21x13 - Ice Peril

[bunniefuu]

[intriguing music playing]

[Sig] All right,
we're gonna start setting.

Set it when you're ready.

Just be careful.

As far as fishing
opilio right now,

we're 600 miles from town,
and there hasn't been boats

out here in three years.

You know, it hasn't been open
for a couple of years now, so.

I got an offload date
in a couple of days.

I just want to get this caught

and then move on
to our bairdi season.

[Rick]
I'm already behind schedule,

so I'm taking
a little bit of a gamble.

I'm going way,
way up north, all the way up.

Buying a boat is a pretty
big chunk of money

to try to come up with.

And the neighborhood's
starting to get crowded.

You can see the fight is
to get to the gear

and haul it and put crab
in the tank.

[Keith] Now I'm just fighting
over crab.

You know,
it's a brute force fishery.

♪ I'm a cowboy ♪

[Karl speaking]

Ow.

That's real bad right there.

♪ On water ♪

It is so dang cold outside.
It'll k*ll the crab.

[Jake]
That's a huge boat.

♪ Dead or alive ♪

These bottom trawlers
want to w*r.

♪ Dead or alive ♪

We'll get more.

♪ Dead or alive ♪

I don't like this.

Watch the rail.
Watch that rail.

["Wanted Dead or Alive"
by Bon Jovi fades away]

[Clark groans]

[narrator] 136 miles north
of Dutch Harbor.

[Keith speaking]

Pick it up [bleep].

On the Wizard.

It was only a matter of time
before the Bering Sea broke me,

I think it has occurred.

[OJ]
[unintelligible]

It's unfortunate, but we'll get
myself in the clinic.

We'll find out
how banged up we are.

But first,
we need to find some crab.

After a 25-foot swell heaved
Captain Keith Colburn,

kidney first,
into the galley counter.

The veteran skipper
fights through the pain

of a possible renal hemorrhage,

gambling he can tank another


before heading to town
for medical care.

[Keith] The last thing we need
to do is go in early and light.

[OJ]
All right [unintelligible].

-[Keith speaking]
-Roger.

That's about 70 crab too few.

We've got to come up
with a plan.

Jake's got gear stretched all
over the place over here.

He's got a ton of...

bottom covered, so he may be
on to something here.

Just 40 miles northwest.

[deckhand] Yeah, man,
let's keep going -- [bleep].

It's not looking good.

[bleep].
It's not looking good.

On the western side
of the bairdi grounds.

[deckhand speaking]

Seven-zero-seven.

[Jake sighs]

Aboard the Titan Explorer.

[Jake] So I just got back
to the fishing grounds.

We had issues
with the steering.

I have 200 pots to catch


I have -- I don't know how
many hundreds of thousands

of square miles to look.

Just tired of hauling
fives and sixes

and tens and sixteens.
-[deckhand] Eleven.

Eleven crab.

Eleven.

If I don't catch my bairdi,
then not only do I lose

my chance of buying
into a business,

but I'll probably lose my job.

While most of the fleet chases

the newly-opened
opilio fishery,

Captain Jake Anderson
gambles his entire season

on the higher priced
bairdi crab,

hauling the first
of five strings

spread over 50 square miles
of terrain, still $1.4 million

away from boat ownership.

[phone vibrating]

Hey, Keith.
How's it going?

Well, it's not very gnarly
where we're at yet, but...

How are you?

[Jake speaking]

I'm hauling teens
and have been for hours.

Well, you've got so much
information sitting

in the water now.

[Jake speaking]

...all I know is I got a lot
of bairdi to catch, and I'm...

If you want to try
and work together,

All right?

Yeah, that's fine.

[Keith and Jake speaking]

-[Jake] Bye-bye.
-Bye.

He can help us...

Mouse.

Oh, without a doubt.

There's no way that
we won't get,

as long as he's honest,
positive information.

[Jake]
Well, I need help.

But I got to trust him,

giving him my information.
And he has to do the same.

[Felipe laughs hysterically]

There's crab.

Holy [bleep].

[crew cheering]

Easy hundred.

[crew cheering]



This could be just one pot.

That's how [bleep] bairdi
works, too.

You just get one big pot,

and then there's nothing
around it.

Here it comes.

[Felipe screams]

Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

-[crew cheering]
-[bleep]

Oh [bleep]!

Oh [bleep]!

[bleep]!

[bleep] if it keeps
going like this,

I'm really gonna regret
calling Keith in.

One-eight-zero.

One-[bleep]-eighty is the
high pot of the season so far.

But what have I done?

Mother lode, dude.

[crew cheering]

[Jake] Damn it.

[tense music playing]

[Jake] I think I screwed up.

I don't need
a partner for this.

I need more pots.

Let's see what we got
before I call Keith.

We can just destroy
and decimate this area.

Ah!



On the opilio grounds.

Aboard the Northwestern.

It's just starting to perk up.

We're expected to see 18,


And 40 plus knots
with 50 gusts.

When you get these westerlies
pushing up against that ledge...

that's what gives that surge.

With building four knot tides
on a collision course

with a steep 80 degree
underwater ledge or cliff face,

Captain Sig Hansen races
to haul his final 25,000 pounds

of opilio before wave heights
exceed 30 feet.

Every hour is critical.

I just wanna get these crab
caught so we can get back down

and start fishing
our bairdi.

[Sig speaking]

[deckhands] Roger.

[Clark speaking]

Let's go!

Here it comes,
first pot coming in!

[deckhand]
Let's get some bairdi!

[Sig] You can feel
the tension on the line

'cause you can hear it.

So we're gonna have
to get the pot up safely

and without snapping it.

[deckhand]
That's all right.

Let it do its thing.

OK, we're in 90
fathoms right now.

[Clark] Coming up!

Here we go -- OK, come on.

[deckhand] Whoa.

Not too sexy.

That's not gonna do it.

[deckhand] Kind of weak.

[Sig and Clark speaking]

[Sig] Not good.

But we need more.

We're inching our way
deeper and deeper.

[Clark] There it is!

[Karl]
Watch your head.

Whoo!
Hang in there.

[crew]
Go, go, go, go.

[Clark groans]

Big one.

-[Clark] [bleep]!
-[Karl] Oh.

[Sig] Oh, what the hell?

-What's going on?
-[Clark] Oh, [bleep], man!

Stop, are you good?

I don't know.

[Sig and Karl speaking]

[Sig] What?

-[Clark groans]
-[Sig] Damn it.

[Karl speaking]

[Sig] Damn it.

[Karl and Clark speaking]

[Clark] Ah, [bleep], dude.

On the Northwestern...

There's so much tension
on that line.

The surge, plus the weight,
snaps out of that block

in a half a second.

[Clark groans]

[Karl] Oh!

[bleep] damn it!

Yeah, it cut me.

That was the hardest
I've seen it pop out

of that block,
single-potting.

[Clark and Sig speaking]

I -- I got a cut
under there, but it --

Oh, so you kind of hit your,
just kind of got --

Just like right
in the jaw, yeah.

My jaw hurts bad.

[Sig] All right, well.

Ah!

-You want to keep going,
or you wanna just stop?
-Yes.

No, as many
as we can put on here.

It's not as bad right now.

[sighs] All right, well,
let's try to get this pot up.

I don't know
maybe it's cursed.

-We'll find out.
-[Clark] It'll be all right.

I'll just keep my face
out of there.

[Karl]
Whenever you're ready.

It really knocked him
in the jaw and got his teeth.

Hopefully,
his jaw's not broken.

[Karl] What do we got?
What do we got?

We got something here.

Oh, I see some on the top.

That's a good sign.

[Karl] Oh, here you go.

-[deckhand] Looks pretty good.
-[Karl] Yeah, buddy.

All right.

[deckhand]
Oh-h*, h*, h*.

Oh-h*, h*, h*.

Eight-three.

Let's see here.

So far, the deeper end
is better.

If I go even deeper...

you get more of a surge
coming off that edge.

But we're running out of time.

-You can set it back.
-[Karl] Roger.

Yee-haw!

We're gonna just take
a chance, take a gamble,

and stay a little
deeper on this one.

I'm hoping that
hunch is correct.

[deckhand] Ready.

[Sig] Ah!

[Karl] Going over.

[Sig]
I'm afraid to ask what's next.



aboard the Aleutian Lady.

[deckhand] Yee-haw!

[crew speaking]

[deckhand] Whoo-hoo!

[Rick and deckhand speaking]

[loud alarm]

[Rick]
We were seeing a lot of good
sign in this depth curve.

So, I mean, I took the gamble

packed it up, ran up north...

and we're setting
our prospect string.

But I got more quota to catch
than almost everybody else.

So...

I got to get moving.

[deckhand] Over!

Going over!

I got it, watch out.
Watch out, I got it.

I got it, I got it.

[Todd speaking]

Yeah, hey, Todd.
I got you here.

[Todd speaking]

Oh, damn!
You guys need any help?

Or what's going on?

[Todd speaking]

Yeah, we do got 'em.
So we'll get those boxed up,

and then I'll jog over.

[sighs]
He's [bleep] far.

All right, Todd, I'll head
towards you, full throttle,

but I'm heading
your way right now.

[Todd speaking]

That's what all of us
are out here for,

is to help each other.

-[Todd speaking]
-sh**t.

All right, guys,
I got to make a turn here.

[Rick speaking]

[deckhand speaking]

[Rick] Damn it.

He's straight east,
and we need to go to the north.

It's not what I'd like to do,

but they're just drifting.

I mean, this is
in the middle of nowhere.

A lot of bad things can happen.



on the bairdi grounds...

[Mac]
Yeah, look at that.

Oh, yeah, look at that,
look at that, look at that.

[deckhand]
This is a nice one right here.

Damn, dude.

It's just getting better.

...aboard the Titan Explorer.

It's over!

[Keith speaking]

[deckhand speaking]

[Keith speaking]

[bleep].

[bleep].

[bleep], damn it.
What do you do?

I'm about halfway
to my goal and dream,

and that's buying this boat.

And if I get Keith in here,
he's gonna come

and slam this area.

There's a lot of [bleep]
crab here, dude.

A lot.

I need to consolidate
this [bleep] gear.

[Andres groans]...[bleep]!

-[Andres groans]
-[Felipe] You, dude, hey.

-[Andres groaning] [bleep]!
-[Felipe] Keep 'em
over in the bucket.

[Andres groaning] [bleep],
[bleep], [bleep] my arm.

Felipe!

[Felipe] What happened?

[Mac] What happened?

[Andres groaning]

[groans]

Did you see what happened?

[Felipe speaking]

[groans]

[groans]

Ah [bleep]!

[groans]

Right now, is a serious
situation 'cause we're down

one of our main people.

Now we're hauling gear,
trying to set, four men.

Hopefully,
we don't have to go into town

and lose a crew member.

[Jake speaking]

[Felipe speaking]

[Jake] Andres!

On the Titan Explorer...

-[Jake] Let me see that thing.
-[bleep].

Oh, man, that's [bleep] up.

That's real bad right there.

So that must be
the muscle right there.

[Andres speaking]

[Jake]
I really got two choices --

take you in now
or take you in later.

What do you think
is best for you?

Well, it's up to you.
I mean...

[Jake] Um...

I don't want to get to town
and then the clinic say,

"You should have came
two days before,"

or whatever.
-Yeah.

[sighs] I'm very sorry, Jake.

[Jake] OK.

What do you do?

What do you do?

This is the hottest spot
to fish right now

in the Bering Sea.

And I got to go back into town.

The whole fleet's gonna
come and just destroy

and decimate this area.

I think I have an idea.

[phone ringing]

You got me, Keith?

[Keith and Jake speaking]

Oh, you're [bleep] kidding me.

Torn -- torn bicep.

...135 on the first one.

Sounds to me like you're
on something that's definitely

worth [bleep] working on.

Well, what I will do is this.

I'm gonna spot check
some of your gear,

and if I find something,
I'll put your gear on top...

[Jake speaking]

...for all your help.

[Keith] All right, bye.

Well, Mouse, my back,
if you're curious, is, um...

is not good.
But let's start [bleep] bombing

right on the meat.

I jumped in bed
with the monster.

I've got Andres, who's injured,
and I gotta go back into town.

But Keith knows where I'm at.

I'm trusting him.

Hopefully he plays nice.



on the opilio grounds.

[Sig speaking]

Smile.

-Let me see.
-I can't really [bleep].

-Can't smile?
-It [bleep] hurts.

[Sig] It hurts.

Got really lucky he didn't
get his head cut off.

Aboard the Northwestern.

Whoo-hoo!

We got very [bleep]
weather right now,

and it's just getting
worse and worse.

[deckhand] Watch out!

OK, we're coming up on
our first pot this morning.

All the sign led to the deep,
so hopefully there's a reward,

you know, for being here.

The swell's really picked up.

I think it's good 30 now.

Tide is backwards to the wind.

So you have a lot of strain.

That's when the line can
pop out of the block real easy.

And people get hurt that way.

So we're just gonna have
to try something different here.

I don't know, guys...

I got to turn on every one
of them and then come around

and go back up to the next one.

[deckhand speaking]

They know what's going on.
If I try to haul straight up,

it's just gonna start
snapping lines.

The problem is the rail's gonna
be exposed on every pot,

so the guys just got to be
real careful.

There it is.

Now I make my turn,
and we expose the crew.

OK, making a turn.
Watch the rail.

[Sig speaking]

[deckhand] Let's go!

[Sig] Well, we got
the first pot in the block.

Come on, baby.
Let's go.

Every pot --

oh, it's rolling.

[deckhand] Come on, crab!
Come on, crab!

Here it comes.

What do we got?

[crew cheering]

-Ha!
-[Sig] Ooh, look at that.

[crew cheering]

[deckhand] Good stuff.

[Sig speaking]

Yeah, big and clean.

[Sig speaking]

[Sig sighs]

Ooh, my God.

Watch the rail.

Oh [bleep],
[bleep] damn it.

Watch the rail.
Watch that rail.

Watch out, watch out.

On the Northwestern...

[Sig] Oh [bleep].

Watch the rail.

Watch out, watch out.

Man!

[alert beeping]

What happened?

[Karl] Yeah.

-You got it?
-[Clark] Yeah, hold on.

What is it?
What's going on?

[Karl] Clark went down
in the engine room.

[Sig and Karl speaking]

-So you can smell it?
-[Karl] Yeah.

[Sig] Oh...

This weather's not helping.

It's just getting worse.

All right.

[Clark speaking]

There's no suction
on that at all.

We usually have a spare,
we got a spare on board?

[Clark speaking]

[Sig] That's not good.

For now, pump both the tanks
with that one pump.

OK, all right.

[Sig] The crab pump is
what circulates the water

to keep the crab alive.

We can't be out here
with a broken crab pump.

We need it.

We got a lot of money
in that tank,

and just having it being
circulated on a spare pump

like that that's pressing
for two tanks

for the whole way into town,
there's no way in hell

I'm doing that.

So we got to fix it at sea.
I'll get on the radio.

It's not gonna be easy.

Can't win!



Do you guys see
any lights out there?

I don't see nothing.

...on the Aleutian Lady.

The American Lady is dead
in the water right now.

The American Lady,
they lost her generator.

Then the main died,
which means

they're a completely dark boat.
I mean, he's just drifting.

In this weather...

at night.

Ah, jeez, man.

The salt water going
in burned up the nozzles.

We have the same generator,
so we had spare nozzles,

but I really just want to fish.

I'm behind even farther,

and I do not see them
out the window.

Todd.

You got me here?

[Todd] Aleutian Lady.
American Lady.

Yeah, hey, Todd.
I got you here.

What are you guys seeing?

[Todd]
Just, it's just sputtering,

and we've got smoke going out.

I'll get those injectors,
and we'll swing them around

and float them over to you guys.

[Todd]
Thank you, man.

[Rick] All right.

We got a bit of a tricky
maneuver coming up.

I had the guys put it
into a plastic case.

And since they
don't have power,

we got to drift it to them.

And this can be very dicey.

[Nico] So we're gonna send
a fuel injector

tied to a trailer bag setup,
throw a strobe light on it

so they can actually see it
since they're totally dark.

Hopefully, this will get
them going again.

-Were you able to find a light?
-[Nico] Yes.

Nice.

[Nico]
And it works, not bad.

[Rick] All right, guys, hold on.
Don't throw it till I say.

We got to time this perfectly.

[Nico] Roger that.

If we take the wrong roll while
I'm coming around the bow,

we could slam
right into them.

And then, we're both
gonna be in danger.

I don't like this, come on.

Don't take a roll.

All right, hang on.

Hang on.

Hang on.
Let her go, let her go.

There she goes.

[tense music playing]

[Rick] All right,
it's drifting to 'em.

[Todd] Think I see it
floating over here.

[Rick] All right, guys,
it made it, way to go.

-[Nico] Nice.
-[deckhand] Hell, yeah.

[Rick] Nice work.

[Todd] I'll run down there.
I'll get back with you.

Thanks, Ricky.

Roger that.
I'll stand by.

All right, they got the part.
Let's see if it works.

Come on, come on.

-[deckhand] Oh, nice.
-[Rick] Oh.

Oh, they're lighting up.

-Oh, I think they got it.
-Hell yeah.

-Oh, sweet.
-Lights just came on.

[Todd] It's running.

It's sounding pretty
decent here so far.

Oh, that's good news.

[Todd] I really appreciate
what you did for me.

Roger that.

Yeah, well, hey, maybe
next time it'll be us in need.

-We'll be in touch.
-[Todd] Sounds good.

-Bye.
-[triumphant music playing]

[Rick]
Oh, that feels good.

Now all we got to do is haul.

I need to get my gear hauled.

It's not where it's
supposed to be.

But I need it to hit.
I can't afford to have it miss.

I'm running out of time.



in Dutch Harbor.

[Jake]
So I want you to get home,
get fixed, and get back,

because we all like
having you on the boat.

Yeah, man.

And I appreciate all
the -- everything you've done

for me.
-[Jake] Yeah.

I take care of my people,
especially when someone
gets hurt.

All right wish us luck.

[Andres] Yes, sir.

Andres is gonna go see
an orthopedic surgeon.

That was a big pile
of crab, man.

And I'm sitting
at the [bleep] dock.

So my biggest fear
right now, is my partner,

he's gonna eat it up.

That could be game over for me,

or Keith will lay me
in on a spot,

and we'll get the hell out
of here and start fishing.



[Keith speaking]

[deckhand] Roger.

...on the Wizard.

Jake saw some good numbers
northwest of us.

And hopefully...
[exhales heavily]

[groans]...[bleep].

I smashed my back in the galley.

I gotta get to the clinic.

We'll find out just
how bad this back is.

But we need to find
hot fishing first.

[intriguing music playing]

[metal clanking]

[knocking]

-Yeah!
-[deckhand] Oh, yeah!

Bang!
[grunts]

[Keith sighs]

I wish I could just lace it
right through here.

But Jake's a good kid,
you know?

We're not gonna sucker punch
the spot, right, Mouse?

We leave room
for our [bleep] partner.

That's correct.

[OJ speaking]



[deckhand] If you have
bridle right away,

I'll put it back in there.

By the time he gets back,

I will have that area
dialed in for him.

Now, hold up, hold up, guys.
We're not setting yet.

I got to find out what this
boat's doing up here.

[bleep] me.
[bleep] damn it.

I can tell right now
by the gantry on that boat,

that is not a crab boat.
That is a trawler.

[exhales heavily]

It's a big trawler, too.

The bottom trawler's
the one that's just

destroying the bottom.

And if they come
through our gear,

they're gonna destroy
our gear, too.

Um, trawler, um, about four
and a half miles north

of my current position,
it's the Wizard.

I have gear in the water
right on your course.

[trawler crew member speaking]

There are at least 250 pots
in this neighborhood,

Uh, right where you're at,
down where I am here as well,

and all the way between us.

[trawler crew member speaking]

[bleep].

I'm not leaving.

I am leaving my gear
in the water

where it has been set.

I'll be damned if these guys
are gonna chase us off

a good fishing.
Ain't gonna happen.

-On the Northwestern.
- Whoo !

[Sig]
Very good fishing,

but we want to find
that consistent number

and stay on it.
It's like...

imagine an artist,
and he's painting a Picasso.

And all of a sudden,
he's got the finishing touches,

and he ran out of paint.

He's gonna be a pretty
angry painter.

That's our Picasso.
I want to finish it.

Just need that paint.

Great analogy.
You really --

you really think of yourself
as a Picasso, [bleep]?

Oh, my God!

All right, here we go.

Hey, Picasso, I got another
idea, how about you,

Vincent van "Gogh,"
catch some crab?
["Go"]

I'll be damned if these guys
are gonna chase us off

a good fishing.
Ain't gonna happen.

On the Wizard.

He can pull his net
out of the water

in probably less
than ten minutes.

For me to haul 250 pots is
a couple of days worth of work.

I got a deadline to meet,
I got crab to catch,

and there's crab right here.

I'm not letting him drag
his nets through here

and destroy this school of crab.

You know what?

These bottom trawlers
want a w*r.

We'll give them a w*r.


Dutch Harbor...

[phone vibrating]

[Keith speaking]

What problem?

...aboard the Titan Explorer.

[Keith speaking]

into your gear
right now as we speak.

Um...

swallow all of our gear
in, like, no time.

[Keith speaking]

[Keith and Jake speaking]

OK, right on.

All right, see you there.

[Jake]
Ugh, not good.

We've got real problems
on our hands.

I'm not running.

The whole [bleep] damn
season's riding on this.

[Rick speaking]

[deckhand] Let's go!

[Rick] The American Lady,
we help them out.

You always help each other.
You help a brother in need.

We dumped a bunch of pots
on our way over here,

so maybe we'll find a little
something and that is payoff.

[deckhand] Coming up!

What the [bleep]?

[exhales heavily]

[deckhand] All bad, all bad.

I'm gonna kick myself
in the butt pretty damn hard

moving all our gear over here.

Kinda weak.

Wow.

Yeah, stack it, guys.
Put it on board.

Damn it.

We need to go north.

This one's going right up
the Russian border.

We got 400 to 600
in that same depth curve.

It is frigid cold weather.

It's no joke, but I'm also
running out of time.

[tense music playing]

[Sig] Keta,

you out there?

How about now?
You got me?

[Svein speaking]

Oh, yeah.

[Svein speaking]

[Sig]
No, our pump went out.

I mean, I could have swore
we had a spare.

You know, normally we do.

But last time it happened,
we didn't order one, so.

But it was the drift-less
one, right?

You got a spare on board?

[Svein speaking]

[Sig] Why don't I just meet you
at the south side of that ridge

right there?

[Svein speaking]

No, that'd be good, Svein.
No, I appreciate it.

OK, Svein -- thank you.

I'm out.

That's Svein Langaker.

Running a boat called the Keta.

Maybe we can get lucky.

Fingers crossed.

We can't be out here
with a broken crab pump.

We need it.

We got a lot of money
in that tank.

We're walking on thin ice here.