Deadliest Catch: Season 20
Season 20 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Deadliest Catch Season 19.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 20 Progress Shield
King Crab Derby
Jun 11, 2024 · 91 min
In the Season 20 premiere, King Crab's return ignites a derby-style race. After losing the Saga, Jake joins Sig as co-captain. A serious hip injury tests Sophia. A fire on the Wiza
Bering Sea Gut Check
Jun 18, 2024 · 42 min
As competition heats up on the King Crab grounds, Jake's next move puts him at odds with Capt. Sig. Wild Bill battles heavy seas and side effects, while Sophia "Bob" Nielsen attemp
A Titan Among Men
Jun 25, 2024 · 42 min
After leaving Sig's boat, Jake has a lot to prove on the massive Titan Explorer. Sig and Johnathan jockey to get ahead of a migrating king crab hoard in an underwater canyon. Rick
Lights Out!
Jul 2, 2024 · 42 min
A below-deck brawl puts Sophia "Bob" Nielsen's captaincy to the test on the Seabrooke. A hydro leak on the Summer Bay threatens to send Wild Bill's King Crab season into the red. R
Twice Bitten, Twice Shy
Jul 16, 2024 · 42 min
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-s
The Purpose of Porpoises
Jul 23, 2024 · 42 min
On the Northwestern, Captain Sig contends with a man overboard for the first time in his career. Johnathan comes up short on crab but sees the tide turning when thousands of porpoi
Forged in Fury
Jul 30, 2024 · 42 min
As the first Siberian storm slams the grounds, Sig sets into 40-knot winds, risking capsizing when his tank floods. Sophia must prove she can drive a boat and lead her crew in seve
Seaborne Sacrifice
Aug 6, 2024 · 42 min
Sig deploys tactics from the old country to zero in on the Bairdi crab motherlode; Jack earns a windfall of new quota, but it comes at the cost of drug testing his crew; Jake gets
A Wrinkle in Time
Aug 13, 2024 · 42 min
Johnathan alters time in an attempt to get to port for an anniversary he promised Heather on land; Rick battles a Bering Sea gale that knocks his deckhand out of commission; Sophia
Under the Gun
Aug 20, 2024 · 42 min
Sig devises a clever way to simultaneously silence his crew and fish faster with the clock ticking on the fall season.
Blow the Man Down
Aug 27, 2024 · 42 min
Mother Nature blows back as the four remaining captains battle to tank their fall quotas; Landon prays for deliverance on his first solo mission; Sig persists in fishing in 20-foot
Raw Winter
Sep 3, 2024 · 88 min
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 con
Merciless Seas
Sep 10, 2024 · 42 min
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. T
Anchors Away
Sep 17, 2024 · 42 min
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 start
A Bridge Too Far
Sep 24, 2024 · 42 min
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 th
My Brother's Keeper
Oct 1, 2024 · 42 min
After Keith suffers a cardiac event at sea, Monte races to get his brother to the nearest airstrip for medivac. As the fleet prays for Keith's safety, the Wizard crew must navigate
Out Cold
Oct 8, 2024 · 42 min
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 s
Graveyard for the Lost
Oct 15, 2024 · 42 min
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,
Nothin' but Mammals
Oct 22, 2024 · 42 min
In the Season 20 finale, four boats race to beat closing canneries as conditions intensify on the water; Sig suffers a major outage with hours to port; Jake uses his only gear to b