[TENSE MUSIC]
[POUNDING WAVES]
OK, you guys.
We got about 10 minutes.
Then we're going to pull.
[CHEERING]
[BLEEP], [INAUDIBLE]
NARRATOR: Their pots soaking for 24 hours--
I told the guys that I was going to the 164 line.
That's where the crab has been the last two years.
NARRATOR: --six boats surveyed the bottom
at six strategic locations across the grounds.
I just pray to the gods that we fill this tank up!
Woo!
NARRATOR: --hunting for enough crab
to prove the health of the fishery
and keep their own boats in the black.
I haven't seen a king crab for a whole year.
I'm excited to see one.
Hopefully at least one of us can get off to a good start,
and then we can start to dial in.
I want every pot to do well.
I don't want to haul blanks.
The fleet does not want me to haul
blanks I don't want anybody in the fleet to haul blanks.
JOHNATHAN: We got to have a 30 average fleet
wide or else we're in trouble.
We just got to get through it together.
OK, guys.
King crab season 2020 officially started!
[TENSE MUSIC]
JOHNATHAN: Don't miss on the first one!
That's bad luck.
Here we go.
Let's go!
First pot!
[TENSE MUSIC]
This is it, man. This is it.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Oh, yeah, king crab 2020, baby!
Let's do it!
We'd love to see some numbers here.
Come on, guys. Give me a dance.
Give me a dance.
Woo!
If the fleet can get off to a good start as a whole,
then that really sets a precedent for next year,
so this really is important that we find something quickly.
[TENSE MUSIC]
If we get 20, I'm going to be just crapping my pants.
The first pot!
First pot of king crab season ever!
[TENSE MUSIC]
[INAUDIBLE]
Coming in hot, plenty hot.
There's the moment of truth, big dog.
There's the moment of truth right here.
Moment of truth.
Drum roll, please.
All right, here we go.
Money.
Here it come.
All right, come on, baby.
Be there for us.
This is it!
No whammy. Big bucks.
Big bucks.
Ugh.
Oh.
Oh no.
Ay-yay-yay.
MAN 1: All right. Here we go.
First boat.
[RADIO]
MAN 2: Let's see what we've got.
[BLEEP]
[METAL CLANKING]
MAN 3: Oh.
I don't see anything.
MAN 2: Let's go!
MAN 1: What is this?
MAN 4: Boy, here's a morale dampener right there.
Not again.
Yikes.
MAN 2: All right, guys.
Ah.
Nothing.
MAN 1: That's not good.
You got to be kidding me.
Man, where's our crab at?
Number is 1-0.
Dead crab in the tank.
We're just getting warmed up over here.
MAN 2: Yeah.
We're just getting warmed up.
Pretty bleak.
MAN 3: I'm crab.
Niner.
Had a three in the first one, right there.
Three crabs.
That's it.
Go on.
MAN 3: One.
MAN 4: I had two.
That was it, the whole pot?
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Don't panic.
Do not panic.
[SIGHS]
[WAVES CRASHING, BIRDS CHIRPING]
All right, Manny, first ones up.
Is there life?
Come on.
[CLANKS]
Oh!
[LAUGHS]
Woo! MAN 3: Woo!
Whoa.
Open.
Now, it's open.
MAN 1: Massive crab!
MAN 3: Woo!
MAN 1: Yeah.
We said we wanted to see life.
There's life.
MAN 3: Oh, yeah.
MAN: We got some crab.
[SPLASH]
MAN 4: It's all came right.
Give me an estimate.
24.
And they're good crab.
They're big.
We'll see if there's any kind of correlation
between crab and death.
[ENGINE ROARING]
MAN 4: This is 45 fathoms.
So if we see any kind of sign or a consistency
that changes in depth, that's going to teach us something.
Let's see what happened here.
Come on.
Excited.
[CHEERING]
MAN 2: Yeah.
Yeah.
There's a crab in there.
[CHUCKLES]
MAN 3: Are those big?
Yeah, buddy.
MAN 1: Woo!
WOMAN: Nice.
Oh, my god.
MAN 3: Big, big, big, big.
MAN 4: Oh, yeah.
MAN 1: That's right.
Oh, my god.
MAN 4: Go up.
Maybe five in that one.
What was that, three crab?
Ugh, two.
A two keepers.
MAN 2: No good.
[CLANKING]
I've got too much gear committed in this depth right
here.
One crab.
One.
MAN 5: This looks bad for us.
Ouch.
Ouch!
Wah, wah, wah.
MAN 5: What's at the back, dude?
No.
Five or six crab on a 24 hour [INAUDIBLE]..
Want to stay out here till Christmas?
[LAUGHS]
[SIGHS]
It's like a dismal.
Needed a home.
[ENGINE WHIRRING]
MAN 5: Anybody out here?
Anybody on the family channel?
[RADIO STATIC]
[WAVES CRASHING]
Hey, guys.
[INAUDIBLE]
Wizard on board.
You guys there? - Ah.
Roger, roger, roger.
Anybody pick me up?
Yeah.
Roadrunner.
Beep, beep, beep, beep.
How's fishing?
Not doing good over here, my friend.
Slow so far.
Our numbers have been similar to yours.
[INAUDIBLE].
MAN 5: I don't--
I don't have much.
I figured there wasn't going to be much down here, anyway.
Where's the-- the grand master designer?
ALL: Woo!
Oh, yeah.
[CHEERING]
Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
[INAUDIBLE]
MAN: Sig, you got me?
Choppy, choppy, choppy.
[BEEPING NOISE]
Sig, you on there?
It was Jake.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MAN 5: Woo!
MAN 3: That will wake you up in the morning.
[SHOUTS]
Wow.
It's getting better on this end.
Oh, my goodness.
MAN 4: Hey, Sig.
Wizard here.
Wizard.
Hey, everybody on here?
Hello? Hello?
[BEEPING NOISE]
Oh, there's no boats here.
MAN 4: What do you got going on?
Ugh.
We just got to get our gear situated.
[BIRDS CAWING]
MAN: 6th grade survey alliance is unraveling fast.
And well, well.
That's a shocker.
MAN 2: Oh, man.
That sucks.
That suck.
MAN: Sig?
MAN 1: Roader.
Roadrunners here.
Come here.
[MUSIC PLAYING]