[man] well, that doesn't sound very good.
I appreciate the tip, thank you.
All right.
What'd you hear, man?
They want us to go and start trying to catch immediately.
If we're gonna do baird island, we gotta wrap up golden right now.
[narrator] fresh off the red king crab closure,
The fleet takes another hit
I had a feeling with no king crab
They were gonna be closing early.
You can't catch crab if you don't have anywhere to deliver it.
[narrator] alaskan cannerie make the call
To shut their doors early.
It's gonna be ruthless out here.
[narrator] putting the squee on those yet to begin
Their hunt for the elusive bairdi crab.
There you go.
We gotta get this next trip to count.
Move forward to bairdi.
[narrator] now, the race is to cash in on the 5.5 million dollar fishe
Before time runs out.
There's a lot at stake here.
Clock's ticking.
Keep that thing afloat for me.
If I can't have this boat, nobody can!
[man over radio] do I look like the enemy?
This is not what you do to a partner.
[grunts] damn it!
-[exclaims angrily] -[horn blowing]
Why don't you ask those guys if they were born an [bleep]
Or if they just wanna be an [bleep]?
Let's get it pumping!
Start pumping... Now!
[alarm blaring]
[man shouting]
[alarm continues blaring]
[man] come on!
[narrator] 385 miles northwe of dutch harbor...
Here we go.
The first pod's in the block here.
[narrator] ...On the cornelia marie.
You know those crab here, we've taken them through here a few times.
[narrator] with the cannery closure just weeks away...
The crab are kind of in a very tight band
Between 185 and 195 fathoms.
[narrator] captains josh harris and casey mcmanu
Count on golden king crab to make up for the loss of reds.
A tall order to fill before transitioning
To the elusive bairdi fisher
First pod...
Blank.
First pod's always a liar.
This is not what we were looking for.
It's two in a row that's blank.
That's no good. Josh!
That's not good, man.
And...
Uh, I've not got a number for that pod, I think it was zero
Like all the other ones.
Did you pull anything out of that last one?
You get one, maybe?
Zero. Okay, thank you.
We're halfway through...
[casey] not looking too hot
We gotta make a serious move or change now.
Oh, [bleep]!
What is this?
Pick up and move.
I'm gonna talk to my partner in crime, mr. Johnny hillstrand first.
Hopefully he's got something spicy for us.
[narrator] 54 miles northwes on the time bandit.
[man whoops]
We are the [unintelligible shouting]!
[jonathan] we started out on the east end of the canyo
Came over here, all our gear's on the west side of the canyon now.
And we're doing okay.
[shouting instructions]
A little slice of heaven.
Oh, yeah, that's that big gold, baby.
Mwah. Get that money.
Get that money for us.
[josh over radio]
Hey man, what's going on?
We, right now, well, we're struggling a little bit,
We're not pulling up numbers at all.
You got anything good over there by chance?
[jonathan speaking]
...Might have something going on, and then...
But I still got, you know, pods everywhere.
[josh speaking]
Is that very close to where you at now, or...?
I don't know.
[laughs mischievously]
Are we gonna work together?
If we team up, we can cover the ground...
Well, what happens if you hit something, am I allowed to go, "fifty!"?
[laughs]
[man over radio]
[narrator] a successful partnership depends
On trust and honesty.
[over radio] but what? What'd you say?
[narrator] two commodities in short supply on the bering sea.
[casey] johnny, johnny, let me call you back.
Well now, and remember, when you asked about opie numbers,
You said there's no way I'm coming up there.
Okay.
I, uh... I saw the tape, I reviewed the tape...
We saw the phone go in the armpit.
[laughs]
[casey speaking]
But I'm really not that bad, I promise ya.
I wanna work with ya.
[josh speaking]
For the guys that's just trying to make it, pal,
Need to make a paycheck for us and our crew.
What do you think, john?
[johnathan speaking]
[josh speaking]
And we will be on point.
I'm getting a pretty good pick today from 200 to 220.
It seems like that's a good spot to be, but...
That sounds good, johnny.
Yeah, I don't know what it is about you guys,
But it's just hard not to like you.
[all laugh]
[josh speaking]
I didn't know what to say
Because of what happened last year.
For all these.
[casey mcmanus] I like to work with him.
[johnathan] we're gonna hel each other prospect.
Partnering up with the cornelia marie,
And I hope I don't regret this, this time.
[narrator] 406 miles southeast...
...On the saga.
They're goin' back.
[sean dwyer on phone]
Hey, sean. I was just checking in.
[jake anderson on phone]
It's good, dude.
Just doing the dungeon thin it looks pretty good.
I'm happy so far. How are you doin'?
[jake] goin'.
Fishing dropped off a bit.
That's not good.
[jake] I'm trackin' 'em.
I think they're gonna be right on this pinnacle that I'm on right now.
[sean on phone]
[jake on phone]
[phone beeps]
[jake] I got an offload coming up right now.
I'm supposed to have 50,000 pounds.
I have six, maybe.
[narrator] putting the saga up as collateral
To secure black cod quota from sean dwyer.
[jake] the deal is
He gives me 500,000 pounds of black cod to catch
On a sole basis that I guarantee him the money
Or else.
[narrator] captain jake anderson has two choice
Fill his tank and deliver on time,
Or forfeit the saga's pink slip.
[jake] this last one I said hopefully will land in here
In the two big pinnacles.
Trying to zigzag it through there.
I think we're gonna start getting 'em.
Hi, deck check.
Can you have shy hustle up here please?
All right, shy, keep an eye on everything, okay?
Everything should be okay.
-All right, no problem. -[jake] thanks.
Jake's pretty tired.
I'm here relieving him so hopefully he'll get some sleep.
He needs it.
We're a little behind schedule,
But we just set a string to soak
So hopefully that one will have some good fish in it.
Got a big day ahead of us.
I'm good, I'm enjoying myself,
I'm having a good time fishing, yeah.
[alarm beeping]
Jake.
-Jake. -[jake] huh?
[shy speaking]
What the [bleep]? Get mason, get mason now.
Mac.
Mac, take the helm.
Get mac, tell him to take the helm.
What is that?
[mason twyman speaking]
[straining]
[alarm blaring]
Ah, [bleep] just lost power.
[jake] starboard engine, right now!
[jake] start pumping the bilge out.
[narrator] on the saga.
[alarm blaring]
Ah, [bleep]. We just lost power.
[mason speaking]
[jake speaking]
[pump rumbling]
[jake] oh, gosh, mason.
[jake speaking]
[mason speaking]
[generator starting]
[jake speaking]
[narrator] a pipe circulating water to the crab tanks bursts.
Flooding the engine room.
[narrator] the crew welds a patch to contain the flow,
While jake removes the damaged steel.
[jake speaking]
[mason speaking]
Go.
[joe gomez speaking]
[jake speaking]
[mason speaking]
[bleeping]
[bleep]
[mason] did you get it?
[jake] we're okay. I think we're okay.
-[mason] got it. -[jake] we're okay now.
-[sighs] thank you, mac. -Yeah.
Oh, my god.
Welding, and while the bilge was filling up with water.
Pretty freaky.
I mean, jake was about waist-deep when he got down there.
She welded up a pipe,
Got the battery back welded on, and stopped the leak.
[sighs in relief] oh, my god.
What I'm worried about
That pipe could blow back ou
But we got to fill this middle tank
And go in full.
I'm gonna lose everything if I don't keep going.
[narrator] 3,800 miles northwest on the stalbas.
We've only got a few weeks to fish here before we got to button it up
And head back for paradise.
[narrator] with his first norwegian king crab deliver in the books.
[sig] if we just stay on this momentum
We should be able to wrap it up
And still make it back to alaska,
Join the gang, and just start getting to paradise.
[narrator] captain sig hanse still needs 35,000 more poun
To offset the loss of his alaskan red crab income
Before canneries back home close down.
It'd be nice with a little help out here, number one.
Number two, this guy might have some information that could help us out here.
[narrator] the skipper's strategy?
Gather intel and add more pots...
...For the second wave of his attack.
[sig] so with these pots it's just another straight for us,
Which is important as we all know the more gear the better.
Oh, man. Oh.
[sig] I don't understand.
We're trying to get to the dock there's sailboats in the way.
We're trying to get pots off the dock.
So we've got one, two, three boats...
...And our pots are laying right there.
[narrator] standing in the w of the 193 foot stalbas.
Hey, you got me?
Can you hear me? Stalbas.
Ah, [bleep].
[narrator] three 30 foot yachts.
This is a working dock and, I mean, we're here to get our pots.
I think we need to get the troops to rally 'em this isn't working for us.
-Guys, you on there? -Yeah.
[sig on radio]
So just make 'em move.
Here we go.
[sig on radio]
I think I'm gonna have a competition to see
Who's the most obnoxious guy.
We just got to get these people to move.
It's not that hard, you know?
Especially a little sailboat like that
You throw the line, you turn the key, and you leave.
So we need to try to wake them up.
So you have a plan, guys?
Good throw.
-Hello. -[boat owner 1] hello.
Two more.
[marte] okay.
We're backing it.
Hello? [knocking on window]
[crew member speaking]
[marte speaking]
[boat owner 2] hi.
[boat owner 2] okay.
[boat owner 2 speaking]
Wakey, wakey.
[marte speaking]
[boat owner 3 speaking]
[boat owner 3 on radio]
[boat owner 3 speaking]
[boat owner 3 on radio]
Why don't you ask those guys if they were born an [bleep]
Or if they just want to be an [bleep].
How 'bout that?
[narrator] on the stalbas.
Why don't you ask those guys if they were born an [bleep]
Or if they just want to be an [bleep].
[sig on radio]
[radio static]
[sig on radio]
[marte] okay.
These guys just wasting our time
For no reason whatsoever.
Something so simple has to turn into this?
It's embarrassing.
Let's just squeeze 'em out.
This guy refused to move so we're just gonna move him.
[horn blaring]
We gotta lay on the horn 'till they move, we'll do it.
[horn blaring]
[crew member] skip was gonn move the boat, you know.
He's trying to wake up the guys on the sailboats.
Something's finally moving.
[narrator] now that he's stall bossed
The little boats out of his path...
[sig] I want to do a little more diggin',
Get some more information, regroup
And try to get another one.
[narrator] the skipper seeks out the local crabber
With intel on where the russian reds hold up.
3,800 miles southeast...
...On the black cod grounds
[jake on pa] all right, first pod.
Just be careful out there, okay?
It's the last string before we go in and the weather is just...
It's getting worse.
20 foot seas.
I'm still leery about everything that's going on down there.
I'm worried about
Is it leaking and then breaking,
And then having to do that process all over again.
[narrator] after welding the first pipe...
[mason] the repair we did is a band-aid.
We got to get to town after this haul and repair it properly
Or we'll be in big trouble.
[narrator] captain jake must still tank 45,000 pound of black cod
Before it offload in just 24 hours
Or risk losing his boat...
I hope we find something here...
[narrator] ...To sean dwyer.
...Just as much as I hope those welds hold.
[narrator] ...Or worse if his fix fails...
Neutral.
[narrator] ...To the bering sea.
[all cheering]
[jake on pa] well done.
Oh, [bleep] damn.
[jake on pa]
[mac] watch out, watch out.
[jake speaking]
Mason will you go check the welding...
I got to keep an eye on that.
Repair is holding. No leaks.
Thank god, dude.
That, I didn't like that. I didn't like that at all.
All right, let's see what we got here.
Whoo.
[jake on pa]
...Please on that pipe.
That was a big wave, man.
Yeah, right.
No matter how strong the weld can be
The ocean can always blow it up,
And that's exactly what we're worried about happening again.
[mason] it's holdin' for now.
[joe] come on.
[bleep] yeah.
Yeah.
[bleep]
Mason, will you check that weld?
Every time the hull slams,
That could be the one that breaks the weld apart.
I don't like pulling mason off deck...
...But it's the safest thing I can do right now.
I can't stop hauling.
Got to keep going.
If I don't make this offloa I'm gonna lose everything.
I'm just filling the boat as fast as I can.
Can't stop, won't stop.
[narrator] 400 miles northwest...
...On the time bandit.
What are you doin' to me, baby.
[laughing]
There it is.
[jared] yeah.
All the gears on the west side of the canyon now.
We got some good numbers.
[narrator] stalking a productive school,
Captain johnathan set back
On a 3 mile wide underwater gorge.
This time plunging to depth
Nearly 200 fathoms below the surface.
Oh, man.
Not good.
[jesse on pa]
Eight crab?
We need another two in front of that eight.
Didn't quite get what we were looking for.
Eight.
Big crabs.
Cornelia marie.
I told him the numbers I was pulling.
He set right down the center of 'em.
Wah, wah, wah.
Told him to go up to the 14 line
This is the [bleep] 13-and-a-half line.
I said go to the 14 line and set it across me.
[bleep] set me down.
How stupid.
He'll have to name 'em the cork-melia.
[freddy] boo.
We run over, we run over the buoy.
[bleep] it's got us back and the reeler's line behind us.
Oh, my [bleep] motor's dead already.
Son of a bitch.
That's like the kiss of deat
This is what you do to an enemy. Do I look like the enemy?
[narrator] on the time bandit...
[bleep] it's got us back in the reeler's line behind us.
That's like the kiss of deat
This what you do to an enemy. Do I look like the enemy?
[bleep]
My port side's keep dying.
I'm screwed. I just got so much line in my wheel.
[jesse] it's stuck in the port gear.
Ah, [bleep]
So much for having a buddy.
If we go into the port side
-And try taking it out. -Okay, yeah go ahead.
It's gonna drift on you.
We're gonna try our best to try to unwrap it.
Hey, I got our buoy over here I don't want to lose it.
Hang on, I'm gonna put it in gear.
So I'm gonna jam...
It's coming out. I think it got looser here.
[bleep] we're gonna lose my buoy.
I'm gonna be so [bleep] mad.
Come on, just that.
[both cheering]
Yeah, we got it, baby. Yeah.
Fish gone, whoo.
[johnathan speaking]
We got that buoy.
-I got it. -[johnathan] chopped off?
-It's standoff, yeah. -[johnathan] good.
It's for you, casey.
They have the same [bleep] so he's [bleep] putting all his gear right here.
Anyway, blah, blah, blah, crybaby cry.
Next pot.
Give us some love.
Please, aww.
What a nightmare.
[johnathan on pa]
[freddy] johnathan get them to reform,
And the next thing, you know,
They got so excited that casey
Is done and set us down.
You look that way there's no gear,
You look above us there's no gear,
And his gears around, on top of my gear.
Nothing I could do about it.
I got to stack them will again.
I'm not talking to him.
Over it.
[freddy] this sucks.
[johnathan on pa]
Stacking this one to them.
Stag's right there.
Another one right there.
Jeepers creepers.
It's not funny. [laughs sarcastically] not funny.
They're right on top of me.
We're gonna angle off right now
And get away from him.
Move on, new place.
Moving away, I'll go somewhere else.
Just leave me alone in my little world.
Messed up enough out here without this going on.
[narrator] 3,600 miles northwest...
Is there a road that way?
[narrator] ...In tromso, norway.
We've caught some crab, but it hasn't been consistent,
So there is a little bit of gossip in town
And, you know, names are popping up here and there,
And that's a good thing.
So, bengt got me lined up with, uh...
Uh, asgeir...
Asgeir's willing to have a meeting
To let me come on board and kinda, kinda take a look at what he has seen.
[narrator] with the bairdi cannery's closure
Just weeks away,
Sig reaches out to a local contact
Of boat owner bengt korneliussen.
[sig] now, this may be old news,
But that being said,
If you hear a whisper of any kind of crab out there,
You gotta check it out.
[narrator] to learn if norwegian rumor is the key...
Oi!
[narrator] ...To red gold.
-[man] come sit down. -[sig] yeah.
Tell me, where you been fishing?
[sig] I started out here,
But it was nothing consistent.
You know? And I need more.
-That's the problem. -Yeah.
We get a lot of crab into this fjord.
They gotta come from somewhere.
But it's getting new crab all the time.
[sig] so, they're coming in, you think, from russia?
[asgeir] they're coming from russia.
Most people don't think they can go east
Of this 26 degree line.
But you can.
You can go all the way to the russian borderline.
But you need to stay about 71, 30.
So I can go to the border, as long as I'm--
You can go.
[sig] 'cause then, the whole damn thing is open.
That's 300 miles of ground.
Yeah.
So, 71, 30...
Let me take a picture of this so I don't forget.
That's where we're gonna fish.
[narrator] 3,600 miles southeast,
...On the alaskan golden crab grounds...
[casey on intercom]
-[man 1] yeah! -[man 2] whoo!
[man 2 laughs]
[men] yeah! Whoo!
-You see this one? -[man] whoo!
There's about 20 keepers in that thing.
[narrator] trading blanks for a solid 10 average,
Josh and casey make a dent in their tanks,
Thanks to their partner,
Captain johnathan.
Yeah! Yeah!
Look at that.
[bleep] weather, but a good start crab-count-wise.
[bleep] damn it, the currents are just pulling this thing all around.
I think we might have one shot too much on this one.
Oh, my god.
[bleep] I got in the wheel. I'm sure of it.
Argh, [bleep].
I got in the wheel.
I can't even see it going back there.
It's gotta be in the wheel.
-[josh] it is. -You see a page behind us?
Yeah, I do.
[casey] so I'm dead ship.
We got stuck in our steering gear or something,
-Or are we, uh... -About to float right over the top of the line.
We're gonna...
Somebody get ahold of this line real quick.
Throw the throwing hook at it and get it.
[bleep] damn it! [bleep]
Argh!
[josh] isn't john close by us right now?
We're just fishing up the ledge from him.
Yeah, he's right there.
Yeah, I know. He's close.
[josh] okay. We could always give him a call.
[casey over radio]
I'm [bleep] done for the night.
[narrator] on the saga...
A lot of fish.
They actually look pretty good, dude.
That's a lot of weight right there.
[mac] that's a lot of fish.
That's a lot of black cod.
They're all alive, too.
They look fresh.
They're jumping.
[jake] that's super cool, hu
That is so cool.
[shyanne] it is cool.
We still got another trip, right?
Yeah. Now we're gonna make some money.
[mac] you know, if we can keep going
And doing deliveries like this,
Jake will, you know, keep his boat.
[jake] so cool, mason.
We're rich!
[narrator] jake pulls out of the red with black co
While josh and casey follow the golden rule,
"set unto others as you would have them set unto you."
[narrator] on the golden crab grounds...
You have ear, johnny?
We got line in the rutter.
I'm [bleep] done for the night.
The currents are pushing me all around here.
Are you [bleep] me?
[casey over radio]
I need you to come grab the other end of this line
And pull it out of my rutter.
[johnny] so they set me down now they want my help.
[snorts]
All right, thank you.
[sighs] good to have good neighbors.
Yeah, well, hopefully we can get it out.
No, it doesn't matter what you did.
But if you need help out here, we all help each other no matter what.
Unbelievable.
Cork me down, now you want my help, but..
On our way.
All right, guys, we gotta go.
Casey's got line in the wheel.
We gotta go save him real quick.
[man over radio]
All right, johnny. My guy's got the line you need on deck.
If you just come by and you throw
The throwing hook over, they'll hook you up to it.
Okay, I can do that.
...And then I'm gonna back up.
[freddy over radio]
Sounds like we sort of tried, uh, to crack the line and put on our block
And see if we can yank it out of there.
[narrator] the plan? Hook the snarled line.
Then, throw the time bandit'
600 horsepower engines into gear
To create enough torque to clear the rutter.
Okay, freddy, standby. I'll get you in close.
[casey over intercom]
Freddy's on the bow and he's gonna rip that thing.
Chuck it, freddy. Chuck it.
Come on.
Throw it. You got this.
Hell of a shot.
[casey over intercom]
So johnny, once you get some line there going in the block,
This ain't easy.
You're gonna pull me right into him.
Let me get behind him.
Okay, bring it in slow.
It looks like it's coming out.
Just keep doing what you're doing there, john.
Keep going ahead.
[johnathan over radio]
That's pretty tight, casey.
Keep pulling in.
Keep pulling that [bleep].
-[line snaps] -[man] whoa!
[casey] oh, it broke the line, perfect.
[josh] oh, plan worked.
[man] look at that.
Thank you. That's all it took, that little tug.
Just another reminder from helping hands hillstrand.
That's what we do. [chuckles]
[jared] big save on that one.
Could've been real bad for cornelia.
Appreciate it, man. You saved my bacon. Thank you.
[grunts]
Well, man, that was close, dude. [chuckles] that was close.
Wow. Yeah, I would've never thought that worked.
I don't ever wanna do that again.
[exhales]
Man.
Here comes mason now with the fish ticket.
What do you got?
-62,000 pounds. -Dude.
-[chuckles] dude. -Yeah.
-Call sean right now. -[cell phone ringing]
Jake, how you doing? How's the black cod game?
[jake on phone] a lot bette than I thought.
We made a lot of money.
[sean on phone] nice.
Good job, man.
[jake] I'm going to get more gear right now.
The fish are there.
I'm gonna get them, sean. I don't wanna stick you with this boat.
[sean on phone] all right.
[laughs] yeah.
No. If I can't have this boat, nobody can.
[laughs] yeah.
♪ it's all the same only names will change ♪
♪ and every day seems we're wastin' away ♪
♪ another place where the faces are cold ♪
♪ I'd drive all night just to get back home ♪
[sig] I just wanna get up to that line
Closer to the russian border, right?
I wanna go as far east as I can
To see if there's crab.
We're just gonna have to get the pots in the wate and find out.
♪ I'm a cowboy ♪
[men exclaiming]
-Can you believe that [bleep] worked? -No, but it did.
♪ I'm wanted ♪
♪ dead or alive ♪
[johnathan] we help each oth out here.
No matter how much you hate a guy,
If he's in trouble, you're gonna help him out here.
It's just the code.
♪ dead or alive ♪
[men shouting]