All language subtitles for The Curse of Oak Island (2014) - s12e25 - Uplifting Discoveries.en

Tonight
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.

- Oh, baby.
-Oh, ho!

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.

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.

-Morning.
-Good morning.

- See we're ready
to rock and roll.
-Today's the day.

Airlift time.

of historic discoveries

and revelations on Oak Island

is about to reach
its culmination

for brothers Rick and
Marty Lagina and their team.

You know, one side
of the caisson hit the edge

of the solution channel and we
know there was a collapse here.

Oh, for sure,
but now we know it goes deeper.

-Yep.
-The question is,
what collapsed

down into the solution cavity?

- Was it the treasure?
- Had to go somewhere, yeah.

the team has now installed
their sixth and final

seven-foot-diameter
steel shaft for the year.

A shaft they have dubbed
"the one thing" or "TOT-1."

It has reached some 195 feet
underground

and penetrated
a massive natural cavity

in the bedrock,
known as the solution channel.

A cavity that contains
more than 100 tons

of earth and debris
that collapsed

into it during one
of the team's recent excavations

and which may now also contain

the legendary
Money Pit treasure.

There still could be
something down

at the bottom of that caisson.

And they're gonna vacuum it up
literally,

and we're gonna look in there

and we're gonna hope
we find the one thing.

- Today's the day we find
Rick's one thing.
-Let's go, yeah.

Now with just
a few days remaining

before the onset of winter
will force the team to suspend

their search activities
until next spring,

representatives from
ROC Equipment and SB Canada

will attempt to recover evidence

of the believed
valuables from the bottom

of the solution channel
using an airlift system.

He's in.

The process
will work by blasting air

at a rate of 300 pounds
per square inch

down the TOT-1 shaft
and into the solution channel.

This will create
a powerful vacuum,

forcing tons of dirt
and debris to the surface,

which will be deposited
into a massive container.

The spoils will then be
carefully searched

for evidence of treasure.

Okay. We're ready.

- And you're ready,
it looks like.
- Yep.

Let's get the guys
lined up here.

- Mickey, you all connected up?
- Yeah.

- You good, Denny?
- Yeah.

We're gonna fire that pump up.

-Here we go.
-It's going.

Rough start.

There you go.

-Oh, baby!
- There it is, there it is.

Lots of muck, buddy.

The weather's closing in,
our time here

on the island is closing.

The expectations are high

that within the TOT-1,

"the one thing" caisson, that

some significant discoveries
will be made.

It's really sputtering though,

as if there's a lot
more material in the caisson

- than we thought.
-Yeah.

Something that will help us
ascertain

the what of this mystery.

What was buried here
so long ago?

- That thing's gonna fill up...
- Really fast.

...really fast.

Wow!

It's obvious that everything's
working beautifully.

We can see massive amounts

of material
entering the big tank.

After all these years digging
and drilling underground

in the Money Pit,

I'm hoping there's
some treasure in there.

Just little update:
we're pulling now.

You can hear the chunks
and solids coming up now.

- So...
- Okay.

- Keep you in the loop.
- Okie-doke.

Thank you.

So let's fill that up.

And then develop
a proper excavation plan

- for the rest of the day.
- Yep.

We all know we can't stand still

because time
is running away from us.

Yep.

All right, well, this seems

to be working
quite well actually.

There's stuff going in the tank.

Maybe there's some good stuff
going in the tank.

Maybe the one thing
is in the tank.

I'm waiting
for the Bravo-Tango, Rick.

-Exactly.
-Might be over there.

continues in the Money Pit area,

nearly half a mile to the west

on Lot 5...

You got a whole crew here.

- Everybody's busy.
-Hey.

- Digging away. Find anything?
-Yep.

Well, you guys can tell me.

Laird noticed something
at least a little unusual

that I thought
you might be interested in.

It's down here.

...Rick and Marty
join archaeologist

Laird Niven
and other members of the team

to look for more
potentially critical clues

in the stone foundation
near the shoreline.

Laird was scraping away
down here in the wall.

And, Laird, tell them
what you observed.

You can see that it's-it's
almost hollow.

It's-- it keeps going in there.

And then I noticed something

down at the very bottom
of that rock.

Ooh.

It's actually a nail.

After uncovering
this feature in 2022,

Laird and the rest of the team
have not only found

evidence that it may
have been used as a campsite

by different groups
over numerous time periods

prior to the discovery
of the Money Pit,

but have also unearthed
several stunning artifacts

that suggest it was directly
related to the treasure mystery.

These include
a mortar-like substance

that matches soil samples

from more than 100 feet deep
in the Money Pit area...

...five Roman coins

and a 14th-century
lead barter token

which may be connected
to the Knights Templar.

And four Venetian trade beads,

along with two ornate buttons
that could be related

to the Knights of Malta.

Incredibly,
some researchers believe

that the Templars
and the Knights of Malta

may have conspired
to hide priceless,

religious artifacts,

including the Holy Grail

and the Ark of the Covenant
on Oak Island

between the 12th
and 17th centuries.

Does it help at all
explain what this thing is?

-No.
- Mm, fair.

Other than... odd?

Other than odd.

How about if we have Gary
go around once more?

Yeah. That's fine.

I mean, he's kind of our
first line of offense, right?

- Yeah.
-Okay.

Okie doke, Gary.

- It's all yours.
- Let's get going.

Given all the artifacts
that have been found

in this localized
of an area with this feature,

it presents the possibility
of some real answers.

All right. We'll get stuck in.

My hope is we can find
an artifact that will really

give us a proper framework
to understand

the earliest activities

associated with Lot 5.

Nonferrous.

That's a nonferrous target.

Sounds like a shovel test to me.

Fiona, could you, uh, bring that

talented trowel of yours
over here?

We got one that's
especially interesting.

Yep. We can do that.

- Is it this one here?
-Yes.

Okay.

Oh, here's something.

But it's actually ceramic.

Got a nice piece of
hand-painted pearlware in here.

-You just got
a bit of pottery?
- Yeah.

- But that wouldn't have been
setting your...
- No.

- ...metal detector off.
- No.

What is the date range
on that piece of pottery?

-Can I see it?
- Yeah, when you start getting

into the hand-painted,
now you're looking

at 1770 onwards for that.

That's still
older than the original

story of the discovery
of the Money Pit.

We're getting down
a little deeper here now.

So I'd be surprised
if it's too much deeper.

Nothing surprises me
about Lot 5.

Oh, what's this?

Oh, wait.

Ooh!

- There you go, Gary.
- Yeah, ka-ching!

It's a coin! Hey, hey!

- It is.
-Hey!

- There you go, Gary.
- Ka-ching!

Just a few feet
outside of the mysterious

rounded foundation on Lot 5...

Wow.

...Gary Drayton
and other members

of the Oak Island team have

just made a potentially
valuable discovery.

Is it a coin or a button?

Well, it doesn't have
a shank on the back.

It's pretty flat.

I would suspect it's a coin.

And it's even got a bit
of a copper patina to it.

It's very thin.

It doesn't have
a lot of heft to it.

So it could be a token as well.

It's a coin or a token,
but it was down there.

It was. It was very deep.

If so, could the team

have found a similar artifact

to the possibly
Templar-related barter token

that was unearthed here in 2022?

That's a...

That's going in my pocket.

Yeah. Yeah, it is.

Oh, that's fantastic.

-So I heard some yelling.
- Yeah. Look at this.

- This kind of popped out.
- Oh, wow.

- Do you see that copper patina
on it?
- Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, that's worth getting
back to the lab, obviously.

I've got a bag here.

That little nice clean one.

That's what we want for this.

This is a productive couple
of pits.

Yeah, it has been.

There's a building
body of evidence

that there was a relationship

between Lot 5 and the Money Pit

and the mystery in total.

It's hard to refute that.

This find, obviously,

comes at the end of the year

and my hope is that we will
come to an understanding

of its relative importance.

You know, it might be
the end of the year,

but it's not the end
of the interest

in this area, that's for sure.

I mean, that continues
to be remarkable.

- Yeah.
- And it reaffirms the fact

that this treasure hunt,
this mystery, is island-wide.

That is quite remarkable.

And it's never too late
to pull up a Hail Mary find.

How's that one look?

Still likely a good

foot and a half
or two feet of stuff in here.

Yeah. There's a lot more in here

than I thought there would be.

...Rick Lagina joins
operations manager Scott Barlow

and heavy equipment operator
Billy Gerhardt

in the Money Pit area.

There's lots there
to go through.

Well, the first thing would be

get it out of here, right?

Now that
the airlifting operation

in the TOT-1 shaft
has been completed

and the excess water
has been drained

from the spoils container,

they are eager
to begin searching

through the solid debris
and soils for clues

and hopefully
evidence of treasure.

Should be a lot of silt in here,

but we could definitely
hear the sound

of things tinging off
this dividing wall

- when it was shooting in there.
- Mm-hmm.

So hopefully one of those things
is what we're looking for.

The one thing.

Yeah, the one thing.

Okay, well,
let's get it started, right?

Get the vac truck in
and see what we've got.

Okay.

that is of metallic nature,

it has been airlifted
from more than 200 feet

underground in the Money Pit.

So now it's up to...

us to make sure
that the container gets clean

and then it's up to Gary,
really, to try to find

any metallic objects.

- There's the rig
for the job right there.
- Yep.

Hi, Marc, I'm Rick.
Nice to meet you.

We have some suspicion
that there might be something

in this container
and that's why you're here.

- Let's get after it.
- Let's do it.

Utilizing a process
known as hydro evacuation,

Marc will use
an industrial-grade water jet

to break up
the sediment and earth

at the bottom of the container

while a powerful suction pump

will draw the liquids and spoils

into a 3,500-gallon tank.

All right, guys,
let's find some gold.

We're about to find out.

All right, light her up.

Voilà!

from the container, they will be

transported to nearby Smith's Cove

where metal detection expert
Gary Drayton will scan them

for clues
and potential valuables.

It looks like he's making some
pretty good progress there now.

He'll be done with that-- what's
left in there in short order.

Look, we all want
to find something.

The only way
to find something is

to have Gary come in
and metal detect.

All right.

Let's get
treasure hunting again.

-We got a busy day
ahead of us.
-Yes, we do.

- Quite a mess you made
down here, Bill.
- Isn't it?

...Rick, Craig
and Gary Drayton arrive

at Smith's Cove to begin
searching the TOT-1 spoils.

Now it's had a chance
to dry off.

So we have a little chance
for a better visual.

I believe today
we're gonna find a diamond

in the rough,
right in that pile there.

Okay.
You got two guys to shovel.

You get the metal detector.

Billy,
if you can scrape that off?

- All right.
- Let's get stuck in.

This is great
that we're doing this.

We got a chance
to metal detect it and use

- the twin optical scanners.
- Yeah.

Yep.

We recovered
a container full of mud,

a tremendous amount of cobbles
and, hopefully,

some potential discoveries
to be made.

We have to do everything we can

to make certain that we find
whatever lies within.

It'd be nice to find
one great find.

Yep.

Hold up, Bill.

What is that?

That was a dowel.

Yeah.

- That's worth keeping.
- Yeah.

Found in the TOT-1 spoils?

Dating back
to the 7th century AD,

dowels are wooden fasteners
that were used in construction

to lock planks
or timbers together.

According to historical records,

all previous treasure hunters

are believed to have
used metal fasteners

in the construction
of shafts and tunnels

in the Money Pit area.

Is it possible that the team
has recovered evidence

of the original Money Pit
in the solution channel?

If so, might something
of great or even

priceless value also be
contained in the TOT-1 spoils?

Got a good signal.

Hey.
Looks like I'm just in time.

Something good, Gary?

Yeah. It sounds good.

Let me know if you need to dig.

Yeah. Got to do the honors.

-Right there?
-Yep.

Right underneath
that pile there.

All right. I'll have a regroup.

And a pinpoint.

See where this is.

- Ooh, ooh!
- Wow!

- Something.
-Yeah!

That's nice.

Yeah! That's nice.

It's the end
of a pick by the look of it.

- So, it is.
- Yep.

While searching
through the spoils

of the TOT-1 shaft,

Rick, Marty and members
of the Oak Island team

have just found another
potentially important clue.

But it's in great condition.

It's heavy for its size.

-It's very small.
- That's what I like about it.

If you're tunneling you'd
need a little pick like that.

- Tunneling, not shafts.
-Yep.

Wouldn't it be ironic
if it's a match to that old tool

- that we found in TOT-1?
- Yes. Yeah.

What is that?

It looks like
it's part of a tool.

One week ago,
while searching spoils that came

from more than 160 feet deep
in the TOT-1 shaft,

Gary and Marty found
a fragment of another pickax.

That could be
a really old tool, mate.

Yeah.

One that blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge

believed to have been used
for tunneling

and may date as far back
as the 16th century.

I see a little bit of...

striation right here.

If so, was it possibly used
by someone

who deposited something of great
value in the original Money Pit?

- All right, you want
to swing some more?
-Yep.

We could be seeing
and we're hoping we're seeing

more evidence
that something went on

deep in the Money Pit area
prior to its discovery in 1795.

I think it's exciting.

Anything in there could be items
from the original Money Pit.

I'd like to see some treasure.

Got a good signal.

Right underneath that slab.

Ooh, it'd be nice if it was
a bit of treasure there.

Hopefully, it's old.

What have we got here?

Another real old pick?

Yeah. Look.
Can you see those lines?

- Yeah, that's hand-forged.
- Yeah.

That could be an oldie.

Quite chunky
and heavy for its size.

Yeah, this is, this is good.

Yeah.

It's got to be a pick
or maybe even a chisel.

Could be a chisel.

That's a sweet find.

Check this out, guys.

It's a something.

-Good find.
-Yeah, it is.

There's a lot more to go through
but we're running out of time

in every sense of the word.

For the moment, for the year.

I think we're gonna have to get
the rest of the team to have

a meeting in the war room,
talk about what we did,

what we got to do, what
our hopes and expectations are.

It's an enormous amount
of material.

I wish we had more time
to search.

However,
we will finish this work

next summer and it's typical
Oak Island in terms of making

what could be a significant
find at the end of the year.

What it's saying is
you just got to keep going.

No real treasure but hints

and indications
and intriguing possibilities

that maybe this treasure
has fallen

much deeper
and it's still there.

So, Gary, if you'll get
those to Emma,

we'll get quick analysis
going on that.

That'd be great.

All right then, we'll
see you guys in the war room.

- See you there.
- All right. See you.

Hey, guys.

Here we be.

- Wow!
- Hey!

I am always overwhelmed
when I walk into this group.

And today is no exception.

with their fellowship
in the Oak Island Museum.

I'm a bit humbled
and I'm in a bit

of awe of the amount
of brainpower and discoveries

as I walk into that room.

You know, there's
a bunch of happy faces

and interested people.

And they're our team.
They're our team.

You know,
I'll use a Gary Drayton term.

Gobsmacked. I mean,

it's quite remarkable to see

how many people
all gathered together

to do one thing.

Solve this mystery.

We owe each and every one
of you a huge debt of gratitude.

As I look around,
I see a willingness

to come together
for the greater good.

And the greater good to me
has always been solving

the mystery of Oak Island.

I want to start with something
I specifically asked for.

Well, I have in front of me
eight things and there are more,

that do not have
a question mark.

Items that are without question,

uh, not only pre-1795,
but pre-1760.

So, with that, I'll
turn it over to a discussion

of Lot 5 and, uh, Laird,
you can start over there.

Yeah, the Lot 5,
this work this year expanded

to the exterior
of the circular feature.

We're finding

the typical artifacts
from 1760 to 1820.

But we're finding
more hints that there may

have been an earlier
presence on that site.

I mean, if you look
at the artifacts just recently,

we have another button that was
previously thought to be a coin.

And for good reason, the area
of the shank is barely visible.

And the metallurgy is
suggesting is an early period.

- And you have results on
what it is, Emma?
- Oh, I do.

All right, so this is the coin,

or what was thought
to be a coin.

It is a button.

The body of the button
is made of a copper alloy.

But what's really
interesting about this,

is what's in the copper

and what's surrounding it,
so, first off,

it's a silver gilt.

Uh, so you're seeing
that-that composition

of silver throughout,
but the copper

has a unique signature
of a very,

very high arsenic content.

The arsenical copper
indicates the medieval times.

It's coming. Medieval, baby!

Copper was often recycled.

A skilled person made it,

refined the copper
and created this alloy.

So, they're
recycling medieval copper.

So if you had
to put a date on it,

most likely pre-1750?

Yeah.

So the copper iron alloy
indicates 1600s, 1700s.

Well, there you go.

It is another
potentially critical moment

for the Oak Island team.

According to the scientific analysis

of archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan,

a button that was found
two days ago

near the round feature on Lot 5

was most likely made
in the 17th century.

That fits

- into your earlier occupation.
- Yeah.

That means
it may have been left there

by someone who used the feature

nearly two centuries before
the discovery of the Money Pit.

This is also a major find.

- This is the other
starburst button.
-Yeah.

And you still haven't identified

- the original starburst?
- No.

The button expert
we showed it to

thought it might be Spanish.

Is that the expert

- in Malta?
- Yeah.

Rick Lagina, his nephew Alex,

and other members of the team
traveled to Malta

in order to research the theory

that members of the Knights
Templar and the Knights of Malta

made multiple treasure deposits
on Oak Island

between the 12th
and 17th centuries.

After seeing a number
of Templar-related carvings

that have also been found
over the years on Oak Island...

How are you?

...they met with
Maltese historian Denis Darmanin

to have him analyze
the so-called starburst button

that was discovered
in the rounded feature

on Lot 5 in 2023.

I did come across
a similar pattern here.

I would date it to about 1650,

not later than 1675.

That's crazy.

One of the carvings we saw

on Gozo looks like sort of

a more primitive version of this
new starburst button pattern.

That right there.

upon returning from Malta,

Alex was stunned to realize

that another carving he had seen
at the citadel of Victoria,

a former stronghold
of the Knights of Malta,

where some believe holy
treasures of the Knights Templar

were once safeguarded,

was similar
to a second ornate button

that had just been unearthed
near the rounded feature.

Lot 5 remains

an enigma and possibly
an important enigma.

that the three potentially
17th-century buttons,

in addition
to the 14th-century barter token

that were all found near
the rounded feature on Lot 5

offer key evidence
that both the Knights Templar

and the Knights of Malta
may have been connected

to the Oak Island mystery?

What's the path forward

- on Lot 5?
-I think

there's more work to be done
on the exterior

- of the foundation.
- Mm-hmm.

And I think we-we work with Gary

- to do more precise
metal detecting.
-And run

- GPR again.
- Yeah.

'Cause if they were doing

work over on Lot 5,
maybe there is a hatch

or a shaft
or something right nearby.

Without question,
a-anything like that

would be worth investigating.

But let's go
to that favorite place

for just about everyone here--
the swamp.

Dr. Spooner, you played
a very significant role.

Why don't you tee off that
discussion from your standpoint.

Yeah, I-I think
we've moved, uh...

moved everything
forward significantly

in terms of understanding
the swamp

and just how sort of vigorous
an area of activity it was.

We find structures there...
that are enigmatic.

Yeah.

This is really cool.

in the triangle-shaped swamp

such as the believed
800-year-old paved area

near the center

and the potentially 500-year-old
stone road

in the southeast corner...

Seems to be quite
a few more rocks,

- at least right in through here.
- Yeah.

...this year, the Oak Island
team once again discovered

numerous man-made structures
throughout the brackish bog.

These include multiple sections
of a cobblestone pathway,

which were bordered
by wooden survey stakes

that have been dated
to as early as the 17th century.

Whoa!

There's even more
big boulders down there.

they uncovered a line
of stacked boulders

that appeared to be
an artificial seawall.

Doesn't that look like

- a vault to you?
-Wow.

that may be related
to the treasure mystery

was an empty brick and slate
vault-like feature

that was also dated back
to as early as the 17th century.

The swamp has

multiple dates.

It goes back
to as far as possibly

in the 1200s AD era.

You go to the northern end
of the swamp and that dates

late 1600s
right through the late 1700s.

The time period is 1630 to 1750,

and that was what I would call
the major construction

and major use of it.

To find a vault in the swamp,

along with all
the other evidence, to me,

just brings the whole mystery up
another notch.

It's irrefutable, uh,
in terms of it was worked,

manipulated--
call it what you will--

over an extended period of time.

It was intentional,
and it was purposeful.

I don't think we're
anywhere near understanding it,

because, all of our efforts,

probably there's maybe 30% done.

And you've said it yourself,
Tom--

if there are answers
to the Oak Island mystery,

they perhaps lie within the bog.

It was a lot of manpower
went into what we're finding.

Okay.

And this all fits into,

I think, a vision
of Oak Island at that time.

When you take Lot 5,
the swamp, as a place

for industrial activity.
A-Activity that was island-wide.

And the swamp would've been
a little bit like

a highway across the island.

And we find stakes there
that seem to point

towards basically
the western drumlin

and maybe Lot 5.

So, to me,
what's super exciting is

maybe the swamp is
very, very strongly connected

to Lot 5.

And, of course,
if you go from Lot 5,

cross the cobble path,
where are you?

But you're
on the eastern drumlin,

the Money Pit area.

Yeah. Exactly.

Uh, with that,

I think we can transition

to our favorite spot,
the Money Pit.

So let's go there.

And we got two
really interesting artifacts.

And I'll turn it over to Emma
to describe them.

Well,

these two pieces.

So I think we were calling
this piece a chisel,

from the Money Pit spoils.

Yeah.

And then a pick.

- This giant piece.
-Yeah.

So I scanned the artifacts, and
they are both quite clean irons.

They're actually very similar
in composition.

And I would give
a date range on the artifacts.

They are at least early
to mid-1700s.

Potentially... before that.

How far back?

They could go back to the 1650s.

on, baby. -...the team

excavated a seven-foot-diameter
shaft known as RP-1

some 20 feet southeast
of the TOT-1 shaft,

hoping to unearth
evidence of treasure

nearly 120 feet belowground.

Unfortunately,
no valuables were recovered.

This is the largest diameter
pipe stem

we've ever found on the island.

Whoa.

the team did find
a clay pipe stem,

a disposable artifact
for its time,

which Laird believes
could date back

more than 100 years prior to
the discovery of the Money Pit.

Is it possible
that the Fellowship of the Dig

has unearthed at least three
items that were left behind

by those who buried something
of great value on Oak Island?

We now have proof

that people were down there
way before discovery.

Just that this year
lends credence

to all the stories
about the Money Pit...

- Yeah.
- ...and credence to why

we first set foot
on this island.

So that would be
a smoking hot find.

Yes. Exactly.

Smoking hot find.

We were able to put down

six large canisters in the Money
Pit this year, uh, successfully.

Uh, we didn't find treasure,
per se.

But I think
we found treasure in the sense

of a lot of knowledge
that's gonna help us proceed.

-Yeah.
-I went
into the year thinking

that there's no possible way

that if there's treasure
down there

that we could've missed it

with the 600-some boreholes
that we put in the ground--

whatever the number is.

- Yeah.
- But when we did
the caisson work

and everything
started collapsing down

into the solution channel,

that explains
why we might have missed it.

And so I think
the odds, in my mind,

of there still being something
underground in the Money Pit

are a lot higher.

Let's talk about this, then.

Because the other big thing
we discovered this year,

in my belief,
is this business about,

most likely, the solution
channel being able to swallow

whole material
and at copious quantities.

That was something we suspected.

- Mm-hmm.
- But I think
it was proven this year.

- Yeah.
- So I asked Steve
to do something for me.

So, Marty, you asked me
to put together a map.

This is a bird's-eye view
looking at the Money Pit.

This is what we've done.

The exercise was to say,
"All right,

"if we know
the original Money Pit was here

"and it had treasure in it,

"the reason we haven't found it

is because it collapsed
way deep." Okay?

And so I wanted to see if,

statistically,
that was possible.

At this point, in the Money Pit,

for everything
we've ever drilled,

we've done just over
500 boreholes and 27 caissons.

We've really only dug
about 20 to 25 boreholes

at the bottom
of the solution channel.

-And green is
the solution channel.
- Yes.

So, each one
of these yellow depths

hit the bottom
of the solution channel.

We have four caissons,
really, that hit bedrock.

And the solution channel
isn't flat.

You've got 205 feet,
206 feet depth.

Well, there's pockets
mere feet away

where it's 215 feet deep,
210 feet.

So if a treasure did collapse
into a solution channel,

it potentially could have fallen
into one of these pockets.

Sure.

We have more than 80 square feet

of unexplored area in
the Money Pit at those depths.

The solution channel,

this-this natural
cave-like system underground,

may have played a bigger role
in hiding this treasure

than we ever thought before.

Yep.

It could go down to 230 feet,

easy.

Yeah, it really could.

- Correct.
-We're zeroing in

on this treasure.

But how are we going to get it?

How are we going
to actually find it

and get it to the surface?

this natural
cave-like system underground,

could go down to 230 feet, easy.

We're zeroing in
on this treasure.

But how are we going to get it?

We either have to do
a pretty intensive

deep drilling program
with a conventional rig,

some sort, sonic rig,
something, to test that out.

- Or a big dig in that area.
- Yeah.

Given all the information

and all the input from everyone
around this table,

your default position
has to be a potential big dig.

A system of caissons,
one next to the other.

Basically, a honeycomb design.

the Laginas and Craig Tester

have researched
excavation methods

to explore a much larger region
of the Money Pit area.

One of these is
the so-called honeycomb process.

This would involve digging
a series

of eight-foot-diameter steel
shafts next to one another

down to depths
of as much as 230 feet,

allowing the team to thoroughly
search the solution channel

for the legendary treasure.

For me,

I want to go deep.

Um, whether we...

drill for it
or a, a big dig of some sort,

um, you know, we need
to hammer those numbers out.

But, you know, I think we
advanced the ball on all fronts.

And I think
the team did a great job.

To me, I came onto this island,

I was absolutely mercenary.

I was here after treasure.

Rick always was
more colored towards, "Hey,

"this is a worthwhile thing.
This is historical.

The-the hunt itself
is worthwhile."

I've been moving gradually in
that direction for a long time.

And I would say this year
moved me even farther.

I still want to find
a great treasure.

But, you know what,

this is a worthwhile adventure
with worthwhile people

doing worthwhile things.

I asked you
at the beginning of the year

to inspire each other,

to do something which is more
than each of us individually,

and that is working as a team,
working as a unit,

working... together.

Look at the table.

Look around.

You know,
as a little boy, I, um...

...I believed in Oak Island--
in the mystery, in the story,

and in the treasure.

And, uh, I believe it now.

But the thing that is
really quite compelling for me

is that...

Um...

- Mm.
- You can do it.

Yeah, I know.

It has been...

...one
of the greatest pleasures...

...of my life...

to not only have shared this

with all of you...

...but with my two nephews

and David, who is not here,

and my brother, of course.

It's been... fantastic.

And without each of you...

...we wouldn't be sitting here
the way we are.

And so, for that,

I am exceedingly grateful.

If it wasn't for you,

I don't think any of us
would be sitting here right now.

Yeah. I didn't come out here

'cause I believed
in the treasure.

I came out here

'cause I believed
in doing this with my family,

so...

And look how far he's come.

- Yeah.
-Yeah.

That-that is
what is really cool is,

I remember when Marty
first came to Oak Island.

You know, he came, and
he's brutally honest, you know?

He came here and thought
it was a bunch of madness,

- collective madness.
- That.

And I think Alex had
a little bit of that.

- Yeah.
- And-and Peter.

As everybody knows,
Peter was like,

- "Okay, I'll come, but..."
- Yeah.

And yet they have been moved...

...by the proof that each
and every one of you

have helped provide.

So, thank you.

Thank you.

Hey, look,

I've always said this--
and I'm sure of this--

it's impossible to follow
a Rick Lagina speech,

so I am not going to even try.

I believe we're done
for the year.

- Sound good?
- Hear, hear.

-Sounds good.
- Hear, hear.
-Thank you.

- Okay. Off we go.
- Here we go.
-Okay.

But it saw them discover
more evidence than ever before

that profound
and perhaps priceless secrets

are hiding deep
in the Money Pit area.

Emiliano.

Ciao, buddy.

and conduct the biggest
and deepest digs ever attempted,

will the answers to a mystery

that has captivated
the world for 230 years

finally be revealed?

an X-marks-the-spot...
in the Money Pit.

Now we just have to execute,

because we think
that the treasure dropped

into the solution channel.

And somebody was deep
in the Money Pit

way before the Money Pit
was discovered.

Just those two things
in a very general sense

make you pretty enthusiastic
to keep going.

There's a lot of work
left to do.

- Yes.
-Almost feels like

as much work as we had

when we first showed up here.

Which is amazing.

I think now the world believes

that something unique happened
on this very special place.

I am exceedingly grateful
of the opportunity

that this story, this island
has given back to me.

But at the end of the day,
there really is but one goal.

Let's solve this thing.

This is a really amazing place.

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