Bering Sea Gold

The end of ice mining looms on the horizon.

And the fleet is at the end of their rope.

As the twisted whims of the Bering Sea tie the miners in knots...

...who can grab a lifeline and pull themselves to victory?

And who will lose their grip and come crashing down?

That's the agreement!

All right. you.

Pick up on aisle five.

With the grind of the winter campaign wearing on her...

...Jane Kilcher's bringing in some much needed moral support.

Hello.

Hi. Hi!

Snow above.

I'm so excited!

- Whoo! - Kate.

This season's been tough all around,

I'm not gonna lie.

Uh-oh.

It's been a struggle getting the hang of ice mining.

...66.

At-- At least it's something.

We have virtually no gold

and with this team, the pressure, is like, breaking us down.

- Okay. - Whoo!

Okay. Got it.

So, I guess I'm gonna drive?

You're-- You're driving.

Because I've driven with you before.

It's been months since I've seen a friendly face

and right now I really need that.

So, I asked my cousin Kate from Texas to come up

and witness this madness that I'm going through.

And then which way are we going?

Um...

Go forward.

- We can decide-- - Well, obviously.

Now what would you do without me here?

Whoo-hoo!

Oh, my God.

Honestly, at this point, I'm hoping that this team can have, like, one day

without any fighting,

and we can actually have, like, at least one successful dive.

For once.

Kate, this is Jeff and Eddie.

Eddie, Jeff.

Kate. She's a hot mess.

Just like me.

Just like me.

- So, this is the shack. - Wow.

And I actually sit, like, right there.

If I wanna talk to the diver, I have to press this to talk.

I'm like, "Hello, see any gold?"

I'm like, "Whoo."

That's what happens there.

It's crazy that this is what I've been doing this winter.

I can't even write, I'm so cold.

I've never seen an ice mining operation before.

When Emily said she needed me to be her eyes and ears,

of course I said yes.

Oh, you're moving the whole shack?

Wow.

Uh...

Get the holes done.

- Yeah. - Okay.

I don't even think we're gonna get a dive in today.

That's the way things have been going.

So I'm gonna show Kate around Nome.

The boys will text me when they are ready to dive.

Fingers crossed.

All right. Well, we're gonna get out of your hair.

I'm gonna go get fried food at the Gold Dust.

Don't go through withdrawal for me.

Bye.

You guys ride safe!

Thank you.

Bye.

I got two weeks left in the season.

It's coming to an end.

As winter mining reaches the homestretch,

Nome's resident king has his back up against the wall.

We're getting our asses handed to us this year.

This season I took a chance. Left the Tomcod

and moved over to the East Tract.

We got to spend most of the season close to the town.

But I don't know the ground that well.

Honestly, that gamble is biting me in the ass right now.

If I'm gonna hit 100 ounces and stay on top,

I'm gonna need better ground.

I don't know how many holes we've done.

We always see gold but

when you're running to heat it, it's gotta be really good gold.

I sent Joe out ahead of me to check one last spot on the East Tract.

If he doesn't find anything worth staying there for,

I'm gonna admit defeat,

we're gonna move the whole operation to the Tomcod.

Huh.

Oh, where, oh, where did my Joe go?

One shack's still here.

Where in the hell did Joe go?

I see. Oh, look at that.

Thought this was gonna turn out to be a good spot but obviously not.

No gold.

Crap, he's already gone.

All the way down to the Tomcod, six miles down the coast.

Well, there's your answer.

I don't make many mistakes but East Tract was one of 'em.

So, it's time to head to the Tomcod.

I'm tracking Joe right now.

I'll find him. I got a trail.

He left me some bread crumbs.

Wish he would have left me some flakes of gold I can follow.

Here we go.

No gold?

Joe's already been working.

He said he found a potential hot spot.

I'm praying he's right 'cause moving this whole operation,

it's a big risk.

- Yeah. - Oh, thanks for the sign too.

Appreciate that.

Now it's gold time.

Let's get to work.

I'm gonna go see some of this gold that Joe's been talking about.

He's gonna suck some of it up. Oh, yeah!

You know I am.

Oh.

Oh, dang.

Loud and clear.

Wow.

Look at all of this stuff.

Look at all of it!

Let's get back in money-making.

Okay, good. Go.

- Up, up, up, up. Higher up. - Higher up.

In winter's waning days,

Chris McCully is looking to lasso the gold count title.

We still have two more weeks and we can't slow down.

It'd be really insane

to pull more gold than Shawn this winter.

At this point, it's looking like a very real possibility.

We just gotta close strong and I think we can pull this one off.

Luckily, we're on some real hot ground.

And we call it "Wall Street."

It's just where the money is.

The plan is we're gonna send me and John down there

so that we can reap some dividends.

- Power on? - Power's on.

Now I'm gonna send John first but I got this diver named Bo.

He's new but I'm gonna break him in up top first.

With so little time left into our season,

we need to keep our operation flawless.

Whoo!

Is it out?

Oh, . Oh, God!

Oh, my God.

I started idling up, that thing gave up, like...

Almost killed my operation, dude.

My air compressor, the lights.

The intake, the generator.

Good thing they're still running though.

We got a giant leak in the hose, um...

We can't really mine like this.

We don't really have a backup for this

but hopefully it's an easy fix so that we can get back going.

It needs to be--

They fire it up, it's--

Water spraying over here.

It's like the water park down here.

Tape.

Tape.

Tape! He's wrapping a high pressure hose with tape.

Dude, come on.

It's not gonna come close to cutting it.

I have to go to the store and, uh...

Uh, get a Band-Aid for that.

Like a real fix solution to it.

We need a proper sleeve to fix this.

So I got to run back to town and pick one up.

For now we're dead in the water until we get this thing fixed.

And that means we're losing money.

And we're losing it fast.

Yeah, I better go do that now

before I-- we waste time.

Let's just keep bringing it up,

and then when you think that's good enough to weld on and everything,

we'll put it to that level.

Right on.

With limited time left this season,

Kris Kelly's sea crawler dream

is hanging on by a thread.

That's good!

Okay.

Andy's cutting off one restrictor ring

for the swivel nozzle.

Mike's welding on the other side.

If you would have told me in the beginning that

winter would almost be over,

we have no gold, we'd be messing with this thing all day long,

I'd tell you, "Just kill me right now."

I never dreamed it would waste our whole season

just getting the gold trawl up and running.