01x04 - A Viking Funeral

[bunniefuu]

[ Whistling ]

What is really, really essential

About dredging,

What is so cool about it

You get to be part of a team.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

I got enough clams

On there.

Your captaincy sucks.

Check your ego.

Get the [bleep] out!

Man: you don't communicate,

You're on your own out there.

Meisterheim:

What good is a com system

If you ain't gonna

Pay attention to it?!

[ Grunts ]

[ Groans ]

You've got to keep those lines

Of communication open.

Because with gold,

There are no second chances.

[ Whistling ]

[ "Gold in these hills" plays ]

Listen up close, now ♪

What I say ♪

I'm a-gonna take that risk

One day ♪

I heard about a fortune

To be made ♪

And I'm a-gonna get it,

Now, just you wait ♪

'Cause I heard

That there's gold ♪

In these hills ♪

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Gold ♪

Narrator:

Midnight -- nome, alaska.

Ian: we basically have

22 Hours of useable ligh

Up here right now.

Need to take advantage of it.

Here to make up for lost time.

Narrator: the three-month

Summer gold-dredging season

Is halfway over.

Steve p.:

We don't need daylight.

Soon as the weather lays down,

We're out there digging.

Narrator: but no one is halfway

To turning a profit.

Emily:

We've had pretty spotty weather.

We could have another month

Down, and if that happens,

It's gonna go south

Really quickly.

Narrator: at 4:00 a.m

Go.

Wild ranger captain

Scott meisterheim shoves off.

Meisterheim: my reason for

Coming up here and doing this

Was a means to an end.

It was an end to my troubles.

You know, I'm here

To pay my child support.

If I don't pay that [bleep]

It's jail time for me.

But if the rest of the season

Goes like it's going right now,

That thing might as well

Just be sunk.

Narrator: for six straigh

Weeks, a string of breakdowns

[Bleep] suction!

He needs suction!

Have led to grim results.

There's no gold

In the [bleep] bering sea.

And captain and crew have been

At each other's throats.

Meisterheim: doesn't hur

To get on your damn hands

And knees and look.

Finally you grew

A set of [bleep]

Pour gas on it and burn it.

That'd be the most excitemen

You're gonna ge

Out of that thing.

That's a viking funeral.

In my position, it would just be

Simply [bleep] arson.

Narrator:

With the crew on shaky ground,

The skipper is charting

A new course on deck.

Meisterheim:

Steve, come here.

I need you closer, 'cause I'm

Gonna try not to yell today.

Barring any dumb questions

And stupid opinions,

I'm gonna try

To play nice.

I don't want today to be

Some [bleep] argue-fest.

'Cause somebody will

Go off the boat.

I'm not gonna argue

With you.

Meisterheim: we'll see

How the day goes.

'Cause it's a new day,

But they're still idiots.

Narrator:

Scott's destination for gold --

A spot he scouted

And marked 2 miles offshore.

One of the advantages

That wild ranger has

Over other dredgers

Is we have a 40-foot hose.

So we can dive deeper.

The gold is bigger

As you get deeper.

On the beach, it's very fine,

And as you go out,

The layers get coarse.

Jason, swing over

To that buoy right there.

Tell me what I got to do

Up there.

Straighten it out.

You're good.

Steve, you wan

To grab that buoy?

Steve r.: Uh-huh.

Shut her down.

Okay, we got anchor set.

Narrator: today, a longer hose

Isn't their only advantage.

Meisterheim: check out my mask,

My brand-new toy.

Narrator: scott's new mask lets

The diver communicate topside,

Maximizing time on the bottom

And hopefully on the gold.

Coms and lights.

That means steve will be able

To talk to me.

[Bleep] great.

Walker:

I need a confidence booster.

We are all running out of money.

And we can't keep

Coming out here

And pulling only mere grams

Per hour.

That's just not gonna work out.

Scott's down.

He's been down

For about 20 minutes.

Weather's really good.

I think it will be

A pretty good day out here.

As a topside guy, I can --

I anticipate the diver's needs

With air and a hot-water supply

And the suction,

So I'm ahead of him as far as

What he needs to have done.

[ Beep ]

[ Beep ]

Can you hear me

Down there?

[ Beep ]

Not sure

If you can hear me.

[ Beep ]

I can't understand

What you're saying.

[ Beep ]

It's too muffled, so we'll

Figure something else out.

I did hear him say something.

[ Babbling ]

[ Laughs ]

Here's his bubbles.

But nobody's responding

To me.

I've had [bleep] suction

The whole time.

No suction!

I had no heat! I was freezing

My [bleep] off!

What good is a [bleep]

Com system

If you ain't gonna

Pay attention to it?!

He didn't hear a thing.

[ Indistinct shouting ]

I'm gonna not give you suction

And not give you hot water

For an hour

And see how you like it.

Trying to [bleep] k*ll me,

Steve?

Are you that pissed at me?

The only way I know

How to manage steve

Is to tell him to shut his mouth

And to "just do what I tell you

To do and don't argue."

But he can't seem

To do any of that.

He's always got to run

His [bleep] yap.

Trying my patience.

Narrator:

3 Miles up the coast

Moen: do you see gold?

Shift change

On the christine rose.

All right, man.

After 12 hours on the gold,

Owner steve pomrenke

Is trusting the operation

To his two newest deckhands,

Cody moen and robbi wade.

Man: all right, good luck.

Good luck.

All right.

Five weeks ago, the dredge's

Co-owner, steve's son shawn,

Got stabbed in a bar fight

Ah! [ Groans ]

Narrator: and almos

Had to sit the season out.

Steve p.: If I lose shawn,

Well, that puts double

The pressure on the old man.

I'm wanting to back off

A little bit.

I got plenty of gray hair.

I can -- should be able

To quit pretty soon.

I decided to put robbi

In control over cody.

Robbi's done a lot harder work

In his life

Compared to what cody has,

So that's

The driving force there,

As to why I gave robbi

The manager position

Or the ship boss

And cody's second hand.

Narrator:

If robbi can run the show,

It will help secure his spo

On the dredge

And the future

Of the entire operation.

Wade: supposed to have

A good stretch of weather,

So hopefully we can load up

On some gold here.

Narrator: the largest dredge

In the fleet,

The christine rose

Uses a 15-ton backhoe

To claw up the ocean floor.

We'll dig here for a little bit.

Steve wanted us to keep

Digging here, so

Narrator:

But on the first bucket,

The greenhorn questions the boss

Man's orders to dig this spot.

We're really close to where

We've already dug,

And this material's just --

I don't think

It's the right stuff.

This material don't look good

At all to me.

Looks like something

Already dug.

If we're not digging pay dirt,

It ain't worth sitting here.

I got it all set up so we can

Test the material really fast.

You're fine.

I can't get hit right here.

Narrator:

Cody pans dirt from the bucke

To see if they're hauling in

Any gold.

I mean, that's gold

Right there, dude.

Wow. Dude.

The old man was right.

We're getting good gold!

Wade: builds my confidence

A little more.

[ Grunts ]

[ Groaning ]

Narrator: on the christine rose,

Greenhorn robbi wade is running

The show for the first time.

[ Grunts ]

[ Groaning ]

[ Groaning continues ]

Moen: that was stupid.

What?

You said

You were gonna watch out.

It ain't that hard.

He said he was paying attention

To me, and obviously he didn't.

What's that?

Well, you know what, cody,

You're the one that said

So, you know.

I didn't say

It was your fault,

But I said, "I'm fine,

Thanks for asking."

Like you even [bleep]

Care.

You would have been all righ

If you would have been

Paying attention.

[Bleep]

Don't even [bleep] care.

Doesn't even care.

Yeah, no big deal, dude.

That machine could k*ll you

In, like, a second.

That thing hit me hard.

That's a couple tons

Of swinging steel coming

And hitting me

In the back of the head.

But he doesn't even care.

He just says, "you should

Have been paying attention."

What a [bleep]

What if I broke my [bleep] neck?

He's supposed to be some big guy

In charge out here.

Feel real safe out here

Working with robbi now.

Narrator: on west beach

Ian foster

Sits on the sidelines

While partner scott takes

Ian's dredge, the sluicey,

On a solo mission.

Ian: he's hungry.

He wants to get underwater.

He wants to work hard, you know.

I need to give him his shot to

Be underwater, call the shots.

Just gonna be

Me and the sea today.

Ian: we realized that we had to

Change up the game a little bi

If we wanted to make

This profitable.

We decided that the best thing

For us to do

Would be to split shifts.

Narrator: so far, ian's

Rookie season as a dredger

Hasn't gone as planned.

Scott: what kind of baling wire

And duct-tape solutions

Are there to band-aid

Every little problem

That's on the dredge?

Narrator: now ian's

Changing his strategy

To make up for lost time

And haul more gold.

Ian: we're here because of gold,

And the best way to make

The most amount of money

Is for us to split it up

And dive solo.

Scott:

I'll be responsible with it.

That being said, I'm doing

Things a little differen

From how ian would do them.

I'm honestly a little bit scared

That scott is gonna push I

Farther than I would.

Ian was afraid of the waves

Splashing over the bow

And us taking on water.

Justifiably so.

Water goes over the bow of

The boat, you're slowly sinking.

I'm leery of the same thing,

And if we take on a little bi

Of water, no biggie.

I don't want to be

Ian's employee.

My whole motivation

For coming this summer

Was to get enough gold

To get another dredge up here.

I want to build my ideal dredge,

Something that can be run

By one person -- me --

And won't rely on anybody else.

I'm gonna need, you know,

Probably 50k to 75k.

It's not sparking.

Narrator: the pump engine

That sends air to the diver

Won't start.

Scott: think one of the waves

That splashed I

Got the ignition wet.

So, uh, got to wait until

The water dries off

Of whatever electrical

Components got wet.

I mean, I'm just sitting here.

The wind is dying down.

The water is Fl*ttening out.

It's a beautiful day.

I'm out on the water.

There could be

A dozen ounces of gold

Sitting right underneath me.

And I can't go down

And suck it up.

Because of the stupid engine,

I can't get going.

It's driving me nuts.

Narrator: 2 miles offshore

Steve r.: Good. That looks

Like a good surface, no?

The wild ranger

Heater and suction hose

Are still out of commission.

Yeah.

That look like

A good surface?

I don't know if that's a good

Surface inside there.

What's the problem?

The --

When I screw this in,

The joint right here

Goes crooked.

Maybe that's

A bad unit, then.

I mean, let's hope it doesn't,

Like, break or something.

This is not easy.

I am forced to have

These two [bleep] on my boat.

That's what's leaking,

Not this.

Yeah, yeah.

I guess I could jus

Hold on to that and

Yeah, you could.

I don't need steve and jason

On that boat.

If they were to quit right now,

I'm dredging myself.

I don't see how it's getting

Worse each time.

It just sucked

Every [bleep] time.

We didn't waste

A dime's worth of time.

We have not wasted a dime's

Worth of time today.

We have got a system down.

We are a team.

We are working

Our team shift.

This has been awesome.

You are about to make me

Puke right now.

Scott and I are no

Getting along at all.

So everything we do together

Is very strained.

I'm still mad at you

For what you did today.

Just a bad thing

For you to do.

I don't wan

To hear about it.

You know, I fought back

A little bit, and

[ Laughing ]

Narrator: for steve,

Fighting back

Means mocking his skipper.

No, no smart talk

Back to me, okay?

Don't do that again ever.

That fits.

I promise not to hit you

Again like I did.

All right.

Try and throw you

In the water,

Talk bad about your mom.

Meisterheim:

My relationship with steve

I can't stand

The kind of person he is.

It's all becoming a "who's go

A bigger [bleep]" contest.

Well, I got news for him.

I do.

Narrator: a mile inland

On the 20-foot clark

Oh, my god, it's so clear,

You can see the bottom.

Awesome!

Captain zeke tenhoff is

On the hunt for a new hot spot.

Tenhoff: it's warm and sunny,

And the visibility's

Really, really good.

So I'm gonna take

The opportunity today

To do a bunch of prospecting.

Narrator: zeke spent the season

On the gold.

Tenhoff: all right.

Right on.

Narrator:

But now his spot is tapped out,

And he needs a new honey hole.

We'll have emily on the

Outboard, driving in reverse,

Pulling me down there.

So she'll be dragging me

Along the bottom,

And as I'm being drug

Along the bottom,

I'll be punching holes,

Looking for good gold.

Narrator: greenhorn emily

Has spent her first season

Just trying to survive.

That thing is [bleep] dangerous!

Narrator: and now

She'll be piloting the clark

For the first time.

There's an outboard engine

That propels the boat.

It's an insanely tricky animal.

It's like a temperamental woman.

She's insanely hard to manage.

Narrator: to help zeke prospect,

Emily will drag him through

The water behind the dredge.

But to keep from cutting

His air and hot-water lines,

She'll drive in reverse.

It's a good way to cover

A lot of ground fast,

But it could be deadly.

If she suddenly changes speed

Or direction,

Zeke's momentum could carry him

Right into the spinning prop.

It is somewhat dangerous,

And it's stressful for emily.

But it's a good system,

And it's worth it.

It'll be a good experience

For her

And, you know, in the process

Of her learning

To be a gold dredger.

Go really slowly south.

All right.

Keep an eye on my bubbles

And where my air line is.

And don't go too fast.

Narrator:

Emily hits the throttle,

And zeke gets dragged

Along the ocean floor.

Tenhoff: all the rocks

Under there look the same,

And there's gold

Under some of those rocks,

And there's no gold

Under some of those rocks.

In order to find it, you have

To cover a lot of ground.

As I'm being pulled

Along the bottom,

I'm using my suction hose

To dig holes,

Dig as many holes as I can

As rapidly as I can

Over a large area of ground.

I hate doing this, because

It makes me really nervous

Because the outboard's running,

And there's a diver down,

And that really freaks me out,

The potential to run over zeke.

I'm supposed to be going

Really slow,

But there's so much engine noise

Right now

From the pump and the compressor

And the outboard,

I can't really tell

Whether I'm moving or not.

Narrator:

Just off the coast of nome,

Greenhorn emily drags zeke

Along the ocean floor

As he prospects for gold.

Emily: I'm supposed to be

Going really slow,

But I can't really tell

Whether I'm moving or not.

Tenhoff:

When you're dragging me,

Under no circumstances

Put that much throttle.

I know.

Okay.

Tenhoff: it's hard to tell

Exactly where it's coming from,

But the past couple times

I've gone out on the water

With emily, you know,

We're not communicating

That well,

And she's giving me

More and more attitude.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!

I'm trying to move

To the other side,

But I don't know --

Trying to think abou

Where the hose is and

You're good.

The hose is right there.

Well, I know, but

Yeah.

You know, I've been doing this

For a long time.

This is how I want to do it.

If she doesn't wan

To do it my way,

Then she needs to suck it up

And not give me

Any attitude about it.

You see how much stress

This causes me when I do this?!

Get over it!

It's your job!

[Bleep] you!

Narrator: just up the coas

On the sluicey

See if I can take

This ignition switch off.

Narrator: scott foster

Is still sidelined

With a waterlogged

Air compressor.

[ Engine turns over ]

Whoo!

Got my engine going, baby!

Got everything put back

Together.

Couple of pulls with the choke

On, she fired right up.

So now I'm ready to go.

I've got a big area here

All to myself,

And I'm just gonna star

Looking for gold.

Narrator: the only way

To make up for lost time --

Get underwater and find gold.

After only 15 minutes,

Scott finds a sweet spo

Under a 150-pound rock

And goes looking for more.

2 Miles offshore

On the wild ranger

It's getting really bad

Right now.

Narrator: breakdowns

Have shut down the dredge,

And now they have a new problem.

Meisterheim:

The waves are really picking up.

The wind has shifted already,

So, rule of thumb out here

Is if it's whitecapping within

A half a mile of the shore,

It's time to go in.

[ Grunts ]

We've got 3 miles

To go [bleep] home.

It'll take about two hours.

We're heading righ

Against the wind.

Okay, fire it up.

[ Engine sputtering ]

Push in.

Put that together.

Push it in,

And it'll choke it.

Yeah, I know.

I did that already.

I think the wild ranger's

A joke.

I think it's a piece of [bleep]

It runs like it's the titanic.

It's gonna collapse

Out in the middle of the ocean

And sink to the bottom.

Narrator: 2 miles

Off the coast of nome

An offshore swell

Is battering

The 25-foot wild ranger.

And their outboard motor

Refuses to fire.

Try and pull it.

Up and down on the lever.

Pump it.

Oh, man, this is --

This is not good.

Steve r.:

Now, somebody tell me

How we're gonna

Make it back in.

Walker: I think we've bitten off

More than we can chew this time.

Narrator:

If the seas keep picking up,

They'll swallow the dredge

And sweep the crew

Into the frigid bering sea.

Can we put that other fuel tank?

Narrator: the fuel pump

Won't prime the engine.

So scott steps in

And does it himself.

[ Engine sputtering ]

[ Engine turns over ]

Meisterheim: beautiful.

One more time.

[ Laughter ]

Narrator:

3 Miles up the coast

Scott foster

Is still on the gold.

After four hours,

He heads topside

And discovers a problem

With the sluice box.

Damn it.

This carpet was all humped up.

It's not supposed to be here.

See this flap right here?

Ian just left it sitting there.

Well, when the gravel goes

Through, it goes "mrr" like this

And just gets full of sand,

And then it just kicks

All the gold up

So these ripples

Don't do any good.

We're not even catching

A fraction of the gold

That's going through

This box right now.

So now I'm torn between

If I leave it like that,

It's gonna prohibi

Proper gold recovery,

But the only way to fix it is to

Clean out the entire sluice box,

Which means I have to

Take the dredge in

And miss these

Dredging conditions.

I'm just really frustrated

With ian right now.

I think he just figured that if

He left it up there like that,

It would catch gold, but being

As if it's not fastened down,

All it's gonna do is shoo

The gold up in the air.

Ah!

Come on.

[Bleep]

[ Sighs ]

Narrator:

2 Miles up the coast

We got to move.

What direction, though?

Captain shawn pomrenke has come

Out to move the barge off a spo

That deckhands cody and robbi

Have cleared of gold.

Trying to figure ou

How I'm gonna move here,

'Cause my back's

Giving me trouble.

[ Groans ]

Narrator: during a bar figh

A month ago,

Shawn got stabbed in the back

And aggravated an old injury.

Ah! [ Groans ]

Narrator: but for shawn, missing

Pay dirt is not an option.

Shawn:

It's important that I'm here.

Went out earlier this spring,

Found a decent pan over here,

But it's in pretty shallow.

I spent the time

Panning and figuring ou

Where the pay streak is.

Don't dig deep.

Dig shallow,

And it shows in the bar.

You move to the wrong spot,

And you ain't getting no gold,

You're -- you're going broke.

Wade: right now,

We're just switching spots.

Shawn's just pulling us along

With the excavator right now.

He's just reaching ou

And grabbing us

And gonna get us into position.

Narrator: shawn claws his way

To a spot he marked on his gps,

Taking the dredge

Into the shallows.

Well, now I'll look for my spot.

Right there.

There it is.

I'm trying to hi

This little point here,

And now I'm only 9 feet off.

3 Meters.

[ Thud ]

Ah!

[ Groans ]

Narrator:

On the christine rose

[ Thud ]

Ah!

Narrator: shawn nailed

The ocean floor with the bucke

And tweaked his back.

Shawn: well, here we go.

Back only lasted so long today.

Hey, robbi?

I got to get laying down here.

My back's pretty bad.

10-4.

Oh, my back is just k*lling me.

Aah!

Moen: the boss is dying, man.

He needs to go

To the hospital, man.

'Cause this is not good.

If he's not feeling good,

We're gonna be [bleep] hurting.

All of us are gonna be hurting.

Man, this sucks.

Narrator: with shawn pomrenke

Down for the count,

His father, steve, motors ou

To replace him.

No mechanical errors,

No mechanical issues today.

Just back-pain issues

For the boy.

The boss's job is to ge

The most work out of your crew.

[ Groans ]

If I lose shawn, I lose the bes

Mechanic, the best ship boss,

And then shawn,

He could lose everything.

Your lower back,

Or is it, like, up here?

Right there.

[ Groans ]

Down.

[ Groans ]

Got to make it hur

In order to make it better.

When he's feeling

As bad as he's feeling now,

He's not capable

Of running this thing.

His mind is not on his work.

It's on his bad back.

So I'm thinking I need

To maybe just take

This whole dang show over

And let him take a few days off

So he can actually function

Out here.

I put in my 55 years of work

So far.

I should be able

To start backing off

And relying upon his sensibility

To be there to run that dredge,

Not this insensibility of

Getting in a damn fist fight.

If he can't do it, I'm the only

Other viable person,

And I want him to take

The whole damn thing over

So I can relax a little bit.

That's all I got to say.

Narrator: at belmont beach

Scott: there's no poin

In diving all this time

If you can't keep

Any of the gold you suck up.

Narrator: scott foster

Dismantles the dredge's

Faulty sluice box.

He had these backwards.

I was just kind

Of under the assumption

That ian had already understood

How it worked,

But now that I see this,

Ian just didn't even understand

How it works at all.

One of the cons about ian --

He's not tremendously

Experienced at this.

You know, it wears

On your mental stamina

When crap breaks down on you,

Your equipment malfunctions,

And you're not gonna

Get the gold.

That is how

A sluice box looks.

Narrator: on the wild ranger

Take it all the way around

That red buoy

That's right in front of you.

Narrator: the crew heads

To port for repairs.

I don't have to go all the way

Around that, do i?

I'm videoing

To show my wife.

No.

That's more importan

Than the [bleep] boa

And the people on it.

I told you there were

Big-a*s rocks in here.

All you're gonna worry

About is your camera.

9 Feet, okay? Relax.

Over there.

Sandbar way out here.

You ain't even looking.

Why am I even telling you?

I see the buoy!

No, I am pointing

At the [bleep] sandbar,

Mr. Know-it-all!

[Bleep]

I saw it.

Go ahead!

Bust [bleep] up.

Meisterheim: jason is a moron.

He sat his a*s in a [bleep] semi

For 18 years,

And now here he is, a dredger,

And if you ask him,

He's a professional dredger,

The best one here.

5 Feet, 4 feet,

3 Feet.

Oh [bleep]

We're 2 feet right now.

Yeah, get the [bleep]

Out of here.

Head right towards that buoy

Right there.

3 Feet.

All right,

We're getting it back.

6 Feet.

Piece of cake.

Yeah.

At least we know

We can do it.

Throttle that puppy.

With or withou

Listening to scott!

Meisterheim: neither

One of those two [bleep]

Have common sense.

I just want to pound them

Right in their [bleep] face

Until their [bleep] brain

Falls out of their head.

Whoo-hoo!

No, I don't have

An anger-management issue.

I have an idiot issue.

Narrator:

A storm blows into nome.

And the gold cleanups begin.

Tenhoff: most of the gold

Should be under

This blue gold trap.

It's called miner's moss.

It's just a woven plastic

That services as a trap.

Not too shabby.

There's a lot of gold out there.

I'm motivated to get a lot more.

And so is emily.

If we can keep it together

With ourselves

And continue to work together,

I still know I'm gonna get more

Gold than I ever have before.

Bunch of gold

In the bottom there.

Narrator: zeke's

Prospecting trip paid off --

7 Ounces, worth $11,300.

Now we're talking.

Gonna be a high roller.

Narrator: on west beach

Bad weather came in again,

So we're cleaning up.

Narrator: faced

With sluice-box problems

Scott: more gold in the box

Than we thought,

But the box isn't recovering

Gold the way it should.

Narrator: the sluicey

Pulled in just 4 ounces,

A haul worth $6,400.

Stuff's really fine.

Narrator: at the pomrenkes'

Cleanup shack

I've got the dirty stuff

In the feeder here

And the clean stuff

Is going up the tube.

Narrator: a beaten-down crew

Didn't stop

The christine rose

Steve p.: That's a pretty fair

Amount of gold in there.

Narrator: from hitting

Its biggest haul of the season.

Steve p.:

A pan of that equals power.

Awesome.

Love to see that.

Let's turn the scale on here

And see what we got cooking.

Narrator: to cover his overhead

And stay afloat,

Steve needs to clear

$1.5 million in gold

This season.

By golly, some nice little

Chunkies in there.

Yep. We hit a pretty hot spo

Out there.

1,782 Times .9

Times 96.85 equals

$155,328.03.

That's better than the $96

Paycheck that I used to ge

When I was working

As a young boy.

Yes, indeed.

The massive pay day

Is definitely a step

In the right direction.

So easy to put in a jar,

But so hard to ge

Out of the ground.

All right.

Time to go make some more.

On the wild ranger

The crew is doing repairs

Before cleaning ou

The sluice box.

Meisterheim: the season has been

Full of problems with this boat.

Everything that could go wrong

With this boat has gone wrong.

Narrator:

Halfway through the season,

Every dredge is struggling

To stay afloa

As the point of no return

Quickly approaches.

Meisterheim:

My intention is to stick it out.

As much as I complain and b*tch

That I just --

"[Bleep] this, I want to leave,"

I'm not gonna.

Narrator: but word of

The wild ranger's failed trip

Has spread

To owner vernon adkison.

Adkison:

Yeah, I just flew back in.

I've had some crew issues

And, once again,

Some equipment issues.

See if I can get things back up

And rolling.

Steve r.: Hey, vernon.

Why don't we take a walk up here

On the dock

And have a little conversation?

Primarily, what I'm concerned

About is that boa

And getting on the gold

And what's good for business

And what's bad for business.

And some of the things that have

Been going on around here

Ain't good for business.

Steve -- he told me

That you threatened to throw him

Off the boat out there.

But he hasn't done [bleep]

On that boat.

So if he's gonna cry

'Cause I yelled at him,

That's his own damn problem.

Can't threaten him.

Can't do that.

It's not allowed.

These days and times,

You just can't do that.

Steve is not the shot caller.

I would not leave him in charge.

I doubt if I'd even put him

In charge of mowing my grass.

But scott, he's a gnarly dude.

He needs to lighten it up

Considerably.

How I treat those guys,

90% Of it they have coming.

10% Of it, yeah,

I'm an [bleep]

Meisterheim: I don't need steve

On that boat.

There's only one captain

Of this boat, and it's me.

So steve shouldn't have

No say-so,

No stupid opinions, nothing.

Do what the [bleep] I tell you

Or get the [bleep] off my boat.

I know he's still

Gonna piss you off.

You told me the other day

That you made it abou

90% Through the day

Before you came uncorked.

Well, you're gonna have to make

It 100% through the day.

Did you bring a muzzle

With you?

Vern chose them.

Vern hired them.

They're on the boat.

I've tried and tried to piss

Them off enough to quit.

What good is

A [bleep] com system

If you ain't gonna

Pay attention to it?!

Trying to [bleep] k*ll me,

Steve?

[Bleep] your mouth.

Finally you grew

A set of [bleep]

They're too stupid to quit.

Okay, so --

I can deal with one idiot,

Not two.

Hurts so bad,

It'll make me puke.

[ Gags ]

No more doing it your way.

Your captaincy sucks.

Get the [bleep] out!

Emily, I've been doing

This for years!

Tenhoff: it's like,

"Tread lightly, emily.

I don't really, really actually

Need you here."

Emily, are you all right?