Oh, no, no!
[SPLASH]
The ice keeps coming out.
[ALARM BEEPING]
[INAUDIBLE]?
Yeah.
Oh!
OK, pull it.
[INAUDIBLE]
[ALARM BEEPING]
That [BLEEP] ain't coming out.
NARRATOR: Running over a buoy 500 miles from town,
the "Summer Bay" snares a line in the starboard propeller.
Put a shackle maybe 10 fathoms down.
Once you get enough slack, you put the slack in the block
and retrieve the pot.
Roger.
NARRATOR: Now with one of his two main engines
seized, Bill orders the crew to hoist
the pot, pulling the attached line out of the prop.
We're going to need somebody on deck to pass it down to.
Get the chain up through the block.
Hey, hey somebody coil this.
Right here.
Yeah?
We got it!
Woo!
Ah, [BLEEP] me.
NARRATOR: The pot's free, but the line
isn't, leaving Bill one engine away
from being stranded at sea.
If we don't get the line out of the prop,
it would be dead in the water.
We don't want to be dead in the water, especially
with all this ice and cold, rough seas.
We got to get the line out of the prop.
We can't seem to get it cleared with normal methods.
We've tried everything.
So we're going to have to just try to stick it to town
and get a diver to clear this thing up.
And in the meantime, the ice is coming down
the hill, as we speak, towards the gear
that's all in the water.
Our pots will be underneath the ice floe,
and we wouldn't be able to get to them and we'd lose them.
I can't see going to [BLEEP] Dutch Harbor.
It would take us seven days, driving at this speed.
I got to be smarter than this.
I got to come up with a plan better than this one.
[CELLPHONE RINGING]
Hey, Bill, you got me?
Hey, we're trying to get this gear in the water
and one of them got in the wheel.
And I hear you might have a diver on board?
I actually have two.
I got Matt--
Matt's a diver, and then I have another guy, Winston.
We just don't-- we don't have any scuba gear.
So if I can scrounge up some gear, your guy-- one
of your guys will dive for me?
Oh, yeah, for sure.
That's-- that's no-- no problem.
We're just pulling up to St. Paul now.
All right, we'll give you a call when we get in.
Hopefully this will all work out.
All right, brother, thank you.
That's pretty cool.
Now we have to see if we can round up enough equipment,
the proper equipment, that a guy's willing to go over
the side and cut this line out.
So I guess we'll see what we get when we get in there.
NARRATOR: Captain Wild Bill calls in a favor,
scrambling a second-hand wetsuit on the remote island of St.
Paul, hoping for a quick fix and a quicker trip
back to his pots.
Any weight belt?
All right, hopefully this guy's adventurous.
[HONKING HORN]
I'm so sorry.
I don't know if it got hung up, or got--
or we got set on top of it.
But-- that's the hardest I've ever tried to get line out.
We'll see what we can do.
NARRATOR: The diver for the job, 11-year Bering
Sea veteran, Winston Krause.
Are you guys ready?
Security, security, this is a fishing vessel "Saga."
I've got a diver going in the water right now.
NARRATOR: To keep the boat weight from sending the "Summer
Bay's" hull into Winston's skull,
all harbor traffic must cease for the duration of the dive.
Just because we're at the dock right
now does not mean that this is safe.
Even on the flattest day, we're still bouncing around.
Now imagine what a 500,000 pound piece of steel
does to your head if it hits it.
Attention all vessels, St. Paul Harbormaster,
St. Paul Harbor will be temporarily
closed for the diver.
Reopen after diver's out of the water.
Thank you.
OK, remember, for every hammer, a couple of minutes.
One minute, one hammer.
Two minutes, two hammers.
We'll go from five, to three, to one.
Oh, OK.
Hang on.
Here we go.
NARRATOR: With a limited oxygen supply,
the crew uses auditory cues to signal
the diver when his air is reaching
dangerously low levels.
It's nerve-wracking, because I have
no communication with them.
I have nothing.
He has 30 minutes of air.
It was bad.
That [BLEEP] hard.
I kind of get the feeling it's a one-shot deal.
So in the next half hour we're going to find out
if we are mobile or immobile.
I got a sinking feeling on this one, to be honest.
I see a lot of air bubbles right now.
He's been down there 15 minutes.
If he doesn't get it done, it's
going to be a slow, long trip back to Dutch.
Our whole season's at risk.
[BLEEP] Four minutes, 30 seconds.
Let's bring him into top.
Yeah.
[FOUR TAPS]
He's tapping the boat to let him know down there that he's
got four minutes left.
He can get caught up in his work down there
and forget how much time, so we don't want him drowning.
Pretty stressful.
I think he's got, like, three minutes left in the water.
Want me to give him like, want me to give
him like three swift taps?
[THREE TAPS]
I'm kind of anxious.
[TAPS TWICE]
For all we know, he can be unconscious right now.
I don't see a whole lot of bubbles coming up, so.
This is serious.
[ONE TAP]
There he is.
Yeah.
You good? Got it out?
Got it out.
Got it right out.
Both sides are clear.
Yeah!
Yes!
[CHEERING]
Oh, nice work, buddy.
Thank you.
Harbourmaster, "Saga."
We just pulled the diver out of the water.
We're all clear.
No more diving.
I'm going to bump to see if we get oil pressure.
[ENGINE WHIRS TO LIFE]
There it goes.
We're back in business.
Hey, buddy.
I'm telling you, if we had to go all the way to Dutch like this,
I would have lost my mind.
You saved my ass.
I'll never forget this one.
Thanks so much, eh.
Yeah, anytime.
Not only did I get to help Bill, but it also helps the business.
There's still hundreds of millions of dollars sitting
in the water outside of us right now, and now the both of us
can go get it.
It's good for the fleet.
Woo!