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‐It's definitely a void.
‐We're gonna see right now
if we get a full scoop.

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We're hoping we'll find
the Chappell Vault.

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It's the exciting
season finale.

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The dates are rather
extraordinary.

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‐Wow.


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We have a definitive date

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when the swamp was built.

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‐It's a coin!
‐That's proof positive.

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‐That tells quite a story.
‐That might be the find
of the year.

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We may have a real whodunit.

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And we've got an artifact
you can hold in your hand.

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‐Medieval.
‐Medieval, baby!

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There is an island
in the North Atlantic

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where people have been looking
for an incredible treasure

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for more than 200 years.

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So far, they have found
a stone slab

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with strange symbols
carved into it,

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mysterious fragments
of human bone,

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and a lead cross
whose origin may stretch back

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to the days
of the Knights Templar.

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To date, six men have died
trying to solve the mystery.

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And, according to legend,

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one more will have to die

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before the treasure
can be found.

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The hope is,
today, that...
Yeah.

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...we find everything
there was to find,

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‐because the time,
the window is closing.
‐Yeah, that'd be huge.

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Weather's closing.

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After a year that saw
the Laginas and their partners

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make a number of groundbreaking
discoveries in their quest

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to solve a 225‐year‐old
treasure mystery,

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Marty, Craig, Rick and members
of their incredible team

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are nevertheless determined
not to leave the island

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without making at least
one more historic breakthrough.

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But to do so,
they will have to work fast.

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It is already November,
and only a matter of days

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until another harsh North
Atlantic winter will force them

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to suspend all operations
on the island

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for the rest of the year.

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Once November rolls around,
your days are precious.

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So we need to accelerate this
final location that we're on.

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‐Gentlemen.
‐Morning, Craig.

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‐Good morning, Craig.
‐So, what's the plan
for the morning?

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Last night when we left, we had
about 12 feet up in the can.

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So, when we come back
this morning,

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we took the hammer grab out,
and we measured it,

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‐and it was at seven.
‐Oh, five‐foot move.

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‐Good morning. Hi.
‐Pretty good news, eh?
At least to start.

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Yeah. So, we'll know here
in a minute if it's‐‐

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hopefully, it's still loose.

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But the fact
that it moved is great.

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Yeah.

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One week ago,

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while digging
in the eight‐foot‐wide shaft

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known as RF‐1...

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...a large mass, or object,

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became lodged
inside the steel caisson

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at a depth of some 170 feet
underground.

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Broke the whole shear off.

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Boy, it's disconcerting.

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In order to dislodge it,

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the team
from Irving Equipment Limited

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has spent
the past few days resting

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the 26‐ton hammer grab tool
on top of the obstruction,

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in the hopes that the sheer
weight would push it forward

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so that it can be retrieved.

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We're hoping, when RF‐1
gets down to where we push

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the plug ahead in H8,

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we'll try and bring up
what's in it.

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The one thing
or maybe several one things.

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Luckily, the team's strategy
appears to have worked.

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But what was the nature
of the large obstruction?

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Could it have been
the legendary Chappell Vault,

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first reported
by searchers in 1897?

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So, this is the one time
when it would be good

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to see wood coming up
in the spoils.

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If there really was
a wood interface,

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at this depth, that would have
to be the one thing.

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‐Wow.
‐It would be that important.

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Yeah.

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A void, nearly 200 feet deep
in the Money Pit area?

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Is it possible
that the large obstruction

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was once again
pushed out of the way?

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Where are we at, Vanessa?

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We are at 202,

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‐but we definitely had a void.
‐Mm‐hmm.

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Full grabs each time,

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but for him to have
only pulled up two grabs

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and us advance seven feet and
we're still at the same marker?

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That means there's a void below
that the material is going into.

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Well, this is good. Good job.

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All right, well... Hey, Rick!

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202. And guess what?

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There's definitely a void.

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Oh, wow.

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Rick and I have always been

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really interested in that,
because voids would be

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a strong indication
of a man‐made tunnel.

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In the Money Pit,
there are extensive tunnelings

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and/or voids created
by the hand of man.

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So if it's a void,

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that's significant.

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That's the bucketfuls we like.

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That's a bucket. Yeah.

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We'll move right along
with buckets like that.

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It's all clay,
though, isn't it?
Yeah.

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Some gravel.

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‐Yeah.
‐The vast majority on the top

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‐is the‐the gravel...
‐Yeah.

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‐...or whatever material that...
‐Yeah. Yeah.

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And it's all crushed.

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‐It's not natural materials
from here.
No.

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I'm concerned the material
on the backside of H8

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is falling down

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‐into this hole.
Yeah.

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Gravel, from nearby H8?

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Could it be the same gravel
the team used last year

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to shore up a dangerous
sinkhole in the ground

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beneath the drilling equipmen?

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‐Hello. Hello.
‐Hey, Vanessa.

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‐Well...
‐So, what do we think this is?

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This last hammer grab, to me,
that's all that came up,

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was backfill material.

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Okay.

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If it's‐‐ It's got to be coming
from H8, in my mind.

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I can't think of any other one.

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This looks serious.

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Yeah. That's the concern.

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That's what it looks like.
The collapse, probably.

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‐Um...
‐If it's falling down
from H8 again,

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we may have the same problem.

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Obviously, this could mean
another cave‐in,

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like happened last time.

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Where are we right now?

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So, we're eight inches
below the can.

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So, that puts us at, like,
203 and two inches.

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What's happening underground
in the Money Pit is dangerous.

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Material is moving and
it's moving quite aggressively.

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Where are you in terms
of a safety issue?

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Because safety
has to be paramount.

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Yeah. So, what we're seeing,
which is backfill

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from the shafts
we've dug in the years past

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start coming up in the can.

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Obviously, whatever solution
channel we're in,

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there's something moving

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that we're getting
our own backfill back.

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That's concerning to me.

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That's kind of
an all‐stop for me.

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Too much of a safety issue.

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I mean, you could start
losing equipment and then,

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God forbid, people or anything.

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‐So...
The bottom line is safety

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has to be the driver of this.

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And if you're concerned,

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now you have to be
seriously concerned, right?

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I don't know.
My‐my call would be...

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terminate the hole.

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Despite the team's belief

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that a historic breakthrough
may be just mere feet away,

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the dangerous condition
beneath the drill rig

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has forced Rick,
Marty and Craig

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to end their digging operations
at the Money Pit site.

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RF‐1 remains a very frustrating

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adventure for me,
because we didn't get

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to the bottom ten feet.

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RF‐1 told me that

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there's a collapse feature
in this area.

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Now, that demands
further exploration.

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How we do that, I'm not certain.

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I'm grateful for you believing
in it, for you believing in it.

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Not only you but your people
and your companies.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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We appreciate all the hard work
and all the effort, but...

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for now, we're done.

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The following day...

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I'd like to get those stones
out of here, maybe...

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...Rick and Marty
decide to shift

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their team's attention to the
massive stone‐paved formation

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that was recently discovered
at the bottom

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of the triangle‐shaped swamp.

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Hey, Billy? You think
you can get your bucket

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and pick up those stones?

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Yep.

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So, this is it, with the swamp?

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Yeah.

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‐Oh, look.
What is that?

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Within the past few weeks,

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the team has discovered
a number of artifacts

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which support the theory

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that a large sailing ship,
or galleon, was at one time

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sailed between what was once
two separate islands;

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then, after a cofferdam
was constructed, burned, sunk

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and then buried in what is now
the Oak Island swamp.

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Even more intriguing is the
fact that one of the features

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of the swamp is a circular
stone construction

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known as the Eye of the Swamp,

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which geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner believes

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could date back
to the late 17th century.

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There's all kinds of data
adding up in the swamp

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that that area was used
for some sort of wharf,

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some sort of shipping,
some sort of docking point.

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Maybe that's what
the, uh, paved area is.

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I mean, it leads
to all kinds of conjecture.

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And as Rick has pointed out
many times, that's conjecture.

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But something happened here.

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Hold up a minute.

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We've got company.

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Doug and Dr. Spooner.

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Hey, guys.
‐Gentlemen.

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Welcome back.
‐What you guys got going?

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Well, so do you
remember that squished stick,

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smashed by the rock?

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‐Mm‐hmm.
‐We got the date.

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And so, we just got
them back yesterday.

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The dates are
rather extraordinary.

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We kind of rushed down here.

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It's gonna,
I think, be important.

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While investigating
the stone‐paved area this year,

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Dr. Spooner discovered
a number of tree branches

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embedded within
the layers of rock.

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This stick will tell me
when that stone was placed.

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If you date the stick,
you know when that happened.

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So this is the paved area,
which was

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a disturbed area, you know,
disturbed by humans.

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Right.

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There's the dates we're getting.

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‐Wow.
‐Yeah.

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‐What are they?
‐Around...

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1200 AD.

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‐Medieval.
‐Medieval, baby!

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1200 AD?

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More than 800 years ago?

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And nearly six centuries
before the Money Pit

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was discovered in 1795?

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‐That's consistent
with the first one.
‐That's for the paved area, yep.

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Well, to borrow an expression
from Gary,

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I'm gobsmacked by this date,

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because I can't really fit
that into anything.

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That's big, okay,
but I don't know as I sit here

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right now what the heck
to make of it.

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We now have two puzzles, i. e.,

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we have a swamp story
and a Money Pit story.

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I hope that they are related,
but, boy, right now

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as we sit here, it's hard
to put the two together.

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Unbelievable! That's what
comes to mind‐‐ unbelievable.

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When we get this much data
that's so awe‐inspiring

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and so difficult to digest, it's
time to head for the war room.

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‐Yeah.
‐And kick this around
amongst the whole team.

249
00:12:01,554 --> 00:12:03,973
This was great, Dr. Spooner.

250
00:12:03,973 --> 00:12:05,391
‐Thank you very much.
‐Oh, you're welcome.

251
00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:07,727
Well, let's go figure it out.

252
00:12:15,193 --> 00:12:17,278
The next day,
and still excited

253
00:12:17,278 --> 00:12:20,406
by the results of Dr. Spooner's
impressive research,

254
00:12:20,406 --> 00:12:23,910
Rick, Marty, Craig
and the Oak Island team

255
00:12:23,910 --> 00:12:25,995
gather for what is, perhaps,

256
00:12:25,995 --> 00:12:28,581
this year's final meeting in
the war room.

257
00:12:28,581 --> 00:12:31,125
‐Hey, guys.
As preparation for the meeting,

258
00:12:31,125 --> 00:12:34,003
Rick and Marty have also
arranged for Charles Barkhouse

259
00:12:34,003 --> 00:12:36,589
to place this year's most
significant finds‐‐

260
00:12:36,589 --> 00:12:40,593
along with several others‐‐
in a kind of timeline,

261
00:12:40,593 --> 00:12:44,597
one which stretches all the way
back to the 12th century.

262
00:12:44,597 --> 00:12:48,476
Quite an amazing display
and we're gonna get into it

263
00:12:48,476 --> 00:12:50,979
in a little bit because we have
a lot to discuss today.

264
00:12:50,979 --> 00:12:52,480
I want to thank Charles.

265
00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,649
Uh, Rick and I
asked him to do this,

266
00:12:54,649 --> 00:12:57,318
to set these things up
in this order,

267
00:12:57,318 --> 00:12:58,653
‐sort of by year...
‐Yes.

268
00:12:58,653 --> 00:13:00,280
...and that's obviously
what you did.

269
00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:02,365
By a hundred years.

270
00:13:02,365 --> 00:13:04,284
Yeah, there's,
that's just the point.

271
00:13:04,284 --> 00:13:05,493
Isn't it, Dave?

272
00:13:05,493 --> 00:13:06,869
Look how many years are here.

273
00:13:06,869 --> 00:13:09,289
Way before 1795.

274
00:13:09,289 --> 00:13:11,749
‐That's‐that's...
‐We're down here around 1100s.

275
00:13:11,749 --> 00:13:13,876
The timeline puts it
all in context,

276
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particularly regarding,
if you look at

277
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to scale let's say,
from 1795 to present

278
00:13:19,048 --> 00:13:22,635
is about this big,
but from 1795

279
00:13:22,635 --> 00:13:25,513
back to where we're
finding data is that big,

280
00:13:25,513 --> 00:13:27,640
so it's just amazing to see it

281
00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,309
spread out on
the table like that.

282
00:13:29,309 --> 00:13:31,477
‐Yeah.
‐I mean, when I came
on this island

283
00:13:31,477 --> 00:13:35,231
with Rick, I thought
there was a good chance

284
00:13:35,231 --> 00:13:38,026
that nothing would be
found before this line.

285
00:13:38,026 --> 00:13:39,319
Right.
‐I really did.

286
00:13:39,319 --> 00:13:40,486
I thought perhaps that,

287
00:13:40,486 --> 00:13:43,823
you know, this is all just...

288
00:13:43,823 --> 00:13:45,366
‐collective madness.
‐

289
00:13:45,366 --> 00:13:47,035
But we have a lot of data here.

290
00:13:47,035 --> 00:13:48,661
The finds...

291
00:13:48,661 --> 00:13:50,413
I wish they could talk because

292
00:13:50,413 --> 00:13:52,665
there is certainly a story here.

293
00:13:52,665 --> 00:13:56,002
And the hope is that,
as part of this process,

294
00:13:56,002 --> 00:13:59,297
we'll be able to mine
some of that story

295
00:13:59,297 --> 00:14:02,008
and also see where
we are in terms of the...

296
00:14:02,008 --> 00:14:03,676
the process, the search agenda,

297
00:14:03,676 --> 00:14:06,095
the investigation,
unraveling the mystery.

298
00:14:06,095 --> 00:14:08,681
‐Absolutely.
‐Yes.

299
00:14:08,681 --> 00:14:11,100
Well, the Dr. Spooner date
of 1200 for the swamp.

300
00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:13,352
I mean, the cross...

301
00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:16,272
1300‐‐ are we really
now surprised

302
00:14:16,272 --> 00:14:19,609
that Dr. Spooner dates
the swamp back to 1200?

303
00:14:19,609 --> 00:14:21,402
‐Yes.
‐Yes.
‐We've actually‐‐

304
00:14:21,402 --> 00:14:23,362
I'm not, because
we've got an artifact.

305
00:14:23,362 --> 00:14:25,531
‐Yes.
‐And I feel like the Templars

306
00:14:25,531 --> 00:14:27,950
had something to do
with Oak Island.

307
00:14:27,950 --> 00:14:30,536
This would have been
a useful place for them and

308
00:14:30,536 --> 00:14:34,749
they might have seen it
as a place to store some wealth.

309
00:14:34,749 --> 00:14:36,542
Yeah, we've got a date
and we've got an artifact

310
00:14:36,542 --> 00:14:37,919
you can hold in your hand.

311
00:14:37,919 --> 00:14:40,254
And we have
a massive paved area.

312
00:14:40,254 --> 00:14:41,964
The paved area is far
bigger that what we've,

313
00:14:41,964 --> 00:14:43,883
I've even shown you guys,
so, today...

314
00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:46,552
‐Why‐why do you say that?
‐I can tell you now,

315
00:14:46,552 --> 00:14:48,429
based on just the strategic
digs that we've done,

316
00:14:48,429 --> 00:14:50,389
the paved area, I checked
before we came in here,

317
00:14:50,389 --> 00:14:52,725
is 80 by 170 feet.

318
00:14:52,725 --> 00:14:53,976
‐Really?
‐Yeah.

319
00:14:53,976 --> 00:14:55,103
And when you connect the dots,

320
00:14:55,103 --> 00:14:57,605
they form an 80 by 170 foot,

321
00:14:57,605 --> 00:15:00,024
not a perfect rectangle, but...

322
00:15:00,024 --> 00:15:02,110
Mm‐hmm, that's
almost half an acre.

323
00:15:02,110 --> 00:15:04,403
That is just in,
in a sense, isn't it?

324
00:15:04,403 --> 00:15:05,655
That data's just in.

325
00:15:05,655 --> 00:15:06,823
‐I didn't know it was that big.
‐Mm‐hmm.

326
00:15:06,823 --> 00:15:09,075
I think it probably, uh...

327
00:15:09,075 --> 00:15:10,827
Dr. Ian Spooner said that
there was an open channel.

328
00:15:10,827 --> 00:15:13,246
I think it probably,
if you go back to the 1200s,

329
00:15:13,246 --> 00:15:14,956
it probably connects
to that open channel.

330
00:15:14,956 --> 00:15:16,833
‐Was an open channel.
‐Was an open channel.

331
00:15:16,833 --> 00:15:18,835
‐Yeah.
What I enjoyed

332
00:15:18,835 --> 00:15:20,837
most about Ian Spooner and the,

333
00:15:20,837 --> 00:15:23,131
uh, paved area was
the fact that he...

334
00:15:23,131 --> 00:15:26,050
was reluctant to play
into the timeline.

335
00:15:26,050 --> 00:15:29,262
He‐he was kind of fighting it
and fighting it,

336
00:15:29,262 --> 00:15:31,597
relying on the evidence,
and this is what came

337
00:15:31,597 --> 00:15:33,850
out of the hard
scientific evidence.

338
00:15:33,850 --> 00:15:37,061
‐You buy it, too?
‐Uh, obviously, I don't think‐‐

339
00:15:37,061 --> 00:15:38,771
‐You can't dispute it.
‐No, I‐I'm asking, yeah.

340
00:15:38,771 --> 00:15:40,356
It's not disputable.

341
00:15:40,356 --> 00:15:41,774
‐Wow.
‐And I would have‐‐

342
00:15:41,774 --> 00:15:43,234
It's the last thing I would
have expected

343
00:15:43,234 --> 00:15:45,278
‐in the swamp.
‐Mm‐hmm.

344
00:15:45,278 --> 00:15:47,989
And to have him say
it's‐it's man‐made...

345
00:15:47,989 --> 00:15:50,199
‐was significant.
‐Not just him.

346
00:15:50,199 --> 00:15:52,285
‐Yeah, yeah.
‐Also you, also him.

347
00:15:52,285 --> 00:15:54,370
‐Yeah, yeah.
‐Yes. Yeah.

348
00:15:54,370 --> 00:15:56,122
‐A whole bunch of experts.
You know, when we started

349
00:15:56,122 --> 00:15:57,623
this year, I mean, you weren't

350
00:15:57,623 --> 00:15:59,333
the biggest fan of the swamp.

351
00:15:59,333 --> 00:16:01,210
No, I'm still not, Tom, sorry.

352
00:16:01,210 --> 00:16:02,837
And I said,

353
00:16:02,837 --> 00:16:05,214
I said going in, I said,
something happened there.

354
00:16:05,214 --> 00:16:07,133
Man had a hand in that swamp.

355
00:16:07,133 --> 00:16:09,302
You said, if there's
something to be found,

356
00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:11,971
there's‐there's, uh,
answers in the swamp.

357
00:16:11,971 --> 00:16:14,307
‐Yeah, so what do you think now?
‐Yeah.

358
00:16:14,307 --> 00:16:16,058
At 1200, really?

359
00:16:16,058 --> 00:16:18,811
And‐and somebody as hard
to move as Laird

360
00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:21,314
sitting over there saying,
yeah, it's for sure,

361
00:16:21,314 --> 00:16:23,357
it's man‐made,
everybody agrees,

362
00:16:23,357 --> 00:16:24,734
and there's twigs
that date it to that.

363
00:16:24,734 --> 00:16:25,860
It's amazing.

364
00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:26,903
No, you were, you were right.

365
00:16:26,903 --> 00:16:28,404
Rick was right, um, there were,

366
00:16:28,404 --> 00:16:29,739
there were answers in the swamp.

367
00:16:29,739 --> 00:16:31,324
We just don't know
what the questions are.

368
00:16:31,324 --> 00:16:32,617
We don't know what
the question was.

369
00:16:32,617 --> 00:16:33,993
Yeah.

370
00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:36,120
Well, you know, Dad spent

371
00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:37,997
a lot of time in that bog
and I mean, you‐‐

372
00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:41,083
you know, we probably
found as much as he did

373
00:16:41,083 --> 00:16:43,586
in his years in there,
but it's, you know,

374
00:16:43,586 --> 00:16:46,380
it's‐it's nice to see that
it wasn't all for nothing.

375
00:16:46,380 --> 00:16:50,384
Maybe the Money Pit, you know,
and the bog is tied in.

376
00:16:50,384 --> 00:16:51,969
I don't know,
but there's, something

377
00:16:51,969 --> 00:16:53,846
‐happened there a long time ago.
Yeah.

378
00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:57,183
There's something about
that bog that ties this‐‐

379
00:16:57,183 --> 00:16:59,518
maybe this whole thing together.

380
00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:05,942
Gary, there's quite a lot of
things that we've been told

381
00:17:05,942 --> 00:17:07,652
can be used in tunneling.

382
00:17:07,652 --> 00:17:09,028
Do you think there
might've been tunneling

383
00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:10,863
outside of the Money Pit area?

384
00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:12,031
Yeah, I do.

385
00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:13,699
I mean, why would we be finding

386
00:17:13,699 --> 00:17:16,744
picks at the back of the swamp.

387
00:17:16,744 --> 00:17:19,705
These swages on Lot 21.

388
00:17:19,705 --> 00:17:22,166
Yeah, it's possible that

389
00:17:22,166 --> 00:17:24,252
tunneling could have been
done in other parts

390
00:17:24,252 --> 00:17:26,504
‐of the island.
‐Yep.

391
00:17:26,504 --> 00:17:30,591
Now look at that‐‐
that is a really old pick!

392
00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:33,386
For generations,
treasure hunters have believed

393
00:17:33,386 --> 00:17:35,346
that an elaborate
tunneling system

394
00:17:35,346 --> 00:17:38,057
exists deep below Oak Island.

395
00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:41,477
This year, in addition
to finding an 18th century

396
00:17:41,477 --> 00:17:44,564
pickax near the so‐called
Eye of the Swamp...

397
00:17:44,564 --> 00:17:46,107
Feel how heavy that is, Rick.

398
00:17:46,107 --> 00:17:48,776
‐Wow! Wow!
‐

399
00:17:48,776 --> 00:17:50,403
...the team found
two metal swages,

400
00:17:50,403 --> 00:17:54,031
which were used
to sharpen tunneling tools.

401
00:17:54,031 --> 00:17:57,535
They also found
an iron chisel on property

402
00:17:57,535 --> 00:18:00,204
which once belonged
to Daniel McGinnis,

403
00:18:00,204 --> 00:18:02,373
one of the three
young men who first

404
00:18:02,373 --> 00:18:06,210
discovered the original
Money Pit in 1795.

405
00:18:11,090 --> 00:18:13,426
‐Wow.
Even more incredible

406
00:18:13,426 --> 00:18:16,887
is the fact that these objects
were dated to be as much

407
00:18:16,887 --> 00:18:20,099
as 600 years old.

408
00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:24,186
To me, the most significant
finds are the tools.

409
00:18:24,186 --> 00:18:28,774
These are the tools of the trade
of the people that was working

410
00:18:28,774 --> 00:18:31,235
on Oak Island, from the swages,

411
00:18:31,235 --> 00:18:33,237
the hand‐point chisel,

412
00:18:33,237 --> 00:18:35,615
even these things that
we're not sure what they are.

413
00:18:35,615 --> 00:18:38,117
I mean, we're finally pushing

414
00:18:38,117 --> 00:18:41,704
this story back so far, much
further back than I thought.

415
00:18:41,704 --> 00:18:44,248
I thought it was,
like, a pirate operation.

416
00:18:44,248 --> 00:18:49,462
Now look at these tools going
back to the 14 and 1500s.

417
00:18:49,462 --> 00:18:50,755
The problem is the dates
don't match up with that.

418
00:18:50,755 --> 00:18:52,256
The paved area, you say,

419
00:18:52,256 --> 00:18:53,633
is 1200s to 1400s, these are...

420
00:18:53,633 --> 00:18:55,343
They‐they could be that old,
I suppose.

421
00:18:55,343 --> 00:18:58,429
Mm‐hmm, they match up more
with the Eye of the Swamp.

422
00:18:58,429 --> 00:18:59,805
‐Yeah.
‐Which they're calling

423
00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:01,265
‐late 1600s, which is still...
‐Right.

424
00:19:01,265 --> 00:19:03,809
‐...long before this timeline.
‐Right.

425
00:19:03,809 --> 00:19:06,437
We know during specific dates,

426
00:19:06,437 --> 00:19:08,397
large amounts of work
went on on Oak Island

427
00:19:08,397 --> 00:19:11,484
in at least
two different clumps of time.

428
00:19:11,484 --> 00:19:13,152
You know, you've got the 1600s,

429
00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:15,154
which it fits
with the Rosicrucians

430
00:19:15,154 --> 00:19:16,864
and the Francis Bacon theories.

431
00:19:16,864 --> 00:19:19,992
You've got the 11 to 1400s,

432
00:19:19,992 --> 00:19:22,995
which fits right in
with the Templar theories.

433
00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:24,872
‐Yes.
‐And...

434
00:19:24,872 --> 00:19:27,708
we have dendro information
from the slipway

435
00:19:27,708 --> 00:19:30,795
that someone was there
doing a lot of work

436
00:19:30,795 --> 00:19:34,006
‐before searchers.
‐That's right.

437
00:19:34,006 --> 00:19:38,177
After installing a
6,000‐square‐foot extension

438
00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:40,137
or "bump out"
to the steel cofferdam

439
00:19:40,137 --> 00:19:42,473
surrounding Smith's Cove,

440
00:19:42,473 --> 00:19:45,685
the team unearthed
a massive log structure

441
00:19:45,685 --> 00:19:47,353
while looking for
the end of the slipway

442
00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:49,146
that they discovered last yea,

443
00:19:49,146 --> 00:19:52,983
and which was dated to 1769.

444
00:19:52,983 --> 00:19:55,986
Incredibly, after using
dendrochronology,

445
00:19:55,986 --> 00:19:57,863
or tree‐ring dating,

446
00:19:57,863 --> 00:20:01,701
this new structure was found
to be significantly older.

447
00:20:01,701 --> 00:20:04,370
It's a little head scratcher.

448
00:20:04,370 --> 00:20:05,871
Uh‐oh.

449
00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:07,123
1741.

450
00:20:07,123 --> 00:20:08,541
Whoa!

451
00:20:13,754 --> 00:20:16,382
That significant structure

452
00:20:16,382 --> 00:20:18,551
was being used
for quite a long time.

453
00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:22,346
Was it for finding this
treasure? I don't know.

454
00:20:22,346 --> 00:20:25,057
Um, it could have been
but, you know,

455
00:20:25,057 --> 00:20:28,477
once the searchers started,
that we call searchers,

456
00:20:28,477 --> 00:20:31,021
I don't think any of them
found it because, you know,

457
00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:32,523
there's no record of anybody

458
00:20:32,523 --> 00:20:33,816
‐becoming rich.
No, no.

459
00:20:33,816 --> 00:20:35,943
‐Not a great treasure, yeah.
Yes.

460
00:20:35,943 --> 00:20:40,364
All of this changes the mystery
as we know it, though,

461
00:20:40,364 --> 00:20:43,701
because it was supposed to be
an uninhabited island...

462
00:20:43,701 --> 00:20:47,413
‐Yeah.
‐...in 1795, when the treasure
hunt began as we know it.

463
00:20:47,413 --> 00:20:49,832
But this has shown us
that there was a story,

464
00:20:49,832 --> 00:20:52,084
and there was activity going on
here much earlier.

465
00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:55,254
And on possibly a very
continual basis,

466
00:20:55,254 --> 00:20:58,090
whether it's the same group
or not.

467
00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:00,092
And as Craig remarked
a little earlier,

468
00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:04,722
‐there's a lot converging
on the late 1600s.
In that area.

469
00:21:04,722 --> 00:21:07,558
I think, looking
at the artifacts that are here

470
00:21:07,558 --> 00:21:10,269
and the dates that are,
are given,

471
00:21:10,269 --> 00:21:11,771
I think there isn't
a theorist out there

472
00:21:11,771 --> 00:21:13,063
that isn't gonna be happy with

473
00:21:13,063 --> 00:21:14,899
what we have on the table
here now.

474
00:21:14,899 --> 00:21:16,942
Everybody's gonna see something
that they, uh‐‐

475
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:18,778
pertains to their theory.

476
00:21:18,778 --> 00:21:20,905
You know, I think that's
probably right.

477
00:21:20,905 --> 00:21:22,573
Y‐You look back here

478
00:21:22,573 --> 00:21:26,160
at earlier Templar theories.

479
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,579
We've got dates that come back
to the 1300s.

480
00:21:28,579 --> 00:21:31,957
We have an artifact
that is 1300,

481
00:21:31,957 --> 00:21:36,587
or possibly even earlier that
linked back to France and Dome.

482
00:21:36,587 --> 00:21:40,633
The thoughts about, uh,
Nolan's Cross and the‐the swamp.

483
00:21:40,633 --> 00:21:43,010
I mean, something happened
in the swamp.

484
00:21:43,010 --> 00:21:44,637
Yes.

485
00:21:44,637 --> 00:21:46,764
We have empirical evidence
of that now,

486
00:21:46,764 --> 00:21:49,058
and we have science
that is dated

487
00:21:49,058 --> 00:21:51,310
to the time period
in which it occurred.

488
00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:53,521
So the prevailing theories,

489
00:21:53,521 --> 00:21:56,106
they've all been
enhanced by this, in a sense.

490
00:21:56,106 --> 00:21:58,275
I would say more or less,
Marty, yes.

491
00:21:58,275 --> 00:22:00,653
Yeah. And a lot of
those theories

492
00:22:00,653 --> 00:22:03,322
rely on inscribed stones.

493
00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:05,491
We've got a hand‐point chisel,
and it could have been used

494
00:22:05,491 --> 00:22:08,077
for inscribing
on a lot of those stones.

495
00:22:08,077 --> 00:22:09,787
‐Yes.
‐Yeah.

496
00:22:09,787 --> 00:22:12,623
By the way, I have something
in my pocket...

497
00:22:12,623 --> 00:22:14,667
Oh, I know what this is.

498
00:22:14,667 --> 00:22:16,168
Yeah, you do.

499
00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:18,504
That also is‐‐
actually tells quite a story.

500
00:22:18,504 --> 00:22:21,173
But‐but this happened...

501
00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:22,299
And it belongs at that end
of the table.

502
00:22:22,299 --> 00:22:23,759
It belongs way over there, yeah.

503
00:22:30,766 --> 00:22:32,560
This is a...

504
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,813
a rather ordinary toonie.

505
00:22:35,813 --> 00:22:38,774
But guess what.
That's my toonie.

506
00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:41,902
That's the one I put down H8.

507
00:22:41,902 --> 00:22:44,238
Two years ago,

508
00:22:44,238 --> 00:22:48,158
after drilling a six‐inch‐wide
borehole known as H8,

509
00:22:48,158 --> 00:22:51,453
the Oak Island team made a
number of shocking discoveries

510
00:22:51,453 --> 00:22:54,290
that included ancient pottery,

511
00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:57,293
pieces of parchment
and leather bookbinding,

512
00:22:57,293 --> 00:23:00,713
and 17th century human bones.

513
00:23:00,713 --> 00:23:03,716
Believing that they may have
finally found

514
00:23:03,716 --> 00:23:06,260
the original Money Pit,
but concerned that the contents

515
00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:09,597
of the fabled treasure vault
may have drifted over time,

516
00:23:09,597 --> 00:23:13,309
Marty Lagina decided to
try an experiment.

517
00:23:13,309 --> 00:23:16,145
Here's the test: are we gonna
find this or not, right?

518
00:23:16,145 --> 00:23:17,813
Into the six‐inch‐wide
borehole,

519
00:23:17,813 --> 00:23:20,107
he tossed a $2 Canadian coin,

520
00:23:20,107 --> 00:23:23,903
otherwise known as a "toonie."

521
00:23:23,903 --> 00:23:27,323
He was hoping that if he ever
located the coin

522
00:23:27,323 --> 00:23:30,075
during a future dig,
he would be able to see

523
00:23:30,075 --> 00:23:33,913
if it had drifted, and if so,
by how much.

524
00:23:36,457 --> 00:23:39,501
‐
‐Just there.

525
00:23:39,501 --> 00:23:42,588
Incredibly, one week
ago, while searching spoils

526
00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:45,382
retrieved from over
200 feet deep

527
00:23:45,382 --> 00:23:47,843
in the nearby RF‐1 shaft,

528
00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:50,596
Marty and Gary found the coin.

529
00:23:50,596 --> 00:23:53,223
Hey, did you hear
that little clink?

530
00:23:54,683 --> 00:23:56,602
Ooh, it's a coin!

531
00:23:59,563 --> 00:24:03,609
Oh! Frickin' modern toonie!

532
00:24:03,609 --> 00:24:05,486
Geez.

533
00:24:05,486 --> 00:24:07,196
Not in very good condition,
either.

534
00:24:07,196 --> 00:24:09,073
Put it in your pocket.

535
00:24:09,073 --> 00:24:10,699
Not what we're looking for.

536
00:24:10,699 --> 00:24:12,284
Keep going.

537
00:24:20,042 --> 00:24:21,293
Hey, Gary, wait a minute.

538
00:24:21,293 --> 00:24:23,837
Let me see that.
Let me see that toonie.

539
00:24:23,837 --> 00:24:26,799
‐Oh, the toonie.
‐Yeah.

540
00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:28,300
It's modern, mate.

541
00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:30,970
I know. Let me see it.
I'm having a thought.

542
00:24:36,183 --> 00:24:38,394
It's not old.

543
00:24:38,394 --> 00:24:40,062
Yeah, but, Gary,
this has been in the dirt

544
00:24:40,062 --> 00:24:41,647
for quite some time.

545
00:24:44,191 --> 00:24:47,653
Look how it's encrusted
with it.

546
00:24:47,653 --> 00:24:51,031
I think me and that toonie
have been acquainted before.

547
00:24:51,031 --> 00:24:53,409
‐Is that...?
‐That's my toonie, buddy.

548
00:24:55,411 --> 00:24:58,914
If you think about the center
of that plastic pipe

549
00:24:58,914 --> 00:25:02,042
to the center of RF‐1
is probably what?

550
00:25:02,042 --> 00:25:04,670
‐Probably ten feet?
‐Probably ten feet,
so that toonie

551
00:25:04,670 --> 00:25:08,674
traveled ten feet underground
in that solution channel.

552
00:25:08,674 --> 00:25:11,677
It could have made that distance
in a day. Literally.

553
00:25:11,677 --> 00:25:14,388
It could have fallen out
the bottom when I dropped it,

554
00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:16,390
and that's why we didn't
find it. In fact,

555
00:25:16,390 --> 00:25:19,059
it's likely it traveled the
first year, right?

556
00:25:19,059 --> 00:25:21,979
‐Yeah.
‐Or we probably
should have got it.

557
00:25:21,979 --> 00:25:25,065
So, I mean,
that's proof positive

558
00:25:25,065 --> 00:25:28,444
that metal objects, at least,
can move quite readily.

559
00:25:28,444 --> 00:25:30,571
Rick was saying, "I wish
these things could talk."

560
00:25:30,571 --> 00:25:32,740
That one's talking.

561
00:25:32,740 --> 00:25:35,743
Could the discovery
of Marty's toonie

562
00:25:35,743 --> 00:25:38,245
in the spoils recovered
from RF‐1

563
00:25:38,245 --> 00:25:42,082
be evidence that
the original contents of H8

564
00:25:42,082 --> 00:25:44,877
could have, like the elusive
Chappell Vault,

565
00:25:44,877 --> 00:25:47,546
been swept not only
deeper underground,

566
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:50,382
but also several feet away?

567
00:25:50,382 --> 00:25:54,136
It's for sure that stuff is
moving around horizontally

568
00:25:54,136 --> 00:25:55,554
as well as vertically.

569
00:25:55,554 --> 00:25:58,474
Well, that's good because
it might explain why

570
00:25:58,474 --> 00:26:01,060
nobody's been able to find
this elusive treasure.

571
00:26:01,060 --> 00:26:04,897
It's bad because it explains why
no one's been able to find

572
00:26:04,897 --> 00:26:07,733
this elusive treasure;
it's gonna be difficult.

573
00:26:07,733 --> 00:26:09,985
So if there is a treasure,

574
00:26:09,985 --> 00:26:13,739
now, how far could this treasure
have possibly moved?

575
00:26:13,739 --> 00:26:16,533
With all of the
activities and tunnels

576
00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:18,035
and shafts
and the water movement,

577
00:26:18,035 --> 00:26:19,912
it could very definitely
drop down.

578
00:26:19,912 --> 00:26:23,499
The density of gold is
19 times greater than water.

579
00:26:23,499 --> 00:26:26,376
It has a specific gravity
of 19 and some‐‐ and change.

580
00:26:26,376 --> 00:26:28,712
Well, that would drop
straight down to the bottom

581
00:26:28,712 --> 00:26:30,089
of that Money Pit.

582
00:26:30,089 --> 00:26:32,132
And I'm not surprised
that there might be

583
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:33,092
a vertical movement.

584
00:26:33,092 --> 00:26:34,843
But to have eight feet of‐‐

585
00:26:34,843 --> 00:26:36,428
‐Was it eight, or...?
‐At least.

586
00:26:36,428 --> 00:26:39,598
Ten.
‐Ten feet of lateral movement,

587
00:26:39,598 --> 00:26:41,934
that speaks to currents
down there.

588
00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:43,727
So with all of the...

589
00:26:43,727 --> 00:26:45,938
banging and pumping that's
gone on through the years,

590
00:26:45,938 --> 00:26:50,234
the Money Pit area is nothing
like what it would have been

591
00:26:50,234 --> 00:26:52,111
at the time of any
potential emplacement.

592
00:26:52,111 --> 00:26:53,946
We were looking for signs
of a deep collapse

593
00:26:53,946 --> 00:26:56,990
in what we believed to be
the original Money Pit area.

594
00:26:56,990 --> 00:26:59,535
We found signs of deep collapse.

595
00:26:59,535 --> 00:27:01,954
And we've always looked above
160 feet, basically.

596
00:27:01,954 --> 00:27:05,415
Now we know we have to
move deeper.

597
00:27:05,415 --> 00:27:07,668
Well, we have to think of this
in context of something

598
00:27:07,668 --> 00:27:10,170
having been here once,
and then maybe

599
00:27:10,170 --> 00:27:11,463
recovery efforts
when you see all this.

600
00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:14,174
And maybe recovery successes.

601
00:27:14,174 --> 00:27:15,968
So having framed it that way,

602
00:27:15,968 --> 00:27:17,886
does the fellowship
still think that

603
00:27:17,886 --> 00:27:19,930
there's something here to find?

604
00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:26,728
Yes. Definitely.

605
00:27:26,728 --> 00:27:28,730
‐Yeah.
‐Yeah.

606
00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:30,566
Does everybody?

607
00:27:30,566 --> 00:27:33,485
‐I do.
Yes. Absolutely.

608
00:27:33,485 --> 00:27:35,571
I agree with Doug.
I think we‐we have

609
00:27:35,571 --> 00:27:38,699
‐a new mystery here to discover.
‐Yes, we do.

610
00:27:38,699 --> 00:27:40,742
But yes, there's treasure here.

611
00:27:40,742 --> 00:27:43,161
You just haven't found it yet,
but it's here.

612
00:27:43,161 --> 00:27:45,831
I think it's still here.

613
00:27:45,831 --> 00:27:48,500
Dad thought that there was
something here. I believed him.

614
00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:50,627
‐Okay.
‐And I still do.

615
00:27:50,627 --> 00:27:52,671
Like Charles, we haven't looked
in the right spot.

616
00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:54,089
Well, that I'm sure of.

617
00:27:54,089 --> 00:27:55,716
We're running out of
real estate, though,

618
00:27:55,716 --> 00:27:57,759
‐in some places.
‐

619
00:27:57,759 --> 00:27:59,845
‐And perhaps money
and time and...
‐Yeah, yeah.

620
00:27:59,845 --> 00:28:01,889
Well, based on some
of the things

621
00:28:01,889 --> 00:28:05,017
we've uncovered
in the swamp this year‐‐

622
00:28:05,017 --> 00:28:07,352
I mean, I know
it's all about treasure.

623
00:28:07,352 --> 00:28:10,397
‐Gold. Spendables, Dave.
‐That's right.

624
00:28:10,397 --> 00:28:13,525
But how do you put a price
on something

625
00:28:13,525 --> 00:28:17,112
that might change history,
or rewrite a bit of history?

626
00:28:17,112 --> 00:28:18,780
Because this stuff is old.

627
00:28:18,780 --> 00:28:21,867
I mean, it's‐it's just‐‐
it shouldn't be there.

628
00:28:23,201 --> 00:28:27,623
You know, my dad spent
almost a lifetime here

629
00:28:27,623 --> 00:28:30,083
looking for this thing,
whatever it is.

630
00:28:30,083 --> 00:28:32,210
And‐and so did Dan.

631
00:28:32,210 --> 00:28:35,422
So for their sake,
I'd like to think

632
00:28:35,422 --> 00:28:38,008
that there is still
a treasure here to be found.

633
00:28:38,008 --> 00:28:40,427
Right.

634
00:28:40,427 --> 00:28:41,678
I can see Laird thinking

635
00:28:41,678 --> 00:28:43,221
from here‐‐ he's thinking.
He's thinking,

636
00:28:43,221 --> 00:28:45,182
‐"What am I gonna say?"
‐"Oh, no, it's my turn."

637
00:28:45,182 --> 00:28:46,308
Yeah.

638
00:28:46,308 --> 00:28:48,268
Well,

639
00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:51,897
if we look at the science
and the archaeology, um...

640
00:28:51,897 --> 00:28:53,690
something happened.

641
00:28:53,690 --> 00:28:56,568
We have hard
scientific evidence for that.

642
00:28:56,568 --> 00:28:58,570
Whether it involves treasure,
I couldn't say.

643
00:28:58,570 --> 00:29:02,366
Um, but something significant
happened, and...

644
00:29:02,366 --> 00:29:05,953
it's really,
it seems to be worth pursuing.

645
00:29:05,953 --> 00:29:08,747
It's obviously worth pursuing.

646
00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:11,291
Dan Henskee,
what's your thoughts?

647
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:13,293
Is there treasure still here?

648
00:29:13,293 --> 00:29:15,295
And of course,
I can't say definitively

649
00:29:15,295 --> 00:29:17,297
one way or the other.

650
00:29:17,297 --> 00:29:18,840
If you had to put an odds on it?

651
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,426
I'm an odd guy
but not an odds guy.

652
00:29:24,012 --> 00:29:25,806
How about, let me
try it this way.

653
00:29:25,806 --> 00:29:27,933
Is it worth continuing
to search?

654
00:29:27,933 --> 00:29:30,102
Well, the‐the sneaky way out
is to say,

655
00:29:30,102 --> 00:29:32,771
just to be able to get together
is worth it,

656
00:29:32,771 --> 00:29:34,856
even if we don't find
the treasure.

657
00:29:34,856 --> 00:29:37,818
All right,
I can live with that.
That's a good one.

658
00:29:37,818 --> 00:29:39,486
Yeah.

659
00:29:39,486 --> 00:29:40,821
So...

660
00:29:40,821 --> 00:29:42,864
is there a great treasure here?

661
00:29:42,864 --> 00:29:46,576
Uh, I think there's
a good chance there was.

662
00:29:46,576 --> 00:29:49,162
Because...
because there's a lot of stuff.

663
00:29:49,162 --> 00:29:50,872
You know, I can't help it‐‐
I'm a numbers guy.

664
00:29:50,872 --> 00:29:53,667
Maybe, like, 40%
that there was something here,

665
00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:56,628
and maybe half that
that it's still here.

666
00:29:56,628 --> 00:29:59,172
But that's way farther
than I ever was before.

667
00:29:59,172 --> 00:30:02,300
My leading theory when I first
came on this island is that

668
00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:04,261
it was just collective madness.

669
00:30:04,261 --> 00:30:06,304
So there‐‐
that's where I'm at.

670
00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:08,098
‐It's still...
Well, you can't disagree

671
00:30:08,098 --> 00:30:10,308
‐with what's in front
of you, Marty.
‐Yeah, but I don't see treasure

672
00:30:10,308 --> 00:30:13,311
‐in front of me, Dave.
‐No, I agree with you 100%
on that‐‐ I don't, either.

673
00:30:13,311 --> 00:30:14,896

Right. Exactly.

674
00:30:17,357 --> 00:30:21,403
To me, it says a huge amount
of work was done on the island.

675
00:30:21,403 --> 00:30:24,322
And then you take this
little block from 11 to 1400.

676
00:30:24,322 --> 00:30:26,324
You want a "aha moment"?

677
00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:27,826
Well, there's your "aha moment."

678
00:30:27,826 --> 00:30:29,161
It doesn't speak to treasure.

679
00:30:29,161 --> 00:30:33,040
These, in their totality,
to me, speak to treasure

680
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,333
or some activity,
which was conducted

681
00:30:35,333 --> 00:30:37,627
to hide some sort of secret.

682
00:30:37,627 --> 00:30:42,299
But this, this is your
"stand up and take notice."

683
00:30:42,299 --> 00:30:44,217
This is amazing.

684
00:30:44,217 --> 00:30:46,928
‐Yes.
‐That's where I'm at.

685
00:30:46,928 --> 00:30:50,182
It's one thing to look
at the dates by century‐‐

686
00:30:50,182 --> 00:30:52,517
1100, 1200, 1300, 1400.

687
00:30:52,517 --> 00:30:55,687
But think about what happened
during those centuries.

688
00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:58,982
Context it with all the things
that have gone on in the world.

689
00:30:58,982 --> 00:31:02,778
It's quite amazing to think
that some of these activities

690
00:31:02,778 --> 00:31:06,615
that we believe have happened
here on the island

691
00:31:06,615 --> 00:31:09,451
were during the Crusades
to the time of Charlemagne.

692
00:31:09,451 --> 00:31:13,747
From Templars to
world‐shattering events

693
00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:14,873
across the globe.

694
00:31:14,873 --> 00:31:17,584
Certainly, on the continent.

695
00:31:17,584 --> 00:31:20,212
On this tiny little island,
long ago,

696
00:31:20,212 --> 00:31:24,257
during the time of wonderment,
in terms of history.

697
00:31:24,257 --> 00:31:27,552
Something happened here
on this tiny little place.

698
00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:30,889
So, having said all that,

699
00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:33,100
are there opportunities
to advance the search

700
00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:34,559
and/or move the dial,

701
00:31:34,559 --> 00:31:37,896
because I've always said
that the story here

702
00:31:37,896 --> 00:31:40,732
is remarkable and,
and it deserves an ending.

703
00:31:40,732 --> 00:31:43,735
Well, this is gonna
shock you, but...

704
00:31:43,735 --> 00:31:46,863
‐
‐Great. Super.

705
00:31:46,863 --> 00:31:49,574
I think, like Laird said,

706
00:31:49,574 --> 00:31:52,786
the potential for the paved area
to be man‐made

707
00:31:52,786 --> 00:31:55,831
in the swamp and date back
to the 12 to 1400s...

708
00:31:55,831 --> 00:31:58,083
if we're going to do something
in the swamp,

709
00:31:58,083 --> 00:31:59,417
that's a no‐brainer.

710
00:31:59,417 --> 00:32:00,919
Looking for a smoking gun,

711
00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:03,922
actually confirming that that is
what we think it might be,

712
00:32:03,922 --> 00:32:07,509
‐is potentially a big discovery.
‐Yeah.

713
00:32:07,509 --> 00:32:08,927
Because if you're gonna
find something,

714
00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:13,598
it's gonna be from
a paved area towards the ocean

715
00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:15,433
along the side of the island,

716
00:32:15,433 --> 00:32:17,561
'cause that's where you would
have had to load

717
00:32:17,561 --> 00:32:19,146
or unload things.

718
00:32:19,146 --> 00:32:21,523
And that's gonna be the hardest
part of the swamp to get into.

719
00:32:21,523 --> 00:32:23,358
Because it is deep there.

720
00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:25,902
So, if there's something there,
maybe that's why it's there.

721
00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:27,988
‐Yes.
‐Yeah.
‐Yeah.

722
00:32:27,988 --> 00:32:29,990
But this whole thing
started with the Money Pit.

723
00:32:29,990 --> 00:32:31,616
Without the Money Pit,

724
00:32:31,616 --> 00:32:34,161
all of this doesn't say
there's treasure here.

725
00:32:34,161 --> 00:32:36,288
‐Yes.
Right. To me,

726
00:32:36,288 --> 00:32:37,455
if you don't do it,
I'm coming down

727
00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:39,416
‐on the weekends to...
‐

728
00:32:39,416 --> 00:32:41,209
...to finish.

729
00:32:41,209 --> 00:32:43,295
And it's only this year
that I've realized, you know,

730
00:32:43,295 --> 00:32:46,631
seeing that toonie,
we're chasing it.

731
00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:48,258
The treasure in the Money Pit,

732
00:32:48,258 --> 00:32:52,012
we're just tantalizingly close
every time.

733
00:32:52,012 --> 00:32:54,139
Yeah, but you know what?

734
00:32:54,139 --> 00:32:56,641
I think I already know
if we proceed in the Money Pit,

735
00:32:56,641 --> 00:32:57,893
it's not gonna be cheap.

736
00:32:57,893 --> 00:32:59,144
Yeah.

737
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:06,818
You know, the next step
in the Money Pit,

738
00:33:06,818 --> 00:33:09,362
if we are really considering
a big dig,

739
00:33:09,362 --> 00:33:12,616
is not just millions,
it's tens of millions.

740
00:33:12,616 --> 00:33:13,658
Mm‐hmm.

741
00:33:13,658 --> 00:33:18,205
So, that's a‐a very
sobering number.

742
00:33:18,205 --> 00:33:21,625
And with our new discovery
of your coin,

743
00:33:21,625 --> 00:33:23,668
‐you're kind of questioning...
Mm‐hmm.

744
00:33:23,668 --> 00:33:25,128
I hate to hear myself say this.

745
00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:27,672
The coin argues a bit
towards the big dig.

746
00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:30,008
How quick can we do it?

747
00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:31,801
It could take as long
as three years.

748
00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,347
But that's quite a commitment.

749
00:33:35,347 --> 00:33:37,807
That's not something
you enter into halfheartedly.

750
00:33:37,807 --> 00:33:40,518
You set foot on that field,
you better bring your pads.

751
00:33:40,518 --> 00:33:41,853
And you better buckle up.

752
00:33:41,853 --> 00:33:45,357
Over the past decade,

753
00:33:45,357 --> 00:33:46,942
the Laginas and their partners

754
00:33:46,942 --> 00:33:49,152
have researched a number of
methods that would allow them

755
00:33:49,152 --> 00:33:52,322
to excavate a 100‐foot‐wide
area of the Money Pit

756
00:33:52,322 --> 00:33:56,785
down to a depth
of some 250 feet.

757
00:33:56,785 --> 00:33:59,120
One of these methods
would involve constructing

758
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,164
a massive concrete shaft

759
00:34:01,164 --> 00:34:03,166
around the entire
Money Pit area,

760
00:34:03,166 --> 00:34:05,210
so that access to the vault

761
00:34:05,210 --> 00:34:07,504
would be unhampered
by flooding.

762
00:34:07,504 --> 00:34:11,716
Another, also known
as the "freeze ring method,"

763
00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:15,220
would involve digging dozens
of 250‐foot‐deep boreholes

764
00:34:15,220 --> 00:34:18,223
in a giant
100‐foot‐wide circle.

765
00:34:18,223 --> 00:34:21,893
The holes would then be filled
with a chemical such as glycol

766
00:34:21,893 --> 00:34:23,603
that would literally
freeze the ground

767
00:34:23,603 --> 00:34:28,066
and allow for
an unfettered excavation.

768
00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:31,236
The "big dig" has been kind of
hanging out there

769
00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:33,113
for a long time.
You know,

770
00:34:33,113 --> 00:34:36,199
it's almost kind of a...
like a child's dream.

771
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,786
The science
is relatively simple.

772
00:34:39,786 --> 00:34:42,247
It's just basically trying
to make a solid ring

773
00:34:42,247 --> 00:34:45,583
around the Money Pit,
and then plug the bottom of it,

774
00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:47,294
and then excavate that.

775
00:34:47,294 --> 00:34:51,381
It's enormously expensive
from a financial,

776
00:34:51,381 --> 00:34:53,466
commitment of time
and resources,

777
00:34:53,466 --> 00:34:55,677
but you know,
at the end of the day,

778
00:34:55,677 --> 00:34:57,929
if you dig an 80‐foot or
a 100‐foot‐diameter circle,

779
00:34:57,929 --> 00:35:01,391
we all believe that we know,
within that

780
00:35:01,391 --> 00:35:03,435
resides the original Money Pit.

781
00:35:03,435 --> 00:35:06,021
I think it's ultimately
the only way

782
00:35:06,021 --> 00:35:08,773
to really get to the bottom
of what happened here

783
00:35:08,773 --> 00:35:09,858
on Oak Island.

784
00:35:09,858 --> 00:35:13,320
This is no small adventure

785
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,947
we're on at this point,
given, given this.

786
00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:19,242
It's quite a story
laid out here before us,

787
00:35:19,242 --> 00:35:21,995
and I think I've always felt it
goes beyond treasure,

788
00:35:21,995 --> 00:35:24,456
the recovery of spendables.

789
00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:26,541
Would that be a cool thing?
Yeah. Absolutely.

790
00:35:26,541 --> 00:35:29,085
But it's beyond that now.

791
00:35:29,085 --> 00:35:32,005
To me, this is a bloody success.
This is fantastic.

792
00:35:32,005 --> 00:35:35,258
These are artifacts
going back to the Middle Ages.

793
00:35:35,258 --> 00:35:37,385
And we're talking about
Oak Island!

794
00:35:37,385 --> 00:35:40,263
‐
‐I think Gary wants to stay.

795
00:35:40,263 --> 00:35:42,265
Yeah, I do.
I'm not leaving.

796
00:35:42,265 --> 00:35:45,143
‐
I‐I think

797
00:35:45,143 --> 00:35:47,979
I will, uh, propose
we close this meeting

798
00:35:47,979 --> 00:35:49,522
of the Fellowship of the Dig.

799
00:35:49,522 --> 00:35:52,651
And thanks to all.
Respect to all.

800
00:35:52,651 --> 00:35:54,819
It's been a good run. Let's see
what the future brings.

801
00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:56,821
Cheers to everybody.
Hear, hear.

802
00:35:56,821 --> 00:35:58,823
Thank you.
You're very welcome.

803
00:35:58,823 --> 00:36:00,992
Following their meeting
in the war room,

804
00:36:00,992 --> 00:36:03,536
and before they depart
the island

805
00:36:03,536 --> 00:36:05,330
for the long winter...

806
00:36:05,330 --> 00:36:08,667
the Laginas and their team
have gathered

807
00:36:08,667 --> 00:36:11,795
at the 10‐X drill site
to pay tribute

808
00:36:11,795 --> 00:36:15,048
to their late friend
and partner, Dan Blankenship.

809
00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:20,970
Okay, we're all here in honor
of Dan Blankenship

810
00:36:20,970 --> 00:36:23,473
and the island, of course,
was a big part of Dan.

811
00:36:23,473 --> 00:36:25,517
Dan is a big part
of all our lives.

812
00:36:25,517 --> 00:36:28,520
Rick did this beautiful plaque,

813
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,398
and it's all made from,
basically, the island.

814
00:36:33,149 --> 00:36:35,860
Along with Dan's son,
Dave Blankenship,

815
00:36:35,860 --> 00:36:37,946
and daughter, Linda Flowers,

816
00:36:37,946 --> 00:36:40,365
they have placed Dan's
old drilling rig

817
00:36:40,365 --> 00:36:42,200
as a memorial to him,

818
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,160
at the site of
what Dan considered

819
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,371
his greatest breakthrough
in the 50 years

820
00:36:46,371 --> 00:36:49,958
he tirelessly worked to solve
the Oak Island mystery:

821
00:36:49,958 --> 00:36:52,544
Borehole 10‐X.

822
00:36:52,544 --> 00:36:55,714
It's the end of the year,
and before we completely

823
00:36:55,714 --> 00:36:57,882
close things up
here on the island,

824
00:36:57,882 --> 00:37:01,553
we felt that it was appropriate
to honor Dan

825
00:37:01,553 --> 00:37:05,348
for the work that he did
on the island for 50 years.

826
00:37:05,348 --> 00:37:08,184
Dan Blankenship led the way
in a lot of ways.

827
00:37:08,184 --> 00:37:10,019
It's a measure of respect.

828
00:37:10,019 --> 00:37:12,564
It's built out of rock
from the island,

829
00:37:12,564 --> 00:37:14,774
pipe from his drill program.

830
00:37:14,774 --> 00:37:18,069
It just seemed
like appropriate

831
00:37:18,069 --> 00:37:19,904
to honor his memory in that way.

832
00:37:19,904 --> 00:37:23,074
I think it's, uh,

833
00:37:23,074 --> 00:37:25,535
borrow from Lincoln,
"altogether fitting and proper"

834
00:37:25,535 --> 00:37:27,328
that we do this little ceremony.

835
00:37:27,328 --> 00:37:30,206
And I don't think he would've
wanted a whole bunch of words

836
00:37:30,206 --> 00:37:34,252
here today, because he wasn't
that sort of guy.

837
00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:35,754
‐Uh, I think he would...
‐Few, few words.

838
00:37:35,754 --> 00:37:36,921
Few words, yeah.

839
00:37:36,921 --> 00:37:39,924
Dan was a big part
of our lives, uh, for,

840
00:37:39,924 --> 00:37:41,843
gosh, the last 15 years or so.

841
00:37:41,843 --> 00:37:43,762
I mean, the first role
he played,

842
00:37:43,762 --> 00:37:45,930
he was sort of this enigmatic,

843
00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:48,475
you know,
almost like a superhero

844
00:37:48,475 --> 00:37:52,812
to Rick and I years ago
when we'd read about things.

845
00:37:52,812 --> 00:37:56,441
We came to appreciate him
on so many levels.

846
00:37:56,441 --> 00:37:58,777
You know. A friend, a partner,

847
00:37:58,777 --> 00:38:00,904
but it was,
it was more than that.

848
00:38:00,904 --> 00:38:03,740
We call ourselves
a family here,

849
00:38:03,740 --> 00:38:06,910
because at the end of the day,
you know,

850
00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:08,953
that's what this is about.

851
00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:11,748
I would think that my father
would feel like

852
00:38:11,748 --> 00:38:13,416
we are all family.

853
00:38:13,416 --> 00:38:15,502
We're the Oak Island family
right now.

854
00:38:15,502 --> 00:38:17,170
I think he would be happy.

855
00:38:17,170 --> 00:38:19,798
It's a happy day today
to see this plaque

856
00:38:19,798 --> 00:38:22,759
and to know that
he's gonna be remembered.

857
00:38:22,759 --> 00:38:26,805
Hopefully, when people
visit the island in the future,

858
00:38:26,805 --> 00:38:28,640
they will look at that sign

859
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,351
and remember the man,
the individual.

860
00:38:31,351 --> 00:38:34,687
A very unique,
one‐of‐a‐kind individual

861
00:38:34,687 --> 00:38:36,523
that will leave
a lasting legacy here

862
00:38:36,523 --> 00:38:41,194
on Oak Island and‐and indeed,
in all of our lives.

863
00:38:41,194 --> 00:38:44,239
So, for that we thank him
and we thank you.

864
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:45,615
Like I always say, Rick,
there's a right way,

865
00:38:45,615 --> 00:38:47,492
the wrong way,
and there's Dad's way.

866
00:38:47,492 --> 00:38:48,701
‐There you go.
‐

867
00:38:48,701 --> 00:38:50,286
We‐we kind of learned that.

868
00:38:50,286 --> 00:38:51,871
‐
We are treading

869
00:38:51,871 --> 00:38:54,165
in Dan's footsteps
in the sense that

870
00:38:54,165 --> 00:38:57,293
he went after
the same things we did.

871
00:38:57,293 --> 00:39:00,505
Where his footsteps
seem prudent,

872
00:39:00,505 --> 00:39:02,799
we're trying to follow
and extend them.

873
00:39:02,799 --> 00:39:05,969
It's been a great year.
Thanks for all the hard work.

874
00:39:05,969 --> 00:39:08,513
But for Dan,
I really thought this year

875
00:39:08,513 --> 00:39:10,515
we'd have Dan's breakthrough.

876
00:39:10,515 --> 00:39:13,476
Well, we didn't.
We didn't do that,

877
00:39:13,476 --> 00:39:16,271
but we, we sure have come up
with a lot of information.

878
00:39:16,271 --> 00:39:21,025
In a year that saw some
of the most amazing discoveries

879
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:22,527
ever made...

880
00:39:22,527 --> 00:39:27,031
from medieval tools
and artifacts

881
00:39:27,031 --> 00:39:30,618
to incredible new evidence
that something of great value

882
00:39:30,618 --> 00:39:33,371
could very well lie buried
in the fabled Money Pit,

883
00:39:33,371 --> 00:39:37,208
in addition to extensive
man‐made structures

884
00:39:37,208 --> 00:39:41,337
in the swamp, dating back
as much as eight centuries...

885
00:39:41,337 --> 00:39:43,381
Billy! Come on, man.
Give me a hug.

886
00:39:43,381 --> 00:39:45,508
...Rick, Marty and Craig

887
00:39:45,508 --> 00:39:49,012
have not only validated
more than a decade of hard work

888
00:39:49,012 --> 00:39:51,222
and personal sacrifices...

889
00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:54,893
‐Oh, Henskee.
‐Oh, my God, you're too strong.

890
00:39:54,893 --> 00:39:57,228
...they have now come
closer than ever

891
00:39:57,228 --> 00:39:58,897
to revealing the truth
behind Oak Island's

892
00:39:58,897 --> 00:40:00,398
incredible mystery.

893
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:03,234
Charles, my man.
Keep the faith.

894
00:40:03,234 --> 00:40:06,571
‐I know you will.
I never lost it.
I never will.

895
00:40:06,571 --> 00:40:09,449
Theirs is a story
that will surely change history

896
00:40:09,449 --> 00:40:10,867
as we know it,

897
00:40:10,867 --> 00:40:13,786
just as it has changed
their lives,

898
00:40:13,786 --> 00:40:17,707
and the lives of everyone
around them forever.

899
00:40:17,707 --> 00:40:20,501
You know, 1200 AD?

900
00:40:20,501 --> 00:40:23,212
: People working
in a swamp on Oak Island?

901
00:40:23,212 --> 00:40:24,756
It's crazy.

902
00:40:24,756 --> 00:40:27,467
There's a wonderful story
written here.

903
00:40:27,467 --> 00:40:29,260
I've always wanted
to turn the last page

904
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:33,765
on Oak Island, and, uh,
it's certainly not there yet.

905
00:40:33,765 --> 00:40:37,560
We're but chapters in,
after all this time.

906
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,272
‐We're just beginning.
‐Oh, yeah.