Shawn confronts his dad for the sake of the family operation - to disastrous results. Emily brings her father aboard The Eroica. When Vernon loses a diver, he turns to an unlikely replacement - his daughter Elaine.
In the frontier town of Nome, Alaska, there's a gold rush on. But you've never seen gold mining like this before - here, the precious metal isn't found in the ground. It's sitting in the most unlikely of places: the bottom of the frigid, unpredictable Bering Sea. And there are a handful of people willing to risk it all to bring it to the surface.