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The Tragic Death of "Deadliest Catch" Star Nick McGlashan

Was the 33-year-old's passing part of an epidemic of "deaths of despair?"

Nick McGlashan, Deadliest Catch Star, Dead at 33 | THR News

Since 2013, 33-year-old Nick McGlashan had been making regular appearances on the Discovery Channel show Deadliest Catch.

The show follows crab fisherman in who take to the tumultuous waters of the Bering Sea during the punishing autumn months of the king crab season. With rough waters and a rushed schedule trying to track down the shrinking crab populations, these fisherman are thought to have one of the deadliest jobs on the planet, but it's work that Nick McGlashan — a deck boss who had been fishing since the age of 13 — had the skill to do with relative safety.

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