[dramatic music playing]
[machine whirring]
[shawn] now if I can take over the myrtle irene,
I'll be crushing the competition.
Here we go.
[man] you got three weeks.
Hopefully shawn's got it together.
[shawn] the love of building,
engineering, problem solving...
It's pretty amazing.
It's been a long road to get to this point.
This is what I've been doing my whole life.
Time to make some money.
[suspenseful music playing]
[waves crashing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[shawn] coming in tonight,
sun's dropping fast.
We did a nice little test run.
Ate everything we put at it.
Now we're gonna get parked up next to the cr,
start throwing some gold in the box.
[narrator] as the sun sets on the first half of summer,
shawn pomrenke looks to finally realize his dream
of dominating nome,
by unleashing the revamped
and revitalized myrtle irene.
[shawn] I have a ton of money wrapped up into this
and we're on a borrowed time already
if we're making gold.
And I'm gonna run this thing all night.
I've stretched myself more this summer
than I ever have before.
I still owe $1,000,000 on the tomcod.
Then I made a handshake deal with my dad
to buy out the business for $1,500,000.
[steve] simple five-page contract.
[shawn] and I took over the competition
by redesigning the myrtle irene.
[bleep] shawn.
[shawn] which ended up costing me about $500,000
more than I had planned on.
No one ever said taking over nome would be cheap.
I designed her to produce record-breaking numbers.
That's what I expect to see.
[dave y speaking]
I put a lot of money on shawn,
so he better be mr. Gold.
We're gonna find out.
Gotta get to work.
[shawn] I rebuilt all the major components
on the myrtle.
Lowered the wash plant
to give the excavator easier access
and then I added a second sluice box
to catch all the fine gold.
Tonight, we're gonna find out if I'm a genius
or if I rolled myself into debt forever.
Okay. Are we gotta get some [bleep] gold
or what, huh?
[shawn] let's see if we can find this old riverbed
because there was a lot of gold in there.
And we haven't made it to the bottom of it yet.
[man] well, let's go digging.
[shawn] it could pay out big.
The christine rose has been on great gold this year.
It's been working on an ancient riverbed,
but it's only been working the shallows.
And it's reached its limit.
The myrtle irene can dig way deeper,
beyond 30 feet.
It's a game changer.
This is gold that no excavator barge
has ever touched before.
All right. Go ahead. Hold up here, guys.
[man] all right. Copy.
[machine creaking]
[shawn] we're getting ready to dig.
Fire up the water pump.
I'll come down.
[man] roger.
[shawn] go ahead. Fire the big deck.
[suspenseful music playing]
[shawn] we got hundreds of hours to work.
And hundreds of thousands of dollars
into the myrtle.
And now it's time to make it all pay.
-[suspenseful music playing] -[whirring]
[shawn] first bucket on the tomcod.
Oh, there's some cobble in there.
I can smell gold a mile away.
Been a longtime coming.
Finally digging it.
We're hitting the deepest stretches of the beach line.
This is great stuff.
This is the stuff I've been wanting to reach for years.
Here's the play.
There's the cheese.
Now I'm digging it out with the biggest bucket
I have ever used in two giant sluices.
This is nirvana.
I got the myrtle up and running.
First night digging.
Now we just gotta make some gold,
pay for all this.
We're making gold, buddy.
[dave y] what do you think?
We may get our money back, huh?
-Yeah, baby. -We will.
[dave y speaking]
we'll find out in the morning, won't we?
Seeing a design that I've had in my head
come to life will never get old.
It's running.
Now that the myrtle is on the water,
it's like having godzilla in my corner.
We're gonna be unstoppable the rest of the season.
We're making gold,
five yards at a time.
Oh, yeah.
I've worked my whole life to get to this point.
Now I'm gonna do what I do best.
[narrator] as mr. Gold builds momentum
for the long home stretch of summer...
[kris] no excuses today.
[narrator] ...Kris kelly is desperate
to change course
after a disastrous first half.
We have no gold.
We gotta work as a team.
If we don't turn our season around,
we're [bleep].
This is shaping up to probably
be the worst gold mining season
I've ever had in my life.
But we can't give up.
You know, at this point, you can't give up.
If I don't scrape together some money right now,
we can kiss ice money goodbye.
If we wanna keep mining, we need some cash.
Maybe I got a solution for both of us.
Prospect my claims at cripple.
[kris] luckily, dave mccully made me an offer.
Right now, dave needs a crew to prospect a claim out west
called cripple river.
I give it 30%.
Can you do a little bit better than that?
No.
Dave set on a 70/30 deal,
which that deal sucks.
This place is loaded.
So right now, it's the best opportunity I have.
This is the only way we're gonna make
any gold right now.
Right now, any gold would be nice.
For two or three ounces, $6,000
because gold is worth $2,000 an ounce right now.
So make $6,000 today,
that would turn our operation right around.
As soon as we get down there,
we'll just start scanning with this.
The little amount of work I've done down there hasn't...
Just gotta have a better look.
[bleep], I hope I get on something.
I gotta turn this season around somehow.
[man] we're about two and a half miles away.
And around here is cripple river.
[man] I'm ready for it.
We're saving our season today hopefully.
[suspenseful music playing]
[kris] dave mccully has got a lot of gadgets on the boat
that we can scan the sea floor.
[man] so we're getting close.
[dave m] just drive around, study the bottom as we go.
They look jagged, so you know you're on rocks and cobble.
[kris] so I don't really know if all these gadgets work.
But if there's one thing in life that I've learned,
always follow the rich guy.
Because rich guys knows how to make money.
This is looking better here.
[kris] yeah, that's... That looks great.
Okay. Drop the anchor.
[suspenseful music playing]
-[kris] are we here? -[dave m] we're here.
[kris] okay. We're here.
One of you losers get in the water.
[kris] okay. Unhooked.
Let's get ready.
It's just gonna flop right off.
Come on in.
Next step, get fired up and get going.
Come on.
So right now, dave's only giving me 30% of the box,
which means I'm just gonna have to suck it up
and I hope to god we can find something huge today.
If this doesn't work out right now,
this could be the end of us
and I didn't spend years of mining
to end up like this.
Three, two, one.
I'm going.
Oh.
Is it ever shallow here.
[dramatic music playing]
[man] how's the bottom looking, kris?
[kris] looking good. Lots of seaweed.
Well, that's a good sign.
[kris] yeah.
So I just gotta go to work,
like right here.
Oh, it's bedrock, right?
This isn't... This is bedrock
with material on top.
I don't see any gold around.
[man speaking]
[kris] yeah, the material is covered up.
I'm just not seeing any gold at all underneath it.
I'm moving spots.
Lots of seaweed though.
Hopefully you'll see some gold soon.
[kris] just gotta make a long dredge,
you just drag the nozzle along with me
because I suck up the materials pretty fast.
Roger.
[kris] still no gold.
I'm just dredging along.
[dave m] looks like we're on the ground now
looking for it.
Twenty-five years of doing this,
it's just like...
I think I learned something.
Spend some time.
Don't just give up immediately.
[kris] still no gold.
Looks like elim, the same bull [bleep]
with all this [bleep] rock bed.
[dave m] oh, keep looking.
It's all you can do.
[kris] still no gold.
No luck.
[narrator] this summer has been like no other,
as claims throughout nome have become available
for the first time in years.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] now, as the season launches
into the back half,
the miners must map a new plan of attack
on the battlefield
to assure that their dreams don't disappear
into a trail of gold dust.
[vernon] come on. Damn it.
This was pretty much a three-man operation plus me
so, um, we need another man.
[narrator] all summer, vernon adkison's
been hitting the mother lode on claim 56,
but as he gears up for round two,
his crew has suddenly taken a hit.
[vernon] uh, have to get somebody else.
The season's been a miracle so far.
I've been every day getting closer
to having enough gold
to pay for claim 56.
Luckily, I got brian and new gary,
but I really could use another set of hands.
[phone ringing]
[vernon] so I'm gonna give my daughter yvonne a call.
It would be nice if she'd get off her rump
and help the family for a change.
[phone ringing]
[yvonne speaking]
unfortunately, one of my men pulled up.
Uh, mike says not being very dependable these days,
-so I was wondering... -[yvonne speaking]
...You thinking about coming up here?
[yvonne speaking]
[hangs up]
[vernon] what the [bleep]? Damn.
The good people are already taken up.
They're fully employed
and the ones that aren't employed,
um, I've got to say that they're probably
the bottom of the barrel.
[suspenseful music playing]
[steve] oh, here we go.
Woo-hoo.
[upbeat music playing]
[steve] it's a great morning for a job hunting
and it's vern's turn today.
Vernon, permission to come aboard.
Yo, steve riedel.
[laughs]
-do tell. -Good morning.
Hey, guys. Ron, darren.
They run you out of town yet?
No. They tried, but I'm elusive.
Uh, I run a pretty fast side by side, so...
Mmm-hmm.
[steve] ...Uh, but I'm still looking for work, vern.
I wanna just check in this morning.
I see you guys are about ready to go...
-Uh... -...Thought I might busk you
a little bit.
I'm gonna help you out, help these guys out.
They need my help, vernon.
Who told you that that mike pulled up?
Man. I mean, it's a small town.
Word gets around, vern,
so that's why I'm here still hopping it.
-[laughs] -it seems like I gave you
a job before, and then, you know,
when you didn't have the job anymore then,
all of a sudden you're [bleep] me at every turn.
Steve is...
How can I say this?
The man's a [bleep].
I've hired him before.
If you're ever late again,
that'll be the last phone call
you'll ever get.
I've fired him before.
-Get off the boat, sir. -I'm off the boat.
-You're off the boat. -Okay.
[vernon] caught him in places he shouldn't be.
[steve] hey, vernon.
[vernon] hiring steve is an act of desperation.
You don't mind me being on your conex
like looking at your wheeler, do you?
Uh...
Sometimes, you gotta take what you can get
and sometimes all you can get is the steve riedel.
Rules of the game around here is if, um,
you know, if wanna make the team,
we gotta see what kind of stuff you got
-and I might take... -Sure.
...A few days before your compensation package
-clicks in. -So I...
Do I hear, "I want you to work for free
while you learn my boat, steve,"
is that what I'm hearing? [laughs]
[vernon] you got... You got really good hearing.
Well, that's, uh... That's why
you're driving the boats, vernon,
because you drive a hard bargain.
I'll work for you.
I might even, uh, you know,
come up with a couple good ideas for you
and improve your, uh, operation.
-Who knows? -[vernon] well, I mean,
-if you have any ideas... -Yeah.
-...Keep them to yourself. -[steve] keep them to myself.
How come I knew that was gonna come out
of your mouth? Okay.
Yes, sir. Right away, sir.
I know vern is not my biggest fan,
but beggars can't be choosers.
At this point, I'm a begging man,
so once vern remembers
what I can bring to the table,
I can name my price.
[vernon] be blowing out of here in about an hour.
[steve] okay. So give me an hour,
I'm gonna go get something to eat
and, uh, I'll see you back here.
-See you guys. -[man] all right.
[vernon] all right, steve.
[man] you're not gonna let him near that airtake, I hope.
[vernon] I'll make sure he doesn't get
into any lifesaving
or threating, uh, situations.
But he's about, uh, the only thing
that jumped out of the bushes today.
Sometimes you gotta knock on the same door twice
and it's vern's turn today.
I mean, there's always the pleasure
of firing him yet once again.
[laughter]
[vernon] let's get this cleaned up and get underway.
What have I done?
[narrator] two miles east...
[emily] let's drop the camera...
-[rick] yeah. -[emily] ...See if can tell
which way the current's going.
[narrator] after emily riedel's lead diver
jilted her plans for the summer...
All right, dude, well, look, this is... This is it.
This is it for us, like, you're not setting foot
on my boat again.
[narrator] ...She's regrouped with her remaining team,
is back on gold, and charging towards
the 75 ounces needed to buy a claim of her own.
[emily] oh, look at that.
Yeah. This is looking pretty good actually.
No, we're good. Beautiful.
I see gold in our future.
Daryl kind of threw us to a loop
by leaving the way that he did.
I wanted to have, like, a team of three strong divers
and now, it's reduced to two,
but I've also got a good crew.
And, uh, last time we were out,
we find a nice pay streak,
so I don't need daryl.
Got to get it when the getting's good.
[narrator] today, the morning shift
belongs to veteran diver, rick smith.
Coming hot, coming down.
[emily] let's do it.
[dramatic music playing]
[machine revving]
[rick] just starting right around here.
Here we go, em.
How's it looking down there, bro?
[rick] we got some gold.
Oh, that's awesome. [bleep] yeah, dude.
[rick] well, I gotta be just a foot from it,
a lot of flakes to get through on the top of this rock.
[laughs]
[rick] but it's literally just dusting.
Yeah. That all sounds really good.
That's awesome, rick.
[rick] oh, my god. [bleep] yeah!
Rick, [bleep] man.
"gravy yum-yums." what is this?
Stoked about the gravy yum-yum
in the sluice box right now.
I want more gravy yum-yums.
I want all the gravy yum-yums.
I want it all.
Hopefully the pay continues and, um, uh,
rick will have a good dive
because we don't have a lot of time left
in the season, so now is the time to make money.
[suspenseful music playing]
[rick speaking]
what's that?
[rick speaking]
all right, rick, come on up.
Uh, air compressor has shut off.
Come on up.
[rick speaking]
emily?
[machine revving]
rick, come on up.
Are you coming up?
[rick groans] [bleep].
[suspenseful music playing]
rick, come on up.
Are you coming up?
[rick groans] [bleep].
[suspenseful music playing]
[rick speaking]
-yeah. -Did you come up too fast?
-No, it's fine. -Okay.
You have to, like, keep a vigilant eye
on what's happening with your air compressor
because compressor is obviously
the diver's lifeline.
And, uh, the belt flew off,
I caught it pretty quick.
And it's a good thing I did
because it's really dangerous to the diver
if he loses air.
It can be pretty scary out here.
Diving for gold is a very risky thing.
I'd made it through the belt
and she called me to come up.
We're on the best gold I've ever seen
working with her
and I gotta get back down there right now.
[emily] well, I don't see how the bolts
could've moved, you know?
Things loosen up.
[emily] rick is a champ, man. He's a pro, you know.
It's a dangerous situation with the loss of air,
but all he cares about is, uh, getting the belt fixed
and getting back on the gold.
Bye, daryl.
Uh, my team rocks.
I'm super happy.
Now, uh, we're on such good gold,
-we got to get back to it. -[rick] yeah. Let's go.
[engine revving]
[suspenseful music playing]
best gold I've seen all season.
And this [bleep] happens but, uh, it's murphy's law.
Smoking good.
Dude, I got to get down there.
[suspenseful music playing]
that [bleep] belt is not looking good,
I don't think.
Like it's looking pretty sketchy.
Yeah. Rick's gonna wanna stay down there
no matter what and I'm just gonna have to [bleep]
boss that belt today, that's my whole lot in life,
belt washing the rest of rick's shift.
It's gonna be me and the belt.
[upbeat music playing]
[narrator] back in the harbor...
[zeke] I wanna order a little smelter.
We can start making little amulets,
so I just wanna immediately start making jewelry
because I think we can double the amount of money
we get for our gold.
[sam speaking]
[zeke] makes perfect sense.
[narrator] nome's resident mad scientist
has poured precious time and money
into a one-of-a-kind gold mining sailboat dredge.
But deep into summer,
he's raked in less than a single ounce of gold.
[zeke] I want sam to dive for most of the day today.
For like a first dive this season for sam,
perfect day for it.
It's flat-ass calm,
the water's crystal clear.
[narrator] so today, he's calling a rusty veteran
off the bench.
[zeke] the priority is to get...
To have sam have a good dive today.
The dream needs to get reawakened in sam.
Losing faith.
I'm really happy with how well the black swan is performing
as a gold dredging vessel at this point,
but we need to get more gold.
I feel like we're...
We don't have a whole lot of time left this season
and I need to, like, get a little further ahead
of where I am.
Sam's real fresh.
He's just been kind of sitting about.
Yeah.
My brother sam's gonna go on a dive today.
It's been about four years since
he's been underwater up here.
He's always come through for me.
Go down there and just prospect it up.
[sam] oh, I found some gold.
I'm sure he's a little nervous about diving
because it's been so long,
but I just have to reassure him
that you just have to visualize
the outcome that you want
and then it will manifest itself into reality.
[dramatic music playing]
[zeke] there's unlimited, uh, universes
where literally everything that can happen is happening.
That [bleep] is happening for sure.
So, like, there's a universe
in which there's no gold over by that buoy,
and there's a universe that there's 10 times
the amount of gold that we could possibly imagine
next to that buoy,
both of those things are happening
simultaneously outside of time.
[sam speaking]
[dramatic music playing]
yeah. It's time of the flat circle
and it's just like...
[laughter]
okay, let's operate here.
Let's see what happens.
This is a great first day to dive.
It's beautiful out, glassy,
I'm excited about it.
[bleep] yeah.
[makes sound]
[suspenseful music playing]
all right.
All righty. Chill.
[sam] yeah, dude.
It's pretty cush, dude.
Super cush.
[suspenseful music playing]
now I just got to get him the pump motor
and he's ready to dredge.
[engine starts]
[engine revving]
[zeke] hey, sam, you like it?
[sam] yeah, man. This is great.
You see them chunky little pieces of dirty gold?
[sam speaking]
[zeke] it took a lot to get it to this point, dude.
[sam speaking]
whoo!
All right.
[sam speaking]
emptying the gold.
That's always a good time.
[suspenseful music playing]
[kris] still no gold.
[dave m] let's just keep going.
[narrator] with nary an ounce to his name,
kris kelly scrounges the sea floor
of captain dave mccully's claim,
desperate to breathe life into his season.
[dave m] you know, look for, uh...
Well, just gravel over top
of the bed rock.
If anything, that'll go of the hose,
you know, where it will expose something.
[kris] I'm finding lots of spots
and finding, uh, cracks,
little dips with lots of material in it,
I just haven't found one with gold yet.
Uh, well, keep looking, that's all you could do.
[kris] I'm getting closer. I can see a little bit
of gold in cracks now.
Hell yeah, dude, just keep on dredging.
[kris] but I'm starting to find black sand.
[dave m] you know, when you find black sand,
there's usually gold there, son.
[kris] see the black sand?
That's iron.
A low-grade steel,
so that's where gold usually sits.
So we're gonna suck up this whole trench right now,
try and turn a little bit into something worth working.
[suspenseful music playing]
[kris] oh, I'm on gold.
See all that yellow from the black?
Gold, baby, yeah.
[dave m] all right.
Come on, gold member.
You can do it.
[kris] great to be back on gold, baby.
[dave m] see? You should listen to me more often.
I know what I'm talking about, right?
[kris] dave, you're the man.
What's it look like?
[kris] I found black clay
on top of the bedrock.
It's hard to see how large
because it's like in a weird angle
is what I'm trying to get it at.
This seaweed is a pain in the ass.
Find us a nugget, come on.
You gotta find us a nugget to prove this spot's good.
[kris] this is really hard to see gold
but it's all over the place.
It's like spaghetti everywhere.
Gotta pick something for our spirits a bit now,
at least we're getting gold, put money in the bank.
Keep looking, jay, you're doing good.
-[kris] I found a nugget. -[dave m] what?
[man] andy.
Good for him.
[dave m speaking]
[kris] it's a little one,
but at least we're getting gold.
[kris] decent size.
[dave m] good job, kris.
That's all we needed, man.
[kris speaking]
okay, kris. It's been five hours.
You getting tired yet?
[kris] yes.
This is a tough place, but I think it's worth it.
[dave m] okay. Kris, come on up,
we're putting chris mccully down now, come on up.
[kris] okay.
First gold of the season.
[dramatic music playing]
[kris] the thing is, I know there's more,
it's just like the tip of the iceberg,
-there's something more there. -[man] yeah.
[kris] so we're gonna send chris down.
Chris is more than an experienced diver.
He's gonna find something big, I know he will.
-[dave m speaking] -[kris] what?
[dramatic music playing]
yay, we're getting gold.
I bring gold.
We're on gold, thank god.
Cripple river is paying off.
[shawn] oh, yeah.
I've worked my whole life to get to this point.
Now I'm gonna do what I do best.
I've put a ton of money on this.
I've been stressed out to the max,
betting that I'll get gold.
Well, everything's working
the way it's supposed to.
We're making gold right now.
[narrator] mr. Gold is burning the midnight oil
on his first trip out
on the newly redesigned myrtle irene.
[shawn speaking]
unreal that we come out,
we're actually just making gold
the first day.
We're not having to go back in the port.
If we can get a full shift on a brand new dredge
that's never been, uh... Never been tested,
I'll build up
these crazy ideas in my head.
That's gonna be pretty badass.
Usually with a huge redesign like this,
there's a bunch of little things that'll shut you down,
send you back to the harbor.
So far, this had been flawless, one in a million.
I'm gonna pull an all-nighter.
About ready to move.
One full cut done, tomcod,
now we're gonna go ahead and pick up the spots
and move forward.
Pretty damn amazing.
One cut down.
[suspenseful music playing]
[shawn] it looks like it's running good.
See what that top one's looking like.
Oh, nice and loose.
Good sign, it means it's going down
into the carpet.
Oh, here you go, dave.
[dave y] what you got?
[shawn] we got some gold in the box.
[dave y] yeah.
Yeah, you like that? Just one cut.
[shawn] it's working.
[dave y] it is. Awesome.
I mean, we keep that up,
we're gonna have this thing loaded by morning.
Look at all that.
[shawn] I really had to push dave hard
to sell him on this idea. He wasn't really sure.
Now he's like a kid in the candy store.
We're seeing gold in the box and these boxes are gigantic.
I mean even though you see it in just a few specks,
you know there's a lot of gold in there.
Pretty good when we come up
and do the whole cut without having to stop.
[dave] yeah, I know. It was doing good.
We know the design's working, now the real grind begins.
Let's get the spots pulled up,
move forward and back to digging.
We need to keep running dirty.
[shawn] let's keep digging.
What do we talking about?
[man] the art of making a deal.
Okay.
Hello and welcome to another episode
of kris kelly's secret guide to successful mining.
Today, we're gonna be talking about
one of my personal favorites, the art of making a deal.
The art of making a deal
all comes down to your personality,
your character, your je ne sais quoi.
So what you have to do, you have to be nice,
honorable, straight-forward,
always do what you're gonna say.
A man's word is like his balls.
You just can't break them for no one,
you know what I'm saying?
Ninety percent of the times,
when you go into making a deal,
you have to understand one thing.
Don't get [bleep]. You're trying to make money.
Remember that. So if you make a bad deal...
Where you're giving away all money,
you're gonna be divorced when you go home.
You know, your wife is gonna kick you out.
She's gonna talk bad about you.
What are you, a [bleep]
you just gave away all your gold.
Well, think about that.
The real boss at home,
when you're making these deals up here.
[man] you always tell me, like, you know,
I could sell anybody anything as long as I'm not...
Oh, no, no, no, no, like, you can't say
that kind of [bleep] this on tv
because it won't work again.
If you are going into a deal
and the person's offering too much,
and it sounds like you're getting a lot for free.
Just so you know, you're getting [bleep]
and you just don't know it yet.
My dad is great at making deals.
But, you know, like, when you make a deal
with my dad, there's a 70% chance
you're probably gonna get [bleep] in the end.
Okay. There's only seven ounces in there.
Look, I swear on your mother's life,
your mother [bleep] gold [bleep] in my room.
[shawn] that's right. There, you got it.
I mean he's great at making the deals.
He's just not very good
at keeping his part of the bargain.
[shawn] that's right. There you got it.
This has been another episode
of kris kelly's secret guide to successful mining,
the art of the deal.
Let's get the [bleep] out of here.
And that's it, why are you still here?
Let's get in the car.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] summer mining is heading into the back half.
For each captain,
it's the last chance to correct course...
Before winter hits the shore of nome.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] in town...
[vernon] so we do you get back out there
-and get some more gold? -Are you ready?
[vernon] yup, here we go.
[narrator] captain vernon adkison's fully crewed up
with the addition of this guy, steve riedel,
and ready to get back to the business of getting gold.
[vernon] so I've had some good rounds with steve
and I don't expect it's gonna last
but we're... We need a hand today.
So we're gonna take him out with us.
[machine revving]
[vernon] the only problem is
he breaks more things than he fixes.
[man] whoa, there it went.
[man] oh, man best day ever.
-What? -[steve] woo,
I'm the king of the icebergs.
Hit one for me. I dare you.
So, uh, we'll see how all that goes.
I promised him that he could go for a boat ride
and work his ass off and receive no pay.
[suspenseful music playing]
vern already tried today to, uh,
get me overboard because I was just standing there
and he went to full power right in the port.
Almost fell overboard.
Did you see that?
No. Oh, it's in the film.
It's in the film. Yeah, when they...
When we launched.
[alarm blaring]
no subtly on the throttles.
[steve] vernon and I go back to 1995
where he became a neighbor.
He thinks that my wife tried to hit on him
and, uh, it's true.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] sounds like another addition of...
Prospecting for love.
This week's moneymaker, vernon adkison.
A silver sailor hailing from homer, alaska.
We got the cobble.
I told her to.
I said, "hit on him," that he's rich.
[narrator] vernon is caring.
[bleep]
-[narrator] patient. -[vernon] get on that plane
and get the hell out of here.
[narrator] modest.
I got a hundred and twenty feet of hose.
[narrator] but above all, vernon is loaded.
Bring it home to daddy.
That would be gold daddy.
My wife wanted a divorce.
So I just said, "hey, there's the guy.
-He's rich." -[narrator] so don't go away.
Stay tuned to find out if we can find
a heart of gold from a miner called vernon.
I'm actually kind of excited though about this.
Okay, guys, we're there.
[man] drop the bell.
[vernon] we've been on 56 for a while
because of strong currents or no visibility.
Good, drop it.
And I'm starting to feel the pressure.
We need to get back on it.
All right. Let's go.
Most importantly, steve needs to stay
the hell out of my way
and not mess things up.
[vernon] all right.
Go.
[suspenseful music playing]
[jerry] you ain't gonna believe this, vernon?
Guess what?
We landed right on top of our own hole.
All right. Real good.
[upbeat music playing]
[jerry speaking]
yeah.
[vernon] all right. Now it's making me feel
better about light.
[jerry] yeah, baby.
Well, that's good. At least we don't have to move.
[steve] got to be smarter than the gold
because the gold does not wanna get gotten.
[upbeat music playing]
[zeke] damn it.
Does it feel good to be diving again?
[sam] yeah, it's really just a reminder me
that this is my favorite job.
[narrator] after years away from the bering sea,
sam tenhoff is back in his element
and manifesting a golden reality.
You know, we're here to grind.
The gold is $2,000 an ounce and I think that
if we get used to this grinding big areas
then, like, we'll make more money in the long run
without trying to... I always wanna go
and, like, find somewhere, like, hotter,
but I just need to temper myself and not do that.
[sam] yeah.
My brother, sam, is throwing down
and that's exactly what we need right now.
But he just hasn't had a lot
of gold dredging experience recently.
And so I think it... I think maybe
he might push himself too hard.
I need him to pace himself so he doesn't wear out.
You've been down about four hours at this point.
[sam] I'm trying not to mess any of this pot.
So I know there's gold at the buoy
and I know there's gold where we are.
And that means if you dredge towards the buoy
that means there must be going in between those place in two.
Which means there's more gold
and we know where the gold is
and we're gonna dredge all of it.
[sam speaking]
yes, you're good.
[suspenseful music playing]
[sam speaking]
okay.
Once sam starts having issues,
he should come up immediately.
[suspenseful music playing]
[zeke] putting a lot of hours down on the bottom,
things can get dangerous in a hurry.
Better safe than sorry.
[dramatic music playing]
[sam] I think I was just in deep.
-[zeke] yeah. -But...
Because I'm feeling really claustrophobic.
[zeke] okay. That's a lot of work.
Sam just put four hours on the box.
I think that's pretty good for his first time
down in four years. Uh, now it's my turn
to get down there and get after it.
It's [bleep] beautiful out.
[zeke] beautiful. I need to get suited up,
you know, go back down. Gonna take my clothes off.
[suspenseful music playing]
it was... That was some of the hotter coal
that I've ever seen honestly.
Really coarse, it's great.
[upbeat music playing]
[producer speaking]
[sam laughing]
[zeke] there's only one wet suit on board
and not a whole lot of space for changing.
[upbeat music playing]
[zeke] it's super invigorating.
It makes you feel really alive
to just be, like, oh the deck of your boat
and the cold with no clothes on at all.
This is... This is life out here.
-It's great. -[engine revving]
[suspenseful music playing]
[sam] hey, zeke.
How's the ground look where you're at right now?
[zeke speaking]
[sam] yeah, I think I over did it
on turning over the heavy rocks here.
-[zeke] yeah. -There's, like, something
really satisfying about turning over a big rock
and seeing [bleep] chunks of gold on there.
It's just, like, "ah, [bleep]
snuck up on you. I got you." [laughs]
and gold's like, "ah!"
I mean, yeah, I learned my lesson.
I won't do that again.
It is really satisfying
and I don't regret a minute of it.
[zeke speaking]
sounds good.
[zeke speaking]
welcome to another edition of kris kelly's secret guide
to successful mining.
Today, we're gonna be talking about
art of the deal, part b.
Where the [bleep] is the marker?
Do you have the marker in your pocket?
-I'll sell you one. -Just give me
-the [bleep] marker. -All right. There you go.
Today is I'm gonna need the help of my dad
because he brings another perspective
of the art of the deal.
Thank you for joining us today, by the way.
[man] oh, I don't mind. Art of the deal?
What's the top deal maker that you use?
The top deal maker that I use is...
First of all, I promise them everything.
And I give them nothing.
In the beginning, I do promise them
a share of the gold.
But what's, uh... What's uh...
Let's say I give you 10%, what's 10% of nothing?
[laughter]
-no, I understand. -You can get your 10%,
but I've got nothing to give you.
Let's look on top of these containers.
Look at all this abandoned stuff just lying around.
[producer speaking]
it looks abandoned to me when it's laying on the...
There you go. That, uh, pretty much
sums it up for art of the deal.
-Thanks for... -What about the deal
where you promise them... Wait right here,
I gotta go get to dredge, you never come back?
Okay. Well, as you can see,
it just keeps coming and coming,
but I think you've got enough for today.
Thank you very much for checking out kris kelly's
secret guide to successful mining.
And just remember, don't be like brad.
Successful miner.
[dramatic music playing]
[vernon] so, good, just update me.
[jerry] oh, yeah. There's something clearly
underneath the flat rocks,
I mean, about 10 little pieces
in this one little area.
Woo!
All right. You're the man.
[narrator] on the gold ship, wild ranger,
everything down below is going swimmingly.
But top side?
[vernon] what the [bleep] are you doing?
[narrator] steve riedel is still finding his sea legs.
[vernon] steve! Come on, damn it!
What?
Stay up here where we could communicate.
I'll tell it to him straight. Jerry's on the gold,
and as the captain, I couldn't be more pleased.
[jerry speaking]
[vernon] all right. That's good news.
But steve is about as useful as a concrete parachute.
I know he's working for free but quite frankly,
I think I'm overpaying him.
So, steve, how about straightening that area
back there, behind that partition
just for all the tools and equipment,
and as a shop area.
[upbeat music playing]
[steve] one, two, three, four, five...
Six fine screw drivers.
You won't find a fine screw on this boat
and you got six screw drivers for screws that don't exist.
Today, I've been basically the glue
that's kept it together on the gold ship.
If I hadn't showed up,
vern would not have had a good day on the water.
There's no one else in nome
with my experience that's available.
I saved vernon's butt today.
[dramatic music playing]
[vernon] all right. Still seeing some gold?
[jerry] yeah. I see where the gold's hanging out.
[vernon] that's good.
[jerry] give me that gold, baby.
[suspenseful music playing]
it doesn't look like he's getting a good suction
just looking from right here.
[vernon] how are you holding up?
[jerry speaking]
[vernon] all right. We're revving up
and down a few times,
and let's see if that clears it.
[jerry] okay.
[dramatic music playing]
[jerry] oh [bleep].
[vernon] so we're up...
Going up and down with the revs,
are you noticing any difference?
-[jerry speaking] -we're trying to get
the jam out,
we're gonna have jerry pound on the hose.
We will ram the jet.
Ramming the jet.
[vernon] we'll also ram the jets
with the ramrod
and try to knock the plug loose.
Fingers crossed, this is gonna work.
[jerry] oh, hell god. We split the [bleep] hose.
We split it?
[jerry] the hose going into the jet split.
All right. Okay. Don't...
Not to panic, we'll shut it down.
I figured if anything would shut us down,
it would be steve.
I've got an old hose on there,
it's been subject to a lot of wear and tear,
and it look like it's worn out.
Well, steve is not to blame for this one.
Yup. All right.
Yeah.
-[steve] yeah. Lower him down. -[vernon] just shut up,
damn it!
But there's still time for him to mess up.
[man] got it.
[vernon] all right. Let's get on with the show here.
Nobody falls over, okay?
Steve, I'd hate to see you get drug down there
to the bottom of the ocean, down in davy jones' locker.
[dramatic music playing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[narrator] ten miles west.
Let's go!
[kris] there's gold here. We just gotta find it.
[narrator] in the quest to get back on track,
the kellys are about to see
if two chris' are better than one.
[andy] we're sending little chris down,
he's gonna get down there and mop up the whole ground
and find the good stuff.
[kris] finally, we're on gold at cripple river,
I got us on gold on my ship,
now we're gonna send little chris down there
and he's gonna pick up right where I left off.
I know chris is a great diver,
so hopefully he can keep this going.
All right, buddy.
I know you're gonna kill it.
[dramatic music playing]
-[kris] everything good? -[chris] oh, yeah.
Looks like this is a good...
This is a good area to start.
Okay, buddy. I'm right here
and everything's going good on top.
[chris] all right.
Yeah, look at all that cobble,
you know, you see that
really rustic color,
that means it's really rich in iron.
Oh, look [bleep]
see right there, I see, like,
one, two, and three...
Four specks.
[kris speaking]
[chris] yeah. Look at that. That's a good sign.
One big flake and another one right there.
I like it.
So what's going for us right now,
the sickle's running amazing,
everybody's in good spirit,
we're all in [bleep] gold
for the first time in the season.
So everything's going amazing.
[dramatic music playing]
[chris] let's find something else, man.
Oh. They are...
A big [bleep] nugget, dude,
just lying on the top of the bedrock.
Get that [bleep] big nugget!
[chris] oh, look.
[kris] good job!
[chris speaking]
[laughs]
[brad speaking]
-[kris] yeah. -[chris] woo!
[bleep] yeah!
[dramatic music playing]
good!
All right. My dad's even [bleep] helping out today.
Yeah. We come together like a team.
[chris] gotta keep moving, that's the secret,
that's the key to success, just gotta keep moving.
[kris] hey, chris, your time's up, man.
You put in a good shift.
Why don't you come on up?
[chris] okay. Copy that.
Coming up.
[kris] chris, let's see it. Dave wants to see it.
[chris] hell of a day! We're on gold, thank god!
I thought I was gonna have to quit mining
because we were gonna go broke.
I didn't see a lot of little fine gold,
but there's definitely big nuggets here
in cripple river.
[laughter]
[kris] I think we're actually onto something this year.
Two nuggets in one day? This is great.
The kellys always get knocked down,
but refuse to go down without a fight.
Okay. Good.
It sucks we're only making 30% of this,
but at least we're finally starting to make money.
-Bam! -[brad] we did good.
I'm happy.
Takes a lot for making me happy, too,
because I'm a miserable [bleep]
[kris] thank god it was a good day.
It's been so bad this year.
[dramatic music playing]
[engine whirring]
[emily] hope it doesn't go loose again.
It's probably gonna get thrown again here soon.
[narrator] after two hours,
the eroica is still holding together, barely.
And diver rick smith is still at it.
I noticed that the compressor threw a belt
pretty much right away,
and then rick was able to get up and...
He's, like, pretty gung-ho about getting back down,
so I'm just gonna have to watch it
like a hawk and
make sure that doesn't happen again.
Uh, I don't like it when dive equipment fails.
So it's not fun for me.
[rick] good morning! Yeah!
He's just having a good time.
I'm not having a good time.
I mean, I'm happy we're making money,
but this is not fun for me, watching my [bleep]
dive equipment wanna fail.
Watching this loose belt
like, deciding when it's gonna [bleep] run itself.
That's not fun for me, but I'm glad
rick's having fun.
[rick speaking]
[emily] it's starting to get a bit rough.
[rick] oh, I'm gonna keep dragging around here,
maybe find another nice pot, you know.
[emily] all right, brother.
[rick] I'm about to get down.
Yeah, I know. You never fail to tell us.
[emily] the north wind just kind of came out of nowhere,
and we're dragging anchor pretty good.
We've moved about a hundred feet.
We're just dragging all over the place.
It's hard to keep anchor...
[rick] over here, too, holy [bleep] yeah.
Oh, at least somebody's down there's happy.
[rick] I've got about a foot over here, big cobble
and lots of gravel surrounded.
Holy [bleep] you're not gonna believe it.
Wow. Literally inches away apart.
[suspenseful music playing]
come on up.
[rick speaking]
I'm gonna come up with my... A nozzle.
[suspense music playing]
sometimes, like, the visibility
is just not improving. Rick was on really good gold
and that kind of wrecked his dive at the end.
Are you good?
We're sad to go in early
but we're still really happy
and he put some ounces in the box.
I was on some really good gold, I mean...
-[emily] I know. -I didn't wanna come up,
I really didn't. And then we got...
I was like, "are we moving?
Is the wind picking up?"
because, I mean, I was dragging back
about this fast and I couldn't stop.
I tried to get in to it and I'm like [bleep],
"dang it! Stop!"
but I had a great dive.
I gotta see this.
-[emily] are you happy? -[rick] yeah.
You can see it up on the top right there.
[emily] oh, yeah. [singing opera]
good job. Good dive.
Compressor obstacle is the problem
but we managed to, uh,
stay on the gold and scored there.
Just gotta keep up this momentum
and I'll hit that 75 ounce mark,
and hopefully get my own claim.
It's really a good day actually
and, um, we needed it, we needed the...
We needed the gold-heavy day.
It feels good.
[intense music playing]
[shawn] there's the cheese right there.
[man] yeah!
Amazing what a lot of hard work will do.
There is not a better feeling than this.
[narrator] with nearly eight hours already banked,
shawn pomrenke pushes the newly transformed
myrtle irene towards sunrise.
We're in gold, baby!
[shawn] at the beginning of this whole adventure,
went the day,
if it didn't work, I make it work,
well, you know what?
It's working.
[intense music playing]
[shawn] people will say that I'm lucky,
well, you know what?
Luck is earned,
and I've earned this.
[machine whirring]
[shawn] oh [bleep] what was that?
Well, that doesn't sound good.
What the [bleep] is that?
Damn!
Look at all these bolts.
[man] oh, yeah.
[shawn] they all popped out.
[suspense music playing]
[shawn] [bleep] damn it.
I may have pushed this girl a little too hard
on her first time out.
But, hell I have to.
I have to make up a lot of gold
in a short amount of time.
So, a few bolts fell off the shaker,
not the end of the world,
but a bit of a buzzkill while I'm trying
to make it through the night.
All in all, there's a few bolts breaking
and gotta get a little bit better support on those.
Maybe weld it down, other than that,
there's gold in the box,
we're up to a good start.
I'm not complaining.
Yeah, it's all busted out there.
Yeah, we need to have them blow holes in it,
j bolt it down in the morning.
[dave y] you're gonna bring it in?
Yeah. Let's bring up the stuff
and bring it in, and then the boys
can tune it up
and when we come back out tomorrow,
we got a cut and a quarter in.
Got some gold in the box but...
[dave y] not enough.
-[dave y] not enough gold. -Not... Not enough
but, hey, it was a good first run.
-But for the... -[dave y] this ain't bad.
[shawn] it ain't bad... It ain't bad.
We can get... They can get...
We can this all bucked up in the morning.
We ran wild, good job.
[machine whirring]
[suspense music playing]
[shawn] the gold we got today
is just the tip of the iceberg.
[dave y] this should be floating.
[shawn] it's a good thing too because there's already
a little bit of ice forming in the harbor.
The end is not far away.
We're really gonna have to push the rest of the way.
No rest for the wicked.
It was a good day.
What is it, 7:00 in the morning?
Yeah. Let's get out of here.
-Yeah, I'm ready for some shut-eye. -We did it.
-Yeah. -Let's go.
All right.
Oh, lord, I'll definitely sleep good today.
-[laughs] -[dave y] oh, yeah.
[jazz music playing]
[narrator] and now, another episode of social hour
with vernon.
[vernon] hey, naomi.
[naomi] how are you today?
Oh, doing good. Doing good.
Blowing like a blue ball banshee out there
so I think I'll just, uh, hang in here for a while,
have myself a couple of cocktails
and check my social media.
Let's see what in hell is going on out there today.
All right. This is from banana hammock,
[reading]
oh, boy,
some of the social media stuff really hurts.
I mean, this guy's bullying me on social media.
[reading]
damn, he [bleep].
And then here's somebody named I need to pee,
I mean, mr. Pee, do we need to know that?
You know, if you need to take a whiz,
go take a whiz for crying out loud.
And then it says [reading]
well, it's a form of release.
I don't get, um, uh, hardening of the arteries
and heart disease because I'm keeping it
all bottled up inside of me.
I believe in spreading it around,
tempers are good. Get you one.
If you don't have one, get a temper.
So, I mean, I wouldn't be on tv
if I didn't have a temper.
Bigfoot is real,
[reading]
I mean, what else am I gonna do with the money?
I don't like to play golf.
I'm too old to chase women, so what in the hell?
I mean, I like gold mining, it's my money,
I'll do what I damn will feel like doing with it.
If I want to spend it on gold mining,
that's what I'll do.
And if you wanna watch me do that,
well then, watch. It you don't,
well then, [bleep] off.
[narrator] this has been another episode
of social hour with vernon.
That's it for social media.
It's about as much as I can stand, I'm out.
See what I gotta put up with?
[narrator] in nome, alaska.
[suspense music playing]
as you can see the, gold is already
starting to pile up everywhere.
We did better than I thought we did.
It's almost been our top season, I didn't think... Oh.
[man] it's loaded.
Look at all that gold, andy.
That's looking good.
We can each get a hamburger for supper tonight.
[narrator] after striking out all season,
kris kelly is hoping to finally hit the score board.
[kris] pan it, dry it,
weight it, see what we got.
We've spent a lot of money this season and so far
we haven't seen any gold to make up for it.
So, I'm hoping today we finally have
the stream of cash coming in,
if not, my mining days in nome are numbered.
Here we go.
[suspenseful music playing]
[kris] two, that's two ounces already?
-2.5. -Holy [bleep].
Three, four...
[kris] four ounces.
Five, six.
[kris] holy [bleep].
Whoa!
We got over six ounces,
plus we got the chunky gold, the nuggets.
The nuggets.
So put yours on too
and let's add everything together.
So a 7.3.
7.3 ounces.
In total.
That's awesome.
[laughs]
[narrator] it is awesome,
but that's without the deal kris made.
So he had to... What was our split again,
90-10?
No. No. No.
Calm down. Calm down.
Um, so I know in the beginning
you said 70-30,
it was a lot of effort on everyone's part
to get this done.
60-40?
60-40.
Man.
So now that dave sees that we can do our job
and we can make gold,
I think we proved him we deserve a bigger cut.
Plus, dave needs to have a little bit of pity on us.
I mean, come on, we're flat broke.
Okay. I'll go for 60-40.
There you go. You're so [bleep] rich.
You don't need the extra 10%.
You saved our season, we're [bleep] penniless.
We're doing this, like, we're two steps
from being bankrupt, you know, like...
No. Let's get... Yeah, 60-40 is fine.
Yeah. And you keep the chunky gold,
the big nugget.
So we finally found a place where we can get some gold.
And nobody's gonna shoot at us,
but don't tell anybody.
Let's get this in that,
then let's get that in my pocket,
this is going straight to our operation.
The kellys are gonna live to fight another day.
Great day.
I knew it was gonna happen sooner or later.
[dramatic music playing]
[zeke speaking]
[narrator] nome's resident philosopher
is getting gold and getting metaphysical.
Well, mostly just physical.
Hey, zeke, how are you doing down there?
[zeke speaking]
-awesome. -[zeke speaking]
well, that's a good timing I guess for today,
we're starting to lose light here pretty quick.
This is the first I think real grind day
of mining that we have gotten so far.
On good gold, so I'm really curious
to see what the clean-up looks like.
[zeke speaking]
we're done.
-Yeah. -He needs the tether.
He's coming up.
Pull up the tether.
[dramatic music playing]
[zeke] pretty cool sunset.
Super nice.
[zeke] beautiful end to a beautiful day,
don't get to say that every day.
Show time.
I've had what I think was a pretty successful dive.
I was seeing gold the whole time.
I feel like everything that I've projected
in my imagination is all coming into reality.
We're not on the motherlode
but we're definitely making enough money
to stay afloat,
and the universe has sent us this beautiful sunset
just as a token of its approval.
Hey, we might have tapped out all the gold
in this little puddle.
I mean, at this point,
I don't know if it's really earned
the... Earned the title
as like a real producing area yet.
I mean, I think it's still... Maybe I'm gonna have
to relegate it to puddle status.
My intuition is telling me more likely than not
we're gonna be back on the hunt
for another spot.
Thank you so much for putting me down there.
It was great.
We're gonna have to go find some more gold.
Yes, we do!
[upbeat music playing]
[kris] hey, vernon.
[vernon] imagine running into a guy like you
in a classic joint like this.
[kris] well, you know what? This is where
all the good people in nome come,
the home away from home.
So what are you doing? How was your season?
You know, fair to midland, late start,
bad weather, personnel problems
[bleep] I even had steve riedel come back.
Are you serious?
He just kind of showed up one day when we were...
Now I know you're getting desperate.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like
a scraping the bottom of the barrel.
-Oh. -[vernon] but he had...
He did a pretty good job
better than I expected.
You're too nice sometimes all the time.
Because I heard you all went to elim
and kind of got shot at and...
Shoot at and hit or shot at and missed.
-[man speaking] -[gunshot]
-they're shooting at us. -Get down!
No, no, they missed.
Yeah, you know, complications of life,
we got shot at a couple of times.
Okay. Hopefully the weather is good for tomorrow.
And I guess I'm gonna get out of here.
I gotta get back to work.
-Thank you, vernon. -All right, bud.
See you later, man.
You take care.
Give my best to brad and the rest of your crew.
[kris] oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They need your best let me tell you.
[dramatic music playing]
nice, dude. Let's just pour
-the rest of this thing here. -Yeah.
[narrator] after a brothers tenhoff diving extravaganza,
professor zeke is hoping he can conjure
massive amounts of gold into existence.
[zeke] yeah. This is gonna go better.
The season is starting to run pretty long.
I need to see some gold.
I don't know how much that is but it's...
I mean, this is like nice bright gold.
It's super bright and chunky.
I put all my resources
into making the sailboat dredge work,
and if it doesn't start paying off,
it doesn't make enough money
to keep us afloat, it's gonna sink.
Point one,
point... Three point three point six.
Point seven, point eight,
nine, point... Yeah.
One ounce and four micro ounces,
whatever those numbers are.
When the decimal point goes over,
you know, what's that?
A tenth, no, a tenth... That's not a tenth.
-Tenth then hundredth. -[zeke] the hundredth,
you know, whatever, that's one ounce.
One ounce and change
plus what we did the other day
we're gonna prospecting and we're up to
two ounces of gold so far.
You know, what I wanna do is just to remind ourselves
what we're dealing with here,
it's, like, it's easy for me to get frustrated
that I'm not getting more gold
because I've had [bleep] clean-ups in the past,
we've been working on this forever
but two ounces
equals...
$4,000.
That's [bleep] crazy,
like, I can't... Like it does...
It barely even computes in my head.
And so like a part of me is like really frustrated
but prospecting and production combined
resulted in $4,000.
That has to inform you guys, like, how much,
like, possibility there is here.
It's, like, it's only the beginning.
I mean, we just do this again, you know,
in another few days, that's like $8,000,
$10,000, that's so much money.
I mean, we need as much money as we can get but...
If I look at this in dollar value,
it's over $2,000.
And what I want to happen is
that I want to be getting, like,
tens or in hundreds of ounces.
I know how much gold I'm finding,
I know how much I'm struggling to, like,
kind of make this gold mining sailboat operation work.
I know that I can get a lot more gold
that I'm getting.
I've done that in the past
and I know that I can do it again.
We have established like everything
that we need to have in place
to get these numbers to go up.
Mmm-hmm. That's true.
And now we just need to go and get,
like, more dive days,
we can get more of those days
and just crank it up.
-Hell yeah, man. -Yeah.
[zeke] let's get on it. I mean,
we have a machine that works now.
[narrator] five miles southwest.
[suspenseful music playing]
[shawn] how's it looking?
Hey, it looks pretty good.
-[shawn] not bad, huh? -Not bad,
it's just cooling down a little.
Ooh, nice and clean.
-That's not a bad start. -No.
[narrator] after putting the redesigned myrtle irene
through her paces, captain shawn pomrenke
is ready to see if his newest creation
can gobble enough gold to help pay
for his multimillion dollar plan
to dominate nome.
It's working and pumping,
and we're making gold, so.
-Right. -I can't complain.
-Yeah. -Besides having to put
some j bolts on the punch plate
and tie a few things up,
it was a pretty successful run.
-Yeah. -[shawn] now, let's weigh this stuff up
and see what it weighs.
We got a couple little fixes to do
but the new improved myrtle irene
is working outstanding.
We're going into this, we're not expecting it
to be a record breaker, it's only one night
but this should give us a good taste
of what's to come.
[dramatic music playing]
[shawn] that's 20, 40, 60.
And it's, oh, hundred,
hundred and...
Hundred and seventeen.
Heck yeah.
That's pretty good.
I like it.
[narrator] one hundred seventeen ounces
is worth $234,000.
A hefty chunk of change
but only a dent in the three million
that mr. Gold needs
to carry out his three-pronged plan.
Well, that's a damn good start.
Definitely I ain't gonna pay all the bills
or I ain't getting my money back yet, so.
Yeah.
We need to get back out there.
Yup, more hours in the box.
Winter is coming in quick
and I'm still millions off
for making all my summer dreams come true.
Even with the christine rose and the myrtle irene
working around the clock,
you know it's gonna come down to the wire.
I can't stop, can't slow down,
it's pedal to the metal.
I'm gonna go and get the boat ready
and go make some more.
We're gonna push it to the bitter end.
[narrator] next time on bering sea gold.
We should have a competition.
May the best diver win.
[kris] at least we could have about five times
the amount of gold.
[shawn] I don't see any [bleep].
No.
Don't buy any dredger if you don't work for it.
[kris] can you let some more line out?
Sam, can you please?
[man speaking]
I'm curious about six,
I'm gonna make a trip down there.
Oh, my gosh.
Are you interested in purchasing?
Six was on my list.
Six isn't own by ken kerr.
Okay. By ken?
[man shouting]
will this job ever get easy?
-No. -[bleep]
[vernon speaking]
call a med. He's having an ear problem.
Oh [bleep].
You got blood coming out of every orifice.
Let the games begin.