1/10/17 Bering Sea Gold, How Do They Survive?

    This is another show similar to Gold Rush except the groups chasing after gold do it on a smaller scale and their drama more often is more important than their goal of trying to get gold.  Bering Sea Gold has the groups diving into the Bering Sea, off Nome, Alaska.  The other seasons had them doing it during the summer which at least when they got out of the water they dressed in t-shirts and stuff.  This season had them diving into the sea through a foot thick layer of ice which has to make it that much more dangerous and scary.  Some of these people barely notice the dangers.  There is a father/sons team that this season split, the sons were trying to separate from the dad, but then they set up their diving rig right next to their dad.  The dad is relentless with the insults, saying how he is more of a man because he has a girlfriend younger than either son, that he has made a baby before either of them has had a kid.  After he insults them for a while, he goes on and on how he wants his boys back under him, and how they need daddy.  These are all grown ass men.
    There is a guy who is constantly investing on the latest technology to beat everybody, he brings in a $100,000 robot that is supposed to be great at digging and dredging.  I don't get it though, the robot is $100000 plus he seems to need another three or four guys to put it in the water, then a guy to be in the water, and at the end of the season he made roughly $50,000.  I don't see how that makes him profitable.
    The only one who seems to be serious is a family who during this time of year decides to go check out a new area to see of it is worth moving their big operation, they use a big boat with a backhoe type set-up which he just brings up tons of dirt.  These guys are the only ones making millions in the other seasons.
    Finally, there is one of the least liked women on TV I have ever seen.  She brings nothing to the show, she goes from one bad mood swing to another, she ruined her relationship with a childhood friend by scamming him out of rig and then never paid for it.  She is just nuts, but she gathers a group of chick divers and she is going to make miners of them, although of the three new chicks, one leaves the first day citing concern for her life, seeing the shitty equipment they rely on, and the other two barely make it through the season, after having confrontations with the girl that invited them up in the first place.  This last group makes about $13,000 which doesn't sound too bad, until you split it with a group of four. 
    The knuckleheads with the bully dad made a combined $6000.  That cannot last long, just with the smoke habit some of these guys have, I don't see how they survive year round on such small amounts of gold.