It's coming.
They're saying this is gonna
be a hundred-year storm.
In less than 48 hours,
the storm of the century
will strike
the Nome mining grounds.
This is our last window
before we got
a historic storm coming in.
Now,
the deadly sprint begins.
I got two things
running through my veins,
cold water and gold.
One shot
at a golden payday
before time runs out.
They're coming
into the worst spot.
It snaps,
they could go into the rocks.
If they can make it back
in one piece.
Conditions
are getting too rough.
It can be a man-k*ller.
Final stages!
Get away from that line.
We're gonna smash
into the Christine Rose.
Go! Go! Go down.
Oh, man!
Kris!
Oh, yeah.
There's a pretty
serious storm
that's about to come in.
So the plan is
I'll just pound out my dive
as much as I can.
I'll do five hours today.
The fleet
is in an all-out race
to keep their mining
operations alive
and Chris McCully
is first out of the gate.
I like when it starts
to get a little rocky,
but yeah, we're gonna get
some more.
I'll just play it by ear.
And, you know,
I kind of developed
a sixth sense already,
so once I hear things,
sounds, and sights,
I just... I just bail out.
This is really intense.
Since I've been
living in Nome,
I never heard storm warnings
like this ever.
It's crazy.
So we know we got
less than a day
before we get knocked off
our mining grounds
for a long, long time.
From the sounds of it,
maybe we won't be able
to mine again this summer.
So we gotta make today count,
like big.
You wanna fire up
the generator?
All right.
The last time we were out,
we were able to tap
in a new pastry.
It's a hot ground,
so me and the night crew
are getting it,
but today,
this gotta be the best gold
that we have seen all season.
Oh, yeah, that's perfect.
I'll try out here first
and if I don't like it,
I'll just come right back up.
Reset.
So far, we've been
having a really good season.
I'm gonna get changed.
And we're on pace
to hit 300 ounce this summer.
It would really suck
if the storm kept us
from reaching it.
I got two things running
through my veins,
cold water and gold.
Good?
All right. Here we go.
-How's the visibility?
- Uh...
Okay. Here we go.
Keeping an eye
on the weather.
Everything is good right now.
Looking good down there?
I think it's like one,
two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
11, 12, 13, 14.
Whoa!
Damn.
We're k*lling it.
While team McCully
zeroes in on the gold,
back in the harbor...
Go out there,
work properly,
stay safe and get that gold.
The Mistress
is setting sail
for Reaper Nation.
Okay. We just broke lines,
getting ready
to pull the spuds.
We're going mining, baby.
But without
its fearless captain onboard.
This is the last day
I'm gonna be able to mine
before that storm hits.
We could be sidelined
for a while...
and I'm nowhere near my goal.
We gotta make today count
on all fronts.
I'm sending James out first
to captain the Mistress
and grind as long as he can.
Bye.
Have a great day at school.
While that's happening,
I'm gonna get the crawler
actually making money.
Last time we got it
on the water,
it didn't actually go
that well.
And we lost the crawler?
The hook
that was holding
my crawler came off.
Andy, pull that
crawler up.
I'm never gonna let this
happen again.
Today,
this nonsense has to end.
It's gotta
become a money-maker.
Are you ready?
Let's go.
I'll see you guys pull off,
then I'll jump in the skiff
and follow you.
We wanna be at 45 feet deep.
If we're not gonna
have divers,
then let's use that
to our advantage.
We're on the Tomcod,
we can only dig about 18 feet
with the Mistress
and Shawn can only dig about
26 feet with the Myrtle.
Suction dredgers
almost never go
more than 40 feet deep.
That means if I can go deeper
than 40 feet with my crawler,
I will hit something amazing
that's untouched.
That's what the crawler
will allow us to do.
See if Andy will go out there
and do a fathom check.
-Fathom check?
-Yeah, captain's check.
All right.
Looking for 40
to 50 feet deep.
Thirty, 35... 40.
And I'm on an angle,
-so it's pretty close.
-Mm-hmm.
Beautiful.
Let's do it.
Let's start off at 50 feet.
There's no chance
that anybody's mining
at 50 feet.
And I know the crawler
has been giving me problems,
but with this storm coming,
there's no time.
Let's go for it.
We're on a good spot.
We're at the right depth.
Everything's going good.
We are operational.
The anchor on bottom?
I feel click, click, click.
It feels like
the anchor's dragging.
Well, we've just set
a GPS coordinate
so we can find out
if we're slipping or not.
Now this is the location
of the boat.
In just a few minutes,
we've drifted that far,
about 60 feet.
They're not holding.
You can feel it each time
it hits the rock and drives.
Okay, so I have
a bit of an issue.
I can't get the anchor
to catch
because we don't
have enough line to it.
So the crawler
can go deep, real deep.
But here's some
basic aquatic engineering.
If the anchor line isn't long
enough to keep us in place,
this is all worthless.
So right now, the anchor line
is just long enough
to reach the bottom
of the ocean,
but it's not long enough
to catch and hold us in place.
So the All-In right now
is just drifting
all over the place.
These are 400-pound anchors,
let's just chill out.
Everything's fine.
But we've gambled
to take the time to get here
and get this set up.
So now we don't really
have the time to move
to a completely
different spot.
We have to figure out a way
to make this work.
So everything's fine.
Don't let today
get us clouded.
Everything's gonna be
a good day.
Let's just work through it,
be in a good mood
and make this happen.
All we can do
is bring it all the way in.
We'll do it again.
Bring it
all the way in.
Man,
I'm not making no money
doing this .
we got a massive storm coming
and it's supposed
to be massive.
I gotta make something today.
There's like a massive front
out there to the west.
Oh, yeah.
With the clock ticking,
Mr. Gold is pushing
for one last big day
of some much-needed gold
before havoc strikes.
We got a little short
weather window.
Both the dredges are really
kicking a*s right now,
piling up some gold.
We're making money.
Well, this is gonna be
the last gasp for a while.
Nome's gonna get
its a*s kicked.
Hopefully there'll be
some mining left
at the end of the season,
but we'll see.
Where are you at?
There's... It's pretty good...
It's pretty good gold all day.
Meanwhile, the night crews
have been going at it nonstop.
Cody and I will pick up
where they left off.
We're gonna get the Myrtle
and the Christine Rose
on the pay streaks
and grind until Mother Nature
says there's no more.
And we need
every second we can
because we're still
behind the pace
to hit our 3,000 ounce goal.
Looks pretty good.
Wow.
I'm pretty sure
that this box has got way more
than the Myrtle.
That's a lot of gold.
It's like plastered in there.
Cody got into a pile
of gold yesterday.
Both boats are kicking a*s
right now.
Good news, the night
crew got on good gold.
Now we just gotta pound it out
and load up these boxes.
This was all
really good yesterday
so this should be
really good again today.
Fire it up.
Rock and roll.
Whoo.
Oh, this
is gonna be fun.
Stuff looks amazing.
Yes!
Hold on tight.
We're gonna hunker down
on our excavators
before we have to hunker down
on our houses.
Keep throwing dirt.
You always fear,
though, knowing it,
and that's what's coming.
We're gonna fight it out.
While Shawn gets
the Pomrenke empire moving,
back in the harbor...
We're ready to go.
Got all the crew aboard.
According
to the weather forecast,
we do have a window
of opportunity.
We'll go out here
and get some gold.
Vernon Adkison's
hustling his team.
Here. Sit. Sit.
Right there. Sit.
Well, ain't
this always the way.
The first half of the season
was for the dogs.
So the only
thing to do
is just go on back
to the dock.
The boat's ready to go.
I got gold on my claim
but I've got no divers.
I had some repairs.
I thought it would only take
a couple of hours
and damn if it hasn't
taken all day.
But now I've got
a full, strong team.
I got Gary,
my ace in the hole,
my gold gorilla.
Plus Brad,
who's a very seasoned diver.
He's definitely got an eye
for the gold
and we've got
a bold new strategy
to go deeper than any other
dredges have gone,
over 40 feet,
and it's paying off.
I finally got
all my ducks in a row,
but now we got the storm
headed our way.
So we got to squeeze out
what we can
while there's still time today
because we are way behind
on our goal
for the season.
All right.
We're ready to push off.
We're getting
gold today.
We're going out 40 feet.
Nobody here in Nome
dives 40 feet,
so it's all virgin ground.
That's why there's
so much gold down there.
Okay. Here we go.
Now, we're going
to go up here
and drop a camera,
see what the bottom looks like
and then we'll put
a diver down.
-Drop it?
- Drop it.
We're just looking
for some,
you know,
decent-looking cobble...
-See the cobble?
- Uh-huh.
You... It's mixed in
with sand a little bit,
-but I--
-I don't care about that.
-That's good, actually.
-Yeah.
Yeah. That's perfect.
All right,
coming down with it.
Watch out.
Going down this deep,
over 40 feet,
is risky as hell.
That's why divers
won't usually attempt it.
If anything happens,
it's a long ways to the top,
and with lines
going down that far,
it only adds to the trouble.
There's no margin for error.
call it. Good.
With this
storm looming,
those swells are gonna start
building anytime.
So we're playing
with fire here.
Time is definitely not
on our side.
All right.
Getting ready
to send a diver down.
Time is getting short.
Chances are better
in the deep water
than in the shallow water,
but it's dangerous.
All right.
Get her done.
So just take your time.
Make sure you're safe.
No sense to get in a hurry.
- More umbilical.
- More umbilical!
Okay. All right.
Well, just do the best
you can.
He's got zero visibility,
but he's gonna keep going.
He likes the material.
That's an indicator
that we're in an area
where there's good gold.
It's tough working
down there.
Hey, just keep going
until you can't go anymore.
In Nome,
it's a battle
to get the final hours in
before the storm
of the century
makes its descent.
Out on the water...
This is like
our last window
before we got a frickin'
historic storm coming in...
Emily is pushing
to get the newest diver
on her expanding team
into the water
while there's still time.
- Whoa.
-There's a micro buoy
over there.
So we're on the spot.
Let's do it.
I realize that
after this storm,
nothing in Nome
will ever be the same,
but I'm still determined
to get a solid dive team going
for the rest of the season.
Let's go ahead and drop it.
I've already got
Dan and David,
and now I'm adding
Mark Gordon.
Mark is a jack of all trades.
I mean, he can do
frickin' anything.
He's a boat mechanic.
He's a fishing boat captain.
He's a pilot and he's got
a lot of dive experience.
He's super competent
in everything he does.
Mark's a pro,
he can do anything
and he's up for anything.
And so gold mining
is just gonna be
the next thing
that he tries his hand at.
But he's never mined
for gold in the Bering Sea.
I feel pretty good.
Ready to get her done, man.
The problem is
we're already pretty far
behind our season goal
right now.
That storm's gonna
steal viable days,
maybe even weeks
from our schedule.
Mark's got to be brought up
to speed immediately.
Like, there's no time
to kind of figure this out.
He needs to be
a proficient gold miner ASAP.
Yeah. We'll see
how it goes today.
He's doing good so far.
He's at the end of the hose.
Perfect.
So he's gonna start dredging
right where he's at
and see what happens.
I bet you he sees gold.
Oh, he's working.
Not quite, he's dredging.
Oh, hell yeah.
Mark's diving. He's on gold,
which is awesome.
Now, we just have
to make every second
of that dive count
because Mother Nature
is coming.
I know, dude.
He just jumped right
in the saddle and went for it.
Ooh!
There's definitely gold here.
How's it looking down there?
What started
as promising ground...
...has grown cold
at a bad time
for Chris McCully.
Okay.
So after about an hour
and a half,
uh, he's on his way back up
and we're gonna
re-anchor and...
go from there.
This is really
bad timing.
There's no way around it.
Good.
The storm of
the century
is lurking around
the horizon,
so we're gonna be down
for who knows how long.
And now,
I have to look for gold.
This is the last thing
I wanna be doing right now,
but I've really got no choice.
There's, like,
worked area over there
and then there's quite a big
boulder patch over there...
All right.
Round number two.
Chris just got in the water.
I'll throttle him
up here pretty soon.
-There it is.
I'll throttle him up now
and see
what we got down below.
I'm thinking
about a good 15 minutes,
he'll have an idea if
there's gonna be enough ground
around here to work
or, you know,
he should be
seeing gold by then.
Keeping an eye on the weather.
Area looks good.
Oh, this stuff
looks amazing, actually.
As the storm
creeps ever closer,
the Pomrenke team
isn't giving an inch.
There's a big base
streak right here.
Yeah. That's real
good-looking right there.
That nice gravelly clay.
It crumbles up on its own
and we're trying to stick
in this channel
where the good gold is
and I'm just trying
to stay in it.
Like the stuff
we're digging right now,
nobody's ever touched it.
It's good
when you're on good gold.
Just keep hammering it,
keep going, keep going.
Just dig nice and easy
and keep the wash plant going
and be nice
to the old excavator.
These swells are starting
to get a lot bigger.
That storm's not
too far out at this point.
As much as I wanna
keep on grinding,
the priority now
is to keep the empire intact,
and I got to make sure
every vessel in my fleet
is secure before
this storm hits the shore.
It's going pretty good.
How's it going with you?
Right now,
I'd rather be digging,
but I have
to run the business.
I'm not gonna take
any chances with something
they're calling
"the storm of the century."
I put my nose
to the grindstone
for way too many years
to get careless and greedy
and put my fleet at risk.
I need to come out
of this thing
on the other end
as strong as I can be.
This is how we make a living.
We got to protect what we...
what we worked
so hard to get.
Ten miles east.
Hey, Mark, how's your
first dive in the Bering Sea?
I can see that...
Sounds good.
Here I come.
There's definitely a problem
with our air supply
and it's not safe for him
to be diving
at like 50, 40 PSI,
so we've got to kind
of halt the dive
until we can figure out
what's going on.
All right. Kind of a--
So this right here
kind of slid up.
Oh, sliding up on you, huh?
Sliding up on the chin.
That means...
See this?
This is all jammed
back in there, so maybe--
That might be
the problem.
Maybe that was part
of the problem.
The rubber seal
around his mask
was kind of folded down,
so that might've been
contributing to the problem
we were having
with our air pressure.
And this is not
a safe situation
when you're in over
20 feet of water.
I'm ready to go,
if you guys were good.
-Give it a whirl?
-Yup.
We made an adjustment
to the masks,
so hopefully
that does the trick.
Good, good, good.
So that fix to the mask
better do it
because the swells
are starting to build
and we don't have
a lot of time left out here.
All right, man. Go get 'em.
You know what...
We got five pieces
of gold here on this spot.
Uh, yeah,
yeah, roger that.
Just keep working.
While Team Eroica
tries to keep ahead
of the storm,
across the water...
Waves are picking up.
He's just been
trying to hang on.
Trying to snag
gold at plus-40 feet below...
Damn it.
...Vernon
Adkison's fighting
to keep Gary Simpson
on the target.
Waves are picking up.
It's white-capping.
I think it might be
the end of the show.
Yeah.
Well, Gary,
at this point,
there's nothing we can do
to stop the dragging.
I can nab more anchor chain,
but you're gonna drag
until it fetches up.
Let me do that,
I'll let out about 30 or 40
more feet of chain
on both anchors.
So just be prepared to move.
Roger that.
Okay, here goes.
Okay, that's it.
We're not letting out
any more.
Okay.
Uh, guys, I am hauling
a*s across the bottom.
All right. If, uh...
If that's the case,
I'm gonna give you
a couple more minutes
to see if you fetch up.
If not,
we'll have to pull you.
Okay.
We've added more anchor line,
but Gary's
still getting pulled
around like
a ragdoll down there.
He's dragging,
we've let out anchor.
That's about all we can do.
I'mma give him
a couple more minutes
to see if he fetches up.
So we're gonna pay out
some more anchor line
and hope that anchor
gets caught on
some rocks down there.
Whoo.
And keep Gary
from getting drug away
like a runaway train.
But even if it doesn't,
that guy's not gonna quit.
I know him. He's fearless.
Damn, I just
saw a great white shark
just went by the boat here.
And you're down there
trolling like a damn
piece of meat on a fish hook.
damn,
I didn't know they had
great whites up here.
We gotta keep feeding
the wash plant.
It's all about yardage.
How many yards you can move.
As the storm
creeps ever closer,
Cody Moen is holding on
as long as possible
for the Pomrenke empire.
Biggest thing
though is just know
when to hold 'em
and know when to fold 'em.
Yeah, I think
we're gonna have to get back,
it's picking up real fast,
it's gonna get real rough.
Oh, yeah. You can see
the big waves way out there.
It's gonna get real rough.
These swells are getting big.
You don't wanna get
caught out in it,
that's the big thing.
We're gonna take off.
That's a really
good two days of mining.
Nearby...
Yeah.
Another dredge
is in a losing battle
with the rising swells.
It's gonna get real rough.
I'll call Shawn real quick.
Hey.
Hey, uh, dude, it got...
It's gnarly out here
on the west end.
That Patriot looks
like they're having a problem.
I tried calling them
on the radio,
but their prop
is just standing
and they're heading
like straight out now.
Okay. Thank you, bud.
All right, bye.
Cody just called,
said the Patriot
looks like that the boys
are having some trouble.
He can't get ahold
of them on the radio.
We're gonna go see
if they need some help.
Patriot's another mining rig.
Looks like their engines
are struggling in the swell.
Cody says
they're having trouble
getting back to the harbor.
So I'm gonna go check it out,
see if they need help.
It's the miner's
code out here.
We take care of each other,
especially with a storm
like this coming.
So here we go.
To risk my life to save
somebody else's, again.
Oh, there's
the CR right there.
Yup, I'll go get 'em.
That looks like
the Patriot boys.
And she is angry.
Yeah!
This is the
I live for.
Hang on.
It got big real quick.
We were just out here
a couple hours ago.
Sixty-three?
Yeah, once they get
the line straightened out,
I'll come over and grab it.
Worst-case scenario,
these guys blow up their motor
and then get blown out to sea.
You got a tow rope?
- Chuck it,
chuck it, chuck it.
.
Oh, .
Let's go get these boys
into the harbor
where it's safe.
Get away from that line.
Huh?
Don't be
around that line,
it could snap!
It's just a rope.
Hang on.
They're coming
into the worst spot.
This is the Bermuda Triangle.
The current hits the rocks
from the jetty and come around
and they get big
and they get big fast.
We got a little tiny line
onto this boat.
And it's creaking,
it's making noise,
and if she snaps,
they could go into the rocks.
And we still got four,
five-foot waves coming at us.
Not the best
situation to be in.
Hang on.
Oop, oop, oop.
We're good now.
- Thank you, Shawn.
- Yeah.
Got them into the harbor.
They're all good now.
No problem.
That's what
we're here for, buddy.
Never a dull moment
on the Bering Sea,
boys and girls.
Hey.
We're on a lead drag.
We're coming up
on the stern anchor.
Give it a lead drag.
We're coming out
on the stern anchor.
As the winds gain strength,
Reaper Nation is aiming
to go 50 feet below.
But so far,
they've gone nowhere.
They're not holding.
This is a fun day, huh?
I'm making so much money
right now dropping anchors.
Okay.
The situation is not great.
So we have a storm
of the century moving in
and this is our
last day to mine here.
We got the Mistress out.
That's good.
But we spent all day long
trying to hook the anchor
onto anything
on the bottom of the ocean
without any success.
The depth is too much
and the anchor line
is just too short.
If I had known
we were gonna spend
the whole day on anchors,
I would have faked
an injury and stayed home.
The anchor is not holding us.
I don't have
the anchor line to set here.
It's too deep.
What do you wanna do?
Okay.
Hey, my brother said
just pack it up.
Let's go in.
It's gonna get a lot rougher.
So that was a disaster.
I rolled the dice
and it came up snake eyes.
We don't have time
to do anything.
We don't have
time to set, move,
not with the storm coming.
The swells
are already getting big.
The winds picked up.
The waves have picked up.
My anchors
aren't holding my boat.
So here we are, going back in
with our tail
between our legs.
It sucks, dude.
As the All-In heads in,
across the water...
Extreme weather advisory.
Dangerous conditions expected
off the coast
between Golovin and Nome.
How's your visibility, Chris?
With increasing swells
making conditions
worse by the minute...
I can't really see
what's going on around me.
Roger.
Chris McCully
is still searching
for a hotspot.
Yup.
I'm gonna come up.
All right.
Yeah, McCully's gonna
come up here and...
To get an idea
of what the plan is.
Whoo!
The viz is not that great
but this is it.
No time to mess around.
We're gonna see
what I did on that two hours
and 45 minutes.
We're running out of time.
I've got to know if we're
really on good gold or not.
So if we are,
I can keep pushing
for a while longer.
But if we're not,
I've got to be honest,
it might be time
to bail and head on
to the shore with our tail
in between our legs,
and that would
be tough to take.
So far so good.
I like what I'm seeing.
-Look at that. Whoo!
- Hey, hey!
It's like
a little banana.
Seeing that kind of
gold in the box
shining like that,
that's all I need to know.
Back on track, baby.
We ain't slowing down.
Ain't no storm gonna stop us.
I'm gonna finish my dive.
We're gonna get the last bit
of hours of diving
before the storm kicks up.
You know what I mean?
So the mission is clear.
We're on good gold
and the time is ticking.
So we need
to get as much as we can
and as fast as we can.
All right. Good luck.
Whoo!
Roger.
While Chris
presses his luck,
back in the harbor...
Very sexy-looking boat.
Looks like a rich dude
owns that boat.
I don't know
how the I got it.
Okay. There is the Mistress.
I'm glad it made it
back in safe.
Let's get to position
so we can get bowlines.
The Mistress returns
as Captain Kris Kelly
prepares
for the mighty storm.
We're bringing
the Mistress in
and we're calling it a day.
We gotta make sure
that boat's tied up right.
If it gets trashed,
we have no insurance
and it will ruin me
for the rest of my life.
Boy, it's gonna be
a little dangerous
bringing this in.
I'm a little worried.
Are you guys okay?
I hope everything
is gonna be okay.
So, right now,
the Thrustmaster is out
and we can't really
control it.
So it's headed right towards
the barge parked next to us.
And, of course...
it's the Christine Rose.
'Cause I'm, like,
that close to losing
my $2 million operation.
- man.
This is .
We're gonna smash
into the Christine Rose.
Watch out. Watch out.
man.
Kris!
Go down. All the way down.
Oh, you piece
of , start.
Come on. Come on. Come on.
No, he doesn't
have .
We're gonna smash
into the Christine Rose.
- Kris!
Get out of my way.
Andy!
Andy, help!
Yeah, baby!
Oh, my God. I was scared.
What happened?
So coming into harbor, Kris,
right when we made that turn,
go to throttle back,
everything out.
Lost all my steering.
All electronics went out.
So it's bad enough right now
that this giant storm
is blowing us off the water,
but then to worry
about my barge
being damaged
before it even gets here.
Well, it doesn't get
closer than that.
What the huh?
Everybody's a*s was puckered
on that one, baby.
It's insane
that we almost wiped out
our dredge and Shawn's.
But you know what?
No one really saw this.
So as far as I'm concerned,
this didn't happen.
Now, it's time to batten down
the hatches and prepare
for the storm.
All right.
That... Man,
thank you very much.
Oh, my God. That scared
the out of me.
Were you scared?
You're the man. You could--
Scared the
out of me
something fierce.
Lost another five years
off my life right there.
But this
has been a bad year
for that .
I've aged about 20 years.
- That was close.
- That was way
too close for me.
Back out on the water...
With the safety
of her crew on the line,
Captain Emily
is keeping one eye
on diver Mark Gordon,
and the other on the
fast-approaching surge.
Yeah. He says there's
definitely gold.
Definitely gold on the mud.
I mean, I think that's--
Okay.
-So--
-Okay.
This is the question
that every captain
of a gold-mining dredge
has to wrestle with
in their career.
It's like how far
can you push it?
We desperately need the gold
in our sluice box,
but conditions are getting
a lot worse by the minute.
When do you finally decide
to call it?
What is that breaking point?
For me, with this huge storm
coming in, that point is now.
Hey, Mark.
Yeah.
All right.
See you at top-side.
Oh, yeah. I got you.
Nice and slow
coming up.
All right. There he is.
- Nice job.
-Whoo!
Time to go.
- We got it now.
- Yeah. We're out.
As the Eroica
throws in the towel...
You still
dragging, Gary?
It's white-capping.
We got a pretty nice swell
thumping in here.
Okay.
Vernon Adkison and crew
are still holding out.
Okay. That's it.
That's it.
All right.
Places, everybody.
Come up slowly.
Come up slowly.
We gotta pull the diver.
Conditions are getting
too rough and he's dragging.
Coming up for the nozzle line.
He's not doing
any good down there.
Look, we desperately
wanted to get a good,
long dive down there today.
We know what's coming.
This could be our last shot
for quite a while.
But we're no match
for Mother Nature right now.
Turn off the engine.
I'm just glad Gary
was the one down there.
He muscled through
more than anyone else could.
Well, I did what I can do.
The guy's a beast,
but even he has limits.
Okay. It's getting pretty
frisky out here, guys.
Y'all gotta be careful.
Now, we just gotta
hightail out of here
before this storm
gobbles us up.
Battle stations.
I wanna take the anchors
in first.
That's it.
Pull it up.
All right. Hold it. Hold it.
Hold it. Hold it.
That's .
Let's just...
Everybody take a deep breath.
Six-foot waves
all of a sudden.
This is fun.
Okay. All right.
Well,
this kind of work we do,
this is pretty rough.
Getting this gear aboard is...
If you don't do it
exactly right,
it can be a man-k*ller.
Get the
out of here.
See how Gary did today
and, hopefully,
finish the season out
with a bang.
We got a fishing boat
over here.
They're getting ready
to head back into the harbor.
We might not be able
to see the storm
coming along on the horizon.
Yeah, I'm gonna go
let Chris know
that this fog's rolling in.
Okay.
Like right
after you jumped in,
the swell started picking up.
He'll come up and get dressed
and we'll start
pulling the hose
and head into the...
Head into the harbor.
Nice. That was a good run.
It wasn't perfect
but we pushed it
as long as possible
and we put some more gold
in the box
while we still could.
But it's a serious one.
I can't around.
I know my limits.
But I know when it's time
to call it.
With what we're about to face,
it's time to go.
You can already tell just
from the atmospheric pressure.
You can feel it in the air
that this great storm
is about to happen.
Mother Nature will kick
your a*s back into the harbor.
Yeah. All right.
But we're the last ones out,
so I feel good.
You know what I mean?
It looks good that we were
able to squeeze
every dive hour we can get.
Not much days left
in this season,
so really happy
that we're making the most
of our time here.
The ocean gets pissed off.
Looking pretty juicy.
Let's see what we got.
This is gold that we got out
at the deep water end of 56.
Oh, yeah.
This looks good.
After fighting
the elements in deep water...
At this point
in time, I don't know
what it's gonna weigh out at.
-I really don't.
You never can tell.
-Good.
Captain Vernon Adkison
is hoping to see a knockout
on the scale.
This is my favorite dish
right here.
That storm is rolling in
and it's gonna be a k*ller,
so our mining window
is shut down
for who knows how long.
I just hope the risk
we took today
was worth it on the scales.
Do you see the smoke
that's coming off?
Most likely, it got a little
mercury mixed in with this.
Mercury, in large doses,
it makes you go crazy.
But if you just get...
a few sniffs of that mercury,
it just speeds up
your brain processes
and it makes you just, like,
really sharp on the uptake.
That'll tighten
you right up in the morning.
We're just about done.
Okay. That's good enough.
That's one...
two...
three...
four...
five.
Come on, baby.
6.53.
All right.
6.53 ounces
is worth over 11 grand.
Not enough to get
the old skipper
on pace to hit
his season goal
but not a bad haul
in rough conditions.
That's what I'm talking about.
The gold is good,
but it's complicated
diving in those depths,
40-plus feet.
It just gets real complicated
and it's dangerous.
It wasn't easy,
but I'll take it,
especially with the storm
of the century coming in.
It's better than a poke
in the eye.
That's all I gotta say.
All we can do now
is just hunker down
and hope we still have
a season ahead of us.
With this team,
I think we can do great stuff
the rest of the way
if Mother Nature lets us.
All right. Well, let's get
this bagged and tagged.
It's all coming together.
I'm feeling pretty good
about this.
I'd say we got a team here.
Okay.
That's it.
On the other
side of Nome...
Yeah, this is it.
This is the last bit
of gold before the way out.
Emily's team
has been pushing hard
before the storm.
Now, it's time
to make it rain on the scale.
Let's go burn it off.
Oh, man.
This is where we find out
how rich we are.
We've been having
a rough go of it.
Like we're trying to make up
for the losses in the early
part of the season and now
we're trying to get everything
that we can
before the storm hits.
- All right.
We've been on the water
every hour that we can,
but we are finishing off
with a rookie diver
as the last gold in the box,
so we're gonna see
where we stand.
We really need
a strong showing
before the storm comes.
-Weigh it out.
-Okay.
You ready?
All right.
Emotionally, spiritually.
Five...
10...
15...
20...
27...
35.
Oh, oh.
-Oh, 40.
- Wow.
-40.3.
-Nice.
40.3 ounces
is worth over $72,000,
and the Eroica team
may be peaking
in the nick of time.
And a lot of
those hours were on,
like, a diver
-who had never dove before.
- That's true.
That's pretty good.
We finally got a ride
in the second half.
We have a solid team
and we're putting in
the hours nonstop.
And that's exactly
what we did today,
and so I think
we're in a good spot.
Now, it's just a matter
of seeing
what the damage
from the storm is gonna be.
Okay. I think
you guys did great.
Yeah. That's just k*ller.
Yeah. All right.
Let's divide this up.
That's super exciting.
That was good.
It's gonna be 70 miles
an hour gusting
and 44 miles of... windstorm.
So, that's pretty extreme.
The good thing about it is
I have an ocean dredge,
you know?
I'm able to pounce
right through
this nasty swell, you know?
You gotta have a nice dredge
when you're out here.
That one guy, the rumor was
he built a six-inch dredge
and that he crushed it one day
that his sluice box
was full of gold
and he was trying
to get through this big swell
that ultimately he sank
his dredge, you know?
And he didn't have GPS
at the time
so he wasn't able
to track his dredge down.
So all that hard work,
just back into the ocean.
That's the fine line between
the dredger and Mother Nature,
that storm.
But one of these days,
I'm gonna go find that dredge.
Gonna be good stuff.
Security. Security.
Myrtle Irene,
inbound, home harbor.
Myrtle lost
both engines on the way in.
Had to help them come in.
Pretty nice, we're in
the safety of the harbor now.
When it rains, it pours.
With a storm like this coming,
everybody's worried as hell.
We're just trying
to get everything
in the operation ready for it.
Then I get a call,
the Myrtle's engines
have gone out.
Not the end of the day
I wanted
but the end of the day I got.
I went out and got her,
but it's just the way
the season has gone.
One thing after another,
and, right now,
it couldn't be a worse time.
Frustrating.
Everything was running exactly
the way it's supposed to.
We are on good gold.
Everything's working well.
And then, boom, here we go.
One thing after another.
I can't get a break
with this thing.
I'm getting frustrated.
I wanna give up
but I'm not going to.
I'm gonna get it fixed.
But we're at the end
of the season.
Can we get it fixed
and then get it running?
I don't know.
!
The Myrtle,
big piece of .
Across the harbor...
This is the calm
before the storm.
They're putting wind
warnings out.
They've got evacuation
notices up
all around town.
And even Vernon's apartment
got an evacuation notice.
But he's on the top floor,
so we could run a skiff.
Run the skiff to his front
door and pick him up.
With all boats
off the water,
Vernon Adkison's team
is hoping to keep
the gold ship safe
from the giant storm ahead.
Yo, Kevin, we gotta
really get prepared
-for some serious,
serious .
- Uh-huh.
It might come up
over this rail here.
We'll put double lash
and triple lashings
on everything.
Anything that's not heavy
is getting battened down.
We're all going
into the survival mode.
Getting our rigs tied down,
trying to do everything we can
to make sure
we survive the storm.
There's potential
of this whole area flooding.
It's all unknown
right now. How bad will it get
and how much damage
will be done?
It's pretty stressful.
I'm not gonna lie.
Right now, I'm hearing...
Expecting a 17-foot surge.
-Oh.
- That's a lot.
- That's a lot.
-I mean,
that'd put our boat
up here somewhere.
I'm expecting we'll probably
be taking seas
over this mooring here.
Hope we don't end up
with the damn thing
over here on the beach.
This is a storm
for the record books.
It's gonna get hairy.
As the winds build...
The Myrtle is gonna be
our protective barrier.
Land it. Let's hit it.
The miners brace
for what lies ahead.
It's coming
and it's gonna come in
with some fury.
In less than 36 hours,
the storm of the century
will hit the Nome shores
and their world will be
turned upside-down.
Next time
on Bering Sea Gold...
Right now, it looks like
an absolute warzone.
Well, my sailboat
has cut loose.
This is coming
over the seawall.
That's 20 feet.
We're gonna have
to evacuate.
If my boat breaks off,
it'll start wiping out
buildings.
Hey, watch out. .
Flying off the building.
This is crazy.
Oh, damn.
-This thing could explode.
-Move back.
They're trying to get us out.
So let's just move back.
It's gonna be
a wipeout for this town.
Everybody is screwed.
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17x08 - No Sleep Till Landfall
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The show follows boats equipped with various setups to achieve gold mining in a summertime, cold northern latitude, shallow water, ocean environment.
The show follows boats equipped with various setups to achieve gold mining in a summertime, cold northern latitude, shallow water, ocean environment.