[radio statics]
[radio commentator] welcome to bsg radio,
your official station for everything bering sea gold.
Well, miners, you knew it was coming.
Temperatures are plummeting.
We got ice forming in the harbor.
And the docks are getting full tomorrow.
That's right.
Summer is over.
After the next 24 hours...
Nothing will be the same.
[bell tolling]
[commentator] so good luck out there, stay safe,
and dream big.
[emily] there's an expiration date
on every summer of gold mining.
[mike] it's a little frightful.
Hopefully, we can pull out a half million dollars.
It must be that damn cold.
We'll finish out the season with a bang.
Hey, I don't think I can do this.
Oh, [bleep]
[diver speaking]
bravo.
[vernon] do you hear me or not?
[man laughs]
bang.
[shawn] it feels like a rodeo on this thing.
We are backed against the wall,
we turn into superman.
[vernon] we don't have a whole lot of time
and we need to find gold.
So please.
[dramatic music playing]
[shawn] that's what we're looking for right there.
This stuff looks amazing.
Yeah, I'd say we need to dig here.
[narrator] as the clock expires on summer,
it's judgment day for shawn pomrenke.
[shawn] now, it's time to find some gold.
If you look outside, it's a little frightful.
The mountains are turning white.
There's ice in the harbor.
It's time to make gold.
Hopefully, we can pull out $500,000.
[narrator] mr. Gold needs nearly 200 ounces
to make payments on the inland mine,
upgrades performed on the myrtle,
and, most importantly, the tomcod.
Failure to pay could result in losing
the massive thousand-acre claim.
I just gotta get all these damn bills paid.
[narrator] but with the christine rose
and the inland mine done for the season...
Success or failure now relies exclusively
on the myrtle irene.
I've been stressing about it,
but then you take one pan like that
and then it's just bucketful after bucketful
of decent-looking materials.
I swung for the fences this season,
buying the tomcod, buying out my dad,
and remodeling the myrtle.
It hasn't been easy, but the way this thing's
moving material, looks like we're gonna hit
the gold by the skin of my teeth.
But this is my last opportunity to make gold.
There's basically no time left on the clock.
This is what this thing was made for,
was this ground right here.
It's just chewing it up, spitting it out.
Got this thing going like a fine wine right now.
Who would have thunk?
[chuckles]
I built all this in my head,
and it's working.
Really good-looking material. Time to check the box.
We're running out of time.
We need to double, triple-check.
Make sure everything's right.
We can't have any surprises, not at this late hour.
If we do, we won't get the ounces we need
to make our payments.
Then this whole empire will come crumbling down.
There's some gold in the box, for sure.
I was expecting to see a lot more.
Thought I'd see a whole lot more.
I don't know.
It's still pretty dirty.
Huh.
We're on great gold, but the box isn't catching it.
I have to figure out why,
and I have to figure it out fast.
We're gonna make a few adjustments,
bump the pump up a little bit, and see if we can feed it
more water back on the backside.
We're not in the business of washing gold out of the box.
We're in the business of putting gold in the box.
I like the water up higher.
Let's pull some of these back nozzles,
those ones that plug up.
Water pressure on the sluice box is very critical.
I mean, too high, you blow the gold out.
Too low, you pack the riffles up
and blow the gold out.
You gotta find that sweet spot to where the gold
is staying in the box.
Fire that pump up and see what it looks like.
[machine rumbling]
open the valve on top of the pump.
Oh, yeah!
Right now we got really good material
so I've taken sometime this week every day
to get it to run the way I want it to run.
No sense in doing all this work to throw
the gold back into the ground.
Perfect.
Let's see what it does when I feed it.
Here we go.
It's time to make gold.
Man, this stuff looks amazing.
Running really good material.
Time to check the box.
Look at all that.
Oh. Yeah.
Way better. Already.
Now, that's what we're talking about.
I like everything about it.
I see gold now.
Gold mining is not easy.
You have to know what you're doing,
especially when you're dealing with this kind
of money and equipment.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
They don't call me mr. Gold for nothing.
That's what I wanna see. We need to see a lot more.
By the end of today, that should be yellow.
Oh, yeah. There you go.
[narrator] while shawn gets back on track...
Back in the harbor...
It's final push. No excuses right now.
We need this gold no matter what.
'cause I love you guys.
We're gonna make that goal.
Yeah. Great find.
[narrator] ...Captain kris kelly's hoping
one last fling with the mistress
excavator barge can salvage his season.
[kris] it's gonna be a great day today.
Even though it's probably been the worst year of my life,
we're gonna turn it around today,
'cause what else can happen at this point?
Lightning can strike this vessel and we'll still go
out on the water and make that money today.
Whatever I have to do today to make that money,
I'm going to. My family's depending on me
to get us through to the end.
My brother had a family emergency and left.
And last night, my dad had to go home.
There's a big problem at the pot farm.
So I'm the last kelly standing.
And that's fine 'cause I know what I'm doing.
Today's our last day, so this is my last chance to make some gold.
It's all gonna come down to this.
Right now we're pushing it late to the season.
Later than I've ever done before.
Everything's freezing. Right now this deck is a skating rink.
I hope to god when we start everything up,
it's gonna work.
I don't need any other problems right now.
I just need gold.
Not only are we fighting freezing cold temperatures,
but we actually have a storm right on our tail
that's pushing the tide like really far out.
So we can go in shallow and see if we can actually
hit the second clay layer where, you know,
all that big coarse gold is sitting right on top.
I mean, we're looking at like two ounce an hour.
That's what I'm talking about. That's what I think we should go after
'cause we need a hail mary pass right now.
To put together a new ice mining operation,
I need $20,000.
We have 5,000 in our pockets right now.
So we need to squeeze out 78 ounces,
otherwise we're out of business.
My deal with james is 20% of the gold,
so we gotta really make the best of this.
But we gotta move fast. It's getting icy and mother nature
is up our ass today.
All right, dude. Making our final approach.
Fire up the excavator please.
[kris] okay. About time. Let's do this.
[machine stutter]
please work.
Demon, begone.
The power of christ compels you.
Come on, baby.
[machine revving]
-yeah, baby. -Yeah, baby.
All right. Everything's working.
Let's get on that [bleep] excavator.
All right.
[kris] so today's plan is simple.
James is gonna take the first shift
and hopefully get us on to that second clay layer
where the big gold is.
Then I'm going to put on my shawn pomrenke hat,
do the second shift, mop up the rest of the gold,
and save my season.
This is show time.
Nice. Look at that.
I'm digging deep right now, man.
All right. He's trying to punch through
that second clay layer.
[james] oh, yeah. That's what I'm looking for.
Give me that.
That's the clay layer I'm looking for.
[kris] look at that.
[james speaking]
[man speaking]
we're on gold.
First bucket of the day, yeah, I'm stoked.
You just gotta go for it.
You gotta move.
Right now james is taking first.
He's gonna do that probably a few hours.
And then I'm jumping on there to clean up.
Today we're gonna get a lot of gold, baby!
[laughs]
[commentator] welcome back to bsg radio.
Hey, miners, the clock's a-ticking.
It's the last day to get what you can.
Your fate is in your hands.
[upbeat music playing]
[steve] I got a call from vern.
"come on over. I need you."
you need me?
Vern's never said, "I need you," to me.
This late in the season, I don't come cheap.
Whatever it is the price just went up advantage steve.
[laughs]
oh, man.
[narrator] as the end of summer mining descends on nome,
steve riedel ship may finally be coming in.
-[vernon] what's up, buddy? -How you doing?
[vernon] it just so happened, as a matter of fact,
steve, we will be shorthanded.
We're mainly going after prospect, okay?
So there would be... There would be pay involved.
Uh-huh.
You know, I'm available so I'll help out.
I might need you to go in the water.
Okay?
Being a deckhand for vern is one thing,
but diving for him, quite another thing.
But I've been working all season for the chance
to get back in the game, and it's finally happening.
I know he's uphill.
I know he doesn't like me.
And better to stick with the devil you know
than the angel that's a foreigner.
[vernon] okay, guys.
We're gonna go out and do some prospecting
in preparation for winter.
Right now, the only area we know for sure on that claim
is the one where we've been working.
But I wanna check out some more spots on the claim,
because come wintertime, we don't know exactly
where we're gonna be able to go.
That will be determined by the ice.
And steve volunteered to step into the breach here
and give a hand with what we're doing today.
I've had a lot of frustrating years up here.
Oh! No!
[bleep] damn it!
Whoa!
But not anymore.
This season's been an embarrassment of riches.
We only need about three more ounces to pay off 56.
So today we're gonna send gary down to knock it out.
And then after that, in preparation for the winter season,
I'll send steve down to do some prospecting.
I want a full team aboard so everything goes smoothly.
There's no one else in town available
so I'm stuck bringing back steve.
Desperate times calls for desperate measures.
Well, let's get underway.
Yeah. That sounds good.
[vernon] okay, guys.
Let's toss that gangway ashore and get the hell out of here.
All right.
We do have coffee, don't we?
[playful music playing]
[man] woo! We got some good swells coming in.
Hang on, guys.
-[steve] great coffee. -Thanks.
-Is there anymore? -Yeah. There is.
[chuckles]
[steve] I'll take your place 'cause you've just cleaned
that off with your butt.
-[man] it's warm. -[steve] yeah. It'll be warm and...
So you like a... You like a warm nest
to perch in?
Well, he cleaned the sand off of it, mostly.
It was the sand, mostly.
'cause the sand doesn't feel good.
Yeah. Well, we want you to be...
You know, we want you to be comfortable.
-[steve] oh, good. -Keep your little tush all toasty.
-[steve] oh, yeah. -Keep your [bleep] out of the sand.
Cheers to that.
[man] woo!
[man] well, there's some swell going on.
This is gonna be fun out here today, guys.
I hope.
[chuckles]
[vernon speaking]
[vernon] it's getting pretty choppy out here today.
The weather usually picks up towards the end of the season.
[steve] big swells.
Doing this, and then it's doing
a little bit of this.
[vernon] me, gary, and brian, we're comfortable
with these conditions, but steve is looking a little green.
[grunts] too much coffee.
And, hell, we haven't even gotten to the claim yet.
[steve retching]
[gary] you okay, buddy?
[steve] no.
[gary speaking]
-[steve] mmm-hmm. -[gary] yeah.
[steve retching]
-it's bad [bleep] -[steve] oh.
I feel better now.
[brian] yeah.
A little puking always does that for a guy.
We'll see how he dives after losing cookies.
I'm thinking maybe we should have just left steve on the dock.
I mean, you would think that somebody is better than nobody,
but in steve's case, that is not always true.
[gary] drink some more coffee, man.
[laughs]
[steve sighs] much better.
[narrator] thirty miles west.
[man yawns]
tired all the time.
[zeke] hurry up and dress.
[narrator] after a long night's sleep
aboard their revolutionary sailboat dredge,
zeke tenhoff and his crew are primed for their
last day of summer mining.
[zeke] it was a successful night out on the boat.
All is well. I look forward to a good day.
This trip out cape rodney has been an adventure.
Hardly anyone ever makes it out this far,
so we're on the hunt for undiscovered treasure.
Last trip, we definitely found signs that there's gold here.
I wanna get kind of set up a little deeper
'cause it's right over there in that area.
I'm still on the hunt for this rusty gold.
When you see it, you can tell it's been there for a very long time.
It hasn't been disturbed.
I suspect that it's hiding out deeper.
So that's where we're headed today.
I'm at 28 feet right now.
Looks good.
There's a very serious winter storm front that's headed in,
so if we don't time it out right
and we don't beat the storm into town,
the swells will get so big that I just don't
wanna even hypothesize about what could happen.
[machine whirring]
my theory is that there's less current on the bottom.
So maybe the bedrock here like isn't being swept clean.
[zeke speaking]
if I find good gold at cape rodney,
it'll be a completely new discovery.
An untouched trove of treasure.
Okay.
All right.
He's in the water.
[zeke speaking]
I'm on the bottom.
How is it going down there?
[zeke] definitely kind of different down here.
It, honestly, seems like it's a little smoother here.
I don't know.
So it's just black rock everywhere?
[zeke] yeah. Well...
[zeke speaking]
[zeke] all right. Here's a crack
in the bedrock right here.
Oh, that's good to hear.
[zeke] there's a little piece of gold here.
There's a piece of gold right there.
Yeah. There's a little piece of gold right there.
All right.
But I'm looking for the rusty gravel 'cause
that has gold in it.
So where would that rusty gravel be hiding?
I don't know.
I don't really know how to look for it.
It could be a wild goose chase.
I don't know. But like...
I just found a pretty nice little blink right here.
Nice.
[zeke] a piece of gold right there.
That's a shiny little piece of gold.
So where are your friends, little piece of gold?
I know your friends are around here somewhere.
I bet there's areas where there's pockets
where they're just loaded with these little pieces
of gold just like this.
But time is really short.
I'm just going to like dig holes everywhere
my nozzle can reach.
[commentator] hey, miners. Me again.
The winds are picking up and storms are looming.
There's not a moment to spare.
[upbeat music playing]
oh, hi. Look at that smile.
Yeah.
[narrator] despite the conditions,
captain emily riedel is determined to squeeze in one last day of mining.
[rick] it's time to get on the gold.
[emily] all right.
All right. We got go.
What's up? Yeah.
How you doing?
Yeah, I'm stoked to be out of here.
Yeah. This is fine day out in the bering sea.
I'm looking at purchasing claim 6.
And if I decide to make an offer,
I need to make sure I have the 75 ounces it's gonna take.
Time is running out, but I'm really close to my goal.
So we just have to make every hour we're out count.
But, you know, the winter weather is upon us
and the end of the season is coming.
It's pretty crucial that we push and make it happen today.
[rick] this is almost the end.
We gotta get it while we can get it.
[emily] last day in the water.
Try to make it happen.
We need a few more ounces though.
I can't go home like this.
Yeah. Copy that, man.
Hopefully, we'll get a couple more ounces
in the box before we call it.
Well, I'm gonna get down there.
I'm gonna... Regardless of the biz or whatever. I...
I'm gonna suck it up.
Rick's a trooper, man.
Like, he's willing to work in all sorts
of bad conditions and he's really motivated.
I want some gold, but I also want rick to be safe.
I want a live rick.
Water temperature is 42 degrees.
It's cold.
[emily] last anchor set.
I've been up here working for six months.
I've done everything I can to make my boat money this year.
There's an expiration date on every summer of gold mining,
and I've reached the expiration date.
Today is not about prospecting,
finding a new spot to work.
I mean, today is just about grinding it out
and pulling out as much gold as we can.
I don't normally wear these but it's getting cold.
These go down to my feet.
Keep 'em nice and toasty.
We just need to mine as hard as we can
and make as much gold as we can 'cause
the bering sea is about to kick us off.
[rick] fire it up, em.
[machine whirring]
yeah.
Woo! Woo! Woo!
Go kick ass.
[rick speaking]
don't be a hero.
If the dive conditions suck, don't dive.
[rick speaking]
[emily] a little bit of g sounds good.
[rick] a lot of g sounds better.
[emily] all right. Roger that. Sounds good, dude.
How is visibility?
[rick speaking]
all right. Go for it.
[rick speaking]
oh, yes.
[rick speaking]
[emily] sweet. Gold works in mysterious ways.
[rick speaking]
oh! Beautiful! Bravo!
Oh, mwah, mwah, mwah! Oh!
[narrator] twelve miles west.
[kris] we're here. We're digging. We're making gold.
This is it. We really have to do everything we can right now.
No excuses.
[james] I'm digging deep, going through the clay layer.
Wow.
Good material, man.
[narrator] heavy material is piling up on the mistress...
[james] breaking through this clay layer
is definitely paying off.
[narrator] ...As kris kelly awaits his turn in the chair.
We do the work today no matter what.
This is it, my last chance,
and I still enough money to fund ice mining.
A storm is right behind us
and it's cold as [bleep] right now.
But you know what? We're on great ground,
and I know we're gonna pull this off.
I think I can do this.
[james] you know, it looks like more than one.
You gotta go for it.
Everything's on the line.
[speaking]
all right.
-Good gold? -Yeah.
Good gold, but the box is...
Like, you look underneath the hopper,
[bleep] rock solid.
Way too much material.
I think it's the clay.
[kris] right now we're in really hard-packed clay,
and there's so much of it, it's clogging up the sluice box.
A clogged-up box means
it's not gonna recover a lot of gold.
Time to check it out.
So we have to shovel the clay out of the way
and let the wash plant clean out.
[kris speaking]
how bad is it?
[kris speaking]
we don't have time to go slow.
To get it better is raking it.
[james] let's get that damn gold.
[kris speaking]
all right. Well, if you wanna jump in,
I'll take a break, switch it out.
[kris] okay.
Yeah, baby.
So james did his shift. Now it's my turn.
And I need to feed those sluice box evenly
or it's gonna clog up.
So right now I need finesse,
which I'm not known for when I'm operating an excavator.
Okay. Let's rock and roll.
This is gonna be a big challenge for me,
but I know I can do this.
You know, I really have to be calm, do fluid motions.
Oh, look at that. That's too much clay.
All right. That one's kind of [bleep] up.
I missed that one a little bit.
I can't be perfect every time.
[machine whirring]
[kris] now get in there.
It's just getting it over the wash plant
and finessing it in,
that takes a little bit of skill.
Yeah. You see that?
[laughs]
all right. Everything's working.
I'm getting the hang of it.
[machine whirring]
[kris] right now every bucket is one step closer
to the ice operation.
I'll get the finesse thing down, you know?
[gary] woo! We're on it again.
[vernon] so, gary, you think this is a good spot?
[gary] oh, yeah. Look at all the gold right there.
Yeah.
Yeah. You did get a good thing by buying this side.
Okay.
All right.
[narrator] with about three ounces needed
to complete the purchase of 56,
vernon's crew is finishing up their last dive of the season
before steve riedel makes his much ballyhooed
summer diving debut.
[vernon] I got gary down right now.
When he's up, I need another man.
I need another diver because I wanna check out
some more spots on the claim in preparation for winter.
Luckily for us, when we came out here,
we dropped down right on top of the gold.
I mean, the gold is just flowing into the nozzle.
[gary speaking]
yeah. You and me both.
I couldn't be happier right now.
I'm damn near ecstatic.
We'll finish out the season with a bang.
[gary] do you see all that gold right there?
You see all that?
Woo!
Okay, gary, you got done just about three hours in.
I think we can get you out now and put steve down.
[gary] all right. Sounds good.
[gary speaking]
hang on. We'll pull the umbilical.
-[steve snoring] -steve! Come on! Damn it!
We got what we need to pay off 56. I know that.
And now my focus is on getting ready for winter.
We need to do some prospecting, poke some holes,
lock in some options for ice season.
So I'm praying steve doesn't make me regret this decision.
Oh, I need to go find brian.
I can't do this myself. I don't think you can...
Can you do this?
I don't think I can do this myself.
-[brian] okay. Ready here? -[steve] all right.
-It goes over the... -And you wanna go over?
Yeah. I wanna go over.
-[brian speaking] -[steve] okay
-[steve speaking] -[brian speaking]
oh, boy.
I'm watching steve get ready
and he is not radiating confidence.
[brian speaking]
-[steve] it's fine. It's fine. -[brian speaking]
[steve] okay. Fine.
Matter of fact, just watching him,
I'm getting ready to about upchuck myself.
[steve speaking]
-[brian] okay. -[steve speaking]
[brian speaking]
[steve] good. Good. Good. Perfect. Perfect.
-[brian] okay. Pull it. Pull it. -[sighs]
[brian] now you're good.
[steve] okay. Here we go.
-I'm going to the bottom. -[brian] all right. Have a good dive, man.
-Bring some gold. -[steve] thank you. I'm gonna find some gold.
[steve grunts]
woo-hoo!
Okay, you guys. [chuckles]
this is awesome.
[steve speaking]
[bleep]
[steve speaking]
[sighs]
so, steve, get down there and punch us a couple holes
and see what the bottom looks like at this location, okay?
[steve laughs]
oh, [bleep].
Do you hear me or not?
[steve] vernon, I hear you very clearly.
Bang.
We're just trying to get ready for ice season,
punch some few holes, look around,
but I'm starting to have my doubts
as to whether or not that's gonna happen.
So far steve's like a giggling monkey
-in a rubber suit. -[steve] this is incredible.
I'd rather stay down here.
[laughs]
okay. Here we go.
How is it looking down there?
How is that first spot looking?
[steve] it's a lot of sand, vernon.
I was hoping to hit cobble but there's no cobble yet.
Just a lot of sand.
At least, two feet deep.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay, steve.
Come on up and we'll move the boat into another spot.
[steve] okay, vernon. I'm coming up right now.
All right, buddy. That sounds good.
The key to this kind of prospecting is moving fast.
[boat engine rumbling]
[vernon] you just drop the anchor
and pop a hole and see gold.
If you do, you follow it.
Okay, steve. Go for it.
[steve] trying for number two, vernon.
[vernon] if we can write up a few promising coordinates,
we should be set for when the ice comes in.
Okay, steve, are you at the nozzle yet?
[steve] yeah.
Let me know what it looks like.
[steve] there's not much vis but I can see good cobble.
And I punched a hole right in the middle of it
and we're getting some positive signs for gold.
All right. Well, that's what I wanna hear.
[steve] I'm gonna stay down here and mine, vernon.
We don't have time for mining right now.
-We're just prospecting. -[steve] okay, vernon.
Let's come back here for ice.
[vernon] we'll put number two down as a busy spot.
-[steve] rock on. -[vernon] come on up
and we'll try a different location.
[steve] coming up.
[boat engine rumbling]
[steve] we got one bad, one good.
Let's go for another good one.
So, steve, how is it looking down there?
[steve] I like this, vernon.
This is looking really good.
We got a cobble strip here.
It's really long.
Oh, yeah. This is awesome.
[vernon] that's what I wanna hear.
[steve] number three.
There's gold, you guys.
[vernon] okay. So you're seeing good gold down there?
-[steve] super gold. -[vernon] all right.
-Well, we'll mark the spot. -[steve] woo-hoo!
[vernon] he seem to be doing a pretty good job down there.
Color me shocked.
I gotta give him credit.
We got some good intel and he didn't do anything
for me to fire him for.
So although I enjoy firing him,
he survived the day.
[steve] yeah. We're gonna come back here, vernon.
I mean, you're gonna come back here, vernon.
-Sorry. -[vernon] good job.
We got some hot prospects for the winter.
I think we got enough information to operate on now.
Why don't you come on up and get warm?
[steve] I'm heading up.
I think he was a little nervous to start out with,
but he did it and actually did some productive work.
So I'm glad for that.
-Here you go. -[brian] okay.
Woo! Wow.
[vernon] all right. Good show, man.
[steve] yeah. It's fun. We got a ball.
-[vernon] all right. -You got two and a half good places this winter.
Number two and three.
That's good gold down there, vernon.
It's been a frustrating season for me.
I'm back, nome. I'm back.
How about a job? I could dive for you.
I'm good.
[steve] but I am ending it on a high note.
I don't think vernon had any confidence
that I was gonna find gold
but I made an impression on vern my last dive
and I made just a little bit of scrap money just to keep going.
So I think that bought me my ticket
for this next season of ice.
I really appreciate this opportunity to dive.
-[vernon] okay. -Been wanting to dive for you all this season.
-A little late but... -[steve] yeah.
...You know, we got you in.
[steve] this winter when the gold starts piling in,
you'll thank me for going down there,
looking around the place.
Yeah. Every time we come out here, we'll think about you, steve.
[laughs] I bet.
Woo!
[narrator] twelve miles west.
[shawn] checked the box first thing this morning.
The box didn't look worth a hell.
But by washing it down,
we washed the gold down into the carpet.
The box is looking way better.
So we're making money.
[narrator] as the minutes tick down on summer mining,
mr. Gold is in the groove.
And 181 ounces seems within reach.
[shawn] that whole box is gonna turn yellow.
It's just a matter of time.
We just gotta keep at it. Keep moving dirt.
Keep putting dirt in the box.
And that's exactly what we're doing.
This many ounces in a day
wouldn't be possible on the christine rose.
It'd take more like a week.
And on the myrtle, before I got my hands on it,
maybe three or four days.
But now this girl's producing like it was always meant to.
For somebody like me, it's a thing of beauty.
It's time to make gold.
This stuff looks amazing.
That's some good-looking dirt.
Really good.
Just bucketful after bucketful
of decent-looking materials.
[machine rumbling]
[bleep]
[shawn speaking]
the great thing about having a dredge like the myrtle,
it's big, it's powerful, and it can move a lot of dirt
in a short amount of time.
But there is some downsides to it,
cause a bigger dredge, bigger problems.
With a machine this massive,
there's just that much more that could go wrong.
I just don't have time for it, not now.
[bleep]
just as soon as we get in a groove, something happens.
If one of my guys can't fix it,
we're gonna be screwed for sure.
[rj] you're tuned in to bsg radio,
the only source for all things bering sea gold.
Well, miners, time is not on your side.
Have you filled that box one last time?
Have you got the ounces you need?
Because if it doesn't happen now,
I got news for you,
it ain't gonna happen at all.
Yo, zeke, you've been down like a couple hours now.
-How's it feeling? -[zeke] you know, I'm, kind of,
starting to have a bad time
because it's like finding no gold at all
for long periods of time.
[narrator] the mad scientist of nome is fighting the clock
to discover a golden pay streak for winter.
[zeke] I have yet to find what I'm looking for.
I want the gold to be on this layer.
That's where I want it to be.
I want it to just poke out at me and be like, "woo-hoo.
Look what you found."
I ain't seeing it.
What was that?
[sam] swells are coming up a bit up here.
[zeke] yeah, the current's super ripping.
The swell is bouncing up the boat quite a bit.
Yeah, it's getting kind of rough.
It could get worse fast.
It's getting super windy up.
[zeke] I think the current is probably too strong here.
[sam] crazy currents down there, huh?
[zeke] man, these swells are
yanking us all over the place.
Right now, it's like almost impossible
because of the [grunts]...
The swell and because of the current.
I think it's time for me to wrap it up.
All right, well [bleep].
[zeke] yeah, I wish there was gold in this.
I don't know. It's like a bittersweet kind of like thing.
Do you feel like it's been a success this season
even though we haven't gotten a lot of dive days.
[zeke] yeah, I mean, stoked about it.
I got a whole sailboat dredge going.
I'm super stoked about it.
I mean, my god,
it seems like we're gonna be able to do it,
this sailboat dredge are just phenomenal.
And I'm so stoked about them.
Sailboat cool dredge for the win.
[laughs]
[zeke] the treasure hunting adventures on the black swan,
it really just begun, we've built something
that nobody else believed would work.
[sam] there was a lot of people that liked to stand around
while we were working on it. They wanted to tell us all the ways
that it wasn't gonna work, it just all day long.
And here we are working.
So I'm gonna say it's a complete success
to the season even though we didn't get a lot of gold.
[zeke] we've already traveled
way, way from nome and found gold
where nobody else had found it before,
we're off to a good start with this.
I have this picture that I found.
That I think it's where it all started.
That's gotta be at least 30 years ago.
My mom made me this sailboat sweater
and I'm panning gold there.
Really weird when you visualize what you want,
it's gonna happen completely, like, sideways
than what you might expect, it's indirect.
I've always had a sense of adventure since I was a little kid.
I've always daydreamed about sailboats
and treasure hunting adventures.
So I'm making my childhood dreams become a reality.
Like clearly a seed was planted, like, way back,
and adventure continues.
[narrator] twenty miles east.
[emily] how does it look down there, ricardo?
[ricky] the sand is like a half inch thick
and there's gold all over it.
-Yeah, get you some. -[ricky] yeah.
[narrator] on the final dive of the season.
[ricky speaking]
[emily] woo! Gonna be making money.
[narrator] emily is making it count.
Pushing hard to hit her 75-ounce target.
[emily] gonna be making money I just wish the wind wasn't coming up right now.
And the weather is starting to pick up
but I'm keeping an eye on it.
[ricky grunts] just keep moving.
[emily] tell you what, you need a good workout.
[ricky grunts]
come to the bering sea.
Dammit!
Are you doing good?
[ricky speaking]
[emily] at the end of the year,
the currents start to go nuts.
[ricky speaking]
[emily] yeah, that sounds like it blows, dude.
-[ricky] it does blow. -[emily] yeah, dude,
look if the current are not making it workable,
then let's just wrap it up.
[ricky] I wanna stay down here.
I want some g.
-[grunts] -[emily] copy that.
I hear that you're a hero for trying, rick.
[ricky] yeah. I'm gonna try to make my way back slowly.
[emily] the end of the season is here.
-[ricky grunts] -man, what a way to end things, dude.
I sure hope there's a lot of nice gold in the sluice box.
-It's not workable down there. -[ricky speaking]
-copy. -[ricky sighs]
we worked hard and we managed to make a profit
in spite of all the typical mining setbacks.
Losing daryl was rough, but I'm proud of my boat,
I'm proud of my crew.
Now I just have to see if I've hit the 75 ounces.
[dramatic music playing]
woo!
[ricky] man, man, I couldn't go that way.
-Right. -If I go that slow,
it'll pick me up and pull me back.
I think that way is where the gold was.
Yeah, probably.
[emily] you're a superhero, rick.
This is the last sea voyage of the eroica.
Season's over, so I'm gonna celebrate our last day with a cleansing ritual.
Woo!
Scary.
[emily] that's real cold.
That's real cold.
Woo-hoo.
Woo. That's cold. All right.
Hello and welcome to another edition
of kris kelly's secret guide to successful mining.
Today we're gonna be talking about the harbor ice.
[playful music playing]
so harbor ice. So when you see ice in the harbor,
it's a great indication that the season is at an end.
You know, it's basically mother nature
telling you that if you keep running,
you're gonna be messing up your equipment and in the end,
it's gonna cost you a lot more money.
Sometimes you see us push through it,
not me too much, you know,
because those are other guys doing that.
The hardcore [bleep] is staying here
till November and December.
It's colder than a butcher's heart out here.
Damn.
The ice right now it's pretty thin.
You know, like, let's just say,
don't walk on this stuff because I'll probably never see you again.
A little demonstration.
A simple rock, it goes right through the ice.
Oh, [bleep] that was actually a little thicker than I thought.
[producer] yeah, we'll get... We'll get another.
This is terrible. The rock test.
Who the [bleep]... Do you see any other people doing a rock test out here?
[producer] you know what I'm saying.
So I know what you're saying right now.
How thick is that ice behind me?
Start off with little-ass rock.
Whoa.
Then we move up to the tomahawk rock.
Oh.
So now we're gonna move up to the big mofo rock.
Big mofo rock.
Let me tell you what, if this doesn't go through,
you could probably walk on it.
Oh, that's it?
Okay, well, you're definitely not walking on it.
So don't be that guy out here
freezing cold fighting a storm.
You should've been here in may getting your gold,
not in November. Thank you very much.
That's another episode of kris kelly's secret guides to successful mining.
Follow me some other time
when we talk about something important.
Like I said desperate, desperate dirty miners.
[kris] oh, look at that. That's a full bucket.
The end of the year, it's cold as hell.
There's snow on the mountain, the harbor is freezing. It is the end.
I can't believe I'm out here this long still getting gold.
[narrator] only a second time out on the mistress excavator barge,
and kris kelly is already handling her like an old pro.
Good.
[kris] right now, we're punching through the second clay layer
and we're getting all that gold underneath
that I would never have been able to get to.
Damn good gold.
[kris] I didn't get that much.
I didn't get any [bleep] material on that one.
I think we've reached the end of our stick.
I'm gonna have to go tell james we need to move or we need to do something.
I'm not getting any more material.
That bucket was empty.
Bam. Parked.
I'm killing it. This excavator is awesome.
In one hour, I cleaned out an entire area
which would've taken me all day long with the suction hose.
But we need more gold so I am pushing it
to the very end.
Hey. Oh, I think I ran out of stick.
I'm not getting any more material.
-All right. Time to move. -Yeah.
Let's get more gold. I got it.
-Okay, buddy. You know... -All right. Grab that can and we'll pull.
Okay, buddy.
One more move today.
It's almost time to go.
James is making one more move, so we're gonna do it.
[james] here we go.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna kick us out
into a little bit deeper water
while we have a favorable tide and just hit that volume.
So right now, this is just the mad push.
[kris] there may be a storm coming soon,
but we gotta keep pushing.
James is moving the boat deeper to untouched ground,
hopefully he hits pay dirt and the magic continues.
Fingers crossed.
[james] so, we're in really deep water.
-[kris] lower the spuds. -[james] all right.
Spuds down.
Let's see what the ground feels like.
Oh, that's some hard ground.
That's what we wanted.
Yeah.
A little bit of sand.
A little bit of cobble.
[kris] here you go boss, test pan.
[james] yeah, yeah.
You're supposed to get the material out of it.
[kris] I just wanna see the gold.
Test pan is looking really good.
All right. I'm liking it.
[kris] okay.
Everything's going fine.
Ooh, yeah. What a rush.
This is the best experience I've ever had mining.
The last kelly standing is still standing.
We might not have much time left,
but we'll keep going till the fat lady tells us to get the hell off the water.
[kris speaking]
hell yeah.
[james] we're on gold!
[static sound]
we are here.
Welcome to steve's weird, wild, wonderful world
of nome, alaska iditarod edition.
[electronic music playing]
any snow on my beard? No? Okay.
When you think about nome, alaska,
you think about iditarod that famous sled dog race.
There you go, here's the iditarod end,
end of the race they pile a little snow up there,
see, you got a pile of snow up there
and the dog just runs up there and wins.
Nome and the iditarod go together like brothers
and I wanna tell you a little history about how the iditarod starts.
In December of 1924
nome is beset by a diphtheria epidemic
and all the serum had gone bad.
How do you get a serum into nome?
No ships come in here it's winter,
no airplane's come in here, the weather's too bad,
no roads in here at all,
so they got some serum into fairbanks
and they sled-dogged it in here.
Went 675 miles.
A hundred and fifty dogs.
The musher that brought the serum into nome
was gunnar kaasen
and his lead dog balto,
so balto is famous.
Balto is the hero.
Wrong.
[dog wailing]
just because you end the race doesn't mean you were the best part of the race.
You might not even the fastest leg of the race,
you might've been the laziest dog in the race
and we're just hanging around nome and did that last 50 mile.
There were other dogs that went further and faster.
The real unsung hero...
Was leonhard seppala and his lead dog togo.
[dog barking]
they did 260 miles
compared to balto's 50 miles.
They are the heroes of the iditarod.
They're badasses.
They're bad dogs.
They're bad on the dog side.
Dog time.
This is steve riedel's weird, wild, wonderful, world of nome, alaska
and just to show you how it feels
to be a winning racer
you're gonna ride through.
You won, see you're right through it.
Woo-hoo, friends you are the winning dog.
[rj] you're tuned in bsg radio,
where the miners are fleeing the water
and only the hardiest or the craziest keep pushing on.
[static sound]
[upbeat music playing]
[speaking]
looks like this is definitely our last set.
These rollers are coming in fast.
[speaking]
when am I gonna get back in there?
[james] do you want to switch?
[kris] I wanna switch.
All right. You finish up this hole,
we're just about done.
Okay, sounds great.
All right. You're in.
Okay, thanks, buddy.
[kris] it's awesome to be in the excavator,
we're killing it.
Like if there was a chance
I wouldn't be the one to finish this out.
There is no way I would let that happen.
Okay.
Time is nearly up, I need gold,
I'm going to the last possible second,
it's do or die.
Everybody is watching me from up on top.
[laughs]
oh, yeah baby.
All I can do right now is just keep digging and make it work.
[dramatic music playing]
I'd be nothing right now if I didn't have this opportunity.
It might have been the end of the kellys,
but, you know, what? Let me tell you what,
it's really hard to get an irish man down
because when they have nowhere else to go,
that's when we [bleep] our backs against the wall,
we turn into supermen.
I'm getting better at this [bleep].
I mean, I'm not shawn pomrenke yet,
but maybe shawn jr.?
[laughs]
it's getting pretty rough out here.
[kris] it feels like a rodeo on this thing though.
The waves are picking up.
All right. That's it, shut her down.
[kris] okay, buddy.
[james] let's get out of here.
[kris] we made it.
Look at my part that I did up here.
Very attractive.
[james] that's what I'm talking about.
Sweet, all right. We got time to look at the box later,
let's get out of here.
[kris] I really wish my family was here right now,
but still this is one hell of a way to end the season.
[dramatic music playing]
[narrator] back in nome.
[emily] ninety-nine buckets for this gold clean up,
ninety-nine buckets for this gold clean up.
Holy smokes, you're expecting that much gold?
Heck, yeah.
[narrator] after their last few days of mining.
[emily] last clean up.
[narrator] the crew of the eroica
scrapes together every ounce
for the final clean out of summer.
You know, today is gonna decide
whether I hit my goal for this season.
I don't know what to expect out of this clean up.
Let's see and let's get out of here.
Right, nome?
[emily] this gold is so heavy.
[laughter]
not too bad.
[emily] man, we might've done a little bit better than we thought, huh?
[ricky] I definitely I like what I see.
[emily] let's see what we got.
[bleep]
one, two, three,
four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven, twelve,
thirteen, fourteen, fifteen...
-[ricky] come on. -[emily] sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen...
[ricky] come on keep going, keep going.
[emily] nineteen, twenty.
-I got it, it's 20.73, hey. -[ricky] ah, that close.
[narrator] 20.73 ounces, is worth over $41,000.
-[jessie] sweet. -[ricky] yeah. Good stuff.
[emily] just, like, yeah!
[narrator] giving emily just enough to make a play for claim six
and quite possibly become a bering sea claim owner.
[emily] sweet. [bleep]
-we did it again. -[emily] good job guys.
All right. Hey, good season.
It was, it was a great season.
Yeah.
-Probably a good one. -All right.
Thanks for coming on the boat this season.
Both of y'all, I really appreciate it.
[narrator] ten miles west.
[suspenseful music playing]
[shawn] we don't have a whole lot of time
and we need find gold.
[narrator] as night looms, mr. Gold is still at sea
and currently dead in the water.
[shawn] either we lost a fuel pump
or fuel filter or something on the excavator.
[narrator] he's desperate to get the excavator arm moving
and the gold flowing before the season slams shut.
Hey, you got a fuel filter there too?
Gravel in there is kind of a sign.
It's do or die time now.
The sun's setting, it's getting dark
and I don't have the ounces I need to make my goal.
The arm is not moving, but the gravel in the line
suggesting to me that it's the fuel filter.
If it is, it's a quick and easy fix.
Eight inch pump. Eight inch pump.
We put some filters in here, I got a canister.
I told them to make sure they have the extra fuel filters for everything.
Damn if they don't have them.
-Here's a fuel filter. -[speaking]
I just hope we have that filter.
If we don't it'll be a real rookie move on my part.
That'll end our season.
Some big one with a daily drain on the bottom.
-Like that? -[speaking]
I told them to [bleep] put them on here.
Oh, right here, right here boom.
We're in business.
We got one spare.
[shawn] hopefully that fixes the problem
if that doesn't fix the problem
then we got bigger problems.
Then it means that either
we got a bad fuel pump or something
and then that'd be the end of our mining season.
Fixed up now, see if she works.
Just got the fuel filters on.
Please.
[speaking]
-sounds good. -[speaking]
I know.
[laughs] I love it when a plan comes together.
It's working perfect.
From the precipice of near disaster
to the top of the mountain,
that's gold mining for you.
Oh, yeah.
Well, now I need to make up some time,
so I'm gonna work through the night.
I need the ounces so if that's what I got to do,
that's what I'm gonna do.
Let's get that gold.
Everything seems to be working good,
so we're gonna go ahead and put them on the gold box.
It's gonna be a good clean up.
Last cleanup is gonna be huge.
[shawn] yesterday we had a little bit of trouble
with the excavator,
but now we're just hogging pay dirt.
[narrator] after pulling an all-nighter.
We got snow storms coming
and we got this big pig to get out of the water.
[narrator] captain shawn pomrenke
is ready to put the myrtle to bed for the season
and maybe himself.
[shawn] button up and pull up the spuds
one last time and head her in.
[shawn] let's start coming off out of those spuds.
That's a wrap.
We pushed as long as we could,
but now we got to get this beast back in
before it gets froze in.
What an unbelievable season,
I can't believe I'm wrapping it up on the myrtle irene,
wouldn't have seen this coming
even a couple months ago.
Last trip, ice is in,
we're pulling out.
That's all she rode for this season.
The next year will be a good year.
[narrator] as shawn pilots the biggest barge in the fleet back home.
[zeke] it's time to get this thing put away.
One of the last boat on harbor.
Everyone else had their boats moved, I'm dragging.
The harbor master is like get your boat...
Off of my dock. [chuckles]
[narrator] zeke tenhoff prepares his
one of a kind sail boat dredge for a long winter's nap.
[zeke] the harbor is gonna freeze pretty soon,
we need to get the boat out of the water.
This is pretty clearly it for the season.
They're pulling the docks out,
like, in a few minutes
so we got to get all this gear off the dock up to the truck.
When the season's over, it's over.
They're pulling the docks, the harbor is freezing up.
It's kind of like a ceremony
to mark the end of the dredging season.
Yes [laughs].
This summer has built memories that will last a lifetime.
[vocalizing]
[zeke] it's important to share these cool experiences with people.
It wouldn't have been anywhere nearly as awesome
without sam and raven.
I'm ready to put this boat to bed.
[tires screeching]
-[zeke] right on. -[nate] it's coming on.
-[zeke] good to see you, nate. -[nate] yeah.
[zeke] I appreciate it.
[nate] what's it weigh?
It's about 10,000 pounds.
We should be able to get it right where you want it.
-No problem. -Awesome.
Here it comes.
Yeah, it's always exciting,
pulling your boat up into the sky.
[laughs]
oh, a little windy.
So far so good.
[chuckles]
okay. The cradle is underneath.
Nice. I love it.
Perfect.
Yeah.
I'm so stoked. It'll be safe here.
Spending my summer putting a sailboat dredge together
was definitely the right call.
It was reinvigorating
and it kind of reawakened my confidence
that there's some exciting things
gold-wise in my future.
Stay.
Stay there.
[chuckles]
[narrator] on the other side of the harbor...
[vernon] well guys, I think this season is paying off.
-Yeah. -[vernon] yeah.
And that's important to me because...
56 is my retirement.
Yeah, me too.
[narrator] with coordinates already set for winter,
it's time for vernon's last cleanout of the season,
and he needs just three and a half ounces
to pay off 56.
Well, you know, I hate to say it
but it was fortunate that steve showed up when he did.
Yeah.
[vernon] it hurts me to say I was glad to see him show up.
Well, at least he didn't break anything.
[brad] he didn't break nothing.
As far as I know he didn't break anything.
But a lot of times I,
you know, weeks later in the aftermath you'll find...
Yeah, you'll find something hidden, right?
I got to say it was a good season.
Even steve came through with flying colors.
Now, all I got to do is make sure
I've got those final few ounces to pay off 56.
I don't see how we did on this cleanup.
-It's feeling pretty heavy. -[brad] yeah.
[brad] how much is it?
[vernon] there's one, two,
three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, ten, twelve.
Fourteen.
14.44.
-Good number? -[man] awesome.
[narrator] 14.4 ounces is worth over $28,000.
And just like that, claim 56 is paid off
with a little spending money to boot.
That's some pretty gold.
I love it.
Claim 56 is by far and away
the best investment I've ever made.
It's been a long time coming.
Only 10, 12 years I'm banging my head against the wall up there,
trying to get everything to come out right.
It's finally coming together.
As far as I'm concerned, 56,
that's probably the best parts in the bering sea right now.
-[brad] I think so. -When I saw so far.
-I mean... -...I was like, "yeah, man."
all those who have been laughing at my misfortune,
they can kiss my gold rich ass.
And it's only gonna get better this winter.
The sky is the limit moving forward.
-We'll hammer it. -[brad] yeah, we will.
Can't wait to get back out there.
[vernon] this is gonna last us for years and years to come.
I will spend the rest of my career
right there on the 56.
[brad] yeah, I might be there with you.
[vernon] I mean, my job is to make sure
that you guys have big smiles on your face.
-[brad] I'm smiling... -And just go ahead
and buy yourself an extra suitcase
and take all that gold home then.
[brad] oh, yeah.
We're gonna have one of those stickers "heavy baggage."
[vernon] yeah.
[narrator] and now it's time for social hour with vernon.
It's really a nasty day.
A day like today about the only thing I can do
is come in here and have a quiet cocktail
and check my social media.
Fedora the explora says,
"how high will gold go?"
believe it or not,
gold will top $10,000 an ounce
according to vernon.
I pay attention and I've been paying attention for a long, long time.
There's only like 6,000 or 8,000 people
that control the vast majority of the wealth of this world.
The central bankers pretty much control everything,
the media, everything.
If I were king of the world,
I would decree that all paper money is null and void.
You can always use it for toilet paper I suppose.
I've got to mint up my own coins,
be in competition with the federal reserve.
And gold is the only real money.
You better have yourself some gold baby.
Otherwise, you're gonna be a hurting puppy.
Our currency is doomed to fail.
I give the us dollar maybe another 10 years.
I mean, there will be madness and mayhem in the streets.
[narrator] we hope you've enjoyed
this social hour with vernon.
[jazz music playing]
hmm.
That is delicious.
Finally see this gold get separated.
[narrator] kris kelly is looking at the last of his summer gold.
[james] it's getting exciting.
Um, a good golden sands,
that's what we're after.
[narrator] and hoping there's enough glimmer in the dirt
to save his season.
We had everything against us.
We had half fixed broken down equipment,
the ocean was rough as [bleep].
My last day of the summer season wasn't a complete disaster.
I just wish I could say that about my whole season.
Right now I just need to make eight ounces
and that means we better see 40 ounces on the scale right now.
Anything short of that and my ice season isn't happening
and dad and andy will probably drown me and take my cut.
[james] dude, here it is.
Show me the money.
All right. There you go.
Dong, dong, dong.
Yeah.
[kris] that's a lot of gold.
[james] it feels good, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does feel pretty good.
[james] yeah. It feels pretty nice, right?
[kris] hey, let's see what we got.
All right.
Magic time.
Woo. This is a lot.
Come on baby, big numbers. This is what we need.
Look at that, 700 grams, 900.
[groans] I am over a thousand.
Ooh.
[james] oh, dude.
All right, 1,247 grams.
That's a big ass pile of gold.
[james] that came out to...
40.09 ounces.
[bleep] yeah baby. Give me some love on that.
[narrator] forty ounces is worth a hearty $80,000.
[kris] my cut is eight ounces about $16,000.
Combined with what I got yesterday
that'll be enough to save my ice mining season.
Not one thing went right all season long,
but I needed the best day of the season
and I got it right at the end.
We did it.
The kellys are still in the game baby.
-Look at that. -Thank you very much.
This will definitely help me out a lot more.
I couldn't be more impressed with how you performed.
You're the last kelly standing,
you went out there,
you did what you said you were gonna do
and it's gonna pay off now, man.
[kris] you know what?
This gold did give me an ice mining operation.
I barely got a win out of this season
but with this I won,
you know, like, uh, everything worked out great.
Okay. Everything worked out okay.
[laughter]
[james] yeah.
You live to fight another day.
[narrator] across town.
[shawn] this is the lower box.
The lower boxes should be all fine gold.
[narrator] the time has come for mr. Gold
to see if his big roll of the dice paid off
or if it's come up snake eyes.
[shawn] it would've been nice to get
10 more days or something down there
because I was just coming in to some cheesy stuff.
Hopefully, there's enough of it.
[dave] hey, shawn, how's it going?
[shawn] it's going.
What do you got?
Oh, my [bleep]
-where's that at? -[shawn] at the bottom box.
That's the bottom, huh?
That is some fine gold.
[shawn] the lower box is working.
[dave] that's pretty good.
[shawn] yeah, it'll definitely add up.
-We got a little bit of gold. -We got it redone.
You went out there and mined, we didn't have a disaster.
I'm excited.
-Let's get this cleaned up. -Yeah.
And see what the hell we got.
[shawn] break over.
[dave] let's get her running.
[upbeat music playing]
[machine whirring]
[shawn] we can see how each box performed on the myrtle.
Everything did what it was supposed to.
It's very rewarding to see something come together
that you put so much thought, effort, time, and resources into.
[dave] this weighs a lot. Feel that.
Oh, yeah, that does feel good.
Hope this last batch of gold is enough. Fingers crossed.
-Let's weigh it. -[shawn] all right. You ready?
Three.
-Ten. -Ten.
Twenty, thirty...
-[shawn] forty. -[dave] ...Forty...
-[shawn] fifty. -...Fifty.
-Seventy. -Yeah.
[dave] 70.80.
Put this in and let's see what we got.
[shawn] a hundred and fifty.
-[dave] sixty. -[shawn] one-sixty.
-[dave] seventy... -[shawn] one-seventy.
[dave] ...Eighty,
two-hundred.
[shawn] there we go. Broke 200.
214, that's not bad.
[narrator] two-hundred and fourteen ounces
is worth a staggering $428,000.
It's almost half a million.
Yeah.
[narrator] shawn's big gamble paid off
and his reign over the bering sea
is stronger than ever.
[dave] when I first seen you're drawing,
I didn't think it was gonna work.
I thought you were crazy.
Man, you pulled it up. Good job.
Yeah. I am a little crazy but...
[laughs]
[shawn] it's a monster haul.
We can make all of our payments.
It's proof that the sky is the limit
with the new myrtle irene.
I knew this thing was gonna be a killer and I was right.
I'm never wrong.
That'll get us going for next year easily.
Next season we're gonna be way ahead of this.
I feel like king kong on that machine.
There's nothing else like it on the bering sea.
I'm hoping to get a full season on her next year.
We'll be breaking records left and right.
This is what you get when you team up
with mr. Gold right here.
-Huh? -[shawn] yeah.
Next season is gonna be fun.
[static sound]
[rj] well done, miners.
Well done.
For bsg radio, we're signing off for now,
but rest up miners,
because winter is coming.
[dramatic music playing]
I haven't seen a storm like this in years.
The town is on total shutdown and so is mining.
[vernon] it is frustrating as hell.
Everybody is hungry for gold.
[zeke] life is good here in the artic
as long as you stay out of the wind.
[wind howling]
[vernon] danger... Dangerous gold.
[man] I'm having some problems, it's freezing down here.
Pull him up!
[shawn] we're gonna make some money.
[machine whirring]
[shawn] we're ready to go diving.
[machine whirring]
[bleep]
[kris] all brand new equipment like christmas.
Careful. It might be motors or something.
[steve] I had a great plan and all of a sudden, boom, upside down.
Now I don't have a place to live.
Steve riedel, just in time.
Hoping to work.
[zeke] I wanna choose a place and kind of stick to it.
It may take me a bunch of holes
but I now I'll find something.
Fire it up.
[vernon] we're going out like where we were last summer,
so fingers crossed.
[kris] it's my chance to go make the gold
and see what we're standing on right now.
Seeing gold on the first dive.
Yeah. Woo!
[vernon] that's what I like about you.
You're a gold getting machine.
[zeke] price of gold still really high.
What could go wrong?
[shawn] I didn't think it was gonna be this bad.
[vernon] we need to get everything shut down
and get on shore while we still can.
It's over now. What a waste of time.
-[zeke screams] -[sam] are you okay?
-Hey, zeke? -[zeke screams]
[intense music playing]