Deadliest Catch Deckhand Gets a New Ride - Features, Boat Reviews and Boat Tests - Boats.com

Travis Lofland takes a break from commercial crab fishing to go fast -- really fast -- for a while.
 

 

Travis Lofland and Peter Meyer ran Instigator for the first time together last month at the SBI Offshore Race in Cocoa Beach. Photo by Dave Crago/Watermen News.

If you’re a fan of the “Deadliest Catch” Discovery Channel television series, the last time you saw Travis Lofland he was lucky to be alive. At the end of last season, the veteran Time Bandit crab-fishing vessel deckhand slipped on ice while trying to leap from the dock to his boat, and ended up in the below-freezing waters of Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

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