[waves splashes]
[seagulls squawking]
[wild bill] I get sick and tired of guys
coming up here that wanna just try it
for a season so they said they did it.
You told landon you were gonna do the job,
so you owe it to yourself and you owe it to us.
[suspenseful music playing]
[landon] bill has usually got really, really good
motivational speech for guys just like blake,
so I wouldn't be surprise if one of those speeches
are coming here.
[wild bill] I see improvement
and you can't get down, man.
This is the easiest [bleep] you'll ever get.
[man] hurry up, blake.
[blake groans]
-[man] here, do it again. -[blake] oh.
[wild bill] it doesn't matter who you are
when you got on this boat,
if you dig deep, you can become a total badass.
Yeah.
[wild bill] that's a perception these guys will have of you.
Look at that thing.
[wild bill] you need to become fully committed to this
because it's a tough game this year.
[johnathan] everything is online with this one, dude.
-The fleet needs us. -All right. Come on, baby.
[singer] ♪ I'm a cowboy ♪
get them. Get them.
[singer] ♪ on a steel horse I ride ♪
♪ I'm wanted wanted dead or alive ♪
-[beeping] -holy [bleep].
[indistinct chatter]
I don't know.
[wild bill] when you're hired, you said you wanted to do this
so you better damn well get down there
and do the job, buddy.
You better do a [bleep] good job.
[seagulls squawking]
[waves splashing]
[mike] two hundred and twenty-six miles northeast
of dutch harbor
on the time bandit.
[johnathan] this is the most important
crab season we have in years.
If we don't have a good catch
then the fish and game is gonna go,
"hey, [bleep] we're gonna shut it down
'cause there's no crab."
[mike] tasked with catching five million pounds
of king and bairdi quota
to prove the health of the crab stocks,
the fleet struggles to stay on pace.
Their failure meaning a potential closure
of both fisheries.
[johnathan] we're gonna have to get medieval.
So let's get you used to the boat
and you haul a couple.
There's our first pot.
You're on the hot spot.
I just need a short break, man.
I brought you out here so you can do this.
So let's see how long it takes you to run the string.
Okey-dokey. Okay.
[johnathan] out of 25 pots wringer, my friend.
All right. Cool.
[mike] to run the ship around the clock,
captain johnathan hillstrand puts co-captain josh harris
through a crash course at the helm
of the fabled time bandit.
[josh] different electronics,
different steering, different view.
-A lot to take in. -It's just a lot...
-A different boat, you know? -[josh] yeah.
-You'll get it. You're not... -[josh] yeah.
You're a good... You're a good operator.
[josh] yeah. All right, boys.
Well, I'll be driving for a little bit here.
First time driving the boat.
You got this, brother.
You got this, brother. Woo!
[waves splashes]
[johnathan] don't go too fast.
Just take your time on this first one.
This is jog, it's a lot different.
This is weird to me.
[wave splashes]
whoa.
You're driving like a crazy alley cat.
Drive's a little bit different.
[boat rudder rumbling]
[johnathan] so you're used to your rudder snapping back,
-and this one don't. -[josh] yeah.
[johnathan] this one stays wherever you leave it.
-Yeah. -[johnathan] now, you gotta get back the other way.
This boat don't turn like the cornelia marie, dude.
There's the first pot.
That's a long ways away.
-He ain't gonna make it. -[josh] all right.
[wyatt] holy cow.
[johnathan] freddy is gonna be pissed.
Come on, freddy.
Oh, freddie missed.
-Oh, man. -All right.
A little bit too far there for me.
Come on, baby. Come on, baby.
Sorry, buddy. I'll turn her back around.
-That's my fault. -[johnathan] oh, man.
Sorry. Learning a new jog stick over here.
He made freddy miss.
It's all good, brother. It's all good.
-Probably the first time... -[johnathan] freddy's...
...Freddy's missed in a decade.
[johnathan] yeah. He's gonna have to tell his family
he missed.
[suspenseful music playing]
[wyatt] all right. This one's better.
He's starting to get the hang of it.
[freddy] yeah, baby.
-Whoa. -[wyatt] woo!
[freddy] yeah, baby.
Come on. Woo!
[johnathan] he got it.
[freddy] come on.
Yeah, brother.
Woo!
[johnathan] dude, you're getting smoother.
All right.
Yeah.
Oh.
[josh] boy.
-[johnathan] yeah. -[bleep]
oh.
[wyatt speaking]
[johnathan] here we go.
-You're getting smoother, man. -[josh chuckles]
[johnathan] smooth operator over there.
[josh] all right. We'll see what's in this one.
Hopefully, it gets better, johnny.
-[johnathan] okay, man. -[josh] I know it will.
Remember what I told you,
when they're there, they're there.
[josh] when they're not, they're not.
When they're not, they're not.
Okay.
You're driving smoother but these box suck.
[waves splashes]
[mike] fourteen miles west...
On the cornelia marie.
Oh.
[casey] that sucks.
It flat [bleep] sucks.
[man] maybe three or four.
Well, we're not seeing much right here
but there are some time bandit pots in the area.
So I'll relay that to johnny and josh.
Maybe we can compare notes and figure out
which way these crab are headed.
[mike] to determine his next set,
captain casey mcmanus compares his data
with his partner boats, hoping to find trends
in the crabs' movement.
[casey] josh, john, what are you guys gathering on?
[josh] hey, what's going on, buddy?
[casey] yeah, I just spot-checked your string
and the best stuff I saw was 38, 46 and 37, 89.
All right. I'm gonna take a look at this really.
Stand by.
Okay. Well, yeah,
what we were on, the best stuff
was kind of like right in the middle.
[johnathan] what do we have on the western side
24 hours ago?
[josh] we had tens.
If he's seeing the same crab that we were seeing east
then those things are moving west fast.
I gotta show you.
If he's got good crab to the west,
we didn't see [bleep] only...
Like it dropped way off and now they're there,
then I'm looking at
they're moving about two miles a day.
-[josh] okay. -[johnathan] so if we throw
some pots two miles west of where you're at,
in 24 hours, we should hit them big again there
in theory, right?
-In theory. -In theory.
[casey] yeah. I'll be about four miles over
from the spot checks. That's right.
[mike] johnathan calculates the speed
the school is moving
and plans to set not where they are now
but where he thinks they will be in 24 hours.
Yeah, so if you got the gonads big enough,
let's move about four miles over
and crown them in.
[casey] this is looking good.
-This is looking good. -All right.
[casey] I like your... I like your game here.
[josh] that old hillstrand, he pops in
when he needs to pop in, that's for sure.
We're time bandits.
That's why you gotta go forward in time.
We're not gonna set where they were.
We're gonna set where they're going.
[suspenseful music playing]
all right, jeff. Well, we did some calculations,
and johnny's got them figured at four and a half miles
from here to the west.
So we're gonna run these pots up there
and lay them in front of them.
How confident are you in this set?
Just 'cause we saw some bad pots
than a slightly less bad pots... Seems...
Well, I'm glad you have an opinion
in all your years of crab fishing.
[laughter]
[casey] right now we got a direction.
We got, you know, an idea
of how far they're moving per day.
So we got a timeline figured out.
Now, we just gotta get up in front of them
and drop the pots and hope for the best.
[mike] thirty-seven miles southeast...
On the summer bay.
[blake] they woke us up.
I came right out here.
-You pick that halibut up. -Okay.
[wild bill] I hope blake can handle the pace.
You know, he's a good guy.
When he... I let landon hire him.
Landon ran the boat this summer.
One more of these, okay?
Now, let's get a set of jars made.
[wild bill] we're telling landon that,
"hey, you hired this monkey.
You need to motivate him."
go back, clean up all these
for the next time we're hauling, okay?
-Okay. -[landon] I asked blake
if he regretted coming on here
and he said [bleep] yeah."
[laughter]
a bit early for that kind of attitude but whatever.
[blake] I'm a little stressed out,
and I'm just trying to keep up.
Not mess up too bad.
Yeah, if that [bleep] tries to bail
in the middle of this thing, I'll beat his ass.
[wave splashes]
[wild bill] okay, you guys, this one's set.
The main line string.
So a lot of activity in and around it,
so hopefully it's productive.
[man] yeah.
[wild bill] this is our best numbers
when we hauled in prior,
and I'm hoping they stay steady
and maybe increase a little bit
so we'll be out here another trip
and a half through the gear
if we can stay on these numbers.
[mike] in boiling seas,
captain "wild" bill wichrowski
returns to the best signs of life,
looking to snare his final 12,000 pounds
of king crab before moving on
to the bairdi fishery.
[wild bill] come on [bleep]
let's see what we got going on here.
[man] all right. Here we go. Let's go.
-[man] all right. Go. -[man] let's see what we got.
[wild bill] oh.
Come on. [bleep]
this one's got a bunch of smalls.
There's probably no [bleep] in this.
[man speaking]
come on, man.
[bleep]
five, zero, five.
[bleep]
well, it said something to the south there.
Different direction, fresh grounds.
Just keep fishing till we get it.
That's the way it works.
[blake whistles]
-hey, blake. -Yeah.
We need more bait in that, okay?
-Okay. -Add two baits more.
[man speaking]
oh, man.
Hurry up, blake.
Hurry up.
-[bleep] -man down.
-[bleep] -[man laughs]
I'm trying to maintain my sanity here.
Don't let go.
[beeping]
holy [bleep] what is going on?
Landon, engine room, buddy.
Give me some power.
[wild bill speaking]
come on.
[bleep] what now?
-[blake speaking] -[landon speaking]
[beeping]
landon, engine room, buddy.
-[wild bill speaking] -[man] let's go. Let's go.
-[wild bill speaking] -come on.
[bleep] what now?
-[blake speaking] -[landon speaking]
[grunts] my god.
[beeping]
[man speaking]
oh, just...
Let me get the lights on.
We gotta get control of the boat.
[mike] without power,
the summer bay is a sitting duck,
vulnerable to the bering sea's mounting breakers...
Come on, man. Give me power.
[mike] ...And ripping tides.
[wild bill] I got no steering.
We are at the mercy of the ocean.
[indistinct chatter]
[wild bill] start the freaking generator.
I gotta wait for this. The power updating on it.
[landon speaking]
[man] woo!
Good.
[landon speaking]
[bleep]
I've been training these guys for a long time,
and the worst thing you can do is micromanage
and get out and fix everything for them.
They have to be able to go through
the troubleshooting process on their own
because if I'm not here, who's gonna fix it?
[landon speaking]
[mike] the culprit jeopardizing bill's
multimillion-dollar operation...
[landon speaking]
[mike] ...A $10 wire in the generator
worn down by friction.
[landon speaking]
[blake speaking]
[wild bill] well, looks like we got it,
so let's start hauling gear again.
-Come on. -[man] roger.
[mike] the generator is firing on all cylinders.
[wild bill] [chuckles] blake looks like he lost his puppy.
[mike] but the greenhorn is still running on empty.
[man speaking]
what? What was the question?
[man speaking]
I'm not sure. I'm not really here right now.
I'm just trying to not [bleep] up.
I'd like to give these guys a little bit of a break,
but [bleep] it's not the right time.
We just can't go in with anything less
than what we need.
We gotta do it.
[mike] one hundred thirty-eight miles west...
On the southern wind.
[waves splashes]
[harley] I got sig calling me,
saying, "we need a boat."
he will come and work his ass off
and catch some crab,
and here we are.
[waves splashes]
[harley] if we can't catch this quota,
there's a chance the fish and game
will shut it down.
Damn thing fishing.
Let's get this show on the road.
[waves splashes]
[mike] rallying to captain sig hansen's call,
captain steve "harley" davidson
readies his 120-pot load,
not just for his opening set,
but to save the fleet
from a shutdown of the bairdi fishery.
[harley] we're gonna go and see if we can
spread some out on this bank up here.
It's not hard bottom, I know it's fluffy mud,
and that's what they like.
I like it, I like it.
So if you like it, do it.
[jack] I'm ready to get these pots off the boat,
we're gonna get on this bairdi and get home.
[man speaks indistincly over radio]
[man] yup.
All right, guys. Here we are.
[indistinct chatter]
[harley speaking]
[man howling]
-[buzzer] -beep. Go.
Bairdi 2020, first pot thrown over.
[screams]
[man] hold on.
[man shouting indistinctly]
[harley] I do love the hunt.
The hunt is fun.
The kill is beautiful, but the hunt is fun.
[whirring]
[harley speaking]
-[man] okay. -[man] roger that.
[man speaking]
-it's only 30 right there? -[man] yeah.
[man speaking]
[harley] okay.
That's an issue.
[man] are you sure there's no more bait bags
hiding down there?
[man] yeah.
[man] oh, sorry, guys.
I [bleep] it up.
Left some bait bags on the beach.
[bleep] [bleep] damn you, guys.
[mike] bait bags hold, well, bait.
And without them, there's no allure
to the steel crab motel.
[man] hey, jack. We got a little problem, buddy.
Come on up here.
[mike] and deckhand jack brunell
only packed 90
of the 120 needed bags.
Bunch of [bleep] bozo.
Jack thinks he knows everything,
but he's 26 years old.
I used to be one of those guys,
but, you know, you gotta be, uh,
smarter than that.
So he's a good worker, but he's kind of
a freaking wild card, man.
You're the [bleep] worst skipper
I've ever [bleep] seen in my life, jake.
-Thank you. Thank you. -Behave, or I'll [bleep] lay you out.
Hey, what the [bleep].
[bleep] come on. Come on.
[jack] aye, captain.
[harley] that's what we need your experience
when you show them there, but we're at the aquitaine dock
with all the bait jars and everything
that were available there.
And now out here, there's no 7-elevens, man.
[jack] yeah.
Drop the... Drop the ball and the bait bag there.
[harley] these pots are gonna fish one way or another.
We're gonna figure out something.
So are you using your socks, or what?
Socks will work just fine.
Stuff them up.
[dramatic music playing]
-[man] let's go. -[man] yup.
[mike] but one thing crabbers pack plenty of...
[jack] nice new socks.
[mike] and jack's will be stuff with fish
instead of feet.
Nice brand new socks.
I can't believe this [bleep].
[harley] trying to run a million-dollar operation
and these dudes can't bring their bait bags?
[man speaking]
[man] where the [bleep] is my sock?
Hurry up, jack. Come on.
I hope the damn sock holds it in there.
[man laughing]
[exclaiming indistinctly]
make it happen, that's all I care about.
[alarm buzzing]
[harley] we had to improvise.
[seagulls squawking]
[mike] one-hundred five miles northeast.
On the time bandit.
All right, guys. Get ready to set.
According to john hillstrand, "we can set forward in time."
[johnathan] and you wanna be in front of 'em,
you don't wanna be behind 'em.
If we're too far in front of 'em,
we got test, but if we're on 'em,
we're getting some of these.
[mike] while captains john and josh
bet on the fourth dimension to intercept a school.
Set them forward in time, harris.
[mike] just two miles away on their partner boat...
All right, jeff.
Yo.
[casey] still don't think this is a good idea?
[jeff speaking]
you wanna put your money where your mouth is?
Do you wanna make a bet with me?
All right. Let's go.
[mike] captain casey proposes a wager
of his own with greenhorn and offseason business partner,
jeff silva.
Dude, I bet we have a 45 average minimum
through these gear we're about to set off.
[jeff] if you got, say, 25 average or 60 under.
Loser has to dive down and get a crab off
the bottom of the tank.
[laughter]
yeah, I'll you up on that.
Air shake.
Yeah, air shake.
[man] pull over.
[casey] hopefully, we got a good eye on these crab.
There are some times when you just got to read
the gear and go with your gut.
About 36, 38 hours, we'll know if we are right.
[mike] two hundred twenty-two miles northeast
of dutch harbor.
[dramatic music playing]
[landon] looks like somebody like ran over you
and then backed up over you.
What's all this from?
Falling?
I don't know.
[landon laughing]
it's a lot of unanswered through,
you know.
[landon] take some pain reliever.
[mike] as the inflammation of repetitive stress on deck
gives greenhorn blake the dreaded crabber claw.
[blake] I can't close it.
[wild bill] I don't know if we're gonna see
any luck and I kinda [bleep] it,
it's moving this way.
Sideways, a few miles to the south there.
Hopefully, we see a little light when we pick 'em up.
[mike] captain wild bill reaches the start
of his string.
Hoping his southern set brings his final 8,000
pounds and an end to his king crab season.
[wild bill] pots coming up.
If the next string is substandard
and I don't think I have any other choice
but to take everything up, re-bait it,
maybe spread it out in different direction.
But it's gonna cost us.
[seagulls squawking]
[machine whirring]
[wild bill] this whole process, you're, kinda,
wondering like if you put them in the right place.
You second guess yourself.
We'll see what happens.
[man] whoo, yeah!
Oh, shut my mouth.
[cheering]
[laughing]
[man] are you kidding me?
[wild bill] yeah!
[man] come on, baby.
[man] every crab counts right now.
I like the fact they're a little bigger crab too.
[man speaks]
seventeen.
Oh, this string is doing good,
a little bit of crab, we want more.
I can't believe you dodged.
We're not out of the woods yet.
[man] let's go bring it back up.
[man] come on. Drag it up.
[nick] it's exactly what we needed.
We just need to keep this going.
Come on, stay up, stay up, stay up.
[man] oh, yeah.
Keep it going.
-[man] yeah, man. -[man] fifteen.
Keep it going.
[man] yeah.
[man] sixteen, 1-6.
Yes.
[wild bill] these numbers are exactly
what I would take of it.
If it would stay like this the entire evening,
we'll be done by the time we get through this.
[man] oh, yeah.
[man] this crab is a big boy.
[man] whoo!
[man] [bleep]
uh, I'm gonna tow it again.
Let's hope it gets him.
[seagulls squawking]
[man] didn't get up though of course that time.
[wild bill] blake's gotta toughen up a lot.
He's gotta get more agile, can't be stumbling around.
[producer speaking]
yeah.
[wild bill] some people just have that limitation
on how far they can push themselves
and how much they can take.
Is he one of those? I don't know.
I know one thing.
Some of these guys just gotta do their jobs.
The quicker we get it done, the quicker we're underway.
[mike] one-hundred forty-eight miles west.
[dramatic music playing]
[harley] okay. Here comes those
bait socks string coming up.
[mike] on the southern wind...
[harley speaking]
and, you know, I got an a-list
and a b-list and a [bleep] list,
and you'd probably guess which one you're on.
[mike] captain harley hauls his first
bairdi string of the season.
His fate in the hands of the muddy bank
and jack's socks now filled with bait.
[bleep] with this guys.
[harley] ready?
[jack] all right. Ready.
[dramatic music playing]
[jack] oh, yeah!
I think jack's socks are gonna be [bleep]
[machine whirring]
[man speaking]
[harley] all right.
Got their selves a little sock bet here.
All right.
[machine whirring]
[munsey] now, it's a bet.
[harley] and I agree with you, you know,
man, I'll be afraid too.
I'm not bringing my bait.
[man speaking]
[munsey] come on.
We need to stay on this soft spot.
Come on.
Show me some crab.
[jack] come on, baby. Come to papa.
[machine whirring]
[man] come on crab.
[bleep]
[man groaning]
that's not gonna make it, dude.
That was pathetic, man.
That sucks.
[harley] those socks...
The only thing they're catching
is a bunch of snails.
If this continues, you might as well put 'em back on.
Somebody is gonna be wearing those socks, buddy.
[jack] come on, socky pot.
Come on, socky pot.
I don't know, man, it doesn't sound promising,
-uh, all these socks bags... -[jack] this is gonna be it, boys.
...Haven't been doing anything for us.
[jack] this is gonna be it.
No crab.
[munsey laughs]
[jack] damn it.
[laughs] no, I'm not seeing it.
They are freaking owing me, dude.
[munsey] oh, yeah, more snails, great.
Thanks, jack.
[jack] pretty bleak, pretty bleak so far.
[munsey] oh, that's bringing out nothing in it.
We gotta find these crabs.
We're not snail fishermen.
We find some crab, we'll go make some money
and get the [bleep] home.
[intense music playing]
[mike] two hundred twelve miles northeast
of dutch harbor.
[man shouting indistinctly]
[mike] on the summer bay.
[man speaking indistinctly]
[wild bill] uh, that's the last one,
king crab is in the bucket.
[man] hell, yeah!
[cheering]
[nick] yeah.
That is a crab.
[man] right there?
[nick] yeah.
[wild bill] I gotta thank you, guys,
we can turn this thing around.
[nick] we're heading over to the bairdi grounds
starting that season.
One season right after the next.
We're gonna make as much money as possible.
[wild bill] it looked pretty gloomy for a while
then kind of came through in the end.
It doesn't matter the road you take as long
as you get where you're going I guess.
[mike] his tank's full, captain wild bill points
the bow towards dock.
But while the crew is resting up...
[man speaking]
[mike] greenhorn blake breaks down.
[man speaking]
[man] okay.
You're good.
[somber music playing]
[wild bill speaking]
was he a mess?
[man speaking]
[intense music playing]
[wild bill] I know all their job is to see
some stuff we gotta deal with and look at more but,
uh, this may be a lesson that you realize
you hire for the boat, you don't hire for friendship.
[man] right.
Lesson learned.
[dramatic music playing]
[mike] fifty miles northwest...
On the time bandit.
[man screaming]
[mike] and cornelia marie.
[man] fish on, brother!
All right, man, I'll let you know
how this goes, we're about to hold
up right now.
Roger.
[man] time is the fourth dimension,
you saw what's gonna happen,
you sit in front of 'em and we'll get 'em.
Thanks, buddy.
[man] you're not really even on a boat,
you're on a time bandit, time machine.
[laughs]
time machine.
I could call australia to find out
what's gonna happen since it's already tomorrow
in australia, but we'll just jump
on this boat and they will do it
for you in fourth dimension.
Time is the fourth dimension,
I keep trying to tell you this.
[laughs]
I don't even know what that means.
-I don't either. -I don't either.
But I know it works.
[chuckles]
[man] everything's online with this one, dude.
The fleet needs us.
[intense music playing]
[casey] pulling up on this triangulation set right now.
And jeff think it was a good move
but I'm about to prove his sorry ass wrong.
I think this was the string,
we had a little swing bet set on.
I know it is.
[jeff speaking]
[casey] well, that's cute but, uh,
that ain't happening, dude.
I got experience on my side.
[laughs]
all right, man, let's see what happens.
[casey] jeff and I made a little bet on this string
and if I don't hit 45 average I'd have to go
swimming to the bottom of the tank and get one crab.
So this is gonna be less than awesome if I lose.
Go big or go home though, right?
[intense music playing]
[josh] all right, boys, let's see we got this one.
Pretty excited about this.
Oh, baby, all right,
come on, baby, come on, baby.
Okay, man, let's see if this one hits.
Here it comes, here it comes.
[mike] this week on salty takes.
[man speaking]
[mike] a delicacy in many cultures.
My finger is cag on the back that says
do not eat...
Or not for human consumption.
[mike] the ball sea cucumber is usually dried
then boiled for several days.
Oh, man. Oh.
Disgusting, man.
[mike] or if you're landon cheney
just eat them raw from the sea.
[bleep]
[laughs]
[sighs] it's not bad.
[mike] interesting, maybe parents will start
to discipline their kids with sea cucumbers
instead of bar soap when they use profanity.
[man] hey, man, let's see if this one hits.
[mike] on the western king grounds.
All right. Come on, baby.
[indistinct chatter]
here it comes, here it comes.
[intense music playing]
[casey] oh, yeah. Yeah!
[man] whoo! That's not bad.
Oh, he nailed it.
You got it. You got it, harris.
You got it.
Huge. Huge.
It's a good fly.
Fifty-seven, five, seven.
Fifty-seven. Hell, yeah.
[man speaking indistinctly]
he's not gonna leave the boat,
I'm not letting you leave the boat.
[man] all right.
[man] whoo! [bleep] man.
Wow.
Six, two.
I think we can consider this a win.
What do you think?
Oh, huge w over here my man, huge w.
It's our only trade it is about time,
timing is everything.
[man] whoo!
[casey] jeff, looks like you're going swimming, buddy.
[laughs]
[jeff speaking]
I'll tell you what, I'm feeling generous.
You hook your first throw ever,
you're first time you ever throw,
you hook the pot, you get it in the block,
I'll go swimming.
All right, man, I'll do that when you suit up.
[intense music playing]
[casey] all right. Batter up.
Here's your first pot.
I can give you a little heat.
[jeff] let's go.
[intense music playing]
[man] oh, [bleep]
[laughter]
[bleep] he got it.
[indistinct chatter]
[grunts] why did I give him an out on that one?
That was stupid.
Looking kind of cold up there, buddy.
Damn it, I'm gonna have to swim in the tank.
Any idea how cold that's gonna be?
[dramatic music playing]
[mike] in dutch harbor.
On the summer bay.
[wild bill] here we are,
it's been a long couple of days.
But we made it with no injuries
and virtually no breakdowns.
We had a couple of things go wrong but nothing
that we couldn't handle at sea.
[mike] the first leg of the fall fishery's done.
Captain wild bill sets his sights
on knocking out bairdi.
[wild bill] we could've thrown the lines at the field dock
and left but we a personnel
left to do it.
So...
Hey, is blake out there?
I wanna talk to you guys.
[sighs]
[man] this is always hard.
[wild bill] I know.
[man] mmm-hmm.
Take the lead, buddy.
[clears throat]
well, I asked you to come up here
and you gave it your all,
and, uh, I think
we as a crew have seen you, uh,
mentally and physically break.
When, you know, we see you not being able
-to use your hands. -[blake] mmm-hmm.
If something were to happen in case of emergency,
a guy goes overboard, we can't rely on you
to be a part of that rescue mission.
So for safety's sake, we'd like to send you home.
All right. I understand.
Okay.
Sorry, I couldn't do better.
Trust me with this.
This job is gonna get so much harder
in the next couple of weeks.
If you're not on the bairdi, you got a whole lot
of gear moving, you can repositioned
and the whole piece will be tenfold.
You two have been the best bosses
I have worked under my entire life.
Thank you for the opportunity.
You're welcome.
Don't worry about it, just keep it safe.
You've had a pretty sheltered life.
[laughter]
[dramatic music playing]
[wild bill] everybody looks at these jobs
on these boats as some sort of proof
of what you can do or how far you can push yourself
or what you can endure.
[intense music playing]
[man] oh, my god [bleep]
[harley speaking]
a deal's a deal, let's see you start
putting those puppies on.
[jack] this is just real unusual.
-[laughter] -[man] no!
No! No!
[harley] hopefully that gives us a little luck.
[jack] let's go to work.
[man] everybody wants to do it until they get here.
[man] okay.
[bleep]
[man] but we get banged up, bumped, and bruised.
Three, two, one.
[screams]
[bleep]
[man] then these muscles you never use,
and everything hurts.
God [bleep]
[man] it's not for everybody, not for many.
But once you can get through that...
2020. Yeah, baby.
[josh] no small crab in a dead loss, solid, dude.
That was solid.
Solid, yeah, solid.
[man] oh, yeah.
In the end we came through.
[man] if you really wanna do it.
I like this one.
It's alive, it's got bigger pinchers.
It's as good as any.
[man] the camaraderie is unlike anything
you've ever seen with these guys.
[man] say bye-bye to your nuts.
[jeff] there's no last words.
Come on, dude, I'm getting cold, let's go.
[man] yeah, sucks for you [bleep] on,
come on. You got it.
[intense music playing]
[man] whoo!
[laughter]
he's coming up.
-[man] no way. -[man] yeah. Yeah.
You got it.
Paid his debt man, I respect that man.