The WORST episodes of Deadliest Catch
Every episode of Deadliest Catch ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Deadliest Catch!
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.
#2 - Listing Lover
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/2/2013
The crews and battered boats are feeling the brunt of one of the hardest Opilio seasons on record. While some crew members battle potentially catastrophic breakdowns to stay on the grounds and keep fishing, others throw in the towel and call it quits.
Watch Now:Apple TV#3 - Sleeping With the Enemy
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/18/2013
Survival is the name of the game as the fleet battles their way through a ferocious arctic storm. Junior takes a huge risk in order to get back in the game; two greenhorns struggle to fit in with their crews; and Elliott’s problems on land continue.
Watch Now:Apple TV#4 - Good Fishing
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/31/2005
Unseasonably warm weather and calm seas have contributed to three days of record catches for the fleet. It's not all smooth sailing for one boat, however, when an electrical fire breaks out in the engine room and its crew must scramble to fix the problem before safely returning to fishing. But as the fourth day of the season gets under way, the continued high number of crabs spurs rumors of an early closure, with every captain speculating on when the quota will be met.
Watch Now:Apple TV#5 - Super Typhoon (2)
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/12/2015
Super Typhoon Nuri swallows the fishing grounds. With lives and livelihoods on the line, rookie Josh Harris' weaknesses are exposed, Captain Sig loses control of the Northwestern & Captain Elliott Neese steps down from the helm of the Saga.
Watch Now:Apple TV#6 - Mutiny on the Bering Sea
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/2013
It's October in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and after a devastating 2011 Opilio season, every ship in the fleet — including two new boats — is looking to make a comeback in the 2012 King Crab season. But it won't be easy for any of them.
Watch Now:Apple TV#7 - Bite the Hand
Season 11 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/21/2015
As a second major storm slams the fleet, Rookie skipper Jake Anderson reaches out to Sig Hansen for help. Josh Harris arrives on the grounds weeks late. Captain Keith Colburn and Wild Bill Wichrowski struggle to keep their greenhorns in the game.
Watch Now:Apple TV#8 - Hell's Bells
Season 11 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/9/2015
Christmas at sea for the Time Bandit is disturbed when an unhinged deckhand terrorizes the crew. Jake Anderson awaits the birth of his baby, when an unexpected phone call throws a wrench in the plan. A greenhorn's season is cut short by a gruesome injury.
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#10 - Million Dollar Season
Season 19 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/13/2023
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 when its stack breaks loose.
Watch Now:Apple TV#11 - Seeking the Catch
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/20/2008
As the King Crab season drawls to a close, a mass amounts of stinging jellyfish by catch in unfilled pots add insult to injury. The Cornelia Marie could face losing their captain for good. The crew mistakes onboard Northwestern could be costly.
Watch Now:Apple TV#12 - Greenhorns
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/2005
It's the first day of work at the world's deadliest job. Approximately 1,500 fishermen and 250 boats have converged on Dutch Harbor, Alaska, for the 2005 Alaskan king crab season. Each individual old salts and greenhorns alike ” is here to stake his claim on the 14 million pounds of crab that the season is expected to yield, and the chance to earn a year's wages in just one week. To that end, each boat's captain has his own strategy for success.With a radio countdown, the season begins and the first pots are dumped into the sea. It will be many hours before all the pots are set and even longer before anyone rests. But soon after the start, the stabilizer breaks on one of the boats, forcing its crew to fish with a potentially deadly problem. For others, it's fish guts and crab pots as they desperately grasp for their piece of the $80 million king crab pie.
Watch Now:Apple TV#13 - New Captain on the Block
Season 11 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/23/2015
The rest of the fleet arrives in Dutch Harbor to take Opilio season by storm. Jake Anderson prepares to captain the Saga for the first time. Captain Andy Hillstrand returns to find the Time Bandit in disarray. Keith Colburn's new greenhorn turns heads.
Watch Now:Apple TV#14 - We're Not Gonna Take It
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/25/2013
The fleet's weathered the storm, but the crabs are still off the bite. Desperate to make their offload dates the captains mercilessly grind their crews. Not making any money, the deckhands start to get sick of being bullied.
Watch Now:Apple TV#15 - Man Overboard
Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/23/2013
After enduring months of mechanical breakdowns, sleepless grinds and infighting, the fleet is starting to crack. And when deckhands on the Wizard are unable to lasso a floating walrus carcass, one man takes matters into his own hands.
Watch Now:Apple TV#18 - Blow Up
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/10/2008
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. On the Wizard, Greenhorn Moi locks horns with Capt. Keith. The Time Bandit heads for better grounds.
Watch Now:Apple TV#19 - Release the Beast
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/17/2012
Two brothers find themselves in the same dire situation that sunk their father's boat. After a midseason hiatus, the fleet returns to the Bearing Sea, but the ice is back and worse than before. Now the skippers could get pushed past their breaking points.
Watch Now:Apple TV#21 - Wasted Talent
Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/19/2015
With a 1.5 million dollar boat of his own and more King Crab quota than any other captain in the fleet, Elliott Neese throws it all away and bids a final farewell. With a baby on the way, Jake Anderson struggles to fill Edgar's shoes on the Northwestern.
Watch Now:Apple TV
#23 - The Better Captain
Season 19 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/1/2023
With $1 million in crab at stake, the Wizard battles unrelenting 30-footers. Jake faces a devil's bargain to aid another captain, but the high road may come at a cost. Sig fights to eke out a profit from the derby. The Kodiak crew assesses the damage.
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#24 - Beware the King Tide
Season 19 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/5/2023
As a monumental king tide amplifies the sea state, Johnathan drives the Time Bandit into towering waves to haul the riskiest set of his career. Jake faces a potentially unstoppable magnesium fire, while Sig deploys evasive maneuvers to defend his catch.
Watch Now:Apple TV#25 - Hell Or High Water
Season 15 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/6/2019
Monte returns to co-captain the Wizard just as massive storms slam the fleet from the south. Jake risks hauling his pots in 30 foot seas to return to his family. Wild Bill goes farther north into the icy Arctic than any other boat in the fleet.
Watch Now:Apple TV