[josh] hey, brother.
We just left town a little bit ago,
Where we'd be a couple of days out here, so.
How bad is the ice up there
The ice is eight miles from me, northeast of me.
[john speaking]
I don't even know if we can get there physically
Before the ice covers it up.
[john speaking]
You guys be careful.
[josh] all right. Bye.
[casey] nothing's [bleep] easy, is it?
Such depressing information,
Where we wanted to fish is going to be covered with ice.
And we got nothing but northeasterly blows
For the next seven or eight days.
We're not gonna stop. We're gonna fish right through this thing.
We're gonna be in a world of hurt.
[narrator] 130 miles north of dutch harbor...
On the cornelia marie.
Woah!
That was a wild one.
Ooh, ho, ho.
[casey speaking]
Ooh, ho, ho.
Holy [bleep]
No.
We're the last boat out of the harbor,
Gonna fish for opies.
We had a really good paradise trip.
Right now, we're just picking up the rest of our gear.
Weather is starting to really take a turn for the worst right now.
[narrator] to kick off their opilio crab season,
Captains josh harris and casey mcmanus
Rest 40 pots from the deep stored on the edge of the grounds.
There to greet them, a massive low pressure syste
1,000 miles wide, moving west off the mainland
Dubbed the aleutian low now on track to pull the arctic ice pack
50 miles farther south.
[casey] oh, ho ho!
Waves are getting big.
-Yeah. [bleep] -[casey] where to go?
I lost it.
These swells are too big.
Aww, [bleep] damn it.
[bleep] thing. Stay.
Nice shot.
Wait for that roll to go by.
There's white water everywhere.
[josh] it's scary to have taylor up there [bleep] around now.
In case one breaks over the bow.
[bleep]
They just [bleep] keep coming.
[alarm beeping]
[man 1] back up.
[man 2] ooh!
Holy [bleep]
Wow.
[casey] where's taylor?
-Right there in front. -Okay. [clears throat]
Everybody all right down there?
Yep. We're all good.
[casey speaking on radio]
You don't see those coming through too often?
Yeah.
Go to college.
Don't come out here.
We need to get these pots on.
This set has to work out.
We have to find some sort of life to work o
Or we're backwards.
[narrator] 120 miles southeast along the edge of the aleutian low.
[phone ringing]
Aboard the saga.
[jake] sean, you there?
[sean on radio] yeah. So did you hear the news about the closure?
[jake speaking]
Yeah. Yeah. Sunday.
Yeah. I... I told the plant that I started putting fish on at noon today.
When are you going to get out of here?
I think I'm just gonna stick it out today, tomorrow.
And then stack them up on Saturday and then bail out.
Okay. Later, sean.
[sean speaking on radio]
[jake] basically what I'm going to do right now is prospect.
I'm going to go real shallow, real deep,
And I'm just going to try to look for the motherlode.
It's the only way I can catch up now.
[narrator] captain jake anderson drops test pots
From 50 to 78 fathoms.
1.2 miles.
[narrator] hits and he'll invest his full of 100 pot load.
Miss and his cod season and bottom line will flounde
[mac speaking]
Together, yeah.
[mac speaking]
[shyanne speaking]
[jake] I come down one time,
It was really early in the morning
And I see mason and shyanne cuddling and to me,
I see my microwave getting close to my stovetop oven.
I see two pieces of equipment.
It doesn't make any sense to me.
I was very confused.
[narrator] while hunting cod the skipper's niece
Also caught the bering sea' unlikeliest catch,
Feelings for engineer and beau mason twyman.
[jake] but I accepted it.
Mason's a good guy. He's my right-hand man.
So, if there was probably anybody I'd want her to be with,
It'd probably be mason.
[mac speaking]
[shyanne speaking]
[mac speaking]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[mac speaking]
[mason speaking]
All right, everybody on your toes out there.
We're going to start dumping.
All right. Okay.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[deckhand 2] goin' over, hey, watch your feet.
[cheering]
[deckhand 2] connect.
Going over.
So far behind right now.
[deckhand 2] here we go!
Whoo-ho!
I'm starting to feel the heat coming from the kitchen.
We can burn through today without any problems,
We might be able to catch up.
[mason] goin' over. Goin' over. Goin' over.
[deckhand 2] throw it, mac.
Jake! Help!
[all shouting] jake! Jake!
[deckhand 2 speaking]
-[shyanne speaking] -[mason speaking]
Oh, man.
[bleep]
[jake] just blew a hose in the extension.
You can just leave it in the rack for now.
[jake speaking]
[mason] I'll do it.
[narrator] facing a ruptured hydraulic line on the crane,
Jake's only option is a hands-on replacement.
I have to send a guy up 30 feet in the air to change a hose.
All it's gonna take is for mason to fall,
And his life is over.
[narrator] turns out the ma with the brass to date the captain's niece
Is the same one courageous enough
To attempt the fix in 20 foot seas.
[mason] all right, I'm moving down.
Shyanne, you need to man that tagline.
[speaking on radio]
It's not [bleep] going in.
Wrap that tie around the rail a couple of times.
Take the slack out of it and then hold it tight in your hand.
[speaking on radio]
It ain't going to be pretty what happens to his face.
[shyanne speaking]
[indistinct chatter on radio]
[deckhand 1] there you go! There you go.
[shyanne] basically, I have his life in my hands, I suppose.
Not a good feeling.
[deckhand 2 speaking]
[mason speaking]
[bleep]
Hang on, mason.
[deckhand 2] hey, hey, hey!
[bleep] hang on!
[narrator] on the sa.
Hang on, mason.
[deckhand 1] hey, hey, hey.
[bleep] hang on.
[bleep]
Heads up. Heads up.
[mason] woah.
[jake on radio] you okay?
Be careful, all right.
Shyanne, keep tension on that line.
[shyanne speaking]
[deckhand 2 speaking]
If I can't get that crane working, I'm not going anywhere.
[deckhand 1] watch your foot.
[mason speaking]
[jake on radio] okay, shyann
[mason speaking]
[heavy sigh] oh, god!
Mason's done with the repair.
[deckhand 1] you good to go?
[mason] it's done, go ahead.
Looks pretty good.
[mason] the old hose here,
This is where it busted right here.
[jake speaking]
Running out of time. Every second counts.
[deckhand 2] let's go, let's go.
Goin' over.
[jake] just one stressful event after another.
[narrator] 370 miles southwest...
On the southern edge of the aleutian low.
Aboard the patricia lee.
[rip] we're south of amutka bank.
It's the right depth, right area.
Mother nature.
You never know about her, though.
I'm seeing two and a half knots of current 2.3.
But this big aleutian low is an ass-kicker.
If this has crab like I think it does,
I think we got it.
[narrator] 48 hours before an offload,
Captain rip carlton battles storm-fueled tides
For his final long line stri of 50 pots,
His 200,000 pound target in sight.
[rip] here we go.
Just give us a nice string.
That's not asking too much.
Ooh-hoo.
[everyone cheering]
Hell, yeah!
Oh, we are in frickin' money.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
Damn it. That's good.
[deckhand 2] come on, baby.
Here it is, come on. [bleep]
[bleep] tangled. Damn it.
[deckhand 2] you got to turn that top.
We're not gonna get it all the way to the anchor.
[bleep]
Chain on the tangle.
[rip on radio] can't get anything on that anchor.
[deckhand 1] chain on the tangle right now.
No, no, no. Damn it. On the crane.
We're putting it on the crane.
[narrator] with two buoy lines tangled,
The crew attempts to cut out the snarl without severing the long li
That connects them to the remaining 47 pots
Still soaking on the ocean floor.
[deckhand 1] okay. Cut the bridle.
No, no, no, the bridle.
Yes.
This has taken way too long.
[deckhand 1] down we go. That's we wanted.
Get the [bleep] out of the way.
[rip on radio]
You know, the current's pushing me back over the line.
Woah!
It's coming tight, boys.
[speaking on radio]
-[deckhands shouting] -[rope snaps]
[rip speaking]
[deckhand 1 speaking]
Guys were [bleep] around so long.
Nothing went the way it should have.
That's beyond disappointing.
I don't even know, if we'll find the other end
It's deeper.
We've got to haul it backwards against the curren
Everything just got a thousand times harder.
[narrator] 280 miles away..
On the cornelia marie.
Dear lord, please look over us, protect us.
[speaking on radio]
Please make sure our pots are bountiful and our fuel burn is low.
[speaking on radio]
[deckhand] amen. Let's do it.
Hey, it's sinners like us, that keep jesus in business, okay?
[narrator] 35 miles below the southernmost boat in the fleet.
[casey] the risk is setting down here
Is we're basically starting where the survey couldn't really survey.
[narrator] captains josh and casey prepared to set
The first string of their opilio season.
Hail mary in this one.
[casey] oh, boy.
[narrator] on uncharted grounds.
[crew cheering]
[narrator] and 390 miles northwest.
Ooh!
[narrator] on the wiza.
I'm less than a mile and a half
From the russian border, right here.
We got crab and zeros.
The crab aren't going any deeper,
So I'm going to get a little shallower.
Heading back to the east.
[deckhand 1] right, tylor.
[keith] need to get this gear in the water.
[deckhand 1] goin' over.
[keith] I'm under a time crunch.
[narrator] 36 hours after defending the us borde from russian trawlers,
Captain keith colburn defends against empty pots,
Tracking the opilio school 13 miles east.
[keith] I got a stuffed tank one and two.
[narrator] on the hunt for a sorely needed 50,000 pounds.
[keith] the ice gives me maybe two days with any luck,
You start putting 10,000 crabs strings on this boat
And the crab fill those tanks fast.
And that's what we need right now.
Heads up, heads up, heads up, coming at you.
[deckhand 1] hold on.
It's gonna be kind of a dinghy set. I'm sorry.
[casey speaking on radio]
Okay?
Goin' over.
[keith on radio]
[deckhand 1] watch out.
[deckhand 2 speaking]
Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
Watch out. Watch out!
[keith speaking on radio]
Here comes a big one.
[keith speaking on radio]
Oh [bleep]
[deckhands shouting]
Here it comes a big one.
[keith speaking on radio]
Oh [bleep]
[deckhands shouting]
[deckhand 1] woah! Watch, watch out, watch out.
-Ooh. -Wow.
Yeah. There goes the stack.
You doing good? You good?
Everybody good?
[deckhand 1 speaking]
All right.
[casey] you know, life is pretty fast.
You just gonna drop this stuff.
Put more weight on the boat. Boat sit slower, crew gets wetter.
Bring on the popsicle.
When is this [bleep] weather going to give us a break, man?
I'm going to be a happy guy when we get this gear off the boat.
[narrator] 650 miles southeast...
Aboard the patricia lee.
[bleep] damn it.
It should be right here.
We're at the other end looking for our gear right now.
We don't get this, we could be out of business for all day.
No production.
[narrator] with one end of the long lines severed..
[rip speaking on radio]
[narrator] captain rip arriv at the only accessible end of his gear.
That's our starting lineup up there right now.
Okay, I'm gonna turn on the hydraulics.
[narrator] giving him one last shot at recovering his final string,
Before turning his bow toward town for an offload in 45 hours.
We're gonna get this thing up and we're gonna haul it
If it's the last thing I do
[kris speaking]
[deckhand 1 speaking]
Come on. Please give it to us.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
And there's crab.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
We're gonna get it.
No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no.
[kris speaking]
Oh, man. We're hung up.
[kris] well, we are [bleep] right now.
[rip] lots of sharp ridge lines I'm going over,
Lots of places to park the line.
I'm going to try to pop it off the bottom.
[speaking on radio]
[kris speaking] out of the coiler. Our of the coiler.
[narrator] with his strings snagged on the rocky ocean floor,
The skipper slacks the line gambling a jolt from his hydraulic block,
Can free the rope from the terrain below.
[rip speaking on radio]
Go!
There we go. It'll come now.
Yeah. Come on out, fish golden crab. It's easy.
-Whoo! -Oh, yeah!
How many?
[rip speaking on radio]
We're getting it.
[deckhand 2] yeah!
[kris speaking]
Nice. Nice.
I like it.
We need some crabs. We're just gonna keep haulin
If I don't get this gear hauled,
We're going to run out of time.
[narrator] 380 miles northea in the southern tendrils
Of the aleutian low...
[jake speaking]
[narrator] on the saga.
[sean] there you go.
[jake] this derby fishing.
They got another 24 hours to go.
I'm looking for a home, man.
I started in the deep
And then went into the shallows.
I'm looking for anywhere from 500 to 700 pounds per pot.
[deckhand 1] wah-wah-wah.
Oh [bleep] it's nothing.
Three fish.
[shyanne] well, we're getting fed.
But I mean, we're not getting a huge amount of fish.
So, yeah. I don't know.
[jake] what is this?
That won't get us anywhere but heartbroken.
[deckhand 1] nothing.
[joe speaking]
But we gotta pick up and reset.
We're not looking so hot.
This [bleep] sucks.
I was hopeful, but honestly, I think, this is too deep.
-[loud clang] -[joe screams]
[pained groaning]
[deckhand speaking]
You okay, joe?
[joe screams]
[narrator] aboard the saga.
-[loud clang] -[joe screams]
[pained groaning]
You okay, joe?
[joe screams]
[deckhand speaking]
[bleep]
[deckhand speaking]
[joe speaking]
What happened?
[joe speaking]
That's all my fingers closed tight.
That's as far as I can close it in.
Hey, why don't you go in
And you think you can make us something to eat and rest that hand of yours?
Sorry, joe.
Shyanne, you're on the rail. You're going to have to help her.
[deckhand 1] get ready.
Felt like a good time to throw her at the rail.
Joe doesn't like being off deck.
It doesn't have to be a big injury for you to die
Or get something amputated in the bering sea.
[deckhand 1] okay. Here we go.
[shyanne] oh my [bleep] god.
[bleep]
[heavy sigh]
Oh my god!
-[deckhand 1] come on, get the pot. -You're stepping on your line.
[jake speaking on radio]
My niece is going to get tough whether she likes it or not.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
[shyanne grunting]
[jake] hey, hey, hey.
No, no, no, no.
None of that [bleep] boyfriend.
She don't get no [bleep] pas
All right. She got it.
Oh, my god! She's so mad.
[laughing]
[mason] that looks easy from the other perspective, doesn't it?
Let's see what we get.
Something.
There's fish in there.
[mason] chuck it hard.
Nice throw.
Do it shyanne, come on. Nice.
[mason] look at your feet.
Oh, yeah.
[jake] dude. It's not a bad pot.
It's starting to get better as I get shallower.
[jake speaking on radio]
Hope you have fun throwing those shots on top of the pot.
[mason] get your shot ready.
All right. That's the hard way.
I'll show you the technique.
Now watch? You can go like this. Same thing.
Just throw it and push it.
Okay? Throw it, push.
Way easier than with your arm. Trust me.
Don't [bleep] yourself up.
[shyanne grunts]
[mason] I give it a c-minus, but you did better.
She's doing all right for doing the whole thing for her first time.
But you know, it's... It's overwhelming.
So, she's getting a little irritated
Like every greenhorn does.
Ooh!
She hated that. She hates me right now.
Bad.
Yeah. Not very fun.
It's looks cool when joe does it, but yeah.
I don't like that one [bleep] bit.
[jake] I got a lot of catchi up to do.
Try to set in shallower water, which was looking good.
We'll get our heads on straight.
[narrator] 680 miles to the north...
[keith speaking on radio]
Literally going to be charging straight into it.
[narrator] aboard the wiza.
[roger] copy that.
It's gonna be a [bleep] surprise for all of you.
Here it comes.
[keith] we went further deep
Miserable weather, horrible icing.
Clock is ticking.
[narrator] pushing up the russian line,
Captain keith tracks the school to eastern shallows.
[keith] it just takes foreve to fill those tanks.
[narrator] eager to make bare tanks brim.
All right. Let's get something out of this sucker.
[roger] go baby. Come on.
Fire up the line. Fire up the line.
Give us a load! Give us a load!
[deckhands cheering]
[roger] yeah.
Yeah, baby. They're coming. They're coming, cap.
Yeah, boys. You're getting excited, man.
I love this mother russia crab.
[paul speaking]
Hey, pal, you know, let's get dialed in on this.
Roger.
[keith speaking]
-[deckhand] yeah. -[roger] alright, ready the next one.
Heads up and throw.
Crazy weather right now.
They call it snow crab for a reason.
[deckhands cheer]
[keith] setting this gear ba on these numbers.
We've got a shot at filling the boat.
[alarm beeping]
What the [bleep] is that all about?
What's going on?
[speaking on radio]
All I know is I got some serious pressure in the engine right now.
Oil is pouring out the dipstick.
This is not good.
Damn it.
We're over 550 miles from dutch harbor
With freezing spray and 30 foot seas.
Right now, we're pretty much on our own.
All right, so what do we got downstairs?
[roger] I noticed a bunch of oil spewing out of the dipstick
And the dipstick dancing up and down.
[keith] okay.
Now we've got the fuel cap off
To alleviate some pressure, so we don't just lose a bunch of oil on it.
[keith] yeah.
Well, let's put it this way.
We're adrift until we figure out what this problem is.
-[roger] yes. -[keith] all right, rog.
It's a problem with having a single screw boat.
Like they say, if something goes wrong,
You're single and screwed.
[narrator] 400 miles southeast...
[josh] let the games begin.
[narrator] on the cornelia marie.
[josh] first pot coming up on our lower set.
We're the only boat down here...
We're finding some crab.
I would like to see like just a... Like a 150 would be nice, you know.
Any luck maybe we'll pull a rabbit out of a hat
And get this done.
Survey says...
[narrator] on the saga.
As far as first time on the rail
Actually doing the full job of a rail person,
That was good.
I think if it wouldn't have been sprung upon me,
I might have enjoyed it.
Maybe I don't know. It was [bleep] hard.
Joe makes it look [bleep] easy.
[jake] adding shyanne, you're out there amazing.
Starting off f and finish with, like, a d.
Mac. Let's hear the voice of reason.
-Yeah. -What do you say there, chief?
I think she bit off more and she could chew.
[everyone laughs]
[narrator] rip in the patricia lee
Used the golden king to stay atop the podium
While jake in the saga used a greenhorn to surge from behind.
Survey says...
Wah-wah-wah.
[mimics buzzer]
Not gonna be 150.
Not enough.
Hey, you know what? We got one.
It's a start. First crab of the season.
First crab of the season in the boat.
[taylor speaking]
We had a plan. Plan failed.
We'll just start knocking it up the northwest.
We'll find it at some point in time.
We got faith.
Onward.
[narrator] 400 miles northwest...
[keith] I think we just nee to call the mechanic.
[norman on phone]
Hey, norm, good to hear your voice right now.
[roger] there's definitely a lot of pressure inside of my oil can right now.
I had oil spewing out of my dipstick.
[norman] okay.
When you opened up the fill cap,
You didn't have any come spewing out of that, or just a big puff of air?
[roger] just a big puff of air. No oil out of the flow count
[norman on phone]
You may have just diagnosed our problem.
[roger] thanks a lot. Bye.
[norman on phone]
[keith] god I hope it's just ice
Plugging out at the exhaust.
Cody, grab something to chip ice with.
[cody] copy.
[keith] guaranteed, that's our problem.
[narrator] the suspected culprit, an iced up vent,
Causing back pressure that if left unchecked,
Could break the exhaust seal and crack the inner working
Of the $300,000 main engine
[roger shouting]
[keith] like really lot of ice.
Still plugged up, cody.
Oh, it's still coming out.
[cody speaking]
[keith] I hope that's what it is.
We'll put her in gear, see what happens.
Roger, copy.
Here we go!
All right.
I got one thumbs up.
I'm going to give him a little more juice here.
Right on.
All right.
This has just been a really difficult opilio winter season.
We need to get this trip finished up.
[narrator] 670 miles southeast...
On the saga.
[cheers]
[mac] there we go!
This is the end of cod season.
Yeah. [cheers]
Yeah. That's a good pot.
That is a really good pot.
85.
That's 850 pounds.
Stack them on.
Hell yeah.
[mason speaking]
Got to use your judgment at the rail, too.
If you see a wave that you don't like.
[jake speaking in radio]
Nice. She's getting the hang out of it.
[mason] there we go, shyanne!
Whoo!
Yeah, baby.
She really looks like she's a natural at it.
[mason] all right.
She's a tough cookie.
[laughs]
This is...
It's actually quite emotional.
That's looking good.
She's a [bleep] crabber.
Whoo!
25. I like that.
[deckhand] yeah, yeah.
Holy moly, that's all she wrote, folks.
There it is. Last one.
Good job, man. Really good job.
We gotta get to town.
[everyone cheering]
Friends, now let's pop open another tank, right?
Yes, ooh!
Yeah, let's go to third tank, guys. Right on.
-Whoo-hoo! -That's what we want.
So, now we started to having bigger dreams.
[sean] every fish counts.
You don't last the dollar bill's out.
[narrator] after a grueling cod derby,
Captain sean dwyer banks nearly a quarter million pounds.
[sean] more than I expected.
So, beat our number and then some.
[narrator] with $8,000 going to each full shared deck hand.
[sean] move on to opies.
And up to the great white north.
Are you ready to break some ice there, junior?
Last cut, but coming aboard.
Oh, yeah.
[narrator] captain wild bil brings home 360,000 pounds
And 12,000 bucks for each crewman,
All with less than two weeks work.
We're done.
[jake on radio] last pot, shyanne, that was the last one.
[narrator] and on the saga, captain jake nets 262,000 pounds
And 130 grand.
Tank is stuffed. We did it.
Stuffed?
[shyanne] yes. We still have some on the table and nowhere to put it.
[narrator] paying out $10,00 to each full share crewmen.
Even the newly minted crabbing couple.
[mason speaking]
That is phenomenal.