A career as a Seaview crewmember guaranteed a sailor an exciting life, a prestigious job, and many tall tales to tell admiring listeners or--eventually, and if he was lucky--grandchildren. However, it was not without risk; in fact, I often think that the crew must receive hazardous duty pay as a matter of course. Oh, the officers are safe enough--most of them have their names in the credits--but for the common seaman, there were many opportunities to die in particularly grisly and painful ways.
This page is devoted to those unfortunate souls who never made it back to port.
Eleven Days to Zero
- Phillips, John (Captain)
- The first crewmember to die on the show, Captain Phillips was Lee Crane's predecessor. Crane was brought on board after Phillips was shot by enemy agents intent on stopping Nelson's plan to save the world. (Eleven Days to Zero)
City Beneath the Sea
- Atlas
- Died when the minisub he was piloting was swept away by intense undersea currents.
- Unidentified crewman
- Killed in the same incident as Atlas.
The Fear-makers
- Andrews
- Killed when the Polidor exploded after exceeding its crush depth following the fear-induced panic of its crew. Apparently a friend of Patterson.
- Handley (Lieutenant)
- Killed on the Polidor
- Unknown number of unidentified crewmembers
- Killed on the Polidor. I would guess there may have been as many as 25, since the Seaview's crew was short-staffed at 100, and I seem to recall that it usually carried a crew of 125.
The Mist of Silence
- Farrell
- Killed by firing squad while captured by an enemy nation.
Submarine Sunk Here
- Hodges?
- Killed while cutting mine lines in the minisub.
- Pat O'Mara
- Drowned when the compartment he was in was flooded after the sub went down.
- Collins
- Died trying to escape using breathing apparatus at too great a depth.
- Blake
- Drowned heroically flooding a compartment in order to right the ship enough so that the diving bell could connect to it, thus rescuing the rest of the crew.
The Blizzard Makers
- Unidentified crewman
- Shot when he refused to drop his weapon on Cregar's island.
Mutiny
- Unidentified crewman
- Brain destroyed by electric radiation emitted by a giant jellyfish
The Invaders
- Foster
- Killed after exposure to the bacteria-free blood of alien visitor.
The Indestructible Man
- Unidentified crewman
- Killed by robotic astronaut
- Benson
- Killed when he shoots at attacking robotic astronaut and his bullets ricochet and hit him.
- Three unidentified crewmen
- Killed when robotic astronaut attacks them in the crew's mess.
The Buccaneer
- Unknown number of NIMR security staff
- Drowned when Logan orders the Seaview to crash dive while they are on its deck.
- Unidentified crewman
- Shot by one of Logan's men
The Saboteur
- Parker
- Ship's radio operator, brainwashed by the People's Republic, shot after blowing a hole in the ship's nose.
The Traitor
- Unidentified crewman
- Shot by Fenton while invading the enemy's secret headquarters (through an air vent, no less!).
Note: Almost all web pages are by definition "under construction." That's more true of this one, which I've just begun work on, than of most. Thanks for your patience!
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