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Gold Rush: White Water - Season 9 - Episode 05: Love and War
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00:05If you can't get over this, then this is your problem, man.
00:09I'm not the one that's pushing me.
00:09I've been just trying to ignore it,
00:11and then you pull it into the next day,
00:12walking around here, pouting, looking at me
00:15like I'm some sort of evil .
00:20I thought from day one that I was part of something.
00:25Then yesterday, you made me feel like Joe Schmoe
00:28when he said, like, I should just send you home.
00:30You're serious?
00:31Yeah.
00:31Walk up to me and give me demands.
00:33I don't do that to you.
00:34I don't give you demands.
00:35Bull .
00:38Over a month ago...
00:41Goddamn.
00:41...a freak injury forced Dustin to hang up his dive suit
00:45for the rest of the season.
00:47I think it broke something in my hands.
00:50...but desperate to keep hold of his Nugget Creek claim...
00:54Go for five hours.
00:55Five-hour dive? I guess that's what he wants.
00:57Dustin has pushed his crew to their breaking point.
01:01Shattered.
01:02Exhausted.
01:03Tiredness kills people, man.
01:05What's happening?
01:06You coming up?
01:07So you can only do four hours?
01:09That's all I'm going to do.
01:11F*** that.
01:12I should send your f***ing ass home for that.
01:14Are you f***ing serious?
01:16You know what, man?
01:17Go look in the mirror and ask yourself,
01:19who am I, dude?
01:21Because I'm telling you, for me, man,
01:22and I'm being truthful with you,
01:23you're a world-class prick, dude.
01:27A world-class prick.
01:32All my money goes here.
01:34Everything I have goes into this.
01:36The effort that I put in to keep us all out here
01:38is so immense that they have no idea.
01:41And when there's this level of disrespect,
01:44I lose my f***.
01:47Get this in your damn head.
01:48If I don't hit it big,
01:50I could lose everything.
01:54Then you're stressed out
01:55and your feelings got hurt, man.
01:57If you don't like working with me,
01:58you don't have to.
02:00That's what's up.
02:01If I even get a f***ing whiff of dissent...
02:03Make no mistakes. This is my world.
02:06I will cut you loose.
02:25So are you gonna get over this or not?
02:28Dude, it's always gonna be in the back of my head
02:30when you get mad at me
02:32that I know I'm gonna have to f***ing deal with that s***, man,
02:35until it wears off.
02:36Well, we either squash it or f***ing move on.
02:40Either way. Let's call it squashed.
02:42Let's call it f***ing squashed.
02:43Deal.
02:54Get squashed, guys.
02:56Sorry for kicking the hornet's nest.
02:59Knew it was gonna happen.
03:00I should've known my place. Sorry.
03:02Yeah?
03:03Should've known my place.
03:09I literally don't know what f***ing happened, but, uh...
03:15I guess we talked it out.
03:18From here on out, man, I'll just ball it up.
03:23Put it right in here.
03:28Everything's gonna be fine.
03:29We had to say our piece, and that's it.
03:31We're men. It's fine.
03:35When I get too stressed out, I go too far.
03:38But you can't have me doing all these crazy things,
03:42taking all these chances,
03:44and be completely sane and rational.
03:47It's fine.
03:49It's fine.
04:08It's fine.
04:09Come on, Mule.
04:12Water looks pretty, uh, inviting today.
04:18At the wall dive site, tension is high in the aftermath of a potentially season-ending argument.
04:26All right.
04:27So we're about to get the dredge started.
04:29Yep.
04:30Same old stuff.
04:31Let's get suited up.
04:32Right now?
04:33We're gonna put two down.
04:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.
04:35We're putting two down.
04:36Okay.
04:36I have to have two.
04:37I know, man.
04:38Like, what?
04:39What do you need?
04:39No, I'm just gonna go help them frickin' s*** up.
04:44You know what?
04:44I'm gonna help with that.
04:45Why don't you get your clothes on?
04:47All right.
04:47Go ahead.
04:50There is a lot of pressure right now.
04:52We don't even have enough gold to cover our fuel, so...
04:55Everybody's just driven to get past this, put aside our differences and whatever we gotta do.
05:00We really have to get down to bedrock and see if we can find that, uh, hay layer.
05:05A third of the season gone, Dustin and his crew have just a single nugget to show for all their
05:11hard work.
05:13Ha!
05:13Sorry.
05:14Dustin must turn a profit this season, or he will be forced to sell Nugget Creek, leaving his mining future
05:21hanging in the balance.
05:23I hope for another couple feet and they hit the bottom and they find a ton of gold.
05:29That's my hopes and dreams.
05:31You juiced up?
05:32Yep.
05:33Okay.
05:34All right.
05:35Everything's good?
05:36I believe so.
05:37Woo!
05:38Looking good.
05:38Sun's coming out.
05:41Glass light on.
05:44All right.
05:44Here we go.
05:51Diaper in.
05:56What's it look like down there, man?
05:59Well, looks like we've probably got three foot of kitty litter down here.
06:05Oh!
06:07God dammit.
06:09Dustin has staked his future ownership of his Nugget Creek claim on the wall dive site, where the creek slams
06:17directly into the rock face, slowing the water so the heavy gold sinks to the bottom.
06:24They got down to eight feet, busting through hard pack, expecting to hit bedrock gold by ten feet, but rains
06:32and the unrelenting white water dumped in over a ton of river gravel.
06:39If we could just dredge as much as we can to punch through the bottom and see what's down there.
06:45All right.
06:48All right, Paul.
06:50Coming in.
06:58Looks beautiful down here.
07:02A lot of kitty litter.
07:04A lot of kitty litter.
07:06A lot of kitty litter.
07:06The salt water is beautiful.
07:09Love it.
07:11Suction is freaking fabulous, man.
07:14Holy .
07:15Just heating it up.
07:18Big time.
07:22Hot water's good.
07:23Two divers, they got air, and they're working hard.
07:28Looks like we got that dredge all dialed in.
07:32Finally.
07:37Down here.
07:38Hey, James.
07:38Can you get a basket?
07:39Small basket?
07:41Yeah.
07:41That small basket slide.
07:43Copy that.
07:47Aw, quick, James.
07:49Good, bro.
07:50I got it, James.
07:50Thank you, sir.
07:53This is a great basket, bro.
07:56I love it.
08:00All right, Wes.
08:02Come on up, brother.
08:07Woo.
08:08I love it.
08:19In just an hour and a half.
08:21Listen, this big white rock between us, I think, is loose.
08:24Okay.
08:25Get that out of here.
08:25Okay.
08:26Paul and Carlos powered through the storm infill.
08:30Ouch.
08:31I don't know if we can move in with the basket.
08:33I don't know if we can move in with the basket.
08:37I guess at home, kids.
08:39There it is.
08:40Oh, we got it.
08:41Okay.
08:44That's a big rock.
08:45Yeah, it is.
08:47Oh, man.
08:50The rock, yes.
08:51And all your frickin' baskets are broken.
09:02Ooh, look at that rock.
09:05Look at that rusty sucker.
09:09That's got to be close to bedrock.
09:13That thing's hole in ass.
09:16Good job, holy , man.
09:17I can't see ya.
09:18Yeah.
09:20That rock filled that entire basket.
09:22It actually opened up a lot of room.
09:27Hey, how's it looking down there, guys?
09:29It's looking good.
09:31How deep are y'all?
09:32Oh, , man.
09:34I don't think I don't have anything no more.
09:37We got back to where we were at the other day,
09:40and now we're deeper than that, so yeah.
09:44I can't believe how deep y'all are right now.
09:50Carlos, I got a big one hanging over our heads right here.
09:53It's about to come loose.
09:54Really?
09:54Yeah.
09:56Might want to back out the hole for a second.
09:59Okay, go ahead.
10:02Right now, the diver's into the scary section.
10:06In our experience, big boulders, they love to roll in after 10 feet.
10:12You see that boulder right there?
10:15They are digging underneath that right now.
10:19Now, over 10 feet down, Carlos and Paul are digging in the shadow of the weir wall.
10:26One wrong move, or an unexpected surge of white water, could dislodge one of the widow makers above them.
10:35Before 10 feet, you can almost stand up and get out of it.
10:38After 10 feet, you're looking to get hurt.
10:42Gold's not worth anything if you're dead.
10:49For 10 feet, you're not going to do it.
10:53You got to do it.
11:00That's a direct.
11:04That's a direct.
11:05I have no idea.
11:05Got an earthquake? Got an earthquake going?
11:08I don't know.
11:09Oh, .
11:10Holy .
11:12Puck it up. Puck it up.
11:19Puck it up.
11:19Up ahead.
11:20Something I need to tell y'all.
11:22Are you serious?
11:23Hey, y'all.
11:26Got a hole.
11:27We're in the hole in the hose.
11:29Holy .
11:31You're okay.
11:32I can't stand up.
11:33There can be enough gold in here for all of us to retire forever.
11:45Holy .
11:46Puck it up.
11:47What the?
11:48An earthquake?
11:50Got an earthquake going?
11:50I don't know.
11:52Puck it up.
11:53Hey, look out!
11:54Oh!
11:56That was close.
11:57That was a close call, brother.
12:00At Nugget Creek, an underwater landslide
12:03almost turned Paul and Carlos' dive site into a rocky grave.
12:08You okay?
12:09Yeah.
12:09There's some bad hangers up.
12:11Holy .
12:12I'm clear.
12:13Go ahead.
12:13Knock them down.
12:14I'm out of the way.
12:15Their only option?
12:17Topple the Widowmakers down to the bottom.
12:22Oh, .
12:24Oh, .
12:25Stop.
12:26Okay, man.
12:27I'm finished rolling rocks down.
12:28Yep.
12:29Come up.
12:30Do you see on the heading spot?
12:33Holy crap.
12:34Look at that.
12:37That big boulder decides to let go on you.
12:40It's not good.
12:41That would've killed somebody.
12:43That's pretty scary right there.
12:48I got tons of basket rocks, dude.
12:50Tons.
12:52Sound clear.
12:53All right.
12:54I'm open the basket.
12:55The dive hole, now three feet shallower.
12:58I'm upstream where you're at now.
13:00I'm just picking these rocks, dude.
13:04Paul and Carlos battle the rubble from the landslide
13:08for the next two hours.
13:10That's a big .
13:11Right here.
13:12Yeah, dude.
13:13We might have to choke this thing.
13:14Yeah.
13:15To get back down to hard pack.
13:25So is it still hard pack, or what is it?
13:28It's hard pack and cobble and pine rock.
13:33So no bottom in sight, huh?
13:36Not yet.
13:38Who knows how deep this is going to go.
13:41Get a couple more baskets out.
13:42We'll have a better idea.
13:46I thought at about eight feet we'd start seeing bedrock,
13:51and I thought maybe ten feet at most,
13:54but now they just blew past that.
13:57If this doesn't pay off, it doesn't pay for that dredge,
14:00it doesn't pay for that pressure washer,
14:02the winches that are broken.
14:03It doesn't pay for anything.
14:04It doesn't feel like gambling.
14:06It is gambling.
14:11I'm getting f***ing cold.
14:14Do I have water coming out?
14:19I have no water.
14:21That's why I'm getting cold.
14:25I'm getting cold.
14:26Without hot water,
14:27Paul is fully exposed to the freezing 33-degree glacier-fed whitewater.
14:33I don't know what's happening.
14:35I don't know what's happening.
14:36I don't know what's happening.
14:36Come on, man.
14:36What's happening?
14:40I'm sorry, bro.
14:41It's not pumping.
14:42I'm lost.
14:45Hey, man.
14:45We lost the prime.
14:51I got a hole.
14:53Burned a hole in the hose.
14:56Burned a hole in the hose.
14:58Yeah, I'm coming out.
15:00All right, girl.
15:01Diver up.
15:05Sorry for that, bro.
15:07That was incompetent is what that was.
15:11F***ing shell.
15:12F***ing hoses everywhere, dude.
15:15F***ing shell.
15:15Carlos, you still good?
15:17I'm good, man.
15:18Yep.
15:19His body temperature dropping, Paul's dive is over after only three and a half hours.
15:26Go get warmed up.
15:28It melted through one of the high-pressure hoses.
15:31And, uh, we're shut down on that side.
15:34So, two sleuths strikes again.
15:38Getting a little sick of this s***.
15:42Just want something to be easy for a minute.
15:46Ready to quit, man.
15:48I hate that dredge.
15:51I'm one disaster away from f***ing shutting this thing down, basically.
16:01Carlos is still diving.
16:03He, uh, says he's down there quite a week.
16:12Hey, Carlos, you about ready to come up, man?
16:15You sure?
16:16Yes, please.
16:17I'm coming up.
16:19Cover that.
16:19I have it coming up.
16:25You gonna take your water off?
16:27Nothing.
16:31Nothing.
16:33Not a single spank.
16:35No nuggets.
16:40There doesn't seem to be anything but a lot of gravel.
16:46You guys dug like crazy.
16:48That was a lot of digging.
16:50Good job, man.
16:51Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
16:52The bottom.
16:54The bottom is nowhere to be found, amigo.
16:57I don't know how deep we are willing to go.
17:11It's been a hell of a week.
17:14I know you're exhausted.
17:15So am I.
17:18And I'm sorry we haven't found gold yet.
17:20I can't believe it's going this deep.
17:22My ears are hurting bad today, just from all the up and down.
17:25It's deeper than we thought it was gonna be and harder to get to.
17:28I wish things were going faster, but they're not.
17:33I can't ask you to work any harder.
17:36So something has to change.
17:38Something has to radically change, man.
17:41What we need right now is a relief diver.
17:43How do you entice somebody to come in and help us if we're not finding gold yet, though?
17:48Well, let's get some rest, guys.
17:50Yeah.
17:51Let's talk about it in the morning.
17:55Right now, my crew's kind of falling apart, tired.
17:58They're overworked, and haven't seen any gold to inspire them.
18:04We have three divers and four dive spots.
18:09So, it's my own damn fault for breaking my hand, but I don't know what to do about it right
18:14now.
18:14I don't have a solution yet.
18:32I was thinking about calling some of the people that used to work with us, that maybe they can come
18:37up and help.
18:38But I think they all have lives now.
18:40I'm getting a little desperate here, but I think I've got a plan.
18:53Hello?
18:54Hey, baby.
18:55Hey.
18:56What's going on?
18:58I've got to ask you a favor.
19:00We're having a hard time, and I need some help out here.
19:04You think you can come out for a little bit?
19:16All right, let's see if we can get you up here.
19:19Yeah.
19:19I'll move some stuff around and make it work.
19:22All right.
19:23I'll talk to you soon.
19:25Love you.
19:26Okay.
19:26Love you.
19:27All right.
19:27Bye.
19:30Just called up Danielle, my girlfriend of 12 years.
19:34Uh, she's kind of a badass, and I was curious if she could work up here.
19:40But, uh, we'll see how it goes over with the guys.
19:44I don't know how I'm gonna get received for this.
19:51All right.
19:52There's something I need to tell y'all.
19:56I invited Danielle, my girlfriend, to come out here to help us out.
20:03Are you serious?
20:06Oh, my God.
20:07I mean...
20:09Paul, to be clear, I know I'm being a hypocrite.
20:13Hi, baby.
20:14Hi.
20:15Five seasons ago, Paul recruited his then-fiancee, Kayla Sheets, to join the crew.
20:21Ah, Kayla's not staying up here.
20:23Bringing your girlfriend to work, it's just gonna be a problem.
20:26Going against Dustin's strict, no girlfriends rule.
20:30Is it because I'm a female?
20:32No, no, no.
20:33What is the problem then?
20:33Paul's fiancee?
20:34What is the problem?
20:36Explain it.
20:36No, explain it.
20:38Don't bring your girlfriend to work.
20:41It's just normal stuff.
20:48I stand by not wanting relationships up here, but I'm all busted and I'm seeing us tired.
20:55She can dive, she's a certified diver.
20:58She can go underwater and breathe underwater and all that stuff.
21:00Dude, I wouldn't want to put her in that water right now.
21:02This is not no diving, dude.
21:04This is different.
21:04You can have a thousand dives.
21:06This is a different animal.
21:08You know what I mean?
21:08We'll find out if she can dive.
21:10Mm-hmm.
21:10She's been a worker her entire life.
21:12I'm not comfortable with this, but I'm still gonna do it because I think it'll help us.
21:16I'm hoping she has new energy.
21:19I'm hoping she comes in inspired to do things.
21:25All right, let's get up and come up with a solid plan.
21:30Dustin and I had our differences in the past.
21:32I got reprimanded for it.
21:34We've all been here doing this for years, so we know the dangers that we're getting ourselves into.
21:39But for somebody new, they could get themselves in a bad situation.
21:43And those two, being boyfriend and girlfriend, it's a lot different.
21:49It's gonna be different, man, because this is Dustin's woman.
21:53It can go good in many ways, and it can go bad in just as many ways, too, you know?
22:02So that's the one that Carlos was talking about.
22:04Yeah, I can see it.
22:06The biggest problem we have right now is that big black boulder on top is actually holding the other one
22:11from falling off
22:12because there is nothing underneath there.
22:14And if something goes wrong, that whole thing's gonna come in which kills the divers.
22:19They're dead. That's it.
22:21After a nightmare-inducing landslide yesterday, the Widowmakers at the top of the Weir Wall
22:27now cast a deadly shadow on the dive hole.
22:31Until I figure out how to make those two rocks safe, there's no diving.
22:36So you're gonna go to that wall? Where are you gonna pin those two?
22:39I don't know.
22:40In the past, we'd take a cable and run a cable from each boulder into the wall.
22:45That would be beautiful, except for a skyline runs right through there.
22:50I wonder if you could tie it all the way across.
22:52Oh, make like a net with the cable.
22:55That'll work.
22:56That's the best I can see. Good call, James.
22:59James just nailed it.
23:01James' plan is to anchor the Widowmakers to each other with steel cable,
23:07running along the Weir and secured on the far bank, clear of the path of the skyline.
23:13But it will cost them precious dive time.
23:19This rock feels pretty secure.
23:22I think drill on the back side, wrap the cable around it.
23:29You can anchor it right there.
23:31What do you guys think?
23:32That'll hold this in place for sure.
23:34Okay. Can't hurt.
23:37The more cable, the more secure it is,
23:40the better peace of mind we have knowing that we're not gonna get smashed over water.
23:48All right.
23:49Yeah, I'll get that finished.
23:50I'm gonna head upstream.
23:52All right.
23:53All right.
23:53Good luck. Take a radio.
23:57I'd love to get my eyes on that waterfall.
24:00That's where I wanted to be in the start, but it was so much ice.
24:03I'm hopeful that it's melted by now,
24:05so I'm gonna see if I can get up there and check it out.
24:08His faith in the wall dive side fading,
24:11Dustin seizes the opportunity to assess his options.
24:16At the end of last season...
24:18I hear something rumbling big up here.
24:21Dustin made a huge discovery in the upper reaches of his claim.
24:25Now that's a waterfall, man.
24:27It's a natural gold catch.
24:30But his dreams of a quick payday...
24:33Is this it?
24:34We're buried beneath 80 feet of snow and ice.
24:38There is no waterfall right now.
24:40Oh, .
24:41Y'all, I just lost a whole bunch of hope.
24:43My brain's telling me.
24:45Abandon ship.
24:47Here we go.
24:49Whoa!
24:50Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
24:55Water's moving a little more than I wanted it to.
24:59Come on.
25:03Whoop, whoop.
25:07That is beautiful.
25:10Wow.
25:14To reach the waterfall, it's a half-mile scramble up creek.
25:19Super sketch spot.
25:22The water's raging right now.
25:24It's probably not picking the best day.
25:27Making four treacherous crossings.
25:33Well, this is it.
25:40There's no ice.
25:47There's a lot more water than the last time I saw this.
25:54The vibration in the wall scares the hell out of me,
25:57because I know it's going to make some rock fall.
26:00Make sure you don't go under this.
26:02The whole thing moves.
26:04All of it.
26:05It looks like there's a lot of rock slide right over the top of us.
26:09I'd love to dig right here, though.
26:14If you're brave enough to get into that, go to the bottom.
26:19The gold loves to settle right in the plunge pool.
26:23And if it pays off, it pays off big.
26:28Really big.
26:29Like, life-altering big.
26:31On the other side of the mountain, from Nugget Creek, sits McKinley Falls.
26:37In 1916, old-timers mined 4,500 ounces of gold from the plunge pool there,
26:44worth over $11 million at today's price.
26:50There could be enough gold in here for all of us to retire forever.
26:56If we can't get gold at the wall, we need to move the hell on.
27:00This is what I want.
27:02This is...
27:04the gold.
27:07We're going to be the first people to ever try to dig here.
27:10Ever.
27:12And, uh...
27:14That's exciting for me.
27:28Man, I'm glad we got all that stuff taken care of.
27:31It's going to be a good dive day.
27:33I think our rain chances are over, so it's not supposed to rain anymore.
27:36Oh.
27:40What's up, y'all?
27:41You made it.
27:42Hey, y'all.
27:42At Nugget Creek, after an early morning run to town, Dustin has returned with vital reinforcements.
27:49Are you guys happy to see me?
27:51Yeah.
27:51All right, cool.
27:52He said you might not be, so...
27:54What?
27:54I did not say that.
27:59Dustin's girlfriend of 12 years, Danielle Miller, was born and raised in Alaska.
28:04She is a qualified diver, has operated heavy equipment for over 20 years, led major construction projects, and is an
28:14experienced blaster.
28:17Welcome to camp.
28:18Yep.
28:18Yeah.
28:19You know the guys?
28:20Yeah.
28:21I'm Wes.
28:21I don't know if we ever met before, but, uh, you know, glad to meet you.
28:24I've known you guys for, like, 12 years.
28:27Just barely.
28:27I mean, you know.
28:28So I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm here to work.
28:32I am Dustin's girlfriend, but I don't expect him to treat me any differently than he treats you guys.
28:38Don't worry, guys. I'll be a prick to her, too.
28:41What was it? A grade A prick?
28:43No, no, no. World-class prick.
28:45World-class.
28:46World-class prick.
28:49I'm finally good at something.
28:51No, we're glad you're here, Danielle. You're the Hail Mary right now.
28:54Oh, my God.
28:56We need your help.
28:56We need your help.
28:57Hopefully I can help lead you guys to the gold.
29:00Hell, I hope so.
29:01You'll probably fall down more than you.
29:03Today feels like the first day of school.
29:06Like, am I gonna be a good student or a bad student?
29:12I feel like I'm gonna pick it up quickly, but it's just not in my wheelhouse, so we'll have to
29:19see how it goes.
29:26This is absolutely amazing.
29:30I can't believe you guys work here.
29:33It's incredible, but also crazy.
29:37This is where we're digging right here.
29:39Right there.
29:40Your job today basically is gonna be adding to this weir right here.
29:44You're gonna be dumping baskets all day.
29:46That's your task.
29:47All right.
29:51We spent all yesterday fixing the weir up, and today we're gonna dive in it.
29:55We got Carlos and James going down, and they're gonna see how improved this is.
30:00This is my first time at waders.
30:02You're so excitable.
30:04We're all exhausted, and you're like, oh, my God, I'm wearing waders.
30:07And we're like, oh, my God, I've put on waders.
30:11Danielle showed up, and everybody seems a little more positive, so I'm gonna take that.
30:15That's great for me.
30:17This is called juicing a mask.
30:19Okay.
30:20This is what we have to do to keep them from fogging up.
30:22If they could make it to the bottom and show me some gold today, that would make my year.
30:27Some gold would really set us in the right direction.
30:30All right.
30:30Let's get this thing going.
30:32Yeah.
30:32Power on.
30:33Yeah.
30:33Start it without hitting the end of the rope, please.
30:36All right.
30:38Choke off.
30:41Greenhorn miner Danielle gets an intro to their one-of-a-kind temperamental deuce-loose.
30:48Just mess with the choke a little bit, and it'll warm up.
30:51It just, it's a fickle engine.
30:55Followed by how to gear up safely for diving in freezing whitewater.
31:00This is your open bit.
31:02My job here is to seal that off.
31:06Comp check, comp check.
31:08Yes, sir, gotcha.
31:09Good to go.
31:10Go get him, James.
31:11Good luck, James.
31:12Find some gold.
31:12Get that bedrock.
31:14All right.
31:15Let's get ready to dredge.
31:24Hey, Danielle, what do you want me to do down there?
31:26Oh, God.
31:27Find that gold, Carlo.
31:29Jesus Christ, I knew he was going to start with this .
31:32Hey, what side are you on, James, so I don't come on top of you?
31:35I'm right here.
31:37Copy that.
31:38All right, James, I'm coming on in, bro.
31:41Watch yourself.
31:41Let me go.
31:44All right.
31:48Don't rip my mask off.
31:50Sorry.
31:52Okay, here I go.
31:55It ain't down here, isn't it?
31:59What's the situation down there, Carlos?
32:02Oh, dude, there's so much idiotic, bro, that we're going to be here for a long time.
32:09One rock at a time, guys.
32:11One rock at a time.
32:12Don't get frustrated, you're doing great.
32:14The conditions that make this dive site a perfect gold catch, high-speed whitewater crashing into the wall, also dumps
32:24tons of river rock, leaving the crew battling kitty litter every morning.
32:29Oh, do y'all want that other basket down there?
32:32Uh, I'll just go open that other basket.
32:35Copy that.
32:36We'll have a headache ball here shortly.
32:37Okay, copy that.
32:40If you get ready for the headache ball, then it must be time to pick up some rocks and dump
32:45them pretty soon, huh?
32:46Yep.
32:47It's my one job today.
32:50All right, we got a headache ball coming down.
32:52Copy that, let me go get it.
32:53Copy that, let me go get it.
32:57Cut it.
33:05Okay, this basket's ready to go, and all divers are clear.
33:10Come on up on the basket.
33:11Up on the basket.
33:16Come on down.
33:20Right here.
33:24That's easy enough.
33:29It's exhausting trying to explain what we do, because it's taken eight years for us to figure all this dumb
33:36stuff out.
33:37Right here, Wes.
33:38That's good for now.
33:40I'm glad we've got Danielle here right now.
33:42It's brought a different spirit to this site, and the faster she gets it, the more help she's gonna be.
33:51All right, we got two baskets ready. Which one do y'all want first?
33:54No, we're close that small basket.
33:56Danielle's got it ready for you.
33:58Go ahead, Danielle, give me a good shot.
34:01Right in the middle.
34:03Heads up, here it comes.
34:06Look out!
34:06Come on!
34:07Get out of the water!
34:16Everyone dredges different, I'm gonna show you my way.
34:18Doesn't mean it's the right way, okay?
34:21All right.
34:21What's up?
34:22When you're down there, you'll end up grabbing that thing with your legs like this.
34:29So you're on it like a horse or something.
34:31Yeah, you use it as your stability.
34:34And this plate from this far away will shoot and slap on there.
34:40And you can't pull it off half the time.
34:43So what you have to do is lean up and open that up.
34:45And that'll fall off.
34:47There's so many techniques.
34:49I'm just gonna have to feel it out for me, I guess.
34:52Yeah.
34:53Okay.
34:56Got it.
34:57Got it.
35:00Okay, Danielle, give me a good shot.
35:03Head up, here it comes.
35:04Whoa!
35:05Look out!
35:06Whoa!
35:07Get out of the water!
35:14What happened?
35:16She went underwater.
35:18I tripped on the rope.
35:19At the wall dive site, Paul's quick reactions save Danielle from plunging deeper into the 13-foot dive hole.
35:28She took a dip.
35:32She's eager to go diving.
35:34Am I fired yet?
35:38Day one and I'm already diving.
35:41I'm not used to walking around in the creek.
35:44Luckily Paul was there to grab me by my ponytail.
35:47Or I'd be down in the hole with him.
35:49It's all good.
35:50I'm gonna shake it off.
35:52Go ahead.
35:53Say it.
35:54What did we learn?
35:55What did we learn?
35:57Really gotta watch this step.
35:59All right.
35:59See if you can get dried up.
36:00Okay.
36:02Danielle, she's doing great.
36:04She had a good attitude even when she fell in the water.
36:06She was smiling.
36:07So, that's a good thing.
36:13All right, fellas.
36:14What's it looking like down there?
36:15Huh.
36:19We are freakin' deep, dude.
36:21I am stuck to the wall.
36:27And I'm on top of Carlos.
36:30Okay.
36:32Are you seeing a hard patch?
36:35It's a hard patch.
36:37And I see one solid rock.
36:41Nearly four hours into their dive, Carlos and James are now 14 feet down, still hunting for bedrock.
36:50I'm really careful.
36:53It's becoming very tight down here.
36:56Ugh.
36:57That sucks.
37:01There's no room here.
37:04It's so narrow at the bottom of the hole, the divers are on top of each other.
37:10I'm just sandwiched against the wall.
37:12Ugh.
37:14Rock my neck.
37:15All right, James.
37:16Come on up, buddy.
37:31How you doing, buddy?
37:33There's all I can do to dig any deeper there.
37:35I believe you, man.
37:36You're not a complainer, so I don't think that, man.
37:38Oh, yeah.
37:38I'm believing what you're saying.
37:40Yeah.
37:42So I'm against a wall like this.
37:45Sardine.
37:46And Carlos is pushing on me over on this side and kicking and stepping on me while I'm trying to
37:51dredge.
37:52It is deep.
37:54You can feel your sinuses when you go down the bottom.
37:57It's overwhelming.
38:06Holy .
38:08Yeah, James said it's insane.
38:10Holy .
38:12It's gonna take another team of frickin' divers to come and get all this rock out and start existing.
38:21Copy that.
38:22You wanna hang it up?
38:24Yep.
38:24All right.
38:25We got a diver, huh?
38:27After five hours, and now 15 feet down, Carlos has reached his limit.
38:33It's a frickin' pressure change, man.
38:35Ow.
38:46I've been exhausted.
38:50You're okay.
38:51Give it a sec.
38:56Holy moly.
38:59I can't stand up.
39:00You're all right.
39:02All right.
39:02Let's get this off you somehow.
39:04Here.
39:05Grab him under your arm.
39:07Yeah.
39:08Get up.
39:09Coming off.
39:10Drop the belt.
39:12Woo.
39:14Woo.
39:16Don't fall backwards.
39:21I feel like I just came back from Hades or some .
39:24Man.
39:25Jeez.
39:27That was deep.
39:31It really trashes my equilibrium.
39:33I feel like I'm gonna throw up.
39:42Hey, Wes.
39:43Hey, uh.
39:44You see anything in the box?
39:47Nope.
39:49Nothing.
39:50A bunch of looking material.
39:54Everything that I see coming across the dredge just reminds me of, like, flood material.
39:58The rocks just don't look like things that we would normally get out of the bottom when we get to
40:02gold.
40:03So, I don't think we're there yet.
40:05Man.
40:06This is pathetic.
40:10Another sad day of dredging.
40:14Same old .
40:14Just different day.
40:16We should've got gold a long time ago.
40:19We just keep digging and digging and digging and digging and digging and digging.
40:24How long could we do this for?
40:29A lot of gasoline and a lot of effort.
40:32A lot of busted stuff and a lot of arguments and heartache for nothing.
40:38We need volume gold to be successful here.
40:44There's a moment where you gotta pull the plug on this.
40:47And we're almost there.
40:53On the next Gold Rush, Whitewater.
40:56What he's doing is terrifyingly dangerous.
40:59Oh, my God. I'm way down there.
41:01That's a death zone right now.
41:03There was flooding in Juneau, Alaska.
41:05So, right now, Danielle's trying to stop the flood from taking a house.
41:09It's hours later and it's still draining.
41:12Total devastation.
41:13It's really, really .
41:17You're freaking geeky.
41:18Almost to the bottom.
41:20No, I'm not bad. I'm not coming down.
41:22This one is kicking our ass.
41:24I don't want to abandon it.
41:25But we might have to.
41:27No.
41:28I don't want to abandon it.
41:28You ever can't.
41:28No.
41:28No.
41:28No.
41:30That's no stress.
41:30No.
41:30No.
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