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This is one of the most dangerous places to be

on the planet.

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

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.

They are here.

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

Over a quarter million dollars of crab,

with a slack tank in a storm.

[bleep]

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!

Right? Uh-oh.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

He was my hero.

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

Dump it!

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

You got to take it.

I love you!

Come on now!

Pot coming up!

Whoo!

Here comes our first pot.

What have we got? What have we got?

No bueno.

I'm still way out west.

I need 3,000 crab through four strings.

But I don't see much in it.

Uncle John.

What's going on?

Ah, it's going.

I just wanna check in on you.

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

Yeah.

Yeah, it means a lot, Uncle John.

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

pay tribute to him out here.

Yeah, he would.

I will.

OK, bye bye.

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.

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.

My uncle Nick pulled me out of

the murky waters of addiction.

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

- You excited? - 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.

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,

10 miles.

And these canyons are basically veins where the crab crawl in

to hide from the tides and currents.

But I only have four or five days left,

or risk missing my offload.

I don't know.

Oh, that sucks!

No!

Damn it!

That's not gonna do it.

It's just...

not good.

All right, next one's coming up.

There you go!

There we go.

It's getting better!

Oh, yeah.

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.

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.

Is that you, Jake?

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.

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.

Every season,

Nick's birthday was always King Crab season.

He spent a couple of decades here, at least.

Ah!

Can you breathe out of it?

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.

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.

Clark, you wanna come up here?

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?

- Chafing. - It chafes.

Mm-hmm.

We need something heavy,

a weight to pull it at an angle.

Like a 90-degree would be the best.

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.

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.

- In theory. - Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, we'll bring them down.

OK.

Anything just to keep the line away from that ridge.

I mean, we were seeing 30-plus every time.

It's a lot of money.

But the last thing I wanna do is go backwards.

Coming in, coming in.

Holy [bleep]!

Look at that, boys!

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

All right, now we're fishing.

Yeah!

All right!

Five-five, right on.

Yes!

I'll take that all day.

Roger.

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.

All right, here we go.

That one doesn't look too good.

Oh.

This is not making any sense.

All right.

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

OK.

You [bleep] kidding me?

We're baiting gear with old bait.

Totally [bleep] .

No old bait goes in the pot!

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.

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

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

- Let's regroup. - Monte!

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

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

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

and you're yelling at me.

- Mouse? - [bleep]

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

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. - Probably?

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.

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

I've known the Mavar family forever, uh...

I was pretty heart-broke when I found out

that he had passed away up there.

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

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

All right, I'm gonna get going.

All right. OK.

- OK. - Talk to you soon, man.

- OK. - All right, bye.

Oh, God.

We gotta work together to try and get it right.

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

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.

Roger.

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

All right you guys, bags are on the bow.

Let's get ready to rock.

The weather's been picking up.

I definitely notice that the boat is being

a little more sluggish.

This isn't a good situation.

We got the storm brewing...

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

- Oh, yeah. - Oh, OK.

There we go.

25. 25 crab.

Do you feel that?

Yeah, what was that?

What the hell?

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].

It went slack.

Over a quarter million dollars of crab in there

with a slack [bleep] tank in a storm.

Hey, Nico, how far down is tank three?

Slack tanks in bad weather with crab in there,

that's how you kill 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.

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.

No.

Freaking tripped the breaker for some damn reason.

- 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.

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.

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. - Coming.

Whoo-hoo!

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

10 miles and set.

I figured they were gonna be moving this way.

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.

Do it boys.

Let's go, let's go.

Hurry up!

I'm proud to be his nephew.

There is a ledge here.

I'm kinda hovering over the top.

Every time it gets deeper,

you get crab.

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.

I think we should dedicate this one to Mavar.

Let's do it.

Yeah.

So this is five knots.

A little faster.

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

to kind of glide into position.

Seven.

All right, for Nick! Let's go!

Set.

Yeah.

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.

Hey, Bountiful, you got me on here?

Guys are getting the aft tank ready.

We'll be offloading that one to you.

Roger that.

Last season, we bought the Bountiful.

This massive catcher processor.

Roger!

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.

Careful!

Right here?

Come on.

Put that all the way up there.

Yeah, rog.

Watch the rail.

Whoa!

Uh-oh.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

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

Holy [bleep].

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Holy [bleep]!

That stern, is it gonna be all right?

OK.

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

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

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.

Is that ours off the bow?

- Yup. - OK, got it.

All right, happy hauling.

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. - I know.

Don't worry.

OK, man. Thank you.

You're welcome. Love you.

- Take a deep breath. - 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.

We're seeing crab out west.

Set it back through this area.

Let's hope they like this codfish.

That should help us.

Please, I'm hoping for a 40 average.

Come on, crab. Come on, crab.

Come on, baby.

Wow!

- Whoo-hoo!--- right on!

Eight-five? Right on.

Whoo!

What you got there, OJ?

One-one-five. 115.

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.

We're getting close to the next string.

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

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.

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.

OK, it's in.

Come on, guys. Be careful.

Gee, they got it through. All right.

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

Pot's coming up.

Oh, God!

All right.

OK.

Unfortunately, my mohawk days ended a long time ago.

Don't get crazy, OK?

Yeah.

We're hoping to get the pots out safely.

And get the crab that's in them.

If there's crab.

Come on, come on, come on.

Yes!

Big one!

Yes!

Need a bigger table.

91!

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!

That's great.

Oh, my God.

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

All big.

Wow!

Oh!

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

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

Come on, Uncle Nick.

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

First pot coming up.

Come on, Nicky.

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

This is it, right here.

Come on, crab!

Oh [bleep]!

Yeah!

Yeah, Nick, yeah!

Yeah!

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

Yeah! Yeah, baby!

That's right!

This is what we're here for, baby.

Whoo-hoo!

Oh, my God.

It's just loaded.

Money, money, money, baby.

Mwah!

Whoo!

This is awesome. This is truly awesome.

That went well.

Yeah, weight was right on.

Yeah, not much dead loss, which is good,

because that was the tank I was the more--

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.

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

He was my hero.

He was everything I wanted to be.

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

my family would really appreciate it.

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.

He was on this boat for over 20 years.

He was family.

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

All right, Nicky, thank you for my new life.

Amen.

Nickola!

Dump it!

- I love you, Nicky! - Whoo!

I love you!

- Lock and out. - Lock and out.

Later, Nick.

We're proud to serve with you, beside you.

Light her up, guys.

Whoo!

Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho!

I love you, Nick!

Look at that.

8-0, 80.

Can you freaking believe that?

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.

Thanks.

His pot will rest forever at the bottom

of the king crab grounds.

I think Uncle Nick would've loved that.