Bering Sea Gold

a fleet of heroes so bold

hoped to make dreams come true

before winter took hold.

end of the season is coming quick.

It's time to find some gold.

the king built an iron beast to see his plans through.

To fail is not an option.

while a pair of squirrely knights

searched for funds overdue.

first day running an excavator.

I know I'm gonna get a lot of gold today.

the curious wizard sailed to waters unknown.

whatever it is that I discover today,

I will be the first one to discover it.

as the queen galloped closer to a claim of her own.

here we go, em, here's gold.

Yay! Get it!

the curmudgeonly ogre has victory within reach.

this close to the end of the season,

you gotta take what you can get.

but there's no time to waste

before ice fills the beach.

I'm not gonna stop till the ice pushes me off.

so, who will prevail and who will fold...

If we don't find gold soon, we're .

...In this battle for riches of bering sea gold?

Right now, I'm digging up gold on the bering sea.

One of these buckets could have a million dollars in it.

yeah!

today's the day.

Here we go.

Last run of the season.

the king of nome, captain shawn pomrenke,

is ready to ride into the final battle of summer.

it's gonna get cold, and I'm worried about ice,

but we'll deal with it.

And get on our way.

Off to the races.

Let's boogie the out of here.

Security, security, security.

Myrtle irene leaving the inner harbor,

heading for sea.

Any concerns or upholds traffic,

we will be standing by on channel 16 and channel 69.

My goal this season was to dominate nome.

Now, I'm just 181 ounces away from making that happen.

Hopefully we can get a good run in

and pile up a bunch of gold, because we need it.

as winter draws near,

mr. Gold edges ever closer

to his goal of making payments on the tomcod claim,

the inland mine,

and upgrades to the myrtle irene.

we have arrived.

Hey, guys, let's spot down.

The inland mine is shut down,

the christine rose is under repair.

Probably not gonna make it back out this year.

It's all left up to the myrtle irene.

Couple of hundred ounces would take a couple of weeks with the christine rose,

but with the new improvements on the myrtle irene,

it should only take a couple of days.

It's why I set up the whole operation the way I did.

All good, dennis.

Back on the tomcod.

The sun's just starting to come up.

My gut feeling says that we'll get gold on the first pan here.

Come on.

Last time we were out here, we were on a red hot pay streak.

Hopefully, we can get right back on it and roll the box up.

With the myrtle irene, we're gonna mop this up easy-peasy.

Well, let's go see if we're in the right spot.

Oh, I got a feeling.

It smells of money.

Thank you, dennis.

It feels good.

Nope.

Looks okay.

damn it.

This is not enough.

Not enough.

Man, it looks like it's the right stuff, but...

The pan...

The pan doesn't lie.

The pan should have been lit up with gold, but it wasn't.

All I was seeing was a couple of specks.

Not nearly what I was expecting.

Looking for the right kind of material.

I mean, you never know. We could just be off by a few feet.

It could just be a couple of feet over,

and we could hit the motherload.

Gold's super sneaky. That's why it's still out there.

If it wasn't sneaky, it'd all be gone by now.

There it is.

It's not too easy just to follow or to find.

That looks a lot better.

Too fly .

I hate it.

God, it looks like the stuff,

but it's not in the pan.

It's not here.

This is not good, so late in the season.

The myrtle has to be on gold to make a killing.

We need to get this thing on a pay streak as fast as we can.

We're at the end of the season,

and we're running out of time.

Put the sponge up just a little bit?

Yeah. Like six feet or something.

Okay.

went for the spot I had a gut feeling on.

There was nothing there.

So there's no reason digging ground with no gold in it.

We need a lot of gold in a short amount of time,

so we're gonna go ahead and bump out a little bit further.

Once we find it, then we'll start mining.

As long as we mind our own business, we'll be fine.

Stick and move, stick and move until we find some gold.

back in the village of nome...

good morning.

We're going on the mistress this morning to save our season.

Uh, it's a beautiful day,

even though it's cold as . But, you know, that's nome.

the valiant knights begin their final quest for gold,

ready to board a might ship so regal and bold.

I'm actually a little anxious this morning.

We need to make some gold today.

-Morning, james. -Good morning, good morning.

-How are you doing, bro? -Good. How are you?

Good, good. How are you?

Right now, I'm on my third plan of this summer.

Okay, fourth plan of this summer.

And there's no more time to mess around.

If I can get ten ounces right now

to put into my ice mining operation,

I can get everything else on credit.

And if we don't make this work, that's it.

It's a make or break it point in my life.

I might not be a miner after this season.

Great. We're here, ready to work.

You're short one today. What happened to andy?

Uh, andy had a problem with his girlfriend.

She fell down the stairs and may have hurt her leg real bad,

and he's gotta go home to take care of his kids.

-We're still more than enough. -Oh, no, no, we'll be good.

-Okay, great. I'll get on the boat. -All right.

we got lucky. James was down a few crew members,

and he hired us right on the spot.

Now, we're headed to a claim that dave mccully owns,

that's supposed to be loaded with gold.

All right, gentlemen, you guys ready?

Okay.

security, security, security.

This is the mistress, leaving the south wall, exiting the harbor.

All right. Good luck, boys.

Any concerning traffic, we're on 16 and 72. Over.

this is really what I should be running,

this kind of an operation. A real boss operation.

Not my little six-inch operation,

where we don't make any gold.

Oh, definitely we can handle an operation like this.

This is right up our alley.

all right, we're on our final approach.

-It's time to go to work. -Okay, sounds great.

My deal with james is 20%, which...

These excavation barges get a lot of gold,

so I think I'm gonna do pretty good.

Just gotta squeak in a win.

- okay, let's go. Let's fire it up. -Let's do this.

getting electrocuted.

And the day begins. It's going to be awesome.

I, kind of, like living on the edge, a little bit of excitement.

It's gonna be a good day.

Now, it's time to make some gold. It's what we're here for.

-Let's get it. -Yeah, I'm ready.

I told james I know how to work an excavator.

Go ahead and engage.

-Engage, down? -Yep.

The truth is, I've never ran an excavator on the ocean.

I've done it in land, but never on the ocean.

go ahead and swing the house with your left hand.

Like a video game, baby.

James is gonna give me a little refresher,

try to help me out with the controls,

and tell me exactly the movements that he wants me to make,

and then, I'm on my own after that.

Perfect.

All right, left hand forward, right hand forward.

in these kind of sink or swim situations,

I always swim.

If shawn pomrenke can do it, anybody can do it.

-Hit the bottom. - all right. So, you're gonna be pulling

-with your left hand. -With your left, okay.

-So, that closes the bucket, right? - yeah.

-not really. There it is. - there you go.

All right. Right hand it up.

come on, baby, be material in there.

nice and slow.

All right, you got material in the bucket.

yay, material.

- nice and slow. -Nice and slow, baby. Nice and slow.