22x06 - Rocked to the Core

[bunniefuu]

[man] Whoo!

[Keith] We all think we're
impervious to pain.

But at some point, you start

to wear down.

[man] Ah.

[Keith]
I am struggling to find crab.

[man groans]

[Keith] And every single wave is
getting heavier and heavier

on my mind.

There's literally no help
out here.

Not in this weather.

[Sig] Hang on!

-[man groans]
-[Rick] Watch yourself, guys.

[crew yelling]

[bleep]

It's all the way through
the skin and through that nail.

[man] Watch out, watch out!
You got this!

You got this!

You're only capable of
so much.

Oh, hang on!
[bleep]

Heads up, heads up, heads up!
Watch out!

[indistinct]

[Keith]
The suffering has to end.

[narrator] 230 miles northwest
of Dutch Harbor.

All right, when you guys are
ready, I'm on course, OK?

Just stay serious and stay
on point,

because you're gonna get
[bleep] hammered out there.

[Freddy] Aye!

On the Wizard.

[Freddy] Whoo!

[Dakota] Whoo!
Big 'un!

That was pretty crazy.

[Keith]
They're up to 30 footers now.

Some of these might even be


It's an angry ocean right now.

Based on the water
temperatures, I set the gear

right here on the edge of
this depth -- 600 feet.

We've had some really hot fish
in here before.

Let's go get 'em, boys.

Burning $5,000 in fuel
per day, forcing a path

between towering breakers,

Captain Keith Colburn scours
the edge of the restricted zone

for his final 360,000 pound,
$2.2 million

bairdi crab quota.

Come on, buddy.

[Freddy speaks]

[Dakota] This is it.

All right guys, let's get some
crab on this boat right now!

-[man #1] Oh!
-[man #2] Oh, no!

[Keith] That's not good.

[man #1] Whoa!

Oh.

[man #1] There it is.

-[Freddy] OK.
-You roped?

[Freddy] Ah.

[Keith] I'm getting nothing.

Oh, man.
I had high hopes for this gear.

[Keith speaks]

Oh.

Hit after hit.

I'm gonna turn a little bit.

Come on, baby, come around.
Come around, come around.

Whoa, hang on!
[bleep]

Heads up, heads up, heads up!
Watch out!

[crew yelling]

[man] Oh!

[bleep]

Give me a heads up.
Everybody OK?

Head check.

Count heads for me, Soper.

[Keith speaks]

[Soper speaks]

Oh, what the [bleep]?

[Keith speaks]

Everybody get off deck.

Let's go.
Everybody in.

[crew groaning and talking
indistinctly]

[Lynn speaks]

-[bleep]
-I gotta check on the guys.

Move!
Move!

[bleep], man.
[bleep]

[bleep]

[Keith]
That came out of nowhere, man.

[Freddy] Right.
Tell me about it, man.

-Did you get knocked down?
-...so hard.

Yeah, [bleep].
That much water come rushing

through that corner
by that crane base.

-And?
-[Freddy] He got smacked too.

-[Lynn] Yeah.
-[Keith] How you doing?

[Keith] You're all banged up on
the right side, though.

Looks like you got a [bleep].

-[Lynn] Maybe.
-[Keith] Contusion or something.

[bleep]

You know, I don't know
what to say.

[softly] OK, here we go.

[coughs]

[Keith normally] I'm having like
flashbacks right now.

You know, I took that wave years
ago and I couldn't see my crew.

Heads up on the bow.
Watch out.

Hang on!
Hang on!

[bleep]

[Keith] The last few days
have been hell.

The crew's getting hit on deck,
wave after wave.

I'm just doing my best
to continue the hunt.

I just...

I need to compose myself.



[Rick] Dear Heavenly Father,

I just pray you'll keep us all
free from harm.

Keep us safe.
Nobody get injured.

Amen.

On the Aleutian Lady.

[man #1] Whoo.

All right, guys,
first spot coming up.

Whoo!

So we're on day four
of this weather front.

This storm is
just wearing us down.

It's kicking our a*s,

to say it lightly.

We're spot checking our string
we set to the north.

We were seeing a lot of sign,
really big crab,

and a lot of 'em.

So I'm hoping we'll run into
a good biomass.

After shuffling 60 pots above
his best fishing this season,

Captain Rick Shelford bets on
remote grounds to point him

to his remaining $1 million

of Northern red king crab.

To get our quota done, I got
a lot of work I gotta do

and not a lot of time to do it.

[man #1] Oh, my gosh.

[Rick] That's not gonna cut it.

I'm starting to
feel the pressure.

[man #1 speaks]

[Rick] Not good.

Big wave.
Watch your rail.

Watch your rail.
Watch your rail.

-[bleep]
-[man #1] Watch out!

Go, go, go, go.

-[man #1 yells]
-[man #2] Oh!

Just be careful, guys.

[Rick speaks]

-[man #1] Come on, crab!
-[man #2] Crab come on,

come on, come on!

[man #1] Whoo-hoo-hoo!

-Boom-gah, boom-gah!
-Oh, damn!

Good pot.

Well, that one's a lot better.

[man #1] Yee haw!

[man #2] Whoo-hoo-hoo!
That's it!

[crew cheer]

[man #1] Here come the Papa.

[man cheers]

We'll take that,
we'll take that all day long.

[crew continue cheering]

Whoo!

Showing good sign the closer
we get towards

the pot storage area.

Back when there was 400 of us
crab boats fishing king crab,

over half of them would bring
out 100, 120 pots

and store 'em
in the pot storage area.

And sometimes, when guys would
do that, they'd haul up

their open door pots with no
bait and get a bunch of riders

on it.
And then they would know,

"Hey, there's crab here."

Kind of a free, cheating way
of prospecting.

[man #1 speaks]

It's getting tight?

[Rick speaks]

OK, well, I guess we're hung
up on the bottom.

Hey guys, keep an eye on
the starboard rail as I pull.

I'm gonna open it up
just a skosh.

[man #1] Roger!

Damn it.

Oh, [bleep]

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

[crew yell]

On the Aleutian Lady.

Oh, [bleep].
There's a big wave.

Watch yourself, guys.

[crew yell]

[man #1]
Watch out, watch out, watch out!

[man] Whoa!

[bleep]

Everybody good?

[man #1 speaks]

[man #2] Roger!

Good thing they were all
hidden up front.

That thing would have
hurt somebody.

-[man #1] Oh!
-[man #2] Whoa!

[man #1 speaks]

It's free?

[man #1 speaks]

[Rick] Being in a storm,
hung up on bottom,

is not what we wanna do.

Watch the rail.
Watch the rail, guys.

[man yells]

Here we go, pot's up.

[man #1] What the [bleep]?

[man #2 speaks]

-What the [bleep]?
-[man #3] Another pot!

What's up?

[man #1] Oh...

[man #2 speaks]

What the [bleep]?

[man #1]
Bring it forward a bit!

-[man whoops]
-That pot is mangled.

[man #2]
That's [bleep] gnarly, right?

I've never seen the [bleep]
like that, look at it.

[Rick] So I guess we weren't
caught up in the mud.

We must have been caught up
on another pot.

[man #1] Money on the floor!
Money on the floor!

Well, I guess there's crab in
the pot, though.

[Rick speaks]

-Try to clear this area out.
-[man #1] All right.

[Rick] We're gonna rig up that
junk pot we just hauled up

and we're gonna set it.

Let it hit the bottom and right
along the path I wanna set,

we're just gonna drag that
pot and try to clear away.

That way, when I set my pots,
I know at least that path,

it'll be clear of any pots.

All right, we're just about
on course.

All right, let her go.
Let her go.

I know it sounds nuts, but, man,
I wanna get these crabs.



[man #1] Yeah, buddy!

...on the bairdi grounds...

Uh, hang on.

...aboard the Northwestern.

The weather's getting
pretty bad.

The sea's getting big.

OK, set it when you're ready.

[Clark] Dropping low.

[Karl] Setting [bleep] weather
and the pots are moving.

-A little nerve-wracking.
-Going over.

[Sig]
We're gonna set within this
ridge here up in this gully,

but I'm in a ditch here,
so boat's awful rolly.

I'd like to get it north.

We're trying to set for crab,
not for weather,

so they're just gonna
have to hang on.

With 30,000 pounds of bairdi
still to catch,

Captain Sig Hansen prepares to
set on an underwater cliff line

that runs perpendicular
to the weather,

gambling he can keep
his crew safe

from the 20-foot swells.

We've got to get the pots off
the deck immediately

before this thing
really picks up.

[man] Whoo!

[groans]

I'm not sure how much more
we can do this.

[man #1] Whoo!

[man #2] Whoo.

OK, it's getting stupid.

[man yells]

[Sig] Hang on.

[man groans]

[Clark speaks]

-[Clark] Get out of here.
-[Clark speaks]

[groans]

-Is he OK?
-[Clark speaks]

[Sig speaks]

Norm, come up here
and watch the wheel.

-I wanna see what's going on.
-[Norm] OK.

Swap.
[groans]

-[Clark] Sig.
-[Clark speaks]

[Sig] [bleep] Yeah.

On the Northwestern.

-[Clark] Oh.
-[Clark speaks]

[Clark speaks]

[Sig] Can you move it?

[Karl speaks]

[Sig groans]

Look at the nail, man.

We're gonna need antibiotics.

I mean, it's all the way
through the skin

and through that nail.

We've gotta get him
on something.

[Karl speaks]

[Sig & Karl speak]

What happens if you take it?

-That's all you know?
-[Karl] Yeah.

Augmentin is
a go-to antibiotic,

but it contains amoxicillin,

high risk for anyone
allergic to penicillin.

[Sig] Let's see what we got.

[Sig] But what's -- what's this?

But I don't know if this is
in the same category as that one

that he's allergic to.

We gotta make a couple of
phone calls before we, uh,

give you anything, OK?

OK.

It's not good, Norm.

No, he's out.

Just tell the guys,
take a break.

OK.

[Sig] So, I'm gonna send
a photo to Mandy

and see if she can help
track down

what we're looking for.

[Clark speaks]

[Sig]
Heading to town, that's just
gonna cost us time and money.

Another 20 grand
out the window.

Realistically, I should
probably take him in

if I can't get
these antibiotics.



...on the Wizard.

[indistinct yells]

Now it's gonna be tough out
here with the weather conditions

not being real optimal.

[man #1] Lower away.

[Keith] I'm just beating my head
against the wall.

We're not making money.

We're just making
ourselves miserable.

Everybody's battered and beaten.

With the Bering Sea's savage
northern waters

taking a toll both on deck...

[crew yelling indistinctly]

...and on a skipper still
recovering from

hospitalization last season...

[coughs]

...Captain Keith Colburn shells
off 50 pots in the teeth

of 25-foot breakers.

[tense music builds]

Heads up!
Heads up!

Coming at ya!

Guys!

[faint yells]

I don't -- I just --
you know what?

I gotta just get through this.

Then I calm down and think about
my own heart rate.

[sighs]

[man #1] Get her in!
Get her in!

[man #2] Whoo!
Moolah.

[indistinct]

Woah.

I don't think I can do this
right now.

I don't think I can drive
this boat.

[Keith speaks]

[man #1] Yep.

Whew.
That's all I got.

Whew.
Enough's enough.

I'm taking this boat to town.

[soft, eerie music plays]

[dial tone ringing]

-[Monte speaks]
-Hey, Mouse, you got me?

Hey, can you give me a minute?

Mouse,

I need you up here.



[phone buzzes]

-Oh, hey, Mandy.
-[Mandy speaks]

Did you tell him about
the allergy issue?

Azithromycin?

I just gotta go look in
the chest and see if we have

that, all right?
I'll keep you posted.

Thank you.

All right, I'm out.

Clark?

[Sig speaks]

-[Clark] Roger!
-OK.

We were setting gear, pot came
loose, and it landed on

Karl's toe, and it is bad.
Karl's got an allergy, uh,

you know, for some
of these antibiotics.

If we don't have the proper
antibiotics on board,

we're gonna have to go in
and cut the trip short.

It's just, we will be
taking two steps back

going in early like that.

[Sid exhales]

Yeah.

I mean, we're gonna have
to probably head in here.

-[Clark] All right.
-All right.

-All right, thanks, Clark.
-Yep.

[sighs softly]

Unless we can find somebody
else that's got that stuff.

[Nico] Apparently, we are
the Bering Sea garbage men.

We're out here hauling
junk pots out of the ocean.

[Rick speaks]

I gotta get out of here.

I can't waste any more time
hanging up.

[man #1] All right.

[Sig speaks]

Yeah, Sig, I got you.
What's up?

Karl got a foot injury.
I'm looking for an antibiotic.

It's called Azithromycin,

[Rick speaks]

I'll go look and see what
I got.

[bleep]

[Rick] This thing took
a spill and a half.

I'll be here in the storage
area all night.

If you wanna come up and meet
me, we can transfer it over.

Perfect, Rick.
I appreciate it.

All right.
I'll chat at you here later.

[Sig speaks]

[Sig] He's not gonna come to me.
I gotta go to him.

That's just gonna cost us
time and money.

The pots are soaking
and hopefully picking up

all the crabs that are here.

It's a lot of things that need
to line up here still.

In Dutch Harbor.

[faint yells]

It's amazing what little
things get into your mind.

I haven't been this beat up
in a while.

We've got about 25,000 pounds
on board.

We're talking the worst trips
I've ever had, not only for

fishing, but also for weather.

I almost took out my entire
crew with a wave.

Mental exhaustion.
It's overwhelming.

[Monte] How's it going, bro?

[Keith] Welcome aboard.

I haven't been this beat up
in a while.

Right now, for me,
the right call

is to hand off the boat to you.

-[Monte] I'm with ya.
-Mouse, I'm not giving up.

[Monte] OK, I get it, man.
Hang in there.

-Take care of my girl.
-[Monte] I will.

And the guys
and everything else.

All right.

[Monte] I'm proud of him for

seeing the -- the signs that he,
you know, he needs to go home

for a bit.

It's not easy.

We have a good-looking squad
on here.

And we're gonna go fishing
and hope for the best.



...on the Northwestern.

Hey, Rick, I see ya.
We're coming up to you now.

[Rick speaks]

Y'all have the guys

get ready to throw
the case over.

Uh, stand by.

Well, Karl got his toe
smashed, so we're in dire need

of antibiotics here.

Rick happened to have that
"arythmiacin" or whatever

it's called on board.

Yeah, guys, let's get ready
to go.

Sig's coming up.

Ready when you are, Cap.

[Rick] Roger.
Let her go.

-Let her go.
-Whoa!

OK, it's in the water.

-[Sig speaks]
-[Clark] I see it.

-You got it?
-[Clark] Yep, I got it.

OK.

Get him his drugs.

[Clark] All right.

[Sig speaks]

I know you'd do the same.

[Sig laughs]

[Clark] The antibiotics.

Are you fishing here?

[Rick speaks]

I mean, I've drug up so many
pots connected to ours.

Yeah.

I think we gotta pack out.

Just like a pot graveyard here.

[Sig] There's a bunch of
landmines in there, you know?

They start snagging up.

I mean, I've got marks
from way back.

Every obstacle is on
my plotter.

[Sig speaks]

I can lead the way.

-It would be a huge help, man.
-[Sig] OK.

[Sig speaks]

[Rick speaks]

All right, guys.
Hey, change of plans.

Let's get ready to set,
load the launcher.

I don't need to be losing
any pots doing this.

At about 200 feet,
set the first one.

And three, two, one.
Set it.

It's over.

[Sig] The next one, starboard,
hard over.

Just keep turning.
Just stay on me.

[Rick] Roger.

-[man #1 speaks]
-Yeah, [bleep].

[bleep] there it goes.

Three, two, one, go!

It's over.

[Sig speaks]

All right, port following you,
coming around.

It's a little bit more
difficult trying to stay close

to Sig when it's choppy out.

I have to stay as close
as humanly possible,

without putting my bow into
his stern so I don't set in

the wrong spot.

Three, two, one, set.

Go!

No, I'm wrong.
Don't set.

Don't set.
Don't set.

-[buzz]
-[bleep]

[man #1 yells]

-[Rick speaks]
-I'm kicking it out of gear.

On the Aleutian Lady.

[Sig] Oh, no, I'm wrong.
Don't set.

Don't set.
Don't set.

-[bleep]
-[man #1 yells]

-[Rick speaks]
-I'm kicking it out of gear.

Let's go.
Let's go.

-[man #1] Got it?
-[man #2] Yeah, right.

[Rick speaks]

[bleep], come on!

[man #1 speaks]

[Noah speaks]

Copy that.
We're clear.

-[Nico] Hey, nice save.
-[Noah] Yeah.

Whoo.

[Rick speaks]

I'm sorry, I thought it was time
to put it in the water, but...

All right, we'll get it back
ready to rock, and let's do it.

All right, we're gonna pick
the pace up a little here.

Just stay with me.

And now!

[buzzes]

[Sig speaks]

-[Sig] Now.
-[buzzes]

[Sig speaks]

-[Sig] Right now.
-[buzzes]

[man #1] Going over.

Getting the rhythm here.

[Sig speaks]

one.
OK, starboard set.

-[buzzes]
-[man #1] Going over.

-[Sig] Go.
-[buzzes]

-Set.
-[buzzes]

-Set.
-[buzzes]

-Set.
-[buzzes]

All right, Sig, that was
the last one.

Thank you for the help.

-[Sig speaks]
-[Sig] That's the maze.

Now you got it on your plotter,
so keep it in your back pocket.

[Sig speaks]

[Rick] I hope this works out.
I can't lose a bunch of gear.

[Sig] We got what we needed.

Let's just go see if there's
some crab in this gear.

Fingers crossed that,
you know,

Karl doesn't have any issues.

Karl's toes already look
weird enough.

I don't need an infection
on top of it.

[Monte] OK, we'll go here pretty
soon, as soon as they got that

[bleep] put away.
-[Freddy] Roger that.

We're ready, Captain.

[Monte] I just pulled this up.

This is a closed,
[bleep] hard area.

So he just hauled these
[bleep] crab out of there.

And there's still some here.
You know, I can't --

I can't just go [bleep]
yank those.

[Monte]
There's a closed area up here.

It's very defined.

You cannot go in there.

Those bearings are in that log.

Fish and Game presently
has their hands on 'em.

[Monte] Well, am I gonna
stick my [bleeps] neck out

for this [bleep]?

[Monte speaks]

Realizing that Keith
set 50 baited pots

in an out-of-bounds area,

Captain Monte's personal
favor for his brother is

starting to look like
a personal liability.

[Monte] Hey, bro.

Give me a call as soon
as you can.

It's important.

Pick me up?

OK, get my thruster going,
and we'll get out of here.

[Freddy]
We're going fishing, baby.

[Monte]
You can see that this is
the closed area,

that orange line.

Not only had my brother hauled

and set and retained crab
in that closed area,

but there's still gear
in there.

They're illegally set,
soaking up crab.

We got about probably close
to 350,000 pounds to catch.

And we'll just hope that, uh,

there's some leniency.

[Rick speaks]

[Rick] Bad weather.

I mean, it's just been
kicking our a*s.

We're gonna find out if
this path Sig led me on is gonna

get me some crab, or I'm gonna
catch a bunch of lost pots.

Come on, baby.
Come to Papa.

[crew whoop and cheer]

Ooh, that's a good pot.

[crew continue cheering]

[Keith] Ha ha!

Good morning!
Whoo-hoo!

Wow!

Yeah!

[man #1] Yeah!

Holy king crab, baby!
There we go.

[man #2] Whoo!

Oh, the whole door is full.
Going up the sides.

[crew continue cheering]

[man #1] There we go, baby.

Oh, my gosh.
Hell yeah!

[man #2] Wow!

Oh, thank you, Lord.
Hell yeah.

Whoo!

[crew whoop]

Yeah, baby.

Cha-ching, cha-ching,
cha-ching.

It just keeps getting better.

I mean, there's a lot of crab
in that table.

That looks really good.

[man #1 yells]

[man #1] Yeah, baby!

Sig actually showing us a path
was really, really helpful.

We got the meds for Karl
so we can get him on

that antibiotic, and...

all we gotta do is get to
our own gear now and see if

there's something in it.

[man #1] Whoo!

[music builds]

[man] Whoo!

[Clark] Yeah!

That looks good.
That's what we need.

Oh, yeah.
It's a nice bairdi.

[man #1 speaks]

Oh, yeah, we're in 'em.

[crew cheer]

[Sig] That looks good.
That's what we need.

Deep was the right move.

I can try to go out there,
I just don't wanna let them

haul shorthanded when
the weather is bad.

Yeah, we're back.

[Clark] [bleep] yeah, dude.
Let's go.

-[all] Yeah!
-Just be careful.

[Karl speaks]

[man #1] Oh, yeah!

I was a little out of the way
to help out Rick

but not really.

It was worth every
minute, you know?

He helped us out.

That's how it goes around.

[crew cheer]

-[man #2] Oh, yeah!
-[man #3] Oh, yeah!

[Sig] But we've got a long ways
to go.