Deadliest Catch (2005–…): Season 18, Episode 16 - No Turning Back - full transcript
Heavy freezing spray.
Winds of around 30 knots.
Guys have been
busting ice like maniacs.
For hours on end...
In sub-zero temperatures
we're just gonna have
to fish with what we have,
And just get through the gea
I just want you guys to be safe.
We've just gonna get
this done, all right?
All right, well, I love ya, and
I'll see you guys when you get home.
And give sailor
a big kiss for us.
Will do.
Well, mandy just called,
She's still concerned, you know?
She knows what,
uh, this place can do.
You get into a ice fog, mist
Any moisture,
anything it touches,
It starts freezing.
I cringe every time I feel I
I know what it's doing, but.
We don't have a choice.
Here we go.
150 northeast of dutch harbor...
Let's go fishing.
On the saga..
We delivered 62,000 pounds,
Now we're headed out
to start our second trip.
Hopefully, it's still hot
when we get back out.
Now we're headed
out through the pass.
Weather looks good.
Maybe I run into
a three-foot chop
When I get to the entrance,
But false pass is its own
animal as we all know.
After offloading $30,000 of cod,
Captain jake anderson
risks false pass,
A narrow channel with
a shallow sandy bottom
Looking to shave 16 hours
off the return trip to his gear
If he can make it
through unscathed.
Wow!
- Joe!
- Yeah.
Can you see those out there?
Can you see those
waves out there?
The swell? Yeah!
That ain't no three-foot swell.
No, it's not, looks like
an eight, nine, ten-footer.
What the...
I checked the weather.
Swell height, right there.
Waves, 3.89 feet.
That ain't no 3.89 feet.
Can you see the
red can up there?
I can't see.
God, I'm pissed off now, dude.
Could be submerged.
I can't see the buoys.
This is like trying to read
the encyclopedia britannica
In the dark without a light
God, I hate this pass.
I mean, I've never
even been in here
With these kind
of swells before.
That was a hard one.
Damn it, joe!
Wow!
Holy, dude, we just bottomed!
Get everybody up.
Roger.
It's gonna be bad!
Hate false pass.
Oh, my god!
Okay.
All right, we made it out, joe.
We were high up in the water.
It's just shallow, there's
nothing you can do about it.
We're far from
being out of the woods
We hit hard more than once.
I need to check the keel,
I need to check
the rudder posts.
This stuff takes time,
but I'm not gonna risk
The lives of my men and wome
And the safety of the vessel.
I'm gonna turn and
start heading to dutch.
It's a tactical retreat,
But this is just a stupid start.
63 miles northeast...
On the brenna a.
Send it.
Here it goes!
This is one of the old spots that
my dad and his buddies used to fish.
It's not where
the fleet has been
In the last ten years, you know?
This is, this is,
like, an old spot,
But, uh, hopefully, it pays off.
Three days
behind his competition
Due to mechanical failure,
Captain sean dwyer
taps an old family hotspot
For his share of the cod derby's
remaining 7 million pounds.
'kay, let's go ahead and, uh,
Do double black bags.
And to snag
twic the cod in half the time,
He orders greenhorn,
will jennings,
To pack in twice the herring
I mean, at this point, you know,
We've already paid for the bait.
Let's just load it up.
Yo, sean!
We've got about
30 bricks of bait left.
That's it.
I love that! I tell
will and the guys how much,
You know, how much
bait we're gonna use,
And, "burning
through bait, they say.
Well, that would've been nice
to know earlier today
When the freezer looked low
Yeah, that's how it goes.
All right, send it.
Instead of double the herring,
Sean uses half, and
makes up for less bait..
All right, baby,
let's go, let's go!
With quicker
runs through the gear
Before the derby
comes to a close.
Whoo!
Fast. Faster.
Well, these guys
are trying, man,
But we gotta get a
little bit more out of 'em.
Watch it, watch it!
Started off pretty slow...
So, I just need everybody
to just power through it.
Especially, the
young one, little will.
Last pot of this string.
Whoo!
Whoo!
That's our baby!
Can't be letting you
greenhorn mess things up.
He just needs to have
a little reality check.
So, I got a plan.
A little bit of, uh, tough,
Tough love goes a long way.
All right,
william, I'm coming down.
With his greenhorn flailing,
The skipper inspires his cre
As only a merry sea captain can.
Present it.
Well, will...
You gotta lick this cod fish
From tail to head...
oh!
And they'll be redemption!
Will, will, will, will!
Yeah, that's,
that's a three-foot cod.
That's a three-foot lick.
You said from the
tip of nose to the tail?
From tip to tip, give it a lick.
Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!
- You got it, dude!
- Damn!
You got it!
Argh!
Ohhh!
Yeah, will!
That!
Whoo!
Of all the
we coulda made you do,
Come on, bro, that
was pretty benign!
How's that taste?
No.
No?
-No. -No.
Just remember, dude, it's
just about getting the job done.
Roger.
Whoo!
I had to eat a cod heart, so,
I think he got off pretty good.
I guess he could kinda consider
himself part of the crew now.
I mean, all in good fun.
The message there is just,
"hey, let's, let's
get it going."
320 miles northwest...
On the northwestern.
We have to leave
some pots behind,
And for mandy's sake,
I'm glad we took her
Back to the island to head home.
One hansen
down and his tanks bare,
Captain sig pulls up
to pots set 250 miles
From his chosen
grounds due to building ice
And heavy freezing spray.
I'm having trouble
finding the first pot here.
Just stand by.
Roger.
It's cold out there, man.
That ice fog is just thick,
sometimes you can't see.
That tells me that the
ice pack is very nearby
gotta stay here
where it's a little warmer.
Wait till he finds the bag.
This is like
summertime in norway.
Best friends forever.
No.
Okay, she's right here
- here we go!
- Oh, yeah!
It's coming up!
The guys are just gonna
have to put their a game in order.
First pot's coming up.
There we go!
Yeah!
Well, there is
hope after all, huh?
Yeah, we needed that.
Oh!
Yeah! Whoo!
200.
That works, doesn't it?
Here we go!
There's a little pile
in here somewhere.
Whoo!
Oh!
Oh, it's a steal for crabs.
I didn't those number
were attainable, but they ar
That looks like,
what, about four?
There's
probably five in that one.
Ahhh!
Yeah!
Yeah, five in that one, sig.
That's awesome.
That is awesome.
Send 'em back.
Roger!
If we're gonna get
hit, we're gonna get hit.
Sig doubles
down on the surprise hotspo
Betting he can strike
before the ice does.
After all the struggles
we went through
Just getting these
pots from dutch harbor
And all the way here,
And now the risk we're
taking even being right here
Uh, seeing numbers like that...
yeah!
Yeah, buddy!
We really needed
this this morning.
No!
Ice.
What the...
Son of a bitch!
No!
Ice.
What the...
Son of a bitch!
That's not what
we wanted to see.
I didn't think we'd see this till
tomorrow morning sometime.
That'll definitely
move pots around.
After finding the
crab with an emergency set...
I don't know how
bad this is gonna get.
The arctic ice pack moves in.
We need to get out of here.
Roger!
We really can't afford
to lose a lot of gear,
So that's why we're fishing
with such minimal gear as it is.
Take this string
and move it over.
Right now, we
don't have a choice.
We're limited
because of the ice.
In dutch harbor..
Here we go!
On the saga.
Came out of false
pass, it was tragic.
We hit the bottom harder
than I ever have in my life
Gerard's inspecting
the forward holes...
For anything he can find that
he thinks is gonna be a weak spot.
Forced into port early,
Captain jake calls
on a nautical engineer
To inspect the
underside of the boat
And find out if they've
merely lost a trip
Or an entire season.
While everybody's
making $50,000 a day,
I'm stuck at the dock.
And you can see why
now derby is so costly
Because it's gonna close
at some unknown date.
We either fail or succeed.
Urgh, what's the damage?
All the paint's
gone on the bottom...
that's about where it hit.
Yeah, and on the
rudder scags on both of 'em,
The bottoms, they're
completely polished, the metal.
I'm not going through that
pass ever again, I don't care.
Yeah.
Thanks, gerard.
Okay, great.
- Thanks, gerard.
- Yeah.
Turns out that
we were really lucky.
So, that's it.
All right, guys,
let's throw 'em.
Yeah!
Yeah, hustle up.
Argh, damn it!
All right,
baby, let's go, let's go!
Jake...
- yeah.
- Doing my checks, looks like, uh...
We got some cool
in the reduction heaters.
Water or something.
Well, that's the gearbox.
Yeah, gearbox off the main.
If we would have
left, it would have, uh,
Pretty much shot
our transmission.
We'd have been down.
With water where oil should be,
Less lubrication causes
hea to build and rust to form
Threatening to
seize the drivetrain.
Hold on, guys.
Yeah, rog!
We can't just sit here forever.
Just do what you can.
Yeah, okay.
As fast as you can, mase, okay?
The, man!
, dude.
360 miles northwest...
we are running
because of the ice...
On the northwestern.
A little farther west on
the edge here, a little deeper,
And see how that goes.
But right now, I don't
think we have a choice.
Everything is freezing.
This is not gonna be good.
Because of the prevailing
northerly winds...
Every piece of water,
every spray, every splash
Just instantly freezes.
It's incredible how much
weight that ice adds, you know?
How it affects the boat.
After saving
his gear from the ice pack,
Captain sig's steam
northwest is interrupted
By a different kind of chill
We already got ice on every
pot, every pot's an ice cube.
There is a starboard
list here, I don't like it.
You know, these pots
weight 875 pounds each
With the warp and buoys, so.
You know, that's
almost 30,000 pounds,
And then you add a
little bit of ice on there...
She's hard over like that
too much weight on one side
And you get that dip,
So, you get that
one wave to keep,
Keep that momentum going,
You can capsize a boat.
List is bad.
We gotta get 'em off the boat.
Urgh, come on!
So, you guys are ready?
Seventy-four fathoms here.
Roger!
All right, set it
when you're ready.
Over!
That's the first one.
Get 'em off.
Get 'em off the boat.
That's another one!
Couple of tons over the side.
Here we go!
- Whoo!
- Oh, !
Argh!
What's going on?
A hose?
Yeah!
Me!
We just blew a
hydraulic hose right now.
It's for the rack.
It's one of those things where
you got to shut down to fix it.
That's a disaster.
If we don't get
the launcher fixed,
I will cut the pot ties,
The boat rolls,
And they'll just disappear.
On the northwestern...
That's a disaster.
If I don't get the
launcher fixed,
I will cut the pot ties,
The boat rolls,
And they'll just disappear.
I can hold that
light from underneath.
Oh, god. This
is gonna take a long time.
Well, you know, you can always expect a
hydraulic hose to blow in the winter time.
Everything's frozen and fragile.
While setting
pot to right the 15 degree list
Captain sig loses his hydraulics
And his ability to shed weight,
Threatening to
capsize the vessel.
I don't like the
way she hangs, you know.
Right there. I don't like that.
It just really keeps wanting
to dip to the starboard side,
So, you know, it's a losing
battle if you wait too long.
Pump them out.
We don't have a lot
of time on our hands.
Come on, come on,
come on, come on.
We don't have
time to make a new hose.
We don't have
time for a perfect fix.
We're just kind
of jimmy rigging it,
But you know what?
It's gonna work.
It's gonna get us to get
these pods of the boat.
Back in business.
Yeah, buddy!
Good job, guys. Well done.
Just set up whenever
you're ready.
Oh, yeah!
Come on. Get them
off the boat. Get them of the boat.
The reality is we're still
not out of harm's way.
We still got a long way to go.
Back in dutch harbor...
On the saga...
Amazing. We've been working
24/7 to get this thing fixed.
Everybody's out fishing
And I'm stuck here
at the dock again
With something so stupid,
Something so minute.
After running
aground in false pass,
But escaping haul damage...
We were just all
happy and ready to go.
A faulty gear bo threatens to do
What the treacherous
crossing could not:
Put captain jake
out of business.
Yep, we're gonna fill it and we're gonna
put oil back into the transmission here.
Right about there.
The only thing that worries me
is now when we start it and run it,
How much more junk
is gonna come out.
Here goes nothing.
That's interesting.
I don't really like that
it's frozen in here either.
- Hey, jake?
- Yeah.
Um, right now after we fired
it up and got it warm and stuff,
Now I'm seeing rust
particles come out,
Which is... I mean,
the oil, yeah, it'll block
Whatever, you
know, will shoot out.
But rust particles will
literally clog it, you know.
Then we'll overheat.
Man.
That could possibly sacrifice a
$250,000 engine and a season.
But we can't just
sit here forever.
It. I'm fishing.
You're not gonna sleep.
Somebody has to watch that temp.
Okay.
Let's just fire up the
starboard. We'll start going.
This is derby fishing. I
don't have the choice.
It's time to go, let's do it.
Alright, let everybody know.
Go ahead and throw lines.
210 miles northeast...
so, here we are.
Got to be on our
game today, boys.
Still a lot of fish
left to be caught.
It's a derby, right?
On the brenna a.
Let's just do it 'cause
with a four-man deck,
We don't have any
room to spare out there.
And we got to get little
willy back on the rail.
With an estimate
eight days left in the derby
Captain sean approaches
the last ditch set on ground
His father, the late pat dwyer,
cashed in on 20 years ago.
Okay, coming up
on the first one.
This is gonna be interesting.
Don't miss again.
But with only half the
bait, thanks to greenhorn will...
so far so
good. First throw is good.
The skipper need every
man on deck moving double time.
Alright, first pod's coming up.
Oh, yeah.
We're not short,
so that's killer.
Yeah!
35 in that last pot. 35.
Yeah! Whoo!
As long as we're
getting better than 200 pounds a pot
We're doing good.
And on to the next one.
Pull
pull it!
Hey, hey, hey! Woah, woah, woah!
I got
it. I got it. I got it.
Help!
- Hold onto it.
- Yep, pull it in.
- I got this. Put tension on the block.
- Alright.
Kill the main.
Will.
He just wasn't fast
enough getting to the block.
Right under.
On the brenna a.
Will.
Right under.
Cody, you want to run
back there and see if you can find it?
He just wasn't fast enough.
Kind of just lazy.
By the time he was
trying t get it in the block,
The boat had already
slid over everything.
Dude.
Where's that buoy?
Has it gone under
right here. Right
underneath the wheelhouse.
Then watch that divert, cody.
Yeah, we're just dragging it.
The pot's
either hung up on the rudder
Or one of the props.
I'll try to pump the
throttle on that
Yep, it's got it for sure.
With man power
failing to free the line...
I'm trying to pump the
engine in forward and reverse
And see if I can get the
propellers to spin loose.
The captain resor to horsepower.
We'll see if I can get
this thing to pop off of there.
Come on.
Yeah, it just broke.
Brand new pot.
That's gone.
There's 2,000
bucks. Thanks, will.
I was just going normal.
I was just feeding off some line
to throw it into the... Into the block.
And the next thing I know,
the line just kind of
And... That was weird.
Next one's coming up.
When you're ready.
Killing me.
It comes with the territory putting
a greenhorn on the rail,
But, you know, it is what it is.
380 miles northwe
On the northwestern...
we got like,
four and a hal miles to run.
Weather hasn't changed
since yesterday. It's just horrible.
The temperatures
have actually dropped.
Wind is still 30 plus.
Ice is coming down like this and
we're picking right up against it.
After sea ice
chased him off huge numbers
Heavy freezing spray
forced captain sig
To dump his gear sight unsee
It has been a
really rough start.
Guys are just beat up.
It took them several
hours to uh, chop the ice.
And so, hopefully
these pots pan out.
Now, he's lookin to
turn his blind set into blind luck.
I wanted to go
through thes on a quick soak
And get an idea what's aroun
74, 75 fathoms.
Hopefully it'll be worth it
We'll see what happens here.
Oh, no.
Bummer.
It's not what you want to see
right off the bat, but we don't know.
You know, it
could turn into crab.
Blank. That is blank.
When you're talking about blanks,
we could just be in the wrong area.
Or it could be spotty.
Absolutely nothing.
Oh, man. Second pot is blank.
We're just getting started. I'm not gonna
get discouraged over a couple of blank pots.
Oh,
no. Oh, no. Lower it.
- Nothing?
- Nope.
Blanks. It's a desert.
So we're gonna have to just
pick these up, get them on
And keep looking for new ground.
370 miles southeast...
The weather's just picked up.
I'm in 20 foot seas.
Relentless, dude.
On the saga.
Fighting through the pass
with a pump on.
It's a temporary fix.
So we got to keep an
eye on the engine room.
Flushing his damaged
gear bo continually to operate...
If I'm gonna have any
glimmer of hope from this trip,
That bait pot's got a shot.
Captain jake arrives
at his three day town soak,
Counting on a four pot
tall seafood buffet tower
To lure in hungry cod
before the derby is up.
Alright, guys.
Here's the first pot.
The clock is ticking.
We're in the shallows
here by the beach.
We got 30 pots
here I got to pick up.
Did
we get it? Hold on.
Come on, cod.
Yeah, baby!
Yeah, dude!
Go, go, go, go.
Yeah! That's 24
fathoms right there.
Bait pot seems
to be doing its job.
- Yeah, baby!
- 340 pounds in the first one.
That's awesome.
Here comes the next one.
Yeah! Whoo!
This is beautiful fish.
Look at all those fish.
-22. -Dude, this is good.
Yeah! Whoo!
41.
That's how you turn
garbage into lemonade.
You just keep coming.
4-3!
43.430 pounds.
That is crazy.
It's the last pot.
Yeah!
- point three it's a big pot.
- Roger.
Now for another scary
moment in fishing history.
I have to haul the bait pot.
Thousands of pounds
of metal in 20 foot seas.
Setting the
5,000 pound super structure
In flat, calm conditions
was one thing.
But hauling her up in
towering seas is another
okay, let's
just focus on this right now.
I don't want anybody
doing anything else.
Get the crane ready.
I got to buck up against it and I
don't want you guys getting hurt.
Shyanne, I want
you to get forward.
I just want to be
able to see you.
Thousands of pounds
of metal in 20 foot seas.
It's crazy dangerous.
- You good?
- Let go!
Laurence.
What's he doing?
Millennial?
A second generati fisherman, greenhorn
laurenc brings his family's work eth
From norway.
Is that his imitation
of a crab dance?
And some new move
whose origins are known to him alone.
I don't know how to do it.
Oh my god.
You see that?
Laurence may thin he can dance,
But with next to nil in
the northwestern tanks,
Sig needs to sashay
some cra off the sea floor.
On the saga.
Crazy dangerous.
- You good?
- Let go!
Watch it, watch it.
Got fish
now! We got fish!
We got to knock one
in and pin it to the wall.
Watch out, watch out, watch out.
Where it lands.
Hold on. Set it down.
Set it down. Set it down.
Just set it down.
- Good?
- Yep.
Look at that
Oh my god.
The welds are broke on the top.
That was terrifying.
- Is it tied down at all guys?
- Negative.
- Can you get it under the cleat?
- Yeah, I can.
- Let's get this secure, huh?
- Yeah.
That was awesome, guys.
I just can't believe that
happened right now.
Nice job, guys.
Man, we got
fish. No one got hurt.
You know, we hit the sea bottom.
Uh, and we came out up on to
It's money. Ready
for the next one.
I need an
edge on the competition.
They've got all the
experience on me,
But I'm pulling out
every trick I got.
Every little piece to
my puzzle is important.
It takes what it takes.
That was legend, dude.
That was legend.
Pot's on, baby! Whoo!
Haul looks good.
Nice. Lots of fish.
Yeah, baby.
3-0.
30. That'll do it.
I think we're getting close to
300 pounds a pot which is perfect.
Hey!
Sean's dad knew
all the good spots.
- Whoo.
- This one we're loading up right now.
Having a little something
extra to go off of,
You know, a little lost
information from the old man
Probably uh, saved
our bacon on this trip.
We're gonna have to
head in and deliver now.
We're at our 72 hours, so
the clock's ticking for sure.
No way he's getting that.
Oh, he got it hooked.
Will on the rail right now putting
his mind to it, that's for sure.
Nice, will.
He's made for this job.
He just needs to remember
that he's gotta earn it.
Holy
Oh, brother! Yes!
Here we go.
Come on, haul.
We're just gonna have to
find a place, call it home.
We have a ticking time bomb on
our hands because of the ice hits.
We're in a dangerous, dangerous
area to be fishing in right now.
But that's the motivator.
We need a
little more numbers than this.
And uh,
this is all a game of timing.
Always has been.
No matter what.
Winds of around 30 knots.
Guys have been
busting ice like maniacs.
For hours on end...
In sub-zero temperatures
we're just gonna have
to fish with what we have,
And just get through the gea
I just want you guys to be safe.
We've just gonna get
this done, all right?
All right, well, I love ya, and
I'll see you guys when you get home.
And give sailor
a big kiss for us.
Will do.
Well, mandy just called,
She's still concerned, you know?
She knows what,
uh, this place can do.
You get into a ice fog, mist
Any moisture,
anything it touches,
It starts freezing.
I cringe every time I feel I
I know what it's doing, but.
We don't have a choice.
Here we go.
150 northeast of dutch harbor...
Let's go fishing.
On the saga..
We delivered 62,000 pounds,
Now we're headed out
to start our second trip.
Hopefully, it's still hot
when we get back out.
Now we're headed
out through the pass.
Weather looks good.
Maybe I run into
a three-foot chop
When I get to the entrance,
But false pass is its own
animal as we all know.
After offloading $30,000 of cod,
Captain jake anderson
risks false pass,
A narrow channel with
a shallow sandy bottom
Looking to shave 16 hours
off the return trip to his gear
If he can make it
through unscathed.
Wow!
- Joe!
- Yeah.
Can you see those out there?
Can you see those
waves out there?
The swell? Yeah!
That ain't no three-foot swell.
No, it's not, looks like
an eight, nine, ten-footer.
What the...
I checked the weather.
Swell height, right there.
Waves, 3.89 feet.
That ain't no 3.89 feet.
Can you see the
red can up there?
I can't see.
God, I'm pissed off now, dude.
Could be submerged.
I can't see the buoys.
This is like trying to read
the encyclopedia britannica
In the dark without a light
God, I hate this pass.
I mean, I've never
even been in here
With these kind
of swells before.
That was a hard one.
Damn it, joe!
Wow!
Holy, dude, we just bottomed!
Get everybody up.
Roger.
It's gonna be bad!
Hate false pass.
Oh, my god!
Okay.
All right, we made it out, joe.
We were high up in the water.
It's just shallow, there's
nothing you can do about it.
We're far from
being out of the woods
We hit hard more than once.
I need to check the keel,
I need to check
the rudder posts.
This stuff takes time,
but I'm not gonna risk
The lives of my men and wome
And the safety of the vessel.
I'm gonna turn and
start heading to dutch.
It's a tactical retreat,
But this is just a stupid start.
63 miles northeast...
On the brenna a.
Send it.
Here it goes!
This is one of the old spots that
my dad and his buddies used to fish.
It's not where
the fleet has been
In the last ten years, you know?
This is, this is,
like, an old spot,
But, uh, hopefully, it pays off.
Three days
behind his competition
Due to mechanical failure,
Captain sean dwyer
taps an old family hotspot
For his share of the cod derby's
remaining 7 million pounds.
'kay, let's go ahead and, uh,
Do double black bags.
And to snag
twic the cod in half the time,
He orders greenhorn,
will jennings,
To pack in twice the herring
I mean, at this point, you know,
We've already paid for the bait.
Let's just load it up.
Yo, sean!
We've got about
30 bricks of bait left.
That's it.
I love that! I tell
will and the guys how much,
You know, how much
bait we're gonna use,
And, "burning
through bait, they say.
Well, that would've been nice
to know earlier today
When the freezer looked low
Yeah, that's how it goes.
All right, send it.
Instead of double the herring,
Sean uses half, and
makes up for less bait..
All right, baby,
let's go, let's go!
With quicker
runs through the gear
Before the derby
comes to a close.
Whoo!
Fast. Faster.
Well, these guys
are trying, man,
But we gotta get a
little bit more out of 'em.
Watch it, watch it!
Started off pretty slow...
So, I just need everybody
to just power through it.
Especially, the
young one, little will.
Last pot of this string.
Whoo!
Whoo!
That's our baby!
Can't be letting you
greenhorn mess things up.
He just needs to have
a little reality check.
So, I got a plan.
A little bit of, uh, tough,
Tough love goes a long way.
All right,
william, I'm coming down.
With his greenhorn flailing,
The skipper inspires his cre
As only a merry sea captain can.
Present it.
Well, will...
You gotta lick this cod fish
From tail to head...
oh!
And they'll be redemption!
Will, will, will, will!
Yeah, that's,
that's a three-foot cod.
That's a three-foot lick.
You said from the
tip of nose to the tail?
From tip to tip, give it a lick.
Oh, yeah! Oh, yeah!
- You got it, dude!
- Damn!
You got it!
Argh!
Ohhh!
Yeah, will!
That!
Whoo!
Of all the
we coulda made you do,
Come on, bro, that
was pretty benign!
How's that taste?
No.
No?
-No. -No.
Just remember, dude, it's
just about getting the job done.
Roger.
Whoo!
I had to eat a cod heart, so,
I think he got off pretty good.
I guess he could kinda consider
himself part of the crew now.
I mean, all in good fun.
The message there is just,
"hey, let's, let's
get it going."
320 miles northwest...
On the northwestern.
We have to leave
some pots behind,
And for mandy's sake,
I'm glad we took her
Back to the island to head home.
One hansen
down and his tanks bare,
Captain sig pulls up
to pots set 250 miles
From his chosen
grounds due to building ice
And heavy freezing spray.
I'm having trouble
finding the first pot here.
Just stand by.
Roger.
It's cold out there, man.
That ice fog is just thick,
sometimes you can't see.
That tells me that the
ice pack is very nearby
gotta stay here
where it's a little warmer.
Wait till he finds the bag.
This is like
summertime in norway.
Best friends forever.
No.
Okay, she's right here
- here we go!
- Oh, yeah!
It's coming up!
The guys are just gonna
have to put their a game in order.
First pot's coming up.
There we go!
Yeah!
Well, there is
hope after all, huh?
Yeah, we needed that.
Oh!
Yeah! Whoo!
200.
That works, doesn't it?
Here we go!
There's a little pile
in here somewhere.
Whoo!
Oh!
Oh, it's a steal for crabs.
I didn't those number
were attainable, but they ar
That looks like,
what, about four?
There's
probably five in that one.
Ahhh!
Yeah!
Yeah, five in that one, sig.
That's awesome.
That is awesome.
Send 'em back.
Roger!
If we're gonna get
hit, we're gonna get hit.
Sig doubles
down on the surprise hotspo
Betting he can strike
before the ice does.
After all the struggles
we went through
Just getting these
pots from dutch harbor
And all the way here,
And now the risk we're
taking even being right here
Uh, seeing numbers like that...
yeah!
Yeah, buddy!
We really needed
this this morning.
No!
Ice.
What the...
Son of a bitch!
No!
Ice.
What the...
Son of a bitch!
That's not what
we wanted to see.
I didn't think we'd see this till
tomorrow morning sometime.
That'll definitely
move pots around.
After finding the
crab with an emergency set...
I don't know how
bad this is gonna get.
The arctic ice pack moves in.
We need to get out of here.
Roger!
We really can't afford
to lose a lot of gear,
So that's why we're fishing
with such minimal gear as it is.
Take this string
and move it over.
Right now, we
don't have a choice.
We're limited
because of the ice.
In dutch harbor..
Here we go!
On the saga.
Came out of false
pass, it was tragic.
We hit the bottom harder
than I ever have in my life
Gerard's inspecting
the forward holes...
For anything he can find that
he thinks is gonna be a weak spot.
Forced into port early,
Captain jake calls
on a nautical engineer
To inspect the
underside of the boat
And find out if they've
merely lost a trip
Or an entire season.
While everybody's
making $50,000 a day,
I'm stuck at the dock.
And you can see why
now derby is so costly
Because it's gonna close
at some unknown date.
We either fail or succeed.
Urgh, what's the damage?
All the paint's
gone on the bottom...
that's about where it hit.
Yeah, and on the
rudder scags on both of 'em,
The bottoms, they're
completely polished, the metal.
I'm not going through that
pass ever again, I don't care.
Yeah.
Thanks, gerard.
Okay, great.
- Thanks, gerard.
- Yeah.
Turns out that
we were really lucky.
So, that's it.
All right, guys,
let's throw 'em.
Yeah!
Yeah, hustle up.
Argh, damn it!
All right,
baby, let's go, let's go!
Jake...
- yeah.
- Doing my checks, looks like, uh...
We got some cool
in the reduction heaters.
Water or something.
Well, that's the gearbox.
Yeah, gearbox off the main.
If we would have
left, it would have, uh,
Pretty much shot
our transmission.
We'd have been down.
With water where oil should be,
Less lubrication causes
hea to build and rust to form
Threatening to
seize the drivetrain.
Hold on, guys.
Yeah, rog!
We can't just sit here forever.
Just do what you can.
Yeah, okay.
As fast as you can, mase, okay?
The, man!
, dude.
360 miles northwest...
we are running
because of the ice...
On the northwestern.
A little farther west on
the edge here, a little deeper,
And see how that goes.
But right now, I don't
think we have a choice.
Everything is freezing.
This is not gonna be good.
Because of the prevailing
northerly winds...
Every piece of water,
every spray, every splash
Just instantly freezes.
It's incredible how much
weight that ice adds, you know?
How it affects the boat.
After saving
his gear from the ice pack,
Captain sig's steam
northwest is interrupted
By a different kind of chill
We already got ice on every
pot, every pot's an ice cube.
There is a starboard
list here, I don't like it.
You know, these pots
weight 875 pounds each
With the warp and buoys, so.
You know, that's
almost 30,000 pounds,
And then you add a
little bit of ice on there...
She's hard over like that
too much weight on one side
And you get that dip,
So, you get that
one wave to keep,
Keep that momentum going,
You can capsize a boat.
List is bad.
We gotta get 'em off the boat.
Urgh, come on!
So, you guys are ready?
Seventy-four fathoms here.
Roger!
All right, set it
when you're ready.
Over!
That's the first one.
Get 'em off.
Get 'em off the boat.
That's another one!
Couple of tons over the side.
Here we go!
- Whoo!
- Oh, !
Argh!
What's going on?
A hose?
Yeah!
Me!
We just blew a
hydraulic hose right now.
It's for the rack.
It's one of those things where
you got to shut down to fix it.
That's a disaster.
If we don't get
the launcher fixed,
I will cut the pot ties,
The boat rolls,
And they'll just disappear.
On the northwestern...
That's a disaster.
If I don't get the
launcher fixed,
I will cut the pot ties,
The boat rolls,
And they'll just disappear.
I can hold that
light from underneath.
Oh, god. This
is gonna take a long time.
Well, you know, you can always expect a
hydraulic hose to blow in the winter time.
Everything's frozen and fragile.
While setting
pot to right the 15 degree list
Captain sig loses his hydraulics
And his ability to shed weight,
Threatening to
capsize the vessel.
I don't like the
way she hangs, you know.
Right there. I don't like that.
It just really keeps wanting
to dip to the starboard side,
So, you know, it's a losing
battle if you wait too long.
Pump them out.
We don't have a lot
of time on our hands.
Come on, come on,
come on, come on.
We don't have
time to make a new hose.
We don't have
time for a perfect fix.
We're just kind
of jimmy rigging it,
But you know what?
It's gonna work.
It's gonna get us to get
these pods of the boat.
Back in business.
Yeah, buddy!
Good job, guys. Well done.
Just set up whenever
you're ready.
Oh, yeah!
Come on. Get them
off the boat. Get them of the boat.
The reality is we're still
not out of harm's way.
We still got a long way to go.
Back in dutch harbor...
On the saga...
Amazing. We've been working
24/7 to get this thing fixed.
Everybody's out fishing
And I'm stuck here
at the dock again
With something so stupid,
Something so minute.
After running
aground in false pass,
But escaping haul damage...
We were just all
happy and ready to go.
A faulty gear bo threatens to do
What the treacherous
crossing could not:
Put captain jake
out of business.
Yep, we're gonna fill it and we're gonna
put oil back into the transmission here.
Right about there.
The only thing that worries me
is now when we start it and run it,
How much more junk
is gonna come out.
Here goes nothing.
That's interesting.
I don't really like that
it's frozen in here either.
- Hey, jake?
- Yeah.
Um, right now after we fired
it up and got it warm and stuff,
Now I'm seeing rust
particles come out,
Which is... I mean,
the oil, yeah, it'll block
Whatever, you
know, will shoot out.
But rust particles will
literally clog it, you know.
Then we'll overheat.
Man.
That could possibly sacrifice a
$250,000 engine and a season.
But we can't just
sit here forever.
It. I'm fishing.
You're not gonna sleep.
Somebody has to watch that temp.
Okay.
Let's just fire up the
starboard. We'll start going.
This is derby fishing. I
don't have the choice.
It's time to go, let's do it.
Alright, let everybody know.
Go ahead and throw lines.
210 miles northeast...
so, here we are.
Got to be on our
game today, boys.
Still a lot of fish
left to be caught.
It's a derby, right?
On the brenna a.
Let's just do it 'cause
with a four-man deck,
We don't have any
room to spare out there.
And we got to get little
willy back on the rail.
With an estimate
eight days left in the derby
Captain sean approaches
the last ditch set on ground
His father, the late pat dwyer,
cashed in on 20 years ago.
Okay, coming up
on the first one.
This is gonna be interesting.
Don't miss again.
But with only half the
bait, thanks to greenhorn will...
so far so
good. First throw is good.
The skipper need every
man on deck moving double time.
Alright, first pod's coming up.
Oh, yeah.
We're not short,
so that's killer.
Yeah!
35 in that last pot. 35.
Yeah! Whoo!
As long as we're
getting better than 200 pounds a pot
We're doing good.
And on to the next one.
Pull
pull it!
Hey, hey, hey! Woah, woah, woah!
I got
it. I got it. I got it.
Help!
- Hold onto it.
- Yep, pull it in.
- I got this. Put tension on the block.
- Alright.
Kill the main.
Will.
He just wasn't fast
enough getting to the block.
Right under.
On the brenna a.
Will.
Right under.
Cody, you want to run
back there and see if you can find it?
He just wasn't fast enough.
Kind of just lazy.
By the time he was
trying t get it in the block,
The boat had already
slid over everything.
Dude.
Where's that buoy?
Has it gone under
right here. Right
underneath the wheelhouse.
Then watch that divert, cody.
Yeah, we're just dragging it.
The pot's
either hung up on the rudder
Or one of the props.
I'll try to pump the
throttle on that
Yep, it's got it for sure.
With man power
failing to free the line...
I'm trying to pump the
engine in forward and reverse
And see if I can get the
propellers to spin loose.
The captain resor to horsepower.
We'll see if I can get
this thing to pop off of there.
Come on.
Yeah, it just broke.
Brand new pot.
That's gone.
There's 2,000
bucks. Thanks, will.
I was just going normal.
I was just feeding off some line
to throw it into the... Into the block.
And the next thing I know,
the line just kind of
And... That was weird.
Next one's coming up.
When you're ready.
Killing me.
It comes with the territory putting
a greenhorn on the rail,
But, you know, it is what it is.
380 miles northwe
On the northwestern...
we got like,
four and a hal miles to run.
Weather hasn't changed
since yesterday. It's just horrible.
The temperatures
have actually dropped.
Wind is still 30 plus.
Ice is coming down like this and
we're picking right up against it.
After sea ice
chased him off huge numbers
Heavy freezing spray
forced captain sig
To dump his gear sight unsee
It has been a
really rough start.
Guys are just beat up.
It took them several
hours to uh, chop the ice.
And so, hopefully
these pots pan out.
Now, he's lookin to
turn his blind set into blind luck.
I wanted to go
through thes on a quick soak
And get an idea what's aroun
74, 75 fathoms.
Hopefully it'll be worth it
We'll see what happens here.
Oh, no.
Bummer.
It's not what you want to see
right off the bat, but we don't know.
You know, it
could turn into crab.
Blank. That is blank.
When you're talking about blanks,
we could just be in the wrong area.
Or it could be spotty.
Absolutely nothing.
Oh, man. Second pot is blank.
We're just getting started. I'm not gonna
get discouraged over a couple of blank pots.
Oh,
no. Oh, no. Lower it.
- Nothing?
- Nope.
Blanks. It's a desert.
So we're gonna have to just
pick these up, get them on
And keep looking for new ground.
370 miles southeast...
The weather's just picked up.
I'm in 20 foot seas.
Relentless, dude.
On the saga.
Fighting through the pass
with a pump on.
It's a temporary fix.
So we got to keep an
eye on the engine room.
Flushing his damaged
gear bo continually to operate...
If I'm gonna have any
glimmer of hope from this trip,
That bait pot's got a shot.
Captain jake arrives
at his three day town soak,
Counting on a four pot
tall seafood buffet tower
To lure in hungry cod
before the derby is up.
Alright, guys.
Here's the first pot.
The clock is ticking.
We're in the shallows
here by the beach.
We got 30 pots
here I got to pick up.
Did
we get it? Hold on.
Come on, cod.
Yeah, baby!
Yeah, dude!
Go, go, go, go.
Yeah! That's 24
fathoms right there.
Bait pot seems
to be doing its job.
- Yeah, baby!
- 340 pounds in the first one.
That's awesome.
Here comes the next one.
Yeah! Whoo!
This is beautiful fish.
Look at all those fish.
-22. -Dude, this is good.
Yeah! Whoo!
41.
That's how you turn
garbage into lemonade.
You just keep coming.
4-3!
43.430 pounds.
That is crazy.
It's the last pot.
Yeah!
- point three it's a big pot.
- Roger.
Now for another scary
moment in fishing history.
I have to haul the bait pot.
Thousands of pounds
of metal in 20 foot seas.
Setting the
5,000 pound super structure
In flat, calm conditions
was one thing.
But hauling her up in
towering seas is another
okay, let's
just focus on this right now.
I don't want anybody
doing anything else.
Get the crane ready.
I got to buck up against it and I
don't want you guys getting hurt.
Shyanne, I want
you to get forward.
I just want to be
able to see you.
Thousands of pounds
of metal in 20 foot seas.
It's crazy dangerous.
- You good?
- Let go!
Laurence.
What's he doing?
Millennial?
A second generati fisherman, greenhorn
laurenc brings his family's work eth
From norway.
Is that his imitation
of a crab dance?
And some new move
whose origins are known to him alone.
I don't know how to do it.
Oh my god.
You see that?
Laurence may thin he can dance,
But with next to nil in
the northwestern tanks,
Sig needs to sashay
some cra off the sea floor.
On the saga.
Crazy dangerous.
- You good?
- Let go!
Watch it, watch it.
Got fish
now! We got fish!
We got to knock one
in and pin it to the wall.
Watch out, watch out, watch out.
Where it lands.
Hold on. Set it down.
Set it down. Set it down.
Just set it down.
- Good?
- Yep.
Look at that
Oh my god.
The welds are broke on the top.
That was terrifying.
- Is it tied down at all guys?
- Negative.
- Can you get it under the cleat?
- Yeah, I can.
- Let's get this secure, huh?
- Yeah.
That was awesome, guys.
I just can't believe that
happened right now.
Nice job, guys.
Man, we got
fish. No one got hurt.
You know, we hit the sea bottom.
Uh, and we came out up on to
It's money. Ready
for the next one.
I need an
edge on the competition.
They've got all the
experience on me,
But I'm pulling out
every trick I got.
Every little piece to
my puzzle is important.
It takes what it takes.
That was legend, dude.
That was legend.
Pot's on, baby! Whoo!
Haul looks good.
Nice. Lots of fish.
Yeah, baby.
3-0.
30. That'll do it.
I think we're getting close to
300 pounds a pot which is perfect.
Hey!
Sean's dad knew
all the good spots.
- Whoo.
- This one we're loading up right now.
Having a little something
extra to go off of,
You know, a little lost
information from the old man
Probably uh, saved
our bacon on this trip.
We're gonna have to
head in and deliver now.
We're at our 72 hours, so
the clock's ticking for sure.
No way he's getting that.
Oh, he got it hooked.
Will on the rail right now putting
his mind to it, that's for sure.
Nice, will.
He's made for this job.
He just needs to remember
that he's gotta earn it.
Holy
Oh, brother! Yes!
Here we go.
Come on, haul.
We're just gonna have to
find a place, call it home.
We have a ticking time bomb on
our hands because of the ice hits.
We're in a dangerous, dangerous
area to be fishing in right now.
But that's the motivator.
We need a
little more numbers than this.
And uh,
this is all a game of timing.
Always has been.
No matter what.