1 00:00:00,896 --> 00:00:02,965 [intense music playing] 2 00:00:03,620 --> 00:00:04,965 [hawk calling] 3 00:00:13,172 --> 00:00:14,068 [Dustin] It's devastating. 4 00:00:15,206 --> 00:00:16,896 It looks like a... 5 00:00:16,896 --> 00:00:20,172 A tornado came through here and destroyed everything. 6 00:00:20,172 --> 00:00:24,620 [narrator] The worst typhoon to hit Alaska in over 50 years 7 00:00:24,620 --> 00:00:27,206 has ripped through Dustin's claim... 8 00:00:27,206 --> 00:00:28,793 I'm trying to keep positive, but... 9 00:00:28,793 --> 00:00:31,310 I'm finding it harder and harder to do that. 10 00:00:31,310 --> 00:00:33,482 [narrator] Just as he was getting to the gold. 11 00:00:34,793 --> 00:00:37,448 [Dustin] It's looking hopeless, but I don't know what to do. 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,689 We don't have enough gold yet. 13 00:00:40,586 --> 00:00:41,551 I'm stuck. 14 00:00:42,379 --> 00:00:43,586 This rain won't let up. 15 00:00:44,379 --> 00:00:45,482 It's every week. 16 00:00:45,482 --> 00:00:48,275 Every week and this has been the biggest one. 17 00:00:48,275 --> 00:00:49,344 This was something else. 18 00:00:49,793 --> 00:00:51,965 [intense music playing] 19 00:00:54,379 --> 00:00:55,965 [thunder rumbling] 20 00:00:59,586 --> 00:01:01,862 It took a whole bunch of my stuff. 21 00:01:02,620 --> 00:01:03,655 A whole bunch. 22 00:01:04,896 --> 00:01:06,275 We got destroyed. 23 00:01:06,275 --> 00:01:07,862 [intense music continues] 24 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,689 I am anxious to see what it's gonna look like when the water's down. 25 00:01:21,517 --> 00:01:24,000 You can only imagine what Kayla's side looks like. 26 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,551 [water gushing] 27 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:29,172 [thunder rumbling] 28 00:01:33,275 --> 00:01:35,758 I don't know if my dredge is salvageable or not yet. 29 00:01:37,275 --> 00:01:38,793 I don't know what we have left fully. 30 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,378 I've never made such a huge investment in my entire life. 31 00:01:44,378 --> 00:01:47,482 The numbers we're talking about are enough to break me. 32 00:01:49,103 --> 00:01:50,344 [sighs] 33 00:01:50,896 --> 00:01:52,137 It's got me stressed out. 34 00:01:53,620 --> 00:01:57,378 [narrator] Now, on the finale of Gold Rush: White Water... 35 00:01:58,517 --> 00:02:01,551 Dustin and his crews face the fight of their lives. 36 00:02:04,896 --> 00:02:07,206 When in doubt, blow some [bleep] up. 37 00:02:07,206 --> 00:02:09,000 -[Dustin] Move! -[all screaming] 38 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,378 [Dustin] Move, move, move, move! 39 00:02:11,724 --> 00:02:13,689 Here we go again with the [bleep] weather. 40 00:02:16,103 --> 00:02:17,103 -[Dustin] Yeah! -[James] Whoo! 41 00:02:17,103 --> 00:02:18,379 -[Wes] Yeah! Yeah! -[Dustin] Whoo! 42 00:02:18,379 --> 00:02:19,413 [Dustin] Back in business. 43 00:02:19,413 --> 00:02:20,517 I'm dredging now. 44 00:02:20,517 --> 00:02:22,482 That's not enough rock to stop us. 45 00:02:22,482 --> 00:02:24,241 -Whoa! -Whoa! 46 00:02:26,620 --> 00:02:28,551 [Carlos] That is some awesome pieces. 47 00:02:29,172 --> 00:02:30,206 Gold, amigo. 48 00:02:30,206 --> 00:02:33,172 That's right. Keep the power and the lights on, 49 00:02:33,172 --> 00:02:34,793 food on the table, 50 00:02:34,793 --> 00:02:36,689 gas in your car. 51 00:02:37,275 --> 00:02:38,241 Gold! 52 00:02:43,172 --> 00:02:44,655 [intense music playing] 53 00:03:02,275 --> 00:03:03,172 [James] Wow! 54 00:03:04,206 --> 00:03:05,172 Look at that. 55 00:03:05,793 --> 00:03:07,068 [Carlos] Ooh, that's deep, dude. 56 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,586 Last night this thing was rushing 100 miles an hour. 57 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 [James] Holy smokes. 58 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:15,793 [Carlos] Most of our equipment's been washed away, 59 00:03:15,793 --> 00:03:17,482 so, we're figuring... 60 00:03:17,482 --> 00:03:19,517 This will be our drop up point for our equipment. 61 00:03:19,517 --> 00:03:22,068 So me and James has just, basically, gone on a rescue mission 62 00:03:22,586 --> 00:03:24,517 to see what we can retrieve. 63 00:03:24,517 --> 00:03:28,413 [narrator] At the point where Nugget Creek feeds into the Tsirku River... 64 00:03:28,413 --> 00:03:29,344 [James] Hey, what's that? 65 00:03:30,172 --> 00:03:31,724 Gas can. 66 00:03:31,724 --> 00:03:34,379 Yeah. Every little piece counts that we can reuse. 67 00:03:34,379 --> 00:03:36,793 [narrator] ...Carlos and James are on a salvage mission. 68 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:39,965 [Carlos] Sheesh! 69 00:03:41,896 --> 00:03:43,586 Don't know what that is. 70 00:03:43,586 --> 00:03:45,965 This is one of our freaking, uh, walkways. 71 00:03:46,896 --> 00:03:48,103 Do you believe that? 72 00:03:48,103 --> 00:03:50,586 -[Carlos chuckles] -[James] Who wants to travel a mile? 73 00:03:50,586 --> 00:03:52,758 I mean, that's some serious flooding. 74 00:03:53,620 --> 00:03:55,000 -There's the Tsirku. -Holy crap. 75 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,344 [Carlos] It made it down here? 76 00:03:56,896 --> 00:03:58,067 -Good job, man. -[James] Wow. 77 00:03:58,793 --> 00:04:01,103 I can't believe it made it down here. 78 00:04:01,103 --> 00:04:02,448 [Carlos] It's a big score for us, dude. 79 00:04:03,172 --> 00:04:05,379 [James] Anything helps, man. 80 00:04:05,379 --> 00:04:08,172 The river may have claimed all the rest of the stuff, but... 81 00:04:08,172 --> 00:04:09,551 At least we found the super claw. 82 00:04:10,586 --> 00:04:12,137 [Carlos] I was hoping to find a lot more. 83 00:04:12,793 --> 00:04:14,103 But it's a start. 84 00:04:14,103 --> 00:04:16,379 Hey! Start picking up the pieces one at a time. 85 00:04:19,689 --> 00:04:21,481 [intense music playing] 86 00:04:21,481 --> 00:04:24,896 [narrator] Just a short window left before the big freeze, 87 00:04:24,896 --> 00:04:27,896 or another storm ends their season. 88 00:04:27,896 --> 00:04:29,620 [James] I'm gonna go check it out. 89 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:31,689 [narrator] Dustin and his crew need to figure out 90 00:04:31,689 --> 00:04:34,068 if they can salvage enough of their equipment 91 00:04:34,793 --> 00:04:36,517 for one last shot 92 00:04:36,517 --> 00:04:38,862 at the legendary Nugget Creek gold. 93 00:04:40,620 --> 00:04:41,551 [James] Dude. 94 00:04:42,379 --> 00:04:43,586 Look at that area over there. 95 00:04:44,275 --> 00:04:45,551 Forces of nature, man. 96 00:04:46,379 --> 00:04:47,344 [bleep] 97 00:04:48,482 --> 00:04:51,413 So we lost a tote full of tools. 98 00:04:51,413 --> 00:04:53,793 Our comm box got washed off. 99 00:04:57,413 --> 00:04:58,344 This... 100 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,758 is inside of the winch box. 101 00:05:03,310 --> 00:05:06,137 This winch is [bleep]. The upstream winch is [bleep]. 102 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,586 Looks like disaster to me. 103 00:05:10,620 --> 00:05:12,896 [Carlos] Seeing our dredge beached up. 104 00:05:12,896 --> 00:05:16,068 Literally reminds me of the aftermath of Katrina. 105 00:05:16,068 --> 00:05:18,586 Disarray of freakin' hate and destruction, man. 106 00:05:19,379 --> 00:05:21,310 [narrator] The power of the storm 107 00:05:21,310 --> 00:05:24,586 hurled their dredge 80 feet downstream. 108 00:05:25,793 --> 00:05:26,620 [Dustin] Doesn't look good. 109 00:05:26,620 --> 00:05:29,689 [chuckles] It is devastation, but... 110 00:05:29,689 --> 00:05:31,896 Let's find out what there is to work with 111 00:05:31,896 --> 00:05:34,896 and then I'll see if we can actually get back in the water. 112 00:05:34,896 --> 00:05:37,517 That's what my head is telling me. 113 00:05:37,517 --> 00:05:39,517 There's big nuggets on the very bottom and... 114 00:05:39,517 --> 00:05:41,172 and we never made it there. 115 00:05:42,724 --> 00:05:43,793 [helicopter hovering] 116 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,344 [narrator] Just six months ago... 117 00:05:47,172 --> 00:05:48,517 [Dustin] This is the biggest investment 118 00:05:48,517 --> 00:05:51,068 I've ever tried to make in my entire life. 119 00:05:52,172 --> 00:05:54,344 [narrator] ...Dustin gambled his life savings... 120 00:05:54,793 --> 00:05:56,068 [laughs] 121 00:05:56,068 --> 00:05:58,000 ...on a remote new claim... 122 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,586 Gold Nugget Creek. 123 00:06:01,517 --> 00:06:04,241 ...drawn by the promise of monster nuggets. 124 00:06:04,793 --> 00:06:05,862 This is what you're gonna find. 125 00:06:06,206 --> 00:06:07,275 [laughs] 126 00:06:08,103 --> 00:06:09,689 [Dustin] It's awesome. 127 00:06:09,689 --> 00:06:12,275 [narrator] Proven by prospectors in the '80s. 128 00:06:12,275 --> 00:06:15,862 They did this in, like, five days of digging. 129 00:06:16,068 --> 00:06:17,000 Whoa! 130 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,413 [narrator] His crew defied the odds. 131 00:06:19,413 --> 00:06:20,793 -[all] Whoo! -[Wes laughs] 132 00:06:20,793 --> 00:06:23,379 Get out. We gotta go. 133 00:06:23,379 --> 00:06:27,379 [narrator] And the wettest six months in Alaska's recorded history. 134 00:06:27,379 --> 00:06:29,448 The creek has a reason in a biblical way. 135 00:06:30,379 --> 00:06:32,965 [narrator] To get down to the life-changing gold. 136 00:06:33,517 --> 00:06:34,655 Oh, yeah! 137 00:06:35,413 --> 00:06:37,379 I can see it right here. 138 00:06:37,379 --> 00:06:38,896 [Carlos laughs] 139 00:06:38,896 --> 00:06:42,275 [narrator] They have tasted what Nugget Creek has to offer. 140 00:06:42,275 --> 00:06:44,896 -We got gold! -[all cheering] 141 00:06:44,896 --> 00:06:48,000 [narrator] And are hungry for a lot more. 142 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:50,344 If I can pull this off, this could change all of our lives. 143 00:06:52,724 --> 00:06:53,896 [Dustin] There's all gravel in there. 144 00:06:53,896 --> 00:06:55,517 [Wes groans] 145 00:06:55,517 --> 00:06:57,793 [Dustin] All right, guys. Let's see what we can salvage. 146 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,482 The dredge is in pretty bad shape right now. 147 00:07:01,482 --> 00:07:04,034 All inside the engine is all solid gravel. 148 00:07:04,620 --> 00:07:05,965 Hoses are bent and broke. 149 00:07:06,896 --> 00:07:08,000 I mean... 150 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,448 this was something else what went down here. 151 00:07:12,103 --> 00:07:13,689 [Dustin] She went underwater. Look at that. 152 00:07:16,103 --> 00:07:17,517 [Dustin] It's heavy. I can tell you that. 153 00:07:17,517 --> 00:07:19,206 It's gotta be full of water. 154 00:07:19,206 --> 00:07:20,586 Take these motors off. 155 00:07:20,586 --> 00:07:22,344 I think we should take the pontoons off. 156 00:07:23,310 --> 00:07:24,586 We're gonna tear this thing apart. 157 00:07:25,275 --> 00:07:26,172 Wow. 158 00:07:26,172 --> 00:07:27,413 Look at that pontoon. 159 00:07:27,413 --> 00:07:28,448 Is that all water? 160 00:07:28,896 --> 00:07:30,103 [Dustin] I don't know. 161 00:07:30,103 --> 00:07:31,482 Ready? One, two, three. 162 00:07:31,482 --> 00:07:32,862 [James] Two guys could probably pull it out. 163 00:07:36,724 --> 00:07:38,034 -See how muddy that is? -[Carlos] Yeah. 164 00:07:40,586 --> 00:07:42,620 [James] I think since the floats filled up with water, 165 00:07:42,620 --> 00:07:44,275 it actually saved our dredge. 166 00:07:44,275 --> 00:07:45,241 It was heavy enough 167 00:07:45,586 --> 00:07:46,517 that, uh, 168 00:07:46,517 --> 00:07:48,413 the creek couldn't actually push it away. 169 00:07:48,413 --> 00:07:50,517 If the pontoons wouldn't have filled up with water, 170 00:07:50,517 --> 00:07:52,379 I think our dredge would be gone down the river 171 00:07:52,379 --> 00:07:54,241 and we'd be picking up pieces now. 172 00:07:57,413 --> 00:07:58,620 [James] Pontoons are empty. 173 00:07:58,620 --> 00:08:00,862 Cleaned out and ready to go back on. 174 00:08:01,310 --> 00:08:02,448 [drilling] 175 00:08:03,413 --> 00:08:05,068 It might be enough stuff here to... 176 00:08:05,068 --> 00:08:07,241 continue dredging, but I'm not sure. 177 00:08:09,620 --> 00:08:11,000 I'm not sure what's gonna happen here. 178 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:12,586 They can't even get to their damn site. 179 00:08:15,413 --> 00:08:17,689 That's some wild, wild, [bleep] right there. 180 00:08:19,172 --> 00:08:20,068 [Kayla] Let's see here. 181 00:08:23,172 --> 00:08:24,793 Our walkway is completely gone. 182 00:08:24,793 --> 00:08:28,344 We just need to figure how to get from this point to that point. 183 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,241 [Paul] I'm gonna get my waders on and see if I can find a way across. 184 00:08:33,724 --> 00:08:35,793 Right now, it's not gonna be easy gettin' to our site. 185 00:08:40,309 --> 00:08:41,241 [Kayla] Careful. 186 00:08:43,102 --> 00:08:44,482 [Paul] That's some powerful water. 187 00:08:48,724 --> 00:08:49,689 [Kayla] Paul! 188 00:08:52,724 --> 00:08:55,103 Right now, Paul is tying a rope line. 189 00:08:55,103 --> 00:08:57,275 We're gonna try to set a board across right here, 190 00:08:57,275 --> 00:08:58,965 at least to get to the shallow side. 191 00:09:01,724 --> 00:09:02,689 Think it'll reach? 192 00:09:03,689 --> 00:09:04,758 [Paul] It's gonna be close. 193 00:09:16,103 --> 00:09:18,000 That's a lot of rock that got moved. 194 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,793 [Kayla] Well, we're gonna have to go look at it. See what we can do. 195 00:09:21,793 --> 00:09:25,034 This is the last chance that we have to see hornbill before we have to leave. 196 00:09:32,413 --> 00:09:34,482 Holy cow! It ripped these boulders out. 197 00:09:35,310 --> 00:09:38,310 [Paul] We almost lost our dive tin. 198 00:09:38,310 --> 00:09:40,965 If it would've stayed anymore, we would've lost all of this. 199 00:09:42,275 --> 00:09:43,551 [Paul] Man. 200 00:09:43,551 --> 00:09:46,137 Look at the boulders. We had a eight foot hole right here. 201 00:09:47,482 --> 00:09:49,000 [narrator] Before the storm, 202 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:52,310 Kayla's crew had made it down to the gold 203 00:09:52,310 --> 00:09:55,965 and were inches away from the fabled four-ounce nuggets. 204 00:09:57,103 --> 00:09:58,241 [Paul] We were on bedrock, 205 00:09:58,793 --> 00:10:00,000 and... 206 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,000 Now what I'm looking at right when we were diving, 207 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,172 it looks like a boulder field. 208 00:10:05,896 --> 00:10:07,482 [Kayla] All that hard work that we did... 209 00:10:08,517 --> 00:10:10,482 basically just got erased. 210 00:10:10,482 --> 00:10:11,896 We were following the bedrock 211 00:10:11,896 --> 00:10:14,448 and every day, for six days in a row, we got gold. 212 00:10:15,482 --> 00:10:16,793 But now, 213 00:10:16,793 --> 00:10:19,586 we have to start completely over to get back to that pay streak. 214 00:10:33,206 --> 00:10:36,275 [Paul] That's some big [bleep] boulders. 215 00:10:36,275 --> 00:10:39,586 [narrator] After the typhoon filled their plunge pool with boulders... 216 00:10:39,586 --> 00:10:41,482 -[Paul] Aw! -[Kayla] That's depressing 217 00:10:41,482 --> 00:10:43,034 'cause we were getting gold every day. 218 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,551 [narrator] ...Kayla's crew prepare to fight back. 219 00:10:47,482 --> 00:10:49,448 We have to get back to that pay streak. 220 00:10:51,793 --> 00:10:53,551 There's a crack in the bedrock. 221 00:10:54,172 --> 00:10:55,793 [Paul] That's a good sign. 222 00:10:55,793 --> 00:10:59,068 [narrator] Last week, in a plunge pool on the bedrock... 223 00:10:59,068 --> 00:11:00,896 This is exciting. 224 00:11:00,896 --> 00:11:03,758 [narrator] ...they started cleaning out the perfect gold trap. 225 00:11:04,413 --> 00:11:05,896 [Paul] We're on the gold streak. 226 00:11:05,896 --> 00:11:07,379 This could be our best season ever. 227 00:11:08,793 --> 00:11:10,068 [Kayla] Get those generators fired up 228 00:11:10,068 --> 00:11:12,068 and see if we can get those winches working. 229 00:11:13,103 --> 00:11:16,275 [Paul] This winch definitely went underwater. 230 00:11:16,275 --> 00:11:18,103 [Kayla] We're not gonna be able to move all these boulders. 231 00:11:18,103 --> 00:11:20,758 Pretty much, if don't have winches, we're at a standstill. 232 00:11:21,586 --> 00:11:23,586 It's drawing power. 233 00:11:23,586 --> 00:11:24,862 [Paul] But it's not moving. 234 00:11:27,413 --> 00:11:29,206 [narrator] If they can fix the winch, 235 00:11:29,206 --> 00:11:32,793 they can re-dig the plunge pool in just days, 236 00:11:32,793 --> 00:11:36,137 and uncover a pile of nuggets worth millions. 237 00:11:37,206 --> 00:11:38,172 [machine whirring] 238 00:11:38,172 --> 00:11:40,000 So there's grit coming out of the motor. 239 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,172 That's the only thing that's not sealed up, is the motor. 240 00:11:43,310 --> 00:11:45,206 So that's where we're locked up. 241 00:11:45,206 --> 00:11:48,068 I'm gonna see if I can spray every bearing down. 242 00:11:48,068 --> 00:11:50,206 If we can get it to free up and spin, 243 00:11:50,206 --> 00:11:51,275 we'll have a usable winch. 244 00:11:51,965 --> 00:11:53,275 [machine whirring] 245 00:11:55,586 --> 00:11:56,862 [Paul] Sounds rough, but... 246 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,034 It is working. 247 00:12:00,482 --> 00:12:02,000 [Kayla] I think this is gonna be a turning point. 248 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,206 This will hopefully save our season. 249 00:12:04,206 --> 00:12:07,482 Equipment wise, we're not sitting too bad. 250 00:12:07,482 --> 00:12:09,137 Our dredges seem to be okay. 251 00:12:10,103 --> 00:12:13,034 However... our diversion wall got completely... 252 00:12:13,482 --> 00:12:15,482 annihilated. 253 00:12:15,482 --> 00:12:19,103 But none of us are quitters and we're gonna do the job. 254 00:12:19,103 --> 00:12:22,862 If you wanna just, kind of, create, like, a little curve dam. 255 00:12:23,310 --> 00:12:24,482 [Justin] Okay. 256 00:12:24,482 --> 00:12:26,137 [Kayla] We just need somewhere calm to float the dredge. 257 00:12:31,482 --> 00:12:33,689 [narrator] While Justin rebuilds the dam... 258 00:12:33,689 --> 00:12:35,344 I see all our umbilicals are... 259 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:37,689 all buried. 260 00:12:37,689 --> 00:12:42,206 [narrator] ...Kayla and Paul need to free their buried equipment. 261 00:12:42,206 --> 00:12:44,586 We already know that the gold is about eight feet deep. 262 00:12:44,586 --> 00:12:47,310 Without airlines and without communications, 263 00:12:47,310 --> 00:12:49,103 and without their hot water lines, 264 00:12:49,103 --> 00:12:50,482 we can't get to that depth. 265 00:12:50,482 --> 00:12:52,379 So we really need to get these out. 266 00:12:59,068 --> 00:12:59,965 [narrator] Down creek... 267 00:13:01,275 --> 00:13:03,793 Dustin's crew are in a race 268 00:13:03,793 --> 00:13:06,896 to salvage their storm-battered dredge. 269 00:13:06,896 --> 00:13:08,275 [James] And now we can try to get the engine out. 270 00:13:08,275 --> 00:13:09,482 [Carlos] Just put it over here. 271 00:13:09,482 --> 00:13:10,379 Out of the way. 272 00:13:11,068 --> 00:13:12,034 [Carlos grunts] 273 00:13:13,172 --> 00:13:14,896 [Wes] We need some pay this year. 274 00:13:14,896 --> 00:13:19,172 So we're gonna keep pushing and try to get our dredge back in the water. 275 00:13:20,586 --> 00:13:22,689 This is the lifeline of our dredge. 276 00:13:22,689 --> 00:13:25,689 I've gotta try to get... most of this, kind of, stuff out. 277 00:13:25,689 --> 00:13:28,793 This engine is just packed full of that kind of stuff right now. 278 00:13:28,793 --> 00:13:30,793 I've got to be as meticulous as I can. 279 00:13:30,793 --> 00:13:32,689 And, hopefully, we're gonna have the engines clean, 280 00:13:32,689 --> 00:13:34,206 run and ready to go. 281 00:13:34,206 --> 00:13:36,103 I will go redirect the water. 282 00:13:36,103 --> 00:13:38,482 to where we can stand in there and see what it looks like. 283 00:13:38,482 --> 00:13:40,275 James, let's go move some rock, buddy. 284 00:13:44,586 --> 00:13:46,000 [narrator] Dustin's mission... 285 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,689 block off the water raging down the shoot 286 00:13:48,689 --> 00:13:50,655 that pounds into their dive hole. 287 00:13:51,482 --> 00:13:52,482 [Dustin] All right. 288 00:13:52,482 --> 00:13:54,172 Trying to get that water to go that way 289 00:13:55,379 --> 00:13:57,551 Probably gonna get out and go move those little ones. 290 00:13:58,482 --> 00:14:00,172 Let's start by flipping this one. 291 00:14:00,586 --> 00:14:01,551 Let it go. 292 00:14:04,482 --> 00:14:06,000 [Wes] Perfect! Right where you wanted it. 293 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,137 [Dustin] Right where I wanted it. 294 00:14:08,689 --> 00:14:11,172 I'm gonna try to get this water to go that way. 295 00:14:12,793 --> 00:14:14,655 And not so much that way. 296 00:14:15,172 --> 00:14:16,793 Lower the water level here, 297 00:14:16,793 --> 00:14:19,344 to see what we've got down there and see what it looks like. 298 00:14:24,172 --> 00:14:25,068 [grunts] 299 00:14:33,103 --> 00:14:34,068 [Dustin] Is it working? 300 00:14:35,275 --> 00:14:36,103 [Carlos] Yes! 301 00:14:36,103 --> 00:14:37,448 Look how low it went. 302 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:38,965 [Dustin] Wow! 303 00:14:43,586 --> 00:14:44,448 [Carlos] You guys did it. 304 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,586 That's dredgeable right there. 305 00:14:47,586 --> 00:14:50,275 It'll be kitty litter, so we can just take out and no problem. 306 00:14:52,586 --> 00:14:55,000 [narrator] The storm surge was strong enough 307 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,000 to throw three foot rocks down the creek. 308 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,413 But the 50-ton boulder acted like a dam, 309 00:15:01,413 --> 00:15:06,689 allowing only gravel and small rocks to fill the area directly beneath it. 310 00:15:06,689 --> 00:15:11,344 Meaning they could be back to bedrock and the gold in just days. 311 00:15:13,482 --> 00:15:15,000 [James] That could be where those big... 312 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,862 four-ounce nuggets could be lurking out. 313 00:15:17,896 --> 00:15:19,379 [Dustin] It is not that deep. 314 00:15:20,206 --> 00:15:22,000 I gotta get the dredge right. 315 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,034 We gotta make it run. 316 00:15:24,586 --> 00:15:26,344 We'll just dig this out right here. 317 00:15:26,965 --> 00:15:27,965 One last hurrah. 318 00:15:28,482 --> 00:15:30,103 [James] Yeah! 319 00:15:30,103 --> 00:15:31,482 [Dustin] The guys right now... 320 00:15:31,482 --> 00:15:34,034 We started cleaning out the area that we already dug. 321 00:15:34,482 --> 00:15:36,000 We're getting after it. 322 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,862 That's not enough rock to stop us. 323 00:15:38,586 --> 00:15:39,655 We've been in worse spots. 324 00:15:40,689 --> 00:15:42,586 [narrator] But there'll be no more gold... 325 00:15:42,586 --> 00:15:44,482 So brace yourselves, folks. They're both ready to go. 326 00:15:44,482 --> 00:15:46,689 ...if they can't start the dredge motor. 327 00:15:46,689 --> 00:15:47,655 It has to work. 328 00:15:48,103 --> 00:15:50,275 Absolutely has to work. 329 00:15:51,275 --> 00:15:52,482 [engine sputters] 330 00:15:55,689 --> 00:15:57,275 [engine whirring] 331 00:15:57,275 --> 00:15:59,068 -[James] Whoo-hoo! -[Wes] I guess it'll run. 332 00:15:59,310 --> 00:16:00,689 [Wes laughs] 333 00:16:00,689 --> 00:16:02,068 -It's good, man. -All right. 334 00:16:03,413 --> 00:16:04,655 [Dustin] Back in business, baby. 335 00:16:05,793 --> 00:16:07,758 I guess when two things stop and they frickin' go, huh? 336 00:16:08,689 --> 00:16:09,793 Gold, amigo. 337 00:16:10,586 --> 00:16:13,241 That's right. Keep the power and the lights on, 338 00:16:13,586 --> 00:16:15,206 food on the table, 339 00:16:15,206 --> 00:16:16,482 clothes on your back. 340 00:16:17,068 --> 00:16:18,758 Gas in your car. 341 00:16:19,310 --> 00:16:20,655 Gold! 342 00:16:24,586 --> 00:16:27,068 [Paul] I know there's so much gravel on top of our umbilicals. 343 00:16:27,068 --> 00:16:28,655 We can't even get one of them out. 344 00:16:29,896 --> 00:16:32,379 [narrator] Four hours into Kayla's rescue operation, 345 00:16:33,586 --> 00:16:35,034 progress is stalling. 346 00:16:36,310 --> 00:16:39,689 We almost need to bring one of the motors down here with the pump 347 00:16:39,689 --> 00:16:41,862 and have to pump spraying all this dirt away. 348 00:16:43,586 --> 00:16:45,137 [Paul] That's not a bad idea. 349 00:16:46,103 --> 00:16:47,862 Just see if we can wash our umbilicals out. 350 00:16:48,172 --> 00:16:50,689 [engine whirring] 351 00:16:50,689 --> 00:16:52,551 Well, faster than hand digging. 352 00:16:53,689 --> 00:16:54,655 It's working. 353 00:16:55,689 --> 00:16:57,137 We got one free umbilical. 354 00:16:57,482 --> 00:16:59,000 [Kayla] Nice. 355 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,655 [narrator] If they can free their equipment, 356 00:17:01,586 --> 00:17:03,482 and resurrect the dam, 357 00:17:03,482 --> 00:17:06,068 they'll buy themselves one last shot... 358 00:17:06,068 --> 00:17:07,000 -[Paul] Yeah. -[Kayla laughs] 359 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:08,586 ...at Nugget Creek glory. 360 00:17:08,586 --> 00:17:09,655 That's what I'm talking about. 361 00:17:10,586 --> 00:17:13,103 [Kayla] Dang! This one's not cooperating. 362 00:17:13,103 --> 00:17:14,586 We could go get the blaster. 363 00:17:14,586 --> 00:17:16,482 Last ditch effort to get the umbilical. 364 00:17:17,586 --> 00:17:18,655 -[Kayla laughs] -When in doubt, 365 00:17:19,482 --> 00:17:20,550 blow some [bleep] up. 366 00:17:22,310 --> 00:17:23,550 All right. Locked and loaded. 367 00:17:24,689 --> 00:17:25,689 [Kayla] Fire in the hole. 368 00:17:25,689 --> 00:17:28,275 Three, two, one. 369 00:17:28,275 --> 00:17:29,172 [explodes] 370 00:17:29,586 --> 00:17:30,482 [Paul] Oh, yeah! 371 00:17:30,896 --> 00:17:33,000 [Kayla] Oh, boy! 372 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,655 -[Paul] Really? -[Kayla] It's coming out now. 373 00:17:35,103 --> 00:17:36,034 [Paul] Yeah. Yeah. 374 00:17:36,586 --> 00:17:37,551 We got it. 375 00:17:37,793 --> 00:17:38,655 Finally. 376 00:17:39,310 --> 00:17:41,689 [Paul] Holy [bleep]! 377 00:17:41,689 --> 00:17:44,862 [Kayla] That was a lot more labor intensive than I thought it was gonna be. 378 00:17:45,103 --> 00:17:46,068 [Paul] Oh, man. 379 00:17:47,068 --> 00:17:48,482 Now we're ready to go. 380 00:17:48,482 --> 00:17:50,034 We got our winches working. 381 00:17:51,689 --> 00:17:53,379 Looks like our dam's coming back together. 382 00:17:53,379 --> 00:17:54,655 We got all of our umbilicals. 383 00:17:57,482 --> 00:18:00,137 The weather definitely hasn't been our friend this season. 384 00:18:00,862 --> 00:18:03,206 And this creek has a nasty attitude. 385 00:18:03,206 --> 00:18:05,034 So hopefully that holds out. 386 00:18:06,206 --> 00:18:07,862 And we can get the dredge back in the water 387 00:18:07,862 --> 00:18:09,862 and hopefully we can get back to where we left off. 388 00:18:12,482 --> 00:18:14,068 [thunder rumbling] 389 00:18:16,206 --> 00:18:18,103 [narrator] But right on queue, 390 00:18:18,103 --> 00:18:22,068 the curse of Nugget Creek rears its ugly head. 391 00:18:22,965 --> 00:18:24,689 [Dustin] There is another storm coming in. 392 00:18:24,689 --> 00:18:27,310 We cannot leave this [bleep] like this. 393 00:18:27,310 --> 00:18:29,206 -Tools can't be left out. -[Carlos] Sure. Sure. 394 00:18:29,206 --> 00:18:32,000 This needs to be tied off better than it was before. 395 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,482 -You got this? -[Carlos and James] Got it. 396 00:18:35,793 --> 00:18:38,344 We're getting ready for another flood. Come on, already. 397 00:18:43,310 --> 00:18:44,655 Oh, water's already come up. 398 00:18:47,689 --> 00:18:49,034 [Paul] It's coming up quick. 399 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,655 -Do y'all need help with anything? -[Carlos] Uh... 400 00:18:52,689 --> 00:18:55,068 -Take out that winch, man. -All right. 401 00:18:55,068 --> 00:18:56,655 The rain's not stopping, so... 402 00:18:58,793 --> 00:19:02,103 We could do only what we could do and hope for the best and... 403 00:19:02,103 --> 00:19:05,931 If this all blows over we may have an opportunity to get in the water and... 404 00:19:07,793 --> 00:19:08,965 try to get some gold, but... 405 00:19:09,586 --> 00:19:11,034 Right now, it's just a struggle. 406 00:19:13,413 --> 00:19:15,655 [Dustin] So we gotta move this dredge to a safe spot. 407 00:19:16,275 --> 00:19:18,896 I got these a capstan, dude. 408 00:19:18,896 --> 00:19:21,241 [Paul] Nobody can afford to lose any more equipment right now. 409 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 And here we go again with this [bleep] weather. 410 00:19:26,103 --> 00:19:27,241 Non-stop. 411 00:19:37,862 --> 00:19:39,551 [thunder rumbling] 412 00:19:48,379 --> 00:19:50,172 [Dustin] What's the chances of us 413 00:19:50,172 --> 00:19:53,241 getting ahold of a steep, steep, crazy claim 414 00:19:54,172 --> 00:19:58,034 and it'd be in the rainiest season of 100 years? 415 00:19:58,034 --> 00:20:01,034 Anybody else would've just quit long time ago. 416 00:20:01,034 --> 00:20:03,241 [Dustin] We have to find some gold to start paying for this. 417 00:20:03,965 --> 00:20:05,000 We can't afford not to. 418 00:20:06,482 --> 00:20:07,896 [narrator] Overnight, 419 00:20:09,896 --> 00:20:14,724 another storm has dumped four inches of rain into Nugget Creek. 420 00:20:16,655 --> 00:20:18,965 I know we are all... tired. 421 00:20:18,965 --> 00:20:23,344 Some, sort of, hope is necessary for this to continue right now. 422 00:20:29,482 --> 00:20:31,689 [Wes] Been having all these floods, so, 423 00:20:31,689 --> 00:20:33,896 you know, we haven't been getting to dredge as much as we want to. 424 00:20:33,896 --> 00:20:36,034 I'm gonna go ahead and process everything we got now. 425 00:20:36,034 --> 00:20:38,034 And hopefully this will cheer everybody up a little bit 426 00:20:38,034 --> 00:20:39,862 because we should have some decent gold in here. 427 00:20:40,689 --> 00:20:43,482 [suspenseful music playing] 428 00:20:43,482 --> 00:20:45,172 It's definitely been a trying year this year, 429 00:20:45,172 --> 00:20:47,103 but we've got good gold sitting in the box, 430 00:20:47,103 --> 00:20:48,379 we know it's here. 431 00:20:48,379 --> 00:20:49,586 That's our hope right now, 432 00:20:49,586 --> 00:20:51,655 it's what we have sitting in the sluice box. 433 00:20:52,896 --> 00:20:55,034 It's going prompt everybody to wanna keep going 434 00:20:55,034 --> 00:20:56,758 till the bitter end. 435 00:20:57,379 --> 00:20:59,103 Hey, guys, check this out. 436 00:20:59,103 --> 00:21:01,275 I just got this cleaned up for the most part, 437 00:21:01,275 --> 00:21:03,862 it's ready to get knocked out and pan now. 438 00:21:03,862 --> 00:21:06,034 -Not too bad. -[laughs heartily] 439 00:21:06,034 --> 00:21:08,172 -I mean, for the-- -[Carlos] That is gorgeous, dude! 440 00:21:08,172 --> 00:21:09,724 Look at that, look at this piece. 441 00:21:10,965 --> 00:21:12,275 [Wes] There is some nice gold in there. 442 00:21:12,275 --> 00:21:14,862 [Carlos] That is some awesome pieces, man. 443 00:21:18,448 --> 00:21:19,344 [James] Look at that. 444 00:21:21,172 --> 00:21:23,103 Is that a good picture or what? 445 00:21:25,034 --> 00:21:26,655 Look at this. 446 00:21:26,655 --> 00:21:29,172 This is just the chunky stuff, it's not all of it. 447 00:21:29,172 --> 00:21:30,689 So... 448 00:21:30,689 --> 00:21:32,689 -Take a look at that. -[all] Ooh! 449 00:21:32,689 --> 00:21:34,482 Look at the size of those pieces in there. 450 00:21:34,482 --> 00:21:36,241 [Dustin] Yeah, those are some big pieces, man. 451 00:21:36,793 --> 00:21:37,931 [James] That's heavy gold. 452 00:21:38,862 --> 00:21:40,862 [Dustin] There's a clay layer underneath. 453 00:21:40,862 --> 00:21:42,862 Soon as we get in that, we'll get big nuggets. 454 00:21:44,551 --> 00:21:46,379 -That was just scratching the surface. -[James] Yeah, we're just-- 455 00:21:46,379 --> 00:21:48,862 -we're just getting started. Yeah. -[Carlos] Yeah. 456 00:21:48,862 --> 00:21:50,551 [James] Seeing gold like this 457 00:21:50,551 --> 00:21:53,241 in only small amount of dives, 458 00:21:53,689 --> 00:21:54,965 is driving me crazy. 459 00:21:57,586 --> 00:21:58,965 [Dustin] Soon as the flood goes away, 460 00:21:58,965 --> 00:22:00,551 you guys are wanting to go back up 461 00:22:00,551 --> 00:22:02,172 and give this another shot, right? 462 00:22:02,172 --> 00:22:03,379 -[James] Go assess it. -[Wes] Yes. 463 00:22:03,379 --> 00:22:04,689 [Carlos] One more chance. 464 00:22:04,689 --> 00:22:07,482 All hands on deck, we would really kill it. 465 00:22:07,482 --> 00:22:09,034 -Okay. -[James] I'm down for that. 466 00:22:09,034 --> 00:22:10,862 We just gotta wait for this flood to 467 00:22:10,862 --> 00:22:12,448 just run its course and then 468 00:22:12,448 --> 00:22:13,448 go hit it hard, and... 469 00:22:13,862 --> 00:22:14,827 I'm gonna tell you, 470 00:22:15,551 --> 00:22:17,965 this might be our last shot. 471 00:22:17,965 --> 00:22:20,379 [Dustin] This might be the life-changing event 472 00:22:20,379 --> 00:22:21,931 that we're all looking for. 473 00:22:27,689 --> 00:22:29,655 [narrator] As quickly as it came in, 474 00:22:30,172 --> 00:22:32,551 the latest storm has passed. 475 00:22:33,448 --> 00:22:35,172 Opening the door for the crews 476 00:22:35,172 --> 00:22:37,551 to return to the site, 477 00:22:37,551 --> 00:22:39,758 and see what their future holds. 478 00:22:40,965 --> 00:22:41,931 Wow. 479 00:22:43,862 --> 00:22:44,931 This chain's [bleep]. 480 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,172 Look at our basket. 481 00:22:48,172 --> 00:22:50,551 [Justin] I mean, that basket was in the air, right? 482 00:22:50,551 --> 00:22:51,827 [Kayla chuckles] Full of rocks! 483 00:22:52,758 --> 00:22:53,965 [Ryan] Yeah. 484 00:22:55,275 --> 00:22:56,551 [Kayla] It's flooded. 485 00:22:56,862 --> 00:22:58,034 Um, 486 00:22:58,034 --> 00:22:59,517 our dredge is upside down. 487 00:23:04,275 --> 00:23:05,172 [Kayla] That's not good. 488 00:23:05,758 --> 00:23:07,689 [Paul] This is devastating. 489 00:23:07,689 --> 00:23:10,482 At this point, I'm sick and tired of restarting, 490 00:23:10,482 --> 00:23:12,689 with hardly anything to show for it. 491 00:23:12,689 --> 00:23:14,551 This [bleep] getting old. 492 00:23:15,655 --> 00:23:17,758 [Paul] That's gotta be pretty violent right here. 493 00:23:17,758 --> 00:23:20,275 [Ryan] It just about broke that motor off. 494 00:23:20,275 --> 00:23:23,103 That bracket is just barely hanging on. 495 00:23:23,103 --> 00:23:26,379 [Kayla] First thing we need is get this [bleep] flipped back over. 496 00:23:26,379 --> 00:23:28,172 -It might be easier to flip it this way-- -That way? 497 00:23:28,172 --> 00:23:30,551 -And then pull it this way, and flip it all the way? -Yeah. 498 00:23:30,551 --> 00:23:33,275 [clanking] 499 00:23:33,275 --> 00:23:35,172 [Paul] We had our dredges ready to go back in the water 500 00:23:35,172 --> 00:23:36,689 we dug our umbilicals back out, 501 00:23:36,689 --> 00:23:38,241 we had everything ready to go. 502 00:23:39,379 --> 00:23:41,448 And then we got hit again. 503 00:23:42,172 --> 00:23:43,448 It's not looking good. 504 00:23:44,172 --> 00:23:45,689 [Ryan] Oh wow. 505 00:23:45,689 --> 00:23:48,862 -Remember that big old pile-- -No, it took the whole corner of that off! 506 00:23:48,862 --> 00:23:50,620 -[Justin] Yeah. -[Ryan] That whole corner's gone. 507 00:23:52,586 --> 00:23:54,896 [narrator] The end of the season looming, 508 00:23:54,896 --> 00:23:57,103 Kayla faces a critical decision. 509 00:23:59,758 --> 00:24:01,448 [Kayla] Our side got wiped out. 510 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,275 There's so much new material, it would take forever 511 00:24:06,275 --> 00:24:07,551 to move it out the way. 512 00:24:07,551 --> 00:24:08,655 So, 513 00:24:08,655 --> 00:24:10,965 I don't see us recovering this time. 514 00:24:10,965 --> 00:24:12,000 [dredge thudding] 515 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:14,586 Trying to start over, 516 00:24:14,586 --> 00:24:16,000 it feels like a waste of time. 517 00:24:16,482 --> 00:24:17,862 Yup. 518 00:24:17,862 --> 00:24:20,448 [Ryan] The way the temperature's changing, the weather's changing, 519 00:24:20,448 --> 00:24:22,379 we're going to have to call it quits here. 520 00:24:22,379 --> 00:24:24,482 [Kayla] Yeah, we just need to get our site cleaned up, 521 00:24:24,482 --> 00:24:26,172 then we can go help them. 522 00:24:27,103 --> 00:24:28,862 [Ryan] The only thing we can do right now, 523 00:24:28,862 --> 00:24:29,862 go help Dustin, 524 00:24:29,862 --> 00:24:31,482 see if we can get some divers in the water, 525 00:24:31,482 --> 00:24:33,896 help them move some rock, and see if we can find some more gold. 526 00:24:33,896 --> 00:24:36,068 [thrilling instrumental music playing] 527 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,448 [Carlos] Holy moly! 528 00:24:42,896 --> 00:24:44,448 What's holding it up? 529 00:24:45,482 --> 00:24:46,931 [James] That chain! 530 00:24:47,965 --> 00:24:49,241 [narrator] At Dustin's site, 531 00:24:50,586 --> 00:24:53,172 mining beneath the 50-ton boulder, 532 00:24:53,172 --> 00:24:55,862 just got a lot more dangerous. 533 00:24:55,862 --> 00:24:58,172 We're worried about this rock coming down. 534 00:24:58,172 --> 00:25:00,068 [Dustin] It busted all the bolts loose, 535 00:25:00,068 --> 00:25:03,344 and all the chains and it loosened all the cable clamps. 536 00:25:04,758 --> 00:25:06,103 [narrator] Two weeks ago... 537 00:25:06,103 --> 00:25:07,000 [man] Ooh [bleep]! 538 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,758 This thing could fall 539 00:25:08,758 --> 00:25:10,275 if you dig underneath it. 540 00:25:10,275 --> 00:25:13,482 [narrator] Fred declared the 50-ton boulder a death trap. 541 00:25:13,482 --> 00:25:15,586 [Fred] Total disaster waiting to happen. 542 00:25:15,586 --> 00:25:16,896 [drilling] 543 00:25:16,896 --> 00:25:18,965 [narrator] To protect the divers working beneath it... 544 00:25:18,965 --> 00:25:21,758 Gonna look like Frankenstein's stitches across here! 545 00:25:22,689 --> 00:25:25,586 ...he used chains and 12-inch bolts 546 00:25:25,586 --> 00:25:28,172 to secure the 50-ton monster. 547 00:25:28,172 --> 00:25:31,482 Hopefully it lessens the chance of this big-ass [bleep] 548 00:25:31,482 --> 00:25:32,655 dropping off of here. 549 00:25:34,275 --> 00:25:37,034 [narrator] Now, half have come loose, 550 00:25:37,034 --> 00:25:39,827 and some have already broken. 551 00:25:40,379 --> 00:25:41,344 [Dustin] So look what I did. 552 00:25:42,275 --> 00:25:43,896 [James] Yeah. 553 00:25:43,896 --> 00:25:45,965 -[Dustin] This is the most impressive, though. -[James] That's definitely... 554 00:25:45,965 --> 00:25:48,379 -[James] Yeah. Yeah! -[Dustin] It backed off the nut. 555 00:25:48,379 --> 00:25:50,034 That means that it had to hit one side of it 556 00:25:50,034 --> 00:25:51,758 over and over until it's spun it off. 557 00:25:51,758 --> 00:25:54,275 They've been beaten to death by rocks. 558 00:25:54,275 --> 00:25:56,931 They went underwater and got pulverized. 559 00:25:58,275 --> 00:26:00,862 -We got ourselves into a bad situation... -[laughing] 560 00:26:00,862 --> 00:26:03,448 -...is what happened. -Yeah. No [bleep], right? 561 00:26:05,103 --> 00:26:07,275 [Dustin] Stressed out of my damn mind. 562 00:26:07,275 --> 00:26:11,068 I need one of you to tell me that we can dig this. 563 00:26:11,862 --> 00:26:13,551 Yeah, we can dig this, huh, James? 564 00:26:14,275 --> 00:26:15,586 I think we can dig this. 565 00:26:15,586 --> 00:26:16,793 Yup. 566 00:26:16,793 --> 00:26:18,896 We can definitely give it a shot. 567 00:26:18,896 --> 00:26:20,965 We'll just dig this out right here. 568 00:26:20,965 --> 00:26:23,793 What we're doing right now is to not accepting failure. 569 00:26:23,793 --> 00:26:26,655 Pursuing our frickin' dream 570 00:26:26,655 --> 00:26:27,758 of this year, of... 571 00:26:28,758 --> 00:26:29,758 getting gold. 572 00:26:30,758 --> 00:26:32,103 [Dustin] We're getting after it. 573 00:26:32,103 --> 00:26:33,551 And we're gonna keep going where we were. 574 00:26:34,379 --> 00:26:35,862 Wasn't a lot of gold yet, 575 00:26:35,862 --> 00:26:38,103 but it was about to be, and... 576 00:26:38,103 --> 00:26:39,241 we're going to dig it up. 577 00:26:40,448 --> 00:26:44,000 I want life-changing gold. Going for broke. 578 00:26:47,275 --> 00:26:49,034 [water bubbling] 579 00:26:50,655 --> 00:26:52,862 [thrilling instrumental music playing] 580 00:26:54,241 --> 00:26:56,655 Your mission, if you choose to accept it, 581 00:26:56,655 --> 00:26:58,379 we're gonna make a wall right here. 582 00:26:58,379 --> 00:27:01,275 [Dustin] Drag that dredge over the top of it, start it up, 583 00:27:01,275 --> 00:27:03,896 getting the damn water up here, all right? 584 00:27:03,896 --> 00:27:06,379 [narrator] For a final shot at the gold 585 00:27:06,379 --> 00:27:08,896 locked beneath the killer boulder... 586 00:27:08,896 --> 00:27:11,068 We're gonna raise the water level, 587 00:27:11,068 --> 00:27:13,000 get the dredge back in place. 588 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,000 [narrator] Dustin's crew must recover and float their dredge 589 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,896 from where it landed 80 feet down creek. 590 00:27:19,896 --> 00:27:23,034 [Dustin] All right, Carlos, in preparation for this to actually work. 591 00:27:23,689 --> 00:27:24,620 Okay. 592 00:27:26,068 --> 00:27:27,241 We'll put a come along up 593 00:27:27,793 --> 00:27:29,793 onto one of these pulleys. 594 00:27:29,793 --> 00:27:32,000 And we're gonna pull it up high enough, hopefully 595 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,551 to where we can drag it up with the capstan. 596 00:27:35,551 --> 00:27:37,517 -All right? -Yup, gotcha. 597 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,000 [narrator] Dustin's plan. 598 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,862 Use a come along to raise the dredge above the raging creek. 599 00:27:45,793 --> 00:27:48,655 Then with a single capstan lynch, 600 00:27:48,655 --> 00:27:50,448 mounted on "big ass" boulder, 601 00:27:51,655 --> 00:27:54,965 haul the dredge 80 feet back up to the dive site, 602 00:27:56,275 --> 00:28:00,068 so they can dredge beneath the deadly boulder, 603 00:28:00,068 --> 00:28:03,620 in a final attempt to get down to bedrock gold. 604 00:28:05,896 --> 00:28:06,965 Come on! 605 00:28:08,068 --> 00:28:10,517 It's like I'm carrying a spaghetti dinner, man! 606 00:28:12,241 --> 00:28:15,689 We've got so much invested into this place, 607 00:28:15,689 --> 00:28:17,448 it has to work. 608 00:28:17,448 --> 00:28:19,655 -[Ryan] We're going to tie the capstan it up here? -[Carlos] Yeah. 609 00:28:19,655 --> 00:28:21,275 Right there to that pull, right there! 610 00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:23,689 -Down below. Yup. -To that one? All right. 611 00:28:23,689 --> 00:28:24,655 I'll give you guys a hand. 612 00:28:26,137 --> 00:28:29,068 -Appreciate it, bro. -Hell yeah. 613 00:28:29,068 --> 00:28:30,793 Time is of the essence right now. 614 00:28:30,793 --> 00:28:33,448 [James] We got Wes working on the dredge, 615 00:28:34,241 --> 00:28:37,448 Carlos working on the capstan winch, 616 00:28:37,448 --> 00:28:39,551 I'm working on building a weir, 617 00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:41,241 we're going to give it a last shot. 618 00:28:43,793 --> 00:28:45,448 -You want more? -[James] Yeah. 619 00:28:45,448 --> 00:28:47,172 -I wanna get to the middle. -[Dustin] Yup. 620 00:28:47,172 --> 00:28:48,793 -All right. Ready? -[James] Okay, yup. 621 00:28:48,793 --> 00:28:50,793 So I think we should go that way, right? 622 00:28:50,793 --> 00:28:52,172 -Yeah. -Straight-- Which way are you going? 623 00:28:52,172 --> 00:28:53,793 [Dustin] Oh, hold on, hold on, hold on. 624 00:28:53,793 --> 00:28:55,896 -[James grunting] -[water splashing] 625 00:28:55,896 --> 00:28:58,137 -[Dustin] Maybe just leave it right there? -[groans softly] 626 00:28:58,137 --> 00:28:59,379 [James] It's not bad. 627 00:28:59,379 --> 00:29:00,862 Got it almost waist deep, 628 00:29:01,172 --> 00:29:03,275 in a half hour. 629 00:29:03,275 --> 00:29:04,689 [Ryan] It looks light, don't it? 630 00:29:04,689 --> 00:29:06,379 -Without the engines and stuff? -Yeah, it's light. 631 00:29:06,379 --> 00:29:08,344 -It's... It's gonna go real quick. -Nice. 632 00:29:08,344 --> 00:29:10,344 Trying to get it flat like a regular rig, 633 00:29:11,275 --> 00:29:13,551 it's gonna run into everything. 634 00:29:13,551 --> 00:29:16,000 Try to make it into a wheelie. 635 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,137 [narrator] To keep the nose of the dredge from snagging rocks... 636 00:29:19,137 --> 00:29:20,896 [Dustin] Somebody has to be brave! 637 00:29:20,896 --> 00:29:23,241 [narrator] ...Dustin will need to be on the dredge 638 00:29:23,241 --> 00:29:26,448 to adjust the tension on the come along. 639 00:29:26,448 --> 00:29:28,896 -Whoo! -Hey, buddy! 640 00:29:28,896 --> 00:29:31,586 -Hell yeah. -[Dustin] This remind you of anything? 641 00:29:31,586 --> 00:29:34,344 -[Ryan laughing] You're not gonna go very far. -[laughing] 642 00:29:36,379 --> 00:29:39,655 -[Wes] All right, I'm a try to stay clear from this. -[Dustin] Go for a ride! 643 00:29:39,655 --> 00:29:41,862 -[Wes] You ready? -[Dustin] I think so. 644 00:29:42,586 --> 00:29:44,379 [Wes] Cutting her loose. 645 00:29:44,379 --> 00:29:46,241 [Dustin] Watch yourself, don't get caught. 646 00:29:46,241 --> 00:29:48,896 -[Ryan] Do you like it? -[Dustin] I don't know. 647 00:29:48,896 --> 00:29:51,000 If it gets caught in that water, I'm gonna be in trouble. 648 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,310 [Ryan laughs heartily] 649 00:29:52,586 --> 00:29:53,965 Here we go! 650 00:29:54,896 --> 00:29:56,137 -[clanking] -[James] It's going now. 651 00:29:56,896 --> 00:29:58,000 Whoo! 652 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,275 -[dredge starting] -[all] Whoo! Whoo-hoo! 653 00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:00,413 [Ryan] Let's go cowboy! 654 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:02,655 [Ryan laughs heartily] 655 00:30:04,137 --> 00:30:06,137 -[Ryan] Whoo-hoo! -[all] Yeah! 656 00:30:06,137 --> 00:30:08,172 -Cha! Cha! -[men cheering] Yeah! 657 00:30:08,172 --> 00:30:09,551 Get up that river! 658 00:30:09,551 --> 00:30:11,655 -[all cheering] Let's go! -[clanking] 659 00:30:11,655 --> 00:30:13,172 [Dustin laughs] Ooh, ooh, holy [bleep]! 660 00:30:13,172 --> 00:30:15,000 This feels weird! 661 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,103 All right. 662 00:30:17,379 --> 00:30:19,551 -[clanking] -That's still pretty good right there. 663 00:30:19,551 --> 00:30:20,551 I like that. 664 00:30:21,068 --> 00:30:22,862 -[Dustin] Tie it off! -Oh! 665 00:30:23,793 --> 00:30:26,068 Tied it off! Got it! Tie it off. 666 00:30:27,379 --> 00:30:30,275 -We figured it'd be easier to get up-- -Whoa! 667 00:30:30,275 --> 00:30:31,379 [yells nervously] 668 00:30:31,379 --> 00:30:32,586 [Carlos] You got-- [bleep] 669 00:30:32,586 --> 00:30:34,689 [Dustin laughing maniacally] 670 00:30:34,689 --> 00:30:36,068 [Wes] You can't let go of it! 671 00:30:37,482 --> 00:30:38,793 There we go, ready? 672 00:30:38,793 --> 00:30:40,620 -[engine revving] -[Dustin] Hang on! 673 00:30:42,448 --> 00:30:44,275 Do I have... Whoa, whoa, whoa! 674 00:30:44,275 --> 00:30:46,068 -Tie it off! -[Dustin] I love it. 675 00:30:46,896 --> 00:30:48,344 [cackling] 676 00:30:48,344 --> 00:30:50,517 That felt weird. [laughs nervously] 677 00:30:51,172 --> 00:30:53,068 That was a weird ride. 678 00:30:53,068 --> 00:30:55,172 [James] I thought I'd seen it all. 679 00:30:55,172 --> 00:30:56,517 That was great. 680 00:30:56,793 --> 00:30:57,965 It works. 681 00:31:00,793 --> 00:31:03,448 [Dustin] I don't know what we can get done but, 682 00:31:03,448 --> 00:31:07,206 my goal is to get this dredge in the water, running, 683 00:31:07,689 --> 00:31:09,344 and dredging up there. 684 00:31:09,344 --> 00:31:11,068 I mean, we're free to come give you guys a hand, 685 00:31:11,068 --> 00:31:12,896 so we can just hit this as hard as we can 686 00:31:12,896 --> 00:31:14,068 and see what we can get. 687 00:31:14,068 --> 00:31:15,586 [Dustin] See you guys are done? 688 00:31:15,586 --> 00:31:17,551 At your site? Like... 689 00:31:17,551 --> 00:31:19,655 You're not gonna dig there anymore? 690 00:31:19,655 --> 00:31:22,172 It'll take us a week just to get set up. 691 00:31:22,172 --> 00:31:24,068 -[Ryan] Yup. -I think we're in a pretty good shape 692 00:31:24,068 --> 00:31:26,448 if we could get some more help, we can get somewhere here. 693 00:31:26,448 --> 00:31:29,448 -[Wes] Yeah. That sounds like a good idea. -Last push. 694 00:31:29,448 --> 00:31:31,275 We're down in the bedrock to here. 695 00:31:31,275 --> 00:31:33,655 It'd be nice to just keep punching left 696 00:31:33,655 --> 00:31:34,793 out to the center. 697 00:31:34,793 --> 00:31:36,655 -We know there's gold here. -Yeah. 698 00:31:36,655 --> 00:31:39,586 -Absolutely. -[Dustin] Absolutely gold here. 699 00:31:39,586 --> 00:31:41,793 -[Ryan chuckling] -Let's finish what we started 700 00:31:41,793 --> 00:31:42,793 and let's get to it, 701 00:31:42,793 --> 00:31:44,413 -all right? -[Wes] Yeah. Sounds like a plan. 702 00:31:45,379 --> 00:31:48,000 [Dustin] I wanna dredge today, not tomorrow, 703 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,137 not next week, 704 00:31:49,137 --> 00:31:51,689 it's supposed to rain again, so... 705 00:31:51,689 --> 00:31:53,655 -see what's underneath this rock. -[rock thudding] 706 00:31:53,655 --> 00:31:55,172 I don't want to spend the entire winter 707 00:31:55,172 --> 00:31:58,137 wondering what's underneath there, and we need the gold. 708 00:31:58,137 --> 00:32:00,137 Man, do we need the gold. 709 00:32:00,137 --> 00:32:02,068 [Carlos] I don't know how much time we got left. 710 00:32:02,068 --> 00:32:04,137 And we're gonna make all... 711 00:32:04,137 --> 00:32:06,448 frickin' use out of this time. 712 00:32:06,448 --> 00:32:08,689 Get that hose on the front of this thing. 713 00:32:08,689 --> 00:32:09,655 [indistinct] Steady! 714 00:32:09,655 --> 00:32:11,793 [narrator] Working as a crew of seven, 715 00:32:11,793 --> 00:32:15,000 it's now a race against the freeze or floods, 716 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:17,275 to reach the pile of nuggets... 717 00:32:17,275 --> 00:32:20,551 -[drilling] -...and salvage Dustin's season. 718 00:32:20,551 --> 00:32:22,000 [Dustin] If you got enough hands, 719 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,862 you can make stuff work, and that's what's happening right now. 720 00:32:26,689 --> 00:32:28,586 This is my only plan. 721 00:32:28,586 --> 00:32:30,965 If we fail at this, I don't know what to do. 722 00:32:31,344 --> 00:32:32,620 Yup! That's it! 723 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,275 [Dustin] Got it. 724 00:32:34,275 --> 00:32:36,655 -This is gonna work right here, ain't it? -[James] Yup. 725 00:32:36,655 --> 00:32:39,241 [Dustin] All right. Let's start with the engines getting on this thing. 726 00:32:39,241 --> 00:32:40,344 [Carlos] Copy that. 727 00:32:44,448 --> 00:32:46,310 [Ryan] One step closer to get dredging. 728 00:32:47,482 --> 00:32:50,000 Soon as we get dredging, we're putting gold in the box! 729 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,206 [engine revs] 730 00:32:53,655 --> 00:32:55,655 -Yeah, boy! -Yeah, buddy! 731 00:32:56,068 --> 00:32:57,689 Back in business! 732 00:32:57,689 --> 00:32:58,655 Good. 733 00:32:59,793 --> 00:33:01,206 Yeah, looks like it's dredging. 734 00:33:02,068 --> 00:33:04,241 They're still working that hole from their bank. 735 00:33:04,655 --> 00:33:06,379 [James] Yeah! 736 00:33:06,379 --> 00:33:09,137 -I'm dredging now! -[Dustin] All right. 737 00:33:09,137 --> 00:33:12,379 [James] If I can haul ass to get us all this [bleep] out of here, 738 00:33:12,379 --> 00:33:15,275 it'll save our season and we'll get down to the gold. 739 00:33:15,275 --> 00:33:18,448 Wouldn't you say that bedrock we dug till about right here? 740 00:33:18,448 --> 00:33:20,068 -Yeah. -About right there. 741 00:33:20,068 --> 00:33:22,620 -Right here. -Now everything here that way. 742 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,275 Dig a hole, man. 743 00:33:25,275 --> 00:33:27,172 [narrator] Working in the shadow 744 00:33:27,172 --> 00:33:30,172 of the 100,000 pound widow maker... 745 00:33:30,172 --> 00:33:31,551 [Dustin] Don't hurt yourself or nothing, 746 00:33:31,551 --> 00:33:34,068 but let's see how big a hole we can make today! 747 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,379 [narrator] ...Kayla must use extreme caution 748 00:33:37,379 --> 00:33:41,068 as she removes large boulders blocking them from bedrock. 749 00:33:43,896 --> 00:33:46,000 [Kayla] So far everything seems to be going smoothly, 750 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,586 we're getting a lot done, 751 00:33:47,586 --> 00:33:51,206 hopefully this will result in us seeing more gold before the season ends. 752 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,068 [James] Nice to have Kayla's team helping us, 753 00:33:55,275 --> 00:33:56,965 so we can get down to the gold. 754 00:33:59,068 --> 00:34:01,137 [Dustin] Oh, we got the dredges running! 755 00:34:02,068 --> 00:34:04,793 James' is, uh, starting to hold off. 756 00:34:04,793 --> 00:34:06,896 [Dustin] Kayla's crew is helping. 757 00:34:06,896 --> 00:34:09,000 They're gonna start cracking rocks. 758 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,862 -Hey, guys, I'm about to do a pop! -All right! 759 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,000 [Kayla] Fire in the hole! 760 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,862 Three, two, one! 761 00:34:17,688 --> 00:34:18,655 [Ryan] Good pop! 762 00:34:18,655 --> 00:34:20,585 [narrator] Working at double speed... 763 00:34:20,585 --> 00:34:22,379 That's a good pop, holy [bleep]! 764 00:34:22,379 --> 00:34:24,275 -Whoo! -[James] Whoo! Look at that! 765 00:34:24,275 --> 00:34:27,896 [narrator] ...two crews make fast work of this storm in-fill. 766 00:34:27,896 --> 00:34:29,620 [clanging] 767 00:34:30,896 --> 00:34:32,896 -[James] I hope there's big gold in there... -[drilling] 768 00:34:32,896 --> 00:34:34,172 ...so all this can be worth it. 769 00:34:34,172 --> 00:34:36,793 -Get in the big hole! -[Ryan] Hell yeah. 770 00:34:36,793 --> 00:34:40,068 [Dustin] Part of me wishes we'd did this the whole damn season. 771 00:34:40,068 --> 00:34:41,793 We'd have butted heads a lot more, but... 772 00:34:41,793 --> 00:34:43,551 [drilling] 773 00:34:43,551 --> 00:34:47,447 ...getting a lot of work done real fast. 774 00:34:47,447 --> 00:34:49,516 [James] That's starting to look more and more eerie. 775 00:34:50,068 --> 00:34:51,137 Look at that. 776 00:34:53,241 --> 00:34:55,068 -[Dustin] Ooh! -[Ryan] That thing could fall. 777 00:34:55,068 --> 00:34:56,793 [James] Yeah, I see it too. 778 00:34:56,793 --> 00:34:58,551 [Dustin] Back up, go left. 779 00:34:58,551 --> 00:34:59,965 I don't want you underneath that [bleep]. 780 00:35:01,172 --> 00:35:03,551 Watch an eye on that. 781 00:35:03,551 --> 00:35:05,586 [Kayla] All right, fire in the hole! Three... 782 00:35:05,586 --> 00:35:07,000 two, one! 783 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,448 [explosion] 784 00:35:08,448 --> 00:35:09,896 Nice hit. 785 00:35:09,896 --> 00:35:12,068 Starting to get some depth now. 786 00:35:12,068 --> 00:35:13,965 Pretty soon, we'll be able to suit up! 787 00:35:15,379 --> 00:35:17,241 [James] Starting to look good! 788 00:35:17,241 --> 00:35:18,758 I'm gonna get so wet! 789 00:35:21,793 --> 00:35:22,965 [Carlos] Argh... That's heavy! 790 00:35:24,068 --> 00:35:24,965 [grunts] 791 00:35:30,379 --> 00:35:32,241 [Dustin] Hold on! Back up, back up! 792 00:35:32,241 --> 00:35:33,137 Oh, move! 793 00:35:33,137 --> 00:35:35,000 -[rumbling] -[all screaming] 794 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,344 -Move, move, move! Oh! -[bleep] 795 00:35:37,068 --> 00:35:38,275 [bleep] 796 00:35:38,275 --> 00:35:40,448 [grave instrumental music playing] 797 00:35:44,137 --> 00:35:46,137 [water bubbling] 798 00:35:46,137 --> 00:35:48,344 [suspenseful music playing] 799 00:35:54,689 --> 00:35:55,931 [Dustin] Nugget Creek... 800 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:58,310 There's gold here. 801 00:35:59,586 --> 00:36:01,965 There is definitely gold. 802 00:36:03,482 --> 00:36:06,862 But this Nugget Creek is not for the meek and the weak. 803 00:36:08,103 --> 00:36:11,448 This is a different, dangerous animal, 804 00:36:12,586 --> 00:36:14,655 that just don't like us. 805 00:36:20,793 --> 00:36:22,551 [birds chirping] 806 00:36:33,551 --> 00:36:35,758 [James] Starting to get some depth now. 807 00:36:35,758 --> 00:36:37,655 Pretty soon we'll be able to suit up. 808 00:36:37,655 --> 00:36:39,103 [metallic scraping of hooks] 809 00:36:39,103 --> 00:36:40,655 Starting to look good! 810 00:36:40,655 --> 00:36:41,827 [grunts] 811 00:36:47,103 --> 00:36:48,310 [Dustin] Hold on. 812 00:36:48,310 --> 00:36:49,551 -Back up, back up! -[rumbling] 813 00:36:49,551 --> 00:36:51,758 -Oh! Move! -[all screaming] 814 00:36:51,758 --> 00:36:53,965 -[bleep] -Move, move, move, move! 815 00:36:53,965 --> 00:36:54,931 Oh! 816 00:36:55,379 --> 00:36:56,379 [bleep] 817 00:36:59,586 --> 00:37:01,379 Oh, my [bleep]! 818 00:37:06,275 --> 00:37:07,931 [exhaling loudly] 819 00:37:08,551 --> 00:37:10,379 We almost got got! 820 00:37:11,379 --> 00:37:12,931 -Everybody okay, right? -Yeah. 821 00:37:15,482 --> 00:37:17,379 [Dustin] Oh, that got me shook, dude. 822 00:37:23,068 --> 00:37:26,206 [narrator] Undermined by relentless currents, 823 00:37:26,206 --> 00:37:30,448 the 50-ton boulder could have crushed Dustin's entire crew. 824 00:37:31,965 --> 00:37:34,827 Can you believe that thing fell like that? 825 00:37:35,827 --> 00:37:37,172 That went so fast. 826 00:37:42,862 --> 00:37:45,275 -[James] Look at that thing, it's terrifying. -[Wes] Wow. 827 00:37:47,379 --> 00:37:51,068 [Dustin] I just watched half of my crew almost die. 828 00:37:52,275 --> 00:37:54,586 [Wes] That would have been a permanent grave. 829 00:37:54,586 --> 00:37:56,586 That was [bleep] close, man. 830 00:37:56,586 --> 00:37:58,275 [Ryan] Out of all the [bleep] I've seen up here, 831 00:37:58,275 --> 00:38:00,517 that's probably the scariest thing I've ever seen. 832 00:38:01,344 --> 00:38:03,068 -Yeah. -I'll second that. 833 00:38:07,344 --> 00:38:10,551 -[exhales] -[Ryan] Wow. 834 00:38:10,551 --> 00:38:14,137 [Dustin] I'm gonna call in the season, that's it. We're done with this. 835 00:38:17,275 --> 00:38:18,965 [Wes] This whole season's just been 836 00:38:18,965 --> 00:38:20,896 one disaster after another. 837 00:38:20,896 --> 00:38:23,241 Today was the one to almost top them all. 838 00:38:23,862 --> 00:38:25,655 Happened so fast, it just... 839 00:38:27,758 --> 00:38:28,724 I... 840 00:38:29,586 --> 00:38:30,931 I'm lucky to be alive. 841 00:38:32,862 --> 00:38:36,724 Ahhh, blew my damn mind just now. 842 00:38:37,965 --> 00:38:39,758 [Dustin] Could have crushed every one of us 843 00:38:39,758 --> 00:38:42,620 and never had a single thought about it. 844 00:38:45,758 --> 00:38:48,000 I got a lot to process, but we're done here. 845 00:38:49,724 --> 00:38:52,827 That's a sign to leave if I've ever heard one. 846 00:38:57,586 --> 00:39:00,827 [narrator] The hardest six months of Dustin's life 847 00:39:00,827 --> 00:39:02,551 ends in defeat. 848 00:39:04,172 --> 00:39:07,965 The curse of Nugget Creek has robbed them of glory, 849 00:39:07,965 --> 00:39:11,655 but allowed them to live to tell the tale. 850 00:39:11,655 --> 00:39:14,000 That was some scary [bleep], that boulder coming down. 851 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:15,551 -[James] Yeah it was. Damn. -Whoo! 852 00:39:15,551 --> 00:39:17,379 I'm not gonna forget that, I'm gonna have nightmares about that [bleep]. 853 00:39:17,379 --> 00:39:19,931 A near death experience right there, my man. 854 00:39:21,206 --> 00:39:22,931 -That was too close for comfort. -[James] Mmm-hmm. 855 00:39:24,965 --> 00:39:26,206 [Kayla] That's pretty. 856 00:39:26,206 --> 00:39:28,448 -[Wes] Yeah, it's not too bad. -[James] Wow. 857 00:39:28,448 --> 00:39:30,655 For the limited amount of time that we got to dredge, 858 00:39:30,655 --> 00:39:33,482 we got pretty good gold out here. Just imagine 859 00:39:33,482 --> 00:39:35,068 if we got to dive every week 860 00:39:35,068 --> 00:39:36,206 week in, week out, 861 00:39:36,206 --> 00:39:38,758 -this pan would be full. -[Kayla] For the amount of time 862 00:39:38,758 --> 00:39:41,413 that we did find gold, we did pretty well. 863 00:39:42,965 --> 00:39:45,655 -Yeah. -[Ryan] Yeah, kind of the same big pieces that we got. 864 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:48,517 That looks good. 865 00:39:48,517 --> 00:39:51,172 -But we never hit the bottom. -[Kayla] We never hit the deepest part. 866 00:39:51,172 --> 00:39:52,482 -Uh-huh. -Nah, we didn't either. 867 00:39:52,482 --> 00:39:55,379 That's where all the big nuggets are. 868 00:39:55,379 --> 00:39:57,965 [narrator] These few ounces of chunky gold, 869 00:39:57,965 --> 00:40:02,482 are proof they're scratching the surface of the legendary nuggets. 870 00:40:02,482 --> 00:40:05,172 -[Wes] You got a good claim out here, Dustin. -Yup, yeah. 871 00:40:05,172 --> 00:40:07,862 [narrator] But not enough to cover costs 872 00:40:07,862 --> 00:40:10,448 or pay for them to live through the winter. 873 00:40:10,448 --> 00:40:13,310 [Dustin] The well's drying up, man, that's it. 874 00:40:13,310 --> 00:40:17,068 All this stuff costs money and it's just... it's... it's running out, man. 875 00:40:18,896 --> 00:40:20,068 And when I go broke, 876 00:40:20,068 --> 00:40:21,137 it's... 877 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,724 it all comes to a screeching halt. 878 00:40:23,724 --> 00:40:26,724 And I actually don't know what we gonna do. 879 00:40:30,172 --> 00:40:31,862 Thank y'all for all your hard work. 880 00:40:31,862 --> 00:40:35,862 I'm sorry it didn't work out the way we thought it would. 881 00:40:35,862 --> 00:40:38,413 Let's pack this stuff up and get out of here, y'all. 882 00:40:44,896 --> 00:40:46,655 [Carlos] Little disappointing, let me tell you. 883 00:40:46,655 --> 00:40:49,000 It wasn't enough gold 884 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,068 to sustain us for this winter, so... 885 00:40:52,068 --> 00:40:55,758 Hey. Got to get a couple jobs during the wintertime 886 00:40:55,758 --> 00:40:57,827 to keep the family happy. 887 00:40:57,827 --> 00:41:00,758 I think this season has definitely been one of the most, 888 00:41:00,758 --> 00:41:02,724 not only physically draining seasons, 889 00:41:02,724 --> 00:41:04,379 but mentally draining as well. 890 00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:06,655 Smashed just about every finger, 891 00:41:06,655 --> 00:41:08,965 'cause I've got cuts and bruises, and... 892 00:41:09,965 --> 00:41:12,000 I'm just, I'm worn out. 893 00:41:13,482 --> 00:41:16,758 It was a hard year, it was my hardest year to date. 894 00:41:16,758 --> 00:41:18,206 Like... 895 00:41:18,206 --> 00:41:21,000 I don't think I've worked so hard in my entire life for so little 896 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,827 and it's been a weird one. 897 00:41:23,379 --> 00:41:24,482 But, hey... 898 00:41:24,482 --> 00:41:26,000 I truly believe if... 899 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,965 If we can make it up to next year that, 900 00:41:28,965 --> 00:41:31,586 this will be a huge success. 901 00:41:31,586 --> 00:41:34,758 We gotta try to see if we can bounce back from this, 902 00:41:34,758 --> 00:41:37,103 and next season, we'll crush this.