Deadliest Catch has been broadcast on Discovery Channel since April 2005, today there are more than 330 episodes, 20 seasons. The program chronicles the work of crab boats in the Bering Sea, “full of danger, risk of injury and death.”
Mavar, a sailor since he was 16, appears in almost a hundred episodes of the show and was considered the right-hand man of one of the captains.
The incident occurred on Thursday, police confirmed to the publication. According to the information, a 911 call was made about a “medical emergency” from a shipyard in Alaska. Mawar was hospitalized at a local medical center, where he was pronounced dead. An investigation is ongoing. The portal contacted representatives of Discovery Channel for comments, which have not yet been received.
Mavar left the show with a scandal in 2021, after he started having problems with his appendix (this was all broadcast). It later turned out that the sailor had appendix cancer and Nick sued his employer “for failure to provide timely medical care.”
Nick is not the only deceased contestant on “Deadliest Catch”: in 2020, Nick McGlashan, who starred in 78 episodes of the reality show, died at the age of 34, and in May 2018, captain Blake Painter, 38, He was found dead in his home. Captain Phil Harris, deckhand Justin Tennyson and another captain, Tony Lara, also died.
