April 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 sk...Read more
April 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. ...Read more
April 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...Read more
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 dwi...Read more
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. ...Read more
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 stru...Read more
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'...Read more
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 a...Read more
June 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...Read more
June 12, 2012
With unrelenting northerly winds bearing down on the fleet, every skipper steels himself for battle with the descending polar ice ...Read more
June 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 Wi...Read more
June 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 fish...Read more
July 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 st...Read more
July 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 blac...Read more
July 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...Read more
July 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 hou...Read more