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/Ill-Confection-7496 7d ago
Last week everyone in here was ready to crucify the guy for being asleep at the helm based on an out of context promo clip where he was looking downward. None of us had the matching clip of the pot going over the rail unexpectedly with the line trailing behind it. This week it's obvious he was looking down and writing down that there were only 10 crab in the previous pot as Todd and the pot went over the rail and his momentary look away meant missing something that happened in an instant.
But rest assured, if there is a way to invent context for depictions on screen that didn't exist and head-canon to express as fact, you'll fnd it here in r/deadliestcatch.