Previously on Bering Sea Gold.
Been out here almost half of my life,
working to get where I'm at.
Not to have Kris Kelly come and [bleep] it up.
But he's got to come and sit on top of us every trip out.
I've had it up to here with Kris Kelly.
We're not leaving this spot.
We're gonna have to fight for it.
They think this is their ocean.
I don't think so. I'm here to stay.
We will not be stopped.
Make that gold.
Kris Kelly is about ready to get his ass kicked.
I'm gonna go wait for him at the dock tonight.
Get the [bleep] away from me.
Go.
Yeah! Come on.
Coward.
Come on, Andy. Get in there and rush him.
Now you better get the [bleep] away.
911, what's your emergency?
Andy Kelly just punched me.
Hello.
My brother was just attacked at the harbor.
We need a police officer.
Yep.
My name is Kristopher Kelly.
Thank you very much.
He came down here to cause problems.
Start [bleep] violence.
You know, like, all he did was he's been on that ocean plaguing me.
Everywhere I go, he comes in--
Dude, I was coming down.
He looked at me, he goes, "Andy, if you do that again, I'm going to call it.
You're gonna go to jail."
And I was just like, "Man, [bleep] off, dude. I have nothing to say to you."
That's all he keeps threatening me with the police.
He came down here to start some trouble.
Well, he got some trouble.
I know it looks like I'm calling the cops on him,
but this is how it works in business.
You got to be the first to call just in case
the other guy is trying to press charges on you.
I don't need the police. I'm doing fine right now.
But I'm not going to let myself be pushed around.
Did a great job. You did everything good.
I love you, buddy. I love you. Give me some love, buddy.
Love my brother, baby.
Dude, I dropped him with my left hand.
- I know, man. - You looked good doing it to.
I was waiting at the dock, I was gonna talk to Kris.
And Andy come down got in my face.
So I pushed him back.
And the he [bleep] punched me.
He did?
Then he sucker punched me.
No way.
Bleed [bleep].
You did?
Yeah, his nose is [bleep].
I just wanted to talk to that whiny little [bleep].
His fat ass brother shows up and starts throwing his weight around.
I'm gonna call the cops.
But if they're not going to press charges, we'll handle it our own way.
I'm about to go meet the cops at the house
because I know if I didn't call them,
they would [bleep] story would be 100% different.
Well, I'll [bleep] that one of these days.
If Kris has all these idiots over here doing nothing, then I want two of them.
Two idiots.
Everybody here should have two idiots.
After the previous day's fireworks,
the Kelly clan looks to get back to the business of getting gold.
Dude, why don't you ever go up and around?
I don't think Shawn's gonna be messing with us for a while.
We got to keep mining.
We owe a ton of money in just less than a few weeks.
So now we're gonna launch the new Reaper.
It still needs new pontoons under the boat to help it float better.
Now we need a trailer to pull my boat out
so we can do the installations of the pontoon.
So we're gonna hit up our old buddy Vernon, see if we can borrow his.
Hey.
My man, Brad.
Hey, Vernon.
What's up there?
In gold mining, the credo is you always help out a fellow miner.
It's a karma thing.
You'd want them to help you out too if you needed it one day.
And I believe in that.
But when it comes to the Kellys,
it gives me pause because it's unlikely they'll ever pay it forward.
And you usually end up taking it in the shorts.
You want to use it?
Yeah. Like, 40 minutes.
Just we're not even taking it past this dock.
We're just going to pull it here, pull the boat on,
put the pontoons underneath, drop it back.
All right. Okay. All right.
Out of my place, there's a double axle pontoon boat trailer.
- Okay. - You can use that one.
- Bring it back in one piece. - I will.
It's a $3,500 trailer,
It's over there by my crawler.
Man, you got a lot of junk.
That junk? I mean, now you're calling it junk.
Not that... not that, but I'm saying that crawler, that crawler thing is [bleep].
I mean, when you want to borrow
all of a sudden it ain't junk.
All right, well, we got to roll.
- Get out of here. - Hey, don't work too hard.
Anyway, have a good day, Vernon.
Thanks.
I'll be lucky if I ever see that trailer again.
I may live to regret this, but honestly,
it's pretty hard to break a trailer.
I mean, they'd have to put in some serious effort to pull that off?
Okay. Come on down.
You want to go left, come back.
Straight back.
Come on.
Okay. Here we go.
Back it a little.
- How we looking? - Right there.
Bring it forward.
We've got to pull the boat out of the water,
put the new pontoons up underneath the front end,
get it back in the water as soon as possible.
Really pretty simple.
Pull it straight up.
The [bleep] tires, dude, are under.
Yeah, both tires on this side.
And then the one on the back on that side.
Poor Vernon gonna be pissed again.
The Kelly's [bleep] up my trailer.
I can just hear him screaming already.
He possibly could have a heart attack, you know?
Oh, here's Vernon. Oh, no.
Well, I thought it was pretty much impossible to [bleep] up that trailer.
I guess I was wrong.
All we did was pull it out of the water.
That's all we did.
It's not... it's not centered on the trailer.
All the weight is back here on the axle end of the trail.
Oh, I know.
That's a $3,500 trailer.
I mean...
I mean, come on, you don't...
look at that, it's tail heavy like a son of a bitch.
A dead giveaway at the way that damn red truck
is jerked up in the air.
I couldn't see the front, Vernon.
The way they were pulling me up,
I couldn't see the front, you know?
Then they drove--
Who in the [bleep] damn hell loads up a trailer like this?
Get that boat off my trailer.
Don't move it another inch.
I don't propose
That's up to you. Just get it off my trailer.
You know, I tried to do you a favor, Brad.
Well, you can tell the damn truck over there is jacked up in the back end.
That tells you that that thing is ass heavy.
All right.
Anybody with a lick of sense knows not to load
a trailer tail heavy like that.
You're supposed to center the damn boat on the trailer.
This is [bleep] idiotic.
But since the trailer doesn't belong to them,
do they really give a [bleep]?
I don't know why I even keep falling
into the trap of trying to help them out.
But that's it. That's it.
I'm never gonna help those sons of bitches out again.
Total disrespect for my equipment
and total disrespect for me.
That's what you call sorry ass people.
Well, yesterday was a very interesting day.
This is not over by far.
Andy Kelly, you're gonna get your ass kicked
really good this time.
Sucker punch, sucker, weasel ass, can't fight fair.
I'm gonna make sure you don't ever with me again.
The day after the fights heard around Nome,
Shawn Pomrenke still has Kellys on the brain.
with the wrong guy.
The guys think they can come in here and [bleep] around
and do whatever they want?
No, it's not how it works.
You're in my [bleep] town.
Better respect the people and respect
what everybody does and how hard they've worked
to get where they're at.
That's their problem.
They don't have no respect for anybody,
but they're gonna start respecting.
There's been a lot of people in town wanting somebody
to punch Andy Kelly in the face.
You know you're welcome. I'm here for you people.
I think I showed the Kellys I'm not about to back down in a fight.
But the truth is, it's throwing me off my game.
I'm aiming for 3,000 ounces, and I'm way behind.
Bad weather, equipment problems, The Mistress.
There's so many things been slowing me down.
I just have to regroup and remember what it's really all about.
There's an area back here that I've been wanting to work for a long time.
Haven't got in there.
There's a bunch of sand, but I believe under that sand, there's a bunch of gold.
So we're gonna go ahead, spot up, fly back in over there.
And just start moving some dirt.
While Shawn gets cracking...
Good morning, everybody.
Kris Kelly's raring to go.
I was like, "Yeah!"
But The Mistress, not so much.
Don, do you think this is going to be
the last time we have to [bleep] the injectors?
So the excavator's messed up again.
Surprise, surprise.
I swear we finally had a big step forward
yesterday on gold, everything going great.
And now here we are again.
Today, it's the fuel injector.
What [bleep] is going on?
Things could be better.
Seems like it's been a huge struggle all [bleep] season.
And I struggle every season.
But this season has been just a nightmare.
I knew we were gonna have to fight for everything this year.
Just that I didn't think we were gonna have to fight so much.
You know, not every day anyways.
When I took on an excavation barge this summer,
I thought it would be just like Shawn.
Huge gold, lots of hours, no problems.
Everything would be great.
This thing's been a huge pain in my ass,
and we've only gotten 20 ounces so far.
We need another 50 ounces by the end of the month or this all goes bye-bye.
This is a lot tougher than I ever imagined.
Start it again.
Okay, ready?
So far, not good.
She hasn't fired up yet, but any minute now.
Just going to talk nice to her.
Stupid excavator.
- Don. - What?
Another crank.
Yeah, try one more time.
Okay. I'm gonna crank.
Well, I thought it was going to go there.
So now The Mistress is dead in the water.
The new Reaper hasn't even mined yet.
And most of all, I have a big problem with Shawn
that's hanging over my head that just won't go away.
Yeah, we got some good licks in last night,
but this problem is not going away easy.
I don't know what's up with Shawn this year
'cause I'm shocked Shawn's been doing this all year, you know?
Yeah.
You know, like, dude, leave us alone in our misery.
We're like the kitten trying to get out of a
plastic bag before they strangle.
We don't need any help.
We don't need to be thrown in the river.
- Creating conflict-- - I'm just glad nobody went to jail.
No dumb about it, man.
- That's what I'm happy about. - Yeah.
Well, he's going...
Shawn's going around right now telling everybody
that Andy sucker punched him and...
- Yeah. - ...started the whole thing.
And, you know, I'm like [bleep] him.
Shawn hit Andy first twice.
- He gave him a throat chop. - Oh, wow.
You know, and Andy's neck is so huge, good luck getting that...
Chop him down.
Where's the jugular?
Good luck trying to find that thing.
You got to go through four inches of padding.
He's like a walrus with the blubber all over that [bleep].
He doesn't even fit in his dive suit anymore.
You think you're going to punch that guy's jugular?
You know what? I really didn't...
I'm going to get a lot of problems in town
because of this as time goes on.
Watch. Yeah.
This is too small of a town to do [bleep] like that.
Nobody wants to be involved
in this Shawn Pomrenke conflict.
We live in this town.
I don't even want to be involved in it.
And I didn't even do [bleep].
Things are not good.
Right now I've got Shawn basically wanting to kill me and my operation.
And I've got a high priced, barely used
piece of [bleep] excavator I just brought in.
And all it's done is caused me more expensive problems,
and we're still not mining.
So, Don, what's the diagnosis?
I'm gonna name this [bleep] Medusa.
It's a [bleep] witch to work on this thing.
So what do you think we should do?
... I thought this machine was going to save my season.
Should we bring the boat back in?
Or do you think it'll be a big fix?
Like, you know, like--
Man!
This [bleep] bad day is turning worse.
I just can't win right now.
I don't know why Shawn's all pissed off.
All he has to do is let us alone and we'll burn
our own operation to the ground.
Back at the Myrtle.
We're in the spot here.
Here we go.
It's time to make gold.
This stuff looks amazing.
Oh, yeah.
Looking good.
Make some damn money.
Kris Kelly.
I just got a text message
from Kris Kelly saying he's sorry.
Being sorry and being an idiot are two totally different things.
I tried to talk sense into him for the last week
and he wouldn't listen.
And then he thinks his little brother Andy
is going to protect him from me.
Well, I think he figured out now that I ain't scared of Andy.
He's a big fat [bleep].
I just wish it didn't come to that.
Doesn't need to be like that.
But Kris and Andy Kelly's been picking on people around
this town for the last ten years.
I've had about enough of it.
It's hard for me to hear Kris say sorry and believe it.
But truthfully, I need this conflict behind me.
It's messing with my season and the bottom line.
And if Kris is smart, he needs this behind him too.
Maybe it's time to find a solution one way or another.
One bucket after another.
That's all that counts.
Look at that beautiful material.
We're making gold.
Shut it down! Shut it down!
We got ourselves a problem.
Slamming pretty hard.
I know that evil sound.
That's a problem with the shaker.
It's been giving us issues all season long.
This can't be good.
We got a gap in between our crown and our deck,
and we need to get that down to where it's gonna not flop around.
As soon as we get in a groove, something happens.
Break it, fix it, Break it, fix it.
We're gonna have to bring it in,
get that crown on the shaker dealt with.
It shouldn't take long, but we're done for now.
Maybe while we're down, it's time to meet with Kris face to face.
Now it's time to fix some [bleep].
Do not need this [bleep].
It's like Groundhog Day.
Time to make the donuts.
Emily Riedel's newest recruit is ready
for her biggest assignment yet.
- More gold. - More gold.
You know, Jane's getting more comfortable being on the boat so.
Get down there and get busy.
I brought Jane up to meet our goal of 250 ounces this summer.
And so far, so good. We're making awesome headway.
Last time we were out, Jane took over Eroica for a few hours on her own.
And this time, it's going to be the whole shift.
My morning sickness is really starting to kick in here, so boat time is kind of off.
So this is the... this is the test.
This is the final exam.
Coming in hot.
What the--
I'm here for another day of pending.
I've been here a couple of times now,
if I'm more confident, but still, like, still learning.
Really likes to make a splash.
- Do you copy? - Yeah, I got you.
How's it looking down there, Rick?
Copy that.
Here we go. Whoa!
Yum-yums!
I'm just waiting right here with bated breath.
When he grunts, it's because he's like
throwing rocks over and he, like, finds gold underneath the rocks.
It's like his favorite thing to do.
Sometimes he sounds like Superman down there. Like...
He says the rocks are like this big.
He's moving like boulders.
Whoo!
I'm really good at my whoos.
Ooh.
Oh, yeah.
Roger that.
Whoo! Oh, my God.
The biggest one I've seen.
So this is really cool to see.
That's why we're here.
I understand the gold fever.
he just said, "Where was I?"
Rick, you're underwater.
Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Oh, baby.
On the outskirts of town.
When people come up here, I end up having to take care of them.
I don't like that.
Vernon Adkison's helping hand continues to shine,
but this time with a new diving prospect.
I've got Bryson up at my camp out here.
He wants to dive with us.
I don't know how that's gonna work out.
He's never done any ocean diving.
Supposedly, he's done some dredging in the rivers and creeks.
The Kellys have me in a foul mood.
And if that's not enough, we're doing some fixes on the gold ship,
so we're going to need to up production when it's ready.
So I'm bringing in an extra diver, Bryson.
I don't know much about him, except he's from out of town,
and he's broke, so I'm letting him
stay in a trailer that I've got for now.
I'm not up here to take care of people.
People need to take care of themselves.
Dammit, you got to feed yourself.
You got to buy your own frigging toilet paper.
I stood in your cabin with a plastic bag
underneath my ass taking a [bleep].
And the only reason that I had toilet paper
was because you left a roll there.
That's not my responsibility.
But invariably, it seems like I do.
So it's kind of how I'm feeling about the situation with Bryson.
I give the guy a helping hand, the next thing you know,
every time he needs money for food, he calls me.
What kind of deal is that?
I told this kid to organize everything in my yard, make himself useful.
So hopefully he's doing something other than
living rent free and mooching off me.
There's no lack of stuff around here.
A lot of stuff.
So now it's a matter of getting all this stuff
organized so that it's useful.
So how are you doing for heat and all that?
That electric heater definitely isn't enough
to keep you dry in there.
It is damp.
So what... what about the propane?
I haven't got that hooked up.
It produces carbon monoxide, doesn't it?
No.
If you're cold, it your fault.
Go and figure out how to hook up a heater and make it warm.
Okay.
Yeah, well, I...
That last bit of cash you gave me,
that went the first day for gas for the jeep.
I got a jerry can of gas and I bought groceries.
So, I mean...
Yeah, I got to...
I got to get mining or something.
You could go down there, do the beach mining thing, get yours.
Well, yeah.
Even if I could get 20, 40 bucks a day,
that would help out because you know
how expensive things are, in Nome?
It's pretty bad.
If you get down there, you'll be doing better than that.
I've given this guy a place to stay and money to live on.
And what's his response?
Thank you, Vernon. So gracious of you, Vernon.
Look at the work I've done for you, Vernon.
No, I need money, money, money.
Like, go do some beach mining, for God's sakes.
I mean, come on, man.
Well, I don't know. Like I...
like I said, I'm not an ATM, but I'll spot you a couple more bucks.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
And then you make it your business
to get your heater set up, do the beach minding thing.
Get your own separate operation going.
All right. Well, we got to go.
Well, thank you very much, Vernon.
- Mm-hmm. - I appreciate what you do.
Thank you.
- Yep. - You're welcome.
Working out the money.
Sick and tired of this [bleep].
If it turns out that he's a screw up of some type,
then I've lost all that money.
And I'm not up here to lose money.
Back in the harbor.
Always excites me when I beat the boss.
I'm 11 minutes late.
But Nome time, I'm...
I'm on time.
The early bird...
Well, the earlier bird catches the skiff.
Here he comes.
Officially, Zeke is 44 minutes late.
Nome time, he's only 15 minutes later.
You are in slow motion today?
Yeah. Kind of.
I just got to get my blood going.
Are we forgetting anything?
I don't think I'm forgetting anything.
Good to go.
Just gonna go on a little boat ride.
This summer, I made a deal with Shawn
to work on Tomcod for a percentage if me
and my brother fixed up the Havilah.
Gabe's close to launch, but I'm already mining with my little dredge,
and I want to hit 50 ounces with that.
And so far, all I've managed to get is just under 3.5.
The good news is, last time out, we hit a good pay streak.
So I'm going to go back out there and try to ride it out.
The gold's going this way right under the boat.
So I'm gonna start right there.
I'm gonna work back.
So probably at some point, have you let out anchor line
and drift me back this way.
Oh, okay.
How's the vis down there?
- It's pretty cloudy. - Oh, man.
I'm going to do my best to work with it.
It's what I got.
Okay. Pretty cloudy but go for it.
Looking aorund for that marker that I left.
The buoy is right off the port side bow right here about ten feet away.
I don't know where the heck I am.
I thought I was right on top of the buoy.
Okay. Well, let me look at your bubbles here.
Oh, oh, oh.
Okay. Now.
Okay, you are about 25 feet off
the starboard side amidship.
Okay. I'm trying to go over into the port now.
Oh, there it is.
Okeydokey, Smoky.
See, there's some good stuff right here.
Gonna get further up in these rocks.
It's weird.
Okay, what about this stuff?
This clay just kind of comes up out of the sand here.
And there's some really, really hot gold in it.
There it is.
A lot of it is just right on the surface.
Looking good.
Yeah, the gold's pretty good all through here.
But there's spots where it gets humid and really hot.
And I want to try to stay in the places where it gets really hot.
Divining rods, these are
the gold getting boogeyman.
Yeah.
There's just gold all through this stuff.
See? Oh, gee, there's gold right there.
Oh, man. Oh, yeah.
Definitely the best stuff I've found all year.
They say they'll come right together whenever there's gold.
There's all manner of gold out here.
These things are going crazy.
Yeah. It's really, really hot.
Damn.
Boom.
They cross powerfully right away.
Can't leave this gold behind.
Zeke's done the homework.
This is gold country.
Put it up on the trailer.
You got it.
Yeah, I'm pushing it up.
A little more.
Good.
Vernon told the Kellys to stop using
his trailer that they've already damaged.
Hook that side the same way that side's hooked.
Well, this is going to shock you.
We're gonna use this trailer anyway.
We're gonna put it in the water with
or without Vernon's permission.
him and yeah.
- to the rubber hose. - Right here.
So we've got to put the new pontoons under the boat.
And then we need the trailer to put it back in the water.
Vernon said don't use the trailer again, but he's not here.
So what he doesn't see doesn't hurt him.
Squeeze that in there.
Let's do it before Vernon comes back.
Come on, you guys want me to drive it?
- Want to? - Are you afraid?
No.
Cause Vernon won't yell at me.
He won't yell anyways.
He won't know.
He'll just think the wheels fell off in the end.
Ready?
Come on, let's go.
Hurry, Andy.
Hurry.
I told y'all not to do that.
Well, I called the forklift.
Said it's going to be a couple hours. I thought 3,500.
Let's go to the bank. I'll buy it right now.
Let's go.
Let's go. Drive it in. Full blast.
Beat this [bleep] up.
Let's go drive it...
Not until I get my [bleep] damn money.
You want to fight?
Hey, you want to fight, [bleep]?
I don't want to hurt you.
- Throw. - I'm not chicken.
I ain't gonna fight with my fist.
I'm a dirty [bleep], Vernon.
I tell you, drive me over.
Shut up.
Drive me over. I'll pay you.
You said 35. Let's go.
- I got it. - Let's go.
Peanuts.
Let's go.
Come on. I don't want to give you a heart attack.
Don't worry about my heart.
Hey, Andy.
Don't move it until I get back with my money.
I'm waiting. I'm waiting, Vernon.
Haul ass. Let's go.
Breathe in, Vernon. Breathe.
It's all right. I'll pay you 3,500.
You know, I could use the word pond scum to describe Brad.
But honestly, that would be doing a disservice to pond scum.
I was doing the guy a favor, for God's sakes.
And look at the thanks I get.
He better give me that 3,500 without any monkey business or there'll be trouble.
There's your check.
Let's go.
I'm in a hurry. Time's money.
There you go. See?
Just like that.
I told you. You want to smoke a joint now in celebration?
- I think I'll pass. - I think you better.
You getting all tense, man.
It ain't that big of a deal.
It's not that big of a deal now I got money.
Oh, calm down.
So now I know how to shake some money out of you.
Yeah.
Somebody break your
Can I borrow your truck now?
This is for my old truck.
See you, Vernon.
Went good.
We own a new trailer.
Is it a win-win, Vernon.
Yeah. I paid 1,200 for the trailer.
Yeah, that's a win-win.
Now I can do whatever the hell he wants to it.
He can run it till the wheels fall off.
Well, actually, he already did that.
Let me go cash this.
Rush me to the bank.
I got to put a stop payment on that check.
On the other side of the harbor.
I'm in a bad mood today.
I got to turn this around.
I don't know, dude. You know what?
I'm seeing gold stack up in a lot of different places.
But no matter what, I need 100 ounces.
I don't need 20.
I got to turn this around.
It's all because of my excavators.
All [bleep] season long, it's because of excavators.
Yesterday's fight preempted a Kelly weigh out.
So with The Mistress down, it's time to scrape the box
and see if anything came from the precious few hours
before the excavator went kaput.
10 ounces of gold right now will at least
take care of how much it's going to cost to fix the excavator.
I see some color, but I don't see ten ounces.
Whatever we have, we worked really hard for it.
We went through a lot of problems for it.
, dude, we just need the excavator to run, you know?
Nobody knows how to fix it, and it's...
It's stopping me from making money.
Yeah.
Look, the excitement from the fight kind of
took away the great part that we were on good gold
yesterday and the night crew came in, too,
before the Mistress broke down.
So maybe we got lucky, and we squeezed out
some ounces of gold before the excavator took the crap.
Throw that in the back of the truck.
We need it with this big payment due.
And now even more repairs are needed.
Okay, let's go.
Andy, come in here and start scooping this [bleep].
Okay, at least we're seeing gold in every scoop, you know?
So at least that's the only thing
going for me right now.
Hey, that looks okay, huh?
Without even seeing it in the pan right now.
It looks damn good.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat this.
We have $125,000 payment to make in two weeks,
and we're not even close.
Right now, I need a decent clean out,
which is at least ten ounces.
So I know that we're getting gold
and we can get out there back on the pay streak
for whatever the hell we can actually mine again.
Okay. Here we go.
Come on, baby.
That's what I'm talking about.
Okay, here we go.
All right. Moment of truth.
6.2 ounces.
Looked like 10.
Not that great, but it is what we have.
6.2 ounces is worth over $11,000.
Not within striking distance of the funds Kris needs
to keep the Reaper Nation alive.
So that's what we got.
6.2 ounces for 16 hours of bull [bleep].
And it was bull [bleep].
I was really hoping we were going to get a little bit more.
Okay. Well, whatever. That's it.
The scale doesn't lie.
So it's better than a kick in the nuts.
I'm under an extreme amount of stress right now.
I'm on edge of losing all of this operation.
If I can't prove I can make money with this operation,
Kevin will just sell it.
With Reaper Nation near the brink,
Captain Kris Kelly marches toward
a pivotal meeting with Mr. Gold.
I'm gonna meet up with Shawn Pomrenke right now.
We're going to see if we can talk through
our differences and work out our problems.
Hopefully, we can because I don't know what else to do right now.
I don't need to make Shawn Pomrenke my enemy.
You know, I just need to work hard
and mind my own business is what I need to do.
And I need Shawn to let me co-exist in this town.
We're gonna have to get along.
You know, I don't know what else to say.
Shawn reached out and said he wants to meet.
And honestly, I'm jumping at the chance.
I'm in a bad spot right now and Shawn can make my life
really difficult if he tries to.
Shawn knows everyone in town.
It can cause me a lot of headaches, and basically,
my little empire can collapse right before me.
And I don't need these [bleep] problems.
I'm just trying to get gold.
I just want to go mining.
I don't want any more problems.
I'm creating enough problems.
I will be humble.
I will make this work.
I'm gonna give it 150% right now.
I need to live in this [bleep] town, too.
You know, I'm buying a house. We just had a baby.
You know, I'm trying to plan out a future here.
I can't burn [bleep].
Can't burn my bridges.
I just need to start showing Shawn the proper respect
that he thinks he deserves.
This is such [bleep] [bleep].
Kris, if he's gonna play with the big boys,
he's got to [bleep] follow the same rules.
18 years I've been on this ocean doing this.
I know the rules. I know the regulations.
And Kris, he's just like, "Oh, I don't give a [bleep]."
Then he goes and jumps on our spot and [bleep] up my whole mining plan.
And I'm not going to let Kris Kelly this up.
But the problem is, he never wants to listen.
He just wants to run his mouth
and keep talking and keep talking.
And it's like he needs to just listen.
And if I can't reason with him and talk to him,
then it's gonna come down to somebody's gonna get their ass kicked,
and I'd rather not do that.
Gold mining is my life.
It's how I make my living.
I care about the integrity of it.
Kris, he doesn't get it.
But I was once in his shoes many, many years ago.
He's trying to reach the same dreams I've been able to realize.
He's just got to do it the right way.
And despite everything that's happened, I want to hear him out.
Oh, man.
I hope this all goes good. I really do.
I don't need to in my life anymore, you know.
We're gonna squash this [bleep].
'Cause the way it's going right now, it's got to end.
- Yeah. - get it.
I don't want to see you fail, but if you keep stepping on my toes, then I...
then... then I'm gonna be forced to do things that I don't want to do.
And it's like you keep with me
and a lot of people are gonna [bleep] hate you.
Yeah.
I want to live in this town. I really do.
You know, and I'm buying a house.
I just started a family. I'm sorry.
You know, like, um, whatever I got to do to make this work, okay?
Well, you know, we...
You not on a six inch dredge anymore.
- No, right. - Yeah.
Yeah, and there's a lot of different rules, and...
and if we keep playing this [bleep] game,
we're gonna [bleep] it up for everybody.
- And I don't want that. - And then... then what?
Then we don't have [bleep].
Look, buddy, I'm... I'm stressing right now.
I'm barely hanging on to everything.
My gold cleanups are [bleep] joke.
I'm doing my best to make all this work.
I don't want...
You know, I want to work with you and get along with you and everything.
- Be cool. - Yeah.
- I really do. - There's plenty of ground out there.
You know what, I don't that you're out there.
Let's just keep the fair distance.
- I will. - And 'cause y'all, we...
we come up with a mining plan and we're taking our cuts,
and then you come and park, and it's like [bleep].
Even on the boat that day, to be honest with you, man,
I'm running around doing other [bleep] and...
Um, but I take responsibility for everything my crew does.
- Yeah. - You know, and I...
I will take care of everything.
And you know what? I... I'm not 100% innocent and all this either, but I...
I... I said, I'm thinking too smart.
And it was like we got [bleep] stop.
This is strictly like a [bleep].
Yeah. Yeah.
Like, I don't... I don't... We don't need this, dude.
- Yeah. - We're trying to make it in this world.
I'm... I'm telling you, man, I'm gonna start being more courteous,
and I just want to work together and make this work.
- Yeah, we'll start it over. - Okay. Thanks, buddy.
- Yeah. - You know, really.
Any problems, you call me and I'll take care of it.
All right.
I think everything went great. I had to move forward.
I don't have the time or resources to fight a... a millionaire.
You know, like I'm barely scraping by.
So maybe my problem is I just don't show
Shawn the proper respect and I'm probably gonna have to from now on.
All I did was bend the knee.
Or, you know, saying sorry is free.
So, who gets to [bleep].
He seems sincere.
So hopefully he is.
But I'll keep him at a safe distance.
But if he does, 'cause if he does get too close to me,
and it's not gonna end well.
And hopefully we can just all play nice.
Yo.
Hi.
How you doing?
Zeke Tenhoff is on his longest dive
of the season, trying to make up for lost time.
You just keep mining until you want to stop.
There's no chance of that.
He's pretty burnt out.
I can really empathize with him.
He's been in the water.
7 hours, 20 minutes.
That you will.
The gold doctor.
So, Zeke, did you decide to come up?
Okey-dokey smoky.
There it is.
It's been a while since I've done a dive that was that long.
But we needed it because these pockets are pretty much empty.
And the good news is that it was easily
the best gold that I've seen all summer.
I was so excited I couldn't suck it up fast enough.
And now, for the first time in quite a while,
I'm excited about a cleanup.
I think it's gonna be a good one.
Get all the suffering out of the way.
- If you find something good. - Nice.
I like to end things on a high note.
Yeah.
I mean, people do a lot worse thing for a lot less money.
On the Nome coast...
Well, the thing with Bryson,
it's becoming very clear that this guy
is about 98% bull [bleep].
Once again, Vernon's soft side
may be coming back to bite him.
Right now I'm going out here and lay down the law to him.
I'm already into him. Put several hundred dollars.
Putting him up, giving him a place to stay.
I told him how to go down on the beach and make money.
Well, he chose to ignore me.
And then every time I see him, he's got his hand out.
Think I'm his own personal damn ATM.
So now I've got this dependent [bleep],
thinking I'm his daddy or his caretaker,
and that ain't gonna float.
I'm cutting him off at the knees.
He wants to make it up here.
You got to do it like everybody else does.
And that's hard scrabble.
You've got to get your ass out there with a shovel
in your hand and turn over some material on that beach.
If nothing else is going on, you can always make enough
to keep body and soul together on that beach.
And I let him stay in this RV out here
with the understanding that he was gonna clean the property.
And so far, he hasn't done anything.
No more. I'm not giving him another damn dime.
And if he wants to stay there where he's at right now,
he's gonna work off the money I've already given him.
I'm not running a damn clown show here.
A lot of trash around this place.
They're a little bit down here in the last couple of weeks.
Frustrating is [bleep].
Sick of this crap.
I'm just trying to help.
You know, like, I didn't come up here to bottom out
the way that I am and get treated like dog [bleep].
Dog [bleep]?
I'm treating him like dog [bleep].
I'm putting money into his manicured
little hands while he's doing nothing.
And this jerk thinks that's the crime of the century.
Okay, how much money did I give you?
And a place to live and a car to drive
and I treat you like [bleep]?
- You're yelling at me. - No.
Yeah. And look, [bleep]. Ass [bleep].
I've told you ten different ways how to get gold on the beach.
You know what I'm not
Get out of that trailer
- now! - I'm going in right now.
I'm not dealing with your abuse, buddy.
I put the last $40 in his hand yesterday.
400 [bleep] dollars and a wet place to stay
ain't worth being yelled at.
you.
You get your ass... Get your ragged ass out of there.
You'll have a heart attack. You [bleep].
You can't just yelling at people.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
You little [bleep].
[bleep] snowflake.
Has no appreciation for the money and the fact
that I put him up in that motorhome over there.
A 40 foot motor coach, provided him with a generator,
a tank of propane.
Gasoline for the generator, gasoline for the car and money for food.
And does he have appreciation?
No. So, [bleep] him.
Maybe, just maybe, after this, jack wad and Brad Kelly,
I finally learned my lesson about giving worthless people a break.
Because all they do is take advantage of you and screw you in the end.
So, I'm not gonna do it anymore.
Everyone can just kiss my ass.
I was actually not gonna fire him.
I was just gonna chew his ass out.
But he's a snowflake.
He can't take an action because it hurts his little [bleep].
if he gets yelled at.
Two miles east...
Ooh.
Wow.
That's him moving a big boulder.
hoping there's gold underneath.
How's it looking down there?
Copy that.
Awesome. Good times.
Time for gold.
With Jane at the helm for the day,
the Eroica is on the gold.
Emily went to town, so, I'm here on my second time by myself.
I'm doing pretty okay. We got this guy.
Oh.
Yeah, that's swell definitely just came in.
Okay, roger that. all your levels look great.
Good times.
Phew, phew. Ow.
He's really vocal down there.
I have a feeling I know what he's like in bed, in the sack.
That sound like when he finds gold.
Not that I need to.
Just he's very vocal.
Sorry.
Jane, how's it going?
Oh, it's going good.
I came back, because the boat is tonight...
after the dive, I don't want to leave
the boat out overnight.
Hey, what's... what's up, Rick?
Yeah, the... the swell actually is definitely getting a lot worse.
Ah, sounds like Rick's really struggling down there
to have a swell winds kind of coming up.
Ooh.
All right, Rick. You want to wrap it up?
Yo, Jane, he's up.
He's up?
Ooh.
It's a bummer, the waves kind of pushed us off. 14.
But how about Jane? Jane is rocking it.
Even though the waves kicked us off,
Jane handled the situation, Rick got on some gold,
and her first day out by herself was awesome.
Okay don't... Don't strain your back.
Good job.
She wasn't sure about this gold mining business
at first, but she's super adaptable
and she's really getting the hang of things.
Pull back, pull back.
Ah...
Done.
With me being pregnant and kind of out of play.
She's pretty much exactly what the doctor ordered.
Literally.
I look at the box.
Yeah, nice. It's nice and golden.
That is...
Nugget.
Big baddy nugget on board.
Oh, yeah. That's a good nugget.
Oh, damn. Look at that.
Lots of nuggets coming my way, baby.
That's what I call a good day.
Holy, whack a moly. It's so pretty.
Yeah. Isn't it?
You got the Midas touch.
Let me drive it in. Get her on [bleep].
Go ahead.
Now, the Kellys are the proud owners of Vernon's trailer.
It's time to get the new and improved Reaper back in the water.
Vernon almost had a heart attack, bro.
Poor old bastard.
And there she rolls.
Slow down, Dad.
- You lost the tire. - Yeah.
Well, we lost some tire.
Well, the trailer cost us 3500 more.
We didn't really have, but we got it.
So now we can get the boat back in the water
and tie her to the docks.
We'll head out with her in the morning.
Okay, go ahead.
They better not have pull me out here with no gas.
They probably did.
Yeah, my dad's, something else, you know.
puts me on a boat with no gas.
He breaks the trailer and no gas.
Really, Dad? Unbelievable.
Come on, baby.
You know, [bleep] God.
He says it's current.
So, I'm about 200 feet away from the dock and I'm using
the wind to blow me in where I need to go.
This is [bleep] stupid.
Hey, what's up?
Hey, man. Saving fuel. I like that. Let the wind do the work.
Yeah, it's coming around right now.
And I love this.
Pull me in.
Couldn't have asked for a better parking job than that.
That was good piloting.
Yeah, that's just too [bleep] funny, dude.
Next time on the water, this thing will make the waves better.
We can go faster.
It could take the weight of the water in my hose.
Yeah, a few hiccups, right [bleep].
But it's done. Who give the [bleep]?
Got a new trailer out of the deal.
I'll pick up the spuds and go.
Oh, yeah.
With repairs made to the Myrtle Irene's
shaker box and the war with Kris Kelly hopefully behind him.
Shawn Pomrenke wastes no time getting back to the Tomcod.
Myrtle Irene leaving the inner harbor, headed for sea.
Right now, we're right where we want to be.
The shaker plants fix, the Myrtle Irene's running great.
And hopefully this dust up with Kris is squashed for now.
And I can get back to doing what I need to do.
Get gold. God knows I need it.
We need to make some gold.
Oh, yeah.
This stuff looks really good.
Put a plane on the shaker.
Seem to be working well.
Everything brought in.
Hopefully we can keep it running.
We got the inland mine.
Christine Rose, Myrtle.
I need to keep them running.
See dirt moving as many hours that we can.
The more hours we put on the box, the more gold we'll get.
Ooh. That feels like it's a problem.
Hopefully the Bering Sea is being kind.
Just giving us a big old pile of gold.
They got to keep on putting dirt in this box.
There it is.
There should be some gold in the box.
I'm gonna find out.
Yeah, there's gold down here.
It's looking good, looking good.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Diggy, diggy.
Time to pile up some gold.
Ho, ho, ho, ho!
If we keep everything running.
It'd be close to 100 plus ounces.
This pay streak is the real deal.
I'm gonna reposition the Myrtle to get into deeper water.
Get to that good gold.
We're gonna get triple digits in the box this time for sure.
I can feel it.
All right.
Let's get these spuds jacked up and I'll pull us out
into some deeper water.
The spud's not going up or down.
Yeah. It's not moving.
Oh, [bleep] [bleep] [bleep].
Dammit.
I mean, we get out there and check it out.
Frustrated.
First, the shaker. Now the spud.
Man, it never stops.
But this is a big deal.
If we can't move the spud, we can't move the Myrtle.
Then we're screwed.
Always something.
We just got this thing dialed in and now it might be broke.
Can't catch a break.
We just got this thing dialed in and now it might be broke.
Can't catch a break.
The good news for Shawn Pomrenke,
he's on the best gold of the season.
The bad news, a stuck spud may force
the Myrtle to shut down again.
Damn it.
It's not moving.
This spud is stuck.
If we can't move the spud.
We can't move the Myrtle.
If we can't move the Myrtle, our season is effectively over.
Come on.
There it goes.
Thank God. The beast is free.
Long live the Myrtle.
Now we can get back to mining.
Seems like everything's working.
All right.
Something going on.
You got bigger problems.
Well the spud's up.
But as we're inspecting it, there's a huge crack.
This situation has taken on a whole different dimension.
Hard to see how far down the well is.
Yeah, it could be a lot further.
There's a crack in the spud well.
Well, it's the part of the barge that holds the spud in place.
If the crack is big enough in a big swell,
it could cause the spud well, to break open.
And if that happens, water will gush into the hull and sink the Myrtle.
We are screwed for sure.
Maybe best to be safe than sorry.
Yeah well, let's head in.
I'll have to pull the spud.
See if we can weld it up.
Hopefully the crack is small and we'll get it welded up quick.
But if it's big, we're gonna have to replace the spud well,
and that's a major project.
And if that's the case, I don't think we'll be able
to get back out and mine this summer.
Oh, go back to the harbor to do repairs.
There's some pretty big swells and they're far apart.
So, if I keep running it, it'll just rip it apart more.
So, we're gonna go ahead and repair.
We got this thing dialed in now,
but we're over halfway through the season.
Breakdowns like this, we don't need.
We're gonna lose a full day.
That could be 60, $70,000.
But we push it.
We'd lose the rest of the season,
and we're not gonna do that.
I'd end up sitting like Kris Kelly in the harbor
when the weather is good.
This sucks.
Just when we were getting hot, hopefully we got
some good gold when we were out there.
And this doesn't put us out for too long.
I hate bringing the dredge in,
but it's got to keep her afloat and hold her together.
I do not feel like putting this thing in a bad position
that we can't get out of...
Back in town...
Kris man, so what do you think?
I think we're doing terrible.
I hate to admit it, but, you know, the amount
of gold we got right now is [bleep].
It is.
We're really not getting a lot of time.
Yeah.
Reaper Nations' chief investor Kevin Adaimy
is back in town and cracking the whip
on his beleaguered captain.
We need... obviously, we need a lot more gold.
I mean, we got this payment coming up,
and we really got to make that payment happen.
You know, we need to see some results.
We can't continue to just put out money and just get nothing for gold.
You will see results.
We just need a week of running and we'll...
we'll get a lot of gold.
I'm trusting this operation in your hands, buddy.
Buddy, this is all gonna work out.
- You know, um... - You know, the new excavator, 30% more.
Yeah.
You know, it'd be a night crew we can trust.
Yeah. We just... You know, it's just nervous.
I'm nervous that, you know, we have a big $125,000
payment due, and we got to hit that number.
- I mean, we can't... - Oh, I know.
We can't... maybe hit that number.
It's a really serious deal. We've got to get that going.
No, I know it's gonna happen.
I have never seen Kevin this fired up.
But that's a difference of being Kevin's friend
or Kevin's business partner.
I promised him this whole thing would be a moneymaker.
But this thing's barely staying afloat.
And now, with the excavator breaking down,
it seems almost impossible for us to make this payment.
But I have to keep a positive face and calm him down.
You know, you're the captain of the ship.
You're the guy that makes the decisions.
Just make wise decisions and call me and, you know,
together, you know, we can come up with really good decisions.
We can't make any more mistakes, is what I'm saying.
All my decisions have been cheap
and they've been the right decisions.
Yes.
Every little problem that we've had has been out of my control.
To me, all I've seen is a million excuses.
This next month is really important to me.
I mean, at the end of the day, if we don't get 100 ounces,
we might have to start selling stuff off
to be able to make ends meet.
If we just put in 24 hours a day
and get out there every opportunity,
we're gonna make a lot of gold.
I know in my heart that we can do this.
It's just that everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.
But the Mistress is dialed in.
The only real problem that I have is an excavator.
All I need to do is get the excavator running every single day,
24 hours a day, and we are gonna make tons of money.
If not, I might not only lose this whole business,
I might also lose Kevin's friendship.
Look, Kevin, I really have this.
I know Nome. I know the ocean. I know gold.
I know this is gonna make money.
We put together this whole operation.
Just trust me a little while longer,
and you're gonna be real happy.
I'm ready for that. Let's go, man.
- Take part in it. - Let's make it happen.
Let's do it.
I'm gonna go get some water.
I don't have a well.
So, I've always just hauled water.
It's... it's convenient to buy bottle of water,
if you don't care about money.
But it's not how the way you should do it.
Water should always be free.
And so, I'm gonna go fill up my water jugs.
Tonight, on surviving Alaska with Zeke Tenhoff.
Everybody has this idea that, like,
if you drink water out of like a little stream,
like it's gonna, like, make you sick because it's both [bleep].
Learn Zeke's three step plan for staying
hydrated when you're living off the land.
That whole mountainside is really porous.
So, like, all the water is just flowing out of it.
Just coming out of the ground.
I'm not gonna drink right out of the river
because there's a lot of beavers.
Likely you will get some kind of like, parasite thing.
After you're drinking this water,
you taste like city water, tap water.
It's awful.
I mean, the water that you get in town,
it's like pumped full of chemicals and it spends its whole life
like just getting blasted through all these plastic tubes.
And like, in... No way. No, it's not good.
Like, I'm not a big conspiracy guy, but, like,
the explanation for why they pump fluoride
in your drinking water
is to say that like, it helps your teeth.
Like, why do they care so much about your teeth?
That's a conspiracy. It's a grand conspiracy.
There's something going on there.
Wait for it.
Oh, hold on.
Whoa!
Down, girl. Down, girl.
Um... All right.
I get excited. I'm always...
- I'm always on it, like... - Oh.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Gold.
Oh, boy.
Time to see if the Eroica's new tender.
Jane made it rain.
Look at these guns.
She was pulling up that nozzle by herself.
And I'm like, "Holy crap, dude, she's got this."
You barely got it up.
It builds muscle and character.
It's very important.
Jane and Rick are a power duo right now.
They're just raking in the gold, and I'm digging it.
All right, let's see how we did.
3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Break and turn, guys.
14, 15, 16, 17, 18.
Yes. Look at this. Look at... look at...
24, 25, 6,
7, 28.
That's good.
Nice. 28, man.
Yes.
0.6.
28.6 ounces.
That's worth over $50,000.
And there has been nothing plain about Jane's addition to the Eroica crew.
It's... Yeah, it's great to have you.
Have you here. While I do. You know, pregnancy stuff.
- Bam. - Nice.
Good job.
Nice. I'm so happy like we're killing it right now.
And 250 ounces is right around the corner.
Yeah, we're in awesome shape.
Wasn't much drama. Yeah, it's a lot of gold.
Let's get back out there.
On the outskirts of town...
Got lots of gold to pan.
Yeah, you got the hang of it?
Oh, yeah. Look at that one. Look at this.
The gold is on top like that.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You're getting it cleaner than me.
The mad scientist of Nome is ready to see
if the new pay streak is really paying.
The new place that I've been dredging.
It's really good. Real hot. I'm stoked about this cleanup.
I think it's gonna be a nice cleanup for sure.
You know, it's been a long, long time
since I've had a killer clean up.
If ever there was a time for one, it's right now.
And without a heavy weigh out, I'm not gonna have enough
money to keep the operation going.
Despite Shawn putting us out here on Tomcod.
That looks nice and clean.
All right, here we go.
One ounce.
Four and a half.
8.6.
we broke 10. 11. 12.
13, 14.
Grand total. Right there is 16.9 ounce.
16.9 ounces is worth over 30,000 bucks.
The largest cleanout for Zeke since his return to the Bering Sea.
A lot of work goes into that pile of gold right there.
Oh, wow. I'm all of a sudden now real successful.
Whoa, whoa. How'd that happen?
I really need this.
Not just for my pocketbook, but for morale.
It hasn't been an easy year.
And I mean, at times, I question all of this
and whether I should be mining at all.
But this is huge for me, 'cause it proves
that being out on Tomcod is really gonna pay.
Cool. 10% of that is 1.69 ounces for Steve.
- There you go. Cool. - Thanks, Zeke.
Yeah.
It was hard won, man.
I even made enough to get Steve paid something.
And that feels good because he hasn't made
any money this summer at all.
It was really nice to see him get a little bit of gold.
Finally filling up this bottle.
It's an actually little pile of gold right there.
On the other side of town...
That stuff looks really good.
Mr. Gold is hoping to score a direct hit.
There it is.
Gold mining has lots of highs and lots of lows.
Fist fights with the Kellys one minute,
making peace the next, great gold, one minute.
Broken spud well the next.
But the bottom line is, we might be
on the best pay streak of the season.
And ultimately, that's all it matters.
Let's weigh up this, Myrtle gold.
Here we go. Here we go.
There's 20, 40, 50.
70.
Come on, let's hit triple digits.
Cool. Hundred.
148.
We got good gold, but this spud well took us off the water.
Hopefully we can get back out there.
148.3 ounces is worth over 266 grand.
And Mr. Gold is once again living up to his name.
Kelly's definitely cost us time, cost us money.
Piss you off.
Every minute, you're not digging.
And I'm dealing with those idiots.
It's costing me money. It's costing my guys money.
It's costing everybody money.
Other than that, we're doing well.
Look at it. We got a pile of gold.
Even though the Myrtle hasn't been out there
every minute that I'd hope for.
When it is, it's money in the bank.
We just need to keep the Myrtle healthy for the rest of the season.
And if we do with the Myrtle, the Inland mine and the Christine Rose,
we're gonna hit our 3,000 ounces gold.
We're on hot ground right now.
You got to get down there and pile up the gold.
That's all we need. We need days on the water.
Happy. Happy.
Sean makes a giant move,
while Emily and Zeke make some noise of their own.
Next time on Bering Sea gold...
Starting to get cold.
We're gonna have to fight through it.
We don't have a whole lot of mining days left.
You need to get as much gold as we can in little time we got.
Myrtle's back up and running, baby.
Now if I can just keep this thing digging.
She's gonna give out a good bounty.
Kris is back, just like the good old days.
The back anchor is not catching on anything.
, yeah.
This weather is not joking around.
Oh.
Ah.
We got to get out of here.
Today is the first day without Vernon.
Oh, no, no.
Let her rip!
You see some gold there?
We have white gold in the box.
We're on gold.
Looks really good.
Dead presidents you know what I talking about?
Money.