There are two totally different guys out there.
Zach goes into this real blank stare.
Just barely do enough to get by thing.
And I swear he’s not my kid sometimes.

Zuck, we got a problem here.
Where’s that alarm coming from?
It’s a buildup of water and expansion tank.
Find it.

324 miles northwest of Dutch Harbor,
on the 108‑foot Cape Caution.
Crab.
Crab.
Crab.
Crab.

[Music]

That sucks.
It’s been really frustrating the last couple days.
Gone in every different direction.
Done everything like you would if there was a book for this
and haven’t found them.

So, it’s a hard life.
I got the fourth guy back out.
Miles, that’s about the first positive stroke I’ve seen in a few days.
I’m good.
I’m trying to get back in this way.

Captain Wild Bill Wichrowski finally has all hands on deck.
140.
140.
But the crab continued to elude him.

I gotta do something.
Can’t keep hauling 100.
100 here.
70.
90.
130.

That is not going to work.
The stringer.
No.
Horrible string.
Flowing backwards.

There’s only one way to fix it,
and that’s pick it up,
put new bait in,
and move it.

With little crab hitting the tanks,
the crew must stack all 140 pots
and move to fresh grounds.

We really need to find some crab
because what we’re all really worried about
is making any money
or surviving here.

I got an idea.
Let’s do this.
Let’s pick up that pace.

Well, as soon as this pot touches the ground, we push.
Push like a mother.
Okay.

To keep his captain happy,
deck boss Nick McGlashan
employs an old‑school stacking technique.

Jose, moving pots with man instead of machine.
I decided to push some pots this train.
We need to get through this gear.
We need to get through it quick.

Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.

It’s a lot faster.
And I just want to push the pots.
The faster they can stack their gear,
the faster they can set it back on fertile grounds.

It means kicking in a little extra.
You know, this is much quicker.

Go.
Go.
Go.
Faster.
Faster.
Faster.
Faster.

Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.

We’re steering this mother.
Sounds like a Nick decision.
I know it wasn’t a Zach decision.

Nice driving, Nick.
He’s usually pretty upbeat,
finding the best in things.
When conditions hit,
he’ll get pumped up
and go faster
and get them on like you should.

New workout program.
Some of the guys on deck may not like it,
but I’m the mother pushing them.

I’m currently not pushing pots.
I’m just running the hydro.
So, you know,
I’m trying to teach Zach
how to move up the ladder in this thing.

And it’s almost like I have to fight him
for these lessons.
And it’s bull.

It’s harder on the guys.
That’s going to take its toll.

Zach looks like he’s going to be fresh though.
He doesn’t leave the controls.
He’s not going to help push.

We’re assisting.
Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.

Yeah.
Feel free to leave the controls
and help push.
That’s the way it’s done.

I do something
and it goes way faster
and the captain’s happy with it.
Then the next guy decides
that he doesn’t want to push.

Guess how much of an ass
he’s going to look like.

[Music]

There are two totally different guys out there.
Zach goes into this real blank stare,
just barely do enough to get by thing.
And I swear he’s not my kid sometimes.

Zuck, we got a problem here.
Where’s that alarm coming from?
It’s a buildup in the armor and expansion tank.
Find it.
All over it.

An alarm indicates
that a dangerous amount of water
is accumulating in the ship’s bow.

Water levels.
Get the water out of this boat.

It’s the engineer’s responsibility
to pump the bilge regularly
in order to keep the ship afloat.
Not a major problem.

And on the Cape Caution,
the engineer is Zach Larson.

Gotta start doing your job, boy.
I’m getting a little tired of it.
I’m getting a little tired
of having to force my knowledge upon him
to make sure that the boat is safe.

And he did Zach’s usual nonchalant,
“Well, it’s not really that big of a deal.
I was going to get to it.”

If you’re the engineer,
you’re the engineer.
And that means keeping the water
on the outside of the boat.

On a quick run between strings—
Zack.
Zack.
Yeah.
Get in here.

Bill calls his son to the galley.

Hey, Zach.
If I ever ask you to pump out a bilge
and you refuse to do it,
I will punch you in the face.

Don’t throw stuff yet.
I don’t give a damn
if you like it or not, kid.
Do what you’re told as engineer.

The dad thing—
this is captain and engineer.
If the bilges need pumping,
you should be looking at them
and pumping them.

Nick,
have you ever seen an engineer
who didn’t keep the bilges clean?

Every one of these guys—
you got their lives in your hands.
And maybe it’s too much of a job for you.

You knew that bilge needed pumping,
but you didn’t do it.
That’s my fault?
I’m not the alarm.

No fault, dude.
When the alarm goes off,
it’s dangerously high, Zach.

You know what the alarm means?
Hey—
this thing needs some real attention.
We got a problem here.

You act like it’s no big deal.
It’s basic engineering.
You know how boats think.
They fill with water from the bow.

Yeah.
Maybe you just don’t know enough
about the job, Zach.
Maybe we’re switching over
the captain‑engineer thing
for a while.

We’ll start critiquing it.
Dialing in on the business.
Forget the dad side of things, obviously.