7.6/1035 votes#1 - King Crab Derby
Season 20 Episode 1 - Aired 6/11/2024
In the Season 20 premiere, 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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7.4/1022 votes#2 - 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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7.3/1021 votes#3 - 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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7.2/1024 votes#4 - 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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6.7/1019 votes#5 - 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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7.2/1021 votes#6 - 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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7.2/1017 votes#7 - 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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7.2/1017 votes#8 - 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.
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7.5/1020 votes#9 - 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; Sophia helms the Seabrooke in the roughest weather she's ever seen.
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6.9/1017 votes#10 - Under the Gun
Season 20 Episode 10 - Aired 8/20/2024
Sig devises a clever way to simultaneously silence his crew and fish faster with the clock ticking on the fall season.
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7.1/1017 votes#11 - 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; Sig persists in fishing in 20-foot seas.
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6.9/1015 votes#12 - 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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6.6/1018 votes#13 - 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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6.8/1015 votes#14 - 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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6.9/1014 votes#15 - 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 loss of his longtime engineer; Monte takes the wheel of the Wizard when Keith inexplicably collapses in the wheelhouse.
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8.6/1021 votes#16 - 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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- 6.9/1013 votes
#17 - 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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- 6.7/1012 votes
#18 - 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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- 7.3/1011 votes
#19 - 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; John doubles down on orcas.
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Season 20 Ratings Summary
"King Crab Derby" is the best rated episode of "Deadliest Catch" season 20. It scored 7.6/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/11/2024. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Bering Sea Gut Check".