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The back door. - This leads to the Money Pit.

Here it comes. Steady up.

I think the swamp has answers, and I want them.

-It's a coin! -Maybe there are answers in the swamp.

-Oh, oh, whoa, whoa! -It looks like a pile of boulders.

See the water?

Substantial amount of water flowing out of it.

Maybe the flood tunnel?

The wood in the slipway

matches with the 550-year-old tree.

-It is original. -Predates the Money Pit.

-Yes. -It's conclusive proof.

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 two weeks to go

before the Oak Island team

is set to leave the island for the winter,

the activity at the Money Pit area remains at a standstill.

The strike is on.

It can last anywhere from one to 21 days.

That's the only good news.

I'm still optimistic it won't go 21,

but in the meantime,

we are shut down and we are running out of time.

I'm not seeing anybody.

Hammer grab is down.

That does not look good.

We're in trouble.

One week ago,

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along with their partner Craig Tester,

received troubling news that the union

of crane operators for the province of Nova Scotia

had suddenly gone on strike.

-It's just a waiting game. -Mm-hmm.

They're hoping to have this resolved within 21 days.

It is a development

that forced a halt to the Oak Island team's

current excavation in the borehole known

as Site Three, a borehole that they believe

could be on course to intersect the original Money Pit.

There's no question it's serious.

If it's an all-stop, well, we can't proceed.

While the excavation in Smith's Cove continues...

I think we should call Marty up.

...Rick and Craig are meeting with Marty

via videoconference in the war room

to discuss a radical new strategy

to help them achieve their ultimate goal,

to solve the 223-year old Oak Island mystery.

Hey, Marty.

Hey, guys. How's it going out there?

Uh, it's wet and cold today.

Wet and cold.

Glad I'm not there, then. No offense.

Well, guys, look, I...

I think we need to make some decisions.

Because of the strike, the door is closed,

and, uh, so with the possibility

that the strike may indeed last the full 21 days,

what are we gonna do?

Talk about right down to the wire, huh?

Are we gonna have time to finish this year?

You get into November, it's gonna get ugly, right?

I was here last year till November 18.

The prob... the thing is, is that the strike,

we know that's an elongated process, right?

That's gonna take a long time. Why would we dither about

and then it-it turns out that we have to wait till November

'cause we squandered these weeks?

And we're just gonna get

too close to it, won't be able to dig.

Then we're shooting ourselves in the foot.

You know, we got about two weeks left

before it gets ugly out there.

Let's finish up Smith's Cove, and then we take

a long, deep breath, and we decide either

we're looking at enough stuff

that encourages us to keep going

or we're not, but we sure as hell

would have done a damn good try this season.

-Do you feel that way, Craig? - Yeah.

But I-I guess the one issue Rick and I were kicking around is:

How-how thin are we gonna spread ourselves,

and are we just stressing ourselves out?

So I'm gonna say finish Smith's Cove, and then,

um, I don't know, but...

maybe it's time to call it quits, you know, for the year,

so... just so everybody's on board,

and then I-I'm fine.

Well, I disagree there. We're not...

nowhere near defeat, but...

What's the point of being here if we're not going to try

everything within our means

to get an answer?

You know me-- I'm not a quitter, but...

-I know. -I-I'm gonna defer to you guys.

I don't like to fail,

and I don't like, uh, giving up,

and all of those things are probably helpful

in this endeavor on Oak Island,

but we are a team,

and we will have to make that assessment as a team.

Well, you know, Churchill said,

"When you're going through hell,

well, you better keep going."

So that's kind of what's going on here.

-Yeah. -You know we're not gonna make any more time.

You know what Dad always said, you know.

-Nobody gets... -Can't beat time.

Can't beat Father Time, so...

what are we gonna do?

You know, here's how I feel about the whole thing.

You know, I can feel... I can feel in my heart that,

on an overall sense,

I want to do everything we possibly can this year because,

you know, we've been at this for a long time,

we're not getting any younger. I mean, for right now, though,

I feel, like, let's do it all.

And even if that includes resurrecting that damn swamp.

Over the past six years,

the Oak Island team has made numerous discoveries

in the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp.

-Is it a coin? -I believe this is a coin.

From a Spanish pirate coin dated to 1652...

Oh, look at that. That's nice.

...a large iron spike

and a piece of deck planking.

All of these finds gave credence to the theory

held by the late treasure hunter

and Oak Island land owner, Fred Nolan, that the swamp

may have been artificially created centuries ago

to hide a large sailing vessel.

I like the idea of seismic in the swamp. I do.

And, I mean, I'm on board for the... for the seismic, too.

-Do we have permits? - Yes.

I have all the permits.

They're waiting for us to give them the okay.

Yeah, they've done their preliminary homework,

and-and there should be no problem on their end.

Okay.

-Ready to go? -Roger.

Here it comes.

Earlier this year,

the Laginas and their partners

worked with a team from Eagle Canada

out of Calgary, Alberta

to conduct a geophysical exploration

of the Money Pit area by means of seismic testing.

By detonating more than 1,500 small explosive charges

and measuring the resulting sound waves

as they traveled through the earth,

the team was able to generate a virtual map of potential voids

and man-made structures as deep as 200 feet underground.

This anomaly here, very interesting.

Is that consistent with a chamber?

-Yeah, it is. -Wow.

But could this same process

also help unravel the mystery of the swamp once and for all?

It's always bittersweet for me

to talk about doing something in the wretched, fetid swamp,

but in the cool light of day, Rick is right,

we have to make sure we've searched it properly.

Let's go. Let's do it.

Let's shoot it. Let's dig the holes.

Let's find something. Let's finish Smith's Cove.

Let's beat ourselves to death

-for two more weeks. -Uh, you know, I mean...

-That's how I feel right now. -As long as we're all on board.

As long as we're all in,

and that would include everybody else.

Okay, make the deals. I'll be out there soon.

Okay. -All right.

Sounds good. -See you.

Full speed ahead.

Following his meeting in the war room,

Rick Lagina joins other members of the team at Smith's Cove,

where they are continuing their massive excavation

of the beach area.

Nothing yet?

Regret to inform,

it doesn't seem to continue beyond the edge.

All right.

-Let's start. -We'll be ready.

Three weeks ago, the Oak Island team

began digging beneath the beach

in order to remove the wooden crane pad

used to construct the cofferdam that surrounds Smith's Cove.

It is here that the team hopes to locate the place

where the legendary stone box drains,

first discovered in 1850,

converge into a single flood tunnel,

a flood tunnel that the team hopes

could lead them directly to the Money Pit treasure vault.

And there's no metal around here whatsoever.

A few tiny little pieces of iron,

small, small, around where the shaft is,

but there's just nothing.

You find anything on the wash plant?

Oh. Piece of wood?

It looks like we found another structure.

-So we have. -Yeah.

Another wooden structure?

Could it have been placed here by previous searchers

in an attempt to block the flood tunnel

leading to the Money Pit?

Or could it be much older

and connected to the flood tunnel itself?

Wait a day, and we'll find another structure.

Wow, look at that.

-Lots of sand. -Interesting.

Those stones look like they were placed there above it.

Placed stones?

When the five finger-like stone box drains

were first discovered in 1850

by members of the Truro Company,

they were reported to be constructed

out of large, flat rocks with smaller ones packed inside.

Could these stones be more evidence

that the structure the team has found

is associated with the main flood tunnel?

It's pretty sticky stuff.

See how far it goes.

All right, just cut along the face of it.

Yeah, and sift out, maybe.

-Whoa. -Whoa. Whoa, okay.

Look at this.

Maybe this is one of the walls. Look.

-That'd be a piece here, and a piece here. -Yeah, looks like it, yeah.

Well, dig it out and see what it looks like.

Uh, perfect timing. You show up when we find a structure.

If structures were treasure, we'd be rich.

- So you think, maybe the flood tunnel? This is coarse,

bouldery material with water flowing through it.

It starts to fit the model that we're...

-we've been searching for. -Yeah.

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Got it? -There's the length of it right there.

At Smith's Cove, members of the Oak Island team

are continuing to uncover

another mysterious wooden structure.

Oh, looks like it continues.

I just want to see if there's... see if there's a corner.

Billy!

Would you push that back so we can see if there's a wall there?

- Perfect. Perfect.

The quest for corner I think has been found.

There's a corner right there.

Well, this-this is really entrenched, isn't it?

- Particularly, yes. - Well entrenched.

Give it... give it a little dig there.

What do you got there, Laird?

They're like slats.

It looks like they had a picket fence around it.

Yeah, that's what it looks like.

Yeah.

That is... I never expected to see that.

- That's bizarre, isn't it?

It doesn't look real structural, does it?

Purposeful for something, right? But what?

- There's four sides. - This is another shaft.

Another shaft,

buried at Smith's Cove?

If it predates the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795,

the Laginas and their team may have just made

a breakthrough discovery.

Perhaps one that could lead them to the main flood tunnel

connected directly to the Money Pit.

-If we clean that wall up... -Yeah?

-Right here? -Clean it back.

We'll clean this up and then photograph it.

Yeah.

Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder.

Yeah.

While efforts to locate

the main flood tunnel continue at Smith's Cove,

Rick Lagina, Craig Tester and other members of the team

gather in the war room to meet with Oak Island theorist

Chris Donah.

I want to introduce, uh, Chris Donah

-to everyone. -Hello.

Chris has contacted Rick Lagina

about new research concerning

the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp,

which, in light of the team's upcoming seismic test,

could prove more than valuable to their operation.

Since I've really started working with Oak Island,

I got into the meat of astronomy.

I've really learned a lot about constellations.

They're a creation by man.

You know, they're there with a purpose,

not just a picture.

Some people think that that's where the secret knowledge is,

in the constellations.

So whoever was here

used that information to map out things on the island

and create structures around the island.

I think it's a roadmap, too,

for what they did here, and possibly lead

to the treasure location on the island.

It's like a treasure map.

There is an esoteric saying

- "As above, so below." -Yes.

And this is a classic meaning to that.

Many researchers, and even some scientists,

have speculated, based on careful study,

that the key to solving the Oak Island mystery

may not lie underground, but rather somewhere above.

Including the night sky.

This is Nolan's Cross.

Over the past six years,

Rick, Marty and the team have heard numerous theories

connecting the constellations,

not only to important landmarks

such as the megalithic formation

known as Nolan's Cross, but also to a massive star map

corresponding to points across the entire island.

If we follow the right procedure,

we might be led to the point on Oak Island

where the actual treasure is.

I don't know if you guys are familiar

with the Royal Arch or not, of Freemasonry.

It's very big.

It's also celestial,

and it starts with Leo at the top,

and then it talks about the three pillars of Freemasonry:

strength, which is Leo;

uh, Libra is wisdom;

and Aries over here is beauty.

But it's the arch of the zodiac, actually.

For more than two centuries,

the ancient order of Freemasonry

has been closely intertwined with the Oak Island mystery.

Many prominent treasure hunters such as Daniel McGinnis,

M.R. Chappell and even future U.S. president

Franklin Delano Roosevelt were members.

There have also been several well-known masonic symbols

documented on and around Oak Island,

including the sacred letter G,

as well as the triangle or pyramid,

which appears not only in numerous stone carvings

but also in the shape of the mysterious swamp.

Virgo is a very important female constellation.

It's the only female constellation

in, uh, the zodiac.

And Spica, the main star that's in her hand,

is very strong in Freemasonry symbolism.

I always think of it as being the swamp.

Uh, as a womb.

That is like Eve of Adam and Eve.

Mary.

Any positive female, uh, representation is Virgo.

That sets right over the swamp.

The path of the sun passes through that corner of Virgo,

and Spica lays right on that southeast corner

of that swamp as it sets.

-What is the purpose? -My guess would be--

along that eastern edge of the swamp,

there's got to be something. There's got to be a back door

through that way to the Money Pit.

A back door to the Money Pit?

Could the constellation Virgo

really be used as a star map corresponding to points

throughout the mysterious triangle-shaped swamp?

One of which was meant to mark a secret entrance

to the original Money Pit treasure vault?

That's definitely the closest point to where,

if the swamp was man-made, have an access point.

Maybe that would be it.

that we were out there,

we found a rock about as big as this table,

-as long as this table, easily this width. -Mm-hmm.

You could slide a rebar across it,

smooth as... smooth as the top of this table.

You got stuff here, buddy.

-There's something there? -Yeah.

While investigating the southeast corner

of the swamp five years ago, Rick Lagina, Charles Barkhouse

and metal detection expert Steve Zazulyk identified

a large, nonferrous signal,

indicating the possible presence of gold or silver.

-This is what you wanted, right? -That's what I want.

However, when the team attempted to retrieve

the precious objects with the help

of professional diver Tony Sampson...

-He's coming up. -...the signal mysteriously disappeared,

and their search instead produced nothing more

than a mysterious line of flat rocks on the mucky bottom.

I have no idea what to make of it.

Could these stones have actually been evidence

of a tunnel or passageway buried beneath the swamp?

One built as an access point to the original Money Pit?

And if so,

might seismic scanning of the area confirm it?

The east side of that swamp is definitely...

should be investigated for any tunnels.

There's got to be a back door through that way.

I'm impressed by that.

That's cool.

What's buried here, I don't know.

But all I know is that it was important to them,

and hopefully, it's still here.

It's the reason why you're here.

You're not new with, uh...

You know, I don't exactly know who,

I don't exactly know when, but this is what I believe

based upon my studies,

and that's why we invite people like yourself

to come to the island, because we have yet to answer

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

To that end,

I think we have our work cut out for us.

Sure do.

- Let's go. - All right.

I've got a target here.

What you got, Gary?

Oh, I see it, I see it.

Look at that.

I'd say that's real old.

-Maybe there are answers in the swamp. -Yeah.

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As a new day begins on Oak Island...

There he is. -Hey, guys, how you doing?

He's actually smiling. Did you take a real hard look out here?

...Rick Lagina, Dave Blankenship

and Charles Barkhouse welcome back

representatives from Eagle Canada,

who have returned to begin preparations

for a seismic survey of the triangle-shaped swamp.

What-what is your first impression?

I think it's gonna be manageable for us.

I'm hoping your-your... you guys feel the same way.

--We've got, um,

three-eighths-inch plywood there.

-Yeah. -Uh, we'd be happy to help, uh, plank it out.

- We did do that. Right, Charles? And it... and it... Yeah.

We've done it a number of times.

I'd say 80% of that is-is easily walkable.

Areas where that darker color is, that's soup.

In advance of the operation,

the Oak Island team has spent the last two days

draining the entire four-and-a-half-acre swamp.

However, in order to create a workable surface area

for the Eagle Canada team,

sheets of plywood have been laid across the muck and mud.

So we'll do everything we can to get points in there,

but some we would just... we would put stub lines in

and move them out a little bit.

-Yeah. -We'll see. -If we have to,

we can change the program around,

just to suit the conditions.

We'll start in the west... west edge of the swamp here.

We'll work our way east.

How are you gonna deal with this?

Because it literally is a peat bog.

Yeah, well, we got... we got big poles to plant these phones.

It's not like the ones you guys have seen,

which we use in the mega-bin and the Money Pit,

where you'd sort of plant with hand and then use

the orientation tool to align them.

These got longer leads on them, and we'll have poles.

We can get extensions. We can put them down.

If they're all at different depths,

doesn't really... doesn't really, uh,

affect the data or anything,

so we'll-we'll get them down there.

Okay. I'm sure you're antsy to get going.

The plywood we have is down there.

-Okay. Excellent. -All right. Sounds good.

Although some 1,500 dynamite charges

were set off over the Money Pit area,

the seismic operation in the swamp

will require more than 2,000,

placed approximately two feet deep

in the muddy ground.

They will also stage 4,000 recording devices,

known as geophones, spaced two meters apart

in a designated grid pattern.

Okay. Good luck.

As the team from Eagle Canada

continues to prepare the seismic operation,

Marty Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton

arrive at Lot 27,

where they have transported spoils taken from the swamp

during the team's recent efforts to drain the area.

So, do you want to search it first, and then

-I'll start spreading it around? -Yeah.

Yeah, the oldest stuff come from a really great area.

When Billy was putting the pumps in

on the edge of the swamp there,

he noticed that it had been disturbed.

He figures that someone had been previously digging there.

Okay, so what do you want me to do?

Just rake this over. -Yeah. All right.

As Marty uses the excavator

to spread the spoils out, Gary will scan the material

with his metal detector

in the hopes of finding any important clues

or potentially valuable objects.

- Oh.

Got a target here.

--It's not very deep.

Three or four inches.

Right in the deer track.

This here.

-Oh, I see it. I see it. -What you got, Gary?

Look, look at that.

Is it a coin? Is it a coin? It is.

-I think it's a coin, yeah! -Or is it a button?

-A coin or a button? -No, I think that's a button.

It's got a border all the way around.

Yeah, that's an oldie as well.

That's a 1700s button, that is.

-That's nice. -It is.

Keep going, though, then.

It's always fun to watch Gary

get excited, you know, and in this case, it was a button.

Uh, and he thought quite old.

We'll have to clean it up and see,

but it's always a pleasure to dig in the swamp

without being in the swamp. I'd do it any day.

That sounds good.

Yeah, it does. Two-way repeatable.

Seven inches.

Yeah, I think it's a shotgun shell.

No, it isn't.

-No, it isn't. -No, that isn't.

That's-that's a coin or a token.

That's pretty cool, Gary.

-That is. -I would say it...

you know, you're, uh, often saying... things are...

I'd say that's real old.

Yeah, I mean, that does... that looks old.

I know back in the day, mainly 16-1700s...

-Mm-hmm? -What they used to do

in, uh, the colonies, 'cause they didn't like

-the king or the queen... -Yeah, would punch the... Yeah.

-Punch through the portrait. -But it was still currency.

Yeah, but it was still currency.

And-and I believe this is possibly one of those

-type of coins. -Mm-hmm.

A coin? Possibly dating back

as early as the 1600s?

Although antique coins

are commonly found on Oak Island,

the fact that this one was recovered from the swamp

makes it a potentially important clue.

If this coin can be positively identified,

it might be key in suggesting who may have visited Oak Island

before 1795 and was behind

the 223-year-old mystery.

Uh, hey, you know what?

I hate like hell to say this,

but maybe there are answers in the swamp.

It'll be interesting to see what

the seismic says-- that is for sure.

Yes, and then the seismic will show, you know,

you're kind of doing the top layer,

and the seismic will show what's deep.

All right, let's go tell Rick and the guys

-what we found. -Okay. Let's go.

The swamp has answers,

-and I want them. -Here it comes.

You see the water? -It's going that way.

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- Hey, Alex. - Hey, how you doing?

-Hey, Alex. -Looks like you're about ready.

Yeah.

It is the start

of an exciting day on Oak Island,

as Rick Lagina, Craig Tester

and other members of the team gather at the swamp,

where representatives from Eagle Canada

are about to begin a seismic survey of the entire area.

We have enough gear on the ground

so we can start shooting.

So we're on schedule. A good rule of thumb

is don't move if the shooters are not moving.

We're gonna start on the northwest corner of the swamp.

Uh, we'll have five shooters on five different lines.

So they'll make their way down,

and we'll finish on the beach road here.

How many shots in total are we taking this time?

2,025.

Wow.

We're probably gonna do about,

uh, 300 shots today, so...

we're good to go whenever you guys are good to go.

I'm more than ready.

I think the swamp has answers, and I want them.

Now that over 2,000 explosive charges,

each armed with 20 grams of dynamite,

have been placed throughout the swamp,

they will be detonated one at a time

from the command center located nearby on Center Road.

-Hi, Jeff. -How are you today?

Good. How are you?

Good. Just getting rolling.

Okay, everybody, steady up.

Here it comes. Steady up.

As each blast sends sound waves

deep below the surface of the swamp...

...they will be measured

and recorded by geophone receivers.

Unlike more common large-scale seismic tests,

which are used to scan as deep as six miles underground,

these geophones have been specially calibrated

to create a diagram of the area from 15 to 85 feet deep

beneath the swamp.

It is the team's hope

that this diagram will reveal any man-made objects

or possible structures that might lie hidden there.

Okay, you guys can move out there.

There are lot of

questions that still remain

regarding the swamp.

Is the swamp man-made?

Is it a way in

to the Money Pit, i.e., a back door?

I think seismic is gonna reveal some significant results,

and I'm hoping we'll see it.

As the seismic operation at the swamp continues...

- Hey, Charles. - Hey, guys.

...Charles Barkhouse joins

geologist Terry Matheson

and archaeologist Laird Niven at Smith's Cove,

where they're continuing to excavate

what they believe could be the main flood tunnel,

first discovered in 1850.

If they are correct, it could lead them directly

to the original Money Pit.

- What do you got? - Another feature

just about where the Cat is right now.

-Really? -Yeah.

- Hit a few boards. - We're just gonna

carry on until we find our next feature.

You see the water?

Yeah.

-Ah, look at that. -Yeah.

You see the water moving out of that...

It actually looks like a pile of boulders, doesn't it?

Yeah.

Now, that's pretty wild, actually, isn't it?

Piled-up boulders with water flowing through them?

Might the team have uncovered

one of the five stone box drains,

first reported by the Truro Company in 1850?

If so, could they finally be on the verge of locating

the convergence point to the main flood tunnel?

Hey, Alex, how you doing?

What's up, guys? -Yeah, well, we notice...

we noticed this, uh, rusty concentration of rocks.

Oh, yeah. It's really the contrast, right?

Right, what does that say to you?

It's a concentration of boulders

sitting directly on top of the sea horizon.

And water just pouring out of it...

You got a lot of water movement. You see the coloration

-as iron oxide's coming out of solution? -Mm-hmm.

I don't know what it all means.

Heck of a lot of work went on down here.

Heck of a lot of work at different times.

Undocumented work.

Yeah. -That's the thing.

Looks like it's a pile of rocks

where water's flowing through.

-So you think, maybe the flood tunnel? -Yeah, exactly.

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-So you think, maybe the flood tunnel? -Maybe.

While excavating beneath the beach at Smith's Cove,

Alex Lagina, geologist Terry Matheson

Charles Barkhouse and archaeologist Laird Niven

have just made what could be an important discovery.

This is coarse,

bouldery material with water flowing through it.

It starts to fit the model

-that we're... we've been searching for. -Yeah.

Right. I think we're actually

really close to the convergence point.

The convergence point?

Could the team have actually located the place

where the legendary stone box drains

join to form a single flood tunnel,

leading directly to the original

Money Pit treasure shaft?

-Hey, Rick. -So?

We just... we stopped at this feature

because it's unusual.

We weren't getting a lot of rocks,

but then we noticed this iron-rich stuff

and the water flowing from it,

the concentration of rocks, the contrasts...

Right. Significant. -...on either side.

You have undisturbed below it and natural,

bedded sediments from the beach above it.

Yeah. It's kind of interesting,

substantial amount of water flowing out of it.

- It seems like it's going that way. Exactly.

So, what's... what's the idea?

-Cut... cut in, peel this back slowly? -Yeah.

If it continued like that,

it would become a significant feature.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, continue forward.

Yeah.

I'll be curious about that.

Yeah.

Before another day comes to an end on Oak Island,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and their partner Craig Tester

gather in the war room with other members of their team

for a much-anticipated meeting.

Guys, this is the part of the war room meetings I really like.

We've got some information, some results coming in

on dendrochronology.

Um, it's specific.

It's to the wood we took out at Smith's Cove.

I believe we sent samples of the U-shaped structure,

the L-shaped structure, some of the walls

that were more dimensional lumber,

so Professor Colin Laroque,

with the University of Saskatchewan,

has analyzed everything, and Jack, he's standing by.

-Can you get him up on the screen? -Sure.

Colin, how are you, sir?

-Good. How are you guys? -Good, thank you.

We're looking forward to the results.

That's quite a significant wall.

This is totally undiscovered.

Over the past three months, the Oak Island team

has unearthed numerous mysterious wooden structures,

buried as much as ten feet beneath the seabed

at Smith's Cove.

In addition to finding the U- and L-shaped structures,

first discovered by Dan Blankenship in the 1970s,

the team uncovered the remains of a massive slipway,

or shipping ramp.

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the Oak Island team extracted

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in the hopes of obtaining reliable dates

as to when they were constructed.

These samples were then sent to Dr. Colin Laroque,

a professor of dendrochronology and climate science

at the University of Saskatchewan.

Hey, Colin, why don't you explain what you did, briefly,

on preparing the wood and then, uh, go ahead with the results?

Okay, basically, many of the samples that we saw

were probably in salt water, so we had to, you know--

controlled oven setting-- sort of slowly dry them,

and then we sawed them into very flat surfaces

to see the ring pattern and, uh, figure out

where the wood came from in time.

Dendrochronology, or tree ring dating,

is a scientific method studying the size

and pattern of growth rings,

which develop as a tree grows over its lifetime.

The process can accurately determine

not only the age of wood

but when it was cut for use in construction.

Why don't you go through sample by sample and give the-the date?

Okay, the first sample was number one.

Item one is a two-inch horizontal wall.

Yeah, our initial assessment was that

they were tamarack larch wood, which is very common,

especially in the shipbuilding areas

around in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

And that had a lot of rings. It had the most rings.

It's, uh, one of our best samples.

It looked dimensional, but we couldn't quite, uh, fit it in.

It had a lot of wormholes or the kind of holes

that were dug in by the burrowing creatures

in the water, so, uh,

we're still kind of trying to work on that,

trying to see if we're missing some of the rings

in some of the holes, and so, uh, that one is still waiting.

-Mm-hmm. -But sample seven,

that was one of our more confident samples.

Sample number seven is the slipway.

It's the north arm on the east end.

So the slipway,

it was, we believe, red spruce.

It's reminiscent to some of the samples we did

in other areas of Halifax.

We had a fairly strong date on, and that's 1771.

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So the slipway, we had a fairly strong date on.

That's-that's 1771.

-Great. -It is original features.

-Yep. -Predates the Money Pit.

Yes.

In the War Room,

Dr. Colin Laroque has just shared

an amazing scientific report with Rick, Marty

and members of the Oak Island team.

Using a dating process known as dendrochronology,

he has determined that the slipway discovered

at Smith's Cove was likely built in 1771,

over two decades before the original Money Pit

was discovered in 1795.

I did not expect that. I'll be candid.

That was one of our more confident...

The pattern is fitting really well

with our, uh, master chronologies.

Wow.

-That's really cool. -Yeah.

The two that are coming up next are actually

some of the biggest samples--

uh, sample eight and sample nine,

-we call them. -Sample number eight

is the U-shaped structure, and sample number nine

is another piece of the U-shaped structure.

Yeah, those were the bigger samples.

Uh, quite well-preserved, especially in the center,

so we had really good rings.

It was, we believe, red spruce.

So, for both samples, we had 1769.

Wow.

I don't know if it's part of the slipway features,

but it seems to all pointing towards that 1770s area.

-Thiis quite impressive. -Yeah.

And, you know, people didn't

take the time and effort to cut down a tree

unless they were gonna use it for something.

-Yes. -And so,

many of these trees are kind of all in that ballpark

of a few years in the 1770s,

and so, I think that data is telling us that time period.

-I mean, that's huge. -Yeah.

We can pretty much be sure that all that work in Smith's Cove

occurred in about 1770.

-That's pretty amazing. -Yeah.

Well, if we can find more of that wood

from the Money Pit that dates to that same era,

then we'll have a bull's-eye.

-Yes. -And it ties in.

- Yeah. - Hey, Colin,

how accurate of a-a list do you have

- that you can compare it to? - Right.

The one, uh, red spruce chronology that we were using,

which is about a 550-year-old tree that is still growing,

and it matches with that.

So something like, uh, sample eight, we're at probably

99.999 sure that it sort of ends in that 1770 time.

Wow.

-This is big. -Yeah.

In these kind of things, they...

they tend to, uh, answer one question

and-and raise two or three others.

- What a shock that is.

Great work.

I love the 99.99.

We don't... we don't get that ever.

So, thanks for being in on the quest.

-You're welcome. -All right, Colin.

Thank you very much. We will be in touch.

Really appreciate it. Excellent report. Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you.

You're welcome. Take care, guys.

That was good news on the slipway.

Yeah, and the slipway, and the U-shaped structure,

they all were put in at the same time.

- Yeah. - The obvious question is,

now, do you both believe there is something here?

-Who? Who you looking at? -You. You.

I believe that we have

just found, uh, conclusive proof

that not everything we're finding is searcher, okay?

-Yeah. -Yeah.

For me, this is the biggest thing that's happened

since we started this quest.

It's amazing. I-I was about to say to Rick,

turn to him and say "Look, it's time to turn this island over

from the archaeologist to the psychiatrist," because...

--First time I've heard that.

Because... because this isn't making any sense.

And then, at the 11th hour, we find out

something very significant happened here

25 to 30 years prior to the discovery of the Money Pit,

and it's in Smith's Cove.

To me, that's gigantic.

Well, I have to say, I'm impressed with this.

-I'm happy that you're impressed. -I am impressed.

Okay, so this is great information.

-Yeah. -All right, well, look, guys,

- food for thought. Let's go. - Okay.

For Rick, Marty and the Oak Island team,

the news that some of the mysterious wooden structures

at Smith's Cove were built decades before the discovery

of the original Money Pit

offers an extraordinary breakthrough.

It means that all of the money and hard work

that was invested was not done in vain.

Not only has the team found hard evidence

of a large engineering project

that was undertaken as early as 1769,

but the additional evidence they've gathered

neatly corroborates numerous legends and stories,

suggesting that a vast treasure was brought here

and then buried centuries ago.

A treasure that six men have died trying to find,

and armed with a curse,

claiming that one more will have to die

before the mystery can be solved.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

Everything's closing in. We're running out of time.

...it's the exciting season finale.

- No record of this. -No. Maybe there's something

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They used the treasure to finance the Revolutionary War.

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