I'm not sure if anyone here watches/ed Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, but Phil Harris, the captain of Cornelia Marie the ship that has been prominently featured on the show, has passed away as a result of a stroke. He will me missed.

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Sucks

Yep. He was one of my favorites to watch on the show... funny guy.

While sad this was hardly unexpected.

RIP Ballou

Ah, that's a shame. Not exactly an easy life.

While sad this was hardly unexpected.

Agree with that. Suprised any of them live as long as he did with their lifestyles.

We were sad here too. My 12 year old son and I enjoy watching TV together, and that was one of his favorite shows. I assume the blood thinners from the Pulmonary Embolism put him at risk for the stroke (if it was a brain bleed and not a clot).

I met Phil once at the UniSea Inn bar in Dutch Harbor. This was long before he was on the TV show ('92ish). He was really wanting to see the ship I fished on (F/T Ocean Rover), which was at that time the most modern, luxurious and best producing factory trawler in the Bering Sea. So anyway he came on board for a tour and regaled us with stories of crab fishing. Needless to say it was a lot of fun watching him on Deadliest Catch later. RIP Phil

Ah, that's a shame. Not exactly an easy life.

Watching the show last year with the other Capt (Stig?) thinking he was having a heart attack or something (and chain smoking the whole time), I would say I agree that it wasn't exactly surprising. Still a shame though.