1 00:00:01,517 --> 00:00:03,000 [suspenseful music playing] 2 00:00:12,724 --> 00:00:15,034 [Dustin] Carlos is digging like crazy. 3 00:00:15,034 --> 00:00:16,482 How deep you think you are right now? 4 00:00:21,517 --> 00:00:23,034 [Carlos] Man, I'm in some 30 stuff, dude. 5 00:00:23,034 --> 00:00:24,379 I can't barely see. 6 00:00:26,172 --> 00:00:28,344 Ah, right here, it's about 10 feet. 7 00:00:30,137 --> 00:00:32,586 [narrator] Deep in the Alaskan wilderness, 8 00:00:32,586 --> 00:00:35,103 a month ahead of schedule, 9 00:00:35,103 --> 00:00:37,655 Dustin Hurt has his first diver in the water. 10 00:00:37,655 --> 00:00:39,689 So what do you see, man? What do you see? 11 00:00:46,413 --> 00:00:48,103 [Carlos] That just drops off, man. 12 00:00:48,103 --> 00:00:51,310 Just drops off to oblivion right here. 13 00:00:51,310 --> 00:00:52,620 Why don't you follow that for a little while, 14 00:00:52,620 --> 00:00:54,344 see what you get down to, man. 15 00:00:59,793 --> 00:01:01,758 If we don't find gold, 16 00:01:01,758 --> 00:01:02,965 I'm not coming back. 17 00:01:02,965 --> 00:01:04,517 I got too much riding on this. 18 00:01:04,517 --> 00:01:06,275 I can't afford to fail. 19 00:01:09,827 --> 00:01:13,103 All right, Carlos, is this your final call. 20 00:01:13,862 --> 00:01:15,517 Let's get you out of here. 21 00:01:17,862 --> 00:01:19,000 All right. 22 00:01:19,517 --> 00:01:21,241 Call it a dive. 23 00:01:22,034 --> 00:01:23,482 [Wes laughs] 24 00:01:23,482 --> 00:01:24,517 Woo! 25 00:01:26,896 --> 00:01:28,965 Gold nugget. Don't worry. 26 00:01:28,965 --> 00:01:31,000 I'm that [bleep] see a nugget. 27 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:32,862 [Carlos] Nugget? 28 00:01:32,862 --> 00:01:35,517 [cheering] 29 00:01:35,517 --> 00:01:36,827 - [man] Yeah! - [bleep]. 30 00:01:36,827 --> 00:01:37,827 Dude. 31 00:01:37,827 --> 00:01:39,137 [laughs] 32 00:01:39,137 --> 00:01:41,379 - [Carlos] No way. - [Wes] Look. 33 00:01:41,379 --> 00:01:43,448 - That's a gold nugget! - [bleep] Yeah. 34 00:01:43,448 --> 00:01:45,862 - [Carlos] That's a gold nugget! - [Wes] Yeah! 35 00:01:45,862 --> 00:01:47,620 [man] I didn't get to see. 36 00:01:47,620 --> 00:01:49,586 Oh, my God! 37 00:01:49,586 --> 00:01:52,310 [bleep] yeah. Yeah! 38 00:01:52,310 --> 00:01:55,000 [Wes] First gold ever this early! 39 00:01:58,620 --> 00:02:00,000 [man] Watch out, behind you. 40 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,482 [groans] 41 00:02:01,482 --> 00:02:03,413 [Dustin] Carlos is [bleep] pinned. 42 00:02:03,413 --> 00:02:04,448 It's an easy way to die out here. 43 00:02:05,965 --> 00:02:07,000 Almost there. 44 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,137 [Dustin] Okay. Pull under the water. 45 00:02:08,137 --> 00:02:09,413 Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull. 46 00:02:09,413 --> 00:02:10,413 [bleep]. 47 00:02:13,103 --> 00:02:14,793 Moment of truth, folks. 48 00:02:15,758 --> 00:02:17,413 [man] Ouch. [bleep] hold on. 49 00:02:17,413 --> 00:02:19,862 [man] Lift, lift, lift, lift, lift, lift, lift. 50 00:02:19,862 --> 00:02:21,862 [bleep] if we lose this damn thing 51 00:02:21,862 --> 00:02:24,137 we're in deep damn trouble. 52 00:02:24,137 --> 00:02:25,241 So how are you doing, man? 53 00:02:25,241 --> 00:02:26,896 Don't think about me, man. 54 00:02:26,896 --> 00:02:29,551 Get out there and freakin' find that damn gold. 55 00:02:32,068 --> 00:02:33,689 [man] Dive there in the water. 56 00:02:34,655 --> 00:02:35,862 [Carlos] Oh, that's perfect. 57 00:02:35,862 --> 00:02:38,068 [Dustin] All the near death incidents. 58 00:02:38,068 --> 00:02:39,965 All the chances we take. 59 00:02:39,965 --> 00:02:41,551 All the heartbreak. 60 00:02:41,551 --> 00:02:42,586 Here we come. 61 00:02:43,172 --> 00:02:44,655 This is our year. 62 00:02:58,310 --> 00:03:00,965 [James] Ah, y'all ready for this? 63 00:03:00,965 --> 00:03:02,551 [narrator] As the harsh Alaskan winter 64 00:03:02,551 --> 00:03:04,620 gives way to spring. 65 00:03:06,034 --> 00:03:07,724 [James] Woo! Yeah. 66 00:03:07,724 --> 00:03:09,103 First fire of the season everybody. 67 00:03:09,103 --> 00:03:10,344 [Carlos] Good job, James. 68 00:03:10,344 --> 00:03:12,172 [James] Hell yeah, man. 69 00:03:12,172 --> 00:03:15,000 [narrator] Dustin and his crew are back 70 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,689 for a last chance of redemption 71 00:03:17,689 --> 00:03:20,827 in Nugget creek's legendary gold. 72 00:03:22,620 --> 00:03:25,034 [Dustin] We've got such a big forward momentum 73 00:03:25,034 --> 00:03:27,758 right now that everything's working out for us, 74 00:03:27,758 --> 00:03:29,275 that cannot fail again. 75 00:03:29,275 --> 00:03:32,000 We've been struggling to stay afloat. 76 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,034 We have to produce. 77 00:03:34,034 --> 00:03:36,517 I'm just hoping that we can keep this momentum going, 78 00:03:36,517 --> 00:03:37,965 it's gonna get us gold. 79 00:03:41,758 --> 00:03:44,310 [narrator] Last season, Dustin faced 80 00:03:44,310 --> 00:03:47,344 the destructive power of the Alaskan storms. 81 00:03:47,344 --> 00:03:49,896 [Dustin] There's not a [bleep] thing we can do here. 82 00:03:51,448 --> 00:03:53,862 [narrator] Desperate to avoid a repeat, 83 00:03:53,862 --> 00:03:58,000 Dustin spent the off-season formulating a new game plan 84 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,896 on new ground. 85 00:04:00,689 --> 00:04:02,931 We send a map... 86 00:04:02,931 --> 00:04:05,827 and, uh, this is our boundaries. 87 00:04:05,827 --> 00:04:07,827 What I've been told is we... 88 00:04:07,827 --> 00:04:09,310 And this kind of proves it, 89 00:04:09,310 --> 00:04:13,793 that we're about 200 to 300 feet 90 00:04:13,793 --> 00:04:15,965 upstream too far with what we thought 91 00:04:15,965 --> 00:04:18,827 was our property line. 92 00:04:18,827 --> 00:04:22,172 [narrator] Now, the crew are in a race 93 00:04:22,172 --> 00:04:25,896 to get on the gold faster than any other season. 94 00:04:27,034 --> 00:04:29,034 [Dustin] I've got a different plan now. 95 00:04:29,034 --> 00:04:30,758 When we first got here, I was gonna go 96 00:04:30,758 --> 00:04:32,620 with our standard plan, 97 00:04:32,620 --> 00:04:34,413 make a pool, put the dredge in, 98 00:04:34,413 --> 00:04:35,517 - start digging. - Sure. 99 00:04:35,517 --> 00:04:36,862 [Dustin] It's not the plan anymore. 100 00:04:38,068 --> 00:04:40,517 I had some time to think about this. 101 00:04:40,517 --> 00:04:42,137 And if you keep the water low enough, 102 00:04:42,137 --> 00:04:44,827 we can make a really big area really quickly. 103 00:04:44,827 --> 00:04:45,689 [Ryan] Yup. 104 00:04:45,689 --> 00:04:47,620 And we're gonna dig by hand. 105 00:04:47,620 --> 00:04:49,724 We're gonna dig an area 106 00:04:49,724 --> 00:04:51,482 all the way down the hard pack 107 00:04:51,482 --> 00:04:54,517 before we even think about bringing the dredge out. 108 00:04:54,517 --> 00:04:56,724 - Yup. I agree. - [Dustin] I was thinking there's five of us 109 00:04:56,724 --> 00:04:58,931 and we could dig one hell of a hole. 110 00:04:58,931 --> 00:05:01,103 I agree on that. That's [bleep] awesome. 111 00:05:01,103 --> 00:05:04,655 Find a hard pack, dredge that only, move on. 112 00:05:04,655 --> 00:05:05,758 [Ryan] Yeah. 113 00:05:05,758 --> 00:05:07,448 We need to go out and dig like maniacs 114 00:05:07,448 --> 00:05:09,448 because I really wanna beat the flood this year. 115 00:05:09,448 --> 00:05:10,862 I agree with you. 116 00:05:10,862 --> 00:05:12,241 You don't understand how bad... 117 00:05:12,241 --> 00:05:14,965 - [Ryan] We need this. - we need to see some gold. 118 00:05:16,689 --> 00:05:18,137 Flood up. 119 00:05:18,137 --> 00:05:19,000 Time to go. 120 00:05:20,965 --> 00:05:22,827 This is a complete noon technique for us. 121 00:05:22,827 --> 00:05:24,758 Until we find what I'm looking for, 122 00:05:24,758 --> 00:05:27,103 we are not even gonna set that dredge in the water. 123 00:05:27,103 --> 00:05:29,344 This is my new style. 124 00:05:29,344 --> 00:05:32,275 I don't care if it's the right way, wrong way. 125 00:05:32,275 --> 00:05:33,551 We're doing it my way. 126 00:05:35,034 --> 00:05:36,000 [Carlos] Is it store, James? 127 00:05:37,344 --> 00:05:39,965 [James] Oh, I bet you she does. 128 00:05:39,965 --> 00:05:41,034 Come on, baby. 129 00:05:42,482 --> 00:05:43,689 - Yeah, buddy. - [man] Oh, man. 130 00:05:43,689 --> 00:05:45,034 [James] No problem. 131 00:05:45,034 --> 00:05:46,827 Oh, this thing's hard to kill, huh? 132 00:05:46,827 --> 00:05:48,137 Ridiculous. 133 00:05:50,758 --> 00:05:53,758 All aboard the nugget express. 134 00:05:53,758 --> 00:05:56,586 [laughter] 135 00:06:04,241 --> 00:06:05,655 [James] Do we have fuel out there? 136 00:06:05,655 --> 00:06:08,068 [Ryan] No. We'll have to carry some. 137 00:06:08,068 --> 00:06:10,310 [Dustin] Grab your crowbars. Let's do this. 138 00:06:12,068 --> 00:06:14,517 [narrator] It's a treacherous hike along a steep 139 00:06:14,517 --> 00:06:18,310 narrow track just to reach the remote claim. 140 00:06:18,310 --> 00:06:21,310 [Dustin] Woo. That got me warmed up. 141 00:06:22,896 --> 00:06:24,793 New dig site. New Hope. 142 00:06:26,206 --> 00:06:28,689 [narrator] Dustin's newly extended claim 143 00:06:28,689 --> 00:06:32,758 now stretches 250 feet downstream. 144 00:06:32,758 --> 00:06:35,206 This is on the claim and, uh, 145 00:06:35,206 --> 00:06:36,827 we're gonna dig it. 146 00:06:36,827 --> 00:06:40,448 We got high hopes for this area to go down deep 147 00:06:40,448 --> 00:06:41,862 like a nugget catcher. 148 00:06:42,689 --> 00:06:44,241 I hope that's the case. 149 00:06:44,241 --> 00:06:46,689 We're desperate for nuggets at this point. 150 00:06:48,137 --> 00:06:50,793 All right, here's what we're doing, guys. 151 00:06:50,793 --> 00:06:52,517 So my main goal 152 00:06:52,517 --> 00:06:54,103 is to dig this like that. 153 00:06:54,103 --> 00:06:55,551 I want all this out of here. 154 00:06:55,551 --> 00:06:57,689 This is what I want right here. 155 00:06:57,689 --> 00:06:59,448 I wanna try the sides. 156 00:06:59,448 --> 00:07:02,137 So all of this rock going that way 157 00:07:02,137 --> 00:07:04,344 and what I'd really like is to build the wall 158 00:07:04,344 --> 00:07:06,586 right there to get all the water on that side. 159 00:07:06,586 --> 00:07:08,137 [Carlos] Got it. 160 00:07:08,137 --> 00:07:09,172 [James] This is gonna be a lot of work, 161 00:07:09,172 --> 00:07:10,655 but it's gonna pay off. 162 00:07:12,896 --> 00:07:16,517 [narrator] Dustin's new mining plan divert the creek 163 00:07:16,517 --> 00:07:20,827 with a wall of rocks to create a shallow area. 164 00:07:20,827 --> 00:07:23,793 Instead of one diver working alone, 165 00:07:23,793 --> 00:07:26,344 all five crew will quickly clear 166 00:07:26,344 --> 00:07:28,482 the worthless overburden 167 00:07:28,482 --> 00:07:30,517 following the bedrock wall 168 00:07:30,517 --> 00:07:34,551 in search of a deep area of red hard pack. 169 00:07:34,551 --> 00:07:37,758 Only then will they raise the water 170 00:07:37,758 --> 00:07:40,379 so a diver can suck up the gold. 171 00:07:43,344 --> 00:07:45,827 - [man 1] Ready? - [man 2] Yeah. 172 00:07:45,827 --> 00:07:48,689 [man 3] I can't believe how hard granite is, dude. 173 00:07:49,862 --> 00:07:51,448 [man 1] There we go. 174 00:07:51,448 --> 00:07:53,586 [man 3] I forgot how mighty that cat stand. 175 00:07:55,689 --> 00:07:57,344 [man 1] Perfect start. 176 00:07:57,344 --> 00:07:59,000 [Carlos] Yeah. 177 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,000 Yeah. 178 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,758 We wanna get all hands on boulders and rocks 179 00:08:03,758 --> 00:08:05,931 and throw 'em on this side 180 00:08:05,931 --> 00:08:08,551 so we can make this divider. 181 00:08:08,551 --> 00:08:10,724 Kind of like in a Goddang high highway. 182 00:08:10,724 --> 00:08:13,793 Fast lane. Slow lane. 183 00:08:13,793 --> 00:08:17,517 The slow water allows us to dig in our waiver. 184 00:08:18,724 --> 00:08:20,172 There it goes! 185 00:08:20,586 --> 00:08:21,448 Yeah! 186 00:08:22,655 --> 00:08:24,517 [Dustin] We get a lot done really quick, man. 187 00:08:24,517 --> 00:08:28,758 [Carlos] Yes. That was so weak. 188 00:08:28,758 --> 00:08:30,689 We are crushing it. This is fast. 189 00:08:32,137 --> 00:08:33,517 [narrator] Clearing the big boulders 190 00:08:33,517 --> 00:08:36,793 has revealed a mound of loose gravels. 191 00:08:36,793 --> 00:08:38,482 [Paul] This is a pile up area. 192 00:08:38,482 --> 00:08:41,793 Any gold that was loose up there is right here. 193 00:08:44,137 --> 00:08:45,793 [Dustin] That is moving way fast. 194 00:08:45,793 --> 00:08:47,793 [Carlos] Man, we can get this out quick. 195 00:08:49,344 --> 00:08:52,275 [narrator] The crew zero in on the bedrock wall 196 00:08:52,275 --> 00:08:55,000 in the hope of finding a steep drop off. 197 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,448 The sign of a deep gold catch. 198 00:08:58,448 --> 00:09:00,620 We get that pump going 199 00:09:00,620 --> 00:09:02,586 and that way I can wash this stuff down. 200 00:09:07,965 --> 00:09:09,344 [Dustin] What I was thinking you could do 201 00:09:09,344 --> 00:09:10,689 is put it right there at the base. 202 00:09:10,689 --> 00:09:11,586 [Paul] Yeah. 203 00:09:11,586 --> 00:09:13,034 And just start hit hammering this 204 00:09:13,034 --> 00:09:15,517 and it'll all go out through there. 205 00:09:15,517 --> 00:09:17,586 - You get it? - [Paul] Yeah. 206 00:09:17,586 --> 00:09:19,551 [Dustin] I don't know why I'm micromanaging you on this. 207 00:09:19,551 --> 00:09:20,965 I apologize. 208 00:09:20,965 --> 00:09:22,275 Can't help myself. 209 00:09:22,275 --> 00:09:24,655 Son of a bitch, I'm becoming my father. 210 00:09:24,655 --> 00:09:26,413 [laughter] 211 00:09:28,310 --> 00:09:29,965 That's probably bedrock. 212 00:09:29,965 --> 00:09:32,103 [Dustin] Oh, it is. That is bedrock. 213 00:09:32,103 --> 00:09:33,517 Wow. 214 00:09:33,517 --> 00:09:35,413 [Carlos] We're gonna try to follow bedrock 215 00:09:35,413 --> 00:09:36,413 from the sides 216 00:09:36,413 --> 00:09:38,068 and hoping, following that bedrock 217 00:09:38,068 --> 00:09:39,827 gets to the fricking hard pack, 218 00:09:39,827 --> 00:09:42,620 the red, dirty, 219 00:09:42,620 --> 00:09:45,068 bloodish hard pack. 220 00:09:45,068 --> 00:09:48,275 And that's where the gold is. 221 00:09:48,275 --> 00:09:50,344 [Dustin] All right, everybody cross your finger. 222 00:09:50,344 --> 00:09:52,482 If that bedrock goes straight down, 223 00:09:52,482 --> 00:09:53,689 the deeper the better. 224 00:09:53,689 --> 00:09:55,758 [Paul] Yup. 225 00:09:55,758 --> 00:09:57,551 - [Paul] That's going real quick. - [Carlos] Oh, I'm loving this. 226 00:09:57,551 --> 00:09:59,586 If this is where the gold settled, 227 00:09:59,586 --> 00:10:01,000 this is where we need to be. 228 00:10:02,655 --> 00:10:04,137 [Paul] I wanna... I'm like you I'm gonna see it 229 00:10:04,137 --> 00:10:05,827 - going straight down. - [Dustin] How about... Yeah. If that... 230 00:10:05,827 --> 00:10:08,206 If that bedrock falls straight down, 231 00:10:08,206 --> 00:10:09,379 we are in business. 232 00:10:09,379 --> 00:10:10,620 [Paul] Yup. 233 00:10:10,620 --> 00:10:13,551 [suspenseful music playing] 234 00:10:18,758 --> 00:10:20,103 [Dustin] Damn it. 235 00:10:21,310 --> 00:10:23,586 So this is not what I wanted. 236 00:10:23,586 --> 00:10:26,206 The bedrock is just shooting straight out. 237 00:10:26,206 --> 00:10:27,965 [Paul] There's no way that that's a gold catch. 238 00:10:27,965 --> 00:10:30,103 It would just take the gold over and wash it down. 239 00:10:31,586 --> 00:10:32,965 [Dustin] You see how that's coming out? 240 00:10:32,965 --> 00:10:34,655 This right here, 241 00:10:34,655 --> 00:10:37,620 that is absolutely the opposite of what we want. 242 00:10:41,206 --> 00:10:42,793 Damn it! 243 00:10:42,793 --> 00:10:45,241 Man. It don't make any damn sense. 244 00:10:45,241 --> 00:10:46,586 That was supposed to be deeper. 245 00:10:48,034 --> 00:10:49,517 All right, that's all done. 246 00:10:49,517 --> 00:10:52,137 No more effort on that. 247 00:10:52,137 --> 00:10:53,344 Sorry. 248 00:10:56,620 --> 00:10:58,137 Picked the wrong spot. 249 00:10:58,137 --> 00:11:00,275 Just makes it even harder on us. 250 00:11:00,275 --> 00:11:03,827 It's just so labor intense. 251 00:11:03,827 --> 00:11:05,482 If I was a smarter guy, I know exactly 252 00:11:05,482 --> 00:11:08,206 where the gold is, but damnit, I don't. 253 00:11:10,068 --> 00:11:11,689 [grunting] 254 00:11:13,034 --> 00:11:15,586 It's getting late. I don't have any answers yet. 255 00:11:15,586 --> 00:11:16,965 That's enough of this. 256 00:11:24,206 --> 00:11:26,827 Put it down and try to put rocks through a bee 257 00:11:26,827 --> 00:11:29,620 into it while pining it down, 258 00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:31,551 and it'll force water off. 259 00:11:31,551 --> 00:11:33,517 [narrator] First light and the crew 260 00:11:33,517 --> 00:11:35,862 were straight back on the hunt 261 00:11:35,862 --> 00:11:37,827 for a gold-rich dive side. 262 00:11:37,827 --> 00:11:39,344 [Dustin] Watch. This is about the hollow all. 263 00:11:39,344 --> 00:11:40,896 Look at it. 264 00:11:40,896 --> 00:11:43,241 We're using a stretch hose so the water, 265 00:11:43,241 --> 00:11:47,482 the running water will help melt the snow. 266 00:11:47,482 --> 00:11:49,379 [Paul] It's gonna chew that [bleep] out quick. 267 00:11:50,482 --> 00:11:51,620 [Dustin] I don't wanna mess this up. 268 00:11:51,620 --> 00:11:53,758 This might be our chance and if I blow it 269 00:11:53,758 --> 00:11:55,482 and the rains come 270 00:11:55,482 --> 00:11:56,931 and we haven't dug this out yet 271 00:11:56,931 --> 00:11:59,241 and we didn't find anything, I don't... 272 00:11:59,241 --> 00:12:00,793 That's not much story this year. 273 00:12:00,793 --> 00:12:02,758 I want this year to be success. 274 00:12:02,758 --> 00:12:04,689 We got to go extra hard. 275 00:12:04,689 --> 00:12:06,413 All right. Let's get to it. 276 00:12:06,413 --> 00:12:08,896 [intense music playing] 277 00:12:08,896 --> 00:12:11,413 We're gonna take another section out of this 278 00:12:11,413 --> 00:12:14,137 and we're gonna see where the bedrock goes. 279 00:12:14,137 --> 00:12:16,241 I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, but 280 00:12:16,241 --> 00:12:18,206 we... We're on the hunt. 281 00:12:18,206 --> 00:12:19,655 This is called prospecting. 282 00:12:21,103 --> 00:12:22,482 Just get some of these rocks out 283 00:12:22,482 --> 00:12:23,827 so we can lower this water level down again. 284 00:12:23,827 --> 00:12:25,413 [Dustin] Yeah. Yup. 285 00:12:25,413 --> 00:12:27,068 That way we can get a good look of it. 286 00:12:27,068 --> 00:12:27,965 [Dustin] Yeah. 287 00:12:28,827 --> 00:12:30,344 This is my new method. 288 00:12:30,965 --> 00:12:32,448 Hit-and-run. 289 00:12:33,206 --> 00:12:35,103 Just dig, dig, 290 00:12:35,103 --> 00:12:37,137 see what the bedrock looks like, move on. 291 00:12:37,137 --> 00:12:39,034 [intense music playing] 292 00:12:39,034 --> 00:12:41,862 [Paul] That's gonna open our water flow up a lot out here. 293 00:12:41,862 --> 00:12:42,931 [James] Hope I can get a bite. 294 00:12:44,275 --> 00:12:45,551 Tell me, you good? 295 00:12:46,344 --> 00:12:48,551 [Paul] These boulder's gotta go. 296 00:12:48,551 --> 00:12:50,758 [grunts] 297 00:12:52,379 --> 00:12:54,655 [James] It might go right over. 298 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,620 Oh, look out behind you. Ow. 299 00:12:57,620 --> 00:12:58,758 [Dustin] [bleep]. Get him out of there. 300 00:12:58,758 --> 00:12:59,931 [Carlos groans] 301 00:13:06,103 --> 00:13:09,068 [intense music playing] 302 00:13:15,413 --> 00:13:16,758 [Paul] Oh, look out behind you. Ow. 303 00:13:16,758 --> 00:13:18,724 - [Carlos groans] - [Dustin] [bleep] Carlos is pinned. 304 00:13:18,724 --> 00:13:21,931 [narrator] As the crew search for a gold-rich dive site, 305 00:13:21,931 --> 00:13:25,551 a half-ton boulder has pinned Carlos, 306 00:13:25,551 --> 00:13:27,379 crushing his rib cage. 307 00:13:27,379 --> 00:13:28,896 [Dustin] Get him out of there. 308 00:13:28,896 --> 00:13:30,862 [Paul grunts] Okay, okay, okay, okay. 309 00:13:33,482 --> 00:13:34,689 [Dustin] Get out of there. 310 00:13:34,689 --> 00:13:36,896 Get out, get out. [bleep] move. 311 00:13:36,896 --> 00:13:40,241 [intense music playing] 312 00:13:40,241 --> 00:13:41,517 [James] Dude, that could've been bad, man. 313 00:13:41,517 --> 00:13:43,068 [Paul] Yeah, yeah, dude. 314 00:13:43,068 --> 00:13:44,103 [James] Holy [bleep]. 315 00:13:44,103 --> 00:13:46,517 Holy [bleep]. It was literally resting on you. 316 00:13:46,517 --> 00:13:47,482 What d'you learn? 317 00:13:49,413 --> 00:13:51,103 Never turn your back on boulders, dude. 318 00:13:51,689 --> 00:13:53,137 Just take five, man. 319 00:13:54,206 --> 00:13:55,448 Nobody got hurt, 320 00:13:55,448 --> 00:13:56,965 it was just a scare. 321 00:13:56,965 --> 00:14:00,034 A good reminder that it's an easy way to die out here. 322 00:14:00,034 --> 00:14:02,275 Instead, we're still working. 323 00:14:02,931 --> 00:14:05,931 [intense music playing] 324 00:14:06,517 --> 00:14:08,034 [Paul] There it goes. 325 00:14:09,137 --> 00:14:10,689 [Carlos] This works good. 326 00:14:10,689 --> 00:14:12,551 [Dustin] I'm looking for this wall right here. 327 00:14:12,551 --> 00:14:13,517 Bedrock wall. 328 00:14:14,310 --> 00:14:16,103 It could be way in there 329 00:14:16,103 --> 00:14:18,344 or it could be right next to this. 330 00:14:20,413 --> 00:14:21,931 That looks like bedrock right there. 331 00:14:23,655 --> 00:14:26,241 [Dustin] Now, follow that damn wall all the way down. 332 00:14:26,241 --> 00:14:27,551 Let's see where it goes. 333 00:14:28,793 --> 00:14:31,172 Down here, spray all the [bleep] right here. 334 00:14:31,172 --> 00:14:32,758 [Paul] It's going down. 335 00:14:35,448 --> 00:14:36,827 - Look at that [bleep] we're looking for. - [Dustin] That's hard pack. 336 00:14:36,827 --> 00:14:38,206 [Dustin] That's [bleep] hard pack man. 337 00:14:38,206 --> 00:14:39,620 That's what we're looking for. 338 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:40,655 [Carlos] That's a good sign. 339 00:14:41,689 --> 00:14:42,931 So let's follow this, 340 00:14:42,931 --> 00:14:44,482 - see where that bedrock goes. - [man] Yeah. 341 00:14:44,482 --> 00:14:47,655 [intense music playing] 342 00:14:47,655 --> 00:14:50,103 [narrator] The crew chased the hard pack layer 343 00:14:50,103 --> 00:14:54,137 out towards the deepest point at the center of the creek. 344 00:14:57,034 --> 00:14:58,275 [Dustin] If that's hard pack, 345 00:14:58,275 --> 00:15:00,827 this is where we need to be dredging right now. 346 00:15:04,862 --> 00:15:06,241 - Dig it. - [Paul] There it is, look, you see it? 347 00:15:06,241 --> 00:15:07,724 - Look, look, look. - [man] Look at the water color, 348 00:15:07,724 --> 00:15:09,689 - look at the water color. - [Paul] Look, there it is, there it is, look. 349 00:15:09,689 --> 00:15:11,103 [Dustin] That's hard pack. 350 00:15:11,103 --> 00:15:13,310 [Paul] It's hard pack, dude, look. 351 00:15:13,310 --> 00:15:15,551 Do it right it, but it could be crumbling off. 352 00:15:15,551 --> 00:15:17,000 [Dustin] All right. 353 00:15:17,758 --> 00:15:19,241 I was not expecting that. 354 00:15:19,241 --> 00:15:20,482 This is amazing. 355 00:15:20,482 --> 00:15:22,000 - This is better. - [James] Wow. 356 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:24,586 [intense music playing] 357 00:15:24,586 --> 00:15:27,137 All right. I think we found our dredge spot. 358 00:15:27,137 --> 00:15:28,965 [James] It's gotta... It's gotta be starting to drop right here. 359 00:15:28,965 --> 00:15:30,827 [Paul] Look at that, it's up to my knees. 360 00:15:30,827 --> 00:15:32,620 Because if that's shallow and this is deep... 361 00:15:34,068 --> 00:15:35,448 that's a gold catch. 362 00:15:35,448 --> 00:15:36,448 [Dustin] Let's put a dredge on it. 363 00:15:36,448 --> 00:15:38,482 It's the stuff we're gonna process. 364 00:15:38,482 --> 00:15:39,965 Is everybody excited about this? 365 00:15:39,965 --> 00:15:41,206 - [James laughs] - [Carlos] Yeah. We found it, man. 366 00:15:41,206 --> 00:15:42,068 - [Dustin] Man. - We found it. 367 00:15:42,068 --> 00:15:43,034 [James] That sounds perfect. 368 00:15:43,034 --> 00:15:43,965 Without the dredge, 369 00:15:43,965 --> 00:15:45,379 without a diver in the water, dude, 370 00:15:45,379 --> 00:15:46,344 - we found a hard pack. - [Wes] Yeah. 371 00:15:46,344 --> 00:15:47,827 If there's gold down underneath this stuff, 372 00:15:47,827 --> 00:15:49,344 we'll know it real soon. 373 00:15:49,344 --> 00:15:50,241 [Wes] Real fast. 374 00:15:50,241 --> 00:15:52,896 So three things that have to happen, 375 00:15:52,896 --> 00:15:55,827 we have to have a skyline to pull the dredge up 376 00:15:55,827 --> 00:15:57,241 because it's been flooding. 377 00:15:57,241 --> 00:16:00,137 Winches of some sort on that skyline. 378 00:16:01,275 --> 00:16:03,413 We need to dredge together and move up here 379 00:16:03,413 --> 00:16:04,862 right after that skyline 380 00:16:04,862 --> 00:16:06,551 - or really close to when that skyline's... - [Wes] Yeah. 381 00:16:06,551 --> 00:16:08,172 - gonna be finished. - [Wes] Yup, yeah. 382 00:16:08,172 --> 00:16:09,724 Let's get that dredge going, man. 383 00:16:09,724 --> 00:16:11,000 - [Wes] Yeah. - [Dustin] Let's go. 384 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:12,517 [intense music playing] 385 00:16:12,517 --> 00:16:14,862 If all the stories are right... 386 00:16:14,862 --> 00:16:17,724 right underneath that hard pack right there 387 00:16:17,724 --> 00:16:20,310 is gonna be fatty nugs. 388 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:24,620 I'm nervous, but excited at the same time. 389 00:16:24,620 --> 00:16:29,793 It's, uh, a long time coming. 390 00:16:29,793 --> 00:16:31,931 I can't believe we made it back this year. 391 00:16:31,931 --> 00:16:34,379 Now we got this? 392 00:16:34,379 --> 00:16:37,965 Please let this be it, please let this be it. 393 00:16:37,965 --> 00:16:41,000 [intense music playing] 394 00:16:49,275 --> 00:16:50,379 [Paul] Now I'm getting excited. 395 00:16:50,379 --> 00:16:51,724 [Dustin] Right? 396 00:16:52,724 --> 00:16:53,827 Get all the dredge pieces, 397 00:16:53,827 --> 00:16:55,827 get the dredge put together, 398 00:16:55,827 --> 00:16:57,482 get it up to creek. 399 00:16:58,482 --> 00:17:00,206 Wanna see some of that gold. 400 00:17:03,482 --> 00:17:04,758 I mean, we're all excited 401 00:17:04,758 --> 00:17:06,931 because we found hard pack already 402 00:17:06,931 --> 00:17:08,862 with our method we're working this year. 403 00:17:08,862 --> 00:17:11,275 I've got a feeling we're gonna have gold really, 404 00:17:11,275 --> 00:17:12,620 really fast this year. 405 00:17:12,620 --> 00:17:13,965 Hopefully by the end of the day, 406 00:17:13,965 --> 00:17:15,206 we're gonna have to dredge up there, 407 00:17:15,206 --> 00:17:18,482 we're gonna have it set up, running, ready to go. 408 00:17:19,137 --> 00:17:20,241 [engine starts] 409 00:17:20,241 --> 00:17:22,482 [Paul] One step closer now. 410 00:17:27,758 --> 00:17:30,896 [narrator] While Paul and Wes work on the dredge, 411 00:17:30,896 --> 00:17:32,827 Carlos and James will set up 412 00:17:32,827 --> 00:17:34,275 the linchpin of their operation. 413 00:17:34,275 --> 00:17:35,655 [sighs] 414 00:17:35,655 --> 00:17:36,965 [narrator] The skyline. 415 00:17:36,965 --> 00:17:38,344 [Carlos] We know from experience 416 00:17:38,344 --> 00:17:40,137 that this creek is gonna flood. 417 00:17:40,137 --> 00:17:42,000 Our money maker is the dredge. 418 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,586 A flood was to come in right here 419 00:17:44,586 --> 00:17:47,241 where we're dredging at, there is no way in the world 420 00:17:47,241 --> 00:17:50,000 we're gonna be able to get that dredge to higher ground. 421 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,793 So the skyline is gonna go 422 00:17:52,793 --> 00:17:55,448 canyon wall to canyon wall. 423 00:17:55,448 --> 00:17:58,517 And that is just to pick up the dredge. 424 00:17:58,517 --> 00:18:01,862 [intense music playing] 425 00:18:01,862 --> 00:18:03,689 [narrator] Last season, 426 00:18:03,689 --> 00:18:08,000 Dustin came close to losing his $20,000 dredge 427 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,827 when the remnants of a coastal typhoon 428 00:18:10,827 --> 00:18:13,000 stuck Nugget Creek. 429 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,517 [Dustin] Sounds like we lost everything 430 00:18:14,517 --> 00:18:16,241 and everything's over. 431 00:18:17,379 --> 00:18:19,448 [narrator] Installing a 30-foot skyline 432 00:18:19,448 --> 00:18:21,068 across the creek 433 00:18:21,068 --> 00:18:24,655 will allow them to lift their 2,000 pound dredge 434 00:18:24,655 --> 00:18:26,689 clear of the deadly serge 435 00:18:26,689 --> 00:18:29,034 from relentless Alaskan storms. 436 00:18:30,344 --> 00:18:31,896 [James] Look at that. 437 00:18:31,896 --> 00:18:34,379 At least one thing survived the flood, 438 00:18:34,965 --> 00:18:36,034 is our skyline. 439 00:18:39,827 --> 00:18:43,068 [narrator] Step one, find rock on the near side, 440 00:18:43,068 --> 00:18:46,206 solid enough to hold the anchor bolts. 441 00:18:46,206 --> 00:18:48,448 [Carlos] Whoa. Starting to crumble. 442 00:18:50,758 --> 00:18:52,000 But it'll work, man. 443 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,206 As long as it keeps the dredge out of freaking harm's way. 444 00:18:55,206 --> 00:18:57,413 No dredge, no gold. 445 00:18:57,413 --> 00:19:00,724 [drill whirring] 446 00:19:01,862 --> 00:19:04,517 [James] We got a long ways to go today. 447 00:19:04,517 --> 00:19:06,275 Dustin wants this done today. 448 00:19:08,172 --> 00:19:10,931 [narrator] While the crew race to prepare the dive site. 449 00:19:12,344 --> 00:19:14,413 After two weeks off-grid, 450 00:19:14,413 --> 00:19:16,931 Dustin makes the 30-mile trek 451 00:19:16,931 --> 00:19:18,586 back to civilization 452 00:19:18,586 --> 00:19:21,000 on urgent personal business. 453 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,448 [soft music playing] 454 00:19:24,448 --> 00:19:26,482 [Dustin] I got Paul and Wes on the dredge 455 00:19:26,482 --> 00:19:29,206 and I got James and Carlos on the skyline, 456 00:19:29,206 --> 00:19:31,034 everything is gonna work out up there, 457 00:19:31,034 --> 00:19:32,724 because that's easy stuff for them. 458 00:19:32,724 --> 00:19:35,034 And, uh, gave me a chance to come down 459 00:19:35,034 --> 00:19:37,758 and see if I can get Fred a call. 460 00:19:39,103 --> 00:19:40,931 [horn blaring] 461 00:19:40,931 --> 00:19:42,344 [narrator] It was Fred Hurt 462 00:19:42,344 --> 00:19:45,241 who built their gold mining legacy. 463 00:19:45,241 --> 00:19:46,310 - Hey, Fred, how are you? - [Fred] You all right? 464 00:19:46,310 --> 00:19:47,206 [indistinct] 465 00:19:48,448 --> 00:19:50,310 [narrator] And inspired his son to share 466 00:19:50,310 --> 00:19:53,586 in their great gold mining adventure. 467 00:19:53,586 --> 00:19:54,965 I don't know what I'm doing. 468 00:19:54,965 --> 00:19:56,448 But I'm starting to learn though. 469 00:19:56,448 --> 00:19:59,586 [narrator] Now, Dustin faces a solo future 470 00:19:59,586 --> 00:20:02,793 after Fred's shocking diagnosis two months ago. 471 00:20:02,793 --> 00:20:05,413 [Fred] I was diagnosed with brain tumor. 472 00:20:06,241 --> 00:20:07,689 It's terminal. 473 00:20:11,241 --> 00:20:12,068 [Dustin] So how's it going, Fred? 474 00:20:12,655 --> 00:20:14,689 Hey, I'm doing fine. 475 00:20:14,689 --> 00:20:16,655 So what's happening up there? 476 00:20:16,655 --> 00:20:18,896 Uh, so we made it to camp, 477 00:20:18,896 --> 00:20:21,000 we're up there, and we're in the creek already. 478 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,172 Yeah. So you're making a headway up there a little bit now. 479 00:20:24,172 --> 00:20:26,034 Faster than we ever have, Fred. 480 00:20:26,034 --> 00:20:29,172 We, uh, have changed up all of our style. 481 00:20:29,172 --> 00:20:32,310 We've decided no longer to process 482 00:20:32,310 --> 00:20:35,103 any of the top material at all. 483 00:20:35,103 --> 00:20:38,758 Uh, that's a, uh, excellent decision. 484 00:20:38,758 --> 00:20:41,241 Well, best advice I can say 485 00:20:41,241 --> 00:20:43,758 is if it's going down keep going down... 486 00:20:43,758 --> 00:20:46,379 - [Dustin] Yeah. - don't stay on the wall looking for something. 487 00:20:46,379 --> 00:20:49,000 - It's what I'm doing. - Just keep going down. 488 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,896 Because whatever it is is going into that bottom. 489 00:20:52,896 --> 00:20:54,275 So how are you doing, man? 490 00:20:54,275 --> 00:20:56,206 [Fred] Pretty rough, man, pretty rough. 491 00:20:56,206 --> 00:20:59,413 I did went through, uh, chemotherapy, 492 00:20:59,413 --> 00:21:04,379 but at the same time I did radiation therapy 493 00:21:04,379 --> 00:21:06,586 and I came out worse than when I went in. 494 00:21:06,586 --> 00:21:08,620 Yeah. Losing a little hair. 495 00:21:08,620 --> 00:21:10,482 - [Dustin] Your hair looks... - Too much I guess. [laughs] 496 00:21:10,482 --> 00:21:11,931 it still looks great though. 497 00:21:11,931 --> 00:21:13,551 Well, it's still there, that's about all 498 00:21:13,551 --> 00:21:14,724 - that's good for. - [Dustin] Yeah. 499 00:21:14,724 --> 00:21:17,068 Well, thank you for a nice set of hair by the way. 500 00:21:17,068 --> 00:21:18,586 - This is awesome. - [Fred] Yeah. 501 00:21:18,586 --> 00:21:20,172 You know, this stuff is, 502 00:21:20,172 --> 00:21:22,655 you know, it's, uh, terminal. 503 00:21:22,655 --> 00:21:24,896 One way... One time or another... 504 00:21:24,896 --> 00:21:27,379 Hell, everybody dies some time. 505 00:21:27,379 --> 00:21:29,068 [Dustin] Nobody gets out alive. 506 00:21:29,068 --> 00:21:31,034 [Fred] It's, uh, hell when you... 507 00:21:31,034 --> 00:21:32,620 When you know it's close. 508 00:21:32,620 --> 00:21:34,586 [laughs] 509 00:21:34,586 --> 00:21:36,310 - [Dustin] Yeah. I always... - Uh, don't think 510 00:21:36,310 --> 00:21:37,586 about me, man. 511 00:21:37,586 --> 00:21:38,862 Get out there and freaking find 512 00:21:38,862 --> 00:21:40,758 that damn gold. 513 00:21:40,758 --> 00:21:42,620 Well, you've been a big damn part of my life, 514 00:21:42,620 --> 00:21:45,000 so it's kind of hard, so... [laughs] 515 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,379 [Fred] Uh, I understand. 516 00:21:49,241 --> 00:21:51,206 Well, your 80th birthday's coming up. 517 00:21:51,206 --> 00:21:52,379 You think you're gonna make it? 518 00:21:53,034 --> 00:21:54,862 I've been threatened. 519 00:21:54,862 --> 00:21:57,275 Better live long enough, you old sucker. 520 00:21:57,275 --> 00:21:59,620 [laughter] 521 00:22:00,758 --> 00:22:02,206 Try to hang on, Fred. 522 00:22:02,206 --> 00:22:04,689 Uh, hopefully, we get to see you again 523 00:22:04,689 --> 00:22:07,137 at maybe your 80th birthday. 524 00:22:07,137 --> 00:22:08,793 Okay. 525 00:22:08,793 --> 00:22:10,241 - All right. Well-- - [Fred] Well-- 526 00:22:10,241 --> 00:22:11,655 Love you, Fred, and we'll talk 527 00:22:11,655 --> 00:22:13,448 - to you later. - Love you too. 528 00:22:14,793 --> 00:22:16,034 Take care. 529 00:22:16,034 --> 00:22:17,344 I'm gonna get back to work, man, 530 00:22:17,344 --> 00:22:18,275 trying to get out there. 531 00:22:18,275 --> 00:22:19,586 All right. 532 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,482 [engine starts] 533 00:22:26,482 --> 00:22:28,103 Oh, he is not doing so great. 534 00:22:28,896 --> 00:22:31,827 But, uh, he's still alive, 535 00:22:31,827 --> 00:22:33,758 so he's still holding on. 536 00:22:33,758 --> 00:22:36,103 [somber music playing] 537 00:22:47,758 --> 00:22:50,758 [tense music playing] 538 00:22:56,793 --> 00:22:58,793 All right, man. Go ahead. 539 00:22:58,793 --> 00:23:01,241 - Moment of truth, folks. - [Carlos] Moment of truth. 540 00:23:01,931 --> 00:23:03,482 [narrator] At Nugget Creek, 541 00:23:03,482 --> 00:23:04,965 James and Carlos are putting 542 00:23:04,965 --> 00:23:06,551 their new skyline anchors... 543 00:23:06,551 --> 00:23:07,482 [Carlos] Go ahead. 544 00:23:07,482 --> 00:23:08,344 [narrator] To the test. 545 00:23:08,344 --> 00:23:09,896 [Carlos] Easy, little at a time. 546 00:23:10,793 --> 00:23:12,586 Okay. Okay. I'll stop, I'll stop. 547 00:23:12,586 --> 00:23:14,379 - This is ripping it out. - [James] Huh? 548 00:23:14,379 --> 00:23:15,793 This is getting ripped out right here. 549 00:23:15,793 --> 00:23:17,206 - [James] Nuh-uh. - [Carlos] Yeah, it is. 550 00:23:17,206 --> 00:23:18,413 - [James] You serious? - [Carlos] Yup. 551 00:23:18,413 --> 00:23:19,551 Okay. That's good right there. 552 00:23:22,241 --> 00:23:23,758 - We're gonna have to put a-- - Nah! 553 00:23:23,758 --> 00:23:25,000 Yeah, it is. It's ripping out dude. 554 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,068 Watch it. Go ahead. 555 00:23:26,068 --> 00:23:27,103 [creaks] 556 00:23:27,103 --> 00:23:29,379 [Carlos] Oh, [bleep]. Okay. [bleep] that. 557 00:23:29,379 --> 00:23:30,379 Dammit. 558 00:23:33,482 --> 00:23:35,034 They're all ripping out, aren't they? 559 00:23:35,034 --> 00:23:37,000 Just these two [bleep] man. 560 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,758 [James] How the [bleep] are they ripping out? 561 00:23:39,517 --> 00:23:41,482 Holy [bleep]. 562 00:23:41,482 --> 00:23:43,758 [Carlos] We're gonna get our ass ringed by fricking Dustin, man. 563 00:23:43,758 --> 00:23:47,793 [suspenseful music playing] 564 00:23:54,172 --> 00:23:56,448 [Dustin] Dustin to Carlos. Dustin to Carlos. 565 00:23:56,448 --> 00:23:57,379 I'm coming back. 566 00:23:58,793 --> 00:24:01,379 [narrator] After a 70-mile round trip 567 00:24:01,379 --> 00:24:05,137 and a treacherous run up the wild Tsirku River, 568 00:24:05,137 --> 00:24:07,689 Dustin's back at Nugget Creek, 569 00:24:07,689 --> 00:24:10,241 hoping to put the new skyline to work. 570 00:24:11,379 --> 00:24:12,965 Holy [bleep]. 571 00:24:12,965 --> 00:24:14,310 Here comes Dustin. 572 00:24:16,517 --> 00:24:17,724 [Carlos] What's up, man? 573 00:24:17,724 --> 00:24:19,275 [Dustin] Yeah. 574 00:24:19,275 --> 00:24:20,689 [Carlos] Wanna come down with me? 575 00:24:28,206 --> 00:24:29,758 - Yeah, dude. - You guys decided to go there 576 00:24:29,758 --> 00:24:31,448 or not there, huh? 577 00:24:31,448 --> 00:24:33,275 How come? 578 00:24:33,275 --> 00:24:34,793 Why not there? 579 00:24:34,793 --> 00:24:36,655 They got a crack in that wall right there. 580 00:24:36,655 --> 00:24:38,172 [Dustin] Ooh. 581 00:24:39,586 --> 00:24:41,310 That is so sketchy. 582 00:24:42,517 --> 00:24:45,206 You just can't pull on these things straight out, man. 583 00:24:45,206 --> 00:24:46,482 [Carlos] Yeah, yeah, I know. 584 00:24:47,241 --> 00:24:48,137 [Dustin] But you did. 585 00:24:52,068 --> 00:24:53,965 It's pulling out of the damn wall. 586 00:24:53,965 --> 00:24:56,724 That's not gonna work. [bleep] 587 00:24:56,724 --> 00:24:59,172 I don't care how much of this ground you gotta take out. 588 00:24:59,172 --> 00:25:00,965 [Carlos] Okay. Clean it all up. 589 00:25:00,965 --> 00:25:03,379 - Find me a damn spot, please. - [Carlos] Yup, got it. 590 00:25:03,379 --> 00:25:05,068 [Dustin] I'm losing it on this, just... 591 00:25:05,068 --> 00:25:07,689 We got enough time into it. Let's do it right now. 592 00:25:07,689 --> 00:25:09,103 - [Carlos] All right. Got it. - Okay? 593 00:25:09,103 --> 00:25:10,206 [Carlos] Got it. 594 00:25:10,206 --> 00:25:11,344 [Dustin] Fully expecting 595 00:25:11,344 --> 00:25:12,827 a skyline to be done, 596 00:25:12,827 --> 00:25:14,827 completely done. 597 00:25:14,827 --> 00:25:16,827 It looks like it was a fail. 598 00:25:16,827 --> 00:25:19,241 It, uh, it's gonna pull out of the wall. 599 00:25:19,241 --> 00:25:21,241 So if you drill in this way, 600 00:25:21,241 --> 00:25:23,689 you can pull it straight out of this stuff. 601 00:25:23,689 --> 00:25:25,344 None of this rock will hold it. 602 00:25:25,344 --> 00:25:27,103 Its loose shale 603 00:25:27,793 --> 00:25:29,931 will hold if you do it right, 604 00:25:29,931 --> 00:25:32,344 but you have to place it right. 605 00:25:32,344 --> 00:25:34,724 There's no two ways about it. And they failed on that. 606 00:25:34,724 --> 00:25:38,000 They know better and they did it anyway. 607 00:25:40,103 --> 00:25:41,931 [narrator] In this soft rock, 608 00:25:41,931 --> 00:25:43,965 the bolts will not stay in place 609 00:25:43,965 --> 00:25:46,275 if drilled in line with the skyline. 610 00:25:49,068 --> 00:25:52,344 Carlos must place the bolts at 90 degrees 611 00:25:52,344 --> 00:25:55,000 to prevent them from being ripped from the wall 612 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,172 under the 60,000 pounds of pulling force. 613 00:26:00,862 --> 00:26:02,724 [Carlos] Ah! 614 00:26:02,724 --> 00:26:04,448 Ah! 615 00:26:06,586 --> 00:26:08,379 It's working! 616 00:26:08,379 --> 00:26:11,413 Hey, the finest fricking somewhat viable piece 617 00:26:11,413 --> 00:26:12,793 of fricking rock, man, 618 00:26:12,793 --> 00:26:14,931 solid enough to hold the skyline. 619 00:26:14,931 --> 00:26:17,724 It's like finding a fricking Easter egg, man. 620 00:26:18,965 --> 00:26:20,482 I'm gonna come down there with you. 621 00:26:20,482 --> 00:26:21,931 [Carlos] Oh, okay. Oh, you got saws off? 622 00:26:21,931 --> 00:26:23,344 - Yeah. - [Carlos] Oh, awesome dude. 623 00:26:23,344 --> 00:26:24,758 [James] We need to dig it out. 624 00:26:25,827 --> 00:26:28,000 [Dustin] I wanna see that grate sitting there. 625 00:26:28,896 --> 00:26:31,758 Without the skyline, if it floods, 626 00:26:31,758 --> 00:26:34,172 we are in deep damn trouble. 627 00:26:34,172 --> 00:26:36,758 Should have been easy to put up here. 628 00:26:36,758 --> 00:26:38,137 I thought we were ahead. 629 00:26:39,275 --> 00:26:41,172 Time's coming by and the way we're starting 630 00:26:41,172 --> 00:26:44,620 to get real close to where we're not ahead anymore. 631 00:26:47,103 --> 00:26:49,448 [Carlos] Oh, I think I might have found a good spot. 632 00:26:51,310 --> 00:26:54,172 It's Slim Pickens, but this has to work. 633 00:26:54,172 --> 00:26:56,310 Seems like solid rock. 634 00:26:57,137 --> 00:26:59,103 [drill whirring] 635 00:27:01,241 --> 00:27:03,275 [hammer tapping] 636 00:27:03,275 --> 00:27:04,827 [James] Oh yeah, dude, that's gonna hold here. 637 00:27:04,827 --> 00:27:06,413 [Carlos] Yeah, there you go. 638 00:27:06,413 --> 00:27:07,448 Just tie it up to these chains right here. 639 00:27:08,379 --> 00:27:09,827 Guarantee that's gonna hold. 640 00:27:09,827 --> 00:27:11,000 Well, we're about to find out 641 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,827 if this is gonna hold or not. 642 00:27:13,827 --> 00:27:16,586 [tense music playing] 643 00:27:22,034 --> 00:27:23,896 - [Carlos] Okay. - [James] That's probably good enough for now. 644 00:27:23,896 --> 00:27:25,965 [Carlos] Let see what you got here. 645 00:27:28,965 --> 00:27:31,655 It'll hold. It'll hold. 646 00:27:34,413 --> 00:27:36,586 [Dustin] Hey, it [bleep] looks good. 647 00:27:36,586 --> 00:27:38,103 [James] It looks good to me. 648 00:27:38,103 --> 00:27:39,517 [Carlos] It's all right, man. 649 00:27:39,517 --> 00:27:41,137 [Dustin] It looks really good, Carlos. 650 00:27:41,137 --> 00:27:43,379 Thank you, guys. 651 00:27:43,379 --> 00:27:45,172 Let's get some damn gold. 652 00:27:45,172 --> 00:27:46,448 The sooner the better. 653 00:27:48,068 --> 00:27:49,482 Goal accomplished. 654 00:27:49,482 --> 00:27:51,241 The skyline is up. 655 00:27:51,241 --> 00:27:52,827 We're trying to get the dredge right now 656 00:27:52,827 --> 00:27:54,413 so we can put it into water, 657 00:27:54,413 --> 00:27:56,034 drag it up the creek. 658 00:28:01,896 --> 00:28:03,379 Let's take all four of us and drive 659 00:28:03,379 --> 00:28:04,586 this thing over to the creek. 660 00:28:04,586 --> 00:28:05,862 Wes, so you're gonna go up, 661 00:28:05,862 --> 00:28:07,827 set up a capstan by yourself. 662 00:28:07,827 --> 00:28:09,965 Paul, can you roll up and go grab the rope? 663 00:28:09,965 --> 00:28:11,344 - All right. - [Dustin] Let's spin it around. 664 00:28:11,344 --> 00:28:12,586 [Paul] Get it over to the water? 665 00:28:12,586 --> 00:28:14,344 Get it over to the water as close as we can. 666 00:28:14,344 --> 00:28:15,965 Everybody. 667 00:28:17,896 --> 00:28:20,586 That's good. That's good. We're good. 668 00:28:20,586 --> 00:28:22,793 [narrator] From the trail end launch site, 669 00:28:22,793 --> 00:28:25,448 the crew must use a capstan winch 670 00:28:25,448 --> 00:28:28,000 to drag the 2000-pound dredge 671 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,000 350 feet up creek 672 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000 across huge boulders 673 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,448 while battling powerful whitewater 674 00:28:35,448 --> 00:28:38,655 to reach their new dive site. 675 00:28:38,655 --> 00:28:40,551 [Dustin] All right. I think we're ready to pull. 676 00:28:40,551 --> 00:28:41,862 Give it a shot. 677 00:28:46,206 --> 00:28:47,689 [groans] 678 00:28:48,620 --> 00:28:49,862 [James] Pull it! 679 00:28:49,862 --> 00:28:52,103 [Dustin] All stop. All stop. 680 00:28:52,103 --> 00:28:54,034 - [James] All stop. - [Dustin grunts] 681 00:28:54,034 --> 00:28:55,758 [bleep]. 682 00:28:57,758 --> 00:28:59,137 [grunts] 683 00:29:00,793 --> 00:29:03,896 I pulled too hard and I think it broke my [bleep] finger. 684 00:29:05,517 --> 00:29:07,689 [suspenseful music playing] 685 00:29:07,689 --> 00:29:09,413 [Dustin] Is there any way we can use this water 686 00:29:09,413 --> 00:29:10,931 to get over there? 687 00:29:10,931 --> 00:29:12,275 [James] I don't see why not. 688 00:29:12,275 --> 00:29:14,517 A little bit. Keep going. 689 00:29:14,517 --> 00:29:16,413 You gotta get to the other side of the creek. 690 00:29:16,413 --> 00:29:18,517 [Paul] Actually, if he takes off that redirect up there now 691 00:29:18,517 --> 00:29:19,827 it'll be a straight pull over that way. 692 00:29:19,827 --> 00:29:22,000 [Carlos] Hey, it's a straight pull right there, James. 693 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,551 - [James] Oh, it is. It's a straight pull. - [Dustin] Keep going. 694 00:29:23,551 --> 00:29:24,896 Keep going, keep going, keep going, 695 00:29:24,896 --> 00:29:26,137 - keep going, keep going. - Oh, it's going, just keep on pulling. 696 00:29:26,137 --> 00:29:27,137 [Dustin] It's going under water. 697 00:29:27,137 --> 00:29:28,586 Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull. 698 00:29:34,551 --> 00:29:36,344 [suspenseful music playing] 699 00:29:36,344 --> 00:29:37,862 - [Dustin] Pull over that way. - [Carlos] Hey, it's a straight pull 700 00:29:37,862 --> 00:29:39,827 - right there, James. - [James] Oh, it is. 701 00:29:39,827 --> 00:29:41,275 - [Carlos] It's a straight pull. - Keep going, keep going. 702 00:29:41,275 --> 00:29:42,793 - Keep going, keep going. - Oh, it's going, just keep on pulling. 703 00:29:42,793 --> 00:29:44,103 It's going under water. 704 00:29:44,103 --> 00:29:45,655 Pull, pull, pull, pull, pull, pull. 705 00:29:47,448 --> 00:29:49,034 [James] It's going underwater. 706 00:29:49,034 --> 00:29:50,689 [narrator] At Nugget Creek, 707 00:29:50,689 --> 00:29:52,551 Dustin and the crew fight 708 00:29:52,551 --> 00:29:54,275 to save the dredge from being torn 709 00:29:54,275 --> 00:29:56,724 apart by the raging whitewater. 710 00:29:56,724 --> 00:29:58,103 [Dustin] Standby, standby, standby. 711 00:29:58,103 --> 00:29:59,586 Can you pull that way, Carlos? 712 00:30:00,586 --> 00:30:02,620 [Carlos] Yeah, you can pull it this way. 713 00:30:03,620 --> 00:30:05,206 Let's get over this rock. 714 00:30:05,206 --> 00:30:06,310 [Dustin] Hold on. 715 00:30:07,482 --> 00:30:09,172 Almost. See if he can pull it. 716 00:30:09,172 --> 00:30:11,551 See if you can pull it. See if you can pull it. 717 00:30:11,551 --> 00:30:14,034 - Watch the swing! - [Carlos] I got... I got the swing. 718 00:30:14,034 --> 00:30:15,448 I got the swing. I got the swing. 719 00:30:15,448 --> 00:30:17,000 - [Dustin] Thank you. - [James] Yup. 720 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:18,586 Yeah. 721 00:30:18,586 --> 00:30:20,586 - [Carlos] Woo-hoo! - [James] Best one ever. 722 00:30:20,586 --> 00:30:22,931 [Dustin] Holy [bleep] that's a strong water right there. 723 00:30:22,931 --> 00:30:24,344 [Paul] 50 more yards y'all. 724 00:30:24,344 --> 00:30:26,103 50 more yards and we got it. 725 00:30:26,103 --> 00:30:28,310 - [Dustin] All hands on. - [Carlos] Okay. Pull! 726 00:30:29,758 --> 00:30:30,896 Come on, work. 727 00:30:34,172 --> 00:30:35,689 - [James] There you go. - [Dustin] Watch that boulder. 728 00:30:35,689 --> 00:30:36,896 - Watch that boulder. - [Carlos] I got... Hey! 729 00:30:36,896 --> 00:30:38,172 [Paul] We're on the handle. We're on the handle. 730 00:30:38,172 --> 00:30:39,206 [Carlos] I got the swing. I got the swing. 731 00:30:39,206 --> 00:30:40,413 Watch that boulder! 732 00:30:42,034 --> 00:30:43,586 Move it this way. 733 00:30:43,586 --> 00:30:44,586 [James] Got it. 734 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:47,655 [groans] 735 00:30:47,655 --> 00:30:51,482 [Carlos] Oh! Come on, work. Oh! 736 00:30:51,482 --> 00:30:53,241 - [Dustin] Keep it coming this way. - [Carlos] Got it. Got it. 737 00:30:54,862 --> 00:30:56,379 Almost there! 738 00:30:56,379 --> 00:30:57,793 [Dustin] Great! 739 00:30:57,793 --> 00:30:58,896 Let's pull. 740 00:31:00,068 --> 00:31:01,586 [James] Come on. 741 00:31:01,586 --> 00:31:03,379 [narrator] The dredge has reached 742 00:31:03,379 --> 00:31:05,206 the dive site intact, 743 00:31:05,206 --> 00:31:07,310 next, the ultimate test 744 00:31:07,310 --> 00:31:08,586 for the skyline 745 00:31:08,586 --> 00:31:10,137 as it attempts to lift 746 00:31:10,137 --> 00:31:11,655 the 2000 pound dredge 747 00:31:11,655 --> 00:31:14,689 clear of any raging flood water. 748 00:31:16,482 --> 00:31:17,896 [Dustin] All right, hook it up. 749 00:31:21,241 --> 00:31:23,034 - Come on. - [Wes] You're good out here. 750 00:31:23,034 --> 00:31:24,172 - [Dustin] Good? - [Wes] Yeah. 751 00:31:24,172 --> 00:31:25,655 [Paul] Lift the dredge. 752 00:31:25,655 --> 00:31:28,103 Oh, man, 753 00:31:28,103 --> 00:31:32,206 lift, lift, lift, lift, lift, lift, lift. 754 00:31:32,206 --> 00:31:34,482 [bleep]. 755 00:31:34,482 --> 00:31:37,310 - [Carlos] Yeah! [laughs] - [Paul] Hell yeah. 756 00:31:37,310 --> 00:31:40,517 [Carlos] Woo! Woo! Woo! 757 00:31:40,517 --> 00:31:41,862 [Paul] That's it. 758 00:31:41,862 --> 00:31:43,551 - Not-- - [Carlos] Hold on. 759 00:31:43,551 --> 00:31:45,137 - [Dustin] I like that. - [Carlos] Do your work! 760 00:31:45,137 --> 00:31:47,172 - Yeah! - Swinging with the air. 761 00:31:47,172 --> 00:31:49,448 [Paul] We got a flying dredge. 762 00:31:49,448 --> 00:31:52,551 [Carlos] It looks like a big old pinata. 763 00:31:52,551 --> 00:31:53,793 Woo! 764 00:31:53,793 --> 00:31:55,275 I love it guys. 765 00:31:56,586 --> 00:31:58,172 [Dustin] It's a great day. 766 00:31:58,172 --> 00:32:00,000 We are moving at light speed 767 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,275 for us right now. 768 00:32:01,275 --> 00:32:03,896 This is truly amazing for us. 769 00:32:03,896 --> 00:32:06,793 We are getting things done. 770 00:32:06,793 --> 00:32:09,068 Now, we need some gold to bag it up. 771 00:32:09,068 --> 00:32:11,379 [dramatic music playing] 772 00:32:13,310 --> 00:32:16,241 [upbeat music playing] 773 00:32:19,896 --> 00:32:21,793 [Carlos] ♪ We're gonna Get gold today ♪ 774 00:32:23,172 --> 00:32:25,137 [narrator] In just two short weeks, 775 00:32:25,137 --> 00:32:26,620 Dustin and his crew 776 00:32:26,620 --> 00:32:28,482 have readied their dive site 777 00:32:28,482 --> 00:32:32,068 and today, marks the start of mining operations. 778 00:32:32,724 --> 00:32:34,620 [Dustin] Oh, yeah, baby. 779 00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:36,551 Got much closer to dredging. 780 00:32:39,137 --> 00:32:41,034 We're gonna start digging up here 781 00:32:41,034 --> 00:32:42,827 and everything we've heard 782 00:32:42,827 --> 00:32:45,448 is hard pack has gold in it. 783 00:32:45,448 --> 00:32:47,310 Red dirt, gold. 784 00:32:47,310 --> 00:32:48,931 So it's red dirt right here 785 00:32:48,931 --> 00:32:51,206 about 3 feet down, 2 feet down. 786 00:32:51,206 --> 00:32:52,758 We need a payday. 787 00:32:56,517 --> 00:32:57,931 There it goes. 788 00:32:57,931 --> 00:32:59,413 Here it goes. 789 00:33:02,034 --> 00:33:03,827 Woo-hoo! 790 00:33:03,827 --> 00:33:05,517 - [Paul] Oh, yeah! - That's well worth it. 791 00:33:05,517 --> 00:33:07,137 [Wes] Perfect. 792 00:33:07,137 --> 00:33:09,137 - [Paul] It is! - Right there. 793 00:33:09,793 --> 00:33:11,310 Let's get some fuel. 794 00:33:12,310 --> 00:33:13,896 Let's get everything primed. 795 00:33:13,896 --> 00:33:14,862 [Paul] All right. 796 00:33:14,862 --> 00:33:15,896 Ready? 797 00:33:15,896 --> 00:33:17,172 [Dustin] Yeah. 798 00:33:18,448 --> 00:33:20,379 [engine sputtering] 799 00:33:20,379 --> 00:33:22,793 - [Carlos laughs] - [Paul] We got water. 800 00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:26,586 It's working. 801 00:33:26,586 --> 00:33:27,931 [Dustin] Let's start. 802 00:33:27,931 --> 00:33:29,206 [Paul] This is really awesome. 803 00:33:29,206 --> 00:33:31,000 [Dustin] Yeah. 804 00:33:31,965 --> 00:33:33,793 [Paul] Woo-hoo! 805 00:33:33,793 --> 00:33:35,172 We're dredging, fellas! 806 00:33:35,172 --> 00:33:36,827 We're dredging! 807 00:33:36,827 --> 00:33:38,034 Woo-hoo! 808 00:33:38,034 --> 00:33:40,000 That's good, man. 809 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,482 - [Paul] Hell, yeah! - [Wes] Oh, man, 810 00:33:41,482 --> 00:33:44,206 that looks good coming out of the box. 811 00:33:44,206 --> 00:33:46,448 That dredge is dead for six months, 812 00:33:46,448 --> 00:33:48,551 it started right up. 813 00:33:48,551 --> 00:33:50,137 We're dredging. This is the fastest 814 00:33:50,137 --> 00:33:52,068 we've ever dredged, well, ever. 815 00:33:53,517 --> 00:33:55,172 - [Paul] You're right there. - [Dustin] You watched the red dirt? 816 00:33:55,172 --> 00:33:56,517 - [Carlos] We just hit that red layer. - [Dustin] Red dirt. 817 00:33:56,517 --> 00:33:57,793 - [Paul] What? - [Carlos] We hit that red layer. 818 00:33:57,793 --> 00:34:00,000 - Did you see that? - You did? 819 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,482 Is the red coming through? Let's get that red. 820 00:34:01,482 --> 00:34:02,862 [Carlos] [indistinct] going good. 821 00:34:02,862 --> 00:34:03,965 Red dirt. 822 00:34:03,965 --> 00:34:06,689 It's rusty. [bleep] yeah! 823 00:34:06,689 --> 00:34:08,655 - [Carlos] That's it. - Yeah. It's coming out red. 824 00:34:08,655 --> 00:34:10,310 [Dustin] Yeah! 825 00:34:10,310 --> 00:34:13,137 - [Paul] Woo-hoo! - [Carlos] That's it. 826 00:34:13,137 --> 00:34:14,275 [Paul] That's what we're looking for. 827 00:34:14,275 --> 00:34:16,275 That's the color we're looking for. 828 00:34:16,275 --> 00:34:17,758 [Carlos] We got some hard pack right here. 829 00:34:17,758 --> 00:34:19,724 I gotta get in the water to find out, dude. 830 00:34:20,344 --> 00:34:21,620 [Wes] Yeah. 831 00:34:21,620 --> 00:34:23,689 If you wanna get in to dive, you're more than welcome. 832 00:34:23,689 --> 00:34:25,758 Let's get in. Let's start doing this. 833 00:34:25,758 --> 00:34:28,241 - [Dustin] Suit up then. Suit up. - [Carlos] Let's suit up. 834 00:34:28,241 --> 00:34:29,724 Let's suit up. 835 00:34:29,724 --> 00:34:31,827 Let's suit up to go diving. 836 00:34:31,827 --> 00:34:33,413 Any time you put on the freaking mask, man, 837 00:34:33,413 --> 00:34:34,655 you go in the water, man, 838 00:34:34,655 --> 00:34:36,793 that's a serious game for me. 839 00:34:37,551 --> 00:34:39,137 Go by the numbers, 840 00:34:39,137 --> 00:34:41,000 work, safe, 841 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000 think about what's important, 842 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,551 and make sure I go back home to what's important. 843 00:34:45,551 --> 00:34:46,931 The gold is a bonus. 844 00:34:48,551 --> 00:34:51,275 [narrator] Six weeks earlier than last season, 845 00:34:51,275 --> 00:34:54,551 Dustin will put his first diver in the water. 846 00:34:58,344 --> 00:35:00,793 [laughter] 847 00:35:02,724 --> 00:35:04,793 [Carlos] That's where I put it down, that's good. 848 00:35:04,793 --> 00:35:06,241 Thank you, sir. 849 00:35:06,241 --> 00:35:08,241 [scuba hissing] 850 00:35:13,448 --> 00:35:16,103 [Dustin] Carlos is digging like crazy, 851 00:35:16,103 --> 00:35:17,931 I just wanna keep real good eyes on him. 852 00:35:17,931 --> 00:35:20,655 A little paranoid the first couple times, man. 853 00:35:20,655 --> 00:35:22,103 [Paul] Yeah, I know. I know what you mean. 854 00:35:22,103 --> 00:35:23,827 Especially with him [bleep]. 855 00:35:23,827 --> 00:35:25,517 Yeah. 856 00:35:25,517 --> 00:35:27,068 I mean, he's definitely got some depth going. 857 00:35:27,068 --> 00:35:28,482 [Dustin] Yup. 858 00:35:28,482 --> 00:35:29,931 But how deep do you think you are right now? 859 00:35:34,793 --> 00:35:36,310 [Carlos] Yeah, man, I mean, it's 30 stuff dude. 860 00:35:36,310 --> 00:35:37,827 I can barely see. 861 00:35:37,827 --> 00:35:39,655 [scuba hissing] 862 00:35:39,655 --> 00:35:41,689 [Carlos] My head is about 2 feet. 863 00:35:43,586 --> 00:35:45,275 So what do you see, man? What do you see? 864 00:35:47,551 --> 00:35:49,310 [scuba hissing] 865 00:35:51,517 --> 00:35:53,448 [Carlos] It just drops off, man. 866 00:35:53,448 --> 00:35:55,724 Just drops off to oblivion right here. 867 00:35:56,965 --> 00:35:58,689 [Dustin] That's awesome. Keep going. 868 00:35:58,689 --> 00:36:00,068 We're gonna find gold. 869 00:36:06,793 --> 00:36:08,344 [Dustin] We got the land, we got the water control, 870 00:36:08,344 --> 00:36:10,965 we are the digging team. 871 00:36:10,965 --> 00:36:14,965 We can dig all kinda stuff. 872 00:36:14,965 --> 00:36:18,620 But this creek is untouched for the most part. 873 00:36:18,620 --> 00:36:21,275 And if all the stories are right, 874 00:36:21,275 --> 00:36:23,931 we're gonna have a ton of gold here soon. 875 00:36:23,931 --> 00:36:27,103 I can't wait for it to not be just stories anymore. 876 00:36:27,103 --> 00:36:28,448 I need gold in hand. 877 00:36:37,655 --> 00:36:40,482 [dramatic music playing] 878 00:36:42,034 --> 00:36:44,068 [Dustin] Carlos is digging like crazy. 879 00:36:44,068 --> 00:36:46,068 [Wes] And he's definitely got some depth going. 880 00:36:46,068 --> 00:36:47,379 [Dustin] Yup. 881 00:36:48,896 --> 00:36:52,137 [narrator] At Nugget Creek, Carlos is four hours 882 00:36:52,137 --> 00:36:54,448 into the first dive of the season. 883 00:36:58,448 --> 00:37:00,517 So what do you see, man? What do you see? 884 00:37:05,068 --> 00:37:07,241 [scuba hissing] 885 00:37:07,241 --> 00:37:09,103 [Carlos] It just drops off, man. 886 00:37:09,103 --> 00:37:11,482 Just drops off to oblivion right here. 887 00:37:12,172 --> 00:37:13,758 [dramatic music playing] 888 00:37:13,758 --> 00:37:15,172 [Paul] Yeah, go vertical. 889 00:37:15,172 --> 00:37:17,172 - [Wes] Woo-hoo! - [Paul] Yeah! 890 00:37:18,862 --> 00:37:21,344 [Carlos] Trying to break in there. 891 00:37:21,344 --> 00:37:25,000 [dramatic music playing] 892 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:26,551 Why don't you follow that for a little while, 893 00:37:26,551 --> 00:37:27,965 see what we get down to, man. 894 00:37:27,965 --> 00:37:30,000 [scuba hissing] 895 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:31,724 Just cleared it all out. 896 00:37:33,206 --> 00:37:36,827 [narrator] The gold rich layer already in his sights, 897 00:37:36,827 --> 00:37:38,655 Carlos attacks. 898 00:37:38,655 --> 00:37:40,862 In one hand, the high pressure hose 899 00:37:40,862 --> 00:37:42,551 to break up the hard pack. 900 00:37:42,551 --> 00:37:45,275 In the other, the suction hose 901 00:37:45,275 --> 00:37:47,551 to feed the gold catching dredge. 902 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,896 [Carlos] Yo, man, that's pressure washer 903 00:37:52,896 --> 00:37:55,172 up the dredge, man. Holy crap. 904 00:37:56,689 --> 00:37:58,793 I'm just keeping the nozzle one way 905 00:37:58,793 --> 00:38:01,827 and I'm just blowing it towards the nozzle, you know. 906 00:38:01,827 --> 00:38:04,517 Looks like that's working really good, too. 907 00:38:04,517 --> 00:38:05,931 [scuba hissing] 908 00:38:05,931 --> 00:38:07,517 [Carlos] Fred will be proud of me. 909 00:38:07,517 --> 00:38:09,655 Just gotta brush it to the nozzle. 910 00:38:14,724 --> 00:38:16,551 Oh, that's perfect, dude. 911 00:38:16,551 --> 00:38:17,862 [laughs] 912 00:38:17,862 --> 00:38:19,413 Eating all the hard pack up. 913 00:38:27,068 --> 00:38:29,206 We got some good material coming over to the back. 914 00:38:29,206 --> 00:38:30,448 Run all that red. 915 00:38:33,758 --> 00:38:35,068 [Dustin] All right, Carlos. 916 00:38:36,206 --> 00:38:37,379 Here's your final call. 917 00:38:37,931 --> 00:38:39,241 [indistinct] 918 00:38:41,137 --> 00:38:42,965 How'd it go down there? 919 00:38:42,965 --> 00:38:44,896 [Carlos] Yeah, man. It's nice to be back in the water. 920 00:38:48,896 --> 00:38:51,034 [Wes laughs] 921 00:38:51,034 --> 00:38:52,655 Woo-hoo! 922 00:38:52,655 --> 00:38:54,137 [laughs] 923 00:38:54,137 --> 00:38:55,344 [bleep] gold nugget. 924 00:38:55,344 --> 00:38:56,689 [Dustin] No way. 925 00:38:56,689 --> 00:38:57,862 [Wes] I'm not [bleep] man. 926 00:38:57,862 --> 00:38:59,413 [Carlos] We got a nugget? 927 00:38:59,413 --> 00:39:00,379 - [Wes] We got a nugget. - There's a nugget. 928 00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:02,517 I told you there was gold here. 929 00:39:02,517 --> 00:39:03,965 - I told you. - [Wes] Yeah. [bleep]. 930 00:39:03,965 --> 00:39:05,206 Oh. 931 00:39:05,206 --> 00:39:06,551 [laughs] 932 00:39:06,551 --> 00:39:08,034 - [James] No way. - Woo! 933 00:39:08,034 --> 00:39:10,034 - Look. - That's a gold nugget. 934 00:39:10,034 --> 00:39:11,931 - [Wes] [bleep] yeah! - [Carlos] That's a gold nugget. 935 00:39:11,931 --> 00:39:13,655 - [Wes] Yeah. - [Carlos] That's a gold. 936 00:39:13,655 --> 00:39:15,172 - [James] [indistinct] - [Wes] Woo-hoo! 937 00:39:15,172 --> 00:39:17,482 [James] Oh, my God! [bleep] yeah! 938 00:39:17,482 --> 00:39:18,931 [Carlos] That's a gold nugget. 939 00:39:18,931 --> 00:39:20,517 [laughs] [bleep] yeah. 940 00:39:20,517 --> 00:39:22,000 Look at this. 941 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,482 [James] Oh, my God. 942 00:39:24,482 --> 00:39:25,793 - That's a nugget. - [Paul] Yeah! 943 00:39:27,103 --> 00:39:29,000 - Yeah, Carlos! - [Carlos] That's a gold nugget! 944 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,310 Woo-hoo! Yeah! 945 00:39:31,310 --> 00:39:32,448 [Wes] We knew it! 946 00:39:32,448 --> 00:39:34,827 - [Paul] Yeah. - [Wes] First gold ever this early! 947 00:39:34,827 --> 00:39:37,413 Oh, my God! 948 00:39:38,931 --> 00:39:41,000 [Wes] That was in the [bleep] nugget trap. 949 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,517 Let's check it, man. Turn it off. 950 00:39:42,517 --> 00:39:44,689 - Let's check it. - Holy [bleep]. 951 00:39:44,689 --> 00:39:46,241 [laughs] 952 00:39:46,241 --> 00:39:47,965 [Wes] Holy [bleep]. 953 00:39:47,965 --> 00:39:49,517 [Paul] Look right there. There's another one. 954 00:39:49,517 --> 00:39:50,896 [James] It just seems like we're gonna be 955 00:39:50,896 --> 00:39:52,655 big nuggets from here on out, man. 956 00:39:52,655 --> 00:39:54,241 [Paul] Look at that mother [bleep]. 957 00:39:54,241 --> 00:39:55,758 [laughs] man. 958 00:39:55,758 --> 00:39:58,103 [James] How much hard pack did you break up? 959 00:39:58,103 --> 00:40:00,275 - [Paul] It's a small section. - It's a small pack, dude. 960 00:40:00,275 --> 00:40:01,724 [Paul] That's what they said. 961 00:40:01,724 --> 00:40:03,551 Everything is under that hard pack. 962 00:40:04,379 --> 00:40:05,655 - Oh. - Dude. 963 00:40:05,655 --> 00:40:06,551 [Dustin] Hey... 964 00:40:09,379 --> 00:40:10,551 this is awesome. 965 00:40:10,551 --> 00:40:12,655 It's not just stories anymore. 966 00:40:12,655 --> 00:40:14,310 - [Paul] Nope. - This place is for real. 967 00:40:14,310 --> 00:40:15,655 [Paul] Yup. 968 00:40:15,655 --> 00:40:17,551 We were missing one major thing 969 00:40:17,551 --> 00:40:19,137 and it was bunch of damn nuggets 970 00:40:19,137 --> 00:40:20,586 sitting at the bottom. 971 00:40:20,586 --> 00:40:22,000 Now we're not missing that anymore. 972 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,586 No. No, we're not. 973 00:40:23,586 --> 00:40:25,413 Your protocol is perfect, man. 974 00:40:25,413 --> 00:40:26,586 [Wes] Yeah! 975 00:40:26,586 --> 00:40:27,793 [Carlos] Nugget Creek. 976 00:40:27,793 --> 00:40:29,724 Yeah. Okay. Yeah, it is Nugget Creek. 977 00:40:29,724 --> 00:40:32,137 This is gonna be a small nugget out here. 978 00:40:32,137 --> 00:40:33,689 - [Carlos] These are for us. - [Wes] Oh, yeah. 979 00:40:33,689 --> 00:40:35,586 [Carlos] Gold, gold, gold. 980 00:40:35,586 --> 00:40:36,896 [Paul] We needed that so bad. 981 00:40:36,896 --> 00:40:38,931 - Oh, my God. - Oh, my God. 982 00:40:38,931 --> 00:40:40,827 - I can't believe that. - [Carlos] Look at that thing. 983 00:40:40,827 --> 00:40:42,758 [chuckling] 984 00:40:44,448 --> 00:40:47,275 Finally all this hard work is gonna pay off. 985 00:40:48,034 --> 00:40:50,586 All the near-death incidents, 986 00:40:51,413 --> 00:40:53,206 all the chances we take, 987 00:40:53,206 --> 00:40:55,758 all the heartbreak and all the cheering. 988 00:40:57,862 --> 00:40:59,379 Here we come. 989 00:40:59,379 --> 00:41:00,896 This is our year. 990 00:41:02,310 --> 00:41:03,965 [chuckles] 991 00:41:03,965 --> 00:41:07,000 [dramatic music playing] 992 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,896 [narrator] On the next Gold Rush White Water... 993 00:41:11,896 --> 00:41:16,344 The possibilities are so full cup right now. 994 00:41:16,344 --> 00:41:18,724 That's what's going on. 995 00:41:18,724 --> 00:41:20,310 This place is dangerous, man. 996 00:41:20,310 --> 00:41:21,827 [Carlos] He's doing it without a net. 997 00:41:21,827 --> 00:41:23,482 - Whoa. - Gotta keep my guys safe. 998 00:41:23,482 --> 00:41:24,793 - [Wes] Hey! - [Paul] Go, Wes. 999 00:41:24,793 --> 00:41:26,103 - Run, run! - Whoa! 1000 00:41:26,103 --> 00:41:27,551 [Carlos] I don't know where to go, it's too shallow. 1001 00:41:27,551 --> 00:41:28,862 - No gold? - [Paul] I don't see 1002 00:41:28,862 --> 00:41:30,896 - a [bleep] speck. - [Dustin] Goddamn. 1003 00:41:30,896 --> 00:41:32,965 That's a lot of damn work just to no something. 1004 00:41:32,965 --> 00:41:34,448 [Paul] All that effort for nothing. 1005 00:41:34,448 --> 00:41:35,689 That's the end to this. 1006 00:41:35,689 --> 00:41:38,034 [tense music playing]