I hope you guys like Deadliest Catch like me. Captain Phil is the one I idolized. It was really sad for me to hear of Phil's passing. He might have smoked too many cigarettes, and drank too much caffeine, but such is the life of a Captain doing one of the world's most dangerous jobs. The next time you eat crab, remember Phil. From Mike Rowe's blog:

Captain Phil

A few years ago I was in Seattle, preparing to film the first round of After the Catch. For those of you unfamiliar with the program, After the Catch is a talk show in a bar, where The Captains and crew from Deadliest Catch gather to chat about this and that. I impersonate a moderator, and do my best to keep things on the rails. (Think Charlie Rose with cigarettes and whiskey.)
Anyway, on that first day of shooting, I arrived a few hours before filming began, and observed the kind of chaos that one can only find around a TV production. We were going to be shooting in a style called “Live to Tape,â€