Hey, dude, we got a problem, man.
Go ahead.
These Kellys just will not back off me.
Well, he's gonna get a rude awakening.
I ain't gonna let him get away with this [bleep].
[bleep] damn.
They think this is their ocean?
I don't think so. I'm here to stay.
We're gonna move into position
and defend our hole.
No one takes from me this season.
We're going to war, it looks like.
Battle stations!
Kris is about ready to get his [bleep] ass kicked.
Shawn wants a war, I'll give him one.
He's gonna [bleep] lose.
Hey, water blaster.
Stupid Kris Kelly,
thinking he's gonna with my guys?
That's doesn't fly with me.
We're gonna take this fight to them.
This right now.
A Golden Empire.
It's the ultimate dream of every miner.
To become one of the giants,
royalty in the gold mining game.
This summer, some will look to grow
their gold-filled kingdoms,
while for others, this could finally prove
to be their time to join
the exclusive ranks
as the known chessboard takes shape
and the clash of empires begins.
Big year this year.
I'm gonna get the guys together
and come up with a game plan.
In Nome, only one superpower
has dominated the gold mining game
for decades,
the Pomrenke Empire.
Yeah.
And its captain, known simply as Mr. Gold.
Mr. Gold's gonna get some gold.
Two thousand ounces, here we come.
Starting alongside father Steve 20 years ago...
Thanks for the gold, boys. Keep it up.
Shawn Pomrenke has become a mining legend.
I've never seen that much gold all at one time.
- Oh. - Yeah.
Building the family business into a sprawling,
- dominant force... - Whoa.
season after season.
This is more money than some people make
in a lifetime.
Producing levels of gold
virtually unchallenged.
We're gonna need a bigger scale.
Yeah.
And now,
he's unveiling his battle plan
to remain on top.
Got a lot of moving parts this year.
Last summer was about acquiring all the assets
I needed to take over Nome.
This summer is about unleashing them.
That land mine is a moneymaker.
Now that I got it wrestled away from my dad,
it's gonna make mountains of gold.
On the water, I got the Christine Rose,
which is the true moneymaking machine,
and the new crown jewel,
the Myrtle Irene.
Unlike last summer,
I'll have her ready on day one.
Finally, I'm adding the Tenhoff's suction dredge,
the Havilah, to the mix.
It'll get out onto deeper water than I can reach
with the Myrtle and Christine Rose.
Now, it's time to assemble the team,
layout to plan, get to work.
What's up, guys?
We got a big year ahead of us, boys.
Myrtle, Christine Rose,
Havilah's going in this year.
We got a lot of operations going,
a lot of people.
Off shore, we got our west track.
What do you think of hitting on the east side
of that track?
Yeah. Well, the Myrtle should be able
to hit that next line out,
so hopefully there's some good gold out there.
- Yeah. - So maybe we can get
the Havilah over there to do some mining.
Yeah.
But, I mean, if we keep everything up and running,
keep all the moving parts moving
and we don't break stuff,
we should have a smasher of a year.
We should be able to do 3,000 plus ounces.
That'd be nice.
It'd be real nice.
This year, I'm going for 3,000 ounces.
Last year, I went for 2,000.
I thought that was crazy.
The only way to stay ahead of the competition
is constantly pushing and expanding.
With the money it takes to keep this operation running,
I'm gonna need every last flake.
Let's get those bolts ready, and once the bolts are ready,
we'll start moving some dirt,
and let's get her done.
You guys got it?
- Got it. - Nice.
Get out of here, go to work.
Mr. Gold may be alone at the top for now,
but across town...
Right off the bat, beginning of the season,
we're looking towards the future.
This is gonna be my hardest,
most stressful season on record.
For years, Kris Kelly and his family
have fought tooth and nail.
Come on, you fat [bleep].
Clawing their way up from the bottom.
Ah!
With plenty of wrong turns along the way.
Whoa.
I'm okay, everybody,
in case anyone's wondering.
But this season,
the feisty captain's launching an ambitious plan
to vault into the same league as Shawn Pomrenke,
by establishing a new rival empire
on the Bering Sea.
I've already been working the last two months,
12 hours a day,
trying to start the Reaper Nation.
I came up on the best opportunity
that I've ever had in my life.
My friend James Barkley went bankrupt last year,
didn't make enough gold, so I swooped in,
and I saved the day with my friend.
And I... Of course, I don't have the money,
so I had to call my lifetime great friend,
Kevin Adaimy.
So Kevin came up with the money.
I came up with an amazing plan,
and we split the Mistress straight down the middle.
It's almost like a fairy tale that happened.
All these years,
the Kellys have been on the bottom tier,
suction dredgers, just trying to scrape by,
but those days are over.
I'm now half owner of an excavation barge
just like high and mighty Mr. Gold.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
What up, Kris?
What's up, baby? What's going on [bleep]?
- What's happening, brother? - Yeah. Yeah.
- How are you, man? - I am great.
Kevin is a friend and, well, he's loaded,
so he's the investor on this plan.
He's bringing the money.
I'm bringing the brains.
I'm excited to be here, man.
So now, it's time to unveil the plans
for the Reaper Nation.
Okay. Thanks, everybody, for coming.
I just wanna go over my plan
for the biggest season of our lives.
We're gonna attack the battlefield
from all sides this summer.
Kevin and I will be in charge of the Mistress,
and we'll be working with James
who knows that barge inside and out.
My dad and brother are heading up
the new and improved reaper,
all built from scratch.
We're using the equipment we bought last winter
to build a top-of-the-line eight-inch dredge,
the biggest we've ever used.
It'll bring in more gold than we've ever gotten
on a suction dredge before.
It's huge.
We're aiming for complete domination this summer.
First off the bat, I'll have the Mistress
starting with James's help this year.
We're gonna be working as a team
and putting that together, try to find a crew
that we can run 24 hours a day,
and process a lot of material. We have the Reaper.
The Reaper this year is an eight-inch operation,
bigger boat, better put together.
I hope to God we see at least 200 ounces out of that thing.
We'll be using it to prospect for the Mistress,
making sure we can get on some big deposit.
How are we supposed to get 200 ounces
if we're looking for gold for you, guys?
Because you will. Don't worry about it.
- Oh, we will, huh? - Yeah.
- Okay. Okay. Okay. - Don't worry, man.
I don't depend on you to do too much other than,
you know, be your circus routine that...
- I will. - you usually do.
Don't you worry about it. We'll still get more gold than you guys.
You do what you're good at and everybody else.
I will.
Where are we gonna be mining at, Kris, this year?
We made a deal you get on Tomcod this year.
We're gonna mine right next to Shawn all year long.
Exactly. And I don't really care.
So yeah, we're gonna be mining a Tomcod right next to Shawn.
James is grandfathered in to buying on the Tomcod claim
with no restrictions.
We can go anywhere on that claim we want.
I mean, come on.
If we're gonna try to form an empire
that takes on the big boys,
we got to go where the big gold is.
And Shawn has no idea it's coming.
Well, I'm not worried about Shawn.
We're in a race against ourselves to get rich.
Kevin's invested a bit of money this year,
and he wants his money back.
And James, you know, I mean, I don't wanna fail.
I'm a winner. I'm not a loser. I've built a lot of companies.
You know, we have to push the envelope a little bit,
and we got to really try to make this money back.
I'm stoked that I'm part of the Reaper Nation.
I don't see why it's not gonna work.
There's no other way to go but up.
We'll definitely make our 500 ounces.
I'm excited. I'm ready to get in the water.
I've been waiting my whole life for this.
Reaper Nation. Five hundred ounces.
Yeah, I said it, 500 ounces.
The new Reaper Nation is happening now.
Fist bump, everybody. Good job. Good job.
Yeah, baby, let's get after it this year.
We're at the starting line.
It's time for us to make that gold.
Throughout Nome, a clash of empires is raging,
and one salty veteran is finally making his move.
We're off to the races.
I just got back a couple of days ago
and, uh, it's as though I never left.
This summer, Vernon Adkison's ready
to transition his booming operation
into a kingdom.
We're ready to rock and roll.
Right out there is my claim, 56.
There are literally thousands
and thousands of ounces of gold on 56.
So now, all we got to do is just go out there
and take our withdrawals from the gold bank.
Vernon's on one of the richest claims in Nome.
- Yeah. - That's our best cleanout yet.
But it's been a long and winding road to success.
I don't see any gobble.
For years, Vernon struggled
season after season.
Total financial ruin. That's what I'm looking at.
Losing his shirt.
[bleep].
And sometimes his mind.
What do you mean I don't know what I'm [bleep] doing?
But, last summer,
Vernon got ahold of Claim 56,
and now, he just might have the hottest hand in Nome.
I can work 56 for the rest of the time
I'm on this planet.
I'm easily on the best claim I've ever been on.
I think 56 puts Tomcod to shame.
That's why I'm calling it Kingdom 56.
I'm planning on 300 ounces this summer.
Not only am I gonna keep gobbling up the gold,
but I'm gonna have some operators out there
mining for me who are gonna pay me a royalty
to make me even richer.
I've got three or four top quality people
working the claim, paying me royalties.
If they're doing well,
I'll be making as much in royalties
as I will from the crew of the gold ship.
Hell, I would never even have to go out there again myself.
But, uh, it's not gonna be that way.
I'm gonna be out there.
There are some people up here that think
they're the premier dynasty in the gold mining business.
Well, watch out.
I'm in an ideal situation.
Best claim on the Bering Sea,
collecting royalties
while I keep collecting the super gold.
56 is truly my kingdom,
and I believe by the end of the summer,
I'll be the undisputed king of Nome.
People sometimes compare me to Shawn.
But, uh, he better watch his ass,
because I think I can clean his clock.
One Fall Fetch is ready to go?
All right. Well, hell, let's do it.
Take it out for a spin, see how it works.
I'm starting off the season with a killer claim,
but my crew won't be quite as killer as last summer.
Unfortunately, I'm not gonna have my two Garys with me.
But I do have Bryan Wilder,
who injured himself last summer
and had to end his diving campaign.
But hopefully, he's up to snuff.
And then I have Max
who will be making his dive debut on the Gold Ship.
It's not much of a royal court,
but as long as I become king,
it doesn't matter how I get there.
Here we go.
I'm pretty excited about getting back into gold.
We're going out to the super gold site.
We've been hammering it last summer and winter
and there's still lots of good gold.
And we're gonna clean it up.
Okay. We're here.
What in the hell is going on?
He's got it right now.
They're on my claim.
And I mean the old, uh, rule of thumb,
if you caught somebody claim jumping
or stealing out of your box,
you have the right to shoot them.
Get the potato gun ready.
Yeah, we got that damn potato gun
and take their heads off from a hundred yards away.
We're gonna go over there.
And I'm telling you, he's right on top of our spot.
We're headed out to the super gold site,
the spot where we found the sweetest gold.
And there's some yahoo on it.
If they think they can squeeze out some of my gold,
they got another thing coming.
We'll shoo them away so fast
that they'll be crying for their mamas.
Unfortunately,
that fellow right over there,
that's one of my authorized operators.
He's paying me a royalty,
but he's right on top of super gold.
So, uh...
I hadn't really expected that.
So I told these guys they could have
carte blanche out here, and then one of them
popped down right on top of my spot.
But look, this is how you expand a kingdom.
You let the workers go out
and give you royalties from one spot,
while I go out and tap
into a new pastry someplace else.
The good news is, there's unlimited gold on 56.
I've just got to find a new hotspot and get to work.
We have not had any trouble finding good gold.
We're gonna get out there and tear it up.
It ought to be a damn good season.
Back in town...
Havilah hasn't worked in years.
It's in really rough shape.
As Shawn Pomrenke looks to expand his empire
further than ever before, he's unleashing
another weapon in his arsenal,
and bringing members of the fleet
into his army.
Talking to Zeke and Gabe,
I told them I'd give them 10 grand
to get it up and running.
I wanna go check on and see what these guys did
with all my money.
The Havilah has been dormant for the last few seasons.
I'm looking forward to getting it back
into the fleet and producing gold.
The problem is, my crew is stretched
pretty thin already,
and so I made a deal with the Tenhoff boys.
They get it up and running,
they can use it to mine on Tomcod
as long as they give me a fat percentage
of the gold they find.
Oh nice.
It looks good.
How's it going?
- Hey, Shawn. Check it out. - I like it.
It's all pulled back together.
It was looking a little worse for wear there
for a while. Neglected.
Looks like you got her all cleaned up nicely.
New power pack, pump,
the air system.
Motors are running okay?
Everything's running good, man.
Nice.
I'm bringing Zeke and Gabe to the Pomrenke Empire.
They're already doing a killer job.
They have the Havilah looking good already.
It's almost ready to go.
They get it out on the Tomcod,
hit the right spots,
they're gonna make me a lot of gold this summer.
So we're all going to the Tomcod.
I think there's a lot more gold out there
maybe just a little bit further to the east.
- Okay. - I've seen some really good pans
come out of there.
From what I've seen, there hasn't been
a lot of small dredges that have literally
explored around that a whole lot.
I think there's probably something new
to find out there.
In all of 15 years I've been on the Tomcod,
nobody has ever worked that area.
There's definitely some more gold out there.
- Mmm-hmm. - No [bleep].
Wow. Okay.
That's good to know.
Let's get out there and get after it.
Dude. Let's make some money.
Yeah. Get that 10 grand back.
- I will. - Thanks, Shawn.
Yup. Well, see you, guys.
- Yeah. - Good luck.
I just wanna go mining.
- I know. - That's all I wanna do.
There's no doubt in my mind that we're gonna
crush it out there this summer.
A mining veteran in Nome, Zeke Tenhoff,
jumped back into the game last summer
after several seasons on the sidelines.
I love sailboat dredge so much.
Dude, it's really fast.
His comeback, though,
failed to live up to his expectations.
One ounce.
Now, by joining Shawn's team,
he's hoping to be on the path to riches.
It's super cool with Shawn.
And I wanna make him some money.
So, Shawn, it seems like he's just trying to make
his already giant empire even bigger.
But, as it stands, the opportunity
for my brother and myself is a good one.
A deal with Shawn is exactly what we need
to get going this summer.
These guys did a really nice job on the boat.
Everything's nice, clean, dialed in.
I think it's gonna do really well.
I'm happy with the progress.
I think I picked the right people.
Feeling good about this whole situation.
Across town...
♪ Da, da, da, da, da ♪
♪ Da, da, da, da, da, da ♪
♪ Tat tara, tat tara, tat Tara, tat tara, tat tara, Tat, tat, tat ta ♪
Hello. I am back.
So, back for my 11th year as a gold miner.
One member of the fleet readies
for a triumphant return to the battlefield.
I had to bail out for the winter.
Um, I got COVID in January,
and it lingered for months.
I couldn't really do much physically, mentally.
It was really, really a weird illness.
So, I had to walk away.
Yeah.
Always one of Nome's
most consistent gold producers...
Fifty-eight. All right, man, congrats.
Emily Riedel's successful mining career...
Whoa.
was suddenly upended this winter.
I got COVID and it just completely
knocked me and my business through a loop.
For the first time in my gold mining career,
I had to bow out of the season.
Getting COVID really couldn't have happened at a worse time.
It, uh, really caused me to change course.
Now, it's summer season,
and I'm really excited to be back.
Being down for the count this winter
really pushed me back.
Everything I've earned from last summer
is, like, mostly gone. So, we're really...
It's really important that we get
on some good ground as soon as possible.
All these years, I've been able to save
and, uh, essentially build a nest egg,
and now that nest egg is essentially depleted.
So it's almost like starting over
but that's not the only change that's happened.
Shawty is just making some new friends.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, she does.
Hey, girl.
Yeah, she does.
This is, uh, this is my husband, Alex.
- Hey, baby. - Hi, baby.
Good to see you. Good to see you on here.
You make the boat look much better.
Oh, shucks. Thanks.
Yeah, so, uh, I got married
despite not mining.
So I kept myself busy.
- We got a new pup. - A new puppy. Yup.
Yeah, she's about nine weeks old.
So we got all sorts of new crew members this year.
Yeah.
I don't know if this is like a huge mistake
- or a great idea, but... - Yeah. We'll...
We're gonna... We're gonna get her really well-acquainted
- with boat life, either way. - Yeah.
Gold mining isn't just about me anymore.
I've got a husband and we wanna start a family.
You're [indistinct] all primed and ready to make some gold.
Cool.
It's not just about replacing what I've lost,
it's about starting again and going even bigger.
I'm looking for 250 ounces this season,
essentially, to start a new empire.
All right.
We're talking about the future.
We're talking about a legacy,
so I've got a big job ahead this season.
I got goose bumps right now thinking about
if it's as good as it was when we left last year,
it ought to be a pretty good day.
I've got Rick back on the boat with me
and he's an awesome diver,
and we're heading back to Claim 14.
We just hope that the visibility
is, uh, workable today.
How the water looks pretty murky
and there's a really nasty little swell.
I might have murked up the bottom a bit.
I don't care what the visibility is,
I need to go check it out regardless.
Let's see what happens.
Conditions are far from ideal.
In the past, I might have turned around and been like,
"To hell with it, we're gonna sit it out."
But not today.
Not for my gold this summer.
How's the visibility?
Woo-hoo!
Oh, that's awesome, dude. That's great.
Yeah.
Getting a pay streak right away with Rick
is exactly what we needed.
Oh, golly, dude! Woo!
Hopefully it stays like this all summer
and we can get a good war chest going.
We love chunks around here.
Me likey.
In Nome...
a new empire is brewing.
Oh, buddy, it's great to be here, man.
It's great to have you here.
Can we take you in and show you the investment?
You're gonna be so happy with what I got going on.
Captain Kris Kelly takes his chief investor
on a tour of the burgeoning Reaper Nation.
I'm kind of excited and worried at the same time.
You know how that fuzzy feeling is, Kris?
Like, I'm not too happy because of all the money
that I've spent but at the same time,
I'm excited to see what you spent the money on.
Go get it. It's right there. Look at this.
This is the big boy dock.
- Is this it? - This is it.
Wow.
You're gonna be so happy with everything.
- We're finally here, baby. - I mean, look at it.
- Look at this. - Wow.
You know, look at how enormous it is.
This thing is huge, huge.
Wow, buddy. Huge, big money.
Let's go on the boat now.
Come on. Show me what we got.
I have total confidence Reaper Nation
is gonna become a force in Nome.
But running an operation like this
is part of the song and dance.
Making sure the guy that's supplying
the bulk of the money is excited
and believes in what we're doing.
- The raw pieces are in this barge. - Okay.
It's worth a million and a half dollars,
- just the pieces. - Right.
- This [bleep] right here-- - What is this big blue box?
- A Thrustmaster. - Okay.
It's probably the biggest propeller
you've ever seen in your life.
Wow. What is this rusted thing here?
This is our fuel source of the entire operation.
Oh, so this is the fuel here. I see.
You know. The $100,000 generator.
That's a nice generator.
That's where all my gold will sit.
You'll be able to see it stack up.
- Right. - Excavator,
which has seen better days,
I'll give you that, but check it out.
That excavator looks like it's waiting to fall apart.
This thing looks like it's rusted.
- Does it even start? - Okay. Look it, look it,
- jump this back up. - Oh, man.
- Don't worry about... Don't worry about this. - This is--
I got another one.
What do you mean we got another one?
It's gonna end up costing me more money for another one.
You... Don't worry about the money, you know.
That's what I'm worried about, Kris.
I'm worried about the money.
This is grungy and rusty.
We're not out here winning a [bleep] beauty contest,
you know, we're out here getting gold.
What else are you gonna show me on this thing?
Everything I see is rust around here.
Is this a flagpole?
No, it's a ladder system.
This pulls the spud up from the top.
This actually was a lot more expensive
than I thought it was gonna be.
Well, how much?
$40,000.
You... I spent $40,000 on just this?
No, we didn't. Yeah, we did. Sure.
This is $40,000?
So Kevin's a little freaked out.
Okay? I get it.
It might be a lot of money for what looks like
a heap of rusted metal, but it's not.
The Mistress is gonna make him and I a fortune,
I'm talking crazy rich.
But that's not all. I'm also building
a top of the line bigger Reaper.
It's gonna be absolutely killer very soon.
What the hell is this, Kris?
What is this thing, buddy?
Okay. Well, you know, you can't look at it
- and, uh, judge it - This is how
you're gonna make money this year?
- Yup. - Wow, Kris.
I wasn't expecting to see this, buddy.
I'm starting to worry here.
Is that thing gonna even float?
So I realize nothing's done,
but we're getting close.
We're getting close to being very close,
but Nome wasn't built in a day.
My vision is super simple.
All brand new eight-inch equipment.
This is a new to us boat.
So, like, right now, we're taking an old boat
and we're breathing life into it.
Where's the rest of it?
Uh, this is the...
I have all the engines, uh, and everything
but really, I have to start off with structure...
- Mmm-hmm. - uh, build the cabin,
and then paint it, and then put everything in.
Well, so when do you expect
to have this thing done here, Kris?
Well, you know, the cabin should've been done today.
So new plan, the way to get Kevin excited
and more confident in what we're doing
is get him out on the water and get him some gold.
He'll be so filled with gold fever
they'll probably have to take him to the hospital.
I'm just hoping that we make some money.
Don't worry.
- Oh, buddy. - Stop worrying so much.
I'll try not to worry too much,
I'll try to help you out in any way that I can.
- We gotta make it happen. - Don't worry.
It's gonna work 100% for sure.
Oh.
Starting the season off with a bang.
Literally.
It's a dud. Damn.
Zeke Tenhoff is hoping his plans for summer
will prove to be explosive.
Let's see if this one will take off.
And won't fizzle out
like they did last season.
Go, go, go, go, go!
No.
I spent most of last summer
tinkering with the sailboat dredge idea.
It's a fun idea, I still like it,
but I just ended up with a boat
that I didn't really like that much
that was too difficult to operate.
After ice mining,
I envisioned, like, what I needed,
which was like a large lightweight
inflatable catamaran.
I ordered a big pile of aluminum,
a little drill press,
and I've been assembling a dredge.
I'm ready to go out mining.
The deal that we have with the Havilah
is perfect for where we're at right now.
I was back in the game last summer,
but I just did not get enough gold.
When Shawn left me on the Tomcod,
I could start to see
some future and some possibilities.
After how poorly we did last summer,
I'm shooting for, like,
somewhere around 50 ounces to make up for that.
And I've got a plan to get maximum returns.
Known as the Mad Scientist of Nome,
Zeke has always embraced innovation.
Copper, whole melting device.
It'll be our first time running two sluices at the same time.
So we're gonna have double gold today.
And this summer, he's unleashing
yet another of his out-of-the-box contraptions.
The boat looks good.
Red, inflatable pontoons.
Blue hose.
Pump engines, gas tanks, air compressor,
basically all my mining gear.
This boat is big and I made it super wide
so it's gonna be super stable.
I've gotten a lot of gold
with a lot dredge than this, for sure.
I designed it to be as light and fast as possible,
so I can do as much prospecting as I need to
as quickly and efficiently as I can.
With a small lightweight dredge like this,
I don't really need a crew and I don't really need help.
I can maneuver it around from underwater
and I can tie it without a tender.
I'm gonna use my rig to go out and explore
a bunch of areas of untouched ground
that Shawn pointed me towards,
while my brother Gabe gets a crew together
and gets to the Havilah in the water.
First trip out, good to go.
I pieced the whole thing together by hand
over the last six weeks,
so I know that it's strong and it's not gonna...
Nothing's gonna fall apart.
So I'm gonna go out on Tomcod and test her out.
Basically, I'll motor out to Tomcod.
And once I find a spot that's interesting,
I 'll just drop the anchor down and dive down there,
and I can pull the boat around behind me
and explore kind of wherever I feel like
the gold is leading me towards.
We're, like, right about
in the center of Tomcod right now.
It's my first time out here, it's dope.
I'm gonna go ahead and throw the anchor down
right about here.
Yeah!
The scary part of diving alone
is that you're underwater
and nobody is monitoring your pump engines
or your water heaters, or your air systems,
or any of that stuff.
So if something goes wrong up top,
there could be a cascade of problems,
it gets away from you really quickly.
Is it crazy to do this?
Yeah, possibly, it is.
But after last season, I need to do whatever I can
to find some better gold.
What the hell?
One of my pressure hoses blew apart
while I was underwater
trying to get myself untangled.
If I had a tender up top,
then we probably could've caught this problem
before it got away from us.
This is one of the drawbacks of trying to dive
without a tender and dive by yourself.
I can't say I'm not a little bit nervous about it.
That sucks.
Come down here.
Let's have a company meeting before we get going.
Okay. Thank you very much
for helping us make it to the starting line.
You know, now is our chance to make that gold.
Now is the time for the marathon.
I know we're gonna kill it.
We've spent a lot of time in blood and sweat, and tears,
making this operation go.
Now it's time to make that money.
- Let's go. - We need it, boys.
- Okay. Let's go. - Let's do it.
RPM's up.
The rollout of the newest budding empire
on the Bering Sea,
the Reaper Nation, is officially underway.
James, how long until we go?
- Minutes. - Minutes?
- Yup. - Let's get going.
This is crazy.
I'm about to hit the water with my own excavation barge.
It's nuts. I'm talking same level with Shawn here
and I'm even beating him on the water.
This is the beginning of an entire new phase
for the Kellys' career.
We're big time now.
It's good.
James, let's get going. We got to get out there, man.
Let's roll.
All right.
Security, security, security,
this is The Mistress exiting the south wall.
Any concerning traffic on 72 and 16?
It's a great day.
We're ready to go mining, baby.
Time to make some money.
We're gonna kill it today.
Beautiful day, the beginning of the season.
It's a little bit wavy but nobody else is out here,
I'm leading the way, and that's the way I like it.
I just needed a good opportunity
and now I have one.
And now, I'm gonna run with it.
I used to live on that beach right there
and I used to watch
the big million dollar operations go by,
and I was thinking, "Maybe that'll be me one day,"
and here I am.
It only took eight years of my life
to make it to this point, but at least this is my plan.
So if I wanna be like the mighty Shawn Pomrenke,
I got to go where the big gold is.
Why the [bleep] would I go anywhere else
where I know for sure there's gold?
You know, like, this is a multi-stage plan.
If you don't start where's there's gold,
you're not gonna get gold.
And that can mean only one place.
Pulling up to our spot where we're gonna be mining
and finally making some money.
We're about to lower the spuds down,
uh, get the boat ready to digging.
And we're gonna see what this thing does
and I wanna see how much material
we can put in that box.
So, uh, it's... I'm anxious, you know.
There you go. We're almost ready to mine.
We just got to fire up the wash plant
and start prospecting.
Oh, baby. Look at this.
Everything is going great.
Fire up excavator.
Woo!
- Yes! - Whoa.
This [bleep] right here will make a crew happy
and you can smell the money.
Now, I'm excited, everything is running.
I couldn't be any happier.
We're making money, baby!
Woo!
man, the bucket looks so good, too.
I knew this was all gonna work out, you know.
Back in the harbor...
Hit it, hit stop, and then hit start.
there's another excavator barge
ready to hit the water...
It all works perfect.
as the Pomrenke empire
begins its onslaught on the Bering Sea.
Well, we got it all put together last year
and now, we got it dialed in.
We're gonna kick some ass this year.
Last year was the first year
I made a deal with Dave Young to team up on the Myrtle.
We spent most of the summer upgrading her,
getting her ready to go,
didn't even make it on the water
till the last few weeks of the season.
But once we did, she was an absolute monster.
I've been so excited.
What do you think?
I think it's gonna go very well.
Let's make some money this year.
- Sounds good, man. - Okay, let's do it.
We're hitting the ground running from the get-go this season,
no sitting on the docks for weeks.
We got the biggest barge in Nome,
the biggest operation,
and we know where there's killer gold.
It's the ideal situation.
This is what I've been waiting for.
This summer is gonna be absolutely ridiculous.
Security, Myrtle Irene, leaving the inner harbor.
Any concern or oppose traffic?
We'll be standing by on channel 16 and 69.
Oh, yeah.
We're, uh, taking the Myrtle Irene out
for its, uh, maiden voyage this season.
We're gonna get out of the harbor here,
go around, get onto the claim,
take a couple of buckets, take a couple of pans,
find some gold.
Then we fire up the wash plant
and start making some damn money.
We're gonna kick some ass this year.
Rig up that camera.
Drop it down and see what you're looking at.
To start his season,
Vernon Adkison is on the hunt for a new pay streak.
So we got this camera here and we're gonna send it down,
and see if we're on the cobble.
I got my fingers crossed.
I wanna see some cobble.
So what's that expression about the best laid plans
Of Mice and Men?
We were all set to get back on super gold
and one of my, uh, miners who's paying me royalties
is on the spot,
but hey, when you're expanding your operation
to the next level like we are,
these kind of things happen.
What's it looking like, Brian?
Looks like sandy cobble, it's like a mix.
Looks like you're right on the line.
Keep us down there. Keep looking.
Okay.
This side of the screen is sand.
This side of screen's cobbles, so this is right at the line.
Usually, that's pretty good,
if you can get right on the sandy cobble line?
How about now, Brian?
Cobble.
Good cobble.
56 is loaded.
This is a ground that gives and gives.
And now we're getting ready to do some taking.
Anchor up.
We've got good cobble.
We're gonna get down there and start dredging.
We're getting ready to send Brian down,
but at this point, he's an unknown.
Last summer, he blew out his eardrums
and came up bleeding
from every orifice north of his shoulders.
It was a pretty gruesome sight.
Ah, [bleep] is it bad?
- It's blood. - Yeah, it's bad.
He's been medically cleared to dive,
but that sort of thing can mess with your head.
If he can't handle the pressure,
I'm gonna be in serious trouble this season.
Okay, here he goes.
All right. I'm just gonna go down slow.
Yo, Brian, make some stops along the way,
get your breathing under control and equalize.
Brian, just so you know,
we get a readout on your jumps up here on the screen.
You're at 10 feet right now. Ten feet.
Copy.
You're in 15 feet.
Take a minute or two right where you are.
Stay where you are, equalize, and get comfortable.
All right.
Just try and doing some yawning.
All right. I think I'm good.
I'm going down.
All right. I'm at the bottom.
You're at 22 feet of depth.
How are your ears?
Ears are good.
All right.
I gotta give it to Brian.
A lot of drivers would hang it up
after the experience he had,
but he's tough as nails.
And now it's time for us to get after that gold.
I think I'm mixing sandy and cobble,
man, I'm trying over here to see how deep,
uh, down the line I can get.
All right. I'm gonna just punch it over here.
Let me know when you see the gold.
All right.
Yeah. There's a piece of gold right there.
See it?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
He's seeing gold.
Oh, look at that right there.
See it?
There you go, there's one right there
and one right there.
One right there, one right there, one right there,
and one right there.
So you find them stickers on the bottom.
And another one right there and there, and there.
Oh, look at that one.
All right.
All right, Brian.
Suck it up. Put it in that box.
Well, that is the plan, my man.
Our first diver is in the water.
He's on the gold.
Couldn't ask for a better day.
Whoa!
You're doing a hell of a job.
Eleven miles west.
She's good to go, she's a runner.
Despite a hiccup, first time down,
Zeke Tenhoff is ready to get back
on the solo dredging course.
My motor is running.
We're good to go now.
Dredging solo is proving to be a lot harder than I remember.
It's enough to have to deal with pulling the boat around
and looking for gold on the bottom,
but if I have to be running up to the surface
over and over all day,
I'm just gassing myself out too quick.
I'm not operating as efficiently as I should,
but I can't make any excuses right now.
I have to find good gold out here.
The good news is,
I keep finding good gold out here on Tomcod.
I think that this lease is gonna rock.
I think that there's a lot of potential here still.
The bad news is, I'm wiped out.
Man is not meant to solo dredge.
There's just too much to do. I'm wearing myself out.
I need to find some more help.
The gold's phenomenal,
but I pushed it a little too hard.
Probably good for me, it toughened me up,
but when you're deep like that
going up and down and up and down and up and down,
dropped down,
so your body gets stressed out.
Eight, 10 years ago,
I probably could've kept going...
Here, everybody.
My girlfriend made everybody a sandwich,
that she wants us to all do good.
Hey, Kevin, give me half that sandwich
I didn't... She didn't make me five.
Okay. I'll take half of your sandwich.
I'm taking half of a couple
because I just gave my sandwiches away.
Kris Kelly and the Reaper Nation
are looking to devour gold.
Here you go, buddy.
On the captain's maiden voyage
as co-owner of the mighty Mistress.
Kevin was a little skeptical at first,
but now he's catching the fever.
Okay. Now, here it goes.
That sound right there is money.
And that's because what's happening is real.
Reaper Nation is a beast.
We're heavy hitters, baby.
It's us and Shawn.
No one else is on our level.
I can't wait to take a test pan
and see how good the gold is already.
How many in gold?
How many colors?
How many?
Too many to count.
Well, that's a great problem to have.
And you know what?
That's my favorite kind of problem.
I wish that would happen to be more.
Oh, yeah [bleep] yeah.
Wow.
Look at this.
You see all the gold?
Because that's too many colors to count,
you can see there's about
maybe 60 to 70 plates for a test pan.
So we're on the gold for sure, a hundred percent.
Yeah, we're on the gold, baby.
Let's keep it rolling.
Yeah, we're killing it right now.
- We're on the gold! - Well, you know what?
So right there you saw a lot of gold.
Times that by a hundred and twenty scoops an hour
and what the [bleep] you know?
We should be getting something pretty good right now.
But the Kellys are not alone on Tomcod.
Well, we're in the spot here,
gonna go ahead, spud down,
do a little prospecting.
The Tomcods' been my life for 20 years.
I know all the spots you wanna hit,
and the spots you wanna avoid.
And over the winter,
we hit some seriously good stuff.
And that's what I'm trying to tap into right now,
it'd make a perfect start to the summer.
All right. We're about ready to start.
Taking some test pans, first bucket of the summer.
Right now, I'm trying to see how deep it is.
It's deep so there better be a lot of gold
at the bottom of this to make it pay.
Now we got something.
All right. Let's go see what the hell we got here.
Just because we're on a killer pay in the winter,
doesn't mean we automatically go out,
drop the bucket down and we're on perfect gold.
Pay streaks can dry up. They can move.
Especially after it's been a few months
and the ice has melted.
Here we go. Let's see what we have.
There are so many things about this summer
that that's gonna be amazing.
One of the best things is
having my oldest son, Dylan, on my crew.
I'm so glad to have him out here.
I can't wait to pass on my knowledge
to the next generation.
In the end, that's who I'm doing this for.
Nothing on the first pans
but we're gonna try to pull back a little bit,
see if we can find some other color.
You got to get a different example,
maybe a little deeper.
We could be right next to a thousand ounces.
It's here somewhere.
Back on The Mistress...
Do you hear the rocks
as they bounce across the screen?
Like sounds like a train track.
That's money.
You know what? That...
You can hear the money coming right there.
Choo-choo!
It's called, the money train, baby.
Captain Kris has Reaper Nation
firmly on the tracks.
yeah.
enormous.
Okay.
My competition just finally came to the party.
That's a super excavator, um, four or five yards a bucket.
That's a big-ass [bleep] arm.
You see that thing?
Look how far he can go out there to hunt.
They don't go... Don't make it look like we're looking at them.
Mind our own business...
You come
Shawn can be super-pissed we're out here, but whatever.
We got a job to do
and I'm not gonna worry about precious Mr. Gold.
There's plenty of room for another empire in Nome.
- Hey. - Yo!
- So let's get going soon. - Yeah. I'm ready.
Hey, just don't worry about Shawn.
We're over here doing our thing.
That's for sure.
And our test pans look great.
- Yeah. - Let's go do it.
Let's do it.
Screw Shawn.
I'm not gonna lose any sleep over him.
I'm worried about beefing up the Reaper Nation.
Let's go.
These guys are on gold.
I'm gonna leave 'em and go back to the dock with Kevin.
I've got another piece of the puzzle to get going.
- Hey! - Yeah.
Shawn and I are gonna be good buddies
working right next to each other all season.
On the Myrtle.
Not liking what I'm seeing so far but...
Hell, you gotta check it out.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Shawn is still trying to jumpstart
the Pomrenke empire for its summer campaign.
Looks like the Mistress is out here.
Kris Kelly and James idiots.
So little Kris Kelly
got himself an excavation barge,
must have found himself a loophole to get on to the Tomcod.
That little punk is out of his league
and he better tread lightly.
This is my back yard.
I've been here for years,
diving, exploring every coordinate
and mapping it out and coming up with a plan.
I'm not gonna take kindly to somebody
trying to weasel in
and take advantage of all my hard work.
He better stay the hell away from my operation.
Don't worry about them later.
Later on, I'll go digging up all around them.
But right now, I'm gonna find some gold.
Yeah, this looks way better.
Look at that.
I think this will be the one.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, [bleep] yeah.
Lots of gold.
My boy has a good nose for this.
Must run in the family.
This is where we're gonna get digging.
Not only that, I'm calling Cody,
gonna get the Christine Rose out here too.
It's time to get this summer started right.
I like to see smiling faces.
Whoa! Here we go!
How's it going down there, Ricardo?
How's the gold?
Good.
New bride, Emily Riedel,
is trying to marry The Eroica to gold-rich cobble.
Oh! Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Oh, no.
But Mother Nature has other plans.
I'm just trying to get back to a place where I can mine...
Weather is kind of iffy.
The current just got turbo-charged
and out of nowhere it's like throwing us over off the spot.
We just moved like 70 feet away
from where we want to be mining.
We're dragging both anchors.
The current is ripping so hard.
This might be a dive killer for us.
How are you feeling?
We're so far off of our spot, where in Nowheresville.
You make the call, dude.
I'm coming up.
Roger. Okay. I'll see you at the top.
All right!
A nice juicy nugget.
We weren't down as long as I would have liked,
but we got on gold right away.
And it's good gold too.
Oh, look at it, it's so nice.
It looks like a Z.
That freakin' box looks amazing
and there's a nice sweet little nug in there,
so that's a good omen for the summer.
It's a good nugget.
I'll believe we have a nice healthy cleanup.
We're good. Strong start for the season.
Get this boat cleaned up and get out of here.
One mile west...
Hey, Brian, you see any gold down there?
You're my man.
You know, after all this work,
getting all that stuff together,
it's a pain in the ass,
but when you get out here and get on the gold, it's worth it.
It really is.
Despite the growing pains,
Vernon Adkison's enjoying
the seemingly unending riches on Claim 56.
Dive of the season.
Uh, things are looking pretty damn good down there, don't you think?
I think, um, we'll be coming back here for a while.
Hitting new ground running, that's what we're doing.
With a new hot spot
and then all these dredges feeding me royalties
for working on my claim, this summer's gonna be lit.
Brian, um, something's going on with the boat.
I say we just drug anchor or something.
I'm going... At this point, I'm gonna stall it.
It's time for you to come up.
All right.
I'll tell you, I'mma dive,
I'm sure you put gold in the box.
Weather's getting rough.
We got a long season ahead of us.
I'm not taking any chances with Brian.
We gotta keep those ear drums kosher.
All right. Any... Anything?
- Any blood shooting out of any of that-- - No. No blood this time.
That's good...
A beautiful sight.
There's no blood coming out of the ears, or eyes, or nose.
Woo.
With day one in the books,
I'm on my way to the best season of my life.
I can feel it.
All in all, today went good.
There's nothing like taking it to the limit.
Good to be back.
12 miles west.
Looking good.
Oh, there are some cobble in there.
We're making gold right now.
Mr. Gold is once again
living up to his name.
Hell, yeah.
We're firing on all cylinders today.
And joining in on the fun.
That's some good-looking pay there, boy.
Cody Moen, mans the Christine Rose only half a mile away.
Sure on some good-looking material.
That's a bonus.
Christine Rose, Myrtle Irene.
We're having a party.
The only one that wasn't really invited was Kris.
Hey, dude, we got a problem here.
Yeah, go ahead.
These Kellys just will not back off me.
I can't [bleep] believe this [bleep].
Kris and his family have been a pain in my ass for years.
Are you [bleep] with me?
Did you guys come find this?
- Dude, you're over there, son. - I'm gonna follow you wherever you go.
Have a good day, Shawn.
I know James has paperwork in for the Tomcod.
But here's the thing, this claim is massive.
Kris could mine anywhere and I wouldn't even see him.
But that's not the case.
What's he doing?
Gonna come jump on top of us.
And I'm the guy that knows where the gold's at on the Tomcod.
I've done the work, I've done the research,
and now he's just trying to be a little parasite.
Well, he is gonna get a rude awakening the next time I see him.
I ain't gonna let him get away with this [bleep].
Yeah, they're out of their element, man.
They need to back off.
There's plenty of ground out here
for everybody to mine a good distance
away from each other and everybody be profitable.
There's no reason for this whatever [bleep] 10-4.
Yeah, 10-4.
And not like I got enough to worry about,
and got to worry about everybody jumping on top of me.
I've [bleep] had like this happened before,
but I just deal with it but it just gets frustrating.
Spend all day, you know,
thousands and thousands of dollars
in fuel and labor, coming out here
prospect all day,
and then there's somebody set up on your hole
'cause they don't wanna do the work
to find the gold and just pisses you off.
I need to put some gold in the box.
I got all these guys, and fuel,
and insurance, and payment on the claim.
There's royalty payment.
I have to make gold.
So I wanna just not worry about
these other guys and do what I need to do.
I think we are in the water.
That's a good day.
I mean, these guys are close and it really piss you off.
But Kris, he just pushing his luck with me,
he has been for years.
He needs a good ass-kicking is all he needs.
What do you think there, Brian?
I mean, we got a pretty good day of dredging
and you were seeing gold.
So I saw some chunkies that might add up.
Vernon Adkison is looking for his first bite
of the golden apple this summer.
Only one way to find out, let's clean it up.
We had to call an audible on the first day,
find a new pay streak
and find a new pay streak we did.
And it looks pretty damn good.
Great way to start the summer.
Yeah, this is the best part of the whole process right here.
This is when you see the payoff
for all your effort and hard work.
Well, maybe they're a little bit better than I thought.
I'll tell you, that's a pretty tasty little pile of gold right there.
Yeah.
Well, let's pour it up.
See what we got.
Call it up, three, four, five.
6.3.
- Good days' wages. - Oh, yeah.
6.37 ounces is worth over $11,000.
Not too shabby for a shortened dive.
So we didn't get down a full day.
Only one diver down. I'll take it.
It's a decent start.
We're just getting going.
It's a good sign that the gold is still waiting for us on 56.
Now we just need to put in the hours
and the kingdom is in the bag.
All right.
It's not yippee-ki-yay but I'll take it.
Ain't bad for a one-day haul.
On the outskirts of town.
Cleanup time.
How many cleanups have you done in your shower, Rick?
A few.
A few?
It's Emily Riedel's first cleanout in nearly a year.
Nice.
See how the box looked like
it was pretty well distributed.
And she's looking to make up for lost time.
This is the last little bit for the cube
and then, um, we'll, uh, be ready
for the finishing stages here.
I'm not delusional.
I know I've got a lot of work to do
to get back everything I've lost.
We have a little bit of a trough going.
- You got it? - Yeah, I got it.
And build up the bank roll to at least 250 ounces
for, uh, me and my husband,
and our future plans depends on it.
First cleanup of the trip.
All right. Let's see how we did.
Two, six, nine,
11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16.
Sixteen.
Is it 17, 18...
18.35.
- Yeah. - Woo-hoo!
18.35 ounces is worth over $33,000
and Emily started the season with a major statement.
Doing pretty good.
It's awesome.
Not a bad first cleanout.
- Yeah. - We're in over an ounce, an hour a grand.
Yeah. I'm down with that.
We need to stick out there for a while.
If it's this good on a shortened dive,
then the gold must be amazing.
I'm shaking off the rust and we're off and running.
- Bam! - Bam!
Bam!
Good first start, guys.
Back in Nome.
We need to get this up and running.
- I mean-- - We will.
Two extra feet puts us in a whole other little area that nobody's mined.
Look at how new this thing looks.
It's gonna be great.
Ah, the life of a gold mining mogul
with the Mistress already on Tomcod gold
and Father Brad and brother Andy
putting the extensive final touches
on the new Reaper.
It's time for Captain Kris
to check in on his newly purchased upgraded excavator.
This machine right here will give me an extra half a yard per scoop.
So it's like doing the same job
but getting a 30% raise all day.
I love 30% extra.
James, what's up, man?
Oh, dude, we're on hot gold
but we got a little bit of an issue, man.
Okay, what's going on?
Um, I got the Christine Rose probably
maybe 40 yards from me.
They're interrupting our lines,
jumping like right on our spot.
Dude.
What the is going on out there?
Dude, it's [bleep] stupid.
They're supposed to be 900 feet away.
That's [bleep] regulation, that's law.
They're [bleep] right in my [bleep] dive zone.
They're off one of my buoys jumped my buoy.
Dude, I'm gonna get down there.
I'm gonna get on the skiff
and I'll be there in like 30 minutes.
All right. 'Cause I'm pissed, man.
This is [bleep] stupid.
Yeah, this is stupid.
Stay on gold 'cause that's our concern
right now is staying on gold.
You know, we've worked really hard to get to this place.
We don't need Shawn trying to bully us.
You know, like we'll run right over that little barge.
Oh, no [bleep] dude,
I'm gonna [bleep] flood their box full of water
and blow out all their gold.
Okay. Look, don't do anything rash.
I'll be there in 20 minutes, okay?
Don't do anything rash.
So basically Shawn's messing with us,
trying to intimidate us.
He thinks he's the big player up here in Nome.
And he thinks I'm supposed to run away
when he tells me to.
But you know what? The game in Nome is changing.
I've worked for years to get to this point
and I have a little daughter to support now.
I'm not gonna back down from anyone.
Screw that.
Let 's roll.
They're right next to us. They're on our line of gold.
So he jumped right in front of us.
- What? - I don't know what the [bleep] is going on.
Oh, I was having a good day.
Hey, Janet.
Hey, Vernon. Nice to see you.
Let's see what, uh, the tolls have to say today.
And now another episode of Social Hour with Vernon.
Wyatt Earp really, truly is one of my heroes.
I mean, he shaped America.
So, uh, have I been mining gold since 1804?
No, I'm not quite that old.
I mean, do the arithmetic.
I was born in '46.
No, I did not.
I did not ask for one.
I don't need one.
I'm old. I got money.
It's the old people that's got the frigging money.
And now I take it as an insult
when they ask me, are you a senior?
Well [bleep] business is it of yours if I'm a senior?
And you want to give me a discount now?
Where was you when I was like 20 and I needed the money?
Now I got enough [bleep] money to burn a wet stump with
and you wanna give me a discount [bleep] you.
And I mean that from the heart.
This has been another episode
of Social Hour with Vernon.
What's the damage there, Janet?
- It's 14. - Fourteen?
That's with the senior discount.
Comes right next to us first chance he gets.
Dude, I don't get that. The ocean is huge.
What's he doing 50 feet away from my boat?
Trying to [bleep] stop me from making it.
That's what he's doing.
That's why we're gonna go out there.
We're gonna wrap this is in right now.
With the Mistress and the Christine Rose
headed for a showdown, Reaper Nation Chief,
Kris Kelly heads for battle stations.
Nobody steals anything from me.
- Yeah. - We're gonna go out there
and we're gonna handle this like men.
Okay, Kevin, let's rock and roll, baby.
Warp speed [bleep].
When Shawn goes and tries to make trouble for me, I'm not gonna back down.
I'm determined to join the heavy weights
and nothing's gonna stop me.
Wow. That's crazy. They are close.
Give him a little wave as we pass by.
- Yeah. - Hey.
Well, I'm glad to know they feel threatened.
Come on, let's go on the boat and make some money.
- Hey, what's up, buddy? - Hey.
He's pissing me off.
- What's up, dude? - What's going on, James?
They jumped my buoy.
That's my [bleep] spot.
This is a bunch of bull
Let's swing our ass right into their [bleep] face.
Protect our area.
- Let's do it. - Let's play hardball.
Spud up.
Let's rock and roll, baby.
Stand by!
Right now we're gonna move into position
and defend our hole.
No one's taking from me this season.
We're going to war it looks like.
We're gonna take this fight to them!
Yeah, baby! Let's move out!
Keep going!
We're getting really close now.
them.
They think this is their ocean.
I don't think so. I'm here to stay.
Okay. We're in position!
And we're locked!
We're ready to work.
It's all about the gold.
Come on, James. Let's do it!
Look at this right here, man!
Look at this bucket, baby!
Yeah, eat it!
Yeah, it's gonna be a great game!
Oh, yeah.
Pomrenke and his minions think they can scare us off,
but we're not backing down.
We're right in the perfect spot
and we're gonna load up on that sweet cobble.
Reaper Nation is taking over whether Shawn likes it or not.
Yeah! Yeah!
You know, the ground I'm on right now is what they're after.
This is never ending cobble.
It's absolutely loaded.
Uh, this is definitely some of the better gold I've seen in years.
So if Shawn wants to [bleep] with me, I can handle it.
You know, he wants a [bleep] war, I'll give him one.
He's gonna [bleep] lose.
[bleep] they're right next to our bucket.
He better not my machine up 'cause he's breaking the law.
What's going on right now is a little battle
and it's super against the law.
You know what, in reality, I was here first
encroaches my area.
Back in the day, I bet you could shoot somebody over this [bleep].
Well, here we go. They're coming closer.
He's making it dangerous right now.
He's getting mad back.
We are [bleep]
What the [bleep].
So they wanna drop material on the [bleep] barge.
Those [bleep] pieces of [bleep].
him.
What the is going on?
I'm pissed.
Turn on the water hose and spray them.
Water blast them, dog.
Battle station!
Hey, water blast them!
They threw rocks on my barge. Now we're blasting them.
Another day at the Bering Sea
and it's all-out war, and I love it.
Ready?
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Yeah!
I'm not a [bleep] coward.
I'm not gonna be bullied.
I'm not gonna be pushed around.
You're not gonna stop me from making money.
I gotta make this happen.
Just a quarter mile away.
Piece of Kris Kelly.
Stupid little
Idiots on the Mistress do it illegal [bleep].
Kris is about ready to get his [bleep] ass kicked
thinking he's gonna jump on our spot
and [bleep] with my guys?
That doesn't fly with me.
The situation has hit a boiling point.
I got plans for the summer.
If this keeps going on, it's never gonna work.
I think it's time for that little punk and I
have it out face-to-face.
Hey, guys, uh...
All right, sounds good to me.
waste my damn [bleep] time
with this stupid [bleep].
Kris Kelly and Tattoo Face
are gonna get a rude awakening
about who in the I am.
Gold game is always competitive,
but Kris is pushing it past that.
It's not a friendly little competition.
This is war.
And I don't plan on losing.
This [bleep] laid out!
Coming up this season
on Bering Sea Gold.
I've had it with Kris Kelly.
I'm gonna beat his ass.
I'm ready for the world to come against me right now.
I'm not gonna quit.
- That's huge! - Woo! Oh, my gosh.
- Yeah. - That's a lot of money down there.
Yeah, baby!
The gold first and safety last.
Whatever it takes.
Hand got completely crushed.
We're going to the ER.
There's a storm coming in.
It is rough.
Abandon ship! Abandon ship!
- He flipped over. - This is all very crazy.
I'm just as horny as the next guy.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm gonna knock you the [bleep] out, Kris.
You stupid [bleep].
He can take that barge and ram it right up his [bleep] ass.
Get the [bleep] out of my face.
Yeah, what are you gonna do?
It's go time!
Hey, you wanna fight [bleep]?
Go, go, go, go.