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The Worst Episodes of Deadliest Catch

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Worst episode
S22E4 Hunger Game
6.827 votes
Best episode
S22E19 Father, Brother, Sailor, Son
9.234 votes
Top season
Season 11
8.2avg
Binge time
7d 21h
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Deadliest Catch Season 22 Episode 4 - Hunger Game
    6.8/10(27 votes)

    S22:E4

    When the Time Bandit's freezer fails, John makes an emergency trip to St. George Island to feed his hungry crew. Sig and Jake lure crab to their own side of a maritime boundary. Rick battles a perplexing engine issue amid the biggest waves of the season.

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  2. Deadliest Catch Season 9 Episode 12 - Listing Lover
    6.9/10(31 votes)

    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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  3. Deadliest Catch Season 19 Episode 6 - Blood and Treasure
    6.8/10(20 votes)

    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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  4. Deadliest Catch Season 20 Episode 13 - Merciless Seas
    6.9/10(21 votes)

    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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  5. Deadliest Catch Season 22 Episode 5 - Saltwater Runs Deep
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    S22:E5

    A dream leads John to a crab hotspot, but a rival trawler shares the vision for filling its own massive nets. Keith's crew races to save the Wizard when seawater breaches the engine room. On the Northwestern, Clark gets dragged across the deck by an erratic crane.

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  6. Deadliest Catch Season 21 Episode 3 - Typhoon Sea State
    7.1/10(28 votes)

    S21:E3

    A typhoon brings monstrous waves and high winds to the west; Rick and Bob attempt to stitch a head wound in turbulent seas; John risks capsize to make a harbor entrance; an emergency tests Jake between his duties as captain and man of the house.

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  7. Deadliest Catch Season 19 Episode 4 - Bering Sea Superstition
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    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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  8. Deadliest Catch Season 19 Episode 2 - Wheelhouse Bound
    7.1/10(25 votes)

    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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  9. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 17 - Quid Pro Crab
    7.1/10(24 votes)

    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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  10. Deadliest Catch Season 20 Episode 5 - Twice Bitten, Twice Shy
    7.1/10(23 votes)

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

    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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  12. Deadliest Catch Season 22 Episode 6 - Rocked to the Core
    7.1/10(22 votes)

    S22:E6

    When a rogue wave pummels the Wizard and sidelines its crew, Keith reconsiders the risks he's taking. Racing to make an offload, Sig loses a deckhand to a crushed toe. Rick finds crab but needs new tactics to fish a seafloor bristling with old crab pots.

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

    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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  14. Deadliest Catch Season 21 Episode 1 - The Wild West
    7.3/10(46 votes)

    S21:E1

    Sig and John co-captain The Time Bandit, sparking a gold rush for crab out west; chaos on the Titan Explorer forces Jake's crew to abandon ship.

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  15. Deadliest Catch Season 17 Episode 5 - Force Majeure
    7.2/10(26 votes)

    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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  16. Deadliest Catch Season 7 Episode 3 - Old Age & Treachery
    7.3/10(39 votes)

    S7:E3

    Jake Harris gets a sink-or-swim lesson on driving the Cornelia Marie as danger strikes the Wizard when a crew member gets caught in the line.

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  17. Deadliest Catch Season 7 Episode 2 - Proving Grounds
    7.3/10(37 votes)

    S7:E2

    Across the Bering Sea crab fleet, bad fishing causes high tensions and low morale as empty pots whittle away profits and nerves among the men

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  18. Deadliest Catch Season 19 Episode 3 - Amazing Grace
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    S19:E3

    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.

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  19. Deadliest Catch Season 21 Episode 10 - Rage Bait
    7.2/10(22 votes)

    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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  20. Deadliest Catch Season 15 Episode 1 - Battle Of Kings
    7.3/10(34 votes)

    S15:E1

    Hours before king season, a huge new boat with a renegade captain finds the crab are all in one spot. The fleet races to find the hoard and fight for their share.

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  21. Deadliest Catch Season 15 Episode 10 - Curse of the Russian Line
    7.2/10(21 votes)

    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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  22. Deadliest Catch Season 16 Episode 5 - Double Agent
    7.2/10(21 votes)

    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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  23. Deadliest Catch Season 8 Episode 10 - Rise and Fall
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    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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  24. Deadliest Catch Season 21 Episode 8 - Bering Sea Casino
    7.3/10(26 votes)

    S21:E8

    A cracked tank on the Titan Explorer leaves Jake's engines vulnerable to seawater. Keith fires another deckhand but struggles to get rid of him for good. Johnathan prescribes alternative cures as the norovirus overtakes the Time Bandit crew at sea.

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  25. Deadliest Catch Season 8 Episode 15 - Release the Beast
    7.3/10(25 votes)

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"Hunger Game" is the worst rated episode of Deadliest Catch. It scored 6.8/10 from 27 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on May 29, 2026. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Listing Lover".

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