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Tonight on
the curse of oak island...

the cobble path in the swamp

to this path
that leads to the money pit.

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

-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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

encountered
a ten-foot-high void,

or chamber, some 170 feet deep,
containing a mysterious

shiny gold object
embedded in the wall...

Yeah, another piece.

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.

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.

are the most significant
thing that has occurred

in and around the money pit.

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.

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.

-Gonna core c-1?
-Yup.

I'll let you lower it down.

to collect sediment samples
from borehole c-1,

in the uplands
near the northeastern border

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

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.

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?

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

-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.

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.

I'll go get a bag for you.

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

-in this little dustpan.
-Okay.

-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?

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.

There's some markings
on the end, too.

-Is there?
-Look at it.

See that right there?

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?

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.

Oh, yeah. For sure.

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.

along the stone pathway
in the uplands...

That's the smell of treasure.

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 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.

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?

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.

-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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Hi, miriam. Hi, aaron.

So we've got a little something

to show you guys.

a possible
treasure trade weight,

rick lagina and geoscientist
dr. Ian spooner

return to the uplands
near the northeastern border

of the swamp.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

it might be heading
to the money pit.

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.

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.

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.

We found 700 objects this year.

It's twice as much as last year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

-Well, you said it.
-Yeah.

Yeah, so that's pretty exciting.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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