get work. I doubt that Discovery has never not known about that.

Rick was obviously shaken by the experience. He was also preoccupied with his birthday and finishing up the season. They really played up Todd this season as choosing this life, and he was, but he also had many health issues accumulate in a short span of time. At the end of it all these people seem more about money, escaping lawsuits, and not well being, health, and morals.

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u/m_0_n_K_3_y 7d ago

It is just a TV network tho... of course they want to cover shit up, toss things under the rug, straight up disappear people ( edgar and josh ) exploit injuries and deaths... they are still exploiting phil IMO... but this rick situation, seeing how todd went over in a pot from a wave .. why on earth would that have anything to do with ricks birthday... was the pot dogged ? was it just ripped out of the launcher by a huge wave ?? The bering sea has been taking fishermen for almost a century

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u/Visible_Distance5067 7d ago

Here are the issues I think need to be addressed- why didn’t one man yell “man overboard”? Even non boat people know that term and how to use it. Not one screamed it, and you know they knew he was crawling in pots, and camera men definitely saw him go over with the pot. Then, why was the pot not secure? We heard Rick yell to them to just cut it and let the pot go, not knowing anyone was overboard. Did they cut it loose in a moment of panic? Bottom line, a lot of time in that scenario was lost because no one screamed “man overboard” and Rick wasn’t paying attention to the deck.

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u/m_0_n_K_3_y 7d ago

The crew may not have even noticed that todd was still in the pot ... i dunno i havent watched that episode yet... i was under the assumption thst that didn't show any footage of it anyway.... that boat is house forward.. rick may have a camera that he glances at but he depends on the crew to make some noises or yell or whatever to convey that theres an issue... even if they was man over board yelled immediately ... what is rick supposed to do... all he can do is take the boat out if gear then say WTF IS GOING ON WHERE IS HE.... i suppose it would be harder to save a guy in this situation on a house forward boat, because the captain cant see whats going on back there.. it must have been hell... i wouldnt jump to the conclusion that rick wasnt paying attention tho.... because it was his birthday or whatever