In Dutch Harbor.
Usually you go to the cannery to offload, but we got to offload our own crab, this time.
On the Aleutian lady.
It's a bit of a bummer.
We found crab, but the rest of our gear had nothing in it, so we got to move all that
gear on where the crab is.
With cannery slots booked weeks in advance, Captain Rick Shelford honors his delivery
date.
A little embarrassing.
We only came in with £1,100.
Just a disaster.
But saves on cost by offloading in the self-checkout line.
Is that all of it?
Yeah. If there's a will, there's a way.
And we're going to try to get this all done in a quick matter.
There's a storm coming in.
Well, there we go.
Time's ticking.
We just got to get off this dock.
So if you two could get it up in there.
I got to grab my paperwork.
I'm not down. It's time to turn this around.
Hey, Pops. How are you doing?
What the. Are you serious?
No.
Well, at least he's with Grandma now.
All right, Pops, keep me posted on it.
Let me know what's going on.
My heart is with Mom and everybody there and.
Why?
Oh.
My grandpa passed.
The hardest part about.
Being a fisherman.
Being a captain.
Being away from loved ones.
Not being there when stuff happens.
You know, all you want to do is be there for your family, your mom, your siblings, your
loved ones, and.
Oh. Its worst part about this job.
It hurts. It hurts fricking hardcore inside.
But, you know, he was a fisherman.
He would want me fishing.
He would encourage it.
And I got to make up for lost time.
I want to be out there hauling as the actual weather starts to come down.
So we're going to be heading through Unimak Pass and it's going to be really, really,
really nautical.
To make up for an extra day.
Dockside.
Go ahead. Drop everything.
I'm on the return trip to his gear.
Rick charts a course through Unimak Pass, where the North Pacific and the Bering Sea
collide. Breeding towering waves.
It's going to get downright.
Waves have picked up quite a bit.
We're looking at probably 20 footers coming at us.
The current trip. We're just going to take the slow and steady, try not to blow a window
out. Of that window blows out and it hits me.
I had a buddy who almost died from that.
Big wave. Big wave. Oh, another fricking big wave.
And another one. Come on.
Anyway. Ah, come on.
Oh, come on, baby.
Come on. Dang it.
We keep taking green water over the bow.
We're out. That is a double frickin wave.
Let's go. Let's go, Let's go. Up, up, up, up, up.
What the hell?
We just took a lot of water over the bow.
Hey, we got an alarm.
Can somebody check the forepeak and.
The engine room? Dang it.
Come on.
Bleak coming out of that hatch?
Yeah. How much water is leaking?
Enough. Hey, guys.
I can see the hatch cover ain't tight and it ain't sitting right.
Forepeak hatches.
Leak it. Try to get that figured out.
Come on, guys. Get that thing down quick.
I can't keep this course.
Oh, yeah. Isn't it great?
I don't know if that hatch got jarred loose from the waves.
Now, that thing would have came off.
We would have been down flooding a lot of green water pouring inside the house.
If that ends up happening, we'll be shut down, going sideways and we'll end up
slamming into the rocks.
Okay, go.
We got to just keep going.
We got to keep getting through it.
Dang it. Hold on.
Watch out, guys. Watch out.
Here comes the big one. Dang it.
Come. Okay.
Look her up. We're almost through.
We're almost through this thing.
Okay? Okay.
Are we good? This is a sort of shortcut.
You got to try to take to be on top.
I just shaved eight hours off this steam, and now we're going to be able to haul some
gear and kick some ass.
Actually, I could. Put it on autopilot now.
Wonder why captains drink so much all the time.
Let's go. This is the first silver dollar my grandpa made in Alaska.
He gave it to me a couple of years back.
If anything, I'll turn our luck around.
It'll be this.
Come on, baby. Big Pop.
There we go. Yes, baby.
Yes. Surprise!
Yeah. Whoa.
Yeah. Boy. Boy.
I know you're watching Grandpa.
Love you.