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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

Okay, take me up. Up.

Harvey's in the shaft all by himself.

No way to communicate.

We don't know where he's at.

Did you ever see him? No, I didn't even see his life. How long has he been in

now? 32 minutes.

Well, this is a big hit.

Do you want to dig it?

What's that?

Oh, wow.

Here's what you've been waiting for, gentlemen. All right, let's see it.

Whoa. What is it? A Roman sword.

That is phenomenal.

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.

Johnny, can you hear me?

I can hear you. Can you hear me?

Michael, do you copy?

For Rick and Marty Lagina and their partners, a day that started with the

promise of exciting new discoveries has quickly turned into one of possible

danger.

Do we have communications?

Calm check, please.

Calm check, Michael. Can you hear me?

After months of searching for underwater divers with both the experience and

courage to risk the perilous 235-foot dive to get to the bottom of borehole

10X, they decided to engage professional divers Harvey Morash and his safety

backup, diver Michael Gerharts.

We're going to try to be as efficient as possible, but as safe as possible. We

can't eliminate risk, but we can mitigate it.

Can you hear me?

But now, just minutes into the much-anticipated dive, they have

suddenly lost all communication.

Started with high hopes, and now they're not even to 10 feet in the shaft and

problems.

Comms test, Michael, can you hear me?

The only communication system linked between Michael and dive supervisor

Janine Goyish on the surface is suddenly not working.

Can you hear me?

Do we have communications?

Michael, can you hear me now?

I don't think we've got comms.

How come we can hear him breathing?

He didn't hear him breathing.

Because exploring the mysterious chamber that lies at the bottom of 10X involves

not only a descent, down a 181 foot deep shaft made of both steel casing and

concrete but also a 44 foot descent through a narrow 27 inch wide tunnel

harvey morash decided against wearing a comm system in order to prevent any

possibility of becoming tangled but now safety diver michael gerhart's com

system is malfunctioning and the fate of both divers is frighteningly unknown

mike doesn't know whether we can hear him let's say he's trying to say uh

my leg is caught or you know send down another tank of air he doesn't know

whether we can hear it so that's very bad

how

about now michael can you hear me at that point we have no input And for me,

that's very frustrating. I'm hands-on. I want to get involved.

I want to get things done.

But you have to take a step back and let the professionals deal with this issue.

15 minutes.

Surface comms check. Michael, do you read?

He's not hearing me.

I can hear him, but I can't.

I think he said abort the dive. He did.

He's coming back up.

It's the classic old crud moment.

They're aborting the dive.

At the time, I was thinking, big deal. He's going to come up, fix the comms,

and go back in. That's what I thought.

I did too.

I thought, well, this isn't going to stop things proceeding. It's just a

glitch.

I see light. I see light coming.

There he is. He's on the surface. Dead surface.

Okay, take me up. Up.

Now that the dive has been aborted, Michael Gerharts will be removed from

10X first.

No comms, huh?

I couldn't hear her at all. Right.

Great.

Of great concern to Rick and Marty Lagina is the fate of diver Harvey

Morash, who, with no means of direct communication with the team at the

surface, remains below.

Did you ever see him or were you ever by him?

No, I didn't even see his life.

So Mike comes up. He tells us he never saw Harvey.

Even he knows he was just above him and never even saw his light. That's how bad

visibility is in there.

Making the situation with the dive not just problematic, but possibly

dangerous, is the fact that since the communication malfunction happened

immediately after Michael was in the water, he didn't have a chance to

connect his tether line to Harvey.

And now, the team at the surface has no idea if Harvey is in trouble.

So Mike says pound six times on the pipe so Harvey knows that the dive is off.

That he should hear.

That should ring really loud in the water, shouldn't it?

Should go down that pipe.

He knows by now you're out of the hole or he'd see it, right?

It has been almost 30 minutes and still no sign of Harvey Morash.

Could he have decided to explore 10X on his own?

Or could it be that something has gone terribly wrong?

He's not surfacing. You know, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking if this

goes too long, then I'm going to start worrying he's caught somehow and he

can't communicate.

Harvey's in the shaft all by himself, no way to communicate.

So, look, I'm concerned.

We don't know where he's at. We don't know if he's tied up with something. We

don't know if he's able to surface.

There's lots of things going through my mind. Let's get this guy out of the

hole.

How long has he been in now?

30 minutes, 32 minutes.

Suddenly, a light is seen just below the water's surface.

There he is. There he is.

He's up.

Hi, everybody.

Hey, Harvey.

Welcome back.

Thanks. Yeah,

I'll bet it is.

You can feel the tension drop. You can feel it. Yeah. Nobody wants to lose the

guy in the hole. I mean, it's just not worth it.

You see anything?

Visibility is unbelievable.

There we go. When Harvey comes to surface and he says, hi guys, you know,

I'm like that. Okay, he's fine. He's safe. Okay, the eagle has landed or

maybe the duck.

But then reality comes back to, well, what happened?

Where were you? Where did you go? Why didn't the comm lines work? How do we

address it? I mean, there's 55 questions come to mind.

Could you see what is on the bottom at all?

It's just a whole crap load of everything that's raining down from up

top. I had probably about five feet of vis, maybe, and it was like milky vis,

and then all of a sudden it was just like somebody took a shroud and just

went right down over it.

I heard the banging, and as soon as I heard that, I said, okay, we'll dive

over it.

I wouldn't call it a complete failure because we did learn something about the

hole. No matter how careful you are.

No, no, I wouldn't call it a failure.

We called it a tie, Harvey. I asked David on the way up, I said, who won? He

said, I call it a draw.

Well, came out of the hole safe, warm.

Okay, I'll tell you what. You guys de-kit, get comfortable, meet us in the

war room. We'll plan tomorrow's dive. Awesome. Okay.

Knowing that Harvey Morash is safe allows the Oak Island team to finally

breathe a sigh of relief.

At least, for now.

All right, guys, you were in the hole. You made it to the bottom.

Tomorrow's another day.

What are we going to do?

After their aborted attempt to explore borehole 10X, Rick, Marty, and members

of the Oak Island team meet in the war room with divers Harvey Morash and

Michael Gerharts.

Also present are dive supervisor Janine Goyesh and safety diver John Tapper.

The dive, okay, I did go to bottom.

Went down, it was an easy ascent down, just stopped around 125 and got myself

nice and horizontal as you can in that confined space, and then just eased on

down.

Since the water in 10X is approximately 50 feet below ground level, Harvey

Morash's 125-foot descent only reached the part of the shaft where it narrows

to a very tight... 27 inch width we now know that no matter what we do be as

careful as you want it's going to be a zero visibility dive i had less than a

minute that i could actually see some stuff on the bottom what about comms the

full face mask from what i understand worked very well communicating from the

diver to the surface right unfortunately from the surface down to the diver i was

not able to hear

They may be able to get another mask, earpieces, and a mic, along with some

other parts. So depending on where the problem was at, we may have a fix for it

tomorrow. Then I can pick it up in Halifax around 7.30, so I'll be here

around 8.30, 9 o'clock. Okay, so you would be willing to dive again.

What I'm really wondering, is he going to say...

Hey, no problem. Let's keep going. Or is he going to say, look, this is too big a

nut to crack?

Yeah.

All right, so let's talk about the dive.

What's your timeline for tomorrow?

We should be able to get in the water by noon because we don't have to rig up

everything that we had. Okay, so we have a dive at noon and maybe one at 5.

Yeah, because day later or dark doesn't really matter to us down there.

At the end of the meeting, I think everyone got all the information

necessary. So we learned a lot of things, and that was part of this dive,

this initiation dive, was to learn these things.

Well, we knew today was going to be a learning day, so we learned.

Oak Island did not win today.

Neither did we, but we're content and set.

plan for tomorrow. You guys have to understand, a draw is huge on Oak

Island.

It's good enough. Let's be done. All right. See you in the morning.

As a new day begins on Oak Island, Rick, Marty, and their partners are eager to

get back to 10X and make another attempt at finding out what, if anything, lies

at the bottom.

So we're rolling across the causeway. We're full of expectations and we're

excited because we have not just one, but probably two dives scheduled.

And we're going to get a person into the chamber in 10X.

David's here.

Although the combination of sediment and rusty ocean water presents a formidable

challenge to visibility, Marty, Rick, and their partners are afraid that

draining the shaft dry would make it dangerously unstable.

They are equally convinced that only human intelligence can determine if the

objects that Dan Blankenship believes he saw more than four decades ago really do

exist at the bottom of 10X.

Rick? Morning, guys.

We got some bad news.

Huh? Let them explain it to you. How goes the battle?

Talk to them.

You guys ready to get wet? Good morning.

Not quite.

No? No.

What's up?

We came upon a technical problem with the full face mask that we had.

We have two issues with it. One issue is the communication side that wasn't

working the way it is designed to work. And the other issue is the work of

freezing of the mask.

We think we have the communication issue.

settled. But the work of breathing, we cannot fix this here right now. It's not

a short-term fix.

With the mask not working the way it is designed, we do not have a safe piece of

equipment.

Without a safe piece of equipment, I can simply not guarantee for the safety of

the dive.

And for that reason, we decided that it is better to call the dive for today.

I don't think it was an easy decision for Mike to make. No, it is not an easy

decision, but I know it is the right decision at the moment.

And you like breathing.

I like breathing very much, yes.

Mike hit.

Well, look, guys, the deal has always been you call it, you call it for any

reason. So I'm not going to say I'm not disappointed.

We're disappointed. We are disappointed. I'm very disappointed, okay, but I think

it's courageous to make a decision like this. At the end of the day...

All of us were on the same page. Safety, safety, safety. We want you back up on

top. It's a team effort, and that's the goal, right?

Any dive has come back to surface safe.

In my opinion, the most courageous thing he did of all the things he did was

being honest with us.

That's important.

So here's the deal. You guys get comfortable, keep in touch with us, and

we'll decide what we do next, okay?

Perfect,

yeah. Perfect.

Thank you very much. Thanks, guys. Thank you. All right.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. See you guys.

Although Rick, Marty, Craig, and the other members of their team have become

used to setbacks while trying to solve the 220-year-old mystery, this one,

which has once again frustrated their attempt to get human intelligence from

the bottom of 10X, has dealt them an unusually bitter blow.

Look, it's Oak Island. You never expect things to go completely smooth.

We got a glitch.

They discerned it.

They'll figure out how to deal with it. And by tomorrow, we'll be on track

again.

While the Oak Island team waits for divers Harvey Morash and Michael

Gerharts to return to the island and try once again.

to reach the mysterious underwater cavern at the bottom of 10X, Rick

Lagina, along with researcher and fellow treasure hunter Jack Begley, are

determined to make up for lost time and explore the area on the island known as

Nolan's Cross.

Well, Jack, I don't know about you, but you see that sign right there?

No trespassing? For the first time, we can turn that around and have it say

welcome.

Welcome, FG Nolan.

We have the right to jointly look for things on Nolan's land, which basically

gives us 95% of the island to explore now.

You get geared up and find me something.

I'll dig till whenever.

All right.

We wanted to put the island back together in terms of the discovery

processes, and I think this agreement gets us down that road.

In 1981, while surveying his property near the center of the island, Fred

discovered five large cone-shaped boulders that formed a megalithic,

perfectly symmetrical cross.

Believing there could be something of great value buried at the center, Fred

dug down several feet and unearthed a sixth boulder, one which appeared to be

carved into the shape of a human head.

You know, like right here, that looks like it's been chiseled.

Here, here, here, here, here.

Yeah, it looks like somebody, you know, shaped it.

Right through here?

Yep. I mean, I see the eye, the forehead, the shape of the forehead.

There's the forehead.

I see the mouth.

That's the chin.

Definitely interesting shape. I mean, did you recognize this, the face right

away? Once we checked the distances, you know, that's when it showed itself.

It's very curious, my first time seeing it. It's intriguing.

This is the arm of the cross.

Right through there, I suspect, is the bottom of the cross.

I've seen it but one time.

In addition to the boulders that form Nolan's Cross, Oak Island researchers

have also discovered a number of smaller, flat-sided stones, which lie

buried at several precise locations.

The placement of these stones, when viewed in context of the larger ones,

eerily corresponds to what are referred to as the Ten Sephiroth, the markers

that make up what is known in the Hebrew Bible as Kabbalah, or what is otherwise

called the Tree of Life.

But for Oak Island theorists, the presence of the tree of life suggests

that what is buried on the island could actually be sacred treasure especially

as the ancient symbol was considered important in the rituals of the knights

templar and was later adopted by the rosicrucians and even the freemasons

you know i've always wanted to do this because you know i always

thought someday maybe we can put the island back together heal it emotionally

or put it back together physically.

Well, and you've worked really hard on doing that. Well, we all have.

But I, for my part, even in my old age, I'd kind of like to climb on here and

stand on it.

Well, if only I could see X marks the spot, I'd be doing good.

The thing is, you know, you stand on this and you realize...

if these really were put in position for a specific reason, that reason was very,

very important to a lot of people.

And I want to know the reason why.

I hope we get that chance.

Let's go find something.

I think it's right through there.

All right, you lead the way.

Tide's coming in fast.

That's the one. That's the one.

Look, it's already half underwater.

Yeah, well, we'll do the half that's exposed.

All right, I better do this quick.

Good thing this is waterproof.

What stone on the cross is this again?

This is the left arm. As you're looking towards the top of the cross.

Using the Minelab CTX 3030 metal detector, which can isolate shallow non

-ferrous or precious metals up to a maximum depth of two feet, Jack Begley.

begin scanning the ground around the stone marker.

There's a bunch of iron all along the front of here. How deep?

Six inches.

Worth looking at.

Will Rick and Jack find evidence that will help them identify not only how old

the arrangement of cross-shaped boulders are, but who placed them there?

Yeah, I'd say it's along this way.

Right there.

What's that?

I don't know.

What is that, Rick?

Washed up from a ship, maybe?

Looks like some type of pulley. See how this is recessed?

A pulley?

In 1795.

After seeing what they believed to be a number of strange lights emanating from

Oak Island, area teenagers Daniel McGinnis, John Smith, and Anthony Vaughn

gathered together in a small boat and traveled from the mainland to

investigate.

At the spot where they believed the lights had come from, they found an old

oak tree at the base of which appeared to be a large circular depression in the

ground. But what made them believe something had once been buried there was

the discovery of a large pulley hanging from a branch of the oak tree just over

the middle of the strange depression.

Could there be a connection between the pulley hanging from the oak tree 220

years ago and the one just discovered by Rick Lagina and Jack Begley?

Show it to Dan, see what he thinks.

Let me bag and tag it.

For Rick Lagina, the discovery of a pulley near one of the strange

megalithic boulders that make up Nolan's Cross has provided him a small victory.

But for him, there is a more important battle to be waged. The one to find out

what, if anything, lies at the bottom of Borehole 10X.

Today, finally, for the first time all summer, today is the day of answers.

Hopefully.

After a delay of four days, Harvey Moresh and his safety diver, Michael

Gerharts, have returned to Oak Island.

Where do you want this, Harvey?

Just lay beside me for now.

Unfortunately, Marty Lagina has been called away on important business and

will have to miss what could be one of the most important days in the history.

of this 220 year old treasure hunt as far as 10x is concerned maybe tomorrow

we'll have something be good i had put my businesses on hold for as long as i

could had to go back to michigan attend a business i feel bad leaving with rick

here but i couldn't leave it in better hands get yourself back up here you and

craig and we'll uh we'll make 10x happen hey rick to the bottom to the bottom

Let's make it happen today, right? We'll try to get you some answers.

After making the necessary repairs that will ensure that their communication

system will be fully functional, the divers can now concentrate on getting

safely to the bottom of 10X and finding out if objects like a wooden post, man

-made tunnels, wooden chests, and the remains of a human body really do lie

235 feet underground.

Okay, we've already gone over the dive plan with our comms operator and Mike

and myself, so we're not going to go into that anymore.

Just for me, you're going to the bottom of the bar, right? Yeah.

All right. Let's make it happen. Let's go have some fun.

Oak Island hooks people in different ways, and I think the hook for them has

been we're technically skilled enough to conquer this.

And I think they were defeated last time. You want to know the truth? I

think they were beaten, and they don't like being beaten.

Even though Rick, Marty, and their partners have spent a great deal of time

and money clearing 10X of dangerous obstructions, there is still one

remaining obstacle that diver Harvey Moresh will have to contend with, an

approximately 20-foot-long drill bar that became wedged in the narrow.

27-inch portion of the hole after it was accidentally dropped some 40 years ago.

You don't think the bar has moved at all?

I don't think it has because I think the bottom is on the bedrock where the

chamber opens up and she's wedged it against that top edge there and the top

of the bar is on the opposite side.

that's why i tried to explain to him make damn sure he didn't panic you know

test one two three i got you

okay loud and clear harvey will be inserted in the man basket he'll dive

10 12 feet basket comes up gets mike mike goes down and then they tether up

and then they dive in tandem all the way to 181.

and then at that point they separate once again only michael gerharts will be

in direct voice contact with surface dive supervisor janine goyesh as harvey

morash makes the perilous 44-foot dive down the narrow 27-inch portion of the

hole his sole means of communication will be through a tether line attached

to michael one pull on the line will indicate that everything is okay

How's your visibility?

Copy that.

Because 10X was dug through layers of porous anhydrite stone, the slightest

movement created by the divers kicks up thick, murky clouds of silt and

sediment. Visibility is now virtually zero.

Harvey's at 181.

As far as we know, we can't see him.

How far has he got to go?

We don't have much of this left.

All right, Michael, you're almost at the end of your tether here.

It is now approximately 20 minutes into the dive, and the

team on the surface is growing anxious.

They have no way to know exactly where Harvey and Michael are or how they are

doing.

I don't like...

sitting back and not being a part of something. You're just tugging on the

rope to let Michael know that everything's OK.

Every time I got a little worked up, I thought, just settle down.

You know, this is going to evolve the way it's going to evolve.

Has Harvey successfully made it past the drill bar and into the chamber at the

bottom of the shaft?

If so, what, if anything, did he find?

Divers Harvey Morash and Michael Gerharts have been submerged in 10X for

almost 30 minutes.

Because Harvey can only communicate with Michael by pulling on a tether line

while attempting his dangerous descent down the narrow 27-inch portion of the

hole,

Rick Lagina and the team are starting to grow more than a little anxious.

How deep is Harvey? Coming up. We can't say for sure because we don't have any

columns with Harvey.

What depth was he?

I don't know how Harvey actually was until we actually get him up and see his

computer. So he's on his ascent?

No, he's still kind of messing around in there. He's just tugging on the rope to

let Michael know that everything's okay.

Copy that.

Copy,

you have Harvey with you.

Everything is okay.

Excellent.

Although the divers have completed their dive, Rick and the team will have to

wait several more minutes while the divers decompress to find out what, if

anything, they discovered at the bottom.

As the guys, Harvey and Mike, are going through their decompression stops, I'm

thinking, well, what do they know? And what am I hoping to hear? And I couldn't

wait for them to get to the surface.

You could lower the basket.

Basket down.

Ready to come up? Yes, sir.

There you go.

How cold are you?

It wasn't until the very end there where I started getting cold.

Give me a second, guys.

That was interesting.

Did you make it? I have to ask. Did you make it?

I got in the pipe.

It was unbelievable.

I've never... That splat.

As soon as I went into the pipe, it went like that. As soon as I went in.

Were you all the way in?

Oh, my body was completely... I was down inside.

I was a good... I'm going to say two body lengths at least in.

I could see the pipe.

And then I just put my fin to it and basically got myself in.

And that's when the lights went out. Before my head even went into the pipe.

So you don't know where your head was in relation to the top of the casing?

I was below the surface because when I came out, I grabbed, I reached up and I

could feel. So you were at least a couple, three feet in. Oh, it was more

than that. Did you get past the casing?

I think, I think, I don't know for sure, right? Because I was trying to feel and

it all felt the same, right? All rough.

i couldn't tell i couldn't see anything anything it was just a cave trade and it

was like well okay i've done this but this is snugger than that other point

that i went into really yeah did you feel the drill bar yeah but i had no

wiggle room whatsoever like to get up to get back up i was basically

i don't even know exactly what i was doing but i was kind of trying to push

with my elbows and that may it may have been that's where you reached my suit i

don't know right but i didn't really feel any water coming in until i was on

the ascent although harvey morash was unable to bypass the drill bar and reach

the mysterious underwater cavern he was able to get closer than anyone has in

the last two decades the end of the day my hat's off to harvey and mike and

janine They had come to the island with a plan to get the answers we sought, and

I can't fault them in any way, shape, or form. Look, the island can be a real

tough nut, as my brother says, you know, and today it was.

The question which begs to be asked is, is this accomplishable? Is it doable?

To do this on scuba?

I don't know.

All right, so it sounds like you guys need to talk it over.

I know he wants to talk it over on our end as well, so...

We'll do that, and we'll get in touch with you guys.

All right, thank you. Thank you very much. No problem. Appreciate everything

you've done. Yeah, no problem.

Pleasure. For Rick, Marty, and their partners, the promise of getting answers

from the bottom of 10X, which appeared to be very much within their grasp, now

seems, more than ever, out of reach.

But will they finally give up and focus their attention on other, more

accessible areas of the island?

Or... Will they keep trying?

We're going to get this solved.

We're going to find out what's at the bottom of 10X.

I want to, my brother wants to, Craig wants to, all of us want to. And

specifically, I made a promise to David and to his mom and to Dan.

We are going to find out this year what's in the bottom of 10X.

Shortly after Rick's brother Marty returns to Oak Island, the team calls a

meeting in the war room to discuss important next steps in their goal of

getting human intelligence from the bottom of 10X.

They have also been baited by the promise of being shown an exciting piece

of evidence.

Evidence that could totally change everything they knew or thought they

knew about the history of the island and what exactly.

they may be looking for.

Where's Charles? Let's talk about where Charles is. They're about to show up

with something that they say is going to be of extreme interest to us.

Can't wait to see it.

Gentlemen. Hey, guys.

Hey, Charles.

You got it. I got it. David. This is what you've been waiting to see. All

right.

Here's what you've been waiting for, gentlemen. All right, let's see it.

Oh.

Whoa. Here's what you've been waiting for, gentlemen. All right, let's see it.

Holy crap. Oh, wow.

Whoa. During a meeting in the war room, Charles Barkhouse has just revealed to

Rick, Marty, and the team one of the most incredible objects they have ever

seen. What is it?

It's a sword, a Roman sword.

That is phenomenal.

This is something that was found in the 1940s in Mahone Bay in the vicinity of

Ocala. Well, wait a sec. I mean, let's back up before we get into detail on

this thing.

How did you come into the possession of this?

How did we get this?

There was friends of Dan's, isn't it? Yes. They originally started talking

about it, and then Charles found out about it. Yes.

A Roman sword found in the waters of Mahone Bay?

just off the coast of Oak Island?

But how?

Where did it come from?

And what does it mean?

When I first saw that sword, I thought, this is unique. I've never seen anything

like this. It looked old. It's patinaed.

You know, it's not detailed anymore.

And I suppose the salient point is how heavy it is. Appeared to be made out of

bronze. Appeared to be well-weighted. What year would this have been made?

Somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd century AD.

It's a ceremonial gladius.

that was presented by the Emperor Commodus in honor of the secular

gladiators. A ceremonial sword from the time of the Roman Emperor Commodus?

Ruling from 180 to 192 AD, Lucius Aurelius Commodus was a flamboyant

and ruthless leader who, according to contemporary accounts, believed himself

to be the reincarnation of the divine hero, Hercules.

Although most Roman leaders were content to enjoy watching bloody gladiator

battles from their throne at the Colosseum, Commodus actually

participated in the carnage himself.

Could this sword actually have a direct connection to the infamous 2nd century

Roman ruler?

Was it singularly a gift from the emperor? Yes.

Supposedly. Yeah, supposedly.

If it is real.

Does it authenticate any one theory? It doesn't really, because we don't think,

it sounds like we don't really think the Romans were here, which means that

somebody else had it.

I mean, wait a minute.

Yeah, why not?

Look, we've had the Phoenicians here. We've had the Templars here. Let's just

put them on the list. All right.

Romans too. Romans too. I love it.

I'd love it to be Roman.

Although there has, to date, never been any credible evidence linking ancient

Romans to North America, over the years, a number of ancient coins dating as far

back as 200 AD have reportedly been discovered in Nova Scotia, just a few

hundred miles north of Oak Island. It has also long been theorized that the

intricate system of underwater booby traps and the man-made box drains

discovered at Smith's Cove reveal a sophisticated knowledge of water

displacement similar in engineering to that used by the ancient romans in the

building of their famous aqueducts is it possible that the flood system believed

to be on oak island was not simply inspired by the ancient romans but was

actually built by them i'm already thinking the usual oak island what ifs

what do you think alex what's it mean i don't know what it means it depends like

you said if it's

If it is what we think it is, it's original, it depends how it got here. I

mean, we do know pirates operated all along here from the coast of Brazil to

Newfoundland. I mean, it could have been stolen off another ship.

It doesn't necessarily mean that the Romans were here or the Templars were

here, the Visigoths or anybody else was here. You're going to get this analyzed,

right? Yes, we've found an expert in Roman antiquities, Dr.

Miles McCallum at St. Mary's University, and we're lining up a meeting to bring

this to him and have him look at it and see if he thinks it's real or not.

Well, look, if it's real, and probably more importantly, if it can be really

documented that it was found here, this is potentially a huge game changer for

what happened around here.

I'll give it to you, Rick. That's weird.

There you go. It's really weird. I like it. I love it. It's pretty cool. The

Romans were here.

Perhaps.

After a week that has taken the Oak Island team from the emotional highs of

anticipation and possible discovery to the lows of disappointment and bitter

setback, Rick, Marty, and their partners may have finally just been handed the

breakthrough they have been hoping for all year.

but will the discovery of an ancient roman sword retrieved from the waters

off the coast of oak island help the team solve this century's old mystery

once and for all one fact is certain in their determination to uncover

the history of oak island rick and marty lagina have made history themselves

and whether the final chapters will be written in ink or blood It's up to the

island to decide.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

There's your artifact.

We did some tests on it. I think it has an interesting story to tell.

We're going to try one more diver, and if he can't do it, we're done with

divers. I'm telling you, it's zero visibility.

We will get to Bob.

This is Laverne's model.

Where he thinks the money is, is right here.

You put an X, we'll punch a hole.

Let's get steel gone whole, figure this thing out. I hit something.

Hunk of wood.