The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s01e01 Episode Script

1
Somewhere
around here
Yeah, there it is.
Is this the spot
where they died?
Well, that's what I was
asking Dan.
You know, the shaft that the
Restalls died in
Yeah?
Do you know where that
is?
Uh, there may
be some pictures
from 1965, cause there's news
coverage.
In February
2013, brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina traveled from
Michigan to an island in the
North Atlantic,
in an attempt to solve a 200-
year-old mystery.
Several
generations of people
spent an enormous amount of
money, risked life and limb, and
died, looking for something here
on Oak Island.
There's been a constant history
of people doing that.
I mean, it seems like each
person or group that gets
involved just doesn't give up
until they either die or they go
bankrupt.
There's the famous Oak Island
legend-- six people have died,
then a seventh has to die
In search
of the treasure.
In search
of the treasure.
And that's when all will be
revealed.
When I was
11 years old, I read
the story of Oak Island and
I was hooked, and brought it
home and read it to my brother.
Yeah, he shows it to
me and of course it had all the
things people like-- treasure,
mystery, booby traps.
It had all the stuff that
interests a kid.
Adventure.
Yeah, it's your big
brother talking to you, too,
you know, and he knows, he's
look what he's found, you know,
wow, this is gonna be great!
200 years ago, some
kids find an interesting spot on
Oak Island off the shore of Nova
Scotia.
They dig.
They find some stones laid in,
they find some planks, things
that would have to be man-made.
So they're sure they're onto
something.
It was the end of the piracy
era, right?
So everybody's thinking buried
treasure.
No matter how deep they get,
they keep finding more planks
that appear to be concealing
something.
They give up at about 20 feet
deep because they're digging by
hand.
Then a succession of people come
back and they keep digging.
They find more platforms every
10 feet.
They find more odd stuff.
A bit of chain, all kinds of
wood that shouldn't be there.
Down about 90 feet they find a
stone that's inscribed with
strange engravings.
Finally, someone else comes in
and they find that the shaft was
actually booby-trapped, that
there's a flood tunnel to the
ocean and, all of a sudden,
water floods it.
So then different people keep
trying and trying, mining
engineers, business people.
President Franklin Roosevelt was
involved.
John Wayne was involved.
Everyone wanted to get down to
the bottom of this so-called
Money Pit.
As each successive treasure
seeker goes through the years,
they kept finding things that
kept them going.
Each time, it appears like
there's more and more evidence
of man-made formations
underground.
One of the participants
noticed this little pea-sized
little round ball, and he
unfurled it, and it turned out
to be a little piece of
parchment with an inscribed "VI"
on it.
And we're leaving out
coconut fiber.
There's been
Massive amounts
of coconut fiber.
Yeah, I mean, what
the hell's that doing on Oak
Island?
We wanted to know what
really happened.
There's all kinds of theories.
Certain people say that it's
Knights Templar treasure.
Another theory is that it's
something from the Spanish
plundering of the New World, and
then there's some people who
credibly believe that it's the
lost manuscripts of Shakespeare.
But the real core of
the Oak Island story is who,
why, when, where, how-- that's
what really got me, that's
for me
I was more interested
in the treasure.
I woke up this morning
thinking: this is kind of
a big task.
Yeah!
I'm a little daunted
this morning.
Today, if we find something
man-made at depth that we can
definitively date prior to--
give me a number-- 1790, then.
Go with 1800.
All right, 1800.
Then we've got something nobody
else has gotten.
Yet.
There's the rig.
Can we actually get
into the second riser pipe from
the same direction?
It's kind of
a trial and error thing
to try to see which one's
gonna work the best for the
scenario, right?
Personally, for me,
this is the opportunity of,
literally, a lifetime.
You know, Dan really
wants to go back up there.
I worked for the Postal
Service in the US and just
retired.
Maybe do that hillside by the
Triton shaft?
Yeah.
Hopefully now I can
devote full time to the study
of the Oak Island mystery.
I think as long as we
drill anywhere in this vicinity
here, I think we're fine.
I've been in the energy business
for 35 years.
Let's get to it.
I started a company.
We drilled a lot of oil and gas.
In oil and gas, you're looking
for giant geologic formations
underground, so we think we
might be able to adapt some of
those techniques to help us
here.
You know, we should
be doing this in August
and July when we're not
freezing our off.
Whose bright idea was this
anyway?
Well, you gotta do
'er when you gotta do 'er,
you know?
All right, what do we got?
That's just cuttings-- I don't
see anything.
Can you get another one?
Yep.
How much money do we
have invested in this?
We have millions of dollars
invested in this.
Which we will recoup at
some point.
Rick, he's a hopeless
romantic.
I mean, my brother is driven by
ideals.
There's right and there's wrong.
Honor without question.
Bring you another one.
He would have made the
ultimate Roman Centurion.
He would've gone in and did what
he had to do.
How deep?
We disagree less about
course of action and more about
likelihood of what the outcome
is.
This gets tedious, you know?
Looking through drill cuttings.
Skepticism on my
brother's part plays into it.
You always need a foil to bounce
something off of.
There's some anhydrate in there
right there.
No, you're not,
you're not to bedrock yet.
From a purely business
standpoint, I'm not sure this is
a good investment.
By the time he drives
that bar down we're gonna be at
about 170.
But it's not just an
economic investment.
I'm motivated by curiosity, I'm
motivated by the hunt, I'm
motivated by doing something
with my brother that he's always
dreamed about doing.
It's about family, it's
about love.
And I love my brother.
I mean, I wouldn't want anybody
in this with me other than him.
Okay.
If, at some point,
we're not successful, we know we
tried together.
Whoa, whoa.
Here's something.
Something, Rick.
Whoa!
Whoa!
Pottery.
That's significant, man!
Is there more of that?
If we can date this to before
1800, we've got our proof.
Hey, guys.
We're almost there.
Oak Island.
Although the test
results on the pottery
they found were
inconclusive, Rick and Marty
Lagina have returned to Oak
Island, determined to find out
if the tales of buried treasure
are true.
Where we going?
10-X, right?
10-X.
10-X.
Let's go.
Six years ago,
they bought a controlling
interest in the
corporation that owns most of
Oak Island.
We can go down that
road now, right?
We have access there,
yes.
Since then,
they have spent
thousands of hours doing
research
securing permissions
and making plans to conduct the
most extensive and
scientifically-based exploration
of the island in more than 200
years.
What's the deal, Rick?
We're either gonna come back
with our shields held in triumph
or dead on them, right?
Isn't that your centurion
analogy?
Oh, no, that's Spartan.
That's Spartan.
Yes.
Okay.
Here we are.
Fabled borehole 10-X.
10-X.
Located just 180 feet away from
the site of the original Money
Pit-- it was dug by hand, 40
years ago, to a depth of 235
feet, by island resident
Dan Blankenship.
Dan hoped he could avoid the
booby traps that flooded the
Money Pit in the early 1800s.
With the help of his son Dave
and another local treasure
hunter, Dan Henskee, Dan lined
the eight foot wide hole with
steel cut from old railroad
tankers.
But at a depth of 90 feet,
one of the metal casings
collapsed and nearly crushed Dan
to death.
His son David rescued him
in the nick of time.
Eventually, 10-X flooded, too,
and Dan later abandoned it when
he ran out of money.
But not before he took this
amazing video of what he saw
down there.
When he examined it closely, Dan
was convinced he could identify
wooden beams
antique tools
tunnels
and what appeared to be
treasure chests.
On another dive, he thought he
saw the remains of a dead body,
remarkably preserved in the
frigid waters that lie at the
bottom of the 235-foot hole.
Could that evidence still be
down there, some 30 years
later?
(laughter)
Ah, here comes David.
Speed Racer.
Dave
Blankenship has lived and
worked on or near Oak Island for
more than 40 years.
He came up here back in the
1970s to help his father Dan dig
10-X.
He never left.
Nice ride.
Did you do a little
four-wheeling today, David?
Yeah, right.
All right.
Let's get to work.
David's a great guy.
He had an accident, and he's
disabled on one side somewhat.
But he still can outwork any
three guys because David has,
basically, done physical work
his whole life.
You know, work to him
means you get out there and
start shoveling, you get out
there you start welding.
Okay.
Grab those heavy ones.
Come on, Rick!
Are you excited?
Yeah, let's go.
Come on, get it over here.
This has got
to be the monitor.
Craig Tester is my
long-time business partner.
We went to engineering school
together, we both learned the
oil business independently
Here are the instructions
We got back together,
company, and he brought along
his son Jack, he's going to help
us with the brute work out
on the island.
My brother and I want
to see if these stories about
strange caverns and tunnels are
true, so the first thing we're
gonna do is send this robotic
camera down 10-X and see just
what the heck is down there.
This is the camera.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
He's saying hello to you.
No, that's a beauty, isn't it?
The camera
is the Spectrum 90--
a high-def robotic camera that
has been tested to withstand
depths of 1,000 feet.
This head must spin
off of here for panning.
It will allow
Rick and Marty to pan,
tilt, zoom, and enlarge
images to as much as 40 times
their size.
All right, we ready?
Go find us something.
His name is Probert the probe.
Come on, baby.
Go find it.
Are you recording?
Start?
Sure.
Yup, we're about to
hit.
It's right about to touch the
water.
There's a very strong
connection between Borehole 10-X
and the Money Pit.
We pump air down one, bubbles
come up in the other.
And also, those are the only two
holes that have salt water on
top of fresh water.
That doesn't usually happen,
which means there has to be some
kind of extraordinary way that
it got there.
Splashdown.
We're at 90 feet.
What are you seeing?
It's kind of dirty.
Any mermaids?
No mermaids.
Let's go to bottom.
We're at 181.
The bottom's got to be pretty
doggone close.
Oh, oh, whoa, whoa!
Rick, why don't you
come look at this.
What's, uh
Whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop!
Just, yeah, hold it.
There's something here.
(bird cawing)
What did Rick,
Marty and their fellow
treasure hunters find at
the bottom of borehole 10-X?
Go ahead
and pan it around.
Could it be one of
the keys they need to help them
solve the 200-year-old mystery
of Oak Island?
Let's pull up three
feet and do a spin-around.
Evidence of
man-made structures?
Antique tools?
Treasure chests?
Whatever it is, it's exciting
enough for Rick and Marty to
share with the man who dug 10-X
almost 40 years ago--
Dan Blankenship.
Hopefully, he's as
excited as we are.
(knocking on door)
We might have to
Oh, no.
I see him now.
Hello.
Hey, Daniel.
Marty and Rick.
How are you doing,
sir?
Good.
Good to see you.
Great to see you.
Good to see you
always.
Good to be seen, right?
Oh, yeah.
Well, after a fashion.
Hey, we've got some
footage from 10-X that we
want you to look at.
I'd like to bring you over to
this meeting room we got.
It's pretty exciting.
I'd very much
like to see it.
Okay, great, Dan.
To Rick
and Marty Lagina, Dan is
something of a living legend.
He's the type of man other men
call "tough as nails."
Dan's 90 years old now, but in
his younger days, he was known
to be able to clear out an
entire bar with just his bare
fists.
20 years ago, he looked
just like that.
Incredible.
That's him in the dive suit?
That's Dan.
That's Dan.
That's the suit he wore when he
dove in 10-X?
That's 10-X right
there.
You wouldn't catch me
in that dive suit going down
that hole.
Brave stuff.
Hey, Daniel.
You ready to go?
Ready as I'll ever
be.
Perfect.
Let's go.
Rick, Marty and Dan
head over to Dave Blankenship's
house, where the Laginas have
set up what they call The War
Room.
Here the team plans
strategy, as well as reviewing
and analyzing the results of
each day's progress.
Right now, the subject is the
material they shot at the bottom
of 10-X
Here's how I think
we go
A place Dan
Blankenship hasn't laid eyes on
since he last climbed down the
235-foot hole more than 30
years ago.
Okay.
I think we have something we can
talk about here.
What we ought to do is go ahead
and look at the films we took,
and then I'd love Dan's
comments.
All right?
How's that sound?
Okay.
Sounds good.
Play it Rick.
We'll watch it right
now.
There you go.
All right, we're going down.
When Dan was watching
it, you could see him actually
reinvest himself in the
process, reconnecting with 40
years ago.
I honestly think that
could be the top of what I say
is a tunnel there.
I've spent six years
with Dan, and I've watched time
take its toll-- the passing of
his wife-- but in that moment,
you could see him just kind of
lean forward in the chair, and
he was back in 10-X again.
What depth is that?
There's that damn anchor or
something there.
Back in the 70's, Dan
had seen what he to this day
believes were treasure chests
down there.
So he's standing on
this rock, he's convinced
that 30 feet below him are
chests-- he can't get them.
I mean, that'd be maddening.
What's that?
That.
Wait till you see the top
of it.
The top of it is what's really
weird.
It looks like it goes into the
roof.
We're gonna follow it up.
Could the
strange vertical
object at the bottom of 10-X
be an ancient support beam, one
left there by the builders of
the alleged treasure tunnels?
What the hell
happened?
What the heck was that?
What's going on, Jack?
I don't know.
We're not getting any video.
It didn't record.
N.F.G.
Wait a sec-- whoa,
whoa, everybody, whoa.
What's going on here?
What's going on here?
What happened to our screen?
They're not opening.
They're not playing.
They're at zero, zero, zero,
zero time.
Low-tech men
in a high-tech world.
You're not going to be able to
see anything, Marty.
Oh, man.
All of a sudden--
poof-- like many things about
Oak Island, it's there, and then
it's gone.
Is it the Oak Island curse?
I don't know.
It showed we had an
hour's worth of recording left
when we quit.
In other words,
you have another roll?
Yes,
but we can't find it.
Oak Island.
Oak Island.
Where's my definitive
proof?
I want proof.
Losing the footage
from the bottom of 10-X is a
frustrating setback for the Oak
Island team.
But for Marty, the footage
is replaceable-- time
and money are not.
He and his brother have to keep
going.
Where do you want it?
Right here.
Right here?
Yeah, right here.
Their ultimate goal
is to re-excavate the original
Money Pit.
Can you hop out and
take a look?
I'll show you where we want it.
But because of all
the previous excavations and
blasting that have been done
over the years, the cost of
doing that is estimated to be in
the millions of dollars.
Right about
right in there.
That would be all right,
wouldn't it?
Yep.
And Marty isn't
going to come up with
that kind of money,
unless they find proof--
something substantial, that
means that the legends about Oak
Island are true.
We want to get down to
the bottom of borehole 10-X.
Looks good right there.
So I'm convinced we
need to pump water out of there
and try and bring up with the
water all the stuff that's down
in that cavity.
Are we cutting a hole
in the side of this thing?
We're gonna use this as
a sedimentation tank.
If Dan
Blankenship's reports of antique
tools and chests are correct,
Marty and Rick are going to try
and force evidence of them to
the surface with the aid of an
old oil drilling technique.
The process goes like
this-- the driller drills down
into the cavity that we know is
below 10-X.
Then he runs some casing down
into it, too.
Then he has a very high-velocity
air pump.
He'll pump high-pressure air
down into those casings, which
will then come back up, bringing
with the air, water and all the
bits of things that are down
there in that cavity.
Those things go into the
sediment tank, it settles there,
the bits and pieces go to the
bottom, water goes off down into
the ocean.
Good with that?
There's two quests
here, right?
The big quest for the treasure,
and my quest to be convinced
that there's really something
here worth looking for.
Why do people think
there's treasure or something of
great value buried deep below
the surface of Oak Island?
Back in the 1800s-- shortly
after a large stone slab was
discovered in the Money Pit at a
depth of 90 feet, the strange
markings on the stone were
translated using a simple
deciphering code.
It read, "Forty feet below
two million pounds are buried."
But some now believe the code
used was more complex and gave
secret instructions for shutting
off the water to the
booby-trapped flood tunnels.
Although the stone mysteriously
disappeared in 1919-- and no
pictures or rubbings of it have
ever been found-- it was all the
evidence treasure hunters needed
to keep digging
nearly 200 years later.
You sure this isn't
gonna be a safety issue here?
No, it's not.
Huh?
I'm positive.
If you get
electrocuted
Bare wire and it
means absolutely nothing.
Why don't we tape that?
It goes bzzz!-- and I
only been welding for about 20
years, so it doesn't bother me
any.
You want to tape it?
Tape it, I don't care one way or
the other.
You got tape?
Nope.
So we ain't gonna tape it.
If you get hurt,
I won't feel a thing.
That's my one piece of advice
today.
Whose idea is this?
Ours.
Pretty damn good.
This is what you're gonna use
when you pump out the sediment?
Yes.
Dan Blankenship and
Rick Lagina share a special
bond.
They are united in their
determination to solve this
200-year-old mystery.
Incredibly, both men were
inspired by the same article
about Oak Island that was
printed in the Reader's Digest
in 1965.
Dan was a successful building
contractor living in Florida,
Rick was an 11-year-old kid
growing up in northern Michigan.
But that's all it took to fuel
their imaginations.
And the fire hasn't gone out
since.
You're only
gonna get one shot.
And we're hoping it'll
be successful.
You don't do
things half-assed on Oak Island.
Exactly, exactly.
You'll get
screwed every time.
You're not going to try and
close up that
Yeah, yeah.
Take a break for a minute.
Well, we trying just to get this
thing finished.
Mom would be happy getting it
over with.
She wanted it done.
Yes, she did.
She put in a lot of time on the
island.
Yep.
Hopefully we can finish it now.
I don't have
a reputation for giving up.
Go ahead, pull it.
Here's where we're at.
Everything's in place.
Let's get it done.
You're hoping against hope that
nothing goes wrong, and then the
water-- you hear the "whoosh"--
and you think, "Okay, we're five
minutes from finally getting
answers."
It's going great.
Never say that
on Oak Island.
Oh, yeah.
It's going okay.
You ain't
done nothing yet.
Nothing.
Look.
No water.
Nothing.
Hit the air!
Let's go!
Watch it!
Watch it!
Whoo!
Marty, Rick and
their Oak Island partners have
begun pumping ocean water and
debris out of 10-X.
If successful, they will collect
objects that lie at the bottom
of the 235-foot shaft.
But will it be pirate gold?
Treasures from the days of the
Knights Templar?
Or will they find the human
remains Dan Blankenship insists
he saw when he was last down
there 30 years ago?
We got a little rig
here, and we're trying to use
airlift to get some of the
cuttings and silt and stuff out
of there.
We're gonna use that
old Dumpster that we're rigging
up as a settling tank to make
sure that when this airlift
occurs, anything solid coming
out of there will fall to the
bottom before the water drains
off down into the ocean.
Oh, my God.
That stinks.
It's like offshore
drilling, 'cause we're drilling
in 140 feet of water and 40 feet
of air.
It's almost trickier than
offshore drilling.
There's seawater that
floods 10-X and floods the Money
Pit.
And that's very strange,
geologically, because when you
drill wells on Oak Island you
find fresh water.
Tell you what, some
pretty dirty water.
So, those are the only
two holes that have salt water.
All the other wells around that
are drilled to a similar depth
have fresh water in them, and
that's very suspicious.
Salt water?
From the ocean?
Could the stories of elaborate
booby traps using ocean water to
protect the treasure vaults be
true?
You know what?
I don't think we're down
far enough.
Huh?
I don't think we're far
down enough.
There's nothing coming up.
Rick, we're only just
starting.
We're not down far enough.
Patience.
Relax.
Just gonna see if the
water works.
You mean if it's
draining out?
Yeah.
Well, I don't know if
we're that high yet.
Yeah, we're that far
away.
We only put a two-inch
hole in the sediment catcher
because we wanted the water to
drain slower than it was coming
in, so that there would be some
settling time.
Unfortunately, I think we're too
slow.
And we could reach a point where
we might actually need to
increase our ability to eject
water out of that thing faster.
Whoo!
Good time to come over.
It just boom!
As far as the sediment
tank, we knew there was gonna be
timing issues in terms of the
volumes of water.
So, I went down to Smith's Cove
to check the drain hose to see
if it was operating properly.
Everything worked perfectly,
just had to maneuver it a little
bit, but so far, so good.
Smith's Cove.
A stretch of rocky beach located
just about 500 feet from the
original Money Pit.
It doesn't look like much except
for one strange thing--
Smith's Cove is man-made.
But why?
One widely-held theory is that
Smith's Cove is where five stone
box drains-- like fingers on a
hand-- were built centuries
ago.
Drains that supplied ocean water
to the booby traps that flooded
the Money Pit and, later, also
flooded 10-X.
Who built them?
No one knows.
What the hell?
What the hell's that?
I come to the end of the beach,
and I look up and there's this--
I don't know any other way to
describe it-- it looked like an
elephant tusk coming out of the
water.
Holy
Yeah, Rick!
I'm down at Smith's
Cove and it's low tide and
there's real curiosities down
here.
Give Charles a call real quick.
Dan Henskee, too.
Yeah, all right.
I'll see if I can find them.
Good, be right down.
Be right there.
Yep.
Dan!
Charles!
Can you come here a sec?
Rick just said he's found
something.
It's ultra low tide
I called in Charles
Barkhouse who's very versed on
the history, and Dan Henskee who
worked on the island for 30
years as Dan's helper.
See that?
You ever see that?
No.
I've never seen that.
Amazing how fast the
tide comes in.
That was above water a
minute ago?
Yeah.
Look at this.
Give it
a tug, big brother.
I've never seen this
before.
Never have either.
As many times I've
been in Smith's Cove, I've never
seen that.
Been here a lot, too,
and I've never seen it.
A wooden tusk
sticking straight out of the
water?
But how did it get here?
Is it a natural formation?
A marker?
Or could it be a booby trap,
meant to puncture the hull of
any boats that came ashore
looking to steal Oak Island's
mysterious bounty.
According to historical records,
the waters near Oak Island were
frequently visited in the
1500 and 1600s by Portuguese,
Spanish, English and Scottish
explorers, during their trips to
the New World.
It was also known to have been a
haven for pirates, like Captain
Kidd, as late as the 18th
century.
Could it be that some of them
hid a percentage of their
plunder on the island?
It's just one theory among many
on an island that knows how to
keep its secrets.
This thing rises out
of the water one week after
we've been here.
Like that?
The island is giving us the
finger.
Is that what's going on here?
I mean, that is just bizarre.
It was like the island
was taunting us.
Here's piece of what might be
here.
Explain it for yourselves.
What's it trying to
tell us?
Well, we may have to do some
diving to see what else is out
there.
After finding the
strange wooden tusk sticking out
of the water at Smith's Cove,
Marty Lagina has decided to
explore the waters in the area,
and has invited his 27 year-old
son Alex, an experienced diver,
to join him.
So, hey, what's going
on, what are we doing?
Well, we're going to
be diving on some interesting
stuff; stuff that was found by
side-scan sonar and never
checked out.
How's Rick doing?
Rick is doing great in
the sense that he's on Oak
Island and he's digging at the
mystery, but I think he's sort
of frustrated by the rate of
progress so far-- but we're
going to keep working at this
until we find that definitive
proof or the treasure itself.
That's the plan.
There it is.
Wow, look at that.
Okay.
Here's where you're
going to spend the rest of your
summer.
Hopefully, not the rest
of my life.
Okay, here we are.
That's Jordan's rig.
Hey, Jack!
Hey, Jack!
Hey, Alex.
It's been awhile.
How are you doing?
Good to see you.
Alex.
Good to see you.
It's been a long time.
Alex.
David Blankenship.
Hey, David, I'm Alex.
Nice to meet you.
What's going on up here?
We're evacuating 10-X.
We're rigged up to airlift out
of the cavity.
We got a sediment tank back
there.
A discharge chute down to
Smith's Cove.
It's just a time thing now.
Pump the rest of the day.
Check the sediment level.
Eventually, we'll pump that
down, and then we'll get a metal
detector.
We'll metal detect it first and
then we're just going to have to
slowly work our way through that
sediment pile.
And now, with you here, we can
get on a boat tomorrow and find
out what's really going on at
Smith's Cove.
That's what we're going
to start with?
Yeah.
MAN: Hey, welcome aboard!
Good to see you.
How are you, skipper?
Okay, here's the deal:
We're going to look at Oak
Island from the water.
I don't know if you've ever seen
it from the water, have you?
You know what, I don't
think I have.
I haven't seen it
from the water, either.
First time for
everything.
See that?
Whose house is that?
Fred Nolan.
Who is that?
Fred's a treasure
hunter, same as Dan, but they've
had an ongoing contentious
relationship over 48 years.
Ask David.
They don't believe each
other.
And they don't like
each other.
'Cause they're trying
to beat each other to the
treasure?
Mm-hmm.
So they maybe even try
to mislead each other.
That laugh speaks
volumes.
Yeah.
In 1981, Oak Island
treasure hunter Fred Nolan
noticed five large, cone-shaped
boulders on his Oak Island
property.
After measuring the
distance between them,
he discovered they formed a
perfectly symmetrical cross--
720 by 867 feet.
Even more astonishing,
at the intersection
of the arms of the cross, Nolan
unearthed a sixth large boulder
with a human face carved into
it.
Although digging beneath the
other boulders produced nothing
conclusive, the cross itself is
thought to be a clue-- one of
many that suggest that what lies
buried on Oak Island might very
well be a priceless religious
artifact.
So, we'll move up the
beach.
Alex, where's that map?
Right here.
Okay.
These are real locations that
are very interesting which you
guys can dive on.
See this?
This square-shaped object right
here?
That's what I think we should
dive on, but there are all kinds
of strange anomalies on here.
There it is.
Smith's Cove.
Smith's Cove.
Where everything started.
Let's have a look at
it.
That's where the so-called box
drains were.
And the flood tunnel over to the
Money Pit, if it exists or
existed, originated there.
That area, Dan
believes, that maybe, just maybe
there are still remnants of the
artificial beach.
One of the five fingers of the
drain might still be partially
intact.
To prove that the
water that flooded the Money Pit
was coming from the ocean, in
1898, treasure hunter Frederick
Blair poured red dye down
into the 90-foot-deep hole and
then pumped water into it.
To his astonishment, the dye
began to seep out into the sea
at Smith's Cove.
But then he noticed that it was
also seeping out at several
other points on the south shore
of the island.
It proved that there was not one
but at least two separate
booby-trapped flood tunnels
preventing access to whatever
lies at the bottom of the shaft.
But who built them, and why,
are just two of the many
unanswered questions about Oak
Island.
Well, we should dive
there then, right?
Yup, that's the place
to look.
Yeah, Alex and I
should be able to dive there and
see if we can see where the
water comes in that floods 10-X
and the Money Pit.
Okay, let's move on.
Skipper, let's go.
Turn the boat around.
Let's head back.
Will a future dive
off Smith's Cove help Marty,
Rick and their team crack the
mystery of Oak Island?
Or will it only open the door to
more clues
and more questions?
One thing is certain
the answers lie below.
Far, far below.
The short trip
around Oak Island has convinced
Rick and Marty that the key to
getting to the bottom of 10-X--
and eventually the Money Pit--
is to trace the source of the
seawater that fuels the flood
tunnels.
If they can stop the water,
they will have cleared a
path for a full-scale
excavation.
But it isn't going to be easy.
Come in.
Daniel.
Dan.
How you fellas making
out?
Well, we just want to
give you an update.
The airlift in 10-X, you know,
we got the pipe down in there.
Right.
We're down in the
cavity and we're jetting it with
air and it's working.
We're bringing up lots of stuff,
bits and pieces of stuff.
You gotta
clean it out, you know.
I think so.
But in the meantime, my son Alex
is here.
We're gonna go ahead and get
some dive gear.
We're gonna dive off of Smith's
Cove.
I think
it's a good idea.
And we're going to
finally, this year, hopefully,
within a week or two, we're
gonna definitively answer the
question, what's in the bottom
of 10-X.
Well, that's good.
As long as there's progress,
Rick, you know?
You can't quit, can
you?
Well, you can call it
an obsession.
I mean, after all,
I've been here for 48 years
and if I can't admit to it
being an obsession then I'm not
being very honest, am I?
Well, let's do it.
Let's go back out there.
We're not giving up,
you know that, right?
Right.
And you better be
around to see it.
I'm gonna try and be.
You will be.
Thank you, Dan.
See you.
Take care.
You know, it occurs to
me that the common denominator
on Oak Island is, is ready
for it?
Yeah, I'm ready.
Obsession.
And I think you, big brother,
have a little bit of that set in
already.
What do you think?
That's the common denominator.
I don't think that's
the right word.
But do I want to finish this
for us?
Yes, I do.
And I'm gonna give it everything
I've got.
And if that's
obsession, then I'm obsessed.
Obsession is the
fuel that powers Oak Island.
It's what latches on to those
who get close to the mystery,
and then never lets go.
Why can't we get a
faster flow rate?
Because, honestly, I
don't want a faster flow rate.
I want it to settle.
It's kinda like pump and dump.
You know, pump
let it settle a little
It's working great.
It comes down in 10 minutes.
Kill the air for a minute!
Thanks.
Dig some out of there, let's see
what we got.
This will settle out overnight.
There's a lot in there?
There's a lot in there.
Good.
You know, best case
scenario, we find gold, we find
some manmade artifact that tells
us we're on target.
This is the plan, it's working,
par excellence.
Well, I mean, we're
gonna
We're gonna have to go over this
with a fine-tooth comb.
That's what this is all about.
It's exciting.
Lord knows what you're going to
find.
I don't see a lot, but
I mean, the bottom line is we're
getting a lot of stuff.
Yup.
Wait
Now that
that is very peculiar.
That's metal, Rick.
Yeah, I know.
Inside a rock, too.
Could it be a clue?
The first real sign of proof
that there is treasure buried on
Oak Island?
Perhaps.
But anyone who knows Oak Island
knows the island doesn't share
its secrets willingly
or without a price.
Oak Island changes lives.
It can also destroy them.
And the questions that remain
unanswered can even make a
strong man go crazy.
What lies below?
Who put it there?
Should it be dug up?
Or is it best left alone?