Deadliest Catch is a reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005. The show follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons. The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska is the base of operations for the fishing fleet. Produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel, the show's title is derived from the inherent high risk of injury or death associated with this line of work.
Original Productions, LLC is a television production company based in Burbank, California. It was founded in 1999 by Thom Beers.
Sigurd Jonny "Sig" Hansen is an American captain of the fishing vessel F/V Northwestern. Since 2005, Hansen has been featured in each season of the documentary television series Deadliest Catch, serving also as technical advisor for the production.
F/V Northwestern is an Alaskan crab, Pacific cod, and salmon tendering fishing vessel featured in the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch. To date the Northwestern is the only vessel to have featured on all 16 seasons of Deadliest Catch as well as the pilot series America's Deadliest Season. The vessel is owned and operated by the Hansen family of the state of Washington with Sig Hansen serving as the vessel's primary captain.
The FV Cornelia Marie is one of the commercial crab fishing boats featured on the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch.
Lobster Wars, also known as Deadliest Catch: Lobstermen in the United Kingdom, is a documentary television series on the Discovery Channel. It documents men and one woman fishing for lobsters off the Georges Bank near the northeastern coast of North America. It first aired on August 23, 2007.
Thom Beers is an American television producer and narrator/voice-over artist.
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Michael Gregory Rowe is an American television host, narrator, and former opera singer. He is known for his work on the Discovery Channel series Dirty Jobs and the series Somebody's Gotta Do It originally developed for CNN. He currently hosts a series produced for Facebook called Returning the Favor in which he finds people doing good deeds and does something for them in return. He also hosts the podcast The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe, which he describes as "short stories designed specifically for the curious mind plagued with a short attention span". Rowe has narrated programs on the Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, and National Geographic Channel such as Deadliest Catch, How the Universe Works, and Shark Week. He has also appeared in commercials for firms such as the Ford Motor Company.
The FV Time Bandit is a commercial crab fishing vessel co-captained by brothers Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand. It is featured on the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch. The Time Bandit is a 113-foot house aft boat owned by the Hillstrand brothers that was designed by the Hillstrands' father. The five men helped custom-build the boat's interior, including some comforts unheard of in a crab boat: a four-man sauna, state rooms with queen-size beds and a dishwasher. The vessel carries 137 crab pots.
Swords: Life on the Line was a reality television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. The series documents the events aboard New England fishing boats fishing for Swordfish. See Longline fishing.
Phillip Charles Harris was an American captain and part owner of the crab fishing vessel Cornelia Marie, which is featured on Discovery Channel's documentary reality TV series Deadliest Catch. He suffered a massive stroke while offloading C. opilio crab in port at Saint Paul Island, Alaska, on January 29, 2010. Despite extreme improvements in his condition, Harris died on February 9, 2010 at the age of 53, while suffering an intracranial hemorrhage in the hospital.
The F/V Maverick is a commercial crab fishing vessel that featured on the first three seasons of the Discovery Channel's reality television show Deadliest Catch. The F/V Maverick was built by Giddings Boat Works in 1982. She is a 92-foot house aft vessel that holds 120 pots and sleeps between nine and ten people. She was purchased by Rick and Donna Quashnick of Warrenton, Oregon in 1991. The F/V Maverick was selected for a camera crew for season one in the 2005 opilio crab season, as partner vessel of the F/V Cornelia Marie. The Maverick took part in the rescue efforts for the F/V Big Valley, which sunk on the first day of the opilio crab season off Saint Paul Island, Alaska losing all but one crew member. She became a featured vessel beginning in the second and third season of Deadliest Catch, joining the F/V Cornelia Marie, F/V Northwestern and F/V Time Bandit.
Matthew Bennett is an American television producer and director and former Broadway stage actor.
The FV Wizard is a crab fishing boat that can be seen on Discovery Channel's TV show Deadliest Catch.
Wicked Tuna is an American reality television series about commercial tuna fishermen based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, who fish for the lucrative Atlantic bluefin tuna in the North Atlantic Ocean. The teams of fishermen battle each other to see who can get the most profit out of catching the fish. The series has aired on National Geographic Channel since April 1, 2012.
Jakob "Jake" Anderson is an American fishing Captain aboard the fishing vessel F/V Saga. Since 2007, Anderson has been featured in the Discovery Channel documentary television series Deadliest Catch.
Aussie Lobster Men is an Australian reality television series which debuted on 12 February 2019 on 7mate. The series portrays the real life events of crews aboard commercial fishing vessels in the waters around Tasmania searching for Tasmanian rock lobsters.
Deadliest Catch: Bloodline is an American documentary and reality television series that premiered on April 14, 2020 on the Discovery Channel. Bloodline is a spin-off of Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch. The program follows fishermen Josh Harris, his business partner Casey McManus, and Jeff Silva as they investigate scribbles found on Hawaiian fishing charts left by Josh's late father, Phil Harris. Bloodline was launched the same day as the season 16 premiere episode of Deadliest Catch.
