Josh and Casey race to the approaching ice edge as an Aleutian storm slams the opilio grounds. Jake discovers his niece and engineer have been hooking up more than crab gear as they risk life and limb climbing the 30ft crane to make a critical repair.

Shaken by a life-threatening injury and Coast Guard rescue from his deck less than a year after tragic loss of a much-loved deckhand, Captain Rip Carlton puts the Patricia Lee in drydock for a massive renovation to safeguard his crew for the future.