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The reality is the Bering Sea

can be a hostile place.

Be nice to get through this season

without any major injuries.

We're pretty much halfway there.

People get desperate,

they start making mistakes.

Is the chain caught?

The harder and faster you push, you know,

the more you get into it with everybody.

I wanna get inside Wild Bill's little box.

Aye, yai, yai.

We need a little divine intervention.

Look at that.

Our job is to go fishing.

I'm not here playing games.

Oh, [bleep].

225 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor...

First pot coming up.

On the Time Bandit.

Showtime, baby, showtime.

I'm a man of faith and I love God.

And I know he blesses me all the time.

I just hope we see some crab legs.

Two days, gonna go in town, offload,

come back out, do it again.

Hopefully we're not too far west.

In 500 feet of water,

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand

looks to 60 pots

to bring up his promised 31,000 pounds

of red king crab for delivery.

This here would be devastating for us.

Come on, crabbies.

Or risk losing his quota

to a faster fishing vessel.

Yeah, baby. Yeah, baby.

We got the first pot coming up.

Let's see what we're getting.

What the hell?

I don't like that.

I don't like that at all.

I [bleep] hate, I hate that.

No good.

Damn.

Nothing.

We're just getting started, you know.

Lift 'em up.

Whoo!

Yeah, baby.

Come on!

I'm gonna get what God gives me.

Come on, crab legs.

Yeah. Boo!

This is not what we were looking for.

Aye, yai, yai.

Not so much fun.

Gotta love that boat.

Little spotty right here.

We need a little guidance.

I think we needed a little...

A little divine intervention.

Just gotta stick with it.

Just keep pushing, pushing, pushing.

♪ I don't know What to do yet ♪

Look at that.

Oh, right there.

And right next to the boat.

Woo-hoo!

Wow.

Whoo, look at that.

Captain, they're coming.

They're coming.

What the hell's going on here?

Yeah, baby! Whoo!

Wow. That's amazing.

It's amazing.

Whoa, whoa!

Yeah!

Wow.

Crazy. I've never seen more dolphins in my life.

like...

Yeah, baby!

There are about 3,000, 3,000 porpoises.

I've never seen nothing like this.

Whoo!

♪ Amazing grace

Yeah.

Yeah. That is crazy.

We got friends here come bring us some luck.

It's a pretty good sign.

Trying to tell us something.

They're feeding on something

and, uh, pieces fall down,

and those crab feed on that feed, too.

And the crabs start schooling up

and following the...

Right along with them on the bottom.

Yeah! Yeah!

I'm gonna pull these pots

and then turn,

turn down this way a little bit.

And follow the porpoises.

Porpoises, porpoises, porpoises.

♪ Amazing grace

The chase is on.

I love it.

Twenty-five miles east,

on the Pacific Mariner...

This kind of derby season,

if you see any sign of life,

just set all your pots on

and suck up what you can get

before anyone else moves in

and takes your crab.

'Cause they are, they're my crab.

After pouring their savings

into a down payment on the Pacific Mariner,

Captains Jack Bunnell and Steve "Harley" Davidson

hunts 55,000 pounds of red king crab

before their $5,000 of daily fuel

and food expenses

eat at their margins.

Roger.

Come on, baby!

What the hell?

Whomp, whomp, whomp.

Boo.

Uh-oh.

Hmm, not good.

Six. Damn.

Four crabs.

Huh.

This sucks.

This is not working.

No.

I, you know, I'd been watching Bill there on the AIS

and he's just standing in that one same spot.

He's right up between the depot and the bowling pin.

Let me, uh, let me give him a call

and see what the heck he says.

Thirty-three miles northeast...

Um, I don't know.

On the Summer Bay.

It's really weird when somebody tells you

you're gonna have all these horrible things happen to you,

you just kind of sit around

and wait for 'em to happen, so.

Oh, you're hilarious. You're hilarious.

All right, hun. I appreciate you.

All right, bye-bye.

Yeah.

Whoo!

Holy smokes.

Whoo!

Holy [bleep].

Forty-one crabs.

Yeah, baby.

Real fishing, baby.

Real fishing.

Whoo!

I'll be so happy

to get finished with this stuff.

Get off the hormone, get the cancer gone.

Get on with life.

We put this gear on top of this little strip we found.

It's been kind of our magic spot here.

It's not a very big area, but it's staying steady.

Yeah, woo!

Keeper right here.

Big one.

Yeah!

Hello?

I got over into some hard bottom

or some [bleep] damn thing.

It looks... It feels like the crab were here,

but they're gone.

...staying in that same spot for quite a while there.

Just, uh, wondering if you...

Forty-two.

Jackie Robinson.

Well...

If you could maybe

go a little above or a little below...

Nice.

Let's just call it 473

and, uh, the 43.

I'll stay right outside that,

so I won't be interfering with your stuff.

Sounds good, man.

I hope, uh...

Right on.

We'll keep in touch, eh?

In the last decade, decade and a half,

I haven't been real big on partnerships.

They haven't really worked out

but, uh, I've known Harley

for damn near 35 years.

Pretty good dude.

He can catch his own crab,

so if he asks for help, he's...

He must be at a hard spot there. So...

we'll see what happens.

In Dutch Harbor...

On the Northwestern.

Not yet.

I don't know if it's a boy or a girl, so...

Don't you like Karl's Jr.?

No, never name my kid after you.

I don't want him to be a [bleep] bag.

Uh-oh. Oh, no.

How about Julia?

Nope.

Sigry?

Nope.

The less she reminds me of you, the better.

I love the fact that, uh, Mandy's pregnant again.

Clark's all excited for his new baby to come.

As he prepares for the birth

of his fourth grandchild...

Before you know it,

there'll be another little one running around.

I would rather be at home

and, uh, not be out here.

But the reality is

we gotta get offloaded

and start our eastern bairdi season.

Captain Sig Hansen

and son-in-law Clark Pederson

deliver their last 24,000 pounds of red crab

before targeting their $300,000

eastern bairdi quota.

We'll get the crab off the boat

and we gotta rig our gear back over.

Get going for the next one.

Hey, how's it going?

Why, what?

Are you still at the doctor right now?

Okay.

Well, I mean, is it...

Is it really bad right now or are you okay?

Are you okay?

On the Northwestern...

Is the baby at risk?

Are you sure?

I mean, I can leave right now.

Okay.

All right. Love you.

All right. Talk to you soon.

Just nothing we can't fix before we leave.

I just got off the phone with Mandy and it's...

I don't know, this is probably not the best time,

but I wanted to keep you in the loop.

She was having some complications

with some bleeding going on.

- Bleeding? - Yeah.

If you need to go home, then do it.

I know. But as of right now,

we don't know yet.

That's the bottom line.

So I can't jump to worst case scenario right now.

All right then, if that's the case,

let's just move forward, okay?

Go out, do what we're supposed to do,

and if there's anything that really goes sideways,

then we'll get you in.

All right.

Well, I'll be down there.

We'll get stuff ready.

I don't like to jump to conclusions.

Mandy, if she's... Uh,

she's not gonna get emotional

before she has the facts,

so I think it's gonna be worse for Clark

than it's gonna be for her.

So he just...

Clark needs to keep his head in the game.

Keep our fingers crossed everything goes well.

230 miles northeast...

I mean, I never seen nothing like this.

There's five and six in there at a time.

That's crazy.

That's the craziest I ever saw.

There's gotta be 3,000 porpoises around us, dude.

As far as you can see.

On the Time Bandit...

Look at it. There's just a pile of 'em.

Crazy.

I've never seen that...

ever.

Chasing a rare multispecies herd

of thousands of Dall's porpoises

and Pacific white-sided dolphins

that feed on squid and fish...

I think we got some divine intervention.

...Captain Johnathan Hillstrand

prepares to set 60 pots,

betting that falling tentacle

and scale scraps

will lure king crab in time

for his offload in 72 hours.

There's four miles of bank

I never checked over here.

It's a huge canyon.

So, I'm gonna go over here and follow the dolphins.

Bet on black.

Time Bandit black.

That's it!

Okay, guys.

Roger.

We gotta find some crab for these pots.

We gotta find it quick.

Rolling over.

Roger.

I got you, dude. Keep rolling, baby!

Fifty-eight miles northeast...

On the Pacific Mariner.

I've seen Bill up here hanging around this spot.

But he was in this area for quite some time.

Yup.

Gambling that they can catch $800,000

of red king crab just half a mile

from Wild Bill's hotspot in the Northeast...

Hopefully, we didn't miss out on the action.

Captains Jack and Harley

pull the first of a 60-pot string.

First pot coming up.

Roger.

If it'd be a 20-25 crab,

we will be fine.

Come on, crab.

Huh?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, boy.

Oh, [bleep] yeah.

Look at that. Whoo!

That's a good one there.

That's a good pot.

All sorts of critters.

Holy [bleep].

Wild Bill was on to something.

Oh, whoo!

Oh, boy.

Whoo!

This is working good, buddy.

Oh, [bleep] yeah.

Oh, another one.

Yeah, baby.

Whoo, baby!

Holy [bleep].

Keep it right on course here.

Perfect.

I don't know if you can get up higher or lower.

What're you gonna do?

What's, uh...

What's in Bill's little secret box here?

Yeah. Just let him have his box, man, he...

He's... He... Gotta give him respect.

He pulled us over here.

Let's just let him have that spot.

He's not a cartographer,

he's not making his own maps.

He can't just say

where I can go and where I can't.

And the best crabbing that we know of

is right here in front of us.

Dude.

Friends and partners are only gonna believe you

if you're honest.

That's how Sig and Bill and...

No, I never got that way with Keith,

but I've got, you know, I mean, I've got...

I've had partners throughout the years.

Yeah. Whoo.

This is what we do.

We hunt down crab.

This'll fill our tanks,

- so let's get what we can. - Yeah.

And we won't do it again.

Yeah. Okay.

Thanks.

I wanna get inside Wild Bill's little box.

Whoo!

All right, guys. Get ready.

We're just gonna... setback.

Roger.

You can't just be drawing lines out here.

This isn't his ocean.

Going over.

I'm just trying to catch the crab and go home.

The quicker I can do it, the better.

110 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor...

You wanna move that crane down a little bit?

Keep coming over.

Starboard.

Yup.

On the Northwestern.

We're gonna start setting our pots for bairdi.

Right now, my plan

is to just get the gear in the water.

I'm not fishing a lot of pots.

But because of that, I think

I'll be a little more mobile

and we can move around a little quicker.

Responsible for catching 40,000 pounds...

I'm very concerned about Mandy.

You know, she's already had some issues with the baby,

so I'm gonna start closer to town

than normally we would be.

And... So I think just...

This is the place to start.

Captain Sig foregoes

the traditional eastern bairdi crab grounds

100 miles farther north,

in case Mandy needs family by her side

in Seattle, Washington.

I think everybody here

just kind of wants to get this done.

It's just not a normal season right now for me.

You know, Clark,

I know that it's affecting him,

but once we start fishing,

I'm hoping that everybody can keep their heads in the game.

It's not the way you want things to be,

but... that's life.

If these guys would hurry up.

You have that chain?

Come on.

Did he say number one?

You got it?

Oh, [bleep].

Overboard?

Overboard.

Who is it?

Man over.

Overboard!

Ring!

Did he get it?

Pull that.

That's it.

Hold it.

Here. Hold the sling.

Okay.

Get it.

You got him? I got him.

One more.

Ready?

Oh, yeah.

Breathe!

He got the sling?

Yeah. Go up.

Easy.

Oh, okay. Yup.

[bleep] it up.

Just get the guys inside.

All right. Yeah.

All right. Get in there, Clark.

Let's get this off.

Get it off. Get it off.

Can you get in that shower?

Somebody grab him the shower.

Get a blanket on him.

- Are you all right? - Yeah.

That's not supposed to happen on this boat.

Yeah. I got it.

I've never had anybody go in the water, you know?

It happened so fast.

I mean, I just turned around right there,

and the next thing you know, like that.

That's why family on boats is...

It gets too close.

It's too personal.

And you think you've prepared for everything...

and you're not.

You can't take any chances like that.

- It's not worth it. - No. No.

It's not worth your life.

All right, buddy.

Clark slipped.

I reached out for him.

I had my camera in my hand.

Oh, [bleep].

Man overboard! Man overboard!

And I didn't... And, you know,

I just was too far over.

And then... And then we're in.

Hey, Mandy.

Hey, how's it going?

Uh, you wanna talk to Clark?

He's right here.

Just keep going that way.

Okay.

Hey, Mandy. What's up?

Are you 100% good?

I mean, are we in the clear?

Thank God.

I mean, it's going.

I just can't wait to get home.

Take care of that baby for me.

I'll be back before you know it.

All right. Bye.

That's good.

You guys ready?

I know what's gonna be going on in Clark's mind...

but, uh...

we need to make some money here.

Right now, my plan

is to just get the gear in the water...

and get them soaking.

All right, guys.

Be careful.

No camera guys on the stack this time.

Roger.

Now, we can use a little luck.

125 miles northeast...

Let's go! Yeah!

On the Time Bandit.

We are pulling our first crab pot

where we went with the porpoises.

Just traveling with a school of porpoise.

Oh, [bleep].

Wanna see some crab.

We need to get in on that delivery date deadline thing.

Whoo!

Come on, crabbies.

Fish on, baby.

Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. Crab, crab, crab, crab,

crab, crab, crab, crab, crab.

Let's go, baby. Big crab.

Come on.

Whoo!

Let's go, baby.

Hey, let's go.

Crazy. Crazy.

I had never seen more dolphins in my life.

I mean, that was dolphins like...

That is a good pot, guys.

Whoo! Yeah, baby.

Holy [bleep]. That's big.

Wow.

The hair is standing on my neck.

That's something.

He has...

angels flying behind this boat.

Whoo!

So far, so good. Thank you, dolphins.

A dolphin led us to the Promised Land, people.

Yeah! Ooh!

Beat the living out of it.

- Let's go, baby. - Yeah!

Yeah! Get the crab there

and double back.

We're finding what we need to find to get in.

Thank you, God.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, porpoise.

58 miles northeast...

Coming up.

All right.

There's a good one.

On the Summer Bay.

I bumped this last bit of gear up here

in the Wild Bill magic box and...

There we go.

You know, with this cancer thing,

personally, I'm ready to get it done.

Easily gonna finish the season

and we can stay on this little band here.

Oh, man.

Wait for it. Wait for it.

Wait for it. Right now.

This will be the first pot we have that sucks.

Let me see how these bags are laying.

That's a bunch of [bleep].

All right. Let's take this out on [bleep] Harley.

Two miles north...

Here we come. Here we come. Here we come.

What do we got?

On the Pacific Mariner.

Oh, my God.

Look at this pot.

Oh, yeah.

Loaded. Woo!

More crab on there, baby!

Whoo!

Hey, dude. Way to go.

Another good one.

Whoo! Sweet.

Looking good.

All right. How many?

Six-three. - Woo!

Sixty-three.

Sixty-three. Whoo!

Whoo! Yeah!

We might be stealing

a little bit of crab from Bill.

But if you look at these pots,

there's plenty to go around.

Hey, Bill's calling.

How about it, Bill? What's going on?

You know, when we talked about that one spot,

I mentioned the boundary there and when...

We're like pot for pot on three

that I see on my window right now.

Well, Jack set that stuff.

Yeah. Hey, Bill.

I just kept seeing crab and...

Just stop talking.

You can shove that sorry up your ass.

My mom's insane.

Raised eight boys.

Raising that many boys...

all those skid-marked underwear, poor mother.

My poor mom.

She was always worried, like...

if we get in a car wreck or something

and you have dirty underwear.

I go, "It's the last thing you need to worry

about in a car... If I get in a car wreck

is dirty underwear, Mom."

She was worried about that.

"You guys need to change your underwear.

It's embarrassing."

That's the way moms are.

It'd be, "Yeah, what if something happens

and you gotta go to a hospital?"

She's embarrassed we had...

"Change your underwear, everybody."

Anyway, that's my mama. Love you, Mom.

John skids into fourth place,

while Rick Shelford sits freshly laundered

atop the leaderboard.

On the red king crab grounds.

You can shove that sorry up your ass.

kids.

It's a small ocean, you know?

I mean, you can't have that be in your rap.

Who's gonna work with you?

180 miles southwest...

on the Northwestern.

All right, guys. One mile.

Get ready.

Time is definitely of the essence.

We gotta get through these pots.

If we can find a 25-30 average,

I'd probably be happy with that.

For now.

Twenty-two hours after pulling his son-in-law

and a camera operator out of the Bering Sea,

Captain Sig prepares to pull his first

Eastern bairdi crab of the season.

Yeah. Yeah. Roger.

What do we got?

Coming.

Oh, yeah.

They're coming.

Oh, yeah.

That's what we're looking for.

Oh, what's up?

Good. Good, good, good, good, good.

This is what we need right here.

That's the start I want.

If it stays like this,

we can get through these pots,

we can really put a dent in that tank.

So let's hope for the best.

164 miles northeast...

on the Pacific Mariner.

There's a ton of pressure on us,

you know, both me and Harley.

So when you see these crab

and you see thousands and thousands

of dollars in a pot...

it's tough not to chase them in there.

Summer Bay.

Pacific Mariner.

You still on this one?

Hey, Bill. I, uh...

I didn't mean for it to go down like this.

Hey, I'm gonna just give you the coordinates

of these couple strings I got

on the top of this box.

Why don't you just come haul through them

and take the crab and leave them doors open.

Um...

Yeah.

Yeah. I got 54-03...

30-1-2.

Best of luck.

Maybe Harley's got it right.

Maybe I do need to work on my friends out here.

You [bleep].

Yeah.

That looks good.

Yeah. Woo!

Not over-the-top rock star,

but it'll definitely get us what we need.

Get ready to set.

Let's get it.

Roger. Roger.

Now that we got that good news, I just...

I mean, I wasn't gonna tell you,

but, you know,

we did have an incident.

I was up on the stack and, honestly, I...

It was a surprise to me

and I'd never thought I'd fall off but I slipped

on the stack and I went overboard.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm fine.

Everybody's fine. It was...

It was pretty scary, but nobody's injured.

I'm just...

I'm glad... I'm just glad you're safe.

I love you and Sailor so much.

And I'll give you a call tomorrow, okay?

Get some rest.