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Standing by on 16.

Come on, Keith.

Phew, [bleep].

I don't know if they're in the water

or on the boat or they've made it all to the raft yet.

I'm not sure.

I don't know if they're gonna get there in time.

But right now...

uh, I don't know...

much more than where his last position was.

So we're gonna be the first ones there.

I have nothing else to go on.

Four hours ago, a toxic ammonia leak

on the fishing vessel Titan Explorer triggered

a cascade of system failures and a growing starboard list.

At risk of capsize, Captain Jake Anderson

and all eight souls aboard were forced to abandon ship.

It looks like we've got a good Samaritan coming as well.

Um...

But still, we're going to be the first ones there.

Let's go. Go, go, go!

Come on, OK, OK.

We're getting really close to where Jake's position was.

There's no lights on my horizon, though.

There's nothing up here.

Really, I don't know.

Give me a second.

Come on!

Wait a second.

I've got a target. I've got a target.

I've got something-- right on!

Yeah.

Anything whatsoever.

We should be getting a visual any minute now.

All right. OK, I got him, guys, I got him.

Titan Explorer, Wizard.

Pick me up!

Titan, Wizard?

Jake?

Do you pick me up?

That boat's still dead ship.

It's been four hours.

If you're smelling ammonia, let me know immediately, OK?

- No, I don't see anything. - The boat's just floating by itself.

There's not a single light on.

It's like a ghost ship.

Boat's got a pretty sizable list right now.

There's water spilling out of the tanks.

But... I don't see anything else.

No sign of the raft yet.

Keep your eyes peeled.

Roger that. Roger!

Nothing?

In four hours, that raft could be

five, six miles from here.

All right, we got it. All right.

I got it, I got the light now, guys-- thank you.

Roger!

Hey. Hello. What are you doing?

I don't see anyone.

See if you can hook that line.

There's a line hanging off it, OK?

Roger!

Hey! Hello!

Are you guys in there?

Hello!

Jake!

Come on, guys.

This [bleep] thing.

Yes!

We got one, two, three, four.

Where's Jake at?

Where's Jake?

Just get him in.

Give me some water. Give me some water, please.

Water, water.

Come by. Come by.

Give me a sec-- Hey! Do we have everybody?

- We have everybody? - OK.

Do we have everybody?

Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!

Relax!

Breathe.

Let's go get that oxygen, would you?

- How are you guys doing? - We're OK.

We're all right. Thank you.

We're OK.

Jake, Jake, look at me.

We got you guys.

That's all that matters right now, OK?

We got your team.

OK?

Thank you.

Oh, my God.

Phew...

I don't know what happened.

We got in the raft and tied it off, and then...

next thing you know, we're drifting out to sea.

My radio died.

What a ride! Holy cow.

What a ride!

We made it, though.

We're going back home.

Any vessels in the area?

Yeah!

Oh, thank God.

Amen.

Keith's got him.

Yeah.

All right...

Let's take a moment.

But the Titan's-- that boat's still dead ship.

It's gonna roll over at some point here pretty quick.

You might be able to board it.

All right, let's go get this boat.

40 miles north.

I'm just so happy they got him.

My heart was coming through my chest.

I love you, Sig Hansen, just so you know.

They could have died on that thing.

You're right.

Everything's dangerous.

They all watch out for each other.

I mean, you got to ask yourself if it's worth it once

in a while, you know?

I don't wanna be in that situation-- I just don't.

OK, let me get in there and let's haul these.

- OK, coming up, guys. - OK, Roger.

Give us some love. Love, love, love me, love me,

love me, love me, love me.

The Northwestern is just above us over here.

See that pinnacle up here?

We're finding just beautiful big crab.

We've got to get these pots

picked up so I can slam them back in here.

Pull that out. Pull that.

This one's got some crabbies in it.

We're gonna be pretty happy. Pretty darn happy.

After pulling up the largest red king crab

they've seen in decades,

captains Johnathan Hillstrand and Sig Hansen

approach 60 pots set around a large rock outcropping,

eager to offset the $20,000 in fuel needed

to steam two vessels to the western grounds.

Uh-oh!

That's not gonna work.

Just a little guy.

Yeah, no, no, no, no. We got to stack that one, guys.

That's not good.

Give me some love, baby.

Oh, my God. Let's stack it, guys.

We're on life support.

Blood pressure's dropping.

- We barely got a heartbeat here. - We got a heartbeat?

What are you talking about?

We're flatlining here, dude.

Seven!

Seven.

Get out the [bleep]

boom!

Come look at this. Come here.

Let's just go a little bit further west and try that.

That's a big pinnacle, I mean, there's probably crab

all around that.

Yeah, I just hate running from crab

when there's heavier tides or currents... - All right, so.

...they kind of hunker down.

But I do truly believe we got them in the right spot.

The reason why we came out here is to get these big numbers,

not grind fives and tens.

Maybe we just bump them over a little bit.

That way, we're not losing any time.

- We got to haul them anyway. - I'm not arguing with you.

OK.

And that's what we'll do. I'll agree with that.

- I'll leave you alone. - OK.

Ah, all right.

Ay, yay, yay, yay, yay.

I mean, that pinnacle's a lot like where we've been

seeing the crab.

I told Sig "I wouldn't go west," and I'm not gonna,

but, you know, Clark might want to go west.

Two miles north.

It's not looking very good to me.

On the Northwestern.

Oh, [bleep].

- Here we go. - What is it?

Hello?

Sig seems to be content here with it.

If you look on your plotter, there's a little spot,

an enterprising young man

Yeah, I'm picking up what you're putting down.

OK.

OK, I'm out.

I know.

You realize you see him at home, too, not just

on the boat. - I'll never hear the end of it.

Oh, God, what did I get myself into?

All right, dudes.

It's pretty snarly out here, right?

The Titan Explorer crew's all freaking abandoned ship.

So it's really serious [bleep].

You gotta really work in unison, work together.

All right.

All right. Stay safe there.

On the western grounds.

Oh, yeah, it's a blowing now,

it's starting to go.

You should go out west in the '80s, you know,

it used to be big.

I have so many fond memories.

My very best memory is right in this little gully.

You know, 45 years ago.

Right now...

we gotta get fishing.

We gotta get this stuff off this boat.

Get this season started.

Five days into the fall season, captain for hire

Steve Harley Davidson

brings 45,000 pounds of red king crab quota

to an unfamiliar vessel, the 101-foot Confidence.

Owner of the Pacific Mariner, Oiston,

There's, like, about a million dollars

worth of quota that I can catch.

And if I'm gonna go do that, I got to have a damn nice

platform to do it on.

To fish the west...

...owners outfitted the veteran skipper with an unproven crew

and a wild card.

53-year-old co-captain...

Hello?

James Gamberton.

Yeah.

Yeah, I heard he's getting tall.

Taller than her now.

It's hard to come and share a wheelhouse with somebody.

The dynamics sometimes don't match, but what I did hear

about James is that he used to drive aircraft carriers,

and my hat is off to anybody who can do that.

Come on, now.

Oh, that was my buddy.

Went by to check on my kids.

That's my little girl. Not so little anymore.

She's 19.

My son's gonna be 14 this May.

I'm doing this for them.

They're my everything.

Come on, dude.

What the hell?

I need some studs down there, man.

Oh, [bleep].

The hell was that?

What's going on down there?

Right now, we got to risk everything.

This whole operation with some four guys I just met

24 hours ago.

I can't afford to have anybody down.

We're just trying to get our job done.

90 miles southwest.

Roger that. Roger.

If you can't enter that engine without your eyes

watering and puking...

you can't go in. - Yeah.

All right, hold that line, there, all right?

If you can walk in there and breathe,

you can start everything up.

aboard the Wizard.

I have the front door open

and the reefer room door open...

to vent.

OK, then let's [bleep] get you over there.

After toxic ammonia gas made his boat uninhabitable,

Captain Jake and his crew prepare to return

to the listing Titan Explorer. - Gear these guys up.

To restart the generators and hopefully stabilize

the $4 million vessel.

Oh!

You only get three guys, plus you

in that skiff. - OK.

So we got OJ, you, and you can take two more guys,

and that's it, OK? - Yeah.

All right, let's roll.

- We're going back. - All right, Joe.

We got to get there. Pray to God, there's no ammonia.

Fire up the engines. Get the lights going.

Get the pumps going so we can reverse the list.

- Yeah. - [bleep] this is [bleep] up.

Joe, come on!

that is the indication that it's all clear, OK?

All right.

See you later.

- Hey OJ. - Yeah?

If it doesn't look good, don't let him try

and do anything stupid. - Roger.

Hopefully the ammonia is vented.

Hopefully it's safe on that boat.

All right.

Come on.

Go. Go.

We got a guy on the ladder now.

Pull up next to the boat, there, guys.

Come on, one at a time. One at a time.

OK, we got-- Jake's on the boat.

All right. Number two's on the ladder.

Come on, guys. Stay safe.

Stay safe.

Ugh, [bleep].

Go ahead and fire up the generator.

OK.

Whoo!

Yes!

Oh, yeah, nice.

Right on, guys. They got juice over there.

That's a good sign.

Oh, my God.

OK, Felipe, tanks are pressing.

I got you fine, Jake.

- How you doing? - Good.

Everything's working, we fired up without any problems.

I mean, there's a faint smell up forward, but there's nothing

in my wheelhouse, nothing downstairs

in the engine room.

The water's filling up the tanks right now,

so we're almost level here.

Why don't we tuck in, and I'll get the rest of my guys.

We're here.

Roger, yeah, I think once everything is copacetic,

I'll probably just idle real slow and just take probably

a night off.

Thank you and your crew.

All right, Jake, man. Anytime.

Ugh, [bleep].

40 miles north.

OK guys, last one.

Roger-- Roger that. Going over.

- Right now. - Best jump ever.

Whoo!

on the Time Bandit.

Well, we just finished bumping all our pots over here.

I mean, there was a little bit of crab out of these,

but just not doing it for us.

John kind of wanted to go look around a little bit more

for, uh, greener pastures, but it's also a big risk,

and it's a lot more time.

So hopefully crab will start perking later

when the tide turns around.

Northwestern, Time Bandit, you guys got me?

You on here, you got me?

I don't see anybody.

Where the hell are they?

- Yeah. - I don't see you on radar.

I don't see the AIS. Nothing. What happened to you guys?

I was talking with Johnathan.

West? That was never the plan, was it?

You don't get to gamble with my boat.

Going over!

It's one thing to be hungry.

It's another to be stupid and run around when people

don't know where you're at.

Even if it's wrong, we're going to die a slow death, I think,

where we're at right now. - I'm losing my mind right now.

It's just weird, man. This doesn't make sense.

- You don't wanna. - Are you serious?

- You sent the boat west? - We're out here one time.

We got one shot at this.

And I love the [bleep] out of you,

and I'll write you a check for fuel.

But yeah, I sent him out there.

And if I'm wrong, we'll just run back to the fleet

with our tail between our legs, and that'll be that.

But if we're right, load these boats up.

I hope you're right, John.

50 miles northeast.

aboard the Confidence.

Come on, turn. Turn!

Nothing like a little spray to make it easier.

It's squirrelly out here, you know, with this wind and tide.

You can't have this guy messing up.

He's got to frickin' hit it. We're a production.

Three days into an unplanned partnership

with James Gamberton...

There it is.

...Steve Harley Davidson guides his unproven co-captain

through violent 15-foot seas to the first pot

of the fall season.

Whoo! Whoo!

Harley laced a lot of pots in a small area.

Got them soaking on him right now.

I'm sure it'll pay off.

Come on, crabby.

Ah [bleep]

Hm.

- Damn it! - What is this crap?

- Right here. - Ah-ha, yeah, it looks small.

Maybe a little mix of juveniles, though, huh?

Whoa!

Definitely hoping for a little bit more than this, but...

No, this isn't the numbers we wanted.

We stacking these?

Yeah, I better, we can't really send them back.

Let me get out your way, Harley.

There we go.

Lay down.

Damn it.

The numbers are garbage.

- Seven. - How can it work for me?

Not looking so good.

We were kind of counting our chickens

before they hatched.

Come on, come on.

Come on.

Get out from underneath there.

[bleep] [bleep] [bleep]

- What's going on? - [bleep]

- Check the engine room. - All right [bleep].

Yeah, I lost my main, too.

James, what the [bleep] is going on?

There we go. The hell was that?

You got the pump?

Pump?

Got my engines back on.

What the hell is that? What was that about?

Well, when I cleaned the fuel system.

- Yeah? - The fuel valve was closed.

How would the fuel valve get closed?

I must have [bleep] up transferring fuel and didn't

open it back up, I guess.

I can't come out way the hell out here,

away from all the damn...

people in the world, and then my [bleep] starts bailing

on me 'cause of a closed valve.

It happens-- it's a [bleep] up.

I know that.

Just...

work with me, dude.

Let's just get back doing what we're doing and try to find

some [bleep] damn crab.

86 miles southwest...

Damn.

...in the southern portion of the western grounds.

Look at that.

Smashed it.

Wow, $10 piece could have cost us our lives.

There's packing in here.

The packing broke loose, I'm sure.

Releasing gas outward...

into the safety cap.

Pressure was too high?

Shot it off.

That's solid steel right there.

It'll kill you.

Not only that, the gas behind it'll kill you faster.

- Now we got to get back to work. - On the Titan Explorer.

You got me here, Keith?

It's weird.

I'm sitting here at the helm. Running the boat again.

Well, you know what?

The fact that you're still grinding out here, I got a lot

of respect for you. - Appreciate that.

Agreed!

Yeah.

I think with the gear you got on board,

just lace it right through here.

Roger, Roger.

All right. I'm gonna maintain course and speed, and then, um,

Sounds good. Keep me posted.

and let's get ready to set.

Yeah!

but we got to get back to work.

- Let's do it! - Let's just make some money, man.

We didn't die, and we're still fishing.

so that's a win-win.

You know, I've never pulled guys out of a raft before.

But still, I gotta focus without any distraction.

Get this gear in the water and catch the crab we need.

That's it, we're fishing again.

Going over.

I just hope our luck starts to change.

42 miles north...

Yeah, baby-- Whoo!

Damn home running, baby.

...on the Time Bandit.

Tide should be slacking out pretty soon.

Yeah, baby.

We dumped the gear back around that pinnacle.

Good job, baby. Good job.

Could be sitting on a good pile of crab...

assuming that the crab was still around.

Come on, baby.

With two boats and $38,000 invested in proving a king

biomass thrives in the West, Captain Johnathan approaches

80 pots set back by Sig against John's better judgment.

Hopefully we land on something.

Come on, baby! Come on, babe.

Hold on, baby, hold on.

Come on, baby.

Oh, no.

- Stacker. Stacker. - Stacking it!

Oh, man. You're killing me, Hansen.

I'm not gonna say, "I told you so," but I told you so.

And we're making it pay, you know.

I'm paying for all these empty pots.

Well, all right.

Why don't you go check in with your mole?

Yeah .

Coming hot, coming hot.

Hey, Northwestern. Clarkinator, the Clarkster.

Time Bandit, Northwestern.

Give me some good news, buddy.

- Let's go! Let's get some, baby! - Come on!

I got daggers looking at me from the other side

of the wheelhouse.

Moment of truth.

- Here we go. - Oh, man, I hope this works out.

This is it, man. This is it.

All right, so there's you, Andy, Neil.

There's three of you? Four brothers?

- David, Michael? - David?

Jeff, Eric, Ricky.

- Jeez. - There's eight.

- Eight brothers? - Eight.

There's David, Johnathan, Andy, Michael, Neil,

Ricky, Eric, Jeff.

- Jeez. - My poor mother just wanted a girl.

- Poor lady. - You can't even roll dice that bad.

One more boy, my dad could have had a baseball team.

This is it, man. This is it.

I got daggers looking at me from the other side

of the wheelhouse.

Oh, man, I hope this works out.

What we got? What we got?

Yeah! Whoo!

Ho ho ho! No way.

Whoo! Look at that.

Yeah, buddy.

Come on. Yeah.

How many?

- How many is in that one? - Eight. Zero.

Wow.

That's high pot, high pot of the season.

- That's pretty good. - Eight. Zero. Yeah.

No [bleep] 80 crab!

80. I told you. You love me now.

You trust me now.

set these back or... - Stay there.

- Yeah, stay there, dude. - Roger. All right.

- We'll talk to you guys. - OK, buddy.

We're on our way.

OK, boys, we're stacking up.

- Whoo! - Yeah!

Nice job, John. Go get some.

I know. Stick and stay.

Make it pay. I love that from you.

But no guts, no glory, too. No guts, no glory.

44 miles south.

Maybe 24 hours ago.

I don't even know.

I just wanna let you know that we're OK.

Everybody's OK.

I mean, I already have all my gear here.

Better get back to work.

I love you too.

Oh, [bleep] [bleep].

Damn, this job.

On the Titan Explorer.

Just about to haul this first pot.

It's a gamble.

So I'm hoping that we do land on him.

Keith, you got me?

Hey, I'm with you, man.

Roger.

This job is not easy.

I've got half my gear in the water.

Now we just gotta hope there's some crab here.

OK, here it comes.

Here we go, down there!

- Should be good. - Come on, baby.

Come on, baby.

Come on, crab.

Oh, yeah!

Whoo!

What do we got? What do we got? Oh, come on.

They see something. There's something on the top.

- Oh, yeah. Whoa! - Oh, I hear 'em.

God, yes, yeah!

Oh, my God. Look at that thing, dude.

- Whoa! - Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.

Yeah!

Here we go.

Yes, yes, yes

There's just nothing like holding a king crab pot

that's full like that.

- Six five. 65. - 65.

$6,000 sitting in that pot right there.

We did it, dude.

Oh, man. We earned it, man. We earned it.

I'm glad everything worked out OK.

Can you imagine if there hadn't been any crab in there?

And how crappy that would be?

Thanks again. I really appreciate that.

Thank you for getting all those boys off the boat.

The longer you're up here, the longer you realize that

you're mortal.

Hey, Sig. Chariot awaits.

All right. Thanks, guys.

You're gonna need some help out here,

or you're gonna give some help.

Bon voyage!

It's a pretty difficult situation, trying to be

a co-captain.

But I've heard lots of good things about him.

So we'll see how it shakes out.

This is a really dysfunctional family of boats,

captains, crews.

And the number one code in the Bering Sea is,

- "We're all comrades." - Oh, this feels so good.

So you're going to drop me off in Adak now?

I'm already on the way.

You know, at the end of the day,

I've got more friends in the Bering Sea than--

that aren't coming home than I have friends at home.

That's some hard-earned crab right there, man.

Gonna be a tough season,

but it's the only thing I know how to do.