♪
[ man speaking russian ]
♪
♪
[ woman speaking russian ]
[ engine starts ]
russia. Let's do this.
♪
I've been fishing for 41 years.
I've heard about crabbers
going to russia,
but I never thought
I'd be crazy enough to do it.
And if king crab didn't go
the way it did...
...I wouldn't be here right now.
♪
♪
reporter:
Due to a complete revamp
of the russian quota system,
the former soviet union
is increasing infrastructure
and is making drastic efforts
to cut down on ill*gal fishing.
They're finally cracking down.
It's a good thing.
Supply is going down
and the prices are going up.
This isn't gonna be fun.
You'd better be ready.
Josh: Is that them?
Casey: Each and every
one of these marks
is a russian crab boat.
They're 200 foot
with 50-man crews.
Those things are monsters.
This is russia
versus the usa to the core
for the price of crab.
[ man speaking russian ]
[ speaking russian ]
harley: It's us versus them --
the red versus the red,
white and blue.
First to the dock's
gonna win.
Keith: Hang on, hang on.
Wow.
Sig: Is he overboard?!
Is he overboard?!
Jake:
Prices are gonna skyrocket.
Everyone's gonna
come out of the woodwork.
Back in black,
coming for your crab.
You can't be doing that.
[ laughing ]
-yeah!
-Look at that.
Don't tell me how to do
my [bleep] job!
[bleep]
[ laughs evilly ]
[ g*nshots ]
jake:
This year it's all-out w*r.
The russians mean business.
I'm scared somebody's
gonna get hurt.
I'm scared somebody's
gonna die.
Man: I'm dead serious.
Get up there and find out
what the [bleep]
is going on.
Keith:
Keep pulling, keep pulling.
We have new details
on a fishing vessel
that sank
in the gulf of alaska.
Thoughts and prayers
are going out tonight
for the families
of five missing fishermen.
Bill: They had a full stack
coming from kodiak.
Iced up
and rolled over.
God, pray for us.
captions paid for by
discovery communications
♪
♪
-there we go.
-Yeah.
Narrator: October.
T-minus 48 hours to the start
of king crab season.
[ speaking russian ]
and russia, the alaskan
crab fleet's
single largest competitor,
cracks down on ill*gal fishing,
pinching global supply.
Josh: Russia's changing
how they fish.
We think crab prices
are gonna spike hard.
Narrator:
Now, with demand on the rise
and millions on the line for
the first boats to deliver...
Bill: I think potentially
we could be looking
at the highest king crab price
we've ever had in history.
Narrator:
...Each trip is a race to dock.
Good, good, good.
Bill: The quicker we can get out
and get our crab caught,
the more money
we're gonna make.
Narrator:
It's usa versus russia.
Man #2:
Let's go, go, go.
And everyone is vying
for an edge.
♪
alright, fellas, get ready.
We're coming in for a landing.
Got it.
I'm just pulling into dutch.
There's something special
about 2019 king crab.
I never thought
I would become a deck boss,
let alone a hook man,
let alone an engineer.
Now I'm an owner
and it's awesome.
Narrator: After 21 years
of fishing from greenhorn
to the helm,
captain jake anderson,
finally pilots the saga
as master and commander.
Jake:
But I do know one thing.
Russia changed
their market strategy.
That means that there's
gonna be skyrocketing prices,
and I want to capitalize
on the money
that's gonna be made
this season.
There it is.
Port side!
So what I did was I thought
out of the box.
I hired someone
that's, um...Very unique.
♪
he's not known for the most
orthodox way of doing things.
He's a bering sea pirate.
One of my closest friends,
you may know him.
The man, the myth...
Johnathan hillstrand.
♪ I am a passenger ♪
♪ and I ride and I ride ♪
♪ I ride through
the city's backside ♪
johnathan: Holy moly!
[ laughing ]
narrator: After a storied career
on the bering sea...
[ johnathan
yelling indistinctly ]
that's why it's so exciting
to fish crab.
Narrator:
...The sky-high prices lured
captain johnathan hillstrand
out of retirement.
Johnathan:
God bless america.
Narrator:
The former time bandit skipper
brings extra quota,
and jake provides
the ship to catch it.
Johnny!
♪ he looks through his window ♪
♪ what does it see? ♪
♪ he sees the winding
ocean drive ♪
♪ and everything was made
for you and me ♪
♪ all of it was made
for you and me ♪
yeah!
♪ singin'
la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la ♪
♪ la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la ♪
♪ la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la,
la-la ♪
yeah!
Whoo!
Hillstrand!
Hey, dude, you made it.
Jake: Aw, dude. Did you bring
the crew you promised me?
I brought the three best
I could bring.
-Who's it gonna be?
-You alright there?
-Oh!
-Hillstrands!
-Yeah!
-Oh, yeah!
Narrator: In addition to extra
quota, john brings extra crew.
Enlisting brother
neal hillstrand,
nephew phillip hillstrand,
and johnathan's wife,
heather hillstrand.
Brought the whole damn family
for you.
He must trust me.
We're gonna adopt you.
Alright, dude.
This is great, dude.
Let's go get rich.
A couple are bandit
surprises.
I don't know if I like that.
Looks like we're gonna have
some hillstrands aboard.
Johnathan: I have to admit,
I missed being out here.
And I'm back.
Narrator:
As jake gambles his season
on a bearing sea buccaneer...
♪
...On the other side
of the island...
♪
I'm going.
[ engine starts ]
this is looking to be one
of the most profitable
and competitive seasons
in decades.
Because the russians are now
rationalizing their industry,
there's gonna be a race
to get that crab to the market
and get the highest price.
Narrator: Captain sig hansen
furthers a plan of his own
to beat the russians.
Sig: For myself, I feel
pretty good about it,
because we've already got
a jumpstart on all these guys.
Narrator:
His ace in the hole...
Mandy: Okay, you guys ready?
-Yeah.
-Oh, yeah.
Narrator: ...Daughter and relief
skipper, mandy,
alone at the helm
of the northwestern
for the first time
in her career.
Mandy: My dad got really
fired up this year,
so he sent me out early to get
our gear into wet storage.
The reason why we do that is
so we don't have to go
back and forth to land.
It saves us multiple days
in the long run.
Narrator:
Mandy sets 77 unbaited pots,
so they'll be close at hand
when the season opens,
doubling their reach
in the race against russia.
Mandy: Not only are we bringing
our pods closer to the ground,
but this way, we can have
twice the amount of pots.
-Hey, mandy?
-What?
What the [bleep]
are you talking about?
Narrator:
Making a suggestion...
They don't need to be
that far apart.
...Her husband, clark.
Sig taught me 2/10,
so that's what I'm doing.
Alright.
You might wear the pants
at home,
but I'm in
the wheelhouse here, so...
♪
it's a big deal for me
to be out here on my own.
I want to make sure
that when my dad gets here,
we are turnkey ready.
Narrator: While mandy carries
out her father's battle plan...
Coming up!
I mean,
we're always in a hurry,
but I think this year
more than ever.
Narrator: ...Summer bay
captain wild bill wichrowski
prepares to compete
for a spike in crab prices
caused by the new
russian quota system.
The quicker we get it to market,
the higher dollar
it's gonna bring.
Nick and the crew
have been on the boat.
They've been dialing it in,
getting the gear ready,
getting the boat ready.
When the whistle goes,
we need to be throwing lines
and headed out
and catching some crab.
Nikolai.
Transducers and anchorage
should be on its way out.
Did you get those valves?
Got the valves, yep.
Uh...
What's going on?
Tony and kyle didn't come back
to the boat last night.
Are you [bleep] serious?
Narrator: Coming up...
I got my port side
to the dock here
and nobody can see
what's happening.
I didn't want somebody
to find out what the hell
I got up my sleeve.
Scott: Very first time
I ever ran a boat,
it cost me a finger.
It's been about four years
since I've been back
in the bering sea.
It's time to get back
on the horse.
Narrator:
On the summer bay...
What's going on?
Tony and kyle didn't come back
to the boat last night.
And kyle
is really [bleep] up.
Drugs bad.
Bill: Everything's clicking,
and now
we've got an issue.
Narrator:
Two days from launch...
This is [bleep]
...Two high deckhands leave
captain wild bill high and dry.
It's so important that
we get out there
on time on this thing.
It's ridiculous.
And these [bleep] clowns
do this [bleep]
well...
♪
♪
we all make choices in life,
and you made
a [bleep] up one, man.
Yeah.
I gave you a job
this summer.
I gave you money
for your family,
and you just spit
in my face.
So you need to get your stuff,
get off the boat...
No, boss.
...And never [bleep] mention
my name again.
Please. I'll stay at work.
Get your [bleep]
no, you're not, man.
No, you're not.
Pack your [bleep] man.
You know the rules
around here.
Tom: I do.
If you get high,
you got to fly.
Whatever kyle got
into last night,
I mean, I don't know
what the [bleep]
is going on with him,
to be honest.
You were with kyle last night.
He told us you were with him.
Yeah, I know.
I got hammered drunk.
I was still drinking
at 6:00 this morning.
We talked to some people
that were with you.
Okay.
Okay.
And you were getting high
like everybody else.
No. No.
Yeah. Yeah.
Bill, I'm telling you.
I'm gonna call you
a bald-faced liar.
I bet my reputation
that if we go to the clinic
right now, you piss bad.
I couldn't tell you that.
I don't know.
There's a part of last night
I don't [bleep] remember.
Pack your [bleep]
alright, bill.
Sorry, man.
Me too. You think
this is good for me?
I was ahead of the game
more than
I've ever been ahead
of the game,
now I'm scrambling
for [bleep] people.
Get the [bleep]
off the boat.
Alright.
Narrator:
With departure imminent,
bill needs to replace
half his crew
or get knocked out of the race
before it even starts.
Do good out there.
Nick was going out of his way
to teach him
how to do this,
what to do and so
I'm sure nick's taking it
a lot harder than...
Should've got
my sweatshirt back.
♪
-that's good.
-Rope!
-Good!
-Let's go! Let's go!
Narrator: As the rest
of the fleet works full tilt
to make the opening bell...
King crab market
continues to see
what feels like constant
upwards pricing pressure.
Narrator: ...Russia's revamped
quota system
puts a squeeze on the supply
of king crab...
[ speaking russian ]
narrator: ...Driving prices
to historically high levels...
[ speaking russian ]
...Forcing everyone
to up their game.
[ indistinct conversations ]
man #3: We got it!
-We want to get two right here.
-It's got to under.
Narrator:
On the cornelia marie...
Josh, give it the nuts,
give it a little more throttle.
I want to watch this.
♪
that's full power, buddy.
Casey: When we're in shipyard,
we added
an extra inch of pitch
to each wheel.
It gives you a little bit
more of a bite in the water.
It should give us
about an extra knot.
Narrator: Captains josh harris
and casey mcmanus
fine-tune
their supercharged vessel.
Josh: This year's a big year.
We got russia knocking
on the back door.
-Boulder?
-Oh, yeah.
Josh: In order to make
this boat more badass,
we had spend
about a million bucks.
Overhead.
Narrator: After funneling
a fortune into the cornelia,
josh and casey
have one of the fiercest travers
on the bering sea.
Cornelia marie
version 2.01.
One they hope can make the
difference in the race to dock.
Casey:
Completely rebuilt the steering,
the whole rudder system.
Instead of only going
35 degrees each way,
now we can go about
42 degrees each way.
Josh: We've got new radar,
new depth sounders.
With this specific technology,
I can see what every vessel
up here is doing,
especially the russians.
That's gonna be
one of the main things
because we're gonna see
where they're fishing,
when they're starting
to head back into town,
and that'll put
the pressure on us
to be working harder
and faster.
-Good.
-It's good.
Casey: Dude, phil would've loved
to see the cordelia like this.
It's gonna handle like
a top hot-rod son of a b*tch.
Coming in hot.
Coming in hot.
Josh: Last but not least...
I decided I'm going
to go out one heavy
so we can get production
up a little bit.
Let me just tie this off.
We hired a little lady
by the name of maria.
I'm excited,
just, like, stoked to be here.
She's a badass chick.
Narrator: Josh rounds out
the plant to outpace
mother russia by hiring
an extra hand.
Maria: Beautiful.
Narrator:
...25-year-old maria dosel.
Josh:
Maria's an alaska native.
She worked on boats
for a long time.
She knows what she's doing.
She could probably show
some of the boys a thing or two.
I could just belly bump you
right now.
I just know that the first guy
to the dock
is gonna get
the best bang for his buck.
That is our goal, plan,
and objective.
Narrator: As the cornelia boys
ready to speed off the dock...
Man #4:
Up a little bit.
...Every captain across
the fleet hunts
for an edge against russia.
Harley:
Alls I need to know right now
is that it will hold
that buoy down.
That's all we want to do.
Grab that zinc, danny.
Narrator:
On the southern wind...
I got my port side
to the dock here
and nobody can see
what's happening.
I don't want somebody to see me,
find out what the hell
I got up my sleeve [bleep]
narrator:
Captain steve "harley" davidson
digs deep
into his bag of tricks...
I mean, you're fishing out there
amongst this fleet,
you got to be kind of cutthroat.
Narrator:
...To out-fish the russians
and out-wit his own compatriots.
This is gonna be
my secret weapon.
I think these might help me
fly under the radar.
It's a time-released zinc.
This'll be attached to the pot.
This will be attached
to the buoys.
And so I can sink
my pot and hold my buoys down.
People drive by,
they're not gonna see it.
Narrator: When setting, pots
land on the ocean floor
and they're tied by a line
to buoy bags on the surface
for all to see.
Harley's plan -- use specialized
zinc fasteners
to cinch up the line,
pulling the bags underwater,
concealing them
from the competition.
While his pots fish, salt water
will corrode the zincs,
and after 24 hours, release
the buoys to the surface.
Munsey: No one will know
that we were there.
That way we can go out there
and kind of sneaky pete around.
Harley: I got them from florida
or something.
I'm not sure if they're
something drug runners use
or why they make them,
but I said, "okay.
It looks like something
I want to try."
I think we're ready to set.
Give it a shot.
Harley: Gonna do a test right
here at the dock
before I get out there.
-Ready.
-Okay.
Here they go,
they're gonna drop it.
♪
oh, okay.
Come on,
take that buoy with it.
Come on, down, down.
Man #5: Uh-oh.
[ scattered cheering ]
-it worked!
-Yes, yeah.
Criminal mastermind up there
in the wheelhouse.
Harley:
Nobody will even know I'm there.
Here we go.
Narrator: Across the docks...
Man #6: Oh, yeah!
...As the northwestern
returns from setting
their wet storage gear
near the grounds...
Hey.
Hello, cap.
Welcome aboard.
...Captain sig welcomes relief
skipper and daughter mandy
back from the first solo
trip of her young career.
Your little dock-in
performance was pretty nice.
I got 77 pots
in the water.
77?
Mm-hmm.
Pull it up.
Let me see what you did.
Two strings?
Two strings.
What is this? How many pots
are on those strings?
I did 40 and 30.
Why is a 40-pod string
8, 9 miles long?
Because you set them
2/10,
2/10 of a mile.
No, when you fish,
you do 2/10 of a mile.
This is stored gear.
You know, you want them
right in tight.
There's a lot riding
on this season,
that's not gonna work.
You've always told me
2/10.
When you're fishing
and you're prospecting,
not when you're
setting gear like that.
We're setting gear early.
It's a big advantage.
Why would you take an advantage
and turn it into a negative?
What are you thinking?
Sig: Why is a 40-pot string
8, 9 miles long?
Narrator:
On the northwestern...
Well, you've always
told me 2/10.
When you're fishing
and you're prospecting,
not when you're
setting gear like that.
We're setting gear early.
It's a big advantage.
Why would you take an advantage
and turn it into a negative?
What are you thinking?
...By setting the storage gear
too far apart,
mandy cost the boat time
in a season with none to spare.
When you set gear like that,
you just got to turn and burn,
they got to come up
like bang, bang, bang.
That's how it goes
so we can save some time.
Can you see that now?
Out of my chair.
♪
♪
oh.
Bottom line
is hopefully this thing
doesn't cost us too much time.
With less crab
on the global market,
a bad start is really going
to set you on the wrong foot.
And leave it to me to come down
on my kid like that,
but it's not father-daughter.
This is --
this is captain-crew.
She wants more responsibility.
She's gonna have to show
that she can handle it.
Narrator: While sig's plan
to get a jump on the fleet
falters...
Reporter #2: Most sizes are
sitting at all-time highs
or at 52-week highs.
Narrator:
...News of the king crab boom
echoes across the u.S. Of a...
Scott: Very first time
I ever ran a boat,
it cost me a finger.
And most people
would have went home.
Narrator:
...Thrusting former heavyweights
back into the ring.
It's been about four years since
I've been in the bering sea.
When I walked away
from fishing, you know,
due to my back injury,
I went from the captain's seat
to a wheelchair.
It's not how I planned
on ending my career.
Scott: Yeah, baby!
Narrator: On his way to becoming
a crabbing legend...
Yeah!
...Captain scott campbell, jr.
Was a highlight
of the bering sea...
I guess for the third year
in the row,
we're the number-one
cat up here.
Oh, man.
Narrator: ...Until it was cut
short by a debilitating injury.
Now he's hungry to stage
a comeback in potentially
the most lucrative
king season of his life...
Scott: I want to see
if I'm in good enough shape
to go back fishing.
...Assuming he has
the spine for it.
In four years, you've gone
through three surgeries.
You've gone through
a lumbar spine fusion.
You've gone through a c spine
arthroplasty discectomy
taking the disc out,
putting a new one in.
Your risk is not gone
in that world,
but you're in kind of
the best situation
you can be in taking
those risks in hand.
You're safe to go back
and do your job.
♪
scott: It's time to get back
on the horse.
It's time to give it
another shot.
I feel like I can do it.
There's a shortage of crab
across the world right now.
The markets are stronger
than they ever have been.
This would be a huge opportunity
for me
to be able to get
financially stable again
and be able to provide
for my family.
Come here,
what are you doing?
Come here.
Oh, watch out
for the puppy.
Papa!
[ babbling ]
scott: But the reality is,
is every time
I leave my family,
at the back of my mind,
you know, there is a chance
that I might not be coming back.
Love you.
I love you, papa.
I know,
I love you, too.
Narrator: While one captain says
goodbye to his family,
430 miles southwest...
Another does the same.
Keith: Come to me all you
who are weary and burdened...
...And I will give you rest.
I want to thank everybody
for coming out today.
January 17th,
I got a phone call,
and my father had passed away.
Woman: He just passed away
less than few minutes ago.
Oh, okay.
I'm so sorry.
We're here in plymouth today
to celebrate his life
and to put him to rest.
You don't realize
how much you love something
until it's gone,
and he's gone.
We're gonna miss you, pops.
♪
you know what?
He'll be there with us.
We're gonna go catch
some crab,
we need to do it
as a team.
Time to get back to work.
Yeah, it is.
♪
coming up.
Put it on the rail.
♪
narrator: Buoyed by memories
of their father...
-Hey!
-Hey!
-Hey!
-Welcome back!
Narrator: ...Wizard captains
keith and monte colburn
arrive in dutch.
Set this on.
A little more.
I got three times
or four times as much crap
as any other boat in this fleet,
so I got to hunt.
The crab are gonna be
a little bit further north.
Basically trying
to chase colder water.
Narrator: To beat russia
and lock in a supersize
$2 million worth of crab...
Let's chain this [bleep]
and get the hell out of here.
...The brothers colburn chart a
course to the high latitudes,
the northeastern grounds...
Man #7: Saturday,
southwest with 55 knots.
Seas 31 feet.
Narrator: Just as a 200-mile
wide arctic storm
churns that same region
of the bering sea.
Keith: We need to be setting
right in that weather window
before that goes right
through the fishing grounds.
And that storm is intensifying.
There's a wave out there
with the wizard's name on it,
and I don't know when
or where or how,
but it's gonna hit us.
Say a couple of hail marys...
And knock on wood.
♪
johnathan: There we go.
-Yep.
-Yep.
Sig: Finally, we're
getting ready to go.
2019 king crab.
Let's get this thing started.
Let's go. King crab.
Narrator:
Across dutch harbor...
What are we waiting for, baby?
Let's go fishing.
Whoo!
Narrator:
...Departure day arrives.
Landon: What do you got
going on right now?
We just had
to let two guys go.
On the summer bay...
Right now is not the time
to be looking for guys.
Anybody good has got a job.
You got nick and landon
bouncing around.
They're trying to find out if
there's anybody here worth it.
Narrator: ...Captain wild bill
is stuck in a frantic search
for deckhands trying to replace
the two he fired.
I was wondering
if you would be able
to head up here
right away.
[bleep] yeah.
Alright, great.
One down, one more to go.
We were leaving at the g*n,
but stuff always happens.
Narrator: But until the crew's
at full strength,
bill is still beached.
Bill: The longer we're up here,
the less we make.
You ready?
Narrator:
For the rest of the fleet...
♪ whoa-oh-oh,
oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ show me what you got ♪
♪ let's see what you got ♪
we got the big price, we've got
to make every day count now.
-I'm ready.
-Woo.
Departing the harbor.
Woo-woo.
Narrator: ...The race
for the multimillion-dollar
bounty is on.
Scott: Alright, throw off
the bowlines, boys.
Let's get out of here.
Let's see if I remember
how to drive this thing.
-We're out of here.
-Whoo!
♪ oh-oh-ooh ♪
keith: Let's go. Let's go.
Let him go.
Let's get this boat
off the dock, mouse.
Let's go do this.
♪ here we go ♪
♪ gonna show you
what we're made of ♪
keith: I'm getting my crab
to this market
before the russians do.
♪ messing with the best and
we're gonna make you pay up ♪
narrator: Captains start
the sprint to catch
and deliver ahead
of the competition...
First guy to the dock
will be a big pay day.
Narrator: ...Driving hard to
beat the russians
and claim top dollar
at the dock.
♪ we're just getting started ♪
josh: Right now,
we need a big pay day
after we just dumped
a million bucks into the boat.
♪ show me what you got ♪
united states of america!
We rule!
♪ whoa-oh-oh,
oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ let's take it to the top ♪
♪ show me what you got ♪
♪
♪
keith: The saga's got, like, six
pirate flags up in the bow.
He got enough [bleep]
flags on that boat?
Good lord.
You know that's hillstrand.
[ laughter ]
back in black,
coming for your crab.
[ horn blows ]
narrator: Muscling her way to
the front of the formation...
Make some room, old man.
Sig:
You got to be kidding me.
Narrator:
...Ladies and gentlemen,
the saga bandit.
Rock 'n' roll, baby.
Rock 'n' roll.
♪ let's see what you got ♪
[ horn honking ]
whoo!
Narrator: The time has come for
team usa to beat the russians
to the most lucrative king
crab bounty in years.
2019 king crab season
has begun.
United we stand.
Divided we fall.
[ chanting "usa" ]
♪
-yeah, baby!
-Yeah!
-Yeah!
-Whoo!
Narrator: 90 miles northeast
of dutch harbor...
[ scott grunting ]
♪
there's my 25
for the day with no stop.
Oh.
[ sighs ] man.
I feel like
I'm getting stronger.
♪
narrator: ...After three
surgeries and four years
recovering on the sidelines,
captain scott campbell, jr.,
is poised to splash down
his first pots.
Scott:
I really feel like I was robbed.
I was in a wheelchair.
I had to do pool therapy just
so I could get enough strength
in my legs to walk again.
I never really thought
in a million years
that I'd ever be back,
but here I am.
I'm gonna kick some a*s.
You boys ready?
-Yeah!
-Yeah!
-Yoo-hoo!
-Roger.
Pour it over!
Catch some crab!
I'm not here for
a little bit of crab.
I want a lot of crab.
I'm greedy.
Russia, they're out
fishing right now.
We've got to get our crab
to market first. That's key.
If we want to make
that extra money,
we got to be to market first.
Going over.
Narrator: The first pod
of the 2019 king season
means the race against
russia is officially on.
We need 35,000 pounds
as quick as we can get it.
We know we've got bad
weather to the east.
I'm gonna backtrack
to the west.
Narrator:
As a massive storm
envelopes
the northeastern grounds,
junior opts for the tamer seas
of the southwest,
closer to dutch harbor.
Scott:
I've never been out this far.
This is 140 miles from where
I traditionally fished.
I've heard of guys
doing it back in the day,
but I've never fished that far.
No idea where the crab are.
I'm out of the loop.
-Go!
-Go, go!
Narrator:
Across the bering sea...
-Yeah!
-Oh, yeah!
Yeah, baby!
Narrator: ...The crab fleet
joins the fray.
Typically, I would start
40 miles east of here.
But right now, we've got weather
coming in to the north and east.
Narrator:
Joining the cluster
in the southwest away
from the storm...
We're gonna start out west
towards mandy's stored pods,
and then cut back down.
Narrator: ...Captain sig hansen
and daughter mandy
stick by their spare b*ll*ts to
quickly convert crab into cash.
Sig: This season is so important
because of the price.
The faster we get them
to the dock,
the faster we get paid.
-Pot going over.
-Oh, yeah!
Narrator:
And on the cornelia marie...
Put a lot of money
into the boat.
It's more like a corvette now.
We get the crab in fast enough,
then we beat the russians
at their game.
Narrator: Captains josh
and casey lean on
their million-dollar upgrades
to load on 70,000 pounds
and speed back to shore.
Casey: We're setting here
because we think the crab
are gonna be west
in slightly deeper water.
You get a little sniff,
you can get on them.
♪ crabby, crabby, in the sea ♪
♪ won't you crawl
in the pot for me? ♪
♪
narrator: 60 miles northeast...
Harley: 2019 red.
Here we go.
-Come on, boys!
-Whoo!
-Yeah!!
-Whoo!
Be careful, though.
It's choppy weather.
Narrator:
...The lure of big crab
has three boats
charging head long
into the building
northeastern storm.
On the outer edge,
the southern wind.
Harley: I'm gonna go back to
that same little bank
where I've done it before.
It kind of looks
a little hat.
Narrator: Captain harley banks
on an old haunt for big numbers
in the storm-tossed waters.
-Throw her over.
-Yeah.
Narrator:
And just to the southeast...
Johnathan: What the snap?
Jake: It's knight rider, bro.
Let's go [bleep] racing.
Keep [bleep]
knight rider.
You're getting
very sleepy.
...Skipper jake anderson
deploys his new secret weapon
in the gale.
There's a gut right here.
This is where
I usually find crab.
Heads up!
...Wily 38-year-veteran
johnathan hillstrand.
I love crab fishing.
I know.
It's so exciting, dude.
You get to hunt
for a living.
Be vewy, vewy quiet.
We're hunting crabs.
Crabs are vewy,
vewy unpredictable.
-Lower!
-There she goes.
Narrator: And deeper
into the dank recesses
of the low-pressure system
than any other man...
Keith: I got a hunch the crab
are gonna be trying
to chase colder water.
Hopefully this storm
didn't disrupt the crab
and have them dig in,
so it's a gamble.
Narrator:
...Captain keith plunges
into the heart of the storm,
betting he'll find
the mother lode
in the northern reaches
of crab grounds.
Hey, so we're going out,
alright?
You guys got to realize
the weather is horrible.
Do not get near the rail.
Always keep yourself
in a position
where you're safe
and do the best you can.
Bring it in here. On three,
we got this, one, two, three.
All: We got this.
♪
right now, my guys
are in the gear room.
They're ready to go,
but the waves are still big.
I've got a big stack
in front of me.
I can't see that well.
But we're looking to get
a jump on the fleet
and get the best price
we've ever had.
So as soon as I think I can set,
I'm gonna set.
♪
okay, guys, let's go ahead
and get rid of them.
-Right on.
-Yeah, baby.
-Whoo.
-Sweet. Let's do this.
-Go, go.
-Go!
-Go, go!
-Go!
[bleep]
that's a [bleep] big one.
Heads up, heads up, heads up!
Okay, guys, let's go ahead
and get rid of them.
-Right on.
-Yeah, baby.
-Whoo.
-Sweet. Let's do this.
Narrator: Far from the fleet,
on the northeastern grounds,
captain keith and the wizard
crew prepare to set gear
in the middle
of a powerful storm.
[bleep]
that's a [bleep] big one.
Heads up, heads up, heads up!
-Whoa!
-Hang on.
[ men yelling ]
holy [bleep] we just filled
the [bleep] whole bow up.
Everybody good?
Everybody okay?
-You okay?
-Good. Good.
-All good.
-Whew.
Alright.
We've taken some big waves
on this boat,
but that was a lot of water.
Narrator: A 30-foot rogue wave
brutalizes the wizard...
Okay, guys, go ahead
and gear down.
Go back in the bottom.
Let's go.
Narrator: ...Forcing keith
to sacrifice fishing...
Come on!
...To protect his men.
-Is that everybody?
-Everybody.
Keith: I need to get my crab to
market before the russians do.
But there's no way
I can set tonight.
I have to wait
until I have daylight.
Hopefully this gamble
is gonna pay off.
♪
narrator: 104 miles south
on the outskirts
of the northeastern storm...
Johnathan: I said I would never
come out here again,
and here I am,
and you took me
through a storm,
you [bleep]
...On the saga bandit...
Watch out, dude.
Watch out. [bleep] [bleep]
whoa.
Okay.
This is the first part
of the gut strings,
handed it over to john.
He's got the plan.
...Jake follows
johnathan's hunch
to a location called the gut...
I believe in you, anderson.
Let's make some money.
...Hoping to find their combined
160,000 pounds of king crab.
Come on, baby.
Light my fire.
Get her done, dude.
♪
yeah, baby.
[ men cheering ]
♪
we got a rider.
[bleep] man,
for making it work, jake.
Riders means there's crab
crawling on the pots.
That means they're
still down there.
Narrator: Out of the gate,
johnathan's gut pays off,
giving the saga an early lead.
Whoo!
It's theirs to lose.
Joe: That's [bleep] awesome.
That's what we want,
every [bleep] pot.
I just hauled an 80.
Really nice to see crab
on the table right now.
91.
Dude, that is a huge pot.
That's [bleep] gonna be
a slamming string.
♪
narrator: 38 miles northwest...
...The southern wind...
-Whoo!
-Oh, my god.
♪
♪
it's some hellacious seas.
Narrator: ...Piercing
the 945-millibar
low-pressure system...
...Captain harley
is coming knocking,
ready to devour the grounds,
if the crab are home.
♪
big money, big money,
big money, big money!
Harley: This is it, buddy.
We're gonna see
if there's any hope here, huh?
[ men cheering ]
shut the front door.
Whoo!
[ laughing ]
we got crab on the boat.
Man #8: Female.
Look like all females.
That sucks.
Not so good.
We got a bunch of females.
They're not for consumption.
They're just for breeding.
Narrator: By law, all female
crab must remain in the sea
to keep the population thriving,
which means harley just gave
the ladies a free dinner
and a ride home.
Slide these crab
right out.
These are making babies.
Got to move, move, move,
move, move, move,
push, push, push,
push, push, push, push.
Harley: I'm gonna do whatever's
necessary to get crab
on this boat.
Somewhere deeper.
Something different.
I see the saga over here.
Those guys have been
in the same spot.
♪
I'm thinking there's
a little patch here
that he's hunkered on
by himself.
Not good.
It's time to get to business.
Might have to check in
on old jakey.
Narrator:
40 miles southeast...
-Yeah, yeah, baby!
-Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Look at that thing,
dude.
Yee-ha!
I think I found us a home.
It's good to be
the only restaurant in town.
♪
[ satellite phone chimes ]
who's that?
No. [bleep]
what the [bleep]
we're gonna be [bleep]
that's the jackass,
ain't it?
That's the southern wind.
You get a big boat
like that...
If he wants to shut
my operation down,
he can do it
in a heartbeat.
He'd just suck it up
like that, it's gone.
Little guys like us,
we just, you know,
we don't have the gear.
We can't fish the weather
they can fish.
Narrator: 185 miles northeast
of dutch harbor...
Jake: No. [bleep]
what the [bleep]
we're gonna be [bleep]
that's the jackass,
ain't it?
That's the southern wind.
Narrator: ...As captain harley's
first string comes up short...
-That's females.
-Yeah.
Narrator:
...He fishes for something
just as elusive as crab --
information.
-Whoo.
-Yeah!
Harley:
Saga, you on there?
Yeah, how's it going,
harley?
I went off to my old honey hole
and she wasn't so much honey.
[ men cheering ]
-heave!
-Oh, thank, god.
Oh, we...
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
...Haven't seen much.
[ laughs ]
alright.
Alright, harley, yeah,
give me a call any time.
♪
yeah, roger.
Okey-doke.
[ sighs ]
honestly,
I'm a little bit shaken.
I'm a little guy,
and it'll probably
take him three hours
just to destroy
this area.
Narrator:
In a ship-measuring contest,
the southern wind
comes in 40 feet longer
and holds 125 more pots,
capable of harvesting
150,000 pounds
more crab per trip.
Yeah, you're not allowed to talk
to nobody, young man.
♪
for him to say there's not
really that much happening here
or he doesn't know
what he's doing,
I think he's got
a little huckleberry patch here.
Oh, man.
...I would think.
[bleep] damn her.
Holy halibut, batman.
Narrator:
130 miles southwest,
outside the storm,
on the northwestern...
-You there?
-Yep.
Okay, first pot.
-Alright.
-Yeah!
Here we go again.
Sig: Right now, it's even
more important
that we hit crab right here,
and I mean right
out of the gate.
Let's go.
Narrator: Staring at possibly
the highest prices
of their careers,
captain sig and his
protégé mandy
bank on their pots
close to town...
Mandy, you know,
I love her to death,
but she set that stored gear way
too far apart from each other
and that is gonna
cost us a lot of time.
Narrator: ...Knowing mandy's
second load of gear
will slow them down.
Clark: We want to be first
to the docks,
more money for us,
more money for the boat.
You know, that's
the name of the game.
If you're not first,
you're last.
Hoping we get at least
a 20 average.
It'd be a nice way to start.
Sig: This is our farthest
west string.
Typically,
when you get out west,
it's either big crab or blanks.
♪
what have we got here?
Oh, no.
-Lot of skunks.
-Wah, wah, wah.
Oh, man, this is not good.
Don't lose 'em, nick.
Mandy: We can do better.
Ah, sucks, man.
Not so sexy.
It'll get better.
It's just the beginning.
Sig: [ sighs ]
oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
We're fishing!
Oh, no!
Aw, man.
Ooh.
That was a blank!
What is this crap?
Big blank!
That's not what
we're looking for.
Zero keepers?
-Yep.
So...
Not too encouraging.
Narrator: Coming up empty
on his opening set,
captain sig decides
to bump his gear east.
Sig: We need to get
that second load of gear
on some fishing
as soon as possible.
Narrator:
Then deploy mandy's second load,
hoping one or the other
finds the crab.
We really need to get
those pots stuffed
or I don't know
what we're gonna do.
♪
narrator: In dutch harbor...
There is a difference
between being forgiving
and being stupid.
Narrator:
...On the summer bay...
Bill: I can't lose everything
I've worked for
because some guys can't say
no to getting high.
Narrator: ...Three days
after firing two crewman
for drug use...
Bill: We're gonna scrounge
around and try to find somebody.
Narrator: ...Wild bill still
needs one more deckhand
before he can get off the dock.
Whoo!
Yeah, it's tied!
Bill:
On the island, it's tough.
But nick said there's this
russian guy around town
that's looking for work.
I'm on my way
to my cousin's house.
She knows everybody
on this island.
No idea who he is.
I haven't talked to anybody
that knows him,
but russians are fishermen.
That's a big part
of their culture.
Gray hair, super tall.
I think we seen him
on Tuesday at the rat.
At the bar.
Yeah, at the bar.
Russians, they're tough.
They got ice in their veins,
and...I need a guy.
♪
-hey!
-Hi, there!
Nick: Thanks.
[ sighs ]
I guess
he's a tall russian.
It's dutch harbor,
it's a small place,
it should be easy
to find somebody,
especially a 7-foot
tall russian.
The island packer.
♪
yeah.
Hey!
What's up?
I'm nick.
Hey. Wasili.
Wasili?
I hear you're looking
for a crab job.
Yeah, I'm looking around.
We had to let some guys go
and we need to get out of town,
so we could really use
another hand.
Any kind of pot-fishing
experience?
Um, not really.
I'm a swift learner,
so I can
pretty much do anything.
Yeah? Alright.
Pack your things, head over
to summer bay, man.
Alright.
Bill: Am I taking a risk?
Of course.
But we have to compete
with the russians,
so maybe this guy
is gonna be what we need.
It's time to go!
Narrator: As bill hires
an unproven deckhand
so he can start his season...
♪
...125 miles northeast
of dutch harbor...
Casey: Cornelia marie
is like a sports car now.
We're gonna catch
the crab faster,
get it over to the rail faster,
and get back to town faster.
Narrator: ...Captains josh
and casey speed their vessel
and her million dollars
worth of upgrades
towards their maiden haul.
I want to try something here.
Oh, god.
Hey, junior? Maria?
Oh, man.
Narrator:
To maximize their luck...
Junior and maria are
gonna have to...
Have some bering sea sushi.
Narrator: Casey orders newly
minted greenhorns maria dosel
and skyler richards to offer
a tribute to the crab gods.
Casey:
Who wants to go first?
Me!
See if they got the guts for it.
[ laughter ]
nice!
-[ gagging ]
-oh, yeah!
[ laughing ]
she got with it!
Oh!
-[ gagging ]
[ laughing ]
[ gagging ]
oh, this is disgusting.
There you go!
Little [bleep]
yeah, it's a little one.
There you go.
Oh, he's gonna eat the heart.
Oh, no! Oh, that's the heart.
Eat it! Attaboy!
-Oh, oh, yeah!
-[ gagging ]
did he swallow it?
Nobody likes a spitter.
[ laughter ]
oh, yeah,
that's disgusting.
Oh, god! That's so gross!
Look, it's all over her jacket.
Something wrong with these kids
this day and age.
In my culture, we eat stuff like
that for breakfast all the time,
so it's no big deal.
Maria just went straight
animal style, man.
She just got after it.
She was just sitting
there smiling, taking it.
Maria's holding her own.
I'm really impressed with her.
Hopefully we can catch
some [bleep] crab now.
Casey: Alright, guys, first pot
of the season here coming up.
We are gonna haul so much
faster than we ever did before.
Man #9:
Big numbers, big numbers.
Let's see what happens.
Wing and a prayer.
Wing and a prayer.
-First pot of the season.
-Yeah.
We're gonna find out
right now.
Pot's coming up.
Man #10: There she is.
♪
blank-o.
-No table?
-No table.
Casey: Swing and a miss.
It is not looking pretty.
First pot sucked.
First pot's
always a liar, though.
Zero.
Blank.
Wrong species of crab,
anyways.
You got to get everything
out of here, too.
Come on.
[ alarm blaring ]
casey:
Oh, that's not good.
Hey, taylor get back
to the engine right now
we've got low oil pressure
on the port main,
low oil pressure,
port main.
[ alarm blaring ]
casey:
Oh, that's not good.
[bleep]
hey, taylor get back
to the engine right now.
Narrator:
On the cornelia marie...
We got low oil pressure
on the port main.
Low oil pressure,
port main.
...After pouring $1 million
into upgrades,
josh and casey's
port side engine
starts to fail on their
first haul of the season.
Go ahead
and change the oil.
Right on.
Josh: What's going on
over there?
See the oil pressure
down here?
We're already down
to 20.
Narrator: Hoping to resuscitate
the dying engine,
casey makes the call
to k*ll the motor
and add more oil,
hoping their pressure holds.
If we can't figure out why
that oil pressure dropped,
we're gonna have to go
to dutch.
That's gonna suck.
That's gonna [bleep] up
what we got going on, dude.
♪
♪
here we go.
53, 55, 52, 51, 47, 43.
It's dropping.
It's dropping fast.
It shouldn't be
like that.
Dude. There's 20.
[bleep]
no, we've got to go
to dutch, dude.
Ah!
Narrator: The culprit --
a $10,000 oil pump...
Cost us a pretty penny.
...Nullifying their million
dollars in upgrades...
Secure the block.
We got to go to dutch.
...And costing the boys
a trip to town.
That could be tens of thousands
of dollars,
parts, fuel, lost time.
Come back out here,
how much longer it's going
to take us to catch this.
Not the way I wanted
to start this one.
Back in the arctic storm...
Keith: There's still some big
boys rolling through here,
big time.
I wouldn't say some.
There's a lot of big waves
coming through here.
Narrator: Foiled by monster
waves the night before,
wizard captain, keith colburn,
has yet to set his gear.
Right now, I think this is
about the best I can get.
It's time. I'm gonna start
getting this gear in the water.
2019 king crab,
here we go, baby. Whoo.
I'm getting my crab to market
before the russians do.
Narrator:
But with the shot clock
running to get top dollar,
the skipper seizes
the best weather window
he's had so far
to drop all 200 pots.
Whoa!
Alright, guys.
When you're ready,
go ahead and drop it.
First pot.
First pot of the season, man.
Let's get her off.
[ yelling indistinctly ]
watch that rail.
Some green coming, green coming.
Whoa, whoa.
Yeah! Ow-ooh!
Hello.
[ men yelling ]
yeah, there's more
where that one came from.
The party's just starting.
[bleep] gnarly out here.
♪
whoo!
-Whoo!
-There we go!
Well, that's one hell of a way
to start 2019 king crab.
Well, one thing I do know
is there's nobody here.
We are the lone ranger
out here.
With any luck,
it'll be fast, good fishing.
Going over.
Narrator: As keith hopes
his far-north set pays off...
...208 miles southwest...
Hopefully I can just make it up
to everyone
and land on some
decent crab here.
Narrator: After their wet
storage set cost them more time
than it saved,
relief skipper mandy
finally looks to get
the northwestern on some crab.
I k*lled a couple of hours
with stored gear.
That was my bad,
so I'm gonna go ahead
and set it north to south
and a little bit deeper,
whereas my dad
went east to west
and hopefully the numbers
will pick up.
Alright.
You guys ready?
-Oh, yeah.
-Yeah!
Let's go.
Man #11: Yeah, buddy.
♪
♪
hopefully I'll hit something.
♪
narrator: 110 miles northeast
on the southern wind...
Okay. There's jake's bags
right there.
Narrator:
...Captain harley sneaks into
what he's betting
are greener pastures.
Pastures belonging to captains
jake and johnathan.
I think they're on to a little
more than they're letting on.
Let's go check it out
and see what they got for me.
Let's go pick this up.
I'm gonna go take a peek
and see.
Narrator: Sensing jake's
holding back info,
harley does some recognizance
of his own,
hauling a saga pot
to check their numbers.
You know, after getting nothing,
striking out,
that made me just ill.
That was a sour,
sour, sour taste.
We're not that kind of boat.
Not the kind of operation
I run.
We're gonna go fix it,
and we're gonna go
fix it now.
[ laughter ]
[ men cheering ]
that's good.
Oh, yeah!
I'm going in there
and getting that [bleep] crab.
I've got a little
something up my sleeve.
Narrator:
With jake's bluff called,
harley busts out
his secret weapon.
Want to set a string,
right, right alongside him.
I got those zincs,
and we can just lace them
right next to his string
and he'll never know
we were there.
Alright?
-Yeah, right.
Right on. Thank you.
Narrator: The skipper pulls
the trigger on his zincs
that'll hide their buoys,
letting him plunder
jake's crab undetected
until he returns in 24 hours
to claim
the ill-gotten goods.
When I come back in a day,
ta-da, there they are.
Pop, pop, pop. Poof.
I'll pop my buoys.
Ghost pot. Nobody will
ever know we were there.
Oh, yeah.
More where this came from.
I have a bunch of it.
A special on the internet.
Oh, yeah.
It was a good deal.
Narrator: The cherry on top
of his diabolical scheme,
doubling the amount of bait
and luring the crab
into his pots...
[bleep]
...Away from jake's.
Go ahead.
We'll set this one.
Over!
♪
♪
yeah!
Harley: There it goes.
Alright.
♪
they're just incognito.
He's gonna think it died off.
He'll move,
and then it's all mine.
Southern winds' new hot spot.
Countdown's on.
Beautiful.
Ghost string, man.
He won't have a clue
what hit him.
♪
♪
narrator:
110 miles southwest...
...On the seabrooke...
Okay, boys,
first pots coming up.
Man #12: We're ready.
We're ready for some crab.
We're down here on our southern
end, on the turtle's head.
We need 35,000 pounds
as quick as we can get it.
We'll see if junior
landed on them.
We'll see. He hasn't been
fishing in a few years.
Ooh, baby.
Here we go. First pot.
I've never spread my gear
this far before.
If there's any crab around, it
should show some signs of life.
If it doesn't, think I'm going
to fricking cry
like a little baby.
[ men yelling indistinctly ]
narrator: After three surgeries,
five seasons off,
and 2,390 far-flung miles
from home,
captain scott campbell, jr.
Is hoping his far-west set
will show him the sign of life
he's been waiting for.
It's been four years
since I've seen a king crab
other than on tv,
so I'm kind of excited
to see a king crab.
Got a lot of hope
for these.
♪
♪
here we go. Here we go.
Show me a crab.
Holy [bleep]
narrator: On the seabrooke...
Come on, baby. Here we go.
Here we go.
Show me a crab.
Show me about 50 crabs.
Man #13:
Dry. Dry. Dry. Dry.
Damn. Nothing.
Oh [bleep]
what have we got?
What happened?
-Nothing.
-[bleep]
are you [bleep] kidding me?
Wow.
Blank. Zero.
Narrator: Desperate for an early
lead in the race,
junior's first pot in four years
nets him exactly...
Zero crab.
That's not a good sign
when you don't have any crab.
Not expecting that.
Son of a b*tch.
Jack: No, really need to have
some crab in it
or we're not going home
for a while.
Scott:
Pot number two coming up.
Something, just
show us something.
♪
♪
blank, blank, blank, blank.
Aah!
Wah-wah.
Wah-wah-wah.
Oh, man!
Maybe we cut some
[bleep] fishing lines somehow?
What the [bleep] man.
This is a dead zone.
I'm not very happy
about this, man.
I don't know.
He's a keeper!
First crab of the season!
Scott:
That's not gonna cut it.
We've got a single crab
aboard
out of a 10-mile stretch.
One crab in 16 hours.
So if you do the math on that,
it'll take us
3,333 days to catch our crab.
That's 10 years.
They got to be better than this.
Not good.
Not good at all.
We've got our work
cut out for us right now.
♪
narrator:
115 miles northeast
on the saga bandit...
Jake: Here you go, fellas,
first pot.
♪
oh, my god.
[ laughing ]
lordy.
Got my own little crab town
all to myself.
With early signs
of runaway fishing,
the captains look to make quick
work of johnathan's $100,000
in captain shares and put a dent
in jake's $1.8 million quota.
This should be really,
really, really good.
You have
a pretty good day here.
What just happened?
Oh, no.
Aw [bleep] me.
That doesn't
make any sense.
Defying all expectations,
what was hot is not.
That sucks.
This not the kind of numbers
we're looking for.
It doesn't
make any sense at all.
♪
jake: [bleep]
this is really confusing.
20 hours ago, this is
where you wanted to set.
That's what my pots
were telling me
and now they're
telling me to leave.
-Oh [bleep]
-man.
You've got to stack
these on, buddy.
♪
narrator:
Three miles behind them...
♪
...And just out of sight...
Stealth move.
Narrator:
...On the southern wind...
[ men cheering ]
♪
good.
Good work.
Narrator:
24 hours after setting
his time-released zinc pots
right under jake's nose,
the southern wind's
covert set reveals itself...
...Turning saga crab
into harley's crab.
[ men cheering ]
move on, jake-o.
♪
narrator: Struggling on a dismal
3-crab average...
Not good.
...Jake and john's dreams
of a quick trip
are gone with the crab.
What the...?
Jake.
Those are
southern wind bags.
-Hey!
-What?
Somebody's setting us down.
Now there's two of us.
When did he set? There was
no gear here last night.
Narrator: The saga crosses one
of the southern wind's
previously hidden buoys...
...Triggering
john's spidey sense.
He might've
zinced you, man.
Zinced?
What is zinced?
Zincs hold your gear down,
and then they dissolve
and your gear pops up.
That's a thing?
Yeah.
That's a real thing?
It's called a zinc.
You've got all kinds
of tricks and stuff
that we used to do.
Southern wind
just got you good.
Narrator:
Wise to high-seas trickery,
the pirate king sniffs out
harley's deceit.
He set right
down you, man.
Now we're gonna get [bleep]
he zinced you, dude.
That was funny,
but he's mopped the pot.
Now these guys really
[bleep] got us good.
Man, look at this.
Those buoys are popping up
everywhere, jake.
Thanks, harley.
Southern winds set you down
right on top of you dude.
Pot for pot.
I'm mad!
Be right back.
I'll be right back.
Unwilling to tolerate
the intrusion,
johnathan goes
full hillstrand.
We'll take care of this.
Oh [bleep]
move those back, buddy.
John, he's pissed.
Like literally pissed.
I'd just as soon --
[ g*nshots ]
[ laughing ] oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Get them, johnny!
Narrator:
This week on "salty takes"...
Jake: This is yours
and heather's room.
I got you new sheets
and then I just let --
it's not my room
up there?
We got to flip for it.
[bleep]
go ahead and get settled in.
I'll be right back.
Heather: Okay.
It's [bleep] disgusting
in there.
Alright, kick him
out of his room.
Check out the bed.
Oh, wow.
See how good --
let's see how this feels.
Oh, yeah.
This is my bed?
[ laughing ] oh, dude.
Does it feel crowded
in here already?
[ laughter ]
you come into my room.
He's in my bed.
And then pretty soon I'll
start cutting my hair like you.
Start shaving like you.
Start wearing your stuff,
and pretty soon,
I'm jake anderson.
Wah, wah, wah, wah.
[ laughing ]
I've been hillstranded.
Narrator: Harley's zinc set
catapults him to the lead,
while jake and john
plot their revenge.
I'd watch your back, harley.
Narrator: On the saga bandit...
Johnny's pissed.
I'd just as soon --
[ g*nshots ]
[ laughing ] oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
Get them, johnny.
Johnathan: Yeah!
Yeah!
Narrator: The pirate captains
have their revenge
on the southern wind's
secret set.
Fire in the hole.
Oh, my god.
Oh, my god.
I hope
he learned his lesson.
Is that all the a*mo we got?
Why, you want to do
some sh**ting?
Yeah. Here.
Here you go.
Black-powder therapy
for you.
Wait, I got a better idea.
Narrator: But jake isn't done
with harley yet.
Hey, fellas,
pick up that pot.
Hack and slash.
[ laughing ]
narrator:
98 miles southwest...
Man #14: There we go.
...On the northwestern...
So this is the string that
I set north of my dad's gear.
Hopefully this will hit.
Sig: Alright.
Let's see what you get.
Clark: We're all on mandy's pots
right now that she set.
Hopefully a bunch of crab
in there,
a little redemption for her.
She just kind of [bleep] up
earlier.
So I'm hoping for the best.
Narrator: After mandy's wet
storage set costs them time...
Mandy set farther
to the north.
Fingers crossed
we hit something.
If this is empty,
I'm gonna cry.
...And sig's
first haul yielded blanks,
the hansens hope mandy's gear
in the north pays off.
With russia's
new regulations,
the prices are going
to skyrocket.
So we need a bump now.
We need something
to hit here.
Come on, man.
I don't know.
♪
♪
[ men cheering ]
yeah!
Yeah,
there's crab in there.
Good job, mandy.
Bring it.
Nice. Oh, that was horrible.
Big, big, big, big, big.
-Oh, yeah.
-Oh, yeah.
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
Keepers. All keepers.
Mandy: Nice.
You guessed.
No, I told you.
Whoo!
Did you get a count?
-48.
-48.
48 big ones.
That's how you start
off a string.
If that string
keeps up like that,
then you've got
a winner, mandy.
♪
-ah.
-Yeah.
Whoo!
Yeah, buddy!
Yeah!
Wa-hoo!
[ chanting "usa" ]
how does it feel to be
the breadwinner of the family?
Very nicely done.
It looks like a lot of crab
are going into the tank,
so that's really good.
Of course,
I had my doubts.
[ laughing ]
I had my doubts.
That's not very nice.
I just don't want to be
jealous. That's all.
I don't want to get
beat by a girl.
[ laughing ]
I'm not your average gal.
Am I?
Narrator:
Mandy finds the crab...
These are the kind of numbers
that are gonna
take us straight to the dock.
Narrator: ...Giving them
a chance to cash in
on what could be
the highest prices in history.
Well done, mandy.
That was really,
really impressive.
Thank you.
[ men cheering ]
narrator:
Across the bering sea...
[ men cheering ]
...The american fleet
snatches up
543,000 pounds of king crab.
Round one with the russians.
What the hell?
Oh [bleep]
narrator:
As the competition heats up...
-Someone [bleep] up our pots.
-Oh, they got me good.
Narrator: On team u.S.A.,
brother throws elbows
against brother.
Johnathan:
Good job, anderson.
Well, it just goes to show
you can't pirate
a pirate boat.
Bill:
It's imperative to get out
prior to the russians
getting their crab up.
Narrator:
Those victims of circumstance
risk missing out
on the lucrative bounty.
Bill: Let's throw the line.
Time to go.
Casey:
And now we're heading in
to deliver the smallest amount
of crab ever delivered, period.
Narrator: As do the boats
sidelined
by mechanical breakdown.
We're going backwards right now.
75,000 easy.
Keith:
Oh, looks pretty [bleep] good.
Boy, that's a beautiful sight.
Narrator: But a rare few...
Keith: We've been playing games
with mother nature.
Games you generally don't win.
Narrator: ...Vault to the head
of the pack...
And we caught a lot of crab.
I got a hunch pops is looking
out for us right now.
Narrator: ...Positioning them
to become legends.
Keith: There's crab through
here, but I don't think
I've ever had this
many clocks ticking before.
Yeah, baby!
We're racing the russians.
Woo-hoo!
This fleet is not on it yet,
but they will be soon.
♪
narrator:
But every legend has a source...
...And every bloodline
has a story.
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16x01 - Cold w*r Rivals
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Follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons.
Follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons.