Nick Mavar, a deckhand on the unscripted fishing show Deadliest Catch, died of a heart attack June 13 in Alaska. He was 59.
Mavar appeared in 98 episodes of Deadliest Catch, a show about crab fisherman plying their trade on the Bering Sea, which debuted on Discovery Channel in 2005. He worked on a fishing boat called F/V Northwestern. He left the show in 2020 after his appendix ruptured and he learned he had cancer, The New York Times reported.
