Captain Phil Harris - F/V Cornelia Marie (Deadliest Catch)

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My thoughts and prayers are with Captain Phil Harris, his family, and friends in this tough time. I had the lucky opportunity to meet Phil several times and he is a great guy! Most recently I saw him back in September 2009 during a coffee promo for his coffee line, Captain's Reserve... Great coffee :D

Updated 8:20pm 1/30/2010 ~ Will update when I get more info...

It's 12:30pm here in Washington State on 1/30/2010, and I just learned that Phil suffered a stroke while off-loading Opilio / Snow Crab from his boat, the F/V Cornelia Marie, to a processor in Alaska.

Captain John from the F/V Time Bandit just posted two tweets about it...
~ "@captjohnathan Everyone please join me in praying for Phil Harris. May God bless and care for Phil and his family. Johnathan"
~ "@captjohnathan For those who are asking about Phil: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadliestcatch/phil-harris/ Keep him in your prayers please."

The link in John's second post leads to the Discovery site where it tells what happened; here's the information from the site:
"Phil Harris suffered a stroke while in port off-loading from the F/V Cornelia Marie. He has been transported to a medical facility and is receiving the best care possible. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and we will make more information available as we know it." 

Update: 1/30/2010 - 8:20pm
Just got home from work a bit ago and got some more info so I'm adding it in...
From: http://www.corneliamarie.com/capt-phil/capt-phil-in-the-hospital-medivacked-from-st-paul/

The person who wrote this runs the Cornelia Marie website and is also the son of the other owner of the boat, Cornelia Marie Devlin.

"Captain Phil Harris suffered a stroke yesterday at St. Paul Island in Alaska. He was medivacked to Anchorage and is currently at a hospital receiving treatment.
I didn’t say anything earlier, so family can learn from us instead of through the internet. I know anybody who is reading this also cares about Phil, so we thought you should know as well.
Phil is at a good hospital and receiving the best care possible. My mother, Cornelia Marie Devlin and Jake Harris are with him at the hospital. Josh is staying on the boat to help the new relief skipper who is flying out there today. The boat is in the harbor now, but needs to be able to leave in case the ice shifts and moves in.
Our engineer Steve found Capt. Phil on the floor of his stateroom Friday. He was immediately taken to the clinic in St. Paul – the same place he was treated when he had a blood clot two years ago.
As soon as we receive more information about Phil, we will pass it on to you."