[deckhand 1] Come on, crabs. Whoo! Come on.
- [deckhand 2] Here we go! - [deckhand 1] Come on, crabs!
[deckhand 3] Coming up.
[Sig] End of the season.
You know, I feel like we've gone through enough already.
[chuckles]
But we've got a long way to go.
Coming up!
[Keith] The crew is wiped out.
They're tired. They're spent.
[deckhand groans]
They've worked their butt off to get to this point in the season.
Now they just need to rally to finish.
[Rip] Excited to see my family, my friends.
The boys are on it.
They want to go home.
[Jake] My family is the reason I go fishing.
And I haven't seen them in a long time.
[Jonathan] I'm gonna hug my puppy and grab the grandbabies.
There's a chance that we get to go home soon.
But the ice man is coming to the wreck everyone's world.
[Sig] There is much bigger problematic ice coming at us.
So there's no turning back.
One shot.
[deckhand] Do you see that? [bleep].
[deckhand] Look at that? [bleep] yeah!
[bleep]. Now that's how you do it!
[Roger] Oh, [bleep].
We've got a breach in the hull.
Oh, my God!
Everybody's suffered.
- I know that. - [indistinct]
We've got a flying brailer. [bleep].
God help us all.
And the clock is still ticking.
[deckhand] Let's go!
[seagulls cawing]
[line ringing]
- [Mandy] Hello. - Hello.
Everything good with our granddaughter here?
[Mandy speaking]
Hopefully, it won't be too much longer.
But it's starting to ice up at the harbor.
Getting a little worried we're gonna get in for an offload.
[narrator] Two months into a grueling winter season.
[Jonathan] This is too cold, it's too windy.
And tomorrow night, this whole area will be gone, gone, gone.
We're gonna get shut down.
[narrator] Cold air from the Arctic hurtles south,
sending the 310,000 square mile ice pack
through the fishing grounds
on a collision course with the Pribilof Islands.
It's moving between 15 and sometimes 30 miles a day,
which is gonna shut down the whole northern fishing area
and then surround Saint Paul.
[narrator] 260 miles north of Dutch Harbor is Saint Paul Island,
home to the sole northern cannery
capable of processing
the $11 million of remaining product.
With a little strip of crab, I'd like to get another pick, you know?
I may end up down there, top of the
dragging head with you, okay?
Call me if you want to work together.
[Jonathan] Yeah, it sounds like a little partnership
is exactly what we both need.
[narrator] Now captains seize every advantage
to bring winter season to a close...
Probably become ice station wizard one more time.
[narrator] ...before the ice shuts them down.
Three-hundred-and-thirty miles northwest of Dutch Harbor on The Saga.
[Jake] I'm sorry I always miss your birthday.
[Jenna speaking]
All right. Well, I love you.
I'll let you get some sleep. I just was missing you pretty bad.
[Jenna speaking]
Okay. Bye-bye.
[Jenna] Love you.
[Jake] Missed Aiden's birthday.
Now I've missed Jenna's birthday.
Luca's birthday's next, and I really hope I don't miss it.
[narrator] Separated from his family for the last two months,
Captain Jake Anderson turns his bow into 12-foot seas
in a desperate bid to catch and deliver
his final 50,000 pounds of opilio crab.
All right, guys. Here's the first pot.
All right, let's roll.
[narrator] before the ice pack
shuts the door on Saint Paul Island.
[Jake] I'm onto the rock pile.
Opilio crab like being in the mud next to rock.
I need 250 average.
I could use a little luck right now.
No good.
It's terrible.
Watch that head.
[deckhand speaking]
Man!
[Jake] This isn't gonna work.
We're not finding much here,
so we got to find it elsewhere.
[Jake] There's not a lot of mud around here
for the crab to dig in.
There's trails in between these rock piles.
If you know where those trails are, you can load up.
Reading my gear here, I might just bump it over,
go another half mile deeper.
I just need one clue.
Oh, [bleep].
Come on, Mason. Come on, Mason.
[deckhand] That's it. Throw.
Dammit, Mason.
All you had to do is throw it right.
Where is it? [bleep].
[Jake speaking]
They're alive.
- Come on, come on, come on. - If I get the line in the prop, that's deadly.
That's not dangerous, it's deadly.
Oh, man.
- What? - Front wheel!
[bleep] dammit!
Run the [bleep] block, please.
We're working on that.
[narrator] Adrift in a building sea,
the skipper pits the boat's hydraulics
against the boat's prop to free the line.
[bleep] dammit.
Oh.
[bleep] dammit. We just snapped a line.
I do need to remain grateful, which I am,
that we are still alive, nobody got hurt.
All right. Here we go, guys.
Dump it back.
Roger!
I'm trying to finish off this season before this season finishes us off.
[narrator] Three-hundred-and-fifty miles southwest
on the Aleutian golden king grounds.
Big snow squall. Perfect.
Once again, rock and a hard spot.
[narrator] Aboard the Patricia Lee...
Can't really see a lot of current.
But we're gonna transfer 4,000 pounds of halibut heads
and hopefully do it safely.
[bleep] Patricia Lee.
Roger.
[man speaking]
[Rip] [indistinct]
[narrator] Captain Rip Carlton stares down the barrel
of an additional $4 million of guaranteed crab, a hefty payday.
But if they fail, a hefty payout
for the captain and crew.
We're on to the next quarter now.
We can't afford not to catch every pound we are committed to.
And if we don't catch it, we have to pay them.
That's how it works.
[narrator] Before Rip can set his 50-pot load,
he'll have to haul a 4,000-pound brailer
across three football fields of writhing 15-foot seas.
We're gonna throw in our buoys first, right?
Roger.
We're gonna throw the buoys, let them go all the way up behind.
As soon as he gets them, I'll spin to starboard and he'll pull it off.
[deckhand] Roger.
We're gonna trail off buoys behind the boat.
He's gonna come up behind it, pull this pot out of the rack.
And then we're gonna come behind him
and he's going to trail some buoys out.
We're gonna get the brailer.
Wait till it's tight and then launch it.
[deckhand 1] Roger.
[deckhand 2] Roger.
[deckhand 1] Anchor over.
You can take it out of gear. I'm coming behind you.
[man speaking]
[deckhand 1] All right. Here we go.
[deckhand 2] Yeah!
[deckhand 1] Go, go, go.
And there she goes.
We got the brailer coming over right now.
The...
the current is just so strong here.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
I can see it slipping away.
[indistinct chatter]
Watch out, guys. Brailer coming back.
Watch out.
She's a swinger.
We got a flying brailer up there in the wind now.
Get off for right now.
Stay to the right, we're going sideways.
[indistinct chatter]
Here we go.
They got it.
Sweet.
We needed it badly.
And we have to catch this crab.
[narrator] 500 miles north.
On The Wizard.
Hello, hello.
[Jonathan] Hey. Good morning, Keith.
Jon, how you doing?
[Jonathan] Good. Good, man. Are you in the area?
[Keith] I am just above you there, two miles away.
Let's get this done, all right?
Let's start setting.
Get this in the water.
[narrator] With the ice pack threatening Saint Paul Harbor
captains Keith Colburn and Jonathan Hillstrand of the Time Bandit
aim their 250 pots across the northern grounds,
betting double the gear
will tank their opilio crab in half the time.
I want to just start like at the...
the 09 or 08 and set to the northeast
and jump over about four miles,
set back to the southwest.
Going over.
[Keith] I'm gonna set east-west.
That way, no matter what,
we can't screw up and I'm crossing you up.
[Jonathan] I need 620 average to go home,
620 average one time and I can go home.
Hang on a second.
[Jonathan] You know, I got 66 pots.
Oh, [bleep], man.
[Jonathan] We'll work our way back up to the northwest,
like you're saying.
I got to go, Jon.
[Jonathan] I feel better. I have company up there.
I'll meet you up in that corner.
All right. Okay. Right on. Thanks.
Roge, I need you in the wheelhouse immediately.
And wake the guys on your way up.
[Roger speaking]
I've got about a two-degree port blast.
We're definitely... if you look out that window,
you'll see what the stack looks like.
Do you have any feeling you can move at all to starboard?
Two...
[Keith] Okay. Listen, just wake up.
- Okay? - We're not...
We've got a little less than 3,000 on my port side.
Okay.
If you can transfer 2,000 gallons,
that could potentially correct this list.
[Roger] Okay.
But then I'm gonna also get the guys out there and clean
all the ice off up on the bow on the port side.
- Okay. - I've never flipped a boat over.
[knocks]
I don't intend to.
All I know is that we're not gonna let this get out of control.
[narrator] On The Wizard.
[Keith] I've never flipped a boat over.
[knocks]
I don't intend to.
[deckhand speaking]
Let's do it. Yep!
[Keith] You know, casualties out here don't just happen
from one catastrophic event.
It's finding the chain of events and breaking the chain.
[Roger speaking]
I got you, Roge.
[Roger speaking]
[Keith] Yeah, have them chip it out.
We need to find out where the hell the water's coming from.
[Roger] All right.
[Roger speaking]
This is how boats go over.
Got it?
Gonna go look at it myself.
Oh, [bleep].
[Roger speaking]
Right here.
This side of the boat going right off to the ocean.
Oh, [bleep].
Where is it?
[Roger speaking]
[Keith speaking]
[Roger speaking]
[Keith] Right.
Right now, the most important thing
we can do is get that hole patched up.
Plug it, patch it, seal it, vise it,
do anything we can to minimize the water
or completely keep the water from coming in.
[Roger speaking]
[Keith] Let's get back to work.
All right, guys, get ready to set.
That's it.
I'm not saying we're out of the woods yet,
but let's see if I can catch some crab.
[Roger] X-ray, two-four.
[narrator] Twenty-five miles southeast on the Northwestern.
Oh, [bleep]
[Sig] First few pots were empty.
So it's real spotty.
Real spotty so far.
I'm pretty anxious.
All the crab has to be delivered to Saint Paul,
and it's impossible to get it when it's full of ice.
So it's this time constraint that's, you know, eating.
[narrator] With his 100 pots free of the floes and now working 15 miles
below the Arctic pack, Captain Sig Hansen
races to put a pin in his winter season
before the ice strangles Saint Paul Harbor.
Oh.
- There we go! - Crab.
Yeah.
We're in it.
[Sig speaking]
That's bizarre.
[Karl] It's overflowing.
We're on it.
That's the [bleep] stuff we're after.
Six-hundred-and-thirty.
These kind of numbers, I can get home sooner.
My kid's about two weeks old.
[Karl speaking]
Oh, no!
[Sig] Oh, nothing in that one.
I'm just really confused right now.
Yeah, they're spotty little buggers, aren't they?
I think we found a little spot.
[Clark speaking]
I'm just speaking my mind out here.
[Clark speaking]
Clark, come on up and take a look at
what we're dealing with.
[Sig speaking]
It's really scary when you think about
couple of pot lengths one way.
And they were... they were nothing.
Look at this. You had nothing here.
- [Karl] Yeah. - The six.
Yes. How do you know
that it doesn't just drop off into Blankville, right?
- But... - It'll keep coming.
Ten, ten, lost it.
[Sig] Right there.
Okay.
If they fail, it's on you.
- [Karl] All right then. - Okay? Gotcha.
So I'm hoping we did the right thing here.
Oh, yeah.
[Sig] You know, if we get lucky,
we'll get another whack out of it.
Hopefully we can stay ahead of that ice.
We just got to blast it out.
Going over!
Hopefully, it pays off.
[narrator] Two hundred miles southeast.
[Jake] Luca!
[Luca speaking]
[narrator] Aboard the Saga.
[Jake] He's getting so big.
[Jenna] He's gotten so big.
[Jenna speaking]
I'm gonna try... I'm gonna try real hard to make sure
I'm home for his birthday.
I better get back at it.
Just missing you.
Missing the boys.
I love you.
I love you so much, Luca!
Bye. [Jenna] Love you.
[Jake] Love you too.
- [Jenna] Bye. - [Jake] Bye-bye.
Yeah.
That's the hardest thing about the job,
the separation from my family.
Hardest thing for me.
I'm hoping these strings pay off so I can get there.
Coming up.
Yeah, we're on.
[deckhand] Here we go!
Whoo!
Here we go.
[Jake] I'm hoping to get done here before the harbor freezes up.
[narrator] Captain Jake bets his 30-pot string
threads the rock pile's muddy trails.
Hit and he may sew up his season.
Miss and his dream of making his son's second birthday unravels.
We'll see what comes up in these pots.
[deckhand] Whoo!
Come on!
Here we go!
[deckhands cheering]
We got some. We got some, baby!
[bleep] yeah, dude, look at that.
Whoa.
Nice big crab.
Three-O-five. Three-O-five.
Nice, 305.
Whoo. Easy there.
You can see the yield increase with every pot.
That's it, baby!
Let's [bleep] go! Let's go!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
That's a pile.
[deckhand] I'm excited right now.
That's 3-2-0, 320.
[Jake] Nice.
[deckhand speaking]
What?
Oh, that thing is [bleep] moving around.
Hey, stop running, stop running.
Put the boat up against it.
Slack tank number two. Slack tank.
Slack tank?
We've got about $500,000...
Roger, I'm on it right now.
Joe, get down there and help him.
Alls I can do is hold it up against it.
It's [bleep] out, dude.
I got a slack tank.
[narrator] Without a working pump,
the water level in the crab tank falls,
leaving 20,000 gallons to slosh back and forth, destabilizing the vessel.
All it'll take is for me to hit one of these waves on the side,
puts 200,000 pounds of weight onto the side of the boat,
you list, then you capsize, and then you die.
Mason's gonna start pumping the tank back up now
and he's bleeding the number three pump
into the number two tank.
Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Pump number two is not... It stopped.
Yeah, Mack, get up here and move it up against it.
I got to run down there and help.
[bleep].
Slack tank [bleep].
Mack, hurry!
[narrator] Three-hundred-and-thirty miles from Dutch Harbor...
[deckhand speaking]
[narrator] ...with a slack tank threatening to capsize the vessel,
Captain Jake races to install a new pump
and stabilize the Saga.
[Jake] Oh, [bleep]. Come on.
[Mason speaking]
Ready?
Whoo!
[Jake speaking]
There it is, got good flow.
Back to fishing.
Do it, boys!
[Jake] Restocking out here in no time.
[narrator] Two hundred miles northwest.
[Sig] Hey, Mandy.
[Mandy] Hey. How's it going?
Uh, it... It's been rough.
That's all I can tell you.
It's been a rough go.
[Mandy] Oh, I bet.
I saw our best signs in the 73 fathom.
Rich.
Karl and Clark, they want to be aggressive and assertive
and napalm this one little spot that had 600.
[Mandy speaking]
We just got to hit and make it to Saint Paul before it's too late.
But the ice is about eight to ten miles from us.
And so it's not the safest move to make.
[Mandy speaking]
Do I go for it?
[Mandy speaking]
[Sig] Maybe you're right.
[Mandy speaking]
Okay. Love you. Bye-bye.
Okay.
You guys are almost ready to set?
Yeah. Roger.
Going overboard!
We need to hit.
I got to get the [bleep] out of here.
Another 4,000 pounds of bait.
So we should be okay.
But we're behind.
This set right here goes through a sandy bottom area.
It looks like a sand trap to me.
We call this the golf course string.
We gotta catch 250,000 pounds in an area
that we haven't fished ever on this boat.
It's a huge guarantee.
All right, boys. Nice and easy.
Gonna be wavy.
Roger.
Bump it out.
[narrator] Five hundred miles north, on the Wizard.
Team Green, grab up that fish
and prepare for dessert after a nice big breakfast.
[deckhand speaking]
- [deckhand 1] Let's do it. - [deckhand 2] Oh, come on.
Get it.
[deckhand 1] Yeah, let's get it.
Whoo!
I don't even see a drop of blood on their face.
Come on, you guys are [bleep] joking about this.
[deckhand retches]
I want...
I'm so superstitious that...
these guys... I don't think these guys [bleep] did it.
[narrator] With his hull hole mended,
but the hole in his quota still unfilled,
Captain Keith takes his good luck offering
into his own hands.
[deckhand speaking]
Yeah. 'Cause you guys don't know how to [bleep] do it.
Yeah, [bleep]. That's how you do it.
Yeah!
Let's go, guys. Back to work.
[bleep] job.
Screw it.
I'll do anything to get some crab in these pots.
[narrator] Just a few miles away,
Keith's partner Jonathan looks to bring a little good luck
to his opilio haul.
Andy.
Yeah. Andy's happy as hell.
Look at him. That's all he's doing.
[narrator] ...by tapping on the head of his Brother Andy Doll.
[Jonathan] Coming up, Freddy.
First one's on the bow.
Hope for crab.
Ice head's coming down.
We're running out of time.
[Heather speaking]
[bleep].
Ah!
[Keith sighs]
Ain't gonna do it, man.
Yeah.
Obviously, that's not what we're after, guys.
Here, crabby crab, crab, crab, crab, crab, crabby crab, crab.
Yeah, that's it!
Welcome aboard, guys. Welcome aboard.
Yeah, baby!
Whoo!
That's a good pot.
That's a really good pot.
- [deckhand 1] Here we go. - [deckhand 2] Yeah.
[indistinct chatter]
[Jonathan] Five-O-five.
Oh, Lordy.
The games begin.
Oh!
I'm gonna call Jonathan to see if he's seen anything.
[line ringing]
Not a good sign.
Jon and I have partnered before probably two or three times.
And, you know, it's been a little chaotic.
Yeah! Move, move, move.
- Oh, yeah. - [phone ringing]
Oh, yeah. Getting better.
Coming up. Coming up. Coming up.
[Jonathan] It's like now we're back.
When they're here, they're here.
I'll tell you that, they're here right now.
This is what [bleep] irritates the [bleep] out of me.
I'm done [bleep].
I'm... I'm working on my own
and I'm getting my [bleep] done.
[bleep] that [bleep].
[narrator] Five-hundred-twenty miles north of Dutch Harbor.
[Sig] Tide's just ripping.
[narrator] On the Northwestern.
We're getting up on these pots.
I've got two hours and I want to go.
I want to leave by midnight on the dot.
The homestretch, just trying to get out of here
as fast as we can.
Being so close to the ice edge is always a problem.
Like my father said,
they're either there or they're not there.
And it looks like we might have found a good depth.
So I left 'em.
I need a 200 average here.
That's all there is to it right now.
[narrator] Inspired by his father's ferry,
and with the ice just 15 miles away from Saint Paul Island,
the fate of Captain Sig's season hangs on one final 40-pot set.
[Sig] We need a little luck here is what we need.
Oh, yeah!
Whoo!
Here we go.
All right, next pot.
There it is.
Oh, yeah!
That's gonna work.
I just need a few pots like that, and we're in business.
Oh, yeah!
Whoo-hoo!
- Yeah, baby! - Yeah, baby!
I love to see the crowd coming over like that,
some big pots.
Trying to get out of here as quick as possible.
Last pots here.
What are you seeing in those, fives?
[deckhand] Yeah, they're fives.
[Sig] Good.
Just got to keep up our tempo, keep moving,
get through these strings.
We just need to get out of here very quickly.
I just got to get into offload before the ice shuts the harbor down.
[narrator] Twenty miles northwest.
[deckhand] Get ready to rock 'n' roll, brother.
[narrator] On the Time Bandit.
Russell's gonna bet that I can't knock off that ice off that cable up there.
[gun fires]
Ah, dang it.
Hey, stand back. I'll fix that block.
Stand back.
I'm gonna get that block.
Fix that block.
[bleep].
[all cheering]
That made me feel good.
That was fire. One on one.
Woosah. Woosah.
So that is yoga 101 Hillstrand style right there.
Okay, guys.
Come to papa!
[line ringing]
Wizard.
[Jonathan] Captain Keith, Captain Hillstrand.
Jonathan here. Reporting in.
[Keith] Oh, our partner boat is on the radar.
I just wanna see how you're doing.
I don't know. I'm not catching [bleep].
What are you seeing up there?
- [crew cheering] - [indistinct]
Good shot, baby!
I'm strung out...
strung out and found some really good numbers.
Holy [bleep].
Five-O...
Five-o-five.
- A lot of crab. - Awesome.
That's exactly what I was expecting
and hoping to hear, Jonathan.
What you want to do, Keith,
is stacking off all for your strings to the southeast.
The ice is pretty close.
I'm... I'm gonna be heading your way.
[Jonathan] We'll see you then. Shoot them up.
[Jonathan] Beep-beep, roadrunner.
Beep-beep, coyote.
That's the Jonathan I know and love.
I wish he would have called sooner.
Let's hope we can get my gear in here
and get it back one time before the ice chases us out of there.
[narrator] Two miles outside of Saint Paul Harbor.
Now it's time to offload our product and go home
and see my beautiful wife and beautiful three children.
And it feels pretty good.
[narrator] On the Saga.
Pump number two is not working.
[bleep].
The water has been off.
We haven't had oxygenated water on the crab.
This is a big problem.
[narrator] With his pump failure starving his crab of oxygen,
Captain Jake races to deliver his opilio
before they go to the great cannery in the sky.
Processing plant, Saga.
[processing plant crew] Yeah. We got you Saga.
I've got a crab pump down,
so I'm coming in for emergency offload.
I'll be there in about 12 minutes.
[processing plant crew] Roger that. I'll hold a spot for you.
See you soon.
Oh, thank you very much.
Okay.
They're gonna start as soon as we arrive at the dock,
start pumping it out.
Make sure it's out like dry.
Are they moving?
I need somebody to talk to me, dude, stat.
[Jonathan speaking]
- We're almost out of this, honey. - [Heather speaking]
Hundred and twenty more pots and we're going home.
[Heather speaking]
[Jonathan] Yeah, I hate that.
Go hit some ice on the rail, knock the rail off.
The best therapy is go out
and hit some... break some ice.
Gets your aggression out.
- Yeah! - Let's go!
Yeah, Mama Bear!
I should throw her a squash out to squish.
[deckhand] Nice coconut. Squash it.
- I should know. - Oh, she got it.
That's what I'm talking about.
Oh!
Yeah, mama!
- [deckhands cheering] - Whoo! Whoo!
[Jonathan] Got to feel better now.
- [deckhand 1] Yeah! - [deckhand 2] All right.
Whoo-hoo!
[deckhand 2] Yeah, baby!
[narrator] As Heather squashes squash,
the Time Bandit quashes their quota
and their winter season.
[narrator] On the Saga.
This is probably the scariest offload I've ever had.
You got feet right there.
We got to get on it though right now.
[Mason] Every minute they don't have water, they die.
We need to get this crab off faster than
just poor off-loaders, you know what I'm saying?
Every second counts right now.
We could lose the whole tank.
[narrator] 275 miles northwest, on the Wizard.
Hopefully, the numbers Jonathan's hailing,
that'll put this boat in striking range of having
our season pretty much gone.
Come on, crab. I need crab.
[deckhand cheering]
[bleep] yeah!
- Yeah! - Yeah!
Yes, yes, yes.
[Keith] Come to papa!
Papa!
- [deckhand 1] Yeah! - [deckhand 2] Yeah!
[deckhand cheering]
[Keith] Oh, yeah.
That's got some crab in it there, man.
[deckhand 1 speaking]
Yes.
Whoo-hoo!
[phone ringing]
[Keith] Blue, Wizard, Wizard.
[Jonathan] Hey, buddy.
How's it going, Jon?
Whoo!
We got four pots left.
Going home.
I'm getting crab in every one of them.
Whoo! Y'all look at that one.
[Keith] No, that's... that's...
that's awesome, man.
We're putting crab on board too.
[narrator] On a one-way track to wrapping his winter season...
Yeah, baby!
[narrator] ...Captain Keith Banks $1.7 million,
snagging each deckhand 87,000 big ones.
[Jonathan] Oh, man. That's beautiful, dude.
I can't thank you enough for helping and bailing me out.
- Okay, buddy. Thanks. - All right, I'm out.
Beep-beep.
Whoo!
[seagulls cawing]
It's like threading a needle right here.
[narrator] And in Saint Paul Harbor,
the race to beat the ice and offload draws to an end.
Whoo-hoo!
Was a hell of a season.
Everyone did good.
It's a good feeling getting in here
and then getting your crab off,
put your money in the bank, put your money in the bank.
[narrator] Over 49 days on the water,
Jonathan caught 160,000 pounds of opilio crab
worth $1.3 million, doling out 60,000 per deckhand.
[Sig] Oh, we got lucky.
There's a lot of ice forming already here in the harbor.
So we're lucky to get these crab off.
[narrator] Captain Sig successfully challenged the ice pack
to bring in a cool 630,000 bucks,
netting his crew $70,000 per man.
[Jake speaking]
Oh, my God.
Thank God.
What a relief.
I just dropped off 62,500 pounds.
I had a total dead loss of 2,041 pounds.
Which is mild compared to what it could have been.
I think everybody on the boat is shocked right now.
[narrator] And between cod and opilio,
Jake totaled out at 1.4 million greenbacks,
stuffing his crew's pockets with 74 grand.
Pretty cool. My uncle's pretty dope.
I'd probably come back. I think I'm crazy enough.
[Jake] By the skin of my teeth.
[narrator] And finally, on the Patricia Lee.
[deckhands cheering]
Wow.
[deckhand] Whoo-hoo!
Yeah!
I could not feel any better.
Whoo!
[narrator] Captain Rip caught his entire guaranteed
4 million in golden kings, sending each deckhand home
with a whopping $130,000.
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
And it's not a train for once.
[man] It's the final end of our journey from Alaska to Seattle.
Oh, yeah?
At the end of all the work, this is our reward.
- Hey! - Good to see you.
Oh, welcome home.
Oh, she, look like a little chipmunk.
This year was not easy.
But like my father said,
our greatest glory is rising when we fall.
♪ Another place where the faces are so cold ♪
Oh!
[Keith] We've got our crab.
You have survived the worst season
I have fished in 20 years.
You guys need to be proud, man.
You're Bering Sea crabbers.
Nobody can ever take that away from you.
[man] I don't think these guys are gonna forget this season for a long time.
Baby!
[man] Without the king crab, they really struggle.
But it's amazing what a fleet can do
when their back is to the wall.
Whoo!
Last pot, baby.
- Whoo! - [Jonathan] We did it.
We got enough money to feed our families.
That's the bottom line.
We'll be back next year.
Guarantee you that.
We have not yet begun the fight.
[Rip] Mother Nature showed us how fast things can change.
We had Francis get hurt.
And losing Todd,
that is something you'll never get over.
But I know that Todd's looking down on us,
and he really would want us to keep fishing.
So I'm at peace with it now.
I'm at peace.
At the end of the day,
the guys all rallied and made it happen.
A lot of boats switched to fishing black cod,
golden king crab, doing what they have to do to find work.
I say get your finest dress ready
and some high heels for me
'cause I want to go on a date with my wife.
[Jenna speaking]
Birthday party for Luca and a date.
That sounds like a dream come true.
[Sig] For us, it's all about the next generation.
It's so cold. Huh?
So the guys are making changes,
and it makes it difficult sometimes.
That's part of the game.
But when you can reap those rewards,
there's no feeling like it.
[line ringing]
It's Sig, can you hear me?
[man] Sig, how's it going?
Well, we just got back from Alaska,
and I'm starting to think about Norway.
And quite frankly,
I want to do something a little more permanent this time.
Think I want to come back.