Deadliest Catch
Season 3
12 listed hours · 2005–present · Discovery
From the desk
How this season is filed
Alaskan crab boats, weather as the antagonist, a deck that does not care about your edit. Deadliest Catch is Discovery labor documentary as flagship — Captain Phil Harris lore, memorial episodes, reality television where the danger is not produced so much as survived on camera.
TV Flash files Season 3 of Deadliest Catch (2005–present) on Discovery as a mid listed season (3; 3 of 22) — 12 listed hours, 2007-04-03–2007-06-19 from “A Tragic Beginning” (S03E01) to “A Frozen Finish” (S03E12). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S03E01 A Tragic Beginning
A Tragic Beginning launches year three by putting loss in the slate — Deadliest Catch treating danger as craft, not a stunt reel.
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S03E01 A Tragic Beginning
Eighty-one boats head out for the new King Crab season, but things quickly go wrong for one boat and they signal an emergency.
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S03E02 The Unforgiving Sea
When a boat sinks, the crab fishing fleet anxiously searches for survivors. Will they be able to find any of the missing men?
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S03E03 Pain and Paybacks
Another victim is claimed by the gruelling Bering Sea. On the Wizard deckhand Lenny suffers an awful injury and Captain Keith scrambles to get him to shore.
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S03E04 Cheating Death
Halfway through the crab season the grind is on. Men are working with no sleep, while fatigue and bad weather make the fishing even more perilous.
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S03E05 Bering Sea Salvation
The end of the king crab season is drawing near and all across the fleet captains and crews are digging in and commencing the long grind to the finish line.
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S03E06 The Last Lap
The gruelling 2006 Red King Crab fishing epic comes to a close, with captains and crews anxiously awaiting crab-payday. Will the harsh season pay off?
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S03E07 New Beginnings
As the Opilio crab season opens, several greenhorns are about to experience the subfreezing temperatures and icy winter waters of the Bering Sea for the first time
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S03E08 Caught in the Storm
Only days into the Opilio season, a major storm breaks and high seas cause Captain Andy of the Time Bandit to call his men off deck, moments before a wave hits!
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S03E09 Crossing the Line
Broken pots and a blown engine put the Northwestern a week behind schedule. Captain Sig hopes his luck will change as he drops his gear north of the fleet.
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S03E10 Trials of the Greenhorns
As the harsh winter weather deteriorates, the Northwestern and Cornelia Marie step up to prove their worth, working through broken bones and icy decks.
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S03E11 Ice and Open Water
The Time Bandit enjoys unseasonable weather and unprecedented catches. But when the weather drastically changes the boat is caught in a crippling ice pack.
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S03E12 A Frozen Finish
It's the finale for the greenhorns - some have succeeded in their quest to become Bering Sea crab fisherman... others won't be coming back.
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