Gold Rush White Water Season 9 Episode 12

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00:00:00It's cold out.

00:00:09Yeah.

00:00:10I think we're going to be in the snow this morning, though,

00:00:12when we get out there.

00:00:13Oh, yeah.

00:00:14Look at all of that fresh snow over there.

00:00:16Yeah.

00:00:17We're about to get hammered.

00:00:18That's what's about to happen.

00:00:19I agree.

00:00:20Holy moly.

00:00:21So we're running out of time.

00:00:23And basically, this is our last chance, yeah?

00:00:27We need to get that gold.

00:00:28Yeah.

00:00:29This is the last of our money.

00:00:34This is the last of our fuel.

00:00:42We just get 40 gallons.

00:00:44OK.

00:00:45I would get more, but we're not buying more

00:00:47because we can't afford it.

00:00:50It's basically the last of the borrowed money

00:00:52that we have to stay out here.

00:00:54Well, if we don't find any gold, this is over with.

00:01:03The long, harsh Alaskan winter looms heavy across the Chilkat Mountains.

00:01:09And a warning for a season-ending blizzard has just been forecast.

00:01:14Dustin's future at Nugget Creek will be decided in the next five days.

00:01:22Yeah, it's cold.

00:01:23When it starts snowing, it's over with.

00:01:24Look how low the frickin' snow is.

00:01:25Oh, my God.

00:01:26The snow is on that mountain now.

00:01:27Yeah, we're...

00:01:28That's not good.

00:01:29Holy crap!

00:01:30We got frickin' fresh snow on the mountain.

00:01:32That's only a couple hundred feet up.

00:01:34Alright, this is the last of the fuel, boys.

00:01:35We're about to get hammered with snow is what's about to happen.

00:01:38We got to find some gold.

00:01:39You want to lay it down?

00:01:40Yeah.

00:01:41There we go.

00:01:42There we go.

00:01:43There we go.

00:01:44There we go.

00:01:45There we go.

00:01:46There we go.

00:01:47There we go.

00:01:48There we go.

00:01:49There we go.

00:01:50There we go.

00:01:51There we go.

00:01:53Look how low the frickin' snow is.

00:01:56Oh my God.

00:01:57The snow is on that mountain now.

00:01:58Yeah, we're...

00:01:59That's not good.

00:02:00Holy crap!

00:02:01We got frickin' fresh snow on the mountain.

00:02:02That's only a couple hundred feet up.

00:02:03The weather is starting to get so bad right now, but hopefully we get enough gold to

00:02:08get back here next year.

00:02:10Woo-hoo!

00:02:11Colder than a poor bear's toenails.

00:02:18Whew!

00:02:19What do you think?

00:02:21I'm scared because this, indeed, is our future.

00:02:30We're all desperate.

00:02:32We're running out of time.

00:02:37And without any more gold, this is the end of it.

00:02:44This year's gonna be the make it or break it.

00:02:47Dustin staked his life savings.

00:02:49I want to succeed.

00:02:50I want to succeed.

00:02:51And three seasons.

00:02:52I'm ready to risk everything.

00:02:54This has to be the year.

00:02:56Chasing life-changing gold.

00:02:58Oh!

00:02:59Oh!

00:03:00Carlos!

00:03:01Oh!

00:03:02Stop!

00:03:03Stop!

00:03:04Stop!

00:03:05Stop!

00:03:06Stop!

00:03:07Stop!

00:03:08Stop!

00:03:09Stop!

00:03:10Stop!

00:03:11Winches on fire!

00:03:12The creek.

00:03:13Oh!

00:03:14Every piece of my equipment is trying to stop us.

00:03:17Our dive hole got buried in.

00:03:20It's kind of a nightmare.

00:03:22Has defeated him at every turn.

00:03:25Looks like it's a bust.

00:03:27Now, deep in debt.

00:03:30If I don't hit it big, I could lose my claims.

00:03:33He has to get to the very bottom of the creek and start pulling out monster nuggets.

00:03:39I'm about to fail.

00:03:40Before the Alaskan winter destroys his dream forever.

00:03:45This is everything I have here.

00:03:48Everything.

00:03:51Uh, Danielle, Paul.

00:03:52Yeah?

00:03:53You guys are diving today.

00:03:54Yeah.

00:03:55Yeah.

00:03:56So far this season, Dustin has mined gold worth barely $5,000.

00:04:02Paul, you going in first?

00:04:04Yeah.

00:04:05But he needs at least $100,000 to save his claim.

00:04:08This year has been hell on me.

00:04:13I could have made more gold just playing with a pan.

00:04:20I wanted to give up several times, but need a seed of gold.

00:04:25We're all desperate.

00:04:27We are all desperate.

00:04:28You know?

00:04:29That can take a toll on a person.

00:04:31So all we can pray for is a good dive day.

00:04:35Hopefully we can find the nugget of our dreams.

00:04:44Definitely frustrating right now.

00:04:48We know bedrock is there.

00:04:50We just got to get right back down to it.

00:04:52Two weeks ago, they finally discovered bedrock and chased it down to the gold layer at 16 feet, before a brutal storm buried it.

00:05:05They frantically dug back down to 10 feet, but put the walls of the dive hole at risk of collapse.

00:05:12Now Danielle and Paul must clear the remaining boulders to get back to the bedrock and follow it down to the deepest point where Dustin is banking on a claim saving deposit of monster nuggets.

00:05:26Today, my goal is to hit bedrock.

00:05:31And between Paul and I, one of us is going to get there and find gold this year.

00:05:39All right, you're good to go here?

00:05:40I'm back.

00:05:41All right, Paul, watch yourself.

00:05:42Danielle's coming in.

00:05:43She might bring some rocks on top of you.

00:05:45Uh-huh.

00:05:46All right.

00:05:48It's so clear down here.

00:05:51Yeah.

00:05:52We're going to get some out now.

00:05:54The clearer the water is, the more production we get.

00:05:58Oh, hey, Paul.

00:06:00How's it going with you?

00:06:01All right.

00:06:05So all those rocks, they just got a real, real fine layer of sand on them, but they're not covered with any litter.

00:06:12That sounds good.

00:06:14So, do you think today will be Daniel's first day to see bedrock down there?

00:06:18Hopefully.

00:06:19I really hope so.

00:06:21So, let's find bedrock and actually find gold.

00:06:26That would be amazing.

00:06:28Hopefully.

00:06:30So...

00:06:34Let's see...

00:06:39Might be able to load a basket right quick.

00:06:41Where do you want it?

00:06:42Along the werewolf.

00:06:43Copy.

00:06:48Basket in the water.

00:06:51Copy that.

00:06:52I got it.

00:07:02All right, basket ready to go.

00:07:05All right, Paul.

00:07:06Coming up.

00:07:12What the hell?

00:07:21Stop!

00:07:22Stop!

00:07:24Wes.

00:07:25Watch.

00:07:29That could have killed a diver.

00:07:31Oh, .

00:07:33This is truly dangerous.

00:07:35James, I need him to not hit that upstream wall and drag it.

00:07:40So, once he hooks up, I want you to hold it back off of that wall, and then lift it up, and once it's high enough, you can walk with it and not hold on to it.

00:07:49I'll try my hardest.

00:07:50In their push to get down to the monster nuggets, the crew dug almost vertically.

00:07:59Now, if any lift strikes the unstable walls, they risk collapse, crushing the divers below.

00:08:08The solution?

00:08:10Use a tagline and James' raw strength to steer the load clear.

00:08:16I need to practice.

00:08:19All right, coming up.

00:08:25James.

00:08:26Watch it, watch it, watch it.

00:08:27Don't hook him.

00:08:31Hold it, but keep coming.

00:08:33Keep coming right there.

00:08:34Stay right there.

00:08:36Right there.

00:08:37Lift.

00:08:41Keep him off that wall.

00:08:43It's heavy.

00:08:44Is this too much?

00:08:45No.

00:08:46That's a big rock that you're holding right now.

00:08:49That works.

00:08:50All right, now come on upstream, try not to hit all the rock stuff.

00:08:54Dude, that's perfect.

00:08:56That's perfect.

00:08:58That is perfect.

00:08:59Look at that.

00:09:06Today I stormed the castle.

00:09:09We shall be victorious.

00:09:12Over the next six hours.

00:09:15Good drop, huh?

00:09:16Double boulder holder.

00:09:18The miners get down to 13 feet.

00:09:21Please find bedrock today.

00:09:23But there's still no sign of bedrock.

00:09:27It's a deep dig.

00:09:31Frustrating, but they're probably this close.

00:09:34We're getting close back to the bedrock, but nothing.

00:09:38Nothing yet.

00:09:41Daylight is already fading.

00:09:47But Danielle and Paul are desperate and refuse to quit.

00:09:51Come on, let's just see some bedrock.

00:09:54It was a small piece of stuff.

00:09:59It was disheartening to hear that they have no sign of fricking bedrock yet.

00:10:04Very disheartening.

00:10:06Uh...

00:10:08Damn.

00:10:10We're supposed to be cleaning up with our fricking bucket of fricking riches and gold.

00:10:15Not looking for bedrock sale.

00:10:20Damn it.

00:10:24Disheartening, man. Disheartening.

00:10:27Fifteen minute warning. Fifteen minute warning.

00:10:33Who's kidding?

00:10:35How's that fifteen minute warning already?

00:10:40There's no room for your nozzle, Danielle.

00:10:43No.

00:10:45I'm gonna make this hole my bitch.

00:10:48Send me down a pillow. I'm flippin' here.

00:10:50What?

00:10:51Oh.

00:10:53She said...

00:10:55I'm makin' this hole my bitch.

00:10:57Send me a pillow. I'm sleeping down here.

00:11:00Oh.

00:11:02Oh.

00:11:04Yeah, Danielle.

00:11:06You can do all you can do.

00:11:07I said, let's go for it.

00:11:13Hey, like this.

00:11:18Well, I think it's better.

00:11:19All right, Danielle. I think Paul's almost done here. I can throw you this, uh, rope here.

00:11:29I think she found, uh...

00:11:31I found bedrock!

00:11:33Yes!

00:11:35Woo!

00:11:37You wanna make me out of here?

00:11:41That is amazing that we found bedrock again.

00:11:44Good job.

00:11:45The threat from the coming winter storm forced them to dive for over seven hours, the longest of the season, and finally got them back on bedrock.

00:11:57Woo!

00:11:58Their hopes of saving the Nugget Creek claim are still alive.

00:12:03So we found frickin' bedrock today.

00:12:06Holy frickin' moly.

00:12:08Good frickin' goddamn news.

00:12:10And all we have to do is follow the bedrock.

00:12:13And you know what that frickin' means?

00:12:15We're going to find the frickin' gold.

00:12:17Woo-hoo!

00:12:18Ha, ha, ha!

00:12:19Ha, ha, ha!

00:12:20Hell yeah!

00:12:29I think she found, uh...

00:12:31Okay, you guys...

00:12:32I found bedrock!

00:12:34Yes!

00:12:35Woo-hoo!

00:12:37That is amazing that we found bedrock again.

00:12:40Yeah, Danielle, good job.

00:12:41Winter about to call time on their failing season.

00:12:46The crew is finally back on bedrock.

00:12:50Did it flatten out?

00:12:53It looks like it, but they don't have enough uncovered.

00:12:57I think she's on the, uh, tent side wall.

00:13:01She's got that going down. She's following that down.

00:13:04They found the tent side of the bedrock wall, way down there.

00:13:08Way down there.

00:13:10That's good news.

00:13:11Beautiful!

00:13:17It's getting dark.

00:13:18It's dangerous.

00:13:19That's never a good thing.

00:13:21We shouldn't be here right now.

00:13:23They must evacuate the dive site before dark

00:13:27to get back to the safety of camp.

00:13:30All right, Danielle, I think Paul's almost done here.

00:13:33I'm gonna get out.

00:13:35Paul's coming up.

00:13:36Hop in that.

00:13:41Y'all see how excited Danielle was?

00:13:43That's the first time she ever wanted to stay down.

00:13:46She didn't know it would have come out.

00:13:51Uh, definitely come up.

00:13:53Step right here.

00:13:59All right.

00:14:00Finally got my eyes on this bedrock business.

00:14:05Good job.

00:14:07Found the bedrock.

00:14:08Good job.

00:14:10But just as I'm finding it, they wanted me to come up and I was refusing because I thought it was bedrock and turns out I was right.

00:14:21All right, we got down the bedrock.

00:14:24We'll just follow that down.

00:14:25Now we can dig from here on out, right?

00:14:27Yeah, man.

00:14:29Things are looking great.

00:14:30Yeah.

00:14:31Let's get out of here.

00:14:32Come up with a strategy for tomorrow.

00:14:34Copy that.

00:14:35Sounds good.

00:14:36The snow's almost here, y'all.

00:14:37It's here.

00:14:38Like, we're about to get dropped on.

00:14:39Yeah.

00:14:40Let's just try everything we can to get to the bottom of this thing.

00:14:41and find gold.

00:14:58Because right now we're at the desperation stage.

00:15:02let's just try everything we can to get to the bottom of this thing and find gold because right

00:15:06now we're at the desperation stage if i don't hit it big i could lose everything i honestly think

00:15:15we're that close to to hitting a pastry i just think we are we know there's gold there yeah

00:15:21danielle found the bedrock so all we got to do is just uncover it you know follow it follow it

00:15:27that's it all right so uh james carlos we're gonna find out where this bedrock goes you can find some

00:15:33gold today that'd be great yeah it would we assume it's on the bottom bottom bottom so as soon as you

00:15:38find that we're gonna find gold i'm gonna apologize now i think we left you guys a lot of basket rocks

00:15:43down there man that's okay i bet james can get them rocks out quick he does like six baskets in like

00:15:5020 minutes let's go have a good day all right you guys ready yeah let's get out of here

00:15:59god it's cool yeah it is i need more clothes man we can win against the creek now we're on some bedrock

00:16:07we know where it's at we're gonna follow it and any luck there's a whole bunch of nugs down there

00:16:20the crew still has a weather window of four days to strike a jackpot that could net dustin far more

00:16:27than the 95 000 he needs to save his claims

00:16:34it looks lower than it did yesterday yeah it definitely does doesn't it

00:16:38is there enough water for the dredge we'll make it work yeah

00:16:50it froze big time on top side of water it's crystal clear and it dropped so we're having to make

00:16:57modifications to make sure the dredge fits

00:17:00it's let's get the dredge up let's do it find some gold this is the the shallowest water i've ever

00:17:10set a dredge in dredges are meant to float it's not even shallow it's look i'm standing out of the

00:17:16water oh oh oh oh oh oh i got that that's probably good okay

00:17:23we build a dam across here it'll bring it up yeah we can do it all hands on deck

00:17:35this is going to work good yep

00:17:42go lose yes sir let's go open up some water a little more flow a little more flow gotcha

00:17:48so right now we don't have enough water we've got to raise the water up you know two or three inches

00:17:53and uh that's gonna have to come from upstream all season they've shielded their dive hole from

00:18:01the raging creek just need a little bit not a lot redirect yeah yeah but now they must risk

00:18:10opening up part of the weir so they can float the dredge that should do it we were restricting it

00:18:18before to keep the kitty litter out but now we needed more water to run the dredge

00:18:23that's kind of silly that's plenty colos see it oh yeah yeah yeah sure do it tripled it okay good

00:18:31that's good i think what they did worked wow that's cool we're floating let's go find some gold

00:18:39who's going on first me

00:18:51we're gonna crush this place we are going to get rich y'all gonna find some gold today i'm going for it

00:18:59all right james collector ready to rock the road dude all the hoes wherever i go

00:19:07come on go the old hound is on the prowl

00:19:14yeah get some bedrock

00:19:19that's what i was hoping for you buddy was find that wall and go for the bottom all right it goes way down

00:19:26all right how's the depth on you i'd say 14 feet all right let's find some gold

00:19:36that's right yeah james that's the spirit

00:19:40nice shot james's mission follow the sloping bedrock to its deepest point where it should be chock full of

00:19:49season-saving nuggets today me and james is going to find out what this freaking bedrock does if we can

00:19:56find bedrock bottom then the gold should be on bedrock bottom because that's what it does i'm wishing

00:20:02the gold i'm praying the gold this might be our last dive day for this season no one knows might get snow

00:20:09tonight so the countdown's on right now all right i think you're ready to go hopefully i'll find some

00:20:20gold today game on man game on i'm going find some damn gold

00:20:31carlos is in all right holy

00:20:34they found a vertical wall that's starting to slope out towards

00:21:04the bottom and james is downstream carlos is upstream and they're both just

00:21:09following the bedrock down in the middle right now so hopefully they get somewhere

00:21:16every dog has his day you know maybe if i do it long enough i'll get my day please be that day

00:21:34the first winter blizzard is forecast to dump on nugget creek in just four days

00:21:51yeah we're on borrowed time right now yeah it's getting close to the end of the year

00:21:57but now on bedrock the crew has a fighting chance to not only save the claim

00:22:03but uncover the millions in gold they've been hunting for 14 years

00:22:08years can't let this go i need this to happen

00:22:15getting a good piece of bedrock uncovered oh yeah

00:22:20you're talking about the wall right yeah we're talking about the wall let's still go ahead

00:22:23sliding down man toward that middle we're uh uncovering a lot of real estate

00:22:28we're on a sloping bedrock wall i haven't found the bottom yet damn they're getting close it

00:22:52sounds like it sounds like it's how they're getting a little excited about it you're hearing it breathing too

00:22:58it's moving it's moving it's moving it's moving okay come on down

00:23:27you guys should back up

00:23:30all right you got it hooked up up on the headache ball up on the headache ball

00:23:36it's moving holy look out

00:23:40that went right toward me i know

00:23:44you gotta take both of them

00:23:45oh

00:23:45i don't know where

00:23:51what the

00:23:52it's a big one

00:24:09we're at 15 feet 15 feet oh man going deeper and deeper

00:24:23man that color is coming out of something else

00:24:26there's gonna be gold in there everybody's got gold fever when you hit the bedrock that's all you can think about

00:24:38awesome

00:24:38how much bedrock you got exposed bro

00:24:51oh about five feet across

00:24:55and it just goes down to the abyss

00:25:09yeah man it goes straight down dude

00:25:13yeah i can't go any further down

00:25:15i get it i get it

00:25:20carlos and james are on the hunt for the creek's deepest point where the bedrock walls meet

00:25:27this deep v is the collection point for all the creek's biggest nuggets

00:25:33but if their search continues too far under the weir

00:25:37instead of reaching the bonanza they could trigger a massive landslide that would bury them alive

00:25:44so no bottom inside huh nope

00:25:52and it's still going down man toward the freaking middle

00:25:57i can't pull them out yet i have to know

00:25:59yeah no i know it's cold

00:26:01i know they've been in a long time but i need to know what they're seeing yeah

00:26:09james and carlos have been non-stop digging

00:26:12chasing down the bedrock for close to eight hours

00:26:18i'm beat i'm tired yeah

00:26:21but they're over 16 feet deep and there's still no sign of the bottom

00:26:33basket's clear

00:26:35that could be that we're absolutely skunked on this dig

00:26:45it's time

00:26:49hey just a heads up guys 15 minute warning oh you sure it's starting to get dark up here copy that

00:26:56can you see you on the bell coins

00:27:02can you see you on the bell coins

00:27:05i can't pick you up man

00:27:11i think he's just exhausted

00:27:13you all right yeah

00:27:18oh oh oh

00:27:19it's dark up here oh yeah yeah it's dark

00:27:34you guys dug like crazy that was a lot of digging

00:27:38make some headway oh yeah dude we got bedrock dude

00:27:42it's not the bottom yet huh no all right

00:27:48carlos is exposed five feet of a vertical-ish wall that's bedrock and it's all the way down there

00:27:57and it's heading underneath the weir so it's just shooting straight down apparently it's way way deeper

00:28:04than we thought

00:28:13is there some gold not a not a thing

00:28:18feels like my house just burned down that's what i feel right now

00:28:23i get to sell my flames if i fail

00:28:34you need some gold yeah this is our pivotal moment this is it

00:28:51holy you can see all the way down to the bottom dude i can see bedrock down there

00:28:56after a season battling mother nature dustin's crew believes they are in striking distance

00:29:02of a life-changing payday in gold and we still have time to hit it big the snow is not all the

00:29:09way down the mountain yet so we just got to hit it hard but if the bedrock continues to slope

00:29:15under the weir they'll never get to the bottom before the forecast snowstorm shuts them down

00:29:24oh hopefully yesterday until we found out the bedrock shooting underneath the weir

00:29:29we're not sure how to figure this out hopefully paul and danielle find some gold because we've run out

00:29:38of time and we can't go anywhere else gotta make this work because i don't want to sell the planes

00:29:46and i can see that i've lost my crew a bit because i don't know what i'm doing

00:29:49right there there we're way past it that ought to be good winter's knocking on its door right now

00:30:03we're tired but we're giving giving her another shot and we still have a chance

00:30:09you guys want to put on some dive suits to get in the hole yeah cool

00:30:21danielle on the near side of the dive hole will follow the exposed bedrock while paul hunts for bedrock

00:30:30on the far side right under the weir but it's a massive gamble and risks triggering an underwater landslide

00:30:39carrying both divers under 20 tons of boulders

00:30:46could be that there's enough hard pack to undermine that weir a little bit but you'd have

00:30:49to be pretty damn brave to do that because it's a death sentence if it comes down on you

00:30:56you're buried forever it'll take us months to find your body

00:31:00it's going to be a dangerous dive today but uh we got to do something drastic to be able to get on

00:31:11this gold line so uh i'm just going to undercut the weir

00:31:15start listening for that crackle noise if you hear any crackling just don't be shy to shove real hard

00:31:25to get away from that wall

00:31:29i'm 95 sure you're going to find gold today i hope so

00:31:33everything looks good man

00:31:43if there's any kind of slope you can hear the rock hitting before it comes down and it gives you an

00:31:48extra millisecond to get yourself out of there without dying if there's a vertical wall or an

00:31:54undercut no warning except this little crack noise this it's a little crunchy noise and we all know what

00:32:02it means death is coming is what it means

00:32:13it's going to be a little tight down here but i think we can manage it

00:32:17i just really really want today to be the day that we find some gold just like one nugget and then

00:32:28we can follow that trail to the rest of it

00:32:34how's it looking down there paul not bad

00:32:38a little bit of hard pack over here no bedrock not on the mirror side yet

00:32:44it's like yellow last year that same color i found nuggets in it

00:32:58that good yes sir all right thank you

00:33:02a high pressure hose down there so it's going to be a spaghetti dinner down there for you guys so

00:33:06don't get caught up every so often check your hoses all right danielle looks like you're ready to rock

00:33:12and roll

00:33:19couldn't ask for a better day sun is shining birds are singing crystal clear water this is a perfect day

00:33:26for gold amigo

00:33:32this is the most pristine clearest water i've ever seen on nugget creek unbelievable

00:33:42all right guys we've got this high pressure washer for you don't get tangled up in the water

00:33:48oh perfect all right

00:34:03i can use the gary now copy that gary that

00:34:07look at that rusty sucker that had to have been on bedrock

00:34:23Look at that rusty sucker.

00:34:30That had to have been on bedrock.

00:34:33Yep.

00:34:34Damn, they're getting close.

00:34:36You got bedrock bottom?

00:34:39Not yet.

00:34:42Bedrock just keeps diving to that corner.

00:34:45We may have to tear it down.

00:34:48I'm worried if the bottom of this creek

00:34:51is underneath that weir.

00:34:54We do not have the time to move that weir.

00:35:04Paul and Danielle slug it out.

00:35:08Inch by inch.

00:35:11Rock by rock.

00:35:14Desperate to reach the deepest point

00:35:19and a season-saving pile of nuggets.

00:35:32They've been in over five hours now,

00:35:34but I got to know what they're seeing.

00:35:37This is our pivotal moment.

00:35:38It can flood all night, and I can't let this moment go

00:35:42just because they're tired.

00:35:48Where you standing right now?

00:35:49Is it going straight down, or is it going across the way?

00:35:52I'm not even on the bedrock anymore.

00:35:54As far as I thought was going straight down,

00:35:56I got to open up some room.

00:36:01Bedrock's still going to that other wall.

00:36:03It's underneath the weir at this point.

00:36:05All my nightmares are coming true.

00:36:16Oh, my God.

00:36:17This is deep.

00:36:18Holy .

00:36:20It's a long dive.

00:36:25They're going to be tired when they come out.

00:36:28Right now, they're getting a little bit dredged,

00:36:31drunk, you know, silent.

00:36:33They definitely earned their chow and a good night's sleep.

00:36:44Hell yeah!

00:36:45Look at that.

00:36:46That was on bedrock, wasn't it?

00:36:47Yep.

00:36:48Yep.

00:36:49Got to be hitting bottom anytime soon.

00:36:52Wow.

00:36:53That boulder was sitting in that bottom V.

00:36:57Holy .

00:36:59It's coming up back time.

00:37:01That is beautiful.

00:37:04Wow, look at that.

00:37:05It's coming back up.

00:37:07So you're on the bottom, and you found the bottom V?

00:37:10Yeah.

00:37:11Yeah.

00:37:12We've got the weir wall.

00:37:15We have got the weir bedrock wall exposed.

00:37:18Oh, my God!

00:37:20Ah!

00:37:21Holy .

00:37:22Oh, God.

00:37:23Look at that.

00:37:24It's coming from surface.

00:37:25Wow.

00:37:26That's so cool.

00:37:28All month, I've been thinking, did I put the weir in the wrong spot, and this is gonna skunk.

00:37:35We're gonna be, we're done.

00:37:37That's it.

00:37:38I feel relieved right now.

00:37:39Look at that.

00:37:40Look at that.

00:37:41Look at that.

00:37:42No.

00:37:43Do we follow it backwards, or do we follow it up?

00:37:46Okay.

00:37:47Okay.

00:37:48Okay.

00:37:49Finding the V, where the bedrock walls meet, has given them a fight for it.

00:37:52Now, Danielle and Paul need to follow the gold line to ensure that they're in the

00:37:55ground.

00:37:56That's it.

00:37:57That's it.

00:37:58That's it.

00:37:59Look at that.

00:38:00No.

00:38:01Do we follow it backwards, or do we follow it up?

00:38:03No.

00:38:04I'll keep cleaning this side of it just to stay on that V.

00:38:07Okay.

00:38:11Finding the V, where the bedrock walls meet, has given them a fighting chance.

00:38:17Now, Danielle and Paul need to follow the gold line to its deepest point, cleaning up a trail

00:38:24of claim-saving nuggets as they go.

00:38:30You guys keep on digging.

00:38:31I'm gonna go get your meals for you.

00:38:33I'm gonna...

00:38:35You can stay the night.

00:38:37Okay.

00:38:48Oh, my God.

00:38:50What is it?

00:38:51Holy .

00:38:52What?

00:38:53Do you feel it?

00:38:54Are we?

00:38:56I don't think so.

00:38:58What the ?

00:38:59It is, right?

00:39:00What?

00:39:02.

00:39:04It looks like it.

00:39:06Did you find gold?

00:39:08Yes.

00:39:10Seriously?

00:39:11A nugget.

00:39:14You might want to take that up.

00:39:15Is it for real?

00:39:18Is it for real?

00:39:20Or am I dreaming?

00:39:23Oh!

00:39:25Isn't it Nugget?

00:39:26Oh, my God!

00:39:32Oh, my God!

00:39:34Oh, my God!

00:39:38Look at that!

00:39:39Look at that!

00:39:40Look at that!

00:39:41Oh, my God!

00:39:42What is it?

00:39:43Holy .

00:39:44What?

00:39:45Do you feel?

00:39:46Do you feel?

00:39:47I don't think so.

00:39:52What the ?

00:39:53It is, right?

00:39:54What is it?

00:39:55Oh, my God!

00:39:56Oh, my God!

00:39:57What is it?

00:39:58Holy .

00:40:00What?

00:40:01Do you feel?

00:40:02Is it all right?

00:40:03I don't think so.

00:40:04Oh, my God.

00:40:05What is it?

00:40:06Holy .

00:40:07What?

00:40:08Do you see us?

00:40:10All right?

00:40:11I don't think so.

00:40:13What the ?

00:40:15It is, right?

00:40:16What?

00:40:18.

00:40:19It looks like it.

00:40:21You might want to take that up.

00:40:23Is this real?

00:40:25Or am I dreaming?

00:40:29Oh, .

00:40:30Is it a nugget?

00:40:31Oh, my God!

00:40:33Yeah!

00:40:35Yeah!

00:40:36Yeah!

00:40:37Yeah!

00:40:38Yeah!

00:40:39Yeah!

00:40:40That was real.

00:40:41Oh, my God!

00:40:43Yeah!

00:40:44Look at that!

00:40:45Woo!

00:40:46Good job!

00:40:47Yeah!

00:40:48That was underneath that bullet.

00:40:52For months, the crew has battled setback after setback.

00:40:59But now, with the storm less than three days away, they're finally on the gold.

00:41:05Woo!

00:41:06Yeah!

00:41:07Unreal.

00:41:08It was unreal.

00:41:09Now we need all of his brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles.

00:41:14A large nugget like this is worth more than its weight value alone and could fetch over $10,000.

00:41:26There's going to be more of those.

00:41:28tripling Dustin's gold count, but not enough to save his claims.

00:41:35Good job, guys!

00:41:36Woo-hoo!

00:41:37Woo-hoo!

00:41:38I'm going to go back down.

00:41:39There might be more.

00:41:41Yeah, we did it, Daniel.

00:41:43Yeah!

00:41:44Oh, my God!

00:41:47That's amazing!

00:41:48Look at that!

00:41:49That is beautiful!

00:41:51That's a museum piece right there.

00:41:53I can't believe it!

00:41:54About damn time.

00:41:56That's easily worth $10,000 right there.

00:41:59Oh, yeah.

00:42:00If you find one, there's more.

00:42:02Yeah!

00:42:03Woo-hoo!

00:42:04Woo!

00:42:05It's about time.

00:42:07So that's the channel.

00:42:09It's a line of gold.

00:42:11This is awesome.

00:42:14We found our first real nugget of the season.

00:42:17And, uh, it's beautiful.

00:42:20There's going to be nuggets all the way up that!

00:42:30They're at that max limit.

00:42:32They're tired.

00:42:36Now, one of you needs to come up.

00:42:38It's getting dark again.

00:42:41It's not safe.

00:42:44I want to come up.

00:42:45Fine.

00:42:50Ready to celebrate.

00:42:55They found the bee.

00:42:56They're at the bottom.

00:42:57It's on this side of the weir.

00:42:59It's on the tent side of the weir.

00:43:01And there's very obviously nuggets in there.

00:43:04This means we're not fully screwed.

00:43:08And I'm damn excited.

00:43:10I'm going to sleep really well tonight.

00:43:12This is amazing.

00:43:17About damn time.

00:43:21Welcome back!

00:43:23Yay!

00:43:24Good dive.

00:43:25You did great.

00:43:26Can you believe what you just did?

00:43:28No.

00:43:29You just found a two ounce plus nugget, by the way.

00:43:34Congratulations.

00:43:36Daniel!

00:43:38Good job.

00:43:42Oh, wow.

00:43:45Unreal.

00:43:47It's so heavy.

00:43:49That's beautiful.

00:43:50It's beautiful, isn't it?

00:43:52This just paid for most of our fuel this year, right here.

00:43:55That's good.

00:43:56That's what you did.

00:43:57You found a chunk of gold that paid for pretty much all of our fuel.

00:44:02Holy crap!

00:44:03Yeah.

00:44:04I wish my first nugget would have been a two ounce nugget.

00:44:12Yeah, Carla.

00:44:16What can I say?

00:44:18This is the best day ever.

00:44:21Best day all season for sure.

00:44:23I'm like so stoked to be a part of this.

00:44:26That was incredible.

00:44:29I still think I'm dreaming.

00:44:30How's the long one?

00:44:33Yeah.

00:44:36Good job, Paul!

00:44:38Damn good, man.

00:44:40Do you want to see it?

00:44:42Yeah.

00:44:45Oh, wow.

00:44:46It is a beautiful piece.

00:44:48Good job, man.

00:44:49Damn good dig.

00:44:54We did it!

00:44:56Oh!

00:44:58Finally!

00:44:59Got two birds, one stone.

00:45:00You got the nugget.

00:45:02I found the weird wall.

00:45:04The nugget is a massive and long awaited win for the crew.

00:45:10And for Dustin, it's a lifeline.

00:45:14I'm glad we kept going.

00:45:16This is going to work out really good now, I think.

00:45:19I just need to keep going.

00:45:32Jesus.

00:45:35What a rollercoaster.

00:45:38I'm going to celebrate with a seltzer.

00:45:40And you guys, I got extra seltzers if you need one.

00:45:50It's raining like hell, y'all.

00:45:51Yeah, it is.

00:46:05Dustin has sunk his life savings hunting for gold at Nugget Creek.

00:46:09But yesterday, Danielle found what could be the first in a trail of monster nuggets.

00:46:17Proof that they're closing in on claim-saving gold.

00:46:21Today was supposed to be our day, but it rained all night.

00:46:27So we're in landslide territory right now because of how wet it is.

00:46:33I understand we all want to go get back down to the bottom of this thing, but it's a death sentence, man.

00:46:38Yeah.

00:46:41Over the seasons, the fractured walls above the dive sites have rained down on the miners below.

00:46:48Run, run, run. Get up here, guys. Get up here.

00:46:50The danger heightened by frequent earthquakes.

00:46:54Freaking earthquake.

00:46:56Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

00:46:57And severe weather.

00:46:59The power of this water is just insane.

00:47:02This is a freaking nightmare.

00:47:03Two years ago, a coastal typhoon slammed into Nugget Creek until it raged at over nine feet a second.

00:47:12I hate to say it, but I think this is it. I think this is the end.

00:47:16And hurled hundred-pound boulders into dive holes they had spent weeks digging out.

00:47:25And gold or no gold is not worth your damn life.

00:47:30So nobody is going to dive today.

00:47:34God dang it.

00:47:35Well, what do we do while we wait?

00:47:44Well, we're not digging.

00:47:46I know it's not much, but maybe we can see what we got.

00:47:49Yeah.

00:47:50Let's do a clean up then.

00:47:51Let's do it.

00:47:59So, just a heads up.

00:48:01I'm getting a little worried.

00:48:03That edge is starting to come loose right here.

00:48:06There's a waterfall.

00:48:08Oh, that's me.

00:48:10Yeah, that's not good.

00:48:13There's a waterfall right there.

00:48:14That is a lot of water.

00:48:16Hey, Paul, I don't think you should be standing there, bro.

00:48:20The walls are absolutely saturated.

00:48:25This is not safe.

00:48:30I don't want us to be out here any longer, all right?

00:48:33So let's go do the fastest clean up we've ever done and get out of here, all right?

00:48:38Copy that.

00:48:39Let's do it.

00:48:41Fast and furious.

00:48:42We're not picking around.

00:48:43We're just pulling and going.

00:48:45I ain't gonna lie to you.

00:48:46I don't like this at all.

00:48:48This is bad news.

00:48:49Yeah, I get it.

00:48:50Did the water just intensify?

00:48:52Yeah, we need to hurry up and get out of here.

00:48:53Yeah, we don't need to be here much longer, y'all.

00:48:55All of us.

00:48:56Let's go.

00:48:57Copy that.

00:48:58Let's get out of here.

00:49:07Dustin still needs at least $85,000 to save his mining future.

00:49:12Hoping to see lots and lots of gold.

00:49:15I mean, there's six buckets of this.

00:49:17But a blizzard is forecast in less than 48 hours, which will force them out of their claim.

00:49:25If it hits early, their season is over.

00:49:31A lot of black sand.

00:49:41Oh, man.

00:49:42Not much here.

00:49:43Just a gram or so.

00:49:45We've only dredged a little bit of bedrock bottom.

00:49:47The V, that's the deepest spot.

00:49:49We're essentially running out of time.

00:49:52Hopefully it doesn't snow, because it'd be nice to try to end the season with millions of dollars in gold.

00:49:59Because we're right there, and it's sad.

00:50:01You got some gold?

00:50:06Not much.

00:50:07Oh, .

00:50:09That's broke my heart just now, looking at that .

00:50:13So it looks like we got less than an ounce, right?

00:50:16As far as fine gold, yeah.

00:50:18And a nugget.

00:50:20Two nuggets and some fine gold.

00:50:23Not the best of seasons so far.

00:50:25I don't know how to change that.

00:50:27We did what we did, and now the season's coming to a crashing halt.

00:50:31Well, we're not ready to give up yet, right?

00:50:33Yeah.

00:50:34You got to remember, also, we dredged two feet of the bedrock.

00:50:38And that's all.

00:50:39Yep.

00:50:40Still a chance.

00:50:41Still a chance.

00:50:42It's just, do we have enough time to uncover more of it?

00:50:46That's the thing.

00:50:47We got to step our game up somehow, some way.

00:50:50We need to put in as many hours as we possibly can, because you can see that snow line coming down.

00:50:54Yep.

00:50:55I'll dive every day that we have left, if I have to.

00:50:59It's going to be a push.

00:51:02If we don't push hard, we're going to regret it.

00:51:04Yep.

00:51:05We're going to have to do some double shifts, though.

00:51:06Yeah.

00:51:07I'm up for it.

00:51:08Two divers go in for five hours, come out.

00:51:10The next two divers go in for five hours, come out.

00:51:13I mean, we get a lot of hours in a day that way.

00:51:15Yep.

00:51:16I think with two teams going in, there's a good chance we can uncover more and more, way more bedrock.

00:51:22Yeah.

00:51:23Tomorrow, everybody's going in.

00:51:24I'm game for that.

00:51:25I mean, I'll stay on the dredge as long as y'all want to stay in the water.

00:51:28I say, let's go for it.

00:51:29So we'll do a double-double.

00:51:30Do a double-double.

00:51:31Double-double.

00:51:32We're going to double-double on the deuce loose.

00:51:33Hi.

00:51:34Out of fuel.

00:51:35Hopefully what we have up there and this will get us through at least one more day.

00:51:40Are these ready to rock and roll, Danielle?

00:51:41Yeah.

00:51:42Yeah.

00:51:43The predicted snowstorm will drop over two feet of season-ending snow in less than 24

00:51:47hours.

00:51:48shutting down Nugget Creek and potentially their mining careers.

00:51:49It's a warning.

00:52:20It is here.

00:52:21Snow's about to drop on the head.

00:52:22It's about to freeze.

00:52:23And I'm out of money.

00:52:25But we're going to keep going.

00:52:27Sorry I'm late, guys.

00:52:29I had to put on double socks because I'm cold.

00:52:32It is cold.

00:52:33All right.

00:52:34So what we're going to try to do today, we're going to get two divers in and then you guys

00:52:42are going to rotate out and we're going to get the longest dive of our existence.

00:52:46Try to stretch this out as far as we can with the weather.

00:52:50So this might be our last chance, yeah?

00:52:53This is it.

00:52:54We're going to do a blitz.

00:52:56All right.

00:52:57Let's get out of here, yo.

00:52:58Here we go.

00:53:03Final push, huh?

00:53:18Yeah.

00:53:19All right.

00:53:20So let's get the genie started.

00:53:22Let's drop this dredge and we're doing this.

00:53:25Danielle, you can shoot up.

00:53:28Yeah.

00:53:29I know there's more gold down there.

00:53:31So I just want to get in there and get after it and tap out knowing that I worked the hardest

00:53:38I could and did the best I could down there.

00:53:42What the ?

00:53:43There's shell rock all over the place.

00:53:45Oh, yeah.

00:53:46Look at that.

00:53:47Where'd that come from?

00:53:50Oh, there's rocks up there.

00:53:52Walls saturated and this is where big rocks fall.

00:53:56Holy .

00:53:57You see it all?

00:53:58Yeah.

00:53:59Yeah.

00:54:00That's all new.

00:54:01Holy .

00:54:02Look at the size of it.

00:54:03Oh, yeah.

00:54:04Any of these would kill you.

00:54:06I mean, we got waterfalls coming down and it's going to bring Stree down.

00:54:10Yeah, so it's not going to be safe on the tent side whatsoever.

00:54:14All right, y'all.

00:54:18Just so you know, you are welcome to step out of this because this is a high risk situation

00:54:27that we're in.

00:54:28And you all understand that.

00:54:30Yeah.

00:54:31You will not let me down if you walk out of here right now because I understand how dangerous

00:54:36this is.

00:54:37So this is your choice to be here right now, right?

00:54:40Yeah.

00:54:41Everybody feel that?

00:54:42Copy that.

00:54:43Yeah.

00:54:44All right.

00:54:45We're doing this, aren't we?

00:54:53Just don't let the fever get a hold of you.

00:54:55You mess around too much and the rocks come on top of you, I can't help you.

00:54:59That's when you'll stay forever.

00:55:00Don't worry, baby.

00:55:01I can't help you.

00:55:02If I've got to stick a hose in my mouth and jump in there naked, I'll be down there.

00:55:07I feel safe.

00:55:08Damien!

00:55:09Give him a hug for me, Kyla.

00:55:10I will do that.

00:55:11I will do that.

00:55:12Okay.

00:55:13All standing, Danielle.

00:55:14Diver one in the water.

00:55:15Right now, I want to see the gold, but more importantly, I want to make sure that all

00:55:28my people get out of here unscathed.

00:55:30I got it.

00:55:31There it is.

00:55:32Good, man.

00:55:33You ready to rock and roll, dude?

00:55:35Copy that.

00:55:36All right.

00:55:37Two divers in.

00:55:40This is the big push.

00:55:43This is probably the most danger we've been in all year.

00:55:48I hate the way the walls are dripping.

00:55:51This is where big rocks fall.

00:55:53This is where landslides happen.

00:55:56This is the bad stuff right now.

00:56:02This is probably our most dangerous day, by far.

00:56:05Just need everybody to get out alive.

00:56:08This is a pretty bad rock.

00:56:09It's so fun to clean bedrock.

00:56:10Yeah, it is.

00:56:13Where are you going to find gold this year?

00:56:14Village ham.

00:56:15With a season-ending blizzard, Descendant is a pretty bad rock.

00:56:16This is a pretty bad rock.

00:56:17It's so fun to clean bedrock.

00:56:18It is.

00:56:19Where are you going to find gold this year?

00:56:20Village ham.

00:56:21With a season-ending blizzard descending on Nugget Creek within hours.

00:56:22There's freaking gold in here.

00:56:23Nuggets.

00:56:24There's freaking gold in here.

00:56:25Nuggets.

00:56:26I guarantee there's fucking nuggets.

00:56:27Today's outcome will decide Dustin's future.

00:56:30Forever.

00:56:31We're running out of time here.

00:56:32And, okay.

00:56:33Descendant is a pretty bad rock.

00:56:34It's a pretty bad rock.

00:56:35It's so fun to clean bedrock.

00:56:36Yeah, it is.

00:56:37Where are you going to find gold this year?

00:56:39Village ham.

00:56:41Village ham.

00:56:42With a season-ending blizzard descending on Nugget Creek within hours.

00:56:47There's freaking gold in here.

00:56:48Nuggets.

00:56:49I guarantee there's fucking nuggets.

00:56:50Today's outcome will decide Dustin's future forever.

00:56:57We're running out of time here.

00:56:59And kind of desperate right now.

00:57:01If we don't get a bunch of gold, I could lose a claim.

00:57:05Come on, guys.

00:57:10We're on bedrock and the race is on.

00:57:16Because gold is on the bedrock.

00:57:19This is the big push.

00:57:24In a desperate attempt to get the $85,000 worth of gold Dustin needs to save his claims, his crew is diving in relay.

00:57:34We've got two divers down.

00:57:38Nobody's been hit by a rock yet.

00:57:40And we've got two more divers to go.

00:57:44I want to see as much bedrock cleaned off as I could possibly get today.

00:57:49Danielle and Paul have been diving for nearly four hours with no drop in pace.

00:57:55Come on, I want to go for a dive.

00:57:57I'll probably have enough time to get this cleared off and get you guys some good bedrock.

00:58:02Y'all aren't going to be the ones to find the gold.

00:58:04Yeah.

00:58:05All right.

00:58:06We just got to go, go, go, go, go.

00:58:12Ready to go?

00:58:13Of course.

00:58:16You guys ready for this?

00:58:17So what's the situation down there right now?

00:58:29We're in a full body brain freeze right now.

00:58:31Oh, gosh.

00:58:32My right foot is frozen, but I was trying to fight through it.

00:58:38Can you get some more hot water down there?

00:58:40Danielle, it's getting cold.

00:58:42Okay.

00:58:47Oh, .

00:59:00Oh, my God.

00:59:03It's this engine.

00:59:06That son of a bitch does not want to run.

00:59:10What's it doing?

00:59:12Just half power?

00:59:13Yeah.

00:59:14Yeah, I know that's got to be part of her heat problem.

00:59:17The heat exchange from the dredge engines delivers the vital hot water Danielle needs

00:59:23against the frigid creek to avoid hypothermic shock.

00:59:28It's cold.

00:59:31The is happening.

00:59:33It seems like our gas has to crash in it, and it's not letting it want to flow to the carburetor.

00:59:38So we know it's not the engine.

00:59:39It's got to be our fuel.

00:59:40Oh!

00:59:41I bet it's that son of a bitch right there.

00:59:43I think it's that bowl that goes on the fuel switch.

00:59:47What if I put the 10 mil and cracked it to see if there's any water in it?

00:59:48You can do that.

00:59:49Is there any way to clean those bowls out without the...

00:59:50You've got to turn it off.

00:59:51Yeah.

00:59:52It's going to have to come up so we can shut the engines off.

00:59:53Hey Danielle, come up for a minute please.

00:59:54We're going to have to shut this engine off for just a minute.

00:59:55Okay.

00:59:56Yeah, we've got to do this.

00:59:57Sorry.

00:59:58Go ahead.

01:00:00Bye.

01:00:01Bye!

01:00:02Okay!

01:00:03Bye.

01:00:04Bye.

01:00:05Bye.

01:00:07She's gonna have to come up so we can shut the engines off.

01:00:14Hey, Danielle, come up for a minute, please.

01:00:17We're gonna have to shut this engine off for just a minute.

01:00:20Okay.

01:00:21Yeah, we gotta do this.

01:00:22Sorry.

01:00:23Go ahead.

01:00:25I'm still not getting any hot water to my right foot.

01:00:30My hands are so friggin' cold, too, but not as bad as my foot.

01:00:34Hey, Carlos, use one hot water she has to warm up boot up.

01:00:38We gotta turn off one of these engines.

01:00:40Can't be that.

01:00:46We're having trouble keeping our engines going.

01:00:48We think that there's water in the fuel.

01:00:50We're gonna drain some of that, see how that goes.

01:00:53I don't really know what else to do.

01:00:55I think it's too wet for these engines to keep running like this.

01:00:59No, brother.

01:01:01Hold on, hold on, hold on.

01:01:03Hold on.

01:01:06Hold on.

01:01:07Here.

01:01:10There it goes.

01:01:15Full right here.

01:01:16Yeah.

01:01:17Is what's stopping us.

01:01:18That wouldn't surprise me a bit.

01:01:21Had, like, filth in the bottom of it.

01:01:22Yeah.

01:01:23I think this is the problem.

01:01:26All right, let's see if we can get this thing sorted.

01:01:28That's what it was!

01:01:30That's what it was!

01:01:32Woo!

01:01:34Woo!

01:01:36All right, back in action.

01:01:40All right, let me back up.

01:01:44I can feel my foot again.

01:01:48Good to go?

01:01:50Okay, you're ready.

01:01:52Rock and roll.

01:01:54Go get some ice.

01:01:56Okay, you're ready. Rock and roll.

01:01:58Go get some gold.

01:02:00Woo-hoo!

01:02:02You just dove in like a frickin' gangster.

01:02:04Bring it on!

01:02:16It's all jagged down here.

01:02:20That's a good sign.

01:02:22This is our final push.

01:02:24I've skipped all this season.

01:02:26Yep.

01:02:28But this kid's super dangerous.

01:02:32The walls are absolutely saturated.

01:02:38Rock!

01:02:39Rocks are falling right now.

01:02:41This is not a good scenario, but we're doing it.

01:02:46Kind of desperate right now.

01:02:48Dustin has spent the last 14 years seeking his fortune in gold.

01:02:54Now, deep in debt, with a snowstorm at his door.

01:02:58He needs a huge score in the next few hours, or he faces the end of his mining career.

01:03:06This is the race against time right now.

01:03:10The weather's coming down.

01:03:12It's gonna bring snow.

01:03:14And Danielle has been in a long time.

01:03:20We don't want her to get dredged drunk, because that's when accidents happen.

01:03:24So we're gonna tag in, tag out, tag a deal.

01:03:28I'm gonna get down, friggin' get busy, and hopefully get gold, gold, gold, gold, gold.

01:03:34So Danielle, it's like your time is up.

01:03:38No!

01:03:40Just get in.

01:03:48After nearly five hours, Danielle hands the baton to a fresh diver, Carlos.

01:03:54Good job, good job!

01:03:56Yeah, okay.

01:03:58All right, Paul, coming in.

01:04:02Oh, wow.

01:04:08Yeah, I see the bedrock.

01:04:10Danielle did a good job.

01:04:12Yeah, we're gonna get some too now.

01:04:15Come on, man.

01:04:16Give me some gold.

01:04:18Hey, Carlos.

01:04:19Yep.

01:04:20Check all that out there.

01:04:22Okay, man.

01:04:28Oh, yeah, Pat.

01:04:30Oh, yeah.

01:04:31Yeah!

01:04:32Good job!

01:04:33We got the bedrock bottom.

01:04:37The crew has already found a massive nugget.

01:04:41Now, they just need to follow the bedrock to its deepest point, and its deposit of monster gold.

01:04:48James, we're gonna get some gold out of here today.

01:04:51Oh, all right, Paul.

01:04:56We switched out one set of divers.

01:04:59We only got one left.

01:05:03Hey, Paul.

01:05:04Would that be a good time to switch?

01:05:06Yes.

01:05:08Right now, I am done.

01:05:09Physically done.

01:05:10All right, Carlos.

01:05:11I'm out.

01:05:12All right, brother.

01:05:13Good job, man.

01:05:18I'm the last one to get in, and this is it.

01:05:20Our final push.

01:05:21They're on bedrock, but we're going with a Hail Mary right now.

01:05:27I want to get in there and do what the gold hound does.

01:05:31I want to get in there and find gold.

01:05:34Millions.

01:05:36Come on, man.

01:05:37We got this.

01:05:38Oh, yeah.

01:05:40That's it.

01:05:41The final push, man.

01:05:43They got a lot of riding on this, man.

01:05:45I don't want to sell the planes.

01:05:46All right, here we go.

01:05:47You down here, James?

01:05:48Yes, sir.

01:05:49I'm down here with you.

01:05:50All right.

01:05:51Paul left you a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful present, man.

01:05:55He left you with some gorgeous bedrock, and I got a lot of bedrock on my side.

01:05:59And I'm working my way forward and working my way down.

01:06:03Now, this bedrock is nice and jagged.

01:06:22It's going down into a peak.

01:06:24And there's a lot of jagged areas and great catches for gold.

01:06:28Yeah, we're going to start digging like crazy now, James.

01:06:30Yep.

01:06:31There's probably some record-sized nuggets in there.

01:06:38Over the next three hours...

01:06:41Let's do it!

01:06:42Let's find some gold!

01:06:43James and Carlos follow the bedrock deeper and deeper.

01:06:48They've been down there working their butts off.

01:06:50An all-out blitz for gold.

01:06:54Yeah, so close.

01:07:01Oh, man.

01:07:02Hey, check my, uh...

01:07:18Check my compressor.

01:07:23It's rolling.

01:07:24Carlos, are you having trouble breathing?

01:07:28It's starting to pull.

01:07:29It's starting to...

01:07:31Come on up, dude.

01:07:32Don't do that .

01:07:33Get up here.

01:07:35Alright, we're coming up.

01:07:44God damn!

01:07:46What happened?

01:07:47Check valve went bad.

01:07:48Dude, it's just blowing air straight out.

01:07:52What a show.

01:07:54It's close.

01:07:55Sorry.

01:07:59His air compressor just went dead.

01:08:00We don't have a way to fix it, because one of the pop-up valves went bad.

01:08:04There's a pressure gauge that allows only a certain amount of pressure, and they call it pop-up valves.

01:08:10And, uh, when they break, gotta replace them.

01:08:13There's no way to fix them, as far as I know.

01:08:16So, all we're doing now is just yanking him out, because there was nothing I could do.

01:08:20Uh, I didn't get to finish the mission, man.

01:08:36I just needed air to live.

01:08:39So, I had to tap out early.

01:08:42Nightmare.

01:08:45So, as of right now, we're broke.

01:08:51Right now, it's all up to James.

01:08:54It's all yours, James.

01:08:55Be careful.

01:08:59Hey, James.

01:09:00Counting on you to do this.

01:09:02Alright.

01:09:05Put the last one in, and, uh, hopefully we can win.

01:09:09And it's all bedrock.

01:09:13Hopefully there's a ton of gold.

01:09:14The storm is fast approaching, and with it, the end of Dustin's mining career.

01:09:2414 years, and it's got to this.

01:09:28Whew.

01:09:30But he still has a chance of reaching the claims saving gold.

01:09:35I know this creek has gold, and there's big damn gold, too.

01:09:39Another foot, and we got this, for sure.

01:09:46Up ahead.

01:09:47Water drop!

01:09:48Stop her up!

01:09:49Stop her up!

01:09:50We need to get the out of here!

01:09:51We're about to get a damn flash flood.

01:09:52Here it comes!

01:09:53Get out of there!

01:09:55Do it!

01:09:56We're up here freezing.

01:10:07Ah, man, is it getting cold!

01:10:11They're killing themselves trying to find this gold.

01:10:15Gold's here.

01:10:17It only takes 20 minutes of digging in the right spot to change your whole life.

01:10:23So, yeah.

01:10:25I'm secretly hopeful.

01:10:45James?

01:10:46How's it looking down there?

01:10:48I'm following the cattle real quick.

01:10:51Hopefully there's a ton of gold.

01:10:54This is the first time we've ever put four dollars down in a day.

01:10:58We only got one left.

01:11:00All my gear and all my people are worn out.

01:11:05We're desperate to get gold.

01:11:08Yeah, I'm on.

01:11:10Can you check the foot valve?

01:11:12I don't know what's going on with the water.

01:11:14It's cold.

01:11:16We're starting to move suction.

01:11:18James, we're having trouble with your suction.

01:11:20Both engines are running slow again.

01:11:23Both of them.

01:11:24So, one of them's running slow, so...

01:11:26Both!

01:11:28Oh, I'm running out of water, so...

01:11:30What is happening?

01:11:32Water dropped!

01:11:34Water dropped!

01:11:37The water turned off.

01:11:38Something's...

01:11:39Something's happened.

01:11:40Water dropped!

01:11:42So, the water dropped down to nothing.

01:11:45Which means...

01:11:47It's building up somewhere.

01:11:49And there is about to be a wall of water coming at us.

01:11:53God damn!

01:11:55About to get a damn flash flood!

01:11:57A landslide up creek has created a dam, potentially trapping thousands of tons of water behind it.

01:12:07When it breaks, a lethal tidal wave of mud and debris could surge down the valley, wiping out everything and anyone trapped in its path.

01:12:19Holy !

01:12:21If you see any kind of water coming, run!

01:12:25It's gonna hit us real hard.

01:12:27All at once.

01:12:29Get up!

01:12:30Diver up!

01:12:31Diver up!

01:12:32Quick!

01:12:34Get up!

01:12:35Get up here!

01:12:38Hey!

01:12:39We need to get the out of here!

01:12:41Turn that off!

01:12:42Turn it off!

01:12:44Okay, okay, okay, let's go, let's go, let's go!

01:12:50Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on!

01:12:51Hey!

01:12:52Hey, hey, hey!

01:12:53Y'all get up the hill!

01:12:54Hold on, hold on!

01:12:55Everybody!

01:12:56Get up the hill!

01:12:57There's no water!

01:12:58Get up the hill!

01:13:00Bad happens now!

01:13:02Y'all are in a bad spot!

01:13:04What the ?

01:13:05When I was over there, I thought there was no water!

01:13:07I've never seen you shut off like this!

01:13:08No!

01:13:09Y'all need to get up that hill!

01:13:10Get away!

01:13:11What the hell?

01:13:12Let's get up here and that!

01:13:18This stuff's gonna come down in a minute!

01:13:20Is there any way we can hook that dredge up before this goes?

01:13:23Ugh!

01:13:24Do not get caught in this!

01:13:31Holy , this is kinda eerie!

01:13:41I can't get the winds to work!

01:13:50Generator's not running!

01:13:53There's no gas in the generator!

01:13:55It's off!

01:13:58We're about to lose that dredge because we ran out of gas!

01:14:00Here!

01:14:01Here!

01:14:02Gas!

01:14:03Right here!

01:14:04Paul!

01:14:05Gas!

01:14:06All right!

01:14:07Let's get the jenny started!

01:14:08Make sure it's got fuel in it!

01:14:09I can see gold in the box, too!

01:14:10There's nuggets in there!

01:14:11Oh, God!

01:14:12James!

01:14:13There's two nice nuggets!

01:14:15I don't wanna keep them in my hand!

01:14:17Don't drop it!

01:14:18Don't drop it!

01:14:19Don't drop it!

01:14:20All right!

01:14:21That is a long time with no water, man!

01:14:25Here it comes!

01:14:28What?

01:14:29What the ?

01:14:30What the ?

01:14:42Well, that's the choice to buy!

01:14:44Oh, my God!

01:14:48It's getting worse!

01:14:50Can we do this or not?

01:14:53Is he gonna drag?

01:14:54No, we can get it!

01:14:55Let's pull it!

01:14:56Let's go!

01:14:57Wes!

01:14:58Pull it left!

01:14:59Go downstream instead of upstream!

01:15:01Break that if you have to, but get it out of there!

01:15:04Is this gonna work?

01:15:06You gotta pull out a little bit more, bro!

01:15:09Slow pull it!

01:15:10Get out of there!

01:15:11Get the out of there!

01:15:13Do it!

01:15:15Watch him, my dredge die!

01:15:18Just yank that as hard as you can, man!

01:15:28I'll take that!

01:15:33Better than it was!

01:15:35Better than it was!

01:15:43Oh, my God!

01:15:44You guys saved the dredge!

01:15:45Holy !

01:15:47I had that worried that we're gonna have a 10-foot wave!

01:15:50What the ?

01:15:51I've never seen the water stop like that!

01:15:53I was scared!

01:15:56That was vicious!

01:15:57Oh, my God!

01:16:00All right, guys!

01:16:01Everybody, grab your bags and let's get!

01:16:04Let's get out of here!

01:16:05Let's get out of here!

01:16:21The leading edge of the storm has arrived.

01:16:23It's snowing on us, dude!

01:16:24Bringing with it over two feet of snow in the next 24 hours.

01:16:33Call that termination dust!

01:16:36That even sucks the worst!

01:16:40Yep!

01:16:41Absolutely!

01:16:42The miners must get out before they're trapped.

01:16:49Well, that's it, man.

01:16:52Yeah.

01:16:54So...

01:16:57I think we're done with the season right now.

01:17:02We've been beaten.

01:17:03Yup.

01:17:09This shit was pretty damn miserable, honestly.

01:17:12Yeah.

01:17:13I think so, too.

01:17:15This was the hardest dig I have ever done.

01:17:19I agree.

01:17:22I'm in an eternal loop of bad weather and gold!

01:17:34Sorry about the gold count this year.

01:17:37We got a two-ounce nug.

01:17:40And some other little nugs.

01:17:43It pretty much pays for our gasoline.

01:17:47That's about it.

01:17:48So...

01:17:52This is a hard failure.

01:17:58Maybe next year will be the good year.

01:18:03Well, with this little gold count,

01:18:05I'm not sure there's gonna be a next season.

01:18:10This year was a financial disaster.

01:18:14I blame myself,

01:18:15because you guys did your job.

01:18:18Sorry, guys.

01:18:28All right.

01:18:29Let's get out of here.

01:18:33Out of time,

01:18:35and out of money,

01:18:37Dustin's 14-year treasure hunt

01:18:40for life-changing gold

01:18:42is over.

01:18:44That sucks.

01:18:50I can't believe this.

01:18:51It's just unreal.

01:18:57And I failed completely.

01:18:59I know this creek has big nuggets,

01:19:01and I've beaten my head against the wall

01:19:03throwing cash at this thing,

01:19:04but this isn't working.

01:19:06I'm broke.

01:19:08It hasn't paid for itself.

01:19:10It's just sucking money out of my damn account.

01:19:14And that creek beat me.

01:19:17I'm gonna sell my claims.

01:19:21I don't know what else to do.

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