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Somewhere around here.

Yeah, there it is.

Is this the spot where they died?

Well, that's why I was asking Dan.

You know, the shaft that the Restalls died in. Yeah.

You know where that is?

Oh, there may be some pictures from 1965 because there's news covers.

In February 2013, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina traveled from Michigan

to an island in the North Atlantic in an attempt to solve a 200

-year-old mystery.

Several generations of people have spent an enormous amount of money and risked

life and limb and died looking for something here on Oak Island.

There's been a constant history of people doing that.

I mean, it seems like each person or group that gets involved just doesn't

give up until they either die or they go bankrupt.

There's the famous Oak Island legend.

Six people have died, then a seventh has to die.

In search of the treasure. In search of the treasure, and that's when all will

be revealed.

When I was 11 years old, I read the story of Oak Island, and I was hooked.

brought it home and read it to my brother. Yeah, he shows it to me, and of

course, you know, had all the things people like treasure, mystery, booby

traps.

Had all the stuff that interests a kid.

Adventure. Yeah, it's your big brother talking to you, too, you know, and he

knows. He's, look what he's found, you know. Wow, this is going to be great.

200 years ago.

Some kids find an interesting spot up on Oak Island offshore in Nova Scotia.

They dig and they find some stones laid in, they find some planks, things that

would have to be man-made. So they're sure they're onto something.

It was the end of the piracy era, right? So everybody's thinking buried treasure.

No matter how deep they get, they keep finding more planks that appear to be

concealing something.

They give up at about 20 feet deep because they're digging by hand.

And then there's a succession of people come back, and they keep digging, and

they find more platforms every 10 feet, and they find more odd stuff. A bit of

chain, all kinds of wood that shouldn't be there.

Down about 90 feet, they find a stone that's inscribed with strange

engravings.

Finally, someone else comes in, and they find that the shaft was actually booby

-trapped, that there's a flood tunnel to the ocean.

And all of a sudden, the water floods it.

So then different people keep trying and trying, mining engineers, business

people. President Franklin Roosevelt was involved.

John Wayne was involved.

Everyone wanted to get down to the bottom of this so-called money pit.

As each successive treasure seeker goes through the years, they kept finding

things that kept them going.

Each time...

It appears like there's more and more evidence of man-made formations

underground.

One of the participants noticed this little pea-sized little brown ball, and

he unfurled it, and it turned out to be the little piece of parchment with an

inscribed VI on it.

And we're leaving out coconut fiber. There's been massive amounts of coconut

fiber. I mean, what the hell's that doing on Oak Island?

We wanted to know what really happened.

There's all kinds of theories.

Certain people say that it's Knights Templar treasure.

Another theory is that it's something from the Spanish plundering of the New

World.

And then there's some people who credibly believe that it's the lost

manuscripts of Shakespeare.

But the real core of the Oak Island story is who, why, when, where, how.

That's what really got me.

That's for me. I was more interested in the treasure.

I woke up this morning thinking, this is kind of a big task.

Yeah.

I'm a little daunted this morning.

Today, if we find something man-made at depth that we can definitively date

prior to, give me a number, 1790 then. Go with 1800.

All right, 1800.

then we've got something nobody else has got yet.

There's the rig.

Can we actually get into the second riser pipe from the same direction?

Kind of a trial and error thing to try to see which one's going to work the

best for the scenario, right?

Personally, for me, this is the opportunity of literally a lifetime.

You know, Dan really wants to go back up there.

I worked for the Postal Service in the U.S.

and just retired.

Maybe do that hillside by the Drayton Shop.

Hopefully now I can devote full-time to the study of the Oak Island mysteries.

I think as long as we drill anywhere in this vicinity here, I think we're fine.

I have been in the energy business for 35 years.

Let's get to it.

I started a company and drilled a lot of oil and gas.

In oil and gas, you're looking for giant geologic formations underground.

So we think we might be able to adapt some of those techniques to help us

here.

Yeah, we should be doing this in August and July where we're not freezing our

f***ing ass off.

I know.

It was a bright idea with this anyway.

Well, you got to do it when you got to do it, you know.

All right, what do we got?

It's just cuttings. I don't see anything.

You got another one? Yeah.

How much money do we have invested in this? We have millions of dollars

invested in this. Which we will recoup at some point.

Rick, he's a hopeless romantic.

I mean, my brother is driven by ideals.

There's right and there's wrong.

Honor without question.

He would have made the ultimate Roman centurion.

He would have gone in and done what he had to do. How deep?

155. We disagree less about course of action and more about likelihood of what

the outcome is.

This gets tedious, you know, looking through drill cuttings.

Skepticism on my brother's part plays into it. You always need a foil to

bounce something off of. There's some anhydride in there right there.

No, you're not to bedrock yet. From a purely business standpoint, I'm not sure

this is a good investment.

By the time he drives that bar down, we're going to be about 170.

But it's not just an economic investment.

I'm motivated by curiosity. I'm motivated by the hunt.

I'm motivated by doing something with my brother that he has always dreamed about

doing. It's about family. It's about love. And I love my brother. I mean, I

wouldn't want anybody in this with me other than him.

165. Okay.

And if at some point we're not successful, we know we tried together.

Whoa, whoa, here's something.

Something, right?

Whoa, whoa. Hey.

That's significant man.

Is there more of that?

If we can date this to before 1800, we've got our proof.

Hey, guys.

We're almost there.

Oak Island.

Although the test results on the pottery they found were inconclusive, Rick and

Marty Lagina have returned to Oak Island, determined to find out if the

tales of buried treasure are true.

Where are we going? 10X, right? 10X. 10X. Let's go.

Six years ago, they bought a controlling interest in the corporation that owns

most of Oak Island.

We can go down that road now, right? We have access there, yes.

Since then, they have spent thousands of hours doing research, securing

permissions, and making plans to conduct the most extensive and scientifically

-based exploration of the island in more than 200 years.

What's the deal, Rick? We're either going to come back with our shields held

in triumph or dead on them, right?

isn't that your centurion analogy oh no that's spartan that's spartan yes

okay

here we are fabled borehole 10x

10x

located just 180 feet away from the site of the original money pit It was

dug by hand 40 years ago to a depth of 235 feet by island resident

Dan Blankenship.

Dan hoped he could avoid the booby traps that flooded the money pit in the early

1800s.

With the help of his son Dave and another local treasure hunter, Dan

Henske, Dan lined the eight-foot-wide hole with steel cut from old railroad

tankers.

But at a depth of 90 feet one of the metal casings collapsed and nearly

crushed Dan to death His son David rescued him in the nick of time

Eventually 10x flooded too and Dan later abandoned it when he ran out

of money But not before he took this amazing video of what he saw down there

When he examined it closely dan was convinced he could identify wooden beams

antique tools tunnels and what appeared to be treasure

chests on another dive he thought he saw the remains of a dead body

remarkably preserved in the frigid waters that lie at the bottom of the 235

foot hole could that evidence still be down there

Some 30 years later... Ah,

here comes David. What's up, David? Speed racer.

Dave Blankenship has lived and worked on or near Oak Island for more than 40

years. He came up here back in the 1970s to help his father Dan dig 10X.

He never left.

Nice ride.

Gonna do a little four-wheeling today, David? Yeah, right.

All right, let's get to work.

David's a great guy. He had an accident, and he's disabled on one side somewhat.

But he still can outwork any three guys because David has basically done

physical work his whole life. You know, work to him means you get out there and

start shoveling, you get out there and start welding.

Okay, grab those heavy ones.

Come on, Rick.

Are you excited?

Yeah. Let's go. Come on. Get it over here.

This has got to be the monitor.

Craig Tester is my longtime business partner. We went to engineering school

together. We both learned the oil business independently.

Here are the instructions.

Got back together, formed a company, and he brought along his son, Jack. He's

going to help us with the brute work out on the island.

My brother and I want to see if the stories about strange caverns and

tunnels are true. So the first thing we're going to do is send this robotic

camera down 10X and see just what the heck is down there. This is the camera,

I believe.

Oh, yeah.

Look at that.

Saying hello to you.

Hi, Rick.

Hi, Rick. I'm going to find treasure for you.

Oh, that's a beauty, isn't it? The camera is the Spectrum 90.

A high-def robotic camera that has been tested to withstand depths of 1,000

feet. This head must spin off of here for panning.

It will allow Rick and Marty to pan, tilt, zoom, and enlarge images to as

much as 40 times their size.

Watch out for that.

All right, we ready?

Go find us something.

His name is Probert the Probe. Come on, baby, go find it.

Are you recording? Start. Okay.

Yep, we're about to hit.

It's right about to touch the water.

There's a very strong connection between borehole 10X and the money pit.

When we pump air down one, bubbles come up in the other.

But also, those are the only two holes that have salt water on top of fresh

water. That doesn't usually happen, which means there has to be some kind of

extraordinary way that it got there.

Splashdown.

We're at 90 feet. What are you seeing?

It's kind of dirty.

Any mermaids? No mermaids.

Let's go to bottom.

We're at 181.

Bottom's got to be pretty doggone close.

Oh, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Rick, why don't you come look at this?

What's up?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop!

Stop just yeah, hold it there's something here

What

did Rick Marty and their fellow treasure hunters find at the bottom of four hole

10x Red pan it around could it be one of the keys they need to help them solve

the 200 year old mystery of Oak Island So let's pull up three feet and do a

spin around.

Evidence of man-made structures, antique tools, treasure chests.

Whatever it is, it's exciting enough for Rick and Marty to share with the man who

dug 10X almost 40 years ago, Dan Blankenship.

Hopefully he's as excited as we are.

We might have to... Oh, no, I see him now.

Hey. Daniel.

Marty and Rick.

How you doing, sir?

Good. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you, always. Good to be

seen, right?

Yeah, well, after fashion. Yeah.

Hey, we've got some footage from 10X that we want you to look at. I'd like to

bring it over to this meeting room we got. It's pretty exciting stuff. Yeah,

I'd very much like to see it.

Okay. Great, Dan.

To Rick and Marty Lagina, Dan is something of a living legend.

He's the type of man.

Other men call tough as nails.

Dan's 90 years old now.

But in his younger days, he was known to be able to clear out an entire bar with

just his bare fists.

20 years ago, he looked just like that.

Incredible.

That's him in the dive suit? That's Dan?

Yeah, that's the suit he wore when he dove in 10X. That's 10X right there? You

wouldn't catch me in that dive suit going down that hole.

Brave stuff.

Hey, Daniel.

You ready to go? Ready as I'll ever be. Perfect.

Let's go.

Rick, Marty, and Dan head over to Dave Blankenship's house, where the Laginas

have set up what they call the War Room.

Here, the team plan strategy, as well as reviewing and analyzing the results of

each day's progress.

Right now, the subject.

is the material they shot at the bottom of 10X. Here's where I think we go. A

place Dan Blankenship hasn't laid eyes on since he last climbed down the 235

-foot hole more than 30 years ago.

Okay. I think we have something we can talk about here.

What we ought to do is go ahead and look at the films we took, and then I'd love

Dan's comments.

All right? How's that sound?

Sounds good.

Play it, Rick.

We'll watch it right now.

There you go.

All right, we're going down.

When Dan was watching it, you could see him actually reinvest himself in the

process, reconnecting with 40 years ago.

I honestly think that that could be the top of what I say is a tunnel there.

I've spent six years with Dan, and I've watched time take its toll, the passing

of his wife. But in that moment, you can see him just kind of lean forward in the

chair, and he was back in 10X again.

What depth is that?

There's that damn anchor or something there.

Back in the 70s, Dan, seeing him, what he to this day believes were treasure

chests down there.

So he's standing on this rock. He's convinced that 30 feet below him are

chests. He can't get them.

I mean, that'd be maddening.

What's that? That.

Wait till you see the top of it. The top of it is what's really weird.

It looks like it goes into the roof. We're going to follow it up.

Could the strange vertical object at the bottom of 10X be an ancient support

beam, one left there by the builders of the alleged treasure tunnels?

What the hell happened? What the heck was that?

What's going on, Jack?

I don't know. We're not getting any video.

It didn't record.

NFG.

Wait a sec. Whoa, whoa. Everybody, whoa. What's going on here?

Hold on. What's going on here? What happened to our screen?

They're not opening. They're not playing. They're 0-0-0-0 time.

Low-tech man in a high-tech world.

You're not going to be able to say anything, eh, Marty?

Oh, man.

All of a sudden, oof.

Like many things about Oak Island, it's there, and then it's gone.

Is it the Oak Island curse?

I don't know. It showed we had an hour's worth of recording left when we quit.

In other words, you have another role.

Yes, but we can't find it.

Yeah,

we had an Oak Island.

Yeah, Oak Island.

Where's my definitive proof?

I want proof.

the footage is replaceable time and money are not he and his brother have to

keep going where do you want it right there right here yeah right here their

ultimate goal is to re-excavate the original money pit you hop out and take

a look i'll show you where we want it but because of all the previous

excavations and blasting that have been done over the years the cost of doing

that is estimated to be in the millions of dollars.

And Marty isn't going to come up with that kind of money unless they

find proof.

Something substantial that means that the legends about Oak Island are true.

We want to get down to the bottom of borehole 10X.

So I'm convinced we need to pump water out of there and try and bring up with

the water all the stuff that's down in that cavity.

Are we cutting a hole on the side of this thing? We're going to use this as a

sedimentation tank.

If Dan Blankenship's reports of antique tools and chests are correct, Marty and

Rick are going to try and force evidence of them to the surface with the aid of

an old oil drilling technique.

The process goes like this.

The driller drills down into the cavity that we know is below 10x.

Then he runs some casing down into it too.

Then he has a very high-velocity air pump.

He'll pump high-pressure air down into those casings, which will then come back

up, bringing with the air water and all the bits of things that are down there

in that cavity.

Those things go into the sediment tank, settles there.

The bits and pieces go to the bottom. Water goes off down into the ocean.

Good with that?

There's two quests here, right? The big quest for the treasure and my quest to

be convinced that there's really something here worth looking for.

Why do people think there's treasure or something of great value buried deep

below the surface of Oak Island?

Back in the 1800s, shortly after a large stone slab was discovered in the money

pit at a depth of 90 feet, the strange markings on the stone were translated.

using a simple deciphering code.

It read, But some now

believe the code used was more complex and gave secret instructions for

shutting off the water to the booby-trapped flood tunnels.

Although the stone mysteriously disappeared in 1919 and no pictures or

rubbings of it have ever been found, it was all the evidence treasure hunters

needed to keep digging nearly 200 years later you sure this isn't going to be a

safety issue here no it's not huh i'm positive if you get electrocuted bare

wire and it means absolutely nothing why don't we tape that and i only been

welding for about 20 years so it doesn't bother me any if you want to tape it

tape it i don't care one way or the other tape nope so we ain't going to

tape it if you get hurt i won't feel a thing That's my one piece of advice

today.

Whose

idea

is this?

Ours. This is what you're going to use when you pump out.

Yes. Dan Blankenship and Rick Lagina share a special bond.

they are united in their determination to solve this 200-year-old mystery.

Incredibly, both men were inspired by the same article about Oak Island that

was printed in the Reader's Digest in 1965.

Dan was a successful building contractor living in Florida.

Rick was an 11-year-old kid growing up in northern Michigan.

But that's all it took to fuel their imaginations.

And the fire hasn't gone out since.

You just want to get one shot.

And we're hoping it'll be successful.

You don't do things half-assed on Oak Island. Exactly.

Exactly. You get screwed every time.

You're not going to try and close up that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Take a break for a minute.

Well, at least we're trying to get this thing finished.

Mom would be happy getting it over with. She wanted it done.

Yes, she did. She put in a lot of time on the island.

Yeah. Well, hopefully we can finish it now.

I don't have a reputation for giving up.

All right, everything's in place. Let's get it done.

You're hoping against hope that nothing goes wrong, and then in the water, you

hear the whoosh.

And you think, okay, we're five minutes from finally getting answers.

It's going great.

Never say that on Oak Island. Oh, yeah. It's going okay.

We ain't done nothing yet.

Nothing, look.

No water, nothing.

Hit the air, let's go!

Marty, Rick, and their Oak Island partners have begun pumping ocean water

and debris out of 10X.

If successful, they will collect objects that lie at the bottom of the 235-foot

shaft.

But will it be pirate gold?

Treasures from the days of the Knights Templar?

Or will they find the human remains Dan Blankenship insists he saw when he was

last down there 30 years ago?

That's gonna be the first one to take a drink.

We've got a little rig here, and we're trying to use an airlift to get some of

the cuttings and silt and stuff out of there.

We're gonna use that old dumpster that we're rigging up as a settling tank to

make sure that when this airlift occurs, anything solid coming out of there falls

to the bottom before the water drains up down into the ocean.

Holy Jesus, that's ripe.

It's like offshore drilling because we're drilling in 140 feet of water and

40 feet of air. It's almost trickier than offshore drilling.

Taste it. You can see it's salt water.

It's salt water.

I can just do a little bit on your tongue. You don't have to drink a half

gallon of it.

That's definitely ocean water.

There's seawater that floods 10X and floods the Money Pit. And that's very

strange geologically because when you drill wells on Oak Island, you find

fresh water.

Tell you what.

It's a pretty dirty water.

So those are the only two holes that have salt water. All the other wells

around it that are drilled to a similar depth have fresh water in them. And

that's very suspicious.

Salt water?

From the ocean?

Could the stories of elaborate booby traps using ocean water to protect the

treasure vaults be true?

Know what?

I don't think we're down far enough. Huh?

I don't think we're down far enough.

There's nothing coming up. Rick, we're only just starting. We're not down far

enough. Patience. Relax.

Just going to see if the water works.

You mean if it's draining out?

Yeah. Boy, I don't know if we're that high yet. Yeah, we're that far away.

We only put a two-inch hole in the sediment catcher because we wanted the

water to drain slower than it was coming in so that there'd be some settling

time.

Unfortunately, I think we're too slow, and we could reach a point where we

might actually need to increase our ability to eject water out of that thing

faster. Woo!

Yeah, good time to come over.

It just blew.

As far as the sediment tank, we knew there was going to be timing issues in

terms of the volumes of water.

So I went down to Smith's Cove to check the drain hose to see that it was

operating properly.

Everything worked perfectly, just we had to maneuver it a little bit. But so far,

so good.

Smith's Cove.

A stretch of rocky beach located just about 500 feet from the original money

pit.

It doesn't look like much, except for one strange thing.

Smith's Cove is man-made.

But why?

One widely held theory is that Smith's Cove is where five stone box drains,

like fingers on a hand, were built centuries ago.

drains that supplied ocean water to the booby traps that flooded the money pit,

and later also flooded 10X.

Who built them?

No one knows.

What the hell?

What the hell's that?

I come to the end of the beach, and I look up, and there's this... I don't

know any other way to describe it. It looked like an elephant tusk coming out

of the water.

Oh!

Yeah, Rick.

I'm down at Smith's Cove, and it's low tide, and there's real curiosities down

here. Give Charles a call real quick. Dan Henske, too.

I don't see if I can find him. Good. Be right down. Be right there. Yep.

Dan! Charles!

Can you come here a sec?

Rick just says he's found something. It's ultra low tide.

I called in Charles Barkhouse, who's very versed on the history, and Dan

Henske, who worked on the island for 30 years, who has Dan's helper.

See that?

You ever see that?

No. That tusk-like looking thing.

Amazing how fast the tide comes in. That was above water a minute ago? Yeah.

Look at this. Give it a tug, big brother.

I've never seen this before.

And many times I've been in Smithscola, I've never seen that. I've been here a

lot, too, and I've never seen it.

A wooden tusk sticking straight out of the water?

But how did it get here?

Is it a natural formation, a marker, or could it be a booby trap?

meant to puncture the hull of any boats that came ashore looking to steal oak

island's mysterious bounty according to historical records the waters near oak

island were frequently visited in the fifteen and sixteen hundreds by

portuguese spanish english and scottish explorers during their trips to the new

world it was also known to have been a haven for pirates like captain kidd as

late as the 18th century.

Could it be that some of them hid a percentage of their plunder on the

island?

It's just one theory among many on an island that knows how to keep its

secrets. This thing rises out of the water one week after we've been here

like that.

The island has given us the finger.

What's going on here? I mean, that is just bizarre.

It was like the island was taunting us.

Here's a piece of what might be here.

Explain it for yourselves.

What's it trying to tell us?

Well, we may have to do some diving to see what else is out there.

After finding the strange wooden tusk sticking out of the water at Smith's

Cove, Marty Lagina has decided to explore the waters in the area and has

invited his 27-year-old son, Alex, an experienced diver to join him so hey

what's going on what's what are we doing well we're going to be diving on some

interesting stuff i mean stuff that was found by a side scan sonar and never

never checked out how's rick doing yeah rick is doing great in the sense that

he's on oak island and he's digging at the mystery but i think he's sort of

frustrated by the rate of progress so far but we're going to keep working at

this till we find that definitive proof or the treasure itself that's the plan

There it is.

Wow, look at that. Okay.

Here's where you're going to spend the rest of your summer.

Hopefully not the rest of my life.

Okay, here we are. That's Jordan's rig.

Hey, Jack.

Hey, Jack. Hi, Alex. It's been a while. How are you doing?

Alex, you made it. Good to see you.

Alex,

David Blankenship. Hey, David. I'm Alex. Nice to meet you.

What's going on up here?

We're evacuating 10X.

We're rigged up to airlift out of the cavity.

We've got a sediment tank back there.

A discharge chute down to the Smith skull.

It's just a time thing now, you know. We pump the rest of the day.

We check for the sediment level.

Eventually, we'll pump that down, and then we've got a metal detector. We'll

metal detect it first, and then we're just going to have to slowly work our

way through the sediment pile.

And now with you here, we can get on a boat tomorrow and find out what's really

going on at Smith's Cove.

That's what we're going to start with? Yeah.

Good to see you.

All right, Skipper.

Good.

Okay, here's the deal. We're going to look at Oak Island from the water. I

don't know if you've ever seen it from the water, have you?

Uh, you know what? I don't think I have. I haven't seen it from the water either.

First time for everything.

See that?

Whose house is that?

Fred Nolan.

Who is that?

Fred's a treasure hunter, same as Dan, but they've had an ongoing contentious

relationship over 48 years.

Ask David.

They don't believe each other. And they don't like each other. Because they're

trying to beat each other to the treasure.

So they're maybe even trying to mislead each other.

That laugh speaks volumes.

Yeah.

In 1981, Oak Island treasure hunter Fred Nolan noticed five large cone-shaped

boulders on his Oak Island property.

after measuring the distance between them he discovered they formed a

perfectly symmetrical cross seven hundred and twenty by eight hundred and

sixty-seven feet even more astonishing at the intersection of the arms of the

cross nolan unearthed a sixth large boulder with a human face carved into it

although digging beneath the other boulders produced nothing conclusive the

cross itself is thought to be a clue one of many that suggest that what lies

buried on oak island might very well be a priceless religious artifact

so we'll move up the beach

alex where's that map here okay these are real

locations that are very interesting which you guys can dive on

See this? This square-shaped object right here. That's what I think we

should dive on. But there are all kinds of strange anomalies on here.

There it is, Smith's Cove.

Smith's Cove, where everything started.

Let's have a look at it.

That's where the so-called box drains were. And the flood tunnel over to the

money pit, if it exists or existed, originated there.

That area, Dan believes that maybe, just maybe, there's still remnants of the

artificial beach. One of the five fingers of the drain might still be

partially intact.

To prove that the water that flooded the money pit was coming from the ocean, in

1898, treasure hunter Frederick Blair...

poured red dye down into the 90-foot deep hole, and then pumped water into

it. To his astonishment, the dye began to seep out into the sea at Smith's

Cove. But then, he noticed that it was also seeping out at several other points

on the south shore of the island.

It proved that there was not one, but at least two separate booby-trapped flood

tunnels preventing access to whatever lies at the bottom of the shaft.

But who built them, and why, are just two of the many unanswered questions

about Oak Island.

Well, we should dive there then, right?

Yep, that's the place to look.

Yeah, Alex and I should be able to dive there and see if we can see where the

water comes in that floods 10X and the money pit.

Okay, let's move on. Skipper, let's go.

Turn the boat around.

Let's head back.

Will the future dive off Smith's Cove?

help marty rick and their team crack the mystery of oak island or will it only

open the door to more clues and more questions one thing is certain

the answers lie below far far below

the short trip around oak

island has convinced rick and marty that the key to getting to the bottom of 10X,

and eventually the money pit, is to trace the source of the seawater that

fuels the flood tunnels.

If they can stop the water, they will have cleared a path for a full-scale

excavation.

But it isn't going to be easy.

Come in.

Daniel. Dan. How are you fellas making out? Well, we just want to give you an

update. The airlift in 10X, you know, we got the pipe down in there, and we're

down in the cavity, and we're jetting it with air, and it's working. We're

bringing up lots of stuff, bits and pieces of stuff.

You got to clean it out, you know. I think so. But in the meantime, my son

Alex is here.

We're going to go ahead and get some dive gear. We're going to dive off of

Smith's Cove. I think it's a good idea.

And we're going to finally, this year, hopefully...

Within a week or two, we're going to definitively answer the question, what's

in the bottom of 10X?

That's good. As long as it's progress, Rick, you know.

You can't quit, can you?

Well, you can call it an obsession.

I mean, after all, I've been here for 48 years, and if I can't admit to it being

an obsession, then I'm not being very honest, am I?

Well, let's do it.

Let's go back up there. We're not giving up.

You know that, right?

Right. And you better be around to see it.

Thank you, Dan. I'm going to try and be. You will be.

See you.

Take care.

You know, it occurs to me that the common denominator on Oak Island is,

ready? You ready for it? Yeah, I'm ready.

Obsession. And I think you, big brother, have a little bit of it set in already.

What do you think?

That's the common denominator.

I don't think that's the right word. But do I want to finish this for us?

Yes, I do. And I'm going to give it everything I've got. And if that's

obsession, then I'm obsessed.

Obsession is the fuel that powers Oak Island.

It's what latches on to those who get close to the mystery and then never lets

go.

Why can't we get a faster flow rate? Because, honestly, I don't want a faster

flow rate. I want it to settle. It's kind of like pump and dump.

You know, pump, let it settle a little.

It's working great. It comes down in 10 minutes.

Kill the air for a minute!

Hey!

Dig some out of there. Let's see what we got.

This will settle out overnight. There's a lot in there? There's a lot in there.

Good. You know, best case scenario, we find gold, we find some man-made

artifact that tells us we're on target, this is the plan, it's working, par

excellence.

Well, I mean, we're going to have to go over this with a fine-tooth comb. That's

what this is all about.

It's exciting.

Lord knows what you're going to find.

Well, I don't see a lot, but I mean, the bottom line is we're getting a lot of

stuff. Wait.

Now that.

That is very peculiar.

That's metal, Rick.

Yeah, I know.

Inside a rock, too.

Could it be a clue?

The first real sign of proof that there is treasure buried on Oak Island?

Perhaps.

But anyone who knows Oak Island knows the island doesn't share its secrets

willingly or without a price.

Oak Island changes lives.

It can also destroy them.

And the questions that remain unanswered can even make a strong man go crazy.

What lies below?

Who put it there?

Should it be dug up?

Or is it best left alone?