Show 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 job ranks as one of the deadliest. Any time spent of the Bering Sea is dangerous, we watch crews race to meet their quota and make it home safely.
A slashed quota for crabs forces the captains to make choices about where to fish in the Season 8 premiere.
Two exhausted crewmen on the Time Bandit nearly come to blows. The skippers suffer debilitating injuries and the captain of the Wizard erupts and physically assaults an unlikely victim.
Waters of St. Paul Island make offloading crab a terrifying necessity. A harbor surge snaps lines on the Wizard while another greenhorn walks off the Seabrooke in a cloud of shame.
A bait shortage starts a feud on the Cornelia Marie; a soft-spoken greenhorn gets schooled.
A loose pot turns into a half-ton wrecking ball on the Kodiak, while a crewman on the Seabrooke is nearly crushed by ice. On the Cornelia Marie, the new skipper courts mutiny with a move to untested fishing grounds.
As another winter storm rips through the crab grounds, the Ramblin' Rose makes an all-or-nothing gamble, the Time Bandit courts danger at the dock and a crewman on the Northwestern suffers a bloody, nose-breaking blow.
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Spotlighting the greenhorns and the trials they face on the Bering Sea.
Opilio crab season begins; a new captain skippers the Cornelia Marie; the Northwestern bids farewell to one of their own; an arctic storm shuts the fleet down.
The King Crab season ends with an arctic storm; the Time Bandit crew plays a prank on the Northwestern; a revered fisherman makes an exit.
A confrontation on the Cornelia Marie brings the police; a deckhand sustains a career-ending injury on the Kodiak; an incident on the Ramblin' Rose prompts the skipper to have a change of heart.
Mutiny on the Cornelia Marie; a rogue wave imperils the Time Bandit; the Kodiak crew suffers breakdowns; a deckhand angers the Wizard skipper.
Two crew members almost get into a fight on the Northwestern; a deckhand falls asleep at the wheel and sends the Wizard toward a fleet of nearby vessels.
A greenhorn has a breakdown on the Seabrooke; an injury sidelines a crew member on the Kodiak; a storm bears down on the Cornelia Marie.
Jake Harris learns how to drive the Cornelia Marie; a dangerous situation unfolds aboard the Wizard as a crew mate gets caught in the line.
Tensions run high when the fishing isn't great.
The 2010 crab season begins with fresh blood in the fleet and two new skippers: Scott Campbell Jr. on the Seabrooke & Elliot Neese on the Ramblin' Rose.