1 00:00:00,835 --> 00:00:03,235 [narrator] presenting the miracle 2 00:00:03,270 --> 00:00:04,870 of modern science. 3 00:00:04,905 --> 00:00:06,572 In the homestretch of summer mining, 4 00:00:06,607 --> 00:00:11,477 the only commodity nearly as valuable as gold is momentum. 5 00:00:11,512 --> 00:00:13,479 And after years of research, 6 00:00:13,514 --> 00:00:14,880 we here at bsg labs 7 00:00:14,915 --> 00:00:18,350 have developed the ability to measure momentum 8 00:00:18,386 --> 00:00:20,185 in quantitative form. 9 00:00:20,221 --> 00:00:21,420 -Yeah, baby! -Yeah! 10 00:00:22,523 --> 00:00:23,722 [narrator] now, you, the viewer, 11 00:00:23,758 --> 00:00:26,492 can track as these historic miners 12 00:00:26,527 --> 00:00:28,694 inch ever closer to their goals. 13 00:00:28,729 --> 00:00:30,429 [kris] let me show you how you do this. 14 00:00:30,464 --> 00:00:34,133 Oh, my gosh. This is some really frickin' nice gold. 15 00:00:34,535 --> 00:00:35,434 [shawn] woo-hoo! 16 00:00:35,469 --> 00:00:36,502 Hell yeah. 17 00:00:36,537 --> 00:00:37,936 -[narrator] or... -[bleep] 18 00:00:37,972 --> 00:00:41,140 [narrator] ...Fall helplessly further into the abyss. 19 00:00:41,175 --> 00:00:42,074 I'm okay. 20 00:00:42,109 --> 00:00:44,343 [zeke] I hear the wind is blowing me back. 21 00:00:44,378 --> 00:00:45,244 [laughing] 22 00:00:46,514 --> 00:00:47,579 [bryan] is it bad? 23 00:00:47,615 --> 00:00:50,349 [vernon] you've got blood coming out of every orifice. 24 00:00:50,384 --> 00:00:52,384 [narrator] stay tuned and find out. 25 00:00:52,420 --> 00:00:53,419 Let the games begin. 26 00:01:10,304 --> 00:01:11,537 I'm gonna go make some gold. 27 00:01:11,572 --> 00:01:13,605 That's what mr. Gold tells me. 28 00:01:13,641 --> 00:01:15,340 -We make it. -Make the gold. 29 00:01:15,376 --> 00:01:16,275 -We make it. -Huh? 30 00:01:16,310 --> 00:01:17,409 We don't find it, we make it. 31 00:01:17,445 --> 00:01:18,777 [laughing] 32 00:01:19,747 --> 00:01:23,449 one scoop at a time. Just the right mixture. 33 00:01:23,484 --> 00:01:25,984 I hope. Hopefully, we'll make a lot. 34 00:01:26,887 --> 00:01:29,455 [narrator] with quick patch work complete, 35 00:01:29,490 --> 00:01:32,591 mr. Gold is ready for his first full day assault 36 00:01:32,626 --> 00:01:34,126 on the bering sea, 37 00:01:34,695 --> 00:01:36,295 with the christine rose 38 00:01:37,364 --> 00:01:40,365 and the newly revamped myrtle irene. 39 00:01:43,404 --> 00:01:47,206 [shawn] and now we're gonna run some parts out to cody 40 00:01:47,241 --> 00:01:48,807 on the cr, drop them off. 41 00:01:48,843 --> 00:01:51,677 Get on the myrtle and take a look in the box 42 00:01:51,712 --> 00:01:53,479 and see what it looks like. 43 00:01:53,514 --> 00:01:56,615 I'll tell you, last night, they dug all night too. 44 00:01:56,650 --> 00:01:59,284 That's what nightshift is for. 45 00:02:00,287 --> 00:02:01,787 For my plan to take over nome, 46 00:02:01,822 --> 00:02:04,957 I need everything to be running on all cylinders. 47 00:02:04,992 --> 00:02:08,427 The christine rose has to be running around the clock 48 00:02:08,462 --> 00:02:10,496 turning up gold like it has been. 49 00:02:10,531 --> 00:02:12,731 Now I need the myrtle to join the fun 50 00:02:12,766 --> 00:02:16,502 and move five times as much material a day. 51 00:02:16,537 --> 00:02:19,438 Everything seems to be working fairly well. 52 00:02:19,473 --> 00:02:20,339 Yeah. 53 00:02:20,374 --> 00:02:22,708 It's all working really well. 54 00:02:22,743 --> 00:02:26,645 But the true test will be how much gold's in that box, shawn. 55 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,615 That's the... That's the true test. 56 00:02:29,650 --> 00:02:31,884 -Yes. -If there ain't no gold, 57 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,353 -we're in a major hurry. -We're gonna put gold. 58 00:02:34,388 --> 00:02:36,488 We're gonna put gold in that box. 59 00:02:36,524 --> 00:02:40,259 I hope so. I'm betting on it. 60 00:02:40,294 --> 00:02:43,395 I already bet the farm, so. 61 00:02:43,430 --> 00:02:46,365 It's pretty bad. I bet my farm on mr. Gold. 62 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,268 [both laughing] 63 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,808 [narrator] first up, a check on the christine rose. 64 00:02:57,344 --> 00:02:59,178 How's it going, buddy? 65 00:03:10,424 --> 00:03:11,790 [shawn] that's nice. 66 00:03:11,825 --> 00:03:15,227 Look at that. That's how our box is gonna look 67 00:03:15,262 --> 00:03:16,628 when we get over there. 68 00:03:16,664 --> 00:03:19,498 It's just full of gold right in here. Look at all that. 69 00:03:19,533 --> 00:03:23,502 Our screen deck is five times bigger, 70 00:03:23,537 --> 00:03:26,538 so we should have about five times the amount of gold. 71 00:03:26,574 --> 00:03:29,474 I've put tons of money into this thing 72 00:03:29,510 --> 00:03:32,644 and if our box looks like this, 73 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:34,780 it's a home run for sure. 74 00:03:34,815 --> 00:03:37,416 I think I did the right thing by getting this 75 00:03:37,451 --> 00:03:38,383 to go on board. 76 00:03:39,687 --> 00:03:42,821 -[shawn] whoo! -[dave] let's go look at some real gold, shawn. 77 00:03:42,856 --> 00:03:46,325 [shawn] oh, yeah. Let's go look at the myrtle. 78 00:03:50,798 --> 00:03:53,999 [shawn] we've been working out deeper with the myrtle irene. 79 00:03:54,034 --> 00:03:56,702 The christine rose can only work to about 22 feet. 80 00:03:56,737 --> 00:03:58,704 But the myrtle can go to 30. 81 00:03:58,739 --> 00:04:01,540 So the myrtle irene will be able to follow 82 00:04:01,575 --> 00:04:04,443 this ancient riverbed a lot further offshore. 83 00:04:05,379 --> 00:04:07,279 I just want to see... 84 00:04:07,314 --> 00:04:08,513 Just packed, yeah. 85 00:04:08,549 --> 00:04:10,682 -Full like the christine rose. -Yeah. 86 00:04:10,718 --> 00:04:12,517 That's what made me do the deal, 87 00:04:12,553 --> 00:04:13,518 is every time I go 88 00:04:13,554 --> 00:04:16,255 to the christine rose, it's [bleep] all gold. 89 00:04:16,290 --> 00:04:17,256 [laughing] 90 00:04:17,291 --> 00:04:19,191 we know what we're doing. 91 00:04:19,226 --> 00:04:20,125 I hope. 92 00:04:21,428 --> 00:04:24,663 The christine rose's box is packed with gold. 93 00:04:24,698 --> 00:04:27,399 The myrtle irene has been running all night, 94 00:04:27,434 --> 00:04:29,568 so the myrtle's box should be loaded too. 95 00:04:29,603 --> 00:04:32,504 But it being so much bigger than the christine rose, 96 00:04:32,539 --> 00:04:35,674 I expect the box with five times as much gold. 97 00:04:36,477 --> 00:04:38,977 All right. Time to make some gold. 98 00:04:39,813 --> 00:04:42,914 I wanna see yellow, and lots of it. 99 00:04:42,950 --> 00:04:46,618 I wanna see nothing but gold up there, shawn. 100 00:04:46,654 --> 00:04:48,987 [shawn] I wanna see some gold too. 101 00:04:55,429 --> 00:04:57,262 Not seeing [bleep]. 102 00:04:58,165 --> 00:04:59,331 Nada. 103 00:05:01,535 --> 00:05:04,002 There's no gold. 104 00:05:06,674 --> 00:05:08,940 Do you think it's doing what it's supposed to? 105 00:05:08,976 --> 00:05:09,808 Yeah, I'm seeing it. 106 00:05:09,843 --> 00:05:12,110 I'm not seeing it like on the christine. 107 00:05:12,146 --> 00:05:15,747 Yeah, well, it's getting beat down in there. 108 00:05:16,950 --> 00:05:21,453 If the box is working right, you don't wanna see it on top, 109 00:05:21,488 --> 00:05:24,389 you wanna see it down right there. 110 00:05:24,425 --> 00:05:26,024 Like that. 111 00:05:27,328 --> 00:05:29,361 Grab me a pan and we'll know. 112 00:05:29,396 --> 00:05:32,130 Let me go grab a pan for you. 113 00:05:34,501 --> 00:05:37,169 I'm pretty surprised it's not looking the same 114 00:05:37,204 --> 00:05:39,004 as the christine rose. 115 00:05:40,941 --> 00:05:43,375 We'll do a pan, see if that gold's way down there. 116 00:05:47,648 --> 00:05:50,282 [dave] what are we gonna do if there's no gold? 117 00:05:50,317 --> 00:05:51,416 [shawn] we'll move. 118 00:05:56,790 --> 00:05:58,256 -It's in there. -We're getting the gold. 119 00:05:58,292 --> 00:05:59,391 We're getting gold. 120 00:06:01,729 --> 00:06:04,062 Needs to be better, though. 121 00:06:05,499 --> 00:06:06,832 [bleep] 122 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:09,267 there's gold here, but not nearly enough. 123 00:06:09,303 --> 00:06:12,971 Not this much in debt this late in the season. 124 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,374 Mediocre ain't gonna cut it. 125 00:06:16,443 --> 00:06:18,710 I think we're gonna move down just a little 126 00:06:18,746 --> 00:06:20,479 bit there with the christine rose. 127 00:06:20,514 --> 00:06:23,515 Let's move over there and go fill up the box. 128 00:06:23,550 --> 00:06:25,717 We ain't making gold certainly here. 129 00:06:25,753 --> 00:06:26,818 [shawn] all right, let's go ahead. 130 00:06:27,755 --> 00:06:31,156 Let's start coming up easy on those spots. 131 00:06:33,761 --> 00:06:35,660 I don't think it's a flaw in the design. 132 00:06:35,696 --> 00:06:38,663 It better not be, otherwise, we'll be broke in a hurry. 133 00:06:38,699 --> 00:06:41,433 Christine rose is just on way better ground 134 00:06:41,435 --> 00:06:43,402 and the myrtle's on crap right now. 135 00:06:45,172 --> 00:06:46,671 Here we go. 136 00:06:46,707 --> 00:06:48,707 [narrator] with the clock ticking, the myrtle irene 137 00:06:48,742 --> 00:06:52,744 begins the two-mile trek to join the christine rose. 138 00:06:53,380 --> 00:06:55,280 Does this job ever get easy? 139 00:06:56,550 --> 00:07:00,352 No. No, it doesn't. Never easy. 140 00:07:01,488 --> 00:07:03,455 Especially went it counts the most 141 00:07:03,490 --> 00:07:06,958 and that seems like when the most [bleep] goes wrong. 142 00:07:07,261 --> 00:07:08,960 It sucks. 143 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:15,066 [narrator] ten miles east... 144 00:07:19,373 --> 00:07:20,605 [kris] come one, come all. 145 00:07:20,641 --> 00:07:23,675 Old and young, to the grand adventure of the kellys. 146 00:07:24,478 --> 00:07:26,878 Sit back, relax and watch us juggle, 147 00:07:26,914 --> 00:07:30,715 breathe fire and pull a rabbit out of our ass. 148 00:07:30,751 --> 00:07:32,517 [narrator] the kellys look to keep riding 149 00:07:32,553 --> 00:07:35,554 the first hot streak they've had all season. 150 00:07:35,589 --> 00:07:36,955 We're heading out to cripple river today. 151 00:07:36,990 --> 00:07:39,591 We're gonna get back there, get two rigs in the water. 152 00:07:39,626 --> 00:07:40,792 We're gonna kill it. 153 00:07:40,828 --> 00:07:43,428 What I think we should do is we should have a competition. 154 00:07:44,731 --> 00:07:46,932 That's right. I'm gonna go against you today. 155 00:07:47,734 --> 00:07:50,035 Well, let's see. Let's play that game. 156 00:07:50,571 --> 00:07:51,636 Okay, let's get going. 157 00:07:52,706 --> 00:07:54,806 So we finally got an opportunity this summer. 158 00:07:54,842 --> 00:07:58,577 Dave mccully is letting us mine one of his leases. 159 00:07:58,612 --> 00:08:01,446 We're gonna be mining cripple river as dave's crew. 160 00:08:02,349 --> 00:08:03,782 But I don't wanna be an employee. 161 00:08:03,817 --> 00:08:06,418 I wanna be a partner. Especially with a millionaire. 162 00:08:06,453 --> 00:08:08,420 So today I proposed a competition 163 00:08:08,455 --> 00:08:10,422 with dave's son, chris. 164 00:08:10,457 --> 00:08:12,357 And if we have time, mandy's gonna go down 165 00:08:12,392 --> 00:08:14,526 for a shift and see if he can beat us. 166 00:08:14,561 --> 00:08:16,795 So when dave sees what the kellys can make happen, 167 00:08:16,830 --> 00:08:19,564 I think dave's gonna want to partner up with us. 168 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:20,799 Today I'm gonna [bleep] kill it. 169 00:08:20,834 --> 00:08:23,268 I'm gonna show these people what's going on. 170 00:08:26,540 --> 00:08:29,608 We're here. Let the games begin. 171 00:08:29,643 --> 00:08:31,977 I got it. Whoa. 172 00:08:32,346 --> 00:08:33,311 [kris] I'm okay. 173 00:08:34,448 --> 00:08:36,147 Put your backs in it! 174 00:08:39,586 --> 00:08:42,020 Ready to rock and roll. We're on it! 175 00:08:43,423 --> 00:08:46,424 It looks like a work of art there, chris. 176 00:08:46,460 --> 00:08:48,727 Looks like it should be on display or somewhere. 177 00:08:49,463 --> 00:08:50,495 [kris] we're both gonna go down. 178 00:08:50,531 --> 00:08:52,898 I'm gonna use the sickle, he's gonna use the bones 179 00:08:52,933 --> 00:08:54,666 and we're gonna see who gets the most gold. 180 00:08:54,701 --> 00:08:57,502 All you... Really, all you need is a box 181 00:08:57,538 --> 00:09:00,038 and a jet, and your hose, that's it. 182 00:09:01,508 --> 00:09:04,409 Two dredges, one competition means big gold. 183 00:09:04,444 --> 00:09:06,244 This is gonna knock dave's socks off. 184 00:09:08,682 --> 00:09:10,916 Let's hope to god it works. 185 00:09:11,752 --> 00:09:13,885 The plan's simple today. We're gonna work 186 00:09:13,921 --> 00:09:16,721 the starboard side and he's gonna work port side. 187 00:09:16,757 --> 00:09:20,258 We're working the left side, they're working the [bleep] right side. 188 00:09:22,095 --> 00:09:24,229 [kris] we're gonna lay down the rules right now. 189 00:09:24,264 --> 00:09:25,497 Make sure it's fair. 190 00:09:25,532 --> 00:09:27,299 Competition rules are super simple 191 00:09:27,334 --> 00:09:28,633 just to make sure everything's fair. 192 00:09:28,669 --> 00:09:30,669 We're both starting out with clean boxes today. 193 00:09:30,704 --> 00:09:31,636 [bell rings] 194 00:09:31,672 --> 00:09:33,638 we're gonna go, each of us, a good five hours 195 00:09:33,674 --> 00:09:35,106 underneath the water. 196 00:09:40,747 --> 00:09:42,414 [kris] first gold of the season? 197 00:09:43,517 --> 00:09:44,416 [kris] what? 198 00:09:46,086 --> 00:09:48,453 That there is the penance for the master. 199 00:09:48,488 --> 00:09:50,188 That's the penance. 200 00:09:50,223 --> 00:09:51,222 [laughs] 201 00:09:52,526 --> 00:09:55,427 so right now dave's offering the nugget I got as a prize 202 00:09:55,462 --> 00:09:56,595 for today's competition. 203 00:09:56,630 --> 00:09:59,164 So I have a chance of getting my nugget back. 204 00:09:59,199 --> 00:10:00,165 I can do this. 205 00:10:01,935 --> 00:10:05,403 You and I are first. So we'll meet up underneath the water. 206 00:10:05,439 --> 00:10:07,238 We'll touch gloves and we'll go to war. 207 00:10:09,476 --> 00:10:10,575 Okay, let's get going. 208 00:10:10,611 --> 00:10:11,910 Let's get on it. 209 00:10:11,945 --> 00:10:14,913 I'm putting my money on chris mccully, I think he's got him beat. 210 00:10:15,549 --> 00:10:17,281 Actually, it's a no-brainer. 211 00:10:17,284 --> 00:10:18,850 I have put my money on my kid. 212 00:10:18,885 --> 00:10:20,852 This is money in the bank today. 213 00:10:20,887 --> 00:10:23,755 I'm gonna go down there and I'm gonna [bleep] kill it. 214 00:10:23,790 --> 00:10:25,624 If not, I've got andy as a backup. 215 00:10:25,659 --> 00:10:27,626 One of them's gonna win for me. 216 00:10:27,661 --> 00:10:29,427 I've got this, easy. 217 00:10:29,463 --> 00:10:31,763 The strategy is annihilate, 218 00:10:31,798 --> 00:10:34,199 total annihilation of the ground. 219 00:10:35,602 --> 00:10:37,369 May the best diver win. 220 00:10:39,706 --> 00:10:41,673 They both jumped off together, 221 00:10:41,708 --> 00:10:43,775 looking like a happily married couple. 222 00:10:43,810 --> 00:10:45,644 I don't know what's going on, but hey, 223 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:47,979 we're gonna get double the gold today. 224 00:10:49,816 --> 00:10:53,985 [kris] okay, buddy. I'll show you how you do this. 225 00:10:57,391 --> 00:10:58,390 Brace yourselves. 226 00:10:58,425 --> 00:11:01,192 This isn't a quick race, this is a long run. 227 00:11:01,628 --> 00:11:03,294 [kris] I'm ready. 228 00:11:04,197 --> 00:11:05,196 [laughing] 229 00:11:11,471 --> 00:11:12,671 [kris] right now, I'm just gonna cross fit 230 00:11:12,706 --> 00:11:15,306 for a little while before I get crazy. 231 00:11:16,777 --> 00:11:19,911 No matter what, I'm beating little chris today. 232 00:11:21,148 --> 00:11:24,949 Mccully, I got your dredge addled up, so you're ready to go. 233 00:11:29,156 --> 00:11:33,224 [chris] all I gotta do now is just suck in up the little... 234 00:11:34,227 --> 00:11:37,262 Oh. Son of a bitch. 235 00:11:39,266 --> 00:11:40,131 Dude. 236 00:11:46,406 --> 00:11:49,340 [chris] I'm aborting my dive. Coming up. 237 00:11:49,376 --> 00:11:50,475 [man] the hot pressure line! 238 00:11:50,510 --> 00:11:52,911 The hot pressure line come off the dredge? 239 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:56,047 [chris] god, it [bleep] hurts. 240 00:11:57,250 --> 00:11:58,583 [laughing] 241 00:11:58,618 --> 00:12:01,519 chris mccully's dredge's already blowing apart. 242 00:12:01,555 --> 00:12:03,421 The high pressure line blew off. 243 00:12:05,492 --> 00:12:06,658 These [bleep] gloves. 244 00:12:06,693 --> 00:12:09,427 The hose tap blew off. Chris mccully's dredge. 245 00:12:10,497 --> 00:12:12,330 [kris] well, I'll take all the head starts 246 00:12:12,365 --> 00:12:14,532 anybody wants to give me in life. 247 00:12:14,568 --> 00:12:17,268 [narrator] with little chris forced to make a pit stop... 248 00:12:19,639 --> 00:12:21,873 ...Kris kelly has a chance to pull ahead 249 00:12:22,476 --> 00:12:24,709 if he can find the gold. 250 00:12:25,645 --> 00:12:28,213 [kris] okay. I'm moving. Just need this gold. 251 00:12:29,483 --> 00:12:31,149 [bleep] 252 00:12:31,184 --> 00:12:32,383 poor mccully. 253 00:12:33,987 --> 00:12:34,919 Pressure's on. 254 00:12:34,955 --> 00:12:37,122 All the gold mining experience in the world 255 00:12:38,258 --> 00:12:40,525 means nothing if your equipment doesn't work right. 256 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,360 You're sitting on the side of the boat. 257 00:12:44,197 --> 00:12:45,196 Are you seeing gold? 258 00:12:46,533 --> 00:12:48,199 No gold. 259 00:12:50,771 --> 00:12:52,437 As soon as I get back down there, 260 00:12:52,472 --> 00:12:54,773 I'm gonna tear it up like no tomorrow. 261 00:12:54,808 --> 00:12:57,175 Chris is scurrying to fix his dredge. 262 00:12:58,445 --> 00:12:59,778 [kris] no, still nothing. 263 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:03,181 Chris even dave mccully's racing around 264 00:13:03,216 --> 00:13:05,583 trying to get his dredge on, the competition's 265 00:13:05,619 --> 00:13:06,651 getting hot up here. 266 00:13:07,654 --> 00:13:09,854 [chris] I'm going back down there, just [bleep]. 267 00:13:09,890 --> 00:13:12,557 Walk around a bit and try and punch some holes in there. 268 00:13:12,592 --> 00:13:14,959 [kris] I am. I'm working here like crazy. 269 00:13:15,629 --> 00:13:17,428 Looking for the hot spot. 270 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,434 All my high-pressure lines are nice and tight, I'm ready. 271 00:13:23,470 --> 00:13:25,436 Chris got his hose fixed. 272 00:13:25,472 --> 00:13:26,704 Two minutes, he'll be back in the [bleep] water. 273 00:13:26,740 --> 00:13:28,439 I tell you, he hasn't lost much time. 274 00:13:29,543 --> 00:13:30,809 Okay, kris, 275 00:13:30,844 --> 00:13:34,679 mccully made his repairs, he's getting ready to come back down. 276 00:13:34,714 --> 00:13:38,183 [kris] here we go. Here we go. Oh, I found gold. 277 00:13:38,218 --> 00:13:39,184 [laughing] 278 00:13:39,653 --> 00:13:41,452 good job. Good job. 279 00:13:41,488 --> 00:13:43,221 [kris] there's gold here. 280 00:13:46,593 --> 00:13:48,593 [brad] chris mccully's back in the water, kris. 281 00:13:48,628 --> 00:13:52,297 [kris] okay, good. Game's on. 282 00:13:53,433 --> 00:13:54,999 [chris speaking] 283 00:13:56,336 --> 00:13:58,236 [laughing] 284 00:14:16,489 --> 00:14:18,756 [man speaking] 285 00:14:18,792 --> 00:14:20,391 [vernon] looks like he's gonna be a no-show. 286 00:14:20,427 --> 00:14:22,493 So much for dependable people, huh? 287 00:14:22,529 --> 00:14:23,628 Yeah. 288 00:14:23,663 --> 00:14:26,598 I'm telling you, good help is hard to find around here. 289 00:14:26,633 --> 00:14:28,600 To hell with him, let's get the lines off 290 00:14:28,635 --> 00:14:30,368 and get the hell out of here, would you? 291 00:14:30,403 --> 00:14:31,769 We'll have to do it without him. 292 00:14:31,805 --> 00:14:33,571 [narrator] needing over 20 ounces 293 00:14:33,607 --> 00:14:35,506 to pay off his new claim, 294 00:14:35,542 --> 00:14:37,742 skipper vernon adkison finds himself 295 00:14:37,777 --> 00:14:41,412 without his newest deck hand, steve riedel. 296 00:14:42,415 --> 00:14:43,681 [vernon] we're heading up the 50 stretch 297 00:14:43,717 --> 00:14:45,483 a little shorthanded today. 298 00:14:45,518 --> 00:14:48,853 This is a really a three-man operation, not counting me. 299 00:14:48,889 --> 00:14:51,656 It takes that to really operate this boat efficiently. 300 00:14:52,726 --> 00:14:57,295 What's the old saying? Fool me once, shame on you. 301 00:14:57,330 --> 00:14:59,197 Fool me twice, [bleep] you. 302 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,200 I knew it was a risk, hiring steve. 303 00:15:03,737 --> 00:15:05,470 Steve! Come on, damn it. 304 00:15:05,505 --> 00:15:06,537 What? 305 00:15:06,573 --> 00:15:09,574 But I needed an extra hand. 306 00:15:09,609 --> 00:15:11,509 Now, it's late in the season 307 00:15:11,544 --> 00:15:14,512 and we gotta have bottom time to pay off this claim. 308 00:15:14,547 --> 00:15:18,383 So I'm just gonna run two divers back to back. 309 00:15:18,418 --> 00:15:19,417 We'll make it happen. 310 00:15:22,822 --> 00:15:24,689 Oh, there's our buoy right there, boys. 311 00:15:24,724 --> 00:15:26,391 -[man 1] right on it. -[man 2] right on it. 312 00:15:26,426 --> 00:15:27,425 [vernon] we're gonna drop 313 00:15:27,460 --> 00:15:29,193 our anchor right on top of that sucker. 314 00:15:29,229 --> 00:15:30,094 Go ahead. 315 00:15:31,765 --> 00:15:35,266 All right, let's get after it, guys. Time's a-wasting. 316 00:15:35,302 --> 00:15:36,167 [man] all right. 317 00:15:40,941 --> 00:15:43,541 [vernon] these two guys here, jerry and bryan, 318 00:15:43,576 --> 00:15:46,244 they're top-notch, like, very conscientious, 319 00:15:46,279 --> 00:15:48,546 smart, and willing workers. 320 00:15:48,581 --> 00:15:50,548 People like that are hard to find. 321 00:15:50,583 --> 00:15:52,650 Plus they show up for work every day. 322 00:15:52,686 --> 00:15:53,685 You know, a big part of it. 323 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:57,355 Like, about 90% of the job is just showing up. 324 00:15:57,390 --> 00:16:00,458 Unlike riedel, well, he's totally undependable. 325 00:16:00,493 --> 00:16:01,526 Forget about him. 326 00:16:01,561 --> 00:16:04,295 If he shows up again, I might let him on board 327 00:16:04,331 --> 00:16:06,097 just long enough to fire him. 328 00:16:07,133 --> 00:16:08,266 Okay. 329 00:16:22,382 --> 00:16:26,084 [bryan] all right. Let's take a look. 330 00:16:37,931 --> 00:16:40,031 All right, give me a second here. 331 00:16:48,708 --> 00:16:52,543 That entry went pretty smooth. I was impressed. 332 00:16:52,579 --> 00:16:54,579 You said we needed three people. 333 00:16:54,614 --> 00:16:55,880 With bryan we're one hell of a team. 334 00:16:55,915 --> 00:16:59,317 I personally like it better when we've got an extra person 335 00:17:00,453 --> 00:17:01,819 to take some of the load off them. 336 00:17:01,855 --> 00:17:04,389 I mean, I want them to spend their energy down there 337 00:17:04,424 --> 00:17:05,323 doing that. 338 00:17:05,358 --> 00:17:07,458 If you got to do this top side job 339 00:17:07,494 --> 00:17:10,995 and go down there and dive in, it'll whoop your ass. 340 00:17:19,472 --> 00:17:21,172 [vernon] okay, you still in the cobble? 341 00:17:28,782 --> 00:17:31,949 [vernon] bryan, that's some really good-looking material. 342 00:17:49,636 --> 00:17:52,203 You know? I'm liking you better and better 343 00:17:52,238 --> 00:17:53,204 as time goes by. 344 00:17:53,239 --> 00:17:54,505 [laughing] 345 00:17:54,541 --> 00:17:57,341 the bottom is littered with gold down there. 346 00:17:59,612 --> 00:18:03,381 This is my private, little golden piggyback 347 00:18:03,416 --> 00:18:05,483 on the bottom of the bering sea. 348 00:18:05,518 --> 00:18:07,285 I couldn't ask for better than this. 349 00:18:11,558 --> 00:18:13,257 [narrator] two miles west... 350 00:18:18,932 --> 00:18:22,166 We cleaned up a little puddle of gold at vernon's claim. 351 00:18:22,202 --> 00:18:22,834 It was only two ounces. 352 00:18:23,970 --> 00:18:26,838 So my plan today is to just go down and prospect 353 00:18:26,873 --> 00:18:30,575 on vernon's claim to see if there's more good spots there. 354 00:18:30,610 --> 00:18:32,543 'cause if there aren't any more good spots there, 355 00:18:32,579 --> 00:18:33,878 I wanna move to a different claim. 356 00:18:33,913 --> 00:18:37,148 [narrator] as summer mining hits the final few weeks, 357 00:18:37,183 --> 00:18:39,584 nome's resident wizard is hoping to finally 358 00:18:39,619 --> 00:18:42,520 conjure up some gold-getting magic. 359 00:18:42,555 --> 00:18:43,621 Let's go. 360 00:18:43,656 --> 00:18:45,590 We get a bunch of waypoints. 361 00:18:46,593 --> 00:18:49,193 I'm not by any means in an optimal position. 362 00:18:49,229 --> 00:18:52,497 I've got a great sail-boat dredge platform now, 363 00:18:52,532 --> 00:18:53,831 but it's late in the season 364 00:18:53,867 --> 00:18:55,600 and we got to kick it in the overdrive. 365 00:18:55,635 --> 00:18:57,802 So I'm gonna try a new approach. 366 00:18:57,837 --> 00:19:00,505 Now I just need to, like, use this sailboat 367 00:19:00,540 --> 00:19:02,573 to find as many good spots as I can, 368 00:19:02,609 --> 00:19:05,476 'cause I don't really have a lot of spots in my gps. 369 00:19:05,512 --> 00:19:07,478 I call it speed prospecting. 370 00:19:07,514 --> 00:19:10,414 It's like speed dating, but instead of searching 371 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:13,918 for dates, you're searching for places to mine. 372 00:19:13,953 --> 00:19:16,220 I need to cover a lot of ground really quickly. 373 00:19:16,256 --> 00:19:17,822 If I see some good gold, 374 00:19:17,857 --> 00:19:20,625 I'm gonna, like, note it and move on. 375 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:22,827 And then I'll map that in the gps and be like, "okay. 376 00:19:22,862 --> 00:19:25,663 I'm gonna make a decision by the end of the day. 377 00:19:25,698 --> 00:19:28,799 Should I keep dating claim 56 or is there another claim 378 00:19:28,835 --> 00:19:30,701 out there that's a better match for me?" 379 00:19:30,737 --> 00:19:33,437 gonna drag the boat basically where the current 380 00:19:33,473 --> 00:19:35,606 allows me to drag it most easily 381 00:19:35,642 --> 00:19:38,843 and we might find anything interesting, I'll follow it. 382 00:19:38,878 --> 00:19:42,013 You don't find any treasure if you don't look for it. 383 00:19:42,448 --> 00:19:44,215 Let's start here! 384 00:19:55,428 --> 00:19:57,395 All right, here we go. 385 00:20:10,743 --> 00:20:12,143 Okay, let's do it. 386 00:20:29,562 --> 00:20:31,395 No gold so far, huh? 387 00:20:31,431 --> 00:20:32,296 [zeke] no. No good gold. 388 00:20:35,935 --> 00:20:36,968 [sam] are you dragging the boat around? 389 00:20:37,003 --> 00:20:40,338 Yeah, that should be easy. Just walk the boat along. 390 00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:20,945 -Hey, sam. -[sam] yo! 391 00:21:20,980 --> 00:21:22,747 [zeke] hey, this looks like a pretty good place. 392 00:21:23,516 --> 00:21:27,318 Let's mark this spot in the gps. 393 00:21:27,353 --> 00:21:29,287 Okay, I'll see what I can do. 394 00:21:38,531 --> 00:21:41,632 Now I'm wondering where the [bleep] is our hand-held gps. 395 00:21:41,668 --> 00:21:44,168 I should know where that is. 396 00:22:10,630 --> 00:22:11,629 What's that? 397 00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:14,465 Put another gps mark down. There's gold in here. 398 00:22:14,500 --> 00:22:19,003 It's not a lot, but, you know, it's some gold. 399 00:22:19,405 --> 00:22:21,105 Um... 400 00:22:58,144 --> 00:22:59,243 [sam] yeah. 401 00:22:59,278 --> 00:23:01,312 Just let me know if you wanna save another waypoint. 402 00:23:01,347 --> 00:23:02,980 [zeke] okay, sweet. 403 00:23:04,250 --> 00:23:05,416 [laughing] 404 00:23:31,911 --> 00:23:36,781 so there's three claims down east of alfa, bravo, charlie. 405 00:23:36,816 --> 00:23:39,116 [narrator] still looking to get in on the turf war, 406 00:23:39,152 --> 00:23:42,820 emily riedel maps out the small handful of claims 407 00:23:42,855 --> 00:23:44,588 on the most eastern end of nome. 408 00:23:44,624 --> 00:23:51,228 So alfa's four, bravo is six, and three is charlie. 409 00:23:52,598 --> 00:23:55,166 The whole goal of this season was to buy a claim, 410 00:23:55,201 --> 00:23:57,701 but winter's coming, and I still haven't found 411 00:23:57,737 --> 00:23:59,570 a claim that I'm excited about 412 00:23:59,605 --> 00:24:01,439 and a claim that I would be interested 413 00:24:01,474 --> 00:24:02,840 in investing that kind of money into. 414 00:24:03,743 --> 00:24:09,780 So I'm just eliminating three and four. 415 00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:12,750 I just didn't find any gold that was exciting 416 00:24:12,785 --> 00:24:15,820 that was close by, but I'm curious about six, 417 00:24:15,855 --> 00:24:19,723 I've heard reports of decent gold found there 418 00:24:19,759 --> 00:24:21,759 so I'm gonna make a trip down there 419 00:24:21,794 --> 00:24:25,729 and, you know, take a couple pens, so I'm gonna blow it up. 420 00:24:25,765 --> 00:24:28,132 Head down and do some prospecting. 421 00:24:30,503 --> 00:24:32,870 So I'm down to my last claim, claim 6. 422 00:24:32,905 --> 00:24:35,606 I'll do some test pans on it, but if I'm not 423 00:24:35,641 --> 00:24:38,609 really seeing much, I might be out of luck. 424 00:24:38,644 --> 00:24:41,645 I might have to, like, halt my claim search this year. 425 00:24:42,582 --> 00:24:45,649 So if I'm not able to find a good option, 426 00:24:45,685 --> 00:24:48,118 then that would be really disappointing. 427 00:24:52,291 --> 00:24:53,958 Oh, hey, there's george. 428 00:24:58,598 --> 00:25:00,464 -Hey, how are you doing? -Hey, em. 429 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:02,132 Good, how are you doing? 430 00:25:02,535 --> 00:25:03,601 [emily] good! 431 00:25:03,636 --> 00:25:10,307 Bering sea is right out there. Not bad for a rookie. 432 00:25:12,645 --> 00:25:14,111 What do you know? 433 00:25:15,414 --> 00:25:16,547 Long time no see. 434 00:25:16,582 --> 00:25:18,482 What are you up to? I haven't seen you this year. 435 00:25:18,518 --> 00:25:21,085 Yeah. Hi, good to see you. I know, it's been a long time. 436 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:22,419 It's been a couple of years, I think. 437 00:25:22,455 --> 00:25:25,523 Yeah, I think so. So what's going on? 438 00:25:25,558 --> 00:25:29,727 Well, I'm not-- I think like you might know 439 00:25:29,762 --> 00:25:31,395 what I'm looking for actually. 440 00:25:31,430 --> 00:25:33,697 I'm looking for some of the claims 441 00:25:33,733 --> 00:25:35,666 that are down here on the river. 442 00:25:35,701 --> 00:25:40,170 Yeah, we own 9, 11 and 12 right over here. 443 00:25:40,573 --> 00:25:41,972 -Okay. -Um, 444 00:25:42,008 --> 00:25:45,075 so are you interested in purchasings or are you more... 445 00:25:45,711 --> 00:25:47,378 I mean, what are you thinking? 446 00:25:47,413 --> 00:25:49,747 Yeah, I'm-- I'm sorta, like, kicking tires, 447 00:25:49,782 --> 00:25:51,682 -proverbial lease tires right now. -Yeah. 448 00:25:51,717 --> 00:25:54,385 Six hasn't been hit very hard. 449 00:25:54,420 --> 00:25:56,420 I actually, um, six was on my list. 450 00:25:56,455 --> 00:25:58,856 Six is owned by ken kerr. 451 00:25:59,258 --> 00:26:00,824 Okay. By ken? 452 00:26:00,860 --> 00:26:04,361 You know, I mean, he's always someone to talk to about that. 453 00:26:04,397 --> 00:26:06,330 I know. I think ken and I are cool. 454 00:26:06,365 --> 00:26:07,631 I mean, I kinda give him a hard time 455 00:26:07,667 --> 00:26:10,267 for almost washing the myrtle irene up 456 00:26:10,303 --> 00:26:11,969 onto the beach last year. 457 00:26:15,374 --> 00:26:16,640 [laughs] 458 00:26:16,676 --> 00:26:21,211 ken... Ken kerr. That might be a little bit of a problem. 459 00:26:22,715 --> 00:26:24,415 You have the forecast that's calling 460 00:26:24,450 --> 00:26:27,685 for 45-mile-an-hour winds with this crazy storm 461 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,988 out of russia, you get the hell out. 462 00:26:31,023 --> 00:26:33,624 But ken just has no respect for the bering sea, 463 00:26:33,659 --> 00:26:35,359 and this it what happens. 464 00:26:35,394 --> 00:26:37,328 This is what happens when you don't respect the bering sea. 465 00:26:38,764 --> 00:26:39,897 Good luck out there. 466 00:26:39,932 --> 00:26:41,699 -Well, thanks, george. Good to see you. -Oh, my pleasure. 467 00:26:41,734 --> 00:26:43,367 -All right. Talk to you soon. -Have a good day. 468 00:26:43,402 --> 00:26:44,768 You, too. 469 00:26:44,804 --> 00:26:46,637 I don't know if ken likes me well enough 470 00:26:46,672 --> 00:26:49,506 or has a short enough memory to sell me claim 6, 471 00:26:49,542 --> 00:26:53,110 but first thing's first, gotta see if there's gold there. 472 00:27:10,896 --> 00:27:14,231 It doesn't seem like this will be gold-bearing. 473 00:27:16,702 --> 00:27:17,735 This is it. 474 00:27:17,770 --> 00:27:21,372 Claim 6 is really the last option out here for me. 475 00:27:21,407 --> 00:27:23,407 So if claim 6 doesn't work out, 476 00:27:23,409 --> 00:27:26,343 I'll be stuck in the rut of paying endless 477 00:27:26,379 --> 00:27:27,277 lease royalties. 478 00:27:31,183 --> 00:27:32,182 Oh, my gosh. 479 00:27:32,518 --> 00:27:35,319 [laughing] 480 00:27:35,354 --> 00:27:39,757 look. Oh, that's beautiful. 481 00:27:40,693 --> 00:27:44,662 I've never seen such coarse beach gold before. 482 00:27:44,697 --> 00:27:47,765 This is some really frickin' nice gold. 483 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,933 This is such a good pan, I don't wanna throw it out. 484 00:27:49,969 --> 00:27:52,970 I'm surprisingly finding a couple pieces of coarse gold. 485 00:27:53,005 --> 00:27:56,306 It was-- basically, on the beach is pretty rare. 486 00:27:56,342 --> 00:27:57,307 So this is exciting. 487 00:27:57,343 --> 00:27:59,076 This could mean a lot for claim 6. 488 00:28:00,780 --> 00:28:02,579 Take some of that, run it. 489 00:28:03,416 --> 00:28:05,616 This could be a fluke. Hopefully not. 490 00:28:05,651 --> 00:28:08,652 I really like what I see, so I'm gonna take some buckets 491 00:28:08,688 --> 00:28:09,753 back to town and run them. 492 00:28:09,789 --> 00:28:11,755 This gives me a pretty good feeling about claim 6. 493 00:28:11,791 --> 00:28:15,325 It could, uh... This could be the one. 494 00:28:16,796 --> 00:28:19,496 Process it and see how much gold I just pulled 495 00:28:19,532 --> 00:28:21,031 out of the area. 496 00:28:21,067 --> 00:28:21,965 Whoo! 497 00:28:25,504 --> 00:28:28,205 [narrator] twelve miles west... 498 00:28:33,846 --> 00:28:37,648 [shawn] hello, ladies and gentlemen. 499 00:28:37,683 --> 00:28:39,650 Welcome to the gold show. 500 00:28:40,486 --> 00:28:45,022 We're here for fun and good times. 501 00:28:47,460 --> 00:28:49,793 [narrator] the myrtle irene is repositioned 502 00:28:49,829 --> 00:28:53,530 and now side by side with the christine rose. 503 00:28:53,532 --> 00:28:56,667 I've been wanting to dig in this spot for a long time. 504 00:28:56,702 --> 00:28:59,403 Especially with something this big. 505 00:28:59,438 --> 00:29:01,872 [narrator] as mr. Gold hopes his new behemoth 506 00:29:01,907 --> 00:29:04,641 hits the same pay streak his trusted dredge 507 00:29:04,677 --> 00:29:07,211 has been camped on for days. 508 00:29:07,246 --> 00:29:08,779 [shawn] it's all gravel. 509 00:29:08,814 --> 00:29:12,216 If it has brown rock in it, it's got gold in it. 510 00:29:16,722 --> 00:29:18,655 I moved the myrtle in the shallower water 511 00:29:18,691 --> 00:29:20,657 next to the christine rose. 512 00:29:20,693 --> 00:29:23,527 I've got to tap into that pay streak 'cause I need to see 513 00:29:23,562 --> 00:29:25,729 a lot of gold and I need to see it fast. 514 00:29:25,765 --> 00:29:27,798 We gotta step it up big time, 515 00:29:27,833 --> 00:29:31,335 'cause if not, I'm not gonna take over nome 516 00:29:31,370 --> 00:29:32,569 and I'm gonna go bankrupt. 517 00:29:32,605 --> 00:29:34,271 It'll happen that fast. 518 00:29:36,642 --> 00:29:41,879 Cody was... Did a couple cuts and he's getting really good. 519 00:29:41,914 --> 00:29:46,416 But now, christine rose's boys are dead in the water. 520 00:29:50,289 --> 00:29:51,955 Pop went out in the cr. 521 00:29:51,991 --> 00:29:56,960 Hydraulic pump went out and... Mood stuck down in the water. 522 00:29:57,863 --> 00:30:00,597 Christine rose's hydraulic pump shut. 523 00:30:00,633 --> 00:30:04,001 The excavator's bucket's stuck to the bottom. 524 00:30:04,036 --> 00:30:05,536 This is the worst possible time for something 525 00:30:05,571 --> 00:30:06,837 like this to happen. 526 00:30:06,872 --> 00:30:09,439 Right now, everything is riding on the myrtle irene. 527 00:30:10,176 --> 00:30:11,008 Everything. 528 00:30:12,178 --> 00:30:14,711 Okay, when we moved and got to this spot, 529 00:30:14,747 --> 00:30:17,347 it's the best ground I've ever seen. 530 00:30:17,383 --> 00:30:18,515 I've never seen anything like it. 531 00:30:18,551 --> 00:30:20,751 Oh, it's heavy too. 532 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,322 [dave] there's all that gold waiting for us. 533 00:30:25,357 --> 00:30:27,357 Doesn't he want to pick it up. 534 00:30:27,393 --> 00:30:29,359 [laughing] 535 00:30:34,967 --> 00:30:40,704 [shawn] seems like when the gold's the best, more things break. 536 00:30:40,739 --> 00:30:42,406 This heavy material was too much 537 00:30:42,441 --> 00:30:43,774 for the christine rose's arm. 538 00:30:43,809 --> 00:30:45,909 I hope this doesn't happen with the myrtle. 539 00:30:45,945 --> 00:30:51,348 The myrtle arm's stronger and it can go down 15 feet deeper. 540 00:30:55,354 --> 00:30:56,987 Oh! 541 00:31:07,366 --> 00:31:10,100 We're down deep right here. 542 00:31:14,373 --> 00:31:17,007 I've never been able to dig this deep. 543 00:31:18,344 --> 00:31:20,143 A lot bigger excavator. 544 00:31:22,514 --> 00:31:25,749 I knew there was gold here, but I was, like, 545 00:31:25,784 --> 00:31:26,884 trying to get into the cookie jar 546 00:31:26,919 --> 00:31:29,386 when you're a little kid, but you could never reach it. 547 00:31:30,522 --> 00:31:31,755 We can reach it now, dave. 548 00:31:31,790 --> 00:31:35,726 We're getting there. It's going to be very thrilling. 549 00:31:36,729 --> 00:31:39,263 We're into the good stuff. I'm certain of that. 550 00:31:39,298 --> 00:31:40,864 We're gonna go check the box. 551 00:31:41,834 --> 00:31:43,667 But with the christine rose being broke down, 552 00:31:43,702 --> 00:31:45,402 we need to make sure the myrtle irene's 553 00:31:45,437 --> 00:31:46,436 getting all of it. 554 00:31:46,472 --> 00:31:48,238 And make sure there's no design flaw. 555 00:31:49,441 --> 00:31:51,308 Seeing any gold in there, shawn? 556 00:31:51,343 --> 00:31:53,176 Yeah, I'm seeing some up here. 557 00:31:55,848 --> 00:31:59,283 We're definitely in some really good gold here. 558 00:31:59,318 --> 00:32:01,518 Tons of fine gold, too. 559 00:32:01,553 --> 00:32:02,619 Yeah, there is. 560 00:32:02,655 --> 00:32:04,488 Who knows how much. 561 00:32:04,523 --> 00:32:06,290 Let's get her running again. 562 00:32:12,564 --> 00:32:15,165 [shawn] are we making money now, boys? 563 00:32:18,304 --> 00:32:20,470 I think we're doing it, buddy. 564 00:32:20,506 --> 00:32:24,408 There's a reason I bought the tomcod for 1.6 million. 565 00:32:25,544 --> 00:32:28,612 It wasn't because there was no gold here. 566 00:32:28,647 --> 00:32:33,417 It was because there's gold here, and there's a lot of it. 567 00:32:37,489 --> 00:32:38,855 Hello and welcome to another edition 568 00:32:38,891 --> 00:32:41,425 of kris kelly's secret guide to successful mining. 569 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:44,027 Today we're gonna be talking about claim jumping. 570 00:32:45,230 --> 00:32:46,964 [bullets firing] 571 00:32:47,866 --> 00:32:50,300 so the definition of claim jumping is working 572 00:32:50,336 --> 00:32:51,735 on someone's land 573 00:32:51,770 --> 00:32:52,803 that you don't have permission to be on. 574 00:32:52,838 --> 00:32:54,771 Just so you know, it's not good to claim jump. 575 00:32:54,807 --> 00:32:56,707 So right now I'm gonna bring in a specialist 576 00:32:56,742 --> 00:32:59,409 on the matter, brad kelly. Come on and explain. 577 00:32:59,445 --> 00:33:00,544 Good. 578 00:33:00,579 --> 00:33:02,379 Thank you for having me on your show, kris. 579 00:33:02,414 --> 00:33:04,514 I really don't know a lot about this subject, 580 00:33:04,550 --> 00:33:06,683 but I have been out there and had a few instances where 581 00:33:06,719 --> 00:33:08,251 I've been accused of doing that. 582 00:33:08,287 --> 00:33:09,619 So what are the dos and don'ts of this? 583 00:33:09,655 --> 00:33:13,223 What do people... Let's just say, they run into that situation, 584 00:33:13,258 --> 00:33:14,291 the dos and don'ts. 585 00:33:16,695 --> 00:33:19,629 Let's start with don't. First of all, don't get caught. 586 00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:22,265 That's the first of the don'ts, okay? 587 00:33:22,301 --> 00:33:23,567 Don't get caught. 588 00:33:23,602 --> 00:33:26,370 The second don't is don't admit to anything. 589 00:33:26,405 --> 00:33:27,537 Admit you broke down. 590 00:33:27,573 --> 00:33:29,573 "I broke down, I got engine problems." 591 00:33:29,608 --> 00:33:31,575 even if the dredge is running full blast, 592 00:33:31,610 --> 00:33:33,610 just tell them you're trying to get a rock jam out 593 00:33:33,645 --> 00:33:35,479 that's caught between the motors 594 00:33:35,514 --> 00:33:37,114 and you're trying to suck it out. 595 00:33:37,149 --> 00:33:38,749 Make up any story, they'll believe it. People are stupid. 596 00:33:38,784 --> 00:33:41,418 They're like cattle, one leads, they all follow. 597 00:33:41,453 --> 00:33:43,754 And then, uh, always blame the other guy. 598 00:33:43,789 --> 00:33:45,722 Just say, "I thought you were in charge of the coordinates." 599 00:33:45,758 --> 00:33:48,425 "I thought I was in charge of the coordinates, 600 00:33:48,460 --> 00:33:49,593 and we don't even have coordinates." 601 00:33:49,628 --> 00:33:51,528 you're doing a smack confusion. 602 00:33:51,563 --> 00:33:53,196 Yeah, you know, moving on to the next thing. 603 00:33:53,232 --> 00:33:55,365 These are the top five excuses for when you're being 604 00:33:55,401 --> 00:33:57,100 accused of claim jumping. 605 00:33:57,603 --> 00:33:59,669 [bullets firing] 606 00:33:59,705 --> 00:34:02,672 I try and use the stars to navigate all the time, 607 00:34:02,708 --> 00:34:04,875 but during the day, it's tough. 608 00:34:04,910 --> 00:34:07,544 You know, it's tough, you can't see the stars. 609 00:34:07,579 --> 00:34:11,381 The tides have shifted and we've moved off course. Yeah. 610 00:34:11,417 --> 00:34:13,250 [cuckoo sound] 611 00:34:13,285 --> 00:34:13,917 gold fever. 612 00:34:13,952 --> 00:34:15,552 You just don't give a [bleep]. 613 00:34:15,587 --> 00:34:17,821 You don't listen to anybody, you don't care. 614 00:34:17,856 --> 00:34:20,490 You're just gold hungry and you just-- 615 00:34:20,526 --> 00:34:22,325 you want the gold at any cost. 616 00:34:22,361 --> 00:34:23,560 And you're trying to use courtesy. 617 00:34:23,595 --> 00:34:25,896 If you get caught on a claim, always be courteous, 618 00:34:25,931 --> 00:34:26,863 turn the other cheek. 619 00:34:26,899 --> 00:34:29,900 You could be hungover from the night before 620 00:34:29,935 --> 00:34:31,501 and you just got off track. 621 00:34:31,537 --> 00:34:33,136 What else do you wanna know? 622 00:34:33,172 --> 00:34:34,137 So next on the list. 623 00:34:34,173 --> 00:34:36,773 What happens when you get caught claim jumping? 624 00:34:36,809 --> 00:34:38,642 Well, it depends. If you're already on it six 625 00:34:38,677 --> 00:34:41,478 or eight hours, I'd call it and say, "you had a good day." 626 00:34:41,513 --> 00:34:42,913 "you've had a good day of mining." 627 00:34:42,948 --> 00:34:47,184 well, this is a definitely do-not-listen-to-brad, you know? 628 00:34:47,219 --> 00:34:48,418 Try not to claim jump. 629 00:34:48,454 --> 00:34:50,587 Don't go around people like this. 630 00:34:50,622 --> 00:34:52,189 We've done it many times. Gold fever. 631 00:34:52,224 --> 00:34:53,523 I haven't been on that. 632 00:34:53,559 --> 00:34:55,025 You were on that ship. 633 00:34:55,060 --> 00:34:56,426 -No. No, I wasn't. -You were right there. You're the first 634 00:34:56,462 --> 00:34:57,594 I'd ever doubt actually. 635 00:34:57,629 --> 00:35:00,497 I don't recollect the memory. 636 00:35:00,532 --> 00:35:02,499 I have no idea what you're talking about. 637 00:35:02,534 --> 00:35:03,767 I don't recommend claim jumping. 638 00:35:03,802 --> 00:35:06,970 I recommend getting lost on a very rich gold claim 639 00:35:07,005 --> 00:35:09,339 and just calling it your ground. 640 00:35:20,385 --> 00:35:21,685 [man] how's it going down there, champ? 641 00:35:21,720 --> 00:35:25,255 [kris] I said there was good gold on this the whole time. 642 00:35:25,290 --> 00:35:27,023 And I'm still on gold. 643 00:35:27,059 --> 00:35:29,326 Gold's in almost, like, every crack. 644 00:35:30,229 --> 00:35:31,294 All right, that's good. 645 00:35:32,564 --> 00:35:34,364 [narrator] round one nears the end 646 00:35:34,399 --> 00:35:36,399 in the epic battle of the dredges, 647 00:35:36,435 --> 00:35:39,302 as kris kelly aims to impress his boss 648 00:35:39,338 --> 00:35:41,004 and land a new partnership. 649 00:35:43,775 --> 00:35:45,308 Okay, you guys, you guys have been down there, 650 00:35:45,344 --> 00:35:46,510 like, five hours each now. 651 00:35:46,545 --> 00:35:48,211 Let's ramp it up. 652 00:35:50,382 --> 00:35:52,582 [kris] okay, I'm coming up. 653 00:35:52,618 --> 00:35:55,952 It's over for you too, bro. Time's done. 654 00:35:57,256 --> 00:35:58,388 [chris] coming up. 655 00:35:58,423 --> 00:36:01,458 So far we had a good day. Gone real good. 656 00:36:01,493 --> 00:36:05,128 Young chris had a few minor technical problems. 657 00:36:05,164 --> 00:36:06,029 Nothing serious. 658 00:36:09,835 --> 00:36:12,335 So right now I'm trying to get more gold than anybody 659 00:36:12,371 --> 00:36:13,436 in this contest. 660 00:36:13,472 --> 00:36:15,472 I really am trying to show dave mccully 661 00:36:15,507 --> 00:36:18,341 what the kellys are made of so we can land a deal 662 00:36:18,377 --> 00:36:19,476 for the rest of the summer. 663 00:36:19,511 --> 00:36:21,244 -Yeah, baby! -Yeah! 664 00:36:23,348 --> 00:36:24,514 I don't wanna get cocky right now, 665 00:36:24,550 --> 00:36:26,249 but I think we're gonna pull this up. 666 00:36:31,557 --> 00:36:34,024 [laughing] hey, I'm glad you got gold. 667 00:36:36,995 --> 00:36:39,396 It's my turn to get down there and beat 'em both. 668 00:36:44,002 --> 00:36:47,370 My money would have to be definitely on andy to get more gold. 669 00:36:48,307 --> 00:36:49,806 Quieter. Easier to work with. 670 00:36:49,841 --> 00:36:52,008 Not a lot of complaints out of him. 671 00:36:52,044 --> 00:36:54,811 If he needs a cigarette, I just take it out and put it on the snorkel 672 00:36:54,846 --> 00:36:58,114 and the air compressor sucks it down to him and he'd be happy. 673 00:36:58,617 --> 00:37:00,317 He's a happy camper. 674 00:37:01,820 --> 00:37:03,687 We're gonna bring andy into the competition 675 00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:05,989 to show off what he can do. 676 00:37:06,024 --> 00:37:06,489 Good to go. 677 00:37:06,525 --> 00:37:07,557 He's a power horse. 678 00:37:07,593 --> 00:37:09,392 He's gonna make a lot of gold for me. 679 00:37:10,262 --> 00:37:12,095 I hope he doesn't beat me. 680 00:37:13,732 --> 00:37:15,365 I don't think so. I'm a tough guy to beat. 681 00:37:17,903 --> 00:37:19,736 We just want to show dave that when it comes 682 00:37:19,771 --> 00:37:22,339 to getting gold, you want the kellys on your team. 683 00:37:27,579 --> 00:37:29,246 [laughing] 684 00:37:30,449 --> 00:37:31,881 looks like you're having twins. 685 00:37:32,384 --> 00:37:34,117 I'm gonna be uncle kris. 686 00:37:34,152 --> 00:37:36,086 [laughing] 687 00:37:38,390 --> 00:37:40,190 come on, andy. Don't screw this up. 688 00:37:52,771 --> 00:37:54,371 [brad] okay, andy. You're going good 689 00:37:54,406 --> 00:37:55,505 in this gold competition. 690 00:37:55,540 --> 00:37:57,607 Now come on, you better make these other 691 00:37:57,643 --> 00:37:59,242 two guys look sorry. 692 00:38:06,952 --> 00:38:08,418 What are you seeing down there, andy? 693 00:38:08,453 --> 00:38:10,153 Are you seeing any gold? 694 00:38:16,461 --> 00:38:18,695 Oh, he's in serious mode right now, andy. 695 00:38:19,564 --> 00:38:21,531 That's what's going on. He's just quiet. 696 00:38:21,566 --> 00:38:24,200 He won't talk now till he finds gold. 697 00:38:26,605 --> 00:38:29,139 [andy] oh, [bleep]. Look at that gold. 698 00:38:34,746 --> 00:38:37,213 [brad] that means there's blocks of gold going in the box. 699 00:38:40,485 --> 00:38:43,219 Are you singing down there we are the champions? 700 00:38:43,255 --> 00:38:44,321 What's going on? 701 00:38:53,799 --> 00:38:55,865 [kris] right now, andy's crushing it. 702 00:38:55,901 --> 00:38:57,100 I'm pretty sure I crushed it. 703 00:38:57,135 --> 00:39:00,603 When dave sees all that gold, a partnership is in the works. 704 00:39:00,639 --> 00:39:01,738 Never count the kellys out. 705 00:39:01,773 --> 00:39:03,707 I mean, we're never gonna give up. 706 00:39:04,943 --> 00:39:08,211 Wanna ask dave if he wants to give up on the bet right now. 707 00:39:09,781 --> 00:39:11,748 Regardless of competition or not, 708 00:39:11,783 --> 00:39:14,617 there seems to be a bit of gold in this small area. 709 00:39:14,653 --> 00:39:17,153 So we should do pretty good for the season. 710 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,160 [narrator] thirteen miles east... 711 00:39:29,701 --> 00:39:31,601 [vernon] he's crushing it right now. 712 00:39:31,636 --> 00:39:33,570 I mean, we're on really good gold. 713 00:39:33,605 --> 00:39:36,039 He's seeing a lot of visible gold down there. 714 00:39:38,310 --> 00:39:39,709 [bleep], maybe I'll just stay home. 715 00:39:39,745 --> 00:39:41,611 Maybe I'll turn the boat over to you, you know, 716 00:39:41,646 --> 00:39:43,546 and I'll sit back in the tall weeds 717 00:39:43,582 --> 00:39:45,248 and collect my royalties. 718 00:39:45,283 --> 00:39:46,349 I would love that. 719 00:39:46,385 --> 00:39:47,650 [narrator] despite being down a man, 720 00:39:47,686 --> 00:39:50,787 vernon adkison's strong summer continues 721 00:39:50,822 --> 00:39:54,858 as he edges ever closer to paying off claim 56. 722 00:39:55,494 --> 00:39:56,593 [vernon] the guys are happy. 723 00:39:56,628 --> 00:39:59,729 Bryan's extremely happy, jerry's happy. 724 00:39:59,765 --> 00:40:03,366 And I say we're gonna have a nice pile of gold. 725 00:40:09,408 --> 00:40:11,007 All right. 726 00:40:11,610 --> 00:40:12,675 We had a no show. 727 00:40:12,711 --> 00:40:14,711 Riedel was supposed to come out with us today 728 00:40:14,746 --> 00:40:18,415 and he, typical riedel, didn't show up. 729 00:40:19,684 --> 00:40:22,485 You know. "hi, bye." kiss my ass. Nothing. 730 00:40:22,521 --> 00:40:24,587 Just didn't show up. 731 00:40:24,623 --> 00:40:29,092 So, um, I'm done with him yet once again. 732 00:40:30,061 --> 00:40:32,562 But, um, maybe I'll see him tomorrow. 733 00:40:32,597 --> 00:40:34,164 I hope to see him-- 734 00:40:34,199 --> 00:40:36,065 [bryan grunting] 735 00:40:37,235 --> 00:40:41,671 [grunting] 736 00:40:41,706 --> 00:40:44,140 hey, bryan. How are you holding up? 737 00:40:44,176 --> 00:40:45,175 How are you feeling? 738 00:40:59,291 --> 00:41:01,124 [grunts] 739 00:41:05,397 --> 00:41:07,397 you're having trouble with your ears? 740 00:41:07,432 --> 00:41:08,298 [bryan] yeah. 741 00:41:14,673 --> 00:41:17,540 Yeah, yeah. Come on up. Come on up. 742 00:41:17,576 --> 00:41:21,845 [breathing heavily] 743 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:26,015 [vernon] pull him in. He's having ear problems. 744 00:41:26,718 --> 00:41:28,218 Let's take that off of him. 745 00:41:31,556 --> 00:41:33,389 Ah, [bleep]. 746 00:41:33,425 --> 00:41:34,991 Is it bad? 747 00:41:36,127 --> 00:41:38,394 [vernon] you've got blood coming out of every orifice. 748 00:41:39,764 --> 00:41:41,431 So I'd say, yeah, it's bad. 749 00:41:52,143 --> 00:41:53,109 What? 750 00:41:53,411 --> 00:41:54,644 [bleep] 751 00:41:54,679 --> 00:41:56,412 [vernon] okay, come on. 752 00:41:56,448 --> 00:41:57,480 [bryan] oh, [bleep]. 753 00:41:57,516 --> 00:41:58,414 Something's wrong. 754 00:42:06,291 --> 00:42:07,423 [vernon] watch your head. 755 00:42:09,628 --> 00:42:11,961 Damn, bryan. Come on in. 756 00:42:11,997 --> 00:42:16,299 That does not look good. So what happened? 757 00:42:16,334 --> 00:42:18,601 I was down there and started hearing cracking and popping. 758 00:42:18,637 --> 00:42:20,703 Then I just felt tracked, aimed. 759 00:42:20,739 --> 00:42:22,505 Like, "[bleep], something's not right. 760 00:42:22,541 --> 00:42:23,907 I got to come up." 761 00:42:23,942 --> 00:42:25,808 yeah, we have to get you to the doctor, man. 762 00:42:25,844 --> 00:42:28,144 [bryan] I hope I didn't pop my ear drums. 763 00:42:29,614 --> 00:42:31,447 [vernon] can you still hear okay? 764 00:42:31,483 --> 00:42:33,550 [bryan] no. Freaking, like, all mumble. 765 00:42:33,585 --> 00:42:35,952 It sounds like water's in there or something, man. 766 00:42:35,987 --> 00:42:39,122 Something's major wrong. There's something wrong, man. 767 00:42:42,427 --> 00:42:45,495 Get yourself out of that wet suit. Get dried off. 768 00:42:45,530 --> 00:42:49,232 And we're going back to town and get you taken care of. 769 00:42:52,270 --> 00:42:53,369 Damn. 770 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,707 He might've went too deep too fast. 771 00:42:58,944 --> 00:43:01,644 I hope I'm not [bleep] for the rest of the season, you know? 772 00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,379 I hope I didn't blow my ear drums, 773 00:43:03,415 --> 00:43:05,448 'cause it's not looking good. 774 00:43:05,483 --> 00:43:07,684 So we'll take him up into town and make sure 775 00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:09,886 there is nothing drastic wrong with him. 776 00:43:10,722 --> 00:43:13,189 So right now, that's got me worried. 777 00:43:20,565 --> 00:43:22,231 [narrator] back in nome... 778 00:43:32,611 --> 00:43:34,377 I got to do some beach prospecting 779 00:43:34,412 --> 00:43:37,714 and I saw some really exciting signs 780 00:43:38,283 --> 00:43:41,918 about the claim number 6. 781 00:43:41,953 --> 00:43:43,553 If the sand looks anything like what I just found 782 00:43:43,588 --> 00:43:46,122 on the beach, like, I'm excited. 783 00:43:46,157 --> 00:43:47,724 [narrator] it's time to emily riedel 784 00:43:47,759 --> 00:43:50,693 to find out if claim 6 is the real deal. 785 00:43:51,663 --> 00:43:56,499 The claim is owned by ken kerr and, you know, 786 00:43:56,534 --> 00:43:59,836 I know he's focusing a lot of his efforts kinda down west 787 00:43:59,871 --> 00:44:03,640 with the serf crawlers so he might be willing to part 788 00:44:03,675 --> 00:44:05,608 with it and, you know, I kinda wanna see what 789 00:44:05,644 --> 00:44:11,047 this cleanup turns into before I decide whether to go 790 00:44:11,082 --> 00:44:13,950 and ask for permission from ken to take the eroica down. 791 00:44:17,722 --> 00:44:19,956 Think I'm about done here. 792 00:44:21,459 --> 00:44:23,092 Holy [bleep]. 793 00:44:25,497 --> 00:44:26,629 Yeah. 794 00:44:27,532 --> 00:44:30,099 Pretty nice freaking gold from the beach. 795 00:44:30,669 --> 00:44:32,969 Damn good. 796 00:44:34,906 --> 00:44:37,340 Yeah, that's just from that one spot. 797 00:44:37,375 --> 00:44:38,708 That one sample. 798 00:44:38,743 --> 00:44:40,710 It's pretty amazing, I mean, it's like 799 00:44:40,745 --> 00:44:43,613 almost half an ounce. [exclaims excitedly] 800 00:44:43,648 --> 00:44:46,849 oh, my god. Freaking incredible. 801 00:44:46,885 --> 00:44:52,155 I'll dry this out, weight it and, uh, talk to ken. 802 00:44:52,190 --> 00:44:55,892 I've handled out the samples from claim 6 and it looks amazing. 803 00:44:55,927 --> 00:44:59,429 Looks really incredible, so it means that claim 6 804 00:44:59,464 --> 00:45:00,630 could be loaded. 805 00:45:00,665 --> 00:45:02,832 I'm not gonna mention to ken that I found some really 806 00:45:02,867 --> 00:45:07,603 nice gold on his claim, but, hopefully, ken and I are cool. 807 00:45:08,573 --> 00:45:11,474 I've got to get the boat out to prospect claim 6, 808 00:45:11,509 --> 00:45:13,376 but in order to get access to the claim, 809 00:45:13,411 --> 00:45:15,411 I've got to go chat with ken first. 810 00:45:15,447 --> 00:45:17,380 This could be the difference between having 811 00:45:17,415 --> 00:45:19,015 a future in nome or not. 812 00:45:19,384 --> 00:45:20,650 Whoo. 813 00:45:20,685 --> 00:45:23,252 This is some pretty freaking rich material. 814 00:45:28,393 --> 00:45:30,093 [narrator] two miles east... 815 00:45:38,937 --> 00:45:41,537 [zeke] so I'm just trying to, like, cover as much ground 816 00:45:41,573 --> 00:45:43,706 as much as possible. 817 00:45:43,742 --> 00:45:48,778 [narrator] zeke tenhoff is still speed dating claim 56. 818 00:45:48,813 --> 00:45:50,546 Looking for a piece of ground worth having 819 00:45:50,582 --> 00:45:52,281 a relationship with. 820 00:45:53,485 --> 00:45:56,319 So far already, we've got, like, seven or eight points, 821 00:45:56,354 --> 00:45:57,587 just from today. 822 00:45:57,622 --> 00:46:02,024 But nothing big. We've got to keep looking for that hot spot. 823 00:46:05,196 --> 00:46:06,963 Not so far. 824 00:46:09,834 --> 00:46:12,602 [zeke] I'm kinda sick of this, like, meaning, like, 825 00:46:12,637 --> 00:46:15,571 long periods of time finding nothing at all. 826 00:46:16,674 --> 00:46:19,375 I've been walking over the sand for a long time now, 827 00:46:19,410 --> 00:46:21,944 it's a big sand field. 828 00:46:21,980 --> 00:46:23,446 [sam] keep it up for another half hour or so 829 00:46:23,481 --> 00:46:25,148 and we'll see where we're at. 830 00:46:26,284 --> 00:46:27,517 Yeah. 831 00:46:27,552 --> 00:46:30,353 I think we're gonna find a big ol' patch of greasy gold. 832 00:46:31,556 --> 00:46:33,589 There's nothing but cobble over here. 833 00:46:34,359 --> 00:46:36,259 I'm just gonna look in this hole. 834 00:46:41,866 --> 00:46:44,033 Can't see any gold here. 835 00:46:46,437 --> 00:46:48,337 I'll keep walking a little bit deeper, 836 00:46:48,373 --> 00:46:50,106 I guess, and then we'll see. 837 00:46:50,608 --> 00:46:52,408 [sam] sounds good. 838 00:47:04,789 --> 00:47:07,290 Well, it's blowing hard right now actually. 839 00:47:09,727 --> 00:47:11,694 [zeke] it's blowing on the boat 840 00:47:11,729 --> 00:47:14,297 and, you know, the anchor wants to drag. 841 00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:17,567 Hey, uh, can you let some more anchor line out? 842 00:47:17,602 --> 00:47:20,403 The anchor won't hold at all anymore 'cause we're so deep. 843 00:47:23,174 --> 00:47:24,373 [grunts] 844 00:47:27,111 --> 00:47:28,010 hey. 845 00:47:30,515 --> 00:47:32,949 We've got schizophrenic weather in alaska. 846 00:47:32,984 --> 00:47:38,955 It's pissing rain one day and then it switches to sunny and windy. 847 00:47:46,264 --> 00:47:47,230 [laughs] 848 00:47:48,466 --> 00:47:51,868 [zeke] sam, come. Can you please. Come. 849 00:47:51,903 --> 00:47:55,404 So it was raining and cloudy and a strong 850 00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,006 north wind just blew it all out. 851 00:47:58,376 --> 00:48:00,676 I just, like, want to smoke a cigarette. 852 00:48:00,712 --> 00:48:03,179 But I'm worried it's gonna be too windy to smoke. 853 00:48:05,483 --> 00:48:07,049 What's up? 854 00:48:10,188 --> 00:48:11,354 [zeke grunts] 855 00:48:11,389 --> 00:48:12,755 bro, this is really exciting. 856 00:48:12,790 --> 00:48:14,690 Yeah, the wind is whipping up here. 857 00:48:14,726 --> 00:48:16,359 It's kinda pulling the boat around. 858 00:48:16,394 --> 00:48:18,194 [zeke speaking] 859 00:48:18,229 --> 00:48:19,495 [sam speaking] 860 00:48:19,530 --> 00:48:20,763 [zeke] can you let some more anchor line out? 861 00:48:20,798 --> 00:48:23,199 [sam] roger that. How many feet? 862 00:48:23,234 --> 00:48:24,333 [zeke grunts] 863 00:48:24,369 --> 00:48:25,701 sam, can you please? 864 00:48:25,737 --> 00:48:27,670 Okay. I'll see what I can do. 865 00:48:27,705 --> 00:48:29,438 [zeke] yeah, try to be quick about it too, 866 00:48:29,474 --> 00:48:31,407 we're really [bleep] skating across the bottom. 867 00:48:33,144 --> 00:48:34,443 [grunts] 868 00:48:34,479 --> 00:48:35,978 hey. 869 00:48:36,014 --> 00:48:37,079 [grunts] 870 00:48:37,115 --> 00:48:40,416 hurry up and get this anchor line out. It's a hold-up. 871 00:48:43,288 --> 00:48:44,487 [grunting] 872 00:48:44,522 --> 00:48:45,988 [laughs] 873 00:48:47,558 --> 00:48:50,026 like, seriously. How long can it take? 874 00:48:53,264 --> 00:48:54,297 All right, there we go. 875 00:49:00,171 --> 00:49:01,404 I'm locked. 876 00:49:02,473 --> 00:49:06,342 Where is the hose? Oh, there's the nozzle. Sweet. 877 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:10,513 [sam] is that better? 878 00:49:10,548 --> 00:49:14,150 [zeke] yeah. That did it, I guess. 879 00:49:16,421 --> 00:49:17,620 [sam] hey, zeke, I think the weather's 880 00:49:17,655 --> 00:49:18,688 changing pretty fast. 881 00:49:18,723 --> 00:49:20,723 I think we'll have to pack it up. 882 00:49:20,758 --> 00:49:22,725 [zeke] yeah, I'm getting sick of this. 883 00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:24,627 I can't really hold the anchor anyway 884 00:49:24,662 --> 00:49:26,462 and I'm not seeing any gold. 885 00:49:26,497 --> 00:49:28,664 I mean, I think there's some good gold over where vernon is, 886 00:49:28,700 --> 00:49:31,200 but as far as I can tell, that's the only spot. 887 00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,139 See what we're gonna do next. 888 00:49:38,309 --> 00:49:40,209 Let's get out of here. 889 00:49:41,245 --> 00:49:43,079 All right, coming out. 890 00:49:57,595 --> 00:49:59,395 Well, that sucks. 891 00:49:59,430 --> 00:50:02,698 There doesn't look like there's anything left on 56 worth dating. 892 00:50:02,734 --> 00:50:03,666 Not even a second date. 893 00:50:03,701 --> 00:50:05,701 Let alone a long-term relationship. 894 00:50:05,737 --> 00:50:08,404 So we're gonna have to find another claim to mine on 895 00:50:08,439 --> 00:50:09,739 and at this point in the season, 896 00:50:09,774 --> 00:50:12,475 starting from the scratch is a tall order. 897 00:50:12,510 --> 00:50:15,444 What motivates me is to think that I'm gonna find 898 00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,580 some kind of, like, little canyon full of gold. 899 00:50:17,615 --> 00:50:20,383 I believe that is possible and it can happen to me. 900 00:50:21,386 --> 00:50:23,619 I just have to look around a lot 901 00:50:23,654 --> 00:50:25,788 and that's why I have a gold mining sail boat 902 00:50:25,823 --> 00:50:28,457 so I can, like, have the freedom to go wander around 903 00:50:28,493 --> 00:50:29,892 looking for that canyon of gold. 904 00:50:30,561 --> 00:50:32,395 But it takes time to prospect, 905 00:50:32,430 --> 00:50:37,133 and it takes time to produce the gold and there's just no much time left, period. 906 00:50:44,475 --> 00:50:46,075 [narrator] in nome... 907 00:50:50,615 --> 00:50:52,748 So bryan, are your ears still bleeding? 908 00:50:52,784 --> 00:50:55,151 I don't know. They're all muffled right now. 909 00:50:55,653 --> 00:50:56,986 Kinda hard to hear. 910 00:50:57,021 --> 00:50:59,922 [narrator] skipper vernon adkison is en route to the hospital 911 00:50:59,957 --> 00:51:03,059 to get diver bryan wilder tended to asap. 912 00:51:03,094 --> 00:51:06,562 [vernon] what percentage of hearing loss do you think you have right now? 913 00:51:06,597 --> 00:51:08,364 Ten before, what is it now? 914 00:51:08,399 --> 00:51:10,332 Four or five, yeah. 915 00:51:12,804 --> 00:51:14,303 Lost about half your hearing you'd think? 916 00:51:15,373 --> 00:51:17,706 That's not good. I had that happen myself. 917 00:51:17,742 --> 00:51:21,043 I lost all my hearing. I went completely deaf. 918 00:51:24,415 --> 00:51:25,781 I sure hope bryan's okay. 919 00:51:25,817 --> 00:51:29,418 As a captain, I'm responsible for my divers' safety. 920 00:51:29,454 --> 00:51:31,754 I mean, that's number one priority 921 00:51:31,789 --> 00:51:35,424 and an injury like this is no joke. 922 00:51:35,460 --> 00:51:39,395 So, um, ah. That looked pretty damn scary to me. 923 00:51:40,698 --> 00:51:42,865 When you were going down, did you feel anything different? 924 00:51:42,900 --> 00:51:45,801 No, nothing different. Nothing. Nothing at all. 925 00:51:45,837 --> 00:51:47,703 And I didn't even notice anything until 926 00:51:47,738 --> 00:51:49,905 the mask came off and the blood came out. 927 00:51:49,941 --> 00:51:51,841 And then you didn't notice your damn mask full of blood? 928 00:51:51,876 --> 00:51:53,109 Yeah. 929 00:51:53,144 --> 00:51:57,713 I mean, that was a pretty damn gruesome sight, let me tell you. 930 00:51:57,748 --> 00:51:58,814 It made my heart beat a little bit. 931 00:51:58,850 --> 00:52:00,716 I didn't know what the hell was going on. 932 00:52:00,751 --> 00:52:03,319 I just hope I didn't pop the ear drums. 933 00:52:03,354 --> 00:52:04,753 You know, that's the worst-case scenario. 934 00:52:04,789 --> 00:52:07,389 If they're intact, hopefully they can heal up 935 00:52:07,425 --> 00:52:09,325 and I'll be diving and back in no time. 936 00:52:10,761 --> 00:52:12,962 Well, I'll just go and tell you right now. 937 00:52:12,997 --> 00:52:18,067 You damage your ear drums, you're gonna be out of the diving business for a while. 938 00:52:20,872 --> 00:52:25,007 Only thing we can do now is get you in there and get it checked out. 939 00:52:28,646 --> 00:52:31,580 -[bryan] here it is. -[vernon] all right, bryan. Dude... 940 00:52:31,616 --> 00:52:33,549 They won't let me in, so you're gonna have to... 941 00:52:33,584 --> 00:52:35,217 Yeah. Sorry, man. 942 00:52:36,487 --> 00:52:38,354 Give me a call when they get done with you. 943 00:52:42,693 --> 00:52:44,927 Bryan's been loyal. He's a good man. 944 00:52:44,962 --> 00:52:47,963 I wanna see him go home with some gold in his pocket. 945 00:52:47,999 --> 00:52:51,734 But this late in the season, I'm really worried about the operation. 946 00:52:51,769 --> 00:52:54,803 I can't afford to be down to just one diver. 947 00:52:54,839 --> 00:52:56,705 We gotta get the gold. 948 00:52:56,741 --> 00:53:00,643 Yeah, we dropped right down on top of some super gold, 949 00:53:00,678 --> 00:53:06,048 and hopefully, bryan is not so injured that he can't dive. 950 00:53:06,083 --> 00:53:11,854 I can't get enough hours out of one diver to support the operation. 951 00:53:11,889 --> 00:53:14,423 [bleep] I pretty much might as well just pack it up... 952 00:53:15,493 --> 00:53:17,092 And call it a season. 953 00:53:25,336 --> 00:53:27,036 [narrator] twelve miles west... 954 00:53:32,076 --> 00:53:34,109 How's it going down there, andy? Pretty good? 955 00:53:38,549 --> 00:53:40,316 After a while, this is the next thing 956 00:53:40,351 --> 00:53:43,352 to come here and finally get out some real gold. 957 00:53:44,956 --> 00:53:48,190 [narrator] as the competition reaches the final stretch... 958 00:53:48,226 --> 00:53:51,493 Do you think you're beating your brother and chris' gold? 959 00:53:51,529 --> 00:53:53,996 [andy] well, it doesn't take much to beat my brother. 960 00:53:54,031 --> 00:53:57,900 [narrator] ...So, too, is kris' plan to impress captain dave 961 00:53:57,935 --> 00:54:01,103 and land a new deal for the rest of the season. 962 00:54:02,607 --> 00:54:06,408 You're dive's almost up. You're coming up five hours. 963 00:54:07,845 --> 00:54:12,114 We gotta keep competition fair at five hours per diver. 964 00:54:12,717 --> 00:54:15,017 [andy] I'm coming, dad. 965 00:54:17,555 --> 00:54:19,688 After him, we didn't have any plan at all. 966 00:54:19,724 --> 00:54:21,557 Nowhere to go. Which way to go. 967 00:54:21,592 --> 00:54:25,461 A hail mary for it, the day grew and it's working out 968 00:54:25,496 --> 00:54:28,063 pretty good to be honest with you. Working out really good. 969 00:54:29,734 --> 00:54:31,700 Competition always bring out the best, 970 00:54:31,736 --> 00:54:34,637 and today dave saw the kellys at their best. 971 00:54:34,672 --> 00:54:35,771 Dave is a businessman, 972 00:54:35,806 --> 00:54:38,374 he sees he has a gold-getting machine. 973 00:54:38,409 --> 00:54:39,441 He's not gonna give that up. 974 00:54:39,477 --> 00:54:40,776 So now it's time to make a better deal, 975 00:54:40,811 --> 00:54:43,412 renegotiate and make some real money. 976 00:54:43,447 --> 00:54:45,147 Today was a game-changer. 977 00:54:46,350 --> 00:54:48,550 Got some production in. It was good. 978 00:54:48,586 --> 00:54:50,853 I saw gold almost the whole time of my dive. 979 00:54:50,888 --> 00:54:53,822 It's really promising out there. I liked that area. 980 00:54:53,858 --> 00:54:54,790 Andy said he was just killing it. 981 00:54:54,825 --> 00:54:57,426 Now I wanna [bleep] go back and get more. 982 00:54:57,461 --> 00:54:59,161 -Good job, boys. -Good job, buddy. 983 00:55:00,564 --> 00:55:03,132 [kris] today was a definite season saver. 984 00:55:08,506 --> 00:55:10,205 [narrator] back in nome... 985 00:55:13,644 --> 00:55:17,479 [emily] I'm gonna ask ken if I can go prospect on this claim 986 00:55:17,515 --> 00:55:18,847 with my boat so I can, you know, 987 00:55:18,883 --> 00:55:21,717 I have to have his permission to go and look at his claim 988 00:55:21,752 --> 00:55:25,521 because there's a lot of bumper stickers around here that say, 989 00:55:25,556 --> 00:55:27,389 "claim jumpers will be shot." 990 00:55:27,425 --> 00:55:29,625 I don't wanna be in a shootout with ken, 991 00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:31,427 so at first I have to, you know, 992 00:55:31,462 --> 00:55:33,696 get his permission to go on prospect his claim. 993 00:55:33,731 --> 00:55:36,632 [narrator] under the gun, emily riedel readies 994 00:55:36,667 --> 00:55:39,201 for her showdown with ken kerr, 995 00:55:39,236 --> 00:55:43,505 hoping to make a deal and finally join the ranks of claim owners. 996 00:55:43,541 --> 00:55:47,543 You know, I'm gonna downplay what I found on the beach. 997 00:55:47,578 --> 00:55:48,877 You know, ken is like a sly old fox. 998 00:55:48,913 --> 00:55:51,680 Like, if he thinks that I'm interesting in claim bravo 999 00:55:51,716 --> 00:55:53,615 and that I think that there's good gold out there, 1000 00:55:53,651 --> 00:55:59,588 all of the sudden the numbers, the dollars he'll sell claim bravo for 1001 00:55:59,623 --> 00:56:01,824 start to go up, and up. 1002 00:56:02,727 --> 00:56:04,760 Or maybe, you know, ken starts to think 1003 00:56:04,795 --> 00:56:07,930 that claim bravo is a claim that he'd prefer to mine. 1004 00:56:07,965 --> 00:56:11,867 So I gotta really keep my-- hold my cards to my chest. 1005 00:56:11,902 --> 00:56:14,970 So, you know, we'll see. We're about to find out. 1006 00:56:15,773 --> 00:56:17,539 Hopefully, ken's in a good mood, 1007 00:56:17,575 --> 00:56:20,642 doesn't have a great memory and wants to make a deal. 1008 00:56:20,678 --> 00:56:22,911 It's the only way I can move forward on this claim buying 1009 00:56:22,947 --> 00:56:26,415 is if I can prospect 6 and see if it's worthwhile. 1010 00:56:30,388 --> 00:56:32,454 -Mr. Ken. -Hi, emily. How are you? 1011 00:56:32,490 --> 00:56:33,589 How are you doing? Long time no see. 1012 00:56:33,624 --> 00:56:35,691 Good to see you. Oh, yeah. Good to see you. 1013 00:56:35,726 --> 00:56:37,326 -You're looking well. Beard. -Thanks. 1014 00:56:37,361 --> 00:56:38,594 Oh, thanks. Thanks, yeah. 1015 00:56:38,629 --> 00:56:40,496 -That's the important thing. -I try to keep up with that. 1016 00:56:40,531 --> 00:56:43,599 Yeah, I've been trying to grow one for years and nothing's happened. 1017 00:56:43,634 --> 00:56:46,668 I don't see no hair there. That's good. No, that's good. 1018 00:56:46,704 --> 00:56:49,805 So, how are you doing so far this year? 1019 00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,041 It's been average. I wanna move off of 14. 1020 00:56:53,077 --> 00:56:57,413 I think 14's kinda been worked over, so I went down east. 1021 00:56:58,215 --> 00:57:01,216 Um... I saw george. 1022 00:57:01,252 --> 00:57:03,685 You know, there is a claim that he says belonged to you. 1023 00:57:03,721 --> 00:57:05,621 -It's, like... -Well, that's actually number 6. 1024 00:57:05,656 --> 00:57:07,389 [emily] yeah. Yeah. Claim 6. 1025 00:57:07,425 --> 00:57:08,891 And I looked at the beach of it 1026 00:57:08,926 --> 00:57:10,159 and it's an interesting spot. 1027 00:57:10,194 --> 00:57:13,395 I mean, I'm kind of... I'm interested to look into it further. 1028 00:57:13,431 --> 00:57:15,130 There's some gold down there. 1029 00:57:17,635 --> 00:57:19,368 It's got some potential. 1030 00:57:19,403 --> 00:57:21,737 Sweet. Well, hey, I mean, 1031 00:57:21,772 --> 00:57:24,606 if you're up for it I'll take the eroica and the crew. 1032 00:57:24,642 --> 00:57:26,375 We'll do some live-boating down there. 1033 00:57:26,410 --> 00:57:27,609 Sounds good, yeah. Okay. 1034 00:57:27,645 --> 00:57:29,478 You know, you're gonna go out there and do a little mining, 1035 00:57:29,513 --> 00:57:30,579 I could get a little royalties. 1036 00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:32,781 All right, sweet. Um, yeah. I don't-- I don't know. 1037 00:57:32,817 --> 00:57:34,583 I mean, it's gonna be mostly prospecting. 1038 00:57:34,618 --> 00:57:36,685 Yeah, whatever you get just, yeah, no problem. 1039 00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:38,554 I'll treat you fair on the royalties. 1040 00:57:38,589 --> 00:57:40,489 Okay. What you thinking? 1041 00:57:40,524 --> 00:57:43,459 Oh, I'm usually about 10 or 15. 1042 00:57:43,494 --> 00:57:44,359 10%. 1043 00:57:44,395 --> 00:57:46,028 Okay. I'll take 10. 1044 00:57:46,063 --> 00:57:47,830 -Okay. -That is, uh... That sounds good. 1045 00:57:47,865 --> 00:57:50,332 Bring me the gold. I take gold for payment. 1046 00:57:50,367 --> 00:57:52,334 Heck yeah. All right, sounds good. 1047 00:57:52,369 --> 00:57:54,203 -Always gold is good. -Yeah, I agree. 1048 00:57:54,238 --> 00:57:55,437 I, um... Well, that's fine. 1049 00:57:55,473 --> 00:57:58,273 I mean, we can do a deal in gold for it. 1050 00:57:58,309 --> 00:58:00,409 -Okay. -If I wanted to buy it. 1051 00:58:00,444 --> 00:58:02,311 All right. Hopefully, I can help you out. 1052 00:58:02,346 --> 00:58:03,445 All right, thanks so much, ken. 1053 00:58:03,481 --> 00:58:04,746 All right, yeah. No problem. Anytime. 1054 00:58:04,782 --> 00:58:06,415 I'll get a hold of you soon about it. 1055 00:58:06,450 --> 00:58:08,217 -Let you know how we do. -Okay. Adios. 1056 00:58:09,587 --> 00:58:12,654 As a dredge captain, I haven't been the biggest fan 1057 00:58:12,690 --> 00:58:14,790 of the way that ken has handled things. 1058 00:58:14,825 --> 00:58:19,528 But luckily, it seems like he forgot about me 1059 00:58:19,563 --> 00:58:22,798 calling him irresponsible and he gave me permission 1060 00:58:22,833 --> 00:58:25,501 to mine on claim 6, so it's awesome. 1061 00:58:25,536 --> 00:58:27,970 I've got ken right where I want him. 1062 00:58:31,108 --> 00:58:34,910 Gotta wheel her in. Oh, yeah. I need to make some money. 1063 00:58:35,446 --> 00:58:37,212 A sucker born every day. 1064 00:58:37,248 --> 00:58:39,314 [laughing] 1065 00:58:40,217 --> 00:58:42,384 [sighs and laughs] 1066 00:58:46,290 --> 00:58:48,023 [narrator] in nome... 1067 00:58:50,127 --> 00:58:52,561 [vernon] hopefully, the doctor tells him that, 1068 00:58:52,596 --> 00:58:54,196 "yeah, you're gonna be able to dive. 1069 00:58:54,231 --> 00:58:57,232 Take a few days off and get on back out there." 1070 00:58:57,268 --> 00:58:59,268 but I doubt it very seriously. 1071 00:58:59,303 --> 00:59:00,836 [narrator] instead of mining for gold, 1072 00:59:00,871 --> 00:59:06,141 captain vernon adkison's mining for some good news on diver bryan wilder. 1073 00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:12,214 It's really put me under a lot of stress. 1074 00:59:17,254 --> 00:59:18,854 So, what's the prognosis? 1075 00:59:18,889 --> 00:59:21,523 Did they say when you might be back there for duty 1076 00:59:21,559 --> 00:59:23,525 or just have no idea? 1077 00:59:23,561 --> 00:59:27,829 [bryan] uh, yeah. I mean, there's a little bit of good news, little bit of bad news. 1078 00:59:28,632 --> 00:59:31,433 They said it's severely traumatized. 1079 00:59:31,468 --> 00:59:32,367 It's not popped. 1080 00:59:35,005 --> 00:59:35,804 But I mean, they're not ruptured. 1081 00:59:35,839 --> 00:59:38,206 So that's great, I mean, I should be back 1082 00:59:38,242 --> 00:59:39,708 in the water in no time. 1083 00:59:39,743 --> 00:59:43,445 You're hardcore and you're all about the gold, 1084 00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:47,382 but, um, I won't be a party to your injuring yourself 1085 00:59:47,418 --> 00:59:48,650 any more than you already are. 1086 00:59:49,853 --> 00:59:55,157 You stay out until you're 100% well and ready fit for duty. 1087 00:59:55,426 --> 00:59:56,325 Yeah. 1088 00:59:58,562 --> 00:59:59,828 We're gonna need a tender. 1089 00:59:59,863 --> 01:00:00,862 All right. 1090 01:00:00,898 --> 01:00:03,632 And I'll make sure you're adequately compensated. 1091 01:00:03,667 --> 01:00:04,600 We'll give you a share of the box. 1092 01:00:04,635 --> 01:00:05,867 Yeah, no, I'll definitely stick around. 1093 01:00:06,870 --> 01:00:10,439 Well, that would be great. That would be great. 1094 01:00:12,042 --> 01:00:14,242 [vernon] do I need two divers to get the gold 1095 01:00:14,278 --> 01:00:16,311 I need to pay for this claim? 1096 01:00:16,347 --> 01:00:20,449 Yes. But I'm not gonna put somebody's health at risk to make that happen. 1097 01:00:20,484 --> 01:00:22,551 So bryan's going to stay on as tender 1098 01:00:22,586 --> 01:00:25,654 and I'm gonna need another diver pronto 1099 01:00:25,689 --> 01:00:28,256 or this season could end on foul note. 1100 01:00:29,593 --> 01:00:31,693 Do you wanna see a picture? 1101 01:00:31,729 --> 01:00:33,862 You got the stomach? You didn't eat lunch recently, did you? 1102 01:00:33,897 --> 01:00:34,796 Whip it open. 1103 01:00:34,832 --> 01:00:39,468 That's my left ear drum. It's pretty brutal. 1104 01:00:39,503 --> 01:00:41,536 That's not looking too good whatsoever. 1105 01:00:41,572 --> 01:00:42,804 [bleep] 1106 01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:48,210 that's bad. That is bad. It's almost like modern art. 1107 01:00:51,715 --> 01:00:54,149 If I were you, I would have that framed. 1108 01:00:57,287 --> 01:00:59,087 [narrator] ten miles west... 1109 01:01:05,696 --> 01:01:08,296 I think we're doing it. 1110 01:01:08,332 --> 01:01:09,464 We're doing something. 1111 01:01:09,500 --> 01:01:11,466 [laughing] 1112 01:01:11,502 --> 01:01:14,970 watching a lot of rock, I'll tell you that. 1113 01:01:15,005 --> 01:01:18,273 [narrator] the good news, the myrtle is on a pace streak 1114 01:01:19,343 --> 01:01:21,443 and a massive amount of material 1115 01:01:21,478 --> 01:01:23,612 is flowing through the two boxes. 1116 01:01:23,647 --> 01:01:26,581 Great ground, tons of rocks, tons of pebbles. 1117 01:01:26,617 --> 01:01:29,351 Hopefully, there is a lot of gold in there. 1118 01:01:29,386 --> 01:01:31,053 It should be lit up. 1119 01:01:32,222 --> 01:01:33,422 [narrator] the bad news? 1120 01:01:33,457 --> 01:01:35,357 [shawn speaking] 1121 01:01:35,392 --> 01:01:36,725 yeah, we got weather coming in. 1122 01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,660 It's time to get the hell out of here. 1123 01:01:38,696 --> 01:01:40,929 [narrator] the day is suddenly coming to an end 1124 01:01:40,964 --> 01:01:45,901 and shawn's dredges are in the crosshairs of a dangerous storm. 1125 01:01:45,936 --> 01:01:48,437 [shawn] after a rough start myrtle killed it today, 1126 01:01:48,472 --> 01:01:50,706 but with the storm coming in, we gotta bring both 1127 01:01:50,741 --> 01:01:53,542 the myrtle and the christine rose into port. 1128 01:01:53,577 --> 01:01:55,711 And with the hydraulic pump being down 1129 01:01:55,746 --> 01:01:58,680 and the bucket stuck to the ground on the christine rose, 1130 01:01:58,716 --> 01:02:01,049 it's a logistical nightmare. 1131 01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:07,355 Right now, we got the boot stuck down in the water. 1132 01:02:07,391 --> 01:02:09,491 We gotta get it up on to deck, 1133 01:02:09,526 --> 01:02:12,427 so we're gonna use the myrtle's excavator 1134 01:02:12,463 --> 01:02:15,063 to pick the arm up, swing it on to the deck. 1135 01:02:17,768 --> 01:02:20,602 I got a crazy idea of how I'm gonna fix it. 1136 01:02:20,637 --> 01:02:23,872 Sometimes you just gotta think outside the box. 1137 01:02:24,942 --> 01:02:29,945 Right now, we got it on. Now it's time to pick it up. 1138 01:02:30,514 --> 01:02:31,546 Hopefully, it works. 1139 01:02:33,183 --> 01:02:37,486 [shawn] the christine rose can't move until we get that bucket off the sea floor. 1140 01:02:37,521 --> 01:02:39,688 If we don't get that bucket up off the sea floor, 1141 01:02:39,723 --> 01:02:43,391 the christine rose is gonna get destroyed in the storm. 1142 01:02:43,427 --> 01:02:45,994 This is the risk you take being out here. 1143 01:02:47,865 --> 01:02:50,365 [shawn] maybe get out of there, cody. 1144 01:02:51,235 --> 01:02:52,367 All right, shawn. 1145 01:02:52,402 --> 01:02:56,138 [shawn] here we go. All right, see if it'll come up. 1146 01:03:03,514 --> 01:03:05,013 It's going up. 1147 01:03:12,089 --> 01:03:13,455 [yelling] 1148 01:03:13,490 --> 01:03:14,422 hold it! 1149 01:03:15,526 --> 01:03:16,992 [cody] pull it up! 1150 01:03:39,383 --> 01:03:41,016 [shawn] she's rescued. 1151 01:03:48,258 --> 01:03:49,858 That was pretty bad. 1152 01:03:50,694 --> 01:03:52,761 If we didn't have the myrtle out here 1153 01:03:52,796 --> 01:03:54,396 we would've been screwed. 1154 01:03:55,632 --> 01:03:59,334 Now the question is how much gold is in that box. 1155 01:04:08,679 --> 01:04:10,645 You see that look on his face? 1156 01:04:10,681 --> 01:04:12,681 That's not an "I've got gold in my pan" look. 1157 01:04:12,716 --> 01:04:14,850 See that? There's no smile on his face. 1158 01:04:14,885 --> 01:04:17,619 No, when I got gold in my pan, it put a smile on my face, 1159 01:04:17,654 --> 01:04:19,454 but this guy, uh-uh. 1160 01:04:19,489 --> 01:04:21,056 Maybe he's got wood teeth. 1161 01:04:26,597 --> 01:04:28,263 This is steve riedel. 1162 01:04:28,298 --> 01:04:30,432 We're at anvil city square. 1163 01:04:30,467 --> 01:04:31,900 Great place here in nome. 1164 01:04:32,736 --> 01:04:34,603 You see the church in the background, 1165 01:04:34,638 --> 01:04:37,239 and you see the gold pan over there. 1166 01:04:37,274 --> 01:04:38,573 Here it is. 1167 01:04:38,609 --> 01:04:39,641 I know what you wish, yeah, 1168 01:04:39,676 --> 01:04:42,143 this part's gold right here, huh? 1169 01:04:42,179 --> 01:04:44,646 Anvil city square, it was named after anvil creek, 1170 01:04:44,681 --> 01:04:48,216 which was named after the mountain here north of town. 1171 01:04:48,252 --> 01:04:49,351 It looks like an anvil, 1172 01:04:49,386 --> 01:04:51,519 so they named the creek after it. 1173 01:04:51,555 --> 01:04:54,089 And they almost named the town after it. 1174 01:04:55,592 --> 01:04:58,293 Well, let's go take a look around anvil city square. 1175 01:04:59,696 --> 01:05:01,796 Whole swimming pools worth of gold 1176 01:05:01,832 --> 01:05:04,833 has come out of this area and these guys made it happen. 1177 01:05:04,868 --> 01:05:07,769 The three lucky swedes. These guys right here. 1178 01:05:07,804 --> 01:05:10,605 Look at him, he's already got gold in there. 1179 01:05:10,641 --> 01:05:14,209 He came ashore that fateful day, 1180 01:05:15,112 --> 01:05:18,580 offshore of what would become nome, alaska, 1181 01:05:18,615 --> 01:05:20,382 or maybe it was already nome, alaska. 1182 01:05:20,417 --> 01:05:22,350 No-name, alaska. 1183 01:05:22,419 --> 01:05:23,919 Anyway, it was no place for anybody. 1184 01:05:23,954 --> 01:05:26,621 There was no one living here, and these guys came ashore. 1185 01:05:26,657 --> 01:05:28,523 These three guys. See them in the background now? 1186 01:05:28,558 --> 01:05:30,458 Three guys. There they were. 1187 01:05:30,494 --> 01:05:31,493 All three. They came in, they sure didn't think 1188 01:05:31,528 --> 01:05:32,928 anything was gonna happen. 1189 01:05:32,963 --> 01:05:36,798 Just gonna pass the time while they fixed the boat and hang out. Well... 1190 01:05:36,833 --> 01:05:41,403 "hey, let's bring a gold pan just in case." 1191 01:05:41,438 --> 01:05:44,372 it was rivulets of gold in the beach. 1192 01:05:44,408 --> 01:05:45,473 Rich, rich, rich. 1193 01:05:45,509 --> 01:05:46,741 And they went nuts. 1194 01:05:46,777 --> 01:05:50,645 They caused 20,000 people to live here. 1195 01:05:50,681 --> 01:05:53,481 Two years later, there were 20,000 people here. 1196 01:05:53,517 --> 01:05:54,482 Before? Zero. 1197 01:05:54,518 --> 01:05:56,384 [birds chirping] 1198 01:05:57,521 --> 01:05:59,187 [donkey braying] 1199 01:05:59,656 --> 01:06:03,291 [old timey music] 1200 01:06:05,295 --> 01:06:07,796 whoa. Claim jumping, bummer. 1201 01:06:07,831 --> 01:06:09,764 Claim jumping on the three swedes. 1202 01:06:09,800 --> 01:06:13,234 And they took advantage of it, too. Just like wyatt earp. 1203 01:06:14,304 --> 01:06:15,804 [gunfire] 1204 01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,007 and then more wild and crazy times. 1205 01:06:22,579 --> 01:06:24,045 This is a wild, crazy place. 1206 01:06:24,081 --> 01:06:27,549 This is history. Come here, see this, and you'll see history. 1207 01:06:27,584 --> 01:06:32,854 That concludes another weird, wild, wonderful nome, alaska. 1208 01:06:32,889 --> 01:06:35,657 Tune in next time when we're going weird, 1209 01:06:35,692 --> 01:06:37,359 wild, and wonderful places. 1210 01:06:38,428 --> 01:06:41,029 Oh, what a nice sunset. 1211 01:06:41,064 --> 01:06:43,498 I think I'll just lean here for a while. 1212 01:06:43,533 --> 01:06:44,933 That's what this guy's doing. 1213 01:06:45,602 --> 01:06:47,369 There's no place like nome. 1214 01:06:50,540 --> 01:06:52,974 [narrator] on the outskirts of nome... 1215 01:06:56,646 --> 01:07:00,782 I'm preparing to take some sailing trips that-- 1216 01:07:00,817 --> 01:07:04,519 we're going to travel a pretty significant distance down the coast. 1217 01:07:04,554 --> 01:07:06,788 I'm gonna bust out my charts for sam and raven 1218 01:07:06,823 --> 01:07:10,325 and use them to map out and explain to sam and raven 1219 01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:11,426 where we're gonna be. 1220 01:07:11,461 --> 01:07:12,694 Tell them where we're gonna be mining. 1221 01:07:12,729 --> 01:07:14,896 Where I expect the treasure to be. 1222 01:07:14,931 --> 01:07:17,699 [narrator] after deciding to leave claim 56 behind, 1223 01:07:17,734 --> 01:07:21,536 zeke tenhoff is ready to start spreading the wings 1224 01:07:21,571 --> 01:07:23,038 of the black swan. 1225 01:07:23,073 --> 01:07:24,539 [zeke] the bad news is, it's late in the season 1226 01:07:24,574 --> 01:07:27,075 and we need to find a completely new place to mine. 1227 01:07:27,110 --> 01:07:29,778 The good news is that the black swan is swift 1228 01:07:29,813 --> 01:07:34,582 and fast and it can get us to places that other dredgers just can't access. 1229 01:07:35,552 --> 01:07:38,920 I gotta just like explain this whole adventure 1230 01:07:38,955 --> 01:07:40,822 that I've had in my imagination to these guys 1231 01:07:40,857 --> 01:07:41,923 and, um, it's-- 1232 01:07:41,958 --> 01:07:44,426 I think that sam and raven don't really have any idea 1233 01:07:44,461 --> 01:07:45,693 what I'm talking about when I try to talk about 1234 01:07:45,729 --> 01:07:48,496 where I'm planning on taking us in the boat. 1235 01:07:48,532 --> 01:07:52,200 We need to just spread all of our charts in chart course. 1236 01:07:55,439 --> 01:07:57,072 What's up, zeke? 1237 01:07:58,442 --> 01:08:00,141 [zeke] how's it going, guys? 1238 01:08:01,578 --> 01:08:03,178 -Charts? -Yeah, I found them. 1239 01:08:04,214 --> 01:08:06,014 Yeah! All right. 1240 01:08:06,249 --> 01:08:08,049 Wow. 1241 01:08:08,085 --> 01:08:10,919 Well, so I just wanted to sort of line you guys out 1242 01:08:10,954 --> 01:08:15,423 with what I had in mind in terms of, like, where to go. 1243 01:08:15,459 --> 01:08:17,792 Vernon's claim, probably some gold left 1244 01:08:17,828 --> 01:08:20,395 to be found there, but it's killing my mojo. 1245 01:08:20,430 --> 01:08:21,696 Big-time killing my mojo. 1246 01:08:21,731 --> 01:08:24,699 I heard vernon's found a good spot and that's good for him, 1247 01:08:24,734 --> 01:08:27,802 but I think, for my own spirit, to my own enthusiasm, 1248 01:08:27,838 --> 01:08:29,971 I think we'll go somewhere completely new. 1249 01:08:30,006 --> 01:08:34,509 So, yeah, looking at this is gonna be important and helpful 1250 01:08:34,544 --> 01:08:38,279 because it's a lot of... It's a lot of open water. 1251 01:08:38,315 --> 01:08:39,581 Yeah, some long sailing there. 1252 01:08:39,616 --> 01:08:40,849 It's a lot of open water. 1253 01:08:40,884 --> 01:08:44,719 But... Now the sailboat dredge is up and running. 1254 01:08:44,754 --> 01:08:47,489 We can pretty safely and quickly go 1255 01:08:47,524 --> 01:08:49,624 to any of these places that I wanna go to. 1256 01:08:49,659 --> 01:08:53,027 I really wanna go there. I wanna see bluff. 1257 01:08:53,063 --> 01:08:55,330 We don't necessarily want to go to bluff first. 1258 01:08:55,365 --> 01:08:56,531 People have been hitting it. 1259 01:08:56,566 --> 01:08:57,699 [raven] yeah, they've been mining out there, 1260 01:08:57,734 --> 01:08:58,700 but it was really rich. 1261 01:08:58,735 --> 01:09:01,002 [zeke] it was super rich a couple of years ago, 1262 01:09:01,037 --> 01:09:02,370 but, like, people have been hitting it. 1263 01:09:02,405 --> 01:09:03,705 Like, the kellys were out there. 1264 01:09:03,740 --> 01:09:05,607 I don't know what kind of wild west shenanigans 1265 01:09:05,642 --> 01:09:08,209 we're gonna have to get involved with over there. 1266 01:09:08,245 --> 01:09:09,177 I don't know. 1267 01:09:09,212 --> 01:09:12,480 What I wanna do first is just take a mad dash, 1268 01:09:12,516 --> 01:09:14,482 planning on just doing a prospecting, 1269 01:09:14,518 --> 01:09:17,185 you know, voyage just to go do like a day of diving. 1270 01:09:17,220 --> 01:09:18,419 Already cape rodney. 1271 01:09:22,325 --> 01:09:23,625 Cape rodney is really far away. 1272 01:09:23,660 --> 01:09:24,993 It's definitely not just a day trip. 1273 01:09:25,028 --> 01:09:27,629 We're probably gonna end up overnighting on the sailboat. 1274 01:09:28,732 --> 01:09:30,565 It's off the beaten path and it's hard to get to, 1275 01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:31,900 but that could work to our benefit 1276 01:09:31,935 --> 01:09:35,403 because I don't believe very many people have prospected up there. 1277 01:09:35,438 --> 01:09:36,704 It's a diamond in the rough, but this could be 1278 01:09:36,740 --> 01:09:39,274 the kind of ground that we're looking for. 1279 01:09:39,309 --> 01:09:40,575 The leads I have there are solid. 1280 01:09:40,610 --> 01:09:42,510 They're gonna wanna make a trip out of that. 1281 01:09:42,546 --> 01:09:44,612 I wanna bomb down there and then just, like, go 1282 01:09:44,648 --> 01:09:46,581 and just, like, punch holes all day. 1283 01:09:46,616 --> 01:09:48,650 If we see super dope gold there, 1284 01:09:48,685 --> 01:09:50,718 any gold whatsoever, we're gonna stake it. 1285 01:09:50,754 --> 01:09:51,986 I mean, if there's good gold there 1286 01:09:52,022 --> 01:09:55,990 then that's gonna inform what our future plans are gonna be. 1287 01:09:58,461 --> 01:10:00,228 This is good. This is a good plan. 1288 01:10:02,799 --> 01:10:04,632 [zeke] with the claim war in full swing, 1289 01:10:04,668 --> 01:10:07,268 it's important to stay out of the trajectory 1290 01:10:07,304 --> 01:10:09,370 where everyone else is flocking. 1291 01:10:09,406 --> 01:10:10,939 It's gonna be a bear to get to, 1292 01:10:10,974 --> 01:10:12,840 but that's what I built the black swan for. 1293 01:10:12,876 --> 01:10:15,577 So our first real adventure is right on the horizon. 1294 01:10:15,612 --> 01:10:18,346 I hope we find some gold 'cause we desperately need it. 1295 01:10:19,382 --> 01:10:21,349 It's a serious sailing mission. 1296 01:10:21,384 --> 01:10:23,218 Yeah, it's a sailing adventure. I'm down. 1297 01:10:23,253 --> 01:10:26,287 Super, super down. Now let's get back to work. 1298 01:10:26,323 --> 01:10:27,589 [raven] all right, then. 1299 01:10:27,624 --> 01:10:30,291 -[sam] let's get back at it. -[zeke] yeah, sounds good. 1300 01:10:34,431 --> 01:10:36,097 [narrator] back in nome... 1301 01:10:44,975 --> 01:10:45,740 -[steve] vernon. -Yeah. 1302 01:10:45,775 --> 01:10:47,675 [steve] permission to come aboard. 1303 01:10:47,711 --> 01:10:50,178 Yeah, hey, steve. Come on aboard. 1304 01:10:51,715 --> 01:10:52,614 [narrator] only nine hours late, 1305 01:10:52,649 --> 01:10:55,116 steve riedel finally shows up for duty. 1306 01:10:56,519 --> 01:10:57,719 How's bryan? 1307 01:10:57,754 --> 01:10:58,987 [vernon] he's okay. 1308 01:10:59,022 --> 01:11:01,556 [steve] is he gonna dive? Is he gonna be able to dive for you? 1309 01:11:01,591 --> 01:11:04,192 He's got a bad ear, so that'll be a while. 1310 01:11:05,495 --> 01:11:09,430 Well, you know, I have a lot of explaining to do. 1311 01:11:12,335 --> 01:11:12,967 Uh... 1312 01:11:13,737 --> 01:11:16,371 Your boat beat me up pretty bad. 1313 01:11:18,575 --> 01:11:23,278 After that late day, I went home, and I was pretty sick. 1314 01:11:23,313 --> 01:11:25,380 I hope you have patience... 1315 01:11:25,415 --> 01:11:26,648 We've waited around for quite a while. 1316 01:11:26,683 --> 01:11:28,516 You could've gotten somebody to make a phone call. 1317 01:11:28,551 --> 01:11:29,884 I'm really sorry to do that to you. 1318 01:11:29,919 --> 01:11:32,453 I mean, we've been down this road several times already 1319 01:11:32,489 --> 01:11:33,621 as I recall. 1320 01:11:33,657 --> 01:11:36,124 Okay. This time I'll make it up to you. 1321 01:11:40,897 --> 01:11:42,697 You said I did better than you thought 1322 01:11:42,732 --> 01:11:44,966 and pissed you off less than you thought. 1323 01:11:45,001 --> 01:11:46,934 So there's two things going for me. 1324 01:11:48,972 --> 01:11:51,205 We've known each other 25 years, vernon. 1325 01:11:53,376 --> 01:11:56,010 Uh-huh. Hmm. 1326 01:11:57,147 --> 01:11:58,346 Okay. 1327 01:11:58,381 --> 01:11:59,547 Well, I-- 1328 01:11:59,582 --> 01:12:04,919 you know, I'm all about helping my fellow man, steve. 1329 01:12:04,954 --> 01:12:06,087 Uh-huh. 1330 01:12:06,122 --> 01:12:10,758 So I think I'm gonna present you with the opportunity 1331 01:12:10,794 --> 01:12:13,761 of finding more suitable employment elsewhere. 1332 01:12:14,798 --> 01:12:18,366 You know, you're a scholar and a gentlemen, vernon. 1333 01:12:19,669 --> 01:12:22,403 And so I appreciate that, you know. 1334 01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:24,205 I'd like to remain friends with you. 1335 01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:26,007 Thanks for the free labor. 1336 01:12:26,042 --> 01:12:28,943 Thank you very much. Let's leave it at that. 1337 01:12:29,813 --> 01:12:31,512 I'm over it, you are, too. 1338 01:12:31,548 --> 01:12:34,682 So anyway, steve, I wish you well in your future endeavors. 1339 01:12:34,718 --> 01:12:36,517 -Thank you, vernon. -Yeah, I was saying, 1340 01:12:36,553 --> 01:12:39,520 I'm not your life coach and I'm definitely not your dad, 1341 01:12:39,556 --> 01:12:43,524 but as you pursue your career options, 1342 01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:47,662 you might want to consider some sort of a job 1343 01:12:47,697 --> 01:12:50,331 that doesn't involve humans. 1344 01:12:50,367 --> 01:12:51,432 Oh. [chuckles] 1345 01:12:51,468 --> 01:12:53,634 I'm better with mechanical devices, yeah. 1346 01:12:53,670 --> 01:12:55,636 Yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with that at all. 1347 01:12:55,672 --> 01:12:58,973 I mean, I know a lot of people who aren't all that good around humans. 1348 01:12:59,008 --> 01:13:01,342 I mean, sometimes, they piss me off too, you know? 1349 01:13:03,213 --> 01:13:04,178 Can't imagine. 1350 01:13:05,615 --> 01:13:06,814 So anyway, bon voyage. 1351 01:13:06,850 --> 01:13:09,050 All right, thanks, vernon. You too. 1352 01:13:12,722 --> 01:13:16,657 It's a big job and, uh, this is not the right place for him. 1353 01:13:16,693 --> 01:13:19,394 This boat's a little bit too much for him 1354 01:13:19,429 --> 01:13:22,196 and now he's gone on to do other things, 1355 01:13:22,232 --> 01:13:24,265 which is real good. 1356 01:13:25,468 --> 01:13:27,502 [steve] some things are better apart. 1357 01:13:27,537 --> 01:13:31,472 Chocolate and bananas go really well together, 1358 01:13:31,508 --> 01:13:34,609 but pickles and strawberry ice cream, 1359 01:13:34,644 --> 01:13:36,444 that's what vernon and I are. 1360 01:13:37,414 --> 01:13:38,913 He's more like the pickle. 1361 01:13:39,883 --> 01:13:42,383 But, well, I've learned one thing from this, 1362 01:13:42,419 --> 01:13:44,685 and that is I need to be my own boss. 1363 01:13:44,721 --> 01:13:48,322 But how I get there from here, I have no idea. 1364 01:13:59,436 --> 01:14:01,302 [george] that's what I like about fly fishing, 1365 01:14:01,337 --> 01:14:05,273 is that you're so calm and listen to the ocean and... 1366 01:14:05,308 --> 01:14:06,407 Do you ever fly fish? 1367 01:14:06,443 --> 01:14:07,675 [emily] no, you should show me some moves. 1368 01:14:07,710 --> 01:14:09,944 I'll give you some pointers. 1369 01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,581 Well, fly fishing, it's all about, you know, 1370 01:14:13,616 --> 01:14:14,749 letting the rod do the work. 1371 01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:18,419 I stop at 12 and then I come forward. 1372 01:14:18,455 --> 01:14:20,621 -Okay. -Stop at 12 and forward. 1373 01:14:20,657 --> 01:14:22,523 So just go ahead and grab it. 1374 01:14:22,559 --> 01:14:24,325 Is it like... Is it armed? 1375 01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:25,860 Does it have, like, a hook on it? 1376 01:14:25,895 --> 01:14:27,094 -Yeah, there's a hook. -Oh, there is a hook. Okay. 1377 01:14:27,130 --> 01:14:31,132 [george] definitely, it's armed. It's ready to catch fish. 1378 01:14:31,167 --> 01:14:32,600 Okay. All right. 1379 01:14:32,635 --> 01:14:35,102 Yeah, don't go backwards. Oh! 1380 01:14:35,138 --> 01:14:36,671 [laughing] 1381 01:14:36,706 --> 01:14:38,606 you've got to remember the 12 o'clock. 1382 01:14:38,641 --> 01:14:40,541 Now you just come forward with it. 1383 01:14:40,577 --> 01:14:43,244 Come forward and then let go a line as you come forward. 1384 01:14:43,279 --> 01:14:44,312 Roger. Okay. 1385 01:14:44,347 --> 01:14:46,247 [exclaiming] 1386 01:14:48,485 --> 01:14:49,884 slow down a little bit. 1387 01:14:49,919 --> 01:14:51,986 -Okay. Okay. -Relax. Relax. 1388 01:14:52,355 --> 01:14:54,388 [drum roll] 1389 01:14:54,424 --> 01:14:56,991 so slow. Whoo. 1390 01:14:59,496 --> 01:15:00,561 Hey! 1391 01:15:00,597 --> 01:15:02,864 -Way better. That's perfect! -Natural! 1392 01:15:03,199 --> 01:15:04,499 See? Easy. 1393 01:15:04,534 --> 01:15:06,601 Oh, cool. I just had my first fly fishing lesson. 1394 01:15:06,636 --> 01:15:09,604 It takes a lot. A lot of patience. 1395 01:15:09,639 --> 01:15:13,374 Just like finding gold. So it's the same thing. Patience. 1396 01:15:14,878 --> 01:15:17,144 [emily] all right, that was fun. [laughs] 1397 01:15:20,483 --> 01:15:22,183 [narrator] in nome... 1398 01:15:34,397 --> 01:15:35,830 -[shawn] how's it going, nate? -Hey. 1399 01:15:35,865 --> 01:15:37,632 Perfect timing. She's cooling off. 1400 01:15:37,667 --> 01:15:40,468 -Nice. -Yeah, not too bad, huh? 1401 01:15:40,503 --> 01:15:41,869 That doesn't look bad at all. 1402 01:15:41,905 --> 01:15:44,839 [narrator] despite the limited time on the myrtle, 1403 01:15:44,874 --> 01:15:47,441 mr. Gold's hoping that the upgrades prove 1404 01:15:47,477 --> 01:15:50,011 what they can do on the newfound pastry. 1405 01:15:51,648 --> 01:15:53,481 Well, let's see how it's working. 1406 01:15:53,516 --> 01:15:57,251 Sucks that we had to go rescue the cr and pull cody. 1407 01:15:57,287 --> 01:15:59,420 -But, you know, that's the way it goes. -Yeah. 1408 01:15:59,455 --> 01:16:01,489 If I had a few more hours on the box. 1409 01:16:02,725 --> 01:16:06,527 You talk about highs and lows. We started down on bad ground. 1410 01:16:06,563 --> 01:16:09,830 Christine rose broke down, but we got on some good ground. 1411 01:16:09,866 --> 01:16:13,100 And most importantly, we saved the christine rose. 1412 01:16:13,136 --> 01:16:16,137 I'm hoping the myrtle turns in a big number here. 1413 01:16:16,172 --> 01:16:17,238 We really need it. 1414 01:16:18,708 --> 01:16:21,342 Here we go. Let's see how we did. 1415 01:16:24,414 --> 01:16:25,446 Twenty. 1416 01:16:26,382 --> 01:16:29,083 Forty, fifty, seventy. 1417 01:16:29,686 --> 01:16:32,987 Hundred. We gonna hit 200? 1418 01:16:34,724 --> 01:16:37,525 Damn, there might be 200 ounces there. 1419 01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:39,026 -There might. -140. 1420 01:16:40,296 --> 01:16:41,362 160. 1421 01:16:45,268 --> 01:16:46,300 Whoa. 1422 01:16:49,072 --> 01:16:51,305 191.47. 1423 01:16:53,610 --> 01:16:56,143 -[nate] whoo-hoo! -Hell yeah. 1424 01:16:58,181 --> 01:16:59,080 Whoo. 1425 01:16:59,449 --> 01:17:00,615 [laughing] 1426 01:17:00,650 --> 01:17:05,686 [narrator] 191 ounces is worth north of $380,000. 1427 01:17:05,722 --> 01:17:11,559 Leaving no doubt that shawn's redesign of the myrtle is the real deal. 1428 01:17:11,594 --> 01:17:13,461 It looks like it's working really well. 1429 01:17:13,496 --> 01:17:14,895 It is. 1430 01:17:14,931 --> 01:17:16,397 It might be the best clump I've ever seen 1431 01:17:16,432 --> 01:17:17,431 for that amount of time. 1432 01:17:17,467 --> 01:17:19,533 -Nice job. -Yeah. Any time. 1433 01:17:20,570 --> 01:17:22,536 [shawn] this is just what the doctor ordered. 1434 01:17:22,572 --> 01:17:23,804 Big numbers like this. 1435 01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:27,008 The myrtle's a beast and always had this potential. 1436 01:17:27,043 --> 01:17:28,843 Now she's operating at peak efficiency. 1437 01:17:28,878 --> 01:17:31,545 We get the christine rose back up and running 1438 01:17:31,581 --> 01:17:34,382 and things keep going like this, the sky's the limit. 1439 01:17:34,417 --> 01:17:35,650 Well, that's damn good. 1440 01:17:35,685 --> 01:17:37,685 I'm gonna go get that boat ready to go. 1441 01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:40,054 -To the bitter end. -Nice job, nate. 1442 01:17:40,089 --> 01:17:41,022 Any time. 1443 01:17:41,591 --> 01:17:43,357 [shawn] getting better. 1444 01:17:47,463 --> 01:17:49,130 [narrator] across town... 1445 01:17:51,901 --> 01:17:53,501 Chris, probably the least amount of gold is you. 1446 01:17:53,536 --> 01:17:54,635 Let's do yours first. 1447 01:17:54,671 --> 01:17:57,371 You [bleep] so bad, we didn't have to cheat to win. 1448 01:17:57,407 --> 01:18:00,141 No, no, no. I still made it work. 1449 01:18:00,176 --> 01:18:02,576 [narrator] it's time for the competition weigh-out. 1450 01:18:02,612 --> 01:18:04,745 But more important for the kellys' future, 1451 01:18:04,781 --> 01:18:08,482 it's time for captain kris to try to close a new deal with dave. 1452 01:18:08,518 --> 01:18:11,886 [dave] okay. That's it. Dry it, weight it. See what we got. 1453 01:18:11,921 --> 01:18:13,554 I got the winning pan. 1454 01:18:13,589 --> 01:18:15,356 [laughing] 1455 01:18:17,627 --> 01:18:19,694 [kris] so right now, I need to make a deal with dave 1456 01:18:19,729 --> 01:18:22,396 for the rest of the season or we're pretty screwed. 1457 01:18:22,432 --> 01:18:24,265 And I really need a fair deal from dave. 1458 01:18:24,300 --> 01:18:25,633 Fifty-fifty. 1459 01:18:25,668 --> 01:18:27,601 That's the only way we're gonna have enough money to keep going. 1460 01:18:27,637 --> 01:18:30,371 So I really think when he sees the gold we brought in, 1461 01:18:30,406 --> 01:18:32,206 he's gonna jump at this chance. 1462 01:18:37,447 --> 01:18:38,946 We have each of our gold in separate pans 1463 01:18:38,981 --> 01:18:41,415 and they're all dry and ready to go for the clean-out. 1464 01:18:42,418 --> 01:18:43,451 I'll go first. 1465 01:18:43,486 --> 01:18:45,052 Here we go. 1466 01:18:49,425 --> 01:18:52,059 -Holy [bleep]. -3.05. 1467 01:18:52,295 --> 01:18:53,561 Wow. 1468 01:18:53,596 --> 01:18:57,131 Boo-yah, baby! There's a good chance I won this competition. 1469 01:18:57,166 --> 01:18:59,533 -A damn good chance. -Okay, let's weigh chris'. 1470 01:18:59,569 --> 01:19:01,302 Come on, chris. Here you go. 1471 01:19:02,472 --> 01:19:05,372 There's one. Two. 1472 01:19:05,408 --> 01:19:06,640 Look, I already got two ounces. 1473 01:19:06,676 --> 01:19:08,509 Here comes three ounces. 1474 01:19:08,544 --> 01:19:09,944 [brad] it's 2.5 ounces right there. 1475 01:19:10,780 --> 01:19:12,513 Come on, chris. You're pretty close. 1476 01:19:12,548 --> 01:19:14,148 [chris] come on. 1477 01:19:15,218 --> 01:19:16,117 [brad] 2.9. 1478 01:19:16,152 --> 01:19:18,119 [chris] damn it. 1479 01:19:18,154 --> 01:19:21,622 So bam! I beat chris. So right now, today's going great. 1480 01:19:21,657 --> 01:19:23,424 Next is to see what andy gets. 1481 01:19:28,564 --> 01:19:29,864 This is for the big nugget. 1482 01:19:29,899 --> 01:19:32,133 -Yeah, andy got last. -Okay. 1483 01:19:33,603 --> 01:19:35,236 Oh, look at that big pick that went in. 1484 01:19:35,271 --> 01:19:36,403 Yeah, you missed that one. 1485 01:19:37,540 --> 01:19:39,173 What the hell? 1486 01:19:39,208 --> 01:19:40,341 Andy cheated. 1487 01:19:43,346 --> 01:19:45,246 -Three and a half. -Wow. 1488 01:19:45,281 --> 01:19:46,380 3.6. 1489 01:19:46,415 --> 01:19:47,481 He's the winner. 1490 01:19:47,517 --> 01:19:49,416 There's more in that pan. 1491 01:19:49,452 --> 01:19:50,684 Andy's got a nugget. Where is it? 1492 01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:52,486 I gotta give him the nugget. 1493 01:19:52,522 --> 01:19:53,487 Oh, no. 1494 01:19:53,523 --> 01:19:54,789 [laughing] 1495 01:19:54,824 --> 01:19:57,525 [bleep] I don't want to pull four different times. 1496 01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,794 Andy and I both beat chris mccully. 1497 01:19:59,829 --> 01:20:02,930 Now that dave's seen all the gold we can bring in, 1498 01:20:02,965 --> 01:20:05,232 it's gotta be obvious to dave that he needs us. 1499 01:20:05,268 --> 01:20:06,634 Case closed. 1500 01:20:06,669 --> 01:20:07,668 Okay, we'll combine all the gold. 1501 01:20:07,703 --> 01:20:10,171 Let's combine this and then let's give our split. 1502 01:20:14,744 --> 01:20:17,411 9.5 ounces. And that's what we got. 1503 01:20:17,446 --> 01:20:19,146 You gotta pay the man. 1504 01:20:19,182 --> 01:20:20,414 [kris] sixty-forty. 1505 01:20:20,449 --> 01:20:23,417 Okay, so the owner gets 5.7 ounces. 1506 01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:24,785 That's pretty good. 1507 01:20:24,821 --> 01:20:26,887 -Here you go, dave. -Here you go, dave. 1508 01:20:27,857 --> 01:20:32,159 So our cut in this competition is 3.8 ounces. 1509 01:20:32,195 --> 01:20:36,730 [narrator] with 3.8 ounces, the kellys pocket nearly eight grand. And dave? 1510 01:20:36,766 --> 01:20:39,366 -Here's our cut right there. -This is so... 1511 01:20:40,536 --> 01:20:43,904 [narrator] he banks over $11,000 for the day. 1512 01:20:43,940 --> 01:20:45,706 Not to shabby for never leaving the boat. 1513 01:20:45,741 --> 01:20:50,177 Andy won the competition and cripple river is working out great. 1514 01:20:50,213 --> 01:20:51,779 It's all that counts. 1515 01:20:51,814 --> 01:20:53,447 [kris] so dave made a lot of money off us. 1516 01:20:53,482 --> 01:20:56,250 He knows it. So now it's time for the big deal. 1517 01:20:56,285 --> 01:20:57,351 It's a no-brainer. 1518 01:20:58,421 --> 01:21:00,287 Aw, you know what's there. 1519 01:21:00,323 --> 01:21:01,755 And you know you're gonna be rich off that claim. 1520 01:21:01,791 --> 01:21:04,625 -Yeah. -So you came out the real winner. 1521 01:21:04,660 --> 01:21:06,460 Thank you very much for letting us go there. 1522 01:21:06,495 --> 01:21:08,662 So what's the plan after this? 1523 01:21:08,698 --> 01:21:11,131 -You think we can make a deal-- -my idea is... 1524 01:21:13,469 --> 01:21:15,002 The plan's over. 1525 01:21:18,641 --> 01:21:22,176 I'm done. I gotta get all your crap off my boat. 1526 01:21:22,211 --> 01:21:23,244 It's over. 1527 01:21:23,279 --> 01:21:24,278 Hmm. 1528 01:21:30,353 --> 01:21:31,418 It's all I can say. We're done. 1529 01:21:31,454 --> 01:21:33,554 Well, that [bleep], you know? 1530 01:21:33,589 --> 01:21:36,056 Especially after we just got a lot of gold. 1531 01:21:36,692 --> 01:21:37,958 That's really [bleep]. 1532 01:21:39,629 --> 01:21:41,729 Wow. That was a kick to the teeth. 1533 01:21:41,764 --> 01:21:43,631 You know, we make the guy some gold 1534 01:21:43,666 --> 01:21:46,533 and then he just kicks us to the curb. 1535 01:21:46,569 --> 01:21:48,636 We could work together as a team, you know? 1536 01:21:48,671 --> 01:21:51,739 But dave's got other plans that I don't know about. 1537 01:21:51,774 --> 01:21:54,441 But usually, I get kissed before I get [bleep]. 1538 01:21:55,411 --> 01:21:56,410 Hmm. 1539 01:21:57,446 --> 01:21:58,646 Can we go down there one more time 1540 01:21:58,681 --> 01:22:01,482 and try to get one more shot of gold? 1541 01:22:01,517 --> 01:22:03,417 No, I gotta haul it out. I'm done. 1542 01:22:03,452 --> 01:22:05,119 Yeah. Yeah, okay. 1543 01:22:05,154 --> 01:22:07,588 [kris] so once again, we have no way of getting gold. 1544 01:22:07,623 --> 01:22:09,690 The rug has been yanked from underneath us 1545 01:22:09,725 --> 01:22:12,059 and the season will be over soon. 1546 01:22:14,063 --> 01:22:16,764 It was still-- it's a tough thing to swallow, you know? 1547 01:22:16,799 --> 01:22:19,833 At this point, I have no idea what we're gonna do. 1548 01:22:20,836 --> 01:22:23,304 Right now, we just need to come up with a plan. 1549 01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:27,141 So that's something we're gonna have to talk about. 1550 01:22:27,176 --> 01:22:28,008 [brad] okay. 1551 01:22:28,611 --> 01:22:29,710 [kris] let's go. 1552 01:22:30,713 --> 01:22:33,280 [narrator] next time on bering sea gold... 1553 01:22:33,316 --> 01:22:34,882 We've got a lot riding on them. 1554 01:22:34,917 --> 01:22:38,152 Now all we have to do is pile the gold in the box. 1555 01:22:38,187 --> 01:22:39,420 What's in there? 1556 01:22:40,589 --> 01:22:41,989 [groans] 1557 01:22:42,024 --> 01:22:47,261 [kris] desperation is pushing me to dive to where dredge 6 is. 1558 01:22:47,296 --> 01:22:50,597 Either we're gonna be the smartest guys around or the dumbest guys around. 1559 01:22:50,633 --> 01:22:51,765 I sure appreciate the opportunity, 1560 01:22:51,801 --> 01:22:54,168 and I look forward working with you, man. 1561 01:22:55,304 --> 01:22:57,671 [laughing] 1562 01:22:57,707 --> 01:22:59,773 [zeke] I heard there's a canyon full of gold out there somewhere. 1563 01:22:59,809 --> 01:23:02,543 Gold is all over different places. 1564 01:23:02,578 --> 01:23:04,345 -Hell yeah, man. -[laughing] 1565 01:23:04,380 --> 01:23:06,046 [man] beautiful. Beautiful. 1566 01:23:06,082 --> 01:23:07,114 Whoo! 1567 01:23:09,752 --> 01:23:12,486 This whole pond is dangerous as [bleep]. 1568 01:23:12,521 --> 01:23:14,989 Kris, I can't see your air bubbles. 1569 01:23:15,391 --> 01:23:16,490 I'm sinking. 1570 01:23:16,525 --> 01:23:18,158 [screaming]