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Time.

We all think we have time.

Get on board!

We even think we have time to kill.

Man over.

Overboard!

I'm gonna bring it around.

Who is it?

It's Clark! Oh, my God.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

But in the end, it's time...

Pull me up!

...that kills us.

Put a sling on him.

Get him in.

Easy, careful, careful.

Is he in?

King crab is back.

But it's derby style.

Those kids, those fishermen in there,

they think they know what a derby is.

A two million pounds of crab available to the fleet.

A $30 million prize is up for grabs.

I mean, they're as young and dumb as we used to be.

They have no idea.

A derby is a race against time.

Act fast, guys, get him on.

Roger.

The experienced guys who've been through it

prepare for months.

Oh, yeah.

We look at the surveys,

make our battle plans.

Cinderella story right here.

Oh, look at that.

We need every ounce of luck this year.

And tomorrow, the clock starts ticking.

And they're gonna find out.

There's no rules.

Watch the wheel, watch the wheel, watch the wheel!

I don't really think I'm ready for it.

There's no sleep.

!

It's like you stepping up quicker than you think.

There's no guarantees.

I need a head count. Give me a head count.

Go, go, go! Oh, what the...

Did you...

What the...

There's $30 million on the line.

Don't piss the dead.

I'm ready to move forward.

I wanna earn it.

It's you versus nature and everyone else.

What the [bleep]?

Do not hit my table.

Can you just shut the [bleep] up?

Jackpot, baby. - Whoo!

Yeah! I take this personal.

Get your ass up here.

Yeah, what happened?

Where's Skylar?

Yeah!

In a Derby fishery, time is what kills.

And nobody beats the clock.

♪ Another place

♪ Where the faces Are so cold ♪

♪ I'd drive all night Just to get back home ♪

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

♪ I'm a cowboy

♪ On a steel horse I ride

♪ I'm wanted

- Yeah! - Bang, bang!

♪ Dead or alive

- Look at that. - Holy cow.

Hell, yeah!

Yeah, baby.

The king is back.

All right, boys.

Whoo!

October.

Dutch Harbor, Alaska.

Duck down.

Every year, mariners flock to the largest fishing port in America,

pursuing six figure checks...

All right, baby, let's go, let's go.

...for just a few weeks of work

in the deadliest conditions at sea.

Take care.

Good.

But this year is different.

We've just been crossing our fingers every year,

and finally they opened it.

With the summer survey pointing to an increase

in juvenile and female crab populations,

Alaska Fish and Game crew the fall red king crab fishery.

After a four state closure lasting 35 months,

one of the most sought after delicacies in the world.

Alaska Red king crab is back.

Whoa!

The demand has never been so high.

People are chomping at the bit

to get their hands on this stuff.

Notoriously dangerous to catch,

Red king or Reds

command the price of $15 a pound,

spiking the fleet wide bounty by 30 million bucks.

- Oh, baby. People are excited to see it. - Let's go.

Maybe it was good to shut it down for a couple years

to get people that hungry for it.

But the new payday comes with strings attached.

This fall will be the first derby style fishery in 20 years.

If I'm able to get out there, be the first boat out fishing,

and I get on the mother lode right away,

I could get more quota

from other companies that are worried

they're not gonna catch their quota.

It's catch what you can.

It's gonna be a dog eat dog and cutthroat out there.

Before the season closes...

It's every man for himself.

Every captain for himself, every boat for itself.

Jack is back. King crab is back.

Let's go fishing.

In Captain's Bay...

We need to get these pots on.

See these other boats, they're all getting ready.

Let's slap 'em on as fast as we can.

Hell, yeah. - Oh.

Roger. Roger.

I've been striving for this moment my entire life.

Be ready for it.

Me and Harley, we were on the Barbara J last season.

But I wanna go king crabbing.

So, uh, we upgraded and got the Pacific Mariner.

He cashed in on his 401[k],

I took my family's money,

and we made it happen.

Going $2.3 million into debt,

29-year-old captain Jack Bunnell

and veteran derby skipper Steve "Harley" Davidson

maneuver their new ride to the starting gate.

The 126-foot Pacific Mariner.

Well, we got this big badass boat,

and the more crab we catch, the more quota we get.

But if we don't catch it, we don't make any money.

If I don't produce, I'm out of the chair.

Now capable of handling 60 more pots than the Barbara J,

and steam 3.3 knots faster,

the young skipper sets his sights on the gear dock

before launch in 24 hours.

Okay, how are we looking?

We are looking good.

And, uh...

I got a 40 year vet with me in the wheel house.

Now you're getting me bummed up.

Right now, we just gotta get our gear and get out there.

It's time, you know? Freakin' intense.

Let's just get our pots.

Just a mile northeast...

Clark, make sure everything's buttoned up, okay?

Yes, roger.

...on the 125-foot Northwestern.

Every minute counts.

You don't wanna be late to the party.

You know, you wanna get your gear out there.

If the weather changes,

you wanna be locked and loaded.

You wanna mark your spot.

One at a time.

The main thing is get the gear on quickly so we can get going.

For a family operation like mine,

if a fisherman is not doing well at all,

the owners can transfer that quota from A to B.

And I wanna be the one that's able to scoop up that quota double.

Scrambling to load on his leased gear from the pot dock,

Captain Sig Hansen races

to not only catch his 40,000 pounds of red king crab,

but to fish fast enough

that he can scoop up slower vessels' quota,

doubling his take

and achieving a million dollar season.

Oh, [bleep].

That's the Pacific Mariner.

Where is he going?

And I think if he's gonna keep going that way,

he's probably heading to the pot dock as well.

Looks like there's only one spot

that has pots ready to go.

I think we can beat 'em if we throttle down.

Oh, what's he doing?

Hey, Northwestern.

Yeah, you got me here a second?

Yeah.

Hey, uh, I'm gonna tie up to the dock here

and grab my pots.

All right, we'll see who gets in there first.

They're making their turn to get to the dock.

They're trying to tie up the starboard side,

and we're going forward, so we just go straight in.

The pots take the longest.

So, nobody wants to be a half a day late,

even six hours late.

Come on, come on.

Come on, baby. Turn!

We gotta beat 'em. Let's go.

Woo-hoo! We got it.

Son of a bitch.

Well, I don't see the problem.

I mean, the dock was empty.

As far as I know, it's first come, first serve.

At least it is now.

Well, you kinda me there, Sig.

Oh!

If you're not first, you're last.

We gotta get these pots on.

Clark.

get our buoy setups on these pots

once they're on, okay?

Roger.

Double orange, white cork. You know the drill.

Yep.

[bleep], man. It's all right.

We'll get, we'll get, we'll get over this one.

This is not how we need to start the season.

Six hundred ninety-five miles northeast of Dutch Harbor...

Hey, we're almost here, guys.

...aboard the storied 113-foot Time Bandit...

You know, we haven't had king crab season for years.

So, I wanted to really come over here

and say hi to my dad before we go out.

He's buried on the side of this hill.

He's a derby day fisherman. He started in the '60s.

Taught me how to fish.

He taught us how to be men.

As he has the past 20 years...

We're going to do a drive by by my old man's grave,

A good place to be right here.

We're gonna swing by and say hi to our pops.

But we got one stop to make before we begin our journey.

Captain Hillstrand pays tribute to his late father,

Bering Sea legend, John Wesley Hillstrand.

We're right in front of his house.

So, let's just, uh, go out and say a little prayer.

We need every ounce of luck we can this year.

Lured out of retirement,

this time by the opening of Red king crab,

the skipper taps into the strength of his bloodline

to mine his million dollar quarry.

God, give us the wisdom and the courage.

To fear... be fearless.

But also give us the eyesight

to watch out for each other so no one gets hurt.

In God's name, amen.

Amen. - Love you, Dad.

Let's do it, guys. Board up. All right.

Here we go. This is for Dad.

Oh, there we go.

Shoot 'em straight up, guys.

One, two, three.

Let's make some noise for the old man.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. There you go, Dad.

Isn't that a beautiful thing?

That is so beautiful. Look at that.

That's [bleep] beautiful.

Yeah! Whoo!

Nobody said a good prayer.

I don't know what I said, but it was a good prayer.

Love you, Dad. We're going fishing, baby.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Andy, uh, we're just saying hi to Dad.

You wanna say hi? Say, "Hi, Dad."

Hey, Pops, how you doing?

Still love you, man. Miss you.

Yeah. Yeah, I miss him too, Andy.

Hey, I, I know, uh,

you wanna make Dad proud and stuff, but, uh,

just be, be careful out there, man.

Yeah, I, I know what a derby is.

I knew you couldn't resist

going king crab fishing again,

but, uh, none of us ain't getting any younger, brother.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, that's something I'll think about.

Okay, love you, brother. We're going fishing, man.

So, I'll report to you when I get to Dutch.

Okay, sounds good, John.

I've been out here for so long, man.

This could be our last season.

But here I am again, one more time.

Red crab. Whoo! Red crab fishing.

I'm so excited, I'm like a little kid.

We're gonna fishing, Dad. Let's go fishing!

Red crab.

2023 king crab, here we come.

In Dutch Harbor...

What do you mean they won't let you on the boat?

All right, I'll be there in a minute, man.

Well, a couple of weeks ago, I got a call from my partner

saying that the Saga is possibly running out of money.

King crab's open.

And that was gonna get us out of the hole easily.

But I had no idea things were this bad.

After 17 years...

Welcome to hell. - That him?

...working his way up from greenhorn

on the Northwestern...

I got offered a job to run the Saga.

I think if I turn this opportunity down,

I'll be kicking myself forever.

Welcome.

...to becoming co-owner and captain

of the multimillion dollar 107-foot Saga.

Look at that. Yeah!

What a beautiful thing.

I have all my personal money,

my kids' college funds, all wrapped up in there.

Now there's a chain on the [bleep] door.

Jake Anderson

finds everything he's worked for in jeopardy.

What do you mean?

The door's chained.

repossession.

Hey, Mac, can I see that paper?

Please leave a message at the tone.

Hey, Lenny, give me a call if, if you get this.

There's a repossession notice on the boat,

and I, I don't understand why.

So, can you give me a call as soon as possible?

All right, bye bye.

Hey, Luka.

Hi, Dad.

We have you on speaker.

We miss you.

I'm at the boat and the, the doors are chained shut.

Can you get a hold of Lenny to try to see what the hell is going on?

Supposed to go fishing in three days

and he's not answering his phone.

Yeah, of course I will.

I love you.

We'll see what the [bleep] is going on.

I feel like I'm totally in the dark.

I can't go on my boat right now,

that's what you're telling me.

In Dutch Harbor...

And I can't fish it, I can't do anything with it.

Okay, bye bye.

This is [bleep].

What's the deal?

There's a liens on the boat.

The bank, they, they said nobody's allowed on it.

They own the boat, I don't know how.

I can't get a hold of Lenny.

I just feel like such a fool.

Well, he's been a good partner up until now, hasn't he?

He didn't mess with the boat,

and I didn't mess with the finances.

What about quota?

Do you own your own quota here? Yeah.

Well, Mandy's not gonna be with us on the first trip.

So, you can come here if need be.

I gotta think about it.

What happened is, uh,

probably the worst, uh, fear

that I think I've had since I was a kid.

But he also has to move forward

and know that he's got a little bit of leverage.

Thank God he has the quota to his name.

You know...

When I see it happen to Jake, it's like he's family.

He, he is family.

You know, he is like a son to me.

Huh.

This is a family operation.

And I need to catch this quota and I need to do it quick.

At the westward dock...

Let's go, boys.

All right, you guys, get going.

Okay. Ready?

One, two, three.

Whoo! Whoo.

...on the Wizard...

Everybody's gonna do the old school thing.

Prospect, look for crab.

I'm trying to take luck out of the equation.

This is my secret weapon.

I've got bottom temperature gauges now.

King crabs scour the sea floor in pursuit of food.

But with no fishing data on their location

from the past three years...

Good job, guys.

Let's get her back out of the water

and give me that sensor as quick as you can, all right?

Captain Keith Colburn arms himself

with new pressure resistant sensors

that record not just commonly known surface temperatures,

but bottom temperature's,

allowing him to track the school.

Okay.

Piece of cake.

Got something for you.

Ooh, president.

The secret ingredient.

Well, let's see here.

The surface is 49.

Ten feet is 47.1.

45.5 bottom.

It looks like it's working.

When I find that temperature that they love,

I will have a huge advantage over this lake.

Just outside Dutch Harbor...

Sophia, are you ready?

All right, get her done. All right, bye.

Let's go.

- Come on. - Coming over.

I'm still trying to get used to the boat.

It's very unfamiliar to me.

So, I'm setting up this little practice round

that Greg has set up for me.

Dang, just do what I say. It's all good.

Captain Sophia "Bob" Nielsen

assumes her new post, skipper-in-training,

aboard the storied, 109-foot Seabrooke...

Let's do a little practice set retrieval.

Just like normal.

...under the tutelage of Bering Sea veteran,

Captain Greg Wallace.

Whoo!

I met Sophia a few years ago. I knew her dad.

Um, I have a lot of respect for him when he was alive,

and even now. But, uh...

you know, she came at us

and wants to learn more.

So we're gonna see what we can do to help her out.

Going over!

There we go.

Where are those pots?

We did it.

Uh, so I'm gonna circle back now,

and I'm gonna try hauling.

Last year, it was a real doozy for me.

It was my rookie skipper year

on my boat, the Victory. And...

uh, I end up putting in close to 40,000 pounds.

But I blew up my big generator

and, uh, I got in a collision.

Oh, [bleep]! Oh, [bleep]!

I'm in debt, $200,000 right now.

Which is why I'm trying to

hone in on my skipper skills and become a better captain.

We're gonna turn right back around and pick them up.

Roger that! Yeah! - Sure.

Greg was on the hunt for more bairdi.

Uh, so I call him up, I say,

"Hey, I have some quota." But...

And I think the only reason that I had a leg up with Greg

was he knew who my dad was.

My dad died suddenly of a heart attack

shortly after my 13th birthday.

I was definitely daddy's little girl.

He was just a-a savvy fisherman.

I'd like to think that if something happened to me

and the roles were reversed that, you know,

a good person would take on my kids if they asked.

And help them out if they needed help.

What are you doing?

We got a student driver up there. Student driver.

Greg, he knows me and my boat.

I went to school with his daughter, Megan.

I had to earn this job.

I had to, you know, work for him for years

and really prove myself.

I mean, I would be definitely jealous

if it was my dad up here teaching some other young girl

how to drive the boat.

I am super envious

of the relationship that she has with her father

'cause that's something I will never get.

How's it going?

- I think that went pretty well. - Yeah.

All right. Now pay attention to where your mark is.

You're a little far off here,

so you better approach her. Need to get closer.

- Hey! - I got one.

Nick's got it. It's going in the block right now.

From what I can see, I can barely see through the pots.

Just don't tow on it. Watch your speed when you come in.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

What the hell is she doing?

A little easy. You need to slow it down.

You're towing on it pretty good.

Whoa. It's game time.

Oh,

What the [bleep]!

You just snapped it off.

That's not [bleep] cool.

I am so sorry, Greg. I am...

Watch your speed when you come in. I told you that.

We can't be losing pots like this.

Well, if she's not ready, she's not ready.

And she should come on deck.

worn.

them. Rough crowd.

Onward and upward. Go to the next one.

I made a lot of mistakes last season and I learned from them,

and I realized I have a lot more to learn.

Well, if it just gets more fast and more furious

from here on out.

So, but if you can't improve,

then you won't be sitting there long.

It's that simple.

Uh, Northwestern.

Pacific Mariner. You got me?

Northwestern.

Pacific Mariner. You got me on 16 there?

Huh.

They ain't answering the call there.

Aboard the Pacific Mariner...

So he just loaded his gear and said, "[bleep] you."

Let me call 'em, see where he's at.

...after losing a race against Sig

to the pot dock...

We've been waiting here, like, six hours after...

Make it seven now, dude.

Seven hours. Yeah.

...Captains Jack and Harley champ at the bit

to load their gear before the launch of king crab season,

in just 16 hours.

Hey.

Hey. What you doing?

And you went to town?

Uh.

Another hour, huh?

He cut me off, took the dock.

All right.

All right. No worries. Take your time, man.

I'll see you when we see you.

All right. I appreciate it. I'm out.

All right, boys. Crash bags out.

Portside.

Roger!

We're gonna take pots off the Northwestern,

load them onto us, go fishing.

Yeah.[bleep] hell.

You just get the stern line.

I'll toss this over.

Tonight, we'll get him.

Hold it. Hold it! Now go!

Well, let's get him on.

Dude, we better hurry.

We got crab to catch. Let's go!

Roger. Roger.

Right here!

When everyone's the closest, I want it to go.

You seal that?

It's tied over here.

I want another guy up there, so it goes quicker.

Just get him on the boat.

We gotta hustle. Okay.

We're just gonna slam these pots on any way they come.

We'll worry about stacking them later.

It's Derby season, we're going by Derby rules.

Whoo!

I got another idea.

What you doing?

Wow.

What the... Look what I got.

What the hell, Jack?

I got six [bleep] candy bars.

You're going... you're going back

to your juvenile delinquent stuff now, dude.

Who's this other guy?

Is that our pots though? It is.

Sig's here. - Hey!

Sigs on the dock!

We gotta untie right now!

Hey! Get that last pot on!

Get on the boat! Cut these lines.

We got to go.

They're coming. Come on, load it up.

- Hey! Go! Go! Go! - Come on, get it out. Let's go.

Yeah!

Did they take a whole tier?

You're good.

We're out of here.

Damn it!

Go. Go. Go, go.

Covers us!

Whoo!

Yeah!

Thanks for the pots.

God, man.

We still need to load the rest of our gear, but...

we got a string from Sig.

That's good enough.

Oh, he's already got the lines off.

Take my spot. That's what you get.

"Thanks for the pots.

I know you have a long night ahead of you loading more."

A-ha.

Well, that's a first.

Our father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth

as it is in heaven.

Coming up.

Get ready to go do something.

Not very many people on Earth get the chance to do, but...

it comes with some rewards,

but also a lot of risk.

Woven into the life of Dutch Harbor

since it was a Russian fur trading port...

I really need the higher power,

and I need to protect these guys.

...the Cathedral of the Holy Ascension,

offers hope and solace

to those heading into peril on the Bering Sea.

This is the deadliest job in the world.

There's been I think three big crab boats that have sank.

In about 10 years,

uh, the hands were lost on each one.

We haven't had a king crab season in a few years.

And so, having the preacher down here,

blessing the boats is, uh, is quite a thing.

Hey, crew, can you guys hop up on the dock real quick?

Take a moment.

Our local pastor here is going to bless the boat,

the fleet, for some, uh, good will,

good love and good luck.

Roger.

Glory to the father and to the son

and to the Holy Spirit.

Now and ever and to ages of ages. Amen.

Saving the human race by Thy mighty arms.

Preserve this boat and give it a guardian angel.

And do Thou keep in peace

them that desire to sail in it.

Wow.

Yeah. I've never been a part of this.

He has a Bible in his hand, doesn't he?

Yeah, a Bible and holy water.

This boat is blessed and sanctified

by the grace of the All Holy Spirit.

Feel like I have a little bit more protection out here.

I'm gonna go get those, uh,

guys ready, and we'll get out of here.

I think it's gonna be a good season.

There he is.

I wasn't sure if you were gonna make it.

Me neither.

...sanctified by the grace of the all-Holy Spirit,

through the sprinkling of this Holy...

Got it?

Great. I was starting to wonder.

Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy.

Lord have mercy.

Amen.

If you're ready, I'm ready.

Okay. You can toss him.

Yeah. Roger.

Still looks the same. Everything was...

built in the 1970s by the Amish.

I don't like the change.

Clear!

But with a small quota,

do you want to get in

and get out Derby style?

Yeah, I know how that works.

Being blessed doesn't hurt.

Get a load. All aboard. Coming aboard. Let's go.

All clear!

Are you ready?

I'm pretty nervous. Oh, yeah?

It's, like, all that anticipation

that's leading up to this moment.

I just want to be a great captain like my father was.

Three-star country, baby. Let's go.

You ready?

- Yeah. - Go ahead. Let that go.

Let's get out of here.

Toss it!

Batten down the hatches.

Time to fetch some king crab.

Get aboard!

If we can't find them,

everything's over.

So we have to fish this year

like every string

is the last string we're ever going to set.

If we can catch more than everybody else,

if we get more quota, we'll keep fishing.

Just like the Derby days.

Yeah, baby!

Do it, boy!

Let's get some, baby!

There's $30 million

of crab out there just waiting to be caught.

You gotta get out there...

...and be aggressive.

On the northern grounds...

There it is.

There you go.

Now we're by the navel, too.

I'm gonna get them.

...aboard the Time Bandit.

You gotta...

I'm starting a new tradition.

If I hit the block we're setting right now.

Yeah!

Oh, [bleep]!

Yeah, baby.

Yeah, I got it first shot.

Did it again.

- Direct hit! - Yeah!

Whoo!

Yeah. Bull's eye.

Okay, start setting, guys.

Whoo-hoo.

The starting bell on red king crab

sounds for the first time in 36 months.

First of the year, guys. Yeah, baby!

Give him a kiss.

Yeah, baby.

Going over!

I'm going to the family hot spot up to the north.

Grounds my dad used to fish,

and we fished, you know, when we were kids.

But that's, like, about '47, so...

I'm all alone over here.

Ten miles from the fleet.

Forty-two miles southwest

aboard the Northwestern...

Hang on. I'm gonna get you a new guy.

You're the new guy here. It's your turn.

I [bleep] hate it.

No. I don't want to.

Nobody wants to.

I've never wanted to. I always throw up.

You're holding up my season here, pal.

Are you gonna do it?

Come on.

Look, I'll do it with you.

- Is that fine? Fine. - Okay.

Come on. Let's get this show on the road.

All right. You pick the one.

It's been about 10 years.

We have to do head or gut?

- You do head, I'll do gut. - Skull!

Skull.

Yeah.

Rob! Do it!

Dude, I think I got fish in that one, bro.

He's throwing up.

God! Why did I do that?

I'll be upstairs.

I told you this was gonna happen.

Took one for the team.

Get him in the water.

Go over!

This is the farthest south

we'll try out here in the deep gully

and then just keep moving north.

I just want the pots in the water.

King Crab 2023.

We waited a long time.

Thirty-five miles north...

I started in the mid '80s

as a greenhorn and worked my way up to the wheelhouse.

The king crab was always...

basically our Super Bowl.

Through my entire career,

red king's the ultimate crab treasure.

And right now,

we need to find the crab first.

I like to think I've got an advantage

'cause we've got science and not just luck.

Going over!

Let's set south to north. Okay.

From, uh, deep to shallow.

Okay. Cover the grounds.

King crab 2023.

Let's get it on, Jack.

Dump it.

There's millions of dollars of product on the line.

We have to catch this crab.

There is no not catching.

Pot going over!

One hundred miles southwest

on the Western bairdi crab grounds...

...aboard the Seabrooke.

These are building. The weather can't serious.

I wanna set like this.

Right on the edge, right on the line.

From the western to the eastern district.

So you just wanna come out here

just guns blazing, set caddy walkers to the tide?

Yeah.

I ain't got nothing to lose but your gear.

That's it.

She's probably not your biggest fan right now.

All right. Beep 'em.

There we go.

Ooh, we did the first one.

Whoo!

We need to hurry up and get this done.

One hundred thirty-five miles northeast...

King crab '23. Yeah.

...on the Wizard.

Aww, man.

Right?

I-I know.

Anyways, you know what? Make your dad proud.

You guys stay safe out there.

On three, king crab.

One, two, three.

King crab!

Let's do it. Let's go!

Out of the 83,000 fishable square miles,

every captain gambles

they picked the right starting spot.

For Captain Keith,

it's a 10-mile underwater ridge,

called the gooseneck.

So named for the shape it makes

on the bathymetric charts.

I guess it's got the sensor on it,

so I'll have someone get that up to me right away.

But the veteran skipper

also comes armed with temperature gauges,

which he believes will let him track the school.

If he can find them.

All right, guys, first one of the season is coming up.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, baby!

First one, huh? - First one.

Here we go.

Going fishing, Dad.

Phew.

Red crab!

Showtime, baby! Showtime!

So you got, what?

Sixty-mile spread? Something like that?

Ah, 50, 50 plus.

That's a lot of miles, man.

Here it comes. Let's flag that in.

We'll start in the deep and work our way into the shallows.

Finally, we're fishing red crab again.

Ready?

Do it, boy! Whoo!

Let 'er rip.

Come on, baby!

Let the Derby begin.

Yeah, baby!

The family hot spot up to the north...

has always been good for us.

So come on over, crab.

We'll wine and dine you down there.

Then we'll put you in the pool.

Five-star accommodations over here on Time Bandit.

Come on, baby. Come to papa.

Come on, man.

There is a lot of competition for those crab.

Here we go.

Across the fleet...

2023!

...captains jostled to find

the first trace of red king crab

in three years.

Come on, crab.

Just make sure we get our share.

All right. Here we go!

Come on, crab. Up.

Show me something. Show me something.

Whoo!

Yeah!

Hey! Whoa!

Yeah! There we go!

It's in there. Yeah, baby!

Come on.

Come on, crab, please be here.

Please be here, crab, please have some crabs. Please.

My hair stood on my neck. That's a good pod.

Jackpot, baby.

On the northern grounds,

captains Keith and Jonathan

haul the first pots of red gold.

Each netting upwards of 4,000 bucks.

Ah!

Whoa!

- Yeah! - Go, baby!

And on the southern grounds...

Come on, now!

Come on, baby.

Oh, man. Not too sexy.

It's not looking too good.

All smalls and females.

That's about it.

I went to the wrong man.

Come on, be loaded.

What do we got?

Yeah, dude.

This is not what we were looking for.

Oh, Lord, help me.

We can do better than that, bud.

Uh, yeah. We have to do better than that.

Yeah! Yeah, baby! Yeah!

That's what I'm talking about.

Isn't he gorgeous?

I call him gorgeous George.

Count coming.

Five-nine?

Find out what we got here for temperature shorty.

Thanks.

Let's see what we got here.

So, it's 46.2.

We're seeing crab here.

I won't be shocked if these numbers

in the next few pots start to get better and better.

Holy smokes!

That's got some crabs. It's got crabs, got crab legs.

It's got crab legs.

Crab legs. It's got crab legs...

Whoo-hoo!

Whoo!

Let's pull like

Let's go!

So we just got to dial in and find out where they're moving

and try to follow that school of crab.

Whoo!

Can't wait.

Oh, no!

What is this? That's no good, man.

Stack these pots, okay?

We've got to figure out where we got to go.

Ah, I know.

Where's all the crab at?

Roger.

Ooh, man. nine crab.

So far, the deep's not working out.

And I had hopes for at least one crab an hour.

We're not hitting that, so that's what we really need, to be productive.

All right, guys.

We set six pots in the shallows.

That was just kind of an a lark, but, uh...

It turns out that might be the sweetest deal yet.

Ninety-five miles southwest...

on the bairdi crab grounds...

Gregg has been trusting me in hauling and setting some gear.

So I'm pretty confident in my capabilities.

You know, I just get skittish 'cause it's, like, not my boat

and not my gear and not my crew.

here we go. I

Well, that's just the thing. It's like the Victory is my baby.

And like the crew on there is quite literally my biological family.

We're gonna find out.

Will do.

Good luck. All right. Bye bye.

Aboard the Seabrooke...

Hey, good morning.

The first pot. Let's get ready to haul.

Here we go.

Let's go! Let's go!

This is my string that I set yesterday

right on the fence, and it's got fresh hanging bait.

So I'm optimistic it will be very good.

Yeah, we're all pumped.

We're all super pumped.

All right. Well, hopefully, you are right here.

Skipper in training, Sophia Bob Nielsen,

and Captain Gregg Wallace

haul 60 pots set on the eastern perimeter of the grounds...

Hopefully, we can lure some of the eastern bairdi

over to the west district with our bait.

Just gotta get a whiff of something and see what's here.

Yeah.

...gambling that a good meal will attract king crab's

smaller cousin, bairdi, to reach their 50,000-pound quota.

All right.

Come on, baby. Come to papa.

Whoo! It's a good pot.

Wait, what? What, what, what? Oh.

It's a good pot. Yeah!

Hopefully the rest of 'em are just like this one.

Fifty-four. Five, four.

Nice!

It's a good one.

Whoo!

Mmm-hmm!

Let's go!

Now, we're on the...

Turns out they're reproducing.

Ain't that something?

No, that's pretty good. I'm glad we made the set,

but don't get too cocky.

Let's go, boys!

Yeah, so looks like we're catching crab by the fence.

Sixty-three.

Good job, guys. Good job.

Let's get ready to set.

We need to get some gear pile drive in there

and stay on top of them.

Oh

What happened?

Aw [bleep] me. me.

Something's wrong with Megan.

What happened?

What happened?

No, I didn't see. I was busy looking at the water.

Oh, my God.

[bleep] me, me

Careful, guys. Please dont--

don't bounce her.

She slipped or something or--

No, she was, like, crawling in the pot, trying to get the crab and...

she was crawling on it all funny.

I'm gonna go see what's going on down there.

Thank you.

damn it!

My hip just popped.

Yeah, don't, don't use your legs.

Just hop. You know what I mean?

My baby is out there in pain.

On the Seabrooke...

Huh?

Your hip isn't in? Uh-uh.

This is what happened for cod.

I actually fell and dislocated my hip.

Let go of her. Let her go?

Hey, I got Meg just laying down over in the Four Peak area.

She's having a hard time getting around.

Oh

Hey, you guys, that bait right now.

Get these three pots out of the way

and get her inside, please.

Rog!

Okay, right up.

No, no, no, no.

She's coming in right now.

Okay.

Your leg's got to be straight.

I love my daughter.

But I don't know what to do about her.

All right, let's go, guys.

Is she all right?

She's hurting pretty bad.

I think it's a good idea to get some rest on it.

The thing is, with a hip dislocation,

it could get serious fast.

But we'll cross that bridge when it comes.

It's a good pot.

We got to get this caught.

150 miles northeast.

Whoo!

Yeah, baby!

Oh, yeah. Got to be a hit.

That's a good one.

On the Time Bandit.

I can slow her down.

More bags right there, Neil.

Ooh, just got in a bunch of gear here.

That's how we want, baby!

That's an NW.

Is that Northwestern? Yes.

We haven't been out here 12 hours.

Northwestern's already following us.

Oh, yeah, it's all over the place.

There's a string running right through here.

Oh, God.

That's a sick, handsome pot right there.

Stand by.

Roger!

Northwestern's sitting right on top of us here.

Johnny.

You guys got some gear right on top of me here.

We're 35 miles from you.

You guys got gear here, I guarantee you.

Got your core?

If you were here.

Can you give me the buoy bag numbers off those pots?

Hey, what's that pot number, Freddy?

What do we got?

J25.

J25.

Those are the pots that Jack stole.

...stole your gear.

...stole 15 brand new pots from us,

took them out, and is currently...

Wow.

I'm a hero. I found your lost gear.

What's the plan here?

Okay, guys...

Okay.

Roger that.

Wow.

Got some balls.

...take some of these gear off the dock.

Oh, boy.

Coming up.

Yeah, there we go.

Got some crab in ours, John.

Save a little room for us, because we're coming up there

with a full deck load.

We're going to cornrow that place.

Okay, thanks, man.

So we had a little incident.

We got a pot, people.

We're going to have to take care of her, guys.

And I got a good spot to set these.

Roger. Roger.

25 miles north, on the Wizard.

Here we go.

Save them.

Roger, Roger, Roger.

The pot is loaded.

6-0, right on, right on.

46.2 degrees.

46.2, that's where those crabs should be.

I'm certainly looking that way.

Up this little gully here.

I think it's going to be real similar on these contour lines

on temperatures.

Stand by, guys. Two-tenths a mile.

We're going to set one of the temp sensors.

With his goose neck string paying out

to the tune of $6,000 a pot...

I'm going to set a pot and haul it,

get the temperature off the bottom.

If this next sensor comes up like the last one,

we should be good to go.

...Captain Keith sets and hauls a test pot

ahead of the migrating school

to scout how far the crab rich temperature extends.

OJ, OJ, OJ!

Just put this on the pot, close it.

I'm going to dump it and then haul it, okay?

That way I can find out

what the temperature is right now, okay?

Yeah.

We're getting dialed right now.

Yeah.

OJ, coming up.

Oh, here we go.

The 46th of a quarter way is where the best numbers are.

I say we go back, bring some over here,

and see if we hit the mother lode over here.

Yeah.

We got a tangled.

We got somebody else's bag tangled up, guys.

There's a bunch of poly with this tangled pot floating

on purpose.

Well.

It just passed our setup here, just past the bag.

There's a bunch of poly on the surface.

All right, I'm backing down. You know...

I'm backing down. You know what?

I'm getting pulled off this in the current.

The last thing I need is a bunch of poly

in my wheel right now,

because some guy doesn't know how deep it is here,

and he's got too much line.

Cap, you're getting light near the wheel again.

Thrust, thrust, thrust.

We just got one more wrap on this tangle,

and we're almost clear.

Coming up here.

All right. Okay, that looks good.

The tangle is clear.

Tangle is clear.

Yeah.

All right, here we go.

Hey, guys, I got smoke in the bow.

Smoke in the bow.

Whoa.

Holy

Guys, we got something going on over here.

All right?

No, no, no.

Whoa.

On the Wizard.

Hey, guys, I got smoke in the bow.

Smoke in the bow.

Whoa.

Holy

Guys, we got something going on over here.

All right?

Whoa.

Whoa. What do we got?

No, no, no.

Whoa.

I need to know who is on deck.

Tyler!

Tyler!

Was Tyler on deck, or is Tyler down right now.

Tyler!

Can you get down there or no?

Not yet. No...

Get the crane.

Get that hatch, all right?

Go. Somebody unhook me here.

Get everything ready. Get the...

Get ready to lift that hatch, okay?

Ready.

Pop the hatch.

Get the hatch off there, okay?

Coming up!

Come on, guys, get him out. Get him out!

Get out of there!

Tyler!

Get him out of there.

Up on the hook!

We got him?

Get him inside.

Close that thing up. Close the hatches up.

Head count is good.

Help get him in there.

Do we have a head count, do we have everybody?

Roger, we have everybody.

We're getting Tyler inside right now.

Here, take your shirt off.

All right, guys.

Sit back down.

Going down to get a simple trailer line.

The next thing you know,

we got to pull him out of the fire.

And cap's set off the CO2,

so we got to wait a while till we can

get back down there and assess.

I... I...

I'm confident that we put that fire out

with our CO2 system,

but I...

I just about watched my best friend's son...

15 miles northeast.

Aboard the Northwestern.

What's going on here?

We made a little detour.

Why?

You see that bag?

- Those are the stolen pots. - Oh!

John called me and told me that he saw our stuff up here.

So I put the rest of the gear on and I ran up here.

- I'll take him on. - That's amazing.

Can I grab the seat for a second?

Yeah.

Thank you. - Yeah.

Hey, Johnny.

Yeah, go ahead, Sig.

We've got some bullets on deck.

I want to cornrow this whole place

and lock it up.

Perfect. Perfect, man.

I'm ass in on this.

Lay it on black.

Thank you, buddy.

It's fun to do this, even if it isn't for a good reason.

But this is for a really damn good reason.

Karma. Yep.

Lay 'em in the right tight.

Roger.

Cornrow.

Ready! Going over.

Johnathan's right here.

He's gonna help us, too.

So we're gonna make offense, man.

There's no way anybody else is getting in here.

Yeah! Yeah!

Just get in the launcher, get it ready.

Yeah, baby! Yeah!

Bring it on, boys! Bring it on!

Whoo-hoo!

Sig wanted me to box the Pacific Mariner out,

so I'm gonna set right where Sig told me to.

Okay.

Come back loaded, baby!

Yeah! Whoo!

Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack.

That's just a weird word, "Jack."

It rhymes with a lot of bad stuff. Bad back,

blood crack, scalliwag.

You ever happen to shin whack?

That feels good.

No, Jack's gonna have a heart attack, dude, when he sees this.

Yeah!

That's another bad word that rhymes with Jack.

Heart attack.

It's not every day you get free prospecting done.

Damn!

I mean, it spun around.

It went right back in their face.

All they did was find us crab.

Yeah!

- Yeah! - Yeah!

We're gonna grit everything off

and basically soak this crab up

with a vacuum cleaner.

Throw it over!

Yeah, buddy!

Oh, yeah!

150 miles southwest

on the western bairdi crab grounds...

Yoo!

This is all nice-looking crab.

Just got to stay on top of it.

...aboard the Seabrooke.

Meg is hurting pretty bad.

I don't know, would ice help?

She's gonna have to put it back in its socket.

Are you a doctor?

No, but she said she looked it up on Wiki one time.

So get her laid...

Laid down on her back

and then, I don't know, you grab her foot,

you push it in or whatever.

So she went to YouTube University

and got her doctor's degree.

- Yes, she did. - Okay, got ya.

Two days into her first Bering Sea bairdi haul,

Captain Bob prepares for another first.

"How to put a hip back in its socket?"

Fixing the dislocated hip

of her co-captain's daughter, Megan Wallace,

to get the deck back to full strength.

We can simply push the ball back in by hand

if the patient is under anesthesia.

Oh, that means it's just going to hurt.

- I get that. - Yeah, it means it's going to hurt pretty bad.

But honestly, I don't...

I am not a medical professional,

and I know nothing about it.

- I'll do my best. - Thank you.

The videos that I saw

was to put your thumbs on your hips like this

and then you have to sit forward

and that action right there

is supposed to pop it back into place.

It might work.

But it's gonna hurt like a bitch.

Okay, just try it. Just try it, just try it.

Just... Okay, but I don't know what I'm doing.

Where's your hip bone? Right here?

Okay. Go slow, go fast?

Yeah, let it go. Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Yeah.

I'm so sorry, Meg.

I don't mean to hurt you.

Oh.

Oh, that's her yelling.

On the Seabrooke...

Yeah, let it go. Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Yeah.

I'm so sorry, Meg.

I don't mean to hurt you.

Oh.

Oh, that's her yelling.

Anything? - No.

You want to try it again?

I can feel it.

Keep going. Keep going.

Keep going.

Whoa!

Was that it?

Whoa!

Do you feel better?

Mm.

Doesn't hurt as bad as I'm laying here.

You want some ibuprofen or something?

Yeah. - Okay.

You're a trooper, dawg.

Can't believe I just put your hip back in its socket.

That's nutso.

Pain relief.

And there's this half drinking water on the floor.

That's all yours.

I don't know whose it is,

but we all got...

I felt that pop.

I [bleep] heard it. I felt it.

You gotta take it easy for a second.

What's going on? How's it going?

Good. I got that hip back into place.

I heard the yelling and screaming.

So it's back in place?

It's back in place, but she's super sore.

You know, it's probably best for her just to, like,

take it easy on her hip for a little bit.

She's hurting pretty bad.

Thank you for that.

I could barely handle the screaming from up here.

This is my baby, so... She's a trooper.

And I will take crew into town

for medical emergencies like that.

So it really sucks to go in.

I mean, if we have to, we have to save her.

We'll see if it comes to that point.

130 miles northeast...

...on the Wizard.

It's obvious where it started.

The hot starter on thruster.

Careful. That's [bleep] warm.

And the wires from the thruster ignited this,

which is poly, and that stuff burns.

And then these paint cans, obviously,

was what exploded.

I mean, we're lucky

that we could discharge CO2 in here to suffocate it.

If we didn't have that,

I don't know what would have happen.

We're still floating.

I guess that that's all that really matters.

We dodged a bullet here, man.

I've never had a fire like that on the boat before.

I was terrified.

That chain of events should have never started.

We never used the thruster at sea.

We turned the thruster on because some dip

decided to set gear with three shots on it.

It should've never happened.

We got lucky there.

As far as I can tell, we can continue to fish.

All right, guys.

We tested these bottom sensors

to see if we could find a pattern

as to the temperature that they like down there.

If my theory is right,

we'd shoot 'em right through here, east to west.

Captain Keith prepares to set

a 50-pot string in a gully

with the same 46.2 degree bottom temperature

as his opening prospect pots,

betting that the school extends

into the neighboring biome.

Get ready to set

because this stack is coming off right here.

Fire at will.

Whoo!

With any luck, knowing the bottom temperature

is gonna make this a faster fishery for us.

That's what we're after.

5-5-X-ray, going over.

Get in, get out and get our crab caught.

Going over!

Hopefully, these sensors are gonna be the advantage we need.

15 miles northeast...

Well, he ought to be getting close.

Hopefully it's loaded.

You can pull some crab out of 'em. Right?

I'm kinda getting goosebumps, buddy.

...aboard the Pacific Mariner...

You got anything out your window there?

Uh, well, there's something over there,

up to our port. You see that one?

Uh, yeah, I got it.

What's the number on that one?

I think, uh, 22-alpha.

22... - Yeah, 22-alpha. I can see it real clear.

No.

No, that... That's not what we set.

But we're right on top of where we were.

There is the Time Bandit right there.

That's another Northwestern string.

That's not the one you set.

And those guys have been in here

since we've been here.

Huh.

Well, it's the Northwestern.

And, uh, Time Bandit.

What the hell?

Well, I just love this situation.

This is hillbilly fun right here.

Johnny, can you believe this guy?

Payback's a bitch.

We're gonna have a pot thief.

We're gonna have to take care of it, guys.

Roger that.

Sad sack, Jack.

Okay, we're going stealth mode, guys.

Oh, no!

Be very, very, very quiet for Jacks...

Jacks can be very, very unpredictable.

Uh, Northwestern? Pacific Mariner.

I got ya.

Um, seem to be missing some pots here.

Well, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

They're in a good spot and well taken care of.

Uh, I'd kind of like to haul 'em

and get my crab out of 'em.

Ah, don't worry.

I took care of that.

They were mine to begin with.

I'm setting my pots right now.

Get every [bleep] damn crab out of this area.

He said he has no idea.

Oh.

Silly boy.

I've been doing this since 1988.

It ain't gonna happen.

All right, boys, we're gonna set these in here

as tight as we can.

Get ready to set this.

Wow, wow, wow.

This guy thinks he's gonna set here.

He's such an ass [bleep].

Hey, throw it over.

Yeah!

Whoo!

Guys, get ready.

We're gonna haul Jack's pots in, okay?

Roger! Roger.

Oh, my God, this is hilarious.

Okay, coming up.

Jack, they're... They're taking our pot.

Here we go.

Thanks a lot, Harley.

Take that, [bleep]!

Oh, my God.

Oh.

Uh, I wouldn't... I don't know what I would do

if someone stole my gear.

They used to hang the horse thieves.

Let's fire some warning shots from around the bow.

Set these spots as fast as you can, guys.

Get them in there tight.

Roger that!

He's gonna keep setting pots?

Jackie, stop!

Stop! You're hurting yourself now.

You're supposed to look behind you, too, when you set.

We got it.

Yeah!

We just keep stacking them on.

Son of a bitch!

Why would you keep setting it on

when someone's picking it right back up?

Get ready. Get in your arms.

Arm yourself, full metal jackets.

Full metal jackets.

Dude, Johnny's gonna get him.

Let's get you to your bunk, dude.

Oh, okay.

Yeah. You should definitely get your face off of that.

It's just... You gotta take it easy for a second.

You can't just eat and go to bed.

You still haven't showered?

You're a disgusting human being.

We're on, like, day six.

Yeah, you should shower.

Maybe that'll make your hip feel better.

Nothing wrong with getting a little dirty

while doing your job.

Wear that stench proud, Megan.

Get in your arms.

Arm yourself, full metal jackets.

Ready, guys?

Roger!

Derby season brings out the worst in people.

Stealing somebody's gear

is about as bad as it can get.

But payback's a bitch.

Attack mode.

He's gonna kick your ass, man.

Time Bandit's right there.

Three... two, one.

Fire cannons!

Holy [bleep]!

Oh, man.

Gotta go right over the bow right now.

- Yeah, baby! - Whoo!

Light it up.

Yeah!

Yeah! This is ridiculous.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God. This is comedy.

Unbelievable.

"Mom, the derby was a lot harder than I thought."

Good job, guys.

Let's go find some crab someplace else.

We don't want to mess with this [bleep].

Man.

All right, guys.

- Hey. - You can clear the deck.

We're out of here.

Oh...

He's running away.

Dude, never a dull moment.

I got your back, Sig.

They're running scared now.

Thank you, buddy.

Right.

I know the guys are full of spunk, and I get it.

That's what makes a good fisherman.

But you know, time and a place,

you cross the line,

you're gonna get spanked. Just the way it is.

Let me see that, mate.

Hey, Sig, it's me.

Hey, we'll get out of here. Just...

Just give us our pots back, okay?

Oh, don't worry. You're gonna get the bearings.

I'm just not gonna steal 'em like he did.

So I'll get you the bearing.

We just want our pots back.

16 miles southwest...

Here we go.

...on the Wizard...

I've been looking all over the place

trying to track bottom temps.

I think I'm starting to see a pattern,

so we shall see.

I don't know. I don't know.

Let's go. Whoo!

It does look good.

That sensor is registering.

The bottom temperature's the Wizard's secret weapon.

And I'm gonna stay on those traps.

Yeah!

Look at that pot. Yeah, look at that pot!

Yeah!

Load 'em up, baby, load 'em up!

Yeah, baby! Let's get the crabs.

Bail 'em up and dump 'em back.

Dump 'em back.

Thank God I'm here today.

We're here right now for this year, 2023,

red king crab season.

Hey, hey, buddy. Sig, you got me?

Hey, I got you, John. How's it going?

We got a cornrow

better than anybody who can ever cornrow.

Thanks, buddy. We appreciate it.

Yeah, buddy!

I'm really glad that John was around to help.

You know, eagle eye.

It makes a big difference, you know,

when, uh, you got another guy out there watching your back.

There we go! Oh, yeah.

That's what I'm talking about.

Got 'em!

Forty-one, 4-1.

You're all right. We're in 'em.

Now we're gonna do a little damage.

What do you call that? Karma.

Or is it just payback?

Big time!

Thank you, Jack.

Oh, my God.

Make sure we stack these tight.

Roger!

We're moving the whole thing down, so...

And all subject to change, of course.

There's a big ocean. We'll go find another spot.

There's some crab in there.

Making money.

Yeah, look at that pot!

What's Meg doing?

Get better, Meg, get better!

I needed to ice my hip.

Like, it swelled up like a balloon

after it got popped back in.

Hopefully, it doesn't stop us from fishing.

She's super sore. I don't know...

Well, there's only one way to get rid of that soreness.

Put her back out on deck?

- Well, yeah. - Yes, sir.

We're catching a little bit of crab,

and we need some help out there.

Hey, Jenna.

Yeah.

No way.

Uh-huh.

That super nice boat.

Mm-hmm.

Will you text me the information

and I'll call?

Mm-hmm.

But I really don't want to tell Sig.

Here we go.

Oh, yeah!

I hired you here as a favor to you.

I feel like I've already been stabbed in the back.

yeah!

Crabbing, crabbing.

You've got to be able to adapt and a lot of the veterans,

they're always gonna have a little bit of an edge.

Yeah, [bleep] you, Jack!

Go back to being a sneaky Pete with your [bleep] mentor!

But then you've got the new guys,

they're usually fiery, they've got a lot of energy.

Catfight.

So relaxed. So calm.

Reel, reel, reel, reel, reel!

It's fishing. It's not catching.

I don't know how to emotionally react

when it doesn't go so good.

Tyler.

Porter's down.

Whoa!

It's like a...

Watch out! Watch out! Watch out!

Whoa!

You okay?