Deadliest Catch (2005–…): Season 13, Episode 3 - Down in Flames - full transcript
[ birds crying ]
[ alarm blaring ]
jake: What's going on?
Fisherman:
Fire in the engine room!
Fire!
[ coughing ]
tell me what's going on.
-I don't know what's going on.
-Go give me a report!
Give me a report!
[ blaring continues ]
[ coughing ]
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discovery communications
[ alarm blaring ]
jake: My main engines are off.
I can't even turn the boat.
Narrator: 185 miles from land
on the 107-foot saga...
Shut it down.
Just shut it down now.
Shut it off.
[ coughs ]
♪
jake: Get ole out of there.
What the [bleep]
is happening?
[ blaring continues ]
[bleep] you guys.
Get upstairs.
Just everybody get out
of the engine room.
You do not want
to breathe that.
[ coughing ]
why don't you
just shut it down?
[ alarm stops ]
is it on fire?
[ coughs ]
[ coughing ]
starboard-side clutch.
Oh, god.
They think it's
the clutch burnt out.
Smoke just starts
pouring [bleep] off.
Oh, god.
[indistinct]
[ alarm blaring ]
[ coughing ]
narrator:
The source of the toxic smoke:
A burnt-out clutch.
My heart just dropped.
Fire is the most
dangerous thing
that can happen on a boat
that's not flooding.
We caught it just in time.
Narrator:
The clutch is a padded ring
that transfers power
to the hydraulic system.
As the protective
padding wears over time,
the shaft slips,
causing friction,
overheating then fire.
Jake: If the guys wouldn't
have caught it,
it would eventually got
to the hydraulic oil,
erupted in an explosion,
and we would all been dead.
So thank god
that the guys caught it.
Narrator:
Although a quick response
avoided a disaster...
Jake: We were dead in the water,
literally, dead in the water.
Narrator: ...Jake has
to shut down fishing
until the clutch is repaired.
Jake: I'm worried
about the owner,
and now I've got
to worry about this,
and this is a huge issue.
I've got the owner
breathing down my neck.
If I don't catch the crab
on time, he starts taking it.
Narrator:
At the start of the season,
boat owner lenny herzog
threatened to strip
away jake's quota
if he didn't produce.
Oh, dear god.
One crab, not good.
Narrator:
Already off to a slow start,
this delay could cost jake
and his crew their season.
Jake: I know my engine room.
I got no problem
getting my hands dirty.
Narrator: Now, it's do or die
as captain and crew attempt
to make short work
of a major repair.
[ bird crying ]
narrator: Ten miles northwest...
On the 110-foot brenna a...
Throw hard, pull fast,
don't miss.
Come on. Let's go.
Yeah, baby.
...After days of trial
and error...
I'm hoping this is a big school.
...Captain sean dwyer believes
he's finally honed in
on the transplanted king crab.
There's got to be
some crab down there,
crab on the move, man.
Narrator:
And the young skipper bets
this next string
will start filling his tanks.
Sean: With the small quota
that I have,
the biggest thought
running through my head
right now is,
"catch these crab quickly
with the fewest amount
of movements possible."
narrator: With just 52,000
pounds to catch,
sean can't afford
to waste any time
if he wants to maximize
his profits.
Let's see it.
Oh, yeah.
What happened?
Whoo!
Look at that [bleep].
[ cheering ]
[bleep], yeah.
Big rider in the tunnel
as that pot was coming up,
and that means those crab
are still crawling in.
There's crab
on the bottom
down there moving
towards these pots.
Fisherman: 47
clean crab.
Boom, boom, boom.
We're making money.
Yeah.
[ cheering ]
whoo!
Yeah!
Yeah!
I'm fishing
for dollars here,
and that's what
king crab is about.
Per: Yeah. We might not have
100,000 pounds.
But we're taking 100 percent
of what's on that table,
and it's going to sean,
going to boat, going to us.
So we're psyched.
-Whoo-hoo
-we're in the tunnel.
Whoo!
Sean: Per's my buddy.
I've known him since I was 3.
So I want to see him succeed.
Guys are making money right now.
No complaints here.
Sean: I'm in it
for the long haul.
So I want to make sure
that I build a good team
that can go with me here.
Per: That's a lot of money
going on the table right now.
Narrator: With his homeboys
hitting their groove...
This deck is working great.
Hauling these pots as fast
as they are, we're almost done.
Narrator: ...The brenna a is
close
to finishing out
their king crab season.
Sean:
I mean, a good day of king crab
fishing can be 50,000 pounds.
That is not that much.
I got to try to find
some more quota.
Fishermen: More riders.
-Aw!
-Oh.
Sean: I got to try
to make something happen
to keep this business running.
[ keypad dialing ]
[ intercom beeps ] yeah.
You got me on this one, sig?
This is sean calling.
[ intercom beeps ] yeah.
I got you, sean.
Morning.
Narrator: Sean places a call
to his mentor,
northwestern captain sig hansen.
I don't have
that much to catch.
I hate to even ask,
but do you have any quota
or know of any to spare?
Oh, [bleep].
I -- oh, man.
I think...
Uh,
I've got quite a bit,
but I don't have
any to lease out.
If I did, I think my brothers
would probably kill me.
Guys that don't catch
their quota out here,
maybe there's the chance that
you could pick something up.
There's always
that hope.
[ intercom beeps ]
you know,
on the other hand,
I mean,
we do have a cod license
you might
be interested in.
You could do that
and stay busy, right?
You want the boat
making money.
Yeah. It'll help.
[ chuckles ]
I'm definitely
willing to do it, so...
Personally, I don't
want to do it.
It's just wear and tear
on the boat and me.
All right.
Well, sounds good, man.
No sweat.
He's sweating.
[ laughs ]
we'll talk to you later.
A cod fishing we will go.
Narrator: Sig's cod opens up
a vital revenue stream
for sean's business.
Sean: Cod fishing
is not an easy job.
It's totally different
than crab fishing.
The high-dollar value
of the catch is not there.
Narrator:
But it's labor intensive,
and the profit margin is skinny.
Sean: Sig's got this permit.
Brenna a's got to
keep the wheels turning,
keep the lights on.
♪ let it snow, let it snow ♪
♪ let it snow ♪
that's a big boy.
Sean: I need to do this
100 percent.
That's how you make money
out of it, is go 100 percent.
Let's go!
Whoo!
Change, whatever,
be about 4 miles.
Fisherman: Let's fish.
That's great.
Going to be able
to tell the boys
we're going cod fishing.
We have 35,000 pounds
on right now.
So another time through the gear
will get us pretty much there.
And then we'll stack them
out and leave.
Yeah.
This guy.
Yeah.
And in order to keep
the boat moving
and to keep
making some money,
we're going cod fishing.
-No.
-[ sighs ]
what?
You guys look so pissed.
Not really into it.
Well, the boat's doing it.
So if you want your job
in the winter,
you're going to make
a couple cod trips.
I didn't sign on
for cod fishing.
You signed until December 1.
To crab fish.
No, to fish.
It's a little washy.
You want to review
the contracts?
I don't know. I just --
that's not what I
signed up for
is all I'm saying.
It may be
in the contract, somehow, but...
Well, it's what
I got to do to pay the bills.
So that's where
I'm coming from.
So...
If not,
you know where the dock is.
Narrator: 195 miles
northeast of dutch harbor
on the 113-foot summer bay...
Will bill:
Who doesn't want to have
great pots right off the bat?
We've brought
some crab aboard.
I mean, I'll be honest,
I was hoping for about 30,
40 percent more than we saw
but fell off deep
and just blew it at the end.
It sucks.
I mean, we've had a rough start.
Narrator:
Prospecting over a wide swab
of the king crab grounds,
captain wild bill wichrowski
has yet to find
a lucrative honey hole.
Wild bill: You know,
I'm a boat owner now,
way bigger bills
than we ever expected.
We're moving stuff around.
But we don't start catching
some crab, I might lose it all.
Narrator: Sitting on 105,000
pounds of quota,
the new boat owner risks
falling behind on his payments
if he doesn't start turning
that quota into crab.
It's just we just
need to find them.
[ coughs ]
all right.
Who are we missing here?
Narrator: Bill's ace and
surrogate son, nick mcglashan,
has struggled with
an illness all season.
Not the best time
for this [bleep].
[ coughs ]
let's go.
More pods,
more crab, more money.
And the last one out
on deck...
Yeah.
Let it go.
Nick:
Let's do it quick.
♪
[ clears throat ]
is that all?
Hey, slide that leash
down towards the bottom.
Wild bill:
The motivator of men, nick,
working at about half speed.
Hook that pot up right.
Are you as green
as that coat?
Narrator:
For the past 5 years...
Nick: Hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey.
Can you sort king crab
or not?
You know the difference
between a male and a female?
...Nick has been bill's
go-to guy on deck.
We are back in business.
Yes.
Hey, talk to me.
If you're ready, say up.
Remember when I said,
"use your words"?
[ indistinct ]
[ bleep ]
and I can just tell
by looking at him,
he doesn't have
any ounce of strength in him.
Hey.
♪
hunter,
you got to go down here.
I can't see you.
Fisherman: Hey, heads up.
Heads up.
[ machine whines ]
whoa.
[ bleep ]
[ indistinct ]
[ coughs ]
hey, buddy.
You sound like [bleep].
Crud?
I'm not sure.
You got antibiotics?
No.
Nick, you should come prepared
for things like this, you know?
Well, I feel like
I'm getting better,
but...
No.
No, you're not.
I got the book
right there.
And there's a jug
of antibiotics.
Can I take them now?
Yep.
I know you're a badass.
Don't keep hiding this
to where you're out.
That'll screw me,
screw you.
Nothing's ever stopped me
out there, boss.
All right, man.
Be careful out there.
We cannot have
you get sick, nick.
Yeah, yeah.
Sicker.
I'm hoping I don't lose him.
Narrator: 20 miles west
on the saga...
I've been down here for...
I don't know.
[ indistinct ]
narrator: Captain jake anderson
is 8 hours
into a major clutch repair...
...After it filled the boat
with toxic smoke.
Until jake completes the fix,
the saga is just
chewing up clock.
Jake: Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Pick it up. Pick it up.
Pick it up. Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Okay. On there.
Whoo!
Narrator: After successfully
installing a new clutch...
Jake: I kicked that fire
in the jaw.
I said, "out."
[ laughs ]
narrator: ...The young skipper
can get back to fishing.
Jake: It's 8:21 p.M.
You guys ready to haul
the first string of the day?
[ cheering ]
let's go.
Nice toss, mr. Gribble.
♪
we are going
to succeed, damn it.
We are.
Come on, baby.
Whoo!
Coming up.
We need more than this.
Nothing, 33 hours.
Damn it.
Yeah. So far, it's not
looking too great.
[ bleep ]
that's all bairdi.
There's nothing in this.
Crab are clearly
off the bite.
Either that, or they're gone.
Anyway...
I've got 42,000 pounds,
roughly.
That means I still have
160,000 pounds to go.
I really don't know
what to do now.
I don't really know
where to go.
[ keypad dialing ]
[ ringing ]
narrator:
And for the second time
in just hours...
Hey, jake.
How goes it?
...Professor sig gets a call
from another one
of his students.
Had a fire
in the engine room.
Oh. It killed
my whole day, man.
What?
It's fine, but now...
These things somewhat
figured out only to find out
I don't know
[bleep] thing.
I know it gets really
discouraging
when you take
a step back.
Chin up, man.
You got to get going
and get some crab
in the boat.
I'm afraid to, you know,
I don't want you
to run around the spots
if you can't do it.
I might have
some gear for you
if you want to take
advantage of it.
Sig throws a lifeline
to his protege,
a chance to fish
some of his gear.
Hell yeah, I do.
I'll take
whatever you got.
Eighty pots,
all the way
to the west where you
and I are together.
I'll reset them.
You pick them up,
get a pick out
of these things,
you take them in.
That's going to work.
Sig's price:
Jake will have
to haul the pots
back to town at the end
of the season.
Yeah. That would be,
actually, fantastic.
Any time.
Forget all the stuff
that happened today.
It's game-changing time
for jake anderson.
Get pissed and attack,
got it?
Roger.
All right, get pissed.
I'll keep you posted.
I'm out.
Jake: Cool, man.
The old man's willing
to work with me.
Okay.
I feel better.
Narrator: 195 miles
northeast of dutch harbor
on the summer bay...
I just know that things
were normal,
and we had a normal situation,
I would be on my way
to town right now
with the rest of my crab on,
would have been done.
Narrator:
Captain wild bill wichrowski
has been prospecting
for a productive school
of crab.
Am I a little bit upset,
concerned, pissed off?
Uh, yeah.
Narrator: And so far,
his prey has eluded him.
Wild bill:
We're down to the wire,
working up to the last minute.
Got to go in
and make a delivery.
The hardest part about
this whole deal is right now,
I do have one guy
that's sicker than hell.
He is my key individual.
♪
narrator:
Deck boss nick mcglashan
has been operating at half speed
due to an illness.
I, honestly, don't know
what to think
is going to happen to nicky
when he gets into town.
They're going to tell him,
"you need to get hospitalized."
-[ coughs ]
-so you get to go to the doctor
when we get to town?
You don't want to end up
like my brother, man.
He didn't do what they said.
And he [bleep].
Dude, he exploded,
hemorrhaged his liver,
goriest thing
I've ever seen.
Well, I spent a while
at the hospital back in April
and, you know,
for something.
But they told me
that my white blood cell count's
supposed to be five
to a seven.
Mine's in the 60s,
and so I just
left the hospital.
Like, "all right. I'm out,"
pulled my ivs out and go.
Dude, you know, you got
to go get checked out.
I wouldn't even mess
around with my health.
Yeah.
I'm scared.
Like,
I'm [bleep] scared
of what the doctor's
going to tell me.
It's something
more serious
than an infection
on my lung.
Yeah, that's not good.
It hurt so bad.
Let's see what it brings.
♪
yeah!
[ cheering ]
yeah, baby!
There's a little volume in this.
That's kind of nice.
We'll see where
this thing comes in.
Fifty-five, five five.
I'll take it.
♪
I have no idea
about the next one.
But I'm hoping it's strong.
Yeah!
[ cheering ]
sweet.
We're in the third
cut on this one.
Cha-ching.
Hell yes!
Hell yeah!
Looks like this thing's
going to work out well for us.
We're on some pretty
tremendous numbers here.
I just feel myself
being confident
because I'm feeling confident
that we pretty much
have this thing locked up.
Narrator: Nick forgot to clamp
the pot into the launcher,
nearly crushing 28-year-old
landon cheney.
Wild bill: I don't know.
Nick keeps...
I love him dearly,
but it's 1,000 pounds,
it'll cut your damn head off.
Luckily, no one was hurt.
That's scary, bitches.
It's pretty much second nature
to put the dogs on.
He must be feeling
really sick.
Nick wasn't that sick
a couple days ago.
I just...
Does it worry me?
Yeah.
This stuff is in him.
There's not a whole lot
I can do there.
We'll see what happens
when he gets into town.
Narrator:
185 miles northeast of dutch
harbor on the saga.
Trying to get up and get out.
The burnt clutch really
slowed our momentum down.
So I'm not going
to waste any time.
I need a big string,
and I need it fast.
Narrator: After hours of repairs
and bad fishing,
captain jake anderson
has a plan to catch up...
We're headed to sig's strings
to see what we've been
missing out of this whole time.
Narrator:
...Fish a string of pots
set by northwestern
captain sig hansen.
Jake: But it really
helps him out, too.
I told sig I was going to carry
in all his gear,
do something for him.
But I'll make sure
I get my crab.
♪
just like a typical
father-son relationship
where the father's going
to get the first dibs
on all the good stuff,
and then whatever's
leftover will go to me.
I don't know.
We'll see how it works,
you know?
This is what we're
going to do, fellows.
Make us a lot of money
so we can go home
and get the hell out of here.
-[bleep] yeah.
-All right, man.
Here we go.
First pot's coming in.
Get her done.
♪
a lot of smalls,
isn't it?
First one, I'm not doing
as good as I thought.
Two five.
Two five?
We ain't going to
get full on that.
Let's see if it gets better.
Here we go.
I'm starting to get
a little nervous.
[bleep] man.
So far,
not a very good sign.
A bunch of small crab.
I see maybe 10 keepers,
maybe.
But if that one
doesn't do anything,
then we're in big trouble.
Come on. Come on.
Where are you? Where are you?
Oh, my god.
Nothing.
I believe that daddy sig
was a little bit off
on his calculations
on this string,
a little bit.
Narrator: Jake is stuck
with little crab.
Jake: There's nothing in this.
It was not worth it,
not even close.
But on the bright side,
he's got sig's 80
empty pots to haul home.
It feels like sig was just
looking out
for himself right now
and having me do
his dirty work.
I don't know if sig
went out of his way
to make me his errand boy.
The writing on the wall
is "yes," blatantly,
in big, huge letters.
Now, I have to call him,
tell him I've got his gear.
I'm not going
to tell him how I feel.
I'm not even
going to go there.
[ cellphone ringing ]
hey, -- one.
This is jake, saga.
Sig: I got you.
When you went through,
did you see anything different?
Nothing.
I have nothing in the gear.
Nothing in the gear?
Nothing in the gear?
Where -- oh, boy.
They were rough,
10s and 15s.
Yeah.
Everything's
starting to change then,
because we were --
that was one of our --
we were doing like
70 average and stuff.
Yeah. It just didn't
pan out for me.
Okay, man. I'm really glad
I talked to you.
I really thought you did
that on purpose.
And I was all
[bleep] bumming out.
If you're questioning
the pots that we gave you,
then that's really [bleep]
stupid, jake.
Thanks for throwing me
under the bus.
Appreciate it.
No, yeah.
I didn't know. I thought
you were [bleep] playing me.
Oh.
So now I look like a [bleep].
-No. I didn't mean --
-we left you good fishing.
Or we thought we did.
No, no.
I said -- no.
I never said
anything like that.
Let me know
how the offload goes.
Okay. Bye.
[ busy signal plays ]
[ sighs ] [ bleep ]
we reset those strings
the best we could.
And we did it for jake.
[ bleep ]
[ screams ]
oh, my god.
Now, I'm the bad guy,
the guy who accused
sig of treason.
Oh. I feel like
such a failure.
[ birds crying ]
narrator: Ten miles northwest
on the brenna a...
Holy [bleep].
My first king crab season,
[ knocks on wood ]
pretty good so far.
It feels like we're
just getting started,
but it's almost over.
Narrator:
Captain sean dwyer is just
14,000 pounds away
from covering his quota.
We're going to be
stacking out today
but not over yet.
Looking forward to going,
doing some cod fishing.
Narrator: To keep the family
business above water,
sean plans to fish cod...
Maybe the only one on the boat
looking forward to it.
Narrator:
...With or without his crew.
Sounds like 2 weeks of cod
fishing
is going to be
too much for tirey.
That's pretty surprising.
Tirey: We should be pretty close
on our numbers.
We're going to start
to stack on our pots
and get the [bleep]
out of here.
I mean, I could
find another engineer.
But he keeps his car in my shop.
He's got all of
his clothes at my house.
His driver's license
says dock number five,
fisherman's terminal
in seattle.
He's pretty much devoted
his whole life to the boat.
And he's willing to throw
that away over cod fishing?
Bluff away, my man.
I'm not going to cater to him.
I just hope that tirey's [bleep]
attitude towards this cod thing
doesn't wear off
on the crew members.
[ grunts ]
yeah.
Going to stack on it.
Get back to dutch,
get off the boat,
get paid, son.
What's up with you?
Are you in for cod or what?
-I don't know.
-I'm going.
Sean:
It looks like tony's chatting
with per and jenks,
trying to share his opinion
as to why he's going to stick
around and cod fish.
You know, and I don't want
to do it by myself.
It's an extra variable
that I have
a really hard time
dealing with.
Don't address my character
over a business decision
because business is business.
I almost feel like
I should just [bleep]
hash this out right now,
just [bleep] put a nail
in this right now.
[ intercom beeps ]
♪
narrator:
In last place with nearly
all of their crab quota
already caught,
sophomore skipper
sean dwyer looks to cod
to save their fall season.
Sig: Are we pretty much
ready to set down there?
What the hell?
Got you a little present.
-What the hell?
-It's for your water.
-No way.
-Yeah.
I was hoping it would fit
in your little
paper thing back here.
-For my water?
-Two of those a day.
-You got to read it.
-Huh?
[ alarm blaring ]
jake: What's going on?
Fisherman:
Fire in the engine room!
Fire!
[ coughing ]
tell me what's going on.
-I don't know what's going on.
-Go give me a report!
Give me a report!
[ blaring continues ]
[ coughing ]
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discovery communications
[ alarm blaring ]
jake: My main engines are off.
I can't even turn the boat.
Narrator: 185 miles from land
on the 107-foot saga...
Shut it down.
Just shut it down now.
Shut it off.
[ coughs ]
♪
jake: Get ole out of there.
What the [bleep]
is happening?
[ blaring continues ]
[bleep] you guys.
Get upstairs.
Just everybody get out
of the engine room.
You do not want
to breathe that.
[ coughing ]
why don't you
just shut it down?
[ alarm stops ]
is it on fire?
[ coughs ]
[ coughing ]
starboard-side clutch.
Oh, god.
They think it's
the clutch burnt out.
Smoke just starts
pouring [bleep] off.
Oh, god.
[indistinct]
[ alarm blaring ]
[ coughing ]
narrator:
The source of the toxic smoke:
A burnt-out clutch.
My heart just dropped.
Fire is the most
dangerous thing
that can happen on a boat
that's not flooding.
We caught it just in time.
Narrator:
The clutch is a padded ring
that transfers power
to the hydraulic system.
As the protective
padding wears over time,
the shaft slips,
causing friction,
overheating then fire.
Jake: If the guys wouldn't
have caught it,
it would eventually got
to the hydraulic oil,
erupted in an explosion,
and we would all been dead.
So thank god
that the guys caught it.
Narrator:
Although a quick response
avoided a disaster...
Jake: We were dead in the water,
literally, dead in the water.
Narrator: ...Jake has
to shut down fishing
until the clutch is repaired.
Jake: I'm worried
about the owner,
and now I've got
to worry about this,
and this is a huge issue.
I've got the owner
breathing down my neck.
If I don't catch the crab
on time, he starts taking it.
Narrator:
At the start of the season,
boat owner lenny herzog
threatened to strip
away jake's quota
if he didn't produce.
Oh, dear god.
One crab, not good.
Narrator:
Already off to a slow start,
this delay could cost jake
and his crew their season.
Jake: I know my engine room.
I got no problem
getting my hands dirty.
Narrator: Now, it's do or die
as captain and crew attempt
to make short work
of a major repair.
[ bird crying ]
narrator: Ten miles northwest...
On the 110-foot brenna a...
Throw hard, pull fast,
don't miss.
Come on. Let's go.
Yeah, baby.
...After days of trial
and error...
I'm hoping this is a big school.
...Captain sean dwyer believes
he's finally honed in
on the transplanted king crab.
There's got to be
some crab down there,
crab on the move, man.
Narrator:
And the young skipper bets
this next string
will start filling his tanks.
Sean: With the small quota
that I have,
the biggest thought
running through my head
right now is,
"catch these crab quickly
with the fewest amount
of movements possible."
narrator: With just 52,000
pounds to catch,
sean can't afford
to waste any time
if he wants to maximize
his profits.
Let's see it.
Oh, yeah.
What happened?
Whoo!
Look at that [bleep].
[ cheering ]
[bleep], yeah.
Big rider in the tunnel
as that pot was coming up,
and that means those crab
are still crawling in.
There's crab
on the bottom
down there moving
towards these pots.
Fisherman: 47
clean crab.
Boom, boom, boom.
We're making money.
Yeah.
[ cheering ]
whoo!
Yeah!
Yeah!
I'm fishing
for dollars here,
and that's what
king crab is about.
Per: Yeah. We might not have
100,000 pounds.
But we're taking 100 percent
of what's on that table,
and it's going to sean,
going to boat, going to us.
So we're psyched.
-Whoo-hoo
-we're in the tunnel.
Whoo!
Sean: Per's my buddy.
I've known him since I was 3.
So I want to see him succeed.
Guys are making money right now.
No complaints here.
Sean: I'm in it
for the long haul.
So I want to make sure
that I build a good team
that can go with me here.
Per: That's a lot of money
going on the table right now.
Narrator: With his homeboys
hitting their groove...
This deck is working great.
Hauling these pots as fast
as they are, we're almost done.
Narrator: ...The brenna a is
close
to finishing out
their king crab season.
Sean:
I mean, a good day of king crab
fishing can be 50,000 pounds.
That is not that much.
I got to try to find
some more quota.
Fishermen: More riders.
-Aw!
-Oh.
Sean: I got to try
to make something happen
to keep this business running.
[ keypad dialing ]
[ intercom beeps ] yeah.
You got me on this one, sig?
This is sean calling.
[ intercom beeps ] yeah.
I got you, sean.
Morning.
Narrator: Sean places a call
to his mentor,
northwestern captain sig hansen.
I don't have
that much to catch.
I hate to even ask,
but do you have any quota
or know of any to spare?
Oh, [bleep].
I -- oh, man.
I think...
Uh,
I've got quite a bit,
but I don't have
any to lease out.
If I did, I think my brothers
would probably kill me.
Guys that don't catch
their quota out here,
maybe there's the chance that
you could pick something up.
There's always
that hope.
[ intercom beeps ]
you know,
on the other hand,
I mean,
we do have a cod license
you might
be interested in.
You could do that
and stay busy, right?
You want the boat
making money.
Yeah. It'll help.
[ chuckles ]
I'm definitely
willing to do it, so...
Personally, I don't
want to do it.
It's just wear and tear
on the boat and me.
All right.
Well, sounds good, man.
No sweat.
He's sweating.
[ laughs ]
we'll talk to you later.
A cod fishing we will go.
Narrator: Sig's cod opens up
a vital revenue stream
for sean's business.
Sean: Cod fishing
is not an easy job.
It's totally different
than crab fishing.
The high-dollar value
of the catch is not there.
Narrator:
But it's labor intensive,
and the profit margin is skinny.
Sean: Sig's got this permit.
Brenna a's got to
keep the wheels turning,
keep the lights on.
♪ let it snow, let it snow ♪
♪ let it snow ♪
that's a big boy.
Sean: I need to do this
100 percent.
That's how you make money
out of it, is go 100 percent.
Let's go!
Whoo!
Change, whatever,
be about 4 miles.
Fisherman: Let's fish.
That's great.
Going to be able
to tell the boys
we're going cod fishing.
We have 35,000 pounds
on right now.
So another time through the gear
will get us pretty much there.
And then we'll stack them
out and leave.
Yeah.
This guy.
Yeah.
And in order to keep
the boat moving
and to keep
making some money,
we're going cod fishing.
-No.
-[ sighs ]
what?
You guys look so pissed.
Not really into it.
Well, the boat's doing it.
So if you want your job
in the winter,
you're going to make
a couple cod trips.
I didn't sign on
for cod fishing.
You signed until December 1.
To crab fish.
No, to fish.
It's a little washy.
You want to review
the contracts?
I don't know. I just --
that's not what I
signed up for
is all I'm saying.
It may be
in the contract, somehow, but...
Well, it's what
I got to do to pay the bills.
So that's where
I'm coming from.
So...
If not,
you know where the dock is.
Narrator: 195 miles
northeast of dutch harbor
on the 113-foot summer bay...
Will bill:
Who doesn't want to have
great pots right off the bat?
We've brought
some crab aboard.
I mean, I'll be honest,
I was hoping for about 30,
40 percent more than we saw
but fell off deep
and just blew it at the end.
It sucks.
I mean, we've had a rough start.
Narrator:
Prospecting over a wide swab
of the king crab grounds,
captain wild bill wichrowski
has yet to find
a lucrative honey hole.
Wild bill: You know,
I'm a boat owner now,
way bigger bills
than we ever expected.
We're moving stuff around.
But we don't start catching
some crab, I might lose it all.
Narrator: Sitting on 105,000
pounds of quota,
the new boat owner risks
falling behind on his payments
if he doesn't start turning
that quota into crab.
It's just we just
need to find them.
[ coughs ]
all right.
Who are we missing here?
Narrator: Bill's ace and
surrogate son, nick mcglashan,
has struggled with
an illness all season.
Not the best time
for this [bleep].
[ coughs ]
let's go.
More pods,
more crab, more money.
And the last one out
on deck...
Yeah.
Let it go.
Nick:
Let's do it quick.
♪
[ clears throat ]
is that all?
Hey, slide that leash
down towards the bottom.
Wild bill:
The motivator of men, nick,
working at about half speed.
Hook that pot up right.
Are you as green
as that coat?
Narrator:
For the past 5 years...
Nick: Hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey.
Can you sort king crab
or not?
You know the difference
between a male and a female?
...Nick has been bill's
go-to guy on deck.
We are back in business.
Yes.
Hey, talk to me.
If you're ready, say up.
Remember when I said,
"use your words"?
[ indistinct ]
[ bleep ]
and I can just tell
by looking at him,
he doesn't have
any ounce of strength in him.
Hey.
♪
hunter,
you got to go down here.
I can't see you.
Fisherman: Hey, heads up.
Heads up.
[ machine whines ]
whoa.
[ bleep ]
[ indistinct ]
[ coughs ]
hey, buddy.
You sound like [bleep].
Crud?
I'm not sure.
You got antibiotics?
No.
Nick, you should come prepared
for things like this, you know?
Well, I feel like
I'm getting better,
but...
No.
No, you're not.
I got the book
right there.
And there's a jug
of antibiotics.
Can I take them now?
Yep.
I know you're a badass.
Don't keep hiding this
to where you're out.
That'll screw me,
screw you.
Nothing's ever stopped me
out there, boss.
All right, man.
Be careful out there.
We cannot have
you get sick, nick.
Yeah, yeah.
Sicker.
I'm hoping I don't lose him.
Narrator: 20 miles west
on the saga...
I've been down here for...
I don't know.
[ indistinct ]
narrator: Captain jake anderson
is 8 hours
into a major clutch repair...
...After it filled the boat
with toxic smoke.
Until jake completes the fix,
the saga is just
chewing up clock.
Jake: Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Pick it up. Pick it up.
Pick it up. Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Pick it up.
Okay. On there.
Whoo!
Narrator: After successfully
installing a new clutch...
Jake: I kicked that fire
in the jaw.
I said, "out."
[ laughs ]
narrator: ...The young skipper
can get back to fishing.
Jake: It's 8:21 p.M.
You guys ready to haul
the first string of the day?
[ cheering ]
let's go.
Nice toss, mr. Gribble.
♪
we are going
to succeed, damn it.
We are.
Come on, baby.
Whoo!
Coming up.
We need more than this.
Nothing, 33 hours.
Damn it.
Yeah. So far, it's not
looking too great.
[ bleep ]
that's all bairdi.
There's nothing in this.
Crab are clearly
off the bite.
Either that, or they're gone.
Anyway...
I've got 42,000 pounds,
roughly.
That means I still have
160,000 pounds to go.
I really don't know
what to do now.
I don't really know
where to go.
[ keypad dialing ]
[ ringing ]
narrator:
And for the second time
in just hours...
Hey, jake.
How goes it?
...Professor sig gets a call
from another one
of his students.
Had a fire
in the engine room.
Oh. It killed
my whole day, man.
What?
It's fine, but now...
These things somewhat
figured out only to find out
I don't know
[bleep] thing.
I know it gets really
discouraging
when you take
a step back.
Chin up, man.
You got to get going
and get some crab
in the boat.
I'm afraid to, you know,
I don't want you
to run around the spots
if you can't do it.
I might have
some gear for you
if you want to take
advantage of it.
Sig throws a lifeline
to his protege,
a chance to fish
some of his gear.
Hell yeah, I do.
I'll take
whatever you got.
Eighty pots,
all the way
to the west where you
and I are together.
I'll reset them.
You pick them up,
get a pick out
of these things,
you take them in.
That's going to work.
Sig's price:
Jake will have
to haul the pots
back to town at the end
of the season.
Yeah. That would be,
actually, fantastic.
Any time.
Forget all the stuff
that happened today.
It's game-changing time
for jake anderson.
Get pissed and attack,
got it?
Roger.
All right, get pissed.
I'll keep you posted.
I'm out.
Jake: Cool, man.
The old man's willing
to work with me.
Okay.
I feel better.
Narrator: 195 miles
northeast of dutch harbor
on the summer bay...
I just know that things
were normal,
and we had a normal situation,
I would be on my way
to town right now
with the rest of my crab on,
would have been done.
Narrator:
Captain wild bill wichrowski
has been prospecting
for a productive school
of crab.
Am I a little bit upset,
concerned, pissed off?
Uh, yeah.
Narrator: And so far,
his prey has eluded him.
Wild bill:
We're down to the wire,
working up to the last minute.
Got to go in
and make a delivery.
The hardest part about
this whole deal is right now,
I do have one guy
that's sicker than hell.
He is my key individual.
♪
narrator:
Deck boss nick mcglashan
has been operating at half speed
due to an illness.
I, honestly, don't know
what to think
is going to happen to nicky
when he gets into town.
They're going to tell him,
"you need to get hospitalized."
-[ coughs ]
-so you get to go to the doctor
when we get to town?
You don't want to end up
like my brother, man.
He didn't do what they said.
And he [bleep].
Dude, he exploded,
hemorrhaged his liver,
goriest thing
I've ever seen.
Well, I spent a while
at the hospital back in April
and, you know,
for something.
But they told me
that my white blood cell count's
supposed to be five
to a seven.
Mine's in the 60s,
and so I just
left the hospital.
Like, "all right. I'm out,"
pulled my ivs out and go.
Dude, you know, you got
to go get checked out.
I wouldn't even mess
around with my health.
Yeah.
I'm scared.
Like,
I'm [bleep] scared
of what the doctor's
going to tell me.
It's something
more serious
than an infection
on my lung.
Yeah, that's not good.
It hurt so bad.
Let's see what it brings.
♪
yeah!
[ cheering ]
yeah, baby!
There's a little volume in this.
That's kind of nice.
We'll see where
this thing comes in.
Fifty-five, five five.
I'll take it.
♪
I have no idea
about the next one.
But I'm hoping it's strong.
Yeah!
[ cheering ]
sweet.
We're in the third
cut on this one.
Cha-ching.
Hell yes!
Hell yeah!
Looks like this thing's
going to work out well for us.
We're on some pretty
tremendous numbers here.
I just feel myself
being confident
because I'm feeling confident
that we pretty much
have this thing locked up.
Narrator: Nick forgot to clamp
the pot into the launcher,
nearly crushing 28-year-old
landon cheney.
Wild bill: I don't know.
Nick keeps...
I love him dearly,
but it's 1,000 pounds,
it'll cut your damn head off.
Luckily, no one was hurt.
That's scary, bitches.
It's pretty much second nature
to put the dogs on.
He must be feeling
really sick.
Nick wasn't that sick
a couple days ago.
I just...
Does it worry me?
Yeah.
This stuff is in him.
There's not a whole lot
I can do there.
We'll see what happens
when he gets into town.
Narrator:
185 miles northeast of dutch
harbor on the saga.
Trying to get up and get out.
The burnt clutch really
slowed our momentum down.
So I'm not going
to waste any time.
I need a big string,
and I need it fast.
Narrator: After hours of repairs
and bad fishing,
captain jake anderson
has a plan to catch up...
We're headed to sig's strings
to see what we've been
missing out of this whole time.
Narrator:
...Fish a string of pots
set by northwestern
captain sig hansen.
Jake: But it really
helps him out, too.
I told sig I was going to carry
in all his gear,
do something for him.
But I'll make sure
I get my crab.
♪
just like a typical
father-son relationship
where the father's going
to get the first dibs
on all the good stuff,
and then whatever's
leftover will go to me.
I don't know.
We'll see how it works,
you know?
This is what we're
going to do, fellows.
Make us a lot of money
so we can go home
and get the hell out of here.
-[bleep] yeah.
-All right, man.
Here we go.
First pot's coming in.
Get her done.
♪
a lot of smalls,
isn't it?
First one, I'm not doing
as good as I thought.
Two five.
Two five?
We ain't going to
get full on that.
Let's see if it gets better.
Here we go.
I'm starting to get
a little nervous.
[bleep] man.
So far,
not a very good sign.
A bunch of small crab.
I see maybe 10 keepers,
maybe.
But if that one
doesn't do anything,
then we're in big trouble.
Come on. Come on.
Where are you? Where are you?
Oh, my god.
Nothing.
I believe that daddy sig
was a little bit off
on his calculations
on this string,
a little bit.
Narrator: Jake is stuck
with little crab.
Jake: There's nothing in this.
It was not worth it,
not even close.
But on the bright side,
he's got sig's 80
empty pots to haul home.
It feels like sig was just
looking out
for himself right now
and having me do
his dirty work.
I don't know if sig
went out of his way
to make me his errand boy.
The writing on the wall
is "yes," blatantly,
in big, huge letters.
Now, I have to call him,
tell him I've got his gear.
I'm not going
to tell him how I feel.
I'm not even
going to go there.
[ cellphone ringing ]
hey, -- one.
This is jake, saga.
Sig: I got you.
When you went through,
did you see anything different?
Nothing.
I have nothing in the gear.
Nothing in the gear?
Nothing in the gear?
Where -- oh, boy.
They were rough,
10s and 15s.
Yeah.
Everything's
starting to change then,
because we were --
that was one of our --
we were doing like
70 average and stuff.
Yeah. It just didn't
pan out for me.
Okay, man. I'm really glad
I talked to you.
I really thought you did
that on purpose.
And I was all
[bleep] bumming out.
If you're questioning
the pots that we gave you,
then that's really [bleep]
stupid, jake.
Thanks for throwing me
under the bus.
Appreciate it.
No, yeah.
I didn't know. I thought
you were [bleep] playing me.
Oh.
So now I look like a [bleep].
-No. I didn't mean --
-we left you good fishing.
Or we thought we did.
No, no.
I said -- no.
I never said
anything like that.
Let me know
how the offload goes.
Okay. Bye.
[ busy signal plays ]
[ sighs ] [ bleep ]
we reset those strings
the best we could.
And we did it for jake.
[ bleep ]
[ screams ]
oh, my god.
Now, I'm the bad guy,
the guy who accused
sig of treason.
Oh. I feel like
such a failure.
[ birds crying ]
narrator: Ten miles northwest
on the brenna a...
Holy [bleep].
My first king crab season,
[ knocks on wood ]
pretty good so far.
It feels like we're
just getting started,
but it's almost over.
Narrator:
Captain sean dwyer is just
14,000 pounds away
from covering his quota.
We're going to be
stacking out today
but not over yet.
Looking forward to going,
doing some cod fishing.
Narrator: To keep the family
business above water,
sean plans to fish cod...
Maybe the only one on the boat
looking forward to it.
Narrator:
...With or without his crew.
Sounds like 2 weeks of cod
fishing
is going to be
too much for tirey.
That's pretty surprising.
Tirey: We should be pretty close
on our numbers.
We're going to start
to stack on our pots
and get the [bleep]
out of here.
I mean, I could
find another engineer.
But he keeps his car in my shop.
He's got all of
his clothes at my house.
His driver's license
says dock number five,
fisherman's terminal
in seattle.
He's pretty much devoted
his whole life to the boat.
And he's willing to throw
that away over cod fishing?
Bluff away, my man.
I'm not going to cater to him.
I just hope that tirey's [bleep]
attitude towards this cod thing
doesn't wear off
on the crew members.
[ grunts ]
yeah.
Going to stack on it.
Get back to dutch,
get off the boat,
get paid, son.
What's up with you?
Are you in for cod or what?
-I don't know.
-I'm going.
Sean:
It looks like tony's chatting
with per and jenks,
trying to share his opinion
as to why he's going to stick
around and cod fish.
You know, and I don't want
to do it by myself.
It's an extra variable
that I have
a really hard time
dealing with.
Don't address my character
over a business decision
because business is business.
I almost feel like
I should just [bleep]
hash this out right now,
just [bleep] put a nail
in this right now.
[ intercom beeps ]
♪
narrator:
In last place with nearly
all of their crab quota
already caught,
sophomore skipper
sean dwyer looks to cod
to save their fall season.
Sig: Are we pretty much
ready to set down there?
What the hell?
Got you a little present.
-What the hell?
-It's for your water.
-No way.
-Yeah.
I was hoping it would fit
in your little
paper thing back here.
-For my water?
-Two of those a day.
-You got to read it.
-Huh?