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I'm going to miss you on here.

I know. I miss having you.

- Hey, you want a job? - Yeah.

- Thanks, Lawrence. - All right, good luck.

- I love you too. - Hey, take care, okay?

Hey, Jake.

Go get 'em. See ya.

I would have liked to had him here

for a little while longer to just take advantage of it,

but Jake got what he wanted, and I'm happy for him.

Good for him.

I'm grateful that Sig helped me out, but I'm a captain.

I fought so long, so hard my entire career.

From deckhand, deck boss, engineer, captain, owner.

I've done it all.

Getting to the top, that's all I wanted.

But I'm starting over now.

I got a new boat to operate, the Titan Explorer,

and I'm just a hired gun.

I can get fired at any moment.

So I have to earn the trust of the owners.

There she is.

This isn't just about one season of king crab for me.

I'm going to prove that they're going to want

to keep me in that chair for every season,

every fishery to come.

In Dutch Harbor, Alaska...

Hey, Felipe.

Hey, nice to meet you, Jake Anderson.

- Rolando. Yeah. - Rolando? You guys ready to go fishing?

All right, let's go.

After losing his longtime vessel, the Saga...

Oh, my God, I got the coolest boat around.

Look at all this.

So many fun toys to play with.

...Captain Jake Anderson claims the helm

of the 125-foot Titan Explorer with twice

the carrying capacity and a 44% greater top speed

than his old ride.

I'm so excited.

I've got the most sophisticated equipment that money can buy.

I've got enough bullets on deck to compete with

the National Armory.

Boom, nine-foot rudders.

Look at that.

I can make this boat do 13 knots if I want to,

which, for crab boats, that's fast.

You know, Jake's still got a lot to prove to everybody else,

even myself, so we're going to see how he does.

Already nine days into the fall season...

Roger.

...Jake must push his new Cadillac and crew

to their limit to catch his $750,000 worth of

red king crab and prove his worth as a skipper for hire.

I don't even know where this stuff goes.

Let's see if I can get off the dock without hurting anything.

- Let's go fishing! - Booyah!

Whoo!

We're going king crab fishing!

Oh, yeah, she's got power, man.

Whoo!

So now I've got to earn trust from the crew.

I've got to earn trust from the owners.

If I don't catch my crab, I can get fired at any moment.

Whoo!

230 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor,

on the Northwestern...

down there.

No, that's not going to do it. It's starting to get weak.

There was a lot of sign in this area.

It looked good, but I don't know.

That's not going to do it.

Where's all the crab at?

If a fisherman is not doing well at all,

sometimes quota can be yanked right from under his feet.

So we're going to need to find something quickly.

Scraping the dregs from a three-day town soak,

Captain Sig Hansen reads the news in his pots.

His school of crab is on the move.

Damn it.

I want to head farther down into the canyon,

but when it opens up like that,

it's a lot of area to cover.

The more the area, the more gear you want.

We don't have that luxury right now.

Signs indicate the red king herd is migrating north

into a canyon, but with 35% of

the fleet-wide quota caught, the skipper needs another boat

to dial in the location, and fast.

I mean, you can see the boats around.

We got Johnathan in the area, and we did work together

in the beginning of the season,

so two heads are better than one,

or one and a half heads.

Eleven miles away...

- Yeah, baby! They're coming. - Crab, baby!

Well, I'll be, look at that pot. Look at that pot.

Look at that son of a bitch. Whoo!

On the Time Bandit...

That's a good one. Congratulations. Good job.

That was a good pot. I know that was a good pot. That was a really good pot.

Okay. I'm talking to myself.

I'm going to pat myself on the back for that one.

Good job.

That was a good job. That was a good job.

That was a good pot.

Yeah! Whoo!

We have an offload coming.

Hopefully this will get us through.

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand works a school of his own in the south,

racing to pack on another 45,000 pounds of red king

before his delivery in five days' time.

Okay, guys, we're going to set these back,

and we'll see if we can get another pick out of them.

Bait them up good, and we'll see what happens.

Yeah! Whoo!

Whoo!

Yeah!

Hello?

You got me, John?

Hey there, Sig.

No, I see you a few miles south over there.

How's it going for you?

Come on, baby!

Well, I was doing well.

And now it's up and down, so I don't know how long it's going to last here.

Let's go, baby. [bleep] yeah.

Well, if that is the case, then maybe we can

kind of spread out over there, get some gear in that direction,

take a look.

It looks better north, so I think we should jump north.

Okay.

Why don't I just meet you up around the 20 line?

Yeah, 163, 20.

Just, we'll run up, take a look.

I mean, we just covered twice the ground, twice as fast.

All right, buddy.

Okay, talk to you later.

Okay, I'll check you later.

I'm out.

We'll see.

Yeah.

This lift sinks ships.

And all this crab thing works all of a sudden.

Ships off like a faucet.

Just gotta keep my mouth shut till we pull all the gear.

You can come over and join me.

Yeah, dude.

John told me that he was setting.

And that's not setting.

You know, he's on AIS, and that's not how you maneuver

when you're setting gear.

I use it to kind of see what a guy's actually doing,

because, you know, if you're making a certain turn

or you're going a certain direction,

you know, you can tell.

And what I see here is not what he told me he was doing.

I don't think he's lying to me.

Either way, we got to...

get into that canyon,

and then hopefully he'll stick to his words.

What are you doing, John?

Twenty-four miles southeast...

This weather's nasty!

Whoo!

You guys okay? Roger.

You know what? I'm thankful for this opportunity.

I like it out here.

If it was easy, every swinging

would be out here taking our money.

Weather's picking up, and this set here at

the Gooseneck is going to be fricking horrid.

I got to...

follow the exact depth curve, and in doing so,

this set's gonna be very wet.

But I think there's gonna be some nice, clean big crab

just hiding on the side of that valley.

It'll be a buffet line for every pot.

Piloting the 125-foot Aleutian Lady

for the first time as full owner,

Captain Rick Shelford deploys his first set of the season

in search of his $1.1 million red king crab quota.

Just bought this boat.

There is still huge amounts of money that have to go out

in order to keep the boat.

Unfortunately for Rick, his set runs perpendicular

to the tide, opening his crew to broadsides

from 16-foot swells.

All right, guys, make sure you keep an eye on the rail there.

Just have each other's backs.

It's on the move.

Sometimes you just have to run into it

with the weather on the wrong side of the boat.

That's just how it is.

Sometimes the most efficient way to the gear

isn't the most comfortable. That's just fishing.

Jacob's impressed me this season.

He's stepping it up.

He's got so much promise to be able to run the boat

as a captain.

Let's get you. Let's go.

First pot. Going over.

Whoo!

Watch the rail, guys. Watch the rail.

Come on.

Inbound, baby. - Oh, yeah.

Over!

I got the Wizard here.

We keep seeing more and more boats on the radar.

Never want to fish by people.

So I got to get these pots off the boat fast.

Whoo!

Come on, baby, come on. Let's go, let's go.

Heads up, heads up, heads up.

Whoo!

Uh, rail!

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

On the Aleutian Lady...

Got a rail.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Are you okay, Jacob?

You okay, Jacob?

Holy crap, that was a big one.

You all right, man?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Watch the rail.

Little late, Rick.

Jacob just did a Superman across the stinking deck.

Exposed to the weather, captain-in-training

Jacob Hutchins gets body slammed by

the Bering Sea, launching him 25 feet

from the starboard rail.

Luckily, after I was already washed across the deck,

Rick told us to be careful.

Whoo.

Be careful. damn it.

He was a bit late to the party.

Be careful.

Nice work, guys. Way to bust ass getting these pots off.

Let's get this stuff wrapped up, and when we wake up,

we'll be able to start hauling some frickin' king crab gear.

Yeah!

Careful, all right? -

Eighteen miles south...

I need to get these pots off and get them soaking

because everybody out here has already been fishing.

...on the Titan Explorer... Hold on, bring it back!

Bring it back!

In his maiden voyage helming the Titan Explorer...

We'll set this in the deep from probably 99, 100 fathoms.

Then I'll just kind of cover the ground to the south.

...Captain Jake maxes out the Titan's 1,400 horsepower

and 13 knot top speed to arrive in

the southern grounds in record time

and quickly deploy all 130 pots.

I'm excited to see what she can do. Here we go.

I can't wait for fishing this [bleep].

Hell yeah.

All right, Felipe, set it when you're ready.

Rock and roll, buddy.

Doing 6.6 knots.

You guys go faster than this, you think?

Yeah.

This crew's a bunch of professionals.

We've all been doing this a long time,

minus the greenhorn.

I'm doing eight and a half. You guys think you can do nine?

Yeah, we can do it!

I'm doing 10.1 now.

- You guys gonna be okay with that? - Balls to the wall, man.

Yeah! - Coming in hot!

All right, full tilt boogie, boys.

What the [bleep]?

What the [bleep] happened?

, [bleep] damn it.

I'm going too fast. Sorry about that there, Rolando.

My crew here, fantastic.

But they made a mistake.

And I got to know, what am I looking at here?

What can I do?

How far can I push the team?

How far can I push the boat? I need to know my boundaries.

That's going to be something we'll keep an eye on here.

And that's the nerve-racking part.

Now I got to prove I can catch the crab.

Forty-eight miles north...

Okay, guys, just a few miles.

We're going to start dumping them out.

Eight, nine, ten, 11.

On the Northwestern...

Well, just right ahead of us, that canyon that we're going to,

you know, that's where it starts to dip down

and really get spread out.

The deal was I can go down in it, John can go down in it.

We'll just take one direction each.

The idea being, you know,

you're prospecting twice as fast with more gear.

Captain Sig prepares to fire off 50 prospect pots

on one side of the ridge, counting on his partner boat

to set on the other side to triangulate

where his school of crab is heading.

We're hoping that they march this way,

and you just got to get the pots on to find out.

Are you on there, John?

Time Bandit.

Johnny.

He's not even here.

He's not even in the area, for crying out loud.

He's still where he was.

Guy never left.

He's still picking gear, man.

If he's holding out on me, that's going to stink.

If you got a little spot that you're not giving up,

don't say you're going to come here

and help out with prospecting when you're holding out on me

and still getting crab.

Fifteen miles south...

You got me, John?

How you doing over there?

Yeah, are you on your way?

yeah!

Yeah!

Slowly but surely here.

I'm the tortoise. You're the hare.

Yeah, I'm coming.

Anything change down your way?

It's a mixed bunch here.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, baby!

Okay, okay, there's light.

Yeah, so I think it's the back of the pack,

so maybe north is the answer here, y'all.

Well, the clock's ticking, man.

Get them on. Let's get up there.

Don't worry, I'm on the way.

Okay.

Out.

Going over!

Okay.

Doesn't add up.

There's definitely something fishy going on here.

It's offensive when a guy's trying to lie to you

and you can read through it, because then he assumes that

you're as stupid as he is.

If you can't pull off a lie better than that, don't do it.

It's insulting to me.

All right, guys.

I got a little something to check on before we dump everything.

If John's hiding something, I'll find out.

There's only one way to truly know,

and that's to use your own gear.

So that's what we're going to do.

It's pretty obvious something's going on here.

If I get a read through your lie,

then you shouldn't be lying.

Don't play in my sandbox.

220 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor...

All right, here we are.

Whoa...

...on the Aleutian Lady.

These pots are lacking.

Ooh.

Right now, I'm frustrated with how today's gone.

The first stage of our initial set is a bust.

I'm just completely tired, no sleep.

We need to catch these crab.

Single-digits ain't gonna cut it.

That one's full!

Crab count. Zero, nine.

Hey, Jacob, you wanna come up here?

So I want you to come up here where we had sign,

and I just want you to lay this out right on that contour line.

Seeing an increase from three crab per pot to nine,

Rick charges captain-in-training Jacob

with deploying 30 pots at the more productive depth.

Remember, phone call, me, any problem. All right.

All right, guys. Get ready to set.

Go!

Twelve years ago now, 2011.

I was homeless, living in the back of my truck

in Aberdeen, Washington.

I would have never believed that I would be up in

the captain's chair as a captain-in-training.

It's surreal.

There you go.

Going over.

Alpha 39. Lima 3-9.

Let's go.

Our buddy Keith on the Wizard's right up here.

Yeah, that's Keith coming right at us.

It's kind of interesting seeing the Wizard out here

just one year after he fires me.

Go!

- You're done. - What the [bleep]?

Get the [bleep].

- We're over this [bleep]. - Day.

He told me I wasn't even fit for the bait then.

Now I'm driving a boat.

He shut his ARS off.

That's one of his tells.

We can say what we want, but he can catch some crab.

So we're going to go ahead and drop a few of these pots

right next to Keith.

I see some pots over here. I want to lace them a little bit.

Go, go, go!

There goes one.

Good to see you, Keith.

Over!

I am standing on top of him right now, but money's money.

Whether Keith's right next to us or not,

I think Rick might say good job.

Maybe he would respect that I'm trying to be a captain

and make decisions based on my gut feeling.

Who knows?

I guess we'll have to see when he wakes up.

Sixteen miles northwest,

on the Time Bandit...

- Oh, baby! - We got our gear down south.

We got to keep pulling 20s and 30s and 40s and 50s,

and we'll have a hell of a season.

- Come on! - Come on, big crabber.

This sucks.

Well, this has dropped way off right here now.

- All right. - We like four.

We like four.

Got to shake that.

Got to get these pots on some crabs.

Yes.

He's around top.

Sig pot.

My pot. Look at it. My pot's right here.

Look at Sig's pots. They're right there.

Right there. I know. I know.

I don't know why we gotta play this game

because there's no buoys anywhere.

Do you see any buoys anywhere else?

That's just dumb.

Damn it!

Where's all the crab at?

Just a mile north on the Northwestern...

Yeah!

There it is.

Likey, likey. Are those our keepers?

- Yep. - Right.

Awesome.

After lacing 20 pots into Time Bandit gear

to let John know that he knows they were holding out...

awesome.

...Captain Sig finds the northbound school

above Hillstrand's former hotspot.

Bam!

Hey, there. How goes it?

I see you got gear over here.

Gotcha. You got some gear over here.

How you doing over there? What kind of numbers you got?

Oh, I thought you were on to something,

but I'm not seeing anything that I thought I was going to see.

Whoo, sweet.

No, no, it's not big at all.

It could be gone, for all I know.

If they're slowing down for you,

then they should have been through me here,

but I'm not seeing it.

Okay.

Okay, man.

Um...

We're doing okay. We're surviving over here, too.

All right, John.

Roger.

I don't know why we just couldn't work together.

I don't think it's in his chromosomes or his genes.

I don't think he can do it.

He can't tell me what's in his gear.

His DNA won't let him do it.

His brain can't let his mouth do the...

"I just caught a 35 average here."

He just can't do it.

I want to go... Let's go visit Sig. Stand by.

We're going to go visit Sig real quick.

Roger that, baby.

Roger that.

Thirty miles southeast...

This is Jake's first day in the ranch here.

And we're going to see how he does.

It's so loud. You hear that, Jenna?

It's so [bleep] loud.

That's my throttles.

You're gonna have to throttle me like that.

I barely put it in gear, and I'm already going twice

as fast as I would on the Saga.

After planting a full stack of gear down south,

Captain Jake approaches the first Titan Explorer pot

of his career,

looking to show his new crew and the boat owners

that the right skipper is at the helm.

Coming up on the biggest haul of my career.

Oh, there they are.

All right, here comes the first one.

Hey!

Oh, please, God.

Jake's still got a lot to prove.

He's a young guy, and he just came up from the bottom,

but we're gonna see how he does.

Hopefully he gets us on the crab.

Hopefully we can knock this out real quick.

I've got to earn trust from the crew.

I've got to earn trust from the owners.

There's a lot at stake.

First pot coming up.

All right, here comes the first one.

On the Titan Explorer...

Oh, please God.

First pot's coming up.

Here it comes.

Yep.

Yeah, baby!

Oh, [bleep] awesome.

Yeah!

Looking good, buddy.

Looking real good.

I'll take that one right here. - Yeah, hold that one.

This is going in my bucket right here.

Yeah.

Now look at it.

It's huge.

Look at that table.

That's a beautiful red right there.

That... You can't ask for a better crab.

See what they look like.

Four-eight.

Yeah, baby!

Looks like the king of crab is back.

We'll be done.

If it continues like that, you're done.

But we'll see.

Eighteen miles northwest...

Frickin' bag should be right here.

...on the Aleutian Lady.

Keep an eye on the rail. I'm trying to find the buoys.

Roger!

We're hauling our string that Jacob set,

but this pot...

isn't where it should be.

Oh, oh.

Well, it's our pot, but it is far from where it should be.

And it looks like we got a pot right next to ours.

Twenty hours after Jacob set a 30-pot string

near Wizard gear.

Huh.

Okay, this is going to frickin' piss me off.

Could you set these pots closer to Keith's string, dude?

Captain Rick finds evidence his aspiring skipper

went rogue.

I'm not happy about this.

He runs off to follow frickin' Keith?

I mean, come on, man.

It looks like I might have set these pots a little too close

to Keith's string.

Jacob, when you call an audible,

make sure you don't set it on top of another boat's gear.

I didn't know we were gonna drift that far into each other's pots.

This was a bonehead move on Jacob's part.

He should not have done this.

Yeah!

Oh, yeah.

That pot looks frickin' rockin'.

Yeah!

Clean draft.

Whoo!

That's good.

He's just got to learn.

As a captain, you got to find your own craft.

Whoo!

Keith is going to be frickin' livid now.

Seventeen miles north...

Yeah, buddy!

...on the Northwestern.

Damn, [bleep], these are good numbers.

Forty-six.

Wow!

Forty-six, whoo!

We're going to set these back out down here.

Just get ready.

After suspecting that his partner Johnathan forgot to share

he was on good fishing...

I can see from here they're big.

So there's not a bunch of females and juveniles.

This is big crab, and that's half the battle right there.

Captain Sig welcomes John's school

of northbound king crab into his own pots,

just four miles above the Time Bandit's gear.

Look at 'em come up. We're killing it.

Sig's going to go turn a ball pop.

And we're just going to go say hi,

and then I want to see how many crabs is in the spot.

Is that John?

It's Johnathan.

Whoo! All right!

That's a good pot, dude.

That's a good pot.

40s and 50s. That's like 50, dude.

That's damn near the crossfire.

Yeah, that's damn near a crossfire.

I don't like this one bit.

Seventy-one!

He had to see the biggest pot of the string.

I told him there's no secret hot spot here.

Hey, hey, Sig. You got me here?

Oh, hey.

You told me you were going to be up north.

You said you're making a fence up north, and...

It looks like you fell off the fence, Sig,

and the pot's landing right in front of my boat here.

You held out on me, man.

Freddy wants to make a delivery for you.

He wants to give you something.

Whoo!

I'm doing nine knots. It's faster than the Saga could go.

Now watch this.

I can make this boat do 13 knots.

Wicked, dude.

You ain't doing that with the Northwestern or the Saga right there.

Now watch, he'll get it.

That's Darth Vader right there, dude.

Easy, Jake.

Don't break it your first trip out.

Freddy wants to make a delivery for you.

Wants to give you something.

Go!

Ahhh!

Hey! What's he doing?

Oh, my God!

Yeah, baby! Whoo!

You owe me one now.

Crazy bastard.

That was mean.

Yeah, baby!

- Yeah! - Whoo!

He egged me! I haven't been egged in years, man.

I can't even see through my windows.

What's wrong with you?

Payback!

It's competition. It's a competitive thing.

You're just too competitive to be a partner.

Not funny. We just washed those windows.

Yeah!

Forty-five.

Wow.

Guys are happy.

Let's hope it... Let's hope it keeps up.

Wash that [bleep] off.

Nice crab. Nice crab.

Whoo!

I'm going to talk to Jacob about this.

He ain't going to be up here driving his boat

if he can't follow and do what he says.

Message, pick me up here, Rick?

Do you copy?

Hey, Keith. I gotcha.

...can't afford to lose one because somebody chopped it up.

Yeah, you're just about to go up to him.

But, Jacob set a frickin' string on there.

- I got the line set up. - Are you [bleep] kidding me? you.

I can't.

Breaking up. Breaking up.

Breaking up. Breaking up.

Hey, Keith, I'm not understanding.

Breaking up. Breaking up.

you, ass [bleep].

All right.

What the [bleep]?

I mean... oh, dear Lord.

I get being enraged.

For him to act like that, it's a good way to burn bridges

so you don't have any friends left in the Bering Sea.

People make mistakes, and that's what we all have done.

And I got to say...

Oh, yeah.

Big.

We're on good fishing.

Oh, yeah!

Mr. Jacob Hutchins, good job.

I'm kind of glad the string ended up where it did.

Woo-hoo!

I put the pedal to the metal, and it's paying off over here.

Yeah!

Look at that! What do you think, Rolando?

Is it worth it now?

We're in them now!

Felipe!

- Get 'em bagged, baby! Yeah! - Yeah, baby!

King crab! I'm back!

I'm back, bitches!

What the hell?

Whoo, look at that one. You got me, Sig?

I got you, pal.

You did pretty good on that swing over by me, didn't you?

So let me ask you this.

Can I squeeze in somewhere here?

You know what? Honestly, there's a couple crabbing out here.

It looks good.

Hey, you're a good man, Sigurd Hansen.

Sneaky, but you're a good man.

Well, what we just did here could have been resolved

a lot faster, with a lot less drama,

and a lot less fuel.

But we just got to stay on these things,

get Johnny in here, and get him while we can.