All language subtitles for Gold.Rush.White.Water.S06E14.WEBRip.x264-ION10

[James Hamm]
Four days into the season,
we're running out of time.

We're onto the gold,
couldn't be happier right now.

It's up in that cave area.

That's where all
the big gold's at.

But it's very, very dangerous.

I need to stay away from
that big-ass boulder there.

It's halfway undermined,

and if I start getting greedy
and poking around over there,

that thing comes
crashing down,
smash me, uh...

That's not the way
I wanna go out.

I don't wanna...
I don't wanna die
in Nugget Creek.

Just don't go
too [bleep] far, man.

[Carlos Minor]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dustin Hurt]
If this comes down,
it's gonna fall right in here.

Boom!

Not trying to get
inside your head,

I'm just giving you,
trying to keep you prepared.

You get it?
I say move, you move.

You hear me?
If somebody's pulling you,

you move without
any hesitation at all.

At all.

- [Dustin]
Here she comes. Check.
- [James] Yep.

[Dustin] Check gear.

[James on radio] All right.

- [Dustin] Ready to go?
- [James] All right.

[James] Let's go
find some gold.

[dramatic music playing]

[Fred Hurt] They're dredging
right into that area,

where a 100-ton rock can just
flip off on top of us.

You gotta climb in the mouth
of a dragon to get gold.

- [rumbling]
- [Paul Richardson]
The [bleep] was that?

We don't know if it's gonna
hit flood stage,

but it's very possible
that it could.

[Fred laughing] Whoo!

- Doing things
an old man don't do.
- [laughs]

- [Dustin] Can't believe
how brave you are, man.
- [laughs]

[Dustin] On the point
of death like that.

Think I see a piece already.
There's chunkies in there.

[Carlos cheering] There it is!

[laughs]

We're getting down
to the bottom of this thing.

It's finally our time.

[Carlos] Ooh, yeah!

Dan's getting some
[bleep] gold right there.

Every time that box
turn dirty, cha-ching! Gold.

[narrator]
Deep in the southeast
Alaskan wilderness,

Dustin Hurt and his crew
are on the gold.

But time is not on their side.

[Dustin] The jackets
are getting bigger out here.

This snow is creeping
down the mountain

right now as we speak.

But, we're finding gold.

The bottom of this,

I have no doubt
that it's gonna be

absolutely amazing.

[James] Those some
pretty rusted rocks.

Everything that we've heard
when you get into this
red hardpack,

you start getting gold
when you get under it
on the bedrock

in the deep areas
where there's anomalies
and stuff,

you get large nuggets.

That's just the money pot,
right here.

But what's holding us back?

Big-ass boulder.

You gotta climb

in the mouth of a dragon
to get gold.

We're getting into
a scary area.

They were warned, though.

[narrator] Five weeks ago,
a major storm ripped
through Nugget Creek,

threatening to end
Dustin's season.

This place is destroyed.

Everything we have
is underwater right now.

[narrator]
But in a stroke of luck...

[James] Hey, Dustin,
come look at this.

[narrator] ...the storm surge
uncovered an anomaly...

- [Carlos] Has anybody been
underneath that rock?
- [Dustin] I doubt it.

There's gonna be some
huge risk involved.

[narrator] ...that could lead
to a massive deposit of gold.

- [Dustin] I'm seeing
gold, guys!
- [Carlos] Yeah!

- [Dustin] Whoo-hoo!
- [Carlos] Oh, my [bleep]!

[bleep] right, hell yeah!

[narrator] But their
good fortune comes
with a 50-ton risk.

If you look at it,
it's completely undermined.

There's nothing
left to it, so.

James, you gotta try
to stay back here.

I don't think it's gonna
fall on him back there.

I don't think, anyway.

[James] The hardpack
is like cement.

We're gonna need
a pressure washer,

something with really
good pressure.

[Wes Richardson]
Got you, got you.

Um, just trying to rig up
a spray hose

with just this water jet
that's coming off the pump.

We don't have a high-pressure
sprayer here right now,

but we do have this
and it'll jet.

I think it'll work.

It takes this gravel out
like nothing.

[James] Thank you.

[narrator] Using the pump
from the dredge,

Wes has created
a high-pressure gold blaster.

James will attempt
to punch through the hardpack

to get to the gold layer.

But if he goes too far,

he will bring
50 tons of boulder

down on top of him.

[James laughs]

This is awesome.

[Dustin] Just gonna
be tearing it up today.

He'll be digging a bunch.

He's looking
for nuggets right now.
I know what he's doing.

If there's any gold in there,
he's gonna pull it all out,
I promise.

[Wes] Ooh!

[Carlos] Holy [bleep],
they're wet!

That [bleep] rock!

- [Wes] I knew it was haunted.
- [Dustin laughing]

[Dustin] That boulder moved.

It just did that.
See it up there?

[Carlos] Holy [bleep], dude.

Holy [bleep]!

[narrator] Blasting his way
towards the gold layer,

James has undermined
the massive boulder,

causing it to shift.

[Dustin] Hey, watch yourself.
Get the [bleep] out
of the hole.

I thought it was,
I thought the rock
was gonna come down.

If that rock comes down,
we're dead.

[James] Holy crap, dude.

[Dustin] We're so far
underneath that rock that

if something
happens, it slips,

I'll never forgive myself
for letting anybody get hurt.

So we're gonna have
to figure this out.

[narrator] Until Dustin
and his crew

secure the 50-ton mammoth,

all dredging is off.

Just 600 feet up creek...

[Kayla Johanson]
Look how nice that water is.

[Paul] I know.

[narrator]
...Kayla and her crew
have managed to tame

the raging whitewater.

But with winter
just weeks away,

they are desperate to get
their hands on Nugget Creek's
legendary gold.

[Kayla] On my last dive
I found some
pretty good pickers,

so hopefully we'll find
more gold today.

Should have some
good visibility,

the water's really low
and it's actually
pretty clear.

That diversion wall,
working really well.

[narrator] Two weeks ago...

[Kayla] I am tired of your
[bleep] attitude.

How about you [bleep]
go back to camp?

[Scott Allen yelling]
What the hell?

[narrator] Scott Allen quit
with less than a month left.

But the three-man crew
pushed on

and built a diversion wall
to protect them

from the raging torrent...

What that's gonna do
is help it be a lot easier
for the divers, so they're not

fighting that current
the whole time.

[narrator] ...which led
to the discovery
of a gold-rich red layer.

We got gold. Finally!

The water current
is nice and low

after we did that
diversion wall, so...

...Justin's gonna have
a really good dive today.

[Justin Peterson]
Feeling really good
about today's dive.

This is the first dive
I'll get to do

with the diversion wall
and the calm water.

I think I'll be able to move
a lot of material today.

All it is, is put in the time.

[Paul] You about ready?

All right, how's that feel?

[Justin] Feels good.

[Paul] Think you're
good to go.

Good luck. Find some gold.

[Kayla on radio]
No gold, no dinner.

[Justin] Okay-doke.

- [Justin] Good thing I have
reserves attached.
- [Paul laughs]

[Justin] Wow.

This hole is awesome, guys,
you've done amazing.

I mean, it's great.

May I please have
that yellow pry bar?

[narrator]
Justin is seven feet down

powering through
a gold-rich red layer.

Without a gold blaster,

he'll have to use brute force

to break his way through
to bedrock gold.

[Justin] Oh, thank you.

[Paul] All right.
Ready for this beast?

This late in the season,
we gotta do everything we can

to get to bedrock.

[Justin] Bingo. We can
get to dredging.

[gravel crackling]

[Paul] He's into something
good right now.
I mean, look at that.

Right now, he's probably
got the best visibility
we've ever had.

Now, if he can stay focused
and just keep
moving materials,

we'll get a lot of stuff done.

I don't know how much time
we have left.

It would be nice to know
that we got enough
bedrock cleared off

that, uh, we'll have
a decent season.

[loud rumbling]

[Paul] The [bleep] was that?

Hey, did you just
hear that rumble?

That almost
sounded like a jet,
but it wasn't a jet.

It was a real quick rumble.

Almost like thunder.

Something let loose upstream.

We got some chocolate water
coming down.

[narrator] After weeks
of the worst rain

Alaska has seen in 30 years,

the 500-foot cliffs
are saturated with water

and are collapsing.

[Kayla on radio]
Something broke free upstream,

so you're about to have
some brown water.

[Justin groaning] Aw.

Man.

That's some brown water.
Dang it.

[bleep]. [laughs]

This visibility sucks now.

Had a big one
fall in the hole.

Hey, swamp-cud chucker.

All right, let's play
Where's Waldo. [sighs]

[bleep]. [laughs]

Ugh. It's proving
to be a little troublesome.

Yeah, it's hard when you can't
see what you're doing.

[Justin groaning] Yeah.

All right, hopefully it
doesn't slip.

It did.

I had it in a good groove.

All right, let's give this
another go.

Oh, ugh.

But if I had
gotten to it earlier,

I could've actually seen it

and this would've been
not so difficult.

[Paul] I give you five minutes
underwater and you'll have
that rock slinging out.

[Kayla] That's definitely
not his strong point.

[Justin groaning]
Try this again.

[bleep] dang it.

[Kayla] We do not
have time for this.

He needs to pick up
the pace just a little bit.

Winter's definitely
moving in on us,

we've already seen
termination dust on the peaks.

There's snow up high,
it's only a matter of time

before it hits us down here
at the lower levels.

So we are definitely
running out of time.

[Dustin] Right now it looks
like a rat trap, doesn't it?

So, my idea is to go up
with two cables,

goes up the two pipes.

It might be enough
to slow her down enough
to not crush us.

We got three options,
one of them is to just
chance it.

Doesn't seem like
the right thing to do.

Second thing is,
we can crack that rock,

but it'll set us back another
two weeks that we don't have.

Or we could tie it off
in a day

work under it,
and hope that tie-off works.

So we're gonna tie it off.

It's basically
a time crunch right now.

I mean, what's the worst
that can happen?

[narrator] Dustin's quick fix
to secure the 50-ton boulder?

Drill anchor bolts
and use steel-braided cable,

attach to the rock wall
and big boulders upstream.

At over 100,000 pounds,

the anchors may not stop
the boulders from falling,

but could give the diver
enough time to escape.

This is the strongest
point right here.

It's gonna go here
to right there.

[Wes] If I'm guessing,
this boulder's probably
been here for

no telling how many
thousands of years.

That tells me nobody's
been underneath it.

Once we get this
big boulder secured,

it's gonna be absolutely
chock full of gold.

We're making it happen,
so, soon,

really soon, we're gonna start
finding some good gold here.

That's tight, man.
That's tight
as you need to go.

We got a cable that's helping
to hold up

the giant boulder
that could possibly
fall on us,

but we need to do more.

Carlos, can I, uh,
get you to tie this off
back here over to this wall

and over the top
and into the face?

[Carlos] Yup.

[Dustin] Hey, if it looks like
it's gonna start moving
or something,

[bleep] stop.

[Carlos] Got you, I got you.
I hear you.

[Dustin] Be careful you don't
hit that thing too much,

'cause, you know,
it has moved.

[laughing] I know! I know.

[Dustin] The only thing
I believe holding this
entire rock up right now

is that jammed piece
of granite right there.

You hit that with a hammer,
and it might come
straight down, right down.

[Carlos] Heavenly Father,
please protect us,
please keep us safe.

Heavenly Father,
please protect us,
please keep us safe.

I'm getting every prayer
up in there.

[narrator] At Nugget Creek,
all diving is off

while Dustin and his crew
secure the 50-ton boulder

looming over their dive site.

[Dustin] Crazy how
brave you are, man.

- [Dustin] Yeah.
- [laughs]

[Dustin] On the point of death
like that, like, geez, man.

This should be enough.

You wanna hook it down there
and tighten it up top?

[Carlos] Yeah.

[Dustin exclaiming]

Do not want
to be standing right here

when this thing
starts to move.

Biggest rat trap on Earth.

This is the part where

the Coyote finally
gets the Roadrunner.

- [Carlos] All right, ready?
- [Dustin] Yeah, go ahead.

[Carlos] I'll take it.

[Dustin] Got it.

Well, I won't say
this is safe,

but it is definitely safer
than it was a minute ago.

Ah, I can live with that.

[Dustin] You good to go?

[James] I'll get to work.

Oh, yeah.

[Carlos] Look for the dirty
box of gold.

Right there, look.
There it goes, gold.

Couple of nuggets in there.

[James] I got a lot
of basket rocks in here.

[Wes] We're getting further
up underneath this
big-ass boulder.

I'm predicting pretty soon
here in the future,

we're gonna get into
some of those large nuggets.

[Carlos] Whoo!
Lot of red rocks, dude!

Lot of red rocks.

More red rocks coming out,
that means more gold.

[James] Yeah!

[narrator] James puts in
another two hours
in the kill zone,

and is now running on fumes.

- [Dustin] And he is just
cooked out, he is...
- [Carlos] Yeah.

- He's so motivated to get gold
he's dying, look at him.
- [Carlos] Yeah, I know.

[Dustin] Hey, let's pull
him up, man.

He's too far.

[Carlos] Hey, dude.
You know what, man?

Let's call it a day
right now, dude.
Let's call it a day.

- Diver up!
- Diver up.
Let's call it a day.

[Carlos] Let's get
all your tools out
and all that good stuff.

Good dive, bro, good dive.

- [Dustin]
He's exhausted, dude.
- [Carlos laughs]

[Carlos] Good dive, James.

All right, go check out
that box, man.

[sighs]

Crossing my fingers.

- [all cheering]
- [James] Holy [bleep]!

- [Carlos cheering]
- [James] [bleeping]

Good job, man!

[James] Holy crap, dude!

- Yeah!
- Whoo-hoo!

Every dive,
box is full of gold.
Every dive.

Cha-ching, bro!

That's a great day. [laughs]

[Carlos] There's a pocket
there we haven't
gotten yet, dude.

- A pocket.
- Oh, man.

Just wait till we get
to the bottom and get
those big nuggets.

It's only gonna
get way better.

[Carlos] This is just
the beginning, man.

Three dives in!

Hell yeah, man. Good job.

- You got it, brother!
- Yeah!

Once we get all the way
up underneath this
big-ass boulder,

get to the bedrock,
I got a feeling it's gonna
be a huge payday.

We've been striking out
for years and years.

We're just getting to a place
where we're getting gold
every day.

It's finally our time.

We're gonna get down
to the bottom of this thing.

I hope that there's
a huge payoff,

because it's time.

[Kayla on radio]
Still working on that boulder?

[Justin] Yeah.

[narrator] At Kayla's
dive site,

Justin is four hours
into his dive

and still struggling
to remove a boulder

standing between him
and bedrock.

[Justin] So slick.

It is a race against time,
we know we got some weather
coming in,

so the more Justin
can get cleaned off,
the better it will be.

[Justin] All right.
Hopefully it doesn't slip.

Perfect.

- [Kayla] That's a big rock.
- [Paul] Yeah, it is. [bleep].

[Justin] Now I can
follow the bedrock.

Oh, yeah.
We're getting it, guys.

[Paul] Now if he can just
stay focused and keep
moving material,

we'll get a lot of stuff done.

Hopefully he'll get to see
some gold laying
on the bedrock.

Oh, look at the clouds.
The clouds are moving in.

We're not gonna be able
to see the top of the hills
here in a minute.

- [Paul] Oh, [bleep].
- [Kayla laughs]

[Kayla] Those clouds
are dropping.

We're gonna be in the clouds
here in a second.

Water was getting deep
on the other side.

[Paul] Damn. We started
washing all that gravel

- [Kayla] Yeah.
- [Paul] That thing
won't do it,

it's got a channel over there.

- [Kayla] It's definitely
picked up.
- [Paul] Yeah, it has.

[Paul] What's scary is if that
diversion wall

goes right there,
it's gonna wanna fill
the hole back in.

With this rain
that's coming in,
the water's already picked up.

We don't know if it's gonna
hit flood stage,

but it's very possible
that it could.

Hey, Justin, are you
at a good spot
that you can stop?

[Justin] Yeah.

- [Justin] But I wasn't going
to until you asked.
- We're gonna call it.

[Justin] Oh. [inhales]

[Paul] All right.

Let me get back.

[Justin] It's all right.

[Paul] How deep does it go?

[Justin] I would say
that I'm about...

...eight foot deep
right where the ripples
of the water...

- [laughs]
- Wow.

- ...come in this way.
- Yeah.

You had some really,
really dark material

- coming out of that box.
- [Justin] Guess so.

[Paul] Sound like you need
to go check the box.

[narrator] It's taken
Justin six hours,

but he's managed
to carve a chunk out
of the red rust layer.

[Kayla] I can't see anything.

Hang on. A little piece.

[Paul] Pretty good
sized piece.

[Justin] That one
right there, too?

- [Kayla] At least
it's a start.
- [Justin] Yup.

[Kayla] Hopefully it starts
getting better. This...

...is fun to see,

but we need a lot more gold
this late in the season

and if it doesn't
start picking up,

I don't see this creek
being worth mining again
next year

if we don't get better gold.

- We're gonna find that pocket.
- We're gonna find it.

- Takes a little while,
but we're gonna find it.
- [Paul] That's true.

[Kayla] Hopefully tomorrow
we'll get some more.

- Lots more.
- [Paul] Lots, lots more.

Lots more.

- [Paul] Uh, go get
changed, man.
- [Justin] All right.

[Justin] Don't get me wrong,
I always love to see gold.

But "nice to see gold"
and "needing more gold"
are different stories.

I wanna just get more gold.

[exhaling] Whoo.

[Kayla] Today went
a lot slower than
I would've liked it to go.

Justin had
a pretty rough dive.

We don't have very long
left in the season,

so we have to hit it hard.

If we don't find
something better,

this season's gonna be a wash.

[narrator] Up ahead...

[Fred] Whoo! [laughs]

I'm fresh back here,
all full of piss and vinegar.

[Carlos] Hey, Fred,
how's things going?

[Fred] Gotta be some
gold in there.

[Carlos cheering]

That's gold.

[Dustin] Just beat.

I feel like physical mobility
is leaving me right now.

Oh, man, just walking up
those stairs just now,

like, what is wrong with me?

[narrator] At Nugget Creek,

after four months
of backbreaking work,

Dustin and his crew
are running on fumes.

[Dustin] My guys
are falling around. [laughs]

We're exhausted.

There's only a certain limit
to physical abilities.

We're not rock stars.

We need help, so a friend's
coming up to camp.

I gave him a call.

It would be nice to have
an extra set of hands up here.

[narrator] In an act
of pure desperation,

Dustin has called in
the only person
with the right experience

to keep his crew alive
and finish the job.

So, we got Fred
coming in today.

Dustin's gonna pick him up.
Us three, we got this thing
taken care of.

As long as that big-ass
boulder stays where
it's supposed to stay,

and I stay where
I'm supposed to stay,
then we'll be frank about it.

[Wes] So, we keep working
closer to this boulder.

We're trying
to take precautions,

because that's a death boulder
right there.

[Carlos] Let's get some gold.
Let's get some red.

Sinking like crazy.

[Fred] I'm fresh back here
in southern Alaska,

all full of piss and vinegar.

[narrator]
After a two-month absence,

79-year-old mining veteran
Fred Hurt

has dropped everything
to help his son
get to the gold.

I just got into town.
Been a while since
I've been up here.

I know they've
been struggling.

Sounded like Dustin needed
a little help up there.

Hey, they've been up here
for months and months
and months.

Maybe I can just put
a fresh eyeball

on the whole situation.

Whether they'll listen or not,
hey, that's a different story.

It's been years since
I've been down here

to Chilkat Landing.

See what's going on out here.

[motorboat humming]

[Fred] I hear
him coming. [laughs]

I don't know
if that's Dustin or not.

Ah, you [bleeping]!
[bleep] you.

[laughs]

It appears that he is stuck
over on a bar over there
in the river.

It's an unexpected
little event. [chuckles]

90% land
all the way out there.

A truck would go
right across there.

Hmm.

Should I try that?

I think I'm gonna try
to go ahead and run out there
with the truck.

Watch me get stuck. [laughs]

I hope not, but whether I can
get all the way out there,
I don't know.

I'mma try it.

[laughs] You ready
for this adventure?

[shouting] Fred, are you
crazy or what?

[bleep].

Oh, [bleep]. What happened?

I gotta find a shallow spot
to get across this thing.

See if I can get
across up there.

You wanna be rough right here.

Rough, right here.

There we go.

Better stop right here.

Kinda look like you
got a little problem there.

First time you ever
drove that boat?

- [Dustin] Yeah, well...
- [Fred laughs]

[Dustin] I hit that edge
a little too hard and it
spun me around, is all.

- [Fred] How you making out?
- Ah, well, been better.

[Dustin] Good to see you,
welcome back to Haines.

Let's see what
I can do with it.

[Fred] I got over the back.

[Dustin] See what
you got, Fred.

One, two, three.

[Fred] Okay, slower,
let me get another bite.

[Dustin]
One, two, three. [grunts]

[grunts] Oh, yeah,
that's better.

[Fred] Let's go!

[grunts] Two, three.

[grunts]

[Fred grunts]

[Dustin]
Nice, she's floating now.

Let's see if she's
stuck anymore.

You're gonna want
ear protection or something.
It's gonna be awful.

- And you don't want--
- [Fred] I'll just hold
my ears, that's all.

[Dustin] You also don't
wanna stand behind me

- when I take off,
- I know.

- 'cause I gotta haul ass
through here.
- I know.

[Dustin] [exhales] Come on.

[Fred] Watch your ears.

[boat motor revving]

[Fred] Whoo-hoo! Got it.

All aboard.

[laughs] How's it going, Fred?

All right, doing all right.

- Yeah, good to see you,
welcome back to Haines.
- Good to see you.

- Up and running?
- Yeah, kinda.

[Fred] So we got
an adventure, waitin'?

Gonna be one hell
of a ride,
I hope you're ready.

Well, I hope I got
the right gear.

This is gonna be the wettest
boat ride Fred has ever
taken in his life.

My boat is banged up
and it's running nose down.

So, the water's literally
coming over the front
of the boat.

If this wasn't such a damn
low-budget outfit,

he'd have put a fender skirt
all the way around
the front end of that boat

to stop all that.

Fred, you need one of these.

[Fred] Well, almost feels like
I'm going diving.

I feel like I'm in
the Christmas story.

[laughs]

Let's get this show
on the road.
All right, Fred, you ready?

[motor revs]

[Fred] Whoo! [laughs]

Yee-haw!

[Paul] Water looks amazing,

our, uh, diversion wall
is holding up.

[narrator] After nearly
striking out,

Kayla and her crew push
to get back on track

before winter
ends their season.

Well, right now I've got
some good, uh, good clarity.

I need to take
advantage of it,

see if we can't
find some bedrock.

[Kayla] Today I'm gonna
have Paul get in the water.

We don't have much
to show for our work yet,

so hopefully Paul gets
a lot more today.

Um, I'm glad that
we saw gold yesterday,

but hopefully Paul can
bring up a little bit more

'cause we definitely need
to add to the collection.

[Justin] All right,
tuck her in.

- [Justin] Everything
feel good?
- [Paul on radio] Yup.

[Justin] Sounds good.

[Paul] Better get to work.

[Kayla] Does it look like
you got much fill-in?

[Paul] There might be just
a bit down here.

A few basket rocks.

[Kayla] Hey, Justin,
can you work on reinforcing
the main wall?

Right now, we've just
barely started finding gold,

so that's not the time
to have to start over again.

So while Paul's in the water,

we're gonna have Justin
work on reinforcing the wall.

So hopefully if the water
comes up too much,

it still keeps most
of the current in the brunt
of the water

on that side,
and away from our holes.

[Paul] What the hell?

What was that?

[Paul] I am standing
on bedrock.

- [Kayla] Really?
- [Paul] Yes.

[Kayla] Is it flattened out?

[Paul] It's got
a bunch of, uh...

...it is flattening out.

It's got a bunch of cracks
and crevices, and it's thick.

- [Kayla] Huh.
- [Paul] It's got a lot.

But it's definitely bedrock.

[Justin] Nice!

[narrator] Nine feet down,
Paul has discovered bedrock

sloping towards the center
of the creek.

Now he must follow
the bedrock down
to the deepest point,

in the hopes it contains
an untouched pocket of gold.

[Paul] Definitely see
shiny flakes down here
on the bedrock.

Don't know if it's pyrite
or it's gold.

- You said "shiny flakes"?
- [Paul] Yeah.

Hopefully it's gold.

[Paul] That's what I'm hoping.

Better get busy.

[Kayla] Definitely makes me
feel a lot better
about this spot,

there could be a lot
more on bedrock

and hopefully a lot
bigger gold on bedrock.

Nugget Creek needs
to live up to its name,

and so far it has not.

So hopefully that changes
before the season
comes to an end.

[Fred] Yee-haw!

[narrator] 79-year-old
Fred Hurt

has survived his first
white-knuckle ride

up the Tsirku River.

[Fred] Whoo, all right!

[Dustin]
What'd you think, Fred?

- [laughs]
- [Dustin] It's a hell
of a ride, huh?

What a ride,
what a ride! [laughs]

[laughs] Whoo!

[Dustin]
That's different, right?

Oh, yeah, I've run boats
all my life,

- but nothing like that.
- [laughs]

- It's more like, um...
- Flying!

- Yeah. I had...
- It's like flying.

It's like flying,
except wet and cold.

Whoo! Doing things
old men don't do.

[laughs]

Well, welcome to camp again.

All right, you wanna
go with me?

All righty.

Little chilly up here.

Ah, back home.

You're perfect.

[Dustin] All right, we did not
clean up Scott's stuff, so...

[Fred] Whatever, I'll,
I'll fix it up.

Last time I was here,
it was nice and warm.

I had jacket weather.

I was sleeping on top
of this sleeping bag.

[laughs]

I'm gonna be under
two of them now.

Sleeping quarters, done.

See what we got
going on up front.

All right.

Oh, yeah! Gold!
Gold, I tell you!

[narrator] Up at Nugget Creek,

Carlos is three hours
into his dive,

dredging under the shadow

of the 100,000-pound
granite monster.

[Carlos] This is scary.

[Wes] Carlos is in today,

he's just moving forward
from where James was at.

We think that's, uh,
that's where there's

a tremendous amount of gold,
is underneath this boulder.

[Fred] These stairs are harder
to walk on than anything else.

[Dustin] Carlos is diving.

[Fred] That's a little-bitty
hole there, boy, that rock...

that rock just moved!

Holy [bleep].

We're going up
underneath there, Fred.

Not without doing
something to that rock.

- [Dustin] We did something.
- Yeah?

It's got two cables
on it right now.

[Fred] Uh-uh.

What does "uh-uh" mean?

Uh, it's just not enough.
I mean, that thing has got...

...50 tons.

And you only got,
uh, a little,

dinky little [bleep] cable
and a one...

What is that?
Half-inch on there?

With two cable clamps,
hell, that ain't even
enough cable clamps.

That's gotta be fixed
right away.

The very factor that
it's, uh, moved...

...makes it an emergency
as far as I'm concerned.

[Dustin] It'll be fine,
but I think it's fine already.

I think our cables
are getting tight,

and we can screw it
out of there.

No. No.

Especially if you take...
move any rock down there.

If it moved any at all...

...that thing can go
at any second.

- [Fred] Nope. [laughs]
- [Dustin] What?

[Fred] That is not enough.

I mean, that's scary.

[Dustin] I feel safe with what
we did already.

I think we're just
gonna keep digging.

[Fred] Dangerous mistake.

Total disaster
waiting to happen.

That's just kind
of a common sense thing.

Sometimes common sense
is just not too common,

especially when you get tired.

Mentally tired,
mentally wore out,

physically tired.

I'm fresh on the job,
I'm looking at it,

they don't seem particularly
that much problem with it.

That rock, that rock was level
when I saw it last.

Tons of disaster sitting there
waiting to happen.

Fred wants to tie off
the rock more,
a lot, lot more.

What he's talking about
would take me several days.

What do you do?

Do you take that chance,
or do you back off?

Apparently I'm a chance-taker.

[Fred] Setting up
a nice little
sleeping situation here.

[narrator] Fred Hurt
spent over a decade

mining in the Alaskan
back country.

And he's learned
a thing or two

about packing for life
off-grid.

[Fred] Gotta have hats,
of course.

Gotta have gloves,
but you also...

you can't come empty-handed
into a camp.

So you gotta bring
a little gift.

[laughs]

Gotta have
a little hooch. [laughs]

They wanna have a little, uh,
nip every once in a while.

Sure enough.

[Paul] [bleep].
This earth's got so many
ups and downs in it.

It is far from flat.

- [Kayla] That's a good sign.
- [Paul] Yeah, it is.

[narrator] It's taken
six hours

but Paul is on bedrock,

chasing its slope down
towards the deepest point

in the hunt for a bounty
of gold nuggets.

It sounds like the bedrock
isn't very flat,
which is really good

'cause it makes
for good gold catches.

Now it's just a matter
of finding that
right gold catch,

finding that pocket of gold,

hopefully finding
several ounces instead
of just a few pickers.

Paul, it's about 5:00.

- You in a pretty good
spot to stop?
- [Paul] Yep.

[Kayla] All right.

That water looks like
it was super calm today.

It was.

Maybe we should go
check the box.

[Justin] Ooh, let's see.

I think I see a piece already.

Oh, [bleep]. Paul, look.

Oh, yeah,
there's a couple pieces
right there.

- [Kayla] Look at that.
- [Justin] [bleep], yeah,
one's close to you as well.

- [Kayla] There's chunkies
in there.
- [Justin] Yeah.

That's definitely a good sign,
I mean,

bedrock's there.

There are cracks
and crevices in it, so.

Damn, that's not bad.

Starting to add up
a little bit.

[Paul] Damn.

[Kayla] Getting chunky.

[Paul] I like that.

- [Justin]
They've gotten character.
- [Paul] Yeah, they do.

[Justin]
That's awesome. [bleep].

[Kayla laughs] That's a decent
little pile.

- [Justin] Yeah.
- [Paul] Not bad at all.

- It's a good sign.
- [Paul] It's a good start.

We've worked so hard
and have had no reward

for any of our efforts,
and to now start seeing
a little bit of gold,

it definitely gives us
a lot of hope.

The fact that we found gold
two days in a row

is a really good sign,
hopefully it continues
to get better.

[Paul] I mean,
we're on bedrock,
we are finding gold,

but that deep pockets is...

that's what's gonna have
everything in it, so.

That pocket of gold
could be right upstream
from us right there.

Only time will tell now.
Hopefully we can get to it,

hopefully we don't get
flooded out.

And, uh, hopefully
we all go home rich.

That's what we're here to do,
find gold.

Yeah, from here
that looks sketchy as heck.

[narrator] Carlos has spent
the last five hours

dredging in the danger zone

beneath the 50-ton boulder,

risking certain death

in his pursuit
of life-changing gold.

[Carlos] Just beneath,
taking it down

one rock at a time
and hope this whole boulder

don't frickin', uh,
come down on us.

It's a little dangerous.

That's why I keep
watching up there to see
if anything moves.

Two-thirds of that rock
is trying to fall
in that hole.

Every time I look
at that thing, that thing
gives me the willies.

[Carlos] Hope you're
still watching, man.

I had to come up
and look at it.

I didn't want
to flex on it, man,

'cause I'm not trying...
if I don't look at it,
it's doing a diss.

I think they're
worried about it.

If they're worried about it,
you gotta pay attention to it.

Particularly if it's a concern
of the diver, which it is.

[Dustin] [bleep], man.
Diver up!

[Carlos laughing]
All right, man,
diver's coming up.

[James] Diver coming up.

[Carlos] See that?
See how it's starting
to slip a notch?

[James] Dude, it looks more
and more sketchy every time
I look at it.

[Carlos laughs] I know, man.

Hey, Fred, you should
check out and see
what's in the box.

[Fred] Better be some
gold in there.

Hey, Fred, how's things going?

[Fred] How you doing, man?

- [Carlos] I haven't seen you.
- Yeah, yeah.

- Good job, good job.
- I sure hope there's gold.

[Fred] Come on, baby, come on.

I don't see
nothing down there.

[Carlos cheering] There it is!

- [Dustin] That looks good.
- [Carlos] There it is!

[Dustin] There's a lot,
I can see it from here.

- [James] I can, too.
- [Fred] All right.

- [Dustin laughing]
- [Carlos] Look at this!

[James] What you got?

[Carlos] Ah, pickers.

- [James] Wow, look at that.
- [Carlos] Look at that.

- [Carlos] Look at that baby.
- [James] That's a cool
looking beast.

[James]
Like, crystalline gold.

Look at this.

- [Fred] That's gold.
- [James] That's a rare
type of gold.

Oh, [bleep].

[narrator] Crystalline gold
is textured and jagged,

indicating it's not
traveled far from its source.

That's gold. That's gold.

- [Dustin] See how weird
that looks?
- Looks like it.

See how weird it looks?

I ain't never, uh...
oh, that's been smashed,
I can tell you that.

[laughs]

[narrator] Somewhere nearby
lies the motherlode

that Dustin has
been searching for.

[Carlos] Gonna be a frickin'
pocket in there, man.

- [James] Crazy.
- Underneath that boulder,

you're gonna get that
weird frickin' crusty gold.

[Dustin] We're getting gold,

finally getting
gold somewhere, just...

It's just big boulder
situation now.

Not sure exactly
what to do about it.

The season's almost done...

...and, uh, we just started
getting gold

every day.

The only real problem
we have right now is...

...giant boulder
over our head that's gonna
smash us like bugs.

What do you do?

[narrator] Next time on
Gold Rush: White Water...

We need to sew
the entire rock together
up on top.

I would wait until
Fred put the chains on.

[Dustin] Go get his
[bleep] thing.
Go get his thing.

Take a minute.
We're gonna get killed
like that.

Kayla's on
a mission right now.

At the fast pace
she's working,

it's gonna work us to death.

Damn! This is exciting.
We're getting it.