All language subtitles for Gold Rush - White Water - S09E02 - Season-Ending Blow WEBDL-1080p.en

[Dustin laughing] It's moving.

Water's getting
whiter and whiter.

[James grunts]

[grunting]

[Dustin] [bleep] water's
coming up, son.

[Paul] Yeah,
it's coming up quick.

[Carlos] Looks like
Niagara Falls, dude.

[James grunts] [bleep]
I can't hold it.

[grunting]

All right, you're done.
Up and out.

[James groaning]

That was a hard dive.

[Dustin] Good job, James!

[Dustin] If we don't get
any gold in this hole,

we're gonna be
in real trouble.

[James] I wonder if there's
anything in the box.
Probably not, but...

Holy [bleep].

-[Paul] Hey...
-[Dustin] You got gold, buddy!

[man whooping]

-[James] No way!
-[bleep]

-[James] There's gold!
-Freaking nugget!

Oh, my God. Awesome.

Oh, my God.

If we keep following
the Wall down,

it's just gonna pile up
into big fistfuls and handfuls
of nuggets.

Just nuggets,
nuggets, nuggets!

[imperceptible cheering]

It's amazing.

-There's gold!
- Dustin] We know
there's gold here.

It's everywhere.
We just gotta dig it up.

-[Paul] Wow.
-That just gave me gold fever
up the ass.

It's back
to classic white water.

[Dustin] This water
is trying to stop us,

every piece of my equipment
is trying to stop us.

-[man] Holy [bleep].
-Am I this high?

[people shouting]

Kind of stuck between
irreparable damage to my hand
or miss out on a season.

It's an easy choice to me.

I'll give up
a finger for that.

[Carlos] I'm on
the bedrock wall, man,

and it's just
diving down, dude.

[Dustin] I like to hear that.

[James] Gold on my first dive.

We're gonna be coming out
with hundreds of thousands
of dollars, maybe millions.

[Paul] Let that dry out
a little bit.

Our umbilical
will be nice and clean.

[narrator] Nearly a month
into the gold diving season,

Dustin Hurt is MIA

and all work
has ground to a halt.

For him to take some time off

to go get his hand
checked out, man,
it must be pretty bad.

The question is, how long
will we be down a guy?

I don't know.

You know, is it
just for a couple of days?
Is it a week?

This kinda deal's gonna
mess up the whole season,
you know?

This is a dangerous job.
Any of us could get hurt
at any time.

[Dustin] It is beautiful
up here.

[narrator] In this
do or die season,

Dustin staked his future
on the most extreme
ground yet.

[Dustin] There are a bunch
of waterfalls all the way
up here

that could have piles
and piles of gold.

This has to be the year.

I mean another season
not hitting the jackpot?

I'm gonna have
to think seriously.

What do I do
with these claims?

[narrator] Out of money,
if Dustin can't uncover
Nugget Creek's proven riches,

he'll have to sell his claims
to pay his debts.

[Dustin] It's not melting
anytime soon.

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

[narrator] Desperate for gold,

waiting for 80 feet
of snow to melt,
that isn't an option.

So Dustin shifted focus
to prime ground down creek
to jump start his season.

I've been looking
at this spot, I think
it'll be less dangerous.

-We can call it "The Wall."
-All right.

-Whoo!
-[man laughing]

[Dustin] Hey, guys, I found
some gold over there.

There's gold,
we just gotta get
to the bottom of it, man.

[narrator] To double
their chances of finding gold,

Wes and Paul
made the deuce sluice

using parts
from three dredges.

Oh, [bleep] it floats.

It better live up to its name
because I got a lot
riding on this right now.

[grunts] God [bleep].

[narrator] But
before they could run it,

Dustin suffered an injury
that could cost him
his season.

[Dustin] One of my tendons
has slipped over
on one of my knuckles

and it hurts like hell.

[groans in pain] [bleep]

I've never, ever...
All these years
working with him,

ever seen him
wanna go to a doctor.

So that must be pretty bad.

Hopefully, the doctor gave him
a clean bill of health.

What we need to do
is get as much work done
as possible.

So when he comes back,
he'll be happy with what
we've got going for.

-[James] For sure, yeah, man.
We know what to do.
-[Carlos] Yeah, man.

-[James] All right,
let's go to it.
-All right.

The pain when I bend my finger
is so agonizing

that it feels like
I'm doing real damage.

[narrator] Thirty miles
from Nugget Creek,

Dustin's in desperate need
of medical attention.

[Dustin] At about
three o'clock in the morning,

I must have just
gripped into a fist

because I jumped up
and I almost ran out
of my little cabin

'cause I felt like
I was being attacked.

That's how much it hurt
from a deep sleep to me
on my feet,

trying to run out of my cabin
'cause I thought someone
was trying to kill me.

That's how bad
this thing hurts.

Hopefully, with any luck,
they're just gonna tell me
to rest it.

I'll patch it up
and we'll keep going.

[narrator] As claim owner,

if Dustin needs surgery,
he'll be forced to shut down
his entire operation

and end his
Nugget Creek dream.

[Carlos] Whoo,
look at that water.

[James] Yeah, it looks good.

[Carlos] That's a deep dive.

I have a good feeling
about today.
I can smell the gold.

[narrator] Back
at Nugget Creek,

it's the moment of truth
for the new double dredge.

[Carlos] Two divers
on that freaking deuce sluice,

that's gonna be
mountains of gold.

I wanna see gold
in two boxes at one time.

[Paul] Oh, [bleep].

-[bleep]
-[Carlos] Holy freaking moly.

That [bleep] dropped.

What a [bleep] nightmare.

[narrator] The
2,500-pound dredge

has dropped
dangerously close
to the water.

Another inch,
and the brutal current
would tear it apart.

[Paul] Looks like
our dredge sunk overnight.

Where it is right now,

if we had a massive rain
and we got flooded,
that dredge is gone.

[narrator] Two years ago...

-What the hell?
-Dude, the water is coming up.

[narrator] ...Catastrophic
floods wiped out their site
and their dredge.

The water took
everything today.

This is, uh, fubar.

[Paul] It's barely
off the water.

I don't know if the water
is up a little bit more
or what.

Or if the dredge
came down, huh?
But which of the two?

[Paul] We need to check
the skyline anchors.

[Carlos] I'll go take a look.

[James] I don't know.

[Carlos] You have to go
up there, dude. Let's see.

[James] Be careful, man.

[Carlos] Oh, [bleep]!

Yikes!

[James] Is [bleep].

[Carlos] Ugh [bleep].

-It's ugly, dude.
-[James] Is it all [bleep] up?

[Carlos] Yeah, it's ugly.

Every anchor,
it's been pulled out.

[James] Oh, [bleep],
that's not good.

[Carlos] Oh, my gosh.

Oh, dude, it's not good.

Those cracks are made
by every anchor
that's in there.

-It's ready to rip out.
-[James] Oh, [bleep].

This year, this skyline
is to keep that deuce sluice,

the biggest dredge
in the world,
up in the air, safe.

The only thing we can do
is just tie it back up.

Go really big,
three-quarter-inch bolts

-and all that, with anchors.
-[James] Yep.

[Carlos] And just hope
the rock stays together.

That's all we could do.

[narrator] The
550-foot skyline

was secured by a set
of primary anchor bolts.

But the weight
of the 2,500-pound dredge

has overloaded the rocks,
causing them to fracture.

Carlos and James' plan:

Find solid rock

and install another set
of four anchors
to act as a backup.

[James] I found a new spot.

I mean, holy smokes,
this is...

solid.

And it's gonna be
holding like this.

All four anchor bolts
straight at that line. Bam.

So I ended up
having to go to the doctor

to find out
what's wrong with me.

It's not good news.
I thought, "Man, I got another
broken finger, no big deal."

But then come to find out
I ruptured a tendon pulley.

I mean, I can back out
and go get surgery
and my hand would be great,

and my season
would be destroyed.
Absolutely annihilated.

So, I would have to give up
on basically gold mining
for the year,

if I go get my hand fixed.

The other choice
is to just keep going.

I'm kind of stuck between
irreparable damage
to my hand...

or miss out on a season.

It's an easy choice to me.

I'll give up
a finger for that.

-[Carlos] It's working.
-[James] Good job, man.

If the top anchor bolts
blow out,

these four will be the backup.

I feel better about that.
That looks good.

[narrator] Even with
the backups in place,

there's still a deadly threat
from above

if the primary
anchor bolts break loose.

If we break the skyline
with this thing,

then we can't pull boulders
and we still can't pull
the dredge up.

So, I mean, we're just gonna
shoot ourselves in the foot

if we keep putting this thing
to the max.

[Paul] I think we need
to figure out a plan B
or something.

I'd almost say it'd be safer
to pull the dredge up here
every day and tie it off.

-[Wes] I would, too.
-[James] We could build
a nice little ramp.

[Dustin] 'Sup, fellers?

[Paul] How's your hand?

I just wanted to let
y'all know what's happened.

I'm here. I'm back.

That looks bionic.

I made it myself.

[James] Is that what
the doctors want you to do,
is put a splint?

They want me
to go get surgery.

I'm not gonna do it.

It's a six-month recovery.

So I made the decision,
I'm gonna come out here
and work.

Just gonna be on light duty,
I won't be diving with you.

If there's a broken bone,
wrap it up,

by the end of the season,
you'll be diving again.

But this one's
a bigger injury

that just won't allow me
to dive this year at all,
and I'm sorry.

That just means one of us
is gonna have to dive
every day.

And maybe we can figure out
some kind of rotation.

[James] We did it before.
Two days on one day off.

[Dustin] Thank you, guys,
appreciate that.

Being that Dustin's got
a busted hand right now,
we've got to do a a rotation.

So everybody's gonna
dive two days in a row,

get a day off,
two days in a row.

I'm sure
it's gonna get tiring.
We just gotta pace ourselves.

-Welcome to the
human condition, man.
-Yeah, I know.

-You could check out
those anchors right quick.
-Yeah. Let's take a look.

You can see that
one anchor bolt
came completely out,

it's just hanging.

I don't think we can pick
that dredge up any more
with that system.

We're gonna lose it.

We've got our backup plan
for getting the dredge up
on land--

[Dustin] You'd
do that every day?

Until we can get that fixed,
we have no choice.

Here's the equation.

Time to fix this thing,
to go reset the anchors,

what are we gonna spend?
Two days?

[Paul] I'd probably say
a couple of days.

-At least two days, right?
-Yeah.

In three weeks,
we'll be done with this area.

My brain tells me,

"Just tighten that sucker up
and it's gonna keep crumbling

and just tighten
the hell out of it

until that whole mound
is gone."

That's not going to allow that
to slip over the edge.

That could only take
less than a day of work

opposed to a couple of days
to do it the right way.

That's going to be risky.
We can't afford
to lose the skyline.

My plan is to keep tightening
the damn skyline up.

Then the rock breaks,
tighten it up again.

Just keep tightening
the hell out of it. Break it.

[narrator] Dustin's radical
break-it-to-fix-it-plan:

Crank the skyline so tight

that the primary anchors
blow out the unstable rock

and transfer the load
to James' secure
backup anchor bolts,

allowing them to retention
and raise the dredge
clear of the water.

Just take your time, bro.

For real.
Just clicky, clicky, click.

Right now, intentionally,
we're gonna break some stuff.

We wanna see
the mountains come down.

I think that's it.

Copy that. Hey, should I
go check those other anchors?

Not a bad idea.
It feels like it might be
pulling pretty hard.

James tightened it up.
I'm talking about banjo tight.

I mean, you can't get
any tighter than this.

[Dustin] It's still holding.

We've got the cable so tight
that I'm gonna put something
heavy on it

and see what I could break.

[narrator] The primary
anchor bolts won't come out,

so Dustin resorts
to extreme measures.

[Dustin] All right, guys,
let's find us a rock.
I need a rock to pull on.

What about that one
you're standing on right now?
Would that move?

[Wes] Who cares if it moves?
Put an anchor in it, pull it.

-[Carlos] That's right.
-[Wes laughs]

You want to put
a little bolt in it?
Let's do it. [bleep] it.

[Carlos] Bingo.

Break it!

[anchor creaking]

That cable
is not even flexing.

[Wes] That cable
is [bleep] tight.

Whoo! We're putting
a pretty good pull
on it right now.

Cable's not really
even dipping.

We can't get
the rock to move yet.

[Dustin] I'm just gonna
wiggle it upstream
a little bit

and see if that'll grab it.

[narrator] The winches
generate 60,000 pounds
of pulling force.

If the skyline snaps,
it could slice a miner

like a hot knife
through butter.

Holy [bleep].

-[voice 1] Look out!
-[voice 2] Get out of the way!

That cable
is not even flexing.

[Wes] That cable
is [bleep] tight. Whoo!

-[voice 1] Look out!
-[voice 2] Get out of the way!

[James] It just blew out.
I just saw all the rocks
come down.

[Dustin] I saw that.

[narrator] At
the Wall dive site,

Dustin's attempting
to remove

the failing primary
anchor bolts on the skyline.

[Dustin] All right, Carlos.
What's the situation
up there, buddy?

[Carlos chuckles] Oh, my God.

[narrator] For
his plan to work,

he needs the cable
to stay firmly on the ridge.

[Carlos] It blew out
the face of it.

There's no anchors.
No anchors attached.

Nothing's gonna flip,
shift, and jump
except for the rocks.

[Carlos] It looks
that way, man.

Looks like
it's pretty solid right now.

It buried itself
into the dirt,

and the backups
look beautiful.

-Yes!
-[James] Oh, my God.

[Dustin] That's kind of
what I was hoping on
right there.

[narrator] The skyline
is now anchored
with James' rock-solid bolts

and resting on the ridge
strong enough and high enough

to lift the 2,500-pound dredge
clear of the raging creek.

It's not our original anchors,

but I don't see
any difference.

-No.
-Not if it's solid.

My plan actually worked out
to fix it by breaking it.

I know that sounds weird,
but it worked.

One single good day of diving
would set this all right.

It's got me a little bummed
'cause I don't have any gold
in my hand yet.

I'm ready. Let's do this!

Today, I want the dredge
running perfect.

Everything has to be
on track now.

I've busted my hand
and I'm sorry I'm letting you
all down with this,

but It is what it is,
we're gonna
have to keep going.

I've got no choices
in the matter here.

I'm counting
on the two-diver thing
to catch us up.

I think two-divers are gonna
make exponentially more--

[Dustin] I'm banking
on that, by the way.

It's going to. It's gonna make
all the difference.

All right.
Well, let's get out there.

I need something to work out.
We need a win here.

I expect to see gold
on day one.

We have to work
during the winter

as hard as we can
to fund our life.

Why do it
if it's not paying for itself
in a big way?

I need to know
if there's any gold
down there.

[sighs grimly]

Look how high the dredge is.

Yep, skyline's better
than it's ever been.
The best it's looked.

[bleep] yeah.

A couple
of hose clamps to go on,
put the foot valve on,

then we'll be ready
to fire this thing up.

[narrator] Paul and Wes
spent two weeks
building the deuce sluice.

The season rides
on its maiden voyage.

[Wes] This is a new dredge
built with a bunch
of old parts.

I mean, getting two divers
in at the same time

is something that we've never
really been able to do.

Hopefully it works
like I planned it.

Getting frustrated.

We need some damn gold
to show our labor.

I need this to start happening
because we're just working.

There's no money coming in,
but there's a lot of money
going out.

-You ready to give it a try?
-Yep.

[Wes] Are you [bleep] kidding?

Wait a minute.

Okay.

-She's running.
-Whoo!

Look at that.

-The water's great.
-I love it.

[Carlos] Two sluices running.
You wouldn't believe it.

Can you imagine,
at the end of the day,
shutting those babies off

and seeing both sluices
chalked of gold?

[James] All right.
I'm gonna go get ready.
I'll see you in a minute.

[Carlos] This
is a big moment, man.

[Paul] This should be
a fun dive today.

First dive of the year,
first time having two divers.

Now it's time to bear down,
get going, and just bust ass.

[Carlos] We need
to get to work, you know?

Lot of people back home
is counting on this, you know?

Just not the team,

man, there's people
back home that's counting
on this as well.

So, gotta do it.
Daddy gotta do it.

[Dustin] Carlos and Paul
are about to get in the water,
they're getting geared up.

It's go time.

You remember how to do this?

-[Carlos] You got me?
-[James] Yeah, we got you.

-[Dustin] How's your air?
-[Carlos] Air is good, dude.

All right, man, I think
we're ready to rock and roll.

There he goes.

[Dustin] All right.
Moment of truth.

[Carlos] All right, guys,
let's make a living.

[Dustin] Diver in the water.

-[Dustin] All right?
-[Paul] Oh, yeah,
good, warm water.

[Dustin] Two divers in.

Well, here it is. Two divers.

Two. Two divers.

-Two divers.
-Yeah, finally.

[Dustin] We have
two divers, everyone.

[Carlos] Whoo, two divers!

The race is on.
Who can dig the fastest?

[narrator] After
nearly a month of work,

the hite Water
gold diving season
has officially begun.

And with two divers
in the water,

they have
doubled their chances
of a massive payday.

[Carlos] I'm
on river's left, man.

-[Paul] I'm on river right.
-[Carlos] All right, man.

It's the first time
I've ever seen a deuce sluice.

One machine
that runs two divers.

Hopefully this pays off.

Finally, we are in the water.

Now let's see
what they can do.

[Wes] This deuce sluice,
I think, is gonna
do the trick.

We can get two guys
in the water, you know,

and get twice
the dredging done in one day
than we normally do.

That means at least twice
as much gold this year.

[Dustin] Hey, fellas,
how's it looking down there?

[Carlos] Going good, man.

[Paul] Got a good hole going.

He's already
digging pretty good.
We'll see what he's got.

[narrator] Dustin's convinced
the Wall dive site
is the perfect nugget trap.

When the gold
travels down creek,

it hits the vertical rock face
and drops to the deepest
point.

If they can dig deep enough,
they should find a bedrock
bonanza.

The water's
pretty fast right here.

It's only coming up.
It's raining upstream
right now.

[Carlos] Did
the water turn dirty?

[Paul] Yeah,
it got dirty, didn't it?

[Carlos] Holy crap,
this water got hot.

-Look out!
-Get out of the water!

[Carlos] Holy crap,
this water got hot.

-Look out!
-Get out of the water!

-Just in time!
-Yep.

Did I call that or what?

Son of a gun, dude!

[narrator] At Nugget Creek,
after just two hours,

the deuce sluice's debut run
hits a wall.

The foot valve
is completely jammed
with stick right now,

so give me one minute.

At least the boil-over valves
are working.

It blows out
when it gets too hot.
That's how they were designed.

[narrator] Debris washed
in from up creek

clogged the filter basket
on the water intakes,
restricting the flow.

Superheats
the hot water supply
into deadly steam.

Fortunately,
the boil-over valves
opened and released the steam

before it could
get to the divers.

[James] Oh, there it goes.
Okay, that's good.

-[Dustin] Carlos,
you good to go?
-[Carlos] I'm good to go.

[Dustin] Hey, James,
can you tell me how hot
this water is?

[James] It's warm.

[Dustin] Paul, how you doing?

[Paul] Right now,
it all feels good.

Ugh, about time
we're back in the water.

We need to get down
to the gold.

The gold gods
are teasing us right now.

[narrator] To keep
his Nugget Creek dream alive
past this season,

Dustin needs
the deuce sluice
to work as promised.

[Carlos] I'm on
the bedrock wall, man,

and it's just
diving down, dude.

-[Dustin] Is it going
straight down?
-[Carlos] Yep.

It's getting down,
it's getting deep.

[Dustin] Yeah?

[Carlos] It's probably
like 3 feet, 4 feet.

[Dustin] I like to hear that.

So it looks like
the deuce sluice

is gonna turn out
to be a pretty good dredge.

It's been a lot of work,
but we're gonna get caught up
to where we should be

and surpass
where we need to be.

So this year is gonna
turn out to be good.

All right, guys, you're almost
on four hours right now.

[James] What was that?

[Dustin] It turned milky.

Yo, hey,
if this goes chocolate milk,
I'm gonna stop you.

I don't want
your machines to stop off.

If the foot valve stops up,
the water stops up.

The water stops up,
you steam up.

[Carlos] Gotcha. Copy that.

[narrator] The sharp
right angle at the Wall
dive site

makes it
an excellent nugget trap.

But when it rains
in the mountains above,

it's slammed by the full force
of the raging creek.

[Dustin] You guys
doing all right?

[Carlos] No!

I don't think
this is gonna pass.

[grunts] Did this
turn up or what?

[Dustin] Yeah,
it turned up a lot.

All right, guys,
we have to call it.

I'ma call it. I'm calling it.

Let's do diver up.
Do diver up.

We're about to get so much
debris in this machine

that it's gonna mess
with the hot water.

I can't take
that chance right now.

[Carlos] That's dirty, dude.

Damn it!

[Carlos] Holy crap, dude.
White water sucks.
I couldn't see anything.

-[Dustin] Anything?
-[Wes] No, nothing but pyrite.

That's disappointing.

[Dustin] We got a lot
to discuss about today.

[Paul] We got a few bugs
we gotta work out.

[Dustin] Yeah,
it's our first day.

[Paul] But we still got
some material moved.

-I like it.
-Yeah, we got some holes dug.

Nice diving, man.

I didn't dig through others,
but yeah, man, there was
a bunch of pyrite in the box.

But at least
you have pyrites there,

then there's gonna be
gold around it.

It was a successful day in
that we got both divers down.

There's a few things,
the foot valves keep getting
stuffed with with sticks.

As soon as you're having
a problem with water,
check your foot valve

because that's probably
what it is.

-Right?
-[Wes] Yep.

All right. We'll do better.
Somehow we always do.

It sucks
that I can't do my job,
I can't dive again.

So are you okay
to go back in tomorrow?

Yeah, sure,
I can go back to it tomorrow.

We'll do better tomorrow.

Good job today, though.

Today was frustrating.
White water, man.

White water won't give you
an inch of mercy, man.

It does not care
if you're miserable.

I'm not gonna
sleep very well tonight.

I'm gonna be on my inner
chalkboard in my brain,

trying to figure out
how to fix all these issues.

[Carlos] Let's do this.

[James] Check it out. Look at
all the rocks coming down.
Holy crap.

It's moving today.

[Carlos] That's
some harsh water.

[narrator] At
the Wall dive site,

a disappointing maiden voyage
for the deuce sluice

piles on the pressure
for Dustin's make-or-break
season.

[Dustin] All right,
James and Carlos,
you're going in today.

Everybody be safe today,
all right?

With the water
being up this high
right off the bat,

-what's it gonna be
this afternoon?
-It's gonna be awful.

All right. Let's go get
the dredge in the water.

We'll dive as long as we can.
We need to see
some gold, though.

[narrator] On the last dive,

Carlos discovered
the bedrock wall
dropped straight down

into what could be
a deep nugget catch.

I've been waiting to dredge
against the wall.

I wanna follow it down,
I wanna get gold.

With waters up,
it's gonna be hard water
to sustain.

I'm putting a lot
of weight on today

because it's back
to classic White Water.

[chuckles] Now I'm starting
to get excited.

We got the dredge
in the water real easy.

It's like we're getting better
at this or something.

There she goes.

Here we go.

All right, go.
That's it.

Hold on now, a little bit.

-Hold on.
-It's gonna work.

-Hold on, hold on.
-It's gonna work.

-We got a big old
air bubble in here, still.
-That's all right.

Yep. Okay.

[yells in pain] Oh, [bleep].

Holy [bleep].

-What the [bleep] was that?
-You all right?

It blew the foot valve off.

[bleep] grab the foot valve?

That's long gone.

The whole problem
is this [bleep] water.

We need it dammed off
like when we used to

so we can actually
dredge in this [bleep].

[narrator] The raging
white water

has ripped one of the dredge's
intake valves clean off.

It just snapped that
like it was nothing.

Wow.

[narrator] Without
a replacement
foot valve on site,

the deuce sluice can only
operate with one diver.

Starting to lose
my cool, Carlos.

Already sick of this [bleep].

[Dustin] I wish I'd have
never let this happen...

Double dredge [bleep].

I mean, that dredge
is starting to part ways
right now.

[Dustin] I hate that dredge.

The stress levels are reaching
a dangerous level
for everyone else here.

Just need a [bleep] break.

Stop wasting my [bleep] money.

This is turning
into a waste of cash

if we just keep messing
with little parts.

It's not even
big-picture stuff,
it's like a foot valve.

We've all worked
too hard for this not to work.

I need a successful season,
which I haven't really
had yet.

We had some big nuggets,
but we haven't had any
real success.

Today, I need this.

All I'm asking
is find some gold.

Is that so hard to ask?

It's sitting here.
Are we just too incompetent
to get it out of the ground?

It's right there.

We've got one half rocking.

[Paul] One of those
could be enough
to heat a diver.

[Wes] It's gonna be
a one-diver day today.

So you want me to dive?

-You sure?
-[James] I'll do it.

-Why don't you get
dressed up, man?
-[James] Yep.

[Dustin] Get a suit. Suit up.

[narrator] Their chances
of finding gold cut in half,

Dustin's faith
in the new dredge
is fading fast.

[exhales]

We need a high.
I'm tired of lows.

I sure hope this all pays off
after all the chaos.

[Carlos] This is not a hobby.

Gold is not just some
shiny thing

you just put around
your freaking neck
and put it in your teeth, man.

It's what put food
on the table.

If we come up zero today,
you know what that means?

You're falling
behind your bills, bro.

Then you start wondering,
"What the heck am I
doing here, man?

I put all this freaking work
and effort into all this.

And what are you
getting out of it?"
You know?

-[Dustin] Can you hear me?
-Yes, sir.

I need a good,
solid day of dredging
after all this nonsense.

Let's get it right.

-All right.
-Let's find some
gold down there.

[James] I'd love to, man.

[Paul] Good luck, James!

-[James] Yeah.
-[Wes] Have a great dive!

That's definitely
white water, fellers.

[narrator] James Mission:

Follow the bedrock wall,

dredging out material
to get down
to its deepest point.

[James] I'm diggin'.

[sighs] I'm diggin'.

-We're diving.
-[Paul] We are diving.

It kind of comes down

and then it goes back in,
it comes down,
it goes back in.

So the wall is doing this.

[Dustin] I love hearing that.

[Paul] What's the material
looking like?

[James] It's all dirt so far.

Material's starting to get
a little tougher as I go,

but I'm digging quick.

[Paul] Be careful,
that water's shoving you back.

[grunts] I got rocks
coming at me right now.

[grunts]

I mean, big rocks
coming at me.

What starts to happen
is these rocks start rolling.

It's a hell of a fight.

It's almost filling in
as fast as he's digging it.

[narrator] For
the next two hours...

[Dustin] The water
is getting whiter and whiter.

[Dustin] The water's
coming up, son.

[Paul] Yeah,
it's coming up quick.

[narrator] ...James fights
the fierce current...

[James grunts]

[narrator] ...as he
dredges down
towards bedrock gold.

[James grunting loudly]

It's moving.

You got about
a 4-foot-ish hole right now.

I'm trying to find out
which way the bedrock's going,

what's the material look like,
stuff like that.

Pretty important dive.

It's tough diving today,
you guys.

[grunting]

[grunting]

[Dustin] We got you.

[bleep]

[James grunting]

[Dustin] Pull him up!

[bleep] I can't hold it.

This one spot in the wall,
it's freaking, really scary.

I mean,
this is nature's booby trap,

and it can go
at any freaking time.

You gotta remember,
right here where
we're diving at,

that's the focal point
of all that water coming down
hard as hell.

That's it. We're in
the freaking danger zone.

[James grunting]

It's tough diving today,
you guys.

[Paul] And you're moving
some material, that's good.
Love it.

[narrator] On his first dive
of the season,

James is struggling
against the raging
white water.

[James grunting]

[grunts]

[grunts loudly]

-We got you.
-[grunts]

[grunting] I can't hold it.

As soon as I get the current,
it turns me away.

[Dustin] All right,
you're done.

Up and out.

[Dustin] [bleep] water's
coming back up again.

I don't feel comfortable
leaving him in there.

[James] That was a hard dive.

-Not gonna lie.
-[Dustin] Good job, James!

[groans]

Just need a break.

I just need you to calm down
for a day or two.

Is it so much to ask
to just chill out
for a day, water?

[James] I wonder if there's
anything in the box.
Probably not.

[Paul] There is so much
material in here.

A lot of [bleep] pyrite.

Holy [bleep].

-Hey.
-[Carlos] No way.

No [bleep] way!

[Dustin] You got gold, buddy!

-Yeah! No way!
-It's not even that small!

-[Wes] That's not even
small, man. Oh, my God.
-[James] Look at that.

Holy [bleep].

-[Dustin] That's gold!
-Freaking nugget!

[James] Oh, my God. Awesome.

-[Paul] Wow.
-That just gave me
gold fever up the ass.

[Wes] That is [bleep]
spectacular dude.

There's gold down there,
so thank you for proving that

because now we know
we're in the right spot.

Good job, man.

[Wes] This is what we needed
because we started
getting down a little bit

with all the issues we've had.

I mean,
the deuce sluice is badass,

but getting it here,
getting it set up,

getting in the water
to start dredging,

it doesn't get
any better than that.

Gold on my first dive.

Gold on my first dive, dude.

Right here at the wall proves
that if we keep following
the wall down,

it's just gonna pile up
into big fistfuls and handfuls
of nuggets.

Just nuggets,
nuggets, nuggets.

This is what we're here for.

That's not
a small piece of gold,

that is a large piece
of gold right there.

All the work
that we put into this,
that makes it all worthwhile.

It's a golden day.

Good job, James.

You're gonna be
tired tonight, buddy.

Oh, man. That was
one of the hardest dives
I've done in a while.

This year, we're gonna
get more gold than we've got
from last season.

-Oh, yeah.
-That's what I think.

This is gonna be the most gold
we've ever seen in our life.

But good job, everybody.
Just keep trudging, all right?

[Wes] This is the start
to our season, boys.

Right here, today,
is the start to our season.

[Carlos] Yeah, man. Oh, yeah.

-[Wes] Awesome, James.
Way to go, man.
-[Paul] [bleep] yeah.

[James] We're gonna be
coming out with jars
full of nuggets.

Just handfuls.

Hundreds of thousands
of dollars.

Maybe millions by the time
we clean all this out.

Whoo, what a dangerous job,

but I love it.

We dredged, we found gold.
That's amazing.

We did what we came to do,
it's a great start.

We know there's gold here.
It's everywhere.

We just gotta dig it up.

[narrator] On the next
Gold Rush: White Water...

Let's get ready to dive!

I'm standing on a hard path,
and bedrock's somewhere
underneath, getting close.

We're rocking now, dude.

[Carlos] This whole area
is freaking good, dude.

It's loaded, bro.

Whoo!

We're gonna have
tons and tons of gold.

-You ready?
-Hell, yeah.

[engine stops]

Gosh dang it.
We have no power.

It's spitting
and sputtering, backfiring.

Mayday! Mayday!

-[Wes] Whoa!
-Wes!

[Wes] Oh, [bleep].