1 00:00:05,256 --> 00:00:06,897 [Narrator] Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island... 2 00:00:07,083 --> 00:00:10,009 -[horn honking] -[Marty] SBC and ROC are here. 3 00:00:10,194 --> 00:00:12,419 We want something found today. 4 00:00:12,647 --> 00:00:14,480 -Find some treasure, boys! -[cheering] 5 00:00:14,498 --> 00:00:16,982 -[grinding] -That thing looks unstoppable. 6 00:00:17,426 --> 00:00:19,519 -[rapid beeping] -[Katya] Ooh! 7 00:00:19,628 --> 00:00:22,413 -I think this is a key. -A key? 8 00:00:22,431 --> 00:00:23,898 Want to get this one to the lab. 9 00:00:24,083 --> 00:00:25,916 -Hundred percent. -[Craig] It's very interesting. 10 00:00:26,010 --> 00:00:28,085 It's saying super early time period. 11 00:00:28,104 --> 00:00:30,304 -No way. -[Tom] We're finally moving in a direction 12 00:00:30,414 --> 00:00:32,448 that could give us some answers. 13 00:00:34,619 --> 00:00:38,070 [Narrator] There is an island in the North Atlantic 14 00:00:38,181 --> 00:00:40,489 where people have been looking for 15 00:00:40,583 --> 00:00:44,535 an incredible treasure for more than 200 years. 16 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,596 So far, they have found a stone slab 17 00:00:47,656 --> 00:00:50,641 with strange symbols carved into it, 18 00:00:50,668 --> 00:00:54,353 man-made workings that date to medieval times, 19 00:00:54,380 --> 00:00:58,449 and a lead cross whose origin may be connected 20 00:00:58,509 --> 00:00:59,825 to the Knights Templar. 21 00:00:59,852 --> 00:01:02,803 To date, six men have died 22 00:01:02,755 --> 00:01:05,422 trying to solve the mystery. 23 00:01:05,533 --> 00:01:10,695 And according to legend, one more will have to die 24 00:01:10,955 --> 00:01:14,407 before the treasure can be found. 25 00:01:18,796 --> 00:01:20,955 ♪ ♪ 26 00:01:30,141 --> 00:01:31,557 [horn honking] 27 00:01:31,575 --> 00:01:34,877 A critical day has arrived on Oak Island 28 00:01:35,062 --> 00:01:36,637 for Rick and Marty Lagina, 29 00:01:36,789 --> 00:01:39,181 Craig Tester, and their team... 30 00:01:41,919 --> 00:01:44,503 -Yep! -...as a dig operation 31 00:01:44,463 --> 00:01:47,264 that has been months in the making 32 00:01:47,450 --> 00:01:49,933 is about to begin in the Money Pit area. 33 00:01:50,028 --> 00:01:51,452 [Marty] Hey, guys. 34 00:01:51,512 --> 00:01:54,855 SBC and ROC are here, personnel and equipment. 35 00:01:55,082 --> 00:01:56,340 They've been rolling in pretty steady 36 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:57,974 and they brought all their toys. 37 00:01:58,736 --> 00:02:01,253 [Craig] We've got some good locations this year. And, uh, 38 00:02:01,313 --> 00:02:03,756 we get down to that solution channel, 39 00:02:03,816 --> 00:02:05,273 hopefully we bring up not only that one thing 40 00:02:05,335 --> 00:02:07,034 -but-but all of it. -[chuckling] 41 00:02:07,261 --> 00:02:10,171 You mean actual treasure? 42 00:02:10,356 --> 00:02:12,931 -Treasure. The T-word. -[Rick] Yep. 43 00:02:12,991 --> 00:02:15,526 [Narrator] This year, the team has drilled 44 00:02:15,544 --> 00:02:19,013 more than a dozen new boreholes over 200 feet deep 45 00:02:19,198 --> 00:02:20,939 into the solution channel, 46 00:02:20,958 --> 00:02:24,118 where the legendary treasure is believed to have fallen 47 00:02:24,178 --> 00:02:27,129 after the collapse of the original Money Pit. 48 00:02:27,890 --> 00:02:31,375 After testing soil samples from the bottom of the boreholes, 49 00:02:31,435 --> 00:02:37,281 so far, two of them, known as I-9.5 and K-9.5, 50 00:02:37,467 --> 00:02:41,293 have yielded unusually high traces of silver. 51 00:02:41,478 --> 00:02:43,821 Now the team will begin excavating 52 00:02:44,048 --> 00:02:46,898 a seven-foot-diameter steel shaft in this area 53 00:02:46,959 --> 00:02:49,460 to find the source of the silver. 54 00:02:49,645 --> 00:02:55,282 It is a location the team previously excavated in 2019 55 00:02:55,543 --> 00:02:57,993 down to a depth of some 150 feet, 56 00:02:58,054 --> 00:03:00,704 which never reached the solution channel 57 00:03:00,815 --> 00:03:03,524 and was backfilled with tons of loose gravel 58 00:03:03,584 --> 00:03:06,051 known as surge rock. 59 00:03:07,421 --> 00:03:10,155 [Marty] Of those 500 boreholes we've drilled out here, 60 00:03:10,215 --> 00:03:13,659 I'll bet you no more than five percent of 'em went to the depth 61 00:03:13,677 --> 00:03:17,162 that I now suspect where the treasure lies. 62 00:03:17,222 --> 00:03:21,075 We're going to have to partially go over other caissons 63 00:03:21,226 --> 00:03:24,261 that were pulled and then filled with surge rock 64 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,171 to keep everything from collapsing 65 00:03:26,231 --> 00:03:28,523 and drill down deeper. And that's what we plan to do. 66 00:03:28,709 --> 00:03:32,086 [Narrator] It is their hope that the high traces of silver 67 00:03:32,271 --> 00:03:35,439 may be related to a 14th-century silver coin 68 00:03:35,499 --> 00:03:39,743 that was reportedly found in the Money Pit back in 1849, 69 00:03:39,762 --> 00:03:43,297 which is connected to the Portuguese sect 70 00:03:43,290 --> 00:03:45,516 of the Knights Templar. 71 00:03:46,735 --> 00:03:48,936 -Hey, guys. -[Craig] Gentlemen. -[Jared] How you doing? 72 00:03:49,196 --> 00:03:51,313 -Good to see you. -Good to see you, too. 73 00:03:51,340 --> 00:03:52,865 [Rick] It's exciting, because 74 00:03:52,925 --> 00:03:54,950 we've spent exhaustive hours 75 00:03:55,010 --> 00:03:58,687 trying to come up with an area of significant interest. 76 00:03:58,873 --> 00:04:00,197 And we believe we have. 77 00:04:00,383 --> 00:04:02,432 How does it feel to be back on Oak Island? 78 00:04:02,452 --> 00:04:04,293 -It's pretty nice. -It feels great to be back. 79 00:04:04,353 --> 00:04:07,638 -I love it here. -[chuckles] -Perfect. I like that attitude. 80 00:04:08,716 --> 00:04:14,444 [Rick] This mystery has resisted solution for 230-plus years. 81 00:04:14,538 --> 00:04:17,039 I want answers. We all do. 82 00:04:17,224 --> 00:04:20,075 Definitely brought some big toys this year. 83 00:04:20,136 --> 00:04:22,519 We were told we got to go pretty deep, so... 84 00:04:22,538 --> 00:04:24,822 -That looks really serious. -Yeah. 85 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:27,975 That's the new LB 45 we brought down. 86 00:04:28,235 --> 00:04:30,052 The big torque can run big depths, 87 00:04:30,237 --> 00:04:31,812 and she'll be able to chew through whatever we need to 88 00:04:31,998 --> 00:04:33,998 and help us see what's down there. 89 00:04:34,058 --> 00:04:37,392 -Are you using just an auger to drill through the rock? -Yeah. 90 00:04:38,245 --> 00:04:39,970 We're gonna probably maybe break a new record with this, 91 00:04:39,989 --> 00:04:41,688 just from how fast these drills come in and out of the hole 92 00:04:41,916 --> 00:04:44,140 versus us grabbing. I know grabbing's efficient as well, 93 00:04:44,251 --> 00:04:46,935 but this is gonna be a lot faster, material-wise. 94 00:04:46,954 --> 00:04:48,270 [Marty] I would think 95 00:04:48,289 --> 00:04:49,930 -especially at depth, actually. -Yeah. 96 00:04:49,990 --> 00:04:52,266 Because the trip time on a hammer grab is a long time. 97 00:04:52,284 --> 00:04:55,002 -Yeah. Yeah. -This just telescopes in and out, right? 98 00:04:55,187 --> 00:04:57,187 And it'll be a lot quicker coming in and out of the hole. 99 00:04:57,206 --> 00:05:00,098 -Pretty exciting. -Yeah. -It is. It's very interesting. 100 00:05:00,117 --> 00:05:03,219 -That vault doesn't stand a chance. -[chuckling] 101 00:05:05,548 --> 00:05:07,656 [Narrator] In order to reach the solution channel, 102 00:05:07,716 --> 00:05:12,502 the teams from Soletanche Bachy Canada and ROC Equipment 103 00:05:12,613 --> 00:05:15,264 will mount a seven-foot-diameter auger bit 104 00:05:15,449 --> 00:05:19,509 onto a 135-ton telescoping drill rig. 105 00:05:19,529 --> 00:05:23,197 After placing the auger inside massive steel caissons, 106 00:05:23,307 --> 00:05:26,149 it will rapidly drive down through soil, 107 00:05:26,302 --> 00:05:29,078 hard clay, and other debris... 108 00:05:29,872 --> 00:05:31,889 ...bringing spoils to the surface 109 00:05:31,907 --> 00:05:36,043 while a steel shaft is installed more than 200 feet deep. 110 00:05:36,228 --> 00:05:38,737 Once the solution channel is reached, 111 00:05:38,756 --> 00:05:41,698 a giant dig bucket will replace the auger bit 112 00:05:41,759 --> 00:05:44,351 to safely remove additional spoils 113 00:05:44,445 --> 00:05:46,570 and the potential treasure. 114 00:05:46,630 --> 00:05:49,147 We're looking at the location right there, right? 115 00:05:49,207 --> 00:05:51,333 -Yeah. Yeah. -The orange dot? 116 00:05:51,394 --> 00:05:54,069 During our sonic drill program this spring, 117 00:05:54,329 --> 00:05:55,663 we-we've been analyzing our cores 118 00:05:55,681 --> 00:05:57,322 and we've got silver in the soils. 119 00:05:57,382 --> 00:05:58,724 That's very interesting. 120 00:05:58,909 --> 00:06:00,317 [Rick] And then, of course, there's what we call 121 00:06:00,503 --> 00:06:01,827 the Pitblado coin, 122 00:06:01,921 --> 00:06:04,997 a Portuguese coin possibly found in this general area. 123 00:06:05,057 --> 00:06:07,925 -Wow. -Wow. -If that's what's down there, 124 00:06:07,943 --> 00:06:11,853 then your toys, as you describe them, will find more of them. 125 00:06:11,914 --> 00:06:14,131 -And that's the hope. -Yeah. 126 00:06:14,149 --> 00:06:18,419 [Marty] I try not to get too excited about what-ifs. 127 00:06:18,679 --> 00:06:20,070 But I can tell you this-- 128 00:06:20,089 --> 00:06:23,832 it could be hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars. 129 00:06:23,943 --> 00:06:25,259 That's exciting. 130 00:06:25,444 --> 00:06:27,561 All right, I'm happy. When are you gonna dig? 131 00:06:27,579 --> 00:06:30,022 -Break ground tomorrow. That's the plan. -Yeah. 132 00:06:30,082 --> 00:06:31,448 I like that. The only thing 133 00:06:31,508 --> 00:06:33,216 I'd like to have heard better is "today." 134 00:06:33,402 --> 00:06:35,836 -[laughter] -But tomorrow's acceptable. -Yeah. 135 00:06:35,688 --> 00:06:37,054 All right. 136 00:06:37,148 --> 00:06:38,814 [Rick] Thanks, guys. 137 00:06:39,074 --> 00:06:41,642 [Narrator] As the teams from ROC and SB Canada 138 00:06:41,869 --> 00:06:44,795 prepare for the dig in the Money Pit area... 139 00:06:44,813 --> 00:06:46,980 All right, mate. 140 00:06:47,166 --> 00:06:48,924 Getting stuck back in again. 141 00:06:48,984 --> 00:06:52,894 ...Rick and Craig join Gary Drayton and Tom Nolan 142 00:06:52,955 --> 00:06:56,423 to continue searching for clues on Tom's property 143 00:06:56,441 --> 00:06:58,992 in the northern region of the swamp. 144 00:06:59,145 --> 00:07:01,069 [Gary] We've got a lot of history 145 00:07:01,130 --> 00:07:03,188 that's been uncovered recently. 146 00:07:03,248 --> 00:07:05,057 The mystery vault. 147 00:07:05,075 --> 00:07:06,750 We got a row of stakes 148 00:07:06,902 --> 00:07:08,969 leading us to that vault and we're digging 149 00:07:09,155 --> 00:07:11,472 -right on the line. -Yep. 150 00:07:11,623 --> 00:07:14,249 [Narrator] They are following a cobblestone path 151 00:07:14,310 --> 00:07:17,561 that is lined with eight-sided wooden survey stakes. 152 00:07:17,747 --> 00:07:20,097 A path that, one year ago, 153 00:07:20,282 --> 00:07:24,409 led them to a mysterious but unfortunately empty vault 154 00:07:24,353 --> 00:07:26,912 some 50 yards to the south. 155 00:07:27,006 --> 00:07:30,040 Now they are eager to see 156 00:07:30,058 --> 00:07:32,183 if more hidden structures that contain valuables 157 00:07:32,244 --> 00:07:36,254 are waiting to be found in this area. 158 00:07:36,273 --> 00:07:37,881 [Alan] That deep enough? 159 00:07:37,908 --> 00:07:41,085 Yeah. That's good over there, Al. Take another one here. 160 00:07:48,844 --> 00:07:50,118 Whoa-ho! 161 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:52,846 Rick, I got a find here. 162 00:07:55,117 --> 00:07:56,725 Look at that. 163 00:07:57,845 --> 00:07:59,277 That's leather. 164 00:07:59,296 --> 00:08:00,521 [Rick] Oh, yeah. 165 00:08:00,630 --> 00:08:02,614 [Gary] That's a boot or a shoe. 166 00:08:02,674 --> 00:08:05,192 -That's not a modern piece of shoe. It's... -No. 167 00:08:05,377 --> 00:08:07,194 More than likely, it's a sole. 168 00:08:07,379 --> 00:08:09,379 And look at all the little holes. 169 00:08:09,531 --> 00:08:11,532 So you know it's not stitched. 170 00:08:11,717 --> 00:08:17,054 Yeah, that's like the old little hobnails. 171 00:08:16,998 --> 00:08:20,340 -It's got an old feel about it for sure. -Hmm. 172 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,035 -You start slipping, you lose your shoe. -Mm. 173 00:08:23,220 --> 00:08:26,638 Next thing you know, you're losing your coins. 174 00:08:26,656 --> 00:08:30,325 Aside from the bits of leather we found in the Money Pit, 175 00:08:30,386 --> 00:08:31,885 the majority of the finds have been in the swamp. 176 00:08:32,071 --> 00:08:34,404 That leather down there in the southeast corner 177 00:08:34,423 --> 00:08:35,889 was very, very old. 178 00:08:36,075 --> 00:08:37,482 -Oh, yeah. -You know what? 179 00:08:37,542 --> 00:08:39,101 There might be more in here. 180 00:08:40,212 --> 00:08:42,730 [Narrator] In 2023, 181 00:08:42,915 --> 00:08:44,306 while searching for clues 182 00:08:44,416 --> 00:08:46,491 near the possibly Portuguese stone road 183 00:08:46,551 --> 00:08:48,977 in the southeast corner of the swamp... 184 00:08:49,163 --> 00:08:50,428 [Rick] Check that out. 185 00:08:50,448 --> 00:08:53,807 What the heck is that? Ooh! 186 00:08:53,868 --> 00:08:56,985 ...Rick and Gary found part of a boot, 187 00:08:57,171 --> 00:08:59,555 which was of European origin 188 00:08:59,648 --> 00:09:03,024 and could date back to the 17th century. 189 00:09:03,085 --> 00:09:06,119 Could Rick and Gary have found a related clue? 190 00:09:06,113 --> 00:09:09,206 And if so, might it help identify 191 00:09:09,433 --> 00:09:11,800 just who built the cobble road? 192 00:09:13,854 --> 00:09:15,179 Mm. 193 00:09:16,732 --> 00:09:18,231 Look at that, Gary. 194 00:09:18,325 --> 00:09:19,558 [Gary] Oh-ho. 195 00:09:19,709 --> 00:09:21,176 With big, uh, 196 00:09:21,361 --> 00:09:23,312 -nail holes in it. -Yeah. They're-they're hobnails. 197 00:09:23,421 --> 00:09:26,172 -[Rick] That's not stitching. -Yeah. Yeah. For sure. 198 00:09:26,358 --> 00:09:28,299 That's not a modern piece of shoe. 199 00:09:28,452 --> 00:09:31,645 Hell of a great eyeball find, Rick. 200 00:09:31,781 --> 00:09:33,864 Leather is where you say to yourself, "You know what, 201 00:09:34,049 --> 00:09:35,732 -there's a real story here." -Yeah. 202 00:09:35,959 --> 00:09:38,210 If these pieces of leather are from shoes or boots 203 00:09:38,270 --> 00:09:42,288 from the people who did the original work in this area... 204 00:09:42,474 --> 00:09:43,824 -That'd be something. -Yeah. 205 00:09:43,709 --> 00:09:46,051 We have the lab here on the island 206 00:09:46,036 --> 00:09:48,194 to really-- no pun intended-- 207 00:09:48,255 --> 00:09:51,281 -to nail down where that leather came from. -Yeah. 208 00:09:51,416 --> 00:09:52,840 This is how it's gonna go-- 209 00:09:53,026 --> 00:09:55,485 leather, coins, and champagne. 210 00:09:55,546 --> 00:09:57,062 -There you go. -Yeah. 211 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:58,822 [Rick] I think there's a lot of information 212 00:09:58,882 --> 00:10:01,675 that might reside within this shoe leather. 213 00:10:01,902 --> 00:10:04,244 The platforms, the paved area, 214 00:10:04,263 --> 00:10:07,164 the suspected paths, roads, 215 00:10:07,224 --> 00:10:09,316 all of the constructions in the bog. 216 00:10:09,501 --> 00:10:10,758 There's so much we don't know 217 00:10:10,853 --> 00:10:13,670 about the reason why it was constructed. 218 00:10:13,763 --> 00:10:17,107 But everything you find could be the clue you're looking for. 219 00:10:17,901 --> 00:10:20,077 Probably get a scoop out of there, Craig. 220 00:10:25,367 --> 00:10:26,959 That's strange. 221 00:10:27,786 --> 00:10:30,420 The excavator bucket just went straight down. 222 00:10:32,191 --> 00:10:33,632 Hmm. 223 00:10:35,377 --> 00:10:37,469 There's some sort of void here. 224 00:10:38,422 --> 00:10:40,013 Yep. 225 00:10:44,370 --> 00:13:18,547 [Tom] As you can see, the excavator bucket 226 00:13:18,774 --> 00:13:19,881 went straight down. 227 00:13:20,067 --> 00:13:22,500 -[Gary] Oh, yeah. -You know, I'm gonna say 228 00:13:22,686 --> 00:13:25,262 five feet into this void. 229 00:13:25,447 --> 00:13:27,188 -Down she went. -Mm. 230 00:13:27,248 --> 00:13:30,358 [Narrator] In the northern region of the Oak Island swamp, 231 00:13:30,343 --> 00:13:34,404 the team has made what could be an important discovery. 232 00:13:34,464 --> 00:13:35,838 [Alan] It's solid 233 00:13:35,932 --> 00:13:37,532 -all the way around it. -Mm. 234 00:13:37,592 --> 00:13:39,284 So somebody's dug it. 235 00:13:39,227 --> 00:13:41,552 -Yeah. -[Rick] People were in here. 236 00:13:41,613 --> 00:13:44,105 -People were in here doing something. -Yeah. 237 00:13:44,216 --> 00:13:47,033 [Narrator] A five-foot-deep man-made hole? 238 00:13:47,219 --> 00:13:50,120 Might it have been created by someone connected 239 00:13:50,305 --> 00:13:52,989 to the shoe leather the team found nearby 240 00:13:53,216 --> 00:13:56,409 and the sections of the cobblestone path 241 00:13:56,595 --> 00:13:59,354 that the team has uncovered throughout the swamp? 242 00:14:00,081 --> 00:14:02,816 -Okay, Al, let's see what's there. -Okay. 243 00:14:02,801 --> 00:14:04,867 [whirring] 244 00:14:05,053 --> 00:14:07,387 [clanking] 245 00:14:19,417 --> 00:14:21,067 Let's find some treasure, boys. 246 00:14:23,538 --> 00:14:25,530 What we got here? 247 00:14:27,367 --> 00:14:29,593 Another stake. 248 00:14:29,653 --> 00:14:31,778 It came out of that last load, wherever that last scoop 249 00:14:31,963 --> 00:14:33,479 -came from. -One, two, three. 250 00:14:33,665 --> 00:14:35,323 Hey, Tom! 251 00:14:35,417 --> 00:14:37,125 -Can you come over? -Yep. 252 00:14:38,003 --> 00:14:40,170 [turns off engine] 253 00:14:40,430 --> 00:14:42,822 The stakes you found previously, are they lining up here? 254 00:14:42,841 --> 00:14:46,726 It looks like it may be on one of the lines 255 00:14:46,744 --> 00:14:48,303 projected from the stakes we have found 256 00:14:48,530 --> 00:14:51,515 -this year. -And think of what was right over there. 257 00:14:51,624 --> 00:14:53,550 And we've referenced it many times, right? 258 00:14:53,702 --> 00:14:54,943 The vault. 259 00:14:55,037 --> 00:14:57,120 Because if those stakes point to that, 260 00:14:57,305 --> 00:14:59,205 it may point to another one here. 261 00:14:59,266 --> 00:15:01,858 Those stakes might have something to tell us yet. 262 00:15:02,044 --> 00:15:04,802 -To me, that's the puzzle here. -Yeah. 263 00:15:05,631 --> 00:15:07,847 [Rick] This stake that comes out of the ground 264 00:15:07,908 --> 00:15:10,900 might be delineating a path, 265 00:15:11,127 --> 00:15:12,619 uh, from long ago. 266 00:15:12,804 --> 00:15:16,573 Uh, Tom has iterated many times his father did not use stakes. 267 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:20,685 Maybe these new finds will tell us who did it, 268 00:15:20,745 --> 00:15:22,729 when they did it, why they did it. 269 00:15:22,789 --> 00:15:24,664 But we live to fight another day, 270 00:15:24,816 --> 00:15:26,550 -so let's pack it up. -Yes. 271 00:15:26,701 --> 00:15:28,068 -Yep. -Let's bring the things to the lab, 272 00:15:28,128 --> 00:15:29,644 see what kind of results we can get. 273 00:15:29,704 --> 00:15:30,962 Okay. Sounds good. 274 00:15:31,147 --> 00:15:32,806 Off we go. 275 00:15:34,660 --> 00:15:36,876 [Narrator] Later that afternoon... 276 00:15:37,712 --> 00:15:39,646 Well, there she be, Corey. Right there. 277 00:15:39,831 --> 00:15:41,848 -Yeah. -What do you think? 278 00:15:42,075 --> 00:15:44,109 -That's a nice little rock. -[chuckling] 279 00:15:44,336 --> 00:15:45,752 [Laird] We're proud of it. 280 00:15:45,845 --> 00:15:47,537 [Narrator] ...on Lot 8, 281 00:15:47,555 --> 00:15:49,814 Rick has joined Marty and other members of the team 282 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:53,175 to meet with crane operator Corey Robart 283 00:15:53,102 --> 00:15:55,728 at the massive boulder feature. 284 00:15:56,564 --> 00:15:59,674 We're currently at a stage where we're trying to find 285 00:15:59,692 --> 00:16:01,434 where the-the original cuts were 286 00:16:01,494 --> 00:16:04,170 -when they excavated down here, whatever they did. -Okay. Okay. 287 00:16:04,431 --> 00:16:07,607 [Fiona] Um, we don't know how deep it goes down yet. 288 00:16:08,527 --> 00:16:10,760 [Narrator] The team began investigating this boulder 289 00:16:10,946 --> 00:16:12,262 several weeks ago, 290 00:16:12,447 --> 00:16:15,798 which sits above a ring of evenly spaced stones 291 00:16:16,026 --> 00:16:18,417 and covers a backfilled void. 292 00:16:18,528 --> 00:16:21,712 -I'll show you. There's a really good spot. -All right. 293 00:16:21,673 --> 00:16:24,674 [Narrator] After feeding a snake camera into a narrow space 294 00:16:24,809 --> 00:16:27,903 that the team dug out below the boulder... 295 00:16:28,797 --> 00:16:31,205 ...they recorded images of possible tools... 296 00:16:31,265 --> 00:16:34,284 -It's gold-looking. -[Doug] It certainly is. 297 00:16:34,469 --> 00:16:38,029 ...and even a gold-colored material. 298 00:16:38,140 --> 00:16:40,306 And just one week ago, 299 00:16:40,441 --> 00:16:43,810 soil testing on samples taken from beneath the boulder 300 00:16:43,795 --> 00:16:46,663 contained unnatural levels of lead, 301 00:16:46,848 --> 00:16:48,440 which the team believes 302 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:52,218 could be evidence of a centuries-old mining tunnel. 303 00:16:53,255 --> 00:16:55,430 Now archaeologist Laird Niven 304 00:16:55,540 --> 00:16:58,675 has given the team permission to remove the boulder 305 00:16:58,902 --> 00:17:03,521 in order to find out just what might be buried underneath it. 306 00:17:06,009 --> 00:17:09,402 So, I'm gonna say we'll put a chain around here. 307 00:17:10,489 --> 00:17:12,096 We'll choke this around the bottom. 308 00:17:12,157 --> 00:17:14,140 We'll bring four legs down, 309 00:17:14,250 --> 00:17:15,508 which will be chained. 310 00:17:15,568 --> 00:17:17,661 And we'll put two pins 311 00:17:17,846 --> 00:17:19,996 on this side and two pins on the other side. 312 00:17:20,182 --> 00:17:23,574 -Pins? Like, what do you mean? -A one-inch bar. 313 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,169 -Steel? Mm-hmm. -Drill a hole in. Yeah. 314 00:17:26,429 --> 00:17:27,771 And then we'll bring the slings down 315 00:17:27,756 --> 00:17:29,956 and hook into that chain. 316 00:17:30,183 --> 00:17:33,693 And then that'll hold this rock on this side and that side, 317 00:17:33,679 --> 00:17:35,679 squeeze it together as it's coming up. 318 00:17:35,864 --> 00:17:38,548 [Fiona] Does that mean we may not necessarily have to dig 319 00:17:38,775 --> 00:17:40,100 any area that could possibly compromise 320 00:17:40,285 --> 00:17:41,776 what we're looking at? 321 00:17:41,794 --> 00:17:43,169 -Yeah. -Okay. 322 00:17:43,230 --> 00:17:45,463 -You know what, that's very encouraging. -[Laird] Yeah. 323 00:17:45,524 --> 00:17:48,433 Corey, how big of a crane do you think you'll need? 324 00:17:48,618 --> 00:17:51,510 I'm gonna bring 130-ton crane. 325 00:17:51,530 --> 00:17:53,062 These two trees will go. 326 00:17:53,215 --> 00:17:55,931 -I'm gonna set in here. -[Craig] They need to clear 327 00:17:55,993 --> 00:17:58,368 all around yet, so that's gonna take a while. 328 00:18:00,130 --> 00:18:02,706 Probably the biggest logistic, uh, issue is bringing in 329 00:18:02,891 --> 00:18:04,874 the crane itself, 'cause it's a big-- it's a big machine. 330 00:18:05,060 --> 00:18:08,302 This week, Billy and his workers will be working on the road 331 00:18:08,396 --> 00:18:11,231 and-and the tree removal that's required. 332 00:18:11,291 --> 00:18:14,234 There's absolutely no way to understand that boulder 333 00:18:14,294 --> 00:18:15,701 without lifting it out of the way. 334 00:18:15,721 --> 00:18:17,645 I think this is gonna go cleanly. 335 00:18:17,589 --> 00:18:19,088 I-I really, really do. 336 00:18:19,315 --> 00:18:20,731 I think we have the right technology and the people 337 00:18:20,792 --> 00:18:22,374 who know what they're doing. 338 00:18:22,394 --> 00:18:24,060 The rest of us can get back to it. 339 00:18:24,246 --> 00:18:25,770 -[Billy] Yep. -[Craig] Okay. 340 00:18:28,775 --> 00:18:31,818 [Narrator] As a new day breaks on Oak Island... 341 00:18:32,762 --> 00:18:35,739 [cheering, applause] 342 00:18:35,924 --> 00:18:38,700 -[Marty] All right! [chuckles] -[whooping] 343 00:18:40,428 --> 00:18:41,703 Well, thank you! 344 00:18:41,888 --> 00:18:43,279 What are you all standing around for? 345 00:18:43,506 --> 00:18:44,806 [chuckling] 346 00:18:44,866 --> 00:18:47,584 ...Rick, Marty, Craig, and the rest of the team 347 00:18:47,769 --> 00:18:49,318 gather in the Money Pit area. 348 00:18:49,579 --> 00:18:50,937 Vanessa, welcome back 349 00:18:50,997 --> 00:18:52,872 -to Oak Island. -Hey. -[Narrator] Now that the teams 350 00:18:53,057 --> 00:18:55,024 from ROC and SB Canada 351 00:18:55,043 --> 00:18:57,427 have finished setting up their equipment... 352 00:18:58,354 --> 00:19:01,781 ...it's finally time to begin a dig that will go deeper 353 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,676 than any previous searcher operation in Oak Island history. 354 00:19:05,862 --> 00:19:08,096 That thing looks unstoppable. 355 00:19:08,281 --> 00:19:10,373 -Quite impressive. -Yeah. 356 00:19:11,134 --> 00:19:12,776 [Rick] You know, when I'm standing here in the Money Pit, 357 00:19:12,961 --> 00:19:17,030 I-I always think of 230-plus years of activity, 358 00:19:17,215 --> 00:19:19,373 230-plus years of search, 359 00:19:19,433 --> 00:19:20,950 of commitment... 360 00:19:21,894 --> 00:19:23,544 ...intellect, passion, 361 00:19:23,563 --> 00:19:25,321 belief. 362 00:19:25,457 --> 00:19:28,299 But this year, it's about finding treasure. 363 00:19:28,317 --> 00:19:31,719 And there are two people here 364 00:19:31,737 --> 00:19:34,722 who are emblematic of finding things, 365 00:19:34,740 --> 00:19:36,115 especially the one thing. 366 00:19:36,209 --> 00:19:39,135 So I would ask Gary and Katya to come up 367 00:19:39,395 --> 00:19:40,853 and get this kicked off. 368 00:19:40,913 --> 00:19:42,672 Because you find things, 369 00:19:42,899 --> 00:19:46,567 and we want something found in this Money Pit today. 370 00:19:46,678 --> 00:19:48,194 Do you accept that challenge? 371 00:19:48,254 --> 00:19:50,388 -Challenge accepted! Let's go, Katya. -[applause] 372 00:19:50,498 --> 00:19:52,232 No pressure. 373 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,568 Be careful climbing up the track there. 374 00:19:57,538 --> 00:19:59,155 -How are you? -Good. 375 00:19:59,307 --> 00:20:01,249 -Wow. -[Marty] Gary! 376 00:20:01,309 --> 00:20:03,359 I've taken the liberty of naming this hole. 377 00:20:03,586 --> 00:20:05,345 Okay. 378 00:20:05,405 --> 00:20:07,088 Top Pocket Find! 379 00:20:07,148 --> 00:20:09,757 -[Alex] All right! -Yeah! That's what we want it to be. 380 00:20:09,775 --> 00:20:11,092 Good choice! 381 00:20:11,110 --> 00:20:13,711 -TPF. -TPF. 382 00:20:14,539 --> 00:20:16,046 You getting in here, Katya? 383 00:20:15,966 --> 00:20:17,765 [laughter] 384 00:20:17,750 --> 00:20:19,609 All right. Start her up. 385 00:20:19,627 --> 00:20:23,054 -Find some treasure, boys! -[whoops] 386 00:20:23,882 --> 00:20:26,432 -[chuckling] -Whoa, baby. 387 00:20:27,777 --> 00:20:29,777 -[applause] -[Jack] Yeah! 388 00:20:30,463 --> 00:20:34,506 [Rick] There's high hopes and great anticipation. 389 00:20:34,526 --> 00:20:36,359 It's been a long slog. 390 00:20:36,544 --> 00:20:39,863 And it's, you know, 12, 13 years in the making. 391 00:20:40,048 --> 00:20:41,397 [Marty] You're not gonna get him out of that seat. 392 00:20:41,624 --> 00:20:42,991 No, you're not. 393 00:20:43,176 --> 00:20:44,901 [Gary] Wow. 394 00:20:45,086 --> 00:20:47,128 -I want one! -[laughter] 395 00:20:47,964 --> 00:20:50,298 [Rick] We are, what Marty long ago called, 396 00:20:50,316 --> 00:20:52,684 the Fellowship of the Dig. I am 397 00:20:52,744 --> 00:20:56,037 incredibly grateful for their presence, 398 00:20:56,222 --> 00:20:59,582 for their contributions, for their passion 399 00:20:59,734 --> 00:21:03,736 to solve this incredibly complex mystery. 400 00:21:03,755 --> 00:21:05,588 I draw inspiration from them. 401 00:21:05,815 --> 00:21:08,391 So let's find the treasure. 402 00:21:09,227 --> 00:21:11,152 [Gary] What a thrill! 403 00:21:11,212 --> 00:21:13,271 -Ha-hey! -[chuckling] 404 00:21:14,715 --> 00:21:16,006 Started drilling. 405 00:21:16,067 --> 00:21:17,650 -Now let's find some gold. -[Rick] Come on! 406 00:21:18,586 --> 00:21:20,978 -Absolutely. -Let's do it. 407 00:21:21,164 --> 00:21:23,489 -Well done, Gary. -That was awesome. 408 00:21:25,577 --> 00:21:29,037 [Marty] There we go! We're gonna find some treasure here! 409 00:21:30,006 --> 00:21:32,506 Hey, team! Thank you for being here. 410 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:33,917 I love you all. 411 00:21:34,026 --> 00:21:35,901 Now get back to work, okay? 412 00:21:35,921 --> 00:21:37,670 -[Gary] Yay! -[cheering, applause] 413 00:21:40,516 --> 00:22:43,736 [Alex] Dang. It's moving. 414 00:22:43,846 --> 00:22:45,438 -[chuckles] -[Peter] Holy crap is it moving. 415 00:22:45,665 --> 00:22:48,833 [Narrator] As the excavation of the TPF shaft 416 00:22:48,893 --> 00:22:51,953 continues in the Money Pit area... 417 00:22:53,781 --> 00:22:55,681 -[Craig] Carmen. -[Katya] Hi. -[Marty] Hey, Carmen. 418 00:22:55,909 --> 00:22:57,750 -[Carmen] How you doing today? -You're center stage, man. 419 00:22:57,936 --> 00:22:59,426 -Welcome back. -Wonderful. 420 00:22:59,428 --> 00:23:02,547 ...Marty, Craig, and other members of the team are meeting 421 00:23:02,732 --> 00:23:04,424 in the Oak Island lab 422 00:23:04,609 --> 00:23:06,584 with blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge. 423 00:23:06,678 --> 00:23:09,828 -[Katya] I found this with Rick on Lot 8. -[Carmen] Okay. 424 00:23:09,848 --> 00:23:13,132 [Narrator] Six weeks ago, while searching for clues 425 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:17,044 several yards south of the boulder feature on Lot 8, 426 00:23:17,105 --> 00:23:20,957 Rick and Katya found a possible knife handle. 427 00:23:20,942 --> 00:23:24,426 And, curiously, it was unearthed in the same area 428 00:23:24,446 --> 00:23:27,888 where the pieces of potentially 16th-century chain 429 00:23:27,949 --> 00:23:30,833 were also recently discovered. 430 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:32,802 [Katya] It immediately looked to me 431 00:23:32,862 --> 00:23:35,562 -like a knife handle. -I'll have a look. 432 00:23:35,673 --> 00:23:37,849 [Narrator] Now the team is eager 433 00:23:37,909 --> 00:23:40,626 to get Carmen's assessment on this find 434 00:23:40,545 --> 00:23:45,298 to confirm just what it is and when it may have been created. 435 00:23:45,483 --> 00:23:48,092 Wow. This is certainly an interesting piece. 436 00:23:51,839 --> 00:23:54,081 It's not a knife, no. It has 437 00:23:54,233 --> 00:23:57,143 -a lot of features on it. -[Emma] Yeah. 438 00:23:58,554 --> 00:24:01,922 -[Marty] So what is it? [laughs] -That's a good question. 439 00:24:02,074 --> 00:24:06,160 I think it was a tool that was either used like this, 440 00:24:06,220 --> 00:24:08,896 to swing in a certain notch or... 441 00:24:09,081 --> 00:24:12,082 this way, you pick it up to swing it over. 442 00:24:12,101 --> 00:24:15,261 This is a tool made for a specific part 443 00:24:15,321 --> 00:24:18,188 of some larger tool that has some sort of mechanism to it. 444 00:24:18,415 --> 00:24:20,850 [Katya] Oh, yeah. Levers, 445 00:24:20,868 --> 00:24:23,519 pulleys-- could that possibly be 446 00:24:23,505 --> 00:24:25,612 part of one of those systems? 447 00:24:25,673 --> 00:24:27,765 That's what I'm seeing, is, uh, some type 448 00:24:27,825 --> 00:24:30,559 -of ratcheting tool. -Mm. 449 00:24:30,619 --> 00:24:32,086 It's not far from the Lot 8 boulder, 450 00:24:32,271 --> 00:24:34,438 so it's interesting. 451 00:24:35,191 --> 00:24:37,283 [Narrator] A tool that could have been part 452 00:24:37,343 --> 00:24:38,826 of a pulley system? 453 00:24:38,886 --> 00:24:41,445 Might it be related to the heavy chain 454 00:24:41,463 --> 00:24:43,722 that the team found in this area? 455 00:24:43,950 --> 00:24:46,350 And if so, could both have been used 456 00:24:46,535 --> 00:24:49,195 in order to lift the massive boulder into place? 457 00:24:49,455 --> 00:24:53,032 Or perhaps to lower something in the ground beneath it? 458 00:24:53,218 --> 00:24:55,225 [Marty] What about the metallurgy? 459 00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:56,777 What's that telling you? 460 00:24:56,963 --> 00:24:58,320 [Emma] So, the metallurgy's actually really-- 461 00:24:58,547 --> 00:25:00,556 It's a nice, clean iron. 462 00:25:00,575 --> 00:25:04,860 It is more reminiscent of, like, the European iron 463 00:25:04,954 --> 00:25:07,721 that we commonly see within the 1700s. 464 00:25:07,740 --> 00:25:10,733 -Is it possible to be older? -Yeah. It's possible. 465 00:25:10,751 --> 00:25:12,401 [Jack] There's been a bunch 466 00:25:12,420 --> 00:25:13,744 of different things on Lot 8 467 00:25:13,838 --> 00:25:15,412 that we've dug up over the years. 468 00:25:15,473 --> 00:25:17,497 It's almost like bits and pieces were dropped 469 00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:20,059 from a couple different timelines, 470 00:25:20,169 --> 00:25:22,745 but something happened on Lot 8. 471 00:25:22,805 --> 00:25:24,471 [Marty] Lot 8 is... 472 00:25:24,566 --> 00:25:26,332 giant in our minds right now 473 00:25:26,350 --> 00:25:28,067 because of this big boulder on it. 474 00:25:28,253 --> 00:25:33,163 So, this tool, device, is from the 1700s, 475 00:25:33,258 --> 00:25:36,558 and is evidence somebody was doing something on Lot 8. 476 00:25:36,578 --> 00:25:39,837 It is kind of a "wow" thing. 477 00:25:39,897 --> 00:25:43,516 So, in summation, we have an enigmatic, 478 00:25:43,501 --> 00:25:46,586 interesting, perhaps one-of-a-kind tool... 479 00:25:47,655 --> 00:25:51,007 ...more to the saga of all kinds of stuff happening here 480 00:25:51,192 --> 00:25:53,759 pre-1795. 481 00:25:54,020 --> 00:25:55,519 I think, for sure, 482 00:25:55,537 --> 00:25:57,896 someone was there doing some sort of type of work. Yeah. 483 00:25:57,915 --> 00:25:59,732 I think there's something under this rock. 484 00:25:59,750 --> 00:26:02,509 I think people actually did something here. 485 00:26:02,695 --> 00:26:04,862 So, could these dates 486 00:26:04,922 --> 00:26:07,990 be representative of those efforts? 487 00:26:08,017 --> 00:26:09,174 It could be. 488 00:26:09,401 --> 00:26:10,592 There's an air of excitement 489 00:26:10,653 --> 00:26:12,461 to see what's underneath that boulder. 490 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,555 Carmen, thank you very much. A lot of information here. 491 00:26:15,617 --> 00:26:18,467 -And everybody else, we can get back to it, right? -Sounds good. 492 00:26:18,486 --> 00:26:20,119 [Carmen] Thank you. 493 00:26:22,314 --> 00:26:24,715 [Narrator] Later that day... 494 00:26:25,509 --> 00:26:27,176 [Rick] We're getting to the end of the north end 495 00:26:27,236 --> 00:26:29,128 -of the bog. -Yeah. 496 00:26:29,314 --> 00:26:31,964 [Narrator] ...Rick, Tom and other members of the team 497 00:26:32,150 --> 00:26:35,501 continue the dig in the northern region of the swamp 498 00:26:35,686 --> 00:26:39,238 to track the projected direction of the cobblestone pathway. 499 00:26:39,257 --> 00:26:42,082 I'll start pulling down some of these sides. 500 00:26:42,234 --> 00:26:44,201 I can watch everything that's coming out here. 501 00:26:44,053 --> 00:26:46,479 -All right. Let's get going. -Sounds good. 502 00:26:46,739 --> 00:26:48,189 [Tom] Let's spark 'er up, Al. 503 00:26:49,167 --> 00:26:50,650 [beeping] 504 00:27:01,186 --> 00:27:03,504 [Rick] There's a significant cobble road. 505 00:27:03,522 --> 00:27:04,697 What story does that tell, 506 00:27:04,924 --> 00:27:07,257 in terms of understanding what the swamp work 507 00:27:07,276 --> 00:27:08,575 might represent? 508 00:27:08,761 --> 00:27:10,536 I think that the work in the swamp, 509 00:27:10,763 --> 00:27:12,596 as we currently understand it, 510 00:27:12,656 --> 00:27:16,158 might have something to do with the efforts in the Money Pit. 511 00:27:16,177 --> 00:27:20,045 But given the extensive amount of finds in the bog, 512 00:27:20,272 --> 00:27:22,056 there's every hope that something 513 00:27:22,166 --> 00:27:26,402 of significant value might be buried as well. 514 00:27:26,429 --> 00:27:31,732 So, we need to make sure we cover all the bases here. 515 00:27:45,540 --> 00:27:47,506 -[Tom] Hey, Rick. -Yeah? 516 00:27:47,524 --> 00:27:48,708 We got some old boards down here 517 00:27:48,893 --> 00:27:50,242 you might want to have a look at. 518 00:27:50,469 --> 00:27:51,961 Just came out of the bank. 519 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:56,807 [Rick] What have you got? 520 00:27:56,825 --> 00:27:58,509 [Tom] It's a pretty heavy plank 521 00:27:58,694 --> 00:28:00,219 that just came out of this, 522 00:28:00,329 --> 00:28:03,406 after Al took that last bucket out. 523 00:28:03,424 --> 00:28:04,857 Three pieces here and it, 524 00:28:04,875 --> 00:28:07,259 it's in good shape, but it's old. 525 00:28:07,486 --> 00:28:10,253 -You can tell it's old wood. -[Rick] Yeah, it's thick. Yeah. 526 00:28:10,315 --> 00:28:12,906 And there's a nail right there. 527 00:28:12,850 --> 00:28:15,985 -[Rick] Can you tell? Round, square? -It's hard to tell. 528 00:28:18,923 --> 00:28:20,722 It's-it's thick plank. Like, I think it's over 529 00:28:20,742 --> 00:28:21,940 an inch thick, which-- 530 00:28:22,168 --> 00:28:23,667 Yeah, that would... Not modern, right? 531 00:28:23,685 --> 00:28:26,003 No. No. That's old. 532 00:28:26,021 --> 00:28:29,173 They don't happen to fit together, do they? 533 00:28:29,267 --> 00:28:30,674 [Tom] We didn't really look. 534 00:28:30,618 --> 00:28:32,768 Ah, you know what? 535 00:28:33,554 --> 00:28:36,772 I think I do see how this might have gone together. 536 00:28:36,958 --> 00:28:38,607 -[Rick] Yeah, look at that. -Yeah. 537 00:28:38,793 --> 00:28:40,025 [Rick] That is a wide board. 538 00:28:40,211 --> 00:28:41,377 You want to build a chest out of that, 539 00:28:41,604 --> 00:28:43,012 there's your side, guys. 540 00:28:43,197 --> 00:28:45,598 -[Tom] Yeah. -[Rick] But... 541 00:28:45,783 --> 00:28:48,117 -I don't know, the key is that nail you found. -Yeah. 542 00:28:48,102 --> 00:28:52,054 If that's square, it could be really, really old. 543 00:28:52,047 --> 00:28:53,522 [Narrator] Could Rick be correct 544 00:28:53,708 --> 00:28:55,307 that this thick wood planking 545 00:28:55,443 --> 00:28:58,360 may have been part of a structure in the swamp, 546 00:28:58,321 --> 00:29:00,946 and perhaps a chest of some kind? 547 00:29:01,132 --> 00:29:03,482 If so, might it be related 548 00:29:03,667 --> 00:29:05,542 to the empty brick-and-slate vault 549 00:29:05,561 --> 00:29:09,046 they found several yards to the south one year ago? 550 00:29:09,140 --> 00:29:12,641 Or could it be related to another one in this area 551 00:29:12,701 --> 00:29:16,145 that might still contain something of value? 552 00:29:16,372 --> 00:29:18,355 [Tom] I think we definitely want to get this one back to the lab 553 00:29:18,416 --> 00:29:21,241 -to have-have a look at that. -Yep. Hundred percent. 554 00:29:21,393 --> 00:29:22,735 -All right. -Well, let's hope there's more in here. 555 00:29:22,870 --> 00:29:24,469 -[Tom] Yeah. -[Katya] Yeah. -Okay. 556 00:29:24,655 --> 00:29:27,932 [Rick] The board is 12-plus inches in width. 557 00:29:28,041 --> 00:29:32,043 It also is over an inch thick, which is not modern dimension. 558 00:29:32,229 --> 00:29:34,313 So, could be very old. 559 00:29:34,499 --> 00:29:36,765 With a nail in one of them, 560 00:29:36,918 --> 00:29:39,818 it's a perfect candidate to bring to Emma. 561 00:29:40,003 --> 00:29:41,337 From a metallurgical perspective, 562 00:29:41,472 --> 00:29:42,822 she might be able to date them. 563 00:29:43,007 --> 00:29:44,824 I hope it does have answers for the bog. 564 00:29:45,009 --> 00:29:47,593 [detector beeping] 565 00:29:47,611 --> 00:29:48,761 Ooh. 566 00:29:48,821 --> 00:29:50,871 Think we've got something in there. 567 00:29:51,057 --> 00:29:52,790 -Something there? -[sustained beep] 568 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,920 -Right there? -Right in there, yeah. 569 00:30:09,183 --> 00:30:11,600 -[Tom] We got it. -[Katya] There we go. 570 00:30:13,045 --> 00:30:15,020 Let's see. 571 00:30:15,206 --> 00:30:16,522 -[rapid beeping] -[Tom] Ooh. 572 00:30:16,782 --> 00:30:18,891 [sustained beep] 573 00:30:19,043 --> 00:30:21,676 -[Katya] Ooh. -Look at that. 574 00:30:21,737 --> 00:30:23,863 That is... 575 00:30:26,801 --> 00:30:28,442 It doesn't look like a nail. 576 00:30:29,378 --> 00:30:31,954 -I think this is a key. -What do you got? 577 00:31:39,190 --> 00:31:40,889 [Katya] I think this is a key. 578 00:31:41,116 --> 00:31:42,340 [Tom] A key? 579 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,568 Boy, I think you're right. 580 00:31:44,754 --> 00:31:46,295 It certainly has the shape for it. 581 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,138 [Narrator] In the Oak Island swamp, 582 00:31:48,199 --> 00:31:52,885 Katya Drayton has just made a potentially important find. 583 00:31:52,945 --> 00:31:55,721 [Tom] It's not a nail, a spike or anything like that. 584 00:31:55,814 --> 00:31:57,389 It's got the round head there. 585 00:31:57,449 --> 00:32:00,242 -Have we just found the key to the swamp? -Maybe you found 586 00:32:00,427 --> 00:32:02,077 the key to the swamp. 587 00:32:02,229 --> 00:32:04,079 [Rick] What did you find? 588 00:32:04,306 --> 00:32:06,081 Now tell me what you think of that. 589 00:32:06,266 --> 00:32:09,710 -Oh. -It rung like iron. 590 00:32:09,895 --> 00:32:13,097 [Rick] Very heavy, and it has a look about it. 591 00:32:13,324 --> 00:32:14,798 [Katya] It is key-shaped. 592 00:32:14,983 --> 00:32:17,601 -And it was deep. -Mm-hmm. -[Rick] A key? 593 00:32:18,579 --> 00:32:19,895 This part would be the key? 594 00:32:20,081 --> 00:32:21,463 It depends on how much is rust 595 00:32:21,482 --> 00:32:23,857 and how much is the actual artifact. 596 00:32:24,043 --> 00:32:26,251 You know how a key, the old keys, 597 00:32:26,270 --> 00:32:28,386 had the, at the very end... 598 00:32:28,406 --> 00:32:30,155 -A spade-like end? -Yeah. 599 00:32:30,341 --> 00:32:34,109 I think this is the, like you said, 600 00:32:34,336 --> 00:32:35,594 the spade-like end of the key. 601 00:32:35,654 --> 00:32:37,705 And then, right here, that's where you would 602 00:32:37,965 --> 00:32:39,707 unlock it and lock it. 603 00:32:44,205 --> 00:32:45,637 [Rick] It's definitely unique. 604 00:32:45,773 --> 00:32:47,072 [Katya] I want to see what 605 00:32:47,182 --> 00:32:49,425 -the CT scan says about this. -Yeah. 606 00:32:50,277 --> 00:32:52,694 -Yeah, I'd like to see that, too. -Mm-hmm. 607 00:32:52,713 --> 00:32:54,013 You want to say it's a key. 608 00:32:54,198 --> 00:32:55,964 That's as close as I can come to something. 609 00:32:56,191 --> 00:32:57,507 Well, 610 00:32:57,693 --> 00:32:59,359 we may have a key here, 611 00:32:59,453 --> 00:33:02,271 and we are not far 612 00:33:02,456 --> 00:33:04,222 from the vault structure. 613 00:33:04,408 --> 00:33:06,625 Well, you've got a potential key, 614 00:33:06,610 --> 00:33:08,110 you've got older wood, 615 00:33:08,295 --> 00:33:10,129 you've got a reference to the vault. 616 00:33:10,147 --> 00:33:13,282 And I wish we could find a piece of wood with a lock. 617 00:33:13,392 --> 00:33:16,318 -Yeah. -[Narrator] A possible iron key? 618 00:33:16,470 --> 00:33:18,879 If so, could Katya be correct 619 00:33:18,897 --> 00:33:21,773 that it may have been connected to the brick-and-slate vault 620 00:33:21,834 --> 00:33:27,278 that the team uncovered some 50 yards away in 2024? 621 00:33:27,298 --> 00:33:30,665 Or could it be a critical clue that suggests 622 00:33:30,893 --> 00:33:32,985 the cobblestone path may be leading them 623 00:33:33,045 --> 00:33:36,347 to another one in this area of the swamp? 624 00:33:38,033 --> 00:33:41,143 [Rick] The hope is that, 625 00:33:41,403 --> 00:33:43,512 based on what has been found before, 626 00:33:43,664 --> 00:33:47,149 that they will find more of the same types of structures. 627 00:33:47,334 --> 00:33:50,669 You know, we talk about the vault in the swamp. 628 00:33:50,687 --> 00:33:52,988 The probability of another one existing 629 00:33:53,174 --> 00:33:56,675 in the near vicinity is probably rather high. 630 00:33:56,860 --> 00:33:58,768 So, there's a lot of interest here, 631 00:33:58,862 --> 00:34:00,862 and there's every hope and evidence 632 00:34:01,089 --> 00:34:04,925 because of the previous work that we will find something. 633 00:34:04,985 --> 00:34:07,652 We got to pay closer attention now, right? 634 00:34:07,671 --> 00:34:10,280 You find wood, you find a potential key, 635 00:34:10,341 --> 00:34:12,098 Lord knows what else is in here. 636 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:14,292 The first thing you conjure up about a treasure hunt 637 00:34:14,553 --> 00:34:17,846 is there's a box with something inside with a key opening it up. 638 00:34:18,032 --> 00:34:20,199 But the cautionary tale is, 639 00:34:20,333 --> 00:34:21,833 you know, we don't want to jump to conclusions. 640 00:34:21,852 --> 00:34:23,552 -Yep. -But it's-it's quite interesting. 641 00:34:23,779 --> 00:34:24,945 -[Katya] Mm-hmm. -Mm. 642 00:34:25,005 --> 00:34:27,206 That's probably the most unique find 643 00:34:27,299 --> 00:34:29,724 in this end of the bog to date. 644 00:34:29,952 --> 00:34:31,843 -[Tom] Yeah. -Cool find. -[Katya] Right? 645 00:34:31,937 --> 00:34:35,214 -Well, let's find the lock that goes with it next. -Oh, yeah. 646 00:34:35,274 --> 00:34:38,200 [Tom] Okay, Al, let's see what else we can find in here. 647 00:34:38,310 --> 00:34:41,412 [Narrator] As work in the swamp continues... 648 00:34:43,157 --> 00:34:45,264 ...later that day, 649 00:34:45,192 --> 00:34:46,908 in the Money Pit area, 650 00:34:47,135 --> 00:34:50,303 Gary Drayton and Peter Fornetti are overseeing 651 00:34:50,322 --> 00:34:53,065 the excavation of the TPF shaft. 652 00:34:53,050 --> 00:34:55,008 -We need some spoils. -Yeah. 653 00:34:56,846 --> 00:34:58,971 [metal squeaking] 654 00:35:05,104 --> 00:35:07,980 [metal grinding] 655 00:35:10,184 --> 00:35:12,901 [Gary] That doesn't sound very good. 656 00:35:13,779 --> 00:35:15,821 I'm almost to my limit. 657 00:35:19,518 --> 00:35:21,743 Come on. 658 00:35:35,526 --> 00:35:37,867 It was coming down and then it stopped dead on 'em. 659 00:35:38,020 --> 00:35:39,903 -[Paul] Really? -I'm digging about 660 00:35:39,963 --> 00:35:42,856 a meter and then it's stopping me and packing me in, but... 661 00:35:42,850 --> 00:35:45,559 What are your thoughts? Carry on? Keep pushing through? 662 00:35:45,669 --> 00:35:48,896 [Josh] No, we're stuck. I can't go any further. 663 00:35:50,140 --> 00:35:52,457 [Peter] I think it might be stopped. 664 00:35:52,476 --> 00:35:53,867 You're right. Nothing's happening. 665 00:35:53,927 --> 00:35:56,445 Unfortunately, we've hit a snag. 666 00:35:56,630 --> 00:36:01,541 Maybe we've hit a boulder or an obstruction in the can. 667 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,494 -Hey, Adam. -[Adam] Hey. 668 00:36:03,679 --> 00:36:06,638 It looks like it's been pretty stationary for a while. 669 00:36:06,624 --> 00:36:08,156 -What's going on? -Yeah, we're back 670 00:36:08,083 --> 00:36:10,000 to the same kind of layer we got into. 671 00:36:10,110 --> 00:36:12,110 -Mm-hmm. -We're just locked up. Not advancing. 672 00:36:12,129 --> 00:36:14,054 [Adam] Right now, we're kind of assessing what's going on. 673 00:36:14,114 --> 00:36:15,539 We got to look into it. 674 00:36:15,724 --> 00:36:18,650 Okay. I'll give my uncles a text and bring them up to speed, 675 00:36:18,669 --> 00:36:20,844 -and then we can come up with a plan. -Yep. 676 00:36:24,975 --> 00:36:26,491 -[Marty] Hello. All right. -[Adam] Marty. 677 00:36:48,690 --> 00:36:51,333 Talk to me. How's it going? 678 00:36:51,518 --> 00:36:53,952 Uh, we're kind of stalled right now. 679 00:36:54,179 --> 00:36:55,737 Uh, hell. 680 00:36:55,756 --> 00:36:58,448 [Narrator] In the Money Pit area, Marty, Craig and Scott 681 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,794 arrive after getting word that the excavation of TPF 682 00:37:02,930 --> 00:37:05,630 has been halted at a depth of just 20 feet 683 00:37:05,857 --> 00:37:09,693 by backfilled gravel from a previous dig operation. 684 00:37:09,753 --> 00:37:11,878 [Adam] So, right now, we're into that 685 00:37:11,972 --> 00:37:14,531 big cobble backfill. 686 00:37:14,591 --> 00:37:16,182 We've locked up around the liner. 687 00:37:16,293 --> 00:37:17,442 It's pretty tight. 688 00:37:17,628 --> 00:37:19,886 So, that's where we're at right now. 689 00:37:19,947 --> 00:37:22,539 So, it's actually locked right now? You can't turn it? 690 00:37:22,633 --> 00:37:24,624 It locked up where we stopped. We just don't want to get 691 00:37:24,643 --> 00:37:26,793 into breaking anything or overexerting anything. 692 00:37:26,811 --> 00:37:28,436 Yeah. 693 00:37:28,530 --> 00:37:29,971 [Rick] Every hole, every caisson 694 00:37:29,990 --> 00:37:31,906 has been backfilled with surge rock. 695 00:37:32,134 --> 00:37:36,903 That has created a problem for the-the SBC/ROC team. 696 00:37:36,964 --> 00:37:39,723 My worry, of course, is if they just simply 697 00:37:39,783 --> 00:37:42,876 can't find the way past this obstruction, 698 00:37:43,061 --> 00:37:44,669 that we'll have to call the hole. 699 00:37:44,896 --> 00:37:46,730 Time is running away from us, 700 00:37:46,790 --> 00:37:49,157 and, uh, we want to get down to depth. 701 00:37:49,176 --> 00:37:50,625 Right now, we're gonna rejig, 702 00:37:50,644 --> 00:37:51,977 hopefully get the oscillator up there to help us 703 00:37:52,162 --> 00:37:53,995 lift up a little bit and loosen up. 704 00:37:54,014 --> 00:37:55,221 Yeah. Okay. 705 00:37:55,332 --> 00:37:58,742 I guess, what I'd like to know is, the mission, 706 00:37:58,836 --> 00:37:59,985 you know, is the mission stalled? 707 00:38:00,136 --> 00:38:01,895 We-we had high hopes just yesterday. 708 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,656 Is this gonna be a fixable issue? 709 00:38:04,842 --> 00:38:06,566 -Because we want to dig that. -Yep. 710 00:38:06,752 --> 00:38:08,101 [Adam] I'm confident that 711 00:38:08,162 --> 00:38:09,644 we can go through there. 712 00:38:09,663 --> 00:38:12,980 And you're gonna have to put your machine on, Vanessa. 713 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,633 It-It's sounding like that. 714 00:38:15,652 --> 00:38:17,652 -[Adam] Yeah. -Yeah. -The oscillator is here. 715 00:38:17,763 --> 00:38:20,947 [Marty] With that, you have a lot more lifting power, 716 00:38:20,966 --> 00:38:23,183 -so that's the big difference. -Yeah. 717 00:38:23,243 --> 00:38:24,642 We're just waiting for reduction inserts. 718 00:38:24,628 --> 00:38:27,028 -Reduction inserts. Yeah. -Yeah. 719 00:38:27,122 --> 00:38:29,197 [Narrator] One possible solution 720 00:38:29,216 --> 00:38:31,499 for grinding the TPF-1 caissons 721 00:38:31,518 --> 00:38:33,927 down through the gravel-filled ground 722 00:38:34,112 --> 00:38:36,613 is to rotate them using ROC Equipment's 723 00:38:36,631 --> 00:38:39,298 massive hydraulic oscillator. 724 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,860 However, in order for the oscillator 725 00:38:42,045 --> 00:38:44,880 to hold the eight-and-a-half- foot canisters in place, 726 00:38:44,898 --> 00:38:47,440 it will require specialized braces 727 00:38:47,534 --> 00:38:50,035 known as reduction inserts. 728 00:38:50,220 --> 00:38:51,970 [Craig] When's it look like those parts 729 00:38:51,955 --> 00:38:53,205 are gonna arrive? 730 00:38:53,465 --> 00:38:54,739 [Adam] We have a bit of logistics issues 731 00:38:54,850 --> 00:38:56,958 with some parts, so we're waiting on those. 732 00:38:56,877 --> 00:38:58,635 -Okay. -[Vanessa] So, the reduction inserts, 733 00:38:58,653 --> 00:39:00,620 the trucker broke down and it's on a different truck. 734 00:39:00,731 --> 00:39:03,640 I think it will be here tomorrow night, late. 735 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:05,458 All right, so, 736 00:39:05,644 --> 00:39:07,493 a two-day delay, right? 737 00:39:07,646 --> 00:39:09,070 -Yes. -[Craig] Can you put 738 00:39:09,089 --> 00:39:11,056 the oscillator on and then wait for those parts? 739 00:39:11,241 --> 00:39:12,424 Or do those parts have to be assembled 740 00:39:12,651 --> 00:39:14,075 before you can put the oscillator on? 741 00:39:14,094 --> 00:39:15,376 No, I can't. 742 00:39:15,487 --> 00:39:17,595 They do have to go in the oscillator. 743 00:39:17,731 --> 00:39:20,732 What if you put your oscillator on and it still doesn't work? 744 00:39:20,918 --> 00:39:23,092 I'm still confident between the equipment we have here 745 00:39:23,153 --> 00:39:24,669 that we can get this done. 746 00:39:24,730 --> 00:39:26,888 Well, I mean, to me, I mean, depending on how long 747 00:39:26,907 --> 00:39:29,741 it would take, one possibility would be 748 00:39:29,927 --> 00:39:32,477 just move over to the second location. 749 00:39:32,571 --> 00:39:34,779 Because there's no cobble there. 750 00:39:34,932 --> 00:39:37,324 I don't have the same concerns going to where 751 00:39:37,351 --> 00:39:40,919 we're not so much into that big, the big cobble that locks up. 752 00:39:41,104 --> 00:39:43,130 -Hmm. -[Narrator] Rather than waiting 753 00:39:43,357 --> 00:39:46,091 at least two days for the oscillator parts 754 00:39:46,351 --> 00:39:47,684 to arrive on the island, 755 00:39:47,702 --> 00:39:50,529 an immediate alternative strategy 756 00:39:50,531 --> 00:39:52,013 would be for the team to pick 757 00:39:52,199 --> 00:39:54,683 a second target location in this area 758 00:39:54,868 --> 00:39:57,110 and begin excavating a new shaft 759 00:39:57,128 --> 00:40:01,281 in the hopes that SB Canada's presently available equipment 760 00:40:01,299 --> 00:40:05,769 won't encounter gravel backfill from a previous excavation. 761 00:40:05,954 --> 00:40:08,137 I was in the drilling business for many years 762 00:40:08,290 --> 00:40:09,448 and you have setbacks. 763 00:40:09,708 --> 00:40:12,117 Things happen. Particularly, 764 00:40:12,302 --> 00:40:15,695 uh, on a complex job like this with all the unknowns. 765 00:40:15,881 --> 00:40:17,864 I know we'll get past it, 766 00:40:17,975 --> 00:40:20,308 but the bigger problem is time. 767 00:40:20,401 --> 00:40:21,810 That is precious. 768 00:40:21,870 --> 00:40:23,887 At this point, we're making zero progress 769 00:40:23,905 --> 00:40:26,298 at the Money Pit with all this equipment, 770 00:40:26,483 --> 00:40:28,074 so we have to make a decision. 771 00:40:28,135 --> 00:40:29,893 Really, when we're done here, it's a simple summary, right? 772 00:40:29,953 --> 00:40:32,487 -We're looking at a delay, for sure. -Yeah. 773 00:40:32,473 --> 00:40:34,139 [Craig] Can you check in on the status 774 00:40:34,324 --> 00:40:35,974 -for those parts? -Yep. 775 00:40:36,159 --> 00:40:38,401 Well, Oak Island strikes again, bottom line. 776 00:40:38,586 --> 00:40:39,961 Okay. 777 00:40:39,980 --> 00:40:41,404 -You guys do your thing. -[Adam] Okay. 778 00:40:41,464 --> 00:40:43,164 -Okay. -Thank you. -[Craig] Thanks, guys. 779 00:40:43,150 --> 00:40:45,408 [Narrator] While the team awaits an update 780 00:40:45,426 --> 00:40:48,169 from ROC Equipment and SB Canada... 781 00:40:48,230 --> 00:40:50,914 [Rick] In front of us, we have 782 00:40:50,974 --> 00:40:55,084 leather finds, and I actually found one myself. 783 00:40:55,144 --> 00:40:58,855 [Narrator] ...Rick, Marty, Craig and other members of the team 784 00:40:59,007 --> 00:41:00,999 gather in the war room to receive 785 00:41:01,184 --> 00:41:02,909 a preliminary scientific report 786 00:41:03,094 --> 00:41:06,354 on the leather shoe pieces found in the swamp. 787 00:41:06,414 --> 00:41:09,048 These are, you felt, when you looked at them, 788 00:41:09,009 --> 00:41:11,676 they're bits of shoe or boot leather, right? 789 00:41:11,862 --> 00:41:13,178 [Gary] Yeah. 790 00:41:13,363 --> 00:41:16,640 Uh, it looked to me like an old design. 791 00:41:16,867 --> 00:41:20,552 And one piece, it was really elongated, 792 00:41:20,779 --> 00:41:22,704 and I know that's an older style. 793 00:41:22,797 --> 00:41:25,631 And if you remember when we found these, Rick, 794 00:41:25,725 --> 00:41:28,043 they were in the deeper material, 795 00:41:28,103 --> 00:41:30,286 the black stuff, the peat. 796 00:41:30,305 --> 00:41:32,680 -So, they were way down there. -Mm-hmm. 797 00:41:32,699 --> 00:41:34,974 [Marty] Okay, let's do this. Let's see what the science says, 798 00:41:35,035 --> 00:41:38,962 because we did run C-14 on it, correct, Craig? 799 00:41:38,980 --> 00:41:41,222 And you have the results. So, let's see what that says. 800 00:41:41,283 --> 00:41:42,615 [Craig] Yep. Sure do. 801 00:41:42,801 --> 00:41:44,876 Um, it's very interesting. 802 00:41:45,062 --> 00:41:48,146 It's saying "super early." 803 00:41:48,281 --> 00:41:53,701 The biggest time period which is 1148 to 1216. 804 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:56,662 -Oh, geez. -No way. -There you go, Rick! 805 00:41:56,682 --> 00:41:58,164 Yep. 806 00:41:58,225 --> 00:41:59,724 [Marty] Wow. 807 00:43:05,033 --> 00:43:06,774 [Craig] The biggest, uh, time period 808 00:43:06,868 --> 00:43:10,136 -is 1148 to 1216. -[Marty] Oh, geez. 809 00:43:10,196 --> 00:43:11,596 -No way. -There you go, Rick. 810 00:43:11,614 --> 00:43:13,189 -Yep. -[Doug] Wouldn't that be amazing? 811 00:43:13,175 --> 00:43:15,266 [Narrator] In the Oak Island war room, 812 00:43:15,284 --> 00:43:17,010 Craig has just shared 813 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,113 an astonishing preliminary scientific report 814 00:43:20,173 --> 00:43:22,866 which indicates the pieces of a leather shoe 815 00:43:22,884 --> 00:43:27,503 found in the swamp could be more than 800 years old. 816 00:43:27,522 --> 00:43:29,539 All the other ones are earlier, 817 00:43:29,599 --> 00:43:33,509 going back to maybe even, uh, 1047. 818 00:43:33,528 --> 00:43:36,604 So, showing very, very early here. 819 00:43:36,715 --> 00:43:39,640 Darn it, I've got to get a medieval shoe dance now. 820 00:43:39,659 --> 00:43:41,734 [laughter] 821 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,536 What's that top date? What was that bracket? 822 00:43:43,688 --> 00:43:46,222 1148 to 1216. 823 00:43:46,241 --> 00:43:48,591 [Marty] Holy smokes. I mean, 824 00:43:48,609 --> 00:43:50,935 for what it's worth, that's the Gaspani era, isn't it? 825 00:43:50,995 --> 00:43:52,912 -Yeah, it is. Absolutely is. -It really is. 826 00:43:53,097 --> 00:43:55,473 [Rick] They align perfectly with what 827 00:43:55,533 --> 00:43:58,476 Professor Gaspani has articulated to us. 828 00:43:58,494 --> 00:44:02,555 That the construction of Nolan's Cross 829 00:44:02,741 --> 00:44:06,434 -happened in the 13th century. -Yeah. 830 00:44:11,917 --> 00:44:13,983 [Narrator] In 2023, 831 00:44:14,169 --> 00:44:17,754 Italian archeoastronomy professor Adriano Gaspani 832 00:44:17,739 --> 00:44:19,647 presented peer-reviewed research 833 00:44:19,832 --> 00:44:21,991 about the megalithic formation of boulders 834 00:44:22,252 --> 00:44:23,767 known as Nolan's Cross. 835 00:44:23,829 --> 00:44:27,313 According to the boulders' historical alignments 836 00:44:27,332 --> 00:44:29,999 with certain stars in the night sky, 837 00:44:30,185 --> 00:44:33,286 Professor Gaspani calculated that the formation 838 00:44:33,471 --> 00:44:36,689 was likely created in the early 13th century 839 00:44:36,824 --> 00:44:39,308 by members of the Knights Templar. 840 00:44:39,294 --> 00:44:41,327 Remember, one of the first things we ever found 841 00:44:41,388 --> 00:44:43,037 -in the swamp was the paved area. -[Rick] Mm-hmm. 842 00:44:43,147 --> 00:44:45,106 I mean, that date is almost perfect. 1200s. 843 00:44:45,166 --> 00:44:47,525 -[Rick] Mm-hmm. -And so, we're starting to accumulate 844 00:44:47,619 --> 00:44:49,602 dates in the swamp. 845 00:44:49,788 --> 00:44:51,529 [Doug] You can't ignore the growing data points 846 00:44:51,589 --> 00:44:53,589 -that are in the 13th century. -[Marty] Yeah. -[Rick] Mm-hmm. 847 00:44:53,608 --> 00:44:55,516 We're definitely looking at a time period in which 848 00:44:55,702 --> 00:44:58,294 -the Templars were at the height of their power. -Yeah. 849 00:44:59,281 --> 00:45:02,290 [Narrator] Based on this preliminary carbon-14 report, 850 00:45:02,350 --> 00:45:05,702 could the team have found a clue that may help identify 851 00:45:05,887 --> 00:45:08,270 just who created Nolan's Cross, 852 00:45:08,290 --> 00:45:12,292 as well as the vast paved area in the swamp, 853 00:45:12,443 --> 00:45:15,203 which was uncovered in 2019, 854 00:45:15,313 --> 00:45:20,741 and also scientifically dated to approximately 1200 AD? 855 00:45:20,802 --> 00:45:23,945 [Rick] There seems to be a growing body of evidence 856 00:45:24,005 --> 00:45:25,922 that the large work effort 857 00:45:26,149 --> 00:45:27,732 was initiated 858 00:45:27,750 --> 00:45:30,176 roughly at the beginning of the 13th century. 859 00:45:30,403 --> 00:45:31,828 Now we have artifacts 860 00:45:31,888 --> 00:45:33,921 that reference that timeline as well. 861 00:45:33,982 --> 00:45:36,465 And that might have been the point of beginning of some 862 00:45:36,485 --> 00:45:41,521 large-scale, long-term effort to do something here on Oak Island. 863 00:45:41,748 --> 00:45:43,673 Once we found this early date, 864 00:45:43,658 --> 00:45:46,259 uh, we've notified Beta Analytical. 865 00:45:46,319 --> 00:45:49,829 They're gonna run, uh, extra cleaning methods, 866 00:45:50,089 --> 00:45:53,533 um, and once that process is done, then they'll go ahead 867 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,760 -and retest it again. -[Gary] Oh, yeah. 868 00:45:55,820 --> 00:45:57,595 [Alex] Yeah, it's an incredible date, 869 00:45:57,613 --> 00:46:00,690 so I think we would want to confirm that by any way we can. 870 00:46:00,783 --> 00:46:02,083 -Yeah. -[Rick] We have to, 871 00:46:02,193 --> 00:46:04,101 as your father said, duplicate the results. 872 00:46:04,161 --> 00:46:08,172 As Craig has said, let's make sure that the data is correct. 873 00:46:08,358 --> 00:46:09,966 But right now, as I sit here, 874 00:46:10,193 --> 00:46:11,942 I couldn't be happier about those dates. 875 00:46:12,003 --> 00:46:13,944 Yeah, based on what we're seeing here, 876 00:46:13,888 --> 00:46:15,705 we're finally moving in a direction 877 00:46:15,723 --> 00:46:17,006 that could give us some answers. 878 00:46:17,025 --> 00:46:19,025 So, it sure seems like we're on the right track. 879 00:46:20,028 --> 00:46:22,362 I never argue with a reason to dig. 880 00:46:22,547 --> 00:46:24,305 Ever. Let's dig. 881 00:46:24,366 --> 00:46:26,607 We have the machinery, we have the time. 882 00:46:26,718 --> 00:46:28,868 And a treasure's never gonna find itself. 883 00:46:29,128 --> 00:46:31,871 So, let's dig. We got the guy who can go through the soils. 884 00:46:32,131 --> 00:46:33,640 We got everything we need. Let's dig. 885 00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:36,042 Let's use your theories and dig. Let's use this data and dig more 886 00:46:36,227 --> 00:46:37,901 -in the swamp. -I think we're all in. 887 00:46:37,963 --> 00:46:39,453 [Marty] It sounds like we're doing the right thing, 888 00:46:39,639 --> 00:46:42,065 and I hope we get good news in the Money Pit. 889 00:46:42,083 --> 00:46:44,366 [Rick] Yeah. And get back on track. 890 00:46:44,386 --> 00:46:46,069 -On that. -Let's go. 891 00:46:46,129 --> 00:46:47,637 -Let's go. -Okay. 892 00:46:49,391 --> 00:46:51,224 [Narrator] Just like the devoted searchers 893 00:46:51,409 --> 00:46:53,076 who came before them, 894 00:46:53,094 --> 00:46:55,745 Rick, Marty, Craig and the team 895 00:46:55,763 --> 00:46:58,748 must deal with another frustrating setback 896 00:46:58,808 --> 00:47:00,233 in the Money Pit area. 897 00:47:00,493 --> 00:47:03,820 However, as they uncover new, 898 00:47:04,005 --> 00:47:06,572 surprising clues across the island 899 00:47:06,757 --> 00:47:09,242 and explore for answers, 900 00:47:09,427 --> 00:47:13,003 no matter what obstructions stand in their way, 901 00:47:13,064 --> 00:47:14,681 the Fellowship of the Dig 902 00:47:14,699 --> 00:47:18,434 will never be deterred by any challenge they face. 903 00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:23,439 Because what they may soon find, whether deep below 904 00:47:23,499 --> 00:47:28,035 or much closer to the surface, could forever change 905 00:47:28,096 --> 00:47:32,432 the history of North America. 906 00:47:33,868 --> 00:47:36,251 Next time on The Curse of Oak Island... 907 00:47:36,354 --> 00:47:37,954 -[Charles] I'd say we're getting started. -[Peter] Oh, yeah, 908 00:47:38,014 --> 00:47:40,038 -we're spinning off. -We're due 909 00:47:39,891 --> 00:47:41,256 -for a little good karma. -We are. 910 00:47:41,392 --> 00:47:42,800 We just have to find that one thing. 911 00:47:42,910 --> 00:47:44,961 -[Gary] We got a signal. -[Alex] Hey-hey. 912 00:47:44,979 --> 00:47:47,647 [Gary] I should be able to pinpoint it. Ooh, look at that. 913 00:47:47,832 --> 00:47:50,566 -See if you recognize this. -[Marty] Wow. 914 00:47:50,485 --> 00:47:51,984 That might have been an individual with Masonic ties. 915 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,620 [Marty] Yes. Well, that is 916 00:47:53,805 --> 00:47:55,229 extraordinarily cool. 917 00:47:55,290 --> 00:47:57,173 All right, here we go. It's time to lift that rock. 918 00:47:57,233 --> 00:47:58,750 -[whooping, laughter] -Absolutely. -There it goes. 919 00:47:59,010 --> 00:48:00,293 -[Rick] Wow. -[Marty] Look at that. 920 00:48:00,444 --> 00:48:01,728 -Yeah! -[chuckles] 921 00:48:01,746 --> 00:48:03,963 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS