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♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom

I grew up hearing them stories of red crab.

Since I've been a boy,

I thought it was the coolest thing in the world, man. I still do.

♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom

♪ I'm gonna shoot you right down ♪

♪ Right off of your feet

Everyone was saying...

♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom

...you're never gonna be a crab captain.

I've been told I can't my whole life.

♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom

I [bleep] hate those mother [bleep].

♪ I'm gonna shoot you right down ♪

You know, don't tell me I can't do anything.

It's my time to prove to everyone and myself

what it means to be a crabber.

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

Some people say it gets to the point, they snap.

I snap right [bleep] back.

- Whoa! Hey! - Get him!

You have to fight for every single crab you catch.

Holy [bleep]! Yeah!

Whoo!

It's what I've always wanted to do and now that I'm doing it...

Thanks for the crab, Keith.

Yeah. [bleep] you, Jack.

Cut it! Cut it!

...I'm living my dream.

And I love every second of it.

♪ Boom, boom, boom, boom

Two hundred and twenty miles north of Dutch Harbor.

It's a good 30 gust.

Waves are looking at, I would say 12 to 15 feet right now.

On the Northwestern.

Oh, my God.

Well, we've seen some sign around,

south on the 166 line

and just a little bit farther to the northwest.

It's just not doing it for us.

We gotta get through these pots

fast as we can.

Try to get as many pots up and moved as we can.

That's the idea right now.

After six weeks on the water

hunting red king and now bairdi crab...

...Captain Sig Hansen wages a war on two fronts.

A squall above

and the lack of crab below.

Forcing him to press on through the weather

in search of his final 16,000 pounds.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Yeah, yo, my kid got his Halloween costume

and he's looking like a little stud in it.

It'll be cool to be there for that.

You learn a lot over that little, uh, jukebox right there.

Sounds like somebody wants to go home.

And I get it, you know, especially having kids,

or a baby.

If you don't catch crab, you don't come home. That's kind of the deal.

Uh, I'm having a girl.

Definitely a life-changing experience.

First three months suck though.

Anyone who had a kid knows first few months is horrible.

Boy, he talks a lot.

Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

I'm not criticizing but I want Karl

motivated into that fourth, fifth gear, right?

To get it done quickly.

That's not good.

Karl, why don't you sneak up here for a second?

I didn't know you were having a baby girl.

Yeah, in December.

Yeah, I thought I heard baby girl over the loud hailer.

Well, congratulations. I mean, my goodness.

I figured if you're gonna have two,

you might as well have 'em pretty close.

Well, that sounds logical for you, as a guy.

You're not the one that's going into labor.

Glad to hear that.

We just got to figure out where to put these things.

You know...

That's what you want? Yeah, that makes sense.

Because then you're not spreading out.

I wanna go a little bit farther over on this one though.

Little bit farther east.

You wanna go here?

There'll be more crab in my spot

than what you're saying, I'll guarantee you that.

What's your bet?

Okay. All right, yeah.

That's a good one.

What are you gonna give me?

I don't know. What should I give you?

Silence.

I'd like one string of silence. That's what you can give me.

If you lose, I win silence.

- One string. - All right.

One whole string.

- All right. Tell the guys what we're doing. - All right.

Karl and I made a little bet.

Kinda get his mind more on, uh, fishing.

I know he wants to go home.

But I want the guys in it to win it.

For the greater good, the bigger cause, right?

Get ready to set.

I don't care who wins.

I don't. But Sig's gonna get him a present either way.

What happens if you lose?

- Oh, I hope Sig wins. I hope Sig wins. - He can't say a word.

He's lose.

One hundred seventy-five miles east.

On the Pacific Mariner.

Oh, I'm never gonna be [bleep] happy.

As pots go from half full

or half empty, according to Harley,

down to single digits,

Jack Bunnell hauls in stacks of 28 mile string

needing every red king to pay down their $2 million of debt

and cement the young skipper's place

as a Bering Sea king crab captain.

There is a lot of pressure on us

'cause this is into the season.

We are both all in on this boat.

The way things are going, we're barely making our monthly payment here.

We gotta get these crab.

Dude. That was in sour taste, you know.

Yeah, that was bad.

Where do you wanna go set this at?

I mean, there's a lot of area.

Really, they could be anywhere.

Well, over here, I can see Keith working.

Maybe he knows, uh, what's down there.

- Keith. - Yeah.

Maybe we call him up, get a little information?

Uh...

Me and Keith don't really always go eye-to-eye.

Well, I'll tell you this right now,

if you're accusing me of [bleep] pulling your gear,

you're [bleep] talking to the wrong guy, Harley.

I'm gonna keep my eye on you, buddy.

Oh, [bleep] you.

I don't really know Keith. At least you know him.

Yeah, I know him. But, you know, it's not good.

- Yeah, we know the bad side of each other. - All right.

It'll be best if you go do that.

Just don't tell him I'm here, huh.

Yeah, you got it.

Just 19 miles southwest,

on the Wizard.

Right on! Right on!

Whoo-hoo!

Looking good!

Yeah!

I've been looking all over the place.

I'm trying to track the bottom temps.

I think I'm starting to see a pattern.

Whoa!

The school of crab moves further west before June for food.

That's right where this gully goes. Right through here.

I'm pretty sure the head of the herd's gonna be up this gully.

Right now, every minute counts.

I'm running out of time. I've got to find some crab.

Wizard. Wizard. Hello.

Jack, how you doing?

Well, pretty good. How are you doing?

How about you?

Learning by yourself and doing your own thing.

Yeah, I'm real glad

I don't have Harley over my shoulder anymore. That's for sure.

Any notes I can get are well-received.

Maybe get some intel on what you got going on over there.

On the east bank or the west bank.

Well, what if I set down the east bank

and you down the west bank?

And we can compare notes.

Roger that. Definitely.

Appreciate it, Keith.

[bleep] man.

Look at that, you got a new best friend.

- Look at you. - Yeah. Me and Keith.

Well, you got the numbers, let's go see what he's saying.

- Yeah. - You have the numbers.

My biggest concern with Jack is that his mentor is Harley.

And Harley's kind of a sneaky little snake.

I hope that not too much of Harley has rubbed off on Jack.

One hundred thirty-two miles west,

on the Summer Bay...

I'm not gonna stand here and complain about everything bothers me but...

Yeah, this, uh...

this cancer...

I don't know if this is a side effect

or what, but I blew a blood vessel in my left eye.

And why?

Beyond me.

But all I know is...

Load up!

...my blood pressure is through the roof.

Dang! Whoo!

Woo-hoo!

You want it right here?

Yeah, we're gonna go right there.

All these pots are blank.

We'll get the rest of these on and figure out what we're gonna do with 'em.

I wanna get this treatment. I wanna get the prostate problem done.

We're gonna haul gear fast and hard.

We're gonna get this done so I can get out of here and get on the plane.

Bill!

Are you ready?

Six days away from a scheduled offload

and two weeks from surgery,

to treat his adenocarcinoma of the prostate,

Captain Wild Bill stacks and moves all 110 pots,

eager to get his gear back on crab

and his 28,000 pounds of bairdi in the books.

This is like a race to get this done as quick as possible, guys.

Easy cowboy. Just take it easy. You got it.

Hey, you got this the wrong way. Give it to me that way.

Come on, man.

Whoa!

Holy smokes!

Boomed up all the way on it's own now.

No!

Hey!

Don't get in front of it 'cause if that thing slips out,

it's gonna pin them right into you.

Get out of the way. Stay low! Stay low!

Watch out!

I got no boom, boss.

Perfect. Exactly what I need right now.

Stay low!

Watch out!

On the Summer Bay.

I got no boom, boss.

What's not working? The picking boom?

That's scary when it starts doing what it wants to.

Yeah.

Let's try turning it off and turning it on and get it into place.

Yeah, roger.

Yup. Yup.

All right.

Uh, I'm gonna go kill the hydros real quick, guys.

Something goes wrong, you gotta be able to adapt.

Figure it out, move on.

Hey, buddy.

I got the boom working again on two electric pumps.

Uh, but the retract is still doing the same thing.

Yeah, just go real nice and slow with this. Get it up, get it on.

With this partially working crane,

we're gonna be money ahead.

Roger. - All right, man. Cool.

Just be careful. I will.

All right, boys. Wish me luck.

Landon's been hell of a hand.

A lot of guys would just throw their hands up and we'd be headed to town.

All right, guys. Let's get up there and stack this.

All right.

I feel good knowing I have somebody on board

that if I can't do it, Landon can step up to it and take over.

Watch out!

I'm gonna go right in this little slot right here.

Hang on, hang on!

Get 'em in the water, see what happens.

One hundred and thirty miles east,

on the Wizard.

Here we go!

No crabs!

This is the western bank of this gully.

It's where those crabs should have run

based on where the biomass is.

Jack and I can spread out just a little bit more

and in half the time, find crab.

So, Jack's gonna help me.

Come on crab.

Here we go! Get ready!

Whoa!

Damn it.

Five. Ouch.

All right. Let me call him.

Two miles away

on the eastern edge of the gully...

...aboard the Pacific Mariner.

Whoo!

Look at this pot.

Hey, thanks for the info there, Captain Keith.

They're just marching through this gully. Right through our pots.

It's like a trap. We got a trap set for them.

Holy [bleep]!

Watch it!

Man. Keith just keeps calling me.

I got like three missed calls from him.

He's gonna get more suspicious if you don't call him back.

Call him back but don't tell him what the hell we're doing.

Just keep doing, "Eh, it's kinda here and there.

Kinda meh, blah, blah."

Make sure he believes you.

Hello. Wizard. Wizard.

Hey. But you know what? It's a bust over here on the west.

Yeah, not very good.

Not very good stuff.

Yeah, we saw the trench.

That's interesting.

Huh!

But they was not very good.

Not very good at all.

Well, uh, okay.

We're gonna keep looking. I've got more gear to haul, all right.

Good luck over there.

All right, bud. Later.

Whew!

Yeah.

Good, I'm glad. Don't share with him, man. He'll come and smother you.

Bulldog this area for sure.

Huh!

My concern is he said "we."

Yeah, we saw the trench.

I don't refer to the Wizard as "we."

Yeah, I wonder...

You know, I'm tracking the Pacific Mariner.

I can see where he just hauled that string

turned around, he sent it right back down the same line

about three quarters of a mile just above it.

That's not where he should be right now.

A little bit of sorting in this

but it looks like there's a lot of big keepers.

It's [bleep].

Hey.

and it looks like you just set a string

right near where you hauled the string.

And make sure you measure those!

Take the stick to 'em...

Stick every crab you guys.

I want--

Yeah, well... I mean, Harley's on the boat but...

He's giving me tips, but...

He's giving you tricks. In fact, you know what?

Put Harley on the phone right now, would you.

Hey, he wants to talk to you, Harley.

Yeah, I'll talk to the bastard. Give me the phone.

Here you go.

What's cooking, Keith?

And you're trying to give me disinformation.

Everything I've given you has been real.

Keith, Keith, Keith, Keith.

We would never do that to you.

Oh, [bleep] you, Harley.

You know you'd do that.

You've been doing it to me for 20 years.

I know I'm not trying to screw you.

Now Jack just told me-- Just trying to make sure you get

the accurate information.

Said there wasn't enough crab to set in there.

Yeah, I got a couple in the bottom

but I wasn't certain it was gonna be that good, the whole thing.

When I caught you red handed with your hand in the cookie jar.

You know what? That's it. I'm done.

Thanks for the crab, Keith.

Yeah, [bleep] you, Jack.

Whoa!

Hey, you pissed him off.

Oh, well. That's normal.

Been doing this to that guy for 20 years.

Oh, look at that. We are on some crab here.

If I were to know Harley was on that boat,

I would've never have talked to Jack.

Those guys wanna play that kind of game, I can guarantee you this.

We can haul gear a lot faster and get a lot more gear on the crab than they can.

That's where I set Jack.

I'm gonna slam that spot.

Two hundred and thirty miles north of Dutch Harbor.

All right, couple of minutes, we're on our bet strings.

Karl's string is right down here.

On the Northwestern.

- You got it? - Yes.

- Are you nervous? - Yes.

- I know you're nervous. That's a good thing. - Thank you. Thank you.

That means you care.

Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk.

Karl and I made a little bet.

Part of the bet for me is just getting Karl motivated.

Keeping the crew motivated

and then getting in the game. That's all it was.

You know, if he gets more crab out of this string, great.

I'll buy some diapers.

You know, no sweat.

Hopefully find crab and go in for the kill.

Moment of truth.

What do you think, Karl?

What do you think?

Looks pretty good.

How many?

That's a good first pot.

You check her?

They're very lively.

Yeah!

I think our boy might have been onto something here. That had 56.

They're all going in.

Fifty eight.

Four fifty eight from the first ten pots.

That's the best we've seen so far.

But, uh, his string's pretty close by.

It's bairdi. It's like this, up and down, you know.

You know, I just need a couple of big ones.

Forty-eight miles south...

on the Summer Bay.

This has been a hot spot before

and on the 166 down as deep as 65 fathoms,

but with any luck, we'll have some love there

and we can get this caught and I can get the hell out of here.

Dr. Marshall. How are you today, sir?

Okay.

Yeah, you know, I was planning on, uh,

the end of the first week there.

Okay.

Uh... okay.

So, what are you proposing?

I wanna be done with the radiation,

so I'm not gonna postpone this because then I've...

All righty. You have a hell of a day.

Oh, man.

They changed the appointment and it's like...

It's like an ultimatum. It's either you make this one or you're [bleep].

You're a month out. A month plus.

With his surgery moved up seven days

and 6,000 pounds of bairdi still to catch...

...Captain Wild Bill bets that 110 pots set in a deep trench

will fill his quota

and send him to Charleston on time for his operation.

Yeah, I'm not missing that appointment, so...

If we're really gonna get the [bleep] out of here

it's gotta happen with what's in the water right now.

This hasn't been that much of a soak,

but we gotta get through 'em.

Whoo!

Yeah. Yeah!

That's a nice looking pot.

Nice looking crab.

Yeah, baby! Yeah, baby!

That one looks pretty good.

Take that.

Whoo!

Yeah, we keep these numbers up, we're gonna have what we need.

I think we're gonna be fine.

Tag it.

I think we should be fine.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Hey, boss. We got oil leaking out of the block.

It's either the hose or the seal's gone on the block.

Oh, [bleep].

We can't haul like this.

Kick it out. Let it go.

Get out of there.

Oh, man.

Unbelie-- No way.

No fricking way.

Hey, let it go! Let it go, let it go!

Whoa! Whoa! Ahhh!

Hey, hey! It's on his leg.

Oh, [bleep] Get him!

On the Summer Bay.

Hey, let it go! Let it go, let it go!

Whoa! Whoa!

Oh,

Get him!

Erik was in the bait.

Can we start today over?

That's why you always keep your feet planted.

Plant them feet.

Oh, man.

- You all right? - Yeah, I'm good.

How many times we talk about don't stand in the line, men?

All right, Cap.

Erik dragging down along the rail would be kind of an ugly sight.

But Landon got that line cut.

He's done a great job.

I think we just lost the [bleep] seal to our block.

So, you're sure it's the seal?

It's uh... Yeah, we lost the seal, boss.

I mean, we're supposed to be getting this gear on quick right now.

You know what?

We can't haul anyways.

Secure the deck, we're gonna go do it in town.

Ah [bleep].

We gotta get the block fixed before we can do this.

The doctor there, he, uh...

he just gave me an ultimatum with I'm either in there on the first

or it moves everything back, five, maybe six weeks.

I do not wanna postpone this [bleep] operation.

This...

I don't know.

My first season was the bairdi season

and a guy just walked up to me and said,

"I got issues, I gotta go. You're driving."

I'd never tied the boat up once.

I'd never hauled a string.

I'd never set a string.

Landon's miles ahead.

He can handle it.

Landon, why don't you come upstairs.

- I need you up here for a discussion. - Okay.

So, basically, I don't know.

Obviously, we're not gonna be able to finish this right now.

We're not gonna be able to...

You know, we're pretty damn close to having what we need, but...

from what I see, there's pretty much one option.

You feel comfortable coming out and cleaning up and putting it away?

Yeah. Yeah, I can do that.

- I mean, that's kind of what we've been training for. - Yeah.

- I'm not worried. - I'm not worried either.

I'll do my best.

One hundred sixty-four miles east.

On the Pacific Mariner.

Uh...

Not looking good.

Fifteen. One-five.

Yeah, these numbers are going down.

Is there any change in the depth? No.

Nothing's changed. We're still right on the same depth.

Huh.

This is not good.

What the hell?

No, they're just going down. I don't know what's going on here.

Uh... yeah, I'm seeing something.

There's a string kinda coming right through here.

Is that ours?

No, we're spaced out two-tenths of a mile.

That is definitely not us.

Yeah, that's the Wizard for sure.

Damn.

Just ignore his ass. That's what I do.

Just ignore him. That's the only way I get--

This area isn't anyone's. It's all of ours. I mean...

I should've known.

Right now, Jack's Darth Vader and Harley's the evil Emperor.

I have a pretty good idea what was in this gully on the east side.

Good news is we're catching some crab.

Yeah, baby!

Right on! Right on!

- Yeah! - Whoo!

Hydro!

Hurry up and get that pot down.

Leak-- Shut 'em down, Rog. You want me to shut 'em down?

Go ahead. Shut 'em down. Yup.

Hydro!

Hydros! - That's coming from a [bleep] pot.

Roger's working on it right now.

He just shut the hydraulics off.

I don't know the extent of the breakdown, but we are broke down.

We got a pinhole in one of our valves for our crane.

We don't have the spare valve on board,

so we're gonna have to come up with an alternative.

Is it something we can fix?

Welding a bead on top of it, you know.

There's no way this plug is coming out with any kind of tool.

You know that's gonna be difficult with that hydraulic oil in there, right?

Yeah, I know. That's the thing.

It just kinda bubbles and curdles and doesn't really weld.

Can't haul gear without hydraulics.

Do we have any J-B Weld?

Maybe that would be enough.

It's definitely worth a shot, yeah.

J-B Weld is a, uh, two-part composite.

Hardens up really hard. It's like liquid steel.

Well, this sucks.

Pacific Mariner is the only boat in the area.

I mean, I'd rather patch this leak with my dirty underwear.

But going to town right now would kill my season.

This is unbelievable.

Asking Darth Vader for help.

Uh, we might get a little break in the weather here.

Sneaky though. You know, you think you got it

and then all of a sudden, bam, here comes another gust or...

I think I could be a weatherman for the Bering Sea.

Well, the forecast is

with more

uh, with an outlook of [bleep].

Yeah.

We've got [bleep] clouds with a little [bleep] wind coming out of the northeast.

Ha! Pretty easy.

Well, you got the look, Sig.

But I do think you might wanna work

on the timbre of your voice.

Not all of us can be, uh... broadcasters.

On the Pacific Mariner.

Hey, I got you, Keith. What's up?

Well, it's not going so good over here.

I'm not sure if you guys might have any, uh, J-B Weld.

Yeah. Yeah, maybe.

Let me go take a peek and check with the chief here.

Very likely, we should have some of that.

You know what Harley? I appreciate it.

Yeah, of course. What are friends for?

Said he wasn't our friend and he chewed us out.

But,

when someone's in need out here,

you gotta help 'em.

Well, if Harley doesn't come through,

you know what?

We're heading to town.

One hundred and seventy miles northwest,

on the Northwestern.

Well, first pot's on the block. This is the one, uh, I set.

We'll see what it does here.

If Karl's right, he wins the bet, that's fine.

Time to keep him motivated.

Ooh! There's some volume in there.

Wow!

Sixty four!

Small?

No! That's...

No. - Yeah.

No! - Seventy six.

High pot!

Seventy six.

Really?

Roger.

Awesome.

I gotta beat 408.

No. That's only...

Yeah, that's...

Oh, it's a close call.

Four thirty in that one.

I don't know, Karl.

That beats a 408 doesn't it?

I still don't think I lost.

So that's minus the 29, that's 43 and a 42.

That's the real number right there.

No it's not!

Oh, my God.

For a whole string.

It's a win-win-win.

Number one, I'm gonna buy you baby stuff anyway.

Number two, I get peace and quiet.

Don't have to hear him for a whole string.

Number three.

We got us another spot to fish.

I mean, we just found a better spot.

- You can start right now. - Be quiet?

I got an hour to the next string.

See you, Karl.

I'll be lonely up there anyway.

Well, after a brief challenge,

to the truth.

Daddy wins.

So, hopefully Karl is a man of his word.

And that he'll keep his word quiet.

That'll shut him up.

Well, I haven't heard back from Harley.

I was kinda expecting a little bit more out of him

but, you know, whatever.

Hopefully he shows up.

Yo, cap. The Pac Man's here.

Wizard. Pacific Mariner. You got me, Keith?

Yeah. Harley, I got you fine on this one.

We got that J-B Weld for you.

Right on, Harley.

Go ahead. Throw it.

All right, I got a bead on it here, Harley.

The guys got it on board.

Yeah and Harley, uh, tell Jack if he sees me in town,

he better walk the other way.

Well, he sure does got some stories about me, so...

All right, Harley. I'm out.

That's one of those things.

Doesn't matter what your history is or where you're at,

if you can help another boat out out here,

keep a guy from going to town, man, that's a big deal.

I've never missed the ending of a season in 47 years.

I've never walked away in the middle. Never had to go.

But, if there was ever a reason to leave early,

it's now.

Frankly, I couldn't think of a better guy to leave the boat with.

Are you ready to go?

I think so, yeah.

Yeah, I got all the confidence in the world in you, buddy.

I appreciate you trusting me to do this, man.

- Thank you so much. It means a lot. - Oh, [bleep]. Nah!

Time for an airplane.

Come here, man. All right.

Bless you.

You know what? You're gonna do great, man.

You know, we caught 84,000 pounds of king crab.

Close to a million dollars in profit.

I think my family would be proud.

Having a boat, running a boat.

It's what I've always wanted to do

and I am ready to come back out here and do it all over again.

Make a name for myself.

I'm living my dream.