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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Deadliest Catch Season 21 Episode 15 - Beyond the Breaking Point
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Beyond the Breaking Point

    S21:E15

    After six relentless weeks at sea, man and machine push past the breaking point. While Keith seeks medical care in Anchorage, the Wizard loses steering in 20-foot seas. Rick fears the worst as he takes on water, and Clark finds Sig unconscious below deck.

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  2. Deadliest Catch Season 21 Episode 16 - Million-Dollar Bounties
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - Million-Dollar Bounties

    S21:E16

    As buyers close their doors, the fleet scrambles to collect its first opilio windfall in three years. After Sig's collapse, Clark assumes the full skipper role. Keith returns with a million-dollar vengeance, while rogue waves threaten Jake's operation.

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  3. Deadliest Catch Season 9 Episode 12 - Listing Lover
    6.8/10(29 votes)

    #3 - Listing Lover

    S9:E12

    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:Unknown
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  4. Deadliest Catch Season 16 Episode 5 - Double Agent
    6.8/10(17 votes)

    #4 - Double Agent

    S16:E5

    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.

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  5. Deadliest Catch Season 19 Episode 6 - Blood and Treasure
    6.8/10(21 votes)

    #5 - Blood and Treasure

    S19:E6

    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.

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  6. Deadliest Catch Season 20 Episode 13 - Merciless Seas
    6.8/10(21 votes)

    #6 - Merciless Seas

    S20:E13

    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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  7. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 17 - Quid Pro Crab
    6.9/10(21 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Deadliest Catch Season 15 Episode 10 - Curse of the Russian Line
    7.0/10(18 votes)

    #8 - Curse of the Russian Line

    S15:E10

    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.

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  9. Deadliest Catch Season 20 Episode 5 - Twice Bitten, Twice Shy
    7.0/10(23 votes)

    #9 - Twice Bitten, Twice Shy

    S20:E5

    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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  10. Deadliest Catch Season 21 Episode 10 - Rage Bait
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    #10 - Rage Bait

    S21:E10

    When the Time Bandit loses power with a storm at its tail, Johnathan deploys a camera probe to find what's snarling his propeller. Keith sets a decoy string to lure Sig away from good fishing, but risks his own secret plan by trusting the wrong ally.

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  11. Deadliest Catch Season 8 Episode 9 - Nowhere to Go But Down
    7.1/10(28 votes)

    #11 - Nowhere to Go But Down

    S8:E9

    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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  12. Deadliest Catch Season 16 Episode 22 - Blood Is Thicker Than Water
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #12 - Blood Is Thicker Than Water

    S16:E22

    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.

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  13. Deadliest Catch Season 19 Episode 2 - Wheelhouse Bound
    7.1/10(26 votes)

    #13 - Wheelhouse Bound

    S19:E2

    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.

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  14. Deadliest Catch Season 19 Episode 4 - Bering Sea Superstition
    7.1/10(28 votes)

    #14 - Bering Sea Superstition

    S19:E4

    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.

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  15. Deadliest Catch Season 19 Episode 10 - Between Payday and Mayday
    7.1/10(21 votes)

    #15 - Between Payday and Mayday

    S19:E10

    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.

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  16. Deadliest Catch Season 20 Episode 18 - Graveyard for the Lost
    7.1/10(22 votes)

    #16 - Graveyard for the Lost

    S20:E18

    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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  17. Deadliest Catch Season 21 Episode 4 - Mutiny on the Confidence
    7.1/10(22 votes)

    #17 - Mutiny on the Confidence

    S21:E4

    A brutal knife injury on the Northwestern leaves Sig scrambling. After one crewman quits, tensions explode on the Confidence until even the co-captain revolts. The Wizard faces a nightmarish mechanical failure when Keith's throttle fails in rough seas.

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  18. Deadliest Catch Season 8 Episode 5 - Alien Abduction
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #18 - Alien Abduction

    S8:E5

    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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  19. Deadliest Catch Season 8 Episode 10 - Rise and Fall
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #19 - Rise and Fall

    S8:E10

    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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  20. Deadliest Catch Season 8 Episode 12 - Collision Course
    7.2/10(29 votes)

    #20 - Collision Course

    S8:E12

    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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  21. Deadliest Catch Season 8 Episode 15 - Release the Beast
    7.2/10(24 votes)

    #21 - 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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  22. Deadliest Catch Season 15 Episode 13 - Crane Wreck
    7.2/10(19 votes)

    #22 - Crane Wreck

    S15:E13

    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.

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  23. Deadliest Catch Season 16 Episode 17 - Danger Close
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #23 - Danger Close

    S16:E17

    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.

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  24. Deadliest Catch Season 16 Episode 18 - Like Father Like Daughter
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #24 - Like Father Like Daughter

    S16:E18

    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.

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  25. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 5 - Force Majeure
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    #25 - Force Majeure

    S17:E5

    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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Beyond the Breaking Point" 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 10/31/2025. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Million-Dollar Bounties".