Bering Sea Gold

A monster has returned to the sea.

Long thought dead...

The beast is alive...

And it has an insatiable hunger.

A hunger...

Holy!

For gold.

It lives to excavate.

Where are you hiding?

No one can survive its attack.

We're.

Who will be her next victim?

You can run, but you can't hide.

It's the myrtle Irene.

I've stretched myself

pretty thin this season.

We just need to get this thing up and running.

We'll get it running.

Haven't got much more on it.

Midway through the season,

captain Shawn pomrenke

has already reached the breaking point.

This one's a little heavier.

I'm deep into this thing. We need

I need to pile up

600 ounces to get my money back.

We can do it.

At this point,

we're about halfway through the season.

There's no making up for lost time now.

We need everything to go right.

I owe a million on the tomcod,

$1.5 million on the inland mine...

And the myrtle is supposed to be $350,000,

but I'm in at way more than that right now.

But today's the day,

we're finally going to fire up the myrtle.

I need this to go off without a hitch.

Otherwise, I'm screwed.

How's it going, Dave?

How's it going?

Getting it out. Looking good.

We're getting there.

Yeah, we're getting close.

That's just a little bit of wiring

and fire everything up

and cross the fingers,

and hope everything works

the way it's supposed to.

- That's it? - That's the plan.

I'm not leaving until this thing's digging, so.

- Okay. - Let's go.

Checking in.

Goldy's welding the intake for the flurry pump.

Still got to get electrical from the cage here.

We've already completed

most of the big redesign.

We've lowered the wash plant

to get the operator a better view and more control.

Second, we upgraded

the whole water system,

now that we're at a higher pressure,

so we wash the gold out of the dirt better.

What's most important is

we added a second sluice box

to catch even the finest gold.

The sluice box is plumbed up.

Just finishing some spray nozzles.

We are getting close.

We are so close.

We got to get this back-up generator going.

So, we got a little bit electrical to finish up,

a little bit of fine tuning

and then we're ready to go mining.

We're going out today.

- Get out of the way. - -All right.

What the hell was that?

Holy!

Shawn, are you okay?

What happened?

I fell.!

- Is your head okay? - Yeah. My leg.

Holy cow, Shawn.

You're going to need a few stitches there, buddy.

- How's everything else? - It hurts.

- Is your other leg okay? - Yeah.

What did you hit it on, Shawn?

- Right here? - Yeah.

Looks like you got it right there.

Your head's okay, though?

Yeah, my head's okay.

- Can you get up? - Yeah.

Let's get up.

Anything else hurt?

Can you sit on here?

Be careful.

Here. Sit right there.

Shawn, I think we should go to the doctor

and get some stitches on there.

It'll be all right. We got to get this

no, I need

I would get it cleaned up anyway.

And I think they're going to put some stitches in there.

Are you okay? Your back hurt?

No, my leg hurts...

And my wrist.

While Shawn was working on the generator up top

and he slipped and he fell into the sluice box.

And he hit the metal there.

Sliced his leg open a little bit

and he's going to go get a couple of stitches.

We need Shawn. We can't operate without him.

So, hopefully, he's all right.

That could have been bad.

- Are you sure you got it? - Yeah.

Not really what I need right now.

We're running out of time,

running out of money

and now this is gonna slow me down.

It won't stop me

but it's definitely gonna slow me down.

Can you lift it up or anything?

Yeah, my knees hurt.

We're working on the dredge, we're getting close

and here I go and fall.

It sucks.

Probably my least favorite place in the world

to be going right now.

The Bering sea's my favorite,

the hospital is my least favorite.

Patient?

Yeah, that'd be me.

I'm going to get some stitches, I guess.

I don't need this.

120 miles east...

Far, far from Nome.

Good morning.

Ready to this or what?

Bam! Starts it out just like that.

The Kellys are looking for the most ambitious

and most expensive adventure in family history

to start paying off.

We are ready for great day

getting out there killing and mining.

And I really hope to god

we get 20 ounces today

between the both of us.

We put everything we had into this trip to elim.

I know there's gold here,

but so far, the whole thing's been

a giant dumpster fire.

What's the bottom look like?

There's no material to work right here.

- Not a solid rock. - Well, that's not good.

I just my knee up.

This sucks.

I'm coming up

so, today's plan.

There's technically two claims in the center

I would like to prospect,

but that's like right in the middle of town.

We'll see how it goes.

Even though we got the mining rights,

doesn't mean they're gonna let you mine.

So far, this trip sucks.

Iron creek was all solid rock,

no cobble, no gold, no nothing.

And then we check the claim on the outskirts of elim

and we came up empty.

The last place to look is right smack dab in front of town

where everybody can see me.

You're gonna get in trouble.

It's gonna work out, okay?

The people in rural Alaska

are very protective over their land.

They don't want anybody swooping

and taking anything from their communities,

especially gold.

I go to places all the time

where I'm not welcomed,

but, I always tend to win people over

with my personality.

Everybody has said that

you're going to get run out of here.

We're gonna prove them wrong, right?

- Everybody said that? - A lot of people have.

We're approaching elim right now.

I didn't really want to be here today,

but here we are!

Because I'd rather piss off everybody and get gold

than have everybody love me.

See where that big rock is?

The sneak attack is over.

Yeah. I see them all.

That corner down there.

You don't want any attention,

so you park right in town.

That's like really in your face.

Well, that's where the gold is.

Look at the top of that ramp right there, dude.