20x18 - Graveyard for the Lost

[bunniefuu]

[Johnathan singing]

♪♪ God bless America

♪♪ My home

♪♪ Say, does that
Star Spangled... ♪

[people cheering]

Salute. Salute.

[Johnathan speaking]

-I'm a bad singer.
-[man laughing] Yeah.

[voice cracking] Free.

I've never been invited
to sing this song anywhere.

[narrator] After 12
grueling weeks on the water...

-[man] Chino's good! [laughs]
-[people whooping]

You guys get ready
to throw the lines.
We're out of here right now.

Yeah, let's go.

[man] Whoo-hoo!

Chino's okay, and now
we just need to get out there.

Better rest up
'cause we're gonna
hit it hard.

[narrator] Five boats
run day and night
to catch their share

of the remaining $900,000
bairdi and golden king crab
quotas.

[Monte] My brother had
a mini stroke or something.
I took him to Saint Paul.

He's no longer on board,
and the next challenge

is the canneries
trying to have us come in.

It's like, "Well,
we don't have what we need."

[narrator] As processors
in Dutch Harbor announced
closure in just six days,

it's captains
against the clock

to strike it rich
or strike out.

[Sig] We're close to the end
of our quota here.

Baby on the way.

The faster we get in,
the faster I can get
Clark home

and I get to be
a grandfather again.

But if you start taking
big risks with bold moves,

this could go backwards
really fast.

[theme music playing]

[Jake speaking]

Watch the rail!

[man] Hey!

Neal, tank's slack.

Let's go, let's go!

[man] What the...

[narrator] 212 miles northwest
of Dutch Harbor

on the golden king crab
grounds.

[Mandy speaking]

It's going here.
I mean, it's going a little
slower than we thought.

[Mandy speaking]

I know.
I know it's hard being home
being pregnant

and watching Sailor
all by yourself.

We just have to find
that good spot
that we can actually fish.

[Mandy speaking]

I don't know if that's
an option at this point.

[Mandy speaking]

All right. Love you.

[Mandy speaking]

[narrator] On the
Northwestern...

[Sig speaking]

Roger.

This string kind of went up
and down in depth.

I've got 40 crab pots
down in this hole
right below us here

from shallow to the deep.

Golden king crab,
the price is really high
for these things.

$8 to $10 a pound,
so we're trying to get
as much as we can.

We're down to the wire.

[Sig speaking]

[narrator] Approaching
a 10-pot prospect string

set near an 1,100-foot
underwater precipice,

Captain Sig Hansen hunts
for his final 6,000 pounds

and $60,000
of golden king crab quota.

All right, here we go.


There's a few in there.

[Sig speaking]

Nice and big?

[Clark] Nice and big!

-[Sig speaking]
-[Clark] Going in the tank.

[Sig] Next pot's right there.


a little bit deeper.

-[man 1] Yeah, baby!
-[man 2] Yep.

Oh, yeah.

Got 'em!

Well, we're warming up.
I mean, that looks good.

[deckhand laughing]

Yay!

How many?

-Twenty.
-[Sig speaking]

All the deep ends
are more, you know?

The deeper the better!

[Sig speaking]

So far, we're finding crab.

We've got, you know, teens,
we've got single digits,

but I wish I had more line
so we can go deeper.

-Hey.
-Hey.

As we're getting close
to that 190 fathoms,
it's more crab.

So what if we strip
some of the shots out of,
say, 10 pots,

add those shots
to these two strings,

and try to get deeper
with them?

[Sig] What, like,
down in this area?
Right by that hole?

-Yeah, you go
from 190, 210, 220.
-Okay.

The only downside to this
is that we are gonna lose

the ability to fish
those 10 pots.

And have a bunch of steel
sitting on deck.

Well, if we hit it,
we're done. That's the thing.

-[Sig] Okay, start stripping,
if that's what you want.
-[Clark] All right.

You know, just remember,
those pots don't fish on deck.

All right,
let's see what happens.

[narrator] Still
of their off-load goal,

and with the crab marching
into a deep canyon,

Sig and Clark bet
fishing fewer pots
with more reach

will cap off their quota.

Nobody likes to leave
a bunch of gear on deck,

but every single sign
is "Go deeper,"
so it's worth a shot.

At least that's the hope.

[narrator] 125 miles
southeast...

[all exclaiming]

[bleep] Oh [bleep] dude.

Oh, God.

[narrator] On
the Titan Explorer...

[Jake] Oh, my God. Wow.

-[man] Whoo!
-[Jake] Damn!

[bleep], you guys.
I don't know.

If I can avoid the wave,
we'll be okay,

but we're gonna get those
every once in a while.

[man] Whoo! [bleep] Damn.

It comes up all the way
to these windows,

which is about
three to four stories high.

Yeah, might be worth a try.

What do you guys think?

It better be [bleep] loaded
if you make me go outside.

[bleep] it.
Let's [bleep] do it.

Okay.

Team Titan. Let's go.

[Felipe] Yeah! Team Titan!

[Jake] Off-load's coming,
cannery's closing.

Everything's happened
really fast now.

I was supposed to deliver
four days from now.

If I don't get this crab
to the dock soon,

we're all screwed
and I'll be out of a job.

The owners are very serious

about having me
under scrutiny.

This is strictly
a trial basis.

I don't really have
an option there.

I'm only as good
as my last haul.

Now we're in



so we'll go out
and we'll just try it
one pot at a time.

All right,
so how it's gonna work,

you guys are gonna
stay up forward,

I'll hit the buzzer
when I'm next to the pot

I'll buzz you
when I get there.

It's a big chance
to get hurt right now,

so everybody have to get safe.

[Jake speaking]

Here we go.

[buzzer beeps]

Come on, come on, get it.

Get it, get it, get it.

[deckhand] All right,
let's roll!

[Jake] Okay,
he got it into the block.

This is [bleep] up, dude.

Look at this [bleep]
right here.

[bleep] Nasty out.

Let's see what we get.

[deckhand] No.

[bleep] Not enough
to even feed a family.

Where's the crab, Unkie?

[deckhands exclaiming]

[Jake] This weather
is not cooperating. It is bad.

Oh, my God.

I can't even hold
the [bleep] boat
up against it.

Here comes one right now.

Oh, [bleep],
a big [bleep] roller!

[deckhands shouting]

Watch out!

[deckhand exclaiming]

[narrator] On the
Titan Explorer...

[deckhands shouting]

Watch out!

-[deckhands yelling]
-[bleep]

[Jake speaking]

Watch out,
throw the shot over!

[bleep]

[bleep]

[Felipe] Try to [bleep]
haul [bleep] fast. You see?

I [bleep] took a wave
and the [bleep] pot
[bleep] went over.

[Felipe speaking]

It slid right out of the dogs.
That's how big a roll it was.

All right, that's it.
[bleep] we're done.

Everybody upstairs!
Go, go, go.

[Jake] I was
pushing them too hard.

Just gonna have to sit out
for however long it takes.

But I still have
a delivery date
I have to make it to

and right now,
I'm gonna shut down
for few hours

and start when we can.

But that was a close call.

[narrator] 90 miles north
on the western bairdi crab
grounds...

[deckhand] Show me the money.

What is this?

Damn it.

It's not what we [bleep]
wanted to see.

[narrator] Aboard the
Wizard...

That's no good, man.

You know, my brother left
with his medical issues,

and we're out here
going it alone.

[deckhand] First pot sucked.

Two!

[Monte speaking]

Two [bleep] crab. [bleep]

We need to be pulling 50s.
Twos ain't gonna cut it.

[Monte] One spot
that's basically
a circular zone,

a black hole,
it is really defined

and quite a bit deeper
than everything around it.

We're gonna try
something a little hairy,

then that's what
we're gonna do.

[narrator] Five days
after Keith Colburn suffered

a transient ischemic attack,

also known as a stroke,

brother Monte st*lks
his final 18,000 pounds
of crab in the one place

out of the fleet's reach.

A steep bank
surrounding
an underwater basin.

[line ringing]

-[line ringing]
-Come on, bro.

[Keith speaking]

Hello, how are you?

[Keith] I'm...
Yeah, I'm still having
lots of tests done, but, um...

[Monte] Well,
last couple strings
have been really bad.

You know,
the black hole is below me.
I don't know.

[Keith speaking]

I get it.

I'm just not sure
what to do here, you know--

[Keith speaking]

Okay. I'm gonna let you go.
I'll get back to you.

[Keith speaking]

-All right. Bye.
-[Keith] Bye.

You know, I get it.

And I know it's not
what my brother would do
or recommend,

but I don't think
I have a choice.

[deckhand] Roger.

These pots have gotta go over,
like, right when I beep.

[deckhand] Okay.

[Monte] I'm gonna
make a turn here.

We got 99 fathoms
of line on the gear,

but we're gonna get 'em
down into 90 in this bank.

It's about like this,

and we're gonna try
to pop 'em off
along that edge.

[buzzer beeps]

[buzzer beeps twice]

Come on.

[buzzer beeps twice]

[deckhand] Going over!

[bleep] Damn it!

It looks like it went over
too [bleep] deep.

[deckhand groans]

I'm gonna wheel around here.

Yeah, rog.

[Monte]
We're running out of time.
I know that.

We gotta get this pot
before it gets to the bottom
of that hole.

[Monte speaking]

[deckhand speaking]

[Monte speaking]

Let's go!

[deckhand speaking]

Right on.

Whoo!

[Monte speaking]

going back
along this edge here,

so when I honk,
go ahead and be ready,

Yeah, roger!

[buzzer honks]

Go, go, go.

Whoo!

Hopefully we get these back,
and even more importantly,

[narrator] 106 miles southwest

on the golden
king crab grounds...

Aboard the Time Bandit...

[Johnathan speaking]

[Neal] We had to come over
and check this out

'cause we used to fish
opies down here

and we'd find golden crab

hanging on the back of pots.

About 125, 128 fathoms.

He's been wanting to do that
for three years

since we've been
coming out here,

Neal's been wanting
to go there.

"Got to go over there,
got to go over there."

We need another real big hit.

We're just out of time,

so we just gotta
get through this gear
and go to town and off-load.

I don't want that pressure.
I'll leave it to you, Johnny.

[Johnathan] Nope,
it's all you, brother.

It's your set.

[deckhand] Oh! Whoo!

I don't need that pressure.
I got enough pressure.

[narrator] Approaching
two strings
set by brother Neal,

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand
looks to a deep 800-foot bank

showered
in heavily baited pots

for their final 11,000 pounds

of golden king crab.

[Neal] Okay. First pot.

[deckhand] Whoo!

I hope this works.
You may have been lucky, no?

You gotta finish
this trip up right.

[man] Time Bandit, baby!

Come on, baby!

[Neal] Come on, come on.

[deckhand] Oh,
welcome aboard, big boy.

-What's the deal?
-This one's full of crab.

-Whoo!
-[Johnathan] That one's
a good one. That's a good one.

[deckhand] Welcome aboard.

-[Johnathan] Those
are big crab.
-That's good.

That's a good pot, guys.

Yeah!

[man whooping]

Four, five, six, seven, eight.

One-four!

-[Johnathan] Whoo-hoo.
-[deckhand] One-four!

[Neal] Next pot.

The hair's
standing on my neck.

[deckhand] Come on.
Another big pot.
Oh, yeah, baby!

There it is.

Guys. Look at that one.

What the
bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep.

Neal, you did it!

Thirty-one!

Whoo-hoo.

My brother. My brother.

Oh!

-Whoo!
-Whoo!

[Johnathan speaking]

[all exclaiming, cheering]

[deckhand speaking]

Okay. [bleep] Okay, thanks.

Neal, the tank's slack, dude.

Tank's slack.

Slack tank means
the pump's not running

and the crab are not getting
the water they need.

And then it starts kicking
the [bleep] out of them
like a washing machine

and you just crush
all your crab up.

If we lose this crab pump,
we're gonna lose everything.

We're gonna k*ll all our crab.

[narrator] On the
Time Bandit...

Neal's running down.

[Neal speaking]

It's still full, right?

[Neal speaking]

There it goes, back on.

There we go.

Now we got it.

How's everything
going down there, Neal?

[Johnathan] Perfect.

It must be either a short
or a bad leg.

[Johnathan] When we get
to Dutch

we'll fix everything.

But for now, we've just gotta
keep that crab pump running

until we get to town.

Back in action.

[man] Come to Papa!

[Johnathan] We're almost done.

I just got to keep
hauling gear.

I need 1800 more crab.

Got to keep that
damn crab pump running.

So we'll see.

[narrator] 50 miles west,

on the golden king
crab grounds...

[Sig speaking on radio]

[man 1] Roger!

[narrator] Aboard the
Northwestern...





[Sig on radio]

When I say go, you gotta go.

Okay, well,

we're ready
to start setting here.

Clark had an idea.

Basically take some
of the pots, strip them,

and then,
we've got extra line,

we can add to
some of our other gear

so we can go deeper.

Hopefully, if we
get down to like 220,

that's going to be
an even better spot than 190.

I mean, it just
stands to reason,

that all our crab
came from deep,

might as well try a little
deeper and see what happens.

He's really looking for
that big banger, you know?

That big hit.

And I don't blame him.

But the negative side is,

you've got a lot
of pots on deck

that aren't fishing for you.

So, if it fails,
you're losing a lot more time.

You just gotta work harder

to get back what you would
have had in the first place.

So you're taking a big risk.

[Sig on radio] Okay.

I'm just gonna be looking
at the meter,

so I'm not worried about
you guys so much.

[Clark] Roger!

[Sig on radio]

[man yelling] Going over!

Yeah!

That's a lot
of line. [laughing]

These are going
over 1200 feet down,

so they're deep.

[man yelling] Whoo!

Yeah!

I wish I had more line.

It's not the way you want
things to be, but that's life.

[man] Going over!

We're just going to keep
setting these pots over

in that same depth.

Hopefully it will pay off.

Yeah. There you go!

Yeah, whoo, good game!

[Sig] We'll see.

[narrator]


[Jake] We got


And then we've got
eight left to get.

So we've got to catch up
for all that lost time.

You guys have been laying
in your bunk for a while.

You might want to do
some stretches,

some jumping jacks,

Everybody look good
and feel good?

Shyanne, you look like

you could use
another 48 hours off.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

[narrator] Aboard the
Titan Explorer...

[sighs] Oh.

Got one more shot
to get through this gear

before I off-load.

This season
is just [bleep] just...

[bleep] sucks.

every [bleep] part of [bleep]
about it [bleep].

I don't own this boat.

I'm just a hired g*n.

And I've got to deliver
if I want to keep my job.

That's, that's a fact, Jack.

[exhales]

I was trying to jog
and wait the weather out.

But that's not gonna happen.

So,

back to work.

We've got to try.

We've got a quota to fill.

We're [bleep] crazy, man.

This is our [bleep] job.

They've got to turn on it
on the last second,

which is gonna expose them.

Well, we're in it now.

[clanking]

[man screaming gleefully]

Come on!

[man] Woo-hoo!

[bleep] take that all day.

[man] Yeah.

Whoo!





That's the first pot.

So let's see what's in
the second and the third.

It's getting bad.

I'm having a hell of a time
trying to fight

to just keep
the boat straight.

Oh, come on, turn [bleep]!

Watch the rail!

[narrator] On the
Titan Explorer...

Watch the rail!

[man 1] What the [bleep].

You guys okay?

It's nasty out, man!

[clicks]

[bleep] Man!

I have a double jacket
and I'm still wet,

all the way to my... pants!

Nobody got taken out.

But Chino got wet,

Shyanne got...
They all got wet.

Every single one of them.

Just blasted.

I think it's nap time.
This is [bleep]...

[Jake] Yeah!

Okay, here we go.

All right, let's see
what we got.

It's starting to pay off now.

Right on!

[Jake] 74!

I'll take it!

And I'll take it again
and again as long...

As long as I keep getting it,
we'll be okay.

Roger that.

I'm gonna set these
right back here.

Strike while the iron's
[bleep] hot.

[narrator]


on the golden king
crab grounds...

You guys ready?

[narrator]
Aboard the Northwestern...

[man 1] Yep.

All right. Just be careful.

Roger!

Well, my son-in-law, Clark,

wanted to fish
in the deep hole.

And I get it.
All the signs lead deep.

But hopefully,
there's a payoff here.

We could either be
in a total desert,

or we could drop on the,
you know, main pile of...

[Sig] The first one
is coming up.

Roger.

[Sig] If we hit something big,
We're gonna save time,

we're going to save
fuel and money.

If we fail, well...

...we have nothing
to show for it,

because we have to
go home in three days.

Whoo!

[yelling] Catch some crab!

[Sig] Fishing like this

is some of the deepest
I've been into.

Sometimes, you know,
you just roll the dice.

If you hit 'em, you hit 'em.

-[man 1 laughing]
-[Clark] Yeah!

[Sig] Pot's coming up here.

It's a lot!

[all cheering]

[bleep]

[laughing]

[Clark] All big!

[man]
Put them in the tank.



[Sig] All right.

Maybe Clark's
instincts were right.

Or maybe he just wanted
to go home so bad,

he's willing them in the pot.
[laughing]

Oh, yeah!

Look at the size
of these beauties!

[yelling] Yeah! Let's go!

Yeah! [laughing]

-[man 1] Oh, yeah!
-[man 2 cheering]

Biggest one yet!

That's what we want
right there.

[Clark]
Whoo, I told you!

Give me the dice,
I'll roll 'em.

Well, it was worth
stealing some line

off those other pots.

No question about it.

[man] Going over!

All right, first one's over.

[Clark yelling]

[Sig] So we're going to
stay on that edge,

and just run them out
back and forth, same depth,

let the gear soak.

Knock on wood,

we can find some crab

and get this thing
over with...

...safely!

[narrator]


[Monte speaking over radio]

[man] Roger.

[narrator]
Aboard the Wizard...

We haven't been
doing very good here,

so we've taken some gear
and ran it down here deep,

around the black hole,
hopefully not in it...

in an effort to try to
finish this thing off here.

But this is gonna be a battle.

I can just feel it.

Pretty risky setting
all of her gear on the ledge,

but high risk, high reward.

[Monte speaking on radio]

[Cody] Here we go.

Get them, boys!

[man 2 cheering]

[Cody] Okay, coming at you.

Come on, baby.
Let's get a couple here.

Every one counts.

-[Cody] Let's go, baby.
Big crab!
-[man 2] Come on!

[Monte on radio] Coming up!

[Cody] Whoo!

That's what
we're talking about.

Oh, [bleep] right on.

Looking good!

Now we're talking.

[Cody] Like that?

Plenty more where
that came from. Yeah!



Boy, did we ever need that.

Those add up real nice.

Next one here.

I'm having a hard time
finding these pots.

Should be
right in front of me.

Yeah, this one's not
where it's supposed to be.

It's obviously deeper
than we thought.

But, it can't be
that [bleep] far away.

Oh-oh!

Yeah, roger.

My brother told me

not to set the pots
down here, straight up.

Do not do it.

And I did it anyway.

Went over it
a little too deep,

which is nobody's fault
but my own.

So now it's on me
to get it back.

Can you untie that, please?

So we've got a drag hook.

What we can do is,
tie a shot of line on it.

[both grunting]

You throw it in the ocean
and you do circles

around the mark
where the pot is,

and you'll know if you'll
get a hold of it,

because it will stretch out.

We're ready.

[Monte] Okay, go ahead
and throw it over.

[Cody] Let her go.

[Monte] Let's see
what happens.

[Jake] Let me see that.

There's no sand fleas
in there!

Damn!

Are those sand fleas?

[squelching]

Kinda.

[Jake] Little bit?

Yeah, it's more than
just a little bit.

This would make a good soup.

No way!

[all gagging, vomiting]

[coughing]

That was pretty bad.

[laughing]

That's horrible.

It...

That's the most disgusting
thing I've ever done.

[narrator] They say
variety is the spice of life,

but some spices,
like maybe sand fleas,

better left off the menu.

Aboard the Wizard...

We're ready.

Okay. Go ahead
and throw it over.

Let her go.

[splashing]

Okay. I'm gonna
do some circling here.

[man] Roger.

[seagulls squawking]

[Monte] Still coming around.

You know, there's just
a lot going on

in order to
actually turn the boat,

tow that device
across the buoy line

to where it grabs it.

It's really hard to do.

But I mean,
we're gonna have to try it.

Okay, go ahead
and bring her up.

Let's see if we...
if we got anything.

Looks like we got it.

-Oh, yeah.
-[man 1] Oh, yeah, baby!

[all cheering]

We got it.

[man]
I'm coming here, hold on.

[man 1] Hold on,
bring it back!

[Monte] Okay. Come on, baby.

Coming aboard!

Okay, coming up.

All right.
We got that [bleep].

Wow.

You guys are awesome.
That was [bleep] badass.

It's hard to believe
we actually pulled that off.

And... [bleep]

[Monte] All right. Give me
a count on that pot.


at the black hole.

Right on. We can
erase that mark.

Those are some of the better
scores that we've had.

You know, those crabs
are gonna make

a big difference in us
getting what we need.

Trying to get through it,

hopefully to
finish strong here.

The tank went slack
and Neal fixed it down there.

But he's got to keep
that damn crab pump running.

We're living on a prayer here.

This is no way to crab fish.

Coming, they're coming!

Coming hot!

Oh, no.

Stack it.

This sucks.

-Ay, ay, ay!
-[man] Damn it.

[clanking]

All right, dropped off
to nothing at the very top.

We really need another
$100,000 of crab on board

to make this thing all work.

This ain't gonna do it.

I gotta pick them up.

And I gotta find a place,
stretch them out. So...

Hopefully, we'll
run into something.

Don't come easy out here.
Nothing comes easy.

[Jake] Watch out!
Watch out! Here comes one.

Everybody's been working
for over 24 hours.

They want to be done,
they want to eat.

They want to be dry,
they want to be warm,

they want to sleep.

Mmm, no.

You can't [bleep] think about
that [bleep] right now.

[grunting] Oh! Stack her.

[Jake] Despite
my best efforts,

these pots just are not good.

This season is just [bleep].
Just [bleep] sucks.

Every [bleep] part of
[bleep] about it.

We have to get this crab
caught as quickly as possible

or we don't make money.

[man 1] Coming aboard!

I just want to let you know
we are headed in.

Well, we have 26 thousand
eight hundred something.

[all cheering]

They're big!

There you go!

-[man 1] Let's go!
-[man 2] Whoo!

[man] Whoo!

Pretty good pot.

[Monte] All right.
Talk to you later. Bye.

[men cheering]

You know, I can't remember
the last time I was
this happy

to be heading
into Dutch Harbor.

[bleep], yeah, baby!

Yeah!

Oh, yeah!

Bring the money! Let's go!

That's beautiful.

Big keepers!

Well, we're getting
close to our quota,

I just need to get
the string up

and get into town.

We've got babies on the way.

We gotta get Clark home here.

[man] Hitch her on.

And here's the next one.

All right.

What the?

[bleep]

[narrator] Next time,
on the season finale...

[Sig] That pot
still in the block?

[Clark] Yeah!

Get the pot secured.

Let me think. Let me think.

The weather is going
on the side,

and these are 20-foot seas.

Watch the rail.
Watch the rail!

[men grunting]

k*ller whale.

[Jonathan]
Tryin' to crab fish!

Look at that!