[narrator] presenting the miracle
of modern science.
In the homestretch of summer mining,
the only commodity nearly as valuable as gold is momentum.
And after years of research,
we here at bsg labs
have developed the ability to measure momentum
in quantitative form.
-Yeah, baby! -Yeah!
[narrator] now, you, the viewer,
can track as these historic miners
inch ever closer to their goals.
[kris] let me show you how you do this.
Oh, my gosh. This is some really frickin' nice gold.
[shawn] woo-hoo!
Hell yeah.
-[narrator] or... -[bleep]
[narrator] ...Fall helplessly further into the abyss.
I'm okay.
[zeke] I hear the wind is blowing me back.
[laughing]
[bryan] is it bad?
[vernon] you've got blood coming out of every orifice.
[narrator] stay tuned and find out.
Let the games begin.
I'm gonna go make some gold.
That's what mr. Gold tells me.
-We make it. -Make the gold.
-We make it. -Huh?
We don't find it, we make it.
[laughing]
one scoop at a time. Just the right mixture.
I hope. Hopefully, we'll make a lot.
[narrator] with quick patch work complete,
mr. Gold is ready for his first full day assault
on the bering sea,
with the christine rose
and the newly revamped myrtle irene.
[shawn] and now we're gonna run some parts out to cody
on the cr, drop them off.
Get on the myrtle and take a look in the box
and see what it looks like.
I'll tell you, last night, they dug all night too.
That's what nightshift is for.
For my plan to take over nome,
I need everything to be running on all cylinders.
The christine rose has to be running around the clock
turning up gold like it has been.
Now I need the myrtle to join the fun
and move five times as much material a day.
Everything seems to be working fairly well.
Yeah.
It's all working really well.
But the true test will be how much gold's in that box, shawn.
That's the... That's the true test.
-Yes. -If there ain't no gold,
-we're in a major hurry. -We're gonna put gold.
We're gonna put gold in that box.
I hope so. I'm betting on it.
I already bet the farm, so.
It's pretty bad. I bet my farm on mr. Gold.
[both laughing]
[narrator] first up, a check on the christine rose.
How's it going, buddy?
[shawn] that's nice.
Look at that. That's how our box is gonna look
when we get over there.
It's just full of gold right in here. Look at all that.
Our screen deck is five times bigger,
so we should have about five times the amount of gold.
I've put tons of money into this thing
and if our box looks like this,
it's a home run for sure.
I think I did the right thing by getting this
to go on board.
-[shawn] whoo! -[dave] let's go look at some real gold, shawn.
[shawn] oh, yeah. Let's go look at the myrtle.
[shawn] we've been working out deeper with the myrtle irene.
The christine rose can only work to about 22 feet.
But the myrtle can go to 30.
So the myrtle irene will be able to follow
this ancient riverbed a lot further offshore.
I just want to see...
Just packed, yeah.
-Full like the christine rose. -Yeah.
That's what made me do the deal,
is every time I go
to the christine rose, it's [bleep] all gold.
[laughing]
we know what we're doing.
I hope.
The christine rose's box is packed with gold.
The myrtle irene has been running all night,
so the myrtle's box should be loaded too.
But it being so much bigger than the christine rose,
I expect the box with five times as much gold.
All right. Time to make some gold.
I wanna see yellow, and lots of it.
I wanna see nothing but gold up there, shawn.
[shawn] I wanna see some gold too.
Not seeing [bleep].
Nada.
There's no gold.
Do you think it's doing what it's supposed to?
Yeah, I'm seeing it.
I'm not seeing it like on the christine.
Yeah, well, it's getting beat down in there.
If the box is working right, you don't wanna see it on top,
you wanna see it down right there.
Like that.
Grab me a pan and we'll know.
Let me go grab a pan for you.
I'm pretty surprised it's not looking the same
as the christine rose.
We'll do a pan, see if that gold's way down there.
[dave] what are we gonna do if there's no gold?
[shawn] we'll move.
-It's in there. -We're getting the gold.
We're getting gold.
Needs to be better, though.
[bleep]
there's gold here, but not nearly enough.
Not this much in debt this late in the season.
Mediocre ain't gonna cut it.
I think we're gonna move down just a little
bit there with the christine rose.
Let's move over there and go fill up the box.
We ain't making gold certainly here.
[shawn] all right, let's go ahead.
Let's start coming up easy on those spots.
I don't think it's a flaw in the design.
It better not be, otherwise, we'll be broke in a hurry.
Christine rose is just on way better ground
and the myrtle's on crap right now.
Here we go.
[narrator] with the clock ticking, the myrtle irene
begins the two-mile trek to join the christine rose.
Does this job ever get easy?
No. No, it doesn't. Never easy.
Especially went it counts the most
and that seems like when the most [bleep] goes wrong.
It sucks.
[narrator] ten miles east...
[kris] come one, come all.
Old and young, to the grand adventure of the kellys.
Sit back, relax and watch us juggle,
breathe fire and pull a rabbit out of our ass.
[narrator] the kellys look to keep riding
the first hot streak they've had all season.
We're heading out to cripple river today.
We're gonna get back there, get two rigs in the water.
We're gonna kill it.
What I think we should do is we should have a competition.
That's right. I'm gonna go against you today.
Well, let's see. Let's play that game.
Okay, let's get going.
So we finally got an opportunity this summer.
Dave mccully is letting us mine one of his leases.
We're gonna be mining cripple river as dave's crew.
But I don't wanna be an employee.
I wanna be a partner. Especially with a millionaire.
So today I proposed a competition
with dave's son, chris.
And if we have time, mandy's gonna go down
for a shift and see if he can beat us.
So when dave sees what the kellys can make happen,
I think dave's gonna want to partner up with us.
Today I'm gonna [bleep] kill it.
I'm gonna show these people what's going on.
We're here. Let the games begin.
I got it. Whoa.
[kris] I'm okay.
Put your backs in it!
Ready to rock and roll. We're on it!
It looks like a work of art there, chris.
Looks like it should be on display or somewhere.
[kris] we're both gonna go down.
I'm gonna use the sickle, he's gonna use the bones
and we're gonna see who gets the most gold.
All you... Really, all you need is a box
and a jet, and your hose, that's it.
Two dredges, one competition means big gold.
This is gonna knock dave's socks off.
Let's hope to god it works.
The plan's simple today. We're gonna work
the starboard side and he's gonna work port side.
We're working the left side, they're working the [bleep] right side.
[kris] we're gonna lay down the rules right now.
Make sure it's fair.
Competition rules are super simple
just to make sure everything's fair.
We're both starting out with clean boxes today.
[bell rings]
we're gonna go, each of us, a good five hours
underneath the water.
[kris] first gold of the season?
[kris] what?
That there is the penance for the master.
That's the penance.
[laughs]
so right now dave's offering the nugget I got as a prize
for today's competition.
So I have a chance of getting my nugget back.
I can do this.
You and I are first. So we'll meet up underneath the water.
We'll touch gloves and we'll go to war.
Okay, let's get going.
Let's get on it.
I'm putting my money on chris mccully, I think he's got him beat.
Actually, it's a no-brainer.
I have put my money on my kid.
This is money in the bank today.
I'm gonna go down there and I'm gonna [bleep] kill it.
If not, I've got andy as a backup.
One of them's gonna win for me.
I've got this, easy.
The strategy is annihilate,
total annihilation of the ground.
May the best diver win.
They both jumped off together,
looking like a happily married couple.
I don't know what's going on, but hey,
we're gonna get double the gold today.
[kris] okay, buddy. I'll show you how you do this.
Brace yourselves.
This isn't a quick race, this is a long run.
[kris] I'm ready.
[laughing]
[kris] right now, I'm just gonna cross fit
for a little while before I get crazy.
No matter what, I'm beating little chris today.
Mccully, I got your dredge addled up, so you're ready to go.
[chris] all I gotta do now is just suck in up the little...
Oh. Son of a bitch.
Dude.
[chris] I'm aborting my dive. Coming up.
[man] the hot pressure line!
The hot pressure line come off the dredge?
[chris] god, it [bleep] hurts.
[laughing]
chris mccully's dredge's already blowing apart.
The high pressure line blew off.
These [bleep] gloves.
The hose tap blew off. Chris mccully's dredge.
[kris] well, I'll take all the head starts
anybody wants to give me in life.
[narrator] with little chris forced to make a pit stop...
...Kris kelly has a chance to pull ahead
if he can find the gold.
[kris] okay. I'm moving. Just need this gold.
[bleep]
poor mccully.
Pressure's on.
All the gold mining experience in the world
means nothing if your equipment doesn't work right.
You're sitting on the side of the boat.
Are you seeing gold?
No gold.
As soon as I get back down there,
I'm gonna tear it up like no tomorrow.
Chris is scurrying to fix his dredge.
[kris] no, still nothing.
Chris even dave mccully's racing around
trying to get his dredge on, the competition's
getting hot up here.
[chris] I'm going back down there, just [bleep].
Walk around a bit and try and punch some holes in there.
[kris] I am. I'm working here like crazy.
Looking for the hot spot.
All my high-pressure lines are nice and tight, I'm ready.
Chris got his hose fixed.
Two minutes, he'll be back in the [bleep] water.
I tell you, he hasn't lost much time.
Okay, kris,
mccully made his repairs, he's getting ready to come back down.
[kris] here we go. Here we go. Oh, I found gold.
[laughing]
good job. Good job.
[kris] there's gold here.
[brad] chris mccully's back in the water, kris.
[kris] okay, good. Game's on.
[chris speaking]
[laughing]
[man speaking]
[vernon] looks like he's gonna be a no-show.
So much for dependable people, huh?
Yeah.
I'm telling you, good help is hard to find around here.
To hell with him, let's get the lines off
and get the hell out of here, would you?
We'll have to do it without him.
[narrator] needing over 20 ounces
to pay off his new claim,
skipper vernon adkison finds himself
without his newest deck hand, steve riedel.
[vernon] we're heading up the 50 stretch
a little shorthanded today.
This is a really a three-man operation, not counting me.
It takes that to really operate this boat efficiently.
What's the old saying? Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, [bleep] you.
I knew it was a risk, hiring steve.
Steve! Come on, damn it.
What?
But I needed an extra hand.
Now, it's late in the season
and we gotta have bottom time to pay off this claim.
So I'm just gonna run two divers back to back.
We'll make it happen.
Oh, there's our buoy right there, boys.
-[man 1] right on it. -[man 2] right on it.
[vernon] we're gonna drop
our anchor right on top of that sucker.
Go ahead.
All right, let's get after it, guys. Time's a-wasting.
[man] all right.
[vernon] these two guys here, jerry and bryan,
they're top-notch, like, very conscientious,
smart, and willing workers.
People like that are hard to find.
Plus they show up for work every day.
You know, a big part of it.
Like, about 90% of the job is just showing up.
Unlike riedel, well, he's totally undependable.
Forget about him.
If he shows up again, I might let him on board
just long enough to fire him.
Okay.
[bryan] all right. Let's take a look.
All right, give me a second here.
That entry went pretty smooth. I was impressed.
You said we needed three people.
With bryan we're one hell of a team.
I personally like it better when we've got an extra person
to take some of the load off them.
I mean, I want them to spend their energy down there
doing that.
If you got to do this top side job
and go down there and dive in, it'll whoop your ass.
[vernon] okay, you still in the cobble?
[vernon] bryan, that's some really good-looking material.
You know? I'm liking you better and better
as time goes by.
[laughing]
the bottom is littered with gold down there.
This is my private, little golden piggyback
on the bottom of the bering sea.
I couldn't ask for better than this.
[narrator] two miles west...
We cleaned up a little puddle of gold at vernon's claim.
It was only two ounces.
So my plan today is to just go down and prospect
on vernon's claim to see if there's more good spots there.
'cause if there aren't any more good spots there,
I wanna move to a different claim.
[narrator] as summer mining hits the final few weeks,
nome's resident wizard is hoping to finally
conjure up some gold-getting magic.
Let's go.
We get a bunch of waypoints.
I'm not by any means in an optimal position.
I've got a great sail-boat dredge platform now,
but it's late in the season
and we got to kick it in the overdrive.
So I'm gonna try a new approach.
Now I just need to, like, use this sailboat
to find as many good spots as I can,
'cause I don't really have a lot of spots in my gps.
I call it speed prospecting.
It's like speed dating, but instead of searching
for dates, you're searching for places to mine.
I need to cover a lot of ground really quickly.
If I see some good gold,
I'm gonna, like, note it and move on.
And then I'll map that in the gps and be like, "okay.
I'm gonna make a decision by the end of the day.
Should I keep dating claim 56 or is there another claim
out there that's a better match for me?"
gonna drag the boat basically where the current
allows me to drag it most easily
and we might find anything interesting, I'll follow it.
You don't find any treasure if you don't look for it.
Let's start here!
All right, here we go.
Okay, let's do it.
No gold so far, huh?
[zeke] no. No good gold.
[sam] are you dragging the boat around?
Yeah, that should be easy. Just walk the boat along.
-Hey, sam. -[sam] yo!
[zeke] hey, this looks like a pretty good place.
Let's mark this spot in the gps.
Okay, I'll see what I can do.
Now I'm wondering where the [bleep] is our hand-held gps.
I should know where that is.
What's that?
Put another gps mark down. There's gold in here.
It's not a lot, but, you know, it's some gold.
Um...
[sam] yeah.
Just let me know if you wanna save another waypoint.
[zeke] okay, sweet.
[laughing]
so there's three claims down east of alfa, bravo, charlie.
[narrator] still looking to get in on the turf war,
emily riedel maps out the small handful of claims
on the most eastern end of nome.
So alfa's four, bravo is six, and three is charlie.
The whole goal of this season was to buy a claim,
but winter's coming, and I still haven't found
a claim that I'm excited about
and a claim that I would be interested
in investing that kind of money into.
So I'm just eliminating three and four.
I just didn't find any gold that was exciting
that was close by, but I'm curious about six,
I've heard reports of decent gold found there
so I'm gonna make a trip down there
and, you know, take a couple pens, so I'm gonna blow it up.
Head down and do some prospecting.
So I'm down to my last claim, claim 6.
I'll do some test pans on it, but if I'm not
really seeing much, I might be out of luck.
I might have to, like, halt my claim search this year.
So if I'm not able to find a good option,
then that would be really disappointing.
Oh, hey, there's george.
-Hey, how are you doing? -Hey, em.
Good, how are you doing?
[emily] good!
Bering sea is right out there. Not bad for a rookie.
What do you know?
Long time no see.
What are you up to? I haven't seen you this year.
Yeah. Hi, good to see you. I know, it's been a long time.
It's been a couple of years, I think.
Yeah, I think so. So what's going on?
Well, I'm not-- I think like you might know
what I'm looking for actually.
I'm looking for some of the claims
that are down here on the river.
Yeah, we own 9, 11 and 12 right over here.
-Okay. -Um,
so are you interested in purchasings or are you more...
I mean, what are you thinking?
Yeah, I'm-- I'm sorta, like, kicking tires,
-proverbial lease tires right now. -Yeah.
Six hasn't been hit very hard.
I actually, um, six was on my list.
Six is owned by ken kerr.
Okay. By ken?
You know, I mean, he's always someone to talk to about that.
I know. I think ken and I are cool.
I mean, I kinda give him a hard time
for almost washing the myrtle irene up
onto the beach last year.
[laughs]
ken... Ken kerr. That might be a little bit of a problem.
You have the forecast that's calling
for 45-mile-an-hour winds with this crazy storm
out of russia, you get the hell out.
But ken just has no respect for the bering sea,
and this it what happens.
This is what happens when you don't respect the bering sea.
Good luck out there.
-Well, thanks, george. Good to see you. -Oh, my pleasure.
-All right. Talk to you soon. -Have a good day.
You, too.
I don't know if ken likes me well enough
or has a short enough memory to sell me claim 6,
but first thing's first, gotta see if there's gold there.
It doesn't seem like this will be gold-bearing.
This is it.
Claim 6 is really the last option out here for me.
So if claim 6 doesn't work out,
I'll be stuck in the rut of paying endless
lease royalties.
Oh, my gosh.
[laughing]
look. Oh, that's beautiful.
I've never seen such coarse beach gold before.
This is some really frickin' nice gold.
This is such a good pan, I don't wanna throw it out.
I'm surprisingly finding a couple pieces of coarse gold.
It was-- basically, on the beach is pretty rare.
So this is exciting.
This could mean a lot for claim 6.
Take some of that, run it.
This could be a fluke. Hopefully not.
I really like what I see, so I'm gonna take some buckets
back to town and run them.
This gives me a pretty good feeling about claim 6.
It could, uh... This could be the one.
Process it and see how much gold I just pulled
out of the area.
Whoo!
[narrator] twelve miles west...
[shawn] hello, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the gold show.
We're here for fun and good times.
[narrator] the myrtle irene is repositioned
and now side by side with the christine rose.
I've been wanting to dig in this spot for a long time.
Especially with something this big.
[narrator] as mr. Gold hopes his new behemoth
hits the same pay streak his trusted dredge
has been camped on for days.
[shawn] it's all gravel.
If it has brown rock in it, it's got gold in it.
I moved the myrtle in the shallower water
next to the christine rose.
I've got to tap into that pay streak 'cause I need to see
a lot of gold and I need to see it fast.
We gotta step it up big time,
'cause if not, I'm not gonna take over nome
and I'm gonna go bankrupt.
It'll happen that fast.
Cody was... Did a couple cuts and he's getting really good.
But now, christine rose's boys are dead in the water.
Pop went out in the cr.
Hydraulic pump went out and... Mood stuck down in the water.
Christine rose's hydraulic pump shut.
The excavator's bucket's stuck to the bottom.
This is the worst possible time for something
like this to happen.
Right now, everything is riding on the myrtle irene.
Everything.
Okay, when we moved and got to this spot,
it's the best ground I've ever seen.
I've never seen anything like it.
Oh, it's heavy too.
[dave] there's all that gold waiting for us.
Doesn't he want to pick it up.
[laughing]
[shawn] seems like when the gold's the best, more things break.
This heavy material was too much
for the christine rose's arm.
I hope this doesn't happen with the myrtle.
The myrtle arm's stronger and it can go down 15 feet deeper.
Oh!
We're down deep right here.
I've never been able to dig this deep.
A lot bigger excavator.
I knew there was gold here, but I was, like,
trying to get into the cookie jar
when you're a little kid, but you could never reach it.
We can reach it now, dave.
We're getting there. It's going to be very thrilling.
We're into the good stuff. I'm certain of that.
We're gonna go check the box.
But with the christine rose being broke down,
we need to make sure the myrtle irene's
getting all of it.
And make sure there's no design flaw.
Seeing any gold in there, shawn?
Yeah, I'm seeing some up here.
We're definitely in some really good gold here.
Tons of fine gold, too.
Yeah, there is.
Who knows how much.
Let's get her running again.
[shawn] are we making money now, boys?
I think we're doing it, buddy.
There's a reason I bought the tomcod for 1.6 million.
It wasn't because there was no gold here.
It was because there's gold here, and there's a lot of it.
Hello and welcome to another edition
of kris kelly's secret guide to successful mining.
Today we're gonna be talking about claim jumping.
[bullets firing]
so the definition of claim jumping is working
on someone's land
that you don't have permission to be on.
Just so you know, it's not good to claim jump.
So right now I'm gonna bring in a specialist
on the matter, brad kelly. Come on and explain.
Good.
Thank you for having me on your show, kris.
I really don't know a lot about this subject,
but I have been out there and had a few instances where
I've been accused of doing that.
So what are the dos and don'ts of this?
What do people... Let's just say, they run into that situation,
the dos and don'ts.
Let's start with don't. First of all, don't get caught.
That's the first of the don'ts, okay?
Don't get caught.
The second don't is don't admit to anything.
Admit you broke down.
"I broke down, I got engine problems."
even if the dredge is running full blast,
just tell them you're trying to get a rock jam out
that's caught between the motors
and you're trying to suck it out.
Make up any story, they'll believe it. People are stupid.
They're like cattle, one leads, they all follow.
And then, uh, always blame the other guy.
Just say, "I thought you were in charge of the coordinates."
"I thought I was in charge of the coordinates,
and we don't even have coordinates."
you're doing a smack confusion.
Yeah, you know, moving on to the next thing.
These are the top five excuses for when you're being
accused of claim jumping.
[bullets firing]
I try and use the stars to navigate all the time,
but during the day, it's tough.
You know, it's tough, you can't see the stars.
The tides have shifted and we've moved off course. Yeah.
[cuckoo sound]
gold fever.
You just don't give a [bleep].
You don't listen to anybody, you don't care.
You're just gold hungry and you just--
you want the gold at any cost.
And you're trying to use courtesy.
If you get caught on a claim, always be courteous,
turn the other cheek.
You could be hungover from the night before
and you just got off track.
What else do you wanna know?
So next on the list.
What happens when you get caught claim jumping?
Well, it depends. If you're already on it six
or eight hours, I'd call it and say, "you had a good day."
"you've had a good day of mining."
well, this is a definitely do-not-listen-to-brad, you know?
Try not to claim jump.
Don't go around people like this.
We've done it many times. Gold fever.
I haven't been on that.
You were on that ship.
-No. No, I wasn't. -You were right there. You're the first
I'd ever doubt actually.
I don't recollect the memory.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I don't recommend claim jumping.
I recommend getting lost on a very rich gold claim
and just calling it your ground.
[man] how's it going down there, champ?
[kris] I said there was good gold on this the whole time.
And I'm still on gold.
Gold's in almost, like, every crack.
All right, that's good.
[narrator] round one nears the end
in the epic battle of the dredges,
as kris kelly aims to impress his boss
and land a new partnership.
Okay, you guys, you guys have been down there,
like, five hours each now.
Let's ramp it up.
[kris] okay, I'm coming up.
It's over for you too, bro. Time's done.
[chris] coming up.
So far we had a good day. Gone real good.
Young chris had a few minor technical problems.
Nothing serious.
So right now I'm trying to get more gold than anybody
in this contest.
I really am trying to show dave mccully
what the kellys are made of so we can land a deal
for the rest of the summer.
-Yeah, baby! -Yeah!
I don't wanna get cocky right now,
but I think we're gonna pull this up.
[laughing] hey, I'm glad you got gold.
It's my turn to get down there and beat 'em both.
My money would have to be definitely on andy to get more gold.
Quieter. Easier to work with.
Not a lot of complaints out of him.
If he needs a cigarette, I just take it out and put it on the snorkel
and the air compressor sucks it down to him and he'd be happy.
He's a happy camper.
We're gonna bring andy into the competition
to show off what he can do.
Good to go.
He's a power horse.
He's gonna make a lot of gold for me.
I hope he doesn't beat me.
I don't think so. I'm a tough guy to beat.
We just want to show dave that when it comes
to getting gold, you want the kellys on your team.
[laughing]
looks like you're having twins.
I'm gonna be uncle kris.
[laughing]
come on, andy. Don't screw this up.
[brad] okay, andy. You're going good
in this gold competition.
Now come on, you better make these other
two guys look sorry.
What are you seeing down there, andy?
Are you seeing any gold?
Oh, he's in serious mode right now, andy.
That's what's going on. He's just quiet.
He won't talk now till he finds gold.
[andy] oh, [bleep]. Look at that gold.
[brad] that means there's blocks of gold going in the box.
Are you singing down there we are the champions?
What's going on?
[kris] right now, andy's crushing it.
I'm pretty sure I crushed it.
When dave sees all that gold, a partnership is in the works.
Never count the kellys out.
I mean, we're never gonna give up.
Wanna ask dave if he wants to give up on the bet right now.
Regardless of competition or not,
there seems to be a bit of gold in this small area.
So we should do pretty good for the season.
[narrator] thirteen miles east...
[vernon] he's crushing it right now.
I mean, we're on really good gold.
He's seeing a lot of visible gold down there.
[bleep], maybe I'll just stay home.
Maybe I'll turn the boat over to you, you know,
and I'll sit back in the tall weeds
and collect my royalties.
I would love that.
[narrator] despite being down a man,
vernon adkison's strong summer continues
as he edges ever closer to paying off claim 56.
[vernon] the guys are happy.
Bryan's extremely happy, jerry's happy.
And I say we're gonna have a nice pile of gold.
All right.
We had a no show.
Riedel was supposed to come out with us today
and he, typical riedel, didn't show up.
You know. "hi, bye." kiss my ass. Nothing.
Just didn't show up.
So, um, I'm done with him yet once again.
But, um, maybe I'll see him tomorrow.
I hope to see him--
[bryan grunting]
[grunting]
hey, bryan. How are you holding up?
How are you feeling?
[grunts]
you're having trouble with your ears?
[bryan] yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Come on up. Come on up.
[breathing heavily]
[vernon] pull him in. He's having ear problems.
Let's take that off of him.
Ah, [bleep].
Is it bad?
[vernon] you've got blood coming out of every orifice.
So I'd say, yeah, it's bad.
What?
[bleep]
[vernon] okay, come on.
[bryan] oh, [bleep].
Something's wrong.
[vernon] watch your head.
Damn, bryan. Come on in.
That does not look good. So what happened?
I was down there and started hearing cracking and popping.
Then I just felt tracked, aimed.
Like, "[bleep], something's not right.
I got to come up."
yeah, we have to get you to the doctor, man.
[bryan] I hope I didn't pop my ear drums.
[vernon] can you still hear okay?
[bryan] no. Freaking, like, all mumble.
It sounds like water's in there or something, man.
Something's major wrong. There's something wrong, man.
Get yourself out of that wet suit. Get dried off.
And we're going back to town and get you taken care of.
Damn.
He might've went too deep too fast.
I hope I'm not [bleep] for the rest of the season, you know?
I hope I didn't blow my ear drums,
'cause it's not looking good.
So we'll take him up into town and make sure
there is nothing drastic wrong with him.
So right now, that's got me worried.
[narrator] back in nome...
I got to do some beach prospecting
and I saw some really exciting signs
about the claim number 6.
If the sand looks anything like what I just found
on the beach, like, I'm excited.
[narrator] it's time to emily riedel
to find out if claim 6 is the real deal.
The claim is owned by ken kerr and, you know,
I know he's focusing a lot of his efforts kinda down west
with the serf crawlers so he might be willing to part
with it and, you know, I kinda wanna see what
this cleanup turns into before I decide whether to go
and ask for permission from ken to take the eroica down.
Think I'm about done here.
Holy [bleep].
Yeah.
Pretty nice freaking gold from the beach.
Damn good.
Yeah, that's just from that one spot.
That one sample.
It's pretty amazing, I mean, it's like
almost half an ounce. [exclaims excitedly]
oh, my god. Freaking incredible.
I'll dry this out, weight it and, uh, talk to ken.
I've handled out the samples from claim 6 and it looks amazing.
Looks really incredible, so it means that claim 6
could be loaded.
I'm not gonna mention to ken that I found some really
nice gold on his claim, but, hopefully, ken and I are cool.
I've got to get the boat out to prospect claim 6,
but in order to get access to the claim,
I've got to go chat with ken first.
This could be the difference between having
a future in nome or not.
Whoo.
This is some pretty freaking rich material.
[narrator] two miles east...
[zeke] so I'm just trying to, like, cover as much ground
as much as possible.
[narrator] zeke tenhoff is still speed dating claim 56.
Looking for a piece of ground worth having
a relationship with.
So far already, we've got, like, seven or eight points,
just from today.
But nothing big. We've got to keep looking for that hot spot.
Not so far.
[zeke] I'm kinda sick of this, like, meaning, like,
long periods of time finding nothing at all.
I've been walking over the sand for a long time now,
it's a big sand field.
[sam] keep it up for another half hour or so
and we'll see where we're at.
Yeah.
I think we're gonna find a big ol' patch of greasy gold.
There's nothing but cobble over here.
I'm just gonna look in this hole.
Can't see any gold here.
I'll keep walking a little bit deeper,
I guess, and then we'll see.
[sam] sounds good.
Well, it's blowing hard right now actually.
[zeke] it's blowing on the boat
and, you know, the anchor wants to drag.
Hey, uh, can you let some more anchor line out?
The anchor won't hold at all anymore 'cause we're so deep.
[grunts]
hey.
We've got schizophrenic weather in alaska.
It's pissing rain one day and then it switches to sunny and windy.
[laughs]
[zeke] sam, come. Can you please. Come.
So it was raining and cloudy and a strong
north wind just blew it all out.
I just, like, want to smoke a cigarette.
But I'm worried it's gonna be too windy to smoke.
What's up?
[zeke grunts]
bro, this is really exciting.
Yeah, the wind is whipping up here.
It's kinda pulling the boat around.
[zeke speaking]
[sam speaking]
[zeke] can you let some more anchor line out?
[sam] roger that. How many feet?
[zeke grunts]
sam, can you please?
Okay. I'll see what I can do.
[zeke] yeah, try to be quick about it too,
we're really [bleep] skating across the bottom.
[grunts]
hey.
[grunts]
hurry up and get this anchor line out. It's a hold-up.
[grunting]
[laughs]
like, seriously. How long can it take?
All right, there we go.
I'm locked.
Where is the hose? Oh, there's the nozzle. Sweet.
[sam] is that better?
[zeke] yeah. That did it, I guess.
[sam] hey, zeke, I think the weather's
changing pretty fast.
I think we'll have to pack it up.
[zeke] yeah, I'm getting sick of this.
I can't really hold the anchor anyway
and I'm not seeing any gold.
I mean, I think there's some good gold over where vernon is,
but as far as I can tell, that's the only spot.
See what we're gonna do next.
Let's get out of here.
All right, coming out.
Well, that sucks.
There doesn't look like there's anything left on 56 worth dating.
Not even a second date.
Let alone a long-term relationship.
So we're gonna have to find another claim to mine on
and at this point in the season,
starting from the scratch is a tall order.
What motivates me is to think that I'm gonna find
some kind of, like, little canyon full of gold.
I believe that is possible and it can happen to me.
I just have to look around a lot
and that's why I have a gold mining sail boat
so I can, like, have the freedom to go wander around
looking for that canyon of gold.
But it takes time to prospect,
and it takes time to produce the gold and there's just no much time left, period.
[narrator] in nome...
So bryan, are your ears still bleeding?
I don't know. They're all muffled right now.
Kinda hard to hear.
[narrator] skipper vernon adkison is en route to the hospital
to get diver bryan wilder tended to asap.
[vernon] what percentage of hearing loss do you think you have right now?
Ten before, what is it now?
Four or five, yeah.
Lost about half your hearing you'd think?
That's not good. I had that happen myself.
I lost all my hearing. I went completely deaf.
I sure hope bryan's okay.
As a captain, I'm responsible for my divers' safety.
I mean, that's number one priority
and an injury like this is no joke.
So, um, ah. That looked pretty damn scary to me.
When you were going down, did you feel anything different?
No, nothing different. Nothing. Nothing at all.
And I didn't even notice anything until
the mask came off and the blood came out.
And then you didn't notice your damn mask full of blood?
Yeah.
I mean, that was a pretty damn gruesome sight, let me tell you.
It made my heart beat a little bit.
I didn't know what the hell was going on.
I just hope I didn't pop the ear drums.
You know, that's the worst-case scenario.
If they're intact, hopefully they can heal up
and I'll be diving and back in no time.
Well, I'll just go and tell you right now.
You damage your ear drums, you're gonna be out of the diving business for a while.
Only thing we can do now is get you in there and get it checked out.
-[bryan] here it is. -[vernon] all right, bryan. Dude...
They won't let me in, so you're gonna have to...
Yeah. Sorry, man.
Give me a call when they get done with you.
Bryan's been loyal. He's a good man.
I wanna see him go home with some gold in his pocket.
But this late in the season, I'm really worried about the operation.
I can't afford to be down to just one diver.
We gotta get the gold.
Yeah, we dropped right down on top of some super gold,
and hopefully, bryan is not so injured that he can't dive.
I can't get enough hours out of one diver to support the operation.
[bleep] I pretty much might as well just pack it up...
And call it a season.
[narrator] twelve miles west...
How's it going down there, andy? Pretty good?
After a while, this is the next thing
to come here and finally get out some real gold.
[narrator] as the competition reaches the final stretch...
Do you think you're beating your brother and chris' gold?
[andy] well, it doesn't take much to beat my brother.
[narrator] ...So, too, is kris' plan to impress captain dave
and land a new deal for the rest of the season.
You're dive's almost up. You're coming up five hours.
We gotta keep competition fair at five hours per diver.
[andy] I'm coming, dad.
After him, we didn't have any plan at all.
Nowhere to go. Which way to go.
A hail mary for it, the day grew and it's working out
pretty good to be honest with you. Working out really good.
Competition always bring out the best,
and today dave saw the kellys at their best.
Dave is a businessman,
he sees he has a gold-getting machine.
He's not gonna give that up.
So now it's time to make a better deal,
renegotiate and make some real money.
Today was a game-changer.
Got some production in. It was good.
I saw gold almost the whole time of my dive.
It's really promising out there. I liked that area.
Andy said he was just killing it.
Now I wanna [bleep] go back and get more.
-Good job, boys. -Good job, buddy.
[kris] today was a definite season saver.
[narrator] back in nome...
[emily] I'm gonna ask ken if I can go prospect on this claim
with my boat so I can, you know,
I have to have his permission to go and look at his claim
because there's a lot of bumper stickers around here that say,
"claim jumpers will be shot."
I don't wanna be in a shootout with ken,
so at first I have to, you know,
get his permission to go on prospect his claim.
[narrator] under the gun, emily riedel readies
for her showdown with ken kerr,
hoping to make a deal and finally join the ranks of claim owners.
You know, I'm gonna downplay what I found on the beach.
You know, ken is like a sly old fox.
Like, if he thinks that I'm interesting in claim bravo
and that I think that there's good gold out there,
all of the sudden the numbers, the dollars he'll sell claim bravo for
start to go up, and up.
Or maybe, you know, ken starts to think
that claim bravo is a claim that he'd prefer to mine.
So I gotta really keep my-- hold my cards to my chest.
So, you know, we'll see. We're about to find out.
Hopefully, ken's in a good mood,
doesn't have a great memory and wants to make a deal.
It's the only way I can move forward on this claim buying
is if I can prospect 6 and see if it's worthwhile.
-Mr. Ken. -Hi, emily. How are you?
How are you doing? Long time no see.
Good to see you. Oh, yeah. Good to see you.
-You're looking well. Beard. -Thanks.
Oh, thanks. Thanks, yeah.
-That's the important thing. -I try to keep up with that.
Yeah, I've been trying to grow one for years and nothing's happened.
I don't see no hair there. That's good. No, that's good.
So, how are you doing so far this year?
It's been average. I wanna move off of 14.
I think 14's kinda been worked over, so I went down east.
Um... I saw george.
You know, there is a claim that he says belonged to you.
-It's, like... -Well, that's actually number 6.
[emily] yeah. Yeah. Claim 6.
And I looked at the beach of it
and it's an interesting spot.
I mean, I'm kind of... I'm interested to look into it further.
There's some gold down there.
It's got some potential.
Sweet. Well, hey, I mean,
if you're up for it I'll take the eroica and the crew.
We'll do some live-boating down there.
Sounds good, yeah. Okay.
You know, you're gonna go out there and do a little mining,
I could get a little royalties.
All right, sweet. Um, yeah. I don't-- I don't know.
I mean, it's gonna be mostly prospecting.
Yeah, whatever you get just, yeah, no problem.
I'll treat you fair on the royalties.
Okay. What you thinking?
Oh, I'm usually about 10 or 15.
10%.
Okay. I'll take 10.
-Okay. -That is, uh... That sounds good.
Bring me the gold. I take gold for payment.
Heck yeah. All right, sounds good.
-Always gold is good. -Yeah, I agree.
I, um... Well, that's fine.
I mean, we can do a deal in gold for it.
-Okay. -If I wanted to buy it.
All right. Hopefully, I can help you out.
All right, thanks so much, ken.
All right, yeah. No problem. Anytime.
I'll get a hold of you soon about it.
-Let you know how we do. -Okay. Adios.
As a dredge captain, I haven't been the biggest fan
of the way that ken has handled things.
But luckily, it seems like he forgot about me
calling him irresponsible and he gave me permission
to mine on claim 6, so it's awesome.
I've got ken right where I want him.
Gotta wheel her in. Oh, yeah. I need to make some money.
A sucker born every day.
[laughing]
[sighs and laughs]
[narrator] in nome...
[vernon] hopefully, the doctor tells him that,
"yeah, you're gonna be able to dive.
Take a few days off and get on back out there."
but I doubt it very seriously.
[narrator] instead of mining for gold,
captain vernon adkison's mining for some good news on diver bryan wilder.
It's really put me under a lot of stress.
So, what's the prognosis?
Did they say when you might be back there for duty
or just have no idea?
[bryan] uh, yeah. I mean, there's a little bit of good news, little bit of bad news.
They said it's severely traumatized.
It's not popped.
But I mean, they're not ruptured.
So that's great, I mean, I should be back
in the water in no time.
You're hardcore and you're all about the gold,
but, um, I won't be a party to your injuring yourself
any more than you already are.
You stay out until you're 100% well and ready fit for duty.
Yeah.
We're gonna need a tender.
All right.
And I'll make sure you're adequately compensated.
We'll give you a share of the box.
Yeah, no, I'll definitely stick around.
Well, that would be great. That would be great.
[vernon] do I need two divers to get the gold
I need to pay for this claim?
Yes. But I'm not gonna put somebody's health at risk to make that happen.
So bryan's going to stay on as tender
and I'm gonna need another diver pronto
or this season could end on foul note.
Do you wanna see a picture?
You got the stomach? You didn't eat lunch recently, did you?
Whip it open.
That's my left ear drum. It's pretty brutal.
That's not looking too good whatsoever.
[bleep]
that's bad. That is bad. It's almost like modern art.
If I were you, I would have that framed.
[narrator] ten miles west...
I think we're doing it.
We're doing something.
[laughing]
watching a lot of rock, I'll tell you that.
[narrator] the good news, the myrtle is on a pace streak
and a massive amount of material
is flowing through the two boxes.
Great ground, tons of rocks, tons of pebbles.
Hopefully, there is a lot of gold in there.
It should be lit up.
[narrator] the bad news?
[shawn speaking]
yeah, we got weather coming in.
It's time to get the hell out of here.
[narrator] the day is suddenly coming to an end
and shawn's dredges are in the crosshairs of a dangerous storm.
[shawn] after a rough start myrtle killed it today,
but with the storm coming in, we gotta bring both
the myrtle and the christine rose into port.
And with the hydraulic pump being down
and the bucket stuck to the ground on the christine rose,
it's a logistical nightmare.
Right now, we got the boot stuck down in the water.
We gotta get it up on to deck,
so we're gonna use the myrtle's excavator
to pick the arm up, swing it on to the deck.
I got a crazy idea of how I'm gonna fix it.
Sometimes you just gotta think outside the box.
Right now, we got it on. Now it's time to pick it up.
Hopefully, it works.
[shawn] the christine rose can't move until we get that bucket off the sea floor.
If we don't get that bucket up off the sea floor,
the christine rose is gonna get destroyed in the storm.
This is the risk you take being out here.
[shawn] maybe get out of there, cody.
All right, shawn.
[shawn] here we go. All right, see if it'll come up.
It's going up.
[yelling]
hold it!
[cody] pull it up!
[shawn] she's rescued.
That was pretty bad.
If we didn't have the myrtle out here
we would've been screwed.
Now the question is how much gold is in that box.
You see that look on his face?
That's not an "I've got gold in my pan" look.
See that? There's no smile on his face.
No, when I got gold in my pan, it put a smile on my face,
but this guy, uh-uh.
Maybe he's got wood teeth.
This is steve riedel.
We're at anvil city square.
Great place here in nome.
You see the church in the background,
and you see the gold pan over there.
Here it is.
I know what you wish, yeah,
this part's gold right here, huh?
Anvil city square, it was named after anvil creek,
which was named after the mountain here north of town.
It looks like an anvil,
so they named the creek after it.
And they almost named the town after it.
Well, let's go take a look around anvil city square.
Whole swimming pools worth of gold
has come out of this area and these guys made it happen.
The three lucky swedes. These guys right here.
Look at him, he's already got gold in there.
He came ashore that fateful day,
offshore of what would become nome, alaska,
or maybe it was already nome, alaska.
No-name, alaska.
Anyway, it was no place for anybody.
There was no one living here, and these guys came ashore.
These three guys. See them in the background now?
Three guys. There they were.
All three. They came in, they sure didn't think
anything was gonna happen.
Just gonna pass the time while they fixed the boat and hang out. Well...
"hey, let's bring a gold pan just in case."
it was rivulets of gold in the beach.
Rich, rich, rich.
And they went nuts.
They caused 20,000 people to live here.
Two years later, there were 20,000 people here.
Before? Zero.
[birds chirping]
[donkey braying]
[old timey music]
whoa. Claim jumping, bummer.
Claim jumping on the three swedes.
And they took advantage of it, too. Just like wyatt earp.
[gunfire]
and then more wild and crazy times.
This is a wild, crazy place.
This is history. Come here, see this, and you'll see history.
That concludes another weird, wild, wonderful nome, alaska.
Tune in next time when we're going weird,
wild, and wonderful places.
Oh, what a nice sunset.
I think I'll just lean here for a while.
That's what this guy's doing.
There's no place like nome.
[narrator] on the outskirts of nome...
I'm preparing to take some sailing trips that--
we're going to travel a pretty significant distance down the coast.
I'm gonna bust out my charts for sam and raven
and use them to map out and explain to sam and raven
where we're gonna be.
Tell them where we're gonna be mining.
Where I expect the treasure to be.
[narrator] after deciding to leave claim 56 behind,
zeke tenhoff is ready to start spreading the wings
of the black swan.
[zeke] the bad news is, it's late in the season
and we need to find a completely new place to mine.
The good news is that the black swan is swift
and fast and it can get us to places that other dredgers just can't access.
I gotta just like explain this whole adventure
that I've had in my imagination to these guys
and, um, it's--
I think that sam and raven don't really have any idea
what I'm talking about when I try to talk about
where I'm planning on taking us in the boat.
We need to just spread all of our charts in chart course.
What's up, zeke?
[zeke] how's it going, guys?
-Charts? -Yeah, I found them.
Yeah! All right.
Wow.
Well, so I just wanted to sort of line you guys out
with what I had in mind in terms of, like, where to go.
Vernon's claim, probably some gold left
to be found there, but it's killing my mojo.
Big-time killing my mojo.
I heard vernon's found a good spot and that's good for him,
but I think, for my own spirit, to my own enthusiasm,
I think we'll go somewhere completely new.
So, yeah, looking at this is gonna be important and helpful
because it's a lot of... It's a lot of open water.
Yeah, some long sailing there.
It's a lot of open water.
But... Now the sailboat dredge is up and running.
We can pretty safely and quickly go
to any of these places that I wanna go to.
I really wanna go there. I wanna see bluff.
We don't necessarily want to go to bluff first.
People have been hitting it.
[raven] yeah, they've been mining out there,
but it was really rich.
[zeke] it was super rich a couple of years ago,
but, like, people have been hitting it.
Like, the kellys were out there.
I don't know what kind of wild west shenanigans
we're gonna have to get involved with over there.
I don't know.
What I wanna do first is just take a mad dash,
planning on just doing a prospecting,
you know, voyage just to go do like a day of diving.
Already cape rodney.
Cape rodney is really far away.
It's definitely not just a day trip.
We're probably gonna end up overnighting on the sailboat.
It's off the beaten path and it's hard to get to,
but that could work to our benefit
because I don't believe very many people have prospected up there.
It's a diamond in the rough, but this could be
the kind of ground that we're looking for.
The leads I have there are solid.
They're gonna wanna make a trip out of that.
I wanna bomb down there and then just, like, go
and just, like, punch holes all day.
If we see super dope gold there,
any gold whatsoever, we're gonna stake it.
I mean, if there's good gold there
then that's gonna inform what our future plans are gonna be.
This is good. This is a good plan.
[zeke] with the claim war in full swing,
it's important to stay out of the trajectory
where everyone else is flocking.
It's gonna be a bear to get to,
but that's what I built the black swan for.
So our first real adventure is right on the horizon.
I hope we find some gold 'cause we desperately need it.
It's a serious sailing mission.
Yeah, it's a sailing adventure. I'm down.
Super, super down. Now let's get back to work.
[raven] all right, then.
-[sam] let's get back at it. -[zeke] yeah, sounds good.
[narrator] back in nome...
-[steve] vernon. -Yeah.
[steve] permission to come aboard.
Yeah, hey, steve. Come on aboard.
[narrator] only nine hours late,
steve riedel finally shows up for duty.
How's bryan?
[vernon] he's okay.
[steve] is he gonna dive? Is he gonna be able to dive for you?
He's got a bad ear, so that'll be a while.
Well, you know, I have a lot of explaining to do.
Uh...
Your boat beat me up pretty bad.
After that late day, I went home, and I was pretty sick.
I hope you have patience...
We've waited around for quite a while.
You could've gotten somebody to make a phone call.
I'm really sorry to do that to you.
I mean, we've been down this road several times already
as I recall.
Okay. This time I'll make it up to you.
You said I did better than you thought
and pissed you off less than you thought.
So there's two things going for me.
We've known each other 25 years, vernon.
Uh-huh. Hmm.
Okay.
Well, I--
you know, I'm all about helping my fellow man, steve.
Uh-huh.
So I think I'm gonna present you with the opportunity
of finding more suitable employment elsewhere.
You know, you're a scholar and a gentlemen, vernon.
And so I appreciate that, you know.
I'd like to remain friends with you.
Thanks for the free labor.
Thank you very much. Let's leave it at that.
I'm over it, you are, too.
So anyway, steve, I wish you well in your future endeavors.
-Thank you, vernon. -Yeah, I was saying,
I'm not your life coach and I'm definitely not your dad,
but as you pursue your career options,
you might want to consider some sort of a job
that doesn't involve humans.
Oh. [chuckles]
I'm better with mechanical devices, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with that at all.
I mean, I know a lot of people who aren't all that good around humans.
I mean, sometimes, they piss me off too, you know?
Can't imagine.
So anyway, bon voyage.
All right, thanks, vernon. You too.
It's a big job and, uh, this is not the right place for him.
This boat's a little bit too much for him
and now he's gone on to do other things,
which is real good.
[steve] some things are better apart.
Chocolate and bananas go really well together,
but pickles and strawberry ice cream,
that's what vernon and I are.
He's more like the pickle.
But, well, I've learned one thing from this,
and that is I need to be my own boss.
But how I get there from here, I have no idea.
[george] that's what I like about fly fishing,
is that you're so calm and listen to the ocean and...
Do you ever fly fish?
[emily] no, you should show me some moves.
I'll give you some pointers.
Well, fly fishing, it's all about, you know,
letting the rod do the work.
I stop at 12 and then I come forward.
-Okay. -Stop at 12 and forward.
So just go ahead and grab it.
Is it like... Is it armed?
Does it have, like, a hook on it?
-Yeah, there's a hook. -Oh, there is a hook. Okay.
[george] definitely, it's armed. It's ready to catch fish.
Okay. All right.
Yeah, don't go backwards. Oh!
[laughing]
you've got to remember the 12 o'clock.
Now you just come forward with it.
Come forward and then let go a line as you come forward.
Roger. Okay.
[exclaiming]
slow down a little bit.
-Okay. Okay. -Relax. Relax.
[drum roll]
so slow. Whoo.
Hey!
-Way better. That's perfect! -Natural!
See? Easy.
Oh, cool. I just had my first fly fishing lesson.
It takes a lot. A lot of patience.
Just like finding gold. So it's the same thing. Patience.
[emily] all right, that was fun. [laughs]
[narrator] in nome...
-[shawn] how's it going, nate? -Hey.
Perfect timing. She's cooling off.
-Nice. -Yeah, not too bad, huh?
That doesn't look bad at all.
[narrator] despite the limited time on the myrtle,
mr. Gold's hoping that the upgrades prove
what they can do on the newfound pastry.
Well, let's see how it's working.
Sucks that we had to go rescue the cr and pull cody.
-But, you know, that's the way it goes. -Yeah.
If I had a few more hours on the box.
You talk about highs and lows. We started down on bad ground.
Christine rose broke down, but we got on some good ground.
And most importantly, we saved the christine rose.
I'm hoping the myrtle turns in a big number here.
We really need it.
Here we go. Let's see how we did.
Twenty.
Forty, fifty, seventy.
Hundred. We gonna hit 200?
Damn, there might be 200 ounces there.
-There might. -140.
160.
Whoa.
191.47.
-[nate] whoo-hoo! -Hell yeah.
Whoo.
[laughing]
[narrator] 191 ounces is worth north of $380,000.
Leaving no doubt that shawn's redesign of the myrtle is the real deal.
It looks like it's working really well.
It is.
It might be the best clump I've ever seen
for that amount of time.
-Nice job. -Yeah. Any time.
[shawn] this is just what the doctor ordered.
Big numbers like this.
The myrtle's a beast and always had this potential.
Now she's operating at peak efficiency.
We get the christine rose back up and running
and things keep going like this, the sky's the limit.
Well, that's damn good.
I'm gonna go get that boat ready to go.
-To the bitter end. -Nice job, nate.
Any time.
[shawn] getting better.
[narrator] across town...
Chris, probably the least amount of gold is you.
Let's do yours first.
You [bleep] so bad, we didn't have to cheat to win.
No, no, no. I still made it work.
[narrator] it's time for the competition weigh-out.
But more important for the kellys' future,
it's time for captain kris to try to close a new deal with dave.
[dave] okay. That's it. Dry it, weight it. See what we got.
I got the winning pan.
[laughing]
[kris] so right now, I need to make a deal with dave
for the rest of the season or we're pretty screwed.
And I really need a fair deal from dave.
Fifty-fifty.
That's the only way we're gonna have enough money to keep going.
So I really think when he sees the gold we brought in,
he's gonna jump at this chance.
We have each of our gold in separate pans
and they're all dry and ready to go for the clean-out.
I'll go first.
Here we go.
-Holy [bleep]. -3.05.
Wow.
Boo-yah, baby! There's a good chance I won this competition.
-A damn good chance. -Okay, let's weigh chris'.
Come on, chris. Here you go.
There's one. Two.
Look, I already got two ounces.
Here comes three ounces.
[brad] it's 2.5 ounces right there.
Come on, chris. You're pretty close.
[chris] come on.
[brad] 2.9.
[chris] damn it.
So bam! I beat chris. So right now, today's going great.
Next is to see what andy gets.
This is for the big nugget.
-Yeah, andy got last. -Okay.
Oh, look at that big pick that went in.
Yeah, you missed that one.
What the hell?
Andy cheated.
-Three and a half. -Wow.
3.6.
He's the winner.
There's more in that pan.
Andy's got a nugget. Where is it?
I gotta give him the nugget.
Oh, no.
[laughing]
[bleep] I don't want to pull four different times.
Andy and I both beat chris mccully.
Now that dave's seen all the gold we can bring in,
it's gotta be obvious to dave that he needs us.
Case closed.
Okay, we'll combine all the gold.
Let's combine this and then let's give our split.
9.5 ounces. And that's what we got.
You gotta pay the man.
[kris] sixty-forty.
Okay, so the owner gets 5.7 ounces.
That's pretty good.
-Here you go, dave. -Here you go, dave.
So our cut in this competition is 3.8 ounces.
[narrator] with 3.8 ounces, the kellys pocket nearly eight grand. And dave?
-Here's our cut right there. -This is so...
[narrator] he banks over $11,000 for the day.
Not to shabby for never leaving the boat.
Andy won the competition and cripple river is working out great.
It's all that counts.
[kris] so dave made a lot of money off us.
He knows it. So now it's time for the big deal.
It's a no-brainer.
Aw, you know what's there.
And you know you're gonna be rich off that claim.
-Yeah. -So you came out the real winner.
Thank you very much for letting us go there.
So what's the plan after this?
-You think we can make a deal-- -my idea is...
The plan's over.
I'm done. I gotta get all your crap off my boat.
It's over.
Hmm.
It's all I can say. We're done.
Well, that [bleep], you know?
Especially after we just got a lot of gold.
That's really [bleep].
Wow. That was a kick to the teeth.
You know, we make the guy some gold
and then he just kicks us to the curb.
We could work together as a team, you know?
But dave's got other plans that I don't know about.
But usually, I get kissed before I get [bleep].
Hmm.
Can we go down there one more time
and try to get one more shot of gold?
No, I gotta haul it out. I'm done.
Yeah. Yeah, okay.
[kris] so once again, we have no way of getting gold.
The rug has been yanked from underneath us
and the season will be over soon.
It was still-- it's a tough thing to swallow, you know?
At this point, I have no idea what we're gonna do.
Right now, we just need to come up with a plan.
So that's something we're gonna have to talk about.
[brad] okay.
[kris] let's go.
[narrator] next time on bering sea gold...
We've got a lot riding on them.
Now all we have to do is pile the gold in the box.
What's in there?
[groans]
[kris] desperation is pushing me to dive to where dredge 6 is.
Either we're gonna be the smartest guys around or the dumbest guys around.
I sure appreciate the opportunity,
and I look forward working with you, man.
[laughing]
[zeke] I heard there's a canyon full of gold out there somewhere.
Gold is all over different places.
-Hell yeah, man. -[laughing]
[man] beautiful. Beautiful.
Whoo!
This whole pond is dangerous as [bleep].
Kris, I can't see your air bubbles.
I'm sinking.
[screaming]