Powercut on F/V Wizard sends Deadliest Catch captain into meltdown – ‘Beyond annoying’
Powercut on F/V Wizard sends Deadliest Catch captain into meltdown – ‘Beyond annoying’
Deadliest Catch season 20 is only onto its first few episodes this June but already the show is packed with drama. Naturally, the premise of spending a season on the treacherous Bering Sea is bound to come with some high-risk moments, but season 20 sees some of the show’s stars pushed to their limits.
Captain Keith Colburn has Deadliest Catch viewers of the show taking to social media this June as he deals with all kinds of issues aboard the F/V Wizard. From other boats laying pots on top of his to the Wizard catching on fire, the Discovery Channel show sees the captain overcoming hurdle after hurdle.
Deadliest Catch: Power cut aboard the Wizard
During Deadliest Catch season 20, Keith Colburn is at the helm of the F/V Wizard.
During episode 4, the entire ship descends into chaos as the power cuts out while out at sea.
The vessel is left in complete darkness as someone says: “We gotta pot we gotta get rid of,” Capain Keith shouts: “Push it over, get everybody away from it.”
The crab fishermen can’t see anything. Then, an electrical fire breaks out as a crew member shouts: “The breaker burned up.”
One fan commented on how it’s not the first time the ship has experience a fire: “That is totally crazy. And second fire the wizard has been dealing with. Have to wait until Tuesday to see if it does more than Spark. @crabwizard I bet you got a few more gray hairs from this season.”
Critics weigh in on Captain
Being in charge of a 371-ton fishing boat has got to be stressful but that doesn’t stop Deadliest Catch critics from weighing in on Captain Keith.
The fishing boat Captain has the responsibility of the 156-foot-long F/V Wizard.
Fans taking to a Reddit thread add how the vessel wasn’t actually made for crabbing initially: “The problem with the wizard is, it wasn’t designed to be a crab boat. It sits really low in the water and instead of riding the waves like the northwestern does, it punches through them.”
Another said: “I just looked that up, the Wizard has its own website with info on that. It was apparently originally a Naval yard oiler, then a molasses hauler before being converted to a crabber.”
This season sees crew members “screaming” over the Wizard’s fire and Captain Keith “shaken up” but that doesn’t stop critics from saying they think he shows too much “anger.”
One wrote of the time Jacob set pots right next to Captain Keith’s: “Keith is beyond annoying. His yelling and faux outrage is tired at this point. The captain of the Aleucian Lady called him to tell him what Jacob did. He didn’t have to do that. And you’re still going off?”
