♪ I'm never lettin' up until I get what's mine ♪
[man] it's nome's worst winter in almost 100 years.
And with the season almost halfway over,
the pressure is gonna build to a boil. [indistinct]
♪ up against the wall [indistinct] ♪
we're not gonna quit
until we find this pile of gold.
♪ I'm unstoppable ♪
[zeke] I've never been so hungry for gold.
There's a lot riding on there being gold here.
[zeke] and if we can't find any gold today,
I might be out of options.
It's too thick.
Cannot even get through this ice.
♪ I run through fire and ice ♪
[man] I'm running out of time to pay my debts.
Come on down.
And there's no time to play it safe.
I'm getting a lot of water in my mask.
As long as you're getting gold,
that's all that matters.
♪ I'm never lettin' up ♪
[vernon] the ice is getting weaker,
but when the gold is this good,
we'll follow it wherever it leads.
That's some nice, clean goal right there.
♪ I'm unstoppable ♪
we're close to something big, and we know it's there.
That might be primo gold.
I like it.
♪ I'm unstoppable ♪
I'm seeing all these rivers of gold.
[man] that's the stuff we were looking for.
Yeah.
♪ I'm unstoppable I'm never lettin' up until I get what's mine ♪
I'll write on this damn pizza box.
We'll just go about 40 feet to the south.
We'll put the sluice box in, and then we'll start cutting the holes
and getting everything set up.
All right. Sounds good.
All right, let's start. All right.
Going to a new hole.
[narrator] halfway through the stormiest season in 100 years,
vernon adkison is on the move,
following a rich vein of gold under the ice,
he could be playing with fire.
We'll put the show on the road.
[engines revving]
[vernon] this winter, we've been killing it.
Absolutely primo gold.
That's the good news.
Unfortunately,
the trail is headed directly towards a huge open water lead.
This thing is massive.
But if I want to hit 200 ounces,
I got to drill a new hole and keep following it.
We'll be pressing our luck,
but that's where we got to go.
[machinery whirring]
[vernon] what a beautiful hole.
That is a nice one.
We got everything moved over here to the new area.
Right now, we're all set to get a diver down.
If I'm gonna roll the dice on a hole this close to that lead,
I've got to get as many hours on that box as I possibly can.
So that's the plan.
Tempt fate and load up on hours.
I'm gonna send gary simpson down first.
And if he can get us on the gold,
we can double up with old jerry right after that.
[music]
[gary speaking]
[vernon] yeah. Roger that.
[music]
[gary speaking]
hey, gary,
can you tell if it looks like it's been worked?
[gary speaking]
all right. All right.
[gary speaking]
come on. This all looks good.
[gary speaking]
all right. All right.
That's the shallow stuff we were looking for.
[gary speaking]
uh-huh. That is looking good, gary.
When you're hot, you're hot and we're smoking right now.
We keep following the trail and it's delivering.
My only concern is the ice is getting thinner
and that lead is getting wider.
So this is turning into a game of chicken,
but miners like to live dangerously,
especially this one.
[gary speaking]
[vernon] yeah.
This might be that primo ground we've been looking for.
Matter of fact, that might be the name for it, primo gold.
If it plays out, that's what we're gonna name it.
[gary speaking] whoo!
[narrator] while vernon rakes it in, 12 miles west.
[shawn] storm just got over.
We're gonna go shovel a bunch of crap out of the snow.
[narrator] shawn pomrenke is still trying to get his operation back on track,
still on the hunt for a jackpot hiding in an ancient riverbed.
We're close to something big and we're not gonna quit
till we find this pile of gold. And we know it's there.
I made enough money to put a down payment on the tomcod,
put a down payment to buy my dad up,
but now I still have to make these huge payments.
So if I don't make these payments,
then I lose it all.
But if you don't gamble, you'll never win.
And I'm a gambling fool.
I have payments on the tomcod,
the inland mine, and the myrtle
and I'm not even halfway to the 120 ounces I need to pull it off.
The easy thing to do would be to squeeze it out.
But that's not the plan I'm going with.
I'm gonna go for the motherlode.
I know what's out there, I'm getting closer.
[wind howling]
oh, it's blowin'.
[shawn] everything's still here, but everything's getting buried.
This is not good.
Well, there's no crying in gold mining.
This is the problem.
The weight of all the snow is changing everything.
This generator is sinking into the overflow.
We got to get it jacked up out of the water.
Otherwise, the whole operation will be [bleep].
Snow's so heavy,
it's forcing the ice down and the water up through the dive hole
and any cracks in the ice.
The result is massive overflow that can destroy
all your equipment and all that additional weight weakens the ice.
So if we stay here,
it's a good chance that all of our equipment
and us are gonna end up
at the bottom of the bering sea.
[music]
[bleep] snow. [bleep] wind.
Generator is in the water,
pump is in the water, tom cat is in the water.
If we leave this stuff,
where it's at, we'll be done for the season.
There's a [bleep] hole right here, too, somewhere.
Oh, come on, you [bleep].
[shawn speaking]
trying to fight through it,
but it just doesn't want to go our way.
Right now, mother nature is kicking our ass.
We have to do something different,
because we can't just keep doing this.
This is turning into a dangerous situation
and possibly a season ender
if we can't get our shacks off.
Digging ain't gonna cut it.
We're gonna have to try yanking them out.
But if they're frozen in too solid,
it's just gonna tear them apart.
That'd be game over.
Ah, come on.
[engine revving]
[shawn] holy [bleep].
Holy [bleep]. [strains]
it's going [bleep] amazing.
Oh, no.
It's not going well at all.
Pulling them out, it's a bust.
Nothing's working.
The ice is getting weaker by the second.
This could possibly be a season ender
if I don't figure out something quick.
Can't work in a foot of slush.
[bleep] nightmare.
[man speaking]
[shawn] yeah, I don't know, we need to do something else.
We don't get rid of the snow, we're done.
Season's over.
[music]
[shawn] it went down to subzero temperatures.
We got to move the operation.
Everything is really frozen into the ice.
It's gonna be a big project to get everything thawed out and moved.
[narrator] heading into the second half of the season,
zeke tenhoff needs to chip away at his gold deficit,
but as usual, mother nature didn't get the memo.
Our track is stuck in the ice.
See the water, when it reaches a certain temperature, it freezes.
This is something that we were completely caught off guard by.
Chemical reactions, it happens.
I mean, really, there was no way to know.
[zeke] this winter has been absolutely brutal.
I've only gotten like two ounces.
And if I don't get substantially more before the winter ends,
I might have to call it quits.
It's that serious.
I'm thinking that if we yank on it real hard,
it'll pull the shack right out of the snowbank and we can just pull it up...
-[man] yeah. -...Kind of right above where the hole is gonna be,
-and it can just live there. -Okay, let's do it.
[zeke] all right.
On my last dive, I used a long hose extension
and I found a trail of gold at the very end of my reach.
We're gonna find out if this is the real deal or not.
If not, I'm gonna have to switch to a new claim,
which this late in the winter might cost me my season.
All right?
[snowmobile beeping] [man speaking]
[man] okay. One, two, three.
[engines revving]
[zeke] all right.
I think that'll be good.
The plan is to start a new dive hole like
40 feet over to the left by where I found that new trail.
That should give us a good radius to be able to move
and follow the gold.
That looks like it's a pretty good space.
This has got to work.
I'm running out of time, and I need five or six
more ounces to keep this operation going.
We can move over to tomcod,
but it'll eat up a lot of time that I don't have,
and we can still end up with no gold.
[machinery whirring]
-wow. -Nice.
That was easy.
Let's see how thick this ice is.
Man, that's deep ice.
[machinery whirring]
goodness gracious.
Wow.
Dude, what the hell?
Oh, my god.
[indistinct]
[zeke] damn. Ice is at least this deep,
which is pretty deep,
'cause I'm like six feet tall,
it's a whole person deep.
A short dude.
[man] there's still like a sheet of bottom ice there.
[zeke] yeah, there's something else going on down there.
Yeah, yeah, we're not actually through.
[man] no, we're not.
If we can't get a hole made in this ice,
we'll have to make a ice hole elsewhere,
where the ice is not as thick.
I'm just processing this information
and trying to think of a plan.
I just can't catch a break right now.
Seven feet of ice is just too thick to drill through.
This is just not gonna work.
Once again, we're gonna have to reassess
and figure out a new plan of attack.
Dude, if we can't get through the ice,
we can't get through the ice.
What the hell?
[narrator] eight miles west...
Your umbilical line is the biggest problem
you have underneath the water,
because that [bleep] if it gets tangled up,
it will kill you.
[narrator] ...Kris kelly embarks on his big plan
for the back half of winter.
[man] there's also a current underneath
this ice that will wash you away.
So, you know, don't worry, you're gonna be just fine.
So we're way behind where we need to be right now.
I owe a boatload of money, and we only have seven ounces.
We need to catch up fast,
but I have an itty bitty little life-changing situation
coming in right now.
The baby could come any time right now.
We've got to expand our team.
That means teaching james, who has never dove for gold,
has never seen gold underneath the water,
and doesn't know what the [bleep] he's doing.
[brad] taking bets right now on james.
I have faith in him, what do you...
How long do you think he's gonna last?
[andy] I want less than 15. [indistinct]
[kris] put in 20 bucks on less than 10 minutes for me.
[man] kris is saying you're gonna last less than ten.
Andy says you're gonna last 15,
but I'd say you're gonna last 20 minutes at least.
[kris] I'm just saying 15 minutes out of the water, dude, hey.
We're gonna see if he can do it.
We all have faith in him.
We're gonna see.
[kris] jim's ready to go underneath the water.
[man] if you see my mom, say hi.
If you see your mom, you're not gonna have to.
[laughing]
first dive ever, and just so happens,
it's gonna be under the ice,
probably not the smartest thing
and then diving with people that may not dive properly,
but what could go wrong?
Come on down, you're the next contestant.
The timer is not starting until he touches
the bottom of the [bleep] ground,
because anybody can stay on the ladder.
Mining underneath the ice is brutal.
I need james to kill it, but I've got to be realistic.
There's always a learning curve and it's steep, very steep.
You can do it.
You can do it, james.
[james speaking]
wow! This is awesome.
Yeah, I'm looking right at you,
that's not awesome. Get down there.
He's two feet down,
you know, it's gonna take half-an-hour just to start the timer.
Hey, you can swim, right?
[james] uh, yeah.
[kris] get your ass down there.
We're waiting to start the time on you.
[james] dude, this is cold.
[kris] that's great.
Now, pull your ass down to the bottom and make my money.
[james] I'm on the bottom.
[kris] okay. Timer started, tell me
when you get to the nozzle and you want to tie it all up
so you can actually start working.
[james] dude, this is a trip.
Hey, is water supposed to come at the bottom of my mask?
There's no water supposed to come in your mask?
[james] oh. Uh, I got salt water in my mouth.
[kris] drink it and keep going.
[james] all right. Okay.
Come up.
We'll drain the mask and figure it out. Guess who won.
[james] ah!
That [bleep] counts, he made it to the floor
and he had to come back up.
Hey, you know what, [bleep] that, stay on the bottom
for another 14 minutes until I win.
[james laughs]
[james] can somebody fix the mask?
I know what the problem is,
the mask is too tight.
At least you're not scared when you're down there.
The learning curve is always super steep.
But for james, it's the size of mount everest.
But hey, where there's risk, there's a reward,
and james is gonna make or break my season.
Comfortable?
Okay, go underneath the water, try it.
[james speaking]
[brad] all right. Tell me when you're at the bottom.
[james speaking]
dude, we all know what the bottom looks like.
Just get to work.
[james speaking]
[brad] I didn't mean walk like a grandma, dude.
[james speaking]
grab the nozzle
and start sucking the bottom up and get to the clay.
And don't let a lot of big rocks go up the nozzle, okay?
[james speaking]
wow!
Are you vacuuming up the bottom?
[james] yeah. I'm vacuuming.
[james speaking]
oh, dude, I'm gonna blow past 15 minutes.
Either we find a thin spot around here,
where we can get through the ice
or we just like pack up and, like, move down to tomcod.
But like, there is gold here.
So like, that's why I am careful with making that decision
because it's gonna be a big,
huge effort moving.
[narrator] zeke tenhoff is giving his current claim one last shot at greatness.
But the ice gods are making a desperate situation even more desperate.
[zeke] well, I just want to check
and see if the ice is any thinner right over here.
I'm watching my career die right before my eyes
thanks to this seven-foot thick ice.
Can't even get through this ice.
I haven't found nearly enough gold so far to keep this operation running.
If we can't find any thinner ice,
then I think that just might be it for me this season.
Did it go all the way down?
Yeah.
This is gonna give me a radius,
you know, of another 30, 40 feet around this way.
But it's... You know, it's not,
it's not as much new territory as I would like.
But I know there's some gold here
that I don't want to leave behind.
[machinery whirring]
-[man] you good? -Yeah.
[man speaking]
okay. Here we go.
We got this whole ice pan right here.
The blocks are like stacked on top of each other.
But it doesn't look like it goes all the way to the bottom.
Oh, yeah, looks like this is right
about where I was dredging before, I think.
You might as well get the pump going.
[man] all right.
[machinery whirring]
[man] yeah, there we go.
[man] yeah, it's super dark, it's spooky.
Got giant ice cones that are just, like, terrifying.
Yeah, I don't really want to go under there.
There's plenty of gold everywhere else.
Let's just mop up what we can here and the [bleep] out.
[man] this is right where I left off last time I was diving,
basically right underneath our new hole.
But if the gold is gonna lead me way out there,
I'll go out there, mark my words.
[music]
okay, now that you're down there, you're comfortable,
make sure you have an exit in case everything goes bad,
which it does sometimes.
[james speaking]
[man] okay. That's called planning your exit.
[james speaking]
[kris] don't look up too much.
[james speaking]
[narrator] kris' second half plan is underway,
as james barclay attempts to get his sea legs ice mining.
[james speaking]
I wish there was a river of gold down there,
but that doesn't exist,
so you have to look for itty bitty little flakes.
James knows his way around an excavator,
but that's all topside.
This is real work,
under the ice, it's a whole new ballgame.
Hopefully, he learns this fast.
We're gonna need a third diver for the rest of the season.
Make sure you get all the black sand,
even if you don't see gold in the black sand,
there's gold in it.
[james speaking]
[kris] that's great. Good job.
I told you he was gonna work out.
You know, what makes the best miner,
when you're too stupid to [bleep] know you're in trouble.
Right now, he's doing it, he's making gold.
He doesn't know about all the problems that could happen.
And it's beautiful.
He doesn't need to know.
[man] welcome to the reaper.
[music]
[shawn] time to get the little dozer going.
[narrator] with his season on the line,
shawn pomrenke is bringing out the big guns.
[shawn] time to move some snow.
Priority number one,
I need to get as much snow off this site as I possibly can.
It's weighing down the ice so much.
It's bursting through all the holes and any cracks in the ice.
Of course, putting this much pressure on weak ice is risky,
but with only a few weeks left in the season,
it's a chance I have to take.
It's gonna take a whole lot of work.
[joe] definitely a lot easier than shoveling.
Ooh, yeah!
[shawn] obviously, I can't plow
all the snow off the entire bering sea.
Hopefully, I can clear off a big enough area
that the ice will float up and we won't be working in five feet of overflow
and we can get back to diving.
[man] we got a little bit of overflow.
[shawn] well, that's not working out well.
The ocean is coming up on top of the ice.
There's too much weight on the ice.
[man] you see that?
[shawn] you got a foot of water on top of the ice.
Get the dozer stuck in that,
it'll be the end of that dozer.
I can't be anywhere near of these holes.
I'm not gonna lie.
It's pretty grim.
Plan's not working at all.
But we're gonna go try a new spot,
where we haven't drilled.
See if it works there.
Hopefully, I can get enough weight off
that area to stop the flooding.
If not, it's game over.
[shawn] we got a lot of weight in this area with all the shacks,
we're gonna go over a little further,
try to clear our area,
see what it does.
Hopefully, I can get this ice to come up.
If it doesn't, then that's the end of this ice season.
[engine revving]
[shawn] we're gonna have to clear a big area.
There's no doubt.
Look, there's so much snow.
[music]
[man] I don't know, what do you reckon?
[shawn] drill a hole and see what happens.
[machinery whirring]
[man speaking]
[shawn] yeah.
Our plan worked.
We got all the weight of the snow off the ice.
Ice raised up.
We're good.
Thank god it worked.
Now, let's get back to mining and get some gold.
I think, get out here tomorrow morning and get all the stuff pulled,
get it back underwater and get to mining and dredging.
I love it when a plan comes together.
[music]
-[man] hey, gary. -[gary] yeah.
Why does the ocean roar all the time?
[gary] why does the what?
Why does the ocean roar all the time?
[gary] why is that?
[man] well, if you had that many crabs
on your bottom, you'd roar too.
[gary laughing]
[gary] all right.
[narrator] vernon adkison is laughing all the way to the bank
and in the face of danger, as the operation marches towards an ever growing lead.
Okay, well, you've got 5 hours and 20 minutes,
then it's time to come up.
All right.
Throw a little gold out there
in front of your nose and I'll know it's time to get you up.
[gary] I mean, I don't know what it is.
I kind of like it down here.
[vernon] good. Iron man. Or a gold man I should say.
We're getting closer and closer to that open lead.
And with all our equipment up on that thin ice
and our divers underneath it,
we've got to be extremely careful.
So we're gonna take a break,
check the box and make sure the gold is as good as we think it is.
Holy [bleep]. Look at all that. [bleep] yeah.
See all that, right there?
[man] oh, yeah.
Got a lot of gold in there.
Good gold. Love it.
All I got to say is booyah.
Our hot streak just keeps going.
So we're gonna keep creeping closer to that lead
as long as the ice holds up and the guys are willing,
but we'll need to keep our eyes and ears open at all times.
The hole is looking really good.
We'll send gary down to finish up the day
and put some more gold in the box.
All right, gary.
Get after it, buddy.
[gary] all right, I'm working my way back towards the hole.
All right.
Oh, this looks like some good stuff.
[vernon] that looks like a pretty easy dredging right now, huh?
[gary speaking]
you see this little air, right here, the hole keeps coming out.
That looks good.
[vernon] this might end up being an extremely good hole.
[narrator] ten miles west.
[james speaking]
[kris] see lots of gold? [james speaking]
we're all gonna make a nice paycheck out of this.
[narrator] for kris' newest diving protege,
james barclay, things are going swimmingly
after nearly four hours under the ice.
[james speaking]
[man] that's great.
[james speaking]
[man] don't worry about it,
as long as you're getting gold,
that's all that matters.
[james speaking]
[kris] that mask is a piece of [bleep].
It's too [bleep] small for our [bleep] face.
Reach up and grab the strap and pull it a little bit.
[james speaking]
[brad] he's seeing more gold than he sees on his excavator.
[james speaking]
[kris] this is the rich area, huh?
[james speaking]
okay.
Uh, how much is too much?
[james speaking]
well, that's not bad.
Keep working.
Is it still coming in or is it just like that's it?
[james speaking]
[bleep] man.
Okay, well, come up, that's too much water.
[james speaking]
-how you doing, buddy? -Good.
You did better than
I thought you were gonna do.
[james] [bleep] loads of water.
I was holding my mask the whole time I tried to dredge.
[laughing]
I didn't want to stop.
Honestly, I thought james was gonna get down there,
cause nothing but trouble.
Get a rock jam. Make no gold.
This is way better than I hoped for.
I think we set ourselves up for the rest of the season.
Hey, buddy, you did a good job.
I knew you would. All right. And you made me money.
[music]
[zeke] I am seeing flakes here and there,
but nothing like super awesome yet.
Gotcha.
We put a lot of work into digging this hole and getting set up on it.
So there's a lot riding on there
being a good amount of gold here.
[narrator] looking to tap into a new pay street and save his season,
zeke tenhoff is giving west beach one more try.
[man] zeke, you've been down there a couple hours.
Does it looked like it's worth staying?
[zeke] well, it's not looking super hot out here.
There's a lot of sand around here,
and I was just dredging up a bunch of sand.
What's the ice look like above you?
All I see above me is like all these ice blocks
that are on top of other ice blocks.
It's pretty sketch up there, I don't like it.
I don't like thinking about that on me, you know.
And I haven't seen a single little puddle of gold that I like.
I think this hole is just a dud.
I think that it's a clear sign
that it's time to move out of here.
Yeah, I'm just gonna head on up.
Here he comes.
[indistinct]
[zeke] right where I stopped dredging last time, that was like
the end of there being really anything at all.
This is a huge disappointment.
It's already the back half of the season,
we're gonna have to move this entire operation
and set it up on a new claim.
And it's not like I can just show up at tomcod and start diving.
First, I'm gonna have to make a deal with pomrenke.
It's not a cool ice hole.
There's no gold in it, so it's time to bail.
Let's get out of here.
[kris] hello and welcome to another edition of kris kelly's secret guide
to successful mining.
So today, we're gonna be talking about a 6-inch operation
and an 8-inch operation.
Hold on, calm down.
Get your head out of the gutter.
I'm talking about mining.
I'm freezing.
I didn't even bring my pants or nothing.
In mining, size does matter,
maybe not in everything in life.
But whoever says that's kind of [bleep] too.
The 6-inch is lighter, easier to handle.
6-inch operation is also probably under half the price.
But what do you really want to do?
You want to get down there and get as much gold as you can.
And that's what an 8-inch operation will get you.
[man] oh, yeah. Yeah!
6-inch nozzle. 8-inch nozzle.
Two inches count.
With that extra two inches that you have,
you're not gonna have to move as many rocks.
You know, you're not going to have to get down there
and physically work all [bleep] day long.
Once you've been with an eight,
it's extremely hard to go back to a six
and everybody out there will probably agree with me.
Thank you very much for watching
another edition of secret... What the [bleep] am I doing?
Thank you very much for watching
another episode of kris kelly's secret guide to successful mining.
[music]
[brad] that spot we're on now is the motherlode.
[kris] that's a lot of gold.
[narrator] kris' plan for the back half of winter may already be bearing fruit.
James is working all right, you know, his first dive. [indistinct].
Yeah.
He did better than any other diver
we've had down there, and you got to admit he's a pretty good diver.
Let's not start high-fiving each other yet.
For the reaper to hit 25 ounces this season,
I need james to be a reliable diver.
He actually did pretty good for his first time.
Now, we'll weigh it out and the proof will be in the pudding.
Let's weigh this up. Let's see where we're at.
Okay.
That's one ounce, two ounces, two and a half, three,
four,
five,
six ounces.
[kris] whoa, 6.4 ounces.
All right.
That's really good money.
That is awesome money.
[narrator] 6.4 ounces is worth over $12,000.
A successful haul for any diver,
let alone a first timer.
-Hey, cap that [bleep] up. Let's go. -Okay.
Everything's good.
[man] mission successful so far,
now that I move us to the real goal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The sun shines on a dog's ass some days.
[brad] well, it always shines on my ass. Let's go.
[music]
[zeke] we got to figure out how to make this work.
[indistinct]
[narrator] zeke's looking to tomcod to pick up a sagging season.
And that means making a deal.
[zeke] hey, shawn.
[shawn] what's up, zeke?
[narrator] with mr. Gold.
[zeke] we got our ice operation pretty much running.
Yeah.
But where we are by the causeway,
kind of feel like pretty well picked over.
Yeah, well, you know,
that area is close to the... Close to the port,
so it gets hammered because it's easy.
I was wondering if you still had any spots open on tomcod
we could go out and check out.
[shawn] we've got some spots out there for you.
[zeke] nice.
Moving the entire operation this late in the game
could just be a disaster for me.
But I'm desperate.
If I can't find enough gold to keep going,
my mining season is over.
Cool.
We'll probably need to get some paperwork together for you.
[shawn] yeah.
And get all that straight.
But as soon as we get that straight,
I'm ready to go out there.
What about royalty?
What are you thinking?
I'd like 20.
Fifteen would be better.
It's up to you.
[shawn] I mean, I like it,
and I know how hard ice mining is,
so I'll give you a 15% royalty.
-[zeke] right on. I appreciate it. -Yeah, no problem.
I could have probably squeeze zeke for a little bit more.
It's late in the season and he's getting desperate,
but zeke's a good dude.
I know he's gonna bust his ass.
And the more gold he gets,
it's better for both of us.
Right on. We'll see you out there.
-[shawn] okay. Yeah. -We'll see you on the ice.
-Thanks, shawn. -Yep. We'll see you.
[zeke] see ya.
[music]
[gary] this is looking good.
Packing the box full.
[vernon] that's some nice, clean gold right there.
[narrator] after pushing closer to the open water lead,
the question is will it lead vernon's team to make a gold?
[vernon] weigh it up, gary, let's see what we got there.
[gary] all right. Here we go.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen,
sixteen, seventeen.
18.04.
[narrator] 18.04 ounces is worth over $34,000.
Proof that if they can outlast the thinning ice,
this spot may lead vernon straight to the top.
I'm telling you, buying 56 was the best move
I've ever made in my life.
[gary] yeah.
I mean, that's gonna be
my retirement program right out there on 56.
More money, more money, more money.
This claim just keeps on delivering,
and this new spot might be the richest of all.
I'm hoping the lead doesn't expand any further.
Otherwise, both our underwater atm
and our safety will be at risk.
We might have to call this el primo.
I mean, I'm liking super gold,
but this is the cream of the crop right here.
All right, gary, let's get this tucked away
and get the hell on back out there.
[narrator] vernon takes the lead. While mr. Gold stalls out.
Next time on bering sea gold.
[kris] the baby could come pretty much any time right now,
so we need to get as much gold as we can today.
We need to kill ourselves to get that gold.
Where you at gold? Right.
Oh!
This is the spot.
Time to make some money right now.
[man] we're on the best ground
that we've seen since we've been in nome.
[man speaking]
oh, come on.
[man] ready to get on a new hole.
[man] I love it. So glad we're out here.
[man] I know we'll find some gold. I can feel it, dude.
-[man] all right. -Heck, yeah. Booyah.
Hi, baby. Oh, she's cute.