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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

Hey, I found something besides iron.

What's this?

Someone used this to bury extremely high-value cargo.

This will be the first remote-operated vehicle in the cavern.

We have expectations that we're going to see man-made objects.

We're in the cavern now.

There's something.

Pretty square.

It's pretty square to me.

What is that? If they're wooden, that's irrefutable proof. That changes

everything.

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 bits of gold chain, a stone slab with strange symbols

carved into it, even a 17th century Spanish coin.

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.

As a new day begins on Oak Island, Marty and Rick Lagina turn their attention to

this year's all-important goal, to find a diver experienced enough and brave

enough to get to the bottom of borehole 10X.

Hey, Brad.

Hey, guys.

To this end, they, along with dive expert John Tapper, have arranged to

meet with certified saturation diver Brad Stabenow.

So, Brad, I understand you have a lot of experience with some of the things we

need, low-vis, deep water, cold water. Yeah, I've done a lot of deep stuff,

confined space diving.

This is confined space. Yeah, this is confined space.

Have you seen this before?

Not this close.

Brad Stabenow has worked as a professional salvage diver in over 20

countries. He is also used to diving.

utilizing the Trimix breathing system, which combines oxygen with nitrogen and

helium to ensure a diver does not experience the kind of narcotic effects

associated with diving at extreme depths.

So you've done saturation diving, huh? Yep. How long are you down for at a

given time?

Long as Rome was 74 days.

All right.

74 days? Down to pressure, yep. Wow.

That's incredible.

Brad Stabenow, he's been to 800 feet. We're only asking him to do a 160 foot

dive. He has years of experience at those depths, far exceeding those

depths. So what's the status of what we have here right now?

Right now you have this size casing and concrete that goes all the way down to

181 feet. At the bottom you've got a 27 inch pipe.

Then you go down 47 feet to the top of a cavern that we know is there. Okay. And

then there are at least three targets in there that we would like a human being

to tell us what they are.

One is a post.

One is potentially a chest. And the third, believe it or not, possibly a

body. But you can leave that alone.

But you've got a cavity that's roughly 10 foot by 8 foot, sort of elliptical,

but irregular.

Okay. And the other thing is that there are two tunnels.

Or we think are two tunnels. You mean down below the casing? In the cavern. In

the cavern.

And those would need to be explored as well.

Okay. Before we do this dive, we're going to have an ROV come out to check

out whatever can be done remotely.

And we'll have that information before you would go in there. Okay.

Clearly there is a risk of a fatal event in diving that deep in a skinny hole

with no visibility.

So we have to reduce that to an acceptable risk or we're not going to do

it. Okay, so do you want to do this?

Yeah, I'll do it. Okay.

Doesn't bother you? The 27th doesn't bother you?

No.

That's pretty straight. There's your answer.

All right.

Did he drop from heaven? I don't know, but he's perfect.

All right, gentlemen. All right. Cheers.

All right. Thanks.

We will get it together. Thanks, guys.

An important decision has been made.

Brad Stabenow will attempt the dangerous dive to the bottom of 10X, but not

before Marty and Rick.

bring in an ROV, or remote operated vehicle, to get solid images of the 27

-inch hole and the mysterious cavern below.

While Rick and Marty arrange for an ROV team to come up to explore 10X,

their partner, Craig Tester, along with his son, Drake, and stepson, Jack

Begley, are searching for clues, and possibly treasure, near the center of

the island on the area known as Lot 6.

Hey guys, let's get our equipment and we'll head out onto Lot 6 and see if

we can actually find something.

When the 140 acres of Oak Island were offered as parcels for sale by the

British Crown in 1762, it was broken up into 32 four-acre lots.

For more than two centuries, the fabled treasure sites have been thought to

exist on Lot 18, Lot 19, and on Lot 20, in addition to the swamp

and the area known as Smith's Cove.

But today, Craig, Jack, and Drake have decided to explore one of the lots that

has never been associated with the Oak Island mystery.

Lot 6.

Where the clearing is here, you can see more of an opening.

That is the border between Lot 5 and Lot 6.

Lot 6 is also of interest to the team for another very intriguing reason.

Was this Samuel Ball's property?

Yeah.

Samuel Ball was born into slavery in South Carolina in 1764.

just ten years before the start of the American Revolution.

After fighting on the side of the British forces, he won his freedom

before emigrating to Nova Scotia in the late 1700s.

In 1786, Ball purchased four acres of land on Oak Island for eight pounds

sterling, a huge amount for what was considered nothing more than rocky farm

and grazing land.

what makes samuel ball story of particular interest to treasure hunters

is that at the time of his death in eighteen forty five the former slave

turned cabbage farmer had purchased several more acres of land both on the

mainland and oak island including lot six in fact

samuel ball became one of the richest men in nova scotia but how

Could he have found part of the Oak Island treasure some 200 years ago?

Okay, let's get after it.

Just looking for anything old, whether it's a structure, rocks, anything.

We're hoping to find gold and something very old, but anything that takes us the

next step forward towards finding the treasure would be great.

I got something here.

Okay, let's dig her up.

It's down like in one of the ruts, Craig.

Underneath the tree? Yeah.

It seems like it's grown like into the tree.

Just watch out. Just make sure you're not behind me.

There we go.

Wow.

That thing is huge.

Look at that.

What's on the tip of it?

I don't know. The head of it, then the other end.

The other end?

Yeah.

Well, it looks like a hexagon.

Yeah, it does.

Do you think it's a stake, or do you think it used to be some sort of bolt?

It looks like a mistake, I think.

The iron nail, obviously significant, but is it 50 years old or is it 250

years old?

Should I keep moving?

Let's move back in that way a little bit, clear it out.

Okay.

Suddenly, Jack gets another hit on his metal detector, and this time it's

indicating the presence of a non-ferrous or possibly precious metal.

such as silver or gold.

Hey, I found something besides iron.

Good. Coming.

All right.

Okay.

Yeah, this is a real good signal now.

It's not conductive.

Right about here.

How deep?

Six inches.

Okay.

It's all roots.

Yeah.

There we go.

Yeah, there you go.

Right there.

Get it.

What is it?

What is it?

I don't know what that is.

On lot six, near the center of Oak Island, Craig Tester, his son Drake,

and his stepson Jack Begley have made an exciting discovery.

Maybe a piece of...

Chest hinge?

Handle? Maybe. Yeah.

Some sort of handle, it looks like. Yeah, it is a handle. Good call.

Okay, let's keep checking that area a little bit.

If Craig and his sons have found an object that was once owned by Samuel

Ball, it could be that there are others in the vicinity.

If so...

perhaps they will provide important information about the former american

slave who became one of oak island's largest and wealthiest property owners

what's for your game what's it's that what is this

i don't know the other side to that

maybe possibly yeah all right look at

that craig

It's definitely curved. You know, it's a little bit ornate. Nothing super fancy,

but some sort of handle buckle, something along that line.

Okay, let's hit it with the metal detector.

It's hard to tell exactly what we found, but to me, it looked old.

So we're hoping we find something here that tells us the who and the when, but

we don't know.

Hey, Craig? Yep.

Come here.

Getting a hit?

I just haven't seen this before. It looks a lot like rock walls though.

Got a boulder here, boulder there, and it looks like it's kind of going off

right along the lot line.

Is there a stone wall that's supposed to be here?

Not that I know of. What's this one?

Look at how sharp this corner is on this one.

That's like cut, Craig.

Dig it up a bit. Yeah.

It's a straight edge on this other side, too.

I'm not finding an end to it yet.

I just thought it was a small rock to start with.

What's up with triangular rocks around here? A triangle-shaped rock?

Could it be a natural formation?

Or might it be a clue?

One of many triangle-shaped formations that have been found throughout the

island.

Watch out.

Anything?

No, obviously a huge difference between this side and the other side.

They're completely flat on one side and then the opposite side. I'd say this is

not natural.

According to many Oak Island theorists, the presence of pyramid-shaped markings

and stones is significant.

Some even suggest...

that they offer proof of a direct connection between Oak Island and

Freemasons, who often use the symbol of a triangle to represent the great

pyramids of Egypt, as well as a symbol for the great architect of the universe.

Is it possible that Craig and his sons have located a clue that will help them

solve the Oak Island mystery?

Should we just stop where we are now, fill back in the hole? I think we ought

to get back, show them what we found.

All right.

Before the end of what has been a long and productive day, Rick and Marty

Lagina have one large task to perform.

For safety reasons, they need to fill in the 20-foot deep hole they recently dug

in order to find the head and shaft.

So we know exactly where the head and shaft is, which should help us orient.

as we further explore where the original money pit was.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, the recent discovery of the Hedden shaft,

the searcher shaft dug by treasure hunter Gilbert Hedden in 1937, has

become one of the team's biggest accomplishments so far.

Looks like it's right here.

There's a beam.

That, Rick, is amazing.

We have found it.

that is clearly the exterior wall of the old head and shaft because the head and

shaft was known to be in close proximity to the original oak island money pit

finding it confirmed what rick and marty discovered last summer when drilling

core samples in the area drilling down to a depth of an estimated 145

feet they found evidence of a wooden box covered in what looked to be a kind of

concrete. That's definitely cement.

Upon closer examination, the box seemed to match the description of a seven-foot

-tall so-called treasure vault, first reported by treasure hunter William

Chappell in 1897.

Concrete and then wood, that's the description.

That's what they found in the top of the vault.

Finding both the head and shaft and evidence of the mysterious wooden vault

confirmed that Rick and Marty have found the exact location of the money pit, a

location which, because of excessive and careless digging during prior

excavations, had been lost for more than 100 years.

All right, let's fill it back in. Coming at you, big boy.

To properly excavate the money pit, will mean digging a hole that will need to be

approximately 40 feet wide and 150 feet deep and with equipment much

larger than what the team currently has at their disposal.

They will also need to shore it up in such a way as to prevent the kind of

flooding and cave-ins that have plagued treasure hunters on the island for more

than 200 years.

So we got this filled back in. Yeah. But we still need to explore this bugger.

This went into a cavity covered by a cement-like material.

So we need to image it.

Yeah. Brian has to come back, and Brian Abbott, the sonar guy. Yeah, absolutely.

Rick and Marty are hoping a sonar scan of the money pit, similar to the one

Brian Abbott did of 10X earlier this year, will verify once and for all that

there really is a treasure vault.

buried some 145 feet below.

We need to get that down there. I mean, look, I got high hopes.

The only way it'll be worth digging here to 145 feet is if we see something.

Otherwise, we're not doing it.

As the sun sets on Oak Island, Rick Lagina joins up with Dave Blankenship,

Jack Begley.

oak island historian charles barkhouse and veteran treasure hunter dan henske

at the nearby folksel tavern okay guys i don't know about you but i'm glad to be

here right now it's a long day you know jack you guys actually did some work on

lot six right yeah i mean as you know we've been running some pretty strict

grids trying to figure out if we can pinpoint a spot where there could have

been the supposed encampment okay well let me let me stop you there because Lot

six, we've not looked at. This is the first go-round for lot six. So you know

the progression of ownership?

Well, we do know that at one time it was Samuel Ball owned lot six.

Jack, we kind of primed it here. Have you found something? Well, as I was

saying, I started looking for anything non-ire.

Moved the detector around and got some more hits.

Right in the general area, we finished digging everything up, and at first, we

thought, well...

maybe these are just pieces of some old nails.

Right. Were all these found in one spot? Yep, in the same hole.

Well, maybe that's just a bent nail.

But then we found another one. From the pieces we found, I think it looks like

some sort of a chest handle.

Oh, f***ing jack.

I mean, we don't give a f*** about the handle, Jack. It's what's inside the

chest. Well, I'm doing my best, David. Well, let's get a little bit better than

that. How does fines like this tie into, you know, your understanding of Lot 6?

As far as we know, no one's ever done anything on there. Nobody's farmed it.

The curious thing, you know, you've told us some of the Samuel Ball story, but

it's quite singular in the history of the island that this person comes, you

know, freed slave, and at some point he becomes probably one of the largest

landowners on the island, right? Nine lots.

The fact that he's associated with that is interesting.

Why was Lot 6 left undisturbed? Might that have been his treasure vault?

I don't know.

None of us know, and thus we're looking.

Was there anything else over there, Jack? Yeah, there was this pyramid or

triangular-shaped rock that came up, and we dug it up.

I don't know if it's a stone marker or if it's significant or not, but it was

surrounded by a bunch of granite boulders, and then this stone was

different, and it looked like it may have been man-made.

You two investigate that rock.

Whatever it is, see if you think it's relevant.

You know Dan's theory, a little bit of Fred's theory, that these marker stones,

if you will, are important to the so-called map above the ground. So go

back, the three of you, and investigate it. See what you come up with. We will.

Sounds like a plan.

What is Nova Scotian, sir?

Sociable. Sociable.

Sociable.

It is the start of another day on Oak Island.

Like most, it is filled with the promise of new information and possible

discovery.

So we're at Lot 6, and there's a couple stones that we found, and it's an odd

shape. Well, let's have a look at it.

All right.

Jack Begley and Charles Barkhouse have returned to Lot 6 with stone researcher

and area historian Terry Duvaux.

They are hoping that Terry can tell them whether or not the triangle-shaped rock

they found is a natural formation.

It's just right up here. All right. Or if it might have been intended as some

kind of ancient marker, one that will help them solve the Oak Island mystery.

We were running lines back and forth with the metal detector and clearing a

lot of brush away.

And as we were clearing the brush, I saw this point sticking out. OK.

And I came over and dug it up.

This type of greywacke, which is common in this part of Nova Scotia, does tend

to naturally fracture with this type of a prismatic shape and to make very

clean cleavage at times.

Is there anything that stands out to you?

This one is pretty interesting because there seems to be kind of an added piece

to it. This is almost like a cast of some kind that's been added on to make a

point. An added piece?

One designed to make the stone form a perfect triangle?

Could this strange triangle-shaped stone really be some sort of clue?

That's interesting.

Yeah, it doesn't look normal. I mean, it might have been used for a marker of

some kind. I mean, you couldn't rule that out.

Stone markers are usually not just one stone. They're usually a pile of stones.

For example, what about this stone over here?

This one? Yeah.

It also has a flat surface.

if it was used either as a cover over here or as the back wall, and then

somebody later took it apart to see what was in there or if there was anything in

there. What stood out to me was that this was a depression.

Right. And that it was surrounded by rocks.

Right. Someone may have come here and used this to bury treasure or something

valuable.

We do know that there was a lot of smuggling going on, both during the

American War of Independence and the War of 1812.

This was...

The hot spot of smuggling was Mahone Bay. Absolutely.

If it was a smuggling-type cache, it would have to be an extremely high-value

cargo. If I had a treasure or something that I wanted to bury in the ground, I'd

be looking around for a spot like this.

Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, and even much earlier, the area in and

around Nova Scotia was notorious as a haven for smugglers and privateers.

The numerous small islands just off the mainland provided cover and offered the

perfect places to bury and hide stolen goods and even treasure with little fear

of detection or discovery.

Jack, have you run the metal detector through here?

Yep. Didn't find anything?

Not a thing.

I don't know exactly what a treasure cache would have looked like. You know,

some people have the idea there were several of them all around the island,

just small caches here or there.

And this really could be the remains of one of those.

When Samuel Ball died on December 14, 1845, he left behind

a wife and grandson.

But curiously, he left his property on Oak Island to his servant, Isaac Butler.

Along with a series of instructions that Butler was ordered never to review.

Could it be that both Ball and Butler knew the secret of the Oak Island

mystery? A secret they ultimately took to their graves?

Really heavy. Today.

Rick and Marty Lagina are hoping to take another important step forward in their

goal to get a diver to the bottom of 10X. Good morning. Good morning. But

before letting professional diver Brad Stabenow make the difficult and

dangerous descent down the narrow 235 foot deep borehole.

They have decided to take one more precautionary measure. You're the ROV

pilot? I am. One of them. Hi.

Rick. Larray. Nice to meet you. I'm Craig. Hi, I'm Larray. At least you got

a better looking pilot.

Way better looking.

They've hired Jake McNaughton and Larray Davies from Dominion Diving in nearby

Dartmouth to send the VideoRay Pro 4 Remote Operated Vehicle, or ROV, to the

bottom of the 235-foot deep shaft.

Armed with a high-definition camera as well as sonar, the ROV will, for the

first time, be able to capture high-quality images of any dangerous

obstructions that could undermine a dive.

It will also be able to move freely throughout the mysterious underground

chamber and photograph any evidence of manmade objects or tunnels.

So everything here is measured in feet, isn't it? Yeah.

As we contemplate putting a diver in the hole, they're going to want every little

bit of information possible that we can give them. The ROV insertion is simply

gathering more data. Why wouldn't we try it?

These are the lights, I take it? Yep, the LED lights. Camera here? Camera

there. Okay, great.

And you're highly skilled and can do acrobatics with it and everything,

right? Yep.

The whole thing is all controlled from this. Okay.

The ROV will use its horizontal thrusters along with vertical

propellers, to navigate down the eight foot wide portion of 10X and then

through the narrow 27 inch section all the way to the bottom.

This is exciting.

Let's do this. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, good to go. Okay, let's put her in.

We haven't had ROV data in the past.

This will be the first remote operated vehicle in the cavern.

We're going to get a state-of-the-art machine in there and let it tell us what

it can tell us.

Just the boat. Keep going.

It's in the water.

Splashdown. In the water. Splashdown.

Lights on.

Okay, I'm going to go look at the screen. From our standpoint, we'd like

to see some distinctly man-made artifacts in there. Heck, we'd like to

see a treasure chest in there. Dan thinks there's one in there.

We'd love to see it.

That's pretty good visibility.

Yeah, it's a lot better than I thought it was going to be.

Standing platform.

132? Yep.

No, you're right on the ladder.

We're at 150 in here.

Keep going down, all right?

Oh, there's some debris.

It's 181.

Hold there. Let's stop there. Hold there. Okay.

take a look see a lot of debris down here there seem to be a lot of boards

going across or steel or okay why don't you look directly down

so that's a 27 inch yeah that's it right there

that curve that's what i'm thinking right here yeah that's the 27 right on

top of it there is that you're thinking that's the edge of the hole there then

it's a tight space

We'll just put it in there.

Okay, here we go. Here we go.

Given Dan's belief and stories about the hole and our expectations, I think we

both have expectations that we're going to see man-made objects down below.

We're in the 27-inch right now, yes.

Wait, what's that?

That's metal for sure.

What is that though?

Is that a drill bar? Is that the drill bar, David? Is that the drill bar?

That's what it looks like.

In the 1970s, when Oak Island resident and treasure hunter Dan Blankenship was

digging 10X, a member of his crew dropped an approximately 20-foot long

drill bar down the 235-foot borehole.

Despite many attempts to retrieve it, The drill bar was never found, and

opinions have varied on where it could be.

Many believe it could be lodged in the 27-inch-wide hole, but no one has tried

to enter the cavity since the bar was dropped.

If it turns out that the drill bar is blocking the narrow shaft and cannot be

removed, it would end any notion of sending a diver down to explore the

mysterious underground chamber.

The drill bar is just such a complicating factor for this whole

thing, because it's bad enough we got a 27-inch hole. We have a drill bar, which

is basically a 4-inch piece of more or less solid steel, 20-some feet long,

wedged in there.

So it's off to the side, right? It's not in his way?

Could be.

No, I think we're in the cavern now.

We're in the cavity. We're in the cavity.

This is a big open space.

What's that?

There's something.

There's something there. Something right there.

That looks pretty straight, doesn't it? Yeah.

What is that?

It's pretty square. It's pretty square to me.

There it is.

There could be your post, Rick.

Hope it's a post.

Could be the post.

There it is.

There could be your post, Rick.

Hope it's a post.

Could be the post.

At 10X, an ROV in the 235-foot deep chamber.

has just revealed something of potential significance to Rick and Marty Lagina

and members of their team.

The image of what could be a man-made wooden post.

What's that?

It looks metal, doesn't it?

That's metal for sure.

There is also a second vertical structure, which appears to be an old

metal drill pipe.

Can you follow that up?

Up? Yep. What is that?

That's a piece of pipe coming out from the roof of the cavern. Is that the top?

Yep. Wow, is that a clear image?

There are very distinctly two posts or columns, and certainly they didn't grow

there. And I thought that they were almost certainly pipes.

Rick is convinced they're not pipes.

So that's another mystery. We have to pull those things out and see whether

those are our posts or not.

If they're wooden and appear to be placed there without...

Coming down that 27-inch hole, well, then that's irrefutable proof of

workings there.

There it is on this sonar.

Yep.

Well, if there's indication that that post goes up into the ceiling and it's

embedded in there, well, then that's indicative of the first real thing that

reinforces that there's any man-made association down there.

It looks square.

Yeah, it definitely looks square.

Suddenly, the post-like object and the metal drill pipe

disappear from view.

We've lost the post.

Okay, go find it again.

Where's our post?

Yeah, I don't know why it's so hard to see. I mean, it was so obvious.

Where I'm sitting, according to the sonar, the post should be just off to my

left, right?

Right. How come they're not showing it, though?

Yeah, I don't know.

They'd have to be pretty proud, like, all the way top to bottom. They were.

They were in the sonar, unless...

We pulled that pipe, and that's all there was. No, it can't be.

That's not in the cavity.

No, no, we pulled that 8-inch.

That was in there.

Could be.

Lambdahl, right over there.

A few weeks ago, the team removed three rusted riser pipes out of 10X.

Is it possible that the two posts they saw in the cavern were simply old riser

pipes?

If that's true, then why did one look square?

And even more curiously, where did they go?

Daniel. Opponents set eyes in your cavern.

For 92-year-old Dan Blankenship, the man who constructed 10X, with the help of

his son Dave and friend Dan Henske, today's activities mean more to him than

anyone. Marty, I don't want to take your seat.

I know you don't want to, but I insist.

Because for him, Finding something of value at the bottom of the 235-foot

borehole would serve as a validation for his more than 50 years of dedication and

hard work trying to solve the Oak Island mystery.

Any certainty of exit tunnels? Have you seen anything that makes you think those

are there?

Not yet. I've headed towards them with the sonar, and it always just seems to

end up in a corner.

The big key is to find it on the sonar and then swim towards it, right?

Is that a tunnel? What's that?

Can you go in there?

It's just a wall.

Without tunnels, it's impossible to be a man-made rock. No question about that.

They come through the fissures in the rock? Absolutely.

They didn't come from the surface.

We see openings here, right? Like right there.

Now I'll turn and go towards that.

And it kind of looks like a defined tunnel heading off, right?

178, no, that's a wall again.

I don't see anything that makes it seem like it's a man-made structure down

there so far, aside from maybe a little bit of concrete overpour. It looks like

a natural cavern that's been scoured.

That's probably going to be it for the day then, isn't it? I would say so.

The ROV results were, you know, I hate to keep using the word disappointing

because it's probably the wrong word. They are what they are. The driver of

the ROV did bounce it off all the walls best he could.

What do you think, Brett?

So our purpose in this is to kind of ascertain whether there's anything down

there. Between me and you, that's been my quest for the last 10 years. I would

love to find something on this island that definitively says that there were

man-made workings underground prior to 1790. Yeah. That's what I've been

looking for for 10 years.

Potentially a wood post, which you haven't seemed to be able to locate.

Potentially. Yeah.

Nothing's indicating it so far that we've seen here.

So...

How does that impact you, though, Brett? I wouldn't put anybody in the water

here.

Let's see what Big Brother's doing over here.

What started out as a simple operation to confirm information about 10X has

suddenly brought the entire Oak Island treasure hunt to a standstill.

Because diver Brad Stabenow did not see any evidence of man-made tunnels or

structures at the bottom of 10X, he has informed Rick and Marty that there is no

reason for him to make such an expensive and potentially deadly dive.

But Brad felt that there was insufficient data revealed to warrant a

dive. And I kind of felt that way too.

I hate to say it, but my feeling is that what I saw to date does not warrant

putting a human being down there.

What do you guys think?

There's nothing I could get excited about, that's for sure.

Well, we didn't see the floor.

You can't make that statement. He ran into the wall everywhere he went.

And the rover, I mean, the water kept getting clearer and clearer. This is a

problem, obviously, but I just, I don't see risking a human life to get on there

right now. I don't.

It's sad in a sense, but I'm seeing 10x off the list.

That's what I'm seeing.

I didn't see enough to say across at all.

To me, the answer is not definitive. That was always the criteria. It's never

going to be definitive. You can always make up something, you know. I disagree.

I think what's going to have to happen is what I said was going to have to

happen long ago.

I was going to have to be humanized in that cavity.

I think we should get David in on the conversation, too. That would be fine

with me.

David!

What? We're debating what we should do next with 10X. What'd you see?

That's just it, not what we expected to see.

You willing to cross this off?

I don't know, Rick.

I really don't know.

Could the ROV data be enough to convince the team that the search for what might

be at the bottom of 10X should now be abandoned?

I'm close to crossing it off because where are the tunnels? They're not under

sediment. Where were the tunnels?

You absolutely convinced there were no tunnels?

I don't know. We didn't see the column. We didn't see the tunnels. We didn't see

the chests.

We didn't see any shoring.

We didn't see any bodies.

We didn't see any bodies.

From my perspective, I seemed to see that it was basically showing the same

area in the cavity all the time. And I never saw the floor, very rarely saw the

floor. I think it was an incomplete study, if you will. The data was

insufficient, surely insufficient for me to say, we're done here.

We're all saying we postponed the dive, at least.

That's it for me, and I'm really close to putting an X in 10X and saying we did

our job.

That's where I'm at.

No, I'm not there. Like Marty said, we have a disagreement. I'm not there. I'm

not willing to do what he's willing to do, put an X through that shaft.

I'm not.

10XX.

I'm not. I'm close.

We have a disagreement.

We'll work it out. Exactly.

I think we've come as far as we can today. Let's call it a day. What say

you? I say the operative word is today.

I am not finished with 10X.

He's never varied from where he's been. I've never varied from where I've been,

which is show me concrete evidence of human activity pre-1795.

And then my enthusiasm level goes way up. But it's his passion. And part of my

decision-making process involves what matters to him.

You know, Rick matters. But with Brad out of the picture, we're looking for a

new diver.

For Rick and Marty Lagina and their partners, the Oak Island mystery remains

just as complex today as it did when it began 220 years ago.

Although they continue to make progress at the money pit, they have, for now,

had a major setback in getting to the bottom of 10X.

But will bringing in a new diver help the team get the answers they're looking

for? Or will it force them to turn their attentions back to the money pit, the

swamp, or other even less likely places on the island where a mysterious

treasure may lie hiding?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

That famous stone, is it on the island? It was in concrete when I saw it. If

these are part of a bigger puzzle, we've got three new pieces.

Let's see what we found here. An X. Look at that. You're right. Wow. These two

pieces seem to be part of the same stone. Well, you could probably match

them right up. What are we going to find when we drill these holes?

The chambers where the real treasures hid. He put an X on the spot.

This was the work of the Aztec Empire.