Partygoer sues skipper from ‘Deadliest Catch’

SEATTLE – A man has sued the captain of the fishing crew that stars in the Discovery Channel’s popular program “Deadliest Catch” after suffering injuries on the skipper’s boat during a Seattle summertime festival.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that Jon Moreno, the man suing skipper Sig Hansen, was like many thousands of others, partying during Seattle’s Seafair festival – an annual summertime celebration of the city’s ties to the sea.

According to the lawsuit, Moreno boarded Hansen’s boat with other partygoers. There, he and a friend were hoisted above the water by a crane on the crabbing boat and dropped into the water – an activity other people were doing.

Moreno says he was hurt in the fall, breaking his pelvis and other injuries, according to the lawsuit filed late last month in King County Superior Court.

The lawsuit seeks an undisclosed amount of money to cover medical and legal expenses and loss of work. Hansen and his company, Hansen Enterprises Inc., are named in the lawsuit.