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00:06What a lovely morning!
00:09Fullback time.
00:11Whoa!
00:12Soon there's gonna come dark.
00:15You're good, you're good.
00:16The eclipse is about to start.
00:19I've never ever seen one before.
00:21Oh my God!
00:23I'm scared, guys. I'm scared for dark.
00:25Yeah, let her go!
00:27It's gonna be 345 years before an eclipse passes over the island like today.
00:33We're at 70 percent!
00:35Woo!
00:36Come see Miles!
00:38There she is.
00:39Three minutes left!
00:41Oh, oh yeah, she's happening!
00:45Whoa!
00:48I don't even know how to describe it.
00:51You're in complete daylight and then suddenly it goes into this darkness.
00:56I am!
00:57Oh no!
00:58It's dark!
00:59What?
01:00I can't see a thing!
01:01What?
01:02Oh!
01:03Oh!
01:04Oh!
01:05Oh!
01:06Oh!
01:07Oh!
01:08Oh!
01:09Oh!
01:10What is going on there?
01:11Everything comes to a standstill.
01:13Nothing matters because there's this amazing natural thing that's happening.
01:21I don't even know how to describe it.
01:23Something that's way bigger than us.
01:26An emotional experience rather than a physical.
01:30Even though we are this tiny little dot in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, it's
01:36like we were sharing this moment with other places on the planet.
01:42I'm so glad we were out here for that.
01:44It feels like you're going to be in the dark, but then suddenly the light comes back.
01:51Wow.
01:52It's like a rebirth.
01:54Like life continues.
01:56Like our village will continue.
01:59The islands will continue.
02:00We need a hundred bags for sure.
02:187 a.m. Sunday morning on the Magdalene Islands.
02:23Captain Adam Clark and his crew have been grinding for hours.
02:29I kind of think the crab must come from the north side of Anacostia, because the water
02:33depth is the way it is.
02:35Adam's first crab trip was a disaster.
02:38Now he's gearing up for round two.
02:41I hope it's better than the last one.
02:44I'm hoping, hoping, hoping, hoping.
02:46Oh, my God, yeah.
02:50Last week, the crab were nowhere to be found.
02:57Nothing.
02:58The captain caught just 2,400 pounds when he needed 10,000 to cover his costs.
03:05Hey, no good?
03:10Before heading out, Adam makes a quick stop at his workshop in Old Harry.
03:14You got fuel conditioner here?
03:16His childhood friend, Steven Clark, needs help, prepping gear for his own trip.
03:23Roberts.
03:24Same one.
03:25I'm taking two of them.
03:27Last year, Adam bet big on the Atlantic snow crab fishery.
03:30He bought Steven's permit and is still waiting for it to pay off.
03:34Yeah, so anyway, my trip wasn't very good.
03:37The tide was going very strong when we were down there.
03:40So it might be a little early for the zone there and the depth of water I'm in.
03:45So I'm sure there's a lot of crab up the North Shore.
03:49But I don't know why there's nothing in these ones.
03:52I have no clue.
03:55I remember the other year, we sailed the extra 50 miles there to the North Shore.
04:00We got three crab, sailed 50 miles, 28 tracks for three crab.
04:05We just missed everything that time.
04:08But this trip, I figure you're going to do a lot better.
04:12Yeah, but anyways, I got some shit to do, so.
04:19I'm not giving up until I catch my crab.
04:25To improve his odds, Adam is bringing everything he's got.
04:29We'll take everything, maybe about the bottom one.
04:32What road?
04:37Help Uncle Adam.
04:42Adam's brother, Kevin, is helping load up.
04:49Hello!
04:51Adam and Kevin, they're my two younger brothers.
04:55Growing up, Adam took Kevin everywhere like a little sidekick.
04:59And they're still a bit like that.
05:03Set him aside, then you'll put him on after, okay?
05:06He's pretty much the one that taught me everything, so.
05:11Big Brother is adding 25 traps to max out his limit at 100.
05:16But more gear means longer days.
05:20Tip your bucket.
05:21That's good.
05:23That's good as I got, Kevin.
05:24Don't move nothing.
05:26I keep telling myself next trip will be better.
05:28You just gotta keep yourself positive.
05:40It's the middle of the night.
05:42The wind is biting.
05:44The crew is ready.
05:47Oh, my hands are so cold.
05:51Let's go fishing.
05:52As Adam heads out, Stephen Clark's day is just getting started.
05:57The benefit of fishing closer to home.
06:00Grab another t-shirt.
06:03I'm gonna grab a meal in the freezer.
06:06Taysha's drawings on my crab meals.
06:08She likes to spice it up for us a little, I guess.
06:12Kind of like a little sense of humor.
06:15But Stephen's house is empty.
06:19When Easton's here, he's a pretty late sleeper, so I have to kind of tiptoe so I don't wake him up.
06:23Last year, he moved his fiancee and seven-year-old son to Prince Edward Island.
06:29But when fishing season hits, Stephen comes back to old Harry, alone.
06:36Pretty boring, actually, when you're here by yourself.
06:41Load the truck, head to the wharf.
06:52See what the weather's gonna give us today.
06:55My father called him now.
06:58He's setting crab traps out of Surrey Prince Edward Island today.
07:01His father moved off the islands, too, and now fishes a different shoreline.
07:07Hello.
07:08Okay, how do I set this here?
07:11Hold like something in here.
07:13Make a file that says crab 2024.
07:16Stephen's the last of generations still working these waters.
07:20But the captain isn't spending too much time thinking about the family's legacy.
07:24I met my grandfather and stuff on my mother's side.
07:26But other than that, like, I don't know how far back the family tree goes.
07:30I go up to layers up on the top of the screen.
07:35Like, I'm not just gonna go read a bunch of headstones.
07:38I don't care for it that much.
07:40I'll see my turn there soon enough, I imagine.
07:43Stephen's counting on a good season.
07:46Good to go?
07:47Yeah.
07:49Last year, crab prices crashed and took his business to the brink.
07:53Crab was $2.25 a pound.
07:55We paid a pile of money for licenses and then it just crashed, so it was pretty tough financially.
08:03Everything was just borderline, barely covered itself.
08:06The goal this year is just to get me caught back up from last year, really.
08:12Oh, yeah. Ride the wave, baby. Ride the wave.
08:17Satan belts.
08:18He's got 170,000 pounds of crab to catch.
08:23A grueling haul.
08:25And only one way to do it.
08:27Trap by trap.
08:29Crab by crab.
08:31170,000 pounds.
08:34A lot of traps to pick up.
08:35Thump back.
08:36Getting a lot of crab to pull through.
08:38She's chilly, man.
08:40The captain's plotting a three-day trip.
08:42If things go to plan, he'll land a quarter of his quota.
08:46But to do that, he needs his crew firing on all cylinders.
08:51I wouldn't rather be out here with anybody else besides you guys.
08:55Out here, crew is family.
08:57It's gonna work.
08:58You gotta work well together.
09:00You gotta get along.
09:02It's going line.
09:04It's going line.
09:06Yeah, that's a nice one.
09:11But the captain's fishing family isn't 100% this morning.
09:16Boy, what's wrong with you?
09:17Me?
09:18Yeah.
09:19I'm gonna be sick.
09:24Deckhand Leo is paying the price for a night out.
09:28You see Leo?
09:32Yeah.
09:33Easy actin'.
09:34Big boy party on the weekends.
09:36It's not time for fishing.
09:41Big boy's gonna have to be a big boy and get to work.
09:43That's all I gotta say, buddy.
09:45I need five.
09:49I need five.
09:51Huh?
09:52I need five.
09:54Girls, I gotta stop staying like a bastard.
09:56On Steven's boat, there's no sympathy for hangovers.
10:00You get drunk on Saturday, windy Monday, you'll be sick on Monday.
10:06Lay up.
10:08You're gonna lay the bunk gown undressed.
10:09You're done for the day.
10:12Shorter man, the captain has to pick up the slack.
10:16I gotta go help the guys here, cause we're down a guide.
10:20Daybreak hits.
10:21Oh my God!
10:22What's this thing?
10:23It looks like he only slept 45 minutes last night.
10:24And Leo's back on deck, but he's on thin ice.
10:26Yeah, when I take somebody crab fishing, I expect them to pull your boots on, and everyone else puts their boots on, and you go on deck and you do the job until it's done. There's no laying around. That's not how it works.
10:36Stephen will deal with his crew later.
10:37Holy!
10:38Look at us go man, look at this one!
10:40He's got bigger problems.
10:41Ahhhh!
10:43It's not a nice day here.
10:44It's not a nice day here.
10:45It's all around here.
10:47It's all around.
10:48The captain's boat goes back on deck.
10:49The captain's boat goes back on deck, but he's on thin ice.
10:51Yeah, when I take somebody crab fishing, I expect them to pull your boots on, and everyone else puts their boots on, and you go on deck, and you do the job until it's done.
10:53There's no laying around.
10:54That's not how it works.
10:56Stephen will deal with his crew later.
10:57Holy!
10:58Look at us go man, look at this one!
11:01He's got bigger problems.
11:03Ahhhh!
11:04It's not a nice day here.
11:06The wind hits 25 knots and climbing,
11:10and his hopes of landing 40,000 pounds on this trip start to vanish.
11:19There's a lot of risk with fishing.
11:21Like, you know, there is a lot of things that can go wrong.
11:23You're going to see some shit here today, I'm going to tell you what.
11:26The seas whip up, and the gear is pushed to its limits.
11:30A lot of weight today, this shit.
11:32These crabs are heavy as f**k, too.
11:35Things are creaking and cracking all the way to the crab.
11:38A pile of stress.
11:41Something!
11:43Holy Jesus!
11:48East of the Magdalene Islands, trouble hits Stephen Clark's boat.
11:52Ah, it's up down, like a weld broke somewhere.
11:54I heard that pop!
11:55And crab fishing has come to a dead stop.
11:59Yeah, see, look, it did break, too.
12:01Just all that weight.
12:03The boom's hinge plate is cracked, a critical piece that swings traps onto the deck.
12:08The boom brings it up from the bottom, 300 feet down.
12:12One wave came that twisted the boat different than what she wanted to do.
12:16Max trap, it'll probably just push it right off.
12:18The weakest part broke, right?
12:21I'm going to have to go in and get that weld to...
12:23There's always a weak link in everything you do, right?
12:26Oh!
12:27With the hauler dead, Stephen's three-day trip is cut short.
12:32Living the dream.
12:35Yeah.
12:36Dreams are also nightmares, but whatever.
12:38Back on shore in Old Harry, a new captain is getting ready to take the helm.
12:46You get your gear ready.
12:48I still got a list of things I got to do.
12:52After waiting on the sidelines for years, Kevin is finally getting his shot at being captain.
12:57I've been a deckhand for 15 years, so it is a big transition to captain.
13:04Big day tomorrow.
13:06His uncle is nearing retirement, so Kevin bought his snow crab license.
13:11I don't have a lot of experience operating in the boat.
13:13And even when you're on shore, you still have a lot of work to do.
13:16You've got to get your bait ready and your boat ready, and you've got things to do around the house.
13:20Definitely going to be a lot of learning.
13:22Tomorrow, he sits in the captain's chair for the first time.
13:28I've been waiting a long time to do it on my own a bit.
13:31You've got to get in the seat, and you've got to do it yourself.
13:34You've got to live the experience.
13:36Hopefully, I get through the year.
13:43240 kilometers and 12 hours from the islands.
13:4766, Adam.
13:48Kevin's older brother, Adam, is looking for a big payday.
13:52Right off the bow now.
13:54Okay, I got you.
13:55First pot.
13:57Adam needs at least $20,000 worth of crab this trip.
14:01Let me know if I've got to put it in reverse.
14:03The expense is probably about $7,000, so...
14:06Make sure the rope's not around the problem.
14:09When you come back from the left, you're making a hole, so...
14:12He's still a rookie with Atlantic snow crab, learning the hot spots the hard way.
14:17I think there's something in it this time.
14:20Needle's coming right up.
14:22Here it comes.
14:23Pull, pull, pull, pull.
14:29That feels good.
14:31Yeah!
14:32After struggling to fill his pots, the crew finally hits crab.
14:37That's it.
14:38That's all, man.
14:39What a nice crab.
14:40Good job, Captain.
14:40Pull, pull, pull.
14:42Pull, pull, pull.
14:43Oh, man.
14:47The captain might have found his first big payday.
14:54Yes, me, clean.
14:55Really nice, huh?
14:56It's clean.
14:57Clean grab.
14:58You can let her go.
14:59Is everyone happy now?
15:01I can cry, I think.
15:02Feelin' pretty good.
15:11But Adam's northern luck starts to wear off as he works his way south.
15:16The catch is dropping off.
15:30Look at that.
15:31Maybe that's why there's no crab here.
15:33Give me that lobster.
15:34What?
15:36I love lobster.
15:37Normally, wherever there's lobsters, it puts the rung to the crab.
15:43Probably gonna go in the hole about $5,000 when I get a lobster.
15:47I don't know if it's the bait I put on or the water depth.
15:55Wow.
15:56Oh, my God.
15:58We started the day with three crates of trap, but now all we're getting is three crab
16:03of traps.
16:04They're not here.
16:06With only a quarter of his catch on board, Adam makes a call.
16:11So far north is better, so I'm gonna move it.
16:16He's moving every trap in the south back up north.
16:21Mostly all of them, yeah.
16:23More time.
16:24More fuel.
16:25But it's a bet Adam has to make.
16:27Just gotta follow your instinct and don't double-guess yourself.
16:32I'm not coming back empty-handed again.
16:43Long old days out here.
16:46Back south.
16:47Yeah, baby.
16:48Captain William Burke is fighting his own battle.
16:53It's day four of his 10-day season, and the scallop returns are abysmal.
17:01The captain has an idea why things have gone south.
17:02The solar eclipse.
17:03It's special to see.
17:04I can't say that it affected the scallops, but when those full moon tides are on, the
17:22fishing goes down.
17:23It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
17:26It's a huge bottom, and you can miss them for sure.
17:29You go out on a little hunt, search for them.
17:31The rest is luck, I guess.
17:32The moon ship is having no luck today.
17:34They've got 100 pounds on deck, far off their target.
17:38You can get up to 1,000 or more if you're really lucky, but if you get 500 or 600 pounds, that's a good day.
17:45Throwing in the towel on a bad day isn't an option.
17:49I got 10 days, and I paid a half a million dollars to get in this business.
17:53I got to fish them all.
17:56William's seen enough.
18:01It's time to try something new.
18:03Longer teeth on the dredges means deeper digs for scallops.
18:11Kind of feels like a pit stop.
18:14Every second the dredges aren't on the sea floor, the captain's losing money.
18:19Once the dredges come up, you're in a big rush to try to get them back on the bottom.
18:24That's the last one.
18:25Yeah.
18:26Ready, boys?
18:35You're not making no money when the dredges are on the surface.
18:38Come on, let's go.
18:39Go, go, go, go, go!
18:41The new teeth change Moon Shift's fortune right away for the worse.
18:46Oh, holy shit.
18:48Big rock?
18:49Hundreds of pounds of rock caught in the trap, shifting Moon Shift's balance, pushing it to the edge.
18:56Once they get in the air and a sea hits the boat at the same time, even a 20-foot-wide boat is going to rock.
19:02So that's when it gets dangerous.
19:05One small wave right now could be disastrous.
19:09Watch your hands like they're big.
19:12I'm going to show you on the board, okay?
19:22While the fishermen battle the ocean, the fight at Gross Eels' only school is for the future.
19:28Right now you should have done your news channel.
19:33Teaching here is different.
19:35Classrooms are small.
19:37Student numbers even smaller.
19:40I have worked in the school system since 2011.
19:45Our school's really small.
19:47It's only like 30-odd students.
19:49And then the forecast.
19:51You can have like nine students over three grades all in one classroom.
19:56Today, her students are covering a big story.
19:59Yesterday's main event, the eclipse.
20:02The eclipse passed right over our island.
20:07The whole experience connects us to the bigger world.
20:11Class size and school population have taken a hit in the last decade.
20:15The last few years have been really hard for this community.
20:18When I started working at the school in 2011, there were 76 students.
20:23This year we're down to 38.
20:26It's just a constant struggle to have enough kids to make a classroom, to make it stimulating.
20:35That's where you were Ryder last class.
20:37I'm pretty sure you guys were doing the weather.
20:39But Nancy isn't giving up.
20:41She's fighting to keep kids engaged and her community alive.
20:45And some of you were doing ads.
20:47Your team?
20:49We'll be raining dogs and hats.
20:51Yep.
20:53It's not a good sign when your school population is continuously dwindling
20:57because it means that you don't have a youth population.
21:00In 2016, they closed the school on Entry Island.
21:07It's literally you're closing the door on the village.
21:10The future, really.
21:12You want your community to grow.
21:14She believes in her students, her town, and the possibility of growth inspired by a once-in-a-lifetime event.
21:22To me, being at the eclipse feels like a rebirth or a renewal.
21:28It's like life continues, like our village will continue.
21:38Back on the water, William's catch of the day is every scallop fisherman's nightmare.
21:43I figure it's a great big rock.
21:46Hundreds of pounds of rock stuck in the gear, making the moonship dangerously unstable.
21:51Come here.
21:52Oh, boy.
21:53Every second wrestling this rock is money lost.
21:54Putting us behind.
21:55Putting us behind.
21:56Oh, higher.
21:57Lift up.
21:58Oh, there you go.
21:59Come on.
22:00Yeah.
22:01Pull them in, boys.
22:02Okay, go down.
22:03Yeah, we lost some time there.
22:04The moonship is good to go, but in desperate need of more scallop.
22:09Hey, hold on to it.
22:10Looks like a good town.
22:11How many towns on that one, Luke?
22:12Sixty.
22:13Sixty.
22:14Sixty.
22:15Yes, sir, boy.
22:16Woo!
22:17There the moon ship is good to go, but in desperate need of more scouting
22:37How many times in that one let's say 60 yes, sir boy
22:42Last oh as double the triple what we've been getting all day. We've got six baskets, so
22:47We're pretty ecstatic about it
22:50Finally give some life to the crew after a dark gloomy day
22:54With the catches increasing it looks like another decent haul
23:00All the fishing's really hard can do it there for over 20 hours so
23:04Homestick for sure it's in my family
23:08Sometimes I wonder why I'm doing it, but out here. It's not just about the money
23:14Hey deck box what you're telling us all of
23:18I dare you, but in the end
23:21It's kind of like a camping trip with the boys, you know
23:26We have a lot of fun
23:30If you're not close with your family your crew you got nothing down here it's hard to beat
23:373 15 a.m
23:51The start of a milestone day for kevin clark his first as captain of labioc
23:58today's gonna be my first day a little bit nervous about it
24:02But i've been waiting for this for a long time i'm the helper today
24:06Kevin bought his uncle's license and for his first trips he's keeping the old captain on board
24:13He's gonna come with me and he's gonna show me how everything works so pretty happy about that
24:17I think it's gonna work well and and hopefully we we catch them fast
24:24You know being a new owner first time doing crap putting weight on my shoulders a bit i guess
24:30First test navigation
24:39See the waypoint say uh waypoint say
24:42I can't clear
24:47Kevin sets a course 40 kilometers offshore
25:02Good holly older captains have experience of being on the water you got to get in the seat
25:09And you got to do it yourself you got to live the experience
25:25The next lesson of the day pulling up alongside a crab trap
25:28That's all right
25:30there okay torn
25:31Go speed
25:34No take it no
25:35No
25:36Oh
25:37Check
25:37I'll be there
25:41I'll see
25:44Not enough to win
25:45I'll tell it on the ball
25:52Wrong way
25:54Wrong way
25:58Go, go, go.
26:00Run.
26:01Come on.
26:06You don't feel bad.
26:11You're going to take it?
26:13I don't have much experience.
26:15I'm behind the wheel.
26:17It's really hard to get in the buoy.
26:20Every which way you try it is still tricky.
26:24Kevin is fighting everything.
26:26The wind, the waves, the current.
26:28It's going to go underneath.
26:30Ah, it's the catcher going head on.
26:47Bad driver.
26:51Yeah, try it.
26:53Okay.
26:55You're old captain.
26:57There you go.
26:59Study.
27:09Forget it.
27:13Yeah.
27:15Old captain.
27:17Well learned.
27:19Just a pain in the ass.
27:21In grand entry, after a trip cut short, help has finally arrived for Captain Steven Clark and his broken boom.
27:41Guy broke a cylinder off this spring.
27:45Just from the weight of everything spinning around, snapped it off.
27:49Had to come in and get a welder.
27:51Cost a lot of money too.
27:53It means to bring out another thousand.
27:54That's the price you pay when you want to be in this game.
27:55It's just crazy from when I first started.
28:07Everything's just climbed up so much.
28:11For Steven, it's never just been about the money.
28:15Fishing's in his blood.
28:17I've been fishing.
28:18This is my 16th season.
28:20So fishing's kind of been my whole life really, I guess.
28:23My grandfather did it.
28:25Both sides.
28:26My uncle and father did it.
28:28And I'm doing it.
28:30But life on the islands is getting tougher.
28:33Things are definitely changing around here.
28:36It just kind of looks like a dying island really.
28:39Like it's kind of sad.
28:41Before then there were stores everywhere.
28:44There was restaurants all over the place.
28:47There was like little shops, boutiques, everything.
28:50How's your last trip, Steven?
28:56With his boat under repair, Steven stocks up on bait.
29:00You think you don't need any more squid or no?
29:03Buddy, I'm not very hard to bleed.
29:05Take a block of heron or something like that.
29:07Three heron.
29:08We'll do that and then we'll fill up 15.
29:11Deckhand Leo packs the bait, hoping for redemption after yesterday's performance.
29:17This is getting really hard to find good hands, like for fishing.
29:20You get a guy, they don't last for a week or two.
29:23And then you're trying to get another guy and they don't last.
29:25Then you're trying to get another guy.
29:26It's just a pain in the ass.
29:28Thanks for now.
29:30You get to redeem yourself.
29:32You up this time.
29:34Never again.
29:38Leo's a different case.
29:40You gotta be quite firm with him.
29:42He's kind of like my little Labrador dog over there.
29:44You gotta yell at him, yell to stay, yell to tell him.
29:46What to do, what not to do.
29:49He's a good guy.
29:50He's just...
29:52He's training.
29:53Yeah.
29:55Steven has thrown Leo a lifeline.
29:58But now the race is on to make up for lost time.
30:01Jeez, your bait, your fuel, the men's salaries, the upkeep.
30:06If you don't make like a minimum of $300,000,
30:09you wouldn't even make it to the next season.
30:15Back on the boat.
30:17Thank you again.
30:19Quick fix.
30:21The boom is ready to start hauling crab again.
30:24Go back and get the rest of them.
30:27We're gonna be sailing all through the night.
30:29It's just artificial.
30:31You're not gonna let one bad trip make you throw them in the towel.
30:34The wind is starting to drop out now.
30:36Let me get back out there.
30:40Let's go.
30:46Ready when you guys are.
30:48Up north, the work never stops for Captain Adam.
30:52Yeah.
30:53He spent the last 24 hours criss-crossing his zone,
30:57working north, dropping every pot he has.
31:00Start letting your buoy out, man.
31:04100 gone.
31:05Right.
31:08Now, he's at the end of the line.
31:10Stand back.
31:11It's time to turn around, head home,
31:14and hope for some early returns on traps set yesterday.
31:18I'm just gonna cross my fingers that my traps get a few thousand pounds.
31:22How many miles?
31:23Too many.
31:24I'm trying to do the less scooping around I had with fuel.
31:29Adam's fuel is running low.
31:31Every extra stop, a risk.
31:33If you run out of fuel, it's, uh,
31:36you'll probably not find anyone to go fishing with you ever again.
31:39We have to account for all the running around with these traps, too.
31:42We have how many miles to those traps?
31:48I want the gaps.
31:50Despite electronic gauges, Adam checks his fuel the old-fashioned way.
31:54I'm just, uh, using the manual fuel gauge to make sure.
31:59My tank gauge, I didn't trust it since the boat was built.
32:02This was the second sensor I had into it.
32:04It's, uh, kind of iffy.
32:09Okay.
32:17Yeah, just, let's more calculate.
32:20Full, uh, that's how many inches.
32:22What?
32:23Okay, just wait.
32:24Don't, nobody panic.
32:25Eight inches of fuel.
32:28Eight inches of fuel.
32:31Eight to five.
32:32What is it full?
32:33Uh, twenty-four.
32:34Twenty-four.
32:36Twenty-four?
32:37So I should be all right with fuel.
32:40But you never know.
32:41I hope that it'd still be another, it'd be nine inches.
32:47Just doing some figuring in my head, nine, nine, six inches.
32:51The captain and crew will have to crawl home.
32:53But I'll have to slow down the speed to about nine knots to, to get this done.
32:58So if not, we're not gonna have enough fuel to get back home.
33:00Yeah.
33:01Work time, boy.
33:02Back south.
33:03Like it.
33:04New bait and a newly welded boom are delivering results.
33:08Yeah.
33:09It's like crap, man.
33:10They're back on the crab.
33:11But the captain, he's like, oh, man.
33:12It's like crap, man.
33:13It's like crap, man.
33:14It's like crap.
33:15Yeah.
33:16It's like crap, man.
33:17It's like crap.
33:18It's like crap, man.
33:19It's like crap, man.
33:20It's like crap, man.
33:21They're back on the crab.
33:22But the captain can't let his guard down.
33:24Yeah.
33:25You got a lot of stuff going on, right?
33:26There's a lot of moving pirates you have to stay alert for.
33:27You don't want to hit another boat out fishing or you're sailing around in the fog.
33:28Like ropes running off the side that the guys can get hooked up in.
33:31Heat, fatigue, bad recipe, man.
33:34I don't want to hit another boat out fishing or you're sailing around in the fog.
33:39Like ropes running off the side that the guys can get hooked up in.
33:44Heat, fatigue, bad recipe, man.
33:50Smoke or something coming across the camera.
33:59Smoke is coming from the engine room.
34:05Oh, my God.
34:09You definitely don't want to fire up there.
34:1825 kilometers off the coast of the Magdalene Islands and hours from hell.
34:24Oh, my God.
34:26There's trouble in the engine room on the deep insider.
34:29You definitely don't want to fire up there.
34:31Steven sees smoke coming from the exhaust.
34:40But upon closer inspection, it's just steam burning off.
34:44The water riser, that keeps the exhaust cold.
34:47The clamp seems to be stretched out.
34:50So I tightened it up.
34:51But it's just leaking salt water onto my engine right now, which isn't ideal.
34:56Without having put much of a dent in his 170,000 pound crab quota, Steven has to power through, no matter the condition of his boat.
35:05I have a very short window to try and catch that crab before the lobster starts.
35:14Oh, my God.
35:15The tide is strong today.
35:20Oh.
35:21I can't cross, though.
35:22Holy cow.
35:23Oh, dearie.
35:24Oh, dearie.
35:25Oh, you turn.
35:26New captain Kevin is still learning the ropes, trying to master the art of piloting his boat as close to the crab buoys as possible.
35:41No, no, no, no, no, no good.
35:44OK.
35:49Ah, yeah.
35:51You're still balling.
35:54You're still downwind, though?
35:56No, I'm not in the good sense.
35:58You have to go to the wind.
36:00Oh, go to the wind.
36:01A new captain, a language barrier,
36:03and a lesson in currents.
36:05I was trying to catch the buoy going against the tide.
36:09Language barrier.
36:11French and the French.
36:15But he said it's better to catch the buoy,
36:18go and head on to the wind.
36:24A little bit better, is what I told you.
36:30Oh, you got a good one.
36:32Yep.
36:33Ooh.
36:34Nice one.
36:36Yeah, good.
36:37Good, good.
36:38Mark?
36:39Yes, sir.
36:40The rookie captain is getting the hang of it.
36:42I really like being in the captain's seat.
36:44You know, it's a different feeling.
36:45Getting better.
36:47Just can't wait to haul them up to see what's in them.
36:50Good, good, sir.
36:51Good, good, sir.
36:56That's done.
36:59The day is over.
37:0022.6 miles from the shore.
37:05At the end of the day, it was getting pretty good at it.
37:07So, nice day.
37:08It went well.
37:09We're getting faster.
37:11We're getting faster.
37:12We're getting more racing.
37:13I know.
37:14Halfway through the day, things were going pretty smooth, so very content with my day.
37:28Very content with my day.
37:41Let's go, boy.
37:42Working away to shore.
37:42One straight line.
37:44Meanwhile, far to the north.
37:46Save on fuel.
37:48Kevin's older brother, Adam, has one eye on his crab traps
37:51and one eye on his fuel gauge.
37:54I need at least 200 gallons of fuel to get home.
37:56What do you got now?
38:00Probably 200 gallons.
38:04You guys come across that buoy yet?
38:07Yeah, right there off the head of the air.
38:10No U-turns.
38:13You can't turn back either.
38:15What you're saying is if we miss it, we don't have to fish it.
38:17Yeah.
38:18He's working south from Anticosti Island,
38:21checking and resetting traps along the way.
38:23Okay.
38:23The catch is improving, but the trip is taking its toll on the crew.
38:29It's getting better.
38:30I'm fishing a couple just to see where the crab are,
38:34where we started 30 hours ago, 30-something hours ago.
38:3940 now.
38:40As long as you got bait, you can just keep fishing and fishing and fishing.
38:46But we don't have bait or fuel,
38:48so it's going to come to an end very shortly.
38:51This is the last one, and we're going home.
38:55We're sailing our way to shore now, guys.
38:58Yay!
38:58So we've just got to ease our way to shore, like if so.
39:04We're going to keep slowing the boat down right until I have enough to get home.
39:11140 miles to home.
39:16You've got to make wise choices out here.
39:19Running on fumes.
39:29Captain Adam and the crew of the Miss Sophia Daisy
39:32have coasted back into the safety of the Grand Entry Harbor.
39:36Running pretty bad.
39:37Out of gas, but full of crab.
39:41We got home about half as fast as we normally would have
39:57to make sure that we had the fuel, but we made it eventually.
40:02They pushed their luck, but made it home.
40:0669 crates of crab.
40:0870 hours at sea.
40:09And nothing left in the tank.
40:13The next trip, we should have a really good catch.
40:17I'm almost sure.
40:29Back offshore.
40:31They look like nice crab or they're shitty crab?
40:35That's good.
40:36Stephen and his crew are playing catch up
40:39after losing time to boat repairs.
40:41Some spot's good and some spot's just dick off.
40:46They'll stay out at sea to work through the night.
40:49The only upside to the day.
40:52Home cooked food from his fiance.
40:55The closest he'll get to family for months to come.
40:58You know, I can't necessarily just take a couple days off here and there to go home
41:07because people miss me or I miss them.
41:09I don't know, boys.
41:10I don't know what she's going to look like when we get her out.
41:12Out here, feelings get left on shore.
41:17The job comes first.
41:18Set your feelings aside and get into the fishing game.
41:26Hi, buddy.
41:26How you doing?
41:28Eating apples.
41:29Eating apples.
41:32Calls on the run.
41:33The only family time during fishing season.
41:36This is the sacrifice that comes with it.
41:39And here we are.
41:50Love you.
41:51For now, Stephen's job comes with a steep sacrifice.
41:59Something he'll have to live with for the next few months.
42:10I was the next best thing for us.
42:13It's close to home and only five hours away.
42:16If they do need me or a quick trip across the gulf in the boat,
42:19I can be there in a few hours.
42:23This is kind of the compromise we made.
42:26It's trying to have a better life,
42:28make some sacrifices,
42:31being not too far away.
42:33You miss a ton.
42:34You see them growing in a camera,
42:36but it's not the same thing as when you put it into a person.
42:40It's kind of heartbreaking when you think about it,
42:42which is terrible,
42:43but everything comes with a price.
42:45To me, for me to provide a better life for my family
42:48with more opportunities,
42:49I have to be gone from my family for a while,
42:52but that's the choice we all decided to make
42:55and we went with,
42:56and there's no going back on that now.
42:58So far, there's no going back on that now.
43:07I guess I missed something else.
43:08Just at the end,
43:09and there boys could be a problem,
43:09so I couldn't do this now.
43:10Listen to me about it,
43:10and I've been doing it for another place.
43:15I guess I made a lot ofinya.