- 4 weeks ago
Dustin Hurt's crew battles a massive, underwater "widow-maker" boulder while pushing through Nugget Creek's most treacherous, roaring rapids....
在阿拉斯加偏远荒野进行采矿作业，意味着团队在处理成吨坚硬密实的河床沉积物时，不仅要应对设备故障和冰冷刺骨的水流，还要时刻面临受伤的风险。
在阿拉斯加偏远荒野进行采矿作业，意味着团队在处理成吨坚硬密实的河床沉积物时，不仅要应对设备故障和冰冷刺骨的水流，还要时刻面临受伤的风险。
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00:11The Surku River, southeast Alaska, Dustin Hurt and his crew are on the nine-mile commute
00:19into Nugget Creek.
00:24If I slow down, that water will sink up.
00:30Holy .
00:40That was all right, y'all.
00:44If I had a bucket list, I could say this would be one of the things that I would get
00:48to check
00:48off of my bucket list, riding up a raging creek in an airboat.
00:56Restocked with fuel and supplies, Dustin is hell-bent on reaching bedrock and a life-changing
01:03pile of gold.
01:06This week, we do nothing but dive.
01:09We dive, dive.
01:11We're going to move boulders and dredge every day.
01:16We'll have gold in hand by the end of the week, for sure.
01:28Whoa!
01:29Whoa!
01:29Watch out!
01:30That was right against my head.
01:34The battle's on, man.
01:35It's always been on.
01:37You don't have to get my ass kicked.
01:39It's a war, man.
01:42I think you're leaking gasoline.
01:45That's burning.
01:46Help.
01:47Help me with it.
01:48I got you.
01:49I got you.
01:49I was like in a quarry, you know?
01:52Rocks to my left.
01:53Rocks to my right.
01:55Rocks to my front.
01:59I'm going to get gold today.
02:00It's going to be all worthwhile.
02:01I'm going to get gold.
02:04Look at there, buddy.
02:07We're going to get more gold than we ever thought, and it's going to be amazing.
02:21Two months into the five-month season at Nugget Creek.
02:26Got a good claim, dude.
02:28It's time to get some real gold.
02:30At his most remote claim, Dustin's been pushed to the limit to get both dive sites operational.
02:37I don't care if something breaks, we're going to fix it that instant and keep going.
02:42Finally, Dustin's time has come.
02:45This is his first chance to dive for gold.
02:49Real nice.
02:51I'm going diving, y'all.
02:54Time to get in the water.
02:55We need to find Nuggets.
02:57We need to find Nuggets.
02:59Soon.
03:00No more prep.
03:02Just dig.
03:03Find gold.
03:07The water's raging today.
03:09It's not clear.
03:11But Dustin's used to diving in water that's not clear.
03:13But we know there's a lot of gold in this creek.
03:15We need a sign.
03:16We've put in so much work now.
03:18I think by the end of the week, we should have some gold coming out of here.
03:21You ready to have a good day?
03:23Yeah.
03:24It'll be my first dive in a year.
03:26A little late, but I guess better late than never.
03:30All right.
03:32Uh-oh.
03:34Oh, no.
03:41This is going to be a typical bull day.
03:45Dang it.
03:47What happened?
03:49It keeps dying.
03:50Oh, we forgot to turn the fuel off.
03:53The whole crankcase is probably full of gasoline.
03:56All night, gas has been flooding into the motor that supplies air to the diver.
04:03Damn it.
04:06That's not how I wanted this to go.
04:10It's going to cost us a couple of hours.
04:12Yeah.
04:12Dustin's first dive of the season is on hold until Wes can repair the flooded engine.
04:19We are so far behind.
04:20If we stop working for a day right now, we are in deep trouble.
04:36Down at the trailhead, Kayla and her crew are moving in the heavy lifting gear.
04:41That's good right there, dude.
04:44Last week, Kayla dug down four feet to discover the route to bedrock blocked by huge boulders.
04:51It's getting to the point where I'm limited in what I can do.
04:55There's some big rocks that I can't get out until we get a winch.
05:00Now, the crew will install the winch system.
05:03We can get these up there.
05:04You guys are going to bring the generator up?
05:06Yep.
05:06Yep.
05:07Once we're all up there, we'll get these mounted.
05:09That way, tomorrow, we can get you in the water, Paul.
05:12Right now, we can't get any depth because we're locked in with rocks.
05:15So once we get these mounted, get that going, we can start pulling the bigger rocks.
05:19Yep.
05:21Kayla and Scott start the 1,100-foot hike in.
05:24Tricky turns.
05:25Each with a 100-pound load on their back.
05:29This is the only part that sucks because...
05:31Yeah, I know.
05:32It's really steep.
05:35Just a month ago...
05:38Whoa, whoa, whoa!
05:39Watch out!
05:39Watch out!
05:40Watch out!
05:41Watch out!
05:41Kayla was struck by a 300-pound boulder.
05:45Are you kidding me?
05:47Get her out of there!
05:50Well, my ankle's still a little bit weird.
05:53I don't trust it at steep angles.
06:05Those ropes suck, huh?
06:09You need a hand or...?
06:10I'm good.
06:11You good?
06:11Okay.
06:15These winches weigh about 100 pounds, so she's almost hiking her entire body weight right now.
06:20She's still getting it done.
06:22Oh, man.
06:23That's impressive.
06:32Well, I hope I don't fall.
06:38I'm good.
06:40Just my ankle, that's all.
06:56Nice job.
06:58Here.
06:59I'll take the weight back here if you unstrap.
07:02Gotcha.
07:05I'm gonna take a breather.
07:07Nice job.
07:10To run the winches, the crew needs the large generator that weighs in at more than 140 pounds.
07:18Marine veteran Scott insists on taking the load.
07:23I feel like carrying some heavy stuff.
07:25All right.
07:26Oh, there's something from the back, Rick.
07:28Oh, it's a buckle.
07:29Hang on.
07:30These things are a to put on the packs.
07:32There's, like, no good angle at them.
07:40The pack is rubbing my back off.
07:42Oh, .
07:43Oh, it's draining.
07:45I think you're leaking gasoline.
07:47Yeah, it's going right down your .
07:49Help.
07:50Help me with that.
07:51.
07:52That's burning.
07:54Ugh.
07:55Oh, that hurts.
07:56.
07:57Ugh.
08:01Where's your babysitter for it?
08:03Oh, it's around here somewhere.
08:05It's burning.
08:06Oh, .
08:07Okay.
08:07I think I'm going to have to get wet.
08:10You're going to have to get wet, dude.
08:11Yep.
08:14Okay.
08:15I got you.
08:16I got you.
08:17Yeah, I know.
08:18That sucks, dude.
08:19I don't want to rub it too much, dude.
08:22A hundred miles from the nearest hospital, Scott is at risk of chemical burns, taking him out of the game.
08:30Is it still burning?
08:32It stings.
08:33It's like all the way down on my left blood sheet.
08:36Go shower up, dude.
08:37Yeah.
08:45At Kayla's dive site.
08:47When the guys get back with the generator, it's ready to go.
08:50She's going it alone with the upstream winch.
08:54They're heavy.
08:57It's tricky.
08:59It's a 60-foot zigzag across the creek.
09:03All right.
09:07Look at that slip.
09:10.
09:11Damn it.
09:14.
09:17There's one big boulder right in the middle and I can't reach over it.
09:24Let me go get an eye on her. She's trying to go across to that winch.
09:30Are you going to put this up?
09:32Yeah, I probably will.
09:33Do you want to just take it over there then?
09:36I can. Would that be easier?
09:38Probably.
09:39Last thing I need to do is fall in this water with a winch strap to my back.
09:43Yeah, that would not be good. That's like an anchor.
09:46Now that we have the winches here, the next step is to get them mounted and get our cables strung
09:50up.
09:51That's going to be a huge game changer for us.
09:53Now we're able to pull the bigger rocks without having to split them.
09:56So it's going to be a lot faster.
10:05600 feet down creek.
10:07Hey, buddy.
10:08What's up, man?
10:10The flooded dredge motor is putting Dustin's first dive of the season at risk.
10:15Should I start getting my gear together?
10:17Yeah, it's ready.
10:20It's kind of a simple fix, but it was a waste of a couple of hours.
10:23Just one more thing and a lot of crap out here in wild Alaska.
10:28And go.
10:31Oh, but for all of us to hear you.
10:35Oh, no. Yeah, buddy.
10:39Whoo! Smokey!
10:41Time to get suited up and get in the water.
10:44I just want to dive.
10:46These guys who let me dive every day, I dive every single day.
10:49Dig holes. Find some gold.
10:52After two hours lost dive time, Dustin can finally go for gold
10:58in the most inaccessible waters of Nugget Creek.
11:02Let's do this.
11:05Water's good.
11:06Bring it in.
11:07Yeah, there you go.
11:09This thing's pretty hot. Want to put this last?
11:11Yeah.
11:12Okay.
11:14I'm excited for my first dive, man.
11:16Me too.
11:19How's that breathing?
11:22That's it. Nailed it.
11:32All right.
11:33Let's see if I can get some dredging done, man.
11:35That's what we're here for, right?
11:38Yep. Make a hole. Make a hole.
11:41Water's so crazy.
11:45My idea is if I can follow the bedrock on the wall, it's just going to be easier digging.
11:54At least I have one wall that's bedrock that's not going to fall over here.
11:58Copy that. Copy that. That makes sense. So are you on bedrock right now?
12:02So I'm on the wall, and that's bedrock.
12:06Yeah, what I'm going to do is try to follow this wall, and that wall's going to turn out towards
12:10the center of the creek at some point.
12:13And then we'll know what we're dealing with.
12:16Last week, James and Carlos dug down six feet near the granite asteroid boulder.
12:24Dustin's plan? Dig down beside bedrock on the far creek wall.
12:29Expand out to connect to the existing dive hole to expose more of the bedrock gold.
12:39Instead of us trying to pinpoint bedrock right in the middle of the creek where it's nice and calm, he
12:45went to the most roughest place.
12:48If I lift my head up, it wants to rip my damn head off.
12:53There's tons of debris right here.
12:58Ah, this regulators locking up.
13:03Got a rock stuck in it somewhere.
13:09One hour in, Dustin's equipment is failing in the furious creek waters.
13:14Without a functional regulator, this first dive is over.
13:19Ah!
13:36In the raging waters of Nugget Creek, Dustin's equipment is failing.
13:42Ah, this regulators locking up.
13:48It's got a rock stuck in it somewhere.
13:51Ah!
13:54We got it taken apart, man, it's quicker than that, Sam.
13:58Be gentle.
13:59I can already breathe out better now.
14:01It's just got a rock in it, I know.
14:02I know it's got a spring in there and everything.
14:05That's all it is is a little rock stuck in that little diaphragm somewhere.
14:09Holy .
14:10Yep, there you go.
14:11Look at all that.
14:11That, dude, keep dumping out, like banging out.
14:14Ah!
14:15It was stopping me from breathing, dude.
14:18I could breathe in, but I couldn't breathe out.
14:20It was awful.
14:22In search of a quick fix to get Dustin back in the water,
14:27Carlos gets creative.
14:29Women's pantyhose.
14:31That, my friends, is a quick push fix.
14:38Getting air out of the mask is impossible when it gets rock stuck in a little diaphragm.
14:45All right, let's test her out.
14:50All right, let's...
14:52Yeah, so much better, dude.
15:00We are in serious business of dredging.
15:03Hope with all that dredging, man, all our prayers go for gold, gold, gold.
15:08Yeah, there's a lot of rocks floating around.
15:12I got giants over the top of me, right upstream, too.
15:17And I'm under my .
15:21That pulp right there...
15:24...is a big boulder that wants to kill me, right here.
15:29And I need to center pop that .
15:32While clearing four feet of gravel beside the bedrock wall, Dustin's undermined a huge widow-maker.
15:40If it falls...
15:42...it could crush it.
15:48I don't know what's gonna happen once I pop it, but it needs to go.
15:52It's over my head, man.
15:57This creek changes all the time.
15:59If you move one boulder, you have no idea what that might do.
16:03And, mate, speed up the water where you're dredging.
16:07You have no idea.
16:14How do I get into this ?
16:18There's a huge boulder. I don't think it's gonna move.
16:23But I'd love to crack it.
16:27It's so stupid.
16:29Oh, I see. You're trying to make a water block with your body. I got it.
16:32You think it could find a better spot, the hardest spot to drill?
16:36I think we're just gonna pop it like this, y'all.
16:39See what happens.
16:41Get my ass kicked.
16:46Get the hell out of here.
16:49Watch the blue cord. Watch the blue cord. Watch the blue cord.
16:54Crack it.
16:56Crack it.
16:58Three, two, one.
17:04I just busted right through that sucker.
17:07That was perfect.
17:09I can't get anywhere because of all these broken pieces we put down here.
17:14If all the winches are running, man, we can choke them out of there if you need to.
17:17I'm gonna try.
17:19Okay, I'll bring the ball back up there close so you can deal with it.
17:22Okay.
17:25Dustin's crew installed their winch system two weeks ahead of Caleb.
17:30It's capable of pulling 6,000-pound boulders from the creek bed.
17:36It's up now, off the bottom.
17:39It's out of my .
17:41Yeah!
17:43Yeah! I got it!
17:48I think we joined both the digs together, guys.
17:53We got some good real estate here.
18:04Is it understandable?
18:06It's a bit strong right here on the current.
18:09500 feet up the creek, Kayla's upstream winch is in place.
18:14Now she and Paul just have the downstream winch to install.
18:19You need me to hold it in place while you get up there?
18:22Yeah, you probably will have to.
18:24Three hours after his accident, Scott is back at the dive site.
18:30All right.
18:31All right.
18:33Kayla!
18:38That car!
18:38They hurt!
18:40Yeah!
18:42Oh, man, we are close.
18:44Just gotta manipulate a couple little bolts, and we're gonna have us a downstream winch.
18:50We can start pulling rocks now.
18:53Don't drop your nuts!
18:55They dropped a long time ago!
18:59That's not what she said!
19:02That went on really fast.
19:03We needed something to go right.
19:05So, first thing tomorrow morning, we'll try to get it spooled up.
19:09Hopefully we can get that done in a decent time and still get Paul in the water to get a
19:12good dive in.
19:13You know what that means?
19:15We have one thing left.
19:17One thing!
19:19And we are at full capacity, in full dredge mode, in gold!
19:27Down Creek at the Golden Gate site.
19:31How's the box looking?
19:34No, you're seeing some good material overwork, man.
19:37After four hours widening the dive hole and sending gravel through the sluice.
19:43I gotta get out.
19:44Dustin calls time.
19:48I am tired. I didn't realize it.
19:54Ah, fresh air.
19:57Good dive!
20:00Seeing gold?
20:02They got rocks in them.
20:04No gold.
20:06I just had a great dive, and I can't wait to see what's under these huge boulders under these dicks.
20:12And I want James to get through them, dredge underneath them, and see if there's any paydays.
20:18I hope they're sitting on bedrock, honestly. I think they might be.
20:36At Kayla's dive site.
20:38My first dive here at Nugget Creek.
20:40And I'm a little excited to get in and see what it's all about here.
20:44Winches in place.
20:45Scott and Justin must now thread the cable capable of pulling over 6,000 pounds,
20:52before Paul can begin his battle with the boulders.
20:55We're starting to get this area opened up.
20:57If we get a little bit further ahead, get some of these rocks out, then we can focus on trying
21:02to go down and see if we can't find bedrock.
21:05If we can't find some gold today, it's gonna be a good day.
21:14So far, it seems like things are going a bit more smoothly.
21:18So if those winches are working, with Paul in the water, we should be able to move a lot of
21:22material today.
21:23Which we definitely need. We need that break.
21:31How's your air?
21:34It's good.
21:35Good? All right. You good to go?
21:37Here we go.
21:43Yeah, it's not very deep right here.
21:47Right here is where you were dredging, right?
21:49Yeah, all right here.
21:50Okay. It might have filled in a little bit.
21:52Well, I have this milk crate.
21:54If you ever want to set it in front here that you can fill up, and then I can move
21:57the rocks for you until we get the winches going.
21:58Okay.
22:01Last week, at just a few feet down, Kayla hit a layer of heavy boulders, making it impossible to go
22:07any deeper to bedrock gold.
22:13Until the winches are running, Paul and Kayla can only remove smaller boulders by hand.
22:22I'm basically being the human winch and moving all the rocks.
22:27Which is pretty tiring.
22:33Made that rock my .
22:37Paul is dredging.
22:38He's making a lot of progress.
22:39There's big rocks in there, so it's hard to get any real depth going right now.
22:44But we're still getting a lot done, despite the hardships that we're having.
22:49At least I can see about four inches.
22:53And it's now pitch black.
22:58We're done up here, bro.
23:00Let's see how that works.
23:03Whoa, whoa, watch out!
23:05That was not against my head.
23:08Scott, can you talk when you're doing stuff so Paul can hear you?
23:11He didn't know what was going on, and that cable slung up.
23:15Yeah, that is 1,000% my bad.
23:18Sorry, Paul.
23:20I still got my head. I'm good.
23:24He didn't rip my head off yet.
23:26I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry.
23:30Paul, we're gonna pull the line up.
23:33Yeah.
23:35We're gonna get that headache ball to him, so that way he can hook up a boulder,
23:39and hopefully we'll see this thing pull it out successfully.
23:48Okay, it's hooked this time.
23:55Oh, look at that!
23:57Woo! That's a good one.
24:01That definitely got rid of that rock.
24:04That's gonna open up some territory.
24:07It's at least three foot, four foot deeper.
24:10Paul's getting some more depth added to the hole.
24:13So far, we've had a really good day.
24:16Fingers crossed it stays that way.
24:27I think you're good to go, James. That water's frickin' nice and boiling.
24:31Thank you. Awesome. I appreciate it.
24:35At the Golden Gate site, after Dustin widened the dive hole, today, James will take on the massive asteroid boulder
24:44overhanging the dig.
24:46I had a dream that I found two nuggets. Let's hope it comes true.
24:51I'm looking forward to a dive. I want to be able to dredge and pop rocks and move boulders and
24:58get the material out.
24:59I just want to be able to get down deep today.
25:04You guys got my back, right?
25:06Yeah, babe! We got you!
25:08We need to get rid of that big asteroid rock.
25:16Find the end of it, and just start red-loving it. It's on the surface.
25:21Go up and feel what's above you.
25:25This asteroid rock is something else.
25:28I wanted you to know what's above your head, all right?
25:31I can get rid of that sucker.
25:33If this rock keeps going down, holy crap.
25:38James' mission?
25:40Blast off sections of the 20,000-pound asteroid boulder overhanging the widened dive hole.
25:48Danger removed, James can get back to digging down to bedrock gold.
25:58Thanks so much.
26:00Good catch, man.
26:02I got you set up for two charges.
26:05Right now, we're making the most progress we can possibly make.
26:14How's your water doing, man?
26:21You know you can talk to me, right?
26:24I don't know why I'm not talking as much, because I'm more focused on thinking about what I'm doing.
26:30It's dangerous down here.
26:33One rock at a time, that's all you're focused on.
26:37I can't find the freaking holes I drilled.
26:47Water is pretty hot.
26:49Hey!
26:50A sudden rise in temperature in James' dive suit is a danger sign.
26:55The heating system relies on a constant flow of water.
26:59A blockage in the filters means less water in the heat exchange,
27:05which then turns into superheated steam
27:09that will surge down into James' dive suit.
27:17Hey, why don't you piss out? Come up, we're giving a check.
27:20Ow.
27:21Hey!
27:23I don't like it.
27:24Come here!
27:25I think it's about to get too hot.
27:38Something's wrong.
27:40This one was about to burn.
27:42I can smell it.
27:44At Dustin's Golden Gate site, the raging water of Nugget Creek pushes the crew and the equipment to the limit.
27:53This is the one that's getting hot over here.
27:56I can smell it.
27:57For the second time this week, a dive is on hold.
28:02The dredge is overheating, putting James at risk of being burned by superheated steam.
28:09Thanks for catching it.
28:10This water is a tough one to deal with.
28:13I'm just trying to keep you safe, man.
28:16Yeah.
28:16The mission to blast off sections of the asteroid boulder is at a standstill.
28:23Can't figure out what's happening, but we're getting particulates inside of our heaters, and we have good filter systems.
28:31We may have just wore these out.
28:34Or there's something wrong with our filter system.
28:36I can't figure it out, to tell you the truth.
28:38Wes's temporary fix?
28:40Re-plumb the dredge, sending the creek water around the exhaust chamber of just one of the two motors.
28:47It'll be real easy just to shut him down to one, and then we can figure it out.
28:52Reducing the heat will protect James from serious burns, but could put him at risk of hypothermia in the 38
29:00degree water of Nugget Creek.
29:03I would dive with this.
29:06Let's try it out.
29:08All right.
29:19How's it feel?
29:21It's getting there.
29:23It's warm on my back, but not on my chest yet.
29:28I gotta wiggle around again.
29:30Yeah, I don't know what to do, man.
29:32That's all I got right now, not to burn you up.
29:36James is a tough guy, so who's not going to admit that he's suffering down there?
29:41Yeah, man.
29:43this boulder.
29:45We're going to try to play a game.
29:48I think he's digging straight down behind the asteroid rock.
29:52He didn't listen to me, it's okay.
29:54Y'all usually don't.
29:57As long as he's digging.
29:59Undermining the granite asteroid boulder is a high-risk strategy.
30:05Ow!
30:06That hurt.
30:08You okay?
30:09I got bit.
30:10Ow!
30:12That hurt.
30:16James smashed his hand into a granite shard.
30:21If you want gold, it's going to give you a frickin' battle.
30:26The battle's on, man.
30:28It's always been on.
30:30It's win-lose, win-lose, win-lose.
30:32It's a war, man.
30:39Yeah!
30:41Woo!
30:43Good job, man!
30:45Awesome, dude!
30:46Hell yeah!
30:47Yeah!
30:51How you doing down there, buddy?
30:52Pretty good.
30:54Just digging and digging.
30:56Copy that.
30:59If you listen close enough, you can hear he's pulling through his teeth almost because he's cold.
31:07It's subtle, but I've been listening to him breathe for years now.
31:11And I know everyone's breath and how they feel when they're doing it.
31:14It's like a different language when you listen to somebody breathe all the damn time.
31:20How's your water?
31:22I'm getting pretty cold.
31:24Time to come up?
31:26Uh-huh. Yeah.
31:27All right. Get out of there. We'll come grab you up.
31:38Good job, brother. Good drive.
31:41Hold that for me.
31:43Good drive, brother!
31:46That was the scary one down there.
31:48I have a fear of being behind that asteroid boulder and it starts moving.
31:52Because I undermined everything over there.
31:55Deeper I go, it could just settle in on me and next thing you know, I'm dead.
32:00James is on a mission. He wants to go straight down.
32:03So, he didn't crack the rock that I wanted, but he dug a big damn hole and he moved a
32:08lot of rock.
32:08So, he wants to go straight down to the bottom. I understand. That's all of us who want to go
32:13straight down.
32:14It gets dangerous. It's a good way to die. A real good way to die.
32:19All right.
32:19All right.
32:46All right.
32:48Paul, you want to go ahead and come up?
32:50Yeah.
32:56That fucking water got fast.
32:59You had a good dive today.
33:03We did make some progress as far as the depth. These boulders are so locked in here right now. It's
33:09taken a lot to get them apart. Everything feels like concrete.
33:13So, all my time in McKinley dredging, I've never experienced this except for when we were on bedrock.
33:19Yeah. To me, it's a good sign because if it's like this, I don't think this has been touched.
33:25It's more challenging than any other claim, but the huge boulders of Nugget Creek promise the greatest reward.
33:34I saw a couple of little flakes.
33:36Really?
33:36Yep.
33:38Yeah. She found some flakes in there.
33:41Oh, .
33:43There's another one.
33:46The deeper we go, the better it should get.
33:51While it's not enough to justify all the work that we've done or pay any bills or anything like that,
33:57it's a good sign that there could be a lot better stuff waiting down below.
34:14We'd go several feet and it's already getting like harder. Not like hard pack per se, but like just more
34:20locked in.
34:21And not touched.
34:23That's, yeah, that's the impression I got when I saw that. It's like it's never been touched.
34:28Yeah.
34:28Because there's nothing like McKinley. It was like the bottom three feet of McKinley.
34:32And with that, we're really hopeful that we're going to find some really good gold here this year.
34:35All right.
34:35I hope that you're right there.
34:37Mm-hmm.
34:38I'm so excited for you guys.
34:40Mm-hmm.
34:41I'm guessing we're about twice as deep as you guys.
34:43I think your start's going to be deeper.
34:45It's going to be much deeper.
34:46You guys are going to bust into bedrock before us probably because we have such huge damn rocks.
34:52Let's try to hit bedrock. I truly believe it's only eight or ten feet tops. Like, that's what I believe.
34:59That's what I've been told all the way across the board. We've got to find the bottom of this thing
35:04and see if there's any gold.
35:05So, everybody pay attention. Let's get down to bedrock. Y'all ready?
35:10Mm-hmm.
35:10All right. Let's get going.
35:19At Dustin's Golden Gate site.
35:22Ready for you, Carlos.
35:24I'm just getting all this stuff ready, dude.
35:26I love you, man, but get in the water.
35:29Next to dive is Carlos. His mission is to go head-to-head with the asteroid boulder.
35:35As always, man, keep your nose going. Any kind of temperature change on me, I'm coming up.
35:40I got you. Go down and dig. Do what you do. Move as many big rocks as you can. The
35:45more big rocks you get out of there, the deeper we can go.
35:49Pretty sure that you're going to get on some gold today.
35:53Let's go diving.
35:57Diver in the water.
36:00Okay. Got a pretty good-sized hole. A lot of kitty litter as we expected.
36:04Oh, you mother got bit, you bastard. Definitely going to do some blasting today.
36:11Yesterday, James ignored Dustin and dug straight down underneath the 20,000-pound boulder, deepening the dive hole to eight
36:20feet.
36:21Removing the overhang is the only way to make it safe for Carlos to dredge down deeper to bedrock gold.
36:29And that asteroid boulder, man. They're dangerous, dude. That's it right here. The nose of the asteroid boulder.
36:38If I can start drilling. I got a drill ready for you.
36:43All right. All right, guys. I'm ready for those, uh, powerheads.
37:09Go up for the pump! Go!
37:18Oh, yeah. That opened up a lot of rocks.
37:22You made choker on that. I got a big one right here.
37:26Is it a double winch or a single?
37:28It might test the single winch. Man might, you know.
37:33Let's find out.
37:34Yeah, let's find out.
37:43I'm ready to go. All right, here we go. Moving.
37:46All right.
37:51All right.
37:52Oh, he's getting some headway. Yeah.
37:54Yeah!
37:59That's that asteroid.
38:02Wow! Look at that.
38:04Good . Good man.
38:07Nice hook. Nice hook.
38:10That is the big part of the asteroid rock that was buried deep underneath.
38:14It's such a big boulder, it's definitely going to be gold all around it.
38:18The deeper we get around that asteroid boulder, we're going to get bigger gold.
38:32You get a little excited about getting in Nugget Creek for the first time?
38:35I'm finally back to being excited.
38:37I am ready to get in this water, dude.
38:40After dredging the first flakes of gold in the shallows at Kayla's site, Scott is next
38:46on the trail of bigger treasure below.
38:49I mean, that's, it's go time, y'all.
38:53I lit a fire under my ass to get into the water, get those boulders out of the way, and
38:57get down some depth. Try to push for bedrock. It'd be awesome if I hit bedrock today.
39:04I'm going to get gold today. It's going to be all worthwhile. I'm going to get gold.
39:15Damn it, Paul. I thought you said you had a hole here.
39:19Must have built back in.
39:24Overnight, the fast flowing creek has filled the hole with loose gravel and boulders.
39:30This one has them stuck. So once I get this out, I can go.
39:38Can you feel how far back it goes?
39:41I can move it. It's loose. It's definitely loose.
39:45I can get around it and I can choke it, but easy.
39:48You need a choker?
39:49See if we can pull this rock over the dam.
39:51Come down on it a little bit. That's good. That's good.
39:55All right, call the attention.
40:00You might have lost it. I don't know.
40:02I don't think so.
40:04Looks like it's working good.
40:13It's working good.
40:15Look at that.
40:17I can pull that rock wherever I want to.
40:22That's a game changer.
40:37In the freezing water of Nugget Creek, Scott is in trouble.
40:44Oh .
40:45What's wrong?
40:46It just stole my coat.
40:49Scott lost his shoe.
40:51I can't find it.
40:55I can't find it.
40:57Are you tickling?
40:59I'm extremely ticklish on my feet.
41:03No, don't do that. I'm really ticklish.
41:05That's not fair.
41:06I'd get it for you, but I can't.
41:09That's not fair.
41:10I can't put mom in the face.
41:12I got it.
41:14You got it?
41:15Victory.
41:16Oh, that's so cold too.
41:19Oh, that's cold.
41:29How are you doing, Scott?
41:31I'm almost six feet down.
41:34After three hours hauling out heavy rocks, Scott is finally adding depth to the dive hole at Kayla's Nugget Creek
41:42site.
41:43Damn, that's not a small rock, dude.
41:48If you hurt like that, it looks like a mountain sticking up.
41:51It does, doesn't it?
41:56That's a big win.
41:59How are you doing?
42:01My head hurts.
42:06Adding a foot to the dive hole, Scott's ready to call it.
42:12You know I like long dives, but I can feel my head hurting.
42:16Still got quite a bit done though.
42:19I opened that hole up a lot.
42:21Yeah.
42:23That hole is double the size of what I'm in.
42:28I understand the reasoning for Scott getting out.
42:30I don't want anyone in the water if they don't feel good.
42:32He's still got a lot done though.
42:35I'm going to check the box and see if we got anything in there.
42:38I don't see anything big yet.
42:40A lot of pyrite.
42:42There's a lot of pyrite.
42:44Tons of pyrite.
42:46No nuggets yet.
42:47Yeah, we're probably not going to see those until we get about a foot off the bedrock.
42:51I know everybody wants seven feet deep, but we think it's 12 to 15.
42:55When we hit it at seven, we'll be excited.
42:57The old reports that I read said average 12 to 20.
43:01I'm okay with 12 feet though.
43:03Looking at it, I just don't think it's going to be 20.
43:06I don't think so either.
43:07The way the walls are coming down in the canyon is, it's 12 feet, we got it.
43:11Yeah.
43:13Seven feet is going to be even better.
43:15We didn't see any gold, but we got that much closer to getting the bedrock.
43:20So hopefully we're that much closer to getting gold.
43:32Down at the Golden Gate site, Carlos is five hours into his dive.
43:38How you doing down there, buddy?
43:40Uh, dive's going good, man.
43:42I'm getting deeper.
43:44Moving some rocks.
43:46After removing the overhanging section of the asteroid boulder, Carlos is now deepening the dive hole.
43:55Do you want the joker or basket?
43:57Basket.
43:57Absolutely the basket.
44:01He's getting pretty deep.
44:02I don't know how deep he's getting, but he's been moving quite a few boulders out of the way.
44:18You let it get you?
44:21Yeah.
44:22It got me good.
44:24You have no idea, man.
44:25I bent my fingers back, man.
44:27Ah!
44:29The end of that suction will grab your hand and it's a six inch tube.
44:34And it'll bend all your damn fingers back and try to break your hand off.
44:40This is not a friendly place for dredging, you know?
44:43This is a constant battle.
44:47At six hours, Carlos is reaching his limit.
44:52Okay, man.
44:53I might have been a little bit jealous.
44:57I got tired.
45:00I'm calling it.
45:04Divers coming up.
45:06I think Carlos just pulled off the longest dive of the season so far.
45:15What?
45:17Damn good dive, man.
45:18That was a decent dive.
45:20I didn't get all I wanted to do, but I was like in the quarry, you know?
45:25Rocks to my left, rocks to my right, rocks to my front.
45:31Carlos' epic dive has got the dive hole down to eight feet.
45:38TV Gold!
45:41Well, it's starting, man.
45:43Look at there, buddy.
45:45I knew there was gold here.
45:47If our small gold is this big or bigger, we're in for a treat.
45:51That is not small.
45:52Hey, that's gold, dude!
45:53That's gold!
45:55That's really exciting, so that means that we're on the frickin' money, man.
45:59Look, check that out, dude.
46:00All right.
46:01That's a pretty good start.
46:02I mean, for our first gold, I'm not gonna complain.
46:07That's big, too.
46:08It is.
46:09That's a good sign, man, seeing gold.
46:12We're gonna find gold before we got to the bedrock here.
46:15We heard of minutes all throughout here.
46:16We know that we're gonna get gold now for sure.
46:20After seven weeks of backbreaking work at Nugget Creek, Dustin and his crew have finally dredged their first gold.
46:29I am so excited that we didn't have to get the bedrock to find gold.
46:34We found gold at eight feet deep.
46:38I love this place even more than I ever thought.
46:41I hated thinking I was gonna go bankrupt.
46:44This is gonna happen for us.
46:47Finally, we're gonna get more gold than we ever thought, and this is gonna be amazing.
47:07On the next Gold Rush, Whitewater.
47:10These boulders are kicking our ass.
47:13Holy .
47:14Got one up my butt.
47:16Scott, look at this.
47:17That's clay.
47:18Headlock in gold like a f***ing ice.
47:20This is gonna be a game changer.
47:22I'm talking about gold, gold, gold.
47:25I saw a couple of little plates.
47:27That's awesome.
47:27A storm coming through.
47:29That's a big one.
47:32Gold is great.
47:33Your life is more.
47:35Whenever it feels like we're making progress, something sets us back.
47:40Why are you so mad?
47:41I think I was just trying to help.
47:43I came up and took over what I was doing.
47:44He's cracked under too much pressure.
47:49I have a feeling he's calling the season.
47:53The Son of God.
47:58I want to cut off my brain a day.
47:58I know it's better than you do.
47:58This is something I would expect more odpowied tendント.
47:58I am really surprised that I'm ready.
47:58Ready, come on, and I'll go down with os пуcia from San Diego.
47:58That was awesome, right?
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