The BEST episodes of Deadliest Catch season 20

Every episode of Deadliest Catch season 20, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Deadliest Catch season 20!

Forty-foot waves, 700 pound crab pots, freezing temperatures and your mortality staring you in the face…it's all in a day's work for these modern day prospectors. During each episode we will watch crews race to meet their quota and make it home safely.

Last Updated: 12/9/2024Network: DiscoveryStatus: Continuing
My Brother's Keeper
star
8.08
72 votes

#1 - My Brother's Keeper

Season 20 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/1/2024

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 in perilous conditions.

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Anchors Away
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7.96
73 votes

#2 - Anchors Away

Season 20 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/17/2024

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. Rick starts to turn his season around, only to lose a greenhorn to a gruesome injury.

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star
7.92
62 votes

#3 - Nothin' but Mammals

Season 20 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/22/2024

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, and John doubles down on sea mammals, this time, orcas.

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King Crab Derby
star
7.87
78 votes

#4 - King Crab Derby

Season 20 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/11/2024

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. A fire on the Wizard traps Keith's deckhand below deck. Wild Bill faces his hardest test yet.

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A Bridge Too Far
star
7.83
75 votes

#5 - A Bridge Too Far

Season 20 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/24/2024

Sig gets blown off course when an Arctic storm strikes the Northwestern on its opening set of Golden King. Jake faces the devastating loss of his longtime engineer. Monte takes the wheel of the Wizard when Keith inexplicably collapses in the wheelhouse.

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Out Cold
star
7.80
66 votes

#6 - Out Cold

Season 20 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/8/2024

As Keith fights for his life at Anchorage General, Sig helps his brother Monte to get back on the crab. Aboard the Titan Explorer, Jake's deckhand is knocked out by 900 pounds of swinging steel. Rick's new engineer crosses a line he can't come back from.

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Graveyard for the Lost
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7.80
70 votes

#7 - Graveyard for the Lost

Season 20 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/15/2024

John risks capsizing after being forced to fish with a slack tank. Jake hauls in the largest seas of his career. 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.

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The Purpose of Porpoises
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7.79
72 votes

#8 - The Purpose of Porpoises

Season 20 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/23/2024

On the Northwestern, 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.

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Bering Sea Gut Check
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7.74
78 votes

#9 - Bering Sea Gut Check

Season 20 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/18/2024

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, while Sophia "Bob" Nielsen attempts to pop in a deckhand's dislocated hip to avoid a steam back to town.

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Merciless Seas
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7.72
68 votes

#10 - Merciless Seas

Season 20 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/10/2024

As wintry 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.

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Under the Gun
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7.71
66 votes

#11 - Under the Gun

Season 20 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/20/2024

With the clock ticking on the fall season, Sig devises a clever 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.

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Blow the Man Down
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7.69
72 votes

#12 - Blow the Man Down

Season 20 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/27/2024

Mother Nature blows back as the four remaining captains battle to tank their fall quotas. Landon prays for deliverance on his first solo mission, while Sig persists in fishing in 20-foot seas. Ferocious tides risk washing a Time Bandit crewman overboard.

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Twice Bitten, Twice Shy
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7.69
83 votes

#13 - Twice Bitten, Twice Shy

Season 20 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/16/2024

When Sig's fishing information falls into the wrong hands, he deals his protégé a lesson he won't soon forget. After his crew gets slammed by back-to-back waves, Rick faces a gun-shy deckhand. Sophia contends with a crewman with a badly infected tooth.

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Raw Winter
star
7.65
71 votes

#14 - Raw Winter

Season 20 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/3/2024

In the winter season premiere, 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.

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A Titan Among Men
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7.64
83 votes

#15 - A Titan Among Men

Season 20 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/25/2024

After leaving Sig's boat, Jake has a lot to prove on the massive Titan Explorer. Sig and Johnathan jockey to get ahead of a migrating king crab hoard in an underwater canyon. Rick faces Keith's wrath when his captain-in-training launches a rogue set.

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A Wrinkle in Time
star
7.63
67 votes

#16 - A Wrinkle in Time

Season 20 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/13/2024

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 while Sophia helms the Seabrooke in the roughest weather she's ever seen.

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Seaborne Sacrifice
star
7.61
69 votes

#17 - Seaborne Sacrifice

Season 20 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/6/2024

Sig deploys tactics from the old country to zero in on the Bairdi crab motherlode. Jack earns a windfall of new quota, but it comes at the cost of drug testing his crew. Jake gets burned by his own generosity when the Aleutian Lady overstays its welcome.

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Lights Out!
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7.58
78 votes

#18 - Lights Out!

Season 20 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/2/2024

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.

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Forged in Fury
star
7.52
73 votes

#19 - Forged in Fury

Season 20 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/30/2024

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.

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