19x15 - Uncharted Grounds

[bunniefuu]

[Jack whistles] Woo-hoo!

Hey, you're just in time
to throw lines.

Yeah, let's go.

[Harley over radio] Okay,
let's start going, guys.

And go, go, go.

I'm ready. Whoo!

[Harley] Yeah,
we gotta get fishing, bud.

They're catching
about 500 metric tons a day.

So this thing is going way
faster than anybody expected.

Hope this goes good.

- [deckhand 1] Here we go!
- [deckhand 2] Yeah!

That's a derby. I've got about 72
hours to put on as much product as I can.

It's getting chewed up fast.

Let's get it together and run the
piss out of this one and the next one.

I know you guys are tired,
but crank it the [bleep] up.

Uh-oh.

[alarm bell ringing]

[man speaking]

[Keith over radio]
Whoa! Watch out!

Get her down! Get her down!

- [Harley] I got this handled.
- [Jack] So do I.

- No, you don't.
- [Jack] I [bleep]...

Your bow's going that
way, that's [bleep] up.

[grunts] I wanna punch
him in the [bleep] face.

[Harley] Lord, say a prayer!

[narrator] 160 miles
northwest of Dutch Harbor...

[Keith over radio]

[Keith] OJ has the best
eyes in the Bering Sea.

[Keith over radio]
Good job, eagle.

[mimicking an eagle call]

[Keith] We don't call him
eagle eye for nothing, man.

You need a spotter?
OJ's your guy.

[narrator] ...aboard
the Wizard...

[Keith] Pretty much looking
for a miracle right now

with big tides and big weather.

We need to get 'em
popped through the gear.

It's another 15,000 crab,
that would be [bleep] huge.

[deckhand] The
weather right now, boys!

[narrator] As the final 72 hours
of the cod derby tick down...

We want the motherload.
We want the motherload, baby.

[narrator] ...Captain Keith
Colburn sprints to catch

$500,000 of eastern bairdi crab

before the 24 registered cod boats
switch fisheries and flood the grounds.

Give me something to work on!

Anything.

[deckhands cheering]

[grunts] Got 'em!

[deckhand] Whoo! Yeah!

[Keith] Well, our
end pot looks good.

If we pop a 50 out of
that thing, that'd be good.

[deckhand speaking]

Pow pow! Right on!

- [Keith over radio] All right, guys, I'm gonna sit back here.
- Yeah, rog.

[deckhand] Whoo! All
right, now we're fishing.

[deckhand speaking]

You got what?

[deckhand speaking]

[Keith over radio]
Whoa! Watch out!

Get her down! Get her down!

Swing it in more,
swing it in right there.

What's going on?

[deckhand speaking]

[Cody] These pots
are really heavy

so when we're at sea and
these thing are swinging around,

one of the most
sketchiest parts of this job.

Yeah, I can hear it down here.

[deckhand speaking over radio]

We do not have
another spare, do we?

[deckhand speaking over radio]

[bleep]

All right.

[Keith over radio]

Okay? All right?

[deckhand] Roger.

Pretty unconventional manning
these pots without my winch.

[narrator] The picking boom lifts
a pot from the water to the rack

using a high-powered winch.

I come over here, I got a
boom up and extend out.

[narrator] But no winch means
raising and lowering the boom itself...

Hit a safe point to land it.

Wait for the wall coming up!

[narrator] ...turning the


into an unwieldy wrecking ball.

Okay, now bring it in.

[Keith over radio] A little
more, right, wait, stop.

Up and down!

Up and down, land it.

[Keith over radio]

I'm gonna have to start keeping
these guys real busy, you know?

Probably run that crew
out to 20 hours or more.

[deckhand] One more!

[Keith] But if we can do that,
we can haul 130 pots a day.

That's all there is to it.

[narrator] 150 miles
southeast, on the cod grounds.

[Rick] Come on, baby. Come on.

[narrator] Aboard
the Aleutian Lady...

[deckhand mimics sad trombone]

Yeah, that's atrocious.

[deckhand speaking]

I really thought this area
was gonna pan out. I did.

Lots of sand fleas.

[narrator] Eyeing a
$90,000 gray cod goal,

Captain Rick Shelford
pots are coming up full.

[Rick] Sand fleas are the worst.

[narrator] Just full
of the wrong species.

Snaring instead,
tens of thousands

of 0.25 inch long
parasitic arthropods

that feast on his
bait and his profit.

[Rick] These are sand fleas.

These are what
destroy our fishing.

They eat the bait and you
don't catch as many fish.

Big ones, too.

[Rick grunting]
Ugh! Oh, my gosh!

[deckhand speaking]

No, no, no!

[deckhand speaking]

- Yeah.
- Okay, I'm out.

[Jacob] Sand fleas are full of
protein and really nutritional.

I'll treat this whole
ocean like a buffet, baby.

Oh, that was so gross.

[deckhand] Not good.

[Rick over radio] Stack it.

[Rick] We're gonna start
pulling out of the deep area

and bring it in shallow and
get away from the sand fleas.

Uh-oh.

[Rick speaking]

Oh [bleep]!

[alarm bell ringing]

[bleep]

[narrator] When it works,
the clutch transfers energy

from the port generator
to the deck hydraulics.

But when it's not secure,
it can slip and overheat,

starving the deck
machinery of power.

[sighs in exasperation]

Right now we'll stay on
the starboard generator,

hydraulics on the
starboard generator.

And set all of these
pots before our town pick.

[deckhand over radio] Roger!

[Rick] This cod season
is about to close.

So we need to head back
to Dutch, get back out.

[deckhand] Over!

[Rick] And I gotta find cod.

[narrator] 210
miles northeast...

[Linda] All right,
guys, down to the wire.

Every second counts,
every pot matters.

- Every fish!
- [deckhand] Yeah.

Let's go!

[chuckles] She's out
there giving everybody hell.

I push these guys harder than
we ever push in a crab season.

[narrator] ...on
the Summer Bay...

[Bill] Three, four hours,
we are gonna deliver.

Try to get in one last
good pick before we go.

[narrator] ...with 48
hours left in the cod derby,

Captains Wild Bill and Linda spur their
crew to haul and set back all 160 pots

targeting 150,000 more pounds

before the season
is brought to a close.

[deckhand] Going over!

Yes. There you go.

[Bill over radio] Hey, Austin, throw the
bags far enough out so I can see them.

[deckhand] Going over!

[deckhand speaking]

[Bill over radio] Throw
that son of a g*n.

[bleep] got it in the
wheel. You [bleep].

Damn it. All right,
I'm grabbing nylon.

- [keys clatter] - [grunts] Ugh! I
wanna punch him in the [bleep] face!

[narrator] On the Summer Bay...

[bleep] got it in the
wheel. You [bleep].

- [keys clatter] - [grunts] Ugh! I
wanna punch him in the [bleep] face!

Hey, I'm gonna
hand you this down,

and you're gonna
cleat this tail off

on the cleat, okay?

Okay. One, two, three.

I didn't clear the bags far enough
and the line got caught in the wheel.

All I can say is sorry.

Got it? All right. Let's go.

We're gonna pull
on it in the block.

What it's gonna do
is pull the line up.

- How tight is that?
- Pretty tight.

Tight.

Sometimes you'll get a bit of an
unwrapping effect, loosen it up.

Stand away from all the lines, I
don't know what's gonna come tight.

[deckhand] Yeah, rog!

Stand by.

[electronic beeping]

Can't do this too much,
it's hard on the clutch.

Come on, baby. You
got this. Come on.

There it is.

[Bill] Is it coming up?

[Landon] Think we got it.

All right, we got it, guys.

Get that cord up, get the
block back over the side.

Thank God.

[deckhands cheering]

[Bill] We're pulling
crazy numbers on cod

and the end is near,
the end's in sight.

[deckhand] Yeah!

[Bill] We'll need to
get in, get this off.

Hopefully it adds
up to a paycheck.

[narrator] 180 miles southwest.

[Jack] I got my old cherry
pie underwear on today.

[Harley] What happened?

I got my cherry pie
underwear on today.

- Shut up.
- [Jack chuckles]

You got your what?

Yeah, check these
things out, man.

Look at that.

You got cherry pie. I got the
lattice and everything on there.

Don't be getting
awful cozy with me.

This relationship is business.

[chuckling]

[narrator] Aboard
the Barbara J...

[Harley] Let me have this.

This thing is going way
faster than anybody expected.

There ain't nothing
we can do about it.

Can't make time, we just
keep doing what we can

with the time available,
but that's it, man.

[Jack] Let's get her
done and go home.

- First pot coming up.
- [deckhand] Roger!

[narrator] Still
shy of their goal...

Get some!

[narrator] ...Captains Jack
Bunnell and Steve Harley Davidson

attempt one more run
through their northern gear

before turning their
bow toward town.

[deckhand] Come on, cod!

Come on, baby, come to papa.

[deckhand] What do we got?

Oh, yeah!

Whoo!

[Jack] That's a lot of cod.

- [deckhands
cheering] - Oh, yeah.

[deckhand] Yeah!

[Jack and Harley laughing]

[Jack] Holy [bleep].

[deckhand speaking]

That's freaking on fire.

Man, that's the best
thing I've heard all day.

[deckhand whooping]

[Harley] And they're there.

[deckhands cheering]

- [hissing] -
[mechanical grinding]

That doesn't sound very good.

Hey, Canyon, when I put
the port engine in reverse,

it doesn't really go in reverse.

[Jack] What else can you do?

It's fine on forward, but
when I go to reverse...

- [hissing] -
[mechanical grinding]

Engine goes way up,
but I'm not doing nothing.

Yeah, something's up with it.

[man] I think the clutch
is slipping in there.

[Harley] Something on
the inside's slipping, huh?

Oh, God.

[narrator] With the reduction gear
or transmission working intermittently,

Jack and Harley's season

and their march to a $100,000
cod derby payday is under threat.

[Harley] Let's go to Dutch
and get this thing fixed.

You just gotta calm
down. Take a breath.

[Harley chuckles]

If we get it quick,
we should be all right.

[Harley] It's too risky.

I wanna get through
this gear though.

It's not like we're
hauling blanks here.

There's 17 pots in this,

we can jam down the string and get 17
hauled in an hour, we'll be looking good.

And we're done.
We're going home.

- [Harley chuckles] - [deckhand
cheering] Making money!

We're gonna end up with 7,000
to 8,000 pounds for the day.

We're not gonna get


[Jack] You gotta
let me try, Harley.

I'm not quitting.

Yeah! Looks good!

[Harley groaning] Yeah.

[deckhand] Some big boys.

Yeah, you can
try. You can try it.

You're gonna thank me.

[deckhand cheering] Oh, yeah!

I hope so.

[Jack over radio] All right,
we're not done yet, boys.

7,500 pounds on the boat.
Hopefully we can double that.

[deckhand] Roger.

Look at that. Haulin' gear!

I need to be on my
game. Block's turning.

[deckhand] All
right. There we go.

[Jack] All right.

We're looking good.

Yeah! Looks good.

- [deckhand 1] Two-two.
- [deckhand 2] Twenty-two keepers, two-two.

Okay.

[breathes then chuckles]

Second one and
five minutes down.

- [deckhand 1 laughs] I like it.
- [deckhand 2] Right on!

[deckhand] 41! Four-one.

Oh, yeah, baby!

Tick, tick, tick.

[narrator] On the Barbara J...

[deckhands cheering]

[deckhand] That's a lot of
money in the tank right there.

I got 30 seconds. Last pot.

I'm gonna make it. 17
pots in one hour, man.

[deckhand whooping]

[Jack] There it is, we
got it. 17 in an hour.


Good job. Well played, Jack.

- [laughs]
- Man.

[Harley] I never
saw that coming.

[deckhand] Oh, yeah!

I'm rooting for you, but gotta
survive through the evening.

We're gonna get in there
before we have to shut down.

I guarantee that.

[narrator] 140 miles northwest.

[Keith] Careful behind me.

Our forward crane,
the winch is broken.

But the guys are getting through
this gear at a pretty good clip right now.

[deckhand] This shouldn't
get hot, that's not a good thing.

[Keith] All right, that's it.

- Setting this load off.
- [deckhand] Roger!

[narrator] On the Wizard...

[Keith] We have just
this gear on deck to set.

If we can, with a boat that's
falling apart by the moment.

[narrator] With his crew grinding
for 24 hours without sleep,

or a working winch,

Captain Keith makes
the call to shell off 20 pots

before the cod derby
ends, and it's fleet

descends upon
the bairdi grounds.

[Roger speaking]

What?

[Roger speaking]

Hey, let's, uh, let's go run down
and do an engine room check.

Roger's in there back
so can get in there

and get a real good
idea of what's going on.

Yeah, this is a real
bad time for this.

Bairdi boats are fishing cod
right now, they'll be out here later.

That's why I need to
get this quick jump on.

I don't know.

I gotta assess pretty
quickly just how bad it is.

Rog, how we doin'?

Pretty sure the
air clutch popped.

The air clutch toast?

[Roger] Air clutch
toast on a John Deere.

- All right.
- And our winch.

All within however many hours.

[bleep]

Yeah, it's just one
thing after another, man.

[Keith] That engine is out
of commission right now.

We're on one engine.

I... I can fish like this, but
I won't have any backup.

We gotta get this boat
heading towards south.

We got a lot of
things to repair now.

[narrator] In Akutan...

on the Aleutian Lady.

[Rick] All right, here we go.

Let's rock and roll.

[machinery whirring]

[narrator] Nine hours
after a clutch failure...

Make sure everything
is working good.

[narrator] ...Captain Rick
pushes his crew for a quick repair

and return to the cod
in his 130 soaking pots.

[deckhand speaking]

[narrator] Before the
season's end turns his catch

into a costly, mandated
catch and release.

[clattering]

[clattering]

[deckhand speaking]

[bleep]

[sighs deeply]

I already what happened.

[deckhand speaking]

[Rick speaking]

[bleep]

[deckhand speaking]

[deckhand speaking]

[Rick] We had a
little bit of a scare.

We assessed it, we addressed
it and we're good to go.

We're outta here.

[narrator] In nine
fathom shallows

just north of the
Aleutian chain...

[Bill speaking]

[narrator] On the Summer Bay.

[Bill] We're
outside Port Moller.

We're gonna tie up to a
boat called the Deception,

and get the pump in
and get started pumping.

[narrator] Loaded down with over


Captains Wild Bill and Linda navigate
to a tender vessel for final delivery

before launching their
bairdi crab season.

[radio operator speaking]

[Bill speaking]

You're here for me, I'm
not here for you, b*tch.

[boat clangs]

Why the [bleep] isn't
this thing turning?

What's going on?

Why are we not turning?

[engine whirring]

[Bill] Oh.

Where the... why
the [bleep] aren't we...

Is this not where
we are on the chart?

Should be nine fathom
[bleep] water here.

We got...

[Austin speaking]

[deckhand] Oh [bleep]!

What?

[deckhand] Whoa.

Well, I [bleep] know!

We should be in nine fathoms
of [bleep] water right here.

Holy [bleep].

[Linda] Oh!

[deckhand] Whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.

[deckhand] Whoa.

[Bill] Holy [bleep].

[Linda] Oh!

[Austin speaking]

[Bill speaking]

It says should've been at nine
fathoms, but obviously we weren't.

[Austin speaking]

[Austin speaking]

[Bill speaking],

[Austin speaking]

[narrator] Only 200
yards from delivery,

Bill pumps water out and air in,

betting more buoyancy
will raise his keel

and allow him to steam his


[Linda] Hang on.

[Bill] Oh [bleep].

It's a big sandbar, and I mean...

[Bill speaking]

Come on.

Come on!

That was [bleep] strange.

[Linda speaking]

[Austin speaking]

Tighten that [bleep] up.

What a pain in the a*s that was.

We're gonna
offload the two tanks,

and dump some pots on the dock,

bring 'em over for bairdi, we
start out at 0500 in the morning.

Get the hell outta here.

[narrator] In Dutch Harbor...

on the Wizard...

[Keith] All right, well...

We're here.

It's 3:30.

We're just getting
going right now.

'Cause Rog... Roger's
talking about going back to bed

before we start
going after that clutch.

- No... - I think
that's a mistake.

Yeah, no, these guys are wrong.

[man speaking]

Yeah, the sooner we get that [bleep]
clutch off, we can assess what we need.

I've got another
project to do, can't wait.

Hopefully, it's easy.

[narrator] After a day and
a half of non-stop work...

You know, we as a crew
have lots of [bleep] to do.

No sleep still, but I'll be able
to fix that here in a little bit.

Give my solid four hours in.

[narrator] ...Captain
Keith pushes his crew

to repair the clutch and
to make a fast turnaround

to their 200 soaking pots.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[man over radio]
Southeast over 40 knots.

Seas 19 feet.

20... 30 knots, Southeast 20
knots... [continues indistinctly]

[Keith speaking]

[Keith speaking]

[OJ speaking]

[Keith] Every minute we
spend at the dock here,

is every minute that
that next storm is coming.

[Jack] Akutan Dock, Barbara J.

[narrator] In Akutan...

[radio operator speaking]

Okay, I'll be there
in five minutes.

Thank you.

[narrator] With one
of two props functional

on their 110 foot
steel hulled vessel,

captains Jack and Harley
manoeuvre through the crowded bay,

to their final offload
of cod season.

[Harley] You wanna
slow down a bit,

'cause that Bering Star
wants to be outside you.

- Yeah, they're way back there.
- I know, I thought it'd be [bleep] 5 knots.

Yeah, put in reverse.

Put in big reverse.

I'm reversing
right here, you can

go around me.

[radio operator speaking]

[Harley] Farther in.

Um, yeah, farther in.

[Harley] Look at the
big crane sticking up.

Look at the crane
sticking up in the air.

All the way up there, my bow
will be up there at the dock.

[radio operator speaking]

[Harley] Don't keep the
bow turned that way...

Yeah, I'm in reverse... [bleep]

Would you like
to sit in the seat?

- [Harley] Why don't I do it.
- Yeah, yeah please.

- Get the [bleep] out [bleep].
- Well, you're welcome.

- [bleep] turning, [bleep]... - [Jack]
You're freaking out like you do, it's fine.

I'm backing up with one [bleep]
engine, I'm doing [bleep] I can do.

- Jack...
- [Jack] I have one engine, man.

- Jack... - [Jack] And
you're freaking out,

you're talking to
me on the radio.

[Harley] I got this
handled, you go...

[Jack] I understand that
you got it handled, but so do I.

- [Harley] No, you don't.
- [Jack] Yes, I [bleep] do.

- No, you don't.
- [Jack] I was [bleep].

Bow's going that
way, you're [bleep] up.

- [Jack] 'Cause I was reverse... - Your
bow's going that way, that's [bleep] up.

[Jack] There was one engine.

Figure it out, use
other engine forward.

[Jack] I was figuring it out, I
was right in the process of it.

No, you [bleep] up.

- [Jack] Oh, you [bleep] do it then, I'm not doing it.
- I got it.

Yeah, you can [bleep]
take it till Seattle, too.

- [Harley] I got that too.
- [Jack] [bleep] good!

- [machine beeping]
- Oh, really?

[indistinct shouting]

Well, that's [bleep] dandy.

Now I got freaking no power.

Now, I'm dead.

[Keith] Bryce, we've
got some mail for you.

[Bryce] What?

Don't ask me.

Violation, cautionary
notification,

Canadian compliance.

- Oh, it's from Canadians?
[scoffs] - Wizard...

So, in the fall months,
when you were coming north,

did you realize
that there are areas

- that are, uh,
k*ller... - Speed limits?

Speeds limits for k*ller whales.

The speed limit is seven knots.

It says you're doing
ten knots in there.

- Okay, good to know.
- [Caelan speaking]

- I don't know, that's a good question.
- Yeah, how do you get

a speeding ticket for doing...




It's a Canadian speed trap.

- [Keith] Canadians?
- [all laughing]

- You officially have...
- A moving violation?

- A moving violation.
- Nice.

- [Caelan] Must've been a school zone.
- [all laughing]

[narrator] While the Colburns
deal with a whale ticket,

the Summer Bay
gets their fish ticket,

scoring over a
quarter million dollars.

[narrator] On the Barbara J...

Now I got freaking no power.

[indistinct shouting]

[Harley] Now, I'm dead.

[bleep]

[Harley] We're dead meat.

Get a good eye on it right
now, get your eyes on it.

[Jack] Roger.

[machine beeps]

Okay, I'm steering now, I'm
backing, steering and driving.

Port one's working now,
starboard one won't start.

Trying to get the
starboard one online.

[Harley] Starting to get
the starboard one online?

- Oh, we'll just use that one.
- Yeah, we're good now, but...

it may or may not
happen again, so, just...

May happen again?

Well, it... I don't know
why it just happened, but...

Go get canyoned up and
we'll get this boat tied up.

[sighs deeply]

[chuckling]

Okay.

Let's go try that again.

[bleep] dark.

Say a prayer, come on.

Give it to daddy.

- Yeah, you gotta give it forward or I'm gonna hit.
- [Jack] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Choices aren't very good.

[Jack] Be ready!

- Oh [bleep] uh...
- [indistinct shouting]

[deckhand speaking]

We got it this time,
we got it this time.

[Harley] Okay, I
think we got it, Jack.

Really good chance
we might have this.

And there we go.

We got two lines on.

Dock guys are doing awesome.

[Jack] Right there, cleat it up!

[Harley] Tighten them
up, baby, tighten them up.

- Woo-hoo!
- Nice.

- All right, now we'll make up.
- [chuckles]

Man, I get... I get a little hot.

Me too, me too, man.

That's why we work good.

- Well, that's a good sign
of a good man... - [bleep]

- There... [bleep] right.
- That's the sign of a good man.

- I lost, but, you know what, it happens.
- [Harley chuckles]

I'm glad we got in here.

Season's not over till we
get this last delivery of cod off.

[Harley] Oh, I know.

[Rick] Come on,
baby. Big number.

[narrator] On the
Aleutian Lady...

[people whooping and exclaiming]

Yeah! That is it.

Whoo!

That's a good pot,
baby. Whoo-whoo!

Forty fish, whoo!

[Rick] This is
exactly what we need.

Hell yeah!

[narrator] Off the sand fleas,

Captain Rick banks a total of


worth 90,000 bucks...

All this cod brought to you
by Aleutian Lady. Whoo!

[narrator] ...landing each
deckhand nearly $10,000.

I am ready to put a...
ending on this cod season.

And move on to bairdi.

[narrator] And
on the Barbara J...

[exclaiming] Cod fish!

[narrator] Despite
crippling breakdowns,

Captains Jack and Harley
secure $100,000 worth of cod...

[laughs] Two thumbs up.

[narrator] ...lining each
crewman's pocket with 12 grand.

[Jack] That's what
we like to see.

[Keith speaking]

[OJ speaking]

[Keith speaking]

[OJ speaking]

[Keith] You breathe real slow.

- It's really... -
[Keith] Okay, okay.

Where does it hurt?

[Keith] Is it like...

- Yeah, just like...
- Sharp pain? Or...

- [Keith] You're gonna go to the hospital, okay?
- Okay.

Give me your hand,
OJ give me your hand.

[OJ groans]

Okay. [grunts]

I'll have you at the hospital before
the ambulance there. Let's go, come on.

Shallow, but easy
breaths, okay, OJ?

All right, start to
breathe, come on.

Yeah, just like that,
come on, come on.

What's-What's your
level of pain right now?

Give me a number.

One to ten, what's your number?

[OJ speaking]

[Keith] Eight or nine, okay.

[indistinct chatter]

Let's get outta here, man.

- Oh, Jesus, can you breathe?
- [OJ grunts]

[Jeff] Yes.

[Keith speaking]

[Jeff] Back door.

[Keith speaking]

Tell them to be ready, I got
a cardiac patient coming in.

Give me a pain
level now? Still eight?

[OJ] Right now, ten.

[Keith] Okay.

Stay with me, man.
Stay with me.