NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...
The way to unlock Nolan's Cross is built into the cross itself.
If the ark is here, it will be found using Nolan's Cross.
Let's dig there.
GARY: Ooh, look at that.
BILLY: There's a boulder.
Maybe this boulder is marking the spot.
This is the copper artifact found on Lot 8.
This could be identified as Viking.
ROGER: Water started coming in faster and faster.
RICK: We may have hit a flood tunnel.
RONNIE: Whoa! Whoa! Hey!
NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for
an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.
So far, they have found a stone slab
with strange symbols carved into it...
man-made workings that date to medieval times,
and a lead cross whose origin may be connected
to the Knights Templar.
To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.
And according to legend, one more will have to die
before the treasure can be found.
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-SCOTT: Morning, Paul. -COTE: Morning. -RICK: Morning.
So you've got the horizontal drills
-right by the shaft. -Yeah, yeah.
I guess the next stop is the shaft bottom?
Shaft bottom.
That's where we're going.
We're getting ready to lower the drill there.
And start probe drilling right at the bottom.
-That's good. -Yeah.
NARRATOR: It is the beginning
of another hopeful day on Oak Island
as Rick Lagina and Scott Barlow
arrive in the Money Pit area
to oversee a new probe-drilling operation
at the base of the Garden Shaft that could help
finally solve a 229-year-old treasure mystery.
The priority, in my opinion,
-is to drill the tunnel. -Right.
SCOTT: Look at that, right there.
RICK: Wow.
Those are big beams.
NARRATOR: Three weeks ago,
after extending the 18th-century Garden Shaft
down to an approximate depth of 100 feet,
the team was elated to reach a potentially
17th-century wooden tunnel.
A tunnel that a previous core-drilling operation
has tracked westward into the so-called Baby Blob,
where high traces of gold and silver
have been detected by water testing
between 80 and 120 feet belowground.
We cannot find any sign of walls or a ceiling.
NARRATOR: However, the team was stunned
to discover that the section of tunnel
that they uncovered beneath the Garden Shaft
had been partially dismantled sometime in the past.
-Big day here. -Yeah.
This horizontal drill program
is gonna be, uh, very important to us.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Now, having just finished
extending the Garden Shaft
down to a total depth of 106 feet,
over the course of the next few days,
representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited
will conduct a probe-drilling operation to look for sections
of the tunnel that may still be intact
and hopefully pinpoint the location
of the possible treasure.
MARTY: Mystery number one.
No tops and no sides of the tunnel.
Did somebody remove 'em? Why?
Did somebody do it intentionally,
so the thing would collapse? Why?
We're searching for a great treasure here.
I have said many times a collapse
would be an excellent way to hide something.
The sooner we get to drilling,
-the more information we get. -That's right.
If you encounter something and you say,
"Hey, this is unusual,"
-Please let Scott or myself or someone know. -Yeah, yeah, of course, yeah.
And maybe we have to readjust the plan.
-Yeah. -RICK: It's been a long
and difficult road to try to chase this tunnel.
It's just an intensive process.
The hope is that we're nearing the end of it.
The Garden Shaft has been extended to the point
where that work is over and done with.
And now we begin the process of drilling.
We all have great hope for that.
When you drill into the tunnel itself,
we would like to get samples every ten feet of the tunnel.
-Yeah. -Accurate records, right?
-Yeah. -We want to know distances,
elevations.
Because that, those samples will go out
-to the lab for carbon dating. -Yeah.
So I look forward to that.
I've got this tingling in my toes.
(laughing)
Or in my hands, whatever, uh...
-Make sure we check his pockets at the end of the day. -(laughing)
SCOTT: I'll turn him upside-down and shake him.
-Anyway, we'll let you get to it. -COTE: Yeah, okay.
-Thank you. -See ya, Paul.
NARRATOR: As Dumas prepares for the probe-drilling operation
in the Garden Shaft...
GARY: What's the battle plan, Billy?
BILLY: I guess the battle plan is
continue finding good stuff over here on my right.
GARY: Yeah, and this is the place to dig.
This is the hot spot in the swamp.
-Yeah. -JACK: Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the southeast corner of the swamp,
next to the potentially 500-year-old stone road--
or ship's wharf-- Jack Begley, Gary Drayton
and Billy Gerhardt are excavating
a mysterious wooden structure that was first discovered
three weeks ago.
I think we're the first people to dig this up
-since it was built. -Right.
JACK: And the more artifacts that we have found,
they tend to suggest that this area could be
from pre-Money Pit discovery.
-Oh, yeah. Same as the road. -So... Yeah.
NARRATOR: In the past week,
while investigating this feature,
the team has unearthed hand-forged iron spikes,
a possibly ancient metal tool,
and a piece of a wooden barrel,
offering evidence that this structure
may be related to the stone road
and, possibly,
an operation to offload cargo from a ship
onto Oak Island.
The questions that arise are what kind of cargo
could it have been?
And just where is it now?
You have to think that that road was built
only because you had something really important
to go on here or off, one or the other, right?
Yeah, and it went just over the hill
there in that Money Pit area.
-Right. -GARY: Well, let's go for some
more of those old finds
-and let's fill our pockets. -I'm ready.
Get the top pocket open, get ready.
All right, mate, let's find some artifacts.
RICK: We had hopes that the stone road would
be our point of beginning, i.e. the route
that may be heading towards the Money Pit.
And it did lead somewhere.
It led to the stone path.
Then we lost the trail.
Where do we go from here?
There's certainly unexplainable discoveries
in the body of the swamp.
I believe they are associated
with the mystery and we continue
to try to uncover them.
See the band of rocks on top of the--
JACK: On top of that bit of swamp.
And it's all the same depth, right?
JACK: That's weird.
BILLY: I don't know, Jack, but that's looking suspiciously
like a bit of a road over top of the swamp.
-Like someone buried it on purpose. -Right.
JACK: They wanted to cover their tracks.
This could be the road we were looking for
that leads to the Money Pit.
NARRATOR: In 2019,
the team discovered aerial photos of the island
dating back to the 1930s,
which revealed a stone pathway
running between the swamp and the Money Pit area...
...that, unfortunately, was later
destroyed by searcher activities in the 1960s.
However, could Jack Begley be correct
that Billy has uncovered
a section of that same pathway
next to the stone road
in the southeast corner of the swamp?
What we found here is really exciting,
and we need to let all the guys know.
And they have to come over here and take a look at that,
'cause it could be a new discovery.
-Yeah. -A new road that we didn't know existed.
We might be really onto something.
GARY: Agreed, mate. Let's share the good news.
This was a good dig.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
Welcome back, Carmen.
NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley joins archaeologist Laird Niven
and archaeometallurgist Emma Culligan
for a meeting with blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge in the Oak Island laboratory.
We have two different artifacts we wanted to show you today.
They were recovered from a dig that we were doing
in the southeast corner of the swamp.
NARRATOR: Carmen will be assessing the possible
metal tool and iron spike that were found
near the mysterious wooden structure
just one week ago.
So we're hoping some of these
artifacts that we found can help tell the story.
Really?
JACK: Wow.
No way.
This is French. From the early 1600s
to no later than 1750, 1760.
JACK: Wow, it speaks
to hauling around the southeast corner of the swamp.
They were hauling something, yes.
NARRATOR: In the Oak Island laboratory,
blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge
has just given his assessment
that an iron backing bolt
that was found near the mysterious wooden structure
and the stone road in the swamp could be of French origin
and date as far back
as the 17th century.
So this might be some evidence to people doing
a lot of hauling or using oxen for that work.
I tend to think they were.
RICK: Oxen come down the road
and pull a ship or a load up the slipway.
I think that's a very plausible explanation for it.
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best.
If that is real connective tissue
to what happened here long ago,
maybe that's a step towards understanding
the work on this island, relative to the mystery.
JACK: Our other object--
You can see remnants of the wood
that's still on top of this piece of iron.
So we didn't know if it was a fastener
or if it was some type
of a tool that had a wooden handle.
CARMEN: What I'm looking at is probably something 14 inches long.
But why is it so thin down here?
What's the, uh, metallurgy on this?
So it's too big for me to pop it in for a full scan.
So I did only get
a section of it just to get a good look at the cross section.
NARRATOR: To provide Carmen with additional context,
Emma has scanned the artifact
using the X-ray fluorescence spectrometer--
a device that emits nondestructive radiation
to reveal an object's elemental composition.
EMMA: This one, with its high manganese content,
it's too high to be considered modern
and it's jumping
from different percentages throughout the metal.
I think it is early 1700s and before that.
-JACK: Really? -EMMA: Yeah.
Because how inconsistent the manganese content is
throughout the metal.
I think it's Swedish metal.
-CARMEN: Oh, I see. -EMMA: Because the Swedish had
a natural manganese content
in their iron.
Yeah. Well, that's what we've been suspecting
could've been there, was a wharf that extended out.
Yeah, it'd be a wooden wharf
-that extended out from the beach. -Correct. Yeah. Yeah.
NARRATOR: A wharf pin?
Of Swedish origin that could predate the 1700s?
But if so, could Carmen Legge's notion
of a possible Viking connection have any basis in reality?
Templars used Vikings for transportation to come
to a promised land--
North America.
NARRATOR: Two weeks ago,
retired professor of psychology Dr. Doug Symons
presented the Oak Island team with his published research...
SYMONS: While they're in Jerusalem,
they interact with knights
who would form the Knights Templar.
NARRATOR: ...suggesting that members of the Viking culture may have
conspired with the medieval order of the Knights Templar
to hide priceless religious artifacts
on Oak Island more than 800 years ago.
Is it possible that this wharf pin
could offer evidence that Dr. Symons' theory is true?
And if so, could it also be related
to other ancient discoveries
that the team has made in the swamp,
including the 800-year-old paved area
that was uncovered in 2019,
as well as a piece of ship's railing that was found in 2020,
and which was dated to as early as the 8th century.
JACK: It really appears like there could have been a wharf here
and that someone was hauling goods
pre-Money Pit discovery
in the southeast corner of the swamp.
-We know there was an operation going on. -JACK: Mm-hmm.
And hopefully we figure out what they were hauling.
Oh, yes.
JACK: Thank you, Carmen,
for properly analyzing what these are.
CARMEN: All right, very good.
NARRATOR: The following morning...
...as the horizontal probe-drilling operation gets
underway in the Garden Shaft...
...on Lot 5, located near the shore
on the western side of the island...
Hey, everybody.
-Hi. -Hi, Jack.
I guess it's all hands on deck today, huh?
-Yeah. -Yes.
NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley joins
archaeologists Helen Sheldon,
Moya MacDonald, Jamie Kouba
and Fiona Steele
as they continue investigating a large stone foundation.
FIONA: Well, we're finally down at the floor level
and it feels good to start seeing things happening.
JACK: After what you found recently,
everyone else wants to get
-a bit of treasure for themselves. -(laughter)
NARRATOR: Since Rick, Marty and Craig Tester purchased
Lot 5 one year ago,
the team has made
a number of incredible discoveries in this feature,
including potentially 16th-century Venetian beads,
a cement-like substance that has also been found
around the tunnel beneath the Garden Shaft
and a 14th-century lead barter token,
which, just like the lead cross that was found
in 2017 at Smith's Cove,
may be connected to the Knights Templar.
And, just one week ago,
Jamie Kouba found a decorative artifact
that was almost entirely composed of silver.
All right, well, can I sift
-through your material? -Would you, please?
-Yes, please. -(laughs)
-Yeah, we would love it. -All right. Let's get to it.
NARRATOR: Now, Jack will assist the archaeology team
by sifting through the materials
they have just excavated from the structure
in order to look for additional clues
and potential valuables.
RICK: This feature on Lot 5
is beginning to shape up to...
suggest that people have been here for a long time,
perhaps pre-searcher era.
But what that activity is, what it represents,
does it have anything to do
with the treasure story or the mystery?
We don't know yet.
MOYA: I have something interesting.
It's like this really blue-ish fine clay.
HELEN: Oh, look at that!
FIONA: It's got a slight blue tint to it.
So, Jack, do you want to come and have a look at this?
JACK: Yeah. What'd you find?
FIONA: I'm looking at the soils
and I'm trying to, like, follow
-this blue-ish clay. -JACK: Yeah.
So, why is there clay here?
Because, like in other places
we've dug around here, you just get this sandy,
silt subsoil and it just keeps going.
We don't actually hit clay.
JACK: That blue-gray clay looks a lot like
that deep down Money Pit clay.
I mean, it's not completely out of the realm of possibility.
NARRATOR: Blue clay?
Found in the stone foundation on Lot 5?
In 1804, while excavating the original Money Pit,
members of the Onslow Company discovered a packed layer
of blue clay at a depth of 40 feet,
which they believed acted as a sealant
to stop the legendary flood tunnel
from feeding seawater into the treasure shaft.
MOYA: So similar.
NARRATOR: Could this blue clay be further evidence
that this structure on Lot 5
may have a direct connection to the Money Pit?
I don't want to jump to conclusions and say it is,
but maybe we can test it,
and see if it has similar chemical signatures
-as the Money Pit soils. -JACK: Yeah.
So, put that in bags.
Very interesting. We're gonna sample this.
-Give it to Emma. -JACK: Well, cool find, Moya.
-I hope it's a match. -MOYA: Me, too.
NARRATOR: As the probe-drilling operation continues
more than 100 feet underground
in the Garden Shaft...
RICK: Welcome, lady and gentlemen,
to what I think is gonna be a very interesting
and unique presentation.
NARRATOR: ...Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with other members of the team, meet once again
in the war room with researcher John Edwards.
Everyone is quite familiar
with John Edwards's work to date.
He promised, at the last meeting he had,
that he would come up with X marks the spot,
which is what you're always arguing for, right?
Having said that, John, I'll turn it over to you.
EDWARDS: Appreciate it.
The last war room, I presented a theory
that Oak Island may be the possible resting place
of the Ark of the Covenant.
And there are spots on Nolan's Cross
that I think are relevant to the Tree of Life,
and they could be the actual place to dig.
NARRATOR: In light of the numerous discoveries
made by the team on Oak Island during recent years
which have been dated
to between the 12th and 18th centuries,
and which also may be connected
to the medieval order of the Knights Templar...
EDWARDS: I've spent the past 30 years
studying symbols and icons.
NARRATOR: ...last week,
Rick Lagina invited John Edwards
to present documents related to the secretive fraternity
known as the Freemasons,
who some believe descended from the Templar order.
Now, interestingly,
I have acquired some ancient books
that have codes and maps.
NARRATOR: Within these documents,
John found not only an image of what appears to be Oak Island
but also what he believes are encoded messages
that suggest the Templar order
buried sacred religious artifacts,
including the Ark of the Covenant,
on Oak Island nearly 800 years ago.
And since then, their descendants
in the Masonic order have conspired
to keep them from being discovered.
John also believes that the key to finding
where these treasures may be buried
is the megalithic formation of six boulders
on the island's surface known as Nolan's Cross,
which, like other researchers,
John believes is part of a larger,
ten-point religious formation referred to as the Tree of Life.
The way to unlock Nolan's Cross is built into the cross itself.
NARRATOR: Since John's first presentation,
Rick, Marty and Craig allowed him
to work with surveyor Steve Guptill
to investigate Nolan's Cross
and the believed locations of the other markers
on the Tree of Life, known as sefirot.
And when you go and look at the two arms of the cross,
it's 720 feet.
And on the spine of Nolan's Cross,
you have 864.
Everything was divisible by 72.
John, what is the importance of 72?
NARRATOR: Written in the early 12th century by Hugues de Payens
and Bernard of Clairvaux, who founded the Knights Templar,
the "Latin Rule," also known
as "Specific Behavior of the Templar Order,"
was a document consisting of 72 directives
that all Templar Knights were trained to live by.
Could John Edwards be correct
that the number 72 was intentionally used
in the construction of Nolan's Cross,
and that it may offer more evidence
that the Templar order is connected to
the Oak Island mystery?
If so, how might it help pinpoint the location
of priceless religious treasures?
Okay.
EDWARDS: Where is the "X"
on Oak Island?
Now, if the ark is here,
it will be found at either
the Yesod, the Da'ath,
the Tiferet on Nolan's Cross.
NARRATOR: According to many researchers,
the Templar order adopted imagery
from the Kabbalistic order of Judaism
that associated the Tree of Life
with ten divine principles known as sefirot.
These attributes, such as Yesod, or "foundation"
Tiferet, or "beauty," and Hod, or "humility"
are believed to lead one on a spiritual path to God.
MARTY: It's on Tom's land?
-STEVE: Yeah. -This is all Tom's property.
Maybe we should take a machine in there.
That was what I was thinking, but it's not my land,
so I was waiting, I was waiting for you to say it.
-Yeah. -But, yeah, that is curious.
I think these are eminently diggable.
I think it's
a very elegant theory.
But as John and I have had many discussions,
a theory is but a theory
till you hold the proof in your hand.
We'll only know if it has relevance when we dig.
-What say you all? -Absolutely.
-Sure. -Yeah.
(laughter)
RICK: I'd say, I'd say yes, too.
-72 times, yes. -(laughter)
MARTY: There you have it.
NARRATOR: As a new day begins on Oak Island...
-GARY: Billy. -BILLY: Hey, Gary.
We've spent a lot of time at the front of the swamp there.
It's nice to be at the back.
This is exciting.
-This was a John Edwards spot? -JACK: Mm-hmm.
NARRATOR: ...Jack Begley, Gary Drayton
and Billy Gerhardt are about to begin
an excavation in the northern region of
the triangle-shaped swamp.
And at a location of one of the sefirot
on the Tree of Life known as Tiferet,
where researcher John Edwards believes that
priceless religious treasures
may have been buried by members of the Knights Templar
some eight centuries ago.
JACK: It's pretty rocky in here.
It's a lot darker by you than it is over here.
That boulder should be on C horizon, right?
JACK: Oh, I think it is.
See, that's not C horizon, right?
No, that's not C horizon.
So that boulder is...
-That boulder was put there. -That boulder was put there.
-JACK: That-that's pretty awesome. -BILLY: Yeah.
NARRATOR: The C horizon
is a geological term
for the natural layer of ground soil
that lies just above bedrock.
Because Billy and Jack
believe that the earth beneath this large boulder,
where John Edwards marked the sefirot,
known as Tiferet,
appears to have been previously disturbed,
could they be correct that the boulder
was placed here as a marker in the swamp?
If so, what might be buried underneath it?
JACK: I mean, why would you go through the effort of
pushing a boulder around if this position didn't mean anything?
The boulder could mark
-whatever's there, right? -JACK: Yeah.
BILLY: I'm pretty excited that we have a theorist's spot
that looks like somebody dug here before.
JACK: I totally agree.
And judging by the size,
we still have a lot left to dig
before we reach what might be a bottom.
We need to get Rick and Marty over here
to check this out,
but also we need Dr. Spooner
-to come and see this. -Yup.
Good work, guys.
GARY: Nice digging, Billy.
We'll be back.
NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...
RONNIE: All good?
NARRATOR: ...as the probe-drilling operation
in the Garden Shaft continues...
RICK: So, guys, this is a rather unique war room.
And I think this is a very unique piece.
I would think that everyone around this table
would agree with that.
NARRATOR: ...Rick, Marty, Craig Tester
and other members of the team
have assembled in the war room
for a meeting regarding new developments on a find
that was made one year ago on Oak Island.
RICK: This is the copper artifact that was found on Lot 8
by Gary and Jack.
-GARY: It's that. -JACK: Whoa.
Oh, yeah. This is fantastic.
NARRATOR: In 2022, while searching Lot 8
on the western side of the island,
Gary and Jack unearthed a copper artifact
that was covered with mysterious symbols.
And when renowned archaeologist Dr. Edwin Barnhart
examined the metallic composition of the object,
he presented the team with a stunning assessment.
BARNHART: It could be some sort of older object.
The other possibility is the Vikings.
NARRATOR: While Dr. Barnhart's speculation
was intriguing at the time,
after the recent discovery
of several more artifacts on the island
which may have originated in Scandinavia,
and the research of Dr. Doug Symons
suggesting that Vikings may have visited Oak Island
more than 800 years ago,
the team is eager to learn more about this mysterious object
and the ornate symbols on its surface.
RICK: It's just a gorgeous object,
but it was folded.
Remember, there were triple folds in this.
Doug reached out to a conservator in Canada.
They were able to actually unfold it.
And what we have here is the result
of their effort, and it is spectacular.
I think Marty and Craig, you'll see a picture there.
Yeah.
It really, really is beautiful.
-It's spectacular. -Mm-hmm.
MARTY: Well, Laird, what is it?
(laughter)
You know, the only thing I can say definitively is that
I'm virtually certain it's a decorated piece
meant to go on top of something,
so it's not an artifact in itself.
It's meant to decorate something larger.
We did some updating of the metallurgy.
What we can say is that the copper source for it
isn't local. It's not from...
-Wow. -...the area.
STEVE: Could that have been hand-made, most likely?
-Or hand designed? -LAIRD: Well... Yeah.
As a matter of fact,
they said that they believe
it was made by a process called pressblech.
And that's a technique that's been around for,
well, well over a thousand years.
NARRATOR: Dating as far back as the fifth century AD,
pressblech is a technique by which metal workers
would place a thin sheet of gold, silver or copper alloy
onto a patterned surface and then carefully apply force
in order to create a decorative appearance in the material.
The Anglo-Saxons, some western European cultures used it.
Even the Norse used this technique.
I'm gonna get Steve to bring up, uh,
some images here.
So, this is the restored artifact.
And if you look within the borders of the design,
you'll see what looks like a fish or a ribbon,
and then you have a circle above it.
In our research so far, we've only identified
one instance where we found the two symbols used together.
MARTY: Mm-hmm.
But we made a recent, uh, discovery.
This here is an old manuscript from Iceland
that has to do with astronomy and astrology.
And if you see in the lower, left-hand corner,
you'll see two symbols that look very similar together.
And we found that there's a Viking rune
that's very similar to that ribbon-like symbol,
which looks like the symbol on our copper piece.
So, this artifact could possibly be identified as Viking.
RICK: Wow.
DOUG: This is actually from Iceland,
and it's an old manuscript that has
to do with astronomy and astrology.
There's a Viking rune that's very similar
to that ribbon-like symbol,
which looks like the symbol on our copper piece,
so, this artifact could possibly be identified as Viking.
NARRATOR: In the war room,
Doug Crowell has just presented
an Icelandic document that suggests
the copper artifact found one year ago
on Lot 8 bears astronomical symbols
and may possibly be of Viking origin.
DOUG: Just today, in our research, we found
another artifact.
This is a quadrant from an astrolabe
that's from Southern France.
1291 to 1310 is the date
they believe it was made in.
NARRATOR: An astrolabe is an instrument
that was invented in Ancient Greece
in order to track the positions
of the stars, planets and the Moon in the sky.
With over 1,000 historically-documented uses,
astrolabes were critical tools employed during medieval times
throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia,
to build megalithic structures and houses of worship.
However, they were also used as navigational guides on land,
as well as the high seas.
Steve, if you could go to the next slide, please.
There's our two symbols we're evaluating.
And within this medieval astrolabe from the 13th century,
you'll see the repeating use of those two symbols.
Here we have the lead cross
found on the island.
It's from Southern France.
So, this is yet another device
that may originate in Southern France.
Now this is kind of exciting to me because
we have Professor Gaspani telling us about Nolan's Cross
possibly being created in the 1200s.
There's six navigational stars that Nolan's Cross aligns with.
And then we have another artifact here on the island
that could have, possibly, a couple of symbols on it
that relate to ancient navigation, as well.
Wow.
NARRATOR: In the past year,
Italian archaeoastronomer
Professor Adriano Gaspani
has made two presentations regarding his belief
that Nolan's Cross was created nearly 800 years ago
by members of the Knights Templar,
and that the six megalithic boulders
in the formation were placed on the island's surface
according to alignments with specific stars in the night sky.
Could Doug's notion be correct
that the copper artifact was part of an astrolabe
that members of the Viking culture
and the Knights Templar may have used
for a journey to Oak Island nearly 800 years ago,
and also to create Nolan's Cross?
This is a most interesting object, and
we have to run this to ground.
I mean, what you found on the astrolabe
could be incredibly significant.
So, there's all kinds of clues.
We just have to be observant and pay attention to the details,
and I think we're doing that with this object.
-Mm-hmm. -DOUG: We have sent these images on
to Professor Gaspani to evaluate,
hoping that he might shed some light
on how this would've been used.
So that'd be good. I'm all for that.
LAIRD: Yeah. I think our research
tentacles are getting stretched out
to broader areas in the world.
I think we have an entire island of mysteries to solve,
so, let's get after it.
MARTY: Great. Thank you!
-Let's go find some more stuff. -RICK: Okeydoke.
NARRATOR: While Rick, Marty, Craig and members of the team
conclude their meeting in the war room...
ROGER: We ready to rock?
NARRATOR: ...in the Money Pit area,
the probe-drilling operation continues
more than 100 feet underground in the Garden Shaft.
SCOTT: This is exciting.
ROGER: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
-(high-pitched squealing) -(hissing)
-SCOTT: That's a lot of water. -ROGER: For sure.
Okay, bring 'em up.
Okay, Ronnie, come on up.
-RICK: Hi, Roger. -ROGER: Hey, Rick.
RICK: So is everyone out of the shaft?
-Yes. Nobody hurt. -That's great.
NARRATOR: It is a critical moment
in the Money Pit area for the Oak Island team.
ROGER: Water started coming in faster and faster,
come right out of the holes, and it was coming out of the holes,
like, just pouring out of there. It's unbelievable.
NARRATOR: Just moments ago, as representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited
were conducting a horizontal probe-drilling operation
to explore the possible treasure tunnel
beneath the Garden Shaft, more than 100 feet underground,
water began flooding into the structure.
-Is the water still coming up? -ROGER: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
Where he says the water was coming in
was around the 97-foot mark.
That's where we dug for that tunnel.
RICK: Let me just give my brother a call.
(line ringing)
Hey.
RICK: This is not the Bravo Tango call you expected.
Okay, so I'm up at the shaft right now,
and I've got Roger here and Scott.
I'm gonna turn you over to Roger.
So, Roger, here you go.
Hey, Marty, how's it going?
All right.
So, the guys drilled a couple of holes,
and they seen the water and silt
starting to come out through the lining
around the 97-foot mark, which was pretty well
where our tunnel was if you remember, right?
Then the water started gushing out of the hole,
and it started coming in at a very quick pace.
The two sets had been completely covered,
the drill was completely covered.
That's how quick the water came in.
It's a lot easier for us to drill that way
and get as much penetration with the drill.
(sniffs)
ROGER: ...no walls or no roof in there.
Oh. Sorry.
I just drank a little bit of the water,
and it's a little bit salty.
Yup.
NARRATOR: Could Rick Lagina be correct that while drilling
into a tunnel, which leads to an area
where the team has detected high traces
of precious metals deep underground,
they may have breached one of the legendary flood tunnels
that have thwarted treasure hunters
for more than two centuries?
Yeah.
ROGER: Yeah.
RICK: There's no way to overstate
the potential problems that this presents.
It could terminate the work in the Garden Shaft.
Everything seems to be coalescing here.
We're probe drilling.
We've got metals in the water.
So it does seem like we're coming together here,
on one hand.
On the other hand, we can't get to it.
And I mean, what we're experiencing now is so like
what people experienced 220 years ago
that it's downright chilling.
Always something, yes.
All right. Thanks, Marty.
-All right. See ya. Bye. -Yup. Bye.
It's a bump in the road, but we'll get some answers.
-We'll pump her out. -We'll see how big the bump is.
-Yup. -But we have the right people,
the right attitude.
We'll figure it out.
-We'll get to the bottom of it. -Yup.
RICK: Okay, well, just got to keep moving.
-ROGER: For sure. -RICK: Thank you, Roger.
-Thanks for the update. -Absolutely, Rick.
NARRATOR: Over the past two centuries,
numerous searchers believed
that they were on the verge
of recovering a fabled treasure in the Money Pit,
when disaster suddenly struck and shattered their dreams
of solving the Oak Island mystery.
Rick, Marty, Craig and their team must now confront
that daunting prospect.
However, the historic clues that they have uncovered
and the physical evidence that they have unearthed
prove more than ever that their dream is still worth...
the pursuit.
Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...
GARY: Wow! Look at this.
-CRAIG: What do we have? -GARY: Check out
that circle of stones.
JACK: Right at the spot
where John Edwards theorized
we would find something.
ERIC: Here's the artifact.
DOUG: It was found on the island.
RICK: If it is as old as we believe it is,
it is quite remarkable.
CORJAN: In a castle here in the Netherlands,
I found some symbols
that I recognize from the island.
I think the trip is warranted.
You're going to find the answers in Europe.
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