'Deadliest Catch' creates its equivalent of a Star Trek convention

Yes, Wolverine is a bad ass. But he exists only in the pages of comic books and on the silver screen. Captains Sig Hansen, Phil Harris, Keith Colburn and Jonathan and Andy Hillstrand are real-life bad asses, as they have proven time and again on the Discovery Channel's show Deadliest Catch. Much like Comic-Con fans who worship at the altar of their favorite characters, Deadliest Catch fans can now get a glimpse of their heroes at the first ever Catch-Con. On April 25, the Northwestern and Wizard vessels will drop anchor in Seattle and allow fans of the show, which portrays extreme lives of Alaskan crab fishermen, to meet the captains and walk the decks of the ships. No word on whether attendees will be splashed with stinging cold salt water and then thrown overboard to their deaths.

—Posted by Kenneth Hein