06x07 - When Hell Freezes Over

[bunniefuu]

[ sea birds calling ]

[ sea birds calling ]

Man:
Gale warning today and Friday.

Northwest wind, 45 knots.

Gusts to 55 knots
out of bays and passes.

[ bell tolling ]

Seas, 22 feet.

Heavy freezing spray.

[ explosions ]

Light everything now!

Light it all!

Light it all, Scotty!

[ laughs ]

Tie them down in style, baby!

Whoo!

[ laughs ]

[ laughs ]

Yeah, baby!

Light it all!

Whoo!
Yeah, baby!

Yeah!

Come on! Yeah!

Sweet!
Oh, sweet!

Let's go fishing!

Let's go fishing, baby!
[ laughs ]

♪ another place7

♪ where the faces are so cold7

♪ I'd drive all night7

♪ just to get back home7

♪ I'm a cowboy ♪

♪ on a steel horse I ride7

♪ I'm wanted ♪

♪ dead or Ali-I-I-I-I-I-ve ♪

This episode
of "deadliest catch"

Is presented by
frost brewed Coors light.

Narrator: January.
Dutch harbor, Alaska.

Got to hook that pot up!

All right, Norm.
No, grab the other one!

Guys, that needs to be done
tonight.

Roger.

We're good. Just put it
right here -- right over here.

Narrator: It's 36 hours
before the official start

Of the brutal
opilio crab season.

Hey, you guys, make sure
we have plenty of bait!

Squid, sardines.

Narrator:
On the time bandit...

Jeremy, come up here.
Up here by Neal here.

...The hillstrands have hired


Shelton: Yeah, it's pretty fun
getting in here

And seeing how hard
these guys work

And what it takes to come out
here and be a crab fisherman.

Andy:
Jeremy's a friend of Scotty's.

And Johnathan knew him, and he
said he's a hard-working kid.

Narrator: Jeremy is given his first
task as a time bandit greenhorn.

Johnathan:
We got to tune the radar.

Time to tune the radar.

Wrap your body first.

If you go right between
those two fuel trucks,

That way I got you
on the radar already.

[ laughs ]

It's probably picking you up
right now.

This is perfect.

[ laughter ]

Johnathan: Look at the back.
It says "green dumby."

He's got antennas and [bleep]
dude, this is good.

Dude, where's my camera?

[ laughs ]

Dude, this is the best.

[ laughs ]

Oh, my God.

I guess it'd help
if I turned the radar on.

Stop right there!

Tell him to put his arms out
and turn around slow!

Take your right hand
over your head.

Keep your arms out.

Stop!

Turn toward me!

Stop!

[ laughter ]

Look at that!

Tell him to stop right there.

[ laughter ]

Now take that sign
off your back and read it.

Oh [bleep]

[ laughter ]

"green dumby.
"green, a.K.A. Ding-a-ling."

Green ding-a-ling!

[ laughter ]

[ laughs ]

When the Captain tells you to do
something, you do something.

And he's standing there looking
like an idiot for the Captain.

That's my kind of guy
right there.

Narrator: As the time bandit
breaks in their greenhorn...

All right, that's it.

Coming down.

Narrator:
...68 fishing vessels

Prepare to hunt down their share

Of the $65 million
opilio crab fortune.

Got to get out of here
before I go broke.

[ Sig laughs ]

Narrator:
On the Northwestern...

Man:
Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!
[ laughs ]

If you really wanted
to give me something,

You could have let me sleep.

[ laughs ]

Narrator:
...The crew takes a rare break.

Sig: What do you want for your
birthday besides the obvious?

Yeah, besides the obvious,
I said. [ laughs ]

A plane ticket.

Together:
♪ Happy Birthday to edgar7

♪ Happy Birthday, edgar7

Edgar: I have
a deteriorating disc in my neck,

Small herniated disc in my back.

Right there.

Narrator:
Edgar Hansen just turned 39.

Okay, down.

I'm not getting younger,
and it's not getting any easier.

Narrator:
And he's feeling every year.

Edgar: We're already starting
off on the wrong foot.

I mean, I'm already ruined.
I'm already wrecked.

So I got nowhere to go
but downhill from here.

Sig: So, you slow my brother
down by 20%, 30%,

You're slowing the deck
down by 20%, 30%.

He usually sets the pace
and the standard out there.

It's like the heart
of a machine.

That's the heart of the deck.

The worst-case scenario,
we got to get him off the deck.

Edgar: It's bad.

It's not gonna get
any better up here.

But I can do, you know,
still run the crane,

Still do hydros, all that.

Just not...

Any pulling or tugging
or pushing or lifting.

Well, that's basically 90%
of the show out there.

Yeah, I know.

You know, it's not just pain.
It's torn.

It's a small herniated disc
in my back,

And then all my shoulder-blade
muscles are torn

And scarred --
scar tissue.

We'll make it work.

I'll try to watch it,
go a little slower.

For whatever it's worth.
I don't know.

Sig:
Awkward position to be in.

Sometimes it's easier
just to put the blinders on,

Be Captain Bligh, and just let
it go and just go fish.

More often than not,
that's what happens.

But, I mean, deep down,
you know that that's your blood.

That's your brother.

It changes everything.

Narrator: Across the Bay...

[ tugboat horn blares ]

...It's an injured boat that
plagues skipper Phil Harris.

Narrator: The Cornelia Marie is
being tugged into the repair docks.

Just 20 minutes earlier,

Skipper Phil drove
the Cornelia Marie into a reef.

And the guy was calling
on the radio,

So I ran over here, answered
him, jumped in the chair,

And bang,
we caught the edge of it.

We were drifting that fast.

I mean, it was just
unbelievable.

I have no idea how serious
it is, but it's serious enough.

I don't even know
how it happened.

We drifted that fast.

Bang.
Just like that.

That fast.

[bleep]

Narrator: Diver Tyler Forten goes
beneath the boat to assess the damage.

How bad?

Forten: Uh...Well...

Well, it don't look good.

Man: Saturday --

Northeast wind, 25 knots.

Seas, 22 feet, Pacific side.

Patchy fog.
Rain and snow showers.

Freezing spray.

Sunday --
north wind, 25 knots.

Heavy freezing spray.

Monday --

Southeast wind, 45 knots.

Seas, 15 feet.
Rain and show showers.

Friday --

So, it's 30 degrees
at st. Paul island

With winds gusting
to 40 miles an hour.

That produces a wind chill
of 15 degrees above zero.

That's a 970-millibar low.

That's a pretty gnarly
low-pressure system.

That, at the bottom
of the scale --

It doesn't go any lower --
is 950.

We got a 951 coming our way.

Narrator:
On the Northwestern...

Storm warning Friday.

Northwest wind, 50 knots.

...The Captain wants to take off
and try to beat the weather

To the crab grounds.
Hey, yo!

Hopefully,
I can accommodate my brother.

That one, that one, that one...

Even if Edgar's not up to par,

We will still manage to do
what we need to do.

I mean, it's family, right?

Once you get up here,
you put on the fishing hat.

Fishing first, that's it.

The guys can feel
the tension mounting.

I'm ready to go.

You don't always leave the dock
in perfect condition.

Narrator: As Sig wrestles
with whether his aging brother

Is up for the mission...

...On the wizard...

Keith:
First tip is this --

A lot of guys die

Falling between the boats
in Dutch harbor.

...Captain Keith
hires on new blood.

As far as the job is concerned,

I honestly don't know
what I'm getting into.

Narrator:


It's gonna be a rude awakening,
I think.

I hired this guy
because I think he represents

What I'm looking for
in a crewman.

He's physically fit.

I climbed mount rainier
with this guy.

I believe he's capable
of doing this job.

It also represents, possibly,

Someone that might want to
do this long-term.

'cause we're gonna have fun
with this greenhorn.

Yeah.

Most of the greenhorns
that come up here to try

Are really worthless.

I mean, how many greenhorns
we kicked around

Before we got this kid
to stick around?

Guy.

Moi.

Cooper.

And then waller.

Oh, waller.
Holy smokes.

Josh, of course.

He had other things
he liked to do.

Joel.
He didn't work out.

We're gonna get a reputation

Of being hard
on greenhorns or what?

Hopefully, I can break
the tradition

And see how tough I am,
I guess, huh?

Narrator: The crew's
first order of business --

Find the greenhorn's soft spots
and squeeze.

[ laughs ]

Keith: Yeah! [ laughs ]

Narrator:
Across the Bay, on the Kodiak...

Are those pots
hanging over the side?

Man: Yes, a foot.
Okay.

Narrator: ...It's the skipper
who has something to prove.

Wichrowski: We got to get out of
town and get started on this process

Of catching over
a million pounds of crab.

The pressures are huge.

Come on, man.
Come on.

He's moving fast, dude.

Holy [bleep]

What are you doing, man?

[ explosions ]

b*stard!

[ laughs ]

Hey, did anybody tell you
you're at the fuel dock?

[ laughs ]

Narrator:
During king crab season,

Skipper Bill Wichrowski's trip
was cursed...

[ clunk ] whoa!

Wichrowski: You could have just
k*lled somebody

By not paying
the [bleep] attention.

Narrator:
...With bad crab...

[bleep]

I was trying to do -- narrator: ...
And a mutinous crew.

Don't you [bleep] give
me any grief I'm sorry.

Don't give me
any [bleep] grief, pal.

I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Now he's back.

Like I say, the nicest part
about it is when it's over.

Narrator: And he's hired
three new crew members

To replace the guys
who quit during king season.

You're too smart
to be here. Get off.

A friend of mine that runs boats
recommended a character.

Clinton bush.

Figure that.

I hear he's a decent deckhand.

He's a crabber all the way,
though.

He kind of gets to town, and you
got to put a short leash on him.

And then a kid
by the name of Jake.

Before I retired in '05,

He worked for me
for probably four years.

So I know he can cut it.

Yeah, I've worked with bill.

Worked with bill a long time
back when he was wild.

I'm sure he still is.

I'm under the impression
that if you're born insane,

You pretty much stay that way.

So, yep.

Bill's a real good guy,

And you know what,
I would follow bill anywhere.

I'm prepared.
I'm ready to go.

There's no time to dilly-dally.

We got no room for delays.

Narrator:
The crews work into the night.

We're getting down
to the nitty-gritty now.

I think we're ready
to rock and roll.

Just leave it up there!

Yeah, Roger.

Hey, Lynn, jump on down here
for a minute.

Man: Gale warning tonight,
southeast wind, 30 knots.

Seas, 15 feet.
Heavy freezing spray.

Narrator: With weather warnings
rolling in...

We just want to make as much
distance as we can, you know,

For this next 24 hours.

Narrator: ...Captain Sig
makes a bold move.

Sig: I want to get fishing
as soon as possible.

I think the other guys
are hanging back another day.

But in our case,
I Fe it necessary

To get a jump start
and get moving.

Mentally, you want to leave
on the right foot.

You want to step off
with the right attitude.

Best thing to do
is to throw the lines,

Untie the boat, and go
and get your head in the game.

And as long as I'm in it,
they will follow.

Time to go.

Here we go.

Better or worse.

Via con dios.
Let's go make some money.

As we get farther up the line
a couple hundred miles,

Then weather's supposed to
switch, turn more easterly,

And also get much colder.

To where he wants to go?

About 20 hours?

Really?

Man: Storm warning today.

Nohwest wind, 50 knots.

Seas, 22 feet.

Narrator:
A severe arctic storm

Has blanketed
the entire crab grounds.

Boy, it never fails, man.

Okay.

Narrator: But with no end
to the weather in sight...

You ready for this?

...The skippers can't afford
to wait it out.

Stand by.

Keith: Is my thruster on?
Man: Yes.

Time to get out of town.

Get the hell out of here
and get to work.

Okay, let it go?
Yeah, let it go.

Is the bow loose?

All clear.

Time for opies, 2010, baby!

Narrator: The opilio crab fleet heads
out to do battle with the ice...

Bring on the pain.

Narrator: ...Leaving behind
one wounded boat.

We ain't no stranger
to this dry dock.

See, you can get back here
and you can look and tell

That theest of it's
all symmetrical.

No, this little piece right here
is bent up a little bit.

Yeah, it's bent up
about 2 inches.

So that's a pretty bad bend.

Narrator: 40 hours ago,
Captain Phil ran aground.

Now the mechanics will have to
work through the night

To get the propeller
back in shape.

Phil: Hopefully I can
get out of here quick.

Narrator: While the repair bill
climbs on the Cornelia Marie,

The Northwestern plies
through rough seas



Woman: We have a Gale warning
for today

And heavy freezing spray
warning.

Captain Sig is still short
of his target crab grounds.

Sig: As far as strategy,
I had intentions

Of traveling another 80 miles
farther to the northwest,

But it's getting colder.

It's a good


Which is enough
to start freezing her down.

And I think this is as good
a place as any to start.

Narrator: Refusing to challenge
the rapidly freezing conditions

With a full stack...

Winds, 20 knots.

...Sig cuts the crew's only
eight-hour nap of the season

In half.

Take a look at it,
and see what you think.

Edgar, what did
the weather look like?

Edgar: Look out your window,
junior.

Crappy with an outlook
of crappy.

No!

Sig: Now that it's blowing a
good 40 and it's getting colder,

We kind of had to cut our trip
a little short.

We didn't go as far
as I wanted to.

We started in 63 fathoms.

I'm down to 70 right here.

I'll run these down to 73, 75.

Narrator:
These grounds are much deeper

Than the Captain
had planned for.

Man: Whoa.

Narrator: So the crew will have to
add 200 feet of line to every pot.

Okay, we're putting them on.

We are putting them on?
Yeah.

The guys are adding shots,
as we said.

So it's a little more
time-consuming.

And so you really got to
adjust your speed,

Really watch the weather,
and just make sure

That everybody's just clicking
along at the same pace.

Every single pot,
we add the shot.

Oh, it makes your hands hurt.

Narrator:


Times 60 pots,

Equals 3 tons of heavy lifting
for the crew.

Here we go.

All right.

We got the first pot
in the water.

Feels good to get started.

Okay.

Oh, boy.

Narrator: Back in Dutch, Sig made
a promise to his kid brother.

Sig: I'll try to watch it.
Go a little slower.

For whatever it's worth.
I don't know.

That promise had an expiration
date of about 60 hours.

We're gonna have to pick up
the pace a little.

[ groans ]

[ laughs ]

You're gonna set this string,

Then you're gonna set
another string,

Then you're gonna make dinner,

Then you're gonna
take a watch,

Then you're gonna do it
all over again.

Narrator: To return some
of Sig's brotherly love...

Sorry.

What, did you think I beeped?

No.

Narrator: ...Edgar sets
Sig's pot a little early.

That was like a rocket.

I just hope
there's some crab around here.

[ laughs ]

Narrator: Across the Northern
reaches of the Bering sea...

Man:
Gale warning today and Friday.

...Screaming 50-knot winds,
freezing spray,

Pummel the fleet.

Gusts to 55 knots
out of bays and passes.

Seas, 22 feet.

Heavy freezing spray.

Ice clings
to every inch of every boat.

The ice is stacked up
pretty deep.

Narrator:
On the time bandit...

Hey, guys, we're icing up.

Narrator: ...Skipper Andy

Is still 80 miles
from his intended drop zone.

Andy: You guys can already see
the ice is really bad.

So I want everybody
to be careful.

Jeremy, don't be a hero.

Don't try to dive in someplace

And grab something when you
don't know what's going on.

Just sit back and watch.

Narrator:
Greenhorn Jeremy Shelton

Is hundreds of miles from land
on a pitching boat

That's top-heavy
with steel and ice.

The last 30 minutes, though,
it's iced up a lot more.

So wear some warm clothes.

[ laughter ]

Narrator:
Welcome to opilio fishing.

I got layers upon layers.

Shelton: Holy [bleep]

This definitely isn't
what I was expecting.

We're starting to ice up.

We got to get
that [bleep] off here.

Narrator:
To save time, Captain Andy

Will splash the first two rows
of pots UN-baited.

Andy: It don't matter
if we're catching crab or not.

This is staying alive.

The ice is building up
pretty fast on the stack here.

I don't like ice at all.

There ain't no ice in Hawaii
unless it's in your drink.

Hey, John, can I have another cup
of coffee after you come back up?

So, this feels like it's gonna
be a cold-a*s opilio season.

Narrator: On deck, the windchill
factor is minus-3 degrees.

Man: Well, it's dangerous.
The boat's rocking and rolling.

We got 3 inches of ice
on everything.

We got guys on the stack.

We got to move
some of this gear down.

Andy: I can't see anything 'cause all
my pots are in front of my face.

That really worries you
as a Captain.

You can't see the guys on deck.

I'll be a lot happier to start
dumping this top stack off here

To where I can deice the boat.

Our block's icing up.
Our pot's icing up.

Our big guy's almost puking.

It doesn't get any better till
we're on our way home, buddy.

I know it's so brutal to laugh,
but, I mean, it's kind of funny.

Jeremy's looking a little pale.

[ laughs ]

Narrator: The crew heaves, too,
dumping their ice-covered pots...

Water it out.

...Everyone
except for greenhorn Jeremy.

He hasn't made it past the door.

You can puke, but make sure you
puke and still work through it.

That way
you won't think about it.

Okay. Let her go.

Throw it over!

For all you ret*rds who are
sitting at home on your couch,

Thinking,
"honey, I could go do that,"

Let me give you
a piece of advice.

Don't do it.
You ready, guys?

Whoo, baby!

Going over!

You got about 4 1/2 hours
of traveling in the trough,

Taking freezing spray
in your face, setting gear.

This is one really wet, really
cold maximum-security prison.

Going over!

Andy: There's no way I would
have made it another 80 miles

Without setting my gear
'cause I would have iced up.

Would have rolled the boat over.

It's gonna be a real long night.

Narrator: As the greenhorn gets his
first bitter, nauseating taste

Of the Bering sea...

Don't puke on me, Jeremy.

...113 miles to the northwest,

The Kodiak also battles
miserable conditions...

Wichrowski: How slow is it
gonna be down there?

It's gonna be tight
the first eight pots.

...With new deckhands.

Wichrowski: The fact that
we have a new team here,

They're not familiar
with the gear,

Not familiar with the deck.

I find myself watching
what's going on deck

More than I probably should

Just to make sure
they're not being reckless.

Narrator: While bill's king crab
season was such a disappointment

That three deckhands,
including his own son, quit.

Now the replacement crew

Faces even more treacherous
conditions.

Wichrowski: We're gonna learn
to work as a group,

And we'll figure out
the weak spots

And try to take care of them,

And there's some good guys
out there.

We're gonna probably spread
them out one bag, one fish.

Yeah, Roger.
One bag, one fish.

Narrator:
Unlike the other boats,

Skipper bill has reached
his target grounds.

This is kind of the main area
where I want to work.

So we're gonna set down
through here,

Maybe one long string
and two shorter ones.

Could be interesting.
We'll see what happens here.

Narrator: But the icy stack will
test his crew with every pot.

Coming out!

[ thud ]

Hey, boy! Hey!

I can't hear you!
I can't see you!

People are trying to do
too much right now.

You got to do one thing,
get one thing accomplished,

And then worry
about other [bleep]

Wichrowski: I can't tell what
they're picking up out there.

If that's a pot,
it's, like, one big ice cube.

Why don't we have that
snugged up?

Why is it swinging around?

Just getting
some of the ice off.

Everybody's ping-ponging
off the walls.

It'll get better.

[ grunts ]

When it's all iced up like this,
it just takes a while.

Get ready.
Going over, bill.

Okay. There goes the first one
of the 2010 op season.

Narrator: The good news,
the first pot is soaking.

The bad news...

Wichrowski: It might be a while
for the second one.

It's a big ice cube.

Narrator:
...There's 124 more pots to go.

Narrator: Back in Dutch...

[ buzzing and grinding ]

...After 22 agonizing hours
of repairs

To the Cornelia Marie's props...

Phil: You got to fix it
when it breaks, you know.

Narrator: ...Captain Phil
inspects the work.

And they put in
these new stiffeners.

It looks pretty good.

The prop, they straightened
a little bit,

Put a nice edge on them.

So that's a good thing.

So, you ready to go fishing?

Let's go.
Okay.

Narrator: With Phil out
of pocket $50,000 to repairs...

You're all set?
Oh, yeah.

All right.
We got to get out of here.

Let's go.
Okay, you got it, boss.

Sweet!

...The Cornelia Marie is given
a clean bill of health.

You can fire it up.

[ engine turns over ]

Three, port and starboard,
all the way open.

Two port, open all the way.

Port and starboard,
close the doors.

Yeah.
We're floating back here.

Roger.

Out of here! All right!

God. I can't believe
how smooth it is.

Seems like it's better
than it was before.

Yeah, it is.

It's better than it was before.

Back on track
to go catch some crab.

Narrator: They better be.

Phil has more than


I can get kind of jazzed
about this.

Narrator: But standing between
him and the crab grounds

Is a 260-square-mile
arctic storm.

As night falls, skipper
Keith Colburn on the wizard

Finally arrives
at the Northern reaches

Of the opilio crab grounds.

It looks like
more of this [bleep]

For about the next five days.

Ouch. Ooh. Hang on.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

I know.

Oh, we're just getting our butts
whipped out here, man.

Odds are extremely good

That we're gonna probably be
setting this gear here.

Yeah.

Feels like it was yesterday

When I was looking
at this exact same picture.

I want everybody
off the stack immediately!

One year to the day,

I basically took
the worst wave of my career.

Hang on! Hang on!

We're in almost
the exact same situation --

The same ice, the same weather,
the same everything,

And, quite frankly,
it's giving me the creeps.

Narrator: Keith has made it to the
leading edge of his target grounds,

But he has 80 pots to dump
in perilous conditions.

Well, we got the whole team
ready to roll, huh?

Let's go ahead
and knock the chains

Off the forward part
of the stack.

By the time we get that off and the
other ones off, it'll be light.

We'll have more light,

And I'll feel a little better

About having guys
up on the icy stack.

New guy, you got a jacket?

Right on. Good.

Oh, what the [bleep]
is this bull [bleep]

Everybody, stay off the bow.

Stay off
the forward shelter deck.

Can you get it ready?

I was pretty jumpy,
after I took that wave,

For the rest of the season,

But I never got put in the same
exact position again,

Which is where I'm at right now.

So, right now, guys,
don't untie anything.

It's gotten
a little dicier here.

Stay sharp out there, guys.

There's a couple
of real nasty ones.

You fall asleep
thinking they're 15-footers,

And, all of a sudden, here comes
the clean-up 30-footer.

Hang on! Hang on!

Narrator: A 30-foot wave
rips over the bow.

Holy [bleep]

Got us.

Man: Yep.

Narrator: Unlike last year,
the crew is intact.

Keith: I'm freaked out about
just getting the gear

Off the [bleep] boat.

I mean, I just want to get
my gear off the boat

And get it down to a point

Where we've got all
the heavy ones off of here.

Then you got mother nature

Throwing big old 25-, 30-footers
at you that are not gonna stop,

And, you know, that's a battle
you're not gonna win.

Roger.

You can only ride on luck
for so long.

Narrator: The weather
has forced the skippers

To drop their gear early,
but they've yet to haul a pot.

Narrator: 160 miles
from the opilio fishing grounds,

The Cornelia Marie has steamed
through 12 hours of icy spray.

Phil:
We started to get heavy.

We got to start getting pots.
We got to get rid of them.

It doesn't make a [bleep]
all where it's at.

You just start dumping them.

Narrator: Like the time bandit
and the Northwestern,

The building layers of heavy ice
are forcing Phil

To drop his pots
before reaching the target zone.

Okay, brothers.

It's our favorite time of year,

Where we got to get up
and maintain the ice outside.

Jake, he's partied a little
too hard over our little break.

So this will be good exercise
for him, I think.

Narrator: The Cornelia Marie is
encased in tons of ice

With 136,000 pounds of steel
stacked on deck.

They face a very real risk
of capsizing.

This is a hell of a way to start
a season, that's for sure.

M.C. Hammer! Hammer time!

All right, Jake...

I was warm, cozy in my bed.

There I was dreaming of Vegas,
and then I wake up to this.

Once I started
seeing the pots...

About 4 inches?

Holy [bleep]

Did you see that?

Narrator: Freddie and Jake
scale the 25-foot stack

To see just how big
of a nightmare they're facing.

[ laughs ]

Oh [bleep]

How icy are we up there?

When you guys
go to chain these pots,

Whoever goes over the side,
I want to put a line on them,

Tie a line
around their waist, you know?

Narrator: The pots are welded
together in a solid block of ice.

It looks like
they're having a hard time.

Narrator: In order to free them
and save all their lives,

Phil's son, Jake,
volunteers to risk his own.

Right on the --

Man: We got to make sure
we keep an eye on him.

It's where mistakes can happen
and people die.

Phil:
With all this ice and stuff on,

Taking the chains off
always makes me nervous.

Narrator:
After spending 40 minutes

Dangling 30 feet
above the frigid water...

We're all clear!

...Jake finally frees the first
pot from its icy prison.

This is 1 of 180 pots.

It's not gonna be fun here
in the front.

This is [bleep] bad.

It's gonna take forever.

Jake: There's so much ice
on this boat.

Right now we're just [bleep]
fighting for survival.

Phil:
It's a real pain in the a*s.

We let this go just
a little bit too far, I think.