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.

With intense currents holding back the Arctic ice pack, Keith drives into deck-wrecking waves to retrieve his catch before the ice bounces back. Jake and Sean face losing everything when ice swallows their gear as Rip enters a pot cemetery of his own.