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Wizard's one of the highliners of the fleet.

Okay, this is definitely a problem.

We've got 160 pots in.

The weather's definitely starting to pick up.

We've got a guy going over here to get a chain.

- You good? - Yeah.

We can't set gear if we don't know where we set it.

We'll just write down every GPS location, we got that.

Man overboard!

Oh, man, he's in the water.

- What the [bleep] - He's in the water!

Life, I got it.

Watch out, watch out.

Turn to the stern!

650 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor,

on the Russian line.

Good.

I've been learning a lot about opie fishing.

I just haven't been able to get up at the helm.

I kind of feel like a passenger a little bit.

I just need that opportunity.

Assert dominance.

Right, right, right.

Well, thanks, brother. I love you.

Aboard the Northwestern ...

There's a ton of boats right across the Russian line.

God, I want to just tell these guys what I think about them.

Turn it off.

That's what I think about them right now.

Get into our own game.

On the hook for 200,000 pounds of opilio quota,

Captain Sig Hansen and fresh hire, Sophia "Bob" Nielsen

tracked the biomass on a northbound march,

eager to cut them off

before they defect into Russian waters.

Our crab are going across that line into their pots.

And I know it, I don't like it,

and I want to get the crab before they do.

Well, good thing we have John's gear too, right?

Yeah, that was the whole point.

Hopefully, John will pull this weight.

Just four miles south, on the Time Bandit...

Look at all those lights.

It's a damn city.

I mean, it's just lit up over there.

There must be crab

coming from Alaska, defecting to Russia.

Joining forces to construct an iron curtain of pots to halt

the mass defection of crab to the northwest,

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand nears the Russian line,

still 180,000 pounds short of his million-dollar quota.

Hey, Sig.

Got me here, Sig?

I got you.

That's a lot of boats across that line.

That's crazy, dude.

and 178 right on the corner there.

I set, you set, I set, you set, I set.

That's what I'm talking about, buddy.

- OK, set it up. - Opilio!

- Opilio! - Whoo, getting wet.

Golly.

Going over, guys.

- Going over. - Go get it!

There goes the first pot.

Dangerously close together here.

A little too close to my comfort.

But I'm just doing what Sig wants me to do.

I'm his boy. I'm your boy, Sig.

I'm your huckleberry.

All right, back up to speed, here we go.

First one's going in the water.

That's unreal.

Look at all the boats that are just right on the line.

Keep setting as fast as you can.

Can't be any further apart than a quarter mile apart.

- You got it. - Good job, buddy.

- Going over. - Whoo!

- Thanks everybody. - Whoo!

OK, send it.

That's about as patriotic as I can be.

I want my American crab in my American tanks.

That's awesome.

God bless America.

In Dutch Harbor...

- Overhead! - ...aboard the Aleutian Lady.

It feels like we've just been stuck in purgatory here,

not being able to do what we're supposed to do.

We just spent a week working on the pots,

adding shots, and doing all that.

It's going to be probably the coldest winter in decades.

Got it?

But I have 400,000 pounds of bairdi to catch,

so we need to get out of town

and get my bairdi caught as fast as humanly possible.

Yeah, baby.

Readying to tackle his 2.4 million bairdi quota,

Captain Rick Shelford prepares his boat

and his newly-christened greenhorns for the ferocious northern waters.

Hey, Nico, can you actually look at these real quick?

Okay.

John Green of Lakanto, Florida.

Too much slack, or?

I got John.

He knows how to work, he knows how to do things.

He's smart,

but he talks a lot. - He is a talker.

Oh, yeah, yeah, no, you want to...

Yeah, okay, yeah, I got you.

- Hey, guys. - Hi, miss you so much!

And Todd Meadows, devoted father from

Elma, Washington.

Hey, Riv.

What do you want to say to Daddy?

- Do you want a hug? - Miss you, Riv.

What do you want to fish for?

Crab, or?

You want to be a crabber, too?

Todd has been around boats

and knows what's expected of him.

Is the boat big?

Like, 55 pounds?

Yeah.

You know my old boat, the one in Westport?

It's like two and a half of those boats.

But he's green.

He's never been on the Bering Sea.

All right, I love you guys.

There you go.

All good, we're good.

Wow. Look at that.

That ice edge is coming down

faster than I've seen it in probably 30 years.

We have to pivot.

There you go.

Hey, Nico.

This is like one of those calls, but I think this is

actually going to get us home quicker,

even though it sucks.

You guys spent all that time adding shots, but I think with

that ice edge coming down, I want to set our gear shallow.

Like, some of our strings will be one shot country.

- Want to do that now? - Yeah.

If we can go up there in the shallows, we could haul

twice as much gear per day.

There's a good shot we're gonna get home two weeks quicker.

All right, well, let's get this done.

Let's get out of here, all right?

270 Miles northwest,

on the Wizard .

Got 160 pots

I need to get in the water before the storm really

settles in.

Yeah.

We're getting the chains off, getting ready to set some gear

here a little bit,

you know, and see where the crab are at.

This fleet has gone further north than it should have.

But we aren't.

Just went right to the west side, out on the edge there.

OK, this is definitely a problem.

I still got to figure out what the hell's wrong

with the plotter. - Right.

Well, we're going to hope to get a call back from the check,

which I doubt.

Yeah, I mean, the only thing we have right now is,

we have no position.

It was working fine all the way out of town, and then we were

right up against the rocks with the Arctic Sea.

After Captain Keith Colburn steamed 60 miles off-course to

aid the beached fishing vessel, Arctic Sea...

I am heading for the Coast Guard's position for

the Arctic Sea.

...and arrived at the wreck site just hours after

the Coast Guard airlifted the nine persons on board...

The Arctic Sea is officially no longer in this fishery.

...the veteran skipper races back to his target grounds,

while his crew breaks chains on a 160-pot stack.

Looks like Lynn's over the side still.

What's he got going on over there?

Is it [bleep] tangled up or some [bleep]

Hey, I don't know.

Did you turn it on the way off and turn it back on?

I shut it down, yes.

Nothing.

Can't set gear if we don't know where we set it.

We'll just write down every GPS location,

we've got that. - Man overboard!

- Oh, my, he's in the water! - What the [bleep]

- He's in the water. - Lights, I got it.

Watch out, watch out.

- Man overboard! - Man overboard!

Hit the man overboard thing, Mouse, I got this!

Go!

Hit that [bleep] man overboard thing!

- Coming around! - Coming around.

- Let's keep some eyes on him. - Turn, Mouse, turn!

Turn?

Hard to starboard, Hard to starboard!

All right, hey!

Let's keep an eye on him.

somebody can get the suit on.

Robby, I got point.

You tell the guys down here,

We need the survival [bleep]. - Yeah.

I got it.

Turn, Mouse, and come around hard!

The life sling.

We need the life sling out on deck immediately.

- She's got one. - Well get another one.

- Okay. - Where is he?

Let's get the life sling down to them.

Crane, Mouse, let me hop in there.

Come on, just let me hop in. Let me go in.

- Where is he? You got him? - Yes, I got him.

You want me to drive up on him or not?

No, just get out and let me drive up.

Okay, just one second.

Let me get the boat and shut it down.

- Show me where he is. - I got him.

I got him, let me hop in, Mouse.

Come back here, we need--

We need a second,

we need a second, [bleep] uh...

Life sling up there.

I got him, I got him.

Sofer, we gotta--

Roger.

You got to come around and give him a lead, bro.

- I'm giving it to him. - OK, he's looking OK.

Awake and he's conscious.

He's got his head above water, that's for sure.

OK, is he swimming?

Looks like he's moving, OK.

I'm gonna idle up to him, alright.

It looks like he can hear us.

Tell him to just put it over himself underneath his arms, OK?

So we lift him by his chest.

Tell him to stay where he is, do not swim to the boat yet.

- Stop swimming. - Stop swimming.

Give him a lee here.

No, if I come hard to starboard,

we're going to blow right down on top of him.

[bleep] [bleep] [bleep]

[bleep]

We've got to get them back here, bro, so that they can

throw that thing and let the wind on them.

I know, I know.

[bleep] let's knock him out with a [bleep] damn life ring, you morons!

All right, guys.

Roger!

If we get too far over here, we're going to [bleep] roll

right down on top of him.

I'm not, I'm just sitting here.

OK, now we're in the ditch.

We're going to [bleep] roll right down on top of him.

OK, we got to get him on the boat here shortly.

Okay, tell me what's going on?

All right, we got him hooked up, and it's

Don't worry about it.

We got you, that's for sure.

We got you, man, we got you.

- We got you. - Let's get this off.

Get it off, come on.

- Don't be sorry! - Thank you bro.

- [bleep] - Don't be sorry.

- Come on, get in. - Get inside.

[bleep] - Get in.

Get in, Lynn, get inside!

OK, let me in there.

You go see what the [bleep] is going on.

I'm going to just idle into the weather here.

OK, yeah, just keep it straight into it, Mouse.

OK.

Whee is he?

- Where's Lynn at? - We got him.

OK.

- Well. - OK, bro.

Put him right here.

I'm seeing [bleep], I'm seeing a smile.

Gotcha.

- We got you, man. - [bleep]

Thank you.

I mean, I got it. I got it.

There's no way you would have been swimming.

How do you feel?

- Hey, Lynn, do not apologize. - Oh, yeah.

All right, let's just get you out of that wet stuff real

quick, all right? How cold are you?

Come on in, Lynn. Yeah.

We'll take care of your [bleep] just drop [bleep]

Yeah buddy, come on, let's go.

Right on in, let's go, alright.

Hey, where's your stuff?

Hey, you guys, go ahead, gear down, warm up,

and come on in.

We'll deal with this in a minute, all right?

Right now, just everybody take a big chill pill, relax,

get your gear off, come on inside.

Oh, man.

So something happened with the chain.

So the chain got

ran up through the rail, and I think the pots must have

shifted over to that rail, and the chain was pinched

between the bottom pot.

I was trying to crowbar it out and pull at the same time,

and as I was pulling, the crowbar slipped,

chain slipped, and then we just kind of took a roll

and lost my balance, so...

It was a narrow one.

Thank you guys for saving my [bleep] life.

Yeah, thank God.

Thank God you guys were all there.

- Good job. - Never want to see you out there again.

I'll tell you, I'd rather [bleep]

You know...

You don't have time to think about it when it's happening.

When you're in the middle of an emergency,

you're just dealing with it.

So... Uh...

Well, that's it.

We had a kid in the water, and we got him back.

Everything went right,

when so many things could have gone wrong.

Proud of my crew.

650 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor,

on the Russian line.

Hang on.

Holy cow.

It's pretty cold outside.

There's a good half an inch of ice built up around the boat

everywhere.

I've never been on a boat when it iced up before,

so that's kind of scary.

Yeah, she's getting heavy with the ice.

Gotta be really careful how we haul this.

When it comes time to break ice, I'll go out there.

Famous last words.

Check in with John.

Damn. Damn, damn, damn.

Should be right in front of us.

I'm getting pumped up over here.

Yeah, this is great, man!

You know the flag's always up over here.

Well, we're on the end of the string, I think it's going to be big.

As long as I get a tank out of it.

- Not a problem, buddy. - All right, pal.

I will let you know what I see, stand by.

It's all you can hear is Russia,

and you don't hear no American radios.

[bleep] yeah.

Oh, damn!

Oh yeah!

Oh, wow, that's a good pot.

Well, that's a full table.

I knew it. I knew it.

Right into our dam.

5-2-0.

On the first pot? Wow!

- That's insane. - 520.

Okay, well, we''re ready to pull our first one.

Roger.

Whoo!

America, baby!

We got this.

John is just parallel to us, so we just got to keep

our tempo here, keep our heads, and fish.

- Coming up. - Full pot, baby, full pot.

Drum roll, please.

I see color, I see color.

There's a lot of big legs sticking out the top of that pot.

- Woo-hoo - Woo-hoo!

No, it's good.

There's a [bleep] lot of crab going in there.

There's a lot of crab!

Andy, there's a lot of crab going in the tank!

He can't hear very good, he's getting old.

555, 5-5-5.

Let's go, Johnny, let's go.

We're going to put it to them.

- I'm going to "Putin" it to them. - "Putin" crab in the tank.

[bleep] damn.

First time handling an opilio crab.

- Woo! - 500!

Woo!

5, baby!

Whoo!

What do you think, John, red, white, and blue?

- I agree. - We'll dump it back.

Woo!

The bottom line is to get that 100,000 pounds, we need

to go through the gear one more time,

but there's no guarantees.

We need to do this fast.

Weather's coming in right now.

500 miles southeast,

on the southern bairdi grounds.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, dear.

- We believe in you! - Yeah!

Give that [bleep] give me the [bleep]

- Heck, yeah! - Yeah!

Yeah, yeah!

This guy.

Oh, my gosh.

I hope they understand that the cornea is like a little

hard, clear marble

that does not digest.

Get it, boy, Get it!

Woo, yeah.

yeah! Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo! Yeah!

- All right! - Hell yeah, brother!

I did it, look at that.

- Yeah. - Atta boy!

Now you're part of the crew, whoo!

Woo!

Pretty terrible, not gonna lie.

The texture, it was--

It popped in my mouth and everything.

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Pretty damn gross.

But, I mean, they're doing what they're told.

And that's what I need from them right now.

You want that team clicking and being one unit.

And it's Nico's job to show these guys how to do it.

All right, I got all my markings.

Set for a tenth of a mile in 3, 2, 1.

Let's go, baby!

I came up in the shallows, spreading my gear out between

38 to 44 fathoms.

There's a lot of potential for some big numbers.

- We just have to find it. - Going over.

Let's go, let's go. Get it over, get it over.

Oh, it feels so good getting some pots in the water.

All right, let's do this, guys.

Yeah, baby, let's go.

Oh [bleep] how bad is it?

Oh, [bleep]

Hey, Rick!

Are you serious?

Hey, Rick!

Are you serious?

Keep pressure. Keep pressure.

- OK, what do we do, man? - I don't know.

What's up, bro?

Can you hold this with that hand?

- Let me pick you up. - No, no, no.

Let's help you.

Hey, you want to take that side?

It leans on you.

I got you.

Oh, yeah.

- Oh, my [bleep] whole leg hurts. - Well, yeah, dude.

Cut himself

- OK, let's get you turned around. - Oh, [bleep]

OK, so this part is going to be the fun part.

Let's just put that down, take your pants off.

You can sit down.

- Yeah, yeah. - One more boot.

Oh.

Well, yeah, dude, that's-- all right, so,

so when you stabbed yourself, how far did it go?

- Shot through. - Oh, yeah.

- You got that bad boy real good. - [bleep] yeah.

So I'm going to go get my stuff.

- [bleep] - And I'll be right back.

Son of a bitch!

Antibiotics.

Lidocaine, the numit.

It's just getting everything we need.

It's not going to take many stitches.

It's a clean cut.

All right. Time to do some stitches.

Ah [bleep]

Here we go, let's just do it.

I know.

What the [bleep]

There we go.

Can you slide your leg over the edge?

There you go. Don't bend it.

- OK. - You don't want to rip it.

Exactly.

All right, so why don't you just slide back, relax.

We got to set these pots off.

Chill.

That was not on the agenda for tonight.

Deck knife.

Getting a staph infection is a real possibility on a boat,

and we're gonna have to keep an eye on it.

- We have to still push. - Hey!

I have 400,000 pounds of bairdi to catch.

It could be something that is

life-changing money for all of us.

I'm gonna be expecting a lot out of everybody.

Hopefully Nico's pain is not gonna be too bad tomorrow.

140 miles west, on the Wizard.

Good.

You know, done it before plenty of times.

You know, I'm ready to go back up there.

Only way to get over your fear is by doing it again, so.

No more crowbars, all right?

- Yeah. - All right.

- Stay safe out there. - All right,

thank you. - OK.

Eight hours after deckhand Lynn Guitard went overboard

while unchaining the stack, Keith orders the release of

the same binders before setting 160 pots in 22-foot seas.

Okay, um, you need to slow down.

I've got guys on the stack, Mouse.

It's dark now, and

Well, it's good to get Lynn back up there.

It's kind of what I thought.

He's probably nervous as hell, understandably so.

Doesn't go away.

So he doesn't need to go out port.

OK, I can't stress that.

Careful, careful, careful.

- I can't see [bleep] - Roger.

Okay.

We're good.

We're good. We're good.

Watch out.

Got a guy unhooking a chain.

Now, for the rest of our lives,

we've got to be terrified of this project.

Let's focus on the guys on the stack.

And when you're ready, we'll go ahead

and start dumping.

Whoo!

Let's go ahead and get one over here.

- Delta 21 to first buoy. - Let's dump it.

- Going over. - Let's go, baby!

- Woo hoo! - Woo!

400 miles northwest...

Oh, yeah, there's some pretty good waves out here.

Here comes one.

Oh.

...on the Russian line.

We're going to have a hell of a time getting these up.

Standing by.

Oh, hang on.

Oh, OK. Jeepers-creepers.

I'm getting too old for this [bleep]

Earlier it was coming more from the east-northeast,

Now it's kind of switched around, and it doesn't seem to

want to make up its mind.

Bags could be anywhere, you know.

Come around on it when we get it in the block and then have to

OK, Hawkeye, now I need your eyeballs.

I can't see out that window because it's all frozen.

If there's a wave coming out, you got to let me know.

Roger.

Sophia, there's a pot right there, and I just

went right by it.

Are you kidding me?

Oh, I'm all screwed up here.

Your bag's over here, you see him?

- Where? - Over here on the left side.

How far left? What do you mean left?

- Left. - 8, 9, 10 o'clock?

- What left? - 10:37.

I know it's slow. Sorry, guys.

We're just kind of working on our communication up here.

I don't know if she's ever seen weather like this, so

I don't know much about Bob.

Tide's starting to turn now,

so I got to turn more. - Putting us in the ditch?

Ooh, watch out.

- Ooh, wave, wave, wave. - Ah, hang on.

Oh, get out of there!

Ooh, watch out.

- Ooh, wave, wave, wave. - Ah, hang on.

Oh, get out of there.

Gotta let me know right away.

I can't see anything from the other side.

Anything.

- Roger. - Okay.

Whoa!

What do we got? What do we got?

What do we got?

Big money is what we got, come on, baby!

- Yes. - Oh, my god.

- That is such a big pot. - Yes, it is.

- [bleep] - Awesome.

Is it all clean?

"Big and clean," he says.

John is just parallel to us,

so hopefully he's getting the same thing.

That's a big pot there, that's a big pot.

Wow.

Don't go to Russia.

We got apple pie here. - Alrighty.

We got drag racing and rock and roll, baby.

- Woo-hoo! - 5-5-5, yeah!

Thank you, Hansens, thank you, Northwestern.

This is awesome.

Thank you, God.

Whoo hoo!

Next one coming up.

That's a big [bleep] pot.

There we go, boom!

Hell, yeah.

- Whoo, baby! - Hell, yeah.

Whoo!

Yeah.

Now all we got to do is just keep grinding.

Good start, and it's going to start making us money.

Whoo!

The weather is finally being the weather that we expected,

which is east-northeast, 40, 45, 25 foot seas.

Otherwise, it's going to be about four hours of [bleep] hell.

Right now, it's dicey down there.

The boat's just screaming

to starboard over the top of these pots.

So it's a one shot deal.

If Lynn doesn't hit that shot,

it's going under the boat or it's going in the wheel.

After going in the water,

I can't have him regressing on me.

And for Lynn's sake, he can't regress either.

You've got to put him in the saddle.

You've got to put him in the hot seat.

- Coming at you. - Nice shot.

Come on, get it.

Get it, get it.

You got it, pull it up.

- Okay, you got it. - Right on.

- Good shot, Lynn. - Oh [bleep], we mean business now.

- Yeah! - Yeah!

- [bleep] - Oh, my God.

What'd we get?

About to see twice that amount.

OK, good. There's the next one.

- Coming at you. - Let's go, guys.

Get in there.

- We got it again. - Nice.

- Good job, man. - Oh, yes!

Whoo!

It's working and living on that crab right there on that table.

No problem at all.

Go, go, go!

420, right on.

Lynn's a rock star. He's earned

being-at-Bering-Sea-full-share crab fisherman many times over.

Brother Lynn.

But at the end of the day, we are a family,

and we love the [bleep] out of each other,

and that's the most important thing.

There's no place like home!

Yow!