. >> emily rydel is the only female in alaska bering sea gold and what a cool show. only woman.>> thank you so much for having me. >> last season was tough for you. so tell us about this season. are you going to prove all of the critics wong and prove a woman can hold a show. >> i think any woman in a professional industry has to prove herself. it just struck me as you said that. gosh, i feel like it is always a struggle. even if you succeed one season and i failed the next and then i have to succeed again. it is always a struggle. >> and it is dangerous what you do. i think we have a clip of part of it. let's take a look. >> what is it like to be [ inaudible ]. >> can't let that ten inch work you. you have to own it. >> do you copy? >> talk to us about the moments this season where you felt most in fear of your life? >> you know i'm a captain and i have a crew to take care of. and most of the time i'm in fear for their life. just right there, that instant with anthony, you lose communications and you are under water operating heavy equipment and you can get a limb sucked up a h

stuart: that lady right, there that is emily rydell the star of the "bering sea gold," sheer she is,lemen. >> thank you for having me. stuart: in the middle of the winter and sometimes in the spring, you go into the bering sea, jump over the side take a great big tube and the vacuum stuff up from the bottom, is that accurate? >> as accurate as you can present it without getting into the technical details. stuart: but you make a tv show out of that. >> yeah, discovery showed up and expressed interest. we rolled along with it. i was amazed. i wanted to mine for gold to pay for a master's degree, discovery is like hello, we want to film the ridiculousness. stuart: it helps that you are female and prepared to dive into the bering sea, that helps, doesn't it? >> helps being crazy and also being female, yes. stuart: how many pounds or tons of dirt do you have to vacuum up for one ounce of gold. you can give me that statistic? >> a phenomenal amount. >> i know, hundreds of pounds? >> not quite tons. whenever we clean our box, we have buckets and buckets and totes full of dirt that we have t