![]() Discovery aired the Season 2 premiere of this series on Friday, Januat 10pm ET.īERING SEA GOLD returned for its third season on Friday, Decemat 9pm ET/PT on Discovery. The gold dredges are: The Christine Rose (Seasons 1-3), an 80-foot barge run by Steve Pomrenke and captained by his son Shawn, which is more than three times larger than any other craft in these waters The Clark (Seasons 1 & 3), the youngest boat in the fleet, which was captained by Nome native Zeke Tenhoff, who built the dredge from junkyard scrap The Eroica (fka The Edge) (Seasons 2 & 3), which Zeke selected to replace The Clark because it's a bigger, souped-up dredge with a powerful and dangerous suction hose, with a crew of Zeke's on-again, off-again love interest Emily Riedel as deckhand and Zeke's lifelong best friend, John Bunce, an experienced diver and gold dredger The Sluicey (Season 1), a modified skiff that barely seated two, which was owned by Ian Foster, who quit his job as a social worker, sank his life savings into his rig, and took one shot at making his living as a gold dredger The Wild Ranger (Seasons 1-3), which is owned by retired military man Vernon Adkison and captained by rookie Scott Meisterheim in Season 1, whose motivation for finding gold was over $100,000 in back child support payments The Anchor Management (Season 2), which Scott purchased with $150,000 he borrowed from some 'bad people,' as he tries to show he's not the incompetent thief he was accused of being on The Wild Ranger in Season 1 The Minnow (Season 3), which was Steve Riedel's new dredge and The Gold Grabber (Season 3), on which Scott works as a deckhand for Captain Hank Schimschat. The dredges range wildly in size and sophistication, but all have crews whose very livelihoods depend on finding gold. Miners dive and dredge to scour the bottom of the sea from custom built, barely seaworthy rigs - in a race to haul in as much gold as possible before the waters become too frigid to dive. In the Summer when the ice pack melts in Nome, Alaska, this isolated, ramshackle town of eccentrics and outcasts booms with excitement, because pioneer gold seekers rush to get out onto the water. Associate producer is Jessica Mollo.BERING SEA GOLD follows multiple gold dredges and their crews, as they scour the bottom of the frigid and unpredictable Bering Sea for precious metal. For Original Productions, executive producers are Jeff Hasler, Brian Lovett, Ernie Avila, Jeff Meredith and Dave Freed.įor Discovery Channel, executive producers are Todd Lefkowitz and John Slaughter. “Bering Sea Gold” is produced for Discovery Channel by Original Productions, a Fremantle company. “One dredge pushes too far into the storm, forcing its crew to abandon ship.” ![]() Kris battles bad attitudes,” reads Discovery’s official description of the episode. “With a massive storm about to hit Nome, Shawn and Ken push their operations to the brink to get one last score in. Watch the full scene via the video above.Īlso Read: MTV Fires 'The Challenge' Cast Member Dee Nguyen Over Black Lives Matter Comments “This is history right here,” Riedel says. “I don’t know what he’s gonna do,” dad Brad Kelly says. You get the hell out when it’s blowing 13 knots.”įrom the safety of the beach, The Reaper Captain Kris Kelly points out that the ship “actually might run aground.” You have a forecast that’s calling for 45 mile-an-hour winds, with this crazy storm out of Russia? You get the hell out. “Everbody knows out here, this is what the Bering Sea is. “That is not a place I would like to be, out on that barge right now,” she continues. ![]() ![]() “This is what happens when you don’t respect the Bering Sea,” she says, watching as her competitor’s gold-mining ship, only a few miles from shore, nearly gets swallowed by waves.Īlso Read: Netflix Launches 'Black Lives Matter' Collection With More Than 45 Films, TV Series and Docs In the new clip, Emily Riedel, the captain of The Eroica, says an I-told-you-so from shore. In a sneak peek of the episode obtained by TheWrap, onlookers watch in horror as Kerr sends out a desperate call: “Mayday Mayday! Myrtle Irene is in catastrophic dire failure!” We - and Discovery Channel - teased the scary scene back in March. Friday’s “Bering Sea Gold” may just spell the end for the Myrtle Irene. ![]()
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