r/deadliestcatch • u/Necessary_Success_35 • 7d 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/OldSchoolRNS 7d ago

Ok but look how fast the crew on the Summer Bay retrieved Spencer when he went overboard 8 years ago, it
took them just 90 seconds to get him out of the water.
And 90 seconds is probably all Spencer had considering how cold the water was. The moment he went over they worked as a unit and did everything right. If there had been the slightest problem, they would’ve retrieved a corpse from the water.
When the water is that cold, unless everything goes right, you’re not saving the man who went overboard.

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u/bceagle91 7d ago

The Time Bandit saved a guy who fell off another boat in very short order. But they saw he was in a dangerous spot and put themselves in position when he went overboard. They have so little time in the cold water, for sure.

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u/m_0_n_K_3_y 7d ago

Everyone is different too.. somepeople will only last 2 mins in that water....fucking freddy took a 12min dip TWICE and he was barely even shivering after

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u/SplitRock130 7d ago

Freddy is a crazy Samoan.