22x02 - Headlong Into Halong

[bunniefuu]

[waves crashing]

[Keith]
The North is a nightmare.

That's Russia.
That's Kodiak Island.

This storm is 1,500 miles wide.

And we're right here.

[TV announcer]
A powerful typhoon has slammed

into Japan's Izu Islands,

bringing significant damage
to homes and infrastructure.

[narrator] A tropical depression
when the fleet departed
Dutch Harbor.

Typhoon Halong barrels
northeast to the Bering Sea's


northern fishing grounds,

trapping the fleet


in pursuit of the $30 per pound
pure blood red king.

[Keith]
We're going way up north
of St. George.

But, you know, we're gonna
get our asses kicked.

That typhoon,
it's on the warpath.

You can already see how big
this thing is.

[deckhand]
Whomp, whomp, whomp

Not good.

Fishing just dropped off,

so now we're back
in search mode.

I'm gonna put my feelers out.

[Jake] I'm running
Phil Harris' Cornelia Marie.

It's the first time
for me driving this boat,

and I'll be in a typhoon.

[deckhand] Ugh!

Ugh.

I need some luck.

[deckhand] Watch out!
Whoo-hoo.

I am not liking
how we're riding.

Oh [bleep]!

[deckhand yelling]
You call this a storm?

[groaning]

[cheering]

-Yeah baby.
-God loves us.

[Jake] And hopefully
nobody gets hurt...

or dies.


Dutch Harbor...

on the leading edge of
Typhoon Halong.

[deckhand] Oh!

[OJ speaking]

[deckhand]
Oh, [bleep]!

[indistinct chatter]

Aboard the Time Bandit.

[Andy over the phone]

OK, Andy.

OK, Andy,
I'm gonna be safe.

I'm gonna get out of here.

I'll call you back later,
but thanks.

Thank you, thank you,
thank you.

-[Andy] OK, sounds good, John.
-[Johnathan] OK.

All right, you heard him.

Oh, man.

It's a hard offload, so we have
to be there or we're gonna

get put back in line,
and then we might lose all

our crabs sitting
in the harbor.

So I'm about ready to
pull this in a typhoon.

With a scheduled delivery
in four days,

Captain Johnathan Hillstrand
races to retrieve his remaining

$1.5 million of
northern red kings

before the building 25-foot
swells shut his operation down.

Hang on.

[indistinct chatter]

That was a big one.
That was a bad one.

Let's try one, Freddy.

[Johnathan] OK, guys,
be careful.

Here comes the first one.

[Freddy] Go fishing!

[deckhand] Oh, yeah!
Good shot, Freddy!

-Big money!
-Whoo!

[indistinct chatter]

-Come on, Freddy!
-[indistinct chatter continues]

Come on baby give
us some [indistinct]

Here we go.
Look what we got.

[indistinct chatter]

Use a blank.

Let's see what's
in the rest of 'em.

OK, guys.

[deckhand]
Run, run, run, run, run.

[Johnathan] Watch out.

There we go.
OK.

That's why you're hiding up
in the bow there.

Yeah, watch out.

[Johnathan]
Holy moly.

That was a mount.

There we go.

[deckhand]
Watch out, man, oh, oh.

Good boat.

-OK, guys,
let's try another one.
-[indistinct chatter]

-Get up, boys!
-Come on, brother!

[Johnathan]
Could be good, could be bad.

It's like every pot's
a Christmas present.

There's a little red bike
under the tree.

What do we got?
What do we got?

-Yeah, baby!
-Whoo-hoo.

-Let's go baby.
-[Johnathan] Yeah, baby!

Dude, dude, dude!

[indistinct]

Look at that one.

[Freddy] Big baby monsters.

[Johnathan]
That's a good pot there.
That's probably 100.

Big reds.
Nothing but big reds.

[deckhand]
Whoo-hoo!

[deckhand speaking]

Are you [bleep] kidding me?

Finally got a good one.
Hopefully

found something
here, maybe.

Hey, watch out!

OK.
Be careful.

Be careful, guys.

[Freddy] Oh, no!

[bleep] that died right
back off -- damn it.

Back to nothing.

For some reason, it stops.

Why is that one good
right there?

Aha!
Aha!

Aha!
Aha!

The pot that had 100 in it?

Right on top of that
mound here.

Grab her right there.

Another half a mile,
it drops back off.

[deckhand]
No good, no good.

[Johnathan]
Well, I think what
I'm gonna do is...

keep stacking, guys.

I'm gonna set everything
I got on top of the mound.

-[waves crashing]
-Holy [bleep].

You could put 100 pots
in a one mile square.

It's gonna take more
than a mountain to stop us.

We're gonna take the king
of the hill right off

the hill here.



under the eastern
tendril of Typhoon Halong.

Whoo!

On the Cornelia Marie.

[Jake] I'm running
Phill Harris' Cornelia Marie

for King Crab,

and we're way up north.

Three things I never thought
would happen when I was 26.

[groans]

[Jake] The first time for me
driving this boat,

we go out in this typhoon.

So it's gonna be bad.

I need to get these pots off.

I don't really have
anywhere to put them.

Eight days after calling
the 128-foot Cornelia Marie

into action, the vessel
made famous

by the legendary skipper
Phil Harris...

[Phil] Yeah, that's what
we're talking about.

Watch things happen,
make things happen,

or wonder what the [bleep]
happened right now.

We're making things happen.

...former protege Jake Anderson
takes the helm as captain...

[Jake]
This is [bleep], you know.

...driving an all-new crew led
by engineer Jake Albineo

to catch $3 million of elusive
northern red kings

in the teeth of Typhoon Halong.

[deckhand speaking]

[deckhand #2]
Yeah, baby!

Hmm.

Look at that.

Oh, those are rocks.

They're those
peaks and valleys.

Phil caught tens of millions
of pounds on this boat,

fishing around the rock piles.

[Phil speaking]

There's crab here.

I fished in that spot more
than any other spot in this

whole [bleep] ocean.

[deckhand]
Yeah, baby.

It's stuffed.

That's got to be
a beautiful thing.

I hate rock piles.

Because they're hard to fish.

There's a rock.
There's a rock.

There's a rock.

And right here,

that's the mud piles.

And that's where these crab
like to sit.

If you don't land on the mud,
then you land one of your pots

on the rock.
It doesn't catch crabs.

But with the typhoon,
the only good choice is

get these pots off the boat.

All right, guys,
start getting them ready.

We're gonna start
firing them off.

-Yes, sir.
-Whoo!

-All right, here we go!
-Yeah!

[indistinct chatter]

[phone ringing]

Hello, this is Jake.

Hey, what's going on?

[Jason] Where are ya?

[Jake] I'm in the Bering Sea
fishing for some crab.

I will.

You get me not to
pay the alimony.

I'll [bleep] give you a house.

[Jason laughs]

[deckhand] Going over.

[Jason speaking]

But...

she's entitled
to half that money still.

[bleep]

[deckhand] Going over!

Argh, watch it, watch it,
watch it.

I think I got to get off
the phone, guys,

because I'm trying to run
a boat in a [bleep] storm,

and you're telling me
all this [bleep]

that I don't want to
[bleep] hear.

[indistinct chatter]

[Jason speaking]

[Jake] All right, bye-bye.

It's [bleep] up going
through a divorce

that you don't even
want to happen.

Jenna left me,
and now I'm here.

Now, I really can't afford
to be emotional.

It's [bleep] stuck.

Albinio, get up here.

The throttles went out,
but one's still engaged.

at 1,400.

Throttle's stuck.


of St. George Island.

[Jake and Albinio speaking]

It's [bleep] stuck.

On the Cornelia Marie.

Right now, we're in the middle
of 25-foot seas.

If I can't control the boat,
I'm screwed.

With one throttle stuck
wide-open and the other

nonresponsive, Jake wrestles
the Cornelia Marie onto

a safe course amid
a violent and confused sea.

So, take your control.

[Jake] Right, hold on.

[bleep] it
We're going to shell them off.

Keep working on the port
throttle, I'll just start

setting right now.
That's all we can do.

All right, fellas...

-[deckhand] Yes!
-[deckhand #2] Going over!

[Jake] This rock pile isn't
a straight line.

But I got to get
the weight off the boat

before I lose
this throttle, too.

[deckhand]
Let's go, let's go!

I just gotta pray to God.
This is where the crab are.

[deckhand] Going over!

Eighty two miles southwest,
in the heart of Typhoon Halong.

[deckhand] Damn...

Whoo!

Those are some big-a*s waves.

On the Aleutian Lady...

[Rick] This one's gonna break.

-[waves crashing]
-[deckhand] Whoo.

Yeah baby.

We are into the 25
to 28 foot range now.

Those are what blow
your window out.

Hitting so far north to try
to find these pure bloods,

it costs a lot of
extra money in fuel.

And we have to try to
recoup that money.

I need them to hit,
and I need them to hit good.

I don't even know if we're going
to be able to haul this.

So I'm going to pull up
on this first pot

and test it out and see.

[deckhand]
Come on, baby, come on.

All right, guys, here we go.

Let's go, baby!
Whoo!

Get it, get it, get it!

I'm on the fence right now.

This is...

[bleep]

Watch the rail.

-Yee-ha.
-Whoo.

[indistinct]

-First pot is on board.
-Yeah.

[Rick]
Lot of crab.

[deckhand] Nice crab, man.
Nice, big, juicy.

[bleep] clean.
Clean as [bleep].

[Rick] That last pot was
about $14,000.

Let's go, let's go!
Watch out!

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

But we got to keep going.

-Yee-haw.
-Oh, yeah!

Boom!
That's a good pot.

There'll be over 40 in it.

[deckhand] Oh, yeah, baby!
Whoo-hoo!

[Rick] 46 in that last one.

I'm gonna try one more here,
but I am not liking

how we're riding.

[deckhand speaking]

[bleep]

-What's up?
-[deckhand speaking]

Anybody see the diver?

[Rick] The trailer line parted,
and I can't afford to have

my bags go under.
Suck line in the wheel.

Then we're disabled,

and then we're calling
for help.

And now I got to spin the other
way, which means the starboard

rail open with guys out there.
If I have [bleep] --

There's a big wave.
Watch yourself, guys.

Oh [bleep]!

-[wave crashes]
-[loud bang]

Try to hook it quick,
get in the block.

It might be going
under the boat.

[deckhand]
Come on, go, go, go!

Oh, [bleep].

-Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
-[loud crash]

[bleep].

-Did it go under?
-[deckhand] Roger.

-Let her go, let her go.
-Just let her go.

-Damn it.
-[bleep].

On the Aleutian Lady.

-Did it go under?
-[deckhand] Roger.

[Rick] Let her go.
Let her go.

Just let her go.

-Damn it!
-[bleep].

After 20-foot swells
snapped the buoy line,

Rick loses $14,000 of crab

and any chance of recovering
his damaged gear.

[Rick speaking]

I couldn't turn quick enough.

I'm done.
We're not hauling anymore.

Yeah, guys, we're gonna...

waves are too [bleep] big.

I got two pots hauled,


But I mean, this is
the real Bering Sea.

When this weather comes down
a little bit,

I'm gonna get
right back on 'em.



Every time we come out here,
we're dancing with the devil.

Jitterbugging with Jezebel.

I have no idea sometimes.

On the Time Bandit.

[Johnathan] We have 102 crab
in one pot on top of that hill.

So I'm just gonna put
all our gear right here

on top of this hilltop.

[deckhand] Worth a couple
of shots, worth a shot.

Gonna set this, gonna turn
and go back down

and come back up like
a typewriter.

Ching-ching- ching.
Ching-ching-ching.

Ching-ching- ching.
Ching-ching-ching.

After finding
a sign of life on a small,

one square mile hilltop,

John prepares to set
four five-pot strings.

[OJ] Yeah.

Targeting half a million
dollars of northern reds

in a single run
through his gear.

The most dangerous part is
I got to turn and go back

into the waves.

This is gonna be difficult,
difficult, difficult.

[deckhand]
Watch out man.

[deckhand #2]
Oh, yeah.

Hang on.
Hang on, guys.

Watch out.

Oh [bleep].

Let her go.
Careful.

[indistinct chatter]

[deckhand] Whoo.

[indistinct chatter]

There's the next one.

Hey.

[Johnathan] I'm gonna make
the first turn here.

See if I can do this
thing or not.

[beeping]

Ugh.

[bleep] [indistinct].

Come around, boat.
Come on, you can do it.

-Whoo.
-Whoa.

[indistinct]

All of a sudden,
the flag starts blowing

straight -- straight across.
It's crazy out here.

Wow, look at that.

OK, guys, let her go.

[Freddy] Nice job.

[deckhand] Whoo!

[Johnathan] Let her go.

[Freddy] It's going over, baby!

Second turn, we're heading
back into it.

Hang on, here we go.

'cause Imma be putting you
in harm's way.

[Freddy] Whoa!

-OK.
-[Freddy] Go, baby!

-Going over, baby!
-[deckhand] Whoo.

Keep on going.

[Freddy]
Keep going over, baby!

[deckhand] Whoo-hoo.

There's a big one.
There's a big one.

Watch out, guys.
Watch out.

[indistinct chatter]

[waves crashing]

Holy moly.

-Oh my God.
-That was a big one.

[Johnathan] All right.
See my guys.

Those are my guys.
One, two, three, four, five.

-[OJ] Dang!
-[Johnathan] Is everyone OK?

-[deckhand] Yes, sir.
-[Johnathan] Watch out
for each other.

I'm fighting against just
trying to get this gear off

the boat without hurting
anybody, get it on some crab.

Hey, guys, I slowed down.
I got course changed...

-Yeah, Roger that, man.
-Going over.

Why not?

It's too scary.
My legs are shaking right now.

This can't hurt nobody.

I don't care about
crab anymore.

I just gotta get the gear up
without hurting these guys.



On the eastern edge
of the typhoon.

[Albinio speaking]

[Jake] OK.
Both of them?

Come on, baby.
Come on, baby.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, she's got power.

[Albinio speaking]

These throttles are fixed.

Albinio knows one thing,

and that's this boat.
Thank God.

Aboard the Cornelia Marie.

Roger!

[Jake]
So I'm back at the rock pile.

I only had one throttle,
so I had no control.

Imagine how many pots
that I land on the rocks

and not in the mud where
the crab are living.

Now I got to haul it
in a typhoon.

Whoa.

Phil always said
this was a Lamborghini,

so I need to stop pussyfooting
around and give it some gas.

[deckhand] Roger!

Let's see what we
get out of this.

-Coming up.
-Yep.

[bleep] blank pot.

It's the rocks.

I'm pulling up on the next one
to see if we can get lucky here.

-Holy [bleep].
-Yeah, dude.

-Whoa!
-Daddy's going to
[bleep] sizzler.

-Whoo!
-Damn, dude.

We're on the meat, baby!

Nom, nom, nom.

-Yeah!
-[indistinct chatter]

Look at that.

Cleaner, bigger...

pure blood.



[deckhand] Yeah.

That's what I'm talking about.

The conditions are worsening.

[deckhand] Roger.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Watch the [bleep] rail.

Get the [bleep] off the rail.

Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa.

Watch the [bleep] rail.
Get the [bleep] off the rail.

Hey!

Whoa!

[waves crashing]

Mmm.

[deckhand] We're good.
We're good.

Big one, dude.

There's just
a learning curve to this.

And you don't get much time
to k*ll somebody real quick.

I got to keep going.

I will figure it out.

I'm gonna have to.



[deckhand] Let's go, baby!

Whoo!

[Rick] All right, first pot,
we got it in the block at least.

We've been shut down
for 14 hours,

and, I mean, it's still --
[bleep].

But we can't waste
any more time.

So here we go.

Get it, get it, get it.

-Come on, crab.
-Coming up.

Oh, yeah, baby!
Whoo!

Whoo.

[indistinct chatter]

-Packing the meat, baby.
-Whoo!

[bleep] they're climbing out
of the table.

-[deckhand] 64.
-64? Hell, yeah.

-Whoo!
-Boom!

We needed this.

As long as this maintains,
we'll be --



Being up this far north...

Yeah, baby.

...and seeing full pots
of these purebred king crab,

it's worth the fight.



Oh, [bleep].

On the eastern edge
of the typhoon.

This weather is [bleep] up,
but we love it.

Aboard the Cornelia Marie.

I'm back at
the rock pile now, and...

I piled all my gear in here,
so I'm hoping we hit mud.

I have to do it today with
a rougher current, bigger waves,

and then you've got waves

coming from all different
directions,

not just one direction.

[deckhand]
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Oh [bleep].

I don't like that one.

[deckhand] Whoa!
Watch your back.

Yeah, baby.

[Jake]
Albinio, can you come up here?

Think you guys could do
a four-man down there?

[deckhand] Yeah, Roger.

-Roger.
-Roger.

I'm getting hit pretty bad.

Can you help me
watch for waves?

Yeah, I can do that.

[Jake] There's so much gear
we have to get through,

so let's see if we can
actually do this.

Roger.

All right, fellas...

[Albinio]


-[Jake] Oh, that one.
-[Albinio]Yep.

-[Jake] Oh, dude.
-Yeah, that.

-[Jake] Look at that thing.
-That's a big [bleep].

[Jake]
Going again, hang on,
hang on, hang on, hang on.

Here's a big one.
Watch out.

[Jake and Albinio]
Watch the rail, watch the rail.

All right, guys,
we're about to get started...

[deckhand] Yeah!

[deckhand #2]
Nice [bleep]!

Hell, yeah!

Damn it.

Come on, come on.

[deckhand]
Coming up.

[Jake]
Oh man, look a that!

-[deckhand] Yeah.
-[cheering]

That's what I'm talking about
right there.

-Nicely done, buddy.
-[deckhand] Yeah, buddy!

Big boy fun right there.

-It's [bleep] insane.
-That was definitely in the mud.

Oh, yeah.

Boom.
King crab, [bleep].

That's when you know you've
set it between the rock piles.

Starboard stern,
starboard stern.

[Jake] Roger.
That's a smoker.

Be careful.

[Albinio] Up, up, up, up, up.

Holy [bleep].

Big one, port side.

[Jake] I see it.
[bleep].

Whoo!

[Albinio]
Hey, Jake, Jake, Jake.

You got a smoker heading
this way, two tens out.

Everybody up
in the [bleep] forepeak .

everybody on board, go forward.

[two times]

[bleep], hang on,
hang on, hang on.

[bleep], hang on,
hang on, hang on.

[wave crashes]

[deckhand] Whoo.

[bleep]

That was [bleep] big, dude.
Look at it.

[Cody]
I thought for sure we were
getting [bleep] slammed into

that wall on that one.
-I was like...

I just felt it coming.

I was like, "Oh, [bleep].
Here we go."

-Got a bag, starboard side.
-Starboard side.

Yeah, you look pretty clear
to the back.

[Jason] OK.

[deckhand] Holy [bleep].
Whoo!

[cheering]

-Yeah.
-Yeah, dude.

[deckhand speaking]

-[bleep] rock pile, huh?
-Yeah.

That's some good crab
to show for it.

-[deckhand] Yeah!
-That boat is awesome, too.

[Albinio] Yeah, it is.

[Jake] Hopefully,
we can stay on the crab.

-[deckhand] Yeah!
-[Jake] That's when
the game starts.

Whoo!



[Johnathan speaking]

Cart service will be down
during the flight.

[deckhand] OK, Roger.

On the Time Bandit.

[Johnathan] We had a crab pot
right here with 102 crab in it.

So I set 20 pots right
on top of this hill.

They're so close together.

[deckhand] [indistinct]

[Johnathan]
Pull down the string.

We're gonna have to pull up
and grab one and then pull it

away from the rest of the pots.

But if we mess up
and grab the wrong one,

we're going to tangle
them all up.

That'll be a mess.

[Freddy]
Whoo!

[Johnathan speaking]

Roger.

[indistinct chatter]

[Johnathan]
Get in the block.

Yeah, we got to put it
in reverse now.

-[Johnathan] We'll pull this
thing right out of here.
-[deckhand] Roger.

[Johnathan]
OK, start pulling slow.

All right.
I gotta back up.

[Freddy] Come on baby,
come on baby!

[Johnathan] So I don't see
any buoys coming at us.

This one's not tangled up
with nothing, so...

so far, so good.

Come on, baby.
Show me some crabs.

[Freddy] Whoo!

-[Freddy] Oh, my God!
-What?

That's a good pot.

[OJ speaking]

Oh, yeah.

[deckhand speaking]

-[OJ] What a nice
and clean crab!
-Unbelievable.

[laughs]

We're going back in
for another one.

Going in, going in.

[OJ speaking]

[Freddy] Yeah, baby!

Back in reverse, baby.
Come to Daddy.

Come back to Daddy.

There we go.
That's how you do that.

Here we go.

[OJ speaking]

Right there, another good one.

Whoo, whoo-hoo-hoo.

[OJ] Yeah, brother.

Yeah, baby.
Look at that.

Look at that, man.
Oh, man.

-[deckhand] Whoo-hoo.
-Wow, God's good to us.

God loves us.

[Freddy] Whoo-hoo.

Love and cherish every crab
that comes aboard.

-[OJ] Hell yeah.
-Yeah, baby -- yeah, baby.

We're on fire baby.
Fire, fire.



-72.
-Yeah.

[OJ] Wow.
It's amazing.

-Oh my God.
-The numbers are holding up now.

I think we're going to make it
through this thing.

It's a good job.
Thank you, thank you.

[Freddy] Whoo!
Good job, brother.

[Cadence speaking]

I think only like three weeks.

-[Luka] Three weeks!
-[Cadence speaking]

[deckhand] Ah, I love it.

[cheering]

[Cadence speaking]

[Jake]
That sounds like so much fun.

[Cadence]
Yeah.

Buddy, we can do whatever
you want when I get home.

[Cadence] OK.

-[deckhand] Oh yeah, baby.
-[cheering]

-OK, love you.
-[Cadence] Bye.

Bye-bye.

I miss Jenna a lot,
but I do this for one reason

and one reason only,
and that's my kids.

That's it.
That's what I'm here to do.

It's a lot of pressure

to have on me the fact
that this was Phil's boat,

but this is just the beginning.