I also am bugged. I died right when Rust eye died so my npc was not able to get the pod and now no matter what i do i cant retrieve the pod.
So I googled this and a page on wowhead (https://www.wowhead.com/quest=57490/voyage-to-safety )
said:
“If the quest won’t complete for you when returning with the pod, stand next to the quest giver and re-log. It will complete instantly.”
But this didnt work for me. What I ended up doing is abandoning the quest, relogging and then accepting the quest again and this time it completed ok.