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Are you kidding me?

Oh, you mother- Hey, James, what you see down there, man?

I saw a nugget, and I was going to grab it

with my hands, but now it's clouded out.

Don't worry about that, I'm going to pick him up by hand.

All you got to do is just suck it up and get there.

I can actually see everything.

I've been many years looking for this stuff,

like to actually succeed and blow this all away.

If we get enough gold, it might just make you worth it.

It might just make you worth it.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

What's the laughing for?

I see it, Nugget.

Is that gold?

Nugget.

Yeah!

Ha, ha, ha.

Pretty good when you can see them.

Holy crap!

Look at that!

Oh, my god!

I'll be damned, man.

That is heavy!

In his hands.

You're in a damn good spot right now, man.

It's going to be hard getting him out of the water today.

You're going to want to keep going after that gold.

I'm digging through.

About to hit a huge spot.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Yeah, amigo, you got a couple of big rocks.

Those two, they're above your head.

Holy shit.

Hey, watch out.

Back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up.

Hey, guys.

I have some bad news.

Fred died.

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

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

Like.

We need to find more gold.

Oh, my god.

Oh, look at that.

Big nuggets.

We got a future, dude.

Oh!

Oh!

Woo-hoo!

Dustin Hurt battles the wild Sirku River, Desperate to get

back on the hunt for gold at his remote Nugget Creek claim.

This is the longest break I've ever had out here.

It's time to grind.

Last week, Dustin made the 1 ,200 mile trek to Oregon.

Well, hello there.

To celebrate his father's 80th birthday.

all laugh You made it to his 80th birthday party.

That's a big deal.

So, time to get back to work.

I'll get digging, see what the guys are up to.

Sounds like Dustin's back.

What's up, fellas?

How's it going?

It's going.

I'm back.

How's everything going around here, man?

Not too bad.

We had our own adventures.

Yeah?

Let me show you what we pulled up.

James found, like, a handful of gold.

Oh, man, you guys are doing it.

Their hot streak gone cold and Dustin away, Wes took radical

action to hunt down the gold.

Wes is trying out his new witching rods.

Maybe there's a big nugget sitting there.

See that?

Right here.

Right there.

Good, man.

Oh, yeah!

Woo, I tried!

Good job, amigo.

Fistful of nuggets.

That makes me happy.

It's looking good, man.

Yeah, it's a start.

Wes used some devil sticks, man.

Hocus pocus, hocus pocus.

He used the dowsing rods.

Y'all weren't supposed to tell him When we used

the Dawson rods, that was going to be a secret.

He was never going to know this.

No, he already admitted it.

How's Fred doing, man?

How's his party?

He enjoyed it.

He was a little out of it.

He's going.

He's on his way out, man.

So that's going to happen.

I'm sorry, man.

Very, very soon.

Yeah, that's a tough one, man.

Anyway, thank you guys for stepping it up

and keep on working.

I appreciate the hell out of it.

It was unavoidable.

Everybody vibed with each other, you know, like, you

know, like we usually do.

Yep.

Let's go check out the site.

I'd like to see what y'all got done, where y'all are

headed, and get back at it.

Yep.

Yeah.

I can only imagine how it's weighing on Dustin right now.

I mean, he doesn't wear his fillings on his sleeves

or anything like that, but the filling is

the same inside, man.

That freaking sucks.

He hasn't lost any of his parents yet, so

this is all new on him.

But Fred's health isn't Dustin's only concern.

Nearly halfway through the season, the crew has yet

to find enough gold to fund a future at Nugget Creek.

This is a lot of rock you moved.

I'm impressed, guys.

I think that line of gold was coming through right

in here, because this is where James got into it.

And same with Carlos.

I get it.

So there is a consistent line that we need to follow,

and it's got gold in it.

Wherever it goes, that's where we go from now on.

Yep.

Good job, guys, on working this out while I wasn't here.

I should take off more often is what I'm hearing,

so y'all can do better.

Yep.

All right, Carlos, you're in the water.

Let's go get your gear.

You tell me where to dig, I dig.

Carlos will move up creek and dredge down to bedrock

in search of the next pocket of nuggets.

I'm going to try to get to bedrock as quick as

I can, and I want gold.

I want that nugget.

Hey, James, can you submerge that pipe?

Get it, Jades.

Been working good?

What the fuck is going on with that boat?

Something's really wrong.

This loose box is sitting on the rocks.

Yeah.

Sitting on the bottom.

It's sitting on the bottom.

The water's dropped a lot.

Please suck the water down.

That's got some big pumps.

Let's make it right.

We need more water.

So the dredge has to have enough water to float,

and we're having problems with that right now.

We just need to keep it at the right angle so we

don't wash any gold out.

The water in the dive pond is so low, the

dredge is grounded.

The sluice box is horizontal.

If they run the dredge, the riffles will pack

up with gravel and gold will flow off the end.

Raising the water level will float the dredge, putting

the 4-foot-long sluice at the optimal 5-degree

angle to catch gold in the first few riffles.

So what's happening is we've got to open this up just to

keep our water level up so the dredge will keep floating

and keep the angle of the sluice box right.

♪♪ Enough?

Not enough?

No.

It'll take a minute to fill back up.

Never had a problem with not enough water before.

This is my first time.

It's always the extreme opposite of this, which

is way too much water.

Good flow coming in now.

Holy----.

That's a lot of water.

It takes a lot of water.

Crazy, right?

Our dredge needed to be floating, and now

it's finally floating.

Always something, though.

You can't just show up and go to work.

That would be silly.

First, you have to break and fix something.

All right, let's see what you got.

Something?

What's something?

Okay.

Get some gold.

Big gold.

Life-changing gold.

Last year, I went into debt.

This year, I need to find gold, and lots of it.

We should see some gold in the box this afternoon.

Oh, we should.

Looks like you're getting into some real material, man.

That white water's just dumping buckets

of kitty litter.

And it filled the damn hole right back in.

You can see right here, this is what we call kitty litter.

It's just pumping it in.

Oh, s***.

Hey, watch out.

Back up, back up, back up, back up, back up, back up.

Oh, s***.

Yeah.

That would have been a bad one.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

We pulled on you a little bit.

It dropped about six rocks.

Oh, s***.

The extra water they needed to fill their dive hole

is now raining rocks directly onto Carlos.

Right in my heart.

And weakening their weir wall.

Might have to punch a couple holes right here.

That's perfect because I thought if we let water

come in from here on the downsides, we won't bring

as much titillator in.

Let's do that, all right?

To stop the rocks crashing down onto the diver, the crew

must reduce the flow from above and open a side

channel down by the dredge.

I bet we could flip that rock over right there

and probably do a lot.

There you go.

That's quite a bit more.

That should help.

Good job, guys.

How's it looking down there?

I think there's just a lot of overburden.

I think where he's at is going to be good, so he should

find gold right in there.

I agree.

How we living, Carlos?

Oh, it's going good, man.

But I'm not going to go any further.

Just give him a good, clean area to dig.

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah.

Yep.

Absolutely.

After a five-hour battle, Carlos has the dive hole

at four feet, but is yet to reach bedrock.

All right, let's get the diver up.

Here we go.

He never got into any material that looked like

it would have any gold in it today, to be honest.

Yeah.

This was all overburden all day.

It was a no-gold day.

I don't like no-gold days, but we got a lot of dirt moved.

Lots and lots and lots of old birdies.

But that's no problem, man.

All that is is just a stepping stone to the gold.

That's a lot of damn pyrite, though.

That means he's getting close, though.

The dredge didn't want to float, and it was

tilted the wrong way.

The sluice box was the wrong way.

There was a lot of stuff going on.

Hey, I just found gold at the back of the boat.

What?

Back there?

Yeah.

Back there?

Yeah.

Are you serious?

Yeah.

We could be losing fricking gold.

A nugget at the bottom of the sluice is a miner's

worst nightmare.

The angle is still wrong and could be blowing precious

gold down the creek.

It's laying right back in here.

That's the last place you want to see a nugget.

They're supposed to stay in the nugget trap.

Why are they back there?

Oh, that's kind of scary.

First time I've ever seen anything back there.

It shouldn't be that far back.

That's scary.

We need to check the dredge out, make sure this loose

box is sitting right so we don't lose any gold.

Morning, fellas.

Morning, man.

We got to come up with a plan.

Yeah.

We just can't afford to lose any gold.

At Nugget Creek, The crew discovered a nugget at the

bottom of their sluice, a sign they could be

losing precious gold.

We need to make sure there's enough water in the

digging area and the sluice box at the right angle.

Yep.

But right now, getting a little bit behind with gold

levels because putting a lot of gasoline out there

but a lot of effort.

I'm pretty sure we'll be back on the gold today

after all that overburden Carlos took out.

We have to succeed this year.

We need a bucket of gold.

We don't want a bucket of gold.

We need a bucket of gold to continue on.

We need to be seeing at least an ounce or two in the

box at the end of the day.

Yeah.

At least.

There you go.

All right.

Let's go dig, y'all.

Go dig.

Sound like a plan.

Grab all my dive stuff.

We need real gold, and nobody's getting it yet.

Hopefully, today's that day that we can

make some progress.

Like, life-altering gold is what we're looking for now.

Oh, I didn't sleep well, man.

Too much stress.

It was a rough day.

♪♪ Everybody get suited up.

Let's get the angle of the sluice box perfect.

Well, yesterday, we were having big problems

with the sluice box.

Paul found a nugget all the way at the bottom, which

we don't want to see.

We want to keep our gold up at the top.

Yeah.

Come this way with the boat.

How's that?

Well, it looks like that's the right angle.

Yep, it's working now.

That looks good.

It looks pretty good, right?

Woo!

It's looking so much better.

Everything's flowing good.

I don't think we're going to lose any gold

out of the bottom.

Please, let us find some gold today.

I'd love to take this hole down to six or

eight feet today.

Six, eight, that's a lot.

I know I'm asking a lot, but I need to know

where this gold is.

Yep, no, I got you.

So far, the plan is going to be try to hit bedrock.

Carlo spent his entire dive trying to get the

hole cleaned back out.

Now, I should be able to go in, find the bedrock

bottom, and see if we can get back on the gold.

Those rocks are going to want to roll.

You might want to go over there and kick some rocks

and make sure they fall down.

Yeah, dude.

Rocks above the dive hole still present a deadly threat.

Head start, man.

Paving the way.

Have a good dive.

Find some gold.

Copy that.

How you doing, Paul?

I'll continue later to get out.

But I should be able to get to this pretty quick.

Find some gold.

Didn't let you cold, though?

No, I said, let's find some gold.

Gold, gold, sorry.

All right.

Ice cold gold.

That's what we need.

We're just blasting through this stuff.

They're super motivated.

Ah, you b----.

I have no suction.

What, do you have a stop up?

You got to feed it.

Very easy.

Rookie mistake.

You get impatient, man, because we want the bottom.

We want the gold that's at the bottom.

That feels good now.

That was a nozzle.

I got another stop up.

It's not in the nozzle.

Lift it up a little bit, and I can see into it.

In Paul's desperation to get down to the gold, he sucked

up a large rock, causing his second jam in

just five minutes.

I think it's on this bend.

It's right here.

There it goes.

Ready?

There it goes.

Sorry about that, guys.

Get impatient, and you'll just want this thing to

eat, eat, eat, eat, eat.

You don't have the time to freaking filter

out the big rocks that goes into the nozzle.

When that happens, plug up, plug up.

Hit it.

And then, boom, plug up again.

I got another plug up somewhere.

Just somewhere back here.

Yeah, there it is.

I found it.

That's bad, man.

He's in there.

That's a son of a gun.

That's really wedged in there, you can see it.

It's about to blow through the hose if I

hit it too many times.

If Dustin breaks the hose, they could be shut down

for days until he can get a replacement.

It's stabbing, right here.

That's a mother-----, dude.

Watch your knee.

That's it.

It went.

Jesus.

Woo!

Good?

Yeah.

Maybe slow down a little bit, would you dig?

Copy that.

Paul slows his pace.

And makes better progress.

How's he doing?

Still going down?

Yep.

Right now, his whole body's under the water.

I mean, he's getting really, really deep.

Over the next three hours, Paul puts in a hard shift

to get the dive hole over six feet deep.

He's still going down.

He's down there, man.

He's down deep enough, we should be seeing gold.

Hey, Dustin, we lost comms with Paul.

Paul, you got a copy?

I can hear him.

There's no updates, because he doesn't talk unless

you can talk to him.

For whatever reason, my comms are cut off.

Paul right now, and I don't know, I can't make him talk.

He's getting down there, though.

Can't even see him anymore.

That's a huge boulder right there.

That's a big one.

It's getting undercut on that corner.

Carlos, what you got on comms, man?

Paul, Paul.

That shit's getting too dangerous.

I think I'm going to pull him out.

Paul, Paul, Paul.

Six feet below the surface, Paul has no comms.

Got a freaking boulder right here, dude.

That looks a little bit unstable.

The crew is unable to warn him of the unstable rock above.

Hey, Paul, you got a copy?

I can hear him.

Yeah, he can't hear us, huh?

What's he saying?

Anybody get a copy on that?

Pull, pull, pull.

Woo!

Can you hear me?

Just what you're seeing outside.

I'm telling you, watch out for this.

Don't let it fall on your head.

Don't worry about it.

There's two or three boulders underneath that one.

OK.

What you see down there?

Bedrock over here, and then another wall right

here going this way.

Holy s***!

So it's got to be the middle.

It's got to be the middle.

Damn, we found the middle.

How does he know it's the middle?

There's bedrock coming up that way, bedrock

coming up this way.

Following the gold line, Paul's uncovered

a bedrock slope on both sides of the creek.

If he can remove the remaining rocks and gravel and get

down to the bottom, he could hit the mother lode.

That equals nuggets, hopefully.

Right there, apparently, is the center of the creek.

That's pretty wild.

There's gonna be gold in the bedrock.

It's usually in the very center.

Now we're gonna follow that for a little while.

Paul takes the ultimate risk, Diving without comms

to hunt for a massive payday.

If I have to pull him, I'll pull him.

That's getting deeper and deeper.

We seem to have a deep channel going right up the middle.

That's the spot we've been looking for.

We got to follow it now and collect the gold

that's sitting in it.

Oh, look at that.

Black.

That's crazy.

The colors that's coming out of that, I've

never seen that before.

Yeah.

Wash it all to the dredge.

Can I get the water sprayer?

Oh, that's a good sign.

He needs a sprayer to loosen it where all the nuggets are.

Wow.

He is just a digging fool today.

Holy smokes.

I think he's getting tired, though.

Oh, hell, I think I'm going to go ahead and call it.

All right, let's call it a day.

Close the nozzle.

Here it comes.

That's a long run.

After six hours, Paul has the hole down eight feet, but

they have yet to reach the gold-rich bedrock bottom.

Good job, Paul.

There has to be something in the box, hopefully.

Sorry we couldn't talk to you, we lost all comms, man.

Hey, Paul!

That gold, buddy.

Yeah!

You got it, dude.

You want to go check it out?

Good job, dude.

Good job.

I'm not touching it.

You can come look at it.

Woo!

Yeah!

There's one there, too.

Oh, there's one right here.

Yeah.

That's a big one.

That's a good nugget, dude.

That's a good-sized nugget.

They're all staying up in the top.

Seems like it's working pretty good.

What are we talking about?

All right.

Jeez, that might even be another half ounce.

We're getting there.

There's got to be more in the box.

Wow.

Yeah, we're back on it again.

Yeah, we're back on the gold, Paul.

Good job, man.

Today, Paul found a bunch of gold.

Looked like about a half ounce of pickers.

There's another piece up in there.

Most important thing about today is we think that Paul

found the center of the bottom of the bedrock.

And that's a big deal.

Now we can follow it.

If you're going to find gold, usually it's

at the deepest part.

You killed it today, bro.

Thanks.

Everybody did, man.

It's a team effort here.

We're back on the gold.

Paul, man, he frickin' literally dug to the

center of the earth.

There's a piece.

Heck yeah, man.

We're back on the gold.

That's a sweet sound.

Getting excited.

Tomorrow should be a huge day for us.

Morning, fellas.

Morning.

Hey guys, I have some bad news.

Um, I got a message this morning that, uh, Fred died.

Uh, that's rough.

God damn it.

I'm sorry, man.

Morning, fellas.

Morning, morning.

Hey, guys.

I have some bad news.

Um, I got a message this morning that, uh, Fred died.

So, uh...

Yeah, so he didn't make it, and cancer got him finally.

Uh...

Uh...

God damn it.

He said he wasn't in any pain.

And he went peaceful in his sleep, so Fred's gone.

And, uh...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm sorry, sorry.

Had a lot of good times with Fred.

A lot of good times, a lot of tough times.

♪♪♪ That's rough.

We wouldn't be up here right now.

Mm-mm.

No, not at all.

That's a tough one, man.

I got to say my goodbyes, and I got no qualms with it.

He was fine to go.

We had a long talk about it.

Anyway, probably going to be a hard week for me.

So you guys just try to be patient with me.

I just lost my father.

That is a tough one.

I got some mixed emotions for it, because he was suffering

pretty bad with cancer.

He was starting to lose his legs, which

he hated me to see.

And his cognitive abilities were going away, which

he really, really was upset about.

So it's probably best that he went before he lost

the ability to speak and all that stuff.

So...

I know that's a tough one, man.

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

Yeah, we do.

He brought us on this first part of this

freaky weird adventure.

He connected us.

Check that out, Fred.

That's a nice piece of gold there.

He was definitely the catalyst that got us all together.

He got us started on all this stuff, man.

Changed the course of our lives.

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

gold that I didn't get.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

We can thank him for this adventure.

We continued it, but he started it.

Yep, absolutely.

Makes me feel pretty damn good.

Yee-haw!

If Fred was alive still, he'd, uh, he'd say get

back to work, so...

He was always a hard-ass.

I mean, he was a hard-ass to work with, but away

from work, he was a totally different person.

He'd give you the shirt off his back.

Yeah.

Fred truly believed, truly believed that...

That's what he believed.

And he loved us.

Oh, man.

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

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

That's true.

We're going to miss him, for sure.

You know.

Here we go.

Yahoo!

All right, that's too much.

We all know what he's going through right now.

It's no fun losing a loved one.

Definitely not easy.

Nope.

That's for sure.

That is just not easy at all.

I look back on my life as definitely a well-

lived president.

Years ago, I could have just retired.

Uh-uh.

What the hell do you want to retire for when you're

still enjoying life?

Yes!

Find something you really enjoy doing.

Go out and search for that adventure.

At the end of your time, you can say,

yeah, I had a good time.

It was a hell of a ride.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Dustin just informed us that Fred had passed away from

stage 4 brain cancer.

It was pretty rough, I mean I know Wes and I lost

our dad a few years back.

That's not an easy thing to go through.

So I know where Dustin is right now.

It eats on you.

Yeah, the crew is a little down and out and

really hurting us all.

But I think Fred would love to see us succeed.

I'm hoping that I can make it happen, get some

gold in honor of Fred.

Dustin needs this most of all, out of all of us.

Can you hear me, James?

You can't hear me.

This is awful, dude.

I hate this comp system.

I hate this comp system.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Got a lot on my mind.

Yeah, there's got to be something simple.

Testing one, two.

Gotcha.

What'd you do?

There's a little mic button on the side of the box.

Ah.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

That's what I'm gonna say.

Don't get hurt, don't die.

Well, this is it, make or break.

For you, Fred, if we hit it.

The crew have dedicated the remainder of their season

to their friend and mentor, Dakota Fred Hurt.

This dive's for you, amigo.

It's so awesome that I can talk to you guys,

and you can talk to me.

We got this figured out now.

Yeah.

Let's see if we can get some gold.

Yeah.

That'll make Dustin happy.

Hey, James, how's the kiddie dinner situation

look like, man?

I'm eating through it.

And I got Viz.

I can see everything.

And I'm so comfortable right now.

James's mission?

Clean out the remaining gravel and nuggets from the

deepest part of the creek.

Wow.

I'm following bedrock.

I gotta clean the top of the bedrock here and then see

how deep it is right here.

I've spent many years looking for this stuff.

I'd like to actually succeed and blow this all away.

If we get enough gold it might just make it worth it.

Might just make it worth it.

I'm going to hit some material.

Yeah, buddy.

That's crazy, huh?

I'm following a hole in the bedrock.

I don't know if this is the same hole you were in there,

Paul, It's going straight down in the middle.

That's it.

That's the same one?

Yeah.

That's probably where that gold came from.

Just keep digging.

Are you kidding me?

Oh, you mother- Hey, James, what you seeing

down there, man?

I saw another one, and I was going to grab

it with my hands, but now it's clouded out.

Don't worry about having to pick him up by hand, but

please get him in a dredge.

This morning, I kind of asked Fred for help to

lead us where the gold is.

And I know he's helping us out.

He's always been there to help us.

He's still helping us.

I can actually see everything.

Thank you, Fred.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

What's the laughing for?

I can't see nothing.

Is that gold?

Nugget.

Yeah!

Pretty good when you could see him.

Holy crap!

Look at that!

Oh my god!

I'll be damned, man.

That is heavy!

He brought out a nugget, man.

That was a heavy nugget.

That was a heavy nugget.

Keep going, man.

You ain't going to want to stop.

You're going to want to keep going after that gold.

Ha ha ha!

I'm a digging fool.

All right.

It's about to hit a huge spot.

I'll just let it go like that for a while.

In just two hours, James has got down to 10 feet

and dredged everything off bedrock.

Yeah.

Here, I just cleaned this whole thing out.

OK.

Just licking in the box right now.

Nice nuggets, man.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Ha-ha!

Yeah!

It's actually happening.

Good job, James.

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

What is that?

What is that?

Oh, my God!

Holy...

Look at that nugget!

Get over here, James!

It's at least a one-ounce nugget.

That is a one ounce nugget.

At one ounce, this matches the biggest nugget the

crew has ever found.

Congratulations, James.

But this time, there's more.

At least five ounces.

Five ounces of jewelry grade nuggets is

worth over $15 ,000.

Their most successful dive ever.

I hit the jackpot today.

Big nuggets!

That is ridiculous.

Holy smokes, dude!

Nugget Creek lived up to its name!

We're on it.

It's pretty amazing.

This is museum peace, man.

laughs First thought was to call and tell Fred.

laughs You know we've been working with Fred and Dustin

for over the past 10 years and maybe from above,

he's helping us out.

But what an amazing day.

I wish he was here to be a part of this.

I know he is in our heart, but finally we're on

the gold, you know.

I wish Fred was here with us, but we can't do that.

Yeah!

There's been a few things going on in my life

that aren't great.

This is great.

I can tell you I needed a win, and this is a good win

for me, so I needed this.

Do you know what that means?

You got a future, dude.

Nuggets, nuggets, nuggets, nuggets,

nuggets, nuggets, nuggets.

If all the stories are true, that one-ounce nugget

is just the beginning.

♪♪ ♪♪ On the next Gold Rush, whitewater.

All right, brother.

Good luck, man.

Ah!

Ah!

Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch.

Watch, watch, watch, watch.

It's gonna...fall in, man.

I don't want to dive in that.

Are you...kidding me?

We have a hard compulsion to know what's at the

bottom of this hole.

You can't cure that.

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

OK.

OK.

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