12x09 - The Heat is Off

[bunniefuu]

Narrator:
Now, on "bering sea gold"...

We're gonna run all night
and party all day.

Narrator: ...The fleet
enters the home stretch...

Ken: And a couple of little
specks -- not enough to mine.

Let's get back at it.

Alright, boys, spud them up.
We're moving.

We're gonna go find
another pay streak.

Narrator: ...As the end of
the summer mining season

could come any day.

I'll get him up
to peak performance.

Dad, don't provoke the diver.

I've got it under control.

Narrator: So, now...

Man:
We're taking on water!

Kris: Holy [bleep].
Grabber's sinking.

Narrator: ...No matter what
challenge lies ahead...

Production! Oop!
Pull down!

It's produce or die.

Narrator:
...It's time to dig in...

I'm digging!

No way shawno could
keep up with us.

"I'm kenny kerr.
I'm the best miner in nome."

narrator:
...For every last ounce.

Whoo!
The fruits of our labor.

[ laughter ]

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♪

that storm put us
really behind.

We were on a really
good pay streak,

and then, that storm got us,
pulled us right off of it.

We missed a lot of time mining.
It sucks.

Narrator: Captain ken kerr's
newly repaired myrtle irene

is finally ready to,
once again, hit the water...

Ken: Catastrophic,
dire failure.

We need immediate assistance
to get into the harbor.

This is the end of
the myrtle irene.

Narrator:
...After the summer's biggest
storm nearly took her down.

I'm not gonna lie, I thought
the season could have been over

for us this year.

But we're rising
from the ashes,

and roaring back to life.

Narrator: With the summer
in its final days,

ken's goal of grabbing
the biggest season haul

in nome's history
is in jeopardy.

Ken: Coast guard's cleared us
to go back.

We're ready
to go back mining.

We were on a really good
pay streak before this happened,

so we're gonna
get back on it,

and ride it
for the rest of the season.

Watch out.
Myrtle's coming back.

Back in the saddle again.

So, we will get right back
on that pay streak,

get back to digging.

♪

eh, see what old myrtle's
got for us today.

Got to get my secret weapon
going, here,

so I know where I've dug.

Lookit.
We're right about on our --

right where we were digging --
where we left off.

Just moved over a little bit.
Hope it pays off.

Let's rev her up, pull this
bucket off the deck.

Let's go to work.

Big storm
can't keep us down.

♪

♪

first bucket after the storm.
We'll see what happens.

♪

mediocre in the bucket.
We'll see what the pan says.

Couple of little specks --
not enough to mine.

Man: Man!
Let's get back at it.

Pull the spuds.
I'll move.

Ken: Backing right into
our hole, there.

Going right where
I want it to go.

♪

all you know is you're
on the same spot you were,

and you had gold,
and you're digging.

Next thing you know, you got


[ whirring ]

we'll go and do a pan,
and see what we got.

What kind of gold we're getting,
here, at this spot.

[ bird calling ]

♪

looking pretty weak.

Looks like we're
gonna have to move.

This ain't
mine-able ground, here.

The ocean bottom
got changed

from the storm
moving in and out.

Well, we had gold.
We don't have gold now.

Either it's covered up
too deep in sand,

or it moved.

It's not an ideal time, 'cause
the clock is still ticking.

We've got to turn this thing
around real quick this year.

I don't want to
just hit my goal.

I need to stay ahead
of shawn.

It's not an easy process,

getting back on a pay streak
when you lose it.

It takes a day, sometimes,
to get back on the gold.

And days are precious
right now.

Alright, boys, spud them up.
We're moving.

Narrator: 1 mile east...

♪

to score enough ounces
to add a second dredge,

emily riedel is determined to
push until the very last minute.

What's the stern doing?
Is it going in?

Yeah.

Hold it! Hold it!

Narrator:
To make that happen,

she's leaving the helm
to her father, steve.

[ engine rumbling ]

I'm gonna go to check out
dredge number 2,

and leave you here with bo.

Okay.

To tend for him.
Alright.

Emily: As long as dad is
covering the fundamentals,

making sure that the
air pressure is good,

and the water temperature
is good,

he should be
more or less fine.

Dad, don't provoke
the diver.

Leave him be.

Let him do his job
in peace.

You know, you can sometimes
antagonize people.

And bo -- he's a pushover.

Hopefully, he just does
his job as a tender,

and as a manager
of the boat,

and just makes sure
the diver has what he needs.

Bo.

How's the weights?

Weights are good.
Hoses look good.

Narrator: Emily's plan?

While she goes
with lead diver daryl

to check out
a potential second dredge,

she'll leave dad to oversee
rookie diver bo best.

We'll put these down your shoes,
right here. Okay?

This is where
we're putting the weights.

This'll help you
dig in better.

Here, let's get
this one up here.

Okay.
Alright. Okay.

Let's get in the water.
Let's go. [ laughs ]

dad, dad.
What?

Let's get the weights out.

Well, I thought it was
a good idea.

You can dig in better.

Let's take the weights out.
Let's get to work, dad.

Okay. Alright, alright.
Alright. Let's go.

We're losing time,
we're losing time.

Steve: Alright.

It's a simple plan --

if steve can just avoid
making everybody crazy.

♪

I've been reading
and watching videos.

We're gonna have the most
efficient day ever.

I have some ideas
about what's going on.

We'll make this --

we'll make him
rock and roll.

Just, you know...

Make sure the air
and water are good.

That's all you got to do.

Just make sure the water temp is
good, make sure the air is good.

That's where my ideas
about the water temperature --

okay, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I've got it under control.

No ideas about the
water temperature.

Just keep it above 100,
at least.

I've been watching these
russian videos --

russian videos on
efficiency and temperature.

We got to get in the water.
We got to get mining.

♪

couple push-ups,
jumping jacks, no?

Okay, ready.

♪

I can adjust his temperature
of his water.

I'll get him up
to peak performance.

I need to keep the gold going,
and I need somebody

trustworthy around
to run the eroica

while I go look into
this second gold operation.

I got this boat
under control.

I just need somebody topside to
make sure everybody stays alive.

Narrator: While emily
sets her plan in motion...

...2 miles west...

Kris: It's gonna be
a great day today.

Big gold, lots of nuggets.

Weather is supposed to be good.
There's no wind.

This is our chance,
right now.

Narrator: With the end of the
season just around the corner,

one more big day of mining is
all captain kris kelly needs

to reach the promised land.

Kris: Plan is super easy
this morning.

We're going back to tomcod,

working right next to
the au grabber,

and we're just gonna
make big gold all day long.

Sounds good.
Let's do it. Kick off.

Off to big riches.

Going back down to where
the grabber's working.

We're gonna work right
in their hulls again,

like we've been doing.

It seems to be paying off
pretty good.

Narrator: Thanks to a lucrative
partnership with the au grabber,

kris is within reach
of the ounces he needs

to refurbish a
super-sized dredge of his own.

You're gonna be
first down today.

Gonna get down there, put in
your time, get a lot of gold.

I'm in a good mood, now.
Brad: Hey.

The grabber's out there
in the harbor.

Or...

Maybe not.

Kris: The grabber's
not even out there.

Ryan's waving us over.

Man:
We're taking on water!

Holy [bleep].
Grabber's sinking.

They're out of commission.
Yeah, look at that.

We seen them yesterday.
It was listing.

But now, they're -- looks like
they're actually sinking.

Man: Can you come and get under
here for us, and take a look?

Kris: I've made a deal
with the au grabber,

and I've got to take care
of my part of the deal.

I've got to
make this work.

I just really don't
want to wind up

at the bottom
of the bering sea.

That thing it's sinking
like a [bleep].

What do they want?
Do you want to help these guys?

They want us to help them
patch their boat.

This is part of our deal.

It's a bunch of
[bleep], really.

I didn't know we were a
[bleep] boat-repair place.

What about all the gold
we're not gonna get, now?

Well, this is part
of our partnership.

Andy!

We're gonna go and
help them out, right now.

One of the nicest days
of the year,

and we're not going
to get gold.

This is part of our
partnership.

Andy: Really? We're doing
a reaper rescue service, huh?

I'm here to make money,
not spend my gas money

fixing some other
guy's boat.

We might as well change
our [bleep] boat

from reaper dredging
to reaper services.

Kris: My dad and brother
are pissed right now.

They want to leave these guys
high and dry.

But I got to go over there,
and see what these guys need.

I've got to do whatever
they need me to do.

I've got no choice
in this.

[ engine rumbling ]

a lot of water.

Okay. So, what am I
doing over here?

Man: Our crack is
about 12 inches long.

Holy [bleep].


Yeah.
Holy [bleep], man.

What'd you do?

It's about 12 foot from the bow,
about 9-foot-6 in from the side

on one of the seams.

So, we've got to get you to go
under and splash-zone it,

so we can stop
the water coming in.

Truth is, I have never
done splash zone,

but I've done lots of drywall,
and I've done lots of bondo.

It's like playing
with play-doh.

Yeah, it's play-doh.

I really have no idea
if I can do this.

I've done drywall, but I've
never done anything like this.

They're really
two different worlds.

I'm gonna be underneath
the water, upside down.

And I've never used
this play-doh before.

What a [bleep] day, man.

Tell me about it.

Brad: You got to go between
the wall and the deck,

so be careful, okay?

Yeah, I know.
I hope I don't get pinched.

Kris, we're ready!

[ engine rumbling ]

this is it.

You know, I consider
our part taken care of.

Andy.

Kris is gonna dive
all the way up underneath

between the wall and the boat,
and do the repair.

So, it's actually
kind of dangerous.

Everything good?

♪

kris: This sucks.
[bleep] cold already.

♪

♪

brad: How's your visibility?

Kris: I can't tell where
the hell I am right now.

Pull yourself
with that rope.

♪

he's underwater.
It's dark under there.

He's trying to
find the hull.

Kris: Let me just try
to find it.

Brad: You okay?

It's pretty dangerous
right now,

'cause he's right next to
the wall underneath the boat.

[ engine rumbling ]

everything okay?

♪

everything okay?

Narrator: For kris kelly,
holding up his end

of the bargain
with the au grabber...

...Is proving harder
than he ever imagined.

Did he see it?

He's got his hand on it?
Not yet.

Tell him where it is.
Tell him where it is.

So, along that rope,

there should be a piece of tape
roughly where that crack is.

Let him know that I'm gonna be
tapping where the hole is.

James is tapping
around the hole.

[ thudding ]

so, what's happening is,

james is inside
the hull of the grabber,

and he's tapping
with a hammer,

so kris can feel
the sound waves

with his hand.

[ thudding ]

[ tapping ]

he found it.

Yeah, you just push
the [bleep] in there,

and just put your palm,
and flatten it sideways

all along it.

I can see air bubbles
coming through, ryan.

He can see bubbles.

He says he sees bubbles
coming through.

Can you push that down
some more?

♪

the patch he just did...

Is good

the patch he just did
is now good.

He can't see water coming,
or bubbles coming through.

Brad: Okay. Come on.

Oh, he's back up.

[ kris grunts ]

it's kind of freaky.
You're getting pushed up
to the ceiling.

I was getting caught
underneath there.

James: Looks good.
No water, no air.

Come up and talk to me
in a minute.

This would cost multi-thousands
of dollars to have a diver

go down and fix this for us.

Yeah, this partnership's really
worked out for both of us.

A big help, man.
Oh, you're welcome, dude.

I'm really glad that I could
do my part of the bargain.

You know, we're
out there getting gold,

and we wouldn't be able to get
the gold without you guys.

It wasn't easy.

It was a hell of
a lot harder

than I thought it was
going to be.

But if that's what
it's gonna take

to end our season
the right way...

So, that's one
small job for kris,

one huge job
for the reaper.

...Then that's what
I'm gonna do.

Narrator:
Across the harbor...

[ birds calling ]

shawn:
Beautiful day to be mining.

Narrator: ...With winter looming
on the horizon, shawn pomrenke

is racing to his


the christine rose.

It's been four or five years
since I've seen the box

looking this good.

It looks amazing.

Ken might have got a head start
on me this year,

but he's not getting me
at the end of this year.

Narrator: Desperate to pay off
a $1.3 million debt,

shawn's been making up
for lost time in a hurry.

He's looking to keep
his foot on the gas.

We're gonna just keep
rolling the gold in.

This spot's
paying so good,

I think I might just dig
all night.

I don't like losing, and I'm not
gonna let it happen again.

It's getting late in the season.
We're on good gold.

If it takes digging all day
and all night,

that's what I'm gonna do.

Shawn: Oh, yeah.

Oh, [bleep] yeah.

We got nuggets?!

Yeah, you see those,
and you know it's good.

We haven't seen it
like that in years.

Yeah, all that tide-scanning
you did, right here,

found all that cobble,
is perfect.

It's paying on
dividends, man.

Shawn: I'll just keep
hammering it that way,

'cause we know that
it's going that way.

Shawn: Why don't you just
come get me in the morning?

I think I'm gonna
dig all night long.

We're gonna put some gold
in this box.

Good luck.
Okay, buddy.

[ whirring ]

♪

♪

yeah!

We're so far behind
right now.

I'm gonna take
the night shift.

♪

sluice box looks amazing.

We are in the money.

♪

loving it.

[ thud ]
ooh!

Holy [bleep].

What is that,
down there?

This rock does not want
to come up.

It feels like a rock
the size of a car down there.

♪

devil ain't gonna dig
around that thing.

There's gonna be some
big gold around that.

Big rocks
are like gold magnets.

The gold gets caught
behind them,

and stays there...

Until I get it up,
get it into my sluice box.

♪

we can stay in this type of
material the rest of the season.

If the box keeps looking
the way it does,

we're gonna pass up our
gold goal, and...

We're gonna kick ken's a*s.

We're gonna run all night,
and party all day.

[ laughs ]

narrator: Coming up...

I know a way to get him
more efficient

by dropping the
temperature.

Take that shivering, and that
cold, and focus with it.

Cold means gold.

Bob:
Hey. Hey, daryl.

Daryl:
How you doing, bob?

Let's go down,
and take a look, you guys.

Emily:
Sweet. Sounds good.

Narrator: In nome's
small-boat harbor,

emily riedel's inspecting
what could be

the next dredge
in her expansion plan --

the madre del oro.

This is weird.

I kind of feel like
I'm cheating on my boat.

I hope the eroica doesn't
see this happening.

Eroica's a very jealous,
jealous dredge.

Narrator: Showing her
the bells and whistles...

It's only a 3-year-old boat,
so it's pretty new.

...Is nome mining legend
abalone bob.

Have you ever taken a nap in it,
or stayed overnight?

Oh, yeah.
I slept on it one summer.

Abalone bob is a long-time
gold-mining veteran,

been in nome for decades,
total gold-mining old-timer.

He'll probably want
to retire soon,

which is, you know,
great for me.

Good time
to buy his boat.

Bob:
These are the pontoons.

Good. They've never
leaked one drop.

Pontoons that don't leak.
That'll be a change, eh?

The madre del oro
is a really sweet setup.

And this is the
hot-water heat system.

Oh, that's nice.
Gives you all you need.

Oh, yeah. It's really easy
to pick up, and go.

And the mining setup
is really interesting.

It's built to be a deep-water
diving operation.

Bob:
You got plenty of air.

I put this big
volume tank on it.

If anything happens here,
you have all that air.

How many minutes
do you have in that?

Not a problem.
Oh, you have half an hour.

Alright.
So, you're fine.

Yeah, you are.

It's a beautiful, well-built,
aluminum skiff,

super lightweight,
very fast.

It's a really well-honed-in
prospecting machine.

It's sort of a dream boat,
in a lot of ways.

This thing's cool.

I really like your
design concepts, here.

Bob:
It's pretty dialed-in.

Yeah, it's really dialed-in.
It's ready to go.

Bob wants 85 ounces
for the madre.

And I've been operating
the eroica consistently enough

to where I have enough of
a nest egg

to be able to buy
a second dredge.

Who knows what the future
is gonna hold?

It's really time to act.

Alright,
thanks, bob.

Narrator: While emily's
expansion plan marches ahead...

Steve: Should be getting
on the gold, now.

How's it going
down there?

Bo: It's good.

How is the viz?

Oh, about 5 feet.

Oh, that's tons.

Narrator: ...On the eroica,
her father, steve,

is marching to the beat
of his own drummer.

Steve: Okay, well, we're gonna
bump your efficiency up

just a little bit.

Narrator: A very twisted,
very bizarre drummer.

Give it about, like,
a 5-minute increase in temp.

And we'll really be
rocking the gold, then.

Get out of here!

Narrator:
Steve is widely known

as one of nome's most
eccentric miners...

Steve:
I'm the king of the world!

I'm the king
of the icebergs!

Hit one for me!
I dare you!

The gold waits for me.

And the bering sea
doesn't give up gold easily.

Narrator: ...Dancing to
his own beat for years.

Steve's here for the gold.
I'm not here for the politics.

I have no idea
where I'm going.

Narrator: And today...

I know a way to get him
at least 20% more efficient

by dropping the temperature
about 15 degrees of his water.

Narrator: ...He's looking to
ride a stone-cold groove.

[ air hisses ]
lowering it down slowly.

Pretty soon, he's all excited,
and he's working really hard,

and very efficient,
and freezing his a*s off.

Pushing about 84,


I'll get it down
to about 75.

Steve: You getting a lot done
down there, bo?

Bo: Yeah.

The water's fine, you know.
How's the gold production?

You're doing good.

You're really at the
high-efficiency point, here.

Okay, yeah. Well, work that
shiver out in high production.

Working in warm temperatures
is not where it's at.

You lose efficiency
at warm temperatures,

when you're comfortable.

His increased efficiency
will mean more gold.

And when you increase
your efficiency,

and get more gold,
that means more in our pockets.

♪

oh, yeah,
it's really dirty in there.

He's getting lots of gravel,
lots of sand.

He's doing great, here.

The box is looking
really good.

Your temperature's
doing real well.

Take that shivering, and that
cold, and focus with it,

and turn it into
gold production.

[ laughs ]

narrator: The bering sea
hovers around 30 degrees,

so divers rely on
a constant supply of hot water

to keep their
body temperature up.

Without it,
they're at risk of hypothermia.

Oh, man.
Best day ever.

I'm going down about 10 degrees
over about a 3-minute period,

so he doesn't notice
any change right away.

Are you doing okay?

I hear you're shivering
a little bit.

Bo: Yes.

Cold means gold,

so take that cold,
and turn it into gold.

Turn that shiver
into gold.

Okay.

Bo: [bleep] cold.

Okay, yeah, he's focused.

He's fine.
He's doing really well.

♪ happy day ♪

♪ we're having
a happy day ♪

♪ we're having a happy day ♪

production up!
Cold down! Whoo-hoo!

Are you alright down there?
Yeah!

♪ we're having
a happy day ♪

♪ over here ♪

♪ are you okay? ♪

hoo-hoo-hoo!

Whoo-hoo!

[cellphone rings]

hey, hey, emmy. Hey.

Things are going
really well.

I snuck the temperature down,
and down, and down on him.

It's hovering
right below 80.

And, you know, he's shivering,
and everything.

Yeah, well, yeah.
Just let me finish.

No, no, that's the whole point
is, he gets cold,

and then he shivers,
and then he has to work harder

to get warm,
and he becomes more efficient.

What?

We're having
the best day ever.

Steve:
She's coming in now.

And I'm gonna tell her
how efficient the diver is --

that shivering turns itself
into hard work.

It's produce or die.

Narrator:
Emily riedel's father, steve,

is about to get a visit
from his supervisor.

Emily, you're gonna love
the new efficiencies

going on down there
right now.

-Dad.
-This guy is rocking it.

And it's getting us
more gold.

The best day yet.

He's doing really well.

Cold means gold, emily.

Don't turn it up.
-Dad, dad, dad.

What?

Hey, bo, I'm back.

Bo: Yeah.

Hey, I'm turning up
your water temperature.

Oh, sweet. Thank you.

Yeah, I'm so sorry
about that.

Steve: Oh.

Yeah, that's cold.

If you dive at that temperature,
you'll get hypothermia.

Yeah, but if you work hard
at that temperature,

you get gold.

Listen.

I don't really have the energy
or the patience

to argue about it.

Best if we don't
do this venture.

Let's just scratch it.

My dad -- he was pretty
instrumental in disrupting

the flow of my operation.

I'm out.
Okay.

Thanks for coming by, dad.
Yeah, right.

[ door closes ]

sorry it didn't
work out!

And so,
I misstepped...

You are gonna miss me.

...Bringing my dad
up to nome.

You don't know what you had
till it's gone.

Narrator: 1 mile east...

♪

ken: Dig another couple
of buckets, here.

If we don't see it,
we're gonna have to move on,

and waste more time moving
and digging, moving and digging.

Narrator:
Ken kerr's back on the water.

But despite bucket
after bucket,

he's still not back
on the gold.

Having a hard time
finding this pay streak.

The season's coming to an end.
I'm definitely feeling the heat.

♪

dig, baby, dig.

It was paying off so good for us
before we got in that storm.

It's ridiculous.

Look at that --
a full stick down,

ain't got nothing down there.

Man.

Nothing but a sandpit here.

Man, we're having a heck of
a time finding the gold here.

I know what's going on,
but we've got to move again.

I know that pay streak's
somewhere in here.

We just got to find
where we can get to it.

We're moving to another spot.

Everything's changed
since that storm,

so we've got to keep
pushing and digging

where we can go to find it.

Let's get back to digging.

♪

oh, yeah, man, that's hard.

That's always a good sign.

Let's see what we got
in this bucket.

♪

we got lots of cobble.

Hey, get some material out of
that bucket. I'm gonna pan it.

Let's go see what we got.

[ whirring ]

hopefully, there's
some gold in there.

♪

yeah, this is a lot of prospect,

and hopefully, we got
some gold this time.

Let's see what we got here.

Hold on, hold on. Let me see.

Whoo-hoo!

I think we hit it here.
Look at all that.

Lot of color in there.

Look at that. Whoo!
I think we can mine here.

We got it.
We're on a pay streak.

All right, good.
We'll go back to work.

We're in it!

Finally got back in it.

I'm digging!

♪

put some gold in the box.

We're gonna clean house.

♪

when it's that hard,
you know nobody's been in it.

It's virgin ground.

Oh, look at that!

Look at that big cobble
in there.

Oh, that's the ticket.

♪

[ laughs ]

there's no way shawno
can keep up with us.

♪

[ whirring ]

oh, look at that.

Look at that rock in there.
Oh, that's good-looking.

Damn!

Look at that.
He can't even dig that.

This little rock won't even fit
in his little bucket.

This thing's k*lling it.

♪

we'll just see who's got
the biggest gold count

at the end of the year.

That'll tell who's
got it going on.

Super myrtle's back.

♪

♪

narrator: 12 miles west...

[ rattling ]

[ whirring ]

[ yawns ]

shawn pomrenke is still
grinding away

on a marathon mining session.

♪

sun's coming up. I'm tired.

Been out here all night.



♪

I'm trying to get every bucket I
can in before those guys go up.

♪

♪

that was a monster.

We're gonna chuck this rock.

♪

[ laughs ]

ooh!

♪

every scoop's one scoop closer
to 2,000 ounces.

And the scoops
are good right now.

Hopefully, we can stay on.

♪

♪

oh, yeah, there they are.
Here they come.

Morning crew's here.

Time to shut it down,
go check the box.

♪

[ bell dinging ]

here we go.
Let's see what we have.

♪

looking good!

♪

holy [bleep].

[ laughs ]

best gold I've seen
in the box in years.

This is definitely
gonna get us closer

to that 2,000-ounce goal.

That was probably
the best night of digging

I've had in my career,
best gold I've seen in years.

This is why I'm mr. Gold.

Whoo!

"I'm kenny kerr.
I'm the best miner in nome."

ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

You may have a bigger dredge.

You may have a bigger bucket.

But we're gonna
kick your a*s this year, ken.

♪

[ laughs ]

narrator: Coming up...

Dave: That's a lot of gold.
George: 10, 20, 30...

Oh, yeah, I think this is
gonna be a good one.

...70, 110.

We're in the gold, buddy!
Yeah!

Whoo! Yes!

Emily: Hey, ken!

Hey!

Hey, if I buy you a beer,
can I go for a bucket ride?

Yeah!

It would be.

Sure. [ laughs ]

I'm gonna pick you up.
Got a real bucket of gold now.

Whoo!

Ah! Whoo!

Whoa, [bleep]!
[ laughs ]

whoa! [ laughs ]

[ laughs ]

well, now you can see
how big that bucket is

with somebody in it.

Whoo!

This is the most
expensive thing

you've ever had
in this bucket!

[ laughs ]

emily in the bucket.

The last bucket of gold
right there.

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Narrator: A few miles
outside of nome...

I changed her diapers.

That gives me
some kind of a rank.

Diaper changer.

But, no, she won't listen.

Narrator:
Tail between his legs,

steve riedel dances
into the nome sunset.

Kids never trust their dad.

It's built-in ageism.

I get some money,
I'm gonna come out here

with a dredge, show them.

All my divers will be cold...

And old --
old cold gold-getters.

Old cold gold.

That sounds like the cold --
the old --

the gold is old and cold.

I don't know.
I have to work on that name.

♪

uh-oh, there it is.

Guess I'm walking.

♪

goodbye, nome.

♪

I hate you.

♪

narrator: Across town...

♪

george: All right, let's see
what we got, kenny.

-Ken: Let's do it.
-Let's do it.

Narrator: ...Ken kerr, along
with business partner dave young

and operations manager
george young, are hoping to ride

their pay streak to victory
in summer's final days.

Ken: Count it out, boys!

♪

george:


Dave: Oh, yeah, I think this
is gonna be a good one.

...70, 80, 90, 100.



Wow. Right on. 124 ounces.

What do you think
of that, huh?

You keep that up,
we're in the gold, buddy.

Narrator: 124 four ounces
is worth over $187,000 dollars.

Ken and the myrtle irene
are back with a vengeance.

Everything's working really
good, just the way we want.

Hopefully, shawn can't stop us.

That's what we need.

That's what we needed.

Ken: That's damn good.

♪

narrator: 3 miles north...

Cody: I haven't seen the top
of the sluice box

look like that
in a long time, man.

'cause it's the best gold we've
seen in like five years.

With the end of summer mining
just around the corner,

shawn pomrenke is burning
the candle at both ends.

Shawn: This is what makes it
all worthwhile right here.

♪

the fruits of our labor.

Time to weigh some gold.

But only the scale can say

whether it was worth
losing sleep over.

Big number, cody.

♪

gives us
just a little window.

Shawn: There's 40.




♪



♪

mm.


we're getting better.

Come on, 200.




♪






That's a hell of
a clean-up.

Roughly $300,000.

...Is worth over $313,000.

[ whistles ]

over 200 ounces
is pretty amazing.

Means all the work and all
the long hours was worth it.

Ken, how you doing?

You got any 200-ounce
clean-ups this year?

[ chuckles ]

[ laughs ]

♪

narrator: As the summer mining

season enters the final hours,

the two titans are neck-and-neck

with the crown up for grabs.

♪

we got a big storm coming in.

You don't know which bucket's
gonna be your last one

in this weather.

♪

wow!

Storm bearing down on us
right when we're --

right when we're
in the pay streak, man.

Hey, man, it's getting
super rough out here.

I think we're gonna
have to call it any minute.

Man: Oh, no, no, no.

I hope I don't regret this.

♪

emily: Bo.

Where the [bleep] are you?!

Bo: I don't know!

[ thunder crashes ]
aah!

Kris: We risk our life
almost every day.

That's the kelly family rule.

Pull him up, pull him up,
pull him up! He's stuck.

♪