[narrator] And now, the season finale of Deadliest Catch.
[Sig] If I wanna be there at 4:30...
4:30, 3:30, 2:30, 1:30, 12:30.
11:30 is five.
Really, we need to go now.
Akutan Pass.
Wow, wow, wow.
Kind of [bleep] up.
[Mandy] Got a big one.
Big one on the stern.
Holy moly!
Three knots! I'm not even getting through here.
Tide is coming against us,
so it's tide against the swell.
And you get waves from any direction
and they kind of just come up and bite you.
Oh! Come on.
Ooh, easy on the roll, girl.
[objects banging]
[Sig] Oh, my God!
0.4 knots? I'm not even moving!
[Sig groaning]
Oh!
Oh, God. Oh, God.
Oh, my God!
Oh! Holy-- God!
[Mandy] You got our numbers?
It was 1.42 pound average. I was figuring 1.6.
I was under.
We didn't hit our quota.
So I'm gonna head back out to the grounds,
see if we can't finish what we started.
Man, it's gonna suck.
[narrator] Two months into the winter season...
Well, we're struggling, man.
We got our backs against the wall.
We are barely surviving.
[narrator] ...captains and crews sprint to catch and deliver their share
of the $250 million fleet-wide quota...
Who knows what's still left out here?
[deckhand] Come on!
We're gonna find out who the winners are and who the losers are.
[narrator] But with late-season deliveries
yielding lower average crab weights,
skippers race to make up for missing pounds.
I just need a couple more days of really good fishing,
and it'll bring me out of the hole.
[deckhand cheering]
[narrator] ...and off-load before processor doors and their season slam shut.
So I'm hoping that someone's watching over me.
I need it.
[deckhand] Going over!
[narrator] 190 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor...
[deckhands cheering]
We're on the home stretch.
[narrator] ...aboard the Wizard...
[deckhand speaking]
Forty-nine. Forty-nine! Right on!
Fifty counts are fine. That's all we need to finish up our season.
[deckhand speaking]
[Keith] I'm gonna go down there
and look at them myself right now.
I wanna see how big these [bleep] are.
Now we're just really trying to see what we got in the gear, you know?
We're probably getting close to having what we need.
How much of the crab looks like this?
[Keith] A lot of it's like that?
[Robby speaking]
[Roger] Oh, yeah. Definitely.
We may have to throw some pots back in the water.
[Roger speaking]
Give me about 10 minutes,
I'll get right back to you on the plan.
[narrator] With a meager 1.2 pounds per crab average plaguing his progress,
Captain Keith Colburn harvests his $500,000 bairdi quota
on remote northern grounds, 40 miles above the fleet.
We thought we had the numbers in the gear,
but apparently calculations upstairs don't add up.
[Keith] When you're running on the edge,
your average weight's gonna be less.
It's just the law of the land.
[deckhand] Ain't gonna do it.
[man speaking over radio]
[Keith] Trawlers [bleep].
I got enough to think about without those guys chewing through my gear.
Yeah, I got you fine here.
[man speaking over radio]
What am I doing? I'm fishing.
[man speaking over radio]
Well, you don't get a pre-approved spot
where you get to fish out here.
[man speaking over radio]
I'm setting my gear very tight.
[man speaking over radio]
[Keith] It's a gamble setting here
because if they turn around and decide to go right back through our gear,
we could lose a ton of pots.
[deckhand] Damn it.
Well, you know what? No. I'm going in, man.
I just gotta be forceful, man.
I gotta go in there, set the gear tight,
and then stay right on top of it.
[Keith speaking]
-[deckhand speaking] -[deckhand cheering]
[Keith] They come in formation, and they go up the hill,
turn around and go back down the hill.
As soon as we see them turn,
I'm running right off their stern
and dumping this gear right on top of the hotspot for crab.
Bad enough we gotta try and fight for our crab,
but now we gotta fight the fishermen that are right on top of us.
[sighs in exasperation]
[narrator] 110 miles southeast...
[deckhand] Yeah! Whoo!
Good enough.
[narrator] ...aboard the Saga...
[deckhand whooping] Get 'em all!
We're really trying to just not think about home
and just kind of tip-toe around the back.
You know, we're getting 50s and 80s.
-[deckhand 1] Yeah! -[deckhand 2] Whoo!
[narrator] With four days until final off-load,
Captain Jake Anderson rides a winning streak
to the rest of his 100,000 pound bairdi crab quota.
So let's just not burst that bubble
because every time you acknowledge it,
it bites you in the [bleep] ass
and then you're on blanks again.
[deckhands cheering]
Oh, boy, it's been a long season.
Ready to get on home.
Thirty-five. Three-five.
We'll take 35.
Oh, [bleep] balls.
Oh, [bleep]. Kaleo!
[bleep] soft start.
-[Mason] Kaleo! -[Kaleo] Yeah!
Reset the soft start, the crane tripped.
[Kaleo] Roger.
A soft start is an electrical piece of equipment
that starts a motor for a hydraulic pump.
It kills the crane,
it turns the crane off.
So what happens is the momentum just builds from the boat swinging.
When you have the pot in midair,
it's just gonna do what the boat's doing. It's a big pendulum.
[narrator] A soft start is a mechanism
that safely distributes power to the crane,
preventing that hanging load from becoming a bone-crushing wrecking ball.
[Kaleo speaking]
Yeah, you're good. Thank you. Nice job.
[deckhand] Eighteen. One-eight.
Can you look at that aft tank
and tell me if it's full or not?
All right. Let's go ahead and get that chute out of the way.
[deckhand] Roger.
[deckhand] Oh, [bleep].
[deckhand] Get back!
What's going on? Get that [bleep] crane out of there!
[deckhands exclaiming]
[Mason speaking]
[Jake] Mason!
[deckhand] Oh, oh.
Make it stop!
[Jake] Oh!
[Mason] Turn it off! Turn it off!
[narrator] On the Saga...
[Jake] Mason!
[deckhand] Oh. Oh, [bleep].
Make it stop!
-[Mason] Turn it off! Turn it off! -[bleep]
[Jake] Damn it!
[deckhand] [bleep]. Oh, God.
[bleep] Damn it! [bleep].
Oh, [bleep]. Damn it!
What the [bleep] happened?
[Mason speaking]
[Jake] [bleep]
[Mason] Window!
Just get it out of the window,
tie it up right there for now and then let's just start getting this [bleep] clean.
[Jake] I should have known better.
It has been going too good for too long,
and it's time for something to happen.
And usually when it rains, it pours.
[Mason] Let's get on it, fellers.
We're in the middle of the Bering [bleep] Sea
and it's gonna start getting real wet here real quick.
Better hurry 'cause the most expensive equipment is in this wheelhouse.
I don't really have a choice whether I can fish or not, I have to fish.
I got two tanks to fill up that I'm obligated to bring to King Cove.
Northwest 35 knots tomorrow.
Freezing spray.
[Mason] All right, let's get it flush.
[Jake] All right, move it over, Mike.
[grunting in frustration]
So I gotta start thinking about setting another load of gear.
Get these pots rebaited, back in the water.
I'm hoping that my baby girl doesn't fall apart on me.
Whoo!
[narrator] On the Aleutian Lady...
You know, I really love this boat in this weather.
[chuckles]
It handles like a dream.
It rolls, but it handles so nice.
All right, guys. Here we go, y'all ready?
[deckhand] Roger.
[Rick] Thanks for coming up here in a couple.
We need to get our quota and get to town.
[cell phone ringing]
[Jacob] Hey, what's up?
[Jacob speaking]
Are you serious?
[Jacob speaking]
All right, finally see the first pot.
We need some crab fast.
[deckhand] Whoo!
[Rick] Our opening set was showing
a little bit of sign in this depth curve.
Forty to fifty in every pot.
So it'll be interesting to see what we find.
[deckhand groans]
-[sighs] -[Jacob speaking]
That's gonna suck.
Some of us has gotta go home.
Some of us have [bleep] to do.
Crab count. Four.
[Jacob speaking]
[Rick] We gotta find some good counts.
[Rick] Throw it.
[deckhand] Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Second pot's coming up,
let's hope it's a little bit better.
[deckhand groans]
No table.
[Jacob speaking]
Yeah, I don't know why he's being...
[Jacob speaking]
Was that 17 or 7?
Seven! Seven!
Jacob's normally the spark and the happiness out on deck,
but, man, he's in a rare form right now.
These single digits are not helping us catch our quota by any means.
[Jacob] We're never getting home on this [bleep].
[Rick speaking]
What's the point of setting it back on seven and four?
[Rick speaking]
[Jacob] Hey! Some of us need to get home!
[Jacob] [bleep]
[Rick] Jacob! Come upstairs.
I don't know what's up his ass.
This has gotta stop and it's gotta stop right now.
[Jacob] [bleep] this.
Hey, man. I'm not gonna put up with this [bleep].
This is my boat, I don't need you coming after me nitpicking
when you have no damn clue what you're talking about.
You need to start listening and get your head out of your ass and stop--
-But Rick-- -Dude! Shut your [bleep] mouth!
You do not have the right to come on my boat
and start barking, having issues, knock this [bleep] off.
[door slams]
[sighs in exasperation]
I am not gonna have somebody come on my boat and start giving me lip
when he doesn't have a damn clue what he's talking about.
[narrator] 550 miles northeast outside Kodiak...
[deckhand speaking]
Oh, buddy.
Looks like money.
Yeah, buddy.
Yes! Crab!
[deckhand speaking]
[narrator] Aboard the Victory...
[deckhands cheering]
[deckhand speaking]
[Bob] Fifty-nine.
Today's our last day of fishing.
I have a total of 16,037 crab on board.
We'll get through the gear here,
reach my goal of a $100,000, finally break even.
Last pot, guys. Whoo!
[deckhand] Oh, buddy!
-[deckhands cheering] -[laughing]
[Bob] Just pulled up like two grand.
That's a wrap for Tanner 2023.
Made a little over $100,000.
Knock on wood, it's not over yet.
[line ringing]
[narrator] Closing out her rookie season at the helm of her late father's vessel
nearly a week ahead of schedule...
Hey, Steve, wondering if there's a chance I could off-load.
[Steve speaking]
[narrator] ...Skipper Sophia "Bob" Nielsen
becomes a victim of her own success
putting her six-figure cargo into a holding pattern until her scheduled delivery.
[Bob] Let her rip!
Canneries here just don't have enough processing capacity.
I'm looking at a off-load date of maybe five days from now.
That means we got to non-stop circulate on the crab
to keep my crabs alive and well.
-[loud whirring] -[clanging]
[alarm beeping]
-[Alan] Did you hear that? -[Bob] Yeah.
[alarm beeping]
Everybody, get up!
[Brandon speaking]
[Bob speaking]
[motor winding down]
[Bob] I don't know where the water's coming from.
Holy [bleep].
[Bob] Oh, my God.
[Alan] It tastes like salt.
[Brandon speaking]
-[Bob] What? -This is just sea water coming out
and it just keeps flowing out.
[Brandon] Yeah, that's why it's just sea.
[Brandon speaking]
[Bob] You have got to be kidding me.
[narrator] Aboard the Victory...
[Bob] The keel coolers are underneath the boat.
It's how you chill your coolant,
and it must be damaged somehow
and it's the only way that the engine would be
sucking in salt water right now.
Bottom line is I gotta off-load this crab onto another boat.
[narrator] With canneries booked solid
and the vessel's freshwater circulatory system failing,
Bob must find her $140,000 worth of bairdi crab a new home
or suffer massive dead loss.
[line ringing]
Hey, how's it going?
Ugh!
My engines are sucking up saltwater right now,
and I'm just wondering what it's gonna take to get my crab on your boat.
[captain on phone] Um... I mean...
Um, as far as weather, what's the weather looking like right now?
Right now, it's really nice. I know it's supposed to be picking up.
[captain on phone] Okay.
We should probably do it. The sooner, the better.
Um, I'll get down there
and I'll give you a shout there
when we're leaving the dock.
All right. I appreciate all your help.
Thank you for being on standby.
-[captain on phone] All right, no problem. -All righty.
-[captain on phone] We'll talk here soon. -Okay, bye-bye.
So I'm gonna pitch all my crab onto this boat,
they're gonna have to hold on to it until my off-load date.
Really nice of this guy.
Not super stoked.
The season is gonna be a huge bust if all those crab die.
[narrator] 530 miles southwest...
It's always at the last lap for us.
It just feels like...
It's par for the course, so they say, you know.
It's a numbers game.
And I flunked math, and I can do math.
I didn't flunk math.
I used to bribe my teacher with my box of crab.
Passed every class.
[narrator] ...aboard the Northwestern.
We've got 50 pots to put on the boat and haul
so it'll be down to the wire for us.
Hopefully we find something.
[narrator] Overestimating the average crab size in his final delivery,
Captain Sig Hansen scrambles to catch
the 3,000 pound bairdi quota remainder
and race back for his final, final offload
before cannery doors shutter for the season.
-[man 1] Peg's away! -[man 2] Whoo!
You know, the clock's ticking.
And, uh...
To get what I need, I need about 30 average.
Well, we'll see here.
[man 1] Come on, baby, come to papa.
[Sig] Come on, crab-y.
[man 2] Come on, baby.
We've got something.
-[Sig] Life. -[Mandy] Life.
All right. So the crab are a little bit small,
but there's crab.
[man 1 speaking]
It's hard when you're, uh, you know, picking up scraps
while other guys are already done.
Here we go, Dad.
-[Sig] Come on, baby. -[Mandy] Mm.
[man 1 speaking]
[Mandy] Well, obviously it's not here.
So, I would give it a bump.
A bump?
More like four bumps.
I wouldn't put it right back what we were just on.
[coughs] Let's see here.
I'd, kind of, like to stay on these little ridges.
-You see how it's all ridges here? -[Mandy] Yup.
[Sig] See it?
A little bit deeper, but that's okay.
We gotta try.
Stack up so you got room for 40 pots.
[man 1] Yeah, roger.
Gonna move some of these pots and push 'em.
You gotta go the direction you think the crab are going if they're on the move.
I don't think I have enough time.
But if I don't hit my target or my quota, forget it.
-[man 1] Oh, man. -[man 2] There's nothing in this one.
There's the hotspot right there.
So right where we were in November.
There was a lot of crab that were left. Two hundred counts.
[narrator] Aboard the Wizard.
Okay, let's get this action going.
[man] One.
[Keith] I am dumping, Mouse, right off the stern of this trawler.
Screw 'em.
[narrator] Risking 45 grand worth of gear
and his final offload on a crowded hotspot...
Now, I am getting tired of the trawlers
pretty much fishing right where my crab are.
[narrator] ...Captain Keith Colburn ramps up a final set
near enemy territory.
[Keith] Guys, hang on there, right?
We lose the battle with them, we lose a lot of gear.
But the clock is ticking.
All right, guys.
We gotta get this gear in the water.
Everything is double time now.
[man 1 speaking]
[man 1] Pot over!
[man 2] Pot over!
[Keith] I'm gonna find a way to pull this off.
[device beeping]
Hydro tank's low, Rog.
-Hydro tank. -[man] Roger.
It's like two or three five gallon buckets low.
[man] Not a thing down here.
We're losing a lot of oil right now somewhere on the boat.
Basically, our hydraulics are bleeding to death.
[man] I'm not seeing anything here.
There is some kind of major leak.
A hose under the deck.
[man] This one looks good!
Somewhere on this boat, and we need to find it.
[man] I don't see anything here.
This one looks good.
Check the bow, check the bow.
[man] Go ahead.
All good up here.
Go ahead, jump up there.
Turn the hydros on and move the aft crane around.
[OJ] Stop!
All right, turn it off, turn it off, turn it off!
-[OJ grunts] -What happened?
[man speaking]
Have somebody get him inside.
And let's get the eye wash out real quick, all right?
[man] Roger.
[Keith] Hydraulic oil is not what you want in your eyes.
[OJ grunting]
[narrator] Aboard the Wizard.
[Keith] Hydraulic oil is not what you want in your eyes.
[man] Easy. Take your time, take your time.
[Keith] All right, lean back, lean back.
[man speaking]
-Don't open your eyes. -[Keith] Okay, I'll tell you when to open 'em, okay?
-Yeah. -[Keith] Okay, open on three.
One, two, three.
You gotta open more than that. Put your head back, man.
We gotta... We gotta really douse your eyes out, okay?
Open. Open 'em up.
Come on. Give me a set of towels, would you?
[OJ grunts]
Here. Stay like that. Let me get the oil off, okay?
Don't wanna wash any more in there than you've already got.
Okay, tell me how many fingers.
-How many fingers? -Three.
-[Keith] How many fingers? -Two.
[Keith] Are you okay?
[OJ speaking]
And unfortunately, guys, we gotta get back on getting that hose fixed, all right?
-[man] Yeah. Roger. -[Keith] All right.
[man speaking]
There you go.
Okay, that looks good. Other side?
[man 2] Fine.
[man 1] All right.
We're all good.
Uh, let me get back to the string here.
And hopefully that's our one oops
for this final set, okay?
-[man 2] Yeah! -[man 1] Roger that, Cap.
Well, I am hoping to hit our target on the quota.
Trying to finish this thing up.
But the enemy is in the neighborhood.
They can annihilate a string in one hour.
[narrator] 120 miles southeast...
[Jake] I'm going full tilt boogie.
I can't slow down.
[man] Going over!
[narrator] ...on the Saga.
[Jake] It's been [bleep] weather all day long.
It's been [bleep] weather since that window broke.
We're pushing to the end.
[man] Whoo!
[Jake] About six hours on the window.
So all these pots will probably have
12 to 18 hours soak on 'em.
Nightmare.
Okay, here we go.
-Set it. -[man] Going over.
[bell ringing]
[Jake] Come on, baby. Come on.
Come on, you [bleep].
Come back on, come back on.
[bleep]
Mason, I ain't got no steering. Can you check it out?
Roger. I'll go check it out.
Come on.
Come on, baby. Come on.
Oh, my God. I'm starting to fall apart here.
I don't even know how I'm gonna get towards port,
let alone be able to keep the boat straight.
Everything sucks right now.
[Jake grunts]
[Mason speaking]
Looks like it went down to the gray box.
[Jake] From the window? From the [bleep] window?
[Mason speaking]
How bad?
[Mason] It's pretty bad. It's all soaked.
We knew we took on water with that window breaking.
[bleep] Stupid, dude.
Come on.
[narrator] With his at-sea repair far from watertight...
[Jake] [bleep] I got it.
I'll try using my midship.
Right here, right now.
I can make this girl dance.
[narrator] ...Jake switches to analog,
going from jog stick to ship's wheel.
[Jake] Not all boats are set up like this.
Some, these are just there.
They don't even work.
The first thing I did when I purchased this boat was made sure this works.
Manual.
[grunts]
[bleep]
This wheel right here, trusted for ages.
This sucks, but it has to be done.
Come on, girl.
You just gotta make it a couple more days.
[narrator] On the Aleutian Lady.
[phone ringing]
[Rick] Hello. Rick here.
Yup. Hold on one sec.
Hey, Jacob.
Your brother's on the phone.
Hey. Are you there?
-[Alfio] Hello. -Hey, Alfio. How are you?
[Alfio speaking]
I'm just out here fishing.
I can hear you, yeah.
[Alfio speaking]
[Alfio sighs]
[Jacob crying]
[Alfio speaking]
Okay, thank... Thanks, Alfio.
We should have been there and met Mom already.
-Now, she's gone. -[Alfio] I know.
[Jacob speaking]
[Alfio speaking]
[dial tone]
[Jacob sobbing]
[dial tone]
I just...
I just found out who she was.
[Jacob sobbing]
[Rick speaking]
-Com here, man. I'm with ya. -[Jacob] Thank you.
And I will help any way I can.
I am freakin' heartbroke about this, dude.
Yeah. I was supposed to go, uh...
I was supposed to go down to Boston and meet my mom.
We were gonna have a big thing.
And she has drug induced bipolar and schizophrenia.
And she had all types of problems.
And that's why she put me up for adoption.
And then my half-brother found me.
She was in such a good place.
And he said, "Hey, let's plan for 2023.
You come up in the... Come down in the spring."
-We never [bleep] made it to the spring, man. -[Rick] Crap, dude.
[Jacob] All right, man. Thanks for everything.
[exhales heavily] Dude.
[man] I'm here.
Jacob is my family on this boat.
And it sucks because I just want him to feel
like things are gonna be all right, but...
it's not gonna be all right.
Life can be very cruel sometimes.
[Sig] I've had a bad attitude since I got out here.
Problems getting the crab delivered.
Canneries are closing,
tides are ripping.
[man] Oh, [bleep].
Pull that way!
Yeah, bad attitude. Real bad attitude.
The only thing that fixes a bad attitude is crab.
[narrator] Aboard the Northwestern.
[Sig] Everything we've checked down to the south
wasn't bringing any crab in the boat so keep going north.
Stay shallower and then, uh, follow the fence.
You guys ready?
[man] Roger.
[Sig] This is really bad timing, you know.
When the tides are strong and heavy like this,
you know, that's an uphill battle.
The bait gets washed out much faster.
Get these back in the water soaking.
Keep our fingers crossed that they all hit.
Hey, Sig, you wanna use these Longsoakers with the zee?
I don't know.
Yeah.
-If the tides are getting heavier and heavier... -Yeah.
We can get them released after a day,
then you get a little blast of bait, you know?
Yeah, a new day.
-[Sig] Do 24. -Okay.
-It's a good idea. Thank you. -Yeah, we're ready down there.
[Sig] Clark is right.
Time released bait capsules is what they are.
With the currents running as hard as they are,
the scent gets washed out of the bait quicker.
So putting one in each pot, I think, is a great idea.
[man] Let's do this.
It's been a while I've had those on board.
I just haven't had a chance to use them.
But, uh, the idea is keep fresh bait in there all the time.
Let's see if we can't make this work and get a season out of it.
[narrator] In Kodiak...
[Bob sighs] I'm only 23 years old,
and I can feel the grey hair coming in.
...aboard the Victory.
[Sophia] There's not really much I can do.
Next step for me right now is just getting that crab on another boat,
where they can circulate them and take care of them.
[narrator] With over $100,000 worth of crab on life support
in her oxygen-starved tanks...
[Bob] It's gonna have to wait, Ben.
I was hit about two weeks ago.
Just gotta pay attention just to be safe.
-Oh, [bleep]. -[thudding]
[narrator] And with the hazards of close-quarter maneuvering
still fresh on her mind...
Oh, [bleep].
[narrator] ...Captain Bob readies to transfer crab from her hold
into the functioning tank of a good Samaritan vessel.
[Bob] All right, I'm gonna kick that stern in now.
[man] We're good.
[Bob] Hey, man, I really appreciate you.
You know, everything that you're doing for me.
I can't thank you enough.
[man speaking]
[Bob] Okay.
[man 1] Come on, baby. Let's go, let's go!
[man 2] Good.
[man 1] It's not every season that you gotta
catch your own crab and then pitch it.
But we wanna keep our crab alive.
[man 2] Going over.
[man 3] Hold it, hold it, hold it. Now, go!
The weather's starting to get really bad.
[Bob] Weather's picked up. Picked up a lot.
[cell phone ringing]
Hello.
[captain] Well, what's it looking like?
[Bob] Almost there.
We'll get the rest of this crab offloaded.
[captain] I mean, this is a little bit of a [bleep] show.
In this kind of wind, I don't...
-I don't wanna be dragging your anchor around. -Yeah.
Five more minutes.
[captain] Okay.
If we don't get our $100,000 goal,
she's gonna be going backwards from all the things happening this season so...
It's really big on us to get these crabs to the cannery safely.
Going up!
[Bob] Oh, [bleep].
This is the side that's gonna get, right here.
[narrator] Aboard the Victory.
[woman] I picked up a lot.
Try not to snap a line.
Pitch the rest of this crab off.
Please make this all work.
Let's do this!
-All right! -Woo!
[man] Come on, come on, come on, come on!
Almost done, man.
Whoa.
Be careful.
Get them!
All right, you guys, hang out.
You're good.
Clear.
[deckhand cheering]
Yeah, baby.
[Bob] Hey.
Let's get the hatch back on there, and let's peel out of here.
Cut her loose whenever you're ready.
[man] Yeah.
Woo!
It worked.
We'll know how the crab are doing
when that boat goes to get offloaded.
The season's going to be a huge bust if all those crab die.
[narrator] On the Saga.
Hey, guys, we need a 27 average through
the entire gear, and we're done.
And we want to get the hell out of here.
Roger.
[Jake] We got 30, maybe 40 more pots to haul.
But all it takes is a couple of strings
right now to not do well, and I'm screwed.
We'll be done already.
It's just problem after problem right now.
[narrator] Throttling from the helm and steering from midship,
Captain Jake hobbles toward his final 36 pots of the season
with an offload on the books in just 24 hours.
-Let's get some berries! -Woo!
[Jake] All the water that got in from the broken window,
I don't know what else is going to break,
but... we're pushing to the end.
Come on.
-Yeah. -Whoo!
Oh, [bleep] yeah.
That'll be at least 60 to 80.
All right.
We got crab, bud.
I got you, bastards.
[bleep] incredible.
Whoo!
We're almost done.
Whoo!
Yeah, baby.
Hey!
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
[all exclaiming]
[Jake] What the [bleep]?
Oh my gosh.
Nobody move.
Stay calm. Just stay calm.
Everybody, go forward. Stay calm.
-[man] Okay. -[bleep]
Joe, tell him to fire up that other generator.
Yeah.
Keep going.
Watch your step, watch your step.
Keep going in!
Go!
[indistinct chatter]
[device ringing]
Yep.
Okay.
Okay. All right.
All right, let's get back at it.
We're almost done.
Okay. Bye-bye. [bleep]
Electrical. More electrical.
It's not just the broken window
that's a problem in the high seas,
it's the water that comes in that you cannot stop.
-Let's go back to work. -Yeah!
Woo!
We're down to one generator, and we are not stopping.
This ain't easy, dude.
[bleep]
10 more pots.
I should be able to get the gear on
and get out of here by 9:00 AM.
But I still have to limp to my offload.
[man speaking]
If we let Matt run the boat, he'd just watch a movie and popcorn.
[laughs]
[narrator] Aboard the Northwestern.
Tides run a lot harder around here, a lot harder.
But not a lot of action so far.
[Mandy] That's okay.
All of this bairdi stuff is up and down.
[narrator] Fighting against strong currents
to the Northeast grounds...
I've got that extra little kicker to keep the crab
coming towards the pot.
[narrator] ...Sig and Mandy haul their Hail Mary set,
betting 40 pots armed with bait-filled,
time-releasing jars will provide the lure
and the crab to bring their season to a close.
Because of these heavy currents,
you know, it washes out faster.
So the idea is, the fresher the bait, the stronger the scent,
the faster the crab move.
Well, we'll see here.
[man] What do we got?
[narrator] On the Northwestern.
What do we got?
Come on.
There's some crab in there.
[Sig] Time release bait jar and there's actually crab.
-Look at that. -[Sig] So there is a thin layer down there.
How many in that one?
That's working.
Maybe there is something to these little time-release bait grenades, huh?
-[all grunting] -Got 'em!
More life.
That's huge.
[Sig] We're getting into some high pots now.
63, okay.
That's the kind of numbers you want to see, man.
If we can get a few more pots like that,
I think we'll be all right.
And we can call it a season.
I think we're going to make it on time, you know?
We stayed on schedule, but you've got to push
to stay on schedule.
[line ringing]
It's... It's Sig, Northwestern, you got me?
Uh, we should be in at 4:30. Does that work?
Okay.
No, I understand. Okay. All right.
Well, we'll do the best we can.
I'll head that way.
Keep you posted.
Okay. I'll talk later.
Well, I don't know.
We'll just keep going at it here.
The nearest place was Akutan, which is about a 12-hour run.
I'd say there's a pretty good chance.
I can save about a good hour
by just sneaking through Akutan Pass here.
We were out here, so we'd go around this way.
Go through there, come around, and then you're in, home free.
Bang.
We got to get them to the cannery
in time before those doors close.
[narrator] On the western bairdi crab grounds.
[Rick] I was just told the process plant is closing down,
and I got to get our gear consolidated now.
And numbers aren't too great going east-west,
so we're going to run up to the north a bit,
just a flat area that has muddy soft bottom.
[man speaking]
Her name was Annie Adams.
Annie Adams.
She named me Arthur Samuel Adams.
When I was adopted, they changed my name.
I'll be there at her funeral.
I'll meet a few blood relatives.
It doesn't seem like the right way to do it.
[Rick] Hey, Jacob.
You want to come up here, man?
[Jacob] Right away.
[Rick] After finding out about this, I mean, I get wanting
to keep going and keep moving.
We're just going to go slow, get through what we can.
Hey, dude, how are you feeling, man?
-I've definitely felt better. -Yeah.
So you had mentioned wanting to be a captain
at some point and try to learn.
So let me pull up my lines.
To get this quota caught, I got to try to make a set.
That's my string.
But I'm not just trying to find one spot.
Your string, you get to pick.
All right.
But if we don't catch 'em, you get a Bering Sea swirly.
A Bering Sea swirly.
You get trussed up, your ankles and arms.
Oh, into the crane.
You get hung up by the crane and dipped in the water.
If you catch more crab per pot...
I get to dip you with the crane.
...you get to dip me with the crane.
All right, you're on.
-All right. -You're on.
What are you thinking, my friend?
Maybe I like this contour line here.
Okay, so maybe we'll go a little deeper with mine.
Do I click another button to start another line?
No, click on top there and drag it.
So, click, hold, and drag.
[Jacob] First string that I've ever created on the Bering Sea.
[Rick] Pretty rad, dude.
Yep, just right on top.
[Jacob] Name it after my mom.
Annie.
Thank you, that's more than any captain's ever done for me.
Dude.
I'm stoked for you.
-Time to rock and roll. -[Jacob] All right.
All right, Annie, this one's for you and you, Jacob.
Woo!
Get these off.
Here we go, Annie.
First string I was ever able to place and name.
I hope that...
we can bless her memory and help Jacob use this
as a springboard to move up and move on.
And when he loses, I'll be able to laugh at him
as I dip his head under the water. [laughs]
[narrator] Just outside Dutch Harbor...
[Jake] We made it.
We made it, man.
[narrator] ...on the Saga.
[Jake] I feel like crying.
Final off load, window busted out.
Barely making it through.
And no steering.
Electronically, anyway.
The [bleep] is going on?
Mason!
I've got nothing.
I don't have any throttle.
I'm pulling in for our last offload,
and now I got no [bleep] throttles.
Get your two way radio.
We're going to have to do this manually.
Just start disconnecting the cables,
you're going to do it manually.
Joe!
I don't have [bleep].
-Joe! -Yeah?
Get on the radio.
-Tell them we're coming in hot. -Yeah, Peter Pan, Saga.
Mason, you got me?
Okay, give me starboard.
Starboard half ahead.
Right now, Mason's manually engaging the throttles.
-Can you see the dock, Joe? -Yeah.
[Rick speaking]
If you see me missing it, just let me know.
A little more starboard. Yeah, you're right at it.
Okay, go ahead. Give me starboard engine.
Ahead. Port engine.
Full astern.
Okay, back it off. I mean neutral.
Neutral. Neutral.
Mason, out of gear. Out of gear. Out of gear.
Mason. Out of gear, out of gear, out of gear.
Full astern. Carbon engine, full astern.
Port engine, full...
Port engine, full ahead.
All right, I got rudder all the way over my bow.
It's five feet from the dock.
Tell him to throw a line on there, Joe.
Tell him to throw a line on there.
Get a line on there. Hurry up.
Bump it up just a little more. Give me just a little bit more.
We're almost there, baby.
We're almost there.
Hold it.
Hold the twin screw.
Holy [bleep].
Oh, my God.
[bleep] Joe, that [bleep] just happened.
-[sighs] -Yeah, you're good.
I can't believe that we just did that.
Watch out.
No steering, no throttle, made it to the dock.
Hopefully with a [bleep] load of weight.
All right, let's get these crab off.
We got the bet string coming up next, Jacob.
My string is what we're going to haul first.
The highest average through their string wins.
The loser gets dunked in the Bering Sea.
[Jacob speaking]
You're going in from head to toe, [bleep] balls and everything.
Sorry. I can't say [bleep] balls on TV.
[laughs]
[narrator] On the Aleutian Lady.
You know, it's good to have a little bit of humor.
I'm hoping it'll help get Jacob back on track,
get excited about it.
I'm hoping this string will be 40 average.
That is what I need to get this quota caught,
wrap this season up quick, and most importantly,
to make it profitable so we can buy this boat
and create our future.
[Jacob] Catch some crab.
First pot, it's getting ready to rock and roll.
My string, we were tracking the crab moving this way,
so I think he's going to be getting a Bering Sea swirly.
[whooping]
[whoops]
Eat that, baby.
Here we go.
[Jacob speaking]
We're in the crab.
42 in the first one.
Here we go, another pot.
Starting out really good.
And I'm liking my chances right now.
-[all cheering and whooping] -[Rick] Looks like there's some crab.
[whoops]
Oh, yeah, baby.
[Jacob] I think I'm in trouble.
I might be getting dunked today, boys.
Ha, ha, ha. He is screwed.
20 count. Uh-oh.
Oh.
[groans]
Last pot, I really need this one to pan out.
I need it to be a home run.
No!
[laughs]
Get ready to get wet, baby.
[Rick] You need to be a 30.368 average.
Bering Sea swirly, baby. He's getting dunked.
That would be fun to see, I'm not going to lie.
[Rick] I was hoping for higher.
Bottom line is, Jacob's got to beat me.
[Keith] Are these trawlers happy down below us here?
Half the time they're speaking Norwegian.
Maybe we need to get ahold of Sig and have him
do some translating for us.
Get Sig to translate?
[narrator] Aboard the Wizard...
[Keith] They're all the way up to where we're fishing now.
But we're not backing down.
We go in hard, hot, and fast.
Leave me alone and stay away from my gear, ass [bleep].
We got to make sure we get our number. That's all there is to it.
We can't come in short.
Where is this [bleep] thing?
Looking for my [bleep] pot.
I don't got anything, Mouse.
It's got to be right [bleep] here.
Got nothing behind me.
It's not surprising that these factory trawlers that are 350 feet long,
they're the size of an aircraft carrier, damn near.
And their nets are the size of a football field.
There it is.
[deckhand speaking]
All right, we're live down there.
Let's get some love there on the rail.
They have no idea how important that is.
Just a little bit of luck, that's all.
Are you ready?
[all cheering]
That'll work. Which is awesome.
[all cheering]
[Monte] Well, that's about as good as we could have imagined.
Long, clean, thick crab, huh?
Eight, six.
Fantastic.
You know, now we're in them pretty thick.
I hope this holds up for us.
100.
One hundie.
I'll take it.
[whoops] Yeah, baby!
-That's looking good. -[whoops]
Now we're talking.
[Keith] Right here in Trawler Central, man.
But I'm seeing good fishing here.
I'm not letting this guy push me around.
[man] These numbers here are our go-home numbers.
[Keith] Take that, Super Trawler.
-Going home, boys. -Yeah!
-[grunting] -Yeah!
[Keith] Real close to the finish line.
[narrator] 180 miles southeast on the Northwestern.
Oh, my God, the tide.
It's heavy.
Yeah, I don't know.
This is really bad timing, you know.
I talked to the cannery trying to get to Akutan,
get that delivery in.
And they are sending people home.
So we need to go now.
[Mandy] So we're trying to get through the passage right now.
And the tide's ripping really hard
and it's creating big swells in here.
I've only gone through here a handful of times.
See how the boat's kind of moving a little bit side
-to side like that? -[Mandy speaking]
As soon as we start getting into that pass, it's slowing down.
Holy moly.
At three knots, I'm not even getting through here.
At 3.4 knots, I'm not even moving.
Got a big one.
Big one on the stern.
[Sig] Holy moly!
The tide is coming against us,
so it's tide against the swell.
And you get waves from any direction,
and they kind of just come up and bite you.
Get Clark up here.
[Mandy] Clark, come up here.
We've got another building up.
[Sig] Another one?
Two knots, 1.7, 1.5, 1.3, 1.1.
Now I'm not even [bleep] moving.
[Clark speaking]
-Like right there. -I know.
I know.
It's crazy.
We've had some very long, powerful swells.
We have one of the stronger currents and tides at 11 knots
pushing against them, and we're right in the middle.
We're doing 10 knots now, so we're going backwards.
There's not much we can do right now, besides
he can throttle jockey through here and keep us straight.
-Oh my God. -Like I said, you're almost surfing
through here at this point.
You're getting pushed by waves behind you,
but you're fighting the current in front of you.
And if you get turned at all, you're breaching,
and then that's what you don't want.
[Mandy] It's on your starboard stern quarter.
Can't do anything about it. We just got to ride it.
Oh! Come on.
Oh, easy on the roll, girl.
Another big one, right?
See, now they're coming from the other side.
Oh! Oh!
[Mandy] You're doing good, Dad.
You want me, come and get me. [bleep]
[Mandy] Oh, that's big.
You got a big one on your port coming!
[Sig] Oh.
Come on you dirty son of a bitch! [exclaims]
Oh!
[narrator] We proudly present the 2023 Crabby Awards,
a celebration of excellence.
Biggest wave.
Oh!
Where's Grace?
[narrator] Best jackpot.
[whoops]
[narrator] Most expressive nonverbal communication.
[thudding]
[narrator] The biggest moment.
Oh, [bleep]. Holy [bleep].
[narrator] Outstanding orca-stration.
Whoa! Look at that whale!
[narrator] Greatest mystery.
How long do women have periods for?
[coughs]
[narrator] And, of course, best male vocalist.
♪ Captain Keith Berenson ♪
♪ Let's fill these tanks and head home ♪ [laughs]
[bleep] I'll leave the singing to the singer.
[laughing]
[narrator] What a season.
It ain't over, though.
Let's see if Sig lives.
[narrator] On the Northwestern in Akutan Pass.
You got a big one on your port coming.
[Sig] Uh-oh.
Come on, you dirty son of a bitch. [exclaims]
Oh!
Ooh!
I got you. I got you. I got you.
Hang on. Hang on.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
Did you see more back there?
[Mandy] No.
No, and these waves are coming out like monsters.
I mean, our pots are loose.
They were tied on the rack and snapped the pot ties.
Now they're all the way forward.
This is just absolute asinine.
I've got my whole [bleep] family on this boat.
One knot.
1.5.
There's two.
Two knots now?
You're going to get more and more headway.
Yep.
Come on, little girl.
Dear Lord, please, please, dear God.
Please, dear God.
Another mile, Clark, and then we're over the ridge.
Hey, are we clear?
I think we're going to be all right.
[Sig] It's calming down.
It's slacking off.
I think we're out of the woods here.
-Full speed, Clark? -Full speed.
All right, let's get out of here.
We still have 23 miles to get in.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
We did it. Thank you, Dad.
We love you.
Grandpa's gonna kill me.
Oh, my God, your grandpa's gonna kill me.
Oh, maybe we just won't tell him.
-Yeah, don't tell him. -[both laughing]
He's gonna kill me.
[narrator] 100 miles northwest...
[Rick] This one's for Annie.
[narrator] ...on the Aleutian Lady.
[Rick] Jacob's gotta beat me.
Let's see if I'm gonna be laughing or crying.
[Jacob] Come on!
Oh, mama! Whoo!
Oh, looks like there's some crab.
Just like how I like my women, clean and big.
[whoops]
Damn.
It's just one pot, and it's the first pot.
[Jacob] That's right. Thank you, mama!
Yeah!
[groans]
[Jacob] I hope you brought your swim trunks, Rick.
-Four-four. -44.
I'm not sweating it. My first two pots were 42 and 47.
Yeah!
49 crabs.
We got 53 keepers in that one.
Dang it.
[Jacob] Look at this! [laughs]
Oh, yeah!
-Oh, yeah! -Whoo!
I'm in trouble.
Oh!
Oh, dude.
Yeah!
That's a good pot.
That's what I'm talking about.
That's a lot of crab.
My final total was 30.368 crab a pot.
Your final total...
-was 49.7 crab a pot. -Yeah!
-0.7 under 50. -That's what I'm talking about.
Dude, Annie blessed you on this one, man.
-Yes, she did. -That is freaking awesome.
-Whoo! Yeah, thank you. -Way to go.
[Jacob] I honestly had no idea what it would turn out to be,
but now he's getting a Bering Sea swirly. [laughs]
This might be the game changer we needed
to get this quota caught by this damn boat.
[Jacob singing] ♪ Captain Rick, you're going to be dripping wet ♪
Hey, guys. Nice work. That was beautiful.
We got our quota.
-[all cheering] -Last pot.
Hey, Jacob.
You want to come up the wheelhouse,
wrap this up, and head in?
Yeah. Yeah, thank you.
Yeah.
Jacob definitely showed his loyalty to the boat and to me.
He found out his mom passed.
To be able to persevere, that earned a lot of respect.
And he told me he wants to be a captain.
I might as well bring him up here and let him try it out.
-[Jacob] For real? -[Rick] I'm serious, man.
The best way to learn is to jump in and do it.
[Jacob] All right.
Hey, anybody out there ready to haul a pot?
[man] Roger!
[Rick] Don't screw it up, man.
Once he gets it in the block,
there you go.
-[Jacob] This is awesome. -Whoo-hoo!
[Jacob] This is a dream come true.
-Dude! -I'll get you pointed in the right direction.
This is amazing.
[narrator] In Kodiak Harbor aboard the Victory.
[Bob] Overall, we had a pretty successful season.
36,000 pounds overall with minimal dead loss...
-Whoo! -...minimal broken legs.
-So 36,000 pounds. -Woo!
Woo-woo! Good job.
Good job, boss.
You, good job.
36,000 pounds was like, that's a good amount of crab.
That's a good payday.
[Bob] I'm really thankful because I took a lot
of blows this season.
I need new keel coolers.
I need to do a top end rebuild on my big generator.
But that's what BOAT stands for,
bust out another thousand.
[narrator] In her opening season, the 23-year-old rookie skipper
banks $144,000.
She did great for her first time running the boat.
And I can't wait for next year.
[narrator] Putting $14,000 into each crewman's pocket.
[Bob] Truthfully, it was really hard for me to do my first season.
I think it added a lot of stress, and it made me
really flustered at times.
But I am committed to this boat,
and I'm going to continue to learn and hopefully become
a better skipper.
[Keith] Good job, team.
[whoops]
That's the last one.
That's awesome.
Anything that could go wrong did go wrong.
But you guys are going to make a nice little paycheck here.
-Good job, boys. -Men.
They are men now.
That was one for the books.
[man] They're looking really big.
They're looking like monsters.
I'm not going to wash this lucky mug
because we're still alive.
So this thing can stay dirty until the next time.
Guys held it together, and we made it.
[Jake] Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose...
a window, steering and your throttles.
At least I caught my crab, and at least I safely made it
to the dock with minimal damage.
[Rick] I thought I was going to skate out of this, man.
[Jacob] This is what happens when you make a mess, baby.
-Yeah! -Oh, my gosh.
-Oh, my gosh. Okay. -[laughs]
-Oh, my gosh. -[laughs]
-My vertigo is going freaking crazy. -Oh, [bleep].
Oh, I feel like I'm about to pass out
from all the blood being in my head.
Oh, baby, it's going to be cold.
It's going to be cold, cold.
Just get it now.
Man, this sucks.
-[crew] Three, two, one. -Swirly!
[all laughing and whooping]
Oh, water up my nose.
Woo! Woo! You're badass.
[Bob] I hope my parents would be proud of what I've accomplished,
the hurdles that I've had to overcome.
I guess I, uh... I did it.
I've done this for a lot of years now,
and I feel responsible that we've got to start opening doors
for the next generation.
So who knows what the future brings?
Everybody understands that.
But I can't wait for next season.
-[man] How are you doing this morning? -[Bill] I'm all right.
I'm a little nervous, but you got the test results.
[doctor] The MRI showed that your volume is enlarged.
It's kind of medium-sized.
The Gleason score is an unfavorable
intermediate risk, four plus three, where we really need to combine
the radiation with the hormone therapy.
The serious news is that this is prostate cancer,
and it definitely needs to be treated.
It is a life-threatening issue.