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Last night, I had a dream.

I was underwater, breathing underwater.

I don't know how I did that.

The canyon was full of crabs.

Just climbing on each other, just a big pile of crab.

Big, clean crab.

I think I know what to do.

Alright, going over.

Right now, we're making up for lost time, so we got to

move fast.

I got Niagara Falls down there, man.

-What? -Yeah, I see.

Oh, great, that's a dragger.

If they drag through my pots, I lose gear.

Time to start turning, man.

-Turn. -Turn, turn dude.

Oh, hang on,

Oh!

No.

Hold on to your dreams, baby.

You don't have dreams, you got nothing.

160 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor.

OK, so,

it's going to be a real crappy day.

On the Western Bairdite Crab Grounds...

We're gonna have waves coming over the side all day long.

All right?

I think this first string, if I'm lucky, we'll be able to

haul it with the weather on the port side.

So anybody working over in the red zone, it's gonna be --

It ain't gonna be the red zone today, guys.

It's gonna be the green zone, meaning there's gonna be a lot

of green water coming over the rail.

-Yeah. -Get ready for battle, okay?

-Roger that. -On three, safety.

-One, two, three, safety! -Safety!

...aboard the Wizard.

See this here?

That's the mushroom.

We've had good fishing down here before.

We could come out to a huge pick.

-We're set? -Oh, yeah.

Guess what? Here comes the mob.

Bunch of dirt bags.

Look at all these boats starting to converge

on my spot.

Am I possessive? Yeah, it's my crab.

I was the first one here.

We have 200 pots down here that are soaking.

Hopefully it's with crab.

After tracking the biomass into a small 20-square-mile

depression, Captain Keith Colburn finds himself

rail-to-rail with the competition,

still 380,000 pounds shy of his quota, with only three

weeks left in the fall season.

Okay. Let's get to work.

-Let's go! -Throw it!

-Come on, baby! -Whoo!

I'm just praying.

It'll either be yes or no.

Damn it.

No good.

Looks like a no.

Come on, baby, give us some rope!

This is not what we were looking for.

I can't afford to have this fleet steal my crab from me.

-Yeah, hurry up. -Roger!

Double-time!

I'm heading north...

...until I have nobody on the radar

and no lights on the horizon.

Where we've had good fishing in lots of years past.

Yee-haw!

I don't need any company, and I don't need any partners.

There you go.

Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it.

-Go, go, go! -Down.

All right, wait for it. Here we go.

Got anything?

Good.

What's the was that?

-Auxiliary, auxiliary.

-Cap. -What?

I got Niagara Falls down there, man.

water's going all over the top,

my generator's running. -What are you talking, what?

I'm talking about we got a bunch of water in the bilge,

the hatch cover's leaking.

What do you need? Just slow down.

Soper, I need a tarp, and I need you

at the wheel, now! -Roger, roger!

Grab that tarp, grab that tarp!

Let's go.

Go, go, I'm right behind you.

Run, run, run, run, run!

-That engine room, boss? -Engine room!

Right, roger!

What's going on?

We got a serious problem in the engine room right now.

-I just took like, -Is there water down there?

Yeah, I just took like two gallons of water.

We're going to have to do something with that.

Why do we have water coming into the engine room?

With that hatch covered, we've got it covered.

But I mean, the water's not stopping.

Heads up. Heads up right there.

Damn, we need some crab.

-We got 100 miles. -Right.

If you can find a way

to give me 12 hours, we will fix it when

we get there. -Yeah, OK.

Just make some magic for me, would you?

-Yeah. -Alright, thanks.

Definitely.

-I'll be back in a little bit. -OK.

Right now, I can get this gear on.

I can head north,

and then once we get this stack off the boat,

we deal with the problem.

So,

76 miles northwest,

on the golden king crab grounds,

Aboard the Time Bandit.

Who's that?

Right there.

That's a dragger.

There's our gear.

There's the dragger.

He's right next to our gear now.

Hopefully they're not dragging over here,

like right on our gear.

They drag these huge nets behind the boat that scoop up --

Each net could scoop up the Statue of Liberty in it.

Ay, ay, ay.

Fishing in a high traffic area

populated by both crabbers and trawlers,

vessels that use a net the size of two football fields

to drag up their catch, Captain Johnathan Hillstrand

prepares to haul 40 pots.

This is the canyon set.

I had a dream that this was just full of crab up here.

Trusting his vision of fruitful grounds

will protect him

from the nightmare of lost or damaged gear.

That's the thing about fishing,

it's an adventure.

You don't know what the hell is going to happen next,

but I have a dream.

All crab will be equal in the canyon.

Hopefully it'll work out good.

We might be able to get some ooh la la number,

ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo numbers.

-Should be right in here, huh? -Yeah.

Swear to God.

That dragger, he came over here, came through like locusts.

OK, there should be one right in front of us.

There's pots right there.

We'll pull it aboard. Pull it aboard.

We gotta grab the rail right now!

Got one-half a bridle hanging on to that pot there.

Look at all the sea stars on that.

Starfish.

Russell, you're going to have to grab that with the crane.

Oh

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Very dangerous right now.

-Blank? -Roger.

Pot's about a mile north of the marks,

where we had them original set.

When the dragger drug it, he drug up

all those sea stars on it.

Dragger.

Time Bandit.

Did you run any of my gear over?

You better do your best to avoid it.

Probably not going to even answer me anymore.

That hurts.

It's going to affect everyone's families

on deck here, my family.

Hopefully we're not missing any more.

But I might be down $40,000 worth of gear.

And I can't haul those pots every day.

And I usually make another $150,000 pulling those pots.

So I might be out $200,000 from this trip.

It could put me out of business.

Let's see what's in this neighborhood here.

And it is the Northwestern.

I gotta get Sig on the radio,

let him know.

Just four miles north of the Time Bandit ,

on the bairdi grounds...

Going over!

Let's go, woo-hoo!

...aboard the Northwestern.

Guys, we just got to push through here.

Roger.

So far, for bairdi season,

you know, we fished on the 166 line.

It was beneficial, but, you know, as far as

competition is concerned, some guys moved in,

and so we decided to go up the hill

and try to fish in this canyon.

You know, we got to find a new area with crab, see what

we can get.

With over 2 million pounds of fleet-wide bairdi quota caught,

We gotta go!

Captain Sig Hansen makes a break from the pack to

a shallower part of the same canyon as Johnathan,

risking all 120 pots

on the edge of the trawler-laden fishable grounds.

We're trying to get these in the water as fast as we can.

We're kind of on the grind right now.

We still got a lot of crab to catch.

I'm just running out of time.

Oh!

Whoo!

Go!

-Okay? -Yeah.

Sig's got us going pretty tough.

-He's kind of pushing. -Got 10 pots.

Watch the --

-Oh

Are you good?

What happened?

Got 10 pots.

Watch the --

-Oh

Are you good?

What happened?

Hey.

You all right?

Hey, but his jacket's all ripped up.

Is he all right?

He got dragged from the back.

-Stop setting. -Roger.

Sometimes loops and coils will stick out of that door,

so he might have been trying to stuff it back in the pot

when Norm winched up.

But that winch and the hydraulics

is pretty powerful.

Every time you want to put the pedal to the metal,

something goes wrong.

I can't see it.

Want me to take a picture first?

Yeah.

I'm kind of mad right now, I'll be honest.

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Just finish this set

Roger.

kidding me?

Bottom line is, I hope this gear that we have here hits.

That's all that has to happen.

Going over!

Yeah, Johnny, I got you.

How's it looking over there, Hansen?

...congregate on those edges,

you know, the ridges.

How about you?

I'm missing 11 pots.

Don't seem like this guy here wants to play nice.

man.

OK, I'll follow the leader, it's on you.

Roger, Roger.

I don't know what John's talking about half the time.

He's living in his own world, you know?

I don't know.

I mean, the guy is from another planet.

I can't read him sometimes.

You know, John's right.

There is a dragger in the area, so we're going to try to do

a little bit of manipulation here.

Hopefully they'll just tour the trawler, and then.

And then if he moves on, we got the place to ourself.

I mean, where there's one, there might be 10.

I don't know. That's the risk.

I'm not giving up here.

My gear's here.

It's right here.

I'm not going anywhere.

I got to fight with whatever pots I have left.

Hold on to your dreams.

96 miles northeast,

and nearly 100 miles into

their journey to the northern grounds...

We've got a hatch that's not secured in the engine room,

a waterfall going over the engine,

and we're just getting pummeled right now.

I mean, the deck is awash.

...aboard the Wizard.

Hello, Cap.

Here I come with bad news again.

I go downstairs to check Niagara Falls.

It looks like we're getting

water in our port tank over here.

I'm still a few hours from where I want to set,

but what we're going to do is this.

We'll set our gear, pull up those deck boards.

-All right. -We'll fix that hatch.

We'll find that leak, and we will do it right.

-Yeah, right. -All right.

Holding off a deluge his engine room with duct tape

and a tarp until he arrives on less crowded grounds,

Captain Keith contends with water infiltrating

his diesel tanks,

threatening catastrophic damage.

Salt water destroys everything.

You don't run salt water through your fuel system.

And right now, we're at risk of doing that.

And that will kill the engine.

We've got to get gear off the boat.

Yeah, Soper, get everybody geared up.

-We've got to set the stack. -Copy, Roger.

Roger, baby, let's go, let's go!

I've got to get these pots off the aft deck,

tighten that hatch down,

and that's going to be kind of tough out here, especially with

the weather conditions not being real optimal.

Oh, whoa!

Whoo!

Going over.

-Yeah. -Whoo!

Take it away!

The bottom's pretty decent here.

I mean, it's better, better than where we were,

but not where I want to be. -Going over!

-Going over! -Going over!

Gear in the water.

All right, wait for it, here we go.

OK, good.

-Let go -I got it.

I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it in there.

-Whoa! -Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa

whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, ow!

You know what, if it's something like that,

I might say something,

but I'm gonna wait.

When I do say 's coming,

you can get your ass out of there.

Roger!

Very nice scoop up there on the bow.

-Going over. -Going over!

Hello.

Freddy, going over.

Heads up, heads up.

Heads up, heads up, here we go.

Heads up, heads up, here we go!

All right, everybody OK?

Get it over, get it over!

Everybody good?

Everybody looks good, OK, right on.

Stay with him, Andrew, stay with them.

Now that thing jumped out of nowhere.

I did not see that wave just, like, percolate and just jump

over the rail there right when he was dumping.

So I'm glad nobody got smashed there.

I would just wait until I beep and then go over there

and stay away from the rail.

OK, phew.

Let's get the pots off.

We'll fix that hatch.

We'll find that leak, and then with any luck,

we've got the crab in the gear.

98 miles southwest,

just south of St. George.

I had a dream that the top of

the canyon was full of crab up here,

but the problem with draggers is when you have a gear

conflict with them, we lose.

They drag up our lines and buoys.

They just cut them off and leave them there,

and the pot goes to the bottom,

so we're going to fight the good fight.

Yeah.

Are you in position over there?

Are you ready?

Let's both set really tight together, and we'll make

a wall and scare this guy off.

If he just runs over one, it's no big deal.

Make it look like there's more pots or something.

That might do the trick.

I agree.

Woo-hoo!

We all love when a plan comes together.

...pot, so that'll be four

Why?

It's better doing this than what John had in mind, OK?

To protect their combined $150,000 worth of gear

and potential millions in crab...

So, guys, here.

...Sig and John deploy two strings side by side,

adding extra buoys onto each pot, giving the appearance of

an impenetrable wall to claim

their territory and bluff the dragger away.

Defend our territory.

Let's do it.

Going over.

Going over!

Going over!

Let's go, let's go!

Going over!

Well, there's our dragger friend again.

Looks like he's coming right at us.

Oh, God.

We got to move here, man.

Double time, double time.

Let's go.

-Ready? -Yep.

Step her up if you can, guys.

The dragger's right on top of us.

He's getting closer, dude.

If that guy doesn't see this gear pretty quick, we're going

to lose it, you understand that, right?

When you hear that buzzer, you set it.

Going over!

Let's go!

Dragger's getting closer, dude.

Time to start turning, man, turn!

Turn!

-Turn, dude!

20 miles south of St. George.

Turn!

Turn, dude!

He's doing it, he's turning!

Yeah, baby!

-Bye bye, bitch. -He's turning!

We got him!

Woo-hoo!

Well, that stopped him.

That's Goliath taking a nosedive.

Now, let's hope this will crab down there to make it worth it.

Live to fight another day, Mr. Hansen.

Talk to you soon, I'm out.

You gotta fight for your dreams,

and, uh,

I got God.

That's all I need on my side,

but it's good to have a Hansen on the other side of you,

because those guys are fighters.

Woo-hoo!

Aboard the Wizard.

When you don't have 100,000 pounds sitting on that hatch,

it's an easy fix.

Now, Joe's got the water out of our fuel.

It's sealed off, and we're not taking any water

in the engine room.

So, problem one is dealt with.

After going all in on a northbound trek away from

the fleet, only to dump 160 baited pots on unproven ground,

thanks to an engine room leak...

The wind is picking up dramatically right now.

I mean, we're seeing gusts up to 60 miles an hour.

Captain Keith prepares to see what hand he was dealt

in 50 knot winds.

My strategy is stay above the string.

The wind should help push us right down on top of the thing.

Using his steel port wave wall as a sail

to protect his crew,

and push the 370-ton Wizard down his string.

This isn't going to be pleasant.

Look at that wave over there, Randy, boom.

Okay, here we go.

It's a one-shot deal.

One shot to hit it with the hook,

and one shot to get it in the block.

Come on, baby, give me some crab.

Come on.

Come on, come on, come on, show me something.

-Woo-hoo! -Yeah, baby!

That's what we came for.

Right there. -Whoo!

-Yeah, boy. -Hell, yeah.

Roger!

That was bad.

This weather's pushing me around a lot still.

2-3-0, nice crab, right on.

Should be showing up here any second.

Miss means go over there and throw the hook!

Whoa, hang on,

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Aboard the Wizard.

Whoa, hang on,

Ah

pain in the ass.

Right now, we got 40 feet of green coming at us.

But I don't want to shut down.

I've got my gear set right on the school.

If it gets much worse, yes, I'll have to stop

hauling gear.

-Yes. -Whoo!

There it is!

Right now, it's just one wave at a time, one pot at a time.

95 miles southwest...

Alright.

Got Sig Hansen to my right,

I got no draggers in sight!

Those draggers saw what we had here.

They go, OK, it ain't worth it.

These are the two bag setups, so there's two per pot.

and when you get enough pots in the water, it's a nice little

strawberry patch, so nobody would want to go through here

looking at that.

If you don't fight for your spot to fish, you know,

what's the point?

Oh, there it is.

Driving like I knew what I was doing.

I got a fighting chance now.

Let's see if we got anything here now, men.

My dreams could come true.

Hopefully, there's some crab in these pots.

We'll see.

So, I had a dream, it got ruined.

Then, I had another dream about battling a dragger and scaring

some draggers off, that dream came true.

I just need crab in these pots.

We can call it a night.

Oh, baby, yeah!

Whoo!

Crab legs!

Yeah, baby, look at that!

Yeah!

Crab legs!

Woo-hoo, woo-hoo!

Woo-hoo-hoo!

Hallelujah!

61, whoo, baby!

Mama's gonna get

-Woo! -Way to go!

That sounds good.

There's some good-sized ones in there.

Guess we got some stuff.

Looks we got something, here.

Yeah, baby!

Yeah-ha!

We got the canyon to ourselves.

Thank you, Sig Hansen.

Let's go!

Well, we're killing it over here, man.

When Hansen and a Hillstrand works together,

it's a beautiful thing.

I was having a nightmare, you turned on the lights for me.

Any time, man.

We sent the boogie man running.

Hanging out with Johnathan is like a roller coaster, you know?

It's up and down.

When you get off the ride, you're like,

"Where the heck am I?"

You know, the pot's full of bairdi.

I'll take it.

My dream did come true with the crab in the canyon.

Man, Sig's a great guy.

It's good to have a partner.

Woo-hoo!

90 miles northeast...

Show me some legs, show me some freaking legs.

Jackpot, oh yeah!

...on the Wizard.

Ah, Freddy's smiling. Did I get 'em, Freddy?

Did I get 'em?

Right on.

-Yeah! -Whoo!

All of our gear is north of the fleet, and we're

crushing it.

-There it is.

Oh, yeah.

We just need to keep grinding away here.

Oh, yeah, look at this.

-Yes!

-Whoo! Crab cures all wounds.

This is good fishing.

Joe.

There's got to be a little hole or something,

like in our port tank over here.

It was straight up water for probably 30 minutes that I was

running, draining.

So we got a hole associated with the hatch?

-No, it's got nothing -- -Completely different.

Absolutely.

What do we do?

Are you telling me I got to go to town?

It's getting kind of unmanageable.

I'm finally on crab. Finally on crab.

Worst case scenario, it would completely destroy everything

in the engine, and it'd be a few weeks

just to rebuild it out here.

All right.

I'll stop.

Leave that pot in the rack.

Damn it.

We've got to find the problem.

We've got to get the water out of our fuel,

and the only way to do that properly is go to town.

I had such high expectations

for this Bairdi season to start.

And all we've done so far is just fall flat on our face.