1 00:00:06,793 --> 00:00:08,172 [heavy breathing under water] 2 00:00:09,413 --> 00:00:10,689 [man] Are you kidding me? 3 00:00:11,413 --> 00:00:13,068 [exclaims] You mother [bleep]. 4 00:00:14,827 --> 00:00:17,000 [man] Hey, James. What you seeing down there, man? 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,000 [James] I saw a nugget and I was gonna grab it with my hands. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:21,206 But now it's clouded out. 7 00:00:21,206 --> 00:00:23,620 Don't worry about having to pick them up by hand, 8 00:00:23,620 --> 00:00:26,655 All you gotta do is just suck it up and get in there. 9 00:00:28,689 --> 00:00:31,482 [James] I can actually see everything. 10 00:00:31,482 --> 00:00:33,931 [Dustin] I've spent many years looking for this stuff. 11 00:00:33,931 --> 00:00:37,000 I'd like to actually succeed and blow this all the way. 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,655 We get enough gold, it might just make it worth it. 13 00:00:40,310 --> 00:00:41,862 Might just make it worth it. 14 00:00:43,379 --> 00:00:45,068 [James] Oh... [laughs] 15 00:00:46,379 --> 00:00:47,862 [Dustin] What's the laughing for? 16 00:00:49,586 --> 00:00:50,758 [James] I see a nugget. 17 00:00:51,413 --> 00:00:52,827 [Dustin] Is that gold? 18 00:00:52,827 --> 00:00:54,758 - [James] Nugget. - [Dustin] Yeah! 19 00:00:56,620 --> 00:00:59,586 - Pretty good when you can see 'em. - Holy crap! 20 00:00:59,586 --> 00:01:01,655 - Look at that. Oh, my God. - [all laughs] 21 00:01:02,586 --> 00:01:05,103 [Dustin] I'll be damned, man. Now, that's heavy. 22 00:01:05,103 --> 00:01:06,689 That is coming! 23 00:01:06,689 --> 00:01:10,103 He brought out a nugget, man, in his hands. 24 00:01:10,103 --> 00:01:12,896 [Dustin] You're in a damn good spot right now, man. 25 00:01:12,896 --> 00:01:14,689 [man] It's gonna be hard to get him out of the water today. 26 00:01:14,689 --> 00:01:16,344 He's gonna wanna keep going after that gold. 27 00:01:17,793 --> 00:01:19,551 [James] I'm a-digging fool... 28 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:22,172 He's about to hit a huge pocket. 29 00:01:22,586 --> 00:01:23,965 [James laughs] 30 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,413 [Dustin] There we go. 31 00:01:29,413 --> 00:01:32,862 You've got a couple of big rocks moving through there above your head. 32 00:01:33,827 --> 00:01:35,172 [man] Holy [bleep]. 33 00:01:35,172 --> 00:01:37,068 [man] Hey, watch out. Back up, back up, back up, back up, back up. 34 00:01:37,068 --> 00:01:38,655 - [man] Holy... - [Dustin] Yeah. 35 00:01:41,482 --> 00:01:44,068 [Dustin] Hey, guys. I got some bad news. 36 00:01:44,482 --> 00:01:45,758 Uh, Fred died. 37 00:01:48,413 --> 00:01:50,793 [man] We've gotta push extra hard this year for him. 38 00:01:50,793 --> 00:01:53,275 But he'd want us to work, right? [chuckles weakly] 39 00:01:58,206 --> 00:01:59,551 [man] We need to find more gold. 40 00:02:00,068 --> 00:02:01,379 Oh, my God! 41 00:02:01,379 --> 00:02:02,448 Hey, look at that. 42 00:02:03,482 --> 00:02:04,896 Big nuggets. 43 00:02:04,896 --> 00:02:06,379 We got a future, dude. 44 00:02:06,379 --> 00:02:11,172 If all the stories are true, that one ounce nugget is just the beginning. 45 00:02:26,275 --> 00:02:27,862 [Dustin] Yee-haw. 46 00:02:29,379 --> 00:02:32,689 [narrator] Dustin Hurt battles the wild circle river. 47 00:02:35,103 --> 00:02:37,724 Desperate to get back on the hunt for gold, 48 00:02:37,724 --> 00:02:40,137 at his remote nugget creek claim. 49 00:02:42,689 --> 00:02:46,275 [man over radio] It's the longest break I've ever had out here. It's time to grind. 50 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,551 [narrator] Last week, Dustin made the 1,200 mile trek to Oregon. 51 00:02:53,620 --> 00:02:54,931 [Fred] Well, hello there. 52 00:02:54,931 --> 00:02:59,000 [narrator] To celebrate his father's 80th birthday. 53 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,793 I just wanna let you know that I'm glad that you guys have passed through my life. 54 00:03:04,896 --> 00:03:08,379 And, hope you meet some people as nice as me. 55 00:03:08,379 --> 00:03:10,068 [all laughs] 56 00:03:13,413 --> 00:03:16,448 He made it to his 80th birthday party. That's a big deal. 57 00:03:17,586 --> 00:03:18,551 So... 58 00:03:19,103 --> 00:03:21,103 Time to get back to work. 59 00:03:21,103 --> 00:03:23,344 Time to get digging, see what the guys are up to. 60 00:03:25,896 --> 00:03:28,275 - [man] Sounds like Dustin's back. - [man 1] Dustin's back. 61 00:03:29,689 --> 00:03:31,586 [Dustin] What's up, fellas? 62 00:03:31,586 --> 00:03:34,172 - [man] How's it going? - It's going. I'm back. 63 00:03:34,172 --> 00:03:37,172 - How's everything going around here, man? - [man] Not too bad. 64 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:39,068 We had our own adventures. 65 00:03:39,068 --> 00:03:41,000 - [Dustin] Yeah? - Yeah, we did. 66 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,517 Let me show you what we pulled up. 67 00:03:42,517 --> 00:03:44,172 James found like, a handful of gold. 68 00:03:44,172 --> 00:03:46,172 Oh, man. You guys are doing it. 69 00:03:48,103 --> 00:03:50,517 [narrator] They're a hot street gun cold. 70 00:03:50,517 --> 00:03:55,551 And Dustin away, Wes took radical action to hunt down the gold. 71 00:03:57,068 --> 00:04:00,310 Wes is trying out his new witching rods. 72 00:04:00,310 --> 00:04:02,068 Maybe there's a bug nugget sitting there. 73 00:04:03,275 --> 00:04:04,586 [Wes] You see that? 74 00:04:04,586 --> 00:04:06,379 - Right here. - Right there? 75 00:04:07,620 --> 00:04:10,793 - [man] Good, man. - [Wes] Oh, yeah. 76 00:04:10,793 --> 00:04:13,482 [exclaims] Good job, amigo. 77 00:04:13,482 --> 00:04:15,965 - Fist full of nugget. - That makes me happy. 78 00:04:17,172 --> 00:04:19,689 - [Dustin] It's looking good, man. - Yeah, it's a start. 79 00:04:19,689 --> 00:04:21,724 [Carlos] Wes used some devil sticks, man. 80 00:04:21,724 --> 00:04:23,482 Hocus pocus, hocus pocus, and... 81 00:04:23,482 --> 00:04:24,896 [Dustin] You used the dowsing rods? 82 00:04:24,896 --> 00:04:27,000 [Wes] Y'all weren't supposed to tell him we used the dowsing rods. 83 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,896 That was gonna be a secret. He was never gonna know this. 84 00:04:29,896 --> 00:04:32,758 [Dustin] Nah, he already admitted it. You can't take it back now. 85 00:04:34,206 --> 00:04:36,137 [man] How's Fred doing, man? How's his party? 86 00:04:36,793 --> 00:04:38,379 Um... 87 00:04:38,379 --> 00:04:41,379 He enjoyed it. He was a little out of it. He's going. 88 00:04:41,379 --> 00:04:42,655 He's on his way out, man. 89 00:04:43,172 --> 00:04:44,793 So that's gonna happen. 90 00:04:44,793 --> 00:04:46,379 - [Carlos] I'm sorry, man. - Very, very soon. 91 00:04:46,379 --> 00:04:47,793 [Carlos] Yeah. That's a tough one, man. 92 00:04:49,103 --> 00:04:52,379 Anyway, thank you guys for stepping it up and keep on working. 93 00:04:52,379 --> 00:04:54,172 I appreciate the hell out of it. 94 00:04:54,620 --> 00:04:55,827 It was unavoidable. 95 00:04:55,827 --> 00:04:58,000 Nah. It worked out, man. Everybody vibed with each other. 96 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:00,068 You know, like we usually do. 97 00:05:00,068 --> 00:05:02,896 [Dustin] Let's go check out the site. I'd like to see what y'all got done. 98 00:05:02,896 --> 00:05:05,793 Where y'all are heading, and get back at it. 99 00:05:05,793 --> 00:05:06,827 - Yep. - All right. 100 00:05:06,827 --> 00:05:08,310 - [Carlos] Yeah. Let's do it. - Awesome. 101 00:05:11,103 --> 00:05:15,379 [Carlos] I can only imagine how it's weighing on Dustin, right now. 102 00:05:15,379 --> 00:05:19,000 I mean, he doesn't wear his feelings on his sleeves or anything like that. 103 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,172 But clearly... 104 00:05:20,896 --> 00:05:22,827 it's the same inside, man. 105 00:05:22,827 --> 00:05:24,103 That freaking sucks. 106 00:05:24,103 --> 00:05:26,931 I am glad he got to go down there and spend some time with Fred. 107 00:05:26,931 --> 00:05:28,482 That's... That's his father. 108 00:05:28,482 --> 00:05:32,068 He hasn't lost any of his parents yet. So, this is all new on him. 109 00:05:33,275 --> 00:05:36,586 [narrator] But Fred's health isn't Dustin's only concern. 110 00:05:38,275 --> 00:05:40,517 Nearly halfway through the season, 111 00:05:40,517 --> 00:05:43,275 the crew has yet to find enough gold 112 00:05:43,275 --> 00:05:45,482 to fund a future at nugget creek. 113 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,068 This is a lot of rock we moved. I'm impressed, guys. 114 00:05:53,068 --> 00:05:55,206 All right. So where did the gold come from? 115 00:05:55,206 --> 00:05:58,000 I think that line of gold was coming through right in here. 116 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,068 'Cause this is where James go into it. 117 00:06:00,068 --> 00:06:02,724 - And same with Carlos. - [Dustin] I get it. 118 00:06:02,724 --> 00:06:05,758 - So, there is a consistent line... - [man] Yes. 119 00:06:06,482 --> 00:06:08,379 that we need to follow. 120 00:06:08,379 --> 00:06:10,482 And it's got gold in it. 121 00:06:10,482 --> 00:06:13,172 Wherever it goes, that's where we go from now on. 122 00:06:13,172 --> 00:06:18,275 - Yep. - Good job, guys on working this out, while I wasn't here. 123 00:06:18,275 --> 00:06:21,689 I should take off more often is what I'm hearing, so y'all can do better. 124 00:06:21,689 --> 00:06:23,068 [all laughs] 125 00:06:23,068 --> 00:06:25,172 No, you got important things you gotta deal with and... 126 00:06:25,172 --> 00:06:28,172 - Well, we wanna find a lot of gold too. - Yep. 127 00:06:28,172 --> 00:06:31,103 All right, Carlos. You're in the water. Let's go get your gear. 128 00:06:31,103 --> 00:06:32,758 [Carlos] You tell me where to dig, I dig. 129 00:06:34,275 --> 00:06:37,793 [narrator] Carlos will move up creek and dredge down the bedrock, 130 00:06:37,793 --> 00:06:40,241 in search of the next pocket of nuggets. 131 00:06:44,068 --> 00:06:46,724 I'm gonna try to get to bedrock as quick as I can. 132 00:06:46,724 --> 00:06:50,000 And I want gold. I want that nugget. 133 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,896 [Paul] Hey, James, can you submerge that pipe? 134 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,172 [Dustin] Get it, James. 135 00:06:57,586 --> 00:06:58,758 [James] That working good? 136 00:07:01,724 --> 00:07:03,482 [Dustin] [bleep] is going on with that boat? 137 00:07:05,517 --> 00:07:06,793 Something's really wrong. 138 00:07:06,793 --> 00:07:08,655 - [Wes] The sluice box is sitting on the rocks. - [Dustin] Yeah. 139 00:07:10,275 --> 00:07:12,931 - It's sitting on the bottom. - It's sitting on the bottom. 140 00:07:12,931 --> 00:07:14,551 [Wes] The water's dropped a lot. 141 00:07:15,310 --> 00:07:16,482 [Dustin] Can we suck the water down? 142 00:07:18,379 --> 00:07:19,758 [Wes] That's got some big pumps. 143 00:07:20,275 --> 00:07:21,931 Let's make it right. 144 00:07:21,931 --> 00:07:22,896 [Carlos] We need more water. 145 00:07:22,896 --> 00:07:26,275 We're running into a weird problem that... 146 00:07:27,586 --> 00:07:30,896 we're not putting in as much water as we're taking out. 147 00:07:30,896 --> 00:07:34,379 The dredge has to have enough water to flow. 148 00:07:34,379 --> 00:07:36,586 And we're having problems with that right now. 149 00:07:36,586 --> 00:07:38,896 We just need to keep it at the right angle. 150 00:07:38,896 --> 00:07:41,068 So we don't wash any gold out. 151 00:07:42,413 --> 00:07:45,103 [narrator] The water in the dive pond is so low 152 00:07:45,103 --> 00:07:47,068 the dredge is grounded. 153 00:07:48,517 --> 00:07:50,551 The sluice box is horizontal. 154 00:07:51,827 --> 00:07:55,275 If they run the dredge, the riffles will pack up with gravel. 155 00:07:56,275 --> 00:07:58,689 And gold will flow off the end. 156 00:08:00,586 --> 00:08:03,586 Raising the water level will float the dredge. 157 00:08:03,586 --> 00:08:07,793 Putting the four foot long sluice at the optimal five degree angle, 158 00:08:07,793 --> 00:08:10,551 to catch gold in the few riffles. 159 00:08:14,793 --> 00:08:17,793 So what's happening is we gotta open this up, 160 00:08:17,793 --> 00:08:20,620 just to keep our water level up, so the dredge will keep floating. 161 00:08:20,620 --> 00:08:22,965 And keep the angle of the sluice box right. 162 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,896 [Dustin] Enough? Not enough? 163 00:08:28,896 --> 00:08:32,275 [Paul] No. It'll take a minute to fill back up. 164 00:08:32,275 --> 00:08:35,000 [Dustin] I've never had a problem with not enough water before. 165 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,620 This is my first time. 166 00:08:36,620 --> 00:08:39,413 It's always the extreme opposite of this. 167 00:08:39,413 --> 00:08:41,758 Which is, way too much water. 168 00:08:42,689 --> 00:08:44,689 [Paul] We got flow coming in now. 169 00:08:44,689 --> 00:08:46,896 [Dustin] Holy [bleep]. That's a lot of water. 170 00:08:46,896 --> 00:08:48,448 [Paul] It takes a lot of water. 171 00:08:49,206 --> 00:08:50,241 It's crazy, right? 172 00:08:50,724 --> 00:08:52,000 Water management is key. 173 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,344 Our dredge need to be floating, and now it's finally floating. 174 00:08:56,793 --> 00:08:59,103 [Dustin] Always something though. 175 00:08:59,103 --> 00:09:02,413 We can't just show up and go to work. That would be silly. 176 00:09:02,413 --> 00:09:04,655 First you have to break and fix something. 177 00:09:07,172 --> 00:09:09,068 All right. Let's see what you got. You copy? 178 00:09:09,586 --> 00:09:11,862 [Carlos] Let's go. Okay. 179 00:09:14,482 --> 00:09:15,448 [Dustin] Let's get some gold. 180 00:09:17,724 --> 00:09:21,620 [Carlos] Bingo. Life-changing gold. 181 00:09:21,620 --> 00:09:24,896 [Dustin] Last year, I went into debt. This year I need to find gold. 182 00:09:24,896 --> 00:09:26,103 And lots of it. 183 00:09:26,103 --> 00:09:28,000 [Paul] We should see some gold in the box this afternoon. 184 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,689 [James] We should. 185 00:09:29,689 --> 00:09:32,103 [Dustin] Looks like you're getting at some real material, right? 186 00:09:32,103 --> 00:09:34,482 [Carlos] Nah. It's just [bleep]. 187 00:09:35,482 --> 00:09:37,241 That's nothing. 188 00:09:37,241 --> 00:09:40,379 As I'm trying to go down, you know, all the kitty litter is coming right down on me. 189 00:09:40,379 --> 00:09:44,068 [Dustin] That white water's just dumping buckets of kitty litter. 190 00:09:44,068 --> 00:09:45,655 And it filled the damn hole right back in. 191 00:09:48,724 --> 00:09:51,482 You can see right here. This is what we call kitty litter. 192 00:09:51,482 --> 00:09:53,068 It's just pumping it in. 193 00:09:54,275 --> 00:09:55,689 Oh, [bleep]. 194 00:09:55,689 --> 00:09:57,655 [man] Hey, watch out. Back up, back up, back up, back up, back up. 195 00:09:59,068 --> 00:10:00,896 [Dustin] Holy [bleep]. 196 00:10:00,896 --> 00:10:02,275 That would have been a bad one. 197 00:10:02,275 --> 00:10:04,103 [man] Sorry, sorry, sorry. We pulled on you a little bit. 198 00:10:04,103 --> 00:10:06,379 It dropped about six rocks, man. 199 00:10:06,379 --> 00:10:09,172 [Carlos] Holy [bleep]. 200 00:10:09,172 --> 00:10:12,275 [narrator] The extra water they needed to fill their dive hole 201 00:10:12,275 --> 00:10:16,172 is now raining rocks directly on to Carlos. 202 00:10:16,172 --> 00:10:19,758 - [Carlos] Right in my wall. - And weakening their weir wall. 203 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,551 [Carlos] A lot of handfuls of rocks, man. 204 00:10:24,068 --> 00:10:25,793 [Dustin] We might have to punch a couple of holes right here. 205 00:10:25,793 --> 00:10:28,482 That's perfect. Because I thought if we let water come in from here, 206 00:10:28,482 --> 00:10:30,000 from the down side, 207 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,655 we won't bring as much kitty litter in. 208 00:10:32,482 --> 00:10:33,758 [Dustin] Let's do that, all right. 209 00:10:34,724 --> 00:10:37,931 [narrator] To stop the rocks crashing down onto the diver, 210 00:10:37,931 --> 00:10:40,793 the crew must reduce the flow from above. 211 00:10:40,793 --> 00:10:43,551 And open a side channel, down by the dredge. 212 00:10:47,620 --> 00:10:50,965 [Wes] I bet we can flip that rock over right there and probably do a lot. 213 00:11:00,068 --> 00:11:01,103 There you go. 214 00:11:01,103 --> 00:11:03,034 That's quite a bit more. That should help. 215 00:11:04,586 --> 00:11:05,655 [Dustin] Good job, guys. 216 00:11:07,896 --> 00:11:09,724 How's it looking down there? 217 00:11:09,724 --> 00:11:12,931 Same thing matches. I'm out of overburden. 218 00:11:12,931 --> 00:11:17,206 I'm just caring not to, uh, try to hit the bedrock. 219 00:11:17,206 --> 00:11:19,103 [Dustin] I think where he's at is gonna be good. 220 00:11:19,103 --> 00:11:22,172 - [Paul] So he should find gold right in there. - [Dustin] I agree. 221 00:11:33,379 --> 00:11:36,068 - How we living, Carlos? - [Carlos] Oh, it's going good, man. 222 00:11:37,379 --> 00:11:39,482 I'm not gonna go any further. 223 00:11:39,482 --> 00:11:41,172 [Dustin] Just give 'em a good, clean area today. 224 00:11:41,172 --> 00:11:42,586 - [Carlos] Yeah, that's it. - Yeah. 225 00:11:42,586 --> 00:11:46,586 - Just some overburden and we'll be done with it. - Yeah. Absolutely. 226 00:11:49,482 --> 00:11:51,482 [narrator] After a five-hour battle, 227 00:11:51,482 --> 00:11:54,068 Carlos has the dive hole at four feet. 228 00:11:55,379 --> 00:11:58,103 But is yet to reach bedrock. 229 00:11:58,103 --> 00:12:00,241 [Paul] All right. Let's get the diver up. 230 00:12:01,068 --> 00:12:03,689 Here we go. 231 00:12:03,689 --> 00:12:06,896 [Paul] He never got into any material that look like it'll have any gold in it today. 232 00:12:07,793 --> 00:12:09,310 - To be honest. - [Wes] Yeah. 233 00:12:09,310 --> 00:12:11,379 [Paul] This is all overburden, all day. 234 00:12:12,793 --> 00:12:14,103 It was a no-gold day. 235 00:12:14,103 --> 00:12:15,379 I don't like no-gold days. 236 00:12:15,379 --> 00:12:17,275 But, we got a lot of dirt moved. 237 00:12:17,275 --> 00:12:20,206 Lots, lots, lots of overburden. 238 00:12:20,206 --> 00:12:23,344 But that's no problem, man. All that is, is just a... 239 00:12:24,413 --> 00:12:26,379 a stepping stone to the gold. 240 00:12:26,379 --> 00:12:28,172 [Wes] It's got a lot of damn pyrite, though. 241 00:12:28,172 --> 00:12:29,689 [Paul] That means he's getting close though. 242 00:12:29,689 --> 00:12:31,793 Uh, dredge didn't wanna float. 243 00:12:32,620 --> 00:12:34,586 And it was tilting the wrong way. 244 00:12:34,586 --> 00:12:36,206 The sluice box was the wrong way. 245 00:12:36,206 --> 00:12:37,758 It was a lot of stuff going on. 246 00:12:39,275 --> 00:12:43,275 [Paul] Hey. I just found gold at the back of the sluice box. 247 00:12:43,275 --> 00:12:45,724 - [Dustin] What? Back there? - Yeah 248 00:12:45,724 --> 00:12:47,206 - [Dustin] Back there? - Yeah. 249 00:12:47,206 --> 00:12:48,896 - [James] Are you serious? - Yeah. 250 00:12:48,896 --> 00:12:51,586 [Carlos] We can be losing freaking gold. 251 00:12:51,586 --> 00:12:53,689 [narrator] A nugget at the bottom of the sluice... 252 00:12:54,793 --> 00:12:56,689 is a miner's worst nightmare. 253 00:12:58,103 --> 00:13:00,310 The angle is still wrong. 254 00:13:00,310 --> 00:13:04,586 And could be blowing precious gold, down the creek. 255 00:13:04,586 --> 00:13:06,000 [Paul] It was way right back in here. 256 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:07,689 That's the last place you wanna see a nugget. 257 00:13:07,689 --> 00:13:09,931 They're supposed to stay in the nugget trap. 258 00:13:09,931 --> 00:13:11,241 [James] Why are they back there? 259 00:13:11,931 --> 00:13:13,000 Well, that's kind of scary. 260 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:14,275 [Paul] First time I've never seen anything back here. 261 00:13:14,275 --> 00:13:15,620 [Wes] It shouldn't be that far back. 262 00:13:15,620 --> 00:13:16,931 [Carlos] That's scary. 263 00:13:16,931 --> 00:13:18,896 [Paul] We need to check the dredge out. 264 00:13:18,896 --> 00:13:20,793 And make sure the sluice box is sitting right. 265 00:13:20,793 --> 00:13:22,448 So we don't lose any gold. 266 00:13:38,896 --> 00:13:40,965 - [Dustin] Mornin', fellas. - [all] Mornin'. 267 00:13:43,482 --> 00:13:46,000 - [Dustin] We gotta come up with a plan. - Yeah. 268 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 We just can't afford to lose any gold. 269 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,103 [narrator] At Nugget Creek, 270 00:13:51,103 --> 00:13:54,517 the crew discovered a nugget at the bottom of their sluice, 271 00:13:54,517 --> 00:13:58,000 a sign they could be losing precious gold. 272 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,379 We need to make sure there's enough water in the digging area 273 00:14:01,379 --> 00:14:03,310 and the sluice box is at the right angle. 274 00:14:03,310 --> 00:14:05,758 - Yup. - [Dustin] We'll figure this out. But right now, 275 00:14:05,758 --> 00:14:07,931 getting a little bit behind with gold levels 276 00:14:07,931 --> 00:14:11,689 because putting a lot of gasoline out there, but, and a lot of effort. 277 00:14:11,689 --> 00:14:13,379 [James] I'm pretty sure we'll be back on the gold 278 00:14:13,379 --> 00:14:16,275 - the day after all that overburden Carlos took out. - [Paul] Yeah. 279 00:14:16,275 --> 00:14:17,793 - We're moving through it quick. - [Dustin] We're moving. 280 00:14:17,793 --> 00:14:19,206 We have to succeed this year. 281 00:14:19,206 --> 00:14:21,206 We need a bucket of gold. 282 00:14:21,206 --> 00:14:22,586 We don't want a bucket of gold. 283 00:14:22,586 --> 00:14:24,379 We need a bucket of gold to continue on. 284 00:14:24,379 --> 00:14:26,000 [James] We need to be seeing at least an ounce or two 285 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,206 in the box at the end of the day. 286 00:14:27,206 --> 00:14:28,689 - [Dustin] Yeah. - [James] At least. 287 00:14:28,689 --> 00:14:30,482 There you go. 288 00:14:30,482 --> 00:14:32,000 - All right. - [man 1] Yup. 289 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,413 - [Dustin] Let's go dig, y'all. - [Carlos] Go dig. 290 00:14:33,413 --> 00:14:34,862 [man 2] Sound like a plan. 291 00:14:35,517 --> 00:14:36,896 Grab all my dive stuff. 292 00:14:36,896 --> 00:14:38,758 [Dustin] We need real gold, 293 00:14:38,758 --> 00:14:40,655 and, uh, nobody's getting it yet. 294 00:14:42,172 --> 00:14:44,793 Hopefully today is that day that we can make some progress. 295 00:14:44,793 --> 00:14:48,206 Like, life-altering gold is what we're looking for now. 296 00:14:48,206 --> 00:14:51,068 [yawning] 297 00:14:51,068 --> 00:14:53,000 I didn't sleep well, man. 298 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,241 Too much stress. 299 00:14:54,896 --> 00:14:56,379 It was rough day. 300 00:15:02,620 --> 00:15:04,413 Everybody, get suited up. 301 00:15:04,413 --> 00:15:08,379 Let's get the angle on the sluice box perfect. 302 00:15:08,379 --> 00:15:12,172 Well, yesterday we were having big problems with the sluice box. 303 00:15:12,172 --> 00:15:14,482 Paul found a nugget all the way at the bottom, 304 00:15:14,482 --> 00:15:16,000 which we don't wanna see. 305 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,275 We wanna keep our gold up at the top. 306 00:15:18,275 --> 00:15:20,241 - Found this in the water? - [Paul] Yeah. 307 00:15:21,517 --> 00:15:23,241 [man 3] Come this way with the boat. 308 00:15:25,068 --> 00:15:27,000 [Dustin] How's that? 309 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,068 Well, it looks like that's the right angle. 310 00:15:29,896 --> 00:15:31,758 [Wes] Yup, it's working now. 311 00:15:31,758 --> 00:15:35,172 - [Carlos] That looks good. - [Wes] It looks pretty good, right? 312 00:15:35,172 --> 00:15:38,586 Whoo. It's looking so much better and everything's flowing good. 313 00:15:38,586 --> 00:15:40,586 I don't think we're gonna lose any gold out of the bottom. 314 00:15:41,793 --> 00:15:46,172 [Dustin] Please, let us find some gold today. 315 00:15:46,172 --> 00:15:49,103 I'd love to take this hole down to six or eight feet today. 316 00:15:49,103 --> 00:15:50,793 Six, eight. 317 00:15:50,793 --> 00:15:52,241 That's a lot. 318 00:15:53,103 --> 00:15:54,758 - [Paul] Yeah. - I know I'm asking a lot, 319 00:15:54,758 --> 00:15:56,517 but I need to know where this gold is. 320 00:15:56,517 --> 00:15:58,275 [Paul] Yup. No, I gotcha. 321 00:15:58,275 --> 00:16:00,482 So far, the plan's gonna be 322 00:16:00,482 --> 00:16:02,103 try to hit bedrock. 323 00:16:02,103 --> 00:16:05,275 Carlos spent his entire dive trying to get the hole cleaned back out. 324 00:16:05,275 --> 00:16:07,379 Now, I should be able to go in, 325 00:16:07,379 --> 00:16:09,172 find the bedrock bottom, 326 00:16:09,172 --> 00:16:10,758 and see if we can get back on the gold. 327 00:16:10,758 --> 00:16:12,620 [Dustin] And those rocks are gonna wanna roll. 328 00:16:12,620 --> 00:16:14,103 You might wanna go over there and kick some rocks 329 00:16:14,103 --> 00:16:16,344 - and make sure they fall down. - [Carlos] Yeah, dude. 330 00:16:17,931 --> 00:16:19,758 [narrator] Rocks above the dive hole 331 00:16:19,758 --> 00:16:21,758 still presented deadly threat. 332 00:16:23,793 --> 00:16:26,482 Head start, man. Paving the way. 333 00:16:26,482 --> 00:16:29,068 - [Paul over radio] Good to go? - [Dustin] Have a good dive. Find some gold. 334 00:16:29,068 --> 00:16:30,448 [Paul] Copy that. 335 00:16:35,068 --> 00:16:37,482 - [Dustin over radio] How you doing, Paul? - [air hissing] 336 00:16:37,482 --> 00:16:38,931 [Paul] Little bit of... [indistinct] ...to get out, 337 00:16:38,931 --> 00:16:41,172 but I soon will be able to get to this pretty quick. 338 00:16:42,103 --> 00:16:43,689 I'll find some gold! 339 00:16:45,068 --> 00:16:46,896 [Dustin] Did you say you're cold now? 340 00:16:46,896 --> 00:16:48,931 [Paul] No, I said, "I'll find some gold." 341 00:16:48,931 --> 00:16:50,827 [Dustin] Gold, gold, sorry. 342 00:16:51,586 --> 00:16:53,379 - All right. - [Paul] Ice-cold gold. 343 00:16:53,379 --> 00:16:54,793 [Carlos] That's what we need. 344 00:16:54,793 --> 00:16:57,000 We're just blasting through this stuff. 345 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:58,448 That's super motivating. 346 00:17:01,379 --> 00:17:03,448 [Paul] Ah, you [bleeping]! 347 00:17:04,758 --> 00:17:06,000 I have no suction. 348 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,103 [Dustin over radio] What, you have a stop up? 349 00:17:08,103 --> 00:17:09,965 [Paul] Oh, I hear the nozzle. 350 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,689 You gotta feed it very easy. 351 00:17:15,689 --> 00:17:17,482 There's no ways about it. 352 00:17:17,482 --> 00:17:19,413 Rookie mistake. 353 00:17:19,413 --> 00:17:22,000 You get impatient, man, 'cause we want the bottom. 354 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,241 We want the gold that's at the bottom. 355 00:17:30,586 --> 00:17:33,448 [Paul] The filth's getting out. Yeah, it was in the nozzle. 356 00:17:42,896 --> 00:17:44,448 I got another stop up. 357 00:17:46,275 --> 00:17:47,862 It's not in the nozzle. 358 00:17:49,172 --> 00:17:51,689 [Dustin over radio] Lift it up a little bit and I can see into it. 359 00:17:53,758 --> 00:17:57,172 [narrator] In Paul's desperation to get down to the gold, 360 00:17:57,172 --> 00:17:59,275 he sucked up a large rock. 361 00:17:59,275 --> 00:18:02,551 Causing a second jam in just five minutes. 362 00:18:06,206 --> 00:18:07,689 [Dustin] Ah, I think it's on this bend. 363 00:18:07,689 --> 00:18:09,137 It's right here. 364 00:18:11,862 --> 00:18:13,068 [Carlos] There it goes! 365 00:18:13,068 --> 00:18:14,482 - [Dustin] Ready. - [Paul] Yeah. 366 00:18:14,482 --> 00:18:16,310 [James] There it goes. 367 00:18:16,310 --> 00:18:17,862 [Paul] Sorry about that, guys. 368 00:18:21,310 --> 00:18:23,793 [Carlos] You get impatient and you just want this thing 369 00:18:23,793 --> 00:18:25,896 to eat, eat, eat, eat, eat. 370 00:18:25,896 --> 00:18:28,896 You don't have the time to freaking filter out the big rocks, 371 00:18:28,896 --> 00:18:31,000 that goes into the nozzle. 372 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,586 When that happens, 373 00:18:32,586 --> 00:18:35,172 gluga, gluga, hit it! 374 00:18:35,172 --> 00:18:36,758 And then, boom! 375 00:18:36,758 --> 00:18:38,689 Plug up again. 376 00:18:38,689 --> 00:18:40,758 [Paul] I got another plug up somewhere. 377 00:18:41,793 --> 00:18:43,586 Just somewhere back here. 378 00:18:43,586 --> 00:18:45,482 [James] Yeah, there it is. I found it. 379 00:18:48,586 --> 00:18:50,413 That's bad. Man. 380 00:18:50,413 --> 00:18:52,000 He's in there. 381 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,103 That's a son of a gun. 382 00:18:54,103 --> 00:18:57,000 - Yeah, that's... - That's really wedged in there. You can see it. 383 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,689 It's about to blow through the [bleep] hose if I hit it too many times. 384 00:19:00,689 --> 00:19:02,586 [narrator] If Dustin breaks the hose, 385 00:19:02,586 --> 00:19:05,000 they could be shut down for days 386 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,862 until they can get a replacement. 387 00:19:08,275 --> 00:19:09,655 It's stabbin'. 388 00:19:10,379 --> 00:19:11,620 Right here. 389 00:19:11,620 --> 00:19:13,965 - I can see it perfectly. - [James] Yeah. 390 00:19:16,482 --> 00:19:18,413 That's a mother[bleep], dude. 391 00:19:18,413 --> 00:19:20,344 - Watch your knee. - Yup. 392 00:19:21,068 --> 00:19:22,275 [grunts] Ah! 393 00:19:22,275 --> 00:19:24,103 That's it. It went. 394 00:19:24,103 --> 00:19:25,689 Jesus. 395 00:19:25,689 --> 00:19:27,655 [cheering] 396 00:19:30,689 --> 00:19:32,758 - [Paul] We good? - [Dustin over radio] Yeah. 397 00:19:33,896 --> 00:19:36,172 Maybe slow down a little bit once you dig. 398 00:19:36,172 --> 00:19:37,482 [Paul] Copy that. 399 00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:40,793 [narrator] Paul slows his pace. 400 00:19:40,793 --> 00:19:42,931 [Paul] It's getting deeper and deeper. 401 00:19:42,931 --> 00:19:44,758 [narrator] And makes better progress. 402 00:19:46,310 --> 00:19:48,413 [man 4] How's he doing? He's still going down? 403 00:19:48,413 --> 00:19:51,758 - [Dustin] Yup. - [Carlos] Right now, his whole body's under the water. 404 00:19:51,758 --> 00:19:53,586 I think he's getting really, really deep. 405 00:19:53,586 --> 00:19:55,862 [narrator] Over the next three hours, 406 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,000 Paul puts in a hard shift 407 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,068 to get the dive hole over six feet deep. 408 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:07,517 [Paul] It's still going down. 409 00:20:07,517 --> 00:20:09,103 He's down there, man. 410 00:20:09,103 --> 00:20:12,241 He's down deep enough, we should be seeing gold. 411 00:20:14,689 --> 00:20:16,241 [Dustin over radio] How you doing, Paul? 412 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,620 [Paul's voice cutting] Good, yeah. 413 00:20:18,620 --> 00:20:20,586 - [disturbance over radio] - [Dustin] Man, what's going on? 414 00:20:20,586 --> 00:20:22,586 [high-pitched whining] 415 00:20:22,586 --> 00:20:25,379 [Carlos over radio] Paul? Paul? Paul? 416 00:20:25,379 --> 00:20:27,931 Hey, Dustin, we lost comms with Paul. 417 00:20:30,931 --> 00:20:33,862 - Paul, you got a copy? - [intermittent hissing] 418 00:20:33,862 --> 00:20:35,206 [air hissing] 419 00:20:35,206 --> 00:20:36,482 [Carlos] I can hear him. 420 00:20:36,482 --> 00:20:38,758 The only problem right now with the comms is 421 00:20:38,758 --> 00:20:40,379 we can't talk to the diver. 422 00:20:42,620 --> 00:20:45,655 There's no updates 'cause he doesn't talk unless you can talk to him. 423 00:20:47,379 --> 00:20:49,517 Whatever he's in, my comm's been cut off 424 00:20:49,517 --> 00:20:51,689 with Paul right now, and I don't know... 425 00:20:51,689 --> 00:20:54,000 I can't make him talk. He's getting down there, though. 426 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,172 Can't even see him anymore. 427 00:20:56,172 --> 00:20:59,000 [Carlos] That's a huge boulder right there. So that's a big one. 428 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,344 [static over radio] 429 00:21:02,793 --> 00:21:04,689 [Carlos] It's getting undercut on that corner. 430 00:21:04,689 --> 00:21:06,551 That's freaking me out, man. 431 00:21:08,103 --> 00:21:10,034 [Dustin] Carlos, what you got on comms, man? 432 00:21:10,931 --> 00:21:12,310 - [static] - Paul? Paul? 433 00:21:12,310 --> 00:21:13,862 [air hissing] 434 00:21:13,862 --> 00:21:15,379 [James] That's just getting too dangerous. 435 00:21:16,310 --> 00:21:18,137 [Dustin] I think I'mma pull him out. 436 00:21:33,379 --> 00:21:34,896 [Carlos] Paul? Paul? Paul? 437 00:21:34,896 --> 00:21:36,689 [air hissing] 438 00:21:36,689 --> 00:21:38,689 [narrator] Six feet below the surface, 439 00:21:38,689 --> 00:21:40,758 Paul has no comms. 440 00:21:41,655 --> 00:21:43,379 Got a freaking boulder right here, dude. 441 00:21:43,379 --> 00:21:46,275 That looks a little bit unstable. 442 00:21:46,275 --> 00:21:50,827 [narrator] The crew is unable to warn him of the unstable rock above. 443 00:21:51,793 --> 00:21:53,793 [Dustin] Hey, Paul, you got a copy? 444 00:21:53,793 --> 00:21:55,000 [air hissing] 445 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,586 [Carlos] I can hear him. 446 00:21:56,586 --> 00:21:58,310 [James] Yeah, he can't hear us, huh? 447 00:21:59,482 --> 00:22:01,172 [indistinct chatter over radio] 448 00:22:02,586 --> 00:22:05,000 [static, Paul's voice scrambling over radio] 449 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,344 [Paul's voice scrambling over radio] 450 00:22:08,344 --> 00:22:09,827 [Dustin] What's he sayin'? 451 00:22:10,689 --> 00:22:13,000 Anybody, uh, get a copy on that? 452 00:22:16,137 --> 00:22:18,655 - Paul? Paul? Paul? - [air hissing] 453 00:22:21,275 --> 00:22:23,000 Whoo! 454 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,448 - [Dustin] Can you hear me? - [Paul] Just what you're saying outside. 455 00:22:25,448 --> 00:22:27,758 [Dustin loudly] I'm telling you, "Watch out for this." 456 00:22:28,482 --> 00:22:30,689 Don't let it fall on your head. 457 00:22:30,689 --> 00:22:32,241 [Paul] Don't worry about it. 458 00:22:32,241 --> 00:22:35,137 There's two or three boulders underneath that one. 459 00:22:35,137 --> 00:22:36,586 [Dustin] Okay. 460 00:22:36,586 --> 00:22:38,689 What you seeing down there? 461 00:22:38,689 --> 00:22:40,896 - [hissing] - [Paul] There's bedrock over here. 462 00:22:40,896 --> 00:22:44,482 And there's another wall right here going this way. 463 00:22:44,482 --> 00:22:46,793 - [Dustin] Holy [bleep]! - [Paul] So, it's gotta be the... 464 00:22:46,793 --> 00:22:49,103 - [Dustin] The middle. - [Paul] It's gotta be the middle. 465 00:22:49,689 --> 00:22:52,000 Damn! We found the middle. 466 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:53,379 [Carlos] Well, how does he know it's the middle? 467 00:22:53,379 --> 00:22:55,482 There's bedrock coming up that way, 468 00:22:55,482 --> 00:22:57,241 bedrock coming up this way. 469 00:23:00,758 --> 00:23:02,655 [narrator] Following the gold line, 470 00:23:03,793 --> 00:23:06,000 Paul's uncovered a bedrock slope 471 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,965 on both sides of the creek. 472 00:23:09,379 --> 00:23:12,862 If he can remove the remaining rocks and gravel 473 00:23:12,862 --> 00:23:15,379 and get down to the bottom, 474 00:23:15,379 --> 00:23:17,551 he could hit the mother lode. 475 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,586 That equals nuggets. 476 00:23:22,586 --> 00:23:23,793 [Paul] Hopefully. 477 00:23:23,793 --> 00:23:26,551 Right there, apparently, is the center of the creek. 478 00:23:28,482 --> 00:23:30,000 That's pretty wild. 479 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,103 There's gonna be gold in the bedrock. 480 00:23:32,103 --> 00:23:33,965 It's usually in the very center. 481 00:23:33,965 --> 00:23:36,379 Now we're gonna follow that... [indistinct] 482 00:23:36,379 --> 00:23:38,655 [narrator] Paul takes the ultimate risk. 483 00:23:39,655 --> 00:23:44,034 Diving without comms to hunt for a massive payday. 484 00:23:45,586 --> 00:23:47,793 If I have to pull him, I'll pull him. 485 00:23:47,793 --> 00:23:49,344 [Paul] That's getting deeper and deeper. 486 00:23:51,137 --> 00:23:53,482 We seem to have a deep channel going right up the middle. 487 00:23:53,482 --> 00:23:55,551 That's the spot we've been looking for, 488 00:23:55,551 --> 00:23:59,034 so we gotta follow it now and collect the gold that's sitting in it. 489 00:23:59,034 --> 00:24:00,448 [James] Oh, look at that. 490 00:24:01,379 --> 00:24:02,655 Black. 491 00:24:03,689 --> 00:24:05,137 That's crazy. 492 00:24:07,103 --> 00:24:08,689 [Carlos] This color that's coming out of there, 493 00:24:08,689 --> 00:24:10,172 - I've never seen that before. - [man 5] Yeah. 494 00:24:10,172 --> 00:24:11,482 [Dustin] Wash it through the dredge. 495 00:24:11,482 --> 00:24:12,758 Wash it all through the dredge! 496 00:24:12,758 --> 00:24:14,517 [Paul] Can I get the water sprayer? 497 00:24:15,482 --> 00:24:17,310 [Dustin over radio] Well, that's a good sign. 498 00:24:18,379 --> 00:24:19,758 [Paul] Thank you, sir. 499 00:24:24,344 --> 00:24:27,655 He needs a sprayer to loosen it, where all the nuggets are. 500 00:24:27,655 --> 00:24:29,241 Wow. 501 00:24:29,241 --> 00:24:31,965 He is just a diggin' fool today. 502 00:24:31,965 --> 00:24:34,793 Holy smokes. 503 00:24:34,793 --> 00:24:37,241 - [Paul grunts] Ah. - [Dustin] I think he's getting tired, though. 504 00:24:38,068 --> 00:24:39,689 [Paul grunts] Ah, yeah. 505 00:24:39,689 --> 00:24:41,000 [air hissing] 506 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,551 I think I'm gonna go ahead and call it. 507 00:24:43,965 --> 00:24:46,241 All right, let's call it a day. 508 00:24:46,965 --> 00:24:49,586 - Float the nozzle! - Here it comes. 509 00:24:49,586 --> 00:24:51,172 [Dustin] That's a long run. 510 00:24:51,172 --> 00:24:53,068 [narrator] After six hours, 511 00:24:53,068 --> 00:24:55,896 Paul has the hole down eight feet. 512 00:24:55,896 --> 00:24:59,793 But, they have yet to reach the gold-rich bedrock bottom. 513 00:24:59,793 --> 00:25:02,275 [grunts] Ah. Good, job, Paul! 514 00:25:02,275 --> 00:25:04,758 [Dustin] There has to be something in the box. 515 00:25:04,758 --> 00:25:05,965 Hopefully. 516 00:25:07,689 --> 00:25:10,448 Sorry, we couldn't talk to you. We lost all comms, man. 517 00:25:11,896 --> 00:25:13,551 [James cheerily] Hey, Paul! 518 00:25:13,551 --> 00:25:16,241 - [Dustin] Got gold, buddy. - [Paul cheers] Yeah! 519 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,379 - [laughing] - You got it, dude! 520 00:25:19,379 --> 00:25:21,551 - You go check it out. - [James] Good job, dude! 521 00:25:23,103 --> 00:25:26,379 Good job! I'm not touching it. You can come look at it. 522 00:25:26,379 --> 00:25:27,655 [Paul] Whoo! 523 00:25:27,655 --> 00:25:29,586 - [Paul] Oh, yeah! - [James laughs] 524 00:25:29,586 --> 00:25:32,379 - There's one there too. - [Paul] Ooh, there's one right here! 525 00:25:32,379 --> 00:25:34,034 [James] Yeah, that's a biggun. 526 00:25:34,034 --> 00:25:36,448 [Carlos] That's a good nugget, dude. That's a good-size nugget. 527 00:25:36,448 --> 00:25:37,896 [James] Oh, there's one up there. 528 00:25:37,896 --> 00:25:40,000 [Wes] They're all staying up in the top. 529 00:25:40,689 --> 00:25:42,379 Seems like it's working pretty good. 530 00:25:42,379 --> 00:25:43,965 [Dustin] What are we talking about? 531 00:25:43,965 --> 00:25:45,413 All right. 532 00:25:46,758 --> 00:25:48,965 Jeez, that might even be another half ounce. 533 00:25:48,965 --> 00:25:50,379 We're getting there. 534 00:25:50,379 --> 00:25:52,137 [Paul] There's gotta be more in the box. 535 00:25:53,275 --> 00:25:54,344 Wow. 536 00:25:55,965 --> 00:25:57,241 Gah, we're back on it again! 537 00:25:57,241 --> 00:26:00,172 [Carlos] Yeah, we're back on the gold, Paul! Good job, man! 538 00:26:00,172 --> 00:26:01,793 Today, Paul found a bunch of gold. 539 00:26:01,793 --> 00:26:03,896 It looked like about a half ounce of pickers. 540 00:26:03,896 --> 00:26:05,034 It was a good dive, 541 00:26:05,034 --> 00:26:07,482 but we need to find more gold. 542 00:26:07,482 --> 00:26:09,103 [Paul] There's another piece up in there. 543 00:26:09,103 --> 00:26:11,241 [Dustin] The most important thing about today is 544 00:26:11,241 --> 00:26:14,068 we think that Paul found 545 00:26:14,068 --> 00:26:17,379 the center of the bottom of the bedrock. 546 00:26:17,379 --> 00:26:19,965 And, uh, that's a big deal. Now we can follow it. 547 00:26:21,275 --> 00:26:24,137 If you're gonna find gold, usually it's in the deepest part. 548 00:26:24,137 --> 00:26:26,482 - [James] You killed it today, bro. - [Paul] Thank you. 549 00:26:26,482 --> 00:26:28,758 - [James] That's cool. - [Paul] Everybody did, man. It's a team effort here. 550 00:26:28,758 --> 00:26:30,344 - [James] Yeah. - [Carlos] We're back on the gold. 551 00:26:30,344 --> 00:26:34,793 Paul, man! He freaking literally dug to the center of the Earth, practically. 552 00:26:34,793 --> 00:26:36,000 [man 6] There's a piece. 553 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:38,379 Heck, yeah, man. We're back on the gold. 554 00:26:38,379 --> 00:26:40,448 - [gold clanking] - [Paul] That's a sweet sound. 555 00:26:40,448 --> 00:26:42,103 [gold rattling in bottle] 556 00:26:42,103 --> 00:26:44,586 [singing] ♪ Gettin' excited 557 00:26:44,586 --> 00:26:48,034 Tomorrow should be a huge day for us. 558 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:59,655 - [Dustin] Mornin', fellas. - [all] Mornin'. 559 00:26:59,655 --> 00:27:02,965 [Dustin] You guys, uh, I have some bad news. 560 00:27:04,482 --> 00:27:07,551 Um, I got a message 561 00:27:07,551 --> 00:27:10,862 this morning that, uh, Fred died. 562 00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:13,620 [Dustin sniffles, whispers] That's rough. 563 00:27:16,103 --> 00:27:17,655 [Paul] Gah, dang. 564 00:27:19,793 --> 00:27:21,344 [Wes] I'm sorry, man. 565 00:27:39,965 --> 00:27:42,172 - [Dustin] Morning, fellas. - [all] Morning. 566 00:27:42,172 --> 00:27:45,034 [Dustin] Hey, guys, uh, I got some bad news. 567 00:27:46,448 --> 00:27:49,000 Um, I got a message... 568 00:27:49,758 --> 00:27:52,068 this morning that, uh, Fred died. 569 00:27:52,655 --> 00:27:54,068 So, uh... 570 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,896 Yeah, so, he didn't make it and cancer got him, finally. 571 00:27:59,896 --> 00:28:01,241 [breathes shakily] 572 00:28:08,379 --> 00:28:10,068 He said wasn't in any pain... 573 00:28:12,034 --> 00:28:14,793 and he went peaceful in his sleep, so, 574 00:28:14,793 --> 00:28:17,793 - Fred's gone and, uh... Yeah, yeah, yeah. - [Paul] I'm so sorry, man. 575 00:28:17,793 --> 00:28:19,000 - [Carlos] I'm sorry. - [James] Sorry. 576 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,862 [Wes] Had a lot of good times with Fred. 577 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,034 Lot of good times. Lot of tough times. 578 00:28:25,965 --> 00:28:27,344 [exhales] 579 00:28:32,896 --> 00:28:34,482 [Paul] I know. I think many times 580 00:28:34,482 --> 00:28:35,965 how different life would've been 581 00:28:35,965 --> 00:28:38,551 if we would've never met him at that gold and treasure show. 582 00:28:39,689 --> 00:28:41,862 - We wouldn't be up here right now. - [Wes] Mmm-hmm. 583 00:28:43,241 --> 00:28:45,137 Nope. Not at all. 584 00:28:46,793 --> 00:28:48,137 That's a tough one, man. 585 00:28:49,482 --> 00:28:52,896 I got to say my goodbyes and I got no qualms with it. 586 00:28:52,896 --> 00:28:55,965 He was fine to go, we had a long talk about it. 587 00:28:58,344 --> 00:28:59,965 Anyway, uh... 588 00:29:02,068 --> 00:29:03,758 probably gonna be a hard week for me. 589 00:29:04,689 --> 00:29:06,172 So, you guys just... 590 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,344 try to be patient with me. 591 00:29:08,793 --> 00:29:10,206 Just lost my father. 592 00:29:15,068 --> 00:29:17,068 - It's gonna be tough for all of us. - [Dustin] That is a tough one. 593 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,137 I got some mixed emotions for it 'cause he was suffering pretty bad with cancer. 594 00:29:23,137 --> 00:29:25,068 He was starting to lose his legs, 595 00:29:25,586 --> 00:29:27,551 which he hated me to see. 596 00:29:29,448 --> 00:29:33,034 And his cognitive abilities were going away which 597 00:29:33,034 --> 00:29:35,137 he really, really was upset about. 598 00:29:36,172 --> 00:29:39,862 So, it's probably best that went before he lost... 599 00:29:41,241 --> 00:29:43,862 the ability to speak and all that stuff. 600 00:29:47,068 --> 00:29:49,655 So... [sighs] 601 00:29:52,275 --> 00:29:55,034 - I know that's a tough one, man. - [Dustin clears throat] 602 00:29:56,275 --> 00:29:59,068 - Yeah, no, we owe him for being out here, right? - [Paul] Yeah, we do. 603 00:30:01,172 --> 00:30:05,172 [Dustin] He brought us on this, first part of this freaky weird adventure. 604 00:30:05,172 --> 00:30:08,655 [Fred] Double the dredges, double the Hurt. 605 00:30:08,655 --> 00:30:10,241 [Dustin] He connected us... 606 00:30:10,241 --> 00:30:12,000 [Paul] Check that out, Fred. 607 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,965 [Fred] That's a nice piece of gold there. 608 00:30:13,965 --> 00:30:16,034 [Dustin] He was definitely the catalyst that got us all together. 609 00:30:18,965 --> 00:30:21,758 [voice shaking] He got us started on all this stuff, man. 610 00:30:21,758 --> 00:30:25,482 [Fred] Right here is where you were digging. Right here. 611 00:30:25,482 --> 00:30:28,689 [Dustin] Changed the course of our lives... 612 00:30:28,689 --> 00:30:33,620 Hey, y'all get down there and find that pile of leprechaun gold that I didn't get. 613 00:30:34,172 --> 00:30:35,965 [chuckling] 614 00:30:36,586 --> 00:30:38,344 [exhales sharply] 615 00:30:40,241 --> 00:30:42,517 [Dustin] We can thank him for this adventure. 616 00:30:43,551 --> 00:30:46,586 We continued it but he started it. 617 00:30:46,586 --> 00:30:48,241 Yup, absolutely. 618 00:30:49,275 --> 00:30:52,103 Makes me feel pretty damn good. 619 00:30:52,103 --> 00:30:53,758 Yee-haw! 620 00:30:56,172 --> 00:30:58,344 If Fred was alive still, he'd, uh, 621 00:30:58,344 --> 00:31:00,931 - he'd say, "Get back to work," so... - [Wes] Yeah. 622 00:31:02,172 --> 00:31:03,758 ...He was always a hard-ass. 623 00:31:05,689 --> 00:31:09,448 He was a hard-ass to work with but, away from work... 624 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,275 he was a totally different person. 625 00:31:12,275 --> 00:31:14,758 - He'd give you the shirt off his back. - [Dustin] Yeah. 626 00:31:16,137 --> 00:31:20,758 Fred truly believed... truly believed that... 627 00:31:23,689 --> 00:31:26,586 your job after you die is to help your loved ones. 628 00:31:26,586 --> 00:31:29,724 That's what he believed. And, uh, 629 00:31:30,862 --> 00:31:32,344 he loved us, so... 630 00:31:32,344 --> 00:31:34,482 - [Wes] I hope so. - [Paul] Oh, man. 631 00:31:34,482 --> 00:31:37,448 [Wes] We've gotta push extra hard this year for him. 632 00:31:37,448 --> 00:31:41,241 Yeah, he'd want us to work, right? Like... 633 00:31:41,241 --> 00:31:43,344 - [James] That's true. - [Paul] We're gonna... we're gonna miss him for sure. 634 00:31:43,655 --> 00:31:44,758 You know. 635 00:31:44,758 --> 00:31:46,068 Here we go. 636 00:31:48,344 --> 00:31:49,965 [exclaiming] 637 00:31:54,689 --> 00:31:57,241 All right. That's too much. [exhales sharply] 638 00:32:04,586 --> 00:32:06,206 We all know what he's going through right now. 639 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,793 [Wes] It's no fun losing a loved one. 640 00:32:12,793 --> 00:32:14,724 - [Paul] Definitely not easy. - Nope. 641 00:32:16,172 --> 00:32:17,793 That's for sure. [chuckles softly] 642 00:32:17,793 --> 00:32:20,724 [sniffles] That is not easy at all. 643 00:32:41,586 --> 00:32:46,103 I look back on my life as, uh, definitely well lived. 644 00:32:46,103 --> 00:32:47,965 - [Dustin] Hey, Fred. - [Fred] You all right? 645 00:32:47,965 --> 00:32:51,586 Years ago, I could've just retired. Uh-uh. 646 00:32:51,586 --> 00:32:53,103 [exclaiming] 647 00:32:53,103 --> 00:32:57,172 What the hell do you wanna retire for when you're still enjoying life? 648 00:32:57,172 --> 00:32:59,172 Yes! [exclaims] 649 00:32:59,172 --> 00:33:01,793 Find something you really enjoy doing. 650 00:33:01,793 --> 00:33:04,241 Go out and search for that adventure. 651 00:33:05,896 --> 00:33:09,172 At the end of your time you can say, 652 00:33:09,172 --> 00:33:11,724 "Yeah, I had a good time." 653 00:33:14,379 --> 00:33:17,103 Was a hell of a ride. 80 years. 654 00:33:17,103 --> 00:33:19,724 [chuckling] 655 00:33:34,275 --> 00:33:40,482 [Paul] Dustin just informed us that Fred had passed away from stage 4 brain cancer. 656 00:33:43,068 --> 00:33:47,689 It was pretty rough. I mean, you know, Wes and I lost our dad a few years back. 657 00:33:48,724 --> 00:33:51,275 That's not a easy thing to go through. 658 00:33:51,275 --> 00:33:53,896 So, I know, I know where Dustin is right now. It's... 659 00:33:55,344 --> 00:33:56,758 It eats on ya. 660 00:33:56,758 --> 00:33:59,724 Yeah, the crew is a little down and out and 661 00:33:59,724 --> 00:34:01,413 really hurting us all. 662 00:34:01,413 --> 00:34:05,517 But I think Fred would love to see us succeed. 663 00:34:05,517 --> 00:34:08,517 I'm hoping that, uh, I can make it happen. 664 00:34:08,517 --> 00:34:10,448 Get some gold in honor of Fred. 665 00:34:11,931 --> 00:34:15,586 Dustin needs this most of all, out of all of us. 666 00:34:15,586 --> 00:34:18,103 Can you hear me, James? You can't hear me? 667 00:34:18,103 --> 00:34:21,068 [Dustin] This is [bleep] awful, dude. I hate this comms system. 668 00:34:21,068 --> 00:34:23,551 I [bleep] hate this comms system. 669 00:34:23,551 --> 00:34:26,862 Sorry. Sorry. I got a lot on my mind. 670 00:34:27,965 --> 00:34:30,068 [Wes] Yeah, there's gotta be something simple. 671 00:34:31,551 --> 00:34:34,275 - [static] - [Wes over radio] Testing. One, two. 672 00:34:34,275 --> 00:34:36,068 [James] Gotcha. What'd you do? 673 00:34:36,068 --> 00:34:38,724 [Wes] There's a little mic button on the side of the box. 674 00:34:38,724 --> 00:34:40,241 [James] Oh. 675 00:34:40,241 --> 00:34:41,689 I pushed that button and it's working 676 00:34:41,689 --> 00:34:44,379 but we might be actually pushing that button and turning it off. 677 00:34:44,379 --> 00:34:46,655 - Oh. - [James chuckles] 678 00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:49,551 [James breathing] 679 00:34:49,551 --> 00:34:52,000 [Carlos over radio] As Dustin would say, "Don't get hurt. Don't die." 680 00:34:54,241 --> 00:34:56,620 [Paul over radio] Well, this is it. Make or break. 681 00:34:57,862 --> 00:34:59,413 For you, Fred. [indistinct] 682 00:35:00,793 --> 00:35:04,517 [narrator] The crew have dedicated the remainder of their season 683 00:35:04,517 --> 00:35:07,724 to their friend and mentor, "Dakota" Fred Hurt. 684 00:35:09,241 --> 00:35:11,344 [Carlos] This dive's for you, amigo. 685 00:35:11,344 --> 00:35:14,793 [James over radio] So awesome that I can talk to you guys and you can talk to me. 686 00:35:14,793 --> 00:35:16,965 - [Wes] We got this figured out now. - [James] Yeah. 687 00:35:16,965 --> 00:35:19,413 - See if we can get some gold. - [Wes] Yup. 688 00:35:19,413 --> 00:35:21,241 That'll make Dustin happy. 689 00:35:24,482 --> 00:35:27,448 [Carlos] Hey, James, uh, how does the chicken dinner situation look like, man? 690 00:35:27,448 --> 00:35:29,655 [James] I'm eating through it... 691 00:35:29,655 --> 00:35:32,793 and I got... I've got vis. I can see everything. 692 00:35:33,689 --> 00:35:35,655 And I'm so comfortable right now. 693 00:35:36,896 --> 00:35:38,482 [narrator] James' mission... 694 00:35:38,482 --> 00:35:40,862 clean out the remaining gravel and nuggets 695 00:35:40,862 --> 00:35:42,862 from the deepest part of the creek. 696 00:35:45,586 --> 00:35:48,344 Wow. I'm following bedrock. 697 00:35:48,344 --> 00:35:50,206 I gotta clean the top of the bedrock here 698 00:35:50,206 --> 00:35:52,689 and then see how deep it is right here. 699 00:35:53,344 --> 00:35:54,689 [Dustin] All right. 700 00:35:54,689 --> 00:35:57,068 I've spent many years looking for this stuff. 701 00:35:57,068 --> 00:36:00,310 I'd like to, actually, succeed and blow this all away. 702 00:36:00,310 --> 00:36:02,931 We get enough gold it might just make it worth it. 703 00:36:03,551 --> 00:36:05,137 Might just make it worth it. 704 00:36:08,586 --> 00:36:10,172 [James] I'm gonna hit some material. 705 00:36:18,137 --> 00:36:19,724 Yeah, buddy. 706 00:36:23,344 --> 00:36:27,000 It's crazy, uh, I'm following a hole in the bedrock. 707 00:36:29,034 --> 00:36:32,275 I don't know if this is the same hole that you were in there, Paul, 708 00:36:32,275 --> 00:36:34,724 it's going straight down in the middle. 709 00:36:34,724 --> 00:36:36,413 - [Paul] That's it. - [James] That's the same one? 710 00:36:36,413 --> 00:36:38,413 [Paul] Yeah. That's where I was at yesterday. 711 00:36:38,413 --> 00:36:40,000 That's probably where that gold came from. 712 00:36:40,896 --> 00:36:42,137 Just keep digging. 713 00:36:46,379 --> 00:36:50,862 [James] Are you kidding me? Ah, you mother [bleep]. 714 00:36:50,862 --> 00:36:53,206 [Dustin] Hey, James, what you seeing down there, man? 715 00:36:53,206 --> 00:36:56,034 [James] I saw a nugget and I was gonna grab it with my hands 716 00:36:56,034 --> 00:36:57,551 but now it's clouded out. 717 00:36:57,551 --> 00:37:00,275 Don't worry about having to pick them up by hand, 718 00:37:00,275 --> 00:37:02,517 but please get 'em in the dredge. 719 00:37:02,517 --> 00:37:04,034 [James] Yup. See if I can find it. 720 00:37:04,034 --> 00:37:06,931 This morning, I kinda asked Fred for help 721 00:37:06,931 --> 00:37:09,206 to lead us where the gold is and 722 00:37:09,206 --> 00:37:12,517 I know he's helping us out. He's always been there to help us. 723 00:37:13,413 --> 00:37:14,689 He's still helping us. 724 00:37:16,758 --> 00:37:18,793 [James] I can actually see everything. 725 00:37:20,655 --> 00:37:21,793 [Paul] Thank you, Fred. 726 00:37:22,413 --> 00:37:24,793 [James exclaims, laughs] 727 00:37:24,793 --> 00:37:26,344 [Dustin] What's the laughing for? 728 00:37:27,862 --> 00:37:29,896 [James] I see a nugget. 729 00:37:29,896 --> 00:37:32,034 - [Dustin] Is that gold? - [James] Nugget. 730 00:37:32,034 --> 00:37:35,000 [Carlos cheers] 731 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,586 [James] Pretty good when you can see 'em. 732 00:37:37,034 --> 00:37:38,344 [Carlos] Holy crap! 733 00:37:38,344 --> 00:37:40,931 Look at that! Oh, my God. 734 00:37:40,931 --> 00:37:43,517 I'll be damned, man. Now, that is heavy. 735 00:37:43,517 --> 00:37:45,172 That is heavy! 736 00:37:45,172 --> 00:37:47,068 He brought out a nugget, man. 737 00:37:47,068 --> 00:37:49,620 - [Dustin] That was a heavy nugget. - That was a heavy nugget. 738 00:37:49,620 --> 00:37:51,206 [Dustin over radio] Keep going, man. 739 00:37:53,517 --> 00:37:56,310 You ain't gonna wanna stop. You're gonna keep going after that gold. 740 00:37:56,310 --> 00:37:58,793 [James laughs] 741 00:37:58,793 --> 00:38:00,551 [in sing-song voice] I'm a digging fool. 742 00:38:00,551 --> 00:38:03,344 [James] You're in a damn good spot right now, man. 743 00:38:05,068 --> 00:38:06,586 [James] All right! 744 00:38:07,862 --> 00:38:10,448 He's about to hit a huge spot. 745 00:38:10,448 --> 00:38:12,586 [James] I'll just let it go like that for a while. 746 00:38:12,586 --> 00:38:17,448 [narrator] In just two hours, James has got down to ten feet 747 00:38:18,344 --> 00:38:20,724 and dredged everything off bedrock. 748 00:38:21,068 --> 00:38:22,896 [James] Yeah. 749 00:38:22,896 --> 00:38:25,379 - Here, I just cleaned this whole thing out. - [Dustin] Okay. 750 00:38:26,137 --> 00:38:28,000 He's looking in the box right now. 751 00:38:32,034 --> 00:38:33,896 Nice [bleep] nuggets, man. 752 00:38:34,448 --> 00:38:36,793 [Paul] Oh... Oh, my God! 753 00:38:38,931 --> 00:38:40,206 [Dustin] Oh, my. 754 00:38:40,206 --> 00:38:44,931 [all exclaiming] 755 00:38:44,931 --> 00:38:46,172 [Dustin] It's actually happening. 756 00:38:46,172 --> 00:38:47,862 Good job, James! 757 00:38:49,586 --> 00:38:52,000 What is that? What is that? 758 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,344 - Oh, my God! Woo-hoo! - [Paul] [bleep]. 759 00:38:55,344 --> 00:38:57,172 [Wes] Look at that nugget! 760 00:38:57,172 --> 00:38:58,862 Get over here, James! 761 00:38:58,862 --> 00:39:00,586 That's at least a one ounce nugget. 762 00:39:00,586 --> 00:39:04,517 - Holy smokes! - [Wes] Dude, that's at least a one ounce nugget. 763 00:39:06,448 --> 00:39:07,793 [narrator] That one ounce... 764 00:39:07,793 --> 00:39:12,206 This matches the biggest nugget the crew has ever found. 765 00:39:12,206 --> 00:39:13,862 Congratulations, James. 766 00:39:13,862 --> 00:39:17,034 [narrator] But this time there's more... 767 00:39:17,034 --> 00:39:18,827 [Dustin] At least five ounces. 768 00:39:19,517 --> 00:39:22,586 ...Five ounces of jewelry-grade nugget 769 00:39:22,586 --> 00:39:25,517 is worth over $15,000. 770 00:39:25,517 --> 00:39:28,310 Their most successful dive, ever. 771 00:39:29,413 --> 00:39:32,448 I hit the jackpot today. Big nuggets! 772 00:39:33,206 --> 00:39:35,931 [Wes] That is ridiculous. 773 00:39:35,931 --> 00:39:39,965 Holy smokes, dude! Nugget creek has lived up to its name. 774 00:39:41,172 --> 00:39:42,310 We're on it. 775 00:39:45,931 --> 00:39:47,689 It's pretty amazing. 776 00:39:47,689 --> 00:39:49,827 [Carlos] This is museum piece, man. 777 00:39:54,862 --> 00:39:57,068 My first thought was to call and tell Fred. 778 00:39:57,068 --> 00:39:59,310 [chuckles] 779 00:40:01,586 --> 00:40:03,344 [Paul] You know, we've been working with Fred and Dustin 780 00:40:03,344 --> 00:40:06,620 for over the past ten years and... 781 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,586 maybe from above, he's helping us out. 782 00:40:14,206 --> 00:40:16,034 But what an amazing day. 783 00:40:16,034 --> 00:40:18,000 I wish he was here to be a part of this, 784 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,758 I know he is in our heart but 785 00:40:22,068 --> 00:40:24,793 finally, we're on the gold, you know. 786 00:40:26,586 --> 00:40:28,379 I wish Fred was here with us but... 787 00:40:29,896 --> 00:40:31,034 he can't do that. 788 00:40:31,655 --> 00:40:33,172 [exclaiming] 789 00:40:33,172 --> 00:40:36,931 There's been a few things going on in my life that aren't great... 790 00:40:37,275 --> 00:40:38,620 This is great. 791 00:40:38,620 --> 00:40:42,517 I can tell you I needed a win and this is a good win for me, 792 00:40:42,517 --> 00:40:44,793 so, I needed this. 793 00:40:44,793 --> 00:40:47,655 You know what that means? We got a future, dude. 794 00:40:47,655 --> 00:40:49,379 [James exclaiming] 795 00:40:49,379 --> 00:40:52,931 [in sing-song voice] Nuggets, nuggets, nuggets, nuggets, nuggets, nuggets, nuggets. 796 00:40:52,931 --> 00:40:54,689 [Dustin] If all the stories are true, 797 00:40:54,689 --> 00:40:58,068 that one ounce nugget is just the beginning. 798 00:41:07,931 --> 00:41:11,103 [narrator] On the next Gold Rush: White Water... 799 00:41:11,103 --> 00:41:12,655 All right, brother. Good luck, man. 800 00:41:13,586 --> 00:41:16,586 Watch it, watch it, watch it, watch it. 801 00:41:16,586 --> 00:41:19,551 [James] It's gonna [bleep] fall in, man. 802 00:41:19,551 --> 00:41:23,551 I don't wanna dive in that. [bleep] kidding me? That [bleep] unstable. 803 00:41:23,551 --> 00:41:27,068 We have a hard compulsion to know what's at the bottom of this hole. 804 00:41:27,068 --> 00:41:28,379 You can't cure that. 805 00:41:28,379 --> 00:41:30,724 [exclaiming] 806 00:41:32,379 --> 00:41:33,758 [Paul] Okay, okay, okay, okay. 807 00:41:33,758 --> 00:41:36,551 That's the biggest nugget in Gold Rush history right there.