I'm coming home as soon as I can.
We're on our last trip now.
We just need to find some crab and stuff these tanks.
You have absolutely no idea. It's my favorite thing.
I love you.
Bye-bye.
Got an offload date, so I got to hurry up and make this push.
It's the last offload of the season.
I want to finish strong.
We still have 16,000 pounds to catch.
And, you know, canneries are closing.
So it's not a lot of time.
Hope and pray that we'll be good getting these pots
on board and set.
In bad weather, that's gonna be an accomplishment.
Coming down the home stretch,
I start to get nervous.
Doesn't take much for something to go wrong.
- Oh,! - Whoa!
Yahoo!
Nice.
I can't see a damn thing.
Watch the rail, watch the rail.
Whoa..
Go, go, go, go, go!
I got to get home to my boys,
and this is the only way I know how to do it.
200 Miles north of Dutch Harbor
on the Northwestern.
We're getting close to the end of the season here,
and it's been a bear.
I need a 50 average to kind of reach our mark.
We've got a north-south 20-pot string,
and hopefully we got the payoff here.
Come on, baby. Come on, come on.
Come on.
Now, watch the rail. Hang on.
Watch the rail.
Whoa!
What have we got? What have we got?
- Uh-oh. - Not much.
Yeah,. , man.
Oh, my God. We're never going home.
Here it comes.
Come on!
Oh, here you go.
There's some life in that one.
I think it's gonna get better to the south here.
We're trying to get the gear moved and reset.
And we need to do it quickly because the doors are closing.
Pretty low numbers right now.
We definitely need to stack this one, go take it somewhere
where we can--
No crane.
If we got to go in because of the crane,
I'm gonna lose my mind.
All right.
You know, it's metric,
but I've got a couple of those fittings that
are standard to metric.
Well, that's the thing, if you fall on the deck,
then you're really gonna get munched.
- Yeah. - Promise me you'll tie in on something.
- Yeah, I'll tie in. - OK.
Hose busted.
That's not good with that crane because
it's all metric system.
So hopefully they can fix the leak.
After the Northwestern's European-made crane
blows a hydraulic hose...
Captain Sig Hansen's first mate and son-in-law,
Clark Pedersen, volunteers to climb 20 feet above
the pitching deck to retrieve the broken metric fitting.
OK, he's going all the way up there.
Betting he can jury-rig a standard-gauge workaround
from the boat's spare parts.
Whoa!
A lot of hydraulic oil. It's slippery.
The more she rolls, the more he has to hang on,
the more chance there is to fall off that pedestal.
Oh, big roll.
You all right?
and back to a guy, so if he does slip off, at least...
Watch out! There's a big one!
Hang on!
Oof.
You break it loose?
Your right, this side.
He had to hang on there like a monkey, but he got it down.
Because that crane is metric, he has to kind of jerry-rig
a bunch of different fittings together to fit
on the end of that thing.
And then hopefully, cross our fingers,
he's got the proper fittings to make this work.
It's always when it's the worst timing.
It doesn't matter what.
35 miles northwest...
The gear hasn't cooperated much.
Exactly.
Roger. No, totally get it.
All right, I gotta go.
...on the Wizard.
We're certainly up against a clock here.
Coming up, bud.
Got about 24 hours before we gotta leave.
After being forced to move 50 pots
set in a restricted zone
by his brother, Keith Colburn,
Monte readies his final salvo of the fall in legal territory,
targeting his last $900,000 for bairdi crab.
We're in a new area, so looking for gold.
Now we got a couple of new people.
Oceana and her older brother, she's 25, something like that.
We're up against a lot.
You know, I've got some really strong guys on here with me,
which is huge.
We got Gary, Freddy, and Robert.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Well, we've got three generators
that produce the ship's power...
just shut itself off.
So we can't haul and set any gear.
So let's just hope Joe figures it out.
He's not sure why it would have shut down.
We have a problem.
40 miles northeast...
aboard the Cornelia Marie.
We got an offload date, so I got to hurry up
and make this push.
It's the last offload of the season.
Every time I ran across this band right here, this gully,
I kept running into crab.
But the weather's terrible.
He'd say, "I fished right through that."
I know he would set 'em, so I'm setting 'em.
Helming the legendary vessel made famous by Phil Harris...
We're going to be here. We got a job to do.
Let's go do it.
...Captain Jake Anderson makes his own play for legacy,
setting in 20-foot breakers, targeting his remaining
40,000-pound, quarter-million-dollar quota
due in a mere three days.
I don't think I can get it off safely unless I do
some kind of set and hide.
All right, fellas, hold on to your nuts.
- Yeah, yeah! - Ready!
OK, go ahead and dump it.
Going over!
Go forward. Go forward.
Go, go, go, go, go!
Set and hide is very simple.
You jog up against the weather.
And as they wait, you mash into the waves as fast as you can.
Yee-haw!
Until you get to the next point of departure for the next pot.
nervous, man. We've got to keep going.
It kind of sucks that we've got to put these pots where
the crab are, so we're gonna be exposed.
That's all there is to it.
All right, fellas, go ahead and go up forward.
Go, go!
Let's go, buddy!
OK, guys, set it.
That's a big one right there.
All right, guys, go ahead and go forward.
Go forward! Go forward!
big, hang on! Hang on!
It's big, hang on! Hang on! Hang on!
, can feel that one. That one's bad.
me, dude.
push me sideways.
dude.
All right, guys, go ahead and dump that one.
Everybody on forward, I can't see.
Go, go, go, go!
Come on back out, send it.
Go ahead and get forward. Get forward.
Holy!
Dump that one.
Starting to get in the swing of it now.
A lot of dangerous moments, but...
I got to catch crab. I got to get home to my boys.
38 miles southwest
on the Northwestern.
There's a hydraulic leak with that crane.
So Clark has to kind of jerry-rig a bunch of
different fittings together
because we got to make that offload.
That's just all there is to it.
Be sure to catch a good camera view of eating.
Oh.
Wow.
Whoo.
- I just got to grab the wrench. - It's up there.
Oh,.
I got it.
Oh, biggie, big, big, big.
We're rolling.
Ugh.
I think that's about as good as it's gonna get.
Use it without the winch and see what happens.
Come on.
Come on, baby.
No leak.
- Yahoo! - Yahoo!
yeah!
We saw light, so...
I'm gonna adjust my setting to the south.
Roger.
60 miles southwest
on the Aleutian Lady.
We got the 70 pots on board the boat.
And I got to spot-check three strings
because I want to make sure I target our best area.
Trying to wrap up bairdi.
Here we go.
OK.
I mean, our first pot was 13, so it's hard to tell.
Damn it!
What's that?
The number three tank alarm.
That means there's water in the tank.
Roger.
You cannot have a slack tank in a storm.
A slack tank is when you have the tank not fully pressed,
or not fully empty, so the water can slosh back and forth.
And if you get enough movement, you could actually
roll your boat over from it.
Can we get to that hatch cover?
I didn't want to set this gear here.
I wanted to go through all three of these strings.
With the hatch covered by 1,000-pound steel pots...
We got a storm, I got a slack tank, and we got to find out
why we're making water.
...Captain Rick must shell off his gear blind
before 7,000 gallons of sloshing seawater
threatens to capsize his vessel.
Watch your back! Watch your back!
All right, guys,
let's get these off quick. I'm gonna speed it up.
You heard him, let's move it boys!
Hustle, damn it!
Crap, come on, guys. Hurry up!
We've got to get this going.
Move it, move it. Get that door open.
All right, get that bait in. Let's go!
Watch the rail! Watch the rail!
Whoa--!
On the Aleutian Lady...
Watch the rail, watch the rail.
Go, go, go!
Getting these pots off is priority.
...after an alarm alerted him of water infiltrating
his half tank, Captain Rick orders an emergency set...
One over!
...to access the hatch on the deck
and troubleshoot the source of the leak
before it threatens vessel stability.
All right, guys, one pot left. Let's go, let's go.
As soon as that tank's uncovered,
Six-inch rubber stoppers, or plugs, are used to seal
the top of empty crab tanks.
Worked loose in heavy seas, water can flow in
at 100 gallons a minute,
compromising the vessel's seaworthiness.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
It really sucks
I had to set these pots right here.
But we didn't have a choice.
50 miles northeast...
I'm already hooked up, actually, down below.
As long as I'm good right here, I'll hook it up and it should
start charging them batteries.
...36 hours after losing the electrical power needed to
run their main generator and the ship's hydraulics,
a now fully-clothed engineer, Joe Serpas, looks to jumpstart
the Wizard's genny.
Ah!
OK, enough chitty chatting. Let's get to work.
Hello.
Kind of a, you know, kind of down day here, down day.
We're up against the cannery and the clock.
We don't have a lot of time to work.
You're right.
Let's see if we can't get out of this little funk
we're in this morning.
OK, I got to get busy, bro.
We'll talk to you when we get in.
All right, later.
Yeah.
Maybe we should get the hair trimmers out.
We can definitely use a little luck, no doubt.
I got no girlfriend right now,
so you better make it look good.
All right.
First time?
All right, all right.
- I know. - Is it lucky?
Well, you know, the mohawks never hurt.
Ready to rock.
Oh, yeah.
It's like coming up.
OK.
Let's just hope for some solid scores out of here.
We'd be happy if we hauled a 50 or 60 out of this.
Let's get what we need and get out of here.
Come on, baby!
Come on baby! Give us some love!
Whoo!
All right. Right on.
All right. Now we're fishing.
- Whoo! - They're big, baby. Monsters!
75 on a short soak.
Come on, just keep 'em coming.
Yeah baby!
We in the bank.
Nice.
107, I'll take it.
Bring it on!
Let's hope it stays like this, because if it does,
we might make it in today.
30 miles northeast...
It's nice the weather came down.
...on the Cornelia Marie.
So we're back on this gully here.
About to start hauling now
and see what we actually get out of it.
We got an offload date, so I got to hurry up
and make this push.
Let's go!
No!
What is this?
First pot's not great. It's like 30.
Oh, it's not enough.
25! Two-five!
- Clothesline baby! - Come on baby!
I'm a little bit concerned.
Yeah!
- Yeah, man! - Loaded with crab.
- Damn! - Nice pot!
Oh, yeah. Look at that.
yeah, dude!
Look at all them chickens.
I'm gonna come down and watch the sort.
Yeah, Roger! Roger!
Dude, dude. It's pretty big.
Yeah, baby!
Yeah, look at that.
Looks good.
139. 139.
Oh, that makes me happy, man.
You guys put those pots right where they need to--
- Oh, oh, oh! - Hey, hey, hey!
Hold on, hold on. Hold on.
I can't get down there.
- OK, everybody back. - Everybody back..
Hey, we got that SCBA?
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
Got it!
Everybody get in the house now!
Yep, yep, we got it.
We got to get to the wheelhouse.
Here we go.
I don't know. It tastes like plastic.
Hang on, my man's coming out of the forepeak right now.
Fried some wires in the 480 panel.
You can say that again.
At least we put it out.
So until we get this fixed, we're dead in the water.
48 miles south
on the Northwestern.
We bumped this over to the south.
This string has to pay off for us.
Everything got pushed back because of the crane,
and now it's down to the wire.
So if we can get a 60 average out of this string,
we can wrap this thing up.
All right, first pot's coming up here.
Oh, yeah. Come on, bitches!
That's looking good!
There's some crab there.
Yeah!
Oh, yeah.
56.
Well, I mean, that's a good pot.
That means there's life.
But we're gonna need a 60 average out of this string.
There we go.
Good?
- Yeah! - Whoo!
I got nothing here either.
I can't see a damn thing!
On the Northwestern...
I got to keep it up against it for a second here.
Hang on.
With no power to the forward sodiums or aft deck lights,
but propulsion and hydraulics still operating...
Watch out!
...the Northwestern crew steps into harm's way yet again,
using moonlight and handheld torches to finish their string.
Let me see.
Should be right.
The name of the game is to just get the pots on
and just be safe.
- I see it. - Got it?
Yeah.
Here, pull up, pull up.
When you get slack, pull a bunch.
Here, pull from the back. Don't lose it.
Hold on.
Got it.
Let's haul in.
Good job.
We're just getting a cent here.
Take your time. Careful.
If we can just get through this string,
we'll get her on board and be done.
50 miles north...
Weather picking up.
It's only gonna get worse.
...on the Cornelia Marie.
And our only hope is we can get this fixed.
That breaker controls everything.
So this is kind of the final hope here.
Three, two, one, here we go.
Nice.
Yeah.
Awesome.
All right, guys.
There's nothing else I can do but haul this string
to finish off bairdi.
I ran the math, and I need a 50 average.
I really hope we got it in the gear.
Come on, baby. Come on, baby.
Here it comes.
Yeah!
good, dude.
53, I'll take it.
That's what we need.
- This thing's huge. - Yeah!
Whoo!
Yeah!
Whoa!
That is a badass pot.
Ah!
Look at that table.
Now that's a bairdi.
It's been a hell of a fall season.
You know, and you got to trust your crew members,
your comrades.
Ah, ah!
My brother admitting that he doesn't belong on here
right now it probably takes a lot, so...
Let's pick a good time to have a heart-to-heart with him
and... figure it out.
We've got to take care of him now.
- Roger. - OK.
Just like they want to do good for me.
I'm the captain.
The big boss man.
Thank God we made it out alive.
There you go. Yeah!
Boom!
Yeah!
What dreams are made of.
We got very lucky.
I didn't want to set this gear here,
but it's such a sigh of relief right now.
Let's go, baby!
At the mouth of Dutch Harbor,
where the beginning and end of all trips are made.
The whole fleet did a tribute right here at Priest Rock.
♪ Demons in the night. ♪
I was there that day we buried him.
♪ Bring you back to life ♪
♪ Rising through the storm ♪
♪ You are not alone ♪
You know, Phil would say, life certainly
has its downtimes,
tragedies, and its black moments.
But it also has its great times, too.
I mean, it was great for me.
Our good buddy, Phil. Love that man.
Safe journey, man.
I'm gonna keep moving forward for my family.
♪ This is not the end ♪
That's all anyone can do is not give up.
♪ Not the end, no ♪
♪ This is not the end ♪
Coming up this winter...
Hang on, hang on, hang on!
Go, go!
Watch out!
Go, go!!
Been one of the coldest winters in years.
Mine was blood, sweat, and tears.
Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out!
Ice barreled down at an unprecedented rate.
It just does not look good here.
The weather is in control.
And when it comes, it's like an attack.
And that's when things can go wrong.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa. - Hold on, hold on, hold on.
He's in the water! He's in the water!
Coming around!