The Best Episodes of Deadliest Catch Season 8
Every episode of Deadliest Catch Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Deadliest Catch Season 8!
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 8 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Deadliest Catch" season 8 is "The Gamble", rated 7.4/10 from 39 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "The Gamble" aired on 4/10/2012 and is rated 0.4 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Turf War".
7.4/10 39 votes#1 - The Gamble
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 2012-04-10
A slashed crab quota has captains reeling before the boats hit the water. With the fleet set to fight over half the catch, each skipper is forced to decide: roll the dice on the depleted Red grounds or risk it all to hunt for the elusive Blue crab.
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7.8/10 36 votes#2 - Turf War
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 2012-04-17
With the fleet split, a tale of two fisheries emerges. On the Blue grounds, a captains' bet has the boats jockeying for position. On the Red grounds, a returning veteran quickly proves his worth, while another boat copes with a fallen deckhand.
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7.1/10 27 votes#3 - Weak Links
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 2012-04-24
As the fleet grinds through injuries and mental mistakes, the Bering Sea exposes soft spots and weak links in each crew. While the skippers wonder which deckhands have the right stuff, the Time Bandit says goodbye to a crewmate who never made it back.
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7.1/10 26 votes#4 - The Hook
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 2012-05-01
Halfway through the King crab gauntlet, the beaten-down crews must dig deep to get over the midseason hump. As the crab counts dwindle and the weak fall by the wayside, the skippers give their youngest deckhands a choice: step up or step off.
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7.0/10 25 votes#5 - Alien Abduction
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 2012-05-08
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 in a place where nature rules.
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7.1/10 27 votes#6 - Vital Signs
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 2012-05-15
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. Catching crab suddenly becomes secondary to a fight for survival on the harsh Bering Sea.
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7.4/10 26 votes#7 - I Don't Wanna Die
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 2012-05-22
In a scramble to help their collapsed greenhorn, the Wizard crew calls in a Coast Guard helicopter. For the rest of the fleet, it's a race to haul crab before a hurricane hits, and the last boat fishing waits too long to leave the grounds.
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7.2/10 27 votes#8 - The Aftermath
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 2012-05-29
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.
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7.1/10 21 votes#9 - Nowhere to Go But Down
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 2012-06-05
It's winter in Dutch Harbor and the fleet prepares to hunt Opilio crab. The season looks promising with the quota up and the price high, but tensions rise before the lines are thrown as one deckhand quits, two brothers fight and one goes overboard.
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6.9/10 26 votes#10 - Rise and Fall
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 2012-06-12
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.
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7.2/10 23 votes#11 - No Exit
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 2012-06-19
Across the fleet, 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.
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7.0/10 24 votes#12 - Collision Course
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 2012-06-26
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. Two deckhands fall victim to an ice assault; a captain's troubles are compounded by a call home.
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7.1/10 21 votes#13 - Landlocked
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 2012-07-03
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 or go. Some run from the ice, and others stay to battle the elements for the hope of a record-breaking payday.
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7.4/10 23 votes#14 - Fearless Leaders
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 2012-07-10
One of the worst icing events in history recedes making it possible for some of the boats to return. One boat suffers a total blackout while navigating an iceberg minefield, Elliott gets a rude awakening and a greenhorn learns a deadly lesson.
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7.0/10 20 votes#15 - Release the Beast
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 2012-07-17
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.
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7.4/10 23 votes#16 - The Bitter, Bloody End
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 2012-07-24
In this special two-hour close to a merciless opilio season, a veteran deckhand pays for a mistake in flesh. Then in the final hours some men rise and some men fall, but not everyone will make it home.
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