Deadliest Catch (2005–…): Season 7, Episode 4 - Breaking Point - full transcript
A serious injury forces a crewmember to his bunk after the crane breaks on the Kodiak, while the Seabrooke's greenhorn has a mental breakdown. The crew of the Cornelia Marie must put aside their differences to seek cover from a massive Bering Sea storm.
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Four-storey buildings are gonna
be coming at us, breaking.
These blue king crab are gonna die.
Look at that!
That's making my day.
You will at some point
be mentally broke.
Go, go!
Yeah, good stuff!
Arggh! !
I wanna cry, it hurts so bad.
I don't care if it takes three
guys to drag him
and throw him in the bunk,
he's coming out of the forepeak,
getting out of his raincoat.
Mental breaking in two hours of
fishing? That's !
It's a little windy right now!
In Dutch Harbor...
Red crab's all done.
Now we're headed out for blues.
..the crew of the Seabrooke prepares
the boat to head out to new grounds.
I'm excited to go out and try to
make some more money.
Hopefully we get two boatloads of
blue king crab. That would be great.
And in the wheelhouse,
captain Scott Campbell Jr
is expecting a new recruit.
Waiting on my new horn.
He sounds pretty energetic,
but we'll see how he does.
Just two days ago...
Look at my hands! They're all swole
up just because of that .
..deck boss Bob Perkey and greenhorn
Kyle Babb left the boat.
See ya, suckers!
Now the captain has hired
29-year-old Josh Fullmer
fresh out of Idaho Falls, Idaho.
What's up?
I hope that I can make it on
the Bering Sea and not fail, man,
cos I've seen so many guys fail,
and I'm like,
'Oh, put me in that position,
I'll show that dude up.'
He has no clue
what he's getting himself into.
Absolutely none.
I don't make first guesses on what
they're like
until they get out there,
and then you see what kind of
character they actually have.
He's been moving furniture
for seven years.
He's worked 12-, 15-, even 16-hour
days, with his longest being 19.
Josh.
Josh, nice to meet you.
I hate greenhorns,
especially GREEN horns.
I don't have the patience any more
to deal with them.
He says that he has an insane drive
to excel and be the best,
so we'll see how...
..what he thinks about moving
furniture
versus moving crab pots
out on the Bering Sea, so...
Never been on the water.
Probably never even seen the ocean
before for all I know.
That's good, though.
You want horns like this, because
you want ones that are untainted,
that have never been on other boats,
so they know nothing and you can
train them to your way.
That's a first.
How's it going, man?
Permission?
Yep. Junior.
Josh.
Josh, OK, hey. You ever been
on a boat or anything like that?
You know if you get seasick or not?
I don't know if I get seasick.
I've been on a ferry. That's it.
Matter of fact,
I'm about to take my pills now.
So, what made you want to be
a crabber?
I started watching anything that
I could find on Alaskan fishing,
anything I could do on the Internet.
I've got a couple different
handbooks,
like I said in the resume,
but I don't know.
I'm just crazy, I guess.
That's good.
Yep.
The only advice I can give you is
don't let yourself get overwhelmed.
Around here, you just, you know,
you suck it up, you deal with it.
If you do something wrong, you get
your ass chewed, you take it.
You're the horn.
It's being able to not have
a meltdown
because you've had enough of them
picking on you.
You will, at some point,
be mentally broke.
And it's being able
to push through that
that's gonna make the determiner
whether you can be
a fisherman or not.
Man, oh, man,
this kid is gonna be in for
probably the worst rude awakening
of his life, I know it.
Oh, howdy.
Josh.
What?
Josh.
Josh, OK. Milton.
Nice meeting you.
Welcome aboard.
Thank you, sir.
That dude looks like
a straight-up sea lark.
690km to the north of Dutch Harbor...
..on the Cornelia Marie...
We're not having
quite as much fun
as we did when the old man
was on here.
It's a lot different
when you look up in the window
and you don't see
that furry-headed mullet.
..Captain Derrick Ray
is on his second week
of trying to find the blue crab.
That's not very good fishing.
I had high hopes when I set these.
I was pretty excited.
You think you're on to something.
Come back, there's nothing.
We're averaging a half a crab a pot.
We don't know which half
we get in what pot,
but we need to make some money.
Six.
Should have been
some pockets of crab here.
It's the right depth.
It's not adding up.
I know he doesn't want to leave,
but there is a time to stop.
I've been working
my ass off. !
On a run between strings,
deckhand Josh Harris heads up
to confront the skipper
for the second time this season.
Let me explain something
to you.
You've seen the numbers down there.
Unless you hit ,
like, a monster thing,
which I pray to we do...
We got a ton of ocean left to cover.
You should know that
when you leave the dock,
you're prepared to fish on that
10 or 12 average
for a few days till you find
the 15, the 20.
You can't expect us to be up to your
par of knowledge.
You can't expect us to have learned
a certain way,
cos he did not teach us that way,
and when you tell me things,
you need to explain what the
you're talking about.
You come at me with an attitude
on how I should know this,
I should know that.
You think I...
Listen to me for one minute.
Do you think I want to share
my 30 years of knowledge
and my 25 years of running a boat
to a kid that's got
a huge drug problem,
and then see him jump on board
a boat and start running it,
and then I find out a year later
he's killed all of them
because he was strung out on dope
and he had no idea how to lead men?
I know in the heart of my hearts
he is not prepared to run a boat -
ever in his life, at this stage -
and neither are you.
Great.
You know, granted, we put our names
on the line,
and for you to tell me there needs
to be a level of maturity
before you even think
of coming here...
Well, you know what?
had to give up my party
life, everything that was fun.
I got, like, a couple weekends
to myself.
So, at 28, you had to give up
your party life?
So, you actually had to grow up
and pretend to be an adult?
I would love to teach you
how to run this boat. I would.
You guys are missing a ton of tools.
I have empathy for that.
Your dad did you
a huge disservice, huge,
by not teaching you these things
over the last five years
when he had you on this boat.
Now, you should have paid more
attention yourselves.
This isn't one great big party.
This is big boy land.
Derrick, we're all stressed out, you
know?
Nobody's making a pay cheque
right now.
Do you want the boat to operate
the way it's always operated,
or do you want to change
and move forward?
Derrick, you know, you're coming on
here with a fresh attitude,
you know, like, I didn't come up
here to listen to you say
I have a poor work ethic.
Grow up, forget it.
You know, move on.
Everybody in the world
has a parent die!
You don't gotta remind me
the old man had died, Derrick.
You said it a few times.
I know what the happened.
Are you getting at me cos
we're not catching crab right now?
Is this what this is about now?
Oh, no.
This is about the two of you.
We're out here fishing, you know,
we're all trying to make a buck.
OK, well, we got five minutes
till the next string,
so let's go catch some more crab.
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420km north-east
of Dutch Harbor...
..is the 31-metre Kodiak.
Welcome back, my friends.
This is a money-making machine!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Back on the meat!
We're on the crab now.
That's red king crab gold.
After two weeks of fishing...
I'm finally able to give these guys
some crab, man.
..Captain 'Wild Bill' Wichrowski
has hit the mother lode.
Man!
This is a little slice of heaven
compared to what we've been doing.
Last king crab season...
Eight, zero-eight.
..captain Bill had a run of bad luck.
This is ridiculous!
But for now, his fortune has changed.
Looks like good crab coming up.
Boo-yah!
They're biting now. They're here.
There's more on the bottom than
there will be ten days from now.
So, I really need to make this work.
Watch the spin!
We got on them.
Now we're gonna combine all the gear
right in one area.
It's gonna be great.
The Kodiak's hydraulic crane
is non-responsive.
Hey, Bill, there's a problem
with the hydraulics!
And work on deck comes to a halt.
We can drive and we can steer,
but we can't haul any gear.
Trying to make sure
that this thing works,
cos if it doesn't,
then we're really screwed.
! Whoa! !
Engineer and deck boss Adam McCalden
goes deep inside the crane
to inspect the damage.
What is it?
OK?
Arggh! Doesn't look good.
Thought it was gonna be
something minor,
and it's turning into something
a little more major right now.
!
We can't run the crane
and the hydros at the same time,
so the crane is kind of kaput
for now - no go.
So, we're gonna have to start
pushing some pots,
so just bear with it, deal with it.
A broken crane
in the middle of good fishing
could mean the end of the trip.
Go, go, go!
But not for the crew of the Kodiak.
Max power!
Yeah, good stuff.
Ohh!
Good stuff!
Fun times pushing pots.
It's funny, this is the first boat
I've operated ever
where we didn't push pots on deck.
Go, go, go, go!
Morale is high.
We found some newfound spirit
in pushing pots.
Go!
And leading the charge
is 29-year-old Jake Jolibois.
Get us into a good spot this time.
We got pushed sideways.
Somebody's drunk and driving.
He's, like, the driving force
behind it.
Yeah! Yeah!
Jake's probably the strongest
he's ever been right now.
Pushing Pots 101.
Jake's obviously done this before.
These guys are gonna be sore
from doing this.
There's crab on the table,
crab on the table.
Whoa! Whoa!
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
One, two, three!
I love Zach's running start.
Yeah!
Pushing pots was fine when it was
five- and ten-day seasons,
but you're gonna be on a marathon
season, man,
you'd better have the crane going.
Hopefully we can maintain this
attitude and enthusiasm.
These guys are running
down the deck.
It's fast, but it wears the guys
down faster too.
Arggh! !
Oh! Oh, man.
!
We only have one speed.
Man, he's his .
I wanna cry, it hurts so bad.
Oh, something ain't right.
There's no crying
on a crab deck.
Jake's fall on the slippery deck
hurt his back.
Jake did a Kodiak jelly slide.
In the jelly. Whee!
Snap, crackle, pop.
Next thing you know,
I'm getting lightning bolts
from my ass to my shoulder blades.
480km to the north of Dutch Harbor,
the Ramblin' Rose
is steaming to St Paul.
If we'd only been fishing for one or
two days, it wouldn't be a big deal.
28-year-old skipper Elliott Neese
is about to cash in on the first
king crab trip of his career.
We're gonna go offload these crab,
and the way the blue crab are,
they're pretty weak crab
in comparison to, like, a red crab,
which you can hold for, you know,
10, 12 days easy.
Three days ago...
Whoo!
..a 30-pot run of great fishing
was interrupted by the processor.
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The decision to head in early
was the hardest he's had to make
so far as a captain.
This is my first time running this
boat - I want to play it safe.
There's a lot of money at stake.
13,600kg load of blue crab
yields up to $150,000.
You know, it's not my money.
Ultimately it's these guys on deck,
and they've been working their asses
off for me,
and I want to give them every penny
they've earned.
So, we're going to go to town,
regroup, get some more bait,
and get these guys some money
to send home.
To Elliot, the crab numbers on his
first trip are looking good.
All right, guys.
Here's what we got for bets.
The question is how good?
I've got 34,444, Kado's got 34,500,
TE went with 36,999,
the Cat went with 37,050,
and Face went with 35,050.
And now the betting is closed.
Well, we'll find out here whether
or not all the hard work paid off
and the crab are still alive,
and we'll find out exactly how much
we brought in.
I'm hoping around 35,000lb.
Yeah!
Yee-haw!
It's been a good trip overall.
I'm glad we came in.
I think it was the right decision.
I think everybody's happy with it.
Everybody'll get a little sleep.
Look pretty clean, pretty big.
Tank looks pretty good, man.
Got a lot of crab in there.
The question is how much?
Definitely not 40.
No.
I hope so.
When the final weight is tallied...
..the rookie skipper's crab count
was grossly off.
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5,900kg - only a third of what
Elliott expected.
! It's gonna be a long one.
Long season.
None of us has ever
seen the tank full.
We didn't know
how much crab there was,
and apparently now we know -
nothing.
Not good.
After a 36-hour grind
for 2 days straight,
the crew will split just $8,000
for their pain.
That's a pretty
disappointing delivery this trip.
That tank's quite a bit smaller
than I thought.
Thought we had a lot more crab
than we did.
Pretty disappointing.
As the Ramblin' Rose steams back
to their grounds,
captain Elliott
gets more unsettling news.
Ah, I just got an email
from the owner.
He's gonna have to get 56,000lb
this trip.
Or else we're gonna have to do a
fourth trip, and nobody wants that.
The future of Elliott's career
as a young Bering Sea captain
is on the line.
Just a lot of hard work ahead of us.
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430km north-east
of Dutch Harbor...
..is the Northwestern.
200 pots into their 250-pot grind.
Oh.
And the numbers are low.
We're pressed for time.
We've got less than 24 hours
to haul gear
and try to get the gear on,
you know,
something worth setting on
for that town pick.
That's what's imperative right now.
Before their offload,
Sig hopes to set a 52-pot reserve
on more fertile grounds.
Waiting for the next string.
That's the one I'm counting on.
I can't just set them back
on the blanks.
If this next string
doesn't pay off...
Yeah, it's last string of the night.
Hope it's a banger.
..Sig's 52 pots on deck
will go to waste.
Hopefully there's some crab in it.
Yeah!
I knew it!
Look at that!
And Bingo was his name-o.
That's pretty cool.
Can you believe that?!
You zig and you zag
and you turn around,
and they're right there
in front of you.
Yeah, go ahead and set it back.
You got to know when to hold them.
We're on to something here.
Well, it's a blast
when you land on them,
and you know, it's just...
you're just like, 'OK!'
What's it gonna be?
You gonna slap me around
or are you gonna make my day?
47!
That's making my day.
I knew it was one of two things -
either a big hit or blanks.
40.
56, 64, 61. Unreal.
Now that Sig is finally
on the crab...
Jakers, come on up for a second.
He gives the aspiring captain
a chance
to pick the exact location
of their next soak.
We got 52 pots,
so, that's 4 miles right there.
Oh, look at that.
That's the one I like. Right here.
I want to cross these depths.
Ah!
Either which way.
We're gonna go right down to the
tip.
What are you gonna do
if it comes up blank?
I don't know,
but that's the one I like.
That's what you wanna do?
Yeah.
So, can we set now
instead of talking about it?
I'm ready to set.
All right, let's do it.
All right, great.
I wanted Jake to be a part of
it and just, you know,
feel like he's contributing,
and that's fine.
The more you understand,
the easier is it to get through
the day and night down there.
All right, this is my string.
We're gonna dog-leg it.
That's why I wanted Jake
to be a part of it.
Sig will splash all 52 pots
on Jake's chosen area.
This could make or break me!
If I do good, I could maybe someday
be a fisherman.
760km to the north-west...
I've never fished
for blue crab before.
...the Seabrooke has reached the far
edge of the blue king crab grounds.
We will be fishing 80 miles
from the Russian border.
I know they fish fast, and that's
our forte, is fast fishing.
That's what's gotten me excited.
Captain Junior boldly enters
a new fishery.
I'm smelling the bait.
It's nasty. It stinks.
While on deck...
He is gonna be in
for a rude awakening.
..the greenhorn stumbles
into a whole new world.
He's having a little tough time
with those herring boxes.
They're about 40lb apiece.
The boat's rocking and rolling.
Right now
he's having a difficult time.
Hey! You need to be over here!
Hurry!
Don't hurt yourself,
don't hurt yourself.
Here, here. Look...
Oh!
A good way to do it is just...
Look, just drop it, yeah.
Come on.
Whoa! !
Careful, young man.
You know, we're bouncing
up and down pretty good.
He thought he'd jump up on the roll,
you know, on the wave, you know,
thinking that he'd just bunny hop
a little bit along the deck,
but he went all the way up
and almost hit his head
against the ceiling.
Dude, you got to be careful
with Like that.
You do one of those,
you fly right off the boat!
While the greenhorn gets his
sea legs, up in the wheelhouse...
I can't see anything.
I don't like it.
..the captain's main concern
is the building weather.
Try and pay attention
best as possible.
You get to the point where you want
to set the pots on crab,
but right now the main thing
is just getting this top layer
of gear off.
You know, even if I set it on
nothing,
I don't really care at this point -
I just want to get them off.
And the greenhorn on deck...
Don't be a !
throw it!
..gets a crash course in deck work.
Don't lob it over, throw it!
OK, so I use the same hand?
No, don't use the same hand.
Oh.
Throw it. More muscle.
Hey, what are you doing?
Like that?
No.
He's got his foot
right in the bight.
Yeah, it's very important to keep
your feet on deck.
If he's walking around
instead of shuffling his feet,
he can get the line
caught around his foot,
and if that pot goes over,
then that's gonna create
a pretty big issue.
I hope I don't regret my decision.
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840km north of Dutch Harbor
on the Cornelia Marie...
I refuse to
talk to him
until it comes with a
apology, .
..deckhand Josh Harris
is still fuming
over a confrontation
with the skipper.
Right now I just feel like
going off, but...
1pm forecast.
But in the wheelhouse...
..captain Derrick
has bigger concerns.
!
Yeah, the weather really picked up
in the past 30 minutes.
We've seen lightning
for the first time ever up here.
A 480km arctic storm is moving in
on the blue crab grounds.
These blue king crab
are very fragile.
I mean, they cannot handle
getting beat up like that.
No matter what we do right now,
it's not gonna come out well.
It's gonna come out bad.
Blue crab are fragile
and can't survive long in tanks.
Rough seas will only increase
the dead loss.
We really are screwed.
We're gonna lose half these crab.
In fact, we've had no resolution
to the problems on this boat.
I don't even know if I can count
on these guys.
Then we got to have a little team
meeting,
cos we got a no-win situation
coming up here.
Bad scenario.
Last couple days, you know,
we've had controversy on the boat
and everything else, you guys,
but right now
we are in a tough situation.
We got south-east 50 to 60
coming up, 25- to 33-foot seas.
These blue king crab,
they're gonna die.
There ain't no way
we're gonna keep them all alive.
We might be able to get behind
St Matthews
and get a little bit of a reprieve.
Derrick's plan to keep the crab alive
is to seek shelter.
I want to set this gear off here,
and then we gotta get the boat
squared away.
I mean, EVERYTHING tied down, cos
it's gonna get in a hurry.
Four-storey buildings are gonna be
coming at us, breaking.
The crew will grind to drop their
last 20 pots,
and then run for the shelter
of St Matthews Island.
We're 40 miles from there,
and we'll be able to get up
on the lee,
on the north side of the island.
The crab could get lost here
pretty soon, you know.
If we lose our load,
that means I don't get paid,
that means, you know, no money.
Alls it takes is their little nose
to get broken, and they'll die.
Lot of stormy seas,
you know, 30-foot seas.
There's hardly any crab in the hold.
But what they do have,
they need to keep alive.
The crabs are in for a rodeo
ride
they didn't really sign up for,
you know?
A lot of them probably will die.
Once we get in here next to
the island,
it's gonna be flat calm in there.
It's gonna be like a lake on the
north side of the island.
By late afternoon, the boat reaches
the leeward side of the island.
Right now we're anchored up at
St Matthews, hiding from the storm.
It's still blowing pretty good in
this little cove here that he found.
And tensions on deck subside.
We'll lose a little bit of time,
but saving our lives and the crab,
and fuel, that's most important.
420km to the north-east
of Dutch Harbor on the Kodiak...
Holy ! Yeah!
Holy (BLEEP!
There it is!
..the crew is celebrating
their big crab numbers.
We're seeing more volume
everywhere we go.
Big red!
But with deckhand Jake Jolibois'
back injury...
..the pain is spreading
to the rest of the crew.
Hopefully Jake's not getting fed up
with this thing
and does a bailout.
So, we'll keep an eye on him
and go from there,
but I'm guessing
it's a muscle spasm.
I love you, Jake,
but I think you need to maybe
let it relax for a little bit.
Jakie. Hey, man.
Jake, this is gonna pay off for us,
really, in the long run.
If you take it off now,
or else we're gonna be four-manning
it for a trip and a half,
or we're gonna have to get some new
yahoo that we don't know or like.
Do it for us.
Don't sit here and be proud.
Be smart.
Please.
Jake refuses to go inside.
It's better to have you
getting better
than you have you out here
getting worse.
And Zach decides to alert his father.
Jake's up in the foetal position
right now in the forepeak.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't think he wants to get out of
his rain gear and .
Before we set the gear, I don't care
if it takes three guys to drag him
and throw him the bunk,
he's coming out of the forepeak,
he's getting out of his raincoat.
All right. No problem.
Well, now I gotta tell the guys
that we're gonna do a four-man deck,
which means we all get to sweat
a little extra.
And I guess I kind of have to hurt
Jake's pride
and tell him he needs to come in.
Wild Bill is now down a crane...
..and a deckhand.
Hey, if you guys want to try
to run the hydros, that's fine.
I've been hurt bad before,
but I've never...
I've never had pain like this.
It just doesn't go away.
It's nonstop.
He's on his way out right now,
Bill. He's on his way back.
Oh, man. This just sucks.
770km north of Dutch Harbor...
..the Seabrooke is setting its
120 pots on the blue crab grounds.
Trying to spread the gear
about 25, 30 miles.
On deck...
Same way every time.
Let's do this again.
..greenhorn Josh Fullmer is still
trying to keep up pace.
The horn's kind of having trouble
getting that door tied,
so... taking a little longer to get
this gear off than I'd like,
but that's to be expected.
That's a lot of
to learn in one day.
He's gonna have his eyes open
all day long.
Keep that on the outside.
OK.
What you're doing is
you're grabbing it,
and it's like that,
so then you're .
Move up to the rail.
You're standing way too far away.
Let's do this again.
You need to practise this.
I don't know why he can't get it.
What's up with the hat?
While the veteran deckhands
work the greenhorn...
That pot is not tied.
..some of their own mistakes
come to light.
There's no way that pot's tied.
The only thing that's holding
that pot in is the surrounding pots.
With no ties securing it,
one wrong move could send the pot
hurtling to the deck.
That's why I get paid
the big bucks,
because those ding-dongs wouldn't
have noticed it.
This is why I have to pay attention
to everything.
Whipper and Derek,
meet me on the stack.
Where's Derek? Derek!
Get your ass up here!
This pot is not tied in.
If you'd moved that pot,
there's nothing to hold
this pot in place.
If I wouldn't have caught this,
we would have pulled that pot out,
it would have killed these
guys in this weather.
tie this pot in.
Might have went and maybe changed.
The point of breaking what?
Mental breaking.
Mental breaking?
In two hours of fishing?
Are you kidding me?
It's not the work, I'm sorry, I'm...
I need to ...
You need to what?
These fools are calling me...
Well, not these fools.
These guys are calling me
all sorts of .
I'm not a .
Who's calling you a ?
Derek's calling me a .
For what?
You're the horn, dude.
Just deal with it.
In one ear and out the other.
All that hard work and all that
effort that you wanted
to come up here and be a
crab fisherman,
and somebody calls you a name
and you can't deal with it?
Are you kidding me?
You gonna man up and go out there
and deal with it and learn something
and make some money?
Well, dude, I'm gonna tell him,
because I want this
resolved.
You're here to work.
Quit with the horn,
understand me?
Well, he says you're calling him a
and he wants to quit already.
Dude, we haven't even been
out two hours.
And it is what it is.
OK.
Everything's fine and dandy.
That's how we deal with it
on a boat.
When there's a situation,
I deal with it,
but you gotta be a little bit
tougher than that.
So, what are you doing?
Are you quitting, or what?
Holy !
I have never, never, ever in my life
seen somebody want to quit
after two hours.
I hope I can make
it on the Bering Sea and not fail.
I've seen so many guys fail, and I'm
like, 'Oh, put me in that position.
I'll show that dude up.'
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Four-storey buildings are gonna
be coming at us, breaking.
These blue king crab are gonna die.
Look at that!
That's making my day.
You will at some point
be mentally broke.
Go, go!
Yeah, good stuff!
Arggh! !
I wanna cry, it hurts so bad.
I don't care if it takes three
guys to drag him
and throw him in the bunk,
he's coming out of the forepeak,
getting out of his raincoat.
Mental breaking in two hours of
fishing? That's !
It's a little windy right now!
In Dutch Harbor...
Red crab's all done.
Now we're headed out for blues.
..the crew of the Seabrooke prepares
the boat to head out to new grounds.
I'm excited to go out and try to
make some more money.
Hopefully we get two boatloads of
blue king crab. That would be great.
And in the wheelhouse,
captain Scott Campbell Jr
is expecting a new recruit.
Waiting on my new horn.
He sounds pretty energetic,
but we'll see how he does.
Just two days ago...
Look at my hands! They're all swole
up just because of that .
..deck boss Bob Perkey and greenhorn
Kyle Babb left the boat.
See ya, suckers!
Now the captain has hired
29-year-old Josh Fullmer
fresh out of Idaho Falls, Idaho.
What's up?
I hope that I can make it on
the Bering Sea and not fail, man,
cos I've seen so many guys fail,
and I'm like,
'Oh, put me in that position,
I'll show that dude up.'
He has no clue
what he's getting himself into.
Absolutely none.
I don't make first guesses on what
they're like
until they get out there,
and then you see what kind of
character they actually have.
He's been moving furniture
for seven years.
He's worked 12-, 15-, even 16-hour
days, with his longest being 19.
Josh.
Josh, nice to meet you.
I hate greenhorns,
especially GREEN horns.
I don't have the patience any more
to deal with them.
He says that he has an insane drive
to excel and be the best,
so we'll see how...
..what he thinks about moving
furniture
versus moving crab pots
out on the Bering Sea, so...
Never been on the water.
Probably never even seen the ocean
before for all I know.
That's good, though.
You want horns like this, because
you want ones that are untainted,
that have never been on other boats,
so they know nothing and you can
train them to your way.
That's a first.
How's it going, man?
Permission?
Yep. Junior.
Josh.
Josh, OK, hey. You ever been
on a boat or anything like that?
You know if you get seasick or not?
I don't know if I get seasick.
I've been on a ferry. That's it.
Matter of fact,
I'm about to take my pills now.
So, what made you want to be
a crabber?
I started watching anything that
I could find on Alaskan fishing,
anything I could do on the Internet.
I've got a couple different
handbooks,
like I said in the resume,
but I don't know.
I'm just crazy, I guess.
That's good.
Yep.
The only advice I can give you is
don't let yourself get overwhelmed.
Around here, you just, you know,
you suck it up, you deal with it.
If you do something wrong, you get
your ass chewed, you take it.
You're the horn.
It's being able to not have
a meltdown
because you've had enough of them
picking on you.
You will, at some point,
be mentally broke.
And it's being able
to push through that
that's gonna make the determiner
whether you can be
a fisherman or not.
Man, oh, man,
this kid is gonna be in for
probably the worst rude awakening
of his life, I know it.
Oh, howdy.
Josh.
What?
Josh.
Josh, OK. Milton.
Nice meeting you.
Welcome aboard.
Thank you, sir.
That dude looks like
a straight-up sea lark.
690km to the north of Dutch Harbor...
..on the Cornelia Marie...
We're not having
quite as much fun
as we did when the old man
was on here.
It's a lot different
when you look up in the window
and you don't see
that furry-headed mullet.
..Captain Derrick Ray
is on his second week
of trying to find the blue crab.
That's not very good fishing.
I had high hopes when I set these.
I was pretty excited.
You think you're on to something.
Come back, there's nothing.
We're averaging a half a crab a pot.
We don't know which half
we get in what pot,
but we need to make some money.
Six.
Should have been
some pockets of crab here.
It's the right depth.
It's not adding up.
I know he doesn't want to leave,
but there is a time to stop.
I've been working
my ass off. !
On a run between strings,
deckhand Josh Harris heads up
to confront the skipper
for the second time this season.
Let me explain something
to you.
You've seen the numbers down there.
Unless you hit ,
like, a monster thing,
which I pray to we do...
We got a ton of ocean left to cover.
You should know that
when you leave the dock,
you're prepared to fish on that
10 or 12 average
for a few days till you find
the 15, the 20.
You can't expect us to be up to your
par of knowledge.
You can't expect us to have learned
a certain way,
cos he did not teach us that way,
and when you tell me things,
you need to explain what the
you're talking about.
You come at me with an attitude
on how I should know this,
I should know that.
You think I...
Listen to me for one minute.
Do you think I want to share
my 30 years of knowledge
and my 25 years of running a boat
to a kid that's got
a huge drug problem,
and then see him jump on board
a boat and start running it,
and then I find out a year later
he's killed all of them
because he was strung out on dope
and he had no idea how to lead men?
I know in the heart of my hearts
he is not prepared to run a boat -
ever in his life, at this stage -
and neither are you.
Great.
You know, granted, we put our names
on the line,
and for you to tell me there needs
to be a level of maturity
before you even think
of coming here...
Well, you know what?
had to give up my party
life, everything that was fun.
I got, like, a couple weekends
to myself.
So, at 28, you had to give up
your party life?
So, you actually had to grow up
and pretend to be an adult?
I would love to teach you
how to run this boat. I would.
You guys are missing a ton of tools.
I have empathy for that.
Your dad did you
a huge disservice, huge,
by not teaching you these things
over the last five years
when he had you on this boat.
Now, you should have paid more
attention yourselves.
This isn't one great big party.
This is big boy land.
Derrick, we're all stressed out, you
know?
Nobody's making a pay cheque
right now.
Do you want the boat to operate
the way it's always operated,
or do you want to change
and move forward?
Derrick, you know, you're coming on
here with a fresh attitude,
you know, like, I didn't come up
here to listen to you say
I have a poor work ethic.
Grow up, forget it.
You know, move on.
Everybody in the world
has a parent die!
You don't gotta remind me
the old man had died, Derrick.
You said it a few times.
I know what the happened.
Are you getting at me cos
we're not catching crab right now?
Is this what this is about now?
Oh, no.
This is about the two of you.
We're out here fishing, you know,
we're all trying to make a buck.
OK, well, we got five minutes
till the next string,
so let's go catch some more crab.
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420km north-east
of Dutch Harbor...
..is the 31-metre Kodiak.
Welcome back, my friends.
This is a money-making machine!
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Back on the meat!
We're on the crab now.
That's red king crab gold.
After two weeks of fishing...
I'm finally able to give these guys
some crab, man.
..Captain 'Wild Bill' Wichrowski
has hit the mother lode.
Man!
This is a little slice of heaven
compared to what we've been doing.
Last king crab season...
Eight, zero-eight.
..captain Bill had a run of bad luck.
This is ridiculous!
But for now, his fortune has changed.
Looks like good crab coming up.
Boo-yah!
They're biting now. They're here.
There's more on the bottom than
there will be ten days from now.
So, I really need to make this work.
Watch the spin!
We got on them.
Now we're gonna combine all the gear
right in one area.
It's gonna be great.
The Kodiak's hydraulic crane
is non-responsive.
Hey, Bill, there's a problem
with the hydraulics!
And work on deck comes to a halt.
We can drive and we can steer,
but we can't haul any gear.
Trying to make sure
that this thing works,
cos if it doesn't,
then we're really screwed.
! Whoa! !
Engineer and deck boss Adam McCalden
goes deep inside the crane
to inspect the damage.
What is it?
OK?
Arggh! Doesn't look good.
Thought it was gonna be
something minor,
and it's turning into something
a little more major right now.
!
We can't run the crane
and the hydros at the same time,
so the crane is kind of kaput
for now - no go.
So, we're gonna have to start
pushing some pots,
so just bear with it, deal with it.
A broken crane
in the middle of good fishing
could mean the end of the trip.
Go, go, go!
But not for the crew of the Kodiak.
Max power!
Yeah, good stuff.
Ohh!
Good stuff!
Fun times pushing pots.
It's funny, this is the first boat
I've operated ever
where we didn't push pots on deck.
Go, go, go, go!
Morale is high.
We found some newfound spirit
in pushing pots.
Go!
And leading the charge
is 29-year-old Jake Jolibois.
Get us into a good spot this time.
We got pushed sideways.
Somebody's drunk and driving.
He's, like, the driving force
behind it.
Yeah! Yeah!
Jake's probably the strongest
he's ever been right now.
Pushing Pots 101.
Jake's obviously done this before.
These guys are gonna be sore
from doing this.
There's crab on the table,
crab on the table.
Whoa! Whoa!
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
One, two, three!
I love Zach's running start.
Yeah!
Pushing pots was fine when it was
five- and ten-day seasons,
but you're gonna be on a marathon
season, man,
you'd better have the crane going.
Hopefully we can maintain this
attitude and enthusiasm.
These guys are running
down the deck.
It's fast, but it wears the guys
down faster too.
Arggh! !
Oh! Oh, man.
!
We only have one speed.
Man, he's his .
I wanna cry, it hurts so bad.
Oh, something ain't right.
There's no crying
on a crab deck.
Jake's fall on the slippery deck
hurt his back.
Jake did a Kodiak jelly slide.
In the jelly. Whee!
Snap, crackle, pop.
Next thing you know,
I'm getting lightning bolts
from my ass to my shoulder blades.
480km to the north of Dutch Harbor,
the Ramblin' Rose
is steaming to St Paul.
If we'd only been fishing for one or
two days, it wouldn't be a big deal.
28-year-old skipper Elliott Neese
is about to cash in on the first
king crab trip of his career.
We're gonna go offload these crab,
and the way the blue crab are,
they're pretty weak crab
in comparison to, like, a red crab,
which you can hold for, you know,
10, 12 days easy.
Three days ago...
Whoo!
..a 30-pot run of great fishing
was interrupted by the processor.
!
The decision to head in early
was the hardest he's had to make
so far as a captain.
This is my first time running this
boat - I want to play it safe.
There's a lot of money at stake.
13,600kg load of blue crab
yields up to $150,000.
You know, it's not my money.
Ultimately it's these guys on deck,
and they've been working their asses
off for me,
and I want to give them every penny
they've earned.
So, we're going to go to town,
regroup, get some more bait,
and get these guys some money
to send home.
To Elliot, the crab numbers on his
first trip are looking good.
All right, guys.
Here's what we got for bets.
The question is how good?
I've got 34,444, Kado's got 34,500,
TE went with 36,999,
the Cat went with 37,050,
and Face went with 35,050.
And now the betting is closed.
Well, we'll find out here whether
or not all the hard work paid off
and the crab are still alive,
and we'll find out exactly how much
we brought in.
I'm hoping around 35,000lb.
Yeah!
Yee-haw!
It's been a good trip overall.
I'm glad we came in.
I think it was the right decision.
I think everybody's happy with it.
Everybody'll get a little sleep.
Look pretty clean, pretty big.
Tank looks pretty good, man.
Got a lot of crab in there.
The question is how much?
Definitely not 40.
No.
I hope so.
When the final weight is tallied...
..the rookie skipper's crab count
was grossly off.
!
5,900kg - only a third of what
Elliott expected.
! It's gonna be a long one.
Long season.
None of us has ever
seen the tank full.
We didn't know
how much crab there was,
and apparently now we know -
nothing.
Not good.
After a 36-hour grind
for 2 days straight,
the crew will split just $8,000
for their pain.
That's a pretty
disappointing delivery this trip.
That tank's quite a bit smaller
than I thought.
Thought we had a lot more crab
than we did.
Pretty disappointing.
As the Ramblin' Rose steams back
to their grounds,
captain Elliott
gets more unsettling news.
Ah, I just got an email
from the owner.
He's gonna have to get 56,000lb
this trip.
Or else we're gonna have to do a
fourth trip, and nobody wants that.
The future of Elliott's career
as a young Bering Sea captain
is on the line.
Just a lot of hard work ahead of us.
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430km north-east
of Dutch Harbor...
..is the Northwestern.
200 pots into their 250-pot grind.
Oh.
And the numbers are low.
We're pressed for time.
We've got less than 24 hours
to haul gear
and try to get the gear on,
you know,
something worth setting on
for that town pick.
That's what's imperative right now.
Before their offload,
Sig hopes to set a 52-pot reserve
on more fertile grounds.
Waiting for the next string.
That's the one I'm counting on.
I can't just set them back
on the blanks.
If this next string
doesn't pay off...
Yeah, it's last string of the night.
Hope it's a banger.
..Sig's 52 pots on deck
will go to waste.
Hopefully there's some crab in it.
Yeah!
I knew it!
Look at that!
And Bingo was his name-o.
That's pretty cool.
Can you believe that?!
You zig and you zag
and you turn around,
and they're right there
in front of you.
Yeah, go ahead and set it back.
You got to know when to hold them.
We're on to something here.
Well, it's a blast
when you land on them,
and you know, it's just...
you're just like, 'OK!'
What's it gonna be?
You gonna slap me around
or are you gonna make my day?
47!
That's making my day.
I knew it was one of two things -
either a big hit or blanks.
40.
56, 64, 61. Unreal.
Now that Sig is finally
on the crab...
Jakers, come on up for a second.
He gives the aspiring captain
a chance
to pick the exact location
of their next soak.
We got 52 pots,
so, that's 4 miles right there.
Oh, look at that.
That's the one I like. Right here.
I want to cross these depths.
Ah!
Either which way.
We're gonna go right down to the
tip.
What are you gonna do
if it comes up blank?
I don't know,
but that's the one I like.
That's what you wanna do?
Yeah.
So, can we set now
instead of talking about it?
I'm ready to set.
All right, let's do it.
All right, great.
I wanted Jake to be a part of
it and just, you know,
feel like he's contributing,
and that's fine.
The more you understand,
the easier is it to get through
the day and night down there.
All right, this is my string.
We're gonna dog-leg it.
That's why I wanted Jake
to be a part of it.
Sig will splash all 52 pots
on Jake's chosen area.
This could make or break me!
If I do good, I could maybe someday
be a fisherman.
760km to the north-west...
I've never fished
for blue crab before.
...the Seabrooke has reached the far
edge of the blue king crab grounds.
We will be fishing 80 miles
from the Russian border.
I know they fish fast, and that's
our forte, is fast fishing.
That's what's gotten me excited.
Captain Junior boldly enters
a new fishery.
I'm smelling the bait.
It's nasty. It stinks.
While on deck...
He is gonna be in
for a rude awakening.
..the greenhorn stumbles
into a whole new world.
He's having a little tough time
with those herring boxes.
They're about 40lb apiece.
The boat's rocking and rolling.
Right now
he's having a difficult time.
Hey! You need to be over here!
Hurry!
Don't hurt yourself,
don't hurt yourself.
Here, here. Look...
Oh!
A good way to do it is just...
Look, just drop it, yeah.
Come on.
Whoa! !
Careful, young man.
You know, we're bouncing
up and down pretty good.
He thought he'd jump up on the roll,
you know, on the wave, you know,
thinking that he'd just bunny hop
a little bit along the deck,
but he went all the way up
and almost hit his head
against the ceiling.
Dude, you got to be careful
with Like that.
You do one of those,
you fly right off the boat!
While the greenhorn gets his
sea legs, up in the wheelhouse...
I can't see anything.
I don't like it.
..the captain's main concern
is the building weather.
Try and pay attention
best as possible.
You get to the point where you want
to set the pots on crab,
but right now the main thing
is just getting this top layer
of gear off.
You know, even if I set it on
nothing,
I don't really care at this point -
I just want to get them off.
And the greenhorn on deck...
Don't be a !
throw it!
..gets a crash course in deck work.
Don't lob it over, throw it!
OK, so I use the same hand?
No, don't use the same hand.
Oh.
Throw it. More muscle.
Hey, what are you doing?
Like that?
No.
He's got his foot
right in the bight.
Yeah, it's very important to keep
your feet on deck.
If he's walking around
instead of shuffling his feet,
he can get the line
caught around his foot,
and if that pot goes over,
then that's gonna create
a pretty big issue.
I hope I don't regret my decision.
♪
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840km north of Dutch Harbor
on the Cornelia Marie...
I refuse to
talk to him
until it comes with a
apology, .
..deckhand Josh Harris
is still fuming
over a confrontation
with the skipper.
Right now I just feel like
going off, but...
1pm forecast.
But in the wheelhouse...
..captain Derrick
has bigger concerns.
!
Yeah, the weather really picked up
in the past 30 minutes.
We've seen lightning
for the first time ever up here.
A 480km arctic storm is moving in
on the blue crab grounds.
These blue king crab
are very fragile.
I mean, they cannot handle
getting beat up like that.
No matter what we do right now,
it's not gonna come out well.
It's gonna come out bad.
Blue crab are fragile
and can't survive long in tanks.
Rough seas will only increase
the dead loss.
We really are screwed.
We're gonna lose half these crab.
In fact, we've had no resolution
to the problems on this boat.
I don't even know if I can count
on these guys.
Then we got to have a little team
meeting,
cos we got a no-win situation
coming up here.
Bad scenario.
Last couple days, you know,
we've had controversy on the boat
and everything else, you guys,
but right now
we are in a tough situation.
We got south-east 50 to 60
coming up, 25- to 33-foot seas.
These blue king crab,
they're gonna die.
There ain't no way
we're gonna keep them all alive.
We might be able to get behind
St Matthews
and get a little bit of a reprieve.
Derrick's plan to keep the crab alive
is to seek shelter.
I want to set this gear off here,
and then we gotta get the boat
squared away.
I mean, EVERYTHING tied down, cos
it's gonna get in a hurry.
Four-storey buildings are gonna be
coming at us, breaking.
The crew will grind to drop their
last 20 pots,
and then run for the shelter
of St Matthews Island.
We're 40 miles from there,
and we'll be able to get up
on the lee,
on the north side of the island.
The crab could get lost here
pretty soon, you know.
If we lose our load,
that means I don't get paid,
that means, you know, no money.
Alls it takes is their little nose
to get broken, and they'll die.
Lot of stormy seas,
you know, 30-foot seas.
There's hardly any crab in the hold.
But what they do have,
they need to keep alive.
The crabs are in for a rodeo
ride
they didn't really sign up for,
you know?
A lot of them probably will die.
Once we get in here next to
the island,
it's gonna be flat calm in there.
It's gonna be like a lake on the
north side of the island.
By late afternoon, the boat reaches
the leeward side of the island.
Right now we're anchored up at
St Matthews, hiding from the storm.
It's still blowing pretty good in
this little cove here that he found.
And tensions on deck subside.
We'll lose a little bit of time,
but saving our lives and the crab,
and fuel, that's most important.
420km to the north-east
of Dutch Harbor on the Kodiak...
Holy ! Yeah!
Holy (BLEEP!
There it is!
..the crew is celebrating
their big crab numbers.
We're seeing more volume
everywhere we go.
Big red!
But with deckhand Jake Jolibois'
back injury...
..the pain is spreading
to the rest of the crew.
Hopefully Jake's not getting fed up
with this thing
and does a bailout.
So, we'll keep an eye on him
and go from there,
but I'm guessing
it's a muscle spasm.
I love you, Jake,
but I think you need to maybe
let it relax for a little bit.
Jakie. Hey, man.
Jake, this is gonna pay off for us,
really, in the long run.
If you take it off now,
or else we're gonna be four-manning
it for a trip and a half,
or we're gonna have to get some new
yahoo that we don't know or like.
Do it for us.
Don't sit here and be proud.
Be smart.
Please.
Jake refuses to go inside.
It's better to have you
getting better
than you have you out here
getting worse.
And Zach decides to alert his father.
Jake's up in the foetal position
right now in the forepeak.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't think he wants to get out of
his rain gear and .
Before we set the gear, I don't care
if it takes three guys to drag him
and throw him the bunk,
he's coming out of the forepeak,
he's getting out of his raincoat.
All right. No problem.
Well, now I gotta tell the guys
that we're gonna do a four-man deck,
which means we all get to sweat
a little extra.
And I guess I kind of have to hurt
Jake's pride
and tell him he needs to come in.
Wild Bill is now down a crane...
..and a deckhand.
Hey, if you guys want to try
to run the hydros, that's fine.
I've been hurt bad before,
but I've never...
I've never had pain like this.
It just doesn't go away.
It's nonstop.
He's on his way out right now,
Bill. He's on his way back.
Oh, man. This just sucks.
770km north of Dutch Harbor...
..the Seabrooke is setting its
120 pots on the blue crab grounds.
Trying to spread the gear
about 25, 30 miles.
On deck...
Same way every time.
Let's do this again.
..greenhorn Josh Fullmer is still
trying to keep up pace.
The horn's kind of having trouble
getting that door tied,
so... taking a little longer to get
this gear off than I'd like,
but that's to be expected.
That's a lot of
to learn in one day.
He's gonna have his eyes open
all day long.
Keep that on the outside.
OK.
What you're doing is
you're grabbing it,
and it's like that,
so then you're .
Move up to the rail.
You're standing way too far away.
Let's do this again.
You need to practise this.
I don't know why he can't get it.
What's up with the hat?
While the veteran deckhands
work the greenhorn...
That pot is not tied.
..some of their own mistakes
come to light.
There's no way that pot's tied.
The only thing that's holding
that pot in is the surrounding pots.
With no ties securing it,
one wrong move could send the pot
hurtling to the deck.
That's why I get paid
the big bucks,
because those ding-dongs wouldn't
have noticed it.
This is why I have to pay attention
to everything.
Whipper and Derek,
meet me on the stack.
Where's Derek? Derek!
Get your ass up here!
This pot is not tied in.
If you'd moved that pot,
there's nothing to hold
this pot in place.
If I wouldn't have caught this,
we would have pulled that pot out,
it would have killed these
guys in this weather.
tie this pot in.
Might have went and maybe changed.
The point of breaking what?
Mental breaking.
Mental breaking?
In two hours of fishing?
Are you kidding me?
It's not the work, I'm sorry, I'm...
I need to ...
You need to what?
These fools are calling me...
Well, not these fools.
These guys are calling me
all sorts of .
I'm not a .
Who's calling you a ?
Derek's calling me a .
For what?
You're the horn, dude.
Just deal with it.
In one ear and out the other.
All that hard work and all that
effort that you wanted
to come up here and be a
crab fisherman,
and somebody calls you a name
and you can't deal with it?
Are you kidding me?
You gonna man up and go out there
and deal with it and learn something
and make some money?
Well, dude, I'm gonna tell him,
because I want this
resolved.
You're here to work.
Quit with the horn,
understand me?
Well, he says you're calling him a
and he wants to quit already.
Dude, we haven't even been
out two hours.
And it is what it is.
OK.
Everything's fine and dandy.
That's how we deal with it
on a boat.
When there's a situation,
I deal with it,
but you gotta be a little bit
tougher than that.
So, what are you doing?
Are you quitting, or what?
Holy !
I have never, never, ever in my life
seen somebody want to quit
after two hours.
I hope I can make
it on the Bering Sea and not fail.
I've seen so many guys fail, and I'm
like, 'Oh, put me in that position.
I'll show that dude up.'
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