[device beeping]
Hey, is it running?
[man] It's not working.
Let's k*ll the Thrustmaster.
Unwire it, and start
from the beginning.
Start it back up and
let's see what happens.
[device stops beeping]
We're dead in the
water right now adrift.
Get out of my way.
- [device beeping] - Oh, you
[bleep] piece of [bleep], start!
Where we're at,
we're still having problems
with the Thrustmaster.
It won't engage into
forward or reverse.
It's basically
dead in the water.
We're, like, really
close to those rocks
and like that close to losing
my $2 million operation.
Basic control's pretty simple.
Running lights...
Those are the nav.
[narrator] It's the last
day of summer mining.
Now switch to the right...
Thrustmaster control on,
make sure this is out.
[narrator] And Kris Kelly's
Reaper Nation is on life support.
[Kris] Okay, I got it.
We'll make it work.
Temperatures are falling.
Everything's beginning to freeze.
It's almost certainly
our last day of going out.
But of course, I still owe
thousands on our $125,000 payment.
If we fall short, the
Mistress will be repossessed
and Reaper Nation will go
into the trash heap of history.
And today, of all days, my
excavator operator, James,
tells me he's quitting.
I wanna stay,
but I have to go and
take care of my family.
So, this is my goodbye.
I've gotta...
pick up the pieces and
keep moving forward.
So now, I'm gonna be the
engineer of the Mistress.
With ice in the harbor, very
little time left in the season,
and let's be honest, I
have no business doing this.
And if I don't do this right,
we lose everything.
Here we go.
Time to get on my
big boy pants today.
[James] Everybody
always says my job's easy.
It's supposed to be easy.
Just jump on and pilot.
Well, here's the big test.
We're gonna see
if they can do it.
[Kris] We're screwed.
Hey! Put oil in it.
Okay.
[Kris] So just after we leave,
the Thrustmaster goes down.
That's the $750,000
outboard system
that runs the Mistress.
Let's do everything we
can to make this work.
So it's no big deal. I just
got a million-dollar operation
drifting towards
the rocks right now
and I can't stop.
Okay! Start it!
[engine starting]
Come on. Come on.
Come on. Come on!
Is it working?
Yeah! Unstoppable!
This is nothing!
You know, James
thinks this is all special.
You just gotta try.
Crisis averted.
I know it sounds stupid,
but it turns out it was
just low on hydraulic fluid.
Hey, if it don't work, fix it.
If you can't fix it, rig it.
We're back on track.
Smooth sailing all the way.
We hope to get to
Tomcod within the hour
and start mining.
It's gonna be a long
[bleep] day, that's for sure.
We're ready to make
some gold today!
So the training wheels
are off. We can do this.
I need at least 30 more
ounces to make my payment
or I am screwed.
- I can?
- Go!
Let's do it!
So the plan right now is
to work as long as we can...
Everything's up and running.
Even if we go into
tomorrow morning.
You know, that's the plan!
Ooh, nice bucket.
Okay, let's do the
first test pan of the day.
Hey! Taylor!
Somebody took the
gold pan off the boat.
That sucks.
Just keep going.
Who gives a [bleep]?
[man yells indistinctly]
What's wrong is there's no
gold pan on the [bleep] barge,
which we're supposed to have one
that nobody's supposed to take off.
So, without a test pan,
I don't know if we're
getting any gold.
So I don't know if we should
move or keep digging here.
I can't catch a break.
But you know what?
The material looks good to me.
So I'm gonna make the call.
We'll gonna stay here
and we're gonna k*ll it.
I'm gonna use the force,
and the force is strong with me.
That's how I'm still alive.
Reaper Nation,
ready to rock and roll.
Today's been a hard [bleep] day,
but I'm not gonna quit and
I'm gonna make this work.
And I may stumble
along the way a little bit,
but I'll get up and
I'll bleed a little bit
but it'll be okay.
[narrator] Back in the harbor...
[Shawn Pomrenke]
It's getting cold,
and now you gotta start
worrying about everything freezing.
But we got one
last good run here
that we're gonna get in.
And we're gonna go out
and pile a bunch of
gold into this box...
and finish off this
season strong.
It's time to get
the hell out of here.
[narrator] As the summer season
ticks down to its final hours...
We need to get
out and get minin'.
Nome's resident gold king
has his back against the wall.
[Shawn] Okay, here we go.
This season's been
one of the toughest,
no doubt about it.
The weather, the
mechanical issues,
dealing with the
idiots, the Kellys.
Come on, Andy! Get
in there and rush him!
This season almost derailed me.
But I've kept my eye on
the prize, 3,000 ounces.
And I'm close.
The inland mine's been
turning and burning all season
and they made 2,000 ounces.
And that leaves me
only 200 ounces shy.
We have a lot of
cold weather comin'.
We got snow on the mountains.
It's just coming to an end.
We need to hit our goal
to pay for expansions for
this season and beyond.
And this is our last
chance to pull it off,
final run, no option.
And it's a pretty heavy
remaining number.
It's either now or never.
So I gotta reach back for one
of those vintage Mr. Gold hauls.
Here we go.
Well, it feels like
good material.
Come on, baby. Come on.
What do ya got down
here? You got the cheese?
Oh-h*-h*! Look at that!
[crew member] Is that
what you were looking for?
Hell yeah.
Yeah!
We're in it.
We are good to go.
That's the kind.
Now it's just time
to pile up the gold.
We're gonna make some big gold.
Easterly winds are
supposed to start comin' in.
They're comin' tonight, so...
if something major
breaks, we'll get screwed.
But if we can just
plug along here
slow and steady,
don't break anything,
just nice easy... bucket...
after bucket...
after bucket.
Steady as she goes, Captain!
[man] I think I
got all the things.
We gotta go.
[narrator] On the
last day of the season,
the ragtag crew of the Haviland
is looking to make every
moment and every diver count.
Dude, it's slippery.
Be careful. Be careful!
- [laughing] Whoa!
- Aah!
[all laughing]
[Zeke Tenhoff] So this is it.
It's our last chance to get
gold, no question about it.
I was aiming for 50
ounces this summer,
but it doesn't look
like I'm gonna make it.
But I am getting more
than I did last winter
and last summer as well.
The question is, how
big are we gonna finish?
Well, we have an idea
to make this last day
as impactful as possible
by doing something that
I've never done before.
Look at these dogs.
[crew member]
We're ready to roll.
There's four
members of this crew,
and all four of us
are gonna dive today.
[laughing heartily]
Uh, I've never seen anyone
do it and it's ambitious,
but it's something
that we need to do.
While the season has
been decent to me so far,
I really wanna finish strong.
The plan is I'll dive first,
Nate second,
Gabe will put in some
hours for the third,
and Sham will go
down and clean it up.
If we do this right,
it could be huge.
Yeah, boy!
[screaming] Whoo!
Drop it.
Now it is underwater.
I'm gonna have this
hot water goin' in here
and fill the tub up,
a nice hot bath.
Little pleasures.
You can take 'em
where you can get 'em.
It's cold out.
It's losing heat.
[Zeke] I feel like I really need to set
the table for everyone on this dive.
[through speakers] Mic check.
Mic check, one, two.
Luckily, we know where to go.
I got into a hotspot
out here before.
So I'm gonna tap back into it
and try to keep that spigot
going for the whole team.
You want me to
fire up your pump?
- Yeah, fire up my pump.
- Okay, sounds good.
Hell yeah!
You're doing nice.
You found pickers, huh?
Mow through all of it.
That's a ringer!
For the rest of the day.
It's looks like I'm probably
gonna be diving until into the night.
Hopefully there'll
be no problems.
Just rock it out for a while.
It's gonna be good,
dude. It's gonna be hot.
[narrator] Back in the harbor...
Lovely day. A little
on the cold side,
but that's okay.
It's a good day
for getting gold.
[narrator] Jack Frost may
be nipping at his heals,
but Vernon Adkison is
determined to salvage his season
in summer's final hours.
[Vernon] Let's go down
there and give it a shot.
A little chilly here in Nome.
Ice on the harbor already.
Won't be long.
[Vernon] Be careful on
that. It's slick and [bleep].
[Gary Simpson] The
way the weather's lookin',
it looks like it's gonna be
our last dive for the year.
Everything's gonna
be extra difficult.
The more ice we get
around here, the colder it gets,
everything becomes
exponentially more difficult.
I was aiming for 300
ounces this summer.
Truth is, we're not gonna
get anywhere close to that.
After last summer and
last winter of k*lling it on 56,
I'm in danger of not
even turning a profit.
All right, throw it off, Bryan.
Let's get on out of here.
That would be humiliating,
not to mention
financially devastating.
But there are some
glimmers of hope.
The miners I had
pay me royalties on 56
just finished up.
Got some royalties for ya.
All right. Damn. Pretty hefty.
And I managed to get
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.
That puts me at 55
ounces total so far.
If I can get that up to 60,
then I'll be in the black.
That'll be a nice saving grace
and give me momentum
into the winter.
All right, let's
make our escape.
Let's go mining!
All right, here we go, boys.
Let's drop that camera
and see what it looks like.
So, are you on the bottom?
[Vernon] Yup.
Seems like we're probably
good a place as any to start out.
The way we are right now,
stressed for gold,
I wanna make this[bleep] happen.
The plan for today is simple,
get Gary and Bryan down
for as long as possible,
get as much friggin'
gold as you can
and call it a season.
The ice is forming all around.
There's no more time left.
It all comes down to today.
There ain't gonna be no rematch.
My bank account and,
honestly, my reputation
is on the line.
Yeah, roger.
Well, can you see the
material you're working in?
I can see the material, um...
just enough to where I
think I can get the job done.
I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able
to see very much gold, though.
If there is any gold.
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what,
as late as we are in the season,
as long as you've got some vis,
we gotta go for it.
Roger that.
I'm gonna stick it out and
do what I can down here,
see if I can't put
some gold in the box.
Yeah, time is getting short
and the gold is getting cold.
So now is the time to g*n it.
[narrator] 11 miles west...
[Shawn] This sucks.
Flip the switch left!
I don't know what's
wrong with the generator.
[narrator] ...it's
one step forward,
and about a zillion
steps back for Kris Kelly.
Ah, this piece of [bleep]
generator behind me
keeps cutting off
every 40 minutes. Uh...
it shuts the wash plant
down, the ticker and...
That generator's pissing me off.
Every hour, we lose 10 minutes.
One [bleep] thing
and then another.
Look, I don't wanna be the
chief operator of this thing.
I'm a gold guy.
I don't wanna be a mechanic.
But with James gone,
I'm stuck dealing
with this crap.
And it's one dumpster
fire after another.
First, the
Thrustmaster gives out,
then we lose the test pan,
now the generator
keeps giving out.
And all I keep thinking about
is the gold we're not getting
and the time we're wasting.
Man, everything is [bleep]
going really bad for me right now.
And you know what,
I'm so [bleep] right now,
you know, my head's
spinning like a [bleep] top.
[growls]
The only way to get
the generator working
is to let it cool down a
bit and then restart it.
More time wasted. Great.
But right now, it gives me
the chance to look in the box
and see if my hunch
was right or wrong.
Holy [bleep]! That's the most
gold I've ever seen in our sluice box.
[Andy] Look at the other side.
Oh, is there more
on the other side?
Oh, yeah, look at that.
Oh, yeah, that looks
nice. Cha-ching.
Oh, yeah, right on that
side over there, dude.
[Kris] And that's not even
where we kept all of our gold.
Our gold is on
this lip over here.
[Andy] That looks really nice.
That's the best gold I've
ever seen in this sluice box.
Yes! I was right.
No test pan, but I made the call
and the gold is amazing.
If we can just, you know, mine,
I know we can get
the ounces we need.
Taylor! Okay, start it!
Okay, let's go!
We're getting a lot of hours
even though the generator
keeps turning off on me
and pissing me off.
Right now, it's just everything's
going to [bleep] on me.
But at least I'm getting gold.
[narrator] In Nome...
And, uh, early pregnancy, uh,
is really tough.
[narrator] While
the fleet heads out
for one last chance on the water
in the final hours of summer,
Emily Riedel is
forced to stay ashore.
I just can't really
pull the same hours
and spend as much
time on the boat.
I definitely wanna like
step back a little bit.
Today is like, without a doubt,
the last day of the season.
We're within striking-distance
of 250 ounces,
and today, I wanna
make that happen.
But, uh, fortunately,
a girl and a baby had
another opinion about today,
morning sickness and all
the fun stuff that comes with it.
I need a backup, uh, tender.
So, today, I'm tapping
out and it's all up to Jane,
an awesome and creative tender,
all-star diver, Jeff,
and an awesome tender, Eddie.
I left them on good gold, so
there shouldn't be any issues.
I have total confidence
that we're gonna, uh,
reach our goal today.
Um, yeah, we've been
on some good gold.
It'll be interesting to
see what it turns into.
[narrator] Out on the Eroica...
[Jeff speaking]
[Eddie speaking]
[Jane speaking]
[narrator] Her team is
tying themselves in knots
trying to do Emily proud.
[Eddie] Don't! Stop the motor.
What the [bleep]?
- [sighs]
- [Eddie chuckling]
[Jane speaking]
[Eddie] All right,
Jeff, let out.
Okay, crisis diverted.
I think we're on
a really good set.
[sighs]
Jeff will be able
to get right to it,
and we'll be on
it like doggone it.
Let's just tighten up the
anchors and [bleep] go in.
Let's try and get 10
hours and call her good.
[Jane speaking]
Fingers crossed,
everything is gonna be okay.
You all right?
I think this is gonna be
good. It's gonna pay off.
- Do you copy?
- [Jeff on radio] Yeah, I gotcha.
[Jane on radio] How's
it looking down there?
Sounds like he's doing well.
[Jeff on radio]
Whoo!
[Jeff] Let's start
going to work.
I think this is really
gonna pay off.
[Jeff on radio]
Ooh!
Here we go.
[Jane speaking]
[Eddie] b*mb Dot Com.
[laughs]
Yeah.
I, I'm an idiot.
- Why? It's funny.
- [laughs]
At least you didn't
name it G-Spot.
[Eddie] It's a good spot.
Dance party later?
Oh, I don't...
[Eddie cackles]
[both laughing]
Well, you're gonna
be boogieing later!
Uh-huh.
[Jane] We're gonna
mine into the night
and hopefully, we
don't mess around
with the anchor lines too much.
[narrator] 12 miles west...
[Shawn] It's
getting cold outside.
The season is at the end,
but I'm feeling really good.
We're hitting on all cylinders.
We're gonna smash
it right out of the park.
[whistles]
[narrator] To hit his
Shawn Pomrenke
needs a major-league rally
in the final inning of summer.
[Shawn] There she blows!
[narrator] And he
just might get one.
[Shawn] Once that
flag starts blowing east,
we're gonna boogie.
We've been on a good run here.
We're gonna keep pushing
it until it starts coming.
We're on the cheese.
High-paying dirt.
It's looking beautiful.
Lots of rock, lots of gold.
I need 200 ounces
to meet my goal.
This dirt, it's looking
really promising.
It better be, because
at any point now,
I'm gonna have
to call it a season.
This last stretch really
separates the men from the boys.
We're gonna go ahead
and check the box,
see what it looks like.
Make sure we're making money.
Oh, yeah.
Every ripple has gold behind it.
We're golden.
Man, that's a beautiful thing.
I need to be on hot ground,
and I definitely am.
And that box is packed.
Couldn't ask for more on
the last run of the season.
But is it gonna be enough?
I'm gonna need a huge haul.
Only time will tell.
The wind's not picked up yet,
but there is a black
line at the horizon.
That's the weather
coming this way.
We got time for one more cut,
put a little more
gold in the box.
We gotta make hay
while the sun shines.
Let's get back on it, huh?
[narrator] One mile west...
[Zeke on radio]
Yeah, dude.
I'm telling you, man.
At this point in
the season, it's like,
you've just gotta
move all of the bits.
Yeah.
[narrator] To make
the last day count,
the Havilah crew
is in the first stages
of a marathon 4-man dive.
[Zeke speaking on radio]
[narrator] And Captain Zeke
Tenhoff is leading the way.
[Zeke speaking on radio]
I don't wanna
push it any further.
I'm gonna come up.
Okay, sweet.
[Zeke] That was awesome.
Not only did we get gold,
but that's been
the best pile of pay
that we've been into all season.
So, the groundwork
has already been laid,
and for the boys, it's
just there for the taking.
Right now, the hose
is, like, maxed out,
and it's right on the
gravel bed, the red gravel.
Good gold on top
of that red gravel
and I think down
in the red gravel.
But the gravel bed
goes like, way over there,
over to the right.
We need to harness this momentum
and keep it going.
Next up, my man, Nate.
Sweet deal.
Nate's got a total of one
dive under his belt, so far.
[Nate speaking]
The boys are back in town!
[Zeke] But on that dive,
he showed me he was a natural.
He definitely crushed it.
Yeah, baby!
[laughs]
That was awesome.
- Found some gold?
- Yeah.
Awesome.
And now, I'm hoping that
lightning will strike twice.
But the Havilah's a totally
different kind of monster,
and it's way tougher.
[Gabe speaking]
Don't, you know, don't
feel any pressure, but...
You're just going
right down onto a bed.
Good view.
Don't, man. You're
gonna get me all worried.
Be so careful about getting your
hand in between a [bleep] rock.
- Like, get an idea of what that suction can do.
- Yeah.
Don't get your [bleep] hand
in between a rock
and that nozzle.
Nate's first dive was on my
little home-built, 6-inch dredge
The Havilah's a beast.
It's much bigger.
It's a 10-inch.
If you're not used to a
nozzle with that much power,
it can knock you
around like a ragdoll.
[Nate] Yeah, bud. Yeah!
[Zeke] Remember, to
get back to the down line,
always, uh, follow your tether.
[Nate on radio] Roger that.
Okay, grab onto your
[bleep] holster, bud.
Here she comes.
- [chuckles]
- Here we go.
[Nate speaking]
But it looks like you're running
material right now and... [bleep]
How you feeling?
[Nate on radio]
[Zeke on radio] Focus on
the areas with the red gravel.
[Nate speaking]
Yeah, get in there, boy!
Whoo!
Suck it up, dude. Sucky, sucky.
[Nate speaking]
[bleep]
Whoa!
Rock and roll, man.
[Zeke] Nate's taking to the
The guy is good
at this, no question.
We're on into our second dive,
and things couldn't
be going any better.
Hopefully, it will continue,
and we hit the second
half of the team.
[Gabe] Nate's
doing a lot of fishing.
I know he's a hard worker.
I know he can handle it,
and he's gonna be
able to actually do
some productive
diving down there.
And then, once
he is done diving,
I'm getting in the water,
and then it's gonna
be Shem after me.
Yeah. I'm stoked.
- We're moving dirt.
- Nice.
Whoo!
[Zeke laughs]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] Yeah,
it does look good.
Oh, you saw a little piece?
[Vernon on radio]
Maybe it's got
some little brothers
hiding under one of those rocks.
[narrator] As the clock ticks
toward the end of summer mining,
Vernon and the
Goldship crew are pushing
with everything they've got.
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon on radio]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] All right, all right!
[Gary on radio]
All right, Gary, the gold dog.
You sniffed it out.
[Gary on radio] Yeah.
[Bryan] We're right here,
brand-new spot we
haven't worked yet.
So, could be a hot spot.
Could be a new hot spot.
[Vernon] We ought
to maximize this day.
Get in until we can't
stay in any longer.
I'm trying to salvage the season
and end on a good note,
and that's what
we're doing so far.
We might've found
ourselves a new hot spot
that we can pick
up on this winter.
In the meantime,
we're gonna just keep going
until we can't go anymore.
These are the last few rounds,
and hopefully, we
can go the distance.
[Gary speaking]
[Bryan] Damn it.
Okay, we're gonna throw the
valve up and down a couple of times.
[Gary on radio] Roger that.
[Vernon] The first thing
we do when we get a clog
is work the diverter valve
up and down a few times.
That'll usually clear the jam,
and, uh, we can
get back in business.
But the clock is ticking.
Okay, are you still plugged?
[Gary on radio] Yes, I am.
[bleep] Damn it.
[bleep]
He's still plugged. Ram the jet.
For the more "son
of a b*tch" clogs,
we get a bar and
ram it down the jet.
Takes a bit more time, but
you do what you gotta do.
Okay, there's
nothing in this jet.
[Vernon speaking]
Why don't you go ahead and
make your way up the hose
and then spike it?
Nothing is working so far,
so the last-ditch effort is to
try to get a visual on the clog.
Gary will have to ride that
and suss it out.
Are you seeing anything, Gary?
[Gary speaking]
[bleep]
[bleep] waste of time.
[Gary on radio]
All right, Gary.
We're just wasting a
whole bunch of time here.
[on radio] We're just
gonna have to pull the hose
out of the water, I guess.
Hook up the nozzle,
then come on up.
[Gary] All right,
roger that. Coming up.
[Vernon] Well, I mean,
we're dead in the water.
Right now, we're
pretty much screwed.
But we gotta just
keep working with this
until we get it unplugged
one way or another.
[narrator] 12 miles west...
[Nate on radio]
[narrator] The number-two
hitter is knocking it out of the park
as Nate delivers big
for the Havilah g*ng.
[Nate speaking]
[Gabe] If you flip
a big rock over,
definitely suck out the
dirt that's underneath it.
[Nate on radio] Yeah.
Whoa!
[Zeke] Yeah, you've
been down for 2.5 hours.
[Nate speaking]
Yeah, just head on back up.
[Nate on radio]
All right, roger that.
[Zeke] Nate totally crushed it,
even though it was
on a 10-inch dredge
and was only his
second dive ever.
He totally k*lled it.
[Nate speaking]
[burps]
[Gabe] He did good.
I could see he was
moving a lot of dirt,
and I could hear him
working down there.
[Zeke] So, that's it
for diver number two.
It's time to really step it up
and put my brother Gabe down.
[Gabe exclaiming]
Get down there! Get!
- Get down there, boy!
- [Gabe shouting]
Gabe and Shem are animals.
With those guys
going back-to-back,
this should be the most action
that the Havilah's ever seen.
[Gabe speaking]
Diver number three, and we're
keeping the good times coming.
Things couldn't be going better.
He said he's seeing
great gold right now,
so he's gonna keep slamming it.
[Gabe speaking]
Copy. [chuckles]
[narrator] While Team
Tenhoff keeps it rolling,
one mile east...
Looks good.
I'm seeing the best gold
this sluice box has ever seen.
Okay, start it.
Let's keep going.
Okay, idle off!
Go to work!
[narrator] Kris Kelly has the
Mistress firing on all cylinders,
and the captain just might be
finishing the season on a hot streak.
Right, we're getting
everything back up and running.
Can't stop making that gold!
[shouts] You guys have
really tipped the scale!
All the way around,
Taylor. You're k*lling it!
[Kris] Suddenly, I
had to be the captain
and the engineer
of the Mistress.
Everything kept going wrong.
And you know what? I don't care.
I fought through
all the problems,
and my last day
might be my best day.
Yeah! k*lling it.
Nothing is gonna
stop us. I guarantee it.
I could cut my hand off,
and it still wouldn't stop me.
I could [bleep] cr*pple my leg,
and I would just be the best
"limping-est" [bleeping] worker
you've ever seen in your life.
[machinery stalls]
[bleep]
Kris!
[whistles softly]
Okay, bring it over here.
Let's take a look at it.
Oh, we're [bleep], dude.
Uh, I don't know what
the [bleep] this is called,
but it's supposed to be here.
So this steel ripped
off and pulled it.
That thing is stopping me.
So, the hydraulic ram
broke on the bucket.
Now, the bucket can't
open and close all the way.
Everything is going wrong today!
I swear, every time I
think things are going right,
I turn around, there's
a new catastrophe.
Can you close it real quick
and see if you
can make it close?
Close it.
So, what should we do?
I don't know.
[Kris] No, I don't
know. You tell me.
Is it stopping you from digging?
Yes or no?
'Cause this is a big decision.
'Cause you know what this is?
This is the end of my season.
I don't even know how
to fix that. Let's be honest.
The only thing that we can do,
it's either A, we stay mining,
or B, we go home right now.
Is it stopping you from digging?
Yes or no?
I can't.
- [Kris] You can't?
- No.
[Kris] Okay, well,
let's go if we're going.
Let's go.
Andy, stand by with the spud.
Extremely bitter
decision right now.
We're on hot gold. I
know we would make a lot.
What a kick in the nuts.
I'm doing the best I can.
I'm giving it everything I have.
But I'm not a mechanic.
I'm not an excavator technician.
I don't know how
to fix this stuff.
Without James on
board, I'm screwed.
The last day of the season.
The whole thing is just brutal.
You know what?
When I woke up this morning,
I didn't think I'd be
running this operation.
That guy[bleep] me.
We got a lot of gold in the box.
That's about the only
good news I have.
[narrator] The end of summer
mining dawns on the fleets.
And on Claim 56...
[Vernon] Okay, let's go.
We wanna get that blue
part up on deck, if possible.
It's looking like, to me,
there's rocks right in there.
All right.
[narrator] Vernon and crew
are on an urgent mission...
Get a hammer,
bang on that [bleep],
and see if you can bust
all that [bleep] loose.
[narrator] ...to clear a jam
and get rocking and rolling.
[Vernon speaking]
Last day, we're on hot gold,
and now we're dealing
with this nonsense.
All right, good plug.
It just got lighter.
Yeah. I think it's clear now.
I think we got our plug out.
And you know
what, I'll tell you what.
Let's take that
[bleep] out, call it good.
The coupler between the two
sections of the hoses was the culprit.
It was falling apart,
so the rocks were
getting jammed in there.
We're gonna dump it
and its section of hose
and get back to work.
[man] It's no bueno.
The good news is the suction
will be much more powerful.
The bad news is, shorter
hose, less room to move around.
Hopefully, Bryan can get
back on the gold ASAP,
and we can come out ahead.
We just had about a 3-hour delay
because of having to operate
on this frigging hose and whatnot.
But, uh, you know,
the beat goes on.
Now Bryan will go down
for another couple of hours,
make this a productive day.
Right now, I'll tell you what.
Everybody's hungry for gold.
[Bryan on radio]
Comm check, one, two.
You're coming in loud and clear.
[Bryan speaking]
[Vernon speaking]
[man] How's your suction now?
[Brian speaking]
I mean, that [bleep] moving now.
[Brian speaking]
[Vernon] That might
be a good thing,
we shortened the
hose, now it's 40 feet.
We're moving a hell
of a lot more material.
That's now gonna suck the
grime off the bumper here,
so we'll make up
for that lost link.
Just by the fact that we're
moving more material.
Might be a double good thing
getting rid of that extra length.
[Brian speaking]
Oh, yeah, it's skipping out.
[narrator] 11 miles west...
[Shawn] We're
piling up the gold,
we're gonna dig all
around these big rocks,
there's gonna be a huge
pile of gold right here.
[narrator] In the final minutes
of summer, Shawn Pomrenke
is putting the
pedal to the metal
with his sights set
on 3,000 ounces.
[Shawn] We've been
on a good run here,
but easterly winds are
supposed to start coming in
and as soon as that
flag starts going east,
we're gonna go west.
Just let me get
this last cut done.
As soon as the
wind starts whipping,
we've pushed it
as far as we can.
But I'm gonna go up till
the absolute last moment.
You can count on that.
Here comes the wind.
The wind gets shifted
for the worst, it's coming
out of the east now.
If it was a high west, I'd wait.
'Cause the west
will blow me home.
East would blow me
away from home, so.
That's it, we're gonna boogie.
Let's get ahead a bit right now.
I wish we could stay
out here and dig, but...
I spent the last 20-some years
coming out to this spot.
We know what to
do and what not to do.
We're gonna go ahead
and get all this pile of gold
safe in the Nome Harbor.
Let's go ahead and walk
the spuds in and spot up.
Like the man says, you gotta know
when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.
And it's finally
time to walk away.
But, we k*lled it today.
Are we gonna hit
our 3,000-ounce goal?
Only time will tell.
We're heading home.
It's been a long season.
[narrator] While
Shawn heads in...
12 miles east...
[Jeff speaking] You
know, I got, like...
five inches of material
right over some hard clay.
I mean, I'm seeing color.
I mean, this should
be every bit of,
you know, at least an ounce
an hour, ounce and a half.
But, yeah, we're having a
really good evening, which is nice.
We didn't have
such a hot morning,
but we're having a
really hot evening,
as far as we're
getting the gold!
Which is cool.
'Cause I was getting homesick,
but now I'm not homesick.
You can't be homesick when
you're, like, on this kind of gold.
[narrator] The fierce winds
have yet to reach Claim 14.
And that's music to the ears
of the Eroica crew.
[Jeff speaking] But, uh,
[snorts and laughs]
[Jane on radio]
[Jeff speaking]
[laughs]
Will you come sing to him?
- [Eddie] No.
- [laughs]
[Jane on radio]
Getting [bleep] bored.
What a [bleep] snob!
[bleep] all the gold,
he's like, "I'm so bored!"
[Eddie] Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah, get back to work.
[Jane on radio]
Wants us to [bleep] sing to him.
- [Eddie] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [bleep].
Eddie says "Yeah, yeah,
yeah, get back to work."
Putting me in the middle, Eddie.
[narrator] Back in the harbor...
[car honks]
[honks]
- [Kris] Here he is!
- [Kevin] What up, boys?
- [Kris] Back from California?
- Back from Cali, baby!
- What's up, Taylor?
- [Taylor] You're all so clean.
How are you, buddy?
[Kris] You gotta take
the tags off your boots.
- [Kevin] Brand new boots.
- [Kris] I, I noticed.
- [bleep] brand new boots.
- [Kris laughs] We can tell.
And hey, they're [bleep] warm,
dog, these boots are warm.
Let's go see, Andy.
We got gold in the box?
[Kris] We got lots
of gold in the box.
Kevin flew in all the way from
California for this gold cleanup,
partially to be supportive,
but mostly because we still owe
a lot of money on the Mistress.
It could get repo'd.
[man] It's gonna be
good. It's gonna be good.
So it's just more pressure to
add to the cooker right now.
All I've told Kevin all
season long is excuses.
Excuses. The
beginning of the season,
we didn't really get a
lot of really good weather.
We finally get everything going,
and then James [bleep] me hard.
[Diesel Don] Fixed.
So I had Diesel
Don fix the bucket,
so I'm leaving the Mistress in
better shape than James did.
And I don't want Kevin
to think that I'm just gonna
leave it like a hunk of
junk through the winter.
So we're gonna do a cleanup,
and hope to God it's a lot.
[Kevin] Obviously I would
like to see 30, 35 ounces.
We need the money, man.
We got some bills to pay.
Let's go.
[Kris] Uh, we've had a really
hard run generator problem,
James took off on us.
At the end of the day,
everything is going great
when you're starting
to see gold like this.
[man] Yeah, baby! What?
Best cleanup of the year,
no matter what happens.
I'm hoping it's 30 ounces.
- [Kevin] That sure looks like a lot, man.
- [Kris] Are you ready?
Here we go.
Now, we need to see...
- [Kevin] Drumroll.
- [Kris] ...30 ounces.
Come on, baby.
Three and a half, four...
five, six, seven...
That's what we got.
[narrator] 14.26 ounces
is worth a little over 25 grand.
A nice chunk of change,
but still shy of what
Kris and Kevin need
to make their payments
on the Mistress.
[Kevin] How many
hours was that for?
I don't know how
many actual hours,
because the [bleep] generator
turned off every 40 minutes
and we had to let it run down.
You know what? I'm sorry
I got you into this, Kevin.
I swear to God I
thought we were gonna
- k*ll it this year, buddy.
- Yeah.
[Kevin] 14... you know,
at the end of the day
we learned a lot, and we
gotta take this experience
and use it to our knowledge,
and knowledge is gold.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, I learned so
much over the last ten [bleep] years
- I should be a billionaire.
- Yeah.
- I'm bummed.
- [man speaking]
God, but you know what?
[bleep], those are
[bleep], losers get nothing.
Losers get nothing. I want
my million [bleep] dollars.
Look, the truth is, everybody,
season's coming to an end,
but you know what?
It's not over for me yet.
I am desperate, I
need that money,
and we're gonna make it happen.
- We're going. I'm desperate.
- I hear you.
[Kris] The harbor's icing, it's
supposed to be 18 degrees.
I don't really give a [bleep], I need
to push it one more to make this work.
You know? Like, uh,
let's not give up right now.
We still have a little
time to make this work.
So here's the insane headline.
We're going back out, in
Diesel Don got the excavator
fixed, so we can do it.
The Mistress will likely
struggle in these conditions.
It could be an absolute disaster
trying to get out of the icy harbor.
Bottom line, I need the gold.
So this could be the dumbest
thing I've ever done, or genius.
But one thing I know,
Reaper Nation lives.
Okay, I'll see everybody later.
[Gabe laughing on radio]
[man speaking]
[Gabe speaking]
[Zeke] You've been down
about four hours at this point.
- You did good!
- [Gabe on radio]
[narrator] Third time's
the charm for the team,
as Gabe Tenhoff
completes leg number three
of the diving marathon.
Fore!
That's a hole in one. [laughs]
[narrator] And despite
increasing winds...
the team prepares
for diver number four.
[Zeke] Oh, yeah,
we're ready to roll.
This day has been
going phenomenal.
We've got three solid dives in,
tons of material
through the box.
Now, even though the
winds are coming up,
Shem's gonna get down there,
bring the hammer down onto
that bottom and clean it all up.
- [Shem] Whoo!
- [Zeke] Yeah.
[Zeke] Towards the left is where the
meat of all the ground I moved was,
there should be some
interesting material there.
[Shem on radio] Whoo!
Whoo!
[Zeke] All right, buddy,
you're at four hours right now.
[Shem speaking]
[Zeke] We're pretty much
calling it now. We gave her hell.
[Shem speaking]
[screaming]
[Zeke] All right, yeah,
um, let's get out of here.
Good to go.
[Shem imitating Porky Pig]
[stammers] That's all, folks!
[Zeke speaking]
Putting the gold in the
box. [bleep] awesome.
How's your boo?
How's your boo-boo?
[narrator] While
Zeke closes up shop,
13 miles east...
[Jane speaking]
[narrator] After seven
hours under the water,
another crew is calling
it a wrap on the season.
[Jeff speaking]
- [Jane laughs]
- It's so good.
[Jeff] Oh, my God.
Oh, [bleep].
It feels real good to
get a dive like that in.
- [Jane] Aw.
- Yeah, that's money in the box.
- [Jeff] It's gonna look good.
- [Jane] I'm really excited to see it.
[narrator] As waters
calm in the darkness,
there's still one
rig left on the water.
[Vernon] Hey, Brian?
[Brian on radio]
[Vernon] You've been down
for four hours. How you feeling?
[Brian on radio]
[Vernon] Roger that.
We're gonna pull you.
Hook up the line to the nozzle
and we will pull it up, okay?
[Brian speaking]
[narrator] After pushing
his crew well into the night,
the captain's finally ready to
throw in the towel on summer.
[Vernon] I'm proud of our team.
Brian kept going into the night,
hell, he could
barely see anything.
When you're on gold and
it's the last day of the season,
you give it
everything you've got,
and that's exactly
what these guys did.
Hey, you know,
that's all right, I mean,
[Vernon] Today went really well.
We had one snafu
with the, uh, the hose,
and ended up wrestling with that
son of a b*tch for about two hours.
But the net result was positive.
We ended up with a better rig.
[man] That should be it.
[Vernon] This summer
has been just, um, I mean,
it's been a constant blow.
We've been beat down to
the point where we're numb,
but I'm predicting, uh,
we'll come out of this season
with smiles on our faces.
All right. Good day.
Tomorrow we'll do a cleanup
and then, you know,
hopefully, um, we did good.
It's all over but the
cleaning of the gold.
Hopefully it'll be the biggest of
the year and we can end strong.
Getting at least 60
ounces, scoring a profit,
and chapping a good pay
streak to start the winter.
It's been a tough season, but
that would certainly redeem it.
Oh, yeah. That's checking out.
[narrator] As a new day
dawns on the Bering Sea...
[Kris] The harbor is freezing
over, let's check how thick the ice is.
Bam, there we go, that's easy.
We'll break right
through that. [laughs]
I'll cut through
that like nothing.
[narrator] The harbor is iced in
as temperatures plummet.
And the miners have all
shut down for the season
except for one.
We're gonna keep pushing
on until the bitter end,
but the [bleep] bitter end's
knocking on the door, man.
I can't believe we're getting
back on the Mistress, baby!
Yeah! One last chance.
[Kris] Say, 27 degrees,
the old Kris would've
said we're done.
But this is the new
Kris we're looking at.
We're not [bleep] done until I
get my gold out of this ocean.
Yes, the harbor's
filled with ice.
Yes, we're the only boat
out here in the Bering Sea.
Yes, I'm out of my mind
pushing it one more day.
But I don't have enough gold.
If I gave up now, I won't be
able to make my payment.
That would mean
the end of the Mistress
and the end of
the Reaper Nation.
I refuse, with every ounce of
my body, to let that happen.
Okay, let's go!
Nice and smooth,
baby, nice and smooth.
A storm is supposed
to come in tomorrow,
this is, without
question, my last chance.
I need a flawless day
out on the Mistress
and that just hasn't happened.
But there is a first for everything,
it just needs to be today.
- Okay, start it!
- [motor starting]
[Kris] Okay, let's go.
Okay, let's do the first
temp pan of the day.
This, right here,
this is how cold it is.
Ahhh!
I didn't expect that.
Wow. It's so cold, it's brittle.
Well, that sucks.
There goes my bin.
Go get me another bin.
Now that's a good
temp pan for the day.
We're gonna make gold, baby!
[Kris] Literally, we're gonna
stay here till we get pushed off.
2:00 in the morning,
We have no choice,
unfortunately, this year.
I mean, we spent so much
[bleep] money on this boat this year.
We haven't made, we're not
even trying to make a dollar,
we're trying to finish off
the season paying our bills.
[Kris] We'll push hard,
and we'll make the, we'll make
close to 20 ounce, like 20 grand.
[Kevin] Let us make no mistake,
we are digging for
our lives right now.
[Kris] We'll get 20 ounces.
We'll get 20 ounces.
[Kevin] We're digging for
the future of the operation.
Gonna make us or break us.
[Zeke speaking]
[man] For sure.
[growling]
[Zeke speaking]
[narrator] After a
legendary four-diver day,
Zeke Tenoff's hoping for a
legendary number on the scale.
[laughs]
[Zeke] It's great to
see this much gold.
I haven't seen this
much gold in a long time.
It's so much that we asked
Shawn to borrow his gold root.
They have all the rocks, and all
around, the team totally crushed it.
Doing four dives in a day
was a pretty crazy
proposition, but we did it.
And we're ready
to reap the rewards.
So I kinda have a good idea for, like,
how much ground we've moved in that area.
And I'm excited to see
what that equates to.
All right, boys, are you ready?
Ready? We're ready, Freddy.
[narrator] 14.95 ounces
is worth over $26,000,
bringing the Mad
Scientist's season haul
to nearly 42 ounces,
worth over 70 grand.
And while not hitting
his 50-ounce goal,
it is his highest total
in over five years.
[Zeke speaking]
That's what we wanna be doing.
Kinda feel like I uncovered
the secret of gold mining.
Four dives in one day.
If you just do that every time,
you'll make a fortune.
But seriously, this has been
a great way to end the season.
I'm really proud of what
we've accomplished.
[howling]
[Zeke] And I think we're on a really good
spot setting us forward for next season.
Yeah.
Yeah, [bleep].
[bleep] off, go kiss my a*s.
[laughs]
[narrator] Back at the dock...
We're about to do the
cleaning part of the gold,
and I've had a really good
time working with Jeff and Eddie,
so it'll be fun to,
like, see, like, um,
the results of it all.
[narrator] After an
Emily-less day on the water,
it's time to find
out if Captain Jane
goes strong for the Eroica team.
Yeah, I mean, we've
been on some good gold,
be interesting to
see what it turns into.
I'm bummed I wasn't out
there on the last run, but,
hopefully Jane and
the crew crushed it.
It's a weird way to
cap off a strong season,
by not being out there, but...
Uh, hey, if there's gold in
the box, that's all that matters.
[Jane speaking]
- Aww, there you go, yeah.
- [Emily laughs]
Yeah, the weird
thing is she's leaving.
- [Eddie] Jane.
- [Jane] Eddie.
[Eddie speaking]
- [Emily and Jeff in pirate accent] R!
- No, it's the C.
[Jane] I'll remember that one.
You know what,
Jeff is hilarious.
You and Eddie are
just frickin' hilarious.
I don't think I've laughed
this much in a long time.
It's definitely
been an adventure,
but winter's coming.
[Emily] I mean, there's
a lot of signals here.
The harvest freezing, snowing,
wind is blowing, wind
chill's pretty serious.
The end is nigh here.
[Jeff] Oh, I see some gold.
Oh, my gosh.
[Emily] Sweet!
I smell gold from miles away.
And so I just [sniffs]... There
was a clean-up going on,
so I hunted around
and end up at Emmy's.
So I'm here crashing
the gold weighing party.
- How's the coffee?
- [Jane] Sweet.
- Is it? Can I have some?
- Mmm-hmm.
- Dad, you can't just drink somebody's coffee.
- It's all right.
Oh, that's good.
- Yeah, mmm!
- Vanilla latte, extra shot.
- You can actually finish it.
- Mmm.
[Emily] All right, Dad. We're
weighing the gold, everybody.
Four, five, six,
seven, come on!
Emmy needs a new shirt.
- Seventeen, nineteen.
- [Jeff] Come on!
- [Emily groans] Twe...
- [pan clinking]
[narrator] 19.4 ounces
banks the expecting mom $35,000,
and brings her season
total to 254 ounces.
Worth over $458,000.
Surpassing her
goal and then some.
All right, sweet,
that's awesome, guys.
- High fives all around.
- Yeah.
- Good job.
- Good, good.
I don't know Dad's
high-fiving us.
- I'm here for moral support.
- Cheer up, cheerleader.
High fives are
cheerleader, that's what I do.
- Yeah.
- That's what Steve was really working back here.
- Just...
- All right.
[Emily] Hey, it's
a great season.
I have an awesome
husband, a baby on the way,
and, uh, Jane came in.
She's making the
team much better.
And we hit our goal.
These are the ounces I
need for me and my family.
Not just about me anymore
and it never will be again.
This is the perfect
foundation to start with.
Gotta teach that
baby how to dive.
Put on a wetsuit and go to work.
So this, what we're
doing, what we're mining,
it's, it's more
valuable than ever.
And it's going to a really
good place, you know?
It's great to be able to
support a family like this.
- [Jeff speaking] -
Cocaine and hookers.
This isn't just or cocaine
and hookers anymore.
Maybe just a little bit.
[narrator] Back
out on the water...
[Andy]
[Kevin] Yeah, nice buckets.
[narrator] Kris Kelly and
the crew of the Mistress
have the Bering
Sea all to themselves,
and so far, they're
making a gallon.
So everything's going
good, everything's good.
This is what I was hoping for.
Already six hours
straight of mining
nothing breaking, no limp mode,
no half-closed buckets,
no generator shutting down.
Just work, professional
mining, boo-yah, baby.
[bangs]
[screams]
[Kris] I don't know
how that happened.
Don't worry, it'll be fine.
So a spray bar's
busted, who cares?
We have a bunch that still work.
More than enough to keep going.
If the Bering Sea gods
want to shut my season down,
they have to bring
it harder than that.
Piss off.
Um, whatever.
It is what it is.
We're gonna keep out here
unless something bigger breaks.
Can't stop making that gold.
[Bryan] Blues box was frozen and
we couldn't even get the carpets out
we had to run hot
water through it.
Done freeze all the carpets.
When it's time to
go, it's time to go.
Yeah, this carpet's
still kinda frozen.
[narrator] After maximizing
every minute on hot gold...
- [Bryan] Look at it go!
- [Vernon] Hell yeah.
[narrator] ...Captain Vernon
Adkinson is eager to see
summer's last
payday hit the scale.
[Vernon] Looking
pretty damn good.
This season was
not what I envisioned.
It was a struggle,
no doubt about it.
But today, my crew
came up to the plate,
and crushed the
snot out of the ball.
If we can get at least
five ounces today,
break 60 total, it'll be
a profitable season.
- [Bryan] Oh, hell no. Look at
that... - Look at that right there.
- [Bryan] That one's big, man.
- [Gary] Yep.
And it'll mean despite
everything, we've persevered,
and Claim 56 is
still moneymaker.
Nice and hot.
- There we go.
- Let's weigh it up and see what it came out to.
[Bryan] Yeah, ready?
Here we go.
One, two.
- Seven, still going.
- [Bryan] Eight.
Eight.
Nine.
- 10.1. Woo!
- 10.1.
- [Gary] 10.1. Wow.
- All right.
That's the kind of day I like.
[narrator] 10.1 ounces
is worth over $18,000.
Bringing the salty
skipper's final summer tally
to 65 ounces
worth over $117,000.
It's not how you start,
it's how you finish,
and we ended on a hot streak.
Did we hit 300 ounces?
Did we threaten Shawn's
regime as king of Nome?
Not this time.
- All right.
- [Bryan] Bottle this up?
[Vernon] But all the ingredients
are there for a huge future run,
and we're primed
perfectly for winter.
It's gonna be lit.
You guys did a hella good
job just in the little time we had.
It's about the best
you can ask for.
That's like Claim 56
- blowing us a farewell kiss for the season.
- [Gary] There you go.
- Teaser for next year.
- Yo.
- Yeah, we know where to go and get the rest of that.
- [Bryan] Yeah.
We got it, we got it marked.
Come winter time I know
right where I'm going.
Bag it and tag it.
[Bryan] Bag it and tag it.
- Good job, guys.
- [Bryan] All right.
[narrator] As the Mistress
makes it past midnight...
[Kris] We are on some
hot [bleep] right now.
Gold is stacking up.
[narrator] Captain Kris
Kelly's got one eye on the box...
Just checking everything over.
Anything out of the
ordinary that's obvious.
Then it becomes a concern.
[narrator] ...and
one eye on his ship.
[Kris] I'm pushing myself hard.
I'm pushing the crew hard.
I'm pushing the Mistress hard.
Just to get these last
few ounces we need.
Just going around double checking
things to make sure we're okay.
Everything's okay.
With James gone,
ultimately the seaworthiness
of the Mistress falls on me,
and we're the only nutbags
on the water right now.
If something goes wrong,
there's no one that can help us.
That means right now I have to
be extra careful with this barge.
Otherwise, I could risk
the lives of my crew.
It's a fine line.
[Kevin] We're excited,
we're making gold.
We're the only ones out here
making gold, baby, in the cold.
Making gold in the cold.
Uh, nice going, great.
Uh, we're past midnight
now. So we're on the...
- [metal rippling]
- Oh, God.
[bleep]
- Oh, that shouldn't be like that.
- That's not good.
[metal rattling]
[Kris] Be careful.
[Kris] We broke off one of
the seals on the excavator.
Our guard, we just
welded that guard on today,
we did it kind of quick.
We didn't really do
a good job welding it.
We barely tapped it with
a bucket and it came off.
Sign of Daniel
getting a little tired.
[Kris] Everybody's tired.
We've had a really
long stressful day.
Okay, the truth
is, this is the truth.
Um, we're the last
boat on the Bering Sea.
I'm not taking any more risks.
So that's it.
Losing the guard rail
won't keep me from mining,
but my crew is exhausted.
They should be. We've been out
If I keep pushing
this any longer,
I run the risk of
getting into real trouble.
We had a great day,
let's end on a high note.
As captain, I have
to shut it down.
Call it a season.
And I hope to God we
have enough gold to make it.
All in all,
put aside a couple
problems today,
we had a great day,
everybody worked well together.
And we k*lled it, we got
a lot of gold in the box.
That's all that [bleep] matters.
I think we did well,
but I am beat, I'm tired, I'm
gonna sleep good tonight.
[Kris] It was a tough
year, I'm glad it's over.
[Emily] Been messaging Jane
Kilcher, she's a classical pianist,
and I'm a classical singer, and so I've
been trying to get her to jam with me.
Like I've been like seeing her out
at the bar and I was like, "Hey, Jane,
let's jam, let's hang out."
So like I kinda like
had like a friend crush
on Jane and I was gonna like
make the friendship happen,
and eventually I got to her.
[muffled] Uh-oh,
what's this part?
- Will you die?
- No, that's fine, that's fine.
- Oh, it's so great to jam with you, finally.
- It's my favorite "Ave."
How many years? I think
I went up to you in the bar
like years ago and I'm like,
And you're like,
"Oh, another fan."
No! I wasn't like that.
I just, we didn't see
each other for a while.
No, I'm just giving
you a hard time.
[Jane] Ready.
'Kay.
[Emily singing "Ave Maria"]
- [continues singing]
- [wind blowing]
[Shawn] Last run of the season,
we need to make this one count.
[narrator] The Myrtle may
be docked in the harbor,
but the gold dust has
yet to settle on the season.
As Mr. Gold uncovers
his final bounty.
[Shawn] I had a lot of little
gremlins that kind of plagued us
at the beginning of the season.
But towards the end,
we got her dialed in.
Pretty damn good.
All we needed was
time on the box,
got it all chewed up.
Regardless of how it pans out,
I know I did everything
I could this season.
Pushed it and pushed it.
Now it's up to the
Bering Sea gods.
Hopefully the final
layout will be what I need.
Finish strong.
Make a bunch, pile it up.
Here we go, boys.
Let's see what we got.
Hooey.
There's 20, 30.
Seventy, 80, 90, there's a 100.
There we go, come on.
Two-hundred.
Two-twenty.
[bowl clinks]
[whistles]
Two-twenty-seven.
Nice job, guys.
[narrator] Two hundred
twenty seven ounces
rings in at over 400 grand
and brings Shawn's season
haul to 3,018.5 ounces.
Worth a staggering $5.4 million.
Time to put it
in the pickle jar.
Overall...
I'm happy.
We're sitting really
good for next year.
Now this is a good feeling.
Despite all the crap
that went on this season,
and there was a lot
of it, we pulled it off.
There's 20,000.
Twenty-thousand.
Ching, ching, ching.
It's summers like these
that boost your confidence.
And I'm rearing
to go for winter.
Here we go, woo-woo!
All right, let's wrap. Let's
get the hell out of here.
No more gold until this winter.
Getting there, you get
everything out of here into my igloo
so we can start really
getting the gold out of here.
[narrator] After braving
the icy sea an extra day,
and pushing into the night,
it's judgement
day for Kris Kelly.
Look at that, buddy.
Wow.
Look at the gold.
Look at that. Yeah, baby!
The magic's here.
Look at Christmas time, baby.
That's one present,
that's one car.
That's a house bay, man.
- That's some gas. Gold!
- Yeah, that is a lot of gold.
That is a lot of gold, Kris.
[Kris] Yeah, okay, good.
[Kevin] Holy moly! All
the way through, look!
- Look at this find.
- At least Kevin's happy.
You know, it's always nice when
the guy that puts up the money
for the whole adventure is smiling.
[Kevin] Wow.
Come to Papa.
[Kris] So, it's pretty simple.
We need at least 30
ounces to make our payment
and keep Reaper Nation afloat.
We got a little over
and that didn't cut it.
So when everybody else pulled
their boats out for this season,
we went back out one last time.
It wasn't easy, but
hopefully we got enough gold
to survive and keep
the dream alive.
[Kevin] Oh, my God.
Look at how much
gold is in this track.
Boo!
[Kris] Kevin is already celebrating
like we got this in the bag.
I'm superstitious, I
think that's bad luck.
[Kevin] Boo!
That is awesome.
At least we go clean when
smelting when we get home.
[Kris] The gold
looks pretty good.
But never count your
chickens before they're hatched.
That looks, wow, Kristopher!
Told you we were on point.
I've never seen a mountain poured
on a piece of paper like that before.
- [Andy] It changed his attitude.
- [Kevin] Oh, dude.
[Kris] Okay, here we go, people,
we need 20 ounces to make this.
[Kevin] Okay, we got one, two.
Three, four, five.
We're at 12.
- [Andy] Twelve?
- Thirteen, fourteen.
- Fourteen, 15, 16, 17.
- There's got to be 20 ounces.
- Eighteen, 19, keep going, 20.
- [Andy] Going past 20.
- Twenty-one, 25, Kris.
- [scale beeps rapidly]
[Kevin screams]
- Overload, overload!
- [scale continues beeping]
- Overload, we tipped the scales.
- [Kris exclaiming]
[Kevin] At 25, it shut off so
we don't know what we got.
So the scale only
went to 25 ounces
which is a [bleep] amazing problem which
means that we have more than 25 ounces.
Pour it out and
then we'll do it again.
Okay, here we go.
So I'm gonna put 20
in this jar right here.
And then we'll weigh
whatever's left after 20 ounces.
And that'll tell me...
- What we got.
- [Andy] That's what needs getting.
[Kris] 'Kay, here we go.
[Kevin] That's it.
- [Kris] There you go, 20.
- [Kevin] On the money.
- Let me change the cup, Kris, yeah?
- [Kris] Change cups.
[Kevin] Here we go,
let's see what we got.
Okay.
[Kevin] One.
Three.
Four, five, six.
- Seven.
- Come on, come on.
- Thirty, 30, 30!
- Come on, come on!
Come on!
- Oh, 28.
- [Kevin] 28.06.
[narrator] 28.06 ounces
is worth over $50,000.
Bringing their season
total to 87.73 ounces.
Kris and Kevin will
meet their payment,
and Reaper Nation will
live to fight another day.
- Oh, Kristopher.
- Oh, it was a bad year.
[all yelling]
Yay, we did it, Kris!
At the end of the
year, we did it, bro.
- We have a gold mine.
- [Kevin] Oh, yes, baby.
So was it the 500 ounce
season I envisioned?
Did we threaten Shawn
for top spot in Nome?
No, not even close.
In the end, we did
what we had to do.
We dug deep and despite
everything being brought at us,
we cannot be k*lled.
Reaper Nation will live forever.
[Kevin] I'm ready
to call it a season
- and I'm ready to hit it hard next year.
- Yeah.
You know, it didn't come through
like he said it was gonna come through.
- I'm sorry.
- [Kevin] But at the end of the day,
it wasn't a lack of
effort from Kris's part.
- Next year, it'll be 1,000 ounces.
- [Kris] Yeah.
It will!
[narrator] And just like that,
another summer is in the books.
Here come the big one.
[narrator] Sure, we
had our challenges.
Come on!
We're not moving.
[narrator] But we
had some fun too.
Yeah!
[narrator] We made
some new friends...
Show off my gold spandex.
What do you say, Bertie?
[narrator] ...and caught
up with a few old ones.
I literally had to [bleep] in
a plastic bag this morning.
[narrator] Yes, things
got a little dicey at times.
We need to abandon ship.
- Let's go!
- I don't give a...
[narrator] Even a little rowdy.
But in the end,
it was still a summer
filled with gold.
All right, sweet, that was
awesome, guys. High-fives.
A lot of work goes into
that pile of gold, right there.
It's like...
[Zeke laughs]
[Andy yells]
Overload! Overload!
Yeah, yeah!
- [Kris] We have a gold mine.
- [Kevin] Oh, yes, baby!
[Vernon] All right, guys, we'll
have enough to go home with.
I wish it'd have been more.
We have a pile of gold.
[narrator] Next season
on Bering Sea Gold ...
The ice is screwed up this year.
It jumbled all to hell and back.
That's the worst
I've seen of it.
[man] We're on the ice!
Good to go.
It's time to mine.
Go, team, go.
There's machines
ready to go in the water.
Okay, let's see this work.
Looks good.
How's the light under there?
I want to prove to my
Dad I can do this by myself.
Wow.
Look at this.
[exclaims] Yeah!
Let's go, man.
- Go!
- Woo! [bleep]!
Big huge chunks
of ice coming down.
No, no, no. This is very bad.
Very bad, very bad.
[Vernon] Yes.
I think a heart
doctor's what I need.
[Vernon pants]
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15x10 - Last Miner Standing
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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.