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The water's getting high, Getting dirty!

Look at the water!

Stuff started a landslide,

Came off the side Of the mountain,

Probably built up a little bit Of water behind it.

And finally just let loose.

All right?

Can't believe y'all let me stay Down there that long.

Don't do that again!

It just flipped me like I was just a rag doll.

We're doing something That's way too dangerous, guys.

Let's get the hell out of here, Come back tomorrow.

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The dakota boys are Almost three months.

Into their alaskan Hunt for gold.

My.

This is not good.

They've invested $75,000.

But are nowhere near a payday.

We had a 12-foot-deep hole.

Now it's less than two feet Deep right there.

Two months worth of work gone down the drain!

What the?

We don't have a hole anywhere, Nowhere.

You serious, man? You're not playing around?

Now a flash flood And landslide have wiped out.

All their backbreaking work.

Just let me think for a minute. All right?

Let's just think for a second.

That's all. Let's just think.

You start thinking, "Man, do You want to continue with this?"

I mean, it's tough.

All that hard work Overnight is gone,

But we're right back To ground zero again,

Right back to where we started.

I've worked months and months And months.

And months and months at this.

And only to have it All wiped out in seconds.

There could be millions of Ounces right below us right now,

But is it gonna take A million dives to get it?

When do you say, "Enough"?

When do you go back To your family and say,

"Hey, I got beaten up.

I need another job"?

My crew right now is broken.

I can see it all in their eyes.

They all want to quit.

I just don't even know where I'm gonna go from here.

Winter is fast approaching.

With only 3 ounces of gold Worth less than $4,000,

The dakota boys Are staring failure in the face.

So today it was a bust, Complete bust.

It was just a pile of crap.

It was just po... Nothing.

It's just horrible night.

I just don't even know where I'm gonna go from here.

It just took all the wind Out of me.

I didn't want to be there Anymore,

And I just wanted To walk off and say,

"Aw, we'll find Something later."

This is a gold miner's Nightmare,

And I don't know Where we're gonna go from here.

We just have to find Something else.

It's heartbreaking What happened.

It filled in, but we have Some decisions to make.

We've got to find A better location.

Every year, it floods, And it could flood again.

Before we even get back Down to the hardpack.

Underneath that hardpack Is a bunch of gold.

Do we just walk off And leave that?

Not on your life.

Dustin has spent His life savings buying

Alaskan claims And mining equipment,

And so far, none of his crew Have been paid a cent.

We've got to stick With that hole and get it done.

How many times are We gonna do this?

I think mother nature Is telling us right now,

"Look, boys, you're just Spinning your wheels here."

I mean, it's coming To the rainy season,

And we're gonna be done.

I mean, let's find us A better place.

We've gotten flooded out.

We've gotten wiped out, And we got our asses kicked,

So let's be smart about What we're gonna do here.

And utilize What resources we got.

We're gonna get flooded out Every year.

I need another way.

We should have An insurance policy.

We should go look For somewhere else to dig.

There's enough of us.

We'll think about pulling One dredge out.

And starting somewhere else Fast as we can.

Two or three Days with both of us,

Not one, dig the damn thing Straight down!

If there's nothing there,

Fine, let's move!

Nobody cares about what You're saying right now.

This is part of the problem. Nobody will listen.

Fred, we need a plan b.

While you guys dig this thing Back out again,

I'm gonna go see if I can find Another place to dig.

I need to see some gold.

We're in trouble.

Don't even know where I'm going right now.

We're going straight Through there.

Dustin and paul set off high.

Into the chilkat mountains.

To scout a new dive site On cahoon creek.

Dustin's claim is so remote,

The only way to get there Is on foot.

I've got A lot of claim up here.

Don't you wish I'd have Bought easier claims, though?

No, not really. The harder they are to get to,

You know they haven't Been touched.

Hey!

Get the out of there!

He's hungry, man.

Yeah. He's looking for a way down.

Got to keep our eyes out.

Because he's going To keep testing us.

This claim, a mile Upstream from the dive site,

Is where cahoon creek Flows into mckinley.

It's closer to the mountain Mother lode,

The source of all the gold.

At the start of the season...

Yee-hee!

Fred and dustin Flew over cahoon creek.

Searching for The perfect gold track.

Whoo! Ha ha.

Now they need to Locate the sweet spot.

On the ground.

Can't see nothing from here, That's for sure.

We definitely need eyes up In the sky.

Paul gets out His secret weapon.

We've got a drone out here.

We're going to try to navigate Through all these creeks.

From up here, Everything is hidden,

So we're gonna get The eye in the sky.

We're just above Cahoon creek right now,

And we're gonna find My new dig spot.

How cool is that?

All right, upstream first.

- All right. - Yep.

All right. Okay. Keep going up.

There's a waterfall Right there.

That looks good, man.

- That's it right there. - Ooh, I like that.

That's it right there, Right there, right there.

- That's a waterfall... - That's it.

- On top of a waterfall. - That's where we need to be.

That definitely looks good.

Look, I'm all jittery.

Got a waterfall, A nice white plunge pool,

Goes down to a narrow stream.

I mean, that's just... It's the perfect gold cache,

Doesn't get any better Than that.

The waterfall, Plunge pool, and narrow creek.

Promise monster gold, but first They have to get there.

That's where I want to go Look right now.

We're going plunge-pool Hunting.

Whoo! That's a hike!

Refusing to give up, Fred's back at mckinley creek.

To try and dig out Their filled-in hole.

, man.

Dredge hose is buried!

It's all underneath that.

It's buried.

Not a one of us, Not one of us thought.

About bringing those hoses Up higher in the water.

You got to get that Nozzle out, man.

We know those hoses Are really down there deep.

Before the flood,

The hole was 30 feet wide and 12 feet deep.

The gravel and rocks carried By the raging waters.

Backfilled every inch of it, Burying the suction hoses.

Beneath 500 cubic yards Of worthless dirt.

We can't just leave them Hoses there.

I mean, they're stuck.

We need to go ahead And dig them things back out.

Both dredges are basically Out of commission right now.

We're in big, big trouble.

Without the hoses, They can't dredge out the hole.

Fred has a plan.

This is an old five-inch.

We're bringing this across To see.

If we can get Those hoses out of there.

Awkward crossing!

Let fred get his foot.

All right. Real slow.

This is sketchier than.

- Just lay it down right there! - Okay!

There you go.

This little hose here Should permit us to rescue.

The other two hoses.

They'll disconnect the buried.

Six-inch hose from the dredge.

And connect The old five-inch hose,

But it can only move Two-thirds as much dirt.

But you're gonna slide it up Till it hits right there.

- Okay. - All right.

Can you run a big roll Of tape around it?

I can.

Just tape it From the outside in.

Try not to kick The out of it.

Just to hold it on there Is all it's for.

I got you.

We're just gonna have to do The best we can with it.

There's one of two things That can happen here...

We either give up, quit, or we Can jump back in it and haul ass.

And get back to the bottom And find the gold.

We're there.

And that's what needs to happen.

She's working.

We're back in business.

In the backwoods,

Way up in Alaska's chilkat mountains...

- this is dangerous. - I'm with you on that one.

It looks a little bit sketchy,

But this is gonna be A good spot.

Somebody has got to be Crazy enough to do it.

Why not us?

On a ridge, High above cahoon creek,

Dustin and paul are attempting To reach a new plunge pool.

They hope will save Their season.

It's about 300, 400 feet down there.

- All right. - All right, don't die.

Looks real hard to get to, man.

It looks terrifying, So it's perfect for us.

Just got super dangerous Really quickly.

You got to be pretty stupid To do this.

Whoo!

I'm always worried I'm a cut That damn rope, man.

- Don't cut the rope. - Whoo!

We do some crazy things To get to the gold here.

There's nothing but slide area Right here, by the way,

So watch your step!

So many people have been here In the past,

And all the easy spots Have been had,

So it leaves us with These most difficult spots.

The harder it is to get To the spot,

The better chance We have to get the gold.

Let's smash them!

It's just a place that the old Guys wouldn't have gone to.

Because it takes so much To get to it.

Whoo! Shooting rapids!

Right there is where I need to be.

These are class-five rapids, Buddy.

If you fall in it, You're dead, man.

Beautiful. You've got to see this, man!

Whoo!

The waterfall sweeps Gold into the plunge pool.

Below where it becomes trapped.

It's covered in a shallow Layer of gravel.

Small enough for them to dredge Out in a matter of days.

But flying in a dredge And setting up the new mine site.

Will cost almost $5,000.

That's gonna be our next dig Site down there at the bottom.

That's where the gold is at. That's where we're going next.

A mile down The mountain.

On mckinley creek...

Fred and his crew are trying To rescue their buried hoses.

We're just gonna start Working right down the house,

And we're gonna keep Pulling it out.

It's like starting over, man.

Feel like I just got here Yesterday.

Hey. It's nice to meet you, casey.

My name's rich. I hope we have a good season.

- Me, too. - Nice to meet you.

Let's start over.

We got to get this hose out.

Scary stuff, amigo, It's very scary stuff!

Everything we have just breaks, Gonna get somebody killed.

- That nipple broke off. - It did, must be the shaking.

Vibrations snap the copper pipes.

Supplying air from The compressor to fred's mask.

It's just one thing After another.

We fix three things, And four things break!

It's just continual.

I don't think we're gonna Make any progress.

Unless we have two divers On one hose.

I feed into it.

It won't go down no more.

- Hey, fred. - How you making out, man?

Man, I saw a waterfall With this huge chute on it.

I expect it to be A giant deposit of gold.

How's it going over At mckinley?

Been such a down week, Some dumb thing we did.

Just leaving them Hoses out there,

And how about helping me Out a little bit?

Two dredges would get it.

It's got all that Kitty-litter stuff.

Every time you dredge it, All that stuff just keeps.

Coming and coming and coming And coming and coming.

Gonna take forever to get Those things out of there.

Well, we're gonna help you Out for just a couple of days.

Man, I'd really Appreciate that.

Well, you know, we don't always See eye to eye on stuff,

But I'll tell you, I could Really use your help out there.

It's all small stuff.

That big dredge, It'll take everything out.

We'll get two dredges Back on it,

And we'll see what We can get down to.

Hey, baby.

Dustin is bringing The whole roll by himself.

Dustin has put his new Dive site on hold.

To help fred dredge Out the buried hoses.

Still stuck? I'll get you out.

- All right. - Let's make work.

Where's my duct tape?

He's brought another Spare five-inch hose.

That they must now connect To their six-inch dredge.

The whole thing's gonna Get dredged down.

With a five-inch dredge,

And if that's what it takes, That's what it takes.

The five-inch hoses Are one-third less powerful.

Than the hoses They're trying to recover.

I mean, that's just What we have to do.

We have to get Our hoses out, bro.

We have to get our hoses.

Today, carlos will Dive on dustin's dredge.

Hard, old school dredging, Brother, a dredge fest.

And casey will be Fred's diver in the water.

This rope is tied to the nozzle On the six-inch!

Any questions?

Get y'all's Ass in the water!

Time to rock and roll.

Whoo-hoo-hoo-wee! We're in.

By cotton, man, We're dredging already!

You guys are dredging? We're dredging!

This is what we need back.

Mckinley's taken it. We need it back.

Full throttle coming up.

Wow.

The longer it takes us To get the hoses out,

The longer it's gonna take us To get back to the hardpack,

And, you know, we just don't Have the luxury.

Of a lot of time.

The race is on to get Their hoses out.

We just need to whoop Their ass, dude.

Yeah.

It's coming up! Come on! Come on! Yeah!

We got it! Whoo-hoo! We got it!

We got it! We got it!

Yeah!

- Whoo! - Yeah!

My goodness.

Coming up...

- look at the gold. - -my.

Dude, that was just hours..

This could be Life-altering gold right here.

- That's crazy! - That's good gold, good gold.

Dustin and fred hurt Are racing to retrieve.

Their dredge hoses buried In mckinley creek.

Whoo-hoo!

It's killing fred over there That we beat him. Love it!

Yeah, granted, they got theirs Out first, big deal.

Well, gonna get this hose Hooked back up to the dredge.

They're gonna jump over And help us.

Finish up getting our hose out.

That's it! Whoo!

A lot going on right now, So crazy.

Both the machines are moving.

Just a ridiculous Amount of dirt.

It's all little, bitty stuff, And it's tons and tons of it.

We just keep on pushing.

Dustin's six-inch Dredge is working alongside.

Casey's five-inch to Dig out fred's hose.

But that's what the problem is.

Keep dredging out there! Damn it!

Get up on the side Of the hose!

- Roger that. - On the back side of the hose.

Fred is so upset that we're Coming over to help him,

And he just can't Stand it, sore loser.

It kind of pisses me off.

I mean, it just... It's frustrating.

Fred uses a ratchet winch.

To try and speed up The hose rescue.

Look what you're doing To that hose.

You're going to rip that hose In half to prove a point.

The what?

You're going to rip that hose In half to prove a point.

He's gonna break it.

He is so mad that we beat him.

I can see it just looking, So mad!

Hey, loosen up on That thing before you

that thing up!

Everybody has lost Their mind,

Starting to have a catastrophe Cluster screw here.

You're destroying the hose!

I wish everybody Would just calm down.

It'd go faster If we'd just calm down.

- Yeah! Yeah! - Way to go, carlos!

- Yeah! - Whoo-hoo!

Very happy we got both Of the hoses out of there.

How we got them out of there was Aggravating to say the least.

Hey, fred, big old split, Look at that.

What the?

Got a big split in our hose.

That's no good.

Is that where The come-along was?

Good job, fred.

Snapped off the hose. You did great, man.

Way to be impatient.

Finally got our hose out.

We'll make some repairs.

It took a little bit of damage, And we're gonna get back.

To kicking ass, Get this hole cleaned out.

Well, it happened a lot Faster than we thought.

I thought we had three days to Get these damn hoses out,

And these guys did it In 1 1/2 days.

We got them out!

Before the flood, Their hole was 12 feet deep,

3 feet from bedrock.

That is 9 feet.

Yeah, dude.

We're almost back.

- Carlos! - Yeah?

9 feet!

9 feet!

We know there's gold down there, So let's just keep going.

I have enough time to fix this.

- What about cahoon? - Cahoon can wait.

We're gonna put it on hold.

We need to find out Where this goes.

We have to find the bottom.

The speed of the rescue mission.

Has changed dustin's mind.

He's staying put.

Cahoon's plunge pool Is officially on hold.

We're getting towards the gold. The blood pressure goes up.

The excitement level Is going up.

Professional diver Carlos and arizona.

Gold-mine owner casey Lead the charge to bedrock gold.

If we make this last push,

We can get down to the bottom.

It's time to find Some gold again.

Here we go again. All right?

I'm gonna get the gold Out of this hole.

This isn't over with.

With both dredges Running full tilt.

And with no boulders to move...

The dakota boys are back In the game,

Just 6 feet from bedrock gold.

Whoo-hoo!

Yeah! We're back in business.

Another day, I think, And we're gonna have all this

out of here, Whatever it takes!

All you got to do Is just keep digging, man.

Copy that.

Damn it!

All this.

Casey's hose has Become completely jammed up.

With the fine material Washed in by the flood.

That's heavy.

- Full of. - -yeah, that's packed.

Good job, man!

He must have just jammed it In the dirt.

Have to flip it upside down.

Start at the bottom. You got to hit it.

He jammed it in the dirt On purpose.

He didn't want to go down.

It's empty.

Hey! Don't do that again!

You took too much. That's what happened.

Dustin believes casey Jammed the hose.

Deliberately to get A break from dredging.

I don't think he wants To be down here period.

I know. That's why he did it.

- Yeah, he did it on purpose. - Filled up on it.

I know he Did it on purpose.

That boy just made me so mad.

Is this what I have To deal with now?

That heavy.

Full of.

Casey's hose is blocked,

And dredging is halted.

- " I messed up." - I guess I can't.

Dredge anymore."

Get the out! Get out!

Done today! Get up!

Yo, next time, if you want To come out of the water.

And don't want To go back down, say,

"Hey, dustin, I don't want To go back in the water."

All right? It's that easy.

I have no problem with that.

- All right? - I got it.

I just don't want to work With him.

That boy just did that On purpose,

So we pulled him out Of the water.

. That's some right there.

We don't need anybody That don't want to work.

That's just not one of us. That's no help at all.

Casey's tired. I get it.

We're all tired, but he decided He didn't need to be.

In that water anymore, And instead of just being a man.

And saying, "Hey, I'm too tired to do this"...

I can't stand that.

Be a man!

These guys all want to, Like, freak out.

I've been down there all day, But dustin wants to get mad.

I don't really give a.

He's sabotaging the dive So he can get out,

Knowingly jammed The six-inch dredge.

Into the dirt And let it clog up.

I've never seen anybody on my Job ever do something like that,

And I just about lost my mind.

These guys are all amazing, Aren't they?

All they do is want to sit here And.

Yell at each other, And they not finding.

For gold, and it's, like, Everyone's fault but theirs.

They're not seeing The big results in the box.

They better start thinking About option two.

You can't step up, get the hell Out of here, but don't put your

on me.

We got a real problem.

You knew exactly How to clog that

thing up, and you did. Not intentionally.

You sabotaged That,

And I had to work my Ass off for it.

No way. I would never do that.

I would never sabotage a line, Never.

Telling you, I'm here to help you.

I'm not here To do that.

I've been working All day at it.

It just...

I'm a little Worked up right now.

- I'm trying to calm myself down. - I got furious, dude.

Yeah, I've never seen you Get mad at me before.

Your whole attitude Through the whole thing,

- I'd like to believe you. - Okay.

Let's just stop At that and say...

I'd have to be insane to do Something like that.

Let's never let this Happen again.

- Okay. - And let's move on from that.

But if you want to be Out here, be out here.

Yeah.

But if you don't want to be Out here, just go, dude.

All right.

That Can't happen again.

Don't ever Do that again.

All right.

Who does that? Like, really?

I've only been here for months And months and months working.

Like I would actually sabotage A job and then,

After you work that hard, Be told, "You want to be here?"

Okay.

I've heard it all now.

With the hose unblocked,

The dakota boys are going Full steam ahead for gold.

It's determination.

That's all that's Gonna hold us in.

All I know, man, winter Is just around the corner.

We have to do this now. We have to get it done now.

Rich dives in casey's place.

This same dredge is gonna Clog up again.

This thing is not pulling.

Right now, rich can barely run Any material in it.

Dustin's hearing it from rich. There's no power.

Maybe he's biting His own tongue.

Maybe he'll say sorry to me.

I don't think dustin Will ever apologize.

He doesn't give a rat's ass.

Probably from that rip that fred.

Did when he tried To crank out the hose.

I can't even lift The thing!

It's clogged up right here.

Because it's not taking The water out of the hose.

It feels real heavy.

Helping fred get his Six-inch hose out,

He had it tied on With the come-along,

And it actually ripped The hose in two,

So when he taped it up, All it does is it catches rocks.

The hose on fred's Dredge has a four-inch tear,

Sucking in water and causing A loss of power at the nozzle.

The suction isn't strong enough.

To move material up To the dredge,

So the hose Keeps getting blocked.

I haven't been able to even Really run this machine.

It should eat quadruple The amount of rocks.

That it's doing right now.

It's real possible that casey Maybe got a bum rap.

Everybody, we're going To lose casey here.

He's gonna go to medical.

Casey is taken down For treatment.

To the medical center 30 miles away.

What happened with casey Was a misinterpretation.

On my side of the situation.

I thought that he sabotaged His dive.

Turns out that fred Kinked the hose so bad.

That it won't work.

It was not casey's fault,

And I had no right To do what I did,

And I'm gonna tell him so.

As you know, this is Our wedding anniversary,

And what I've done is, I brought the light family band.

Up here As my anniversary gift to you.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

High in alaska's Chilkat mountains,

The dakota boys are a man down.

And struggling against the odds To reach a fortune in gold.

Fred's suction hose Is badly damaged.

To get down to the gold, They need to fix it.

Our only option right now Is to just shorten it.

And deal with it.

We're the crew That don't give up.

We're kind of like a hound dog On the trail.

Pretty soon, we're gonna Hit it big.

The dakota boys have sucked out.

All the material washed in.

By the flood in just two days.

Because there were No boulders to move.

- Hell, yeah. - All right, guys!

We're back at hardpack!

We're back at hardpack! All right!

We're back to work again!

- Yeah! - Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Now only the hardpack stands.

Between them and bedrock gold.

- Yeah! - Yeah!

Yeah, man. Believe it or not,

We're back In the game now.

We have an excellent, excellent Chance of getting the gold now.

You know what I mean? An excellent chance.

It's time to get back down To this gold, man.

I'm back down to hardpack.

Didn't take near as long as I thought it would.

We got this.

Gonna find out what's on The bottom of this day three.

Hey, man.

- How are you? - Beat.

You and I got to have A talk, man.

Shoot.

I owe you an apology.

Okay.

I accused you of something You didn't do, the hose thing.

It was messed up, And it wasn't your fault.

I was just flat-out wrong.

- I never seen you act like that. - Yeah.

I misread the situation.

I do have a bad temper, But I felt like I was justified,

And I wasn't, so sorry I misjudged you like that.

- Okay. - Yeah.

- Well, thank you. - Thank you, man.

I'm going to try to tell you Some other news.

I went down, saw a doctor.

I've got intestines pushing Through really hard,

Poked through my abdomen And through my umbilical,

And they want to go Have surgery on it.

That's serious, dude.

I don't want it to become Life-threatening.

I want to take care of it now Before it does.

You're hurt, man. Go home. Go recover.

So I'm broke now, but I...

This is a hard journey.

- Yeah. - Appreciate the work, man.

- It's been a hard journey. - Yeah, man.

- Man. - This is the hardest thing.

This is the hardest thing You ever do, man.

It is. This whole thing Makes me feel like.

Go home with your family, man. Recover for your family, man.

I mean, that's all you Can do, man.

- Right. - That's all you can do.

- That'll be that. - Good luck.

You're picking up his slack.

- Damn it, casey, again! - I got you again.

Got me again!

On your sick bed, You got me again.

Yeah, on my sick bed, yeah.

Who the hell are we gonna Blame stuff on now?

- Damn it! - You're right.

Damn it, casey!

- Hang in there. - It was a trip.

- I'm going to miss you, bro. - Sorry, man.

Having to work in alaska, Brother,

It's gonna take Something of you, man.

This adventure, this mission, This fever,

You're going to sacrifice Something, man.

Casey will be with us In spirit, bro.

You know what I mean?

I hope these guys Can find gold soon.

Winter is coming, so I wish them The best of luck.

That's it.

- Doesn't that look like? - Rich, that's all gold.

There's gold, isn't it?

Coming up on "Gold rush White water"...

- whoo! - -my!

That's nuggets, boys!

Will they finally Strike it rich?

Look at those nuggets, dude!

Shut the!

- Look at that! - -look at that!