Deadliest Catch (2005–…): Season 7, Episode 15 - Deadliest Catch - full transcript
As Opilio season winds down, two exhausted crewmen on the Time Bandit nearly come to blows. The skippers of the Seabrooke and Cornelia Marie both suffer debilitating injuries and the captain of the Wizard erupts and physically assaults an unlikely victim.
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There's a lot of the kids in the
Bering Sea this season, right now,
that just got
kicked out of the nest.
I want to keep this boat fishing.
That's what I was born and bred
and corn-fed to do.
You know they're ready
to take on the world...
Oh, .
Yeah!
..but are these young captains
ready to take on the Bering Sea?
It's a lot
of responsibility.
We could be heroes,
we could be zeroes.
We'll find out soon enough.
One little breakdown,
a little bit of weather...
..any little hang-up
and we're not going to make it.
If we can't get this fixed
we can't haul any more gear.
I don't think it's going
to make it, dude. It's done.
He's obviously in a lot of pain.
You can get in a lot of trouble
real quick out here.
Don't you get in my face!
At St Paul light
snow is blowing. Snow reported.
The temperature was 14 degrees.
The relative humidity was 80%.
The end is near.
On the heels
of a long opilio crab season...
Wednesday south-west 60.
..unstable weather
creates doubt across the fleet.
I don't know
if we can even get anything done,
let alone fish in...
..60-knot winds.
It doesn't look good.
I smell nightmare.
Jake, the clock is ticking.
Hurry up!
These guys are not
going to get much sleep.
Food is going to be minimal
because of our timeframe.
I have a delivery date
that I have to make.
If I don't make that date I don't
when I can get another one.
Each crew
must turn their gear quickly...
Every single season, every single
trip is always to the wire.
..or face another
two gruelling weeks at sea.
Cowboy up
with your big girl panties on.
It's going to be a gnarly ride,
boys!
I'm going to call the cannery and
see if I can't get an extra day.
From what I hear on the radio
a lot of guys
are in the same boat.
580 kilometres
north-west of Dutch Harbour...
..is the Time Bandit.
So we have to get everything
in one shot
so I can just pull this gear
really fast.
We'll do as much as we can before
it blows really hard tonight.
Time is the enemy right now.
I'm glad this is my last trip,
cos this has been a grind.
After five weeks
of shutdowns...
Come on in.
..and injuries...
Where did you get hit, Mike?
Something hit my face.
I've got blood in my eye.
..Captain Andy Hillstrand
finally lands on the mother lode.
Oh, yeah. Nice pile of crab.
I like it.
We've been working
about 20 hours straight
and we're going to keep working
for about another eight
before we sleep for two hours.
This whole year
we haven't slept at all.
Andy's not going to give us
a break tonight.
Whatever. Suck it up, Buttercup.
The natural body cycle
says 'Hey, . Go to bed'.
Not if you're a crab fisherman.
For the crew,
the solution is to put
their heads down and soldier on.
But for deckhand
Justin Tennison...
these piece of
door ties!
..the exhaustion and
frustration are starting to show.
Start cutting the off.
When you've got one person who
comes out with a sour egg every
morning,
grumpy and off at
the world and kicking, just mad...
..there's no point. It gets
old and tiring for all of us.
Right now I'm down south,
but I have all the rest
of my gear eight, ten miles away.
I'll start running over
towards our next string.
All right, guys.
Come on in.
The 20-minute steam
allows the crew a short reprieve.
All right. Now it's pretty tough
to stay awake.
I can do this.
It's up to me to control the pace
of what we do and when we do it
so we can get in and unload.
It's that simple.
So if I have to keep 'em up
for 24 hours
and then sleep 'em for 4,
work 'em for another 32,
that's what we do.
Air out the gear.
The last string to pull
before we go to sleep.
The boys need a wake-up call.
Wow.
Who was it? That was Justin.
Hey, KG. Good morning to you.
I think I angered Sasquatch.
I'm watching Justin
around.
He's tired... just like all of us.
He's grumpy.
Easy, Turbo. You've got something
to say about everything, dude.
Are you moaning?
Are you kidding me? Yeah, I am.
Are you seriously
right now?
You want to cry me a river,
Buttercup? Huh?
Oh, my good Lord.
We've got a crybaby on the deck!
We've got a crybaby on the deck.
all the time.
You throw one string a day and
think you're doing something.
Dude, really? Seriously?
Step up a little bit.
Throw more than once a day.
Hey! Throw a temper tantrum!
Hey, I'm going
to tell you right now...
Hey, listen to me. Listen to me!
You've got an attitude.
Knock it off right now! Grow up!
Get out of my face.
Grow up!
Hey, John. Check this out.
Grow up and act like a man.
You're 34 - act like it!
Hey, hey, hey!
Knock it off down there!
Yeah, act like it!
Justin, I will treat you
like a 16 year old
if you keep acting like it!
I'm just telling you!
I don't think Justin takes well
to being yelled at,
so you might want
to mention that to Fortner.
You come out on deck with a
horrible attitude every morning.
Like a teenage girl.
You go through
bigger mood swings, I swear.
Get away from each other.
Leave each other alone.
Somebody should
have switched to decaf.
Oh, my God.
Dude, it's like three in the
morning right now. They're tired.
I told you the guys
were tired, dude.
Oh, I don't know.
We're all tired,
we're all getting grumpy.
People get irritated
when they get tired.
I just think everything is funny.
Can we go back
to crab fishing now, ?
Seriously!
Grow up!
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560 kilometres
north-west of Dutch Harbour...
Oh, yeah, baby.
Come on. Give me some crab!
..Captain Elliott Neese
hauls his last string
of the season.
This is pretty decent.
210, 280 so it gives...
..195 average.
After four and a half
weeks of gruelling fishing...
..the finish line is in sight.
28.
All right?
What the hell is this?
What the ?
Is the hydro working?
No.
me.
After four months
of pounding through gear...
..the ten-horsepower compressor
is burnt out.
I don't know what the deal is.
The air pressure
is not working.
The compressor up there is broke.
We might be able
to rig something together
to make it work
for the time being.
So we've got to take
the compressor from up forward
and move it aft and hook it up.
If we can't get this fixed
we can't haul any more gear.
A common shop compressor
used for inflating bags
sits in the forepeak.
Elliott has plans for its motor.
He basically wants
to be able to plug it in
and pump the air
into our hydraulic system.
But I just don't think
he'll be able to do it.
Undeterred
by the doubts of his crew...
That right there,
ladies and gentlemen,
is something
you pump up bike tyres with,
but we're trying to power
our hydraulics with it right now.
The young captain
has the shot compressor
moved to the engine room.
Unreal. I don't think it's going
to make it, dude. It's done.
Right now I'd say...
..we've got a pretty good chance
of going to St Paul.
With their season
just hours from ending
a run to St Paul
would add four days.
Whoa, whoa!
Whoo-hoo!
I want to haul gear
before anything overheats.
With over 200 pots
still in the water...
..Elliott has a long way to go.
The fate of the crab boat
rests on a few-hundred dollar
compressor...
..and a five-horse motor.
40 kilometres east...
34 hours that I haven't slept.
..the Time Bandit
works through a crippling fatigue.
I'm up against the clock.
It'll be a tough one
to get through.
He wants to keep running his
mouth over something stupid.
him.
After Mike and Justin
nearly came to blows...
Hey, listen to me!
Get your hands off me.
You've got an attitude.
Knock it off right now! Grow up!
Get out of my face.
Grow up!
Full pots do nothing
to relieve the tension on deck.
Well, we're all hurting.
We're all sore
and we're all tired, so...
..cry me a river and get over it.
We've got gear to pull.
We've got to get it done.
It's starting to blow south-east
35, the weather is getting big.
That one's looking pretty good.
Yeah.
This will be the best year I've
had, financially, in ten years.
Damn, it's good fishing today!
The weather has really come up.
South-east 35, 20ft seas...
The guys have to watch out now
cos somebody
could really get hurt now.
Look out!
The line is out of the block!
Get it over!
Man!
Wow!
That was a line of death
right there.
For whatever reason, the whole
line shot out of the block
and then laid a perfect lasso
around Scotty and I
as a 1,000-pound pot
was on the other end of it,
heading for the bottom.
The line was like
a hand reaching out.
It was going to pull somebody
overboard.
Catlike reflexes were in order.
If we hadn't jumped fast enough
it would have taken us both down.
If it had
wrapped around your foot
it would dragged you
down to the bottom.
I'm starting to think
we've got nine lives, Mike.
I think I've used three of them
this year alone. I know.
I've never seen it in 20 years.
Never a dull moment over here.
That'll put a hurt on the tank.
We pulled 112 pots for today.
Over 90,000 pounds.
We're pretty darn happy
right now.
We're tired, but we're happy.
By morning,
the weather calms.
You guys kicked ass, man.
That was awesome.
Four days of grind just paid off.
The Time Bandit
stuffs their tanks
and earns a 24-hour break.
I need to sit in a chair
for a whole day
without pulling any pots.
No crab. We've got a whole day,
but do not catch any more crab.
It's like telling the fat kid
in dodgeball,
'Go and play,
but don't get hit with the ball'.
You're making fun of fat
kids! They don't have a choice!
All of you who are overweight
and play dodgeball and keep
getting hit
and you're the first one out,
my apologies.
Just go run a few extra laps.
'My apologies.' Step away
from the plate of brownies.
now.
And the storm on deck
dies down, as well.
We all have feelings.
I know.
Lack of sleep, missing home...
We all get dim moments, don't we?
We do. I concur.
'I concur'.
But guess what?
It's damn near over.
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Far north
to the rest of the fleet...
..on The Wizard...
We have a low-pressure system
and a high-pressure system.
The low-pressure system
turns counterclockwise.
The high-pressure system
turns clockwise.
You've got that section right
between the two storms
where this clockwise wind
meets this counterclockwise wind
and right in there
it creates this funnel
where you get
twice as much wind, basically.
That would be where we're at.
Unable to escape
the clutches of the storm...
I'm caught between
a rock and a hard place.
..Captain Keith Colburn
must carry on fishing
in order to make his deadline.
We need to try and be as careful
as possible, but at the same time
I need to find something
I can set this gear on.
After that, I've got a hunch
we're going to be shut down.
We should be shut down right now,
as bad as it is.
No, no, no. Back over here.
I'll be a happy guy
when we get this gear off here.
Right now, the most dangerous
spot on the boat is up high.
Just go slow and safe.
Oh-ho-ho-ho. This is going
to be a long five-hour set.
I'll tell you that right now.
I'm sitting on a 155ft boat
that weighs
over 2 million pounds.
And we are like a little cork out
here in the middle of nowhere.
It's amazing how quickly
you feel insignificant
and how small you feel once you
start dealing with Mother Nature.
That's kind of scary.
Lift it up, dudes.
Lift that chain up!
Whoa!
OK, guys. We've got a green one
coming. Hang on, hang on.
Everybody good?
Had the wave come right through
the middle of the deck
it would have cleaned
the whole crew out.
Mother Nature is saying,
'What's up, Soapy?
I'm going to get you
one of these days...'
It must be out of my mind.
What am I doing?
80 kilometres to the south...
..on the Cornelia Marie...
I've just put together
a little something-something
to get us through the morning.
The boys are starving.
..the crew fuels up
for the last trip of the season.
I was told they could eat
the off a charging rhino.
Jake and Josh have been
on the boat for a while.
Now they've got to figure out
what they want to do
with the rest of their lives.
Old family friend Tony Lara
is helping the Harris boys
learn to run the boat.
I think either is capable
of taking over eventually.
They both need
some more experience.
Hey, Jake. We're going to start
stacking these out, so...
Do you want to haul
this first string? Yeah.
OK. I'll show you
what we're up to here.
It's this string right here.
We need a 200 average
to get what we need.
Well, get up and have fun.
Replacing Jake on the rail
is the captain himself.
Jake's going to pull
the first string
and I get to plant the rail.
Whoa. This will be interesting.
It's been six years
since Tony has been on deck.
They're usually the guys that
shouldn't be out there, you know?
Because nobody is going
to say nothing to the captain.
He'll run around
with his head cut off,
trying to do stuff, you know?
These guys are pretty dirty.
All this gunk, some...
Basically, through the gear we
need one tonne of crabs per pot.
This is going to have over two,
so... we're looking good.
I'm going to start seeing if
you're a baseball player, Tony.
What the heck? Over.
He wants us to go faster
so I'll slamming it to him.
Add a little speed...
..and see what happens.
OK.
I think I broke my arm.
Man down, man down.
Are you OK?
I think I just pulled something.
He's skipping out.
Get that on tape. Man down.
Out of shape.
Yeah.
Every captain, no matter how
gifted you were 15 years ago,
stay the up there and
we'll stay the down here.
That muscle moved up.
Oh, that hurts.
While loading
the 54-kilo shot...
I think
I just broke my arm.
..Tony tore his bicep.
He didn't do well out here.
Six innings pitched.
We usually pitch
about 25 innings, so...
..he didn't quite
cut the mustard.
Uh-oh. I popped this tendon
or something.
Look at how
the muscle is higher here.
Are you all right?
It hurts.
I'll be right back.
I'm going to change.
Yeah, definitely short-lived,
working at the helm.
560 kilometres
north-west of Dutch Harbour...
We're real close.
We're about three minutes away.
..on the Ramblin' Rose...
We've got to get
all the gear on the boat
before our
compressor out on us.
Elliott's entire season
is riding on a patch job
he made with a compressor motor
he found on the boat.
One thing little thing could stop
your whole operation.
Something as simple as a couple
of hundred-dollar compressor.
I'm just curious to see what's
going to happen. I'm excited.
We should place bets as to what's
going to happen. Let's do it.
I'm definitely going to say
we'll get five pots.
I'm going with 15.
First pot coming up.
With over 200 pots
left to haul...
..the crew must work
at a furious pace...
How is everything running?
..before
the makeshift motor gives out.
We're good?
Good.
We'll keep our fingers crossed
it holds up.
Maybe it'll last longer
than we think.
Looks like it's working so far.
It sounds good.
Let's get some pots onboard
and we'll know if it'll hold out.
If the motor doesn't hold
the season will continue
for another six days.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
We're racing against the clock,
trying to get this done
before this small motor burns out
on our compressor.
We've got a situation
on this last trip.
Pots seem to be coming real fast.
I'm gonna ram 'em down the guys'
throat.
Nothing personal, boys.
They know the deal.
They don't want
to spend four days
running into St Paul
and back out here.
They want to go home,
just like the rest of us.
30 pots in, the tiny
compressor motor still holds.
So far,
the hydros are working great.
They're holding up a lot better
than I thought. Yeah.
We might just be able to finish
the trip the way they are.
28 hours later,
they have just five pots to go.
We hauled 220 pots
going full-tilt the whole time.
Pretty impressive.
It's still working.
This feels great.
I'm feeling a lot better
than earlier today.
The last pot of the season
is in the block.
Yeah! Whoo!
Last pot of the season, baby!
The compressor pulled through,
man!
It feels good!
Yeah! Whoo!
Whoo!
We're going home!
Right on.
And with that...
it's official.
All right, guys. We're going
to turn and head towards...
Good job, guys. Nice job.
That's it.
Elliott Neese has
completed his first opilio season
as a Bering Sea captain.
Nice job. Once again, he pulls
off at the very end.
We started strong
and we ended strong.
Nice job, gents.
We always do, brother.
Nice job.
Captain Wood.
My man.
Good job.
Yeah. It was fun.
It wasn't luck, I guess.
His crew hauled
140,000 kilos of Alaskan crab
worth over $780,000.
Nice job. Everybody give
themselves a pat on the back.
We had a nice season.
For their hardship,
each man on deck
will collect $22,000.
The Bad Boys. The new Bad Boys
of the Bering Sea right here.
The boys are heading
back to town.
♪ The boys are back in town. ♪
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630km north-west
of Dutch Harbour...
Well, boys. Plan on
this being your last meal.
..is the 33-metre Seabrooke.
And don't plan on much sleep.
We've got 48 hours
to put 120,000 pounds on,
otherwise we've got to wait
seven days to offload.
We can't afford a bum set
so every single pot has
got to count as best as we can.
I mean, we can do it.
I'm just saying be prepared
for little sleep and no food.
We've got to make it happen,
otherwise we're screwed.
We kind of throw to Hail Mary here
and hope we land on something
and... if we do, we make it.
If we don't
then we're kind of .
All right, boys. Let's do it.
The pressure is on, man.
The pressure is on.
We've just got to come together.
Fired up.
I've never
missed a delivery date yet
and I don't plan
on this being my first.
One little breakdown,
a little bit of weather...
..any little hang-up
and we're not going to make it.
We could be heroes,
we could be zeroes.
We'll find out soon enough.
Gee, thanks.
Time to get it on, boys.
We need 250, 300 average.
Come on, crab! Come on!
Not good. Not good at all.
This is not what I wanted.
Oh, man.
The first two pots
aren't looking too good here.
The numbers
aren't what we're looking for.
Oh, 75.
75 crab in 56 hours. Wow.
Well, this is going
to be disastrous.
At this rate we're not going
to make it to our delivery
with what we want.
That's .
No tearing up.
All right.
Heck. We're in trouble.
The skipper seizes in pain...
..one he knows all too well.
Yeah. You better come on up.
I ain't going to make it.
Uh, it should be right over...
We'll figure it out.
And then stack
those other two on. Roger.
Yo. Can you guys hear me?
Yeah!
He's passing a stone right now,
so...
He's been having
kidney stone problems
the last four or five years.
He's obviously in a lot of pain.
I've broken many bones in my time
and sprains and all that stuff,
but I don't know
what I can compare that to, so...
It just feels like a knife.
550 kilometres
north-west of Dutch Harbour
on the Cornelia Marie...
Do you want me to set it? We can
blame you if it doesn't fit.
Sure.
..Captain Tony Lara
puts the fate of the boat
in the hands of its owner.
I bet there's a lot going on,
a lot to pay attention to.
The first thing
is pick your colour.
What colour do you want
to make the screen? Red.
Now, this is the 'recording'
button here.
So, finally,
when we turn and start setting
after the pot hits the water
you'll push the recording button
and start your track line.
There's a fair amount of
information we write down here.
First of all, string number.
That just keeps track
for the logbook.
The colour of the string,
you got your date,
you got what kind of pots
they are.
When you're done you push 'stop'
for the recorder.
Josh Harris is about
to set gear for the first time.
It's easy to set gear, but
knowing where to place the pots,
that's a tough question.
But the crew
has their doubts.
Driving the boat is easy.
Running the boat,
it's a little different.
You don't know until you sit up
there the first time by yourself
and there's no-one
to ask questions - that's scary.
A lot of responsibility.
See all these lines, that's
where we've been working today.
Purple and yellow is us.
We've got 40 pots on deck.
We've been out here
for, like, half an hour.
I don't know
if he forgot to beep.
He's probably up there, like,
'Please set the pot, please!
Just set it.'
So there might be a body of crabs
there. I don't know.
Right here right now.
OK. Are you ready to go?
OK, write your numbers down.
Did they forget
about the beeper or what?
OK, you let the guys know.
Whoo, yeah. All right.
Way to use that beeper.
Well, I'll leave you in peace.
Don't go too far in case
something happens.
Tony won't be taking
any second chances on deck.
Here we go.
I'm out of my comfort zone
a little bit.
But this is what I want to do.
It's just scary.
It's really scary.
Up here I've encountered
my biggest fears, you know?
Losing a family member, you know,
especially my dad, my hero.
Now I'm sitting in his chair,
driving his boat.
It's heavy, man, you know?
I want to keep this boat fishing.
It's what I was born,
bred and corn-fed to do.
And I'm going to make it happen.
90 kilometres to the north...
..on the Wizard...
..free
from the grip of the storm
the crew revels
under a full moon.
More times than not,
the full moon
generally brings better fishing.
After braving the storm
to set his last 75 pots...
The wind is starting
to drop off.
Right now we're just going
to try and scoop up a couple.
And, hopefully,
it's got some crab in it.
Captain Keith needs
big numbers to send him home.
If there's not then I don't know
what I'm going to do.
65.
That's not good.
I'm pretty sure
the fleas are wiping us out.
Doggone it.
It's usually
right around this full moon
when the sand fleas
go absolutely crazy down there.
And the thing is those fleas
kind of have a bloom
and then - whoo - you're on 'em.
If you're in an area where there
might be a lot of sand fleas
you could be in serious trouble
where you might not be able
to catch any crab.
There's nothing you can do
when nothing is coming aboard.
A waste of time, energy,
bait, everything.
This isn't looking too good here.
I mean, this string sucks.
There's nothing here.
This deep-set
was a total disaster.
I'm not going to make it.
With those kind of numbers
I will not fill this boat.
you know?
It's like sometimes it's
just not worth it, man.
It's just not worth it.
You've got a three-million dollar
business here,
I've got two million dollars
in debt.
I don't know
why I deal with it.
Yeah?
You know what, why don't you come
and ask him yourself, all right?
The guy, you know what?
Cameraman Brad Carper
interrupts Keith
at exactly the wrong time.
Hey, Carper.
You don't do around here.
I've asked you to
make me a pot of coffee
three times this season
and you're too busy
cos you're too busy sleeping.
Oh, I'm too busy sleeping,
making...
Hey, don't you get in my face!
Do you understand me?
Do you understand?!
What the was that?
What the was that, Keith?
Back off, dude.
Back the off!
You're out of line.
You don't do that !
Either go to bed or go on deck.
You're out of line.
Get out of my face.
Raise your voice one more time
and you're going down !
Who got in who's face, Keith?
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There's a lot of the kids in the
Bering Sea this season, right now,
that just got
kicked out of the nest.
I want to keep this boat fishing.
That's what I was born and bred
and corn-fed to do.
You know they're ready
to take on the world...
Oh, .
Yeah!
..but are these young captains
ready to take on the Bering Sea?
It's a lot
of responsibility.
We could be heroes,
we could be zeroes.
We'll find out soon enough.
One little breakdown,
a little bit of weather...
..any little hang-up
and we're not going to make it.
If we can't get this fixed
we can't haul any more gear.
I don't think it's going
to make it, dude. It's done.
He's obviously in a lot of pain.
You can get in a lot of trouble
real quick out here.
Don't you get in my face!
At St Paul light
snow is blowing. Snow reported.
The temperature was 14 degrees.
The relative humidity was 80%.
The end is near.
On the heels
of a long opilio crab season...
Wednesday south-west 60.
..unstable weather
creates doubt across the fleet.
I don't know
if we can even get anything done,
let alone fish in...
..60-knot winds.
It doesn't look good.
I smell nightmare.
Jake, the clock is ticking.
Hurry up!
These guys are not
going to get much sleep.
Food is going to be minimal
because of our timeframe.
I have a delivery date
that I have to make.
If I don't make that date I don't
when I can get another one.
Each crew
must turn their gear quickly...
Every single season, every single
trip is always to the wire.
..or face another
two gruelling weeks at sea.
Cowboy up
with your big girl panties on.
It's going to be a gnarly ride,
boys!
I'm going to call the cannery and
see if I can't get an extra day.
From what I hear on the radio
a lot of guys
are in the same boat.
580 kilometres
north-west of Dutch Harbour...
..is the Time Bandit.
So we have to get everything
in one shot
so I can just pull this gear
really fast.
We'll do as much as we can before
it blows really hard tonight.
Time is the enemy right now.
I'm glad this is my last trip,
cos this has been a grind.
After five weeks
of shutdowns...
Come on in.
..and injuries...
Where did you get hit, Mike?
Something hit my face.
I've got blood in my eye.
..Captain Andy Hillstrand
finally lands on the mother lode.
Oh, yeah. Nice pile of crab.
I like it.
We've been working
about 20 hours straight
and we're going to keep working
for about another eight
before we sleep for two hours.
This whole year
we haven't slept at all.
Andy's not going to give us
a break tonight.
Whatever. Suck it up, Buttercup.
The natural body cycle
says 'Hey, . Go to bed'.
Not if you're a crab fisherman.
For the crew,
the solution is to put
their heads down and soldier on.
But for deckhand
Justin Tennison...
these piece of
door ties!
..the exhaustion and
frustration are starting to show.
Start cutting the off.
When you've got one person who
comes out with a sour egg every
morning,
grumpy and off at
the world and kicking, just mad...
..there's no point. It gets
old and tiring for all of us.
Right now I'm down south,
but I have all the rest
of my gear eight, ten miles away.
I'll start running over
towards our next string.
All right, guys.
Come on in.
The 20-minute steam
allows the crew a short reprieve.
All right. Now it's pretty tough
to stay awake.
I can do this.
It's up to me to control the pace
of what we do and when we do it
so we can get in and unload.
It's that simple.
So if I have to keep 'em up
for 24 hours
and then sleep 'em for 4,
work 'em for another 32,
that's what we do.
Air out the gear.
The last string to pull
before we go to sleep.
The boys need a wake-up call.
Wow.
Who was it? That was Justin.
Hey, KG. Good morning to you.
I think I angered Sasquatch.
I'm watching Justin
around.
He's tired... just like all of us.
He's grumpy.
Easy, Turbo. You've got something
to say about everything, dude.
Are you moaning?
Are you kidding me? Yeah, I am.
Are you seriously
right now?
You want to cry me a river,
Buttercup? Huh?
Oh, my good Lord.
We've got a crybaby on the deck!
We've got a crybaby on the deck.
all the time.
You throw one string a day and
think you're doing something.
Dude, really? Seriously?
Step up a little bit.
Throw more than once a day.
Hey! Throw a temper tantrum!
Hey, I'm going
to tell you right now...
Hey, listen to me. Listen to me!
You've got an attitude.
Knock it off right now! Grow up!
Get out of my face.
Grow up!
Hey, John. Check this out.
Grow up and act like a man.
You're 34 - act like it!
Hey, hey, hey!
Knock it off down there!
Yeah, act like it!
Justin, I will treat you
like a 16 year old
if you keep acting like it!
I'm just telling you!
I don't think Justin takes well
to being yelled at,
so you might want
to mention that to Fortner.
You come out on deck with a
horrible attitude every morning.
Like a teenage girl.
You go through
bigger mood swings, I swear.
Get away from each other.
Leave each other alone.
Somebody should
have switched to decaf.
Oh, my God.
Dude, it's like three in the
morning right now. They're tired.
I told you the guys
were tired, dude.
Oh, I don't know.
We're all tired,
we're all getting grumpy.
People get irritated
when they get tired.
I just think everything is funny.
Can we go back
to crab fishing now, ?
Seriously!
Grow up!
♪
♪
560 kilometres
north-west of Dutch Harbour...
Oh, yeah, baby.
Come on. Give me some crab!
..Captain Elliott Neese
hauls his last string
of the season.
This is pretty decent.
210, 280 so it gives...
..195 average.
After four and a half
weeks of gruelling fishing...
..the finish line is in sight.
28.
All right?
What the hell is this?
What the ?
Is the hydro working?
No.
me.
After four months
of pounding through gear...
..the ten-horsepower compressor
is burnt out.
I don't know what the deal is.
The air pressure
is not working.
The compressor up there is broke.
We might be able
to rig something together
to make it work
for the time being.
So we've got to take
the compressor from up forward
and move it aft and hook it up.
If we can't get this fixed
we can't haul any more gear.
A common shop compressor
used for inflating bags
sits in the forepeak.
Elliott has plans for its motor.
He basically wants
to be able to plug it in
and pump the air
into our hydraulic system.
But I just don't think
he'll be able to do it.
Undeterred
by the doubts of his crew...
That right there,
ladies and gentlemen,
is something
you pump up bike tyres with,
but we're trying to power
our hydraulics with it right now.
The young captain
has the shot compressor
moved to the engine room.
Unreal. I don't think it's going
to make it, dude. It's done.
Right now I'd say...
..we've got a pretty good chance
of going to St Paul.
With their season
just hours from ending
a run to St Paul
would add four days.
Whoa, whoa!
Whoo-hoo!
I want to haul gear
before anything overheats.
With over 200 pots
still in the water...
..Elliott has a long way to go.
The fate of the crab boat
rests on a few-hundred dollar
compressor...
..and a five-horse motor.
40 kilometres east...
34 hours that I haven't slept.
..the Time Bandit
works through a crippling fatigue.
I'm up against the clock.
It'll be a tough one
to get through.
He wants to keep running his
mouth over something stupid.
him.
After Mike and Justin
nearly came to blows...
Hey, listen to me!
Get your hands off me.
You've got an attitude.
Knock it off right now! Grow up!
Get out of my face.
Grow up!
Full pots do nothing
to relieve the tension on deck.
Well, we're all hurting.
We're all sore
and we're all tired, so...
..cry me a river and get over it.
We've got gear to pull.
We've got to get it done.
It's starting to blow south-east
35, the weather is getting big.
That one's looking pretty good.
Yeah.
This will be the best year I've
had, financially, in ten years.
Damn, it's good fishing today!
The weather has really come up.
South-east 35, 20ft seas...
The guys have to watch out now
cos somebody
could really get hurt now.
Look out!
The line is out of the block!
Get it over!
Man!
Wow!
That was a line of death
right there.
For whatever reason, the whole
line shot out of the block
and then laid a perfect lasso
around Scotty and I
as a 1,000-pound pot
was on the other end of it,
heading for the bottom.
The line was like
a hand reaching out.
It was going to pull somebody
overboard.
Catlike reflexes were in order.
If we hadn't jumped fast enough
it would have taken us both down.
If it had
wrapped around your foot
it would dragged you
down to the bottom.
I'm starting to think
we've got nine lives, Mike.
I think I've used three of them
this year alone. I know.
I've never seen it in 20 years.
Never a dull moment over here.
That'll put a hurt on the tank.
We pulled 112 pots for today.
Over 90,000 pounds.
We're pretty darn happy
right now.
We're tired, but we're happy.
By morning,
the weather calms.
You guys kicked ass, man.
That was awesome.
Four days of grind just paid off.
The Time Bandit
stuffs their tanks
and earns a 24-hour break.
I need to sit in a chair
for a whole day
without pulling any pots.
No crab. We've got a whole day,
but do not catch any more crab.
It's like telling the fat kid
in dodgeball,
'Go and play,
but don't get hit with the ball'.
You're making fun of fat
kids! They don't have a choice!
All of you who are overweight
and play dodgeball and keep
getting hit
and you're the first one out,
my apologies.
Just go run a few extra laps.
'My apologies.' Step away
from the plate of brownies.
now.
And the storm on deck
dies down, as well.
We all have feelings.
I know.
Lack of sleep, missing home...
We all get dim moments, don't we?
We do. I concur.
'I concur'.
But guess what?
It's damn near over.
♪
♪
Far north
to the rest of the fleet...
..on The Wizard...
We have a low-pressure system
and a high-pressure system.
The low-pressure system
turns counterclockwise.
The high-pressure system
turns clockwise.
You've got that section right
between the two storms
where this clockwise wind
meets this counterclockwise wind
and right in there
it creates this funnel
where you get
twice as much wind, basically.
That would be where we're at.
Unable to escape
the clutches of the storm...
I'm caught between
a rock and a hard place.
..Captain Keith Colburn
must carry on fishing
in order to make his deadline.
We need to try and be as careful
as possible, but at the same time
I need to find something
I can set this gear on.
After that, I've got a hunch
we're going to be shut down.
We should be shut down right now,
as bad as it is.
No, no, no. Back over here.
I'll be a happy guy
when we get this gear off here.
Right now, the most dangerous
spot on the boat is up high.
Just go slow and safe.
Oh-ho-ho-ho. This is going
to be a long five-hour set.
I'll tell you that right now.
I'm sitting on a 155ft boat
that weighs
over 2 million pounds.
And we are like a little cork out
here in the middle of nowhere.
It's amazing how quickly
you feel insignificant
and how small you feel once you
start dealing with Mother Nature.
That's kind of scary.
Lift it up, dudes.
Lift that chain up!
Whoa!
OK, guys. We've got a green one
coming. Hang on, hang on.
Everybody good?
Had the wave come right through
the middle of the deck
it would have cleaned
the whole crew out.
Mother Nature is saying,
'What's up, Soapy?
I'm going to get you
one of these days...'
It must be out of my mind.
What am I doing?
80 kilometres to the south...
..on the Cornelia Marie...
I've just put together
a little something-something
to get us through the morning.
The boys are starving.
..the crew fuels up
for the last trip of the season.
I was told they could eat
the off a charging rhino.
Jake and Josh have been
on the boat for a while.
Now they've got to figure out
what they want to do
with the rest of their lives.
Old family friend Tony Lara
is helping the Harris boys
learn to run the boat.
I think either is capable
of taking over eventually.
They both need
some more experience.
Hey, Jake. We're going to start
stacking these out, so...
Do you want to haul
this first string? Yeah.
OK. I'll show you
what we're up to here.
It's this string right here.
We need a 200 average
to get what we need.
Well, get up and have fun.
Replacing Jake on the rail
is the captain himself.
Jake's going to pull
the first string
and I get to plant the rail.
Whoa. This will be interesting.
It's been six years
since Tony has been on deck.
They're usually the guys that
shouldn't be out there, you know?
Because nobody is going
to say nothing to the captain.
He'll run around
with his head cut off,
trying to do stuff, you know?
These guys are pretty dirty.
All this gunk, some...
Basically, through the gear we
need one tonne of crabs per pot.
This is going to have over two,
so... we're looking good.
I'm going to start seeing if
you're a baseball player, Tony.
What the heck? Over.
He wants us to go faster
so I'll slamming it to him.
Add a little speed...
..and see what happens.
OK.
I think I broke my arm.
Man down, man down.
Are you OK?
I think I just pulled something.
He's skipping out.
Get that on tape. Man down.
Out of shape.
Yeah.
Every captain, no matter how
gifted you were 15 years ago,
stay the up there and
we'll stay the down here.
That muscle moved up.
Oh, that hurts.
While loading
the 54-kilo shot...
I think
I just broke my arm.
..Tony tore his bicep.
He didn't do well out here.
Six innings pitched.
We usually pitch
about 25 innings, so...
..he didn't quite
cut the mustard.
Uh-oh. I popped this tendon
or something.
Look at how
the muscle is higher here.
Are you all right?
It hurts.
I'll be right back.
I'm going to change.
Yeah, definitely short-lived,
working at the helm.
560 kilometres
north-west of Dutch Harbour...
We're real close.
We're about three minutes away.
..on the Ramblin' Rose...
We've got to get
all the gear on the boat
before our
compressor out on us.
Elliott's entire season
is riding on a patch job
he made with a compressor motor
he found on the boat.
One thing little thing could stop
your whole operation.
Something as simple as a couple
of hundred-dollar compressor.
I'm just curious to see what's
going to happen. I'm excited.
We should place bets as to what's
going to happen. Let's do it.
I'm definitely going to say
we'll get five pots.
I'm going with 15.
First pot coming up.
With over 200 pots
left to haul...
..the crew must work
at a furious pace...
How is everything running?
..before
the makeshift motor gives out.
We're good?
Good.
We'll keep our fingers crossed
it holds up.
Maybe it'll last longer
than we think.
Looks like it's working so far.
It sounds good.
Let's get some pots onboard
and we'll know if it'll hold out.
If the motor doesn't hold
the season will continue
for another six days.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
We're racing against the clock,
trying to get this done
before this small motor burns out
on our compressor.
We've got a situation
on this last trip.
Pots seem to be coming real fast.
I'm gonna ram 'em down the guys'
throat.
Nothing personal, boys.
They know the deal.
They don't want
to spend four days
running into St Paul
and back out here.
They want to go home,
just like the rest of us.
30 pots in, the tiny
compressor motor still holds.
So far,
the hydros are working great.
They're holding up a lot better
than I thought. Yeah.
We might just be able to finish
the trip the way they are.
28 hours later,
they have just five pots to go.
We hauled 220 pots
going full-tilt the whole time.
Pretty impressive.
It's still working.
This feels great.
I'm feeling a lot better
than earlier today.
The last pot of the season
is in the block.
Yeah! Whoo!
Last pot of the season, baby!
The compressor pulled through,
man!
It feels good!
Yeah! Whoo!
Whoo!
We're going home!
Right on.
And with that...
it's official.
All right, guys. We're going
to turn and head towards...
Good job, guys. Nice job.
That's it.
Elliott Neese has
completed his first opilio season
as a Bering Sea captain.
Nice job. Once again, he pulls
off at the very end.
We started strong
and we ended strong.
Nice job, gents.
We always do, brother.
Nice job.
Captain Wood.
My man.
Good job.
Yeah. It was fun.
It wasn't luck, I guess.
His crew hauled
140,000 kilos of Alaskan crab
worth over $780,000.
Nice job. Everybody give
themselves a pat on the back.
We had a nice season.
For their hardship,
each man on deck
will collect $22,000.
The Bad Boys. The new Bad Boys
of the Bering Sea right here.
The boys are heading
back to town.
♪ The boys are back in town. ♪
♪
♪
630km north-west
of Dutch Harbour...
Well, boys. Plan on
this being your last meal.
..is the 33-metre Seabrooke.
And don't plan on much sleep.
We've got 48 hours
to put 120,000 pounds on,
otherwise we've got to wait
seven days to offload.
We can't afford a bum set
so every single pot has
got to count as best as we can.
I mean, we can do it.
I'm just saying be prepared
for little sleep and no food.
We've got to make it happen,
otherwise we're screwed.
We kind of throw to Hail Mary here
and hope we land on something
and... if we do, we make it.
If we don't
then we're kind of .
All right, boys. Let's do it.
The pressure is on, man.
The pressure is on.
We've just got to come together.
Fired up.
I've never
missed a delivery date yet
and I don't plan
on this being my first.
One little breakdown,
a little bit of weather...
..any little hang-up
and we're not going to make it.
We could be heroes,
we could be zeroes.
We'll find out soon enough.
Gee, thanks.
Time to get it on, boys.
We need 250, 300 average.
Come on, crab! Come on!
Not good. Not good at all.
This is not what I wanted.
Oh, man.
The first two pots
aren't looking too good here.
The numbers
aren't what we're looking for.
Oh, 75.
75 crab in 56 hours. Wow.
Well, this is going
to be disastrous.
At this rate we're not going
to make it to our delivery
with what we want.
That's .
No tearing up.
All right.
Heck. We're in trouble.
The skipper seizes in pain...
..one he knows all too well.
Yeah. You better come on up.
I ain't going to make it.
Uh, it should be right over...
We'll figure it out.
And then stack
those other two on. Roger.
Yo. Can you guys hear me?
Yeah!
He's passing a stone right now,
so...
He's been having
kidney stone problems
the last four or five years.
He's obviously in a lot of pain.
I've broken many bones in my time
and sprains and all that stuff,
but I don't know
what I can compare that to, so...
It just feels like a knife.
550 kilometres
north-west of Dutch Harbour
on the Cornelia Marie...
Do you want me to set it? We can
blame you if it doesn't fit.
Sure.
..Captain Tony Lara
puts the fate of the boat
in the hands of its owner.
I bet there's a lot going on,
a lot to pay attention to.
The first thing
is pick your colour.
What colour do you want
to make the screen? Red.
Now, this is the 'recording'
button here.
So, finally,
when we turn and start setting
after the pot hits the water
you'll push the recording button
and start your track line.
There's a fair amount of
information we write down here.
First of all, string number.
That just keeps track
for the logbook.
The colour of the string,
you got your date,
you got what kind of pots
they are.
When you're done you push 'stop'
for the recorder.
Josh Harris is about
to set gear for the first time.
It's easy to set gear, but
knowing where to place the pots,
that's a tough question.
But the crew
has their doubts.
Driving the boat is easy.
Running the boat,
it's a little different.
You don't know until you sit up
there the first time by yourself
and there's no-one
to ask questions - that's scary.
A lot of responsibility.
See all these lines, that's
where we've been working today.
Purple and yellow is us.
We've got 40 pots on deck.
We've been out here
for, like, half an hour.
I don't know
if he forgot to beep.
He's probably up there, like,
'Please set the pot, please!
Just set it.'
So there might be a body of crabs
there. I don't know.
Right here right now.
OK. Are you ready to go?
OK, write your numbers down.
Did they forget
about the beeper or what?
OK, you let the guys know.
Whoo, yeah. All right.
Way to use that beeper.
Well, I'll leave you in peace.
Don't go too far in case
something happens.
Tony won't be taking
any second chances on deck.
Here we go.
I'm out of my comfort zone
a little bit.
But this is what I want to do.
It's just scary.
It's really scary.
Up here I've encountered
my biggest fears, you know?
Losing a family member, you know,
especially my dad, my hero.
Now I'm sitting in his chair,
driving his boat.
It's heavy, man, you know?
I want to keep this boat fishing.
It's what I was born,
bred and corn-fed to do.
And I'm going to make it happen.
90 kilometres to the north...
..on the Wizard...
..free
from the grip of the storm
the crew revels
under a full moon.
More times than not,
the full moon
generally brings better fishing.
After braving the storm
to set his last 75 pots...
The wind is starting
to drop off.
Right now we're just going
to try and scoop up a couple.
And, hopefully,
it's got some crab in it.
Captain Keith needs
big numbers to send him home.
If there's not then I don't know
what I'm going to do.
65.
That's not good.
I'm pretty sure
the fleas are wiping us out.
Doggone it.
It's usually
right around this full moon
when the sand fleas
go absolutely crazy down there.
And the thing is those fleas
kind of have a bloom
and then - whoo - you're on 'em.
If you're in an area where there
might be a lot of sand fleas
you could be in serious trouble
where you might not be able
to catch any crab.
There's nothing you can do
when nothing is coming aboard.
A waste of time, energy,
bait, everything.
This isn't looking too good here.
I mean, this string sucks.
There's nothing here.
This deep-set
was a total disaster.
I'm not going to make it.
With those kind of numbers
I will not fill this boat.
you know?
It's like sometimes it's
just not worth it, man.
It's just not worth it.
You've got a three-million dollar
business here,
I've got two million dollars
in debt.
I don't know
why I deal with it.
Yeah?
You know what, why don't you come
and ask him yourself, all right?
The guy, you know what?
Cameraman Brad Carper
interrupts Keith
at exactly the wrong time.
Hey, Carper.
You don't do around here.
I've asked you to
make me a pot of coffee
three times this season
and you're too busy
cos you're too busy sleeping.
Oh, I'm too busy sleeping,
making...
Hey, don't you get in my face!
Do you understand me?
Do you understand?!
What the was that?
What the was that, Keith?
Back off, dude.
Back the off!
You're out of line.
You don't do that !
Either go to bed or go on deck.
You're out of line.
Get out of my face.
Raise your voice one more time
and you're going down !
Who got in who's face, Keith?
♪