Original subtitles

-[Dustin] Hey, Fred. -Hey, What's up, man?

[Dustin] How's it going?

-Good to see you. -[Dustin] Yeah.

So how you doing, man?

[Fred] You know, I got, uh...

...good-old brain tumors right now.

My balance is down a little bit.

A little bit of...

...blurry vision. It's progressing every day.

Sorry to hear that, Fred. That's too bad.

So how long did they give you?

Anywhere from a few months...

...to six months.

Hell, I've lived a good life.

[laughs] Yeah.

[Dustin] We're gonna miss you up there, man.

I want you guys to go up there and have one hell of a season.

I'll be rooting for you.

[Dustin] Hopefully you make it long enough to where we can...

...show you some gold.

-I'll be looking forward to it. -[Dustin] Okay.

That's my goal. [laughs]

To hold out long enough to see some gold come out of Nugget Creek.

So, bring me some.

[Dustin] I love you.

I hope we get to see you again.

All right.

Pretty damn sad.

I've never known life without Fred Hurt.

I'm heading up to Alaska with his blessing.

[chuckles] He wants me to succeed.

He doesn't want me sitting here watching him die.

He wants me to have adventure.

He wants me to, uh, find gold.

[all cheering]

[Dustin] You guys ready for this?

[narrator] In a season ignited by a father's dying wish...

Don't think about me, man. Get out there and freaking find that damn gold.

[narrator] ...Dustin and his crew of whitewater miners...

Let's move some rocks!

Holy [bleep]!

Yeah!

[narrator] ...risk life and limb.

-[grunts] -[bleep]

-Get him out of there! -Move! Move! Move!

He would have been dead.

[thunder cracking]

-Come on. -[narrator] Battling the forces of nature...

[yelling]

Lose that [bleep] dredge to another flood!

-[narrator] ...in a race against time. -[Dustin] Find some gold!

We need to speed the hell up and stop playing around.

-.[narrator] ...to fulfil a dream... -[laughs] Whoo!

-No way! -Whoo!

[all cheering]

[narrator] ...of finding millions in gold.

-Wow! -That's the biggest nugget in Gold Rush istory.

-[narrator] Plus... -[Dustin] I need to succeed at this.

I'm ready to risk it.

-[narrator] ...an exclusive look... -[bleep]

-We're loose. -...at the all-new season.

-We know there's gold. -...of old Rush White Water.

[Dustin] This year we're gonna chase waterfalls.

-[yells] -Mayday. Mayday. Miners are in trouble.

I need some help out here.

Hey, y'all.

[all cheering]

-[all cheering] -Whoo!

-[all cheering] -Yoo-hoo!

-[Dustin] You guys ready for this? -Oh, yeah.

[narrator] In remote southeast Alaska,

extreme gold miner Dustin Hurt

and his band of brothers head deep into the wilderness...

[laughs]

[Dustin] Let's get some good gold, guys.

Woo-hoo! Hell yeah.

[narrator] To deliver on his promise to Fred.

Dustin starts the 120-day mining season earlier than ever before.

[Dustin] I can't find the trail to camp.

Did you see a better way?

You can't see anything right here.

I gotta figure out how to get on top of this snow.

Whoa!

We're not gonna make it.

We're not going to make it!

Oh my God, that was insane.

That's not my intention.

I thought hopefully I could get up on top of the snow

and maybe it would go.

Just look how tall all the ledges are.

We are so close to camp.

[narrator] Thirty miles north of the nearest town,

Dustin's Nugget Creek mining camp is a risky 13-mile journey

up the remote Sirku River,

But the near-impossible access feeds the legend

that it still holds a fortune in nuggets.

[Dustin] It's not looking good for us making it to camp,

which we could see camp,

but I can't get up on these banks.

So I'm wondering if I should cut y'all loose, go by myself

-and try to jump up on top without killing us. -[Carlos] Yeah.

[yells]

-[laughing] -[bleep]

[Dustin] Oh, we made it. Yeah!

-[bleep] We made it. -We made it. Yeah!

Woo-hoo!

Yeah! Hell yeah!

-All right. Let's get to camp. -[all laughing]

[bleep] Whoo!

-Back at Nugget Creek, -Let's get in the water!

[Dustin] Mother Nature beat us last year.

After all that flooding, it destroyed my bank account.

-I can tell you that, man. -Yep.

We're gonna have to hit it as hard as we can

because we know the rains are coming.

We got to. We got to make up for what we didn't do last year.

Let the fun begin.

[narrator] To achieve Fred's dying wish...

New dig site. New hope.

Yeah. This is for Fred.

[narrator] ...Dustin has a game-changing strategy.

[Dustin] All right.

Here's what we're doing, guys.

This is what I want right here.

All of this rock, going that way.

Build the wall right there to get all the water on that side.

Got it.

[narrator] The new plan, divert the creek by building a wall of boulders

to create an area for all five crew

to remove worthless rocks and gravel

and quickly get the diver down to gold.

Ready?

There we go. This is gonna be a lot of work.

It's gonna pay off.

There it goes!

-Perfect. -Yeah!

-We're getting a lot done really quick, man. -Yeah.

We are crushing it. This is fast.

These boulders gotta go.

The only person to blame when this is over with if, uh, I fail, is me.

But if I succeed, I get that, too. [laughs]

Hopefully I succeed this year.

There it is, look. Can you see it?

-Look. Look. Look. -Look at the water.

It's hard-packed, dude, look.

Feel it right here, man. You can feel it crumbling off.

Wow.

All right, I think we found that dredge box.

[narrator] And in just over two weeks...

Let's suit up.

[narrator] ...they are ready for their first dive.

I'm gonna try to get to bedrock as quick as I can.

And I want gold.

I want that nugget. Diver in the water.

Diver in the water.

We're dredging!

Oh, that's perfect, dude. [laughs]

A lot of hard packed up.

This is truly amazing for us.

We are getting things done!

Looks like that's working really good, too.

[narrator] The new mining strategy

means Carlos can dredge the gold-rich red layer for four straight hours.

We've got some good material coming over the back.

Running a little bit red.

All right, Carlos.

Here's your final call.

How'd it go down there?

[Carlos] Yeah, man, it's nice to be back in the water.

[laughs] Woo-hoo!

[laughs]

-It's a [bleep] nugget! -No way.

I've got a [bleep] nugget!

A nugget! I told you there was gold here!

Yeah!

[bleep] Dude.

[laughing]

-No way! -Whoo!

Look!

[narrator] The previous season, it took eight weeks

just to get a diver in the water.

-Yeah! -[laughs]

[narrator] With Dustin's new system just two weeks in,

and they are already on the gold.

Oh, my gosh!

It just seems like they're gonna be big nuggets from here on out, man

Look at that [bleep]!

[all laughing]

Finally, all this hard work's gonna pay off.

All the near-death chances we take.

Here we come.

This is our year.

-[laughing] -Whoo!

[Dustin] I'm heading to Fred's 80th birthday party.

Only be gone a couple of days.

So, take care of everything, right?

-Yep. -[Dustin] Find some gold.

-We might get lots of gold. -[Dustin] Lots of gold.

-Tell Fred happy birthday for us. -Good luck.

-Yeah, tell Fred happy birthday. -We wish we were there.

[narrator] Riding off the best start to a season ever,

Dustin can deliver Fred's dying wish...

...and leave his crew to chase the gold.

[Paul] Well, I guess I'll start getting suited up.

-Let's find ten ounces today, man. -[chuckles] Yeah.

All right. Looks like you're good to go, Paul.

Have a good dive, man. Let's get us some gold.

Right now, we're gonna push it as long as we possibly can.

Our main goal is to get as much gold in the box.

We wanna make Dustin and Fred proud.

[Paul] Still no signs of the bottom yet.

-[narrator] After Carlos's early-season success... -Nothing.

I don't visibily see a [bleep] speck.

[narrator] ...the gold trail goes cold.

I'm a little frustrated. I'm not putting gold in the box.

To me, it's a waste of time.

[Dustin] Hey, Fred. How's it going, man?

Oh, my old legs are not operating very well.

[Dustin] They never did.

-Well, they did pretty good. -[Dustin laughs]

-Not bad. -[chuckles] Yeah.

-Well, you getting some gold. -[Dustin] Finding stuff.

First dive found a half-ounce nugget.

Look how red it is, though.

You got your glasses with you or something?

[Fred] Wow.

-[Dustin] Do you feel that? -[Fred] Just a second.

[clapping]

[laughing]

That's hilarious.

[Fred] That is nice.

I think if you just keep right on it there...

...and just gonna have to get down to the bedrock.

-[Dustin] That red layer. [mimics whip cracking] -That's all there is to it.

I had to trust my guys to go up there and mine without me.

-Run the dredge without me. -Oh. [laughs]

-Hopefully they don't kill each other or themselves. -Well...

Maybe they'll get some gold.

-That would be lovely. -Then everybody can say,

"Oh, they're getting more gold than Dustin.

-when he's there." -They don't even need Dustin out there.

He's been holding them back the whole time.

That's exactly right.

You're digging in the wrong place.

[both laughing]

[narrator] Back at Nugget Creek...

I got an idea.

[narrator] ...while the crew boss is off site...

Well, I'm gonna go back and forth across the creek

and try to come across some gold.

[narrator] ...Wes dabbles in the dark arts of dowsing rods

to get back on the gold.

Dowsing rods, man.

-If Dustin was here... -No comment.

-See that? -[chuckles]

No gold.

I think we can follow this.

[narrator] Believing he has located the gold...

...all that's left is to prove if this method is fact or fiction.

Dowsing rods better work.

And my hope today is, uh, picking a fistful of nuggets.

Anything we can do right now to lighten the pressure on Dustin,

we need to do that.

[narrator] Over six grueling hours,

Oh, boy, are we digging now?

[narrator] ...James attacks the dive hole

lea by Wes's dowsing rods.

[groans]

My wrists are [bleep] hurting.

That was a hell of a long dive today.

[Carlos] All right, man. Good job, brother.

That was rough.

-Guys. -[bleep]. Yeah.

Ancient gold, dude.

That's in that red layer.

Oh, yeah!

Whoo, James!

Handful, bro.

That's where your sticks told him to go.

Fistful of nuggets.

That makes me happy.

[narrator] Twelve hundred miles south in Oregon...

[Dustin] Here we are, Fred.

[narrator] ...despite his failing health...

All righty.

[narrator] ...Fred is ready to celebrate a major milestone.

♪ Happy birthday, dear Fred ♪

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

-[all cheering and appplauding] -We love you, Fred.

-We love you Fred. -Yeah.

[all cheering]

Had a great day.

One hell of an 80th birthday.

You only get to celebrate 80th one time.

But when you've lived a good long life,

80 is good enough.

[laughing]

Make the most of what you've got.

I'm happy with my life.

Y'all have a good day.

[man 1] Happy birthday.

[man 2] Love you, Fred.

[narrator] Just 13 days after celebrating Fred's 80th,

Dustin gets the news he's been dreading.

Hey, guys, uh, got some bad news.

Um, I got a message

this morning that, uh Fred died.

So, uh...

Yeah, cancer got him finally.

-And, uh... yeah. -So sorry, man.

I'm sorry.

Had a lot of good times with Fred.

[exhales]

[sniffles]

That's a tough one, man.

-Yeah, I know we owe him for being out here, right? -Yeah, we do.

[laughing]

[Dustin] He brought us on this freaky weird adventure.

[Fred] Double the dredges. Double the hurt.

[Dustin] He connected us.

Check that out, Fred.

[Fred] That's a nice piece of gold there.

He was definitely the catalyst that got us all together.

[all laughing]

[Dustin] Changed the course of our lives.

Hey, y'all, get down there and find that pile of leprechaun gold

that I didn't get.

[laughing]

[exhales]

We could thank him for this adventure.

We continued it, but he started it.

Yep, absolutely.

It makes me feel pretty damn good.

Yee-haw! [laughs]

We've got to push extra hard this year for him.

Well, he'd want us to work, right? Like...

That's true.

We're gonna miss him for sure.

[Fred] Yee-hoo!

All right, that's too much.

[exhales]

This morning, I kind of asked Fred for help.

to lead us where the gold is.

[narrator] In honor of the man who inspired this decade-long adventure,

the crew are back on the hunt.

[Paul] I know he's helping us out.

He's always been there to help us.

He's still helping.

[Dustin] Now, here's the deal.

You're gonna dredge to find gold.

Dredge. Find gold.

Going in the water.

All right. I'm looking.

I'm looking.

I am...

...finding the small gold.

In the layer and the hard pack.

[Dustin] Yeah.

All right. I like to hear that.

That's the color I wanna see coming across right there.

The red and the black, that's absolutel what we're looking for.

[Dustin] What's the story, Carlos?

Get down, and double down and check the blocks, huh?

Now'd be a good time to double down, man.

Check the blocks.

[Dustin] I'm just curious.

-I didn't get all... -[all yelling]

[bleep]

-Something. -[bleep]

-Hey. -Oh, my God!

-Oh! -[bleep]

Oh, my God!

Holy [bleep]!

-[all laughing] -Carlos, you ain't gonna beleive this [bleep].

Look what you just found, buddy.

[all cheering]

-[vocalizes excitedly] -[all laughing]

-[all laughing] -Go forward.

-Oh! -[bleep]

-[bleep] -[all laughing]

[Carlos] Oh, my God!

[narrator] Carlos has just uncovered a nugget

that could change the course of their lives.

Look at that nugget, man. It's going insane.

That's the four-ounce nugget we're all looking for.

-Yes. -That's bigger than four ounces.

That's the biggest nugget in Gold Rush istory right there.

-This is real real. -Yeah.

-This is happening for us. -This is happening.

-[Dustin] About damn time. -Oh, my God.

[laughing]

Holy, stinking moley, man.

You see the size of that nugget?

I wish Fred was here to see that.

[laughs]

My first thought was to call and tell Fred. [laughing]

Maybe from above he's helping us out.

[Fred laughs] Yee-haw. [echoes]

All right. Well, I'll get suited up.

Nuggets. Nuggets. Nuggets. Nuggets. Nuggets. Nuggets.

[narrator] The record-breaking nugget has infected the crew.

That six-ounce nugget stirred up gold fever for everybody.

Let's find the bottom of that bedrock.

We're on to it now.

Hope there's more.

I think what I'm looking for now

-is that pile of six-ounce nuggets. -Yeah.

We're spoiled.

[narrator] But after dredging for two and a half months...

Oh, I think that's it.

The bedrock channel rises up in front of me.

[narrator] ...the bedrock is cleaned out.

It's a dead end, man.

I don't see anything in here.

I think we tapped this thing out, man.

This hole is done.

All right, time to move on.

Onto bigger and better gold, man.

-That's true. -That's it.

After last year, we could have all given up,

but none of us are quitters.

Every year, we think that this year is gonna be our year.

Persistence pays off. That's what it boils down.

[narrator] Over halfway through the season,

Dustin makes a controversial decision.

[Dustin] We made it back to the big-ass boulder.

This is our rematch.

[narrator] Return to the 50-ton Boulder...

...that beat them last year.

I believe the gold is right up in there,

and it goes up through the left side of that big boulder.

Holy moly, man.

Here's the deal.

I'm hoping we can stop the water.

It was a curse that destroyed everything.

We almost lost three dredges.

We got the skills now to do this.

The prep work is what's gonna make this place right.

And we'll be able to knock this out of the park if we put enough prep work.

Game on, man.

[Dustin] Let's go.

We have to go find some decent rock.

[narrator] To win the rematch...

Dustin has to climb a 500-foot crumbling cliff face

and locate anchor points strong enough

to support the biggest skyline he's ever built.

That looks pretty sketch, doesn't it?

[bleep] The whole thing moves.

Holy [bleep].

[Dustin yelling]

This is gonna be a little more dangerous than I thought.

[narrator] A fall from this height would mean certain death.

[Dustin] Oh, please work.

[exhales]

Hey, Paul, this is it right here.

[Paul] Awesome, man.

I'm looking straight down the center of where I wanna go.

[Dustin] We're gonna put some bolts in right here.

All the searching. We damn... damn well found it.

[Carlos] Holy freaking moly.

That's a lot of freaking cable.

[Dustin] Yeah, you got a workout coming your way, Carlos

[grunts]

Well, we got the cable here.

-Good job. -[Dustin] Let's get this going.

[narrator] But before they can finish the epic skyline install...

[thunder cracks]

[narrator] ...Mother Nature reminds them who's in charge.

Look at that wall.

It's picking up quick.

Holy [bleep]!

[bleep] We need to save that dredge.

Dude, it's coming in.

-Oh! [bleep] -Cliff!

-Hurry up. Come on. -[bleep]

[yelling] Come on.

About to lose that [bleep] dredge to another flood!

Let's go!

Make it work!

Come on, baby.

Don't fall. Don't fall. Hold on.

[grunts]

Lift it, see what happens.

-[grunts] [bleep] -Go. Get out of there. Get out of there.

[bleep]

Oh. [bleep]

I hope that holds.

-Whoo! -[narrator] Up ahead...

This is the year.

[narrator] ...a special preview...

One little misstep, you're done for.

-Whoa! Get out of there. -[bleep]

[bleep]

[narrator] ...of all the all-new season.

I can't believe you guys work here.

[narrator] ...of old Rush White Water.

Whoo!

Yeah!

[laughs]

[Dustin] Let's get into diving, man. Let's see what we got down there.

[Carlos] I got it, brother.

-I'm all dressed up and nowhere to go. -[laughs]

-Might as well get in the damn water. -Yeah.

[narrator] Two-thirds of the way through the season,

-Dustin's betting the farm... -[Dustin] Come on. Let's go.

[narrator] ...that the calmer waters beneath big-ass boulders...

...contain a massive pile of nuggets.

I've put all my eggs in this basket,

and if there's no gold at the bottom of that basket,

then we're in trouble.

[narrator] For the next three weeks,

Fire in the hole.

-[narrator] ...they blast... -Whoo.

[narrator] ...and clear all the rocks between them

and what could be life-changing gold.

Hey! [bleep]

[narrator] But the gold doesn't give itself up that easily.

-Come on. Come on. -[bleep]

Always [bleep] something, man.

[bleep]

Let me go look at this creek, man.

[narrator] Just three weeks left of the season...

We're gonna dry out our dig. See what happens.

[narrator] ...Dustin's come up with an ingenious plan

to get them down to the gold before the big freeze shuts them out.

[Dustin] Let's try to sit a pump on it

and pump all that water out of there as much as we can.

All right. Up top.

-Try to get that capped off. -Okay.

All right, let's drain the hole.

[Carlos] We're going to try to bring the water level down

so we can put eyes and hands of getting down to bedrock.

That's the only way we're gonna get through it

with the time that we have left.

That's not bad.

We've really slowed that water down from what it was at.

[narrator] Next...

Let's just suck the water out of this thing.

[narrator] ...they use a two-inch pump to drain the hole.

Fire it up!

I sure hope this is gonna work.

[narrator] An hour later...

It's a pretty white boulder. How big is that thing?

Oh, my God. Could this be one boulder?

Well, we thought it was a bunch of rocks, but look at it, it's not.

What is this?

[Dustin] Is that connected?

We just accidentally happened to pull on a giant plunge pool.

-What does that mean? -Look at it.

That means there's gonna be a lot of damn gold right there.

[narrator] Dustin's theory...

...the large white rock is the top of an ancient waterfall.

Over millennia, gold would have flowed into the plunge pool below

before huge boulders and hard pack

locked in a gold deposit worth millions.

Look, I like to be optimistic, and it is the most optimistic

I've been on any dive ever.

This is why we do it.

But this feeling right now, we're about to probably get rich or bust.

Either way, this adventure is in us.

-Jesus Christ. I feel like I'm going to space. -[laughs]

There. That should be good.

All right, here we go.

[inhales] That's cold.

He's sucking wind hard for this first freaking hour, dude.

Yeah, he's sucking it hard.

[inhaling]

That's a big rock.

It feels like there's a wall right here.

I'm following that wall straight down right now,

-and it's all white. -Copy that.

[narrator] Dustin's located the back wall of the waterfall.

He now needs to tunnel straight down to the plunge pool below.

We want some kind of proof that our sacrifice and our hard work

has meant something.

Need to find the bottom.

They need to know where the gold's at.

Can you double down and check the box?

Copy that. They're looking right now.

There's gold right there.

You got... you got a nugget.

Holy [bleep] nugget from this side of that rock.

[laughing]

That's exactly the words I wanted to hear.

James, where you gonna dig, buddy?

-All this. -Okay.

And then punch down underneath that.

[Dustin] Let's find the bottom of this thing, man.

Today would be nice.

[narrator] As the temperature drops,

and end of season approaches fast...

...the pressure is on James to find the plunge pool

and whatever treasure it contains.

-How you feeling, man? -I feel pretty good about this dive.

Yee haw! Good luck, man.

Ice-cold water.

If I get a long day and I can keep plucking away at it till we...

...until we get to the bottom of this... this hole.

There's gonna be a massive payday here.

[Dustin] So right now, uh, James is digging right up next to that white rock.

Wes is calling it Moby as in Moby Dick.

I assume it's gonna be littered with just nuggets.

Nuggets everywhere.

Nuggets for days!

That's not good.

It looks like it's sitting on another granite boulder.

It is not connected to anything.

So you're saying it's a boulder?

[James] It's definitely a boulder.

You've got to be [bleep] kidding me, man.

Yeah.

Hopefully it's got gold underneath it because it's so massive.

[narrator] Moby's not bedrock,

but its size means a large plunge pool could still lie beneath

potentially chock full of huge nuggets.

[Dustin] Now it's a gamble.

There could be some gold under the rock.

Maybe, maybe not.

You can't tell.

[James] I want to keep going. I want to keep diving.

Hopefully we hit a plunge pool that's loaded.

[Dustin] But the thing is...

...how many days do we have left?

[narrator] As winter's icy grip closes in on Nugget Creek...

[recorded message] This is the weather report.

Heavy rain and snow

are expected to hit within the next 48 hours.

[bleep]

[narrator] Dustin and his crew have just two days to get the gold and get out.

[Dustin] We're in trouble right now.

We're about to get hammered with snow is what's about to happen.

This is the best chance I've got to hit the jackpot.

We're so close.

[thunder rumbling]

[Dustin] Today is the day where I, uh, I make it or break myself.

[narrator] A season-ending snowstorm inbound,

the crew has just one last dive day

to recover any gold and evacuate Nugget Creek.

[Carlos] Today could be the last day here.

So James needs to get as much gold as he can

in one day.

Let's get all that gold.

We don't have any time to waste.

Don't die. Don't get hurt.

How's it looking down there?

[James] It's a massive boulder.

I'd say it's about 5 foot.

Uh, four and a half.

Please have the nugs we're looking for.

[narrator] Seventeen feet down, James is face to face

with a four-ton boulder blocking his path to the bottom.

If he can blast and remove this behemoth,

he'll have a straight run to a plunge pool

that should hold millions in gold.

But getting to it is a race against Mother Nature's wrath.

[James] All right, give me that drill.

-Whatever. -[Dustin] Yeah. Got it.

[James] Thank you.

[drill whirring]

All right, pull, pull, pull.

Three, two, one.

[thudding]

-Yeah, that was a good one. -[laughs]

Let's see what you got, man.

[James] Oh, man, it destroyed it.

[Dustin] Awesome.

-It's really far down there. -[grunts]

Yeah, it's a little overwhelming. [chuckles]

Oh, it's deep.

-That's got to be close to the freaking bottom. -[laughing]

It's cold, man.

It is.

No, it's starting to snow.

Ah, I want to see if we can get some [bleep] gold.

Brrr.

-Going ok down there. -[James] It's a little chilly.

I don't know why it's cold.

[narrator] The water barely above freezing,

the dredge struggles to keep James's dive suit warm.

Fifteen minutes, he's gonna be at five hours.

How you feeling now, James?

[James] I'm just bleep] freezing, man.

-Freezing? -[James] Yeah.

It's so cold that I can't even think.

You're gonna freeze to death if you stay down there like that.

-[James] I'm not feeling good. -[Dustin] Damn it!

He's on the edge of hypothermia.

-Diver up. Diver up. Diver up. -[James groans]

[narrator] They have just minutes

to raise James's body temperature...

[James] That water is cold.

[narrator] ...before he goes into shock.

[James] That's [bleep] cold.

This is dangerous, dude.

Just get warmed up, man.

How you feeling?

A little disoriented.

This is Mother Nature telling us we're not supposed to be diving.

[Dustin] This place is too dangerous for us.

We can't keep a diver in the damn water.

Oh, man.

The gold is great, but not worth your life.

I'm gonna call in the season. That's it.

We're done with this.

[narrator] As a monster winter storm descends on Nugget Creek...

[Dustin] All right, we're gonna do our final weigh in.

[narrator] ...all they can do now is count their blessings...

...and get out of Dodge.

Oh, my gosh.

That's getting pretty heavy.

-Twenty three point nine. -[laughs]

But because the gold's so big,

it has a different price on it.

That's worth 70 grand just by itself.

I figure we got about $150,000 in gold.

-That's crazy. -Yeah, that's our best haul.

[narrator] The size and quality of the nuggets proves Dustin's claims

hold the kind of gold that most miners can only dream of...

How many of these things are up here?

[narrator] ...and makes this their best season ever.

So we didn't get rich, but we know it's here.

No, but it's enough to keep us funded to keep going.

-Yep. -Yeah, that's true.

All right. Let's get out of here.

This creek wants to kill us.

There's billions of ways to die here.

You have to really want this or else you won't do it.

But we've proved this place to be amazing.

And we'll be back next season.

We have to find gold.

[narrator] In the all-new...

[Dustin] I need to succeed at this.

I'm ready to risk it.

[narrator]...Gold Rush White Water...

-Flame on, brother! -[laughing]

-[narrator] ...following his best gold haul ever... -We know there's gold.

This year, we're in an area that nobody has messed with.

[narrator] ...Dustin Hurt and his crew of extreme gold miners...

Whoo! We're diving. Where's the gold?

[narrator] ...face their biggest challenge yet...

[Dustin] This year we're going to chase waterfalls.

Look at that, man.

-This is the year. -[laughs]

[narrator] ...in one of the most remote claims on earth.

Oh, [bleep]. We have no power. [bleep]

-Mayday. Mayday. Miners are in trouble. -Where?

I invited Danielle, my girlfriend,

-to come help us. -Hey, y'all.

[narrator] Relationships threatened.

-You gonna get over this or not? -Are you [bleep] serious?

-Nobody's keeping you here. -You're a world-class prick, dude.

You cross me, I will cut you loose.

[narrator] And lives put on the line.

This is absolutely crazy.

-Whoa! Get out of there! -[bleep]

-Look out. Look out. -[bleep]

Fire in the hole.

-Daddy. -So is it worth it?

[narrator] Risking it all...

Ow. That hurts like hell.

-[narrator] ...in the hunt for life-changing gold. -Oh!

-[all] Oh! -Nugget!

Hand goes to work, bro.

We had success!