[cardiologist speaking]
I mean, we just went to go wake up Sig like normal.
He wasn't responding, and I cracked the door.
He was on the ground.
There was also some puke on the ground,
and he must have passed out.
Yeah, he's mentioned -- very dizzy and tightness
in his chest, tightness all around his chest.
No, we have not taken that yet but...
we can do that for you.
-OK, sounds good. -[Karl] You're gonna come down?
Yeah.
Hey, Sig, I'm gonna take your blood pressure real quick.
[Sig groans]
I'm gonna need your arm.
-My shoulder hurts. -Your shoulder?
[bleep] yeah.
-When you fell? -I don't know.
[dramatic music playing]
[Sig groans]
What is it?
86 over 57.
We're gonna get your bpm.
[Sig groans]
[Clark] 125.
Here, you want to squeeze my hand?
Both hands. Let me see that one, too.
Squeeze.
Good. All right, well, hang tight.
We'll check on you in a second.
OK, you there?
[cardiologist speaking]
Blood pressure was 86 over 57.
His bpm was 125.
And both right and left hand, he can squeeze,
but it's pretty weak.
No, it was about the same.
[tense music playing]
We're eight hours out of Dutch Harbor,
but there's no hospital here, but there is a medical clinic.
We were gonna contact Coast Guard earlier,
and upon captain's orders, that was denied.
OK.
All right, thank you very much.
We'll be in touch.
[Karl] So what is it?
[Clark] He's not exactly sure what it was, but he said,
"Get to the clinic as soon as possible."
[Karl] All right.
[Clark] We're on our way back into town now.
[Sig groans]
Get some rest.
[gulls cackling]
[phone vibrating]
Damn.
I just got a text from Clark...
that they found Sig on the floor in his room, vomit next to him,
unresponsive.
He's had some issues with his heart.
So it's really hard to hear that.
[Rick] Whoa.
Dude, that sucks.
Sig collapsed.
They don't know exactly what's going on.
Maybe he had a stroke.
But if he had a stroke, they'd know.
He'd be paralyzed on part of his face
and have speech issues.
I just really hope he's gonna be OK.
[narrator] 400 miles southeast.
[Monte] We're going to get my brother at the airport.
In Dutch Harbor.
He got thrown across the galley and got slammed
into the counter.
If he's back, he must be...
on the mend or mended.
So we're kind of hoping for that.
[intriguing music playing]
[indistinct announcements over loud speaker]
Welcome home.
Where's the ticker-tape parade?
No such thing.
How is your back?
My doctor did a whole huge panel of tests on my kidney
for blood work. -Yeah.
-And they said I was clean. -Right.
I've got the green light to go fish.
OK.
[Keith] Let's get out of here.
[Monte] So the offload's done for bairdi.
The sooner we are heading north to catch opies, the better.
We have well over 100,000 pounds of catch,
and we need to get in, get out, and deliver, because we've got
two processors, and they're both closing.
[electric tool grinding]
[Freddy] Hey, hey, hey! Welcome aboard, boss man!
[Keith speaking]
[Freddy] Let's go! Whoo!
Big boys, baby! Big boys!
[OJ] Let's do it, [indistinct]!
How we doing up there, guys?
[deckhand speaking]
[Keith speaking]
[OJ] Roger that, cap.
[Keith] We haven't had an opi season in two years.
It's a roll of the dice.
And the crab have been way up north.
[Freddy] Give me some luck -- [indistinct]!
[Keith] And we don't have a lot of time.
[crew shouts indistinctly]
As soon as we get tied up, Karl, you can, uh,
we're going to get Sig off.
[Karl] Roger.
Finally made it back. Sig's still laying down.
We've been monitoring him, checking him.
You know, he's had two heart attacks.
We got a truck waiting.
We're gonna see how he is here.
Hey, Sig, we're all tied up.
Come here and get to the clinic, OK?
[inaudible]
-[Karl] Are you good? -[Clark] Watch this one.
[Sig groans]
-Ready? -Whoa.
[grunting]
-The truck's over here. -Over here?
[Karl] We were all worried about Sig -- he's had issues
with his heart before.
We're hoping it's nothing too serious,
but we just need to get him checked out.
[Lauritz] You don't mess around with the heart.
-No. -That's very serious.
We're here to crab.
You know, we got to keep doing what we got to do.
But we all hope he's good.
If anything, hopefully they find out what the problem is,
and they get him the treatment he needs.
In Dutch Harbor.
[Lauritz] Guess we just have to wait here.
Hopefully, it's not something serious.
[Clark] Hey, Sig.
[Sig speaking]
What's the next step now?
So you're gonna be flying?
Don't worry at all. We'll take care of it.
All right, guys.
Good news that I just talked to Sig.
He's OK.
He's gonna get down south and see a specialist.
-Let's get ready to throw him. -[deckhand] Roger.
I don't really like that we're going out without Sig,
but Clark knows what's up.
[Clark] We're gonna have to get 60,000 pounds of bairdi
and wrap up the season.
I mean, we don't really have a choice at this point.
Without Sig on board, you know, I mean, to be honest,
I'm feeling a little nervous.
This'll be, you know, my first time
doing this all by myself.
Really hoping that we have the numbers we need in the gear
to get the quota and get this done.
340 miles northwest.
On the opilio grounds.
[Keith speaking]
-[deckhand] Yeah. -Yeah.
The weather is pretty gnarly out there, all right?
So stay away from the rail until -- only when you
have to be there, OK?
OK. Stay safe.
Aboard the Wizard.
It's good to be back.
You know, one trip to make...
we still have 100,000 pounds opies to catch,
I mean, if this takes us too long,
the gamble might not pay off.
Well, we're just gonna get it done, nice and safe.
If there's such a thing as safe in this kind of weather.
Yeah, I'd get rid of it Freddy, go ahead.
Right now, every minute counts. I've got to find some crab.
The port processor's closed down.
[dramatic music playing]
I'm going way up north.
I'm gonna set heading east toward that ridge,
dropping down toward the deep hole.
You're either hero or zero.
You're either on 'em or you're off 'em.
With the king's ransom of opilio crab below...
and only five days before cannery doors shutter,
Captain Keith Colburn gambles his season
on a 10 mile underwater ledge, positioned perpendicular
to the current, yielding sporadic,
nutrient-rich waters and towering 20-foot breakers.
[Keith] The current is screaming straight to the north
and starting to stack these waves up.
That just makes 'em sharp, nasty,
and you can't really predict them.
OK. Watch out, guys.
Hang on. Hang on!
[deckhand speaking]
[indistinct yelling]
Oh, god!
Freddy?
[Keith speaking]
stay on your toes.
Setting gear in this weather...
I'm gonna be a happy guy when I get that crew off deck.
We've got two processors, and they're both closing.
We need to get our crab caught, get to the dock, and deliver.
240 miles southeast.
Fishing kills. Just like my uncle Nick...
had a heart attack.
Just hard on his body, just like we all are.
I guess we're just gonna have to wait and see.
First pot. You guys ready to do this?
[deckhand] Roger!
On the Titan Explorer.
[Jake] Damn. It [bleep].
We got to watch out for each other.
It's blowing 25, 30 today.
[Jake] Sig and I have found some crab.
And then split up.
We're chasing all these crabs to the east,
southeast, and hopefully we stay on them.
When the canneries close, I can't offload.
So my biggest concern right now is catching this crab fast.
If I don't catch my quota...
I don't have a shot buying the Titan.
Let's see what we got.
[Mac] Yeah. We got a good one right here.
Oh, yeah.
One-zero-five.
Wahoo!
-140! -OK, there's crab here.
Trick is to stay on them. Sprint to the finish line.
[laughing]
Oh, [bleep]!
That's a big one.
Watch the rail! Watch the rail!
[banging, thudding]
[shouting]
[bleep]!
[Mac] Oh, oh.
[Jake] Oh, [bleep].
-Is everybody OK? -[Mac groaning] [bleep].
[deckhand] Whoo!
[Mac speaking]
[deckhand] Oh [bleep].
[groaning]
[Jake speaking]
[Mac speaking]
-That was a big [bleep] one, dude.
I just got my knee tweaked back.
That chute hit my knee really hard.
[Jake] Mac's limping pretty hard, but...
Whoa!
That's crab fishing.
[dramatic music playing]
I'm trying to get to that next pot as best I can, fellas.
Mac's got to be hurting bad.
He's been doing this for 40 years.
He knows when he can work and when he can't work.
I still needs 20,000 pounds.
50 average through all the gear will give me, after hauling
100 pots a day, 5,000 crab.
That's 10,000 pounds.
Two days, that's 20,000 pounds.
All right, here we go.
[Felipe] Hey, hey, hey... [unintelligible].
I don't know...
Hopefully, Mac can get his knee rest.
We'll never make it to the end of the finish line without Mac.
160 miles southeast.
It is just ripping us sideways.
Fudge.
Just outside False Pass.
Change of plans. We're gonna go port side.
The current's just ripping.
Oh [bleep].
Aboard the Aleutian Lady.
So get the spring and then the bow line on.
[deckhand] There we go.
[Rick] Glorious false pass.
Now we'll get everything locked down,
and we'll get Noah to the dentist.
They say they have an ambulance coming for Noah.
[Rick] All right, man.
You gotta get that thing taken care of.
Sorry to end things this way. Definitely wasn't --
[Rick] You didn't do anything wrong, right?
The frickin' hook hit you right in the face.
I mean, you kicked ass. Good job.
-Thanks, man. -All right, man.
-Appreciate it. -All right, man.
Throw lines. Let's get out of here.
-[Nico] Roger. -Fire up the main.
[Nico] Roger.
[Rick] Noah is an absolute beast.
That guy is, bar none, one of the toughest guys I know.
Not being able to rely on Noah, a guy I trust,
to take care of stuff is huge.
All right, guys, we're a man down.
I need everybody to pull their weight right now.
I really hope and pray this town soak's gonna work out,
because we got to get out of here.
1,800 miles southeast.
In Bellevue, Washington.
[Dr. Gandhavadi] Gonna put your finger in there.
Perfect.
-A little on the low side. -[Sig] On the low?
-Yeah. -What do you mean?
Well, what that's measuring is really the amount of oxygen
that's in your blood.
And healthy people are around 98, 99, all the time.
Yours is right around 94% today.
-[Sig] That's low. -Yeah.
Tell me a little bit more about what happened
when you passed out.
Yeah, we'd been up for...
a good day anyway, maybe a day and a half.
And were you using a bunch of coffee to help you stay awake?
-I always do, yeah. -Yeah.
How much do you think you had that day?
[Sig laughs] Um...
Well, 10 at the minimum, say 15, 20.
-Wow. -That's pretty normal.
[Dr. Gandhavadi] Were you smoking?
[Sig] I -- I stopped.
But as soon as I got on the boat, then I lost it.
I started.
So, yeah, I mean, it was quite a bit.
OK. Are you still smoking now?
I'm stopping.
I got you.
What did I have? Ahm...
-Arrhythmia? -Yeah, arrhythmia.
[tense music playing]
You've got a body that's been through a lot.
And it's increasing the risk that you're gonna have
another heart attack.
I know it's really hard to quit smoking.
I don't think smoking was the main thing.
I don't think smoking helped. I'll tell you that.
Yeah, but smoking doesn't make your heart go faster.
[Dr. Gandhavadi] It does.
You've got a lot of things that are adding on top of each other,
making the heart work harder than it has to
or wants to.
Even if you take the coffee and the cigarettes out of it,
you're still on a boat where you're...
working at a high octane level for a long time
without a lot of sleep,
and you're in this "Go, go, go" mode.
[Sig] So what are you saying? Don't go anymore?
I can't go fishing?
None of it's really doing you any good.
That's gonna be hard to do.
I'm not saying it's wrong.
I'm just saying that's kind of how I see it.
Give it a lot of thought but the bottom line is
you're not doing yourself any favors being on the boat.
[tense music playing]
140 miles north of Dutch Harbor.
Yeah, you want to get everybody up?
All right, thanks.
It's definitely weird being out here without Sig.
He's like your safety net.
And him being gone, everybody has to step up.
You know, as long as I'm up here,
I want to put crab in the tank.
I'm here to make sure that that happens.
Alone at the northwestern helm for the first time,
acting captain Clark Pederson shoulders the weight of finding
the family's last 60,000 pounds of bairdi in just 36 hours.
All right, guys, you ready?
[deckhand and Clark speaking]
[deckhand] Yeah.
Moment of truth.
Got it. Whoo!
[Clark] I got three-day soak on the gear.
You know, we need 135 average.
If we can hit that, you know, we can wrap up the season.
Hopefully they come up big.
[deckhand] You got it.
[Karl] What do we got? What do we got?
Oh, no!
Ah, that [bleep].
18.
Re-stack.
[Karl] Oh, no!
[Clark] Pots coming up.
-[Karl] Here it is. -[deckhand] [indistinct] crab.
[deckhand #2] Yeah.
This spot we've been at is just not producing anymore.
[Karl speaking]
30?
[Karl] Not too sexy.
I wouldn't put these back in the water right now.
Well, it's been slowly getting better, the deeper we get.
-But who knows? -Better, deeper.
[Karl] Here it comes!
I mean, the number one thing Sig hates is running for crab.
But...
[deckhand] Still on it.
[Clark] ...this fresh ground,
where it starts getting, kind of, just off the edge.
It's a little further west than I think we want to go, but...
we're gonna stack the rest of these on.
Roger.
[Clark speaking]
[deckhand] Yeah, baby!
Let's go, let's go!
[indistinct shouting]
Yeah!
There it is.
I know it's a gamble, but, you know,
we're gonna have to do it. We need new grounds.
-[buzzing] -[deckhand] Going over!
-I got a good feeling. -[deckhand] Let her go.
[Clark] Hopefully, we can hit big.
25 miles southeast.
[Jake speaking]
Yeah, now there's a squall that's coming in on top
of the wind and waves,
but I still have to haul this gear.
I still have 17,000 pounds to get.
I could pull it out of this area, but...Mac's hurt.
If I'm down Mac, I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
It's a lot of work for three guys.
Dude, how's the knee?
[Mac] I'm sore.
Looks like my knee popped out and went down,
or something, you know?
[Jake] Are you gonna be OK?
I'll just leave the decision up to you.
You've been doing this 40 years.
I'm gonna go up top, and then I'll start...
mowing the lawn.
[dramatic music playing]
Damn.
Damn, that's rough.
[indistinct shouting]
Oh, god. Three-man deck is just stupid.
[indistinct shouting]
[Felipe speaking]
It's not great, but it'll get me to my offload
if I can finish.
I'm getting old, you know. It's hard to accept.
But I don't want to, you know, disappoint
the guys either.
One, two, let's go!
I'm gonna go try it. I never backed out at anything.
Mac's got to be hurtin' bad.
I don't know what it is, but he's almost 60.
That's hard on me personally...
[Mac groans]
[Jake] ...and financially.
My whole season could come down to this.
[bleep]
[Felipe speaking]
Hooray, Mac!
[Titan Explorer crew cheering]
[Jake] No way.
[Titan Explorer crew cheering]
I can't let you guys down, brothers.
Mac, you're back!
Yeah!
[deckhand] Whoo-hoo!
Get to work.
That is awesome.
It still hurts, but I can't let them...
I can't let Jake and the boys down.
That's love of the game right there.
[groaning]
[Mac groans]
He's back to work, light duty.
Visibility has dropped. I can't see in the squall.
I need some eyes to help me find bags.
[deckhand] I don't know.
-[bleep] -[Mac] I see it.
Hey, I see it!
Right there!
[Jake] Where?
Right there, one o'clock!
[deckhand] Damn.
[deckhand] [bleep] yeah, Mac!
Got all the guys on deck.
Mac got that one.
-Can't find it again. -[Mac] Straight ahead!
One o'clock again!
How did you see that?
[inspirational music playing]
-How did he see that? -Whoop!
[deckhand] Yeah, here we go, here we go!
Yeah!
[Jake] Who knows?
I might be able to finish this string out and get back
to the barn and offload this.
Hopefully, we make it in time.
30 miles northwest.
-First pot coming up. -[Karl] Roger.
On the Northwestern.
[Clark] We're coming up on our west set.
Ready?
What we were seeing before was not, it just wasn't working.
We needed those extra numbers, that bigger average.
You know, we need that 135 average.
With 48 hours left till cannery closure and no time
for another move,
the Hansen family's fate rests in the hands of a Pederson.
[Clark] If these produce...
[indistinct shouting]
...you know, that's it. That's a wrap for the season.
[deckhand] Hoping for something good, man.
What do we got?
I don't think I've ever wanted to see crab in a pot more
than right now because there's so much relying on this.
[Hunter speaking]
[Freddy] Mohawk Power.
[OJ] [unintelligible], buddy, you got this.
[Keith] You know, every time we cut our hair or have a mohawk,
it seems like we end up with better fishing.
Unfortunately, I'm mohawk-impaired.
But I can do some kind of haircut for good luck.
We need some good luck right now on this gear.
[deckhand] This looks way better than mine.
[Keith] Oh, man, that is beautiful work.
The reverse hawk?
[Keith] Yeah! Take it off! All of it! Take it off!
[Keith] Oh, [bleep], skunk line right down [indistinct].
There you go. Don't be shy.
Oh, it's looking good, isn't it?
-Feels good, right? -Oh, it feels really good.
-[Wizard crew laughing] -[Keith] All right,
which one of you guys is doing my backside?
As Keith gets the old chest forest trimmed,
the fleet's fight to the finish grows...
hairier.
On the Northwestern.
If these produce, you know, that's it.
That's a wrap for the season.
[Northwestern crew cheering]
Whoo!
They look nice and red, big. That looks good.
[deckhand speaking]
That's definitely what we're looking for.
That'll get us out of here.
We're getting way better numbers than I was expecting.
If they keep going like this, we can get them all on
and get back to town here as soon as possible.
Let's spin it.
Big weight will be lifted off my shoulders after getting
all the pots back on board. -[deckhand] Oh, yeah.
Especially without Sig being here.
That's something new for all of us.
200 miles northwest.
All right, guys, coming up, first pot.
[indistinct chatter]
Aboard the Wizard.
[Keith] The eggs are in one basket right now.
Everything's gambling on a small, little,
pretty much five by five mile square.
This winter was pretty rough.
We started with two completely worthless deckhands
on this boat at the same time.
Injuries, bad numbers, horrible weather.
We really need this train to be strong from start to finish.
We need some 300 just to get our crab.
I mean, if we don't, that all comes out of my pocket.
All right, come on, baby. Let's get this first one here.
Oh, [bleep] it's got some crab in it, come on.
[indistinct chatter]
[deckhand] Whoo! Yeah!
[cheering]
Nice big crab.
[cheering continues]
[deckhand] 300.
Oh! 300!
[Freddy] Yeah, baby.
Wah-ho-ho-ho!
Whoo!
We're getting close. We're getting close.
Yeah!
Whoo!
[Keith] Man, I'm talking about a miserable season.
But we succeeded.
The best part about opies is putting that last pot
on the stack and going home.
After four weeks of hard labor...
[Rick] Last pot's up.
[deckhand] Come on, baby.
...nine captains and 33 deckhands
bring their first opilio season in three years to a close.
That's a good pot to end on. Whoo-hoo!
On the Aleutian Lady.
[Rick] That was the last pod.
You guys kicked ass. Thank you for pushing through.
[sighing] Oh, man.
I've been waiting to say that for way too long.
Captain Rick Shelfor tanks all 220,000 pounds
of his opilio quota.
Noah's tooth, he got injured.
We had to come all the way back out.
But we got it.
And every everybody on board the boat's gonna make a nice
chunk of money. -Whoo-hoo-hoo, baby!
Earning each hand and broken smile a shiny $55,000.
Well, I got good news for you fellas.
[Titan Explorer crew cheering]
On the Titan Explorer.
-That's the last one. -[Mac] Can I try it?
Whoo-hoo!
Is that Mac right there?
Captain Jake Anderson and a trusty Mac White...
He seriously just threw the hook.
...tank a mammoth 400,000-pound,
$2.9 million bairdi hoard.
All right, that's it, guys.
It was a hellacious year.
But trading all my opies in for bairdi worked out.
[deckhand speaking]
That brings me closer to buyin' this boat.
Making Jake, for the second time in his career,
an owner-operator.
Alls I gotta do is do some paperwork and cut the check.
And each deckhand $145,000 richer.
[Clark] Hey! How's it goin'?
-Come and give me a hug! -[cheering]
He made it!
Oh!
For the Hansen family...
-Welcome home. -I know.
[kiss smacks]
For the first time, a Pederson completes
their million-dollar quota, Sigless.
You had everything laid out perfect.
You gave me a silver platter. All the crab was in the gear.
-Yeah. -And the boat's safe.
Earning each deckhand $52,000.
-How are you feeling? -I'm fine.
I mean, I've been checked out and everything,
but they kind of told me to start slowing down.
I just don't see that happening.
And quite frankly, I don't want to.
I do appreciate you stepping in.
That's a big deal.
I got something for you, Follow me.
And for Clark...
[Clark] Oh, my god.
No way.
...a little something extra.
-You kidding me? -It's a Mach, man.
[Clark] Holly [bleep]!
-A Mach 1. -Here.
Take it first. No, take it.
Of course.
[engine growling]
He stepped up, and he just had to take over the boat,
you know, in a moment's notice, and he really deserves this one.
[Clark] Bye!
Bye.
Bye, bye, daddy.
Just come -- come back alive.