[sig hansen] now that I'm ba from norway,
I'm goin' right into paradis
I'm hopin' we can catch 'em real quick
And then go down and see a baby bein' born.
That's my drive.
Future generations.
[neal hillstrand] it's hard havin' family here
Because it adds an extra level of pressure.
I worry about shyanne for her sake.
[shyanne smith speaking]
[groaning in pain]
[jonathan hillstrand] the biggest takeaway I got
From my old man was just trust your gut.
What's best for the boat is best for the crew
Is best for the family.
Come on, baby!
There's only three hillstrands left
On this boat.
My brother neal, me, and my wife heather.
If you don't change and you don't adapt,
You're gone.
[neal] yeah, baby! Whoo!
[freddy maugatai] whoo!
[hansen] at the end of the day,
We try our best to provide for the family
And be a part of something bigger than ourselves.
[narrator] one hundred eight miles northwest
Of dutch harbor.
[heather hillstrand speaking]
-[jonathan] oh, wow, no way. -[heather] yeah.
Whoo!
[narrator] on the time bandi
[jonathan] oh, my god. Look at that.
Oh, yeah!
-[heather] who says you can't have-- -I'm the luckiest man ever.
-[heather] milk and cookies at 10:00 a.M. [chuckles] -yeah!
Uh-huh.
Yeah!
Ahh!
[jonathan] ay, ay, ay.
Okay!
[freddy] come on, baby!
Come on, crab!
There's not that much crab here, you know?
Everything's showing us to go deeper into this canyon.
[narrator] only half way to making up for the loss
Of his red king crab revenue
Captain jonathan hillstrand sees his profits
And his golden king herd take a dive.
[russell newberry] oh!
[jonathan] this is the deepest hole
In this canyon.
This is three-quarters of a mile deep.
[heather] yeah, this is right where we went in--
Yep, three-quarters of a mile deep.
Does this feel like the spot right here?
You guys got a feeling about this?
-Is this the spot? -Yeah.
And I don't know how deep I can go
Without losin' it and never see it again.
[narrator] the school's suspected location,
The untested pribilof island trenches.
[jonathan] we've gotta adapt with what we got.
I wanna try right here.
[on radio] leave that. I wanna watch her.
[freddy] hey!
[jonathan on radio] hey, freddy.
Roger!
[freddy] okay.
There's not a lot of unexplored places
In this world.
But I guarantee you, no one's set a pot in this canyon.
[on radio] okay, this feels like the spot right here.
Go ahead and throw the buoys over.
Okay.
[jonathan] it's a mile worth of line, dude.
We gotta do the circles for a mile.
You know, the line of the water
And then we'll drop the plot.
[jonathan] flying underwater dragons,
That's what we're looking for.
Couple little underwater flying dragons.
That or a mermaid.
We owe it to ourselves and we owe it to science.
This could make us scientists.
I'm gonna self-proclaim myself, and my brother,
And my wife
Science...Tists.
[all laughing]
-Cousteau! -[neal speaking]
Yeah!
Deep sea adventures!
[indistinct chatter]
[jonathan] this is the spot.
Yeah, baby!
One kind of fish no one's ever seen.
It'll all be worth it.
[narrator] ninety-five miles northwest
Aboard the northwestern.
[hansen] how is everything? Are you guys doing all right?
I keep putting lucy down.
But I mean, she's supposed to be resting
But you know me, I can't sit still.
Well, you gotta take it easy.
Just listen to your mother. That's all I can say.
[mandy hansen on phone] you okay?
I don't know. It's weird. It's different.
I don't got my co-captain here.
But I'm gonna spread 'em out.
You know, we're gonna try to hit
Where we were last year a little bit.
But I wanna go farther down below.
I'm just gonna go with my gut on this one.
[mandy on phone] yeah, no, you always gotta go
-With your gut. -[sig] all right, well...
Yeah, we're gonna get goin' here.
So, okay, love ya!
Just be careful, be safe.
I'll give you a shout from time to time,
And then, uh, we'll keep you posted, okay?
[mandy on phone] yeah, sounds great.
Hopefully, we can get these crab
And knock this thing out
And, uh, try to get home before the baby's born.
For me, I feel a little guilty even having clark on board.
He is mandy's husband.
It's all kind of, uh, a guessing game right now.
You know, we're going off past years.
They're, uh, they're just kinda hard to find.
I respect the fact that he's here
And that he's trying to provide.
Um, at the same time,
I really hope that he can make it,
Uh, in time for the birth.
But we are fishing. There are no guarantees.
[narrator] after banking $700,000 in norwegian reds,
Captain sig hansen races to set his first bairdi pot
And deliver his crab before daughter mandy
Delivers his granddaughter.
You guys almost ready with the bait?
Yeah, we got just about 20 setups.
[narrator] and to meet his heir on time...
Lower it!
You're gonna do the honors.
[narrator] ...There's nothin quite like biting the head
Off a herring for a little luck.
-[clark laughs] -that's tradition.
That's a norwegian tradition, right?
Well, we got a real norwegian!
Okay! Have at her!
-[clark] yeah! -He's gonna swallowed it!
-[sig laughs] -[clark cheers]
You like that?
-No. -[sig] no?
No, that was good.
-[all laughing] -[clark] do another one!
Another bite!
-[laughs] -yeah, buddy!
-[sig] good man! -Good job, lauritz.
-Good man. -All right, all right.
[sig] what's the rule?
Nobody gets hurt.
[seagulls squawking]
[sig] okay!
[sig on radio] are you ready, lauritz?
-[shouts] what? [chuckles] -[clark laughs]
First loose!
Bairdi. 2021. Goin' over.
[clark] go!
-[sig] go! -[clark] bairdi!
[cheering]
[sig] maybe we'll get lucky.
[narrator] two hundred eight miles southeast.
In dutch harbor.
On the saga.
[jake anderson] we just got done offloadin'.
Now, we're gettin' ready to head back out
To the grounds.
It's pretty scary considerin my boat's on the line.
[narrator] despite deliverin a $340,000 payday...
[jake] if I cannot catch it
If I come up short a million dollars,
We can use the boat and sell it.
So, it's really important that I catch this black hawk
[narrator] captain jake anderson must catch
360,000 more pounds
Or forfeit the saga to the quota owner, john wye
Can you smell that?
[joe gomez speaking]
[suspenseful music playing]
-Yeah, that's smoke, dude. That's smoke. -[joe] that's smoke for sure.
Mason, go down to the engine room
And check it.
It smells like smoke pretty bad.
Check it out?
[mason twyman on radio] got it.
Dang it.
[groans]
[deejay campbell coughing]
[mason speaking]
[deejay shouting]
[bleep] damn it.
[deejay coughing]
[narrator] on the sa.
[coughing]
[groans]
All right, everybody. Just stay outside.
Let mason go down there.
He knows how to deal with this.
[deejay coughing]
Well, the hydraulics on a lot of these boats,
They're ran off an air clutch.
Sometimes, air will get by and expand the clutch,
Touch the part that's rotating,
And that's what happened.
So, it's rotating around the clutch just burning it up.
-[mason] ready? -[deejay] good?
[mason] yep.
[jake] it's clearing out now.
You can see where it's burnt here.
All this black soot.
It billows out of there.
[deejay speaking]
[coughing]
[motor whirs]
[coughing]
[jake] these air clutches are problematic on boats.
Because once these things catch on fire,
You don't have a paper fire,
You have a plastic, rubber fire,
Which is highly toxic.
Then, what you have is a magnesium fire,
Which you cannot put out with water
And it's very difficult.
And guess what happens.
Boom!
And the ship is sank.
[seagulls squawking]
-[jake] you okay? -[mason] I'm good.
-[jake] can you breathe? -[mason] yeah.
I switched over generators,
Brought the starboard up to speed.
I switched the power over.
Then, I shut off the core generator,
Then shut it down.
-[jake] get it switched out as soon as possible. -[mason] I'm on it.
Roger.
[jake] mason's got it under control.
Go ahead and throw lines.
[deejay] yeah, rog!
Hopefully, we get our number.
[narrator] two hundred twenty-three miles northeast
[deckhand 1] come on, crab!
[shouts] what've we got?
[bleeping]
[narrator] on the elinore.
Just...
Miserable.
[luke murkowski] one!
[sean] one.
Story of my season.
[hank todd] right now, we're not going forward,
We're going backwards.
[sean] I'm up here fishing duds.
Gettin' pretty tired of hauling pots with no crab.
It's driving me nuts.
[narrator] after three weeks
Searching nearly a thousand square miles
Of fishing grounds...
You search for too long, you gotta overcome
All that money you just spent
To actually start making money.
[narrator] captain sean dwyer's plan to replac
His lost $350,000 red king crab income
With dungeness...
[zack larson] no good!
[narrator] ...Is costing hi more to play than it pays.
Pretty sad actually.
That one had two.
Two crab.
Two more crab than we had before.
[luke murkowski] aw, man.
[willy manchester] not good.
[zack] dang.
[cell phone ringing]
-[baby cooing] -[sean] aw! [chuckles]
I hear a crying baby.
How ya doin'?
-[bri dwyer on phone] -[sean] look at that cute little baby.
-Pretty slow fishin'. -[bri on phone]
[sean] yeah, it's pretty miserable.
-[bri on phone] -[sean] oh, yeah. Every pot.
It's hard to figure out which direction I need to go.
[bri on phone]
-[baby cries] -[sean] I think he would've kept going.
I don't think he was the guy that would have
Left anything on the table.
So, I mean, I got a couple more spots I gotta try.
Might as well just try 'em all.
[bri on phone]
Yep, yep. That's what he would've said, too.
Just trust your gut.
[bri on phone]
-[baby cries] -[sean] I love you guys.
-Bye-bye. -[bri on phone] bye.
-[baby cries] -[sean chuckles softly]
Cute.
My wife and my dad never got the chance to meet.
God, makes me sad just thinkin' about that.
But, yeah...
[voice shaking] I think, uh...
I think she's right.
Just gotta go with it, you know?
Just gotta... Gotta give it a shot.
Oh, god. There's no cryin' in crab fishin'.
But yeah, he would've liked her.
I'm really sad that he didn't get to meet bri...
[inhales] ...And his granddaughter.
Just gonna keep doin' it, man.
Keep goin' for it.
We're gonna run up and set this string in the shallows.
I don't know how it'll be, but I just... I gotta try it.
[sean on radio] all right, this is the spot.
It's gonna be good, zack. Give it to me.
You gotta go with your gut.
I mean, that's what my old man used to say.
And it's kind of how he lived his life.
[narrator] three hundred te miles northwest
On the pribilof golden crab grounds.
[freddy speaking]
Be real careful, guys.
[narrator] aboard the time bandit.
I guarantee no one's ever pulled a single pot
Three-quarter miles deep.
[narrator] tracking the golden herd
To the bottom of the abyss.
The goal, we go in where no man has gone before.
[narrator] captain jonathan hauls
The deepest commercial pot ever fished in the bering se
[freddy] whoo!
[jesse speaking]
It's gonna be about 36 minutes before we get this pot up.
Not a lot of people would go this deep, but, uh,
Captain's pretty curious.
We'd be the coolest guys I ever met if we find some fish no one's ever found.
Maybe we'll see some sea monkeys.
Sea dragons.
Gettin' close.
The suspense is killin' me here!
Anybody home?
Maybe we'll see some sea monkeys.
Sea dragons.
Anybody home?
Come on, baby, please!
[neal] yeah, baby!
[freddy] look at that, though!
We got some crabs!
Got some critters.
[neal] yeah, baby!
[jonathan] yeah!
That was a good lookin' pot.
[indistinct shouting]
[jonathan] and now we know
What's at the bottom of this canyon.
[cheers]
Yeah!
[jonathan on radio]
[freddy] let's do this!
Whoo!
[jonathan] just gonna go deeper.
[laughs] we're beatin' the [bleep] out of these.
Somebody's gonna get paid tomorrow.
Woo-hoo!
[mimicking semi-truck horn]
Let's see what's down here.
[narrator] ninety miles northwest.
[seagulls squawking]
On the northwestern.
First pot of the season comin' up.
Now that I'm back, I wanna just keep the wheels spinnin'.
[narrator] after hunting the red king crab in norway
To cover his state-side debt
Captain sig races to catch and deliver his bairdi
Before season's end.
[sig] the canneries are closing soon,
So time is of the essence.
We're gonna try our best.
And uh, you know, we wanna see the baby being born if we can.
[narrator] now, with three weeks to deliver his crab,
And sprint home for the birt of mandy's baby,
The captain has little margin for error.
We need to get on somethin' fast.
Is there life?
[mechanical whirring]
Come on.
[clark] oh, no.
Come on!
No.
There's nothin'?
[clark] nothin'.
Nothin'?
Wow, man.
If this is an indicator of what's gonna be
Goin' on here, this is not gonna work.
I'm really concerned right now.
[clark groans]
Man, this isn't lookin' too good.
So, we got one.
-[sig on radio] oh, my god. You're kidding. -No.
This is not good.
Well, we'll give it a go here.
[indistinct shouting]
[sig on radio]
But they're small.
Small.
[clark on radio]
Yeah, it's better than a blank, I guess, huh?
[clark on radio]
Clark is really steppin' up into a different role,
You know? It's like you get that one guy on deck
That becomes your eyes and ears.
You know, he's the one who really has a feeling
For what's going on out on deck.
Givin' me the details I need so that I can make a decision
Based on what we're seein'.
I need that go-to guy.
And that's exactly what clark is doing right now.
-Clark, come up here, would ya? -Roger.
[sig on radio] wait, wait, wait.
[sig] what do you think?
I mean, I'm seeing some signs.
I'm seein' there's a lot of smalls
On the northern tip of the gear.
And, I mean, that just makes me think,
If we keep heading north,
We'll probably run into bigger crab.
Just because, you know, all those smalls usually hang
To the back of the pack.
All right, so you think just keep bringin' 'em
-Up the hill? -Yeah, I mean, that's what I'd do.
All right, we're gonna start settin' these back.
[jesse on radio] roger!
-Let's go! -Yeah, buddy!
Better hope there's crab!
[jesse] goin over!
[narrator] two hundred thirty-four miles southeast
[jake] we're gonna start haulin'.
[narrator] on the sa.
[jake] I haven't picked this one
In seven days or somethin' like that.
It starts at 330 fathoms.
The pink slip is up in the air.
So, I need to get on
Some substantial amount of fish.
[narrator] with his season and his boat hanging
In the balance,
Captain jake fishes for 340,000 more pounds
Of black cod.
Doin' pretty good. Better than I expected.
So, that's a plus.
I mean, shyanne, I don't know if she's
Necessarily lagging right now.
But on this trip, I'm gonna need her to start
Doin' a little bit more.
[narrator] and to be successful,
He needs every hand, including his niece,
On top of their game.
We're doin' five-pot string now.
I don't know what's in it.
[deckhand 2 speaking]
Oh, no.
Boo, I don't see anything.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
One.
Junk.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[shyanne speaking]
[deckhand 1 speaking]
Shy's feeling the heat in the kitchen.
Struggling a little bit, being on time.
[deckhand 2 speaking]
[jake] it can be overwhelming
Especially when you're starting out.
Nothing.
[deckhand 2] this is where we don't need to set.
Stack that piece of [bleep].
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[shyanne speaking]
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[all grunting]
[grunts]
Zeroes.
[shyanne] cut.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[shyanne speaking]
[deckhand 1 speaking]
You okay, shy?
[deckhand 2 speaking]
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[shyanne speaking]
[shyanne squeals]
[shyanne speaking]
[exclaiming]
[shyanne speaking]
[narrator] on the sa.
[shyanne yelling in pain]
This is what everyone gets concerned about
When they bring their family on the boat.
You don't want to see your loved ones get hurt.
[narrator] cutting a shot of line with a deck knife
The skipper's niece, shyanne slices her finger.
Making jake's own flesh and blood
Extrude her own flesh and blood.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[shyanne speaking]
Just stack it in the back.
[grunting]
-Hey, shy. -Hey.
Let me see it.
You gashed it pretty good.
The main thing is I get you on some antibiotics
'cause if it gets infected
You can lose your finger, real quick.
So I just need you to stay inside for right now.
-Does that make sense to you? -Yeah.
So let's go get it cleaned up.
[shyanne biting back pain]
This might burn a little bit.
-What's it do? -It's iodine.
Are you ready for the painful part?
Yeah.
Some people prefer stitches,
But I'm a super glue guy.
It was created in wwii for this reason, specifically.
[shyanne] wow.
[bleep] a.
[bleep] stings.
[jake] okay, that's pretty much it for now.
[shyanne] thank you.
Damn it!
I gotta provide medical care
And I still have to haul this gear.
My crew is struggling right now, shorthanded,
But I don't plan on quitting now.
[narrator] 250 miles northeast...
[sean] it's gonna pay off,
I have a hunch.
[narrator] ...On the elinore j,
I got a little secret weapon, it's my good luck charm.
This is a watch my dad gave me before he passed away.
His watch,
But I'm hoping this gets us some good crab.
All right, first pot coming up.
One of the things my old man liked to do was just kinda
Trust his instincts, go with the flow,
You know, and that's fishing in a nutshell.
This string is shallow.
I mean, that's way shallow
Compared to what else we been doing.
Did four fathoms, we were all the way out at 40.
[narrator] targeting a 7-mile wide inlets along the aleutian chain,
Captain sean bets on his gut
And his father's advice
To tank his remaining 50,000 pounds
Of dungeness crab.
[sean] first one coming up. Coming up.
[whines nervously]
[deckhand 1] see it?
-[deckhand 1] [bleep] -[deckhand 2 woops]
[sean] aw, yeah, baby.
Yeah!
I see some color, there we go.
[chuckles]
-[cheering] -yeah!
-Yeah! -[laughs]
One more.
Here we go.
See what's got next, what we got next.
Hold on! [bleep]
[cheering]
Fishing's good, woohoo!
-Bro, get me more. -Yeah.
We're still in it.
Bro, yeah, that's money coming out of there.
Feels pretty good to be catching some crab right now.
[cheering]
That is a sight for sore eyes, man.
All the blanks we've hauled.
All right!
[all cheer]
Look at those big hogs.
Yeah!
Two-one.
Twenty-one.
Twenty-one. That's more crab in that pot
Than we had in the whole first string.
[crew cheering]
All right, guys, we're gonna set these things
Right back in the water.
[cheering]
Yeah!
Let's go!
[sean] just goes to show,
Just cause the old man's gone
Doesn't mean there's not still lessons he's teaching me.
[narrator] three-hundred-eighty miles northwest.
[sig speaking]
[narrator] on the northwestern,
-[clark on phone] roger. -A'ight.
[crew shouting]
Right now, we're about to haul
In that area that clark picked out.
If this pays off, you know,
We can get these crabs caught,
Hope to see that baby born in time,
And we got to get them to the cannery in time
Before those doors close.
[narrator] with his own strategies producing dismal results...
It's time to get out of here, I got to get home.
Mandy's waiting for me, the baby's waiting for me.
[narrator] ...Captain sig hansen,
Bets his son-in-law's fishing sense
Will guide them home.
Clark,
Come up to the wheelhouse, would you?
Roger.
[sig] you ready to run it?
I think so.
Think so? You should know so.
This is your moment, man.
[laughs]
All right, clark, just be careful.
[clark] all right.
Don't flop.
No, I think I got it.
I'll be on deck if you need me.
[narrator] after five season on deck,
Clark takes the helm
For the first haul of his career
While the skipper checks in
As his new first mate.
[crew cheering]
He picks the spot, he pulls the string.
It's easy to look at a chart and go, "let's go there."
Hopefully he had some reasoning behind it.
We'll find out.
All right, here we go.
Sig's on the rail.
[sig] oh, yeah!
I'm hoping there's crab in it.
This is kind of a hunch, you know, when we come out
Here and set these, so
This is gonna be, you know, kind of a hit or miss.
Hopefully, I land on them.
All right, here we go, first box.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[deckhand 2] oh, what is that?
We don't know what that is, bring that up here.
[bleep] it, so we don't know what it is.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[deckhand 2] what the hell's that?
Got something, got a crazy crab there.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
We know what's at the bottom of the canyon now.
Now people will go, "what's the craziest thing you've seen out there?"
I get them asking me all the time.
And I'll tell them.
Hillstrandius crabius.
Now I got a new job.
Scientist.
[narrator] hillstrandius crabius.
I knew they would eventuall
Name something after you, jon.
[narrator] on the northwestern...
I wanted to come out here and set these, so
This is gonna be a, you know, kind of a hit or miss.
Hopefully, I land on them.
All right, here we go. First box!
There crab in there?
[crew laughing]
Oh, buddy.
There's some crab!
We got some crab in it.
Yeah!
Whoa.
-Yeah. -This is big.
Oh, man, that's perfect.
Looking good.
Feel like calling mandy, right now,
Being like, "I found crab!" [laughs]
I'm definitely impressed,
He just came out and started throwing the hook.
You always forget that he did this for his entire life.
[chuckling] you know what I mean?
He started on this boat
When he was probably 12 years old.
[crew cheering]
Oh, yeah, buddy!
There's crab in that one too.
[crew laughing]
[bleep]
So far, this string's been successful.
Pretty excited about that.
Whatever gets me home faster for mandy
And get there for the baby.
That's what I'm trying to do.
Fourteen, we're getting better.
[clark] there's one more long line string.
[narrator] 260-miles southeast...
[jake on radio] pull it right now, ready?
[narrator] ...On the saga.
Hey, where's shyanne at?
[jake] shyanne wants to keep going,
But safety's gotta come first.
[narrator] shorthanded,
After jake's niece, shyanne sliced her finger...
[jake] that slows everything down,
But we're gonna get it.
[narrator] ...The skipper turns to his four-man crew
To finish their trip.
Come on, crab!
Woo!
That's a lot of [bleep] fish.
Whoa, fish!
About time. Oh, god.
[deckhand speaking]
A hundred-and-thirty-seven in that one.
Our high pot for this season was 217,
And that was 137.
If there wasn't a lot going on before, there is now.
You got fish,
You got push the pot,
You got line everywhere.
[shyanne speaking]
Just sit over there and give it some time.
[cheering]
[bleep]
Now this is what long line's meant to do.
Damage.
[grunts]
[deckhand] watch your head.
[shyanne] I'm not used to
Having someone that's looking out for me every second of every day, you know.
They all watch out for me pretty hard.
The whole crew and jake so.
I mean, I know I'll be safe out there.
Scared to put this thing back on, a little bit, honestly.
[cheering] yeah, shyanne!
[deckhand speaking]
[shyanne speaking]
[deckhand 2 speaking]
[deckhand 3 laughs]
[jake] disobeyed a direct order.
She's definitely my niece.
I'm proud of her that she wants to keep going.
It's tough having family on board
Because you're gonna be more emotional.
[jake on radio] you can stay out there.
But I'm gonna keep an eye on you.
[deckhand shouts]
[crew cheering]
Yeah, look at that!
Loaded.
[jake on radio] wow, that's a lot of fish.
[jake] two-two-zero.
Two-hundred-and-twenty.
Holy [bleep].
It's a new high pot of the season.
This could be a new home for us.
[sig speaking]
Oh, yeah. I think we can move some pots around.
-I think I'm done on deck. [whistles] out. -Oh, yeah.
-Yep, of course. -That's enough for me.
We'll get you up here more often.
With king crab close,
This is becoming more of a team effort.
And so it's not a one-guy show.
It's teamwork.
I get like a 10 average,
I could really make some money.
Whoa.
[cheering]
[laughs]
It ain't over til it's over.
[sean on radio] a-team.
A-team!
[starts scatting]
More!
[screams]
We came out here, took a risk, and it's paid off.
Everyone's trying to change
Everyone is trying to adapt
You know, everybody has a family, run business,
But we might not all get through this.
[sean] hey, guys, why don't you come on up to the stern?
We're gonna give a thank you to the old man,
A little something that he could see.
One, two, three!
-[all cheering] -[bleep]
Yeah!
Bright!
[bleep] yeah!
-So bright. -That's [bleep] hot!
Woo!
Big crab pots.
[all cheer]
[crew cheering]
Yeah!
[crew] crab daddy!
All right.
Woo!
[sean] the old man's watchin out for us up above, you know.