Episode
Highway Thru Hell: Sink or Swim
Overview
Jamie deals with his newest wrecker breaking down during a long haul; Merv takes on an unusual job pulling a sunken barge out of the river; Bob Potts makes his return to Team Reliable and does his first recovery after his own crash.
Details
- Series
- Highway Thru Hell
- Season
- Season 13
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 2025-02-18
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Sink or Swim is Episode 6 in Season 13 of Highway Thru Hell. It aired on 2025-02-18. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 5: A Tow Man's Worst Nightmare
Team Reliable's Laine trains two junior operators while clearing a flipped semi; Al wrestles a broken trailer with a fragile load off the busy Highway 1; Jamie climbs into the mountains to rescue European tourists and their imported motorhome.
Episode 7: Family Affair
Rob and Kyle navigate tight spaces around a tractor-trailer on Highway 97; Cary uses his late grandfather's old wrecker to rescue a trail worker's equipment; Jamie is impressed by his twin daughter's skills while recovering a car on a snowy backroad
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Crash and Burn
Bob from Reliable Towing wrestles with a burning semi on the side of the Coquihalla; Jamie hauls a snowcat for a snowmobile club in the Rockies; Team MSA brings Gursharan's brother-in-law Kulji to his first recovery job on the busy Fraser Highway.
Episode 8: The Whole Coquihalla Is Relying on You, Buddy
Al Quiring coordinates with Kurtis Brown's highway maintenance teams for Snowshed Protocol and Jamie uses Mighty Mo to help newer operators rescue a semi before the storm.
Episode 3: Mudslide Mayhem
Team MSA takes on their most challenging recovery ever when a tanker is sucked down a hill by a mudslide.
Episode 9: Turning the Tide
Merv brings his rotator to Vancouver to help recover a stranded boat in False Creek and Team Reliable fights wet conditions to pull a jackknifed semi.
Episode 2: More Than We Bargained For
Jamie’s return to the nightmare of a wreck in the mountains turns into an epic family effort. Merv schools Jaydan on a back road job.
Episode 10: Dashing Thru the Tow
Jamie works a semi recovery off the highway without his go-to heavy wreckers; Sim races to finish a recovery when he learns his inlaw has been in a nearby crash; Cary feels the pressure of safely traversing the Coquihalla.
Episode 1: Worth The Weight
Jamie realizes he's been given the wrong information; Team Reliable wrestles with a cable barrier on Highway 1; Aggressive Towing battles with a heavy B-train down a deep ditch in the Fraser Valley.
Episode 11: Hook, Line and Wincher
Reliable's Evan Pardy puts his wrecker to the test recovering a truck broken in two from a narrow bridge; Al Quiring flexes his technical skills on a massive dump truck spill; Autow's Kyle Langlois takes the lead on a burnt-out wreck.
Episode 12: Good 'Ol Crusty
Jamie unveils his new railway wrecker to pull up a semi that's gone off Highway 1; Team Reliable's Andy tackles a gravel truck that's rolled off; MSA's Gurk takes on the controls of the 50-ton for the first time for a foggy Fraser Valley recovery.