18x19 - Avian Apocalypse

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Everybody's
tired out there.

They've been working
their asses to the bone.

Great COD season
right into opies,

The most dangerous
fishery in the world.

We're almost there.

What was that noise?

We just keep hittin' lights.

Oh, my god!

Whoa!

What the hell, dude?

They think the lights
are the sun,

But I can't turn them off.

I can't see the gear.
There's gear all over here.

God.

Oh, hold it... Now go!

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Whoa!

350 miles north
of Dutch harbor.

Watch out!

Oh, ****.

Some really big
waves out here tonight.

On the Cornelia Marie.

That was to slow
her downwind.

- Yeah.
- Did you see that thing?

- Oh, yeah.
- That was a good one, huh?

Uh, yeah.

Wow!

Another one.

Headed north.

3,000 gallons of fuel.

$12,000.

But there's always
crab here,

God willing, I mean,
this weather sucks.

Whoo!

You gotta learn firsthand

What it's like
to play in the ice.

One week
into their opilio season,

And zero crab to show for it

Kind of an unorthodox
little set, but you know what,

With great risk comes
great reward...

Sometimes.

Captains Josh
Harris and Casey McManus

Push their crew into the
27th hour of non-stop work,

Setting all 150 pots
in the far northern latitude

Eager to inject life
into their season,

And their tanks.

We've got a little buildup
of ice so we gotta go slower.

A little more dangerous,
but we'll get it done.

As long as we don't
create an unsafe situation,

It's okay, it's just not fun.
You're gonna get wet.

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Hang on.

Wow.

Here we go!

Watch your back!

Oh, boy.

Taking a little
spray out there.

Oh, man. Kawai looks
like he's standing up there

Really contemplating
his decision

To become a crab fisherman.

Wondering what bad decisions
he made in his life

To wind up in this position.

Has he ever been in weather
like this where it's cold?

Yeah, I think he
snowboarded once,

But not getting saltwater
thrown in your face,

Getting your a*s thrown
around like a little puppet.

Yeah.

Whoo!

Come on in, guys.

Roger!

We just got done setting up
that second string.

Weather came up, it got cold,

The whole front
of the boat is covered in ice.

We got about four hours here.

Four hours' run.

Uh, kawai, I'm gonna
put you on first watch.

Roger!

Casey speaking...

Oh, no.

Yeah, massive ice flow.

Go!

- Do I need to take your phone away?
- No.

Obviously I do, 'cause you
should have seen

This **** Thing
from a long ways away.

What the ****
Were you doin'?

Hmm?

Kawai speaking...

You nodded out?

,
what just happened?

He fell asleep.

Oh, god.

I'm gonna put the watch alarm
here at three minutes,

Because obviously you
can fall asleep in two,

Which gives you only a minute
with your eyes closed, okay?

And this guy here
is coming with me.

You are gonna stand up
your whole watch.

Because if this chair's
so comfy you can sleep in it,

We can't have it up here.

Here's your new place
to stand watch, right there.

Kawai speaking...

Okay.

Better not.

Seven people die if this
thing goes down right now.

- You'd make her eight.
- Yeah.

Okay.

Eyes up, the entire watch.

Kawai speaking...

180 miles northwest...

On the summer bay.

Stand by.

Crewman speaking...

Okay, I'm gonna try
threading the washer out.

One of the by-products
of doing COD is you get here late.

The ice isn't that far away,

But there was some guys that
pulled their trips out of the same area.

With his entire 50,000-pound
opilio quota still ahead of him,

Captain wild bill wichrowsk
wrestles with two options.

The ice-laden north, or the more
tread-upon sout for his opening set.

It's a total gamble.

What to do?

- We're gonna go for it.
- Roger.

Alaska, baby!

It looks like a game
of frozen Tetris.

Get it all done, safely.

Go, go, go.

Okay, going over!

There'll still be COD
in the water.

This is not my
normal mo of doing things.

Watch out!
Watch out! Watch out!

I would usually try
to find something

That is a little safer.

But we got
a little window here,

And I'm gonna see
what we can harvest

Before we're running
from the ice.

21 miles northeast...

Oh, good!

...On the sag

It's getting wet there
right now.

You can see how cold it is.

It's starting to freeze
from the outside, inside.

You're not dealing with ice
off the boat,

You're dealing with ice
on the boat.

Nervewracking.

Every set in every haul,
there's just been something.

It's just been tough.

I'm spacing these out
about two-tenths of a mile.

You're clear!

It sucks for crab
because it's gonna be hard

To catch all that crab
that tight,

Unless you're on a big pile.

But I have to keep 'em tight
because I'm next to the ice.

I have to be able
to pick 'em up, quickly.

After squeezing
$130,000 out of the COD derb

Captain Jake Anderson
steams north, near the ice edge,

Preparing to pack his 75 pot

Into a small
6-square-mile area,

Ensuring a quick exit,
but nothing more.

It's so icy out there.

My team is just exhausted,

But we're all still
carrying on.

And that's the main thing.

Yeah, hit her.

I'm very fortunate
that I have Joe Gomez,

Mason twyman

And my beautiful niece,
Shyanne Smith.

It's only day one,
and I'm cold

And my hands hurt
like ****.

Whoo-hoo-hoo.

There's always a method
to the madness,

But right now, madness.

The deck's pretty much
squared away.

I can now, at least,
start setting gear.

- You guys ready?
- Ready!

22.

Hold on!

Here it goes! Get back!

The ice
is about 20 miles away.

Watch out!

This is the opies,

The hardest fishery
in the world.

Whoo!

Pass one of these pots off.

We've gotta get this
towed out of here.

Watch out!

Watch your back!
Watch your back!

Joe, are you okay?

Joe, you okay?

You okay, Joe?

All good!

What the hell...
Where did that come from?

There's big ones.

That was big.

It takes a lot
to put me on the ground.

Rogue wave.

You always know when
you're gonna get hit,

Because it'll get quiet
before you get hit.

Everything goes dead silent,
and then, bam!

- Ready.
- Yep.

Hold on!

Whoo!

We're fighting
the elements here.

We're fighting
the **** Damn elements.

We need to get
these pots in the water,

So we can actually
start catching some crab.

Whoo!

150 miles southeast...

All right, guys,
we're almost at the first string.

...On the Cornelia Marie.

Yeah, my legs hurt.

I've been standing up
all night.

Did you miss that chair
a little?

No, not at all.

Last night, I made
a serious mistake.

I fell asleep on watch.

Yeah, we're not gonna have
a screw up like that again.

Yeah, let's hope not

All right, I'm gonn come
up with something worse than that.

Roger.

Here we go.

Whoo!

$50,000
into an excursion up north,

Plus a hull dented by ice,

Captains Josh and Casey
approach their all-in set.

With any luck, maybe we'll
get this done in a fast manner.

Hey, get it up.

Oh, my god.

I don't see any
opies in there.

No dogs, no table, no nothing.

How's this one looking?

Oh, no!

Wah-wah.

We are gonna stack this.

We gotta really wrap
through the ****, okay.

Keep that in the back of your
head as we pound away at this.

Don't slow down,

For nothing.

Roger.

Oh, man.

This is not what we
were looking for.

Wind it up.

Hold it right there.

Ouch.

No table.

Be careful.

Whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.

Dude!

What in the ****?

The hell, dude?

Don't ever get near
the windows.

The pot should never
get near the windows.

Oh, my god.

I don't know what
the **** He was thinking,

But he just about took out our
wheelhouse windows with a pot.

Give me a ****
Heart attack.

How close
did you get?

Closer than I wanted it to.

By a lot.

You guys gotta talk to each
other better out there, okay?

I want some more,
more communication,

Make sure everybody
knows what's going on,

And let's do this right
the first time.

Don't **** Up.

Roger.

Probably just frickin'
chipped some paint off,

But we were one rock away from
having that thing pump the window out.

Yeah.

The hell.

I don't wanna see any more
mistakes coming out of this young man.

I love him, but when
it comes to our lives

And the most important stuff
to do, it's like, ****.

We'll see.

40 miles
southwest of the ice edge..

In less than two
days, we have the ice coming.

...On the summer bay.

If we don't get them on and
the ice comes down, we're screwed

'cause this weather pattern's
for at least eight, nine days,

So we wouldn't see these
pots again until next spring,

If we see them at all.

So, make sure these guys are
aware that it's gonna be a **** Pick.

Okay.

- All right, man, be careful down there.
- Okay.

Risking his firs set on a
small area just 20 square miles,

Captain wild bill enjoys the
cool climbs of the higher latitudes.

Hold on there!

40-knot winds...

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

...And 30-foot waves,

All part of the far
north's charms.

All right, you guys,

We're gonna see
if this is even doable.

Deckhand speaking...

I'm scared.

I'm scared.

Whoa!

I mean, these guys
work in bad situations all the time.

All right, guys, I think
we're just gonna go for it...

Deckhand speaking...

Whoo-hoo.

We'll see
where we end up here.

Here it goes, ready!

All right, first pot.

Out of his way.

That was easy.

The ice isn't
that far away, but...

We have an opportunity

To make some real dough
in a short period of time here.

Oh.

Be careful, guys.

Come on, surprise me.
Give me a big one here.

Give me the big one.

See what we got.

Yeah!

Whoo!

- Cha-ching.
- Whoo.

Nice. That was good.

Yeah.

Whoo!

Yeah, there's a couple
in that one.

288.288.

If every pot has that,

We're done.

What have we got?

Got some, baby!

Whoo!

There's probably more
in this pot than the last one.

Nice. Fill it to the brim.

326!

Whoo!

Give me
this all day long.

Yeah! Whoo!

It's the one we needed, guys!

These are big opies.

How's that
for a little motivation?

Bringing heat, baby.

Whoo!

That's pretty good fishing
there. That's all we need.

That's what
we've been waiting for!

Whoo!

329! 329!

Whoo!

Yeah.

This is the sweet spot.

Roll these.

Yeah, rog.

I'm gonna
set back through it.

If there's crab in it,
we're gonna take it.

These are ridiculous.

I mean, I'm rebaiting
and setting back.

There's a good one.

There's a good one there.

Yo, baby!

Look out!

Watch out!

There's a good
one. There's a good one there.

Yo, baby!

Look out!

Watch out!

Oh, no.

How do we look?

Couldn't get the mic
or the buzzer.

They didn't hear me
on that one, but,

I got the boat turned..

We're okay.

Holy smokes.

That was a freight train.

Took a big chance on this,

And we're gonna get enough
crab in these pots to meet our quota.

But can we get this up
before we get covered up?

Get out of here with what we
need before the ice comes down.

170 miles southeast...

...On the Cornelia mar.

Are we blessed with
kawai's presence this morning?

- Yep.
- Roger.

You gotta be quick.

Be real quick.

Speed. Agility.

Like a cat.

Just nine miles
from their failed northern set

And 90 feet from his flailin
half-shared Deckhand kawai..

The first pot
is going over.

...Captain
Josh Harris rights the ship

Casey's in snooze mode
right now.

This is when I do
my best work.

So, looking at this trench,

We see all these breaks
and everything,

They find a little hole,

And they like to just
sit in the hole,

And they don't like
to crawl out of it.

So, here's the trench,

And I wanna nail the pots right on
the top of this trench on each side.

Captain Josh takes
aim where the opilio take refuge,

Betting his crew can rally

Until he gets his first sig
of his 60,000 pound quota.

Kawai speaking...

A little slow today.

Make sure
that you're learning.

Kawai and crewman speaking...

See what happens.

Has he got it in him?

Right now,

If my calculations
are correct there's, uh...

There's some crab in there.

140 miles northwest...

...On the saga ...

Throw it over.

This string is...

In the southeast
of the gear we just set.

Finish all of these pots off.

Throw it over.

...Captain Jake
stakes the last of his gear

Betting his empty deck will
turn into a landing pa for full pots,

Assuming his narrow grid doesn't
cut his crab out from under him.

And this is the last pot
of that string.

Whoa!

- That should do it.
- Whoo!

Do or die.

Now I'll start
a run to the south.

So what I'm gonna do is, uh

I've got a 17-mile run,

And you guys can take a nap.

Roger!

Hey, Mason,

Come up and drive for me.

Rog.

I'm so
**** Fried, man.

What the ****?

Look.

See that?

Look at that!

Nuts!

Oh, my god.

What they do is they
come around.

See?

These outboard lights
are going for them.

Oh, my god.

Mason speaking...

What the hell is that?

They just keep
hitting the lights.

They, they think
the lights are the sun,

But I can't turn them off,
I can't see the gear.

There's gear all over here.

And if I run over
anybody's gear,

I get it into my wheel,
it can shut the boat down

And can possibly seize up
one of my main engines.

That's, that's not good.

With seabirds
using natural light to navigate...

What is this? Some kind
of omen or something?

...Jake's 1,000-watt,
one-foot sodiums

Disorient the fowl.

Oh, god.

Hey, Mason, I'm gonna
need a damage report.

- Yeah.
- I can see wires hanging.

I can see all kinds
of stuff broken.

Oh, my god..

No.

That was
absolutely insane.

An entire flock of birds
hit my mast.

Now, I've seen like
a random sparrow...

...Hit something, but...

Oh, my god.

I've honestly never
seen anything like this before.

- In your whole life?
- In my whole life.

On boats, on land, nothing.

Argh!

All right, Mason, give it to
me straight on the damage report.

They pulled
a bunch of wires out.

The center sodiums are busted.

The port sodiums are busted.

And then the starboard
led, outboard.

$9,000 in just lights alone.

All new wiring, plus time.

We're at, like,
$16-17,000 of damage.

From a 10-minute
bird bombardment.

All I can do is just hope and
pray that there's fish here.

370 miles north we
of Dutch harbor...

...On the Cornelia mar.

Hey, guys,

We're gonna rip through
that gear as fast as we can

Try to bang this season out

While there's still enough
crab on the ground to be caught.

Roger!

I'm seeing
some trench, though.

You know?
I've just got that feeling,

Like this is gonna be it.

I've been praying.

Been doing
everything I can do.

Let's go!

Precious days leeched by
traveling up nort and hauling blanks,

Captains Josh and Casey look to deep
basins in the s floor for trapped opilio,

And to their crew, for an all-out
grind to make up for lost time.

We've had a rough start,
right out of the gate.

Maybe we shed
our bad luck right there.

I mean, anything's possible.

We'll see, uh,
if there's crab here.

Look at
that **** Pot!

Ooh, look at this.

There's some crab
meat in there.

- Oh, yeah!
- Yeah!

Oh, baby!

I love it!

Oh, yeah.

Three-five-five.
Looking good, buddy.

- Nailed it, yeah!
- Good!

Yeah, boy!

- Boom.
- There she is.

Pretty good. Pretty full.

There you go, boys.

Absolutely loaded!

Look at that,
that's a **** Dandy!

365.

Honestly in a state
of shock right now.

Never see crab like
this coming up in the pots,

Especially after the season
we've had so far.

Boy, I'll tell you,
man, it's, uh...

It is a breath of fresh air.

Careful!

You do realize they'll put
all the **** On TV, right?

You know, you gotta,

You gotta have four guys that
really know what they're doing, and...

And then you gotta take
the training wheels off

Pretty quick here
and get to business.

All right, kawai,

- You know your redemption shot?
- Yep?

You hit every pot
in this string,

Don't miss anything,

And I'll let you guys have
the chair back tonight.

Roger!

Up on watch,
Casey took away the chair.

Hoping I can
get this all good for the boys.

There we go!

Oh, yeah!

Got the first one.

One down, brother!

Fourteen more in a row to go
if they wanna sit down tonight.

150 miles northwest...

Oh, ****!

That thing is **** Mean!

...On the sa.

Did you hear that?

That's the props coming out
of the water, dude.

Rpm's go from 900
to 2200 in a second.

But I gotta do
whatever I can do

To move us forward.

And if it takes hauling
in iced-up 20-foot seas,

Then I have to do that.

Or we'll never go home.

These waves can
wash you right overboard,

They can flatten you like a
linebacker hits a quarterback.

After burning fuel and
supplies to make the 550-mile trip north...

...And ducking
a duckpocalypse...

Weather's starting to pick u

- I don't wanna **** Wait.
- Roger!

...Captain Jake
jousts with 20-foot seas,

To claim his 75 pot set,

Packed tight, in case of ice

All right, first pot.

Okay, here we go!

God, it would
be nice to just see

Some reward for all this pain.

Still good!
I got high hopes.

We're gonna ride
or die today, baby.

First pot coming up.

This has got 30 hours
soak on it.

Come on, baby!

Oh, my god. Come on.

Nothin'!

Blank.

No crab.

Just because one of these pots
comes up with nothing,

Doesn't mean they're all
gonna have nothing.

Up, up, up!

What do we got?

Codfish.

, man...

Stack that piece of ****.

- Knock it off?
- Knock it off!

There's always hope,
until there's not.

And then you move south.

I'm just trying to hold
my **** Together.

Okay, we got an issue.

We got an issue.

On that light right there.

You see it?

Right there.

After the birds hit,
something's broken up there.

The shroud's gonna fall off.

Then what comes down
next is the whole light.

If that shroud falls
on somebody's head,

That's the end
of 'em right there.

- Oh!
- Oh, no!

Hey, Mason.

That light's gonna
**** Come down,

The shroud's gonna
come down too.

You're gonna have to get up
there and take it apart.

Rog!

Sixty-four feet up
in an a-frame,

With 55 knot winds,
and 25-foot seas.

Fixing a light.

Mason speaking

Here we go.

Get up high as fast
as you can, mas, okay?

Mason's a stud.

He loves nothing more
than a challenge.

Right now Mason's
tightening up the shroud,

Or taking the shroud off,

Whatever's gonna
be easiest for him.

Dude!

Shyanne!

Don't **** Stand there!

Get out forward!

- All right, then just ease up to it.
- Yep.

On the summer bay...

My first time in 14 years that
I've gotten to toss the pots.

Turn to the port.
Turn to the port.

Damn it!

Ah, he missed.

Sorry, that was a miss
back down, right there.

Landon speaking...

The bag was
right there, by the box, too.

Did you
cuss him out?

Landon speaking...

You'll learn to cuss him out.

You gotta learn it all, buddy!

Captain lando!

While wild bill transforms his
mild deck bos into commandin' Landon,

Josh and Casey turn awry kaw

Into a lean, mean,
greenhorn machine.

On the saga.

Dude!

Shyanne!

Don't **** Stand there!

Get up forward!

Get out of there!

Oh, ****!

Just stay there.

What the ****, Shyanne!

He's got a **** Metal
shroud in his **** Hands

If he drops that
on your **** Head,

You're gonna **** Die!

Is it safe? That's all I want,

I just wanna
be safe, that's it.

Is it safe?
That's all he wants!

Yeah!

Go for it, mas.

Does that make
sense now, Shyanne?

If that thing would have
fell on your head...

Shyanne speaking...

Mason speaking...

Okay, everybody okay?

She said if we send
her man up there again,

She's gonna **** k*ll you!

Jake over speaker... I'm
just trying to protect you,

And it sucks when
I can't just be down there

And grab you and just
shove you, you know?

Crewman speaking...

Up, up, up!

- Jake over speaker All right, we're stacking on
- Rog!

We need to start
catching some crab.

Before the crab
are in the ice.

150
miles southeast...

...On the Cornelia mar.

Yeah!

There we go.

Whoa!

Make it four.

After
a series of slip-ups,

Greenhorn kawai Cho is on
the hook for his reputation

And for the 60,000 pounds captains
Josh and Casey desperately need.

No, I don't think
he's gonna get this one.

Ah, he got it.

That's pretty damn good.

Ah, I love it!

All right, you got
six more, it's up to you.

He who screweth it up,

May maketh better again.

Come on!

Yeah!

All right,
he got that one.

If kawai gets this
one in the block,

We'll leave the chair in for
tonight when they're on watch.

And here it comes.

Oh, you got it!

- Damn!
- Yeah, he got it!

And there was
a lot of length there.

- Oh, I laid that one out for him.
- Yes, you did.

Kawai got 'em all!
He's out of the doghouse!

All right, good job, kawai.

You earned it

Roger!

Up and over, guys!

Got the chair
back for the boys,

So now they can
all sit on watch.

We're never
gonna have this mistake again.

Never, ever, ever.

Roger!

Now we'll find out
if he learned his lesson.

Hard to tell.

Coming off.

You know,
you risk a lot coming up her

Yeah, I would say
it's definitely worth it.

Now it's time to set

And stay in between
the gear and the ice.

The ice
isn't that far away.

Four-one-zero!

410 in that pot.

Couple of strings of 300 plus

Is getting us where
we need to go.

This is the last one.
Stack it.

We're moving north,
into the ice.

This is what we do.

This is opie.

Most dangerous fishery
in the world.