The Captains of the crab boats get together in a cannery to discuss the upcoming season and moments from the previous season not shown during regular episodes.
The start of the bairdi, golden king crab and black cod. The ships captains are gearing up for their runs on the Bering Sea, bringing new crew members aboard, and battling each other to get a jump on catching their quotas.
Sig gets tough news at sea forcing 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
Sig buries his beloved mother and the last of his family's pioneering generation. Sean Dwyer joins with Rick Shelford but two captains don't see eye to eye on rules. Jacob fights back on Wizard and finds no safe harbor from Captain Keith
New deckhand falls ill on Time Bandit, raising questions for Andy and warning signs for John. A bait pallet breaks loose, forcing Captain Rick to deal with severe crew injury. When Wild Bill's plan A fails on Summer Bay, Maria tries plan P
Sig returns from his mother's funeral only to find gear in harm's way. Rick and Keith forge a beneficial partnership. Jack makes his 1st offload as captain. Coast Guard gets a call to extract a sailor with broken legs 200 miles out to sea
When Sig and Mandy disagree on strategy, Clark finds himself caught in the middle. Wild Bill comes down on inattentive deckhands as Linda gets too close to danger. Keith pulls the Wizard alongside Saga and unleashes unexpected bad blood
On Saga, Sean Dwyer joins Jake for a high-risk trek to Adak Island. Rick attempts a dangerous shortcut through treacherous tides of Unimak Pass. Sig's deckhand Lauritz takes a brutal fall while Johnathan bids farewell to a lifelong friend
With a storm threatening his record-breaking run, Johnathan allies with Keith to triangulate the crab. Jack braves treacherous tidal currents, staking his redemption on loaded pots. In 30-foot waves, chaos strikes the Wizard when its stack breaks loose.
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.
Johnathan hunts for crab in a secret location to which he's won exclusive rights. Sig tries his luck at a derby fishery. Keith risks an at-sea deckhand transfer, and Bob joins a fisherman's strike for higher crab prices.
Captain Keith eagerly repositions his pots when Johnathan makes an offer he simply can't refuse. Bob follows a pod of porpoises to her first big solo haul. Fired from the Wizard, Jacob chases his dream of becoming a captain to a wholly different boat.
Bob's breakout haul as a solo captain takes a turn when another vessel collides with the boat she inherited from her late parents. Cascading engine failures put Sig in a tough spot as the Coast Guard makes a surprise inspection.
Jake is forced to make a devil's deal in order to help another captain, but the high road may come at a cost. Sig works hard to make a profit from the derby. The crew of the Kodiak analyzes the damage.
Winter unleashes its wrath, smashing the fleet with storm-driven waves and tidal surges. When Keith's winch fails, the Wizard team is forced to work two shifts to recover their pots. Wild Bill's incorrect chart strands the Summer Bay on a sandbar.
When a deckhand on board suffers a probable heart attack, Keith goes into emergency mode in order to save his crewman's life. The Time Bandit is rocked by an explosion, which burns Freddy and shakes Johnathan to his core. Jake must empty pots in order to avoid capsizing.
On the Northwestern, Captains Sig and Mandy must use old and new equipment to thread the needle along the crab ground border. An injury on the Saga leaves Captain Jake short handed. Captain Johnathon must intervene when two deckhands argue over who's working the rail on the Time Bandit.
A full moon brings strong tides, forcing the fleet to endure tumultuous seas. After a crippling fire in the engine room on the Saga, Captain Jake deploys a bait cloud to draw more crab while the Time Bandit attempts a corkscrew set. Captain Sig on the Northwestern battles it out with Captain Rick on the Aleutian Lady for a honey hole crab spot.
