1 00:00:08,068 --> 00:00:10,413 [Dustin] We have to get this dredge to the dock site. 2 00:00:10,413 --> 00:00:12,068 [Carlos] I don't know how this is going to work. 3 00:00:12,068 --> 00:00:13,827 [Dustin] I don't need that right now. 4 00:00:13,827 --> 00:00:16,586 Let's fail before you tell me it's not gonna work. All right. 5 00:00:16,586 --> 00:00:20,448 All right, Wes. Let's see if we can move it. 6 00:00:20,448 --> 00:00:23,724 [narrator] A quarter of the way through the 20-week mining season, 7 00:00:23,724 --> 00:00:28,172 and Dustin Hurt has yet to get a diver in the water at his new claim. 8 00:00:32,206 --> 00:00:33,758 [Dustin] It's going. 9 00:00:36,034 --> 00:00:37,758 [Wes] Oh, [bleep], wow. 10 00:00:37,758 --> 00:00:40,310 It's actually driving the [bleep] truck. 11 00:00:40,310 --> 00:00:42,137 [man 1] Holy [bleep]! 12 00:00:42,137 --> 00:00:44,137 [guffaws] 13 00:00:45,551 --> 00:00:46,862 [Wes] It's working, bro. 14 00:00:46,862 --> 00:00:48,551 [Carlos] It's working, man! 15 00:00:50,206 --> 00:00:52,827 [Carlos] All stop. All stop, all stop. 16 00:00:52,827 --> 00:00:54,310 [Dustin] It's not gonna make that turn, is it? 17 00:00:54,310 --> 00:00:57,862 - [Carlos] Nope. - It's bringing it right here, for all this. 18 00:00:57,862 --> 00:01:00,724 [Dustin] All right, Wes. We're gonna do some heavy off-roading. 19 00:01:00,724 --> 00:01:02,344 [Wes] Copy that. Are you ready to go? 20 00:01:02,344 --> 00:01:04,000 [Dustin] Pull. 21 00:01:08,689 --> 00:01:10,862 [Dustin] All stop, all stop, all stop. 22 00:01:10,862 --> 00:01:12,620 [Wes] It's not gonna make it over that rock. 23 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:17,172 [Wes] It's stuck. 24 00:01:17,172 --> 00:01:18,724 That's never gonna work. 25 00:01:21,103 --> 00:01:23,310 [man 2] Careful on that. It slipped out on me just now. 26 00:01:23,310 --> 00:01:25,275 [Carlos] Whoa. 27 00:01:25,275 --> 00:01:27,241 [Wes] We are pulling some boulders today. 28 00:01:27,241 --> 00:01:29,896 [yelling] 29 00:01:31,137 --> 00:01:33,344 [Carlos] Oh. [bleep] Something broke. 30 00:01:33,344 --> 00:01:35,137 [bleep] My chest hurts. 31 00:01:35,137 --> 00:01:38,793 [Dustin] So I'm either having a [bleep] heart attack or an anxiety attack. 32 00:01:41,310 --> 00:01:43,275 [Dustin] I don't encourage this behavior. 33 00:01:43,275 --> 00:01:45,172 [laughing] 34 00:01:45,172 --> 00:01:47,413 - [Kayla] All right, go. - Kayla is a beast. 35 00:01:47,413 --> 00:01:48,862 I just try to keep up. 36 00:01:52,896 --> 00:01:55,724 [Scott] We are in the water. We are mining now. 37 00:01:55,724 --> 00:01:59,068 Please stay working. Please. 38 00:01:59,068 --> 00:02:03,241 Even with their head start, my crew still got our dredge in the water first. 39 00:02:17,379 --> 00:02:18,551 [Dustin] So everybody's back. 40 00:02:19,482 --> 00:02:21,068 We're all here. 41 00:02:21,068 --> 00:02:25,379 [narrator] In the wild upper reaches of southeast Alaska's Tsirku River. 42 00:02:25,379 --> 00:02:26,862 [Mark] It's good to be back up here. 43 00:02:26,862 --> 00:02:29,413 [narrator] Five weeks into the mining season, 44 00:02:29,413 --> 00:02:33,758 Dustin Hurt and his crew finally have gold in their sights. 45 00:02:34,965 --> 00:02:37,103 It's been a long journey to get here. 46 00:02:37,103 --> 00:02:40,793 I'm sorry you guys had to go and do that stuff over there with Mark. 47 00:02:42,379 --> 00:02:45,620 [narrator] In a bid to help fund the Nugget Creek operation, 48 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:49,758 Kayla's crew dredged the pilings pit at Porcupine Creek. 49 00:02:49,758 --> 00:02:51,551 [Kayla on radio] With low visibility it's hard to see it. 50 00:02:51,551 --> 00:02:53,517 [narrator] But the diving proved deadly. 51 00:02:53,517 --> 00:02:55,655 [Kayla] It's a death trap. 52 00:02:55,655 --> 00:02:57,310 If we're completely wasting our time, 53 00:02:57,310 --> 00:02:59,620 I'm not going to spend much more time in this hole. 54 00:02:59,620 --> 00:03:02,034 [narrator] They finally found some gold, 55 00:03:02,034 --> 00:03:06,689 but the risks were not worth a share of just 25 percent. 56 00:03:06,689 --> 00:03:08,275 [Kayla] We need to find a lot more gold 57 00:03:08,275 --> 00:03:10,172 because that ain't gonna cut it. 58 00:03:10,172 --> 00:03:13,413 [narrator] last week, at her new dive site on Nugget Creek, 59 00:03:13,413 --> 00:03:15,103 Kayla discovered gold. 60 00:03:15,103 --> 00:03:16,965 [Kayla] Every pan has gold in it. 61 00:03:18,551 --> 00:03:21,241 [narrator] Now Dustin is desperate for a payday. 62 00:03:21,241 --> 00:03:23,241 We've got to figure out how to get that dredge in the water 63 00:03:23,241 --> 00:03:24,344 by the end of the week. 64 00:03:24,344 --> 00:03:26,275 And it's time to do what we do. 65 00:03:26,275 --> 00:03:31,482 Move some big ass rocks, get some dredging done, find some real gold. 66 00:03:31,482 --> 00:03:34,206 - I'm gonna say 100 percent we're going to find nuggets... - [Dustin] Yeah? 67 00:03:34,206 --> 00:03:37,310 - ...and they'll be the biggest ones we've ever seen. - [exhales] 68 00:03:37,310 --> 00:03:38,896 I hope you're right, man. 69 00:03:38,896 --> 00:03:41,965 I've got everything riding on this place. 70 00:03:41,965 --> 00:03:44,896 There won't be another season if we don't pay this off. 71 00:03:48,275 --> 00:03:51,310 [narrator] Half a mile up Nugget Creek... 72 00:03:51,310 --> 00:03:53,482 [Kayla] We just need to build our walkways so it'll be 73 00:03:53,482 --> 00:03:55,517 easier to carry all the equipment up. 74 00:03:55,517 --> 00:03:58,793 [narrator] Kayla's proved there is gold at her dive site, 75 00:03:58,793 --> 00:04:04,068 but now she has to figure out how to get her crew and dredge to it. 76 00:04:04,068 --> 00:04:05,413 [Kayla] Hey, Dustin. 77 00:04:05,413 --> 00:04:08,068 I'm afraid I have news that you probably don't want to hear. 78 00:04:08,068 --> 00:04:12,068 I really think we need to get some lumber and actually do a lower walkway. 79 00:04:13,310 --> 00:04:14,655 [Dustin] It's not that I don't want to. 80 00:04:14,655 --> 00:04:16,931 I don't think I could afford it, honestly. 81 00:04:16,931 --> 00:04:18,620 Bringing a stack of lumber out here 82 00:04:18,620 --> 00:04:22,344 doesn't cost just $100 a board. It's like... 83 00:04:23,793 --> 00:04:26,310 - [Kayla] No, I get it. - A lot more. 84 00:04:26,310 --> 00:04:29,586 Well, it's not that we don't want to cut the trail. 85 00:04:29,586 --> 00:04:31,482 We're running into serious issues, so. 86 00:04:31,482 --> 00:04:33,758 [Dustin] All right. There has to be another way. 87 00:04:35,068 --> 00:04:37,034 Well, let me see if I can get some big trees. 88 00:04:37,034 --> 00:04:41,827 If I dragged giant straight cottonwoods up here, would that work for you? 89 00:04:41,827 --> 00:04:44,620 [Kayla] I think that's going to be better than this. 90 00:04:44,620 --> 00:04:47,896 [Dustin] All right. Let's do something different. 91 00:04:47,896 --> 00:04:52,206 [narrator] Kayla's site is 600 feet up creek from Dustin's, 92 00:04:52,206 --> 00:04:58,137 but there is a 150-foot section of sheer cliff face that no trail can pass. 93 00:04:58,137 --> 00:05:01,241 Dustin's plan is to salvage driftwood 94 00:05:01,241 --> 00:05:05,793 and turn it into planks to make wooden walkways so they can carry in their 95 00:05:05,793 --> 00:05:09,000 dredging equipment and dive for bedrock gold. 96 00:05:11,896 --> 00:05:14,724 [Dustin] Whoa, look at that. 97 00:05:14,724 --> 00:05:18,586 And they says, "If you try to go up that river, you're gonna die." 98 00:05:19,827 --> 00:05:21,482 [narrator] Before Dustin can get to work 99 00:05:21,482 --> 00:05:23,344 on getting his dredge in the water, 100 00:05:23,344 --> 00:05:25,586 he has to help Kayla with hers. 101 00:05:28,517 --> 00:05:30,068 - [Dustin] Oh. - [Carlos] Is that deep? 102 00:05:30,068 --> 00:05:31,551 [Dustin] That's real deep. 103 00:05:32,620 --> 00:05:35,931 Right there, I couldn't touch the bottom. 104 00:05:35,931 --> 00:05:37,034 [Carlos] Oh. 105 00:05:37,034 --> 00:05:38,586 [Dustin] Yeah, hop on. 106 00:05:41,068 --> 00:05:43,172 I've got two of them over there that might work. 107 00:05:44,310 --> 00:05:46,655 I'm also scared there's a ledge right here. 108 00:05:48,448 --> 00:05:50,793 You hook that up. 109 00:05:50,793 --> 00:05:52,896 [Carlos] That's about the best you're gonna get. 110 00:05:52,896 --> 00:05:55,482 Whoa. That's deep. 111 00:05:55,482 --> 00:05:57,896 Uh, that's not the best looking tree. 112 00:05:57,896 --> 00:06:01,827 But, hey, man, with that drive into the [bleep] river. 113 00:06:04,862 --> 00:06:06,344 Yeah. 114 00:06:08,655 --> 00:06:10,275 You get that. I'm good. 115 00:06:12,206 --> 00:06:13,793 [Dustin] Great, man. 116 00:06:13,793 --> 00:06:16,068 I don't encourage this behavior. 117 00:06:16,068 --> 00:06:18,206 [laughing] 118 00:06:19,793 --> 00:06:21,724 [Dustin] How he doesn't die, I don't know. 119 00:06:23,068 --> 00:06:25,758 This is all I have. I don't have lumber. 120 00:06:25,758 --> 00:06:28,344 We're not going to get any boards. 121 00:06:28,344 --> 00:06:31,896 It's either this or don't use walkways at all. 122 00:06:31,896 --> 00:06:36,206 And she wants a walkway, so this is what she gets. 123 00:06:36,206 --> 00:06:40,000 Kayla's team is gonna have some sort of way to get to their site 124 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,724 so they can get dredging. 125 00:06:41,724 --> 00:06:46,000 When both teams are dredging, that means everybody's going to get gold. 126 00:06:47,379 --> 00:06:48,862 [Carlos] Let's go down. 127 00:06:52,931 --> 00:06:54,103 [Scott] Hey, guys. 128 00:06:54,103 --> 00:06:55,655 - [Dustin] Here you go. - [Scott] Thank you. 129 00:06:57,241 --> 00:06:59,206 Are y'all going to need more trees or what? 130 00:06:59,206 --> 00:07:01,000 [Scott] [bleep] I don't think so. 131 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:02,965 [Dustin] All right, good luck. 132 00:07:06,172 --> 00:07:07,931 I've done logging for a lot of years, 133 00:07:07,931 --> 00:07:10,517 so milling the logs into boards. 134 00:07:10,517 --> 00:07:12,068 It's home to me, so to speak. 135 00:07:12,068 --> 00:07:14,448 It's my little bit of experience here 136 00:07:14,448 --> 00:07:16,344 can help us get to the gold faster, 137 00:07:16,344 --> 00:07:18,517 absolutely. I'm happy as hell to do it. 138 00:07:20,862 --> 00:07:22,172 Let's rock and roll, buddy. 139 00:07:22,172 --> 00:07:23,586 This is called a chainsaw mill. 140 00:07:23,586 --> 00:07:25,068 It uses a regular chainsaw. 141 00:07:25,068 --> 00:07:28,103 And what it does is it allows us to keep the same thickness board 142 00:07:28,103 --> 00:07:30,896 as we rip down the log the whole way. 143 00:07:30,896 --> 00:07:33,448 - [Scott] Ready? - [Justin] Ready. 144 00:07:33,448 --> 00:07:37,482 [narrator] Scott and Justin must mill over 150 feet of boards 145 00:07:37,482 --> 00:07:41,103 to safely get them and their dredge to the dive site. 146 00:07:42,655 --> 00:07:46,344 [Scott] All right, one down, 2,700 to go. 147 00:07:46,344 --> 00:07:48,655 We're under a major time crunch. 148 00:07:48,655 --> 00:07:51,034 We have a very short season as it is. 149 00:07:51,034 --> 00:07:53,862 We can get these boards milled quickly. 150 00:07:53,862 --> 00:07:55,482 That gets us to site quicker. 151 00:07:55,482 --> 00:07:57,413 That makes access easier. 152 00:07:57,413 --> 00:07:59,310 That means more dive time, which means more gold. 153 00:08:03,931 --> 00:08:05,689 [Scott] Beautiful. Look at that. 154 00:08:12,379 --> 00:08:14,482 [Scott] We've got five more planks already milled. 155 00:08:14,482 --> 00:08:16,344 Still got a lot to go. 156 00:08:16,344 --> 00:08:18,034 We're not even halfway there yet, man. 157 00:08:19,172 --> 00:08:20,793 These logs got to get milled quick. 158 00:08:24,034 --> 00:08:26,724 [narrator] At Dustin's Golden Gates dig site... 159 00:08:27,896 --> 00:08:30,103 [Carlos] Back at it, brother. 160 00:08:30,103 --> 00:08:32,758 [Dustin] Today we're going to make a parking spot for a dredge. 161 00:08:32,758 --> 00:08:36,137 And there are some really, really big boulders in the way. 162 00:08:37,482 --> 00:08:40,241 Let's get some rocks moving. 163 00:08:40,241 --> 00:08:43,034 [narrator] After suffering heavy delays last week, 164 00:08:43,034 --> 00:08:46,275 Dustin is falling way behind schedule. 165 00:08:46,275 --> 00:08:48,137 [Dustin] It's taken a lot to get to this point. 166 00:08:48,137 --> 00:08:50,379 We're not in the water yet. My dredge isn't here. 167 00:08:50,379 --> 00:08:52,724 But if I get a glimpse of hope, 168 00:08:52,724 --> 00:08:55,137 I get crushed with six other things. 169 00:08:56,379 --> 00:08:58,068 [Carlos] Let's go, guys. 170 00:08:58,068 --> 00:09:01,310 [narrator] Under extreme pressure to complete his dam 171 00:09:01,310 --> 00:09:03,275 and get his dredge in the water, 172 00:09:03,275 --> 00:09:06,965 Dustin is pushing himself harder than ever. 173 00:09:06,965 --> 00:09:09,275 [Dustin] All right, let's stop pulling some rocks. 174 00:09:09,275 --> 00:09:10,482 [Carlos] We want to pull this? 175 00:09:10,482 --> 00:09:12,620 [Dustin] Pull this first, get that out. 176 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:15,068 Get this out. Get this [bleep] out of here. 177 00:09:17,310 --> 00:09:20,000 [narrator] Before they can start dredging for gold, 178 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,931 the crew must first drag the large boulders down creek 179 00:09:23,931 --> 00:09:27,655 to continue building a dam and raising the water level, 180 00:09:27,655 --> 00:09:30,344 making a deeper pool to float the dredge. 181 00:09:33,344 --> 00:09:35,000 [Dustin] All right, well, let's see what you got. 182 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,965 This would be a good test of our system. 183 00:09:36,965 --> 00:09:38,517 Let's go. 184 00:09:38,517 --> 00:09:42,482 [narrator] Last week, they installed two winches and a redirect pulley. 185 00:09:42,482 --> 00:09:45,482 Now they will attempt to move the monster boulders. 186 00:09:46,689 --> 00:09:48,172 [Carlos] All right there, Wes. 187 00:09:48,172 --> 00:09:49,275 Pull, pull, pull. 188 00:09:51,965 --> 00:09:53,724 - [Carlos] Come on, man. - [Dustin] Boy. 189 00:09:53,724 --> 00:09:55,206 It pulls real hard. 190 00:09:56,551 --> 00:09:57,965 [Carlos] Woah, woah. 191 00:09:57,965 --> 00:09:59,793 All stop. All stop. 192 00:09:59,793 --> 00:10:01,344 Something broke. 193 00:10:03,793 --> 00:10:06,068 The rope snapped, man. Rope broke. 194 00:10:06,068 --> 00:10:09,206 [Dustin] [bleep] it should be up here right now. 195 00:10:09,206 --> 00:10:11,758 Learning curve. This is a learning curve. 196 00:10:11,758 --> 00:10:13,379 [Carlos] Pull, pull, pull. 197 00:10:15,206 --> 00:10:17,172 [Carlos] All stop. All Stop. 198 00:10:17,172 --> 00:10:20,241 That rock fell right on that rope. 199 00:10:20,241 --> 00:10:21,620 On that sharp side. 200 00:10:21,620 --> 00:10:24,103 The sharp side just cut through like a knife. 201 00:10:24,103 --> 00:10:26,241 [Carlos] I'm just getting frustrated. 202 00:10:26,241 --> 00:10:28,241 James, I'm getting frustrated. 203 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,034 Just got to take this and re-thread it. 204 00:10:32,034 --> 00:10:37,310 [narrator] The polyethylene rope is capable of an 8,000 pound lift, 205 00:10:37,310 --> 00:10:40,551 but its only weakness, sharp-edged rocks. 206 00:10:41,586 --> 00:10:42,724 [Dustin] Crappy rope. 207 00:10:42,724 --> 00:10:44,896 It's supposed to be good stuff, but... 208 00:10:44,896 --> 00:10:48,448 I've already seen this getting destroyed just like a cable. 209 00:10:48,448 --> 00:10:50,758 I've lost my patience. 210 00:10:50,758 --> 00:10:53,000 I'm bringing it back to old school. 211 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,448 Heavy lifting. 212 00:10:57,620 --> 00:11:01,586 [Carlos] Let's make this work before Dustin has a coronary. 213 00:11:01,586 --> 00:11:02,931 [Dustin] Yeah. 214 00:11:07,206 --> 00:11:08,931 Yeah. 215 00:11:08,931 --> 00:11:10,413 [Wes] That's sharp, watch out. 216 00:11:11,482 --> 00:11:14,344 Oh. [bleep] 217 00:11:14,344 --> 00:11:15,724 The rope broke again. 218 00:11:15,724 --> 00:11:17,000 All stop. 219 00:11:17,482 --> 00:11:18,793 [bleep] 220 00:11:20,482 --> 00:11:22,206 [Dustin] I almost passed out again. 221 00:11:22,206 --> 00:11:25,206 Things are absolutely not going fast enough for me. 222 00:11:25,206 --> 00:11:27,344 [Carlos] I don't think we have enough rope. 223 00:11:27,344 --> 00:11:28,620 [Wes] That's it. 224 00:11:33,655 --> 00:11:36,241 [bleep] My chest hurts. 225 00:11:36,241 --> 00:11:37,758 [Carlos] We're gone, dude. 226 00:11:39,724 --> 00:11:41,862 [Dustin] So I'm either having a [bleep] heart attack 227 00:11:41,862 --> 00:11:43,275 or an anxiety attack. 228 00:11:43,275 --> 00:11:44,724 So one or the other. 229 00:11:44,724 --> 00:11:47,137 - [Carlos] You all right? - [Dustin] Either way, it's freaking me out. 230 00:11:49,724 --> 00:11:51,275 Oh. 231 00:11:55,310 --> 00:11:57,379 [Carlos] What are you feeling, man? 232 00:11:57,379 --> 00:11:59,172 [Dustin] Something's happening, man. I don't know. 233 00:11:59,172 --> 00:12:00,862 I have to go take some aspirin or something. 234 00:12:00,862 --> 00:12:02,344 [Carlos] Okay. All right. 235 00:12:06,482 --> 00:12:09,586 [breathing heavily] 236 00:12:12,724 --> 00:12:14,103 [man 3] Are you all right? 237 00:12:14,103 --> 00:12:16,896 [Dustin] Chest and neck and [bleep] stuff. 238 00:12:16,896 --> 00:12:19,068 It hurts like [bleep], I can tell you that. 239 00:12:37,827 --> 00:12:40,275 [Dustin] Well, I'm either having a [bleep] panic attack 240 00:12:40,275 --> 00:12:43,034 or a heart attack, and I need some [bleep] aspirin right now. 241 00:12:44,655 --> 00:12:46,655 [narrator] In remote Nugget Creek, 242 00:12:46,655 --> 00:12:49,275 Dustin Hurt is in serious trouble. 243 00:12:50,413 --> 00:12:51,896 [woman 1] They're 81 mil, 244 00:12:51,896 --> 00:12:53,620 so I'll give you two of them. 245 00:12:53,620 --> 00:12:56,758 [narrator] A medevac helicopter could take up to two hours 246 00:12:56,758 --> 00:13:00,206 to reach the nearest hospital in Juneau. 247 00:13:00,206 --> 00:13:02,000 Are you feeling okay? 248 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,068 [Dustin] No. 249 00:13:03,068 --> 00:13:05,000 Like, what's hurting you? 250 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,241 My heart, hard neck, chest pain, [bleep] like that. 251 00:13:09,896 --> 00:13:14,448 [narrator] Dustin must rely on the film crew's safety team. 252 00:13:14,448 --> 00:13:15,689 [woman 1] Can I take your pulse? 253 00:13:15,689 --> 00:13:17,241 [Dustin] Yeah. Sure. 254 00:13:19,758 --> 00:13:22,275 Your pulse feels good. It's good and strong. 255 00:13:22,275 --> 00:13:25,379 Um, helps if you can take a big deep breath. 256 00:13:25,379 --> 00:13:26,620 What's your plan right here? 257 00:13:26,620 --> 00:13:28,206 I've just got to get out of here 258 00:13:28,206 --> 00:13:30,448 and pretend this didn't happen. 259 00:13:30,448 --> 00:13:32,448 I'm sure it's just an anxiety attack. 260 00:13:33,862 --> 00:13:37,068 It's not like I haven't been under enough [bleep] stress lately. 261 00:13:37,068 --> 00:13:38,379 [woman 1] Let's get you back to camp 262 00:13:38,379 --> 00:13:40,068 and give you a proper checkover. 263 00:13:41,689 --> 00:13:46,000 [narrator] Dustin's medical emergency ends yet another day in disaster. 264 00:13:47,793 --> 00:13:51,344 And puts his season even further behind schedule. 265 00:13:52,655 --> 00:13:54,517 He's got a lot on his mind right now 266 00:13:54,517 --> 00:13:57,275 because we've just been spending a lot of time, a lot of money. 267 00:13:57,275 --> 00:13:58,931 A lot of setup. 268 00:13:58,931 --> 00:14:01,379 Gold can really wear you thin, amigo. 269 00:14:01,379 --> 00:14:03,620 Gold can do that. 270 00:14:03,620 --> 00:14:05,413 Reset. 271 00:14:05,413 --> 00:14:06,827 Try it again tomorrow. 272 00:14:16,172 --> 00:14:17,793 How are you doing? You good? 273 00:14:17,793 --> 00:14:19,206 It's so much better. 274 00:14:19,206 --> 00:14:21,103 Oh, my [bleep]. 275 00:14:21,103 --> 00:14:24,689 [narrator] Despite all the setbacks, neither crew is giving up. 276 00:14:25,931 --> 00:14:28,310 [Wes] The frustrations of learning a new site, 277 00:14:28,310 --> 00:14:32,379 this Nugget Creek, it's definitely going to try us, that's for sure. 278 00:14:32,379 --> 00:14:34,137 We have to do something. 279 00:14:34,137 --> 00:14:36,793 We never had this problem before, just moving rocks. 280 00:14:36,793 --> 00:14:38,586 [Dustin] This is a whole new level of hard here. 281 00:14:38,586 --> 00:14:40,206 It really is. 282 00:14:40,206 --> 00:14:43,275 It turned out to be just an incredible amount of work. 283 00:14:43,275 --> 00:14:44,793 I'm still looking at it every day. 284 00:14:44,793 --> 00:14:49,241 I look at it and go, "Holy cow, can we actually do this?" 285 00:14:49,241 --> 00:14:51,344 [Wes] You say an incredible amount of work. I think about that. 286 00:14:51,344 --> 00:14:54,413 But then there could be an incredible amount of gold to go along with that. 287 00:14:54,413 --> 00:14:56,413 - Exactly. - That's what we're banking on. 288 00:14:56,413 --> 00:14:57,931 Hopefully we get some soon. 289 00:14:57,931 --> 00:14:59,655 - [Wes] Yeah. - [Dustin] Yeah. We will. 290 00:14:59,655 --> 00:15:01,620 [Carlos] I literally forgot what I was up here for. 291 00:15:01,620 --> 00:15:03,551 I was like, "Well, yeah, we're [bleep] dredging for gold, man." 292 00:15:03,551 --> 00:15:05,344 [all laughing] 293 00:15:05,344 --> 00:15:06,517 [Dustin] Anyway. 294 00:15:06,517 --> 00:15:08,172 We're going to go do this the right way, 295 00:15:08,172 --> 00:15:10,896 the way we do things. And it's time. 296 00:15:10,896 --> 00:15:12,931 This is the week that we turn this around. 297 00:15:12,931 --> 00:15:14,344 I appreciate all your hard work. 298 00:15:14,344 --> 00:15:17,827 I know everybody's digging in, but now it's time to start dredging. 299 00:15:17,827 --> 00:15:19,413 So let's get to work. 300 00:15:19,413 --> 00:15:20,517 Let's find some gold. 301 00:15:20,517 --> 00:15:21,655 - All right. - All right. 302 00:15:21,655 --> 00:15:22,724 [Wes] Let's see what's down there. 303 00:15:35,137 --> 00:15:36,965 Four boards. 304 00:15:36,965 --> 00:15:39,068 That should get us around the corner at least. 305 00:15:39,068 --> 00:15:41,310 [narrator] Up creek from camp. 306 00:15:41,310 --> 00:15:43,448 Good job on those boards. I think that's going to help out a lot. 307 00:15:44,586 --> 00:15:46,586 They weren't exactly easy. 308 00:15:46,586 --> 00:15:49,034 I think we're gonna have a bad-ass walkway. 309 00:15:49,034 --> 00:15:53,448 Paul and Scott are tasked with installing the walkways. 310 00:15:53,448 --> 00:15:55,068 Hopefully, with the core drill, 311 00:15:55,068 --> 00:15:58,448 they can get in there deep enough, put a pipe in it 312 00:15:58,448 --> 00:16:00,275 that it'll support everybody's weight. 313 00:16:02,310 --> 00:16:05,137 [narrator] To secure their walkway to the cliff face, 314 00:16:05,137 --> 00:16:08,586 Paul needs to first locate solid areas of rock, 315 00:16:08,586 --> 00:16:13,551 then use a water-cooled core drill to bore holes deep enough 316 00:16:13,551 --> 00:16:18,551 to insert sawn-off scaffold poles to support the cottonwood planks. 317 00:16:23,206 --> 00:16:25,000 [Paul] It's definitely working good. 318 00:16:27,034 --> 00:16:30,344 - [Scott] One down, 27 to go. - [laughs] 319 00:16:32,379 --> 00:16:35,793 [Paul] The first walkway is up and it's going to go pretty quick now, I think. 320 00:16:35,793 --> 00:16:38,551 [Scott] That's bad-ass, dude. I'm [bleep] happy with this. 321 00:16:51,655 --> 00:16:54,172 [Paul] For some reason, I'm not getting any water going to the drill head. 322 00:16:55,689 --> 00:16:57,793 [narrator] Without a constant flow of water, 323 00:16:57,793 --> 00:17:02,448 the core bit will overheat and the diamond tip is going to warp. 324 00:17:06,103 --> 00:17:09,034 [Paul] I got to have that water pump to pump water to the drill bit. 325 00:17:09,034 --> 00:17:12,551 It flushes out the material, and it also keeps the drill bit cool. 326 00:17:12,551 --> 00:17:14,758 There's a few pumps around, if I can get them working, 327 00:17:14,758 --> 00:17:16,551 then I'll get water to the drill. 328 00:17:16,551 --> 00:17:20,000 Without it, I cannot drill any more holes. 329 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,379 I need a pump. 330 00:17:23,172 --> 00:17:24,965 [Scott] We can't get this core drill going. 331 00:17:24,965 --> 00:17:27,517 We're not going to be able to build our walkway. 332 00:17:27,517 --> 00:17:30,000 I've invested five months away from my family. 333 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,689 I've got a wife and four kids at home. 334 00:17:31,689 --> 00:17:34,620 So Nugget Creek has got to pay off. 335 00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:36,724 It has to be worth it. 336 00:17:36,724 --> 00:17:38,344 Gold is why I'm here. 337 00:17:38,344 --> 00:17:40,862 But these walkways do have to be built. 338 00:17:43,379 --> 00:17:44,896 [narrator] After raiding camp... 339 00:17:44,896 --> 00:17:46,172 Hey, Scott. 340 00:17:46,172 --> 00:17:48,758 [narrator] ...Paul may have found a fix. 341 00:17:48,758 --> 00:17:49,965 [Scott] Where was that at? 342 00:17:49,965 --> 00:17:51,965 [Paul] That pump. That's off our trouble. 343 00:17:51,965 --> 00:17:54,344 This was a major find. 344 00:17:54,344 --> 00:17:57,517 If we can get that core drill back going again, we can finish our walkway. 345 00:17:59,379 --> 00:18:02,275 [Paul] Come on, baby. Stay running. Please. 346 00:18:02,275 --> 00:18:04,310 [drill motor whirring] 347 00:18:04,310 --> 00:18:06,551 [Scott] [bleep] Yeah. I love it when things actually work. 348 00:18:12,344 --> 00:18:14,344 So far, so good. 349 00:18:14,344 --> 00:18:16,965 [narrator] Core drill operational again, 350 00:18:16,965 --> 00:18:19,689 the march to the dive site can continue. 351 00:18:21,551 --> 00:18:23,241 [Paul] See, that's perfect. 352 00:18:23,241 --> 00:18:27,034 It's actually moving along a lot faster than I expected. 353 00:18:40,103 --> 00:18:42,413 [Dustin panting] 354 00:18:47,724 --> 00:18:49,896 - [Wes] [bleep] Thank you, sir. - [Dustin groans] 355 00:18:49,896 --> 00:18:51,551 Help! 356 00:18:51,551 --> 00:18:52,896 [Dustin] Oh, man. 357 00:18:52,896 --> 00:18:54,379 Look how much bigger that is. 358 00:18:54,379 --> 00:18:57,724 [Wes] Oh, man, I can't wait to try this baby out. 359 00:18:57,724 --> 00:19:02,896 [narrator] At Golden Gates, unable to hold the large rocks from their dive site, 360 00:19:02,896 --> 00:19:06,827 Dustin has come up with upgrades for the key winch system. 361 00:19:06,827 --> 00:19:09,862 [Wes] Right now, it's pretty and it's new. 362 00:19:09,862 --> 00:19:14,931 I'm hoping that this is going to solve my rock pulling problems right here. 363 00:19:14,931 --> 00:19:17,758 [narrator] Wes switches out the polyethylene rope 364 00:19:17,758 --> 00:19:22,206 with one quarter-inch steel cable that won't snag on the sharp rocks 365 00:19:22,206 --> 00:19:26,965 and replaces the key winch for a model with twice the pulling power. 366 00:19:28,379 --> 00:19:29,689 Let's see if this baby is gonna work. 367 00:19:29,689 --> 00:19:31,517 See if we can pull some rocks. 368 00:19:31,517 --> 00:19:33,172 [Carlos] So this is good to go. 369 00:19:33,172 --> 00:19:35,034 - All right. - [Wes] We'll see. 370 00:19:36,655 --> 00:19:40,517 [narrator] To get the dredge in the water by the end of the week, 371 00:19:40,517 --> 00:19:43,310 the new system cannot fail. 372 00:19:43,310 --> 00:19:45,034 [Carlos] All right. It's time to pull. 373 00:19:49,689 --> 00:19:51,206 [Carlos] Come on. 374 00:19:52,448 --> 00:19:53,689 No. 375 00:19:53,689 --> 00:19:55,551 It's still blocking right here. 376 00:19:55,551 --> 00:19:58,931 [Dustin] How the [bleep] it get caught in everything? 377 00:19:58,931 --> 00:20:00,310 [Carlos] Okay, pull. 378 00:20:02,931 --> 00:20:04,413 It's stuck. 379 00:20:04,413 --> 00:20:06,551 The hook is underneath this rock, 380 00:20:06,551 --> 00:20:08,310 and you just can't get it out now. 381 00:20:11,379 --> 00:20:13,103 [Dustin] It's not going well. 382 00:20:13,103 --> 00:20:14,586 [Carlos] What the [bleep] is in here? 383 00:20:14,586 --> 00:20:16,068 [Wes] That cable is what... 384 00:20:16,068 --> 00:20:18,068 Four foot under the water and stuck. 385 00:20:18,068 --> 00:20:19,896 I'm [bleep] tired of [bleep]. 386 00:20:19,896 --> 00:20:22,482 It's been just one [bleep] up after another. 387 00:20:22,482 --> 00:20:24,862 [Carlos] But it's slight. 388 00:20:27,896 --> 00:20:29,000 [man 4] [bleep] 389 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,827 - [Carlos] Got it. - [man 4] Yep. Oh, my [bleep]. 390 00:20:31,827 --> 00:20:33,655 Can you pull it now, Wes? 391 00:20:33,655 --> 00:20:35,275 [Wes] No. [bleep] 392 00:20:35,275 --> 00:20:37,034 [Carlos] If you just can't get it up now. 393 00:20:37,034 --> 00:20:38,448 It's not moving, is it? 394 00:20:38,448 --> 00:20:42,000 [man 4] No, it's not moving, and we're not getting anything done. 395 00:20:47,689 --> 00:20:50,206 [Wes] You know, I think that redirect is too low. 396 00:20:50,206 --> 00:20:51,758 If that was higher, you know what, 397 00:20:51,758 --> 00:20:53,586 it would make them skip over the top of this. 398 00:20:53,586 --> 00:20:56,586 But it's just pulling them down into it and locking it in. 399 00:20:58,310 --> 00:21:01,965 [narrator] Wes believes the position of the redirect for the lower winch 400 00:21:01,965 --> 00:21:05,862 is dragging the boulders down into the riverbed. 401 00:21:05,862 --> 00:21:11,379 If they can raise it up by 25 feet, they can pull the boulders up and out, 402 00:21:11,379 --> 00:21:13,655 clearing space for the dredge. 403 00:21:15,413 --> 00:21:16,827 [man 4] So we buried it. 404 00:21:18,413 --> 00:21:21,000 [Dustin] We're having a real hard time getting started here. 405 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,551 It's taking forever, and I need it to just work. 406 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,586 We should have been in the damn water diving last week. 407 00:21:28,586 --> 00:21:32,862 And here we are fighting just to get the damn dredge in. 408 00:21:43,793 --> 00:21:45,517 [narrator] At the Golden Gates... 409 00:21:47,586 --> 00:21:49,827 [Carlos groans] 410 00:21:49,827 --> 00:21:51,655 Where do you want to put the ladder? 411 00:21:51,655 --> 00:21:53,275 [Dustin] Over here. 412 00:21:53,275 --> 00:21:56,068 [narrator] ...Dustin faces yet another setback 413 00:21:56,068 --> 00:21:59,724 in his mission to get the dredge to his dive site. 414 00:21:59,724 --> 00:22:01,758 Our winch system wasn't working. 415 00:22:01,758 --> 00:22:05,172 We've got to find a viable rock to put that redirect. 416 00:22:05,172 --> 00:22:10,034 You've got to remember, all this surrounding rock is junk. 417 00:22:10,034 --> 00:22:13,103 So Dustin has to get high enough 418 00:22:13,103 --> 00:22:15,931 to find a good spot to put that redirect. 419 00:22:15,931 --> 00:22:18,758 [Dustin] The water here is on a hard angle. 420 00:22:18,758 --> 00:22:20,241 So if we would have done something like this 421 00:22:20,241 --> 00:22:22,758 at McKinley, it have worked just fine. 422 00:22:22,758 --> 00:22:26,172 We have to go up there to almost make it level. 423 00:22:26,172 --> 00:22:29,034 This is pulling the cable into the ground. 424 00:22:29,034 --> 00:22:30,206 And that is unacceptable. 425 00:22:30,206 --> 00:22:32,482 We have to have some sort of lift. 426 00:22:32,482 --> 00:22:34,896 [narrator] The only way to raise the redirect 427 00:22:34,896 --> 00:22:39,620 is to drill into the thin section of crumbling cliff face. 428 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:40,965 [Dustin] That big black spot. 429 00:22:40,965 --> 00:22:42,793 [Carlos] Well, you see how many layers you got to go through 430 00:22:42,793 --> 00:22:44,137 before you hit solid? 431 00:22:44,137 --> 00:22:45,965 One, two, three, four. 432 00:22:47,482 --> 00:22:50,551 Hey, can you ask them if they've got a helmet I can borrow? 433 00:22:50,551 --> 00:22:51,758 This is sketch ball. 434 00:22:51,758 --> 00:22:54,034 [Carlos] Okay. All right. 435 00:22:54,034 --> 00:22:58,758 [narrator] In the shadow of the 500-foot-high unstable shale cliffs, 436 00:22:58,758 --> 00:23:02,000 even risk-taker Dustin opts for some protection. 437 00:23:05,689 --> 00:23:07,931 I could play soldier with you guys now. 438 00:23:23,103 --> 00:23:25,517 [man 4] That's some scary [bleep]. 439 00:23:25,517 --> 00:23:27,448 [Dustin] Right there? 440 00:23:27,448 --> 00:23:29,034 [Carlos] Yeah, that looks good. 441 00:23:29,034 --> 00:23:31,379 [Dustin] I'm doing this on a Hoping to Pray event. 442 00:23:48,482 --> 00:23:52,034 [Carlos] I know. I couldn't do that. [bleep] that. 443 00:23:59,172 --> 00:24:03,793 My worry about here is the vibrations of this pulling this whole flake off 444 00:24:03,793 --> 00:24:06,379 it would kill me instantly. 445 00:24:06,379 --> 00:24:09,551 [narrator] Towering 25 feet above the rocks... 446 00:24:09,551 --> 00:24:11,241 That's one. 447 00:24:11,241 --> 00:24:14,586 [narrator] ...Dustin needs two more anchor points in the cliff face 448 00:24:14,586 --> 00:24:17,000 that could crush him at any minute. 449 00:24:18,103 --> 00:24:21,000 Come on, shoulder. You can do this. 450 00:24:31,103 --> 00:24:33,655 [Carlos] Almost there, man. Almost there. 451 00:24:33,655 --> 00:24:35,724 [Dustin] My hand's going numb. 452 00:24:35,724 --> 00:24:37,344 You can do this. 453 00:24:42,517 --> 00:24:46,586 That's it. I'm done. [bleep] That was hard. 454 00:24:46,586 --> 00:24:49,379 [Carlos] Good job, man. Wow. 455 00:24:49,379 --> 00:24:52,413 [Dustin] Let me go put these in right quick. 456 00:24:52,413 --> 00:24:55,206 [Carlos] So now that we've got that taken care of, he's going up, 457 00:24:55,206 --> 00:24:58,827 put in the anchor bolts, and we're going to put the hardware on chain. 458 00:24:58,827 --> 00:25:04,172 More cable. Hopefully, that should be the recipe for success. 459 00:25:14,517 --> 00:25:16,586 He's ready for a test. 460 00:25:16,586 --> 00:25:21,551 [Carlos] Okay, we got it. Let's hook. 461 00:25:21,551 --> 00:25:27,068 This asteroid boulder has been everybody's pain in the behind. 462 00:25:27,068 --> 00:25:31,172 We need to get this out of here and come in for the win for today. 463 00:25:31,172 --> 00:25:33,310 [Dustin] Okay. Let's see what it does. I got it set. 464 00:25:33,310 --> 00:25:35,620 [James] Great. Try to stick out, Carlos. 465 00:25:35,620 --> 00:25:37,103 [Carlos] Pull, pull, pull. 466 00:25:41,551 --> 00:25:43,206 It's moving. 467 00:25:43,206 --> 00:25:44,793 [whoops] 468 00:25:44,793 --> 00:25:46,827 - Yeah! - [all whooping and exclaiming] 469 00:25:46,827 --> 00:25:48,655 [Wes] Look at that. 470 00:25:48,655 --> 00:25:50,620 - Yeah! - Yeah! 471 00:25:52,655 --> 00:25:54,931 - [exclaims] - There we go. 472 00:25:56,724 --> 00:25:58,000 Yeah, buddy. 473 00:26:01,103 --> 00:26:03,103 Finally getting the winches to work. 474 00:26:04,275 --> 00:26:07,793 Please stay working, please stay working. 475 00:26:07,793 --> 00:26:09,482 Come on, baby. 476 00:26:09,482 --> 00:26:12,655 [Wes] We got more progress in one day than we have in two weeks. 477 00:26:12,655 --> 00:26:14,379 Finally, a great day. 478 00:26:15,586 --> 00:26:17,827 Hey, check that balance job, boys. 479 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:25,896 Goodbye. Goodbye. 480 00:26:25,896 --> 00:26:28,172 - [all cheering] - Goodbye. 481 00:26:28,172 --> 00:26:29,758 [Dustin] Keep them coming, man. 482 00:26:29,758 --> 00:26:32,793 It's a damn good day. It's a damn good day. 483 00:26:32,793 --> 00:26:36,137 We got a lot of rocks moved. And this is what we do. 484 00:26:36,137 --> 00:26:38,241 This is dredge-worthy right here. 485 00:26:38,241 --> 00:26:39,965 This is what I need. 486 00:26:39,965 --> 00:26:41,448 Good work today. 487 00:26:41,448 --> 00:26:43,103 It looks good. 488 00:26:43,103 --> 00:26:46,103 That's ready for a dredge. I can see it. 489 00:26:46,103 --> 00:26:49,965 It actually looks like a damn dredge site now. 490 00:26:49,965 --> 00:26:55,344 We're back on track. Today is gonna be the change. The change we needed. 491 00:27:07,241 --> 00:27:08,586 [Kayla] I need some breakfast. 492 00:27:08,586 --> 00:27:10,724 - [Dustin] Right. - [Kayla] I'm hungry. 493 00:27:10,724 --> 00:27:12,758 - [Dustin] Where's the bacon and eggs? - [Kayla] Mm-hmm. 494 00:27:12,758 --> 00:27:14,310 [Dustin] Where's the breakfast burritos? 495 00:27:14,310 --> 00:27:16,137 [Carlos] Oh, God. Oh, gosh. 496 00:27:17,344 --> 00:27:18,724 Stretching out my back. 497 00:27:20,551 --> 00:27:22,896 I'm not a young person anymore. 498 00:27:22,896 --> 00:27:28,517 That's from all the rock moving, gear moving. 499 00:27:28,517 --> 00:27:33,344 Unfortunately, the chiropractor won't come up this far. 500 00:27:33,344 --> 00:27:36,206 [Wes] All right, time to get back to work. 501 00:27:40,655 --> 00:27:44,275 [narrator] Up creek at the boardwalk... 502 00:27:44,275 --> 00:27:49,655 Please don't break. Oh, good girl. You didn't break. 503 00:27:49,655 --> 00:27:52,620 [narrator] ...Paul and Scott have their dive site within reach. 504 00:27:57,931 --> 00:28:01,068 We finally got a good path now that gets us all the way over here. 505 00:28:01,068 --> 00:28:03,551 I think we can start carrying a lot of our heavy stuff in. 506 00:28:03,551 --> 00:28:05,034 [Kayla] That looks awesome. 507 00:28:05,034 --> 00:28:07,344 It's way sturdier than I expected. 508 00:28:07,344 --> 00:28:09,034 [Kayla] You guys did good. 509 00:28:09,034 --> 00:28:11,379 [Scott] No more walking through the water. 510 00:28:11,379 --> 00:28:12,931 [Kayla] Heck, yeah. 511 00:28:12,931 --> 00:28:15,310 Well, I have a list of stuff that we need to gather up, 512 00:28:15,310 --> 00:28:18,275 and then Paul and I can take the dredge up here. 513 00:28:18,275 --> 00:28:21,758 Once we get that done, we're ready to start putting a dredge in the water. 514 00:28:21,758 --> 00:28:23,965 - [Scott] Okay. - [Paul] Sweet. Let's do it. 515 00:28:26,586 --> 00:28:29,241 [Paul] I'll definitely be glad when we're done carrying the dredge over there. 516 00:28:29,241 --> 00:28:31,206 - [Kayla] Yeah. - [Paul] This was a pain in the ass. 517 00:28:31,206 --> 00:28:33,000 [Kayla] It really is. 518 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,344 [Paul] If we could only have a helicopter fly it in. 519 00:28:35,344 --> 00:28:36,551 [Kayla chuckles] 520 00:28:36,551 --> 00:28:38,000 [Kayla] You've got to find gold first. 521 00:28:40,827 --> 00:28:44,344 Because we're so behind in the season, having relocated, 522 00:28:44,344 --> 00:28:46,068 it's been really hard on everyone. 523 00:28:46,068 --> 00:28:48,275 We don't really have any gold to show for it. 524 00:28:48,275 --> 00:28:52,620 So we're in a mad dash to get in the water to get dredging. 525 00:28:52,620 --> 00:28:54,206 The last piece of the dredge. 526 00:28:54,206 --> 00:28:55,655 [Paul] [bleep]. 527 00:28:55,655 --> 00:28:57,448 [Kayla] All right. 528 00:28:57,448 --> 00:29:01,000 That's good for now. I'm gonna take a break. 529 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,206 Oh, man. 530 00:29:03,931 --> 00:29:05,724 We got it. 531 00:29:05,724 --> 00:29:07,344 [Kayla] You want to start moving the dredge? 532 00:29:07,344 --> 00:29:09,310 I think we have enough water to float it now. 533 00:29:09,310 --> 00:29:11,517 [Paul] We can do that. 534 00:29:11,517 --> 00:29:15,241 [narrator] Thousands of pounds of dredge parts hauled and assembled, 535 00:29:15,241 --> 00:29:19,206 their goal of dredging by the week's end is in reach. 536 00:29:22,344 --> 00:29:24,137 [Kayla] We're so close. 537 00:29:24,137 --> 00:29:26,655 It's a huge relief to get the dredge floating. 538 00:29:26,655 --> 00:29:29,275 Get it in the water. We're about to fire it up. 539 00:29:29,275 --> 00:29:31,068 And that's going to be a huge moment for us 540 00:29:31,068 --> 00:29:35,965 because it's been such a pain in the ass to get access. 541 00:29:35,965 --> 00:29:39,344 - Let's fire this thing up. There it goes. - [engine rumbling] 542 00:29:41,896 --> 00:29:43,379 [Kayla] That one's working. 543 00:29:43,379 --> 00:29:44,965 [Paul laughing] 544 00:29:44,965 --> 00:29:46,413 We got it. 545 00:29:46,413 --> 00:29:49,965 [Paul] [bleep] Hey. We got it. 546 00:29:49,965 --> 00:29:52,068 [Kayla] Heck, yeah. 547 00:29:52,068 --> 00:29:54,551 We've got a dredge running. 548 00:29:54,551 --> 00:29:56,620 I'm gonna go put some material through it. 549 00:29:56,620 --> 00:29:57,896 [Paul] [bleep] yeah. 550 00:29:57,896 --> 00:29:59,379 [narrator] It's taken a month, 551 00:29:59,379 --> 00:30:04,172 but Kayla's crew are finally dredging for Nugget Creek gold. 552 00:30:04,172 --> 00:30:07,482 [Paul] I see rocks going over the box. We're actually dredging. 553 00:30:08,862 --> 00:30:10,517 Is there material coming out? 554 00:30:10,517 --> 00:30:13,344 [Paul] Yeah, it's coming out. They're going right over the dam. 555 00:30:13,344 --> 00:30:15,551 It's perfect. 556 00:30:15,551 --> 00:30:17,068 [Paul laughing] 557 00:30:19,896 --> 00:30:21,931 We have faced a lot of challenges. 558 00:30:21,931 --> 00:30:25,241 So today was a really huge accomplishment to get a dredge in the water. 559 00:30:25,241 --> 00:30:27,586 Dustin's crew had a little bit of a head start. 560 00:30:27,586 --> 00:30:31,655 Even with their head start, my crew still got our dredge in the water first, 561 00:30:31,655 --> 00:30:34,551 so now we can do what we actually came here to do, 562 00:30:34,551 --> 00:30:36,103 which is hopefully find some gold. 563 00:30:44,241 --> 00:30:45,931 [Dustin] We're going over the big boulders. 564 00:30:45,931 --> 00:30:49,689 Hopefully I don't destroy it. It's not going to be easy. 565 00:30:49,689 --> 00:30:52,068 [narrator] After five weeks of delays, 566 00:30:52,068 --> 00:30:55,655 Dustin has one large obstacle standing between him 567 00:30:55,655 --> 00:30:58,310 and a potentially monstrous payday. 568 00:30:58,310 --> 00:31:01,724 [Dustin] We are dragging this dredge up the creek. 569 00:31:01,724 --> 00:31:04,137 For better or worse, we're doing it. 570 00:31:04,137 --> 00:31:07,965 This is a big machine. We could have taken it apart piece by piece 571 00:31:07,965 --> 00:31:09,655 and tried to put it together out there. 572 00:31:09,655 --> 00:31:11,689 But it would have taken us a long damn time. 573 00:31:13,241 --> 00:31:16,068 [Dustin] Hey Wes. I'm worried about these pontoons right now. 574 00:31:16,068 --> 00:31:18,310 If we drag it up, we're probably going to pop them. 575 00:31:18,310 --> 00:31:21,655 So, you know, those guys made their walkways with those other boards. 576 00:31:21,655 --> 00:31:24,068 We've got these two that they're not going to use for anything. 577 00:31:24,068 --> 00:31:25,724 If we put these under here 578 00:31:25,724 --> 00:31:29,344 so it's kind of got a sled, we can just pull it over there with the ATV, I think. 579 00:31:29,344 --> 00:31:30,862 [Dustin] Like on the boards? 580 00:31:30,862 --> 00:31:33,931 Yeah, because those are tough compared to the bottom of our pontoons. 581 00:31:33,931 --> 00:31:36,793 If we ruin our pontoons, we're gonna be screwed. 582 00:31:36,793 --> 00:31:39,931 [Dustin] Hopefully we can drag this thing up the creek without it 583 00:31:39,931 --> 00:31:42,310 just completely devastating itself. 584 00:31:42,310 --> 00:31:45,206 This thing needs to be in place and ready to go. 585 00:31:46,896 --> 00:31:50,655 [narrator] The plan? Build a sled from the cottonwood boards 586 00:31:50,655 --> 00:31:53,379 strong enough to carry the heavy weight dredge, 587 00:31:53,379 --> 00:31:56,862 then haul it 1000 feet from camp 588 00:31:56,862 --> 00:32:02,724 up an uneven dirt track to the access point on Nugget Creek. 589 00:32:02,724 --> 00:32:07,172 From here, they will take on the most dangerous section of the journey, 590 00:32:07,172 --> 00:32:09,827 dragging the nearly one-ton dredge 591 00:32:09,827 --> 00:32:13,172 through a series of bends 500-feet 592 00:32:13,172 --> 00:32:16,413 up the raging, boulder-infested creek 593 00:32:16,413 --> 00:32:18,793 all the way to their dive site. 594 00:32:20,758 --> 00:32:24,655 [Wes] We've got a little trailer that we've always used for a fuel trailer. 595 00:32:24,655 --> 00:32:27,413 We're going to try to rig that underneath these as well, 596 00:32:27,413 --> 00:32:31,310 so we can have us a makeshift trailer. It'll work. 597 00:32:31,310 --> 00:32:33,689 [Carlos] It has to work. It gots to work. 598 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,827 [Dustin] Rock and roll. 599 00:32:37,827 --> 00:32:39,551 [Wes] Watch the float, don't get caught. 600 00:32:39,551 --> 00:32:40,827 [Carlos] Oh, sweet. 601 00:32:42,448 --> 00:32:43,793 [Dustin] [bleep] Let's jack this up. 602 00:32:43,793 --> 00:32:46,241 [Carlos] We need to have it way up, huh? 603 00:32:46,241 --> 00:32:50,172 [Dustin] Just watch it. Stop. One click at a time. 604 00:32:50,172 --> 00:32:52,206 [Carlos] One click at a time. Got you. 605 00:32:53,379 --> 00:32:55,758 - [grunts, exclaims] - [Dustin] Or just do that. 606 00:32:55,758 --> 00:32:57,241 - Or just drop it. - [chuckles] 607 00:32:57,241 --> 00:32:59,103 [Dustin] I'm not sure if it'll work or not. 608 00:32:59,103 --> 00:33:02,172 [Wes] Yeah, it's got so much potential for disaster. 609 00:33:02,172 --> 00:33:03,896 [Dustin] I think we're ready to go, y'all. 610 00:33:08,724 --> 00:33:09,896 That works. 611 00:33:12,344 --> 00:33:13,827 Looks like it's working. 612 00:33:16,724 --> 00:33:19,241 - Oh. Oh-oh. - [laughs] [bleep] 613 00:33:19,241 --> 00:33:20,965 [James] That's a bumpy ride. 614 00:33:20,965 --> 00:33:22,655 It's getting more bumpier here. 615 00:33:22,655 --> 00:33:24,172 [Wes] Ooh, is it gonna make it up the hill? 616 00:33:24,172 --> 00:33:26,103 [Carlos] This is where it's gonna get tricky, dude. 617 00:33:26,103 --> 00:33:28,034 You've got to give it some gas. 618 00:33:30,620 --> 00:33:32,137 - Four wheel drive? - [Wes] Oh, God. No. 619 00:33:34,172 --> 00:33:35,551 [bleep] 620 00:33:40,275 --> 00:33:41,241 [Dustin] Wow. 621 00:33:43,586 --> 00:33:45,103 Nada. 622 00:33:45,103 --> 00:33:48,344 It got stuck. Little too steep. 623 00:33:49,931 --> 00:33:53,379 What the [bleep] man? Is it that heavy? 624 00:33:53,379 --> 00:33:54,965 Let me go get the Mini Ex. 625 00:33:56,551 --> 00:33:58,448 We're getting into an area that is so steep right now 626 00:33:58,448 --> 00:34:00,655 and there's so much gravel that the ATV is just slipping. 627 00:34:02,862 --> 00:34:06,758 [Dustin] Mini Ex to the rescue. 628 00:34:06,758 --> 00:34:08,758 Strike Team Mini Ex. 629 00:34:12,344 --> 00:34:14,517 Just give it pressure. I'll do the rest. 630 00:34:32,827 --> 00:34:34,448 [Wes] Look at that. 631 00:34:36,482 --> 00:34:38,620 [man 5] I can't believe it's working. 632 00:34:38,620 --> 00:34:40,034 [Wes] Yeah, but this is the easy part. 633 00:34:41,379 --> 00:34:42,655 [Dustin laughing] 634 00:34:42,655 --> 00:34:44,241 [Dustin] We made it to Nugget Creek. 635 00:34:46,310 --> 00:34:48,344 [Wes] This is going to be a [bleep] nightmare. 636 00:34:50,034 --> 00:34:51,448 Just wait till you go look at the creek, though. 637 00:34:51,448 --> 00:34:53,551 The water's down. It's just nothing but a boulder field. 638 00:34:56,413 --> 00:34:57,793 [Wes] Holy, [bleep]. 639 00:34:59,689 --> 00:35:04,068 [narrator] Now they must rely on the pulling power of their winch system 640 00:35:04,068 --> 00:35:06,517 to carry them the final leg of their journey. 641 00:35:09,517 --> 00:35:10,620 [Dustin] Hey, James. You got me? 642 00:35:10,620 --> 00:35:11,827 [James] Yeah. 643 00:35:11,827 --> 00:35:14,068 [Dustin] Before you make it to us there's a big boulder 644 00:35:14,068 --> 00:35:17,000 I'd like you to attach that redirect on. 645 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,724 [narrator] The series of redirects are supposed to steer the dredge 646 00:35:20,724 --> 00:35:25,103 away from the most dangerous parts of the boulder-strewn creek. 647 00:35:25,103 --> 00:35:26,758 I don't know how this is going to work. 648 00:35:26,758 --> 00:35:29,620 Once this gets in, I don't think it's gonna have the power to take it up, dude. 649 00:35:29,620 --> 00:35:31,137 I guarantee it. 650 00:35:31,137 --> 00:35:33,275 I don't need that right now. 651 00:35:33,275 --> 00:35:34,758 [Carlos] Just telling you man. 652 00:35:34,758 --> 00:35:37,206 I'm just saying. I don't need that right now. 653 00:35:37,206 --> 00:35:40,344 Let's fail before you tell me it's not going to work. All right? 654 00:35:40,344 --> 00:35:41,620 Okay. 655 00:35:44,137 --> 00:35:46,551 [Dustin] All right, Wes, let's see if we can move it. 656 00:35:49,827 --> 00:35:51,482 It's coming. 657 00:35:51,482 --> 00:35:53,896 [James] Holy, [bleep]. 658 00:36:03,379 --> 00:36:06,241 [Dustin] Oh, it's pulling that big boulder. 659 00:36:06,241 --> 00:36:08,413 [Carlos] All stop. All stop, all stop. 660 00:36:08,413 --> 00:36:13,137 That boulder is being pulled, man, for a redirect. 661 00:36:13,137 --> 00:36:15,655 [narrator] The dredge is veering off course 662 00:36:15,655 --> 00:36:18,931 and headed straight towards a large boulder field. 663 00:36:18,931 --> 00:36:20,551 Pull. We'll see what happens. 664 00:36:24,689 --> 00:36:26,413 [Carlos] It's a war. 665 00:36:26,413 --> 00:36:27,586 [Dustin] It's going. 666 00:36:30,310 --> 00:36:31,586 It's not gonna make that turn, is it? 667 00:36:31,586 --> 00:36:32,896 [James] No. 668 00:36:32,896 --> 00:36:35,206 That boulder moved too much? 669 00:36:35,206 --> 00:36:37,586 [Carlos] It's bringing it right here through all this. 670 00:36:39,482 --> 00:36:41,793 [Dustin] Keep going. We're about to run into something bigs. 671 00:36:41,793 --> 00:36:42,827 Stand by. 672 00:36:44,413 --> 00:36:46,689 I don't know if this is going to work. 673 00:36:46,689 --> 00:36:48,379 We need to learn how to drive it. 674 00:36:48,379 --> 00:36:49,689 [Carlos] Oh, okay. 675 00:36:49,689 --> 00:36:51,000 All right, let's get a pull. 676 00:36:58,137 --> 00:36:59,517 [Dustin] Holy, [bleep]. 677 00:36:59,517 --> 00:37:00,793 [Carlos] Holy, [bleep]. 678 00:37:00,793 --> 00:37:03,655 - [Dustin] Wow. - It's actually driving up the rocks. 679 00:37:05,655 --> 00:37:07,000 - [James] Look at that. - [Carlos] What? 680 00:37:08,724 --> 00:37:11,206 - No freakin' way. - [James] No way, dude. 681 00:37:17,620 --> 00:37:19,000 [Dustin] All right, Wes. 682 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,551 We're going to do some heavy off-roading. 683 00:37:20,551 --> 00:37:22,896 We have to go around a really big rock. 684 00:37:22,896 --> 00:37:24,241 [Wes] Copy that. Are you ready to go? 685 00:37:24,241 --> 00:37:25,551 Pull. 686 00:37:30,275 --> 00:37:32,482 [Dustin] All stop, all stop, all stop. 687 00:37:32,482 --> 00:37:35,310 Give us a sec. We have to reassess. 688 00:37:35,310 --> 00:37:36,689 Copy that. 689 00:37:38,551 --> 00:37:41,758 Unfortunately, this route has taken us up 690 00:37:41,758 --> 00:37:44,103 straight on this Boulder field. 691 00:37:44,103 --> 00:37:45,620 [exclaims in exasperation] 692 00:37:47,448 --> 00:37:49,827 I'm stuck. I don't know what to do. 693 00:37:55,655 --> 00:37:57,517 [Dustin] It's not going to make it over that rock. 694 00:37:59,551 --> 00:38:01,000 [bleep] 695 00:38:14,034 --> 00:38:16,413 [Dustin] We're hung up real bad right now, man. 696 00:38:16,413 --> 00:38:18,586 We have to reassess. 697 00:38:18,586 --> 00:38:20,517 [narrator] At Nugget Creek, 698 00:38:20,517 --> 00:38:25,689 Dustin is attempting to drag his dredge 500 feet to his dive site, 699 00:38:25,689 --> 00:38:29,758 but has become stuck and is now in serious trouble. 700 00:38:29,758 --> 00:38:31,241 - Hey, Dave. - [Dave] Yeah. 701 00:38:31,241 --> 00:38:34,896 It's stuck on that second-to-last board back there on that big hump. 702 00:38:34,896 --> 00:38:38,620 We've got to lift the very back left corner. 703 00:38:38,620 --> 00:38:40,172 [Carlos] Oh. [bleep] 704 00:38:40,172 --> 00:38:42,137 - [Dustin] It's up there, huh? - [Carlos] It's up there, man. 705 00:38:42,137 --> 00:38:44,482 [Dustin] Can you get the back up with a crow bar, do you think? 706 00:38:44,482 --> 00:38:46,862 You got to come up a lot. 707 00:38:48,758 --> 00:38:50,206 Okay. Now give it a pull. 708 00:38:50,206 --> 00:38:51,413 [Carlos] Ready? 709 00:38:53,068 --> 00:38:56,551 [Dustin] It's got to be two blocks. I can't move it. 710 00:38:56,551 --> 00:38:59,517 [Dustin] We're stuck on one boulder that won't let us by, man. 711 00:39:00,896 --> 00:39:02,206 I don't know what to do. 712 00:39:04,965 --> 00:39:08,551 [James] Hey. Do you want me to go grab that, Jack? 713 00:39:08,551 --> 00:39:11,724 [Dustin] Yeah. Anything at this point. 714 00:39:13,034 --> 00:39:15,724 [narrator] Caught between a rock in a hard place, 715 00:39:15,724 --> 00:39:22,000 Dustin's only hope will be to lift the trailer just enough to clear the problem boulder. 716 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,931 [Dustin] Thank you, James. It's never gonna work. 717 00:39:25,931 --> 00:39:27,689 [James] It's pretty sketchy. 718 00:39:27,689 --> 00:39:29,448 [Dustin] That is super sketchy. 719 00:39:30,586 --> 00:39:33,137 - [James on radio] Copy, Wes? - [Wes on radio] Yep. 720 00:39:33,137 --> 00:39:35,000 [Wes] Woah. Copy that. 721 00:39:41,724 --> 00:39:45,551 [Dustin] Yeah. Come on, [bleep]. 722 00:39:45,551 --> 00:39:48,586 Keep on going Wes. Keep on going. Pull, pull, pull. 723 00:39:50,551 --> 00:39:52,758 [James] Oh, yeah. 724 00:39:52,758 --> 00:39:54,068 [Dustin] It's over it. 725 00:39:54,068 --> 00:39:56,310 [guffawing] 726 00:40:00,586 --> 00:40:02,448 [James] [bleep] We just went over that. 727 00:40:02,448 --> 00:40:03,827 [Wes] That's working, though. 728 00:40:03,827 --> 00:40:05,448 [Carlos] It's working, man. 729 00:40:05,448 --> 00:40:09,241 Pretty soon, I'm going to see the dredge start coming around the corner, 730 00:40:09,241 --> 00:40:11,586 and we're going to be on our home stretch. 731 00:40:12,793 --> 00:40:14,344 Stop, I see the dredge. 732 00:40:14,827 --> 00:40:15,931 [laughs] 733 00:40:20,413 --> 00:40:24,137 Oh, this is actually working. It wasn't easy. 734 00:40:25,827 --> 00:40:28,724 Come on, baby. 735 00:40:32,827 --> 00:40:36,793 [Dustin] Can you believe it? Good job. 736 00:40:40,103 --> 00:40:42,517 One more leap. 737 00:40:42,517 --> 00:40:45,896 Now we have a huge pile of boulders 738 00:40:45,896 --> 00:40:48,862 about 100 feet long, and, well, 739 00:40:50,758 --> 00:40:54,034 this thing's been put to the test. 740 00:40:54,034 --> 00:40:55,586 Nothing this bad. 741 00:40:55,586 --> 00:40:57,586 [Wes] This is only a single pull. 742 00:40:57,586 --> 00:41:00,103 I don't know if it's gonna work. 743 00:41:00,103 --> 00:41:02,551 [Dustin] All right, let's see what you got. 744 00:41:02,551 --> 00:41:04,275 Are you ready to break some stuff? 745 00:41:08,344 --> 00:41:10,793 [narrator] Up creek at Kayla's site... 746 00:41:10,793 --> 00:41:14,241 [Justin] All right. Time to shake things up. 747 00:41:14,241 --> 00:41:18,068 [narrator] The crew are ready for their first dive on Nugget Creek. 748 00:41:18,068 --> 00:41:20,482 We put a lot of work in setting up the site, 749 00:41:20,482 --> 00:41:23,517 so if we find gold, that would be great. 750 00:41:23,517 --> 00:41:26,655 We don't fully expect it, but we're always hopeful. 751 00:41:27,724 --> 00:41:29,655 [narrator] Unlike at McKinley, 752 00:41:29,655 --> 00:41:34,724 Nugget Creek's bedrock is rumored to be far closer to the surface. 753 00:41:34,724 --> 00:41:39,862 To get to it, they must first clear rocks in order to start a hole. 754 00:41:39,862 --> 00:41:44,310 Then dig down to what they hope will be no more than ten feet 755 00:41:44,310 --> 00:41:47,103 to bedrock and their fortune in gold. 756 00:41:48,862 --> 00:41:50,724 - You can go ahead and fire it up. - [Justin] All right. 757 00:42:09,172 --> 00:42:13,413 [narrator] For her first dive, Kayla will work from the surface with just a snorkel. 758 00:42:13,413 --> 00:42:15,655 As she clears her way deeper. 759 00:42:18,620 --> 00:42:20,620 [Justin] Kayla is a beast. 760 00:42:20,620 --> 00:42:25,275 She gets after the rock really well. I just try to keep up. 761 00:42:27,689 --> 00:42:30,172 [Scott] You see that? She's dredging. 762 00:42:30,172 --> 00:42:31,689 [Paul] [bleep] Yeah. 763 00:42:33,344 --> 00:42:35,448 I hope there's gold in that box. 764 00:42:35,448 --> 00:42:37,517 [Scott] The dredge is running material. 765 00:42:37,517 --> 00:42:41,137 That is it. We are in the water. We are mining now. 766 00:42:42,517 --> 00:42:44,758 That's what I'm talking about. [bleep], yeah. 767 00:42:59,931 --> 00:43:05,448 [narrator] At Nugget Creek, Kayla is four hours into her first dive at the site. 768 00:43:07,896 --> 00:43:09,172 I'm tired. 769 00:43:09,172 --> 00:43:10,689 Arms are a little spent. 770 00:43:12,310 --> 00:43:16,206 [Kayla] I don't expect anything, but it'd be nice to see something. 771 00:43:16,206 --> 00:43:17,724 [Justin] Yeah, I'd be really surprised. 772 00:43:20,103 --> 00:43:21,620 [Kayla] I see a lot of pyrite. 773 00:43:21,620 --> 00:43:23,172 [Justin] All that rusty stuff. 774 00:43:23,172 --> 00:43:27,517 [chuckles] If only it were gold. 775 00:43:27,517 --> 00:43:33,551 [narrator] Pyrite, known as fool's gold, is a sure sign that gold is nearby. 776 00:43:33,551 --> 00:43:35,137 [Kayla] That's a lot of [bleep] pyrite. 777 00:43:35,137 --> 00:43:38,241 [Justin chuckles] That is insane amounts. 778 00:43:40,068 --> 00:43:42,896 It feels good being back in the water. 779 00:43:42,896 --> 00:43:46,206 We got a lot of rock moved. We got a good area opened up. 780 00:43:46,206 --> 00:43:49,862 I feel like things are going to start getting into a better rhythm now. 781 00:43:49,862 --> 00:43:53,241 If we can do what we actually came here to do, which is hopefully find some gold. 782 00:43:59,517 --> 00:44:01,448 [narrator] Down creek, 783 00:44:01,448 --> 00:44:04,448 A hundred feet of boulders stands between Dustin 784 00:44:04,448 --> 00:44:07,965 and the official start to his mining season. 785 00:44:07,965 --> 00:44:14,068 Last obstacle getting our dredge up this massive pile of rocks. 786 00:44:14,068 --> 00:44:17,965 [narrator] For a job this size, it's all hands on deck. 787 00:44:17,965 --> 00:44:21,965 So Dustin has called in Scott and Paul for extra muscle. 788 00:44:21,965 --> 00:44:24,241 [Dustin] We're about ready to fire up. Let's go. 789 00:44:38,275 --> 00:44:40,965 [Dustin] Uh... All stop. 790 00:44:40,965 --> 00:44:42,448 All stop. All stop. 791 00:44:42,448 --> 00:44:44,206 There's a big boulder in our damn way. 792 00:44:44,206 --> 00:44:46,724 There's actually a lot of big boulders in our way. 793 00:44:46,724 --> 00:44:49,206 [Wes] Is it trying up there? 794 00:44:49,206 --> 00:44:52,413 It's barely clicking, man, it's trying, but it ain't doing nothing. 795 00:44:52,413 --> 00:44:54,482 [Carlos] Maybe we should lose the trailer from here on out. 796 00:44:56,620 --> 00:44:58,862 [Dustin] Nobody likes a quitter, Carlos. 797 00:44:58,862 --> 00:45:00,551 [Carlos cackles] 798 00:45:01,586 --> 00:45:03,482 All we got to do is double pull on this. 799 00:45:03,482 --> 00:45:06,034 We're trying to move the dredge up the hardest part right now. 800 00:45:06,034 --> 00:45:08,931 And this winch with just a single pull is not enough. 801 00:45:08,931 --> 00:45:11,689 They're going to have to find a way to do a double pull on it. 802 00:45:11,689 --> 00:45:15,000 This is going to help out the winch. Double pull. 803 00:45:16,206 --> 00:45:17,965 [James] Hey, Carlos, careful on that. 804 00:45:17,965 --> 00:45:19,206 It slipped out on me just now. 805 00:45:19,206 --> 00:45:20,482 [Carlos] Okay. Copy that. 806 00:45:22,275 --> 00:45:24,103 Whoa! 807 00:45:25,448 --> 00:45:26,827 - You mean like that? - [James] Yep. 808 00:45:26,827 --> 00:45:28,068 [Carlos] Okay. Thank you. 809 00:45:35,241 --> 00:45:38,413 [Scott] We're ready to roll up here? That winch is running. 810 00:45:38,413 --> 00:45:40,275 [Dustin] Wes, you're with them? 811 00:45:40,275 --> 00:45:41,482 Yep. 812 00:45:41,482 --> 00:45:43,068 [Dustin] Pull. 813 00:45:47,965 --> 00:45:49,206 Got it. 814 00:45:53,620 --> 00:45:58,862 [Carlos] Yeah. It's freaking believable. 815 00:45:58,862 --> 00:46:00,275 [Paul] Look at that thing man. 816 00:46:00,275 --> 00:46:02,310 Come on in, climb over the wall in. 817 00:46:02,310 --> 00:46:03,689 [Carlos] Holy crap. 818 00:46:03,689 --> 00:46:04,931 [Paul] It's plowing the boulder. 819 00:46:04,931 --> 00:46:06,206 [James] All the way up. 820 00:46:06,206 --> 00:46:07,620 [Carlos laughing] 821 00:46:12,413 --> 00:46:14,448 [Dustin] Come on. Come on, baby. 822 00:46:18,068 --> 00:46:21,172 [James] Yeah. Yeah. 823 00:46:21,172 --> 00:46:26,241 [Dustin] Yes, yes. Yeah! Oh. That's what I'm talking about. 824 00:46:27,586 --> 00:46:28,689 Perfect. 825 00:46:28,689 --> 00:46:30,413 [Paul] Look at that. 826 00:46:30,413 --> 00:46:32,275 [Dustin] Congratulations. 827 00:46:32,275 --> 00:46:34,758 [Carlos] [bleep] yeah. 828 00:46:34,758 --> 00:46:41,275 [Dustin] We just dragged a dredge up by a huge whitewater, steep creek, man. 829 00:46:41,275 --> 00:46:44,965 This is a perfect spot. Get her off of our little trailer. 830 00:46:44,965 --> 00:46:48,206 That was awesome, guys. Good job. 831 00:46:48,206 --> 00:46:51,034 That was a lot of effort, but, man, I'm glad we did it. 832 00:46:53,586 --> 00:46:55,655 Hey, buddy. Good job, man. 833 00:46:55,655 --> 00:46:58,310 [Carlos] That was a miracle, dude. 834 00:46:58,310 --> 00:47:04,137 Thank you for letting me work here, man. I would've never thought that worked at all. 835 00:47:04,137 --> 00:47:06,689 That is so cool to see the dredge sitting there. 836 00:47:08,586 --> 00:47:13,344 I can't believe that worked. Good job, everybody. Let's do it again tomorrow. 837 00:47:13,344 --> 00:47:15,896 [Scott] Yeah. 838 00:47:15,896 --> 00:47:19,379 It was one hell of an adventure. Nobody thought it was gonna work. 839 00:47:19,379 --> 00:47:22,137 I had my doubts. We got it done. 840 00:47:25,517 --> 00:47:29,068 It's a wild damn feeling to just go after something 841 00:47:29,068 --> 00:47:31,413 knowing you're probably going to fail 842 00:47:31,413 --> 00:47:36,206 and then completing it. My dredge is in place. It's time to go diving. 843 00:47:41,068 --> 00:47:43,413 [Dustin] Gotta die, might as well die having fun. 844 00:47:43,413 --> 00:47:46,517 [narrator] Next time on Gold Rush: White Water . 845 00:47:46,517 --> 00:47:49,103 [Dustin] Whoa! Look out! [bleep] Stephen. 846 00:47:50,689 --> 00:47:52,103 [Kayla] Be careful. 847 00:47:52,103 --> 00:47:53,931 Are you stuck right now? 848 00:47:53,931 --> 00:47:55,172 [Justin] That got my leg. 849 00:47:55,172 --> 00:47:57,620 - Ow. - Good to go. 850 00:47:57,620 --> 00:48:00,551 [Dustin] Hopefully it gets down to some gold. We need this bad. 851 00:48:00,551 --> 00:48:02,000 More than they know.