[narrator reading]
a fleet of heroes so bold
hoped to make dreams come true
before winter took hold.
[shawn] end of the season is coming quick.
It's time to find some gold.
[narrator] the king built an iron beast to see his plans through.
To fail is not an option.
[narrator] while a pair of squirrely knights
searched for funds overdue.
[kris] first day running an excavator.
I know I'm gonna get a lot of gold today.
[narrator] the curious wizard sailed to waters unknown.
[zeke] whatever it is that I discover today,
I will be the first one to discover it.
[laughter]
[narrator] as the queen galloped closer to a claim of her own.
[man] here we go, em, here's gold.
Yay! Get it!
[narrator] the curmudgeonly ogre has victory within reach.
[vernon] this close to the end of the season,
you gotta take what you can get.
[narrator] but there's no time to waste
before ice fills the beach.
I'm not gonna stop till the ice pushes me off.
[narrator] so, who will prevail and who will fold...
If we don't find gold soon, we're [bleep].
...In this battle for riches of bering sea gold?
Right now, I'm digging up gold on the bering sea.
One of these buckets could have a million dollars in it.
[man] yeah!
[shawn] today's the day.
Here we go.
Last run of the season.
[narrator] the king of nome, captain shawn pomrenke,
is ready to ride into the final battle of summer.
[shawn] it's gonna get cold, and I'm worried about ice,
but we'll deal with it.
And get on our way.
Off to the races.
Let's boogie the [bleep] out of here.
Security, security, security.
Myrtle irene leaving the inner harbor,
heading for sea.
Any concerns or upholds traffic,
we will be standing by on channel 16 and channel 69.
My goal this season was to dominate nome.
Now, I'm just 181 ounces away from making that happen.
Hopefully we can get a good run in
and pile up a bunch of gold, because we need it.
[narrator] as winter draws near,
mr. Gold edges ever closer
to his goal of making payments on the tomcod claim,
the inland mine,
and upgrades to the myrtle irene.
[shawn] we have arrived.
Hey, guys, let's spot down.
The inland mine is shut down,
the christine rose is under repair.
Probably not gonna make it back out this year.
It's all left up to the myrtle irene.
Couple of hundred ounces would take a couple of weeks with the christine rose,
but with the new improvements on the myrtle irene,
it should only take a couple of days.
It's why I set up the whole operation the way I did.
All good, dennis.
Back on the tomcod.
The sun's just starting to come up.
My gut feeling says that we'll get gold on the first pan here.
Come on.
Last time we were out here, we were on a red hot pay streak.
Hopefully, we can get right back on it and roll the box up.
With the myrtle irene, we're gonna mop this up easy-peasy.
Well, let's go see if we're in the right spot.
Oh, I got a feeling.
It smells of money.
Thank you, dennis.
It feels good.
Nope.
Looks okay.
[bleep] damn it.
This is not enough.
Not enough.
Man, it looks like it's the right stuff, but...
The pan...
The pan doesn't lie.
The pan should have been lit up with gold, but it wasn't.
All I was seeing was a couple of specks.
Not nearly what I was expecting.
Looking for the right kind of material.
I mean, you never know. We could just be off by a few feet.
It could just be a couple of feet over,
and we could hit the motherload.
Gold's super sneaky. That's why it's still out there.
If it wasn't sneaky, it'd all be gone by now.
There it is.
It's not too easy just to follow or to find.
That looks a lot better.
Too fly [bleep].
I [bleep] hate it.
God, it looks like the stuff,
but it's not in the pan.
It's not here.
This is not good, so late in the season.
The myrtle has to be on gold to make a killing.
We need to get this thing on a pay streak as fast as we can.
We're at the end of the season,
and we're running out of time.
Put the sponge up just a little bit?
Yeah. Like six feet or something.
Okay.
[shawn] went for the spot I had a gut feeling on.
There was nothing there.
So there's no reason digging ground with no gold in it.
We need a lot of gold in a short amount of time,
so we're gonna go ahead and bump out a little bit further.
Once we find it, then we'll start mining.
As long as we mind our own business, we'll be fine.
Stick and move, stick and move until we find some gold.
[narrator] back in the village of nome...
[kris] good morning.
We're going on the mistress this morning to save our season.
Uh, it's a beautiful day,
even though it's cold as [bleep]. But, you know, that's nome.
[narrator] the valiant knights begin their final quest for gold,
ready to board a might ship so regal and bold.
I'm actually a little anxious this morning.
We need to make some gold today.
-Morning, james. -Good morning, good morning.
-How are you doing, bro? -Good. How are you?
Good, good. How are you?
Right now, I'm on my third plan of this summer.
Okay, fourth plan of this summer.
And there's no more time to mess around.
If I can get ten ounces right now
to put into my ice mining operation,
I can get everything else on credit.
And if we don't make this work, that's it.
It's a make or break it point in my life.
I might not be a miner after this season.
Great. We're here, ready to work.
You're short one today. What happened to andy?
Uh, andy had a problem with his girlfriend.
She fell down the stairs and may have hurt her leg real bad,
and he's gotta go home to take care of his kids.
-We're still more than enough. -Oh, no, no, we'll be good.
-Okay, great. I'll get on the boat. -All right.
[kris] we got lucky. James was down a few crew members,
and he hired us right on the spot.
Now, we're headed to a claim that dave mccully owns,
that's supposed to be loaded with gold.
All right, gentlemen, you guys ready?
Okay.
[speaks indistinctly]
security, security, security.
This is the mistress, leaving the south wall, exiting the harbor.
All right. Good luck, boys.
Any concerning traffic, we're on 16 and 72. Over.
[kris] this is really what I should be running,
this kind of an operation. A real boss operation.
Not my little six-inch operation,
where we don't make any gold.
Oh, definitely we can handle an operation like this.
This is right up our alley.
[james] all right, we're on our final approach.
-It's time to go to work. -Okay, sounds great.
My deal with james is 20%, which...
These excavation barges get a lot of gold,
so I think I'm gonna do pretty good.
Just gotta squeak in a win.
-[brad] okay, let's go. Let's fire it up. -Let's do this.
[engine starting]
[mimics electrical buzzing] getting electrocuted.
And the day begins. It's going to be awesome.
I, kind of, like living on the edge, a little bit of excitement.
It's gonna be a good day.
Now, it's time to make some gold. It's what we're here for.
-Let's get it. -Yeah, I'm ready.
I told james I know how to work an excavator.
Go ahead and engage.
-Engage, down? -Yep.
The truth is, I've never ran an excavator on the ocean.
I've done it in land, but never on the ocean.
[james] go ahead and swing the house with your left hand.
Like a video game, baby.
James is gonna give me a little refresher,
try to help me out with the controls,
and tell me exactly the movements that he wants me to make,
and then, I'm on my own after that.
Perfect.
All right, left hand forward, right hand forward.
[kris] in these kind of sink or swim situations,
I always swim.
If shawn pomrenke can do it, anybody can do it.
-Hit the bottom. -[james] all right. So, you're gonna be pulling
-with your left hand. -With your left, okay.
-So, that closes the bucket, right? -[james] yeah.
[james speaking]
-not really. There it is. -[james] there you go.
All right. Right hand it up.
[kris] come on, baby, be material in there.
[james] nice and slow.
All right, you got material in the bucket.
[kris] yay, material.
-[james] nice and slow. -Nice and slow, baby. Nice and slow.
[james speaking]
[kris] should I pan forward?
[james speaking]
left hand left.
There you go.
Left hand pull.
[kris] oh, yeah, baby.
[james speaking]
[brad] new team, new endeavor.
Things are going pretty good, though, right now.
He's gotta give him a little time on the stick, and he'll figure it out.
Just watch, he'll figure it out.
[james] there you go. [kris] there you go. That was a bucket, baby.
I think I'm getting the hang of this.
[james speaking]
that was a good bucket. He's doing better.
[kris] right now, I'm running an excavator
and digging out gold on the bering sea.
It just shows you never really know
what you're gonna be in life until you're it.
A couple of more hours, and I'm gonna be running this thing
as good as shawn does.
[laughs]
[zeke] whatever it is that I discover today,
I will be the first one to discover it.
[laughs]
[narrator] the wizard of nome...
Zeke tenhoff emerges from his lair...85
[zeke] super stokeness all around.
...And he's conjuring up a quest to a distant, majestic land.
[zeke] winter is pretty much on us,
so we have like, this little weather window today and tomorrow.
And so it could be the last trip.
I want to go back down to cape rodney today,
and pick up where we left off.
This is going to be my last little adventure of the season
before we got to put the boat away.
We're going to smash three miles down west of nome, down to cape rodney.
It's pretty far away, it's a remote spot,
but I know that it is barely even been touched at all by suction dredges.
And our last trip out...
[zeke] we just cracked at bedrock.
Completely loaded with gold.
...We got a little taste of the gold that could be out there.
There's this little voice in my head that says that
there's this treasure out there I haven't found yet.
I need to go and do a thorough job of looking around
because if there's good gold there, I will find it.
I just need to go and explore
'cause I could find a really dope spot
with 100 ounces in it, in like, a few days.
It happens out there.
That's like, why I assembled this boat,
'cause I was fantasizing about treasure all the time,
and there's a lot of places
to go look for that treasure,
and cape rodney is like, one of the targets [chuckles]
this is going to be our final trip,
so we're going to make the most of it and have a real adventure.
We're going to keep the boat out as long as we can,
we're going to spend the night out there,
and put as much time in as we can, looking for gold.
And taking my team with me.
[zeke chuckling]
it's going to be awesome.
[zeke] good to go.
-[man] dude, it's super icy. -[zeke] we're going to have to break our way out of the ice.
[zeke grunts] there we go.
[zeke] that harbor is going to be totally iced over in a matter of days.
And it may be that there could be more pragmatic ways
to spend the last couple of days of the season,
but I would rather just go for the long shot,
because that has the potential to like, give me
a really exciting target for the winter-time.
I designed the sailboat dredge for exactly this kind of trip.
Like, long, far-reaching,
multi-day gold searching adventures.
If I find super-good gold out here at cape rodney,
I'm going to probably ice-dredge out here,
and it could even extend into next year.
Oh, no. I'm having a snack attack.
[zeke] furious snack attack.
[zeke laughs]
I'll just eat a bunch of dumpster berries.
I'm super-susceptible to snack attacks.
And I mean, I found a bunch of berries in the dumpster.
They're fresh berries. I don't know why they threw them away.
They're clearly good berries.
So, whenever hunger strikes,
dumpster berries are the perfect solution.
I love dumpster berries.
These berries will give me strength for the long journey ahead.
They're practically magical berries.
Berries that you find in the dumpster are magical because they are free.
Kind of hard to drive and eat blueberries simultaneously.
I got to get better at that.
[zeke laughs]
[narrator] seventeen miles east...
It's a beautiful day today. We're not going to have much wind.
We're pretty fricking excited.
[emily] I just want to put some money in the sluice box today.
[narrator] the queen of nome is on the hunt for final funds
to afford a bountiful kingdom of her own.
We're going to go head back to my little spot
that says "good rick," that's where we're going.
[narrator] with a mystical land already explored,
the mystically named claim 6,
she needs less than 20 ounces to make a serious offer
that will expand her golden kingdom.
Hopefully, it's a beautiful day to go gold mining.
♪ having a gold day making some gold ♪
we found some promising ground on claim 6.
[man] nice [exclaims]
yeah. Finally, we have some gold.
[man] yeah, buddy! [whoops]
I've been looking all season for a claim to buy.
Now that I've found a claim,
I need to make sure I have the gold to finance it.
This is definitely the final weather window of the season,
so we're going to go out there and kill it.
We'll just fire her up and get her in.
[emily] sounds good.
[pump stalls]
oh, you don't even think about it.
[pump splutters]
[pump starts]
[emily] just should be easy on ourselves today.
Season's doing what it's doing but we're still gold-mining,
and let's just stay calm and focused, okay?
At this point of the season, everything's kind of harder to get going
because it's getting cold.
Things in the boat, they start to kind of get shaky and fallen apart.
We don't really have a lot of time to be searching around for the pay.
So, hopefully, rick can kind of recognize the grounds he was working,
and we can kind of pick that back up.
[inhaling air]
how's it look down there, rickardo?
[rick speaking]
[emily speaking]
[rick speaking]
[emily whoops]
[rick] oh, yeah, baby.
[rick speaking]
[emily] all right, sweet.
Sounds good. I'll be up here.
[emily speaking]
[pump sputtering and groaning]
[thudding]
we got a problem.
-[rick] what? -We've got a problem. Come on up.
[pump stalling]
we've got a big problem.
[rick speaking]
the pump is the problem.
Sorry, rick.
[emily] look, I didn't know what it was.
All I know is like, a huge grinding noise
happening with the motor and I just told you to come up right away.
So, yeah it sucks but it is what it is.
[speaking]
[emily] we could bring it in, take the pump off.
You can't operate without the pump.
It's really the heart and soul of the operation.
So we're going to lose a lot of time here,
and I don't know if we're going to be able to recover from this.
This might be a season ender.
Pump's not working, we're not working.
We're kind of in a bad position if we're getting in the way.
So let go of the line
and just give me a real good, strong push.
Give him a hand with it, brian.
[narrator] the ogre of nome is facing a cold, hard truth.
All right, now come on back down here and push some more.
[narrator] namely, that it's getting cold,
and time could run out soon
to make his summer fairytale come true.
Yeah, we're still pushing off the stern.
I'm not liking this.
Ice is already forming in the harbor.
About time to think about calling it a season.
Right now, I'm about 22 ounces shy of what I need to pay off claim 56.
We just need the weather to hold out a little bit longer to pull it off.
All right, I need a-- hey!
I need a pole up here.
[man] here we go. Okay, we're going good now.
[vernon] okay, we're underway.
The damn ice was problematic.
Getting real close.
But in the meantime, we got a glorious day here.
Damn near flat calm, just cold,
-and clear. -But it's freezing [laughs]
[vernon] yeah, cold,
as in freezing cold.
[speaking]
[laughs]
it might be our last withdrawal from our gold mine here.
We got to try our damndest to get full hours on that box.
Healthy divers, mentally and physically, have been a rare commodity this summer.
[vernon] yeah, take that off of him.
[vernon] brian nearly burst his ear drums.
[brian] [bleep]
[bleep] blood.
Craig didn't work out. He gave it a try but just wasn't up to it.
[craig] I need to come up.
Now I'm down to just one diver.
My ace in the hole, the man with the moustache:
Moustache gary.
He knows how to find that gold. He's been doing it since he was knee-high.
He'll give me everything he's got.
Try to do the best you can with it.
[man] hey! Go get it.
[gary speaking]
[inhaling air]
not ideal but it's workable.
This close to the end of the season, you got to take what you can get.
We're out here. It's a nice, calm day,
and we got a couple of feet of visibility.
So we'll put some gold in the box.
[gary speaking]
all right, well, from what I'm seeing,
the material looks good.
And it doesn't look like it's been worked before,
and we're close enough to super gold.
I know we're probably on some pretty good material.
[gary speaking]
[vernon] we're putting gold in the box, gary.
I mean, you're doing good, man. You're doing good.
Today is a microcosm of my entire season.
We get hurdle after hurdle,
and we just find a way of getting around them,
and gary and all, and getting the gold.
[gary speaking]
[vernon] just give it your best shot, gary.
You're the only game in town right now.
[narrator] twelve miles west...
[shawn] this is it. The end is near.
It's going to get cold and I'm worried about ice.
...For the king of nome, the clock could be striking midnight.
I got an obligation of a fulfil to dave,
I got one big payment left on the tomcod,
I have to buy my dad out.
We only got a short window to do it in.
I do not want to go into this winter season being in debt.
We're going to start having icing issues.
Ice on a boat, especially a boat this big, is not good.
But I'm not going to start mining until I see what I want to see in multiple pans.
I got out here at the crack of dawn.
I was really looking forward to finishing out this season on this pay streak
that should have been loaded with gold.
We don't have a whole lot of time and we need to find gold,
that's for damn sure.
But I was wrong. This pay streak dried up, out of the blue.
But I do have a trick up my sleeve.
When I bought the tomcod,
it came with a set of drill logs, which point to the hot spots on the claim.
It's showing in the first meter, 954 grams.
That's a pretty damn good drill hole.
This data isn't a guarantee but if you know gold inside and out like I do,
it can point you in the right direction to where you need to be.
This will be a hot drill hole right here.
Cross your fingers.
Cobble, cobble, cobble. Come on.
Okay, stuff looks promising.
Stuff looks way better,
way more promising than what I've been seeing.
Damn it.
It's close, but not close enough.
I'm looking for the ground I call "the kind."
we can be ten feet off a million dollars.
The kind is only something a miner with decades of experience can see.
Nope.
Come on!
The kind is the only thing that's gonna save our season this year...
[man] I don't like it.
...And I won't give up until I find it.
Definitely wasn't enough to pay all the bills.
Right now, we need a bunch of gold, short amount of time.
Can't move in until we find something worth digging.
[narrator] in the village of nome...
[chuckling] okay.
Oh. [chuckling]
[engine starts]
what a magnificent day.
[narrator] despite nary a penny to his name,
the pauper of nome refuses to give up on his dream
of a golden empire.
I'm always lookin' out to get a dredge cheap.
There's a great place where there's a bunch of dredges. They haven't moved for years.
Well, I'm broke now,
but you never know when you're gonna be flush with cash.
So I wanna make sure I know the used dredge market.
So when I get a couple ounces and I can go buy one,
I'm not all spun out and all whacked up
because I'm all money'd up.
[medieval music playing]
oh, here they all are.
Some broken dreams, some still-dreaming dreams.
All very expensive dreams.
All very expensive.
People spend hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They ran out of energy and they left.
They just left.
There's lots of reasons why these dredges ended up here.
Some were owned by people
that just didn't know how to mine.
Some of these dredges are just really bad design.
These don't make good dredges.
There's a number of these dredges
that just never even made it into the water.
In the end, they were abandoned,
and now they're mine for the pickin'.
Look at this. This is a weird...
First of all, first thing catches your eye
is it's got a bus on it.
Why would you need a bus to dredge?
Okay, so maybe it's not a dredge.
So, uh, let's take a look.
Ah! It's got hoses.
It's a dredge with a bus on it.
Hoses that go nowhere.
Where'd this hose go?
I don't know.
[sighs] a bus on a dredge.
I swear, some people that come to nome are just plain weird.
[exclaims]
that's what I've noticed.
If vernon's boat is luxurious,
this is the hilton.
What happened here is, uh,
some guy had money and he liked gold and he thought,
"if I get something really comfortable,
then I can just stay out and mine all the time."
and the reality of it is
the weather does not permit you very many of those opportunities.
You might as well just come in and spend the night
in your own house [chuckles]
instead of bringing your house with you.
I'm kind of having a reaction to the mold
so I better get out of here.
Here's a dredge that has potential.
It's about the right size for me.
It's an eight inch.
And I can see, just looking at the tires here,
it's not been moved for a number of years.
So everything looks like it's here.
Alls I got to do
is scrape together the tiniest amount of gold,
and I'll be able to afford one of these derelict dredges.
And then I'll be on the high-end of things.
No two of 'em are alike.
Amazing.
We'll see.
It's just money piles.
[narrator] ten miles west...
[kris] yeah, baby!
That's it. All by myself.
[narrator] the mischievous knight
sits aboard his trusty new steed,
the mistress excavator barge,
as he jousts with the hardened seafloor.
[kris] this season's been a wild ride this year.
I've done almost everything trying to make it work.
I'm real thankful to have this opportunity
'cause this is working out for me.
I knew I'd be good at this.
[brad] kris has got it under control.
Best idea he's had yet so far and feels pretty confident
this is gonna get our money to go to ice season.
We're gonna be all right.
Hey, everything is good for a change.
I just needed a little bit of time
on the stick, you know?
I don't have a lot of finesse yet.
But I'm doing the motions, I'm making it work,
everything's going good for me.
[kris laughing]
that looks like a pretty good bucket.
All the vibrating on my ass all day feels like a massage.
It feels like I'm in this shiatsu massage
and I'm making big money at the same time.
Kris has been at it, at least four, maybe five hours.
He's just getting after it, nice and smooth.
It's kind of nice. I can step back,
hoping I'll get to a point where I can just run the show
and not have to be so hands-on in the excavator at all times.
So we're just gonna keep going, man.
Keep going.
[kris] I know I'm saving my season,
I know I'm making the money for ice.
I wish my brother was here right now.
[loud metallic whirring]
[james] hey, kris, you gotta shut her down.
Oh, [bleep], what happened?
We lost a bearing in the water pump,
so the self-priming [bleep] bearing just blew.
Okay.
Uh, it's not the end of the world.
I happen to have another water pump in nome.
So, dude...
Yeah, okay, I'm shutting down. I'm shutting down.
Yeah, bigger pump. You know, bigger boat, bigger problems, man.
[chuckles] yeah, don't worry.
Hey, it was fun! I'm doing pretty good, huh?
Dude, [bleep] five hours? Five hours, dude.
I'm slowly [bleep] okay?
I need a little bit more work, a little finesse...
Yeah, I mean, I know you're stoked.
I'm sorry to, you know, cut your shift short,
but we have to fix this.
[kris] show me what happened.
[brad] all right. Check it out.
-See the compressor right there? -[kris] yeah.
That pulley, there's a seal in between that's spewing oil out.
We got to take this off,
go to the yard, and swap out compressors.
-[kris] we'll still be running tomorrow, huh? -Oh, yeah, for sure.
So we're getting shut down today and that sucks.
I was getting really good at the excavator,
everything's working, and I think I'm a natural.
This is gonna be great for us, and it already is.
-Kris found gold? -[kris] oh, dude.
All day.
Right here at the header, you see a strip of gold.
[brad] wow, look at it all.
-We got to get our own. -[kris] we got to get our own.
You see how they make 1,200 ounces easy on this boat?
This is what we should be doing.
I'm sick of just us scraping the bottom
while these guys are living like kings.
-Finally, it's fun. This gold got fun. -This is way better than
[bleep] jumping in the ocean.
Yeah, I know. It sucked.
And literally, do you know how much material I moved today?
-Lots. Truck loads. -Way more than a six inch.
You know, I've moved, like, ten times more than a six inch today.
Trying to go after a hundred, two hundred ounces,
they're going after 2,000 ounces.
And we wonder what the [bleep] we're doing wrong.
This is what we're doing wrong.
Well, kris, this is a big investment.
We've got to come up with a lot of gold from ice season
to come up with one of these.
[kris] it's gonna be hard to go back to the reaper
when I'm out here making gold this easy.
Scrounging around on the ocean floor
on my hands and knees, that's not for me anymore.
This is the future for the kellys, right here.
I don't know how I'm gonna pull it off yet, but it's gonna happen.
[brad] we're definitely ordering a couple of happy meals with this.
[kris chuckling]
[narrator] winter is bearing down,
threatening the close the book on summer mining.
When it's all over, who in the fleet will prevail?
And who will see a tragic ending...
To their fairytale?
[emily grunting] whoa. Got it. Nailed it. [chuckles]
[narrator] with a broken pump motor,
the queen of nome is in danger of being dethroned.
At least from her quest of buying her own claim.
We got to take the pump apart.
[man] we're gonna take all these bolts out.
It's heavy.
Something terrible has happened to the pump.
We don't really have time for a massive project like this,
but, um, without the pump, you don't have a dredge.
We'll cut her open and take a look.
Hopefully, whatever it is,
it won't keep us down for too long.
Nice grip.
Yeah, just gotta take one more bolt off,
and then we'll lift it out of there and then...
Yeah, we're about to find out what to do next.
[emily] oh, no.
Yeah, I could feel it catching on something.
[emily] oh, the shaft is broken.
[emily] oh, damn.
The frickin' shaft.
And when you were down there,
like, it made a sound like a thousand bats flying out of hell.
-[emily] kind of like a shaft breaking in a massive pump. -[man laughing]
the good news is I have the shaft that we need.
The bad news is that it's like conducting surgery
on a main part of your dredging operation.
It just takes a lot of time, but I'm not givin' up yet.
[man] we're gonna get it back all together,
and hopefully get out there today.
[emily] there she is.
The pump in all of its former glory.
Oh, there you go. Just had to have a little more finesse with it.
-[man] yeah. Finesse. -[emily] finesse over brutality.
Yeah, we got the old impeller off.
That's the old shaft, got to put the new one in.
It's just gonna be a lot of lifting and maneuvering at this point.
Reassembling.
We're gonna put this all back together and fire it up and see what happens.
[narrator] two miles east...
We're gonna be shutting you down
in a couple of minutes to pull the mat.
You probably won't be down for about one minute.
[narrator] the ogre stomps ever closer
to his goal of paying off 56.
But down to a single diver with winter looming,
could this be the end of his fable?
[vernon] so if the gold is not good here,
we're gonna have to move.
We'll pull his mat and see how it looks.
We don't have time for just little rinky-dink
pixie dust little sprinklings.
We need the heavy stuff.
We gotta take the time to find a big pay streak
and ride it the rest of the way.
We can't be hunting and pecking around all over the place.
We don't have time for that.
So I'll take a test pan and see how this spot looks.
-It's bigger. -[vernon] I don't care about bigger.
I care about quality.
It's about a ten-to-one ratio.
What's in this pan,
there'll be ten times as much in the box for that one hour.
But I'm not that impressed.
We got to try to move.
-Hey, jerry? -[jerry] yeah.
No, we can't waste our time here.
I want you to come on up now.
There's gold here,
but for what we need to pay off 56,
this is not gonna cut it.
It's gonna take two or three hours to make this move,
but the way I do arithmetic, it's worth the gamble.
To me, life's about taking risks.
If you're not taking risks,
well, then you're not really living.
[man1] right now, we're looking for a better spot.
[dramatic music playing]
some nasty looking clouds coming in.
[suspenseful music playing]
-I can feel a system coming in. -[man1] for sure.
[man2] I can actually see it.
So, it's not really hard to figure.
You feeling it in your balls and you're seeing it with your eyeball.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can pretty much guarantee there's a system coming in.
[man1] we'll play it right to the last minute,
but when it comes down to go, we gotta go.
[dramatic music playing]
okay, toss it.
[water splashing]
that ought to do it.
Gary, we'll get you in the water just as quick as we can.
[speaking indistinctly]
-[breathing heavily] -[man1] feel good?
[dramatic music playing]
suck in.
Okay, get the gold. This is the last dive, for a while, man.
We need a good pay cheque.
[suspenseful music playing]
[splashing]
[suspenseful music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[engine whirring]
[breathing heavily]
[suspenseful music playing]
[breathing heavily]
how're you doing down there?
[breathing heavily]
[suspenseful music playing]
[breathing heavily]
[triumphant music playing]
that looks great right there.
That's what we've been waiting for, and it looks like that
bottom is a lot looser, that material is a lot looser.
[breathing heavily]
[triumphant music playing]
it was worth the move. Good call.
[music playing]
we took a gamble, and repositioned the boat.
I think we, we definitely got our anchor down,
and it's looking like it paid off.
[suspenseful music playing]
wow! Look at this.
[breathing heavily]
[exclaiming]
[suspenseful music playing]
[wind whistling]
[buzzing]
you can only see their footprints.
[whispering] you can only see their footprints.
[imitating mating call]
yeah, that was a, a male calling a female.
That was the mating call, that I did.
I don't know if that's wise.
[mating call]
[theme music playing]
welcome to steve riedel's weird wild wonderful world,
nome, alaska.
Mysteries of the tundra.
[steve] many of the local tribes here
have had legends, of little people,
between one foot, and three foot tall,
that have been occupying the tundra.
[whizzing]
they make mischief, and, they can get inside your mind,
and create confusion. [whizzing]
[gibberish]
they never come out during the day, only at night.
[thunder rumbling]
[eerie sound]
ichigok, the fabled little people of the tundra,
have been here last night.
[steve] here they come, oh, eh, ha-ha,
and they're joined, right here, ha-ha.
Alright, there's two.
There's two ichigoks,
coming up the way here.
Look.
Look at the human hand here, that's me,
about nine inches across.
My hand print is bigger than ichigok's
foot, and look, look at the vestigial...
Toe here, it's grown out, like
to the side, makes it grip tundra better.
Hoo! Got my foot wet on that one.
That's okay.
It's worth getting wet.
Looking for the ichigoks.
[camera shutter clicks]
they're probably spying on me, right now.
[gibberish]
[camera shutter clicks]
this has been steve's weird wild wonderful world,
of nome, alaska,
mysteries of the tundra.
[camera shutter clicks]
[laughs mischievously]
all those little people,
making mischief,
stealing women and children, woohoo...
Be there, be square.
[music playing]
hey, ronnie, dead ahead.
Thar she blows.
[music playing]
if we find some cheddar today, I'll be very happy.
Wow!
[narrator] the wizard of nome, zeke tenhoff,
steers its unknown waters,
for one last golden adventure of the summer.
[music playing]
[zeke] what I wanna do, is pick up where I left off the other day,
because, you know, I just saw this little pocket, of like this,
old, like really mineralized, kinda orange, rocky stuff.
It had some real flakes of gold in it,
and they were, like, really kinda old and rocky,
like they've been there for a long time.
[music playing]
I mean, I'm not, I'm no geologist,
but, it was compelling.
[music playing]
right there. We're gonna go right there.
[music playing]
[whistles]
[music playing]
alright.
This looks good.
[music playing]
hey, reiling, you could, uh, anchor up right here.
This is a good spot.
[upbeat music playing]
[engine starting]
[engine starts]
the cold is [bleeping] with all the equipment.
Everything's just a little, a little different.
A little, little less happy.
It will, it will get going though, if it warms up.
[engine starts]
[engine whirring]
wait, I'm gonna go put on my wetsuit.
[engine whirring]
go down there.
[engine whirring]
[chuckles]
[engine whirring]
[chuckles]
[engine whirring]
[chuckles]
[laughs nervously]
[engine whirring]
I know we're close to being onto something out here.
The pieces are in place to, to find something exciting.
This is what adventure feels like.
This is what it feels like, and it feels good.
[chuckles nervously]
right now, I'm, I'm laying down the groundwork,
for the future.
I'm making an awesome treasure map,
that has never existed before.
This kind of intelligence,
is invaluable, you can't buy it.
[suspenseful music playing]
[water splashing]
[suspenseful music playing]
okay, swells and current.
[breathing heavily]
and, it's murky, too.
[bubbling]
yeah.
[breathing heavily]
[suspenseful music playing]
[breathing]
it's crazy, it's just like endless rock.
It's like the biggest rock, you ever saw, in your whole life.
The desolate seascape.
[breathing heavily]
why don't you guys, uh, give me some, uh, horsepower?
Copy that.
[engine whirring]
[engine accelerating]
[breathing heavily] alright.
[breathing heavily]
let's go huntin'.
Yeah, so, there's all these cracks.
[breathing heavily]
I have to know what's going on.
Oh, there's some gold.
Found some gold already?
Yeah.
Cool!
Yeah, you know what, there's going to be,
something super rich here, I guarantee you.
[breathing heavily]
yeah, there's a little, little pieces of gold right down there, in that crack.
I think that we have to get to deeper water, and find that...
[breathing heavily]
orange stuff, that I wanna find.
[breathing heavily]
but, right now, I mean,
this is interesting to me.
I might, I might watch the waters, like, a little more time,
just to... [continues indistinctly]
[breathing heavily]
if it's gonna, uh, make the best of, this spot here, and,
chill on it, for a while.
Just for now.
[breathing heavily]
I just wanna learn, everything I can, about this area,
I'm really happy that, uh, we stuck it out,
for these last couple of days, because...
Super, super fun stuff.
Yeah, I mean, this place, it, requires further investigation.
One crack at a time.
[narrator] sixteen miles east,
[music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
[man1] alright, looks dry here.
[shawn] whole day, almost gone.
[narrator reading] the king of nome,
is in danger of losing his ground.
[music playing]
[shawn] like I said, I'm not gonna stop panning
until I find something, I really like.
[narrator] but his majesty, won't give it up,
without a fight.
[shawn] this stuff looks, really good.
It ain't pretty.
I'm running out of time.
Right now, settling for anything less than killer ground is pointless.
Getting set up on a spot,
getting to digging,
that's a lot of work.
If it doesn't pay off, I'm gonna be toast.
So I have to be sure.
[engine whirring]
[shawn] that looks better.
[music playing]
[water splashing]
[suspenseful music playing]
this is the kind of dark, black and stinky
[splashes]
there it is.
It's in there.
Bam! There it is.
Definitely gonna be some g's in there.
There we go.
-Oh, yeah. -It's in there.
There it is.
Trying to put some gold in the box.
Been panning all morning,
and part of the afternoon, but,
there ain't no point running dirt that doesn't have gold in it.
The pan doesn't lie.
This stuff looks great.
Finally, after hours and hours,
you just gotta have faith, in your knowledge and your experience
to know that you're doing the right thing.
Well, there's not much time left in this season.
But now it's time to let the myrtle irene do, what I built it to do.
Be a gold guzzling monster.
[engine revving]
alright, here we go.
[water gushing]
[motor whirring]
[water gushing]
[splashing]
[engine whirring]
go ahead and start running it.
[splashing]
[engine accelerating]
[water splashing]
[engine whirring]
oh, yeah!
That's the kind.
[dramatic music playing]
[motor whirring]
spent most of the day, prospecting...
[engine whirring]
but we got over here,
fired up,
and, we're actually making money now.
[water splashing]
and it looks good.
This looks like a really good ground.
Dark,
nice gravel, easy digging,
one bucket, you're in the pay.
Beautiful material.
[motor whirring]
[thudding and splashing]
we have a nice big area in front of us.
We're gonna just keep piling it up.
[splashing]
black gold.
One of these buckets could have a million dollars in it.
[whizzing]
[laughing]
[dramatic music playing]
[motor whirring] yup, I got it. Got it.
[clanking]
[speaking indistinctly]
the pressure hose's on.
[narrator] the queen is putting the pieces of her kingdom back together.
[drilling]
in an attempt to salvage her season.
[woman] just put the air filter back on.
Everything is back on, and ready to go.
Alright, we're gonna be ready to fire up here pretty quick.
We've replaced the shaft, and,
we're gonna fire it up, and see if it works.
If it doesn't work, I'm out of options.
It's pretty much, the end of the season.
Alright, guys. Moment of truth, here.
It's been hours, taking it apart and, putting it back together,
and now we're gonna fire it up and see, if we've got a season, huh.
Fire it up.
[motor whirs]
[somber music playing]
[motor whirs]
hammer it.
[hammering]
[motor making unusual sounds]
[woman] uh-oh!
[somber tone playing]
[motor revving] hey!
Hey! We got it!
[motor revving]
[all laughing]
[exclaiming in relief]
that was a big, huge project,
stressful, but,
I'm really stoked we're gonna be able to get back to work today.
[engine whirring]
[woman] let's get back out there. Let's get some gold there.
It works.
The eroica's come back to life.
Time is running out, but, I'm really close to my goal.
So, rick and I, are gonna head out, right away,
and get back to our spot, put some hours in the box.
It's time to get on it.
[whooping]
oh! I feel much better being out here, man.
Everything is working.
I feel much better being out here.
We gotta get back on this gold.
Yeah. I'm into that.
[rick speaking]
[emily] yeah, loud and clear.
What's it look like down there, rick?
[rick speaking]
[emily] we found the, uh,
the sand and cobble edge?
[rick speaking]
[emily] that's great then, isn't it?
[rick speaking]
[emily] oh, yeah?
[rick speaking]
[emily] oh, yeah, nice, rick.
[rick speaking]
[emily] pump's running really well.
It's time to get on the hour as we can,
here on the edge.
Let's roll some gold.
It's all you can hope for.
[narrator] a mile west.
[gary speaking]
we're playing as long as we can.
This is good ground here.
[narrator] the ogre's gold cup over floweth
and he's turned into a prince.
But now...
It looks like we maybe got
about another two hours before the weather hits.
[narrator] ...He's racing against
the gods of the bering sea.
[gary speaking]
we're on the gold.
Maybe the best of the season
but the clock is ticking
not just on the day with the storm coming in
but also for the season.
So, we gotta hunker down
and push it to the last possible second.
The seas are increasing
and it's starting to whitecap.
[gary speaking]
yeah, that swell is hitting us right on the beam.
Yeah, gary, just...
Hang on a minute.
We've probably gotta pull you.
We're still swinging.
Just try to keep up with it.
The wind has got us now.
[gary groans]
the star anchor has let go.
He lost possession, he's off the gold.
We get those lines snugged up a little bit,
and then we'll get you out.
[gary speaking]
uh, gold right here.
Oh, man.
Gary gave it everything he had, today.
But, these swells are too much.
We gotta get on back into town.
If we can squeeze one more day
out of this hotspot, we'll be golden.
I hope we have a massive haul.
[vernon] brian.
Yep.
[vernon] make it tight, but not too tight.
[brian] the storms kicking up
and it's rocking the hell out of the boat
and all the equipment.
See right there.
[laughing] nice.
[vernon] gary's seeing gold in the box
that's all he cares about.
Nice one.
We gotta rock and roll here.
We're running out of time.
Boy, it looked good.
There is just gold everywhere.
[vernon] we were only on it for a couple of hours
but I'm sure we've put some good gold in the box.
Fingers crossed, we'll be able to come back out here
but no guarantees on that.
This late in the season,
it could be over.
[brian] good news is, that box is loaded with gold.
We gotta clean that up.
Yeah. We got a good load of gold in that box.
There's no doubt about it.
I'm pretty damn happy about 56.
And I'm thinking, the ten years
I've been banging around up here in nome,
might not have been wasted.
Here we go. This isn't going to be long, is it?
Okay, then it won't be then.
Hello and welcome to another edition
of kris kelly's secret guide to successful mining.
Today we'll be talking about,
an excavation barge.
Pound for pound, probably the best way
to refine gold out of the ocean.
So, first-off, excavator.
So, I don't know anything about the excavator.
So, the excavator barge idea is very simple.
You take scoops of dirt from the ocean,
you run in your wash plant
and you catch it with a sluice box.
There's a lot of advantages
when you have the excavation barge.
Advantage number one,
you don't have to get wet all day long,
spend your day on your knees, flipping over rocks.
The machine does all the work yourself.
Advantage number two,
you can get material
that suction dredging just can't get.
As a suction miner,
we're just getting the loose material on top,
you know, the, the easy stuff.
The excavation barge,
rips right through that clay layer
down to the second clay layer
and gets gold from thousands of years ago.
One, scoop of that bucket,
is more than my little six-inch dredge
can do in an hour.
[bell dinging]
okay, we'll cut this [bleep] 'cause I'm now looking like
a [bleep] idiot at getting on here.
So, here we are in the cockpit of the excavator.
It feels like you're in a videogame already.
A 15 year old kid can do this.
[laughing maniacally]
[classic arcade game music]
[water splashing]
[indistinct chatter]
so, you go, you scoop down you scoop down in,
bring it back up,
you swing over,
you empty your bucket,
you pull your bucket in,
and you swing back over, you go back down.
Each one of you out there right now
can jump in this excavator and make it work.
Not even having someone to show how to do it.
Just, uh, ten minutes,
20 minutes of trial and error,
and you'll be an excavator operator
by the end of the week.
[boing]
[groans]
and there's a tour of the--
-[plane flying] -[bleeping] plane.
Call that guy and tell him, he's ruining my shot.
Feel like christian bale with that sound dude,
you know, "what the [bleep]? You're ruining my crap."
he's a pretty good actor though.
Okay, so that's the excavator barge.
Thank you very much for checking out
kris kelly's secret guide to successful mining.
Who knows what I'll be talking about next,
'cause I don't even know
what [bleep] I'm talking about right now.
[laughs]
[emily] are you doing good?
[rick speaking]
you're a superhero, rick.
[narrator] the queen and her court
have turned what looked like lost day
into a tale of golden riches.
He's been down like close to four hours.
Seems like, freaking ever, doesn't it?
We lost a lot of time,
to the pump repair,
but, you know, rick is on gold.
The winter weather is upon us.
But, owning a claim is within reach.
I'm not giving up yet.
[rick speaking]
[motor whirring]
[emily] whoo!
I [bleep] love my job.
[emily] looking good for five hours,
I guess.
[narrator] thirty-two miles west.
[zeke] all right, I'm gonna come up now.
[narrator] daylight is fading
in the mystical land of cape rodney.
Bringing day one
of the wizard's quest to a close.
[zeke] shower time.
Shower time.
I like where this is leading us.
Uh, super loosing light.
Uh, so...
Dropped it for tonight is,
pretty practical.
I'm not crazy there is the gold here.
And when we've to cover all that ground,
we've to spend a lot of time out here, a lot of time.
It was a huge day.
Everything's being executed super successfully.
This rig is perfect for trips like this.
We're just getting going.
This whole thing is just getting going.
[continues indistinctly]
we only have a day or so left of diving this season
but I'm starting to get really excited
about the prospects for what the future
could hold out here at cape rodney.
What do we have for food in here?
[raven speaking]
make some soup.
Now, we're gonna layback,
hunker down for the night and eat some dinner.
Did you put caffeine in top ramen?
Not a bad idea.
Give you a, pick me up. [laughs]
I don't know.
I can't imagine what kind of factory that was made in.
What kind of things they ground up and put in it.
Everyone want to hang out here for the night
and get after it in the morning
and spent some more time.
Because...
There's a gold party down there.
Like this profiting information
you can't put a price tag on it. It's invaluable.
Like all the gold that's been found anywhere here
has been found by people doing what we're doing right now.
When you can't find these spots
you just hang out on the old ones all the time.
[zeke] no.
Gotta go out exploring.
This is a perfect exploration rig for that.
Being out here, on a sailboat,
on a gold-mining, gold-prospecting adventure,
with my brother, my friend,
this is super dope.
This is as good as it gets.
I was, yeah, I was worried that like,
after like, a long dive, I would like,
not really be that comfortable or I would want to go home.
I don't wanna go home.
I feel, honestly, I would just like,
I kinda wanna fall asleep right now.
[sam] yeah, that would be awesome.
Like, like immediately.
[laughs]
[narrator] twenty miles east.
[shawn] right now, we're in the gold.
But, I'm freezing.
[narrator] the entire fleet
is off the freezing water,
except for one,
mr. Gold.
[shawn] freezing up.
But, bailing's not an option.
[narrator] as the king refuses
to go gently,
into that cold night.
[shawn laughs]
this stuff looks really good.
This has been one of the longest
seasons ever for me.
Might go on non-stop.
Got the christine rose ready.
Got the inland mine ready.
Then start working on the myrtle.
I'm not gonna stop till the ice pushes me off.
Bering sea's starting to freeze up.
But, I have to make sure
I get the ounces I need to make my payments,
so, I'm not taking my foot off the gas.
I'm gonna push as hard as I can.
Ice be damned.
Oh, we're just keep on
hammering for sure through the box.
We're actually making money now.
[laughing]
[narrator] and now,
another social hour, with vernon.
I come in here,
and have myself a couple cocktails
and check my social media.
Ben dover.
Uh, mr. Dover.
[reading]
that ain't gonna happen.
I get along with brad
but I don't buy anything that he's selling.
Trust me on that one.
Cowgirl up, wants to know,
"what's the size of my hose?"
[chuckles]
I don't know, cowgirl,
that's a kind of a personal question.
Right now, I'm running an eight.
There was a time when I was running a ten
and I was kind of plating a 12.
But, for right now, I'm running an eight.
I think that's like, industry standard.
Okay. Here's somebody's handle,
"I can see your pixels."
[reading]
well, that's kind of
a backhanded insult there, pixels.
That's kind of implying that I can't find gold.
Well, pixel, no I don't need you as a diver.
So, [bleep] off.
[narrator] thus concludes
another social hour with vernon.
Social media.
Why they call it that?
These people are so anti-social.
It ought to be anti-social media.
Be nice, folks.
[kris] here we are. The first clean-up of the mistress.
Uh, we didn't really get as many hours as we wanted to.
But, everybody's happy. They're in a good mood.
And we've seen a lot of gold so that's all that matters.
As long as we see a lot of gold
we know we're getting a lot of gold.
[narrator] after a season of disasters
and dumpster fires...
[kris] it's going great.
I've seen a lot of gold on the top of this.
We're about to find out.
[narrator] ...The squirrely knights of nome,
just might finally be onto something big.
[kris] I wish andy was here.
Andy would've really liked this.
Give andy a call. See what's up.
Okay.
[brad] tell him, we're doing our clean-out.
We're probably gonna get a 100 ounces.
Tell him some [bleep] story.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Make him feel real bad.
[phone ringing]
[andy speaking]
hey, we're doing our cleanout right now.
Looks like a lot of gold. Maybe 50 or 100 ounces.
[andy sighs]
yeah, big gold.
Here's dad.
Hey andy, how's it going?
Too bad you're not here, you're missing out.
[andy speaking]
[brad] okay, and, take care of that side of the family.
-Okay, see you later. -[brad] see you, andy.
Okay, bye.
[kris] okay, so look, it's, uh,
it's not 50 or a 100 ounces.
It's our first clean-up with the excavator
and our day was cut short.
But, I'm really excited to see what kind of gold we're on.
[brad] it's a lot of gold in there, kris.
Probably, this is the best clean-up we've had.
Oh, it's magic time.
-Ready? -I'm ready.
[kris] looks like a lot of gold.
[james] oh, damn.
Dude, we're already at six,
seven,
nine,
ten,
eleven.
Dude.
[tapping]
eleven point five.
[kris] one day of work. So, everything is going good.
Like...
[narrator] eleven point five ounces
is worth a cozy
twenty-three grand.
But kris's deal was only
for a 20 percent sliver
of the final haul.
So, you guys cut
is 2.3 ounces.
-That's still pretty. -Yeah.
[kris] compared to working suction dredging
this was the easiest gold that I've ever got.
-Pretty fast. -Thank god.
You know, this excavator
is a pretty easy job. I love it.
[narrator] kelly's cut comes to 4,600 bucks.
Not bad, for the premiere ride,
in the excavator chair.
Honestly, I expected like, five ounces.
The fact, that we got 11.5,
I'm pretty stoked, man.
-Like... -For sure, for sure.
This is good. This is a good start.
[kris] okay. So, I didn't get rich
my first time out.
But, it's a great way to start this chapter.
It's only gonna go up from here.
This is gonna be the kelly's path to success.
No doubt in my mind.
There's not a lot of season left, man.
So, get back to work.
This is just tip of the iceberg.
That's good. I'm like, tip of the iceberg.
Okay, man. Thank you. I'll see you later.
I'm pretty good at playing video games, I'm telling you.
[narrator] one mile down the road.
[emily] cha-ching.
Gosh, it's good looking.
[narrator] despite a busted pump,
that sent them back to the dock,
queen emily's courts
still managed a healthy haul.
[emily] this looks really good, rick.
I mean, it's really good that you got on it,
kind of last minute.
At this point in the season, every hour counts.
Every hour is thousands of dollars.
I just need the eroica to hold out a while longer.
We just have to do what we can to, uh, push it.
Show me what you're working with?
[emily] one, two...
Four,
six,
eight,
ten, eleven,
twelve.
Twelve exactly.
-Twelve exactly? Wow. -Yeah.
-Right on the nose. -That'll work.
[narrator] twelve ounces,
is worth $24,000.
[emily] good job, guys.
[narrator] a hearty profit for just a few hours work.
And emily maybe on the road to the kingdom
she's always dreamed of.
I'm going to the gold dust.
-Cool. -[emily] awesome guys.
Let's go get some food, eh?
We're ready.
[rick] right on, I'll see you down there, man.
[narrator] back at the harbor.
[vernon] what I'm seeing right now,
I think we got a pretty good cleanout going here.
[narrator] after hitting a monster pay streak,
will the pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow be big enough?
[vernon] I mean, based on the hours
we got in before the weather hit us.
I think this is gonna be a good pay day.
We rolled the dice,
we put it all on the land,
and all I got to say is,
"cha-ching, cha-ching."
now, I'm hoping, this will get us
within spitting distance of paying off 56.
It's hard to operate with just two people,
doing double duty. You're tending and diving.
All I can say is, I appreciate
you guys hanging with me on this thing.
No problem.
-No problem. Yeah. -[vernon] no?
-If I get rich, -I'm glad to--
you guys get rich.
-You know? -That's right.
So, let's see how we did guys.
I know it's already... It's feeling heavy.
Two, three, four.
[gary] yeah.
Five.
-Go, go, go, go, go, go. -Six.
[vernon] seven, eight.
-Nine, ten. -Ooh.
[gary] ooh, it's gonna be a good one.
[vernon] fourteen, fifteen.
-Nice. -[gary] seventeen.
Seventeen...
Almost eighteen.
Eighteen, there it is.
Eighteen point
zero two.
[narrator] eighteen ounces is worth 36 grand.
-That's our best cleanout yet. -Yeah.
[narrator] proved positive that vernon
might be sitting on just the right spot
at just the right time.
There's a light at the end of the tunnel.
After years of people thinking
that my name was the end of a punch line
and I couldn't find gold
if I fell into a tub full of it.
It looked to me like I might end up
having the last laugh after all.
I get one more good day,
we'll make our goal,
I'll pay off 56
and it'll have been an excellent season.
As far as I'm concerned,
that lease track,
56, 375 acres,
that property is the best part in the bering right now.
I think so.
-What I saw. Yeah, man. -I mean.
I'm seeing as much gold,
out there at 56 as I used to see at tomcod.
So, uh, yeah.
We're set.
All right, things are starting to freeze up
let's get out there and hammer it
-yeah. -One more time.
All right.
[narrator] next time on the season finale,
of bering sea gold.
[shawn] we got snow storms coming.
But, I just got all these damn bills paid.
[emily] last day on the water, trying to make it happen.
[rick speaking]
[kris] right now, we're pushing late into the season
later than I've ever done before.
We actually have a storm right on our tail.
Right now, every bucket
is one step closer to the ice operation.
We're going after prospects.
I might need you to go in the water.
[zeke speaking]
there is so much rock,
rock forever.
[laughing maniacally]
beautiful. Bravo.
[vomiting]
whoo!
What you got?
Holy [bleep]