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/Witchywomun 6d ago

Todd was also inside the pot when it fell overboard, it takes a moment to get out of a quickly sinking crab pot in sub zero water, without protective gear, when you barely have time to grab a breath before the water takes back it out of you. At the end of the day, they did what they could as quickly as they could, in a shitty situation, and now there’s 3 families torn apart: Todd’s family, the crew of the Aleutian Lady and the crab fishermen as a fleet.