07x05 - Backseat Diver

[bunniefuu]

Emily:
ice mining is dangerous.

It is probably the most
dangerous job in the world.

Zeke:
but we can't just hang it up
and go home.

This is what
we're out here to do.

We're running out of time,

Emily: and we will do whatever
we have to do to find the gold.

Are you sure gabe
can handle this much hose?

Zeke: [ laughs ]

Yes!

Got to get up.
What is he doing?

Dude, you got 40 pounds
of pressure.

You're about to
run out of air.

where the [bleep] are you?

I'm hooked on something
down here.

Vernon:
it's been a long haul out here.

Drags you down after a while.

People are getting
on each other's nerves.

If you don't get along
with the crew,

There's a lot
that can go wrong.

Don't you ever talk to me
like that again

When I'm down
in the [bleep] water!

All right.

Derek: april 15th will be here
before we know it.

We've got to get on the gold.

We've got to stay on the gold.

If everything doesn't align
perfectly, we're screwed.

Did you do something
to the hot water?

What the [bleep] did you do?

Aah!

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Narrator: nome, alaska.

The halfway point
of the ice-mining season

Has come and gone,

And the april 15th deadline
is looming large

For the miners
trying to strike it rich.

On claim 38's virgin ground...

And in the heart of the claim
at the high noon.

Shawn:
i'm seeing really good gold
down here.

looks like good gold
headed to the north there.

Narrator: captain derek mclarty
has taken a back seat...

There is some gold down here.

Some nice color right there.

...while landlord shawn pomrenke
commandeers the dive hole

To get a first-hand look
at his claim.

Oh, yeah,
you can see it.

Look at that.

So, shawn's right here.

Narrator: one month ago...

We're gonna put them out there
and let them prospect for us.

...shawn opened up claim 38
to the fleet...

They're gonna have to pay me 20%
to come work for me.

Narrator:
...with the condition he receive
a 20% royalty of what's mined.

Everything in one piece, man.
We're here.

Narrator:
but derek got a late start
on the season

And has yet to pay mr. Gold
for any of his haul so far.

There's a lot
of gold down there.

-Should we mark this spot?
-We're gonna mark this spot.

Being the manager of 38, I want
to see [bleep] getting done.

I mean, what I want to see
is these guys out there

Working nonstop
around the clock.

Those miners better get
their asses in gear

And get out there
and get some gold.

Cody, why don't you grab
that gold?

Narrator: derek has made a dent
in the rent.

Shawn: we'll take this
as a down payment.

Take it, I'll weigh it,
dry it up,

Weigh it up,
take it off your bill.

But if he doesn't deliver more
for mr. Gold pronto,

He'll find himself evicted.

Oh, I knew there was gold
on this claim.

I didn't think
there was that much out here.

[ Chuckles ]
got a dive in, got my gold.

At least a down payment.

There better be more
where that comes from.

Derek:
shawn gave us this opportunity,

But he also gave us the
opportunity with an ultimatum

That you take this serious.

I have to produce gold
if I'm gonna be on tract 38.

He expects it,
and I expect it, as well.

Man, we better -- we better
kick it into high gear now.

Narrator: one mile east...

On the edge of claim 38.

I'm falling apart out here.

I've been on the ice
for, like, a long time.

But I guess we all have,
but I guess I'm the one
who's falling apart.

After a recent hot streak,
zeke tenhoff and emily riedel's

Fortunes have suddenly
turned frosty.

That day when
it was really cold out,

I was trying to get
the two sluices going.

So cold and I flash froze
all the meat on my cheeks.

And then it started,
like, bleeding.
It was horrible.

I got frostbite really bad on my
face, and, like, my whole life,

I never really got frostbite
that bad.

You're constantly fighting
the cold,

Constantly with everything.

Narrator: last week...

Zeke: first time running
two sluices at the same time.

We're gonna have double the gold
today.

Narrator: ...to try
and increase production,

Zeke launched his controversial
double-sluice creation.

Zeke: how much gold we get
in five hours?

-7.2.
-7.2?

Narrator:
and the uneasy partnership...

I didn't expect it to work
this well, and it did.

...finally seemed to be forming
a foundation strong enough

To carry them into summer.

-Maybe you're on to something.
-I like humble emily.

[ Both laugh ]

Narrator:
but today, zeke's frostbite

Is keeping him out of the frigid


Zeke:
I'm not even gonna try to, like,
double two dredges today.

I'm not even gonna try to do it.

Narrator: and despite having
only 15 ounces on the season,

The team is forced to put
the double sluice on hold

And forge ahead
with only one diver.

-Just stay super vigilant.
-Yep. Gotcha.

Now it's up
to zeke's brother gabe

To clear the hold
as soon as possible

And keep the clark
moving forward.

Hold on. Let me get your light.
Let me get your light.

Oh, you already got it.

Awesome.

Okay.

Do I need to go
to be able to get

To where the hot [bleep]
you were working is?

I would say
just to the southeast.

and then kind of maybe go
a little right, I think.

And then go a little
to the right?

yeah, you'll see it.

it's a blizzard
of gold down there.

all right.

All right, I got it.
Fire up my pump.

sounds good.

[ Engine starts ]

Let's do it.

I'm seeing gold.

Found some really rich stuff.

Gold's real good.

that's awesome.

i mean, the whole ditch
is [bleep] insane, dude.

i've never worked
something this good.

And I'm all the way down
at the end of this hose.

Narrator: at 50 feet,

Gabe's hose is stretched
as far as it can from the hole,

But the really good stuff
is just out of reach.

I don't know what to do, man.

Since we're not running
the second sluice today,

Why don't I throw you down
the blue hose

From the second sluice?

That hose is 50 feet long,
and you can stick that

Onto the end of the gray hose
and maybe reach it.

That sounds like a plan, man.
Send her down to me.

I don't think
that's a good idea.

He'll be, like,
stretched out all the way

At the end of his tether.

That is gonna be
super sketch.

I don't like dredging 70 feet
away from the hole, but...

-Right.
-So I think gabe's up for it.

Zeke: if you're gonna move
your whole operation

And start on a new hole,

That's gonna cost you
an entire day of the season.

That's huge.

It's huge to waste
an entire day,

'Cause I can't afford that
to happen right now.

Gabe, I mean,
it's gonna be kind of sketch.

The tenhoffs
are really risk-prone.

They take a lot of wild risks

That normal people
wouldn't be taking.

That's the big challenge
of working with them.

All right, let's send him
down that hose.

Cool.

Are you sure gabe
can handle this much hose?

[ Chuckles ]

Yes!

Narrator:
the hose will be extended
to 100 feet,

Doubling the circumference
gabe can mine,

But it can also leave him
twice as far

From the safety
of the dive hole.

Gabe: oh, that'll do.

Emily: my greatest fear

Is that something will happen
to the diver.

If you have a systems fail,

I don't even know
if you can find your way back

To your freaking entry point.

And it's half my operation,

And I don't want anyone
to die on it.

Let it down easy.

Just trying to detach
the other one.

Yeah, there we go.

Narrator:
with the extra 50 feet of hose
sent below...

Zeke:
you getting those two pieces
of hose together all right?

Second hose has been docked.

Narrator:
...it's time to get mining.

Gabe: fire up.
fire the pump up.

Copy that.

Go get some of that fancy gold,
and be safe about it.

My hose is so much better.

There's so much more range.

Zeke:
get further out there?

I'm so much further.

good stuff?

Yeah, it's the best
at the very end of the hose.

it's, like, by far
the hottest out there.

Okay, well, just keep --
keep rocking it.

I'm gonna go do
a systems check.

all right.

How you doing down there, dude?
How's your hot water?

Everything seems fine.

right on.
roger that, man.

oh, my god.

Pouring out of the rocks.

Zeke: hey, there's --

Tell gabe there's something up
with his compressor.

He's kind of --
he's losing air.

There's just, like, something up
with the compressor.

He should come up
and try to fix it.

hey, gabe.

Hey.

Hey, something's going on
with your compressor.

Not a big deal.
You're just losing air.

you better come up, though,
so we can deal with it.

Aw, damn it.

Oh, the gold's so good.
Are you sure?

-Tell him to come up right now.
-Yeah, come up right now, dude.

you're losing air.
-okay. [Bleep]

Yeah, he's dropping
pretty fast.

yeah, dude,
i think you're losing air,

like, faster by the minute,

so, like, please just
make your way back.

Yeah, I'm coming.

Dude, he's down to 50.
He's got to get up.

What is he doing?
-Dude, he's coming, he's coming.

All right,
you got 50 psi.

Working on it, man.

He's down to 40 pounds.
He's just losing air.

Oh [bleep] I'm hooked
on something down here.

Gabe, it's down
to 40 pounds.

Dude, you got 40 pounds
of pressure.

you're about to run out of air.
where the [bleep] are you?

I'm hooked on something
down here, man.

[Bleep]

Narrator:
on the virgin ground of claim 38
at the clark...

He's down to 40 pounds.
He's just losing air.

Oh [bleep] I'm hooked
on something down here.

Gabe, it's down
to 40 pounds.

Dude, you got 40 pounds
of pressure.

you're about to run out of air.
where the [bleep] are you?

I'm hooked on something
down here, man.

[Bleep]

Narrator: ...diver gabe tenhoff
is at the end of his rope.

[Bleep]


From the dive hole...

Gabe: looks like my air line
got pinned on something.

...his long line is snagged,

And his air
is quickly disappearing.

Yeah, I got it.
I got -- I got it off the rock.

Emily: you're completely
out of air now, man.

Dude, he's got it,
he's got it.

Yeah, go take up
his umbilical. Go.

Dude!
What happened?

You okay?

I was rushing back
as fast as I could.

My tether snagged a rock
on the way back.

Dude, you have five pounds
of air pressure.

You were almost
out of air, dude.

You don't have any idea
how close that was!

When my little brother
is on the bottom,

I have full responsibility
when the systems start failing.

I mean, it's my little brother's
life that's on the line

And it's under my watch,

So there's pretty much nothing
more stressful for me than that.

That's, like,
the worst thing ever.

Are you two shook up?

You want me to get
out of the water or what?

I want to...

I think I fixed
the problem,

But, you know,
it could happen again.

Dude, I'm fine, man.

That was
way too [bleep] close.

I'm gonna start working
on getting some of this
stuff prepped to move.

Then we'll get moved over
to where we're a little safer.

Narrator:
for zeke, safety of crew
and family takes precedence.

And though they'll lose
valuable time moving,

It's an investment
he's willing to make.

I mean, you were down there
for a long time

Trying to get that
unsnagged.

Yeah, it was
way too [bleep] close.

Way too [bleep] close.

Zeke:
in the event that they were to
get hurt or they were to die,

I would have to look at myself
and be like,

"Why did you think that?

You were the one
that put them underwater."

Narrator: one mile west...

Man: we're ready
to rock and roll.

...in the heart of claim 38.

Today we'll see
how this thing works.

You know, it's all about getting
the right kind of equipment

To do the job,
and as far as I'm concerned,

This'll be a --

This'll be a good feature
for us.

This'll help us out.

...captain vernon adkison's
hoping his operation

Will become the picture
of perfect financial health.

Vernon: what we're sh**ting for
is 200 ounces.

We need to put more gold
in the box.

We've got to get
as much as we can.

We got to give it
everything we've got.

Narrator: despite investing
every last penny he had

On the winter campaign,
vernon's gold count

Has been stuck
at an unhealthy level.

It's the worst case of the crud
nome's had in about 20 years.

Narrator: so, to try and keep
his mining career alive,

Captain brought in an alleged
gold whisperer, jason walker.

Jason: I listen to the voice
in my head,

And told me to come right here.

Narrator:
but jason's whispers...

Vernon:
this one's a dud, guys.

...have yet to lead to the sound
of gold in the box.

We got no more time
to be [bleep] around.

Now with april 15th looming,

Vernon is feeling the pressure
of a make-or-break season.

The ice is getting thin.
It's not gonna last much longer.

If I don't make enough gold,
we're done.

Narrator: so today...

Vernon:
I got a new gadget for us.

...he's bringing in
a secret weapon

He hopes will get
the gold back into focus.

This, I'm hoping,
will let us see

What the diver's seeing
down there,

And, man,
I'm liking this camera.

Look at that.
What a stud.

[ Laughs ]

Vernon: this camera to mount
on the side of the dive mask

Is gonna give us a leg up
on the competition.

Rather than just listening

To somebody breathe
over the intercom,

Now you can watch
what they're doing.

What do you think
we ought to call it?

The micromanager.

The micromanager.

Oh, bobby,
don't be afraid of this thing.

Then, plus, I think
it makes them perform better,

Because they know I can see it.

How about the gold guppy?

Is anybody opposed to that?

Narrator: on a new spot,

Vernon is hoping that the gold
is ready for its close up.

So, uh...

As far as I'm concerned,

This guppy's gonna put gold
in the box.

And the first guinea pig
with the guppy...

Just another day
at the office.

...is the gold whisperer
himself, jason walker.

All right, go.

Season's almost over.
We don't have enough gold.

We got everything
riding on this one.

Jason's down.

We'll see what he does.

Right now I'll just
kind of scope out the area,

and see what happens here.

Vernon: okay, let me know
when you want to rev it up.

okay, throttle up.

About a foot down in the sand.

All right, I got the top layer.

Yeah, yeah,
we got a good display

On the monitor up here,
jason.

We're looking good.

all right, good.

so you see everything
i'm doing?

roger, roger.

Roger, roger.

That's good.

The thing works great.

It makes it
so much more interesting

If you're tending up there.

All the multicolored rocks.

A lot of those rocks
look like gold nuggets.

I know they're not gold,
but they look like gold.

This is like gold tv.

I can see
what they're working against,

And it helps me
do my planning.

I'm trying to work my way
to the bottom.

[ Grunts ]

I don't know, it just...

Oh [bleep]

Well, that didn't
[bleep] last long.

Narrator: just when the season
seemed to be turning around,

Something fishy has happened
to the golden guppy.

Yeah, hey.

The camera is out.

[Bleep]
I'm disgusted right now!

That's [bleep] two days
I got my damn camera

And now it's [bleep]

[ Sighs ]

And vernon's
gold mining dreams

May be on the verge
of being cancelled.

[Bleep]

[ Sighs ]

[ Wind whistling ]

Narrator:
off the coast of nome...

At the clark...

This is about
where you described.

I think
this is right about it.

Out of hose, zeke tenhoff
and emily riedel

Are chasing a gold streak
across the claim.

"X."
"X" marks the spot.

Yeah.
All right.

Right here.

This is where
it's getting real good.

They've got the whole hose
stretched out.

That's about as far
as the tether goes

Right here
in a southwesterly direction.

♪♪

This'll give us
a good radius, dude.

And we'll be like --

Water in that pressure
right over there.

I bet there's some good stuff
over there.

While the move has cost the team
five hours of dive time,

The new ground could come
with an unexpected dividend.

One of the things that
zeke and I strongly agree on

Is the influence
of pressure ridges

In the concentration of gold.

The ocean floor
is constantly in flux.

It's constantly shifting around.

And sometimes, something moves

To the point where
it opens up an opportunity.

A pressure ridge is essentially

Mother nature
concentrating the gold for us.

That's a big
pressure ridge there.

So hopefully there's a big,
nice, tasty concentration

Of gold
right in there.

Zeke:
a large part

Of how the gold
is organized on the bottom --

It's caused by sea ice --

Sea ice piling up
minerals and rocks in piles

By kind of bulldozing
the ocean bottom.

I think a pressure ridge
is the best --

I think it's the best clue
that you're gonna get

That there could be gold
in an area.

Narrator:
with the new spot set

And the potential
of a mother lode below,

the clark's season could be
on the ridge to a big finish.

We're about 2/3
through the season.

We're running out of time.

But at the same time, it's like,
"this is our spot.

This is our gold."

I'm excited.

I'm excited to see
what comes out of this ground.

♪♪

Narrator:
one mile west...

On the high noon...

Derek:
about to get some gold, baby.

Everything's a go.

Check, check, check,
check, check, gold!

Narrator: derek mclarty needs to
produce for mr. Gold in a hurry,

Or he may find himself
without a claim.

It's halfway through the season.

If we don't start turning it up,
shawn's gonna kick us off 38.

We'll lose access to the claim.

Narrator:
and this season,

The captain's not just feeling
pressure from the landlord.

Derek:
every scenario.

Every scenario
you just got to be mindful of.

Narrator: he's also facing
added responsibility back home.

Derek: my mom --
she's got cancer again.

If I could write her a check
and pay off her house,

I would do anything to do that.

You know, everything becomes
a lot more real --

A lot more real real quick.

Derek: I hope we get
as much gold out of this hole

As you're hoping.

Spenser: I think we will.
I'm not too worried.

All right,
super dredger.

Narrator: to capitalize
on the golden spot,

The captain's sending down
the ace up his sleeve --

Diver spenser mccleskey.

Derek:
spenser's a very good worker.

He's a better prospector
than I am,

So why wouldn't he
be prospecting the hole first?

I'm a better mechanic
than he is,

So why wouldn't I be up top
when he's diving?

I mean,
that just makes sense to me.

I know.

Narrator: with all systems go,
it's time to get on the gold

And keep their place
on the claim.

three, two, one...

All right, man,
this looks nice.

nothing but
a lot of boulders

and a really small patch
of sand right under the hole.

Tons and tons
of quartz.

Like,
all quartz.

That is very good.

Gold likes to hide
in quartz veins.

Looks like there's gold
for as far as I can reach.

That's what
I like to hear, buddy.

Tell me when
you want some throttle.

All right, let her rip,
tater chip.

copy that.

Yeah, man,
this ground's pretty badass.

You know, it's just
a regular dredge lay.

A lot of rocks
sticking up out of it

Like it's
cemented together.

Right now
I'm looking at a spot

The size of the bottom
of a coffee mug.

And there's probably


Awesome gold.

Nice, little picker
right there.

Two of them.

Yeah, let's make them
disappear.

See you up top,
boys.

Yeah, there's nice,
fine gold and some chunkies.

Every little spot I see,
there'll be, you know,


One or 2 nice, chunky pieces.

[ Machinery whirring ]

You hear that?

That's the sound of money
right there.

[ Chuckles ]

This is
some k*ller ground.

♪♪

Badass.

Finally making gold.

I'm kind of like...

Can you do something
to the hot water?

Oh [bleep]
oh, man.

What the [bleep]
did you do?

Narrator:
for the second time this season,

The hot-water heater
is malfunctioning.

[Bleep]

Instead of sending water,

It's producing nothing
but scalding steam.

Aah!

Narrator:


At the high noon...

What the [bleep]
did you do?

[Bleep]

The hunt for gold is heating up,
as spenser mccleskey's getting

Bombarded with a steady dose
of steam.

Aah!

This is what burns the divers.

This is bad.

♪♪

It's potentially a pipe b*mb,
you know?

I mean,
it's a bunch of coiled steel

That you are burning
on the outside

And running water through.

So if you quit flowing water,
you've now made pressure,

And that's scarier than hell

Because there's only
a few outlets for that steam

And pressure to go to,
and that's "a," your umbilical,

Or "b," blow up.

Steam will k*ll you.

Literally, that could k*ll him.

Basically be like
putting spenser in a deep fryer.

Narrator:
the team eludes catastrophe

As the heater fails to erupt

And spenser's goose
isn't completely cooked.

Spenser: I got steam-burned once
bad before.

I don't want it to happen again.

I'm glad derek noticed
right away.

Try this again.

Narrator:
after a quick recalibration...

I think we're back up
and running,

But I think that
scared everybody a little bit.

Narrator: ...all systems are go,
if there are any takers.

Oh, I'm gonna go back down

And try to put some more gold
in the box.

My greatest fear in ice mining
actually isn't my own safety.

It's the safety of my crew.

Because if something were to
happen to spenser on my watch,

That's probably
more than I could bear.

Narrator:
despite the scare,

With the landlord
breathing down their neck,

There's no time
for the team to waste.

Derek: how long
are you gonna stay down?

Spenser:
till you make me come up.

Looks like we're gonna be here
all night.

cool.



The wild ranger.

Troubleshooting the gold guppy
right now.

Narrator:
vernon adkison's determined

To get his underwater camera
back in working order.

Trying to find out what's wrong
with it one part at a time.

Narrator: after the golden
guppy's debut went less than...

Swimmingly...

Right now we're just
changing the cable.

See if that works.

Narrator:
and for the next dive,

The veteran captain's
making a lineup change,

Sending jason walker
to the bench

And calling in bobby lowe.

Vernon: bobby's the guy that --
he's the ace diver.

He stays down the longest.

He's strong as a horse.
He never complains.

So sending bobby down
to get out there and do it.

Narrator: with time running out
on the season

And still far short
of his 200-ounce goal,

Vernon's hopes rest
with the guppy.

♪♪

I need a good gold infusion.

♪♪

Ready to rock.
Fire it up.

♪♪

Vernon: you okay, bobby?
How you holding up down there?

Okay.

Looks like we got
quite a bit of room here.

Some gold.

Narrator:
with bobby in position,

The team tries to get
their camera up and running.

Okay.

♪♪

All right!

Back in business!

I can see you.

Vernon:
all right!

that's a good sign.

Narrator: wild ranger tv
is back on the air...

So you got it working.

Vernon: what?

You got it working.
Yeah.

...and back to
its regularly scheduled program.

♪♪

I like it.

♪♪

From a diver's perspective,
you don't have to wait.

You don't have to wait
to go down there

To see what it looks like.

♪♪

looks like good here.

I'm just -- I see some spots
and some patches here.

I don't know
if you can see it or not.

Narrator: under the ice, bobby's
show is proving to be a hit.

No.

Narrator:
but topside...

He's using his hands
too much.

...it's getting a bad review
from one critic in particular.

I know.

That's not
what you do.

He's gonna have to see me
down there on the nozzle.

Stick the nozzle
in the [grunts]

Just stick it in there.

Vernon: jason doing
some backseat diving there.

That's jason's main problem.

There's nobody in this town
that he's been able to work with

For any length of time.

I don't want to...

Taking my [bleep]

Look, don't piss him off,
jason.

Don't.

He's got
a different technique.

Yeah.

Jason,
that's enough.

Jason, jason,
that's enough.

We like to have
a 10-second rule, too.

You don't hold that button
longer than 10 seconds.



Yeah. Right.

You know what...

[Bleep]

oh, my god.

Narrator:
bobby begins to lose

More than his patience
with jason.

♪♪

aah!

He's also quickly losing
air pressure.

[Bleep]

[ Breathing rapidly ]

Vernon: his breathing
is rapid now.

I don't like that.

I need
to stop this.

Hey, bobby,
slow down.

Get your breathing
under control.

You're sucking down
the air pressure.

♪♪

i want you to just stop
what you're doing for a minute.

Stop what you're doing.
Stop.

♪♪

Shut up.

come on up,
bobby.

come on up.

[ Grunts ] [bleep]

He needs
to come the [bleep] up

And get himself
straightened out here.

You come up.
Over.

Narrator:
west of nome, alaska...

On the wild ranger.

Vernon: he needs
to come the [bleep] up

And get himself
straightened out here.

Shut up.

Gold whisperer jason walker
has been doing a lot of talking.

And diver bobby lowe
doesn't like what he's hearing.

come on up,
bobby.

come on up.

[ Grunts ] [bleep]

You come up.
Over.

Okay,
I'm coming up.

Bobby.

Hey, I do my job
very well.

I've been doing it
for [bleep] 10 years, okay?

Don't you ever talk to me
like that again

When I'm down
in the [bleep] water!

Narrator: not only has the
whisperer failed to find gold...

...but when he's opened
his mouth,

He's managed
to anger the entire crew.

I don't know anybody that has
more hours than I do underwater,

You know?

I don't know anybody
that has as much experience

As I do dredging.

Anybody.

Vernon:
I don't blame bobby.

He was in his rights.

You know, you don't want anybody
[bleep] with you

While you're trying to work.

It's really the first time
I've ever seen bobby

Get up on the step
in all the days,

All the years
I've been knowing him.

Narrator: with equipment
and morale crumbling,

The ranger's season
is sinking fast.

So it'll be up to the captain

To right the ship
in the home stretch.

Vernon:
I want to run with three divers

And two tenders
to go 'round the clock with it.

But it's becoming very obvious

That I got to stick
with the two I know,

Rather than have the third diver
tear it all apart.

♪♪

Jason's got to go.

Narrator:
one mile east...

...on the clark...

Some gold!

After sacrificing
five hours moving...

This one's
gonna be beautiful.

...zeke tenhoff and emily riedel
are ready to see

If the ridge below can start
relieving some pressure.

I think a pressure ridge is
as good of an indicator as any

That there could be gold
in an area.

And so I'm excited.

Let us know
when you're ready.

Zeke: all right,
I'm going down.

♪♪

A little on the deeper side
over here.

Hell, yeah.

This is so awesome.

All right!

I'm on the bottom.

[ Sighs ]

That is stressful,
dude.

how's your suction?

My suction is good.

it's plenty.

Are you seeing
some good gold?

♪♪

This is good ground.

Whoo-hoo!

there's some areas
there's tons of it, dude.

I'm so excited!

Narrator: the pressure ridge
proves to be pay dirt.

Look at all that!
Oh, my god!

And just as the season
is rounding the corner...

[Bleep] awesome.

...the clark is finally
hitting their stride.

Right now we just need
to get back down there.

We just need
to get back to work.

I think we're gonna be
pretty [bleep] fat and rich

By the end of this.

it's great
we've reached the gold.

boom!

Narrator:
a mile west...

...at the high noon...

Spenser:
man, that looks pretty.

This is gonna be
a pretty good clean-up.

Legit, man.
Legit.

Narrator: ...the smell of gold
is in the air.

Life is good.

Spenser:
yeah, that's heavy.

Man, that is heavy,
heavy, heavy.

Yeah,
it's looking really good.

Narrator: and despite
spenser's close call...

It's gonna take a while
to pan this out.

♪♪

...it's boiling down
to plenty of gold in the pan.

There's some nice-looking gold
right there.

♪♪

Well...

Narrator:
the high noon needs a big tally,

Or mr. Gold
could send them packing.

Spenser: half an ounce.
One ounce.

♪♪



Come on, baby.
Give me 10.

[ Groans ]


Well, hell, yeah.

That's not bad at all.

No.

I mean,
if we can keep that going.

Narrator:
the haul will be enough

To keep their restless landlord
at bay.

And for derek,

A chance to send the profits
where they're needed most.

There's a ton of pressure on me
for making money this winter

Because I've got this thing
looming over my head.

You know, I mean, my mom --

She's down there
just fighting to survive,

And I would love to give back
and be able to take care of her.

Let's call it a night.

Narrator: the high noon
shoots to second place.

And landlord mr. Gold
collects his rent.

Emily: you have to do the things
that scare you.

Diving is a battle

That I haven't wanted to fight
for a long time.

♪♪

I want to see some gold.

Lookie, we're gonna get together
like a big, happy family again.

[ Laughs ]

Emily: my breathing feels
a little bit weird.

Oh, look at that. Yeah!
Yeah!