Episode guide
Deadliest Catch: Season 8
16 episodes · premiered Apr 10, 2012
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- Episode 1: The Gamble Apr 10, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 2: Turf War Apr 17, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 3: Weak Links Apr 24, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 4: The Hook May 1, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 5: Alien Abduction May 8, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 6: Vital Signs May 15, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 7: I Don't Wanna Die May 22, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 8: The Aftermath May 29, 2012 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…
- Episode 9: Nowhere to Go But Down Jun 5, 2012 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…
- Episode 10: Rise and Fall Jun 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…
- Episode 11: No Exit Jun 19, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 12: Collision Course Jun 26, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 13: Landlocked Jul 3, 2012 · 50m 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…
- Episode 14: Fearless Leaders Jul 10, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 15: Release the Beast Jul 17, 2012 · 1h 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…
- Episode 16: The Bitter, Bloody End Jul 24, 2012 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…