[Paul laughing, whopping]
It's a [bleep] nugget!
[Dustin] No way!
- [Paul] I'm not [bleep] a nugget! - A nugget?
- [Paul] That's a [bleep] nugget! - That's a nugget!
- I told you. - [Paul exclaims] Whoo!
[narrator] On their first dive,
just three weeks into the season,
Dustin Hurt and his crew had a breakthrough.
- [all exclaiming] - Oh, my God!
- [bleep] - [all exclaiming]
[narrator] Their new dive site, Nugget Bend,
is living up to its name.
- Yeah! - [Carlos] Best gold ever this early.
[Paul] Right there, there's another one.
- [James] Oh, yeah! - [Carlos] Oh, my God!
[Paul] Nugget Bend! Yes!
It just seems like there are gonna be big nuggets from here on out, man.
[Dustin] So, it's not just stories.
It's not just stories!
[Paul] Everything we've heard is true now.
That's a lot of money right there.
Wow. This is what we needed.
- [all exclaiming] - [Paul] We needed this so bad.
[Dustin] This is awesome.
[laughs]
Finally, all this hard work is gonna pay off.
Here we come.
This is our year.
[laughs]
There's a lot of water, boys.
[Carlos] It's going to flood like crazy.
This place is dangerous, man.
[Carlos] Whoa! Hey!
[Dustin] The gold is great, but not worth your life.
Look, it knocked the top of the weir off.
It's a huge setback.
Get up there!
[Dustin] I don't know that we're gonna find any damn fine gold, yo.
We haven't seen nothing in inspection mats.
[Carlos] You got gold!
You got gold!
[whoops]
I'd say that's at least 1,200 bucks.
No one's been here, ever.
[laughs] Yeah!
It doesn't get any better than this.
I love it, just getting started.
[Paul] It's like Christmas morning right now, man.
Well, we found our first nug, yo.
And it didn't take much.
When I picked it up, it's like, "Holy [bleep] Look at that."
[Wes] Not flakes, not specks...
- Nuggets. - [James laughs]
[James] Last year was a nightmare,
and this year, we have to make up for it.
[narrator] Striking out last season
has left Dustin and his crew close to broke.
- We needed a win. - Definitely needed that.
[narrator] But rumors of a life changing pay day
lured them back for one last shot
at Nugget Creek's legendary gold.
[Paul] I mean, whenever on the first dive have we ever pulled out gold?
Yeah, it sounds like everybody that's been here in the past,
all they did is went behind boulders
and just hit little spots.
They don't think they ever touched bedrock.
- I love it. - The motivation is here now.
[narrator] This season,
Dustin also has another more personal reason driving him.
[Dustin] So, y'all know Fred's not doing that good.
He is celebrating his 80th birthday next week,
so I'll be gone for a couple days.
So, how long did they give you?
Anywhere from few months...
to six months.
It's progressing every day.
Sorry to hear that, Fred.
It's too bad.
[narrator] Dustin's father and mentor,
79-year-old, Fred Hurt
has been diagnosed with incurable brain tumors.
Hopefully, we make it long enough to where we can...
- show you some gold. - That's my goal. [laughs]
Go hold out long enough to see some gold come out of Nugget Creek.
[Dustin] I love you.
Hope we get to see you again.
All right.
So, I'll be going to Fred's 80th birthday
- to show him some nuggets. - Yep.
[James] We're motivated, but guess what,
that just motivates us more and more.
Sounds like we're cracking the code on this, man. I'm loving it.
We're all gonna be fighting who goes in next?
"It's my turn."
"No, you dove last time."
"No, I wanna go again."
[all laughing]
[Dustin] I think this nugget is gonna be the baby.
It's gonna pay off, finally.
Life altering gold.
[Paul] This is what we've been looking for all these years.
It's going to be the best year we have ever had.
[narrator] This off-season,
Dustin got his hands on an old map
that increased his claim boundary by 250 feet,
gifting him Nugget Bend
which is already yielding big gold.
[Paul] Oh, look at that clear water.
Can't wait to get suited up and get in.
See if we can put a lot more gold in the box today.
[Wes] Well, we got Paul in diving today.
We're just working upstream
trying to find the deep spot,
trying to find all the gold.
Hopefully, it's gonna be a great day today.
[narrator] Dustin has a radical new mining plan
that should make this season a success.
[Dustin] So, we built this weir,
we're trying to keep all the fast water on that side,
keep control on this side.
[narrator] He's diverted the main flow of the creek
by building a rock weir
which creates a calm shallow area for the divers to dredge down
to bedrock gold.
- [Dustin] All right, A-Team, get in the [bleep] water. - Do it!
Let's find some gold!
[narrator] Paul's goal is to pick up the hunt
where Carlos left off.
[Paul] It's time to start dredging.
I am so curious to see what's on the bedrock.
[narrator] Using a six inch hose
Paul will suck up all the loose material
covering bedrock,
sending it to the sluice box above.
[Paul] Hopefully, there's tons of gold in there.
[narrator] Gravity then separates the lighter gravel
and the riffles will trap all the heavy gold.
[Paul] Oh, wow.
So, now, I'm following the crack that's going upstream.
Just like your riffles in the sluice box.
This is a natural riffle through here.
[Wes] That part hardpack right there?
[Paul] That's what it seems like.
I see some red coming up.
[Dustin] Why don't you follow that for a little while,
see what you get down to.
[narrator] Paul has discovered a crack in the bedrock
towards the center of the creek
that could be a major gold trap.
Even better, it contains red hardpack.
A compacted gravel laid down thousands of years ago
that often delivers their best gold.
He's getting into that crimson pack
that's been there since Ice Age.
That's a seal to let everybody know,
no one's been here, ever.
Hey, you want the sprayer?
[Paul] That's probably not a bad idea.
Hardpack nozzle coming up.
[narrator] To release the trapped gold,
Dustin brings in a high pressure hose
to blast the hardpack.
- [Dustin] I'm turning it on. You ready? - [Paul] Yep.
[Dustin] And... power.
Holy [bleep] Yeah! There it is!
That's hardpack!
Cha-ching!
[Dustin] This is working out for us, hopefully.
I think we're about to hit it big, man.
[Paul] Now, it's time to get some gold.
[narrator] After an hour of blasting hardpack...
[Dustin] You look like you're making some good progress.
Check the sluice box.
[narrator] ...it's time to see if it's delivering.
[James laughing] Yeah, I see gold.
[Wes] Yeah, there's a big, big nugget there, Dustin.
- [Dustin] A big nug? - [Wes] Right there.
Paul's on the scoreboard for getting nuggets.
[Paul] Hell yeah.
[narrator] The central bedrock crack is already paying out.
Nugget Bend continues to yield big gold.
This will be the season
that changes their lives forever.
[Wes] That's pretty.
[Paul] It doesn't get any better than this.
[Carlos exclaims] Yeah!
Second day in a row, we've got gold.
We're gonna be getting gold every day now!
- [exclaims] Whoo! - [all laughing]
[Dustin] I love it.
We're just getting started.
[narrator] Up ahead...
[Dustin] I see a storm coming.
That's the end of this.
Talk about a blind date that went wrong.
There it is. Look, that.
Gold, gold, gold!
Cha-ching!
I can deal with that.
[Paul] I got high hopes.
There's gonna be a lot more nuggets today.
Hey, man, let's see how much you can get out of that hole today, all right?
[Paul] Copy that.
[narrator] At Nugget Bend,
just three weeks into the season,
Dustin and his crew are already on the gold.
[Wes] Look at that! Whoo!
- Look at that! [bleep] - Look at that!
That's way more than before.
Wow!
[narrator] Now, Paul is chasing a central bedrock crack
containing red hardpack and nuggets.
[Dustin] That's the stuff we're looking for right there.
[on radio] Is there a jackpot down there?
Paul made some really good progress
coming up five feet up the creek.
[Dustin] [bleep] He's digging a lot.
Ooh, you see that?
I see a storm coming, we're gonna get floods.
[thunder rumbling]
[Dustin] Well, there's work to be done, but...
starting to see this rain and it starts to make me nervous.
- You know? - [Wes] Yeah.
I don't like that I have a diver in the water.
Water is gonna come up.
And the only thing I'm worried about is that
weir blowing out.
[narrator] Light rain down at Nugget Creek
typically signals heavier rains in the mountains above.
[dramatic music playing]
[Dustin] See, this is what gets people killed right here.
[narrator] Last season...
What the hell?
A tidal wave can come in anytime!
Here we go again.
[narrator] ...the miners were hit by life threatening flash floods.
[Dustin] They're almost trapped.
Get out! You gotta go!
[narrator] Dustin knows Nugget Creek can turn deadly in an instant.
I'm waiting for a very, very large rush of water to come through here.
[Carlos] That's Alaska.
This is just the beginning.
Tonight, it's really going to come down.
That means it's going to flood like crazy.
It's going to come like fricking racehorses.
[narrator] His diver is in the water for three hours...
- [Paul] I need to get out. - [Dustin] Coming up!
Diver coming up!
[narrator] Dustin makes the call.
Heck, yeah.
[narrator] The risk isn't worth the reward.
How are you doing? Welcome to the real world.
Oh, man.
Looks miserable up here.
[Dustin laughing] It is miserable up here.
I'm gonna go change real quick. I'm getting cold.
[Dustin] Okay, go for it.
Carlos.
James.
Let's get that big hose out of there.
[Carlos] Gotcha.
[Dustin] Let's get everything up the hill right now.
Let's get it to where the flood is not gonna take it, man.
Watch your heads down there, guys.
We're gonna come up with this hose.
[James] One, two, three... [grunts]
One, two, three... [grunts]
[grunting]
- [Carlos] Watch out. - [James] Hey!
- Whoa! - [Carlos] Look out, look out.
[Dustin] You all right?
[James] How's it going?
Ooh, that was close.
Dude, that rock almost killed you.
Damn.
Good thing nobody was inside.
It was... vacant.
There it is, right there.
We just put a little ventilation in, is all.
[Paul] There you go. [laughs]
[Dustin] We gotta check the box.
[narrator] Before they hoist the dredge to safety,
it's time to see what Paul's dive delivered.
[Carlos] There it is. Look, that.
Gold, gold, gold.
[Paul] Oh, I see a piece right there.
[Carlos] Oh, there was one right there.
[Paul] Yeah, that's a pretty good one.
[Carlos] That's a good nugget right there.
- You hear that? - [Paul laughing] Wow!
[Carlos] Cha-ching!
[Paul laughs] It actually looks better than I thought.
I can deal with that.
It's going to happen, man.
[Dustin] Wow.
I got a feeling we're finally on it.
We should get gold every day now
if we keep our system going.
[Paul] I'm excited about this.
If we can keep doing this every day,
by the end of the season,
we're gonna have a lot of gold.
[narrator] But the approaching storm threatens to end their hot streak
and destroy the dive site.
[Dustin] Well, it's forecasting for rain today and hard tomorrow.
I'm thinking about an inch of rain,
which to us is devastating.
[thunder rumbling]
[Dustin] We just have to get out of here, it's not safe.
Boy, that rain wake you up last night or did me?
- [Paul] Yeah, it did. - [laughs hysterically]
Especially, when it picked up 'cause that's all I got to think about like--
Somewhere about ten-eleven o'clock,
it was like... boom!
[groans] Damn it!
James was supposed to dive today,
but I'm gonna hold him back.
On a day like this,
it's just bad idea to go diving.
[narrator] Twelve straight hours of overnight rain
could trigger a flash flood or deadly landslide.
[Dustin] Today, let's do some camp stuff.
I do feel weird about not diving right now
knowing there's gold down there.
The gold is great, but not worth your life.
[narrator] The crew will wait for a break in the weather
before assessing the damage.
It's not worth the risk.
I mean, we know what this creek does when it floods.
Better safe than sorry.
But it's not worth getting anybody killed over.
[Dustin] Hey, Wes.
- We believe the water is gonna be up real high. - [Wes] Mm-hmm.
And I was thinking...
let's just do a cleanup.
[narrator] All the nuggets put aside,
Wes runs the rest of the heavy material from the sluice box
to extract the fine gold.
I'm curious to see what we got.
Shall we?
[Paul] I think we shall.
[narrator] Brothers Wes and Paul built this mini trommel.
Inside the cylinder,
the water washes away the worthless dirt and gravel
allowing all fine gold
to drop into the sluice box
and settle in the green catches below.
[Dustin] Well, I'm damn curious.
- I haven't seen a single thing, man. - [Wes] Uh-huh.
Nope.
I don't know that we're gonna find any damn fine gold, yo.
I think there's nothing but nugs down there.
[narrator] Though Dustin is already finding more nuggets than ever,
to avoid the failure of last season,
he's also banking on fine gold
to drive up their gold totals.
[Paul] Abysmal, huh?
I don't think there's much in there.
[James] Quarter ounce or less.
[Paul] We'll see, we'll weigh it and figure out what we actually got.
[Paul] So far it looks like just nothing but big nuggets.
There is no fine gold at all.
[Dustin] I agree.
[narrator] Just three weeks into his mining season,
this is Dustin's earliest gold weigh ever.
What's in the bucket?
What's in the dirt?
[narrator] And though Nugget Bend produced some pickers,
it's delivered zero fine gold.
What do you think that single nugget is?
[Paul] We can sure find out real quick.
- This is Carlos'. - [Dustin] Amazing.
- [Carlos] What is that? - [Paul] 0.44.
- [Carlos exclaims] Yeah! - [Paul] That's that one nugget.
That's almost half an ounce just for that one nugget.
I say that's at least 1,200 bucks.
[Dustin] That's it. So, the rest of it.
[narrator] Next up, the smaller nuggets from Paul's dive.
[Dustin] What is it?
1.045.
- Nailed it. - [Carlos] That's after two dives, dude.
[narrator] Despite the lack of fine gold,
in just two dives,
Dustin has mined over an ounce.
With jewelry grade nuggets,
that's worth around $3,000.
And they've barely scratched the surface.
We're gonna do it this year.
[Paul] So, how cool would that be to be
able to send a big old pan of gold
for Fred's birthday.
- I'm pretty damn excited about it. - [Paul] Yeah, me, too.
[narrator] Dustin's on track to keep his promise
for Fred's 80th birthday next week.
[Dustin] We see an ounce in two days,
that's pretty awesome.
That's a big deal for us.
We're doing this by hand. It's not...
It's not the same as going 30,000 ounces in a year.
Yeah, you spent $20 million doing it.
So, this is not that.
We are poor men doing this junk.
It's time to get back out and dig.
[narrator] As the rain eases,
Dustin's crew race to inspect the mine site.
[Dustin] I do believe that the flood came through.
We're gonna go check it out.
[Paul] We lose our dredge, our season's over.
[Dustin] Holy [bleep]
A lot of water, boys!
Look, it knocked the top of the weir off.
Oh [bleep]
It's a huge setback.
[narrator] The dredge is safe,
but the large rocks
which formed the protected upper weir
have washed down into the dive hole.
[Dustin] So, our main focus should be on building that weir up.
The higher you build that weir,
the better it's gonna be for us.
[Paul] That's true, that's true.
- [Dustin] All right? - [Paul] Yep!
[Dustin] This place is dangerous, man.
I gotta keep my guys safe.
We just gonna have to slow this water down
because it's raging.
[James grunts]
[Dustin] We don't build that weir up another foot,
this whole thing is gonna just fill in that quick.
[narrator] Before they can get back to the gold,
they need to haul several tons of rocks and boulders
out of the dive hole.
[James] You know what another thing would be cool?
Because we had a redirect there.
I could take one of these board, put it across,
and go over there and drill a hole real quick.
[Paul] Oh, put a redirect right up in that little area?
Yeah, and just run it through that one and that one.
Maybe pull some of these rocks.
[narrator] James's plan,
anchor a redirect pulley
into the rock face on the far side of the creek.
Then, use the capstan winch cable
to make light work of hauling the boulders
out of the dive site
and back on to the weir.
[James] Can't tell how deep it is.
[exclaims] Ah!
[narrator] But first, James needs to cross the raging White Water.
[James] I'm trying to use the ladder as a bridge.
Problem is it's so light, it wants to go down stream.
And downstream does not look fun.
That might work.
Little sketchy, but...
[exclaims] Ah, that's dangerous.
Nice and slow.
Oh, man.
[Paul] Okay?
- [motor whirring] - [James] Oh, yeah.
That's going.
Yeah, it's pretty good.
- [grunts] - [Carlos] Perfect catch.
Caught it by the chain.
[exclaims] Who-hoo-hoo!
Just living on the edge.
- Whoa! - [Carlos] Yeah!
[James] Yeah, let's go swimming!
And ladies and gentlemen, he's doing it without a net!
[James] Let's get it. Let's pull some rocks!
Let's see if it works.
It's holding.
Good, good, yeah!
[Carlos] All right, Wes!
- That's bedrock or boulder? - [James] That's a boulder.
I think the capstan will pull that, too.
[Carlos] Yeah, that's it.
Get it up there!
Come on.
- Hell, yeah! - [James] Let's [bleep] go!
[Dustin] There it goes.
Put that in my resume, "Rock mover."
- [Dustin] Good work today, y'all. - [James] Thanks, man.
[Dustin] We got a bunch of damn work.
We're gonna call it a day.
And start fresh with some hopeful enthusiasm tomorrow.
We got the weir fixed.
It's starting to look good.
It's starting to work out.
[narrator] The weir finally rebuilt,
the crew are eager to get back on the gold.
[Paul] Now, you know the rule, right? No gold, no dinner.
- [James] Yeah. - [all laughing]
[breathes heavily through tank]
[Dustin] How's the air?
Good air? All right.
Mask. Gloves.
Hit the [bleep] in the water!
Let's get some gold.
[narrator] Picking up where Paul left off,
James will continue dredging the central bedrock crack.
[James] Okay, I'm gonna start dragging. Ready?
Throttle up.
[singing] I'm begging for...
I'm begging...
[Dustin] That's interesting.
Turn it a little bit.
Right angle.
[James] Feels like this.
And in it, it's just a crack going down.
It's vertical.
Dude, they have hardpack in it.
[Dustin] That's interesting.
I don't know what to do.
That's the dilemma.
[narrator] The crew are at a crossroads...
Continue on the gold carrying crack upstream
or chase the 90 degree split towards the bank
as it cuts straight across the creek.
It could be an even better gold trap.
[Dustin] That's what we're looking for.
And it's got hardpack at the bottom.
[narrator] Dustin must decide which way to continue dredging.
I bet, follows it, it comes right here.
Ninety degrees.
Let's do it.
- [Dustin] So exciting, man. - [Paul] I know, right?
I hope we're right about this.
The only person to blame when this is over with
if I fail is me.
Pick it up, James.
I can't wait to see what's in the box
after what he's doing right there.
[Carlos exclaims] Oh-ho-ho!
[whoops]
You got gold! You got gold!
It's a pretty good size little nugget.
[James] Is it a nice one?
[Dustin] James!
[James exclaims]
Let's start!
First nugget of the day.
[narrator] Up ahead...
[Carlos] Yeah!
That is a pocket.
That's exactly the words I wanted to hear.
I'll bet this is a little plunge pool right here.
[laughs, exclaims] Yeah!
Got a nugget out already.
Fricking amazing, man.
[narrator] Three hours into his dive...
[James] I'm loving this, man.
[narrator] ...James is already finding gold.
Dustin's decision to move away from the central crack
and follow its 90 degree offshoot
is paying off.
[Dustin] I have a feeling
that he's gonna follow that crack and it's gonna come up here.
Right underneath this.
We'll see.
You know what, at the end, we'll know all about this area.
- [Wes] Yeah. - But right now, it's just speculation
and that's fun.
Now, follow that damn wall all the way down.
[James] Okay.
There's a lot of rocks in here.
I think he's gonna work his ass off
to try to put more gold in the box
than I did or Carlos did.
[James] I literally just uncovered the bedrock
and I'm going that way
and I'm kind of trying to clean this out.
[grunts] My right hand is cold.
- [Paul] Really? - [James] Yeah.
Cold, cold, cold.
[narrator] The temperature in the glacier fed creek
is just 35 degrees.
[James] Ah, brain freeze.
Ah, every time I sit up, it's [bleep] cold!
[James grunts] Man, it's cold!
Hey, man, you're having too many problems,
- you want to come out? - [James] Yeah.
[Dustin] All right, come on out.
[James] That was miserable.
[narrator] On the brink of hypothermia,
James is forced to cut his dive short.
[Carlos] Hey, we got any gold?
[Paul] Nope.
[Carlos] Are you [bleep] serious? No gold?
[Dustin] We had one nug, that was it.
- [Paul] That's it. - [Wes] So far.
Nothing to jump and scream about today.
One piece of [bleep] gold today, that's all.
One [bleep] piece.
[Dustin] So, this is what I'm worried about.
[narrator] The nugget count's dropping,
the further they move away from the main crack in the center of the creek.
We're gonna put Carlos in there tomorrow.
I need to know exactly what's going on in there.
Let's get out there and I need to know what that hole is.
I'm not gonna spend another day on it
if there's no gold in it today.
[narrator] Determined to find out once and for all
if his gamble is going to pay off...
[Dustin] All right, Carlos.
You're gonna be diving today.
[narrator] ...Dustin sends in his most experienced diver.
- [Dustin] get in the water. - [Paul] Jump right in.
[Carlos] Today, I'm back in the water.
There's no telling what is still down there.
You know what I mean?
Ah, this just can't be it.
[Dustin] All right, we're good.
[Carlos] All right. Good? All right.
Diver in.
[Paul] So, the mission right now is we're gonna
move all these rocks out that we can get,
so Carlos can just move right up in here
and see what the terrain looks like.
We're gonna stop pulling all the [bleep]
[Wes] Yeah.
[James laughs]
[bleep] perfect.
We got a good system going.
Boy, we're making some progress today.
[lilting music playing]
[Dustin] If this goes deep,
we're gonna have lots of gold.
And if it doesn't go deep, we ain't gonna have squat.
[Carlos] Look at this, man. Fricking huge progress.
[narrator] Carlos has been diving for four hours.
[Carlos] Oh, yeah!
God damn pocket.
So, it goes down?
[Carlos] Yep, it's finally going down right here.
Hell, yeah, that's what we're looking for, man.
I'll bet this is a little plunge pool right here.
[narrator] At the creek edge,
Carlos has discovered a depression in the bedrock.
Which, combined with slow water flow on the inside of the bend
creates a perfect formation
to trap monster nuggets.
[Dustin] With any luck, we'll find all the gold we could stuff in our pockets.
It'd be amazing.
[Carlos] I'm tired, dude.
[Dustin] You still alive, man?
[Carlos] Yeah, still there.
I gotta take a break man.
I can't get up.
He got turtled!
[all laughing]
[Carlos] I'm stuck, man. I can't get up.
[Dustin] Don't help him.
Come on, he's got this.
- [Wes laughs] - [Dustin] He's only got one set of weights on.
- Oh, come on! - [laughs]
[all laughing]
Holy [bleep]
There he goes!
[all laughing]
[Carlos] This thing is still pulling down into the mountain, dude.
[narrator] At Nugget Bend,
Carlos has discovered a plunge pool.
There's no two ways about it,
that's exactly the words I wanted to hear.
[narrator] Dustin's decision to move away from the center of the creek
could be about to pay off like never before.
This is awesome. We're gonna find out what's up in this corner.
It looks promising.
- [Carlos] So far, so good. - [Dustin] Yeah.
[Carlos] It's gonna be a good day, a great day.
[James] Wow, look at that stuff he's dredging.
Just red.
We're moving so much rock today.
Look at how much we've uncovered.
Looks like a fricking island sitting in there.
[Carlos] What the [bleep]
Holy moly, I'm trying to go back...
I don't know where to go.
[Dustin] You can't go up there?
[Carlos] It's too shallow.
Like, this is all as far as I did right up here.
This won't come up, you can't come up this right here.
[Carlos] Uh-uh. I'm at bedrock right here.
[Dustin] You got to be [bleep] kidding me, man.
[narrator] The bedrock is rising
around Carlos' shallow plunge pool.
It's not the deep gold trap they were hoping for.
I don't know what to say.
I thought this would go deep enough right here.
[Carlos] So did I.
So, this looked like it was gonna dip out right here.
But apparently it's just getting shallower just like everything else.
There should be some bunch of gold in it, but...
I don't think that's the case.
Very disappointing.
Let's pop you out of there, man.
[Carlos] Copy that.
[Carlos grunts]
[Dustin] Go look in the box, please.
[narrator] The sluice box will reveal if Carlos' shallow plunge pool
was deep enough to trap some big gold.
No gold in that side.
Nothing.
I don't visibly see a [bleep] speck.
No gold?
God damn!
That's a lot of damn work just to know something.
- So, no gold at all. - Nothing.
[Dustin] Ah, damn it!
Need be lucky, just once.
- Everything says go back to the middle. - [Wes] Yep.
[Dustin] Stop playing around with the sides, go back to the middle.
- That's the end of this. - [Wes] Yeah.
[Dustin] Stupid!
[narrator] Dustin's gamble to leave the nugget rich centerline of the creek
has cost them precious time in their short mining season.
[Dustin groans] Ah!
I'm so over this [bleep] spot.
I need to be right once in seven years.
Come on, man!
[Carlos] Talk about a blind date that went wrong.
The gold is not in that perfect gold catch
that Mother Nature has produced for us.
It broke our fricking hearts.
[James] All that effort for nothing.
Back to the middle.
That's all we can do is go back to the middle
where we were finding nuggets the first day.
[Dustin] It's like a big waste of time.
I'm sick of not finding gold.
I don't know how these guys keep having faith in me.
[narrator] Next time on Gold Rush White Water...
[dramatic music swells]
- [Paul] What the [bleep] we got going on here? - [Carlos] What the hell!
I'm a little frustrated. I'm not putting gold in the box.
To me, this is a waste of time.
[Dustin] Oh! [bleep]
[Fred] Are you getting some gold?
Wow.
Yee-haw!
[Fred laughs]
[all singing] Happy birthday to you!
[Paul] Yeah, we got it!
[Dustin] Oh, thank God.
- [Wes laughs] - Thank God.