[Mike over radio] Good morning, fleet.
As you know, ice mining is never easy.
And now, your new missions, if you choose to accept them,
will push you to the brink.
Testing out new equipment.
Oh!
And here it is,
your first glimpse of what I'm trying to explain.
[Mike over radio] Breaking in rookie divers.
I'm pretty nervous 'cause he doesn't know how to swim.
[Jeff] You got this, dude.
[Mike over radio] And battling record thick ice.
[Eddie] Some of these chunks are moving.
[Mike over radio] Will you ultimately succeed?
This is gonna be the game-changer for us,
our million dollars in mining.
[Mike over radio] Or will you find these assignments...
All right.
[Eddie struggling]
[Mike over radio] ...impossible?
Pull him up.
[Mike over radio] By the way...
Eddie!
...this episode will self-destruct.
[Kris] Today's the big day I've been waiting for.
Finally, my crawler gets in.
Honestly, it's better late than never.
Yeah, at least it's got here.
About [bleep] time.
[Mike] After a brutal summer campaign...
It's gonna be amazing,
everything's gonna work,
everything's gonna be great.
[Mike] The special delivery could be the game changer
for Kris Kelly.
[bleeping]
Man, I hope this works about as much as I want it to.
That would be nice.
I'm not gonna lie.
This winter has sucked so far.
I'm looking to get 50 ounces right now
to make up for last year's [bleep]-show.
So far, we got nothing.
But now, that's all gonna change.
Here we go, baby! This is it.
This is gonna be the game-changer for us,
this is gonna make us our million dollars in mining.
We just gotta make this work.
It's time to unleash my master plan for success.
The gold trawl is finally here.
This thing is gonna drive across the ocean floor
and suck up gold.
Moving, like, five times more efficiently
than a human ever could.
And it never gets tired.
Now that it's here,
it's time to get this top secret weapon ready.
Okay, we got that taken care of.
He's gonna bring the forklift
and just drop it off for me.
I am very excited
and I'm very worried at the same time.
This is gonna revolutionize mining as we know it!
Oh, here it comes!
I gotta go!
[Mission: Impossible music playing]
[vocalizing] Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do...
[Kris continues vocalizing]
[song climaxes and ends]
Thank you very much, guys! Thank you very much!
There it is, baby!
-It's really here. -[heavenly music]
This [bleep] is, um...
-Really put together? -[record scratch, music ends]
It's really put together, dude.
We need a screw gun and we need a ratchet.
Man, all my tools are at the [bleep].
If we had a crowbar...
-You know? -If we had a crowbar...
Take all this apart.
If we had a crowbar right now.
Okay, let's just go get this [bleep].
Let's go.
Let's do it!
And here it is.
-[triumphant music playing] -Your first glimpse
of what I'm trying to explain.
[sensual music playing]
Pretty amazing.
Oh! That's actually...
pretty nice.
Let's [bleep] get this thing out of here.
A little bit of assembly required.
It's gonna be a little more of a process
than I thought.
[drilling]
It's gonna be a pain in the ass.
This is where you do a time-lapse.
What I'm trying to do,
I'm trying to take this red thing
out of this black thing.
Okay? And it's impossible
because it's really, really, really [bleep] heavy, dude.
It's a puzzle.
Watch out, Andy.
Do not go, everybody.
Okay, hold on.
-It's perfect! -Now, what?
[Kris] So, good news and bad news.
The good news, the crawler's here
and Reaper Nation is absolutely gonna dominate.
The bad news?
Getting everything unpacked,
getting the crawler set up,
that's gonna take a few minutes.
Or more.
Hey, hold on.
Hey, we're bringing it cock-eyed.
Let's straighten it back out.
Maybe a lot more.
Ready? One, two, three.
-Okay, stop. -Oh, yeah!
That's gonna be a cinch.
We got the crawler unpacked.
We got the cage off.
We exposed the gold trawl,
and everything's moving great.
So far, so good.
[bleep] Damn!
Look how big this [bleep] thing is, huh?
[Mike] While Kris readies his secret weapon...
Heck, yeah! Beautiful day out.
[Mike] ...Mr. Gold's arsenal
is already deployed for his latest mission.
I took a gamble coming to the East Tract,
but it's been paying off nice.
I'm on a great pay street
that I'm hoping we get to ride out all winter.
But I'm gonna gamble a little bit more.
We gotta move to follow this pay street,
and it's moving us into some of the thickest ice I've seen in years.
With the old ways of drilling holes,
there'd be no chance in hell of getting through this.
Hopefully, with this mini excavator,
we have a chance.
Whoo!
Yeah.
Ice this thick
presents all sorts of challenges.
It's hard to see the dive hole
because the ice is so thick all round it.
There's jagged chunks of ice that could snag you,
there's sheet ice moving at the bottom
that could come off and block the hole
and prevent you from getting back out.
We're definitely rolling some dice here.
With other guys like Chris McCully doing well out here,
I really gotta push to stay ahead.
All right, some big chunks down here...
God, it's sketchy.
I made it to the bottom.
What do you think of that ice up top?
Wow.
Some of these chunks are...
I feel like they're only 10 feet away from me.
It's not the most ideal situation to be in.
A lot of people would see that ice and turn around and run.
But I best, uh...
best try not to think about it.
Yep, just gotta keep your eyes on the gold.
I've had that happen before.
Looks like there's some fresh ground
out in front of us here, Joel.
Looks pretty promising out there, eh?
[Shawn over radio] Yeah.
I see all these big rocks over here,
I wanna get into them.
See what the hell's underneath them.
Quite a few big rocks down here.
Man, they're packed in here pretty good, too.
All those big, round rocks resist movement
like to hold the gold.
[Shawn over radio] Yeah, they do.
[Shawn speaking]
[bleep], yeah.
[Shawn over radio]
[Mike] Attention, miners.
Each of you will be getting your own assignment.
If you fail to deliver,
you will be left out in the cold.
[Zeke speaking]
[Mike] Zeke Tenhoff's got his plan for the today.
And he can't afford any cracks...
or leaks.
I'm super stoked.
Just melting the hole, you know.
We know that there's a goal on this hole that we're on now.
It's possible that this hole is pretty close to being done,
so I wanna try to finish it out this dive.
It's taking time to get this new operation and this new crew on its feet.
So I'm gonna be extra careful about every move that I make.
My intuition tells me that the gold's gonna be
quite a bit better as we move down this pressure ridge.
But I don't wanna move until we've gotten
every last flake
from this hole that we're on now.
That's why I'm gonna do it myself.
It's gotta be done really efficiently,
and I'm not sure if the rest of the team
is quite at that level yet.
Hey, how's the vis down there, Zeke?
[Zeke] Yeah, it's really murky right here.
[Zeke over radio]
I just gotta scout it out and see where it looks best.
There's a lot of patches of frozen gravel
that are kinda difficult, but...
This is the stuff I like, this gravel.
Are you seeing any greasy little flakes?
[Zeke] I've seen some gold here and there.
Yeah. Right there, right there...
Yeah, there's gold in here.
[crewmember] Nice.
[Zeke speaking]
The sheer volume that Zeke can move
it's intense, like...
Nate and I are just novices comparatively,
and Zeke is like a powerhouse.
I mean, he could probably do an entire hole by himself in two days.
So, I'm really stoked to get on the new hole.
I mean, we're starting to get frozen in here a bit.
[Zeke] I know there's a lot more gold down here.
I wanna put in some hours.
[Zeke over radio]
[crewmember] Awesome, man.
[Zeke over radio]
[Mike] Across the ice...
[Eddie] Everything's working.
Yeah.
[Mike] ...captain in training Jane Kilcher's on a mission...
All the way down, Eddie!
Yeah.
[Mike] ...to bring one of her crew members
up through the ranks.
'Excited' is not the word I'm thinking of.
[Jane] It's my job to run this operation,
because that's what Emily asked me to do.
So far, no go.
So I'm sticking my neck out a bit.
I'm gonna have Eddie join the dive team,
so hopefully we can have more hours on the box
moving forward.
Eddie has some diving experience.
But when it comes to diving into the ice,
he has about as much as me,
which is zero.
It'll be cool finally to...
to get down and get some more dive time for us
and put more gold in the box.
I mean, I feel bad
'cause I've been making Jeff do all the work.
But now it's just,
get down there already.
It's gonna be fun.
Basically, it's a big day.
I'm pretty nervous 'cause he doesn't know how to swim.
And we haven't really had, like, a dive go without a hitch.
Like, there's always been a little something.
I'm sure he's nervous, but he's acting all tough.
We're just gonna do our best.
Hopefully get a good dive.
And hopefully he feels comfortable under there
so we have two divers instead of one.
We just gotta get him in the water.
[Eddie] Here we are.
First dive, so...
It's time to get it.
-Keep your hose steady... -[laughing]
Slow, hang out on the chain, you know...
Since Jeff is such an experienced diver,
I wanna have him take the lead with Eddie.
Talk to him, prep him, get him ready.
Because if it were me, I would be like...
"Why are you diving under the ice?
Are you insane? Do you have a death wish?"
And that would be very, very counterproductive.
I'll drop down in and see how I feel.
We got all day, we got all night.
Take it slow and steady, and we'll go from there, bud.
Okay.
-Whoo! -[laughing] Come on!
I'm ready!
[Jeff laughing] You're here.
[Jane speaking]
I don't know.
Maybe do just a couple hours
and then come up, grab a bite,
see how I feel.
Oh... well...
-Oh! Right. -[all laughing]
[Jeff] How's the air feeling? Pretty good?
[Jeff] Okay, copy.
Step, step.
[Jane] Oh, my goodness.
Oh, yeah.
[grunting]
[Jeff] All right, go ahead, Eddie.
Nice and slow, bud.
You got this, dude.
[Jeff over radio] Grab the chain.
[Eddie speaking]
[Jeff over radio] Remember, go down about six, seven, eight feet.
Don't go any farther.
You good?
[Eddie over radio]
[Jeff over radio] Take your time, man. Don't rush.
[Eddie] Going down a little further.
[Jeff over radio] Copy. How's it going?
[Eddie] It's okay, it's...
I feel a lot of pressure, man.
[bleep]
Just working my head back and forth,
just testing if I can...
...all this damn pressure, man.
Yeah? Then just come back up a little bit.
[Eddie speaking]
[grunts with effort]
Atta boy!
Going to work, jefe!
[Jeff over radio] Yay!
You're okay?
He's on the nozzle.
[Jeff over radio] You see the big tailing pile?
[Eddie] What's that?
[Jeff over radio] You see the tailing pile?
[Eddie speaking]
Your water's 122, your air's at 115.
[Eddie] Okay.
Hang on.
We're getting gold, boys.
[Jeff over radio] Atta boy!
[Eddie] All right, that was a pretty good, tidy little nugget.
[Eddie inhaling over radio]
I feel like this mask is climbing off my face.
What'd you say, bud?
Man, I think this mask is slipping off of my face.
[Jeff] You okay?
Oh, [bleep].
Oh.
[Eddie over radio] Is this supposed...
[Jeff] Eddie!
Pull him up.
[wind rushing]
[Eddie] Oh, [bleep].
[groans]
[Eddie over radio] Is this supposed...
[Jeff] Eddie!
Pull him up.
Eddie!
[Jane] Oh, my gosh.
[Jeff]You okay?
Hold on, just give him a sec.
[Eddie] It's a lot of pressure.
You just couldn't equalize?
I mean, I got there.
That was close.
And it's definitely not something I'm used to.
Having Eddie have, like, an emergency situation,
that's pretty scary.
Luckily, nothing bad happened.
It could have been a lot worse.
I'm telling you!
It goes from here... to here pretty quick.
That's, it was...
And I kept trying to adjust the top
and it wouldn't--
'Cause what you're doing, if you're pulling the top too tight,
-then it's pulling it forward. -I know, I know.
So...
[Jane speaking]
Yeah, you gotta have a different mask.
Obviously.
-[Jeff] Isn't it? -Holy [bleep].
I could see it.
It was working, I don't...
And I mean, I got to the bottom,
I'm like, "Okay, cool."
And then I, like, I stood up,
I'm like, "Uh-oh."
Uh-oh!
The mask don't fit, the mask don't fit.
One size fits all, my ass.
What!
-[laughs mischievously] -Yeah!
[Jeff] Safety first.
A lot of bad things could happen
if the mask, you know, slid off his face,
you know, or anything like that.
And it definitely puts you in a...
pretty panicked situation, so...
We just need to find some different gear for Eddie.
And...
Bottom line: being in charge of an ice-mining operation is no joke.
I'm honestly not sure of how I'm doing at this point.
We have no gold, and there's been major issues with both dives.
It needs to get better and fast.
The whole time, I just felt like I was fighting my mask to keep it on my face.
It was just... It was slipping right off, and it was kind of freaking me out.
I gotta find a mask that'll fit this handsome face, you know?
Oh, God. I was not happy today at all.
I was nervous for Eddie. but no one got hurt.
That's good.
Hopefully, tomorrow's a better day.
So, yeah. Let's just get things buttoned up.
We'll get out here early in the morning, and we'll hit it again.
Give the old call a try.
[narrator] Back in Nome...
Anything could happen right now. What will happen next?
[narrator] ...the Kellys are completely revolutionizing their operation...
[Kris] How?
[narrator] ...ff they can only figure out the instructions.
Mmm. Very strange. Very strange.
Well, if we have to drill through it, we have to drill through it.
The issue is the map is off on all of the pole holes.
The skis are gonna go together.
It is what it is.
Skis are gonna help us transport the operation on the ice.
But the instructions don't make sense.
I'm sure when secret agents get their schematics in blueprints,
they don't get it right on the first time.
And that's all that's happening here.
This weapon will take us straight to the top.
We just gotta figure out how to put it together.
Next on the agenda is: we're gonna get the plastic on the skis.
The hose has a 75-foot radius. That's half of the diameter.
So you gotta do some math right now 'cause this is where it's gonna excel.
75 foot radius. So that's times 3.14.
That's, like, 230 feet of area
that we're gonna [bleep] cleanout per hole.
Oh, yeah, baby!
-Hey, Vernon. -Howdy.
[Kris] Vernon came by to check out my crawler.
I know he's just drinking the haterade.
He actually had one in the past, and it was a joke.
[Vernon] Oh, man.
Oh!
[exclaiming]
Vernon's the last guy I really want advice from on this subject,
and mine's, like, ten generations more advanced than his was.
But, hey, I'll show the guy some top-of-the-line technology.
-So what do you think of this badass little thing? -I like it.
It really got a bunch of bells and whistles- extras- on it.
Hydraulic rams, water jet...
So, you know, like, the nozzle will have two jets.
-Just, like, spray-down jets at the same time. -Uh-huh.
And I'll have a camera right here
-looking down on my nozzle. -Yeah.
[Kris] So everything's exactly the same thing as last winter,
except that instead of a diver going underneath the water, moving the nozzle,
this thing's the nozzle.
-Get him a little saddle and a control station. -Saddle? [bleep]
I'm staying right here.
Oh. Anyways, that's a sweet-looking rig. I like it.
[Kris] Thanks, Vernon.
-I'll see y'all later. -Okay, Vernon.
Hey, do you think it's gonna work?
I think it'll work.
You know why he didn't really joke around?
He's pissed that we even got this.
-Give me some love, baby. -Yeah, some of that.
Yeah.
You know, everybody knows this is gonna work.
Everybody knows it.
All I have to do is put the cameras and lights on this thing,
and I'm ready to go.
So I'm, like, that close.
My camera is right here at the [bleep] nozzle,
and I hope to God this [bleep] camera right here can see chunks of gold.
We're supposed to get this bad boy
up and running today, but that's not happening.
We still gotta put her back in the cage
and pull her all the way down on the ice.
Hopefully, we can pull this off tomorrow,
and when we do, hopefully we get very, very, very rich.
Trust me.
I don't have time to test everything out.
I just gotta get there and make money.
Long story short: I need to make money.
Sometimes I just have to check the social media
and see what all my friends out there in cyber space have got to say.
[narrator] And now another episode of Social Hour with Vernon.
[Vernon reading]
Well, that was pretty drunk.
It was in Hawaii, in Waipahu.
I remember sitting and drinking a bottle of 151.
And then I drunk another bottle of 151.
And then I got pissed off 'cause they were out of 151,
so I went on down the road, walked into this other bar, and they wouldn't serve me.
I got into a fight with three Samoans, but refrigerator-sized.
Needless to say, they won.
Then that damn [bleeped].
...whopped my ass- I mean- royally.
[bleeped]
...jumped up and down on it.
[bleeped]
I was just...I was discoing my ass off [bleeped].
Flowers and paisleys and waterbeds...
[bleeped]
Same thing with bears. [bleeped]
On Tu Do Street in Saigon, back in 1966.
And then they was all coming in to [bleep].
They took me to the hospital.
And that was my car- the whole front end caved in.
Then somebody told me, "Vernon, do you remember what happened last night?"
Well, no. I didn't remember.
But then, I thought I went back down to the bar where it started.
I'm sitting there at the end of the bar all beat to [bleep] .
And the lady that ran the place- big Mama-Yama Gucci-
she walked by, and she said, "You poor soul. Vernon, do you need a job?"
So she put me behind the bar,
and I ended up bartending in this little strip joint bar a year.
One of the best years I've ever had in my life.
[narrator] This has been another episode of Social Hour with Vernon.
How's it going down there?
[Zeke] Everything's going well.
I like the ground that I'm looking at.
[narrator] Four hours in,
and Zeke's mission to clean out the first hole of the season
is nearly complete.
[Zeke speaking]
Well, that's good to hear, man.
[Zeke] I don't think I'm gonna have
that much more time under here, though.
That sounds good, man. You should come up.
[Zeke] All right. I'll see you up top.
It's been a long day.
Yeah, man. Zeke's the champ, dude. He's the man of the hour.
We finished this out. So, yeah. We're done.
We got all the gold in this spot. We're off to the next one.
Bit out of breath.
Yeah.
That was a good... That was a solid one,
and I'm not in, like, the most great shape.
Oh, dude. Just needs a [bleep] long haul with this.
Ice-mining's no joke.
It punishes your mind and body,
especially when you put in long hours.
And, yes, I've got a great team.
And that'll be perfect for this next hole.
We'll get hours around the clock.
But today, I just had to put on my big-boy pants
and go clean out this hole myself.
And that's exactly what I did, so I'm stoked.
I still expect myself to, like...
To physically be at the level that I was at when I was 24.
When I was 24, I would be able to, like, go and do, like,
eight hours, like, pretty easily, you know.
Now it's, like, I do, like, five hours, and I'm, like, [groans]
But, like, there's no reason why I think that as we get older,
we can't just be in the best shape of our lives
and get in better and better and better shape.
There are people that do that [bleep].
There's no excuses.
You just gotta do it every day, and keep doing it.
Drink lots of water.
This may have been a brutal push,
but I could tell that this cleanup is gonna make it worth it.
And then we'll be on to the next one.
We keep on moving forward, day after day.
I've gotta make this my biggest winter season ever.
I was just crashing down there. Crashing hard.
I wanna get on another hole, and as soon as possible.
[narrator] Five miles east...
[Shawn] Wow. The gold's good down here, Joe.
It's looking good.
[narrator] ...pursuing his mission under the thickest ice in years...
[Joe speaking]
[Shawn] Yep. I'm clear.
[narrator] ...Pomrenke, Shawn Pomrenke, is right in the thick of it.
[Shawn] Come on, gold.
I need gold cutlets.
So what do you think of that ground out in front of you?
We got a day or two running?
[Shawn] Yeah. Looks like there's some fresh ground out in front of us.
[Joe speaking]
[Shawn] Yeah. Oh, yeah.
I'm excited to see what's in there.
[bleep], yeah.
[Shawn] It's pretty dark down here now.
[Joe speaking]
We got about 15 minutes of daylight left up top here.
[Shawn] 10, 4.
I'll work my way up.
When you get down on the bottom and you look up,
you're in 30 feet of water, and you can touch the ice,
scares the [bleep] out of you for a second. That's for sure.
But then you see that gold, and all that fear goes away.
I have to stay on top this way. I can't let anything rattle me.
This spot- it's loaded.
Looking good, boys. Getting some gold.
We'll be rich by summer.
Gotta grab the gold.
We don't wanna forget that tub out here.
Ah!
[grunts]
Precious cargo.
Good day. Good day.
Now it was worth it.
[man] I remember my first time up in Nome. It was December time.
I remember the first time I got my mask sucked off my face.
When it came off my face, I mean, I did everything I could. I couldn't find it.
I remember hitting the bottom and pushing myself back up to the top. I almost drowned.
I said my Hail Mary, and I closed my eyes.
I mean, my legs were tired, and I just whoop. I mean, I went under.
And my tender jumped off the boat, you know, pulled me up,
threw me on the boat, you know, so...
Here, you can't do that. I mean, if something's going wrong,
you have to get out of the hole, you know.
I can't make it 30 feet to get him, so, you know,
that's just a realistic thing about being in the ice is, you know,
you air is number one.
And your mask is your air, so...
Everybody has that situation happen to them, you know,
and it happened to Eddie today.
[Zeke low whistles]
I'm gonna go set up the cleanup sluice.
We got the stash.
[narrator] Now that the book has been closed on the crew's first hole,
it's time to see what's in the box.
[Zeke] I got my little cleanup sluice out here.
My idea just is burn through these cleanups as quickly as we can
so we know how we're doing.
Like I said, I'm trying to be fast and efficient.
That's why while I'm doing this cleanup here with Nate,
the rest of the team is out scouting our next hole.
I don't wanna waste any time this winter because I just can't afford it.
I'm gonna light up this torch and dry this gold out outside.
Nice.
What have we got?
Exciting stuff.
Okay. One ounce.
Two.
Three. Three ounces.
Four.
All right. Should have five ounces, six ounces.
6.56.
6.66.
[narrator] 6.66 ounces is worth a devilish $12,500.
[Zeke] All right.
[narrator] And thanks to Zeke's hard work,
the team has bagged their biggest cleanout of the season.
Good start.
-It's a great start. -Yeah.
I'm happy with it.
Okay, this makes me feel pretty good.
That's a stellar number, especially for a solo dive.
Honestly, I think the gold is gonna be a lot better
as we follow this pressure ridge.
And then we can get all four of us working one after another,
and we can just light it up.
I think we're headed in the right direction.
But we need to get more ounces than that.
The only thing to do is just get on to the next hole.
We're just getting going.
[narrator] Back in Nome...
[phone rings]
-What up, sucker? Howdy. -Hello.
[narrator] ...Jane checks in with headquarters
to give the lowdown to a very pregnant Emily Riedel.
I hope I don't send you into labor.
[Emily] Give me the bad news, and I'll be ready to, like, call my midwife.
Emily, one of my best friends, is in Homer, and she's eight months pregnant.
So there's a lot on her mind, and there's a lot for her to deal with.
So the last thing I wanna do is to make her, like, worry even more
about what's going on with our ice-mining operation.
But I do have to let her know some things that are going on.
Well, first we had Eddie go down, but he had a little trouble equalizing.
And then when he did make it down, he came right back.
He was having mask trouble.
The mask just didn't fit him.
-[Emily] He's got a big old head. -Yeah.
But it makes me nervous just because he can't swim.
[Emily] If you can't swim, it just means you haven't spent any time in the water,
and you're probably not the most comfortable.
And panic is, like, what puts you in danger
much more often than anything else.
So we pulled him out of the water quick and called it a day.
-Yeah. -It's, like, you know,
two steps forward, one step back.
Soon, like, hopefully, we'll just be diving
'cause I feel like we're working...
Literally every kink out that can happen, we're working them out.
The obvious thing is that everything's frozen every day,
and we have to unthaw everything every day, for hours.
But I guess that's par for the course.
[Emily] That's ice mining. It's, like, everything.
It's, like, Murphy's Law but, like, expanded.
So, like, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.
-Yeah, that's happening. -It's like...
It's the reality of ice mining. Oh, my gosh.
Luckily, talking to Emily- she, like, was able to put our troubles into perspective.
That's just the nature of the beast up here
when you're dealing with the ice.
There's times where nothing's gonna go right,
but I need to start finding locations where, like, something goes right.
Like, a lot.
Especially soon because we don't have any gold.
Well, I hope everything's okay.
[Emily] Yeah. I mean, you know.
Every time I, like, have to roll over in bed, it's, like,
operating a forklift on myself.
[Jane] You could actually have your baby at any time right now.
[Emily] I know.
I'm so excited for you.
[Emily] See how it goes. I mean, how much harder can it be
than gold-mining up in the north?
Oh, no. It's... No. You'll find out. [laughs]
-[Emily] Let's keep in touch. -All right.
-[Emily] Gotta go. -Okay. Over and out.
Gotta get to work.
[narrator] Just outside of town...
Yeah. We need to do a cleanup.
See what the Bering Sea's provided us this go around.
[narrator] ...after diving under shifting sheets of ice,
Mr. Gold's hoping to ice the competition.
[Shawn] Got the cleanup shack all ready to rock and roll.
Got the dirt.
We gotta get her done.
I don't want anybody getting more gold than me this winter,
but I got Chris McCully breathing down my neck.
I don't care how thick the ice is.
If there's gold under there, I'm gonna get it.
And by the looks of it, it's gonna be worth the risk.
Throw it out on the scale, and see how we've done.
Five. 10.
14.85.
[narrator] 14.85 ounces is worth over $28,000...
Money.
[narrator] ...and proof that Shawn's mission was a success.
Heck, yeah! [laughs]
That will put a smile on your face.
That's what I'm talking about.
We're gonna be able to get a lot out of here for a while.
That's a good thing 'cause right now, there's no time to let up.
Nice.
You gotta keep the pedal to the metal to the very last day.
-Not bad. -No, dude.
[narrator] Shawn climbs back to the top of the heap,
while Agent Tenhoff makes some noise of his own.
Next time on Bering Sea Gold...
It's pretty beautiful, huh?
My little brother on the way to make me money.
I love it when a plan comes together.
It's time to show everybody I'm gonna make this work.
[diver] It's really sketchy. There's a lot of big pieces of ice hanging overhead.
We're on to gold. That's what's important.
What you gotta do is just keep plugging away until you hit.
With two divers working together,
we should be able to increase productivity quite a bit.
I really can't wait to find out if this is a good ground.
[diver] It's gonna be a long night.
This is the hole.
[laughter]
Getting close.
[grunts]
[man] I'm sorry? Can you repeat that?