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lady_curmudgeon Feb. 11th, 2010 04:31 pm)
lady_curmudgeon Feb. 11th, 2010 04:31 pm)From yesterday's New York Times...
"Phil Harris, the bearded, cantankerous captain of the Cornelia Marie, one of the small fleet of crab-fishing boats that have plied the perilous waters off the coast of Alaska for five seasons on the hit reality television show “Deadliest Catch,” died on Tuesday in Anchorage. He was 53 and lived in Seattle.
The cause was a stroke that Captain Harris suffered on January 29 aboard his boat in the port of St. Paul Island, Alaska...
“Deadliest Catch,” on the Discovery Channel, is watched by about three million viewers a week, making it one of the top-rated programs on basic cable. The show’s subject is the arduous, repetitive and sometimes brutal job of fishing in the Bering Sea. A typical episode includes huge waves sloshing against the insides of the television screen, as well as scenes of slicker-clad, exhausted deckhands and bleary-eyed captains cursing and chain-smoking up in the wheelhouse.
Captain Harris fit the profile: husky, six feet tall, with hair down to his collar and tattoos from his shoulders to his elbows — a grizzled pirate on one arm, a Harley-Davidson emblem on the other.
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The show has lived up to its name. In its first season one of the featured boats, the Big Valley, sank, drowning all but one of its crew. Captain Harris, who by then had owned and operated the Cornelia Marie for 16 years, joined the search. His rescue efforts brought him to the attention of the show’s producers. When the sixth season starts in April, he and his crew — which includes his two sons, Jake and Josh — will once again be seen, in episodes filmed in recent months.
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Philip Harris was born on Dec. 21, 1956. His father was a fisherman, and Phil first worked on fishing boats when he was 7.
Aboard the 128-foot-long, 298-ton Cornelia Marie, Captain Harris was earthy and excitable. The producers of “Deadliest Catch” hoped that with Jake and Josh in the crew sibling rivalry would spice the action. What they sometimes got were scenes of the old man chewing out his offspring and looking out for the safety of his crew."
J and I religously watch the show and Phil was our favourite captain by far.
Blessed be, Phil. You will be missed.
"Phil Harris, the bearded, cantankerous captain of the Cornelia Marie, one of the small fleet of crab-fishing boats that have plied the perilous waters off the coast of Alaska for five seasons on the hit reality television show “Deadliest Catch,” died on Tuesday in Anchorage. He was 53 and lived in Seattle.
The cause was a stroke that Captain Harris suffered on January 29 aboard his boat in the port of St. Paul Island, Alaska...
“Deadliest Catch,” on the Discovery Channel, is watched by about three million viewers a week, making it one of the top-rated programs on basic cable. The show’s subject is the arduous, repetitive and sometimes brutal job of fishing in the Bering Sea. A typical episode includes huge waves sloshing against the insides of the television screen, as well as scenes of slicker-clad, exhausted deckhands and bleary-eyed captains cursing and chain-smoking up in the wheelhouse.
Captain Harris fit the profile: husky, six feet tall, with hair down to his collar and tattoos from his shoulders to his elbows — a grizzled pirate on one arm, a Harley-Davidson emblem on the other.
...
The show has lived up to its name. In its first season one of the featured boats, the Big Valley, sank, drowning all but one of its crew. Captain Harris, who by then had owned and operated the Cornelia Marie for 16 years, joined the search. His rescue efforts brought him to the attention of the show’s producers. When the sixth season starts in April, he and his crew — which includes his two sons, Jake and Josh — will once again be seen, in episodes filmed in recent months.
...
Philip Harris was born on Dec. 21, 1956. His father was a fisherman, and Phil first worked on fishing boats when he was 7.
Aboard the 128-foot-long, 298-ton Cornelia Marie, Captain Harris was earthy and excitable. The producers of “Deadliest Catch” hoped that with Jake and Josh in the crew sibling rivalry would spice the action. What they sometimes got were scenes of the old man chewing out his offspring and looking out for the safety of his crew."
J and I religously watch the show and Phil was our favourite captain by far.
Blessed be, Phil. You will be missed.
