Original subtitles

[Sig] OK, guys.

-[deckhand] Clear. -[Sig] For us?

[deckhand] Yep.

[Sig] This here?

We haven't gone through this kind of a scenario before.

-It was quite the experience. -[deckhand] Are you good?

[Sig] For the first time in 30 years,

the crab drew us west.

You scared?

[Jonathan] Near Hillstrand today.

-[laughing] -Uhn!

[Sig] We went to uncharted grounds.

[Jonathan] Watch out!

Get the [bleep] away from that rail.

[Jake speaking]

[Sig] Put the [bleep] camera down!

Agh!

And we paid the price in blood...

[groans] -- [bleep].

[Sig] ...and tears.

-[unintelligible] -Jake, stop, stop, stop.

[Sig] But the worst...

Oh!

Hang on! [bleep]!

[deckhand] No, no, no, no, no, no!

[Sig] ...is yet to come.

I want to get out there now.

The cannery has their doors closing real soon.

They're shutting down. We're down to the wire.

[deckhand] Whoo!

I already had an "abandon ship."

Most captains never have to deal with that.

It doesn't matter how hard I can hit.

It matters how hard I can get hit and keep going.

At the end of this season, I'm hoping to cut a check

for a new boat.

$6 million boat.

There is no option to miss. The season's closing.

[Keith] Away we go.

[deckhand] Let's go!

25,000 pounds is a lot of bairdi to find.

[deckhand] Whoo!

My brother not being here definitely is a big swing.

We don't know if he's coming back, but they're gonna do

what it's gonna take to get through this.

-[alarm wailing] -[Rick] Oh [bleep].

[Rick and deckhand speaking]

Come on, watch your rail, watch your rail!

[deckhand] Watch out, watch out!

[deckhands shouting]

[OJ speaking]

Right.

Pull it towards the fridge.

[tense music playing]

[Clark speaking]

[knocking on door]

Sig.

-Hey! Look at me. -[Sig groans]

Whoa.

[Rick] Sig collapsed.

[Clark] Open your eyes.

[Sig] Oh.

Damn.

[Clark] Sig.

What happened?

[narrator] 120 miles. North of Dutch Harbor.

I've been able to punch a pretty sizable hole

in my bairdi.

But everything's happened really fast now.

Whoo! Whoo!

And I still have a long ways to go.

On the Titan Explorer.

[Mac] Money, money, money baby.

[Felipe speaking]

Up and down, up and down.

75, 32, 84, 10.

So here's the problem I have.

I've got crab over this huge plain here,

but they're spread out.

If I'm gonna buy this boat, I'm gonna have to pick up

all the change that I can.

With eight days until cannery closure, Captain Jake Anderson

assesses pot averages over 40 square miles,

searching for a pattern in bairdi behavior

and a strategy to catch his final

130,000 pounds of quota.

[Jake] Gotta think smart.

There's a bottleneck I think these crab are moving towards.

Looks like a good place where they're herding up.

Even though it's a bottleneck, it's still pretty wide.

We need more pots.

We might need some help out here.

Four miles North.

Oh [bleep].

The season hasn't been easy,

so I'm getting kind of tired.

On the Northwestern.

Setting our pots off for the 2025 bairdi season.

My offload is in four days.

[indistinct speaking]

[phone vibrating]

What's going on?

[Jake speaking]

[Sig speaking]

What are you seeing there?

[Jake speaking]

...if I can just get them to school up.

There's a band that goes down there

that looks like it bottlenecks.

...It might help.

[Sig] Well, we're setting out the last string

of this load, so...

I don't think I want to do that.

But I'm curious to see how that works.

-[Jake] Yeah, yeah, of course. -All right, Roger, I'm out.

All right, late.

Well...

on to the next idea.

Work your magic, brain.

[intriguing music playing]

[unintelligible]

[Jake speaking]

We're gonna put two pots together.

Back of the pot...

to be welded to the back of another pot.

And I'm gonna try to plug the bottleneck up.

With no help from his former mentor...

Jake opts to weld and set pairs of faded pots

across the narrow channel.

[deckhand speaking]

All right, send it.

-Going over. -Whoo!

[cheering]

[Jake] The lengths that I go to, to catch crab.

This is a reach.

740 miles northeast.

In Anchorage, Alaska.

[Keith] You can't take anything for granted in the Bering Sea.

During that big storm, I just got launched

from the refrigerator all the way to the sink.

[Monte] What happened?

[unintelligible]

[Keith] My back's messed up.

I can barely, barely walk. So I'm going to the hospital.

I want to get a real...

firm diagnosis on...

where my back is.

Too old to be risking my life in the Bering Sea

with a bad back and a bad kidney.

Right now, hopefully, Monte can survive without me.

690 miles southwest.

[OJ speaking]

On the western bairdi grounds.

[Monte] We're back out fishing.

And my brother got banged up down in the galley.

Went over that giant wave.

Just trying to get through this.

Gotta get geared up for the opi season.

We got 100,000 pounds to catch when we're done with this

western bairdi slugfest.

That's the boundary, right? That's the 166 line.

It defines the Eastern bairdi district

and the Western bairdi district.

So you have to stay west of that.

These seas are starting to build.

Getting pushed around quite a bit here by the current

and the wind.

And this is gonna be a bit of a chore.

[beeping]

The pilot's not working.

OK...

[indistinct chatter]

Be careful.

[Joe] That motor's as hot as can be, do not --

-[Monte] Hot? -Hot.

[Joe] Both of them. You can't touch them.

[Monte] The motor's hot.

Yeah, I mean, we got some spare motors.

It's the electrical side You do have a motor.

-Yeah, I got a motor. -Well, now, how long?

[Joe speaking]

[deckhand] Whoo!

Could we take that giant pipe wrench down

in the steering room and put it on the post,

and at least get me to where we're...

you know, some sort of steering?

Unable to manipulate the rudder post

in the four-by-three-foot steering room...

[Joe and OJ speaking]

...Joe Serpas locates the top of the steering post,

where an unknown fellow marine engineer

conveniently positioned it during

the Wizard's construction back in World War II.

Six inches beneath the galley bench.

[Joe] Looks like this ought to work, man.

Yep, there we go.

All right, put that [bleep] strap around

and then pull it tight now.

[metal clanking]

[Monte] Well, they've been welding, I can smell it.

There is the tiller handle.

Operate the tiller handle, OJ.

[creaking]

OK.

Send two guys outside, and we'll shove pots

off of here. -OK.

Let's get some strong bodies on that.

[Monte speaking]

-[indistinct shouting] -[deckhand] Let's go.

OK, so slowly...

pull it...to port.

Just like three degrees.

These guys, steering the boat with a steel makeshift tiller

in the freaking galley, are gonna get us through

the next three or four hours for him to put

the new motor on there.

No, that's the wrong way. Go the other direction.

[bleep] damn it.

Lack of communication is not working out well.

We're gonna have to do something here.

[bleep].

Yeah, heads up.

Watch the rail.

[deckhand] Whoa!

Hang on! Watch out!

[indistinct shouting]

On the Wizard...

[Monte] Hang on. Hang on.

Hang on.

OK, so close enough to straight for me right now.

Just hold on to that.

Down in the galley, the kids are steering the boat

by hand.

Having a hell of a hard time.

[tense music playing]

[Monte speaking]

Going over.

OK, so hold that right there.

Go back to the starboard, to the sink.

I'm actually pretty impressed with Joe to put that together.

So now it's time to start looking at what exactly

is going on with this electrical problem.

Just trying to do what needs to be done to get through this.

50 miles southwest.

[Jake speaking]

[deckhand] Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

On the Titan Explorer.

[indistinct shouting]

Each pot that I set here in the string is two pots

welded together.

Been trying to work on these crab in this area,

trying to school them up.

So, I'm plugging the bottleneck with the string.

[deckhand speaking]

Come on, mega-pot!

It's coming out of the water now.

[indistinct speaking]

There's crab in there.

[deckhand] Mega-pot!

Mega-pot, [bleep]!

Yeah.

[Felipe] 61.

Mega-pot.

[Jake] 61. I had 34 right there.

Now I have 61. It's good.

It's still good. Don't get me wrong.

It's just...

just the same.

[phone vibrating]

Hey, how's it going?

[Sig] I'm not burning it up by any means.

[Clark speaking]

[Sig speaking]

kind of curious about that area you're talking about.

[Jake] I'm doing OK.

-Whoo! -Whoo!

There's crab all around me.

The first mega-pot that I pulled,

I had 30s around that area,

and the mega-pot just had 60s in it. -[deckhands exclaiming]

[Jake] So...

[deckhand] Look at that!

[Jake] Just, you know, I'm...

[deckhand] Not too sexy.

I think you're right on the money over here.

Well, I --

[Sig speaking]

I was thinking about...

With what?

I'm gonna go alongside the bottle itself

before bottlenecks.

There's no bait in the pots.

And that's gonna funnel all the crab and push them

into our baited gear.

OK. I'll play along, so...

we'll get these pots on board.

And then we'll be right above you.

[Jake speaking]

All right, Roger, I'm out.

[Jake] OK, bye bye.

Obviously, there's crab there.

It's just getting them out of there.

That's the fun part.

Herding crab.

[deckhand] Whoo-hoo!

[Jake] With Sig's help,

I'm gonna corral these things in, man.

[deckhand] Yee-haw!

[Jake] This time, it's gonna work!

[deckhand] Whoo!

300 miles northwest.

On the opilio grounds.

[Rick] We are rolling like nobody's business.

There's nothing easy about fishing opies in the winter.

Aboard the Aleutian Lady.

Oh man.

[groaning]

[exhales heavily]

I'm gonna be going as hard and as fast as I can,

but I'm still not 100% sure we've got the pounds

in our gear.

[deckhand] Agh, [bleep].

Come on, baby.

Oh, no.

[Rick] I don't have time for this.

I got to stack these pots on board and move them.

I mean, about the only sign we do got is the pots

on the west side are better.

With 40,000 pounds of opilio still to catch,

Captain Rick Shelford makes a last-ditch effort

to deliver before cannery doors close in seven days,

redeploying his entire 120-pot load

in 20-foot breakers.

[Rick] We don't got time to waste.

But we got a [bleep] ton of opies to catch.

And then I have -- [waves crashing]

Damn it!

[alarm wailing] Oh, [bleep].

[alarm wailing]

-[click] -[alarm fades]

Hey, guys...

That is the last thing we need right now.

[indistinct chatter]

The aftmost compartment on the vessel,

called the lazarette, or the laz,

sits between the outside hull

and the vessel's rear crab tank.

Oh, [bleep].

[Rick] If salt water starts getting in,

that's how boats sink.

If breached, the hold could flood in minutes,

dragging the boat stern first to the bottom

over 400 feet below.

[deckhand] Oh [bleep]...

Oof.

[indistinct shouting]

On the Aleutian Lady.

[Rick and deckhand speaking]

All right, have Noah go down and pump that thing out.

[deckhands speaking]

[bleep]

If we're not able to pump it out quick enough,

that means we're taking on a lot of water.

That's how people die. That's how boats sink.

[Noah speaking]

The leak could be the crab tank.

It could be the rudder. It could be the hatch.

Oh, that's it right there.

Coming right out of tank three behind this.

[Noah speaking]

[Rick speaking]

[Noah] Roger!

If we can't get that thing patched, I'm gonna have

to pump out that tank.

And I got 65,000 pounds of crab in there right now.

I mean, that is $420,000 worth of crab.

Agh. [bleep].

I still got crab I gotta catch.

So we're gonna slide them west.

[Noah] [bleep].

I need that fix on the last hole or...

we're gonna be in a lot of trouble.

310 miles southeast.

On the Titan Explorer.

[Jake speaking]

-No bait in these. -[Felipe] No bait?

[Mac] Take the bait out.

[Jake] We're just dropping cold steel on the bottom.

[Mac speaking]

Closing in on the end of the season.

I got to keep going.

I'm running out of time. So here's the plan.

You have a bottleneck.

All these spots that have crab randomly.

So we're gonna set a zigzag pattern

on either side of that.

No bait.

Once the crabs see the bait in here,

they're all gonna start funneling in this direction

into our baited gear.

It's definitely out of the box, but it does make sense.

Here's Sig right now.

You got me here?

Well, yeah, yeah. I got you go.

You go north, I'll go south.

It's like herding sheep into the pen.

[Sig speaking]

I'll wait till you zig, and then I'll dump.

It's gonna work. I know it, I know Jake...

The Magic Man.

Three...

two...

one.

Go.

[Titan Explorer crew howling]

[deckhand] Go, go, go, go.

-Do it. -[Clark] Let's go!

[indistinct shouting]

Five degrees first. All right, here I go.

You're going to starboard?

[Jake] Yeah, Roger. I'm going starboard.

OK, I'll wait until you zig.

[Jake] Roger.

[tense music playing]

[Sig] OK, zigging.

[Northwestern crew] No bait!

[Mac] You got to get the bait out.

[indistinct chatter]

Three, two, one.

[Mac speaking]

Let her go!

[Jake speaking]

Here we go.

[Sig] OK.

Zag.

[crew] Come on! Keep running!

-Going over! -Going over!

-[Jake] See, up, down, up. -[Mac] Zigzag!

[Jake] Cold steel...

raining down on the ground.

[Mac speaking]

Let's hope his scheme works. I do have my doubts...

but I'll play.

730 miles northeast.

In Anchorage.

My doctor did a whole huge panel of tests on my kidney.

"Chance you have any serious injury is very low.

May return to work if he is not worsening."

Sounds like I'm halfway home.

I'll get my butt back to Dutch Harbor as soon as possible.

150 miles north of Dutch Harbor.

[Monte] Hold the tiller to starboard.

Just -- I don't know, just a couple degrees.

She's doing all right.

We're going basically straight into the weather right now.

Just hold on to that.

On the Wizard.

We're putting along here...

and continue to steer the boat by hand, miraculously.

Pretty impressed, myself.

We're actually able to pull that off.

Joe's looking at what exactly is going on

with this electrical problem.

While engineer Joe Serpas troubleshoots

the steering problem, Captain Monte

approaches his final bairdi haul with a jury-rigged rudder.

We're just trying to finish this thing off,

and quite frankly, we're running out of time.

But with just days until canneries shut down,

the veteran captain sprints to tank his quota

and retrieve his brother, Keith, from Dutch Harbor

before starting the opilio fishery.

[Joe] Hello, cap.

The connection was really bad there.

I don't know if it was just vibration

over a period of time.

So I've reworked the box. Seems good.

[Monte] All right, let's do a little test.

[boat creaking]

OK.

Well, that's a huge relief.

And you know what the thing is, is that taking that break,

the gear got a bunch of soak.

Thanks, Joe.

Coming up.

So we're back to hauling here.

This is the boundary line.

We have gear over here that's purple.

And it's a little bit of an unknown.

Let's see how we did here.

[deckhand] Alright, [indistinct].

Come on, baby. Come on, baby.

[Wizard crew cheering]

[cheering]

Oh, awesome!

[Monte speaking]

Yeah, touchdown!

Yeah! Jackpot!

[deckhand speaking]

One -fifteen. I'll take 115.

[cheering]

Yeah, baby!

[Monte] That's exactly what we need.

We're hoping to close in on our number through the night.

Go in and deliver.

We're gonna see how my brother's doing,

just waiting for word.

50 miles southwest.

All right, we're coming up on our string.

[Jake speaking]

I had to make a move and take a risk.

I've been trying to...

work on these crab in this area, trying to school them up.

I had to lure them with the bait.

And then I had to herd them into the pen.

That was with the zigzag pots Sig and I set.

Now, let's just see what's in them.

With strings like these, it can change the season.

If I don't get it, I'll never be able to buy the Titan.

We're here where Jake had a feeling there'd be some crab.

First pot's coming up here. Let's see how they do.

[over speaker]

I wouldn't want to see -- anything over 50s would be good.

You know, if you get that one little spot,

that one little bump,

those numbers add up very quickly.

This needs to produce for us

to get us across that finish line --

down to the wire.

First pots in the block.

If it does work, I'll be a hero.

[Sig] If it fails, it's a big risk.

This is kind of, make or break it.

OK, here she comes.

Here it comes. Come on.

[deckhand] Oh, god!

[Sig] Hey, Jaxsen. Hello.

[Jaxsen] Guess what I did, grandpa?

What'd you do?

I did an [unintelligible].

[Sig] Emoji?

When I get home, can you teach me how to do that?

[Jaxsen speaking]

Well, Baby Sailor's smarter than grandpa.

Well, we're gonna be home in a couple weeks.

Can you show me?

[Addy speaking]

You did?

Can I have your tooth so I can put it under my pillow?

-[Addy] No. -No?

Cheapskate.

OK, got to go.

[Addy speaking]

OK.

Snicklefritz.

I would rather be at home, but the reality is

we're here for the family.

So, get this job done and go home and rest up.

[deckhand] Crab coming up!

[Jake] With strings like these, it could change the season.

I really need it to pay off.

[Mac] Money, money, money, money.

-[indistinct] -Whoo!

[deckhand and Jake speaking]

[deckhand] Yeah!

[cheering]

There's a lot of crab here.

[deckhand speaking]

[crew cheering]

[deckhand] Yeah, baby!

There it is.

[deckhand] Looks pretty good.

Yeah, that actually looks really good.

[Titan Explorer deckhand speaking]

-93. -Yeah.

[Northwestern deckhand speaking]

85.

-[crew cheering] -Well, who knows?

Maybe Anderson's not so crazy after all.

[deckhand] Yeah!

-So, how goes it down there? -80 average here all day.

[Sig] 85. 92, 82.

Well, that looks good.

[Jake speaking]

Well, that's good...

Right, yeah, let's stay in touch, though.

-I'll let you know how it goes. -OK, we'll talk.

[Jake] I'll get back to it. Later.

I had strong northern end, so, buck it over,

just up above that.

We're gonna turn around, jog up the hill,

let the gear soak, and just start picking

in the morning.

I feel...

I feel like I've already been up for over a day,

and it's starting to show, but I'm getting kind of tired,

to be quite honest.

Can you send Clark up?

[deckhand] Roger!

[audible yawn]

[Clark] Yeah.

[Sig] Let's get my...

[Clark speaking]

All right. Yeah.

I will. I'll go slow.

Hey, Karl.

[over speaker]

Hopefully, we're gonna get through the gear

and get out of here.

320 miles northwest.

Aboard the Aleutian Lady.

It stopped the leak. That's what's important.

[Rick] We've got the laz all dealt with.

Let's hope it holds.

We slid a bit in the same depth curve on some sign.

I'm hoping for over a 400 average on it,

but as far as I know, it could be blank.

-All right, baby, all right! -whoo!

[deckhand speaking]

Crab count. Six, six, six.

666.

[Rick speaking]

I don't like the number, but I'll take

the frickin' count. Hell yeah!

[deckhand] Whoo!

[Rick speaking]

[deckhand speaking]

[crew speaking]

[groan] -- [bleep].

What was that?

[Rick and Noah speaking]

[bleep]

[bleep] -- [indistinct].

[deckhand] Sorry, bud.

Noah just got hit in the mouth with the picking hook.

[Noah groans]

I mean, it's like getting punched in the face

by Mike Tyson.

[over speaker]

Let's open it up.

Oh, damn.

Yeah, that is cracked all the way up there.

Let's get this open. Let's get some pictures.

Um...

we got to head in.

I don't want...

it to end up being a big problem.

-All right? -Roger.

I got a feeling with it being broke so high up...

-[Noah] Yeah. -[Rick] ...your roots exposed,

and it's gonna start hurting like a mother.

So we're going to Dutch.

All right. Thanks.

[tense tones playing]

We just got to get in there safely, get Noah to the dentist,

and then get our asses out of there as quick as we can,

because I still have crab to catch.

It's not where I want to be, but it's where I'm at.

315 miles southeast.

[Clark speaking]

No.

[Clark] Oh, [bleep] all right. I'll get him up.

All right.

[knocking]

Sig.

[knocking]

[Clark] Oh, [bleep].

Sig.

Hey.

Hey.

Are you with -- hey.

You awake?

Hey. Look at me.

Look at me.

-Hold on. -[Clark] Let's get his legs down.

Sig.

Open your eyes.

-Can you talk? -[groaning]

[Clark] OK.

[Clark] Yeah, he did. There's puke over there.

[Sig groans]

Hey, dude, we're gonna get Coast Guard on 16.

[Clark] No?

[producer] He's, like, on the ground, dude.

Call who?

[Sig speaking]

[Clark] Ready? Sit up.

Sit up.

All right, sit down.

-[groaning] -Easy.

What happened?

[Sig speaking]

[Sig groans]

[Clark] We need to call the Coast Guard.

We don't even know --

You sure?

Let me see --

Hold on.

[waves crashing]