Watch us build our beautiful new pontoons and then come very close to disaster...

With snow everywhere, and the Bering Sea still frozen, there's nothing to do but get to work on the Eroica's $100,000 hull upgrade. Springtime in Western Alaska means it can be a challenge just to dig out of the snow enough to get anything done.

In this episode we set up shop, weld the pontoon sections together, demo the old hull, install the new flotation on the dredge and have a heart-stopping moment near the end.

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This is part 2 of a huge series about our summer mining season - so make sure you subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so you don't miss an episode! Here are the episodes:

1 - I lost my job on Bering Sea Gold    • I lost my job on Bering Sea Gold  
2 - Mine Rescue: Bering Sea Gold Dredge Gets a Huge Upgrade    • Mine Rescue: Bering Sea Gold Dredge G...  
3 - Bering Sea Gold Dredge Needs Major Repairs    • Bering Sea Gold Dredge Needs Major Re...  
4 - The Gold Mining Season Has Begun in Nome, Alaska    • The Gold Mining Season Has Begun in N...  
5 - We Get On The Gold In the First Dive Of The Season!    • We Get On The Gold In the First Dive ...  
6 - Nothing Can Keep Us Off The Gold (Except This Iceberg)    • Icebergs in June? | Dangerous Bering ...  
7 - First Gold Weigh In! How Much Did We Find?    • First Gold Weigh In! How Much Did We ...  
8 - What a 10-Ounce Day Looks Like on a Bering Sea Gold Dredge    • What a 10-Ounce Day Looks Like on a B...  
9 - We Found a Gold Nugget at the Bottom of the Ocean    • Bering Sea Gold Diver Finds a Nugget ...  
10 - When Everything Goes Wrong on the Bering Sea    • Gold Diver Gets a Nasty Rock Jam | Go...  
11 - $85,000 Gold Cleanup From Alaska's Bering Sea!    • $85,000 Gold Cleanup From Alaska's Be...  
12 - Mining a Gold-Rich "Quartz Vein" Under Alaska's Bering Sea | 1 OZT AN HOUR    • Dredging a Gold-Rich "Quartz Vein" Un...  
13 - 35 Degree Water In Alaskan Harbor…Seems Like the Perfect Job For The New Guy    • I’m Too Pregnant To Be Working In Fre...  
14 - $1,000 An Hour For the Old Hands, But The Greenhorn Still Can't Dive    • So Much Gold It's Coming Out of Our B...  
15 - We Blew the Gold Out of Our Sluice Box! | A Tragic Mistake    • Dumping OUNCES of Gold Back Into the ...  
16 - We Found the "Bering Sea Quartz Vein" Again and Sucked Out All the Gold    • We Found the "Bering Sea Quartz Vein"...  
17 - $57,000 Bering Sea Gold Cleanup! Surprised by how hot this ground was...    • $57,000 Bering Sea Gold Dredge Cleanup