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00:00The vast Bering Sea, over a million square miles of the world's most violent and unpredictable
00:12waters and home of the deadliest catch, Alaskan crab. This season has been a roller coaster
00:23of highs and lows. High stakes. Heartbreak. Tragedy and triumph. The finish line is in sight. The men of the fleet must dig deep. Captains will stop at nothing. I'm not out here to make friends.
00:52We got to get going fast. Because the last lap is always the hardest in the hunt for the deadliest catch.
01:22shoulders.
01:27.
01:29.
01:31.
01:35.
01:39.
01:41.
01:46For Captain Jonathan Hillstrand and his crew,
01:54this day has been like no other on the Bering Sea.
01:59Just three hours ago, they saved a man's life.
02:07They were 266 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor,
02:11approaching new fishing grounds.
02:13The 134-foot boat was on its starboard side.
02:19A deckhand hung on the boat's side, chaining down the stack.
02:32The boat was rolling so much that the man could reach down and touch the sea below.
02:37Then, he disappeared.
02:53He fell into the icy water.
02:56The time bandit was the deckhand's only hope for survival.
03:14The time bandit was the deckhand's only hope for survival.
03:22Let's go, let's go, let's go!
03:24Jonathan searched the choppy seas,
03:27desperate to keep an eye on the drowning man.
03:30He then struggled to get the time bandit close enough
03:33for his men to throw a life ring.
03:34The other boat circled back around to assist as the time bandit crew got a hold of the fishermen.
03:56He's in shock, I'm pretty sure, but he's conscious and tough.
04:22Right off, we got you, bud.
04:26There we are, buddy.
04:26My match is doing good.
04:27Come on in and...
04:29Come on in.
04:30Once you get that off, we'll get you here in the warm galley.
04:34Oh, my God.
04:35Get him a warm blanket, Russ, or Neil.
04:40You guys saved my life.
04:41Thank you for being there.
04:42Oh, it couldn't have been any better.
04:45Strip out your underwear, man.
04:47I'm coming.
04:48I'm coming.
04:49Just in here, don't go.
04:50Oh, that feels good.
04:52Bring it on right now.
04:54Right here, buddy.
04:55Okay, help him in here, guys.
04:56Hey.
04:57It's good?
04:58It's good, man.
04:58Take your time.
04:59Take your time now, Josh.
05:01You're safe now, man.
05:03You got it.
05:03I'm so cold, though.
05:04Yep.
05:05I'm so cold.
05:07Oh, man.
05:07You're going to warm up too quick, though, buddy.
05:09Let's put him in on this bed, you guys.
05:11Hey, just take it more.
05:12Doesn't need it for now.
05:13Okay.
05:14Slowly warm up.
05:15Yep, we're going to slowly warm up.
05:16Russell.
05:17You guys get that suit off, Russell.
05:20I'm going to go upstairs.
05:20We're done.
05:22We're going to be okay.
05:23We're going to be okay.
05:25I'm sure I'm coming back.
05:26Oh, man.
05:27I'm going to lie, man.
05:28I'm going to live.
05:29Holy shit, that was scary.
05:31What happened?
05:31How did you fall in?
05:32Oh, I was chaining up the stack.
05:34I just lost it.
05:34I was cold.
05:35It was cold, and I just...
05:37Take that high, I get tied off, man.
05:39Oh.
05:40That's way to...
05:41Yeah.
05:41Yeah, it was icy.
05:43I just lost the grip.
05:44Yeah, it was icy out.
05:45Oh, I caught the chain in, like, a camera second.
05:48Just, you know.
05:49Oh, so, look over there.
05:52Oh, like, a whole paper towels, or...
05:53Yep, yep.
05:54Or even if it's a dry towel, it'd be great.
05:56It's just going to start drying my hair.
05:57Dry towel?
05:59What are you going to do dry towel with that?
06:02Guys, I saw you.
06:04I said you disappeared.
06:05See my life, man.
06:07See my life.
06:08I said you disappeared, man.
06:09See my life.
06:10My legs are shaking.
06:15Yeah, man.
06:16Yeah.
06:19Just take your time.
06:20Take your time.
06:22Take a break.
06:23It's okay.
06:28Woo!
06:28We got him.
06:30Yeah, I wasn't going to let go.
06:33Unbelievable.
06:35Last time it happened, we pulled a dead guy out of the water.
06:38Nine years earlier, Captain Jonathan was in position to save another fishing boat.
07:08And he was in position to save another fisherman's life.
07:10I came swooping in, just as a guy took his big breath of water, and he started to sink
07:17underneath.
07:18And my brother Dave jumped in the water, grabbed the guy.
07:20And we had on board, like, within 20 seconds, with the extra two or three minutes in the water,
07:24and killed him.
07:25So he was dead when we got him.
07:26He was drowned.
07:27We gave him CPR for two and a half hours.
07:29It just had been haunting me ever since.
07:30And now we just redeemed ourselves.
07:31We got the guy out of the water.
07:32We just saved the guy.
07:33I was just...
07:34I couldn't even tell you how happy I was.
07:36Look, I'm gonna fall.
07:37Thank God you were wearing your life vest.
07:38Yes.
07:39Don't do that.
07:40Oh, yeah.
07:41That's why you're alive, Josh.
07:42You wore a life jacket.
07:43Yeah.
07:44Jonathan calls the concerned skipper.
07:45But he's doing great right now.
07:46He's doing way better.
07:47Let me go, up and down.
07:48Hey, you know what?
07:49It's like a 31st birthday today, but...
07:50Happy birthday.
07:51Do you want to get home, up, up?
07:52Ah, or this is a 31st birthday.
07:53Uh huh.
07:54Sorry, Joey, Ð .
07:55Yeah, it's back.
07:56I'm a 10th birthday.
07:57But, uh, happy birthday.
07:58Oh, my God.
07:59Thank God you were wearing your life vest.
08:00Yes.
08:01He was so good, you don't do that.
08:02That's why you're alive, Josh.
08:03You wore a life jacket.
08:04Oh, yeah.
08:05You were so good.
08:06Oh, yeah.
08:07That's why you're alive, Josh.
08:09You wore a life jacket.
08:10Jonathan calls the concerned skipper.
08:11It's my birthday, so it's the request for what he loves.
08:15He's thinking fast on me way better than doing this.
08:20Okay, I'm going to take the rest of the day off and celebrate.
08:24All right, you got the day off, Josh.
08:26Today, the time bandit has pulled something from the sea more precious than crab,
08:31and Captain Jonathan has finally settled a debt with the ghosts of his past.
08:36I never thought I'd meet a man today in the Bering Sea that would be my new friend.
08:41And he told me he loved me.
08:51Three miles to the east is the 125-foot northwestern.
08:56They're back on the crab grounds after offloading nearly $800,000 of king crab.
09:02Keep them coming.
09:05I do this all night long, man.
09:08I do this for days.
09:11Sig's strategy so far has been lots of pots, lots of bait, and lots of soak time.
09:19Now, as he approaches the first of 300 pots, his skill will be tested to the limit.
09:24In five days, the price of crab is set to drop by a dollar per pound, and Sig still has 130,000 pounds to catch.
09:33We want to try to get the gear off the grounds and try to get the crab that we need to meet the deadline.
09:39So we'll go through these in hopes that we have a decent pick, and then we're hoping that by the second time around up here, that that'll get us enough crap to where we're finished.
09:52The consequences for Sig missing his deadline is a loss of $130,000, but deckhand Matt Bradley has a deadline of his own.
10:01If he misses his court date, it'll cost him eight months in jail.
10:05We've got a court date coming up that I can't miss.
10:09If I miss this court date, a prosecuting attorney is not going to be so friendly.
10:14Game on.
10:15I can smell it!
10:38I can smell it!
10:40I can smell it!
10:42I can smell the one!
10:44I can smell it!
10:45Oh!
10:46Yeah!
10:47Woo-hoo!
10:48Woo-hoo!
10:49Woo-hoo!
10:50Woo-hoo!
10:51Woo-hoo!
10:53Woo-hoo!
10:54Go-hee, bro!
10:55Of course they're all big!
10:56We don't fish small, bro.
11:00Dog around there?
11:01Yeah, Ro!
11:02Yeah, right!
11:03Go!
11:04Come!
11:05Yeah, Rod!
11:06Come!
11:07Yeah, you know.
11:08Do a good dog around there, man.
11:09Who's Kal-lights?
11:10Yeah, 63 in the first one, I mean with, you know, if we get a 40 plus average through
11:23all these pods, I mean, we can be able to whip this trip out pretty quick.
11:27Yeah!
11:28Yeah!
11:29Yeah!
11:30Yeah!
11:31Oh!
11:32Yeah!
11:33Yeah!
11:34Yeah!
11:35Fishing's hot, fishing's really hot.
11:46If you keep something like that, we're done.
11:50For deckhands like Edgar, staying positive keeps him going.
11:54But up in the wheelhouse, Sieg knows not to count his crab before they're on the boat.
11:59These crabs can disappear overnight.
12:02I mean, I've seen it so many times.
12:04You think you got it in the bag.
12:06And then you go back to Hollier Street and they are gone.
12:11225 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor is the Maverick.
12:16Captain Blake Painter has just offloaded $168,000 worth of crab.
12:21And now he's returned to the hot spot given to him by Captain Phil Harris on the Cornelia Marie.
12:31Codfish!
12:34It looks like the crab and the rookie captain's winning streak may have disappeared.
12:40We start getting numbers like this.
12:42We start getting a little down.
12:45Things have been good the whole season so far.
12:47And you know they're not going to stay that way.
12:49It looks like it's our turn to take a little bit of a lingo.
12:57Yeah, lingo.
12:59Captain!
13:03Looks like a couple of them are.
13:04Not very good.
13:16There's one.
13:17Zero one!
13:18Roger!
13:19Not a good deal.
13:39Three codfish.
13:40Three roxel.
13:41Three crab.
13:49Those aren't winning numbers.
13:51It's part of fishing but it still sucks.
13:55Blake's last tip landed him in a crab-less desert.
13:57Now he decides to stack the pots and strike out on his own without advice from the other skippers.
14:04I want to prove that I can come out here and swing a bat with anybody.
14:08You know?
14:09I don't care if you've been doing this for 30 years.
14:10Yeah, I'll take any kind of knowledge you'll hand my way but I'm not going to stand down.
14:15I'm going to be out there and I'm going to run gear and I'm going to catch crab with the best of them.
14:19As Blake debates his next move, his deckhands prep bait for the upcoming set.
14:23He's just for hanging, Barry.
14:33What do you do?
14:34I cut himself with a cod knife.
14:36What do you do that for?
14:37I don't want to hear it.
14:38I don't want to hear it.
14:39He had a camera on him.
14:40That's not a bullshit move.
14:42We're going to have to cut off Eddie's finger and sacrifice it for bait.
14:47I've seen you do dumber than that.
14:51Nothing a little electrical tape won't fix.
14:54Just tape it up and be a man.
14:57I did tape it up.
14:58Shut up.
15:00Drive the boat.
15:02Did he cry?
15:04No, I didn't cry.
15:05I didn't cry at crab fishing, blunder.
15:09A bleeding crewmate provides comic relief from the pain of a string of blanks.
15:14Now Blake needs to get back to the serious work of finding crab.
15:18Definitely second guessing myself.
15:22I don't know if where we're going right now is going to produce.
15:2469 miles to the northwest of the Maverick is the Wizard.
15:30A much more serious injury, engineer Lenny Lekinov's nearly amputated finger has kept this crew shorthanded for days.
15:37Now they're plowing through 25-foot seas and 50-mile-per-hour winds as they struggle to get their last 15,000 pounds to grab on board.
15:5055 more pots and we're done.
15:52With rising seas and fierce winds pounding the deck, they need all the help they can get.
16:05Let's try and get this one right here.
16:07Lenny convinces Captain Keith to pull his stitches so he can get back in the game.
16:10Yeah, that feels better already.
16:12Ten times better now.
16:13I mean, it looks better.
16:19Hey!
16:21It's Lenny!
16:24It looks good to be outside, fresh air.
16:29It'll be okay.
16:32Lenny's back on deck and the crew of the Wizard is back at full force.
16:36They have just 15,000 pounds more to catch before they can call it a season.
16:48Heads up!
16:5217.
16:5417.
16:59Yeah!
17:01Yeah!
17:07Oh, here we go!
17:12Missed him, buddy.
17:14What?
17:15Missed him.
17:17Aw, jeez!
17:25Six!
17:28He's not doing so good.
17:31This is no fun.
17:32These are not the numbers the Wizard was looking for.
17:35But will it be enough to finish out their season?
17:38267 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor.
17:42The Time Bandit approaches the first pots since their active heroism.
17:47I turn around and Neil comes out and throws the buoy.
17:50And I look up at you and I'll never forget.
17:53I looked at you and you still had your hat on too.
17:55Had your hat and his glasses on in 15-foot waves.
18:00My first thought was, how in the heck could you fall off a boat and keep your glasses and your hat?
18:07For the rescued fisherman Josh White, this red crab season is finished.
18:11Until he can be dropped off in St. Paul, he'll just be a passenger aboard the Time Bandit.
18:16For Captain Jonathan and crew, their heroic efforts had a successful outcome.
18:22Lifted spirits.
18:23But now it's time to set about the serious work of turning around a sour season of fishing.
18:29So we're up to our gear again on a 14-hour soak.
18:33And if this pops blank, it's going to be a long damn day.
18:37Okay, are we ready?
18:38Here we go.
18:39Go, go, go, go, go.
18:41This will tell us everything.
18:49He's alive, come on.
18:50That looks pretty good.
18:55Looks like it's got some crab in it.
18:58Yeah, she looks heavy.
19:02Oh, my God!
19:07Oh, yeah!
19:11Oh!
19:13Wow!
19:15Woo!
19:17Back in the game, fellas!
19:18Woo!
19:19Woo!
19:20Woo!
19:21Beautiful!
19:23Way less than the crab!
19:27Coming out.
19:34Oh, yeah!
19:35Finally found the crab.
19:3714 hours.
19:39We call this the red gold.
19:41We're on the mother load.
19:43For the first time this season, the Time Bandit sorting table is piled high with crab.
19:48That's where we're at here.
19:50Big one!
19:51Big one!
19:5260!
19:54Time!
19:5563!
19:57That's 63 in 14 hours.
20:00That's almost five grab an hour.
20:02That's unherbable.
20:04Oh, yeah!
20:06Woo-hoo!
20:09Bowling balls, baby!
20:11Red bowling balls!
20:14Look at this table now.
20:16Unbelievable.
20:17Look at that plow.
20:19Woo-hoo!
20:21Oh, man!
20:23Oh, man!
20:25Yeah!
20:27Look at that, Andy.
20:28Be careful.
20:29It'll take two hands.
20:30Wow!
20:31This is just simply amazing.
20:3571.
20:4071!
20:43Woo-hoo!
20:44Maybe it was the rescue that changed their karma.
20:46Or maybe they would just do some good luck.
20:49Oh, yeah!
20:50Yes!
20:51But right now, no one on the Time Bandit crew cares why.
20:54They're just happy to be on the crab.
20:56Woo-hoo!
20:58That's crab fishing there.
21:00That's what we call crab fishing, my friend.
21:03First little jig.
21:04Crab jig.
21:06That's a good crab.
21:08Oh, my God.
21:10Woo-hoo!
21:14Yeah, baby!
21:16Little crab jig.
21:19I don't care where they're at.
21:20I just want to pull those kind of numbers when they get back out.
21:22We have a chance to get put back in the standings for that damn bend.
21:2747 miles to the southwest is the 105-foot Far West leader.
21:32Right now, they could use a little of the Time Bandit's good fortune.
21:36Captain Greg is on a hard luck string of weak pots.
21:39146,000 pounds to go.
21:41With this kind of fishing, it's going to take a long time.
21:45Woo!
21:46Woo!
21:47Ow!
21:49You've got to dance it!
21:53Ow!
21:54Oh!
21:57Water!
21:59Water!
22:01Hole in water!
22:02Hole in water!
22:06Losing money!
22:07Losing money!
22:09They are gone.
22:15They are gone.
22:17Three and a half days soak on these pots.
22:19We're in the desert.
22:20We catch nothing.
22:22Oh, wait a minute.
22:23There's crab in this pot.
22:25Four of them.
22:27Unbelievable.
22:30All right.
22:34Long day hauling empty pots.
22:39Looks like no crab in this area.
22:41We'll be stacking on a few pots there and moving them where we hope to find some crab.
22:48Captain Greg puts out a crab APB.
22:52Hey, where you at, dammit?
22:53I'm pulling blanks.
22:55Today is going to be a sad one.
22:57Yeah, I came out from town and I knew it was going to be bad, but it's been heartache and pain.
23:02The other captains report meager fishing to the east, west and south, but a call to Jonathan on the Time Bandit brings hope.
23:11My town pick sucks and I hear a vicious rumor you had a hell of a pick.
23:15Okay, we're heading your way.
23:17See ya.
23:18I'm just talking to Jonathan on the Time Bandit.
23:21Well, we know where the crab are now.
23:22They moved north and he is all over them.
23:25100 average he's seeing.
23:28So that's pretty spectacular.
23:32Whatever we do, we're moving out of this place.
23:34This place is over.
23:35246 miles to the northeast of Dutch Harbor, the Northwestern approaches the first pod of their second string.
23:45If last night's hot streak continues, they'll make deckhand Matt Bradley's court date in Seattle and their price deadline.
23:53On my court date, it looks like all this crab we're catching, I don't have to worry about it so much.
23:58I'm hoping now that it's still set for the 14th.
24:02I mean, this is, this is, this is, this is in the bag almost.
24:07Don't, if it keeps up, you know, we'll be in before, uh, before you know it.
24:33Looks like Matt spoke too soon.
24:40Is there anything in that first pod?
24:43Wow.
24:45First pod sucked.
24:47Can't hold crab, not good.
24:49And just like that, the Northwestern is off the crab.
24:53That is not good.
24:55There's no crab for pods, so, no, it is what it is.
25:09Oh, damn it!
25:11Oh, damn it!
25:13Oh, damn it!
25:24They went from seeing the largest biomass of crab in their careers to a wasteland.
25:30Now, both Matt's and the boat's deadline will be hard to meet.
25:34It's the last pod, we're on like a seven average.
25:37Big six-pound run, we gotta pick up 30 more.
25:40The Northwestern will stack the gear and head for what they hope will be much better fishing.
25:45The seven-crab average drags down morale, and with it, the hope for some much-needed downtime.
25:51Just thinking about everybody's vacation.
25:54Stan's going to Norway for a vacation.
25:56Six's going to Hawaii.
25:58Edgar's probably going to California, Disneyland or something.
26:00Norman's going to his new house. Nick's going to Mexico.
26:04I'm going to jail!
26:06To lift his spirits, Matt rereads a letter of support he received from a fan of the show during the off-season.
26:13I understand that you're struggling with addiction.
26:16Your strength and courage are amazing.
26:18Keep taking it one day at a time.
26:20You have a lot of people who believe in you.
26:22You know, letters like this with words of encouragement about recovery are huge, you know?
26:27It's just one person open another and open something like this up from somebody who I've never met before,
26:34who just shares the same foundations, I guess.
26:38It's pretty cool.
26:4067 miles to the southeast, Captain Blake on the Maverick has followed his own hunch and moved north in search of crab.
26:47Now this is putting all your eggs in one basket here.
26:50He's going all in, gambling on this spot with every pot he has.
26:54Not too sure what it'll produce. It's kind of out of the gully a little bit, but we'll just let it develop.
27:01This is the first pot Blake set without help from fellow skippers.
27:08Wow!
27:11And it's full of crab.
27:13Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
27:17Yeah!
27:21What's that?
27:22That's a big crab. That's as big a round as my head.
27:28Ah!
27:3165! 65!
27:3365!
27:35That was a 65 crab pot.
27:37That was able to make Mikey smile.
27:41Coming up!
27:42Coming up!
27:56Yeah.
27:58This will work.
28:00Ah, you can count on that last one.
28:0256!
28:0456.
28:0656.
28:07I think it was a good move to come up here.
28:08I'm moving!
28:09Yeah!
28:10There we go!
28:12Woo-hoo!
28:13We'll be sitting in a bar at the Anchor's Airport sipping on a cocktail in no time.
28:27Each crab in the tank is worth $25.
28:29That means the Maverick is averaging well over a thousand bucks a pot.
28:36I'm not out here to make friends.
28:38I'm out here to make money.
28:40If they've got a problem with the way I've done things, then...
28:44Tough.
28:46The 128 foot Cornelia Marie is 275 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor.
28:51After being waylaid for days with a broken prop, Captain Phil is dialed in on the crab.
28:58I'm hauling a string that was our farthest west.
29:01This was bad, and as we move to the east, it's getting better and better and better.
29:06Yeah, the fish is picking up a little bit in these strings.
29:12Woo-hoo!
29:14That's blowing!
29:15Woo-hoo-hoo!
29:16There we go, baby.
29:18Come in!
29:19There we go, baby.
29:20Oh, yeah, perfect!
29:21Oh, yeah, perfect!
29:25Woo-hoo!
29:26Woo-hoo!
29:27Woo-hoo!
29:28Woo-hoo!
29:29Yeah!
29:30Yeah!
29:31Woo-hoo!
29:32Woo-hoo!
29:45Eight-four!
29:46Eighty-four!
29:48Ah, this pot was damn good, and if it continues to be good, I will probably set this string back around here and give this gear one more shot.
29:59At 5 o'clock in the morning, the crew takes a break during an hour run between strings.
30:05Before this season, the captain's son, Jake Harris, visited his dentist for the first time in years.
30:12Now Jake wonders if his dentist finished the job.
30:16Oh, wow.
30:17Get the chief up here. Come here.
30:19What?
30:20We're doing an extraction.
30:22We gonna pull a tooth?
30:23Yeah.
30:24He's trying to do it himself.
30:25You're terrible!
30:28You are!
30:33Want me to look?
30:34Let him look out first.
30:36So I can put this corner on the bottom.
30:40Cigarette in one hand, a pair of pliers in the other, let's pull that sucker.
30:45Just give it a yank.
30:48Lightweight.
30:50Just pull on the son of a .
30:52You ain't a man until you pull a tooth out with a pair of pliers.
30:59You're not making love to it.
31:01Just give her a yank.
31:03I can get a dumb chunk of it.
31:08Jake extracts the offending piece of tooth and another crab fishing right at passage is crossed off his list.
31:1421 miles to the west, the Northwestern is about to haul a string of pots that will make or break their season.
31:23We still need to get this done and we need to get in for our scheduled date.
31:31So we don't have a choice really.
31:34We basically are dependent on a decent pick out of our last 150 pots.
31:40I think everybody's getting a little groggy, a little sore.
31:43It's alright though, we know where it's going to lead us.
31:47It's going to be a big disappointment if they fall.
31:50Come on with some crap.
32:00That is good.
32:02The first pot looks good.
32:04Yeah!
32:06Yeah baby!
32:08The bait too.
32:09For right now, I'm really happy with what I'm seeing.
32:19And I think we've been right the whole time.
32:23Lots of soap, lots of bait.
32:25We've proven it again.
32:27Come on!
32:29All big crab.
32:31Easy sorting.
32:32Those pots are coming up full.
32:34Oh my god man!
32:35Will you just go in your hole?
32:37Are you too good?
32:38Is this offer?
32:40Or what?
32:4257-57.
32:44If these numbers keep up, Matt just might avoid wearing prison stripes in the off season.
32:49Hopefully Matt will make his court day so he can go, you know, take care of business, clear his name, be legal again.
32:55He's got the biggest heart and the biggest mouth that anybody has ever known.
32:58Oh, I've got a whale of a tale to tell you lads.
33:00But the nights with the stars above, the girls I love, there were mermaid mini.
33:05The heart I can deal with, the mouth I can do without.
33:09Wow!
33:10Whoa!
33:11Woo-hoo!
33:13High five!
33:14Woo-hoo!
33:15Woo-hoo!
33:17Woo-hoo!
33:18Yeah!
33:23Yeah, at least this is the handy crab right here, man.
33:26Beautiful.
33:27Easy picking.
33:28You don't even need to stick these ones.
33:29They're all so big, you know?
33:3160-6-0.
33:32I think we stuck to the old rules, you know, the golden rules.
33:47And that's just, you know, lots of soak and more pots and lots of bait.
33:53And it's paying off.
33:56No question in my mind right now.
33:59With the finish line in sight and everyone dialed in, it's anybody's game.
34:03Safely back in Dutch Harbor, the wizard is offloading an estimated 230,000 pounds of king crab.
34:17This is the last of their 385,000-pound quota in the end of their season.
34:25It's not time to celebrate yet.
34:27The final crab weigh-in is always a moment of truth and tension.
34:31With more than a million dollars at stake, the skippers follow the old adage, trust but verify.
34:40One of the number one rules, I'll tell you right now, Crosby, and you remember this,
34:44don't ever trust the guy on the dock.
34:46Right.
34:47Ever.
34:48Because they will, they'll try and figure out what makes it easiest for them.
34:52Right.
34:53And with no consideration whatsoever for the boat most times.
34:56And so that's, that's where you run into problems.
34:58No problem.
34:59To ensure an accurate count, Captain Keith has designated Nick to keep an eye on the processor's tally.
35:11It's taking forever to do the job.
35:16When the offload runs slower than expected, the dock foreman suggests to Nick that he leave his post and help unload.
35:23This is a serious breach of protocol.
35:28Now, Keith has no one keeping track of the Braillers.
35:32Each filled with $10,000 worth of hard won crab.
35:41When Captain Keith sees Nick on deck, he bristles.
35:45Yeah, so if we don't have anybody here and you don't push the f*** button, what happens to crap?
35:51I'm not a thief.
35:52Hey, this guy?
35:53No.
35:54Hey, I'm not a thief.
35:55Go up there and talk to my boss.
35:56I'm not doing this.
35:57No, you listen to me.
35:58No, you listen to me.
35:59You don't give my order.
36:00I didn't give you my order.
36:01Yes, you did.
36:02I have.
36:03You f*** that.
36:04You don't got to give you.
36:05Go ahead and leave.
36:06Get off my boss.
36:07Go f*** you.
36:08Go with my boss.
36:09Listen.
36:10You don't give my guys an order.
36:12Go with my boss.
36:13All right?
36:14I am going up to see your f*** boss.
36:16Innocent mistake or not, the Greenhorn won't soon forget that at sea or at dock, the skipper
36:21is his only master.
36:23I don't know.
36:24I shouldn't have left.
36:25I shouldn't have left.
36:26You know?
36:27That's all it is.
36:28I don't know if it warranted, like, all that or whatever.
36:37265 miles northeast of Dutch Arbor, things are looking up for the 105 foot far west leader
36:43since they headed north on Jonathan's tip.
36:45So far, 48, 59, 45, 65, 53.
36:50This last one was about a 50 or 60.
36:53So, it's pretty good.
36:55Yeah, it's great.
36:56There you go.
36:58All right.
36:59We're getting some.
37:00Getting some.
37:01We got something.
37:10So, we're probably getting about a 30-some average.
37:12You know, it'll work.
37:14Better than nothing.
37:15Works for me.
37:20That's pretty, isn't it?
37:21I just used to dislocate it all the time.
37:24One knuckle would pop on the other, and I relocate it like that.
37:28It's kind of hard to get into a glove sometime.
37:30What's going on, John?
37:31I haven't pulled any flanks up here that do stuff, so it's all right.
37:35It's a heavy sort.
37:36But it's all right.
37:37We keep getting crapped.
37:38Yeah, we are!
37:39Way to go, John.
37:40Probably 50 keepers.
37:41A lot of sorting.
37:42But you know what?
37:43Get over it, boys.
37:47That was a beauty.
37:4914 miles to the west, Captain Jonathan hopes his good crab karma will deliver full pots
37:54on his next string.
37:55The other end of this was solid 70s, 80s, and 90s, and then a solid 50s all the way down this
38:05cut.
38:06Nick grabbed some really, really nice pots and some knock on wood.
38:10And some really nice weather.
38:31Oh, yeah!
38:34Oh, yeah!
38:36Yeah, yeah!
38:38Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
38:48Woo!
38:49Oh, my!
38:51This morning, everything is wrong.
39:00That's why I'm appreciate it.
39:02It seems the time has come.
39:0990, 91, 92.
39:17106, 106.
39:23106, yeah, 106.
39:27Yeah, 106.
39:30Yeah!
39:34Yeah!
39:35Yeah!
39:36Woo!
39:37Yeah!
39:38Yeah, I'm going to be an animal.
39:39Year and hour.
39:40Coming in, coming in, coming in.
39:42Coming down, coming down.
39:43Coming down.
39:44Coming down.
39:45Coming down.
39:46Coming down.
39:47Coming down.
39:48Coming down.
39:49Snow keeps on living.
39:52Woo!
39:53I want this to change.
39:56I want this to change.
40:01Coming down.
40:02Going out.
40:03Woo!
40:04Oh, man.
40:05This turned out to be a hell of a set.
40:06This is an amazing amount of crap for one crap pod.
40:08I've never seen anything like this.
40:10151!
40:11151!
40:12151!
40:13151!
40:14151!
40:15151!
40:16151!
40:17151!
40:18151!
40:19151!
40:20151!
40:21151!
40:22151!
40:23151 crab in that pod.
40:25I'm not going to tell nobody they want millions.
40:27151!
40:28151!
40:29152!
40:30151!
40:31I can't quit grinning here.
40:34It's just too happy to see the mother lug, we finally get on it.
40:39It's nice to see some nice cool crab come up.
40:42It's very exciting.
40:43All alone!
40:44No snails.
40:45No halabut.
40:46Pure king crab!
40:47Beautiful!
40:48Woo!
40:49The gods are smiling on these Bering Sea cowboys.
40:53The reward for saving a man is crab gold.
40:57This is truly the stuff of fishing legend.
41:00Captain Jonathan is back in the hunt for the captain's wager.
41:03I don't know what everyone else is doing,
41:05but I hope we're doing as good as we are.
41:08Except for the guys in the vet.
41:10We hope they're not doing just almost as good, but not quite.
41:13We hope we're doing good, but not quite as good as us.
41:16Hang on!
41:27Lookin' back
41:37Time will never wait
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