The Best Episodes of Deadliest Catch Season 18
Every episode of Deadliest Catch Season 18 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Deadliest Catch Season 18!
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.
Season 18 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Deadliest Catch" season 18 is "Long Live King Crab!", rated 7.6/10 from 23 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Long Live King Crab!" aired on 4/19/2022 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "No Sleep Till Rescue".
7.6/10 23 votes#1 - Long Live King Crab!
Season 18 Episode 1 - Aired 2022-04-19
When the government closes the king crab fishery, captains must save an industry they worked to create. Plus, Sig pursues invasive Russian king crab in Norway.
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7.5/10 23 votes#2 - No Sleep Till Rescue
Season 18 Episode 2 - Aired 2022-04-26
Captain Sig suddenly loses power as he battles to launch his new Norwegian fishing operation. Plus, Captain Rip Carlton races to save an injured deckhand.
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7.8/10 22 votes#3 - One Hell of a Story To Tell
Season 18 Episode 3 - Aired 2022-05-03
Captain Rip heads into an Arctic storm to attempt the riskiest helicopter rescue in recent history. Plus, John fights to save the Time Bandit at anchor.
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7.6/10 19 votes#4 - Invasive Russian Reds
Season 18 Episode 4 - Aired 2022-05-10
A deckhand who thinks he knows more than Captain Sig fights for his life tangled in a potline. Wild Bill struggles to save his vessel from impacting the jagged fjords.
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7.3/10 15 votes#5 - Desperate Measures
Season 18 Episode 5 - Aired 2022-05-17
In the extreme north of Norway, Sig risks dropping pots on the Russian line. As water floods the Saga's engine room, Jake scrambles to save his boat and his niece. Josh and Casey call in an undeserved favor from Johnathan as canneries close their doors.
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7.3/10 15 votes#6 - Brother in the Bight
Season 18 Episode 6 - Aired 2022-05-24
Sig scrambles to get home for Bairdi and Mandy's baby as his crew finds a honey hole of Russian King Crab. Josh's brother Shane gets caught in the bight as a typhoon slams the Cornelia Marie. Rip faces a crisis when a greenhorn collapses unconscious.
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7.5/10 15 votes#7 - Follow the Rainbow
Season 18 Episode 7 - Aired 2022-05-31
Johnathan searches for a pot of Golden Kings at the end of a double rainbow. A medical mystery confounds Captain Rip when his greenhorn regains consciousness on the Patricia Lee. Keith partners with Josh and Casey until John steps in.
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7.2/10 15 votes#8 - Deepest Alaska
Season 18 Episode 8 - Aired 2022-06-07
Johnathan pulls an unknown species with mile-deep commercial crab pots. Jake's niece gets injured on the Saga and Clark takes the helm in Sig's wheelhouse.
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7.3/10 14 votes#9 - Rip Tide
Season 18 Episode 9 - Aired 2022-06-14
Mandy's pregnancy complication forces Sig and Clark to reconsider their stand. Jake and Rip team up in deep waters to battle powerful Aleutian tidal currents.
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7.7/10 13 votes#10 - Who Let the Cod Out?
Season 18 Episode 10 - Aired 2022-06-21
Jake hits pay dirt taking his niece to an ancestor's fishing grounds, but after a crewman leaves a hatch open, their prized black cod escape by the hundreds. When the Time Bandit ventures into freshwater, Johnathan risks killing his entire live catch.
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7.6/10 14 votes#11 - No Good Deed Unpunished
Season 18 Episode 11 - Aired 2022-06-28
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 valuable string of pots. Rip helps Johnathan locate the motherlode only to pay with a broken block.
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7.8/10 15 votes#12 - Sailor's Delight
Season 18 Episode 12 - Aired 2022-07-05
In an epic Fall season finale, 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.
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8.1/10 15 votes#13 - To The End of the Earth
Season 18 Episode 13 - Aired 2022-07-12
In the Winter premiere, 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, and on the Time Bandit, Johnathan finds his co-captain a bit wobbly. 300th episode.
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7.5/10 12 votes#14 - Where Eagles Dare
Season 18 Episode 14 - Aired 2022-07-19
The Northwestern has a risky encounter with a bald eagle. Josh and Casey place a bet on a hard-to-find quota, while casualties mount on the Patty.
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7.6/10 12 votes#15 - The Crush of Winter
Season 18 Episode 15 - Aired 2022-08-03
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.
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7.3/10 10 votes#16 - No Turning Back
Season 18 Episode 16 - Aired 2022-08-09
Sig is forced to jettison pots lest he capsizes the Northwestern; Jake and the Saga hit bottom; Sean Dwyer devises creative motivation for his greenhorns.
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7.5/10 11 votes#17 - Operation Anvil Drop
Season 18 Episode 17 - Aired 2022-08-16
Keith recruits Johnathan to intercept a Russian trawler fishing illegally in US waters but the situation intensifies when the Time Bandit crew spots a missile streaking across their position. Bill and Sean fight to defend their pots from rogue trawlers.
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7.3/10 11 votes#18 - Hell on the High Seas
Season 18 Episode 18 - Aired 2022-08-23
Josh and Casey race to the approaching ice edge as an Aleutian storm slams the opilio grounds. Jake discovers his niece and engineer have been hooking up more than crab gear as they risk life and limb climbing the 30ft crane to make a critical repair.
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7.4/10 12 votes#19 - Avian Apocalypse
Season 18 Episode 19 - Aired 2022-08-30
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.
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7.6/10 10 votes#20 - Frozen
Season 18 Episode 20 - Aired 2022-09-06
After risking his crew salvaging gear from the ice pack, Sig changes tactics deploying an experimental bait from Norway. On the Time Bandit, frustration boils over as Freddy tests Johnathan. Jake hauls in seas so volatile his crew must take shelter.
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7.7/10 10 votes#21 - Graveyard of Gear
Season 18 Episode 21 - Aired 2022-09-13
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 of his own.
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7.3/10 10 votes#22 - Sub-Zero Scramble
Season 18 Episode 22 - Aired 2022-09-20
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 take on a massive amount of extra quota, and if he can't catch it, he'll have to buy it.
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6.9/10 10 votes#23 - Port of Last Resort
Season 18 Episode 23 - Aired 2022-09-27
As ice blocks St. Paul Harbor, captains race to deliver their final snow crab. Sig deploys a risky tactic his father pioneered, while 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.
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