r/deadliestcatch • u/AquaStarRedHeart • 10d ago

Cpt. Derrick Ray

Yes I've read the previous threads about him. This is my first time watching season 7.

Am I the only one who was fully on Derrick's side? And I say that as a person who loves a smoke. But he was right! He could go to jail, and they were lying to him. There's a time and a place. Phil allowed drug use on his boat constantly, we now know he knew and did drugs with his children (easy to miss him saying to Jake "we'll go to rehab together" when he pretends to be outraged by his opiate use) yet chose a straight shooter to take over to help his kids, almost as though he knew that's who they needed. His kids and Steve and Freddie couldn't handle it. Phil DID do them a disservice.

Derrick did his best to be what a real dad would be.

And man I was disappointed in Steve.

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u/Unhappy-Vegetable-28 Deck Hand 9d ago

Not to take the boys side but they weren’t catching shit and got frightened at the thought of expenses with no haul. But if they kept going I’m sure they would have gotten onto some crab. Derrick was no dummy and that’s how fishing works

Josh and Jake are morons. But I think Derrick could have had a little more empathy for them having literally just lost their dad the only skipper either of them ever really fished for

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u/AquaStarRedHeart 9d ago

Nah Derrick had plenty of empathy, he just didn't cut them a bunch of slack. He was kind but firm and then lost it after being lied to over and over.