All language subtitles for The Curse of Oak Island (2014) - s12e24 - Into the Void.en

- 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.

-Oh, baby!
-Check that out.

Reveal your secrets.

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.

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, uh,

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

Uh, nothing crazy.

- Uh, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This will be the last can
in the Money Pit.

I think everybody is crossing
their fingers and their toes.

We're, uh, 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.

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.
-Mm-hmm.

And we're excited
about this potential connection.

Yeah.

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.

Oh, nice.

-Hmm.
- 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We can connect the work
in the swamp

potentially
to the Knights of Malta.

I think that's
comfortably in-in range.

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.

Oh!

There's even more big boulders
down there.

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.

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.

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.

...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.

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.

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.

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.

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, uh, 215,

we've got
all the caisson material here

we need to do that.

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?
-Oh, 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?
- Oh, 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, uh,

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

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

A little rougher work, eh?

Yeah.

Check this out.

See that?

Oh, 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.

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.

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.

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.

- Mm-hmm.
-But we got plenty

of original--
potentially original work

in the swamp we can investigate.

not by any stretch
of the imagination.

We probably have explored, uh,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

What a sweet find.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Oh, 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.

- 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.

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, uh,
chunky, uh, piece.

-Mm-hmm.
- 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?

Oh, 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.

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.

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,

uh, 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,

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

- Yeah.
- Thanks, everybody.

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

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

They'll never get to 211

- like that.
-Yeah.

Yeah, the grab is slow.

- Not a lot of finds yet.
- Okay.

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.

-Oh, .
-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.

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, huh?
- 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-- oh, 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.

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, eh?

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

-What's that?
- There you go.

That is a chunk of wood.

of more than 180 feet?

And potentially from
within the solution channel?

Let's see if it sinks.

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.

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, eh?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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-oh.

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

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

Oh, 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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