[Todd] We're ready to get out there and get fishing.
It's been one of my dreams and goals to make it up here.
I've been to Alaska a few times, but never to fish.
Just our vacations and to hang out with family.
And everything up here that I've experienced so far is just
so much bigger.
Everything's scaled up.
Smells different, feels different.
There's a lot of risk that comes into it.
But...
I just want my kids to know that I want them to work
towards your dreams and goals.
Don't let anything slow you down.
Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
I'm just fortunate that I fell in love with it.
[Todd chuckles]
[Sig] Right now...
we're in the most remote place on Earth,
smack-dab in the middle of the Bering Sea.
This is St. George Island, part of the Pribilof Islands,
which is about 200 miles north of the Aleutian Chain.
And in the '60s and '70s,
this was the northernmost jumping-off point
for fishing in the Bering Sea.
I mean, for years, we hunted different types
of crab up north.
That included pureblood northern king crab.
These crab were genetic monsters.
You know, they had a thicker shell.
They were bigger. They were brighter in color.
They were beautiful.
But we haven't seen them in 30 years.
And according to this survey...
[chuckles] I think they're back.
When you're talking about fishing in the north...
there is no forgiveness.
Whoa!
Run, run, run, run!
[Sig] We're talking shallower waters, bigger waves...
heavy tides...
sub-zero temperatures.
But we gotta seek
before we find.
- Whoo! - Here it comes!
- Here's a big one. - Look out!
Hey!
[Sig] Chart a new strategy.
[yells]
Whoo!
[Sig] Keep faith in our captains.
Trust our experience.
- [Neil] Fire, fire! - Got an exhaust leak.
Oh, no!
[Sig] Fight through the pain.
- What happened? - You all right? Looks terrible.
[yelling]
[Sig] These northern crab...
- Going over. - Yeah!
...it means $60 million for the fleet.
- Boom! - [people cheering]
- Let's go! - Big pots!
- Yeah! - What?
Yeah!
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [yelling] - Blah!
Get down!
[groaning]
[Sig] We have to embrace a power
greater than ourselves.
[woman over radio] Vessel calling Mayday. Vessel calling Mayday.
[Johnathan] Oh, my God.
Careful. Let's go, let's go.
Watch out!
[Sig] And rise to fish again.
[Todd & Keith speaking]
[narrator] October. Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
[Neil] Got a little present.
[Freddy] Christmas come early, baby.
We're going way far up north.
Gonna be really cold,
keep your hands warm. - Right on, right on.
[Neil] Stay safe, stay warm.
They had these penis warmers, but I didn't grab them.
[laughing]
Pots are coming on the boat, baby!
Here we go.
Yeah!
Felt that inch go in there. That's what we want.
For the first time in 27 years...
Overhead. OK, good.
Let's go fishing!
Big money, baby! Big money trip.
...the Bering Sea crab fleet prepares for a fall season in
upper latitudes north of St. George Island.
Feels good swinging some pots.
Yeah, baby!
[Johnathan] Every year they do a survey,
and, um, they found a trace of crab up north,
twice as big as the crab we fish in the middle of Bristol Bay.
Their own breed, big crab, so, shh, that's where
I'm going fishing.
Spurred by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's annual survey...
- [Freddy] Here we go. - Yes, sir.
...captains bet on the reemergence
of an ancient, larger crab,
descending from the Arctic into fishable grounds--
the pureblood red king.
These crabs have been sitting up here all alone because
they haven't been fished in 20 years.
They're denser meat, and they're big.
With the smallest legal red king crab carapace spanning
six and a half inches,
northern red kings can tout a 50% larger shell
and fetch a premium price of $30 per meaty pound.
If we go up there and we hit the mother lode, the price of
our crab is gonna go from here to here.
- How's that, good? - Yep.
But those seas are treacherous.
To seize their share of the fleet-wide, 2.4 million pound,
$72 million fall season payday, captains must scour
the 55,000-square-mile northern territory, where the shallower
sea floor creates shredding currents and towering waves.
[Keith] It's gonna be a gamble.
But if I nail them,
bang!
It'll be in, out, unce, unce, unce, pow!
220 miles north of Dutch Harbor.
[seals barking]
[Sig speaking]
How you doing, man?
[Sig] Good, good, good, good, good.
- [Wild Bill] You ready to go? - [Sig] Yeah.
Hey, I thought you were a little taller.
- Can you reach that door? - [Sig laughs]
I need a booster seat.
OK.
[Wild Bill] So did they write this when they knew you were gonna come
in the truck or what? This "no smoking" sign.
That wasn't there before you landed on the island.
[both laugh]
- [Sig] So where are we going? - [Wild Bill speaking]
ROVs down there. It's all set up.
Should be ready to go.
Two days before the start of the season, Captain Sig Hansen
and retired skipper turned boat owner Wild Bill Wichrowski
undertake a scouting mission using a high-tech underwater
remote-operated vehicle
to locate the premium northern red king.
[Sig] These crab, I know they're out there.
It's just we gotta find them.
I mean, if you can get the camera down to the bottom,
get a good visual, you might find some
of those purebreds that are out there.
[Wild Bill] The ROV guy, he's inside.
Don't touch anything. He's real picky.
I'll keep my hands off the equipment.
[Wild Bill] Sig, this is Tom.
[Sig] So what do we got?
This is a seven-thruster ROV.
It has a high-definition camera on it.
- It has a multi-beam sonar. - How deep can this thing go?
[Tom] 4,000 feet.
I worry about how fast we can go and to cover the bottom.
That's my big concern.
What's our timeline?
It's gonna be tight.
We know we wanna fish north.
That's as far as we've gotten so far.
OK.
[Wild Bill] Well, I've been from there to the north-northwest.
I mean, going off the survey here, that's the spot
right there. So the hope is
that's just the tip of that iceberg,
and it just gets better up above.
But I haven't been that far up and over
in that direction ever, so.
That's an awful lot of square miles.
Well, you better get busy.
Did I mention my daily rate for putting all this together?
Well, I thought this was based on friendship.
Well, that means the rate goes up.
[Sig] Clark's here.
- He's right tying up right now. - [Tom] OK.
[Sig] I'll get the guys up here, and then they'll help you
with all this stuff, and we'll get it on board.
[Tom] All right.
[lawyer] What's your wife's name?
[Jake] Jenna Anderson.
[lawyer] So how long you guys been married?
- [Jake] 13 years. - [lawyer] OK.
- Kids? - [Jake] Three kids.
[lawyer] And have you guys already physically separated?
- Are you still living--? - [Jake] For eight months.
[lawyer] OK.
What are the key assets that you've acquired
during your marriage? - Um...
- A house. - [lawyer] OK.
- That we're selling. - OK.
What about business interest?
- Uh, we have interest in a boat. - [lawyer] OK.
Titan Explorer.
[lawyer] So Jake,
I don't want you investing any more money in your ownership
interest on the Titan Explorer,
because that can end up being
an asset that needs to be divided in the case.
Well, after 17 years being together, 13 years married,
Jen and I have decided to call it quits.
It's due to a lot of things. The major one is that...
I'm gone too much--
crab fishing.
But I got three little ones that need to eat,
that have to go to school,
that have to have doctor's appointments.
And I don't have a job.
I gotta figure out something.
Back in Dutch Harbor.
- [Johnathan] OK, here we go. - Pull!
- There you go. - Whoa!
That right there is good, boys!
- Do it, boy! - OK, good!
[Johnathan] It's so beautiful this time of year.
Isn't it pretty? Isn't it pretty?
On the Time Bandit.
[Johnathan] Our quota's up from last year about 30%.
We got about 60,000, 65,000 pounds to catch.
Over a million bucks worth of crabbies.
So I have to be quick and fast.
My dad was legendary up north. He had a secret spot.
That guy could fish, man.
He was a fishing son of a bitch.
I miss him.
Love you, Pops. Love you, Dad.
Different time, different bandits.
Different time bandits.
But I got a great team.
Steve Roberts, Teddy Bear, Neil, the real Neil Hillstrand,
Heather Hillstrand. - Yes!
[Johnathan] Freddy, the Hurricane, Maugatai.
Wah!
Ah!
[Johnathan] 30 years Freddy's been out here.
One of the best crew members you ever met.
Strong, loyal, good at everything, the best
on deck for decades.
So I think I got one of the best crews
I've had in a long time.
[phone ringing]
[Keith speaking over phone]
[Freddy] Hey, big boss man Keith.
Um, I know the season start really soon here.
I'm taking a job
[Keith] OK.
So you're working with the Time Bandits now?
[Freddy speaking]
[Keith speaking]
[bleep].
[Keith] Freddy's not coming with us.
I had Freddy penciled in.
You know, give me a [bleep] call, John.
Just give me a courtesy call.
Speak of the devil.
Looks like he's heading in right now.
Looks like he's coming to get his gear right here.
- Is Joe around? - [Joe speaking]
[Keith] I got an issue right now with Johnathan on Time Bandit.
John's got some gear over there on the dock.
We're gonna make loading that gear miserable.
We're gonna weld his pots together.
What do you think?
[Keith laughs]
[Keith] Johnathan sent me a message with his silence.
I'm gonna send Johnathan a message
with something that's very obvious.
Unce, unce, unce.
Welcome to Dutch Harbor, Johnathan.
[Keith laughs]
[Johnathan] I got these 20 pots.
As soon as we grab those, we're going north.
Let's get some more bullets for the hunt.
[tense music playing]
[Steve] We're getting our pots loaded, getting ready
for the season here.
We'll be ready for killing some crab here soon.
We're good. Up.
Roger!
- Heads up! - Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- Whoa! - [bleep]!
Hey, watch out! Watch out!
[overlapping exclamations]
OK, good!
[bleep]!
Hey, watch out! Watch out!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Watch out!
What happened?
You OK?
- Is everyone OK? - [bleep]!
What [bleep]?
That whole [bleep] stack just went over sideways.
[Steve] The pots, they're welded together.
[Keith speaking]
[Johnathan] No [bleep].
- Are you kidding me? - Last one was.
- It's so big. - [Johnathan] So it's welded?
[Steve] Yes, sir.
Somebody welded our pots together.
[Johnathan] It's all tac welded.
Well, Heather should never left it here, but...
Did I tell you I bought you a truck, Teddy Bear?
This is yours.
I bought you this for your birthday.
So go put it in storage somewhere.
[bleep]. [bleep].
♪
[bleep].
[Keith speaking over radio]
Hey, Freddy's over there. You got a Wizard deckhand.
[bleep].
That's how...
Keith always forgets Roadrunner always beats Coyote.
Roadrunner's too fast, too smart.
[Johnathan laughs]
Beep, beep, [bleep].
[Rick] Time's ticking.
- All clear! - Good, go ahead.
Every hour that passes brings us one more hour closer
to the start of king crab.
[indistinct yelling]
Ready to fill this boat up. Bring 'em on board.
Yes, sir.
[intense music playing]
[phone buzzing]
[Jake] Hey, what's going on?
[Sig] I'm sorry to hear about you and Jenna.
That was a big surprise.
I'm sorry, too.
...there is someone that might be looking for
He said he had something you might be interested in.
[Jake speaking]
[Sig speaking]
Here's the Spit Dock right here.
Slip 42 at the end.
There's 36 right there.
37.
Let's see.
Let's see what he's got.
[seagull cawing]
[Jake speaking]
[Jake] Wow.
Cornelia Marie.
In the pantheon of Bering Sea greats, no ship is better known
than the Cornelia Marie.
For years this boat was Phil Harris'.
And no legend looms larger
than Captain Phil Harris.
Everybody wants the big time,
they just don't wanna work for it.
Whoo!
Famed for hunting down 40 million career pounds of crab,
Phil pushed his beloved Cornelia Marie...
I always had a dream that I'd die out here.
...and himself to the limit.
[Phil] It's gonna be a heavy tobacco consumption day today.
Until a mid-season stroke cut his life short
at the age of 53.
[Phil] It's all I've ever done. It's my whole life.
[Jake] It's a good boat.
I've worked on it before.
I was young. I had just met Jenna.
I was getting yelled at all the time.
Life was hard for me.
[Phil laughs] Did you hurt your girlish figure?
I mean, there was a lot of things that were going on back
then that I don't really wanna go back to.
But one thing that was good was that I got to fish with Phil.
Got all our tender equipment on, you can see.
So she's been
working for salmon.
Take a look down below.
This is definitely shut down.
Watch your feet here, Sam.
Whoa!
Looks like the generator's under construction.
There's the parts.
Let's get upstairs.
Let's see what we got.
Phew, dusty!
Feels pretty good.
Feels real good.
But the generator being down,
I don't know if I have enough time
before the season starts
to undertake a project like this.
The reason why Phil was so loved, admired,
and respected was because he had his own demons.
But it didn't stop Phil from thriving in this business.
[gentle, eerie vocalization]
[Jake] I'm gonna have to keep trying.
I don't know if his spirit's still in the boat,
but if it is, we'll catch crab.
Like he did.
[uplifting music playing]
[phone ringing]
Hey, Roger. This is Jake.
Eighty miles above St. George Island...
- Got it? - Go over.
Yeah, buddy!
...on the Northwestern.
[Tom] Going down.
[Sig] OK, here we go.
Just hours before the start of the season, Captain Sig Hansen
pioneers a first-ever underwater survey to locate
the elusive, rarefied reds.
[Tom] 60 feet now.
90 feet.
Got 200.
[Clark] Are you on the bottom?
- He should hit the bottom now. - OK, here we go.
We're on the bottom.
Well, let's start looking.
Sig's plan?
Divide a small 100 square-mile piece of the grounds north of
St. George into sections using the ROV's thousand feet of line
to scan one-quarter mile at a time for any
sign of the northern kings.
So that's mud.
That's what we're looking for there.
[Clark] Is that an anemone?
[Sig] I don't know what that is.
Come on.
[soft, suspenseful music playing]
- What's it-- - [Sig] What's that?
- That's a bairdi right there. - [Clark] Oh!
- [Tom] Nice. - Bairdi?
- That's life. He's alive. - [Clark] Oh!
[Sig] That's life.
This is the bottom end.
But we'll keep going north or northwest.
OK.
[Sig] And then just keep dropping, you know?
[Tom] Uh, let's bring it up.
Yeah. Let's get it up.
[Clark] OK. Start pulling them in.
Roger.
♪
[Sig exhales]
I think, you know, what Bill and I talked about should work,
but the crab have to be there.
North of St. George Island.
[phone ringing]
[Wild Bill] Hey, what's up?
[Sig speaking over phone]
...sense.
What do we got?
Hmm. Hm, hm, hm.
On your plotter, can you pull up previous fishing years
and look at where you set gear? 2013, maybe 2017?
[Sig] What I'm seeing is...
where I was there and then where I ended.
It's consistently tracking...
Yeah, let me get to it.
[Wild Bill speaking]
[Sig speaking]
New plan. So we are heading northeast.
Colder temperatures.
You gotta hold four knots, right?
- That's your max speed? - [Tom] It is.
[Sig] Well, that's what we're gonna do.
- So there's one last shot. - All right.
Colder water, northeast, four knots, that's it.
All right.
Hey, let's get that thing in the water.
- Roger. - [Sig] Keep it in gear, Karl.
All right, I got it.
[Tom] All right, Imma go.
Going down.
[laughs]
- Is that a cod? - [Clark] Yeah.
Codfish.
I mean, it's life, right?
We just keep going.
Just kick it in gear a little faster.
There's a lot of fish right there.
Come on.
[Clark] What are those?
- [Sig] Oh! - Oh, [bleep]
- He's moving. - Look at him walk.
Stay on him. Stay on him.
[Tom] OK. All right.
[Sig] That's crazy.
In the tank, they crawl sideways.
They kinda go--
Lead me to your leader.
Oh! Oh!
- [Tom] Oh. - [Clark] Oh.
Dude, slow down a little bit. It's one, two, three.
I counted six, seven, eight.
Those are the two you went over?
That's about a dozen crab right there.
[Clark] There's some more in the background.
Look at this. They look huge.
[Sig] That's male, male, male, male.
See it?
Those are the northern crab right there.
See that? Big, big, big, big, big.
They're climbing all on top of each other.
[Sig] Well, you're marking all this up, right?
- [Clark] I am. - [Sig] We got a good starting point.
We gotta get Tom off the boat.
We got 'em.
[country music playing]
[Lynn] Up.
There you go. Good.
Let's go fishing, baby. King crab 2025.
Fish on, baby.
I'm ready to catch some [bleep] king crab.
[Jake] So I'm going to fish king crab, Cade.
[Cade speaking over phone]
[Jake] Yeah, I'm gonna get you something when I get back.
What do you want?
[Cade speaking]
Tell him you're going to fish king crab and he--
he knows it means money.
Hey, coming in.
[Rick] Have any of you guys seen Anderson?
- We gotta get rolling. - Yeah, roger.
[Rick] It would just be nice if he could get his ass down
to the boat so I can get off the dock,
because we got just over 115,000 pounds of king crab.
That's $2.9 million, which we haven't had that
in the past three years.
So, I mean, this could be a huge season for us.
[Jake] Roger's crew from the Cornelia Marie is working
on the generator right now.
Rick Shelford's got a spot on his boat for a deckhand,
so I'm going king crab fishing
and there's a lot of money to be made.
If I can fish a trip with him
until the Cornelia Marie gets fixed,
if they get the boat ready in time.
Oh.
OK, here we go.
Let's fill the boat.
- We're good. - OK.
You're good.
Based on the survey, based on the water temperatures,
we're gonna be going further north.
Working in the compass rose for the first time in over a decade.
And nobody has that canyon plotted out like I do.
OK, good!
[Sig] It's supposed to be around here.
[Wild Bill] Is that it?
[Sig] Gotta be.
Right there.
Give me a minute, would you?
You know, there's been a lot of boats go down
over the years, but, uh...
the Destination was one that
Sig's best friend was the captain.
The memorial is a bench facing the direction of where the boat
was found, and all the names are etched in it.
It came over the radio and...
[Casey over radio] Last known position was right
on the northwest tip of St. George.
You saw Sig's face and his expression, that was...
It was horrific.
[Casey] They found a life ring.
They found a fuel slick. They found debris.
No life rafts, no survival suits, no nothing.
[radio beeps]
[Wild Bill] It's just a reminder that...
the further north you go, the more dangerous it gets.
[Jake] I haven't been on deck
in 11 years.
[Rick] Welcome aboard, man.
- How you doing? - Ah.
I could be doing a lot better.
Well, just in case you kind of feel a little bit lonely,
I got an extra bunk in my stateroom.
That way, if you need to talk or cuddle or anything,
I'll be right there.
I'll take you up on that right now, man.
- Hell no, man. - Damn, you know, man.
Lord, please protect us
while we're at sea.
[priest] The lesson is our God always, now and ever.
And unto ages and ages.
Amen.
[Sig] We will need you
to guide us.
[priest] Oh, heavenly King, the comforter,
the spirit of truth, who art everywhere,
present and fill this all needs.
[Rick] Hey, guys, the priest is coming.
You wanna meet me up here on the bow?
- Yeah, Roger. - Roger.
[priest] Let us pray to the Lord, Lord, have mercy.
[Sig] Give us the wisdom
to watch out for each other.
- [Johnathan] Is our guy here? - [Freddy] Yeah.
- Bring him on board. - Yeah!
Come on, bring it in! Bring it in!
[Johnathan] I need a guy.
Freddy said, "I got the perfect guy."
OJ Bauer!
Yeah!
[Johnathan] I hate to tell Keith this, but I happened
to hire his deck boss.
[Sig] Protect us from the North, Lord.
Protect us from the wind,
the weather.
[priest] Holy God, holy mighty, holy immortal,
have mercy on us.
Holy God, holy mighty, holy immortal,
have mercy on us.
We're going further north than we've been.
You're gambling more expenses, and you will see some
of the most horrendous waves you've ever seen in your life.
I mean, it's a treasure hunt. I'm a treasure hunter.
[Keith] We'll be out on the bow in a second.
[Johnathan] The priest is here.
[Sig] Lord, watch over us.
This vessel is blessed by the Holy Spirit.
This vessel is blessed.
[Sig] And return us to safe harbor.
In the name of the Father.
- And the Son. - Son.
Son.
- And the Holy Spirit. - And the Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit.
[emotional music playing]
[Sig] In Jesus' name,
Amen.
And Jeff,
keep an eye out for us, would ya?
[Keith] All right, guys, let's get to work.
- Whoo-hoo, king crab 2025, baby. - [Rick] Hell, yeah.
- Here we go. - Whoo!
Time to go fishing.
[Jake] All right. Whoo!
Ready going from being a captain to deckhand real quick.
Cut her loose.
2025 king crab, Freddy. Yeah!
- Yeah! - [Johnathan] Yeah, baby!
[Freddy] Whoo!
We gotta get the [bleep] out of here.
Roger, start the thruster.
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
Let's go to war.
All right, bud, give me a report when you get out there.
[Sig] Will do. OK, you guys are ready?
- We can toss them whenever. - Roger.
- Roger! - Roger!
Let's go! Let's go!
[Sig] Well, here we go.
Well, hopefully we find those northern red crab.
We know where they are. We found them.
But they do move.
The more north you go, the more dangerous it is so,
hopefully these guys are careful and they get
the job done.
[indistinct exclamations]
Going king crabbing 2025, yeah!
Yeah!
Whoo-hoo!
Seventy five miles north of Dutch Harbor.
We're gonna be further north than anybody in the fleet
fished in 20 years.
Captains and their crews...
[groans]
...steam 28 hours above St. George Island...
25 years I've waited to put pots here.
These pureblood king crab, we might find
a frickin' mother lode.
...into the violent northern Bering Sea.
We're way, way up north above and beyond
where any normal person would go.
Freddy!
Look at this. Oh!
Anybody need a hose?
[yelling]
Get some, baby!
Welcome home, OJ!
- Whoo! - Welcome to the Time Bandit!
- [Johnathan] Welcome home. - [all] Whoo!
- Mu-wah! - [indistinct]
Mah!
Whoo-hoo!
- Now you're a Time Bandit, baby. - Yes!
That's gross.
First pot of the season, baby.
This is the day we've been looking for all year long.
[Johnathan speaking]
[men yelling]
First pot of the season!
We're out in this deep gut in 29 fathoms.
And we're gonna just set a 82-pound string
right down the gut. - Going over, man.
[Teddy Bear] Yep.
[Freddy] Going over, Teddy. Come back loaded.
- Come back loaded. - Whoo!
I have a Hansen sighting on my radar.
30 miles northwest.
[Johnathan speaking]
Hey, Sig, you got me here?
[Sig] John.
Right now, I'm working with Bill.
So I can't just be going around sharing that information.
Loose lips sink ships, man.
[Johnathan] He was my buddy a year ago.
We were best friends, and now they got radio silent.
We're getting ghosted.
[Sig speaking]
[Clark] Oh, yeah! Let's go!
- King crab! - [men yelling]
["Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi playing]
We gotta go a little by our gut and a little bit of
what the new technology says.
20 miles southeast.
Good to be alive for red crab 2025.
Aboard the Wizard.
♪ It's all the same ♪
The survey is showing the crab further north.
Everything is pointing to further north.
So we are at the canyon that's on the east side
of the compass rose,
and this doesn't look like a canyon, all right?
But it is.
And hopefully, we find something.
♪ But I walk these streets ♪
♪ A loaded six-string on my back ♪
♪ I play for keeps ♪
50 miles southwest.
♪ 'Cause I might not make it back ♪
♪ I've been everywhere ♪
[Rick] For this area, southeast of George,
my grandpa had epic king crab fishing right around here.
On the Aleutian Lady.
[Rick] Jake appears to be doing well.
♪ On a steel horse I ride ♪
I mean, going through a divorce...
♪ Wanted Wanted ♪
...you're gonna be down.
- Time will tell. - ♪ Dead or alive ♪
[Jake speaking]
That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, baby, yeah!
What the [bleep]!
♪ 'Cause I'm wanted ♪
- ♪ I got the night on my side ♪ - [Rick speaking]
♪ I'm wanted Wanted ♪
[Jake] King crab 2025!
Yeah!
♪ I still drive ♪
What the [bleep] do you even say?
- ♪ Dead or alive ♪ - [bleep]
- Jake Anderson. - [men yell and cheer]
Going over.
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Hang on!
[bleep].
- [groans] - Whoa!
[Heather] Douched!
We just got douched!
[Russell] The weather's a little bit different up north here.
It's shallower, it's windier, which means bigger tides,
bigger waves. It's just worse weather.
Watch out!
[Johnathan] I better take over here now.
[Teddy Bear] Oh, man.
Just watch out, guys.
It's our last string.
[Johnathan] We almost got them all in.
We got some 35, 40 footers here.
So it's gonna slow down.
The problem is, if the sea's getting any bigger and I have
a wave come over that
wave wall there, it's gonna wash somebody overboard.
So I've gotta really be careful.
[bleep], [bleep].
See how we don't [bleep] [indistinct] [bleep].
Watch out, guys! Watch out, watch out!
[man whoops]
[whooping continues]
Watch out, man!
[bleep]
Just be careful, everyone.
We've got such shallow water here.
Shallower water makes the waves even bigger.
Look out!
Gee, wow, wow. That was a big one.
They're getting bigger quick. This is [bleep] scary.
[men yelling]
We got a big one coming on the starboard.
- Run, run, run, big one coming. - [bleep]
- Come on, come on. - [men yelling indistinctly]
[Johnathan] There's a big one coming, watch out!
Go, go, go!
[Johnathan] Guys run, run, run. Big one coming.
- [bleep] Come on, come on. - [men yelling indistinctly]
[Johnathan] There's a big one, watch out, watch out!
Go, go, go!
Whew.
God just blessed us right there, dude.
You see that [bleep]?
Right on, Stephen.
- [Johnathan speaking] - Whoo!
Good job. Thank you, captain!
Sorry about that.
I should have warned you earlier.
All right! Whoo!
Yes! Roger!
[Freddy] Three más.
[Johnathan] That could have been fatal.
Fatal-- fatal blows for the Time Bandit.
Thank you, God.
[Sig] All right.
Everything is coming down to this point.
This is where we inspected this area with the ROV.
Far north, we did see crab on the bottom,
and we're hoping that they're still here.
Nothing is a guarantee.
[Keith] Crab. On three.
- One, two, three. - [all] Crab!
All right, guys. Let's go do it.
- Stay safe. - Yeah.
[Keith] We've got a bunch of ground to ourselves.
We're really far to the northeast
into the compass rose.
Let's hope we've found the best part of it.
This is our canyon.
My dad used to fish in this gut up here by Cape Newenham Gut.
We're up here pulling our first pot.
Come on, Lady Luck.
Come on, God. I don't believe in Lady Luck.
I shouldn't have said that.
I'm not gonna say nothing. I'm knocking on wood.
[Sig] OK, moment of truth.
First pot, king crab. Here we go.
[Keith] All righty. Let's find this first spot.
Get busy. We need some crab.
[Keith knocks]
Come on!
- Come on, crabs. - What the hell?
- Oh, no! - [Johnathan] Oh, great.
Get your [bleep] totes out.
We found the females and the babies.
This is not what we were looking for.
Coming up.
[Keith] Come on, first pot.
[rhythmic knocking]
Damn it.
Looking pretty weak.
[groans]
[Sig speaking]
[Clark speaking]
[Karl] There's some crab! Whoo!
- Let's [bleep] go! - Real crab.
- They're big? - [bleep]
[men yelling and cheering]
- [laughing] - That'll work!
- Now that's a table. - Yeah, yeah.
[Sig] They're big?
[men continue yelling and cheering]
They're big!
- We have money! - Yeah!
Yeah!
That's what I'm talking about right there.
They're all the same.
- That's what we want. - [man yelling indistinctly]
Whoo!
[Sig] Those are monsters. Oh, he's beautiful.
- He's beautiful. - Yeah!
[Sig] Look how pretty he is on the back.
Oh yeah.
- Nice and white. - White.
- [Sig] Look at that. - Looks solid.
[Sig] Solid.
Northern reds, boys. Get 'em in the tank.
[Freddy] Come on, baby.
[Freddy speaking]
Very disturbing here. Very disturbing.
I'll figure out what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna set these somewhere.
There's the Northwestern.
I'll try to call him up again.
Hey, Hansen, you on here?
Hansen, Hansen, Hansen.
Probably not gonna even answer me anymore.
Hey, John.
Coyote, Roadrunner.
[Keith speaking]
I haven't heard one peep from Hansen.
Oh, really?
You know, we got him right here.
Interesting.
He is definitely...
[Johnathan] Oh, wow.
Look at that [bleep] there.
They're jumping towards the northeast
like they're tracking something.
[Keith speaking]
Don't trust...
There's some crab, but not a lot out.
[Johnathan] OK, pull out.
You can set, and I can set in front of him, and we'll slow
that area up.
[Keith speaking]
If I can-- if I can delay Sig...
[man singing "Entry of the Gladiators" by Julius Fucik]
Count me in. All right.
[Johnathan] All right, buddy.
[Johnathan chuckles]
[Keith speaking]
...when Sig gets on crab, it's amazing how his 27 radios,
his three telephones, all seem to evaporate.
That's Sig Hansen.
Out here, the unspoken rule is this--
you don't betray your partner, and you do not
hold out on information.
[Rick speaking]
I don't know, however many throws it's gonna take
you to get me close enough to get it.
[all laugh]
[Rick] You want me to go five, six knots or seven knots?
Or do you want me to, like, back her down and stop
right on the side of the boat?
[men laugh]
Wherever you put 'em, I'll get them for ya.
I don't think you'll be able to get 'em by me.
- Whoo! - Ah!
- Yeah! - Yeah, Rick, that was good!
[Rick speaking]
[Jake] Yeah, roger. Let's go, baby!
- All right! - [Jake] Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Get it, get it, get it, dawg, get it, get it, get it.
That was actually pretty damn good.
Here we go! First pot, baby!
- Yeah, whoo! - Come on, come on, come on!
[Rick] First one coming up.
Red king crab 2025. Farthest north string.
Let's hope my grandpa's spot pays off.
Coming up.
I think this could be money.
What do we got?
Come on, come on, come on!
- Show us some crab. - I think this could be money.
- Coming up. - What do we got?
- Yeah! - [men cheer]
Yeah! Yeah, right!
- Smells good! - Yeah, baby.
Let's go.
[Rick] Fifty-two.
That's what we're looking for.
Oh, yeah, baby. Whoo-hoo-hoo, baby!
- Oh, yeah. - Oh, yeah, baby.
[men continue cheering]
[Jake] Money in the bank, baby!
- [Noah speaking] - [Rick] Damn!
Hell, yeah, 64!
- This is-- - Pretty hot fishing, man!
- That was good! - [Rick] Hell, yeah, man!
We landed on 'em!
I don't care what your crew says about you.
[Rick] This has been soaking for a day.
One day.
And we're making about $150,000 an hour.
I mean, my grandpa's area is amazing.
[men cheering]
Yeah!
[Rick speaking]
[phone buzzing]
- Hey, Jake. - [Jake] Yep?
[Jake] Roger. Good.
[Jake] How's the Cornelia Marine?
[Jake] Do you think we can get the CM up and running for king crab?
All right, bye-bye.
Come on, baby.
[men yell] Riders!
[Jake] It's a pretty big deal.
I just don't know if it's gonna be
ready by the end of king crab.
- Yeah baby! - Yeah!
Whoo! Whoo-hoo!
[Rick] I'm following the best fishing,
and that best fishing is moving up to the north.
So we're gonna get our gear resituated and hope and pray
I'm making the right choice.
70 miles northeast...
on the Northwestern.
There's some crab!
Whoo!
How many in that one?
Nice!
I think the ROV plan is coming to fruition.
I had my doubts, but, uh...
Here it comes.
...you know, the numbers don't lie.
[indistinct]
Womp, womp, womp.
Oh, dang.
Really?
[Karl] Roger.
...to the northeast.
We might be tracking north now.
Oh, here it is.
Not too sexy.
[Sig] Well, we can adjust.
You know, when we get these set back out, we're gonna just
start setting them due north.
[Karl] Yeah, dude.
If we kept going east, we'd be in a desert.
So they're fast. They're moving.
Good news is, right now,
we're out here all alone.
[ominous music playing]
[music suddenly stops]
We've got it for ourselves.
We just gotta keep dialing in.
[ominous music continues]
[music stops]
We should be able to figure this out.
- You seeing that? - Coming in hot.
What?
[ominous music playing]
- [Johnathan speaking] - [Freddy] Roger!
[Johnathan] Sig don't answer my calls.
Lord, they know not what they do.
They know not what they do.
What? [bleep]
[indistinct chatter]
[Sig] Company.
[bleep] damn it.
[Johnathan] Gonna give Keith enough time to cram a bunch
of gear in that spot Sig's gonna go to.
Gives the Coyote enough time to
just come in and do some damage.
Yeah, baby.
God bless America. And pirates, too.
Whoo.
[Sig] It's Johnathan.
You on this one, John?
You on here?
Time Bandit.
- Johnathan. - [Johnathan] Now Sig wants to talk to us.
- Whoa, [bleep]! - Whoa.
- Uh-oh. - [man yells]
[Karl] Oh, no.
[Sig] What's he doing?
[Johnathan laughs]
We're going pirate mode, baby.
First, I'm gonna blind him.
Then, I'm gonna go right down on a string and grab
as many pots as I can.
Let's go. Chop, chop, chop, chop.
Get in there. Get in there.
Don't be shy.
[Johnathan] We're coming for ya.
- You guys ready? - [Heather] Yeah.
Let's go, baby!
- Light 'em up. - [men yelling]
Yeah!
Time Bandits forever!
Dude.
What the hell?
Yeah!
That's a lot of smoke.
It's a smoke screen. Do we pillage?
Do we plunder?
- [Sig] What the? - [men continue yelling]
Time Bandits forever!
I can't see [bleep].
[Sig] I don't see him anymore.
I don't know what the hell he's doing.
John!
[Sig] Would you answer me, [bleep] damn it?
That's pirate smoke there, firing all the cannons.
[radio beeping]
[Sig] John?
Now you're talking to me.
You're out of your [bleep] mind.
Yeah.
It's a special breed, this boat.
It was born with a bulbous bow.
A very big bulbous bow it was born with.
An oosik is a bone that's inside of a walrus.
Walrus has the largest penis for any animal.
Her bulbous bow.
And I'll put a few pots in a little pile for 'em.
Don't ever turn your back on a walrus.
Don't ever turn your back on a damn Time Bandit either.
[Sig] Hang on. I'm gonna turn here.
Roger.
[Sig speaking]
I know you're trying to be a funny guy, but there is
a string right in front of you, man.
Don't worry. I can see it.
Oh, boy.
He's heading right for our gear.
[Johnathan speaking]
- [Steve] Yeah, Roger! - Roger!
[Sig] Wow, wow, wow!
He's not stopping.
[Freddy] Yeah! Come on, bring it in.
Bring it in!
[Russell] Looking good on this side.
[Freddy speaking]
[men yell and cheer]
Yeah!
We got it. That's one.
Keep it coming.
[Sig] I don't think he's pulling my gear.
He's just barreling down the string.
Coming in, baby. Coming in hot.
Looking good!
[Johnathan] Port in a little bit.
Coming around quick!
Whoo-hoo!
We got it!
- We got her! - Just the last one here.
He's got it! He's got it!
Yeah!
We'll just give 'em back to Sig just like that, guys.
[men laughing]
[Johnathan laughs]
[Sig] That's all my gear right there.
Whole string is right there.
He's mowed right through.
That's gonna take all day to get that untangled.
- All day. - Yeah, you serious?
[Johnathan speaking]
Go get 'em, Johnny.
I'm on my way right now with a load of gear.
I'm gonna set over by you.
- We got this guy. - [Keith] Come on over here.
Going over.
Roadrunner out. Beep, beep.
[Keith speaking]
[Keith laughs]
62 miles southwest...
We're coming up on the farthest north string.
...on the Aleutian Lady.
[Rick] This trip started off with a bang.
We found crab, and now I have to keep tracking.
I gotta stay on top of them.
Let's go, baby!
And I'm hoping my attempts
to follow 'em are gonna pay off.
[Jake] Oh, no way. I'm so happy.
Come on crab!
[men] Riders!
Oh, riders. Two riders.
- Oh, yeah. - [men cheer]
Damn.
Hell yeah, baby!
What I'm thinking is, maybe we can bring
the Cornelia Marie out and just transfer me at sea.
[Roger speaking]
[Jake] All right, sounds good. Goodbye.
I'm about to go on the Cornelia Marie as the captain.
Yee-haw!
This is fantastic.
Whoo!
I've gotta go tell Rick now and see if he'll drop me in
the water, let Cornelia pick me up, and then he can
keep on cruising.
- Whoo-hoo! - Yeah!
[Jake] Cornelia Marie.
Holy [bleep]!
[men whooping]
[Freddy] Time Bandit, baby!
110 miles northeast of St. George Island.
Sig [bleep] gone. He was running for the hills.
Chased off the Northwestern right there.
[Freddy] Come on, baby!
[Teddy Bear] First pot! Whoo!
[Keith] I know Sig was going northeast.
We're gonna corral these crab and slam dunk this thing.
Come on, baby, give us some love down there!
Come on, baby!
Coming up.
What have we got? What have we got?
Come on, crabs.
Coming up.
[Keith speaking]
Come on.
I need to see legs.
Come on, baby.
- Oh! - Not much.
Aye, aye, aye.
Roger.
- You're good. - Oh, no!
[Keith] No.
[bleep]
[Johnathan] Tango Uniform. Tits up.
Dead, lame, on arrival.
Come on, baby.
- Damn it. - Nothing.
Uh...
This is not what we were looking for.
Yeah, this is the same thing over here, my friend.
- All right, stack it. - Roger.
Crap.
[Keith] Sig was going northeast.
[Johnathan] Aye, aye, aye.
[Sig] I'm kind of mad right now.
I'll be honest, because...
we spent hours and hours untangling, you know,
all those pots that Jonathan managed to, uh,
mess up for us. So we gotta move fast.
We're approaching our string that we set to the north.
And we'll see if it worked.
[Karl] Come on, baby. Come to papa.
Moment of truth.
We need a sign of life in this one.
- What do we got? - Whoa!
- Yeah! - [men laugh]
There it is.
Yeah, baby!
- Nice. - [Karl] Let's go.
- That's what we want. - Oh, yeah.
[man whooping]
[Sig] There's a lot of real estate out here.
When you're tracking these crabs, you know, you wanna
know how far it spreads and where the cutoff is.
The problem is we don't have enough pots here
to do what I wanna do.
On board.
[Sig] I just need more gear.
[men cheering]
Yeah, buddy.
The only guys that are around me is Keith and John.
Tweedledee and Tweedledum off to the east of me.
What is this?
- Man! - Womp, womp, womp.
[Keith] You know what, John?
How banged up are you over there?
[Sig laughs]
[radio beeps]
[Sig] So how's it going over there, gentlemen?
[blows raspberry]
I'm just curious how operation Wizard-Bandit's working out
for you two. - Ah, [bleep].
What is this? [bleep]
Hansen, what do you want?
[Sig] [bleep] Hansen.
I wish you could block callers on the VHF.
[Sig] Well, I think you aren't seeing anything.
- No good. - Damn it.
What the [bleep]?
We're gonna need something better than this.
- [Keith groans] - [Teddy Bear] Sucks.
[Sig speaking]
Four.
- Tell me I'm wrong. - We ain't got no crab.
- What do you want, Sigurd?
- Hell yeah! - Look at that, baby!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
I wasn't blindly tracking these crab to the northeast.
- Yeah, baby! - Yeah!
[Sig] Now, if you want to get back on the crab,
you're gonna do exactly what I say.
That sounded-- that's not nice.
Damn it!
[Johnathan] Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye.
[bleep]
This is not good.
[Sig] I mean, we gotta find the edge of the school.
But I don't have enough gear to do what I wanna do.
I want a season out of this school, not just a pick.
Yeah, dude.
What the hell?
[Keith] This is a nightmare.
But at the same time...
there's too much at stake.
[Johnathan] I might regret this one.
Yeah, what are you thinking there?
I need one of you to come on the east side of me,
one on the west side.
[men yelling]
What I'm seeing here, I think they're west, so...
How about I take west and you take east?
[Sig] Keith, sound good?
[Keith] John, you go west...
- [Johnathan] OK. - ...I'm going east.
[Johnathan laughs]
But we know how you fish things.
So no lies,
no BS. - It doesn't end.
[Keith] No cloak and dagger.
Try to pull anything, it's gonna--
[man whooping]
Keith, oh, just please die before me.
[bleep]
[men cheering] Yeah! Yeah!
[Karl] These are good numbers.
[Sig] To stay on this school, I mean, I'd work
with the devil himself.
Or two devils if I have to.
Colburnabub.
Beelzeburn.
[Sig laughs]
[Keith] When you work with a Hansen,
you work with a weasel.
- Damn it! - But I don't have a choice.
I mean,
it's a gamble. Well, we'll see what happens.
60 miles southwest...
aboard the Aleutian Lady.
[Rick speaking]
Yep, roger here.
Right on, buddy.
[Rick] Jake, come on up here, man.
Look, right over there, man.
[Jake speaking]
Yeah, I'm pretty excited.
I'm not excited, though, about transferring
from here to there.
[Rick] Here we go.
All right, you guys ready out there?
[men speaking]
[Rick speaking]
Hey, get a long...
I do not like not having the control.
[Albinio] I'll get a little closer over there, Cody.
[Rick] They are getting damn close.
Come on, Cody. Come on, Cody.
Got it?
[Rick] Here we go.
We're pulling the line across.
It's like going fishing, except for right now
I'm the bait.
OK, let's get him hooked up in the hook.
Go for Jacob's ladder.
[bleep]
- There he goes. - [Jake speaking]
Here you go!
Pull, pull, pull.
[Jake speaking]
[Rick] Good luck, Jake!
Yee-haw!
Let's give him a welcome, boys.
- What's up, baby? - What's up, captain?
- You ready? - We're ready!
[Jake] Let's go.
[Albinio] One Jake Anderson is aboard.
[boat horn honks]
[Rick speaking]
[Jake speaking]
- [Jake] I made it. - What's up, Jake?
- You made it. - Yeah.
- Welcome aboard, dude. - You made magic happen.
- Yeah. - It's good to be here.
Yeah, good to see you, dude.
Welcome aboard. Helm's yours.
This thing is a Lamborghini, man.
I can't believe I'm sitting in Phil's chair.
Could be the beginning of something really good.
[Phil] Yes, you did.
I wanted you to take the initiative to do it,
and you did. - OK.
[Phil] You know, you might be doing this without me.
You should be able to shine.
See just how good you are.
64 miles northeast.
Well, here they come.
It was never my plan to work with these guys, but I mean,
beggars can't be choosers, right?
But the bottom line is, we're just looking for the edge
of that crab.
[Johnathan] All right, I'm moving in, guys.
[Sig] One guy on the east, one on the west.
Keith, you gonna take the east side?
[Keith] Roger.
I can't believe I'm working with Sig.
The Roadrunner, and the Coyote working
with the Tasmanian Devil.
The three amigos.
One of 'em will probably have some blank pots.
But that's how we're gonna find the edge of this crab.
The bow looks good, Keith.
She's looking good.
Like a rust bucket.
I've always told you that Time Bandit's the best looking
boat out here.
Keith's boat looks like a catfish.
Northwestern's pretty, like a woman.
Hey, Sig, I'll start a half a mile from you,
and they'll move out to a mile.
OK, let's fire them off in three.
[Keith] Set.
[Sig] In three, two--
One. Let her go, guys.
Let her go.
- OK. - Going over!
OK, we're gonna set same time, so get them over the side.
OK, bombs away, guys. Send our paratroopers down.
We're hitting the enemy hard here, all three of us.
As Winston Churchill once said,
"We're gonna fight 'em on the land, we're gonna fight
'em at sea, we're gonna fight 'em in the air."
We're gonna fight 'em on the sea floor.
But I like Winston Churchill, sort of.
Maybe I don't.
I don't know him. I never met him.
Dump it.
Now let's see if there's any luck in you guys.
I just wanna tell you, "Good luck."
[Sig] We're looking for these purebloods,
these larger northern king crab.
If we all hit, it's a win-win.
Just don't let 'em get away.
Looking for the edge of the school.
I can't believe I'm working with this guy.
I can only hope this isn't a waste of time.
...right now, guys.
[Sig] Come on, baby.
[indistinct chatter]
Big pots, big pots, big pots.
[Johnathan speaking]
Yeah! Whoo!
Oh, yes!
[men cheering]
[Freddy] Whoo!
- Hi-ya! - Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- Big baby. - Monsters!
That's what we're looking for right there.
- Whoo! - [Johnathan] Crab city, baby.
Look at this big northern crab, right there.
We are in the middle of the city.
Big boys! Big boys!
Roadrunner is in the crab.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Let's go!
Come on, come on, come on. What do we got?
Ah.
What is this?
[Keith speaking]
That one's way back there.
I mean, we're just trying to find the edge of that crab,
so be patient.
[Johnathan] Colburns are not known for their patience.
I knew I was getting the short end of the stick.
Every time you hear my voice, you relax.
You're going to a deeper and deeper relaxation.
Every pot that hits the deck,
you're going to a deeper, deeper relaxation.
- Oh, yeah, baby! - [indistinct]
- Here it comes! - [men whoop]
We're in 'em.
- [men cheer] - Here we go!
That's a nice looking king crab right there.
All right, guys. The edge starts right at 25.4.
Nice!
Perfect. Mark it down, man.
Oh, yeah, baby. Got him, guys!
We're killing it here! Whoo-hoo!
Nice job, guys. Good work.
[men yelling] Riders. Riders.
- Whoo. - Riders.
- Let's go, crab! - Yeah!
Unce, unce, unce.
Load 'em up, boys. Load 'em up.
[Johnathan] You and you and you. I love you guys.
[men cheer]
On the meat.
And you have the highest price we've ever seen in our lives.
Whoo!
In one hour, you can catch $100,000 worth of crab.
I got this for you, Mama.
[Sig] It's all good.
And then be in a position to leapfrog each other.
- That's the end game. - Take no prisoners.
[men cheering]
[bleep] yeah!
What about them big pots?
[Sig] When you do come together and you can find crab
like this, it's the big picture that matters.
I love it!
Oh-ho-ho-ho!
[Sig] But the North is a very dangerous place to fish,
and it's just gonna get worse.
[Rick] Watch your rail. Watch your rail.
- Back off. - Damn!
Go, go, go, go!
- Typhoon, how long? - It's 1,500 miles wide.
Oh!
We're gonna get our asses kicked.
[Rick] Fire!
Fire, there's a fire in the back!
Watch out guys.
- [bleep] - Man down!
[indistinct]
He's got knocked out.
[Sig] We have a new member to the family.
OK, you wanna give this a try?
Everything changes in winter.
Whoa!
[bleep] man!
[Sig] The weather is in control.
We're taking on water.
[Sig] Everyone thinks they know...
what they're in for.
They don't.