What would you do if you got an opportunity to dig gold out of mines and make millions from it? Miner searching for gold isn’t something anyone would like to miss out on, thus taking advantage of the audience’s interest in an adventure-filled treasure hunt; Discovery Channel released a reality series titled Bering Sea Gold based on the same concept on January 27, 2012.
Directed by John Gray, the new season of the beloved series titled ” Bering Sea Gold” is ready to return with a bang this fall season.
The series focuses on a group of miners purchasing, renting, and retrofitting vessels with the capacity of navigating, digging, and extracting in the depths of the northern Alaskan shorelines below the icecaps where stakes are high for the miners.
The reality series is narrated by Thorn Beers, Hugo Speer, and Mike Rowe for viewers to enjoy and watch the gold miners on their day-to-day journey.
The reality series brought by Discovery Channel has managed to maintain its position amongst the viewers as it recently got renewed for a seventeenth season after being run for sixteen successful seasons.
The new season will witness the miners discovering gold under all odd conditions, including equipment malfunction, high tides, inclement weather, and a schedule to follow due to the State only giving the miners a fixed amount of time to conduct their operations.
The miners work against all odds to discover gold hidden under glaciers and ice caps in Alaska. The series witnesses miners from all across the world coming to Nome in search of gold during the summer due to the melting glaciers having gold in them.
The series was surrounded by controversy for a while after a featured diver, John Bunce, committed suicide during the filming of the reality series. The series has managed to hold its place due to showcasing the reality of miners’ life and their struggle to discover gold without exaggeration and in an authentic manner.
Bering Sea Gold Season 16 – Recap
The previous season witnessed several ups and downs in the miner’s life and kicked off with Chir McCully, a young gangster miner, challenging Mr. Gold’s dominance.
What a wild ride the previous season has been, with the mining crews being set on the same goal of extracting gold, as much gold as they can from below ground, in little time, while the clock keeps ticking for the mining licenses possessed by these miners.
A visibly pregnant Emily leaves Jane as the new in charge of the ongoing mining operation. The last episode of the season starts with an intense battle of gold search between Mr. Gold and Chris to obtain the top spot on the gold board while Kelly’s team is at risk of not being able to find any gold.
With the cold weather getting out of hand, the miners make several difficult decisions to find gold for their crew to obtain their first position on the leadership board.
Mr. Gold gives his best and tough competition to the new guy in town, Chris, throughout the last episode due to his desire to continue his streak of being in the first position on the board.
The first dive Mr Gold’s team took led them to no gold, and they soon realized they were wasting time at the same spot because someone else’s crew dug the gold out before their team.
Meanwhile, Chris and his crew, who started out hot in the new season, have continued to maintain his streak. In the last episode, he with his crew work hard on difficult grounds to get gold and complete his gold of becoming the first one on the board.
Meanwhile, after taking some dangerous dives, Vernon, Jane, and Zeke’s crew manage to find gold and end the season with a bang.
The season ended with Chris McCully being successful in beating Mr. Gold by collecting 112 oz of gold, while Mr. Gold came second by collecting 98.15 oz of gold. Kris Kelly’s mining crew wasn’t able to extract much gold and ended up in the last position.
Bering Sea Gold Season 17 Episode 1 – What To Expect?
The new season of the reality series is ready to begin with a bang, with the miners elevating their operations after a new industrial revolution sweeps in the Nome. With a cracked pud in his way, it might mean disaster for Shawn while Kelly struggles with his faulty equipment.
The previous season’s champion, Chris, starts the new season with a bang while Vernon buys an unorthodox dredge. Mr Gold returns to work on the Myrtle Irene while Emily and Vernon try newly recruited divers who have unconventional methods.
Bering Sea Gold Season 17 Episode 1 – Release Date
Bering Sea Gold Season 17 Episode 1 will be released on October 6, 2023, Friday at 9:00 PM [E.T.] on Discovery Channel. The reality series will have 10- 12 episodes with a duration of 60 minutes. The new episode is released every Friday.
- In the U.S. – at 9:00 PM [E.T.] on 6 October 2023
- In the U.K. – at 2:00 AM [G.M.T.] on 7 October 2023
- In Korea – at 10:00 AM [K.S.T.] on 7 October 2023
- In Japan – at 10:00 AM [J.S.T.] on 7 October 2023
- In India – at 6:30 AM [I.S.T.] on 7 October 2023
- In Australia – at 12:00 PM [A.C.T.] on 7 October 2023
Bering Sea Gold Season 17: Streaming Guide
Ardent fans of the reality series can access the episodes on Discovery Channel and the app, so if you have a friend living in the U.S., ask them to lend their passwords to you. VPN can be helpful for people living outside of the U.S. Currently, no other platform except Amazon Prime has acquired the right to air the episodes.
