16x16 - Bering Sea Wrecking Ball

[bunniefuu]

♪♪

Nick: ow!

Nick, you all right?

Oh [bleep]

♪♪

Jake: when you sign a contract
to go bering sea fishing,

You sign your life away
to the boat.

[ "Wanted dead or alive" plays ]

And guess what the rate is
for getting hurt on a crab boat?

100% Guaranteed
you're gonna get hurt.

100%...

Watch out!
Ahh!

...stabbed, smashed, broken.

[ Grunting ]

What happened? Did you get hit
in the head with a pipe?

Jake: the longer
you stay out here,

The higher the risk
of you dying is.

Do not go more
than an idle, period.

Okay. Well, no one told me
any of it.

This job isn't the most
dangerous job in the world

For no reason.

♪I'm a cowboy♪

♪On a steel horse I ride♪

I'm going down there.
Turn the emergency pump on.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

♪Wanted dead or alive♪

Out of the way!
Out of the way.

♪♪

[ Seagulls squawk ]

♪♪

Nick: hey. There's a new guy.

We're picking up
a replacement guy from mainland.

I don't really even know
[chuckles] his name,

To be honest.
I got to figure it out.

Name's dave.

It's good to meet you,
brother.

I thought it was
somebody's daughter,

Not that he has long hair.

Narrator: halfway through
the winter season marathon,

Five weeks of hard living take
their toll on captains and crew.

Casey: you know, this has been
a rough season,

Maybe it'll get better.

Narrator: and an iron will alone
fuels the sprint forward.

Jake: you have to be willing to
do whatever it takes

To get the crab.

Narrator: now, with the american
and russian fleets whittling

Down the biomass by the day...

Jake: I'd be severely
disappointed if I don't get

To top this boat off this trip.

Narrator: the prospect of
failure threatens to dig them

Into an insurmountable hole.

♪♪

Now we're gonna be picking up
all those strings

In our hot spot.

By the numbers, we've done
pretty well in this area.

You know
there's a lot of crab here.

Narrator: but for the dogged...

...the chase is on.

Let's see what happens here.

We'll see.

♪♪

Narrator: on the
cornelia marie.

♪♪

Casey: I think the crab are
moving north

So we need to kick it
in the a*s to get this gear on.

Narrator: captains josh harris
and casey mcmanus

Double dip in far north.

Ideal crab per hour
is 6,000 crab an hour.

That's what
I really want to see.

Narrator: but with
200,000 pounds still to catch,

They'll need to strike fast

Before the crab barrel
into russian territorial waters.

♪♪

So, the first one's
coming up now.

Excited.

[ Machine whirs ]

♪♪

I don't know what's
going on here.

Ugh.

Man: yuck.

So [bleep] right now.

♪♪

You know end pot's
always a liar.

♪♪

[ Machine whirs ]
aw!

Where'd they go?

It's just not happening [scoffs]
you know what I mean? [Bleep]

♪♪

This got to be karma
for something.

I'm a [bleep] angel
so what did you do?

[Bleep]

So what did -- I was gonna ask
you the same thing.

♪♪

Fishing died off.

We're only getting a couple crab
a pot right now.

We're stacking and moving.

Casey: it is toasted down there.

So we need to find
a real new home.

Desperate times call
for desperate measures.

♪♪

There's this thing on the chart
that kind of looks like a boob.

[ Laughs ] feeling it
in the loins, are we?

Taking a page
out of my book, I see.

Narrator: intrigued by
a deep crater-shaped divot

In the sea floor.

Casey: I like this depth.

Those are easy for them
to get into.

Narrator: casey bets
the topography below

Is a natural trap
for their opilio quarry.

I've seen you pull an elephant
out of a hat before,

But I don't know, man.

♪♪

Casey: at this point, we really
need our luck to turn around.

♪♪

Got to get our "a" game and
really knock a solid trip out

This time.

Narrator: eyeing
a new, unexplored region

Of the grounds,

Captain and crew scramble to
haul and stack all 150 pots.

At least nobody's hurt.

♪♪

[ Knocks ]

♪♪

[ Thud ]
[ man screams ]

♪♪

You all right?

♪♪

Casey: you okay, buddy?

Something happened.

I got to check on
taylor here.

♪♪

Narrator: while stacking
a pot...

Casey: watch out for
that crane hook.

Narrator: ...the crane's hook
suddenly releases...

[ Man screams ]

...sending the 20-pound
steel fastener

On a collision course with
deckhand taylor jensen's head.

[Bleep] been hit in the head
so many times,

That's solid callous here.
[Bleep]

And it's not even his fault,
that's what's so [bleep] up.

♪♪

I've never seen a guy
get beat up by not his fault

More in my life.

Narrator: two years ago...

[ Thud ]
[bleep]

[ Thud ]
[ screams ]

Narrator:
...taylor hopped aboard

The concussion train of pain...

[ Thud ]
taylor: ohh.

♪♪

Hey. I'm bleeding,
I'm bleeding.

Casey: watch out, taylor.
Watch out, watch out!

Narrator: ...making a total
of four stops

On his trauma-prone dome...

Okay. Tell me
if you feel it, okay?

...and counting.

Oh [bleep]

That's not good
after you get hit.

Where at? Show me.

♪♪

Does it hurt
when I touch it?

Yeah?

Yeah, I can see he's got a mark
right there -- a goose egg.

All right. Let me out.

♪♪

Look right at me now.

It's been a trip from hell,
that's for sure.

Why don't you take your [bleep]
off for a little bit.

Grab some ice,
put it on your noggin.

When you start getting nauseated
after you get hit in the head,

You probably got a concussion.

So I don't want
you on deck right now.

♪♪

I've never seen somebody
take so many shots to the head.

And he's nauseated

Which is definitely
a sign of concussion.

We don't have time for this.

We got to get this done.

Narrator:
despite being shorthanded,

Fishing stops for no man...

The boob has felt like
a good spot to throw them over,

I don't know.

...forcing the co-captains
to continue their march

In search of a new home.

I'm feeling pretty lucky,
buddy.

You feeling lucky,
are you?

We'll see.

♪♪

145 Miles southwest
on the summer bay.

♪♪

♪♪

Bill: most of our year is set
for when we went in.

Way up north
by towards, say, max,

We just turned the corner,

Getting ready to haul gear
and an injury --

A guy tore his achilles.

Every turn we've had issues.

Narrator: with 120 miles
to go after detouring

To drop off a crippled crewman,
captain wild bill wichrowski

Steams toward pots
set in the far north

Nearly a week ago.

Bill: we get out, we finally
start get rolling,

We got a guy that explodes
his achilles tendon.

He separates his achilles.

Lucky enough to get another guy
in to fill his place.

Nick: we need a lot
out of you.

Todd: yeah.

You're replacing a guy
that wore pretty big boots.

Well, I'm gonna do my best,
'cause it's what I'm here to do.

Right on, man.

Narrator: replenishing the ranks

29-Year-old greenhorn
todd kochutin.

Oh, no.
Breakfast, but...

Man:
okay. We like breakfast.

[ Laughs ]

Bill: so for 24 hours, we've
been going directly

Into the weather,

And the guys are gonna get
the bulk of the ice off here.

Narrator: laden with
100,000 pounds of frozen spray,

Bill puts the crew to work.

Bill: maybe get the boys to get
all the easy stuff,

The rails and all the bulk.

She's heavy,
let's lighten her up a bit.

Eager to shed weight
from the summer bay's haul

And resist
the threat of instability.

Nick: probably 100,000 pounds
on the bough right now.

It's got to come off.

It's getting to
a dangerous level.

[Bleep]

Todd: welcome to
the winter wonderland.

Bill:
it's kind of a thankless job.

Every new guy goes, "oh, cool.
We get to break ice."

That lasts about 20 minutes,

And they're like, "this sucks."

See what this kid's got?

♪♪

Narrator: as new kid on the
boat, todd's trial by ice

Will determine
if he skates by his first test

Or heads
towards the chopping block.

Todd: this comes with any
opie season, you know.

Beating ice is just
part of the job.

It's not nice,
but it needs to be done.

♪♪

We're just doing this to stay
alive, to keep the boat upright

Right now.

A lot of people
do maintenance on their cars

To keep the car driving safely.

Same thing.

Bill: you know, when you're
breaking ice,

It's a lot of energy.

Think about
swinging a sledgehammer

Or any kind of manual labor job.

So before they even
start working,

They usually expend
a good part of their energy

To get the ice off.

Ice is not nice.

♪♪

Nick: ow! [Bleep]

Landon: hey, hey.
One more, one more.

No.

♪♪

[Bleep]

♪♪

Narrator: on the summer bay.

Nick: ow! [Bleep]

Landon: hey, hey.
One more, one more.

No.

♪♪

[Bleep]

♪♪

What did you do?

Landon: a piece of ice just came
and smashed him right

In the face.

How bad is it?

You got a bloody nose.

Yeah, it was a big chunk
of ice that got you, dude.

Don't feel broken
or anything?

♪♪

This is, like, split open.

Oh, yeah, it is.

I couldn't tell there was, like,
a puddle of blood on you.

You did.
You opened that up.

He's got a split
underneath his nostril.

That's why
it's bleeding so bad.

Yeah, I'd say so.
I was beamed.

[Bleep]

♪♪

All right.
I'm gonna go clean it up.

He took a swing
way up top at it,

A big chunk of ice broke off
and hit him right in the face.

I mean, I saw it was.
It was pretty bad.

Busted his nose right open,

Bleeding instantly, blood all
over the deck out there.

♪♪

Narrator: while veteran
nick mcglashan recovers

From blunt force trauma...

Trying to get used
to the weather, the cold,

But this is a different
kind of cold.

Narrator: ...the greenhorn slips
through the minefield of danger

Unscathed, so far.

I'm gonna stop thinking positive
things about the season,

'Cause every time I think
to drop my guard,

Something else happens.

That's one for the bering sea

Kicking my a*s, easy.

One more guy gets hurt,
I'm gonna [bleep] him up.

[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

Narrator: 40 miles southeast
on the saga.

Jake: let's do it. Game on.

-Game on!
-Game on.

♪♪

Jake: the crew is doing
a lot better.

Our goal for the day
is crushing a bunch of crab

And not to get hurt.

Narrator: powering through the
perils of the green crew.

This is our farthest
north string.

I don't know what's here.

The theory is that the crab
that I was following,

One school was moving
a mile north a day.

Narrator: captain jake anderson
tracks a cluster

Of arctic-bound opilio

Through the center
of the fishing grounds.

This time without injury.

Jake: I've got roughly about
a few more days

To fill up this boat.

One more haul straight through
until this forward tank's full

Or I got to go home.

Narrator: if on target,
the skipper's super-sized string

Will bag the 40,000 pounds
he needs to fill his final tank

And make his offload
in just 48 hours.

Jake: let's go.

♪♪

I've never filled all three
tanks of this boat during opies.

Hoping I can top off everything,
pop hatches, all that fun stuff

That I haven't got to do yet
with snow crab.

♪♪

Here we go, boys. Yee-haw!

♪♪

All right.
Let's see what we got.

What the [bleep]

[ Chuckles ] oh, yeah.

[Bleep] dude.

Oh, my god, dude,
it's over-full.

I don't even know you can get
more crab in that thing.

Man: whoo!
[ Cheering ]

♪♪

Jake: oh, my god. Whew!

♪♪

[ Crew shouting ]
jake: holy [bleep]

That's a full pot [bleep]

Pow. And that's
all the right stuff.

The table -- it's full.

We need a bigger table.

Throw one in the rack,
get it ready to set.

Today's going good.

We're all crab,
we're setting back.

Narrator:
jake hits his mark landing

A leviathan-sized mass of crab,

Revitalizing captain and crew
for an epic grind.

Jake: that's badass.

Narrator: haul them up...

[Bleep] we're loading up
right now. Loading up, dude.

Narrator:
...and setting them back.

Jake: you're looking at maybe
$6,000, $7,000 a pot.

We're gonna try to haul
70 of them.

♪♪

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

It's $490,000 a day.

That's the hottest
snow crab fishing

I've ever seen in my life.

♪♪

Man: let's haul. Push, push.
Let it go, let it go,

Let it go.

Hold it.

♪♪

There we go, boys.

Ahh!
There we go.

Hold onto that [bleep] thing.
Hold it, saul.

Hold it. Hold [bleep] hold it.

Don't let go, though.

Watch out!

[ Thud ]
ow!

Oh [bleep]

[ Groans ]

We're okay?

♪♪

You okay, clay?

♪♪

Yeah. Yeah.

♪♪

You sure you're okay?

Yeah.

We're good!

Okay. Phew.
You scared me, clay.

[ Sighs ] oh [bleep]

Narrator: the moment the pot
reaches the rail,

The saga takes a roll

Careening the pot
towards deckhand clayton gore,

Nearly crushing him
between the steel table

And the 1,300-pound
wrecking ball.

Jake: see that, mike, ross,
and saul?

See what can happen?
How it goes bad?

I swim across deck
and in the pontoon.

Caught the corner of the table,
and that's when I went...

Jake: it's no joke here.

Clayton's lucky, real lucky
that he didn't get hurt.

It's gonna be a long night.

♪♪

Oh [bleep]

♪♪

Jake!

Dude!
Yeah.

Hey, man. Hey, jake,
it doesn't look like

That tank's pressed.
You got a slack tank.

Which one?

The back one, those rigs.

Can you run down there

And turn the emergency pump on?

Yeah, rog.

You got a slack tank,
that ain't good.

We got a lot of, like,
crab in there.

[Bleep] gonna start
squishing around.

[ Loudspeaker chatter ]
10-4!

♪♪

Narrator: the saga's half tank
is partially filled,

Allowing the water to move back
and forth violently,

Its destructive power wreaking
havoc on the ship's stability.

The slack tank is
a safety issue.

Worst case scenario, you'll have
half a tank of water.

We roll, that water rolls,
then you roll over,

And you die quick.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: on the saga.

Joe: jake!

Dude!
Yeah.

You got a slack tank.

Which one?

The back one, those rigs.

Can you run down there

And turn the emergency pump on?

Yeah, rog.

Narrator:
captain jake anderson and crew

Faced the threat of a slack tank
and compromised stability.

Jake: next to a fire,
having a slack tank

Is probably the most dangerous
thing you can have going on.

♪♪

Boat rolls, that water rolls,
then you roll over,

And you [bleep] die quick.

♪♪

[ Telephone rings ]

All right, joe.

Joe: copy.

[ Telephone clatters ]

[ Sighs ]

[ Clears throat ]
we're good. [ Sighs ]

♪♪

Oh, my god. [Clears throat] well
[bleep] that made me sick

To my stomach, oh [bleep]

♪♪

Narrator:
with the emergency pump running,

The saga adverts capsize.

[ Alarm beeping ]

[ Sighs ] [bleep]

Joe: come on. Let's go.

[ Beeping continues ]

[ Alarm blips ]

[Bleep]

♪♪

My emergency pump is fine,
which is great for safety,

But I can't ensure it's great
for keeping crab alive.

Narrator:
the captain's new crisis.

The problem isn't my
emergency pump not working well,

The problem is the plumbing
doesn't flow as well.

Narrator: jake's backup system
fails to move

As much freshly oxygenated water
through the tanks,

Triggering a race to diagnose

And repair the primary system
before a mass die-off.

Jake: so I don't get the proper
pressure I want

To air flow the crab.

Right now, by my numbers,
it says I should have

$200,000-Worth of product
in my half tank.

I can't afford to lose $200,000,

Because I have to pay
for that myself.

Try to get
our main pump running.

I don't want dead crab.

♪♪

Narrator: 200 miles northwest
on the cornelia marie.

♪♪

Casey: how you doing?

Narrator: 12 hours after
suffering yet another

Blow to the head...

...captain casey checks on
concussed crewman taylor jensen.

♪♪

♪♪

Now a man down
and without a source of crab.

Casey: drop off pots here.

The boob --
feel it out a little bit.

Narrator:
captains josh and casey

Set in deeper waters...

♪♪

[ Machine beeps ]
I'm over.

...betting their entire
200-pot load

On an underwater
bowl-shaped feature

To fill their tanks.

Casey: and I know we're kind of
putting all our eggs

In one basket,
so to speak, but.

And it seems like this place has
pretty hard borders around it.

Josh: yeah.

♪♪

[ Crew shouts ]

♪♪

[ Telephone rings ]

♪♪

Yeah?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

♪♪

♪♪

What's happened is a brake pad
slipped out of place,

The pad rode on it
and got it hotter than hell,

Heating up the caliper,

The lower ring of the caliper
goes bad,

And it pisses out brake fluid.

Narrator: the breaks normally
stop the propeller shaft,

But a misaligned brake pad means
the shaft won't slow,

Spinning instead in a
superheated frictional frenzy,

Rupturing the old ring
and spewing out brake fluid.

Narrator:
thanks to the scent of smoke
rousing taylor from his bunk,

The immediate danger is averted,

But their season
is still in peril.

[ Telephone rings ]

Yeah.

♪♪

Crew member: roger!

♪♪

Do not stand
in line with it.

If that gets
too much tension,

Both of those chains
go "ka-boom."

The chain don't
come apart easy.

We're just gonna have
to hurt some.

Narrator: the only way to stop
the runaway shaft from spinning

Is to bind it with chains.

A dangerous move that risks
snapping the iron links,

Grenading the engine room
with jagged steel.

♪♪

The tank, it should be okay.

♪♪

[ Horn honking ]

Narrator: as repairs get
under way below...

...upstairs, josh -- it's a
traffic jam.

Yeah. You on this one?

Yeah, we're just having
some issues

With one of shafts right now

So I'm in neutral,
just kind of drifting with it.

Yeah, roger. I see a bag set up
off my portside here,

I'm not sure if that's yours.

[ Radio static buzzes ]
man: well, good luck with that.

[ Radio static buzzes ]

♪♪

[ Machinery whirs ]

Casey: see it pull on it?

It started turning, put too much
pressure against it.

[ Machinery whirs,
metal scraping ]

♪♪

[ Machinery whirring,
metal scraping ]

[Bleep]

[ Scraping continues ]
go, go, go.

[ Whirring continues ]
hey, hey, hey, hey!

Out of the way!
Out of the way.

Man: whoa, whoa, whoa.
Watch out.

Narrator: on the cornelia marie.

Josh: yeah, roger.

Narrator: to avoid a collision,
captain josh harris

Throttles up...

Casey: see it pull on it?

It started turning, put too much
pressure against it.

[ Machinery whirring,
metal scraping ]

...adding 2,100 pounds
of torque

To the propeller shaft,

Threatening to snap the chain.

♪♪

[Bleep]

♪♪

[ Whirring continues ]

Hey, hey, hey, hey!

Out of the way!
Out of the way.

[ Scraping continues ]
man: whoa, whoa. Watch out.

♪♪

Turn it off! Turn it off.

[ Telephone rings ]

Yeah.

Do not go more
than an idle, period.

Okay. Well, no one told me
any of this [bleep]

♪♪

So you're yelling at me.

♪♪

That part of the ring's
[bleep] up.

See how there's
a flat spot right here?

Yeah.

That's where your smell
was coming from.

♪♪

♪♪

You got fluid?

Narrator: with their
new $12 o-ring

Firmly in place...

This side, we're done.

...josh and casey's
multi-million-dollar operation

Is back in action.

Good job, boys.
Thank you.

♪♪

Casey: sorry, I nipped at you
on the phone,

But I had just told taylor,

"Tell josh absolutely
nothing more than an idle

On the port side."

No, no, he just said, "you're
okay to put it down to an idle."

♪♪

All right. Good to go.

♪♪

The season from hell continues,
but we continue to beat it.

It's gonna keep
throwing arrows at us,

And we're just gonna keep
putting up shields.

♪♪

Narrator: 200 miles southeast

On the saga.

Well, joe came up and told me
I got a slack tank.

We're completely safe right now,

But I can ensure my product.

Narrator:
working off an emergency pump,

The flow of water and oxygen
the crab need to survive

Is depleted,
jeopardizing the crab

In jake's tank

We'll try to fix the problem.

I don't know.

Narrator: bringing his operation
screeching to a halt,

Only 36 hours
from the scheduled offload.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: the culprit? A short
in the pump's electrical panel,

Tripping the breaker
and k*lling the flow of water.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Jake: thank you, joe.
Good job catching that.

♪♪

All right, guys,
let's get these pots.

♪♪

That saved our crab.

Man: all right.
There he is.

I almost got this back full.

It'll be full here in the next
couple hours, hopefully.

Gonna head into town.

♪♪

Narrator: 125 miles northwest...

Bill: we're back on the ground.

Narrator: ...on the summer bay.

We've had breakdowns,

And we got a guy that blew
a tendon out

Just pushing on a pot.

You know, we're lucky
we got a new guy here.

So, it's time to start reading
what's in the gear

And adjusting.

Narrator: after a never-ending
parade of pain,

Captain wild bill needs to break
his bad luck streak

And finally haul a pot,

Preferably filled with crab.

New guy's a little interesting.

He looks like he's about
95 pounds soaking wet,

But I guess I should be happy
we're just got a guy,

And we're back out.

Todd: yeah, I've dabbled with
all the jobs on deck,

Except for hydraulics.

I'm blind in my left eye
so I have no depth perception

So I don't mess with that
at all.

♪♪

Bill: I'm just waiting
for the break.

Waiting for something that
falls in line correctly here,

Might surprise us.

Might be awesome. We'll see.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Crew cheers ]

There's some crab in this one.

Nick: it's all right.

♪♪

We've got todd landing pots,
sorting crab.

I'm gonna watch him like a hawk,

You know, make sure he knows
what he's doing.

With new guys, you never know.

♪♪

Bill: thank you.

It's a good thing.

♪♪

[ Crew shouting ]

Come on. Yeah.

Yeah, baby!

♪♪

Bill: this one's gonna be okay.

[ Chuckles ] whoo!

♪♪

265, 270 Pounds of crab.

That's not bad.

Ahh [bleep]

Tug.

Tug.

Got so many in that pot
they can't get the door open.

♪♪

Really cleaning up here.

Nick:
oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh.

Two-seven-four. Really big
crab, the biggest we've seen.

[ Crew laughs maniacally ]

It's cleaner,
it's better-looking,

And it's heavier,

And there ain't
a whole lot of traffic here.

♪♪

Todd: so far so good. Getting
used to the swing of things --

New boat, new crew, new system.

♪♪

[ Pulley whirring ]

♪♪

There you go.

Yeah!

Whoo-whoo! Fill it up.

♪♪

[ Crane whistles ]
nick: whoa, whoa, whoa. Ohh!

[ Thud ]
oh [groans] no!

Whoa.

We got a problem?

Hey. Come here.

Come here.

♪♪

Oh, I guess.

♪♪

Narrator: this week
on "salty takes" --

A busted toilet means the
cornelia marie

Must resort to...

Narrator: ...desperate measures.

Take a little bit
of reefer insulation.

We got to cushion the seat.

Don't want too much
hanging down there.

♪♪

Ta-da!

♪♪

I fixed it.

You did? Hey-hey!

We're set, it's got
a toilet paper holder

And everything.
Love it.

[ Chuckles ]

♪♪

Don't say I don't ever do
anything for you guys.

Hey, thanks, boss.

♪♪

Narrator: so, to be clear,

That's one bucket
for everyone on the boat.

Yuck.

Narrator: on the summer bay.

♪♪

[ Crew cheering ]

♪♪

[ Crane whistles ]
nick: whoa, whoa, whoa. Ohh!

Oh [groans] no!
[ Thud ]

Whoa.

We got a problem?

Hey. Come here.

♪♪

Come here.

♪♪

What happened? He got hit
in the head with a pot?

Narrator: slipping free
of the cradle,

The 15-pound picking hook
welcomes greenhorn todd

To the sea with
a head-hemorrhaging steel kiss.

Hold it there.

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[ Chuckles ] he held up
two fingers,

Told him to get back to work.

If you get hurt, I got to take
you to town

Either that or I can just stick
you in the freezer

And keep pushing.

Nick: todd just got smashed
in the head

With a 15-pound
stainless steel hook.

Bill: he has moved right in
and done multiple jobs.

Tying shots, he's sorting crab.

He just jumped in,
taking the bait out

[Bleep] cleaning the pot.

Guys, he's obviously efficient.

Todd might be a rock star.

We might be to pull
this thing off.

At this point in the trip,

Injuries have to be major
to get much attention.

Exposed bone,
we've elevated to exposed bone.

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Narrator: 120 miles northeast...

Casey: all right.
We got 3/10ths of a mile.

Narrator: ...on the
cornelia marie.

Josh: watch your footing.

Watch out for flying objects
to the head.

Hope we put some crab
on the boat.

Really hoping that there's
something in these pots.

We have suffered
for too long this year.

We deserve
a little retribution.

All this pain and agony
better pay off something.

Narrator:
after enduring hours of delays,

Captains josh and casey
prepare for the first pot

Of their deep divot set.

Please, lord, bless us
with some crab.

Pray that we set
in the right spot.

Narrator:
hoping the crater-shaped bowl

Holds a treasure trove
of elusive opilio crab.

♪♪

Casey: is it gonna produce?
God only knows.

We got to haul it and see,
but I hope we get a lot of crab.

♪♪

Let's see what happens here.

♪♪

Whoo!

[ Crew cheers ]

Josh: wowie.

Whoo.

Whoa. Yeah!

Josh: I wasn't
expecting that.

Been a while since
we've seen one of those.

Looks a lot better
than what we've been doing.

Nice, clean white-belly crab.

At this point, I think anything.

♪♪

Thank you.

♪♪

It's good stuff.

♪♪

[ Crew cheering ]

♪♪

Casey: whoo.

I told you.

That's a good-looking pot.

[ Crew cheering ]

♪♪

Fantastic.

If we're hauling gear
like this,

We're gonna lace this area
to the top.

And we can actually still
make profit if we keep this up,

You know, good profit.

Ideal, we should be doing
probably 10 pots an hour.

We should move in
a lot faster than that.

I need all six people
out there.

We don't need five.

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I love it.

Yeah! Here we go.

All right.
Lots of people.

Thank you.

Thanks for being tough, tay.

Narrator: pushing
through the pain,

Deckhand taylor braves the
dangers of the deck

Once again.

Thank god.

Just in time to help his team
bring in the monster haul.

He gets banged up,
but he never quits.

The kid is tough.

As cornelia marie
gets back to full pots

And a full complement
of crab...

In the words of
the nutty professor --

[Deep voice] "let's get busy."
[ Chuckles ]

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Narrator: on the summer bay.

[ Indistinct chatter,
crew cheers ]

♪♪

Todd is a pretty small guy,

But, you know, he's running the
back deck pretty good.

He can move pots around.

Bill: you want to know
the truth?

I'm thinking todd might have
more go than landon did.

So I'm pretty happy
with that transition.

Narrator: after being
put through the wringer...

Nick: hey!
[ Indistinct shouting ]

[ Crew cheers ]

...the bering sea rewards
captain wild bill

With snow crab galore.

Bill: I am fired up
about this, so.

Narrator: each pot worth
1,200 bucks.

Yeah, whenever they're ready,
let them to go.

Man: roger.

Reach over.
[ Cheering ]

♪♪

Jake: $150,000.

Narrator: and on the saga.

I'll take $150,000
any day of the week.

It's actually my best opies trip
so far with this load.

Narrator: jake hits
a personal record

Filling all three tanks
for the first time

As a full-fledged boat owner.

Jake: but you're gonna have
to win a lot more

Than one battle to win the w*r.

And they should be scared.

Narrator: but his crew's pain
so far

Is just a taste
of what's to come.

Jake: these guys have absolutely
no idea what they're in for.

They're gonna hurt,

They're gonna hurt bad.

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