Deadliest Catch fans have seen some big weather on Discovery’s long-running docuseries, but as our exclusive sneak peek at Season 11 (premiering April 14) shows, a super typhoon bears down on the crab-fishing fleet in the Bering Sea.

"There are some of the biggest waves we’ve seen in the entire series," Jeff Conroy, executive producer for Original Productions, tells Yahoo TV. "On top of that, we see a wave knock a boat on its side. They recover, but there’s almost a near mutiny following."

Joseph Boyle, executive producer for Discovery Channel, is quick to add that there’s another storm later that’s also one of the worst the fleet’s faced in decades. “I know what happens, I’ve seen the raw footage, but then I see it again and I’m still chilled to the bone,” he says. “What these guys go through is amazing — both the captains and the crews that are out there capturing it… Everything that you see on camera means that somebody was capturing it, and that alone is sort of astounding.”

Mother Nature isn’t the only cause of drama. After years of keeping a lid on Bairdi crab quota, new government regulations have increased the inventory by 400 percent. “Everyone is trying to get through their King Crab as fast as possible because the competition is on for the Bairdi,” Conroy says. “That’s a big deal for these guys because on the one hand, it’s this great opportunity to make a bunch of money. On the other hand, it’s a really hard crab to catch. It hasn’t been fished as much over the years — it was protected and allowed to grow again — so it’s not like everyone has their hot spots. Guys like [Capt. Sig Hansen] can pull out their old charts. Other guys can try to figure out where they last caught ‘em. But it’s a whole new game. You’re seeing rivals have to decide whether they’re gonna work together to figure that out.”

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Boyle teases “surprising turns of fate” as veterans like Capt. Keith Colburn and Capt. Johnathan Hillstrand navigate the difficult season. It will be one of milestones for fan favorites Josh Harris and Jake Anderson. “Things are gonna happen this season that the audience has been waiting for years to see,” he says. “It’s the beginning of the circle becoming complete.” With Edgar Hansen and Elliott Neese, viewers will get what Boyle describes as “a really hard look, and a really honest look, at the toll that this life takes on these guys.”

Here, Conroy breaks it down boat-by-boat.

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