[narrator] Previously
on Bering Sea Gold.
[Shawn] Been out here
almost half of my life,
working to get where I'm at.
Not to have Kris Kelly
come and [bleep] it up.
But he's got to come and
sit on top of us every trip out.
I've had it up to
here with Kris Kelly.
We're not leaving this spot.
We're gonna
have to fight for it.
They think this is their ocean.
I don't think so.
I'm here to stay.
We will not be stopped.
Make that gold.
Kris Kelly is about ready
to get his a*s kicked.
I'm gonna go wait for
him at the dock tonight.
Get the [bleep] away from me.
Go.
Yeah! Come on.
Coward.
[bleep].
Come on, Andy. Get
in there and rush him.
[bleep].
Now you better get
the [bleep] away.
[Andy laughs]
[Shawn mimics Andy's laughter]
[phone rings]
[911 operator] 911,
what's your emergency?
Andy Kelly just punched me.
Hello.
My brother was just
attacked at the harbor.
We need a police officer.
Yep.
My name is Kristopher Kelly.
Thank you very much.
He came down here
to cause problems.
Start [bleep] violence.
You know, like, all he did was he's
been on that ocean plaguing me.
Everywhere I go, he comes in...
Dude, I was coming down.
He looked at me, he goes, "Andy, if
you do that again, I'm going to call it.
You're gonna go to jail."
And I was just like, "Man, [bleep]
off, dude. I have nothing to say to you."
That's all he keeps
threatening me with the police.
He came down here
to start some trouble.
Well, he got some trouble.
I know it looks like I'm
calling the cops on him,
but this is how it
works in business.
You got to be the
first to call just in case
the other guy is trying
to press charges on you.
I don't need the police.
I'm doing fine right now.
But I'm not going to let
myself be pushed around.
Did a great job. You
did everything good.
I love you, buddy. I love you.
Give me some love, buddy.
Love my brother, baby.
Dude, I dropped
him with my left hand.
- I know, man.
- You looked good doing it to.
I was waiting at the dock,
I was gonna talk to Kris.
And Andy come
down got in my face.
So I pushed him back.
And the he [bleep] punched me.
He did?
Then he sucker punched me.
No way.
Bleed [bleep].
You did?
Yeah, his nose is [bleep].
I just wanted to talk to
that whiny little [bleep].
His fat a*s brother shows up and
starts throwing his weight around.
I'm gonna call the cops.
But if they're not going to press
charges, we'll handle it our own way.
I'm about to go meet
the cops at the house
because I know
if I didn't call them,
they would [bleep] story
would be 100% different.
Well, I'll [bleep] that
[bleep] one of these days.
If Kris has all these idiots over here
doing nothing, then I want two of them.
Two idiots.
Everybody here
should have two idiots.
[narrator] After the
previous day's fireworks,
the Kelly clan looks to get back
to the business of getting gold.
Dude, why don't you
ever go up and around?
[Brad speaking]
[Andy] I don't think Shawn's
gonna be messing with us for a while.
We got to keep mining.
We owe a ton of money in
just less than a few weeks.
So now we're gonna
launch the new Reaper.
It still needs new pontoons
under the boat to help it float better.
Now we need a trailer
to pull my boat out
so we can do the
installations of the pontoon.
So we're gonna hit up our old buddy
Vernon, see if we can borrow his.
[Vernon] Hey.
My man, Brad.
Hey, Vernon.
[Vernon] What's up there?
[Brad speaking]
In gold mining, the credo is you
always help out a fellow miner.
It's a karma thing.
You'd want them to help you
out too if you needed it one day.
And I believe in that.
But when it comes to the Kellys,
it gives me pause because it's
unlikely they'll ever pay it forward.
And you usually end
up taking it in the shorts.
You want to use it?
Yeah. Like, 40 minutes.
Just we're not even
taking it past this dock.
We're just going to pull
it here, pull the boat on,
put the pontoons
underneath, drop it back.
All right. Okay. All right.
Out of my place, there's a
double axle pontoon boat trailer.
- Okay.
- You can use that one.
- Bring it back in one piece.
- I will.
It's a $3,500 trailer,
It's over there by my crawler.
[Shawn] Man, you
got a lot of junk.
That junk? I mean,
now you're calling it junk.
Not that... not that, but I'm saying that
crawler, that crawler thing is [bleep].
I mean, when you
want to borrow [bleep]
all of a sudden it ain't junk.
All right, well, we got to roll.
- Get out of here.
- Hey, don't work too hard.
Anyway, have a good day, Vernon.
Thanks.
I'll be lucky if I ever
see that trailer again.
[bleep].
I may live to regret
this, but honestly,
it's pretty hard
to break a trailer.
I mean, they'd have to put in
some serious effort to pull that off?
Okay. Come on down.
You want to go left, come back.
Straight back.
Come on.
Okay. Here we go.
Back it a little.
- How we looking?
- Right there.
Bring it forward.
We've got to pull the
boat out of the water,
put the new pontoons up
underneath the front end,
get it back in the water
as soon as possible.
Really pretty simple.
Pull it straight up.
[tires creaking]
[Brad speaking]
[Andy] The [bleep]
tires, dude, are under.
Yeah, both tires on this side.
And then the one on
the back on that side.
Poor Vernon gonna
be pissed again.
The Kelly's [bleep]
up my trailer.
I can just hear him
screaming already.
He possibly could have
a heart attack, you know?
Oh, here's Vernon. Oh, no.
[bleep].
Well, I thought it was pretty much
impossible to [bleep] up that trailer.
I guess I was wrong.
All we did was pull
it out of the water.
That's all we did.
It's not... it's not
centered on the trailer.
All the weight is back here
on the axle end of the trail.
[Brad] Oh, I know.
[Kris speaking]
That's a $3,500 trailer.
I mean...
I mean, come on, you don't...
look at that, it's tail
heavy like a son of a b*tch.
A dead giveaway at the
way that damn red truck
is jerked up in the air.
I couldn't see
the front, Vernon.
The way they were pulling me up,
I couldn't see the
front, you know?
Then they drove...
Who in the [bleep] damn
hell loads up a trailer like this?
Get that boat off my trailer.
Don't move it another inch.
[Kris speaking]
[Vernon] I don't
propose [bleep].
That's up to you.
Just get it off my trailer.
You know, I tried to
do you a favor, Brad.
[Brad speaking]
Well, you can tell the damn truck
over there is jacked up in the back end.
That tells you that
that thing is a*s heavy.
[Brad speaking]
All right.
Anybody with a lick of
sense knows not to load
a trailer tail heavy like that.
You're supposed to center
the damn boat on the trailer.
This is [bleep] idiotic.
But since the trailer
doesn't belong to them,
do they really give a [bleep]?
I don't know why
I even keep falling
into the trap of trying
to help them out.
But that's it. That's it.
I'm never gonna help those
sons of b*tches out again.
Total disrespect
for my equipment
and total disrespect for me.
That's what you
call sorry a*s people.
[Shawn] Well, yesterday
was a very interesting day.
This is not over by far.
Andy Kelly, you're
gonna get your a*s kicked
really good this time.
Sucker punch, sucker,
weasel a*s, can't fight fair.
I'm gonna make sure you
don't ever [bleep] with me again.
[narrator] The day after the
fights heard around Nome,
Shawn Pomrenke still
has Kellys on the brain.
[bleep] with the wrong guy.
The guys think they can
come in here and [bleep] around
and do whatever they want?
No, it's not how it works.
You're in my [bleep] town.
Better respect the
people and respect
what everybody does and
how hard they've worked
to get where they're at.
That's their problem.
They don't have no
respect for anybody,
but they're gonna
start respecting.
There's been a lot of people
in town wanting somebody
to punch Andy Kelly in the face.
You know you're welcome.
I'm here for you people.
I think I showed the Kellys I'm
not about to back down in a fight.
But the truth is, it's
throwing me off my game.
I'm aiming for 3,000
ounces, and I'm way behind.
Bad weather, equipment
problems, The Mistress.
There's so many things
been slowing me down.
I just have to regroup and
remember what it's really all about.
There's an area back here that I've
been wanting to work for a long time.
Haven't got in there.
There's a bunch of sand, but I believe
under that sand, there's a bunch of gold.
So we're gonna go ahead,
spot up, fly back in over there.
And just start moving some dirt.
[man speaking]
[narrator] While
Shawn gets cracking...
Good morning, everybody.
[Kris speaking]
[man speaking]
[narrator] Kris
Kelly's raring to go.
I was like, "Yeah!"
[narrator] But The
Mistress, not so much.
Don, do you think
this is going to be
the last time we have
to [bleep] the injectors?
[Don speaking]
So the excavator's
messed up again.
Surprise, surprise.
I swear we finally
had a big step forward
yesterday on gold,
everything going great.
And now here we are again.
Today, it's the fuel injector.
[engine sputtering]
What [bleep] is going on?
Things could be better.
Seems like it's been a huge
struggle all [bleep] season.
And I struggle every season.
But this season has
been just a nightmare.
I knew we were gonna have
to fight for everything this year.
Just that I didn't think we were
gonna have to fight so much.
You know, not every
[bleep] day anyways.
When I took on an
excavation barge this summer,
I thought it would
be just like Shawn.
Huge gold, lots of
hours, no problems.
Everything would be great.
This thing's been a
huge pain in my a*s,
and we've only gotten
We need another 50 ounces by the
end of the month or this all goes bye-bye.
This is a lot tougher
than I ever imagined.
Start it again.
Okay, ready?
[engine sputtering]
So far, not good.
She hasn't fired up
yet, but any minute now.
Just going to talk nice to her.
Stupid excavator.
- Don.
- What?
Another crank.
Yeah, try one more time.
Okay. I'm gonna crank.
Well, I thought it
was going to go there.
So now The Mistress
is dead in the water.
[Shawn] The new Reaper
hasn't even mined yet.
And most of all, I have a
big problem with Shawn
that's hanging over my
head that just won't go away.
Yeah, we got some
good licks in last night,
but this problem is
not going away easy.
I don't know what's
up with Shawn this year
'cause I'm shocked Shawn's
been doing this all year, you know?
Yeah.
You know, like, dude,
leave us alone in our misery.
We're like the kitten
trying to get out of a [bleep]
plastic bag before
they strangle.
We don't need any help.
We don't need to
be thrown in the river.
- Creating conflict... - I'm
just glad nobody went to jail.
No dumb [bleep] about it, man.
- That's what I'm happy about.
- Yeah.
Well, he's going...
Shawn's going around
right now telling everybody
that Andy sucker
punched him and...
- Yeah.
- Started the whole thing.
And, you know,
I'm like [bleep] him.
Shawn hit Andy first twice.
[bleep].
- He gave him a throat chop.
- Oh, wow.
You know, and Andy's neck is
so huge, good luck getting that...
Chop him down.
Where's the jugular?
Good luck trying
to find that thing.
You got to go through
four inches of padding.
He's like a walrus with the
blubber all over that [bleep].
He doesn't even fit in
his dive suit anymore.
You think you're going to
punch that guy's jugular?
You know what?
I really didn't...
I'm going to get a lot
of problems in town
because of this as time goes on.
Watch. Yeah.
This is too small of a
town to do [bleep] like that.
[Shawn] Nobody
wants to be involved
in this Shawn Pomrenke conflict.
We live in this town.
I don't even want
to be involved in it.
And I didn't even do [bleep].
Things are not good.
Right now I've got Shawn basically
wanting to k*ll me and my operation.
And I've got a high
priced, barely used
piece of [bleep]
excavator I just brought in.
And all it's done is caused
me more expensive problems,
and we're still not mining.
So, Don, what's the diagnosis?
I'm gonna name
this [bleep] Medusa.
It's a [bleep] witch
to work on this thing.
[Kris] So what do you
think we should do?
[Don speaking]
[bleep]. I thought this machine
was going to save my season.
Should we bring
the boat back in?
Or do you think
it'll be a big fix?
- Like, you know,
like... - [Don speaking]
Man!
This [bleep] bad
day is turning worse.
I just can't win right now.
I don't know why
Shawn's all pissed off.
All he has to do is let
us alone and we'll burn
our own operation to the ground.
[narrator] Back at the Myrtle.
[Shawn] We're in the spot here.
[speaking indistinctly]
Here we go.
It's time to make gold.
This stuff looks amazing.
Oh, yeah.
Looking good.
Make some damn money.
[phone chimes]
Kris Kelly.
I just got a text message
from Kris Kelly
saying he's sorry.
Being sorry and being an idiot
are two totally different things.
I tried to talk sense
into him for the last week
and he wouldn't [bleep] listen.
And then he thinks
his little brother Andy
is going to protect him from me.
Well, I think he figured out now
that I ain't [bleep] scared of Andy.
He's a big fat [bleep].
I just wish it
didn't come to that.
Doesn't need to be like that.
But Kris and Andy Kelly's
been picking on people around
this town for the
last ten years.
I've had about enough of it.
It's hard for me to hear
Kris say sorry and believe it.
But truthfully, I need
this conflict behind me.
It's messing with my
season and the bottom line.
And if Kris is smart, he
needs this behind him too.
Maybe it's time to find a
solution one way or another.
One bucket after another.
That's all that counts.
Look at that beautiful material.
We're making gold.
Shut it down! Shut it down!
We got ourselves a problem.
Slamming pretty hard.
I know that evil sound.
That's a problem
with the shaker.
It's been giving us
issues all season long.
This can't be good.
We got a gap in between
our crown and our deck,
and we need to get that down to
where it's gonna not flop around.
As soon as we get in a
groove, something happens.
Break it, fix it,
Break it, fix it.
We're gonna have to bring it in,
get that crown on
the shaker dealt with.
It shouldn't take long,
but we're done for now.
Maybe while we're down, it's
time to meet with Kris face to face.
Now it's time to
fix some [bleep].
Do not need this [bleep].
It's like Groundhog Day.
Time to make the donuts.
[narrator] Emily Riedel's
newest recruit is ready
for her biggest assignment yet.
- More gold.
- More gold.
You know, Jane's getting more
comfortable being on the boat so.
Get down there and get busy.
I brought Jane up to meet our
goal of 250 ounces this summer.
And so far, so good. We're
making awesome headway.
Last time we were out, Jane took
over Eroica for a few hours on her own.
And this time, it's going
to be the whole shift.
My morning sickness is really starting to
kick in here, so boat time is kind of off.
So this is the...
this is the test.
This is the final exam.
Coming in hot.
What the...
I'm here for another
day of pending.
I've been here a
couple of times now,
if I'm more confident,
but still, like, still learning.
Really likes to make a splash.
- Do you copy?
- Yeah, I got you.
[Jane] How's it looking
down there, Rick?
[Rick speaking]
Copy that.
Here we go. Whoa!
[Jane speaking]
Yum-yums!
[Rick speaking]
I'm just waiting right
here with bated breath.
[Rick speaking]
When he grunts,
it's because he's like
throwing rocks over and he, like,
finds gold underneath the rocks.
It's like his
favorite thing to do.
Sometimes he sounds like
Superman down there. Like...
[mimics grunting]
He says the rocks
are like this big.
He's moving like boulders.
[Rick speaking]
Whoo!
I'm really good at my whoos.
[Rick speaking]
Ooh.
[Rick speaking]
Oh, yeah.
Roger that.
[Rick speaking]
Whoo! Oh, my God.
The biggest one I've seen.
So this is really cool to see.
That's why we're here.
I understand the gold fever.
[Rick speaking]
he just said, "Where was I?"
[Rick speaking]
Rick, you're underwater.
[Rick speaking]
Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Oh, baby.
[Jane speaking]
[narrator] On the
outskirts of town.
When people come up here, I
end up having to take care of them.
I don't like that.
[narrator] Vernon Adkison's
helping hand continues to shine,
but this time with a
new diving prospect.
I've got Bryson up
at my camp out here.
He wants to dive with us.
I don't know how
that's gonna work out.
He's never done
any ocean diving.
Supposedly, he's done some
dredging in the rivers and creeks.
The Kellys have
me in a foul mood.
And if that's not enough, we're
doing some fixes on the gold ship,
so we're going to need to
up production when it's ready.
So I'm bringing in an
extra diver, Bryson.
I don't know much about him,
except he's from out of town,
and he's broke,
so I'm letting him
stay in a trailer
that I've got for now.
I'm not up here to
take care of people.
People need to take
care of themselves.
Dammit, you got
to feed yourself.
You got to buy your
own frigging toilet paper.
I stood in your cabin
with a plastic bag
underneath my
a*s taking a [bleep].
And the only reason
that I had toilet paper
was because you
left a roll there.
That's not my responsibility.
But invariably, it
seems like I do.
So it's kind of how I'm feeling
about the situation with Bryson.
I give the guy a helping
hand, the next thing you know,
every time he needs
money for food, he calls me.
[bleep].
What kind of deal is that?
I told this kid to organize everything
in my yard, make himself useful.
So hopefully he's doing
something other than
living rent free and
mooching off me.
There's no lack of
stuff around here.
A lot of stuff.
So now it's a matter
of getting all this stuff
organized so that it's useful.
So how are you doing
for heat and all that?
That electric heater
definitely isn't enough
to keep you dry in there.
It is damp.
So what... what
about the propane?
[Bryson] I haven't
got that hooked up.
It produces carbon
monoxide, doesn't it?
No.
If you're cold, it your fault.
Go and figure out how to hook
up a heater and make it warm.
Okay.
Yeah, well, I...
That last bit of
cash you gave me,
that went the first day
for gas for the jeep.
I got a jerry can of gas
and I bought groceries.
So, I mean...
Yeah, I got to...
I got to get mining
or something.
You could go down there, do
the beach mining thing, get yours.
[Shawn] Well, yeah.
Even if I could get
that would help out
because you know
how expensive
things are, in Nome?
It's pretty bad.
If you get down there, you'll
be doing better than that.
I've given this guy a place
to stay and money to live on.
And what's his response?
Thank you, Vernon. So
gracious of you, Vernon.
Look at the work I've
done for you, Vernon.
No, I need money, money, money.
Like, go do some beach
mining, for God's sakes.
I mean, come on, man.
Well, I don't know. Like I...
like I said, I'm not an ATM, but
I'll spot you a couple more bucks.
[Bryson] Thank
you. Appreciate it.
And then you make
it your business
to get your heater set up,
do the beach minding thing.
Get your own separate
operation going.
All right. Well, we got to go.
Well, thank you
very much, Vernon.
- Mm-hmm.
- I appreciate what you do.
- Thank you.
- Yep.
- You're welcome.
Working out the money.
Sick and tired of this [bleep].
If it turns out that he's a
screw up of some type,
then I've lost all that money.
And I'm not up
here to lose money.
[narrator] Back in the harbor.
Always excites me
when I beat the boss.
I'm 11 minutes late.
But Nome time, I'm...
I'm on time.
[narrator] The early bird...
Well, the earlier
bird catches the skiff.
[Shawn] Here he comes.
Officially, Zeke
is 44 minutes late.
Nome time, he's
only 15 minutes later.
You are in slow motion today?
Yeah. Kind of.
I just got to get
my blood going.
Are we forgetting anything?
I don't think I'm
forgetting anything.
Good to go.
Just gonna go on
a little boat ride.
[Zeke] This summer, I
made a deal with Shawn
to work on Tomcod
for a percentage if me
and my brother
fixed up the Havilah.
Gabe's close to launch, but I'm
already mining with my little dredge,
and I want to hit
And so far, all I've managed
to get is just under 3.5.
The good news is, last time
out, we hit a good pay streak.
So I'm going to go back
out there and try to ride it out.
The gold's going this
way right under the boat.
So I'm gonna start right there.
I'm gonna work back.
So probably at some point,
have you let out anchor line
and drift me back this way.
Oh, okay.
How's the vis down there?
- It's pretty cloudy.
- Oh, man.
I'm going to do my
best to work with it.
It's what I got.
Okay. Pretty
cloudy but go for it.
Looking aorund for
that marker that I left.
The buoy is right off the port side
bow right here about ten feet away.
I don't know where
the heck I am.
I thought I was right
on top of the buoy.
Okay. Well, let me look
at your bubbles here.
Oh, oh, oh.
Okay. Now.
Okay, you are about 25 feet off
the starboard side amidship.
Okay. I'm trying to go
over into the port now.
Oh, there it is.
Okeydokey, Smoky.
See, there's some
good stuff right here.
Gonna get further
up in these rocks.
It's weird.
Okay, what about this stuff?
This clay just kind of comes
up out of the sand here.
[Zeke] And there's some
really, really hot gold in it.
There it is.
A lot of it is just
right on the surface.
Looking good.
Yeah, the gold's pretty
good all through here.
But there's spots where it
gets humid and really hot.
And I want to try to stay in the
places where it gets really hot.
Divining rods, these are
the gold getting boogeyman.
Yeah.
There's just gold
all through this stuff.
See? Oh, gee,
there's gold right there.
Oh, man. Oh, yeah.
Definitely the best
stuff I've found all year.
They say they'll come right
together whenever there's gold.
There's all manner
of gold out here.
These things are going crazy.
Yeah. It's really, really hot.
Damn.
Boom.
They cross
powerfully right away.
Can't leave this gold behind.
Zeke's done the homework.
This is gold country.
Put it up on the trailer.
You got it.
Yeah, I'm pushing it up.
A little more.
Good.
[narrator] Vernon told
the Kellys to stop using
his trailer that they've
already damaged.
Hook that side the same
way that side's hooked.
[narrator] Well, this
is going to shock you.
We're gonna use
this trailer anyway.
We're gonna put
it in the water with
or without Vernon's permission.
[bleep] him and yeah.
- [bleep] to the rubber hose.
- Right here.
So we've got to put the
new pontoons under the boat.
And then we need the trailer
to put it back in the water.
Vernon said don't use the
trailer again, but he's not here.
So what he doesn't
see doesn't hurt him.
Squeeze that in there.
Let's do it before
Vernon comes back.
Come on, you guys
[bleep] want me to drive it?
- Want to?
- Are you afraid?
No.
Cause Vernon won't yell at me.
He won't yell anyways.
He won't know.
He'll just think the
wheels fell off in the end.
Ready?
Come on, let's go.
[Brad speaking]
[Brad speaking]
Hurry, Andy.
Hurry.
[car engine revving]
I told y'all not to do that.
[Brad] Well, I
called the forklift.
Said it's going to be a
couple hours. I thought 3,500.
Let's go to the bank.
I'll buy it right now.
Let's go.
Let's go. Drive
it in. Full blast.
Beat this [bleep] up.
Let's go drive it...
Not until I get my
[bleep] damn money.
You want to fight?
Hey, you want to fight, [bleep]?
- I don't want to hurt you.
- Throw.
- I'm not chicken.
I ain't gonna
fight with my fist.
I'm a dirty [bleep], Vernon.
I tell you, drive me over.
Shut up.
Drive me over. I'll pay you.
You said 35. Let's go.
- I got it.
- Let's go.
Peanuts.
Let's go.
Come on. I don't want
to give you a heart attack.
Don't worry about my heart.
Hey, Andy.
Don't move it until I
get back with my money.
[Andy] I'm waiting.
I'm waiting, Vernon.
Haul a*s. Let's go.
[Brad] Breathe in,
Vernon. Breathe.
It's all right. I'll
pay you 3,500.
You know, I could use the
word pond scum to describe Brad.
But honestly, that would be
doing a disservice to pond scum.
I was doing the guy a
favor, for God's sakes.
And look at the thanks I get.
He better give me that 3,500 without
any monkey business or there'll be trouble.
There's your check.
Let's go.
I'm in a hurry. Time's money.
There you go. See?
Just like that.
I told you. You want to smoke
a joint now in celebration?
- I think I'll pass.
- [Shawn] I think you better.
You getting all tense, man.
It ain't that big of a deal.
It's not that big of a
deal now I got money.
Oh, calm down.
So now I know how to
shake some money out of you.
Yeah.
Somebody break your [bleep]
Can I borrow your truck now?
This is for my old truck.
See you, Vernon.
Went good.
We own a new trailer.
Is it a win-win, Vernon.
Yeah. I paid
Yeah, that's a win-win.
Now I can do whatever
the hell he wants to it.
He can run it till
the wheels fall off.
Well, actually, he
already did that.
Let me go cash this.
Rush me to the bank.
I got to put a stop
payment on that check.
[narrator] On the
other side of the harbor.
I'm in a bad mood today.
I got to turn this around.
I don't know, dude.
You know what?
I'm seeing gold stack up
in a lot of different places.
But no matter what,
I need 100 ounces.
I don't need 20.
I got to turn this around.
It's all because
of my excavators.
All [bleep] season long,
it's because of excavators.
[narrator] Yesterday's fight
preempted a Kelly weigh out.
So with The Mistress down,
it's time to scrape the box
and see if anything came
from the precious few hours
before the excavator went kaput.
[Shawn] 10 ounces of
gold right now will at least
take care of how much it's
going to cost to fix the excavator.
I see some color, but
I don't see ten ounces.
Whatever we have, we
worked really hard for it.
We went through a
lot of problems for it.
[bleep], dude, we just need
the excavator to run, you know?
Nobody knows how
to fix it, and it's...
It's stopping me
from making money.
[Andy speaking]
Yeah.
Look, the excitement
from the fight kind of
took away the great part
that we were on good gold
yesterday and the
night crew came in, too,
before the Mistress broke down.
So maybe we got lucky,
and we squeezed out
some ounces of gold before
the excavator took the crap.
Throw that in the
back of the truck.
We need it with this
big payment due.
And now even more
repairs are needed.
Okay, let's go.
Andy, come in here and
start scooping this [bleep].
Okay, at least we're seeing
gold in every scoop, you know?
So at least that's
the only thing
going for me right now.
Hey, that looks okay, huh?
Without even seeing
it in the pan right now.
It looks damn good.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat this.
We have $125,000 payment
to make in two weeks,
and we're not even close.
Right now, I need
a decent clean out,
which is at least ten ounces.
So I know that
we're getting gold
and we can get out there
back on the pay streak
for whatever the hell we
can actually mine again.
Okay. Here we go.
Come on, baby.
That's what I'm
[bleep] talking about.
Okay, here we go.
All right. Moment of truth.
[bleep].
Looked like 10.
Not that great, but
it is what we have.
[narrator] 6.2 ounces
is worth over $11,000.
Not within striking distance
of the funds Kris needs
to keep the Reaper Nation alive.
So that's what we got.
hours of bull [bleep].
And it was bull [bleep].
I was really hoping we were
going to get a little bit more.
Okay. Well, whatever. That's it.
The scale doesn't lie.
So it's better than
a kick in the nuts.
I'm under an extreme
amount of stress right now.
I'm on edge of losing
all of this operation.
If I can't prove I can make
money with this operation,
Kevin will just sell it.
[narrator] With Reaper
Nation near the brink,
Captain Kris Kelly
marches toward
a pivotal meeting with Mr. Gold.
I'm gonna meet up with
Shawn Pomrenke right now.
We're going to see
if we can talk through
our differences and
work out our problems.
Hopefully, we can because I
don't know what else to do right now.
I don't need to make
Shawn Pomrenke my enemy.
You know, I just
need to work hard
and mind my own business
is what I need to do.
And I need Shawn to let
me co-exist in this town.
We're gonna have to get along.
You know, I don't
know what else to say.
Shawn reached out and
said he wants to meet.
And honestly, I'm
jumping at the chance.
I'm in a bad spot right now
and Shawn can make my life
really difficult if he tries to.
Shawn knows everyone in town.
It can cause me a lot of
headaches, and basically,
my little empire can
collapse right before me.
And I don't need
these [bleep] problems.
I'm just trying to get gold.
I just want to go mining.
I don't want any
more [bleep] problems.
I'm creating enough problems.
I will be humble.
I will make this work.
I'm gonna give it
I need to live in this
[bleep] town, too.
You know, I'm buying a
house. We just had a baby.
You know, I'm trying
to plan out a future here.
I can't burn [bleep].
Can't burn my bridges.
I just need to start showing
Shawn the proper respect
that he thinks he deserves.
This is such [bleep] [bleep].
Kris, if he's gonna
play with the big boys,
he's got to [bleep]
follow the same rules.
this ocean doing this.
I know the rules. I
know the regulations.
And Kris, he's just like,
"Oh, I don't give a [bleep]."
Then he goes and jumps on our spot
and [bleep] up my whole mining plan.
And I'm not going to let
Kris Kelly [bleep] this up.
But the problem is, he
never wants to listen.
He just wants to run his mouth
and keep talking
and keep talking.
And it's like he
needs to just listen.
And if I can't reason
with him and talk to him,
then it's gonna come down to
somebody's gonna get their a*s kicked,
and I'd rather not do that.
Gold mining is my life.
It's how I make my living.
I care about
the integrity of it.
Kris, he doesn't get it.
But I was once in his shoes
many, many years ago.
He's trying to reach the same
dreams I've been able to realize.
He's just got to
do it the right way.
And despite everything that's
happened, I want to hear him out.
[Kris] Oh, man.
I hope this all goes
good. I really do.
I don't need to [bleep] in
my life anymore, you know.
We're gonna squash this [bleep].
'Cause the way it's going
right now, it's got to end.
- Yeah.
- [bleep] get it.
I don't want to see you fail, but if
you keep stepping on my toes, then I...
then... then I'm gonna be forced
to do things that I don't want to do.
And it's like you
keep [bleep] with me
and a lot of people are
gonna [bleep] hate you.
Yeah.
I want to live in
this town. I really do.
You know, and
I'm buying a house.
I just started a
family. I'm sorry.
You know, like, um, whatever I
got to do to make this work, okay?
Well, you know, we...
You not on a six
inch dredge anymore.
- No, right.
- Yeah.
Yeah, and there's a lot
of different rules, and...
and if we keep playing
this [bleep] game,
we're gonna [bleep]
it up for everybody.
- And I don't want that.
- And then... then what?
Then we don't have [bleep].
Look, buddy, I'm...
I'm stressing right now.
I'm barely hanging
on to everything.
My gold cleanups
are [bleep] joke.
I'm doing my best
to make all this work.
I don't want...
You know, I want to work with you
and get along with you and everything.
- Be cool.
- Yeah.
- I really do.
- There's plenty of ground out there.
You know what, I don't
[bleep] that you're out there.
Let's just keep
the fair distance.
- I will.
- And 'cause y'all, we...
we come up with a mining
plan and we're taking our cuts,
and then you come and
park, and it's like [bleep].
Even on the boat that day,
to be honest with you, man,
I'm running around
doing other [bleep] and...
Um, but I take responsibility
for everything my crew does.
- Yeah.
- You know, and I...
I will take care of everything.
And you know what? I... I'm not
I... I said, I'm
thinking too smart.
And it was like
we got [bleep] stop.
This is strictly like a [bleep].
Yeah. Yeah.
Like, I don't... I don't...
We don't need this, dude.
- Yeah.
- We're trying to make it in this world.
I'm... I'm telling you, man, I'm
gonna start being more courteous,
and I just want to work
together and make this work.
- Yeah, we'll start it over.
- Okay. Thanks, buddy.
- Yeah.
- You know, really.
Any problems, you call
me and I'll take care of it.
All right.
I think everything went
great. I had to move forward.
I don't have the time or
resources to fight a... a millionaire.
You know, like I'm
barely scraping by.
So maybe my problem
is I just don't show
Shawn the proper respect and I'm
probably gonna have to from now on.
All I did was bend the knee.
Or, you know,
saying sorry is free.
So, who gets to [bleep].
[Shawn] He seems sincere.
So hopefully he is.
But I'll keep him
at a safe distance.
But if he does, 'cause if
he does get too close to me,
and it's not gonna end well.
And hopefully we
can just all play nice.
[Steve] Yo.
[Zeke] Hi.
How you doing?
[Zeke speaking]
[narrator] Zeke Tenhoff
is on his longest dive
of the season, trying
to make up for lost time.
[Zeke speaking]
[Steve] You just keep
mining until you want to stop.
[Zeke speaking]
There's no chance of that.
He's pretty burnt out.
I can really empathize with him.
He's been in the water.
[Zeke speaking]
[Steve] That you will.
The gold doctor.
So, Zeke, did you
decide to come up?
[Zeke speaking]
Okey-dokey smoky.
There it is.
[Zeke] It's been a while since
I've done a dive that was that long.
But we needed it because these
pockets are pretty much empty.
And the good news
is that it was easily
the best gold that
I've seen all summer.
I was so excited I couldn't
suck it up fast enough.
And now, for the first
time in quite a while,
I'm excited about a cleanup.
I think it's gonna
be a good one.
Get all the suffering
out of the way.
- If you find something good.
- Nice.
I like to end things
on a high note.
[Steve] Yeah.
[Zeke] I mean, people do a lot
worse thing for a lot less money.
[narrator] On the Nome coast...
[Vernon] Well, the
thing with Bryson,
it's becoming very
clear that this guy
is about 98% bull [bleep].
[narrator] Once again,
Vernon's soft side
may be coming back to bite him.
Right now I'm going out here
and lay down the law to him.
I'm already into him. Put
several hundred dollars.
Putting him up, giving
him a place to stay.
I told him how to go down on
the beach and make money.
Well, he chose to ignore me.
And then every time I see
him, he's got his hand out.
Think I'm his own
personal damn ATM.
So now I've got this
dependent [bleep],
thinking I'm his
daddy or his caretaker,
and that ain't gonna float.
I'm cutting him
off at the knees.
He wants to make it up here.
You got to do it like
everybody else does.
And that's hard scrabble.
You've got to get your
a*s out there with a shovel
in your hand and turn over
some material on that beach.
If nothing else is going on,
you can always make enough
to keep body and soul
together on that beach.
And I let him stay
in this RV out here
with the understanding that he
was gonna clean the property.
And so far, he
hasn't done anything.
No more. I'm not giving
him another damn dime.
And if he wants to stay
there where he's at right now,
he's gonna work off the
money I've already given him.
I'm not running a
damn clown show here.
A lot of trash
around this place.
They're a little bit [bleep] down
here in the last couple of weeks.
Frustrating is [bleep].
Sick of this crap.
[Bryson] I'm just
trying to help.
You know, like, I didn't
come up here to bottom out
the way that I am and
get treated like dog [bleep].
[Vernon] Dog [bleep]?
I'm treating him
like dog [bleep].
I'm putting money
into his manicured
little hands while
he's doing nothing.
And this jerk thinks that's
the crime of the century.
Okay, how much
money did I give you?
And a place to live
and a car to drive
and I treat you like [bleep]?
- You're yelling at me.
- No.
Yeah. And look,
[bleep]. a*s [bleep].
I've told you ten different ways
how to get gold on the beach.
You know what I'm not [bleep]
[Vernon] Get out of that trailer
- now!
- I'm going in right now.
I'm not dealing with
your abuse, buddy.
I put the last $40 in
his hand yesterday.
and a wet place to stay
ain't worth being yelled at.
[bleep] you.
You get your a*s... Get
your ragged a*s out of there.
[bleep]
You'll have a heart
attack. You [bleep].
You can't [bleep]
just yelling at people.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
You little [bleep].
[bleep] [bleep] snowflake.
Has no appreciation for
the money and the fact
that I put him up in that
motorhome over there.
A 40 foot motor coach,
provided him with a generator,
a tank of propane.
Gasoline for the generator, gasoline
for the car and money for food.
And does he have appreciation?
No. So, [bleep] him.
Maybe, just maybe, after
this, jack wad and Brad Kelly,
I finally learned my lesson about
giving worthless people a break.
Because all they do is take advantage
of you and screw you in the end.
So, I'm not gonna do it anymore.
Everyone can just kiss my a*s.
I was actually
not gonna fire him.
I was just gonna
chew his a*s out.
But he's a snowflake.
He can't take an action
because it hurts his little [bleep].
If he gets yelled at.
[narrator] Two miles east...
[Rick grunting]
[Jane] Ooh.
- [Rick grunting]
- Wow.
That's him moving a big boulder.
Hoping there's gold underneath.
How's it looking down there?
[Rick speaking]
[Jane] Copy that.
Awesome. Good times.
[Rick speaking]
Time for gold.
[narrator] With Jane
at the helm for the day,
the Eroica is on the gold.
Emily went to town, so, I'm
here on my second time by myself.
I'm doing pretty
okay. We got this guy.
[Rick grunting]
Oh.
[Rick speaking]
Yeah, that's swell
definitely just came in.
[Jane speaking]
[Rick speaking]
[Jane] Okay, roger that.
All your levels look great.
Good times.
Phew, phew. Ow.
He's really vocal down there.
[grunting]
I have a feeling I know what
he's like in bed, in the sack.
That sound like
when he finds gold.
Not that I need to.
Just he's very vocal.
[Rick speaking]
[laughs]
Sorry.
[Emily] Jane, how's it going?
Oh, it's going good.
I came back, because
the boat is tonight...
after the dive, I
don't want to leave
the boat out overnight.
[Emily] Hey, what's...
what's up, Rick?
[Rick speaking]
[Emily] Yeah, the... the swell
actually is definitely getting a lot worse.
[Rick speaking]
Ah, sounds like Rick's
really struggling down there
to have a swell winds
kind of coming up.
Ooh.
[Emily] All right, Rick.
You want to wrap it up?
[Rick speaking]
Yo, Jane, he's up.
He's up?
Ooh.
[Emily speaking]
[Emily] It's a bummer, the
waves kind of pushed us off. 14.
But how about Jane?
Jane is rocking it.
Even though the
waves kicked us off,
Jane handled the situation,
Rick got on some gold,
and her first day out by
herself was awesome.
[Jane grunting]
Okay don't... Don't
strain your back.
[bleep] Good job.
[Emily] She wasn't sure
about this gold mining business
at first, but she's
super adaptable
and she's really getting
the hang of things.
Pull back, pull back.
Ah...
Done.
With me being pregnant
and kind of out of play.
She's pretty much exactly
what the doctor ordered.
Literally.
I look at the box.
Yeah, nice. It's
nice and golden.
That is...
Nugget.
Big baddy nugget on board.
[Emily] Oh, yeah.
That's a good nugget.
Oh, damn. Look at that.
Lots of nuggets
coming my way, baby.
That's what I call a good day.
Holy, whack a
moly. It's so pretty.
Yeah. Isn't it?
[Emily] You got the Midas touch.
Let me drive it in.
Get her on [bleep].
Go ahead.
[narrator] Now, the Kellys are the
proud owners of Vernon's trailer.
It's time to get the new and
improved Reaper back in the water.
[bleep] Vernon almost
had a heart attack, bro.
Poor old b*stard.
And there she rolls.
Slow down, Dad.
- You lost the tire.
- [Kris] Yeah.
Well, we lost some tire.
[Andy laughing]
Well, the trailer
cost us 3500 more.
We didn't really
have, but we got it.
So now we can get the
boat back in the water
and tie her to the docks.
We'll head out with
her in the morning.
Okay, go ahead.
[bleep]
They better not have pull
me out here with no gas.
They probably did.
Yeah, my dad's,
something else, you know.
[bleep] puts me on
a boat with no gas.
[bleep]
He breaks the
trailer and no gas.
Really, Dad? Unbelievable.
Come on, baby.
You know, [bleep] God.
[motor running]
[bleep] He says it's current.
So, I'm about 200 feet away
from the dock and I'm using
the wind to blow me
in where I need to go.
This is [bleep] stupid.
[Danny] Hey, what's up?
Hey, man. Saving fuel. I like
that. Let the wind do the work.
Yeah, it's coming
around right now.
And I love this.
Pull me in.
[laughing]
[Danny] Couldn't have asked
for a better parking job than that.
That was good piloting.
Yeah, that's just too
[bleep] funny, dude.
[Andy] Next time on the water,
this thing will make the waves better.
We can go faster.
It could take the weight
of the water in my hose.
Yeah, a few
hiccups, right [bleep].
But it's done. Who
give the [bleep]?
[Andy] Got a new
trailer out of the deal.
I'll pick up the spuds and go.
Oh, yeah.
[narrator] With repairs
made to the Myrtle Irene's
shaker box and the w*r with
Kris Kelly hopefully behind him.
Shawn Pomrenke wastes no
time getting back to the Tomcod.
Myrtle Irene leaving the
inner harbor, headed for sea.
Right now, we're right
where we want to be.
The shaker plants fix, the
Myrtle Irene's running great.
And hopefully this dust up
with Kris is squashed for now.
And I can get back to
doing what I need to do.
Get gold. God knows I need it.
We need to make some gold.
Oh, yeah.
This stuff looks really good.
Put a plane on the shaker.
Seem to be working well.
Everything brought in.
Hopefully we can
keep it running.
We got the inland mine.
Christine Rose, Myrtle.
I need to keep them running.
See dirt moving as
many hours that we can.
The more hours we put on
the box, the more gold we'll get.
Ooh. That feels
like it's a problem.
Hopefully the Bering
Sea is being kind.
Just giving us a
big old pile of gold.
They got to keep on
putting dirt in this box.
There it is.
There should be
some gold in the box.
I'm gonna find out.
Yeah, there's gold down here.
It's looking good, looking good.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Diggy, diggy.
Time to pile up some gold.
h*, h*, h*, h*!
If we keep everything running.
It'd be close to
This pay streak
is the real deal.
I'm gonna reposition the
Myrtle to get into deeper water.
Get to that good gold.
We're gonna get triple digits
in the box this time for sure.
I can feel it.
All right.
Let's get these spuds
jacked up and I'll pull us out
into some deeper water.
The spud's not going up or down.
[man speaking]
[Shawn] Yeah. It's not moving.
[beeping]
Oh, [bleep] [bleep] [bleep].
Dammit.
I mean, we get out
there and check it out.
Frustrated.
First, the shaker. Now the spud.
Man, it never stops.
But this is a big deal.
If we can't move the spud,
we can't move the Myrtle.
Then we're screwed.
Always something.
We just got this thing dialed
in and now it might be broke.
Can't catch a break.
We just got this thing dialed
in and now it might be broke.
Can't catch a break.
[narrator] The good news
for Shawn Pomrenke,
he's on the best
gold of the season.
The bad news, a
stuck spud may force
the Myrtle to shut down again.
[Shawn speaking]
[Shawn] Damn it.
It's not moving.
This spud is stuck.
If we can't move the spud.
We can't move the Myrtle.
If we can't move the Myrtle,
our season is effectively over.
[Shawn speaking]
[Shawn] Come on.
There it goes.
Thank God. The beast is free.
Long live the Myrtle.
Now we can get back to mining.
Seems like everything's working.
All right.
Something going on.
You got bigger problems.
Well the spud's up.
But as we're inspecting
it, there's a huge crack.
This situation has taken on
a whole different dimension.
Hard to see how
far down the well is.
Yeah, it could be a lot further.
There's a crack
in the spud well.
Well, it's the part of the barge
that holds the spud in place.
If the crack is big
enough in a big swell,
it could cause the
spud well, to break open.
And if that happens, water will
gush into the hull and sink the Myrtle.
We are screwed for sure.
Maybe best to
be safe than sorry.
Yeah well, let's head in.
[bleep] I'll have
to pull the spud.
[bleep] See if
we can weld it up.
Hopefully the crack is small
and we'll get it welded up quick.
But if it's big, we're gonna
have to replace the spud well,
and that's a major project.
And if that's the case, I
don't think we'll be able
to get back out and
mine this summer.
Oh, go back to the
harbor to do repairs.
There's some pretty big
swells and they're far apart.
So, if I keep running it,
it'll just rip it apart more.
So, we're gonna
go ahead and repair.
We got this thing dialed in now,
but we're over halfway
through the season.
Breakdowns like
this, we don't need.
We're gonna lose a full day.
That could be 60, $70,000.
But we push it.
We'd lose the
rest of the season,
and we're not gonna do that.
I'd end up sitting like
Kris Kelly in the harbor
when the weather is good.
This sucks.
Just when we were
getting hot, hopefully we got
some good gold when
we were out there.
And this doesn't put
us out for too long.
I hate bringing the dredge in,
but it's got to keep her
afloat and hold her together.
I do not feel like putting
this thing in a bad position
that we can't get out of...
[narrator] Back in town...
[Kevin] Kris man,
so what do you think?
I think we're doing terrible.
I hate to admit it, but,
you know, the amount
of gold we got
right now is [bleep].
It is.
We're really not
getting a lot of time.
Yeah.
[narrator] Reaper Nations'
chief investor Kevin Adaimy
is back in town and
cracking the whip
on his beleaguered captain.
[Kevin] We need... obviously,
we need a lot more gold.
I mean, we got this
payment coming up,
and we really got to
make that payment happen.
You know, we need
to see some results.
We can't continue to just put out
money and just get nothing for gold.
[Kris] You will see results.
We just need a week
of running and we'll...
we'll get a lot of gold.
I'm trusting this operation
in your hands, buddy.
[Kris] Buddy, this is
all gonna work out.
- You know, um...
- You know, the new excavator, 30% more.
[Kevin] Yeah.
You know, it'd be a
night crew we can trust.
Yeah. We just... You
know, it's just nervous.
I'm nervous that, you know,
we have a big $125,000
payment due, and we
got to hit that number.
- I mean, we can't...
- Oh, I know.
We can't... maybe
hit that number.
It's a really serious deal.
We've got to get that going.
No, I know it's gonna happen.
I have never seen
Kevin this fired up.
But that's a difference
of being Kevin's friend
or Kevin's business partner.
I promised him this whole
thing would be a moneymaker.
But this thing's
barely staying afloat.
And now, with the
excavator breaking down,
it seems almost impossible
for us to make this payment.
But I have to keep a positive
face and calm him down.
You know, you're
the captain of the ship.
You're the guy that
makes the decisions.
Just make wise decisions
and call me and, you know,
together, you know, we can
come up with really good decisions.
We can't make any more
mistakes, is what I'm saying.
All my decisions have been cheap
and they've been
the right decisions.
[Kevin] Yes.
Every little problem that we've
had has been out of my control.
To me, all I've seen
is a million excuses.
This next month is
really important to me.
I mean, at the end of the
day, if we don't get 100 ounces,
we might have to
start selling stuff off
to be able to make ends meet.
If we just put in 24 hours a day
and get out there
every opportunity,
we're gonna make a lot of gold.
I know in my heart
that we can do this.
It's just that everything that
could go wrong has gone wrong.
But the Mistress is dialed in.
The only real problem
that I have is an excavator.
All I need to do is get the
excavator running every single day,
gonna make tons of money.
If not, I might not only
lose this whole business,
I might also lose
Kevin's friendship.
Look, Kevin, I really have this.
I know Nome. I know
the ocean. I know gold.
I know this is gonna make money.
We put together
this whole operation.
Just trust me a
little while longer,
and you're gonna be real happy.
I'm ready for that.
Let's go, man.
- Take part in it.
- Let's make it happen.
Let's do it.
[Zeke] I'm gonna
go get some water.
I don't have a well.
So, I've always
just hauled water.
It's... it's convenient
to buy bottle of water,
if you don't care about money.
But it's not how the
way you should do it.
Water should always be free.
And so, I'm gonna go
fill up my water jugs.
[narrator] Tonight, on surviving
Alaska with Zeke Tenhoff.
[Zeke] Everybody
has this idea that, like,
if you drink water out
of like a little stream,
like it's gonna, like, make you
sick because it's both [bleep].
[narrator] Learn Zeke's
three step plan for staying
hydrated when you're
living off the land.
[Zeke] That whole
mountainside is really porous.
So, like, all the water
is just flowing out of it.
Just coming out of the ground.
I'm not gonna drink
right out of the river
because there's
a lot of beavers.
Likely you will get some
kind of like, parasite thing.
After you're
drinking this water,
you taste like city
water, tap water.
It's awful.
I mean, the water
that you get in town,
it's like pumped full of chemicals
and it spends its whole life
like just getting blasted
through all these plastic tubes.
And like, in... No
way. No, it's not good.
Like, I'm not a big
conspiracy guy, but, like,
the explanation for
why they pump fluoride
in your drinking water
is to say that like,
it helps your teeth.
Like, why do they care
so much about your teeth?
That's a conspiracy.
It's a grand conspiracy.
There's something
going on there.
Wait for it.
Oh, hold on.
Whoa!
Down, girl. Down, girl.
[laughing]
Um... All right.
I get excited. I'm always...
- I'm always on it, like...
- Oh.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Gold.
Oh, boy.
[narrator] Time to see if
the Eroica's new tender.
Jane made it rain.
[Rick] Look at these g*ns.
She was pulling up
that nozzle by herself.
And I'm like, "Holy crap,
dude, she's got this."
You barely got it up.
It builds muscle and character.
It's very important.
Jane and Rick are a
power duo right now.
They're just raking in
the gold, and I'm digging it.
All right, let's see how we did.
Break and turn, guys.
Yes. Look at this.
Look at... look at...
[Emily] 24, 25, 6,
That's good.
Nice. 28, man.
[Rick] Yes.
[narrator] 28.6 ounces.
That's worth over $50,000.
And there has been nothing plain
about Jane's addition to the Eroica crew.
[Emily] It's... Yeah,
it's great to have you.
Have you here. While I do.
You know, pregnancy stuff.
- [Jane] Bam.
- Nice.
Good job.
Nice. I'm so happy like
we're k*lling it right now.
And 250 ounces is
right around the corner.
Yeah, we're in awesome shape.
Wasn't much drama.
Yeah, it's a lot of gold.
[Emily] Let's get
back out there.
[narrator] On the
outskirts of town...
[Steve] Got lots of gold to pan.
[Zeke] Yeah, you
got the hang of it?
Oh, yeah. Look at
that one. Look at this.
The gold is on top like that.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You're getting it
cleaner than me.
[narrator] The mad scientist
of Nome is ready to see
if the new pay
streak is really paying.
[Zeke] The new place
that I've been dredging.
It's really good. Real hot.
I'm stoked about this cleanup.
I think it's gonna be a
nice cleanup for sure.
You know, it's been
a long, long time
since I've had
a k*ller clean up.
If ever there was a time
for one, it's right now.
And without a heavy weigh
out, I'm not gonna have enough
money to keep
the operation going.
Despite Shawn putting
us out here on Tomcod.
That looks nice and clean.
All right, here we go.
One ounce.
Four and a half.
We broke 10.11.12.
Grand total. Right
there is 16.9 ounce.
[narrator] 16.9 ounces is
worth over 30,000 bucks.
The largest cleanout for Zeke
since his return to the Bering Sea.
A lot of work goes into
that pile of gold right there.
Oh, wow. I'm all of a
sudden now real successful.
Whoa, whoa. How'd that happen?
I really need this.
Not just for my
pocketbook, but for morale.
It hasn't been an easy year.
And I mean, at times,
I question all of this
and whether I should
be mining at all.
But this is huge for
me, 'cause it proves
that being out on Tomcod
is really gonna pay.
Cool. 10% of that is
- There you go. Cool.
- Thanks, Zeke.
[Zeke] Yeah.
It was hard won, man.
I even made enough to
get Steve paid something.
And that feels good
because he hasn't made
any money this summer at all.
It was really nice to see
him get a little bit of gold.
Finally filling up this bottle.
It's an actually little
pile of gold right there.
[narrator] On the
other side of town...
[Shawn] That stuff
looks really good.
[narrator] Mr. Gold is
hoping to score a direct hit.
[Shawn] There it is.
Gold mining has lots
of highs and lots of lows.
Fist fights with the
Kellys one minute,
making peace the next,
great gold, one minute.
Broken spud well the next.
But the bottom
line is, we might be
on the best pay
streak of the season.
And ultimately,
that's all it matters.
Let's weigh up
this, Myrtle gold.
Here we go. Here we go.
There's 20, 40, 50.
Come on, let's
hit triple digits.
Cool. Hundred.
We got good gold, but this
spud well took us off the water.
Hopefully we can
get back out there.
[narrator] 148.3 ounces
is worth over 266 grand.
And Mr. Gold is once
again living up to his name.
Kelly's definitely cost
us time, cost us money.
Piss you off.
Every minute,
you're not digging.
And I'm dealing
with those idiots.
It's costing me money.
It's costing my guys money.
It's costing everybody money.
Other than that,
we're doing well.
Look at it. We
got a pile of gold.
Even though the Myrtle
hasn't been out there
every minute that I'd hope for.
When it is, it's
money in the bank.
We just need to keep the Myrtle
healthy for the rest of the season.
And if we do with the Myrtle, the
Inland mine and the Christine Rose,
we're gonna hit our
We're on hot ground right now.
You got to get down
there and pile up the gold.
That's all we need. We
need days on the water.
Happy. Happy.
[narrator] Sean
makes a giant move,
while Emily and Zeke make
some noise of their own.
Next time on Bering Sea gold...
Starting to get cold.
We're gonna have
to fight through it.
We don't have a whole
lot of mining days left.
You need to get as much gold
as we can in little time we got.
Myrtle's back up
and running, baby.
Now if I can just
keep this thing digging.
She's gonna give
out a good bounty.
Kris is back, just like
the good old days.
[Kris speaking]
[Brad] The back anchor
is not catching on anything.
[bleep], yeah.
[Emily] This weather
is not joking around.
Oh.
[Rick] Ah. [bleep]
We got to get out of here.
Today is the first
day without Vernon.
[Bryan speaking]
[man] Oh, no, no.
Let her rip!
You see some gold there?
[Steve speaking]
[Shawn] We have
white gold in the box.
We're on gold.
[man] Looks really good.
Dead presidents you
know what I talking about?
[man speaking]
Money.
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15x06 - Truce of Consequence
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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.
The show follows boats equipped with various setups to achieve gold mining in a summertime, cold northern latitude, shallow water, ocean environment.