28 July, 2009

t's the final 24 hours of the 2009 Opilio Crab season. A savage arctic storm causes multiple vessels to send out maydays. The Coast Guard is in a race against the clock to save four men before their boat is pounded into splinters against jagged rocks. It's a game of cat and mouse between Keith on the Wizard and the Bering Sea-as the Skipper repeatedly sends his men out to fish-and pulls them back at the brink of being wiped out. Skipper Sig on the Northwestern is anchored-but still finds himself in a battle for survival when hellish winds push him towards the rocks. The weather raging around the Cornelia Marie tests Skipper Phil Harris and his two sons body and soul. What should be a sprint to victory for the crabbers, as they wrap up their seasons-could become a fleet wide disaster.

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