Deadliest Catch

The skippers are forced to decide between rolling the dice on the depleted red crab grounds or risking it all to hunt for the elusive blue crab.

With the fleet split, a tale of two fisheries emerges. On the blue crab grounds, a captains' bet has the boats jockeying for position while a returning veteran quickly proves his worth on the red crab grounds.

As the fleet grinds through injuries and mental mistakes, the Bering Sea exposes soft spots and weak links in each crew.

Halfway through the king crab gauntlet, the beaten-down crews must dig deep to get over the midseason hump. As the crab counts dwindle, the skippers challenge their young deckhands to either step up or step off.

Past the halfway point of the king crab season, man and machine alike show signs of wear under the brutal hand of the Bering Sea. While repairs can be made to the equipment, the fishermen must dig deep to soldier on.

As king crab season nears the finish line, the crew of The Wizard faces a life-or-death situation as a deckhand collapses and struggles to hold on.

In a scramble to help their collapsed greenhorn, the Wizard crew calls in a Coast Guard helicopter while the rest of the fleet races to haul crab before a hurricane hits.

In the aftermath of an arctic hurricane, the fleet struggles to reach the finish line of a brutal king crab season. Poor fishing and quarreling crews make this final push a painful one for every man on the Bering Sea.

It's winter in Dutch Harbor, and the fleet is preparing to hunt opilio crab. The season looks promising with the quota up and the prices high, but tensions begin to rise before the lines are even thrown.

With unrelenting northerly winds bearing down on the fleet, every skipper steels himself for battle with the descending polar ice pack. And as temperatures drop on the grounds, tempers on deck flare up.

Captains battle the descending polar ice pack to save their pots, and it's a losing war. The Northwestern and Wizard struggle to escape St. Paul harbor while the rest of the fleet scrambles to keep their opilio season alive.

The polar ice pack invades the opilio crab grounds, forcing the captains to make a decision: grab their gear and run, or keep fishing and fight the floes.

The ice pack has a choke hold on the Bering Sea opilio grounds. Nearly iced up, captains across the fleet must make the call to stay for a big payday or run from the ice.

Attempting to return after one of the worst ice events in history, one boat suffers total blackout, Elliott gets a rude awakening, and a greenhorn learns a deadly lesson.

Two brothers find themselves in the same dire situation that sank their father's boat. After a midseason hiatus, the fleet returns to the Bering Sea, but the ice is back and worse than before.

In the final stretch of a merciless opilio season, the fleet gives it everything they've got, and the Bering Sea just takes more.