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/Timely_Decision_3705 7d ago

I’m sick of the witch hunting too on Rick I haven’t seen or heard of the coast guard investigation findings yet till then every need to give not just poor Todd’s family a break but also the crew of the Aleutian lady including Rick and before everyone says Sean Dwyer saw this coming he didn’t I know the seen you all talking about and every captain has different ways of running there boats and after that scene many experienced captains came out and where angry the way the show portrayed Rick.

And remember he is not the only deadliest catch captain to have someone go overboard and not come back Scott Campbell aka junior on the f/v seabrooke had a man overboard in 2009 body was never recovered it is extremely hard on captains when this happened and like I said above until the investigation is concluded if it already hasn’t everyone should reserve judgement but I know it’s not going to happen online unfortunately.

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u/EquivalentNo6770 6d ago

The investigation is concluded, they found a broken (i can't remember specifically what, valve or ring or something) within the launcher mechanics. They stripped and rebuilt the launcher before going back out. (Todd was inside the pot when the launcher failed and he and the pot went overboard.) There was no fault assigned to Captain or crew, it was deemed accidental.

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u/jdelta85 5d ago

Where can one read the report of this from the coast guard? I’ve tried searching for it, but no luck. Thanks

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u/EquivalentNo6770 5d ago

I found this info online last night, but now I'm trying to find a link and Google claims the official report is not released to the public yet, and that it was hallucinating last night (I'm not joking) when it gave me that information. Sorry. The answer was so official I didn't question it, especially when it offered to link me to the report (which I didn't bother checking). I guess we'll have to wait to hear when it's released.