Who Died On Deadliest Catch?

Deadliest Catch lost Crab fisherman Nick McGlashan in December 2021. He died of a drug overdose at just 33 years.

McGlashan had been a regular part of the Discovery Channel reality series since joining in 2013 and news of his passing sent shockwaves throughout the crew.

Cameras captured the moment when McGlashan’s crewmates learned of the tragic news.

“Oh my God,” was the immediate reaction from boat captain ‘Wild’ Bill Wichrowski as he received a telephone call at the start of the latest episode. The cameras then followed the fallout and reaction as McGlashan’s friends and colleagues tried to come to grips with the heartbreaking news.

Born in Alaska to a veteran commercial fisherman, McGlashan began working on a boat when he was 13 years old.

According to his biography on the Discovery Go site, he was “a 7th generation fisherman who was raised not far from Dutch Harbor on the nearby island of Akutan, Alaska.”

“He was named after his great uncle Nick McGlashan, who worked on the first boat rumored to have pioneered the US crab industry, the F/V Deep Sea, built-in 1947,” the bio reads. “Two of Nick’s aunts were also crabbers; one was lost at sea when the boat sank in 1986.”

McGlashan worked as a deck boss on “Deadliest Catch” and has appeared on the series since 2013.