21x05 - The Ship's Bell Tolls

[bunniefuu]

[tense music playing]

[waves crashing]

This is one of the most
dangerous places to be

on the planet.

I've lost so many friends
out here, it's scary.

[waves crashing]

[tense music playing]

Every time we lose someone,
it's a reminder that

life's precious.
It's unpredictable.

And we don't know
when it's gonna stop.

We honor our shipmate...

and we toll the bell

to mark the end
of his final watch.

[bell tolls]

They are here.

Getting them out of there,
that's the problem.

[bell tolls]

[Rick] Over a quarter
million dollars of crab,

with a slack tank in a storm.

-[bleep]
-[bell tolls]

[Keith] Half my gear
is saying, "Set."

The other half is saying,

"Get the hell out of here."

-Monte!
-I'm trying to hold
the [bleep] gear!

[bell tolls]

[Rick] Right?
Uh-oh.

[thud]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

[bell tolls]

[waves crashing]

He was my hero.

[Keith] You don't know
when you're gonna get hit.

[Jake] Dump it!

Keith] But that's part
of being in this fishery.

[bell tolls]

You got to take it.

[Jake] I love you!

[waves crashing]

[Jake] Come on now!

[waves crashing]

Pot coming up!

[waves crashing]

Whoo!

[Jake]
Here comes our first pot.

What have we got?
What have we got?

[mechanical sounds]

No bueno.

[metal clanking]

[Jake sighs]

[bleep]

[metal clanking]

[deckhand speaking]

[thud]

[metal clanking]

[Jake]
I'm still way out west.

I need 3,000 crab
through four strings.

But I don't see much in it.

[phone vibrating]

Uncle John.

[John] What's going on?

[Jake]
Ah, it's going.

[John] I just wanna
check in on you.

[dramatic music playing]

[Jake] Yeah, it's been a lot
harder than I thought, you know?

[Jake] Yeah.

[John speaking]

Yeah, it means a lot,
Uncle John.

Trying to figure out,
you know, how to...

pay tribute to him out here.

[Jake]
Yeah, he would.

[Jake] I will.

[John speaking]

[Jake]
OK, bye bye.

[deckhand speaking]

[Jake sighs]

So that was my uncle John.
That was Nick Mavar's brother.

Hey, Jake!
We gotta go discuss some stuff.

We're gonna go just hang out.

[Jake] Uncle Nick died
of a heart attack

in Bristol Bay, Alaska,

June 13th.

On my son Cadence's birthday,

while we were eating cake.

Lost a lot of people,
but you don't think

it's gonna happen to you.

[Jake] My uncle Nick
pulled me out of

the murky waters
of addiction.

He gave me this job
that I have now, crabbing.

-[Nick] You excited?
-[Jake] Yeah, what do I do?

It's the biggest gift
that I've ever been given.

I was so miserable.

And my uncle Nick...

picked me up
and helped save my life.

[dramatic music playing]

What I need to do to make
that tribute the best that I can

to get on big, clean crab.

It's starting to fall off.

I think I'm gonna have
to make a big move.

There's a canyon right here

to the Northeast,



And these canyons are basically
veins where the crab crawl in

to hide from the tides
and currents.

[suspenseful music playing]

But I only have
four or five days left,

or risk missing my offload.

I don't know.

[suspenseful music playing]

[waves crashing]

[whirring]

Oh, that sucks!

[Sig] No!

Damn it!

[Sig]
That's not gonna do it.

It's just...

not good.

[suspenseful music playing]

All right, next one's coming up.

[metal clanking]

There you go!

-There we go.
-[man laughing]

It's getting better!

Oh, yeah.

[suspenseful music playing]

[sighs]

It's all in.

I -- I wanna jump up and down
and be happy,

but the reality is, the last one
was like single digits or teens.

Let's go!

It's just so spotty.
It's like it comes up and down.

[clanking]

[whirring]

Oh!

Did it snap?

Yeah.
Just above the bridle.

Something's going on down there.

It's interesting, like,
so far in the string,

you know, I can see
there's a drop.

It's almost like a ledge.

On the top,
it's like in the teens.

The bottom, we're seeing
like 30s and 40s.

It's probably chafing
right on that edge.

Every time I lose a pot,
it's...[bleep]

They're about 2,500 bucks
nowadays.

[Jake speaking]

Is that you, Jake?

[Jake speaking]

[Sig speaking]

It's going.

Not very much.

Yeah, I just really wanted
to call and...

see how you guys were doing.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

No, I know.
It's that time of the year.

I'm missing him.

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out
when to do the memorial,

'cause I'm struggling
right now to catch crab.

[Sig speaking]

Yeah, roger.

Hopefully, he'll shine
a little light down on me.

I'm gonna let you know

when I do something
for Uncle Nick.

Let us know what you want.
We're there.

All right, later.

[waves crashing]

[Sig] Every season,

Nick's birthday was always
King Crab season.

He spent a couple
of decades here, at least.

[Nick] Ah!

[Sig speaking]

Can you breathe out of it?

[Nick] Yeah.

Could've been worse.

It's getting a little sortier.

You're talking loyalty,
and you're talking family.

That's what he became.

Yeah!

Well, you look at it,
you'd be smiling, too.

Yeah!

Good, more king!

Nice.

[Sig] You know, he always
had my back,

and he never ran for crab.

I mean, they are here,

and I think it's right
on that edge.

But I don't wanna fish
around there, snappin' gear.

[tense music playing]

Clark, you wanna come up here?

[Clark] Roger!

Nope.

It's -- there's a ridge here.
Pot's here, right?

But we can't get the pot up

without snapping them
off here, right?

-[Clark] Chafing.
-[Sig] It chafes.

[Clark] Mm-hmm.

[Sig] We need something heavy,

a weight to pull it at an angle.

Like a 90-degree
would be the best.

[Clark]
Like a counterweight.

Yeah, because once
you start pulling up,

then this will automatically
start coming out.

This would keep tension off
of that ledge.

[Sig] So what do you
wanna do for a weight?

Something.

I mean, you had me put
those two junk pods on top.

We don't have
enough of them, do we?

I don't think you need
to use the full pot.

We might be able
to cut them in half.

-[Sig] In theory.
-[Clark] Yeah.

Yeah.

All right,
we'll bring them down.

OK.

[tense music playing]

[Sig] Anything just to keep
the line away from that ridge.

I mean, we were seeing


It's a lot of money.

But the last thing I wanna do
is go backwards.

[tense music playing]

[Keith]
Coming in, coming in.

[waves crashing]

[Monte]
Holy [bleep]!

Look at that, boys!

All right, it's got something.
It's got something.

[Monte] All right,
now we're fishing.

[deckhand]
Yeah!

[deckhand #2]
All right!

[exhilarating music playing]

[deckhand speaking]

Five-five, right on.

[grunting]
Yes!

[pumping grunts]

I'll take that all day.

[Keith speaking]

[OJ] Roger.

[exhilarating music playing]

Absolutely awesome.

Have an offload
in a few days.

We've got 40,000 pounds
to put on this boat.

So...

we're kind of betting
the farm on this set.

[whirring]

[deckhand]
All right, here we go.

[exhilarating music playing]

That one doesn't look too good.

[deckhand]
Oh.

[Keith speaking]

[puff of steam]

This is not making any sense.

All right.

You know what, look,
now you sit here for a second.

[Monte] OK.

[waves crashing]

[Tyler speaking]

[Keith]
You [bleep] kidding me?

We're baiting gear
with old bait.

[tense music playing]

Totally [bleep] [indistinct].

No old bait goes in the pot!

[Keith] They're taking the fresh
codfish and they're putting it

right on top of the old fish.

I mean, why do you think some
of our pots are

so [bleep] out of whack
right now?

Well, I would be the one to bet
that there's no [bleep] fish

up there that's [bleep] more
than a day or two old,
at the most.

[Keith speaking]

OK, OK, I'm not gonna argue
with you about today.

[Keith speaking]

[puff of steam]

OK, I'm just gonna sit here,
let's --

[Keith speaking]

-Let's regroup.
-[Keith] Monte!

I'm trying to hold
the [bleep] gear.

[Keith]
Don't ever [bleep] do
that to me again.

[Monte]
I'm trying to [bleep]
talk to the crew,

and you're yelling at me.

-[Keith] Mouse?
-[bleep]

Oh, I'm so sorry
that I'm right.

[waves crashing]

[Keith]
Mouse, we can't afford to have
pots come up with 12 crab in it.

Two pots earlier,
we got one at 70 or 80.

Dude, I'm not talking to you
in front of the crew --

No, I'm not answering you --

I'm not arguing with you
about the [bleep] fish.

Did they get the fish
in the wrong bins?

[bleep] probably!

-I would not be surprised.
-[Keith] Probably?

[tense music playing]

[waves crashing]

[phone vibrating]

[Jake speaking]

[Keith] Hey, Jake, hey,

you're catching me
at a bad time right now,

because I got so much
bull-[bleep]

on this boat right now,

I can barely breathe.

[Jake speaking]

Oh, no, you got me in a --
in a choice moment.

[Jake speaking]

[Keith] I've known
the Mavar family forever, uh...

I was pretty heart-broke
when I found out

that he had passed away
up there.

[Jake speaking]

[Keith] Well, if you're gonna do
a tribute for Nick, let me --

don't do it without me.
OK, Jake?

[Keith] All right,
I'm gonna get going.

All right.
OK.

-[Jake] OK.
-Talk to you soon, man.

-[Jake] OK.
-[Keith] All right, bye.

[Keith]
Oh, God.

[bleep]

[sighs]

We gotta work together
to try and get it right.

Yeah, there's a lot of things
that are more important.

[Keith] No question about it.

You know?

If we get good bait in the pots
and we send them back,

we can catch the crab we need.

OK, so this is
what we have to do.

...can get this over with.

[deckhand]
Roger.

Gear's baited properly.
We'll get what we need.

[suspenseful music playing]

[tense music playing]

All right you guys,
bags are on the bow.

Let's get ready to rock.

[Noah speaking]

[waves crashing]

[Sophia] The weather's
been picking up.

I definitely notice
that the boat is being

a little more sluggish.

[waves crashing]

This isn't a good situation.

We got the storm brewing...

and we got 35,000 pounds
we gotta pick up.

-Oh, yeah.
-[deckhand #2] Oh, OK.

There we go.

[triumphant music playing]

[deckhand speaking]

[Sophia] 25.


[rumble]

Do you feel that?

[Rick]
Yeah, what was that?

[Sophia speaking]

[rumble]

[Rick]
What the hell?

[Noah speaking]

[Rick] Hey, Bob, let me hop
in there, real quick.

Hey, what's up, Noah?

-I gotta go check tank three.
-Do it, do it.

Oh [bleep].

[Noah speaking]

It went slack.

Over a quarter million dollars
of crab in there

with a slack [bleep] tank
in a storm.

[waves crashing]

Hey, Nico, how far
down is tank three?

[Nico speaking]

[bleep]

[tense music playing]

Slack tanks in bad weather
with crab in there,

that's how you k*ll crab.

You start getting
that water movement,

and those crab are slamming
back and forth up against

the frickin' walls.

-Hey, Bob, you wanna drive?
-Yes, sir.

[tense music playing]

[Sophia] There's 11,000 pounds
of crab in that half tank,

and if it dies, it's gonna be
a real frickin' problem.

So we need to get water
in that tank pronto.

[loud machinery humming]

No.

Freaking tripped the breaker
for some damn reason.

-[Sophia] Pump still working?
-Yeah, it's working.

We got the breaker reset
for the crab pump,

but I don't know
how long it's gonna last.

If we had a slack tank
for an extended amount of time,

this tank could have hundreds
of thousands of dollars

of dead crab.

So dead loss is
a huge concern right now.

Let me hop in here.

All yours, boss.

[Rick] All right, guys.
We're calling it quits.

We're heading into offload,
we gotta...

Roger.

This is not good.

This is frickin' not good.

[waves crashing]

This is my uncle Nick.

His ashes are in here.

Can't start --

can't start without him.

All right, guys,
let's get ready to set.

-Roger.
-[deckhand #2] Coming.

Whoo-hoo!

[metal clanking]

All right.

Where we came from,
I lost track of them.

I'm assuming these crab
are going into this canyon.

And so what I did was I ran up,
you know, above them



I figured they were gonna be
moving this way.

[metal clanking]

[grunting]

[deckhand laughs]

I need at least
a 40 average to finish up.

Hopefully, I got a little bit
of my uncle Nick in me

to know what's
on the bottom there.

Going over.

-[waves crashing]
-Do it boys.

[deckhand #2]
Let's go, let's go.

Hurry up!

I'm proud to be his nephew.

[waves crashing]

[Sig]
There is a ledge here.

I'm kinda hovering over the top.

Every time it gets deeper,

you get crab.

[metal clanking]

Our objective is not to lose
the pots on that ledge,

you know, or that edge.

You know, we've already
torn off a couple of pots

by pulling straight up.

We need to pull it out
at an angle.

So to do that, we're gonna have
to get an anchor pot here,

chopped up pot
that they're using.

And once that starts coming up,

then that'll pull it
more at a 90.

So use the currents
and tides to get it in,

and use a weight
to pull them out.

[waves crashing]

I think we should dedicate
this one to Mavar.

[Clark] Let's do it.

[Sig speaking]

[Clark] Yeah.

[Sig speaking]

So this is five knots.

[suspenseful music playing]

A little faster.

So the more momentum,
the farther we can get that pot

to kind of glide into position.

[waves crashing]

Seven.

All right, for Nick!
Let's go!

[metal clanking]

Set.

[indistinct speaking]

[Clark] Yeah.

[Sig] Nick would love this.
What we're doing right now.

We spent a couple of decades
here, and he was hungry.

He was always pushing
for more and more.

He wouldn't leave, I know that.

[suspenseful music playing]

[whirring]

Hey, Bountiful,
you got me on here?

[Bobby speaking]

Guys are getting
the aft tank ready.

We'll be offloading
that one to you.

[Bobby speaking]

[Rick]
Roger that.

Last season,
we bought the Bountiful.

This massive catcher processor.

[Noah]
Roger!

[waves crashing]

[tense music playing]

[Rick] These crab have been
through a lot.

We had a slack tank.

The pump tripped the breaker.

And yeah, we got it running,

but I might have dead crab.

Here comes the Bountiful.

Ready!

I got it,
watch out, watch out.

I got it, I got it,
I got it, I got it.

[waves crashing]

[Rick] Careful!

Right here?

Come on.

[deckhand #2]
Put that all the way up there.

Yeah, rog.

[Rick] Watch the rail.

[loud, metallic groaning]

[Sophia] Whoa!

[Rick] Uh-oh.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

[bleep]!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

[deckhand #2]
Holy [bleep].

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

[deckhand 2]
Holy [bleep]!

[thunderous clanking]

[tense music playing]

[Rick] That stern,
is it gonna be all right?

-[deckhand speaking]
-[Rick] OK.

Good old bags.
That's what they're for.

[tense music playing]

[Sophia speaking]

But nobody got hurt.
That's all we can ask for.

[Rick] Never a dull moment
on the Bering Sea.

That is for sure.

We got a little bit of paint off
of both of us.

But trying to do
something like this,

this isn't your normal offload.

And dead loss is
a huge concern right now.

Only time will tell.

You know, he's acting like some
of the fish is three days old

and the other fish is brand new.

Some of the fish
is 30 hours old,

and some the fish
is 18 hours old.

[bleep] stupid.

[waves crashing]

[Keith] Is that ours
off the bow?

-[Monte] Yup.
-[Keith] OK, got it.

[puff of steam]

[Monte] All right,
happy hauling.

[Keith] You know, sometimes
in the heat of the battle,

you don't have a chance
to actually say something.

And...you know,
the longer you're up here,

the longer you realize...

you're mortal.

And, you know, last year...

you know, that last season,
you got me to St. Paul.

Roger that.

-Scary times.
-And I've never thanked you.

But I can't thank you
enough times for what you do,

and especially
saving my life last year,

going above and beyond
the call of duty.

So, thank you.

No, give me a real hug, bro.

-Can't do it without you.
-All right.

-Take it easy now.
-[Keith] I know.

Don't worry.

OK, man.
Thank you.

[Monte] You're welcome.
Love you.

-Take a deep breath.
-[Keith] I am.

I don't say
"I love you" enough,

and I don't say "thank you"
enough to my brother.

I'm gonna try to start
remembering that.

[tense music playing]

[Keith speaking]

[suspenseful music playing]

We're seeing crab out west.

Set it back through this area.

Let's hope
they like this codfish.

That should help us.

[OJ speaking]

Please, I'm hoping
for a 40 average.

Come on, crab.
Come on, crab.

Come on, baby.

[all crew cheering]

-[indistinct shouting]
-Wow!

-Whoo-hoo!
-[grunting] -- right on!

[triumphant music playing]

[deckhand speaking]

Eight-five?
Right on.

[motor whirring]

[all deckhands] Whoo!

[Keith speaking]

What you got there, OJ?

[triumphant music playing]

[splashing]

[Keith] One-one-five.


That's 115 down in the bank.

You know, Monte
and I started fighting

as soon as we could stand up.

He and I bickered,
badgered, fight.

but if we can bolster
it with these counts,

we can catch the crab we need.

Whoo!

We got a Nick Mavar memorial
that we need to do.

[waves crashing]

We're getting close
to the next string.

Our objective is not to lose
the pots on that ledge.

[Clark] Hopefully it's gonna be
worth all the effort we put in

to add these weights to them

to try to keep the line
off that ledge.

I guess we'll know for sure
it's doing its job

if all the pots are here
and they don't snap off.

[waves crashing]

[deckhand speaking]

[suspenseful music playing]

He's watching over us.
I'm sure we'll get a lotta crab.

Come on, baby.

Come on, crabbies.

We haven't snapped the pot yet.

[metal clanking]

OK, it's in.

Come on, guys.
Be careful.

[metal clanking]

Gee, they got it through.
All right.

[waves crashing]

[suspenseful music playing]

But the key
is if there's crab in it.

Pot's coming up.

[Karl]
Oh, God!

All right.

OK.

[Keith speaking]

Unfortunately, my mohawk days
ended a long time ago.

Don't get crazy, OK?

[Keith] Yeah.

[Mia and Lynn speaking]

[Mia speaking]

[Sig] We're hoping to get
the pots out safely.

[waves crashing]

And get the crab that's in them.

If there's crab.

[electric whirring]

Come on, come on, come on.

-[cheering]
-Yes!

[laughs]
Big one!

[all deckhands cheering]

Yes!

Need a bigger table.

[splashing]



[laughing]
That's a lot of crab.

There's -- wait.

They got it.

Looks like we know
what's down there now, man.

That's beautiful.

Oh!

[laughing] That's great.

Oh, my God.

[Clark] [bleep] --
they're all big, too.

-[Sig speaking]
-[Clark] All big.

[triumphant music playing]

[Clark speaking]

Wow!

[metal clanking]

-[indistinct]
-Oh!

You know, Nick's giving us
some good luck.

Think what you will, man.
I know he's watching.

[waves crashing]

[solemn music playing]

[Jake] Come on, Uncle Nick.

Let's [bleep]
crush it -- [bleep].

First pot coming up.

Come on, Nicky.

[suspenseful music playing]

This is the area
we'll knock 'em dead, you know?

This is it, right here.

Come on, crab!

[all deckhands cheering]

Oh [bleep]!

-Yeah!
-[Jake speaking]

Yeah, Nick, yeah!

[clanking]

Yeah!

[Mac]
I'm [bleep] happy
on that, man.

[all deckhands cheering]

[laughs with excitement]

Yeah!
Yeah, baby!

That's right!

This is what
we're here for, baby.

[triumphant music playing]

[deckhand speaking]

Whoo-hoo!

Oh, my God.

It's just loaded.

[all deckhands cheering]

[clanking]

[triumphant music playing]

Money, money, money, baby.

Mwah!

Whoo!

This is awesome.
This is truly awesome.

[triumphant music playing]

[Sophia] That went well.

[Rick] Yeah,
weight was right on.

Yeah, not much dead loss,
which is good,

because that was the tank
I was the more --

[Jake] This is Jake Anderson
from the Titan Explorer.

And I don't know

a lot of people that knew

my relationship
with my Uncle Nick Mavar, but...

he took me
under his wing and...

ah...

he didn't just give me a job,
he gave me a new life.

[dramatic music playing]

Always tried to earn
the gift that he gave to me.

He was my hero.

[voice straining]
He was everything
I wanted to be.

[dramatic music playing]

If anybody wants to take
a moment or say a prayer,

my family would really
appreciate it.

[dramatic music playing]

No man has ever served
at sea without knowing

that each day could be his last.

We honor our shipmate,

Nick...

as we toll the bell

to mark the end
of his final watch.

[bell tolls]

He was on this boat
for over 20 years.

-He was family.
-[bell tolls]

You know, he was a fisherman,
inside and out.

[bell tolls]

[Jake] All right, Nicky,
thank you for my new life.

[nostalgic music playing]

[bell tolls]

Amen.

[bell tolls]

[Sig] Nickola!

Dump it!

-I love you, Nicky!
-Whoo!

I love you!

-Lock and out.
-Lock and out.

[dramatic chord playing]

Later, Nick.

[Keith] We're proud to serve
with you, beside you.

Light her up, guys.

[crackles and pops]

[emotional music playing]

[crackles and pops]

Whoo!

Whoa-h*-h*-h*-h*!

[Jake] I love you, Nick!

[triumphant music playing]

Look at that.



Can you freaking believe that?

[Sig] Nick, he's always been
kind of the go to guy for me,

so I think he just became
the go to guy for the crew.

He keeps me in good spirit.

-[triumphant music playing]
-Thanks.

His pot will rest forever
at the bottom

of the king crab grounds.

I think Uncle Nick
would've loved that.