yep.
Sad, sad day to see my competitor still on the beach.
It's the first year it's ever happened.
Usually, they're out digging, and we're on the bank.
Now we're in, they're here.
I'm sure there's a reason for it.
I don't know.
But I know it's a nice setup, needs to be making some gold.
I need some competition.
On this episode of "bering sea gold,"
teams gear up for the epic mining season ahead...
Baby, let's go to digging.
Whoo-hoo!
...And reflect on the turmoil of last summer...
Big swell coming in.
It's only a matter of time
before it kicks us off the water.
...Conditions that rock the sea...
Sucks! Agh!
that jolted the balance of power.
That's some easy gold right there.
No hard feelings?
Yeah. Sure. Okay.
I don't like being the underdog.
I don't like starting behind.
I like coming out and kicking ass right off the beginning.
Put all the pieces together last year.
Yee-hoo! Let's go!
I'm mr. Gold now,
and I'm planning on being here for a while.
-good job!
I'll literally dig my way right out of this.
Five miners prepare for the fight of their lives
on the hunt for riches, respect, and new challenges.
It's time to grow as a miner.
I want to go from being a captain of a boat
to an admiral of a fleet.
Aren't you happy we're not at the bluffs?
I'm going for it.
I got a plan right now to be as big as the super dredges.
We've got speed.
She's seaworthy, warm, comfortable.
-Oh, yeah. -Yeah.
Now that the gold ship is in nome,
I'm unstoppable.
Can you teach her how to pan gold?
We can't have any freeloaders running around here.
Plus an exclusive look at the upcoming season.
This is better than netflix.
This is goldflix.
Right now, you're clam jumping.
Then we'll gold dive, baby! That's what I do!
Whoo-hoo! Beautiful day to fly.
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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As the start of summer mining looms,
an historic heat wave is rapidly melting the winter ice,
bringing with it the earliest start
to a summer mining season on record,
and a quick melt is changing
more than just the starting gate.
It's also altered the seafloor, shifting sand and cobble,
wiping away previously discovered pay streaks
and creating an entirely new map down below.
Let's just get out there and get to work.
To meet these changes head-on, the fleet is driven
to change up their own operations,
each pushing to make this season like no other.
well, here we are. The myrtle shop.
got the boat on the water, got the old super myrtle
running right now on eight cylinders,
and I mean running good.
New season.
Starting the year off on top is a great feeling.
Last year, we took shawn down a notch,
and now I'm the new mr. Gold.
We showed everybody what we could really do.
Our goal this year I'd be happy if we did about 4,000.
But, you know, 4,000-ounce season,
that's what we're looking for.
For ken, business partner dave young
and operations manager george young,
hopefully, last season's windfall was just a prequel
to the biggest haul in bering sea history...
Thank you, sir.
...And he's revamped the computer system on the myrtle
to help get him there.
We upgraded our electronics.
Now I can map out the seafloor.
We can dig scoop by scoop.
I can map out every scoop I make.
That's one of the reasons why we're calling her
the super myrtle.
We plan on getting pounds of gold this year, not ounces.
Keep going! Keep going!
Two summers ago,
when ken and his 600-ton behemoth, the myrtle irene,
first rolled into town...
We need an airbag up here somewhere.
Let's go!
...No one had ever seen anything like it in nome...
Air it up!
...Especially mining legend shawn pomrenke.
Son of a bitch.
Oh, it's a big dredge.
How deep can you dig?
30? 30?
Yeah, we can go into 30 deep.
alright, let's go ahead and fire up our plant.
Got to get out digging and make some gold.
But mining with a 125-foot-long, 40-foot-wide machine
is, shockingly, not so easy.
What the hell is going on?
I think we might have blown the breaker up top.
Is that generator running? No.
And ken's dream of grabbing the crown was shattered.
These breakdowns like this we've had all season is bad for me.
When I first got to nome a few years ago
with the myrtle,
I was ready to roll over the competition,
and I wanted it all right away.
Stumbling a little bit was very frustrating,
but it helps keep you focused and keep your eye on the ball.
I plan on kicking your ass this year
in the gold count, ken.
you want to make a wager on that?
I'll make a wager on that.
I'll bet you 100 ounces you don't do that.
I'll bet that.
Alright, you heard it.
So last summer, ken went for broke...
See you on the water, and don't forget,
I'm winning that 100-ounce bet.
...With a $130,000 wager to start the season.
Stop, stop, stop!
We need that bag!
Hey! We need that bag! Plug it back up!
It's a lot more fun out there digging for gold
than sitting on land.
He was slow getting out of the gate.
It's in. It's done.
We're trying to see how much gold we can get
right here in this spot.
But, once on water,
the myrtle was a gold-gobbling machine.
That's some ground, baby.
We found a good spot.
yee-hoo! Let's go!
Dig, baby, dig!
And look at this pay streak we've been following. See it?
Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.
Got a good area right here, we're going to dig all night,
see how that box looks in the morning.
Alright. Can I pour it?
That's a lot of gold in that jar.
You never get tired of looking at gold, do you?
It's...
270.
Shawn, look out, buddy, now.
270 ounces brought the team's total haul
to 1,160 ounces...
This may not be catch-up anymore.
We may be going phrew over the top.
...Scoring them over $1.3 million
and putting them at the top of the final gold count.
Now, as ken looks to keep his grip on the title...
Sad day to see my competitor still on the beach.
...The question is, what of his rival?
There's our barge. You can see it out there.
It's the first year it's ever happened.
Usually, they're out digging, and we're on the bank.
Now we're in, they're here.
I don't know what's the deal
with why his stuff's still on here.
I'm sure there's a reason for it.
I don't know.
But I know it's a nice setup
and needs to be making some gold.
I need some competition.
Two miles east...
...A rebel miner is back in nome.
Mining is about risk. It's not playing it safe.
Eventually, if I push myself and keep taking chances,
all my dreams are going to come true.
After a tough campaign last season,
kris kelly is launching the most ambitious scheme
of his mining career.
what's your plan? Where are we going this year?
Well, I got this call from this guy the other day
that wants to put his own excavation rig together,
but his problem is he's too damn old.
It's not shawn pomrenke, is it?
-we're not going...
Can you just stop, please?
The guy out of arizona, he's got a huge boat,
and he's got a couple pieces of equipment.
He says he wants to give it to me
for 20% of what the boat will make.
Look at that.
Get out of here. No, I know!
Look at that!
The bering explorer, a 135-foot, 188-ton ship
originally used for oil-and-gas exploration in the arctic.
This boat right here is the ticket to us being rich.
This isn't a dream.
These are some steps that we have to go like a ladder.
We just keep climbing the rung of the ladder,
and every step, we get towards our million dollars a year.
So, what's he want? What's the catch?
The ca there's no catch.
It's $100,000 to put everything together to re-outfit this.
All we have to do is fix the boat up a little bit
and put all the equipment on the boat,
and then we start making a million dollars a year.
Oh, at this rate, we can just travel around the world
okay, calm down.
I knew I didn't want to tell you guys about it.
...Sounds that good. Don't laugh.
I didn't see what they got on their...
Okay, I admit, my plans don't always work out,
but you can't stop trying.
All we got to do is just work together and get this done.
Everything is going to be awesome.
In the quest for gold,
kris has a long history
of taking his family on many a wild sluice chase.
This season, we're going to do things my way.
No, honest to god, and I guarantee
I guarantee we're going to make more gold
than we ever have the last five seasons.
But despite several million-dollar plans...
I'm going to make this work. Watch, watch.
...They've yet to land on a million-dollar pay day.
Something's wrong!
This isn't fair, man!
This isn't fair!
The problem is, we thought we were getting a good deal.
Instead, we just threw $3,000 down the toilet.
I've got to come up with another plan
'cause this isn't going to work.
stupid
man, I'm sick of this
who's got a towel, andy?
Last summer, kris led his family
to mine at the distant bluff...
...Completely off the grid in the alaskan wilderness.
It looks like kris is trying to
actually might be trying to get us to commit suicide here.
I'm not really sure.
This season on "bering sea gold"...
Sea ice hit record lows for this time of year.
This is the warmest month on record,
any month, any year for this region.
Melted ice...
And the ice keeps melting.
The weather in nome is changing drastically.
Nothing's the same as it was.
It's really changed everything underneath the water.
And now we can get gold
that's been sitting there for millions of years.
Like, a lot of gold.
This is by far the biggest hole
I've had to dig myself out of.
I fight like hell
and kick ken's ass
and retake the crown of mr. Gold.
Yeah!
The little dredges can't get all the gold, but I can.
the moment of truth.
Yeah.
that's what I'm talking about!
We broke our bottom cable.
One of the worst things that could happen,
next to killing somebody.
We're gonna die!
Let's go big or go broke.
the kellys are very bad people.
-...What we're doing. -Whoa!
In nome...
This whole thing is going to work out
better than you believe.
Look at that.
...Kris kelly's trying to sell his dad and brother
on a plan to fund a supersized dredge
as their ticket to redemption and beyond.
I know. Don't look at me like that.
And if we don't take this opportunity right now,
we'd be the biggest fools in our lives,
and we'll regret it for as long as we live.
Look, last year really sucked for us.
That's why this plan is going to be brilliant.
Go.
Last summer, kris rolled the dice
on a bold plan to mine at the bluff.
The tide's going out. We gotta plank it.
Here we go.
Let's go.
Get on! Let's go.
Okay. Go, go!
but mother nature met them head-on
with the worst mining conditions in decades.
It's caught! I'm out of here right now.
So, we're going back in.
Boy, that's a big one.
The waves are coming in from two different angles.
Yeah.
Sucks! Agh!
Come on! Push!
hey, kris, the weather's turning bad up here.
Okay, I'm coming up.
We got to get back to shore.
Ultimately, they were forced off the water.
look at the gold, kris.
But, despite it all, they still managed to scrape enough gold
to break even on the season.
-Three. -Three.
Did we get to six? Yeah, we got to six.
We got to six.
6.225.
6.2 ounces brought the fighting kellys' season haul
to 38.8 ounces, worth just over $46,000.
-Good job. -High fives for everybody.
Now, the question is...
So, you guys either get with me and get on board
or step the out of the way.
...Are brad and andy in on kris' dream for the future?
I know this whole thing sounds too good to be true,
and my dad and brother never believe in my plans,
but I'm serious about this.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,
and I'm doing this with or without them.
Okay, look, honestly, right now, are you in or out?
Because this is a lot of work, and it's a big risk.
I'm in.
Andy, are you?
I'm in. It sounds good.
Yeah, it always sounds good.
Yes, we're in, kris. We're in.
It's the greatest opportunity we've had in our life.
We can't be stopped. We just got to get out there.
Let's just get the boat and go mining now.
Let's go make some money.
Across town...
You remember last summer, coming down to yukon?
Did you have lots of fun?
Yeah. Alright.
Well, you're going to have more fun this year.
You're going to get bering sea qualified.
...Skipper vernon adkison readies his custom catamaran,
gold ship wild ranger.
I think this is gonna be our best summer season ever.
This pump, that engine...
She ought to be a pumping machine.
And the veteran captain's
upgraded his $250,000 investment
for its first full season in nome.
We modified this.
You know, before, the pontoon was outboard out here,
but it looked like a wave catcher,
so we moved the pontoon back in closer to the boat
and put another pontoon on the other side
to compensate so it balanced.
This thing is fast
the fastest, most seaworthy dredge
in nome, alaska,
or in possibly the known universe.
Weather kicks up in a hurry,
and you got to have a boat that'll stand up to it,
and the gold ship will stand up to it.
Gold ship is gonna allow me to go to my western claims,
go out to sledge, go damn near anyplace I want,
and we're getting ready to get some major gold.
So, are you going to put this back inside
where it was last year?
No. It was too noisy, a lot of fumes.
We're going to put it right up here to be outside.
This summer, vernon's also
tending to the adkison family legacy
by grooming daughter elaine
to one day inherit the captain's chair.
I'm just wondering, how quickly can we get our gear picked up?
I don't think it'd take long at all.
Elaine is ambitious. She wants to be the captain.
Well, I mean, the only way
you're ever gonna do something like this
is just strapping on, jumping in and do it.
Make some mistakes, break a few things,
but hopefully she'll learn before she killed herself.
Sometimes that's the way you got to do it.
And if anyone is familiar with mistakes,
it's the veteran miner...
Going down!
Oh!
No!
...As season after season
led to one failed effort...
Oh damn it!
...After another.
Why weren't you answering the phone?
How many times did you call me?
And his relationship with daughter elaine
didn't exactly go smoothly, either.
I got business, right? Yeah!
You answer the damn phone when I call you!
There were times they didn't see eye to eye...
Would you drop the damn attitude?
I'm talking business here.
You got a bad attitude, elaine.
...Quite a few times.
Get your damn ass off this boat!
Well, maybe most of the time.
Sick of your
hey, I'm just calling to let you know I'm done.
Get on out of here.
Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
She's a very strong-willed person,
and I am, too, and I had the same situation with my dad.
We couldn't work together more than about three days
before we were at each other's throats.
Ultimately, after a string of missteps
left his pockets empty...
Every time I open the mailbox, it's the bills, bills, bills.
...Vernon was forced to pack it in.
I'm stone-cold broke.
make sure the fiberglass doesn't cave in.
But last season...
We're back, and we're bad.
...Vernon returned from his long hiatus
with a bold, new plan...
Oh, yeah. I'm liking this.
...Take his innovative creation
1,000 miles down the treacherous yukon river
all the way to the bering sea.
Oooooooooooh!
-Bye! -Bye!
-We're going to nome! -We're going to nome!
While spirits were high to start the journey...
You're following my track.
Well, I followed this, and I got right over there,
and I was in two feet of water.
...Nothing with vernon ever goes quite as planned.
hang on.
Coming up...
Mm, raining gold. Just a minute, guys.
Mm-hmm. Alright, 27.
I'm liking that.
-Hell yeah. -This is not over.
This is year three or four
that I've got into this project since I first saw this boat,
so it's about time it started paying off.
This is gonna be our year.
I think so.
Vernon adkison, along with daughter elaine,
prepare their gold ship wild ranger
for what they hope will be a standout season.
I truly believe that the gold ship is the best rig in nome.
If anybody can get it, it's going to be us.
But last summer...
...Wasn't all smooth sailing.
Cut it loose!
Not only was the rig tested...
It's gone.
...So was the crew.
That has everything of ours on it that matters, vernon.
That is everything.
I didn't need that damn boat sinking alongside us
and pulling us down with it.
nome boy, it's been a long time coming.
We made it to nome.
I've been looking for that money pit.
Maybe this is it.
In the end, the gold ship proved her mettle.
Mm-hmm. Raining gold.
We'll lay that puppy in there. 28.2.
Vernon topped out at 30.2 ounces,
valued at just over $36,000.
And even more valuable,
a father and daughter found common footing.
We're doing a group hug.
Hug, hug, hug! Come on!
I got a taste last season.
Now it's full speed ahead all summer.
You got any questions?
You ready to go to work?
Yeah.
Is she gonna be your little assistant?
Can you teach her how to pan gold?
We can't have any freeloaders running around here.
Across the harbor...
hey, emily.
What's up, daryl?
Welcome back.
how you been?
...Captain emily riedel readies her dredge, the eroica,
for the upcoming mining season...
Welcome back to town.
...Along with former lead diver daryl galipeau,
who's returned after a one-year absence.
I think it's going to be a good year.
I know that last year...
Thankfully, you weren't up. It was terrible.
The gold was mediocre. The weather was even worse.
The veteran skipper is looking to turn the tables
after a tough summer thwarted plans to grow her business.
If you're a business owner,
you want to expand and profit more every year,
and last summer,
it was some of the worst weather I've ever seen,
and we weren't able to do that.
But if you're persistent and you adapt and you grow,
you're going to succeed eventually, absolutely.
I thought maybe, if we have a good June and July,
we might think about looking into another vessel,
into another mining vessel.
I know there's a lot of dredging equipment in nome.
It's great to have daryl back on board.
He's been working with me for years,
and he's one of the best gold producers in town.
If we get enough capital together,
it'd be a worthwhile venture.
This summer, emily is aiming for 300 ounces
in her effort to secure a second dredge.
The more I can expand, the more I can profit.
Daryl is my ace in the gold hole, as it were.
You know, this baby, I love her dearly,
but she's meant for one purpose and one purpose alone,
which is going to 14, which is 3 miles down the coast.
Yeah.
In terms of exploring new ground
and new possibilities,
finding something lightweight and fast,
that's the key, but in order to do that,
you know, we have to make some gold on this thing first.
Manning a growing empire would be a challenge
for the eroica captain, but overcoming challenges
is what defined emily throughout her time in nome.
She started off as a deckhand,
viewing mining as just a pit stop.
when I originally came to nome,
I planned on working for a single season
so I could make some money to go to opera school in vienna,
and here I am, nine years later.
I guess I liked gold.
She quickly moved up the ranks, even trying her hand at diving.
Our job is very deadly.
Things could go wrong in an instant, and they do.
you're operating heavy equipment underwater,
so you have to be 100% alert at all times.
That suction is so strong.
That thing is dangerous.
While diving may not have suited her...
All right, guys. Champagne-smashing time.
Let's do it.
...Ultimately, it was as a dredge owner
where emily found her true calling...
There's gold all through here.
...And thrived.
I've been the owner and the captain of the eroica
for seven years, and for most of those years,
everybody was watching with amusement
to see how I would fail.
We're over 20.
83.8. Who the hell was right?
Hey!
It was very, very fun proving everybody wrong.
Coming up...
Now we're just sitting here,
and I can't get on it and can't move it,
can't touch it, can't do a dang thing.
It sucks.
In nome...
Just all in all, like, just not a successful season,
and I'd really like to change that around this year.
...Emily riedel is determined
to improve on last season's results.
I think a big key to my success is directly tied
to how many times I've failed.
In this business, the only way to survive is to grow.
hold on!
Whoa, whoa! Stop!
get down!
No!
Whoa!
Last summer, she was tested like never before.
We got the line. It's taut underneath the boat.
Let's do this.
We'll cut that line.
Right here. Here, here, here you go.
I got it.
Go fast.
Agh!
The worst mining conditions in years
threatened to sink the veteran's season.
It just makes me nervous because,
sometimes out on the bering sea,
it goes from this to insanity in a matter of minutes.
But...
Whew!
...In the end,
she still managed to squeeze out a profit.
One golden cone.
Nice. Yeah.
5.11.
5.1 ounces raised emily's season total
to 121 ounces, worth over $145,000.
Hell yeah. Good job.
Go home a little bit richer. Yeah.
I mean, there were a lot of obstacles last season,
but we came out ahead with a little bit of money.
I mean, I wasn't in the red.
And now emily is ready to take
the biggest step forward yet in her mining career.
Having a second dredge
could mean having a 500-ounce season,
not a 300-ounce season.
I want all of the gold.
And I want all of the gold, and I want to have it, like,
in a safe somewhere with my name on it.
Hey, welcome on.
Welcome back, and let's go get a beer or something.
alright.
Three miles north...
...Mining legend shawn pomrenke
is grinding away at the family's inland mine.
I've spent 19 years of my life on the bering sea
mining for gold,
but now that could all be over.
getting ready to do a shift change.
Here you go. Thank you.
Yeah.
For over a decade, shawn's ruled the bering sea
with his revolutionary custom-built dredge,
christine rose...
that's the sound of money right there.
Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
...And earned the moniker "mr. Gold."
mr. Gold out. Later, tater.
But now he's off the water,
and could be permanently dry-docked.
I got caught in a bad deal.
I trusted this person
and thought he was going to help me
build the mega dredge.
But in the end, it might just cost me everything.
Well, the scoop is that I got into business with a guy,
and he basically took control of the company
and stole everything I've worked for my whole life.
Got the mega dredge sitting idle,
christine rose sitting idle.
It sucks. It sucks bad.
this guy was supposed to raise the funds
to finish the mega dredge,
and, basically, he just didn't raise any money,
and he filed bankruptcy on the company.
This is the first time the christine rose
hasn't been in the water by this time.
Usually, we're in the water.
We're all mining, we're making money.
Now we're just sitting here.
And I can't get on it, can't move it,
can't touch it, can't do a dang thing
until this is all straightened out.
Four years ago, shawn was riding high,
looking to revolutionize offshore mining
with the most advanced gold-getting machine ever built,
a vessel dubbed the "mega dredge."
there's definitely a lot more going on on this barge
than the christine rose.
Shawn got the pieces, including a massive barge,
to assemble his dream dredge.
This thing is massive!
What did we pay for this thing?
$200,000.
-For a barge? -For a barge.
But all this came at a price of millions of dollars.
Little rusty, but...
Hell, we're used to old, rusty junk, aren't we?
Hate to spend 200,000 bucks for a pile of rusty steel.
What we want to do is give you the tools
to grow the company beyond where it is.
And to cover the costs...
I mean, it's going to produce 75 ounces a day
for the next 20 years.
Very exciting.
The opportunity, I think, is great.
...Mr. Gold signed a deal with outside investors
to help foot the bill.
Think I might have the funding I need to build my dredge.
Yeah!
Coming up...
Having all everything that
you've worked your whole life for
taken away like this,
I really do not want to start over.
When I see a huge wave approaching,
should I slow down some?
Don't worry about it.
Just pretend like you're on a cocaine run
from colombia to miami.
He can pretend he's a drug runner
when I'm not on board with my kid.
Come on, you're pissing me off.
I'm not nervous!
I'm asking what's going on with the boat.
The boat is doing just fine.
what the ?
I'm never coming on this boat with you again.
Agh! Don't ever have daughters.
In nome, at pomrenke headquarters...
The christine rose, the mega dredge,
everything is high and dry.
At this point in time, I can't get on them,
I can't work on them, I can't touch them.
I'm not even allowed to move them.
...Mr. Gold, shawn pomrenke,
is looking to put the pieces of his empire back together
after a bad business deal
brought offshore mining to a halt.
Worst-case scenario is I lose everything
and everything gets sold at auction.
For shawn, it's a steep and sudden fall.
Those are the pickers from two dives.
Big ones. Nice, big, coarse, beautiful gold.
Over the years...
The gold's flowing like a fine wine in the gold room.
We're turning dirt into gold.
...Shawn dominated in nome...
Gonna need a bigger tray.
We're doing $100 a minute.
...Season...
Ah-ha!
Ooh, there's 190.
Nice!
Ha-ha, ha-ha. Nice job.
...After season...
$1.5 million right there.
...Stockpiling the funds needed
to build the dredge of his dreams.
And last summer, he put his plan into action,
assembling the heart of the mega dredge...
Gonna be part of the feeder for the new wash plants.
...Beginning with the hopper,
capable of receiving hundreds of tons of material
every day around the clock...
We just saved ourselves a week and a half of work
by utilizing what we have.
Here we go.
...And, most importantly,
the wash plant, where the material
is sorted into four supersized sluice boxes,
where the precious metal is captured.
Yeah! We're good.
Fire up the tractor!
yeah!
Coming in hot.
Ha-ha.
It's up there.
Now we have a wash plant.
Mega dredge is finally coming together.
It's starting to look like something
instead of just a barge.
On the christine rose, he was hotter than ever.
if we didn't find anything, they wouldn't call me mr. Gold.
Looking good.
Maybe we'll finish this season off strong.
80...
...140.
There we go.
140 is a good way to end a season.
Shawn topped out at 1,004 ounces,
worth a staggering $1.2 million.
When you rake in over 1,000 ounces,
your haul's worth over a million dollars,
and that's a good feeling.
You feel like you're on top of the world.
At least, that's the way it seemed at the time.
Alright. Payoff time.
But things began to take a turn.
Shawn's gonna be 100 ounces lighter here in a minute.
You got lucky this year.
Shoot, luck. Ain't no luck about it.
It's nothing but experience, buddy.
Shawn had to pay the piper,
handing his rival 100 ounces
after failing to win the gold count.
Let me have it, buddy.
Ohh!
I don't like giving gold away.
But nothing could have prepared him
for where he finds himself today.
I don't want to be like this guy and that guy and that guy.
The bering sea is where I've spent
the last 15, 20 years of my life.
That's all I know.
I'm gonna fight my way back to the top,
every breath, every step of the way,
but I am gonna end up back on top.
I'll literally dig my way right out of this.
The dawn of the summer mining season is just moments away.
Man, look at all these dock suckers.
These people should be out mining
instead of sitting on these docks.
And the miners are making final preparations
to meet the changes of nome head-on...
Okay, we tested the equipment.
Let's just get out there and get to work.
...As they look to top last season's haul.
I'm gonna go get some gold out of the bering sea.
My entire time in nome
has all led to this period of time right now.
It's all come together.
All the pieces have fallen into place.
Now the stage is set
for the most unexpected and unpredictable summer
the bering sea has ever seen.
I'll finally be able
to take our mining operation to the next level.
Everybody else is gonna see I'm the one that made it.
I've been breaking my back on this project for years.
A lot of blood, sweat, and tears.
It's time to break the bank.
This is the year we can make it all worthwhile.
It's time to get back to work.
May be a little down-and-out right now, but not for long.
We're gonna give it 110%,
see if we can pull this rabbit out of our hat
and make it all happen.
Whoo-hoo!
Alright, man. New season.
Last year, we hit it good. We killed it.
We're hoping it's still got a lot of gold in this spot.
Here we are, another season.
Go big or go home. Or go big or go broke.
Please, lord, help me make some cash.
I spent a lifetime building all this,
and now I'm supposed to just let somebody walk away with it all?
I'm not going down without a fight.
The extreme weather in the arctic
has significantly changed the bottom.
There's a whole bunch of gold right here.
Roger, roger.
I don't want gold this season, I need gold this season.
Okay, chunks of gold.
Whoo-hoo!
Let's see what we got.
That's a lot of gold. That's all I can say.
Whoo!
Damn straight!
We'll get back on top.