"[¶] [coughing]" "First trip in, kid?" "How can you tell?" "Just a guess." "RADIO:" "Negative, zero, zero, one." "Hold on." "This is the tricky part." "Lord, get me out of this and I'll never ask you for anything ever again." "[¶]" "TOMMY:" "My dad used to say that life is a journey and not to be afraid of losing my way." "Because a man is never really lost, he just hasn't figured out where he's headed yet." "But I knew exactly where I was headed and that was Alaska." "There were two ways to make quick cash there for a guy fresh out of school, rough-necking in the oil fields or green-horning on a fishing vessel." "I heard the tales of shipwrecks." "Men washed overboard." "Crews found frozen to death." "But somehow that didn't matter to me." "Welcome to Kodiak, kid." "Thanks for the ride." "[¶]" "TOMMY:" "I was going to be a high seas' cowboy." "Maybe I can strike it rich and find that great adventure on the Bering Sea." "Well, I found it all right." "And here on the docks of Kodiak is where it all begins." "[¶]" "How's your season going, Harry?" "Well, it's good so far but you..." "Yeah." "The Coast Guard guys are going to keep me held up for weeks with all the crap on your list." "It's not my list, it's yours." "Come on." "Talk to the inspector." "Get him to cut us some slack." "It's not my department." "But theSaint Christopher's not leaving this harbor until it passes safety inspection." "I got a living to make." "I can't do that tied up here." "Things are tight." "I couldn't even pay my crew last time out." "You want to fish?" "You want to get paid?" "Get your house in order." "All right, I'll get it done." "Say hello to Judy and the boys." "I will." "Say hello to Francine." "Right." "Ah!" "[engine starts] [honks horn]" "Excuse me." "Are you Lieutenant Burns?" "Yeah, are you Mike's kid brother?" "I am." "Tommy." "Hey." "Mike sends a big hello." "How's that dive he calls a marina on Mackinac Island?" "The dive's fine." "The guy who runs it is a slave driver." "You think working for your brother was hard?" "Wait until one these guys gets a hold of you." "You'll be begging to get on a plane back home." "No, I'm going to pass on the plane ride." "I'll keep my feet on the ground for awhile." "All right then." "Let's get you introduced around." "Wrong way." "You want a job on the boats, you have to meet the men in charge." "The boats are that way." "The captains are this way." "Thank you, sir." "Morning, Burnsy." "Marty." "New kid in town?" "Oh, you got him locked up?" "This is Tommy." "Is it that obvious I just got here?" "Just a guess." "Want a drink?" "It's 10:30 in the morning." "Now's as good a time as any, kid." "So you running from something or looking for something?" "A bit of both." "If you're running, it's probably from the law or a girl." "If you're looking, it's for fast cash." "Well, you know, I, I want the traveling." "I heard if you work hard enough up here, you can make a real killing." "You'll bust your hump for it, but it's tough to hold onto up here." "I just want a shot." "Hey, Burnsy." "Your wife says you were supposed to be at the dentist 20 minutes ago." "Tell her I'm on the way." "He's coming." "So let's catch up later, have dinner, figure out a plan for you." "Yeah, no, I, I'd, I'd loved, I'd loved that." "I don't have a phone here though." "That's okay." "I'll find you." "That's my job." "[thunder]" "[¶]" "Hey, Marty." "You hear of anyone looking for a cookie?" "What happened to theNorthern Star?" "I thought you were in tight there." "It didn't work out like I thought it would." "I need to find a new home, get out of Kodiak for a bit." "The pickings are kind of slim." "I mean, sort of bottom of the barrel." "It's the only thing left in town." "I got to make rent." "Yeah, I hear you." "Jack Colvin's looking to hire, but it's the Saint Christopher." "You sure you want that kind of grief?" "As long as he pays." "I hear he's, he still owes from his last time out." "I heard he straightened up." "Drinking coffee so far." "Desperate times, Marty, desperate times." "I hear you might need a cook." "Maybe." "Who are you?" "Vanessa Larkin, just got off theNorthern Star." "Oh, yeah." "What's your story?" "You wash dishes for the cook here?" "Oh, no." "Oh, no, I mean, yeah sure, absolutely." "Whatever you want, just looking for deck work." "It's just not good enough." "Hey, Stubbs, easy on the phone." "What?" "That was, that was Bear." "Uh-huh." "Willie got locked." "Got loaded, smashed his car into a telephone pole." "But the worst part is the generator he had a line on a piece of crap." "It's going to take a week to get another one." "We don't have a week." "I'll take care of it." "This is my deck boss, Stubbs." "This one says she's a cook." "This one thinks he wants a job working on deck." "You do Italian?" "Crab-stuffed ravioli, three-cheese lasagna, you name it, I cook it." "I can shuck like hell too." "Bet you can." "It's your call, Jack, but I don't want any headaches on the deck." "This one can stay down below as far as I'm concerned." "Deal." "You just keep clear of my kitchen then." "Well, it's all settled then." "Hey, I'm, I'm not going to be any trouble." "Believe me." "I'm a really, a fast learner." "And I'll take anything at all." "You got any spots open." "Yeah?" "12 bucks an hour." "You quit on me out there, you get nothing." "Stubbs here throws you overboard." "I'm not going to quit." "You've got my word." "Uh-huh." "TheSaint Christopher's tied up at the far end of dock seven." "Provision us for ten days and I want some change back." "You got one hour." "Take the greenhorn." "He can carry your bags." "Thank you, captain." "You are not going to regret it." "I already am." "Hey!" "I'm a hard worker." "You're not even a greenhorn to me yet." "You're just Meat." "I'll shake your hand when you've earned it, when you make it back to Kodiak." "Come on." "We got shopping to do." "That was easy." "Easy?" "You have no idea the hell you just signed on for." "BURNS:" "Easy day." "DENTON:" "Princess Naru, a Japanese processing ship, it's in a heavy sea 12 miles off Saint Paul Island." "15 crew onboard, all have survival suits." "How far out is air support?" "Coast Guard 1703 is onsite." "CG 6005 and 6007 will be on scene in approximately eight minutes." "Weather conditions?" "Deteriorating." "Winds are 45 gusting to 60." "Seas are at 30 feet." "And the captain reports that he's lost steering." "It's some bad luck." "I doubt luck's got anything to do with it." "It's these short seasons." "Everybody's in a rush to get out." "They skip routine maintenance." "RADIO:" "Comm Sta Kodiak." "This is Coast Guard one, seven, zero, three." "This is Comm Sta Kodiak." "Go ahead." "RADIO:" "Comm Sta Kodiak, this is Coast Guard one, seven, zero, three." "The Princess Naru has corrected the steering casualty and are functioning under their own power, over." "All right, Mac." "Have the Jayhawks return to base, but keep the C-130 in the area until theNaru's out of harm's way." "Yes, sir." "This is the latest weather balloon data out of Valdez." "That's what's left of Typhoon Emma." "She's been sucking heat off the ocean ever since she left Japan." "It looks like we've got two low pressure systems, one hot and light, one cold and heavy on a collision course over the Aleutians." "Things are going to get ugly out there and fast." "I'm going to coordinate with the weather service and put search and rescue on standby." "The storm should hit us hard sometime around midnight." "Anybody that's still in the harbor better stay there." "I'll get the word out." "[thunder]" "[¶]" "Hey." "[thunder]" "I heard that Francine and the kids left." "No, we're just spending a little time apart." "That's all." "Some streak we're running." "The boat's in lousy shape, a bunch of retreads on the deck, and that greenhorn looks like he's never worked a day in his life." "If we didn't have bad luck, we wouldn't have any luck at all." "The cook's cute." "[laughs]" "Ah, you're going to feel better when those nets come up full of scallops." "We're going to hit this time." "You got a little bit of magic that's going to help theSaint Christopherpass the Coast Guard inspection?" "I've got a disappearing act." "We're going to leave tonight." "Just going to slip out of the harbor before anybody notices we're gone." "Tonight?" "In this?" "Well, you can't choose your weather." "You won't go out in a storm, you'll never go out." "[¶]" "I'm here." "What do you want, a medal?" "Here." "You'll need this." "It gets sloppy out there." "Okay." "[¶]" "Hey, Vanessa." "How many are we?" "Well, there's five working men." "There's the little cookie." "And maybe she got some animal crackers for you, huh Meat?" "Unless you want off now, save me the trouble of breaking you out there." "I'm here to stay." "I'll decide that." "I thought this was Captain Colvin's boat." "It's his boat, but this is my deck." "And right now you and that bad luck box are just taking up space." "Don't." "Hey, hey!" "Don't ever bring a coffin onto the deck of a ship, okay?" "Now take those genny parts down to Bear in the engine room, stow away all this crap." "Okay." "Where's the engine room?" "Follow the rumbling, Meat." "Just follow the rumbling." "And be careful sneaking up on Bear." "He's been prickly these days." "He's not a gentle guy like myself." "[laughs]" "He likes to get under your skin." "It's like it's his own form of entertainment out here." "I'm Moss." "I'll show you both around." "Hey, thanks." "Haven't I seen you around with that guy Greg from theNorthern Star?" "Gary, he's still on theNorthern Star." "I'm here." "Got it." "[thunder]" "MOSS:" "Not such a bad group here." "Stubbs is a charmer." "Captain is a good man." "Used to have a real nose for scallops, not so much anymore, but, in here, that'll change." "Engineer Bear keeps this old tub upright like some sort of wizard." "You're trying to scare me." "Tommy, you'll bunk here." "And don't worry." "She's a tough old pig built in '47 out of scrap submarine iron." "Was a seiner on the East Coast until this spring when Captain Colvin bought her." "He brought her around through the Panama Canal, refit her for scalloping." "They retrofit the galley too or am I cooking on a wood stove?" "Oh no, the galley's the pride and joy of theSaint Christopher." "[¶]" "I've seen worse." "Time for chow?" "This is Vanessa, our new cook." "The greenhorn's Tommy." "Howdy, ma'am." "MOSS:" "Stubbs wants us to fix the weld on the crane." "Yeah, we got to attach the wheelhouse antenna." "Oh, the wheelhouse roof is all punky with corrosion, needs replacing." "Until the captain coughs up for that, it's just a make work job." "Hey, you wake me up when you've got something cooked." "All right, ma'am?" "Thanks." "Reed!" "Reed, you lazy piece of crap!" "We're not even underway." "You're already slacking off." "I ought to throw your heifer loving ass off this boat now." "Bull, not heifer." "A heifer is a young female before she has a calf." "Yeah, yeah, I was a bull rider." "A clown." "Huh?" "A clown, you was a clown." "Clown, Reed, clown!" "You always will be a clown." "Get your butt up on deck." "Fix the crane and the antenna like I told you." "You too, Moss, go." "The greenhorn just needed a point in the right direction." "You're not a tour guide." "And unless you want to be paid like a bus boy, you leave the galley work to the cookie." "Get out of here." "It's like I'm running a freak show." "I rode bulls, not just clowning." "Meat, did that, that box grow legs in the last five minutes?" "No." "Engine room, Bear's waiting." "The longer he waits, the worse it's going to be for you." "Nice knowing you." "If he makes his way back up here, you slap a pretty little apron on him and you get him to clean this place up." "It's disgusting." "We're not topside, so stop barking at me like a junkyard dog." "If you want to give me the greenhorn for a while, fine, but what I do down here is my business and my call." "All right." "You seem to know how it goes on a boat." "So you know what a woman has to do before we leave port." "Get up there." "Pee on those nets." "I can't afford to have you hanging a dark omen on this ship." "Mmm, you want a lick?" "I like a man who brightens a room just by leaving it." "Hey, get in there, you..." "Hey, excuse me." "Get, get in there." "Excuse me, are you Bear?" "Stupid piece of crap!" "What?" "I, I got these genny parts for you from Stubbs." "You kidding me?" "Stubbs." "I can't fix it with that crap." "Tell Stubbs to shove it where the sun don't shine." "But it's my first day." "Good for you." "It's my last!" "What are you doing, Moss?" "Are you trying to make that plate even worse than it already is?" "Stubbs said, "Fix the weld."" "Stubbs said." "Well, you know, Stubbs can just take over for all I care." "He can be deck boss, engineer, all of it!" "These lags ain't gripping to the roof." "Well, then you fix it proper." "It's just making holes." "Fix it proper or you can sit up there with your Johnson in one hand and the antenna in the other for all I care." "RADIO:" "Severe weather warnings." "The National Weather service..." "Retooled crap-ass parts for a rebuilt, crap-ass engine ain't going to cut it, Jack." "That genny has got about as much life left in it as my 180-year-old granny." "I can't take this anymore, man!" "I'm quitting!" "I'm done!" "Oh, you can't quit on me now." "We're under the gun." "I need you to get us out there ASAP." "ASAP?" "You got at least two weeks of work before you pass" "Coast Guard inspection." "You know, that gives you plenty of time to get a new genny from Juneau and a new engineer who's not sick and tired of holding this tub together on spit and gum." "Two weeks is too late." "The bills won't wait." "We're leaving tonight, Bear." "Tonight?" "I can't do that, man." "Yes, you can." "Look, we'll make this run." "You're going to come back bursting with scallops." "Then we'll have enough money to fix this boat right." "Come on." "Stick with me here, Bear." "I'll make it worth your while." "I'll give you Willie's share." "All right?" "I mean, he's locked with a DUI." "The greenhorn's on an hourly." "Some things you can't fix by throwing money at it, Jack." "And some things you can." "Right?" "Come on." "What do you say?" "You go down below work a little of that Bear mojo, get us up and running." "I got a bad feeling about this one." "Ah, you just been listening to Stubbs too much." "I really need this run, Bear." "And I'm not going to get another shot at it being in a wheelhouse if I can't turn things around and bring in a catch." "I'm going to lose my house and the boat to the bank." "I can't come back empty handed, not again." "I need you." "I get all of Willie's share?" "You get us out there." "You get us home." "The money's all yours." "[crackling]" "[¶]" "That looks good." "Of course it does." "Let's check the hydraulic lines." "Okay." "[¶] [loud motors]" "[¶]" "She's nice and tight." "You should buy her some flowers and tell her that you love her." "[laughs]" "Getting good." "Forget your frilly apron down below?" "Why don't you give me a real job?" "I'll do it." "A real job?" "I don't even know what you can do beside follow around the cookie and stare at her ass." "My brother used to run a marina on Lake Michigan." "I, I know my way around boats." "Well, that sounds impressive." "Maybe I could find you a canoe for you to wax up or sell some ice to your bass fishing lake friends." "Spring and fall, we'd launch boats." "I can run a crane." "You can do my job." "No, I can run a crane." "Well, go ahead, Meat." "I'll take a little nap, catch up on my beauty sleep." "Come on." "Prove me wrong, Meat." "I could be wrong, but I'm just," "I'm guessing it was an electric winch you used to drop those itty-bitty speed boats in the water." "The principle's the same." "This winch is designed to sling around a scallop dredge thousands of pounds when it's full." "So you go ahead and show me how smart you are, Meat." "[¶]" "Okay, where do you want it?" "I want you to set it down, kiss that dock real gentle, bring it back on deck." "[¶] [loud crash]" "Oh!" "Oh, whoo!" "Nice." "You got the real touch, kid." "Pretty sure I could learn something from you!" "Okay, and back." "[loud crash]" "Oh!" "Oh, it's all right." "That's a nice try though." "If you hit the toilet bowl when you take a pee, just spray the floor." "Huh?" "[loud crash]" "Oh!" "Whoo!" "LOUDSPEAKER:" "What the hell's going on out there?" "What's that greenhorn doing on my crane?" "He said he had it under control." "I told you he was useless." "We don't have time for your crap, Stubbs!" "Plate's bunged up." "The kid busted up the hydraulics too." "Can you get it running again?" "Maybe, we might need some time." "I'll get Bear on it." "COLVIN:" "We're out of time." "We'll deal with that once we get underway." "Let's try not to draw any more attention to theSaint Christopher than we already have." "It means quietly." "Do you understand, Stubbs?" "Quiet as a mouse." "[thunder]" "They'll forget soon enough." "I doubt it." "Once you leave port, nothing ever goes as planned." "Now give me a hand in the galley." "And try not to break anything." "[¶]" "RADIO:" "Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, severe weather warnings." "The National Weather Service has issued severe weather warnings in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Sea." "[static] seeking storm avoidance are requested to contact the United States Coast Guard [radio static transmission] storm avoidance." "[¶]" "They've upgraded that low pressure system." "Typhoon Emma just doesn't want to die, huh?" "I know I've only been up here a season, but this storm's looking pretty bad, isn't it?" "Bad and getting worse." "Pull up a seat." "This is a weather system that came through here about a month ago." "It's our standard storm track." "Low pressure system comes in from Siberia." "The mass of cold air hits the Aleutians, where the coastal waters are shallow and still relatively warm at this time of the year." "The low pressure system sucks up the heat and moves up this way across Bristol Bay." "Now, the difference with this storm system is that we're dealing with the tail of a tropical typhoon coming at us from Japan." "So it's going to be a long night." "I hope you didn't make any big plans." "No, same old, same old." "I was just going to meet up with a couple of guys over at the Wreck Room." "Oh, damn, I forgot." "MARTY:" "Sure, I remember the kid, but he ain't here anymore." "I think he got a spot on theSaint Christopher." "BURNS:" "All right, Marty, when he does comes back in, just have him come see me at the base." "I'll be here all night." "MARTY:" "I wouldn't wait up." "The Saint Christopher pulled out a few hours ago." "What?" "Are you sure?" "Colvin paid his tab and left." "I'm pretty sure your greenhorn's with him." "Okay." "If he does happen to walk in, have him call me." "All right." "Mac, get me the harbor master." "I want a confirmation on the status of theSaint Christopher." "You think Colvin took her out?" "Yeah, yeah, I do." "[¶] [radio static transmission]" "RADIO:" "The National Weather Service has issued severe weather warnings [radio static transmission]" "United States Coast Guard [radio static transmission]" "Well, she's running, for now." "Ha, ha, a little Bear mojo, a little Colvin luck, and here we go again." "Now where to?" "Let me see that chart." "Most of the scallop fleet fishing out here, three days out, three days back." "I don't think she'll last that long, Jack." "I'm holding that genny together as it is." "Well, I met this fellow at the bar, got him hammered and he started mouthing off about some secret hot spot his skipper found right here in the Tugidak Passage." "Nobody else knows about that honey hole." "Spitting distance." "Uh-huh." "If we can cut through this weather, we can be there in eight hours." "This guy told me they brought in 150,000 dollars worth of scallops last week." "[whistles]" "And they got a busted drive shaft now, so they're not going out again." "It's just sitting there waiting for us." "[Radio static]" "Ah, Reed did another bang up job on the antenna." "Ah!" "I don't know why Stubbs keeps that guy around." "It's because he's tenacious and he puts up with Stubbs' crap." "Ah, don't worry." "We'll fix the antenna when we duck into the lee of Tugidak Island and the roof too." "Hang on!" "Whoo!" "Ha!" "Now, two more knots and we'd be fishing by midnight." "These diesels are 45 years old." "Oh, that ain't so old, is it?" "Maybe for you." "What do you say, Bear?" "Do you think you can sweet talk a couple of more knots out of the old girl?" "I'll try." "That a boy." "Hang on!" "Whoo-hoo!" "Ha, ha, ha!" "Ya!" "It's nice to have real chow for a change, Vanessa." "It's nice to hear someone say so." "Yeah, I'd go again, if there's any more, ma'am." "The pie will be out in a few minutes." "I'm saving a bit of chow for Tommy." "I think he's going to be praying to the porcelain gods for awhile." "This storm still has plenty of life." "Do you think you could check on him?" "It's his first trip out." "Oh!" "[coughs]" "You need to get in here?" "No, just making sure you're still with us." "Barely." "Everyone loses it once in a while." "Sit up." "Focus on something good like what you're going to do with the millions you dream of making up here." "I was thinking like the Virgin Islands on a sailboat, hot and cold running bikinis, premium tequila." "[distant crashing]" "Now, I'm thinking about dry land." "Can I ask you something?" "What are you doing up here?" "You're not like all them other guys." "You mean because I'm a black man in Alaska?" "No, I mean because you're not a jerk." "I got bills to pay just like everyone else." "And come next fall, tuition." "My daughter, Julie, headed for law school," "University of Louisville." "She got the marks." "I'm trying to get her the money." "You and your wife must be very proud." "It's just Julie and me now." "Marie passed three years ago." "It's been tough, me spending half the year up here." "But that's all done now." "You're retiring?" "Oh, from this, yeah." "I've been on this wait list at a truck plant for four years." "Everyone in Kentucky wants these jobs, secure, stable." "My number's finally come up." "I start next month." "And this last run is going to get Julie in law school." "I'm going home for good." "You won't miss all this?" "Don't forget to flush." "Thank you, Moss." "Oh." "Leave it until it cools." "The first piece is for the captain." "Hands off until then." "The captain don't want no pie." "He's surviving on caffeine and cigarettes until we start scalloping." "It's for luck." "A lucky pie?" "Well, that's nuts." "LARKIN:" "My dad drift netted red salmon out of Juneau his whole life, so I know a thing or two about working out here." "The one thing you don't mess with is tradition." "I sent him out every trip with a fresh baked pie since I was ten." "He never had a dry year." "Hands off until the captain eats." "You got it, cowboy?" "A lucky pie, I got it." "Hey, you all right?" "Mmm, mmm, mmm." "That smells better than it looks." "Leave it alone." "I will beat your ass up into a turtleneck if you don't lay off that pie." "She said the captain gets the first piece." "I, I ain't taking a piece." "I'm just crumming on the sides." "Crumming?" "Yeah." "What is that an expression you learned in Heiferville or did you make that up on your own in clown school?" "I rode bulls, you ignoramus." "Don't screw with our luck." "Get away from the pie!" "Okay!" "Better?" "I'm fine." "Don't tell the guys, all right?" "Everyone gets seasick once in a while." "That's what Moss said." "Yeah, well, Moss is a man and he don't know nothing about being sick like this." "Oh." "I see." "No, you don't." "It's, it's tough enough being a woman out here." "And I go and get myself knocked up." "Is that why you left the last boat?" "Gary, Gary's got a wife back in Seattle." "He's not going to leave her for me." "And I'm not moping around theNorthern Star squeezing through hallways past a guy I can't stand anymore." "Anything I can do?" "I don't want Stubbs to get a hold of this." "I got a couple months of work out here until I start showing." "Take the money I got banked and I'm going to get out of Kodiak for good." "I won't tell a soul." "I promise." "[loud crashing waves]" "Hang on." "Oops." "I told you not to touch the lucky pie!" "Hey, hey, hey, what are you, what are you doing?" "Son of a bitch." "Ow!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Get off." "Little clown!" "I told you not to touch the pie!" "Easy, Stubbs, easy!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "I'm out of here." "Hey, guys!" "Get off of me!" "Come on!" "[speaking all at once]" "It's only a pie, you moron!" "It's just a, ah!" "Oh!" "[laughs] [indistinct]" "I'll get you... clown!" "Oh!" "[laughs]" "Ow!" "My leg!" "You can't bite me!" "You can't bite me!" "You can't bite me!" "Ow!" "Ah!" "God!" "You got to be kidding me!" "LOUDSPEAKER:" "Knock it off, you idiots!" "I said knock it off!" "What the hell's going on?" "World War III." "No!" "Stubbs!" "LOUDSPEAKER:" "Man overboard!" "Man overboard!" "Stubbs!" "Stubbs!" "Stubbs!" "Stubbs!" "Stubbs!" "Guys!" "Where is he?" "Stubbs!" "I can't see him!" "Stubbs!" "Hold on, buddy." "Hold on." "Throw the line." "I can't see him." "[indistinct shouting]" "How long can he survive?" "If we don't find him in minutes, he'll be dead." "We're running out of time!" "There he is!" "Grab the rope!" "There!" "There!" "Oh!" "They got him!" "They got him!" "Oh!" "Hang in there, Stubbs!" "[speaking all at once]" "Hang in there, Stubbs." "Ah!" "Ah!" "Okay, hang in." "Grab it!" "Oh!" "Oh!" "Stubbs!" "Oh, geez." "You okay?" "Come on." "LOUDSPEAKER:" "Get him below and get him dry." "LOUDSPEAKER:" "Reed, get up here right now!" "US Coast Guard, Kodiak, this is the fishing vessel theSaint Christopher." "I'm sorry captain, we, we just..." "Shut up." "You're done!" "If I wasn't riding into this mess," "I'd tie your ass to the deck and you'd freeze your nuts off." "I'm sorry." "I said shut up!" "Because of you, I got a half-assed radio that can't transmit and a half-dead deck boss." "Because of you, he not only went in the water, but we can't contact anyone to Evac him to a hospital!" "You know Stubbs is a major league pain in the ass." "And I have put up with your schoolyard garbage because I thought it was your way." "But tonight you proved you were more than just an idiot." "You are a liability to this boat and everyone on it." "Now get below and don't let me see your face again." "Bear, get up here and get this radio working." "US Coast Guard, Kodiak, this is the fishing vessel" "Saint Christopher." "We're south of Tugidak Island, possible medical emergency onboard." "US Coast Guard, Kodiak, do you read me?" "Over." "BURNS:" "No word yet on theSaint Christopher?" "MAC:" "Not a word." "I just talked to the National Weather Service." "What's left of Typhoon Emma has been knocking heads with that ice cold arctic low." "Wind's gusting to 55 knots." "The jet max has shifted south and started ripping air off the top of our storm system." "That's seas to 40 feet." "We've already put out a weather alert to all the shipping in the Gulf." "The center of the storm is 50 miles south of Tugidak Island." "We've had captains reporting in." "There's seven vessels in the area." "We've had radio contact with six of them and they're all high-tailing it away from the worst of it." "What about the ship you haven't been able to reach?" "Jack Colvin on the Saint Christopher." "He shouldn't be out there." "He snuck out of port without his ticket." "For all we know, they could be down there." "Are you all right?" "A friend of mine's kid brother is on theSaint Christopher, just one of those nights." "Keep trying to contact them." "I'll have an urgent marine information broadcast sent out." "If Colvin is still out there, he won't turn back to Kodiak in this hurricane." "He'll need to take shelter." "And that means Tugidak Island." "He'll have to drive right through the center of that storm." "This is the US Coast Guard." "We have updated weather information." "The severe storm system moving into the Gulf of Alaska from the northwest is causing severe weather." "[loud static]" "Oh!" "You're making it worse, Bear, not better." "You're welcome to come up here and fix it yourself!" "Can I get you anything else?" "Are you sure you don't need a doctor?" "I'm not going to get hauled up into a chopper like some stork returning a baby." "I come out on a boat, I'm going to go back in on a boat." "You think it's such a good idea to leave them alone like that?" "Reed already tried to kill him once." "Stubbs deserves a chance to get even." "Would he have really died out there so quick?" "Without a survival suit, you've got max four, five minutes in that water before you freeze to death." "Not even." "Well, we got them suits, don't we?" "Oh." "That's it?" "This is used." "It's crap." "Hey, that's what we got." "Right here, Vanessa's forward cabin, up on deck, and in the wheelhouse." "Captain sounds that alarm, you squirrel your ass into one of these as fast as you can." "Zip it up tight or it's useless." "Stay dry." "Nothing else matters, nothing." "You got that?" "Yeah." "Get in the suit, seal it up tight, nothing else matters." "If we end up in the water, you hold onto somebody tight." "You get separated out there, you're on your own for good." "I don't know what to say." "Sorry would be a good start." "Didn't seem like enough, you, you almost dying and all." "Sorry, but you almost killed me." "Sorry because you wrecked the pie." "Well, I..." "You know that peach is my favorite." "Well, I, I'll get you a whole truckload of pies when we get back home, a whole, whole truckload of pie." "Deal, clown." "[laughing]" "All calm so far." "Oh!" "RADIO:" "The National Weather Service has issued severe weather warnings..." "God!" "I think you did it." "The signal's a lot stronger." "She must be blowing 70 or 80 out there." "30, 40 footers rolling around." "Tell me something I don't know." "We shouldn't be out here, Jack." "I said tell me something I don't know." "Oh, crap!" "[loud crash]" "Oh, stink!" "Oh, Jack!" "Jack!" "[¶]" "Oh!" "[groan]" "Are you okay?" "No." "Oh, oh, oh!" "Reed, let's check below." "Ah, I broke my damn wrist, I think." "Oh!" "We got worse problems than that." "Engine's down." "We lost fuel pressure." "Can you keep us pointed into the waves?" "I don't think I can hold the wheel with one hand." "You got to keep us pointed." "Oh!" "I got to go down and see if I can spark the diesels before we get sideways." "Oh!" "You keep us pointed." "Water's going in to the engine!" "Are you guys okay?" "All right." "Moss, get on top!" "The captain needs your help." "He busted his damn wrist." "We're in the ditch." "And that's not good." "The ditch, what the hell does that mean?" "Where the hell have you two been?" "Picking daisies, what do you think?" "Genny's out." "The engine's tanked." "The batteries are grumpy and wet." "Well, who ain't?" "What's happening?" "We need the engines up to push us over the waves otherwise we'll roll, taking us under." "Go check if Moss made it to the wheelhouse." "If the captain's hurt, you're going to need to give him a hand." "Just go!" "Ah!" "No mains and we're done for it out here." "Is that water or air in that line?" "I don't know." "Check it!" "Try it now!" "[engine starts]" "Yes!" "Is somebody running things topside?" "Moss went up to help the captain keep her straight." "Snot load of good that's doing." "[unclear] is loose, captain!" "That's the least of our problems." "[sound of waves crashing]" "I found your photo." "Thanks." "With the engines running, the wheel's a chore." "Engines off, you got a massive keel back there being pulled every which way." "The Bering Sea's trying to get you to mess up, trying to humiliate you." "It'll make you feel as small as you really are, realize your mortality." "And then like some kind of angry god, it's trying to bring you to your knees." "That's when it'll take you." "Advice to you, kid, never get on your knees, not for the Bering Sea and not for some pissed-off god." "Captain, no disrespect, but you really need to work on your pep talk." "Shift over here." "Come on." "I'm going to eyeball what's happening on the deck." "I'm on it, boss." "You get the diesels pumping." "[waves crashing]" "[rusty creaking]" "Ah, stink!" "Bear!" "What's going on down there?" "BEAR:" "The genny's down." "Stubbs is giving the engine mouth to mouth." "Well, stay on it!" "We don't have a lot of leeway up here!" "Just keep sucking, man." "The crane's taking a beating." "Close the damn hatch and take care of it!" "Okey-dokey, boss." "Get her back!" "Get her back!" "You're losing it!" "Yes, sir, we are." "We're losing it for sure." "Ah!" "LOUDSPEAKER:" "Hold on to your bunny boots." "Here comes a steel bender." "Come on!" "Now, now, now, stick it!" "Stick it!" "[engine sputtering]" "Come on." "Ah!" "[engine starts]" "Yes!" "Captain, it's on." "Now or never." "Come on!" "Let's go." "[¶]" "Yes!" "Dodged that bullet." "Yes, sir, we did." "Good work down there." "Yes!" "[¶]" "The crane's busted." "She's swinging like a son of a bitch." "Stubbs, Bear, we got a problem on the deck." "You want me to go check topside?" "Yeah, go!" "Greenhorn, you pooched my crane." "Get down there and keep it from killing us." "Ain't nobody should be out there especially a day one greenhorn." "One day in 1,000, a man's a man and the sea don't care." "[loud creaking]" "Ah!" "What the hell's going on up there?" "LOUDSPEAKER:" "Bear, come up and give us a hand." "Hang on!" "Hang on!" "She's gone bronco!" "Transmission gear's sheared!" "Oh, crap!" "Can I help?" "Probably not." "We got to get a hold of the crane arm." "And we need to lock that bitch down." "I'll rope her." "You and the greenhorn tie her to the deck." "Take over, Moss." "Show me that cowboy crap." "If he hooks it, you cleat the line." "Got it?" "Then you ream it good and tight." "Can you do that, Meat?" "I think so." "Don't think it!" "Do it, tight!" "Tie that thing down now!" "What the hell do you think we're doing?" "Come on!" "Ah!" "Got it!" "Now tie it down!" "[grinding noises]" "Ah!" "Watch out!" "Tie it down!" "Tie it down!" "Tie it down there!" "Come on!" "Tie it tight!" "I said to tie it tight!" "I did!" "One simple thing and you almost get us killed." "I did." "If you get off this boat alive," "I'm going to find you down and bitch-slap your ass back to Lake Michigan!" "Big one!" "Big one!" "Big one!" "[screaming]" "LOUDSPEAKER:" "Locate survival suits!" "Prep the raft." "We'll be on deck." "She's going down." "[heavy breathing]" "Ah!" "Here you go, captain." "I'll hold her down." "Get yours on first." "Don't let go." "You think I'm an ignoramus?" "Ah!" "Captain says survival suit time." "That's where I was headed." "There's more in here." "There's some in here." "Mayday!" "Mayday!" "Mayday!" "This is Captain Jack Colvin of the fishing vessel theSaint Christopher." "We got them." "It's theSaint Christopher calling in a mayday." "Saint Christopher, what are your coordinates?" "What have we got?" "It's the Saint Christopher." "[radio static transmission]" "Colvin?" "Is that you, Burns?" "[radio static transmission] Saint Christopher?" "Burns!" "Play it back?" "They're off Sitkinak Island." "I couldn't make out the full longitude." "See if you can triangulate their position from the relay." "We got two suits in here." "We got this one and we got that one." "There must be more." "That's it!" "That's it!" "I checked them all." "Bear's got it." "Probably one in my room." "No, I checked." "There's some on the upper deck." "Here, Vanessa." "Vanessa, come here." "Take this one." "No." "I'm serious." "This, take, take this one." "I'll get one on deck." "Take it." "Take it." "Get topside." "Okay." "This one's crap and yours is wet." "[sound of engine starting] [radio static transmission] one, seven, zero, eight." "One, three, [radio static transmission]" "We're SOL, captain." "Engine's pooched." "Room's filling fast." "LOUDSPEAKER:" "You better get topside." "It's time to go." "All right." "Mayday!" "Mayday!" "Mayday!" "This is the last mayday of the fishing vessel theSaint Christopher." "We are, we are south Sitkinak Island, crew of seven deploying emergency gear and life raft." "[static]" "If you were mine, I'd go down with you." "But you're the bank's, so screw that." "Get a suit on, kid!" "I'm looking!" "I can't find one!" "Well, keep looking." "I know there's more." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Oh, no!" "Oh, damn!" "I'm on it!" "No!" "Reed!" "What the hell?" "They went for the life raft!" "Stubbs!" "Ah!" "Stubbs!" "I got you, buddy." "I got you now." "I got you." "I didn't mean to let go." "I, I wasn't clowning." "It just, it just went." "I know." "It just happened." "We're going to get the raft and we'll get you warm, okay?" "You think so?" "Stubbs!" "I'm so cold." "I can't..." "You can't what, cowboy?" "I can't cry." "You can cry, cowboy." "No, I can't." "I want to." "It's just too damn cold." "[¶]" "You thinking you could loan me that, that suit just for a minute?" "What?" "I'll give it back, so as, so as I can warm up." "We're going to find the raft." "We'll get the raft." "Okay." "Moss, what's wrong with your suit?" "It's built for a midget." "I can't get this zipper done up right." "Where's the suit for Tommy?" "I don't know." "The ship's going down and she's going to suck us under when she does." "We got to get away from her now." "Tommy, there's got to be one more down there." "Go quickly!" "It's not too late." "Reed and Stubbs are getting the raft." "We'll be okay." "Good luck, son." "I'm coming back." "Come on, Vanessa." "Let's tie off together." "[sound of waves crashing]" "You got a smoke?" "Yeah." "How we going to light it?" "Now there's the problem." "Yeah." "There, there it is." "Reed?" "Reed?" "Reed, come on, cowboy." "Stay with me." "Stay with me, Reed." "[¶]" "We got to go!" "We got to go now!" "What about Tommy?" "We have to move away." "We're too close." "When she goes down, she'll take us with her." "Ah!" "Oh, I got a leak in my suit." "It's starting to grow." "It's just running down my leg." "But now, oh man, I can't feel my feet." "...Try to conserve your energy." "I'm not going to have any energy to conserve." "Oh!" "My legs are pulling me under." "Your mind's playing tricks on you." "Your mind is playing tricks on you." "The suit will keep you dry." "It has a hole in it, man." "It had a hole from the start." "[¶]" "Get off me, Bear." "I ain't doing any better than you are." "You better back off." "Get off!" "Relax." "Get off of him, Bear." "Get off of him." "You're going to kill him if you don't get off him." "Bear!" "Hey!" "There's no floating!" "It's no good!" "You just got to hang on." "I got a suit!" "I got a suit!" "Bear, Bear, look at me!" "He would've taken us down." "I'm cutting us loose." "[sound of helicopter]" "RADIO:" "Comm Sta Kodiak." "CG, six, zero, zero, five." "Vanessa, I got it!" "Tommy!" "Ah!" "Bloody hell!" "[¶] [gulps breath]" "Tommy!" "Tommy!" "I'll take care of Bear now." "Good luck, you two." "Captain, the Bering Sea, the Bering Sea ain't no god." "If you're going to kneel, make sure it's to your maker." "You too, Moss, you too." "Good luck!" "I have CG, one, seven, one, two in the area and two 60s from the Kodiak en route." "That's a big playing field." "The mayday was brief." "They're probably halfway down Sitkinak Straight." "Calculate search area based on last known coordinates." "Mr. Mac, get me CG, one, seven, one, two." "Yes, sir." "Tommy!" "Vanessa?" "Tommy!" "Come here, kid." "Come here." "Where is everybody?" "They cut away." "Cut away?" "Hey Moss, how you doing?" "I got a leak, but I'll be fine." "I'll tie you to us." "RADIO:" "One, five, two, ten [radio static transmission]" "Moss!" "Moss, stay with us." "I just, I just want to sleep." "You can't." "Just for a minute." "You can't do that." "You got to think." "Think of something else." "That's the secret out here, Moss, think of something good." "Come on." "Oh, I ain't seasick, kid." "I'm just tired." "I need sleep." "Now don't do that." "Tell me about Julie in law school, law school and going home to Kentucky." "I'm going home soon." "Julie's got the marks, so I'm getting her the money." "Yeah, that's right." "Listen!" "That's a helicopter." "It's coming our way!" "Hey!" "Over here!" "We're over here!" "Hey!" "RADIO:" "One, zero, five [radio static transmission]" "It's going away." "Hey, over here!" "Help!" "Over here!" "Help!" "Hey!" "Come back!" "Over here!" "Over here!" "Help!" "[radio static transmission]" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Over here!" "Over here!" "They'll be back, okay, Vanessa?" "I don't know." "I don't think they saw us." "We're all going to make it." "Moss!" "Moss!" "Cut him loose." "What?" "Cut him loose." "He's dead." "I can't." "He's got water filling up his suit." "He's just going to take us under and kill us both." "He's the lucky one." "At least he made it out of this nightmare." "I'm not dying out here and neither are you." "Come on." "You got to hold on for the baby, the baby inside you." "I can't." "I can't hold on anymore." "The nursery to paint, birthday parties to plan, little dresses to buy." "Little dresses?" "Who says it's going to be a girl?" "I do." "It's going to be a take no crap fighter just like her mom." "You got to keep going." "So you got to tell me if I'm hallucinating." "What's that?" "Sitkinak Island." "Cut me loose." "I'll never make it." "We can make it." "Let's go!" "[sound of helicopter]" "RADIO:" "Comm Sta, [radio static transmission] 60, zero, zero, five." "We're are currently at position 57 degrees, 45 minutes north." "No joy." "Over." "Comm Sta Kodiak, roger." "Comm Sta Kodiak, any further data to refine the search grid?" "Over." "That's a negative." "We're waiting for an EPERB, but nothing's come through so far." "Over." "Sir, the storm is starting to dissipate." "We should have increased visibility." "They've been in the water for over three hours now." "I just hope they were able to get into a life raft." "I can't stay awake." "Keep it up." "We're almost there." "Wake up." "I'm too cold, Tommy." "I thought I was imagining these things before." "I can't." "I can't." "I can't feel my legs anymore." "My legs aren't working." "My legs are working just fine." "Come on." "Good luck, Tommy." "[¶]" "Vanessa, Vanessa!" "Oh, God." "Please no." "[¶] [gulps air]" "[¶]" "MULTIPLE VOICES:" "Hypothermia." "Multiple contusions." "Get a warm saline drip started." "His pulse is erratic and weak." "Code blue, code blue." "Get a beat on him, stat." "[flatline beep]" "Hey, I was waiting for you, so I thought maybe I'd start ahead of you." "Hmm." "You're kind." "I'm still not sure if this is all real." "You're here and this is, this is real." "The doctors told me I shouldn't drink with the meds, but, you know, what the hell?" "You only live once." "So, you know, it's just, it's just us, huh?" "The Coast Guard said they found the Bear and the captain." "They, they found their bodies." "Yeah." "And Reed was with me, so." "Moss?" "He was with us." "You and the cookie..." "Vanessa." "That was as bad as I've ever seen it out there." "And don't let anybody ever tell you different." "That's as ugly as it's ever going to get in this life." "How's the hand?" "It's lousy." "I mean, what's left of it." "I got washed ashore at Sitkinak Island and I had to climb this 500-foot cliff." "Cold on the rocks, tore up that and my foot." "I lost three fingers." "I'm still here." "Don't need two good hands to work a crane anyway." "[laughs]" "You're not going back out there." "I plan on getting good and drunk for a bit first and then I'll, I'll get myself better and then get back to being what I am." "Well, this is my life." "I been out on that Bering Sea since I was five years old." "A whole family of fishermen back from before there was even steel hull boats, and GPS, and Coast Guard rescues." "God bless them." "This is what I am." "But it's not for everyone." "I know." "I'm glad to have met you." "[voice breaking] And I'm really glad you made it back, kid." "You can crew with me anytime, all right?" "Thank you, Stubbs." "Hey, take good care of yourself out there." "This is where I belong." "I'll be fine." "I got to go catch a plane." "We found her." "You found who?" "TheSaint Christopher last night, still afloat." "No way, she went down." "We found her adrift in the fog in the Sitkinak Strait, floating in like a ghost ship." "How's that possible?" "She's a tough old boat." "Took on a lot of water, just wasn't her time." "You mean if we'd all stayed with her, we would have made it?" "Might have." "All those people onboard, and Stubbs and I are the only ones to make it back." "How'd that happen?" "Luck." "If I was a religious type, I'd say it was the hand of God or fate." "Whatever helps you sleep better at night, I guess." "But you survived." "Must be for a good reason." "And that's what you have to take with you." "I will." "Thank you." "Give my best to Mike, huh?" "Yeah." "[¶]" "TOMMY:" "If you're not a little bit afraid out here, you're either crazy or you're just not paying attention." "Hey, do you know where I can grab a cab?" "Yeah, sure, stick out your thumb." "Hey, this is Kodiak, buddy." "Good luck." "TOMMY:" "Something changes in a person's soul when they cheat death." "I know it did for me." "I had more than just survived." "I had come face to face with the devil himself and lived to tell the tale." "[¶]"