12x03 - Sweet Child o' MIning

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Narrator:
Now, on "bering sea gold"...

Shawn:
I finally got all my stuff back,
but I'm behind.

If I don't get on some gold fast
to pay off this debt,

we could lose everything.

That's what I was looking for.

Kris: We're going to get
at least 4 ounces,

we're going to get
a bunch of chunky gold.

If I want to get more gold
to build an excavator barge,

I need more man hours,
I need more divers.

So I really need
this new diver to pay off.

Hey, man, it's not
this girl, is it?

-Look it --
-that means yes.

It is.

Come on, baby.
Don't fail me.

This shifting sea floor has
really changed the landscape,

but to hit 4,000 ounces,

got a few secret weapons
up our sleeve.

Clear.

Alright, let's get this bird
off the ground then.

Got the greenhorn
headed out.

Sorry, beau,
you're the greenhorn.

Emily: Beau, he's an amateur,
it's a gamble to bring him on,

but to get a second dredge going
the boat needs to be producing.

Suck it up.

I'm not pushing you,
you want to give it a shot?

Um...

If you see gold, we're on gold,
you're in the right spot.

h*-h*-h*-h*-h*. This stuff
even smells like money.

-Oh, yeah, ooh.
-Oh, yeah.

Look at this nice,
big goldfish.

Yee-hoo!

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narrator:
In nome, alaska...

The early ice melt
shifted the ocean floor,

hiding pay streaks,
but also exposing rich new ones.

So the miners are doing
whatever it takes,

not just to survive,
but to thrive...

...Now, more than ever.

♪

the first trip out,
we're going to start digging,

put some gold in the box.

Narrator:
Already weeks into the summer...

Shawn: I feel good.
I feel good about today.

Narrator:
...Captain shawn pomrenke

is just starting
to hunt for gold.

Shawn: This year, latest that
the christine rose

has ever been out.
It'll be the last time, too.

We're not out of the woods yet,

but at least
we're back on the water.

We need to get on a pay streak,
and a big pay streak right now.

Narrator: After getting
his dredges out of hock

from a business deal gone bad,

shawn needs to wrangle 2,000
ounces out of the bering sea

to not only pay off his debt,

but to come out ahead
on the season.

The clock starts now.

How are we looking there, cody?

We left off last season
on really good gold.

We're pretty close
to it right now.

Narrator: Taking the first
swing in the excavator,

shawn's right hand man,
cody moen.

Cody: We're going to do
some prospecting

before we can start mining,

try to find out
where we left off last year.

Shawn: I need to get back
to that hot spot.

If I don't get on
some gold fast,

my season will be over
before it even started.

Here we go,
hang on.

♪

♪

shawn: Cody's going to grab
a couple of test buckets.

See what the ground looks like.

If we see the gold in the pan,

then we'll fire it up
and start digging.

Here we go.

♪

trying to get down to the gold.

That was all sand.

♪

♪

not good.

Try to find some gravel
and rock.

Right now I'm just finding sand
and sand's no good.

♪

♪

shawn:
With the big snowfall,

big run off and the force
it has, it moves things around.

It moved a bunch of sand
onto our hot spot.

And if we don't
get on some gold fast,

I could still lose everything.

Sometimes the sand's hiding
treasures underneath it,

but if it's too much sand to
move, it's not worth it.

Narrator:
With a sand bar now squatting
on shawn's old hot spot,

the jumbled sea floor
claims another victim.

Narrator: So the captain
will have to adjust

to this brave new world
in a hurry.

Shawn:
The sand bar's a lot bigger
than what I thought.

As soon as you think
you have it figured out

and you think you've got the
bering sea

all figured out
and where the gold's at...

We're not in
the right spot.

...Then it throws you
a big curve ball,

and it's time to start over.

Keep moving ahead.

♪

narrator: 10 miles east...

Ken: Spuds are done, baby.
Let's go get some gold.

Myrtle's right here ready.

Narrator:
After saving the myrtle irene

from a near season-ending
catastrophe,

captain ken kerr has repaired
his broken spud...

Alright, let's get
out of here then.

...And is ready to relaunch
his 600-ton behemoth.

Ken:
We've got her going now.

Man, we're doing
a whole 2.2 knots.

Hammer down.

Narrator:
But he's falling behind
in his efforts

to hit the biggest season total
in bering sea history.

There we go.

Go get on my spot
and start digging some gold.

This year has to be way
different.

We can't be wasting time
sucking dock space.

We're headed right back out
to that pay streak

we were on before my spud broke,

I'm going to get
the rest of that gold.

♪

spuds are down,
we're back in business.

Fire up the shaker and the pump.

Get to digging.

Been a while since the old
myrtle's been digging.

Yee-hee!

Bam.

Right back in the hole.

Dig, baby, dig.

♪

lookin' at a lot of cobble.

Cobble and clay.

♪

♪

that's the money bucket
right there. Full load, baby.

There's an ounce of gold
in that bucket.

Just like when you've baked
a good pie, it's time to eat it.

Look at that.

There's some weight, an ounce
and a half in that bucket.

That's some material.
Whoo.

♪

♪

oh, man,
look at that mess.

See if it's worth
dumping in the hopper.

Looks like all sand,

and a little bit
of gravel there.

That wasn't the biggest bucket.

Come on, baby. Come on, baby,
don't fail me.

♪

oh, what the heck is that?
Big old blob of nothing.

Getting in the sand
on this side of the barge.

Narrator: With nothing coming up
from the bottom

but gold-free sand,

the captain will need
to explore another option.

Let's see here.

All that's where we've been
digging.

Those are all dig holes.
We're about done here.

Time to move on.

Ken: A good miner stays five
steps ahead of the game.

I could tell we're coming up
on the end of this pay streak,

so I've got to find
some new ground.

Might have to go get my plane.

Go for a little flight
over here.

Let these guys take over
for a while.

Right on.

We're going to go
take a look from the air.

This is the secret weapon
we needed

to get back on our hole.

We'll see.

Narrator: Coming up...

So are you ready to really
do this, you know?

I'm here to do a job,
so, yeah.

Hey, man, it's not
this girl, is it?

Nice scoop. That's
a sexy little scoop scoop.

Oh, yeah, ooh.
-Oh, yeah.

Kris: I'm bringing you on

because I need as many hours
on the box as I can,

and I'm putting together
a big ship operation this year,

and I need another set
of income coming in.

Narrator: In order to fund
his dream of becoming

nome's newest barge owner...

Kris: This boat right here

is the ticket to us
being rich.

Narrator:
...Kris kelly's looking for a
new diver

to increase productivity.

So, are you ready
to really do this, you know?

I'm here here to do
a job, so yeah.

I guarantee this will be
the toughest job

you've had
in your entire life.

Narrator:
With the kelly's still far short
of their season goal,

the captain is willing to take
a risk by throwing rookie diver,

bree savage, into the
temperamental kelly team.

A lot of people say they're
divers, but this isn't diving,

this is sinking
to the bottom of the ocean,

sitting on your knees all day
long and moving rocks by hand.

-Hard work, okay.
-It's, yeah.

I'm very comfortable
with hard work.

Insanely,
insanely hard work.

Look, it's simple,
if I want to get more gold

I need more man hours,
I need more divers.

I know bree's dad.

He told me she's got
a lot of hours diving,

and I know she's green,

but I know she's going to
just get down there

and prove to everybody
she can do this.

And she's cheap.

I've seen, actually,
a bunch of people

barely make
it down the ladder

before they have a panic attack
and have to come back.

Well, I can guarantee I won't
have any kind of panic attacks,

the water doesn't scare me.
-Okay, good.

Hey, let's go meet
my brother and my dad,

I didn't tell
them about you,

so this is all going
to be a surprise.

-Oh, wonderful.
-They're going to love it.

Everything's going
to be good, don't worry.

Yeah? Let's do it.

I think that she's
going to work out,

but I don't know
if my dad and brother

are going to think so.

Before we start today
I have a little announcement.

I've got a diver
coming for trials.

You know, it's important
that we try to make this --

-oh, god, again?
-Yeah, I've got a trial coming,

a person coming for a trial.
-Somebody we know?

Is it one of these divers
from one of these other --

-this person's pretty new.
-What do you mean new?

This person has been --
has done a lot of diving.

Hey, man, it's not
this girl, is it?

-Look, it--
-and we need to--

this girl coming down
the [bleep] dock right now.

We need to make
this work right now.

-Listen...
-Kris [bleep].

Hey, it's not this [bleep]
newby-looking girl, is it?

-I want you guys to be--
-it is.

-What the [bleep]?
-...And try to make her--

I'm trying to bring
a diver that can do this.

-Let's con --
-seriously, is this her?

Let's not concentrate
that she's a female.

Is this her?

-[bleep] is this her?
-You wanna do diving?

-Hey, this is bree.
-Hi.

-Hey, bree, how are you doing?
-Good, good to see you.

This is our new diver.
We're going to give her a try,

and that's my brother, andy.
-Pleasure.

Kris: He finds some gold.

That's my dad, he takes care

of all of the equipment.
-Pleasure.

Kris: And he's -- your life
will be in his hands.

Everybody agrees we need
a night shift, right?

Your night crews
never work out.

Okay, look, hey,
now that we all agree on that,

this is who we're going
to try out today.

We're going to take her
for a couple days,

if she can't do it,
she can't do it,

and I'm not going to press it,

but we're going to give her
a good opportunity

and we're going to give her
a shot, and that's --

I just -- that's what
we're doing, I just said it.

-It's true.
-Exactly, exactly. So you know.

If you can do better
than him, then great.

-Yeah, if --
-I bet I can.

-Okay, alright?
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, get on the boat.

Let's go.
-Awesome.

You want to drag
in the harbor here?

No I don't want to drag
in the harbor.

-You sure?
-Come on, let's go.

No, I don't. Come on,
start the engine. Let's go.

Narrator: While kris gambles
on his rookie hire...

Narrator: ...Eroica captain,
emily riedel,

is also rolling the dice,

doubling down on the box
with a new diver of her own.

Emily: Beau's an unknown
quantity at this point.

I know that he has
a wee bit of gold

dredging experience
on another boat.

What's up, daryl?

Daryl left beau
in a good spot.

Rich patterns
on the ocean floor,

like cracks
with gold in them.

Whoo. Whoo.
Whoa, look at those,

look at those coarse pieces
right there.

-Yeah.
-Oh, sh**t.

Emily: And I don't know
if they've been recently exposed

by the shifting sea ice,

but this is --
this is a new area for us.

Narrator:
With the early melt moving sand
bars beneath the surface...

Narrator: ...Veteran daryl
galipeau began the season

by discovering a hot spot
previously inaccessible

on plain 14.

Already. Yep.

Narrator:
Now the captain needs beau...

You going to go
suck up some gold?

...To keep the pay streak alive.

Okay.

♪

emily:
It's a little bit of a gamble
to bring him on,

but this year,
to get a second dredge going,

we need to be putting
the hours in,

and the boat
needs to be producing.

And I definitely can't do that
with just daryl.

Narrator:
Her sights set on 300 ounces

and a second dredge...

...Emily takes the plunge
with beau.

♪

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comm check,
how are you doing?

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emily:
How are you doing down there?

Beau: Uh. No.

Emily: You're at about 3:00
on the starboard side.

Narrator:
The sea floor shift has not only
kicked open new pay streaks,

it's also kicked up
high levels of sediment.

Emily: Do you want to keep
working in this low a viz?

Emily: I know that beau's new
to this sort of diving

in these kinds of conditions,

but beau kind of wandered off
the hole that daryl left him on,

and it's just like,
"beau, you have one job,

and daryl shows you
where the gold is

and then you get on the gold."

and I don't know
where he's going.

I guess he'll keep working,
I don't know.

♪

narrator: Coming up...

Take deep breaths.
Don't panic.

Honest to god,
I think she's scared.

I can see fear in her eyes.
I don't like that.

♪

ken: Makes it nice
having a plane here.

So, yeah, we'll do a little fly
over, get a good birds-eye view.

And find a new pay streak.

That's the plan,
do a little flying today.

Narrator:
With the myrtle irene's
pay streak drying up...

Clear.

...Skipper ken kerr
becomes pilot ken kerr...

Alright, let's get this bird
off the ground then.

Narrator:
...As he hunts for new ground
from 1,000 feet in the sky.

♪

see what's going on down there
and see how clear the water is,

see if I can find
some good gravel.

Ken: As miners, we're always
looking to get on the cobble

because that's usually
where the gold lives under.

This shifting sea floor
has really changed the landscape

in the mining business
this year.

But having this plane
gives me an edge.

I can see the ground
in clear water,

survey the ground,
I can see the cobble layers,

and that's how I can make
a better educated decision.

White capping,
white capping down here.

Narrator:
Because of the fast run off,
spots miners

have relied on in the past
are rendered useless.

So, to locate his next
patch of virgin ground,

ken puts his
height advantage to work.

Scanning for color variants

will determine the depth
of the ocean floor.

Strong currents can hint
to settling material

while low turbidity usually
points to unworked earth.

All data points that'll help
ken locate his next gold streak.

♪

look at that.
Oh, yeah.

I think I see a couple
of good spots to dig.

Cool. Yeah.

Yee-hoo!

Narrator: Back in the harbor...

Kris:
Our spots are already marked.
We're already on gold.

We just got to go
put it in the box.

Let's go get down there
and set up everything,

get on gold, and then
we'll see what she can do.

We've got to give her the best
chance she can get,

you know?

Narrator: On course to his
fort davis hot spot,

captain kris kelly preps
his new diver,

bree savage,
for her first day on the water.

Take deep breaths, you know,
don't panic,

everything
will work out.

Just concentrate on working,
don't worry about

the 155,000 things that can
go wrong underneath the water.

Brad: This new diver,
I honest to god

I think she's scared
if you want the truth.

I can see the fear in her eyes,
and I don't like that.

Kris: I know my dad and brother
have reservations about her,

but the only way
to get more hours on the box

is to bring another diver
on the boat.

-Hey, good.
-Okay.

♪

narrator: To get the team off
to a strong start...

Kris: Okay, we're ready to go.

Narrator:
...Andy takes the first dive.

♪

♪

right now we're sitting on
about $30,000,

but it's not in that box.

So, this is --
it'll grind you down.

♪

how's everything?

Hey, but you know
you're on gold,

just go down there
and keep pumping material.

The only way you get gold
is by putting hours on the box,

so it's always a good call
to risk your life and get gold.

♪

okay, that's
all that matters.

Andy: I'm trying to hog it now
because I can't really see.

That's fine. If you
see gold we're on gold,

you're in the right spot.

The wind's switched,
we're getting a north breeze,

which means it's going to make
the ocean lay down,

and we're not going anywhere.

♪

kris:
That's all I do, I sit here

and I listen to andy's
breathing.

If andy's breathing changes,

I know something's going on.

Visibility is
getting better,

and the current's
going away,

do you want
to give it a shot?

She didn't bring
her dive boots.

What?

She didn't bring
her dive boots.

♪

okay, well, that
takes care of that.

Well, I meant today.
-Oh.

Yeah, you're good
for today then,

you left your dive boots
and that's whatever.

This is not how you want
to start your diving career.

Now we're down a diver.

Less hours on the box
means less gold,

and there is way too much on
the line to fail at this point.

♪

narrator: Coming up...

Shawn: That's the kind,
that's the kind.

When it's nice and heavy,
hm, yeah!

Narrator: 8 miles west of nome.

Last year, when we ended,
we were loading the box up.

Right now we're just hunting,
looking for gold.

♪

narrator:
Shawn pomrenke's finally
back on the water,

but with the shifting sea floor,
he's still not back on the gold.

Narrator:
With over a million dollars
needed just to settle his debts,

time is not
on the captain's side.

Shawn:
We're about 500 yards from where
we started this morning.

The sand moved in
on to our good spot,

so we had to move off of it.
I'm hoping we can get the sand

out of the way
and get into some cobble.

♪

shawn: Oh, that feels like
we're on the edge of it now.

♪

there it is.

We'll find some gold
in this bucket.

♪

now let's see what's in here.

♪

♪

some nice gold.
But it's pretty, pretty fine.

Shawn: I'm finally seeing
the right material.

I can tell we're getting close
to the big chunky gold.

Now we've just got to hone in
on that pay streak.

♪

we'll take another pan
and see what it looks like,

if it's good,
we're going to start digging.

If not, we're going to
have to pull ahead.

No point putting dirt
through the plant

that doesn't have gold in it.

♪

there it is,
I can feel some rock.

That's the kind.
That's the kind.

♪

I like the color of it.

Crap, this stuff
even smells like money.

You can tell when
there's going to be gold

in a pan 90% of the time.
You can feel it.

Alright.
-Oh h*!

Yeah!
-Oh, we're getting smiley faces?

All day.
That's [bleep].

Ooh, makes you tingly
when you see gold like that.

Shawn: We're good,
we're good, we're good!

That's the kind.
That's what I'm looking for.

That's what I was looking for.

Now I'll show you
what I'm gonna to find.

♪

going in the plant.

♪

narrator:
With the christine rose
back on the good stuff...

...Shawn officially kicks off
his season in high gear.

And not a moment too soon.

Shawn: I was a little worried
with the sand bar,

but now we're back on the gold.

If I stay on this, I'll be able
to pay everything off

and get my business
back on track.

[ chuckles ]
yeah!

We're mining, buddy.
Going the other direction,

we've been
spending it like crazy,

now it's time to make it.

♪

narrator:


Emily:
How you doing down there?

We're not too far away,

if you could try
to get over west,

you might be able
to stumble upon it.

Narrator: After starting the day
tapped into a pay streak,

captain emily riedel's
new diver, beau best,

is taking the eroica off-course.

Emily: Yeah, copy that.

Well, I guess, you know, keep
poking around and let me know.

Emily: Between the swells,
low viz, and the current,

beau's kind of lost down there.
But he is showing some tenacity

even though
it's a frustrating dive.

So, we'll see if he can get back
on the pay streak.

Emily:
You're seeing some flakes?

Emily: It sounds like
it's gotten better then, eh?

Yeah, some nice g down there?

Whoo!

Narrator:
Back on the honey hole,

captain emily takes advantage
of the long work days.

When the sun doesn't sleep,
the eroica follows suit.

Emily: I think that when
we do a clean up,

it's going really show
a lot about his abilities

to put gold in the box,
you know.

Daryl can't be the only one
keeping us at a high average.

See, sometimes you've got
to suffer a little bit

before you get
some nice gold going.

Suck it up.

♪

narrator: Coming up...

-You said one day.
-She gets one more day.

This was one day,
she didn't want to dive.

She gets one more day.

Ken: 10, 20, 30, 40.

Kris: We're here to get gold,

not to make sure we live.

We have a bunch
of contingency plans

set up in case
we run into problems,

let's just say everything
goes to [bleep]

and we start sinking right now,
I mean, fast, all we do

is we drive into shore
as fast as we can

and we jump off the boat.
-What? [bleep] that.

I'm just saying,
that's the worst case scenario.

I mean, it's doable,
it's not that far.

[bleep] that.
That's some old [bleep].

I don't give a [bleep], sue me,
I'll see you in court.

I wouldn't wanna say every man
for himself, but don't be slow.

Narrator: In nome harbor...

Brad: Kris, get the front.

Narrator:
...After a full day on the
water...

-h*!
-Good job.

Narrator:
...And no dive from greenhorn,

bree savage, captain kris
calls the day short.

-Hey, jay?
-What?

-She's kind of...
-She's a waste of space.

She forgot what, her dive
boots today. She was too cold.

I swear to god,
I gave her the full rundown

on what I expect her to bring,
I swear to god I did.

Okay, well if she brought it,
she didn't compares,

let's get rid of her.
-No, we're giving her --

this was her one day,
you said one day.

-She gets one more day.
-This was one day

and she didn't want to dive.
-She gets one more day.

Come on man, how many "one more
days" are you going to give her?

At least one more day.

Kris: Right now the jury's
still out on bree,

and that's just the way it is.

You don't make gold
standing on top of the boat.

You make gold in the water.

But I'm going to make sure
she gets a good chance.

I'm really going
to take care of her

and make sure
she gets a good shot.

♪

♪

narrator:
Just three miles away...

You want to come
get the other side.

...Thanks to her new diver,
captain emily riedel

may have been able
to double the day's profits.

Emily:
Oh, yeah, whoo, look at that, do
you see that pile right there?

♪

nice scoop, that's
a sexy little scoop scoop.

-Nice. Yeah.
-Oh, so pretty.

Yeah.

Well, [bleep],
hallelujah amen.

♪

ooh, look at that.
-Yeah.

Emily: Alright,
let's weigh this.

♪





Oh, what?

Narrator: Emily's scale tops
out at 15 ounces.

Emily: Okay, so we just did 15.
Plus.

Narrator: Luckily for her,
this clean out doesn't.

♪

emily: 4.
So with that 4 plus 15.

So, that'd come up to 19.08.
Good. Yeah. That's good.

Narrator: The eroica captain's
haul tops out at 19 ounces,

just shy of $30,000.

Emily:
Nice job, guys, welcome on
board, beau, good to have you.

This is a good start for beau.

His averages and daryl's
averages are similar enough

for it to be a profitable
situation for beau

to be a valid diver
on the boat.

Oh, yeah, whoo!

Narrator: Across town...

Ken:
This better be a good one.

Narrator:
With a move to new ground
on the horizon,

ken kerr and the arctic sea team
bid farewell

to their tapped out pastry,
with one final weigh out.

George: 25 hours, right?

-24, 25 hours in there.
-Right around there? Alright.

Alright, let's see
what we've got kenny.

-Let's do it, let's see it.
-Let's do it.

Narrator:
...Time to see if the spot's
swan song

hit all the right notes.

-You count, dave. Go, dave.
-I can see it.

-10, 20, 30, 40, 50 60.
-Well, there might be 80.

-Oh, yeah. Look at that.
-You guys are way short.

-70. Man, I wish it were cash.
-90. 100.

-105, 107, 108.
-108.54.

Whoo! Yeah! That's a
high five right there.

That's the best one
of the year.

Narrator: 108 ounces is worth
over $160,000.

Ken: Yeah, anything over


but I can't wait to see how
much gold we get from that spot

I found in the plane.

Well, let's get out
and get some more gold, man.

Good job.

Narrator: After the massive
clean out,

ken stays atop the heap,

but with shawn back on gold, the
race is heating up.

Shawn:
Where are you hiding?

It's like a really fun game of
hide and seek.

I like to win.

Yee-hoo.

Ken:
Mining's constant adjustments.

The myrtle's just like a
marriage,

always gotta work on it.

Bree: Finally.

[bleep] do this.

Kris: Yee-haw.
Make some money, honey.

Jumped in without any air or hot
water.

We'll see how he likes this
bering sea.

Yeah!

Bam!

Oh, yeah.

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