Original subtitles

Tonight on the curse of oak island...

We need to connect

the cobble path in the swamp

to this path that leads to the money pit.

-That may be our "x" on the ground. -Yes.

It's the historic season finale.

-Oh, my gosh. - Wow.

-That's old. This is off a ship. -It's off a ship.

Jack: That might actually be the thing that solves the mystery.

-Oh, oh, oh. - What do you got?

-What is that? -I've never seen anything like that before.

-It's incredible. -This is the first direct evidence

-of real treasure.

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 a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it,

mysterious fragments of human bone,

and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back

to the days of the knights templar.

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.

There is every reason to believe,

down in those holes, that there is

something close by that contains a very large

amount of silver.

I guess I'm still trying to get a mental picture

of how much silver it would take to give these levels.

Like, is it a handful of silver or is it

-a gerhardt dump truck load of silver? -It's a gerhardt dump truck.

-Aw, baby. -Oh, no way!

In the war room, geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

has just shared a report

of the water sampling tests conducted earlier this week

in a number of boreholes across the money pit area,

including borehole c-1,

with brothers rick and marty lagina,

their partner craig tester,

and members of their team.

The empirical scientific data may confirm

what people have been trying to prove for 226 years:

That a vast treasure really does lie buried on oak island.

I'm trying to refrain from getting too excited,

but-but I'm starting to. How rare is this?

-That's what I'm trying-- yeah. -Well, it's rare.

I don't think it's a common thing that I've ever seen

in water samples in nova scotia.

C-1 is uncontaminated.

I mean, I can't see how c-1 would have contamination in it.

And it was in that hole that the shiny gold thing

was found that we're still looking for

to this day. If that was

-a golden alloy of such, you know, -Mm-hmm.

Maybe that was one piece of what we're looking for.

-Yup. -Yeah.

There's something down there.

If you took a huge-- a room like this full of silver,

put it down there, you would have

a similar signature that you have here in the water.

Wow.

Ever since oak island historian charles barkhouse

first recommended that rick, marty and craig

drill the borehole known as c-1

five years ago, it has continued to leave them

wondering if it might be connected

to the original money pit treasure shaft.

Right there. What the hell is that?

After the original six-inch borehole

encountered a ten-foot-high void,

or chamber, some 170 feet deep, containing a mysterious

shiny gold object embedded in the wall...

It's your gold color.

Yeah, there's another piece of it there, too.

Yeah, another piece.

...The team expanded the hole

to a four-foot diameter,

allowing numerous dive operations

in the subsequent years,

attempting to verify just what was down there.

What's this? Is this another one?

I can see gold.

These investigations,

although non-definitive so far, have led to the discovery

of a possible tunnel leading away

from the mysterious chamber,

as well as at least three more gold-colored objects

embedded in the wall.

To me, the results of the water study, thus far,

are the most significant thing that has occurred

in and around the money pit.

Now we have evidence

that there's a high concentration of treasure

connected to c-1. It's more than significant.

It's an aha moment.

To me, this is the first direct evidence,

direct indication, of treasure that we've had.

-Yup. -Everything else we've run has been inferential, right?

We look for cavities, and we look for things

that might be associated.

-This is a direct measurement. -Right.

So, would you go back to the same locations

and take sediment samples?

Yeah, I would like to look in the sediments because,

especially in c-1,

any metals available in the water should attach to that.

-Well, we can get you that. -I can just core it with my corer.

-That'd be great. -Yeah.

If this were June, I think we might try

to marshal forces to exploit this discovery.

But, as it is, time is closing in,

weather is closing in.

There's just not enough assets to enable that to happen.

But we can follow up on this testing

and really put our minds to trying to come up with

the options that this discovery presents.

Excellent. Excellent data and, honestly, really exciting.

You know, first direct indication of the metals we seek

-and the story they might tell. -Mm-hmm.

So, thanks, and I think it's time to get back to work.

-Yup. -Thanks.

Thanks, guys.

-Gonna core c-1? -Yup.

The following morning...

I'll let you lower it down.

...While dr. Spooner and alex lagina prepare

to collect sediment samples from borehole c-1,

in the uplands near the northeastern border

of the man-made, triangle-shaped swamp...

There's all stones under here, rick.

Look. Stone, stone, stone.

...Rick lagina and charles barkhouse

continue working with archeologists

dr. Aaron taylor and miriam amirault,

heavy equipment operator billy gerhardt,

and metal detection expert gary drayton

to uncover more sections of the cobblestone pathway.

-Ooh. Look. - What you got?

-Oh, that's definitely a piece of pottery. -Oh, that's a...

-Yeah. Yeah. - That's, like, the bottom of a plate or something.

Now, with just a few days left

before the first snowfall is expected on oak island

and the end of major search activities

that they will be able to conduct this year,

it is their hope to determine just where the pathway leads

and if any valuable objects can be found hidden within it.

Hey, guys.

Hey, aaron.

How's it going?

Well, you tell us.

-Here's what we've come up with. -Holy cow.

That just came out of--

-I dug that out of right there. -Okay.

So we have the annular ware,

british ceramic, comes in 1751.

Then we have the creamware,

which comes in 1762, '63.

See, you have such a different variety.

The question was raised:

Will this road lead us to x? Possible treasure?

Sure. It's a possibility,

but the hope is that we'll find some artifacts

which can be tested to create

a proper timeline and an understanding

of why that feature was built.

But this certainly is a very unique feature,

and we have to follow it to the end.

All right, this is great, you guys.

I'll go get a bag for you.

But, in the meantime, you can just keep putting your artifacts

-in this little dustpan. -Okay.

And just keep going, and I will

-be back shortly. -Okay. -Okay.

-definitely seems to be more rock back here. -Yeah.

-Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. -What do you got?

What do you got?

That is something different there.

Round. Look at that.

See that?

What is that? Metal? What is it?

Oh, I can see it's round, yeah.

What is that?

That is like nothing I've ever seen before.

Heavy, too.

It's defninitely different. Look at that.

In the uplands near the northeastern border

of the swamp, rick lagina has just made

a peculiar discovery along the cobblestone pathway.

That's cool.

The coloration on it is strange.

There's some markings on the end, too.

-Is there? -Look at it.

See that right there?

Yeah.

Some kind of a number, isn't it?

-Is that "55"? -I see a five.

Do you think it's some kind of a weight or something?

A possible metal weight?

Found along the stone pathway bordering the swamp?

What might have been its purpose?

Could it be a tool of some kind?

Like the possible stonemason's t-square

discovered two weeks ago near this area

and which was carbon-dated to as early as 1632?

That, without question, is the strangest thing

I've seen come out of the ground.

It does look like a number on that side right there.

That is a prime candidate for xrf.

Oh, yeah. For sure.

X-ray fluorescence analysis,

or xrf,

is a process which employs non-destructive radiation

in order to determine an object's chemical composition.

It will also identify whether or not the metal used

to make the artifact is of a precious nature.

This is a significantly interesting area.

Anyway, let's see what else we can find.

Okay.

As rick and charles look for more clues

along the stone pathway in the uplands...

Smell that, steve?

That's the smell of treasure.

...On lot 32,

near the southwestern border of the swamp,

metal detection expert gary drayton,

surveyor steve guptill,

and heavy equipment operator billy gerhardt,

are hoping to make more important discoveries

of their own.

It was near this area that, just one week ago,

gary found a lead bag seal

bearing a mysterious cross-like symbol

and which might date back to as early as the 14th century.

Now we're in the deeper layers.

Now we stand a chance.

there's something there.

Let's have a look. Oh!

Yeah, you're right, billy.

Look at that.

-And it came from very deep. -Look at that, steve.

That is definitely... That's old.

- That looks old. -Look at that. That's an old piece of wood.

It's got that nice, crude round hole.

Wouldn't be too small to be part of a wharf.

-Yeah, I know. -I would imagine this is off a ship.

-It's off a ship. -Yeah. Wow.

Could gary be correct?

That they have unearthed a piece of wood

that came from a ship?

If so, might it be connected to the pieces

of possible ship's railing found in the southern portion

of the swamp one month ago?

Or perhaps the massive 200-foot- long ship-shaped anomaly

detected in the swamp by seismic scanning in 2018?

This is nice, mate.

It kind of reminds me of a latch.

-Like to close a door. -Yeah.

-On a door or a hold, right? -Yeah. - This is really close

to the ship's railing that we found right there.

And this lines up with our ship anomaly.

So, I mean, if we're going to find parts of a ship,

-this is where we're going to find it. -Yeah. Yeah.

I'd be very surprised if that weren't off a ship.

-That's a really cool find, mate. -Yeah.

- That's a great find. -Yeah, it is great.

- Good eye, billy. -Yup.

The following morning...

-Hey, guys. -Hey.

So, guess what we're going to talk about.

-Swamp! -There ya go!

...Rick lagina and members of the team

have arranged to meet via videoconference

with marty and craig,

who have returned to michigan

for important business.

I sent you on some pictures about this item

that I found, and it's-- it's very strange.

I showed it to doug and scott.

We put it on the microscope last night and doug

-thought he saw something. - Yeah.

It had milled edges on it.

-Hmm. -The ends are indented,

and there seems to be some markings inside them.

The closest comparisons we can find

-are trade weights. -Wow.

A possible trade weight?

Recovered along the cobblestone pathway in the swamp?

Dating back to the middle ages,

as europe became the center of world trade,

merchants used trade weights as the standard method

for weighing different kinds of goods.

Now the question is:

Just exactly what type of goods

was this trade weight being used to measure?

And the xrf says that it's mostly copper.

It weighs 45 grams.

That's just about as close as you can get

to one-tenth of a pound.

-Yeah. -Mm-hmm. -And, doug, tell them

the interesting part about what it might mean.

We were just trying to see if the 45 grams matched

an ounce measure in any culture or time period.

And the only thing that seems to line up right now

is a troy ounce, which, of course, a troy ounce

is used to measure precious metals.

Hmm.

A troy ounce?

Believed to have originated as far back

as the early 14th century in troyes, France,

the so-called troy ounce

was a unit of measurement equal to approximately 31 grams

and was specifically employed for weighing precious metals

such as silver or gold coins.

Is it possible that this trade weight

may be connected to the other potentially

telling discoveries made on oak island this year?

Such as the 15th-century pieces of wood cargo barrels,

also found along the stone pathway,

or perhaps the massive amounts of silver

that have just been detected deep in the money pit area.

I don't think the average farmer

would have a set of trade weights.

But these things were in use for a long, long time.

And they were used by, generally speaking,

whoever was handling the money.

Somebody with means, somebody with metals to divide up.

It suggests to me a level of sophistication

on whatever it is we're chasing.

Honestly, it does look very like a balance weight

for trading something that would be valuable

-down to the tenth of a pound. -Mm-hmm.

And, aaron, you have to give it context, right? If it's found

next to a bunch of other stuff that are quite old,

-it's really hard for it to be modern, right? -Yeah, you know,

that's what we can associate it with.

-Yeah. -You know, I just think

that some very strange items are coming out

-of the road and the path. -Yeah.

We've started to leapfrog up the hill,

and we're finding evidence of a road.

-Yup. -And, eventually,

hopefully, we'll end up figuring out where this road is going to.

Yeah. Hopefully before the weather and time

closes us out, we'll find more things.

-Yup. -Get after it.

We'll get back out there. See ya!

Bravo tango. Here we come.

-Hey, aaron. Hi, miriam. -Hey, guys.

Hi, miriam. Hi, aaron.

So we've got a little something

to show you guys.

One day after discovering

a possible treasure trade weight,

rick lagina and geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

return to the uplands near the northeastern border

of the swamp.

We're trying to see if this cobble is a path

and if it's continuing,

so we came down on these stones.

They are eager to receive an update

from archeologists miriam amirault

and dr. Aaron taylor on their investigation

of the cobblestone pathway feature.

We're coming down on a burn layer.

-We've got concentration of charcoal. -Right.

You've got stones looking sort of circular.

Something might've happened here

that displaced the stone, but now there seems

there's a hearth in the middle of the road.

We don't have an explanation for that.

Well, we've got coal

on the, uh, cobble pathway and on the stone road.

We've got slag.

So we've got the sense of perhaps a forge.

A forge or blacksmith's furnace

found along the pathway?

If so, could it be more evidence

of major human activity centuries before the discovery

of the money pit in 1795?

And might it be another important clue

connected to an effort to hide something

of great value on oak island?

One would have thought that,

when we uncovered the stone road,

that it would have been an easy understanding

of where that stone road led.

But we don't at this point.

It's frustrating because

we have these tantalizing clues--

the slag, the coal, an early date for the road.

We're close, but we're not there.

So, my next question is, of course,

where do you go next?

So, I think we go back up to where you're standing,

uh, just to get a complete look at what this is.

Miriam: Especially because we have cobbles right in that corner,

-and we'd want to see if they keep going. -Yeah.

So, that's what we'll do. We'll just keep taking

this back and, you know, I probably

want to expand that way again.

No, look. It's a great, great plan,

but time and weather conspire.

-So let's get after it. -Yeah. All right.

-Okay. Good luck! -See you soon. -Thank you.

As archeologists miriam amirault

and dr. Aaron taylor

continue their investigation in the uplands,

later that afternoon...

-Hey, rick. -Hey.

Where did all that dirt come from?

We keep digging and we keep coming up with more dirt.

-Rick lagina heads to lot 25,

where archaeologists laird niven

and liz michels, along with alex lagina and david fornetti,

are finishing up their investigation for the year

at the 18th-century homestead

that once belonged to samuel ball.

Is there another shovel?

There's a square-headed one here.

This year, the team has made a number

of compelling discoveries in their quest to find out how

the former american slave turned farmer

mysteriously became one of the wealthiest landowners

in nova scotia by the early 19th century.

As you look outward, what is the potential

for further understanding of samuel and his life?

What is going on here?

I think we've got a lot more work to do

just around the cellar, and then I think

what I'd really like to see is more historical work done.

To get some ideas of economic status.

This is the biggest evidence.

-The size of the home? -Laird: Yup.

But no smoking guns yet.

Well, we have that one-- that one button.

Yeah, we had a nice, neat timeline going with sam ball

until you found that button.

-And then it just... -Yeah, exactly.

In addition to gaining a better understanding

of just how large a home mr. Ball had

for a supposed simple cabbage farmer,

the team also found a number of compelling discoveries,

including a british naval officer's button...

...As well as the remains of a massive

100-foot-long wharf bordering his property.

Is it possible that samuel ball's personal story

may be more connected to the oak island mystery

than anyone ever knew?

I marvel at the man, but at the end of the day,

yea or nay: Do you think

he has any association with the treasure?

Liz: Well, I think there may be some credibility

to a version of the story.

You know, it's not totally out of the question

that he found something.

We know he was enterprising.

I mean, if you look at what he achieved, it's a lot.

-Yup. -I think, I'm gonna go back to the button.

I think the biggest thing that we found here that might tie him

to the treasure story is that button and the wharf.

-Wow. -Not necessarily

that he found anything but now he is connected with a group

that could have pulled this off.

See, that all just changes

everything we think of samuel ball.

An incredible, incredible human being.

-Exactly. -Samuel ball

is certainly part of the story of oak island.

Whether or not there's a direct connection

to the treasure mystery, we don't know.

But the man's story needs to be told.

This really does give us some insight into who he was,

and it's quite amazing.

Yeah.

I mean, it just reeks of history, right?

-Good job, everybody. Thank you. -Laird: Thanks, rick.

Later that afternoon...

Please tell me you've found the road.

...Rick lagina, along with

his nephews, alex lagina

and david fornetti, return to the uplands

near the oak island swamp for an update

from archeologist dr. Aaron taylor

on his investigation of the cobblestone path.

I'm confident we found the road.

And what leads you to that?

Behind us here we have

what I'm fairly certain is

part of the road or pathway.

It's got definite boundaries.

It's cobblestone. It's about nine feet in width,

which is close to what the swamp path-- road has been.

It's heading up this way and...

Towards the money pit.

Could archaeologist dr. Aaron taylor be correct

that the stone pathway is indeed leading

toward the money pit area?

It is giving a sense that

it's going in that general direction.

If so, could it provide rick,

marty, craig and the team

with a road map to where massive amounts of silver,

and perhaps other items of great value,

lie buried on oak island?

The road may be heading towards the money pit.

Of course that's-that's... That's important.

It's critical to try to connect these areas

that are significant in terms of solving the mystery.

That is the real aha moment.

All right, what I'd like to do

is we should all rally to the war room

and have a discussion about what we've learned, what we've done,

what they might mean for the future,

-and where we go next. -Yup.

-Great. Agreed. -Sounds good. -David f.: Sounds good.

Doug, if you could bring everybody up.

Hey, everybody.

-Hey. -Hey, everyone. -Hey!

Just after the first snow of another harsh,

north atlantic winter has fallen,

rick lagina has gathered members of the team for a final,

albeit bittersweet, meeting in the war room

to assess what has been the most successful year of discovery

in the entire 226-year-old oak island mystery.

And by the way, I'm looking at a bunch

of somber-looking people on this screen right now.

What the hell's the deal here? This has been a great year.

This is good. This is good stuff.

Joining the gathering from their offices

in traverse city, michigan, are marty lagina

and craig tester, along with jack begley.

I am amazed when I think about it.

The amount of work in a covid-abbreviated year.

I never would have thought

that we would be sitting here

contemplating how much positive

work has been accomplished this year.

It's been quite remarkable.

What I would like to do

is assess the value of the work done,

where we are with that work, and where do we go from there.

So I think we all agree

we made, what I believe, was a really quite amazing discovery

in the swamp. I think I'll turn it over to aaron and miriam,

who have done the majority of the work.

Sure. I think if anyone said

they expected or anticipated finding

a stone road running through a swamp,

I would say they're lying.

it ran for 600 feet along the swamp.

The fact that there's no paper trail for this,

a feat of engineering this large,

it would have taken a lot of men to construct it.

It's incredible.

Yeah, um, I agree.

I think for us, the biggest thing to make us wonder,

"is this related to the treasure?" was the fact

that there's nothing written, really, about this.

When you start looking at it,

it might be heading to the money pit.

Although some have speculated in the past

that the triangle-shaped swamp may have been artificially made,

this year the oak island team proved it.

It began with the discovery of a massive stone road,

or possible ship's wharf,

running along the southeastern border of the brackish bog

giving credence to the long-held theory

by fred nolan that the swamp was once open ocean.

This, of course, was followed by the discovery

of the cobblestone pathway

running along the entire eastern border of the swamp

where the team made incredible discoveries

such as iron ringbolts,

as well as pieces of 15th-century keg barrels,

offering evidence of an operation

to unload heavy cargo from a ship and onto oak island.

The question that lingered all year,

and which may now have been answered,

was just where it was leading?

I just think that the labor-intensive work

of a swamp road, we'll call it, and the money pit were--

I think they were done at different times,

and I think the earliest construct was the road

because you have to cover that problem

of logistics before you can develop

an agenda such as what was done in the money pit.

Some of the survey stakes

give dates going back to the 1600s.

And I agree, and we've talked about that,

that possibly being two, three and maybe even

-four periods occurring. -Yeah.

This is a massive thing that's hidden.

And it explains why there's no paperwork, right?

I mean, you don't create paperwork

if you want to keep something hidden.

I mean, how significant is this?

Ian: This was not built

by fishermen or farmers, in my opinion,

because it speaks to some other purpose.

I'm glad you said that, mate, 'cause there is a purpose

to all these artifacts on this table.

Which, if there's a treasure operation,

someone depositing treasure on this island for centuries,

this is what you expect to see.

Coal, you've got the ox shoes,

oxes, beasts of heavy burden,

which would have been moving treasure inland.

And that fantastic ringbolt.

That would have been used for guiding the oxes

along the trails.

All of these artifacts were before

the story of the money pit.

These artifacts must surely lead us to treasure.

Steve is going to bring up

the mapping that he did of the artifact finds,

and I think it will be very informative.

So, I'm going to share my screen with everybody.

So, as you can see, there's a substantial amount

of work done by everybody this year.

That's without the artifacts

and the metal detecting finds, so I'm gonna turn those on now,

and you guys are, I would think, are gonna be quite impressed

of how busy the island actually gets.

-Geez. - Wow. -Wow.

Did you guys see how the island filled in rather quickly?

We found 700 objects this year.

It's twice as much as last year.

When I see all those finds, it's gratifying.

There is concrete evidence of substantial works

prior to 1795 and a lot of them.

A lot went on on that island.

None of it documented.

We started looking for patterns.

And it started with the ox shoes.

Well, the ox shoes this year started to tell its own story

and it had to do with traveled areas, and it goes

to the cobble path.

I think it's one of many. I referred to it

earlier in the year, the cobble path,

as the oak island interstate

because I don't think there's one path.

I think there's multiple paths.

In the oak island war room,

surveyor steve guptill

is presenting a map he has created

based on the hundreds of discoveries

the team made this year.

He believes it offers evidence

that numerous hidden ancient pathways may exist

beyond the one they unearthed

along the eastern border of the swamp.

I'm going to show you guys one of these paths.

So earlier in the year, after the stone road was uncovered,

rick wanted us to project that road north

through lot 15.

So, gary and I, and jack,

we staked this road and, as you can see,

throughout the year, gary made multiple finds on that.

Yup.

-ooh, look at that!

-Michael j.: What's that? -A little baby ox shoe.

Over the course of this year,

while metal detecting on lot 15

between the swamp and the money pit area,

gary drayton and members of the team

made a number of compelling finds

offering evidence of extensive human activity

including a number of ox shoes, ax heads,

and even a chinese cash coin

that dates back as much as ten centuries.

Is it possible, as steve guptill believes,

that gary also discovered another pathway

leading away from the swamp?

If so, then where does it end?

Perhaps at the original money pit?

Or at another location

where something of great value lies hidden?

So, we need to connect

the cobble path in the swamp

to this path of gary finds that leads to the money pit.

That may be our x on the ground.

-It could very well be. -Okay, well,

my next question, laird, I've asked you before.

When you look at that speckled elephant in front of you there,

if we went to ten different islands in mahone bay

and searched it as closely as we've searched this,

-would we find all this stuff? -I honestly don't think so.

-This is unique? -That's one word for it.

There you go.

What this tells me is it's imperative

that we find out where the road goes,

and where it ultimately ends up. That's gonna provide

real narrative, real understanding,

and maybe, maybe help us

in terms of where we go

-in the money pit. -Yes.

So let's start at the money pit and then proceed.

It was doug and steve and charles

who spent the majority of the time at the drill table.

And terry, of course, so...

Doug, if you want to sum up

-that work... - Well, we did start with the money pit.

C-1, at the start of the year, charles, the indications that

-there was more than one shiny gold thing there. -I know, yeah.

And now with dr. Spooner

and, uh, dr. Lukeman's work,

c-1 is now of high interest to us.

So, I mean, there are a lot of mysteries

in the money pit still to be solved.

Speaking of that, I know you just got

the results back from c-1.

-What were they? -Yeah.

Alex and I went and took some sediment samples

from the bottom of c-1.

And the idea being that maybe

that sediment is telling us a little bit

about where the high copper and zinc and trace silver

are coming from.

But the sediment is very low in those elements.

So, what that's telling me right now

is that something's happening in that water

as it moves around, where it's picking up metals.

Because if it's not coming from the sediments,

it can only be coming from one other thing.

Treasure.

-Well, you said it. -Yeah.

Yeah, so that's pretty exciting.

There have been several times

in the last several years

where I kind of wanted to quit.

Then the island gives you something.

I mean, something is leeching

metals into that water.

Uh, and one of those metals is silver.

And by the way, gold won't show up

because it's just not soluble.

But silver is often associated with gold.

Could marty's speculation be correct

that the great quantity of silver

detected in the water in c-1

may also suggest a strong likelihood

that there are other objects made of precious metals

somewhere down there as well?

If so, could the gold-colored objects

the team has seen embedded in the walls of the cavern

170 feet below ground

offer more tantalizing evidence

that marty's notion is true?

I think it's the most exciting thing that's happened

in the last ten years and the last 220 years.

-Yup. -My final word on this

is that, honestly, before this direct indication of metals,

I was very, very lukewarm on the big dig.

Now I think the big dig is right back on the table.

Ultimately, we always knew that the only way, really,

to answer the questions on oak island,

vis-à-vis the money pit,

certainly, was some sort of dig.

So, I agree, in concept.

But, is a big dig...

Well, billy would go 300 feet

and, you know, or 200. Is it 100?

Or is it large cans?

I mean, the whole discussion

rounds to one simple fact, and that is that

there's more work to do in the money pit.

Yes.

I think we need to look at the data

before we make any sort of commitments in the money pit.

Can we use the tools at our disposal

to get it down to a very specific location?

-And that would be the hope. -So...

We let the scientists run with it a little bit,

and we keep the big dig as a possibility.

-Does that sound good, rick? -I agree.

What I... What I propose

at this point is somewhat of a ritual.

I think it's appropriate, especially this year,

when we achieved far more than

we had hoped for, given the covid situation.

So what I would ask is: Where do we go from here?

I think it's been a fantastic year.

You think about it, we've been to places searching where

we probably wouldn't have bothered searching before.

And I'm really looking forward

to going back to the swamp,

and I can't wait to get stuck in.

david f.: You know, to me,

I feel like we were on the right path,

and as long as we keep going down

and using the science to make informed decisions,

we, you know, we-- I don't want to say we can't lose,

but, um, you know, I hope that

we can get closer, if not find what we're looking for.

Jack: Yeah. If we keep up at this pace,

you know, I think we're gonna find this sucker eventually.

I think it's progress on all fronts.

There's evidence of significant work done in the swamp, uh,

which-which could be the infrastructure used

in the deposition.

An optimistic new spot in the money pit to investigate.

We've discovered and know a lot more about

the features surrounding the money pit

than we've known in the past.

Like I said, progress on all fronts.

I'd say he's all in. What would you say?

-craig? -Well, I think

we had an amazing year.

And, I guess, time to take a break.

We have a tremendous amount of data

that we all need to go through.

So my hope for next year is, uh, that-that covid

is, uh, either a thing of the past or very manageable,

so I can get out there a lot more and help you guys.

-Marty? -Well, most of what

needs to be said has been said, rick.

So, I'll just say very succinctly, um...

Silver in the water.

Silver in the water.

So, we continue to dig both figuratively for information

and literally for this treasure.

And that's what we do.

Uh, I will say this, I'd like to say this,

that tom and rick were correct.

There are answers in that swamp for sure.

And, again, something that's indisputable

is that if this had all been left to me,

none of this would have been found.

So, what does this really speak to?

Uh, I think it really speaks

to rick lagina's persistence, leadership.

You know, he has been single-handedly

leading us into this, and-and look what we have.

So, I think-- I think everybody

should be proud of what we did.

And, um, I know everybody is thinking this,

and I just want to say it.

We are truly impressed and honored to be led

by you in this endeavor.

-Amen. -Hear, hear! -Yes.

Okay, well, now I'm not gonna be able to talk anymore

because now I'm emotional, so now it's all on...

Now it's all on you guys.

It's all true. It's all true.

-I appreciate it, certainly. - Yes.

For me, I think I can sum up how I feel.

Two words: Humble and grateful.

Humble because...

For the kind words

that my brother articulated.

I really, really appreciate that.

and humbled by the fact that we've been, um,

lucky enough to participate in this.

It's a wonderful story.

It always will be.

It belongs to each and every one of us

because we have labored so...

Mightily to try and solve it.

And not only us but...

Tom's father, dan, david,

the people that we have lost

and the people that have come before us long ago

who we owe a debt of gratitude to.

And grateful for all of you.

Because marty said, you know, about leading,

but you can't lead if people don't follow.

And, uh...

I appreciate...

...And respect all of you.

We'll follow you anywhere, mate.

Yes.

That's why we're here.

I appreciate it. More than you know.

Okay. Let's get it done!

-Yup. -Amen.

Good season! Well done, everyone!

-Yes! -Stay safe.

-See ya, guys. -See ya, guys.

Safe travels.

This year went incredibly well, given the obstacles.

Rick did a phenomenal job of pulling it together,

and really making significant discoveries

when, at the start of this year,

we thought we weren't gonna get on the island at all.

-See you soon. -All right, mate.

-David f.: Until next time? - Yeah, until next time. -Yup.

It's gratifying to see that team

having produced what it produced.

And with this "metals in the water" analysis,

we've got to be closing in on the treasure. We've got to be!

It just can't hide forever if it's still there. It can't.

We're gonna get it.

-See you, guys! -See ya.

I've said it before. I think

the story of what happened here is the real treasure.

And I think we've made significant progress.

Are we closer to finding an actual physical treasure?

I think the clues are adding up that, ultimately,

we'll get either ourselves there or someone there.

For more than two centuries,

determined people have tirelessly worked to solve

the oak island mystery.

Most operated on a fervent faith

that their efforts were worth it.

Six men even gave their lives.

Since he was just a young boy,

rick lagina has also embodied a deeply held faith

that something of incredible value lays buried on oak island.

But now he and his brother marty,

along with their faithful team,

have the scientific evidence.

And as they move forward,

might they also prove something much more profound?

That solving the oak island mystery

is their destiny.

Oak island, at some point, will be understood

in its entirety, and, uh,

I look forward to that day,

and I hope it's us.

Captioning provided by a+e networks