# Bering Sea Gold show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153 "2013-11-18T00:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/1 "2013-11-18T00:34:33Z")
Anyone else like this show? It’s gold mining in Alaska in the ocean under ice. I like it better than Gold Rush. I really like Emily Riedel, she is super cute and sexy. Her main goal is to sing opera for a living. Her father is a nut though. Some of these guys are pretty good at getting the gold and some are not very good. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/2 "2013-11-20T02:46:10Z")
Well I guess I am the only fan here. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/3 "2013-11-20T04:47:44Z")
I love this show too, man. I’d never tell anyone though. You’re right about it being better than Gold Rush, which is pretty weak this season. I don’t really understand why the gold is just kind of laying on the sea floor. They said something about glaciers, but I don’t really know what a glacier is. Maybe something like a giant frozen river that slowly runs and it scrapes up then pushes the gold out to sea? ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/4 "2013-11-20T06:35:23Z")
> [@Palooka](#): > > I don’t really understand why the gold is just kind of laying on the sea floor. They said something about glaciers, but I don’t really know what a glacier is. Maybe something like a giant frozen river that slowly runs and it scrapes up then pushes the gold out to sea? I haven’t really seen the show, but I think the situation is that they’re gravel deposits that were laid down during the last ice age when sea level was lower and the Bering Straight landbridge still existed. The glaciers transported the gold from the bedrock in the mountains back during the ice age, just like the on-shore gravel deposits that were mined in the 19th and 20th centuries, but they’re underwater and so were hard/expensive to get at until now. ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/5 "2013-11-20T08:58:12Z")
I’ve watched it a few times, but for some reason I just can’t get into it the way I can with other Discovery shows (the other one, btw, is Gold Rush). If I were a prospector, though, I think I would be more inclined to try going “under the ice” than trying to operate a bulldozer. ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/6 "2013-11-20T19:42:19Z")
I like it. Some of the characters are really off-putting, though. Scott Tempertantrum just grates. Such a baby. Tries so hard to be a tough guy but acts like an entitled 12 year old. So does the guy that’s in love with Emily. Can’t remember his name. Another baby. Nothing’s ever his fault and he pouts like a 12 year old. I like the Pomrenkys and Vernon Atkison and his crew. Steve is nutty but amusing. I’m amazed at the amount of gold they suck out of the mud! ---
**Author:** ![JerrySTL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e274bd/32.png) [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/7 "2013-11-20T20:08:29Z")
Emily Riedel certainly did a foolish thing checking out the tractor. It worked good enough to pull a shed out on the ice! That gave her competition a heads-up and allowed them to buy it out from under her. Many of the people on that show seem to have ‘issues’ and make even worse that the Gold Rush crew on their worse days. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/8 "2013-11-21T03:03:50Z")
In season 1 they did not go under the ice. They just went out in the water. I guess they are starting early so the ocean is still frozen over. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/9 "2013-11-23T15:59:46Z")
Don’t think Steve Riedel wants to find gold. Maybe he’s just happy to be on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Mithras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mithras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithras)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bering-sea-gold-show/674153/13 "2015-12-15T11:27:58Z")
Reported.