[pensive music playing]
[narrator] Mining
for gold on the Bering Sea
is all about
dealing with pressure.
From the money...
Where's the gold, Mr. Gold?
Hand over fist
hemorrhaging [bleep] money.
[narrator] To equipment...
[Kris] There's the new excavator.
Yeah, baby!
[narrator]
To dealing with crew...
No bueno.
You know, if you're
down here a little bit
and taking care of things
like I asked you.
[narrator]
It's enough to break
even the toughest miner.
It's starting
to stress me the [bleep] out.
[Kris] I don't know
what to tell you.
[bleep] man.
[Scott speaking]
[Vernon] I'm not out here
to [bleep] work on boats
all the time and scratch my a*s.
[narrator] Now,
as the stress of the season
reaches a fever pitch...
Come on, Kris. We're back!
Whoa! Medic.
Yee-haw!
[narrator]
Who can keep their cool?
Reaper Nation [bleep].
Oh want an end to [bleep] now.
[Chris speaking]
[narrator] And who will
wind up in the danger zone?
[Chris screaming]
[dramatic music playing]
[upbeat music playing]
[Andy]
So what's the plan, Kris?
[Kris] Plan is simple.
Get this thing in the water.
We just gotta keep
pushing hard on everything.
Everything we gotta push hard.
[Andy] Well, I'm just ready
to go in the water today.
[Kris] Okay. Good.
[narrator] This summer,
perhaps no one in the fleet
is feeling the pressure
more than Kris Kelly.
[Kris] So is the pump engine
inside mounted and everything?
Everything's all mounted.
[Kris] Mounted, tied down,
- everything welded into place?
- Yup.
So far this season,
we're coming nowhere
near our goal
and it's making me nervous.
That's why today is huge.
Today, we're gonna
turn this season around.
We're finally getting
the all-in in the water
so we can finally get
that crawler making gold.
That boat, I had
to re-outfit the whole thing.
This is the centerpiece
of my plan
to finally build an empire
and I'm stoked
it's finally happening.
[Kris] We'll start
just going through systems,
- getting everything running.
- [Andy] All right.
[Kris] Andy's been working on it
and he said it's good to go.
I pray he knows
what he's talking about.
[Kris] Daniel,
start up the engine.
It's not charging.
It still says zero.
So this battery's [bleep] dead.
[bleep]
When I put that battery on,
it was fully charged.
Okay. We'll get
another battery.
Try to do it fast.
[Kris speaking]
[Andy] No. All that [bleep]
I was gonna do that
on the water
once it was in the water.
I don't even know
where the TVs are.
[Kris] I told you
to do that last week.
I want these edges cut off
so we can keep the little tips.
This whole
nozzle part is coming off
and I'm replacing it
with one inch bigger.
So we'll move more ground.
I told you to do this
[bleep] last week.
You know, if you're
down here a little bit
and taking care of things
like I asked you.
So shock of all shocks.
There are tons of things
that's not ready on the all-in.
This can make
or break our season right now.
And Andy's basically
dropping the ball.
[Kris speaking]
[Andy] I'll go do that now.
I just hope he's more on top
of everything
when it comes to the crawler.
Stand back, everybody.
That's good.
Andy, start the machine
so I can see what's going on.
[Andy] That's forward.
[Kris] Okay.
That's the left track.
Okay. Let's see the next one.
[Andy] That's the second.
Okay. Try to move the nozzle.
[Andy] That's the nozzle.
[Kris] That's impossible.
That's one of the tracks moving.
I don't know why that is.
Well, here's the winch.
[Kris] The track's moving again.
I don't know what's going on.
How can every one
work the tracks?
Yeah. I don't know, dude.
Well, if you were here
more than [bleep]
one second, you know.
Well, if I go to use my winch,
it moves my track.
If I gotta lift my nozzle,
it moves my track.
[Kris] Am I [bleep]
in trouble?
I don't know what's wrong.
Everything I've been working
towards is basically
a dumpster fire.
And my brother never took
the time to test everything
to make sure
everything is working.
My brother clearly doesn't
care about this like I do.
So once again,
I'll do it all myself.
This is what I think
is really what's going on.
So, you know, they...
The hydraulic fluid comes in
and it flows through all of 'em.
And when you pull on one,
that's when it diverts
the hydraulic fluid
to that control.
So what's going on is,
it's not working.
[Kris speaking]
[man] Yup.
[Kris speaking]
[man speaking]
[Kris] You didn't notice
[bleep] half a gallon
of [bleep] hydraulic fluid
pissing out
of this [bleep] thing?
To be honest,
I thought that was water.
- [Andy] There was, like...
- [Kris] You know what?
[Andy] Jeez, there was
already hydraulic fluid there.
[Kris] I know, but if you
would've spent a little time
on something that I made,
that's a me thing,
you know, like [bleep]
I don't know what to tell you.
[bleep] man.
But everything is gone
to [bleep] over here.
[tense music playing]
[Kris] Unbelievable.
I thought today was the day
we're getting
the crawler in the water,
finally unleashing
my grand plan.
It's heartbreaking.
I'm gonna go on the Mistress
to try to get
as much gold as I can
'cause we're
in real trouble right now.
And I hope Andy can get his a*s
in gear to get this system
running as soon as we can.
[bleep] man,
I told you a week ago
to check
on this hydraulic system.
I hope after I get back
from work today
after working 12 [bleep] hours,
I see something done.
This whole thing
is[bleep] ridiculous.
[upbeat music playing]
[narrator]
Just down the road...
[Chris] I'm ready to go.
I'm just gonna go do it.
[narrator] though his
season started off hot,
today, Chris McCully
is a captain without a crew.
Last night, I had Cam and Bobby
work till like 12:30 a.m.
It's early
in the morning right now.
There's no way they're awake, so
in order for me
to get my dive in,
I need to find that fourth guy,
that tender dude.
To make the most gold possible,
I had Cam and Bobby
dive last night.
So basically I don't even have
any crew this morning.
I've been calling all over town
to find a tender,
no one would
answer their phones.
I'm not blowing
a day without diving.
Today, I'm gonna do
something pretty insane.
I'm gonna dive solo.
I need a tender.
I've been blowing up
all my contacts
and I can't find one.
But I'm not gonna let my day
be done just because
I can't find a tender.
So I'm gonna go out there,
I'm gonna do my dive,
I'm gonna put
that dredge back on the gold.
That's the plan.
I'm ready to go.
The good news is,
I've got the most
advanced dredge in the fleet.
Because of the Tata's
hydraulics,
it's built for the one diver.
But really there's a huge risk.
There's no one to call for help.
There's no one up top
to pull you up
in case of emergency.
And if you get tangled
in between the lines,
and there's no one
out there to help you.
You are truly on your own.
There's no one else.
Your life is literally
in your own hands.
Here we go.
[tense music playing]
I know I'm taking a big chance.
I'm determined to make
that 300-ounce gold this summer.
And I'm not gonna pull that off
by just watching from the beach.
I can't find any help,
so let's roll some dice.
Looking for good help
is difficult.
I don't understand.
Maybe I'm just
an [bleep] you know.
Maybe they don't wanna
work with me, so...
[laughs] I don't know.
Is it me or is it them?
[engine revving]
[tense music playing]
Oh, yeah.
Look at how beautiful it is.
It's a good day.
All right.
I'm gonna go check this box,
see how the boys
did this morning.
This is not gonna cut it.
We did like
almost 12 hours yesterday
and the box
is still kind of mediocre.
I think we could do better.
So I think I'll just make
the initiative to go...
I'm gonna go try another spot.
I wanna go that way a little bit
because Bobby said last night
he ran into some
worked ground ahead of us.
So we're gonna stay away
from that worked ground.
[tense music playing]
The gold from last night
isn't really
meeting my standards.
So I'm gonna start
moving to the west
where I think
there's a better chance
for fresh ground.
I'm gonna get ready
to drop my anchor here
and I'm gonna get
suited up, look for gold.
[machine whirring]
[tense music playing]
So [bleep] yeah.
[tense music playing]
Whoo!
[Chris speaking]
[dramatic music playing]
[Dave]
How does it look out there?
- [Shawn] Looks good.
- [Dave] Is it?
It's working
like it's supposed to now.
- Can't wait to see it.
- Yeah.
About [bleep] time
you got something.
[narrator] A surprise visit
from business partner,
Dave Young, has Mr. Gold
suddenly in the hot seat.
We need something
good to happen here.
It's about time.
This season's been
one of the roughest
I can remember.
Gold's coming in
but we're way behind the pace
that I need to hit my goal.
It won't be easy.
I'm aiming for the biggest
haul of my career.
He brought some nice
weather with him.
I always do.
Every time I come, it's nice.
When I leave, it turns
to [bleep] every time.
A couple years ago, Dave Young
was my main competition in Nome.
[man] Shawn, there you go.
New Mr. Gold in town.
[Shawn] But we ended up
making a deal
and I took
over the captain's chair
of the Myrtle Irene.
This is my third time
refittin' this.
Just think about it.
[Shawn] Dave partnered with me
because he knows
I can get the gold,
but he's pissed about
the poor output this season.
That's why he came out here.
And if he doesn't see results,
he could kick me off the Myrtle.
[Dave speaking]
[Shawn] We're gonna take Dave
out to check the box.
Hopefully,
there's some gold in there.
The night crew's been out.
They hit a new stretch
of the channel
that we've been on.
They think we finally tapped
into some really good stuff.
I'm gonna take
Dave to check it out.
I really don't like
being babysat like this.
But hopefully, he'll see
enough to get off my back.
[tense music playing]
Yee-haw!
[machinery whirring]
[Shawn] Not good.
Go on the hunt there.
[Dave speaking]
Where's the gold, Mr. Gold?
Should see
more than that in there.
Dave come out,
he's hovering over my shoulder
wanting to see some big results.
And it's not there.
We got two layers of carpet,
so when we wash it down,
we wash all the silt out
and let the gold
go down to the bottom.
When we pull these,
we should see quite
a bit of gold in there.
If we don't, we're doing
something [bleep] wrong.
[Dave] Yeah. Hopefully,
it's on the bottom.
[Shawn] Is there some gold
in the bottom of the mats?
For sure.
But is it the big haul I need?
No.
This isn't gonna
keep the wolves at bay.
[bleep] I was hoping
it'd be lit right up.
[Shawn] Yeah.
[Dave] We'll see what happens.
[Shawn] I'm gonna move
the Myrtle
to a real deep
part of this channel.
It could be untouched
and hopefully
it's the sweet spot
I've been looking for.
We need to satisfy Dave
and make that box sparkle
like a Christmas tree.
If not, my days on the Myrtle
could be numbered.
Time to go find some gold.
[machinery whirring]
Shawn's just spinning us around,
so we go out deeper.
[machinery whirring]
We got into this channel
of big black gravel
and big rocks.
If we can get into that,
then that box
will light right up.
All right. Let's fire up.
[machinery whirring]
We're going diggin'.
[Shawn] We're back to huntin'.
Figure out where we're going.
There's a hell of a paystreak
that ruts out right there.
It's a little deeper.
Now we need to find it.
I need gold.
[narrator] While Shawn's
feeling the heat...
[upbeat music playing]
[narrator] Back in the harbor.
[Vernon]
Blue skies, blue seas,
what a... Yeah, nice day.
[narrator] Vernon Adkison's
looking to finally get hot.
Gold down there on the bottom
of the ocean just...
I can hear it right now.
It's calling my name.
So far, this summer's
been a giant bag of turds.
Every day, just
another bite of out
of a great [bleep]
sandwich in the sky.
If it continues like this,
there's no way I can get
my underwater crawler
up and running
by the end of summer.
Hell, I'll be broke.
But I'm getting
this ragtag team in shape
and I feel like things
will finally
be coming up Vernon.
It better because right now,
we're nowhere
near hitting our goal.
And we're going back
to that same spot we were...
- [man] That whole...
- that we were yesterday,
do some more
serious prospecting.
We're sending Scott down first.
It's his turn.
Suit and boot time.
Really, we ought
to send him down
first every day
because he's
the experienced diver.
It's more likely
he'll put us on the gold
and that might become
the rule around here.
Scott goes down first.
[upbeat music playing]
[Vernon] We're here.
Time to go get some gold.
Hopefully,
we find some gold, yes.
[upbeat music playing]
[Vernon] Let's do it.
The engines are humming
and the systems are firing
on all cylinders.
We're way behind
where we wanna be.
So now's the time
to put on our big boy pants
and just get out there
and k*ll it.
We're rockin'
and rollin' pretty good.
Come on, let's go up top
and take a look.
Mother Nature's trying to k*ll
my positivity right now.
It may be blue skies,
but that doesn't mean
that the wind
is not kicking into high gear.
[bleep]
[bleep] dammit.
With swells like this,
I'm sorry to say,
it looks like we may be
temporarily derailed once again.
[Scott] We had dead flat calm,
then, white caps. There we go.
[Vernon] Hey, all y'all,
come on up here.
[tense music playing]
The damn weather forecast,
believe it or not
[bleep] lied to us again.
[Vernon Speaking]
Yeah.
So, Kevin, why don't you
shut the engine down
[bleep] all right.
[Kevin speaking]
[Vernon] The engine...
The pump engine went down.
Things are starting to,
like, snowball on us now.
This was supposed
to be our big day,
but now it's going
from bad to worse.
[Scott speaking]
The alternator just cooked.
I'm like, "Oh,
this is gonna be like...
I'm gonna get like five,
six hours...
[laughs]
[mimics buzzing sound]
Wrong answer.
I'm getting none.
It's not unusual in mining
to experience the domino effect.
Once one thing goes wrong,
it all goes
to hell in a hand basket.
Tell me what happened
to that alternator.
[Kevin speaking]
It's too bad
about that damn alternator.
That's the third one
that we've blown out lately.
We blew two out last winter
and now we've
just blown another one out.
It causes delays.
So the only thing to do is just
go on back to the dock,
get the gear up.
There comes a time when
you just gotta realize that,
you know [bleep]
ain't going your way.
I've been doing this long enough
to know when my goose is cooked
and today it's well-done.
[groans]
Well, that's down.
We might as well bag it.
Let's go work
under the calm water.
[Vernon] All right, pull it up.
The only feasible thing
to do is to head back to town.
Everybody's getting frustrated.
You can't get the gold
if you're [bleep]
damn having to deal with weather
and breakdowns every time
you turn around.
Some days you get the bear,
some days the bear gets you.
[tense music playing]
[narrator] Throughout Nome,
the captains
are feeling the pressure.
And in the harbor...
- [Emily] Just with you...
- [man] Hold it
because we're gonna have
to lift the whole thing out.
[Emily] Real heavy.
[man speaking]
[Emily] Yeah.
[narrator]
The Eroica team's trying
to put it all together
and kick it into high gear.
[man speaking]
All done.
This season
we're in a tough spot.
We're starting all over again
and looking for a new dive team.
We set a lofty
goal for the summer.
Winter tapped
a lot of our resources.
Luckily, we found Mandy.
[Mandy speaking]
[Emily] Whoo-hoo!
There's a lot riding on her.
She's kind of the anchor
for the whole team right now.
We've fixed the...
We've fixed the lay fly,
we fixed the foot valves.
[Emily] Damn.
That's no bueno.
This is kind of out of nowhere
and it's really bad timing
'cause we have
literally no other divers.
She's probably gone
for the rest of the summer.
It's a big blow to the season.
We were really relying on her,
puts me in a really bad spot.
You're doing
awesome on the boat.
Obviously, you've always got
a job if you wanna come back.
Super grateful
for the opportunity.
It's been amazing
diving with you guys.
Mandy's agreed
to do one last dive
before she flies out tonight,
but that does
present some complications.
We're going to what,
Yeah, about 25.
Your body needs to adjust
to surface
pressure after a dive,
so going too high up
in the atmosphere
like a plane ride
too soon after diving,
you could blow an eardrum.
So she's gotta be
on a really strict time limit.
[man] Three and a half
hour dive hopefully.
[Mandy] Three
and a half hour dive?
Okay. Just get, you know,
- last little...
- Last little hurrah.
- Yeah.
- [Emily] Hell yeah.
Get a little bit of gold.
At least I go home
with something.
[Emily] Hell yeah. No, I know.
- That's...
- Memories.
[Emily] ...more than many
who have come to Nome.
Yeah. [laughs]
Many have left
Nome empty-handed.
- [Mandy] True story.
- All righty.
Once Mandy leaves,
I've got no divers,
so I need to figure out
what to do right away.
In the meantime,
time is short,
so I hope she's on hot gold.
All right.
Let's go mine some gold.
It's Mandy's last day,
so we're hoping
we can get her
on some nice shining metal
before she leaves town.
[man] Drop.
[machinery whirring]
[tense music playing]
Mandy got on
a nice pocket of gold,
so I'm hoping
she can get down there
and suck out as much as she can
in the few hours she has left.
[Mandy speaking]
[tense music playing]
[Mandy] My last dive, guys.
Let's make it count.
[Jane] Have a great last dive.
[Mandy speaking]
[Jane] Whoo!
[Jane] Mandy, how do you find
mining for gold
different from commercial diving?
[Mandy] I don't know
if I like this
more than commercial diving,
but I definitely like it.
[Jane] Wrong answer,
you like mining better
than commercial diving.
[Mandy speaking]
[Emily] Mandy, you love gold.
It doesn't matter
if it's not the tropics.
Yeah, yeah.
We're got to get her
in the spirit of things,
you know,
she's too polite and Canadian.
- [Jane] I know.
- She's gotta show some real,
like, thirst for gold.
[Emily] Mandy,
how much do you love gold?
[Mandy] Do I love gold?
I love it.
I love the people.
I love the ingenuity
of this industry.
- Nope. Nope.
- No. No.
[Mandy speaking]
Boo. Boo.
[Mandy speaking]
Oh, oh, oh.
[Mandy speaking]
Wrong.
And you love gold.
[Mandy] Gold's pretty awesome.
There it is.
[Jane]
Are you seeing any gold?
[Mandy] Right now,
I'm just trying to clear away
a lot of that top sand,
so I can see the rocks,
clearing a pit.
[Mandy speaking]
Yeah, there's some gold
on top of the clay.
There's some gold.
You can see it right underneath
some of these rocks.
I love gold!
Yeah!
[Mandy] I love gold!
[narrator] Emily's team
is on the gold.
But 12 miles west...
[Shawn] Where are you hiding?
[Shawn speaking]
[narrator]
Shawn is still on the hunt,
desperate to save his season
and potentially his seat
aboard the Myrtle.
We'll keep looking for it.
We'll find it.
We'll get on it eventually.
[Dave speaking]
We need to find a lot of gold.
[Dave laughs]
[Dave speaking]
[Shawn] It's tough enough
moving this beast around
on a regular day.
But it's even more
nerve-wracking
having Dave
looking over my shoulder,
checking out every bucket,
wanting to see gold.
The pressure is on big time.
Hopefully, we can
find something here.
I don't know how many samples
I've done now.
Here's another one.
[Shawn speaking]
[Dave] Uh-huh.
[Shawn speaking]
[Dave speaking]
[Shawn] Yeah!
We're back in business.
Finally. Thank you.
Thank you, Bering Sea gods.
Finally got
into some good ground.
Now it's time
to just load up the box
as long as I can.
Put a monster number
on the scale,
put a big grin on Dave's face.
We've been dealing
with broken spuds
and mechanical problems
and it's starting
to stress me the [bleep] out.
Wanna get as much gold
in the box as possible.
Every bucket adds
a little bit more to that pot.
And right now
the pot's pretty skinny.
So bada-boom, bada-bing,
digging some gold.
[intense music playing]
[Kris] No more excuses.
This is our time to shine.
[laughs]
Yeah, baby!
Reaper Nation [bleep].
[narrator] After failing to
get his crawler in the water,
Kris Kelly's not drowning
in his tears.
Instead, he's unveiling
a brand new weapon
in his arsenal.
This is gonna be a proud moment.
[Kris] Last year,
this was a dream.
Today, it's a reality.
It's kind
of just like a big toy.
Oh, I [bleep] love it.
I love it.
So look, the underwater crawler
is not going in the water today.
And my brother's an idiot.
But there's big news
in Reaper Nation.
Our brand-new
state-of-the-art excavator
is here,
which is good
'cause the last one
was always giving us problems.
[engine choking]
[Kris] What [bleep]
is going on? [bleep].
I thought this machine
was gonna save my season.
We're gonna have
a reliable machine
for the next 10 years
and with no excuses.
Hell yeah, baby!
Come on, Kris. We're back!
This bad boy
is all part of my plan
for world domination
this summer.
And with the all-in,
I owe a lot of money
and that's why I need
to get as much gold as I can.
So we have to kick
into a higher gear,
like, immediately.
[man] [bleep] yeah, Kris!
[Kris] That thing
is [bleep] vicious.
Eight feet longer in depth
and a half a yard bigger bucket.
I think it's [bleep] beautiful.
It looks like a Cadillac
up there.
There's the new excavator
on the barge.
Wow. I'm impressed.
[man] Yeah!
[Kris] Everything works great.
We got the new excavator
on there.
I can feel the money
that we're gonna make.
Reaper Nation is going
to the next level
and we're gonna [bleep]
take over this country.
Hey, come on. Let's get
on the barge. Let's go.
The excavator's not
the only thing that's new.
We got two operators,
Joe and Carl.
But to work the Mistress 24/7,
we really need a team
of four operators.
So we're bringing two new guys.
Well, one of them
is not really new.
Our old operator, James,
is back.
Don't spill any drinks in there.
The thing is [bleep] so new.
It's safe to say
our working relationship
in the past has been
good, bad, stressful.
James, how long until we go?
- Minutes.
- [Kris] Minutes.
It's absolutely loaded.
This is definitely
some of the better gold
I've seen in years.
[Kris] We're in it.
We're in it.
[James] Hell yeah, of course.
Yeah, baby!
I'm going out
with or without you.
Either you're getting
on this boat
- or I'm gonna drive away.
- [James] Then go.
You know [bleep].
We don't [bleep] want you
and this [bleep] bull [bleep].
Look, with everything I got
going on this season,
I need a proven hand
on that barge no matter what.
James brings peace of mind.
I know James isn't gonna
[bleep] the boat up.
We also got
a new operator, Otto.
We're gonna give him a shot
and see if he's worthy
of Reaper Nation.
[Otto] Okay. We're ready
to rock and roll.
[Kris] Let's do this.
Water's flat, nice and calm.
Looks like a beautiful day
for mining today.
I'm excited.
Let's try out the new Cat today.
Let's see
what this new Cat can do.
[upbeat music playing]
We're gonna get gold,
I guarantee you.
That's... My specialty
is getting gold.
This[bleep] will make money
anywhere, you know.
It's nice to be back though.
[Kris] Yeah, buddy.
I'm glad you're back too.
I really am. You know what?
You're gonna bring me
peace of mind.
You know, that you're
gonna make me feel safe,
that I can turn the boat over
at night
and have that ship
still get gold.
Okay. We're on our spot.
Drop the spud.
[intense music playing]
[Kris] Let's start
the wash plant up.
[machinery whirring]
[Kris] Okay.
I'm up and running.
Let's go.
[intense music playing]
Did you see that?
Come on, James. Let's do it!
Holy [bleep].
He's gotta dump the material
up there.
He's dumping some on the deck,
but it's a new machine.
He's getting used to it.
So we'll see what happens.
[Kris] Beautiful!
Now we can make
some[bleep] money.
Every excavator's
a little bit different.
James is gonna take
a little while
to make things work
but James is rocking now.
[James] Yeah, this is nice!
[Kris] Now it's time
to sit back,
relax and watch
this gold pile up.
First pan of the day,
I just wanna see what kind
of gold we're getting.
We got gold.
It's got 40 colors.
And that's all that matters.
I think James is gonna last
for the rest of the season.
[man] I agree.
We're k*lling it. Good job.
Good job? This is us.
Everything from today on
will be amazing.
[narrator] While Kris relishes
the return of a crew member,
across the water...
[Chris speaking]
Whoo!
[narrator]
Chris McCully is relishing
being a one-man show.
[Chris speaking]
[deep thump]
[screaming]
[bleep]
Here's the problem
with diving solo,
everything falls
on your shoulders.
Even though I'm in underwater,
everything topside
is also my responsibility.
If I had a tender,
he'd be the one
to getting this jam out.
But without one, I have
to stop diving, run up,
and try to ram out
whatever's stuck in the jet.
[bleep]
[bleep]
[screaming]
I [bleep] called
every [bleep] body in town,
asking to pay them
on [bleep] day,
same day I would give him cash,
like 300 bucks
for [bleep] sakes.
And I can't even find nobody.
And now I have a nasty jam
in the jet.
I'm getting pissed off.
I'm [bleep].
[bleep] [bleep] you.
[bleep] stupid [bleep].
This really sucks.
No way I can get
this jam out myself.
That rock is way too big
and way down deep.
The gear has to be taken apart
and that is not
a one-person job.
[slams]
So I'm gonna call my crew
and tell 'em,
"Get out here."
Working solo
is not cutting it right now.
[cell phone ringing]
[man speaking]
I'm out here by myself [bleep]
got a [bleep] stupid jam
and now I'm still
[bleep] jammed up.
- [man speaking]
- [Chris] Yeah.
I need you guys' help here
because I'm [bleep] sick
and tired, dude.
[man speaking]
[Chris] Meet me at the harbor
as soon as possible, all right?
[man speaking]
This is the kind of gamble
that I took
with being a solo diver
and this is the kind of thing
that could happen.
Even though there's good gold,
it looks like that my gamble...
wasn't worth the reward.
I'm being punished.
Someone's punishing me
right now.
I'm feeling [bleep]
hopeless, dude.
[dramatic music playing]
[Mandy grunts]
[Jane] You doing okay?
[Mandy speaking]
Good. Awesome.
[narrator] Before she flies
the coop,
Mandy Hammerson makes the most
of her last dive of the season.
Mandy's doing good.
She found some gold,
sounds like.
Woo!
Her last dive, unfortunately,
but she's gonna have a taste
of the gold fever,
so hopefully she'll be back.
She had to limit her dive
to three and a half hours today
because it's not safe
to dive too long
before a flight.
- Let's wrap this
[bleep] stuff up.
- Okay.
Hey, Mandy?
[Mandy speaking]
[Emily] How fast can
you suck up that paystreak?
[Mandy] I'm going
as fast as I can now.
[Emily]
Mandy, I know it sucks but
we've got to pull it.
[Mandy] No worries.
[Emily] I'm sorry
you had to leave
that awesome paystreak.
[Mandy laughs]
[Mandy speaking]
[Emily] We're happy
to have you, Mandy.
Mandy's gonna fly home
to be with her family.
And she kinda leaves us
in a tough spot
because right now,
I don't have any
other divers I can pull.
So it's gonna take
a little bit of work
to get one up here.
I know. We're kinda back
to square one.
[narrator] While Emily
is losing a crew member...
[Chris] Bobby!
Come on, Bobby.
[narrator]
Chris McCully is having
crew troubles of his own.
I texted Bobby.
I can't wait for so long.
I'm wasting time.
I called him like 45 minutes ago
to get ready but...
I don't see him.
Do you see him?
MIA.
Let's move on.
There ain't got too much good
waiting for somebody.
Things are really screwed
right now.
I really need a three-man team
to get this jam out.
This equipment is so heavy.
But hopefully me and Cam
can pull it off
but it's going to be dicey.
[Cam] Are you gonna pull
the hose out first?
[Chris speaking]
[Cam] All right.
[Chris speaking]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris speaking]
That's why I was like...
[grunting]
Doesn't wanna go at all.
[Cam speaking]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris speaking]
That was a nasty jam.
Sick, dude.
There's no way I could have
got that one out myself.
Now, we're gonna have
to attach the hose
and get back in the water.
Again,
I really need three people,
but it is what it is.
Yeah.
[Cam] Yeah. Yeah. Go.
[Chris speaking]
Here you go.
[Cam] Okay.
[Chris speaking]
Yeah.
I knew we'd be able to get it
with just two of us.
[Chris] After diving
and dealing with all this,
I'm spent.
This day took everything
out of me.
Cam's gonna go diving now
and he's gonna get us
on the gold.
And, finally,
Bobby got back to me.
Good news
is he's ready to dive too.
So I'm gonna bolt to shore
and bring him
right back out here.
Hopefully, we could salvage
something for today.
But I gotta be honest,
I'm not really so sure
if I'm gonna be
diving solo again.
Follow that track.
It's gravelly.
- Hard-packed gravel.
- All right.
And you see all
the coarse pieces in there,
it looks pretty good.
You know you're there
when you hit it.
I'm like...
Dude, put all these
in your pocket.
- What? Those rocks?
- Yeah.
[chuckling]
Yeah, buddy. Get money.
Okay. What a day, man.
Cam's down in the water.
I'm all ready to go back home.
I did what I could do.
So let's go pick up Bobby
and then we're out of here.
All right.
Even though it started off
a [bleep] morning,
at least, I got the boat
back on the gold, you know?
So Cam's diving down there
and I'm ready
to pass this skiff on to Bobby.
So I did the best I can today,
so I feel better.
I feel comfortable leaving them
on this spot, so...
Here we are, pulling up.
Mr. Bobby!
We're onto something, dude.
I got into some
really good ground.
- All right.
- So I moved the boat
- completely booked because...
- Okay.
This morning I checked the box
- and it is just completely...
- Yeah. [exclaims sadly]
disheartening, you know?
So stick through the cracks.
Just keep moving.
Once you get into these cracks,
it pays so much
in that little cracks.
- [Bobby] All right.
- [Chris] All right, buddy.
- All right.
- k*ll it, man.
- Love you, bro.
- Okay.
I got a nasty jam, you know,
but I'm so lucky
that I left the boat
on a good ground, you know?
So that's all that matters.
At the end of the day,
these guys are gonna suck up
some more gold tonight.
Wow. I got punished today.
[dramatic music playing]
[Kris] The new excavators,
like, begins tonight.
It slices and it dices.
[man] James doing his job.
He's doing good.
[Kris] It's good, man.
It's all good.
The sluice box
is handling it too.
[man] Oh, yeah.
[narrator] The arrival of
a new excavator
and their former operator, James,
means more material is arriving
in Reaper Nation's sluice box.
[Kris] Yeah, baby.
[man] That's unbelievable.
[Kris] I love it.
Let's put him on the stopwatch.
We wait for him to stop dumping
and then as soon
as he starts swinging,
we hit start.
Okay. Now, we see
how long it takes him
to do a cycle time.
Thirty-four seconds.
- That's [bleep] good.
- That's good.
That means we're moving
about 90 yards an hour
right now.
The most we've ever moved.
That's [bleep] perfect.
To run this operation
seven days a week,
I really need,
at least, four guys
to pull this off.
I've got two already
with Carl and Joe.
Now, James is back
and he's absolutely k*lling it.
Your cycle time was 35 seconds.
That's great.
You [bleep] k*lled it.
Wow.
[James speaking]
[Kris] See,
we got gold all the way
along our first ripple,
all the way down
to the fourth ripple.
Holy [bleep],
biggest picker of the year.
Real dirty gold.
'Cause it's in there
with all the black [bleep],
so that's why
it's got black stuck to it.
But that's the biggest chunk
of gold we found this year.
Okay. Get ready
for a crash course in life.
Now, it's time to see
how the new guy does.
Otto came up
all the way from Michigan
to try out for me.
So let's see
if he's got what it takes
to be part of Reaper Nation.
So do you know anything
about gold mining at all?
[Otto speaking]
Okay. Beautiful.
That doesn't really matter,
to be honest with you.
So, right now,
we're actually lucky
there's gold as far
as your stick can go down.
So all we're doing
is just working an area.
Gold mining, and this operation,
especially, it's all about
quick cycle times.
Under a minute.
So let's just see
what you can do.
Let's start everything up
right away.
That's sounds good. Thank you.
[machine whirring]
[Kris] Hey, we're ready.
So take a scoop
and let me see
what we're working with.
Okay.
All right.
We're gonna time this
and we're gonna start to see
what his cycle time is.
[bleep]
I don't know why
we're going so slow right now.
So there's a big difference
between Otto and James.
One guy is superfast.
The other guy is extremely slow.
It's like having a 90-year-old
in the excavator.
[bleep]
[man speaking]
[Kris] Yeah.
I'm gonna get down here
and I'm gonna put
a little bit of pressure on him
and we're gonna see
if that helps out,
because I can't sit by
and just watch it
keep going like this.
Swing this [bleep] faster,
'cause the truth is
you're about four times slower
than the fastest person.
So, you know, like 45 seconds
is the target time
that we're looking for
and you're pushing
over two minutes.
Okay. Good.
[machine whirring]
We're on gold,
but we're just not moving
the volume of material
that we need to.
So either he's gonna pick it up
or he's not gonna pick it up.
Nothing I could do.
But it's not
looking good for me.
[narrator]
As Reaper Nation stumbles,
back in the harbor...
[Vernon]
It's extremely frustrating.
Yeah, it's, you know,
a typical day in Nome.
[narrator]
the hits keep coming
for Vernon Adkison.
It's not...
Today is a day
we could be out dredging,
but I've got no divers.
You know what they say
rolls downhill.
We've got an avalanche
of that stuff right now.
We had an alternator problem
and then the waves
were choppy for a bit.
Now, my lead diver, Scott,
has to attend
to a family emergency.
That leaves me
with one diver, Emil,
the kid who can't speak English.
I'm not sending him down
until I've got
another diver on board.
It's just not safe.
Right now, I'm just dead
in the water for divers.
Boat's ready to go.
I got gold on my claim.
I get tired of doing
maintenance all the time.
We're up here to mine gold,
not to never-endingly
do maintenance.
I'm tired of doing
frigging maintenance.
I'm starting to think
that the Bering Sea gods
might not like me very much.
I don't know why.
I've never done anything
to them,
except maybe try to snag
some of their gold
and I certainly
haven't poached enough
for them to be this pissed off.
Right now, the whole diver
situation is up in the air.
I got a couple of possibilities.
[man] Okay.
[Vernon]
But I don't have a guarantee
that they'll actually get
their sorry asses here
and go with us
when the time comes.
It's not the way it works
with divers up here.
They're notoriously undependable.
It's always been tough
to find help in Nome,
let alone good help.
And it's only gotten worse
in recent years.
Time to run through
the old Rolodex
and see if I can get
somebody up here ASAP.
Really short on divers,
so I gotta make some calls
and see if I can get
some divers headed this way.
Larry St. Clair,
he was with me last winter.
[upbeat music playing]
Give him a shot,
see if he answers up.
[phone line ringing]
[Larry] This is Larry.
Leave a message.
No. Larry's not answering.
I could call the Garys,
OG and NG,
New Gary.
[woman]
Your call has been forwarded
to an automatic voice message.
New Gary is incommunicado.
This is Gary Panos.
Old Gary.
[phone line ringing]
[woman] I'm sorry. The person
you are trying to reach
has a voicemail box
that has not been set up yet.
No Gary Panos.
I went right down the list.
[bleep] them divers.
It's getting me [bleep]
damn aggravated.
I ain't dealing [bleep]
all going on.
Every hour we are...
we're not out there dredging,
it's costing us gold.
I'm not out here to [bleep]
work on boats all the time
and scratch my a*s.
Hand over fist hemorrhaging
[bleep] money
and the boat's tied up here
at the dock
when we ought
to be out there dredging.
The thing I dislike most
about gold mining
is depending upon divers.
Most of them aren't much more
than glorified paperweights.
I wanna get out there and mine.
But you can't do it.
You can't go dredging
without divers.
And that's another very good
reason for me to get
my other rig put together.
This is exactly why I bought
that crazy school bus dredge,
so that I can have a launch
pad for the underwater crawler
and eliminate the diver
from the equation.
The problem is I need gold
to pay for that update
to the dredge,
and right now I'm stuck.
And if I don't start
getting gold,
I'm never getting out
of this mess.
It's becoming more
and more apparent to me
that that's gotta be the way
for me to go.
I can't always be at the mercy
of these divers.
g*dd*mn divers.
[dramatic music playing]
All right. Here we go.
[narrator] Without a diver,
Emily's moving from sea
to land in her efforts
to keep the gold coming in.
[Augie] Oh, we made it.
This is it.
- [Emily] Is there gold here?
- Oh, yeah.
There's good gold here.
My options are limited right now
without a diver
in town ready to go.
So, in the meantime,
Jane and I are gonna try
something new.
We're gonna go try a river out.
While we're down for divers,
we gotta make gold somehow.
So this is the way to do it.
Has the...
Has it worked before?
They did run some hydraulic
lines back in the day.
My friend, Augie, gave us a tip
for a spot on Nugget Creek.
Some of the early miners
found gold there
a hundred years ago.
So I'm guessing
there's still some left
and we're gonna go find it.
[Augie]
You guys can just go ahead
and work the spot right here.
[Emily] We can get
into our wetsuits and...
- [Augie] Yup.
- [Emily] ...wade around
and dig some holes.
[Augie] Sounds good.
I got the dredge up there.
You guys take it.
Do whatever you wanna do.
Hope you guys find something.
I read a book about mining
on the Bering Sea,
but I know absolutely nothing
about river mining.
So I called up my friend,
Pioneer Pauly.
Lift with your back.
Lift with your back,
not your knees.
He's like a social
media gold miner.
Like hits the rivers all
the time around Vancouver.
He's gonna show us the basics.
[Jane] Everything okay?
- [Emily] Say that...
- I'm good.
[Emily] Emotionally
or physically?
- Oh.
- Medic.
[bleep]
There's definitely gonna be
a learning curve,
but I'm up for it.
Up. Lift.
[grunts]
Okay. All right.
- Let's suit up.
- All right.
Good job, team.
We're not diving down 30 feet
with hot water pumping
through our suits.
So we're gonna get into some
nice thick neoprene,
Jane and I,
and jump in the river.
- I feel like this.
- Well, you look great.
The last person
who wore that was my dad.
How do you feel?
Ridiculous.
All right. We all good to go?
- [Pauly] I think so.
- Let's go pan some gold.
[Pauly]
I just... I don't know.
Don't look at me.
[Emily] Go.
I'm fine.
Move along, Emily. Move along.
Everything is fine.
This feels good.
- I found something, yeah.
- You think
you found something?
Slaying it.
River dredging
and ocean dredging
aren't that different, but...
You know,
except they're like
completely different.
You know, on the river,
you're diving a couple feet,
have a little 4-inch hose.
You don't find the kind
of hotspots that you see
on the Bearing Sea,
but there is money to be made
relatively quickly and easily.
- You look good.
- I got it.
You got it.
Okay. It's not as bad
as I thought.
[Emily] That's 'cause
you're wearing a wetsuit.
No. There's a hole in my boot.
- [Emily] What? No.
- [bleep] hole.
Okay. It's fine.
There you go.
- [Pauly] Hold that pan.
- That's respectable, huh?
[Jane]
So you wanna get by the bank?
[Pauly] When you see rocks
that are packed in like that,
that means they haven't moved
in a long time,
giving nature a chance
to build up materials.
It's a good place to cast.
There's a hole
in this mitten too.
[laughs] Oh, no.
- It's, like... Yeah.
- [Emily] Do you wanna change?
No. Nope. Nope.
I'm happy to suffer today...
- [Emily] Aw.
- Because you're gonna get
a nugget and that's gonna be
all worth it.
[Emily] Well, dammit, Jane.
[sighs]
[Jane] Oh, look at that.
[Pauly] I think there's
a little piece of wire gold.
[Jane] I'm liking it.
We're gonna get gold.
It's all gonna be worth it.
Should we move the dredge?
Yeah. Let's set the dredge up.
[Pauly] Good.
We found some traces of gold
in the river,
which is awesome,
and it was pretty easy,
but it's just nothing like
what you see on the Eroica.
So we're gonna do a little
dredging on the four inch
and see what's here.
Hopefully, it's enough
to make some cash
while we're down a diver.
[machine whirring]
Maybe you'll see some gold.
Hopefully...
I [bleep] hope so.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator]
Back out on the water...
[Kris] You're getting it
under a minute,
so you're doing better.
Let's try to keep with that.
The cycle time is everything,
if you could make that happen.
Just do exactly
what you're doing.
Simplifying your movements
and trying to get
your cycle time 45 seconds.
Yup.
[narrator] After a shaky start
practice makes perfect
may be the motto for Otto.
We're gonna time him again.
See how things would go.
[machine whirring]
Come on.
[Kris speaking]
Woo!
Yeah, baby!
Yeah!
Finally, we're really
getting everything down.
I'm always in a better mood
when I'm making gold.
- [man] Me too.
- Yeah.
Right now I'm hoping
for under a minute
and he's doing double that.
I gotta be honest,
I was real worried
with Otto doing
his first couple scoops.
But the guy's
really working hard
to learn and improve,
and, at this point,
he's as fast as James.
I may have hit the lotto
with Otto.
[Kris speaking]
[man speaking]
[Kris] Yeah.
[man speaking]
[Kris speaking]
Oh, dude.
[Kris speaking]
[man] Yeah.
[Kris] You know,
the pressure was on
and Reaper Nation came through.
With the team
of operators we have,
we're gonna be able
to run the Mistress
all day every day.
The dream is becoming a reality.
We're gonna be giants.
[man speaking]
[pensive music playing]
[Vernon] X-Wife?
That name has got to go.
That is a bad luck name.
[narrator] Down his lead diver
and unable to mine,
Vernon Adkison's
focusing his efforts
on the future.
The reason we're on the beach
over here right now
is because of that name.
I wanna rename it the El Dorado.
Oh, yeah.
It'll fit in there.
We'll sand that off,
we'll get some gray paint,
and we will perform
the necessary ceremony
and rename her,
then she'll be a good luck boat.
Divers are k*lling me.
They're preventing me
from getting gold right now.
That's why I got the X-Wife
in the first place.
We need a strong rest
of the season
to pay for the modification
we gotta make to the X-Wife.
Since we can't mine today,
I'm gonna rename the X-Wife
and see if we can't
change our luck.
Changing the name on a boat
is a process.
If you don't do it right,
it's definitely bad luck.
It's considered to be bad luck
to change the name on a boat.
If you do it,
you gotta do it right.
You gotta have
a purging ceremony.
First things first,
we got to obliterate
the old name.
Then we'll paint
in the new name.
Then we will make a sacrifice.
And then that'll be it.
It'll be the El Dorado.
El Dorado
is the mythical city of gold.
I've always said that
it takes gold to attract gold.
So I can't think
of a better name
and I would love to see
a city's worth of gold
in my sluice box.
All right.
Okay, guys.
That's good enough
for the girls we go with.
I like that better
than the X-Wife.
Okay. Let me go
get some bubbly
to do the sacrifice.
[Vernon speaking]
We'll sacrifice
some champagne to Poseidon,
the sovereign of the seas.
It's supposed to be...
from east to west,
from south to north.
And now we can have a toast.
Here's to the El Dorado.
May she bring us fair seas
and following winds
and lots and lots of gold.
Fingers crossed,
we did everything right.
It's hard enough up here
without pissing off
a bunch of sea gods.
Give her a little drink here.
With as few ounces
as I have banked right now,
I need my season
to turn around fast.
Hopefully, this is
the moment that happened.
We got the job done.
Let's get out of here.
[intense music playing]
[narrator]
Back out on the water...
[Shawn] This spot is exactly
what we've been looking for.
Just about got a full cut done.
I have a feeling
this is gonna look good.
[narrator] Mr. Gold
is living up to his name,
scoring big
when he needed it most.
[Shawn] This is looking good.
We need to keep it up.
This deep section of the channel
is exactly what we needed.
I'm optimistic
this ground is good.
This should get Dave off my back
and put us right on track
for the 3,000 ounce goal.
I just need Mother Nature
to cooperate.
Weather is picking up.
I wanna get as much gold
in the box as possible.
[Dave speaking]
[Shawn] Holy [bleep]
[waves crashing]
[Shawn] These waves
are starting to get big.
[Dave speaking]
We're in a [bleep]
I don't wanna tear
these spuds up again.
These waves are picking up
real fast.
That could be bad news
for the Myrtle.
We just fixed up these spuds.
The last thing I wanna do
is damage them again.
Man, they're picking up
pretty quick.
We're gonna tear the spuds up
if we don't get out of here.
It's time to go.
It's starting to get
a little rough.
I don't...
I'd rather not
tear these spuds up.
Yeah, I think it's time.
Yeah, we got
a few more buckets in.
Hopefully, put a little bit
of gold in the box.
We'll survive
to mine another day.
[bleep] around [bleep] around,
pretty soon you're not around.
The gods may have shut us down,
but I think we got some
serious gold in the box
while we were at it.
Dave's here.
It'd be nice to see some gold.
Let's go!
[Shawn] Cleanup
is the fun part of the job.
All right. That's all in here.
Real fine but it's in there.
Yeah, there's a bunch
of them right here.
And a bunch there
and a bunch there.
Pull these car mats
and see what we got.
There's gold in there.
It should be pretty good.
[Shawn]
There could always be more
but there is gold in there.
How much? We don't know
till we're done
doing the cleanup.
Time to clean some gold.
[Vernon] Sometimes I resort
to having a c*ck
and trying to forget my woes.
[groans]
[narrator]
And now another episode
of Social Hour with Vernon.
Let's see what the trolls
have to say today.
At NoseHoseBlows...
I don't think
I'm gonna give it to you.
What I really plan is I'll douse
that son of a b*tch
with gasoline.
I get out there
about 4 or 5 miles,
out of the policing zone,
'cause I wanna be in compliance.
And then I'd torch
that son of a b*tch off
and go up in a blaze of glory.
[explosions]
[sighs]
I would if they wanted it.
Ah, hands off.
I know how you are.
Everybody will get a taste.
Trust me.
They might be a little smarter
than all that.
Hug, hug, hug.
I don't know.
Either that,
I'll find myself a nice cave
up in the mountains.
Go in there with my Harley
and my Indian,
all my g*ns, my dog.
I won't require my wife
to go with me.
A couple of thousand years
from now,
they'll open up that cave
and I'll be sitting there
on my Harley, and they'll say,
"Hmm,
he must have been a chief
among his tribe."
[narrator] This has been
another episode
of Social Hour with Vernon.
So we'll flip a coin
and see how that works.
[upbeat music playing]
[machinery whirring]
[Emily speaking]
[Jane speaking]
I'd rather be out
in the ocean, for sure,
but if we find gold here
when the ocean is pissed off,
we can come out.
We can be making money inland.
[narrator] Without a diver,
Captain Emily
and first mate Jane
are river mining
to try and keep
the gold flowing.
[Emily speaking]
Jane is gonna take
to river diving.
She doesn't even know it yet.
I don't get this diving thing.
It's not for me.
[Jane speaking]
Yeah, your air looks good.
[Emily] So the good news is
that we got Jane
into a wetsuit, which I never
thought that would happen,
but she's probably not
gonna be my new diver.
It just feels good to be putting
some gold in a sluice box somewhere.
[Emily speaking]
[Jane] Do you see some?
- [Emily] Yeah, actually.
- [Jane] What?
[Pauly] Oh, we got... Oh, wow.
- [Jane] Hey.
- [Emily] It's not that bad.
Yeah. That's cool.
- Oh, my gosh.
- It's way better than
- I thought it would be.
- Yeah, when I first started...
Oh, my God.
There's one there, too.
Huh.
I'm surprised to see
that there is
this much gold in the pan.
Knowing it's here,
we can always come back
if mining in the Bering Sea
isn't an option.
[Emily speaking]
Well, maybe we should
just put another long day
in here or something.
[Emily speaking]
It's nice to call an audible
and have a payoff,
but this is definitely not
the level of gold we need
to see this season
to pay off some of our debts.
I've got to scour Nome to find
new divers as soon as I can.
[Jane] This has been
a really fun adventure.
[narrator] Back in Nome...
[Chris] The gold cube is primed.
All right. Let's try
the first scoop,
see how she goes.
Yup. You see that?
- Yeah.
- It's not bad.
[narrator] For Chris McCully,
it's the power in numbers
that did the trick.
And now he's hoping to see
a big one on the scale.
Even though we didn't have
enough hours on this one,
at least, it's looking
pretty good so far.
[Chris] Well,
that's good to know.
So diving solo did not
pan out the way I hoped.
In fact, I had to drag
these guys out
in order for the day to count.
[man] See how that looks.
[Chris] Oh, okay. All right.
On the bright side, I was able
to put us on some good gold.
We got three dives in.
Jury's out whether
I should dive solo again,
but let's see
what's on the scale.
I'm gonna weight it out in grams
and then I'll convert
into troy ounces.
So here we go.
[man speaking]
[Chris] There's 30, 50,
There's 200 grams...
There is 300. Okay. Nice.
Cool.
That translates into...
Wow.
This is really,
really good outcome.
[narrator] 10.54 ounces
banks the youngest member
of the fleet
about $20,000.
- Wow.
- Yeah, dude, I like that.
[narrator] And putting
the band back together,
paid dividends
for the McCully team.
In order for me to get
more gold, I really
just have to come up
with a better strategy
on how I can find
these hardworking people
with me and showing up to work
and pounding their hours
in the box, you know?
So the next round
is gonna be bigger.
I want it to be
a bigger cleanout.
- Thank you, man. Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Thanks for showing up
[bleep].
[laughter]
[Chris] It's never enough.
[chuckles]
[narrator] Down the road...
[Shawn speaking]
[narrator] After his latest
run on the Myrtle Irene,
Shawn is looking to post
the big number on the board.
[Shawn speaking]
The season's felt like
a pressure cooker,
so it's nice to see Dave
feeling good about things.
[Dave] Look at that.
[bleep]
- [Shawn] There you go.
There you go.
- [growls]
[laughter]
Hopefully, we break
a hundred ounces
on the scale
and there's something
to truly be smiling about.
- [Dave] Let's see how much.
- Yeah.
[Shawn] Here we go. Come on.
[Dave] 50.
Go, go, go, go, go,
go, go, go, go.
- 108 ounces.
- [cheering]
[narrator] 108 ounces
is worth almost $200,000.
Get a picture of that.
[narrator] And Mr. Gold
may have righted the ship.
[Shawn] It's nice
to see it pay off.
Definitely didn't come easy,
but we got our legs
under us now.
We got some momentum.
We're gonna keep going.
Pressure was on
with the big guy here
and that's usually
when I perform the best.
Hopefully, this gets us
back on track,
but what's most important
right now is Dave's happy.
Now, we need to keep
this level of production
going the rest of the season.
[Dave] Let's fill that
tomorrow, okay?
Two of them.
[Dave laughs]
Good job.
- Yeah.
- [Dave] Thanks.
[Shawn] Now, it's time
to go have a Crown and Coke.
- [laughter]
- [Dave] Yeah.
[narrator] Shawn pulls away
from the pack
with the biggest cleanout
of the summer.
Next time on Bering Sea Gold...
Maybe I have like a...
Kind of a gambler mentality.
I'm just all in, dude.
Why not?
[Shawn] First time in shallow
with the Myrtle,
up in here close to shore.
We don't wanna get stuck.
[man speaking]
[Chris]
I'm out here by myself.
This is the borderline
right here
and I'm pushing it.
[Kris speaking]
Nothing ventured,
nothing gained.
[man] Oh, hit the deck!
What?
[dramatic music playing]
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17x04 - Sea-ing Red
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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.