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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

- Into the solution channel we go. - Into the void.

Our best guess is that the treasure is

200 feet under that spot right there.

- Ooh, look at that. - The vault connects

the swamp, potentially, to the Knights of Malta.

- What is that? - That might be depositor.

The only time I see primitive tools this size

was from the 1500s.

- Way before the Money Pit. - Here we go.

- We're into the solution channel. - We're just coming into it.

- Baby! - Check that out.

Reveal your secrets.

There is an island in the North Atlantic

where people have been looking for

an incredible treasure for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it,

man-made workings that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend, one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

Yeah.

A brisk but bright fall day has begun on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their team.

Morning, John. Morning, Adam.

- Morning, Alex. How you doing? - Good. Good to see you guys.

- Morning. - Good to see you, too. - So,

- how's it coming? - Everything's going really smooth.

Nothing crazy.

- Pressure's been doing fine. So... - Good.

This one's going deep. This is...

- this is our shot. - Yeah. We're going down there.

Yeah, this is the guy.

And in the fabled Money Pit area,

they have just broken ground

on a new seven-foot-diameter steel shaft

in the hopes of finally solving a 230-year-old mystery.

Our best guess is that the treasure ended up

200 feet under that spot right there

- and... - Which kind of lines up with TB-1.

- Yeah, very much so. - Yeah. - Yeah.

Over the past two months,

the team has excavated four identical shafts in this area...

where previous groundwater testing has revealed

high traces of gold and silver deep underground.

These include one that was affectionately dubbed

True Believer or TB-1...

where they unearthed potential evidence

of the legendary Chappell Vault...

a seven-foot-high, concrete-covered box

that was first reported by Frederick Blair

and his drill operator William Chappell back in 1897.

Hey. Stop! It's caving.

However, as TB-1 reached a depth of 160 feet,

the earth beneath and around the shaft suddenly caved in.

This has led the team to believe

that more than 100 cubic yards of earth and the possible vault

fell deeper into the so-called solution channel,

a naturally occurring void in the bedrock

more than 200 feet underground.

You guys think we'll make it in time?

I know we're running out of time.

Yeah, we're in good shape where we are now.

- Good. - Yeah.

Now,

after making repairs to stabilize the Money Pit area,

representatives from ROC Equipment and SB Canada

are digging The One Thing, or TOT-1,

less than ten feet to the south of TB-1.

In the next few days,

they hope to enter the solution channel

and retrieve the valuables

before the oncoming winter forces the team

to suspend their search operations until next spring.

The solution channel itself is a massive feature.

I mean, plenty big enough to have accepted

whatever fell out of the Money Pit.

It's plenty big enough to have swallowed up any treasure.

So TOT-1 is designed to dig deeper,

where this treasure might have fallen to,

and we're very excited about it.

We're running out of time.

This will be the last can in the Money Pit.

I think everybody is crossing their fingers and their toes.

We're, very hopeful for this one.

We just got to get down there.

I'm gonna step out and let you guys get to it.

- Awesome. Thanks. - Sounds good. - Thanks again.

- All right, man. - See you later.

- Give her hell. - Yeah.

As the excavation of TOT-1 proceeds in the Money Pit area,

on Lot 5,

located on the western side of the island...

Hey, Ethan, Helen.

- Hey, guys. - Hi. How you doing? - Hey, Alex, Peter.

Alex and his cousin Peter Fornetti

join other members of the team

as they investigate the large stone foundation

near the shoreline...

a foundation

that archaeologist Laird Niven believes

may not only be connected

to activity in the original Money Pit

but might have been used as a campsite

by numerous groups prior to 1795.

We're excited about this button

that was found here on Lot 5. I mean,

- we were just in Malta. We saw some carvings. - Yeah.

We were investigating a prison on Gozo.

And in that prison, we saw carved on the wall a-a symbol

that's similar.

And we're excited about this potential connection.

Yeah.

Two weeks ago, Alex,

his uncle Rick, and other members of the team

traveled to Malta in order to research the theory

that the medieval order of the Knights Templar

and a related group known as the Knights of Malta

were connected to the Oak Island mystery.

There they saw numerous carvings

that match symbols which have been found over the years

on Oak Island...

including one that nearly matched the design of a button

recently unearthed in this feature on Lot 5.

Any troweling that needs to be done

- or soil that needs to be sifted, we're... - Yeah. Yeah.

- We will help. - ...we're standing by. - Yeah.

- Okay. - Perfect.

- Okay. - Yeah.

The artifacts, directly and indirectly,

connect Lot 5 to the Knights Templar

and the Knights of Malta.

Why?

That's what we're trying to find out.

Nice.

Here's a nail.

We like nails.

It looks square as well.

Yeah, it looks like a square nail.

Totally square. You can't see the top.

And it's straight, too.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

How old could that be?

Well,

if it's a square nail, it looks like it's precut.

And if this is colonial iron, it could be

late 1600s to early to mid-1700s.

A square nail

possibly dating as far back as the 17th century?

Is it possible that Ethan Green has just found another clue

that could help prove just who may be connected

- to this feature? - Sometimes

the older nails actually preserve a little bit better.

- Well, let's send it to Emma. - So, yeah.

It's just a nail, but it's going to Emma.

Later that afternoon...

Well, as we close in on the end of the season,

I see we have a very good group here. We got...

almost all the main players.

Rick, Marty and their business partner Craig Tester

are meeting with members of the team

in the museum regarding another potentially key location

that may hold answers to the treasure mystery,

the triangle-shaped swamp.

We've done a lot of work in the...

in the swamp over the years.

And, you know, how do you connect this spot to that spot?

What features might be associated with other features?

And I just wanted to try to see if there was

any connective tissue.

In recent years, the Oak Island team

has discovered numerous man-made structures throughout the swamp

such as a massive stone-paved feature

that geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

has carbon-dated to approximately 1200 AD;

the so-called Eye of the Swamp,

which may date to 1680;

and a stone road in the southeast corner

that may have also been created in the 17th century.

However, this year, the team

has uncovered wooden survey stakes

that lined sections of a mysterious cobblestone pathway

all through the brackish bog

and an empty brick and slate vault-like feature

in the northern region,

a vault which matched an image in a 19th century book

that researcher John Edwards believes

may offer evidence that both the Knights Templar

and the Knights of Malta

buried priceless religious artifacts on Oak Island

between the 12th and 17th centuries.

I had to task Steve with all the C-14 tests

so we can sit around and have a comprehensive understanding

of what's been done in the swamp to date.

Now, surveyor Steve Guptill

has compiled the scientific test results

from wood and organic materials in these features

in an effort to help determine when they were made

and just who may have created them.

The way I'm gonna start this, I have lots of printouts.

So I went through all the C-14, the dendro.

I added as many as I could.

When we look at things like the cobble path,

we found really definitive context, like a pile of stones

and a cut stake underneath it.

And so we know

that that cut stake was a survey stake that was used to make

the structure, and then we have 13 of those that we dated.

Let's start at the cobble path.

We've got 600 feet of cobble path

with multiple survey stakes.

Dates are 1650, maybe into the 1700.

Multiple dates, overlapping.

We have the Eye,

which is in the north end of the swamp.

That also dates 1630 to 1680.

And now the north end of the swamp, we have the vault.

It goes back to as far as the late 1600 time period.

Those dates fit with the Knights of Malta.

We know that they were here in the 1630s.

- Is that correct? - Correct.

Wow. Those dates are

very surprising.

That's stunning.

We can connect the work in the swamp

potentially to the Knights of Malta.

I think that's comfortably in-in range.

In the Oak Island Museum,

surveyor Steve Guptill

and geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner

have just presented scientific data suggesting

that numerous structures in the swamp were created

in the 17th century

and may support the theory

that the Knights of Malta buried sacred treasures on Oak Island.

Maybe the Money Pit

was originally built by the Knights Templar.

I'm wondering if maybe in the 1600 to early 1700s,

the Knights of Malta were finishing up

some of the work that the Templars had started.

Or following up.

And it's not

out of the range of possibilities.

- No, it's not. - No. - So Rick asked me

to do one final thing and that was to try and figure out

the big boulders that are out there in the north end

- of the swamp. - Yeah.

There's even more big boulders down there.

Four weeks ago, after uncovering

more sections of the cobblestone pathway

in the northernmost region of the swamp...

here, here, here, here...

Rick and members of the team discovered

a possibly man-made formation of large boulders.

I think you have a seawall.

This is how you'd close this swamp off.

A feature that may be related to a timbered wall

that the late treasure hunter Fred Nolan reportedly uncovered

in the late 1960s

and believed was used to create the swamp.

It's potentially 14 feet long.

And that's what your father said.

Roughly four-fourteen feet long.

And, curiously,

while using ground-penetrating radar in this area,

the team was astonished to find an anomaly

that matched Fred's description.

Mixed within those smaller boulders,

we had the survey stakes,

or the support stakes.

We dated some of the stakes.

It dates very consistently...

late 1600, early 1700s.

We did a few scans

north of that seawall that Steve was talking about.

So if you look up on the screen...

there's that blue anomaly that's elongated.

I think it could be a really interesting potential hit.

It would be nice if it's Fred's wall.

I think if that is a wall,

it will represent original work.

- It's worth digging. - Now, that

I can't agree with more.

It's... always time to dig.

If this wall clearly had a purpose

and if that purpose was manipulating the swamp

to protect something,

that would be a incredible piece of data.

There are things yet to dig in the north end of the swamp.

Maybe there are more of these subterranean swamp vaults.

Nobody would like more than me

to dig up something really significant.

And I always want to dig, so...

let's go.

All right.

The following morning...

We're still bringing out good grabs.

Yeah.

As the excavation of TOT-1

continues in the Money Pit area...

So, Steve and I marked our spot

right in the middle of what we think

may be the wall, based on the OKM data.

- Okay. - Rick, Craig,

and other members of the team

prepare to unearth the potential 14-foot-long structure or object

in the northernmost region of the swamp.

Can you tell how deep it is?

- It's roughly four to five feet. - Okay.

If it's there, we're gonna find it.

I have

very simple hopes

for digging at this anomaly.

I want to find the wall.

And I would love nothing better

to find wood in the ground at this location.

What's that thing, right...

right... there?

It might be a plank. Do you see that?

- I'll just take a little bit off right there. - Yeah.

There's wood.

Wood?

Uncovered where the team detected

a possible buried structure?

If so, could it be part of the wall

that Fred Nolan believed is buried here?

My thought would be

to dig this hole deeper

and see what we find.

- Over this way? - Yeah.

Okay.

- Okey doke? - Yeah.

As the investigation in the swamp continues...

Here's some more information for us.

How you doing, John?

Got the solid numbers there, do ya?

- We're at 142. - 142.

- 142. - Okay.

Jack Begley

and geologist Terry Matheson

are monitoring the dig in the TOT-1 shaft

as it heads deeper towards the solution channel

and hopefully valuables over 200 feet underground.

And so I'll take another measurement in about an hour

and see what we're gaining per hour.

Great. Thanks a lot, John.

- All right. Thanks, guys. - Gettin' close.

There's a lot of wood coming up out of the hole.

There's a ton of it, my friend.

We're chewing through the side of the Chappell Shaft.

In 1931,

Melbourne Chappell, along with his father William

and treasure hunter Frederick Blair,

constructed a 157-foot shaft in the Money Pit

in a bold but unsuccessful attempt

to retrieve the believed vault

that William and Frederick had discovered in 1897.

If we have to push it or chase it to, 215,

we've got all the caisson material here

we need to do that.

The fact that the team believes

they're digging through the Chappell Shaft

is an encouraging sign.

But now the burning question is,

once TOT-1 descends below 200 feet,

will it encounter the legendary vault?

Hey, Marty. How you doing?

- Hey, Marty. - Are we out

- of the wood? - No.

We won't be out of the wood for...

until another 25 or 30 feet.

Okay.

I'm gonna have a look at some of this wood.

Let me show you a couple.

So there's this.

You can see that has a kind of a wedge cut into it at the end.

- At that end. - Yeah.

- See the wedge cut into that one? - Yeah, yeah.

Let me see the end of this.

Yeah, that doesn't look the same at all.

- No. - Actually, some of this wood looks,

- non-Chappell Shaft-ish to me. - I don't think so.

- That piece right there. - That doesn't, either.

A little rougher work?

Yeah.

Check this out.

See that?

Yeah.

There's a dowel.

So that's old construction.

Yeah, sure is.

Consistent with it being the original Money Pit.

Here's a dowel. So that's old construction.

- I mean... - Yeah, sure is.

Upon reaching a depth of over 140 feet

in the TOT-1 shaft,

the Oak Island team may have just discovered

an important clue...

- You can see that there's clearly some adze work here. - Yeah.

A wooden dowel bearing adze markings,

which was a kind of pre-18th century cutting tool.

Could that mean that this dowel

was part of the original Money Pit?

And if so, does it suggest

that the team could be on target

to locate the legendary Chappell Vault

more than 50 feet deeper below?

I see

some round stuff up there, too.

I don't know. You know, let's have a look.

- Careful, man. - I will be.

What do you think?

I don't know. This is just an odd piece of wood.

It feels a lot harder.

Some of the wood that's coming out

from TOT-1 looks older in the sense that it's pegged

with a dowel rather than using metal fasteners.

And that's an older technique.

So that's a good sign.

Well, we can set it aside if you like.

- Set it aside. - Sure.

Right over there.

Keep digging.

As Marty, Jack, and Terry

continue to monitor the progress

of TOT-1 in the Money Pit area...

in the northernmost region of the swamp...

So if it's anywhere, it's here.

Al!

- Hold up. - Rick Lagina,

Craig Tester, and other members of the team

continue searching for a possible structure

that they detected using ground-penetrating radar,

a structure that may be part of a wall built long ago

to create the swamp

and which that the late Fred Nolan claimed to have found

in this area more than 50 years ago.

So, dig this down

a couple more buckets.

Let the water come in

and then dig this.

Okay.

This search

for "Fred's wall" has been ongoing

and a big deal to my brother for 15 years.

Watch yourself.

It's undercut there.

It could be some sort of gate

or maybe a dam or something like that

that would have caused the whole swamp.

But we are, as usual, running out of time.

So we're keen to figure out if it's here.

That all looks like virgin ground to me.

It's not a wall.

That's about my reach there.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

You don't see anything, do you,

- Al, from that perspective? - No. No.

It's not here, that's for sure.

- So, Al, I think we're done. - Okay.

It's unfortunate. I really had a lot of belief

and hope, I guess, that there was a wall here.

- Yes. - To me, it would've represented

original work.

I still believe that Fred saw something.

Yeah.

100%,

I believe that Fred's wall is there.

I think I go back to what Fred said:

if there are answers to the Oak Island mystery,

they are in the bog.

We found stuff that Fred

had no idea was here, like this cobble path.

But we got plenty

of original... potentially original work

in the swamp we can investigate.

We're not finished with the bog,

not by any stretch of the imagination.

We probably have explored,

less than 30% of the bog in its entirety.

And when you think

of all the things that have been found in 30%,

what remains to be found in the other 70%?

The year is closing in, the weather's closing in.

We're not done, but we've got other work on the island,

so let's go finish that.

- Got it. - Yeah.

We gave it a bloody good shot.

Later that afternoon...

Ooh, that's some big chunks of wood.

Let's get the good stuff.

Alex and Gary join Marty Lagina

and other members of the team as the TOT-1 caisson

has reached a depth of more than 150 feet underground.

Look at this!

Look, there's a bolt right there.

This looks like a piece of the shoe.

All right.

- Look what I found, Marty. - What you got, big guy?

Looks like a chunk of the shoe.

That right there, that's the metal plate, I think.

- There we go. - So, that's the bottom

of Chappell, it has to be.

A large metal plate?

While attempting to retrieve the treasure in 1931,

Melbourne Chappell braced the bottom

of the so-called Chappell Shaft

with a four-foot-tall metal shoe, or shield,

to prevent flooding and cave-ins.

Now that the team has reached the bottom

of the 1931 searcher shaft,

and because they will advance TOT-1

more than 200 feet deep into the solution channel,

any new materials that they bring to the surface

could be related to the original Money Pit.

You dream of that coming out with a half-broken chest.

Yeah, absolutely.

- Me, too. - Every time.

Every time.

We know the Money Pit collapsed.

We know it went somewhere.

And in the case of Chappell,

we know they believed their own story.

They drilled into the famous so-called Chappell Vault.

- I'm gonna go find something with Gary. - All righty.

It's very, very possible that

the one thing... if that one thing is treasure...

it should be somewhere below the Chappell Shaft.

Maybe we're on the verge of finding the treasure.

Got a signal here.

- Right under the center of the search coil. - I told... I told Alex

- I'm gonna find something right now. - Yep.

This is it, Marty. Anywhere you like.

- It's in this one. - Yep.

You were right.

You got it out, Marty.

Fingers crossed.

Come on, be something good!

What is that?

Well, how about that?

- What is that? - This looks like it's part

- of a tool. - Is it?

- Yeah. - It is an exciting moment

for the Oak Island team in the Money Pit area.

- That could be a really old tool, mate. - Yeah.

After reaching a depth

of more than 160 feet in the TOT-1 shaft,

which is deeper than any previous treasure hunters

have ever explored,

Marty Lagina

and metal detection expert Gary Drayton

have just made a potentially important discovery.

You could see the striations in it.

Look at that. That's some old iron there.

Yeah, it is.

'Cause we're below the Chappell Shaft.

Yeah. Exactly.

- This is good. - Yeah. That could be

a really old tool, mate.

I bet that's like an old pickax.

A tip of a pickax, maybe?

- Do you see how it comes down? - Yeah.

- There's a bit of a curve like that. - Yeah.

A possible fragment of a handwrought pickax?

Found at a depth of over 160 feet in TOT-1?

What a sweet find.

In 2019,

while excavating a shaft

less than five feet to the northeast

known as RF-1...

It's an old pickax. A broken pickax.

The Oak Island team

recovered part of a similar pickax.

That's something, man.

And just two weeks ago,

while visiting Malta...

It's just absolutely incredible.

Where the team was shown a vast network

of 16th century underground tunnels

with features that matched the reported original design

of the Money Pit...

This was found below

145 feet in the ground.

Historian Matthew Balzan

suggested that these exact kinds of tools

were used by the Knights of Malta.

This is the beginning.

Yeah, I'll just finish this little area.

- Yeah! Something. - Yep.

Is it possible that Marty and Gary

have just discovered another ancient tunneling tool

that may help the team identify

who was behind the Oak Island mystery?

That is a very old piece of a tool of some sort.

It's all wrought iron.

Yep.

Perhaps the most significant thing from TOT-1,

so far, is this...

big chunk of metal that Gary and I find.

We're well out of any searcher area at that point,

so what is this metal artifact doing that deep?

You feel how heavy that is?

- Yeah. - Yeah, that's-that's older.

So this thing could tell a story.

It might not be the one thing we were looking for,

but it could be a sort of one thing that really matters.

Here comes big brother.

- I see you guys had all the fun. - We got one thing

worth talking about.

We believe we're below the Chappell Shaft a little bit.

Considering we're in a relatively modern shaft,

this looks way out of place.

Look at the handwrought nature of it.

Yeah.

I know me old iron, mate. That might be depositor.

- Really? - Could be.

- That's cool. - So, that's an oldie there.

Can't wait to see what Carmen Legge

says about that as well.

It makes you think we're on the right track.

Absolutely.

- Adam. - Adam. - Hi, everybody.

- How's everybody doing? - Hey, Billy. - Hey.

Well, I'll give you a bit of an update.

I think we're gonna call 'er for the day here.

- Yeah, that makes sense. - We're at about

171 feet.

So, that's where we wanted to be.

- Great. - Tomorrow could be the day.

Yeah. So we'll see everybody in the morning,

- bright and early. - Yeah, I imagine.

Bright and early.

- Thanks, guys. - Thanks, Adam. - See you.

Into the solution channel we go.

- Into the void. - Into the void.

I have every expectation,

based on this location and all the history,

all the narrative,

all the things that have been found to date.

- We should be hopeful. - The quicker we can go to bed,

the quicker we can get up and finish this.

- Let's go. - All right.

We got a really good chance tomorrow.

Sounds good to me.

The following morning...

- Here we go. - As the TOT-1 shaft

proceeds deeper toward the solution channel

more than 200 feet underground...

- Well, look it here. H-How is everybody? - Hey, Carmen.

- Hey, Carmen. - Good. How are you? - How you doing?

Rick and other members of the team

welcome blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

to the Oak Island lab.

This came out of what we're calling

The One Thing.

They are eager to have him examine

the believed pickax that was found one day ago

in the TOT-1 spoils.

We have sought to find irrefutable proof

of men working in the Money Pit at depth,

and lo and behold, this item comes out.

The interesting thing about

this artifact is the depth.

It was really deep.

Okay.

Well, it's a fairly, chunky, piece.

Broken off from some other piece

that extended this way.

A-Also, if you look at it, you'll see the grains,

and the grains are starting to fold on the end here.

And when you beat onto it repeatedly,

they do start to fold up in a nice pattern-like.

So this was repeatedly banged onto something.

That something, could you infer

that it was stone versus metal, or not?

Yes, it was definitely stone.

- Definitely stone. - Rocks. Hard ground, whatever.

Emma, do you have a scan on this?

Yeah.

So, this is actually a cross section

of that iron piece.

So, there was, like, a crack.

Okay.

So, it is a tool.

It could be part of a pickax.

A very heavy, old pickax.

There would have been something coming out this way,

'cause it broke off.

The only time I see primitive mining tools

that were this shape and this size...

was from the 1500s.

Get in there.

The only time I see primitive

mining tools that were this shape and this size

was from the 1500s.

Maybe early 1600s but not

- any more modern than that. - So, it was a tool

- that was used for tunneling? - Yeah,

- getting rid of rocks or smashing rocks up. - Yeah.

It's a digging tool.

In the Oak Island laboratory,

blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

has just shared his assessment that the pickax

recovered from more than 160 feet deep

in the TOT-1 shaft

could predate the discovery of the Money Pit

by nearly three centuries.

So, based on the composition,

we got potassium,

we got phosphorous, sulfur, magnesium.

So, based on the impurities I'm seeing here,

these are indicative of, I'd say, between 1500s

and 1700s as well.

Wow. So, it's way before the story

of the Money Pit.

1790s.

Absolutely.

This represents something very early,

a tool such as this having been used in rock.

The dates seem to line up with the Knights of Malta

having a presence in Nova Scotia.

It's all possibly confirming that this location

for the TOT-1 caisson is an area of original work.

This could be a very important connection

that needs to be followed up on.

I think we may be

close to treasure.

Has the team found a tool that was used

in an operation to hide something of great value

in the original Money Pit?

If so, might it represent another critical clue

that may connect the Knights of Malta

and priceless religious treasures

to the Oak Island mystery?

I mean, my big takeaway from that is the amount of work,

the amount of abuse that that took.

So, that really speaks to how much labor it took

to do whatever it is they were doing, so...

- A long, long time ago. - Yes.

Carmen, this is,

is quite revealing.

I love the fact that your approach, your perspective

and Emma's perspective and Laird's perspective

has come together.

It's gonna take all of us to do that, so, Carmen,

we thank you for your participation.

- Very good. - Thank you,

but, again, we need to get back to work, so...

- Yeah. - Thanks, everybody.

- See you later. - Very good. - See you later, mate.

After the encouraging meeting in the lab...

They can't be advancing.

So, they got a heavy-heavy plug giving them high pressure.

Rick and Gary return to the Money Pit area.

They'll never get to 211

- like that. - Yeah.

Yeah, the grab is slow.

- Not a lot of finds yet. - Okay.

However, a concerning situation

is developing in the TOT-1 shaft.

So, baddish news is,

it's very slow progression.

- Right. - Stuff's binding up inside the casing a bit and holding,

so it's a bit harder to dig.

- Yes. - We're monitoring it closely.

I mean, we're advancing.

Well, let's see what happens.

You... as you say, you're-you're monitoring it.

- Yeah. - Let's see if we can get a little more advance out of it.

- All right. Thanks, guys. We'll get back on it. - Thank you.

Thanks, Adam.

We're now very deep in TOT-1.

We're below any searcher depth, for sure.

What becomes apparent as soon as we start

trying to advance the casing into the bedrock

is that it's stuck there, it can't advance.

So...

that's a problem.

Damn.

It's hard down there.

My biggest hope is that right around now,

where the teeth are, we get into the solution channel

and everything opens up and it gets a lot easier.

Yeah. Yeah.

Stop.

It's caving.

It's caving all the way back.

It's going all the way around.

We've got a collapse here.

We know, as you approach this natural cavity,

we have to face the danger of collapse.

We almost got into a danger zone

on some of the other canisters.

- We're almost there. - Got 'er, buddy.

These things can get very bad.

It can destroy equipment, it can be dangerous to people.

So we can't have that happen.

Go back, go back, go back.

There we go. I like that.

- Sitting up nice. - Beautiful!

- Perfect. - All good. Get to work.

All right, we're back in business.

Another hammer grab.

Yep.

Come on, be a good bucket.

Come on, come on, come on.

Here's something.

- That was good. - Yeah.

- Good? - It's-it's going.

No big worries on collapsing or...

We're not challenging the integrity of the crane pad.

- Cool. - You see we're advancing well and...

- Yeah... yeah. - Which is good.

We're coming up on 180.

- Yeah. - If we measured right now,

I'm sure we'd be over 180.

Yes. Yep.

I'm just wondering if you can tell

if we're into the solution channel yet.

I'm... the way I picture it, it's a lot of loose material.

We're just coming into it. Did you see his last load?

- Yeah. Yeah. - His bucket was heaping.

That tells me you're getting into that channel.

- That's a good sign. - Yes.

- Did you see his last load? - Yeah.

- His bucket was heaping. - Yeah.

That tells me we're getting

- into that channel. - Cool.

And the casing depth

- is only 183 and a half. - Okay.

It is a critical moment

in the fabled Money Pit area for Rick and Marty Lagina

and the Oak Island team.

At a depth of more than 180 feet underground,

the TOT-1 shaft appears to have finally breached

the so-called solution channel,

a massive natural void in the bedrock

where the team hopes to recover a vast cache of untold riches.

Another really good grab.

Yeah, I'm gonna go look at this with Terry.

Okay.

That's quite the grab?

Right in the center of it is a big chunk of gypsum.

- What's that? - There you go.

That is a chunk of wood.

Wood? Found at a depth

of more than 180 feet?

And potentially from within the solution channel?

Let's see if it sinks.

If so, could it be related

to the original Money Pit and the legendary treasure?

Went straight to bottom. That's pretty cool.

Alex!

When we have a significant piece of wood,

we test it by seeing if it sinks in a bucket.

The fact that the wood sinks when we test it

means that wood could be very old.

It's what we're looking for.

We're looking for evidence of collapse of the Money Pit,

down deeper than any searcher was.

And-and we're finding it.

Hey, Rick.

This just came out of that last hammer grab.

Here's the significance:

it just came from probably 185 feet.

There is no evidence that people were working

at this level long ago. None.

And I believe that we are in the area

of the original Money Pit.

The ability, maybe, finally, to really circle the wagons

in a much tighter circle is real.

And I think we're close.

It looks like she's slowing down?

Yeah.

- Hey, fellas. - Hey.

How's things going here?

Slowly.

It doesn't want to go down.

They're having a big problem right now.

We could or might be chewing into some ledges.

- How you doing? - Hey, guys.

- Hi. - All right, so,

for final measurements for the day:

our depth of hole is at 192 and a half feet.

The casing is not advancing. We're not going anywhere.

What do you think?

Basically, what we have here

is a natural cavity down there... it's effectively a cave.

- That's right. - But the holes that go down into it

are probably not uniform.

They're not, like, a perfect hole,

they don't match that canister.

So we're hung up on that.

- Hung up on a ledge, I think. - Yeah.

So, beneath this ledge, we're gonna have

some potential collapse material and some potential treasure.

Exactly.

So, let's cross our fingers.

Could Terry and Marty be correct

that the TOT-1 shaft has encountered a rocky ledge

near the top of the solution channel?

A ledge that is stopping the caissons

from reaching the bottom of the cavity

and whatever it may contain?

- I think you've got to switch methodologies. - Right.

What I would like to do or consider doing,

is going with the airlift.

I think that's a-a good plan.

That's gonna cost us

- a day to set up. - Yeah. - I know that.

The airlifting process will blast high volumes

of compressed air down the TOT-1 shaft

and into the solution channel more than 200 feet underground.

This will force tons of water,

sediment and possible objects up to the surface.

That's our cave, that's our repository, potentially.

That's what we got to do. You guys got to do that.

Start airlifting.

We believe we can scour the bottom

and whatever's down there will come to surface.

At this point in time,

we are singularly focused on one thing:

retrieval of treasure.

Well, I mean, we're-we're close.

- Yeah, we are close. - I mean...

It's maddeningly close, isn't it?

- Yes, it's... It is. - Okay.

- All right. - That's the plan.

- I'm-I'm ready. - We got a plan.

Three words, right?

"Patience" and "thank you."

Tomorrow might be the day, Gar.

- Bloody well will be. - There you go. - There you go.

Let's go home, get some rest.

- Okay. Perfect. - Tomorrow's a big day.

Big day tomorrow.

- Thank you. - Thank you.

- All right. There we go. - Let's motivate this.

For Rick, Marty, Craig and their team,

potentially priceless secrets

that might have come from halfway across the globe

and which now lie more than 200 feet underground

could soon be within their reach.

And though precious little time remains

before the harsh North Atlantic winter sets in,

the Fellowship of the Dig has never been more uplifted.

Because time may also be running out...

for the Oak Island mystery.

Next time on the thrilling season finale

- of The Curse of Oak Island... - Here we go.

- Airlift time. - Today's the day

we find Rick's one thing.

Let's find some gold.

- Whoa, baby. - Whoa.

You can see that it's hollow. It keeps going in there.

And then there's something down at the bottom of that rock.

No way!

- It's remarkable. - Ooh!

- That's a nonferrous hit. - Ha ha!

- Look at that. - Ka-ching!

The arsenical copper indicates the medieval times.

Medieval, baby!

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