[intense music playing]
[Vernon] They're saying this is gonna be
a hundred-year storm.
Hurricane force winds
and 17 foot storm surge.
[Shawn] I've never been in the harbor
with this kind of storm.
[Shawn speaking]
The water is rising and rising.
I could lose every boat I own.
[siren wailing]
[Shawn speaking]
The police can [bleep] off. I'm not going anywhere.
There's no way in hell I am
letting anything happen to that barge.
[Chris] Oh, my God. Can you even believe this?
My neighbor's house is gone.
The water carried it away.
It's absolute carnage.
And it's only gonna get worse.
[intense music playing]
[woman] Holy...
Where we are right now is gonna be underwater.
[woman] Oh, man.
[sirens wailing]
This thing could explode.
And they're trying to get us out, so let's move back.
[man speaking]
[Shawn] Power's down, communication's down.
It's complete chaos.
[Chris] Right now, it looks like
an absolute war zone.
[woman speaking]
-[Kris] This is crazy. -[Vernon] I don't know
if we're gonna make it.
Oh, my God.
[Shawn] Everybody's screwed.
[intense music playing]
[Vernon] Okay, guys,
we need to go out and dive in deeper water.
Go out on a 45-foot dive,
edge of my claim where the gold is coarser.
[narrator] Throughout Nome, the miners are on edge
as what's being heralded as the storm
of the century lurks only days away.
And perhaps no one is feeling the heat more
than veteran skipper Vernon Adkison.
[Vernon] You guys have dove deep.
I think we can do it safely.
The first half of the season was one
of the worst on record for me.
[man speaking]
Hand over fist hemorrhaging [bleep] money.
The boat's ready to go. I got gold on my claim,
but I've got no divers.
1.75 ounces. Dammit.
So, I'm nowhere near my season goal.
Now we're up against it to get as much diving in
before the giant storm hits.
The pressure's on.
The good news is I'm starting the back half of the season
with a new set of divers and a new plan.
If I'm going someplace I haven't been before,
-I'd rather go out into deep water. -[man] Yup.
Because that's where the gold is, the coarsest
-and the heaviest. -[man] Yeah.
[Vernon] Gary Simpson was part
of my A team last season
and he's an absolute beast.
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] All right, Gary.
Get out there, buddy.
[Gary speaking]
I'm also bringing in Brad Johnson.
He's a total pro, been doing this for years.
And because we're way behind on our goal
and the storm is brewing,
we're gonna roll the dice on a bold new strategy.
We're gonna dive deep. We're going for the...
-For the heavy gold. -[Gary] Good.
We're gonna be down there knocking on the door of Davy Jones' locker.
[Gary] All right.
[Vernon] We're going to one of the deepest
patches on Claim 56.
No more of the shallow stuff.
I don't think that was getting us enough.
We're going 40, 45 feet,
depths where no one's likely gone before on this claim.
It should be completely virgin ground.
If we get out there and get on some good gold,
we got a chance of finishing off with a bang.
-That's what we'll do. -Perfect.
-We got a plan, right? -[Gary] Yup.
[Brad] Sounds good to me.
[Vernon] All right, let's get outta here.
[intense music playing]
[Vernon] Push us off.
Let's go.
[Gary] We're rockin' and rollin'.
[Vernon] We're gonna go out there and give it a shot.
We'll go out here in the deep water.
We put an extra 20 feet on the hose, which is gonna
make it extremely difficult to handle,
but the guys are willing to go to the extra trouble
for the possibility of getting better gold.
So anyway, here we go.
[intense music playing]
[Vernon] We're off to the races.
If I'm down there
and I decide everything's okay,
I'll stay down there
'cause I don't wanna keep coming up and down.
Not at those depths, you know?
[Vernon] All right.
Diving in deep water isn't without risk.
That's why most miners won't do it.
With lines that long,
it's much easier to get tangled
and if the diver runs into trouble,
it's a lot further getting back to the top.
And at those depths,
they build up nitrogen in their system.
There's a danger of getting the bends.
How about this one, Gary, is it okay?
[Gary] That's good.
So you don't try this unless you've got guys
who have been around the block and got balls of steel,
and I've got that now.
[Gary speaking]
[water bubbling]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of static,
but I can hear you.
[Gary speaking]
Okay. Stand by.
All right. Let's do it.
Okay, Gary, we have water flowing.
[Gary speaking]
We're at about 42 feet now.
This was the first time
that we dove at these depths.
Normally,
I don't like to send the divers down
in depths greater than 30 feet,
because it's just... It gets dangerous.
But we're all hungry for gold right now.
We need some gold in that box.
[intense music playing]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon speaking]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon speaking]
[intense music playing]
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] Okay. You see gold? You see gold? Okay.
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon] Yeah, yeah, I see it.
All right, hammer it.
All right, he's seeing gold.
So we'll go as long as we can.
This is damn good ground.
We're gonna have a nice day.
[intense music playing]
[Kris] 90% of the time when you see
a boat flipped over like that, someone's dying.
Storms on the Bering Sea
are not a storm like most people
are used to experiencing.
They're much more brutal.
It's just a fact of life
when you're a miner up here.
Every time you go out there in bad weather,
you're taking your life in your own hands.
We're talking typhoon winds,
flooding,
tearing up the sea floor,
which impacts visibility for mining
and they're saying this could be the worst storm in a hundred years.
This could be life-changing.
[intense music playing]
[Kris] We're down here at the All In.
Today is very crucial. Here's Andy, hard at work.
Love to see it. Andy, are we ready to do this?
-[Andy] I'm ready. -Okay.
And hard at work? I wasn't hard at work out, Cap.
[Kris] I know. I'm [bleep] joking.
You're doing a great [bleep] job.
[narrator] Reaper Nation is hoping to make the most
of their limited time before the storm
by finally getting their underwater crawler underwater.
As long as we have six systems running,
we will be able to go mining
and that's all I'm worrying about right now.
[Andy] Okay. My [bleep] is done and ready to go.
Okay, great. I'm here to see that.
You're gonna like my setup.
So the second half of the season is just starting
and the pressure's on.
The plan was to have a two-pronged assault this summer.
The excavator barge the Mistress,
and launching my crawler
from the newly outfitted boat, the All In.
But that's not what happened.
Holy [bleep].
we're leaking.
Hey, try to move the nozzle.
That's impossible.
That's one of the tracks moving.
We're not putting this in the water right now.
Everything is going [bleep] over here.
So, and just in case you're wondering,
this is what getting [bleep] looks like.
Look at all those big [bleep] rocks.
This is garbage.
After a miserable first half of the season,
we're way behind in our goal.
As bad as things have been, it's about to get worse.
[intense music playing]
This superstorm that's coming will shut down mining
for at least a week, maybe the whole season.
[waves raging]
[Kris] So it's critical we finally get the crawler in the water
and we start sucking up gold.
Let's see the lights and the cameras.
Let's start there.
My brother's actually been hustling, for once,
and he says that he's finally got the crawler ready to go.
So we're gonna do a six-point checklist
to make sure everything is dialed in.
Okay. So my system's all simplified now.
It actually looks really nice how I have it, huh?
Okay. Why are the cameras all blurry?
Because it still have the protective seal over the lens.
-Okay. Beautiful. -I can see the nozzle,
everything around me, the ground I'm on.
This looks exactly like I wanted it to look.
Actually, it looks a little better. I'm a little surprised.
System number one is a success.
Okay. Let's see the lights come on.
-There's lights. See my light out there shining up? -Yeah, I know. I see it.
-[Kris] Yup, yup, yup. -All my lights are on.
Okay. Unplug the lights so we don't burn them up.
-Okay. -That was nice.
-I know. -I almost got that feeling
like you know what you're doing.
Yeah.
Let's go and test the hydraulic engine upstairs.
-Sounds good, buddy. -We test those six systems and we move on.
Hey, Daniel, turn on my hydraulics engine.
[hydraulics starting]
[intense music playing]
Okay, Jay, you ready?
Hey, Andy, let's see if the tracks work.
[intense music playing]
Backwards.
Okay. Let's see the lifter.
Okay, stop. Okay, that works.
Everything works here.
Give me some love, buddy.
Next thing is we're gonna test the pump engine
because that's how we get material from the bottom
of the floor into the sluice box.
Let's do the pump engine.
[engine revving]
Hey, you [bleep] idiot.
Right now, we have water going
through the sluice box, so it's running.
That's good.
That's perfect.
So far, I'm impressed.
My brother's got everything up to speed.
The last two things we have to check right now
are on the All In.
We have to make sure he has what it takes to get
that 4,000-pound crawler out there.
A boat's not a boat
without it being pushed around by an engine.
Let's do it.
[engine revving]
Purring like a kitten.
So we're gonna call this a success.
Okay, let's go test the anchor.
Let's rock and roll, baby.
Going down.
Going down slow as [bleep].
Okay, but it is going down.
Are you bringing it up?
-[Andy] Yeah. -[Kris] Okay.
We're bringing it up.
It's coming up. All right.
Everything's good.
It's a great day.
Systems work great. The boat is set up.
This is a great starting point.
The pressure's on for the second half
of the season and it looks like
Reaper Nation is ready for the challenge.
Andy crushed it. The All In is ready,
we're gonna lower the crawler down.
We're gonna start making some serious money
until that storm hits,
which is good
because we desperately need it.
The truth is, this is the future.
If you wanna make a couple thousand ounces a year
without killing yourself underneath the water
and getting depths that no [bleep] diver can reach,
this is the only way we're gonna do it.
-Insanely big gold. -Yup.
-Like big chunky [bleep]... -I know.
-...beautiful jewelry-sized pieces. -Yeah.
[Kris] Yeah, baby!
[intense music playing]
[Shawn] Fasten your seatbelts.
Time to get back home.
It doesn't matter
the size of the vessel,
the Bering Sea will always be bigger.
And when a bad storm hits,
it can destroy anything in its path.
Our boat is coming apart.
I've been in some rough water in my career.
It's getting nasty out here.
But nothing like the storm of the century
that's on the horizon.
We've been holding our own, keeping our head above water,
but we need to get that profit margin... up.
I need a big payday,
one big, heavy hit.
I'm talking heavy as in a big pile of gold.
And the only way to do that is to get these boats digging.
[narrator] Mining legend Shawn Pomrenke,
finds himself in an unusual position,
far behind his season goal.
[Shawn] The season's been rough so far, I'm not gonna lie.
Seems like everything that could go wrong did go wrong.
It could be the end
of the Myrtle season
before it even began.
Stop! Stop!
Shut everything off!
Hey!
[bleep]
[Shawn] Then the deal with my dad
for the inland mine reached a boiling point.
I'll be waiting on lawyers
the rest of the summer to resolve it.
Boy, it got ugly.
I don't give [bleep].
I get [bleep] on.
I don't like you either,
the way you've been ripping me off you.
[bleep] you. I ain't gonna [bleep]
stand down anymore.
[Steve] [bleep] it.
I'll see you in court.
The weather dictates
when we can be out on the ocean,
and the weather's gonna be crazy.
So, there's no rest for the weary.
We need to hit the iron while it's hot.
Now we're starting out the second half
of the season with the storm of the century about to hit.
I gotta hit the Bering Sea with everything I got
the next few days before that makes landfall.
And that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
Let's go mining,
go make some gold.
Let's go.
Myrtle Irene headed for sea.
The night crew just tapped into a huge pay streak.
So we're gonna tag team it hard.
I'll be on the Myrtle
and Cody will be
on the Christine Rose.
We're gonna go every hour we can
till that bastard pushes us off the water.
Let's go ahead and spud down.
[metal creaking]
[Shawn] We're ready to go. You ready?
[Cody] Yeah, 10-4.
[Shawn] Let's start putting some dirt through it.
Fire it up.
[machinery whirring]
[intense music playing]
Come on, baby. Let's go.
When you're feeling the pressure
like we are right now
and you're working side by side,
it's only natural to wanna outdo each other
to see who can get more gold,
especially for competitive guys like Cody and I.
Time to make some money.
It's time to pile up some gold.
[intense music playing]
[Shawn] Hell yeah!
[dramatic music playing]
Trying to get as much gold as I can
in the box, as fast as I can.
Oh, yeah.
I like it.
I'm gonna beat the Myrtle Irene on this run.
Come on, you son of a [bleep].
Let's make some gold today.
There it is.
I'm just gonna push, push, and push.
And so is Cody. He's relentless, too.
Oh, that stuff looks amazing.
We both have an eye out
to see how the other guy is doing.
That's just gonna motivate us even more.
Between Cody and I, we're gonna see a fantastic number
on that scale before the end of the day.
We've dialed in the Christine Rose
and got the Myrtle dialed in.
And hopefully by the end of the day,
the box is full of gold.
Yeah!
[narrator] As Team Pomrenke gets rolling...
back in Nome...
[upbeat music playing]
[Chris] I think we can do better.
I have 300 ounces to make
and, you know, I'm running out of time.
[narrator] The storm of the century
threatens to derail
Chris McCully's stellar season.
[Chris] Let's not waste our day. Let's just go out there.
I'm gonna go out there. I'm gonna do my dive.
I'm gonna put that dredge back on the gold.
That's the plan.
The first half of the season
couldn't have been any better.
I had a big goal but I stayed on pace to get it.
That's because I've been riding
on the hottest pay streak of my career.
I call it Wall Street
because I've been cashing in on it
over and over.
[Chris speaking]
Woo-hoo!
[Chris speaking]
With this storm only a few days away,
we're trying to bank as much as we could,
but in the process, looks like we tapped out Wall Street.
We're gonna hop on the skiff and head over
to the dredge and keep on pushing.
Now with the storm coming in a few days,
I'm really scrambling to find a new hotspot.
I need to keep the gold coming in.
[rock music playing]
It's getting cold. Yeah.
About damn time to get cold.
[laughs]
All right.
Okay. I'm gonna get suited up.
Finding a new hotspot isn't easy.
You can go down and hunt,
like a wild goose chase.
It could take a lot of time
and you might end up with nothing.
That's what most miners do, but not me.
Yesterday, I used my underwater drone
to look for new ground.
We found a promising patch of cobble
and it looked like it may be virgin.
So this is my first chance to check it out.
Let's hope it's hot so we can start
the second half of the season with a bang.
Good luck.
[Chris speaking]
[laughs]
[intense music playing]
[Chris speaking]
Yup. I got you loud and clear.
[Chris] Okay.
[intense music playing]
Okay. I got to the bottom.
[Chris speaking]
All right. Here we go.
[machinery whirring]
[Chris speaking]
[intense music playing]
[Chris speaking]
[engine starts]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris speaking]
Your air pressure's feeling better?
[Chris speaking]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris speaking]
The compressor died while he's diving
and here it's just loud, you know, you can't hear him
but, you know, you'll start feeling it
on your mask that the pressure's getting low.
So, run out here and get it started again
and run it back in and let him know
that he's got enough air to keep diving.
So, he's gonna stay down.
[Chris speaking]
Woo-hoo!
[Chris speaking]
Woo! Yeah.
[Chris laughs]
Glad he's doing okay.
[Chris speaking]
Woo...
[laughs]
[intense music playing]
[narrator] Throughout Nome...
[man] Yeah.
[narrator] The rush is on to grab the gold
before the storm of the century hits.
And in the harbor...
Jane, we're sending you out
and Alex for Dave's dive.
-[Jane] Okay. -And then I'm gonna
-come out for Dan's dive. -Okay.
[narrator] Emily's team
is ready to join the fight
at full strength.
Don't get any limbs in the nozzle today.
-[Dan speaking] -All right.
The first half of the season
was pretty rough.
We had a shortage of divers,
so we fell pretty far behind our goal.
But now we have a full team going forward.
Our new diver, Dan Rainwater,
killed it on his first dive.
[Dan] Gold everywhere
and we're gonna be rich.
[Emily] Hell yeah.
So we brought out Dan's brother-in-law, David,
who is a good diver.
David might not have mined gold before,
but I think he can be taught
the way of the gold dredge.
He's testing the waters literally and figuratively.
Dave's gonna go first with Alex and Jane
and then I'm gonna do the night shift with Dan.
That's our plan going forward with the storm coming,
two divers, two shifts, every day we can mine,
put some gold in the box.
All right. Good luck out there, guys.
-[Dave] Woo! -[engine revving]
[upbeat music playing]
Come on gold.
[Jane] Go have fun down there.
Let's go to work.
I'm gonna focus on,
-first of all, being safe. -[Jane] Yeah.
It's obviously a dangerous job.
Otherwise, I mean, everybody would be doing it.
I think you're gonna do great, Dave.
When I first showed up, I was definitely a newbie
and completely freaked out.
This is all very crazy,
very rustic.
I'm definitely afraid to fall over.
There's no railing. I guess I'll be doing this a lot.
I can see the hospital right there, that's good news.
And now I'm very much a veteran.
David just needs to have faith in his ability
because I'm sure he's gonna do great.
[Alex speaking]
I am. Let's go.
[Dave speaking]
[intense music playing]
[Dave speaking]
Take your time.
[Dave] Yup.
[Dave speaking]
He's definitely being safe,
and not just going for it, which is good.
[Dave speaking]
Roger that.
[intense music playing]
[Dave speaking]
I'm glad Dave is being safe,
especially on his first dive in the Bering Sea.
I can't wait to get mining though.
[Dave speaking]
Right on!
[intense music playing]
[Dave] All right.
I am on the bottom.
He's on the bottom.
[Dave speaking]
All right. Hope you see gold.
[Dave speaking]
[Jane speaking]
[Dave] Uh...
[Dave speaking]
Can you tell us what you see?
[Dave speaking]
[Jane speaking]
[Dave speaking]
Okay. Good.
[Dave speaking]
Woo!
Congratulations. We got gold!
[Dave] Oh, yes, sweet, sweet gold.
Yeah. There we go. That's better.
That's good news.
I'm gonna text Emily and let her know.
[narrator] While the newest Eroica diver
gets on the gold...
across the water...
[intense music playing]
[Chris speaking]
[narrator] Chris McCully's found a hot new paystreak
that's a breath of fresh air.
[Chris speaking]
[intense music playing]
[Chris speaking]
[Cam] Yup.
[narrator] As long as his air compressor stays alive.
Yeah, it's right at 80.
[Chris] Okay.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris speaking]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris speaking]
Yeah, I'm all suited up.
[Chris speaking]
[grunts]
Woo!
It's like golden hour, dude.
Ha-ha!
This ground turned out to be absolutely loaded.
Wall Street was hot, but I think this paystreak
might be even hotter.
Cam's gonna go next and he's gonna feast on it.
Yeah. Once you get to that nozzle,
you can see the hottest [bleep] of your life.
[Chris] The secret is just to keep the air compressor from shutting down.
But unlike Cam, I'm actually gonna be watching it
and that's the job when you're on the top side.
Uh-huh. All righty, dude.
[intense music playing]
[Chris speaks]
What are you seeing down there?
[Cam] Rich ground.
Rich ground he says.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] Just suck it up.
[upbeat music playing]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] Yeah.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] All right.
Those are encouraging words.
[intense music playing]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] Yeah. Dammit.
[Cam speaking]
It was fine when we first started, dude.
[Cam speaking]
[bleep] man.
[bleep]
It's getting old, you know?
I'm [bleep] disappointed. I work on my own.
After I dive, I just wanna go home.
Irritated, my nitrogen levels are so [bleep] high.
I'm so irritated.
Every little thing gets me now.
[Cam speaking]
Let me go ramrod it.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] [bleep]
It's backwards.
[bleep] Cam, man, it's worse [bleep]. God.
Who the [bleep]? [bleep] this [bleep].
[intense music playing]
[bleep]
[Cam speaking]
[Chris speaking]
[Cam speaking]
Just go up.
No way, there's no... There's no point
in you getting tired for nothing.
[Cam speaking]
[Chris] [bleep] pissed.
Just turn off that com. [bleep] it.
I don't wanna hear him breathing.
Piss me off...
[chuckles]
Yeah. Whatever.
Take a deep breath, Chris.
Smoke a bowl or something.
Just take a deep breath.
It's frustrating. We're on amazing ground.
I sucked up great material.
So did Cam.
But now, he's got a rock jam
and that means we're down for the day.
It just seems like when I get a new diver,
they can't do it good as me.
If you want something done right,
you have to do it yourself.
But literally, I can only dive so many hours in a day.
[Cam speaking]
It was good earlier. I saw it's a good flow
and everything.
I don't even know.
[bleep] hungry.
I'm pissed.
Bogus, man.
[intense music playing]
[Kris] Here we go.
We're going 90.
It's gonna be a crazy [bleep] day.
[narrator] Now that Kris Kelly's crawler
has passed all of his tests,
it's time for the next phase of his plan.
Take it out onto the Bering Sea
and put it to work.
[Kris speaking]
[Andy] Yeah.
[Kris speaking]
Look, it feels like it's taken a lifetime,
but we're finally ready to get the gold trawl
in the water.
And with this storm coming, we need it.
Let's fire this bad girl up and see what we can do.
Beautiful!
Let's do it!
Let's anchor the boat.
[chains rattling]
[intense music playing]
We're on anchor.
The boat's not moving.
We're getting ready to start up the hydraulics
for the crawler and start lowering the crawler
in the water.
[engine revving]
[Kris] So far so good.
Oh, buddy, That [bleep] works great.
[Kris] Okay. Well, I wanna see it work great.
Let's make this [bleep] work.
[Andy speaking]
[Kris speaking]
Put that all the way on the ground.
[intense music playing]
It's on the bottom.
You're on the "bottom" bottom?
Yeah.
[Kris] Hey, we made it!
[dramatic music playing]
[Kris] So far so good.
Let's see if we got water in the bottom.
Oh [bleep] it's amazing.
Good job, people.
Everything's right on course today.
It's all coming together.
[Andy] It runs great, Jay.
Look at that.
We're mining, baby!
That's all that [bleep] matters!
[Andy] This thing sucks as fast as I can move it.
And it plows through everything.
And the material looks really good.
[Kris] I told you about the [bleep].
Hallelujah.
The Red Sea has parted,
my monster has come to life.
The crawler is guzzling up gold.
Now let's make up for lost time this season
and in the next few days, I know we can kill it.
Everything's working and nothing's on fire yet,
so I'm calling it a success.
My boat's making gold!
[Vernon] Hang on.
When severe weather hits and boats are on the water,
it can lead to life-or-death situations.
Abandon ship.
The unpredictability of strong currents
in the Bering Sea can sink a boat in minutes.
My engines are swamping!
Now, the storm of the century is gonna be here
in only a matter of days.
Hopefully everyone will make it out of the water
in one piece.
[dramatic music playing]
Okay, Gary, are you still seeing the gold?
[Gary speaking]
How is it, is it lots of it or what?
[Gary speaking]
[Vernon speaking]
[narrator] Vernon Adkison's gamble in deep water
is creating deep pockets for the salty skipper's team.
[Gary speaking]
Okay. Roger that. Come on up.
[intense music playing]
[Vernon] This season so far has gone to the dogs.
But maybe we're turning a corner.
We got a solid team out there
and going this deep is certainly a risk.
But it looked like we've got pristine unworked ground.
I'm feeling good about the game plan.
[Gary speaking]
Brad is gonna make his debut
with Team Wild Ranger.
He's a veteran diver, but it's been a while
since he's been this deep.
He may be a little nervous, but that's nothing
that some hot ground can't cure.
Okay, let's hit it.
Here we go.
[intense music playing]
[Brad speaking]
Okay. You're on the nozzle.
I'm having a very hard time hearing you.
[Brad speaking faintly]
Okay. I'm not hearing a word you're saying.
[Brad] What?
[faintly] I'm dragging on the bottom.
What's he saying?
[man] I have no idea.
[Brad speaking faintly]
[Vernon speaking]
[Brad speaking]
[Vernon] Right now, we're out here,
borderline conditions with the swell
drifting him around down there pretty severely.
We can't really keep him on the spot.
[intense music playing]
[Brad speaking]
[Vernon speaking]
[Brad speaks]
Get his umbilical.
[intense music playing]
We got some pretty good swells rolling here.
We're gonna call it quits for today.
Well, the bad news is Brad went down
but I can't understand a damn thing he's saying
over that comm box.
And then the swells forced him to come up.
At 40 foot plus, those swells are no joke,
but on the bright side, Gary absolutely crushed it
at those depths
and we should be seeing a stellar weigh out.
[Brad speaking]
[Vernon] All right, well, come on up.
Just change out a couple hours.
Well, that was a good call.
Bottom line is we got good gold in the box.
Come back out. We'll be in better shape next time.
[narrator] Across the water.
[Shawn] So far so good,
slinging buckets of dirt.
[narrator] With the clock ticking...
the dynamic duo of Shawn Pomrenke
on the Myrtle Irene...
[Shawn] Here's the clay.
[narrator] ...and Cody Moen on the Christine Rose...
That is the good stuff.
[narrator] ...are striving to deliver big.
We're moving dirt. We're putting gold in the box.
Is it gonna be enough? I don't know.
Hey, hey, hey.
How's the digging going over there, bud?
Hey, hey, hey, it's going pretty good.
How's it going with you?
[Shawn] Slinging buckets. Slinging buckets.
Here we go.
Look at that beautiful material.
The truth is we're behind,
severely behind
where we need to be at this point in the season.
And with this storm coming, it's a tough spot to be in.
[Cody] That's some good looking [bleep]
right there, boy.
[Shawn] But with Cody killing it on the CR
and me on the Myrtle, hopefully,
we'll start this second half off with a bang.
Here's another bucket.
There's some cobble in there.
Hopefully, the Bearing Sea's being kind to us.
[intense music playing]
[Shawn] Now, we're done with this cut.
We're gonna check the box, see what it looks like.
Make sure we're making gold.
[grunts]
[Shawn] Not that impressed.
Not enough.
We need way more gold than that.
We're gonna [bleep] get our assess kicked
if we keep this up.
This gold is soft.
Not good enough for what we need.
And I got that storm hanging over
my head like a ticking time bomb.
Going deeper out on the Tomcod.
Here we go.
The last thing I wanna do is move,
but I'm gonna reposition the Myrtle and go deeper.
That ground is most likely to be untouched.
Hopefully it's the right play.
We're gonna hone in on that pastry.
As long as I can reach it, we're gonna dig it.
[narrator] The fleet is pushing harder than ever
as the storm of the century looms only days away.
And on Claim 14.
[Jane] How's it looking down there, David?
[Dave speaking]
[Jane speaking]
[narrator] The Eroica team is starting off the back half
of the season strong, wasting no time
getting their rookie diver on the gold.
[Dave speaking]
[Jane] Nice.
Hey, Dave, it's been three hours
if you wanna come on up.
[Dave] All right, sounds good.
[Jane speaking]
Woo!
Dave did a great job.
He put in the time and we got gold.
[machine whirring]
[Jane] David did a phenomenal job
on his first dive in the Bering Sea.
This is just what we needed.
It's the perfect way to start off the second half of the season.
[Jane speaking]
But this is just the first dive of the day.
We're gonna go back to the dock.
We're gonna grab Emily
and we're gonna switch off shifts.
David's brother-in-law, Dan Rainwater is gonna stay
onboard and he's gonna log a second dive.
With the big storm coming, we need to like log
all the hours we can on the box
and just get as much gold as we can get.
[Dave] I got down there and saw some gold
so I would consider that successful.
Made it down safe, made it up safe,
so we're doing good.
[intense music playing]
Woo. Got it.
What up, folks?
[Emily speaking]
[Jane speaking]
Nice. That's good. I'm proud of him.
[Jane] Like he was happy with his first dive.
This definitely more like it.
This is how the operation should have been going
right from the beginning of the season.
A full dive team working two shifts
and being on gold nonstop.
We need to be working like this
the rest of the season in order to meet our goals.
Oh, there's a rainbow, it means we're gonna find
a pot of gold tonight.
Man, look at that sexy boat. Woo.
Man, I think that's the best looking thing I've ever seen
in my life, except for my baby and my husband of course.
I'm gonna hand this off to you.
[Dan] Yeah.
Even though Dan's been on the boat all day
tending for his brother-in-law,
he's gonna be working the night shift.
[Dan] I'm gonna be here all day working with everybody.
They all got tired and went home and now I'm gonna dive.
[Emily] That's the kind of commitment
I look for in a diver.
Someone who's hungry and who wants the gold
just as much as I do.
[Dan speaking]
Okay. All right.
Let's go. Let's get some gold.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaks]
[Dan speaking]
Dan is getting excited.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[Dan speaking]
[narrator] Across the water.
[Kris] Yeah, we're doing great.
Everything's going great.
Finally my vision's [bleep] coming through.
[narrator] Reaper Nation finally unleashes
their underwater crawler.
[Kris] How are you doing?
The ground looks amazing. I love it.
[bleep] loads of quartz on the bottom.
Usually where I find a nice abundance of quartz,
there's always a good amount of gold.
-[Kris] Okay. Beautiful. -[Andy] Look at it all.
[Kris] Yup, beautiful.
Whoa, baby, we might be on big gold.
So the good news is the crawler
is on the sea floor and it's working
and it's eating up the ground like a badass.
We're probably getting a ton of gold.
There's just one itty bitty problem.
I can't really see [bleep].
Can you see [bleep]?
[Andy speaking]
Because of the way Andy positioned the cameras,
there's constantly stuff lying
in front of the camera,
which means we can't really see
what's going on down there.
Not ideal when every hour of mining is critical.
Maybe turn the lights on, see if we [bleep] something.
[Andy speaking]
-[Kris] That is the lights on? -That is the lights on.
Turn them off.
[dramatic music playing]
[Kris] Okay, well, maybe turn the lights back on
and let's turn the camera lights off,
dial it in so we can see a little bit better
because there's all kinds of weird ass debris.
I'm not liking that.
It's pissing me off.
We're gonna have to reposition these cameras
and that's a major deal.
We need to get the crawler out of the water.
We need to go back to the harbor.
We need to set all of our cameras
in different positions and hope to God
we get a better view.
We're gonna burn a day doing all of that.
And with the storm coming, we can't waste
one minute,
but I've got a better idea.
Let's call Chris McCully because we really could use
that ROV system right now.
Chris McCully has an underwater drone
he uses to scope out new ground.
So instead of repositioning all of our cameras
and losing all that time, we're gonna get Chris
out here with the drone as a one day solution.
He's a friend and miners have to help each other
out here at Nome.
At least the ones that aren't [bleep].
[phone ringing]
[Chris speaking]
Hey, I'm on the water mining.
Do you want to come out here
and with your ROV system?
[Chris speaking]
Okay. Do you want me to come to the harbor and get you?
[Chris speaking]
I'll come and pick you up in the skiff.
[Chris speaking]
Okay, later.
Chris McCully's gonna be at the dock in 10 minutes.
When we get the ROV, we'll be able to see
what we're doing a little better.
Yeah.
Everything's going great.
I told, you know, there's been a lot
of people that doubted I would get this far.
You know, we're [bleep] killing it, baby.
I told everybody this is gonna work out great.
We're badass [bleep].
[dramatic music playing]
[Kris] Okay, I'll see you guys.
[bleep] man, everything's going great.
There's Chris.
Oh, yeah.
Yo, buddy.
What's up, man?
Good to see you.
-I got my ROV. -ROV. I'm so glad.
We really need to see what's going on down there
because we're just mining like through a keyhole.
-Yeah. -You know, like it's [bleep] up.
Everybody's waiting for you.
So let's just get there and take care of this.
Yeah, so let's load up.
[dramatic music playing]
[Kris] Oh, yeah. [grunts]
Untie that back line.
Hold on, some [bleep] calling me.
Oh, it's Andy. It's not good.
Hey, what's up?
[Andy speaking]
What's the big problem?
[Andy speaking]
And we lost the crawler?
[Andy speaking]
Oh, my God, Andy.
How did that hook come out?
[Andy speaking]
Oh, my God.
This is [bleep] we're [bleep].
[Andy speaking]
Okay, bye. Bye. I'm coming.
What happened?
[Kris] The hook that was holding my crawler
to the hydraulic winch came off.
I don't know what to do.
So this is DEFCON 1 situation.
The way we get the crawler up and down off the ocean floor
is by hooking it up to a hydraulic winch.
Well, the cable came off the hook.
So my underwater crawler, basically the centerpiece
for my future,
is stranded on the bottom of the sea.
[bleep] we're gonna lose my crawler right now.
Chris, do you wanna just grab your boat
and go out there for me
and see if you can help me out?
[Chris speaking]
Yeah. Because I don't know what else to do.
I'll pay you if you help me.
[Chris speaking]
I just got to save this [bleep]. [bleep]
I just [bleep] got it going!
[Kris] Worst case scenario's happening right now.
Well, I got Chris McCully coming out to help me.
He's warming up his boat.
We're just gonna try to do a Hail Mary pass right now
to try to save the day,
but I don't see it happening for me.
[narrator] Kris Kelly's underwater crawler has come
unattached and is in danger of being lost
on the bottom of the Bering Sea.
Everything I left you guys to take care of
went to [bleep].
The whole plan for Reaper Nation centers
on the underwater crawler sucking up gold.
If we don't get that crawler hooked back up, I'm screwed.
I have all my money tied up into this thing right now.
I can't have it sit on the bottom of the ocean.
It's like hundreds of thousands of investments
flushed down the toilet.
So the real problem is we had a shackle like this,
but bigger on the end of this.
And somehow it came undone and fell off.
Really what we should have done,
we should have welded it together when it was on.
We designed that system to make sure
if anything goes bad,
we have a way of getting it off the floor.
But that cable came unattached.
The thing is, we just can't send a diver
down to reattach it.
The All In is not set up for a diver.
Right now, it's specifically built
just to launch a crawler.
We need someone to dive down and put that shackle on.
And right now, Chris McCully is coming.
That's why I need Chris McCully in his boat
or basically we're screwed.
[Chris] It sucks to be Kris Kelly.
Definition of [bleep] show, dude.
We're pulling up to the... to the All In.
We're gonna go send one of my divers down there.
We're gonna save Kris Kelly's underwater crawler.
So with the storm bearing down on us
with the air compressor not working properly,
this is the last thing I wanna experience.
But in the mining community, you extend a helping hand
when somebody needs it and Kris needs one.
But it seems like he always needs one.
So I found a diver, Scott, Vernon's ex-diver,
so we're gonna help his sorry ass.
None of this [bleep] would happen if somebody just
did it right the first time.
What a constant source of embarrassment.
[Kris] Thank you, Chris. I'm stranded.
-I don't know what to do. -That's all right.
We will get your crawler out of here.
Thank you, buddy. All they gotta do is just
latch onto it and we'll be fine.
So right in the middle of the crawler,
you'll see a chain that's got a hook on it.
That's what I need to hook onto, is that hook, that ring.
[Scott speaking]
[Chris speaking]
[bleep]
[bleep] man.
So I find myself sitting here
dealing with air compressor again.
Seriously, man.
Can't the Kellys get it together
so that they don't need me and my boat right now?
There you go.
[machine revving]
[Scott speaking]
Here we go.
Comm check, comm check.
[Scott speaking]
You find it?
[Scott speaking]
[Chris speaking]
[Scott speaking]
All right, we're giving you the cable right now.
Hey, go down, Andy!
You got her?
[Scott speaking]
[Kris] Chris...
He's working on it.
From my perspective,
you can tell who's professional and who's not.
You know what I mean?
It's like, wow, these guys are unprepared.
It's just not the way to be successful
if they're like this.
I'm glad I'm not them.
How's it going down there, Scott?
[Scott speaking]
Talk to me, Scotty.
[Scott speaking]
What's going on?
[Scott speaking]
[Chris speaking]
[Scott speaking]
Holy [bleep] come up. Come up. Come up.
[suspenseful music playing]
Hey, do something. Grab him a rope.
[Kris] Bring him up [bleep] man.
[bleep]
[tense music playing]
[Chris] Hold on. Stop. Stop.
Do something. Grab him a rope.
[Kris] Bring him up [bleep] man.
[Scott speaking]
[Kris speaking]
[Chris speaking]
[Scott speaking]
[Chris] There we go.
You made it. You made it.
[Kris] What happened?
[Scott speaking]
No air?
[Chris speaking]
It's like we're [bleep] around, dude.
What the [bleep] is this [bleep] operation?
You guys are [bleep] around, man!
[bleep] stupid operation.
Dude, I almost killed this [bleep] guy, dude.
What the [bleep] is this operation, dude?
I don't know. You don't have an air supply that works?
-[bleep] dude. -I know like--
I'm only supposed... We're only supposed
to retrieve your [bleep] not the whole operation.
Hey, Chris, calm down.
Calm down.
Turns into a [bleep]
and a whole lot of [bleep] for no reason.
[Kris] I'm glad you're okay.
Nightmare, dude.
I don't know why Chris McCully's yelling at me
about his air compressor taking a dump.
How is this my fault?
I'm just glad the diver's okay.
That was a close call.
Diver lost air.
I heard it pop and I told him to come right up
'cause I know that sound, you know, just right away.
I already know.
And I got frustrated,
yelling at him.
It's unacceptable
to be out here like this.
Good thing he didn't lose him.
You know, this poor guy almost lost his life.
[Kris] Hey, did you get it hooked up?
[Scott speaking]
[Kris] Oh, the crawler's hooked up?
Andy, pull that [bleep] crawler up.
I'm never gonna let this happen again.
[bleep] embarrassing.
[dramatic music playing]
Winched up, mother [bleep].
Okay, keep coming up.
Go. It's good.
Hey, hold.
The crawler's up. Everything's good.
Yeah. Woo!
What a [bleep] afternoon.
The good news is we actually got the crawler down.
It is able to get gold and I have no doubt
that it's gonna help us big time before the storm hits.
The bad news is we almost lost the crawler
and we almost suffered financial ruin.
It was definitely humiliating,
but if that's the trade, I'll take it.
I'm really thankful everybody came out and helped me out
and I promise to make it up to people.
-Are we done? -[Kris] Yeah, we're done.
-Can we... I'll tie off? -[Kris] Yeah, you can go.
Okay.
That's enough excitement for one day.
[Chris] Yes. I'm out.
All right, boys.
Good luck.
Thank you very much, Chris.
I'm really sorry for the inconvenience, everybody.
[Chris] What a [bleep] day.
God, what a mess that was.
Other than watching Kris Kelly and his crew
[bleep] the whole day,
I mean I think the rest is good, you know.
[laughs]
Let's pretend nothing happened and we're getting the [bleep]
out of here for the day.
The lesson here is, look, man, don't be a dumb [bleep].
We should have had this properly secured.
It was a disaster,
but thank God I'm a one lucky mother [bleep]. Jesus loves me.
And I do have a couple friends.
They may be [bleep] mother [bleep] but they're okay.
[narrator] Across the water...
[Shawn] Been able to get out in a little deeper water.
Digging as deep as the Myrtle dig.
There's been a lot of suction dredging out here,
so you never know if the top layer's there or not.
So I'm going after the second level of pay.
[narrator] Mr. Gold and Cody Moen are on a mission
to deliver big for the Pomrenke empire.
We're going as deep as she can go.
[narrator] But it's yet to be seen if the boss' gamble
in deeper water will pay off.
[Shawn] That looks better.
Oh, there it is.
There's a big pay streak right here.
Yellow brick road,
making money now.
[clanks]
[Shawn] I just hit the spud with the bucket.
Never hit the spud before.
Just hate doing stuff like that.
I've been working around the clock,
tired, gonna break something if I keep operating like this.
This season's been getting to me.
It's been rough. No lie.
I got a massive operation.
I keep a lot of people employed.
I can't have a first half like I did.
We could go under.
It's a real possibility.
Now you add in the storm coming,
it only gets worse.
It's potentially a game changer.
So, yeah, I'm definitely on edge.
I need a break, but we have to push through it
because we need gold.
The only way I can do that
is by keeping this thing running, not breaking it,
and putting gold in the box.
Just keep pushing through it.
It's a lot of [bleep] stress.
There it is.
There should be some gold in the box.
Well, let's see if we made any gold this cut.
Hopefully that box is loaded.
Yeah, there's gold down here.
It's looking good.
Now, we're making good gold.
It's chunky and in there.
Looking good.
That box is starting to fill up.
Looks like I definitely made the right choice
of going deeper.
Cody's kicking ass.
I'm on good gold now.
The moral of the story is,
you can't throw in the towel, you can't give up.
You gotta just keep fighting.
And that's what we're gonna do the rest of the season.
Oh, yeah.
Making some damn money.
Christine Rose, Myrtle Irene, we're having a party.
[upbeat music playing]
I might as well come in here and have a cocktail or two,
and check to see what's happening
in social media world today.
Oh, Jane? Damn.
I heard you wanna buy me a drink.
[narrator] And now settle in
for another Social Hour with Vernon.
I wore a dress for your cocktail Social Hour.
-Wow. -Look at that.
-Damn, Jane. -I'm dedicated.
I'm liking this.
-Thanks. -It's, uh, yeah, yeah.
Quite attractive.
[laughs]
[Vernon] @BabyDoodles...
-Um-- -You gotta be truthful. Look--
-I'm gonna be truthful. -You gotta truthful about this.
I mean, I'm not implying that you wouldn't,
but I mean, give us the dirt.
Mmm.
Come on, spit it out.
Oh, I have a little bit of dirt.
She does like she can be a screamer.
[bleep] you and [bleep] you.
So what's wrong with that? [chuckles]
Because I do a little screaming myself.
If you can't communicate, go.
What do you mean I don't know what I'm [bleep] doing?
[bleep] you, ass[bleep].
Get off the freaking boat.
I'm sick of your [bleep].
I'm about to give them a [bleep] diesel enema
and then torch it off.
I mean, I wish I could be calm, cool,
and collected all the time.
But sometimes you just gotta reach out and grab 'em
by the [bleep] jugular and shake 'em a little bit.
-Come on. -[man] Hey, boys. Hey.
Hey, hey, hey.
[Vernon] @ZeroPutzWiggins...
Hmm, better railing.
There's no rails on the boat.
Bothers me greatly.
Um, a head on the boat.
Come down and check things on the Gold Ship. We got a head.
Wait. I heard you don't have a head on your boat.
You only have a honey bucket.
I stood in your cabin
with a plastic bag underneath my ass, taking a [bleep].
No, no. I got a head, we got a bar,
we got a heater.
You know what, I think you're special made
for the Gold Ship.
What would do my heart really good is to steal
some of Emily's crew as she's done with my crew
in the past [bleep].
[narrator] Thus concludes another
Social Hour with Vernon.
I bet that doesn't make the cut.
No. I don't think that's gonna make it.
[both laugh]
[Vernon] Wow.
[upbeat music playing]
[Chris] Every speck of this gold is, like, getting me
closer to where I wanna be, you know what I mean?
But it's never enough. [laughs]
[narrator] After having more fun than a barrel of monkeys
helping out Reaper Nation,
it's time now for Chris McCully
to let the scale tell the tale.
[Chris] It's looking pretty good.
I'm looking at every scoop, man,
-there's some gold there. -That's pretty good.
The whole scene with the Kellys was a nightmare.
Today was a rough day.
But the good news is, I'm expecting a good number.
We mined the [bleep] out of Wall Street.
And today, we absolutely crushed it on the new spot.
So I hope we banked a ton
because anytime, that storm can shut us down.
Heavy right there, she's pretty hefty.
Scale is about to break. [laughs]
Cool. So let's weigh this thing out.
I'm gonna weigh it out in grams and then convert it
into troy ounces.
Okay. There's 100.
200.
-Tipping the scale. [laughs] -Yeah.
400, 500.
I think we're gonna tip the scale.
There's 800.
Okay. There's 900, we'll stop at 931.
So we're gonna put this 931 aside
because the scale could not handle it no more,
pour the rest in there.
There's 20, 50, 100.
200, 300.
Yeah.
500. Come on.
517 grams,
and that's a total of 1,448 grams,
divided by 31.1 troy ounces,
and we got 46.5 ounces.
-Wow. -Yeah, dude, I like that.
[narrator] 46.5 ounces is worth over $83,000.
And Chris McCully is picking up
right where he left off,
as the second half of summer gets underway.
-This is really good. -[man] We just gotta get back out to that area, huh?
-Yeah. -I [bleep] like it.
This is the way that I wanna start
the back half of the season.
I was really worried about Wall Street tapping out,
but now we're on a brand new pay streak,
we should be able to ride out the whole season.
Thank you so much, you did a good job.
-[man speaking] -You know, without you...
without you, I can't get a bigger payout.
[man speaking]
Good strategy we got.
We just have to keep it up.
Thank you, man.
Pay day, baby.
[man] Yeah.
[narrator] Back out on the water,
there's still one team refusing to pack it in.
[Emily] How's it going?
[Dan speaking]
So the, uh, gold is still good, eh?
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
[narrator] As night rolls in,
the Eroica team is sticking to their plan,
to pack in two full dives on the day.
Almost at four hours.
[Dan speaking]
[Emily speaking]
I mean, I'd be happy leaving him down there all night.
He's gotta come up at some point.
This is the first time all summer
that we've been able to do two shifts back to back
on gold in the water.
So right now, we're killing it.
Both divers are proving to be super strong.
It's like two different seasons in one summer.
And this part of the season is starting out perfectly.
[Dan] It's pretty dark down here.
I'm okay with that.
[Dan speaking]
[dramatic music playing]
[machine whirring]
[Emily speaking]
[Dan speaking]
[Emily] It's a good night.
I'm gonna go home and kiss my baby and my husband,
in that order.
[upbeat music playing]
[Jane] Hey, friends. Hey.
These are my friends.
They're like a little clique.
Yeah, they're giving me the silent treatment right now
because I didn't come and see them yesterday.
Oh. Now they're looking at me.
Hey, Bri Guy.
Hey, I must ox you a question.
Like, he always gets my puns, and he loves dad jokes.
You're utterly the coolest!
They're actually at the, um, "calf-ateria" right now.
They're really hungry.
So, like, that's Bri, Bri Guy, Brian.
And, you know, he has, you know, those little cutie little horns.
That's baby George.
And that's his mom, his mom's Karen, and she's a Karen.
She talks, that's why, mm.
[groans] Max, he sulks a lot.
He's just, like, eating his feelings right now.
Look at him.
Max.
Why did they all turn their backs on me like that?
Sometimes when cows and bison are, like, irritated,
they get... They ball up
so that, like, if I'm a bear
or a wolf that comes by, they're like, "Hey,
we're like a wall and you're not gonna get through us,
like, we're not separated, like, you can just come steal our baby."
That'd be delicious.
Nice to see my friends,
like, they're kind of snobby today like just a little bit.
Uh, I mean, Brian was cool, but the rest were mm-mm.
I bored them to sleep, so all right, I get it.
Hey, whatever.
Whatever.
[dramatic music playing]
[Vernon] This looks good.
We're on some good-looking gold. [chuckles]
[narrator] Time now to see if Vernon Adkison
starts off his second half of the season
on the comeback trail.
You don't know until you put it on the scales.
That storm is just lurking.
God only knows what it's gonna do to Nome.
But in the meantime, we got a new team out there,
and we went deeper than we've ever gone.
And from the looks of it,
we're gonna have a nice cleanout on our hands.
Okay. Here it goes, guys.
[man] Yeah.
There's an ounce,
2, 4...
6, 8...
pretty much straight up and down 9.
I'm gonna call it 9.01.
All right.
[narrator] 9 ounces is worth over 16 grand,
making it Vernon's biggest cleanout
of the season so far.
It's better than a poke in the eye.
[laughs]
If you'd told me earlier in the season
that I'd be happy to see 9 ounces on the scale,
I'd have called you a damn liar.
But here we are.
The good news is this is the most gold
we've seen all season.
That's also the bad news.
But hey, this half is starting off way better
than the beginning of the season.
All right.
That's all. Let's get this bagged
and tagged,
come back and do it again.
[hip hop music playing]
[narrator] On the other side of town...
[upbeat music playing]
[Alex] Look at those dimples.
-[Emily] Oh, she's smiling. -[Alex] You're cute.
[Emily] Are you smiling? Yeah.
She's got dimples for days.
[narrator] Emily's team is growing by one
at today's cleanout, baby.
♪ Baby... ♪
[makes airplane sound]
♪ Baby, baby, baby ♪
♪ Baby... ♪
[narrator] As they ready to see what their first
double dive has brought in.
She keeps on, like, getting these interrupted naps.
Oh, yeah. We saw those.
Oh, I get angry when I get interrupted.
Me, too. Yeah.
I'm bringing baby girl along because she needs a nap,
but hopefully, she'll be our good luck token as well.
We need some luck considering where we are this season.
But I couldn't have asked
for a better way to start off
the back half of the summer, though.
It took a long time
to get the baby to sleep,
so we all gotta be really quiet, sorry.
[gold crumbs clacking]
[shushing]
[baby groans]
Oh, my God.
Okay.
-What? -Shh!
[baby groans]
[Emily] Dan.
You're out of here.
I knew it would be you.
We actually hit 30! Yes!
Shh!
[narrator whispering] 30.5 ounces is worth over $54,000,
and the Eroica team is making some big noise
in the second half of summer.
Yes!
Good job, baby.
-Good job. -Good job, everybody.
-Good job. -Good job.
This proves that this is the right team
going forward for the rest of the season.
Now it's just a matter of getting all the gold we can
before the storm hits.
I'm whispering,
but we're very happy about this cleanout.
Nice job, everybody.
[baby cries]
[narrator whispering] Down the road...
[dramatic music playing]
[machine whirring]
Looking real good.
There's a bunch of gold going up the wheel.
[narrator speaking normally] After their two excavator assaults,
it's time for Mr. Gold and Cody Moen to see
just how much the tag team pulled in.
[Cody] So I'm feeling pretty confident.
I mean, doesn't really mean [bleep]
until the gold hits the scale.
[Shawn] Cody and I really pushed it out there.
It's a good thing too, because there's not gonna be
a lot of mineable days the rest of the season.
We're looking for a big combined number on that scale.
See what we got here.
[dramatic music playing]
50, 56, 58...
60 ounces.
[Shawn] Heck yeah.
I'm not gonna complain at all.
60 ounces?
That's good for the CR.
Hopefully, I did a little better.
I'm stoked Cody did well,
but you don't want anybody showing up the boss.
-Ready? -[Cody] Yeah.
[tense music playing]
[Cody] 10, 15...
25, 30...
4... 38 and a half.
[makes sad trumpet sounds]
Hey, even a blind squirrel will find his own nuts
every once in a while.
You... I mean, you taught me,
so you can't get too mad. I mean--
Not too bad because it's all mine anyway.
[narrator] Cody's 60.1 ounces, combined with Shawn's 38.5
comes to a grand total of 98.6 ounces,
worth a healthy 177 grand.
And as the storm looms ever closer to Nome's doorstep,
Mr. Gold makes a solid dent in his goal.
[Cody] There's a new sheriff in town.
-[Shawn] Oh, [bleep]. -[laughter]
It's gonna be a while before I hear the end of this one.
But that's fine with me.
By lighting a fire under each other,
we pulled in about a hundred ounces.
These are the kind of cleanouts we need
with the storm coming.
Hopefully, we'll get one last day to load up the box.
When we get back out there,
it's gonna be paying right away.
There's a few more pockets out there to find.
But if the weather's bad, it's gonna start hurting.
[narrator] With the back half underway,
Chris McCully is keeping his ferocious pace.
Mr. Gold is staying in the game,
and Vernon and Emily start crawling back.
Next time on Bering Sea Gold...
[Emily] We got a freaking historic storm coming in.
[Vernon] According to the weather forecast,
we do have a window of opportunity.
Ain't no storm stopping me!
This is it. No time to mess around.
[Kris] It's gonna be dangerous bringing this in.
[man speaking]
[Kris] We're gonna smash into the Christine Rose.
[man] Kris!
[Vernon] Waves are big enough, it's white capping...
[man speaking]
God [bleep] I just saw a great white shark.
[man] Oh, [bleep].
[Emily] Oh, man. Looks like a gnarly current already.
[man speaking]
I could see the white caps, but I got gold to make.
I got two things running through my veins,
cold water and gold.
They got big real quick.
Go risk my life to safe somebody else's.
[bleep] hang on.
Get away from that line! This [bleep] could snap.