Deadliest Catch TV

On board the Northwestern the exhausted crew is confronted with another serious problem, ice. The string they are about to haul has been covered by the approaching ice flow making it difficult work to find and haul their gear. They need to haul and stack it quickly before the twenty five thousand dollars worth of gear is lost. The only good news is the pots are coming up full, however Captain Sig is not willing to play his odds and reset his gear this close to the ice pack again. He decides wisely to move it further south where he dials in on even more crab. However hidden in the wheelhouse Captain Sig is battling his own health unannounced to his crew on deck. A strange sharp pain is radiating through his ribs but he struggles on regardless.

Things on the Incentive are certainly getting tougher as well. After decent hauls to start the season the boat and it’s crew are now in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions. The first few pots have been coming up with very few crab as well adding insult to injury. Now as the catches slowly begin to improve the seas are building to 40 foot swells in 70 knot winds tossing the 100 foot boat violently as the crew struggles to work on. The boys from Kodiak certainly are as tough as nails as Doug gets his hand snapped by the thick rope as it snaps out of the block. The Captain jokingly states that would have killed most men but Doug is like an old junkyard dog. After a few minutes he shakes it off and is back at work.

Over on the Cornelia Marie, Captain Phil struggles through the remaining two miles of ice that lies between his boat and Saint Paul. As he pushes the throttle to try and push his boat through the thick ice the extra load takes it’s toll on the boats engines and knocks one of them out, spurting oil out of the dipstick and bellowing thich black smoke. For the remaining distance he’ll have to do it on one engine. Finally he reaches the harbor and gets his mechanic to fly out from Dutch Harbor. After an eleven hour inspection he tells Phil one of his cylinders is scored and will have to be repaired at a cost of almost seventy thousand dollars. With a hundred thousand dollars worth of gear and the rest of the season at stake there isn’t much choice. The repairs are made and the Cornelia Marie now has to bust out of the ice in Saint Paul before it finally reaches the open waters to resume it’s season.