[men screaming]
[Sig Hansen] What is it?
-[alarm blaring] -[man] We're drowning!
[Sig] Dear God, what's going on?
[man] Up, up!
[Sig] I need some answers, please.
Hey, somebody talk to me.
[Mandy Hansen] It's fine. Just keep it out of gear,
Norman's working on it.
[Johnathan Hillstrand] Hey, Sig you guys okay over there?
[Sig] I'm dead in the water.
Just keep coming, Jon.
We're trying to figure it out.
All right. Heading towards you.
What does it look like?
[man] What is this?
I got a line in the wheel,
with more net than anything.
Looks pretty deliberate.
Man!
What do you want to do?
Hey, Jon.
Something stinky about that guy.
They're still north of us, aren't they?
Can't see them on on the AIS,
but I have him on radar. He's right there.
[Sig] Have you got any empty drums over there?
[Johnathan] I got a few.
What are you thinking?
Oh, I'm thinking of sending a message.
There's only so much you can take,
before you make a stand.
[coast guard] U.S. Coast Guard.
[indistinct]
[clamoring]
[newsreader] The United States coastguard is on high alert.
Illegal fishing is spiking,
coasting the global economy over $10 billion.
An unprecedented threat
to generational fisheries.
[Sig] Get that damn net on those drums
and douse it with as much fuel as you can find.
We fought for things before.
For our fishery.
Okay, guys. All right, drop this off.
[Sig] For our families.
[crew] All right, boys. Let's go.
[Sig] Fishermen are always on the front lines.
This is about defending our grounds.
No matter what.
Someone's already messing with our gear.
Boat off my bow. Identify yourself, now.
We're stopping whoever that is out there.
Watch out!
[shouts] Oh! Oh!
Oh, [bleep]. Oh, [bleep].
[crew] Let's go.
[man] Cage in the water. Bring him out.
Get him out! Get him out!
-Whoa! -[woman screaming]
[indistinct arguing]
-[Keith Colburn screaming] -I'm sorry, it wasn't my fault.
Just shut the...and do it.
[grunts]
[narrator] Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
[woman] After nearly a decade of closure,
an additional million pounds of eastern bairdi quota
is open and ready to harvest
for Bering Sea crabbers.
[narrator] The newly available cold-water eastern bairdi crab...
[man] Overhead.
[narrator] ...along with their larger golden king cousins...
-Go forward, right. -[narrator] ...and black cod fish
yield a record-breaking
$250 million fall season prize.
There's a lot of hope for this year.
We're going to see all kinds of people
coming out of the woodwork to get this money.
[narrator] Drawing in the single-largest influx
of new captains and crews in Bering Sea history.
[man] There we go, boys.
[machine beeps]
[narrator] Eager to fight for their share
and their place in the fleet.
[Sig] There's a lot of demand
and that creates a much higher price.
And that's the good news.
The bad news is that,
there's a lot of illegal fishing activity right now.
So, I'm going to go talk to the coast guard
and see what we can do to help.
[Lukas Psoinas] Good afternoon, everybody.
I'm lieutenant junior grade, Lukas Psoinas
from the coast guard Cutter Kimbal.
The Bering Sea contains some of the most
successful fisheries in the world.
What we're seeing is that illegal fishing
is becoming a growing threat worldwide.
Fishermen, foreign or domestic,
are coming in, fishing in areas
that are not regulated
or they're dodging the regulations that exist.
Serious issue, 20-30% of all fish
that's on the market was caught illegally.
You all are the tip of the spear, day in and day out.
So, if you see something,
say something.
Be safe, be vigilant and Godspeed.
[narrator] With fears of unidentified vessels
treading into Alaskan waters,
newcomers and veterans, alike,
prepare to face a common foe.
[Jake Anderson] Hey, Jenna.
-Hey. -[Jenna Anderson laughs]
[Jenna speaking]
[Jake] You are so beautiful.
[Jenna laughs]
You ready for the good news?
[Jenna speaking]
The black cod from last year,
catching 500,000 pounds,
we're now going to catch a million.
-So that's good. -[Jenna speaking]
[Jake] Yeah.
So, if all this goes well,
they got this really nice crab boat.
It's been my favorite for years.
It's going, I heard, for $2 million- $3 million,
something like that.
[Jenna speaking]
[Jake] Twice the amount of money to be made.
[Jake] Okay.
[kids talking]
Okay, I love you.
Tell the boys I love them.
All right, buh-bye.
[Jake] Last year I thought,
I was just going to fail miserably and go in debt.
Instead, with black cod, I killed it.
I mean, I did so well,
I thought it was illegal.
[narrator] Working his way up from greenhorn,
to captain, to boat owner,
Jake Anderson now eyes his very own armada,
undertaking a mountainous
$4.8 million dollar black cod season.
[woman] Wire down!
[Jake] I don't want to end up
where I'm 55 years old
and realizing, "Dang, I could have bought a fleet."
And accomplished all of my dreams
instead of sticking with just one boat.
-Good! -[woman] Oh, yeah, check that out.
[woman on radio] How's that?
You like my work?
[whirring]
[narrator] Looking to follow Jake's footsteps to the wheelhouse,
his newest hire,
23-year-old Sophia "Bob" Nielson.
We met Bob in King Cove,
tendering out there. She runs the Victory.
So we bumped paths,
she'll cover and hang out.
Steal our Wi-Fi.
[Bob] You're going to tell them about
how my brother was messaging you
over my inReach and flirting with you,
-but you thought it was me? -[Shyanne laughs]
-I guess you said it all for me, Bob. -[Bob laughs]
[Bob screams] Whoa!
[narrator] Saga deckhands are eligible
for a $60,000 fall share.
[Bob] Aye. [chuckles]
[narrator] But Bob, she's after something more.
[Bob] I own a 74-foot wood boat
in Kodiak called the Victory.
Trying to gain all the experience I can
about cod fishing,
because it will be my first time
running my boat this winter.
And I'm incredibly nervous and I'm scared.
[Jake] I know Bob doesn't like to talk about her family,
or her history.
We have a lot of similarities in our lives.
She's lost both her parents when she was young.
She inherited her parents' business.
So now she's a boat owner.
She's a captain.
I hope she can help out
with my operation.
And I hope that I can help her out
with her operation for this winter.
[narrator] Across the harbor...
[Sig] Mandy, is it on, yet?
[Mandy] They're wrapping it up, right now.
[narrator] ...on the Northwestern.
We have a welder in the water.
He's installing some line cutters for us.
They really look like a set of scissors, almost.
I fished golden king crab years ago.
This does bring back memories.
Our dad and I were together.
It's open-access.
And you can attack and get what you get.
Fifth generation Norwegian fisherman
and 33-year veteran, Captain Sig Hansen
and his daughter, Mandy,
ready to boat to hunt a species
it hasn't fished since 1988.
[Mandy] Line cutters are all installed.
Where are we starting?
[Sig] Most of the fleet is going to be out east. They're fishing bairdi.
We, on the other hand, are going to follow that deep edge,
all the way up to the Russian border, way up on top.
We're going to be up there by ourselves?
No. We've got the Hillstrands.
-Jon? -Not just Jon.
[Johnathan] Jon to Andy,
welcome back to the American Dream, brother.
Right, boys? We're going to show the world
a little red, white and blue.
Give 'em some red.
[man] Yes, boss.
Yeah!
Let's go Time Bandit!
Right, give 'em some white.
-[men laugh] -[crew] Oh, yeah!
[Andy Hillstrand] Get your blue going.
Don't let 'em stop. Don't let 'em run out.
Double-fist that son of a bitch.
[Johnathan] Red, white and blue, baby. Whoo!
[crew] Let's go, baby!
[narrator] Partnering with Sig
for the golden king crab fishery.
[Johnathan on radio] Andy, you'll shroud us
and Dutch Harbor is on my back, right now.
[narrator] Captain Johnathan Hillstrand...
We need more blue!
[narrator] ...is joined by his brother, Andy.
Time Bandit! Whoo!
[narrator] For the first time since 2016.
[crew] Whoo!
Where the hell have you been?
["Wild" Bill Wichrowski] Welcome back.
[narrator] For 28 years...
[crew] Oh, yeah!
[narrator] Andy earned a reputation
for explosive pots.
And, well...
Give 'em boys!
[narrator] Explosives.
Jubilant and excited because this is open access.
You go out, the best fisherman wins.
This is the real deal.
[narrator] Now, the old-school derby-style fishery
lures him back into the saddle.
Back in the day when you saw the Hillstrands around,
I mean, they were pretty crazy.
But they've matured a lot over the years.
Push it away, if you like it.
Keep it there if you want more.
That's right. That's right.
-Push it away if you like it. -Keep this away
-if you want more. -Keep it there if you want more.
Oh, I'm not touching you.
-I'm not... Mom! -[both] Ow!
-[both] Ow. -[man] Oh.
[cell phone ringing]
[Johnathan] Johnathan here.
[Sig] Oh, so. What's the plan, man?
What about bait?
I haven't been able to find anything here in town.
How'd you guys do?
[Johnathan] I ordered it last year
and Trident's been holding them for me.
They put up about 10,000 pounds
and I only ordered like 65.
So I can split it with you and give you a five.
[Sig] That's awesome. I love it.
No problem. I'll pick it up tomorrow,
and I'll have them set some aside for you.
-I'll see you at dock, Jon. Thank you. -[Johnathan] Yup.
[Sig] I am glad you're onboard.
-We can work together. -[bleep] you, Hansen.
Oh, Andy just said he loves you.
[laughs] So...
Just tell Sig I'll take care of them.
I'll give him all the info he needs.
[Johnathan] All right, buddy. We'll see you up there.
[Sig] All right, guys, good luck.
[narrator] Just outside Dutch Harbor,
aboard the 155-foot
World War II oil tanker-turned crabber,
the fishing vessel, Wizard.
[Keith] We're getting up there.
Getting up there early enough to get our gear rig.
We have an additional million pounds of bairdi
in the eastern district
which we haven't had open in years.
So, hopefully, bairdi's going to save this boat.
[narrator] Tanking over $100 million
of Bering Sea crab and cod fish
over the course of his career,
fleet high liner, Keith Colburn
bears down on Dutch,
readying to launch for the 2022 fall season.
Who is that?
I've got a AIS target here
but there's no information with it.
[narrator] By U.S. law, every boat in the Bering Sea
carries a GPS beacon
broadcasting the vessel's name, type and position.
-[radio beeps] -Vessel off my bow,
this is the Wizard. Do you pick me up?
Vessel off my bow, this is the Wizard.
Do you pick me up?
-Nothing? -Nothing.
Hey, Robby...
Can I get you out there
just, yget another set of eyeballs for me?
Wizard, pick me up.
And now, it's completely disappearing.
Now it's gone.
That's odd.
[Monte] Was it on the radar?
[Keith] Yeah, I have a target on the radar, Mouse.
If I can get close enough, I can get a visual
and I can ID this guy.
Roger.
[lever whooshes]
I'm not seeing anything.
And it has completely vanished.
[lever whooshes]
[Robby] Over there! Over there!
[Keith] Ah!
Now I got him.
This is the Wizard to the vessel right off my bow.
Identify yourself.
Do you see a name?
[Keith] I'm not seeing fishing game numbers.
I'm not seeing a flag.
Oh, there he goes. He's taking off.
Well, obviously he's not in distress.
[lever whooshes]
[Keith] Casper, the not-so-friendly ghost
just took me on a little witch hunt.
I can't be chasing this guy down.
I got to get to town. I got gear to rig.
And I guarantee you, this guy does not belong out here fishing.
[man] All right. Now throw.
-[crew grunts] -[man] That's a throw!
Be careful, Tommy. Teach me too much
and I'll be taking your job.
You can have my job. [laughs]
[man] Overhead.
[narrator] As new blood courses into Dutch harbor...
[Steve] We got to do whatever we can to survive.
We've got a smaller boat.
We're going to gear up
and go catch some bairdi.
[narrator] Old dog Steve "Harley" Davidson must learn a new ship.
-[sighs] -[narrator] The 110 foot legendary crabber,
Barbara J.
[Steve] Eastern bairdi's been closed for several years.
These crab are big and beautiful. They really are.
I was lucky enough to find a guy who's got some quota.
So this could turn out very lucrative.
You know what, nothing new, just nice and easy here.
[narrator] But a new boat
isn't the only thing that veteran skipper
will have to get used to.
I met Jack in the summertime.
His dad was one of the old-timers, man.
He was there same time I was, you know.
From what I've heard and understand,
apple don't fall far from the tree.
[narrator] New co-captain, 28-year-old Jack Bunnell
joins the wheelhouse,
packing 60,000 pounds of family-owned bairdi crab quota
and boulders capable of shredding the nets
of illegal draggers.
[Steve] God help me.
I wonder how this is really going to work out.
[bleep]
[Jack Dunnell] Damn it. Hey, take it easy.
Ah, lift it up a bit.
[machine line whirring]
[Jack] Wait!
[on radio] Give it a little bit.
[Steve on loudspeaker] Can you come up here for a bit, Jack,
I got to talk to you.
Roger.
[Canyon] Jack doesn't always have the best ideas, but, you know,
he's had a couple, so we give it a shot.
He's in-charge now.
It's ballsy, I'll give him that.
[Steve] We don't bring them on board with these guys
without hard hats on. That's [bleep], man.
It's not the way we roll.
You want to be a captain on this boat,
you better abide by the rules.
I just thought we were at the dock. I didn't...
It doesn't matter. You lifting something up over your head.
-Got you. -A rock.
-[Jack] Kind of cool, though, huh? -I don't know.
[indistinct radio conversation]
[Jack] I just want to have something in place.
So when a boat comes in,
I can stop them.
[Steve] He reminds me of me.
You know, he reminds me of me when I was young.
But he's an aggressive dude.
You know, he's still young.
He's still got some moats going.
And I like him but
try to bring it down a notch.
[Jack] Growing up, I'd get in a fight at school,
go home, tell my dad.
He was always right behind me in my corner.
You know, I don't take no [bleep] from no one.
I wanted to be a captain
on a crab boat in the Bering Sea,
as far back as I can remember.
From my dad coming home
and telling me stories of crabbing.
My dad had a stroke.
He wants to be here. He never says it, but,
he wants to be out here with the boys, still.
I mean, it's really hard for him. It's hard for me.
And I'm doing it for the both of us now.
I wouldn't know any of this without my dad.
I wouldn't be a fisherman without my dad.
I'm not going to let anybody take this fishery away.
[narrator] On the Northwestern...
[Sig] Because golden king crab
is an open-access fishery right now,
I want to participate in that right away.
I'm going to run down to the dock here.
The guys are going to get these boxes of frozen cod
and then we can go.
[narrator] With $2.2 million of golden king crab
ready to harvest in the derby fishery,
it's a race to gear-up and ship out.
[man speaking]
[crew speaking]
[narrator] Well, it's supposed to be.
Well, so this guy is saying
that Johnathan took all of it.
There's no bait here for us.
-I thought they separated it, too. -They did.
So Northwestern and Time Bandit.
They did, that was the plan.
No, it came from Akutan
and the guy told me yesterday there was five pallets,
that's two and a half each.
So he took all of them.
[cell phone ringing]
[Johnathan] Hello, Time Bandit.
[Sig] Jon, I'm at the OSI dock.
Did you take all the hanging bait?
No, no. They didn't put up 10,000 pounds.
They only put out the 65 that I wanted.
So I took it all these.
They told me I had 10,
but I have six.
[Sig] So you took the six
and I got nothing?
[Johnathan] Yeah, because I ordered,
I special ordered this a year ago
and then I've been up on them.
And it's only 6,500 pounds of fish.
Yeah, man, sorry about the mix-up.
Sorry? You [bleep] me.
[Johnathan] I'm not a bad person, I didn't [bleep] you.
I thought they gave me too much fish,
but I found out I didn't have the fish.
[Sig] He's so full of [bleep].
-I'm going to go out there. -[Mandy] He's going to find some.
I'm going to kick his [bleep] ass right now.
He [bleep] block me.
I had to specially have them put it up for me.
Well, how are we going to get started with no bait?
Well, how were you going to get started ten days ago?
It was only two nights ago
I told you I had some fish for you.
So you didn't have any other options going on at that time?
-[bleep] hanging up. -[Andy] Yeah.
-I just hung up on them. -[Andy] Yeah.
Not [bleep] listening to that [bleep].
-"What are we going to do now?" -[Andy] Have a [bleep].
-Yeah. -Well, [bleep] were you going to do two days ago?
[Andy] Well, when Sig's talking to you that's a different deal.
But that [bleep] crew member talks to you, [bleep] off.
-That was Mandy. -Yeah, I don't care.
She's a [bleep] crew member.
All right.
[cough] You got to start at the dock.
All right.
Fine.
I'll make do.
[narrator] Across the island,
on the Summer Bay...
Everybody's all on-edge this year
about illegal boats.
You know, because prices are going to be through the roof.
[narrator] Former navy engineer
and veteran Bering Sea captain,
"Wild" Bill Wichrowski
prepares for the newly-reopened eastern bairdi fishery.
A species that will net him $320,000,
if he catches his quota in the next five weeks.
-[Landon] Hey, boss. -[Bill] How's the freezer look, buddy?
I mean, uh, we got about 46 pounds of squid
and then we got, like, 50 boxes of herring.
-So, yeah, we're at 920 pounds. -[Bill] All right.
We might need a hell of a lot more than that.
There's a... There's a captain hitting the beach,
here from the east coast
and she's got some quota.
[Landon] And I know her?
[Bill] You probably know of her.
Linda Greenlaw.
[Linda Greenlaw] If one guy doesn't work out,
they stay up and they complain and whine.
Like, what? We don't know?
You think you're going to SeaWorld?
Let her rip.
[narrator] Legendary east-coast sword fisherman...
Kind of rough going this way.
-Cut it! -Yeah.
That's the way it is.
[narrator] And survivor of the Perfect Storm.
[indistinct shouting]
[narrator] Linda Greenlaw sets her sights
on America's last frontier
and the one sea she's yet to conquer.
[Linda] This past summer in Alaska,
four fishing vessels went down
and I was able to acquire quota.
You never really worked with anybody
-up here before, though. -No.
No, she doesn't know what the hell she's getting into.
I don't know exactly what the "Wild"
in the "Wild" Bill pertains to,
but I'm not looking to be
an armchair fisherman.
Me sit at home
and let somebody else catch my quota.
It's not what I have in mind.
Oh.
[Linda] Hey, good morning, skipper.
-Are you a good swimmer? -[chuckles]
Oh, boy. What did I just do?
[Landon] You know, ultimately I want what's best for the boat.
You know, more quota means more money
for captain and crew, though and I'm all for it.
But I don't know if I want this to be
the classroom for Linda
and us to be the guinea pigs.
I worry about my guys' safety.
Let's see what happens.
All right. Let's get this show on the road.
[narrator] After months of preparation
and tens of thousands of dollars spent on fuel, food and bait.
[Sig] We're a little behind schedule.
Johnathan, kind of, double-crossed us.
And we're lucky just to get these scraps
that we could find.
[narrator] Bering Sea fleet throws lines.
[Sig] Yay!
[man screams]
[Sig] He's showed his colors.
[crew screams]
-[crew 1 shouts] -[crew 2] Fantastic!
I'm here to help anyway I can with my brother.
Whoo-hoo!
[Andy] We're just going fishing.
[Johnathan] Bring it on, giddy up.
[Jake on speaker] All right, guys, let's go.
[crew screams] Yeah!
It's going to be a hell of a season.
Yeah! Whoo!
-We're ready to leave here-- -Time for flashback.
-[Mac White] ...for more black cod bait. -[crew] Whoo!
[Bob] It's a little bit overwhelming
because I can't quite see how
the operations going to work, yet.
But it's going to get... We're going to make lots of money.
[crew] Come on, JJ, let's go!
We all good back here Jack.
-[crew 1] Yeah, baby! -[crew 2] Hit it, baby.
I mean, really, I've only pulled
a crab boat off the dock
handful of times.
-[Bill on speaker] Okay, let's go. -Clear!
You and I, both, are taking a risk here.
Big risk, big reward, right?
[Keith] We got a new guy we got to pick up.
He's fished up here on a number of good boats.
Hey, how you guys doing?
[Keith] Jacob...
You came with a little bit bigger resume
than your stature.
[laughs]
Good things come in small packages.
-[Keith] Come on board. -Thank you, thank you.
[Keith] Come on board.
[Jacob] The season's probably going to kick my ass.
I haven't single pot-fished in a while.
But I know that the recipe to success is
a good attitude and never giving up.
Take it away!
[Sig] You wanna stake your claim,
and get as much as you can while you can.
It's a battlefield out there.
[narrator] Over 500 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor,
just south of the US-Russian border...
One, two, three!
[all shouting]
-Whoo! -Whoo!
[man] Let's go, buddy. Come on.
[narrator] ...on the Time Bandit.
[Andy] This is serious money. $17.48 a pound.
We're gonna let our gear soak.
30 average once through the gear.
Boom! There's your season.
[Johnathan] Cover some depth.
They're gonna be half a mile, a mile apart.
[narrator] The reunited Brothers Hillstrand
begin setting all 40 pots
into the northern trenches,
bottoming out at 220 fathoms...
Okay. We're gonna need
10 shots. 10 on each one.
[man] Whoo! Sweet.
[narrator] ...home to the deep-dwelling Golden King Crab.
[Andy] If a illegal fishing vessel comes in
and, and takes out our one pot, it doesn't destroy their net.
They don't even care. They'll hang that sucker in the rigging, like a trophy.
[man] Here we go! [continues indistinctly]
[producer speaking]
It could well be.
[Andy] Yep. Northwestern.
[Sig] You wanna be sneaky? I'll be sneaky.
We're just gonna add a little bit more herring to the pot.
Hopefully, uh, it's enough to get by.
[narrator] Mixing ground fish with cod,
scrounged last minute at the dock...
Should we go cork him?
He did steal our bait after all.
[Sig] Yeah. Give him a little shot across the bow.
[narrator] Captain Sig and Mandy
nestle their pots
side by side the Time Bandit gear, in an act known as corking,
betting the scent of the Hillstrand's heavily baited pots,
and the crab they attract, will be split between both their tanks.
[Sig over PA indistinctly] ...throw in four of us. I wanna slam 'em.
We got [bleep] on the bait.
We're just gonna set Johnathan down right now.
We just came [bleep] behind them,
we're gonna drop right next to 'em.
This is 211 fathoms.
[Clark] Whoo! All right!
Okay, set her when you're ready.
[man1] Going over!
[man2] Looking good, guys!
Go away.
Just leave me alone.
[Johnathan] I hope this doesn't ruin our friendship.
Gonna hate each other the rest of our lives
over some stupid little season.
He's stealth-moding me now. [chuckles]
If I turn and set,
I guarantee he's gonna turn and set.
-[clicks] -[whirring]
-[Sig] You wanna hit him hard. -I do.
[clicks]
[Sig and Mandy laughing]
I wouldn't be so vindictive if it wasn't for that...
...hanging up the phone thing.
[Clark speaking]
Whoo-hoo!
-[shouts indistinctly] -[Sig and Mandy laugh]
If you're set right now, you, you're corking me.
I don't give a [bleep] if your pots' here.
If there's crab, I'm gonna set, ya [bleep] peanut-head.
[Mandy and Sig laugh]
[narrator] 540 miles southeast,
on the eastern bairdi grounds...
-[Jack] Hey, Dad. -[Jack's father speaking]
[Jack] Yeah.
I'm calling you for some advice.
54 battle line. What do you think about that?
[Jack's father speaking]
Roger. All right. Thanks a lot, Dad.
[Jack's father speaking]
[chuckles] I can't wait for that, man.
All right, Dad. I love you. I'll give you a call tomorrow.
[Jack's father] Love you. Bye.
[narrator] Using intel from his father,
rookie co-captain Jack Bunnell
and veteran skipper Steve "Harley" Davidson
prepare to drop the first pots of a season,
and a career.
[man1] Hooks coming at you Canyon.
-[man2] Yep. -I don't have a lot of control on the winch,
-so... -[man2] Roger.
[Harley] Hey, get that guy off the [bleep] stack
without a vest on.
-That's not gonna [bleep] fly. -[Jack] Hey. If we are on
the stack, we gotta have a life jacket on.
-You got your life jacket on? -[Harley] That won't fly.
If you're on deck, you stupid [bleep]
your hard hats and your vest.
You wanna be a captain--
-Life jackets and hard hats. -...you better teach 'em that every time.
That will not work.
You boys ready for a spot of the year?
-[man3] Roger, roger! -[Jack cheers]
Over. Dump it.
[man2] Going over. [continues indistinctly]
-[man4] Whoo! -[man5] Let's catch some crab!
[narrator] With a combined 13.7 million pounds of crab and cod,
each boat hunts their prey
over the sprawling 800,000 square-mile grounds.
[Jacob singing] ♪ Time to catch some crab ♪
[vocalizes]
♪ Catch some crab ♪
♪ Keith, find that paradise ♪
-[continues singing] -All right, barbershop quartet.
-[singing] -[Keith] Get back to work.
-Whoo! Let's go! -[all cheering]
We've got bairdi to catch,
and we gotta see if we can get it as fast as possible.
All right, let her go.
[alarm buzzes]
[Jacob shouts indistinctly]
Whoo! [cheers]
[Jake] All right, we're just getting to the grounds.
For black cod.
Lay out west.
[Sophia] Long lining is really dangerous,
kind of unpredictable and...
There's a lot to learn out on deck and up at the wheelhouse.
So... Let's go get some cod.
All right, here's the first pot for black cod.
-[buzzes] -[man1] Whoo-hoo!
[man2] Pot going over!
This has been something I've wanted to do for a long time,
this Bering sea fishery.
Most of my fishing career is, uh,
-in pursuit of swordfish. -[buzzes]
And I'd like to add this too, sort of to my resume.
[narrator] On the Summer Bay...
[Linda] We're fishing our eastern bairdi.
Not the best conditions, but we need to get this quota on the boat.
This whole thing's a risk, coming to the north end.
I think everybody that we know is fishing down below.
But, uh, it just had better looking crab on the survey,
and more of 'em.
Starting to get all nautical out here. Picking up quick.
And let her go.
-[man1] Going over! -[man2] First pot. Here we go.
[man3] Yeah, baby.
Whoo!
-Go, baby! -[men cheer]
I feel like I've never even left the deck of a crab boat, by golly.
-So, they like the muddy sand bottom. -[Wild Bill] Yeah.
Typically, yeah.
[Wild Bill] And normally, we put 'em about every, like,
five to the mile.
This is gonna be two to the mile.
This is... We're trying to cover a big area
across the depths.
You gotta find 'em to catch 'em.
-Do you mark individual pots? -[Wild Bill] Every pot gets a mark.
-Yeah. -[Wild Bill over PA] Yeah, let her go.
[man speaking]
[Wild Bill] Hit the left click.
Write down the second set of numbers. The first two.
All right.
That's pretty much it.
-You wanna set the rest of these? -[Linda] Yeah.
All right.
I love hearing Linda on the hailer.
It's nice to have another lady voice out here.
-You right on the mark? -[Linda] I am, yeah.
[man speaking]
[Wild Bill] Take the cursor and stick it on the track line
in front of where we're headed,
and then left click, right click.
[Linda speaking]
[Wild Bill] I guess you can finish this one.
Anything comes up, let me know.
[man] Whoo!
[Blaise] We got some big, big rollers coming.
Just keeping my head on as smooth just wanna get through this last of this year
Going over.
[Linda] The weather's getting wicked.
Still fishable but marginal.
Whoa.
It's not taking it. Every time I do it, nothing's happening.
I'm double-clicking but nothing's happening.
I go up here to the mark on the vessel...
Double click.
[man] Whoa, [bleep]
It's not taking it.
[man] Going over.
Look out!
What the [bleep]!
[Linda] Whoa.
[man] Whoa, watch out! Watch out!
Hold on!
[all clamoring]
Where's Blaise?
Whoa.
[Linda speaking]
[man] Whoa, watch out! Watch out!
Hold on!
[all clamoring]
Where's Blaise?
[man] Oh, [bleep]
-[bleep] -[Linda] Yeah, his life jacket inflated.
[bleep]
[Maria] That was a crazy one. You okay?
-You need help with it off? -[man1] You good?
[Blaise] Yeah, dude.
[bleep]
[man1 speaking]
[Linda over PA]
[man1 speaking]
[narrator] On the Summer Bay...
Whoa. Holy [bleep], that was a big one.
[narrator] ...during Captain Linda's first set on the Bering sea,
a 20-foot wave blindsides her,
breaking over the port rail,
engulfing deckhand Blaise Hall in a 90,000 gallon surge,
triggering the immersion sensor
on his automatic life preserver.
[bleep], man. [bleep]
Blaise was just awash. He was just swimming down there.
I've never seen someone's life vest inflate on deck.
That one [bleep] scared me. Holy [bleep] dude.
[man2 speaking]
-[Maria speaks indistinctly] -Dude, I didn't know if I was [bleep]
going over the rail or not.
I've had a few close calls.
Very similar. It's been awhile, but, uh...
That feeling comes back immediately, just like it was yesterday.
It's... It's a bad feeling.
[Wild Bill] That it?
[Linda] Well, we took the sea so bad that
Blaise's life jacket, it inflated.
-[Wild Bill] We're gonna go ahead and switch back. -Roger.
[Wild Bill] Take a little break. Come back.
My concern with Linda is this is a whole different fishery.
And can't afford to be putting the boys in harm's way.
You just don't pick that up overnight.
Time will tell.
[narrator] 55 miles south...
...on the Wizard...
I've never bairdi fished before, so, what's a good...
What's a good pot? What are the good numbers? 100?
A hundred would be amazing.
If we could see 50s, 40s, we can work off that,
-no problem. -Okay.
The crew's kind of warming up to Jacob a little bit, which is a good thing.
The ones that pinch ya are gonna be a keeper.
-'Cause they're fast as hell. -[chuckles]
[Jacob] I heard bairdi were fast and pissed off.
You'll get pinched probably every pot.
[Keith] He comes with a long resume over the last 10 years.
I really hope Jacob can make it
and become a Wizard crewman, because he's got a lot of potential.
[rhythmic hand claps]
It's been
over a decade since I fished eastern bairdi.
We got quota covered all the way down here to Octopus Head.
We find one good hotspot...
Bang. Man, we'll be in business.
Pow, pow, pow.
[narrator] After a run in with an unidentified vessel,
and setting 200 pots over a variety of depths,
Captain Keith hauls the first eastern bairdi string...
...in nearly a decade.
Hmm, come on.
Be some crab in there.
[man1] Oh, yeah. Big.
[men laughing]
[man2] Look at the size of these beauties.
[kisses]
That's a sign of life... [clears throat] ...on the bairdi fishing grounds.
That's a good thing.
[man3] Sixty-nine!
[Keith speaking over PA]
[men cheering]
[man3] Seventy-four.
[Keith speaking over PA]
Oh, yeah. [chuckles]
Right , we're on these strings now.
Get these scooped up.
Whoa.
[creaking]
-[man1] That's hanging. -[man2 speaks indistinctly]
We're starting to drop one side. We're getting a lot of weight.
Okay, just take it easy. Take it easy.
[speaking]
-[man3] Hey, chief! You wanna cut it? -[man2] [bleep]
[Keith] You guys be really careful, okay?
Because those things take off,
you're going right to the bottom with that [bleep] thing.
There's some buoys back there.
[Keith] Looks like that buoy's gonna come up underneath the stern here.
[man3] Damn.
[Jacob] There's no numbers on these buoys at all?
You know what? I'm gonna run outside, take a look, okay Mouse?
-You got this? -[Monty] Yeah, I got this.
[Keith] There's nothing on it at all?
-[man3] No. -[men speaking indistinctly]
[Keith] Okay, uh...
It's black, so you can't see it at night.
-Um... -[Jacob speaks indistinctly]
I'm tempted to cut it off, but let's not do that. Let's uh... Um...
Give me the cork.
Get it, bring it in the house.
[man4] I can hog it out inside.
If you want it inside or this thing...
-[Keith] Can you do that pretty quick? -Yeah.
[Keith] 'Cause Mouse is gonna park this line any second. If you can.
I'll go hog it up.
[narrator] Using one of his Coast Guard mandated
search and rescue transmitters,
or SART...
[man4 speaking]
That's glorious.
[man4 speaking]
[narrator] ...Keith repurposes the beacon
to tag the unmarked longline gear,
keeping its owner in his sights.
[Keith] Is this thing transmitting on the plotter over there?
[Monty] Yeah, I see it on the plotter, yeah.
Here. Let her rip. Right on.
When it starts to move, I'll know which way the guy's moving.
[man4] Let me see that trailer line.
Where's that line the corks were on?
[Keith] I just do not want to get tangled up again.
Throw it over, beacon first.
Shots, buoy last, just like a crab pot.
-[men cheering] -Yeah, baby!
We'll be seeing them again.
-Well, yeah! -Whoo!
Right on, guys! Right on! [grunts]
[chuckles]
I'm not backing down, period.
[narrator] Far northwest...
...on the remote Golden King Crab grounds...
[Johnathan] There's our pot, right over here.
Hey, Andy. Come here.
Pull the first one, dude. I'm coming up on it. Here, get it. Take it.
It's yours.
Get that pot! Get it, we're gonna run it over, man. You're gonna run it over.
He's gonna run the first pot over.
Don't [bleep] it up, Andy, don't miss it.
[Sig] We're on the first pot. That's a half a day's soak.
And that's nothing. But at the end of the day,
I tell you what, if there's crab, you'll know.
[narrator] With their strings only a 10th of a mile apart,
Northwestern and Time Bandit captains
approach their combined 80 pots
just south of the Russian border.
[indistinct shouting]
[bleep]
[Johnathan] You wanna see five or six or ten,
and then we know we'll do good on 'em in 24 hours.
[indistinct shouting]
[Freddy] Whoo!
I love the very first part of the golden king crab season.
[all cheering]
It's always anticipation.
[man] Yeah, baby!
[man on PA] Be careful. Stay out of that bite.
[man 1] Come on, baby.
Come on, let's see some life!
Yay! Got some.
Oh, yeah?
[man 1] Yeah, baby!
[indistinct]
-Right on. Right on. -That's all we need, man.
-[man screaming] -[man 1] Isn't that nice?
[man exclaiming]
Yeah, baby!
Look at that big guy!
Oh, yeah! That's our first big golden king crab
going in the pot right there, baby!
Nick, just set it back.
They found crab, Jon.
That's good, man. Dump 'em back.
Okay, set it back.
Whoo! Whoo!
Look at the rainbow!
Well, well, well!
Captain Andy gets a rainbow.
Jon didn't have no rainbow.
[Johnathan] Whitecaps and rainbows is all there is and
-seagull [bleep]. -[Andy] Pots of gold.
Somewhere between 2500 bird buttholes
and all those whitecaps.
[Andy in an Irish accent] You're always after me Lucky Charms Jon.
[all clamoring]
[man] Yeah, baby!
-Yeah, baby! -Look at that one!
-Niner. -Yeah.
[Andy] Wow.
[Jon] Andy, Serious high five.
We're dorks.
What do you think, Russ? Four or five?
[Russell] I think, uh, three, three.
Only three?
[Russell] Roger!
If it's only three, stack it.
Ay, ay, ay.
That might be a six pot.
They got a little white cork, Andy?
[Andy] Uh...
-Yep. I think so, yep. -Yep. That's Siggy.
He corked us.
Man! Where's our crab at?
Saw that one coming.
Those are Northwestern buoys there.
Yeah, he got a little close on that one.
[Jon] Sig's got us corked right here.
We got corking [bleep].
[man] Three, three.
Three, boss! Three!
So there is our pot right there.
And there is Sig's pot right there.
So it doesn't benefit any of us,
being this close to each other.
So alls we do is we split that crab.
[man yelling] Oh, man!
-Phil Blanko and the Janko. -[Andy] Yep.
-Blanko el Stanko. -Phil Blanko, stanko, danko.
[indistinct shouting]
[Jon] We got some guys.
Guys are yelling at each other. What'd you do, Andy?
[Andy] I don't know. I see the door kind of messed up.
We never tie our doors like that. We never have.
[man speaking indistinctly]
The bait's all eaten.
-We know what that means. -Base all gone...
there's no crab in the pot.
-[Jon] Someone's picking our pot... -Doors are tied different.
...dumping it back over, taking our crab.
[indistinct shouting]
[man] No good.
[Jon] Is that Sig?
You need to call Sig up, dude.
Seriously.
I mean, I'm...
-They do it all. -I mean, you don't need to be a detective or nothing
to know when someone opened your door and your crab are gone.
[bleep]
Damn it!
[narrator] On the northern golden king crab grounds,
aboard the Time Bandit...
[indistinct shouting]
[bleep]
Hey, guys...
somebody stole our [bleep] pots.
[Jon] There's Sig, on his gear.
That could be Sig.
That he set through me right here.
It's just very coincidental.
[digital beeps]
[Andy over radio] Hi, Sig. It's Andy.
[Sig] How you doing?
[Andy] I'm... I'm not doing good.
Uh.
[seagulls squawk]
We just pulled some crab...
and then all of a sudden blank.
And the door is tied different.
-Our door... -What?
[Andy] We tie our doors the same way every time.
These doors were not tied the same.
It's kind of weird, you know.
We're the only two guys around here.
Welcome back, I guess, to the Bering Sea.
Well, that was not me.
Hand on my heart.
Swear... swear to you that we did not check any pots.
Guaranteed.
[Andy] It's kind of weird, you know.
I kind of feel violated, man.
I don't see anybody on the AIS,
I don't see anybody out here.
[man laughing]
They really think someone hauled their gear?
I just hate starting off a season like that,
and we're already paranoid,
you know? I mean, if that's gonna happen to them,
is it gonna happen to us?
I don't know who was sneaking around here,
or... or what? Or was it somebody traveling through?
And they just grabbed a pot.
Who knows.
[Sig over radio] Uh...
Maybe we oughta just do, like, a patrol or something
if we're gonna be going up and down.
You know, maybe just go, I don't know,
like, uh, 16, 24 miles apart, just parallel?
And then just run a grid
while those pots are soaking?
What do you think about that?
[Jon] If Sig pulled our gear, he wouldn't prank us.
If he... he would do something do our pot.
-Yeah. -And why would you pull our pot
on 10-hour soak when he got gear right next to us?
It ain't Sig Hansen, it ain't us.
We're the only ones out here.
Okay.
Just, you know, try to pick everything up with the radar that we can.
[Sig over radio] Yeah.
Okay, I see anything I'll let you know. For sure.
Okay, well, we'll standby.
See something, say something.
[narrator] 450 miles southeast
on the black cod grounds...
aboard the Saga,
[Sig] You on this one, Jake?
[Jake] Yeah, roger.
[Sig] Some weird stuff going on around here.
Uh, like Johnathan had some...
Well we think he had some gear pull.
Have you seen anything, uh, strange where you're at?
No, I haven't. It'd be pretty hard
to get to my gear unless you have the hydraulic power
and everything to get these long line strings up.
[Sig] I get it. All of that makes sense.
Well, stay in touch, okay.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Stay safe up there and let me know if you need anything.
[Sig] Yeah, roger.
[Jake] God, that's just weird.
Being out here alone is spooky enough.
Hopefully, we can just keep fishing.
The line that I have,
that's my boundary for how deep I can go.
That's three and a half times the deepest that I fish for snow crab.
So...
I'm already on edge.
[narrator] Captain Jake Anderson hunts for a million pounds
of bottom-dwelling black cod.
3000 feet below the surface.
I'm stoked. I'm stoked for our first pot. It's promising.
[man] Yeah, baby!
-[indistinct chatter] -Whoo!
Oh, [bleep].
Oh, my God!
That thing is loaded, dude.
[Jake] Hundred-fifty?
That's pretty [bleep] damn good.
[indistinct shouting]
[man] Damn.
Oh, my God.
Wow.
This is like perfect buffet!
[Jake over radio]
Time for a little driving lesson.
Here you go. Hop in the chair.
You want me in the chair?
[Jake] How are you gonna be able to do this?
Have a seat.
Please don't leave.
[Jake] So can you tell what the tides are doing?
You should already know what the wind's doing.
Do you?
Uh, tide's at 1... 100... 150 degrees,
wind's blowing in...
350 degrees.
[Jake] So you see how it's going under the boat,
you're gonna wanna turn and get the slack off the line.
You don't wanna pull the pots underneath it.
You'll start parting the lines.
All right, roger.
[Jake] Whoa, just turn a little starboard there.
Turn a little bit starboard and just...
keep it from going under the boat.
Turn, turn, turn, turn!
[Sophia] I'm turning the boat right now,
I'm trying to get it straight into the weather.
[Jake] All right, there you go.
Now come back around and get the slack off.
You got some northerly swells coming in.
Are you blowing them on to the boat?
Not while I'm in the chair.
[Jake] It could.
Just keep an eye on the line.
Lever out. Throttle out.
[Jake] There you go. You're starting to get it now.
[indistinct chatter]
[man] Yeah, look at that. Look at that!
Holy [bleep].
Look at that thing, Bob.
Come on, dude.
Look at that.
[man] Got a pot later to come out.
Dude, that's a $6-7000 pot.
They can't even land it.
That thing is [bleep] huge, dude!
[Sophia] Should we make bets?
I'm guessing,
-uh... -[Jake] I don't make bets.
Come on, come on. Let's bet ten push-ups.
-I bet-- -I'm not doing ten push-ups.
Come on, I bet 210 fish that's what I--
-Two hundred and ten fish? Okay... -[Sophia] Yeah.
...two hundred and sixty.
Okay.
Look at that.
That is huge but
if that's two hundred and ten
then you're still wrong because that means the fish are big.
[Sophia over radio] All right, we got a little bit of a run.
[man] Roger!
[Jake] Nice job, Bob.
I am just... I... I can't believe that I'm up here.
I am very excited to be on this boat and have this opportunity.
He threw me up here and he was pushing the limits
and pushing me out of my comfort zone.
He noticed that, you know...
that I was worth a damn.
So, I'm so grateful.
You know, I'm doing this for me
because it's what's best for me and my business but
I think of my dad when I'm on the boat all the time.
Remember helping him bait tubs and goo through gear and snaps.
He passed away when I was 13,
and then, uh,
it was, like, two and a half years later my mom passed away
from ovarian cancer.
I am just so proud to be Gary Nielsen's kid,
and that's a man that I want to live on.
So, I'm going to make the business successful.
[narrator] 280 miles northeast...
[Harley over radio] Hey, Jack. Come on up here.
...aboard the Barbara J...
Morning.
How are we looking?
[Harley] I don't know. We'll find out.
-Why don't you just give her a ride, dude? -Yeah?
You... you're here.
-All right. -Let's see... let's see if you can, uh, drive this beast.
Pops, huh?
Nice.
[narrator] After gambling their 125 pots
in a muddy family hotspot known as the Slime Bank...
All right, guys, we're getting close to where it says on the plotter this pot is,
so, let's get it done.
...rookie Jack Bunnell learns if his first haul as captain
has any luck in the muck.
[indistinct]
Sometimes the tide switches it around
and it's not gonna be exactly where your mark is.
It's, uh...
about 30 seconds out.
It's been soaking for 20 hours.
This opportunity is the most important thing I've ever had in my life.
I have worked...
all year, every year
since I was a little boy for this moment.
[man shouting] Coming up!
Remember helping him bait tubs and go through gear and snaps.
[narrator] 100 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor,
aboard the Barbara J...
This opportunity is the most important thing I've ever had in my life.
I have worked...
all year, every year
since I was a little boy for this moment.
[man shouting] Coming up!
Crabbin' hour, crabbin' hour, crabbin' hour.
[indistinct chatter]
[bleep]
-[man cheering] -[man 2] Yeah!
He hit him good.
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
[all cheering]
First pot of the season,
looks pretty darn good, it's a good chuck of crab in there.
Forty-nine crab.
In 29 hours.
My first pot as a captain.
These are bairdi crab.
They got a little zigzag mouth
and red eyes.
Two pots down, we got two decent pots already.
We spread the stuff out pretty thin, though.
[Harley] That's fun fishing.
That's like you're sneaking up on 'em.
Bang! You know where they live
and now you're sneaking up on them and then, boom!
Just look at 'em.
-[man] Set back, right? -[Jack] Yeah.
[Harley chuckles] Oh, yeah. That's pretty obvious.
29-hour soak and you're pulling in 47, 48, 43...
-Forty-five... -[Jack] That's badass.
-There's a bundle of crabbers there. -[ship wheezes]
[Jan] We've been getting good numbers on there
we're just gonna shove 'em over a half a mile
and fire these right back over.
Let 'em... get 'em soaking again.
Good volume of crab underneath us now
and we're gonna try to exploit that as best as we can.
I want all the gear in a tight little ball.
That way we can just roll. Roll, roll, roll.
-There's no room... no more runs. -Oh!
[whistles]
[Harley] Look.
[Jack] I thought we were the only ones up here.
[bleep]
Quite a bit of boat activity.
[laughing]
[indistinct shouting]
That's a lot better!
[Harley] You can see the freaking rig.
There's one, two, three of them right there.
I hate [bleep] draggers.
They do what they want when they want.
End pots are gone.
Just taken out by a dragger.
[narrator] Alaska Department of Fish and Game mandates crabbers and trawlers
employ best efforts to avoid each other's gear.
But not everyone plays by the rules.
[Jack] I found the crab and I should keep the crab and our gear protected.
I think it's time we, uh,
set one of these boulders over.
[man] Whoo!
Roger.
[narrator] His family hotspot yielding 46 crab per pot average,
Captain Jack deploys a roadblock.
[man] Watch out!
[Harley] I gotta go down and see how this goes.
You gotta be careful with that [bleep] launcher, too.
[Jack] Well be careful.
[Jan] Hold it steady.
[Jack] We're gonna set some of these boulders right on the end of our string
And that way, you know, we got out boulder here,
pot here, that big drag comes in...
they might take our pot
but they're definitely picking that rock up with them.
[Mike] Trawlers tow a 30,000 square foot,
cone shaped net, along the sea floor.
Running a harvest pattern over 200 square miles,
at times, overlapping the crab grounds.
Jack's plan,
protect the Barbara J's gear by dropping two tons of granite,
near the vulnerable end pots.
Makin sure draggers respect their claim
or face the business end of the net-tearing boulders.
[man] All right. Ready.
Really don't want thing to fall back on us and break our launcher.
Okay, go, go, go. Set the rock.
[man] Going over!
[indistinct]
[Jack] Nice work, boys.
-Whoo! -Yeah!
[Jack speaking]
We gotta protect our water.
[Mike] 130 miles northeast...
Oh, the weather's crazy right now, it's bucking.
It is ugly today.
You wanna do this?
Yeah, I'm not gonna sit on the port side
with a dunce cap on the rest of the trip.
-You sure? -[Linda] Yeah, I'm good.
[Bill] All right, you can have it.
[Mike] Just hours after taking
a rogue wave that nearly swept a man overboard.
-[Bill] It's all you. -All right.
[Mike] Sword fishing veteran, Linda Greenlaw,
makes her second attempt at the Summer Bay helm.
[Linda] First pot coming up.
Well, I want everybody to succeed on here.
But, uh, not everybody does.
Bering Sea eats people up.
[Linda] Guess I, uh, I earned the skepticism
and now I've gotta earn the trust and the confidence down there.
I'll do it.
Coming up.
Give it a little room and then when you feel comfortable
get a little tighter.
She's not the first captain to take a big wave like that.
-[Bill] You're way off to the port. -Yeah.
Give it some gas to the starboard.
Work your way in.
Oh, come on!
Come on, come on, come on. Starboard.
[bleep]
Gonna have to be closer than that.
We can't be throwing that far for all the bags.
Especially in this weather.
Make a big circle and get turned around.
[Linda] All right. Coming around on it.
Right there, Landon, coming up.
[groans]
Come on, you [bleep]
[seagulls squawking]
This is it, man. This is it.
Come on, baby.
-[Linda groans] -[Landon] Come on, baby.
Come on, you [bleep]
[Landon] Oh, man.
[Linda] I don't wanna get too close.
Afraid of getting it in the wheel, if he does miss.
I was too far away again.
Yeah, sorry, Landon. I'll get the next one.
Third time's a charm.
-Give it hell. Go after it. -Right.
[Bill] Just like that.
[Linda] Looking good.
Yeah.
Oh, that was better.
Might be able to work with it.
[Bill] There you go. You got her. Good job.
[Maria] That's my girl, Linda! There we go!
[cheers]
I'm new to the party but I'm learning the steps.
This is the one we set in the deep water.
Got high hopes for it.
-[Landon] Yeah! Yeah, there we go. -[man cheers]
All right, what the number here baby? Linda's doing good.
[Bill] Thirty three.
Oh, there's life, we know.
[Linda] How'd you like that one, Bill?
[Bill] You're getting it down.
You can run me out of my job, which is okay.
-[laughs] -[Landon cheers]
[Linda] Oh, yeah. That's looking a little better.
[Bill] There's a couple there.
Yeah, man. There's more than a couple.
Well, you know me, I'm a half... Half...
You are a half empty.
-[man laughs] -You're half full of [bleep]
[Linda laughs]
Fifty percent. I'll take that.
[Mike] 530 miles northwest.
On the northern edge of the Golden King Crab routes.
[Johnathan] Enterprise, TIme Bandit, channel 16.
-[radio static] -[man] Yeah, Enterprise, go ahead.
Yeah, I was just wondering. We're... We're crabbing over here.
The... Me and the Northwestern.
Just seeing if you're just travelling there.
[man] Yeah, we're just kind of jogging right now.
Okay. Okay, thanks.
[man on radio] Good luck to you.
Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, good luck there.
Do you hear me on 16?
[Sig] Hey, Jonny.
[Johnathan] That's the Enterprise, he's not a crabber is he?
Nah, probably a... You now, a bottom trawler.
[Johnathan] He went straight north.
Now he's going to the northwest.
[Sig] Roger. So I think it's working.
Just stay together, you now.
[Mandy] Time Bandit has been seeing someone messing with their gear.
We all tie our doors the same
and their doors have been messed with.
[Sig] As long as we stay parallel.
We're each covering 16 miles on our radar,
so when you combine the two that's 32 miles.
I think the old guys are kinda paranoid at this point.
You're kinda on your own out here, that's the problem.
[Johnathan] Hey, I got a beep.
12 miles dark on the radar.
We got one.
So, who the hell is that?
He's not on my GPS but he's on the damn radar.
Come check it out.
See that?
[Andy] Oh, yeah.
He's not over here but he's there.
-He's not on the AIS? -[Johnathan] It's bugging me.
Yeah, vessel, uh, 12 miles off my bow heading south,
are you crabbing? Are you dragging?
This is the Time Bandit.
Uh, Time Bandit calling to vessel 12 miles
off my bow, heading south.
Are you crabbing?
Are you dragging?
-[radio static] -[man on radio]
Are you guys fishing?
[radio static]
Something's off.
He's southbound, he's heading to the east side of the gear.
Got him on radar.
I don't see him on AIS. I can see you.
And I can see him on the radar but I don't see him on AIS.
[Sig] Yeah, it could be our guy.
Yeah, I'm gonna go up and investigate.
Copy, copy. Be right behind you.
Andy, get the guys up. Let's go after this guy.
[Andy] Yup. You got it.
[Johnathan] He said, "Oh, I'm just drifting here.
I'm broke down, I'm not fishing."
I mean, what is that? What's up with that?
[Sig] Sneaky dragger.
Yeah, "I'm not fishing." He wouldn't tell me what fisheries he's involved in.
[Sig] No, you're right. There's something sneaky about that guy.
I'm gonna keep following him.
Now he's retreating. He turned around. Now he's headed north.
This guy wants to play games, let's play games.
[Johnathan] Yeah, [bleep] this [bleep] I'm going after this guy.
[Bill] Do you hear this?
Sounds like Time Bandit and Northwestern
are chasing a poacher right now.
I can barely make it out. I just hear yelling.
[Johnathan] Calling, fishing vessel off my bow that's headed north now.
What are you doing? Are you a crabber or you a dragger?
You see that, Jon? He's speeding up.
I can see it right on the radar.
-He ain't gonna answer. -I know.
I'm riding at [bleep] 1,550, Andy. I can't ride any harder.
[bleep] this. [bleep]
[Sig] He's getting closer.
I think we're gonna get a visual.
I wanna know who this guy is.
-[thud] -[exclaims] Oh, man!
What was that?
[groans]
We hit something.
[woman speaking]
[man] All right. We gotta eat a cod.
[bleep] [man laughs]
Bob, bon appetit.
Oh, my God!
An entire Cod intestine.
What is going on down there? That is disgusting.
[woman] Don't make her eat the whole thing.
-Wow. -[man gags]
[woman] Ohhh!
[crew laughs]
-[man] Chew it! -[woman] Don't chew it. [chuckles]
I wanna puke right now. Gave me instant heart burn.
That's so [bleep] gross.
Stop making videos for the Gram.
[man indistinctly]
[narrator] While the Saga chokes down wads of cod,
Bob's hazing entails, some Cod entrails.
[Sig] Oh, man!
What was that?
[Mandy] I don't see anything.
We hit something.
Get the guys up! Everybody.
All right, get up. We hit something.
I think there's something in the wheel.
[bleep] damn it!
[Johnathan] He's running from me.
We're pinging him on the radar. I mean, I got a blip.
Come on, brother.
Send to Freddie to the bow, Neal.
Try to get the numbers off this boat if we get close enough.
Yeah.
I'm not losing this guy.
Come on, boys.
Freddie, Jon wants you on deck, man.
[Sig] You see anything back there?
Yeah, there's a [bleep] bag.
[man] Got a line on the wheel.
I got it. Got 'em tight though.
[Sig] Hey, can you still pick me up on the radio here?
I'm about eight miles off him now. I'mma be coming in fast.
[Sig] I got something in the wheel. I don't know what the hell is going on.
[Johnathan] Do you need help?
[Sig] We're still trying to figure it out, Jonny.
[radio static]
Hey, Sig, you got me?
Sig, you got me. This is Saga.
[Johnathan] I'm gonna keep following.
I'm gonna red line him, Neal.
-[man] Those all our buoys? -Those are all our buoys.
-You got me? -Yeah, we got you.
Okay, back up slow, Robbie.
Oh, my, God.
This isn't a game anymore.
I got this thing redlined, to 1,600 RPM. So I'm catching him.
[man 1] You got it?
[man 2] I got it.
Is that a garbage bag?
[man] Yeah, a garbage bag, over it.
What's the numbers?
No numbers! Blind bag!
[Johnathan speaking over radio]
I'm getting close.
This the [bleep] guy.
This is the guy that's been doing [bleep] out here.
[Sig] Oh, come on!
That's not doing any good either.
It's stuck. Stuck bad. It's tied to the block.
Oh!
[alarm blaring]
[exclaims, sighs]
Norm, I got no gearbox.
No forward, no reverse. Nothing.
[Johnathan] I'm right on you, buddy.
I'm gonna eat your lunch, boy.
Come on, Jon. Let's go.
Come on, baby, come on, girl.
[Sig] You on there, Jon? You get me?
Yeah, I... I got you. Yeah, go ahead.
[Sig] I'm dead in the water.
I can't get the boat in gear.
I mean, I am literally dead in the water.
You need help? [bleep]
[Sig] I might need a tow.
Aw, man.
[bleep]
Call it.
All right, Sig, I'm headed towards you.
Son of a bitch.
-[alarm blaring] -[Sig] I need some answers, please!
Hey! Somebody talk to me!
[Mandy] It's fine. Just keep it out of gear. Norman's working on it.
[Sig groans]
[Norman speaking]
[Mandy] All right.
What's it look like?
Just got something in the wheel.
It's a huge trawling net, right here.
Huge, huge gauze net.
Looks pretty deliberate.
What do wanna do?
[Sig] Hey, Jon, you got any empty drums over there?
Yeah, I got a... I got a few.
[Sig] Lash 'em together for me. I'll explain it when you get here.
[chuckling] What?
Well, I'm thinking of sending a message.
[Johnathan] I'm in.
[Sig] Hey, Clark, those drums over there...
[Clark] Yeah?
[Sig] Get some line,
lash 'em up.
[Johnathan] Grab every pallet we got,
stack the pallets on top.
[Sig] And get that damn net
and douse it with as much fuel as you can find.
Okay, guys, we're gonna drop this off.
[man] All right, boss.
Let's go.
You know, it's enough. Enough is enough.
[Sig] All right, Jonny.
Light it up!
[all cheering]
[Johnathan] Yeah, baby. Light it up.
-[Sig] Yeah! -Yeah! [chuckles]
[man] There it goes!
Burn, baby!
-Burn! -[crew cheering]
[Sig] Sending a damn message.
That's your nets burning [bleep]
Get out of our waters.
[bleep]
Hell, yeah!
[Johnathan] Be happy it's just your nets.
[Sig] This thing, you're gonna see it for 15 miles.
They're gonna see it.
Not on our waters.
Not on our waters, man.
[men screaming]
Illegal fishing has just gotten out hand.
We're the front line and we're not gonna stand for this.
Buoy's all popped.
Dude, someone shot it.
[man] I'll be damned if I let anyone else
take what's ours.
Yeah!
[Johnathan] I love red, white, blue. I love America.
[fireworks bursting]
[Johnathan] Try to take this flag [bleep]
[cheering]
[man] I'd like to be the first Black, American captain.
You just cost me a [bleep]
How do you know that was me...
I know it's you!
Plus all the competition within the fleet...
What the [bleep] is going on over there, Jake?
-[indistinct radio chatter] -[bleep]
It's a recipe for disaster.
[man] What out! Whoa!
Oh, watch out! [bleep]
-[thud] -Oh, [bleep]
Oh, my, God!
-[man] Oh, watch out! -[bang]
Whoa!
[bleep]
Here it comes. Watch out, watch out, watch out.
Oh, you son of a bitch! [exclaims]
[man indistinct]
[man] Jake. Stay with me, man. Stay with me.
[honking]