You think you might have done
something to your kidney
or your --
-[Keith speaking]
Here, let me help you.
Yeah, no [bleep].
[Monte] All right,
we're putting along here.
[Monte speaking]
You know, we've been in
this storm.
Everybody's getting real tired
of hanging on.
[Jake] I can't [bleep] steer,
not one bit.
We're dead in the water
right now.
[Monte]
What'd you see in the toilet?
What'd your piss look like?
-Whoo!
-There's something!
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
[Sig] The opilios been closed
for three years.
He's not gonna hide crab
from us.
What the [bleep]?
Burn that thing to the ground!
Whoa, hang on --
[bleep].
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Holy [bleep]!
The wind's blowing me
to the dock.
[bleep]
[narrator]
of Dutch Harbor...
along the western edge of
the opilio grounds.
Well, we're making some
speed here.
Aboard the Northwestern.
[Sig] Heading west deeper.
Well, Aleutian Lady's over here,
I'm just trying to stay out of
the line of sight, you know?
Two days ago,
capitalizing on the lucrative
snow crab fishery, now open for
the first time in three years.
[Rick]
If I take the west side of it,
you take the east side of it.
All right, that's a good plan.
Captain Rick Shelford shared
intel with Captain Sig Hansen
ahead of their first set
of the season.
-Boo!
-Come on!
-[groaning]
-How's it look?
-Whoo-hoo!
-That's what I'm talking about!
Nothing too great.
But when Sig discovered
that his partner
used him for his own gain...
[Rick]
Have you seen any drop off,
like finding an edge?
What edge?
...the veteran skipper set
a course for the Aleutian Lady
to find out just how deep
the betrayal runs.
We've got about
so we need to be aggressive.
I'm a little
suspicious, though.
It makes me wonder what
he's doing.
And so I'm just gonna sit
here and see
what Rick is really up to.
I'm gonna disappear.
And see what's what.
Just half a mile away,
aboard the Aleutian Lady.
[Rick & deckhands shouting]
Yeah!
-Whoo-hoo!
-That's what I'm talking about!
Whoo-hoo!
Whoo-hoo!
We got a lot of quota
to catch --
I mean...
the Bountiful was expensive.
Now all I do is hope Sig
continues to prospect to
the east and we can find out
how big this area is.
[Sig]
Oh, there he is.
[deckhands] Oh, yeah!
[Sig] Wow!
Sneaky b*stard!
That's [bleep] bull[bleep].
-What do you think?!
-Whoo!
Looks like he's tracking north,
shuffling through instead
of stacking.
It's deeper up there,
and I think that's what
he's been hiding the whole time.
I'll just end-for-end it right
over the top of him.
I'm gonna keep these
lights off.
We're going kind of
stealth mode, and...
we're gonna gather
our own information.
That's it for me.
I'm not up here
to be a patsy for anybody.
on the eastern edge
of a 200-mile-wide
low-pressure system...
[Monte]
What'd you see in the toilet?
...aboard the Wizard.
[Monte]
What'd your piss look like?
[Keith] I'm not seeing
any blood in my urine.
That's a plus.
But my back is k*lling me
today, man.
Such is the life of
a Bering Sea crab captain.
[Monte]
OK, you just gotta be careful.
Before his injured kidney
becomes a spontaneous
renal hemorrhage,
Captain Keith Colburn prepares
to hemorrhage 150 pots
over eight nautical miles,
eager to make a dent
in his 175,000 pounds
of bairdi crab quota.
[Keith speaking]
Roger.
[Keith]
We just have to hope that
we can catch our bairdi fast
and switch over
to opies fast.
But I don't know
if I can sit here or not.
Whoa, wait, hang on, hang on!
Hang on, everybody!
Watch out!
Whoa!
[Keith speaking over intercom]
[Keith]
I can't sit straight downwind.
I just tried that.
I just got to barely idle
into it here.
Jogging into it
with the weather
over there where it belongs,
port forward quarter.
Once I get turned here,
we can start trying
to dump these off.
There's a dandy
[bleep].
Whoa.
Any kind of easterly set
is a no.
There might not be a course
I can set on it.
It's gonna have to be
to the west.
All right, find a home,
find a nice, safe set
for me, girl.
All right, I'm not sure if this
is the greatest course on
the planet, but it's the only
course that I can set on.
-Roger.
-[Keith] Go.
Rolling over.
Running with it helps,
because instead
of going into it,
you're kind of surfing
a little bit.
Rolling over!
So, just trying to keep set.
Hopefully, in the next
we will start to put
some crab on this boat.
[bleep] weather out there.
I'm waiting for Felipe
right now to
repair the solenoid
or directional valve that's
connected to the rams that are
connected to my rudders,
which makes us steer.
...aboard the Titan Explorer.
Went out while I was hauling.
I had to steer one way.
That was not fun.
After trading his opilio crab
for higher price-per-pound
bairdi quota,
Captain Jake Anderson
idles in 15-foot seas,
finalizing his steering repair
before hunting
for his 400,000-pound,
$2.8 million bounty.
[indistinct] this one, Jake?
-[Jake] What?
-[Felipe speaking]
All right, here we go.
Oh, nice.
Look at that.
I can turn starboard and port.
You don't know
how nice that is.
Your life depends on those
two directions everyday.
All right.
Then we'll get at it.
All right, let's go.
[Jake]
It's 69 fathoms here.
Let's see what goes down.
-[bleep] yeah, whoo!
-Watch out!
Got it, you got it!
[Jake] I have 332,000 pounds
of crab to catch.
I need to start
finding crab quick.
Yeah!
Yeah, there we go!
Yeah!
Oh, my God, there's
actually something in there.
Whoo!
Yeah, baby!
Oh, my god.
Oh, we're gonna go home
with them, boys!
There's some big ones in there!
[indistinct exclamations]
Dude, the [bleep]
table's full, bro.
Yeah!
Ha-ha, yeah!
Oh, there's more of that!
More of that!
Oh, my god!
[clapping, laughing]
It's even bigger!
Yeah!
[quiet clicking]
Ah [bleep].
I can't [bleep]
steer not one bit.
I got [bleep] nothing.
Aboard the Titan Explorer.
[Jake] Oh, my God.
We just fixed this.
Felipe just fixed this.
Before, at least I could go
to starboard,
but now I can't even
go port.
It's just bad all
the way around.
[Felipe]
[bleep], it's hot!
[Jake]
It's dangerous as hell to be
out here without steering.
I have no idea how much a tow
from here would cost to Dutch.
There's not a boat for
I don't -- I honestly --
I don't know what to do.
on the opilio grounds.
-[Sig speaking]
-Yep!
-Set 'em when you're ready.
-Roger.
Over!
[Sig]
I just -- out of line
of sight.
I got the AIS off.
Rick sees nothing.
Rick figured out where a little
prime fishing was from
the information he got
from Bobby.
Fine -- I understand
what Rick was thinking,
in his own greedy little way.
I get it.
But, I mean, this is
the place to be.
We've got ten pots left.
We're gonna set this one down
and then run over
and set that one up.
Aboard the 125-foot
Northwestern...
[Sig] Let her go!
[Sig]
I'm just gonna run these up
right over the top of them.
Last one, go up!
And see if we can get
these opilios caught.
-Going over.
-Yeah baby!
Let's go!
[Sig]
You know, payback's a pain.
Two miles south...
Yeah, baby!
Oh, there's some crab in
that one.
...on the Aleutian Lady.
There's some crab.
So 504 on that one.
What the...?
There shouldn't be
anybody up here.
Hey, guys.
Hold on.
Stand by.
I see a pot up here.
Roger that.
What the...?
Why is that
a Northwestern pot?
Hey, Sig, you got me on here?
Hello?
[laughing], [bleep]
What a [bleep].
Yeah, I took the best area.
It was my info.
He wouldn't be up
here otherwise.
I mean, I feel like,
you know, this guy thinks that
I'm a puppet or something.
I'm not gonna go looking
around for somebody else.
If there's crab around and you
know something, say something.
That's it.
[Rick speaking]
[deckhand] Roger!
OK!
I mean, if Sig don't get
my message, I don't know what's
gonna make him get it.
I'm not gonna get pushed around
and bullied by anybody.
I'm not gonna lay down
and roll over.
[deckhand speaking]
Whoo!
These guys had no right
coming over here.
[indistinct shouts]
All right, guys,
let's burn this thing quick.
-Oh, yeah!
-Yeah, baby!
I hope Sig enjoys this.
-[deckhand] Yeah, baby!
-[Rick] Do it, boys!
Roger!
Get some.
Yeah!
-Oh!
-Yeah!
I love it!
-Cut loose!
-We're good.
-There we go.
-Whoo!
-Boom!
-Hell yeah!
Ha, ha, ha!
[chuckling]
[Rick speaking]
-In you go, boys!
-Roger!
Whoo!
[Rick] This will probably end
our partnership,
and I'm OK with that.
I hope Sig likes his gift.
of Dutch Harbor,
aboard the Titan Explorer.
[Felipe and Jake speaking]
So got no steering.
If I try to get
my steering going again,
I'm at a serious risk of
starting a fire.
I'm assuming the tow
is about 10 grand,
but there's not a boat
for 100 miles.
I see a trawler way up there.
You know, there are stories of
trawlers using their doors to
get home
when they've lost steering,
but I don't know
how I would do that
because I don't have
trawl doors.
I mean, what if you put a...
I wonder if you put
like a pot,
you hang it from the wire
of the crane,
and you have somebody on
the port side paddle,
so to speak.
That might work.
I don't think we need to get
a tow, guys.
I want you to grab that plywood
that's in the long-line locker.
Set two pots flat on deck.
Take the shots out.
And then I want you to get
a safety hook on
that pick-and-hook.
-Yeah, Roger.
[Jake] Hurry it up.
Let's put a hustle on it.
[groans] --
it's a stupid idea right now.
[indistinct conversation]
Still cheaper than calling
for a tow.
[indistinct conversation]
Jake rigs two pots, not for
fishing, but for steering.
His plan --
position one pot off
the picking boom on
the starboard side
and the other
off the main crane
on the port side.
When at cruising speed,
Jake will lower them one at
a time to create drag and turn
the 125-foot Titan Explorer.
Well, he hopes.
This is calibrated for
the starboard side.
It's secure.
This is gonna be 15 hours
of grueling hell if this works.
-All right, starboard in water.
-Starboard side going in.
See if he can spin the pot...
-Here we go.
-Starboard side is
in the water now.
There we go!
[Jake]
So we're dragging now.
We're turning.
Turning starboard good.
It's the right way now.
[Jake]
Oh, thank God.
OK, pull up
on the starboard.
OK, I need to go port now.
-Let's go!
-We got port!
Heads up, port!
Heads up!
[overlapping voices]
[Jake] It's turning port.
Over there, go!
I just can't believe it works!
...till we get there.
Guys, what's this?
It's gonna take all five
guys to manage two rudders.
[indistinct shouting]
It has to work.
I don't really have any
other options,
There's a [bleep] wave right
there -- holy [bleep].
Wow.
Some of these are
solid 30-footers.
Maybe even more than that.
...on the Wizard.
[Keith]
Best case scenario, I might have
bruised my kidney a little bit.
Bruises don't hurt like this.
There's something else going on
right there at that
impact site.
Approaching 150 pots set off
course due to violent seas,
Captain Keith Colburn
prepares to haul
amidst 25-foot monster waves,
hurting to find a sign of life
before seeking
medical care in town.
All right, let's go have a talk
with the guys.
The weather's definitely
kicked up another notch,
so we got to be
super careful out there.
We're gonna do
a haul-and-hide, OK?
Hook it.
I can turn a little bit.
Once it's in the block,
don't go near that rail, OK?
Run and hide.
Then I'll close the rail
and give you guys
a safer work area.
The haul-and-hide, OK?
All right.
All right.
One, two, three!
Haul and hide!
-[phone ringing]
-Yeah.
...it means go out.
All right, thanks.
-[beeping]
-Go, go, go!
[Keith] Let's get some big
b*mber numbers here.
It's right [bleep] there.
This weather is gonna come
wrapping around
the starboard side.
Wow!
What happened?
Ah [bleep], wait.
[bleep] [indistinct]
Seeing nothing.
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
Go, go, go, go, go go!
Let's go! Let's go!
When you guys are good,
you can go back out.
Get inside, [indistinct]
[bleep] out, OK?
You got a couple big rollers
coming through here.
Right now, to keep the crew
safe, I'm just trying to keep
them off the deck.
OK?
Hey!
Watch out!
Oh, look at that sucker
coming at me!
Come on in!
Come on in!
Whoa, hang on!
[bleep]!
Go, go, go, go, go!
On the Wizard...
Whoa, hang on!
[bleep]!
Go, go, go, go, go!
[Keith speaking]
-For now.
-Come here!
[Keith] You're on pins
and needles right away.
But pretty soon you start
white knuckling it.
I mean, my knuckles
are already...
cramping up.
Hey, yow!
[bleep] nice!
Yahoo!
[Keith]
Got something in it.
Rider in the tunnel.
Rider in this back tunnel.
Whoo!
[indistinct cheering]
Did I hear 98 crab
in that last pot's?
Over.
That 100 count just...
[exhales sharply]
really helped me.
-Whoo!
-Yeah!
[crew cheering]
[Keith] We're gonna set
some gear right here.
Get ready to set.
Hopefully we can get
on some fishing
and we can catch our crab fast.
in the far north
opilio grounds...
[Sig speaking]
...aboard the Northwestern.
I'm north of Rick right now.
He was supposed to be stacking
out of there, is what he said.
But just things weren't
adding up.
I mean, you know,
the position of the boat,
not moving at all.
That's why you got to kind of
go look yourself.
And if this pot
has clean crab,
then that guy's
been sandbagging.
Moment of truth.
OK, here she comes.
[cheering]
As suspected.
Need a bigger table!
[Sig]
Now we're fishing opies.
Agh, I needed that so bad.
We've got a little game of cat
and mouse going on.
Rick was sandbagging.
What the [bleep].
What happened?
[Sig] What the hell?
Someone cut the web.
[bleep]
At least we got it back.
we'll see if we can get it
rewebbed when we get into town.
That's just --
that's rotten, man.
Roger.
Completely destroyed.
The web's just gone, so.
I mean...
that's just ridiculous.
Basically stole money from us.
Wow.
Go, go, go, go, go, go.
[indistinct]
-Give the signal.
-[Jake] OK, hoist up.
You can pick it up, Rolando.
You can pick up, starboard.
...aboard the Titan Explorer.
Now can we put in the port one?
[indistinct]
Put it down in the water just
a little bit more.
-Up!
-Go, go, go, go, go, go!
-Clear!
-Go, go, go, go, go, go!
All right.
We're getting to Dutch Harbor.
OK, up, up, up, up, up!
God, I look like a drunk sailor
coming home from the bar,
but we'll get there.
When we get back to town,
we'll -- maybe he'll take us
out to eat, huh?
-Yeah.
I have to make this
corner around...
the spit
and then get there.
Forced to use pots hung on
the port and starboard side of
his vessel to steer,
Jake prepares to maneuver in
the close quarters of
the harbor amid powerful
[bleep]
Look how fast
the wind's blowing me.
[bleep] dangerous as hell.
[bleep], dude.
Paddle in, paddle in.
Hey, up, up, up, up, up
[Jake] Pull it, pull it, pull
it, pull it, pull it!
-Get that up!
-Port's up!
No, that swung us hard
right there.
Holy [bleep], dude.
I just got to get straight
in there,
fully relying on the throttle.
OK, I'm gonna --
Yes, we're set.
[bleep] wind's blowing me
to the dock.
[bleep]
[bleep]
[bleep]
[bleep]
[metallic knocking]
I think sailors
are superstitious.
I think everybody out here has
got a bunch of stuff they want
to be surrounded by.
We have to have some gum,
some glasses,
and this colored note
underneath this log.
Bring that home.
Home sweet home.
Also has to be
a red apple present.
It also has to be two carrots,
and usually they are getting
quite old.
It's all critical.
It's kind of a psychotic
crab captain.
Careful, Monte.
You could turn into Keith.
On the Titan Explorer...
[Jake] [bleep] wind's blowing me
to the dock.
-[metallic groaning]
-[bleep]
[bleep]
[scraping]
[bleep] damn it!
[clanging]
[bleep] damn it, man.
Scared the [bleep] out of me.
[bleep], talk about blood
pressure rising.
That was crazy.
That was a hell
of a night.
[Jake]
The plan is to get patched up
and get back out to sea
as fast as I can.
And I still have a lot of crab
to catch.
If I don't catch my quota,
I don't have a shot
buying the Titan.
Far north on
the opilio grounds...
[Sig]
Rick is down below me.
I see his light down there.
That pod is out of commission
for the rest of the season.
I need a little
surprise attack.
That's all I can say.
Retaliate for some of the stuff
he's been pulling.
And uh...
Yeah, buddy!
[Sig speaking]
All right, guys, it'll just be
about three-quarter miles,
so like five minutes.
-Yeah, Roger.
[Sig]
I mean, I'm purposely trying
to hang back here.
He's not gonna see us.
He's not gonna
pay attention.
All right, here we go.
That's Rick, naughty boy.
-Ready, Carl?
-Ready!
Oh, look!
Oh, they're coming!
Hammer down!
[loud blast]
[Rick] What in the hell?
-Oh!
-[Sig] Carl, see if you can
sh**t it forward
right over his stern.
Don't mess with Daddy.
Now!
-Whoa!
-Holy --
Holy [bleep]!
Did you see how [bleep]
he went straight left?
[Sig] Is that it?
[Sig laughing]
Oh, my god.
I was trying my best
to sneak up on him,
and then you had him,
and then the flare
just went pshew!
[Rick] What the hell?
[Sig speaking over radio]
-Kind of cutthroat, man.
-Yeah, well...
I'm going up
against the infamous...
[Sig speaking over radio]
If the area above you is big,
I bet we can still
divide it up.
[singing]
Kumbaya, my Lord.
Kumbaya.
[Sig speaking over radio]
All right.
You know, there's always gonna
be conflict and deceit.
And that's just how it's always
been in this industry.
And so, uh...
you know, at the end of the day,
we're both here to fish.
We just got to catch some crab.
We got our gear off here
to the northwest.
Hopefully, we will get on some
hot fishing.
I mean, it has been nothing
but misery since we got here.
Come on!
Need to see something.
[deckhand] Uh-oh.
[bleep], I had higher
expectations than this.
Let's get this boat on
track here.
It's not that great.
It's OK amount of big ones.
There isn't anybody on that
deck right now that isn't sore.
Pot's ready.
[Keith] But there's definitely
an isolated sore spot in
the neighborhood of my kidney.
And with any luck,
we gonna catch all our crab
before we head to town.
We'll find out how
banged up we are.
We hope.
You never know.
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21x12 - Kidney Punch
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Follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons.
Follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons.