[crew laughing]
So, you found bedrock today.
[Paul] We found bedrock...
finally.
[Wes] Sweet.
[Dustin] That's awesome, man.
You made our week, our year, our month.
[narrator] After five long months with almost no gold,
Dustin's crew see a bright light
at the end of the dark tunnel.
[Paul] Bedrock does exist!
[narrator] For the first time this season,
14.5 feet down, Paul finally hit bedrock.
[Dustin] We're looking for the bottom of that.
[narrator] If the crew can follow it to the deepest point,
there could be a fortune in chunky nuggets.
That's a big, big, big win for us.
We had a hell of a time getting to this point
because this has been a hard damn year for me.
I'm running out of money.
I'm running out of time.
The snow's on us right now.
Congratulations, everybody.
This is the start of our gold finding,
instead of gold digging.
[Wes] It's prep, prep, prep,
and then the finish is quick and bountiful.
What I want to find is all the nuggets
that are sitting there waiting for us right now.
They're up there going, "Where are you guys at?
Let's go on a road trip."
[Wes] "I'm ready to see some fresh air."
[James laughing] "Let's go on a road trip"?
[all laughing]
[Dustin] Whoa!
[Carlos] James!
[bleep]! What's going on?
[James groaning]
[loud thud]
[Dustin] It broke the prop.
We're just dead in the water right now.
[Carlos] We gotta do it today.
Is it gonna be peaches and cream,
or just frickin' goddang noodle soup
for the rest of the winter?
Time's running out. We just gotta get to the bottom of it.
I'm [bleep] seeing gold in the box.
That's amazing.
Look at that.
We're back on the gold.
This is awesome. Today is gonna be the start.
[Dustin] Right now, it's not looking good, guys.
[Wes] The snow is further down on that mountain right now, too.
It's insane.
I think winter is here.
[Dustin] We're running out of time.
Who's supposed to be diving today?
[Paul] James is diving today.
Okay. All right, so this morning,
we're going to continue on until we hit bottom.
We're desperate right now.
We have not found enough gold.
[narrator] With $100,000 owed to his creditors
and facing the loss of his Nugget Creek claim,
Dustin's mining future will be decided
in what could be less than two weeks.
-All right, everybody know what to do? -[Wes] Yep.
-[Paul] Yup. -Let's get out of here.
All right.
[Dustin] If they don't find gold, I don't even know what to do.
We might have to shut the doors on this place.
[Danielle] Uh, I got some bad news.
So this is the end of...
this can.
This is our last barrel of fuel.
We're almost out of fuel, too.
Just so you know.
-What? -Fuel.
We're almost out of fuel.
This is the last jug for real.
There's no more in there.
So we're out of gas?
We're completely out.
That can is empty.
I don't know if we'll get through the whole day with...
even with one diver in.
[Dustin] Just my luck. We're on bedrock at last.
All right, let's see what we can do.
That's another reason to go into town, man.
[narrator] This major oversight
means they must now waste precious dive time
on a 60-mile round trip to the nearest gas station.
[Dustin] Piss-poor planning on my part.
If we get going now,
we could be back diving this afternoon.
This is something we don't need.
We are running out of time.
It's just one more thing adding on to everything else
that's just been going wrong for us right now, so...
[Dustin] So we're having to take my boat.
James' boat went down.
Paul and Wes' boat, uh, their boat's down.
Fire me up.
Flip her up.
[engine starts]
Get another pair of earplugs for him?
-[Wes] I got 'em. -All right. Let's get out of here, y'all.
[loud thud]
What was that?
Something hit.
Get in the rope!
It broke the prop.
[Danielle] Is it totally toast?
[Dustin] Oh, it's done.
So what has happened here is
the front beams completely disintegrated.
They just fell apart
and what it did was it tilted the engine up...
enough for my props to hit the cage,
and the props exploded.
[narrator] On launching, the airboat struck a rock,
sending a shockwave through the hull
that fractured the welds on the motor mount,
causing the spinning propeller blades
to hit the safety cage at over 5,000 rpm.
And now it's really gonna cost us.
And we're going to spend a whole bunch of money,
money I don't have, on some new propellers.
There's only so much a human's brain should be able to take.
At some point, you crack.
Right now, we're just-- we're stuck.
We have no way in or out.
But we're going to have to spend some time
and get that boat going because...
we have no way to get back in and out of here.
[Danielle] Do we know what size these are?
There's a number on it.
It looks like it was 36-inch.
[Wes] Yeah. Just keep that right there.
Let me take a picture of that.
And this will give an idea.
[narrator] With all three airboats now out of action,
the challenge of sourcing a replacement prop
falls to Alaskan Danielle.
Hey, you got me?
[Wes] She is on top of it.
That's a good thing about having Danielle here.
Oh, that soon?
That's awesome.
Bye.
The propeller gets into Juneau tomorrow.
[Dustin] Jesus, man. What a nightmare.
I need it,
but here we are.
[narrator] Dustin's next problem,
how to transport the propellers
100 miles from Juneau.
I don't know what to do about it.
And there's solutions for it,
but I just haven't figured them out yet.
I'm not paying for helicopters.
I can't.
We're broke.
But we keep going because we're desperate at this point.
[Wes] Let's go find some gold.
[Dustin] There's nothing else we can do.
[narrator] Stranded at Nugget Creek,
Dustin's only option,
continue dredging for bedrock nuggets
until the gas runs dry.
[Dustin] You ready, James?
[James] I've been waiting.
I'm going to go as deep as I can
and get back on chasing the gold.
It takes tough guys like us to get in there,
and, uh, hopefully we can turn these frowns upside down.
We've got bedrock exposed.
Now we just got to find the gold.
You excited?
-Yeah. -I'm excited for you, man.
I want to be down there so bad.
Hopefully, by the end of today,
with any luck,
we'll actually find some gold to pay for all this nonsense.
There we go. She's ready.
Whoo! Yeah, I think so.
I think we're ready for him to be in.
We're burning fuel.
Watch the hair, all right?
All right. I'll try not to pull it.
[Danielle] You're gonna find that gold today, James.
That's why we call him the Gold Hound,
'cause he can smell that gold.
Yeah.
[Danielle] We're just all crossing our fingers.
[James] I'm gonna do what the gold hound does.
I'm gonna go sniff it out.
Wow.
Good job on finding the bedrock, bro.
[Wes] It's crazy this late in the season,
but this is the start of our dig.
[Paul] I hope so.
[Dustin] We haven't hit the bottom yet,
so we actually have to hit the bottom
in order to find gold.
[narrator] The bedrock they've exposed at 14.5 feet is sloping.
James needs to chase it down to its deepest point,
where there should be a monster pile of nuggets
big enough to pay off Dustin's debts,
and finally a payday to make them all rich.
This bedrock definitely looks interesting right there, doesn't it?
Very, very interesting.
Wow, it's so deep.
-[chuckles] -[Paul on comms] I know.
Dude, I hope you find a golden nugget down there.
I want to see a golden nugget come out.
Avoid this sucker.
This just turned into a fun dig.
[Danielle] James is super-excited.
We're all at the edge of our seats,
waiting to hear, waiting to find out
if he sees any gold down there.
I'm making pretty good progress right now.
[chuckling on comms] This is so fun.
All right. Well...
I think...
if I can get the pressure washer ready,
I can just see if I can open up this spot right here.
So we got the power washer up and running.
I love it. Such a small tool,
but such a powerful tool.
[Dustin on comms] Are you ready for that pressure washer?
Yes. Yup.
Coming down.
[narrator] To speed up his progress,
James will use the high-pressure jet wash
to send what should be gold-rich gravel
straight into the dredge hose.
Oh, we're doing some damage.
[Paul] Hopefully, today is the first real day of gold.
We need another big boost.
And, right now, a good gold nugget
would definitely be the boost we need.
[Dustin on comms] What you got going on down there, James?
I'm gonna open up some real estate
and we'll see some gold today.
[Dustin] Yes!
Finally, we got some good news.
Things are starting to go our way.
This is awesome.
I...
I've been waiting for this.
Today is going to be the start.
[narrator] Up ahead...
[Dustin] Time's running out.
We're gonna be in real, real, real, real trouble.
[Carlos] Hole is gone.
One step forward, three steps back.
[Dustin] The stress is getting to me.
I wonder if there's people out there that have had the level...
of failure that I've had.
Well, this is exciting, man.
[Paul on comms] Oh, dredging the bedrock.
Well, it's 16 feet deep.
I think it's going good so far.
James is moving a lot of material,
so hopefully, at the end of the day,
there'll be some gold.
[narrator] Three hours into his dive,
James has dredged down one and a half feet.
He could be just inches from the deepest part of bedrock
and its monster nuggets.
[James on comms] And I'm starting to open it up.
Nice.
[Wes] We're running low on fuel.
[narrator] But down to the last gallon of fuel,
he will lose his air supply if the tank runs dry.
I think we still have a chance to try to get something.
I really opened up this hole in good time.
Sounds like he had a good plan of attack...
-Yeah, it's-- -...and it's working.
It's working great.
He's been moving a lot of rocks.
You can definitely tell.
[Wes] [bleep], I'm out of gas.
We're done.
[Dustin] Are you [bleep] kidding me?
[on comms] James. James, up.
Diver up. Diver up, James.
Diver up.
You're good? Go get warmed up.
[Wes] We don't have any more fuel.
That's it, dude.
[Dustin] So we just ran out of gas.
We gotta make a gas run,
otherwise, we're just--
we're just dead in the water right now.
This is, uh...
the most frustrating [bleep] I've ever done.
I'm kind of checking out.
[Dustin] Yeah. We gotta go check the box.
[narrator] Completely out of gas,
Dustin is desperate for the sluice
to deliver a glimmer of hope.
[Wes] There's one piece.
There's probably a little bit more.
Got one piece right here.
That's not a bad little piece of gold.
[Paul] There's got to be some more gold in here somewhere.
Another little piece.
[Dustin] That's a good sign.
[Paul] It's definitely getting better.
We're back on the gold.
I think the deeper we go, the more bedrock we find,
the better it's going to get.
[Dustin] That makes me happy.
[Paul] Now we've got to get down to bedrock bottom
and hope we can find a bunch of 6-ounce nuggets or bigger now.
[Dustin] Well, damn good job, man.
We just...
got to get to the bottom of it, man.
[narrator] Despite finding pickers,
the crew still haven't hit bedrock bottom
and the chunky nuggets
which could save Dustin's claim.
[Wes] It's gonna be close, man.
We just need to get in town and pick up fuel.
[Dustin] Good morning, everybody.
-[Paul] Good morning. -[Danielle] Morning.
[Dustin] We need to fix my boat.
[narrator] To get the fuel to keep dredging...
Dustin must fit new propellers to his airboat.
[Dustin] So we're having to take a helicopter
because all of the boats are down.
[narrator] He had no option
but go another $2,300 in debt on an emergency flight.
Yep, we got our props.
Now we should be able to get...
Dustin's boat back together and, uh...
we can run down and go get fuel.
I think you only have today to do this.
Yeah, no, I think we can get it done.
[Dustin] Okay. So you guys know what to do.
Yup.
[narrator] But before they can fit the new props,
they must repair the smashed motor mount.
[Dustin] So, right now, Paul and Wes are going to go
and do some welding,
and they're gonna try to patch it together the best they can
to make sure we can run up and down this river
until the end of the season.
We have to keep our boats running.
I'm curious to get this opened up
and see how bad this [bleep] actually is.
Wes got material, welding supplies,
so he should be able to get Dustin's boat back to a condition
that it's worthy enough to put a propeller back on it.
[narrator] Wes will fit aluminum cross beams
to strengthen the hull
and prevent another set of props being destroyed.
Wow, that rib failed.
[Wes] All that sank down
and allowed the prop to hit the cage.
What's happened,
with all the rocks and things that we go over,
it's let the center of this thing push way up.
Because the engine is so heavy,
it's just pushed right through the bottom.
Half of the welds across where this engine is mounted are broke.
So that's our plan.
We're gonna start taking these things apart,
see if we can jack this up,
put some kind of a bracing across here and, uh...
beef it up a little bit.
They're fixing the boat.
I'm just stressed out,
so I'm just trying to clear my head.
So, I need that boat running.
It's priority. I need gold to pay for this.
That's way stronger than it was.
[Dustin] Wow, man, that bar looks amazing.
I think this is going to solve the problems for the engine...
you know, trying to break through the bottom of the frame
and the prop hitting the cage again.
For the most part, I think we've got it fixed as well as we can.
All we need now is the prop,
and we'll have this boat back online.
If we get this on,
then we can make a fuel run this afternoon.
That right now is the major priority.
Okay, the propeller has been designed to operate
from 10 to 30 degrees for optimum performance.
It's recommended to start at 15 degree pitch.
We definitely gotta make sure we're not gonna hit the cage.
[narrator] The angle of the blades is critical.
Too shallow a pitch,
and they won't generate enough air flow
to push the airboat forward.
Too steep a pitch will put more strain on the engine,
and the added thrust will make it difficult to maneuver
and dangerous.
[Paul] I think everything is set.
We got the old prop off,
we got those blades out, put the new blades in.
I think Wes got the pitch set just right.
I think we're ready for, uh, Dustin to warm this thing up.
See what he does when he gets full power.
[Dustin] All right. Oil is checked?
[Paul] Yup. Oil is good.
Let's get this thing fired up, see if it runs, right?
-[Paul] Go! -Firing up.
[engine struggling]
It's still too cold.
Yeah, it's just got to warm up a bit.
She's still too cold.
You hear that little whistle sound
instead of that loud popping noise?
[engine whirring]
[Paul] That is smooth.
Really smooth.
[Dustin] They're quiet.
I like that.
-[Paul] Yeah. -They're quieter than the last ones.
[crew laughing]
[Paul] Look at that!
That's got some power now.
-Yeah! -[Dustin] Yeah!
[Paul] That's definitely a win.
That's the best it's been.
Congratulations.
We got a boat.
I love it.
[Dustin] We have an escape plan.
Everything is good. Now we can go get fuel.
Thank you, guys, for that.
-That worked out. -[Danielle] Yeah. Nice work, guys.
[Dustin] All right, let's get going.
We need fuel and we need it bad.
[engine starts]
This is our supply run.
I'm glad we finally arrived.
The fuel is enough to keep us going and go for the gold.
[narrator] Needing $100,000 to save his claim,
this fuel is Dustin's key
to unlocking the monster nuggets on bedrock.
Let's get out of here.
And we can get back at it tomorrow.
[thunderclap]
[thunder rumbles]
That's a lot of rain.
[narrator] Overnight, the first winter storm hits southeast Alaska.
We got some fuel.
If we hit the bottom today, that would make my week,
but the weather is awful.
[narrator] Dustin and Danielle return with the vital fuel,
plus another valuable asset.
-[bleep] -[Dustin and Danielle laughing]
[Danielle] Good morning.
[Dustin] Did you fall asleep?
[Carlos] Holy [bleep], man.
[Dustin laughing]
Glad to be back. Went on my military doctor's appointment.
Finally get me back in the mix of things,
and I couldn't be more freaking grateful.
Gold don't mine itself.
[Dustin] We're running out of time.
I need the barrels out of the [bleep] boat right now.
-Copy that. Copy that. -[Dustin] Gotta get the [bleep] out of here.
Well, we're putting these fuel barrels on the buggy,
get 'em to camp.
That's good.
[Danielle] If you go on the right side,
-it'll fit better. -[Carlos] Want 'em to go on the right side?
-[Danielle] Yeah. -[Carlos] Okay.
That's good. Come down.
How about that? Good to go.
[Dustin] Look how fast that [bleep] going, y'all.
[Carlos] Whoo! That's a lot of rain.
So, this water right here usually comes from Nugget Creek.
So we gotta go check on the site,
see what everything looks like,
and hopefully our whole world doesn't turn upside down.
[narrator] The increased flow ripping down Nugget Creek
is cause for extreme concern.
[Dustin] Wrap my head around what I'm about to see.
[Paul] I know I'm afraid to go up there.
[Dustin] Oh, man!
[Danielle] Goddamn. Look at that.
[Paul] That's a lot of [bleep] water.
Wow.
I hope we still got a dive site.
[Dustin] Oh, my God, it held up!
-[Paul] Yeah, it did! -[Danielle chuckles]
Can you believe it?
[narrator] 12 hours of rain
have turned the dive site into a death trap,
but the weir has protected their hole from filling in.
The water is outrageous, but the weir held up
and it looks like we have a dig hole still.
[Wes] The happiest thing for me was
the dredge is still sitting there unharmed.
Everything seems to be in good shape right now.
[Danielle] Yeah, I'm impressed with the weir.
[Wes] That makes me extremely happy.
[Dustin] I can't believe that held up.
[Paul] Listen...
[rocks clattering]
-[Carlos] Whoa. -[Paul] Dude, that fell...
-That came from up there. -That fell... That came from up there.
-[bleep] -All right, everybody out. Everybody out!
[Paul] See, we know there's landslides here.
[Wes] The walls are too saturated.
[narrator] The waterlogged cliffs are crumbling,
unleashing death from above.
[rocks clattering]
[Dustin] Holy [bleep], dude.
We need to get out of here.
This is not the right place to be.
Let's just go back to camp. Let's get warmed up.
Let's try to dry up a little bit.
[Carlos] Copy that.
I'm not exactly sure what we're supposed to do here.
Waiting for the rain to quit before the season's out.
We finally got somewhere and we're in trouble now, so...
We can only hope and pray that the weir holds up to its name.
We still got hours upon hours of this.
Tomorrow is another day.
It's another story. We'll see.
[thunderclap]
[rain pouring]
[Dustin] Wow, that rain is something else, man.
Listen to that. That's crazy.
[narrator] A new day dawns,
and the winter rains continue to pound Nugget Creek.
That was more rain than we've seen in a long, long time, right?
-[Wes] Yeah. -[Dustin] It's still going.
[Danielle] Yeah, it hasn't stopped since we looked at it yesterday.
And it was already up so high, dude.
As far as that weir goes, that [bleep] might be going today.
-Yeah, that's a good point. -[Wes] Yeah.
-Anybody feel like go and check on this? -[Carlos] Yeah.
-[Danielle] I will. -[Dustin] My brain can't do it.
[rain pouring]
[narrator] Unable to absorb another blow,
Dustin hangs back
as his crew race to assess the state of the weir.
The dredge is still in the air.
That's good.
[James] Holy... That's moving.
[Carlos] Yeah, it is, dude. Coming down hard.
Yeah, no diving that.
[Danielle] Oh, [bleep].
[Carlos] Hole is gone.
[James] Hole is gone.
Starting over. Again.
[Carlos] Kitty litter. Kitty litter, kitty litter, kitty litter.
-[James] Dee, you gotta get a picture of that. -[Danielle] I will.
[narrator] The storm surge has breached the weir,
pushing tons of rocks and gravel into the dive hole
and onto the exposed bedrock.
[Danielle] Who's gonna tell Dustin?
Day two of flood watch, hole is gone.
This is the same rodeo we deal with all the time.
It's operation salvage our hole.
Start from the beginning.
-[Danielle] Hi, there. -[Dustin] Hi, there. How'd it go?
Well, it wasn't the best.
I did take some videos and pictures
so you can see it.
-[Dustin] Oh, wow. -That's the hole.
-There's a bunch of logs. -[Dustin] Wow. That's a lot of water.
All right, so the weir is still intact for the most part.
[Danielle] The dredge is fine.
Well, we got another flood. We knew it was coming.
[rain pattering]
I'll have to wrap my head around that.
We can't work today.
[rain pattering]
-Yeah. -Starting over's never easy.
No. Especially this late in the season.
-We just gotta wait for the water to come down. -Yeah.
[exhales slowly]
[narrator] At 16 feet deep,
Dustin's crew were moments away
from hitting the gold-rich bedrock bottom.
But now, to remove the storm infill could take days,
time they may not have.
I thought we were there a couple days ago,
which is hard to stomach.
It's gonna take some work to find some gold,
finally, before the... Damn.
Before the season's out.
[Carlos] We are literally on borrowed time.
Summer came. Summer went.
And we're back into a freaking Alaskan winter.
Not a good frickin' position to be in. Not.
Holy moly, man. Look at that.
[Paul] The water's dropped.
Should be a good dive today. Look how clear that water is.
-[Danielle] Yeah, it's nice. -[Carlos] Whoo-hoo.
Great dive day!
[Paul] I think we're ready to get the divers in the water.
With the amount of kitty litter down there,
it's going to take two divers to get this hole back down to where we were at.
So let's get to dredging.
Let's get ready to dredge!
[motor whirring]
[Dustin] Hey, why don't you go get suited up?
-Okay. Got it, man. Sounds like a plan. -Okay.
[James] We got a lot of work to do.
[Danielle] We gotta get after it.
The days are getting shorter.
Hopefully, we can get right back into the groove
and right back to where we left off, at bedrock bottom,
because we're running out of time.
We gotta do it today. This is over real soon,
and what we take home and what we got
is what's gonna buy dinner.
Is it gonna be peaches and cream
or just freaking goddang noodle soup for the rest of the winter?
-[Dustin] All right, get him in. -[James] Copy that.
-That tight enough? -Yeah, that's good.
[Dustin] Com check.
[Carlos on radio] Got you loud and clear.
Yep, that'll do it.
All right, now we're going in.
[Paul] Good luck.
[Carlos on radio] All right, man. I got a lot of kitty litter, man.
I see no fricking bedrock. None.
I got my work cut out for me, guys.
[James on radio] Hey, Carlos, how bad is it?
[Carlos on radio] I think we got about ten feet.
[narrator] Three days ago, the crew were on bedrock
and finding gold at 16 feet.
Now Carlos and James need to remove
around ten feet of gravel and rock infill
before they can start chasing the bedrock down to the nugget pile.
[Paul] How's your air, James?
-[James] Pretty good. -[Paul] Okay.
[Danielle on radio] James is in the water, Carlos.
[Carlos on radio] Welcome, James. Water's good. Come on in, bro.
[James on radio] It's good to be dredging with you again there, Carlos.
[Carlos on radio] Yeah, man.
It's great having two divers again.
There's so much work to be done down there with one diver.
We're never gonna get there. We've got to have two divers.
[Carlos on radio] The hole's still here.
Just got a lot of kitty litter.
With any luck, we'll get back down to it today.
Maybe find some gold, too. That would be awesome.
[Carlos breathes on radio]
[Wes] So, I'm finishing up the repair on Dustin's airboat.
The propeller hit this muffler,
and I guess that started a crack in it.
So I'm just doing a quick patch onto it,
sewed it back together, per se,
and, you know, it'd be good to go.
Everything we do out here is rough on all of our equipment.
We break everything. It never stops.
I just like building stuff.
If I go sit down then I get stiff, so I try to stay active.
It's the only way you can stay young, man.
You go sit down and you get old.
[James on radio] Good to be dredging with you again there, Carlos.
[Carlos on radio] Yeah, man.
[narrator] At the Golden Straits,
Carlos and James are attempting to get back to the bedrock
and find a pile of nuggets at the creek's deepest point.
-[rocks clattering] -[Dustin] Rock, rock, rock, rock!
[Carlos on radio] You okay, James?
Hey, James?
[James on radio] I'm all right, guys.
I just had a huge cave in.
Yeah, a whole bunch of rocks over their heads like that, it's no good.
I could see what was gonna happen.
Let's just keep going.
[Carlos groans on radio] So much kitty litter.
[James on radio] The last time I dove, I got rid of all this [bleep].
[Carlos on radio] This is the kind of gravel that I need in my driveway.
[narrator] Over the next four hours...
[Paul on radio] How's it looking down there, James?
Have you found that bedrock yet?
[James on radio] No, man, just...
Gotta be getting close to it.
[narrator] ...James and Carlos dredge 5,000 pounds of rocks and gravel.
[Danielle on radio] How deep are you?
[James on radio] 12 feet.
[narrator] But they are barely halfway through
the kitty litter covering bedrock.
[James groans on radio] This sucks 'cause we're losing time.
I don't know what to say, man.
Mother Nature's winning. I'm getting sick of it.
One step forward, three steps back.
[Dustin] He's gonna do kitty litter and basket rocks
for a very, very long time, guys.
There has to be a better way to do this.
So, Dustin, he's feeling the pressure.
End of the season closing in.
Flood after flood.
And re-digging the same hole several times.
[exhales]
Time's running out.
Man, this is killing me.
If we don't get any gold in this hole,
we're gonna be in real, real, real, real trouble.
We're on borrowed time.
I need a break.
[narrator] But almost out of time and money,
Dustin faces failure
and what could be the end of his gold mining career.
[Dustin] I decided to come work on the boat a little bit.
My Frankenmuffler.
I just gotta get out of my own head sometimes.
Sitting there hoping that we're gonna find gold every day
starts to wear on you after a couple months.
I'm hopeful that, before the snow flies,
we get enough gold to make this all worth it.
Honestly, I just, I get tired of thinking about what ifs.
What if we couldn't find the bedrock?
Too much debris?
What if we can't afford to come back next season?
What if there's no gold in this creek?
The stress is getting to me 'cause I'm failing.
Maybe I just wasn't cut out for this.
Maybe I should have been one of the laborers, and that's it.
I wonder if there's people out there
that have put this much effort in,
ever actually had the...
level of failure that I've had.
I'd like to know if there's anybody out there
that's done 14 years of this
without a real pay day.
Without hitting big gold.
[exhales]
[narrator] On the season finale of Gold Rush: White Water...
[Dustin] We're running out of time here.
We're about to get buried in snow.
Game on, man. Find some gold.
[Dustin] We're trying our hardest right now
to get everything out of this dig that we can get.
-[Danielle on radio] Found bedrock. -[man] Whoo-hoo!
[Dustin] Water drop!
We're about to get a damn flash flood.
[Paul] Here it comes.
[yells]
Another day like this, I don't think we can survive it.
One of us is gonna die.
[Danielle on radio] Is this is real, or am I dreaming?
-[Dustin] Ooh! -[Carlos yells] Oh, [bleep]!
Oh, my God! Whoo!
That's amazing. Look at that.
[Paul] I can [bleep] see gold in the box, too.
[Carlos] James, dude, nick of time, man.
[exhales] About damn time.
My plan is to keep going.
Let's do it.
[Dustin] This is just the start.