16x09 - Big Dig Energy

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Time is slipping away.

We're running out
of days right now.

We're getting down
to the nitty-gritty.

As winter mining rushes
into the final days...

Spring has sprung.

We got to find some gold
and we got to get on it now.

The miners are fighting to
make every second count...

You're just one lazy

- I'm going home.
- Okay, well go home then.

- I do everything.
- I do 90% of the work.

There's something wrong.

We've got cold water down there!

Before time runs out...

My gosh, Emily's in labor.

Damn it.

And their fate is sealed.

I'm about ready to pass out.

Shawn pomrenke
is running out of time

to secure his reign as
nome's top gold-getter.

We're running out
of days right now.

We're getting down
to the nitty-gritty.

We got to find some gold
and we got to get on it now.

We're down to just a
few days left at best.

My goal was 100oz and to
maintain the top spot in nome.

But mccully's
nipping at my heels,

and I'm not anywhere near 100oz

for the first time
in a long time.

I'm finally starting
to feel the heat,

and if we don't get on
good gold today I'm done for.

So moving and grooving.

Time to dig another hole.

We need a new spot
and it has to deliver.

Joe and I have been
studying the drill logs,

and we feel like this
one's our best bet.

So we're gonna tear a new
dive hole as fast as possible

and get on it.

I'm just enjoying not
shoveling and augering.

This is wonderful.

Watch some mechanical
devices do the work.

Let's get this train moving.

Good to go!

Get in the water.

Get wet, get some gold.

- A whole bunch of gold.
- Yeah.

I need to hit a pay streak bad,

and we're in last
chance territory.

Fingers crossed.

Get it done!

Yeah!

All right.

- Go ahead and throttle up.
- 10-4.

Seeing some color over here

just east of the dive hole.

Nice.

If you touch 'em they get hard.

Check it out.

He's so cute.

There's little flakes
of gold all around 'em.

It's a telltale sign
there's gold in the area

seeing them poop out gold.

He's seeing them. We're happy.

There you go you
little p*nis worm.

All right.

Yeah, I'm seeing
gold in the gravel mix

going down to the Clay.

Now you're gonna see it.

And I'm seeing
puddles over here.

- Yeah.
- Puddles.

I haven't seen puddles
like this since... Booyah.

Come on, baby.

Whoo!

Yeah! It's just pouring out.

- Booyah.
- Whoo!

So much fun.

Across the ice...

Now that his underwater
crawler is finally working...

Today, the plan is jump
down there first thing,

assess the situation, see
how efficiently it's working.

Kris Kelly needs to somehow
produce a season's worth of gold

in the limited time
left this winter.

Okay, we're ready to go.

So, no big shock, this
season's been a disaster,

but right now I have a fully-functioning
crawler that I believe is kicking a*s.

I'm just gonna dive
down there, check it out,

make sure it's covering
the ground properly.

But most importantly,

to pull off what we need in
the little time that we have left,

I need everyone working
at the top of their game.

You guys are idiots.

You guys are
trying to start this

but you don't even
have the cap sitting here.

- No, I guess it's just Andy.
- He's a idiot then.

Yeah, and that sure the hell
isn't happening so far today.

Where are you going?

Well go, just go home.

Fire that other engine up.

Mike?

Nevermind, dude. Nevermind.

Andy isn't doing Jack today, and this new
guy, Mike, doesn't know what he's doing.

So the day is officially
a cluster already.

Hey, just go home if you're
not gonna be any help.

- You know what?
- You're just one lazy...

You need to do that yourself.

You know, sooner or later you gotta
run this whole operation by yourself,

and you don't, I always
see you on coffee breaks.

Hot water, hydraulic engine,

dethawed the box,
and I started the engine.

What's left after that?

- That's the whole operation I did myself.
- Okay, well...

- Are you really going?
- I'm going home.

Okay, well, go home
then. I don't really care.

And there goes Andy.

Whatever. I'll do
everything myself today.

What else is new?

I do everything.

I make the deals, I
build the equipment,

I set up everything, I
come up with the vision,

I make the working
plan, I do 90% of the work.

I got to hire better people.

My hot water system
is up and running.

I'm gonna go down and make
sure Andy's been effectively moving

the crawler on the ground.

We need to bring in as
much gold as possible,

especially this
late in the season.

- Check, check.
- Loud and clear. Go ahead.

How's your air and
how's your heat?

Roger.

Okay. Roger.

Roger that.

So, Andy's an idiot.

That's the big new story even
though that's every day's story.

So I guess I'll control
the crawler today,

and I'll do a better job
than Andy does anyway.

We're about to find out

if one person can man
the crawler all by himself.

So Andy thought
he was over here,

and in reality all he did
was turn the, you know,

instead of going up
and down, up and down,

he's got the crawler
turned sideways.

Now he's going up
and down sideways.

Just get it back into position and
hopefully we can make this work.

Idle-up the pumps.
Let's see what we're at.

Okay.

Okay, here we go.

The cameras are working good.

Everything's working real good.

Look, now I'm on to
brand new fresh cobble.

There you go. See that
rock pile out of my way?

And bam, I just
cleared the cobble.

We're getting gold,
we're moving the material.

Everything's going good.

Every time I go up and
down like this we get gold.

I'm good at getting gold.

Everything else I
don't know about.

Short on time and short on gold,

Jane is putting the team's fate

in the hands of
their rookie diver.

Eddie's gonna dive today.
His second dive under the ice.

Hopefully he does okay.
Hopefully he gets us some gold.

Got a new mask.

I'm ready to get
down on the bottom

and start producing
for the team.

So, yeah, we're
not in a great spot.

We have a teeny
weenie bit of gold

and any day could be our last.

Jeff's our lead diver,

and he's been down a lot of days
in a row and he needs a break.

We're sending down Eddie whose
only had, like, one ice dive in his life

and it wasn't exactly flawless.

I need the pump!

- Eddie!
- Pull him up.

Now it's all on him.

No big deal.

There's just a
potentially disastrous

ice mining season on the line.

Hey! Knock, knock.

- How you feeling, buddy?
- Feeling good, man.

It's time to go to work, dude.

Eddie.

Whoo!

Damn it.

What are you doing?

I'm on the bottom.

All right, remember,
turn that knob in a little bit.

If you're threading it
clockwise it's gonna go in.

We got it.

- You got it?
- Got it.

You ready to put some
materials in the box?

All right, let's go.

Roger that.

I can hear you,
Eddie. It's Jane.

How's it looking?

Do you see any gold yet?

Yeah.

I'm so thrilled and,
honestly, relieved right now.

This is exactly what we needed.

Hopefully he can keep this
going and we have a big day,

which would be our first.

He's loving it down there.

Good morning.

All right. Good morning, guys.

You ready to get some
gold today or what?

I'm ready. Here we go.

As winter races to a close,

Vernon adkison is
ready to double down.

Here we go.

Winter has been a
complete disaster,

and now I'm desperate to get something
in the kitty before the season shuts down.

And, honestly, that
could be any day.

Let's go get wet.

So I'm gonna get
two divers in there

and hope to hell we
make up for some lost time.

Engine and prompt are
going. The generator's going.

Hot water is boiling.
We've got air.

We've got divers
getting ready to suit up,

and then, you know,
if we get on the gold

I'll have a hard time pulling
these guys out of the water.

The thing about putting
two divers down at once

is it multiplies the
things that can go wrong.

Every variable is in play, from lines
getting tangled to equipment failure.

It's a risky approach but also
has the potential for high rewards.

At this point, I've got
no choice but to go for it.

Testing. One, two.

Can you hear me?

Okay, I can barely
hear you on your mic.

I can barely, barely hear you.

Larry, could you hear me?

I heard you.

Try it again. Try it
again. Comm check.

Okay, you hear me.

I heard you loud and
clear. That's Scott's mask.

That's Scott's
mask on your cable?

Okay.

Right now, we've basically got one
functioning comm line for two divers.

That's far from ideal.

I can hear Vernon good, but he
can't really hear me very good.

That's their
lifeline to top side.

If something goes wrong we can't
help them if we can't hear them.

So Larry's decided to push
forward and hope for the best,

so we'll all have
to be extra vigilant.

How is your air, Larry?

Okay. All right.

How's your water temperature?

This is saying 120.

It's getting too much
god damn cold water in it.

Reduce the amount of cold water

that's going into
it significantly.

How's your hot water now?

God damn it!

This...

There's hot water
going out there.

Why is it not going out?

There's something wrong. I've got


Stand by.

They've got cold
water down there.

Why is hot water
not going down there?

Where's the end
of his umbilical?

Is it flowing through now?

Larry, I was
outside for a minute,

but you've got hot
water going down there.

I don't know why it's
coming out cold on your end.

I do not know.

It's hot now?

All right, hang on. I'm
turning it down again.

How is your water now?

What did you say?

Throttle up.

One thing after another.

We're running out of time.

Then I'm going the wrong way.

Kris Kelly is learning to
crawl before he can run.

I really wish

I could figure out the
controls, you know,

and just...

Um, work without thinking.

But I'm not to that point
by a long shot, you know.

See where all those rocks
are coming from, but...

Where are those coming from?

Okay, another problem
that can always happen

no matter what, if you suck up

too much material at once,

then you get a bunch of
beaten hand size rocks

and they all fit
up there perfectly.

You will get a rock
jam no matter what.

See the rocks come
back out of the nozzle?

They shouldn't be
coming out like that at all.

I got it.

That's right there
means I got a rock jam.

Man.

I may have to dive
underneath the water

and take care of it.

I'll probably just take
a sledge hammer.

Turn the pump engines off.

Okay.

Maybe, just maybe,
trying to do this all myself

is kinda stupid.

I'd be better off
if Andy was here.

But I pissed him
off this morning

so I don't think
that's gonna happen.

All right.

That's awesome.

I know I talk a lot of crap
about Andy, but sometimes...

Who is this guy?

Sometimes Andy's pretty amazing.

Andy causes me a lot of grief,

but when the chips are
down, he's always there.

My brother and I had
some issues so I went home.

Now here I am back to work.

We have a rock jam to get out.

Then go back out and make money.

Were gonna send Taylor down.

Hopefully, he can
get rid of the rock jam

I mean, it doesn't take of time.

Andy brought another
person with him, Taylor.

So Taylor's gonna go
down, fix the rock jam.

Andy's gonna operate the crawler

and I'm gonna oversee
the entire operation.

See?

Now this is how it's
supposed to work.

This is teamwork.

We gotta jump down there,

climb in with the flood
camera a few times.

We turn back on the pump

and we see if we
got rid of the rock jam.

The pipe goes up
and down, right?

It's a pipe.

I want you to go underneath it

and hit underneath the pipe.

Not on top, not on the sides.

Underneath it.

The suction pipe.

Are you at the gold...

Hit the pipe underneath.

Okay, well I'm gonna
turn on the pump engines

and we're gonna
see if you got rid of it.

Watch the box.

See if material's coming up.

Yes.

It's going good.
Rocks keep coming out.

Why don't you come up?

So I came to the conclusion,

- what conclusion?
- One person cannot run this himself.

So everything's cool, you know?

Now it is.

Everything is cool.

It's like an after
school special.

Today I learned a
very valuable lesson.

Good job with that
rock jam, buddy.

You're... you're k*lling it.

It's better to have a
good team around you

than insist on doing
everything yourself.

See how it moves
big rocks, dude?

What he does is,

he bulldozes
everything out of the way

and then he comes back
in and get us all the material.

It's also critical your
team doesn't suck a*s.

That's another
part of the lesson.

Come on, baby.

Yeah.

How you doin' down there?

I am north east,
stretched out all the way.

It, good work.

Boo-yah.

How many hours is that?

Ooh.

I'm feelin'.

I'm about two down here.

Yeah, let me know whenever
you're ready to come up.

Yeah, sure.

Look, I found one of
those p*nis worms.

I found one.

Yeah.

I'm about to bring it up.

All right, he's got one of
those little gold poopin' slugs

closed tight in his
hands headed up top.

When you see
these little slug things,

you always see gold around them.

Maybe they're
puking the gold out.

Who knows why
there's usually gold

where these little guys live?

Joe thinks it's because
they eat the hard Clay,

that's where the gold
is, then they poop it out.

Whatever it is,

I consider it a real good
sign whenever I see 'em.

Hey, it looks like gold.

I'm tellin' ya.

Now it's time to check the box,

see if the little worms
brought us some gold.

Seein' anything down there, Joe?

Yeah, it's working all good.

This spot rocks. We crushed it.

The box looks amazing,
and just in the Nick of time.

Hopefully, this is the
way how it's k*lling.

The p*nis worm does the trick.

All right, Larry.

How's your water?

One diver is proving

just as tough as two
for Vernon adkison.

Right now, it's set
at 120 right here.

Goddammit.

What's the temperature?

Is it still frying?

I'm about to major pass out.

I really pass out here.

How about clearing
that away for me?

I might have to lay down.

I gotta go...

See if I can get my
chest feeling better.

So much for trying
to relieve stress.

Larry says he can't
find Jack anyway

so he's coming up.

This day went into
the can in a hurry.

I can't find a spec of
gold to save our life.

There's nothing here.

Not good.

Vernon's not gonna be happy.

There's nothing there.

We can check the box.

It's a huge space
but very, very little.

Well...

As the old saying goes,

"there's no sense in
beating a dead horse."

Shut it down.

While Vernon packs it in...

Across the ice...

Yo, Eddie.

Yeah, I'm just feeling
really good about it.

Looking really good.

You know, though
there's a lot of sand,

we can still get through
the sand pretty well.

There's a pretty good
little Clay layer here.

How're you going, bud?

Eddie farler's second dive

is proving to be a golden
road to redemption.

It looks like I'm getting close

to the end of the whole...

Okay, sounds good.
I'll see you at the top.

How you doin', Eddie?

Eddie really came through.

We might not be
anywhere near our goal,

but at least we're
starting to get some gold.

- Whoo.
- You okay?

That's all we can
ask for at this point.

- Come on. Yeah.
- That was cool.

So I don't wanna get cold, I
mean, I really didn't wanna

- come up at all.
- All right.

'Cause I was comfortable.

I was working it.
Like, I'll just do it again.

Yeah, but it's over there.

I know.

After a whole season of
everything breaking down

and a lot of fighting

and got getting very much gold,

we might end on a high note.

How sweet would that be?

- You're not getting that rock.
- I am.

If I were you, I
would go backwards

and push all 40 in.

Nome has become
the city of brotherly love,

as the crawler brings
the Kelly team together.

I turned the whole
machine this way,

drove forwards,
like, all the way back.

Okay, everything's
good, my job here is done.

Andy's actually k*lling it

and Taylor rocked the jam.

Honestly, things have
definitely turned around.

I think it's a little late,

but repudiation is on track
like it hasn't been this season.

How's that, buddy?

That's beautiful.

That whole area
right there is gone.

- Yup.
- -We don't go any further than that.

Right.

If we ended the day, we
kinda don't wanna go home.

I really we... we had

the energy for another
ten hours right now.

We're doing great.

I know there's gold in the box.

What?

Yeah. No, that, you're do...

You're doing a great job.

I told you, you're
gonna love this thing.

Okay we're we're done.

Let's get the hell out of here.

Let's see if we can see
gold in the box, though.

Look at down
there, all that gold.

- Holy!
- Look at all that gold.

Seeing the box filled like that,

despite all the
crap and all the bs

that we had to go
through this season,

my plan is still a winner.

And moving forward,

I know we have the right
ingredients for success.

Here, look at all that gold.

- Yeah. That's nice.
- That's real nice.

Everything looks great.

Give me some love, some love.

We filled it so good.

Bring it front.

I don't like this.

There's our camp over there.

Yeah, text's coming in.

My god. Emily's in labor.

There's a exclamation
point and a happy face.

My gosh, it's finally happening.

Wow. My gosh.

Hearted it back.

It's a location, now.

I'MMA be... She's
gonna be a mom!

There's no right or wrong way.

Don't mind, of
course, he's the best.

Vernon adkison may
have doubled down,

but it certainly didn't
result in double the gold.

Work hard, clean it
up, put it on the scales.

That's it.

Down when so I can snip
up some of that Mercury.

Yeah.

Keep me fast.

Tried to get two divers
down and barely got one.

That's the season for ya.

It's slim pickings now.

We'll see how we do,
but it's looking dark,

to say the least.

To the scale.

Don't trip, don't sneeze.

Let's see what we got here.

That's an ounce.

Two ounces.

Come on, baby.

Two...

And a half ounces.

Two and a half ounces
was worth about 4700 bucks.

What can I say?

And Vernon continues
to limp to the finish line.

We went to a spot that
had already been worked,

that was part of our problem.

Some seasons you
just chill it up here

and some seasons you
get what we've got here...

Which is the pit.

But, hell, I'll take two and
a half ounces at this point.

Now, we'll probably...
We'll get more time

on the box and get a
couple of strong cleanups

to finish it up,
fingers crossed.

There's the power.

It's gold.

- It's gold.
- It's gold.

And gold is good.

Just outside of nome...

One...

Two... three... Yeah.

As winter mining
nears its expiration date,

Shawn readies
for what could be...

The final way out of the season.

Yummy, yummy.

Looks good. Looks good.

We know it was good grout

but hopefully it
was great grout.

Now we will get to find out

how close we are
to that 100 ounces

and see if we can get to
the top of the gold count.

Nice little pile.

That was a good haul.

Yeah.

Ooh.

Five... six... seven





What a


in at just under $48,000

and Mr. Gold may
be peaking just in time.

- Yeah. Hell, yeah.
- Looking good.

- Looking nice.
- Yes.

Looks like our little wormy
friends were on the money,

literally.

Now we gotta stay on the spot,

suck up every ounce we can

before mother nature
calls it quits on winter.

It's gonna be tight
and it's gonna be fight.

But we're ready for it.

- Nice haul.
- , yeah.

Another paycheck.

Right on, right on, right on.

Back in nome...

Time may almost be up
on the ice-mining season.

Aww!

Emily had a... baby.

But 550 miles
south east, in homer,

a new life is just beginning.

My god. Not a child
birth. She's crazy.

Emily had her baby.

A little mining baby.

Baby Evelyn is eight
pounds and eight ounces

and 20 inches long.

Mom and baby are
both doing great.

My god, congratulations!

They're sending me a picture.

That is a newborn.

How cutie.

Look at that.

Looks adorable.
Those blue, blue eyes.

So precious.

She did it. What badass!

Whoo!

Mr. Gold takes charge...

While the rest of
the fleet clings to life.

On the season finale
of Bering sea gold...

Yeah!

It's the end.

All systems are go.

We're running out of time.

We gotta move swiftly.

We need to finish
with a bang here.

I went out on a huge
limp for this gold crawl.

I owe a bunch of people money.

There's something wrong.

The is going on!

A big storm is coming.

Just got about 20,000 pounds

worth of gear out here on the
ice that we're gonna go through.

That makes me really upset.

Crop out.

Whoo!

Can you hear me?