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Previously on The Curse of Oak Island.

There it is. Is this the spot where they died?

Several generations risked life and limb and died looking for something here on

Oak Island. Here we are, borehole 10X. My brother and I want to see just what

is down there.

There's something here. Look at the films we took.

That could be the top of the tunnel.

We need to try and bring up all the stuff that's down in that cavity.

Wait. That's metal, Rick. Inside a rock. Very peculiar.

There's more and more evidence of man-made formations underground.

All right, guys. This is Peter Amundsen. I found the treasure map leading to Oak

Island. It is concealed in code in the manuscripts of William Shakespeare.

And it also tells you what the treasure is.

You believe that the menorah from the Temple of Solomon could be buried on Oak

Island? Yes.

In the bottom of that swamp.

I'm actually getting multiple signals.

This is the most sophisticated equipment that's ever been on this island.

Wow, this could be it. This could be the find.

Oh. What is it? This could be something big.

Whoa. What the hell is that? Well, it's copper.

It's a Spanish merivadi, probably from the 1600s. Unfortunately, the date is

obscured, but possibly predates the money pit by at least 150 years.

That's the first real evidence I've held in my hand since I've been here almost

48 years.

This is the most valuable thing that's ever been found on Oak Island. Yes!

There is a mysterious island in the North Atlantic, where for more than 200

years, people have been looking for treasure.

It began in 1795 when three young men discovered a strange indentation in the

soil, which when excavated revealed bits of gold chain, a small piece

of paper with writing on it, even a large stone slab with curious codes and

symbols carved into it.

Dumped the money pit.

The strange hole was eventually excavated by treasure hunters to a depth

of 90 feet when one of them hit a booby trap which flooded the shaft with

seawater.

What was down there?

Nobody knows.

But this much is certain.

The island becomes an obsession for all of those who try and solve the mystery.

six men have already lost their lives in the process and according to

legend one more will have to die before the treasure can be found

Well, we got a lot riding on this little coin. Let's take a look on the

microscope.

So there's the coin. This is a typical Spanish Maravilli.

They were typical coins that were minted for almost 300 years.

Since discovering an ancient Spanish coin in the swamp last summer, brothers

Rick and Marty Lagina.

are convinced they are on the right track to solving the mystery of Oak

Island.

Now, along with their friend and business partner Craig Tester, they have

traveled to Tampa, Florida to visit the offices of Global Marine Exploration, a

company that specializes in salvaging artifacts from shipwrecks.

So here in the center of the coin is an eight, which was for eight Maravides.

And a Maravide was worth what? It's a penny.

Just like 100 pennies makes a dollar to us. But a penny? You mean you could buy

a piece of bubble gum with it?

Although the Laginas already knew that the object they found was a 17th century

Spanish coin, they have come to Global Marine to find out if it had really been

buried there for nearly four centuries, or if it had been planted more recently.

What about that band coming up off the top?

In the cracks, there's this white sediment from wherever the coin sat.

Jason might be able to scrape it out of there and we could analyze it.

Yeah, do what you need to do for the information.

We're thinking, what is this coin going to tell us?

I'm positive the coin is valid in the sense that that's an old coin. I don't

believe it's a counterfeit or anything like that.

The question is, when was it put there?

One thing that we can do now is, if I zoom in really close on this...

See the green and the white all together right there? To me, that looks like

oxidation.

Now I can compare this with some other coins we found, which I know this is

oxidation. You can see how that kind of looks.

Very similar.

It's very similar.

Clearly, this leads me to believe that this thing did spend several hundred

years in the swamp.

For years, Treasure hunters have believed that the islands off the coast

of Nova Scotia were a haven for Spanish and Portuguese pirates.

Finding a 17th century Spanish coin might verify that not only had there

been human activity on Oak Island before 1795, but that the numerous legends and

stories about pirate gold being buried on the island might actually be true.

Okay, so what exactly are we doing?

Well, right now I'm going to pour in here really mild citric acid.

We just need a little bit.

And then we're just going to drop it in, and this will slowly dissolve the

oxidation off that coin.

So in about an hour, we should know something. Great.

Cleaning the coin, that is probably the most exciting thing, the chance of

finding out when was that coin made.

We need to know the date.

All right.

We've been in here for about an hour and a half. It looks pretty good to me. It's

way different. Yes.

Let's pull it out of here and see what we got.

We'll give her a little brush.

Let's go ahead and take a peek.

There is some sort of a scroll around that.

Outer edge.

Is there anything else on that? Let's look and see the other side of this

thing.

There is some sort of a date.

Tell us what it says.

It's really hard to make out.

1652. Pretty sure?

I'm pretty sure.

1652?

More than 100 years before three area teenagers found evidence of possible

buried treasure on Oak Island?

But was the coin left behind by one of the people who buried the treasure?

Or could it have been dropped by someone who came to the island looking for it?

Here's today's really good news. It's 1652, and it is exhibiting the

characteristics of something that was lost in a swamp. And you're sure of

that? I would agree with that, yes. It was more corroded than you would expect

from a land find.

A brackish swamp makes sense. A brackish swamp makes sense. You don't know what

it is?

Remember Charles' statement of a 1,000-piece puzzle with 400 pieces

missing? Yeah. Now there's only 399.

Rick, Marty, and Craig are now convinced that the coin found in the Oak Island

swamp had been lying there, undisturbed, for nearly 400 years.

But still, another nagging question remains.

Zero start. Ready? Yep.

The test they had conducted using the Lorenz DeepMax X6 revealed that a large

amount of non-ferrous, or precious metal, like gold and silver, might be

buried beneath the place Norwegian researcher Peter Amundsen called the

Mercy Point.

Ready to dive?

But when diver Tony Sampson explored that area of the swamp, no evidence of

non-ferrous metal could be found.

This is crazy. You get a hit, it goes away, and you come up with nothing.

How's that possible?

Eager to find out why, the team travels some 100 miles northeast to the

headquarters of Kellyco Metal Detectors in Winter Springs, Florida, the place

where they acquired the DeepMax X6.

So, Stu.

I have a question, because last year we kind of had this sort of mystery hit

thing going on, right? We hired this diver, he's getting these hits, and he

comes up with nothing.

Has that ever happened to you? Yes, yeah.

It's not unusual.

If objects, for example, are in the ground or in the water, they start

developing a matrix. It's almost as if the...

The metal down there bleeds, and if you have different particles around,

eventually the matrix builds and builds. It becomes larger. So you get a big hit

out of it. Right.

According to Kellyco CEO Stu Auerbach,

non-ferrous metal objects, when placed in water over an extended period of

time, can begin to deteriorate and form a type of metal cloud underwater,

resulting in false readings.

that suggest the presence of something even larger.

Well, you go and you start digging and the first thing that happens, you

disturb the soil and it breaks the entire contact. So now your diver broke

it. Well, actually, I find that encouraging because we thought it was

just a glitch, a phantom, something.

I believe if that's happening, there's probably metal down there. You're going

to run that area again?

Yes, I think that we've got a real good opportunity to go up if we can get out

on the ice and you can walk over the swamp.

Well, look, let's get up there and do it. I mean, we appreciate your help,

your willingness to have another go at this. Yes, sir.

By returning to the now frozen swamp in winter.

The team hopes they can once again use the DeepMax X6 to gather more accurate

data.

Data which may confirm that the legends of an incredible treasure being buried

on Oak Island are true.

It is winter on Oak Island.

A time when the island is determined to keep its secrets hidden beneath layers

of ice and snow.

Okay, let's get the sled.

Should we see how it slides?

Yeah.

Should work.

This thing sets right up on the bed.

One week after their meeting with Kelly Co.

in Florida, Rick and Marty Lagina have returned to Oak Island to get more

accurate scans of the now frozen swamp.

Big brother's going to sit back here and make sure everything stays together,

right? Guaranteed, on my honor.

For Rick, finding treasure on Oak Island would fulfill a lifelong dream.

one the retired postal worker has had since he first read about the island in

1965, when he was just 11 years old.

For Marty, a successful businessman and engineer in the energy industry, it

would prove that the countless hours and millions of dollars he and the team have

invested so far have not been in vain.

Feast your eyes.

Isn't that lovely?

Over where you have land like that, we can get in there with CTX 3030 right up

along the bank.

I think that would be well worth going out and looking at.

Kelly co-representative Dave Spencer has come to Oak Island from Florida with the

latest in metal detecting equipment.

I like the look of that ridge.

That's a great vantage point.

Really looking forward to metal detecting in there, for sure.

And with him are fellow treasure hunters Gary Drayton and the father and son

team, Bob and Robert Leonard.

I think the first priority is getting the swamp cleaned out so we can actually

do some detecting with a VLF machine on that spit of land over there with trees.

Being out here in the swamp brings back the memories of finding the coin.

And that changes everything.

I was getting pretty close to fed up last summer until we found that. Now I'm

ready to keep going.

Plus, it's nice to have the whole team here now. The sort of fellowship of the

dig.

The group that's out here now, I'm glad that they're here.

Everybody brings in a little piece of help.

I've got, you know, a brush hog, which is designed to do the work.

And here's Dave Blankenship.

He's got a lawn tractor, for God's sakes, in the swamp, over the ice,

cutting down vegetation.

As the son of veteran treasure hunter Dan Blankenship, Dave Blankenship is

considered a key member of the Oak Island team.

He has been working on the island with his father for nearly 50 years and knows

the island like the back of his hand.

While they're putting the coil together, we'll go out and start marking these

grids.

By gridding and scanning the frozen swamp, the team hopes they will get more

precise data than they collected last summer.

Trying to scan through layers of muck while walking on slippery plywood had

made the task nearly impossible.

Once the data is collected, it can be analyzed in a three-dimensional map, if

all goes well.

The map should indicate exactly where items of interest and possibly treasure

could lie hidden.

I want to get four people in the corner and lift this thing up. Need to do the

ground balancing on that.

Although the team is using the DeepMax X6, the same high-tech metal detector

they used last summer, KellyCo's Dave Spencer has now equipped it with a

larger frame coil and mounted it to a sled.

As the team pulls the coil along the ice, it sends a powerful magnetic pulse

into the earth, enabling it to find metal objects up to 40 feet deep

underground.

Get me some data.

I'm not getting anything.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

The numbers aren't coming up.

We've got nothing over there, and I mean nothing.

We've started running the DeepMax X6 equipment. Ready?

We're not getting anything. Go.

I mean, I'm watching the graph. It's kind of disappointing.

You know, will I turn around? I don't know.

So, results?

Nothing spectacular.

Let's do A2.

And just keep on going. We'll do A1, A2, A3, A4.

But that's why we're running the whole swamp, because I believe that there's

something in this swamp, and this equipment is going to confirm whether

I'm correct or I'm not.

There are those who believe what lies deep beneath the Oak Island surface may

not be just one treasure, but several.

During the Elizabethan era, Oak Island was thought to be rich with deposits of

gold ore.

But after a British mining expedition returned with 1,100 tons of iron pyrite

sulfide, or fool's gold, the island's extensive maze of underground mine

shafts was quickly shut down.

Or was it?

According to this theory, a handful of the mine's original investors believed

the abandoned tunnels might serve another, possibly more strategic

purpose.

It would become a virtually impenetrable vault for the world's most priceless

treasures.

Treasures that would include everything from the golden menorah of Solomon's

Temple to the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, and even the

lost manuscripts of William Shakespeare.

And now it's at complete zero.

Zero? Yep.

What the hell's going on?

Now we're getting a little gear, just a tiny little bit.

Another bar, two more bars.

Big brother is relentless over there.

There he is, no hat, no gloves.

It's freezing cold out here, but he's intense, and I think that's a good

thing.

A little bit, a little bit more.

That's as high as it's gotten so far.

Let's see. Look at that.

Look at it. It just keeps climbing.

Big spike here.

Big spike.

Still spiking.

And that's exactly the way it was last year.

What's going on then?

See for yourself.

It went to over 90.

And these graphs in here, if it hits like 60% of the potential graph, you're

in maybe a ferrous material.

And if it goes beyond 60 up to 80, 90, you're in highly conductive metals,

gold, silver.

Finally, the team has found signs of something buried beneath the ice.

But what?

Gold? Silver?

precious historical artifacts?

This is exactly the way it should be reading compared to last year's data.

Rick, did it repeat?

Yes. Keep going.

Rick was over the moon because he's getting big numbers out there in the

swamp, which is what we were hoping for, but I'm not sure that means anything

until it's processed through the computer.

I'm excited, but I'm cautious about getting too excited. It confirms

everything I believed last year.

that that data was good and this data confirms it, I'm happy as I can be.

Let's go back and run it. We'll find out where we stand.

And then we dig.

And then we dig.

After concluding another day's work, Marty, Rick, and the Oak Island team

bring Kellyco's Dave Spencer to the home of Dan Blankenship in order to share

with him the results of today's scanning.

Hey, somebody at the door?

Daniel! Oh, hey, Marty.

How you doing? How you doing, man?

Good to see you. It's good to see you, too.

I got a whole crew.

Hey, Jack.

At 91 years old, Dan Blankenship enjoys the status of a living legend.

He has spent nearly 50 years looking for treasure here and remains an important

source of information to Rick Lagina and the entire Oak Island team.

All right, Mr. Spencer. Yeah, I'm just getting the data where I can access it.

So, we were running this data all day. We had some interesting hits that we

were wanting to look at. We got some pretty deep indications that I want to

go over. Can you differentiate between ferrous and non-ferrous? Absolutely.

We want non-ferrous. That's great. We want them little gold bars about the

size of this table.

Let's have a look here. No foreplay. Let's get going. Okay, hang on.

This anomaly is of significance.

The two smokestacks, the fact that they're darker, does that mean that

you've got higher readings in them?

No. All this is doing is giving you a reference of depth and then whether it's

ferrous or non-ferrous. What you're looking for is the color at the tip.

That is the buried object.

And red is a large non-ferrous object. You definitely have something here with

the reds.

The one that's of interest is this non-ferrous target here.

It looks like it's about 15 to 20 feet long, and it's like about three feet

wide, close to the size of this table.

Dude. Seriously? You asked me to run the data. I'm not getting paid to explain

it.

But wait a second. So what would that be?

Bob had some thoughts. He was thinking it could have been a shipwreck.

And if they wrecked a ship on an island, they would abandon the ship, take

treasure off the ship and bury it, and then put indicators that it's someplace

else. with the intent of coming back to pick up treasure.

A shipwreck?

Buried in the island swamp?

There are some who speculate that Oak Island was at one time two separate

islands, but were joined together in order to hide something of great size.

Could a pirate horde contained in a hidden shipwreck really be the answer to

this 200-year-old mystery?

It's been well documented that the waters surrounding Oak Island were

frequented by pirates and privateers from Spain, Portugal, England, and

Scotland. One notorious privateer, Captain William Kidd, even claimed to

have hidden a fortune somewhere east of Boston.

before his execution in 1701 for piracy.

At this stage of the game, what would you do if you were us, David?

I would be attempting to drill down.

Really?

Why not?

Because we can't get in there and dig it.

We're in a friggin' swamp.

This is my experience in oil and gas.

When you get an anomaly like that that lines up with the way you're running

stuff, you know, I get concerned it's fake.

Okay, keep going.

It picked up somebody's metal shoe or something.

You're suspicious?

I'm suspicious.

No, you're objective.

You want to see more data. But I'm telling you right here... we have an

indication that we have a hard target.

It's absolute. There's a target there. Yeah, but to get it unspent, it's a hell

of a problem.

You're thinking of pursuing this?

Of course we'd pursue it, Dan.

If I believed with 100% certainty that there's a non-ferrous object, I'm going

to find out what it is.

All right, look, it's late.

It's been a really long day. We've got more data to get.

We got more analyzing to do. Then we make a decision.

We got a lot of work. Let's go. Let's call it a day, guys.

OK.

Rick and Marty Lagina have made major progress with their winter exploration.

They are eager to return in the spring and find out once and for all if there

really is a mysterious vault buried deep beneath the Oak Island swamp.

But the island.

has been frustrating treasure hunters for centuries and isn't likely to give

up its secrets without a fight.

Spring has come to Oak Island.

But though the island's surface has thawed, its reception to anyone trying

to unlock its secrets is anything but warm.

Is this it? Are we going to do it this summer, Rick? Is it going to get done

this summer? If there's answers there, we're going to get them, and that's

that. I don't care if we've got to wade through 30 feet of muck.

The data the Laginas collected last winter has led them to one conclusion.

They must once again dig in the swamp, but it won't be easy.

The permitting process should be fairly simple. We know exactly what we need to

do. First, they must secure permits from the government in Nova Scotia.

A process which could take several weeks or months. We're going to get the

permits. It's looking good. And once the permits are secured, they must find a

way to drain out the water from the target areas.

Okay, Oak Island, you've been winning so far, but the Lagina boys and their team

are back.

We have a plan? We have a plan. Okay.

Go get dirty. Yeah.

Rub-a-dub-dub.

Four men in a tub.

While waiting for the necessary permits, Marty Lagina has called in Tony Sampson,

a professional diver, to see if there is any additional information that can be

gathered in the swamp during a conventional underwater exploration.

One, two, three.

We want to verify that these hits we're getting are real. And then... We want to

excavate, but we need more permits to excavate in the swamp. We'd probably

need to drain it again. So if we can locate some objects with a diver by

going underwater, we want to do that first.

Come on, Tony.

Find something.

Okay.

While Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, and Tony Sampson prepare to explore the

swamp, Rick Lagina and the rest of the Oak Island team have arranged to meet at

the home of Dave Blankenship.

They are trying to develop a method of draining just enough swamp water from

their target areas so they can excavate.

Hey, guys, what's going on now?

Try and pick up one of those things and put it in the truck.

OK. We ultimately might need two of them, one stacked on top of each other.

In order to drain the Oak Island swamp, environmental regulations require that

rather than being poured into the nearby ocean, the swamp water must be diverted

to another area on the other side of the island.

We got a ton of water up in the upper part. We're not draining it at all. But

when they attempted it last year, Rick and Marty found that the swamp kept

refilling almost as fast as they could drain it. But how?

Could it have been caused by Oak Island's vast network of underground

booby traps?

If so, how will the Laginas get around such an ingeniously designed obstacle?

Last year, we had some insight into how difficult the digging was in the swamp.

So David actually brought up the idea that his father had constructed wooden

caissons, and he thought that they might be used perfectly in the swamp.

The wooden caissons would work like tall, waterproof shafts.

which, when placed over a target area, could be drained.

If successful, this would allow the treasure hunters to dig in the swamp

without having to drain the entire area.

There's eye hooks in here, so let's hook the two eye hooks and pick it up then

like that, eh?

All together?

All right, here it comes.

The idea behind the caisson is we have targets in the swamp based on the metal

detecting we've done. Okay, have a go at it. And there's no way to dig in the

swamp without isolating the area that we want to dig in.

Get out of there.

Always stay on the back side. The cool thing about this is we're using caissons

that Dan and David Blanketship both built years ago.

Grab that other small one. Okay.

We used their equipment, things they built with their own hands.

Okay.

It doesn't get any better than that. Plus, it's good karma, and we could use

some good karma on this island.

Come on, Tony.

Come up with it.

As the caissons make their way to the swamp, Marty's team has begun a

preliminary investigation near the area known as the Mercy Point, the same area

of the swamp where the 17th century Spanish coin was found last summer.

He's going deep. I wonder if he's got something.

It is also the area where the Deepmax X6 indicated there could be large deposits

of non-ferrous or perhaps precious metals.

Anything, Tony?

Some weird shape under the mud.

I can't quite tell what it is.

I'm going to feel around first to see if I can find anything metallic around it.

Come on, Tony. Come up with something for us.

Alright, he's on to something there.

What the hell is that?

Alright, he's on to something there.

Diver Tony Sampson has just indicated that he has found something interesting

at the bottom of the Oak Island swamp.

But what could it be?

Another Spanish coin?

Evidence of a buried pirate ship?

Or could it be something of even greater significance?

What the hell is that?

It's a big tree stump.

Well, that's weird.

What's that doing out in the middle of nowhere?

Tony finds this big, massive piece of wood that looks like a piece of a stump.

That could be significant because I don't know how a tree could grow

underwater if this is a natural swamp and has been here a long time.

For years, researchers have speculated that Oak Island's strange triangle

-shaped swamp was man-made and possibly created to conceal a vast underground

treasure vault.

The evidence of an oak tree stump at the bottom of the swamp could be a

significant discovery, as oak trees cannot grow in water.

Could this be proof that the claims about the swamp being man-made are true?

I can swim it over to the shore if you want it, Craig.

Yeah, we want it.

Let's get that tested for age, and we'll see what happens.

Although Tony Sampson's dive of the swamp did not yield evidence of precious

metals or priceless artifacts, the discovery of what might be an oak tree

stump at the bottom of the swamp has added fuel to Rick and Marty's efforts

to explore the area.

I see one right here.

Right there.

You can go up on both right here.

They are now more eager than ever to see if the caissons they obtained from Dan

and Dave Blankenship will help them find out, once and for all, if the stories

and legends about a secret treasure vault are true.

Finally, the caissons are carefully set to rest near the edge of the swamp.

But before they can be used, Rick and Marty must wait for the necessary

permits. It is a slow and at times frustrating process.

We all done, buddy, or what? No, now we have to use them.

That's the next step.

That's the next step. There it is out there.

At the end of another long day, Rick, Marty and the team adjourned what they

affectionately call the war room.

Lorenz is indicating that there are four significant anomalies that we should

dig. And that's from the deep metal detector?

Yes, VX6.

You know, I'm a little reluctant to think we're going to dig all over in the

swamp. Tony got nothing in here, Rick, nothing. I mean, Tony did a nice job.

But we have to look at that. We have to.

Well, here's the deal, Rick. I'm kind of sick of the swamp. I mean, how long have

we been slogging around in this swamp? Almost that square lawn. Not that long.

What do you mean, not that long? Well, in the context of the discovery

processes... We've not been in here hardly at all. How long were you in?

10X? Years. Years, yeah.

We always agreed, all of us, we always agreed, let's put the swamp to bed. All

right, what does put it to bed mean, Rick? What does it mean?

It means exploring them to the point where they're explainable. This isn't

going anywhere. It's silly.

You know,

we have a difference of opinion.

Okay.

In any sibling situation, there's always rivalry.

So typically, you know, it's going to be a little push and tug kind of affair to

decide who gets to do what.

Well, let's say we're going to have a go at something probably.

Let's just say that for right now. Not for sure, but probably.

Let me ask you a question. Big brother, can I at least do this? Can I put an X

through these two like that?

Let's just put an X through this whole thing. Okay.

But then the GPR and the four Lorenz targets. That's what I want to see

before I'm willing to say, okay, we're done.

All right. We'll give it a try if we can all agree that there's something worth

digging.

Yeah.

When I was young and I was certain about something, I was sure I was correct. Now

that I'm older, I realize I could be wrong.

and you have to listen to other people.

And so I look around the table, and I've got infinite respect for this character

here, and he says, no, we're not done. And basically, I say, okay, I'm going to

listen. Because if it was just my decision, I would say, no, we're done

with the swamp. I've had enough stinky, nasty, mosquito-ridden... That's the

reason why... Yeah, I don't want to go in that swamp anymore.

All right, well, look, let's have a look. But before we go to do that, on

the possibility that we will dig, we don't have any permits, right?

The permitting process is taking place as we speak. Is this a permit to drain

or a permit to dig?

Both. Both. You know, as soon as they are willing to approve it, that's where

it sits right now. Right, but the point is, we're not going to be digging until

we get those permits, and that could be a war. Absolutely not.

All right, okay. So that sort of concludes the swamp.

Hey, guys.

Peter Peter are you doing you won't believe this

They

want

to take away whatever you find on the island what What are you talking about?

That's today's paper. Yep The bill they want to pass.

Who's they?

MLA. What's an MLA? Member of the Legislative Assembly. Member of the

Legislative Assembly.

Yeah, okay.

Would establish a heritage research permit and scrap the existing treasure

hunting paperwork.

Can I see this?

If the bill becomes law, it means discoveries such as coins would become

the property of the province.

The province would call dibs on some discoveries made at Oak Island, cutting

open the pockets of treasure hunters.

Oh, my God.

News that pending legislation could shut down Rick and Marty's efforts on Oak

Island comes as a shock to everyone on the team, especially since they spent

years securing all the necessary archaeological studies and permits

required by law.

We feel we've been good partners with the province.

We came to the island and to the discovery process with an intent to

leave a positive footprint, so it's disappointing, to say the least.

Passed in 2010, the Oak Island Treasure Act currently gives the Laginas and

their partners special permission to access and keep a percentage of any

treasure they find buried on their property, provided that all historical

artifacts are turned over to the government.

Although it might take years for the proposed legislation, if passed, to take

effect, the new law could make any serious efforts to dig on Oak Island and

thus solve the 200-year-old mystery prohibitively expensive.

So this adds a whole other wrinkle to everything. This could also impact your

permits.

That I would say definitely.

So... In the meantime, let's go out of the swamp and let's go and do a little

exploration at the money pit.

Yes. Yep.

Yep.

Yes.

Marty Lagina's willingness to temporarily shift the team's efforts

from the swamp to the money pit represents a huge milestone in the

search for treasure on Oak Island.

After it was located in 1795, the money pit became the focus of all treasure

hunting activity on the island.

In 1804, at a depth of 90 feet, a large stone slab with strange

hieroglyphic markings was discovered.

Using a simple deciphering method, it was translated to read, Forty feet

below, two million pounds are buried.

But when the stone was removed from its resting place, the shaft quickly flooded

with seawater, thwarting the efforts of treasure hunters ever since.

To locate and re-excavate the money pit will cost the Oak Island team millions

of hard-earned dollars.

It will be both time-consuming and extremely dangerous.

Look, I've always been skeptical as to whether we should dig up the money pit.

But on Oak Island, you need to explore every avenue out here.

And the money pit has never been properly excavated.

Plus, it has been a childhood dream of the both of us.

It singularly started the obsession of Oak Island.

Because there's so much mystery about this place. It's that big unknown.

That's what we're chasing.

For more than two centuries, hundreds of men and women have come to Oak Island in

an effort to solve the 200 year old mystery.

And now it is Rick and Marty Lagina, armed with modern equipment and a broad

range of technical know-how, who are determined to succeed.

it won't be easy the money pit has devoured the fortunes of many would-be

treasure hunters it also comes with an infamous

curse that seven will have to die before the mystery

can be solved this season

on the curse of oak island

The money pit. I want to see what's down there. It's time to dig.

What you're looking for is another shaft in the swamp.

There's going to be more danger. We're about to dive 10x.

You saying you're caught.

Abort the dive. I cannot hear you.

We're going to run a side scan sonar. Those are boxes. There is a chamber

there. Yes, with man-made objects.

Is this top of the vault?

Looks like we might have been right.