Emily Riedel

New Gold Dredging Season Starts Now in Alaska's Bering Sea

Fixing the contraption that sucks gold off the ocean floor. This has to work.

The shallow Bering Sea gold deposits are gone. We must dive deeper.

No more jury-rigging. It's time for the Eroica to grow up.

Installing outboards, helm, and fuel tank on our gold dredge

Bering Sea gold rush is on, but Arctic icebergs still present danger

Gold in Our Pockets on the First Dive of the Season

We dove deeper than ever and found surprisingly hot gold

Dredging gold at $1,000 an hour in the Bering Sea

One day $15K gold haul under Alaskas midnight sun!

This is where the Bering Sea has been hiding nuggets

We're getting evicted from our shop

We need to hunt new gold and old drilling logs could lead us there

Another 26 ounces of gold in the sluice, just broke $100k

Did a child weld this? No wonder our boat is sinking

I can't believe how many nuggets we're finding in the Dream Mat!

Here's how long it took to find 17 ounces of gold in the Bering Sea

Biggest Dream Mat nugget yet. We've been losing these all along

Hunting for shallow Bering Sea gold deposits after big storms stirred up the ocean

We're cooking up a day-and-a-half's worth of gold

How one little boat finds gold in the vast Bering Sea

We struck a rich gold deposit in some ancient underwater muskeg in the Bering Sea

This is the biggest gold nugget we've ever mined in the Bering Sea

We were just about to leave this spot when we hit a paystreak! (gold weigh-in)

This "Treasure Trench" is exactly the type of gold-bearing ground we've been looking for

This thick gravel pay layer is practically oozing gold

Deep underwater ditch produces 10 ounces of gold - how much more is there?

Our Massive Last Cleanup of the Season!