[waves rumbling]
[upbeat music playing]
well, it's chilly out.
Not bad.
Icing up.
I wonder what the myrtle looks like.
I'm getting excited, icy.
Whoo.
[mike] with winter fast approaching,
shawn pomranke's plan for total domination
is reaching its most critical stage.
There's gonna be some cheese in here.
I had a three prong plan
to take over nome this summer,
I landed the inland mine,
the christine rose was killing it on the tomcod
but now it's in for repairs,
that leaves the linchpin, the myrtle.
It's on the gold,
the crew's been working through the night
but coming into the last stretch of the season,
we got to keep pushing as hard as we can
to pull everything up.
Thanks, guys.
We'll wash this box a little bit
and take a look and see what it looks like.
Go see where we're at on the gps
then we'll make a decision from there.
[mike] for shawn's multimillion dollar scheme
to succeed in the final days,
he'll need his entire operation
to produce another 750 ounces
to cover the next $200,000 payment
on the tomcod,
$800,000 in construction bills
coming through for the myrtle irene,
and $300,000 for the first down payment
on the inland mine.
The mine has one final cleanout remaining,
after that, it'll all be up to the myrtle.
Oh, we're definitely catching something here.
There's some gold in here.
Definitely see it.
[man] I think we're just digging
through kind of...
Dusty ground?
So the hot spot we were on seems to be running out.
This couldn't happen at a worse time.
We got a late start
and summer's almost over
and we need this to be on gold 24/7.
I got to move the myrtle,
try to find a new pay streak immediately.
There's way too much money on the line.
We're gonna head out.
I'll bet I'll find some gold today.
[suspenseful music playing]
we're making a move now, we got to find some gold.
[machine whirring]
[shawn] it was there
but not there like I wanna see it.
Gonna take a pan, see what it looks like.
Looks like the right stuff
but we got to see if there's any gold in it.
No.
[thrill music playing]
wanna make a couple hundred ounces,
we ain't seeing it in the pan,
we ain't gonna see it on the sluice box.
Looks like one, two, three pieces.
That's no good.
Cut.
[machine whirring]
[shawn] we're gonna keep panning
until we find what I'm looking for
and I'm not gonna start digging until we find it.
Just seeing some gold's not gonna do it.
This late in the season, I need to see
something really good.
We need a test pan that's absolutely loaded
with gold.
It's the only way we're gonna get all we need.
We're gonna plant ourselves in a spot,
we got to make sure it's the right stop.
I wanna see some serious pay dirt,
otherwise I'm just wasting my time.
Pan, pan, pan.
I'm gonna find it, this is what I do.
Keep panning until we find it,
once we find it in the pan,
then we're gonna fire up the plant
and make some gold.
There we go.
[thrill music playing]
[shawn] look at this.
I like the way the material looks.
It looks like the kind.
[man] boom shaka laka.
It's time to rug some dirt, boys.
Let's fire this up.
There's a lot of gold here.
[engine starting]
[water gushing]
[shawn] we found some really good ground,
took a really nice test pan,
there's a couple hundred dollars in that pan.
Now we just got to get the dirt,
get the gold in the box.
[suspense music playing]
got a lot riding on this,
a lot of money, a lot of time.
Now all we have to do is pile the gold in the box.
We got a really short weather window though,
so I wanna stay in this excavator and dig,
and do what I do best.
-[man] what's that? -Make gold.
Hey, welcome to the kris kelly's secret guide
to successful mining.
Today I'm standing in front of dredge 6.
[coughs]
I don't really know what to say about this
because I don't really know a lot about it.
[playful music playing]
so here we are at the front of dredge 6
and you can tell it's like a damn chainsaw
that was ripping through the earth,
it stopped working in the '90s
because gold prices fell through the floor
and it would cost more to mine the gold
than they were actually making on gold.
So if you're not making any money on gold
even though you're mining thousands of ounces in it,
stop mining gold.
And that's what they did.
We're gonna go take a tour of the inside
and see what's left that people haven't stolen.
Look at this thing, solid steel.
You think it's iron or steel?
Probably steel.
Yeah, okay.
Just walking up here, you can feel
how massive this thing is.
[producer speaking]
[kris] no.
The only thing I'm really afraid of
is dying broke.
So here we are in the ground floor
and just check out this labyrinth of steel,
like, any one of these pieces of steel
will give you tetanus and lockjaw
so definitely don't cut yourself
on any of this.
Just so you guys know,
I do not have my tetanus shot.
So right here looks like the control room.
So making sure there's no problems,
making sure enough water goes through,
this would probably be my brother's job
because you just sit on your fat ass
all [bleep] day long, hitting buttons
and then you don't even really do anything,
if there's a problem, you just call on the phone.
Hello, there's a problem.
Okay.
There's a [bleep] get down here, fast.
And then you hang it up, and that's it.
You know, one of these made the arm go up,
one of these made it go down, hey, what does this do?
Oh, that was the wrong one,
what about this one right here?
Do you think this is actually
what made it go forward and reverse?
[man speaking]
hey, another quick thing too,
like, late at night,
this turns into a great party spot.
[upbeat music playing]
[kris] you know, like if this was in la,
this would be a badass restaurant,
you know, come in,
put nice floors in, and serve fine dining,
that would be pretty awesome.
Or a strip club.
[whistling and applause]
[kris] welcome back
to our erotic adventure around nome,
we got some steel in our hands
and some excitement going on,
it's making me hot.
This is dredge 6,
thanks for doing the tour with me,
stop by next time to see
what other crazy adventures I have.
-[man] you are the man. -[bleep] off.
[man] come here dude, I'mma pat you on the butt.
[kris] I don't need a pat.
[mike] back in nome...
[suspense music playing]
this some blue-hosed piece of [bleep]
[mike] ...For the kellys, it's eviction day.
[kris] we did all that prospecting
and we don't really have a home
for the rest of the season,
we're gonna get our sickle off this boat,
put it back in storage,
and I don't know what the [bleep] we're gonna do
this season, you know.
[metal clanking]
it's really been the first season
I don't have a plan
and I, uh, I don't work well without a plan.
This season's been a disaster,
anything that could go wrong has gone wrong.
So at first, I thought the trip to elim
was gonna be the jackpot
but it turned into a big dumpster fire.
[man speaking]
-[gunshots] -[man speaking]
get down.
Then I thought I could make a deal with dave
at cripple river.
He had other ideas.
So what's the plan now?
Plan is get your crap off my boat,
I'm done.
[kris] now summer's almost over
and we have nothing.
We're getting desperate
and we got to think of creative ways to get gold,
we need something to get us into ice mining,
if I don't scrape together some money,
no ice money this winter, we're screwed.
We're getting away from this whole thing,
you know, it's been nothing but a bad memory.
The little bit we got from cripple just pays bills,
you know, we really need 20 or 30 ounces
so we can just go ice mining this year.
Let's get this ready to go.
Because this is our main concern,
getting this piece of [bleep] off of here right now.
We have to get all of our crap off dave's boat
including the sickle.
Tell dad to go back gently.
-[man] go back slow. -Okay.
-Stop there. -Stop.
Stop.
[man speaking]
oh.
Why did you go backwards?
I was trying to get it on the boat.
[man speaking]
oh, I didn't know.
It's a dangerous job.
Okay. Let's try it.
Try it.
I got 20 bucks that somebody falls
and slips on the truck.
[man speaking]
I don't care.
And there you go, baby, that's how I roll.
Act fast and still get it done.
Make sure you guys go drive very slowly.
-We did. -It won't handle bouncing.
-[man] I got it. -Tell him that, dude.
I know, the... You know,
you need to keep your head in the game
for five minutes, you need to...
[man] head in the game? Let's just go.
Stupid [bleep]
[man] I've driven more trucks
than you've [bleep] ever seen.
Yeah, what you don't even do anymore.
You're driving your truck
and you [bleep] just start hauling ass.
I've been driving longer than you've been alive.
So what? Just pay attention.
Go get in your truck and drive that.
Stupid.
[man] don't tell me what to do.
[upbeat music playing]
[kris] this whole season's been a [bleep] show.
So really, we have to come up with a plan right now.
We just got to find a way to get gold,
that's all we have to do.
Get gold.
That's all we have to do.
[warbling sound]
so here we are at the front of dredge 6,
look at this thing.
Solid steel.
It's making me hot.
Damn, hot.
Dredge 6. Dredge 6.
Dredge 6.
Desperation is pushing me to the point
of diving at that little pond where dredge 6 is.
[upbeat music playing]
[kris] that dredge was there
because it was making thousands of ounces of gold.
The only reason they stopped refining gold
out of that area
is because gold was $250 an ounce,
and it was hard to make money at that rate,
and I think it's the only option we have right now,
like, they wouldn't take [bleep]
to take our little rig right now,
drop it in the water, and do a day of prospecting,
and just see what happens.
There's nothing to lose,
just everything to gain.
Little gold is better than no gold.
Little gold, that's what I'm gonna tell everybody,
little gold is better than no gold
because right now I got to sell it
to everybody else, you know.
[man] so you want us to take the airlines off
and pack it up first?
Okay. Well, I have another plan,
it's not the best plan I ever had.
We're gonna go to dredge 6 pond
and see if there's gold there.
Where that old dredge is, 6?
[kris] yeah, where that old dredge is
that made millions of dollars.
I know but why is it sitting there
bankrupt and broke?
Because gold dropped too low
and they couldn't make money off of gold anymore.
So we've gone from the... From the [bleep] ocean
to the kiddy pond.
[kris] we don't have a plan anyways,
rather than pack this [bleep] up
and be finished, we might as well go try it,
worst case scenario,
we find no gold but we didn't lose anything.
Do you have any other plans?
No, I don't have another plan, I don't.
Hey, let's just try it. Hey, come on.
So I convinced my dad and brother
to dive at dredge 6,
we're just gonna try and see if there's gold there,
you know, either there is or there isn't.
This is a good thing,
maybe not, this could suck
but what else are we gonna do at this point?
If anybody else can think of another idea
to go out and get gold right now,
I'm all ears.
[brad] the master planner.
[kris] my ideas almost always work.
[suspense music playing]
[birds cawing]
[craig] hey, martin.
[martin] it's great, how are you doing?
[craig] hey, good. How you doing?
[vernon] hey, how's it going man?
Pull up a chair and let's talk some business.
[mike] vernon adkison is hoping
a new diving prospect will help him
pull in another $50,000 before season's end
to pay off claim 56
and end the season in the black.
So, um, I think I met you
when you first, uh, came to town.
[craig] yeah, 2012.
[vernon] you were doing your own diving,
dredging operation out there as I remember.
[craig] yeah. Running the king james, right in.
The king james, that's right,
I remember that. Yeah.
[craig] yeah, I was out for a couple years
-and, uh, here I am back. -[vernon] mmm-hmm.
Yeah, we've been going through,
uh, quite a few people here lately.
Uh, you know, jumping and sucking at every turn.
[craig] we want that to change.
The season was going along great
right up until the point
when bryan damn near destroyed his eardrums.
[bryan] is it bad?
[vernon] you've got blood coming out
of every orifice north of your shoulders,
so I'd say yeah, it's bad.
Now, I need a second diver,
season's almost over
and I don't have the ounces I need to pay off 56.
The guy craig, he was a good diver
back in the day,
uh, I've known him for years,
he's got a good reputation
but he hasn't been in the water
in quite a long time.
You're a freelance diver.
You betcha.
-I like what I see so far. -Yeah.
I'm gonna give him a shot at it.
My position is I'm the operator
and then I'm also the owner and the captain,
and I'm the guy that makes the final decisions
but I value everybody's input,
you got any bright ideas,
keep them to yourself.
-[craig laughs] -[vernon] I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
I knew you from before.
We got along just fine,
I appreciate you coming on short notice.
I sure appreciate your opportunity vernon
and I look forward to working with you, man,
-we'll see what happens. -[vernon] all right. Yeah.
Let's get this show on the road,
get on out there, and get some gold.
-Yeah, let's do it. -All right. Sounds good.
-[vernon] all right. -Yeah, man.
[vernon] craig has got a bit of a reputation around town,
most everybody liked him
but one of his nicknames is crazy jesus
but I don't care, you know,
what I care about is can he get the gold,
desperate times call for desperate measures,
we'll just have to see how it goes.
[upbeat music playing]
[craig] woo-hoo, first day on the boat, man.
I'm feeling great.
Oh, I'm glad to get out here,
and actually have the time to get some gold this season,
I've been waiting three years for this.
Woo.
All right.
[upbeat music playing]
[mike] on the nome coast...
[emily] we're heading down to claim bravo today
to do some prospect thing and some live boating
and find out
what the ground's like down there.
[mike] ...After saving up all season,
emily riedel is within 30 ounces
of affording her own plane.
And now, she might have the perfect one
in her sights.
[emily] we're gonna prospect around
and see if we can find some high quality pay dirt.
The beach near claim bravo aka "claim 6"
was really promising
as far as like the gold showing.
This is the kind of claim
I've been looking for all season.
So, ironically these claims belonged to ken kerr,
and, um, I've gotten permission
to finally do some diver prospecting.
If the ground is as good as I think it is,
then it could mean all the difference in my career
as a gold miner.
[seagulls squawks]
[intense music playing]
even the harbor is looking for new ground.
Who knows. Who knows what we'll find down there?
All I know is that the beach gold is pretty good,
so if that's any indication.
No, we can have 20 ounce a day.
[emily] we have positive vibes.
-It's a fun day. -[man] I know.
It's a fun day to go prospecting.
Claim bravo claim 6 is not close to town at all.
It's pretty far off into the eastern side
of the clock of claims
about eight miles from the port of nome.
So it's a long commute
but if it's good gold, it's worth it.
[man] we're just about there.
We're a quarter mile.
-[man] okay. -[emily] claim 6.
I mean, otherwise known as claim bravo.
[man] we're on bravo here.
We need to find the beach line.
Look at all that sand.
[emily] nobody's mining down here.
I can see why.
It's so far.
[emily] sandy. Yeah.
And obviously, it's gonna take some work
to get to some cobble out here.
-Yeah. -This amount of sand.
[bob] mind if I skip around for a little bit?
[emily] no, go for it.
Oh, I see it, just put a waypoint down
if you see something that you like.
-[bob] yeah. -Yeah, sweet. I like it.
[man] bob's out with the side scan sonar
also on the skiff looking for a cobble patch.
Emily's point... Putting in the coordinates
of the lease that we have access
to prospect today,
so we're using both vessels
to look for cobble.
I don't have time to prospect any more claims
and if claim bravo is all sand,
then my search for a claim is over
and I'm kind of stuck.
Working ground,
that just isn't producing anymore.
This is bob.
There's a cobble patch back here.
[emily] just put a waypoint down on it.
We might have a little bit of cobble here,
but we're gonna keep looking.
[bob speaking]
[emily] we're almost at the southwest
corner of the claim
and I'm just not seeing any cobble.
How can there be this much sand?
Goodness.
Most of the claim's covered with sand
and we found some spots that looked like
it might have a little bit of cobble there,
but we're not sure.
Might be cobble underneath that sand.
Might have a little, eh... Just like a little
brushing of sand over cobble?
Are you seeing it going that way like that?
Because I'm kinda like right on a strip right now
that I think it's cobble.
You wanna come back and take a look?
[bob] I'm gonna come back to the boat.
Roger that.
[suspenseful music playing]
[man] yeah, that's... That looks a little more definite.
Um, here it is... Here it is... Here it is,
-look at this... Look at this. -What?
-Look at this. -[emily] oh [bleep]
-[man] yeah, buddy. -[emily] oh, there it is.
Oh, that's pretty.
Put a waypoint down.
We got to get a diver down there and take a look.
[man] yeah, target sighted.
[emily] fresh cobble. Woo.
There it is, there's the cobble we're looking for.
We're gonna get bob down there, do some live boating
on the spot, and see what's up.
Back in business. I'm glad we didn't call it.
We've got an exciting spot to check, so gonna get on it.
[intense music playing]
[zeke] sweet.
[zeke speaking]
yeah.
[zeke speaking]
[mike] nome's mad scientist is about to push himself
and his new creation harder than he has all season.
[man speaking]
[mike] that's right.
The black swan is set to travel
on its longest journey yet.
[man] yeah, I forgot the other fuel can.
[zeke] we'll just boat together if we're going
a long trip. Like...
And going investigating like really a remote
gold locations.
It's the last days of the season
and we've haven't even got two ounces of gold.
I mean, that pretty... It's a pretty brutal blow
to my ego at this point.
We kind of struck out on claim 56.
I'm not excited about that.
[man] I'm kind of sick of this, like,
spending long periods of time playing in nothing.
So we're gonna take the black swan somewhere
and go way off the beaten path.
We're ready to cast off.
Here we go.
-[engine revs] -[man] oh, yeah.
[zeke] woo.
Yeah.
We're cruising. [laughs]
we're heading down to cape rodney
about 30 miles down the coast to a place
where no other dredges really ever go.
I've got a sailboat that can do it,
so that's where we're heading.
[man] here we go.
[zeke] I'm a little nervous. I'm still working
on my sailing chops and this is a long way to go.
[man] yeah. [laughs]
all right.
You're so far out there. If anything goes wrong,
there's nobody to help you, no one at all.
[man] it's so uncomfortable right here. [laughs]
[zeke] research says that there's gold at cape rodney,
so we're gonna throw caution to the wind
and go on out there.
[dramatic music playing]
[intense music playing]
[zeke] I really wanted to go down to cape rodney
for a while, because a friend of mine found some gold there
like 15 years ago a long time ago and said it was like
on the bedrock, and that's enough information to get me
excited to go to a place.
It's just like a little treasure hunting adventure.
So I would do some dives.
Hopefully, it's not too murky.
The conditions are super different because you got
a lot of big rocks and exposed bedrock,
totally different deal.
And it's just a cool place to go. It's not...
It's not like too far, so it's good like little
shakedown adventure cruise thing.
-[whistles] -[upbeat music playing]
[man] I'm super stoked. This will be a really cool
intro trip to kind of get the blood flowing on
what this vessel can do, you know.
I mean, I've never turned right out the harbor,
[laughs] so it's cool to, uh, see some new territory
and maybe find some treasure.
[zeke] hey, there's so much treasure.
I hear there a canyon full going out here somewhere
underneath the water.
I don't think anyone's found it yet.
Pretty sure nobody's found it.
I'll find it, I swear.
[upbeat music playing]
[zeke] let's see. Cape rodney is gonna be...
14.5 miles and we're going about
six miles an hour, seven. You do the math.
It's gonna be a long drive
[man laughs]
[mike] 16 miles east.
[zeke] all right. Drop it.
[vernon] let's get the gear ready.
-Okay. -Gary, go down.
-Show them how it's done. -I'll do it.
-All right. Let's do it. -All right.
-[craig] yeah, man. -Sure.
[mike] vernon adkison's team is back up to two divers
with the addition of craig ellison
also known as "crazy jesus".
[laughs]
[vernon speaking]
-[gary] yeah. -[craig] oh, yeah, man.
I can't wait go down there, get some of that gold.
[vernon] I have a full plate of divers and tenders.
That's why I'm shooting for.
Gary is going down first, um, then we'll send craig.
[gary speaking]
[laughs]
shoot, I've already been thanking god before, man.
[laughter]
[vernon] one thing about craig, he is enthusiastic
and, uh, I just hope, um, his ability
matches his enthusiasm.
[gary] okay. Can we get some gold now, huh?
Woo.
[intense music playing]
[vernon] I've got water now, gary. You want it hotter?
-[gary] uh, it's okay. -[vernon] okay.
[gary] uh, somebody controlling my umbilical?
[vernon] yeah.
Now make sure we got plenty of air.
I'm getting pretty fanatical about it.
Yeah.
I like air. [laughs]
[gary] there's a big section right here
that I've already worked.
Me and brian it looks like, because it's scored
all to hell.
That could be good. I mean, there's still plenty
of ground to work and everything we worked
down here so far has been good.
[gary] there's a big cut down here.
And damn it, it looks good.
[gary speaking]
[gasps]
[grunts]
[vernon] your breathing is heavy.
Tell me how you're feeling and what you're seeing.
[gary coughs]
[gary speaking]
[craig] yeah, I filled it up maybe 20 minutes ago.
I can go up and check, make sure there's no leaks.
[gary speaking]
[grunts]
[craig] okay. I'll go check.
Make sure it's... Yeah.
Gary, I'm not liking this. What the [bleep] that?
Is that that [bleep] air intake?
Let's get it where you're closer to the top,
I'm ready to shut this [bleep] show down right now.
[gary speaking]
it's not okay. It's not okay.
It's totally una-[bleep]-cceptable.
Unacceptable.
Our diver smelling gas, that's defcon 1.
That means something's gone wrong,
we got to fix it immediately.
Carbon monoxide can be deadly and it... In a hurry.
[gary gasps]
[vernon] when I'm exposed to carbon monoxide,
I get a hellacious headache, I feel like I'm...
I have a hangover for three or four days.
Worst damn feeling in the world.
[craig speaking]
[man] yeah, the air intake was a little bit too close
-to the motors, so I moved it. -[vernon] oh.
-As far as aways I could. -[vernon] [bleep] dammit.
[man] it wasn't great... It was...
I don't give a [bleep] it's got to be way
the [bleep] away from the air intake.
[vernon speaking]
diving for gold under the bering sea is, uh,
inherently dangerous.
I don't wanna see them get hurt
and especially if it has anything to do with my boat.
Okay, gary, sorry about that.
That should have never happened
and it will not happen again.
[gary speaking]
so many things that could go wrong out here.
Yeah, 100%.
We're trying our damndest to keep the mishaps
to a minimum. It was like that,
at their own risk.
You've ever got any doubt down there for your own safety,
it's your call, you're on the bottom,
your life ultimately is in your hands.
[craig speaking]
[vernon] that's right, I remember that.
Yeah.
Somebody put a hydraulic hose in your airlines?
[craig] yeah, right off the compressor.
[vernon] that's incredible.
[craig] yeah, it really should have killed me.
I suffered from cysts all in my mouth
and I was popping it all on my own.
I had a hole develop in the side in my nose.
How long did it take you to recover?
[craig] uh, two years.
I spent about a half year where I couldn't breathe right
yeah, that's unfortunate. I'm glad you, uh, survived.
Yeah. And here I am, so...
Yeah, that's, um, christ almighty.
This is a dangerous business we're in.
There are people that have gotten hurt
and there are people who have died.
Um, craig is one of these guys that...
That's gotten seriously hurt.
Um, I just hope that when he gets down there,
everything will be okay and he's up to the task.
Gary, are you okay?
[gary] oh, yeah, I got... This looks really good.
I'm seeing gold all over the bottom, dude.
I love it when I see gold.
Yeah, I love it when you see gold too.
[gary] I can't even believe the gold I'm seeing down here.
I'm in awe of the gold down here.
[craig laughs]
nice.
[gary] you ain't gonna get much better than that.
[dramatic music playing]
[upbeat music playing]
[man] there could be gold here, just who knows
where it is, you know?
This is another one of his harebrained ideas,
you know, it's crazy.
[mike] in a season marked by failed plans,
kris kelly may be ready to make it 0 for 3.
[kris] let's just put the boat in and see
what we have to deal with.
I don't know what else to do.
I [bleep] up our whole season.
[andy] and now here we are in a pond.
So yeah, I'm gonna dive in a muddy pond
that no one's tried to get gold out of for 40 years.
It really could be an untapped jackpot down there
or it could be a total disaster.
If we do all this work and we don't get any gold,
everybody will be pissed off.
We can't give up at this point.
We're just gonna have to drive it right the [bleep]
in the water.
[andy] hey, we're actually in the water right there.
That actually was very easy.
[kris] it was very easy.
Something went fast.
[kris] I hope it's not the only thing that's easy today.
[andy] no, it will be.
[kris] okay. Pull it out.
Imagine if we jump in and we find gold though?
Yeah, that would be something.
I think we're gonna jump in and find a bunch of muck.
[kris] so to begin with, we're gonna start
where the buckets were ripping apart the ground.
It's where they were getting gold,
so I hope we can get back on to what they left over.
We're just gonna get out there and hope for the best.
-[man] and we off. -Make sure you're gonna hold
on to our anchor lines just in case.
I've got this.
[steve] we're the only guys that ever dredges.
Either we're gonna be the smartest guys around
or the [bleep] dumbest guys around.
-Okay. Are you ready? -[kris] I'm ready.
[metal clanking]
[steve] is the power on?
-Throttle unfold. -[man] yes, throttle's on.
Shut up. I know how to do it.
[metal clanking]
it's gonna start any second.
[playful music playing]
[steve] just keep pulling it. Choke on full.
Just keep pulling. It'll start.
[man] shut up.
[engine revs]
yeah. Get the power back.
I can't believe I did it.
[steve] that's good news.
Dredge is fired up.
We're on our way to riches right now.
We're about to go where no sane man will ever go.
We have lights, action. Camera, here we go.
[tense music playing]
[kris] yeah, I'm going over to where the blades are.
[steve] where the buckets are?
-[kris] yeah. -[steve] be careful.
What's the bottom look like, kris?
[kris] there's like four-feet of muck underneath my feet.
[tense music playing]
well, that's not good. Look around a little bit.
See what you see kris.
Holy [bleep]
[steve] what's the matter?
[kris] I'm punching some holes.
I can't even hit anything, but muck, dude.
There's like three or four feet of silt
and it's so thick, it's like peanut butter.
[steve] well, that's not good.
[man speaking]
look at it.
You don't find that in the ocean.
[man speaking]
[steve] look at the silt coming out of the sluice box.
Look at the water turning gray.
Kris, you can see this silt coming out,
you got a mud puddle around you about 20 feet.
[kris] this is [bleep] bad.
[steve] you're pumping up so much silt.
You're not gonna have any vis soon enough.
[kris] [bleep] dude, I can't even see.
It's pitch black, dyed underneath here.
It's a little freaky when you can't see at all.
[machine whirring]
[steve] kris, you're underneath those buckets.
I can't see your air bubbles.
[kris] I'm sinking. I got to dredge myself out.
This whole pond is dangerous, it's [bleep]
[steve] you know, you're right by a big anchor line.
You're gonna get wrapped around
and get stuck down there.
[kris] I'm not gonna get stuck.
I know my [bleep] job.
He might know his job, but he doesn't know
where the gold is obviously, because it's not here.
[kris] ...Muck underneath my feet.
This is a complete waste of time.
[steve speaking]
[kris speaking]
[kris] [bleep] man.
Trying to get up to think bank is like, it is stupid.
[steve] you're going the right way.
-Keep going. -[kris] I'm trying, okay?
It's like walking up a mountain of slime.
This is the worst idea I've ever [bleep] had.
This is a terrible idea.
One of the worst ideas I've ever came up with.
I can't believe I wasted our time doing this.
I know I have to think of something for the rest
of the season. This is not good.
[playful music playing]
[kris] I think I figured out why no one minds this pond.
[steve] cause they're not that dumb?
[kris laughs]
it was a horror show.
Hands down, worst time I've ever had mining in my life.
[steve] and again, my brother [bleep] up.
[kris] keep paddling a little bit harder.
[upbeat music playing]
[emily] that's a nice looking cobble patch.
Oh, so nice to see you.
Yeah, we were gonna just get the hell out of here
because it was nothing but sand,
but they came up on this really interesting
cobble patch.
And, um, I'm excited to check it out.
[mike] after encouraging signs, it's time to find out
if claim 6 is packed with gold
or just a tantalizing mirage.
Get down there and find us some cobble, bob. Woo.
The season is winding down if bob finds gold,
this could be the claim that, uh, I end up buying.
And, uh, if he doesn't find anything,
then I'm out of luck.
I really am trying to grow
and expand as a gold miner.
And this is really like my last chance to do it.
So I really hope that this is the one.
-[bob] I'm ready. -[emily] okay.
[bob speaking]
[man] roger. Going to hook.
[man] you're all right.
You're at 10:00, 11:00.
Right now you're at 12:00.
[bob speaking]
roger.
[tense music playing]
[emily] what's, uh... What's the ground looking like?
[bob speaking]
let me look around a little bit more.
[emily] that sounds good, bob.
[tense music playing]
[bob grunts]
[bob speaking]
seaweed.
Music to my ears.
Wow.
[bob speaking]
eureka would be good.
[bob laughs] I'm still prospecting.
I mean, I can't make [bleep] to really make that, kind of,
determination in three minutes.
We're a little bit excited, bob.
[man] we're just excited, bro.
[emily] bob's down and he's seeing a lot of growth
on the rocks.
It's not been disturbed in a long time.
On a work ground like this, on a promising lease,
is a huge deal. I mean, it's never been
touched before, it's never been mined.
So we could be about to make an amazing discovery.
[bob] this is some hard working ground.
Big rocks. I think there's several.
We're pulling it somewhere.
That's a way to [bleep] move the material for sure.
[bob] okay.
I see a little bit some right there.
Oh, here's a little bit... Here's a little bit.
Yeah. Oh.
Guys, woo! Yeah!
Found a little bit, we're having some gold!
-[man] yeah, buddy! Woo! -[bob] yeah.
-Yeah. -[bleep] yeah.
Found some awesome looking gold
and, uh, you know, if the ground continues
to be good and we get some good gold in the box,
then I'll make my move buy this claim.
Oh, beautiful, beautiful. Yeah.
-[man] yeah, buddy. -Woo!
That's what we need.
Awesome.
[man] save me some!
[narrator] thirteen miles, west.
[shawn] see, like, everything started to run
the way it's supposed to?
It took a really nice test pan right here.
Took us a few spots to find it,
but we found it.
Now, alls we have to do is pile the gold
-in the box. -[narrator] shawn pomrenke
got his operation back on track
and the 750 additional ounces he still needs
to end the season could be within reach.
[shawn] if we can run in this stuff
for the rest of today,
and the rest of tonight
we'll have a quarter million dollars
in a couple days I'm thinking.
At best, I have two or three weeks
to get the gold I need.
If this is the spot
I got to ride this pay streak hard
till the bitter end
and hope it's enough.
I don't have time to be hunting
and packing right now.
I mean, it's like everything is running the way
it's supposed to be.
[whirring]
we'll go ahead and idle things down,
check it out,
see how the box is looking,
but right now everything seems to be running well.
Should I go ahead and check the box?
That yellow.
Yellow.
-Yellow. -All right.
All right.
I think we're doing it now boys.
Damn that's just a half a day.
[man] she's loaded.
We're catching it good too which is nice.
[shawn] couple little pickers.
Nice job, partner.
I feel like the winner!
Whoa!
Box looked really good.
Now we're gonna go ahead and we fire it back up.
Keep loading gold in the box,
that's what we come here for.
We're on the good stuff, thank god.
Now, we just got to move forward
make another cut and keep following it
till the end of the season.
Let's start coming up on those spuds.
Yeah, it's not moving.
[cody speaking]
no. It's not moving, cody.
[bleep]
oh.
The spuds are what keeps us in place
while we dig.
But if we can't raise them we'll be stuck.
No way to be able to follow the pay streak,
we'll just be dead in the water.
[cody] this hydraulic line controls the spuds
to go up and down and it just blew out
of the fitting and caused a big mess inside here.
And we're onto really good gold,
so it sucks but gold mining.
[cody speaking].
Now, don't have any spares on the board
so [bleep]
nate.
[nate speaking]
[shawn] one of the new lines
that go to the uprights blew apart.
[nate speaking]
[shawn] the hydraulic line blew
and, um, it popped the power pack
that runs the spuds.
So here we are,
waiting for parts.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] after four hours and thirty miles,
zeke and his crew of merry men
are finally closing in
on their final destination,
cape rodney.
[zeke laughing]
cape rodney is right underneath
those big cliffs. If you wanna call 'em cliffs,
it is sort of like cliffs, I guess part of it is cliff,
part of it is just a really steep hill.
But I think the place where my buddies found
that gold was like right over
kind of right where the cave
extends itself at its furthest point
out into the ocean, and there's a bunch
of exposed bedrocks.
I think I'm gonna dive over there.
-Thank you, stan. -[stan] am I...
-Can I take my hoses? -Yeah.
We haven't cleaned up a lot of gold
this summer at all.
And we barely have any time left this season.
I wanna go to cape rodney because I wanna go somewhere
where there's the possibility of finding some gold
before winter hits. I mean, if we don't do
any better then we're gonna really have to reassess
how we're going about doing this.
I can't wait till I have a whole summer
of doing this all the time.
So many places to go.
[suspenseful music playing]
[zeke] the water is so murky.
I don't know if this is gonna be a good day
to look for the gold.
Can you see anything?
[zeke] I can see, like, just a little bit.
I'm dropping down into a dark,
spooky place I've never been.
Now, look, it gets even darker down there.
I'm terrified.
Like there's nothing in there once
you go down there.
I'm just gonna inch my way down
into the dark terrifying depths.
Oh, there's a rock.
Huh.
Okay. Well my feet are touching the bottom.
I'm just not better out right here.
I can see about a foot.
It's really pretty spooky.
So you got the dark and scary, zeke.
[zeke] yeah. It's pretty terrifying down here.
Honestly, I can't think of very many things
that would scare me more.
The gold that my friend found
was in the cracks of this bedrock.
See, like a crack like this.
So I'm gonna see if there's any gold
in this bedrock crack.
[man] copy that.
[zeke] okay.
[zeke speaking].
Really hard to see because of the murk.
Okay. I'm gonna move to a different crack.
[man] copy that.
[zeke] whoa.
Oh, yeah.
That's a piece of gold.
Right there. See, there's gold right there.
That's awesome. Whoa.
Hell yeah, man.
[zeke] there's just cracks of bedrock
with pieces of gold in them.
It's exactly what I was suspecting
and hoping that it would be.
Yeah, see, there's another piece of gold
right there in the crack.
That's worth the drive.
[zeke speaking]
[stan] that's awesome, dude. I love it.
[zeke] I'm honestly, in all sense of the word,
pretty stoked that I found pieces of gold
right here because this is the first place
that we randomly set anchor.
[man] that is awesome. Good job.
Dropped right down to something.
-[stan] woo-hoo! -[man] all right.
Yeah. Mission success.
[gary] I can't even believe the gold
I'm seeing down here.
[vernon] all right. Gary, you got your time in,
come on up, buddy.
[gary] all right. I hear you.
Coming up.
[narrator] as gary simpson finishes
his time on the box...
Just getting ready.
Been a while since I've been in a suit.
[narrator] it's time for the man
they call crazy jesus
to take his first plunge in years.
You're not nervous, are you?
A little bit.
I expect that though.
[vernon] yeah, first dive in two
and a half years.
The last time you dove,
it laid you up for two years.
[man] yup.
Get your dive in and see how it goes.
Diving it's, uh, it's dangerous
and it's physically challenging
but it's also mentally challenging.
I mean, it's a mental game.
I know he's enthusiastic
but I can also tell he's very nervous.
I'm hoping for the best today
because we need it.
Here's your octopus.
I'm gonna put it underneath the strap
-right here, okay? -All right.
[man] so it's right under there, so here's a...
Here it is in case you need it, okay?
-[man] okay. -[vernon] all right.
Here we go.
I think he'll do good.
It wouldn't surprise me if he gets down there
and puts in three hours at least.
[man] all right. I'm at the nozzle.
[vernon] that's the nozzle.
All right. He's on the bottom.
[man speaking]
[vernon] it's okay. You just keep breathing.
Yo craig, just let us know if you see some gold.
[man speaking]
[vernon] yeah, yeah, it'll come to you.
It'll come to you.
Last time he was down two and a half years ago,
somebody put a hydraulic hose
in line with his air hose.
And it poisoned him.
It damn near killed him.
I just got my fingers crossed that he holds up.
I mean, this is our last shot right now.
If he... If he can't make it,
we're back down to one diver.
But this late in the season,
one diver is not enough.
[man speaking]
I'm not breathing so hard.
A little different than it used to be for me,
I'll tell you that.
That's already been dredged there. [groans]
[vernon speaking]
we had to pump it up some.
[man speaking]
[vernon] I said you're breathing is heavy.
We had to start on the other compressor.
[man] yeah, I'm sure.
Do you need to come up to fix it?
Just had a little bit of trouble with my mask there.
[vernon] okay.
We'll pull your umbilical if you're coming up.
[man] he's coming up.
[man speaking]
[vernon] hey, brian. Get that stuff off of him.
[brian] take a breather.
-Sit down. -[brian] have a seat.
[vernon] come on, man.
Get him on... Get him on dock.
-I'm okay right now. -[vernon] no, no.
You got to come out, man.
I had no idea I wouldn't be able to breathe.
[vernon] sit down.
If my mask wouldn't be coming up on my chin,
I'd just stay down there and kept going.
-[vernon] no, you... No, you... -Keep trying.
Yeah, no, I would've been fine
if I had just kept down there for once.
[vernon] no, no, I don't think so, man.
You know, it's a good thing you came up.
It wasn't gonna get any better.
-It just gets worse. -Right.
I just don't wanna give up, man.
[vernon] craig, I hate to tell you,
I mean, in case you haven't figured it out,
you're done. On here, anyway.
Oh, man.
[vernon] I'm not gonna pull up
any dead bodies up from the bottom
of the ocean down there.
It's better you came up when you could
still come up under your own power.
And believe me, I appreciate you coming out here
and giving it a shot, you know,
and the other guys do too.
We got nothing but appreciation.
But you're not ready to go back down there yet.
He's been through hell.
I appreciate him making the effort
but it is not gonna work out.
Season's almost over.
I got to get what I need to pay off 56.
I'm out of options.
There's nobody else to call.
You need to get yourself well.
You're not well yet.
So it's just not gonna work.
[man] I just never thought
I wouldn't be able to breathe.
[suspenseful music playing]
[shawn] the hydraulic line blew
and it popped the power pack
that runs the spuds,
so here we are waiting for parts.
[narrator] needing another 750 ounces
in the waning days of summer,
mr. Gold's newly revamped
myrtle irene is at a standstill.
Blew right out of the fitting.
[shawn] good news is we found a hell
of a pay streak.
Bad news is the spuds are stuck
to the bottom of the ground.
[cody] I don't know if it's a faulty hose
or a faulty crimp or what it was.
[shawn] we got the parts to fix it
but we have to do it fast.
We have no time to spare.
[nate] I'm gonna fire it up.
[nate speaking]
all right. You're good to go, buddy.
That should be good.
It ended up blowing the hydraulic line
that raises and lowers the spuds.
Nate ran us a new one out,
got that back on, back up and running.
[man speaking]
we got the spuds fixed.
We're back up and running.
Now we just gotta follow this pay streak
so we can pay the bills and make some money.
Fire up that deck.
Time to make some gold.
We got everything working.
We need to pile up some gold.
This stuff looks really good.
Oh. There's some cobble in there.
Oh. [laughs]
there it is.
We're actually making money now.
And it looks good.
We're in the gold.
One bucket, you know,
one of these buckets could have
a couple thousand dollars in it.
Oh. [laughs]
gravel, easy digging.
One bucket, you're in the paying.
I'm gonna push the rest of the season
like we never have before.
On a pay streak like this,
sky's the limit. Not taking any prisoners.
Beautiful material.
We're making gold.
[narrator] and now another social hour
with vernon.
A day like today, about the only thing
I could do is come in here and have a quiet cocktail
and check my social media.
It's all near and dear to my heart.
Not.
Bubbabacon.
I think you're a sexy hunk-o-man.
Bubba, you got to get gender specific there
but whichever way I take it as a compliment. Whoop it on me, bubba.
Johnnylonghandle.
Elaine is way better looking than you.
She should be on the show, not your ugly ass.
Johnny, I mean, come on, man.
You don't know about my ass.
I mean, I do have a couple of tattoos on it.
Fluffy cookie.
Ooh.
Where in the hell were you
when I was single, fluffy?
Don't answer that question.
Krazykatlady.
I always fast forward when vernon's on.
Well, you know what, krazykatlady,
that's okay.
I mean, you know, to each his own.
If you don't like watching me, you know,
go do something with your cats.
And then eat [bleep] and die [bleep].
Bydmanflymflam.
Do you pay taxes on all your gold?
Taxes has not been a problem yet.
I hope to someday be in a category where
I would have to pay taxes because, you know,
there's nothing I love doing
more than paying taxes.
That's why I'm in this business,
so I make enough money to pay taxes
to support all your sorry asses out there
that won't get off the sofa
and get a job.
[narrator] this has been another
social hour with vernon.
Slap and tickle.
Oh, my god. Slap and tickle.
I'm liking that.
[dramatic music playing]
[man] how's it going?
[zeke speaking]
I think this area is going
to demand probably a lot of further investigation.
[man] dude, that's awesome.
[narrator] far from the comforts of nome,
cape rodney is showing zeke tenhoff
plenty of respect.
[zeke] it's crazy. It just these little
crack here with pieces of gold in them.
If you can drop down randomly out here
on this bedrock field and you can find gold,
that means that if we had a whole bunch
of time to travel
across this bedrock field, we would probably
find where the [bleep] is.
Because I guarantee you, there's a crack around here
that's just completely loaded with gold.
Actually, I think this is where I wanna come
this winter, like immediately.
[man] awesome.
[zeke] yeah, it really, like, do a big survey
like a winter time survey of these cracks
and see where it gets... Where it gets rich.
Sounds like a great plan, man.
I think we may have found our spot.
Good [bleep] glad we came out, man.
[zeke] yeah. I'm glad we came out here too.
I mean, total, like, random crapshoot
adventure here and we found gold the first
place we dropped down, so it's inspiring.
Guys, the swells are coming up a bit up here.
How much longer do you think you wanna stay down?
[zeke] well, I wanna stay on the safe side
but I also want to clean out a couple more
of these cracks and look at the bottom of them.
Sounds good. We'll just, you know,
keep you informed up here and pull it up a little longer.
[zeke] okay. Sounds good.
I need to dig a couple more little holes
in these bedrock cracks.
It's extremely exciting to me that nobody's
really prospected this that much.
Actually, there's like three or four pieces
of gold in the bottom of this crack.
Yeah. The swells look like they're kicking up
a little bit.
[zeke] wow. I feel the boat getting yanked
around quite a bit.
I mean, it's pretty sketchy down here.
Seriously, it's scary.
[stan] yeah, it's pretty swelly up here.
We're so far from home, it's better to be safe
than sorry in this situation.
When these winds turn, it gets nasty fast.
So, it's definitely picking up.
It's not terrible yet, but I don't wanna wait
until it's terrible.
Uh, if it gets really bad and blows from the south,
we could be in trouble.
So, I think it'd be better that we just call it.
Hey, zeke. You copy?
[zeke] yeah, I got you.
Well, the swells are picking up a bit,
it's not crazy. But, you know,
we have a long trip back and, uh,
we're just seeing what do you wanna do here?
[zeke] I don't wanna push it with safety.
Yeah, if it's picking up it's gonna get a lot worse.
It gets really sketchy out here because
we're next to the cave and that's where the waves
like really pick up because the, uh,
all the water is channeled through here.
I wanna come up and I wanna pull the gear out
of the water and I wanna get out of here.
[stan] all right, man. Let's do it.
Sweet, you found some gold down there.
[zeke] all right, I'm gonna get out of here.
-We had ventured out... -[man] copy that.
...To the outer reaches and then we found treasure.
Oh, yeah. What a day.
-Choice, [bleep] choices. -[man] success.
-Definite success. -[makes sound]
[zeke] I'm stoked.
I just feel like we're lucky to be able to find
what we found today.
We came all the way out to cape rodney.
I've had what I think was a pretty successful dive.
Woo!
Diving in the murk is never fun but like
I found some gold in one of these bedrock cracks.
So that's really encouraging because
I keep swinging for the fences and I need
these ideas to be paying off better than they are.
Time to go home.
[upbeat music playing]
[zeke] I like cape rodney a lot.
It pulls us to something new.
It's really nice to go on ground
that hasn't been worked before because there's always
that chance you're gonna hit it big.
If we have one more day of good weather before
the season ends, it might be good to go back out
to that spot and prospect all day.
[zeke] that is an option.
I mean it's got my gears turning.
Yo, I love to sailboat dredge so much.
It allows us to like leisurely and in comfort
like motor outside of town just kind of talking
about our feelings.
[laughter]
[stan] ooh, yeah. [coughing]
[narrator] back in nome.
[kris] this season has been one [bleep] up thing.
[narrator] the kelly's sad saga continues.
I'm [bleep] tired.
[kris speaking]
[brad speaking]
[kris] the pond at dredge 6
wasn't a success.
Elim, cripple river, everything's kind of
ended in a disaster.
But right now I'm gonna keep pushing.
I got to create opportunities
where there aren't any. That's exactly
what I'm gonna do right now.
So, the plan today is go over to the au grabber.
I know the guy, james, that runs it
and we're pretty good friends.
[buzzer buzzes]
kind of good friends.
[buzzer buzzes]
we know each other.
[bell dings]
I hear, he needs workers and that's what
I wanna learn.
[excavator beeping]
[kris] and he's taking off the excavator today
and he's replacing the excavator.
[brad] what's wrong on this one?
[kris] it's a piece of [bleep].
Call me foolish but I would've waited until
it was low tide and I would've drove it
right off. But that's me.
What do I know?
[metal creaking]
[kris] holy [bleep] that looks scary.
It sounded like a good idea before we got here.
But now I'm asking myself, "do you really
want a job here?"
this guy [bleep] does dumb [bleep] all the time.
[laughs]
he's like steve riedel with an excavator.
-You enjoy the show? -I enjoyed the show.
-You did great. -Thanks. A little sketchy.
Yeah, well, we didn't have a lot of faith in you
but you pulled it off.
Uh, so, we've been going around a little bit
this year. And we haven't been doing
that good. We were planning...
We went to elim and everything went [bleep]
on us.
And, uh, so that was my whole plan
for this season.
So, right now we don't actually have a plan.
You know, and we need a job.
Do you wanna give us a job for a couple weeks?
[suspenseful music playing]
-I mean, who can run? -[brad] I can.
I can run an excavator, too.
Okay, so the truth is, I don't really know
how to run an excavator but that's never
stopped me before.
I mean, how hard does it look?
James does it.
[dramatic music playing]
[james] uh, dude, totally short, you know,
like crew right now.
So, your timing is perfect.
I'll show you the ins and outs of everything,
it won't take very long and spend a couple days
on the water. And see how it goes.
-[kris] great. Yeah. -For sure.
Thank you very much. You know, I knew this
was gonna work out, you know?
Thanks, appreciate it though.
Thanks, man. Appreciate it, man.
-Be safe. -You too, bruh.
[kris] so, I basically bs my way into this.
So, I have to learn fast on my feet right now.
And this might even turn into another nightmare.
Who knows?
But I'm gonna be on an excavator barge
that's like being king of the sea.
This is gonna be huge.
This will save my season.
This will get us the money for ice season.
This is gonna turn everything around this year.
Come on, evie.
[narrator] and now it's time to flex
your bsg brain muscles with another edition
of do you know your miner?
[kris] I think I figured out
why no one binds this pond.
[man] because they're not that dumb?
[narrator] well, the dredge 6 pond idea
was yet another colossal failure
in the mining career of kris kelly.
Getting geared up.
[narrator] over the years, which plan
of kris's actually did meet with success?
[kris] this is the next kris kelly get rich plan.
[laughs]
[narrator] was it a, sickle speedboat?
[kris] this boat right here is the ticket
to us being rich.
[narrator] b, the bering explorer?
[kris] all we have to do is fix the boat up
a little bit and then we start making
a million dollars a year.
[narrator] or c, elim.
[kris] elim is right on our port,
you can see out the window right now.
If it pays off for us, we could be millionaires.
[narrator] if you said any of these...
[buzzer buzzes]
[narrator] ...You're wrong.
Because none of them...
[kris screams] come on, push.
[kris speaking]
[buzzer buzzes]
[narrator] not a single one were successful.
What a piece of the piece of [bleep].
That's the picture.
There's the boat.
It's a million dollar piece of [bleep].
[buzzer buzzes]
[explosions]
-whoa. [bleep] -[kris] get down!
-[explosions] -[buzzer buzzes]
[narrator] join us next time for another riveting edition
of do you know your miner?
[man] we are piercing ourselves.
[narrator] throughout nome,
winter is quickly approaching.
[dramatic music playing]
[emily] we might've done a little bit better
than we thought, huh?
[narrator] and captain emily riedel needs to make
a decision on claim six before the doors
is shut on the season.
Hey guys, this is a cleanup from bravo.
I think like bob got like what?
-Like, four hours? -[man] yeah. Around about that, yeah.
-[emily] ish, on this? -All right.
[man] oh, boy. Nome.
[emily] I mean, this is just from that one cobble spot
that he spent so much time and that was about
30 seconds away from just calling it.
-All right. -[man] come on, let's see what it does.
-[man] come on. Bravo. -[emily] come on. Bravo.
I really hope that this turns into some good gold
because, um, you know, we spent like this whole day
not gold mining.
So we could prospect this claim.
Yeah, let's see what this turns into.
[man] come on, bravo.
[emily] nice cleaning job.
Oh, my goodness.
[man] bob's a hell of a panner.
[emily] bob hafner is a legendary panner.
One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten.
-Yeah. -[emily] hey, 11.
-Hey. -Yeah. 11.44.
11.44.
[narrator] 11.4 ounces is worth $23,000.
Bravo to claim six and to emily riedel who may have
just found the ground she's been searching for
all summer.
All right. I'm pretty happy with that.
[man] all right, we're good.
[emily] nome is very happy with that as well.
-[bob] nome is happy with it. -[man] do you like that?
That's a good clean out, huh?
I'm feeling really good about claim bravo.
It's an exciting claim.
So right now, the goal is to just go back to 14
and work on getting those 75 ounces.
If I wanna make an offer, it's definitely time
to make a solid investment up here.
This is definitely a good sign for that claim.
It might be the kind of, uh, ground
that we're looking for.
[man] I'd be down to go back and check it out
in the spring.
-Yeah. I mean, yeah. -[man] for sure.
Me too. Sweet.
[narrator] meanwhile, back out on the water.
[vernon] you think they're... You think
they're full of gold? That's why they're so heavy?
[narrator] despite the failed return
to the water of crazy jesus, vernon's team still
managed to get some gold on the day.
All right, brian. Is the gold done yet?
Craig doesn't work out but gary's trying his best.
He put some good time on that box.
Hopefully, it'll be enough to turn the kind of
profit I need to pay all the bills.
Let's see what we got.
All right guys, here we go.
One, two, three, all right.
-Four, all right. -[man] yeah.
Yeah.
Awesome.
[vernon] well, that's 4.73.
[gary] yeah.
It's mighty good. [gary] awesome.
-[man] yeah, that's good. -Mighty good.
[man] hell, yeah.
[vernon] that's damn near 0.4 ounces per hour.
[gary] yeah.
That tells me I think we hit a mega jackpot.
[gary] yeah.
[narrator] 4.7 ounces is worth over $9,000
edging vernon even closer to paying off claim 56
as he basks in the best season of his career.
[vernon] all I can tell you is, uh, thanks
for all your cooperation.
You're a... You're a mighty diver there, gary.
-[gary] yeah. Thank you. -[vernon] and you might be
my, uh, [laughing]
you might be a solo diver.
We'll see what happens. We'll get somebody.
And most likely it's not gonna be steve riedel.
We can use a few laughs here and there, though.
[vernon] yeah.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] back in town.
[shawn] gold prices are high.
I'm hoping we got a bunch of gold.
[narrator] still short 750 ounces.
Shawn's first stop is to check on the gold
for the day's limited action on the myrtle.
[shawn] let's see how we did.
Fourteen...
Seventeen, twenty.
Twenty-eight.
Eighty, ninety.
[man] one-ten.
One-fifteen,
one-twenty,
one-twenty-three.
Triple digits.
[shawn] woo!
Not bad.
[narrator] one hundred twenty-three ounces
is worth $246,000.
Not bad for just a few hours and proof positive
shawn's tweaks on the myrtle are hitting it out
of the park.
More to come.
[shawn] yeah, feels good.
[narrator] but there's still more gold to count.
And today is the final clean out from shawn's
now fully owned inland mine.
[man speaking]
[shawn] yeah, it is.
Inland's definitely put a lot of gold through
the box.
With the price of gold that's gonna be
some big money too.
Big clean up, big money.
We don't do many clean outs on the inland mine
throughout the season.
We're basically wrapping her out here.
This is from the last seven weeks.
I need it to be a big number.
Here we go. Let's see what this last...
We got 300 plus 10,
20, 30, 40,
60, 70, 80, 90.
Come on. Hit another hundred.
[man] one more. Come on.
One-forty-five.
[shawn] we're gonna hit 450?
No.
[man] one-forty-six.
[shawn] one-forty-six.
Four hundred and fifty ounces damn near.
Yeah.
[narrator] four hundred forty-six ounces
is worth just under $900,000.
Combined with the myrtle cleanout, shawn's added
a whopping $1.13 million to the ledger
and the pomrenke empire is thriving
in the homestretch.
Not a bad run.
No, not bad, I mean...
[shawn] those guys have been kicking ass,
putting in some hours.
Yeah.
It's a huge number.
This is gonna go a long way into paying off
everything I owe.
That's probably the last inland cleanup
for the season.
That looks good. Keep 'em coming in.
-[shawn] it's not bad. -Not bad.
[shawn] come on, tom.
[dramatic music playing]
[birds squawking]
[narrator] next time on bering sea gold.
[kris] today is the first day of my next adventure.
Right now I'm running a excavator
on the bering sea.
[shawn] we don't have a whole lot of time
and we need to find gold.
[bleep] damn it. Not [bleep] high.
[vernon] all right, kris. It's getting real close.
Get the gold. It's the last dive
-for a while, man. -[man speaking]
[vernon] it's starting to wake up.
[man speaking]
[emily] it's a beautiful day to go gold mining.
[metal creaking]
we've got a big problem.
[zeke] winter is pretty much upon us.
It could be the last trip.
[man] woo!
[laughs]
[shawn] one of these buckets could have
a million dollars in it.
[chuckles]
[zeke speaking]
[emily] we got 'em!
[man] hey, kris. Shut it down!
[kris] oh, [bleep] what happened?
[dramatic music playing]