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NARRATOR:
Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

MARTY:
Wait! Whoa, whoa!

-What is that?
-RICK: Stop.

-MARTY: There you go!
-That is exactly

-what Fred found.
-MARTY: Ooh, baby!

Any idea on an age?

-TERRY: Whoa! Whoa!
-STEVE G.: We have
some wood here.

-Look at this.
This is cut with an ax.
-MARTY: It's wood

-from the original Money Pit.
-DAVE: We found it.

-RICK: There's
a huge storm coming.
-MARTY: Category 1.

-It's headed right for us.
-RICK: Anything that can become

a sail has to be tied down.
It could be catastrophic.

NARRATOR:
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,

mysterious fragments
of human bone,

and a lead cross
whose origin may stretch back

to the days
of 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.

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MARTY:
All right. Let's get after it.

Well, let's clean that up
and see what we got.

-Let's do it!
-BILLY: All right.

NARRATOR: After obtaining
scientific evidence

that the Oak Island swamp
is not only man-made

but also could date back
to the time when members

of the Knights Templar
are believed

to have visited the island,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their partners
have redoubled their efforts

to excavate the area

and find out
what may lie buried within it.

They are
particularly interested

in exposing
the mysterious stone walkway

discovered
by diver Tony Sampson

earlier this year.

I'm excited about digging in
the swamp and getting answers.

Every time
hard, scientific data

pushes human,
substantial activities

back behind 1795,
it moves the dial for me.

The data says there's
something worth digging there,

and so that means
we have to dig it.

Absolutely.

MARTY:
Hey, Rick?

I'm gonna back up
and take another trench load.

RICK:
I'd say yes.

NARRATOR:
Unfortunately,

they will have to work fast,

as the team
has just been informed

that a powerful
Category 5 hurricane

known as Dorian

is making its way
up the Atlantic coast

and is expected
to hit Oak Island

in a matter of days.

Dorian laid a beating
on the Bahamas,

particularly the eastern part
of Grand Bahama.

Today the area
is bearing the scars

of this ferocious system.

More than 70,000 people
have been left homeless.

(wind whistling)

NARRATOR:
With 185-mile-an-hour winds

and heavy rainfall,

Hurricane Dorian
has already caused

catastrophic damage
in the Bahamas

as well as widespread flooding
and power outages

across the eastern coast
of the United States.

A direct hit on Oak Island
could cause extensive damage

and cost the Laginas
millions of dollars.

It seems every forecast
looks more like

a direct hit. It's weakened
somewhat, but here's the thing.

It's gonna impact the activity.

It's gonna impact the swamp.

My guess is, it's gonna fill it
right back up.

You know,
it-it does look a bit ominous.

MARTY:
If a worst-case scenario
happens,

I think the exploration effort
would turn into

a clean-up effort
for the rest of the season.

I think we'd be done.

NARRATOR:
With time running out,

Rick, Marty, and their partner
Craig Tester are determined

to make one more breakthrough
discovery in the swamp.

Can you pull it back
a little further?

-This, right here.
-MARTY: Yeah.

I would leave the rock.

-It's huge.
-Yeah, that's a big rock.

Can you pull this back
a little more that way?

Yep.

Stop.

-He sees something there, Marty.
-Stop.

MARTY:
What is that?

I think we got something
right here.

BILLY:
Looks like a piece of wood.

-MARTY:
Isn't that a survey stake?
-RICK: Yeah.

One, two, three, four,
five, six.

There's six cuts on this one.

That is exactly what Fred found.

MARTY:
Whoo, baby! There you go!

NARRATOR:
After draining the swamp
in 1969,

Oak Island treasure hunter
and landowner Fred Nolan

was astonished to discover
several uniform lines

of wooden survey stakes, which,
when later carbon-tested,

were found to date back
as far as the 16th century.

How far from the beach were
these items found?

Do you recall?

They were pretty well
in the middle of the swamp.

And we found a number of survey
stakes in the swamp.

What do you make of that?

Well, the swamp is important.
No question about it.

NARRATOR:
As a professional
land surveyor,

Fred believed the stakes
had been used

to artificially create
the swamp.

Could the wooden stake
the team has found

be another one of these
ancient markers?

And could it be connected
to the paved-stone area

the team has located?

If so, the burning question is,

what, exactly,
was their purpose?

It's not as big as
what Fred found,

but it's certainly worth--

-I mean, we'll keep it
and we'll test it.
-Exactly.

You're on the post line,
so that's a good thing.

All right, bag it and tag it.
Let's keep going!

Sure.
Let me grab a tag.

MARTY:
It's a great start.

It was almost unbelievable.

I mean, drive right out
with that big old excavator,

-take a few scoops,
survey stake.
-RICK: Yeah.

It couldn't have gone
any better.

When Fred first mentioned that
he thought he had found

some survey stakes in the swamp,

that was intriguing
and compelling.

And this looks similar
to what Fred found.

MARTY:
Billy, why don't we switch out?
You can keep going.

-BILLY: We'll do our best.
-Yep.

So then, Billy, if you could
just scrape the top.

-And then we'll take a look.
-Yep.

-So we'll keep going along
at this depth, right?
-Yeah.

There's one in the bucket.

-Here's one. Craig.
-Oh, yeah? Much longer.

These have to be the ones.

CRAIG:
Yeah.

MARTY:
You got another one?

RICK:
Look at that.

-Isn't that nice?
-MARTY: It sure is pretty.

-That is just really pretty.
-Mm-hmm.

MARTY:
Okay.

I'd say maybe we do a little bit
more that way just because

in the grand history
of Oak Island,

guess what's bearing down on us.
I know you know.

A hurricane.

This could be underwater again.

-We could be right back
to square one in days.
-Yeah.

-MARTY:
All right, then, let's dig.
-CRAIG: Okay.

NARRATOR:
As the excavation
of the swamp continues...

-GARY: All it takes is one
good find, mate.
-JACK: Yep!

...Jack Begley and metal
detection expert Gary Drayton

continue searching the spoils

recently excavated
at Smith's Cove.

I think we're pretty much
done with this pile.

-Mm-hmm.
-You know what?

We should go for that
good stuff,

'cause that was underneath
that structure.

Mm-hmm.

So, let's see if we can get
lucky, mate.

Oh, man, this is interesting.

NARRATOR:
It was while investigating
the structure one week ago

that the team discovered
a decorative piece of lead,

possibly connected
to the medieval cross

found two years ago
in Smith's Cove,

which was dated to be
over 700 years old.

If this lead,
this piece of lead Gary found

at the end of the slipway

had the same origins
as the cross,

from the same mine
in the same time period,

it lends credence
to the whole thing.

You connect the cross
to the slipway,

it's the same construct
by the same people.

We're always looking
for the who, what, when, where,

why and how of things,

and this might connect
those disparate dots.

Let's go for this good
sandy stuff.

For Billy to dump this here,
it must be of interest.

JACK:
This whole area's been
really turned up.

GARY:
Yeah.

(metal detector beeping)

-Signal here, Jack!
-All right.

GARY:
It's a screamer.

JACK:
Is that it?

GARY:
Wow.

GARY:
Wow.

Nice one, mate.

NARRATOR: While
metal-detecting the spoils

excavated from the end
of the slipway at Smith's Cove,

Gary Drayton and Jack Begley
have just made

what could be a potentially
significant find.

GARY: One of those small
cribbing spikes.

All wrought iron.

No mistaking that.

Very well wore.

They're all--
s-share the same...

kind of shape.

They all have that little--

one little area that's corroded
more than anywhere else.

Mm-hmm. I think it's exciting.

-It's a couple hundred years
old, most likely.
-At least.

That's the same date
as the slipway

or maybe even older.

NARRATOR:
In the past four weeks,

the Oak Island team

has discovered
a number of similar objects

in this same area.

But could the cribbing spikes
that the team has been finding

at Smith's Cove
also be connected

to the recently discovered
lead artifact?

And could it offer evidence

that the newly unearthed
wooden structure

is actually much older than the
slipway discovered last year,

which was scientifically proven
to have been built in 1769?

GARY:
This is a really cool spike.

And it's an oldie as well.

This has been sitting
at the side of the slipway

for hundreds of years.

But I am a little bit dismayed

by the lack of artifacts
and coins

from the guys who built

the structures.

JACK:
It baffles me

-that we're finding so little.
-Yeah.

-It's bloody head-scratching,
mate.
-(groans) Yep.

GARY:
I'm still not giving up, mate.

NARRATOR:
As Jack and Gary continue
their search for artifacts

at Smith's Cove,

-in the Money Pit area...
-(whirring)

TERRY:
We're on the new hole.

FG-12 it is.

...Alex Lagina
and geologist Terry Matheson,

along with other members
of the Oak Island team,

are continuing an exploratory
drilling operation

to trace the Shaft Two tunnel
back to the original Money Pit.

Constructed in 1805
by the Onslow Company,

the shaft featured a horizontal
tunnel at a depth of 110 feet,

which had been dug
in a failed attempt to bypass

the area's legendary
flood tunnels.

Because Shaft Two was
documented to lie 14 feet away

from the original Money Pit,

the team is hoping to use it
to pinpoint the exact location

of the fabled treasure vault.

The hole Alex picked
is to the southeast

of a proposed caisson.

-TERRY: It's a good position.
-Yeah.

-Where's it gonna end?
-(chuckling)

Whoa! Hold the phone!

NARRATOR:
One week ago,

while drilling
near this same area

at a depth of 108 feet,

the Oak Island team
found promising evidence

of a man-made flood tunnel
suspected

to feed seawater
into the original Money Pit.

We got to put down a big can
right here.

NARRATOR:
Believing they are closing in
on the fabled treasure shaft,

the team is now searching
for evidence to help them

pinpoint the best location
for a large-scale excavation.

RICK:
I think we're close
to the original workings.

I think we need
to continue to look

to all aspects of-of this trai--

information trail
that we're currently on.

That's exactly what we're doing
with these, with these clues.

I think we're doing everything
humanly possible

to close in on it,
and we're certainly very near

to the original Money Pit.

TERRY:
What have we got, Colton?

-18 and a half.
-18.5. Thank you.

-TERRY: Stick of wood.
-ALEX: You still got wood?

TERRY:
Wood is good.

What's this black darkness
going on here?

It's disturbed.

ALEX:
Hmm. What does that mean?

TERRY:
That could have come up
and out of Hedden

or Shaft Two.

It means that, you know,
people dug down into that.

-Right?
-Okay.

-We still got hope.
-CHARLES: You got that right.

NARRATOR:
Later that afternoon,

Rick, Marty, Craig,
and Billy Gerhardt

are continuing their effort

to fully expose the mysterious
paved stone area.

It is a goal
they are anxious to achieve,

as Hurricane Dorian
continues to make its way up

the Atlantic coast
toward Nova Scotia.

The hurricane
is bearing down on us.

You know,
we're watching it closely,

you know, through weather apps
and things.

But we got just
a little window of time

before that thing hits hard,
so we're gonna keep digging.

You're gonna start
from the far end?

BILLY: I'm gonna almost go
right straight,

and we'll dig a little trench
to join our sump

behind the paved-in area.

-Pull these all out
right through here.
-That's where I'll go.

-Yeah.
-Okay.

I'll get up with him
for the time being

'cause I can help him observe.

The paved areas is one of
the prime targets in the swamp,

and we hope to find out:

is it really a paved area,
first of all,

and is it man-made,
and what might be its function?

There may be two stories here.

May be the Money Pit mystery,
the Oak Island--

traditional Oak Island mystery,

and this paved area might have
something to do

with something
previously unknown.

MARTY:
All right, come on.
Let's go. Fire up!

Any water in that, Craig?
Or dry?

Dry.

RICK:
Can't be much deeper.

MARTY:
You want to jump down in there
to see how far it is?

You want to try
to go down there?

Sure.

MARTY:
It's right there, eh?

RICK:
This isn't exactly
"walk around" material.

MARTY:
Sorry, Rick.

RICK:
A lot of rock.

It's kind of...

-Flat?
-Yeah.

You can stand basically
on a level surface

once you get past that.

Definitely on the bottom.

RICK
You just,
you can't see anything.

But if you put your hand here,

you can feel stones.

Is it feeling like
what you're hoping?

Well, there's a lot
of stone down there.

-Yeah.
-You're definitely
on the bottom, though.

I think if we can get it close,
and then clear out an area.

RICK:
That is a lot of water
coming in there.

Yeah. That's what
we're just thinking.

It's getting deeper
as we're watching it.

How in the heck are we gonna be
able to actually look at that?

RICK:
I think you have to dig a ditch

and get all this water
to fall into the ditch.

Well, I just wondered about
bringing the other excavator

to try and dig into that pit.

And get this to go there?

-MARTY: Yeah.
-BILLY: Yeah.

MARTY:
Because the hurricane, you know,

that's gonna make this a mess.

CRAIG:
Yeah.

Well, we have
to do something, so...

MARTY:
All right. I'll go get that.

NARRATOR:
Although the team has done
extensive work

to drain the swamp, the thick
mud and vegetation that covers

the area is making it nearly
impossible to fully dry it out.

Because of this, the team
will need to dig a trench

alongside the mysterious
paved area

in order to siphon off the
water and muck obstructing it.

They will need to work
quickly if they want to expose

the structure before
Hurricane Dorian hits the area.

RICK:
I thought it would be possible
just to physically go in there

and shovel it off
or sweep it off,

but that's proving
not to be the case.

So we're gonna have to, uh,

think outside the box,
if you will,

and-and try to come up
with a way

to really get
a close look at it.

If you could just enlarge that
a little bit.

CRAIG:
That's flowing good
into here now.

See, there's just too much water
in there. That's all.

All you got to do now
is pump that down.

MARTY:
I think it's opened up.

It's just,
it's flowing back that way.

CRAIG:
I think we can just go ahead

and get the pump going.

RICK:
Okay, well, let's get after it.

ATOR:
As the team continues
to draw water away

from the mysterious paved area
in the swamp...

STEVE G.:
I'll grab the next one.

This is 98.

...Marty Lagina joins members
of the Oak Island team

at the Money Pit area
to check on the progress

of the drilling operation
at the end

of the Shaft Two tunnel.

Everyone knows that
they must work quickly,

as a powerful Category 5
hurricane is making its way

up the Atlantic coast
toward Oak Island.

A hurricane that,
depending on how hard it hits,

could destroy months
of progress,

if not shut down operations
altogether.

-Hey, Marty.
-Talk to me, guys.
What did we find?

-TERRY: That's at 74 feet.
-MARTY: Wow.

-That's a chunk of wood.
-We got straight,

-straight saw marks
on it, though.
-Seems to be straight saw.

-Well, straight is okay.
-Same as we saw in-in Shaft Two.

DOUG:
That's good news,

that it could be quite old.

MARTY:
How deep are we now?

-Uh, we're down to 104.
-DAVE: 104.

-MARTY: 104.
-TERRY: Yeah.

Is there one more laying there?

-Can we get that one?
-TERRY: Want to pull it in?
Okay.

STEVE G.:
I'll go grab it.

All right. Bring her down.

DOUG:
This is around 106.

TERRY:
That's bedded sediment.

-Oh! Whoa!
-We have some wood here.

-TERRY: Look at this.
-MARTY: How about that?

TERRY:
This is hand-cut.

This is cut with an ax.

-How can you tell?
-Look at this.
Look at this, right here.

Can you see the reflection
on the ax cut? You see that?

-MARTY: Yeah, I do.
-Looks like the saw...

-Looks a lot older
than the Hedden Shaft.
-Oh, wow, yeah.

-TERRY: That's very old.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Ax-cut wood?

Found at a depth of 106 feet

near the suspected end
of the Shaft Two tunnel?

Could it be part
of that structure?

Or could it actually be part
of the original Money Pit?

There's a cut
from this side as well.

So somebody's been
at this with an ax.

That's really interesting.

We haven't seen that
in any of the, uh, timbers

from any of our intersections
in Hedden or Shaft Two.

DOUG:
And we know Hedden
used a circular saw.

He had one on-site.

Any of this stuff that came out

when you knew
we were in the Hedden Shaft,

did any of it
look that dark and old?

TERRY:
No. The key thing is they're
relatively thin beams.

Hedden is very uniform
in six by six.

DOUG:
This being so competent

makes me think maybe
we're just skimming down

the outside of the potential
Money Pit shaft.

MARTY:
Wow.

It's the Money Pit!

Yeah. Everything's lining up
for this to be

the original Money Pit area.

MARTY:
That is quite remarkable.

DOUG:
I think we almost have
to certainly C-14 this.

Oh, absolutely.

NARRATOR:
For Marty Lagina

and the Oak Island team,
finding what could be

hand-cut wood from the original
Money Pit treasure shaft,

the location of which has been
lost for over a century,

would be nothing short
of a historic development.

One that makes them
both excited

but also cautious
until they can prove it.

MARTY:
This wood that doesn't look
like Shaft Two and doesn't look

like any of the more
modern shafts--

Hedden, uh, Chappell,
any of those--

you know, uh, we want to believe

that perhaps it's wood
from the original Money Pit.

And see if we can find out
what that is

'cause that could be
original works.

RICK:
Hopefully we can get
proper samples

and submit them
for scientific analysis

and come up
with a definitive date

because it could be original.
It's possible.

TERRY:
We're deeper than any shaft

or tunnel that we've hit
in that era to date.

Deeper than the Shaft Two
tunnel, deeper than Shaft Two.

DOUG:
This is good news.

MARTY:
Stay with it.
This is pretty cool.

NARRATOR:
As another day begins
on Oak Island,

Hurricane Dorian
continues to close in

and is now projected
to make landfall in one day.

ANTHONY FARNELL:
A hurricane warning
in effect for Halifax

all the way off
towards Cape Breton.

There's also a hurricane watch
for the rest of the province

with winds of 150 kilometers
per hour in gusts.

So the strongest winds
will be on the right side,

and the heaviest rain
on the left,

where up to 150 millimeters
of rain could fall.

That's the very latest
from Halifax.

NARRATOR:
As the core-drilling operation

in the Money Pit continues,

some 20 miles north
of Oak Island,

Alex Lagina and metal detection
expert Gary Drayton arrive

at the Ross Farm Museum,

located in the nearby town
of New Ross.

ALEX:
Here we are.

That's good. I love this place.

ALEX:
All right.

NARRATOR:
They have arranged

for blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge

to examine the cribbing spikes
found this year

at Smith's Cove, in hopes

of learning whether they may
have been used to build

the 18th century slipway,
or possibly,

during the construction
of a different

and much older structure.

ALEX:
Hey, Carmen.

How you doing?

Pretty good.
Brought you some more stuff.

We've been busy in Smith's Cove.

And we brought lots
of iron to show you.

And hopefully you'll give us
some good IDs on this.

Move this out for you?

See if we've got any hidden gems
in the box.

GARY:
These all came
out of the same area--

bottom of the slipway.

All same kind of size.

Yeah.

But these three, they've all got
that same curve to 'em.

That's unusual, isn't it?

-Right.
-GARY: Any idea on an age
just by eyeballing 'em?

Before?

Old.

OR:
At the Ross Farm Museum

in New Ross, Nova Scotia,

blacksmithing expert
Carmen Legge

has just given his assessment
that the cribbing spikes

recently discovered
at Smith's Cove

could date as far back
as the 17th century.

ALEX:
Hmm.

-Well, that's unusual, isn't it?
-So...

And they've been there
a long time.

That was in the bump-out.

That was from the bottom
of the slipway.

-Mm-hmm. A ways out.
-Yeah.

Saltwater environment,
which, you know,

the reason why
they're so badly corroded.

GARY:
Um, I think we was as deep

-as eight feet below sea level.
-ALEX: Mm-hmm.

Yep.

So, this is, like,
an older form of rebar?

-Makes sense.
-Yeah.

ALEX:
Every time we visit
Carmen Legge,

I come away
really, really impressed.

I never would've guessed
that these artifacts

could tell you so much.

He's looking at the striations
in the metal.

He's looking for wear points.

Looking at the little nuances
and saying, "Okay,

well, this was designed
this way for this purpose."

And these spikes
are pretty interesting.

It's definitely old.

There's always a chance it's
related to the initial deposit.

Well, I think what we really
need to do is keep looking.

We'll come back
if we find anything else.

-All right, mate.
-Thanks again, as always.

Thanks, mate. Cheers.

NARRATOR:
Later that day,

Rick Lagina and members of the
team continue to work swiftly

at Smith's Cove,

especially now
that Hurricane Dorian

is expected to hit Oak Island
in less than 24 hours.

FARNELL:
Dorian is accelerating.

It's also growing in size.

Tomorrow at this same time,
winds could be gusting

upwards of 150 kilometers
per hour.

So the latest, well,
this is a Category 1 hurricane,

but the, uh, National Hurricane
Center has it intensifying

as it approaches back up
to Category 2 strength.

And we are expecting
to deal with these winds,

but it's really
the surge and the waves

that are gonna be
a factor as well.

And you can see off, uh,
in the distance,

visibility's still great,
the system is far away,

but residents are preparing.

Billy!

We want to get a piece of dendro
off of it for dendro testing.

The spike that was found right
at the end of the slipway.

Well, any time
you find an artifact

next to a, what we know
is a human construct,

well, that's important.
It might tell a little story.

So we'll dendro-sample this,

and, uh, we should get
a really firm date.

The hope is we'll come
to an understanding

of the full extent
of the slipway

and why it might
have been constructed.

-Perfect!
-There you go.

NARRATOR:
Also known
as "tree ring dating,"

dendrochronology studies
the size and pattern

of growth rings which develop
during the course

of a tree's lifetime.

This data can be used
to determine not only how old

a piece of wood actually is,

but also when it was cut
for use in construction.

SCOTT:
Knock this off here
and then take

a slice off here.
That'll give us a good piece.

-The less damage the better.
-Okay.

RICK:
We've now all
come to believe that dendro

is a-a very precise tool...

...which may give us
very specific answers

to very specific questions.

And so,
having this piece of wood

and being able to send it off
is critically important

to coming to an understanding
as to the,

the date range that
the structure was built.

-It looks like a fair size.
-All you need is 50 rings.

You know, I mean, we have the
slipway we know already is 1769.

I would love to see this data
inconsistent with that.

That would mean
that this is obviously

-not contemporaneous with that.
-SCOTT: Yeah. Two separate...

Too many strange things
down in Smith's Cove,

and so we got to utilize
every science there is.

-Yeah, we need some answers.
-Dendro appears to be
one of the most accurate.

So, we'll see what happens.

I very much look forward
to the answers.

NARRATOR:
It is a new day on Oak Island.

Hurricane Dorian
is expected to make landfall

in a matter of hours.

But even though it has been
officially downgraded

to a Category 1, its 90-mile-
an-hour winds and heavy rain

are still capable
of causing major damage.

Now that things are closing up
and people are preparing,

are there evacuations
at this point?

FARNELL:
They are being asked to leave,

but it is not
a mandatory evacuation.

Basically, the worst of it
will be later this evening,

and they are expecting

widespread power outages
as well.

MARTY:
Hurricane Dorian,
it's headed right for us.

I mean,
directly for Oak Island.

That gives me a queasy,
sort of, I don't know,

sense of foreboding.

I've never been through
a hurricane before,

but I'm about to be.

NARRATOR:
In a race against time,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina
arrive at the swamp,

where their partner
Craig Tester,

along with surveyor
Steve Guptill

and heavy equipment operator
Billy Gerhardt,

have resumed efforts
to excavate

the recently drained
paved area.

-Hey, guys.
-Gentlemen.

STEVE G.:
Man, it's some calm
before the storm.

MARTY:
Isn't it something?

-This could be underwater again.
-CRAIG: Yeah. I know.

Do you see any evidence
of paving, Craig?

A lot of these rocks,
you step on 'em,

and they, they tip right--
they almost sink.

There's not flagstones.
I can tell already, right?

-There's not.
-No.

I mean, thi-this one's
pretty flat, but...

Um, it's not
what I was imagining

-the paved area would be.
-Exactly.

So there's an elevation change.

We started about two and a half
feet under sea level

on the east side,

and we move up about
a foot in total.

BILLY:
There's an edge.

It is linear a little bit
for sure.

Ah, yes.

What kind of day would it be
without trekking around

in the fetid swamp?

So, what Tony was feeling
were these.

CRAIG:
Potentially, yep.

And they are right
at the same level.

CRAIG:
Also, I think, like here,
we started digging

and in two seconds
you don't know

-what you're looking at.
It just fills in too fast.
-MARTY: With water.

CRAIG:
Yeah. So,

there's a lot of muck that's got
to be cleared out by hand

-at some point in time.
-Yeah.

I mean, cleaning this off
is easy to say,

but in two days
we don't even know

if we can dig here again
for a long time.

RICK:
I agree. There's
a huge storm coming,

and it's gonna cause
significant problems here.

MARTY:
Anything can happen

when a giant storm
is bearing down on us.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Although the team

was hoping to fully uncover
the mysterious stone-paved area

before the hurricane
hit the island,

they are now out of time.

Even at a Category 1,
Hurricane Dorian

could still cause
significant damage

and jeopardize what remains

of this year's
search operation.

What do we need to do
to prepare, Rick?

All the gear needs to be
put in areas

that trees won't crush them.

I'll deal with the logistics
on the island,

and you have to think
about the, the center and...

But you want to pick up
all the plywood.

You don't want it floating
all over the hill.

-RICK: All the plywood has to...
-It'll go airborne, too.

RICK:
Exactly.

Anything that can become a sail

-has to be put away
or tied down.
-All right.

We're wasting what little time
we have left.

Okay. Get after it.

(thunder rumbling)

(wind whistling)

FARNELL:
The full force of Hurricane
Dorian now being felt here

in downtown Halifax.

Winds are whipping upwards

of a hundred kilometers
per hour,

and they are bringing down
entire large trees,

littering the streets,

and that's only gonna go up

as the full force is felt
over the next few hours.

That is undercut there.

There's no road under here.

You see that, right?

-There's no road under here.
-MARTY: How far, though?

-At least to here.
-MARTY: Oh, yeah.

We got to let this die down
and mark all this.

But nobody should
come here, right.

I find kind of a...

foreboding.

-(thunder crashes)
-I mean, I've never been

a believer in the curse
or anything,

but how can you help but feel

that there's something weird
about that?

After all the stories
on this island,

and the curse, and this
and that. And then

here comes the storm
right on time. Amazing.

There are some strange things
that happen on this island;

I'm not gonna say there aren't.

But we have things in front
of us that we need to do

because if we don't,

it could be catastrophic,
it really could.

JESSE THOMAS:
By mid-afternoon, high tide
saw strong storm surges

pounding the Halifax harbor
and rocking ships at the dock.

Late in the afternoon,
a construction crane collapsed

onto an unfinished
building downtown,

a clear example of the danger
with this kind of wind.

(thunder crashes)

(wind whistling)

MARTY:
It's coming right across here.

It's getting worse.
We're done.

It is hard to believe
that just yesterday evening,

the eye, the center of Dorian,
was directly overhead.

Since then,
the sky has cleared out.

The sun has been shining all
day, and the full context

of the damage
that Dorian caused

is, uh, finally being realized
here in Halifax.

(wind whistling)

NARRATOR:
Two days after Hurricane Dorian
battered

the eastern coast
of Nova Scotia

with winds
of nearly 100 miles per hour,

Rick Lagina and project manager
Scott Barlow

return to Oak Island
to assess the damage.

Of particular concern
is how the storm

may have affected the team's
ongoing search operations,

especially with regard
to the swamp.

RICK:
We didn't get the worst,
but we certainly got hammered.

SCOTT:
Yeah. The force of nature
is nothing to be reckoned with.

RICK:
Yeah.

The road here is in
really, really bad shape.

And we do need to stake this...

-Yeah.
-...and figure out exactly

what the footprint needs to be.

I think we might as well
stop here and start staking.

Let's get out there
before the tide comes in.

-I think there are
stakes in the back.
-SCOTT: I'll grab them.

Let's start staking right here.

We don't need to go that far,

because all we really have to do

is recreate what we once had.

It looks like the shoulder was

-that ledge line, right?
-Yeah.

Really what happened was,

this stone that was here
wasn't high enough.

Yep.
Waves just chewed it apart.

NARRATOR:
Hurricane Dorian's powerful
winds and storm surges

have washed away more than
two feet of surface area

from the causeway that connects
Oak Island to the mainland.

It is now too dangerous
for any heavy equipment

to be safely transported
onto the island.

-The causeway took
a pretty good beating.
-Oh, yeah.

Uh, it, it needs repair,
without a doubt it needs repair.

-It's...
-Unsafe at this point.

Yeah. Had that storm gone on
another couple hours,

I think it would have,
it would've made it impassable.

Yeah, we might've lost it.

MARTY:
Yeah, we might've lost it.

RICK:
I think that's plenty, right?

SCOTT:
Oh, yes.

RICK:
Well, we have a plan.

Just got to implement it.

Wow. You take stock of what
the weekend might have been

and what it has turned into.

You know, there's good news
and bad news.

-Not, not a whole lot
of good news. (chuckles)
-(chuckling): No.

RICK:
We got somewhat lucky

because there was concern

that the weather was coming in
from the north.

Yeah.

(Rick sighs)

RICK:
Wow.

That's not good.

Let's go see what's happening.

(clears throat)

-Bill.
-Morning.

-RICK: This is underwater.
-BILLY: Exactly.

RICK:
We've got water up to the road
in the swamp.

-That's bad.
-Yep.

NARRATOR:
Finding the Oak Island swamp
completely flooded with water,

while not surprising,
presents a frustrating setback;

one that will take
precious days to overcome.

For today, you know, we're gonna
reconfigure these hoses.

Get that swamp down
as fast as possible.

So in the meantime,
what do you want us to tackle?

The trees that are
across the road?

RICK:
I think some of the trees,

and there's some
of that cleanup on the road,

and if you can get
those things done,

and we'll get that swamp
drained down.

-Yep.
-All right?

-Very good.
-Okay, thanks.

RICK:
The hurricane has been
a huge disruption.

Smith's Cove did not suffer
any damage per se,

but the swamp is full of water.

It's gonna take at least a week
to drain it,

get it back to the point
where we can actually

access the areas in the back.

But I will never give up, never,
believing in Oak Island.

I want to be certain
that the search continues

until answers
are absolutely known.

-I'll start this one.
-(pump running)

RICK:
There she goes.

NARRATOR:
For the Oak Island team,

a week that began
with promising new discoveries

has ended with yet another
frustrating setback.

But regardless of the obstacles
placed in their path,

Rick, Marty, Craig, and
the other members of the team

will remain undaunted.

Theirs is a true fellowship

based on a collective
determination

to solve
a centuries-old mystery.

And as with
every such fellowship,

nothing will succeed
in stopping them,

especially when
they are convinced

they are closer than ever

to finding the truth
about what happened

on an obscure island
off the coast of Nova Scotia

more than 200 years ago.

And whether a vast vault
filled with priceless treasure

lies right beneath their feet.

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

JACK:
Whatever this is,
it's been here a while.

-GARY: Ooh!
-It's an old ax head.

GARY:
This ax could be a weapon.

That sample came out
to be 1741.

Whoa. What the hell
does that fit with?

DOUG:
The raids on
Fortress Louisbourg.

Oh, Rick, look at this one.

RICK:
The drain system looks like
flood tunnel or box drains.

IAN:
Whoa. We're uncovering
something here

that people haven't seen
for hundreds of years.

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