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12x08 - The Kelly's Fireworks Extravaganza

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Bering Sea Gold". Aired: January 27, 2012 – present.*
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The show follows boats equipped with various setups to achieve gold mining in a summertime, cold northern latitude, shallow water, ocean environment.

12x08 - The Kelly's Fireworks Extravaganza

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[ Thunder crashes ]

Man: extreme weather alert.

Current wind gusts 35 knots

Expected to increase to


♪♪

Wind's definitely
picking up here.

All right, daryl, let's -- let's
go ahead and pull out of this.

We better get out of here
and get the gold bag

In the harbor where it's safe.

♪♪

Captain kerr got greedy
and stayed out way too long.

Gold fever gets the best
of some people

And they make bad decisions.

Oh, no! That was not a place
I would like to be.

Out on that barge right now,

This is insane
this is happening.

Man: may day, may day,
myrtle irene three-mile

Off the nome harbor
in catastrophic dire failure.

We need immediate assistance
to get into the harbor.

There he is, hands on
the little tug out here

Trying to make it in.

He made it.

Thank god.
Everybody made it in safe.

It's not over yet.

Just wasn't safe
to get in the harbor

So we had to tow it about


Where it was a place
to get in out of the weather.

Not sure what I'm gonna find
when we get her back.

Hopefully makes it back.

♪♪

Could be bad.

♪♪

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♪♪

[ Birds calling ]

♪♪

Hey there, ken, we're inbound.

We'll have her there
in about 20 minutes.

We're going as fast as we can.
-Roger that.

You want us to take over as soon
as you get to the outer harbor,

We can grab that thing out there

And pull our tug
and bring it in.

Yep, that should work.

Okay, pull ireneout.

Narrator: captain ken kerr
awaits the return

Of the myrtle irene.

But after being pummeled
by the storm

Through her 80-mile
overnight trip down the coast,

Whether she'll be seaworthy
is a complete unknown.

I'm gonna go get ready
for her to come in

And we're gonna get busy.

Make sure my tug's ready to go.

♪♪

Yeah, that storm
was very brutal.

Barely made it in by the skin
of our chin-y chin chin.

Haven't seen the old myrtle
since I jumped off her

And got on the tug.

Myrtle irenetug,
we're headed your way.

We'll be there
in a couple minutes.

Yep.

She could be fine or just
maybe just tore up real bad.

I won't know
until I see it for myself.

♪♪

Yeah, man,
got the tug here.

It's all yours, guys.
The capt's out.

Appreciate the help.

Thanks for everything,
you guys, be safe.

♪♪

Oh, man.

♪♪

Hey, whiz.

That sucks, that sucks bad.

♪♪

So what are we gonna do
about all of that mess?

When we first surveyed
the damage,

I mean,
it put a lump in my throat.

Seeing the whole season
maybe going by

In the blink of an eye
was hard to take.

What the hell?
Boy, this pisses me off.

♪♪

We got power.

The plan is, you know, clean up
our deck and go back to digging,

So we can make a living.

Nothing vital was destroyed,

Everything turned out
pretty well.

Hey, we need to clean this thing
off anyway, look at all the --

Now you can see how much crap
was really on it we didn't need.

It could've went south
real fast.

We were fortunate.

That will definitely
take a few days of clean up

Over the barge sitting on
the bottom of the bering sea.

♪♪

I know we can get her
right back into shape.

Even if it kills me
we're getting the myrtleback,

We're gonna dig
and get some gold.

This isn't gonna stop us.

Got possession of our barge,

The myrtle ireneis safe
and sound back in nome.

The fat lady's about to sing.

Narrator: while the myrtle irene
limps back into the harbor...

Oh, the myrtle'sback.

Oh, she looks like
she's still in one piece.

At least from a distance.

...captain shawn pomrenke is
also resetting his operation

After the storm.

Shawn: it's getting close
to the end of the season.

We got a little
weather window here.

We got to make the most
of what we can get.

Narrator: with winter
right around the corner,

The former mr. Gold is looking
to make up for lost time,

Aiming to pay off his debts

And hopefully reclaim
the crown from rival, ken kerr.

The storm threw a hay maker
in everybody's plans.

I hope the sea floor
didn't get all turned up,

But you never know
with a big blow like this.

Hopefully that storm
didn't move it around,

Maybe it concentrated it more,
maybe it moved it out.

Right now I'm heading out,
gonna do some side scans.

Make sure that we stay
on the good path.

So every moment, every chance
where we can we have to dig.

♪♪

You're looking straight down
at the bottom on this.

As we go over on it
you can tell the difference

Between sand and rock
and cobble.

Narrator: the side scan sonar
sends out a pulse

That bounces off the sea floor,

Generating a picture
of the ocean landscape.

Soft sand will show up
as lighter patches,

While the darker spots
indicates gravel and cobble.

It won't show shawn exactly
where the gold is hiding,

But it can point him
in the right direction.

See, you already got ears on.

Yeah, yeah, roger, roger.

Not good.

Lots of sand
out in front of you.

This is all sand.

This is exactly what I feared.

The storm come in,
kicked up a bunch of sediment

And covered our pay stream.

Now I have the christine rose
just treading water,

Just waiting for me
to tell her where to dig.

It's time to move.
We're not quite there yet.

Not quite there yet,
but we're working on it.

We'll get honed in on it.

♪♪

Narrator:
back in the harbor...

Kris: last couple days,

We've been trying
to make this tomcod thing work.

I've got to run around,
try to scrap together



It's pretty stressful
and everybody

Keeps trying to blame me
for when we don't get big gold.

♪♪

Narrator: captain kris kelly
and his family

Are heading back on the water.

But after losing days
to the storm,

They need a plan to get across

The rapidly approaching
finish line.

I got to make sure
I make a deal with james,

The guy that owns
the au grabber today.

Because the whole
sneaking in thing,

When we're the only
two boats on the water,

It's not working for me.

Narrator:
after hearing of the massive

Au grabber's golden fortunes...

And we're gonna sneak
in next to them.

Gonna go as close as we can

And we're gonna keep
trying to make it closer.

Narrator: ...kris' scheme
to live off the barge's scraps

Proved lucrative.

-Found the gold.
-[ Laughs ]

Narrator: but it was a fight.

♪♪

-Ah.
-Whoa, [bleep].

[ expl*si*n ]
-whoa.

Whatever it takes to make
this deal work today,

That's what I'm gonna do.

Narrator: now kris is looking
for an easier route

In the remaining days of summer

To land the ounces
he needs to refurbish

A massive mining ship
of his own.

-Hey, james.
-Hey, good morning.

You know I run that little boat,
the reaper.

I'm sure you've seen me
the last couple days.

You know, I'd really like
to do kind of

Like a small partnership
where I work behind you

When you guys are done
working your holes.

Then I come behind you
and I see what you guys missed

And maybe try to get
to that second clay layer

And see what I can find.

I mean, [bleep].

I'm not even seeing
how it's beneficial, like,

What can we gain from this?

I know you got
everything to gain,

This is good gold,
we run out of reach.

James is right,
we would definitely benefit more

From this deal then they would.

But I can sell ice
to an eskimo.

I think I can sell him
on this partnership.

If you guys ever need help,
you know, if you break a spud

Or you need an underwater diver
for that,

I'm willing to try a lot of
different things to help you

And try to make
this partnership work.

I can give it a week.

I mean, you [bleep] me over
I'm gonna be pretty [bleep].

Like, i-i don't know, I'll drop
a load of rock on the boat,

I don't know.

One week from now
we're both gonna be laughing

And be happy.

You know, really.
-Go make some [bleep] gold.

Go make some gold, okay,
I'm going. I got to go to work.

The deal with the au grabber
is simple,

I get to hover near him,
work through old trenches,

Then if they need any repairs
I have to help them.

Basically I'm their b*tch
if they need it.

Let's go.

I haven't told my dad
and brother right now

But without this partnership
with the au grabber,

I don't think we're gonna
make our hundred ounces.

We're heading up
to tomcod right now.

Kris has set up a deal with
the guys from the grabber.

We get to go in
and clean out their holes

And do a little prospecting,

So it's a give
and take relationship.

Okay, we're almost there.

We're gonna have to pull up

To them first, dad, talk to them
and see what we're doing.

You know, make a plan and then
we'll start working with them.

♪♪

-Hey, james, what's up?
-How's it going?

Oh, it's going good.

If you want to come off about,

Like, 40 feet, 50 feet,
should be all right.

Okay.
-We got some some holes punched.

We ran out of reach and they
were still producing gold, so.

Well, that's exactly
what I want to hear.

So should be able to clean up
those holes and get into them.

Okay, sounds great.

Any problems just try to get

Someone's attention
or just call us on the radio.

No, no,
we're good with the flare,

We're good with the flare.
-Okay.

All right, all right,
just making sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-Let's do this.
-We're ready, captain.

You okay in there?

I got to make sure
I got my ba*ls situated.

They got to be perfect or i...
[ Speaks indistinctly ]

The rest of the day.

That sounded like too
much information to me.

Okay, this is it,
what we've been waiting for.

It's probably gonna be
the easiest part of my year,

I've just got to find this hole
and get to the bottom

And I've got to start
chucking up gold,

No prospecting today, I hope.

Some people may call
this bottom feeding

Or what's that bird
that cleans a rhino

That sits on top of a rhino,
like, pecks at a rhino?

But I don't care,
if I'm getting great gold,

That's all that matters.

♪♪

Yeah, we're good to go,
dive away, watch your line.

Okay.

♪♪

♪♪

Okay, I'm at the bottom
of the sea.

I'm at the edge, man.

Okay, it's super deep here.

It's black as night
down here.

Are you seeing any gold yet,
that's all that matters.

It's really dark in this pit.

♪♪

It's like
the grand canyon down here,

It looks like a b*mb went off.

I can't --
I can't see [bleep].

I could be on 100 once
and hour

And I wouldn't be able to tell.

♪♪

Narrator: coming up...

Steve's coming into town.

Steve as in my father.

Steve is gonna miss
the boat on his first day.

Where are you?
I'm at the dock.

You were an hour late.

♪♪

Emily: it's gonna start
to snowing here pretty soon.

The north winds stay and at last
we can get some decent

Dredging time in,
which is great.

Narrator:
regrouping after the storm,

Emily riedel is hustling

To make every day count
before the season ends.

Hey, daryl,
steve's coming into town.

Narrator: and she's bringing in
some familial fire power

From the past.

Steve as in my father.

Yes.

I've asked my dad
to come up here

And kind of help
tend on the boat

While I look into
the second dredge option.

The madre de oro.

Days are limited.

This opportunity
is not gonna last

So this is the time to strike.

This is the time
to pick up a second dredge,

And I'm gonna need
some help running the eroica

While I'm tied up with that.

Narrator: emily's getting ever
closer to landing enough ounces

To expand her fleet,

And the plan is
for veteran miner steve

To keep the gold
flowing on the eroica

While emily checks out
potential second dredge.

So he's showing up today,
gonna be good to see him,

Although I'm really pissed off
that he's late,

Because time's money
and I'm losing money.

Narrator:
but in order for the plan

To have any chance of success,

Father steve, would need
to actually show up.

Steve is gonna miss
the boat on his first day.

Let's get out of here.
-[ Laughs]

He's late which is not
all together expected,

But it's just as frustrating.

I mean, I'm not finding any gold
but I'm having a ball.

Narrator:
steve riedel is one of nome's

Most notoriously
unorthodox miners...

Aah.

Narrator:
...donning many hats...

Oh, get me out of here.

As a top side guy
I anticipate the diver's needs.

Trying to [bleep] k*ll me,
steve, you that pissed at me?

Steve: whoa, there it went.

Narrator:
...but none for very long.

Get off the boat, sir,
you're off the boat.

Okay. Hey...

Drop [bleep] damn
phone and get the [bleep] out.

I'm leaving,
please don't yell at me.

Narrator:
and always gaining quality

Father daughter time
along the way.

I know what I'm doing, you don't
know what you're doing.

[Bleep] you.

Okay, yeah,
[bleep] you right back.

-Is that really necessary?
-No, no, i, I --

Will you just measure, please?

Yes, steve reidel is late.

He has no idea of time
except when it applies to him,

And that's fine.

He can -- if he gets out there
and hitches a ride,

He can learn how to tend today

But if not,
it is what it is.

I don't have time for this.
I've got a job.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Birds calling ]

♪♪

♪♪

[ Sighs ] oh, man.

-Hey, what's up?
-Where are you?

-I'm at the dock.
-You missed the boat.

Yeah, you know I wish you had
kind of waited, I just got here.

I was only about


I waited an hour.
You were an hour late.

Why'd you, well, i...

Well...

Listen, I can't talk right now,
we're trying to re-anchor.

Don't be late next time.

All right,
thank you very much.

So I wasn't that late

And she left without me.

[ Exhales slowly ]

She wanted me to come up here
so I jumped on the plane,

Got my cold weather gear.

So...ay-yi-yi.

♪♪

Narrator: across town...

[ Knock on door ]
-yeah, come in.

-Hello.
-Hey, good morning, wayne.

Narrator: with the gold ship,
wild ranger,

Still under repair...

Thanks for coming by,
wayne.

What we've been looking for
since I've been up here

Is a place to go inland.

Narrator:
skipper vernon adkison's

Scrambling to find ounces
any way he can.

I've been hearing about
gold bottom creek for a while.

Famous old creek,
a lot of gold came out of there.

In order to make a profit
we got to be

Running day in and day out,
especially when time is limited.

And any day that I'm not getting
gold is frustrating to me.

When the gold ship
needs repairs,

I got to find a way of keeping
my men working and getting gold.

This sounds like
it might be the place

That we've been looking for.

How many claims
do you have there?

Oh, there's nine, probably.

The first up there was
the california load in 1899.

So at one time
there was, like,


-Uh-huh.

The mill they have there,
the old water mill,

Couldn't liberate the gold.

So they only took


Mm-hmm.

Narrator: 30 miles from
the center of nome,

Remote gold bottom creek was one
of the hottest inland spots

At the turn of the 20th century.

But since the gold brush passed,
it's been largely forgotten.

So this is
gold bottom creek here.

Yeah. We're probably about
right in between here.

You got all your paperwork,
all your permits,

Outside reports
and everything else.

Let me get my six-inch rig
and my group, my crew up there.

Let's just go from there.
Seeing is believing, okay?

Okay, wayne,
we can work together.

Okay.

We're loading up. We got
the small dredge loaded up

And we're gonna go out there
and give it a shot,

See if we can come up
with anything.

The problem is that creek
is not easy to get to.

♪♪

♪♪

I mean, it's deep.

You've only got about
this much where it's shallow.

-No.
-I'd try to stay out of this.

Get your right tire up
on this middle section.

All right.

Getting to gold bottom creek
is a royal pain in the a*s.

It better be worth my while.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Ah, I got to take a whiz.

Ah.

Crank that sucker up
and start sucking.

No pun intended.

♪♪

Narrator: first to take
the inland plunge,

Lead diver, gary panos, jr.

Hopefully everything works.

If it does we'll be sucking
gold here in just a short while.

I take chances all the time,

I'm kind of in the risk
management business.

If we score here
it will be a game changer.

♪♪

This is the moment of truth.

Narrator: coming up...

I see some chunky pieces.
It just got better.

Ha, ha-ha,
that's what I'm talking about.

♪♪

♪♪

Kris, what are you
seeing down there?

That's good, you should be able
to see the gold pretty easy.

Narrator:
four hours into kris kelly's

New bulletproof partnership

With the au grabber...

...the captain is still
sh**ting in the dark.

Okay, kris, no matter what try
and put as much time as you can

Because every minute
counts right now

At the end
of the season here.

♪♪

You got to copy.

Limited visibility.

Yeah, just moved over,

I don't know 10 feet,
let's keep going to work.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Hey!

Good job, don't put them up
the hose, collect the big ones.

[ Laughs ]
I knew I'd find it.

This is gonna pay off,

I'm already seeing gold
and we haven't even prospected.

Yeah, that's true.

At least we showed them
we're coming back.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, baby.

It just got better.

I see some chunky gold.

I'm gonna come up
for a break,

You want me to bring it up yet?

Yeah, do if you're on nuggets,
bring one up, what do you see.

Kris: ha, ha, ha, that's what
I'm talking about.

Turned out to be
a good day after all.

A really good day.

I know I'm on a lot of gold,

I know we've got enough time
to get my hundred ounces.

I know I've got a partnership,
I know I'm unstoppable.

I know this is
all gonna work.

[ Birds calling ]

♪♪

Narrator: a mile west...

♪♪

Shawn:
where is that sweet spot,

Where is that million dollars
just laying there,

Waiting for me?

Shawn pomrenke has been
using sonar technology

To try to get back
on his hot spot.

♪♪

End of the season's coming.

No snow on those mountains back
there yet but it's not far away.

We got to take
every opportunity we can.

After having a late start
with the christine rose

I can't afford
to not have it on gold.

Every minute, every hour
that we're not out there

Digging, we're losing
thousands of dollars.

Come on.

I had the side scan
just a little bit further here.

Man, it's all sand again.

♪♪

What is this?

♪♪

Right there you can see
that's all nice rock cobble.

And here's another
cobble patch. Cobble.

All right,
I'm back in the game.

Seeing some good
cobble here, cody.

Yeah, burn and turn
over this way.

See if we get 100 ounces in
that box before we go back in.

I'm coming for you.

You want to do a pan?

Yeah, roger.

All right, I'll pull up.

The side scan's
showing everything

We've been looking for.

Lots of big rock and a nice
long stretch of cobble.

One thing the side scan
doesn't tell you

Is if there's
gold there or not.

I wish it did.

So we still have to take a test
pan before we start digging.

♪♪

♪♪

Cobble on top of
hardpacked sand.

Money.

Looks like the kind.

Oh, yeah, there's
some gold in there.

But the pan don't lie.

♪♪

Oh, [bleep], yeah, yeah.

That's just off the top.

-Good job, man.
-Yeah.

Good job.

We're back out on the water,
digging,

Working, doing what I do best.

Making gold.

♪♪

Narrator:


Gold bottom creek,

It's a famous
historic spot for gold recovery.

Thousands of ounces
have been taken off this creek

In days past,
but they didn't get it all.

Narrator: three hours into
his inland gambit,

Captain vernon adkison

Hopes to start seeing
some fruits of his team's labor.

We're gonna
give this a shot

And hopefully put
some gold in the box.

We need to keep
producing even when

We're not manning
on the bering sea.

That's the only way to keep
the crew happy and pay the bills

So I really hope
this new operation pays off.

♪♪

What do you think it is, gary?

I picked this up right there.

[ Exhales sharply ]

Oh, that's good,
right there.

[ Grunting ]

-Holy [bleep].
-That's a new first.

Oops.

The jam was caused
by what we call a round rod

Which is what we use
to unplug the jams.

[ Laughs ]

Somebody left the damn ram rod
in the suction hose

And we didn't find out about it
until we got out there

And stared sucking away.

I was wondering what happened
to that damn ram rod.

[ Laughs ]

Seriously, this is some
messed up mumbo jumbo.

Yeah, it's one
of those things.

I mean it's nobody's fault it
just -- things like that happen.

[ Speaks indistinctly ]

We'll clean that box and pan it

And see if we got
any gold in there.

-Is it still in there?
-I see color.

-Oh, yeah? Really?
-Sticks out like a sore thumb.

Our test match has proven,
catching gold.

♪♪

Clean it out a little bit.

Oh, oh, hey.

Look at this.

Man, that's that river gold.

I told you
I saw color in there.

-Good, that's color.
-Yeah, that's color.

-I saw it in there.
-Yeah, with half a hose.

I mean, that's like
a teaspoon of material there.

Yeah.

Well, let's suck
some of that up then.

Oh, let's get on it.

I was a little worried

That this place
was gonna be a bust

But so far it's living up
to it's name.

It showed some
pretty nice color.

We're actually finding gold
at gold bottom creek.

♪♪

You know, enough gold
to cover your fingernail.

So that's pretty damn good.

♪♪

♪♪

Narrator: fresh in town
but a little late,

Steve riedel awaits the return
of his daughter and his captain,

Emily.

[ Whistles ]

Oh, turn to the sun here.

Nome is overwhelming and emily's
not very, very well organized

So I'm gonna help that out.

We're gonna get
the gold better

Than they're getting the gold.

Because these guys
may be miners,

But they're not organizers.

[ Blows raspberry ]

Narrator: one mile east
on the eroica.

Emily: hey, daryl, how are you
doing down there?

I can see gold.

Oh, yeah, that's got to be nice
after all this time off, eh?

Narrator: the organization's
going just fine.

Emily: we're back out here
and daryl's down diving.

And I pledged a lot of money
to buy this second dredge

And I got to make the gold.

But I can't push it beyond what
the boat is capable of doing

And the divers
are capable of doing.

So, I asked my dad to come up
and help run the eroica.

And we'll see how that goes.

Daryl: okay, emily,
I'm heading up.

Emily: all right sweet, see you
at the top, come on home.

♪♪

-What are you thinking?
-Let's look in the box.

Okay, roger.

♪♪

-Oh, yeah.
-See some gold in there?

-Oh, yeah.
-Oh, that's good.

Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's nice.

Oh, yeah. It's chunky.

Oh, hallelujah. That's great.

Nice job,
way to put up with it.

It's the first day back,
all's well and ends well.

♪♪

[ Whistling ]

Whoo-hoo, there she is.

-Hey, whoo-hoo, emmy!
-Hey, dad!

What's up with that hat,
this isn't texas,

This is alaska,
we're way bigger.

I love my star hat.

Thank you very much for waiting
on me, I appreciate that.

I told you when
the boat was leaving.

Oh, emily.

Dad, listen
I'm gonna let it go.

I forgive you.

I'm glad you're here,
welcome back to nome.

Don't tie up,
I'll just jump in.

I love you.
-Nice to see you.

So my dad's, like,

Very energetic,
very smart, articulate.

He's familiar with dredges.

You know, my dad and I
don't always get along

And it's a little bit
of a risk bringing him up here

And getting him involved
in my operation.

I don't know if it will
work out, but I hope it will.

Well, it's nice
to have you here, dad.

Well, I'm excited about
being here, this is awesome.

Narrator: coming up...

Time to clean some gold.

Here we go,
let's see what we got.

-60, 100.
-120.

Come on, 200.
-70.

Come on. 200. Ah.

We're a mile away
from 2,000 ounces it feels like.

At least I got some guys

That are dedicated
and committed to me.

That's the nice thing about it.

Almost like this guy.

Hey, teddy, what's up, bud?
Where have you come from?

This guy's grumpy,
but he's my bud.

Ted, you remember

When you used to
come out on the barge with me?

Huh, just me and you
digging gold.

No problems, no worries,

Life was good.

What would you be saying
if you could talk, teddy?

[Bleep]

Little teddy's a tough nuts.

We'll kick their a*s.
We'll take that crown back.

Little bit of a challenge but
we'll definitely figure it out.

[ Teddy barks ]

♪♪

Hey, let's go to work!

Freaking act like you're
working, the boss is here.

Narrator: with the myrtle irene
back in the harbor...

Get on it, let's get it done.
We just got to fix that.

Narrator: ...ken's team tackles
the barge's bumps

And bruises from the battle
with the storm.

Yeah, we just have to do a lot
of repairs on our excavator.

Had to change a cylinder out,
had to redo our wash, slip way.

Get this pump running.

A lot of work in the shaker
too, new screens.

♪♪

This could have went
a whole lot different.

There we go.

I wouldn't be talking to you
right now as a captain

Without a barge.

Hey, let's start this pump,
check it out real quick.

I fixed that switch so a key
turns it on and off.

Definitely had the mining gods
on our side, escaped the storm.

Couple little dings.

We ready to go out mining as
soon as we've checked this out?

-No.
-What the hell?

I'm ready --
ready to go digging.

A lot less work
than I anticipated

So back on the water
in no time, back digging.

Mark my words, I'm gonna try
and keep that mr. Gold title.

Ain't no little set back
gonna stop the myrtle.

We're not getting much gold
in the box right now.

This thing's not digging
and that water's not flowing,

We're not making no money.

Soon though, soon.

♪♪

Got the material here,
let's run this material.

-All right, yeah.
-All right.

It better be
some gold considering

What we had to go through
to get out there.

Narrator: captain vernon adkison
is hoping gold bottom creek

Is creating
a new revenue stream.

Oh, I'm seeing gold already,
look at that.

I could really use
another operation

To keep a steady stream
of gold coming in,

But it's got to be worthwhile.

If we're not getting at least
five ounces a day

Then there's no point.

All right, let's see
what it weighs out at.

Okay, here we go.
I like that sound.

That river gold.

Yeah, ooh, that's nice
chunky stuff right there.

One, two...

Four.

That's a load
of gold right there.

-That's good.
-I mean, not bad, 7.85.

Considering the time
we spent out there,

I'd say it was worthwhile.

Narrator: 7.85 ounces is worth
over $11,000,

Proving there's still gold at
the bottom of gold bottom creek.

We definitely covered
our expenses and made a profit.

It's definitely enough
to justify going back out there.

Yeah, I'll take eight ounces
over zero ounces any day.

♪♪

Narrator: across town...

♪♪

Every time we come here

It gets a little bit
closer to sell.

-Sell some gold.
-Sell my soul.

[ Both laugh ]

Narrator: the kellys are hoping
to reap the benefits

Of their new cash cow.

We're back.

Like a bad penny
always showing up, huh?

No, hopefully the best clean up
of the year, we don't know yet.

-Yeah?
-Oh, you got some.

It might be best clean up.

I'd say a little under 20.

-Oh, oh.
-Okay.

One, two, three, four...

Look at that, nice gold.

♪♪



Narrator: 18.25 ounces
is worth over $27,000.

There we go,
that'll pay some bills.

That new deal you made
with the driver's working out.

I told you it was
going to work out.

Oh, yeah, you did tell me.

This is what I need to bring me
through the home stretch.

I can't even believe it myself

But I know we're gonna
be all good.

Yeah, that's what
we're talking about.

Two stacks.
-Two stacks of high society.

♪♪

Time to clean some gold.

Narrator: with the help
of his side scanner,

Shawn pomrenke landed
the christine rose

Back on a hot spot.

Question is,
just how hot is it?

Here we go,
let's see what we got.

The side scan.

♪♪

-20,
-27, 60.









-It's going one.
-60.

-Come on, 200.
-70.

Come on. 200. 191.

-Nice.
-That's not bad.

No, not bad at all.

Narrator: 191.8 ounces

Is worth
a blistering $287,000,

And as winter
quickly approaches,

Shawn is getting scorching hot.

This is just what I needed.

If I can riding this pastry
the rest of the way,

There's not stopping me.

Kevin's not gonna know
what hit him.

We found a good spot, man,
on that cobble.

That side scanning paid off.

♪♪

Narrator: with the end of summer
mining fast approaching,

Ken is still stuck in neutral,

While former mr. Gold
is full throttle.

♪♪

You work hard, so do i.

But it doesn't give you
any right to treat me

Or talk to me the way you do
and I'm done with it.

This guy has been a bully
to me my whole life

And I'm not letting him
do it anymore.

Look me in the eyes.
-Get the [bleep] away from me.

All these piles of gold,

Steve, it's not
going to replace your son

And that's what you're gonna
end up losing.

♪♪