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00:01So Lubron is a synthetic hormone used to treat prostate cancer.
00:07Some of the potential side effects are nausea, vomiting, trouble urinating, anger.
00:17Alright, you ready?
00:19When you talk to a doctor and you tell them you want to go to the Bering Sea when you start treatment for prostate cancer,
00:25they look at you like you lost your mind.
00:28Just a band-aid, just in case, and then you're good to go.
00:33I don't know how I'm going to feel, but I'm here.
00:40I'm a man of constant sorrow, seen trouble all my days.
00:54Red Crab, I wasn't going to miss it.
00:57Red Crab is a Kentucky Derby of crab fishing.
01:00There's something about throwing this big crab in the tank that it's just over the top.
01:06Yeah!
01:08Bang!
01:09That's a good part!
01:10I've been doing this for 40-some years.
01:24Wow!
01:26Every one of these struggles...
01:28Go!
01:29Go!
01:30Look out!
01:31Look out!
01:32...near-death experiences...
01:33Get out of the water now!
01:36...it makes you stronger.
01:37I don't care who you are, the word cancer scares the meanest, the toughest, and the biggest.
01:46And I'd be lying if I said I wasn't concerned, but I'm going to try to endure the pain.
01:52Try to defy all odds like we have in the past.
01:57Catch the kings, baby!
01:59Look out!
02:01Pull this thing off.
02:04You got this thing ready to go?
02:07Yeah!
02:08Yeah!
02:09It potentially could be the last king for me.
02:13Fire!
02:14Not going down without another king crab under my belt.
02:17That's the way I want to do it.
02:38Hey, Sig.
02:39You got me?
02:40Yeah, I got you, John.
02:41How goes the battle?
02:42No good!
02:43Oh, man.
02:44It's not going very good over here.
02:45It's definitely dropped off.
02:46Well, that's too bad.
02:47We haven't been through ours yet, so I'm hoping they're still there.
02:48On the last report, the quota's going quick.
02:51This is just like derby days.
02:52Man, I'm feeling the crunch here.
02:53The pressure.
02:54On the Alaskan Crab Grounds.
02:55Just be careful, John.
02:56Things are getting serious.
02:58With the Bristol Bay Red King Crab Fishery open for the first time in three years, Captain
03:00Sprint.
03:01It's going very good over here.
03:02Very good over here.
03:03It's definitely dropped off.
03:04Well, that's too bad.
03:05We haven't been through ours yet, so I'm hoping they're still there.
03:06On the last report, the quota's going quick.
03:07This is just like derby days.
03:08Man, I'm feeling the crunch here.
03:09The pressure.
03:10On the Alaskan Crab Grounds.
03:12Just be careful, John.
03:13Things are getting serious.
03:15With the Bristol Bay Red King Crab Fishery open for the first time in three years,
03:22the captain's sprint to deliver the remaining 1.5 million pound, 23 million dollar quota
03:29before their competition.
03:31We have to produce.
03:33I get every intention of catching this crab quicker than anyone else out here.
03:39We will get more quota.
03:41Skippers slow to harvest risk quota owners transferring the crab to faster producing vessels.
03:48Derby style fishing is virtually no sleep around the clock, pushing the boat, the crew and the gear to the limit.
03:55While those who clear their own quota prove they can successfully hunt more of these red monsters of the deep.
04:03There's a reason why they're called cane crabs.
04:06They are the pinnacle of fishing in the Bering Sea.
04:09Right now, every minute counts.
04:11250 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor.
04:16All right, guys.
04:18Two miles.
04:20On the northwestern.
04:25There, Jenna.
04:26You got me?
04:27Yeah, I got you now.
04:28How's it going so far?
04:29It's actually going really good.
04:30Fishing's good.
04:31Have you told about the captain job yet?
04:32On the Titan Explorer?
04:33No.
04:34Honestly, I've been avoiding it.
04:35I've already made promises here.
04:36I just can't bail on six.
04:37Eight days ago.
04:38The door's changed.
04:39There's a repossession notice on the boat.
04:53Captain Jake Anderson lost access to his ship of nearly a decade.
04:58The fishing vessel Saga.
04:59You own your own quota, yeah?
05:00Yeah.
05:01You can come here, if need be.
05:03There he is.
05:04You can come here if need be
05:07There he is. I wasn't sure if you're gonna make it. Me neither
05:12Leading him to strike a deal with former mentor captain Sig Hansen to fish Jake's
05:1910,000 pounds of Red King crab from the Northwestern
05:23At least that was the bargain. I've already made promises here. I don't want to stir the pot for something that might not happen
05:34I mean you're right. I mean, you know, you love hearing me say that but you are right
06:04All right, I'll find some time
06:06Call me later. Okay. Bye-bye
06:09How goes it good? We're here
06:15First part coming up here
06:22This area was real good before so I mean hopefully it'll do the same as it did and then we can be out of here before you know it
06:29Reunited on the same Bering Sea vessel after nine years apart co-captains Sig and Jake
06:37Approach the head of a 30-pot string
06:39Set on a strong sign of life in northern latitudes
06:44We need steady easy fishing for this to work out right now. It's a numbers game
06:50How we look then?
06:58How we look then?
07:04Not too sexy
07:07It's not good
07:09That's not good at all
07:11It doesn't look like more than what five or six
07:13All right, that's just the first one man. We'll see what happens here
07:26I'd like to just pick him up moving north
07:30Well, let's just get through a few more. You know, we always make a decision when we get them up, right?
07:34Let's just get through a few more
07:42Somebody welding something
07:46What? Is there somebody?
07:53Oh, there's a fire up there
07:56It's my it's my front lights
08:18I just need some snippers
08:20Snipper?
08:21Snipper's a tank
08:26Was it the deck light I think it's a sodium it was sodiums all of them
08:40No, that's it
08:43All of them that whole section of cable was fried so we've got no lights
08:49High-pressure sodium lights can illuminate half a mile of the ocean surface without them
08:57Locating buoy bags in the dark goes from challenging the damn near impossible
09:01It's hard arcing in the mass that we won't have our upper sodium
09:10Those things have been up there since 1977, you know, what do you expect?
09:15Having Jake back is kind of nice though. He's really mechanically inclined and hopefully we can make this an easy fix
09:23We need those lights to haul at night plan isn't
09:3332 miles northeast
09:53On the summer bay
10:08It's right now the tides running hard up against us
10:13Not off the throttle at all and the bow swings way around us
10:16We're gonna be on the far side of the pro hip box
10:24It's quite a ways away from town, but the way the surveying looked I'm hoping we run into a few crabs
10:32Only days after receiving a hormone shot to combat an aggressive form of prostate cancer
10:38Captain Wild Bill Bokrowski plows through his first set in the far north fighting through a building C
10:47The surge of side effects
10:51Think about setting any closer to town just in case anything happens
10:56You know
10:58I don't know I think since I got the shot all these
11:02Little feelings and sensations. I'm having pretty severe shortness of breath. I don't know how to describe it
11:08So if I think there's an issue and I'm in harm's way, I'll let you know
11:17But in the meantime, we're gonna go where I think we can catch it and be done with it
11:22Sounds good to me
11:28Ideally, maybe set two try to roll the cod pod see if there's anything in them
11:32I mean even if we get a cod or a half a cod in that that'll help
11:38It's a natural
11:44Landon underestimates himself a lot
11:48I mean if things really take a horrible turn with this therapy
11:52I can't do this and Landon has to do it
11:55All right, let's get this
11:56All right, let's get this
12:04Gnarly
12:12It's what we use for our bait maybe
12:14Catching us on the key
12:15There are some girlers out here
12:30Like that one right there is kind of ugly it's going to be ugly
12:33Look out
12:52On the summer bay
12:52We're all good to go
13:10Yeah, I'm rog
13:14Damn, big swells
13:18Oh
13:20Can we start today over?
13:26Hopefully get what we need and get the hail out of here
13:31Okay
13:36One hundred eighty-five miles southwest
13:45One mile guys
13:49Roger
13:52Geez
13:53On the bear died crab grounds
13:59Look at all the waves coming over the bow
14:05Nautical
14:08Aboard the sea brook
14:10It's really cool to have a chance to you know fish fish with greg
14:14Uh
14:15I knew my dad
14:17I was 13 years old when he passed and
14:21They grew up in the same fishing era and participated in a lot of the same fisheries
14:27That was the whole reason that he gave me this opportunity
14:31Everything okay?
14:34I'm still on course
14:36But fighting the weather is making the boat slow down
14:40Seven days into the fall season
14:42Skipper in training sophia bob nielsen and captain greg wallace race to catch and deliver
14:50$300,000 worth of bear died crab before their offload in eight days
14:55Getting a real good swell out here now
14:58Despite building 12-foot seas
15:03Gotta get this gear turned
15:05We missed that offload date and i don't even want to think about it
15:12I need to be a full strength out there
15:29I need megan
15:31I think it's a good idea to get some rest on it before she goes out there again
15:34Sure no all she needs to do is heal up there's no rest involved
15:38Two days ago
15:42Star deckhand and greg's daughter megan wallace dislocated her hip
15:46How to put a hip back in its socket
15:55Keep going keep going
16:00Now shorthanded their crew's morale and their chances of delivering on time plummet
16:07Feelin' better?
16:08Feelin' better?
16:09It's just sore
16:10When it's in it just hurts
16:13Are you going to be able to go out there?
16:15Bobby told me to tell you you have to
16:17I would say sleep in your bones but I'm not the captain here
16:20Yeah
16:22I mean I don't really have a choice
16:24I'm not going to baby her because this is the real world
16:29Oh
16:31I mean she's a grown woman
16:35Feeling alright?
16:36She's uh pulling herself off the floor right now
16:39Okay
16:39Did you tell her it was your idea or my idea?
16:41I said it was your idea
16:42Why you do that to me?
16:43Because I was like you should go lay in your bed and rest up for a little bit
16:45But your dad said no
16:55All right guys let's get ready to set
16:58Roger
16:59Um what now?
17:05Oh it's you
17:07How are you doing?
17:09Okay okay baby hey hey hey hey relax relax
17:12I'll come up and talk to you okay
17:15Sorry
17:16Is that Meg?
17:17Yeah that was Megan so
17:18I'm going to let you set these crap box
17:20It's a tight little band and my little honey hole here
17:23But it'll always produce
17:25Start at my mark go do north stay on that line
17:29I will not let you down
17:31All right I'm gonna go see Megan
17:34See what's going on
17:35Send her some love for me
17:36Ah she's crying pretty good
17:38I thought it would be a good idea to give her a little bit of a break but now she's up in the port peak and she's not having a good time
17:45I got to pop back in and just supposed to run back out here
17:51Okay so it's very painful still but i'm trying
17:57Watch out watch out
17:58I know it's a completely different fishery but based off what i was seeing back in kodiak
18:08I'm just going to go a little bit further south and a little bit further east try to shallow up a little bit
18:13And if i'm a little bit off i don't think greg is going to be too bothered
18:16All righty here we go first pot going over
18:30I thought once it popped back in the place you'd be good to go
18:39I know it doesn't work like that
18:43We'll just sit down i'll get a nice back to you
18:45Coming over
18:51You guys want to hang out here until you get that setting to come in
18:53I don't know
18:57I think i'm taking a little bit of a risk here you know greg might wonder why i kind of set back over in this area
19:02But based off the numbers i think i'm making the best decision
19:05The truth will be when greg comes and takes a look at it
19:09150 miles northeast
19:27Hey nothing but an ad-seam fix
19:31On the northwestern
19:33I've got no sodium so
19:35We're trying to figure out a way to get some extra light forward
19:39I've got two external small lights on this side of the house
19:45And i got an led on the port side
19:48You have enough wire with this one
19:51Take it turn it at least it'll get us through the night
19:55This day hasn't exactly gone the way we were hoping
20:03Hours after losing their sodium lights
20:05Captain jake and crew jury rigged less powerful led beacons in order to pierce the dark
20:12And haul their remaining 38 000 pounds of red king crab before delivery
20:21Getting close getting close
20:24You got a battery up here
20:25We need one more drilled hole like right there we keep breaking bits
20:32battery in a drill bit
20:34I'll go get it
20:40How's it look jake we getting close
20:42Anderson
20:46Is he even out there?
20:54I do have crab that can be harvested over there on the tight
20:57I would have to make some calls about transferring it
21:04Where is he?
21:07Where is he?
21:09Jake
21:14I do have crab that can be harvested over there on the tight
21:20On the northwestern
21:21We've got light for now. It's gonna have to do
21:51Oh there he is
21:58Thanks for joining us
22:00We got to figure out what we're gonna do with this fishing
22:03I think we should keep going right where we're at
22:07Try to muddle through with what light we have
22:10I think it's getting better up to the north
22:13It's still a risk because just because the signs are there
22:16You don't know you haven't had any test spots that way
22:18We have the delivery day coming up we need to fish fast we need to fish hard
22:23If we do it right
22:25Maybe we get in a day early
22:27Yeah and if we miss it's game over
22:29Okay what if the LEDs break what if the something else breaks and then we have to go in
22:35I think there's crab here we need to get as much out of each pot as we can
22:38If you want to take the risk go for it
22:43By the end of the day you better have a bigger average than what you get right here
22:47I feel it in my gut
22:48All right
22:49Make it happen
22:51You're driving
22:56Get ready to set
22:57Roger
22:59Hopefully we land on something
23:05I fully believe in this move 100%
23:10I think a season like this that's a derby
23:14A move like this has to be done and honestly
23:18I have three days to get back to the dock if I want this captain's job
23:22And I want that captain's job I want I want what I lost
23:30I don't know how I'm gonna tell Sig
23:33Especially if it's not even a sure thing
23:37So why tell him all I have to do is get tight and explore my crab and my fate will be sealed
23:5236 miles northeast
23:57On the summer bay
24:00Weather's pretty crappy
24:15This is our opening set prospect set
24:17I'm hoping it's going to give us what we need to get out of here sooner
24:26Battling 15 foot seas outside
24:29Feeling like crap
24:31And the side effects of his cancer treatment within
24:35Captain wild bill fights to claim his first taste of king crab in three years
24:40From prospect pots set 280 miles from town
24:44Spread out pretty good hopefully we can find a little area with some life
25:02Pretty damn good
25:05Looks like there's females in there
25:08Anyway pretty good there
25:14I haven't got a chance to get out yet
25:16Caper
25:17Four
25:18I think so
25:19Five
25:20A lot of sorting but hey it's worth it
25:25By law crabbers can only keep adult male king crab over six and a half inches
25:33But despite a mixed bag bill's first pot still nets him two and a half thousand dollars of red king gold
25:41These are beautiful crab
25:43Catching kings baby
25:45Any kind of life at all is a good sign
25:49That's solid that's absolutely beautiful
25:56Hell yeah look at the little camera
26:0124 24
26:03You know they say you're gonna have all these hot flashes and angry
26:33Nausea
26:35It ain't good
26:44Okay guys hold off on this last one
26:47I'm gonna pull her out of gear here
26:50Rog
26:51I'm gonna pull her out of gear
26:58You okay Bill?
27:01Thumbs up
27:03Can you see Bill up there?
27:04On the summer bay
27:17Thumbs up
27:19Can you see Bill up there?
27:26You alright?
27:27Nah not really
27:34Not really doing alright
27:35You alright?
27:56Everything alright boss?
28:05I'm not usually one to complain but I can't believe that they'd expect people to live like this I feel like
28:17Hey when we get a chance can somebody bring a bucket up to the wheelhouse
28:30Yeah roger
28:34If I gotta keep hurling I'll hurl
28:37But I'll get through this
28:44Just keep throwing that hook
28:45You alright?
28:46You alright?
28:51This treatment's gonna be a rough four to six months
28:58Yeah just put it there man
28:59I'm alright Cal
29:02Appreciate you man
29:03Yeah
29:03Yeah
29:06There's no way I'm not finishing it
29:27Give a little soak time and see what she brings
29:30I'm gonna try to defy all odds like we have in the past
29:35Pull this thing off
29:40190 miles southwest
29:46Push-ups
29:50Oh my god
29:52Do you need a hand?
29:58Oh my god
30:00Oh my god
30:03On the western Beardai crab grounds
30:07All righty
30:08You're rolling up to the first set of buoys
30:13Aboard the sea brook
30:23What are you doing over here?
30:25What do you mean?
30:27You're not on the lines I drew
30:28You're way over here
30:30Last year I was finding a lot of crab
30:33A little bit further south and a little bit further east
30:35I think it shallows up
30:39Come on
30:39Just get out
30:42You better hope there's some crab here
30:44So that's all I got to say
30:46We'll see if it hits
30:51Coming up
30:55What do we got?
30:55What do we got?
30:56Is it loaded?
30:57Is it loaded?
31:04Oh
31:04I get it
31:08Ah
31:08Be a captain of training you've got to be able to follow orders
31:15Next time if I put a mark it'll be exact
31:17All right go
31:21Come on baby come to papa
31:23Go away
31:28Yeah
31:30Woo
31:31Woo
31:34It's a proven
31:36The one that I bet
31:40Is producing crab
31:43Easy it could fall right off
31:44Woo
31:45Woo
31:46Woo
31:47Woo
31:48Woo
31:48Let's go now we're on the crab
31:52on the ground nice 61 oh yeah weird how i got yelled at i got scolded wait a minute there was
31:59no yelling it turned out to be very prosperous with each pod totaling a thousand dollars the
32:11crew must now sprint to turn around a staggering 18 pots an hour to catch what they need before
32:18their scheduled delivery
32:19what's going on you got a bad knot outside the coiler or something yeah
32:30breaking roger
32:33hold that in and get it in the coiler come on let's go
32:41i need all hands on deck but megan's recovering
32:53i don't mind going out on deck as a deckhand i am here to be a captain in training and i'll just
33:07take this as part of the training course it would really help even if you're just doing one thing
33:13a pod it's one less thing i mean roger that life jacket is mandatory okay be safe
33:19what's up dad what are you doing here
33:27yeah she knows what she's doing
33:39it's good it's good to have her out there
33:42i know her dad would be proud gary's looking down right now saying that's my girl
33:48i hope it stays that way the whole string 34 miles southwest
33:55you guys ready
33:58got another mile or so to go
34:01on the northwestern this is that northern string we're coming up on this is where jake made his
34:10move farther up the hill he took a gamble
34:13i think it's going to be good you know you got to look at it like this
34:17i take risks you take naps
34:19i don't mind taking a nap while you're doing the heavy lifting
34:24go ahead
34:30no we've got the numbers straight we had them straight before we left town
34:35we're not moving any quota
34:40really
34:44mr anderson
34:47okay let me get this straightened out here
34:51hi
34:52you know who that was
34:58who was our co-op manager
35:00i mean are you literally trying to move your crap off the boat now this late in the game
35:07i was merely asking questions
35:08nothing's happened yet sick
35:10i there's a job offer for the titan explorer to run the boat as a captain
35:17yeah you leverage the quota that you have here
35:20to get a job there bottom line that's what you did
35:23i should be able to ask questions about quota
35:27it's mine
35:28of course it's your money that's why you're here
35:31so we can catch your quota and be done
35:34i hired you here as a favor to you
35:37you're treading water
35:39you were sinking at the dock
35:42does it bake it till you make it that's what greg taught me
35:55now i'm a true bearing sea captain
36:03nothing but coffee and cigarettes for me
36:08my grandma won't be too happy
36:12now he's got cooties
36:16it's a nasty habit bob
36:23your grandma was right
36:25on the northwestern
36:34i hired you here as a favor to you
36:37you're treading water
36:38you were sinking at the dock
36:42i needed to know if i could move the quota because there's a captain's job available
36:48and all you had to do is tell me i'm right here
36:52why would i tell you when you're we have other things to worry about
36:56because i need to know everything
36:57why do you need to know if i am getting a job
36:59because that's the way i am
37:01do you really want me to be here on the port side
37:09i am merely looking at opportunities
37:11and trying to take care of myself and my family
37:14i mean can you really blame me
37:16do you think if we get to town these guys are going to give you the spot
37:27i think yeah
37:29i get it i understand what you're trying to do
37:33and i'm behind you okay
37:34but the bottom line is if you've got a job waiting for you at the dock
37:39then we better get to the dock
37:40thanks for understanding
37:41i get it
37:44all right buddy let's get you to town
37:48all or nothing
37:55if it bombs it's all jake's fault by the way
37:58all right
38:01Oh, yeah!
38:03Ha-ha!
38:05That looks good.
38:07Look at that!
38:09There you go!
38:11Oh, yeah!
38:13Oh, yeah!
38:15Oh, yeah!
38:17Oh, yeah!
38:19Oh, yeah!
38:21Oh, yeah!
38:23Oh, yeah!
38:25Oh, yeah!
38:27Oh, yeah!
38:29Look at that! There you go!
38:31I told you!
38:33Better than what we've been seeing.
38:35Oh, yeah!
38:37Oh, my God.
38:39Gut was right on this one, pal.
38:41Hey! That one's big.
38:43That one is big!
38:45That's beautiful!
38:47Oh, what?
38:49That's big. That's big!
38:51Oh, my God!
38:53Look at that thing, man!
38:57We're gonna get you in.
38:59On time.
39:01Let's go!
39:07We got Megan.
39:09Yeah!
39:11Hey, there she is.
39:12She's hurting.
39:13She doesn't feel good.
39:15But after popping her hip out of place,
39:17putting it back in,
39:18she's still going out on deck.
39:20I think it's super rad.
39:22She's a trooper.
39:24Definitely proud of her.
39:26Let's get some babies!
39:28Keep going, keep going.
39:30You're almost there.
39:31Oh, my God!
39:32Woo!
39:33Now, we have to get in as fast as possible
39:37before it's too late.
39:39It's too late.
39:52These pots are in the pea patch, baby.
39:56And it is paying off.
39:58In my career, I've...
40:03I've never stopped an operation completely
40:06because of illness.
40:10I've felt puny off and on,
40:11but you gotta keep pushing, you know?
40:13Three, one, four, one!
40:16Woo!
40:21That's awesome.
40:22This can't slow me down.
40:32It's all good, man.
40:33You gotta do what you gotta do.
40:34We knew this was temporary.
40:36I just can't believe it happened so quick.
40:39So, it's all good.
40:41Don't sweat it, man.
40:43Okay?
40:44Seriously.
40:47They look pretty good down there.
40:49It's like a 6.6 weight average.
40:52It's real good.
40:53The beginning of the season was hell,
40:56to say the least, for me.
40:58And I'll still be dealing with the saga
41:00for a long time.
41:02But, you know, the good things are
41:05is I got to come back here.
41:07This is the place I cut my teeth.
41:09And, you know, I'm really lucky.
41:13At the end of the day,
41:14you gotta grab an opportunity
41:16if it shows up like that.
41:18And so I don't blame him a bit.
41:20We'll just see where the next chapter takes me.
41:23It's a new beginning for him,
41:24and I think that's great.
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