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What Happened to Captain Brad Krasowski and Fish Hawk on 'Wicked Tuna?'

Get all the details on what happened to Captain Brad Krasowski and Fish Hawk on Seaon 8 of 'Wicked Tuna' — read more here

Gabrielle Bernardini - Author

Wicked Tuna follows the lives of business fishermen as those captains and their staff combat it out on the open water of the Atlantic to catch essentially the most bluefin. With bluefin tuna weighing up to 1,000 lbs, those captains and their crew are banking on large catches to make a residing. However, those crewmen hailing from Gloucester, Mass. no longer handiest face remarkable drive to supply for their households, but are tasked with battling turbulent waters of the open ocean. 

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Last season, fanatics watched as the send the Pin Wheel walked away with the primary place spot. In Season Eight of the National Geographic collection, one fan favorite that is attempting to get within the lead is Captain Brad Krasowski of the Fish Hawk. We were first offered to Brad as the primary mate of The Wicked Pissah, until he went off on his own and reworked a business boat right into a fishing ship, which he dubbed “tuna-bago.” 

Many enthusiasts began questioning if Brad used to be going to return this season as he was once no longer in any promo trailers for Season 8 of the hit sequence. Viewers (together with us) started to question: 

What happened to Fish Hawk in Season Eight of Wicked Tuna?

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Don’t worry, Fish Hawk returned for Season Eight of the series. Yes, finally! In the present season, we’ve observed Brad remain calm when faced with high force scenarios. Complete with a new first mate, Lance, the Fish Hawk is making an attempt to take the top spot among the gang. Though, it hasn’t at all times been simple for Brad is making an attempt to move from “worst to first,” like he promised two seasons in the past. 

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“It’s [the opposite captains] all they wanna do is beat you,” mentioned Brad in a trailer clip. His first mate Lance echoed similar sentiments, announcing, “We’re coming for everybody.” Well, we're indisputably rooting for them.

Wicked Tuna honors late solid mate Duffy in Season 8: 

Sadly, Nicholas Fudge a.ok.a. Duffy, passed away in July 2018 at the age of 28 a couple of days earlier than filming started for the brand new season of the National Geographic collection. While the cause of dying has not been publicly published, it has been reported that he might “were a sufferer of decompression sickness, sometimes called 'the bends.'" 

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Duffy worked as a first mate on the Pin Wheel, and while the crew was saddened by the loss of their friend, they decided to continue on. The captain of the vessel, Tyler McLaughlin, made his sister Marissa his first mate, as her previous fishing experience made her very qualified. 

"[Mar's] got so much to learn, but she's got her captain's license,"  Tyler said in a Season 8 clip. "She can navigate. She can learn a radar. She knows how to power the boat. She can run it when we're fighting fish."

Catch new episodes of Wicked Tuna on Sundays at Nine p.m. ET on the National Geographic Channel.  

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