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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Deadliest Catch Season 2 Episode 6 - A New Hunt Begins
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    #1 - A New Hunt Begins

    S2:E6

    A new crab season beings and this time its the Opilio Crab season. As the crews and the ships return to Dutch Harbor in January, they prep their ships in hopes that this new season will better than the last one

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  2. Deadliest Catch Season 4 Episode 15 - As Catch as Catch Can
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    #2 - As Catch as Catch Can

    S4:E15

    The Arctic ice pack descends on the fleet as they make their final runs. Both the crews of the Northwestern and Wizard battle freezing spray. The Cornelia Marie's crew suffers from "Bering Sea dementia" while the Time Bandit's crew is at its breaking point.

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  3. Deadliest Catch Season 6 Episode 8 - We're Not in Kansas Anymore...
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    #3 - We're Not in Kansas Anymore...

    S6:E8

    Ice bashing takes its toll on the fleet; an exhausted crew tries to keep up with the skipper's maniacal pace on the Northwestern.

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  4. Deadliest Catch Season 8 Episode 15 - Release the Beast
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    #4 - Release the Beast

    S8:E15

    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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  5. Deadliest Catch Season 9 Episode 11 - We're Not Gonna Take It
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    #5 - We're Not Gonna Take It

    S9:E11

    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.

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  6. Deadliest Catch Season 9 Episode 14 - Ship of Iron, Men of Steel
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    #6 - Ship of Iron, Men of Steel

    S9:E14

    With only three weeks left in Opilio season, the fleet prepares to make the final push to wrap up their seasons. Captains battle weather, equipment and their own men in a sprint to the finish, but nothing comes easy.

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  7. Deadliest Catch Season 9 Episode 15 - Man Overboard
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    #7 - Man Overboard

    S9:E15

    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.

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  8. Deadliest Catch Season 9 Episode 16 - The Final Battle
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    #8 - The Final Battle

    S9:E16

    The younger generation is put to the test as the fleet races to finish a grueling Opilio season. As defiance on the Wizard turns brother against brother, an accident brings one crabber's career to a gruesome end.

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  9. Deadliest Catch Season 11 Episode 6 - Wasted Talent
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    #9 - Wasted Talent

    S11:E6

    With a higher king crab quota than any other captain, Elliott Neese bids farewell. Jake Anderson struggles to fill Edgar's shoes.

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  10. Deadliest Catch Season 11 Episode 12 - 5-Year Storm (1)
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    #10 - 5-Year Storm (1)

    S11:E12

    The most menacing storm of opilio season moves in on the fleet. A rogue wave terrorizes the Cape Caution, ripping steel and timber. The Wizard crew races to plug a gushing leak. The Saga, captained by Jake Anderson, is nearly capsized by a 40-foot wave.

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  11. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 11 - Shipbreakers
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    #11 - Shipbreakers

    S17:E11

    As seawater floods in, Wild Bill's crew scrambles to locate a hole in the Summer Bay's hull. Johnathan faces a fire on the Time Bandit and a catastrophic hydraulic failure forces Jake to send his chief engineer 25 feet above the Saga's rolling deck.

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  12. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 12 - Extreme Arctic
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    #12 - Extreme Arctic

    S17:E12

    As a polar vortex storm slams the Cornelia Marie in the far north, Josh navigates the biggest seas of his career while Casey performs emergency surgery. A catastrophic collapse of the Northwestern's crane leaves Sig and Mandy with no way to haul pots.

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  13. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 13 - Of Ice And Men
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    #13 - Of Ice And Men

    S17:E13

    Sig makes a desperate bid to save his gear from the descending ice pack while Jake dumps pots to avoid capsize. When Wild Bill gets a line caught in his propeller far from Dutch Harbor, he enlists Jake's diver to attempt a risky underwater repair.

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  14. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 14 - The Crush
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    #14 - The Crush

    S17:E14

    As the fast-moving ice edge crushes all in its path, Sig and Mandy rush north to rejoin the fray. On the Cornelia Marie, Josh and Casey's race to save their pots comes at a cost in blood and pain. Heavy freezing spray threatens to capsize the Wizard.

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  15. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 15 - Run Silent Run Deep
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    #15 - Run Silent Run Deep

    S17:E15

    Skirting the ice line to the deepest set of their careers, Josh and Casey apply frontier medicine to a bleeding deck boss. A block wound sidelines Wild Bill's new rail man, while injuries on the Time Bandit take out two crewmen and threaten family bonds.

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  16. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 16 - First Come First Served
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    #16 - First Come First Served

    S17:E16

    As canneries unexpectedly change delivery rules, captains must race to get to the front of the line. Jake risks a daring entry into St. Paul harbor, as Johnathan seeks help from Wild Bill. Josh and Casey bet their season on a deep set at the Russian Line.

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  17. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 17 - Quid Pro Crab
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    #17 - Quid Pro Crab

    S17:E17

    Captains scramble to meet an expanded quota in the path of a violent system dubbed "Squall-pocalypse". A breakdown on the Wizard puts Monte in debt to the Time Bandit and Josh and Casey exceed their own quota when it comes to injuries on deck.

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  18. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 18 - Winter's Gambit
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    #18 - Winter's Gambit

    S17:E18

    An Arctic storm blasts the fleet as Sig ventures to deep waters he hasn't fished in 17 years. Johnathan steers the Time Bandit into 30-foot waves in a hail Mary run toward Russia. Captain Keith attempts a risky maneuver to save the Wizard's pots.

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  19. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 19 - Wicked Game
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    #19 - Wicked Game

    S17:E19

    Cornelia Marie skippers Josh and Casey follow a blind tip from an unknown fisherman into uncharted waters. Johnathan fears for the worst when Freddy lands in the icy Bering Sea. On the Wizard, Captain Keith tempts fate, risking thousands in crab gear right at the ice edge.

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  20. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 20 - Over the Rail
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    #20 - Over the Rail

    S17:E20

    Jake battles a hurricane in the fleet's smallest boat while Keith orders crew over the rail to avoid capsizing. When Johnathan discovers crab in his cod pots, his crew scrambles to locate the hoard as "Blind Dog" finds himself in a bone-crushing position.

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  21. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 21 - First in Line
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    #21 - First in Line

    S17:E21

    When processors shut down due to outbreaks, Sig bets he can zero in on a rare "crab highway" before there's no place to deliver. Josh and Casey race to deliver live crab after their pump fails, while Harley risks shipwreck to be first to enter St. Paul.

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  22. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 22 - The Ultimate Price
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    #22 - The Ultimate Price

    S17:E22

    In the season finale, Keith risks pushing through jagged ice in search of the Wizard's lost pots. Attempting a risky harbor entry, Wild Bill overturns the Summer Bay and a beloved crewman makes the ultimate sacrifice on the deck of a veteran crab boat.

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  23. Deadliest Catch Season 18 Episode 10 - Dark Waters
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    #23 - Dark Waters

    S18:E10

    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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  24. Deadliest Catch Season 18 Episode 11 - No Good Deed Unpunished
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    #24 - No Good Deed Unpunished

    S18:E11

    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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  25. Deadliest Catch Season 18 Episode 12 - Sailor's Delight
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    #25 - Sailor's Delight

    S18:E12

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"A New Hunt Begins" is the worst rated episode of "Deadliest Catch". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/2/2006. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "As Catch as Catch Can".