[intense music playing]
- [loud breathing] - [water gurgling]
[James over radio] We got something going now.
[water warbling]
Look at that.
[Carlos] That's gold right there, man.
All that, that's gold.
There's gonna be tons of gold.
[James] Amazing.
[Carlos] Whoo! We got gold already. [laughs heartily]
- We got gold. - [Dustin] Really?
[Carlos] [bleep] Yeah.
[Carlos] Long line of gold and one good piece.
[Dustin] Amazing.
[James over radio] What's going on?
[James] Oh, [bleep]! I'm stuck.
[Carlos] Uh, he's stuck, dude. He's stuck.
[Dustin] Get that hose out of his [bleep] way.
He's getting tangled.
[James straining] I can't make it up there.
[Dustin] Let's get the basket out of there.
[Fred] Basket!
[Dustin] He put that [bleep] basket
right on top of his air-line.
[James groaning] Argh!
[Dustin] Take it easy. Take it easy.
That is some real dangerous stuff, right there.
[Carlos] Okay, there you go.
[James groans]
[James] That scared the living [bleep] out of me, dude.
James pinned himself to the bottom.
We were deep but you end up dying.
I know what's happening.
Everybody's just, "Go, go!"
We're gonna get killed like that.
Let's take a time-out. Reorganize everything.
[James] All right.
[motor whirring]
[Carlos] Hey, don't take it out of the water.
- [hose gurgling] - [man shouts] Argh! [bleep]
[bleep]
[Carlos] Double down! Double down! Double down! Double down!
[hose continues gurgling]
There goes our gold.
[intense music playing]
[Kayla] We're definitely running out of time.
- [water bubbling] - I can't see anything.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Why, you want to crack those two rocks?
- [James] Yeah. - [Dustin] All right, Fred, time to get out of there.
- [thudding] - It's like Russian roulette.
We know this thing could fall,
if you dig underneath it.
- [Dustin] James! - [James] Argh! [bleep]
[Fred] Total disaster waiting to happen.
Would you risk your life for 50-50?
[Carlos] There's gold right here! Look at this.
[Dustin] Looking good.
[James over radio] I can't [bleep].
Dropping off! If the box is full, that would be great.
We could have one hell of a payday.
[Kayla] Pieces all over.
- [Carlos] Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. - [Kayla] Boom! [bleep]
This could be our best season ever.
[sweeping instrumental music playing]
[Dustin] I don't know how long winter's gonna hold out,
but it's been a really hard season.
We're just gonna keep pushing and pushing and pushing.
[Paul] In just days, the brutal Alaskan winter
will force the miners out of Nugget Creek.
[Kayla] Oh, this will give us wood for a few days.
[Paul] Both crews are finally on a pay-streak.
But, to avoid a failed season,
they need to get down to the chunky gold,
that gave Nugget Creek its name.
[Dustin] Finally, we're finding a bunch of gold,
and we're gonna push as hard as we can.
Dig everything we can.
Just need to keep goin'.
See, you got a little snow
coming down the mountain out there.
I know that everybody's starting' to get a little nervous about that.
I sure would be.
- But they need to get in there and get some gold. - [Dustin] Let's go.
[thrilling instrumental music playing]
I have a really good feeling that--
that there's ancient gold stuck back there
in that corner.
[Paul] At Dustin's dive site, desperate for gold,
they've staked their season and their lives,
on hitting it big under a 50-ton killer.
[ominous music playing]
[James] I think there is a load of gold in there.
I hope I'm not wrong.
But, I've been finding crystalline gold in there,
which means, it hasn't travelled far.
So, and that tell me that
that place is loaded with gold.
[Fred] Right now, they're digging underneath that thing.
You can see a big cavern underneath there.
Bad news... total disaster waiting to happen.
It's a big boulder, just hope that
it doesn't fall and kill us all.
Holy [bleep]!
Look, man. I know how dangerous
that looks and is.
[James] I have a plan.
[Dustin] All right. Well, just try not to get squished, all right?
[James muffled] All right.
- Ready? - [James] Yeah.
[Carlos] All right, good to go.
Don't dive in.
Be nice.
[suspenseful music playing]
[James over radio] Argh! My nuts are frozen.
Amazing area, but a little eerie, though.
I hope there's good gold in it.
I'd like to get over here again and clean this out.
I guarantee you, there's gonna be good gold in the box.
I'll take down a water jet blaster.
[music intensifies]
Using a sprayer right now to cut through all that stuff.
It looks like he's cutting through really well.
[Paul] James uses the gold blaster
to break up the gold-rich, red hard pack,
but the red layer,
runs beneath the enormous boulder.
The more material he removes,
the more he undermines the 50-ton killer.
That thing right now, is absolutely unstable.
What're they gonna do?
Just completely undermine that thing?
Recipe for disaster.
Yeah, it's worst case scenario,
but I'd say the chances are 50-50.
How about that?
Would you risk your life for 50-50?
Hell, no!
[James breathing heavily] Amazing.
[Fred over radio] Look at that red water.
[Carlos laughs] That's gold right there, man.
[Dustin] He's doing a great job down there.
It's here. There's gold.
[Fred over radio] I wouldn't be digging there.
[dramatic music playing]
[Dustin over radio] Well, he's got that same stubbornness you got.
It's over here,
and he's decided that's where it's at, man.
Right there, so he's going for it.
- Life and limb. - [James breathing heavily]
[James groaning and straining]
[Fred] I got my work cut out for me today.
This rock could move at any time.
Need to shore up that entire rock together.
We'll put a chain, about five of them, across the top of that.
A little on an angle,
and see if we can stabilize that rock.
I mean, we're talking, uh, people's lives out here.
[James breathing heavily]
[Dustin] There's a big boulder over our heads,
and Fred thinks it needs to be tied up more.
I might let him just handle that.
Guess you can never be too safe,
but it's safe to, um...
I think we're just gonna keep digging.
He sews up the rock, it'll be fine.
[James] Holy smokes!
[Paul] In an attempt to stabilize the boulder,
Fred will drill ten holes,
insert anchor bolts...
[thudding]
...then, attach five lengths of half-inch chain,
to secure both halves of the boulder together.
[dramatic music playing]
[Fred] I'mma mark out where I'm gonna put my... upper bolts.
Damn, that's a hard job.
Any good possibility that, uh, that is gonna do the job
when I get some chains.
Just see if we can kind of hold that rock together.
We don't wanna see that one half of it just... dropping off.
[James over radio] I'm goin' to the danger zone.
[Dustin] James has decided to go against Fred's,
uh, suggestion.
He'll go straight underneath the damn boulder.
Tell you my stress levels are coming up,
but I don't know,
looks like a bad idea.
[James straining and breathing heavily] Yeah.
- [rocks clattering] - [James] Oh, [bleep]!
[bleeping]
[Carlos] Bunch of crazy [bleep]!
That... it's like Russian roulette, man!
Click, click, click!
[adventurous music playing]
[Richardson] The current has picked up right here.
- [Kayla] Nasty water. - [Richardson] Yeah.
[Kayla] Not fun.
[Kayla] We found a little bit of gold so far,
we've been on a good pay streak.
But it's not enough to make up for all the effort
that we've put into this season.
We went several months actually,
without any gold.
Been a lot of struggles this year.
[Paul] Kayla and her crew
uncovered gold in their last three dives,
and should be closing in on Nugget Creek's fabled fortune.
[Kayla] Today I'm gonna try to keep chasin' the bedrock
down at the bottom of the hole.
We're definitely running out of time,
so, hopefully we'll see some good gold in the box today.
[Paul] Already nine-feet down,
with a six-foot-wide area on sloping bedrock,
Kayla's mission, remove the rocks and gravel
down to the deepest point of the creek,
in the search for a huge deposit of gold.
Right now, while we still can,
we gotta try to hit it as hard as we possibly can.
[intense music playing]
[engine sputtering]
Come on, you cold-blooded [bleep].
[blowing on spark plug]
Should have been a nice, easy start-up.
This is ridiculous.
[Kayla] Damn it.
[Richardson] So, I just put in some additive
to help with the water.
With all this rain and moisture we've got,
it's hard to keep water out of the fuel line.
[engine sputtering]
[rope snaps]
[Kayla] What the hell!
[Richardson] And there goes the [bleep] rope!
I can't get this thing going, we can't dredge.
[Kayla] This is why I don't ever
usually get dressed before the dredge is going.
[Richardson] It won't even try to fire off.
[bleep] hell!
So, I gotta hook it up with a rope and a knot,
and start the engine old school.
We'll spray a little bit of starting fluid.
[whirring]
- [engine fires and starts up] - [triumphant music playing]
We got it going.
Shouldn't be that to start a dredge in the morning.
What an ordeal!
[buzzing]
That's more like it.
[Kayla] Let's go.
[thrilling instrumental music playing]
[breathing heavily]
I can't see anything.
[Richardson over radio] You do know if there's no gold,
you don't get dinner, right?
[Kayla] Oh, [bleep] I'm already hungry.
Hey, Paul. You did a good job.
That rock has got to go.
I wanna get this big one out of the way.
How big is that [bleep]?
Can I get a choker, please?
I don't wanna move 'cause my foot's on the rock
and I don't want to lose the rock.
Pull up a little bit.
Pull it. Pull it.
It's gotta hold.
- [Justin] It's happening. - [Richardson] That's a hell of a rock.
That's some rock movin'.
Can't see anything.
It's just chokin' these one at a time. Great.
Hell, yeah!
[bleep]
[Kayla straining] Get out of the hole.
[Richardson] Kayla's on a mission right now.
She wants to get as much off the bottom, as she possibly can.
At the fast pace she's working,
it's gonna work us to death up top.
But, this creek,
with all the gold that it's got,
it's gonna be worth it.
[sweeping instrumental music playing]
[James breathing heavily]
[James] This is some of the hardest dredging
I've done in a long time.
Whoo!
We got something going now.
Look at that.
[Paul] At Nugget Creek, James is four hours into
dredging the gold-rich, red hard pack,
beneath the 50-ton granite boulder.
[James] That's awesome.
[Dustin] I think that that's darkest I've seen that damn sluice box.
Look at it.
[Carlos] All that, has gold. It's that hard pack.
There's gonna be tons of gold.
[James] I think I might have a slight clog. Not bad.
You wanna double down real quick.
[Carlos laughs heartily]
- We've got gold. - [Dustin] Really? [bleep] Yeah.
Long line of gold and one good piece.
[Dustin] Did you get gold, for real?
Two lines of gold.
Just saw gold in the box,
so there's gold every time we dive right now.
It's not a lot of gold, but it's gold every time.
[James] Yeah, I think I got a good rhythm going here now.
[drilling]
[Fred] The drilling's done on that big-ass rock there.
I'm gonna put some half-inch chains
on these five-inch bolts.
This whole entire rock, could let loose.
The whole thing.
Hopefully, what we're doing will at least
stop it part-way.
[ominous music playing]
[Paul] With winter's grip tightening,
James has no choice
but to put his life on the line,
while Fred races to secure the unstable boulder.
[James straining] Lot more work than I bargained for.
For sure.
What's going on?
[breathing heavily]
[groans] Why is my umbilical going over here?
Oh, [bleep]! I'm stuck!
[intense music playing]
[James groaning]
He's tangled up.
[Dustin] Hey, let's get that hose out of his [bleep] way.
He's getting tangled.
[James straining] I can't make it up there.
- James! - [Carlos] He's stuck, dude. He's stuck. He's stuck.
[Dustin] He put that [bleep] basket right on top of his air-line.
He's stuck. [bleep]
Let's get the basket out of there.
[Fred] Hold on. Basket!
- [James groaning] Argh! - [Dustin] Take it easy, take it easy.
That is some real dangerous stuff, right there.
[bleep]
[James] Whoa!
- [James breathing heavily] - [Carlos] Okay, there you go.
[Carlos groans]
[James] That scared the living [bleep] out of me, dude.
[Dustin] James hooked up the basket, filled it up,
and he pinned himself to the bottom.
We were deep, but that would be
a mortal sin that you end up dying for.
I know what's happening, we're getting on gold,
and everybody's just, "Go, go!"
And no prep, no prep, no prep.
We're gonna get killed like that.
- [James groans] - [Dustin] Let's take a time-out,
reorganize everything, right quick, right now.
[Carlos] You can push the dredge hose all the way to the side.
Carlos is suggesting that you shove that hose,
all the way to the wall and that probably will
- stop a lot of your problems. - [James] All right.
[Carlos] Hey, don't take it out of the water!
- [hose gurgling] - [man shouts] Argh! [bleeping]
[Carlos] Hey! Double down! Double down! Double down! Double down!
There goes our gold.
Oh, [bleep]!
[Paul] When the nozzle surfaced...
[James] I'm sorry, guys.
...a mix of air and water caused a violent surge,
or rooster-tail,
to blast across the gold catching sluice box.
[Dustin] Take a minute.
Just take a minute.
Calm yourself down.
You're doing good, man.
Hey, man! It's scary up in here.
He's wrecked.
He's done.
[Dustin] You know, I'm thinking about pulling him out.
- Yeah, man. - [Dustin] You know, he's gonna be a little upset about it.
- [Carlos] Hey, James? - [James] Yeah?
- [Carlos] Man, how about we just, uh, call it a day? - [James] Copy that.
[James] Oh, thank you. [grunts]
[Carlos] I gotcha.
All right, James, you're free, amigo.
Good job, man.
Definitely got some gold, man.
I'm gonna take this thing off you, man.
You go look at the gold.
[James groans]
I haven't opened it up, yet.
[James] Huh!
What?
[Dustin] I thought...
- Ooh! I thought I saw gold, but now I don't. - [Carlos] Wait a minute, man.
There was a whole line of gold, dude.
[Dustin] I saw that [bleep] too.
What the [bleep]? Did we wash it out? [bleep]
They thought they saw something earlier in the box.
I don't know whether it got washed down or what.
We had two distinct lines of gold.
The only logical explanation
is that we washed the damn gold
out of the sluice box.
That's my only thought, 'cause I saw gold in there.
I don't know, if who was watching,
but it kept coming up out of the water,
and flowing air,
and probably rooster-tailed the gold right out the back.
I don't know.
Or did they see pyrite?
[Dustin] I saw it.
Wasn't pyrite, I know the damn difference.
This isn't my first time.
Somebody just took our birthday away, dude.
Somebody just canceled Christmas.
We see lines and lines of gold,
and now, at the end of the day,
one speck!
Come on! What the hell!
[thrilling instrumental music playing]
Think you're working on basket number six, right now?
[Kayla] Basket's ready to go.
I moved all the big rocks. I'm gonna start dredging.
[Paul] Kayla's storming through an epic, six-hour dive,
attempting to dredge
as much gold-rich material as possible,
in the few days left of the season.
[Kayla over radio] Oh, [bleep]!
Dang!
There's a section here where...
[breathing heavily] dips down a little bit.
This is a lot better.
[Richardson] The material coming from the box looks really good.
[Kayla] There were cracks and I pried it.
It was only basket rocks that were cemented together.
Now, I'm under it.
[Richardson] Nice.
[Paul] The depression in the bedrock
that Kayla has found,
could be a perfect gold trap.
[Kayla] If there's not gold in this stuff,
I don't know what it would be in.
I found a lot of [bleep].
[Richardson] Yeah, you have.
I couldn't even tell you how many yard materials she's run through that dredge.
[Kayla groans] I'm worn out though.
[Paul] The dive hole is now at 10-feet,
but the bedrock continues to lead them deeper,
and they have yet to reach the bottom.
[Kayla] Coming up. [breathing heavily and groans]
I'm all wobbly.
[motor whirring]
[Kayla] Oh, looks like someone's eating dinner.
- [triumphant instrumental music playing] - What!
- [Richardson] Oh, [bleep]. - [Kayla] Get me some already.
[Kayla laughs]
[Kayla] I'm all wobbly.
[Paul] After a six-hour dive,
and with the end of the season looming,
Kayla is desperate to see if she's added to the gold total.
[motor whirring]
[Kayla] Oh, looks like someone's eating dinner.
[Justin] Yeah.
[Kayla] What!
- [Richardson] Oh, [bleep]. - [Kayla] Get me some already.
[Richardson] You did good today.
[Kayla laughs]
I was busting ass down there.
Fact that it's only been getting better,
- that's a good sign. So... - That it is.
...we should be hitting something pretty good here soon.
I hit a layer in the bedrock, it kinda dipped down,
and I knew, if there was gonna be a gold catch,
that was gonna be it.
Right now, we're on gold.
We're finally starting to see good gold.
Hopefully, it continues to get better.
With the material that Kayla had coming out today,
once she hit that pocket,
that was a little bit of excitement.
It's definitely picking up.
We're finding the right material.
Today was proof.
Couldn't ask for a better day.
[upbeat music playing]
All right.
Found a little bit of links of chain.
That oughta sew that rock together.
Hopefully, that's a good solution to a,
very serious problem.
Wash, rinse and repeat.
Dive, safely as possible.
Bonus, get gold.
What happened here, why is this getting ripped?
It's a big cluster-- [bleep], man.
Fred, did you catch some trees?
- Only a couple of them. - Oh, [bleep].
- [both laugh] - When it's raining really hard,
- you'll think it's real [bleep] funny, man. - [laughs]
Look at that [bleep].
Is there any one thing I can [bleep] have
- without it getting screwed at all? - [Fred laughs]
[James] Yesterday was a little weird.
Today, time to get some big nugs.
I know Carlos has got it in him.
There's still plenty of gold.
I got a big belief,
"X marks the spot."
I'm gonna play a little bit of
boulder Jenga kinda deal, you know?
Take one down,
hopefully it doesn't all come down on me.
[James] Those get scarier each day.
I hope Fred gets that buttoned up.
Gonna look like Frankenstein's stiches across here.
Hopefully, it lessens the tension in this big-ass [bleep]
to, uh, drop it off here.
[Dustin] We're worried about this rock coming down.
We noticed gold in there,
but Fred keeps telling everybody
that we're all gonna die if we go under there.
They put their lives in, well, in my hands.
We just gotta keep digging and stay alive. [chuckles]
- All right, that's it, man? - [James] Everything's locked in here,
- tied up. - [breathes deeply]
- Yup, you're good. - All right, man.
[Carlos sighs]
[Carlos] Entering the water.
Let me take a few minutes, guys.
...freaking cold cold water, man.
[breathes deeply]
Holy [bleep], that hurts.
Yeah, it's cold.
Ugh, this is the worst part, man.
Throttle up to as high as it'll go, Carlos.
[Carlos] That's good, man, that's good.
All right. [groans]
Gonna look at the ground.
If you can, James, let me know when you throw that basket in.
[James] Copy that, Wes is on his way, and uh...
Have a good dive.
[Wes] We're just pushing forward right now.
That's all there is to it.
[Carlos] All right.
This is how deep I am.
[Carlos] That thing's going deep now.
I mean, this is deep deep, oh.
Still going down.
[Dustin] I love hearing that.
The deeper, the better.
[Carlos] We're not digging it right now.
This is all fricking hard patch.
[Dustin] So, we got news, just dredge, now.
[Carlos] [bleep] yeah, I like that.
Oh, [bleep]. I'm sorry, James.
- I'm gonna get a clock if we're ready. - [James] Yeah, hold on.
[laughs]
Two lines of gold.
I see gold.
Gold already.
He has hardly dredged.
That's what we need to see,
is a box full of yellow gold.
All that yellow stuff down there.
I can smell it, it's here.
[Dustin] There's two full lines of gold right now.
[Carlos] I love it, dude. I love it.
[Fred] It's set.
These chains are in there,
they're holding these two rocks together.
Hopefully, this will hold that from falling.
I'd say it's about 75% safe now,
and a 100% more safe that it was yesterday.
[Dustin] How'd the rock go?
[Fred] All sewed up.
[Dustin] Is it gonna work?
[Fred] I know that it's not perfect but, had to do something.
Looks like Fred gave uh, the giant boulder a Frankenstein stitch up.
He put some chains around it and he thinks it's gonna stop it from going.
Hopefully, the rock doesn't fall and squish us.
Hey there, Carlos, Colonel Carlos.
[Carlos] Yup, man?
I got that, uh, rock stitched up for you.
It's a whole lot safer to be there now.
[Carlos] Oh, I appreciate that, Fred, thank you, sir.
[coughs] Going underneath the [bleep] boulder, dude.
[narrator] Carlos now risks removing the rocks underneath the giant boulder
that's covered virgin bedrock for centuries.
[Carlos] Okay, guys, tighten up, give it a pull.
Here we go.
Okay, pull it.
[James] Hey, those two rocks above here are pretty loose, actually,
I should probably pop the top one and then drill the other one.
Absolutely, amigo.
[narrator] Removing a keystone rock
could cause the enormous 100,000 pound boulder to shift.
If Fred's fix doesn't hold,
the boulder could come crashing down
ending their season in an instant.
[Carlos] This is when we start getting crazy, dude.
[Fred] Oh [bleep], let me do it, man.
Oh [bleep], they're gonna blow.
Even securing that rock with those chains,
if they completely pull all them rocks out from underneath the front end,
it's a possibility the whole thing could get rolled right over.
James, what is the purpose for blowing those rocks there?
[James] They're falling down.
Right where Carlos is at.
[Fred] It won't accomplish anything.
And,
inviting danger.
I mean, sewing that thing together
just kept the thing from falling in the hole, that's all.
[James] Hey, Carlos, uh...
Fred thinks it's a little too dangerous to be popping.
[Carlos] This is the deal,
if he wants these rocks to stay where they're at,
then this can't dig anymore.
[Fred] Talk about a moth to the flame.
They seem to think that just 'cause I sewed that thing together
with some chains that it's stable.
Hell, no.
[Paul] So you mean to focus on,
coming downstream a little bit?
There's still a lot of material back there that can be worked
- to expand the bedrock back. - [Paul] Okay.
[narrator] At Kayla's site, they're on the gold
chasing a pastry towards the deepest point of the creek.
[Scott] You still want the heavier vest?
Oh, I gotta get my hood on first.
Oh, that's right. [snorts]
See?
I'm already-- I'm to excited for you to get in.
[Paul] Right? Gold will do that to you.
[narrator] The crew have yet to uncover the big nuggets
this creek was named for.
[Paul] Anytime we see gold in the box,
it's definitely gonna give you gold fever.
We know it's down there now,
we're following it, we're on bedrock, so...
Continue to move forward and hopefully put more of that in the box.
[Kayla] Hopefully...
stay on that pay streak that we've already hit,
and hopefully, we'll see a lot more gold in the box today.
With winter creeping up on us,
we don't know how long that we have.
We could have one week, we could have two weeks,
we just don't know.
So, we need to make the best of every time that we have,
get as much done as we can,
and hopefully, the weather holds out.
All right, how's that feel?
I do it all right?
Whew!
[Kayla over radio] Do you have any visibility at all?
[Kayla] No. It's like driving in fog with bright lights on.
[Paul] There's like, silt down here.
There's not much to suck up off the bottom.
[Paul] It's not looking good.
[Kayla] What the heck?
It's a little bit of a disappointment
because we're not gonna go home with any gold,
and I didn't come here for nothing.
[bleep]
[Paul] ...dig deep.
It's dropping off, like, we've gotta step down.
Just turned into a boulder field.
- Oh really? - [Paul] If... that would be great.
And it might just keep steps down.
Hopefully, there's some gold there.
[Kayla over radio] If you say it's dropping in a bunch of boulders,
there's probably good gold under that.
[Paul] I hope so.
[narrator] Kayla's last dive
proved how much gold you can get
from a small depression in the bedrock.
Paul's plunge pool could be the deepest point in the creek.
It's full of boulders and rocks.
And if he can get to the bottom,
it could contain a deposit worth millions.
[Kayla] I think this is gonna be a turning point,
this is what's gonna hopefully save our season.
There's a big boulder field down there.
'Cause I think we need to dredge through that layer.
Nice.
I'm excited to see the box today.
[Paul] ...some gold.
[groans]
[Kayla] Okay, basket's coming up.
[Paul] I bet there's some good stuff in the box already.
[Kayla] Paul's driven a lot of material.
Got a lot of baskets.
We've only exposed so much.
So, that's a really good sign because that's where the gold is.
[Carlos] These rocks scare the hell out of me.
Gotta get this out of the way, 'cause it's over my head, dude.
The thing was wiggling. I gotta get rid of these two rocks.
[narrator] Carlos' new plan
is causing dissent at Dustin's site.
When you're down in the water,
you can't see some of the danger.
The rock is holding the big one up right in front of it.
Start taking off the weight, [bleep].
[Carlos] Okay.
Oh, these rocks need to come down one way or another,
if we're gonna continue to dig.
I know that there is a risk, of course there's a risk,
we knew that this was gonna happen.
[narrator] The two smaller boulders block Carlos' path
to the ancient gold.
But Fred thinks removing them
will cause the monster above to come crashing down.
[Fred] I have absolutely no say-so
in anything out here.
Kinda like an operation that's running amuck.
What the hell is going on?
You can't go any deeper at all?
[Carlos] Nope, this is the whole rock
that's separating the pool.
All right?
Tell me what you want, you want to crack those two rocks?
[Carlos] Let's crack, let's crack these two rocks and see what happens, man.
Copy that.
[Carlos] Okay, hey, are we ready to pop this?
Just do this, man.
Three...
Two...
One...
[Fred] Perfect.
[Carlos] Oh, it's so dark in here.
Boy, is that some dirty water, man.
Like a diamond in the freaking sewage pond.
That was a lot of mud, my man.
Your filter just got slammed.
Something's wrong.
[groans]
[groaning]
Pitch out, pitch out, pitch out, pitch out, pitch out, pitch out.
Ow!
[James] Go get [bleep] thing.
Got get his thing.
[narrator] Blasting the rock has released silt
and blocked the water filters,
sending steam in place of water
directly into Carlos' dive suit.
[Carlos] I... I'm disconnected, I'm disconnected.
That steam, boys, that steam.
[Carlos] Craw fish boil, right there.
Look how much mud is in there, whew!
What the hell?
Sucking up all kind of stuff, getting through the filter.
[bleep], that is hot.
- [Dustin] You can't dive with this. - [Carlos] [bleep].
Everybody wants to know what's wrong with my leg.
Other than the fact that leg is, uh, bent,
twisted a little bit and shorter,
there ain't nothing wrong with it.
[laughs]
[narrator] The unforgiving terrain of Nugget Creek
has taken its toll on Fred's big boot.
It has a tendency to go "whoop" like that.
So, what I came up with is a device,
and that stopped it from twisting over.
It's like a brace.
I'mma see if I can fix it.
[chuckles]
It's a little bit of a bush fix.
Yeah, when you're out here,
sometimes, you just gotta do what you gotta do.
There it is.
See? It can't bend now.
Perfect job.
[laughs]
That steam, boys, that steam.
[Carlos] Craw fish boil, right there.
[narrator] At Dustin's site,
silt clogged the filters,
sending steam directly into Carlos' dive suit.
[Fred] It's like, the diver was getting a little warm down there.
He was toasting a little bit.
What that means is the filters need changing
on the water intake.
When it gets really dirty,
little bit of the water recharge going through the heater,
which means it also gets very, very hot.
How's that feel?
[Carlos] It's all right, I guess.
Little bit warmer than usual.
All right, I'm good to go, uh,
I think it's hot, man, I'm letting you know.
Oh, crap.
All right, man, let's go back to diving.
Dive, dive, dive.
[Scott] You're sending some good material into that box.
[Paul] Nice stuff down here.
[narrator] After removing five baskets full of rocks,
Paul's finally dredging the plunge pool that he found
hunting for a monster cash of gold.
[Paul] But gold blows down through here,
there's gonna be places where to get trapped.
So, we find the right pocket, we could have one hell of a payday.
Paul said that the bedrock seems like it's diving down even deeper,
that's exactly what I wanted to hear.
So, hopefully we see some really good gold.
[Paul] We're not even on the bottom, we're nowhere near the bottom.
The deeper we go, the better it should get.
[Kayla] That's a good sign.
[Paul] Dredged all the materials with the reach of the nozzle.
All right, clear it.
Get as much as I can.
Getting tired.
[Kayla] How you doing, Paul?
[Paul] I might go in, 'cause it's...
- [Kayla] Coming up? - [Paul] Yeah.
[Kayla] You get a lot more closed?
[Paul] I didn't expect it to just, step down another notch, so...
Uh, the good news is it's going down deep,
the deeper we go,
the better chance for a better catch.
[Kayla] I see a piece in the corner already.
Right there, and I see one in that corner.
[Paul] You got another piece?
[Kayla] Oh, dang.
[Paul] Oh, yeah.
[Kayla] There's pieces all over.
- [Paul] Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom [bleep]. - [Kyla] Dude.
[Paul] Damn!
This is a huge improvement.
- This is exciting, we're getting it, guys. - [Kayla] Yeah,
- this is starting to get exciting now. - [Paul laughs]
Down there, it's a plunge pool.
It's a good sign and hopefully, it's loaded with gold.
[Kayla] Today was the most gold that we've found so far.
It took a long time to get to this point
where we're actually seeing gold.
Well, I've definitely got some excitement going, I mean...
Seeing that much gold,
that's the most gold we've found all season, so,
it's definitely picking up.
We're on the gold streak.
We just gotta keep following it,
in that deep pocket, and uh, who knows?
This could be our best season ever.
[Carlos] We gotta get rid of that.
Ah!
I hope I got it.
[narrator] Underneath the 50 ton monster...
[Carlos] Now let's see if this stays...
[narrator] ...Carlos removes keystone boulders
so he can get down to the virgin ground.
[Carlos] Good, show up.
- Oh, I can't believe that thing held. - [James] Oh [bleep].
[Carlos] Let it go.
Let it go.
All right, when you get that out of the way there, James,
then let's get out of the way, or you could do up top, man.
[James] Three...
Two...
One...
[minor blast]
[James] Holy [bleep].
- Whoo-hoo. [chuckles] - [Fred] Holy crap!
- [Fred laughs] - [Carlos] Yeah, that's a big feat.
That's James' fault, he's the one that broke that one.
Holy moly.
[Carlos] Here comes the dirt.
Hey man, it's not looking good, pop up.
[Carlos] Yup.
You know how hot is it?
Whew, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- [Carlos] Is that hot? - Whoa, no, don't touch that.
Every time we pull the big boulder out of this little pond up here,
the mud comes down,
and really sticks it to our heating system.
And it clogs up up here,
where it's supposed to, it gets hot.
[Carlos] I'm gonna call it a day.
I'm not tired, man, I just can't, I just can't...
Go hot and cold, hot and cold, hot and cold no more.
Holy cow, I'm not tired, I just,
it's just hot and cold, hot and cold,
- I can't do it no more. - I know.
It's just killing me, man.
- Hot and cold, hot and cold, hot and cold-- - I'm trying, man.
I was trying but I couldn't keep you going.
Nah, that's good to go, man.
[Dustin] This all has to be for something.
We're not here to fix stuff and work hard for nothing.
We need something to go right.
We need some gold.
[Fred] A lot of boulders moved.
It was just a hot-cold, hot-cold kind of deal, man.
I feel like I was, uh...
Menopaused, having hot flushes.
I'm gonna go check the pot, dude.
Hoping that there's gold in here.
- Oh, there's gold. [laughs] That's gold. - [Dustin] Yeah.
- There's gold. - [Dustin] Yeah.
[Carlos] [bleep] there's gold.
There's gold right here!
Look at that, gold right here.
- Right here, look at that. Look at this. - [Dustin] Wow.
[Carlos] Yeah, it's all-- Look at that, it's all here, dude.
- [laughing] - [James] Holy [bleep], dude.
[all exclaiming]
[Carlos] Look at that.
[James] Amazing.
Hammering the box with gold.
Just about every time you dive, we're getting gold, so--
[Carlos] Look, there's, there's gold all stuck in the mat, dude.
[Dustin] Good job, Carlos.
Looking good.
Reaching gold from here.
Looks good.
There's a lot of gold in here.
[Dustin] Keep going under these, the boulders get bigger,
the gold gets bigger.
So...
You know, we're gonna hit that pocket,
and there's gonna be so much gold,
we don't know what to do with.
There's some hope.
We've been struggling, I mean, really struggling.
This is gonna inspire everybody.
We're gonna dig more, the dives are gonna get longer,
we're gonna get more gold than we ever [bleep] thought.
Just can't stop these guys.
I'm ready to crush this.
[narrator] On the next Gold Rush: White Water...
[Dustin] [bleep] that's insane.
There's not enough time to recover from this.
I think the season's over.
This is crazy.
The dredge just swam down the river,
so I'm doing what I can to try to save our dredge.
It's beyond anything I thought was possible.