12x05 - Million-Dollar-Bet

[bunniefuu]

>The pass is a shortcut with
a lot of risk involved.
It's really shallow.

Going to be right next to the
beach.
They're fishermen, they've been

Through falls pass a lot.
I haven't.
I got to prove to myself that

I'm fully capable of doing this
job.
It's going to be a fight.

Especially with one engine.
She's not [ bleep ] turning
[ bleep ].

Man.
Five feet.
It's not [ bleep ] turning fast

Enough.
¶ Wanted
wanted

Dead or alive ¶

Narrator: dutch harbor,
a good day for flying.
I'll bet you feel good right

Now.
I do.
Everything's done.

A list looks good.
I got everything marked off.
Narrator: the northwestern is

Prepped to switch from king crab
to bairdi fishing.
I'm on my way out.

It's all you, man.
Narrator: and relieving
captain sig hansen, younger

Brother edgar.
Thanks -- thanks for that.
I mean, it's like, I'm going

To leave.
You got to switch into captain
mode right away, my advice.

I'm just saying, if you want to
redeem yourself for last year,
we can't be so co-dented.

Narrator: last season --
sh**ting pain down the back
of my arm.

Narrator: a back injury kept
edgar from his goal of being a
full-time captain.

Forcing big brother sig to cover
for him.
[ Cheers]

He's putting himself first
before ts hibusiness.
I don't plan on going home

Until it's caught.
That's a pretty big
statement.

>>Om se people might surprise
you.
Hey, you never know.

I just hope and pray there's no
excuses.
Everything's good, everything's

Good.
The guys are on their way.
We got matt, bradley, and my

Son, eric.
Narrator: in addition to
filling the boats --

[ Bleep ]
narrator: edgar will also
have to keep an eye on his son,

18-Year-old greenhorn eric
hansen.
When we got on, the owner's

Kid, that didn't matter.
You don't produce, you don't
go.

I'm feeling pretty good.
Hopefully this will go okay.
Hopefully I don't drop my phone

Or myself into the water and
die.
Why are you talking like

That?
Because I've never done this
before.

Narrator: also rejoining the
crew, veteran deckhand, matt
bradley.

A little welcoming gift for
them.
Matt erik, welcome to the

Boat.
This is the third bag --
I want even.

Okay, even steven.
Erik, look at the --
what, does he think he's

Going to alaska?
What's up, erik?
How's it going?

Leave your bagsor f now.
You still afraid of me?
You're afraid --

Hey!
[ Bleep ]
what happened?

Two guys -- two man hit, one
man lead.
Hi, buddy.

Oh, man!
Shake my hand, I'm out of here.
All right.

Good luck.
Just like that, you're
leaving --

Grandpa always says, do what
they tell you, keep your mouth
shut.

Words to live by.
Good luck.
All right.

All good.
You guys kind of got it easy.
Pots are rigged, bait's on.

We'll head out and start.
Bairdi!
You got some of those -- toss

The line.
The changing of the guard.
Of course I'm nervous, you know.

It's a lot of quote a.erik being
here, it's my kid.
It's an extra pair of hands, you

Know.
He doesn't know fishing that
well.

I don't know, we'll see.
He's got to find crab.
Surprisingly excited.

Narrator: 200 miles northeast
of dutch harbor on the 107-foot
saga.

Whoo!
Yeah!
Lots of 'em!

Just loaded.
Just money.
I'm pumped, man.

It's not about the big numbers
that I saw.
It's about the consistency.

8.5 miles of solid 90s.
Narrator: on his first-ever
king crab trip at the wheel --

I can do it.
Get the crab in the boat as fast
as possible.

Narrator: captain jake
anderson is just 60,000 pounds
short of putting his red crab

Quota in his tanks.
Cash money!
Big money, baby!

Exciting.
Yeah.
This trip's looking really

Good so far.
Looking really good.
Boat's almost full.

Everything's good.
It's a good feeling.
The feeling of seeing that you

Will money on the table.
It's personal pride I mean, from
the very beginning of the

Season, we were behind, you
know.
From breaking and starting late

To crew conflicts and even
through it all, we were catching
crab.

Narrator: for the past 2.5
weeks --
that's not our bag!

That's the wrong bag!
That's the wrong -- throw it
in --

Narrator: tensions between
deckhand jamie smith and the
rest of the crew --

Were you talking smack about
me?
Are you saying I don't know what

The [ bleep ] I'm doing?
Narrator: were near the
breaking point.

You need to get rid of him or
get rid of me.
Ain't butting up with this.

Woohoo!
Narrator: now continued good
fishing --

One on the very bottom, back
in the corner.
Narrator: has eased the mood.

100 Right out the door.
Fortunately for jamie,
everything's good now.

I think we've all bonded now.
That's what I wanted.
We'll make it through this

Trip, take crab to town.
Come back and continue to crab.
[ Cheers ]

Yeah!
The plan is to pick these up
and then head in.

I'm just happy I'm catching
crab.
Whoo!

That was nice.
.
What is that?

What is that?
Is that the wind?
It's not bad, it's just

Different.

[ Alarm ]
hey, I got an issue in the
engine room.

Narrator: on the saga --
[ bleep ]
I got an issue in the engine

Room.
[ Bleep ]
dammit.

Narrator: captain jake
anderson has a problem below
deck.

Trying to figure out what the
alarm it was.
I felt the boat vibrating and

Sounded all weird.

It's hot!
Hot as [ bleep ].
Gotta check the gearbox.

Gearbox!
This is not good.
Narrator: the geeshs are

Frozen making it impossible for
the engine to transfer power to
the prop.

The gearbox, it's a sears of
gears that -- series of gears
that spin.

Spin and then clutch.
They're nothing more than like a
watch.

They spin around.
And as long as you don't jam
them up, you can't replace a

Gearbox for a main.
Son of a b*tch.
Sorry, guys.

We're down to one engine.
Just going to be real slow from
here on out, fellas.

This ain't too bad.
We can do with one.
I don't know what it's going to

Do tomorrow.
I'll just jam the next string
right below it and then

[ Bleep ] go.
Don't go too far.
Narrator: jake will pull his

Last two strings and head in to
deliver his 192,000 pounds.
I've got to get the crab

Safely to the plant.
We've got to do whatever we can
to put as much money back into

The boat as we can right now.
We're going to go through falls
pass.

That's the dangerous one.
Narrator: with an offload
hours away, the saga will be

Forced to take a shortcut
through a treacherousea s lane
known as falls pass.

Does it make me worried?
Yes, it does.
It's really shally, right next

To the beach.
But the problem is now, these
boats aren't designed to run on

One engine.
They're designed and made to run
on two.

Instead of having one single
engine with maximum horsepower,
I've -- now I've got basically

Half of an engine.
Narrator: with half the
horsepower, braving the narrow

Pass will test the young
captain's mettle.
I'm down, but I'm not out.

I'm down, but I n'mot out.
Now's when I've got to start
talking positively to myself.

I can deal with one engine.
There's no reason why I can't do
this.

Narrator: eight miles
southeast on the 128-foot
cornelia marie --

Yeah!
Time to make some money!
So nice to have you back in

The wheelhouse again.
Way better than what I was.
I was bad.

Narrator: after being laid up
with a nasty virus, captain
casey mcmanus is on the mend,

And on the bairdi.
211, 289, 358.
Narrator: courtesy of his

Partner, josh harris.
I'd say he's doing a good
job.

Proud of him.
The season's about learning all
aspects.

I learned a lot of lessons
myself.
We can go home.

That will be good.
Yeah!
Yeah, baby!

A nice pot.
Yeah.
That was a [ bleep ] cherry

There, baby.
Found the bairdi!
Where the men are mean and

The crabs are free!
They're having fun.
They're all smiling down there.

Now it's up to josh and I as a
team to work this school.
And if we can make this go

Smoothly, bairdi might be a
moneymaker this year.
That's a success story in my

Book.
About an hour.
We've got the boat in good

Shape.
Thfae ct of the matter, going to
keep hauling gear and putting

Them in the best spot that I
know how.
The grossest thing you've

Ever seen -- I got this thing on
my ear, dude.
It's starting to bother me.

Will you take a look at it?
Yeah.
Oh, my god!

Pretty naturally.
-- Gnarley.
Does it just hurt like

Pressure inside it hurts?
Yeah.
All right.

Looks like a cyst to me.
Narrator: a cyst is a closed
pocket of skin filled with puss

And fluid.
A lot of pressure.
Should we stick it with a needle

Or something?
I'm thinking so.
Narrator: on the bering sea,

The captain doubles as the
doctor.
Oh --

So gross.
Do we have a needle?
Got it clean, got iodine on

It.
Oh, my god.
Should we name it before we

k*ll it?
No, just beep.
Put some iodine on here.

[ Bleep ]
gross.
Don't worry, dude.

Just something you're going to
have to de alwith.
Be a man.

No matter how much it hurts
--
You see it?

Yeah.
You're not loalwed to hit me
in the nuts.

Good?
Whoa!
Okay.

All right.
I poked a hole in it.
That hurt?

Yeah.
Does it ever feel good when you
have something poked in your

Skin?
Oh, god!
Oh, god!

[ Sounds ]
oh!
Yeah!

God!
Oh!

>On the cornelia marie --
oh, god!
Oh, god!

Narrator: surgery is in
session.
Oh, my god!

Oh!
Oh, god --
[ sounds ]

Oh, dude --
[ coughing ]
narrator: and casey mcmanus

Is in the line of fire.
That was a good shot, too.
Dude, that's disgusting.

What the [ bleep ] is this
thing?
There's going to be a lot

More coming out in a second.
I'm not dead.
I need another of these.

There you go, doctor.
Doctor, doctor.
Do you concur?

Oh, god.
Get it over with.
I'm nervous.

I can hear it.
[ Sounds ]
oh, I can hear it.

Oh!
God.
Oh, dude.

Appreciate it.
Don't [ bleep ] touch it when
you're out on deck either.

Time to go back on deck.
Dammit.
Get back to work.

You eating?
[ Bleep ]
yeah.

Nothing makes me hungrier than a
big-old zitd pop.
.

Narrator: 70 miles south, the
155-foot wizard steams out for
their first bairdi trip of the

2015 Season.
I'm not invincible.
I need to make a change.

30 Years of scales -- never once
have we had a scale that weighed
somebody's weight.

Narrator: nature captain
keith colburn, changing
fisheries --

You cannot film the weight.
Narrator:lightening
his load.

Okay.
I'm way fat ear -- beefed up big
time in the last two years.

My goal is to lose about 45
pounds in the next six months.
In this next trip.

Reporter: I lose five or ten
pounds.
I've had pancreatitis could I've

Had heart issues.
I need make change.
Heads up!

It's a grind, but we'll get
to sleep after one more day.
Last year, we were five,

Seven days ahead of the fleet,
and we took advantage of it.
This year, we might be getting

Out here with some of the first
guys, we need to get this caught
now.

Let's dump it.
Hello, bairdi!
Let me if home a happy man!

Come on!
Come on!
Come on!

I'm sitting here on
information from 2009.
Absolutely crushed it down here.

I mean, really, really good
fishing here.
Narrator: the skipper's

Strategy -- rely on past success
to quickly set his gear on crab.
Don't know if they're going

To be here this year, but we
can't overlook this spot.
Then we're going to set the mile

And work around the clock.
Going over.
Man, this is going to be a

Monster try.
If it pays, it pays huge
dividends.

We'll see.
Narrator: 20 miles southeast
on the saga.

Race is on.
It's going -- race is on.
It's going to be tight.

I wouldn't be half as nervous as
I am if I didn't have three full
tanks and one engine.

Narrator: loaded with $1.5
million worth of crab and
running on limited power --

Can't steer very fast.
Narrator: jake must overcome
a perilous strait known as false

Pass, to deliver his bounty.
A shortcut.
A lot of risk involved.

These are my buoy markers, and I
got follow these.
If I miss, we just -- we just

Run aground.
This is the first time I've went
through here, and I don't want

To lose our money, and I don't
want to go aground.
Narrator: down an engine,

Jake must navigate false pass'
narrow pathway exactly, avoiding
its shallow bottom while

Maneuvering through its strong
currents.
If jake isn't able to hug the

Route marked by the buoys, the
saga will run aground,
threatening its crew and the

$1.5 million worth of crab on
board.
The current flows right past

There.
A sandbar.
There's a deep ditch in there.

Brush up against the sandbar,
and you start sucking sand in.
Not a good thing.

Narrator: getting sand in the
tanks could suffocate the crab.
Turn the crab pumps off and

The crab don't is oxygen to
them.
Which I don't like either.

Unfortunately for me, I have to.
You don't want to compromise the
product.

There's a million dollars in
there.
I'll be watching my fathom

Meter.
It's my depth sounder.
So if it starts really getting

Close, numbers -- start getting
lower and lower and lower, then
I slow down and head over.

Right at the entrance.
All I hear is the first --
yep.

We've entered the pass.
There's a lot of whirlpools, a
lot of weird current.

You can see it in the water
right now.
With the tide and everything

Else, I mean, it slaps you
sideways or slaps you from
behind.

[ Bleep ]
you're in line, dude.
Just like gtietng worse the

Shallower we get.
One engine, she starts doing
whatever she wants to do.

I don't have speed.
26 Feet.
It's going -- it's just going

Down.
Are we making the turn on the
track here?

I'm trying.
It's not [ bleep ] turning fast
enough.

She just [ bleep ] driving
straight.
She's not [ bleep ] turning.

[ Alarm]
she's not [ bleep ] turning!
[ Bleep ] this, man.

Five feet.
Turn the [ bleep ] off!
It's not [ bleep ] turning fast

Enough

Narrator: just outside king
cove --
[ alarm ]

Turn those [ bleep ] off!
It's not turning fast enough!
Narrator: captain jake

Anderson wrestles the saga
through false pass on just one
engine.

Shut it off!
Narrator: the crew scrambles
to shut down the circulation

Pumps to protect the $1.5
million bounty.
She's not turning, that's the

[ Bleep ] problem.
Faster, faster!
Come on!

Turn!
Go, go, go.
I'm going full steam.

I've got it pegged.
[ Alarm ]
[ bleep ]

[ Alarm ]
oh --
yeah, you're fine.

Yeah.
That's what we get paid for.
Nice!

That wasn't fun for me.
Then I just laid to it.
Boy, that did drop fast,

Didn't it?
It got down to five feet
below my kiel.

And that scared the [ bleep ]
out of me.
I think we can kick those pumps

Back on.
Sounds good to me.
Another good one through the

Pass.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you.

My first time going through
false pass.
Doing it with a million dollars

Worth of crab on board with one
engine, I'm actually pretty
proud of myself.

Whew.
Now on to the next stressful
situation.

King cove, here we come.
Narrator: 85 miles northwest.
On the 125-foot northwestern.

Let's get this ball rolling.
I'm going to set a string
here, do our own thing.

It's easier than it is to go
fighting the crab.
If there's crab here, we'd be

All by ourselves.
Narrator: captain edgar
hansen steps out of the shadow

Of older brother sig to run the
family business.
Once we find some life, we'll

Get it consolidated and mow the
lawn.
We've got to find them first.

A lot of nerves.
>>Narrator: stinead of playing
it safe and staying close to the

Fleet, edgar is laying all 130
pots 40 miles south of the
nearest competitor.

You know, it's a lot of
bairdi to catch.
Having my son on board.

Narrator: joining the skipper
--
Start setting, your job is to

Get that full again without
cutting yourself.
Narrator: is his son and

Newest greenhorn, erik hansen.
Nobody wants to see their kid
get hurt.

We're in one of the most
deadliest occupations if the
world.

Little nerve-racking, but there
better not be any special
treatment.

You know, there wasn't with me.
He's a crew member, you know.
He's my son, but he's a crew

Member.
I'm more nervous about producing
right now.

We can't do anything yet until
we get there.
You haven't been fishing with

Us.
You have to bite the head off
the herring.

It's sort of ugly, but it's got
to be done.
It goes to you.

Chew it up.
You might puke, but it's worth
it.

The taste will be with you
for a while.
Get ready, buddy.

Eat it!
Get some!
Aw!

Go on.
[ Laugerht ]
oh!

He'll be with you for a
little while.
Ah.

Good job, erik.
Welcome to the club, buddy.
All right, boys, first pot is

Out the door.
Yeah, bairdi!
And away we go.

There we go, officially
fishing bairdi.
Hope we make the right moves.

Let's go, erik.
Get it, get it.
260,000 Pounds to put in.

That's not small potatoes.
Hopefully the guys are finding
their groove.

Heads up.
Brdaii are harder than king
crab for sure.

Let's see.
Time to make some money!
Money!

Here we go.
Going over.
Going over!

Hurry up.
Going over.

Ready!

Uh-oh.
That's -- that's normal.
Make sure get it in the basin

Because that's like gold.
You got a little herring in
there anyway.

Since erik's here and he
puked already, let's call this
string, I don't know, let's call

It the puke string.
Kind of fitting.
'Re going to call this one the

Puke string just for good luck.
This is the erik puker
string.

Ain't too far behind on the
puking.
He needs to see what it's

Lake to work.
I don't care if he loves me.
I don't care ihef loves me not.

I just want my crab in my pot!
And that rhymes.
Narrator: the young g*ns on

The saga and cornelia marie make
their moves to overtake the
northwestern.

>They call me rocket man.
I didn't know they call me
rocket man.

I found out the other night.
Let's show the boys a little
bits of flare safety.

The lighting flares, you hold it
on this end, you hold it up.
You always hold it downwind.

Pull the string.
[ Cheers ]
yeah!

That would be a flare safety
demonstration.

Narrator: 160 miles northeast
of dutch harbor.
Do or die.

Narrator: on the
northwestern.
We're on the hunt.

Yeah, we can get some, this is
our first day.
I'm excited to see something.

I'm pretty confident that we'll
get some numbers.
Narrator: captain edgar

Hansen approaches his first
prospect string.
I'm only nvoerus because we

Have a lot of gear to move.
Narrator: a good pot on the
bairdi grounds is between 60 to

80 Crab, netting around $600.
Coming up on the first pot,
the first string of our season.

Puke string.
This is the one where erik was
puking in the bait box.

Erik?
In case you get behind, you
have --

Tshi is erik's puke string.
Let's see if he did good.
[ Cheers ]

Oh, yeah!
h*!
I feel sick.

Not enough sleep.
Not enough food.
Hopefully get some good crab and

Go home quick.
Hopefully it's smoking hot.
We have a little more to prove

Than other guys do, you know.
I know I can do it.
Look out, look out, look out,

Lo ookut!
Why -- all that for this?
How many you think?

Seven?
Geez.
Almost paid for the bait.

Come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on.
Seven bairdi does not justify

Sticking around.
I got a feeling it's going to
get better.

Why?
Did we set these for cod or
bairdi?

Oh, boy.
I mean, at least they're telling
me where I don't want to be.

Five.
0-5.
That's great.

Look at that pot.
So much for beginner's luck.
What's going on here?

I don't think we're going to
be -- I like to be surprised.
Pretty doom and dploom.

Doesn't look good right now.
Have to pick 'em up.
We've got to figure out where to

Move it to.
That's the biggest problem.
Go ahead and stack them all the

Way back.
It will be a big run no matter
how we look at it.

We've got to get out of here.
That's for sure.
If it was the fifth day, I'd

Be really worried.
Stack them on, and move them.
Sort of had a feeling.

Edgar hasn't missed too much.
Oh, my god.
I don't know what I'm going do

With them.
Narrator: 45 miles southeast
on the wizard.

We've got a ton of bairdi to
catch, and I need to dial things
in as fast as possible.

We were on a 75-mile-long
prospects run.
We've seen bairdi over the

Course of the last five to ten
years.
Narrator: after comttmiing

240 Pots to an old hot spot,
captain keith colburn banks on
history repeating itself.

Learned and earned over the
last decade.
Hopeful we'll find something.

Got over 600,000 pounds to
catch.
We need to get working on that

As soon as possible.
Game ain't over.
It's just getting started.

L alright, guys.
Time to be gngoi to work.
Pick me up!

Big money, baby!
Used to see 50s and 100s
around here.

I think things are going to
start popping.
We're going to find about two

Pots if my theory's right about
hot spots.
We may be in our little home

Right now.
That's what we're looking for.
Come on!

Whoa!
[ Bleep ]
yeah!

[ Cheers ]
yeah!
Yeah!

Yeah!
Come on.
Whoo!

There it is.
Come on aboard, boys.
Come on aboard.

Look at those crab legs.
147.
147.

There's crab here.
Yeah.
Whoa!

We're getting solid numbers, and
that kind of fishing, I mean,
you can put 200,000 pounds on

This boat really fast.
I think the guys pumped.
Things are looking up big time.

Oh yeah.
Yeah!
Whoo!

Narrator: now that he's
bringing pounds of crab on to
the boats --

Looks like somebody's
actually going to get some
erexcise.

That's good.
Easily get a workout just
getting geared up.

Narrator: the captain looks
to shed a few of his own.
Been seven years since I went

On deck.
Way it lose a couple pounds.
All right!

[ Cheers ]
welcome on deck, captain.
I'm here.

Let's start to crab.
A couple of years since he
wandered outside, my brother.

Whoo!
I can see gravity taking its
toll.

He's out there.
That's the important part.
Oh, yeah.

Holy [ bleep ] --
that's got some crab in.
It that's got some crab iint!

[ Cheers ]
nice!
Welcome aboard.

Awesome.
That's more like it.
Big boy, big boy.

h*, h*.
Pretty darn queen crab, too.
I'm liking.

It not a lot of sorting to do.
70 --
Big number, baby, big

Numbers!
Whoa.
Yeah.

That's insane.
Yeah.
Come on!

Come on!
[ Cheers ]
this pot's got even more in

It.
Big deal!
Big deal!

It's real good to see my
brother enjoying hanging out
with the guys.

Going out there, and the
exercise is -- it's a guarantee.
It's easy to think about going

Outside, but then it's a
different story actually doing.
Whoa, look at all those.

I'm sweating just standing
here.