[Emily] Ice season didn't go, particularly, well.
You know, like, we're, definitely, uh, in the red.
And I was, kind of, like, hoping to use that as an opportunity
to get ahead here, because I just had a baby.
Her name is Evie and she's amazing.
Now it's a matter of needing to make money this summer for us to support the family.
And we're basically, trying to do everything we can to ensure our success,
because we, we need it this year.
[narrator] After a winter spent on the sidelines,
a veteran captain is returning to the ocean battlefield,
looking to rebuild her empire.
You know what, we're, we're blood dry right now.
I mean, my bank account is, is pretty low.
[narrator] No member of the fleet's journey has been more unlikely,
than that of Emily Riedel...
[Alex] I worry about you all the time.
The fact that you're a greenhorn, is my main concern.
[dog barking]
[narrator] ...who a decade ago,
took a detour from her dream to study opera.
[vocalizing]
By working as a tender aboard the Bering Sea mining creche.
That's freakin' awesome.
[narrator] Eventually, Emily captained her own operation...
[all cheering]
[Emily] I wanna make some money.
[narrator] ...and became one of Nome's most reliable gold producers.
[Emily] Fifty six.
Make it 60.
Fifty eight.
Sweet.
[all cheering]
[narrator] But this winter...
[Emily] You ready to take on the world?
Nothing's standing in our way.
Got it.
[narrator] ...while taking time off to give birth to her daughter,
the operation stumbled badly without her.
[man] Point 66.
Well, at least it's something.
[Emily] You know, we need to make in the realm of 300 ounces this year...
to really have a shot at recovering from ice
and making an income for the family.
This winter was, pretty much, a disaster.
We spent a lot of money, lost most of our savings
and it's hitting us really hard.
Pretty much, severed ties with the crew, except for Jane.
So it's a new beginning. I need to build a new team, basically, from scratch.
And we have to recover what we lost this last winter and then some.
So there's a lot to make up for.
Jane's back this year.
I convinced her to come back even after what happened over ice.
Um, so she's not to scarred, which is good.
It's her third season dredging now, so,
she's really getting the hang of it.
I think having her up here is gonna be hugely beneficial.
But now, it's just Jane, my husband, Alex and myself.
So, we're starting over, wiping the slate clear.
We're a small team and that's intimidating.
But, moving forward, I'm building a different sort of team,
you know, we're gonna be more like family.
There's gonna be a lot of trust.
Trust is the most important ingredient.
And, uh, hopefully, this is all gonna lead to an awesome season,
because family really needs it.
Oh, we're both wearing shorts today. That's amazing.
- [Jane] Whoo! - [horns honking]
[Jane] You made it.
[Emily] Hey, nice shorts.
[exhales] There you are. Hi, baby.
Hi.
[Emily] Welcome back to paradise.
You're back from our punishment from the Bering Sea.
I mean, I'm back, of course, 'cause I love Nome,
and I like gold dredging.
- Right. - But it's gonna be way more fun with you.
- I mean, I think so. - Like, a thousand times more fun.
Ooh, we'll do our best.
- Mmm. - [Emily] I'm really sorry about ice.
I definitely, like, feel responsible
for hooking you up with Eddie and Jeff,
and the fact that things went so badly.
I'm really sorry about that.
Oh, you know, it took some time.
- You took a lot of verbal abuse. - It wasn't all that bad.
Winter, of course, is way more brutal than summer. Everything freezes up.
And there just really wasn't as much gold.
And then there was also, like, a lot of fighting.
[man] None of you guys are taking this serious, okay.
You're not...
[Jane] That's the agreement.
All right. Then [bleep] you.
But, hey, I got a lot of experience,
and I definitely know what not to do.
We spent a lot on ice and, uh, didn't recover any of it.
So we're, we're, kind of starting out at a little point.
Now it's about building the Eroica team stronger and better than ever,
because Emily has a little baby
and that really does change everything.
Kids are expensive.
They're super expensive. They're not just cute, they're really expensive.
So...
you're in for it, Emily.
Well, the good news is, is we broke down so much.
- I really understand engines... - Oh, yeah?
- Yeah, like, every tool. - You feel like pro now?
I''ve turned into a man.
The stakes are really high this season.
I have a new family. We lost a lot during that ice mining season.
That was a total disaster.
Right now, I just have to build the, kind of, team
that can get us there.
[Jane] I'm excited to get on the water.
[Emily] Hell yeah.
Welcome back.
[narrator] Emily is not the only member of the fleet facing a new beginning.
Start of this season has been pretty rough this year.
[narrator] Shawn Pomrenke is looking to get his excavator barge
the Myrtle Irene fixed up.
And, finally, get his mining season started.
If I'm gonna hit 3,000 ounces
we can't keep going like this, 'cause I will never make it.
I'm shooting for 3,000 ounces this summer.
Pay off all my expenses and bag a big profit.
That'd be the biggest haul of my career.
But this season started off about as bad as it can be.
[Shawn] Crack spud.
So this whole thing, all the way around, is cracked.
[Shawn] The first day we got the Myrtle in the water,
we found out one of the spuds was cracked.
It's the giant pillars that hold the Myrtle in place
on the bottom of the ocean floor.
And if we can't hold ourselves in place, we can't dig.
This spud's gotta come out.
We gotta pull it out, cut an inspection hole,
check out the internals of the spud.
I've had my guys working around the clock for almost a week
trying to patch it up.
So now we gotta get a crane to pick 65,000 pounds spud up,
lower it into the well so we can get back out and get to mining.
Or my empire is going to be a relic of the past.
I have to get this Myrtle up and running.
I have to get the machines that make the gold up and running,
as Myrtle is a crucial piece to the puzzle to make... my goal.
And if I don't get this thing up and running,
and I don't get it up and running soon,
I'm not gonna meet my goal.
Right. We need to go up with the spud.
[man] Keep going.
Keep going. Keep going. Keep going.
[Shawn] Keep tension on that line.
Pulling a 65 foot spud off the deck,
and placing it in the spud well isn't easy.
And if we're not careful, we could damage the spud, or the barge,
and be right back where we started.
I have a lot of experience putting, uh, big things in holes.
[man] Keep going. Keep going.
[Shawn] We're gonna spin the spud.
Spin it all the way. We gotta get the, dock's on the right side.
Keep going. Keep going.
[grunts]
Oh. Right there. Stop.
Go down.
Keep going... Keep going. Keep going.
- Oh. - [man] Yep.
[Shawn] Good.
Pull on that cable.
[chuckles] Okay.
[Shawn] We're good now.
[whistles] She looks good.
Myrtle is ready to rock and roll, finally.
All right, you saw belly some bitches, let's go mining.
Whoo!
[horns honking]
[Shawn] Scary, scary Myrtle Irene.
Leaving the inner harbor, headed for sea.
Yeah. Let's go mining.
Time to go make some money...
then spending it.
I may be behind, but the good news is
the Myrtle's a beast and can more process material
than any other dredge on the Bering Sea.
And I'm on the top cut, easily the richest claim of 'em all.
So now it's time to go remind everyone why they call me "Mr. Gold."
Yeah.
Well, I'm gonna get on the gold fast today
'cause I'm gonna partner up with the other excavator dredge in my fleet.
The Christine Rose.
How much further out can you go?
Right now, Cody is on a smokin' hot pastry.
The thing of it is,
the Christine Rose can only dig about 16 feet,
the Myrtle Irene can dig almost 25.
So once the CR can't dig any deeper,
then the Myrtle Irene can swoop in
and follow that pastry code into deeper water.
Oh, Christine Rose dig out to this... depth,
they can't dig any deeper.
We take over and we dig out from there.
We don't wanna leave any gold behind.
Hold up right here.
[Cody] Yeah I got it.
Spud down.
Got the spuds down. Now it's time to take a bucket and see what we got.
We're gonna take a test pan of this ground.
That extra eight or nine feet,
sometimes that where the good stuff lives.
Oh, this stuff looks amazing.
Yeah. So far, it's been really good.
Are anything in there?
[Shawn] Yeah. Hold it.
Bring it over here. Let me see.
[chuckles] I can see it from here.
Yeah. Fire her up, let's run.
Cody had put us on to some good ground.
We're just out of his reach.
Myrtle can reach it just fine.
We're gonna dig it.
Myrtle turtle, slow and steady is gonna win the race.
We don't wanna horse it, we don't wanna beat up on these spuds.
So we're just gonna take it nice and easy.
Here we go.
- [Vernon] Let's check rattle and roll here. - [woman] Yeah.
[Vernon] Time to wake.
There's gold that's out there calling us.
Take the stern line in.
Quickly.
[narrator] Looking to fund his expanding operation...
Okay. Push up.
[narrator] Vernon Adkison's ready for some new blood.
[Vernon] Okay.
The whole point of being up here is to get gold.
To get gold, you gotta have bigger and better equipment
Every time I get some gold, I turn around and I buy more equipment.
So I can get more gold.
It is somewhat addictive.
I, probably, be better off if I was addicted to smack or something.
Or, maybe, if I was a sex addict.
Yeah. I don't know.
My latest fix is buying an underwater crawler that's launched from a dredge
made from a school bus.
The lights flash.
[siren wailing]
- Jess, I'm serous. - [Jesse] Yeah. I like it. [chuckles]
[Vernon] If you get it properly outfitted and running
it's gonna cost a small fortune.
This is the future of mining.
But it has the potential to balloon my earnings.
Big time.
Oh, yeah.
It's gotta be a pumping machine.
This season, I've set the bar high.
If I'm gonna give this rig the facelift it needs,
pay all my expenses and still make a profit,
I'm gonna need, at least, 250 ounces.
So today I'm gonna unleash what I hope is a new weapon,
to help me attain my goal.
We found some good gold yesterday.
Try to get right back on the same spot
and, uh... put some gold in the box.
Okay. I need somebody up here.
I don't wanna break off that hem.
400 and something dollar damn valve split up there.
Hang on. Let me get out the way of that log.
Kevin and Scott have already proven themselves to me.
Now it's time for the new guy, Emil, the Russian rookie, to show me what he's got.
He doesn't speak a lick of English,
but he does have diving experience.
And I need, at least, two dives on the box, everyday, to make my gold.
So let's hope he's proficient in the language of gold.
Let's have a quick convo, we'll talk about communication with the diver.
We gotta keep it real short, one word sentences.
You know, "plug," if you plug up the hose.
You understand... "plug?"
So, if you have a plug,
tell us, "Plug... plug"
Okay.
You can say, "No air."
That means you can't breathe.
And you can say, "Pull me up.
Pull me up."
Okay. Let's do it.
I think he understands it fairly well.
But this is... the first time he's dove on this rig.
I know he's nervous and I'm, kind of, nervous also.
As long as he can get some gold, I don't care where he's from.
I mean, I don't care if he's from Mars.
I don't care what color he is, either,
or what gender persuasion he may happen to be.
I could give a [bleep] less.
The only thing I care about is if he can get gold and do it safely.
[Vernon] Yeah. He's on the bottom.
He can only go up from there.
[man] Here we go. Here we go.
There.
Yeah. So far, he's looking good.
[Vernon] He doesn't say much, but, um...
The main thing is he's not down there, panicking,
and hyperventilating, you know.
Drowning.
"I can't breathe. I can't breathe."
Learn how to breathe [bleep].
I, kind of, like that he doesn't say much.
[narrator] While Vernon tests out a newbie...
How's it going, guys?
[Shawn] All right, man. We're here.
Come meet Kris.
[narrator] Kris Kelly is hoping two new arrivals
will help ignite a new era for Reaper Nation.
Kris, Joe is here.
- Joe, Kris. - How you doing, buddy?
- [Kevin] Carl, this is Kris. - Carl, how you doing?
Well, thank God you look like excavator operators.
- [Kevin] And this is our all-star team, baby. - Yeah, yeah.
[Kevin] Give me some.
Yeah!
So the most important job on The Mistress
is the excavator operator.
That's the person
that actually digs up the material we're working with.
It all starts from there.
So if that person sucks,
the whole process falls apart.
Our first operator, Cameron,
well, she sucked.
I'm just getting used to moving these controls here.
[Kris] I don't know why we're going so slow right now.
[Cameron] All right.
[Kris] This isn't Bring Your Kid to Work Day.
See that [bleep]?
All that gold went right back in the ocean.
From now on, I want grizzly,
dirty, bearded [bleep] running this.
So today, we're bringing in Joe and Carl,
and they're supposed to be great operators.
So they're land-based like everybody else
that runs an excavator.
It's gonna be a big learning curve.
But they're burly with facial hair,
so I know this is gonna work.
They look the part.
They look like excavator operators.
So I know you guys both got off the plane today.
Are you gonna be okay to work today, mining?
- Absolutely. - Okay.
I got Hank Schimschat on the boat
that's gonna train you guys for the day.
He's got six years of experience
and he's got thousands of ounces of gold underneath his belt.
So please listen to what he has to say to you.
I'm setting the bar really high this season,
getting the underwater crawler system up and running
and knocking out 1,000 ounces.
Way more than I've ever gotten.
But if the guys work out,
I hope that I have operators running around the clock.
Then it will be the dawn of a new era.
Reaper Nation.
A gold mining empire.
The envy of the entire fleet.
Let's make it happen.
[Hank] Let's put the hammer down.
[Joe] Hammer time!
[Kris] Hey, quick, two-minute meeting.
Today is gonna be quick and simple.
I am getting the whole team together
and approaching this like a battle.
Everybody will have a part, even Cameron.
I need all hands on deck.
Joe, you're gonna start the day off.
Hank is gonna watch you.
You guys are gonna work together.
Watch him as much as you can to understand how to do this.
I know you're gonna be able to work it.
Cameron, you're gonna work with me today.
We're gonna run the boat
and take care of all the little stuff.
I'm gonna just, you know, it's... It's fun.
Kevin, you know, you be Kevin
and make sure everybody is on top.
You're the overseer.
- [Kevin] I got you. - [Kris] Yeah.
Hey, Hank, you know what you are?
You're the guy.
[Kevin] The light. I'm the light and the wisdom.
- Okay, let's go, everybody. - Let's get some gold, man.
[Kevin] Let's go, Joe.
- Let's get on the hoe. - Fire it up.
[engine starting]
[Kris] With Hank, that's like an operator guru training these guys,
and everyone pitching in,
I think the sky is the limit for this team.
We've already been out.
I know we're getting great gold.
I know we can do this
if everything just starts clicking together.
[Hank] What I would do is,
I... I'd dig back and forth.
- I don't dig a big hole. - Yeah, yeah.
Yep.
That right there has got gold in it.
- [Hank] Guaranteed. - [Joe] Yeah.
Uh, the cycle time is good.
And it's very smooth how he is dumping
the material in the washers.
That's skill.
That's good [bleep].
You know, the proof is in the pan.
- [Kris] Wow. Let me show you. - Oh, yeah.
- See, I... I... I know. - I told you.
- I know we were getting gold. - [bleep], yeah!
Nice.
We're getting gold, baby.
We're starting off great today.
I think we're gonna get out there and kill it.
[chuckles]
Yeah!
[Kris] I'm gonna make some magic happen.
[narrator] Across the fleet,
the miners are embarking on new paths
as they strive toward
the most ambitious goals of their careers.
And back out on the water...
[Chris] Dude, we're right on the spot. Good.
All we gotta do is just move forward, you know?
Mow forward like this, 180.
[growling noises]
Just... [growling noises]
[narrator] The current gold leader
is making the most of his dredge, the Tahta.
[Chris speaking]
Wow. This season has been so stellar so far.
Got the most advanced dredge in the fleet.
I got the hydraulic crane that moves the jets, the hoe.
It's super easy to move my operation.
[Cam] There we go.
There we go.
[Chris] That makes the operation superefficient
and more time for getting gold.
And the proof was in the pudding on our first weigh out.
Check this out.
Money! Gold!
90 ounces.
- [Cam] All right. Good work, dude. - Good work.
Yeah.
Let's see if they fit me.
Oh, yeah.
Like, Cinderella.
I have no intentions taking my foot off the gas pedal.
I wanna aim for 300 ounces.
So I'm gonna put three divers down today.
First, I'm gonna go, then Cam
and my night guy, Bobby.
With the Tahta, 100% we're gonna pull it off.
Yeah.
[laughs]
Whoo! Let's go!
Action.
[Chris] Oh-ho... [chuckles]
[Cam] How do you copy?
[Chris over radio] Copy, copy.
[Cam] Okay, I got you loud and clear.
[Chris] Visibility is frickin', uh... it's workable.
It's not the best.
But I can see six-foot.
So you might as well just pound out some hours.
Suck up some dirt.
[Chris groans]
[Cam] Uh, Chris just got in the water.
He has got some poor visibility, but...
We're gonna try and see what he can pound out
from where we are right now.
[Chris speaking]
Yeah, nice quartz.
Good quartz.
[Cam] Some good gold?
[Chris speaking]
[Cam] Sounds like Chris has found the gold.
He's excited, he's happy.
And that makes me a happy tender.
Let's see what he comes up within next few hours.
Might have to move the boat some.
We might have to, uh...
You know, we're gonna have to do all kinds of stuff
between now and then when he gets out of the water.
But we're gonna be ready for it.
I'll get in the water after Chris comes up,
and hopefully there's enough down there
for me to keep on dredging.
Yeah. I hope it's gonna be a great day.
[Chris] Oh. That's good silt.
[narrator] While Chris looks to break the bank...
[Jane] Hey, you.
[Jane speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[both laughing]
[Alex] You're right.
[Jane speaking]
- [Emily speaking] - [Jane] That's kind of cute.
[Emily speaking]
[Jane] Yeah.
[narrator] ...a Nome groundbreaker...
is looking to break some ground of her own...
Can I take the wheel for a sec?
[narrator] ...recruiting a new diver, Mandy Hamerston,
and forming a nearly all-woman team
aboard the Eroica.
[Emily] Just don't hit any rocks.
[Emily speaking]
So it's Jane and Alex and me on the boat.
And really low on divers.
So we gotta try something new.
[all laughing]
In order to dive on the boat,
you have to pass the beard and mustache test.
But this time, we're...
killing that rule 'cause we cannot find divers.
This season, we're gonna start with diver, Mandy Hamerston.
Mandy has got over a ten years experience diving,
including some time in the Bering Sea.
Here comes Team Girl Power.
[Emily] I... I guarantee our suction is just
way superior to Chris's, so...
Our suction's better than your suction, Chris.
This... It's way more powerful.
It was happening over on the Tahta.
[Jane speaking]
- The Tahta. - [Jane speaking]
[Emily laughing]
[Jane] Hmm.
[Emily] There's no time to waste.
I'm getting Mandy right on
where I know some good gold is.
It's a proven hotspot.
Hopefully, it hasn't been tapped out.
[Alex] Right about here.
[Emily] And we can start putting
gold in the box right away.
[Emily] Feels great to be out here on the Bering Sea
after some time off.
Definitely feels like my element.
Good to be back on the hunt for gold.
- Sounds good. - [Emily speaking]
[Emily] Our backs are against the wall this year.
We had a huge loss of resources this ice season,
and we have a young family to support now.
[Emily] The stakes are high.
We need everything to fire on all cylinders this summer,
starting with this dive.
Okay.
[Emily speaking]
[Mandy over radio]
[Emily] Uh, loud and clear.
[Mandy] Let me get everything into place.
[Mandy groans]
[Mandy speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Mandy speaking]
[Emily over radio]
[Jane speaking]
[Mandy giggling]
[Jane speaking]
[Emily] I'm taking a huge chance
starting from scratch this season.
And right now, I really need my decision
to bring in Mandy to pay off.
Otherwise things are gonna get tough
for Alex and I and the family.
We just have to see.
[Kris] Well, he's putting in full buckets.
I really like what I'm seeing.
He's got a lot of control over the excavator.
We're seeing a lot of gold in the catch pan.
[narrator] After bringing a Bering Sea newcomer
into the excavator chair...
It's time to go in a NASCAR pit crew-style.
[narrator] ...Kris Kelly finally has Reaper Nation in a groove.
[Kris] Cameron's on fuel,
Joe's our new operator.
If we're gonna go through, we gotta tighten everything up.
I'm gonna look at the sluice box,
seeing if I like what's going on.
[Hank] I've been looking, Kris.
It's looking great.
I'm seeing gold build-up already over here
- in the some of the riffles. - [Kris] Oh, yeah.
We're in great gold, dude.
[Kris] This is good stuff.
There are a plenty of days when you're the captain
and you'd feel like everything is falling apart,
and I want to drown myself in the Bering Sea.
But then there's days like today.
Everything is starting to click together,
and I'm starting to see the real potential of The Mistress.
We're like a NASCAR pit crew.
You could see everything is running
like a Swiss Army watch, baby.
[Kris] Things are going so well right now,
I'm gonna push it as hard as I can.
So this is gonna sound a little crazy
but we need money.
So this is what we're gonna do.
We're gonna go put Carl in the seat
to see if he can do this.
If Carl can do it,
I'm gonna take off home with Joe.
I'm gonna sleep, like, four or five hours,
and I'm gonna come back tonight for the nightshift.
- That's fine. Let's do it. - [Kris] Yeah.
And then if you don't like, uh,
we'll start the season off [bleep] with a bang.
- Let's do it. Let's do it. - [Kris] All right.
Today, I'm gonna initiate the first 24-hour shift
in the history of The Mistress.
We need 1,000 ounces,
so we can complete construction on the all-in,
so we can get the crawler in the water.
You guys can do this.
I'll take care of the night.
We'll start this [bleep] on.
- Ho! Ho! - Yeah, baby.
[all whooping]
[Kris] I think this team is ready.
Maybe.
Probably.
But nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Hey, um...
So I know you can do this job.
I got a really good feeling about you.
I got an idea right now.
You and I are gonna go home,
try to sleep, like, five or six hours,
and then we're gonna come back and run a nightshift.
- I love you, baby. - Love you.
I love you. I knew you were gonna do it.
I'm glad you're on Reaper Nation.
[Joe laughs]
I'll get you a sweater for sure.
Joe proved himself as far as I'm concerned.
Let's see what Carl can do.
Looks pretty easy,
but I'm sure it's harder than it looks.
I'm very excited to get in the seat.
Whatever you do,
make sure you don't hit up underneath the bar.
Roger.
[Kris] Hank is gonna give Carl a tutorial
to get him up to speed.
- Yeah. - Yes.
[Kris] I'm rushing this whole thing
and it might blow up in my face.
And I hope to God nothing [bleep] up while I'm off the boat.
[Carl speaking]
[Hank speaking]
Right there.
Down.
I believe I can handle the day shift.
I think Carl's got the hang of it.
Just do grids, run back, and then drag all the way up,
and, uh, I'll be back at midnight, maybe 1 o'clock.
Good luck, man.
Everything's gonna be fine.
[Vernon] We're getting some really good gold out there.
[laughs, speaks indistinctly]
[Vernon] That puts a big smile on everybody's face.
[narrator] Three hours in
and Vernon's Russian rookie is letting the gold do all the talking.
[Vernon] Emil, he's doing good.
That's, uh, quick and dirty panning on this.
He seems to be doing good.
You know what I hate, prima donna divers.
Divers who complain, divers who talk your ear off.
You know what I like?
Divers who keep their mouth shut,
get down there, get the gold, no BS.
Maybe it's because Emil does not know English worth a squat,
but that's what he's doing today and I'm impressed.
Things are looking up.
We got this rig working pretty much flawlessly.
But I really wanna get that damn bottom crawler going.
It's gonna be biblical.
As good as today is going,
it's still a long way from where we need to be.
To get that school bus dredge properly outfitted,
it's gonna take a buttload of money.
That's why these divers need to come through big.
Once Emil finishes up, Scott'll be down there.
Hopefully, he'll kick it up a notch
and keep his yap shut too.
Up.
He's coming up. He's coming up.
This is the first time he's dove with us.
He did three and a half hours, good dive.
We're on the gold, we're on good gold, we're killing.
Now, yeah, we've gotta send Scott down.
Let him get in a little time.
Just keep going until you can't go any more.
[Scott speaking]
[Vernon] Right back on the same spot.
Put some gold in the box.
[Scott over radio]
[Vernon speaking]
Yeah, we'll stay out here a while.
We'll get it done.
[narrator] A few miles to the west.
[Cam] How's it going down there, Chris?
[Chris speaking]
[Cam] Roger that.
[narrator] WIth five hours under water,
Chris McCully's hot summer shows no signs of cooling down.
[Chris speaking]
[narrator] As he sets the pace for a triple-dive day.
[Cam] Yup, we still got material flowing through the box.
Everything's looking good, I'm excited to get down there myself
and put some more gold in the box for us.
[Chris over radio] Hey, Cam, you're gonna wanna start getting suited up.
- I'm gonna come up. - [Cam over radio] All right, no problem.
[Chris] Get ready, it's your turn.
Whoo! Hah.
I was able to do my five-hour shift, no problem.
And we're gonna send Cam down there next,
and he's gonna mow the rest.
- I'm gonna go ahead and change. - All right.
[Chris] I know pay streaks aren't endless,
but Wall Street keeps on paying.
I've done my part, so it's Cam's turn.
After that, Bobby will meet us,
and then he'll take his turn.
With the Tahta being all dialed in,
we will be getting three dives for sure.
You ready? You're ready to rock, dude.
Get minin', get minin'.
- [ship horn blaring] - [Cam speaking over radio]
[Chris] Okay.
Cam's about to pound out his five-hour dive.
There should be gold on the nozzle.
And then after Cam dives,
Bobby comes in and that's 15 hours in the box.
Done. Easy.
[water crashing loudly]
[Chris] It looks like it's starting to get swelly out here.
Right now, we're on the gold, but guess what?
There's winds and when the wind kicks in, game over.
[water crashing loudly]
[Chris] Holy [bleep].
It's getting dangerous.
Hey, Cam, it's starting to get rough, come up.
- [radio static] - [Cam over radio] Roger that.
[Chris] Any moment out here in the Bering Sea
you could get hit with the giant swells.
This is it, it's time to go.
I am aiming to put three divers down today.
But right now, we need the crane to get this gear off the water
and strapped down before these winds can do any damage.
Gettin' gnarly, get the [bleep] out of here.
Yeah.
- I'll start up the hydraulic. - Yeah, start up the hydraulic.
[engine starts, runs loudly]
[Chris] Get that in.
Gonna pick up the hose.
This is what you call cowboy mining, right here,
cowboy style, but we ain't staying in this,
in this kind of rough weather.
So, we got the hose off the sea floor,
now I gotta crane the jet
and put her in the dredge and strap her down.
But these currents aren't making it easy for me.
[metallic thudding]
Can you pull it, Cam? Can you, uh, pull it?
[bleep] Damn it.
[water crashing loudly]
Can you pull it, Cam? Can you, uh, pull it, I can't turn.
Damn it. It doesn't wanna turn.
There's the stopping point right there.
[turret creaking]
[Chris] Because of all these currents, we're using the crane to get the gear up.
But right now, the crane's busted.
I can move it up and down,
but it won't turn.
So basically, we're gonna have to
manually move this crane by hand.
All right, gonna have to wing it.
[chains clanking]
[Chris] There you go. Oh.
All right, here we go. Now pull it your way.
- [Cam] Whoa, whoa, whoa. - [Chris] Woo.
- [Cam] Chain, chain, chain. - [Chris] Chain, chain, yeah,
get it out, yeah, there you go.
There you go.
[crane whirring]
It's got its intermittent issue.
Here we go.
All right, here we go, coming down.
Coming down.
Perfect.
All right, last one.
Nicely done, very good.
Whoo, that was close.
I thought I was not able to pick up my gear,
but I don't want that to happen again.
[water crashing loudly]
[Chris] All right, we're outta here.
That was a close call. Pull the front first.
So, the crane didn't wanna turn,
but the bottom line is we were able to pick up the gear.
It's just way more work than it should've been.
Whoo! [bleep] rough out here.
Getting gnarly now.
I still plan on this team to be the best one in the fleet.
Yeah, this is a setback,
we may be forced to head shore right now,
but I'm not gonna give up on my three-dive day.
There's plenty of time for the swells to die down.
And when they do, it's on like Donkey Kong.
Whoo.
Tried to do our 15-hour gold today,
but Bering Sea got pissed off.
So, I'll just wait till it's, uh, calm again.
Maybe we'll have Bobby tonight,
send him out here again.
Yeah, buddy.
If we can get 15 hours, good, that's all that matters.
[crane whirring]
I'm not complainin'.
We're making gold.
Running the Myrtle is way funner than working on it.
[narrator] On his first time out this summer,
Mr. Gold's dredges are standing tall,
tag-teaming a new pay streak.
[man speaking over speaker]
Yeah, it should be all past it now, huh?
[man speaking over speaker]
Right now, I'm working with the Christine Rose,
and right where Christine Rose stops digging, we start.
There is a big pay streak right here.
Cody turned us on to it.
So, he, he's doing another cut to the east
and I'm doing a cut to the south.
Like a grilled cheese sandwich
in between us and the Christine Rose.
[whistles] Yellow Brick Road.
I know with the earlier days of the season,
this is the way things are supposed to work.
Myrtle Irene is on fire.
The Christine Rose is on fire.
Making up for lost time in a hurry.
Everybody in Nome better watch out.
Material looks good.
Oh, this stuff looks amazing, actually.
Everything's working good,
wash plant's running beautiful,
both screen decks are running.
Let's hope that everything stays running.
[water pump sputtering]
[Mr. Gold speaking]
[bleep] water pump's [bleep] up.
[bleep] damn it.
[pump running loudly]
We've got a bad injector in the water pump,
and it's causing a misfire.
That's why we're hearing those noises.
We can keep it running for now,
but if the injector goes completely out,
this pump's down and there's no more mining.
So, we gotta limp it along.
Hopefully, it makes it.
First the spuds, now this.
Hopefully, this ain't the mining gods telling me,
"She's not gonna make it through the season."
Because that's not an option if I wanna stay in business.
That pump is a concern, my next concern.
Seems to always be something,
but we gotta worry about putting gold in this box right now.
We just gotta keep this thing running.
[narrator] While Shawn booms along...
[Jane] How you doing down there, Mandy?
[Mandy speaking]
[Jane speaking]
[narrator] On the Eroica team's premier dive of the season...
[Emily speaking]
[narrator] Mandy Hamerston is seeing promising ground,
but has yet to tap into any gold.
This area that we're in, it's just fantastically rich,
like, so a lot of it's been worked.
This is gold mining, gold's not everywhere.
Sometimes you get out, you get on hot gold, sometimes you don't.
We can't afford to have a day like that today.
I'm really gonna need Mandy to say,
"We're on the gold."
Because we need that income right now.
[Mandy over radio] Oh, yeah!
- [Emily] Woo-hoo. - [Mandy] Oh, yeah, it looks good.
- [Jane] Sweet. - [Mandy] Yeah.
[Emily] We're on the gold.
This is, uh, this is what I've been waiting to hear.
It's almost been a year since I've heard that
over the com-box, so it feels good.
I really missed it, you know?
It's like hearing, "I love you," for the first time.
[Mandy speaking]
Whoo!
[giggles]
This is the top spot.
Yeah, this is the boom, for sure.
Mandy's a rockstar.
[Mandy] I love it.
It feels pretty awesome.
[Emily] It's a 10-inch nozzle,
it's super-powerful, it's not easy for anybody to work,
and she's just, like, a 5'7" lady,
but she's super strong, super powerful. She's killin' it.
I am feeling great about my decision to bring her on board.
Oh, Mandy found some nice gold.
We're just gonna dive till we can't dive any longer.
[Emily] Heyo. How's the ground looking, dude?
[Mandy speaking]
[narrator] New diver, Mandy Hamerston,
is piling up the gold on the Eroica team's first dive of the season.
[Mandy grunting]
[Jane] She's working her butt off down there but...
No one has said a thing.
[Mandy speaking]
Mandy, you've been diving, like, total three hours now.
[Mandy speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Mandy speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Mandy speaking]
[engine stops]
[Emily speaking]
- [Jane] Yeah? - [Emily speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Jane] Nice, nice.
[Emily] It was super intimidating to start the season
without the usual like, experienced divers.
But this is the first time I've seen
a lady work a 10-inch nozzle with a 100 horses behind it.
I already feel good about the decision I made
to hire Mandy.
[Emily speaking]
[narrator] Back out on the Myrtle...
[Shawn] Everything's running.
Nice clean rock coming off the end there, on the screen deck.
so we're getting a real good wash.
[narrator] ...making up for lost time,
Mr. Gold is still shaking up the Bering Sea,
on his first trip of the summer.
[Shawn] There's gold. We got gold.
We can see it in the box.
The Myrtle's running.
[machine sputtering]
Pump doesn't sound good, but it's running.
[man speaking]
[Shawn speaking]
[indistinct radio chatter]
The Mistress has got such a short little arm
on their excavator.
They have to dig right up close to the beach,
you got those--
The beach crawlers that dug there,
we've dug there,
everybody's dug there already.
They might hit a little spot here and there
that hasn't been dug,
but for the most part,
that's all been beat up, and, and hammered on, so.
They're the least of my worries.
Last season, having The Mistress on the Tomcod
caused some serious problems.
Idiots on The Mistress doing illegal[bleep].
They were on ground I felt was mine.
They were intruding on my hard work,
and the conflict definitely reached a hit.
This ends right now.
You can't do this.
I'm gonna knock you the [bleep] out.
I can't hear you, you stupid [bleep].
[men grunting]
Come on, Eddie, get in there and wash up.
Fortunately, Kris and I buried the hatchet.
We're steering clear of each other these days.
But the truth of it is,
even if they wanted to creep in on our hotspot,
their excavator arm is about six feet shorter
than the one on the Myrtle.
So they couldn't try to snag the gold
even if they wanted to.
[machine sputtering]
Can't be worried about The Mistress.
Just gotta worry about digging and putting gold in this box.
[horn toots]
Night camp's here.
The water pump still sounds like crap.
But I'm bringing in Trevor and the night crew,
to push through till morning.
We got no choice.
We're behind,
and we have to keep on pushing.
Nice and loose.
Looks good. We're making money.
[narrator] As Shawn heads for shore...
[Chris] I was just gonna navigate through the fog
with the GPS.
I need to go back out and mine.
[narrator] ...with most teams heading in,
Chris McCully is refusing to quit...
[Chris] We gotta get it. We gotta get it.
[narrator] ...determined to get this third dive of the day.
[Chris] My hydraulic crane and turret are--
is all worn out.
I've called in to try to get parts,
and they say it's two to four weeks away,
all the way from France.
So I was like, "Scratch that, [bleep] that.
You know, I don't have-- I don't have two to four weeks to spare."
[chuckles]
Crazy, man.
Cam is with us, Bobby and me,
so we're all gonna go out.
We could do it by hand.
We don't need the turret.
I set the goal for today,
so I am determined to pull it off.
The situation with the crane really sucks.
I have to move it manually by hand.
But the seas are really calm.
So we're gonna send Bobby down and bag that third dive.
All right.
Yeah, I'm gonna extend the boom out,
and then we'll just do it by hand, right? Yeah.
All right.
There you go. There we go.
That's it.
Swinging the turret's physically exhausting.
All right, swing it.
All right.
It's not only physically demanding,
but it takes a whole lot of time.
But when in Rome...
All right, there you go.
Yeah, buddy, that's it.
...or I should say, when in Nome.
Yeah, keep going, it's working.
Yup.
Just like a hoist.
Yes. There we go.
All right, coming down.
That's it.
All right, we did it.
There we go.
[machine whirring]
Suit up.
Now we're gonna send Bobby down there.
Yeah, buddy.
Bobby's gonna get me some gold today, too.
They say if you're rich, you're gonna go broke. [chuckles]
[laughs]
Okay, now, you're good to go, buddy.
[Bobby] All right.
There we go.
[machine whirring]
[Bobby speaking]
[Chris] Okay, copy that.
[Bobby speaking]
- Yes. Yes, yes. - [Bobby over radio] Oh, yeah.
[Bobby speaking]
All music to my ears.
[Bobby speaking]
The Tahta.
Old but faithful.
Even though we had a broken crane,
we got Bobby in the water.
Mission accomplished.
[Emily] All right, nice fresh omelette.
All right, special delivery.
What do you guys think?
[Alex] Yeah.
That looks pretty good.
[Emily] All right, check it.
What do you think it's gonna be?
- Don't ask me. - [Emily laughs]
- [Jane] Twenty? - [Emily] Come on, Jane. You've been around.
- Twenty? - It doesn't quite fill up the pan.
I think it's under 20, for sure.
I always over-estimate.
Uh, 12.75.
- [laughs] - [Alex] Think you can cross this without going over?
Yeah.
[narrator] After her new diver unleashed a stellar dive...
Let's weigh this thing.
[narrator] ...the Eroica team is looking for a stellar cleanout
to start the season.
[Emily] Starting over is gonna be tough.
But finding a new diver that fits in right away,
is essential to move forward.
A good number on the scale would feel
super good right now.
So fingers crossed.
[Emily and Alex] One.
[Alex] Two, four.
[Emily] Eight, nine.
- Come on. - [baby squealing]
- [Emily] Get on 15. - [Jane] Come on.
- [Alex] Oh. - [Jane] Fifteen.
[Alex] Get to 15.
- [Emily cheering] Yeah. - [Jane] Oh, no.
That's 14.32.
- Nice. - [Jane] Big number.
- [baby squealing] - Oh, I know.
[narrator] 14.32 ounces is worth over $26,000.
And the growing family is off to a strong start.
Even Bebe is mesmerized.
[Emily] We need a strong start this summer, so
I think this meets the bar.
[baby squealing]
[Emily] Yeah, we all feel that way.
This is the kind of number that helps us get back on track.
Yeah, that's definitely what we're, uh,
what we need to be hitting every time.
Get us out of this like, dark hole this season.
Ah, sweet.
Now we're paying the bills.
Well, let's, uh, let's divvy it up.
[narrator] Back out on the water...
[Chris] Bobby?
[Bobby] Yep?
[Chris] Are you still seeing it?
[Bobby] I am still seeing it.
All right.
[narrator] With new diver Bobby Lowe's first dive of the season...
[Bobby speaking]
[Chris] Okay, copy that.
We're like a well-oiled machine right here.
[narrator] ...captain Chris McCully reaches his goal
of three dives on the day.
[Chris] All right, Bobby.
[Chris speaking]
[Bobby speaking]
[Chris] [bleep] yeah.
- He's sucking up the last bit of gold, - [Bobby] All right.
and he's done.
[Bobby speaking]
So Bobby just did his five hour dive, and that's it.
Started with a goal of putting 50 hours in the box today.
I did actually hit my goal for today,
you know, I really did.
[Chris speaking]
This wasn't the easiest day because of the crane.
But I really wanna start this summer with a bang.
So far, we're doing it.
The wind hasn't picked up yet.
We're gonna pick up the hose.
Three dives. 15 hours.
Most of the dredges out there would've thrown in the towel.
But not us.
'Cause time is gold.
Pick up boat anchors,
and then we're gonna head back to the harbor.
Fifteen hours in the box.
That's beautiful.
Another day, another dollar, like they say.
Swear to God,
it feels like I just [bleep] fell asleep.
Kids were screaming, cartoons blaring,
people are hitting me on the couch,
[bleep] go to the room,
everybody's beating me up in bed.
You know, like, uh,
my babies did not want me to work tonight,
and it was [bleep] sleeping at home today.
Super [bleep].
[narrator] Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,
Kris Kelly is ready to lead the night crew
toward his round the clock, 24 hour gold.
[groans]
Okay, come on, let's go.
Sooner we get there, sooner we get back.
[engine starts]
Get ready to rock and roll.
Good, good, good.
Let's get the [bleep] outta here.
It's the beginning of summer,
the sun doesn't really set in Nome.
At night, it's still light out.
Which is kind of freaky,
because you're running a night crew.
We're going out to relieve Kevin,
'cause Kevin says everything's running smoothly,
and we're on great gold the whole time he was out there.
I'll believe it when I see it.
[Kevin] What a day.
We got gold.
[Kris] Good job.
Killed it today!
[Kevin] So everything is great,
everything is running perfect,
there's nothing to do.
And everything is clean.
[Kris] Okay, good job.
Holy crap, look at us.
Round the clock workers.
Day shift went great.
Now it's my turn on night shift.
This is the dawning of a new era
for Reaper Nation.
This boat is gonna start to pay the bills.
Good job!
Good job.
By 12:30, I barely [bleep] slept.
We're out here to make gold, not sleep.
Sleep when you're dead.
[Kris speaking]
First steps like always,
fuel up everything,
and make sure the excavator's greased,
and check all major systems.
He's fueling, he's greasing.
I'm checking systems.
Holy [bleep].
We're on some super chunky gold.
See all the chunky gold in the box?
- Okay, let's fire this back up. - [engine starts]
Hey!
So we're up, we're ready,
we're fueled up, we're checked out, we're greased up.
All right.
[Kris] Everything's going great and smooth.
Next on the agenda,
we're gonna go down under the hull,
run over everything,
make sure nothing's obviously broken.
Oh, [bleep].
[bleep].
We're sinking.
Well, good thing I [bleep] came down here.
'Cause we got about six inches of water
going through the whole boat.
It needs to be pumped out right [bleep] now.
Every boat takes on water.
It's your bilge pumps.
You just make sure your bilge pumps don't go out,
and you're good.
All barges take on water.
I'm trying to make the best with what I have.
The Mistress really is an old, rusty barge,
that's got a lot of cracks,
and water seeps through.
You gotta monitor the hull
and use bilge pumps to get rid of the water.
Come look at this [bleep] up.
[bleep] Kevin, man.
Kevin in the crew wasn't pumping out the water
during the day.
They totally forgot.
Kevin said, make sure I wash off the deck.
No, [bleep] the deck.
Make sure the boat is pumped out with water
so we don't sink.
That's our [bleep] biggest concern.
The problem right now, the pumps aren't working.
So we have tons of water in the hull.
It's gaining by the minute,
and we have no way to get rid of the water.
We gotta get the bilge pumps working.
There's a lot of water underneath the boat,
we're not pumping it out for some reason.
Let's figure it out.
[Kris] Right now, for some reason,
that safety cord's not working.
So we're just running a new power source.
This is another one of my main jobs
that I guess Kevin didn't get the memo on.
Okay, we have power back on.
Let's go see,
make sure the [bleep] water's in the ocean.
With bilge pumps,
you pump the water off the side of the boat.
If you see a steady stream, you know it's working.
[Kris speaking]
[bleep] this thing, it's pissing me off.
We gotta go back down and find out what's going on.
[Kris] So we're good. We got both of them pumping.
We'll let that pump for, like, 30 minutes, an hour, and problem solved.
What happened with the water in the pump could have derailed my plan,
but I stood tall and worked out the problems.
So my operators right now are on the verge of pulling off
my first ever 24 hour shift on The Mistress.
I'm loving this.
Joe, I got to tell you, for your first day
you're doing a great job, buddy.
Everything's great.
[narrator] Late into the night,
Chris isn't the only member of the fleet
working under the midnight sun.
[Vernon on radio]
[Scott]
[narrator] As the clock strikes one...
[Vernon] Okay, we're done, we're finished.
[Vernon on radio]
Okay, that works.
[narrator] Vernon Adkison has taken his team as far as they can go.
[Vernon on radio] Okay, they're gonna pull it up.
Thank God we're getting some really good test pans,
which means, most likely, there's really good gold in the sluice box.
And now it's 1 o'clock in the morning.
[lip trill]
This is the kind of day we needed.
Mark that spot.
[Vernon] Got to tell you, the crew is beginning, they grew on me.
They're hardworking. They've been finding the gold.
I can't complain about the guys at this point.
They might just come through for me this summer.
My new diver, Emil...
[Vernon] Don't let thing rip you in [bleep] half.
[Vernon] He doesn't talk much,
he doesn't even speak any English too good, but that's okay.
He got down there, he had no fear.
He dove like he knew what he was doing.
We're gonna shut it down,
go to town, everybody get rested.
Then come back to do it tomorrow.
Okay, here it goes.
- [alarm ringing] - [engine revs]
Now this is the kind of day I like.
[Kris] Gold's been taking a hit, man.
- I don't understand it. - Well the stock market has lost 90% of its value.
- No, it hasn't. - You know what Dogecoin is today?
- Dogecoin, let's not talk about Dogecoin anymore. - No, I'm just saying...
...it's 3 cents again.
I know, but let's not talk about Dogecoin.
- I lost so much money on that. - Okay, let's talk about Bitcoin.
- [bleep] Bitcoin, too. - Bitcoin is 21,000 today.
- 19,000. - Oh, it went down even more!
- Yeah. - Bro, it's lost more than 65% value.
You want to know what the best industry right now to be in
if everything goes to [bleep] in America?
- Gold. - [cash register dings]
- You know, gold is recession proof. - [cash register dings]
- Gold is safety. - [cash register dings]
Gold is probably gonna be one of the only industries
- that lasts over 1,000 years. - [cash register dings]
- You know, and in 1,000 years from right now, - [bell dinging]
do you wanna know?
They'll still be needing gold.
Listen, every phone has gold in it.
- Every computer, phone. - And there has to be billions of phones out there, you know?
Yeah, so I'm just saying, you know, like, everything will be good.
[Kris] Let's finish strong.
[narrator] The new crew of The Mistress
has made it through the night...
[narrator] Barely.
I'm beat, Joe's falling asleep, Tim's falling asleep.
[Kris] It was brutal going through the night, but you know what? We did it.
Now, when Kevin gets out here,
we're gonna turn the boat over to him
and keep the cycle moving forward.
We're gonna keep working The Mistress 24 hours a day
until something breaks or we drop dead,
whichever comes first.
We better still be on the gold so day shift can come in
and keep mining exactly where we're at.
Magic.
[Kris] Yay, we survived the night!
- How are you? - I'm good, I'm [bleep] beat. I'm tired.
You're beat. I didn't... [bleep]
Son of a bitch has been rough, man.
Congratulations to us. We just ran 24 hours.
- That's awesome. - That's awesome.
[Kris] I know we got a lot of gold. Everything is great.
We got a lot of gold. We pushed everything real hard.
I'm really proud of everybody. Everybody's doing a great job.
I'm still... [bleep] Got no legs today, dog.
I ran up and down this [bleep] like 50,000 times yesterday.
[Kris] Welcome to my world. I do that every day.
Well, you know, he wants to play gold miner. Here we are.
Hey, good luck, guys. We're on the gold so just keep it going.
I got you!
[Kris] 24 hours, 24 hours straight, and we're still going.
No one should ever question our work ethic.
We'll do whatever we have to do to make gold, and we're not gonna stop.
We're just gonna keep on going.
I'm super proud of Reaper Nation right now.
[Kris] I've got to go home to a house full of kids.
Guess how much sleep I'm gonna get?
[Vernon]
Everybody gets inspired.
The divers, up until they see that gold on the scale,
they don't know what they're getting.
I don't know what they're getting.
[narrator] With two days on the box...
[Vernon] Come on, Kevin, clean it a little faster than that.
Don't be a ninny.
[narrator] Salty skipper Vernon Adkison
prepares for his first cleanout of the summer.
We're ready to, uh,
[Vernon] We know we're on gold,
but I've got a bit of a ragtag crew this season.
[Vernon]
We've been out twice so far, so we're gonna weigh each run's total separate.
Hopefully, the numbers will show some real promise moving forward.
Oh, man, I love that smell of mercury in the morning.
Oh, we've got some gold here.
I'm thinking we're on track for...
...4 or 5oz, I hope.
Okay.
0.3,
4, 0.5, 6, 0.7, 8, 9.
Okay, we're over it now.
1.1, that's an ounce-and-a-half.
0.6. [laughs mischievously]
All right, 1.75oz.
- All right, ready for the other one? - Go ahead.
All right, let's see.
All right, that's 0.5, 0.6, 7, 8.
9, that's an ounce.
0.5, 6, 0.7,
and 0.8, 0.9. 2.
2oz. Well, I'll be damned.
Okay, that 2.25.
That's 4oz.
- We're in the money. - Yeah.
We're in the money.
[narrator] So far this season,
Vernon's team has banked 4oz
worth about $75,000.
It's all coming together.
We'll start putting some serious hours on the bottom,
and we'll put serious gold in the pot.
I mean, it's not yippee ki-yay but it's a start.
You got to work with what you have,
and I'm starting to see some light through the trees.
If these guys get a little bit more experience under their belt
and we get some good luck,
we could be on our way to a great season.
Let's go ahead and, uh, get that sucker ready
to get back out there first opportunity.
This is damn good.
- [man laughs] - Broken spud.
Broken pump, but...
...little clean up like this makes it all worthwhile.
[narrator] With business partner Dave Young looking on,
Shawn Pomrenke is ready to finally get on the board for the summer.
[Shawn] Let's weigh up this Myrtle gold.
I'm starting a week behind, so I need to see a decent number on that scale.
If not, I'll be chasing my tail all summer.
And with the way the Myrtle's acting, you never know what's coming.
So this, this is crucial.
10...
20.
[Dave] 30.
40.
- Here we go, come on. - 50.
60.
68.
[narrator] 68.3oz is worth over $126,000.
Mister Gold is back.
- No. - Good job.
That's more like it. That's just what we needed.
As long as the Myrtle holds up,
there's no stopping us the rest of the way.
No one's gonna touch us.
Yeah, no, it was good.
The guys are working really hard
and been working really hard.
Nice to see it pay off.
Hopefully do twice as much next time.
[narrator] And just like that,
Shawn is battling for the top spot
with Chis McCully.
Next time on Bering Sea Gold...
Big storm's gonna kick in. We're gonna keep that gold rolling in.
All right, all right, let's go.
Plan for today is pile up the gold.
Oh, yummy, yummy. Eat it up, spit it out.
[man speaking]
High five.
[Kris] This is the new standard of Reaper mining.
Just do this.
We're gonna hammer it as much as we can.
[man speaking]
Yeah, baby, we're [bleep] killing it. That's why I'm the boss.
I think my generator just died. What the [bleep] man?
This sucks.
[creaking]
[man]
Whoa! Whoa! Shut everything off!
[bleep]