[suspenseful music playing]
Woo-hoo! I got it.
I got the permit.
I can't wait to tell the guys.
I'm the only one ever allowed
to fish here.
If I find crab,
this would be like me starting
a fishery
and that would be my legacy.
Unbelievable.
[Keith] Secure the line.
Let's go.
Let's get the hell outta here.
You guys ready to go?
[man] Yeah! Woo!
[man] All set!
[Jack] The first season
as a captain fishing for cod,
it's a good feeling
and I am excited.
A lot of pressure on us.
If you're not out there
when it opens,
you're not making money.
["Wanted Dead or Alive" playing]
♪ It's all the same ♪
♪ Only the names
Will change ♪
[Jake]
I see a lot of new faces,
but we've lost 24 people we know
in the last four years.
It happens like that.
[Johnathan]
This winter, we're up
against stuff
we've never seen before.
If you're a young g*n out there,
it's a lot of pressure.
♪ Oh, I'm a cowboy ♪
Why is this boat not turning
like it used to?
[man grunts]
♪ Wanted dead or alive ♪
[Sophia] I don't like
all the decision-making.
I'm second-guessing myself
every turn, dude.
[man grunts]
There's nothing here.
This is a bone yard.
[man speaking]
[Sig] You're the one
who wanted to play here.
[man] Woo-hoo!
We got one shot at this.
We get them or we don't.
Now what is going on?
Cody, bring 'em up!
Bring 'em in!
♪ I'm wanted ♪
We're going in. We're going.
♪ Dead or alive ♪
Watch out your little crabby a*s
'cause I'm coming to get you.
[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] 610 miles northeast
of Dutch Harbor
in Kodiak, Alaska.
[Sophia] Come on.
What are you doing up there?
Mounting stuff.
I was supposed to come down here
and get pissed off at you
but I went to go do errands
and you already did them.
I know. I do everything.
[Sophia] What am I supposed to
do around here?
[Brett] Bobo's eating
a sandwich.
- Go yell at him.
- Whoa!
[grunts]
[man laughing]
[narrator] On the Victory...
There's still a long list
of things I need to get done
before we go out fishing.
Move the boat, grocery shopping,
fuel, water,
and then we peel off the dock.
So, pressure's really on.
This is my first time
captaining a boat
for the Tanner season
buying my own gear.
So, I just hope
that I can catch crab
and make back on my investment.
[narrator] With over $100,000
on the line,
23-year-old boat owner
and captain,
Sophia "Bob" Nielsen,
prepares for her very first
bairdi crab derby.
Everybody here
has a pretty good head
on their shoulders.
And they really care about me
and they want to see me succeed.
Hey, Bobo.
[narrator] Joining her,
long-time boyfriend
and deckhand...
[Sophia] You gonna take me
out to dinner later or what?
You're gonna buy me sake bombs
whether you like it or not.
[narrator]
Twenty-four-year-old
Bobo Floyd.
[man speaking]
[narrator]
And her big brothers,
33-year-old
Brandon "Fuzz" Catina...
[Sophia] That fit
makes you look especially fat.
[Brett] Thank you very much.
[narrator] and 30-year-old
Brett Catina.
He's looking especially fat
every time I see him.
Well, we get into just some
bickering matches
but with the crew
that she's got now,
we're pretty solid.
[Brandon]
All four of us brothers start
with Bs.
And one day, my other brother
started calling her Bob
and it just stuck.
[phone vibrates]
[Brandon] Bob's young,
but she's got her
[bleep] together.
As long as we hold down
the fort,
we're making money.
[Sophia] Oh [bleep].
[sighs]
[Brett] What's going on,
Captain?
[Sophia] So, it's up in
the air right now,
but there's a rumor of a strike.
- Really?
- [Sophia] And the price
that we got around town
wasn't that great.
And we're asking
at least to match
what they're getting out west,
$3.70.
Are you gonna stand down
if everybody else stands down?
I'm not gonna be that [bleep]
that goes against the grain.
[Brett] Yeah.
But if somebody else goes,
we gotta go.
No pressure.
- No pressure.
- Yeah.
[Sophia] I'm gonna go to
the Tanner meeting tomorrow.
Hopefully I can,
you know, get the scoop.
Okay.
Good luck.
[Sophia] One, two, three,
team break.
No, I'm not doing that.
[Sophia] Get in here, Brett.
[laughs] Okay.
- Victory.
- Victory.
[Sophia] The Victory
is my whole world right now.
She's, you know, been in my life
since I was a child.
Definitely trying to fill
some pretty big shoes.
My father passed away
quite a few years ago
and I inherited the boat.
I kinda just got thrown
into the helm.
I love the boat.
It's been my livelihood.
It's gotten me where I am today.
So I'm like,
"I'm going to make
the business successful."
I have a lot banking
on the season.
I don't know if we're
gonna get a better price,
but I really hope
everything works out.
[narrator]
610 miles southwest...
in Dutch Harbor.
At least it's nice out.
I was expecting
three feet of snow.
With any luck, you guys can
get those pots rigged real quick
and then we can get outta here.
[Sig] So for the first time in...
what, since '08?
We're gonna go try our hand
at cod.
[narrator] Captain Sig Hansen,
along with co-captain
and daughter, Mandy,
turn their sights
to the $5.5 million
gray cod fishery
for the first time
in nearly two decades.
[Sig] You know, cod
can be lucrative,
but it is a derby.
It's kinda like
the old king crab days
where you really had
to go at it.
So, time is of the essence.
[Mandy] Do you have a plan?
[Sig] Jake's been doing it
the last few years.
Ask him for a little info.
Okay.
You use every angle you can get.
Don't ever forget that.
[narrator] 175 miles northeast
of Dutch Harbor.
[man] Woo!
[narrator] Aboard the Saga.
[Jake] We can prospect,
but we can't retain any fish.
But that doesn't mean
we can't retain information.
Staying at three knots,
I should be able to tow at this.
[narrator]
Targeting one-million pounds
of gray cod,
Captain Jake Anderson surveys
for intel
ahead of the season opener.
[Jake] Take two pots,
tow it behind us.
And if I can catch something
mid-water,
that means there's gonna be
a lot on the bottom
and I'll start dumping there.
It's gonna save me bait, time,
and ultimately money.
[Taylor speaking]
All right. Here we go.
[whistle blows]
Goin' over!
Bubbles in the water!
Go, Jake, start towing!
Look okay, Joe?
Yeah, roger. Looks good!
[Jake]
We're officially trolling.
It's a little bit unorthodox,
but unorthodox is what I do.
I don't think anything
is gonna be in that pot.
[Jake] We'll see what happens.
All right, mates.
We're gonna start pulling it.
[man] Roger!
Come on, show me something.
All right. Go. All right.
Okay.
[man] All set, man.
[Jake] Here we go, guys.
[Taylor] Jake, we got some!
- Oh, yeah!
- [Jake speaking]
- [man] There's four.
- [Taylor] We got four.
- Woo!
- Yeah!
[Jake] Yeah, dude!
That just saved us
like a week's worth
of work right there.
Nobody thought
it was gonna work,
but now we have a spot
to set our gear.
[phone ringing]
[Jake] Hey, what's going on?
[Sig] I was just gonna ask you
the same thing.
Mandy and I stopped by and
I don't see a boat light
up here.
[Jake] Yeah. If I'm gonna make
any money,
I gotta get to jump
on anybody I can.
[scoff] So you're prospecting?
Well, I would call it
safely looking
for a parking spot.
[Sig laughs]
Well, we're not
gonna get outta here
probably until tomorrow,
so I mean, I feel a little
behind the eighth ball here.
You know, you can throw
a bone my way.
I'm not gonna say no.
What do I get out of the deal?
My goodness,
how soon they forget?
You were on deck.
You got paid...
Here it comes.
And if I'm not mistaken,
there was a little giddy-up
in Norway.
What do you wanna know?
Okay. Hopefully,
I'll have something
to give to you
as soon as you get up here.
[Sig] All right, buddy.
I appreciate it.
I'll see you in a little bit.
All right, later.
[Sig] If I can get off
to a good start
with information from Jake,
that really sets the tone.
You know, we can help
each other.
So hopefully it's a win-win
for both of us.
[Jake] Normally, it's me going
to Sig.
But in this case,
I've got the upper hand.
I want things to start
swinging in my advantage.
[narrator]
130 miles southwest,
on the western
bairdi crab grounds.
[man] Hurry up, Cody.
I can get those untied faster
than that.
Let's go.
[narrator] Aboard the Wizard.
[Keith] These bairdi seem to
be looking for colder water,
which means we're gonna have
to go deep for them.
We've got the 166 line
right here.
My guess is
right in this area here deep,
just outside of town
is where we're gonna find them.
[narrator]
On the hunt for a mountainous
91,000-pound quota,
Captain Keith Colburn steams
up the island chain
to an 85-fathom canyon,
the preferred depth
of the elusive bairdi crab.
[Cody] Not ideal right now.
Doing it shorthanded
is not the best way to do this
but that's about all I can do
right now.
Jacob was on the Wizard
in the fall.
Apparently he's working
on the Aleutian Lady on deck.
Goodbye and good riddance,
little skippy.
I hope OJ can come back.
I know he just had a baby
and that's why
he didn't come out
but we're gonna see what
we can do.
Try and get this gear
in the water.
[man 1] Going over!
[man 2] Yeah!
- [man 3] Yeah!
- [man 4] Woo!
[Robby] Woo!
We're gonna cover some area
we haven't fished in years
but some of it
is gonna be really deep.
All right, Robby.
Take it away.
Come on, guys.
Keep moving, keep moving
as fast as you can.
[man] Faster!
[Robby speaking]
Shorthanded,
I'm running the stiff.
I never do that.
You got a new guy up
on the stack.
Come on, guys.
Keep moving, keep moving.
Oh, why are there so many ties
out here?
All right. Take it away.
[Keith]
Robby, stop it, stop it.
You're [bleep] chuck
a block there.
Cody, watch out,
watch out, watch out!
[man] Heads up!
Whoa!
[metal creaking]
[narrator] On the Wizard.
[Keith speaking]
Cody, watch out,
watch out, watch out.
[man] Heads up!
Whoa!
[metal creaking]
Hey, Cody,
just tie that pot down.
Swing it into place...
[Cody] [bleep].
Holy [bleep].
[Robby] What happened?
[Cody] It cracked the window.
Yeah, you broke
the [bleep] window.
Are you kidding me, man?
[narrator] Shorthanded
and under pressure
to set quickly,
stickman Robby Schlosstein
sends a thousand-pound pot
into the wheelhouse windows,
critical for keeping water out
and Keith Colburn in.
Robby, just get
some plywood, okay?
Get some plywood.
We've gotta cover
- this window now!
- Got it. I'll grab some wood.
[man] Taylor.
[Robby] Taylor, safety first!
[man] Ready for that board,
we're ready.
[Robby] Yup.
I'm afraid to touch the thing.
It's already spiderwebbed.
I think this will get us
to town at least, boys.
[Keith]
Let's just get to town.
We're gonna regroup.
[narrator] 90 miles away,
somewhere in the Bering Sea.
On the Time Bandit.
Good morning.
This is secret...
Top secret information
but, for this area, none of you.
None of your business.
Been driving
out of Dutch Harbor here.
Could be north, could be south.
It's gonna be a mystery.
I can't say too much.
You know, loose lips sink ships.
There's a good chance
there's a lot
of crab right here.
I need to find out.
We could have a new fishery,
an open-access fishery.
It could be like something
that will save our a*s.
That's what we're doing
this morning.
[narrator] After securing
a rare commissioner's permit
from Fish and Game,
Captain Johnathan Hillstrand
sets 40 pots
on coordinates kept hidden
from the crew
and from yours truly.
Paranoid perhaps
that his potential secret stash
will become
a fleet-wide feeding frenzy.
[Johnathan] We'll finally get
to know what's here.
After all these years,
we're gonna find out
what's right here.
Roger.
We feel fantastic.
We fish on, baby.
Our first day out.
[Johnathan speaking]
Going over.
Got a huge storm coming up.
I don't know how bad
it's gonna be,
how close the center
of that storm gets to us.
Depends on how big
of winds we get
but it looks like 50 or 60
is gonna hit us.
[man] Over!
[Johnathan] If we don't catch
those crabs,
we'll be about $50,000
in the hole.
I'll tuck my tail
between my legs...
[mimics sad trombone]
It could be a huge payoff.
They're in.
There you go.
I misspelled "N".
So don't... [chuckles]
That means I'm dyslexic.
There should be crab
all over this bank.
We'll find out real shortly.
[narrator]
Back in Dutch Harbor.
Y'all ready
for this cod season or what?
[man] Woo! Yeah!
[man] Roger, roger.
Oh, it's good to be back.
Oh, I'm stoked.
The crew is stoked.
This is what I've been waiting
for my entire career.
Put it up top.
[narrator] On the Barbara J...
Caught the quota
of bairdi last season,
earned Harley's respect.
He saw something in me
and I'm the captain.
[narrator] After earning
over $300,000
in just five weeks this fall.
I'm running the show.
It's a good feeling
and I am excited.
[Harley] But he's gonna have
his hands full.
Oh, yeah.
[narrator] Jack Bunnell goes
from sharing the helm
with Steve "Harley" Davidson,
to being a bona fide skipper,
responsible for the catch
and the safety of the men aboard
in Jack's first ever cod derby.
There's 11 million pounds
on the line,
That's roughly 500,000 pounds
a boat.
If you're not out there
when it opens catching cod,
you're not making money.
No, this is it.
You know it,
you gotta find something.
I know you can do it.
Ryan, we gotta go.
Last pot coming on!
- Yeah! Woo!
- Yeah, brother.
[Jack] k*ll some
of them fishies.
That's it. We're gone.
Time for cod fishing.
- [alarm buzzing]
- What?
No.
What?
[Harley] Didn't sound good.
[alarm buzzes]
All right.
That was the chiller alarm
right there.
What's going on
with the chiller?
This is not turning on at all?
[Canyon speaking]
[Jake] Wow.
This is [bleep] not good, man.
[narrator] The boat's chiller
or refrigeration unit
keeps water in the tank
at a brisk 33 degrees.
If the temperature rises,
fish along
with the skippers' pay day,
will be spoiled.
[Jack] We got a major issue
- down there.
- What's up?
[Jack] We're down
a chiller 100%.
- I mean, major hole.
- All right.
Like, total
catastrophic failure.
[Harley] Do you think
you can keep them cold
with one chiller?
[Jack] It's gonna be a pain
in the a*s
but we can do it.
It's just a lot of work
for the chief.
But that's why we pay him.
You got two chillers.
And one chiller
is for the tanks
on one side of the boat,
the other chiller
is for the tanks
on the other side of the boat.
You can, if one breaks,
open bows that cross them over
and reroute the water.
[man grunts]
I'm gonna go fire these guys up
and go fishing here.
[Harley] 2023 coming at you.
[narrator] 610 miles away.
[Sophia grunts]
Stupid.
Anyways.
Oh, boy.
Well, we're officially
on strike.
[narrator] In Kodiak, Alaska.
[Sophia] We're officially
on strike.
I don't know if they're trying
to call our bluff
but hopefully
everybody can stay unified
and fight back
for a better price.
[reporter speaking]
[Sig] This is
really bad timing, you know.
This could have been dealt
with a lot sooner
but makes you wonder
about the future
and what it holds
for the fisheries.
That's the worst news
they could possibly get.
I'm worried about Bob.
[Keith] The longer they sit,
hopefully the better price they get.
You fight too long,
pretty soon you're gonna lose
and you're gonna lose big-time.
[Sig] There's no guarantee
in fishing.
There never has been.
And so it's the fishermen
that pushes
through the ups and downs
that's gonna win the game
at the end.
[Sophia] I guess, uh, going
on strike, so.
- [Sophia] They just have...
- [Bobo speaking]
[Sophia speaking]
They're still set with $2.50.
They're not really budging.
I don't think we're asking
for too much.
Just a matching price.
Yeah, it's gotta be fair.
Um, I have another meeting tomorrow
with everybody.
So we will see.
If it gets too far into it,
are we gonna be looking
at trying
to move our bait back up?
Yeah. We gotta bring it back
to the cannery
and freeze it.
Okay.
[Sophia] How does the saying go,
"Smooth seas
don't make good sailors?"
[narrator]
450 miles southwest,
on the eastern cod grounds.
[Sig] Where are we at?
We're about two miles
from the spot
that Jake warned us to start at.
Okay.
Let's give it a try.
Huh!
Well, you gotta start somewhere.
It's as good a place as any.
[narrator]
Aboard the Northwestern.
[Sig] You know, it's all new
to us now,
but the method
is still the same.
You just gotta get the fish
in the boat.
[narrator] Captain Sig readies
to launch his first pots
on the gray cod grounds,
relying on information
from his former protege
for a fast start.
We're gonna fish with 140 pots,
and we just gotta them
dialed in.
I'll give him a shout here.
[line trilling]
You got me, Jake?
[Jake] Yeah, I got you.
[Sig] So, Mandy got us to
the... To the spot here.
Okay. You're on
the northern end, right,
you're running it east to west?
No. I haven't done that.
I mean, I can,
if that's what you want.
[Jake] Yeah, that's where
it's good.
You're gonna wanna go
on the northern end of my stuff,
and hit those contours
to the west.
All right.
So set 'em to the west,
that's what you're saying?
Yeah. I think that should...
That should do it.
Okay. How far apart?
[Jake] About 210.
You're gonna wanna try
to stretch them out.
Uh, yeah, that's stretching out.
That's, like, fishing crabs.
[Jake] I know.
It's gonna pay off though.
[Sig] All right.
I'll head that way.
Get one out and
I'll see what shakes, okay?
[Jake] All right. Cool.
I'll be on this one.
[Sig]
Okay. I'll keep you posted.
He said he checked
the whole area out,
so why go farther?
[Mandy]
He's stretching us further
and further to the west.
Why don't we just flip it
around and go the other way,
lay them out to the east?
[Sig] I mean, that's... Yeah.
Might as well stretch
a few out that way.
I mean, I'm prospecting too...
[Sig speaking]
[man speaking]
Okay. Let's get them off,
find some fish,
and then we'll get into
our own game.
[Jake] I've spent all my time prospecting.
I need to know what's on
the northern end of my gear,
east to west.
I already did my part.
I've been on the give so long,
it's my turn to be on the get.
[narrator] 327 miles away,
in an undisclosed location.
[man] Woo-hoo!
Get nautical, brother.
[narrator] On the Time Bandit.
[Johnathan]
It ain't easy today.
I forget about
all this every time
when I come out here.
I forget about all the [bleep]
and I just remember nice,
calm day, sunny.
[waves crashing]
Like Phil Harris always said,
"It doesn't matter how much
or big the wave,
we're gonna push
right through that [bleep]."
[Johnathan]
Clock's ticking, man.
We gotta, you know,
pull our pots, rain or shine.
I'm the only boat fishing
golden crab at the very end...
[chuckles] how lucky am I?
But you gotta keep
your mouth shut.
We shouldn't even be telling
you guys what's going on.
[waves crashing]
[man] Woo!
[narrator] Looking to prove
the viability
of a potential new fishery,
Captain Johnathan
is poised to learn
if all his cloak and dagger
yields dollars and cents.
Yesterday was the calm
before the storm.
Now we're in the crap.
[man] Woo-hoo!
[Johnathan]
For 30 years, I've been
wanting to pitch here.
We don't need much, you know,
if this starts off,
we're just spot checking.
If we see anything, we'll just
start dumping back.
[humming]
[man] Come on, baby. Come on.
[cheering]
[man] All right.
It's a big one.
[man] Yeah,
that's a big one right here.
[man] Yeah.
Woo!
[man] Yeah.
[man] It's the big boys!
[mimics fireworks]
[Johnathan] We got life.
We'll dump it back.
It's a biomass here.
I have to really watch
the tides when I set.
As soon as that tide switches,
they'll parachute down so deep,
I'll never see my pots again.
The tidal switch.
It goes up against this wind,
it's gonna get real evil.
These things will stack
with whitewater breakers
on them.
You gotta pay attention.
You gotta find the next one.
It should be like right
on 1:00 or 11:00 o'clock,
right through that big,
big wave up there.
Holy[bleep].
Big wave, guys!
Big wave!
[man] Oh, watch out!
[men yell]
[wave crashing]
[narrator] On the Time Bandit.
[Johnathan] Holy[bleep].
Big wave, guys!
Big wave!
- [man] Watch out!
- [men yell]
[man] Woo-hoo!
That was a big wave...
[laughs]
- [Johnathan speaking]
- [man] Woo!
[laughs]
[Johnathan] This weather
is very dangerous.
It's a lot more critical,
a lot more pucker-factor.
[man] Oh, man.
[Johnathan]
A lot more stress.
I was puckering.
Definitely puckering
on that one.
[man] Woo!
We're getting through this gear.
It ain't easy, but we're doing.
[narrator] 90 miles away,
in Dutch Harbor,
on the Wizard.
[tool buzzing]
[man] All right. Rip it out.
Yeah, you're good.
Let it go down.
[Keith] The last thing you
wanna do is end up in town
with a bunch of gear on board.
Double time, double time, guys.
Let's go.
[man] Like a glove, right?
[Keith]
All right. So problem solved,
get out there,
and we'll start setting.
[Keith speaking]
[man] Roger!
[men whooping]
[Keith] I gotta play catch-up
on this slow start.
So we're trying to do it
with four guys
and it's not working.
[narrator] Three days
behind the competition
and short-handed.
I need a fifth set of hands
down there,
so I'm gonna give OJ a call.
[narrator] Captain Keith turns
to a trusted deckhand
currently on shore
for paternity leave.
[line trilling]
[OJ speaking]
Hello, OJ.
Captain Keith, how you doing?
[OJ speaking]
[Keith] We're doing good.
We're fishing bairdi,
and I know you just had
little Cassidy,
but I'm trying to do it
with four guys
and you know what,
I'm gonna wear these guys out.
I need a fifth man on my deck.
And I hate to call you,
but I'm wondering if you might
be available to come fish?
[OJ speaking]
Right on, OJ, man.
You are a rock star, dude.
Actually...
right now we can't afford
more town time.
I'm gonna try and burn
as little fuel as possible,
we're gonna put you
on another boat,
we're building a raft,
and we're gonna do
a transfer at sea.
That's the best.
I know it's short notice,
I know that's asking a lot,
but are you good with this?
[OJ speaking]
[Keith] What, is that a yes?
[OJ speaking]
Right on, man.
You're the best.
Can't say enough how much
we need you on this boat.
Thank you.
[narrator] 60 miles northeast,
on the Barbara J.
[Jack] Okay, boys. Cod 2023.
Come on, fish.
In cod we trust.
[man] Woo-hoo.
[Harley] Are we at
the first one?
[Jack] Yeah. First pot.
Starting the season out.
[Harley]
I think where it's caught,
I just let you on the gear,
and I'm just the observer.
Yeah, right.
[narrator]
Rookie skipper Jack Bunnell
arrives at the first pod
of his cod derby season,
looking to claim his part
of the $5.5 million
total allowable catch.
One of the reasons
I chose this spot is
because there's, like,
eight fathoms difference
in a two-mile span,
so you can just...
With a few strings,
you could see a lot of cod.
Really?
Maybe... [chuckles]
[seagulls cawing]
[Jack speaking]
[man] Yeah!
[man]
Let the slaughter begin.
[dramatic music playing]
[Jack]
First one on the block...
[Jack speaking]
First pot of a new season,
I'm hoping for big numbers.
It's derby style.
As soon as that quota
is caught, it's done.
Clock's ticking,
pounds are being caught.
[man] Woo-hoo!
[man] Yeah!
[man] Woo!
[laughs]
[Jack speaking]
[man] Yeah!
Woo-hoo!
[Harley] That's a great start.
That is really good.
Bunch of big old fat hog cod.
- [buzzes]
- [man] Goin' over.
Somebody in some pub
is gonna be ordering up
some fish and chips.
And they came right from us,
man, you know?
[Jack] Hell, yeah.
"Ordering up some
fish and chips, please."
"Yeah. Well, here it is.
We got it for you, buddy."
[laughs]
Nice and fresh.
Man, I gotta really use
a lot of throttle to get up.
[bleep] is going on here?
[suspenseful music playing]
Why is this boat not turning
like it used to?
What the [bleep] is going on?
I swear to God,
we don't have a port [bleep]
wheel right now.
Because when I put it into gear,
it sounds like this.
[machine whirring]
[steam hissing]
We don't have a [bleep]
port propeller.
It's gone.
- What?
- [Jack] It's not there.
I have... I have one engine.
[Harley] Nothing, huh?
[Jack] It's gone.
[steam hissing]
Hold on you guys...
[Jack speaking]
[man speaking]
[Jack] There's no propulsion,
like, the propeller is gone.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] On the Barbara J.
[Jack] The propeller is gone.
We're gonna see
if the shaft is spinning.
[Jack] Yeah.
[steam hissing]
The shaft could've,
uh, you know, snapped.
If that shaft falls out,
we're gonna have water
pouring in here.
It's gonna be a bigger problem
than no propulsion.
[man speaking]
[bleep] you lost your pump.
You know?
[bleep] how though?
Um, guess it was weak
and it snapped, you know.
[Jack] We can't be out here
with one engine
and then hauling gear
with the starboard engine,
that's the side
that's gonna get tangled up.
If you get tangled up,
then you're a dead ship,
you can't [bleep] dude.
[Harley] I don't know.
We gotta go get a diver.
We need an eye underwater,
see what the hell is going on.
[bleep]
[seagulls cawing]
You gotta have a GoPro
or something?
[producer speaking]
Yeah, well, let's...
Can we get that?
Can we use it and tape it
to a pole,
and stick it down there,
and see if we got a prop
or if it's completely gone,
or the shaft's broken?
[producer speaking]
[Jack] Oh, we got a GoPro
from the nice guy and...
Behind the camera right now.
[laughs]
[camera beeps]
[producer speaking]
[Jack] You got it.
It's in your hand.
It's in your hand.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Jack grunts]
It's pretty tough
to get that flimsy pole,
you know, we got three poles
taped together.
Um, well, there's the blade,
I mean, you know, the...
There's the port prop.
No, they're fine.
- [Jack] It looks great.
- [Harley] Yeah.
The prop is there,
it's not spinning
but the shaft attached
to the engine is spinning,
so the shaft has to be broken.
If the shaft has snapped,
the propeller can fall out
and then, there would be a hole
about this big in the boat
and water would go in
and sink us.
[Harley]
Better go see, inspect
what's going on down there.
We can't be out here
goofing around.
Our lives are more valuable
than anything right now.
Yeah, no,
we can't be stuck out here.
[engine whirring]
All right. Thank you.
It doesn't go into gear.
[Harley] Oh, well,
if it doesn't go into gear,
then it's the reduction gear.
It feels really weird
'cause when you put it
into forward,
it, like, goes, stops,
and then it goes to, like...
It's like... [mimics grinding]
It's like something's
broken in there.
I think we need somebody to
look at your reduction gear.
[Jack] Oh, yeah.
I think we gotta
still go to town
and, you know, continue on
with our thing, but it's...
At least we don't have
to order a propeller.
I don't think we're gonna
finish the cod season,
unless some miracle happens.
Hey.
Secure the block,
clean up the deck.
[Jack] Heartbreaking.
That's unbelievable, man.
Makes me almost[bleep] cry,
dude.
And it's not like
our quota is gonna wait
for us to come back.
We're running for our lives
right now.
[narrator] 90 miles northeast
on the western cod grounds.
[Sig]
All right. Get ready here.
We got half a mile or so.
[narrator]
Aboard the Northwestern.
[Sig] All right, Mandy.
First part of the season
coming up here.
[Mandy] And this is part
of, uh, Jake's dream?
Yeah, this is the one out west.
Hopefully,
we'll get him some numbers.
We'll see.
First one's coming up.
[man] Roger
- [machine whirring]
- [Sig] Come on, people.
[Mandy] Here it comes.
[Sig] Okay.
[man] What do we got?
What do we got?
[mimics sad trombone]
[Mandy] Oh, just a couple.
Probably like three fish
in there.
[sighs, grunts]
All right.
Number two coming up.
[man] Not good.
What are we doing?
[Mandy] I mean,
it's not completely empty.
[Sig]
You don't make money on that.
[Mandy sighs]
[Sig] The way it sounded,
there's fish all over the place.
"Oh, yeah, just go there,"
hey says,
"All kinds of life there."
I think I'm just gonna
call him, see what's going on.
[Sig] Oh, don't call anybody.
Don't do that.
[steam hisses]
[sighs]
[grunts]
Can you send Matt up?
Yeah.
[seagulls cawing]
[Matt speaking]
Is there any of your buddies
on the Saga
still fishing there?
Mason is still over there.
Could you text him and ask him
how they're doing over there?
For curiosity's sake, you know.
I'll sh**t him a message.
[narrator] 32 miles southeast.
[man speaking]
Take that!
Take that [bleep].
[man] Oh, hey there, bud.
[Jake] Look at that thing.
That's meat right there, boy!
[man] Yeah!
[Jake] You can see all
that work now
that we did prospecting
paid off.
We got the spot,
so just keep the block turning.
[narrator] With Sig
on a fish-finding mission,
hunting the western edge
of the cod school,
Captain Jake is on
a fish-catching mission,
tanking 21,000 pounds
in just two hours.
[man] Woo-hoo!
[woman] Three more.
Doing good.
There's no 700-pound pot.
[man] Here we go!
Yeah!
[man] Woo!
That's a good pot right there.
[man] Woo-hoo-hoo!
[man] Yeah, baby.
Look at those things,
they're whales.
We're getting fat 30.
We're getting some dinosaurs.
We're doing good, man.
We're doing good.
[cheering]
[producer speaking]
[Jake] Not yet.
He will just take this spot
from me if I'm not careful.
So, I have no qualms
with sending them
in an area that I wanna know
if there's fish or not.
It's just me and Sig play.
- [man 1] Yeah, man.
- [man 2] I like that.
[seagulls cawing]
Mason just hit me back with
a bunch of thought bubbles.
What the hell
is a thought bubble?
Those little bloop,
bloop, bloop.
It sounds like
they're in it pretty good.
Really?
[Sig] Thank you.
He can get all the fish he wants
but don't BS about it.
I wanna go pull the strings
out to the east
that are closer to Jake.
And I'm telling you,
if there's fish in this stuff,
he's just being sneaky.
[Sig] We're gonna find out.
[seagulls cawing]
[narrator] In Dutch Harbor.
First cod delivery.
[narrator] On the Barbara J.
[Jack] It's probably gonna be
my smallest cod delivery
in my entire career.
I hope.
The plan is, get these
fish off and get fixed.
Mechanic's down there.
[machine whirring]
[Jack] The clock is ticking
and right now,
the crew has made about...
zero dollars.
My crew.
Unacceptable.
[Jack] All right.
I heading down there.
[Jack]
I'm gonna go get an update.
[Harley] Uh-huh.
[machine whirring]
[machine whirring]
Not good, Harley.
- Not good.
- [Harley] No?
Very bad.
[Harley] Very bad?
Oil is sitting in there,
you take a scoop,
just [bleep],
full of metal shavings.
[Jan] I mean, you get those
metal flakes in there,
I mean, it's obviously
some parts inside of it
are ground down and destroyed.
[Jack] Get this out, rebuilt.
That's a big swing
can happen today,
this is probably
one of the biggest swings
you're gonna have all season.
[Jack] It's either a day fix
or a week fix.
[Harley] Exactly.
Exactly. It's about
what we're looking at.
Oh, come on, day fix.
[narrator] On the Time Bandit.
This is a Freddy saying...
You don't have
to say nothing, he goes...
Tom, can't work for you,
so he wants to work.
Hey, Cap.
Hey, buddy.
So if... We don't know
what we're gonna get here,
so if there's no crab here,
we're gonna have to pack
them all up
- and go run...
- [Freddy] Roger.
- Run.
- Figure out as we go.
As we go, yeah.
- [laughs]
- I just thought
to get in touch with this.
Oh, yeah, you bet.
- Yeah.
- You bet.
Yeah, keep us all
on the same page.
Roger. I'll be back.
No problem.
Thank you. Thank you.
- Thank you, Captain.
- Thank you, Skipper.
Thank you.
[suspenseful music playing]
[waves gushing]
[Johnathan]
We're an area in.
You'll get this information,
Ross, you gotta earn it.
You gotta come out here
like a big boy.
Put on your big boy pants.
[narrator] In a clandestine
early season effort,
John scours the wind-swept
breakers for the first
of 40 pots set on a deep
[Johnathan] Anyway,
I got to find the buoys.
So the tides are
running really hard,
so the bags might be down.
[seagulls cawing]
[Johnathan] It's down.
So go to the next one.
[Freddy speaking]
It's always an adventure.
[suspenseful music playing]
I don't see the second one.
The tides smoked through here,
so you don't...
We might have buoys down or...
[Freddy] Yeah, we got...
We'll figure it out as we go,
my friends.
You don't wanna leave
no soldiers behind.
I ain't coming back here.
If it's not here, it's not here.
Usually, a pot is 1,500 bucks,
you know,
with two shots,
but we got 10 shots.
I'm so [bleep] up now.
Keep looking, guys.
Keep your eyes peeled.
All right, we're going
back through the mark.
I think they're down.
[bleep]
This is gonna suck.
[Freddy] Found it?
[Johnathan]
No, I haven't found it.
- We got daylight coming too.
- [Freddy] Yeah.
That's definitely
gonna be our friend.
They're here.
They're somewhere.
[narrator] 660 miles away.
[Sophia] I love you, brother.
I'll see you at the dock.
[Brett]
See you later, little brother.
[Brandon] Whoa.
Clear.
[Brett]
I'll see you guys over there.
[narrator] On the Victory.
[Sophia]
We're on strike right now
and we could be
for a long while.
All the bait that
I put on the boat
needs to get out
of the out fish hold
'cause it's just gonna thaw
and turn to mush.
So I'm gonna give it back
to the cannery
and they'll have
to refreeze it for me.
This is a big pain in the a*s.
[narrator]
24 hours into the strike,
Captain Bob prepares
to unload two tons of herring
into the onshore freezer,
and avoid a $7,000 hit.
[Blane speaking]
It's a lot of
getting stuff ready,
then getting it even more ready,
and then waiting around.
[phone ringing]
Hello.
[Bobo speaking]
Why?
[Bobo speaking]
Who said that?
[Bobo speaking]
[Sophia] All righty.
Well, I guess
I'll just tie it up
with the dock then.
See you over there.
Change of plan.
And just sit around and wait.
We might leave tonight
or leave tomorrow.
I don't [bleep] know.
Nice job, Blane.
Go ahead, tie it off.
Poifect.
There's Bobo.
[Bobo speaking]
And we all head out
and we don't have to take off
our bait or anything, so...
[Bobo speaking]
[suspenseful music playing]
[thud]
[Blane speaking]
[Brett speaking]
[suspenseful music playing]
There was a rumor that the...
[Bobo] Nobody told us
not to do [bleep].
You told her
not to take the bait off.
[Bobo] Nobody told her
not to do [bleep].
We said there's a price
negotiation happening.
- That's it.
- [Brett] Yeah.
You told her
not to take the bait off.
[Bobo] She can do whatever
the [bleep] she wants.
- No.
- [Bobo] This is her boat.
Then stop telling her
what the [bleep] to do.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Brett] You told her
not to take the bait off.
[Bobo] She can do whatever
the [bleep] she wants.
- No.
- [Bobo] This is her boat.
[Brett] Then stop telling her
what the [bleep] to do.
She's the captain.
Let her make the decisions
around here.
[Bobo] We're not telling her
what to do.
We're telling her
what's happening.
[Brett]
You're making her second guess
everything she's doing.
Why does that have to stop her
from getting the bait off?
- Are you the captain now?
- [Bobo] No.
The price change was a big deal
because they could have
reached out to everybody
and said, "Hey,
we're going fishing," but...
Are we putting the bait
on the pallets tonight?
Yeah. Why not?
It's gonna be bloop-bloop-blop
and it's gonna get off the boat.
Okay.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Sophia] I don't like
all the decision-making.
I... I'm second guessing
myself every turn, dude.
No, dude.
Own your [bleep].
Own it.
It's better to make
a wrong decision
than make no decision at all.
[laughs]
Uh, I don't know about that one.
[narrator] 430 miles southwest,
on the eastern cod grounds.
All right, guys.
First pot coming up.
Get her ready.
[man speaking]
[narrator] Aboard the Saga.
[Jake] This string's got
our best gear in it,
so this will probably be just
as good as all the other ones.
[man] Oh, yeah, baby!
Look at that.
That's a nice one right there.
[man] Oh, yeah, yeah!
Lots of fish. Big fish.
[man speaking]
Twenty-six is good
for a six hours soak.
[man] Oh, God.
[Jake] Wait a minute.
Damn.
What happened, man?
Is there anything
wrong at the pot, Joe?
Bait's good and everything?
Yeah, it's good.
[bleep]
Oh, no, maybe it's a fluke.
We'll see on this next one.
Come on. Show me something.
What's going on?
Fishing's turning to [bleep].
[waves crashing]
[narrator] 15 miles north.
First one's coming up.
You guys ready?
[man] Yeah.
Well, we asked for a little
intel from Jake
and he gave us some information,
but he also alluded
we should drive to the west.
Specifically sending us
further out.
But pushing everything
west one way
wasn't in our game plan.
[narrator]
After being sent by Jake
to unproductive western grounds,
Captain Sig and daughter Mandy
turn to their 30-pot string
in the east
to suss out whether their
supposed partner's intel
holds fish.
All right.
Here we go.
Perfect.
Looking pretty good.
I see some good fish
in that pot.
[man] Hey.
- Yay!
- [man] That's money
right there.
So, Jake was hiding something.
[man] Oh, my God.
[grunts]
[Sig] Looking good.
That will put a dent
in the tank.
See, you cannot trust anybody.
[Sig speaking]
[phone ringing]
[Jake] Oh, [bleep].
Sig's calling.
Hey, Sig. You got me?
I got you. So, how's it going?
[Jake speaking]
You know?
Well, I mean...
you know, if you hit the 40,
maybe down
to the 30-fathom edge,
that hasn't been
romped on too much.
That's not too far away.
[Jake speaking]
I got some feelers out there.
Okay. Thanks, Sig.
All right. Later.
I mean, he sent us
to go find the edge.
We're gonna send him
to go find the edge.
Hey, goes around, comes around.
It's just...
[Mandy] Payback's a b*tch.
[Sig laughs]
[Jake speaking]
We're going deeper.
[man speaking]
[Jake] Looks like sending
Sig out to prospect
worked out for me.
About time I get the better
of this partnership.
[waves crashing]
[narrator] In Dutch Harbor.
Let's put it back, baby, yeah!
[narrator] On the Barbara J.
[machine whirring]
[man] Oh, yeah!
[bleep] yeah!
I can't believe
how fast they got it back in,
but if it don't work,
it don't work.
I mean, there's a lot to it.
You know,
the alignment and stuff
is what I'm worried about.
[narrator]
After an unresponsive
portside propeller
forced them to dock,
Captain Jack Bunnell
finishes installing
the boat's new reduction gear
just 36 hours later.
All right. Let's fire it up
and give it a go!
See what we got.
Yo.
Okay. How we doing?
I think we got her
all put back together.
- [Harley] Ain't no way.
- Yeah.
We're ready to test her.
[Jack speaking]
Roger. Roger. We're ready.
[man] Here we go.
Whoo!
Let's see if this port one
goes into gear, bud.
[engine revving]
- Oh, yeah.
- Oh, listen to that.
Look at that RPM.
- [Jack] Nice and smooth.
- [Harley] Oh, yeah.
[Jack] Give her some juice.
Okay.
[propeller revving]
Well, it feels...
It feels all good.
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah, it does feel good.
[engine humming]
Oh, uh, uh-oh.
That's full [bleep] dark.
- Uh...
- Uh-huh.
Well, that's not ideal.
Started giving it some speed
and nothing happened.
[man yells] [bleep] dammit!
Go see what's going on.
[man] Oh, my gosh.
Shut it down!
[beeps]
[narrator] On the Barbara J.
[man] Shut it down!
[beeps]
What are they saying?
[producer speaking]
[engine hisses]
[Jack]
Neutral, neutral, neutral.
- Yeah, port engine's in...
- [Jack] Port engine neutral.
[Harley]
Port engine's in neutral.
[Jack] Roger.
[Harley] I hope that
it's nothing major.
Lord, help me.
Lord, please.
[man speaking]
Whew.
Blew a hose clamp
on the keel cooler.
Okay.
[narrator]
Halting their operation,
an unsecured coolant line
leaking into the bilge
causing the engine to overheat.
A major problem
with a simple solution,
a $20 clamp.
[Harley] We're wanna find
that out right now.
That's what sea trials
are about.
To see.
The reduction gear works
and I'm confident
in the reduction gear.
[engine revving]
This feels like we got it good,
- going good, buddy.
- Yeah, that was [bleep].
Damn, I think
we're back in action.
Let's go fishing, dude.
Yeah, let's do it. I'm ready.
I'm ready to go catch some cod.
- [waves crashing]
- [seagulls squawking]
[Johnathan] Welcome to an area
of none-of-your banks.
It's classified.
None of your business banks.
Everyone's gonna see me here.
What am I gonna do?
They play it on TV,
then everyone's gonna
jump on top of me.
Now that I told you,
I have to k*ll you.
Now I have to k*ll my cameraman.
[laughs]
[narrator] On the Time Bandit.
What we got is a mess here.
We got pots struck
with the current so strong.
I gotta find the buoys.
Do you see it, Neal?
[Johnathan speaking]
[narrator] After risking
his 40-pot load
in strong currents
and deeper 270-fathom waters,
Captain Johnathan
scans the horizon
for his exploratory gear
on the banks of Area N.
[Johnathan] Ah,
I'm getting delirious.
It's a good thing I got
my psychiatrist with me.
And my brother.
Andy!
In the coffee cup.
Gonna make a ride.
He's on a little
coffee cup ride.
Andy, watch out,
you're going down a tunnel!
He's in a tide rip.
Just like my gear, it's a mess.
Come on, Manny.
[Johnathan speaking]
[Freddy] Roger!
Oh, right there!
Game on, baby!
They're right there, boss!
Whoo-hoo!
Finally, we'll be doing
a test this year.
Now we'll know.
Cover this whole damn bank.
Uh, if there's a biomass
living on here...
Whoo-hoo!
Okay, God.
[cheering]
[man speaking]
[man] Oh [bleep].
[man speaking]
We got one. One golden crab!
[man] The first keeper,
you gotta kiss!
[laughing]
[Johnathan] All right, guys.
Coming up.
Gimme some crab.
[man] Come on, baby!
[metal clanging]
[Johnathan] Oh, bummer.
How is your day going?
[man] No table.
[man] Oh!
[man] Boo.
Ay, ay, ay, ay.
I was thinking this whole bank
would have solid numbers on it.
So, it's not like
I thought it was gonna be.
So far...
[Johnathan speaking]
But damn, if we're not
gonna have a good dinner!
Roger that, captain!
Whoo!
Not on my watch.
Sometime we hit that jackpot,
sometime we don't.
But sooner or later,
we'll get it.
[narrator] 600 miles northeast
of Dutch Harbor.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Sophia] My mother
had beautiful handwriting.
And we wanted a little
piece from her
before she passed away.
"Um, life is short.
Break the rules,
forgive quickly,
laugh uncontrollably,
and never regret anything
that made you smile.
Love, Mom."
And that was just,
uh, about a week and a half
before she passed.
[narrator] In Kodiak, Alaska.
[Sophia] I'm headed
to the Kodiak Harbor office
to attend the tanner meeting.
Hopefully, the canneries
came back with a better price
and we can finally go fishing
and get this over with.
We would have been
fishing right now
if we weren't on strike
and the later that this goes on,
boats are gonna be losing out
on different fisheries
or they're gonna be losing out
on their crew
'cause they have
other jobs lined up.
Everybody's got families
they have to support.
You never realize
what you have until it's gone.
I say it,
like, my parents' passing
is the greatest lesson
I could ever learn.
But it's not until I'm facing
all these hard decisions
and I don't have their guidance,
then I'm like, "Man.
You should be nice
to your parents,
because one day
they're not gonna be there
and you're gonna wish
they were."
[sighs]
Well, time for the meeting.
We're gonna see
what they had to say.
Hopefully,
we could settle on a price.
Wish me luck.
[narrator] 570 miles southwest
on the western bairdi
crab grounds.
[man speaking]
[Keith] We... We're gonna
send the raft over,
we're gonna maintain
the line over here.
You come in on it, get OJ on it.
Pull away and we will pull
him to the Wizard, okay?
[man speaking]
[buzzer buzzes]
[narrator] Aboard the Wizard.
[Keith]
It shouldn't be such a battle
trying to get your gear
in the water,
but you know what, it has been.
[water splashes]
We got a lot of bairdi to catch.
Let's start catching it.
[buzzer buzzes]
[Keith]
This is the last pot off.
[water splashes]
Just, uh, secure the deck
real quick.
[Keith speaking]
Operation OJ.
This is not how you wanna
pick up a crewman.
But OJ's on another boat
and we're gonna do
a transfer at sea.
We're gonna put OJ
in a survival suit,
put OJ on the raft,
pull him back over here.
[narrator] Unwilling to waste
more time at dock,
and over 50% of the fleet-wide
bairdi crab quota
already caught,
Captain Keith
makes trusted crewman
OJ Ganuelas come to him.
[Keith speaking]
and we need Cody
to grab the rescue swimmer.
[man speaking]
[Keith speaking]
Let's, uh...
[clears throat]
Let's do this one time only.
Let's do it nice and clean
and let's get...
[Monte speaking]
[narrator] Hitching a ride
on the 111-foot
fishing vessel Bering Sea,
OJ connects to a local ferry,
the 8-foot
fishing vessel, crab pot.
[Cody] We got a pot
full of buoys,
we got a buoyant little raft
for OJ,
and I'm gonna stand by
in a rescue service suit
in case anything happens,
I'm ready to jump in the water,
save my guy, bring him aboard.
Do you know what, Monts?
I think what I'm gonna do
is this.
I'm gonna go down there
and I'm gonna have you
up here, all right?
[Monte] Okay. Perfect.
[dramatic music playing]
[Keith] Good to go.
Just relax, man.
- I'm trying.
- We're gonna take
a nice nap after this.
- I'm trying to relax,
but I can't.
- All right.
Everything ready
to roll here, guys?
[Monte speaking]
Standing by.
Under no circumstances
you go in that water
unless you get the order
to go in, okay?
We're gonna have one guy
out there in the Bering Sea.
Last thing we want is two.
- [buzzer buzzes]
- Going over!
[Cody] Operation OJ.
[Keith laughs] "Operation OJ?"
[water splashes]
[Keith]
We got one shot at this,
and then that's it.
Get him or we don't.
Getting OJ back's gonna be huge.
You know, he's a big part
of the team down there.
I think OJ's gonna be kind of,
like, a scared cat.
He's not the best swimmer.
He doesn't swim for [bleep].
If we got to abort,
we got to abort.
[suspenseful music playing]
[engine hissing]
Okay. So, you can go ahead
if you're ready.
[water splashes]
Hey, he jumped!
[man speaking]
[dramatic music playing]
- Oh [bleep].
- [bird chirping]
Wait, he just flew
over my shoulder.
- [Jack] That's what happened?
- Oh, yeah. [laughs]
We got a buddy.
Hey, bud.
Hey, what's up?
We'll let you out. Come here.
There you go. Here.
Oh, yeah.
Come on, buddy.
It's all right.
Uh-oh. Don't go that way.
- [chuckles]
- What the [bleep]?
[Harley] I see him
flying around the deck
and, sh**t, he comes right in.
What the [bleep]?
He'll go in your hand,
he was on mine.
[Jack] Hi, little buddy.
Oh, God! No [bleep] man.
I was just trying to hang out.
[laughs]
[Jack] Don't move.
[Harley laughs]
Okay. Stay over there.
You're good over there.
We'll get you to land,
I promise.
Stop freaking out.
[narrator]
Captains Jack and Harley
hope one bird in the boat
is worth more than two cod
in the tanks.
[narrator] On the Wizard.
Okay. So, you can go ahead
if you're ready.
Hey, he jumped!
[man speaking]
Roger.
[Keith speaking]
Yeah...
[cheering]
[Keith speaking]
Well, I doubt OJ's ever
gonna forget this ride.
Yeah, I'm pretty proud of OJ
for jumping in the ocean.
He doesn't swim very good.
[Keith] Hey, Monts.
Roger. OJ...
Get that life sling on.
Pull him in a little bit
with the block.
Bring it a little closer.
Okay. It looks like
he's getting closer.
[Keith] Ease him in, Robby.
Nice and easy. Nice and easy.
Got it?
[Keith] Hey, he's got it!
Put the yellow life sling
under your armpit.
Let it slide
through your armpit.
There you go.
Now, hook it in both t-rings.
Draw this hook
through both those rings
in your life per.
[Keith] All right.
Can you grab that orange bag
and just chuck it to me,
so we got tag line, okay?
- Okay.
- [Cody] Are we good?
Robby, bring him up.
Bring him in.
Guy's in the water.
Bring him out.
Get him out. Get him out.
[grunts] Got you.
Whoo!
How you doing?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- [cheers]
High five.
My boy.
[OJ] Yeah.
[man speaking]
He is aboard.
[man] Yeah! Whoo!
[machine whirring]
[OJ speaking]
[Keith chuckles]
Mission accomplished.
Good job.
Come on, guys.
Tyler, well done.
Man, back on the boat,
so, you know,
what's gonna get you
to go back to the boat?
You know, do I need to ride
with a Bering Sea taxi?
OJ just had a little
girl named Cassidy.
For him to come out here
and bail us out like this,
and then to actually jump
in the Bering Sea
in the middle of January
to get over here
shows you a testament
to just how big
that kid's heart is.
I mean, OJ's heart is as big
as anybody on the planet.
This guy did
a really good job, man.
Now, I'm here. I'm back, baby.
Let's go to work.
You know, when you get a chew
in every pocket,
you're probably
a little more nervous
than you normally would be.
[narrator]
120 miles northeast,
on the southern cod ground
aboard the Saga.
[Mason] Put it on. Put it on.
Oh, man.
Look at this crash.
Oh, my God.
[Mason] Three fish.
You ain't gonna make money
on three.
Those fish even ten pounds, Joe?
No. They're pretty small.
I'm right where he put me.
It's a new area that Sig
gave me the bearings for.
[Mason] Three fish.
Another three.
I mean, I'm at the place
that I was sent to
and he's not giving me [bleep].
Pull it up.
The [bleep] there's not...
Absolutely [bleep] nothing here.
This is a [bleep] bone yard.
[man grunts]
[Mason speaking]
Yeah.
[man speaking]
How do you know that?
[Mason speaking]
[bleep]
Mason, bring up your phone.
- What's going on?
- Can I see your text messages
on your phone?
Yeah.
I hate going captain
on you, but...
[Mason] No big deal.
It's just Matt.
[bleep].
You just told Matt
some information
I wanted to keep quiet,
and he's given it to the boat.
You're not in trouble.
Just tell everyone down there
to just be careful
what they're texting.
Keep the cards
close to their chest.
[waves crashing]
All right.
[Jake speaking]
[Sig] Don't get
all depressed now.
You... You're the one
who wanted to play here.
Seriously, though, there ain't
nothing here, dude.
[Mason] Enough.
[Sig] You're fine.
You just got to keep
punching 'em in.
Have you hauled
through everything?
- No.
- [Sig] Because you did...
Well, what are you
calling me for?
First, you got to go
through the gear.
Just keep pulling the gear.
And then, let me know
when it's all said
and done, okay?
All right. Copy.
You got to have faith, pal.
I have been in the...
been in the game
for a little bit longer.
I was so proud
that my partnership
was actually working
in my favor.
[Sig] I'll give you an A
for effort
and a D-minus for your delivery.
Screw you.
We know you a little bit
too well, buddy.
Oh, God.
All right, Jake. Just call me
when you get them, hopefully.
All right. Bye-bye.
[Sig] All right. I'm out.
He's gonna run
into that line eventually.
It's there. It's always there.
Instead of us finding it,
he go find the edge.
That's a real partnership,
isn't it?
As long as the end result
is what you're looking for.
We're just doing it
in a roundabout manner.
[laughs]
It is kind of fun, though.
[Sophia] Hey, brother.
[Brett] Hey. What's going on?
We're going fishing.
- [Brett] Roger. I'm coming.
- [chuckles]
I'm sure the cannery
is gonna be blocked up.
Come down to the boat 'cause
we're grabbing bait today.
[Brett] Okay. Sounds good.
- Bye-bye.
- All right. Bye.
Finally, everybody got fed up
enough where we can go fish.
I'm excited and I'm anxious,
and I'm scared.
You know, first time
being the boss lady.
I just need to prove to myself
that I can get crab in the pot.
But just gonna do what I can.
[man] Thank you, God,
for bringing this food
onto our table and letting us
catch enough raw crab
to feed our bellies
for the night.
- Amen.
- [all] Amen.
[man] Yeah. Let's dig in!
This is about a $12,000 dinner.
But now, we know, you know,
I don't have to kick myself
years from now and go,
"I wish I would have done that.
I wish
I would have went there."
[man] Yeah.
But we don't wanna tell nobody
'cause we'll make them earn it.
- [man] Yeah.
- You got to find out
for yourself whether
it's crappy or not.
[waves crashing]
[OJ] Oh crabby!
Pow, pow. Right on...
Now that we got OJ back,
we got a solid five-man crew,
which we need.
OJ.
[laughs]
[man] Nice little pot here.
Feel pretty good.
Whoo!
Yeah!
Things looking good, now.
We're catching cod, thank God.
[Harley]
That's a good feeling.
Go for it, boys.
[Jack] I really got
a great opportunity
to run this boat.
Prove that I'm the captain
once and for all.
[laughter]
Frozen.
Okay.
Lift!
[Sophia] We've got the bait on.
We just need to get
the deck squared away,
and then we're off.
Get the hell out of town,
go catch some [bleep] crabs.
[man] Good?
[Sophia] One hurdle at a time.
Your best learning
is when you're out
of your comfort zone.
That's what my dad used to say.
I would like to say
that he's proud.
I hope so.
Couldn't ask
for anything better.
Go get some crab.
Whoo-hoo!
[man] Yeah, baby.
Oh, [bleep].
[man] No, no, no, no.
Stop.
Looks like hell.
Whoa. Whoa.
Oh, we got a fire.
[man] Oh, God.
[coughs]
Yo, watch out. Watch out.
Watch out!
- [man] [bleep]
- Oh, [bleep].
Whoo!
Well done. Well done!
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19x11 - Loose Lips Sink Ships
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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.