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NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island,

a special season finale.

GARY: I took the gem

to a gemologist.

It's a 500-year-old stone.

-Get him in the water. -Eyes and boots.

Yes!

RICK: What is down there,

and can we get it out?

They found something, Rick.

Oak Island is for real.

A lot of this looks spendable, David.

-I say we celebrate.

There's treasure on Oak Island.

JACK: Yeah!

NARRATOR: 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.

With only a few days remaining

before they must shut down operations for the year...

RICK: So, this is an important war room meeting.

NARRATOR: ...brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

have called a meeting in the war room.

They are eager to follow up on

what could be one of the most incredible discoveries

in the 223-year-old search for treasure on Oak Island.

I think, Alex, we need to dial up

-your father and Craig. -All right, I'll get them up.

Hey, guys.

-Hey, guys. -Hey, Marty.

-Hey. -Hello.

You know of the find that Gary made,

regarding the brooch and the jewel.

-Yes. -Yes. -RICK: Okay.

GARY: That was weird. Look at this, Rick.

We've got it.

NARRATOR: Two days ago, while searching on Lot 8

located near the middle of the island,

Rick Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton

discovered a curious object.

-Look at that. -Oh, man.

NARRATOR: Upon further investigation,

it appeared they had found an antique brooch,

a brooch which featured a large, deep red stone.

Rick, we just found a jewel.

That's gorgeous.

Look at how many facets on that.

GARY: That is a bobby dazzler.

Right, you're all sitting down,

-which is good 'cause you're...

you're in for a shock.

I took the gem-- jewel--

to a certified gemologist

in Halifax

and basically asked what the stone was,

'cause we was all thinking ruby.

But the bad news is it's not a ruby.

But the good news is it's a rhodolite garnet.

It's a 400- or 500-year-old stone.

400 to 500 years ago

-puts us into the 1500s to 1600s. -Yep.

And that's before any searchers, too.

-Yeah. -That dates back to being

-probably from the original depositors. -Yeah.

-The right era we want to be in. -Yeah.

It's a rhodolite garnet.

NARRATOR: A rhodolite garnet is a semiprecious gemstone

known for its rose pink to deep red coloring.

Its use in jewelry dates all the way back

to the days of the Egyptian pharaohs,

who used them for both decorative

and ceremonial purposes.

But how did such a unique stone come to be found on Oak Island?

Could it be a piece of some kind of pirate treasure

or one of the legendary lost jewels

of Queen Marie Antoinette?

Honestly, I was shocked.

I was shocked when Gary said,

"Hey, that-that not only is not glass,

"it is at least a semiprecious stone.

And it could be very old."

I'm not totally shocked,

but again, it's that number.

400 to 500 years old, possibly.

That's-that's a huge number.

And, uh, that's surprising.

MARTY: How does he date that?

How do you date a stone?

His opinion was it was a really old cut.

Because remember when we turned it over

-and you could see the facets on it? -Yes, I...

Well, well, these were hand-cut.

These weren't maine-made,

and these were done before the days

when people thought about refraction

and light going through the stones.

You know, where they used to do

all the fancy cuts, more modern cuts.

This is a hand-cut gem.

-GARY: Yep. -Wow.

-There's one other thing. -GARY: Yep.

It is a silver setting.

When people made silver jewelry long ago,

it had an high percentage of copper in the mix,

up to 73%.

And there wouldn't be that amount of copper

in a modern silver jewelry mix.

-Yeah. -And this copper color

is the copper leaching out.

-Oxidizing. -GARY: Yeah, out of the silver.

And that's how he was able to tell

that it was really old, because of the patina on it.

-Wow. -Well, I'll pass the gemstone around.

Look at that, Charles.

MARTY: David, I think, I think you might be looking

at a spendable right there.

Yeah, I think so, too.

Gemstones on Oak Island. Yeah!

-Yeah, baby!

Yeah, baby.

We-we got to figure out what it means

and bring it to the next expert and all that.

I'm gonna do a little research on rhodolite garnet.

I imagine 400 or 500 years ago,

there might only be a certain amount of places

where such a gem would come from.

-CRAIG: Yeah. -Yeah, that's a...

You know, so that's great stuff.

Yeah.

MARTY: Amazing.

A very significant find.

I'm-I'm very surprised.

The stone apparently is real

with a, with a cut that has not been used

for a long, long time.

I mean, it certainly is a "wow" find,

but what does it mean?

Okay, well, we'll move on, then.

Good stuff. Good stuff.

Carry on. -RICK: All right.

-See you. -See you later. -See you later.

Bye, guys.

NARRATOR: One day after learning from Gary Drayton

that the deep red stone they discovered

could be a genuine piece of centuries-old jewelry,

Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team

arrive at the Money Pit site

to meet with diver Mike Huntley and his crew.

I'm just gonna spin the bow of the van around

so we can see this can here.

NARRATOR: Mike has been invited

to dive the 60-inch-wide exploratory shaft

known as D.M.T.

If successful, he may be able to determine the exact nature

of what is believed to be a large object

that has been blocking the team's efforts

to continue digging at the site.

ALEX: Here's Rick.

-Hey, Rick.

We're debating and we're hoping.

In the near term, we're gonna get real answers

from a very significant question--

i.e. what is down there, and can we get it out?

There's an obstruction there.

We're good to go, guys.

NARRATOR: Several weeks ago,

the Oak Island team began digging

their second 60-inch-wide shaft of the year,

which they had named D.M.T.

in honor of Craig Tester's late son, Drake.

They were trying to locate the Chappell Vault,

the mysterious seven-foot-tall wooden box

that treasure hunters William Chappell

and Frederick Blair first discovered in 1897.

Although the team is convinced that their first shaft, H-8,

was successful in reaching it several weeks ago,

they believe it may have been pushed aside

by the drilling caisson.

Unfortunately, two weeks ago,

while the team was drilling the D.M.T. shaft,

their drilling caisson encountered an obstruction

at a depth of 77 feet.

(rapid mechanical clicking, thump)

DANNY: It's strong enough to slow

that thing down on a free fall. That's crazy.

And I think it's a plate that we've encountered,

and it's not searcher.

It's most likely from the original people,

'cause it seems inconceivable that searchers would have put

such a big piece of metal down there.

DOUG: I mean, it's an unexplained anomaly...

at a depth we didn't expect to hit it at.

-Yeah. -So you got to wonder what's there

that's exerting that pressure.

JACK: What do we do if it's a plate, Rick?

RICK: That I don't know, Jack.

For me, it's just... I'm not gonna multitask.

We know that that doesn't work.

He'll make an initial assessment,

and that's as far as I care to go on the first dive.

And then I think we have to come up and then decide.

I mean, we put flocculant in the hole.

It's fairly fast-acting. Should get a really good look.

NARRATOR: In order to provide

the best visibility possible for the dive operation,

Rick and the team have already treated the D.M.T. shaft

with a substance known as flocculant,

a chemical that causes particles or small debris

that could be floating in water to clump together

and settle at the bottom of their environment.

If it turns out to be a plate

and he can get around the edge of it,

he could probably explore a little bit under the plate.

You know, it might not even be a steel plate.

It could be a box.

That'd be something, if he put his hands down

along the edge and it went down deeper

-than what he could get around the edge of. -Exactly. Exactly.

-Yeah. -There's something down there.

NARRATOR: Having invited professional diver Mike Huntley

and his crew to Oak Island,

Rick Lagina is hoping to find out

the exact nature of the obstruction

that lies at the bottom of the exploratory drill shaft

known as D.M.T.

RICK: We're all very interested

in what may be down in this hole.

You know, steel plate at that depth?

That didn't grow down there, so...

steel plate would indicate something of value

might be below it.

DOUG: Hey, Mike.

You gonna give us some answers today?

Good to see you, man.

Okay, guys, come on over.

Okay, guys, we're gonna start with our first dive for today.

For the most part, it's gonna be an investigative dive

to see what's actually there.

It's 50 feet of water, so we got

about 75 minutes without doing decompression.

There's no risk of decompression illness

or any type of embolism.

NARRATOR: Although the shallow depths

will not put Mike Huntley and his team at risk

of deadly decompression sickness--

otherwise known as the bends--

the Oak Island team

has nevertheless arranged for paramedics to be on site

in case of any unforeseen accidents or emergencies.

-Let's get wet. -Let's get wet. Awesome.

RICK: The dive's about to begin,

and I'm-I'm always nervous.

Every dive is dangerous,

or potentially dangerous.

Shallow water dives are the most dangerous,

because you tend to take things for granted.

So... everyone's head needs to stay in the game.

I hear you loud and clear.

Eyes and boots.

-Eyes, boots and suits. -Eyes, boots and suits.

NARRATOR: Throughout the dive operation,

Rick Lagina and the team will be able to maintain

constant audio contact with Mike,

as well as monitor a live video feed

of his activity in the communications trailer.

-Main air is on.

He's good to go!

Hey, Craig.

Good, good.

NARRATOR: Although Rick's brother Marty

is currently away on business,

their friend and partner, Craig Tester,

is monitoring today's dive

from his office in Traverse City, Michigan.

We're a few minutes away from...

getting Mike down hole.

75 minutes, bottom time.

Get him in the water!

To ensure a safe descent down the approximately 27 feet to

the water in the D.M.T. shaft, Mike Huntley will be lowered

with a device known as a bosun's chair.

From there, he will dive down some 50 feet

to investigate the obstruction

at a depth of approximately 77 feet.

Faster. Go down faster.

MAX: All stop.

Roger that.

Roger. Keep his hose tight!

NARRATOR: Because the flocculent

that was poured earlier into the D.M.T. shaft

has not been able to clear up the large amount

of clay sediment and silt that still clouds the water,

visibility is near zero.

We've lost all visibility, Craig.

Mike will now have to try and determine the nature

of the obstruction with only his sense of touch.

What did he say? Super...?

NARRATOR: While attempting to dive

some 77 feet deep in the D.M.T. shaft,

diver Mike Huntley has encountered an unusual problem.

MAX: Almost like spongy?

Is there a flocculent in there already?

He can't... can't stay on bottom.

The flocc would make a slurry.

ALEX: Change in buoyancy?

Unfortunately, the flocculent

that the team poured down the D.M.T. shaft

to aid Mike Huntley's visibility has not only failed

to clear up the water, but is now causing him

to float upward.

The flocculent has reacted

with the debris at the bottom of the D.M.T. shaft

and created a thick cloud of a gel-like substance

that Mike is unable to sink through.

RICK: We introduced a lot of flocculent.

Unfortunately, now that's counterproductive

to what we want to do.

RICK: Let's see...

let's see if he can address this situation with weights.

He's not able to stand on bottom.

And if he's not able to stand on bottom,

because it is a tactile dive, he's not gonna be able to feel

you know, what this obstruction might be.

Okay. Roger. Sending down the chair.

Craig, he's coming out of the hole,

'cause he just can't get to bottom.

Up on chair, up on umbilical! He's coming out!

Just make sure it's going down slow

so it doesn't hit him on top of the head.

-Flocculent. No. -I never, never anticipated this.

RICK: Mike's been here before,

he's invested in the process,

he's committed, and he wants answers.

I think we're in

an area that has significant...

potential for discovery.

Roger.

There you go.

Okay, I need some weight in this thing.

Holy .

NARRATOR: Mike Huntley's dive team

will now pack his dive suit with 60 pounds of lead weights

to ensure his ability to reach the bottom of the D.M.T. shaft

and to identify what the obstruction

which is preventing further excavation actually is.

I did a complete 360 with my feet.

I haven't felt anything yet. On bottom.

That's when I'm thinking, "Where the hell is it?"

But I can feel hard bottom, that's the thing.

I can feel it. Like, boom, boom, boom, just like that.

RICK: I mean, there's so much

unknown about the Money Pit area.

We just simply need to know, what is this thing?

Roger. All stop!

Roger that.

MAX: Roger that.

MAX: Yeah, we can't see a whole lot up here.

TONY: How much flocc

-I don't know, exactly.

But enough to grab all the heavy stuff

and bring it down.

Perfect.

NARRATOR: Now that Mike has reached the bottom,

some 77 feet deep in the D.M.T. shaft,

he will begin a tactile examination

to try to determine for sure what the obstruction is.

You want me to get Jack?

Jack! Jack!

-They're getting him. -Jack!

JACK: Yeah?

Yes!

So, are you saying that preemptively,

you're thinking that it's a plate?

-Oh, man!

NARRATOR: Could the obstruction

really be a steel plate, as Mike Huntley suggests?

And if so, what is it protecting?

RICK: When he gives an opinion

that we are indeed on a metal plate,

I mean, that's-that's an aha moment.

Really? A metal plate at this depth?

Again, from a historical context,

there should not be a metal plate there,

as part of searcher agenda.

So, if it's not searcher, it's original.

How deep is it?

How deep is the material that we have to go through?

NARRATOR: Because of the near zero visibility

caused by the clay and sediment

stirred up in the 60-inch shaft,

Mike Huntley must rely only on his sense of touch

to examine the size and orientation

of the believed plate.

You've got ten minutes.

Is there a way he could grab a sample?

-If he can.

Is there any way for you to quick get a sample?

We found something, Rick.

Roger that. We'll get the chair sent down.

NARRATOR: With Mike Huntley's dive time

in the D.M.T. shaft running out,

it is the team's hope that,

by collecting samples from the bottom

some 77 feet below ground,

Mike will obtain proof of a believed steel plate

and perhaps whatever it might have been put there to protect.

MIKE: That was one of the more frustrating dives I've done.

-Yeah. -I don't know what's there.

-I stuck that knife

one to 12 o'clock, center to the edge.

In some spots, I thought I hit a plate.

And the more I hit it, it was hard.

RICK: When you're in the moment, especially on

a tactile dive, where you can't see anything,

you're groping about, he comes to surface

and he says, "You're certainly on something."

We need to go look at those sample bags.

MIKE: This is what I found.

I thought I had a hard bottom, and I could find not a thing.

And the chisel has hardened alloy steel on it,

-and it broke it apart. -Yeah. -Yeah.

To do that, Mike, you're into something very, very hard.

-What you have in that bag, no. -Wouldn't do it.

-No. No. -Yeah. No, totally.

RICK: I think we go back down

and see-see what we find.

Okay. Yeah.

NARRATOR: Because Mike has reached

his dive time safety limit for the day,

backup diver Nick Perry will now descend the D.M.T. shaft.

He will also be equipped with a pinpointing metal detector

to determine whether or not the obstruction is metal,

and, if possible, remove it.

All stop!

Roger that, Nick. You can stand on bottom, correct?

How's it going down there?

MIKE: See if you can dig down with your knife

or even your hand and see if you can find it.

Just turn your pinpointer on and, uh,

metal-detect the whole hard area.

Peel your glove off, um,

and get a really good, smooth feel with your hand.

Which doesn't make sense, because why wouldn't

the oscillator chew through rock?

Mm.

Uh, some of the little stone chips,

they might be in the near vicinity.

Just chuck 'em in your glove and bring 'em up, just to...

It might be something of interest.

RICK: Nick has

felt the rock underneath the can.

Roger that.

RICK: And I think we've excluded

the possibility that it's steel.

So, what do we do? How do we proceed?

I'm dismayed.

NARRATOR: Because the massive steel caisson was designed

to drill through just about anything,

the fact that it couldn't cut through a granite rock

is deeply confusing.

There is definitely a granite rock there, 'cause I felt it.

Took the glove off. You could feel the round edge.

-Rubbed it. -That's granite.

Well, if it's a hard granite,

there's some granite that's as hard as steel.

Both Nick and Mike, uh, to their credit,

have stated forthrightly what they have observed and/or felt,

and they believe it to be a-a boulder.

And I think there was hope all around

that this really was a find.

But it's not, and-and thus we move on.

NARRATOR: The following day,

Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team

meet with the crew from Irving Equipment, Limited,

at the Money Pit site.

Because the 60-inch-wide drilling caisson

cannot break through the granite obstruction

at the bottom of the D.M.T. shaft,

they must accept a bitter reality:

that further drilling is out of the question,

at least for now.

They have run out of time and are dangerously low

on the money they budgeted for this year.

RICK: Look, it's a-a little different feel right now

than when we saw you guys come across the causeway, you know?

But-but I will say this: it's been a pleasure

working with Irving Group and with ROC.

It's been fantastic. Uh, and, you know, you...

we don't walk away with our heads hanging low.

I mean, there's-there's something down there.

I really appreciate being part of it

and hopefully we continue to be part of it

and get to the bottom of that hole.

I don't like to make promises on Oak Island,

but we have every expectation to see you guys back here.

We'll get to the bottom of this thing.

It's not "good-bye." It's "we'll see you soon."

To that end, we're not done.

Scott, thank you.

We've decided to let Irving and ROC go.

The bitter part of it, of course,

is that we didn't find what we had hoped we would find,

some substantial one thing in H-8

and locating the vault in the second hole of D.M.T.

But we vigorously investigated

the supposed area of the Money Pit.

We've got two cans-- large diameter cans--

that have their structural integrity

and that we can possibly use for further exploration.

So, we have moved the dial on Oak Island.

Unfortunately, it still is...

it's still an island of what ifs and possibilities.

NARRATOR: After a summer that saw the discovery

of everything from 17th century human bones

to antique jewelry

and a cross that could date back

to the days of the Knights Templar,

Rick, Marty, and their team may be closer than ever

to solving the mystery of Oak Island.

But now, having invested another hard year

and millions of dollars,

the time has arrived for a critical decision.

Should they continue?

And if so, how?

NARRATOR: One day after making the difficult decision

to end this year's search operations

at the Money Pit site...

-Charles. Wow. -Hi, guys.

-That's quite a jigsaw puzzle. -Yeah.

...brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and other members of the Oak Island team

meet in the war room for what is likely to be

their final time this year.

Before we begin, I'd like to get Craig up on the phone.

Looks like we got Craig. Hey, Craig.

-Hey, Craig! -Hey!

Craig, we're looking at a display of the year's finds.

We certainly have a mosaic here,

and we have yet to put it together.

There's a lot of puzzle pieces.

Mom would tell us

get your straight edges here, put your corner pieces there,

-put your colored pieces here, -Yeah.

put the blue pieces here.

And that's what we've got laid out before us.

And we have yet to figure it out.

-I don't know.

I mean, I'd open it up for a open table discussion.

-Yep. -Yeah.

And then, you know, after everyone's had their input,

uh, there's but one thing to ask,

and that is: where do we go from here?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

Whatever conclusion you come to

is gonna have to be predicated on...

-How much money we've got. -Well, sure.

-I agree there. -DAVE: There's a lot of stuff here

that cost a lot of money to find.

We are not getting our money back.

We still need more. Give us your opinion.

And it doesn't work for us on Oak Island.

Yeah, but-but wait a minute. There is a certain weariness

right now at the end of all this.

There's a certain excitement, but there's a certain weariness.

So I think a good starting point would be to make sure

we all understand what's on the table here.

I mean, there's a lot of stuff. So why don't you start, Gary?

Discuss what you consider the highlights of what you found.

This crucifix cross, to me, is the find of the season.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Holy...

Holy schmoly, all right.

-It's a cross. -Oh, my gosh.

I mean, that is an old, old cross.

That is really, really old,

and that came from somewhere else.

What did your analysis come up with?

13th century or older, Dan,

-is what people are saying. -Yeah.

Yeah, because this cross is the type of thing

that's carved into prison walls and church walls in Europe.

Is this solely a Templar construct?

It is closely associated with the crusading orders.

There's a carving in France

in a prison tower where up to 70 Templar knights

were imprisoned after they were rounded up in 1307.

1307. That's the tail end of 'em.

Look at the legs, the head.

Everything's really similar.

RICK: I think the cross is

a uniquely singular item

-worthy of far more research. -Absolutely.

So, Charles, what do you think's most significant on this table?

I think another one of the, you know, significant finds,

you know, is-is the human bones out of H-8.

To me, the Money Pit with the human bones,

that's... you know, it's huge.

To the limits of science, we know that two people's remains

-are in the Money Pit. -Yeah.

We have two samples, uh, both human,

and, uh, it's definitely two different humans.

We've got Western European and East Asian.

In carbon dating, 1600s.

Human bones from 162 feet, below searcher depth.

That's a hell of a depth to be burying somebody.

-Yeah. -They take on significance

if they're below six feet.

I agree.

DOUG: What I find exciting is that piece of parchment

that you found this year in H-8

that corroborates what William Chappell found

in his drilling in 1897.

You know, you verify what they found 120 years ago.

You've been able to bring a piece of a document

up out of the ground.

You know, finding that myself,

I am a hundred percent positive

that there's something very valuable in the Money Pit area.

RICK: I have always said that what's here

may be "treasure," there may be manuscripts or books,

ancient knowledge, something, something that is

far more valuable than temporal wealth,

and this substantiates that belief.

GARY: And there's a couple of finds we're forgetting about:

those two coins here have got 1600 dates on them.

One's 1673, was it?

And the other's in the 1690s.

When was the Money Pit discovered?

-1795. -1795.

-Right. -MARTY: That had to be deposited

well before the discovery of the Money Pit,

-a hundred years before. -Yeah.

LAIRD: There's certainly a suggestion

of an earlier occupation.

Pre-Money Pit.

-Yep. -Wow.

-And did you see the brooch, the pendant? -I did, yes. Yeah.

-It's-it's so, uh,

it's so interesting.

It's obviously handmade.

It's kind of asymmetrical, too.

DAVE: You said Gary, that that was all hand-cut;

-that's not machined. -Yeah.

I remember when I first picked it up,

and you turned it over, Rick, you saw all the facets.

I thought this was glass. It apparently is not glass.

It is a rhodolite garnet, a semiprecious stone.

This is about what you picture when you open a treasure chest.

-Mm-hmm. -The lock plate came from not far off

where the jewel, the brooch was found.

-MARTY: A key lock cover. -GARY: Yeah.

I mean, I-I know I'm playing junior archeologist here,

but I can't help but draw the conclusion.

RICK: Dan, you brought this collective,

if you will, together.

What do you think?

I don't know.

Far as I'm concerned, everything you got

on the table doesn't prove or disprove

whether there's treasure on Oak Island.

I would say probably 75%, 80% of that

is all from the surface.

All that your surface finds are doing

is giving you a known, anyway.

At sometime or another,

someone has spent a lot of time on the surface of Oak Island.

It's very graphic as far as looking at it is concerned,

but, I mean, in the same token,

it's time consuming and expensive.

That's no BS. That's fact.

MARTY: Dan, let me ask you a question.

Should we keep going?

MARTY: Hey, Dan, let me ask you a really tough question.

You want us to quit?

That's a hard question, Marty. It really is.

It's a deep question and it's hard.

NARRATOR: The Oak Island team has gathered in the war room

for what could be their most important decision to date:

whether to continue forward,

or put their entire operation on hold indefinitely.

Dan, you have any thoughts?

How deep is your pockets?

It boils down to whether it's worth it.

That's the key question though, Dan. How do you evaluate that?

Whether it's worth it. How do you evaluate that?

What should affect it is...

...the hard evidence that has come out

is substantiating up to a certain extent,

but I don't think you should put

too much undue influence on this here.

DAVE: Question, Marty: why are we grouping

all the coins together with the, with the jewel now?

Well, if you opened a little box and you found that,

you might say you found a bit

It kind of looks like a regular mini treasure chest, doesn't it?

GARY: Yup.

MARTY: Well, I will say this from my own standpoint.

I entered this whole quest thinking

that maybe nothing of any consequence

really happened on this island prior to 1790.

But as this year draws to a close,

I have to say I don't believe that anymore.

-There's too much here. -Yep. -Yeah.

I now believe something did happen here prior to 1790.

-Well, there you go. -DAVE: It's quite obvious, Marty.

That's getting somewhere.

-You've come a long way. -I have. I have.

We can't stop now. I mean, look what we've found

-so far this year. -Yeah. -Yeah.

Okay, I know what you want to do.

Oh, yeah. I know where I want to be next year.

I'm like a kid in a candy store. I really am.

-I think you've got some of

the most convincing evidence in the last 120 years.

All's I can tell you is, if you continue,

I'm here to support you in any way I can.

Well, Charles?

Let's put it this way: I don't want you to quit.

Okay. All right. Fair enough.

Hey, Laird, I'd love to hear what you have to say.

Well, the archaeologist, we need, we need this stuff.

We need the hard evidence.

Is your excitement level higher though? Are you...

Oh, yeah. No, absolutely.

Well, Dan what do you think?

First thought I have

is that you're pretty close to the right location.

You wouldn't quit though, would you?

Can't say I wouldn't.

Just that, uh, I wouldn't want to.

All right, Dan. Let's ask Craig.

You've been listening to all this.

CRAIG: Well, the evidence this year, Marty,

you know, we didn't find the treasure,

but I think we had a fantastic year.

-Yes. -We got a number

of major things out in Smith's Cove.

The U-shaped structure.

And could there be more things like the lead cross,

that could tell us who did it?

Um, yeah, definitely.

-Jack, I think it's your turn. -Yep.

I-I think that we still have a lot of exploring left to do,

and this year proved it.

MARTY: What say you, number one son?

Year one, I was kind of thinking,

"Come on, what are we really gonna find?"

This-this year, I'm thinking,

"Okay, there's a lot more to be found."

-We moved you a long way. -Oh, yeah.

You always thought when I told you the story,

you always thought, "Oh, there goes Uncle Rick on again."

-Yeah. -I did. I did.

I won't lie. I did think that.

-RICK: Mm-hmm. -I don't think it anymore.

The preponderance of evidence here,

I-I wouldn't drill this up and then stop.

That's my opinion.

Depending upon how old you are.

I came here over 50 years ago,

and what attracted me to Oak Island was the mystery.

-That's what attracted me. -Okay.

Do you feel there's still a mystery to solve here?

Well, the answer to that would have to be yes.

Amen. And with that, I will see what fearless leader says.

What do you want to do?

I-I think what we need to do, given the amount

of significant material there, I'm gonna fall back

on what Dan suggested to us last year: take a step back.

Try to, uh, ascertain what all of this may mean.

And, uh, for me, this puzzle is:

who, what, when, where, why and how.

And this year in particular, this little piece of parchment

might be the "what."

And this little item right here,

this might be a clue to lead us to "who."

And the rest will fall into place, but we have to follow.

We speak a lot about family here,

and for Marty and I, we always round back

-to Mom and Dad. -Yeah.

So Mom would say, you know,

"Sempre avanti, always forward.

Get the puzzle together."

But, for me, the only way to really put this thing together

is for us to do it together.

One in, all in, once in, forever in.

-Oh, yeah. -Absolutely.

-Yeah, definitely. -Yeah.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

So, I say we celebrate.

-I say we declare victory. -It's crown time.

It's crown time!

I say... to the fellowship.

-To the fellowship of the dig. -All right.

NARRATOR: As another exciting and emotional year

on Oak Island comes to an end...

Well, guys, it's been a good year, Dave.

-Well, take care. -Thanks a lot.

-Dude. -Rick, yeah. -We'll see you.

...brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

leave the island with no regrets.

-You've turned into a regular man hugger. -Yeah.

-Rick. -Hey.

NARRATOR: Although they have, so far,

not found anything resembling a fabled golden treasure...

I'm gonna miss you, Charles.

-Miss you, too, buddy. -Dan.

...they have uncovered evidence

that could be of even greater value...

See you, Laird.

...evidence that could change

not only the history of North America,

but the world.

See you all, guys.

RICK: We certainly made progress

and I think that, you know, we certainly have a...

a substantial amount of puzzle pieces.

And now it's getting time

where we start putting some of these pieces together.

We need connective tissue.

MARTY: To some extent,

it's like a love-hate relationship.

This island is-- can be brutal.

And it can be rewarding, and it's beautiful...

but it's mystical...

and it's all those things, but it's time to take a break.

The search goes home for a while.

-For now. -Yeah.

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