Péril en haute mer

The skippers are forced to make a risky decision after the crab quota is slashed.

A tale of two fisheries emerges as captains muscle for position and struggle to prove their worth.

As the fleet grinds through injuries and mistakes, the Bering Sea exposes soft spots in each crew.

The beaten-down crews are forced to dig deep if they want to get over the midseason hump.

Halfway through king crab season, both man and machine begin showing signs of wear.

The crew of the Wizard faces a life-or-death situation near the end of king crab season.

In a scramble to help their collapsed greenhorn, the Wizard crew calls in a Coast Guard helicopter while the rest of the fleet races to haul crab before a hurricane hits.

The fleet struggles to finalize king crab season after an Arctic hurricane.

The quota is up and prices are high as the fleet prepares to hunt opilio crab in Dutch Harbor.

The skippers steel themselves up for battle with the descending polar ice pack.

Captains battle the descending polar ice pack to save their pots, and it's a losing war.

The captains must choose between running or fighting the floes during in a polar ice pack.

Captains across the fleet must decide to stay or go after an ice pack chokes the opilio grounds.

Some of the boats return after one of the worst ice events in history recedes.

Two brothers find themselves in the same dire situation that sank their father's boat.

The fleet gives it everything they’ve got to end opilio season, and the Bering Sea just takes more.