[ominous music playing]
[Johnathan speaking]
[hook whirring]
[waves crashing]
After we offload, we'll switch over for goldens,
and go right back out.
We can make a million bucks here.
[Johnathan] Just gotta protect these guys from each other.
If you're going to stay on my boat,
you'd better get along well with others.
[Johnathan speaking]
-Yeah! -Woo!
[Keith] God, I like seeing smiles on guys' faces.
Holy moly.
I just barely got enough time to rig every pot over for Bairdi.
At stake, it's over a million dollars.
[Sid speaking]
...in this northern area,
[Jake] My future on the Cornelia Marie
comes down to making this work.
So I'm under a lot of pressure.
[Sid] We're so far up north right now,
this weather is just killing us.
We have to survive all this.
Holy [bleep]
[waves crashing]
Hey!
-Do you see me? -[Jake] What the [bleep]?
[Johnathan] We work together, we're a family.
If you don't like the way someone's doing it,
shut the [bleep] up.
-[wooshing] -Whoa!
[bleep]
-Run! -[bleep]
It's a fire!
[waves crashing]
[seagulls crying]
[narrator] 216 miles north of Dutch Harbor...
[Rick] Yeah, it's not nice.
-[crew] Whoo!
-On the Aleutian Lady.
[Rick] Being this far north, where it's shallow, these seas
are going to stack on top of themselves,
and you get these waves that are massive.
[waves surging]
All right, guys, let's get ready to set.
[crane whines]
[suspenseful music playing]
[waves crashing]
These northern king crab, it's looking like they're in
this narrow band of mud
right below.
Ten days into the fall season, Captain Rick Shelford aims 40
pots at a quarter-mile wide stretch of soft,
nutrient-rich seafloor on the hunt for $2.1 million
of pure-blood red king crab.
All right, let's do this.
-Whee! -Woo-hoo!
Yee-haw!
[crab pot splashes]
Yah!
Oh, [bleep] yeah.
[waves crashing]
Weather's picking up.
I got a boner.
[bleep] yeah.
[crab pot splashes]
I gotta look for buoys, I gotta watch these guys.
Big wave,
watch the back deck.
[bleep]
[waves crashing]
[bleep] damn it.
-Roll! -[bleep]
[bleep] damn it.
That was a big roll,
and it's just gonna keep getting worse.
[intense music playing]
[rope whirring]
Whoa.
Everybody take cover!
[waves crashing]
Oh my god!
[bleep]
[deckhand] We're OK!
This is a [bleep] party!
We just filled the whole damn deck, like, completely full.
If we had somebody on the back deck,
I would have killed somebody.
They would have been thrown over the side of the boat.
All right,
-Woo! -Woo-hoo!
Yee-haw!
All right, um.
[crew cheers]
[crew shouting indistinctly]
-Woo. -Yahoo.
-Woo-hoo! -Yee-haw!
[Rick] This is just the beginning.
210 miles south...
[ducks quacking]
[seabirds calling]
[intense music playing]
...just outside Dutch Harbor, Alaska...
[Johnathan speaking]
Does that sound good, Russ, does it look good?
...on the Time Bandit.
[Johnathan] Oh, we just went through the gnarliest storm
I've seen in years.
That was a very trying trip.
My whole damn crew is beat up.
Everyone is, even Freddy's beat up.
Russell's beat up worse than I've ever
beat Russell up before,
but we made it.
We're just getting to town,
I just got to get these pots off so we can offload.
After three days of nonstop work,
Captain Johnathan Hillstrand prepares to offload
a massive $2 million northern red king haul.
in order to launch their golden king crab season
in just two days' time.
[Freddy] OK, watch yourself, Terry.
Just want to go on top there, right?
Yeah.
-[crane whines] -[Russell] OK, which one, Freddy?
We got to do this fast.
Which one do you want to do first?
-Oh, hey, OK, pal. -All right.
OK, alright, I'm not [bleep] talking to you anymore then!
-We gotta [bleep] -What's going on?
Come on, guys.
-[bleep] -Bug off!
Somebody's gonna eat somebody's eyeballs
out of their head.
[groans]
[dramatic music playing]
Put 46 pots on the dock, then we're taking off.
-Forty five. -Oh, we've lost one?
-And it stinks. -Yeah, it does.
I'm not talking to Freddy not one [bleep] more time
this [bleep] season.
I'm not talking to [bleep] anymore, OK.
[bleep] he [bleep] just did to me just [bleep] pisses me off.
[bleep] telling me, "We got it, we got it,
shut up, we got it, just do your job."
[Johnathan speaking]
Come here. Come here.
Come over here.
I can't have anybody yelling at anybody.
-Freddy. -He's the one that's first yelling at me,
calling me a [bleep]
Yeah, I did, after you said, "Shut up and do your job."
Hey, you guys, listen to me.
Listen to every word that come out of my mouth right now.
No one's going to yell at nobody on this boat.
We work together.
We're a [bleep] family, so don't.
If you don't like the way someone's doing it,
shut the [bleep] up.
Come here, Come over here.
We got to stop this [bleep] it's childish right now.
Another little [bleep] huh?
-[bleep] -Everyone leave it alone.
Should we just settle it on deck?
Let's just, should we just go settle it on deck?
[Freddy scoffs]
Look at him there.
Man, if someone calls you a name, so what?
So what, they called you a name?
You know you're not a [bleep] vagina.
Do you look like a vagina?
-No. -Bye bye.
There's no way I can work with that guy ever again.
If you got a problem with this, fly the [bleep] home.
We're done.
Yeah, we don't need this [bleep] on this boat.
We don't, this boat doesn't do that.
If Freddy don't like it here,
he can go get another job somewhere else.
Russell came out barking order,
like we've never done this before, you know?
After 33 years been doing this [bleep]
[Johnathan speaking]
I want everyone to be respectful to everyone else.
I love everybody, I hug everybody.
I don't backstab people.
Went up there and suck on the captain's [bleep]
and complain,
I don't play that game.
Freddy is very emotional.
I mean, he takes his job like a little bit too much.
His sense of pride a little too high.
It's time to go home, baby.
Let's go home and see my wife and my babies.
Freddy was a huge, huge force on this boat,
but you can better get along well with others.
250 miles north...
The weather did kick up a little here.
We got to watch it here.
[satellite phone ringing]
Yeah, got me?
[Jake speaking on phone]
So I see you up ahead there.
You can probably see where that canyon goes, right?
I see the depth changing on the fathometer.
[Sig speaking on phone]
Yeah, right?
Hit me up on the radio.
-I'm ready to rock. -[Sid] Okay, coming your way.
[waves crashing]
[bleep]
Sorry, getting a little nervous.
[intense music playing]
This might have been a bad idea.
Forging a Northwestern/ Cornelia Marie alliance
on the tempestuous 55,000 square mile northern grounds.
Sig's gonna be on the north side, I'm going to be on
the south side, and we're going to run the canyon.
Captains Sig Hansen and Jake Anderson ready to launch
a combined 40 pots into a narrow ravine, each targeting
northern red king crab along the snaking ridgeline.
And what Sig and I want to do is we want to sit right here
and right here in the 49 to 51 fathom range.
Okay, I see you over there.
Roger.
This is 50 fathoms, so we're settin' right here.
[console beeping]
Ready to set?
Go ahead and dump it.
[console buzzes]
[crew] Going over!
[crab pot splashes]
[suspenseful music playing]
We gotta come around to port, and get a little deeper here.
All right, coming towards you, Jake,
I'm coming towards you, OK?
Hey, we're getting really close, man!
-You're a wild man. -It's going to be OK.
Don't get your panties in a wad.
OK, 49.
[radio beeps]
OK, set 'em, let 'em go.
Going over!
[crab pot splashes]
All right, go ahead and dump it.
The canyon's snaking, I got to make this turn.
47, 46,
I got to come around again.
Coming towards you.
Come on, tell me I made my mark.
Eh, 49, there's 50.
That turn put us right in the ditch.
[deckhand speaking]
[Sig speaking]
Does he see me or not?
Hey! Do you see me?
What the [bleep]
[Sid] What are you doing?
Are you out of your mind?
What are you doing?
-Oh, [bleep] I'm close to him. -[Sid] Hey!
[bleep] man!
-Are you out of your mind? -[bleep]
[propeller whirring]
[bleep] man!
[bleep]
[bleep] dude, that was [bleep] close.
[Sid] I said, "Follow the canyon,"
not, "Crash in front of me."
[deckhand speaking]
[waves crashing]
He's probably pissed right now.
You know, he's paying too much attention to that, not this.
[Jake speaking]
This time I'll give you a little bit more room.
[Sid speaking]
Oh, my God, I can't do this anymore.
What is it?
He thinks it's a fighter jet or something.
-OK, just a couple of more. -Roger!
-Going over! -[crab pot splashes]
There better be crab here, that's all I can say.
250 miles south in Dutch Harbor...
That's pretty sweet, they're all massive.
...on the Wizard.
How many pounds we up to?
Four or five bags out of that, you think?
Hell yeah.
After delivering $1.2 million of Northern Red Kings,
Captain Keith Colburn races to kick off
his bairdi crab fishery
in 48 hours before the grounds are picked over by
the 37-boat fleet. -Hello, John.
[satellite phone ringing]
Hello, John?
[Johnathan and Keith speaking on phone]
Oh, really?
Yeah, he's not going.
Cool, yeah, that'd be --
OK, and I'll be --
It's going to be at least 20 or 30 minutes.
Ah, [bleep]
Both John and I have been blessed to have Freddy work
on our boats.
When you got Freddy on board, you didn't just get a deckhand,
you got, like, three deckhands.
The work ethic is beyond compare.
For Bairdi, we're going to
haul 1,000 or 1,500 pots in the next 10 days.
I've got to have a solid crew.
I need Freddy on my boat.
210 miles north of Dutch Harbor...
[waves crashing]
[bleep]
[Rick] Come on, girl.
I mean, this current is just ripping.
...on the Aleutian Lady.
-Yee-haw! -Whoo!
Ooh.
Going up this far north, you've got these
towering monsters.
But these heavy, heavy currents,
these tides, have been wreaking havoc.
Damn it.
I want to go this way, but the boat's going that way.
So I'm giving it more gas.
But I am having a hard time holding my course.
Battling 20-foot seas and tidal currents,
pushing diagonal to his bearing...
-Let's get ready to go. -Roger.
Rick prods his engines to their 1,500 RPM red-line
and the brink of overheating as he approaches 40 pots set in
nutrient-rich mud.
[suspenseful music playing]
Started north, followed them around the reef
down to the bottom of it.
-[bleep] damn it. -Watch the rail.
Watch the rail, watch the rail!
-[clanking] -[bleep]
[crew shouting indistinctly]
-Let's go, baby. -Come on, crab!
-Oh yeah. -There we go, baby.
[crew clamoring indistinctly]
[bleep]
[crew cheering]
Oh, yeah!
[crew] Big ole pot, baby!
[crew cheering]
-Whoo. -Yeah, baby, let's go.
[Rick] 63.
We're rolling, hell yeah.
We get this in extreme weather,
and I got snow flurries happening.
-[flames wooshing] -Oh [bleep]
-Fire! -Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Let's go, let's go, let's go, put it out!
Fire?
-Whoa! -Watch out, watch out!
[Rick] Damn it!
-[flames wooshing] -[crew shouting indistinctly]
On the Aleutian Lady...
I gotta kick this thing out of gear.
[propellers whirring]
My stack temps here are through the roof.
...after a strong cross current forces Captain Rick to redline
his main engine, a fire breaks out on his exhaust stack.
Oh, my God.
I pushed that engine way too hard.
That must have caught the carbon buildup on the side
of the stack on fire.
[bleep]
-Here, here, here, here, here. -Nice.
[grunts]
It's [bleep] hot.
Ugh.
Be careful, Rick.
I'm gonna cut a hole in this exhaust pipe and try to get
more oxygen to the fire.
Noah, get on the wheel.
When I tell you to give it gas, give it gas.
Roger.
Rather than extinguishing the flames,
only to have them ignite again...
-Pull it out. -Yep, slide it out.
-[bleep] -Don't hit it on any of us.
Rick increases the airflow, betting an influx of oxygen
and fuel will burn off the accumulated carbon buildup,
fighting fire with fire.
-Alright, Noah, give it gas!
[dramatic music playing]
[propeller whirring]
[waves crashing]
Go hard!
[flames rushing]
[fire crackling]
[fire wooshes]
Holy [bleep] that's blowin' hard.
[propellers whirring]
[waves crashing]
[fire cessates]
[Rick speaking]
[engine powers down]
[wind blowing]
-Guys, get this cleaned up. -Roger.
[hopeful music playing]
-How's it looking? -It looks like it's out.
[waves crashing]
Because I was pushing the engine so hard, I
I was getting too much unburnt fuel going up the stack,
which caught the carbon buildup
on the side of the stack on fire.
We should be able to just keep hauling.
We just can't have any more issues,
[rope whirring]
because we got too much quota to catch.
42 miles northeast...
[dramatic music playing]
[grunts] OK.
[rope whirring]
...aboard the Northwestern.
[Sid] So right now, plan is with Jake and I,
we're out in a canyon.
We set our gear in there, and we want that payoff.
First pot's coming up.
[crane whining]
No, no.
No.
No, unh-uh.
Just one mile to the north...
[hydraulics whining]
[Jake speaking over radio]
Waste of time.
You know, we're here to catch crab.
[satellite phone ringing]
Hey, Sig.
[Sid speaking on phone]
[deckhand speaking]
Ah, fishing's not going that well.
I'm not seeing jack, nothing in my pots.
I'm not seeing much down here.
I don't really have any information up north.
Did you load any of your past years
onto that computer when you got on that boat?
Well, there's older years than just mine on here.
2010, that's the year Phil passed.
[Josh] Love you, buddy.
There's so many people that love you.
We love you, man.
I fished on deck on this boat
under Phil Harris.
He used to call me Runt, and I'd get pissed.
And he said he was going to
make sure everybody in Seattle called me Runt. [chuckles]
[waves crashing]
He was one of my mentors, he was one of my heroes.
So it's on me to do the best job that I can.
[Sid] So what else do we got?
What are you seeing?
Phil's old spots, I'm thinking.
If I zoom into the west of you, I run into a bunch of tracks.
They're all kind of back and forth squiggling.
So that's sitting around right in there.
Well, that's farther to the west.
Let's do it. Let's go for it.
I think that's the right direction, tell you the truth.
[rope whirring]
[deckhand speaking]
[bleep]
Going under.
I'll just let it drift out the back.
[deckhand speaking on radio]
Oh, [bleep] I'm still in gear.
-It's under the boat.
-It's in the wheel. -Hang on for a sec.
I got it in the [bleep] wheel, man.
[suspenseful music playing]
[bleep]
I got it in the wheel, I think.
I still, I left it in gear when I went by it.
Aye.
[Jake speaking]
[dramatic music playing]
[bleep]
I'll be dead in the water here pretty quickly.
[sighs]
[bleep]
I'm going to have to turn off my engines right now.
[engines power down]
[Jake speaking on radio]
...and killed both the engines.
Cost 10, 15 grand.
OK, I'll be over there.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
The only thing I can think of is to hook one of the working
ends of the line on to Sig's boat
and have him pull it out.
[Sid speaking]
...ends you can get a hold of?
There's a shot floating right next to the starboard quarter.
I think I got an idea. I'm going to shoot you a line.
Hey, guys, we're coming back on the stern.
Grab that line launcher.
If you guys can do it, go for it.
Here we go.
All right, firing.
[line launcher wooshes]
[laughing]
Wow.
[rope whirring]
Did he miss?
[deckhand speaking]
[Sid speaking]
There's 1,000 feet of line.
-Oh, he got it. -Yeah, he's good.
Alright, it's tied off.
We got it hooked up to the Northwestern,
and now they're trying to, they're pulling it out.
[Sid on radio] OK, I'm gonna circle it ahead a little bit,
so we get a little distance.
[intense music playing]
-[rope stretching] -It's tight!
I've got it tight on my stern, hang on, Jake.
[rope stretching]
-Hold on, man. -Is it coming out?
You're gaining on it.
Looks like something's coming out.
Maybe keep going a little more.
Looks like it's almost all out.
[deckhand speaking]
Yeah, it's just, we got a wad, we're trailing a wad.
OK, that's everything, right, I can put it in gear?
Roger.
[Jake] I don't know if these mains are going to start again.
I'm going to have to see.
-[switch clicks] -[engine powers up]
Come on, baby. Come on, baby.
OK, there's one.
Time for two.
[engine powers up]
Oh, yeah.
-[Jake speaking] -[Sid laughing]
-It's working.
Awesome, guys, he's free.
[crew] Hell, yeah.
[Sid speaking on radio]
I'll meet you there, all right?
[Sid] Roger.
All right, I'm over.
[waves crashing]
240 miles south, in Dutch Harbor.
[Keith] Well, if we're going to fish bairdi,
we need a full squad.
The word on the street says
Freddy's about ready to fly home. I'm
going to see if I can intercept him
and offer him a job on the Wizard.
Yo!
Hello!
Is anybody up there?
Time Bandit, anybody in there?
Time Bandit !
[OJ speaking]
Hey, OJ, come up here real quick.
I got to talk to you.
What's going on with Freddy?
So...
[intriguing music playing]
Um, I, you know, I don't know what's going on over there.
I know Freddy's wife really well.
I'm going to give her a shout and see if there's anything
I can do to help.
[phone line ringing]
[Amanda] Hello?
Hello, is this Amanda?
[Amanda] Yeah, it is, hey, hi Keith.
How are you doing?
[Amanda] Good, how are you?
I'm doing great.
Hey, I'm not sure all the details of what's going on,
but I know Freddy is getting off the Time Bandit right now
and coming home, I think.
OK, so you gotta -
I'm not entirely sure, but just tell Freddy $40,000
guaranteed if he'll work until -[bleep]
November 17th or 18th on the Wizard, OK?
-[Amanda] OK. -Alright?
-OK, I'll let him know.
Thank you, Keith.
OK, alright, thank you.
All right, bye.
Freddy's playing everybody right now.
I'm not sure what's going on,
but I'm gonna go find Freddy and find out.
[suspenseful music playing]
In Dutch Harbor...
You know, something happened on the Time Bandit with Freddy,
but right now I'm trying to keep Freddy
on the island to come fish with me again.
Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, flight's canceled.
What are you doing here, man?
[ticket agent speaking]
-One way? -One way.
Whoa.
Talk to me, give me a second.
Come over here.
[Freddy speaking]
Hey, I understand.
One of the, like, the laziest deckhand --
Hey, I'm not asking you to leave, Freddy, but... Okay.
Look at that.
Thank you.
If you want to fly home, I've got your flight
right there, I already booked it.
-OK, oh, man. -It's on today's flight.
-Thank you., appreciate it. -I don't want you to go.
And I understand it hurts,
because you don't do that to Freddy Maugatai.
There's work for you on the Wizard, if you want it.
You can really help me out in a big way.
I just worry about your heart.
You make the best decision for you, but if you come work on
the Wizard , I love you, OK?
I do love you, man, bye.
...bit of crab for us.
[Sid] You never know.
Alright, I'm pulling up to the first spot here.
Alright, awesome.
[crew] First pot!
Phil looked like he was fishing going that way
out to the west.
We'll find out.
[crew on radio] Moment of truth.
[crane whirring]
[suspenseful music playing]
[crew cheering]
-Big boy! -Whoa, dude!
[triumphant music playing]
[grunting]
That's what I'm talking about.
-Whoa! [laughs] -Oh, nice.
[laughing]
Big boys.
Six-nine.
No way, dude.
Nice pot, seven-zero.
-70. -Seven-zero.
Woo!
It's huge, Sid.
Ha!
-Woo-hoo! -Yee-haw!
Woo, baby!
-Oh, yeah! -Oh, hell yeah!
Woo!
Ha ha!
[deckhand speaking]
[crab splashing]
We struggled, we fought back.
We're going in to offload
a huge amount of king crab,
but then we got to come back out.
And I got even more king crab to catch.
-It's good to see you. -You, too.
Oh, hey brother, nice to meet you, man.
Freddy.
A gift from angels, Freddy drops off on our deck.
Now I've got the strongest hook thrower
and probably the best deckhand in the fleet.
Right on.
Home sweet home, baby.
Set up for success.
Now we've got to get to the Bairdi grounds.
We don't have our old faithful petty Hurricane Maugatai
with us, so I'm down to, you know, a four-man crew.
But I'm going anyways. I've got to go fishing.
Okay, guys, let's cut her loose.
Nothing's going to stop us.
Nothing's going to stop us, it's the Time Bandit .
Here we go.
[seabirds calling]
[Jake on radio] Hey, you got me?
-[Sid] Yeah. -That was a fantastic string.
Thank you, Phil.
He's probably looking down on you now, thinking,
you damn thief. -[laughs]
Can we light up some fireworks for Phil?
Here he goes.
[fuse hissing]
For Phil, baby!
[firework squeals]
[fireworks exploding]
-Hey. -Whoa, ha ha!
[laughs]
[firework squeals]
firework explodes]
He's with us.
[explosions continue]
-God, I'm going to start crying.
[crew cheering]
I don't think his memory's ever gonna go anywhere,
it'll always be here.
Okay, bleh!
I was getting choked up.
[firework explodes]