King Crab is back; two decades since Sig Hansen first allowed a camera on board, a new generation lays claim to an industry he helped pioneer; now, each captain must contend with the toll of leading sailors into the Deadliest Catch.
King Crab's return ignites a derby-style race; after losing the Saga, Jake joins Sig as co-captain; a serious hip injury tests Sophia; fire on the Wizard traps Keith's deckhand below deck; Bill faces his hardest test yet.
As competition heats up on the King Crab grounds, Jake's next move puts him at odds with Capt. Sig. Wild Bill battles heavy seas and side effects; Sophia Bob Nielsen attempts to pop in a deckhand's dislocated hip to avoid a steam back to town.
Jake aims to prove himself on the Titan Explorer after he leaves Sig's boat; Sig and Johnathan race to get ahead of a migrating king crab hoard in an underwater canyon; Rick incurs Keith's wrath when his captain-in-training launches a rogue set.
A below-deck brawl puts Sophia Bob Nielsen's captaincy to the test on the Seabrooke; a hydro leak on the Summer Bay threatens to send Wild Bill's King Crab season into the red; Rick must make a crucial decision when Jacob's deckmate crosses the line.
When Sig's fishing information falls into the wrong hands, he deals his protégé a lesson he won't soon forget; Rick faces a gun-shy deckhand; Sophia contends with a crewman with a badly infected tooth.
Captain Sig contends with a man overboard for the first time in his career; Johnathan comes up short on crab but sees the tide turning when thousands of porpoises guide the Time Bandit in a new direction; Jack tangles with Wild Bill.
As the first Siberian storm slams the grounds, Sig sets into 40-knot winds, risking capsizing when his tank floods; Sophia must prove she can drive a boat and lead her crew in severe weather while Jake battles insubordination from his own new crew.
Johnathan alters time in an attempt to get to port for an anniversary he promised Heather on land; Rick battles a Bering Sea gale that knocks his deckhand out of commission; Sophia helms the Seabrooke in the roughest weather she's ever seen.
With the clock ticking on the fall season, Sig devises a way to simultaneously silence his crew and fish faster; as Wild Bill goes under the knife, he elevates Landon to captain the Summer Bay; after giving Jack fishing intel, Keith smells a rat.
Mother Nature blows back as the four remaining captains battle to tank their fall quotas; Landon prays for deliverance on his first solo mission; Sig persists in fishing in 20-foot seas.
Sig and Keith risk fishing far from land despite a forecast, Super El Niño season and encounter a gauntlet of Bering Sea weather; after sand fleas consume his bait, Johnathan strategically sets pots near a submarine volcano.
As weather pounds the fleet, a 30-foot wave crushes a Titan Explorer deckhand, threatening Jake's captaincy; on the Time Bandit, Johnathan loses a generator and goes dark; the Aleutian Lady drives into the weather to reach Dutch Harbor for repairs.
Aboard the Wizard, Keith must retrieve his lost anchor in 50-knot winds; Sig attempts a risky new strategy before finding himself racing to secure the next offload slot.
An Arctic storm blows Sig's Northwestern off course during its opening set of the Golden King; Jake faces the loss of his longtime engineer; Monte takes the wheel of the Wizard when Keith inexplicably collapses in the wheelhouse.
After Keith suffers a cardiac event at sea, Monte races to get his brother to the nearest airstrip for medivac; as the fleet prays for Keith's safety, the Wizard crew must navigate the notoriously dangerous port entry at Saint Paul.
As Keith fights for his life at Anchorage General, Sig helps his brother Monte to get back on the crab.
John risks capsizing while fishing with a slack tank; Jake hauls in a large sea; under pressure to get home for the arrival of Mandy's second child, Sig and Clark fish deeper than ever before as mechanical problems mount..
In the Season 20 finale, four boats race to beat closing canneries as conditions intensify on the water; Sig suffers a major outage with hours to port; Jake uses his only gear to back out of trouble; John doubles down on orcas.
A young generation ventures to the Bering Sea, forging unlikely wheelhouse alliances across the fleet; as high prices draw illegal foreign boats, captains young and old band together to defend America's crab grounds.
Sig gets tough news at sea, forcing the Hansens to make a critical decision as John and Andy lend a hand; with wheelhouse ambitions, Jacob hits a wall with Keith on the Wizard; new captain Jack crosses a line when Harley makes a deal with Jake.
Sig buries his beloved mother and the last of his family's pioneering generation; Sean Dwyer joins forces with Rick Shelford, but the captains don't see eye to eye on rules; Jacob fights back on the Wizard and finds no safe harbor from Capt. Keith.
A new deckhand falls ill on the Time Bandit, raising questions for Andy; a bait pallet breaks loose, forcing Capt. Rick to deal with a severe crew injury; when Wild Bill's plan A fails on the Summer Bay, so Maria tries plan P.
Sig returns from his mother's funeral only to find his gear in harm's way; Rick and Keith forge a beneficial partnership; Jack makes his first offload as captain; The Coast Guard gets a call to extract a sailor with broken legs 200 miles out to sea.
Sig and Mandy disagree on fishing strategy; Wild Bill comes down hard on inattentive deckhands as Linda gets too close to danger; Keith pulls the Wizard alongside the Saga and unleashes unexpected bad blood.
On the Saga, Sean Dwyer joins Jake for a high-risk trek west to Adak Island; Rick attempts a dangerous shortcut through the treacherous tides of Unimak Pass; Sig's deckhand Lauritz takes a brutal fall; Johnathan bids farewell to a lifelong friend.
As a continent-size storm pummels the fleet, John and Andy fight to save their anchor and the boat; Rick navigates stormy seas and feuding deckhands; when an orca befriends the Northwestern, Sig sees a sign of life until it stops him from fishing.
With a storm threatening his record-breaking run, Johnathan allies with Keith to triangulate the crab; Jack braves treacherous tidal currents, staking his redemption on loaded pots; in 30-foot waves, chaos strikes the Wizard.
An early closure forces captains to work together to get their catch safely to port; Sig crosses a line when he repositions a rookie captain's pots; Jake and Sean race back from Adak while Linda bolsters her east coast reputation in the Bering Sea.
In the winter premiere, Johnathan hunts for crab in a secret location to which he's won exclusive rights; Sig tries his luck at a derby fishery; Keith risks an at-sea deckhand transfer; Bob joins a fisherman's strike for higher crab prices.
As a turbulent winter rages, young Capt. Bob seeks to overcome tragedy to launch her maiden voyage on her late parents' crab boat; Capt. Jack takes the reins of a storied vessel; fired from the Wizard, aspiring skipper Jacob finds a new home.
Bob's breakout haul as a solo captain takes a turn when another vessel collides with the boat she inherited from her late parents; cascading engine failures put Sig in a tough spot as the Coast Guard makes a surprise inspection.
With $1 million in crab at stake, the Wizard battles unending 30-footers.
When a deckhand suffers a possible heart attack on board, Keith attempts to save his crewman's life; an explosion rocks the Time Bandit, burning Freddy and shaking Johnathan to his core; facing capsizing, Jake must dump pots.
When Sig loses GPS navigation in crowded waters, Mandy must work a decades-old magnetic compass with no margin for error; OJ's replacement on the Wizard makes a misfit crew a bit more awkward; Bob's Bairdi haul earns her bragging rights.
On the Time Bandit, crew conflict in winter weather puts Johnathan's leadership to the test; Sig and Mandy risk a heavy fine chasing the biomass along a boundary line; Jake struggles with managing an injury-prone crew member.
Hampered by damage, Sig must outmaneuver an unknown captain to hold on to his ground; Jake allies with Wild Bill to make a critical deadline -- but when Bill calls in a favor, time runs short; Rick devises a strategy to ensure Jacob makes it home.
Johnathan scrambles to save his pots from a Bering Sea grave; Sig revives a decades-old fishing computer to find a Bairdi hotspot, while Jake's manpower shortage forces him to put his niece on the hydraulics.
In the Season 19 finale, an uncharacteristic error traps Sig's family in unsurvivable seas; a wayward crane breaches Jake's wheelhouse, killing critical systems and his way home; Rick attempts to turn a tragedy into a triumph for Jacob.
Forged by the ferocious seas of the North Atlantic, legendary east coast captain Linda Greenlaw attempts to break into the highly competitive and highly dangerous Alaskan crab fishery for the first time in her storied career.
When the government closes the king crab fishery, captains must save an industry they worked so hard to create; Sig pursues invasive Russian King Crab in Norway; John, Josh and Casey chase rising prices for a new species, and Jake mortgages the Saga.
An Arctic storm slams the fleet, which is already reeling from the closure of king crab season; Johnathan sets pots deeper than ever before; Sig struggles to launch his Norwegian operation; a deckhand fights for life on the Patricia Lee.
With his deckhand crushed by pots, Capt. Rip charges into the Arctic storm to attempt one of the riskiest USCG helicopter rescues in recent history; John fights to save the Time Bandit at anchor; Sig takes his first Norwegian rogue wave.
Sig struggles with a Norwegian crewman who thinks he knows more than the captain; Capt. Wild Bill fights to save his boat from the rocky Norwegian coastline with a line snarled in his propeller; Keith's greenhorn faces a violent brush with death.
When Shyanne discovers a serious breach on the Saga, Jake and his crew scramble to save it from capsizing; in Norway, Sig drops pots on Russia's western line; as canneries close their doors, Josh and Casey call in a last-minute favor from Johnathan.
Sig scrambles to get home for Bairdi and Mandy's baby as his crew finds a honey hole of Russian king crab; the typhoon catches Shane, Josh's brother, on the Cornelia Marie; Rip faces a crisis when a greenhorn collapses unconscious.
Johnathan searches for a pot of golden kings at the end of a double rainbow; a medical mystery confounds Capt. Rip when his greenhorn regains consciousness on the Patricia Lee; Keith partners with Josh and Casey until John steps in.
Johnathan sets mile-deep pots and pulls up an unknown species; Jake faces reality when his niece, Shyanne, gets injured on the Saga; Clark takes the helm in Sig's wheelhouse to help tank the Hansen family Bairdi quota.
Mandy breaks news of a pregnancy complication, forcing Sig and Clark to reconsider their decision to keep fishing; Jake teams up with Rip Carlton in deep waters, but powerful Aleutian tidal currents unexpectedly shift Jake's string.
Jake and his niece set pots on the same waters their ancestor fished in the 1930s; Johnathan risks losing his entire live catch when the Time Bandit ventures into fresh water; Josh experiments with glow sticks to attract crabs at the darkest depths.
With dock prices spiking, the fleet races to deliver; Jake witnesses a freighter severing his longline, forcing the Saga crew to drag the bottom for a string of pots; Rip helps Johnathan locate the mother lode only to pay with a broken block.
Clark scuttles Sig's partnership with Harley to get home for the birth of his and Mandy's baby; an orca leads the Cornelia Marie to the season's best pots; when John's autopilot fails, Jake is the star that leads him home.
Nautical weather slams the fleet as Josh and Casey race north in hopes of beating the coming ice pack; Sig and Keith attempt to find common ground; Johnathan finds his co-captain a bit wobbly.
The Northwestern loses steering when a bald eagle lays claim to its mast; Sig and Keith develop an unusual partnership to tank Bairdi in record time; Josh and Casey place a risky bet on hard-to-find quota, while casualties mount on the Patty Lee.
New-mother Mandy returns to Sig's wheelhouse, but as heavy ice builds on the Northwestern, she reckons with the risks the family is taking; Jake unveils a new super pot to stake his claim in the cod derby as winter weather blindsides the fleet.
A dangerous list forces Sig to jettison pots or capsize the Northwestern; one wrong move in the narrow False Pass causes Jake and the Saga to hit bottom; there's no accounting for taste when Sean Dwyer devises motivational punishments for greenhorns.
Keith recruits Johnathan to intercept a Russian trawler fishing illegally in US waters.
The Cornelia Marie crashes into the ice pack when the greenhorn on watch falls asleep at the wheel; Jake's crew experiences a stunning phenomenon when a flock of seabirds bombards the Saga; Wild Bill tackles an unsafe sea state on the Summer Bay.
After risking his crew salvaging gear from the ice pack, Sig changes tactics and uses an experimental bait from Norway; on the Time Bandit, frustration boils over as Freddy tests Johnathan; Jake encounters seas so volatile his crew must take shelter.
With intense currents holding back the Arctic ice pack, Keith drives into deck-wrecking waves to retrieve his catch before the ice bounces back; Jake and Sean face losing everything when ice swallows their gear as Rip enters a pot cemetery.
The icy depths of the Bering Sea threaten to claim Sig and Wild Bill's gear unless they can move quickly enough to beat the rapidly freezing waters; Rip takes on a massive amount of extra quota, and if he can't catch it, he'll have to buy it.
As ice blocks St. Paul Harbor, captains race to deliver their final snow crab; Sig deploys a risky tactic his father pioneered; Jake battles a slack tank to save the Saga; Keith and John scuttle a plan as the Wizard's 77-year-old hull cracks open.
As the fleet experiences the riskiest rescue scenario in recent memory, the U.S. Coast Guard prepares for the dangers to come.
Sig devises a plan to save the fishery from destruction; as Johnathan Hillstrand returns with the Time Bandit to help, veterans struggle to prove they can work together to defend the American dream.
When Mandy devises a plan for partnering, Sig must rethink his own hard-won tactics; on the Time Bandit, John and Josh conspire to outmaneuver a Russian captain who tells them what to do in U.S. waters; all hell breaks loose as two vessels collide.
As hundreds of dolphins lead the Summer Bay into an approaching cyclone, Jake attempts a daring night-time rescue in high seas; Scott Campbell Jr. finds himself out of options, leaving Sig to make a controversial call to save the fishery.
Driving the Time Bandit and Cornelia Marie, Josh and Casey attempt Johnathan's strategy for tracking King Crab across time and space; on the Summer Bay, "Wild Bill's" crew fights a mid-gale power outage, but their greenhorn's time is running out.
As a typhoon rocks the Bering Sea, the Summer Bay suffers a collision. Sig gambles all his pots in one spot, while Casey takes a scientific approach to finding the elusive Bairdi crab.
Facing a global pandemic, the captains tie up half the fleet, leaving a handful of boats to catch the fleet-wide quota or face closure of the fishery.
Time Bandit and Cornelia Marie race for the last spot at the cannery, but as word spreads of an emergency shutdown of the Bairdi fishery, they return to the grounds as Sig Hansen rallies his fellow captains with an unconventional plan.
In the Winter premiere, the fleet reels from the loss of Summer Bay deck boss Nick McGlashan; Wizard and Cornelia launch early into a massive Arctic storm; Johnathan can't see eye-to-eye with a friend; shocking news forces Sig to change his plans.
When Johnathan trusts his instincts more than his partners, the Time Bandit makes a surprise appearance in the Northern Grounds just as Josh and Casey need him most; Sig puts his crew exactly where it needs to be in a matter of life and death.
As seawater floods in, Wild Bill's crew scrambles to locate a hole in the Summer Bay's hull; Johnathan faces a fire on the Time Bandit and a catastrophic hydraulic failure forces Jake to send his chief engineer 25 feet above the Saga's rolling deck.
As a polar vortex storm slams the Cornelia Marie in the far north, Josh navigates the biggest seas of his career while Casey performs emergency surgery.
Sig makes a desperate bid to save his gear from the descending ice pack while Jake dumps pots to avoid capsizing; when Wild Bill gets a line caught in his propeller far from Dutch Harbor, he enlists Jake's diver to attempt a risky underwater repair.
As the fast-moving ice edge crushes everything in its path, Sig and Mandy rush to rejoin the fray; on the Cornelia Marie, Josh and Casey's race to save their pots comes at a cost in blood and pain; freezing spray threatens to capsize the Wizard.
Skirting the ice line to the deepest set of their careers, Josh and Casey apply frontier medicine to a bleeding deck boss.
Jake risks a daring entry into St. Paul harbor; Johnathan seeks help from Wild Bill; Josh and Casey bet their season on a deep set at the Russian Line.
Captains scramble to meet an expanded quota in the path of a violent system; a breakdown on the Wizard puts Monte in debt to the Time Bandit, and Josh and Casey exceed their own quota when it comes to injuries on deck.
An Arctic storm blasts the fleet as Sig ventures to deep waters he hasn't fished in 17 years. Johnathan steers the Time Bandit into 30-foot waves in a hail Mary run toward Russia. Captain Keith attempts a risky maneuver to save the Wizard's pots.
Josh and Casey follow a blind tip from an unknown fisherman into uncharted waters; Johnathan fears for the worst when Freddy lands in the icy Bering Sea; on the Wizard, Capt. Keith tempts fate, risking thousands in crab gear right at the ice edge.
Jake battles a hurricane in the fleet's smallest boat while Keith orders crew over the rail to avoid capsizing.
"When processors shut down due to outbreaks, Sig bets he can zero in on a rare ""crab highway"" before there's no place to deliver. Josh and Casey race to deliver live crab after their pump fails, while Harley risks shipwreck to be first to enter St. Paul."
Keith risks pushing through jagged ice in search of the Wizard's lost pots; "Wild Bill" overturns the Summer Bay; a beloved crewman makes the ultimate sacrifice.
Sig Hansen's daughter, Mandy Hansen, tests him by pressuring him to cement her spot as heir to the Hansen family legacy.
A year after Russia set its sights on dominating the global crab market, a depleted U.S. crab fleet arrives in Dutch Harbor to an industry in crisis; facing a possible multiyear shutdown, the captains devise a plan to navigate turbulent seas ahead.
A dramatic change in the Russian crab industry rocks global markets and drives new competition between Dutch Harbor captains and their Russian adversaries; as crab prices skyrocket, legendary captains return to claim their piece of a historic payday.
Just as the fleet begins its race to beat the Russians, ferocious typhoon Hagibis turns its deadly gaze on the Bering Sea; captains must choose whether to risk life and limb for a big payday or to sit out the storm and fish another day.
Still reeling from deadly typhoon Hagibis, the fleet claws its way back into competition against the Russians; the pressure to make up ground has mounted and it's do-or-die for the captains, even if it means danger or even war.
With the Russian menace looming, co-captains Johnathan and Jake blast a shotgun at their problems while a vicious fistfight breaks out on the Seabrooke; Wild Bill blows an engine and Mandy bets on science to get back on crabs.
The Cornelia Marie uses US satellites to spy on the Russians, Scott pioneers a dormant fishery and Wild Bill faces off with a Russian greenhorn.
It's all hands on deck to finish king season strong; Johnathan goes under the knife at sea; Junior bets it all while chasing the elusive golden king crab; Wild Bill goes toe-to-toe with an unruly greenhorn.
Co-captains Jake and Johnathan try to form an alliance with rival Keith Colburn; Junior risks crossing into Russian waters for golden crab; Josh bets it all on a gut feeling; Wild Bill turns to his last resort and seeks work in Russia.
The Coast Guard responds to a Mayday call as captains and crew brace for the loss of friends during a brutal winter storm; Sig and Monte track an Opilio hoard at the Russian line; the clock is ticking for Wild Bill and Junior during the cod derby.
Facing a 500-mile wide Siberian storm, Josh takes a big risk to keep the Cornelia Marie crew safe; Junior loses control of his rudders putting his boat at the mercy of heavy seas; Jake's greenhorn problems get a lot worse when one clogs the toilet.
Listing heavily and taking on water, Junior calls on chase boat rescue for the first time in series history; Wild Bill sends Nick 20 feet off the deck in spite of his fear of heights; Josh and Casey hit a massive wave that knocks out greenhorn Maria.
On the Summer Bay there's hell to pay when Bill's backup block goes missing; Cornelia Marie skippers Josh and Casey navigate a tenuous partnership at the Russian line; weighed down by three full tanks, Sig puts a heavy Northwestern in Mandy's hands.
The Wizard catches fire in a violent storm known as a bomb cyclone; Josh and Casey attempt to fish in 30-foot seas; two rogue waves slam the Southern Wind; bringing himself to the brink of collapse, Wild Bill grinds his crew for 72 straight hours.
Mike Rowe digs deep into the action on the Bering Sea; Junior reveals how he rescued a lost pot and found a new species of crab; Vasilly defends his job on the Summer Bay; Johnathan admits for the first time who the better captain was, Sig or Phil.
As an injury knocks Sig out of his wheelhouse, Mandy takes the helm to face a disgruntled Northwestern crew; on the Wizard, damaged hydraulics and an umbilical hernia deal Keith a double gut punch; Josh and Casey suffer tragedy on the Cornelia Marie.
Jake scrambles to repair a slack tank before it kills his crab or capsizes his boat; Josh and Casey's rudder fails in heavy traffic; Wild Bill's new greenhorn makes an easy target for an out-of-control picking hook.
Josh and Casey race to haul pots as engine failure threatens their delivery window; as seawater destroys his hydraulic motors, Junior attempts a risky high seas delivery of three new motors; Harley and his crew bang heads over his fishing strategy.
Sig and Mandy conspire to get Jake to do their prospecting, but the former deckhand seizes the moment to fill his own tanks; the Wizard crew must break through ice to rush Keith to a doctor; Junior fears the worst as a deckhand falls from the stack.
A rare weather event churns up rogue waves as supermoon tides collide with a cyclonic snowstorm; Josh and Casey face a 55-foot monster; Jake risks capsizing to repair his rudder in unruly seas; Monte's big move north pays off in massive pots.
As the super snow-moon storm peaks, the Cornelia Marie's deck becomes a gauntlet for Josh and Casey's greenest greenhorn; ice fog overtakes the fleet as Monte scrambles to stay afloat; Harley loses an engine and Junior fights a sea-flea infestation.
As the fleet mounts a final winter season push, sad news rattles the Cornelia Marie wheelhouse; Lady Alaska greenhorn Gabby overcomes a painful injury to support her crew; Wild Bill's deckhands must devise a bush fix or face hauling pots by hand.
Saga loses a veteran deckhand, forcing Jake to steam a greenhorn army to the Russian line; amid scuttlebutt that ports are closing due to a virus, Josh fights to get home for a reunion with his brother; paramedics rush Sig's daughter to the hospital.
The Cornelia crew fights to save its gear from sea ice; Jake risks the far north to fill his tanks before his son's birth; amid news of a looming pandemic, Russian boats mysteriously disappear and captains race to dock before crab prices crash.
After violent weather plays a roll in the sinking of the famed Bering Sea fishing vessel Scandies Rose, Deadliest Catch captains take a look at the recent tragedy, the Bering Sea's destructive power & what it takes to survive the world's deadliest job.
Mike Rowe offers a personal view into the lives of the crabbers with one-on-one interviews with the captains of "Deadliest Catch."
Unexpected change in the Russian fishing industry shocks global crab markets; with the highest prices going to the first boats to the dock, the US fleet confronts a turbulent past in preparation for competition and a new Cold War on the Bering Sea.
Mike Rowe connects with captains and crew about survival on and off the crab grounds; Johnathan and Jake give an inside account of running aground; Keith and Junior debate right of way on the high seas; Josh and Casey introduce new deckhand, Maria.
Mike Rowe calls on the captains to break down a deck feud on the Seabrook, describe how Phil Harris' legacy still impacts fishermen across the country and explain why Hillstrand Yoga just isn't for everyone.
Mike Rowe digs deep into the action on the Bering Sea. Junior reveals how he rescued a lost pot and found a new species of crab. Vasilly defends his job on the Summer Bay. Johnathan admits for the first time who the better captain was, Sig or Phil.
Mike Rowe reveals exclusive content and breaking news on the Bering Sea. Josh and Casey look to the future of Bloodline, Jake and Sig go head to head and Junior has a big announcement.
Capt. Wild Bill heads to Russia as captain-for-hire; as an opilio biomass concentrates along the Russian line, the Dutch Harbor fleet must prepare for a winter season far to the north where ice and waves are most severe and rescue is out of range.
The captains grapple with the loss of their friends on the Scandies Rose; Junior narrowly escapes disaster; Johnathan speaks out about the Time Bandit.
As the fleet faces closure of the fishery, Sig lures legendary captain Johnathan Hillstrand out of retirement; firing up his legendary vessel, FV Time Bandit, the old pirate assembles a veteran crew to return to the Bering Sea.
After violent weather plays a roll in the sinking of the famed Bering Sea fishing vessel Scandies Rose, the captains take a look at the tragedy, the Bering Sea's destructive power and what it takes to survive the world's deadliest job.
Hours before king crab season, a renegade captain discovers the crab are all in one spot; as the fleet races to find the quarter billion-dollar hoard, captains battle each other and the sea to claim their share of the bounty.
Atop the king crab super swarm, full pots boil over into conflict as young guns Sean and Jake join forces to set down Sig; Keith and Harley re-ignite a decades old rivalry; Sean faces the long arm of Alaska law when crab in his tank come up short.
As the first arctic storm of the season arrives, Saga's deck boss takes a knife to the ribs; a hand gets tangled in the coiler and interrupts Josh and Casey's record-setting haul; Capt. Bill takes one last stab at motivating a lazy greenhorn.
With Mandy alone at the helm, a freak accident threatens the Northwestern crew; Josh changes course on the Cornelia while Casey sleeps; Harley's launcher snaps at the worst possible moment; a short circuit cuts power to the Wizard's forward lights.
In the biggest storm of the season, Jake faces a life and death decision when a shifting stack threatens to capsize the Saga; Sig and Mandy haul through angry seas, while Josh and Casey gamble on quota but find there's more on the line than numbers.
The Bering Sea takes a brutal toll on captains and crew. Wild Bill calls the Cornelia for help. Jake confronts a disorderly crew, forcing his toughest decision yet as captain.
The coldest weather in nearly a decade threatens to crush hulls and freeze the sea; Monte must fill his tanks fast to get home to his ailing father, while a shocking mishap leaves a Hansen family member clinging to life.
The coldest weather in nearly a decade threatens to crush hulls and freeze the sea. Monte must fill his tanks fast to get home to his ailing father, while a shocking mishap leaves a Hansen family member grasping for life.
Monte must fill his tanks fast to get home to his ailing father, while a shocking mishap leaves a Hansen family member grasping for life.
Josh and Casey haul their all-time biggest pots, starting a rush to the Russian line; Capt. Bill gets inside intelligence, while Harley confirms numbers his own way; Arctic Storm Elsa builds in fury, casting a deadly spell over the fleet.
The wrath of Arctic Storm Elsa hits the Cornelia hardest as a breakaway pot thrashes Josh and Casey's crew; Capt. Keith orders deckhands onto the stack as Elsa's icy blasts threaten to capsize the Wizard; the Saga takes a rogue wave.
As arctic super-storm Elsa intensifies, a forecast warns of isolated waves of unusual size; trapped in the crab-rich northern grounds, the Cornelia Marie, Wizard and Southern Wind haul pots as big as the waves, until one boat faces a 60-foot monster.
In storm-driven seas, Cornelia Marie's crane goes off the rails, smashing Josh and Casey's wheelhouse and injuring deckhand Taylor; Sig risks navigating a rocky passage in treacherous conditions, and the Wizard crew face a rogue wave without warning.
The fleet battles a freight train of back-to-back storms; Sig's crew pays a price for stuffed pots; Harley risks gear on an elusive hoard under the ice; Freddy attempts self-surgery on the Wizard; the Summer Bay crew gets news on Nick's future.
Monte returns to co-captain the Wizard just as storms slam the fleet from the south; Jake battles the risk of hauling pots in 30-foot seas to return to his family; Wild Bill drives farther north into the icy Arctic than any other boat.
As crabs become elusive, veterans Sig Hansen and Harley Davidson form an unlikely alliance, but trust doesn't come easy to old-school captains; Freddy pays a price for Keith's decision to haul in intense seas; Jake tempts fate to become a boat owner.
As smoke fills the Wizard, the Colburns face a dark ship nightmare; towering breakers shatter Jake's anchor forcing him to fight to avoid the rocks of St. Paul Island; battered by relentless seas, Sig turns to family to fill the Northwestern's tanks.
The bone-breaking winter unleashes its fury on the Summer Bay; a rookie mistake leaves Capt. Bill short a hand; Jake hits the jackpot at sea but forces on land cost him dearly; Sean discovers the fatal flaw in his crab count.
Each skipper's next move determines who survives the final winter dash; winds put the Wizard on a collision course with a monster; Jake taps a Hillstrand to save the Saga; Josh and Casey hit numbers not seen since Capt. Phil.
With just 10 pots to go, a crushing injury requires a Coast Guard rescue; Josh and Casey face a huge loss when the buyer cancels their offload; Sig rolls the dice on an early finish, while Monte hauls more crab than the Wizard can hold.
The captains return to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, days before the opening of king crab season; as they prepare their boats and their crews to battle the Bering Sea, they must also face each other to settle unfinished business from the past season.
Chaos surrounds Capt. Sean Dwyer from birth, the sea claims a family's crab boat and his father passes away too soon; Capt. Sean turns tragedy into triumph, transforming the family business into a fishing empire.
Master fishermen meet the science of polygraph.
Greenhorns arrive each season looking to pocket thousands of dollars for a few week's work; a clinical psychologist joins the captains to discuss the best way to train new crew members, comparing tough love to new-school methods.
Just miles from the fleet, the fishing vessel Destination disappears without a trace; an unprecedented investigation can finally solve the mystery; the captains must make big changes or risk sailing into the same peril on the Bering Sea.
Sig and Jake have a massive falling out, leading to new strategies and new alliances; Josh Harris returns to captain his father's boat; Sean plays dirty, but Wild Bill shows him he's messing with the wrong captain.
The Bering Sea draws first blood in daring Coast Guard rescue; Jake strives to become an independent captain, and Keith offers to take him on as an apprentice; accusations fly and suspicions grow as the captains plunge head first into a brutal start.
Sean and Casey forge an alliance, but the first catch threatens the tenuous agreement; Wild Bill takes a big risk on a new idea hoping it will make up for a bumpy start; a dangerous mistake jeopardizes Jake's offload.
Sig embarks on a daring midnight mission to shake his rivals; the Cornelia Marie pays the price for a rotten alliance, and an injured deckhand could force the boat in early; Keith gets big news from his doctor on a mystery illness.
As a flooding collision void threatens to sink him, Keith fights to keep the Wizard afloat; a missing boat part leaves Jake stranded at sea; Sig gets ready to pass the torch to Edgar, but brotherly tension arises when he can't give up the reins.
A massive arctic hurricane shocks the fleet with high winds and big waves; an unstable stack threatens to capsize the Saga; as the captains rush to pull and set pots before harbor, Wild Bill risks driving straight into the storm to snatch his quota.
Jake makes a devil's bargain, huge crab for hidden perils, until his boat is on the line; Sig serves cold justice at sea; Wild Bill chases a King Crab jackpot; the Cornelia Marie crew learns that the wheelhouse always wins.
On the brink of failure, Josh Harris discovers secret fishing grounds in his late father's logbooks; a deck mishap could end Jake's season; the Coast Guard braves pitching seas in an attempt to hoist an injured sailor from inside a ship's tank.
Circumstances force Keith to hand over the Wizard; Josh fights for the helm despite a bad showing; major engine trouble threatens Wild Bill's season.
A blackout leaves the Saga close to disaster in unfamiliar waters; unwilling to partner, Josh must fill his quota single-handedly; Keith makes an offer only a captain could refuse.
Winter unleashes 40-knot winds and 20-foot waves; as accidents plague crews, the Bering Sea singles out one greenhorn for punishment; strategy is critical with the crabs on the move; the Wizard co-captains reach a breaking point.
It's baptism by fire aboard the Northwestern as Mandy takes her first shift in heavy seas; a Wizard crewman isn't pulling his weight; caught short on bait gear and battered by high seas, Wild Bill changes his strategy.
A 150-year super-moon storm wreaks havoc on tides, churning undersea currents that rip pots off their lines; the Coast Guard attempts a rescue mission in the heart of the storm, while Wild Bill faces his worst nightmare as a greenhorn goes overboard.
A greenhorn's life hangs in the balance as the Summer Bay crew scrambles to rescue one of their own from the Bering Sea's icy grip; Saga and Cornelia Marie battle colossal waves; Mandy tackles her first haul in extreme weather.
Sig pushes Mandy to invade the Cornelia Marie's ground, sparking a battle; Casey takes extreme measures to defend his turf; a Saga distress signal sends panic across the fleet.
A severe arctic gale batters the fleet, forcing captains to fight extreme wind and waves; for the second time, a greenhorn's life hangs in the balance on the Summer Bay; the Saga crew seeks shelter at St. Paul, where tidal forces snap Jake's anchor.
As rogue waves threaten to capsize their boats, Jake and Sean must make life-or-death decisions for their crews on deck; Wild Bill faces a choice that could end his career: Keith returns to the Wizard and puts an unexpected end to his brother's rule.
Captains take on the steepest waves yet in an epic final surge to hit their quotas; Jake fights through a debilitating crew injury on deck; Josh gambles big on his crab count; engine failure leaves Sig dead in the water.
With scars still fresh from a harrowing season on the Bering Sea and battered by a super-moon storm, the captains reveal the most critical decisions they've made and how those choices and actions made them the captains they are today.
Against all odds, Jake Anderson fights his way back from addiction to become a captain; now, he has just two weeks to pull off another miracle, reviving his battered boat in the shipyard.
The Bering Sea Triangle evokes fear in captains and crewmen alike; experts and crabbers explore the mystery surrounding a small triangle in Alaskan waters where boats vanish without a trace, never having made mayday calls.
The fleet struggles as crabs vanish; Capt. Sig resumes the helm after a major heart attack; Wild Bill debuts his own brand new boat in a crisis season; attempting to rescue a heart attack victim.
The fall season begins with uncertainty; a seismic shift in sea temperature sends the fleet searching for displaced crab, while also fighting a large first storm.
Rising sea temperatures test the fleet; toxic smoke engulfs the Saga; Sean struggles to save the family business on the Brenna A; Wild Bill fears he could lose Nick to a terminal illness.
Wild Bill uncovers the truth about Nick McGlashan's terminal illness; a damaging mechanical issue threatens to crush Jake's future; warming seas force Keith into the unknown.
Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand fish together for the last time; Keith's inattentive crew sends the Wizard on a collision course; a belligerent deckhand tests Jake's resolve as captain.
A massive leak fills the Time Bandit; a fistfight tests Jake's resolve while heavy winds and a snapped anchor threaten to wreck his boat; Sig's greenhorn has an awkward question.
A big decision weighs on Sig Hansen; rookie captain Sean Dwyer gambles on a new venture with a new crew; Jake Anderson struggles to replace a lost anchor before authorities take away his quota.
Wild Bill struggles to pilot his new boat in big seas; Johnathan faces off with a massive swell in the perilous False Pass.
Competition doubles when authorities cut the quota in half; three captains arrive early for the winter season; Johnathan plots a dangerous 600-mile course to Russia.
Sig returns; Keith and son struggle to prove themselves; Wild Bill gives Nick McGlashan a second chance; Jake lets go of a friend.
The first of multiple back-to-back hurricanes descend on the fleet; spotty fishing and mutiny converge to create the perfect storm.
An Arctic mega-storm rocks the fleet; Sig plays cat-and-mouse with towering waves; Keith watches an 800-pound crab pot launch into a deckhand; Wild Bill fights for a comeback.
Sig's stress takes a toll; Sean tries to dock in a hurricane; rough conditions render Keith's boat dead-stick in massive seas.; Jake motivates a defiant hand; Johnathan rolls the dice by Russia.
Sig, Johnathan and Jake attempt to run from a second arctic hurricane, but Keith refuses to heed the warnings; Stress-induced chest pains threaten the remainder of Sig's season.
After suffering chest pains, Sig awaits news in the hospital; Wild Bill struggles to stay out of harm's way while also handling dissension on deck; Sean lays down the law with Zack.
Sean sets a collision course with another boat, two deckhands fall on the Wizard, and Jake almost loses a deckhand.
Two old friends race to finish their seasons, but one hopes to cap a storied career; Johnathan Hillstrand wants to bid farewell in a blaze of glory.
The U.S. Coast Guard scours the Bering Sea for a missing crab vessel while the fleet anxiously waits to discover the fate of its six-man crew; after a plea from his wife, Sig contemplates an early exit.
A look at the career of John Hillstrand, an elite fisherman, brawler and prankster, as he prepares to retire after a storied 37 years.
A new addition, 23-year-old Sean Dwyer, is fighting for the legacy of his lost father; the Time Bandit squares off with the law; Captain Keith's life spirals; Sig torments his former protégé.
Captain Sean Dwyer and his crew prepare for their first crab season aboard the Brenna A; Jake Anderson fears he made a big mistake; "Wild Bill" handles a challenging deckhand; Keith gets support from Johnathan Hillstrand.
Capt. Keith Colburn turns his last fifty dollars into a million-dollar empire, growing the Wizard into one of the fiercest vessels in the fleet.
Wild Bill risks his biggest lead in history to save Josh Harris from trouble;Sean Dwyer finds out if he has what it takes; Veteran skipper Johnathan Hillstrand leans on others to turn his season around.
Josh Harris takes over the Cornelia Marie; Sean Dwyer faces the angry sea; a crisis brings the greenhorns on the Cape Caution to attention; weather, mechanical failures and inexperienced crews create difficulties across the fleet.
The fleet faces the season's worst storm yet; skipper Sean Dwyer must choose between a friend and the crab; "Wild Bill" questions his son's worth; injuries rise and one deckhand reveals a painful secret.
The Northwestern, helmed by Captain Edgar Hansen, nears the brink of mutiny; the Saga is at risk from drunk deckhands; Captain Jonathan gambles big; Freddie Maugatai honors his skipper to the extreme.
Hurricane-force winds and monster seas lash against the fleet; captains must decide just how much their boats and crews can handle.
Winter crab season arrives with the year's biggest storm; every captain must choose whether to risk heading out into the storm or stay back.
In the final throes of the season's first arctic storm, captains and crews battle for survival; while veterans fight the weather, rookie skipper Sean Dwyer stands fast, waiting out the storm, making his first trip of the year during blue skies.
Keith and Johnathan test the boundaries of partner fishing; Captain Jake struggles with a problematic deckhand; Zack must step up when Wild Bill gives him a shot at the helm.
An unruly deckhand forces captain Sean Dwyer to enforce his dad's law; Josh and Casey square off; Sig grinds his crew; Keith struggles with greenhorns.
The Northwestern catches fire days away from land; a family emergency forces Johnathan to make a desperate move on the Time Bandit; Circumstances test Josh Harris' judgment.
Captain Sig and crew fight for their lives against an engine room fire; faulty hydraulics and a flying 800-pound pot create a deadly situation on the deck of the Saga.
Shedding blood on the Time Bandit; a fight breaks out on the Wizard; the Northwestern grapples with a burnt-out boat; a lost bet leads to cod guts on the Brenna A.
A rogue wave forces Zack to make a life-or-death decision; Josh bets on a Bering Sea myth against his co-captain and crew; giant seas roll Sean Dwyer; Sig turns to daughter Mandy for help.
Intense weather and more damage to his battered boat take a toll on Sig's heart; the USCG attempts a dangerous medevac; Bill struggles with a water leak; Jake recruits an old friend.
Sig fights to survive a massive heart attack; Bill learns a dark secret about his son; Josh fights to prove himself; Jake learns a valuable lesson; Jonathan appeals to the gods.
After having a massive heart attack, Sig Hansen has to face serious decisions about his future; he works to fix his body and his boat and examines his stress-filled career and lifestyle.
The captains open up about the triumphs, betrayals, grand theft, and how Super Typhoon Nuri rocked the fleet.
A 12-million pound Bairdi quota increase sparks a fishing frenzy; thieves steal a boat on the eve of a launch; fishermen form an alliance.
The fleet goes into a fishing frenzy for additional millions; the Time Bandit and Wizard bury the hatchet; Josh learns a difficult lesson.
Huge waves test Josh's mettle; a mutinous crew faces off against Captain Keith on the Wizard; Sig gets a surprise.
With Super-Typhoon Nuri closing in, the captains make hard choices to save the seasons; the Northwestern charges into the storm, Cape Caution retreats, and the Wizard gets a replacement deckhand.
The typhoon engulfs the fishing grounds; the crisis exposes Josh's weaknesses; Captain Sig loses control of the Northwestern; Elliott steps down.
With a higher king crab quota than any other captain, Elliott Neese bids farewell; Jake Anderson struggles to fill Edgar's shoes.
Jake gets a Whiplash-style captaining lesson from Sig; a prank threatens Captain Johnathan's catch on the Time Bandit; Josh must hit below the belt.
King Crab season draws to a close; Casey forces Josh to fish at full throttle on the Cornelia Marie; Jake takes another turn at the wheel on the Northwestern; Wild Bill turns up the heat on the Coast Guard.
An unhinged deckhand disturbs Christmas at sea for the Time Bandit by terrorizing the crew; Jake Anderson awaits the birth of his baby, when an unexpected phone call throws a wrench in the plan.
Three boats hit the grounds early; Johnathan struggles with a rogue deckhand; Jake prepares for the birth of his baby; an explosion causes doubt about Zack's dedication.
A storm move in on the fleet; a wave rips steel and timber on the Cape Caution; the crew of the Wizard races to plug a leak; the Saga is nearly capsized.
A second storm slams the fleet; Jake reaches out to Sig Hansen for help; Josh arrives late; Keith and Wild Bill try to stay in the game.
The fleet battles mental and physical breakdowns late in the season; Captain Jake Anderson gets a shot at redemption; Keith props up ailing greenhorns.
The crew of the Cornelia Marie hatches a plan to watch the Seattle Seahawks play in the Super Bowl; an injured crewman jeopardizes Keith's plan; the Cape Caution crew makes a near-fatal error.
The polar ice pack descends, threatening the season; Jake leads his crew in bad conditions; Sig tries to offload his crab; Keith grinds to the finish.
When polar ice descends, the skippers must choose to stay or flee; the Saga is in danger of sinking; Josh takes a huge gamble; Sig and Johnathan race to rescue gear.
Stories about how the F/V Northwestern came to be, and the relationships between the Hansen boys and their father.
The fleet is behind schedule following the shut down and an arctic storm; a Coast Guard airlift must abort in high winds.
Severe weather hits the fleet.; captains try to stay on course in spite of malfunctions and bad fishing.
The King fleet heads toward the finish line; the Wizard's strategy wavers on the wrong side of the law.
Crews prepare to go to the Bairdi grounds; a sinking ship sends a call for help; Bill's greenhorn looks for an escape; Edgar takes a big risk.
Fishing stops as one captain enters the hospital and another goes on a bender; a boat goes dark.
One captain faces the possible end of a career; a captain prepares to check into rehab; the Coast Guard loses one of their own.
The fabled Cornelia Marie returns with Josh Harris at the helm; 18-year-old Mandy Hansen attempts to convince her father to take her fishing.
A brutal storm on the Bering Sea causes injuries on the Cape Caution; Capt. Sig fights to keep fire from the Northwestern; Keith battles with ice.
Sig welcomes a daughter; a major hydraulic leak on the Time Bandit causes problems in the engine room.
The Opilio season carries on; Sig puts Mandy at the helm; Josh tries to quash a rebellion; Elliott's new girlfriend arrives; Zack feels the wrath of Wild Bill.
The Cornelia Marie battles 20-foot breakers in St. Paul; the Time Bandit has a blown prop causing problems between the Hillstrands.
Sig orders a classic Northwestern grind; Mandy learns the true meaning of being a greenhorn; Captain Andy faces a difficult decision.
Crews struggle to keep their cool; a saboteur wants to end the season early for the Cape Caution; Josh and Casey fight to control the crew; a long lost Hillstrand returns.
An arctic hurricane strikes the fleet in the Season 10 finale.
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Every ship in the fleet hopes to make a comeback, but it won't be easy for any of them.
Keith and Junior form a secret alliance; the Northwestern crew faces a surprise challenge; Elliot debuts his new boat.
Competition leads to more deceit with the captains; injuries plague the fleet; Junior's betrayal comes back to haunt him.
A showdown between Saga and Seabrooke; Captain Sig must make a tough decision; the Time Bandit has a close call.
Change is in the air and on the Bering Sea; everyone is on the hunt for the blue crab.
Tempers flare on the Saga and Seabrooke; the Northwestern, a fistfight occurs.
Fishermen make life-changing decisions as the King Crab season ends.
The Opilio season begins with chaos; an accident on the Time Bandit; Jake gets a not-so-warm welcome on his new boat.
Two weeks into the season and a category 4 storm hits the fleet.
The fleet battles an arctic storm; Junior takes a risk; two greenhorns struggle to fit in; Elliott's problems on land continue.
One of the hardest Opillio seasons on record; catastrophic breakdowns for crew members.
Midway through the season the Bering sea takes its toll; a polar icepack descends onto the fishing grounds.
Three weeks left in the Opilio season and the fleets prepare for their final push.
Deckhands on the Wizard are unable to lasso a walrus carcass, Freddy takes matters into his own hands.
The captains struggle to come to grips with a slashed crab quota; the skippers each face tough decisions.
The boats jockey for position on the Blue grounds; a returning veteran quickly proves his worth on the Red grounds.
The Bering sea exposes weak links in each crew; the Time Bandit bids farewell to a crewmate.
The exhausted crews dig deep to get over the mid-season hump; the skippers give their young deck hands an ultimatum.
The exhausted crews dig deep to get over the mid-season hump; a brutal season takes its toll on both men and machines.
The crew of The Wizard faces a deadly situation; the harsh Bering Sea continues to take its toll.
Wizard crew members call in the Coast Guard to help with their collapsed greenhorn; the fleet races to haul in crab before a hurricane strikes.
The fleet struggles to reach the finish line in the aftermath of the arctic hurricane.
With winter's arrival the fleet prepares for the Opilio crab season.
With the fleet struggling through the strong northerly winds, every skipper braces himself for combat with the descending polar ice pack; when the temperature drops on the grounds, tempers rise on deck.
The captains face a losing battle against the descending polar ice pack; the Northwestern and Wizard struggle to escape St. Paul harbor.
The ice pack maintains its chokehold on the opilio grounds; each captain has to decide whether to stay or run from the ice.
The ice begins to recede making it possible for some of the boats to return to their fishing grounds; a greenhorn learns a deadly lesson.
Two brothers find themselves facing the same situation that previously sunk their father's boat; the fleet returns to an icy Bering Sea.
The opilio season comes to a close; a veteran deckhand pays dearly for a mistake.
Crab fishing is high stakes poker. The captains discuss their strategies for dealing with the red crab quota and the brutal ice. Elliot and Junior settle their wager. Keith comes face to face with his most disgruntled Greenhorn yet.
Fresh blood join the crab fleet as the 2010 crab season begins; new skippers are Scott Campbell Jr. on the Seabrooke and Elliot Neese on the Ramblin' Rose.
Jake learns a sink-or-swim lesson on driving; the line catches a crew member.
A Kodiak crew member is bedridden after an injury; a greenhorn has a breakdown; Cornelia Marie deals with a storm.
Crew members nearly come to blows on the Northwestern when a deckhand on the Wizard falls asleep at the wheel; it sends the boat hurtling towards a fleet of nearby vessels.
A disturbance on the Cornelia Marie prompts a call to the police; a deckhand on the Kodiak receives a career ending injury; a rookie skipper on the Ramblin' Rose has a change of heart following an injury.
An intense arctic storm rings in the close of the king crab season; the crew of the Time Bandit pulls off a spectacular prank.
The Opilio season begins with massive changes; Edgar bids farewell to the Northwestern; the Cornelia Marie gets a new captain; a large arctic storm shuts down the entire fleet.
The fleet battles a devastating arctic hurricane as the focus shifts from fishing to survival; the captains consider drastic measures as the ice and injuries pile up.
As a winter storm rages the Ramblin' Rose makes an all-or-nothing gamble; the Time Bandit runs into trouble at the dock.
A loose pot causes havoc on the Kodiak; a Seabrooke crewman is nearly crushed by ice; the new skipper of the Cornelia Marie courts mutiny.
On the Cornelia Marie, a deckhand and the captain clash over the lack of bait; skipper Elliott Neese tries to fix a potential season-ending breakdown.
Offloading crab in the treacherous waters off St. Paul island proves a daunting task; a harbor surge snaps lines on the Wizard; the Seabrooke loses a greenhorn.
As the Opilio season winds down exhaustion causes tempers to boil over on the Time Bandit; the skippers of the Seabrooke and the Cornelia Marie both suffer debilitating injuries.
The Seabrooke captain fights a painful illness; the Cornelia Marie returns from what could be its final season.
The 2009 king crab season begins with tensions running high; a capitan cross a line when the captains gather for their annual meeting.
A storm looms as the fleet catches its first haul of crabs; a greenhorn gets cramps after just a few pots; captains test two junior deckhands on unfamiliar boats.; veterans try a skipper's patience.
Phil and Sig's experiment in trading junior deckhands comes to a close on the third week of hunting King crab.
Captain Sig and Captain Phil try to retrieve their junior deckhands with a high seas transfer but there is a sudden change of plans when treacherous tides hit.
A storm stands between the Time Bandit and its final offload; the Northwestern heads into arctic seas in search of an elusive crab.
The Cornelia Marie runs aground leaving Skipper Phil to face another massive repair; a huge ice storm forces the skippers to dump icy pots or capsize.
The entire fleet is in pain after days of ice bashing; the Northwestern's crew struggles to keep up with Capt. Sig's pace.
The crew of the Time Bandit finds itself in emergency mode with a starboard list; someone called the Coast Guard because of a man having a heart attack.
A Coast Guard helicopter attempts a dangerous rescue; the Cornelia Marie's skipper's son reveals a dark secret.
Cap. Jonathan leaves the Time Bandit for warmer waters; the Cornelia Marie's skipper pays a heavy price for his hard living ways.
Coast Guard helicopters airlift Skipper Phil Harris to a hospital in Anchorage; Andy trains a young deckhand to be a relief skipper.
The crews turn on each other as the fleet struggles through the mid-season grind; Skipper Phil battles for his life.
The Time Bandit's deck disintegrates as Mike and Scott fight for the captain's chair; Edgar Hansen trains his greenest deckhand on the hydros; Phil Harris battles for his life.
Captain Phil loses his battle for life; the boats face the biggest storm of the season; Josh Harris breaks the news about his father to the fleet.
Edgar Hansen confronts older brother Sig, fed up with the 22-year marathon of pain; Josh Harris returns to the Cornelia Marie; the Opilio season ends.
Life-threatening illnesses could sideline skippers Keith and Phil, and the boats are in debt due to summer repairs.
A storm kicks up and a mayday goes out for the crew of 11 fishermen.
Grueling hours and vicious hazing test the greenhorns, and some start to crack.
Empty pots, low bait and long grinds create tension between the skippers and their crews.
An upcoming drop in price for king crab has the skippers rushing to finish their season.
The crews scramble to fill their quotas before the end of king crab season.
When the start of the 2009 opilio crab season begins, the skippers have their eye on the oncoming ice pack, but a 40-foot wave catches them off guard.
The fleet struggles with ice, big seas and bad information; a skipper regrets sending his men out in savage weather.
Long hours and miserable conditions already have the fishermen turning on each other; ice stands between one skipper and the safety of harbor.
As the skippers race to St. Paul Harbor to offload their crab, the arctic ice pack stands in their way.
Frozen crabs, frozen gear and a frozen harbor chill the hearts of the most resilient of fishermen; each skipper faces his own personal dilemma.
The chase is on when the fleet gets word of great fishing by the ice pack.
Weeks into the Opilio Season, the fleet is tired and desperate for home; for one fisherman, a tragedy on land causes heartbreak at sea.
Multiple maydays go out during a massive arctic storm.
Multiple vessels send out maydays as a savage storm causes chaos; the Coast Guard races against the clock to save four men before their ship hits jagged rocks.
The Time Bandit pulls a prank; after only 48 hours, one Wizard greenhorn starts to fall apart.
A mechanical breakdown causes the Northwestern's Edgar to make a dangerous repair; Sig loses his temper over questionable counting; Phil's poor health affects the crew on the Cornelia Marie.
Sig and Edgar have a last-man-standing contest to see who can fish longer without sleeping; a brush with death.
Tempers flare aboard the Wizard and the Northwestern; the Time Bandit has an electrical short; Phil's health continues to deteriorate on the Cornelia Marie.
With a few weeks left in king crab season, the fate of every deckhand's paycheck sits squarely on his captain's shoulders.
The Cornelia Marie may lose its captain for good; crew mistakes aboard the Northwestern could be costly.
A deck accident slows down the Northwestern; the Cornelia Marie experiences a power outage; the North American does a "Hail Mary" play.
A dual storm system hampers the beginning of opilio crab season.
A routine Coast Guard rescue becomes a battle against nature; the Cornelia Marie heads to land for repairs; fatigue is causing mistakes on the Northwestern.
Johnathan joins the deck crew on the Time Bandit and promptly gets injured; the Northwestern crew irritates Sig; the North American greenhorn is hazed.
Storm waves tear up the decks of the Early Dawn, North American and Northwestern; on the Cornelia Marie, Phil injures his ribs.
Murray struggles to take over the Cornelia Maria; the Northwestern strains its crane, destabilizing the ship; Wizard springs a leak; greenhorn Moi gets the ax.
The Northwestern fights the ice pack; the Wizard sets off with tempers flaring and a new greenhorn; Phil's future on the Cornelia Marie is questionable.
The Arctic ice pack descends as the fleet makes its final push.
Battling ice and equipment issues, the captains race to catch the last of their remaining quotas.
An emergency distress signal, sounds throughout the fishing fleet; eighty-one fishing vessels return to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to start the 2006 red king crab season.
After a fishing boat sinks, the fleet works with the Coast Guard to find survivors.
A deckhand on the Wizard receives a severe injury, while one on the Northwestern fears jail time.
Halfway through the season, equipment failures and fatigue start to take their toll.
The ships return to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, after the king crab season.
The opilio crab season begins, and several greenhorns experience the Bering Sea for the first time.
The crew takes cover just before the Time Bandit takes a direct wave hit.
Busted buoys, broken pots and a blown engine put the Northwestern more than a week behind schedule.
Greenhorns are put to the test as the harsh winter weather deteriorates.
The promise of a great catch outweighs the risks the opilio crab fishing vessels face.
Some greenhorns succeed in their quests to become Bering Sea crab fishermen, while others won't be coming back; the tally is in for the 2007 Opilio crab season, and a winner is declared.
A massive storm system approaches Dutch Harbor as the fleet prepares to head out for the opening of king crab season.
The king crab fishermen must decide whether to continue fishing or to avoid an approaching storm.
The fleet continues their quest for crab during one of the worst storms in years.
A rogue wave stalls the engines and navigational equipment of a ship during its last run.
The crews return to prepare their boats for the opilio crab fishing season.
An Arctic storm continues as the Time Bandit pushes on with limited bait, and the Maverick drops its pots to avoid rolling over.
Bad crab and long days fray nerves and cause fights on the Maverick and Rollo.
The Time Bandit finds its ice pack, and the Rollo fishes through stormy weather.
Freezing weather and severe icing cause an injury on the Cornelia Marie; the Time Bandit navigates the ice pack; the Maverick crew tries to fix a shattered stiff-arm.
The Rollo and Maverick race back to the crab grounds after a heavy offload on St. Paul Island.
The end of the season approaches, and the fleet pushes the fishing into overdrive.
Fishermen converge on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for the beginning of the king crab season.
The fishermen anxiously await the captain's call to begin fishing.
Crews rush to get as much crab in the holding tank as possible with only a half day left in the season.
More than 170 boats prepare to leave Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for the start of opilio crab season.
The 2005 opilio crab season gets off to a rough start when the Big Valley sinks.
The fleet has high hopes for a successful opilio crab season.
Unseasonably warm weather and calm seas contribute to record catches for the fleet.
Rumors of a possible closure to the season push the men to work harder.
Captains compete for the best spot in line to offload.