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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

Have you ever seen anything like this? No.

It's very odd.

See, there's an opening in the ground. Is this the back door? That's not

natural. We want to take a look at the well. Down to the water!

Wait, there'd be clues down there.

What the hell is that? Can you see that? Oh, wow.

Down slow. This well may be associated with the Templars. Oh. What do you got,

Tony? Right here on these rocks, I've got a triangle. This thing's amazing.

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.

Jack, why don't you hack that tree out of the way?

Wow, that's my big discovery.

Well, honestly, David, that is quite odd.

A few days ago, during a meeting in the war room, Rick, Marty, and members of

the Oak Island team were introduced to New York-based writer and researcher

Zena Halpern by area historian Doug Crowell. Hello.

Hi, Zena. It's Doug. I just gave everyone here a little overview on what

your research involves and that you have some pretty interesting documents.

During their meeting...

Halpern shared with the team her discovery of three ancient documents,

which she believes prove a connection between the Knights Templar and

activities on Oak Island going back as far as the 12th century.

We have a map that shows Nova Scotia.

We have a map of Oak Island, and then we have the cipher.

It's all connected to gold.

One of the maps, dated 1347.

showed various sites and landmarks on Oak Island that matched several of the

places well-known to Rick, Marty, and the team.

The hand-drawn map is clearly Oak Island. And then there are several

things named in French which have been translated for us. One is called the

basin. Well, that clearly correlates to the swamp.

And then there's something on the map which points right about to where the

money pit is.

And then we have two or three things that we don't know anything about.

One's called the anchors, one's called the valve, and one's called the hatch.

When Oak Island treasure hunter Jack Begley later laid a copy of Zena

Halpern's map over a satellite image of the island... Look at the top of that.

It follows it perfectly.

The so-called hatch matched the location of what Dave Blankenship remembered as

the site of a strange depression near his property.

This hatch lands kind of where David said the hole is. What would cause

it to sink in like this?

Something below, something gave way below.

If this is a hatch, it would be a way in, a vertical shaft to enter something.

That's very, very odd.

It's hard to explain what that is.

It's clearly, I think, a hole that's been chiseled into the bedrock by

humans.

I don't see any other explanation for it geologically.

All right, Jack, if you don't mind, shovel off that gunk down there, and

let's see what's underneath there.

See that rock directly ahead of you? Does that look placed, or is that just

part of the bedrock? This looks like bedrock for sure.

This isn't laid rock. It's been, you know, chiseled away.

Sure looks like it's been chopped away.

It was kind of an aha moment.

You know, here's an opening in the ground. Is this the back door?

That's pretty solid there.

Doesn't sound like rock, though. No, that sounds sandy or something.

That almost sounded hollow.

That almost sounds like wood.

Holy smokes.

A hollow wooden surface in a square hole cut through bedrock?

Could Jack be standing on a secret doorway?

Perhaps one that leads directly to the money pit.

Does it seem to be solidifying at all? Are you hitting a bottom or is it just

bottomless there? I'm standing on something solid. But I honestly can't

tell until we dig up the rest.

It's just mud in this top part and could be anything.

Yeah, okay. Keep going, Jack.

As you look around the sides, does it appear that they're nice and solid

everywhere? Yeah.

Well, besides knocking the rock out.

But no large holes or anything that you can see.

Yeah, that's solid.

The middle part kind of seems to go further.

It's too muddy to be able to tell if this is the bottom. It seems to be

narrowing, but at the same time, I almost feel like it's slate mixed with

mud continuing on.

I don't know if we want to come back with a different method, because this is

going to be real slow from here on out.

Mm-hmm.

The shape is strange.

I mean, that's a given. Everything's strange about it. It's not natural.

You know, even taking an excavator in here would be difficult, because that's

been chiseled down through. You try and dig right there, an excavator isn't

going to pull that up. It might break it up, get underneath of it, and it might.

You may lose a tooth, too.

Mm-hmm. Not only lose a tooth, but if it really is something, do we really want

to go that route?

I honestly think we should have that archaeologist guy come look at it. Yeah,

I mean, I don't know what that is, but an archaeologist might. To me, that is

absolutely man-made and obviously old.

Yeah, I agree. I totally agree. We should get an opinion.

Because this so-called hatch could be an important discovery,

Marty and Rick's decision to bring in an archaeologist to examine it is a prudent

one. We're not done here. We need to figure out what's going on. But Jack,

for right now, you're done. Nice job.

Canada has certain requirements for archaeological excavations.

This hatch could be significant archaeologically.

So we want to follow the rules, so we bring in an expert.

We're not sure what this thing is.

So that's one reason, to make sure we're doing the proper thing. And the other

reason is to see if he can explain it.

That was not a pleasant job, and you did a nice job.

I don't mind getting dirty, Marty. That is why I like having young people

around.

While the team waits for the archaeologist to arrive, Rick Lagina and

Jack Begley meet with representatives from Irving Equipment Limited, having

already removed all of the old casings from this year's two major target sites.

the Laginas and their partners are now ready to begin the next phase of their

operation, the clearing and preparation of the money pit area for what promises

to be a massive excavation.

Okay, so guys, this is the money pit. This is where the activity is going to

start. So why don't we get down, and you guys can do what you need to do. You

want to go in here first?

You want to go in here?

There's large equipment coming in. Different types of equipment need to be

staged in different areas.

there's a lot of things to consider because the money pit is susceptible to

flooding the laginas and their partners have decided to drill two approximately

40 inch wide steel reinforced holes deep into the most promising sites

it is an ambitious and risky strategy and one which will cost the

team in excess of two million dollars

That angle of incline getting down into the money pit, I think, has to be

addressed. And do we have a large enough area here for you to construct a crane?

Like I say, you level that off a little bit.

Level that off there.

How far back do you think? There's an old trail that comes in up over the hill

right there. If we come up that hill there, that'd be just wonderful for us.

We could come up. We'd have to push this bank out, wouldn't we? Well, take this

stuff off the top, the stuff that's no good, and kind of push it to the corner.

Because we probably set up 100 ton over there and other stuff too. Yeah. Hey,

wait. Just hang on then. 100 ton sit and wear. That could be a problem for a 100

ton setup.

Right. Because excavating the money pit will require the drill team to bring in

massive 100 and 300 ton cranes.

Rick Lagina is understandably concerned about the stability of the ground in the

area.

Two years ago.

When trying to find the location of the original money pit, Rick, Craig, and the

team encountered serious problems after a drill rig began sinking into the

marshy ground.

That ain't good.

What will further complicate their efforts is the fact that the money pit

area has been dug up, filled in, and redug for most of the last 220

years.

So there's a concern about putting the 100-ton crane over here then?

Absolutely. Yeah, if we set the 300-ton rate where we're standing and set the

100-ton perpendicular to it, they can work that hole simultaneously.

You're going to need some surge rock and maybe even like a geogrid, you know, to

support the weight of the crane so it doesn't sink into this stuff.

The enormity of the task facing Rick Lagina is beginning to sink in.

The ground around the money pit will need to be leveled.

and then reinforced with layers of gravel.

A new access road leading to and from the money pit will also need to be

constructed.

The idea of bringing the road in and coming in here, that's probably the best

plan right now, is this is all your heavy lay down area. So this whole area

here is going to be a parking lot.

I'd like to keep this as less invasive as possible.

The troubling aspect for me is they need a large footprint.

So we want to make sure that we do things expeditiously, but also

respectfully. Look, we're not going to inhibit the process, but I would ask you

to be good stewards of the history, of the story, of the property.

We'll keep the footprint as small as possible to do our work.

If you stripped all the topsoil off here and stockpiled it off the side, when

they're done, just pull it back and replant it.

So it'll... I'm actually looking at this again.

We don't want to repeat the Dunfield Excapade and make a bombing area out of

this. We don't.

We want to be environmentally sensitive.

But I'm ready to get into it. We're going to dig there.

I think we have a general outline, a general understanding of what we need to

accomplish. I think it's workable.

Excellent. It sure is going to look different, I'll say that.

Okay, guys, today really is the extension of the trip we took earlier to

New Ross. I mean, we're all excited about the well for when you put the

camera down.

So I didn't see much in terms of the sides of the well, but the floor to me

looked very interesting.

While waiting for the team at Irving Equipment to begin prepping the Money

Pit area for excavation, Rick Lagina, Charles Barkhouse, and area researcher

Doug Crowell.

are traveling once again to the town of New Ross, approximately 20 miles north

of Oak Island.

I definitely saw what I thought was a straight line, and it almost looked like

it was engraved. You know what I mean? Yes.

Last week, based on information provided by Zena Halpern, Rick, Charles, and Doug

visited a site believed to contain the ruins of an ancient Templar castle.

At the site... They found what appeared to be a weathered carving of a cross.

On the face of the stone, you can see a very faint outline of a cross.

No ordinary cross, but the cross of the Knights Templar.

And when they put a camera down an ancient stone well on the property.

That looked like stone floor.

They found possible evidence that could link New Ross to the Oak Island mystery.

Now, didn't they find flagstone at the money pit? They did. Two feet down, they

did find flagstone, Jess. Maybe it's a ceiling, and there's another chamber

beneath.

Might there be a false bottom? Might there be a carving in that flagstone, if

you will?

Very, very much looking forward to Tony's dive today.

Here they are, all set to go.

To further investigate the well...

Rick has enlisted the help of professional diver Tony Sampson and his

support team.

There's information down there. This is the guy and the crew to take care of it.

Well, we're curious if the well has something that's not visible, just like

the money pit had things underneath that were not visible on the surface.

If something is indeed hidden here, the well could be one way to reach it. Okay.

In my perfect world, I'd fall into the chamber below it full of gold.

Okay?

Why don't we head up there and take a look? Yeah, let's get started.

Although proof of Knights Templar activity in North America has never been

established, there are many who believe that not only was there activity, but

that there is evidence that the Templars might have visited the New World as far

back as the 12th century.

more than three hundred years before the journey of christopher columbus in

fourteen ninety two in scotland's roslyn chapel which was built by the

grandson of suspected templar knight henry sinclair in fourteen eighty six

the walls are illustrated with images of corn along with representations of a

plant known as trillium both unique to north america but even more curious

are the testimonies of the First Nations people of Nova Scotia, the Mi'kmaq.

Their legends tell stories of a mysterious stranger known as Glooscap,

who many believe to be Henry Sinclair himself.

But perhaps even more astounding is the eerie similarity between the Mi'kmaq

flag and the battle flag of the Knights Templar.

They are nearly one and the same.

So timing will probably have to remove this lid.

Uh-huh.

The water level looks a little lower than it was before.

Awesome.

Can you see the cut marks and the stones on the bottom? My impression was there

was a couple stones down there, and it almost looked like a milled edge that

sat really tightly together and maybe was indented along the seam.

That was my impression of what was down there. So it looked like two fitted

stones with a crease quite a ways down the middle of them.

Okay. I mean, look, there's not a lot of space down there, so how are you going

to orient yourself to take a look-see?

What we're going to do, Rick, is we're going to set a frame up here, and we're

going to have a beam across the top, and we're going to set up a boson's chair.

So I've pretty much got my ass on the chair going down.

I'm going to video 360 going down the whole way.

Okay, what say you? Let's make this happen.

Okay.

To safely descend down the stone well, Tony and his team are constructing what

is known as a boson's chair.

Attached to a pulley system, the chair is manually controlled to stop, raise,

and lower Tony as needed.

It will also enable him to rotate 360 degrees, allowing for a complete

inspection of the well's interior.

So, Tony, what's the rig set up here? It kind of looks similar to what Dan went

down in in 10X, but fill me in here.

Okay, so what we're going to do is I'm going to go down there, have a 360

around, just doing a chair check before I get the hard hat on and suit it up,

checking out to see if there's any foreign objects, debris that might come

down on top of me.

And then once I've checked her out top of the water level, then I'll come back

up and get suited up.

Okay. Fantastic.

Jump on.

Cool, buddy. Let's get ready to go.

Okay, up.

Okay. Lower down.

Down slow. It's good now, yeah.

Down four.

Slower four.

Oh, geez.

What do you got there, Tony?

Loose one?

Yeah, I've got a loose rock here, mate. I want to take that out before we go any

further. If that comes down, it's bad news, man.

Got it.

That can make a good day go bad really fast. Yeah, I'll take that hard hat

back.

Let's go. Cool. Thanks, buddy. Yep.

Take me down to probably another two feet, Mike. Roger.

Hold fast there. I'll stop.

Well, that's kind of weird.

What can you find down there, Tony?

These are right here on these rocks here.

Jeez.

Rick?

It could be a triangle.

It's got a line across the bottom. It's pointing straight up. It's from here.

It's got some little pattern in the middle.

You got that in light, Nick?

There you go.

This thing's amazing.

Some 20 miles from Oak Island, in the town of New Ross, diver Tony Sampson...

has just found a mysterious triangle carved inside an old stone well let's

get a picture let's get a real clear photograph of it it is located on a

property believed to have been inhabited by members of the knights templar more

than five centuries ago whoa beautiful okay camera up buddy

there's something there you don't put a mark on a stone

you know Halfway down a well.

And it begs the question, why in a well?

Yeah, exactly.

Right? Right. You know.

Okay, Mike.

Bring us up, buddy.

Up slow.

Oh, wow.

Rick, take a look at this.

Look at that.

What? No way.

That's carved without a dug.

Yeah, I would say so.

This doesn't look natural to me.

There's no doubt in my mind that that's etched in there.

It certainly has the appearance of being cut into the stone. Yeah, it does.

Well, what is that?

Like a little dot?

Yeah. It's like it's got an eye in the middle.

Oh, my God. Yeah, I can see it.

A carved triangle with an eye in the center?

There are lots of triangular shapes associated with Oak Island. The triangle

shape meant something to the Templars.

Is that a connection?

Perhaps.

The symbol of a triangle or pyramid with an eye depicted in the center is known

as the eye of Providence or the all-seeing eye It was adopted

by the Freemasons in the late 18th century Although there are many who

believe that it dates back much earlier to the days of the Knights Templar in

1935 US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a freemason who had actually

searched for treasure on Oak Island as a young man, instructed that the all

-seeing eye be added to the design of the $1 bill.

It is also the shape of a triangle that appears in the carvings on the

mysterious 90-foot stone, and which can be seen in the dimensions of the Oak

Island swamp, which many believe to have been man-made.

Okay, yep, she's good, buddy.

So next step, you're going to get geared up? Yep. Perfect.

Comms, check 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Loud and clear, Mike. Loud and clear on this end, Tony.

Balance functioning.

Roger that, buddy. Let us know what you need.

Assisting Tony at the surface is safety diver and communications supervisor Mike

Huntley.

If Tony encounters any kind of danger... or needs assistance underwater.

Mike will descend the well to help him.

You gotta plant your ass on that board.

My ass is on the board, brother. Roger that.

Down nice and slow, guys.

Down slow.

Okay, down to the water, my brother.

Roger, down to water.

Down to the water!

Yeah, Roger, we have visual on the camera here.

Lower Tony down.

Down two more feet.

Divers into water.

All stop.

All stop.

What's your vision like up there, Mike?

Action visibility is great.

Okay, continue to lower to the bottom, Mike.

Lower Tony down.

Lowering down.

He says, I'm sitting there watching the monitor.

You know, you're always hopeful. No matter where the search takes you, you

want so desperately to see something that answers a question. Just give us a

clue. Just one clue.

Where is he in relation to the bottom?

Are his feet on the bottom? Are you touching bottom yet?

On the bottom, buddy.

Roger, on bottom.

Is the bottom rough?

Smooth? Hey, Tony, can you feel with your feet at all whether or not the

bottom is smooth or rough?

She's rough, buddy.

Definitely cinnamon.

Roger that.

How deep?

Can you tell how deep it is?

Okay,

Roger. Two feet.

OK,

Roger.

Visibility's not that great.

Is that the same down there?

He lost visibility because he's stirring it up, clawing it up just like 10X.

We lost all visibility.

When the well got murky, it was more a sense of not again, another dive where

we can't see anything, because I was absolutely convinced that it had been a

fitted stone bottom.

Up five.

Up five feet.

Diver Tony Sampson has just found another possible clue in an old stone

well, which some researchers believe to have been built by members of the

Knights Templar.

Looks like a broad arrow.

That's a broad arrow.

I see something.

Do you guys not see that in there?

Show me what you see.

Right there.

But when he comes at a different angle... Okay, okay, there, I see it. I

see it there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see it there.

Right here, here, and there. You got it.

When it came to me, then I could see it. The left side of the point, if you will,

saw that well-defined, saw the stem, if you will, or the shaft of the arrow.

And you think that's the king's mark, what they call the king's mark. Yeah, no

mistake.

The broad arrow, also known as the King's Mark, was first used in the early

14th century by King Edward III of England.

It was later adopted by the British government and used to mark government

property. But why would a broad arrow carving appear at a site believed to

have been established by members of the Knights Templar?

Roger that. Up slow. On turnbuckle.

All the way up.

Okay, I'll stop.

If it's a king's mark, legitimately, then I think where I would go at this

point would be, is that symbol in any way associated with the Templars? And

that demands further research.

Welcome to the surface. Oh, thanks, guys.

So you saw the feet from the camera up there?

Did, but I need firsthand to count here. What did you see?

She's definitely, that's not a flat bottom down there.

There is hard large rocks on the bottom, and I'm guessing you know not flat No,

no not flat, but there is a lot of debris down there most interesting thing

probably was um what appeared to be that broadhead arrow mark But it's one of

those universal characters said you know it stands for the Kings mark What else

can it stand for a directional symbol it may be an arrow?

That was used for a different purpose exactly yeah, I mean that does All that

is is my take on it. That's my part of history that I know.

But, I mean, symbolically, is that symbol used by other people? I don't

know.

Oh, it's a symbol on the 90-foot stone.

Is that right?

Yeah. The triangle's on the 90-foot stone.

The arrow symbol's on the 90-foot stone.

Is it possible that what appears to be a carving of a broad arrow or the king's

mark is something quite different?

Could it be, as Doug Crowell insists, Another important clue?

One linking the carvings found at New Ross to the 90-foot stone found buried

in the Oak Island money pit?

Tim, you've taken the first step on a longer journey.

Yes.

Congratulations.

Welcome to Oak Island.

Okay, let's gear up and go home.

One day after the team's productive investigation at New Ross, Rick, Marty,

and members of the Oak Island team meet with archaeologist Laird Niven. Hello.

Hello. They've invited him to investigate the strange square-shaped

hole found near Dave Blankenship's property.

Okay, Laird, we got something we think really peculiar.

Excellent. A theorist named Zena sent us an old French map that has a bunch of

locations that...

correspond to the island that are known and one of them that's unknown is a

hatch the map is a very rudimentary sketch if you will of the island you

know i mean are we hoping that it's a trap door absolutely but perhaps you

have an explanation of it okay you know and really the only way to do it is to

set eyes on it so yeah why don't we take a look could the so-called hatch really

be evidence of an underground tunnel on oak island perhaps one that leads

directly to the money pit?

It would be incredibly intriguing if he says, well, you guys really are onto

something here. It's a possibility that there's a shaft, a tunnel, a man-made

opening to the area below Oak Island.

I don't know what he's going to say, but perhaps he can give us some insight.

Hit the hole in the ground.

It's odd.

Is it collapsed in, did you say? Some.

Here's the thing. This is all flat.

Then sometime later, all this earth goes somewhere.

Yeah. That's what puzzles us.

Just not a natural phenomenon.

I don't believe it. Not in slate.

Yeah, I definitely agree with that.

Yeah. So, could have been a lot deeper.

Maybe there was a wood hatch, and then it rotted away, and that's what made it

slump all of a sudden.

Jack, we can what if to the...

cows come exactly have you ever seen anything like that i was gonna ask no no

my

first thought was that's strange yes it is strange give you a hand on the

western side of the island rick marty and members of the team have invited

area archaeologist laird niven to help in their investigation of a strange

square-shaped hatch.

If the hatch can be identified as man-made and of ancient origin, then the

brothers may have found another important clue to help them solve the

Oak Island mystery.

It does seem like rocks have been removed.

That's been cut.

That's not natural, and this is pretty loose fill, right?

Mm-hmm.

Keeps going for a bit, you can see.

So you think it goes off to the side?

At least for a little bit.

The thing we obviously want it to be is the entrance to a tunnel.

And there were some evidence of that.

He thought three of the sides were solid, but at least on one side he

thought it might go off somewhat.

It warrants further investigation.

So where should we go? Who should we notify? How do we do this?

Well, if I was to investigate it as an archaeologist, I'd get a permit,

probably remove some of these small trees.

Is there any prohibition against if you're just digging it out with a hand

shovel? I mean, we just don't want to get a follow of the rules, you know?

Right. I couldn't do it without a permit.

I think this is a disclosure deal then. We just tell whoever in the government.

Yeah. Yeah.

We're going to go ahead and disclose it to the authorities. So we have some

permitting issues to work our way through before we dig over there.

Rick and Marty's decision to involve the Canadian government will cost them time,

but will be beneficial to the process in the long run.

There are many who believe that Oak Island is a national treasure and quite

possibly a sacred archaeological site.

Although two centuries of treasure hunting have seen the island dug up,

bulldozed, and even detonated,

The Laginas and their partners have been determined to take a more responsible

and scientific approach.

All right, I think we've done what we need to do here.

Well, we have a logical way to pursue it. Right.

Thank you very much. No problem at all.

We've got the three engineers here. So there are some logistical issues, I

think, with boring down into the money pit.

We have the targets, right? Yeah.

In the war room, Marty Lagina, his partner Craig Tester, and Marty's son

Alex have gathered to discuss the next phase in their exploration of the Oak

Island money pit.

So... Once we get close to the target zones, I mean, they're going to be

bringing up a lot of material that we're going to have to get at least a real

quick look at. Yeah, I could calculate that. Have you calculated how many yards

per foot?

I have not. Let's do that.

We've got the resources, we've got the ability, and we have the drive.

We really hope this is the year.

We want to get to the bottom of this.

So... if you're interested from, say, 115 to 135.

Hey, Rick. What's up? We're just going over casing logistics. So it's about,

yeah, about a yard every three feet. So 30 feet would be 10 yards. It's not

that bad. I mean, it's a lot of material.

It's not if you're looking for a chest.

Yeah, that's the key.

Now, the different size casing downhole...

we'll have a bit of a gap between but that's where i'm starting to get

concerned is that we're just going to get too close what's up with you guys

it's uh it's sad news you know i

just got an email from tom nolan and uh fred

nolan has passed away

The sudden news that 89-year-old landowner and fellow treasure hunter

Fred Nolan has died sends shockwaves through the Oak Island team.

Especially in light of the fact that they had hoped to work more closely with

him this year.

How do you feel about this? I'm sad.

You know, I'm deeply affected by the news. You know, we came here, all of us

came here with this sense of...

putting a stamp to the story.

Then I think you and I specifically, we came here with the quest, part of the

quest, if you will, was to give the aging lions, your father and Fred, a

sense of completion, a sense of here's the proof for between them 110 years of

search, legitimate, hard-won, hard-fought search.

A land surveyor by trade.

Fred Nolan spent more than six decades looking for treasure on Oak Island.

It was Fred who first discovered the mysterious collection of boulders known

as Nolan's Cross.

He did extensive explorations of the island's strange triangle-shaped swamp,

and he also measured and analyzed numerous carvings, artifacts, and other

anomalies that he collected over the years.

I've been at it for so long now that if I didn't Relate this kind of stuff.

Who would put it together again?

Exactly.

You know, I'm not sure how your father's going to take it.

Speaking of which, does he know?

Not yet.

Well, I think we should go tell Dan.

I think so.

Let's do that, guys.

Hey, Daniel.

Hey, Marty.

How are you, partner?

Good.

So, Dan, I have some what I consider

to be sad news.

Fred Nolan has passed away.

For most of their time on Oak Island, Dan Blankenship and Fred Nolan were

engaged in an intense rivalry.

Sit down.

One which only seemed to grow even more bitter with the passage of time.

I mean, it was like the Hatfields and McCoys out here. So now, regretfully,

Fred's passed on, and it will bring change.

I mean, this has always been the Fred Nolan and Dan Blankenship story for 60

-odd years, and now it won't be anymore.

Do you remember when you first met Fred? Oh, yeah. I came up here in 65.

Fred had been on the island for several years earlier than I was.

I had quite a few conversations with him over the period of time.

He's like, I guess, like all treasure hunters. I mean, a little bit on the

secretive side, you know.

You know, I don't know how Dan really sees Fred's passing.

But look, they both persevered in the face of all kinds of adversity.

They risked, they sweated, they worked, they labored towards the common goal.

You don't get any closer than that.

So to that end, I guess they were closer than they thought.

You know, whenever Rick would talk about this place, it was always about, well,

Blankenship's doing this and Nolan's doing that. What we always thought.

or it was our hope that we could work together it was my belief that we did we

did work together it sounds like to me that you see it i think we all do really

we see oak island as a big giant puzzle i know that fred told me once that

that's how he saw it a big giant puzzle that's why they call it the oak island

mission exactly so you know we got to get busy and start putting pieces into

the right places amen amen all right okay then okay off we go we'll get back

to work yeah

Remember, I'm not going anywhere. Oh, you're not?

Oh.

See you, Daniel. See you later, Dad.

Okay, Dave.

Well, all I can say is, you know, it's a partial passing of the old guard, and I

am getting missing.

Okay, but we got to move forward.

We got to move forward.

Siempre avanti.

My mom would always say, siempre avanti, always forward.

Keep going.

How many years work is this map represent?

40, 50 years. Wow.

Fred's passing affected me in two ways. One, it was the fact that he is now gone

and I'll never shake his hand again.

I'll never know what he knew.

And it's impactful with Dan because now there's but one

remaining.

And I want to refocus and re-energize and recommit. Because

out of respect for both of them, I want answers.

For Rick, Marty, and their partners,

Fred's passing is a reminder that life is short.

Progress must continue.

And that the time to solve the Oak Island mystery is now.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

It's the actual start of this money pit dig.

The story of Oak Island revolves around this spot.

We're part of history now. So these are the interesting targets in the swamp.

Let's get out there and get some answers.

The easiest thing is to put a diver back in there.

That's okay.

What is it?

Oh, wow, it's huge.

What is this?

What does that look like? It looks like an X with a hook.

Is that symbol the Templars?