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Hey! Again already, you start the day like this!

You seem to think

that you're running this boat.

Are you not listening to a word I'm saying?

Oh. Look at this thing.

This gets stuff sticking up.

It's going to be a net-grabbing son of a bitch.

We got a hole over here, too, by the way.

For me, that's a normal fishing boat.

Just go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

Whoo!

We missed her by seven hours.

We didn't get to say our last goodbyes.

I just got a... I gotta get through this.

I just got a... I gotta get through this.

160 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor,

on the eastern bairdi crab grounds...

All right, guys, let's get the crab.

aboard the Wizard.

Oh, boy, here comes one.

Whoa-oh-oh.

Oh, nothing like a little shower, right, guys?

Right on.

That'll wake you up. Holy.

Whoo!

Come on.

Yeah!

- Couple? Nothing? - Nothing.

No.

No.

I only know where the hot spot is

if we want to catch starfish.

There's no question that we are not

putting any gear back where this string is.

Can we please get the hell out of slime alley, please?

With only 25% of these bairdi crab in the tanks...

Jacob, I told you to get in the bait bin.

Get your ass up in the bait bin.

Captain Keith Colburn takes aim

at the rest of his quarter-million-dollar quota

and newly-demoted deckhand, Jacob Hutchins.

And newly-demoted deckhand, Jacob Hutchins.

Jacob's officially not tying any carrying bins any more

after we had that one knot slip and... lost a pot.

You just cost me four thousand bucks.

He wants to be a captain someday.

I respect his ambition.

But the only way to get into the captain's chair

is to earn your way into the captain's chair.

This is a lot of wasted work.

I came here to make money.

I see a leg, I see a jellyfish.

We need to go down and do a QC check on this.

See what's going in the tank.

Mouse you wanna drive?

Stand down there on the crab.

I'm liking the bait.

I hope so.

You're gonna be here a while.

Well, that's fine 'cause it's far away from you.

That's what I like.

- Blaming me for a knot? - Hey!

Oh, here you go.

It was not my knot, Keith.

I'm happy to be in the bait.

- Thank you. - No, you're not in the bait any more.

- Thank you. - No, you're not in the bait any more.

You're in your room.

Go. You're done.

- What the. - Get the into your room.

No respect, you.

It's.

Heads up.

You're now officially a four-man deck.

One of the more pleasant mornings we've had recently.

We got a big stack to throw in.

Everybody has to step up

to fill in the gap for the missing guy.

It's time for me to just run my own boat.

No.

He made it personal with me yesterday,

so I made it personal with him.

There's gotta be a hotspot here somewhere.

We're gonna start at the bottom,

we're gonna work our way up the hill

until we find what we need.

160 miles southwest

160 miles southwest

in Dutch Harbor...

There she is, Brenna A.

But anywhere I'm going now...

But anywhere I'm going now...

cost of bait, crew, fuel.

All that stuff.

Insurance adds up.

So the plan is to team up with another boat.

I save on my start-up costs

and somebody else makes more money off of my quota.

We both win.

Late to the start of the fall season,

Captain Sean Dwyer sidesteps the 50 grand in overhead

needed to launch his family vessel,

opting instead for a partnership.

Opting instead for a partnership.

And that's where Rick comes in.

Rick Shelford is a fifth-generation Alaskan fisherman,

been up here a long time.

Dad, brothers, grandpas, everybody is a fisherman.

That wind is pushing us

a lot more than I thought it would on this boat.

Come on, let's go, let's go.

Oh, watch out!

Slack, slack, slack.

You're pulling me into the dock, dude.

You're pulling me into the dock, dude.

Hey, watch out, watch out.

What the... What the...

Damn.

You just slammed the bow into the...

All right, we're good now.

There we go.

Yeah, he's up in the wheelhouse.

Rick.

Mr. Sean Dwyer, man.

What's up?

What are the guys doing?

Loading pots.

They're getting close.

I want to do a safety meeting

and go through all our drills.

And in that timeframe,

we gotta go get food and our personal stuff,

whatever we need.

It's a list.

It's a big list.

At this point, we're just fighting the clock.

Everybody else is out there, already starting to fish.

Hopefully, we can get this show on the road,

Hopefully, we can get this show on the road,

get back on track.

Let me go get my bag.

Sean and I, we have a lot in common.

We have a lot of history in the Bering Sea.

My father built this company.

I want to buy this boat,

so my kids have a future.

With his sights set on their combined

half a million dollars' worth of bairdi crab,

Captain Rick Shelford plans to use his profits

Captain Rick Shelford plans to use his profits

to become full owner

of the storied family fishing vessel,

the 123-foot Aleutian Lady.

Getting this freezer cleaned up, man.

It's no way to be living.

This on the verge of not working.

There's so much ice on it.

Right now, bairdi, at the price it is,

it'll be big money for all of us.

I guess I didn't realize

what a sad state of affairs this was in.

What a sad state of affairs this was in.

Now all I gotta do

is get this boat ready and out of town

as fast as we can,

because none of us can afford to stay here any longer.

This is not what I signed up for.

193 miles northwest

on the Barbara J...

Yeah, baby!

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

Look at the size of that one down there.

Look at the size of that one down there.

Woo-hoo!

Yeah!

49.5 average.

Now bump it to 50.

You're a fisherman for sakes.

Nobody stops at 49.5 here.

Good fisherman's got to fib a little.

- Fifty crab out of it man. - There you go.

We're in pretty good depths here.

Fishing has been really good.

Woo-hoo!

With nearly one-third

of his father's 60,000-pound

bairdi crab quota in his tanks,

first-time skipper, Jack Bunnell...

I'm proud of him. He's doing good.

He's... he's listening and he's doing well.

along with veteran captain Steve "Harley" Davidson,

along with veteran captain Steve "Harley" Davidson,

enter into their sixth hour of hauling

and setting back all 120 pots,

10 miles from the northern border of the grounds.

Now where is this pot at?

I thought I just seen one pop up a second ago.

I'm not seeing anything.

Look over the portside.

Ah, I'm looking.

I don't see.

How hard is it to find a beeper

and a floating bag.

- Neon orange and, uh... - Yeah.

'Cause the other ones are like a dayglow yellow.

Yeah, it's not exactly a camouflage.

All right. Go to your next one.

It should be right here. We're right on top of it.

This one's missing, too.

What the.

- You're right. - And it's not the current?

No.

Oh, right over here, I think I see it.

Pointing right at it.

That's them right there.

There is something up there, isn't it?

Yeah, I see four buoys together.

1.7 miles from where I frickin' set it.

That is not good.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

Oh.

Wow.

Oh.

What the hell happened?

What the hell happened, man?

Oh.

Just 10 miles south

of the crab grounds' northern border,

on the Barbara J.

Oh. What the hell happened?

What the hell happened, man?

Oh.

Crushed like a tin can.

I had never seen a pot so in my life

that's not how they're supposed to come up.

Captains Jack and Harley

find one of their pots

dragged off mark and bent beyond repair,

dragged off mark and bent beyond repair,

despite their inch-and-a-quarter thick steel frame.

That little fleet, they've been mowing back and forth.

I can't see them on the AIS and the plotter

but I can track them on my RADAR.

These are the unregulated, unreported ones.

Got a formation going.

I think these guys trolled

right through our, man.

Calling the vessel at 55-21.

This is the Barbara J.

Calling the vessel at 55-21.

Calling the vessel at 55-21.

Do you copy?

Bastards.

They're just turning to make another pass.

While trawlers and crabbers

often fish the same waters,

Bering Sea code dictates

they avoid navigating through each other's claim.

But poachers and illegal vessels lack...

Well, the same moral compass.

We'll go. We'll fix it.

Where you going?

I gotta do a little present

we're gonna make for these bastards.

Hey, let's get that pot over here, guys.

Northward.

What we gotta do

is we gotta get this as far as out

and then we're gonna just weld them in and just spike it up, man.

We want this thing to look like a porcupine.

Harley's plan,

turn one of the damaged pots

turn one of the damaged pots

into a jagged 1,000-pound roadblock,

capable of tearing through dragger nets

and halting their operation.

Yeah.

Just get stuff sticking up.

- We got another barb sticking up right like that. - Roger.

This is gonna be a net-grabbing son of a bitch.

- Okay. - Yeah.

Yeah, I got 'em right here in front of us.

Yeah, I got 'em right here in front of us.

Okay.

There, just set it down.

Holy. Look at this thing.

That'll tear a net up right there.

This looks like the spot

Here we go.

Get those suckers.

Got 'em.

Take that, Ivan!

- You too, Vladmir! - Yeah.

Yeah. Whoo!

The Bering Sea justice.

I knew this day would come,

I just didn't think it would come so fast.

We got the call while we're fishing golden king crab.

Uh, my mother was deteriorating rapidly.

Uh, my mother was deteriorating rapidly.

We missed her by seven hours.

We were in Anchorage,

at the airport and, uh...

We didn't get to say our last goodbyes.

Um, she's gonna be in a plot next to my father.

Hey, I gotcha Steve.

I know.

I know.

Yeah, well, I just gotta do one thing at a time.

I just got a... I gotta get through this first.

All right, buddy. Thank you.

Responsible for catching and delivering

the northwestern's $150,000

of bairdi crab quota this fall,

Captain Sig Hansen prepares to lay

the matriarch of the family to rest,

Snefryd Hansen, before returning to the grounds.

When my father passed away,

it was so much more needed

to come together,

keep the business going and...

And we put that... we prioritized that first.

And we put that... we prioritized that first.

With my mother...

because she was the rock of the family,

because... you know, she was holding everything together

for so many years now,

this is a different one.

Oh, my God.

Me? That's not me. That's Dad.

Are you ready?

I'm ready.

1,850 miles northwest...

Okay, guys, we got about

three quarters of mile or so, we'll set this off.

Our best number are right here on the northern end of our gear.

Of our ship.

On the Wizard...

What kind of shape did Jacob

leave you guys up there in main station?

I don't see our normal wall of fish

hanging up there.

Usually, he's doing bait

and I'm up there helping them out.

But now we only got four guys,

so I gotta do bait and still help them out.

After benching new hire, Jacob,

for insubordination...

I'll help out the guys any way I can.

It's a good crew.

I'll at least do the dishes.

I like those guys.

All right, go ahead and set it.

Captain Keith finds stacking and setting

Captain Keith finds stacking and setting

all 150 pots

a daunting task for his remaining deckhands.

I guess I gotta do it all now.

The guys are just worn out, man.

Now we're down a guy.

And we'd like to have him out here

'cause we're already short-handed at this.

All right, guys.

Leave that one on the rack.

Leave that one on the rack.

Come on into the house real quick.

Roger!

All right Mouse. Come on.

- I'm... I'm coming. - Okay.

Let's go. Go, go, go, go, go.

Don't worry about the rain gear,

just come on in.

You just gave everybody

25% more work to do, Jacob.

Hoo-aah!

Hoo-aah!

Good job.

You seem to think

that you're running this boat

with your mouth from the deck.

And you have no respect for me

and probably the least amount of respect

of any deckhand I have ever had on this boat.

If I was running a boat,

I would never make it a vendetta

to go against one person so fervently.

I was in my bait station, you come up to me

and told me, "Oh, you're gonna live in here forever."

Are you not listening to a word I am saying?

On the Wizard...

Are you not listening to a word I am saying?

I don't know what it is about me that rubs you the wrong way

but you gotta just get over that, man.

I mean, this guy right here, Robby.

Robby's one of the only deckhands I've ever had that got fired on this boat

that has come back and worked on it, okay?

But what did I can you for, Robby?

Saying some, I disrespected the Captain which you don't do.

Saying some, I disrespected the Captain which you don't do.

And whatever the Captain says, we do it.

He wants us to go grab 800 shots from the bow, guess what we're gonna do?

Grabs 800 shots.

Yeah, we're all gonna bitch about it but we're still gonna do it

and not say about it.

I'm saying, we're in the middle of the trip and we need you, okay?

I'm not trying to piss you off.

I'm sorry for disrespecting you, Monte,

I'm sorry for disrespecting you, too, Keith.

I'll listen to what you guys have to say.

Can I help these guys out, please?

You're welcome to go out and help.

- Bust ass, all right? - Yeah.

- Thank God. - Thank you, let's do this.

- Come on, we need you, man. - All right.

This money helps so many people.

I got nieces and nephews and it's been a hard time, I'm gonna work my ass off.

Yeah! Here we go, yeah!

- Let's do this. - Thanks for coming back, bro.

- Let's do this. - Thanks for coming back, bro.

Let's do this!

Hopefully, he can do what we just asked him to do

and just try and become a Wizard crewman.

Because it's three strikes and you're out and he just had his second strike.

Going over!

190 miles north-west on the Barbara J...

Will you look at this?

Look at all this crabs!

The most crab that are in this tank came from this area in the string.

This is freakin' phenomenal, man.

- Whoo-hoo! - Got a lot of crabs!

Going over!

All righty, good job, guys.

Now, that was the last one there.

Then we run back up to the string there, so... five miles.

Then we run back up to the string there, so... five miles.

Setting back a 124 pots on grounds rife with crab and trawlers.

Hey, I might see something up there on the horizon.

But it looks of it, they're getting three, four miles up there.

Well, then that's getting close to where we put that pot.

Captain Jack eyes a 180-foot dragger

steaming towards the southern end of their gear

and Harley's net-slicing pot from hell.

I need him to hit that starfish pot.

I need him to hit that starfish pot.

Otherwise he can just keep ripping through my gear.

- He's about to go right over that pot. - Oh, yeah.

Right through the most lucrative part of our crab grounds,

there they are.

I don't know, he went... He just keep cruising.

He's not stopping or anything.

Has he got his gear in the water still?

Yeah, net's behind 'em and...

Yeah, net's behind 'em and...

I'm gonna go freaking check it out, see what the hell.

Screw them, I ain't moving for them.

Something had to happen he went right over that damn thing.

If we got a direct hit we're gonna see something.

Oh, we're gonna know.

In Dutch Harbor...

- Who is your boss around here? - Uh, Noah?

You're the boss around here?

On the Aleutian Lady...

On the Aleutian Lady...

What do you guys got rigged so far and what's left to go?

Uh, we probably got another 75 pots in the yard.

Yes.

There's a sat on couple of them.

For real.

- Need a little TLC. - Right.

For sure.

It ain't gonna fish.

It's a piece of.

Falling further behind the fleet every hour.

Bairdi are crafty, man.

They, uh, they will find a way out anywhere.

They, uh, they will find a way out anywhere.

Captain Sean discovers gaping holes in his co-captain's pots

and his operation.

Good morning, Sean, how are you doing, man?

- Good, how are you? - Oh.

I am doing wonderful.

Uh, so, I'm concerned about how these guys are tying pots.

Anything that's not done while we're setting,

knots can get retied, a hole can be fixed.

Do you trust these guys to fix all the holes when they're setting?

Do you trust these guys to fix all the holes when they're setting?

I don't.

Just trust me, man.

What time you got, uh, coastguard stuff for your departure?

So, I have not called them yet

and that is on my list to give them a shout.

But isn't that optional, too, if you do it once a year?

- It's not optional anymore? - Not optional.

Really?

Really?

I'll give 'em a shout this morning.

It's Sunday.

Well, there's always somebody in the office, so, that shouldn't be a problem.

- Every season. - Yeah.

Never missed one.

Yeah?

Mmm-hmm.

I normally only, only do it once a year.

You've reached U.S. Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment Dutch Harbor.

Our office hours are Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Our office hours are Monday to Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

If you'd like to leave a message, press one.

That's gonna piss me off.

Because have you seen anything in paper anywhere...

It is a requirement for the crab fisheries.

Are they actually cracking down on that now?

- Because if we were going out... - Hmm.

- With, what, even a 160 pots, right? - Mmm-hmm.

I would be a 100% for you.

But going out with a 130 pots

is way below even getting close.

Is way below even getting close.

So, if they come down and weigh those pots,

there is zero they're going to do

- or recommend or... - I have never heard that it's optional.

I mean, I'm all for doing it

- but... - Doesn't sound like you are.

- Well, no... - You're saying you're all for it

but I'm not gonna do it.

On the Aleutian Lady...

The coast guard, what they'll do is take this

and just certify what the pot weight is on these,

it's only an optics thing it does not do anything.

You're saying you're all for it but I'm not gonna do it.

Well, uh, I don't wanna wait another day to do it

- because... - I don't either

but, I mean, we should have done it couple days ago.

The weighing is voluntary.

They will push it and try to make you do it, it is not a law.

You wanna throw the book back in their face?

You wanna throw the book back in their face?

No, it's not throwing the book, it's having the less amount of pots.

I don't know, it's up to you, obviously, it's your boat

but, mm, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to argue with the coast guard on rules.

It just doesn't seem like the best thing to do.

Oh, I love arguing with rules.

- Well, whatever. - It's stupid.

I'm gonna go up and see how these guys are doing on pots.

Om... Om... Om...

Om... Om... Om...

See ya.

We're almost there, almost there.

I might be having some regrets.

Let me tell you one thing...

I don't think they're gonna be ready to leave tomorrow.

Um...

I never got to say "Thank you" enough.

I never got to say "Thank you" enough.

And, uh...

I just want to say, thank you.

We're setting an example.

And, uh...

always being there for us.

And let us live our lives the way, uh...

that we should.

I love her very much.

We, we didn't get to say it enough.

We, we didn't get to say it enough.

So, thank you, Mom.

We commend to almighty God our sister, Snefryd Hanson,

and we commit her body to the ground,

earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Amen.

On the Wizard...

On the Wizard...

Keith gave me another chance, so, I'm gonna show him and the guys

that, that wasn't a mistake.

We are in the northern area, we got three strings up here.

Most of it is kind of centering on the octopus.

With his gear set on the best bairdi sign trending North...

I think everybody on this boat's drank cod blood before, right?

Captain Keith beseeches the crab gods for their favor

and he knows just the deckhand to intercede.

We call this The Bering Sea Wizard Bloody Mary, okay?

It's not good luck if you don't drink it.

Ah, that looks good.

Whoa.

Oh, my God.

- Mm, mm, mm. - Whoo!

- Mm, mm, mm. - Whoo!

Yeah!

- Good work. - Whoo!

- You're part of the crew now. - Come on, now.

Yeah! -

Now, let's catch some crab.

Going up...

Get 'em on! Whoo!

We really need to see some crab in that string.

On the Aleutian Lady...

My grandfathers, my father kept telling me, "You're the next generation."

I mean, my first time, I came up,

I was 15, I fished my whole Summer.

And one of the full shares was helping me and my buddy cut our bait.

And all I hear is, "Oh, that up!."

And all of a sudden, I got seven fingers in my hands.

I caught in the chute going overboard.

Next thing I know, I'm covered in blood,

he's freaking out, he just got morphined, he's barking, trying to bite us.

He's freaking out, he just got morphined, he's barking, trying to bite us.

That was my first time on the Bering Sea fishing.

And, yes, it was traumatizing, but I was hooked.

And, by the way, the guy did get three and a half of the fingers reattached.

Thanks, Rick.

That story's worth a high-five.

On the Wizard...

I can guarantee you this, we will be getting a 200 count on this boat.

Get 'em on! Yeah!

Captain we caught bairdi.

You know, that pot is hands down the biggest pot I've hauled this season.

Two thirty-four!

Two thirty-four!

Wow!

Two thirty-four! Yeah!

Whoo!

Fishing's great.

Fishing is phenomenal.

Time to be back on deck, this is badass.

Comradery is a big part of my team.

It's about working together.

Not working for yourself.

Jacob may have just made a step in the right direction.

In Dutch Harbor...

I mean, as far as, like, the deck goes,

you need, uh...

I need bridles, trailing lines.

On the Aleutian Lady...

I need to get a spare picking hook cable, door rubbers, more hook line.

I need to get a spare picking hook cable, door rubbers, more hook line.

- Cause some of this is gonna take time. - Yeah.

It's a hefty amount of stuff.

Now, 12 days behind the fleet...

Let's count 'em as we bring 'em on the boat.

All right.

Captain Sean's checklist becomes,

in his view, a reality check.

What's up, my friend?

How is it going out there?

Well...

I got the coast guard's blessing, the safety stuff.

I got the coast guard's blessing, the safety stuff.

Minus the shots up there, we'll be ready in an hour and a half.

I'll tell you where I'm at, like...

I'm a little feeling like this is just kinda chaos.

And I don't necessarily feel like...

it's a good idea to take off...

I mean, to me, that's a normal fishing boat, just go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

I understand wanting to get out there

but I, honestly, just feel like there's some corners that are being, like, cut.

But I, honestly, just feel like there's some corners that are being, like, cut.

- And I'm just saying, like... - But they're not.

I'm concerned.

There is no safety issue at all.

Just feels like there's a lot getting overlooked, man.

Well, what is getting overlooked?

I mean, look at how many holes are in all these pots, dude.

You got holes that are huge out there

and you're just... you're fishing those?

That's your M.O?

I know for a fact, even the hole-y gear

will catch more than most people are gonna catch.

Will catch more than most people are gonna catch.

Anybody that's like, "Oh, there's a hole."

Yeah, there is always holes in every pot unless it's rewebbed.

- So, I mean... - There's not always holes in every pot.

- Well... - You don't want a hole but I think it's a problem.

- And I think deep down, you do too. - Okay.

Well, then, I'm asking you, what your thoughts are, then?

- I mean, it's... - You're the Captain, dude.

Well, we're the co-captains,

- You came to me with... - I can... you want me to fix it?

I'll fix it right now, we're taking all these pots back off,

that need the holes fixed,

because you know as well as I do, deckhands suck holes out at sea.

Because you know as well as I do, deckhands suck holes out at sea.

Oh, it'd be three or four days, it's not happening.

At least, we're off the dock

and we're making headway, making forward progress.

At what point do you go,

- "Boy, there's a lot of bad happening..." - Mmm-hmm.

"maybe, I gotta..."

"take stock for a minute."

I mean, if you aren't in the mood to pull an all-nighter

to get us out of town...

- Oh, so, now this is my fault? - No, no.

- Okay... All right... - I didn't say it was your fault,

- I'm just saying, you said that. - I see how it's going.

I hear what you're saying.

I don't think you are, I don't think you are hearing me.

I think you're thinking of an excuse for everything I say.

- I want to get input from you. - So, I'm gonna get my bag

and I'm just gonna roll out.

So...

I'm out of here.

For Sean to come in here and pull that,

He can go himself.

'Cause that's bull.

A 100% bull.

Holes are holes, you don't want 'em.

But there's also a point where you could stay in town another week,

But there's also a point where you could stay in town another week,

or you can go out and fish and fix things as you go

and actually make money as you're doing it.

It's like talking to a brick wall, man.

That sound was our main engines firing up.

That sound was our main engines firing up.

The last pots are on-board.

Time to get out of here, time to go make some money.

We out!

Okay, go ahead, let's see what we've got.

Been watching these guys, there're not on their pattern no more.

Something had to happen, he went right over that thing.

Something had to happen, he went right over that thing.

Whoa!

- I think these guys had some contact. - Oh

Oh, yeah, it's good.

That must have ruined his frickin' net.

Hell, yeah!

Whoo-hoo!

We gotta get back to business, gotta get this caught.

We gotta get back to business, gotta get this caught.

We got the countermeasure now.

Now, they know that we're playing with fire, man.

Well, that was a nice service, I gotta say.

And my mother deserved the tribute that we gave her.

I'm gonna miss her a lot.

I'm still in grief but I have to focus on the task ahead

I'm still in grief but I have to focus on the task ahead

and, uh, that's my job right now.

Clear!

All loose!

I know, she wants us to continue forward,

for me to push forward,

because she has done that to me, for me, all my life.

That's exactly what I'm gonna do.

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