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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

Here we are digging in the money pit. Nothing like this has been done since

1801. Wait till we hit something. You better believe it.

The treasure of Tumbez is the biggest missing treasure of gold.

I think it's on Oak Island.

This could be the year, Dan.

We're poised on the vault. How prophetic is that? We're feet away from what we've

labored for for eight years. Come on, baby.

Wood. Wood.

All beat down.

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.

All right, slamming can't.

Oscillate, baby.

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, what began as a dream more than 50 years ago

has finally become a reality.

They and their partners are digging in the Oak Island Money Pit.

Andrew, make it whole.

Hey, guys. Yes, make it whole.

I love that.

Sinking casing.

You know, when we first started doing this, I'm thinking, man, this is

painfully slow. But you know what? It's not.

It was almost 20 feet buried there already, 15. Yeah, so we're probably two

hours into it, and we're down 15 feet, 13 feet inside, so things are going

well.

With the help of a device known as a casing oscillator, the first of several

5-foot-wide, 30,000-pound steel caissons is driven down into the ground.

It is a method strikingly similar to the one Dan Blackenship employed 45 years

ago. when he dug borehole 10X by using old railway tank cars welded end-to-end.

And just like 10X, the Valley III borehole will be both wide and safe

enough for a diver, should one be required when the team reaches their

target, the Chapel Vault.

In 1897, treasure hunters William Chapel and Frederick Blair

located what they believed to be a seven-foot-tall wooden box.

It was covered in a type of concrete and located approximately 143 feet deep

beneath the surface of the money pit.

What made their find even more astonishing was that their coring bit

also pulled up bits of gold, along with a small piece of paper on which was

written the letters VI.

Definitely got wood.

See what else we might have it was the same wooden vault that Rick and Craig

believed they located two years ago Concrete and then wood that's the

description That discovery coupled with several weeks of painstaking research

Have suggested to the Oak Island team that this is the best location for their

first major excavation

We're going to go pick up the next extension, 24 feet long, put it in

place, bolt it on, 16 bolts, and we're sinking can, driving can. Sinking can,

making hole.

You know what? We made substantial progress here, and it's basically

historic. Nothing like this has been done, in my opinion, since the original

money pit, because everybody else was guessing.

We know exactly what we're headed for. I mean, even Chapel and Hedden, they were

guessing.

So this is the first time someone has actually drilled with a target, I'd say

since 1801 or so. Yep. It is historic.

Here we are digging in the money pit.

Finally. Yeah, finally.

Wait till we hit something.

You better believe it. As Ken says, keep slamming Ken.

It's pretty exciting. You know, nothing's falling apart.

We seem to be on target.

Something is actually all coming together on Oak Island.

As the 24-foot-long steel caisson grinds slowly into the ground, an 8-ton digging

tool known as a hammer grab excavates the earth.

Each extraction, also known as spoils, is then loaded onto a truck and

transported some 1,000 yards away, near the middle of the island on Lot 25.

First, the spoils are unloaded.

Hey, Jack, why don't you grab the backhoe and let's spread these spoils

out. Then, Jack Begley and island historian Charles Barkhouse will

carefully examine them for artifacts or bits of debris that could provide

important evidence.

Down more. There you go. Now just back up.

That's better.

It's perfect.

As we dig in the money pit, we have to look at what we're digging up. Do you

want to pick out any wood that you see?

I'll go over and take a look before you go over there.

So we need to keep those spoils separate, and we will make sure we

analyze them.

Guess what?

What? Another dowel hole.

I'm coming out.

What? I got one with the dowel in it right here. Are you serious? Wow.

See? There's the dowel right here.

Oh, great.

We've got to do some research, see if we can find how these shafts were

constructed, and maybe we know where these came from.

That's why it's important to save all this stuff.

Although the team's first target in the money pit, the mysterious chapel vault,

is approximately 140 feet deep underground, there is no telling what a

search of the spoils might turn up. We're finding a lot of wood from other

tunnels, from other shafts.

It's a possibility it could be what we call the Dunfield spoils.

When Robert Dunfield undertook a massive excavation of the site in 1965,

the spoils were never properly examined.

Although much of the excavated material was later used to fill the 135-foot deep

hole back in, valuable evidence and possible treasure was lost or destroyed.

You want to get your metal detector and start going over this stuff?

There's a possibility that there could be something in those spoils. And the

fact that area is going to change dramatically, we have a perfect

opportunity today to go through it and hopefully find something.

Anything, Jack?

Maybe. Using the Minelab CTX 3030 handheld metal detector, Jack

Begley begins scouring the area for evidence.

Wow, it's way above the line there.

What do you got, Jack?

Oh.

Is it a nail?

Oh, there it is.

It's a bullet.

You know what? You're right.

It's a shell casing.

A shell casing?

From a bullet?

Could this have been left behind by someone hunting on the island decades

ago?

And if so, what was the prey?

Was it animal or human?

And we know it came from down in the money pit area.

Yeah. All right. I'm going to see if there's anything else.

That sounds different, Jack.

Yeah, we got something.

Yeah.

This is very curious.

What you got, Jack?

Take a look at that.

I got a really weird hit off this. When you say weird, you mean weird good or

just weird?

Well, it started off looking like silver.

It could be.

A silver object found in the spoils of the Money Pit excavation?

Look at how perfectly round it is. Could Jack Bagley and Charles Barkhouse have

just found an important clue? Something previously overlooked by Robert

Dunfield. Looks really weird to me, though. It does look weird.

Or could they be looking at something even more significant?

Perhaps even a small piece of the treasure itself?

I have no idea what that is. It's very curious, no question about that.

It's very dense. Yeah. It's very heavy.

Yeah, it is.

Okay, Jack, I'm going to put this in the bag.

All right, we're almost done with this first pile, Charles. Yeah, I know.

Like all of the artifacts found on the island, the metal object Jack discovered

must be cleaned, photographed, weighed, and analyzed to see if it has any

significance, either geologically or historically.

We're done with pile one. Amen. Let's move on to pile two. Sounds like a plan.

Let's do it.

On day two, as the Oak Island team's momentous operation at the Money Pit

continues, Rick, Marty, and their partners gather at the

nearby Atlantica Resort and await the arrival of a special visitor.

So, Randall Sullivan, I think, Charles, you know of him? Yeah, he wrote the

article in Rolling Stone magazine a number of years ago, and he's doing a

little research in the area.

In January of 2004, investigative journalist and author Randall Sullivan

published an article in Rolling Stone magazine entitled The Curse of Oak

Island. It featured a detailed history of the search for treasure on the

island. as well as compelling interviews with rival treasure hunters Fred Nolan

and Dan Blankenship.

Now, more than a decade after his article's publication,

Randall Sullivan has returned to Nova Scotia in hopes of writing the Oak

Island Mysteries final chapter.

It's five to six feet per day.

Hello. Oh.

Randall. Nice to meet you, finally. Good to meet you.

How are you?

I'm Marty. Hi, Marty.

Nice to meet you.

Have a seat. Have a seat.

So, I just want to say one thing. I love that article. I thought it was

absolutely phenomenal.

It was well done.

Well done, very concise.

I have two copies still at home.

Thank you.

Investigative journalist is the way to describe yourself.

Well, yeah, I'd say my books either fall into one or two categories,

investigative journalism or literary journalism.

What was the response to that article?

You know, it astonished me how many people didn't know about the story and

were completely entranced by it. And the story just didn't go away because the

mystery has not gone away.

It's never been solved. And the feeling that you walked away or I walked away

from something, it wasn't done and I wasn't done with it.

Finally, I had...

a free moment and my publisher was finally ready to say hey you should do a

book which is why i'm here oh really you're writing a book now i am well i'm

not writing it yet i'm researching it you're researching it what do you find

is the most intriguing aspect of the search from an informational point of

view you know i completely dismiss the pirate theory because you know pirates

would dig a hole maybe 10 feet deep and come back when they were ready. But I

didn't know then about what the pirates did in Tortuga, where they created a

system of tunnels that rivals what's been done on Oak Island. So there were

pirate engineers.

Of the many theories concerning treasure being hidden on Oak Island, perhaps the

most popular and persistent is that it was most likely the work of Spanish or

Portuguese pirates.

who were known to sail the waters in and around Nova Scotia during the 17th and

18th centuries.

But those who doubt that a sophisticated system of underground flood tunnels and

movie traps could be engineered by rowdy, rum-soaked buccaneers might be in

for a surprise.

The popular notion that pirates were swarthy illiterates who sported peg legs

and eye patches is largely a fiction.

Some, like Francis Drake, were highly respected noblemen.

Others, like Henry Morgan and Captain Kidd, were educated seamen and shrewd

businessmen.

Just as sophisticated were many members of their crews, who often included

doctors, masons, carpenters, and experts in almost every profession.

What tags into people about this mystery?

I think it's because Oak Island's not just a search for treasure.

It's also a search for meaning.

And nothing engages people like the search for meaning.

And that's actually what engages me in terms of writing a book. I mean, I hope

you find a treasure. But to me, it's the story and the mystery of it that is

really compelling.

Well, you two share that.

Yeah, my impression is you feel the same way.

Your story was named The Curse of Oak Island. You believe in the curse?

Well, actually, one of the things that really struck me deeply when I was here

those years ago on Oak Island was misty and foggy and damp the whole time, but I

just, the place felt haunted.

The reason for, you know, the curse is that...

So much has been lost there. And when Dan first took me to the Money Pit area,

the first thing that struck me was all the wrecked equipment.

Because back then, I mean, it was just scattered all over the place. And it's

sort of almost like the history of the failures of these different expeditions,

which in many cases devastated lives. I mean, people couldn't let it go.

I'm hoping that we're going to have a mutual assistance league here. Oh, of

course. So I'm picking up that the money pit is the focus of what you're doing.

Absolutely, yeah.

I mean, we have to, you can't leave that island without digging in the money pit,

can you? I understand, I understand.

It's got so much history. If I was you guys, I would want to find out what's

down there. Yeah, you've got to know what's down there. I tell you what, why

don't you come on over to the island and have a look around? You haven't been

yet, right? Not in how many years?

13 years. All right, it's time.

You will find the money pit much changed. Oh, yes.

Much changed.

This

goes

up to our big project where we built this big platform. This is where things

are going to look a lot different to you.

Here you go. This is it. I mean, and it's big.

Come close to recognizing it.

you know i'm thinking that randall is going to have a little gasp or a little

hiccup in his voice because it's radically changed

i

mean it's i'm just looking at him when dan

brought me back up here 13 years ago this was you know you know patches of

grass

But you did feel all this history. You know, you did feel the layers of all

these things that had happened. We're going to stop now, right? So you're

going to get right to them.

That's what I hope we have not, quote-unquote, buried history.

Nature will reclaim that so fast, and it'll look just the same.

I mean, you have a choice. You're either going to preserve a museum or, you know,

dig. An active search agenda, absolutely.

Not to put you in the same category with Dunfield, but this is the biggest

excavation, first major excavation since him, right? It is, absolutely.

This is so much different than Dunfield.

Dunfield's methodology, this is surgery compared to what he did.

Just imagine if the ghosts of the 19th century could see this.

There is something here, call it what you will, but there's a wonderful story

written beneath our feet.

I want to follow that story, and hopefully some of what I learn will be

of use to you. As far as Randall is concerned, I think it's going to be

helpful. He comes from an investigative journalistic background, and you set his

nose to something, and he's going to follow the trail as far as it goes. So

that's going to be very, very helpful.

Randall Sullivan is clearly a good writer and a talented researcher, and if

he can unearth something that's helpful to us, we're...

Wide open arms.

Bring it.

Okay, well, here's the deal. When you write it, make us look good, okay?

The tough-minded Marty and the chivalrous Rick.

I think it's going to lead us somewhere.

I think we're all going to be very, very surprised.

I'm already very surprised.

The massive amount of work you've already done, the massive amount of work

you're still going to do, I sure hope it pays off.

Me too.

I like that thought.

You got your sludge?

Yeah, I grabbed some rebar and some mallets and a sludge.

Okay, let's go see if it pawns through.

As operations at the Money Pit site continue, Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and

his stepson Jack Bankley return to the area on the western end of the island

where just a few weeks earlier... Yeah, I think this is it here.

They found what appeared to be a mysterious hatchway carved in stone.

Holy smokes.

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

something. That's very, very odd.

The hatch was located with the help of what is reportedly an ancient map, which

was provided to the team by New York-based writer and researcher Zena

Halpern.

It was during this meeting that Halpern shared with the team not only the map,

but two other documents that she claims were hidden in a book and which she

believes connect Oak Island to the activities of the Knights Templar as far

back as the 12th century.

When Jack Begley later superimposed Zena's map with a photograph of Oak

Island. Look at the top of that.

It follows it perfectly.

The location of the hatch lined up almost exactly to a place on the island

where Dave Blankenship had noticed a deep impression in the ground near his

property. This hatch lands kind of where David said the hole is. Yeah.

Well, it's not sunk. Kind of surprising.

Ever since Zena's map surfaced about the hatch, we need to decide, does it lead

somewhere? Is there really a tunnel underneath that or not? Is there a

doorway to an underground complex?

We need to decide that, yes or no.

After obtaining a permit to dig at what might very well be an important

archaeological site, Rick, Craig, and Jack have returned to see if the hatch

might possibly be a back door or gateway into the money pit.

I'm an old man, you understand that, right? Oh, yeah. You see it slip, you...

Let her go.

It's still going down?

No. Yeah, it's kind of stopped there now.

I'd say it got close to a foot down before it really hit something hard.

If a man dug here, it would have had to have been at least a couple feet wide, I

mean two or three feet in length or something. So let's probe around.

It's only got to here, right?

Somewhere in there?

Yeah. Why don't we try a couple?

More little holes.

There it looks like it stopped.

Yeah.

Same depth.

We got to here.

It could be stopping because it's hitting a solid piece of slate like

this. If this fills up with water, which it should every time it rains, it's

going to deteriorate the bottom. So it's going to be softer to start off and then

you'll hit the hard stuff.

You have to have a way down. You have to have a man-size opening, and it's only

going that depth and no further everywhere you've put it so far. I think

we found the bottom. I mean, I definitely think this is man-made. Yep,

I do too.

I mean, you want something to be something so badly, i.e., you want it to

be soft material, and we dig our way down into something.

but it sunk uniformly across the bottom of the so-called hatch.

At that point, you have to assume that it's just bedrock.

Is there a possibility there was already something here and it was dug out?

There is theories. I mean, Fred felt there was chest all around the island.

Multiple treasure chests that had been retrieved. I think he thought there were

11 sites where shallow treasures were recovered.

Shallow treasures?

Is it possible?

that what the team believed could be an entrance into the money pit was actually

a hole where Treasure was once buried and later filled in after the treasure

was retrieved.

Could it be? Yes. Do I want to say that?

No, because that's one less thing we can recover.

But again, it's the why of it. This whole island is one big question mark.

And the biggest question is why?

Yeah. Well, we're due answers soon.

Today, we surely didn't say, okay, this isn't worth exploring. This isn't worth

pursuing. We surely didn't cross it off our search agenda.

So, you know, again, not to use a pun, but the door on the hatch is not closed.

Okay. Great attempt.

It's time to move on. You need to keep doing your work. All right. Okay.

This island, I've said it innumerable times, if this island is about nothing

else, it's about many things.

One of which surely is, this is an island of possibilities.

Might that be the hatch?

Sure, it might.

A new day begins on Oak Island.

And the team from Irving Equipment Limited arrives on schedule.

as the giant casing oscillator continues to grind the steel caisson into the

rocky ground.

The Oak Island team is now just a few precious feet away from reaching their

target, the mysterious wooden structure that lies 143 feet beneath the surface

of the money pit.

Meanwhile, on the western side of the island, author and investigative

journalist Randall Sullivan.

Along with Charles Barkhouse.

After you. Have arranged a meeting with veteran treasure hunter and local

legend, Dan Blankenship. Hey. Hi, Dan. How are you?

I'm good. It's good to see you. Long time no see.

It has been.

You look as good as ever.

It is the first time Randall and Dan have met since Randall's story about Oak

Island first appeared in the pages of Rolling Stone more than 10 years ago.

Long time no see.

13 years.

Right. A lot of water's gone under the dam, that's for sure. Yeah. When I was

out here before, it was just you and me and your wife.

And now so much has happened, and Rick and Marty have opened new doors. Yeah.

I was really happy to see what Rick and Marty were doing in the money pit.

Hopefully this year we'll maybe get you some conclusions.

Hopefully. I've been here for a long time.

I'd like to have some positive answers one way or the other.

This could be the year, Dan. Oh, yes.

What brought you here?

Well, the article wasn't enough.

I decided I need to do a book.

So I've come back to... You still in the business?

That's what I do.

Oh.

Dan, I was always really dismissive of the pirate theory.

What exactly do you mean?

From the coast of Brazil all the way to Newfoundland, there were pirates all

along here.

Yeah, they used the northern hemisphere. Oh, yes. That's part of the northern

hemisphere. Would any one pirate group have accumulated enough treasure to be

worth what was done on Oak Island?

You know, I've always had a hard time believing that this amount of work was

done to keep it secret unless there was something really profound and important.

Well, that observation you made is a good one.

How much research have you really done on the ancient history of the

possibilities of...

Whatever was done on Oak Island.

A fair bit.

Have you? Yeah. Well, then you're well aware of Pizarro coming back from

Spain to sack Peru.

At that time when he left, they were eating out of gold plates in Peru.

And when he came back, even though he left a Spanish missionary there,

everything was gone.

Are you aware of that?

Yeah, I'm very aware of it. That treasure, the treasure of Tumbes, is the

biggest missing treasure of gold.

There's no doubt there was an enormous fortune in gold.

In 1524, Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro led an expedition

to Peru, where he encountered the people of the great Inca Empire in the ancient

city of Tumbes.

Pizarro was astonished by the Incas' vast amounts of gold and silver used to

make everything from dishes to garments by the native people.

Pizarro returned to Spain and convinced King Charles V to allow him more ships

and men to conquer the city of Tumbes and bring the vast riches back home to

the crown.

However, it has been reported that when the conquistador and his fleet returned

to the inca city several years later they found it in ruins and the vast

treasures of tumbez had vanished without a trace there's a lot of credence in it

because according to what i've read there had to be a sizable fortune you

know there's a convincing historical record that that treasure existed

because pizarro wasn't the only one who saw it there were other witnesses i mean

i don't think there's any question that there was basically a city of gold in

Tumbes.

It is the single greatest missing treasure, but it's hard for me to

believe they could have gotten that from Peru to Nova Scotia. Why would it be any

harder to believe that than to believe whatever is out there, you know?

Well, I'm not ruling it out.

It does defy the imagination.

Don't misunderstand me. There's a lot of very possible theories of what could be

buried here. I know you have your theory. Fred had his theory. There's a

lot of theories out there. I have no conclusions. No, but just a theory.

There's still theories. Oh, absolutely.

Dan, grateful for your time. You know so much. You are living history.

Always a pleasure, Dan.

Always a pleasure.

Anytime, Charles.

Okay. You take care.

You too.

Nice meeting you again.

So where are we? How close are we to target?

About four feet, I think. From our old ground level, we're at

137 with the casing.

If Craig Tester's calculations are correct, the Oak Island team is within

minutes of reaching the place where two years ago, he and Rick Lagina found what

appeared to be wooden planks which matched the description of the so-called

Chapel Vault, first discovered more than 100 years ago.

Look, we're very close.

We're feet away from what we've labored for.

This is as close as anybody has got.

We're on the edge of our seat.

Get a hell of a lot that time.

The first sign that we have reached the vault should be that we start bringing

up some...

significant quantities of wood. That's what we expect.

That's what we anticipate.

So far, Rick, Marty, Craig, and the Oak Island team are justifiably anxious.

We better find some wood.

The money pit operation has cost them more than $2 million so far.

And the spoils brought to the surface by the hammer grab consist only of soil,

rocks, and other natural materials.

So right now, we're 22 inches with our casing from vault and 14 inches with our

excavation. 14. Okay, you're going to lower the casing one more time? We're

going down 12 inches now, so that'll put the two at the same elevation, and then

we're going to be roughly a foot away.

Okay. It's moving pretty quick through here.

We'll see.

Let's let him do it.

Now that the massive caisson has nearly reached what could be the so-called

chapel vault, The team from Irving Equipment Limited is drilling and

digging at a slower rate. This is done so that potential damage to the target

will hopefully be minimized.

But if located, what could the mysterious box contain?

Pirate gold?

Priceless religious artifacts like the Ark of the Covenant or the Holy Grail?

Or... could it contain the lost treasures of the ancient incas

it's the deepest deepest 14 inches yeah 14 inches away from an

answer or another question why didn't we hit it yeah as the hammer grab

emerges from the hole with only mud the oak island team becomes increasingly

concerned come on bring up a skull or something could they have miscalculated

the precise location of the mysterious wooden structure they located two years

ago okay look here's what i think i think it's going perfectly i mean i know

we're on pins and needles because 12 inches or so we should set down on wood

that's what we're hoping right it's almost it's almost inconceivable to

think that we're not going to touch wood we're going to rick we're going to i

have confidence

You know what? I'm usually the skeptic, but we're going to find something made

of wood at 140 feet because we know it's there. Yeah.

And I think that's what's going to happen. I do. I love your attitude. I

do. Yeah.

There. Feel better? I don't feel bad.

This is typical Oak Island. There will be an answer. There won't be.

The drill has now reached its target depth.

But there is still no sign of the mysterious wooden structure.

How are you feeling?

I'd be willing to go to 145.

145, nothing there. Then you got to say, you know what? We misinterpreted. We

miscalculated. Yeah.

We believe, we certainly believe that there's something there. Now, is it the

vault? I don't know. I mean, I've been on this roller coaster, Oak Island Raid,

we all have for a long time.

But we believe at this point that we're very close to... An answer.

An answer, exactly.

See any wood, dude? No wood, no wood. No wood.

Come on, man, where's my wood?

there's more sludge thinking we should have already hit the wood but i can't

believe we haven't hit something it's okay it's there

come

on baby

Wood. Wood.

All be damned.

Look at that.

Looks like there's wood in that one. Yeah.

Yeah, I think it is. I think so.

Has the steel caisson finally reached its target and located the mysterious

wooden structure Rick Lagina and Craig Tester discovered?

two years ago when that hammer grab gets past the casing all eyes are on that

target i think everybody's going oh my goodness because you can see the wood

coming off of it all

be damned look at that wood we got

wood or wood it's within a foot of where we believed it to be where the

historical record says it should be and there's wood okay so the wood is right

on schedule did you anybody doubt it never for a minute yes it's

exciting but i want to be absolutely certain we've hit the vault i'm positive

at this point we've hit what we cored whatever that is we're about to find out

if it's the vault or not okay let's dig

Wait, we want to keep digging now? Yes.

We found it. Let's dig it up. Well, we have to be very careful at this point.

No, we don't. We need that thing back in the hole.

Rick, it's already been breached.

We know it's been breached with drill holes several times. We're not going to

wreck anything.

It's been breached.

At this point, I'd like an all-stop moment because I do not want to blow

into this thing.

I believe in my heart of hearts that there's something that is very

significant historically and archaeologically, and I think we need to

take a deep breath, a long, deep breath.

It's all elementary, is my point. I'm not expecting to enter, like, a nice,

pristine cave.

Are you?

I don't want to be a smartass. We need clarity. Right now, we don't have

clarity. We need to proceed slowly.

Well, let's just quit then.

Right now, we fall into two camps.

Should we aggressively excavate this thing or shall we try and be less

invasive? And it bears saying this is hideously expensive.

We have a lot of equipment, people, and they need to get paid whether they're

running or not.

That's the rub.

What do you think?

What do you need to say, I'll stop or go to a different method?

I think if you have some definitive proof that you're sitting on cement.

I don't think we got that.

There's never been a better time to keep digging than right now.

You say.

That's your call, son.

After making a discovery that they hope will help solve the Oak Island mystery,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina now find themselves at a crossroads.

Should they use the giant hammer grab to lift up whatever lies within the wooden

box?

Or should they wait?

and explore the area more cautiously so that the possible contents of the box

might remain intact.

What would you do? You know the historical context. You know how

important it is.

You know, you have a sense. It's been breached before, though. You need to

know that. By an inch and a quarter. There's no way there's an intact vault

there. I would suggest that we push on it first before we keep cutting.

and see what it does, see if it gives us that resistance.

And if it does, then we know we need to look at other options of excavating out

or, you know, protecting it. You guys make that call.

Many people disagree sometimes, and Rick has a long history of disagreeing with

me. But I learned a long time ago that what Rick said is wise, is smart, and

that is to stop, don't worry about the expenses for a little bit, take a deep

breath, and think.

If you have to walk off and be by yourself, or with our group in our case,

and think it through, that's just smart.

My angst comes from where it has always come from, that I think something

amazing happened here and that I don't want to just brute force it. The

wonderful thing is that we have, obviously, several options.

That's where I'm at.

You know, we could think about it, so.

Okay, so I say we go and kick this around.

Yeah. Let's go back and talk a little. Okay.

let's be done all right i'm happy with that decision it's an emotional roller

coaster and i try not to let myself ride it but we do ride it because we're just

humans all right shut down for tonight good day excellent day man well done

well done well done you guys it is a time of both excitement and satisfaction

on oak island okay let's go as rick marty craig and the team decide

to suspend operations after making what looks to be a huge discovery.

This is the most momentous decision we need to make.

It's tangible now. We're within arm's reach of a box, vault, whatever.

We mustn't make a mistake.

Up until now, the goal of the team has been to find out what lies buried in the

money pit.

Now that they may have found something, they have yet another problem to solve.

What do they do next?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

There's something very significant in there, and I want to proceed slowly.

I don't want to do that. We have to find something.

That wouldn't scare me.

Whoa!

it's a coin oh wow look at that oh it's over 200 years old there's a lot of

uncertainty are we really going to destroy whatever it is down there that

ain't good we think there's almost 3 000 gallons in that hole and now we don't

know what to do