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In remote, southeast Alaska, Dustin Hurt and his crew are on the richest gold streak of

their lives.

On his last dive, James delivered the biggest single day gold haul ever.

So, I'm going to weigh this gold up.

Alright.

Oh my god.

What is this?

1.19.

I told you.

I told you.

Put some of the other ones on there.

That's absolutely the biggest one we've ever had.

Oh my god.

8.87 ounces.

Wow.

Almost four ounces of one day, James.

Look at the size of those nuggets you got, dude.

Look at that.

That's a $3,000 nugget.

That one nugget is worth three grand.

Well, maybe more.

James, you've had the best dive so far, man.

Yeah.

We've been averaging.

Just about half an ounce per dive until today.

Yeah.

Everybody, just look at this.

Feel this and enjoy it.

James found a bunch of nuggets.

We found the gold line.

Finally.

Probably only about this wide was an actual line that goes straight up the damn creek.

And we just need to follow it.

There's going to be plenty of this.

Now we got to put in the work.

Put in the work, get the gold, and it's going to change our entire locks.

That wall is coming down on you.

Got a ball on your head and crush you like a damn bug.

Holy crap, man.

You couldn't be in the worst place in the world.

Get out of there.

Watch, watch, watch, watch.

No!

Have visions of it being the worst day.

Is the gold worth it?

I just don't want to die.

It's been seven years just killing ourselves.

We stuck it out.

We put in the effort.

We got this.

Woo hoo!

Look at that!

Black gold, test team.

Oh my god.

Look what you just found, buddy.

Oh my god!

Oh my god!

Oh my god!

That's the biggest nugget in gold rest history.

Another day, another dollar.

I'm excited.

Just 12 hours after their best day of mining ever, the crew is ready to pick up right

where they left off.

We know that there's gold here now.

We've just got to go get it.

I want to see it.

I got to hold it.

And then you're going to see that hoop and hollering.

You know what I mean?

The jig, you know.

Doing the jig and all that.

I got to get focused for the gold.

Over two months ago, the miners were handed the ultimate test.

Mother nature beat us last year.

Couldn't afford to bring everybody back.

So this is us.

We're going to have to hit it as hard as we can because we know the rains are coming.

The scaled back operation has meant double the work.

Keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Keep going in the water.

And a relentless fight to overcome a never-ending barrage of obstacles.

Oh, that's not 100!

Oh, my god!

Get him out of there!

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

Got it.

Every time Mother Nature tried to knock them down.

Oh, ****.

Oh, it's all right.

Ah, something popped.

The crew fought back with everything they had.

Holy moly, man.

Oh, that kick is fun.

And their determination paid off.

****** down, get!

No way!

Let's go!

Let's go!

Let's go!

It happened this early!

Until a bombshell rocked Dustin and his crew.

You got a message this morning that Fred died.

And he went peaceful in his sleep.

He said he wasn't in any pain.

I'm sorry, Zard.

I'm here about that.

Try to be patient with me.

She lost my father.

Yeah.

It gave you the start-off's back.

That's enough of that.

That's too much.

Driven to honor Fred's legacy.

I wish Fred was here with us.

Maybe from above, he's helping us out.

The crew refused to back down from their toughest season ever.

That just drops off, man.

It's so glippy.

Holy moly!

I hit the jackpot today.

Big nuggets.

The first goal was to call them to Fred.

Everybody wants to be that person to come up with nuggets.

It's a contagious disease.

But as I see the gold, the excitement's just going to boom!

Change everybody's future for the best.

Gold, gold, gold, man.

Here's the deal.

You get a dredge.

All right.

Get in the fine gold.

Dredge, fine gold.

All right, guys.

Going in the water.

All right.

I still tell, guys, you guys did a great job.

Right about where you're at, Carlos, on that shelf is where I was seeing nuggets yesterday.

I come in.

I'm looking.

I'm looking.

I'm looking.

I'm looking.

Can I get that sit right here down here?

Oh, got it right here.

Thank you.

Looking for James Snuggins.

They're gold.

Carlos uses the high-preasured hose to break up the centuries-old hard pack and free the ancient gold locked inside.

You know what? Like, ****.

Seven years we've been burned, so we all got that feeling of like, is this actually going to happen?

And it still doesn't feel like it.

Yeah, I know.

Well, see how this goes.

I know it seems too good to be true. It might be that we blow this out.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I know there's nuggets left behind because I didn't finish it.

Yeah.

I wanted it so bad.

I'm like, you know what? I'm going to let Carlos get some of that glory.

In this hole.

And I am finding the small gold.

In the laser in the heart tank.

There.

All right.

Then it seems it's going toward the weir.

George, the weir.

So, I mean, it's going down.

Not a heart tank.

All right. I'd like to hear that.

Following the deepest part of the bedrock on the center line,

Carlos found an anomaly.

Instead of going up, the creek bed is dropping down into what could be the perfect nugget catch.

Carlos is finding gold.

It's out of love.

He said this bedrock's coming up on the right side and it looks like it's going deeper towards the weir.

Whoo!

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

The red and the black boat.

That's absolutely what we're looking for.

That's what I call a d-sing nugget.

We just got to keep an eye on watching that one rock right there.

I don't like that.

Those are so bad, but that one, well, that one too, but you might be able to pull it off the wall and pull it right behind him.

The more he comes into the weir, the steeper the wall gets, the more chance of some of these rocks falling in on top of himself.

Following the nugget-rich center line is taking Carlos straight into the weir, where towering 12 feet above him,

are a thousand boulders that could come crashing down at any time.

They come up here periodically, check them, make sure nothing's moving.

If they move, I'll get them out of the way.

We do not want to crush the divers.

That looks pretty good.

This is a little bit deeper spot.

Getting a lot of material out for sure.

Second threat, man, goes underneath the hard pack.

Carlos, get out of there!

What happened?

I don't know.

Don't get him!

We're all right?

Yeah.

You get clipped?

Yeah, I was a close one, dude.

How big was it?

Uh, you got something big.

You just took out my index finger.

Good?

It's good.

I got this.

Despite being hit by falling rocks, for three hours, Carlos fights on, determined to cash in on their golden hot streak.

What's the story, Carlos?

It's out to double down and check the box, huh?

Happy to get time to double down, man.

Check the check the box.

I'm a bedrock right there.

If it's a bedrock right there.

I'm just curious.

Did he get all of it?

Oh!

F***!

Hey, what's up, man?

Hey!

Oh, my God!

I can't do that!

Well, I can't do that!

I can't do that!

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Let me go show him.

I can't say that.

Holy s***!

So, I'm just going to go see him.

Ready for this?

Quick with you, just now, buddy.

No!

Go, go, go.

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

What the f***!

I can't beat this!

Oh, my God!

Oh, no!

He found it.

That's it.

That's it.

That ain't no joke right there, man.

Daddy, no joke right there.

Daddy, no joke right.

That is no joke!

Wow!

calgeean is Perfect and Golden Rush history.

Yep?

Oh, my God! Carlos! Carlos!

Ready for this?

Look what you just found, buddy.

No! No! No!

No! No! No! No! No! No!

At Nugget Bend, Carlos has just uncovered a nugget

that could change the course of their lives.

Look at that big...

Wow!

That's at least four ounces.

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

Yeah!

That's bigger than four ounces.

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

Now, we were talking about like a $2,000 nugget.

That's about a $15,000 or $20,000 nugget.

That's gonna be a hard one to beat, man.

Yeah, man.

Damn it, Carlos.

It's got clay on it, doesn't it?

Yeah, it still does.

Oh, my.

Oh, my.

Nugget Bend, man.

His own exchange.

This is real real.

Yeah.

This is happening for us.

This is happening.

Oh, my God.

I mean, it's just a damn town.

Yeah!

Holy stinking, moly, man.

You see the size of that nugget?

I wish Fred was here to see that.

I literally do.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Double amen.

Oh, wow.

Good living's coming from here on out.

Got you excited with that big one?

We got about all the baby socks.

Yep.

It's gonna be a good cleanup.

Should be.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

We lost Fred.

He's the one that got us all here.

But he's still here with us.

He's helping us out.

I know he'd be so proud right now.

So this is definitely the high that we needed today.

It's been 70 years just killing ourselves.

And now we've got this new man.

I'm gonna be here.

I'm gonna be here.

I'm gonna be here.

Oh, my.

Oh, my.

Oh, my.

Oh, my.

We got this badass nugget that just kind of like a trophy.

We stuck it out.

We put in the effort.

We finally figured out where the right place and the right technique to get down here.

We got this.

Now, let's do great.

Hell yeah.

We freaking did it.

Hell yeah, Bella.

Not at all.

Not at all.

After nearly a decade of mining in the harshest environments, Carlos' discovery is proof there's

ancient gold here for the taking.

Good job, everybody.

We stick it out.

They say the definition of a winner is someone that didn't let losing stop them.

Yep.

And like that, we've lost a lot.

Yeah.

Not giving us about damn time.

Set that baby on there and let's see what it weighs.

Don't want the truth.

Dun dun dun dun dun dun.

Wow.

Five point eight.

Dude, that's freaking mad.

Wow, number six ounces.

Hell yeah.

That might be twenty thousand dollars guaranteed.

For a specimen like that?

Yeah, no, you don't get gold like that for gold price.

That's going to be almost double.

A nugget this big is worth far more than its weight in gold and could be just the beginning

of what Nugget Creek has to offer.

Well, that went completely broke last year, so this is a great start.

Yeah, it is.

Great start in it.

That one nugget is more gold than we did at our site last year.

There's no way there's only one nugget like that in that old freaking creek.

Well, he's the whole deal is there was stories up until today.

Yeah.

But it's reality for us now that there are big nuggets in this creek.

I absolutely guarantee it.

I couldn't say that before.

That's true.

Well, so get up.

We earned it.

Yep.

Yep.

We're going bankrupt twice almost.

Trying to do this.

It's finally going to pay for itself the right way.

We're at the very beginning.

The first 200 feet of the claim.

I got a mile to go.

This is it.

We found it.

We have arrived.

I live for this.

I'm ahead.

Holy ****, man.

He's playing by rock.

Everything you want.

Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch.

He would have been dead.

Today I'll be getting in the water.

Hopefully I can get back down to where Carlos was at.

Clean up that bedrock wall and see if we can't put a few more than 6 oz nuggets in the box.

At Nugget Camp, on the heels of their biggest gold find ever, expectations for another record-breaking day are high.

We're on the goal line right now.

We keep following it and get as much gold as we possibly can.

I have a good feeling about your dive, dude.

We'll see gold.

We'll see lots of it today.

Should be something.

We'll get so much done today.

We're going to get a lot, bro.

Oh, child.

Hey, Paul.

Yeah.

You got a couple solids on the bottom, but everything on top is getting dangerous, man.

Yeah.

It's all work, all this.

We'll do some box checks and then I'll go over to the weird.

The promise of more giant nuggets means Paul is ready to put his life in danger.

The fantasy follows the center line of creek, undermining the weir that could trigger a fatal rock fall.

Oh, this undercut.

All this comes down.

Those rocks are coming down right here.

This is where the diver's at.

It's been one of my biggest fears of being trapped underwater.

So if I end up undercutting it too much, that'll be my permanent home.

I don't want to do that.

Something lands on you.

Grab your mask and keep it on.

Yeah.

Don't hurt me out.

Keep your mask on.

We can get you out.

Yeah.

I'll be right there.

Certain of it.

You're tight.

Nothing feels good.

All right, brother.

Good luck, man.

Set that fixed out.

I know you set the ball.

I got about work.

It had to be now.

All right, man.

The spots of one dog.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Where's the hole at?

All right.

Do it.

Do it.

Go.

A little bit overburdened down here.

It'll go fast.

Yeah, I think so.

He did a big, well, big.

If you get that image you had, maybe, maybe it'll direct you to it.

I've got a vision.

I've got a big, flat nugget.

James, is that bedrock right there?

Right here?

Yeah.

It sure is.

That is.

Oh, that bedrock comes straight up this wall.

Right up.

No, that's a waterfall.

This is a little waterfall.

That's a part of it right there.

So this is a big ball.

Yeah.

That's a big ball.

I think it's a really good goal, Cat.

Oh, a nugget.

Yeah.

Every gold diver dreams of a plunge pool beneath an ancient waterfall.

It goes down deep.

Man, part of the pole.

Yeah.

Paul, this is all wanting to slide right now.

Tell me that.

It's moving by itself.

It's getting dangerous.

All right.

So just need those cones.

It's going to be permanently on July and right now.

Oh, look.

It's got real, bro.

It's got real.

You know, things got crazy.

When you have to put a tender on a diver's hose.

So when something happens in the instant, I have to pull the diver back.

Oh, man.

He's flanked by rocks.

Hey, man.

He's flanked by rocks.

Damn it.

Stand back for a second.

Hold on.

It's being undermined.

Let it settle for a second.

All right.

We're going to go.

We're going to go.

Yeah.

Hold on.

No, no, no.

No, no.

No, no.

No, no.

No, no.

No, no.

No, no.

No, no.

No, no.

No, no.

Hold on.

No, no, no, no.

I almost got the pump.

He's exactly on that bedrock on that slope.

Oh, is he?

That's where I was at.

That's where you're getting the nugs.

That's exactly where I left off at.

Hey, Paul, whatever that is, it looks good in the box.

That's the color we're looking for right there.

The next color after that is jet black.

So when we get this red and jet black, there's always gold in it.

Come on, Paul.

You can do it, buddy.

You can do it, Paul.

Yeah, man.

That was the first good material you looked like you put across the box, so far.

Okay.

Do we look in the box?

No, Paul.

Double it down.

Yeah, there's a piece right there.

Yep.

Yep, yep, yep.

You got a few pieces for sure.

Just underneath the screen right now.

We're going to keep adding.

Let's keep adding.

We're going to come back up.

You're on it.

You're on it, dude.

That's it.

Come on, man.

Someone else's muggin'.

Oh, these ****.

What are you doing?

Wow.

That's a weird color.

It's roofier.

Red roofier.

Look at that.

Whatever you're doing, just keep doing that.

Here's the black.

Look at the black.

The black.

Holy ****.

There it is.

Black.

Look at that ****.

The clay.

Black gold.

Texas tea.

Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch.

Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch, watch.

You got to be kidding me.

All right.

You got to back up, back up, back up, back up, back up.

That wall is coming down, don't you?

Just as he's getting on to something.

Finally, right?

All right.

Back at it.

Come on, Paul.

Give me some gold.

Give me some gold.

Give me some gold.

Hey, Paul.

Hey, Paul.

Hold me for a little bit, Paul.

Hold me for a little bit, Paul.

That big boulder man is trying to come down.

Everything's up, Paul.

Come on.

Come on, Paul, come on.

****.

It's going to **** fall in, man.

It's just getting more and more dangerous.

This is about to get out of hand.

I got to pull him out.

****.

You got to fall on your head and crush you like a damn bug.

Another three feet in there.

I can't see.

It's just too fast.

It'll be on you.

We'll just go, oh ****.

It's just ****.

It's just ****ing freaking me out.

Let's double down.

Let's get the nozzle out.

Yeah, man.

That thing's coming down right there, dude.

They know the gold is here, but it's just out of reach.

Less than two hours in, Dustin won't let Paul push any further.

At least there's two triggers.

You didn't see much.

Anything?

No.

Two little pieces.

What a waste of a **** dive.

I didn't get a chance to do anything.

****.

Protrating.

It pulled out every five **** minutes.

I guess they're seeing a rock move, but **** annoying.

These upset that we pulled them, but better than getting squashed.

It's that black rock up there.

It looked like it sagged a little bit or that old wall.

That might be one we can knock in in the morning.

Yeah.

Make it safe for James.

I don't want diving that.

**** kidding me?

That **** unstable.

Are we that stupid or what the **** going on?

Try not to get so frustrated.

You get upset with something and you get yourself killed and you're like,

oh, that's what they were bitching about.

Oh, ****.

That would have killed you.

Get out of that, your legs.

You're lagging right here.

You're lagging right here.

We'll be trying to pull it off your **** legs right now.

A half ton widow maker just dropped under the spot right where Paul was diving.

I'd rather you be mad to **** that up in.

I get it.

Go ahead and get mad.

Oh, man, you would have been pig like, dude.

That was like some wild-ass timing right there.

That ain't no lie.

We could have kept dredging and that would have happened.

He would have been dead.

And now they're laughing about it.

Is that rock on top of this?

Oh, I'm bitching the rock on top of it.

That rock is on top of it.

That rock's on top of it.

All right.

Great call, guys.

Great call.

He'd have been on the end of that ****** nozzle right there pending we'd have been trying to get him out.

I never saw that danger.

Not once.

But you guys had my back.

I appreciate that.

You saved my life.

Oh, man, dude.

That's us.

Yeah.

It's nice knowing as a diver that you can trust your team to keep you safe.

We're just one big family here.

So credit for those guys.

They saved my life.

White water gold mining is like a game of high stakes poker.

The chance of life-changing gold could cost you everything.

I ain't diving in that hole tomorrow.

**** no.

You can fire me.

It's my turn on the rotation to dive and I did not sleep at all.

I knew that rock was going to come down.

I just seen it.

I had visions of it.

Visions of it being the worst day of him getting crushed and we can't get him out.

Broken, big smashed head.

That was all going through my mind.

I just don't want to die.

Is the gold worth it?

Dustin and his crew have proven there's life-changing gold.

But to get to it, they'll have to put their lives on the line.

You got to a place where we can no longer be safe and dive.

The guys are scared.

You should be home to dive.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

I'm filling in all that we've been digging for days.

This sucks.

To move forward at Nugget Bend and clean out every ounce of gold from the plunge pool, Dustin

and his crew must take a major step back.

The hole is getting filled in.

Tell a lot of work.

Start, start, start again.

But the upside, it's safer.

Go!

That sound is scariest sound in the world.

Especially when the divers at the receiving end.

My job's to keep everybody safe here.

I'm not the safety guy.

F*** I'm becoming a safety guy.

Oh my God, I've become the safety guy.

How the hell did I become the safety guy?

I gotta keep these guys alive.

That's all there is to it.

We'll anchor this one back to that.

To that chain.

We'll tie that one off.

Maybe tie that one off.

We'll anchor this one back and then that big one down there.

We'll anchor it back as well.

We're going to start pulling all those voters back down

stream so we can get a diver in and get back on the gold.

Dude, we can put the basket there and drop it right in.

Bloop, bloop, bloop.

There you go.

Whoo-hoo!

We're going to send it.

I love it, dude!

Nothing's badass.

We're on another cable here.

Up over that way.

Makes the perfect Y.

Should all this rock in place and all this will stay right there.

It's better to be too safe than not safe.

What do you think, James?

That one is not a big risk, but...

Nope.

These three are all tagged up.

All right.

Well, I'll get suited up.

Biggits in there and he can get to the bottom where I was at yesterday.

We've got to remember it's going to rain tonight.

Yep.

So we have no idea what to expect tomorrow.

That's true.

This might be the only chance we get for that thing.

Now that it's mitigated, the boulders all tethered off, I feel safe.

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

We can't leave the hole without finishing it.

I need to do this by the numbers.

I need you to do yardage.

Get the yardage out of there.

Make sure it's clean.

Slick it, slick it, slick it.

And when we run out, we run out, all right?

Top it up.

Yep.

I appreciate you going in.

All right, James, you're good to go, Miegel.

How is your vision?

It's about a foot.

What the hell?

All right.

All right.

To get back on the pay layer that held the six-ounce nugget,

James must first remove all the material they washed into their hole.

Also, don't forget that you're going to have a giant black rock down there.

That's the rock that almost got it.

Oh, man.

That's your rock, Paul.

Oh, yeah.

The rock's pretty big.

I can't even get my arms all the way around them.

What do you think?

How about a choker?

Choker?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Good rap, James.

Good rap.

Holy ****.

Holy moly.

Paul, that's yours.

I'll get it right here to the shore.

Oh, my God.

Holy moly.

Holy ****.

That's half my body.

Wow.

That is half of my body.

Hey, man, that would have hurt.

I ain't gonna lie.

Jack, I don't think he would have felt it, man.

Now it would have had me from hand to **** tail.

Hey, remember that rock that almost killed you?

Yeah.

This is it.

At Nugget Bend, Paul comes face to face with the Widowmaker that nearly ended his life.

That's a goddamn meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, bro.

Yep.

That would have ended my life.

I would still be in the bottom of that hole.

There would be a body recovery going on.

Holy ****.

So I need to read a little bit right here until I find that wall.

Over five hours into his dive, James is still searching for more of the six ounce nuggets that Nugget Creek has proven to hold.

Let's find the bottom of that bed rock wall.

We're already warmed up today, and that wall is gonna come up again, and that **** wall is gonna start caving in again.

Let's get everything we can get done today.

Oh ****.

James Fanko.

It's a dinner crack on the side of the bed rock here.

Oh my God!

Whoa!

Look at that!

I love it.

That's a pretty stuff, huh?

It is.

I love that patino in there.

There we go, man.

That's beautiful.

That's amazing.

We're on to it now.

Hope this works.

Biggest spotless, man.

And some nice, nice, nice, here we go in there now.

Click it off, click it off.

It's just ****.

I know.

He just like, oh, hey, look.

Yep, there it is.

Good looking stuff.

I think what I'm looking for now is that pile of six ounce nuggets.

Yeah.

We're spoiled.

I'm just about done with that hole.

I got one minute left.

James was freaking out all yesterday.

But as soon as he gets in the water, man, it just all goes away.

It does.

I think that's it.

The bed rock channel rises up in front of me just before the wear.

It's a dead end, man.

Over the last two months, Dustin and his crew have dredged through 100 feet of prime big nugget real estate

and cleared nearly 200 tons of boulders as they chased the gold line.

Now, James has dredged the whole clean and the rising bedrock signals the end of the line.

The hole's done.

This hole is done.

You can do a double down right quick and check and see what's in there.

Yeah.

Okay.

As you blow it away, it's just touching at the bottom.

I don't see anything in here.

Wow.

Gold is weird things.

I don't get it, man.

I'm glad you got that 6,000 snug it out because it shows something.

I think we tapped this thing out, man.

That might be all of it, man.

If you're good, I'm good.

I'm gonna call it in.

Yeah.

Good.

I need to hear it.

Do you think there's any more gold on me?

No.

All right.

Sound to move on.

Let's bag this.

All right.

Good dive, man.

Good dive.

Tapped out.

On the bigger bed of gold, man.

That's true.

It's it.

Moving on.

I'm gonna call it in me while it wasn't apart of gold in the bottom.

Gold is where you find it.

I think we can leave this spot knowing that we didn't leave anything behind.

After eight hard weeks dredging 12 ounces of the biggest nuggets they've ever found, the

empty sluice box shows it's time to move on to the next opportunity.

Finally getting gold.

The only thing that's been missing in my life is more gold than we're getting there.

Not as much as I wanted, but nugget been produced a six ounce nugget.

I can only imagine what's about to happen for us.

This is gonna be our best year ever.

It already is.

It's already our best year.

This is awesome.

Up ahead.

This season.

We're done with you.

Time for us to move on.

This is gonna be a challenge again.

This is the rebats.

We got a solid plan.

And we have to win or else we're done for you.

Oh, no.

Welcome to my nightmare.

Almost got killed just now.

Oh, come on.

Come on.

We're gonna lift this motherfucker.

This place is trying to kill us.

Oh, please.

Are we gonna let it?

You all right, man?

You look pink red.

I'll let you know.

I'd like to see what our future's gonna be.

I swear I can hear waterfall.

Now, that's a waterfall, man.

Holy **** dude.

It's like it's holding a bunch of gold.

Keep that gold.

There it is.

We just hit it.

Holy ****.

What would you sell this for, man?

Sixty or seventy thousand dollars.

Oh, damn, Tom, man.

We know this big gold.

All we gotta do is go get it.

Worked record.

I got some for you.

This place is gonna pay for the rest of my damn

life.

Oh, my God.

That's beautiful.

Finally, we made it.