[suspenseful music playing]
[Kris] We got two or three inches of solid ice.
The weather dropped like 25 degrees last couple days.
But we need this gold no matter what.
[narrator] Time has run out for the miners.
[Emily] We got one more day left of the season.
It's like now or never.
[narrator] With ice forming in the harbor
and a winter storm speeding toward Nome
that'll bring the mining season to an end...
[Kris] It's all about the gold!
[Shawn] Here we go.
[narrator] ...it's the fleet's last push for gold.
[Vernon] Get mining!
Oh, yeah.
[Kris] We're killing it right now.
[Vernon] This is the best gold I've seen in Nome.
[Emily] Woo-hoo, we're making money at the end.
[narrator] In the final showdown
between the miners and the Bering Sea...
Looks like the storm is coming in earlier than we thought.
[Kris] We're gonna keep pressing hard
before the ocean makes us leave.
[narrator] Who will fold first
and who will be the last one standing?
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] Oh, [bleep].
[Dan] You can't see anything. It's just black.
We gotta get out of here.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] Come up, come up.
[bleep]
[dramatic music playing]
[Shawn] Our last run of the season.
It's time to get the hell out of here and go make some gold.
[narrator] On the final day of summer mining,
the first one out of the gate pre-dawn
is Mr. Gold, Shawn Pomrenke.
Security, security. The Myrtle Irene
leaving the inner harbor, heading for sea.
This is our lucky run.
We're gonna have a smooth run.
Smooth.
I mean, because we need the gold.
We've had a horrible season.
But right now, hopefully, we've gotten everything fixed
to where we could just go out and run and make some gold.
The last day of every mining season, you get butterflies.
The pressure's on.
But this season,
more than ever, I'm feeling it.
The Myrtle's given me a lot of fits this summer.
[Shawn speaking]
It could be the end of the Myrtle's season.
Shut everything off. Hey!
Damn it.
The bearings went out on the plant.
[bleep] bull [bleep].
I've been fighting with my dad
over the deal for the inland mine.
[bleep] you.
I ain't gonna [bleep] stand down anymore!
And the storm of the century
threatened to shut us down completely.
[Shawn speaking]
The water is rising and rising.
I could lose every boat I own.
All right, Myrtle. Be nice to us.
No breakdowns.
You think you can handle that?
In the end, I cut my goal for the season in half.
That'll be enough to pay the bills, pay out my dad
for the inland mine, and to have just enough
to keep my investor Dave Young willing to move forward.
But I need everything to go right for me
to hit that number.
Today is gonna be a good day.
Gonna get out there, gonna pile a whole bunch
of gold into the box.
That's the plan.
Gold. Gold, gold, gold.
Here we are on the spot.
Let's get ready to drop the spuds.
[Cody] Copy that.
[Shawn] Go ahead and fire up that water pump.
Plant is running.
Nice.
Cody was on a solid pay streak last time out,
so the plan is to get the Myrtle on it, too.
We got about 12 to 14 hours before the weather kicks in
and the fat lady calls it.
Till then, we need the Christine Rose
and the Myrtle on the gold every second.
Plant's shaking.
Moving and grooving.
Cody found a little spot.
It's a little too deep for him to dig on
but not too deep for the Myrtle.
Here we go.
The Christine Rose can dig 19 feet deep.
And the Myrtle, it can dig 25, just past it.
So Cody's gonna hit the shallow part
of the pay streak, while I hit the deeper.
With both of us tag teaming it,
we should be able to hit our goal.
But time's almost up.
We're gonna have to thread a needle to pull this one off.
Cody found it was sand and then a nice good cobble,
so let's see.
What do we got?
We got our sand.
So then, there should be nice some rock.
Come on, you son of a bitch.
Make some gold today.
[Shawn speaking]
Where's this cobble at?
Where's the gold at?
Can't make no money with buckets like that.
See what the hell we can find here.
Show me some gravel underneath there.
Steady as she goes.
Oh, there it is.
Look at that.
Oh, yeah.
You got big rock, gravel, sand, and everything you want.
This is some of the best looking material
I've seen all year.
But with the clock running down,
I'm not leaving anything to chance.
We're gonna check the box, see how we're doing.
I gotta see if this dirt is really paying.
Beautiful.
Box is looking good.
Got a bunch of gold in the box.
Oh, yeah.
This is what we wanna run.
Yeah, there's gold in that stuff right there.
Boom.
Now I just have to stay on the gold
long enough to end the season strong.
Every hour that you're feeding dirt in the plant,
every bucket that goes into the wash plant
is gold in the box.
Right now we need it.
We need a really good cleanup.
We're gonna get as many hours on the box as we can.
You gotta make hay while the sun shines.
[narrator] Back in Nome...
[Kris] The final push. No excuses right now.
We need this gold no matter what.
I'm going out on the Mistress.
It's gonna be bad weather
-at midnight. -Okay.
So just push it as long as you can.
Hopefully, we have visibility
and hopefully you guys get some [bleep] gold
-to save our season. -Okay.
[narrator] With just hours remaining,
Kris Kelly is intent on unleashing
the full might of Reaper Nation.
Okay. I'll see you guys tonight.
-Okay. -Good luck.
-Any problems, call me... -[Andy] Don't call you.
But I won't be able to do anything
-because I'm not-- -That's what I said.
-Don't call you. -Okay.
What are you gonna do for me?
You know what, we are broke. Make that money.
[man] Yeah, let's go get it.
Yeah.
[man speaking]
Get on the boat, everybody.
-Let's go. -[man] Okay. Let's hit it.
So this is it, last day to mine.
This season hasn't exactly lived up to my expectations.
We had issues pretty much all the way around.
Oh, [bleep] good thing I came down here
because we got about six inches of water
going through the whole boat.
That doesn't look right.
[Kris] Wow. I can't believe I got [bleep] so hard.
[bleep]
The crawler was supposed to be ready from day one,
but that didn't happen.
And when it was on the water, it was far from flawless.
You lost the crawler?
[Andy speaking]
I'm [bleep]! I just [bleep] got it going.
[Kris speaking]
Okay, let's rock and roll.
[engine rumbling]
Now it's all come down to the last few hours
to hit our goal.
If we could hit that mark, it'll prove
that Reaper Nation has a future.
And it will show Kevin that it's all worth it.
But if not, it might be all she wrote
and we'll have to pack it in.
Now that makes me happy.
See my boats come out in a line.
Everybody going out there to make money.
Good luck, everybody!
I'll see you tonight!
Don't come back without gold!
I came here living in a tent with my boat on the river.
Now I own my own excavation barge,
my own crawler.
I [bleep] becoming a force
to be reckoned with in this town.
Next year will be ten times better.
Every year will just keep getting better
and I'm building on my empire.
This is just the [bleep] start.
So the plan is super simple.
We're gonna pull up to this spot that says number eight.
We're gonna hit it.
And then, if we can't get a lot of gold,
we'll just start going in from there,
because from here to the shore,
there's a bunch of gold in here.
We have limited time, so my strategy
is make these hours count as much as we can.
We've been on okay gold, but I'm moving off of it
and onto a spot where we've scored big this season.
It's a risk but if we don't get back
on that killer gold, we could end up with nothing.
I'm confident this is the right call.
Yeah, let's do it right there! We're on the spot!
[Kris] Dropping.
We're here, we're gonna push hard.
We're gonna make it work. We're gonna get a lot of gold.
Spuds are down.
We're ready to dig.
[Kevin speaking]
It's garbage.
We're making a move.
Okay. So maybe this isn't exactly the right spot,
but I know I'm close.
We'll just move a little bit
and I'm sure we'll be on it.
Let's just, uh, drop back.
Exactly where we are, drop backwards.
You know, we don't have a lot of time left.
It'd be nice to start seeing 150, 200 colors,
but I'm not greedy, but I need it.
Yeah, we're at the spot.
Another crappy pan.
I'm not gonna go out like this. I can't settle.
[Kevin] Push back like five feet.
Let's... Yeah, let's drop back and stay on the...
Stay on the cut if we can.
It's gotta be great gold.
That's our only choice right now.
And we just gotta move fast and find it.
Okay!
Man.
I don't know if that's gold or pyrite.
That's gold.
It's washing away, it means it's pyrite.
God it makes me even more grumpy.
[Kris speaking]
That's some chunky gold and it's looking better.
I'm always in a better mood when I make money.
I don't know, call me sick I guess.
Oh, hey!
[Kris] Now we're talking.
This is the spot I was hoping to find.
Now we just gotta dig and dig and grind
until the last possible second.
Our future's at stake here.
We're moving so much material.
We're getting over $1,000 an hour right now.
That's perfect.
[upbeat music playing]
[Emily] We got one more day left of the season.
This is our last push.
And we're, uh... I'm pulling out.
Everything's cold.
We should just run... We should run the compressor,
the generator, we should just run everything
while we're motoring out.
-Let it warm up. -[Dan speaking]
-Work the kinks out. -[Dan speaking]
[narrator] On Team Eroica's last day of the season...
[Dan speaking]
Yeah. All right.
We're rocking and we're rolling.
[narrator] The final dive will rest entirely
on the shoulders of Dan Rainwater.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] All right.
This summer has been total madness.
We finally built a great team of divers,
which was the strategy for the season,
but for this last part, we just have Dan.
The other guys have gone home. Alex is with the baby.
So it'll be on Dan and I
to meet our goals for the season.
Basically, we need 22 ounces to get to 200.
I... I'd be disappointed if we didn't get it.
It's like an investment in the future of this boat
to have good divers who can produce gold
and be more dependable.
We have a really good thing going here.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] The strategy of the day is to go back to the spot
that's producing hot gold for us all summer.
I'm just gonna have Dan stay down as long as possible
'cause we're really hoping to hit that 200 ounce mark
and I know Dan's up for it.
He's got gold fever, so he'll stay down
as long as he needs to.
[Emily speaking]
A good long dive from Dan is gonna be a way
to make up the horrible ice mining season
we had last winter
and to get us set up for the future.
Ounces in the box, it's what's all about
now that we have a family to support.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
There's a lot at stake here
and I really want this dive to go well.
So, it's re-it's really... It's really important.
All right. Suit up. Let's go.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[tense music playing]
[Dan] Okay.
[Dan speaking]
The visibility is good
and the current is not too strong.
[Emily speaking]
[Dan] Idling up.
[Dan speaking]
Are you seeing any gold down there?
Uh, no.
Don't see any gold yet.
Where are you?
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] Okay, roger.
Just keep working.
[Dan] Roger.
[Dan speaking]
All right.
[Dan speaking]
Gobble 'em up.
Oh, yeah. There's even more further I get into this.
Look at that.
[Emily] All right.
Dude, that's amazing.
[Dan] Oh, yeah, they're all up in here.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
Look at that one. Seven right there,
just more and more gold.
That's really good news.
[Dan] Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold.
[Dan speaking]
Hell, yeah!
That's what I'm talking about!
Great. Dan's doing it.
He's diving, he's on some good gold.
[Dan] Ye-haw.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] Woo-hoo! We're making money at the end.
[Dan] Oh, boy is it nice.
[Dan speaking]
[narrator] Back in the harbor...
[Vernon] Going gold mining
and we're just about ready to blast off.
Now we get some gold in that box.
[narrator] Vernon Adkison gears up
for his last push of the season.
Let's see if we can't get out here.
How's my stern?
You're okay.
[Vernon] There's snow in the harbor.
Ice is starting to form.
This is truly the end of the line
for a very rough season.
[man speaking]
Hand over fist, hemorrhaging [bleep] money.
The boat's ready to go.
I got gold on my claim, but I've got no divers.
1.75 ounces. Damn it.
It's been a struggle.
I reduced my season goal from a pie in the sky number
to a more practical one.
I've been bleeding money all season long.
The smaller number is what it'll take
to keep me in business.
If I don't reach it,
I may not be able to afford
to keep going any longer.
Okay. Here it goes.
Let's get her fired up.
Get the gear in the water.
[grunts]
The plan for today is straightforward.
We're gonna keep with our deep mining strategy.
Going 40 plus feet
is much more dangerous for divers,
much easier to get the bends,
or to get caught in the long lines going down there.
But the ground is untouched
so the rewards have been worth the risk.
Going for maximum gold.
[Gary] There we go. Okay.
All right.
[Vernon] Gary's my gold gorilla.
He's going down first.
I need him to get on the gold ASAP.
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] Then we'll throw as many more divers
as we can on it for the rest of the day.
[Vernon speaking]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] So, Gary, what do you think?
[Gary speaking]
You got just straight sand?
[Gary speaking]
How much overboard before you get down
to the hard pan?
[Gary speaking]
A few inches of sand to the hard pan?
[Gary speaking]
It's got gold in the sand?
[Gary speaking]
All right, that's what we wanna hear.
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon speaking]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon speaking]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] Hey, uh, Kevin?
Let's pull that test mat.
Gary is seeing gold,
but the only way to really know
if it's worth sticking around for is to do a test pan.
I don't even wanna waste a second today,
so let's make sure we got something good here.
All right. Let's see what we got here.
Oh, yeah, that's perfect.
Nice chunky stuff.
We're on it, Vern, finally.
That's good gold. That's a good test mat.
Really good.
I'm very pleased with that.
The test mat is looking good.
Beautiful gold
and it couldn't come at a better time.
This spot's the bomb.
Now we just need to squeeze out every last ounce.
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] Mop it up. Mop it up.
[narrator] With a winter storm set to hit Nome overnight,
the fleet faces their final day of summer mining.
And in the harbor...
All right. Good morning.
[narrator] ...Chris McCully's hoping
to get one last bite at the golden apple.
We're here out again on the Bering Sea
in the hopes for a good visibility today.
Every day, every time we wake up, we're trying.
This summer is like the tale of two seasons for me.
[Chris speaking]
Definitely is gonna pay out.
Whoo!
Things started out hot
and the first half of the summer,
we were on fire.
[Chris speaking]
[Cam speaking]
But since that storm hit,
I haven't been able to mine.
How's that vis?
[Cam speaking]
Copy that.
Everyone's situation is different
and every claim is different as well,
but there's literally zero visibility on my claim.
I really wanted to smash 300 ounces this summer
following what I have done this winter
to prove that I'm one of the biggest players up here.
Not sure if I'm gonna pull it off.
And today's my last shot to do it.
Look at that, there's snow on the mountains already,
so I feel like the end is coming
quicker than I thought.
It's brutal, man.
Cam is gonna go in the water to check the visibility,
and if there's visibility then that's great
because we can put more gold in the box.
So cross my fingers,
hopefully we got good vis.
There's no way to sugarcoat this.
It all comes down to this dive.
We still have some gold left in the box,
but there's no way we can hit our goal
if we can't mine today,
and that sucks.
All right, buddy, to gettin' money!
[Cam speaking]
Oh, yeah, seeing Cam is in the water,
so let's roll the dice.
Mic check. Mic check.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] All right. Loud and clear.
[Cam] Yeah.
[Cam speaking]
You wanna try to run a little bit,
see if it clears up?
[Cam speaking]
Let me know when you're ready.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris speaking]
[motor roaring]
[tense music playing]
Trying to figure it out if it's workable or not.
He said so far it's pretty murky.
[Cam speaking]
He's punching hole right now,
but it's still not clear enough to see.
But as soon as you throttle up,
I'm hoping that all that suction
would suck up that bad vis,
we'll see. Cross the fingers, man.
So what's your visibility like?
Do you think it's workable enough or no?
[Cam speaking]
[bleep]
Damn it.
[bleep] nasty situation, dude.
[Cam speaking]
Let me go check it real quick.
[Cam speaking]
Yeah, it's still running.
I think it's plugged up again with that gunk [bleep].
We need to clean up the carburetor.
[Cam speaking]
[motor whirring]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] Yeah, the [bleep] thing would stop...
-Huh? -It doesn't wanna work.
It's not workable anyway right now, so...
[Chris] Not good enough.
Well, at least we tried, you know?
[Cam] Yeah.
We're trying to make money,
but can't really.
With the vis it's not workable today,
so we're just gonna pack up and head home.
It's really devastating.
The first half of the season
couldn't have been any better,
and then the storm kicks in
so we can't mine anymore
and basically, I'm forced to pack it in.
It's a rollercoaster ride and it's not a good one.
It's frustrating.
Yeah, it's sad.
How it is right now,
it's like...
it's hopeless, you know what I mean?
Heartbreaking.
[narrator] As Chris and the Tahta
pack it in for the season...
across the water...
[Kris] We're killing it right now.
[machinery whirring]
[Kris] Lots of gold.
She's been mining pretty steady.
We haven't had any problems
with the 58 mining so far.
[narrator] Kris Kelly has the Mistress
raking in the gold.
[Kris] The buckets look so good.
It may have taken to the end of the season,
but The Mistress is finally operating
like I always thought it would.
Bam, I like it.
We're gonna stay on this pay streak
as long as I possibly can
and finish with a bang.
I just hope Andy is doing
as good on the crawler.
[man] Yeah!
[Kris] Whoo!
It's all about the gold!
[narrator] And on the other side of the claim...
Our anchors are set.
We're exactly at 30 feet where I wanna start out.
Now, we're gonna start to get all my equipment together
to drop it in the water and get going.
This is what I needed to start this day.
No nonsense, no drama and ground at 30 feet.
That's the sweet spot for the crawler.
It's deep enough that the ground is untouched,
but it's not so deep that there's no light.
We're gonna get the crawler down there on the gold
'cause I need this half for Reaper Nation
to make it work.
How's my line?
[man speaking]
[Andy] Okay.
[machinery whirring]
[tense music playing]
[Andy] The water is actually not looking that bad.
I got a clear view of my nozzle.
I'm on the bottom.
I got visibility to work, so I'm good to go.
We had no issues getting the crawler down,
no issues getting to the right depth.
And for the first time since the storm,
the visibility's been good.
Everything's coming together on the last day.
We just gotta fire up the sluice
and start making money.
Start everything up.
[engine sputtering]
[Andy] What's the matter?
Is this frozen?
[man speaking]
Oh, what the [bleep].
Get everything all set.
I have visibility and then bam.
[groans]
Our waterline to our sluice box is frozen.
So he's gonna heat it up real fast,
get the ice broken out so we can get going.
It happens this time of the year.
It's the time of the year where you gotta start
thawing your sluice box, all your waterlines.
If I was a diver right now,
I'd be blowing out my umbilical, my waterline.
Just that time of the year.
So, we're just thawing it right now
and we'll get this bitch up running here shortly.
We're good to go.
We're gonna start it back up and go to work.
-[man] You're ready to go? -[Andy] Yeah, go do it for me.
[man speaking]
[engine revving]
Uh, what's the problem?
[man speaking]
[Andy] Whoa. What the [bleep].
[engine sputtering]
[man speaking]
We had a freeze up in our pipeline.
We go to start back up again.
My fuel pump took a [bleep].
Like, what the [bleep], man?
I mean,
everything's running great.
My equipment is all down.
I'm ready to go and now a fuel pump is gonna stop my day.
I can't catch a [bleep] break on this boat.
This sucks. There's been something wrong every time.
Finally, everything was going great,
then the pump engine went out
and we can't mine without it.
I'm bringing my crawler up right now.
[engine revving]
The crawler has promise. It works great,
but this whole operation was frustrating.
We're gonna iron out everything.
And when we do, it's gonna be great.
But for this summer, that's it.
I don't have an extra fuel pump on me.
I mean, there's just always something
that's just kicking me back down
every time I'm just about to do it...
and...
I don't know. Now, I'm out of service.
I can't call my brother and...
[bleep] me, man.
This boat's done for the season.
I don't know what else to say.
That was a big waste of time.
All right.
[tense music playing]
[Vernon] So, Gary, what are you seeing?
[Gary speaking]
[narrator] Vernon Adkison's final deep water push,
good results in deep pockets.
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon speaking]
[Gary speaking]
You gotta make your decompression stop, right?
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] Okay.
We'll handle your umbilical.
Gary's got his two hours in.
He's coming up.
I got a feeling he had a really productive two hours.
At these depths,
the divers can only go for two hours
before their nitrogen builds up
and it gets too risky.
So, we'll have Gary come up.
[Gary] It's not bad.
The next one will be a lot better than this one.
I mean, I'm on it down there.
I mean, I can see the little gold everywhere.
Really? Nice.
[Vernon] Now we'll get Brad down there.
If we can get a full dive in with him too,
I'll consider this a win.
After a rotten summer for the gold chip,
we may be on the verge of our best day for the season.
[tense music playing]
[Gary] All right. There he goes.
[Vernon] Okay. We got another diver down.
[dramatic music playing]
Yeah. Brad, do you hear me?
[Brad speaking]
Okay. Real good.
Real good.
So far, I'm liking this spot just fine.
We gotta finish this season with a bang.
[narrator] Back in Nome...
[Zeke] What up?
We're gonna go for a boat ride.
[narrator] With the highest gold total
of his career already in the books,
Zeke Tenhoff's looking to squeeze out
one last run before calling it a season.
We're gonna give her a run.
Good to go?
Beautiful day on the water.
I've heard mixed reports
about there being any visibility.
If there's no vis today,
I'm thinking that like that's gonna...
That's just gonna be a season-ender.
This season's been rough for the fleet and for Nome.
But for me, it's been amazing.
I set a goal of 55 ounces,
but I'm already past that.
So, I had to set a new goal.
I made enough to make the first $100,000 payment
on the Synergy,
but that's just what was due
at the end of the summer.
I still have to pay another $300,000
for this boat over time.
So, we really can't take our foot off the gas.
Go ahead and throw the anchor down right about here.
But today, the question is visibility on Tomcod.
Am I even gonna get a chance at the plate
or are we done for the season?
Let's, uh, pop that camera down.
[man] Yeah. Let's definitely drop the camera.
See if it inspires us. If it doesn't inspire us,
then I'm totally down to turn this boat around
and head right back to the harbor.
[man] Word.
One of the keys to mining
on the Bering Sea is ingenuity.
We have to figure out ways to get whatever it is
that needs to get done in the moment.
What we have to figure out today is visibility.
So, I'm gonna strap a GoPro camera
to a three-foot pipe and send it down.
I'm gonna try to get a sense
of how much murk is down there.
I have to have at least three feet of visibility
in front of my face to make it work.
So, this is one foot, two foot,
and then we'll guesstimate
that this is gonna be three foot.
And then we're gonna attach the GoPro back here.
We should be able to, uh,
get a really good reading.
So if we could see there,
then we'll be able to see.
But that'll basically just drop
in the water like that.
[dramatic music playing]
Okay. That's on the bottom.
All right. Here we go.
Oh, yeah. That's [bleep] black.
[Zeke] Yeah. [bleep] that.
That's grim. That's grim, dude.
-It's pitch-dark down there. -Yeah.
[Zeke] You can't see anything.
[man] I hate to say it, but I guess it's time
-to get into the boat. -Time to get the boat out of the water.
[man] Get the boat out of the water and--
-Boat's coming out. -[man] Boat's coming out.
-[Zeke] Boat's coming out. -[man] Yeah. Boat's coming out now. Sure.
So, that big typhoon that we had,
it stirred up the murk so badly
that, uh...
the murk just never cleared out.
The storm really screwed up everything for this last stretch.
There've been little pockets where it's been mineable.
But overall, it really killed our ability
to be able to do our job.
Even now, the impact of the storm is ongoing
and it really sucks for us.
You gotta be able to see down there. You can't see.
It doesn't even look like we had an entire foot of vis.
There's like a layer of just black stuff
on the bottom that looks like it's a couple feet deep.
Just murk,
just black, impenetrable gloom.
It's time to wrap it up for the season.
We did all we could.
[suspenseful music playing]
[seagulls cawing]
[Emily] Hey, how is it going down there?
[Dan] It's going great.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Dan] Awesome. Thanks, Emily.
[narrator] Three hours into the final dive of the season...
[Dan speaking]
...Eroica diver, Dan Rainwater,
is making the most of his time on the sea floor
and 200 ounces may be within reach.
[Dan speaking]
Let her eat.
Oh, yeah.
There we go.
Oh...
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] Are you kidding me?
Yeah. I think you've got a rock jam.
[Dan] All right.
[engine whirring]
[Emily] Just when you thought you were killing it
and Dan's on good gold, we got this nasty rock jam.
And that could really make all the difference right now.
I mean, this is our last chance.
There's not gonna be another day to mine.
We do not have the time
to spend on this rock jam.
We have to do whatever it takes to fix it
as fast as possible to get back on the gold.
[grunting]
We hit the hose and it did nothing to move the rock.
Let's go ahead and float the hose
and see if we can find it that way.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] Yeah, dude. I'm so sorry. That's such a bummer.
Hopefully, it's just a jam
and we can get right back to it.
All right.
We really can't diagnose the problem right now
and I'm worried that it might be an equipment issue
and not a rock jam.
And if that's the case, I mean, we're done
and there's no chance we hit 200.
Anyway, we're gonna pull the hose up...
[Emily] At this point, whatever the problem is,
whether it's equipment or a rock jam,
it's taking up too much time and I cannot afford that.
I think if there's a jam in the hose,
it's probably there. It's low.
I gotta hook it up, gotta get the hose to me
and just hit it with a hammer until it frickin' gives in.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily groans]
[suspenseful music playing]
[hammer pounding]
Okay.
[engine revving]
[Emily speaking]
[Dan speaking]
-Whoo! Booya. -Okay.
[Emily] All right.
Situations like this, you gotta
roll up your sleeves and fix the problem,
especially if you know you have no time left, just like today.
-I'm going for it. -All right.
So, we found the rock, we got the hose cleared,
and we got full suction again.
And it's time for Dan
to get back down there and go to work.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Dan speaking]
Awesome.
[Emily speaking]
It's a bummer. We lost some time
for the rock jam.
-[Dan speaking] -[Emily] Nice.
We lost like an hour and a half
with that horrible rock jam
and it's our [bleep] very last night
of gold dredging for the season,
but we're making it happen.
[Dan speaking]
That's great, dude. Keep it up.
[Dan] Yeah.
[Emily speaking]
[narrator] Across the water...
[Shawn] Look at that.
We're piling up the gold.
We've been here about four hours
and it's been paying
and paying, and paying.
[narrator] On his last run of the season,
Shawn Pomrenke could be headed
to a golden finish.
[Shawn] Oh, yeah.
We're digging down into the pay layer
about six feet below the top of the surface.
And it seems like good pay
all the way down to the bottom.
It's really easy digging,
production stays up
because you're not spending your time moving.
And the box looked really good the last time we checked it.
Making some damn money.
Yeah.
We needed everything to fire on all cylinders today,
both the CR and the Myrtle had to be cranking.
And so far, it looks like that's what's happening.
[Cody] What's up, dude?
How's it going over there?
This ground is pretty rich.
You know, we're catching a lot of gold here.
How's it going with you?
Yeah, I don't know. I got into this hole
over here and it's good.
There's a big pay streak right here.
[Cody speaking]
Yup. 10-4.
[Cody] Oh, yeah.
Real good.
He's brought in some good pay over there,
we're over here about a mile away
and we're in the good pay.
When you hear that rock running down the screen deck
like it is right now...
It's money.
There's the clay.
Oh, yeah.
Gold here is amazing.
But I gotta get back to the harbor
and prep for the arrival of the Myrtle.
I'm gonna have the night crew come in a little early
and push it alongside Cody
for the last couple hours.
The fun stuff is digging.
And digging up gold and following the pay.
I have to trust my guys
to do it while I'm not here.
It makes everybody feel better.
This makes the bank account feel good, too.
[Chuck] Yeah.
All right, Chuck. Pile the gold up, buddy.
I'm gonna go get ready.
It all comes down to that final clean out.
Hopefully, the haul from the CR
and the Myrtle will get us to where we need to be.
Oh, yeah. There you go.
-All right, buddy. Good luck. -[Chuck] Yup.
[Shawn] Call me if you guys need anything.
I wish I could stay out there digging,
but somebody's gotta keep this business running.
[tense music playing]
End-of-season cleanup.
[Zeke] This is the last of it.
[man] I'm surprised that it's this much.
[narrator] Zeke Tenhoff wasn't able to get
a last day of mining in,
but it's possible that a few ounces
from the buckets could propel him
to 150 ounces.
Sweet.
We weren't able to mine today,
but we did pretty well
in the past few days we were able to,
and we still have some gold to scrape out
of the bottom of the box.
If this weigh out is anywhere near as good
as the ones we've been having,
we're gonna end the season with a bang.
I hope so. Let's hit the trail loaded down.
Let's see how it weighs up.
3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11, 12, 13, 14.
Oh, almost 15.
[narrator] 14.8 ounces
rings in at over $26,000,
bringing Zeke's final tally
to 152 ounces,
worth over $270,000.
-[man] Not bad for a scraping the bottom of the boat. -Okay. Scraping.
-I'll take it all day. -Yup, yup, yup.
[Zeke laughs]
[Zeke] What a season. First, meeting our initial goal
and then breaking through the revised one?
We really crushed it.
This is really gonna help
with the remaining payments that I have on the Synergy.
And I have a lot of confidence now moving forward.
I feel like we're really leveling up.
-Killer season. -Yeah.
We roll into it next year,
um, that with the same stride,
we'll be able to get double that easily.
Sure. We know what the boat is gonna produce
every hour it goes out.
[Zeke] Everything was working exactly how it needs to work.
Eventually, you have to just, like, realize
that you have a good idea of what you're better at than other things.
You should probably just stick with the things
that you notice you're better at than the other things.
[laughing]
[narrator] Back on the water...
[radio buzzing]
-[Vernon] Hey, Brad. -[Brad] Yeah?
[Vernon speaking]
[Brad speaking]
[Vernon] The visibility is deteriorating?
[Brad speaking]
[Vernon] All right.
[narrator] The door is closing on the last dive
of the season for Team Adkison.
He's seeing zero visibility down there.
So, I think I'm gonna go ahead and pull him out
and get our gear up.
Yeah.
[radio buzzes]
Hey, Brad.
[Brad] Yeah?
Right now, you've been under
one hour and 50 minutes.
Let's go ahead and pull you.
[Brad speaking]
[Vernon] The visibility is starting to get too cloudy
down there to mine, and Brad got almost
to the two-hour mark, so I'm considering the day
a big success with two hot dives on good gold.
We're finishing on a good note, for sure.
Now hopefully, that skill shows us a winner.
This some of the best gold
I've seen since I've been in Nome.
We got a good lick.
[upbeat music playing]
[Vernon] All right.
Let's see what kind of Twitter bombs there are out there.
[narrator] And now, buckle for another
"Social Hour with Vernon."
[Vernon] At NuggetsMeLotz,
"What was the biggest waste of money
when it comes to mining?"
Well, the year I had six dredges
in the water,
that was a big waste.
Got six boats in the water.
And boats are expensive.
I've cashed in all my chips and put everything on the line here.
My retirement,
my savings,
I'm all in.
So I had six rigs in the water,
I only ever had six running
at the same time for one day for about three hours.
Fact is...
I probably got a half a million wrapped up
in this operation.
And the other thing is that bottom crawler.
We ready? Okay. Here we go.
I'm thinking we got a winner.
[line snaps]
-[Vernon] Whoa [bleep]! -[man speaking]
[man] No!
[Vernon] Well, we just broke the damn line
and the bot dropped.
It's only quarter of a million dollar robot.
I could've just quit and said [bleep] that,
I lost a lot of money. Woe is me.
I'm done with this [bleep], but I didn't.
I took what I learned from that
and I built a bigger, better rig.
It's taken me a few years,
actually several years.
-[seagull squawks] -[Vernon] But that's okay.
I'm not gonna give up, I'll keep after it
until I get it figured out.
[narrator] This has been another
"Social Hour with Vernon."
I mean, I got full confidence
that I can figure this [bleep] out.
So, you know, you live and you learn.
But I burned up a lot of money.
[tense music playing]
All right. Let's see what we got to deal with here.
[narrator] Despite being shut down on the water yet again,
Chris McCully's hoping that the final scrape of the box
yields a few final ounces on the scale.
[Chris] Okay.
We'll classify the dirt.
I know we won't be able to hit the 300 ounce season.
But I have a few buckets that we haven't cleaned yet.
So I'm hoping for a little surprise on the scale.
All right. Let's see how she goes.
Oh, yeah.
You see that?
Starting to pile up right there.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] So far, it's looking good.
See how that looks.
Oh, okay. All right.
There it is. Yup.
Let's weigh this out.
So, here we go.
[Chris] 160, 190,
there's 200 grams.
There's 300 grams.
Come on, 380, 390.
Come on 400, 400.
Nice. Oh, there's more.
[Cam] We forgot the coarse pieces, man.
[Chris] There's more.
We got 410 grams, so that's...
Yeah, wow. We got 13.1.
Dude, [bleep] did it.
[narrator] 13.1 ounces is worth
over 23 grand,
bringing Chris' season total
to 233 ounces
worth over $420,000.
That's really good, that's really,
really great, you know, that's,
that's just the result I wanna come up with.
Did I hit my 300-ounce goal this summer? No.
But did I get a ton of gold?
Absolutely.
I think I proved to everyone
that I'm one of the heavy-hitters out here.
Two seasons in a row now we delivered big.
If we can get a summer without a storm of the century,
I think we'd be unstoppable.
My plan from there is to continue on
where I've been mining this whole summer.
And it's just a matter of when can I get back down there.
I'm gonna keep getting that gold.
Let's get paid, eh?
[tense music playing]
[narrator] Back out on the water...
[Emily] All right, Dan. You've been down about six hours.
You ready to call it?
[Dan speaking]
Yeah, I think it's for the best.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] All right. Roger that. I'm going to
turn the light on and drop the hook.
[Dan speaking]
[narrator] With a six-hour dive on the books,
Emily calls it a day
before nighttime blankets the Bering Sea.
Dan's been down for six hours and that's a long dive,
and I don't really feel like pushing it.
I think it's healthy to call it at six.
We got some good time in today.
Six hours is the absolute maximum time
you should be down there,
and that's how long Dan dove tonight.
And I'm super glad he stuck it out the whole way.
But at this point, it's nighttime.
Temperature's dropping
and the reduced visibility because of the darkness
adds a whole new element of danger for the diver.
And we got a storm coming in,
it's definitely time to call it.
Good job. You killed it today, though.
Oh.
-[Dan speaking] -[Emily imitates munching]
Wow. Until a second ago,
that was just lost on the floor of the Bering Sea.
-[Dan] Oh, it's now ours. -And now it's ours forever.
Wow, that's awesome, Dan.
[Emily speaking]
-[Dan speaking] -All right.
-[Dan speaking] -Okay.
[Emily speaking]
-All we need is-- -[Emily speaking]
Yeah, actually, yeah, it was...
-Oh, [bleep]. -Holy...
-Holy [bleep]. -[laughter]
[Emily] Oh, my gosh. There's so much gold in there.
[Dan] Are you kidding me?
[Emily] Holy [bleep], there's so much gold in there.
-[Dan speaking] -What?
[Emily] Holy shit!
[Emily] Oh, my gosh.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] Oh, [bleep].
Dan, you were in it.
Oh, my gosh. Yay!
Dan absolutely killed it down there
and the box definitely shows it.
So it's a great way to end our final dive.
Ooh.
Ah.
So much gold.
You always hope the box is lit up,
but this is even better than Dan and I thought it would be.
It's a grand slam, probably the best day of the season.
And I can't wait to see what's on the scale.
[Emily speaking]
-[Dan speaking] -Look how nice that is.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] Oh, I... No doubt these--
[Dan] That is the best six hours I've ever seen.
[Emily] I think that's the best six hours I've ever had on the Bering Sea.
Oh, my gosh.
[Emily laughs] It's so good.
Whoo!
Dan got us some freaking awesome-looking gold,
which is amazing.
[Dan speaking]
So... Best gold ever.
For our last day,
sail away into the sunset with some beautiful gold.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] Nicely done, sir.
Oh, that was worth that terrible rock jam.
[tense music playing]
[Emily] How's it going?
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] All signs point to good.
[Jane] That's awesome.
[Emily] That's just from six hours?
[Dan] Quartz vein, six hours.
-[Emily] Whoa. -[Dan] Yeah.
[Emily] Nice.
[narrator] It's the end of the road
for Emily's summer campaign.
[Emily] Well also, we had that huge rock jam
in the middle of your dive.
[narrator] Mama's looking to end on a high note.
-[Emily] That's amazing. -[Dan] Yeah.
[Emily] Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we're looking really good here.
We need 22 ounces to get to 200.
I don't think there's any way we're not gonna make it.
It's very dangerous for me to make that kind of prediction
but I don't think I'm wrong.
I just think we, like, hit some incredible pay.
So here we go.
This is my first full season back in a while
and it's crucial we finish strong.
The bank account was pretty depleted
after a disastrous winter and we're just hoping
to fill that account back up.
My family's depending on it.
-Here we go. -[Emily] Yeah.
-There it is, the omelet. -[Dan] Beautiful.
This is it. This is it for our season.
[Emily] Right.
All right. Let's pour this thing.
[tense music playing]
1, 2, 3, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10... Oh, gosh, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21...
[Dan] Come on, come on, come on, come on.
[Emily] 22.35.
[narrator] 22.35 ounces is worth over $40,000,
bringing Team Eroica's season haul to 202 ounces,
banking Emily a mammoth $363,000.
Dude, this feels really good.
This was a tough season
and there were a lot of times I didn't think we'd come
even close to meeting this goal.
But we pulled through
and to build a great dive team to weather the storm,
it just proves that we belong here
and that we're gonna move forward
and continue to grow wealth for our family
and I'm really excited for the future.
Baby Bear heard the gold was, uh...
-Hi, cutie. -...getting weighed
-and she woke up. -Hi.
-She got excited. -Hi, cutie.
[Emily] What's that?
Ooh, is that college tuition?
We did it. We're north of 200.
-[Jane] She heard it-- -[Alex] Yes!
[Emily] I don't think I've ever been this proud,
-honestly. Like-- -[Jane] Aw.
[Emily] Really.
We made a good team.
-That's really awesome. -[Emily] Yeah.
-No, it was a great team. -[Alex] Yeah.
-[Emily] Uh... Mmm-hmm. -No?
[Emily] By the skin of our teeth.
Good job, everybody.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] Back out on the water...
[Kris speaking]
[narrator] As night falls,
not every captain has called it quits.
[Kris speaking]
[narrator] Kris Kelly is pushing Reaper Nation
as long as he can,
and he may be on the verge of the most profitable day
in the history of the Mistress.
[Kris] Good gold all day.
Everything's going great.
We're killing it right now.
Like, the gold we see in the pan
is a fraction of what we're getting.
We're gonna keep pressing hard
until the ocean makes us leave.
Which the weather's coming up, so it's gonna happen soon.
It's been a long, hard season,
but I'm determined to get every ounce we can
and stay out as long as I possibly can.
That's what this summer's been all about.
Just pushing harder than anyone else this season
and challenging ourselves.
And that's how we're gonna finish.
[Kevin] We're on good gold.
And we're on a really good spot.
We're gonna get as much gold as can before we take off.
Looks like the storm is coming in
earlier than we thought.
[Kris speaking]
[Kevin] It starting to get pretty rough and violent out here.
[Kris] On a personal note, I just want to stay out
longer than the Christine Rose and the Myrtle.
Shawn has his night crew out there working.
If they pull up their anchors before us,
then we're literally the last boat out here.
That would be a huge personal victory
and that would say a lot about this team.
[Kevin speaking]
[dramatic music playing]
It's looking pretty rough out there, huh?
Yeah, let's get out of here, dawg.
[Kris] Man, we're getting a lot of gold right now.
Let me check my weather.
You're right, it's picking up fast.
Yeah, let's get the [bleep] out of here.
Weather is picked up quick.
We just got an updated report.
We're getting south wind with a south swell.
Where it's just... it's gonna go to [bleep] really fast.
The current's ripping. Let's just go home.
We're on good gold, though.
Okay. Let's do it.
[dramatic music playing]
Let's pass these [bleep] now.
[Kevin] Oh, I'm gonna pass 'em up like they're standing still dawg, watch.
[Kris] There you go, baby.
We did it.
The Christine Rose and the Myrtle called it a season
before we did.
We're officially the last one
mining on the Bering Sea.
But because the Mistress is a fast boat,
we're gonna beat 'em into harbor.
That's another win.
We're ending on a good note.
It's a race to get home.
Right now, we're gonna pass the Christine Rose
and the Myrtle like they're doing nothing.
That thing's a turtle.
They could change the name from the Myrtle to the Turtle.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] Overnight, snow and ice blanket Nome
bringing the official end to summer mining.
And in the harbor...
Finally nice to see everything coming together.
[narrator] In the snowy Nome morning...
I'm thinking we're looking damn good.
[man] Woo-hoo!
[narrator] Vernon Adkison has high hopes
for his last clean out of the summer.
There. You guys ready?
[Vernon] Let's take a look.
[man 1] I don't know.
[man 2] Oh.
Hey, that looks better than the last one.
-You know? -Yeah.
Glad we went that deep.
[Gary] Well, I'm surprised.
[Vernon] There's some gold in there.
The gold is good.
Our backs were up against the wall
after the first half of this season,
so we've been rolling the dice,
pushing those divers to go deeper
than almost anyone ever goes.
And that's been paying off.
On this final effort, it looks like
it might pay off big.
Getting there.
Hopefully, we get enough to hit our goal
and we can keep the lights on.
Okay, guys,
here we go.
[dramatic music playing]
1, 2...
3, 4, 5,
7...
10, 11...
13, 14...
Come on, baby.
14.96.
[narrator] 14.96 ounces is worth over $26,000,
the skipper's best clean out of the summer.
[Vernon] That's a good little lick.
[narrator] And it brings Vernon's season haul
to 52.26 ounces worth over $94,000.
Good clean out.
I'm very happy.
Very happy.
And that doesn't happen very often.
Well, sometimes, you're happy just to survive another day
and that's what this season is about.
We've had more crap thrown at us this season
than I even remember, but we didn't give up,
and in the end, found a way to keep going.
And we also learned for the future
that the gold is incredible when you go deeper on 56.
All right, we'll do a fist bump.
-[Kevin] Yeah. -[Gary] Yes.
-[Brad] Fist bumps? All right. -[Kevin] Great stuff.
Tony, tell me what it takes.
[Tony] Teamwork.
[Vernon] Well, that's it.
Let's get the hell out of here.
[upbeat music playing]
Wish I had a nicer jar.
You could see the gold in it a little better.
I'm supposed to meet Shawn down here.
Pay him up his royalties for the season.
-How's it going, Zeke? -Hi, Shawn.
It's been going good.
This boat crushes.
Dude, I love running this boat.
These are all the cleanups we did this year.
152 ounces.
And so that comes to 22.8 for your royalties.
[Shawn] Okay.
So, I hope this buys you some fuel or...
Don't spend it all in one place.
Well, it helps pay for the claim
so we can keep mining on it.
Right on. Well, yeah,
I'm really glad you got that claim.
-Yeah. -It's really, uh,
really working out for us.
Well, I appreciate it, Zeke. And...
-[Zeke] Appreciate it, Shawn. -I wish you the best
of luck with everything.
[Zeke] Right. Well, good luck. Thanks.
-Yeah. -[Zeke] Appreciate it.
All right. Thanks, Zeke.
I've got Shawn paid up for royalties
for, uh, all the gold I've mined this year.
And I've gotten more gold this year than I've ever gotten
in a season before, so I feel like that's a win.
Good to go.
[rock music playing]
[Kris] There's a lot of chunky gold.
Better than the slap in the face.
I think we did pretty good.
Andy, let's start cleaning off these screens.
Let's just start getting this crap done.
[narrator] For Reaper Nation,
it's the final clean out of the season.
And while it hasn't reached the heights Kris Kelly hoped,
he's still optimistic about the future.
I know it was a tough week
and we worked ourselves to death,
but it's all for the cause.
One day, you're gonna look back on the beginning
of Reaper Nation and say, "You know what?
I did that."
-Uh-huh. -[Andy] Oh, really.
He's gonna look back and be, like,
"Why the [bleep] did I do that?"
[laughter]
I hope that's not the [bleep] case.
Andy, you [bleep].
So it's been a long, hard season for me,
getting the Mistress dialed in,
getting the All In on the water, working,
getting the crawler on the bottom of the ocean.
Hey, Andy, thanks for all your help.
It was ambitious, but we definitely
moved the ball forward for Reaper Nation.
I just hope that Kevin feels the same
at the end of the day.
[Kevin speaking]
[upbeat music playing]
[Kris] Okay. Let's get this going.
Everyone's tired.
And I'm gonna throw some pizza and some energy drinks,
and we're gonna push through this.
[upbeat music playing]
[Kris] We got pizzas.
This is the best thing in Nome, man, the cheesy bread.
Less talk, more work.
-How's the gold looking? -Good.
[Kris] Good. Good.
We're almost done.
We got the gold ready.
[Kevin] All right, Kris, here we go.
Here we go.
Uh, there's actually a lot of gold there.
Yeah, I'm excited, man. Let's see what we got, huh?
Let's see what we got.
There it is.
We got 1...
-[Kris] Yeah. -[Kevin] 3, 5, 6.
Come on, baby. Where's the weight at?
10, 15, Kris?
19.75, baby.
That's not bad for the amount of hours that we ran.
[Kris] That's a lot of gold.
I think we just beat our average.
You know what?
This is hard-earned gold.
Wow, dude, 19.75, you know how I'm happy
that makes me though? That gives me energy today, bro.
[narrator] 19.75 ounces brings in over $35,000,
but that's just from the Mistress.
[Kris] Oh, there's a lot of gold in here, huh?
All right.
[narrator] Now, it's time
to weigh out the crawler's haul
from the season.
Okay. Let's see what we got.
-What you got? 3... -[Kris] Already 2, 3...
-[Kevin] 3... -[Kris] 5, 8.
-I'm already happy. -[Kevin] You're at 8, Andy.
10, 12, 13, 14.
Why don't we give it a couple taps?
14 and a half-ish.
[narrator] 14 and a half-ish ounces
is worth $26,000-ish.
Bringing Reaper Nation's summer haul
to a hardy 197.45 ounces
worth over $355,000.
Easily besting any previous season total for the Kellys.
If we would have got it dialed in,
way before the storm,
we would have done a lot better.
[Kevin] I mean, how many days you got on this material?
[Andy] Really hours.
-Well, you-- -Well, now, we just gotta weed
through the problems.
But we know it works, Kris.
[Kris] Are we millionaires like I hoped?
No. But did we make huge strides for the future? Yes.
And all of us see the potential, Kevin included.
Beautiful bread pan of gold there.
With the Mistress, the All In,
and my crawler running at full strength,
the sky is the limit next year.
And I can't wait to get back out there.
This proves right now that we're on the right track.
So we gotta put in lots of hours
and we need it to run 24 hours a day.
-[Kevin] Yeah. -That's the only way
we're gonna make 1,000 ounces a year
is if that thing doesn't turn off.
Uh, let's sell this gold and take care
of some financial bull [bleep].
And that's it.
It's a wrap to my season
and I'm glad it's over.
[upbeat music playing]
[narrator] Across town...
[upbeat music playing]
[Shawn] Looking good.
Gold rolling up the wheel.
[narrator] With one of the toughest seasons
of his career
now in the rearview mirror,
Shawn Pomrenke prepares for his final clean out.
[Shawn] It's definitely worth pushing through
because that last hole was a hot one.
Days like that is what keeps you mining.
Some seasons, everything goes right,
and then, sometimes,
the Bering Sea gods decide to put you through the ringer.
Well, this was one of those seasons.
[Cody] Rich looking dirt.
[Shawn] Yeah.
Well, that's not bad.
But we finished strong.
That's the important thing.
Hopefully, we get enough gold
to hit our goal and get past the finish line.
First on the scale,
the Christine Rose.
Time to weigh some gold.
Big number, Cody.
-All right. -What do you got?
What do you got?
[Cody] Final cleanup.
I'm already at 10, 20,
30...
36 and a half.
[Shawn] There we go.
[Cody speaking]
[narrator] 36.4 ounces is worth 65 grand.
And edges the Pomrenke empire ever closer
to 1,500 ounces.
Now, it's up to the Myrtle's last clean out.
[Shawn] Let's see what we got here.
[tense music playing]
[Shawn] 10, 15,
there's 20,
30, 40.
Nice job, guys.
[narrator] 40.2 ounces rings in at $72,000,
bringing Shawn's total haul for the season
to 1,535 ounces
worth over $2.7 million.
[Shawn] Nice little pile.
I've had bigger seasons,
but not such a hard fought one.
Just goes to show what experience can mean
when you got your back up against the wall.
And we proved once again, we're at the top of our game.
I'm breathing a sigh of relief.
But with an operation like this one, it'll be brief,
because the fight never stops.
You gotta get right back at it.
I think we've done pretty well for ourselves.
All right, that's a wrap.
Let's get the hell out of here.
[dramatic music playing]
[Shawn] That's it.
It's 13 degrees out.
Harbor's freezing up.
Season's over.
It's done.
Definitely a weird season this year.
Nome took a hit.
We've never had a season like this.
That storm was unreal.
Burned a restaurant.
Bar down.
I mean, it floated a house into the river.
It was bad.
Nome's been through hard times before.
I'm sure this ain't the last of it.
But right now, we're gonna push through it.
We've survived some hard times in the past.
This year was one of them.
But we'll be just fine.
We're gonna be just fine.
We're gonna pick up the pieces
and carry on.
This town, there's one thing that will fix it.
That's a bunch of gold, big piles and piles of gold.
Put people to work,
Nome's full of good, hardworking people.
So, I just wanna get gold pumping through the veins
of this town again.
There's a lot of gold left in that ocean.
That's just building the one machine that'll go out there,
annihilate it.
Gonna be a lot of opportunities coming,
and if you ain't ready for it, it's gonna pass you by.
Time to get ready.
Let's go.