After a longer-than-usual low season, Discovery Channel has lastly confirmed the premiere date for the extremely anticipated twenty first season of Deadliest Catch.
As introduced on Thursday (June 26), the brand new season of Deadliest Catch will premiere on Friday, August 1 at 8 pm ET/PT. This marks the newest premiere date ever for the long-running actuality collection. From Seasons 1 by 19, the present constantly debuted in March or April. Season 20, which aired on June 11, 2024, beforehand held the report for the newest premiere date.
Season 21 will comply with the Dutch Harbor fleet as they embark on a “gold rush-style” race to catch monster purple king crab within the far west of the Bering Sea.
“To assert their share of the billion-dollar bounty, captains and crews should courageous unforgiving 50-foot seas to achieve deserted Adak Island, venturing farther west than anybody has dared in over 30 years and past the bounds of rescue,” reads the official season description.
It continues, “Navigating by unfamiliar territory to safe the profitable haul, the crews face excessive circumstances and main ship malfunctions that put them in critical life-threatening conditions, leaving the fleet on the mercy of the tumultuous western Bering Sea.”
Season 20 beforehand noticed among the harshest circumstances ever confronted by the Deadliest Catch crew, together with surprising medical emergencies, climate challenges, clashing personalities, and a race in opposition to time. The season finale noticed a very tense second when Captain Sig Hansen’s Northwestern misplaced energy, and he needed to manually steer the vessel dwelling.
Whereas Discovery has not but introduced which captains and boats will probably be featured in Season 21, Captain Jake Anderson beforehand revealed he and the F/V Titan Explorer will probably be a part of the brand new season.
Earlier this month, Anderson took to his Fb web page, the place he shared a photograph aboard his Titan Explorer fishing vessel, sorting by an enormous haul of crab. “…..ready. ………ready …….ready DEALIES [sic] CATCH STARTS MID JULY,” he wrote alongside the picture. Clearly, he was a bit of off on the premiere date.
Along with Season 21 of Deadliest Catch, Discovery introduced two new reveals set to premiere in July. This contains Bare and Afraid spinoff Bare and Afraid: Apocalypse (premiering July 27) and Animals on Medication (premiering July 28), which sees wildlife biologist Forrest Galante dive into the weird and surprising world of animals underneath the affect.
Additionally, a brand new season of the climate catastrophe collection Within the Eye of the Storm premieres on July 27, and Season 2 of the adrenaline-fueled Mud Insanity, which follows the off-road subculture of maximum UTV and ATV mud racing, is scheduled to premiere on July 29.
Deadliest Catch, Season 21, Premieres, Friday, August 1 at 8 pm ET/PT, Discovery Channel