[waves crashing]
[Keith] The North is a nightmare.
That's Russia. That's Kodiak Island.
This storm is 1,500 miles wide.
And we're right here.
[TV announcer] A powerful typhoon has slammed
into Japan's Izu Islands,
bringing significant damage to homes and infrastructure.
[narrator] A tropical depression when the fleet departed Dutch Harbor.
Typhoon Halong barrels northeast to the Bering Sea's
55,000 square mile northern fishing grounds,
trapping the fleet 200 miles from safe harbor
in pursuit of the $30 per pound pure blood red king.
[Keith] We're going way up north of St. George.
But, you know, we're gonna get our asses kicked.
That typhoon, it's on the warpath.
You can already see how big this thing is.
[deckhand] Whomp, whomp, whomp
Not good.
Fishing just dropped off,
so now we're back in search mode.
I'm gonna put my feelers out.
[Jake] I'm running Phil Harris' Cornelia Marie.
It's the first time for me driving this boat,
and I'll be in a typhoon.
[deckhand] Ugh!
Ugh.
I need some luck.
[deckhand] Watch out! Whoo-hoo.
I am not liking how we're riding.
Oh [bleep]!
[deckhand yelling] You call this a storm?
[groaning]
[cheering]
-Yeah baby. -God loves us.
[Jake] And hopefully nobody gets hurt...
or dies.
300 miles north of Dutch Harbor...
on the leading edge of Typhoon Halong.
[deckhand] Oh!
[OJ speaking]
[deckhand] Oh, [bleep]!
[indistinct chatter]
Aboard the Time Bandit.
[Andy over the phone]
OK, Andy.
OK, Andy, I'm gonna be safe.
I'm gonna get out of here.
I'll call you back later, but thanks.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
-[Andy] OK, sounds good, John. -[Johnathan] OK.
All right, you heard him.
Oh, man.
It's a hard offload, so we have to be there or we're gonna
get put back in line, and then we might lose all
our crabs sitting in the harbor.
So I'm about ready to pull this in a typhoon.
With a scheduled delivery in four days,
Captain Johnathan Hillstrand races to retrieve his remaining
$1.5 million of northern red kings
before the building 25-foot swells shut his operation down.
Hang on.
[indistinct chatter]
That was a big one. That was a bad one.
Let's try one, Freddy.
[Johnathan] OK, guys, be careful.
Here comes the first one.
[Freddy] Go fishing!
[deckhand] Oh, yeah! Good shot, Freddy!
-Big money! -Whoo!
[indistinct chatter]
-Come on, Freddy! -[indistinct chatter continues]
Come on baby give us some [indistinct]
Here we go. Look what we got.
[indistinct chatter]
Use a blank.
Let's see what's in the rest of 'em.
OK, guys.
[deckhand] Run, run, run, run, run.
[Johnathan] Watch out.
There we go. OK.
That's why you're hiding up in the bow there.
Yeah, watch out.
[Johnathan] Holy moly.
That was a mount.
There we go.
[deckhand] Watch out, man, oh, oh.
Good boat.
-OK, guys, let's try another one. -[indistinct chatter]
-Get up, boys! -Come on, brother!
[Johnathan] Could be good, could be bad.
It's like every pot's a Christmas present.
There's a little red bike under the tree.
What do we got? What do we got?
-Yeah, baby! -Whoo-hoo.
-Let's go baby. -[Johnathan] Yeah, baby!
Dude, dude, dude!
[indistinct]
Look at that one.
[Freddy] Big baby monsters.
[Johnathan] That's a good pot there. That's probably 100.
Big reds. Nothing but big reds.
[deckhand] Whoo-hoo!
[deckhand speaking]
Are you [bleep] kidding me?
Finally got a good one. Hopefully
found something here, maybe.
Hey, watch out!
OK. Be careful.
Be careful, guys.
[Freddy] Oh, no!
[bleep] that died right back off -- damn it.
Back to nothing.
For some reason, it stops.
Why is that one good right there?
Aha! Aha!
The pot that had 100 in it?
Right on top of that mound here.
Grab her right there.
Another half a mile, it drops back off.
[deckhand] No good, no good.
[Johnathan] Well, I think what I'm gonna do is...
keep stacking, guys.
I'm gonna set everything I got on top of the mound.
-[waves crashing] -Holy [bleep].
You could put 100 pots in a one mile square.
It's gonna take more than a mountain to stop us.
We're gonna take the king of the hill right off
the hill here.
65 miles southeast,
under the eastern tendril of Typhoon Halong.
Whoo!
On the Cornelia Marie.
[Jake] I'm running Phill Harris' Cornelia Marie
for King Crab,
and we're way up north.
Three things I never thought would happen when I was 26.
[groans]
[Jake] The first time for me driving this boat,
we go out in this typhoon.
So it's gonna be bad.
I need to get these pots off.
I don't really have anywhere to put them.
Eight days after calling the 128-foot Cornelia Marie
into action, the vessel made famous
by the legendary skipper Phil Harris...
[Phil] Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
Watch things happen, make things happen,
or wonder what the [bleep] happened right now.
We're making things happen.
...former protege Jake Anderson takes the helm as captain...
[Jake] This is [bleep], you know.
...driving an all-new crew led by engineer Jake Albineo
to catch $3 million of elusive northern red kings
in the teeth of Typhoon Halong.
[deckhand speaking]
[deckhand #2] Yeah, baby!
Hmm.
Look at that.
Oh, those are rocks.
They're those peaks and valleys.
Phil caught tens of millions of pounds on this boat,
fishing around the rock piles.
[Phil speaking]
There's crab here.
I fished in that spot more than any other spot in this
whole [bleep] ocean.
[deckhand] Yeah, baby.
It's stuffed.
That's got to be a beautiful thing.
I hate rock piles.
Because they're hard to fish.
There's a rock. There's a rock.
And right here,
that's the mud piles.
And that's where these crab like to sit.
If you don't land on the mud, then you land one of your pots
on the rock. It doesn't catch crabs.
But with the typhoon, the only good choice is
get these pots off the boat.
All right, guys, start getting them ready.
We're gonna start firing them off.
-Yes, sir. -Whoo!
-All right, here we go! -Yeah!
[indistinct chatter]
[phone ringing]
Hello, this is Jake.
Hey, what's going on?
[Jason] Where are ya?
[Jake] I'm in the Bering Sea fishing for some crab.
I will.
You get me not to pay the alimony.
I'll [bleep] give you a house.
[Jason laughs]
[deckhand] Going over.
[Jason speaking]
But...
she's entitled to half that money still.
[bleep]
[deckhand] Going over!
Argh, watch it, watch it, watch it.
I think I got to get off the phone, guys,
because I'm trying to run a boat in a [bleep] storm,
and you're telling me all this [bleep]
that I don't want to [bleep] hear.
[indistinct chatter]
[Jason speaking]
[Jake] All right, bye-bye.
It's [bleep] up going through a divorce
that you don't even want to happen.
Jenna left me, and now I'm here.
Now, I really can't afford to be emotional.
It's [bleep] stuck.
Albinio, get up here.
The throttles went out, but one's still engaged.
at 1,400.
Throttle's stuck.
160 miles northeast of St. George Island.
[Jake and Albinio speaking]
It's [bleep] stuck.
On the Cornelia Marie.
Right now, we're in the middle of 25-foot seas.
If I can't control the boat, I'm screwed.
With one throttle stuck wide-open and the other
nonresponsive, Jake wrestles the Cornelia Marie onto
a safe course amid a violent and confused sea.
So, take your control.
[Jake] Right, hold on.
[bleep] it We're going to shell them off.
Keep working on the port throttle, I'll just start
setting right now. That's all we can do.
All right, fellas...
-[deckhand] Yes! -[deckhand #2] Going over!
[Jake] This rock pile isn't a straight line.
But I got to get the weight off the boat
before I lose this throttle, too.
[deckhand] Let's go, let's go!
I just gotta pray to God. This is where the crab are.
[deckhand] Going over!
Eighty two miles southwest, in the heart of Typhoon Halong.
[deckhand] Damn...
Whoo!
Those are some big-ass waves.
On the Aleutian Lady...
[Rick] This one's gonna break.
-[waves crashing] -[deckhand] Whoo.
Yeah baby.
We are into the 25 to 28 foot range now.
Those are what blow your window out.
Hitting so far north to try to find these pure bloods,
it costs a lot of extra money in fuel.
And we have to try to recoup that money.
I need them to hit, and I need them to hit good.
I don't even know if we're going to be able to haul this.
So I'm going to pull up on this first pot
and test it out and see.
[deckhand] Come on, baby, come on.
All right, guys, here we go.
Let's go, baby! Whoo!
Get it, get it, get it!
I'm on the fence right now.
This is...
[bleep]
Watch the rail.
-Yee-ha. -Whoo.
[indistinct]
-First pot is on board. -Yeah.
[Rick] Lot of crab.
[deckhand] Nice crab, man. Nice, big, juicy.
[bleep] clean. Clean as [bleep].
[Rick] That last pot was about $14,000.
Let's go, let's go! Watch out!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
But we got to keep going.
-Yee-haw. -Oh, yeah!
Boom! That's a good pot.
There'll be over 40 in it.
[deckhand] Oh, yeah, baby! Whoo-hoo!
[Rick] 46 in that last one.
I'm gonna try one more here, but I am not liking
how we're riding.
[deckhand speaking]
[bleep]
-What's up? -[deckhand speaking]
Anybody see the diver?
[Rick] The trailer line parted, and I can't afford to have
my bags go under. Suck line in the wheel.
Then we're disabled,
and then we're calling for help.
And now I got to spin the other way, which means the starboard
rail open with guys out there. If I have [bleep] --
There's a big wave. Watch yourself, guys.
Oh [bleep]!
-[wave crashes] -[loud bang]
Try to hook it quick, get in the block.
It might be going under the boat.
[deckhand] Come on, go, go, go!
Oh, [bleep].
-Oh, no, no, no, no, no! -[loud crash]
[bleep].
-Did it go under? -[deckhand] Roger.
-Let her go, let her go. -Just let her go.
-Damn it. -[bleep].
On the Aleutian Lady.
-Did it go under? -[deckhand] Roger.
[Rick] Let her go. Let her go.
Just let her go.
-Damn it! -[bleep].
After 20-foot swells snapped the buoy line,
Rick loses $14,000 of crab
and any chance of recovering his damaged gear.
[Rick speaking]
I couldn't turn quick enough.
I'm done. We're not hauling anymore.
Yeah, guys, we're gonna...
waves are too [bleep] big.
I got two pots hauled, 40, 46.
But I mean, this is the real Bering Sea.
When this weather comes down a little bit,
I'm gonna get right back on 'em.
72 miles northeast.
Every time we come out here, we're dancing with the devil.
Jitterbugging with Jezebel.
I have no idea sometimes.
On the Time Bandit.
[Johnathan] We have 102 crab in one pot on top of that hill.
So I'm just gonna put all our gear right here
on top of this hilltop.
[deckhand] Worth a couple of shots, worth a shot.
Gonna set this, gonna turn and go back down
and come back up like a typewriter.
Ching-ching- ching. Ching-ching-ching.
After finding a sign of life on a small,
one square mile hilltop,
John prepares to set four five-pot strings.
[OJ] Yeah.
Targeting half a million dollars of northern reds
in a single run through his gear.
The most dangerous part is I got to turn and go back
into the waves.
This is gonna be difficult, difficult, difficult.
[deckhand] Watch out man.
[deckhand #2] Oh, yeah.
Hang on. Hang on, guys.
Watch out.
Oh [bleep].
Let her go. Careful.
[indistinct chatter]
[deckhand] Whoo.
[indistinct chatter]
There's the next one.
Hey.
[Johnathan] I'm gonna make the first turn here.
See if I can do this thing or not.
[beeping]
Ugh.
[bleep] [indistinct].
Come around, boat. Come on, you can do it.
-Whoo. -Whoa.
[indistinct]
All of a sudden, the flag starts blowing
straight -- straight across. It's crazy out here.
Wow, look at that.
OK, guys, let her go.
[Freddy] Nice job.
[deckhand] Whoo!
[Johnathan] Let her go.
[Freddy] It's going over, baby!
Second turn, we're heading back into it.
Hang on, here we go.
'cause Imma be putting you in harm's way.
[Freddy] Whoa!
-OK. -[Freddy] Go, baby!
-Going over, baby! -[deckhand] Whoo.
Keep on going.
[Freddy] Keep going over, baby!
[deckhand] Whoo-hoo.
There's a big one. There's a big one.
Watch out, guys. Watch out.
[indistinct chatter]
[waves crashing]
Holy moly.
-Oh my God. -That was a big one.
[Johnathan] All right. See my guys.
Those are my guys. One, two, three, four, five.
-[OJ] Dang! -[Johnathan] Is everyone OK?
-[deckhand] Yes, sir. -[Johnathan] Watch out for each other.
I'm fighting against just trying to get this gear off
the boat without hurting anybody, get it on some crab.
Hey, guys, I slowed down. I got course changed...
-Yeah, Roger that, man. -Going over.
Why not?
It's too scary. My legs are shaking right now.
This can't hurt nobody.
I don't care about crab anymore.
I just gotta get the gear up without hurting these guys.
52 miles southeast...
On the eastern edge of the typhoon.
[Albinio speaking]
[Jake] OK. Both of them?
Come on, baby. Come on, baby.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, she's got power.
[Albinio speaking]
These throttles are fixed.
Albinio knows one thing,
and that's this boat. Thank God.
Aboard the Cornelia Marie.
Roger!
[Jake] So I'm back at the rock pile.
I only had one throttle, so I had no control.
Imagine how many pots that I land on the rocks
and not in the mud where the crab are living.
Now I got to haul it in a typhoon.
Whoa.
Phil always said this was a Lamborghini,
so I need to stop pussyfooting around and give it some gas.
[deckhand] Roger!
Let's see what we get out of this.
-Coming up. -Yep.
[bleep] blank pot.
It's the rocks.
I'm pulling up on the next one to see if we can get lucky here.
-Holy [bleep]. -Yeah, dude.
-Whoa! -Daddy's going to [bleep] sizzler.
-Whoo! -Damn, dude.
We're on the meat, baby!
Nom, nom, nom.
-Yeah! -[indistinct chatter]
Look at that.
Cleaner, bigger...
pure blood.
65, six-five.
[deckhand] Yeah.
That's what I'm talking about.
The conditions are worsening.
[deckhand] Roger.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Watch the [bleep] rail.
Get the [bleep] off the rail.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Watch the [bleep] rail. Get the [bleep] off the rail.
Hey!
Whoa!
[waves crashing]
Mmm.
[deckhand] We're good. We're good.
Big one, dude.
There's just a learning curve to this.
And you don't get much time to kill somebody real quick.
I got to keep going.
I will figure it out.
I'm gonna have to.
75 miles southwest...
[deckhand] Let's go, baby!
Whoo!
[Rick] All right, first pot, we got it in the block at least.
We've been shut down for 14 hours,
and, I mean, it's still -- [bleep].
But we can't waste any more time.
So here we go.
Get it, get it, get it.
-Come on, crab. -Coming up.
Oh, yeah, baby! Whoo!
Whoo.
[indistinct chatter]
-Packing the meat, baby. -Whoo!
[bleep] they're climbing out of the table.
-[deckhand] 64. -64? Hell, yeah.
-Whoo! -Boom!
We needed this.
As long as this maintains, we'll be --
68.
Being up this far north...
Yeah, baby.
...and seeing full pots of these purebred king crab,
it's worth the fight.
76 miles northeast.
Oh, [bleep].
On the eastern edge of the typhoon.
This weather is [bleep] up, but we love it.
Aboard the Cornelia Marie.
I'm back at the rock pile now, and...
I piled all my gear in here, so I'm hoping we hit mud.
I have to do it today with a rougher current, bigger waves,
and then you've got waves
coming from all different directions,
not just one direction.
[deckhand] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh [bleep].
I don't like that one.
[deckhand] Whoa! Watch your back.
Yeah, baby.
[Jake] Albinio, can you come up here?
Think you guys could do a four-man down there?
[deckhand] Yeah, Roger.
-Roger. -Roger.
I'm getting hit pretty bad.
Can you help me watch for waves?
Yeah, I can do that.
[Jake] There's so much gear we have to get through,
so let's see if we can actually do this.
Roger.
All right, fellas...
[Albinio] 15 degrees, starboard bow.
-[Jake] Oh, that one. -[Albinio]Yep.
-[Jake] Oh, dude. -Yeah, that.
-[Jake] Look at that thing. -That's a big [bleep].
[Jake] Going again, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Here's a big one. Watch out.
[Jake and Albinio] Watch the rail, watch the rail.
All right, guys, we're about to get started...
[deckhand] Yeah!
[deckhand #2] Nice [bleep]!
Hell, yeah!
Damn it.
Come on, come on.
[deckhand] Coming up.
[Jake] Oh man, look a that!
-[deckhand] Yeah. -[cheering]
That's what I'm talking about right there.
-Nicely done, buddy. -[deckhand] Yeah, buddy!
Big boy fun right there.
-It's [bleep] insane. -That was definitely in the mud.
Oh, yeah.
Boom. King crab, [bleep].
That's when you know you've set it between the rock piles.
Starboard stern, starboard stern.
[Jake] Roger. That's a smoker.
Be careful.
[Albinio] Up, up, up, up, up.
Holy [bleep].
Big one, port side.
[Jake] I see it. [bleep].
Whoo!
[Albinio] Hey, Jake, Jake, Jake.
You got a smoker heading this way, two tens out.
Everybody up in the [bleep] forepeak .
everybody on board, go forward.
[two times]
[bleep], hang on, hang on, hang on.
[wave crashes]
[deckhand] Whoo.
[bleep]
That was [bleep] big, dude. Look at it.
[Cody] I thought for sure we were getting [bleep] slammed into
that wall on that one. -I was like...
I just felt it coming.
I was like, "Oh, [bleep]. Here we go."
-Got a bag, starboard side. -Starboard side.
Yeah, you look pretty clear to the back.
[Jason] OK.
[deckhand] Holy [bleep]. Whoo!
[cheering]
-Yeah. -Yeah, dude.
[deckhand speaking]
-[bleep] rock pile, huh? -Yeah.
That's some good crab to show for it.
-[deckhand] Yeah! -That boat is awesome, too.
[Albinio] Yeah, it is.
[Jake] Hopefully, we can stay on the crab.
-[deckhand] Yeah! -[Jake] That's when the game starts.
Whoo!
54 miles northwest.
[Johnathan speaking]
Cart service will be down during the flight.
[deckhand] OK, Roger.
On the Time Bandit.
[Johnathan] We had a crab pot right here with 102 crab in it.
So I set 20 pots right on top of this hill.
They're so close together.
[deckhand] [indistinct]
[Johnathan] Pull down the string.
We're gonna have to pull up and grab one and then pull it
away from the rest of the pots.
But if we mess up and grab the wrong one,
we're going to tangle them all up.
That'll be a mess.
[Freddy] Whoo!
[Johnathan speaking]
Roger.
[indistinct chatter]
[Johnathan] Get in the block.
Yeah, we got to put it in reverse now.
-[Johnathan] We'll pull this thing right out of here. -[deckhand] Roger.
[Johnathan] OK, start pulling slow.
All right. I gotta back up.
[Freddy] Come on baby, come on baby!
[Johnathan] So I don't see any buoys coming at us.
This one's not tangled up with nothing, so...
so far, so good.
Come on, baby. Show me some crabs.
[Freddy] Whoo!
-[Freddy] Oh, my God! -What?
That's a good pot.
[OJ speaking]
Oh, yeah.
[deckhand speaking]
-[OJ] What a nice and clean crab! -Unbelievable.
[laughs]
We're going back in for another one.
Going in, going in.
[OJ speaking]
[Freddy] Yeah, baby!
Back in reverse, baby. Come to Daddy.
Come back to Daddy.
There we go. That's how you do that.
Here we go.
[OJ speaking]
Right there, another good one.
Whoo, whoo-hoo-hoo.
[OJ] Yeah, brother.
Yeah, baby. Look at that.
Look at that, man. Oh, man.
-[deckhand] Whoo-hoo. -Wow, God's good to us.
God loves us.
[Freddy] Whoo-hoo.
Love and cherish every crab that comes aboard.
-[OJ] Hell yeah. -Yeah, baby -- yeah, baby.
We're on fire baby. Fire, fire.
72!
-72. -Yeah.
[OJ] Wow. It's amazing.
-Oh my God. -The numbers are holding up now.
I think we're going to make it through this thing.
It's a good job. Thank you, thank you.
[Freddy] Whoo! Good job, brother.
[Cadence speaking]
I think only like three weeks.
-[Luka] Three weeks! -[Cadence speaking]
[deckhand] Ah, I love it.
[cheering]
[Cadence speaking]
[Jake] That sounds like so much fun.
[Cadence] Yeah.
Buddy, we can do whatever you want when I get home.
[Cadence] OK.
-[deckhand] Oh yeah, baby. -[cheering]
-OK, love you. -[Cadence] Bye.
Bye-bye.
I miss Jenna a lot, but I do this for one reason
and one reason only, and that's my kids.
That's it. That's what I'm here to do.
It's a lot of pressure
to have on me the fact that this was Phil's boat,
but this is just the beginning.