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  • Apr 10, 2012

Summary The Bering Sea holds the secret to Alaskan Gold, the highly lucrative and elusive…King Crab. With a new set of rules to abide by the ships and the crews will have new deadlines, more stress, and more dangerous conditions. With forty-foot waves, 700 pound crab pots, freezing temperatures and your mortality staring you in the face…this j...

  • Discovery
  • Apr 10, 2012
  • Discovery
  • Apr 10, 2012
Deadliest Catch
Season 8
20 Seasons
Season Premiere: Apr 10, 2012
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Summary The Bering Sea holds the secret to Alaskan Gold, the highly lucrative and elusive…King Crab. With a new set of rules to abide by the ships and the crews will have new deadlines, more stress, and more dangerous conditions. With forty-foot waves, 700 pound crab pots, freezing temperatures and your mortality staring you in the face…this j...

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Episode 1 • Apr 10, 2012 • 44 m
The Gamble
Early October 2011 and the Blue & Red King Crab season starts on the Bering Sea.
Episode 2 • Apr 17, 2012 • 44 m
Turf War
Episode 3 • Apr 24, 2012 • 44 m
Weak Links
Episode 4 • May 1, 2012 • 44 m
The Hook
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.
Episode 5 • May 8, 2012 • 44 m
Alien Abduction
Episode 6 • May 15, 2012 • 44 m
Vital Signs
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 to a fight for survival on the harsh Bering Sea.
Episode 7 • May 22, 2012 • 44 m
I Don't Wanna Die
Midway through the winter crab season and the Bering sea is taking its toll on the boats and the men. The northern most boats are in a race to save their gear as the polar icepack descends onto the fishing grounds.
Episode 8 • May 29, 2012 • 1 h 28 m
The Aftermath
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 every man on the Bering Sea.
Episode 9 • Jun 5, 2012 • 44 m
Nowhere to Go But Down
Episode 10 • Jun 12, 2012 • 44 m
Rise and Fall
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.
Episode 11 • Jun 19, 2012 • 44 m
No Exit
Episode 12 • Jun 26, 2012 • 43 m
Collision Course
The Captains explore their own legacies as they swap stories of the legends of the Bering Sea. Elliot squares off with his boat's owner. Jake and Josh Harris compare what they learned as deckhands on the Time Bandit and the Northwestern.
Episode 13 • Jul 3, 2012 • 44 m
Landlocked
Life at home is more complicated than life at sea. This explosive episode deals with Jake Anderson's murdered father, Jake Harris' addiction, and Elliot's disintegrating home life.
Episode 14 • Jul 10, 2012 • 44 m
Fearless Leaders
The captains discuss their strategies for dealing with the red crab quota and the brutal ice. Elliot and Junior settle their wager. Keith comes face to face with his most disgruntled Greenhorn yet.
Episode 15 • Jul 17, 2012 • 44 m
Release the Beast
There is an unwritten code of ethics in the Bering Sea. Junior and Elliot settle the score about their long-simmering feud. Josh Harris looks back at far he's come in a year.
Episode 16 • Jul 24, 2012 • 1 h 26 m
The Bitter, Bloody End
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 make it home.
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Mike Rowe

Narrator, Self - Narrator

Sig Hansen

Self - Captain: Northwestern, Self - Captain, Self - Captain: Stålbas

Keith Colburn

Self - Captain: Wizard, Self

Jake Anderson

Self - Captain: Saga, Self - Deckhand: Northwestern, Self - Greenhorn: Northwestern

Jonathan Hillstrand

Self - Captain: Time Bandit, Self - Co-Captain: Time Bandit, Self - Relief Captain: Saga

Josh Harris

Self - Captain: Cornelia Marie, Self - Deckhand: Cornelia Marie, Self - Deckhand: Time Bandit

Bill Wichrowski

Self - Captain: Summer Bay, Self - Captain: Cape Caution, Self - Captain: Kodiak

Edgar Hansen

Self - Deck Boss & Engineer: Northwestern, Self - Deck Boss: Northwestern, Self - Relief Captain & Deck Boss: Northwestern

Monty Colburn

Self - Relief Captain: Wizard, Self - Captain: Wizard, Self

Matt Bradley

Self - Deckhand: Northwestern, Self - Deckhand: Saga, Self

Freddy Maugatai

Self - Deckhand: Wizard, Self - Deckhand: Cornelia Marie, Self - Deckhand: Time Bandit, Self - Deck Boss: Time Bandit, Self - Deckhand Wizard, Self - Deckboss: Time Bandit

Andy Hillstrand

Self - Captain: Time Bandit, Self - Co-Captain: Time Bandit, Self - Deck Boss: Time Bandit, Self, Self - Co-Captain, Self - Captain, Self - Captain & Deckhand: Time Bandit, Self - Co-Captain & Deck Boss: Time Bandit

Casey McManus

Self - Captain: Cornelia Marie, Self - Captain & Engineer: Cornelia Marie, Self - Co-Captain: Cornelia Marie, Self

Nick Mavar

Self - Deckhand: Northwestern

Nick McGlashan

Self - Deck Boss: Summer Bay, Self - Deck Boss: Cape Caution, Self - Deckhand: Cape Caution

Mandy Hansen

Self - Relief Captain: Northwestern, Self - Captain in Training: Northwestern, Self - Co-Captain: Northwestern, Self - Greenhorn: Northwestern, Self - Sig's Daughter, Self, Self - Bride, Self - Captain: Northwestern, Self - Northwestern, Self - Relief Skipper: Northwestern, Self - Skipper in Training: Northwestern

Gary Soper

Self - First Mate: Wizard, Self - First Mate & Deck Boss: Wizard, Self - Deck Boss: Wizard

Jake Harris

Self - Deckhand: Cornelia Marie, Self - Deckhand: Northwestern, Self, Self - Cornelia Marie, Self - Greenhorn: Cornelia Marie

Zach Larson

Self - Deckhand & Engineer: Cape Caution, Self - Engineer: Brenna A, Self - Deckhand: Cape Caution, Self - Deckhand: Kodiak, Self - Greenhorn: Kodiak, Self - Deck Boss: Elinore J

Phil Harris

Self - Captain: Cornelia Marie, Self, Self - Captain

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