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11x08 - Missing in Action

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Bering Sea Gold". Aired: January 27, 2012 – present.*
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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.

11x08 - Missing in Action

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Bing, bang, boom.

I got a new plan
and a new dredge.

We could find
the next gold rush,

But if I fail,
I could lose everything.

We've got to make this work
no matter what.

Yeah!
-Today is the day.

There's gold at sledge,

But nobody can figure out
how to get it.

With the gold ship,

I'll be able to get
where nobody has been before.

That might be our ticket
to riches beyond belief.

[ Cellphone rings ]

What?

My operations manager
didn't come back

From fishing last night.

I got to do whatever it takes
to find george.

Could be a life-or-death
situation.

[ Filtered voice ] all
of this stuff has gold in it.

Ooh! Hells, yeah.

-Ohh!
-I'm shutting it down!

Yeah, baby.
That's what I like.

I'm on great gold.

I see something down this way,
a truck.

Holy crap.

♪♪

--Captions by vitac--
www.vitac.com

Captions paid for by
discovery communications

♪♪

Ooh, yeah.

There we go.

That's the kind of buckets
that make money.

Narrator:
mr. Gold, shawn pomrenke,

Is grinding through the end
of a marathon 12-hour shift.

Keep digging away at it.

It's all we can do,
one bucket at a time.

Narrator: the captain's trying
to reach his 1,000-ounce goal

And outpace rival ken kerr.

We got the christine rosecrew
day shift,

Night shift, everybody
is working their a*s off.

As the end of the season nears,

Shawn's implemented
'round the clock shifts

To maximize productivity

Before winter freezes
the doors shut.

Shawn: got it set up
on the perfect spot.

Now I'm going to let these guys
do what I pay them to do.

The c.r. Goes to work with
or without me, 24 hours a day,

Around the clock,
two 12-hour shifts.

We're off to some good gold
here,

So you guys keep digging,
and I'm going to head off.

You know what to do.
-Yep, roger that.

Shawn: you have to keep
the gold flowing

So you can pay
all your hard costs,

Pay your labor, and be able to
keep this megadredge build going

'Cause if we don't
find enough gold to do that,

Then it's all for naught.

We're making gold.
The boys are out digging.

I can go work on the megadredge.

♪♪

Life's good.

♪♪

Narrator: 8 miles east.

You guys excited about
going digging?!

All right. Raise the...
Let's go!

Hot on shawn's heels
to be the best miner in

Nome, captain ken kerr
is heading out to the pay streak

He's tapped in the deep waters
of claim nine,

A hot spot he's been
ridings towards his goal

Of a 1,000-ounce season.

All right.
We ready to cast off, then?

[ Cellphone rings ]

Hello?

What?

Frickin' no way.

George didn't come home
last night?

I'm going to...

I'm going to call right now,
call the boys

And get them going,
get everybody out looking.

Bring it forward some.
It's too much weight.

Narrator: george young
is a vital member

Of arctic sea mining,
serving as operations manager

And even captain
of a suction dredge.

George: now I'm on the money.

Narrator: more importantly,

He is the brother of
ken's business partner, dave,

And he's been missing
for 24 hours

Since leaving alone
to go fishing.

All right.
This isn't good at all.

Dave is not in town,
so I got to take dave's place

And do whatever it takes
to find george

Because he's like
a brother to me.

Okay.

I'm going to get a helicopter
and haul a*s, then.

All right.
Thanks for the call.

Bye. Crap.

I don't know.
I'm hoping he'll be all right.

The first 24 hours are the most
critical, you know, anywhere,

But in alaska especially
'cause of the weather.

You think the worst when
something like this happen.

You're always thinking,
"well, he could've got ate

By a bear, drowned, flipped
over, pinned in his car."

I mean, you just don't know.
Anything could happen.

It happens almost weekly, daily.

Narrator: due to
the vast remoteness of alaska,

Over 2,000 people
disappear every year,

Nearly twice
the national average.

While some are eventually
found alive and well,

Others vanish without a trace.

This country is not
the best place to get lost.

As soon as you get
a few miles out of town,

You have no communication
with anybody.

You get stuck out all night,

And he you tried crawling out
or doing something or,

You know,
got out of his vehicle,

These bears up here
can be pretty aggressive,

And there's been, you know,
a couple guys mauled.

This country,
anything can happen

When you're out by yourself.

[ Radio chatter ]

♪♪

Go! Go! Let's go!

Best thing to do
is rent a helicopter

And look at any trail
that goes down to the water

Where he could be fishing,

See if we can find
his truck and find him.

[ Radio chatter ]

♪♪

Narrator: with eyes in the sky,
ken will start in areas

Most frequented by george
in the past.

But with hundreds
of fishing spots

Scattered across
the wilderness outside nome,

It'll be a long shot.

Right now,
time is of the essence,

And nome is on
red alert big-time.

♪♪

Narrator: 80 miles east.

Getting geared up!

Narrator:
the kelly clan is kicking off

A new phase of
their summer mining campaign.

We've realized the reaper that
we have isn't going to work,

And we need to build something

So we can get down
the coast fast.

Narrator: still well short
of their summer goal,

The boys are introducing

The next big thing
in their arsenal...

We built a new dredge,
a little one, a tiny one.

...figuratively speaking.

Kris: this will make it
a lot safer.

It'll make it easier to handle.

We're calling it the sickle
because it's lightweight

And it cuts hard.

Okay, we're ready to go.

This is the next kris kelly
get-rich plan, the future.

Just jump in!

We're leaving okay gold
at the bluffs

For amazing gold
further down the coast.

Tie it around the front!

I'm looking for
the next gold rush,

And this little dredge
is going to take us there.

Yeah!
I told you we could do it!

We're going to have to rethink
our whole setup.

Narrator:
the meat-and-potatoes rig

Consists of
an 8-foot-square platform

Equipped with
an 18-horsepower engine.

Very small, very fast,
can withstand 8-foot waves.

Narrator:
four pontoons support

The 400 pounds
of its tiny frame...

Come on back.

...which seems more fit for
a bathtub than the bering sea.

The best $1,000 investment
we've made yet!

See how it planes?

This combination with the sickle
and our speedboat,

It's what we need
to do our prospecting.

Without this combination,
we wouldn't make it.

Narrator:
the small yet durable sickle

Can be towed by the jet boat

At speeds up to 20 knots,


And the lighter design
allows it to ride over waves

That would capsize
the bigger vessel.

With the sickle,
kris can prospect


To spots

He believes
will bear golden riches.

Okay.

Kris: I've done a lot of
research. I went back 100 years,

And on the west side
of darby mountains,

There's been a lot of
gold strikes in the land.

There's the theory
where a glacier takes off

The whole top edge of the land

And pushes
huge concentrations of gold,

So there has to be gold
in the ocean.

They didn't have the technology
back in the day

To mine offshore,

So we'll be the first ones
to get it.

We made it!

Narrator: going for broke
on untested ground...

We've got to make this work
no matter what.

...the captain is all in
on his geological theory.

Andy, do you think we're
going to do good here?

As for his family, well...

...let's just say
the jury is still out.

My dad and brother really don't
believe this [bleep], you know?

They don't see the excitement
in their eyes

For the possibilities
that's what's ahead of us.

Be optimistic.
This is the spot.

Yeah!

Everything is going good.

♪♪

Okay, be careful.

Check, can you hear me?
-Yeah, I can hear you.

Time to find some gold.

-Ugh!
-What's the matter?

Well, the ground
looks like all sand.

I'm not finding
any gold in it.

I'm trying to find
how deep it is.

Gold is so dense, it sinks
through light material like sand

Until it reaches a layer
firm enough to catch it.

Kris: 2 1/2 feet down,
no cobble.

Narrator: so no cobble,
the less likely there's gold.

This is stupid, actually.

♪♪

This is a [bleep] bad idea.

I'll find it. Don't worry.

This is only our first area.

We're going to keep going,

And we're going to make
this whole thing work.

It'll take time.

Okay, keep workin'.

-Narrator: coming up...
-There's the island.

That's sledge island.

That might be our ticket
to riches beyond belief.



There's 20.



There we go.

♪♪

Narrator:
on the outskirts of nome...

Shawn: I just got back.
I've been driving all morning.

Found out that
george young is missing.

He may be our competition,
but, uh...

Still, it's...a family.

...captain shawn pomrenke
is pitching in

With the search party

Because when a fellow miner
goes missing, all bets are off.

Not good weather to be out
in at all. Wet.

When you're wet,
you lose your body heat quick.

Ken's pretty smart.

He got in a helicopter
early this morning

And is out looking,

But I don't think anybody
has head down the sinuk,

And that's where I hear
he likes to go.

I know if it was me out there,

I'd want everybody out
looking for me.

Narrator: while shawn continues
the search...

Emily: well, the forecast
is kind of all over the board.

Yeah.
You just don't really know.

How angry is mother nature
going to get on that water?

Narrator: emily riedel
is already on the water,

Taking advantage
of a short break in the weather

To mine a pay streak
on claim 14.

Emily: we're working
the same ground.

It's been producing pretty well
for us,

And we're hoping to get about


Narrator: well short
of her summer goal,

Emily is counting
on the hot spot

She's dubbed the chicken wing.

Here comes that west wind.

Yeah, it is.
That's all right.

We'll live with it.

It doesn't look like there's
much of a bump, you know?

The seas are still pretty low.

Every moment counts when
the weather is good for mining,

And there's definitely
something off on the horizon,

So we cannot afford to lose
any time at all up here.

All right!

To try to capitalize
on the small window...

Have a great day, em.
Have fun up here.

Stay safe.

...she'll turn to lead diver
bob hafner.

♪♪

♪♪

Try and make some money today.

We've established gold on some
sort of ancient river channel,

And we just need
to get the hours.

How you doing down there, bob?

[ Static crackling ]

Do you copy?

Come again?

♪♪

Oh, really?! Everything's
working but the damn com box?!

[ Static hissing ]

Argh!

♪♪

Communication on
a 10-inch dredge is critical.

If something happens to bob
down there...

Son of a b*tch.

The coms are k*lling us today!

♪♪

Narrator: 2 miles west.

Damn near flat calm,
no wave action.

It'll be a good day, good run.

Narrator: after a 1,000-mile
journey to get to nome,

Captain vernon adkison
is finally unleashing

His gold ship, wild ranger,

For its first mining venture
on the bering sea.

After building this boat
for the main purpose

Of going to sledge island,
today is the day.

I've owned claims on that island
for, I don't know, 8 years,

And I've never really gotten
a chance to prospect them,

So hopefully this
will all pay off for me.

All right.

Let's cast out the lines
and get out of here.

This has been a long, drawn-out
expensive proposition,

But there's gold at sledge,
and I intend to prove it.

Narrator:


Sledge island has garnered
the reputation

For being the bermuda triangle
of the bering sea.

With reported shipwrecks
and even plane crashes,

Haunting rumors only feed
the growing enigma

Surrounding its eerie past.

It's a air of mystery.

There could be
a huge discovery to be made.

-Narrator: two years ago...
-Pumped to get out there.

...emily riedel and then
business partner zeke tenhoff

Were first
to put sledge to the test.

I'm not seeing any gold here.

Narrator:
but no gold was found.

Where's the gold?

There's the island.
That's sledge island.

That might be our ticket
to riches beyond belief.

I'm not going to get discouraged
on sledge island

Because of other people
who have been out there

That didn't find the gold.

That'd be foolish.

The geological report
from a few decades ago

Show that the richest gold
in the nome area,

In the entire norton sound,
bering sea,

Is there at sledge island.

All right, guys.

These are my claims here
and here, and I got one here.

Just because there's not gold
in one

Doesn't mean that there isn't
gold in any of the rest of them.

It's a little harder to get to,
but it can be done.

With the right equipment,
it can be done,

And I got the best boat
in the world.

Narrator: with
the state-of-the-art dredge

Boasting the most powerful


And access to exclusive claims
that have yet to be explored...

I'm thinking right along in here

Is where we going to
drop the anchor.

...vernon believes he holds
the key

To untold riches at mighty
sledge island.

Let's get a diver down
and get a taste of this.

♪♪

-Narrator: first in the water...
-This is fun. This is exciting.

...gold ship foreman
gary panos jr.

Vernon:
I've consolidated all my assets,

And I've pretty much

Rolled everything
I've got into this operation.

This is either going to make it
or break it for me.

♪♪

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Be careful, man.

These are dangerous
working conditions.

♪♪

Narrator: coming up...

You find something
you like down there?

All of this stuff
has some gold in it.

-Hells, yeah!
-Just unbelievable.

Kris: stop moving!
This is the spot!

And now we're going
to run with it.

♪♪

Narrator: 100 hundred miles
east of nome.

Kris, you've been down
for hours.

How's it looking down there?
You see gold?

Narrator:
after leading his family

Far up the coast aboard
the tiny sickle...

Kris:
we got sand, sand...all sand!

...all captain kris
has churned up...

-No gold so far.
-...is a big goose egg.

-We can't find gold.
-I'll find it. Don't worry.

This is probably
the biggest gamble we've taken.

I mean, it's as far
as we've ever gone.

Time to get the [bleep]
out of here.

If we do break down,
there's no one we could call.

We'd be stuck, stranded.

It's a dangerous situation.
Okay, you're done.

Andy is going to pull you up.

Let's just keep prospecting
further down the coast.

I am not in for failing.

Okay, just hang on.
We'll guide you.

Okay, sounds good.

We're going to go to plan b.

Kris' plan b, a risky tactic
known as live-boating

Where the anchor is pulled

And the diver is dragged along
the bottom by the dredge.

The goal --
cover more ground quickly.

Moving the boat while a diver
is underneath the water

Is extremely dangerous.

You could get pinned underneath
a rock, probably break your leg,

Maybe get your mask
ripped off your head,

Drowned underneath the water.

I know what I'm doing.

But I've invested too much
into this mission

To waste any time at all.

Hey, there's rocks in this sand.

Okay, I'm hitting cobble.

Oh, sweet.

Stop moving!
This is the spot!

Okay, we'll stop.
Hang on.

Stop, andy.
Throw in anchor.

Yeah, baby.
That's what I like.

Let me know what's going on.

Give me a report.

I think I'm on great gold.
Yeah.

Your plan is coming through,
kris.

Way to go.

I told you this was going
to be worth it.

I've seen all [indistinct]
here where nobody's ever been,

And now we're going
to run with it.

Could be a good day after all.

Narrator:


Let's see if we did it right,
em.

All right.

Narrator: after losing
precious dive time...

-All right. Do you copy?
-Loud and clear, loud and clear.

Yeah, loud and clear
on you.

Good stuff.

...captain emily riedel
has the com system

Back up and working.

Let's go make some money.

Now, lead diver
bob hafner must race

To get the gold
before a squall rolls in.

Hopefully he gets
on something soon.

We're going to try
to just keep on.

Now is the time on "sprockets"
when we work.

How you doing
down there, bob?

You find something
you like down there?

[ Chuckles ] uh-huh.
It's payday.

All of this stuff
has gold in it.

Ooh! Hells, yeah!

There's chunks just
sitting there.

This is crazy! Aah!

And you don't hear me say
that much, girl.

You know that.

I know.
[ Speaks indistinctly ]

♪♪

Uh-oh.

It's getting pretty choppy.

Boy, feel that current ripping
down here a little bit, em.

Mother nature might be
making this call for us.

♪♪

I'm gonna have to because
we're moving around down here.

[Bleep] knew it.

Bad things happen
when we're on good gold,

But it's just
the nature of the game.

I could spend a lot of time
being angry about the weather.

I could spend a lot of time
being angry about a breakdown,

But I think
the most important thing

Is that we were able to get
some more time out there,

And that's what really matters.

Hey!
Oh, nice one.

Oh, cool.
Good big one, cool.

A lot of this business
is about hope.


At the end of all things,

Looks like we still have
a shot at it.

We have time left.

There's really no ready
to give up.

If half of our time diving
is on the kind of gold

I saw on that second dive,

Our 400 ounces
is going to come easy.

Hells, yeah!
What I like to hear.

♪♪

Narrator:
out the outskirts of nome...

Put all of our differences
aside for something like this.

...with george young
still missing,

Shawn pomrenke combs through
remote fishing holes,

Hoping to find any sign

Of the arctic sea
operations manager.

[ Cellphone chimes ]

Plane spotted him,
spotted his truck

Just below nome river bridge.

♪♪

Hopefully, he's in it,
nice and warm.

Heading over the hill to go see.

It gets cold at night.

Falltime temperatures will
drop well below freezing.

Even if george is at his truck,

He could be suffering
from hypothermia or dehydration.

Here is the bridge.

I don't see his truck.

♪♪

I'm gonna go for a walk.

Maybe he's out already.

Somebody might already come here
and got him out.

Yeah. I just hauled a*s
out here, so I don't know

If they got him
out of here already or not.

I don't know.

I don't see him making it
down this far.

You see any tracks?

Neither do i.

Oh, wait.

I see something down that...
I see something down this way.

I see it. I see a truck.

♪♪

Here he is! Here he is!

♪♪

What the [bleep]?

♪♪

Holy crap.

♪♪

[ Truck door opens ]

Shawn: I see a truck.

Narrator:


Holy crap.

Narrator:
missing for over 30 hours,

George young's truck
has been discovered.

Narrator: but george is
nowhere to be seen.

♪♪

Four-wheeler tracks,
they might already got him.

Ken:
we just missed him.

They said, "well, we found him,"

But they didn't say
what kind of shape he was in.

And I'm thinking,
"what was that about?"

Pretty scary.

All I want to do is get back
to town

And make sure my buddy
is all right.

Narrator: 30 miles west.

Vernon: hey, gary,
how's it looking down there?

Determined to find
the next gold bonanza,

Captain vernon adkison

Is exploring his untapped claims
at mighty sledge island.

But 5 hours into his shift...

...the unique sea floor
is proving a unique challenge

For lead diver gary panos jr.

So far, no gold
that's jumping out at us.

What?

You say you think
you've found some gold?

He's getting into the black
stuff now, the old clay layer.

That's a clay layer right there.

Budge!

[ Groans ]

Let's go up.

♪♪

All right.
We're up to full rpm.

Narrator: increasing the rpms
on the pump

Will generate more suction power
on the nozzle,

Loosening up the pay layer
between the giant boulders

And sending it
through the sluice box.

Help me keep an eye on it.


[ Speaks indistinctly ]

That pump, and it will actually
suck a human body through it.

That's a big hose.

You get that hose down there
with that much suction,

You got to really pay attention.

Otherwise, you'll find yourself
in a dangerous situation.

But I've put maybe


I need to start recouping
this investment.

Fingers crossed
this will do the trick.

[ Rock clacks ]

Oh! Oh!

Ugh!

Oh!
-What's that, gary?

[ Groans ]

♪♪

-Vernon: hey!
-[ Shouts indistinctly ]

Shut it down! Mouths word ]

Man: shut it down.
Shut it down.

I'm shutting it down!

[ Gary shouts ][ dredge turns off ]

Pull him in!

Pull him in...
[ Shouts indistinctly ]

[ Gary breathing erratically,
groaning ]

Pull him in quick!

Hang on.

Look right behind you.

♪♪

♪♪

Vernon:
all right, help him up!

♪♪

Did he get in there?

-[ Chuckles ] holy...
Yeah.

We going to have to put a screen
over the bottom of that hose.

That could be deadly.

Narrator:
after a close call...

Vernon: okay, that's it.
That's it for today.

No more.

We'll go back and fix it.

...vernon's excursion to sledge
island comes to an end
for now.

We came out here.

There is some gold
in this material.

It's just a matter
of getting it,

And I'm not quitting until I do.

That was brutal.

Brutal, brutal, brutal.

Narrator: coming up...

Shawn: time to burn it off,
weigh it up.

Kind of gold we need
to get this megadredge built.

Virgin ground right there, man.

Kris: it's all fine gold.

Do you think this was worth
risking our lives? I want more.

♪♪

I'd go back to
the kris of 10 years old,

Tell him to buy
a couple different stocks,

Tell him to watch out for
a couple things.

I would go to the 1700s

To vienna, austria,

And go party with mozart.

That would be the first thing
on the list.

Gold rush, 1902.

Just walk up anvil creek
and pick up nuggets.

[ Laughs ]

If I had a time machine,
I'd probably break it

So I could just stay
right where I'm at.

I'd probably go back.

I mean, about 100 years ago,

You could just get out there
and mortally kick a*s.

These days, I mean...
Frigging wussies.

Grow a set of ba*ls,
for crying out loud.

♪♪

[ Horn honks ]

George, what the heck, man?!
You didn't...

You already got that thing
unstuck?

Can you believe it?
Man, I sure am glad to see you.

Narrator: 38 hours after
first being reported missing,

George young is home,
safe and sound.

Oh, I love you, man.

Man, you scared the hell
out of us.

Couldn't believe how many
people were looking for...

I thought just our crew
would be looking for me.

No, no. I called...

-All of a sudden...
-I called everybody.

...the whole fricking town.

I went fishing,
caught some fish,

But on my way home,
I was going through the river.

And then all of a sudden,
my truck just sunk,

Sunk in the mud,
and I ain't going nowhere.

I shot my p*stol a couple times.

I got a fire going around 7:00.

Got up, honked the horn
some more,

And that went on all night.

The next morning, I seen a plane
coming, and a plane flew by me,

And he kind of tipped
his wing my way.

I put my hand out the window
and waved,

And 20 minutes later,
some search and rescue guys

Pulled up in a side-by-side,
and they found me.

I was just getting ready
to crawl to the road

Because I ran out of
my medication and water.

I'm very fortunate that
a lot of people

Had a lot of heart looking,

And that was a big thing
because I might still be there.

Why don't you come in
and get some coffee, warm up...

-That sounds good. I been up...
-...after all that?

You know, I worked all day
and then was up all night.

The whole town came together.

People with grudges
against each other,

You know, you put that aside
and, you know,

We're just out here
looking for george.

It was just good to see him

And see him come out of that
all right.

Man, I've never seen such...
-[ Speaks indistinctly ]

I can believe how happy
we are, man,

And especially me.

I'm just sad I wasn't the one
that found you, but...

-I didn't...
-...as long as you got found.

[ Sea birds calling ]

Narrator: 80 miles east.

Kris: andy, come on
and sit next to me.

Over there, grab your chair.

Narrator: after returning from
their first

Prospecting mission
down the coast...

That's virgin ground
right there, man.

Kris: it's all fine gold,
but there's a lot of it.

Thank god.

...it's time to see whether
the high-risk plan paid off.

Okay, here we go, the moment
of truth, what we worked for.

We just hit 1, 2...

-...2, 3...
-...3...

-...4...
-...4, 5...

-Did we get to 6?
-We got to 6.

-All right, man.
-6.225.

-Ounce an hour.
-Good job.

High fives with everybody!


Is worth over $7,400.

So I think the sickle
went really good.

It went fast. We got there.
It was safe.

You know, it did way better
than the reaper would have done.

Narrator: for the kellys,
it's a modest start

For what could be
a grand, new beginning.

-We just need more time.
-We just need a lot more time.

Dude, the whole coast
down there is loaded.

I want more.

I think we're onto something
really special here.

We left off on a lot of
really good spots

And left a lot
of really good gold.

We're gonna go back there

And we're gonna hit it
hard again.

This represents a whole
new game, a future for us.

I see the potential of becoming
a millionaire.

The next gold rush is there.
We just have to find it.

Pound-for-pound
the best operation around.

-We're going to be rich.
-Yeah.

♪♪

Narrator: 80 miles west.

Shawn: looks like
the production's come up.

We got, like,


Narrator: while mr. Gold
was on a search and rescue...

Shawn:
these guys are doing great.

...his crew stayed on the gold.

Time to burn it off,
weigh it up.

We've have the christine rose

Out working for
the last few days.

I'm hoping to see 50 ounces.

That's over an ounce an hour.

I can handle that.
Let's see what we got.





There's 20...



There we go.



Narrator: 58.25 ounces
is worth over $69,000...

That's a good cleanup there.

...a solid haul to
put towards the megadredge.

Really nice to end a scary day
on a good note.

George is safe, and I'm back
on track to reach my goal.

We're right on point,
right where we need to be.

Today, I was reminded
of how great nome is.

Somebody goes missing
or somebody needs help,

We all pull together
and help him out.

At the end of the day,
it's all about giving back

And what you can do
for your community,

And that's why I want
to build the dredge.

I want to create jobs
and put money through town.

To me, that's what being
a gold miner is all about.

Now alls we got to do
is to keep piling the gold up,

Keep building the dredge.

Still gonna kick your a*s, ken.

[ Laughs ]

Narrator: with just 2 weeks
left in the season,

Mr. Gold sits atop
the leaderboard.

♪♪

Finally bringing the wash plant
to the barge.

They get to be one massive piece
of the equipment.

About a half-million dollars
rolling down the road right now.

That's the stuff, yeah!

We got glitter all over us.

This is kind of like
watching gold porn.

Em, I got this real crazy fish
down here.

I don't know, but, uh...

♪♪

-That's a lot of gold.
-Right there!

♪♪

Whoo!

The forecast right now is for
gold, gold, and more gold.

♪♪

♪♪