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You think you might have done something to your kidney

or your -- -[Keith speaking]

Here, let me help you.

Yeah, no [bleep].

[Monte] All right, we're putting along here.

[Monte speaking]

You know, we've been in this storm.

Everybody's getting real tired of hanging on.

[Jake] I can't [bleep] steer, not one bit.

We're dead in the water right now.

[Monte] What'd you see in the toilet? What'd your piss look like?

-Whoo! -There's something!

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

[Sig] The opilios been closed for three years.

He's not gonna hide crab from us.

What the [bleep]?

Burn that thing to the ground!

Whoa, hang on -- [bleep].

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Holy [bleep]!

The wind's blowing me to the dock.

[bleep]

[narrator] 525 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor...

along the western edge of the opilio grounds.

Well, we're making some speed here.

Aboard the Northwestern.

[Sig] Heading west deeper.

Well, Aleutian Lady's over here,

I'm just trying to stay out of the line of sight, you know?

Two days ago, capitalizing on the lucrative

snow crab fishery, now open for the first time in three years.

[Rick] If I take the west side of it, you take the east side of it.

All right, that's a good plan.

Captain Rick Shelford shared intel with Captain Sig Hansen

ahead of their first set of the season.

-Boo! -Come on!

-[groaning] -How's it look?

-Whoo-hoo! -That's what I'm talking about!

Nothing too great.

But when Sig discovered that his partner

used him for his own gain...

[Rick] Have you seen any drop off, like finding an edge?

What edge?

...the veteran skipper set a course for the Aleutian Lady

to find out just how deep the betrayal runs.

We've got about 100,000 pounds of crab to catch,

so we need to be aggressive.

I'm a little suspicious, though.

It makes me wonder what he's doing.

And so I'm just gonna sit here and see

what Rick is really up to.

I'm gonna disappear.

And see what's what.

Just half a mile away,

aboard the Aleutian Lady.

[Rick & deckhands shouting] Yeah!

-Whoo-hoo! -That's what I'm talking about!

Whoo-hoo!

Whoo-hoo!

We got a lot of quota to catch --

220,000 pounds of opies.

I mean... the Bountiful was expensive.

Now all I do is hope Sig continues to prospect to

the east and we can find out how big this area is.

[Sig] Oh, there he is.

[deckhands] Oh, yeah!

[Sig] Wow! Sneaky bastard!

That's [bleep] bull[bleep].

-What do you think?! -Whoo!

Looks like he's tracking north,

shuffling through instead of stacking.

It's deeper up there, and I think that's what

he's been hiding the whole time.

I'll just end-for-end it right over the top of him.

I'm gonna keep these lights off.

We're going kind of stealth mode, and...

we're gonna gather our own information.

That's it for me.

I'm not up here to be a patsy for anybody.

440 miles southeast...

on the eastern edge

of a 200-mile-wide low-pressure system...

[Monte] What'd you see in the toilet?

...aboard the Wizard.

[Monte] What'd your piss look like?

[Keith] I'm not seeing any blood in my urine.

That's a plus.

But my back is killing me today, man.

Such is the life of a Bering Sea crab captain.

[Monte] OK, you just gotta be careful.

Before his injured kidney

becomes a spontaneous renal hemorrhage,

Captain Keith Colburn prepares to hemorrhage 150 pots

over eight nautical miles, eager to make a dent

in his 175,000 pounds of bairdi crab quota.

[Keith speaking]

Roger.

[Keith] We just have to hope that we can catch our bairdi fast

and switch over to opies fast.

But I don't know if I can sit here or not.

Whoa, wait, hang on, hang on! Hang on, everybody!

Watch out!

Whoa!

[Keith speaking over intercom]

[Keith] I can't sit straight downwind. I just tried that.

I just got to barely idle into it here.

Jogging into it with the weather

over there where it belongs, port forward quarter.

Once I get turned here,

we can start trying to dump these off.

There's a dandy [bleep].

Whoa.

Any kind of easterly set is a no.

There might not be a course I can set on it.

It's gonna have to be to the west.

All right, find a home,

find a nice, safe set for me, girl.

All right, I'm not sure if this is the greatest course on

the planet, but it's the only course that I can set on.

-Roger. -[Keith] Go.

Rolling over.

Running with it helps,

because instead of going into it,

you're kind of surfing a little bit.

Rolling over!

So, just trying to keep set.

Hopefully, in the next 24 hours,

we will start to put some crab on this boat.

60 miles northwest...

[bleep] weather out there.

I'm waiting for Felipe right now to

repair the solenoid or directional valve that's

connected to the rams that are connected to my rudders,

which makes us steer.

...aboard the Titan Explorer.

Went out while I was hauling. I had to steer one way.

That was not fun.

After trading his opilio crab

for higher price-per-pound bairdi quota,

Captain Jake Anderson idles in 15-foot seas,

finalizing his steering repair before hunting

for his 400,000-pound, $2.8 million bounty.

[indistinct] this one, Jake?

-[Jake] What? -[Felipe speaking]

All right, here we go.

Oh, nice. Look at that.

I can turn starboard and port.

You don't know how nice that is.

Your life depends on those two directions everyday.

All right.

Then we'll get at it.

All right, let's go.

[Jake] It's 69 fathoms here.

Let's see what goes down.

-[bleep] yeah, whoo! -Watch out!

Got it, you got it!

[Jake] I have 332,000 pounds of crab to catch.

I need to start finding crab quick.

Yeah!

Yeah, there we go! Yeah!

Oh, my God, there's actually something in there.

Whoo!

Yeah, baby!

Oh, my god.

Oh, we're gonna go home with them, boys!

There's some big ones in there!

[indistinct exclamations]

Dude, the [bleep] table's full, bro.

Yeah!

75!

Ha-ha, yeah!

Oh, there's more of that! More of that!

Oh, my god!

[clapping, laughing]

It's even bigger! Yeah!

[quiet clicking]

Ah [bleep].

I can't [bleep] steer not one bit.

I got [bleep] nothing.

Aboard the Titan Explorer.

[Jake] Oh, my God.

We just fixed this. Felipe just fixed this.

Before, at least I could go to starboard,

but now I can't even go port.

It's just bad all the way around.

[Felipe] [bleep], it's hot!

[Jake] It's dangerous as hell to be out here without steering.

I have no idea how much a tow from here would cost to Dutch.

10, 15 grand.

There's not a boat for 100 miles.

I don't -- I honestly -- I don't know what to do.

400 miles northwest on the opilio grounds.

-[Sig speaking] -Yep!

-Set 'em when you're ready. -Roger.

Over!

[Sig] I just -- out of line of sight.

I got the AIS off.

Rick sees nothing.

Rick figured out where a little prime fishing was from

the information he got from Bobby.

Fine -- I understand what Rick was thinking,

in his own greedy little way. I get it.

But, I mean, this is the place to be.

We've got ten pots left.

We're gonna set this one down

and then run over and set that one up.

Aboard the 125-foot Northwestern...

[Sig] Let her go!

[Sig] I'm just gonna run these up right over the top of them.

Last one, go up!

And see if we can get these opilios caught.

-Going over. -Yeah baby!

Let's go!

[Sig] You know, payback's a pain.

Two miles south...

Yeah, baby!

Oh, there's some crab in that one.

...on the Aleutian Lady.

There's some crab.

So 504 on that one.

What the...?

There shouldn't be anybody up here.

Hey, guys. Hold on.

Stand by. I see a pot up here.

Roger that.

What the...?

Why is that a Northwestern pot?

Hey, Sig, you got me on here?

Hello?

[laughing], [bleep]

What a [bleep].

Yeah, I took the best area. It was my info.

He wouldn't be up here otherwise.

I mean, I feel like, you know, this guy thinks that

I'm a puppet or something.

I'm not gonna go looking around for somebody else.

If there's crab around and you know something, say something.

That's it.

[Rick speaking]

[deckhand] Roger! OK!

I mean, if Sig don't get my message, I don't know what's

gonna make him get it.

I'm not gonna get pushed around and bullied by anybody.

I'm not gonna lay down and roll over.

[deckhand speaking]

Whoo!

These guys had no right coming over here.

[indistinct shouts]

All right, guys, let's burn this thing quick.

-Oh, yeah! -Yeah, baby!

I hope Sig enjoys this.

-[deckhand] Yeah, baby! -[Rick] Do it, boys!

Roger!

Get some.

Yeah!

-Oh! -Yeah!

I love it!

-Cut loose! -We're good.

-There we go. -Whoo!

-Boom! -Hell yeah!

Ha, ha, ha!

[chuckling]

[Rick speaking]

-In you go, boys! -Roger!

Whoo!

[Rick] This will probably end our partnership,

and I'm OK with that.

I hope Sig likes his gift.

164 Miles north of Dutch Harbor,

aboard the Titan Explorer.

[Felipe and Jake speaking]

So got no steering.

If I try to get my steering going again,

I'm at a serious risk of starting a fire.

I'm assuming the tow is about 10 grand,

but there's not a boat for 100 miles.

I see a trawler way up there.

You know, there are stories of trawlers using their doors to

get home when they've lost steering,

but I don't know how I would do that

because I don't have trawl doors.

I mean, what if you put a...

I wonder if you put like a pot,

you hang it from the wire of the crane,

and you have somebody on the port side paddle,

so to speak.

That might work.

I don't think we need to get a tow, guys.

I want you to grab that plywood that's in the long-line locker.

Set two pots flat on deck. Take the shots out.

And then I want you to get a safety hook on

that pick-and-hook. -Yeah, Roger.

[Jake] Hurry it up. Let's put a hustle on it.

[groans] -- it's a stupid idea right now.

[indistinct conversation]

Still cheaper than calling for a tow.

[indistinct conversation]

Jake rigs two pots, not for fishing, but for steering.

His plan --

position one pot off the picking boom on

the starboard side and the other

off the main crane on the port side.

When at cruising speed, Jake will lower them one at

a time to create drag and turn the 125-foot Titan Explorer.

Well, he hopes.

This is calibrated for the starboard side.

It's secure.

This is gonna be 15 hours of grueling hell if this works.

-All right, starboard in water. -Starboard side going in.

See if he can spin the pot...

-Here we go. -Starboard side is in the water now.

There we go!

[Jake] So we're dragging now.

We're turning. Turning starboard good.

It's the right way now.

[Jake] Oh, thank God.

OK, pull up on the starboard.

OK, I need to go port now.

-Let's go! -We got port!

Heads up, port! Heads up!

[overlapping voices]

[Jake] It's turning port.

Over there, go!

I just can't believe it works!

...till we get there.

Guys, what's this?

It's gonna take all five guys to manage two rudders.

[indistinct shouting]

It has to work. I don't really have any other options,

62 miles southeast.

There's a [bleep] wave right there -- holy [bleep].

Wow.

Some of these are solid 30-footers.

Maybe even more than that.

...on the Wizard.

[Keith] Best case scenario, I might have bruised my kidney a little bit.

Bruises don't hurt like this.

There's something else going on

right there at that impact site.

Approaching 150 pots set off course due to violent seas,

Captain Keith Colburn prepares to haul

amidst 25-foot monster waves,

hurting to find a sign of life

before seeking medical care in town.

All right, let's go have a talk with the guys.

The weather's definitely kicked up another notch,

so we got to be super careful out there.

We're gonna do a haul-and-hide, OK?

Hook it. I can turn a little bit.

Once it's in the block, don't go near that rail, OK?

Run and hide.

Then I'll close the rail and give you guys

a safer work area. The haul-and-hide, OK?

All right.

All right. One, two, three!

Haul and hide!

-[phone ringing] -Yeah.

...it means go out.

All right, thanks.

-[beeping] -Go, go, go!

[Keith] Let's get some big bomber numbers here.

It's right [bleep] there.

This weather is gonna come wrapping around

the starboard side.

Wow! What happened?

Ah [bleep], wait.

[bleep] [indistinct]

Seeing nothing.

Go, go, go, go, go, go!

Go, go, go, go, go go! Let's go! Let's go!

When you guys are good, you can go back out.

Get inside, [indistinct] [bleep] out, OK?

You got a couple big rollers coming through here.

Right now, to keep the crew safe, I'm just trying to keep

them off the deck.

OK?

Hey!

Watch out!

Oh, look at that sucker coming at me!

Come on in! Come on in!

Whoa, hang on! [bleep]!

Go, go, go, go, go!

On the Wizard...

Whoa, hang on! [bleep]!

Go, go, go, go, go!

[Keith speaking]

-For now. -Come here!

[Keith] You're on pins and needles right away.

But pretty soon you start white knuckling it.

I mean, my knuckles are already...

cramping up.

Hey, yow! [bleep] nice!

Yahoo!

[Keith] Got something in it.

Rider in the tunnel. Rider in this back tunnel.

Whoo!

[indistinct cheering]

Did I hear 98 crab in that last pot's? Over.

That 100 count just...

[exhales sharply] really helped me.

-Whoo! -Yeah!

[crew cheering]

[Keith] We're gonna set some gear right here.

Get ready to set.

Hopefully we can get on some fishing

and we can catch our crab fast.

450 miles northwest,

in the far north opilio grounds...

[Sig speaking]

...aboard the Northwestern.

I'm north of Rick right now.

He was supposed to be stacking out of there, is what he said.

But just things weren't adding up.

I mean, you know, the position of the boat,

not moving at all.

That's why you got to kind of go look yourself.

And if this pot has clean crab,

then that guy's been sandbagging.

Moment of truth.

OK, here she comes.

[cheering]

As suspected.

Need a bigger table!

[Sig] Now we're fishing opies.

Agh, I needed that so bad.

We've got a little game of cat and mouse going on.

Rick was sandbagging.

What the [bleep].

What happened?

[Sig] What the hell?

Someone cut the web.

[bleep]

At least we got it back.

we'll see if we can get it rewebbed when we get into town.

That's just -- that's rotten, man.

Roger.

Completely destroyed. The web's just gone, so.

I mean... that's just ridiculous.

Basically stole money from us.

Wow.

530 miles southeast.

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

[indistinct]

-Give the signal. -[Jake] OK, hoist up.

You can pick it up, Rolando. You can pick up, starboard.

...aboard the Titan Explorer.

Now can we put in the port one?

[indistinct]

Put it down in the water just a little bit more.

-Up! -Go, go, go, go, go, go!

-Clear! -Go, go, go, go, go, go!

All right. We're getting to Dutch Harbor.

OK, up, up, up, up, up!

God, I look like a drunk sailor coming home from the bar,

but we'll get there.

When we get back to town, we'll -- maybe he'll take us

out to eat, huh? -Yeah.

I have to make this corner around...

the spit and then get there.

Forced to use pots hung on the port and starboard side of

his vessel to steer, Jake prepares to maneuver in

the close quarters of the harbor amid powerful

50-mile-an-hour winds.

[bleep]

Look how fast the wind's blowing me.

[bleep] dangerous as hell.

[bleep], dude.

Paddle in, paddle in.

Hey, up, up, up, up, up

[Jake] Pull it, pull it, pull it, pull it, pull it!

-Get that up! -Port's up!

No, that swung us hard right there.

Holy [bleep], dude.

I just got to get straight in there,

fully relying on the throttle.

OK, I'm gonna --

Yes, we're set.

[bleep] wind's blowing me to the dock.

[bleep]

[bleep]

[bleep]

[bleep]

[metallic knocking]

I think sailors are superstitious.

I think everybody out here has got a bunch of stuff they want

to be surrounded by.

We have to have some gum, some glasses,

and this colored note underneath this log.

Bring that home. Home sweet home.

Also has to be a red apple present.

It also has to be two carrots, and usually they are getting

quite old. It's all critical.

It's kind of a psychotic crab captain.

Careful, Monte. You could turn into Keith.

On the Titan Explorer...

[Jake] [bleep] wind's blowing me to the dock.

-[metallic groaning] -[bleep]

[bleep]

[scraping]

[bleep] damn it!

[clanging]

[bleep] damn it, man.

Scared the [bleep] out of me.

[bleep], talk about blood pressure rising.

That was crazy.

That was a hell of a night.

[Jake] The plan is to get patched up

and get back out to sea as fast as I can.

And I still have a lot of crab to catch.

If I don't catch my quota,

I don't have a shot buying the Titan.

Far north on the opilio grounds...

[Sig] Rick is down below me.

I see his light down there.

That pod is out of commission for the rest of the season.

I need a little surprise attack.

That's all I can say.

Retaliate for some of the stuff he's been pulling.

And uh...

Yeah, buddy!

[Sig speaking]

All right, guys, it'll just be about three-quarter miles,

so like five minutes. -Yeah, Roger.

[Sig] I mean, I'm purposely trying to hang back here.

He's not gonna see us.

He's not gonna pay attention.

All right, here we go.

That's Rick, naughty boy.

-Ready, Carl? -Ready!

Oh, look! Oh, they're coming!

Hammer down!

[loud blast]

[Rick] What in the hell?

-Oh! -[Sig] Carl, see if you can shoot it forward

right over his stern.

Don't mess with Daddy. Now!

-Whoa! -Holy --

Holy [bleep]!

Did you see how [bleep] he went straight left?

[Sig] Is that it?

[Sig laughing] Oh, my god.

I was trying my best to sneak up on him,

and then you had him,

and then the flare just went pshew!

[Rick] What the hell?

[Sig speaking over radio]

-Kind of cutthroat, man. -Yeah, well...

I'm going up against the infamous...

[Sig speaking over radio]

If the area above you is big,

I bet we can still divide it up.

[singing] Kumbaya, my Lord. Kumbaya.

[Sig speaking over radio]

All right.

You know, there's always gonna be conflict and deceit.

And that's just how it's always been in this industry.

And so, uh...

you know, at the end of the day, we're both here to fish.

We just got to catch some crab.

We got our gear off here to the northwest.

Hopefully, we will get on some hot fishing.

I mean, it has been nothing but misery since we got here.

Come on!

Need to see something.

[deckhand] Uh-oh.

[bleep], I had higher expectations than this.

Let's get this boat on track here.

It's not that great.

It's OK amount of big ones.

There isn't anybody on that deck right now that isn't sore.

Pot's ready.

[Keith] But there's definitely an isolated sore spot in

the neighborhood of my kidney.

And with any luck, we gonna catch all our crab

before we head to town.

We'll find out how banged up we are.

We hope. You never know.