Mavar was an important figure in the popular Crab Fishermen series. He participated in 98 episodes from the first season in 2005 to the seventeenth in 2021.
Nick Mavar the sailor who for 16 years was part of the star team of the reality show Mortal fishing (Deadliest Catch) of Discovery Channel, died at the age of 59 on June 13. This was confirmed by the Borough Police Department. Bristol Bay to various media.
The authorities report cites that “natural causes” caused the death. The fisherman had been found in a shipyard in Naknek, Alaska, after a 911 call raised the alarm. The man was taken to a medical center, where he was pronounced dead.
Mavar was an important figure in the popular series that documented the hard work of crab fishermen in the unforgiving Bering Sea, a body of water that borders Alaska and Russia. He participated in 98 episodes from the first season in 2005 to the seventeenth in 2021 and served as a deck crew member on the ship. Northwestern.
“Nick Mavar was my right hand man and an incredibly tough sailor. Mortal fishing It won’t be the same without him,” lamented Captain Sig Hansen at the time, when he was forced to do without him due to a serious medical emergency on the high seas in 2021.
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It was during the recordings of that season when Mavar began to feel intense abdominal pain. “I feel pain, I feel pain”, he said anguishedly to the cameras while holding his stomach. Finally, Captain Hansen made the decision to evacuate him emergency by helicopter to the nearest hospital.
The situation was made even more delicate by the strict restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic that delayed the medical care that Mavar urgently required. According to reports, his appendix burst at that moment. Later studies also revealed that she had a cancerous tumor, so she did not return to the show either.
This terrible experience, in addition to separating him indefinitely from his work on the high seas, led him to sue for 1 million dollars to the boat’s owner, Sig Hansen, and then to production company Original Productions Inc.. According to Alaska Public Media, Mavar alleged that They did not have an “adequate medical plan” to treat him quickly given the severity of the emergency..
The production company’s lawyers denied that their clients were responsible and argued that other third parties were guilty of what happened. Likewise, they indicated that they “They never legally committed to protect Mavar from any eventuality or medical emergency.”says NBC News.
However, that was not the only accident that Nick experienced as a crew member of the Northwestern. A decade ago, during a violent storm, a loose hook hit him in the face, breaking his nose. The terrible scene was recorded on video and later went viral on the program’s YouTube channel.
Despite the risk of his profession, Mavar always returned to sailing in the frigid waters of northern Alaska. After leaving the program and the boat he worked on for 15 years, Mavar spent his final days as captain of his own salmon fishing boat.
The fatality has not been foreign to the team Mortal fishingwhich fueled rumors of an alleged “curse” on the show.
In 2020, the young Nick McGlashanwho served as deck boss and appeared in 78 episodes since 2013, passed away at the young age of 33.
Two years earlier, in 2018, the death of the former captain Blake Painterjust 38 years old, also mourned the series team.
But these were not the first tragedies. Some time ago, the fishermen also mourned the death of the captain Phil Harris, who was co-owner of the ship “Cornelia Marie”; of the sailor Justin Tennison, who was part of the crew of the “Time Bandit”; and the former captain Tony Lara.
