Deadliest Catch Captain Phil Harris passes away
For those of you who have watched “Deadliest Catch” throughout the past five years, you know who Captain Phil is. He was the salty crab-fishing captain of the Cornelia Marie. He and his two sons Jake and Josh trolled the Bering Sea off the Alaskan coast catching opilio crab.
Captain Phil started working on fishing boats at age 7. He started work 10 years later on a crab boat. When he turned 21, he ran a fishing vessel out of Seattle, making him one of the youngest to captain a vessel in the Bering Sea.
A year ago, he suffered with a blood clot in his lungs and missed the rest of the crab season fishing. This year it seemed he was healthy enough to go back to sea. However, on January 29th he suffered a massive stroke while in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. He was flown to Anchorage for surgery.
Unfortunately, today he passed away. The Discovery channel has paid tribute to Captain Phil by saying, “We will miss his straightforward honesty, wicked sense of humor and enormous heart. We share our tremendous sadness over this loss with the millions of viewers who followed Phil’s every move.” We too will miss him, the series “Deadliest Catch” won’t be the same without him.
He was only 53 years old.
Until later,
Linda
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