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The Worst Episodes of Deadliest Catch

Every episode of Deadliest Catch ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Deadliest Catch!

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Listing Lover" is the worst rated episode of "Deadliest Catch". It scored 6.5/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/2/2013. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Double Agent".

  • Listing Lover
    6.5/1026 votes
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    #1 - Listing Lover

    Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 7/2/2013

    The crews and battered boats are feeling the brunt of one of the hardest Opilio seasons on record. While some crew members battle potentially catastrophic breakdowns to stay on the grounds and keep fishing, others throw in the towel and call it quits.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Double Agent
    6.5/1015 votes
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    #2 - Double Agent

    Season 16 Episode 5 - Aired 5/12/2020

    The Cornelia Marie uses US satellites to spy on the Russians, Scott pioneers a dormant fishery and Wild Bill faces off with a Russian greenhorn.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blood and Treasure
    6.6/1018 votes
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    #3 - Blood and Treasure

    Season 19 Episode 6 - Aired 5/23/2023

    When Sig and Mandy disagree on a fishing strategy, Clark is caught in the middle. Wild Bill comes down hard on deckhands as Linda gets too close to danger. Keith pulls the Wizard alongside the Saga and unleashes unexpected bad blood.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Merciless Seas
    6.6/1018 votes
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    #4 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Quid Pro Crab
    6.7/1019 votes
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    #5 - Quid Pro Crab

    Season 17 Episode 17 - Aired 8/17/2021

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Twice Bitten, Twice Shy
    6.7/1019 votes
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    #6 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Curse of the Russian Line
    6.8/1016 votes
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    #7 - Curse of the Russian Line

    Season 15 Episode 10 - Aired 6/11/2019

    Josh and Casey haul in their biggest pots ever, starting a gold rush to the Russian line. Captain Bill gets some inside intel, while Harvey confirms the numbers his own way. As Arctic Storm Elsa strengthens, the fleet realizes the ice queen casts a deadly spell.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Blood Is Thicker Than Water
    6.8/1015 votes
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    #8 - Blood Is Thicker Than Water

    Season 16 Episode 22 - Aired 9/15/2020

    Saga loses a veteran deckhand, forcing Jake to steam a greenhorn army to the Russian line. Amid scuttlebutt that ports are closing due to a virus, Josh fights to get home for a reunion with his brother and Sig's daughter gets rushed to the hospital.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Anchors Away
    6.8/1015 votes
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    #9 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Graveyard for the Lost
    6.8/1013 votes
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    #10 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Danger Close
    6.9/1014 votes
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    #11 - Danger Close

    Season 16 Episode 17 - Aired 8/4/2020

    Josh and Casey race to haul pots as engine failure threatens their delivery window. As seawater destroys his hydraulic motors, Junior attempts a risky high seas delivery of three new motors. Harley and his crew bang heads over his fishing strategy.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Like Father Like Daughter
    6.9/1013 votes
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    #12 - Like Father Like Daughter

    Season 16 Episode 18 - Aired 8/18/2020

    Sig and Mandy conspire to get Jake to do their prospecting, but the former deckhand seizes the moment to fill his own tanks. The Wizard crew must break through ice to rush Keith to a doctor. Junior fears the worst as a deckhand falls from the stack.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Force Majeure
    6.9/1021 votes
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    #13 - Force Majeure

    Season 17 Episode 5 - Aired 5/18/2021

    As a typhoon rocks the Bering Sea, the Summer Bay suffers a collision. Sig gambles all his pots in one spot, while Casey takes a scientific approach to finding the elusive Bairdi crab. John and Josh rush a pit stop to get the Time Bandit back in the hunt.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bering Sea Superstition
    6.9/1025 votes
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    #14 - Bering Sea Superstition

    Season 19 Episode 4 - Aired 5/9/2023

    A new deckhand falls ill on the Time Bandit, raising questions for Andy and warning signs for John. A bait pallet breaks loose, forcing Captain Rick to deal with a severe crew injury. When Wild Bill's plan A fails on the Summer Bay, Maria tries plan P.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Between Payday and Mayday
    6.9/1018 votes
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    #15 - Between Payday and Mayday

    Season 19 Episode 10 - Aired 6/20/2023

    An early closure forces captains to work together to get their catch safely to port; Sig crosses a line when he repositions a rookie captain's pots; Jake and Sean race back from Adak while Linda bolsters her east coast reputation in the Bering Sea.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Under the Gun
    6.9/1017 votes
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    #16 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Raw Winter
    6.9/1015 votes
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    #17 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Bridge Too Far
    6.9/1014 votes
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    #18 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Out Cold
    6.9/1013 votes
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    #19 - 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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Rise and Fall
    7.0/1028 votes
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    #20 - Rise and Fall

    Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 6/12/2012

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Release the Beast
    7.0/1021 votes
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    #21 - Release the Beast

    Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 7/17/2012

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Crane Wreck
    7.0/1017 votes
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    #22 - Crane Wreck

    Season 15 Episode 13 - Aired 7/9/2019

    In storm-driven seas, Cornelia Marie's crane goes off the rails, smashing Josh and Casey's wheelhouse and injuring deckhand Taylor; Sig risks navigating a rocky passage in treacherous conditions, and the Wizard crew face a rogue wave without warning.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Port of Last Resort
    7.0/1011 votes
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    #23 - Port of Last Resort

    Season 18 Episode 23 - Aired 9/27/2022

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Wheelhouse Bound
    7.0/1023 votes
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    #24 - Wheelhouse Bound

    Season 19 Episode 2 - Aired 4/25/2023

    Sig gets tough news at sea forcing the Hansens to make a critical decision as John and Andy lend a hand. With wheelhouse ambitions, Jacob hits a wall with Keith on the Wizard. New captain Jack crosses a line when Harley makes a deal with Jake.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Amazing Grace
    7.0/1021 votes
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    #25 - Amazing Grace

    Season 19 Episode 3 - Aired 5/2/2023

    Sig buries his beloved mother and the last of his family's pioneering generation. Sean Dwyer joins forces with Rick Shelford but the two captains don't see eye to eye on rules. Jacob fights back on the Wizard and finds no safe harbor from Captain Keith.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A