Thread: Cornielia Marie Capt. Phil Harris has Stroke

Captain of the commercial crab fishing boat F/V Cornelia Marie which is featured on the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch has suffered a stroke and is currently hospitalized, a Discovery rep told TMZ.

.A spokesman for the show told them “”Phil Harris suffered a stroke while in port off-loading from the F/V Cornelia Marie. He has been transported to a medical facility and is receiving the best care possible. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and we will make more information available as we know it.”

The F/V Cornelia Marie, which is 128 feet (39 meters) long, 28 feet (8.5 meters) wide, and carries 28,500 U.S. gallons (107,852 liters) of fuel and 3,000 U.S. gallons (11,353 liters) of fresh water was one of the last boats built by Horton Boats in 1989.

Phil’s sons, Jake and Josh Harris, work on the aquamarine and white paint schemed boat with yellow banners which fishes for King, Tanner, and Opilio crab, and also does Salmon and Herring tendering.

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I hope he is going to be OK.....

Wow, medically speaking, he was a walking timebomb...smoking, drinking, caffeine dependent, incredible stress...I hope he pulls through without any Dick Clark'ish side effects.

Originally Posted by Alundil

hmm - that sucks.

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Discovery Channel: 'Deadliest Catch' captain dies
Feb. 10, 2010, 12:14 AM EST


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain whose adventures off the Alaska coast were captured on the television show "Deadliest Catch", has died, the Discovery Channel said Tuesday night. He was 53.

Harris suffered what his family described as a massive stroke on Jan. 29 while the fishing vessel he captained, Cornelia Marie, was in port at St. Paul Island, Alaska. The fisherman was flown to Anchorage for surgery.

The reality show, which has filmed five seasons, has been one of the Discovery Channel's most popular and depicts the crab fishing industry in the dangerous waters off Alaska.

"It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad - Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end," sons Josh and Jake Harris said in a statement released by the network. "For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down."

In a statement, Discovery Channel senior vice president Elizabeth Hillman says, "Phil was a devoted father and loyal friend to all who knew him."

"We will miss his straightforward honesty, wicked sense of humor and enormous heart," she said.

In an e-mail to The Associated Press, she said no additional information was immediately available Tuesday night.

Harris had seemed to be improving, and in a posting last Saturday on the ship's Web site, he was described as "talking to friends and family today; showing his greatest progress" since the stroke.

His sons wrote in a Feb. 3 posting that "No one ever said Captain Phil Harris wasn't tough. Today, dad showed some good signs of improvement, squeezing our hands and even summoning his trademark Captain's bluntness ... We are encouraged but still very cautious."

According to the ship's Web site, Harris started working on fishing boats at age 7 and started work 10 years later on a crab boat. When Harris turned 21, he ran a fishing vessel out of Seattle, making him one of the youngest to captain a vessel in the Bering Sea.

When Harris suffered the stroke, the family said a friend, Derek Ray, had flown to St. Paul to take over the role of relief skipper for the rest of the opilio crab season.

Harris' fishing vessel was based in Seattle.

http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=457705&GT1=28103


Sad to hear this.

RIP Captain.

Both me and my mom are very sad, Phil was a great captain. I feel sorry for his sons. josh was always looking out for his dad and worrying about him.

Originally Posted by CivilWars

RIP Captain.

agreed