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It's the turning point.

Let's go!

In one of the boldest mining seasons on the Bering sea.

Ready to pile it up out there.

I told everybody we were gonna go mining at 40 feet.

Truth is, we're gonna be mining at 70 feet.

The fleet's crossed the halfway point

of summer mining.

And now it's time to unveil new strategies...

We're moving into the future

and we're leaving everyone in the past.

That'll shake up their quest for gold.

Wow, we made history, boys.

Yeah, boy! This is what I've been looking for.

Look at all that coarse gold.

New grounds.

Nobody has worked this area before.

We know the gold's there.

Whoo-hoo!

New equipment.

This is the most dangerous part of the whole project.

New battles.

What's wrong with you, dude?

I told you not to with me.

And a record-breaking discovery

all rocked the back half of the season.

Holy. Ok, hold on.

Ho!

Wow!

Holy, this is big.

Thank you. God.

Yeah! Whoo!

Good morning!

This is the big day I've been waiting for.

I'm glad Andy's back in town.

He showed up right when it's time to make gold and all

- the work is done. - I'm right on time.

Today, reaper nation makes history...

at least, in the mind of kris Kelly.

The plan today is we're gonna go over to the mistress

and steal as much gas... borrow as much gas as we can.

So we're gonna fill this thing up,

and this is gonna be our first real run on something amazing.

Ok, well, I'm just making sure we're all good.

We're good, man.

The plan this season was to get the crawler out

on the deepest ground that I've ever seen

and get the mistress grinding away on tomcod.

Well, we had a little problem with the mistress.

Wow!

That's the airbag blowing up, and up the steel.

The mistress is down for repairs

at least a couple more days.

And it took longer than we thought to get the crawler

up and running.

- Chickety-check-check-check. - We're mining, baby.

That sounds like money to me. This is a success.

But we finally tested the crawler, and it works great.

Now it's time for reaper nation to push the boundaries.

Everybody else is still stuck at 20, 30 feet.

I'm tired of trailing behind people.

I'm trying to get the next decade's gold.

We're moving into another step of mining.

We're moving into the future

and we're leaving everyone in the past.

Everything in my life is pushing me towards this event.

Everything that I've been doing the last 10 years in this

bull is prep work for what I'm doing right now.

In order for you to know the truth, I need you to sign

an nda right now.

You can't know what's going on until you sign this paper.

Basically means, keep your mouth shut.

Keep your mouth shut.

I'm making everyone that works on the crawler sign ndas

this year because the guy that owns the claim

wants to keep it secret.

And I want to keep it secret too.

I don't want them in the bar talking about

what I have going on.

Claim x will have the best gold anybody's ever seen.

The only problem, it's really, really deep.

Scary deep.

You guys are very lucky.

This is the greatest opportunity in my life,

and I'm gonna share it with you guys.

So I told everybody, we were gonna go mining

at tomcod at 40 feet.

I'm here to tell you that was bull.

Truth is, we're gonna be mining at 70 feet.

We're going off to literally make a thousand ounces a month.

I know I'm setting the bar really high, but as long as

we can make that boat run 24 hours a day,

we are gonna make more gold

than I've ever made in 12 years of mining.

I just wanted to tell you the truth

so you know what's going on.

Ok, let's go get this, guys. Fist bump for love.

Let's go.

This ground is hard to reach and untouched.

So we're like explorers. We are the first people there.

The ace up my sleeve is the improved crawler.

I can go deeper and move more material.

This is a big day.

We're taking diesel off the mistress.

The mistress doesn't need it right now, and we do.

Let's hope to god everything works at least pretty good.

Today, we're going to dive deeper than anybody has

on the Bering sea.

I got here 14 years ago, and this is the first chance

that I get to be the first person to do something.

Are we ready?

Yeah, ready to make money.

Ok, we're gonna go get that gold.

It's gonna be a great day.

Great day.

We did a test run.

It worked good, but we weren't mining at 70 feet.

We were mining at 30.

Almost two and a half times as deep, this next phase.

So that's big.

You know, hopefully we have suction.

Hopefully the line doesn't break.

You know, there's a lot of hope in my heart this year.

Stand by for anchors.

Anchor deployed.

Let's put the collar down.

You got it?

- Everything ok? - Keep going down, Andy.

We're almost there.

Yeah, baby!

Thank god. We're mining, baby.

- Ok, good. - That's good ground.

Right now we're diving at depths... we're not diving.

Right now, you got my robot down there diving at depths

that I would never dive in my life.

That's what I'm aiming for.

While Chris goes to record depths,

back on land...

I was here until 4 o'clock this morning, back at 8.

Haven't taken a break yet.

Shawn pomrenke's season is on the line,

and he's rolling the dice on a do-or-die bet.

Makes for a long day, but right now is the time

to get it done.

We're following the trail of the original nome gold rush.

We're digging down and getting what the old-timers

couldn't get.

We finished up the pay on the first cut.

Until we get this second cut opened up, there's no gold

coming in.

Wash plant's shut down.

Now the clock starts ticking.

When I just landed us a deal that's gonna get us through

this dirt a hell of a lot faster.

There's an opportunity to pick up 10 pieces of

almost-new equipment.

Three new haul trucks, two loaders,

and five excavators.

It'll be the newest equipment I've ever owned.

Equipment like this should get us to the pay in half the time.

But it's not cheap.

All this new gear is gonna cost me $5 million.

It's costing me dearly. I just took my savings,

a million dollars, put a down payment,

and then I'll have $80,000-a-month payments.

You don't make your payments, you lose your down payment

and you lose the equipment,

but I'm not gonna let that happen.

It's a gamble, but I have to get down to the gold fast.

But when I tap into the pay streak again, it's gonna pay

for everything and then some.

We're ready to get the hell out of here.

It's not gonna be easy to get this equipment back.

It's 80 miles north in Alaska's back country.

Here we go.

We're rolling.

They fixed the road up a little bit.

The equipment we're taking back is too heavy to go

across the bridge.

So we're gonna have to drive it straight through the river.

It sounds a little crazy. That's because it is.

It's raining, so that's not good for the river crossing.

There's a possibility the river's still too high,

and that we don't get any of the equipment back

to this side.

The 650, the two 490s, and the two loaders

have to come across the river.

It's supposed to start raining some more today,

so we need to get up there, get across the river.

Otherwise, we might lose our window.

It's gonna be interesting.

This rain's not helping anything.

If we can get that equipment across the river,

it'd be a big weight lifted off my shoulders.

We're gonna make it work. There ain't no quit.

Morning gold, best gold.

Beautiful day to get something, too, isn't she?

Nome's hometown heavyweight makes a risky move

for the back half of summer.

Just pulling up to 56 right now.

Good to be out here on Vernon's ground.

Looks like a good opportunity today, so it's up to us

to make the best of it.

Put our effort where it pays on the bottom.

I'm shaking it up the rest of the season.

It's a real gamble.

Yeah, looks like Chris has certainly moved in on our area.

That son of a bitch.

Mccully moved in on the area I've been working at tomcod.

He started fighting everybody.

This is my claim.

Chris rammed into star dog's dredge, cut his lines.

Stop!

Then get the out of the way.

There's rules out in the water,

and it just got too sketchy to stick around.

We've been having a lot of issues out there at tomcod.

Is that right?

Yeah, we're thinking about pulling anchor and heading over

to 56 if you'd have us.

I'm liking that idea a lot.

So I've made a deal with Vernon to mine on 56.

Shawn and I worked there this past winter,

but we're heading to a deeper section

where we expect to find some better stuff.

It's always a gamble to leave the gold behind that you know

for something unknown.

Got a little bit of trepidation or consternation or whatever

the it is pulling into a new spot.

Doing a little side scanning right now.

Cobble on this side, sand on this side,

gravel roads right underneath the boat.

Yeah, I believe this to be the neighborhood we're gonna

want to set up in.

I don't think anybody's gonna run over our anchor today.

Yeah, we just might be safe on the bottom over here on 56.

Without daddy's boy moving in on us.

Good thing about being on 56,

it's nice not having neighbors for a change.

One less thing to think about.

Ready to see what we got down here.

All systems go.

The ground here is deep enough to where we're gonna

have to limit our dive times,

but we're gonna push for four-hour shifts.

We need this move to 56 to pay off,

or we may be forced to go back to tomcod.

- Yeah. - Find some gold.

Let's do it.

All right, let's see what you got, 56.

Let's go!

Yeah, let's see what he finds down there.

Comms check.

Nice.

All right, I'm down here on the bottom.

Yeah, yup.

See what you got.

How's that material looking down there?

Find something fresh, fresh, fresh.

Could turn out to be something good.

Yeah suck her up, buttercup.

Get it.

Yeah, ain't nobody around us either.

Whoo-hoo! We're getting that g now, man.

As Joe heats up on his new home,

across the water...

Final push, baby.

Go out and get it.

After last week's altercation...

- We're gonna cut it. - Stop.

Chris mccully approaches tomcod,

uncertain if his Nemesis lies in wait.

If we get to the mining area, pound in some hours,

the day is over.

Everybody wants to be on this spot,

because it's the best one in nome.

That's why star dog was out here,

and it got a little crazy.

Take your white flag out of here.

I apologized, and I tried to work it out with the guy.

We're trying to work it out.

He has no right to mine here.

But I have no idea if he's gonna be looking for trouble.

Yeah.

No one's out here.

No star dog.

And not even Joe.

This is my world. This is mine.

And there's no obstacles in front of me.

I'm gonna take advantage of it.

As soon as I put my mask on, that's it.

It's rock and roll.

Now that everyone else is gone,

I'm gonna move along the pay streak.

My dive will be a little bit deeper than usual.

I have a dive computer that will guide me, and it tells me

how much nitrogen that I'm accumulating,

and we might have to shorten my dive hours a bit.

But this ground is gonna be worth it.

Let's get to it.

Hey, Chris, mic check?

Hey, Chris, is it looking good?

What's the overburden look like?

Awesome. That's awesome to hear.

Can't hope for anything better. On the gold.

Right now, I'm, like, over the moon about

what we're doing.

We ended up learning something new, and we found that we can

target gold that is in silt that is under, like, big fields

of big rocks and boulders.

And the gold that we're in under these boulders is,

like, really, really hot.

Zeke tenhoff may finally have his season,

rocking in a big way.

We know the ground that we need to work exactly,

so we don't need to waste any more time being inefficient

or, like, having any question about what we should be doing.

I could not be happier about where we are right now.

Last time out, we went from a cheese sandwich

to a Boulder field.

And I think we tapped into something really special.

The gold that's under these boulders is some of the best

that I've ever seen.

But it's exhausting to have to move these boulders

out of the way.

They can weigh up to 500 or 600 pounds.

If you do something wrong, one of them can fall down

and crush you.

That's where the biggest danger comes.

But judging by the gold that I'm seeing,

it's gonna be worth the risk.

Ok, let's do it.

This spot is really deep, so we can't be down

for very long. I'm gonna do three hours,

and then my brother Sam is gonna pick up after me.

- Comms check, Zeke. - Yeah.

Whoa!

You can't even see the end of the nozzle or what

it's sucking on.

So, like, out of nowhere, a giant Boulder will just roll

towards you, and you have to, like, back up and get

out of the way of it, and then figure out how to get the hose

out from under it.

You can take the risk as far as you're personally

comfortable with it, I guess.

You risk crushing the hose or crushing yourself.

It makes it ten times harder when you can't see anything.

Back in the harbor...

Ok, I think we're ready, right?

Let's make like geese and get the flock out of here.

After a rough first half... Ok, here we go.

Vernon adkison is looking to test his team's limits

in deep water.

We need some gold bad.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm telling you, a lot of hungry mouths to feed up here...

Including our own.

With a nitrox system, I thought this would be the best season

of my life.

But that's not how it's played out so far.

You have a tendency to rub me the wrong way.

- I just want it cut. - I got a plane to catch.

Me and Richie, my new diver,

we're not exactly seeing eye to eye.

Think I'm a idiot?

And his performance has not been great.

Pull him up. He's all up.

He's not gonna get any better.

And then the nitrox system took a dive,

and it's been down for a week.

The nitrox machine is only running off of one cylinder.

At this point, we might as well just go into town.

We got the nitrox system back up.

Richie's focused.

I'm getting royalties from other divers.

Including Joe full wood, and I'm ready to push the team

as hard as I can.

All right, so I'm gonna get somewhere down in here,

and I'll drop the anchors and then jump back on them.

Ok.

There's a patch of cobble I found that looked untouched.

It's deep, but with a nitrox system,

Richie and Scott can pull long dives today.

Five hours each, ten hours total.

Anchor up.

- Go ahead and just hook me up. - -Yeah.

We haven't done this many hours in one day at this depth.

So it's gonna be a challenge.

Scott's going down first, since he's got the experience

to get us on the gold.

Diver in the water.

Ok, here he goes.

Touchdown.

All right.

- That material looks very good. - Yes.

Easy to move?

This season's been rough, we're behind pace.

And at this point, this gold is not gonna cut it.

We need to be on coarser, chunkier gold.

I'm seeing some marine growth on the rocks.

So nobody's been down there.

Nobody has worked this area before.

So, as far as mining is concerned, it's virgin ground.

- All right, that's what I want to hear. - -Yeah.

That's good. That's good, good, good.

Wow. Very nice.

That's excellent. Excellent.

He dropped down onto some really good stuff.

He saw fine gold right away.

Then he's been seeing pickers, and now he's starting to see

some chunky gold, which that's...

That's the best news I've heard lately.

Scott found some hot ground,

so I need both divers to last five hours each.

If we keep this up, I think we're gonna do really good

on this dive.

So, I think this is one of those "yippee-ki-yay"

kind of days.

Feeling antsy. I want to get in the water.

Yeah.

Joe fullwood's risky move from tomcod to 56

could be starting to pay off.

Heck yeah, buddy. That's four hours.

Heck yeah. You want me to idle you down?

Heck yeah. I'm gonna idle you down.

Good job, buddy.

Moving from tomcod to 56 is a risk.

The gold has got to be great,

or it's not gonna be worth it.

There's no formula in gold mining.

You've got to go with your gut.

Sometimes, it means taking chances.

So far, looks like I made a good move.

Yeah, it was pretty rich.

All over the place down there.

Gold everywhere.

I just try not to leave anything not ran, you know?

Sucking up every bit I can see and try not to leave

any behind me.

Yeah. Yeah.

We're not gonna stop.

Michael's going to pick up right where I left off

and bank another four hours.

Have fun down there.

Michael in the water. Get two shifts in today.

Load that box up. Ground's looking good.

She's gonna pay off.

Michael, check? Mic check.

Check, yeah.

You ready to get us some of that Vernon gold, Michael?

Yeah, dude.

I'll give her the goose roosts.

How are you doing down there, Michael?

Hey, it's pretty rich gold?

Nice and consistent.

Very good choice to leave tomcod.

While Joe heats up on new grounds.

Across the water...

Hey, Chris, how's it looking down there?

Whoo-hoo!

Chris mccully's gamble to go deeper is paying off.

Wow! Whoo!

Whoo!

Holy crap.

Holy.

We'll see what it looks like when he gets up here.

Holy.

Yeah.

Holy.

Yeah!

Wow!

A nugget.

You! Yeah!

Whoo!

Look at that!

A nugget.

That's the biggest nugget I've ever seen.

Yeah!

That's what I stand for, that big gold.

Moth... big gold, dude.

Dude, you started screaming.

I thought you were sucked up the nozzle.

I knew the gold gods had something for me back

here, dude. I swear to god, dude.

Yeah! Whoo!

I've been mining in nome for over a decade, and I've never

found a nugget this big.

It just shined right in front of my face,

and I couldn't believe it.

Immediately, I got this natural high, and this is historical.

This is record-breaking stuff right here.

Nice.

Whoo! I can't believe it, baby!

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Whoo!

This is what I've been dreaming of.

It doesn't get any better than this.

I don't know how much it weighs yet, but this has got to be

the biggest nugget ever found offshore.

Wow, we made history, boys.

Definitely cracking bottles tonight.

First test pan. First test pan of the day.

Kris Kelly's first launch into historic 70-foot water

is underway.

That's garbage.

But so far, an historic pay streak is still elusive.

I think we just need to move spots.

Moving spots is easy.

We lift the crawler up a foot off the ground

and reposition the boat. Super simple.

These coordinates are a potential hotspot,

so we're gonna stay in this area,

move 10 feet, and see if we can get on something.

Put it in reverse.

We're the first ones to work these grounds, so there is

gonna be some trial and error.

Anchor the boat.

- Did we move already? - Yes.

We moved fast.

Everything goes fast on this boat.

Ok.

Now I'm gonna drop my crawler and go to work.

I'm on the bottom.

Idle up the pumps.

Let's see what we're at.

The material looks really good.

Let's see what we got.

We're just gonna have to keep adjusting and moving until

we find something that we like.

Rome wasn't built in a day,

and neither was reaper nation.

Let's move this thing real quick.

I'm bringing my crawler up right now.

The gold we're finding right now is fine, but that's not why

I'm mining at 70 feet deep.

I'm out here risking everything for something big.

I need something life-changing.

I want to go more east. Start bringing us over there.

I can barely hear their asses out there with my engine

going at the same time.

This gold is looking good, so we're on the trail.

We just need to stick with it.

The truth is, it's our first real day of mining.

We're mining in depths that

I've never been to in my life.

We just need to keep mining.

The gold's not gonna just jump in the sluice box.

Back on land...

Looks like we're here.

- What do you think, boys? - So nice.

After a rainy 80-mile journey through Alaska back country,

the team finally lays eyes on Shawn's $5 million investment.

Yeah. This is a nice addition.

Man, this thing looks nice.

Those cabs are super nice.

There's no roads in to nome from the rest of Alaska.

It's really expensive to ship anything in.

That's why everything in nome's usually older

and is run into the ground.

It smells new still.

So seeing all this new equipment,

that's something special.

It's good.

They're brand new.

Everybody's happy.

We ended up buying three haul trucks,

two loaders,

and five excavators.

The 650 is our biggest industrial size excavator.

Is this what you're gonna feed the plant with, Chuck?

I think so.

But we're racing the clock to get back to nome.

The more rain that falls, the higher that river

is gonna get.

And we won't make it back across.

And every minute we're out here,

we're not working at the mine.

Fire it up.

Whoa, new toy. I'm gonna break it in.

She's a beast.

Yeah, you good.

Perfect.

- So what do you think? - It's pretty sweet.

Get a chain down, and we'll get rolling.

Nice job, guys.

We're ready to get the hell out of here.

Come on, baby. Let's go!

Full steam ahead.

We're on our way.

80 miles doesn't sound like it's that far, but out here

in Alaska, it's a long way.

So anything that holds us up

is just gonna cost me more money.

So far, so good.

Slow and steady.

My god, you guys.

Damn it.

The equipment's heavy, and we ended up snapping

the drive line in one of the trucks.

The driveline's what shifts the power from the engine

to the wheels.

It's bad,

out here in the middle of nowhere, it's not an easy fix.

This truck's not going anywhere.

There's no quick fix to this.

We're screwed.

Do we have a strap or a chain?

Won't that do it?

All right, we're gonna go grab a haul truck.

Back the haul truck all the way down here.

We're not fixing this drive line out here today.

We're gonna hook up the haul truck to the broken semi

and the excavator and tow it away.

All right, real nice and easy, Jesse.

There you go.

Let me get out of here before you give it some gas.

We've had a couple hiccups, but we're moving.

But now I need to get to the river and help offload this

650, because that's the biggest, heaviest piece of equipment.

And then I can see if it makes it across the river or not.

There's only one way to get it across the river,

and that's to go.

Here we are. Yeah!

Here we go. Getting ready to offload.

We're gonna start out with the biggest excavator

because it has the most clearance,

and least chance of sinking or getting swamped.

Here it comes.

As I'm crossing the river, I'll use the excavator bucket

as a depth Gauge to find the shallow part of the river

to figure out which spot's the best to cross.

I'm taking a over a half-million-dollar piece

of equipment across the river.

If I get stuck or swamped,

I won't know until it's too late.

I still have to pay for it, whether I sink it or not.

We're gonna go ahead, get underway,

get plowing forward.

Slow and steady. That's how we're gonna do it.

We're in the water!

I don't like this at all.

Almost there.

There we go.

One step closer.

I'd be ok if I'd never had to do that again.

When I started this season, I didn't think I'd be driving

equipment across the river. But here we are.

And there's still more equipment to get across.

We got one piece across.

Still not out of hot water yet.

Back on the water...

We got some pretty good waves out there.

It's actually starting to wake up a little bit.

The gold's starting to brew for team adkison.

And so is the current.

We're getting the afternoon breeze.

We're starting to see some whitecaps out there.

The wave action is increasing.

We got to take advantage of every hour.

Only way we're gonna make it.

And that might require me to turn into a flaming ass.

But we'll all be happier in the long run.

I don't think these swells are gonna last long.

This can happen sometimes.

But no matter what, we can't stop mining.

You know that expression,

"this is the first day of the rest of your life"?

Well, this is the first day of the rest of our season.

We got to get gold today, come hell or high water.

You've got hard Clay on top and then soft Clay,

and that's at the bottom of the soft Clay?

All right, all right. I got it... that's great.

So, Scott...

Scott put in five hours.

Which, at these depths, is about as much as

it's safe to do.

- Good? - Yeah, take the weight belt.

Yeah, it's behind you.

Now we'll get Richie down there.

We've had our problems this season, but under these

conditions, if he can get down there and do well,

he will redeem himself.

This spot's been interesting.

I've cleared a huge area down there,

and I've seen a lot of changing terrain.

Sometimes I'd go a while without seeing any gold,

but then I would get into a little transition

in the Clay, and all of a sudden, "gold!"

So don't get discouraged if you go a while without seeing it.

Just if anything, if you're not seeing it, just keep making

a line until you see a transition change.

Let's get him in the water.

Yeah.

Ok.

Yeah, hey, Richie.

How's the gold looking?

That's excellent. That's excellent.

Roger, Roger.

Couldn't ask for better than that.

Happy days are here.

One mile east...

How bad is the viz?

Zeke tenhoff's been pushing through giant boulders

on the seafloor for over two hours.

You're way off to the starboard side.

But with limited visibility, things are getting rocky.

He's trying to mine, and you can't see.

It's dangerous.

If he's having this hard of a time, I can't imagine

that I'm gonna do anything.

I think there's a line where you're just wasting fuel.

You know, I hate to say it, but it's just like, that's it.

I mean, at a certain point, you gotta draw the line.

I've never heard you so frustrated on a dive before.

Team tenhoff finds themselves between a rock...

And a hard place.

It makes me feel a little bit, like, emasculated kind of,

just saying this, but it's like, at a certain point,

I just don't... It's dangerous.

Moving these boulders is really difficult.

It's no joke.

But it's gonna be worth it if everybody can get

their hours in.

But if that doesn't happen, if we don't get our hours in,

it's gonna be tough.

This dive that you just had was, like, hellacious.

- And... - Everybody did it.

Yeah, I know, but like...

Me down there is so not productive.

It's like bumping against...

Well, you've already said it's not productive.

- So there's a mindset thing. - No, it's not a mindset.

It's straight-up a visibility thing, dude.

Working blind is like a whole different skill set.

It sketches me out.

Like, sketches me out having boulders roll out of nowhere.

I know that this work can be intimidating,

but nothing about it was supposed to be easy.

I can tell when somebody doesn't have the right mindset,

and, like, I don't know if there's anything I can do

to make it easier.

The problem is I can't dive for any more hours.

That's the problem.

Sam's a good diver, and he can do this.

But right now, I don't think he's seeing that.

It's like, I don't, I'm not in your shoes.

I found my line of...

Risk to reward, you know? And...

I don't feel comfortable.

That's a problem.

Well, let's get this hose up.

Ok, pull it in.

It's disappointing that Sam's not gonna get

his hours in today.

I need to figure out what I'm going to do,

otherwise, we might fall short this summer.

Bring the boat in, and I'll probably go home,

cool off a little, and then I'll bring the boat

back out in the morning and pick up where we left off.

It's like, whatever, dude.

I just want to go diving.

Far across the water, at a secret location.

That's called prospecting.

Chris Kelly's quest for a 70-foot fortune continues.

I told us to move when we were on decent gold

because I'm trying to find something better.

You.

Only idiots stay in one spot and suck unless

you're happy with the gold.

Can you drive it forward to the left?

We found gold, and it's decent,

and everybody's happy with decent.

Andy's happy with decent, but I'm not.

I'm not out here risking everything for decent.

I'm looking for the jackpot.

Ok, we're ready. Let's do it.

Let me drop her down.

I'm good to go.

- You're on the bottom? - Yeah.

That means gold.

Flat rocks mean gold. Jackpot!

Yeah, this is what I've been looking for.

You know what? You can't give up, homie.

You've got to keep going.

No, you're whining like a, though.

No, it's you!

You can see it from here all the way to there.

Nice chunky pieces.

So we're seeing a lot of variety.

We're on it. We're in it.

We're in it.

Two ships tomorrow. We're running 24 hours now.

We're killing it, baby.

That pan looks good, buddy.

- But it's real chunky. - It is.

Here's a mining lesson. Don't settle.

Don't think this is good enough.

I kept pushing, and we finally found spectacular gold.

In the morning, we're gonna fire up the workforce and start

running day and night. 24 hours a day.

GPS that right now.

Thank god at the end we got that good gold.

Thank god. I was getting pissed.

And that's mining.

Waste the whole day, and waste the next day.

We had a great day.

I told you it was gonna work out.

Just outside the harbor...

It's almost like it's the logo.

Looks like my logo, look at that.

No way.

Legendary status, Chris bg.

Chris mccully calls it a day.

One giant nugget richer.

You're not gonna believe, you're about to see.

You're about to see the biggest nugget of your life.

Pass you this rope.

After a big find like this, all I want to do now is

share the good news.

Why? What's up?

Tie up? We got to tie up?

What's up, g?

It's them, it's them, it's them. Let these guys do it.

Dude, I'm gonna get you an anchor.

- What's wrong with you? - Come to my boat.

You want to end it?

Well, yeah. I'm gonna, dude...

- tat for tat. - You got me.

- I got you. - Ok, fine, dude.

- Yeah. - You got me good.

Yeah.

Come up to me, cutting my anchor lines, dude.

We both have families.

We're trying to provide, and you're with me, dude.

Dude, I didn't want to hurt you, man.

I got mad.

I got a little mad, dude.

It's done. You got it?

It's done.

All right.

Wow, that was uncalled for, 100%.

So this is the highs and lows of mining.

Clearly, star dog is not over the anchor line.

Dude. It's like a whirlwind of emotions today.

I got a nugget. I got clocked in the face.

But hey, dude.

That's what we got. 'Em.

Those guys, dog.

We got what we got. Deserved.

I just got to brush it off and keep my mind on mining.

It all balanced out in the end. I get punched.

I found the big nugget. I accept it.

Yeah, I got a nugget.

You just got me in the ear. So what?

Boo hoo.

Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

Yep, nice and easy, just like that.

The pomrenke caravan has nearly finished the journey

through the river.

Nice job, you guys.

But one last piece remains.

We'll see if I can find a shallower spot that stays

lower than the top of the tracks.

See you on the other side, I hope.

Now we have to get the smallest piece

of equipment across.

I'm already in debt.

If I destroy this excavator, it's game over, and I won't

have any way to make the money back.

I'll use the bucket to drag it, but the water might not be

shallow enough.

Here we go.

This is the most dangerous part of the whole project.

Make it next 150 feet here, we're golden.

Damn it.

We're not moving!

Come on!

We're good now.

I do not need that kind of stress.

I got enough stress in my life.

- This river. - Yeah.

Now we got to drive everything back to nome, get everything

fired up, and get our season back on track.

I need a drink.

Way too much excitement for one day.

Out on the water...

All right, Mike's all done.

Get him out of the water.

As the nome sky turns to dusk, the full wood team may be

turning a corner on gold-rich claim 56.

Welcome back.

Yeah.

Beautiful chunk you got there... beautiful?

- A lot of gold down there? - Yeah, it is.

- Real consistent? - A lot, a lot.

Good day?

Yeah, a real good day.

Yeah.

Ooh, nice fat little trail coming out of here.

Nice nuggy, nice round course piece.

Beautiful. Yeah, man, she beautiful.

Good job, Michael.

Tearing it up.

The gold was good on tomcod, but this gold on 56 is amazing.

We got eight hours in today with no drama,

just gold mining.

Get this gear out of the water, head back to port.

That's my kind of day.

If it's like this moving forward, it's gonna be

a hell of a summer.

Anchors aboard.

Port of nome, here we come.

It's a beautiful horizon

to drive into at the end of the day.

The gold shines about like the sun, even distance

below the water.

Beautiful things.

It's good to be out here with enough time left in the season

to really pull this together.

Across the claim...

Richie, how you doing?

With their season on the brink, the adkison crew is

still on the water, pushing into the night.

We got to take it to the Max.

We've got to get every damn dive day, every dive hour

that we possibly can.

That's the only way we're gonna have a good season.

Rich got in four and a half hours.

It's coming up on midnight.

He said he was on gold the entire time.

We'll shut down, and we'll get up daylight,

and get everything, and go to town.

Ok, Richie, we're gonna go ahead and call it a day.

Come on up.

We pushed it today because we needed it.

Nearly 10 hours into the night.

And Richard really showed me something.

He was a rock star.

Maybe there's some hope for him after all.

The gold ship crew has turned over a new leaf.

We've got things sorted out,

and now everything is cooking.

Oof, ok.

But we're too wiped to go in tonight.

We're gonna sleep on the boat, go in tomorrow morning,

and the scales will tell the tale.

It was two to three times better than the that we saw.

- Ever? - Ever.

- Really? - Tunnels, pickers... Love that.

Schist Grand Canyon.

Good show. You did a hell of a good job.

I literally could swing two feet, piece.

- Two feet, piece. - Yeah.

- That was good. - Awesome.

Let's shut everything down and go to bed.

Join us, won't you,

for another social hour with Vernon.

All right.

Let's see what's happening out there in social media land.

Crayoneat99

ever make anything cool with your gold?

Bars, jewelry, teeth?

Well, I'm having some choppers made right now.

Plus, having all that gold in your mouth, it creates

colloidal gold.

Drinking colloidal gold will improve your intelligence.

I mean, I drink it with my tea in the morning.

It's all over the Internet. Look it up.

But otherwise, no. I've never done anything

with it, except sell it. I hate to sell it.

I don't mind spending money, like dollars.

It's just paper.

But I hate, like hell, to give up my gold.

When I have to pay for something with gold,

it's like it hurts me deeply.

I'm not damn upset about it.

Upset, that ain't the word for it.

But I would at least, before I check out,

have a set of gold choppers made

so that when they do find my carcass

1,000 years from now, you know, they'll know

that I was a man of substance.

We sure hope you enjoyed another

social hour with Vernon.

Nome, sweet nome.

I don't know how sweet it is, but it is nome.

After a rough sleep at sea,

the gold ship crew has returned to see if

their season is back on track.

We're gonna do a clean out.

We got nothing there to make a payday out of it.

Our season is on the line with this clean out.

I've got royalties coming in, but we need some big numbers

on this scale to make life worth living.

I got a little picker. They all count.

There might be a good sized nugget hiding in there.

You never can tell.

Yeah!

Nice little picker. Got some heft to it.

Twins. Got triplets.

As much as I hate panning, once I get into it,

I really don't mind that gold staring back at me.

I want to see 20 ounces weighed out.

Let's see what the Bering sea has to say.

All right, this is everything, right?

- Yes, sir. - Ok, here it goes.

All right, there's three, four... Five... Six, seven,

12, 13,

- 17, 18. - What?

21!

- 22. - 22.

23.

24...

Point three five.

- Ok. - I'd say that's a pretty good day's work.

- Yeah. - All right.

24.35 ounces clocks in at nearly 61 grand.

Easily, the team's best clean out of the season.

And as the back half of summer begins, the veteran skipper

may have righted the gold ship.

It took a while, but I think we're in the zone.

We're back, baby.

The nitrox system is working well.

I got royalties coming in, and we're on great gold.

What could be better? It's all coming together.

Now we gotta ride this on out to the end of the season.

If we can keep this up, we definitely will be finishing

the season with a bang.

All I gotta say is, keep up the good work.

Across town...

14 years, baby. 14 years in the making.

Finally, the gold gods gave me a gift.

I got the big nugget all of a sudden.

Biggest nugget ever picked up offshore.

I got it.

Word's on the street, Chris mccully got

the big nugget.

You don't want that nugget sitting around your house.

So I had to send that gold nugget out of town.

But after star dog came at me, I went straight to my place

and weighed the gold nugget.

It was 4.9 ounces.

And as far as I know, this is the largest nugget ever found

in the Bering sea.

There's always the Karma system going on.

I cut the guy's anchor line, but immediately it felt wrong.

So, at the end of the day, I realized you have to have,

like, some sense of

respect, and I learned a lot.

In mining, when you do good,

more good things will come to you.

I try to apologize to star dog, and I try to be the bigger man.

I'm just out there doing the best I can.

And this time, the gold gods looked down on me and smiled.

There's a big nugget waiting for me.

It's gonna be passed down to the generations.

That right there just tells me.

I must be doing something good in life.

In the harbor... Nice couple nuggets.

Good to see some of that coarse 56 gold.

The local boys start the first clean out

from their new grounds.

Really enjoying our new setting over here on 56.

Let's rip this metal out of here and go clean it.

Excited to see what we're gonna get.

This is the way it's supposed to be, mats loaded with gold,

peace and quiet.

Beautiful nome morning in this great spot on 56.

The real test is gonna be when it hits the scale.

That's when we'll know if this is something big or we're just

fooling ourselves.

So good, so good.

Four trays for the diving we did is pretty damn good.

A lot coarser of pay than we've been running at tomcod.

Good to see these chunkier pieces turning up.

I want to see at least 20 ounces on that scale today.

Throw this stuff on the scale.

- Yeah, man, that's beautiful. - All righty.

Magic moment. Let's see what we got here.

1, 2, 5, 7... 11, 12, 15... 17, 18, 20... 25... 25.8.

- Really good. - Yeah.

25.8 ounces is worth nearly $65,000.

And Joe full wood may have found his home

for the rest of the summer.

Look at all that coarse gold.

I think that our 56 round's paying real well.

This is beautiful.

Some real hot gold in front of us.

I'm ready to see what we pile up here in the next

couple weeks.

This is a great number off the bat in a short time.

I can't wait to get back there, keep going nonstop on 56.

Well, this will do just fine.

Let's get back out there and go get some more?

Yeah. Yeah.

- Let's go. - Do what we do.

Say bye-bye to tomcod and hello to 56.

Ready to pile it up out there.

Fresh start for the end of the season.

After the move, Joe continues his dominance,

while Vernon makes big noise of his own.

Next time...

This is the ground right here, everybody's looking for.

On "Bering sea gold."

We should have the mistress back in the water today.

I was figuring on getting four dives today

in a round-the-clock scenario.

We're getting to the end of the season,

and we're trying to finish strong.

Whoo!

We're gonna go make money today.

I'm broke.

All right, let's go ahead and get that plant fired up.

Whoo-ha!

I'm liking what I'm seeing.

Doing it, Michael.

- Music! - This boat is back up.

- We're back making gold. - Music!

Golden baby mama pulled through on this run.

Beautiful pile of gold right there.

Yeah!