Bering Sea Gold

Love this show, enough to sign into IMDb and leave a review for the first time.

Bering Sea Gold features real life gold miners with a difference - dredging the ocean floor for gold, from home made punts (small boats) and super dodgy equipment.

Better than Gold Rush Alaska, Black Gold and Deadliest Catch. If you're into these kind of reality "man" shows, you will rate this highly.

Only up to episode 2 and it's got great story telling, actually quite suspenseful in parts, real characters from all walks of life and operating all sorts of equipment.

It's very similar to Gold Rush Alaska but has better content.

Editing is good, not a lot of that American "fast forward/rewind" technique like in Gold Rush & Dr. Phil...

Give it a crack and rate it. Easily a 8-9 for me.

Why is it that Vernon Akerson is the only one of all the gold entrepreneurs bet does never diving into the Bering Sea? If you think you are one of the big boys then go play on the playground.

The Kelly's have no clue how to run a successful business , karma will get you every time , grifters. They need to be barred from doing business in nome I can't believe they have not been run out of town by now most communities in this country would not put up with them you can spot their grift fro a mile away they think they are gonna fake it til they make it but ain't gonna happen , it's like watching the tax and wily coyote chase each other trying to get gold in the process , @#$& &$#@ man old man get it together boys and leave the pomeenkes alone you can't steal there knowledge and expertise that is earned through sweat equity boys.

I started watching this from season one and have watched every episode. This was a very entertaining show until the last 2 seasons where it has just become silly, childish and at times just stupid. I now fast forward through the side interviews and other silly activities. Zeke and crew have lost their mind. The beavis and butthead "laugh" highlighted by the shows staff is one I fast forward through. The Steve Riedel episodes, Chris Kelly secrets to mining,,,,,, and others have all made this show really stupid. Now season 13 episode 9 started out with Disney type characters.

PLEASE get back to the scripting that made this show really good and not the kiddy antics now seen.

FIRST IMPRESSION (seasons 1 and 2)

Yes I'm hooked on this latest reality offering. BSG is a must see if you enjoy seeing a disparate group of quirky characters struggle to get rich quick. Many are up to their eyeballs in debt and need a mini El Dorado to put them back on their financial feet. Most people contemplate panning or digging for their gold. Not this group of adventurers. They all go out to sea on dinky little barges and dive for their gold. Sucking up the booty from the sea floor using industrial strength vacuum hoses. All except the Pomrenkes who mine from a massive barge using a dredge to scoop up gold bearing silt.

I love the contrasts of characters in this show. The aforementioned Pomrenkes exhibit the classic father and son schism that makes for good drama. Zeke lusts after Emily to no avail. Emily has aspirations to be an opera singer. Yeah right! And Sarah Palin had aspirations of being president. Emily's dad is a complex character who drives his boss Vern crazy. And then there's Scott, an anti hero if ever there was one. I was amazed to see him return for a second series. Not only that, he had 'friends' working on his boat. Although I don't know how long they'll last as friends.

All in all it's a very entertaining show. I doubt whether any of them will become rich but they are on an interesting journey.

LATEST IMPRESSION (seas0ons 3 and 4)

Sadly BSG has now become a farcical soap opera. Little time is now spent focusing on gold dredging. Season 4 is more about the antics of featured 'personalities' such as Brad Kelly, Shawn Pomrenke and Emily Reidel. I find none of these people particularly appealing and personally question the authenticity of this show. Some say it's scripted and I wouldn't be surprised if that was revealed to be the case. Call me cynical but I smell a rat. I now find this show hard to watch and sincerely hope the producers return the focus of the program to gold digging adventurers trying to make it big.

Season 15 Has this show finally jumped the shark with a pathetic fist fight taking place on the pier? I just laughed at what I saw.

If you also feel jaded by this version of 'reality' then you could do a lot worse than watching Yukon Gold, a show without the gimmicks that BSG feels is necessary to chase the ratings.