08x02 - Cruel Summer

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It's getting harder
And harder to find the ground.

To make a good
Living off of mining.

You just have to work
A little harder at it.

We're going to go check it out
And see what it is.

Yeah!

Gettin' excited!

Sledge island is a place.

That is rumored
To have good gold,

But it's a very dangerous place.

To bring a little
Dredging boat out.

I'm the best leader
Of this family.

Because I'm the person
That really cares.

I just have to show my dad
And my brother.

That there's money here.

There better be something
On this claim besides sand.

You're captain...

I... I promise,
I'll get down there,

And I'm going to
Make it happen today.

I'm going to find gold.

I'm a little spooked.
We're pretty deep.

Damn it! It's not driving.

All we need is one person
To just give us a chance.

I'm going to do whatever
It takes to find gold.

Throughout nome, alaska,

Traditional mining spots
Are drying up,

And the easy gold is gone.

But, for the hardy breed
Of bering sea miners,

An obstacle could
Present an opportunity.

And to overcome adversity,

They're willing to gamble
On new and remote claims,

Determined to strike it rich
At any cost.

In the small boat harbor...

The sun's out, flat seas,

Time to go find
Some gold at bluff.

Shawn pomrenke is heading Out.

To the furthest offshore claim
Of his mining career.

We got all the papers
Filed, claim staked.

My old man wouldn't
Be very happy.

If I can't find
Any gold at bluff.

Either it's going
To pay off big,

Or it's going to be a bust.

But if you don't Take that risk,

You'll never find out.

Our mission this time
Is to find some gold.

In an effort to keep
His empire alive.

For future generations,

Shawn set his sights on
The nome gold property,

Ground rumored to contain
Over a quarter billion in gold.

To try and secure The $3
million up-front Payment,

He's placed his bet
On the bluff.

The bluff is a silly damn idea.
I think it's just silly, shawn.

And despite
His father's doubts...

There it is, right there.

Last week, he pressed on
With his plan.

And staked his claim.

I know there's a
Pile of gold down there.

Now he's got To find the gold.

Puddles and puddles of gold.

We had a winter trip
Down here before.

That cost a bunch of money.

They we brought the cr down,
Almost sunk it.

There was no money had there.

Despite shawn's hunch,

He's come up dry the few times.

He's reached the bluff
In the past.

If I don't find
Some really nice,

Substantial amount of gold Here,

I'm going to be really
Pissed off at myself.

For spending all this money.

But, after analyzing
Drill logs...

I'm going to find gold...

This trip...

Today.

He's more convinced than Ever.

He's on the brink of a Discovery.

That could set off
A new gold rush.

I want to prove that
There's gold at the bluff.

I'm going to remind everybody
Why they call me mr. Gold.

Five miles west,
Back in the harbor...

pumped To get out there.

Zeke tenhoff and emily riedel.

Are on a high-stakes
Mission of their own...

Super stoked. I think we got
Everything we need.

Their first prospecting trip
To sledge island.

We're all fueled up.
We got generators.

We got totally
Stacked up with food.

- We got water.
- Yeah.

I think we got enough
For a few days.

And they'll stay out
As long as it takes.

I'm itchin' to get
Out of the harbor.

- Yeah.
- Gotta get out of the harbor.

Sledge island,
It's a big island.

There are thousands of acres.

I should be able
To get into some gold.

We're diving
On sledge island today.

Holy, This is monumental.

This is crazy.

This summer, with gold
Running thin around town,

The pair set out on a quest.

To find an offshore Mother lode



- whoa.
- Like, I've never, like,

Seen anything like that.

At the mighty Sledge island.

This is going
To be the new cabin.

That I'm going to put
On the bottom'z up.

Zeke builds a new
Dredge for the mission.

These yellow squares are me.

And emily secured the claim.

- You're on your own, emily.
- Just me and one crazy guy.

Hundreds of thousands of ounces
Have been mined from gold,

From nome, and I don't know How
long this is going to go On.

I don't know how long
We're all going to be able.

To make a living or really make
Anything as offshore dredgers.

But offshore of sledge island,

There's a mysterious
Gold deposit somewhere there.

Now...

All aboard. We're good to go.

It's time to stake
Their futures.

And their partnership on Sledge.

Yeah, this is...
This is actually turned out.

To be a great cabin.

But, it's a 25-mile journey
Over the bering sea,

And they'll have to survive it
In zeke's custom-built dredge.

That's never been
Out of the harbor.

I'm really nervous because

I haven't really had
This boat out, and...

It's a demanding Maiden voyage.

I think that the most
Pronounced difficulty.

In doing any dredging
Or prospecting at sledge island.

Is its distance Away from nome.

I mean, I don't know
What the weather's gonna do.

I don't know what
The currents are gonna do.

I know that there's
No safe harbor,

So that's gonna be a challenge.

Man...

Dude, what are these big Greasy-
a*s swells doing out here?

There's these whirlwinds
That are like 4 to 5 feet.

Yeah.

Cannot go fast in this boat
If there's any waves at all.

I mean, we just start to
Basically break this boat apart.

If we tried to, like,
Really smash into these waves.

Yeah, it's not worth it.

I think that going out
To sledge island.

Is probably the most
Dangerous thing ever done.

In a little dredging boat,
Hands down.

The ocean out at sledge island,

I mean, it's open bering sea
From every direction.

There's any number of things
That could go horribly wrong.

I know I'm in a vessel
That's kind of unseaworthy,

And I'm really fighting chance.

My worst fear is to get
Into heavy weather and go down.

Okay.

I can't believe I finally
Got myself out here.

The bottom'z up
Manages not to go down.

But the rough water
May still sink their plans.

All right. What I wanted to
Do was go scan around,

All around the island,

But it's so wavy right now
That I think the only place.

We can really realistically
Do anything at the moment,

Is right here in this
Protected area.

That's a good idea.
I think that that's probably.

Where we're going
To have to end up working.

Zeke and emily have access
To three claims off the island.

High seas make dredging
On the west too risky for now.

So they'll begin in the east,
In a cove.

That should keep them sheltered
From the violent waves.

Finally...

we'll start here.

Okay, I'll go Do the anchor.

Sounds good.

Zeke suits up to set foot.

On the sledge island
Sea floor for the first time.

Just going to throw
My weight belt on,

Throw the mask on, good to go.

I'm going to have
One last cigarette.

One last cigarette
Before the line.

As long as I can remember,
Looking out at that island,

I've always wanted to go there.

And I've never been able
To know exactly why.

But maybe that was
All leading up until now,

When I actually do have
The resources.

And the wherewithal.

I'm daydreaming about finding.

A crack of gold
With 1,000 ounces.

But there's so many
Unknowns on the table.

I don't really know What I'm
going to be up Against.

All right.

I'm just going
To crawl down the hose.

Well, this is it.

I mean, first time
In the water in sledge.

It's a little murkier
Than I thought it would be.

I'm a little spooked.

I thought we'd have,
Perfect vis here.

That sounds kind of scary, Dude.

Yeah.

So, hopefully nothing
Too frightening's.

Going to come at me.

The grounds at sledge island.

Are unlike anything
They've confronted before.

Hey, does everything feel okay,

Hot water and air
And all that stuff?

No, it's... we're good.

It's just real murky.

But, With no other options.

In the nome mining game,
It's a risk they'll take.

We need to find
A huge gold deposit.

Otherwise, we have to bail
Out of here.

We have to if we're going
To continue in this business.

This is all totally different.

Dude, I'm surprised that
It's so murky at sledge island.

I thought that, like,
The currents over here.

Would cause it to be more...

The water to be clear.

But, like, I can't...
Can't see anything.

And I don't think
that anything that, um,

that we know about gold
over by nome

is going to apply to here.

My god.

In the city of Nome...

At the kelly house.

What is this, A soup bowl?

No, that's my coffee cup.

Despite the gold drought,
New captain kris kelly.

Is determined to finally
Deliver fortune to his family.

Sooner or later,
We're going to come across.

The hundred-ounce pocket.

I know this is my season
To step up for my family.

I'm going to turn this Operation
Into a successful operation.

So we're going to k*ll it. We
just got to work really Hard.

And the start of the summer...

This season we're going
To do things my way.

And I guarantee we're going
To make more gold.

Than we ever have the last
Five seasons.

Kris took The captain's chair.

From father brad...

We're going to take the chance
And go down 8 miles.

And was able to land a deal
To mine a claim far from nome.

Throwing anchor.

While the leadership
May be different,

So far the kelly family
Dynamic hasn't changed.

What do you want to do, Captain?
I want you to start it!

What the do you think
I want you to do?

Despite the struggles...

Nice day?

Kris is optimistic
He'll strike it rich.

And turn his family's
Reputation around.

So we made a deal
To go down 13 miles.

And do some prospecting,

Where we hope there's
Going to be huge gold.

And we need to hit
It big out there.

We can show everybody in town
Really what we can do.

And then, hopefully,
I can establish myself.

As a name in town
And move forward from there.

It's the claim owner.

Hello?

Hey, good morning.
How are you today?

Seriously?

With the government
Taking the claim away.

From the holder...

Okay, thank you.

Kris is suddenly
Without a place to mine.

He's not me over, man.

We've got too much riding
On this captain's.

To go down in flames.

And if he doesn't
Find a new one fast,

He's looking at the shortest
Captain stint in nome history.

Keep me informed.

I got screwed, and now
I'm back to square one.

The only thing I can do
Right now is just keep trying.

But I need someone
To give me the chance.

How you doing today, sir?

Okay, I guess.

To get back in action,

Kris will hit up anyone
Who might own a claim.

I was wondering
If it'd be a possibility.

If I could get my...
My family on your claim.

And see if they'll let the
Kellys mine on their grounds.

I just don't think I want
To take a chance on you.

- Yeah.
- We just heard too much.

They don't want to let me
On the claim.

Because my dad's bad Reputation.

Now everybody
Knows not to trust us,

Even though
They should trust me.

But I can blame my dad
All I want, but, in the end,

I'm the one that really needs
To make this happen.

We just need an opportunity,

And I think I could
Make you some money.

Well, I haven't heard
Any kind of good.

From anybody on you guys.

Okay, well, thank you.

In the small mining community,

Kris is down to his last hope.

- Hi, bill, how are you?
- I'm doing fine, how are you?

I'm, kris kelly.

I hear you have a great claim,

And, not a lot of people
Is working on it right now.

A stake 10 miles From town.

Near the mouth
Of the nome river.

We've got a good
Family-run operation.

We need a claim to work on
This season.

Well, I've been hearing A lot
of bad things about Y'all.

I, um, I know we have
A bad reputation in town,

But those are
All family squabbles.

That everybody's Worrying about.

That has nothing to do
With your money at all.

Nothing to do with your
Business. I got you.

You know, this is
Going to be our season.

Right now, nobody wants
To give us a chance.

All we need is one person
To just give us a chance.

What kind of percentage
Are we talking?

Um, I would like To give you 15.

Twenty would be fine, yeah.

Yeah, 20, 20's fine. Okay.

Yeah, well, I'll take
A chance on you.

Thank you, sir.

I... I won't let you down,

And I know you're going
To be happy with us.

I, I do appreciate it.
You don't mind if I sit.

And bother you
For the rest of your meal.

I'm in a great mood.

Let me get some milk.

Captain kris kelly Has Got
his family back in action.

Now, can they find the gold?

This is gonna work out great
For the both of us.

Twenty-five miles west...

At sledge island.

Do you see Any sand or cobbles?

Four hours Into his maiden dive.

On the island's Unique seafloor.

There's, Some kind of starfish,

A big fat starfish.

But I'm not seeing
Any gold here.

Zeke tenhoff's Uncovering.

Weight-challenged Invertebrates,

But no gold.

Trying to move over
Yonder a little bit.

Sledge island has
The making of being.

This incredible gold trap.

But you have to have
A lot of tenacity,

A lot of insanity.

And a lot of drive
To kind of figure out.

The mysteries of sledge island.

I think what this place is
is a place

where landslides
have been happening

for hundreds
of thousands of years.

Landslides off the side
of that island,

and we just have a pile
of landslide material

without any gold.

On the unusual terrain,

The learning curve is steep.

And the first lesson...
Sledge island.

Will not be easy.

This island is about 20 miles
in, circumference.

So we have a lot more spots
To go check out.

Let's just, motor over
To a different spot.

I want to scan around and see
If I can find somewhere.

Where it looks like
There's some kind of hardpan,

Like maybe some exposed bedrock
Or some exposed clay.

Okay, roger that.

Divers usually mine
With the boat anchored.

But to save time,
They'll pull the anchor...

Allowing zeke to prospect.

While emily moves the boat
To a new location.

But there are risks,

Especially in choppy waters.

Whenever there's a diver down.

And you have
An outboard running,

It just ups the danger levels.

The worst-case scenario
Would be to run over the diver.

Or the umbilical
With the outboard.

The umbilical could
Potentially sever,

Or even if the umbilical
Gets caught.

In the prop of the outboard,

It's going to be
An extremely dicey situation.

So, I take live boating
Pretty seriously.

It's a lot clearer here.

And, cause we're Kind of like.

In the channel
To where the prevailing.

Wind kind of comes in.

And, so it's not
A bunch of murky, like, gravel.

It's like we're kind of
In a sand field though.

The visibility is
a lot better here.

It's not murky and terrible
like that other place.

Roger that, that's good.

The new area May be clear...

Nice set of rollers, whoo!

But rough seas are
Making the venture.

Increasingly dangerous.

Yeah, I'm getting Pulled around.

I don't really know
What's going on.

How's the weather up there?
Is it getting choppier?

It's getting a bit swelly.

the wind kind of
[I] picked back up.

Is it?

That's[I] no bueno.

[I] drop the anchor down.
Yeah, it's all set.

With waves quickly rising,

Zeke calls an end
To the anchorless journey.

But the anchor lines.

Become tangled In the propeller.

Wonderful. This is

[i] no, dude,
I've got a problem up here.

I've got a rope in the prop,
and the tension

is too much for me
[I] to get it out.

[i]Okay, just give me a second.

I'll come up and,
Help you work that out.

No!

Suddenly...

The line is severed.

Emily has to hold on,

Or the bottom'z up could
Be adrift at sea.

What the?

But down below...
I lost a pressure line,

And I'm tangled up.

There are Even more problems.

Twenty-five miles
West of nome...

At sledge island...

Emily riedel is struggling.

To keep hold of the anchor
In rough seas.

While down below...

I'm tangled up with... What the?

Zeke tenhoff's Umbilical cord.

Has a hold on him.

God. Okay. Okay.

Yeah, dude, That anchor line.

Got wrapped in the prop.

And then I tried to
Get it off of the prop,

But the tension, the way
We were being.

Pushed like crazy By the wind,

And the tension was too great
On the anchor line.

No. No, because I.

Held on to it In the bering sea!

After the first dive,

Sledge island might be.

More than the business partners
Bargained for.

In order to go out
And to find new ground,

We're taking enormous risks
To our equipment,

To our lives
And to our livelihoods.

We're always going
To have to be careful.

About staying alive down there.

I mean, it... it takes a...
A moment of...

Of carelessness, and that's it.

Zeke and emily emerge
With lives and anchor intact.

But the gold is another story.

A lot of this gravel
Is like this,

Like real light stuff.

See, there's like
Ground-up shells.

Yeah, all that,
I keep on seeing it,

And I'm like, "Gold?"
For a second.

It's all, like,
So bright and sparkly.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

I'm not seeing anything
That looks good,

And that's depressing.

But, um, I'm not
Going to give up.

I mean, we still have
Some ground to cover.

With seas Unrelenting,

Zeke and emily search
For safe harbor.

And the hope of new ground
In the morning.

It's too rough for
The[I] bottom'z up right here.

I know, right?

But even in retreat,
Sledge island.

Gives them a rough send-off.

I know we didn't find any gold,

But I think our best bet.

Is to sleep with one eye open.

And see if it gets Any calmer.

And if it calms down
For tomorrow morning,

Then I want to keep
Doing some dives.

I don't want to think of
What's going to happen.

If we don't succeed
In making any money at all.

I mean, there's only
So much time.

We have to look
For this enormous gold deposit.

Before we have to give up.

One hundred
Twenty-five miles east...

whoo-hoo! We made it!

On a prospecting mission
To save his gold empire,

Shawn pomrenke's finally
Closing in on the bluff.

Boy, you look at how
Much time and money.

It's cost to get here,
It's huge.

After a 100-mile, 6-hour trip.

We've been spending
Money Left and right,

Coming out here
And working our asses off.

And we haven't got
Paid a dime yet.

But he won't be prospecting
Just anywhere on the claim,

As he looks to get an assist
From the miners of the past.

The old timers did a lot
Of the hard work for me.

They definitely left
Some bread crumbs.

For me to follow.

I've been listening to these
Stories for years and years.

Rumor has it that there was an
Old timer that mined offshore.

He put a deadman and dragged
The gold up to the beach.

And there's a good chance.

That they left
A lot of gold behind.

Deadman is miner Slang
For an anchor point.

On an old fashioned drag line,

The deadman is
Dropped out at sea.

And attached to a cable
That runs to the beach.

By dragging a bucket
Across the cable,

Gold is scooped up
From the sea floor.

Well, let's use the side-scan
And find the anchor.

Make that where
We're gonna start.

Shawn's theory...
By mining beyond the deadman,

He hopes to pick up On the
pay streak of Yesteryear,

But further from shore.

And deeper than the old timers
Could ever go.

Side-scan's good, it gives you
An image of the bottom.

So you can see 120 feet
To the left,



Right now, we're looking
At the bottom,

Looking for informalities.

If he can't find it,

He'll be flying blind
In an area over 1 square mile.

I know, if we find that Deadman,
I know we're gonna find gold.

I know it's right
Around here somewhere.

Here we got something.

Well, I don't know.

That looks like
It might be the anchor.

We're going to go check it out
And see what it is.

Yeah!

Getting excited!

Holy,
We're really gonna to do her.

With a century old anchor point.

Potentially beneath
Their feet...

- anchors away.
- Anchors over.

Shawn prepares to dive
On the deadman's gold,

Hoping to get the jump
On what he thinks.

Could be the spot.

Of the next great
Alaskan gold rush.

I know that it will just
Take a little bit of time.

To sniff it out and...
And find it.

I just have this vision and,

A feeling that I'm going
To get out there,

And when I get
In the right spot,

I'm going to be
Piling the gold up.

First step, see if
We can find this deadman.

One hundred miles
East of nome...

Shawn pomrenke's diving
At the remote bluff,

Hoping to prove he can keep The
family empire from Collapse.

First step, see if
We can find this deadman.

And he's on the hunt
For the lost deadman anchor.

If we can find
The old timer's anchor,

I know we're gonna find gold.

But if he can't locate
The century-old relic,

He'll be back to square one.

In his search
Of the giant claim.

[i]The last time we dove out here,

I seen some really big cables.

So, yeah, big old
Drag line bucket.

Nothing yet.

Well, a little something there.

There, I got it.

I found it.

Yeah!

With the anchor located...

now we just got to get
These pumps primed up.

It's time to fire up
The dredge and get on the gold.

Damn it.

But shawn's pump Motor
Isn't responding.

Yeah, I don't know
What to do here.

So, while he may
Have found the deadman,

Mr. Gold finds himself
Dead in the water.

Get that pressure load back up,

figure out why in the hell
it's not primin'.

A quick check of the motor...

Completely dead.

And the news Is far from golden.

A busted pump seal
Has them shut down.

That means we have
To go back to town.

Damn it, I wanted to go!

, here we are, Another day.

Shawn will need
To return to town.

To get a new seal,

Costing him days.

We're going to have
To go back to town.

To solve all these issues.

And without even
A single flake of gold...

hopefully I don't
Run out of money.

He'll have to hope Production.

At the inland mine
Has picked up.

Or his nome gold dream.

Could soon be washed away.

I'm the one that kept
This business alive.

For the last 6 years, so...

If I don't have any gold
At the end of the year,

Then we'll fail.

The bluff is kicking our a*s.

As a new day dawns...

At the nome Small boat harbor...

Hey, we're ready to go,
Let's rock and roll.

New captain kris Kelly
Is leading his family.

On their first prospecting
Mission to a new claim.

Hope to god today's
A really good day.

- Can I hear a team kris?
- Team kris.

- Go team kris.
- Okay, I'm just joking.

Team reaper, good job, guys.

The claim is far from
The traditional mining grounds,

Over 10 miles east,

Near the base
Of the nome river...

okay, look it.

It's really important
We establish.

And see what's On that claim.

A spot kris secured,

That, for the kellys,

Could be just what
The doctor ordered.

There better be something
On this claim besides sand.

You're the captain.

Yeah, I promise, I'm going
To get down there today.

And I'm going to find...

I want at least 50 ounces, So...

Well, I'm going to make
This work, watch, watch.

We're a group against
Everybody else in the world.

Right now, my family
Has a bad reputation in town.

The only way we're going to
Change it is through hard work,

Getting good gold
And doing what we say.

And that's what I'm going to do.

With the family's fortunes.

And reputation on the line...

One, go.

Now it's up to kris to deliver.

Okay, I'm just going
To start punching holes...

[I] and see what we got.

Okay, let me if suction...
Suction's there.

And we've got sand.

Gotta go through sand,

And then you've got
To go through cobble,

And then you hit the hardpan,
Where...

That hopefully has gold after

I do all this hard Work.

Gold is so dense,

It sinks through Light materials.

Like sand until it reaches
A layer firm enough.

To snag it, known as hardpan.

Two and a half feet down,
No cobble.

So, the deeper
The hardpan goes...

All sand.
The more difficult it becomes.

To determine
If there's any gold.

Six more inches,
And I'm gonna move the hole.

Because we're not going
To make any money.

If you have to work through


There would have to be
$3,000 in puddles this big,

That far down to make any Money.

Keep working, captain.

[I] Okay, I'm moving.

Kris is the captain.

So anything that goes wrong
With the boat, he's to blame.

It's not looking good
So far for the captain.

He might be giving up
His captain's seat faster.

Than he got it.

I'm trying to find a spot,
Right now,

That the sand is shallow.

Okay, going back down.

Guess what, it's sand.

One foot.

Two feet. Two feet,
No... no cobble. Two feet.

[I] You!

I'm sorry. I'm okay.

We're at 4 feet, And all sand.

Still sand.

Starting to make me mad.

[i]Okay, never mind, let's...

let's move spots.

I told him it was all sand.
He didn't wanna listen to me.

[I] Hey, don't worry.
[I] we'll just keep going.

[I] I'm going to fill
[I] 100 carts today.

No, he's not.

I'm moving, baby.

Kris may be willing To prospect.

Every inch of the claim.

We got sand, Sand, all sand.

Still sand.
Yeah, this kind of sucks.

But with dozens of
Holes punched over 6 hours...

[I] here we go,
[I] going to hole number.

Who the knows At this point?

His quest For kelly redemption.

Is coming up short.

The whole thing is sand.
Awesome.

I don't know what to do.

I can't work through
This much overburden.

I've got to come up
With another claim

'cause this Isn't gonna work.

After all this prospecting,

All we've really prospected
Is a bunch of sand.

Well,. We didn't get any gold,

But we did prospect the hell
Out of this place today.

- I know, no one's happy.
- No, not really.

Nome is a town of reputation.

You know, it's so small. So
if you have a bad Reputation,

They'll try to make you leave.

And I'm not leaving this town.

We're going to have
To push the limits.

Another day, and no gold.

I think about my mining career,
And, well, I never...

I never expected to be
In nome for 6 years.

You see these, like,
Crazy old sourdough dudes.

With no teeth, gold pans,

Like bumbling around
Like, "Ha, ha, ha, ha."

And you're like, ,

Is gold that hard
Of an addiction to quit?

Like, I've been here
For 6 years.

Am I going to be here
For 16 years,

All gray-haired and witch-like,

Wandering around nome
Looking for gold?

Maybe with, like, a nice
Face-lift... I'm just kidding.

Um...

On the outskirts of nome...

We're doing a clean-up today.

We need to get some gold
To pay for some fuel,

Or some wages Would be nice too.

While he waits
For his pump motor.

To be repaired,

Shawn pomrenke's hoping
For good news.

At the inland mine.

We've gotten off
To a really slow start.

Hopefully it will change.

With his exploration
Of the bluff coming up dry,

He's desperate for
A rebound at the mine,

To pick up some slack
In his effort.

To buy nome gold.

To manage an empire,

You've got to keep making Money.

That's the bottom line.

Because if you don't make Money,

Then it all disappears
Really fast.

Hey, shawn. We're almost there.

Yep.

Well, I know we've burned,

$50,000 in fuel,

So we need at least 50 ounces
To just pay for the fuel.

Yeah, and it adds up,
And it adds up quick.

Here's dad.

With steve on hand...

- old man's here?
- About perfect timing.

It's time for the mine's
First clean-up of the year.

Hey. Hey.

You guys getting
My gold cleaned up,

The inland gold there?

Yeah, we're going
To weigh it up,

See what it weighs out to be.

Here's ten...













That is not good.

Forty-one ounces is
Worth just over $53,000.

A solid season haul for some.

Pretty disappointed, steve.

My, my.
It's not looking too hot.

But with 3 million bucks needed
To make nome gold happen,

It's barely a drop
In the bucket.

We need 3,000 ounces worth.

To get this $3 million
Damn down payment.

Hopefully it picks up.

For the pomrenke empire
To endure and thrive...

We've got to go
Back to the bluff.

And there's a pile of gold
Waiting for us there.

Shawn's high-stakes gamble
At the bluff.

Needs to produce gold,
And lots of it.

Maybe I'm chasing butterflies,

Or I don't know,

But I'm going to spend
Some more money.

And go looking for it.

I'm going to go find it.

Across the fleet,
Captains are finding that,

Despite their best-laid plans,

This summer is going
To be a lot tougher.

Than they ever imagined.

I feel like nothing's
Really going my way.

The thing is though,
Sooner or later,

You're going to hit something
Big that nobody knows about.

There's going to be
A million dollars.

Right there
Underneath your feet.

That's the beauty thing
About mining...

You don't know where
The next hot spot is.

You have to find that hot spot.

I've done a good day of diving
Out at sledge island,

And there's just not
Any evidence of any minerals.

We need to, like, do better
At the food prep next time.

Yeah.

Just because I didn't find them.

In the first three
Or four dives,

That means very little.

There could be... there could
Be plenty of gold around here.

I'm not going to let
That discourage me.

I'm excited about some of that
Ground we found over yonder.

I'm starting to get
A little bit worried.

Zeke likes a challenge,
And zeke is a masochist.

Sometimes, you see him
Going down this...

This path, and there's no way
Of stopping him.

And it might not even pay off.

It might turn into nothing.

Looks more like a prison
Than a wheelhouse.

Doesn't really feel
Like a prison to me yet.

A tough day for the fleet.

Ends with the pomrenkes
Climbing the board.

There's really nothing
We can't do as a family.

Whoa! What is this?

Whoo!

Here it goes, don't stop, pull!

Dude, you need to get
Out of there.

Yeah! Look at that nugget!