You're not kidding. This guy was still only 28 when this photo was taken.
Posted on 12/28/2020 11:26:24 AM PST by Red Badger
Nick McGlashan, a 7th generation fisherman who starred in "Deadliest Catch," has died ... TMZ has learned.
The Medical Examiner and family tell TMZ ... Nick passed away Sunday in Nashville. The cause of death has not been determined.
Nick appeared on the show for years ... from 2013 - 2020, in 78 episodes.
Nick's family has a storied tale of the sea. His great uncle worked on the first boat in the U.S. crab industry. Two of his aunts were crabbers ... one of who was lost at sea after the boat sank.
As for Nick ... he started crabbing at age 13. Nick quickly earned his stripes and up piloting the Cape Caution ... eventually upgrading to the Summer Bay.
Nick was an unrelenting figure on the boat. Nothing could stop him ... not pain, nothing. He never gave up ... even when the boat had perilous mechanical problems.
He struggled for years with addiction to alcohol and drugs ... it got bad enough he was suspended from part of Season 13 and ended up in rehab. It got so bad he said he was drinking a half-gallon of vodka and shooting up with one gram of meth and 2 grams of heroin in a single day. He tried hard to stay sober and said he was trying to inspire others to get clean.
The show has had its share of tragedies. We broke the story ... deckhand Mahlon Reyes died back in August after suffering a heart attack.
Nick was 33.
RIP
Yes he did.
I grew up in the North East fishing community. Life is hard working the boats not an unusual out come. Friends look ten+ years older than they are and lucky if they make fifty.
RIP, Nick. May every pot be crossbars.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. You saying those guys are dead???
* weeks at sea with Wild Bill would drive anyone ot booze and drugs. He is an a$$.
*=8
You're not kidding. This guy was still only 28 when this photo was taken.
No.
Two Dead:
Blake Painter 38 died of OD-Maverick
Nick McGlashan 33 died of OD(?)- Summer Bay
The others:
Jake Harris
Elliott Neese
Edgar Hansen
All struggled with addiction
Yep, took him 15 years to kill the gift.
There you go. Works when you work it, right?
“Let me give you a tip, DO NOT watch Gold Rush, or Gold Rush “White Water””
Tony Beets English vocabulary has more profane words than clean ones.
I worked for a guy once who was fond of saying, “He looks older than a 50 year old surveyor”.
LOL
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