But they're keeping a close eye on sophomore skipper Hank Schimschat, whose 80-foot barge proves to be tougher competition than anyone expected.ĭiscovery premiered the fifth season of BERING SEA GOLD on Friday, Septemat 9pm ET/PT. Gold" and his dad Steve on The Christie Rose are gunning for their first ever 1,000-ounce season. Will this be the season that Emily proves that "the best man for the job" is actually a woman? Meanwhile, Shawn Pomrenke aka "Mr. Last winter, Emily floundered as captain pulling in just four ounces of gold and spending a fortune on new, cutting-edge equipment. Emily came to Nome, following in the footsteps of her dad Steve (who was fired from his first dredge, failed at ice mining and lost his dredge last summer after it got repossessed). Back for her second year as captain is 26-year-old Emily Riedel, Alaska's first and only female dredge owner. And for most of these operations, it's a family affair with guarded secrets and techniques to find the gold. But how much can they push their crews before major injury - or even death - strikes? With the stakes greater than ever, it isn't long before drama hits the Bering Sea. With more competition and a short Alaskan summer, the miners battle treacherous conditions and each other in hopes of finding gold. Summertime in Nome brings a flood of miners all staking claim to what was once a closely kept secret - two small gold-rich areas off the coast of Alaska. On Friday, Maat 10pm ET/PT, Discovery premiered the fourth season of BERING SEA GOLD. In Season 3, this series follows six dredge, including: The Christine Rose, as Shawn faces off against a rival from another boat The Wild Ranger, as Vernon dredges off of the mystic Sledge Island, which is supposedly rich with gold The Eroica (formerly The Edge), as Emily Riedel steps it up as a leader after her fallout with boyfriend Zeke The Clark, which returns after a year off, with Zeke at the helm after battling and firing his former love interest, Emily newcomer The Minnow, helmed by Steve Riedel, who's trying to steer clear of his nemesis, Scott and The Gold Grabber, captained by Hank Schimschat, from whom Scott must learn to take orders instead of giving them, as he now works as a deckhand. 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. 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.
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