Two friends race to finish their seasons and Johnathan Hillstrand wants to bid farewell in a blaze of glory, but the Bering Sea has other plans.
Sean is set on a collision course with another boat on the Bering Sea, two deckhands get taken down on the Wizard, and Jake almost loses a deckhand twice
After suffering chest pains, Sig awaits news in the hospital; Wild Bill struggles to stay out of harm's way while also handling dissention on deck; and Sean lays down the law with Zack.
Sig, Johnathan and Jake attempt to run from a second arctic hurricane, but Keith refuses to heed the warnings. Stress-induced chest pains threaten the remainder of Sig's season.
Sig's stress takes a toll; Sean tries to dock in a hurricane; Keith is left dead-stick in massive seas; Jake motivates a defiant hand; and Johnathan rolls the dice by Russia.
To honor his grandfather, a WWII Dutch Harbor war hero, Johnathan plans the largest fireworks display in the island's history. The captains examine a bloody attack on Dutch Harbor.
An Arctic mega-storm rocks the fleet; Sig plays cat-and-mouse with towering waves; Keith watches an 800-pound crab pot launch into a deckhand's spine; and Wild Bill fights for a comeback.
When the Arctic opens up its winter wrath, the first of multiple back-to-back hurricanes descends on the fleet. Later, spotty fishing and mutiny also converge to create the perfect storm.
Sig returns to the Season that nearly killed him. After a tough start, Keith and son struggle to prove themselves. Wild Bill gives Nick McGlashan a second chance. Jake lets go of a friend.
Competition doubles when the quote is cut in half. Three captains arrive early for the winter season, but Jonathan goes one step further and plots a dangerous mile course to Russia.
The last moments of the fall season brings the biggest storms. Wild Bill struggles to pilot his new boat in big seas. Jonathan faces off with a massive swell in the perilous False Pass.
A big decision weighs on Sig Hanson. Rookie captain Sean Dwyer gambles on a new venture with a new crew. Jake Anderson struggles to replace a lost anchor before his quota is taken away.
A massive leak fills the Time Bandit. A fistfight tests Jake's resolve while heavy winds and a snapped anchor threaten to wreck his boat. Sig's greenhorn has an awkward question.
Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand fish together for the last time. Keith's inattentive crew sends the Wizard on a collision course. A belligerent deckhand tests Jake's resolve as captain.
Wild Bill uncovers the truth about Nick McGlashan's terminal illness. A damaging mechanical issue threatens to crush Jake's future. Warming seas force Keith into the unknown.
Rising sea temperatures test the fleet. Toxic smoke engulfs the Saga. Sean struggles to save the family business on the Brenna A. Wild Bill fears he could lose Nick to a terminal illness.
The fall season begins with uncertainty. A seismic shift in sea temperature sends the fleet searching for displaced crab, while also fighting an unseasonably large first storm.
There are three sides to every story. For the first time captains and crews open up about the death-defying season that nearly took one of the fleet's most respected captains.
In the Season 13 premiere, the crabs have vanished, igniting a hunt to save the fleet's way of life; Sig resumes the helm after a major heart attack; Bill debuts his own new boat in a crisis season; and a rescue is attempted for a heart-attack victim.
