[Sig] Hey, Johnny.
What's up, man? I pulled some ugliness down here.
Got about five crab out of 40 pots.
Oh, my God.
[Johnathan speaking]
[laughs] So, I'm, uh--
[Sig] You know, I'll tell you something, John,
farther to the north and to the west.
Think I got down to, like, 225, 30 fathom,
so maybe from there, and deeper might be something.
Oh, you saw that out there?
Well, that's interesting.
I'm gonna try that next, I'm thinking.
[Sig] All right.
[Johnathan] Okay, buddy. Thanks.
-Thanks. -[Sig] You're welcome.
Okay, bye.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
That's what we're gonna do.
Thirty-two years I've been pulling this stuff, every kind of fishery.
But I don't care how many years you've been out here.
You know, just something can happen.
♪ Oh, I'm a cowboy ♪
Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop, Shyanne!
♪ I'm wanted, wanted ♪
Now, it's gone.
It can't be gone.
♪ Dead or alive ♪
It's gone!
-[man] Hey! Hey! Hey! -[shouting]
Quick, get the crab pot on.
[Rick] Weather's starting to pick up.
This was kinda my worst fear,
I didn't want this to happen.
♪ Dead or alive ♪
[indistinct shouting]
♪ Dead or alive ♪
[Johnathan] This might be the last adventure.
You're almost done, but...
it's still not over.
You still gotta fight.
[narrator] 160 miles north of Dutch Harbor...
[Sig] Coming up on the first pot.
[man] Yeah.
Here we go! Big pot coming!
We now have to face the problem with the canneries closing down.
But I'm still confident
because we're seeing sign.
[narrator] ...on theNorthwestern...
Come on, crab!
Coming up.
What do we got? What do we got?
-Oh! -Oh, no.
[Sig] I was hoping that we'd hit on this bottom end,
but I mean, it's bairdi.
Uh, you know, they don't like to play nice.
Bunch of weirdos.
Come on, baby, come to papa!
Oh, [bleep]!
[narrator] With 10 days until processors shut their doors,
Captain Sig Hansen and daughter, Mandy,
lose the scent on grounds dimpled with ridges and gullies.
I mean, like, we have, you know, a little spot around here that...
It was like a... It was a dip, it was a hole.
But I can't remember where.
When we fished it,
it was on my bathymetric chart, you know?
I know it was in, like, a curve,
but I don't know which one.
I don't see your charts, Dad.
[crew member over radio] Three.
[Sig] Come on!
I don't know when, but I know I got it on a plotter somewhere.
[sighs]
[radio beeps]
[Sig speaking over radio]
[Norman] Roger.
Here we go. [grunts]
[Norman speaking]
[Sig speaking]
I didn't have any, bud.
[Sig] Norman seems to think we got the computer on the boat.
If anybody knows, he does.
Well, I got the guys stacking 'em on right now.
Hopefully, he can find it.
[Donna speaking over phone]
I think they feel more at home here than anywhere else.
-They haven't had to-- -[Donna speaking over phone]
[Jake] That means it's good.
They've been pretty happy.
[Donna speaking over phone]
[narrator] On theSaga...
[Jake] We're looking to fill two tanks.
And we've seen a lot of small crabs.
Because we don't have enough people on the table
to sort good enough and fast enough.
Um, I still have a lot to learn on the hydros.
-Guys, ready? -[man] Yes!
[Jake] Sixty-five fathoms.
They've been soaking for over 36 hours now.
[narrator] After venturing north of the fleet
on the hunt for harvestable male crab,
Captain Jake Anderson looks to prospect pots
in upper latitudes to fill his tanks
with $300,000 of bairdi
ahead of a scheduled delivery.
[man] Nothing!
There's nothing in it, dude. What the [bleep]?
I don't think it's the tide.
This string is gonna suck.
Okay.
Let's just calm down here
and look at this one.
[man] Ah!
[Jake] I tired to spread 'em out a little bit with the string
'cause I wanted to see if it was gonna work better
if I set 'em tight, or if I started spacing 'em out.
Well, what the pots are telling me is that don't space 'em out.
[man speaking]
They're also telling me that the crab are, uh...
moving to the south slightly.
Ah!
All right, stack 'em on, guys.
I'm so cold. It's so [bleep] cold over here.
All you do is stand here and push levers
and get wind blown and rained on in your face.
[Jake] Currents are running real hard.
Slow it down, Shy.
[man] Shut it off! Shut it off!
-[Shyanne] Oh, [bleep]. -[man] Shut it off!
-[Shyanne] Okay. -[Jake] Hey.
Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop, Shyanne.
[bleeps]
Okay, just get it up, Shy.
[Shyanne] Pot coming up.
[crew member speaking]
Oh, it's toast.
-Snapped right off. -[Shyanne groans]
[Jake] Without that stiff arm, the block,
it'll still hang there by a chain and a shackle
but the stiff arm holds all the tension.
It's the main piece that protects whoever is at the rail
from it swinging and hitting 'em.
I [bleep] this up, I should probably
at least give my best attempt at fixing it.
It doesn't seem like a very tough fix,
but it's time-consuming, because you have to weld it thoroughly.
[Shyanne speaking]
[Jake] I'm gonna go south.
I gotta move.
-[crackles] -[Shyanne] Oh, my God.
-Are you done yet? Or what? -Get the [bleep] out of here.
I don't need your help.
Told you I'd fix it. Get... You're tripping over my [bleep] cord!
[Jake] I just hope nothing else happens.
[Rick] Hey, guys, you 'bout ready to rock and roll?
Roger! Whoo!
[narrator] On theAleutian Lady...
[Rick] We got our offload date.
We gotta be heading to Akutan in 22 hours,
so I'm hoping to get on a nice, big school of monster bairdi
'cause those bigger bairdi, they can fill the tank up quicker.
Every ounce, every pound helps.
Hopefully, it's stuffed.
[crew member] No good!
-Looks pretty weak. -[sighs]
[laughs] Ah!
[crew member speaking]
One!
I can't have this kind of slow fishing.
So I'm gonna have to make a move.
Yeah, go ahead, stack it.
[crew member over radio] Roger.
I've heard of guys starting to see a little trend
of everything going to the west.
-[waves crashing] -[Rick] So I'm gonna head over
and get a better feel for what's going on.
[narrator] Herding for 15,000 more pounds
before his final offload in two days...
Captain Rick Shelford takes gossip as gospel,
stacking and moving to alleged hot fishing.
-[creaking] -[Rick] Ssh, I'm trying to listen.
That ain't a sound I like to hear.
Stop running the crane. Stop running the crane.
I'm gonna go see.
No.
Hold it there.
[bleep], man.
Son of a [bleep].
The hydraulic pump for the crane,
sounds like it's binding up or something.
[screams]
[bleep]
Mother [bleep]!
[Rick screams]
Mother [bleep]!
[exhales]
Wonderful day, you know that?
The hydraulic pump for the crane on the starboard generator
sounds like it's binding up or something.
If we run the crane, it's bogging the generator down
way hard.
So I'm not gonna stack any more pots the rest of this trip.
I need my other two strings to the east
to produce a lot better.
No!
[laughs]
Oh, my gosh!
It would be nice to have one day without an issue...
one day without a problem.
[narrator] On the golden king crab grounds...
[Johnathan] I got two strings.
I'm pulling our first one so that's what we're gonna do.
40 or 50 of 'em in each, that's the crab we're missing right here.
[narrator] Aboard theTime Bandit...
[Johnathan] So, I'm gonna go a little closer.
We should see the balloons.
[narrator] ...with only three days of rations remaining
and the end of winter season fast approaching,
Captain Johnathan Hillstrand targets the first
of two 20-pot strings...
It should be right here now.
[narrator] ...eager to stack on the last of his million-dollar goal.
We're gonna need luck.
The bags might be down.
That one hurt.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay.
I'm just gonna drive up to the next one, Neil.
This is crazy.
Keep looking.
[narrator] Holding his pots and his season hostage,
surging six-knot currents,
straining the half-mile long lines,
dragging the buoys beneath the surface.
[Johnathan] That's like $24,000 worth of gear we have to leave here.
Well, we ain't doing that.
Um, I'm gonna pull 'em up with a [bleep] hook.
I'm gonna snag 'em.
I'm gonna drag.
[Neil] Never give up.
Thank you. Never give up.
We have not yet begun the fight.
Hey, Neil...
Got this shipping bar.
Metal down here.
[Johnathan] Freddy's got out his welding stick.
We're putting some drag together.
Soon as they got that done, I'mma throw it in the water,
I'm gonna drag one of these pots up.
Come to daddy.
Come to daddy!
Okay, try her. Let her go when you're ready.
Go get 'em, man!
Fish on!
Okay, we'll start pulling that real slow.
[crew member] Ah!
Nothing.
We're gonna run down the line again.
-Try it again, guys. -Roger!
And throw it over.
[Freddy] Come on, baby, fish on.
I'm gonna pull it really slow towards us
till it gets tight.
Okay, go ahead and put it on deck.
We get it?
Yeah. Whoo!
We found one.
We got a chance.
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
[laughs] I was shaking.
[crew member] Got five. Got five.
-Yeah! Whoo! -Whoo!
[laughs]
Well, that feels a lot better.
Good things that come to those who wait.
Come to papa!
All right, I'm not giving up hope.
Ten more here, then go out in the shallow.
Hopefully we'll run out to the next string
and it'll be solid 40s, 50s and 60s.
How did you know it was in the box? [laughs]
[Norman] It's heavy.
[narrator] On theNorthwestern...
I do know that hole
and where I wanna fish and from the past,
and that was in '90s,
is on that old computer.
Is it doable? Can you hook that up?
[Norman] Yeah, it looks like it.
-Need a bigger door. [chuckles] -Bigger door?
All right.
Well, fire it up and see.
Stay in here.
[exclaims]
Oh, so, if I go to "file" here...
"OP 97. OP 95."
What's that?
-[Norman] That's the hole. -[Sig] That's the hole.
-Awesome. -[laughs]
-All righty. -Good job. Awesome.
You gotta come see this. Come up here.
[Mandy] What's going on?
Take a look at this.
See how that dip there looks like a hole?
See that, that looks like a plateau?
And then it curves up, curves up.
You wouldn't think that was a ditch or a hole there,
-would you? -[Mandy] Mm-hmm.
-[Sig] You do understand what I'm saying? -[Mandy chuckling] Okay.
I can't believe you didn't write this down.
[Sig chuckling] A selfie?
[Mandy] There, I got it.
-That's so silly. -[Mandy] See?
[Sig laughs]
I would've never ever found that without this data. No way.
Good job, Norman.
-Yeah, buddy! -[crew member] Whoo!
Come on.
-What happened? -[Sig] Come on.
Now it's gone.
It can't be gone.
[Sig] It's gone!
[Mandy] What did you click on?
I didn't touch nothing.
Didn't touch a damn thing.
I was looking at the areas, and I clicked over,
bang, gone. Just like that.
It's dead.
[narrator] On theNorthwestern...
Now, you're plugged into the deck camera, that's flickering.
Why?
Power cord's plugged in, the strip shows power.
So the computer must have finally died.
[Sig] Son of a bitch.
[indistinct radio chatter]
Problem is, I needed to find it
because the last time I found it was just by luck.
I bet you can I pull these coordinates up for you.
See?
Modern-day technology.
Look at that.
Hey, I got you spot. Isn't that your hole?
-Huh? -Blow it up, blow it up.
-[laughs] -Oop.
Write it down before my phone crashes.
Read me that bearing.
[Mandy] 5609, 52.
Fifty-two.
-One sixty-six. -Yeah.
Forty-one, sixty-five.
Sixty-five.
[laughs]
You got your little honey hole back.
[laughs]
[Norman speaking]
Oh, I'm real good right now, I got my mark.
We'll set a little bit through there,
there's any life, we go in for the slam.
Sounds like a plan.
[crew member speaking]
[Shyanne] Told you I'd fix it.
Job is done, let's go haul some gears.
[narrator] On theSaga...
This is the first pot of the targeted gear.
This is the southern set.
Got ourselves fixed up, licked our wounds.
[narrator] ...after prospect strings set north of the fleet
busted Jake's hydraulic stiff arm
and his bottom line, the veteran skipper looks for a second chance
for himself in the south...
and his niece back on the sticks.
Shyanne ain't going nowhere.
You can't operate if you can't fix what your break.
All right, guys, let's hop to it.
[crew member] All right, let's roll!
These pots have about 50 hours' soak on 'em.
I want a crab an hour, I'd take a crab an hour.
That's 50 crab a pick.
[Shyanne] Whoo!
-Whoo! -[crew member] Good.
[bleep] ton of crab, dude. [chuckles]
[crew members cheering]
There's a lot of crab.
[exclaims]
[Jake] What'd you get on that?
[crew member over radio] Sixty-seven. Six, seven.
Sixty-seven.
I'll take 67.
We're on fish.
If I keep it up like this, I should be able to fill up two tanks.
So let's just not burst that bubble.
[crew member] Yay.
Stop! Stop.
We got it.
[bleep] Yep!
-[Shyanne] Ah. -Too late, missed it.
[Shyanne] Oh, [bleep]. Sorry, guys. [chuckles]
[Jake] No, no, don't do that.
Don't ever pull it up that high.
Stop below the head. Up.
-[crew member 1] Okay, you're missing it. -[crew member 2] Gotta react.
Stop. There you go.
[Shyanne] I don't like this.
Hey, feel the roll. Kinetic potential.
-[thuds] -[Shyanne] Oh, [bleep]!
[Jake] She's not doing bad at all.
I'm not kicking Shyanne off the hydraulic.
Hoping that works out.
Got it. That's how you do it.
We wanna see this tank go somewhere.
-[Rick speaking] -[crew member speaking]
[narrator] On theAleutian Lady...
I've been mulling over what hell's been going on.
Our port side hydraulics are down.
Right, don't got 'em.
We're gonna have to set back everything for the rest of this trip.
So, that's our game plan right now.
-Let's start jamming, y'all. -[crew member 1] Okay.
[crew member 2] Yeah.
[Rick] Weather's staring to pick up.
Now we gotta get these last two strings hauled.
And I'm gonna have to, uh, set everything back.
Hopefully, this will come out freaking winner.
[screams]
All right, guys, here we go.
[narrator] ...unable to stack and move without an operational crane,
Captain Rick must rely on limited hydraulic function
to haul and rebait his gear before final offload
in 24 hours.
[crew member speaking]
[Rick speaking]
[crew members speaking]
That is not a good pot.
[crew member] There's a few crab in there.
-It's actually pretty good-looking. -[crew member] Yeah.
-Yeah. -[crew member] Yeah!
[Rick] I'm really watching the depth.
We're at 66 fathoms.
[crew member] Going over.
[Rick] I'm gonna try it out deeper.
And hope and pray that's where they are.
-[crew member 1] Whoa! -[crew member 2] Whoa!
[crew member 1] Look at this one.
In a storm, you really have to take it one step at a time.
Just let her go.
Oh, there's a roll.
Oh! [bleeping]! What?
Hey, watch out, guys.
Big roll, big roll.
-[indistinct shouting] -[crew member] Whoa!
[Rick] Move, move, move, move.
[narrator] On theAleutian Lady...
Oh! [bleeping]! What?
Hey, watch out, guys.
Big roll, big roll.
-[indistinct shouting] -[crew member] Whoa!
[crew members exclaiming]
[Rick] Careful, guys.
[bleep], watch out.
Oh.
[crew member speaking]
[scoffs]
You still get sloppy.
But I do gotta push it.
I gotta push it as long as I can as far as I can.
So...
I'm setting these back.
And I'm hoping our counts will be improved.
So ready to get this done.
[narrator] On the golden king crab grounds...
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[narrator] ...aboard theTime Bandit...
We got a half a mile extra line on this pot.
And we're looking for the buoys.
[Neil] I don't see 'em yet.
[Johnathan] Searching for our pot.
[narrator] ...hours from final delivery,
Captain Johnathan faces a new problem.
[Johnathan] At slack tide it'll pop up and then you're gonna have
that mile line pop up with it and you don't wanna run it over.
[narrator] Still waters that when paired with a shallower ledge
create a floating nest of line.
It'd be so disappointing if we don't find this.
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hold on, hold on, hold on.
He sees it.
Well, he sees some floating line.
Floating line.
Get the grapple hook.
Grapple hook, quick!
[bleep]
It's caught on the bulbous line.
It's caught on the bulbous bow.
[Johnathan speaking over radio]
Clear out the bulbous bow and bring that line back toward the block.
[crew member] Roger.
Right on, bring it back to us.
[Johnathan speaking over radio] Go backwards till we get the buoys.
And then we'll go forward on it.
[crew member] Roger.
Nelson, put that on the block backwards.
Yeah, just like that. Now just wrap that in till we see the buoy.
Yeah.
All right. Well, we found it.
Wow!
I don't see it, man.
[Johnathan] There it comes.
Like a big shark coming through the water.
Good, we got it.
That's a good thing.
[over radio] Got the buoy. Here we go.
Right on.
You got it, bro.
There it comes, there it is.
There's the safety. Whoo!
Thank you, God.
[exclaiming indistinctly]
[excited scream]
[all cheering]
Okay, man, we're right up on the next one.
[crew member over radio] Roger.
[woman speaking]
[Johnathan] You see one?
[laughing]
Ooh, my hair's standing on my neck.
There it is. Both of them are right there.
[sighs] Thank you, God.
Oh, man, I'm shaking.
I'm shaking over here.
Come on, baby.
I see some crab, baby!
[exclaiming]
Loaded!
Oh, my God.
Unbelievable.
[exclaiming]
Next one, baby!
Whoo!
That's what we needed.
That was what we needed. Look at that!
[Johnathan exclaiming over radio]
Whoo!
That's a lot of crab, dude.
Going right on, baby, going right on!
Whoo!
That was a good pot, brother.
All right. There's the last one, brother.
Woo-hoo! Last pot for the season.
God loves us, man.
God gives us just enough and
keeps us humble.
Just what we needed.
[Sig speaking]
[crew member speaking]
[both laughing]
Right in the honey hole.
[narrator] On theNorthwestern...
[Sig] We've got a little soak on the gear,
and now we're gonna see if we can get
some rewards out of this thing.
It's not even a mile wide.
So, where are you can get six, seven pots in there,
you jam 'em in and you can get more.
And thank you for taking that picture, by the way.
Cannery has their doors closing real soon.
I don't know if we have time for another one.
So, time is of the essence.
Come on, crabs!
What do we got? What do we got?
[Johnathan] We caught a lot of crab.
We could fill the whole Sears Tower.
That's how many crab we caught.
[narrator] After over three decades on the water,
Captain Johnathan can lay claim
to some impressive stats.
Five species hunted.
[Johnathan] Australius crabius.
Now, I got a new job.
Scientist.
I wanna celebrate
Time Banditstyle.
[narrator] Forty two thousand pounds of fireworks displayed.
[laughing]
[exclaiming]
[narrator] Countless towering waves endured.
[Johnathan] This could be very ugly.
[narrator] And 25 tons tanked this winter.
We love every crab.
[narrator] Tallying 30 million pounds of product
worth a staggering $66 million.
Five times the plunder
of that other famous pirate,
Captain Blackbeard.
[laughing]
[narrator] What a career.
Come on.
[narrator] On theNorthwestern...
[man] What do we got? What do we got?
-Yeah! -Yeah, man!
Here we go!
[laughing]
Yeah!
[Mandy] That's cool.
Whoo!
Seventy.
[Sig] Seventy crab in 20 hours.
Crazy.
Whoo!
Yeah, baby.
[Mandy] Thanks for showing me that.
Now I know where to go in the future.
But don't let anybody follow you.
I won't.
This is passing the torch.
Fine, I'll just take it out of the cloud.
And now the cloud stole it,
now it's everybody's hole.
The cloud doesn't get my hole.
Stay away from my hole, you cloud!
[laughing]
[exclaiming]
That is a good bairdi pot.
Shyanne's taking care of the hydraulics
and that concludes that tank.
[all exclaiming]
Things are looking up,
but we got a long way to go, man.
Lot of crab to catch.
I'm not done yet.
[man] Oh, [bleep] you! That was wrong.
Where's all our crab at?
Nada.
Wow.
Not very many crab.
I gotta go back to Dutch.
Hopefully I can get back out quick enough
to catch our quota.
And still make the offload.
Hey, Northwestern, you on this one?
[radio static]
What's up, man?
[Johnathan] We're hauling ass to Dutch harbor.
[exclaims] Woo-hoo.
Did all right, man.
[Sig] Awesome.
No, well done.
Beautiful.
We're gonna offload at 0700
and leave right after the offload.
I keep threatening every year to quit.
So this might be the last time
that we see that charter.
Who knows? We don't know.
[Sig laughs] Really?
All right.
Get this thing wrapped up.
Definitely gotta get together in town here.
Good luck, buddy.
[Sig] Bye, man. Stay in touch, good luck.
Wow, wow, wow.
When I think back, you know,
over 20 years ago when we started this,
it doesn't matter if the fleet goes right, he'll go left.
He does things different.
And he makes it work somehow.
[Keith] Johnny, easy.
Been up here for, hell, my entire career.
Couple of screws loose.
But he's a hell of a good time.
Whoo!
[Jake] I love the relationship
that I have with John.
Big part of my life.
He's one of the hardest working people in the industry.
And it's gonna be sad when he's gone.
[Johnathan over radio] Good job, good job, good, job.
[man] Roger!
Look at that pile of golden king crab.
[Johnathan] I've spent damn near my whole life on the Bering sea.
Feel pretty damn proud.
[cheering]
Walking on water, baby.
It's unbelievable.
Consider all the story right here.
People will say,
"Those guys were good." [laughs]
You'd rather be lucky than good, any day.
I think they're gonna say that.
My guys, they're all family.
[laughs]
I see their wives and all their kids
looking up at me also,
expecting me to bring them home safe,
and we did that.
Damn, you make-- my legs are shaking.
Promise is a promise.
We're top three percent producers of crab.
Oh, my God.
Yes!
I mean, that's legendary stuff going on.
Not too shabby.
I know in my heart that we...
we put everything on the line, you know.
Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing.
Bing, bing.
Everything we could.
[fireworks exploding]
[laughing excitedly]
Worked as hard as we could.
Just passed and he pulls the truck up.
Oh, my God.
Oh, [bleep]!
[Johnathan] I love fishing.
Oh, yeah, baby.
My job is done here.
Hillstrand, out.
[narrator] Next week,
on the season finale ofDeadliest Catch...
It will be down to the wire for us.
[Mandy shouting]
Everybody get up!
Holy [bleep]!
[Sig exclaims]
We're running out of time.
What's going on?
Get that [bleep] crane out of there!
[all exclaiming]
[Keith] I'm barely getting by right now.
If I don't get my crab in the dock,
I might be bankrupt.
[man crying] He has to pull the plug on her.
I should've been there.
Now she's gone.