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00:00The vast Bering Sea, over a million square miles of the world's most violent and unpredictable
00:11waters, and home of the deadliest catch, Alaskan crab.
00:19It's January and the hunt for Opelio crab is on.
00:27High-hard crews are facing down bigger waves, more boat-crippling ice, and deadly steel to
00:42cash in on the $59 million at stake.
00:46Now, as the season's end is in sight, boats are caught by the ice pack, tensions boil
00:55over.
00:56I don't like it, they'll have a replacement here in two days.
00:59And men are breaking.
01:01It's, it's just, the badness.
01:07Now, the hunt continues.
01:09Oh my God.
01:11The hunt for the deadliest catch.
01:14Woo!
01:18I am made for it.
01:19I'm so vontade.
01:21Well done.
01:21Let's go.
01:22Here we go.
01:52364 miles to the northwest of Dutch Harbor, the crew of the Northwestern is struggling
02:04through bitter cold temperatures to get back on the crab.
02:07It's cold, it's down about 10 degrees, and we thought we'd haul a couple of pots and
02:15just see how they look, you know.
02:17First pop came up real strong.
02:19Yeah, this is fine right here.
02:22And then the rest of the string's been kind of up and down.
02:41The quality looks good, it's just the numbers we need to increase a little bit.
02:46Weak numbers mean more work and less breaks for the northwestern crew as they try to catch
02:51their last 200,000 pounds of crab.
02:54And the marathon of pain has pushed their greenhorn, Jake Anderson, to his breaking point.
03:01I just got in trouble.
03:04I was late for bait.
03:06I don't feel so well.
03:09OK.
03:10Hold on a little over here.
03:12Straight from the hip, Junior.
03:14Straight from the hip.
03:16My God.
03:18It hit me in the head.
03:20I don't give a dude.
03:22God, that sucks.
03:24I got to go.
03:25I got to go do your job now.
03:26I don't need to hear it anymore.
03:27I just can't tell you the feeling that I feel right now.
03:31I mean, it's a feeling.
03:33There you go.
03:39It's just badness.
03:43Last week, this wide-eyed newcomer couldn't get enough of the crab fishing dream.
03:48If I accomplish my goal and get my jacket, I don't have to take from anybody except for
03:52these men on the deck and this guy up here.
03:55Nothing can stop me.
03:57Now, mind-numbing cold and exhaustion have pushed into the brink.
04:01Let me learn on my own.
04:04Jake's dream of earning a Northwestern jacket is slipping away.
04:10Really, to tell you the truth, it sucks out here.
04:12It's hell.
04:13If they say hell is fire, it's frickin' Barrett's Sea.
04:17Beside a fading greenhorn, Captain Sig Hansen has another grave concern, the ice.
04:31We're at northeast 30, 35-knot winds.
04:39The seas aren't as high as they normally would be in that condition.
04:45Smaller waves during high winds are an ominous sign that the ice pack is near.
04:51It makes me wonder if the ice is a little closer now than it was earlier.
04:56If it's blowing 40 and you don't have waves, you're in trouble.
05:00Yeah.
05:02Sig decides to let his pot soak, and he heads north to see how far the ice has come down.
05:0956 miles to the southeast, the far west leader continues to limp along on just one engine.
05:1648 hours ago, the blower on the port side main blew.
05:21It's not very smart to be out here with one of your two main engines down at all.
05:27Losing an engine cuts the boat's power by half.
05:31It also makes steering a 180-ton vessel a dicey ordeal.
05:36It's a little harder to maneuver since the propeller's not in the middle of the boat, but if it was an easy job, everybody would want to do it.
05:46In spite of the risks, Greg is determined to keep fishing.
05:50He has nearly 200,000 pounds of Opelio to catch and lost time to make up for.
05:55It's just pointless to run in and make no money.
05:59We've got to at least try to fill the boat up with Opies.
06:03So I'll set these down and then shut her down and drift for a few hours and let the air soak and go from there.
06:11With an engine down, the fishing slows to a crawl.
06:14The men have been setting pots now for 14 hours.
06:17They're weary and ready for a break.
06:20We're fishing on one engine right now, so we're setting.
06:23It's a little bit slower.
06:25We want to get it done.
06:27I think everybody wants to get it done.
06:32Last pot.
06:35See for you to get some sleep.
06:41When the last pot finally goes off, the crew is ready to shut down.
06:45But Captain Greg keeps them on deck.
06:47He won't get any rest until he checks at least one of the 60 pots in this string.
06:52I got to know the life of a fishery.
06:58Sleep when you're dead.
07:01So he swings around to the head of the string and pulls up one of the first pots they set just 10 hours ago.
07:24The pot comes up big.
07:26Oh, thank God.
07:36All right, I can sleep.
07:38A full pot on a short soak means the crew will wake up to a Pileo gold.
07:43We got 60 pots full of these.
07:47This is the kind of stuff they love.
07:53Mwah! Mwah! Mwah! Mwah! Mwah!
07:59Captain can sleep now.
08:01He sees there's crab in the iron pots.
08:03Two thirty, three thirty, eight hundred.
08:05Four hundred.
08:06Four hundred.
08:07Four hundred opi's in the first pot.
08:08Woo-hoo!
08:10That's four hundred opi's in the first pot.
08:11At four hundred opi's in a hundred pots, that's forty thousand crab.
08:17That's fifty-two thousand pounds through the gear.
08:21Can live with that.
08:25308 miles to the northwest of Dutch Harbor.
08:27Captain Greg Moncrief and the crew of the Far West Leader awake from a three-hour nap.
08:33Everyone is eager to see what the rest of the string holds.
08:37Going out to pick our first opi string.
08:40Last night we spot checked one and we got four hundred.
08:44So, we got high hopes for today.
08:56Come on!
08:59I love it!
09:00Yeah!
09:01It's a good thing.
09:03Woo-hoo!
09:04If this pot was a restaurant, there'd be a waiting list to get in.
09:07Nice, beautiful numbers with nice, beautiful big crab.
09:12The engine may not be on our side, but the fishing is.
09:16That's pure white, virgin, beautiful crab.
09:24This is better than sex.
09:27Well, let's not get carried away.
09:30It's the same as sex.
09:32Money in your pocket, every one of them.
09:35You take it right there.
09:37Take it home with you and sell that.
09:39That's money in your pocket.
09:42With so many crab in each pot, Captain Greg is concerned his fatigued deckhands will make mistakes while sorting.
09:48You may get pots with more small baraday in it.
09:52If we do, just keep the doors closed.
09:54If the non-keepers end up in the tank with the good crab, they'll face heavy fines from fish and game.
10:00Got to be real careful you don't get any small baraday.
10:03Sliding handfuls of crab down the chute and into the tank speeds up the sorting process.
10:10Oh, yeah.
10:11But this time, Captain Greg is taking no chances.
10:14Instead of using the chute, he wants his crew to sort each crab by hand.
10:19We've never done that.
10:21No, that's not fair.
10:22You've got to be kidding.
10:25Chili decides to challenge the captain's decision.
10:29You can do whatever you want, but you're not using the slide.
10:35It's easy, I told them.
10:37Just sort it into a tote.
10:38They sorted it into both ends and it went fine.
10:41Put it on the slide.
10:42As soon as the baraday goes by, it's in the tank.
10:44You don't want a tote.
10:45I'm saying you sort the whole table.
10:47Yeah, but you can't sort the whole table with that much crab.
10:50What if a baraday goes into a tote?
10:53You dump the tote and you have a second chance to get it.
10:56If it goes down the slide, it's in the tank.
10:59I've got to turn the tank down.
11:01Yeah, just slow the water down.
11:03No, no, no, no.
11:10Chili's pissed because I won't let him go straight from the table into the tanks.
11:15I don't want to risk getting any undersized or baraday in the tanks.
11:19What's going on, Chili?
11:21Oh, just having no chutes, pain.
11:24We're on a different wavelength completely.
11:27He doesn't want us to use the chute.
11:28We've got to go from there into the tote and dump it into the tank.
11:32The problem is, is these guys get going and they just start scooping armfuls.
11:37And then all it takes is one baraday in it and you're going to get screwed.
11:41And it says right in the contract that the crew pays the fine.
11:45So if it's a $10,000 fine, that comes right out of us.
11:49That's $2,000 bucks or whatever a person.
11:52I don't know.
11:53For some bizarre reason, for the first time in history, we're not using them.
11:58Horrible.
11:59It makes this whole thing horrible.
12:01The pots are loaded, so I really don't care what Chili thinks.
12:05It's just the bottom line.
12:07It isn't a democracy here.
12:09This is going to take forever.
12:10Yeah.
12:11That'll move it.
12:12Where the hell are you going?
12:29John dodges a flying pot but takes a direct hit from Chili.
12:34Where are you going?
12:35The hole in the pot.
12:36No, I see you running away.
12:37You're back to the pot.
12:38Why are you arguing?
12:41Why?
12:42Oh, shut up.
12:47Here, John, if you've got an issue out here and you're going to risk my life, you shouldn't
12:52be here.
12:53Ever heard of a weak link?
12:55Boy, we got one.
12:572,500-pound pot.
13:00You're not going to be able to hold it.
13:02Take care of your superman.
13:04Oh, and he's going to throw tantrums and yell at other people and just pull his little
13:09make it miserable for everybody else out there.
13:11He can just go in his room.
13:13Everybody else would be a lot more happier.
13:16But he's got this mindset that he's irreplaceable, and nobody on this boat is irreplaceable.
13:22So that's something we're going to get straight right now.
13:25Greg calls Chili in to adjust his attitude.
13:28I talked to the office, and they said, if people are going to throw tantrums and don't
13:32like it, they'll have a replacement here in two days.
13:34Tantrums?
13:35I sit here and watch you throw tantrums out there, yelling at people.
13:38I've been watching it all the time.
13:39You're not yelling at anybody.
13:40About what?
13:41About what?
13:42About not getting your way and having the shoots.
13:44We're not putting them in.
13:45That's got nothing to do with why I was yelling at somebody.
13:49Well, as soon as I said that, you're just out there grumpy and bitching and moaning.
13:54So I said no, and I'm not taking a fine because they're small baraday.
13:59If you don't like it, you know where the door is.
14:01If you want to stay, then just keep your mouth shut and do your job.
14:0798 miles to the southwest is the Time Bandit, with Captain Jonathan at the helm.
14:18Back in Dutch Harbor, Captain Andy had to jump ship and tend to urgent business at his horse
14:23farm in Indiana.
14:26They've lost days of fishing to repairs and legal matters.
14:31But now they've finally returned to the one spot where they pulled in big loads of Opelio crab.
14:37That's six feet of crap!
14:39Ha ha ha!
14:40That's six feet of crap!
14:44I think this is where they live, right here.
15:11The one on the top looks like this.
15:14Woo hoo!
15:15We're going to slam some crab aboard today.
15:20Wow!
15:21Wow!
15:22Orange gold!
15:24This could be the mother load!
15:26Crab legs!
15:27We got crab legs!
15:28She got it!
15:30Crab legs!
15:33For the last three days, everyone around the fleet has been hitting big numbers.
15:37Now, it's the Time Bandit's turn.
15:40Right now is more crab than I've seen in a very long time.
15:44We're getting 500 to the pot.
15:46That's unheard of.
15:47You hope to get 300 when you come out here.
15:50And anything more than that is a huge bonus.
15:53Each pot that swings over the rail with 400 Opie's or more is worth over $1,000.
16:03That's good.
16:05Woo hoo!
16:06I gotta go look at this crab.
16:09It's gotta be 700 in this.
16:14That's the pot.
16:15You see how full that was?
16:16This is our little hot spot.
16:17You can barely see me along the other side.
16:22Delta can't get much better than this.
16:27The weather, crab, this is a good way to end the season.
16:33I'll tell you that much.
16:34Woo hoo!
16:35Get a good count!
16:37This right here is my new set of skis.
16:40So we just pulled up in the pot.
16:47Most of these is a little soak time and all our gear is over here now.
16:53So I think we're going to be seeing lots of 400s, 500s.
16:58The guys on deck are like kids on the last day of school.
17:02And if this keeps up, they're going home early.
17:05The boys are very happy.
17:07Lots of good attitudes around here.
17:09You better wear your life jacket when you come up and do that.
17:24294 miles to the northwest of Dutch Harbor is the Cornelia Marie.
17:28Like the rest of the fleet, they're enjoying some of the hottest fishing in years.
17:32Wow!
17:34Captain Phil is in a good mood, and his son, Josh the Greenhorn, is benefiting.
17:39He's getting a chance to step up to the rail.
17:43Well, coming down here, I told Joshua that I wanted him to throw the hook for a couple of these codpots.
17:48He's never done it before.
17:49My kid's response is, don't tell me anything.
17:53I'm a professional.
17:55So we'll see how professional he is.
17:58I'll be fine.
17:59Practice is not needed.
18:00I've observed enough.
18:02Josh's confidence far outweighs his experience.
18:05You know, you watch these other guys do what they do.
18:08You know, we'll see how far this thing goes.
18:11I don't want to get him hurt.
18:13And you can hurt yourself with this whole deal.
18:17I cut my finger off one time doing this, and I knew what I was doing, so.
18:22As long as he drives above straight, we're going to be okay.
18:27Five bucks, he misses the first one.
18:30I'd bet ten if I was you.
18:33Let's see if he can get a little water up in his face.
18:39There we go.
18:43Oh, that's that one.
18:49All the older people watching now should start making love,
18:57because they can finish that up by the time he hooks the damn thing.
19:01Well, I'd say three's a lucky one, but I guess six or seven.
19:08He tried throwing right-handed.
19:10He tried throwing left-handed.
19:12Hold it.
19:13Get your brother out there and have him show you.
19:16And finally, after some coaching from his little brother Jake.
19:23There it is.
19:24Pull!
19:25Josh lands it on his seventh try.
19:28Let's see if he can do it without cutting his fingers off.
19:35Look back in.
19:36Look back in.
19:37Whoa, whoa, whoa.
19:40I was happy to see the seventh time is the one that actually did it for him.
19:51He's doing well.
19:52My first time I tried to put the trailer buoy in the coiler, I was all screwed up.
19:57So at least he didn't do that.
19:59So, you know, it was definitely an experience.
20:02A lot more respect for these guys than what they do.
20:04Because it ain't easy at all.
20:06No.
20:07Thanks, bro.
20:09These guys make things look easy and it's not so easy.
20:14Well, back to Bayboy.
20:20109 miles to the northwest, the Northwestern has been steaming north for the past 12 hours in search of the ice pack.
20:27We decided to run up the hill and take a look for the ice and we found it.
20:32We're about 35, 40 miles off our gear.
20:40The dilemma we have is that, you know, the ice edge runs northwest, southeast, parallel to our fishing grounds.
20:47That's the problem.
20:49If the ice moves at a southeast direction, it covers everything up at the same time.
20:54No matter where you go, up or down, you're kind of in harm's way.
20:58Sig's dreams of fishing this far north are gone.
21:03I'm thinking about going for a walk out there.
21:11I'm going to hold a seal line and it's going to hold me in theory.
21:14I'm going to send Edgar out there first.
21:17He's my guinea pig.
21:19Whoa!
21:24The gap just got bigger.
21:28It's heavy enough to get you.
21:31It goes on for quite a ways.
21:34Come on, before the gap gets any bigger.
21:38This is pretty cool to be out here.
21:39I mean, we're like 200 miles offshore right now.
21:42Standing on a chunk of ice.
21:44Getting behind there, I suspect it's going to be a nightmare.
21:46Wow!
21:50Oh, Sig!
21:52Don't go too far!
22:03You left me at the dock.
22:04This made me funny.
22:06Sig is ready to get his boat free from the crushing ice
22:09and back to his soaking gear.
22:13That was very cool.
22:14Very cool.
22:15Very cool being out there.
22:16It's pretty surreal.
22:18Look at the NW.
22:20I own that chunk of ice.
22:21I hope I never see you again.
22:24The boat is heading to safety, but their season could be in jeopardy
22:28if the ice blocks access to the processors.
22:32The processors are at the island.
22:34And if this stuff is laying northwest, southeast, it's probably not too far off the island itself.
22:42And I don't know how long they can continue processing with the ice closing in on them.
22:53There's definitely something to worry about here.
22:54Now the Northwestern will race south to pull its fishing gear to avoid the ice pack.
23:01109 miles to the southeast of the Northwestern is the Cornelia Marine.
23:07Captain Phil and crew are out picking the pots they set before offloading in Dutch Harbor.
23:11The long soak seems to be paying off.
23:18Well, the first string looked okay.
23:21It had about a 300, 350 average.
23:24The crab were a little cleaner.
23:26We're working on our second one now.
23:28And the crab are exceptionally clean here.
23:36Pretty opies.
23:38It's really pretty.
23:41Ocean run, all clean.
23:43Really nice stuff.
23:47Looks pretty good.
23:48About 400.
23:58The steady numbers are uplifting for the Cornelia Marine as they fill their tanks with crab.
24:20But as their spirits rise,
24:24the pot sinks.
24:25That is no good.
24:34We just lost another pot.
24:36We got some old line on some pots.
24:38And we've been telling Phil for the last five years that he needs to buy some of this stuff.
24:43So, you know, we tell him to go buy a bunch of line and he comes back to the boat with ten rolls of twine.
24:48We just lost a pot.
24:50It's good.
24:51You know, I love losing pots.
24:52Line breaking like that because I'm too cheap to buy some.
24:58All kidding aside, hopefully we can cap that and not lose any more.
25:04A pair of pots about seven, eight hundred bucks.
25:07And then what it'll catch throughout the season, that pot's probably $10,000.
25:10A small investment of new line could have saved Phil almost $11,000.
25:17But all the crew can do now is accept the loss and continue hauling the rest of their gear.
25:27308 miles to the northwest of Dutch Harbor, the far west leader is halfway through the best string of their season.
25:31And it's just what this boat needs.
25:35Well, it was a good eight hours.
25:37I think we've made about, hauled about $75,000 worth of crab in eight hours.
25:42With one engine.
25:45Not a bad eight hours.
25:49As they haul two grand of crab over the rail every 15 minutes, their engine troubles and Chili's bad attitude disappear.
25:57This is major good stuff.
26:02It's been a fun day.
26:12This is about the fullest pot we've had.
26:15I think we've got enough soak time on these.
26:17But just when it seems their bad luck is behind them.
26:26You know, I can run in the galley, take care of it.
26:30Let's take care of the stuff on the foot.
26:32And Rognil cut her fingers.
26:33I gotta take care of it.
26:35Sounds like Rognil must have cut her finger, I heard.
26:50I hope you'll touch it.
26:51I haven't touched it, Rognil, but I gotta hold the flap down.
26:53So here.
26:56Oh, oh, that's enough.
26:58Well, you didn't even get it.
26:59Yeah, I did.
27:00Greg stops the bleeding and calms his wife.
27:05But the crew is on autopilot and launches a pot without Greg's order.
27:10Did you say launch it?
27:11No, he didn't.
27:12All right.
27:14Can I run it over?
27:18I'm telling you guys, like every pot, we're gonna launch it.
27:20Now we just lost the thing.
27:33A pot should never be launched without the captain's signal.
27:36And now, the shot appears to be wrapped around the disabled propeller.
27:40If it's wrapped around there, I'm gonna be dragging it for days.
27:43Even if I pick up pots that start setting,
27:45they're gonna wrap around the pot I'm dragging behind the boat.
27:47Pretty soon I'm gonna have a whole big bundle of pots.
27:50If the pot isn't removed, it could disable the good engine
27:53and leave them dead in the water.
27:56So then we can't haul gear until we figure out.
27:58So we're pretty much done.
28:03Still down there.
28:08If we had a nylon, we could kill haul it.
28:12Nylon shot.
28:13Drop it and just take it down the whole back of the boat
28:17and keelhaul the thing.
28:18And then you'd get the line up at the block.
28:20Yeah.
28:21Well, that's what they should do.
28:22Go show them how to do it.
28:24Yeah, I've done it.
28:25Yeah, go do it.
28:26The plan is to manually extract the pot from underneath the boat
28:30using a technique called keelhauling.
28:32I haven't seen this done before.
28:35This is, uh...
28:36Keelhauling?
28:37It's just running a line with a weight in the center.
28:39You run it down each side of the boat.
28:41The weight's down here and come up the other side of the ship.
28:43Walk it all the way down the ship, bring it up,
28:45and if there's any line hanging down, you'll catch it.
28:49And just launch it out, chili, so it clears the rudder.
28:53Okay, let it go. Let's go.
28:54Hold on tight, boys. Hold on tight.
28:59Draw the line with that line up to the block.
29:12It's starting to the line sliding forward, so he's got it.
29:15Got it.
29:24They haul the line the length of the boat,
29:26and the weight comes up.
29:31Is it clear?
29:33It's clear that there's no line.
29:35Then we're all right.
29:37Okay, we just keel-hauled the boat,
29:39and when we pulled it up, there was nothing, no line,
29:43so we know there's no pot hanging down,
29:45so we know we're good to go.
29:47An empty keel-haul line is the best outcome to this screw-up.
30:02If it was easy, everybody would want to do it, I guess.
30:05We're just having a bad couple days,
30:07but I'm still going to fill the damn boat.
30:1256 miles to the northwest is the northwestern.
30:14Captain Sig is returned from the ice pack
30:17on a mission to pull and reset
30:19before the ice pack makes it this far south.
30:21Let's see what's in the first one here.
30:24Oh, yeah.
30:25Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
30:29Oh, yeah.
30:30Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
30:33Yeah!
30:34Nice!
30:35You don't get no better than that.
30:37Although that's just a pleasure to see,
30:39we want to make sure we get it again.
30:42That's a mountain of crab.
30:43There's got to be 700 crab in that thing.
30:45Come on, show me the money.
30:56Yeah!
30:57Yeah!
30:58Ha-ha-ha!
30:59Holy cow!
31:00Nice!
31:01Yeah!
31:02That's a nice bot.
31:03That's a big bot.
31:04That's style.
31:05That's style.
31:06That's style.
31:07They're burning through their gear to beat the ice,
31:09but the greenhorn's not pulling his weight.
31:12Only grinding he's ever seen is on a work bench.
31:19Let's go!
31:21Yeah!
31:22Yeah!
31:23Let's go!
31:24Yeah!
31:25Yeah!
31:26Yeah!
31:27Yeah!
31:28Yeah!
31:29Yeah!
31:30Yeah!
31:31Yeah!
31:32Yeah!
31:33Yeah!
31:34Yeah!
31:35Yeah!
31:36Yeah!
31:37Yeah!
31:38Yeah!
31:39Yeah!
31:40Yeah!
31:41Yeah!
31:42Yeah!
31:43Yeah!
31:44Yeah!
31:45Despite resting at the ice pack, the greenhorn continues
31:48his downward spiral.
31:49Jake's falling behind again, so I hope the cat's helped
31:54last time.
31:55I hope it's the last time.
31:57I hope it's the last time.
31:59Ah, damn it!
32:02I think Matt's just kind of tired of Junior not pulling his weight.
32:08We're doing more than he should.
32:09The kid's kind of getting away with a lot.
32:10I'm getting real tired mentally and physically, and this will and has been the most toughest
32:23thing I think I'll ever go through in my whole life.
32:25It seems like he's having a hard time keeping up, and he's so worried about if he's doing
32:32it right or wrong that I think it's screwing him up, you know?
32:38Come here!
32:39If a knot comes up through there, you can snap the pot off.
32:53I think he's riding himself too hard.
32:56He's being too critical of himself, and I think it's hurting his performance.
33:00You know, if you keep it simple and learn one job at a time, eventually it'll come.
33:10So I think his mind is a little overloaded right now.
33:13In an unusual sign of compassion, Sig goes down on deck to motivate the disheartened greenhorn.
33:19It's about time to kick it in gear, don't you think?
33:23Yeah.
33:27You want to grind.
33:29This is when you've got to step up, man.
33:31We really need it.
33:35But back in the wheelhouse, Sig's back to being Sig.
33:39Why is the smile on your face?
33:41I know!
33:42You've got nothing to like about today because you're in big trouble.
33:49364 miles to the northwest of Dutch Harbor is the Northwestern.
33:53Captain Sig is driving the crew to pull their pots before the ice pack covers them.
33:58Luckily, they're still averaging 300 crab per pot.
34:01I feel like we're right on the borderline of what we need and what we'd like to see in those pots.
34:08But as long as that thing is stopping up the tank, I'm not going to complain about it.
34:13A pep talk from the captain and a nap have helped the rookie find his second wind.
34:33Did you bump your head or something?
34:51Why?
34:52Because you're actually working!
34:53Just as the greenhorn rallies, Edgar gives him a new challenge.
35:14What is that?
35:15That's a beating Codhart.
35:17He's alive!
35:19Bleurgh!
35:20Bleurgh!
35:21What?!
35:22Awww.
35:23Awww!
35:24Awww!
35:25Awww!
35:26Awww.
35:27How's the taste?
35:28Oh.
35:29Oh!
35:30Awww.
35:31Not too bad!
35:32Tastes like chicken...
35:34Awww!
35:35Awww!
35:36Awww!
35:37Awww!
35:38That's the one?
35:39Awww!
35:40Awww!
35:41Awww!
35:42Awww!
35:43Awww!
35:44Awww!
35:45Awww.
35:46Awww!
35:47Awww.
35:48Get out, get out, get out, I feel beating it, so you feel better, yeah, that's a good
36:15way to start the day. You got a long way to go, Junior. I've seen how much they enjoyed
36:20that. It looked like it really was tasty. There it is. There it is. He tried. He tried real
36:32hard. He just doesn't have a stomach to beat me. We'll make him into a man. 126 miles to
36:43the southeast. The time bandit is battling waves building to 15 feet and temperatures
36:48dropping to 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Blowing 35 right now. Whitecaps. Everything is twice
36:57as hard and 10 times harder than this. 20.
37:02The only good news, the pots are coming up plugged with crab.
37:08That was so much funny. Yeah!
37:15Yeah!
37:16Yeah!
37:17Yeah!
37:18Yeah!
37:19Oh!
37:20Yeah!
37:21Yeah!
37:22Yeah!
37:23One!
37:24Look at that thing.
37:25All right.
37:26Boom!
37:27Oh, yeah!
37:28Got a little dance.
37:29Check it like a shot.
37:30We always find the crab right at the end of the season. I'll just always rally at the
37:48end.
37:49Crabfish is so easy a caveman can do it.
37:52As the sun sets, spirits are still high on the time bandit.
37:59Watch this. Look at this! Look at that pot! Oh, my God! Watch out! That's a serious
38:14pot, man. Look at that. There's a lot of damn crab in the pot I can see here.
38:20The bottom line is we're making money. Finally making big money. Woo-hoo!
38:29If you ain't first, you're last!
38:46Seven, four, zero.
38:49Five hundred and seventy-two.
38:51That means the tank is full. I think we're about loading.
39:06With full pots coming up quickly, the time bandit has hit their quota and will be heading
39:12home early.
39:13Look at that! Look at that! Look at that! I think you did good, Russ!
39:25This is what you look for right here. There's nothing more satisfying than stuff in the rear
39:34hole.
39:35We're not going to stand out here another second if we don't have to. I'm going in. Thank
39:44you. Thank you, and good night.
39:46No!
39:47No!
39:49No!
39:51No!
39:53No!
39:54No!
39:56Hillstrand out.
39:57Out.
40:02With the end in sight of the Opelio crab season,
40:05the Wizard and the Cornelia Marie
40:07are at the top of the leaderboard.
40:14308 miles to the northwest of Dutch Harbor,
40:17the enormous catches continue for an ecstatic crew
40:20of the far west leader.
40:21Despite its previous misfortunes,
40:23Lady Luck now smiles on the boat.
40:27That's incredible.
40:39That is just pure weight, man.
40:42That is just pure weight.
40:49The metal tank is almost full.
40:52Then fill this up the rest of the way.
40:55Salmon in the offload.
40:59That is phenomenal.
41:02Fishing is beautiful.
41:04Kick it to my head.
41:07We got more room in there.
41:10I put a lot of crab on the boat pretty damn quick.
41:13Get around.
41:29Last pot coming up.
41:29Last pot, coming up.
41:38After surviving a lost engine, a pot trapped under the boat,
41:42and even temper tantrums, the Opie fishing
41:45has been exceptional.
41:46Can we get more in?
41:49Yeah, this thing is getting to be as full as you can get it
41:53without draining all the water out.
41:56Look at Tico.
41:56He's standing on him right now in the front tank.
41:59The boat is plugged, but they still
42:02have 138,000 pounds to catch.
42:05They'll leave their pots to soak and head to town to offload.
42:10Heading in.
42:11Head for the barn.
42:25And it's a wrap.
42:26134 pots, 135 pots for about 100,000 pounds.
42:35With this trip in the books and money in the tanks,
42:38the crew of the Far West Leader calls it a night.
42:41$8,333.33 an hour.
42:4530 miles to the southeast, the Time Bandit is approaching St. Paul Island for their final
43:00offload.
43:01Just as Captain Sieg feared, the deadly ice has made its way down and surrounded the floating
43:07processor.
43:07We need it out of this yet, guys.
43:11It's getting thicker and thicker.
43:16Jonathan just wants to get in and offload his grab, but now the fate of his boat and
43:20crew are in jeopardy.
43:22It might have hurt some of the old sailing days and boats that get caught in the ice,
43:26and they get it, literally get crushed, you know, crush the hole like a popcat.
43:30So it's a very deadly thing trying to mess with the ice.
43:35We're actually doing a knot with one motor, so all we got to do is, I just got to go as
43:43slow as I can go now, because I don't want to hurt the boat.
43:47The ice has brought the 113-foot Time Bandit to a crawl.
43:52These chunks here are about 120,000-pound chunks.
43:55Stuck to the sea, it's puckered up so bad.
43:59Wait.
44:01Is the unit up there anchored up still?
44:03They're not, they close the harbor down and not allow us to go in, but I would say coming
44:08into the harbor, you know, some will lose below.
44:17Now, a mile of ice stands between the Time Bandit and safe harbor.
44:36Co-mania.
44:37The 18-foot-âme video is now.
44:38The 18-foot-âme video is now.
44:39We'll see you guys next time.
44:40We'll see you next time.
44:41Thanks.
44:42The 19-foot-âme video is now.
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44:45Now, let's get started.
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