Swords: Life on the Line

Capt. Scotty is crowded out of his favorite fishing spot; Capt. Linda vows to find fish or retire; Capt. Chomps is put in the red by his brother's medical bills.

Capt. Slick joins the fishing grounds; Capt. Linda's crew suffers from bad luck and injuries; blue sharks affect the captains; Chomp questions his decision to come to the Grand Banks.

The Frances Anne's gear is all ``sharked up'' and a deckhands mistake almost costs them all the fish they have; Eagle Eye 2 is defending its turf when a deckhand is knocked to the deck; Captain Chomps clashes with another captain.

The Big Eye weathers a storm, but the ship offloads more than fish at the port; Capt. Kleme forgives Lemmie's mistake as the Frances Anne crew needs to find more space to store fish.

Capt. Linda rides out the storm in port, while Capt. Scotty debates high prices vs. hurricane force winds to decide whether docking is just too dangerous.

Poor fishing and lousy weather mar the second trip; the Big Eye steers south to safer waters; a greenhorn falls overboard, with sharks in the water.

Boat and crew member frustrations stymie the Bjorn 2. Greenhorn Don decides to take sewing up his head wound into his own hands, literally. Stress causes Capt. Slick to blow his stack. Later, he's demoted when the boat owner decides to take over the helm.

Capt. Scotty's gamble doesn't pay off; Capt. Chomps' luck looks up until a line fouls the Big Eye's propeller.

The Bjorn 2 must fish short-handed when Deckhand Dave goes overboard; Capt. Linda gets her hand caught in the hauling block.

The crews hope for lucrative final haulbacks; the Bjorn 2 deals with their medical emergencies; Chomps deals with crew jumpipng ship; Slick wonders if he will return to the captain's chair.