Original subtitles

-Bah! -Boo!

[Jake] There's so much bad weather coming

back to back.

-Wah-wah-wah. -[bleep].

[Jake] The crew's tired. Morale getting shot.

[crew over radio] Damn it!

[Jake] I am afraid that something's gonna happen.

Southerly winds.

-Ah! -Are you good?

-[bleep]. -[Sig] You think it's broke?

I don't know.

-Confused seas. -[Heather speaking]

[Johnathan] You better get down!

Watch out, watch out!

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

-[groaning] -[Johnathan] What happened?

Oh, [bleep]. Everyone keep an eye on him.

If he starts throwing up, we've got problems.

Watch your back, watch your back!

That ain't good.

Watch out! Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!

Watch out! Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!

Watch out!

-Watch out! -[yelling]

[narrator] 530 miles north of Dutch Harbor...

[Sig] Right now, I'm on edge.

...on the Northwestern.

[Sig] We got an offload coming in a couple of days.

Got another 100,000 pounds of opies to catch,

but just not quite sure

where we want to put these pots yet.

Well, why don't we move the gear further west

and follow that canyon?

Maybe they're kind of, like,

being channeled through there.

-Oh, go parallel? -[Bob] Yeah.

I think with the way the currents are going,

it's probably bringing a bunch of feed down there,

and maybe it's a little honey hole.

[Sig] All right. We'll give it a try.

With 50 pots ready to deploy and their final 100,000 pounds

of opilio left to catch, Captain Sig Hansen

and Sophia "Bob" Nielsen target an eight-mile canyon where

underwater tidal forces sweep plankton and algae into

a proverbial crab buffet while above creating

a violent and confused sea.

Tell you what, why don't you go on the port side

and kind of help me spot these waves coming

because I can't see through any of those windows.

[Bob] All right, Captain.

Watch the rail.

[crew] Going over!

Ah, ooh.

[groans]

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

Ooh, wave.

[Sig] Looks like it's coming from all directions.

I'm gonna come around a little bit.

Come on, you bitch.

-[Sig] Wave. -Look out, look out, look out!

[Karl] [bleep]!

[Karl] [bleep]!

[Karl speaking]

Oh, [bleep].

[Karl] So you can see the meat right there.

-[bleep]. -[Sig] Now what?

[Karl speaking]

[Sig speaking]

[Karl speaking]

[Sig groans]

It's deeper than I thought.

[Karl] [bleep] damn it.

[bleep] brand-new Vicky.

Right here.

-[Sig] Hold on. -[Karl] There.

-All better -- all right. -[Sig indistinct]

Bottom line is just to get it wrapped, kids.

[bleep] damn.

Can't believe it.

We don't know if that's infected or not.

I'm just crossing my fingers.

Hopefully we find something here.

We need crab.

320 miles southeast...

on St. George Island...

[Johnathan] We got this big storm coming in.

...aboard the Time Bandit.

I go out and see if I can get in the harbor,

because we've got to wait about 12 hours to pull our gear.

See if we can save some fuel.

I'm trying to catch some opies.

We still have 30,000 pounds to catch.

But the wind hasn't come down long enough.

This is just ridiculous.

After taking shelter from the weather,

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand braces for a perilous exit

through the narrow, 280-foot-wide harbor,

betting he can steer through the 15-foot breakers and away

from the hull-piercing, rocky shoreline.

Go ahead and loosen 'em up, Freddy.

[Freddy] Roger!

Uncleat it.

Drop it! Here we go!

Let's go fishing, baby!

There's some big whitewater right there.

It's a pretty small little entrance

is the problem.

Arr...

[all laughing]

[Johnathan speaking]

You just got to time it right.

Oh, yeah, there's some big waves there.

That's way bigger than I thought.

-Oh, oh! -Holy!

[Johnathan] That one went right over the breakwater.

Just every, like, 12th or 13th wave is a big one.

Time Bandit, baby!

Whoo!

Bring it on, boys! Bring it on!

-Are you kidding, Freddy? -[Heather speaking]

Oh, my God.

-What are they doing? -[Heather speaking]

Oh, look at that!

-Look out, look out. -Wow!

[Heather] Yeah, under.

[Johnathan] Aye, aye, aye.

Holy [bleep].

-[Johnathan] OK, I'm ready. -Hell yeah, brother.

[Johnathan] Now.

[Neal] Let's do this.

[indistinct chatter]

[Johnathan] Come around. Come on around.

-Whoo! -Come on, baby!

Oh! Whoa-oh-oh-ho!

Whoo-hoo!

Yee-haw!

-Whoa! -That's it!

[Johnathan] Having some problem. Come around, baby.

Holy [bleep], look at that wave.

Yeah, that's a big one there. Watch out.

That's gonna -- that's gonna slam us hard.

[Heather] Oh! Oh!

Ah!

[Johnathan] Oh, yeah, man, we got hit hard there.

[bleep] me.

I did that for you for Valentine's Day, Heather.

Whoo-hoo.

[Freddy] That was a good one.

[Freddy speaking]

-[Johnathan speaking] -[Freddy] Roger!

Going back out fishing.

I've just got to get up to our gear and start hauling.

370 miles northwest...

Watch the rail, watch the rail!

Yeah, baby!

...on the opilio grounds...

[bleep].

Those things are [bleep] monsters, dude.

Look at 'em.

They're building.

...aboard the Cornelia Marie.

Hang on.

The weather's getting bad,

and I got an offload date that I can't push.

I'm trying to find crabs.

Right now, we're in the 90-fathom range.

I'm following temperature.

We know you can't go any shallower than 92 fathoms,

and you don't want to go any deeper than 96.

So I want to set right here

and end right here.

All right, fellas, let's get these off.

Get this [bleep] off the boat.

[Jake speaking]

...the rail, watch the rail please.

Roger.

[groans] [bleep].

I got the weather on the starboard side.

I gotta go fast, and not too fast that it'd break everything

or kill somebody.

[bleep].

OK, watch this one.

Rail, rail, rail!

Oh, [bleep] damn, I can't even see the waves coming up

from behind me.

[suspenseful music playing]

[waves roaring]

Oh, [bleep].

Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out,

watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out!

Oh, no!

Ah!

On the Cornelia Marie...

Watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out,

watch out, watch out, watch out, watch out!

Oh, no!

Ah!

[Jake speaking]

[crew members speaking]

Like a [bleep] freight train came through.

[bleep].

Ah, [bleep].

That's it, we're gonna turn and just set...

[crew speaking]

-I'm gonna dog-leg this string. -Going over!

[Jake] I got an offload date, so I gotta hurry up.

But the weather's coming from the starboard side.

I gotta turn and go up against it.

It's [bleep] dangerous as hell.

So I can't fish where I want to.

I'm fishing where I have to,

over 100 fathoms deep.

I'm racing against time here.

Going over!

60 miles south...

[Bob speaking]

How's it feel?

[Karl] It's still oozing. Yeah, it's purple right here.

Oh, yeah, you got some gnarly bruising.

...on the Northwestern.

Karl just had an incident with a knife.

[groans]

The weather's picking up right now,

by the minute.

Just get through this.

That's it.

After administering butterfly closures

to Karl's one-inch gash,

Dr. Sig Hansen tests his own patience and Bob's hunch.

[Sig] This is that string you set.

Got a mile. You can run it to the end

and start it if you like.

Sure.

[sighs]

-Do you trust me? -[Sig] No.

[laughs]

So, we'll be bucking into it.

The big thing is to just keep the guys

safe, keep them out of the weather as much as I can.

Hopefully, my intuition,

my Bob-tuition was right,

and we land on some good, healthy crab.

[bleep]. [bleep] damn it.

[bleep]!

She's kind of towing a lot,

putting a lot of tension on the line.

[Sig] Look out the window.

...now you put it in gear. You barely put it in gear.

You can probably start straightening out a little bit.

-Oh, my. -All right.

[Sig] Good.

OK. Let's see the second one.

-[heavy thud] -Oh, [bleep]!

Are you good?

-I don't know. -What's going on with Clark?

[Sig] What do you mean?

[Bob] I don't know. He's, like, shaking his hand.

[Sig] You know what? Let me grab the next one.

[Bob] OK.

Clark, come on up.

-Roger. -Woo!

Whoa, yeah.

[Clark] I kind of [bleep] my hand up.

This [bleep] just went

on the diver bag on the inside of the horn

and got [bleep] ripped through.

I can see it, it's swelling right in front of me.

If it doesn't get better, then you're out.

-Get some ice on it. -Yeah.

[bleep].

I can go out on deck and help the guys.

I think one catastrophe is enough, you know?

I don't want to take that chance.

[Sig] That should not have happened.

Yeah!

Oh, my.

[Sig] This is good crab here.

I think this is our spot.

We don't have time to screw around.

190 miles southeast,

on the way to the opilio crab grounds...

Right now -- that was a big wave, whoo-hoo!

Okay, big wave.

Big, big wave. Hang on.

...aboard the Time Bandit.

The guys are sleeping like babies.

[Johnathan] 12 hours from our gear.

I'm steaming hard.

Here's where we found some crabs right here.

Some nice, clean crab, right in 87 fathoms.

I'll give it to Teddy Bear. And...

[yelling]

-Oh, oh. -Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[groaning]

-[knocking on door] -[producer] Hey, Johnny?

[Johnathan] Yeah?

Something happened to Ryan, man.

[Johnathan] Oh, [bleep] -- OK.

On the Time Bandit...

[Johnathan speaking]

[Neal speaking]

[Johnathan] OK, let me see.

Yeah, right there.

OK, we just need to get some suture tape.

Come out here and lay at the table.

Get him a blanket and a pillow.

Come lay down.

Lay down with your head this way.

Put his legs that way.

We've got to put him right here.

Scooch down. Scooch down.

Oh!

Got some suture tape in there?

-Yeah. -OK.

[indistinct]

-Here, Neal. -[Heather] Is that it?

[indistinct]

[Johnathan] Just close it good, Neal.

Squeeze it as tight as you can.

[Heather] You're OK, darling.

Just relax, relax, relax.

-Yeah. -[Johnathan] Keep your head up.

[Heather] Yep, yep.

[Johnathan] Stay right there -- OK.

[Heather] Put a blanket on you.

[Johnathan] We're gonna have to just keep an eye on him.

Everyone keep an eye on him.

If he starts throwing up, we got problems.

[crew] Roger.

[Johnathan] We have an injured crew member.

Ryan fell out of his bed and cut his head, so...

[Heather] OK.

Open your eyes just a little bit.

[Ryan] I'm trying.

[Johnathan] He's in pretty bad shape.

We can't take a chance.

We're gonna have to go to the clinic.

That sucks, but that's what we got to do.

Look, St. George Island Harbor.

-That's just trouble. -[Heather speaking]

Going in there.

It's been pretty scary, but, uh...

Here we go again.

Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye.

250 miles northwest...

on the northern opilio grounds...

[Jake speaking]

...aboard the Cornelia Marie.

My main objective right now is get this crab on the boat

and get in and deliver our opies.

But because of the weather, I just didn't get these pots

where I wanted to.

These are the pots that we set shallower.

They start gradually get deeper and deeper.

I can only haul the gear with the weather on the port side.

You just got to give her the juice and she'll turn.

Come on crab!

[groans]

[Jake] That's not good.

[bleep].

-It's looking pretty weak. -Damn it!

Come on!

What the --

Worse and worser.

This is where we set 'em in the first place.

And I got 'em right where I wanted to put 'em.

Missed completely.

[bleep].

All right, we just lost power.

Everybody accounted for?

[crew speaking]

-[loud machinery droning] -Careful!

-[electrical crackling] -[bleep]!

I'm going down to the engine room real quick.

-[electrical crackling] -[bleep]!

Yeah.

Power outage is from a shorted wire,

and it arced. Whoosh!

Dropped the power.

Suspecting one of his generator inputs tripped

a breaker, ship's engineer Jake Albinio confirms

the source of the fault...

-[electrical crackling] -[bleep]!

...when 400 amps explode in his face,

saved only by the thermoplastic grip

of his $11 screwdriver.

[Jake] That's a hell of a night.

Without the generator, I got nothing.

I got no hydraulics. I got no electricity.

I have no toilet.

I got to get this [bleep] generator figured out, fixed.

There's no room for error.

I gotta get to my offload.

64 miles south...

[Clark speaking]

Oh-ho-ho.

...on the Northwestern.

[Sig] Clark ran his hand through the block.

Good job, Bob.

[sighs]

All they gotta do is keep up with the tempo.

Ah, dummies.

[laughs]

Here it comes! Here it comes, baby!

[Bob] These are probably gonna be the best pods we've ever seen.

[Sig] Well, I sure hope so.

I mean, we've got a lot on the line here.

Because I want to make my offload.

Come on, baby! Come on! Come on!

Well, here we go.

[crew cheering]

-That's a lot of crab. -Oh-ho-ho!

-That'll work. -There you go.

-Yeah, baby! -Let's go!

Is it all right?

[Sig] Yeah, there's a good chunk of crab in there.

It's all clean.

It might work out after all.

[Bob] Well, thank you, good sir.

[laughs]

Now, are you going easy on the hand, Clark?

All right.

[groans] Oh, [bleep].

[Bob] He's slowing down.

Looks like maybe he's favoring a hand or something.

[Clark groaning]

Who's on the hook?

They're just [bleep] on vacation right now,

and it's making me angry.

I'm just running out of time, plain and simple.

[Sig groaning]

-That's a full crab bin. -It's so full.

I am going to jump out on the deck and try to help

the guys out there, because Clark hurt his hand.

And I'm an extra body, and that's what I came to do.

I came to help. I came to work.

I understand why he doesn't

want me going out there. He doesn't know me.

But, I mean, if the guys need help, I've worked out on deck

before, and I know what I'm doing.

-Oh-ho-ho-ho-ho! -Yeah, baby!

-Yeah. -Bob?

-Now's not the time. -I'm just trying to help.

OK.

What are you gonna do?

I didn't exactly want her on deck, but that shows a lot of

spunk, I guess would be the right word.

Yeah!

Reminds me of Mandy, so...

That's a good thing.

We'll get through these things in time.

-Roger! -Whoo!

-[indistinct cheering] -Yeah, baby!

[Sig] We're adding up fast.

-Whoa-ho! -Next pot!

[indistinct cheering]

[Sig] Then go in, offload, and regroup.

Yeah!

[Sig] Clark's hand, we got to address that as well.

See a doctor for him.

And... take care of our guys.

Two miles from St. George Island...

Not good.

Does John know?

He's the one...?

I don't -- I don't even remember.

...aboard the Time Bandit.

Ryan was getting up and he slipped off his bunk

and cracked his head on a corner of a shelf.

So...

trying to make it to the island.

It's not an easy thing to do here.

The only thing more dangerous than exiting

St. George Harbor in 15-foot swells?

Entering in a 17-foot following sea,

robbing John of his rudder and throttle control,

threatening to send the 113-foot Time Bandit

off course and into the jagged shoreline.

[Johnathan] If you time it wrong, it might not be good.

If you get sideways, you're in a lot of trouble.

What do you think, Neal?

[Neal] Slow and steady, brother.

"Slow and steady," my brother says.

[Neal speaking]

[Johnathan speaking]

-[Neal] You got this. -[Johnathan] You ready?

[Johnathan] Yeah, that's a big wave there.

Problem is, I'm sort of surfing right here.

Not good.

And look how fast we're moving.

Damn it!

Hang on!

[Johnathan] We're sideways.

Not good.

Screwed. We're screwed.

Oh, [bleep]. OK.

Hang on!

Coming around.

Come on. Come on.

Come on, baby.

[Neal speaking]

[Johnathan] Whew.

Why am I sweating bullets right now?

Whew.

[bleep] me. That was [bleep] gnarly, dude.

Wow, Neal. We made it.

[harbormaster speaking]

Thank you, sir.

We got a little bit of a sleigh ride coming in there.

[harbormaster speaking]

-He was puckering for us. -I was puckered up [indistinct].

[Johnathan] I was crazy.

Now I got to take Ryan to the clinic.

[bleep] head hurts like a mother[bleep].

But, uh, get some stitches.

[Johnathan] I can't leave town unless the doctor checks him out.

Hopefully he'll be good enough tomorrow to go fishing with us.

I need some new underwear.

360 miles northwest...

...on the Cornelia Marie.

-[machinery whirring] -[Jake] Nice.

...crab gear in a second.

This is my last chance, this is my last hope

before we go into offload.

We had to turn her away from where I think the crab are.

We're fishing in the deep.

Over 100 fathoms deep.

Come on, baby!

Here we go, boys!

-Yeah! -Whoo!

[crew cheering]

Holy [bleep] dude.

Oh, my God.

[bleep] yeah, dude.

I didn't expect that.

There is crab here.

-Whoo! -We just -- full pots.

[Jake] [bleep].

Wham, wham, wham!

Wham, wham, wham!

If I do this right, this is gonna be my last set.

My last tank when I go offload.

The thing about fishing, you never know what can happen.

You've got to be able to switch your frame of mind and adapt.

Try to make some magic happen.

It's been a hard opie season, but as you can see,

it's paid off.

We've got a happy crew down there.

Everybody's making money.

It's a pretty good way to go into bairdi.