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[dustin hurt] all right, guys, it's time to find out how much gold we got.
[narrator] j ust over halfway through a season
Shortened by the global pandemic,
Dustin hurt and his crew are on the richest ground of their lives.
How many ounces do you think we got for three dives?
I say about ten. That's a safe bet.
[james hamm] I'm saying 15. Just looks like to me.
I say eleven.
[carlos] okay, I'm hoping there's more than ten ounces.
That makes for a pretty good week.
I think the gold in here is from james from hills drive.
It looked like a lot of gold when he came up, man.
[wes richard] oh, this is exciting.
I mean, we're getting underneath these boulders.
Got our hippo boulder out of the way and
And we started getting closer to the bedrock.
That stuff is just full of gold.
[dustin] that's probably an ounce sitting there.
[carlos] I bet there's more than an ounce sitting there.
It's just good to be on the winning team.
[wes] how does it look? [carlos] that's good.
It doesn't look great.
That doesn't look very good.
[wes] that's just one dive.
There was more in it than that.
I know there was more than that.
[james] there was something like...
Something's wrong.
No, that looks right to me.
[carlos] that looks like quite a bit of gold right there.
[wes] it could have gone anywhere.
[carlos] been locked up.
[carlos] you didn't leave the door open, huh? [wes] no.
[james] I saw that cleaned up and it looked bigger than that.
[dustin] something doesn't [bleep] add up.
We're at a dead stop.
-Is it that bad? -Well, yeah.
[dustin] if you let me have control of your site,
We'll get it done.
We're here to save the day!
[man] we got a big bedrock.
It's not a headache boulder.
It's a man-killer.
Fred, there's a lot of tension on that ride.
[metal clangs] there are winds that are [bleep].
[dustin] miner zero, boulder one.
[man 1] this isn't gonna last long.
- [man 2] I bet someone's there. - [dustin] yeah, I know.
-Three, two, one. -[explosion]
[dustin] look at all that gold.
I knew there was something there.
[all exclaiming]
[dustin] I remember when I looked at it,
It seemed like it was all the way across the board.
[wes] I feel like there's a lot more.
[narrator] last week...
[man] that big [bleep] rock.
[narrator] ...Dustin's crew used new blasting technology,
[dustin] all right. Let's do this.
[narrator] ...To remove a monster rock
From their dive site, rockfall ravine.
-Did you see that? -[laughter]
[man whoops]
[narrator] beneath it, james discovered pile of nuggets.
[man laughs]
We knew it's gonna be down there underneath that rock.
It's paid off.
[narrator] now, wes is cleaning up the gold
James sent down the sluice on that dive,
But it's coming up short.
[dustin] right now, my brain is on fire with,
"I'm making it up or not."
Something's not right.
It was more on that mat than that.
[wes] no, I don't think so.
I'm not [bleep] joking. It was more than that.
[james] I remember there being big pickers in there.
Did you separate the big pickers?
[wes] oh, you know what? You're right.
I've got nuggets that I pulled out
That we haven't put with anything.
So, there's a least another three ounces of nuggets.
There you go. [wes] this was in this.
[dustin] now we're talking.
I knew something was wrong.
Damn. All right. I'm not crazy.
[carlos] that's a lot in that bottle. [dustin] I know.
[narrator] wes moves on to the concentrate
From the two other dives.
-[carlos] oh, my [bleep]. Holy crap. - [man laughs]
[carlos] look at that. You see that, dude?
There's like an ounce in one scoop.
[dustin] oh, look at that.
[james] who else gets this kind of gold by hand, huh?
Anybody?
That's all in one weeks'.
[dustin] you'll find the pockets underneath these boulders,
Like you're finding every little pocket's got gold in it.
Well, let's get this panned up
And get it dried out and see how much it weighs.
Hell, yeah, fellas,
Look at us finding gold,
Like a real gold miners and stuff, man.
[wes] got to scale the nuggets.
Let's see what this stuff weighs.
[narrator] if the ground under the hippo rock
Is as rich they hope...
-[dustin] ready? -[carlos] yup.
It could mean there's a big payday to come
Once they reach bedrock.
Let me see, four ounces, six, seven,
Eight point six ounces.
-With nuggets? -No, without it.
Damn.
-[wes] plus the nuggets... - [james] p lus the nuggets...
[dustin] eleven point four.
[wes] almost eleven and a half ounces, total.
That's for one week.
I said eleven. Eleven point four is what it come out to.
Not bad, guys. That's for real three dives.
[dustin] let's be clear.
That amount of gold came from underneath one single boulder.
[james] one hippo-sized bolder.
Good deal, man.
[narrator] their combined total
Of twenty five point six ounces
Is close to matching last year's entire haul,
And there are still two months left to mine.
And with the price of gold at a record high,
They're already $5,000 a head.
[dustin] gold's at over $2,000 an ounce right now,
And for nuggets, that's even more.
So, we're talking about $2,800 an ounce.
[wes] if we continue our season on like that,
It's going to be tremendous.
[carlos] what's the story with this ugly thing, man?
That probably is right out of the source.
That is a nugget, and it's covered with host rock,
And it's the ugliest nugget I've ever seen.
But it's still gold.
[james] so, you see that nugget?
You see how it's kind of flattened and polished up?
It's traveled.
So this one didn't come from as close as this one did.
This one came out from right there where we were digging right now.
I believe. It didn't travel anywhere,
So there's got to be a source
Right there close to where we're at.
That's good news, right?
[james] yeah. I'll take those ugly nuggets
Any day of the week.
I can't believe there was that much gold
Under that single boulder.
There's still boulders down there
And I hope this continues.
I know for a fact there's more gold to get.
I'm just gonna go collect it boys.
[dustin] we're doing great. We're finally making money.
We're gonna not just break-even
Or any of that stuff this year.
I feel like we're gonna finally succeed
At what we're doing and find a bunch of gold.
All right, let's get to work.
[man whoops]
Oh. Plan is just to get in there and kick ass.
[narrator] half a mile upstream,
77 year-old fred hurt is having
A much different season than his son dustin.
[fred] all right. We're just going down to see what's going right here.
[narrator] so far, fred has faced challenge after challenge.
[fred] you've got to be kidding me. [groans]
But has refused to back down
In his hunt for a life changing payday.
[james] what you got? What you got?
-[fred laughs] -[james] that's gold.
That's the real thing, man.
-[fred] all right. -[men laugh]
There goes fred's synchronized swimming.
[fred] down, down, down.
[narrator] fred and his crew are following the face
Of an ancient waterfall down to bedrock,
Where he believes they'll find a massive deposit of gold.
Fred, you get no dinner till you find gold today, buddy.
[fred] I'm trying to work on it.
[narrator] but in their way is another six feet of rocks and gravel.
[fred] I'm at 14 feet deep.
I don't have a hole to lock on,
Something to grab on, on the side of the wall.
You're gonna finally need a ladder down here.
Copy that.
[james] so he wants to put another board out like that.
Then we could run that ladder right down into this hole.
Fred wants us to run a ladder down into the hole.
So it makes it easier for the diver to come up and down
Because right now walls are pretty steep.
Deeper we get, the more dangerous it gets.
So anything we can do to help that,
That's what we're doing.
[fred] I need a gold blaster.
[paul] copy that. Gold blaster coming down the blue rope.
-[paul] fire it up. -[fred] I'll fire it up.
[engine whirring]
[fred] we're just blasting away, man.
And now I'm on my way.
I'll just start working my way out
And make a bigger hole out of it.
I feel like, in the bottom of the hole,
There's a lot of debris.
You're taking this nice, clean water.
Up here, it's turning all muddy, fred.
[fred] wait a minute. Hold up...
Holy [bleep]
[paul] you all right down there?
[fred] we got a kick ass rock.
If we expand and hold on,
There's a gold mine on it.
[paul] be careful, man.
We don't want to get stuck down there, friend.
[speaks indistinctly]
Extreme danger for anybody down here.
I'm glad to get this rock out of here.
[paul] I like fred's got a pretty good rock down there,
That he doesn't want anybody under messing with.
I think he's gonna try to work on it and do what he can
To get that rock out.
[fred] all right. I've got to try blasting my way on it.
If I can cut this lose.
[narrator] fred is expanding the sides of the hole
To allow him to go deeper towards the bedrock gold.
But if he undermines this massive boulder,
It will come falling down,
Crushing him in the bottom of the pit.
...Negative. It's a huge rock. If that thing comes loose...
You're not getting out of it. It would pin you down there.
If it got your leg, if it got your umbilical,
You'd be stuck down there.
[fred speaking indistinctly] [bleep]
I don't know exactly if I'm gonna
Get this damn thing to move or not.
I didn't wonder if I'm gonna get five more right there.
It's finally wide enough
To kind of pry this thing away from the side of the wall.
Uh, give me that arc.
Oh, the big pray bar? Copy that. Let me go look for it.
Put a little bit of white tape on this so you can see it underwater.
That's so we don't lose tools underwater.
Hopefully, this will work.
[grunts]
I put white tape on the handle so it's easy to see.
[fred] thank you.
[scott] fred's down there trying to get this big boulder out of the way.
I'm really concerned.
The size of boulder he's talking about,
It's not a headache boulder, it's a man killer.
[fred] all right.
I'm gonna make sure that that big son of a [bleep]
Don't come rolling down there visiting me.
If you can at least get it loose to get it in the bottom of the hole,
We can still work around it and still get to the bottom and just keep rolling it down.
Hopefully, he gets there where it's not a danger anymore.
[fred] I'm getting blocked in by one rock.
And I just can't get down to that [bleep].
[paul] it's about head high
And with it like that, if you undercut it too much and it comes rolling in,
If you're on the bottom of the hole,
That's where you're gonna stay.
[fred] I'm not gonna get anything else done today
Trying to get that rock out of here.
[fred groans] I'll be damned.
Is everyone okay down there?
[fred] uh, I just can't get an advantage on this rock.
[narrator] over two hours in the water,
77-year-old fred continues his battle with the giant boulder
That stands between him and the bedrock gold.
[fred] if I can get one little spot, I could get a hell of an advantage, but I can't.
Just sitting there is all it's doing.
Wanna turn at a little bit of an angle
But it just doesn't want to come right out.
You know, just for the hell of it,
Why don't you give me a strap?
[paul] you want the strap, you said?
[fred] yeah. I'm going to try something here.
Just hope it works.
[narrator] fred attempts a quick fix,
Attaching a strap so that they can try to pull it free.
I got you looped on to this, then if you wanted it.
[fred] I don't know...
It's a couple of pounds...
Can you take the end of the cable, crook an arm, twist that?
[[paul] copy. We can do that.
[fred] I have no idea when we'll have to start pulling on this thing.
Thanks, fred. Got that big rock hooked up.
We get this strap hooked up,
Maybe we can get that rock pulled out.
[fred] do a little snag back.
[paul] copy that.
[fred] I have no idea if this thing is gonna catch or not.
You're pulling on a slab.
Hold it, hold it.
[paul] copy that.
[fred] all right. Little tighter.
I guess, if we can even get it to move at all.
[paul] yeah, wiggle it a ton.
Get a couple of those straps.
Copy that.
-[fred] am I in the middle? -[ryan] yeah.
[fred] going ahead.
Got a hell of a line on it.
I just slipped right off.
[man 1] there's a lot of tension on that, fred.
[man 2] yeah, it is real tight.
[narrator] if the cable breaks,
It could slice any of the miners in two.
-[fred speaking indistinctly] -[ryan] yeah.
-[fred] pull it a little tighter. Just a little... -[snaps]
-[speaks indistinctly] -[man] yeah, the strap...
[fred] all right, it's not gonna work. [bleep]
But I think it'll come up.
It doesn't seem to want to take a strap.
[ryan] basically, we're trying to lasso a rock down there.
Fred can get the lasso around it,
But every time I pull on it, it just slipped off the rock.
A really dangerous situation down there right now.
So far, you've been down for about three hours.
It is right now 12:40 p.M.
[fred] damn thing is so big. [bleep]
Definitely don't want anybody else to get to it.
It is going to be out of here before I get out this afternoon.
Fred doesn't want the next diver down in there
With something like that overhanging.
In his mind. It's his job to take care of the more dangerous stuff.
But we've got some young guys out here.
We'd like to get down there and help,
But is a stubborn old goat so he's not having that.
He's gonna try to get that boulder out today.
[fred] wrap this thing just right.
A pressure washer, I think,
Might roll that big son of a [bleep] right into the basket.
Let's go and get the basket down here.
[paul] copy that.
[scott] so we've tried strapping it,
We've tried just moving it by hand.
Now fred is blasting around it with a gold blaster.
He's going to try to roll that big boulder down into the rock basket
So we can pull it up and out.
[fred] so far, so good.
Getting down behind the rock.
Material does not get in the way... That's going lightly.
I'm standing down here.
Get your feet out here, get around, get down behind it.
[narrator] four hours in the water.
Fred's running out of time in his battle with the deadly boulder.
I mean, hell, hat rock's been there for a long damn time,
So there could be a major payday for us.
Nuggets! I'm talking nuggets sitting underneath that damn thing.
So we really want to get it out.
[fred] all right, the sled is positioned at the bottom of the hole.
Take the line off the sled and I'm gonna see if we can pull that thing back.
All right, I got you a choker cable. Ready?
Just waiting at the end of a cable.
All right, pick up a little bit.
Oh, no.
Keep going.
A bit more. A bit more.
Hold up. Hold up.
Is there any way we could put that in a block?
I was just thinking of the same thing.
I'm on my way there.
Fred's plan.
Position a snatch block thirty feet upstream
And lower down on the creep wall.
This will redirect their winch cable and create a better angle
To pull the boulder out from the side of the hole.
We pulled the cable back a little ways, give it a different angle.
Give it a different direction of pull.
So hopefully now we can get that boulder hooked up, right?
With a different angle or pull.
We can get it down into the basket
So we can get it out of here.
All right.
All right. Pull in on that just a little at a time.
All right. Copy that, fred. Pull on easy.
Oh no!
The high is rigged.
Well, damn it, fred. What do you think, man?
Damn, these rocks just keep going
And going and going and going.
There's a good chance
We won't even be able to blow this stuff.
The score is miner zero, boulder one.
So we definitely gotta get that damn thing out of our way
I got a hose around the back of this thing
Dragging out here.
Be careful, man.
Don't worry about this. I'm working on it.
It's possible if we can blast a hole in it.
It could break. Just be careful and slow.
All right. The gold blaster's running.
I think fred's gonna try to hook that rock up again.
One more attempt on trying to get that boulder out.
Fred's approaching five hours.
That's the longest time so far this year.
And he's been down there working on it,
2,000 lb. Rock, the whole day.
That's got me concerned.
Yeah, I got it.
He's worked his way underneath it, made a hole.
Now he's able to pass the cable
Underneath the boulder and attacked it on top.
Now all we gotta do is pull on it
And see if it comes out of there.
This was not the way we like to do things,
But unfortunately, all the conventional methods have been tried.
Now we just can't get it, so unconventional it is.
Uh, let's try this cable one more time.
Putting in clear.
Got pieces of huge [bleep] rocks weighing it down.
All right, here we go.
I hope we don't break nothing.
The first time we've ever really blown off that block up there.
Yeah, there's tension on it.
Fred, there's a lot of tension on that rock.
Yeah. Well, just keep that thing just like it is.
I just hope he's out of the way
'cause that rock goes over his umbilical or anything else,
We're not getting him out.
All right. Pull on it a little bit.
All right. Just pump it a little bit more.
That's trying to come off.
All right, do it again.
Okay.
One, two, three.
[bleep] pumped off.
I don't know what to do.
It has not budged.
I just don't see any other way to do it.
I'm gonna come out.
Diver's coming op, diver's coming up.
After a season record of five-and-a-half hour dive...
Good job, fred.
...Fred finally admits defeat.
Absolute disaster down.
It's at least four foot tall from underneath it,
Over to the top of, yes,
Two big boulders.
I thought that we were just gonna tip it over.
It didn't even move.
Well, you gave it a hell of an effort, anyway.
We'll figure it out.
Just had to spend an awful lot of time on that rock but...
...In the end...
The rock one.
Well, good job today.
Fred and his crew returned to camp
After more than five hours
Spent battling the monster boulder.
I know the boulder didn't come out of there, but you gave a hell anyway.
Yeah, we learned about it anyway.
Yeah, it was a mother [bleep].
I gotta go talk to dustin anyway.
-Dustin's inside? -He's inside.
Hey, dustin, come see.
Hey, fred.
What's doing on, man?
Oh, man.
-Rough day? -Yeah.
Hours of frustration today.
Oh. What you guys get into?
Oh, I'm dealing with a rock,
About 3,000 lb. Rock that I don't think I could get out of the hole.
I couldn't even break it loose.
-Oh, it's still on a wall. -Yeah.
I refuse to let anybody go down there till we get rid of it.
Is it undercut?
Yeah, a little bit.
I'll be damned.
It's pyramid shaped,
So it makes it hard to try to hook it.
It's that toll from the top to the bottom of it.
I need to bust that thing or something.
Otherwise we're at a dead stop.
It's that bad?
-Well, yeah. -Okay.
I mean, we can go out, but we can't go down
Because the thing is hanging in the wall.
I see what you're saying.
Standing up in the bottom of the hole right now.
It's right there.
And if we go out or down or whatever,
Fall right over on it.
So anyway, maybe, uh, what if the guys
Could crack that thing?
All right. Um, yeah.
We can come over and crack that rock for you.
Well, that'd be great.
Yeah. You won't have to worry about it.
We got a technique down
That's just beautiful now.
All right. Great.
But we have and underwater drill
That's having a few problems.
It's a little fickle.
So it will be either me or carlos
That would drill with it.
Just if you let me have your sight for just an hour,
Then we'll pop it off and, uh, bail.
Uh.
If you let me have control of your sight, we'll get it done.
All right.
Well, I appreciate it.
-Could be weird to see... -Do you see what that hat says on it?
-Huh? -You see what that hat says on it?
-Oh. [bleep] -it says "dust."
You leave it laying around.
-I just pick it up. -Oh, gosh.
-I know, I know. -I just pick it up.
All right, so we'll come crack a rock for you tomorrow.
After you see this, you'll never go back.
Yeah, well, that's good, because we got that one in the way
And I can tell you it kicked my ass today.
All right, then we'll see you guys in the morning.
See in the morning, fred.
Carlos, you're not using my wetsuit.
[bleep] I'm wearing your wetsuit, man.
Tomorrow, I'm gonna go crack rock for fred hurt.
He, uh, must be desperate
'cause he asked me for help for the first time.
Apparently stuck and there's a big rock that he can't get under way.
We'll just go crack it and move on.
Work with fred for the first time this year. It will be different.
Putting their hot streak on the whole,
Dustin and his crew return to the trifecta
To help save fred's season.
Dustin and his crew are coming over here to help us with little rock.
They have some kind of a device
That would help with our little situation right now.
They claim it works great.
We'll see.
We'll get one of them in the water,
Let them go down to do their thing.
Hopefully we're in and out two hours, tops,
About how long I could tolerate working with fred.
So in and out, back to our own work.
We have a lot of work to do this season,
So I can't spend all this time with him.
He and I don't work together that well, so.
We are here to save the day!
What's going on, fred?
Hey, dust.
I can make it out.
For the first time this year,
Father and son will work together
As they try to remove a monster widow maker from fred's hold.
Yeah, back to trifecta.
Not 'cause I want to be here
But I'm trying to help fred.
A lot of things I would change here,
But we're only gonna be here for an hour or two.
It'll be just fine.
There's a huge deposit in that point.
I can feel it.
For two seasons,
The dakota boys mind the trifecta side by side.
Hey, fred, can you believe it?
Hold that and pull them together.
But with dustin in charge,
They fought over where to dig for gold...
There's no reason for me to be over there.
I think the gold is right there.
It takes a little more explaining
To get it through some thick gold.
What's going on?
How about coming up with a better solution for your problem?
You're my problem, though.
...Ending up with only thirteen ounces for all their hard work...
No gold, no gold, no gold.
...And leaving dustin broke.
I wasted a lot of time on this. I won't be wasting any more.
This is the wall that came up right here.
All of this is gone.
All of that was solid.
It all washed away.
I think this is where I wanted to come with the digger.
Wes talked to a psychic.
So a psychic told him there's gold up there.
Fred decided it was over here.
I dug right in the middle, so.
Everybody's wrong except...
Well, I'm the only one that's wrong here, so.
I dug here twice two years
And I don't wanna think about how deep they have to go.
If there's any gold, it's gonna be on bedrock.
If he finds a big pocket, he'll find more.
But how did you notice a pocket down there?
Onley fred has an idea of why he thinks that.
I hope he does well. I just don't expect he will.
That is my light.
That's mine.
I've been looking all over...
We tore everything apart looking for this [bleep] light.
Good. Glad you found it.
Oh, fred.
We're back together again, man, where it all started.
Started off again, dude.
It's the first time I'm getting to work with you, beside you.
This is awesome, dude.
-Thanks for coming down here. -This is freaking awesome.
All right. Today you're gonna dive,
Drill some holes, place some power heads.
I know you guys. This is your side.
We're just gonna run for just a little bit.
You pop a rock today. Be in and out, right?
If everything goes well with the drill, if she's not acting up.
-You talk nice to it. -I gotta talk nice, man.
All right, I'll be on coms with carlos.
Try to keep down on the cross talk
Because we don't do that a lot. It freaks us out.
-We don't either. -Okay.
So everybody know what to do?
All right, let's go.
Paul ryan, scott, you all go down and get that dread running,
And get everything all ready to go.
Sounds good.
[motor starts]
There she goes.
That's almost like, you know, a large regular.
Yep. Makes me feel like a big boy.
Yeah, man, you're diving with the big boys today.
Yeah.
-Okay. Appreciate that, man. -No problem.
Let me tell you a story, ryan.
This is where I was born.
[ryan laughs]
I'm happy, man, because we're all working back together again.
This is how I started off.
This is where I learned to dredge, right here.
It feels good to be back, man.
While carlos prepares to die,
Wes readies the power heads
And the charges that will blast the rock.
There's one that's ready to go.
Pretty slick, if you ask me.
Well, this thing took care of our hippo boulder, that's for sure.
This boulder, this, uh, fred and these guys got
Is probably a little bit bigger than the hippo boulder maybe.
So, this is going to be interesting.
We may have to do a double.
We might have to blow it once and crack part of it off
And then, uh, set up and do it again.
Get this [bleep]. Yeah.
I'll wait for you then. Yep.
I guess you walk in this way.
All right, guys.
Come right on it.
I want to give you some last minute air.
You're right on the verge of stopping off
Into a ten-foot hole. Okay.
Or twelve-foot hole.
The hole is about where that rock is,
Just pull out of the way into that way to the ladder.
You'll run right into that big rock.
Go on. Perimeter check.
Yep. I'm doing a perimeter check.
-Thank you. -Absolutely. Bye then.
Sorry, fred, you're really loud, and I could barely hear him.
You close my eardrums out when you talk.
Uh-huh. Got the hold. Yeah.
[speaking indistinctly]
You can see the rock right there, right there.
Carlos, he's gonna keep trying to tell you what to do
Until you he makes out what you're doing.
It better be coming over there.
Hey, fred. He's gonna do a perimeter check
To make sure nothing's gonna fall on him from the top.
Yeah, I got it.
For the first time, this feels like work this year.
I love doing what I do.
I don't know why this feels like work.
Okay.
I see it. I see it!
At the trifecta,
Dustin and his crew have come to his father's rescue.
If they can use their new rock splitting technique
To demolish fred's unmovable giant boulder.
Then fred can carry on digging down to bedrock gold.
Oh, what the hell, man?
This rock is bigger than a hippo.
But this sunken behemoth is bigger than
Anything he's dealt with before.
Okay.
Let's see how do I want to blow this up.
That might take a couple of blasts.
It's a pretty big rock.
-That sounds fun. -Yeah.
Let's just blow it to smithereens.
Yep.
He realized how big that rock is there.
-Pretty good-sized rock. -Oh, good.
That's great, man.
Where to get better, man?
All right, I'm going to the ladder
And I'm going to get my drill.
-I'll wait for you. -Okay.
Thank you, sir.
[exclaims]
Carlos will use the pressurized underwater drill
To bore three 13-inch holes in the monster boulder.
He will then insert the blast rods.
When the trigger is pushed,
The detonation will cause a shock wave
That will crack the boulder from the inside out.
Ah, come on.
Don't mess with me today.
-Still working? -Yeah.
There's just this one big,
It's coming at a different angle.
I'm gonna need a little bit of time.
Carlos is down there, drilling the rock right now,
Hopefully he can crack that [bleep] and get it out of our way.
We need to get down and that thing's right in our way right now.
Did that hit?
Did it get hit?
It's not hit it.
You know what, you're gonna have to give me a smaller drill bit.
Copy that. Smaller drill bit.
-We got it coming. -Okay.
Sorry I didn't see this coming.
No, no. No worries.
Carlos is struggling with the smooth surface of the boulder.
His solution?
Drive a pilot hole with a smaller drill bit
Before coming back and enlarging its hole.
[inaudible]
But all the drilling is eating up their battery power.
The driller we have batteries aren't the best.
Run out really quickly and I'll have to up.
Throw one charge, and sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn't done.
It's not perfect, but it's doing the job
That nothing else could do, nothing else.
[machine whirring]
Good checks. Wanna second home?
[distorts]
Dustin, what happened? [laughs]
[inaudible]
Copy that will pull up.
Batteries won't last one now.
Good choice that immediately.
We need one batteries man.
Use it wisely.
Okay. [laughs]
[grunts]
-Does it quit? -No, no, no.
Freaking not. Lots of hole in that.
Okay. That's second hole now.
Plus for the third one.
Yup. Definitely its the third one.
-Does he get couple of them? -He's got.
Three, I thinking right now. But they are not that deep.
They need to be thirteen and a half.
They had the worst damn batteries.
You have to see.
I want to pull him up, but, you know we're in alaska.
-Yeah. -[laughs]
Okay. Drill be changed.
Got it which one you want?
-Long one? -Yes, get the long one.
All right, long one
He's gonna drill this, but you can with the battery life that we have.
Hopefully we can crack this rock.
It works perfect the first time.
We don't have to go back down and drill it again.
[machine whirring]
Oh, that's one pal.
-One? -Yeah.
Someone give a cup of coffee.
I don't wanna be doing it. Make me some coffee.
Yeah, I tried to tell him, but he didn't want to hear it.
[laughs]
-Third box? -Yeah.
I'm gonna bring this drill up there.
Step by, step by, hold on.
Laid out again, I'm having trouble with radio.
Sorry manager, I can't hear it,
I used to all this [bleep] noise.
They're so used to talking to each other,
Over these things that they just must kill.
It would carlos to flip out.
I guess he's only here for an hour, but after five hours he loses. [bleep]
He'd be like, "shut up, everybody.
That's enough talking to each other."
All right, wanna hurry up, will get you.
[inaudible]
I love you guys. Don't yell. I used to do it. Can you all?
Let's just go talk to each other.
-I'm messing some? -Yeah, he's getting mad, because of the cross talk.
What do you need?
He's working on all down there.
Just let him be, yeah?
I got a lot of memories here at trifecta.
Not a lot of them good.
I didn't really succeed here.
I'm done with this place.
Fred's not, but I'm done with this place.
Got a lot of time and effort put into this,
Very spot where I'm standing right now.
I've got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of moving rocks.
I didn't ever think I'd be back here.
You're right.
[grunts]
-[dustin] stop, don't you guys stuck? -No, no, no.
No, must get us side, I tried to pull it out as quick as I can.
I think I get one more matter.
Just a bit so freaking long.
I can't get no stability man. I think give some force.
[machine whirring]
Oh, I mean I was power hit.
Power!
[dustin] power it!
Now, I'm gonna have some fun.
-You got all three drills? -[carlos] yeah.
I'm able to see... [speaks indistinctly]]
No problem, we delicate with these things.
-You've got three, I guess. Right? -Yeah.
Looks like this three and then, we'll go from there.
Get ready for arrive, first debt as we call it for the first detonation.
I'm really excited. This should be pretty cool.
You gotta plug one of them in?
Yeah.
I want to plug it into the cord.
Just what we're plugging one.
All right? You should be able to get there now.
Just follow me down with that.
Follow him down. Just tended down.
-Whatever he say. -I will.
[carlos] let's see what we have got here.
Yeah.
[laughs] perfect?
Carlos is putting a bow here, into the rock.
It's kind of a delicate thing.
And I was gonna plug him all up, and we gotta yank him out.
Can't be underneath water we expand the rock because, uh,
Well, that are knocking him out..
[laughs]
[inaudible]
All right, power get three.
Can you hear me?
Get for that trigger.
We will. Take it easy man.
[laughs]
Okay. Someone got slowing.
All right, man. Everything is good.
Comin up.
[narrator] the power heads now inserted.
Ready for detonation.
Carlos clears the blast zone.
We will get some beer, everything's good.
Good job man.
All right, everyone.
No one could be under this clip right here.
No one could be under that clip.
The sides of these mountains are so rotten.
It doesn't take much to get him to fall.
So we clear everybody out, away from all the rock danger.
If this thing does, call the rocket ball everybody clear.
Fred.
You're gonna do a detonations.
Wes, set you up. And this is your trigger, fred.
Yeah. I got you.
-Is there everybody secure? -Yeah.
All right, wes, you're up, buddy?
[wes] going hot.
Give it hell, fred. Give it hell.
Going hot right now.
Everybody just makes you nothing falls on you.
Okay we are hot.
Ready, whenever you are fred.
All right.
I'm just seeing what t his little baby does there.
Fred about to head it.
-Off the works. -Yeah.
Nine, eight, seven,
Six, five, four,
Three, two, one.
Contact.
Hopefully it's sittin' in the bottom of the hole and pieces right now.
That ten countdown was a little excessive,
But that's all right.
I thought he only went to five.
I thought I would do three.
That's all I ever do three, two, one.
That's enough.
Starting countdown from one thousand.
[fred] one hundred, fifty, twenty five, one, go.
Three, two, one.
Contact.
Oh, I felt it, definitely shook the ground.
There it goes, there, bubbling up right now.
[all cheering]
I gotta hope it broke that rock into pieces.
Oh, man, it sounded like it was blowing up back there.
All right? It is safe for the diver to go back in the water.
[narrator] after blasting the boulder.
Give her hell, carlos.
[narrator] carlos dives back down to see if the mission was a success.
Hey, carlos, did you blow up the whole thing?
Aah, [bleep] man!
Does it need another, blast or what?
To make the sites safe, carlos will have to repeat the process.
You get a little right, that thing, I think, would really help us out.
[inaudible]
This isn't gonna last long.
Coming. Coming.
This is taking longer than we thought.
A little worried that he's not gone a be able to do this.
We can't afford to spend all our time here.
We have to get back to our own job.
Got one big beef left.
They're going to blow that one, too.
-Carlos? -That really a hot [bleep] .
Ah! You're kidding me!
[grunts] no.
Did it quit?
It stopped altogether.
Oh, come on baby. Just doing good.
Hold on. Okay. Perfect.
Okay. [laughs]
That's what I'm telling you, man.
This thing has a mind of its own, man.
I know, you got trade it right.
I just don't wanna curse it man, you can do it, girl.
It's running barely, but it's running.
[narrator] their batteries almost drained.
Carlos attempts a second hole.
-Your batteries are almost dead. -I know.
We'll see if the battery makes it., man.
That's right. Battery stops.
I think you put that one more power head in the right place.
Let's going out.
Instead of drilling three holes, like before.
Carlos is hoping they can blast the rest of the rock,
With a single charge.
Perfect.
All right, plugged in, wire secured.
Okay. We're good.
-Come on up. -Okay. Coming up.
All right. Fred's getting you a countdown, fellows,
He wants you to go from one hundred this time, fred.
-Let's do it fred. -All right.
Carlos, you got the rock all set up, so free two.
Six, five, four, three,
Two, one.
[explodes]
Damn! That's louder.
[all cheering]
Open that did it.
Well, what's the damage?
-Carlos. -What is done.
It's gone dude. Cut into pieces.
Back now.
I job here is done, guys.
All right, we're done here.
Nice work fellas. Really nice. Really nice.
Appreciated.
I got something for fred.
That's some smallest piece.
-Good job. -How much fun was that?
That was pretty fun.
It's a whole new game changer.
Oh man.
I'm gonna send hole down there right away to fill up fast start.
Hell, yeah. Good job.
-All right, man. -I got to go, man.
Oh, good man, it's all up to you now.
I'm pretty excited to see what it did.
Easy peasy, amigos.
Good job man.
This is the blast for the past for me bro. This is...
-A literal blast. -Yeah. A literal blast.
We gotta get back to our site and get diving.
Fred is big stuff.
Hi, fred.
Oh, yeah.
All right. Stop appreciating.
Absolute fred.
We're dead in the water.
Awesome, man. I'm glad we could help.
-So... -Thanks a lot.
-Now. All right. -All right, fred.
-Later. -Good luck.
Yep. Thank now.
You're welcome.
-See you man. -Thanks buddy.
Fred was thankful. I'm glad we could help him.
It's still a little hard to work with fred.
He and I have history, but we behave today.
We had a good time at the end.
He said, thank you.
That's a big deal.
Apparently, that's a huge deal.
When fred says thank you, he's never really done before.
I was glad to have dusted and his crew come down here and help us out.
This was excellent teamwork here.
We had a great day today.
Let's get our diver in the water now.
We got some gold to find.
Fred's nemesis boulder successfully reduced to rubble.
He and his crew can get back to digging down to the bedrock gold.
[speaking indistinctly]
Ready to go.
Oh wow.
What do you think?
Wow, that worked amazingly good.
Just a bunch of basket rocks.
That's definitely took care of all that from.
All have gone down there,
To pick up a patients.
Now hole a biggest gigantic 3500 pound rock,
Is 20 pound rock.
A lot of trouble.
All right, I think I got full run basket.
I will be down.
On a move.
Wow. It's just tons of broken rocks.
Now they look down there, paul?
It's looking pretty good. It broke up most of that rock.
-It's a lot more manageable now. -Great.
There are little stuff I gotta get filled out,
There is big pile of rock down here.
They got the best way going up.
Woh, this is going up.
A big, jagged one there.
Yeah. Oh, wow.
And I'm looking at a really nice piece of gold.
Nice.
-Sounds good to me. -Do you think you can grab it?
Yeah. You better believe me man. I don't believe this down here.
It was over there by that bus in rock.
Very nice.
Careful with it now.
Holy [bleep].
That's a damn nice piece of gold paul.
Let's see what he got.
Yeah. Nice little picker.
Any time you move a big rock, you want to look around that thing
And see if you got gold running.
I know we're not on the bottom yet,
But it's nice to really find a lot.
And more spot.
There's gotta be more here.
Hell yeah, buddy.
You get the glory, fine all that boom.
[laughs]
Gotta open up a real estate abroad.
All right? Good enough. Come on out.
Yeah. Nice job, buddy.
There's definitely gold down there.
And now with that rock out of the way, we can keep chasing it.
Sucked anything else up?
Holy [bleep] .
Yeah.
You might want to come and take a look.
-What you got? -I see a piece!
Yeah. Look at those pieces.
Wo!!
[bleep]
There we go. Good job. Damn.
Wow. I wasn't expecting that.
In a single dive,
They have collected more gold than they have found all season.
This is very nice.
It's encouraging.
I love seeing this stuff.
When you see this, then it makes it, uh, pretty much worthwhile what we're doing.
Now after seeing that we're definitely in the right spot.
I have been so many times and disappointed so many times.
Yes. We knew there was something there.
To find something like this is encouraging.
I'm a happy man today.
It may not be an old man following pretties folly.
It might be pretty fortunate, you know?
On the next gold rush: White water...
It's time to get back to work.
Time to go diving.
What happened?
Out of air. Out of air.
The engine quit on the other side.
I can't mentally deal with it.
I'm finished.
Whoa.
Yeeha!