The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s02e01 Episode Script

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Previously on The
Curse of Oak Island
There it is.
Is this the spot where
they died?
Several generations risked life
and limb and died, looking for
something here on Oak Island.
Here we are-- Borehole 10-X.
My brother and I want to see
just what is down there.
Whoa, whoa!
Stop!
There's something here.
Look at the films we
took.
That could be the top
of the tunnel.
We need to try and
bring up all the stuff that's
down in that cavity.
Wait, that's metal, Rick.
Inside a rock.
Very peculiar.
There's more and more evidence
of man-made formations
underground.
All right, guys, this
is Petter Amundsen.
I found the treasure
map leading to Oak Island.
It is concealed in codes in the
manuscripts of William
Shakespeare, and it also tells
you what the treasure is.
You believe that the
menorah from the Temple of
Solomon could be buried on Oak
Island?
Yes, in the bottom
of that swamp.
I'm actually getting
multiple signals.
This is the most
sophisticated equipment that's
ever been on this island.
Wow, this could be it.
This could be the find.
Oh, .
What is it?
This could be
something big.
Whoa!
What the hell is that?
Well, it's copper.
It's a Spanish
maravedí, probably from the
1600s.
Unfortunately, the date is
obscured, but possibly predates
the Money Pit by at least
150 years.
That's the first real
evidence I've held in my hands
since I've been here, almost 48
years.
This is the most
valuable thing that's ever been
found on Oak Island.
Yes!
There is a
mysterious island in the North
Atlantic, where for more than
200 years, people have been
looking for treasure.
It began in 1795, when three
young men discovered a strange
indentation in the soil, which
when excavated, revealed bits
of gold chain
a small piece of paper with
writing on it
even a large stone slab with
curious codes and symbols carved
into it.
Dubbed "the Money Pit," the
strange hole was eventually
excavated by treasure hunters to
a depth of 90 feet when one of
them hit a booby-trap, which
flooded the shaft with seawater.
What was down there?
Nobody knows.
But this much is certain--
the island becomes an obsession
for all of those who try and
solve the mystery.
Six men have already lost their
lives in the process.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before
the treasure can be found.
Well, we've got a lot
riding on this little coin.
Let's take a look on
the microscope.
So there's the coin.
This is a typical
Spanish eight maravedí.
They were typical coins.
They were minted for almost 300
years or actually more
Since discovering
an ancient Spanish coin in the
swamp last summer, brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina are convinced
they are on the right track to
solving the mystery of Oak
Island.
Now, along with their friend and
business partner Craig Tester,
they have traveled to Tampa,
Florida to visit the offices of
Global Marine Exploration, a
company that specializes in
salvaging artifacts from
shipwrecks.
So, here in the center
of the coin is an eight, which
was for eight maravedís.
And a maravedí was
worth what?
It's-it's-it's a
penny, just like a hundred
pennies makes a dollar to us
today.
But a penny?
I mean,
you could buy a piece
of bubble gum with it?
Although the
Laginas already knew that the
object they found was a 17th
century Spanish coin, they have
come to Global Marine to find
out if it had really been buried
there for nearly four centuries
or if it had been planted more
recently.
What about that band
coming up off the top?
In the cracks there's
this white sediment from
wherever the coin sat.
Jason might be able to scrape it
out of there and we could
analyze it.
Yeah, do what you need
to do.
For the information.
We're thinking, "What
is this coin going to tell us?"
I'm positive the coin is valid
in the sense that that's an old
coin.
I don't believe it's a
counterfeit or anything like
that.
The question is, when was it put
there?
One thing that we can
do now is, if I zoom in really
close on this.
See the green and the white all
together right there?
To me, that looks like
oxidation.
And now I can compare this with
some other coins we found, which
I know this is oxidation.
You can see how that kind of
looks
Very similar.
It's very similar.
Clearly this leads me to believe
that this thing did spend
several hundred years in the
swamp.
For years, treasure
hunters have believed that the
islands off the coast of Nova
Scotia were a haven for Spanish
and Portuguese pirates.
Finding a 17th century Spanish
coin might verify that not only
had there been human activity
on Oak Island before 1795,
but that the numerous legends
and stories about pirate gold
being buried on the island
might actually be true.
Okay, so what exactly
are we doing?
Well, right now I'm
gonna pour in here really
mild citric acid.
Just need a little bit.
And then we're just gonna
drop it in.
And this will slowly dissolve
the oxidation off that coin.
So in about an hour we should
know something.
Great.
Cleaning the coin.
That is probably the most
exciting thing.
The chance of finding out when
was that coin made?
We need to know the date.
All right!
We've been in here for about an
hour and a half, it looks pretty
good to me.
It looks way
different.
Yes.
Let's pull it out of here and
see what we got.
We'll give her a little brush.
Let's go ahead and take a peek.
There is some sort of a scroll
around the outer edge.
Is there anything else
on that?
Let's look and see the
other side of this thing.
There is some sort of a date.
Tell us what it says.
It's really hard to
make out-- 1652.
Pretty sure?
I'm pretty sure.
1652?
More than one hundred years
before three area teenagers
found evidence of possible
buried treasure on Oak Island?
But was the coin left behind by
one of the people who buried the
treasure?
Or could it have been dropped by
someone who came to the island
looking for it?
Here's today's really
good news-- it's 1652 and it is
exhibiting the characteristics
of something that was lost in a
swamp, and you're sure of that.
I would agree with
that, yes.
It was more corroded than you
would expect from a land find.
A brackish swamp makes sense.
A brackish swamp makes
sense.
You want to know what
it is?
You remember Charles' statement
of a thousand-piece puzzle with
400 pieces missing?
Yeah.
Now there's only
BOTH: 399.
Rick, Marty and
Craig are now convinced that the
coin found in the Oak Island
swamp had been lying there
undisturbed for nearly 400
years.
But still another nagging
question remains.
Zero start.
Ready?
Yep.
The test they had
conducted using the Lorenz
Deepmax X6 revealed that a
large amount of nonferrous or
precious metal-- like gold and
silver-- might be buried beneath
the place Norwegian researcher
Petter Amundsen called "the
Mercy point."
Ready to dive?
But when diver Tony
Sampson explored that area of
the swamp, no evidence of
nonferrous metal could be
found.
This is crazy.
You get a hit, it goes away.
Yeah, and you come up with
nothing.
How is that possible?
Eager to find out
why, the team travels some 100
miles northeast to the
headquarters of Kellyco Metal
Detectors in Winter Springs,
Florida-- the place where they
acquired the Deepmax X6.
So, Stu, I have a
question.
Because last year, we kind of
had this sort of mystery hit
thing going on, right?
We hired this diver, he's
getting these hits, and he comes
up with nothing.
You has that ever happened to
you?
Yes.
Yeah, it's-it's not it's not
unusual.
If objects, for example, are in
the ground or in the water,
they-they start developing a
matrix.
It's almost as if the the
metal down there bleeds and if
you have different particles
around, eventually the matrix
builds and builds.
It becomes larger.
That's what we had.
So you get a big hit
on it.
Right.
According to
Kellyco CEO Stu Auerbach,
nonferrous metal objects-- when
placed in water over an extended
period of time-- can begin to
deteriorate and form a type of
metal cloud underwater,
resulting in false readings that
suggest the presence of
something even larger.
Well, you go and you
start digging and the first
thing that happens, you've
disturbed the soil.
And it breaks the entire
contact.
So now your diver broke it.
Well, actually, I find
that encouraging, 'cause we-we
thought it was just a glitch,
a-a phantom, a something.
I believe, if that's
happening, there's probably
metal down there.
You're going to run that area
again?
Yes, I think that,
uh, we've got a real good
opportunity to go up if we can
get out on the ice
Yes.
and you can walk
over the swamp.
Well, look, let's
let's get up there and do it.
I mean, we appreciate your help,
your willingness to have another
go at this.
Yes, sir.
By returning to the
now-frozen swamp in winter, the
team hopes they can once again
use the Deepmax X6 to gather
more accurate data data which
may confirm that the legends of
an incredible treasure being
buried on Oak Island
are true.
It is winter on Oak
Island.
A time when the island is
determined to keep its secrets
hidden beneath layers of ice and
snow.
Okay, let's get the
sled.
Yes, like that
Should we see how it slides?
Yeah!
That should work.
Should be good.
This-this thing sits
right up on the bed.
One week after
their meeting with Kellyco in
Florida, Rick and Marty Lagina
have returned to Oak Island to
get more accurate scans of the
now-frozen swamp.
Big brother is going
to sit back here and make sure
everything stays together.
Right?
Guaranteed, on my
honor.
For Rick, finding
treasure on Oak Island would
fulfill a lifelong dream-- one
the retired postal worker has
had since he first read about
the island in 1965 when he
was just 11 years old.
For Marty-- a successful
businessman and engineer in the
energy industry-- it would prove
that the countless hours and
millions of dollars he and the
team have invested so far have
not been in vain.
Feast your eyes.
Isn't that lovely?
Over where you have
land like that, we can, we can
get in there with a CTX 3030,
right up along the bank.
I think that'd be well worth
going out and looking at.
Kellyco
representative Dave Spencer has
come to Oak Island from Florida
with the latest in metal
detecting equipment.
GARY: I like the look of that
ridge.
That's a great vantage point.
Really looking forward to metal
detecting in there, yeah, for
sure.
And with him are
fellow treasure hunters Gary
Drayton and the father and son
team, Bob and Robert Leonard.
I think the first
priority is getting the
getting the swamp cleaned out,
so we can actually do some
detecting with the VLF machine
on that spit of land over there,
with the trees.
Being out here in the
swamp brings back the memories
of finding the coin and that
changes everything.
I was getting pretty close to
fed up last summer, until we
found that.
Now I'm ready to keep going.
Plus, it's nice to have the
whole team here now.
This sort of fellowship of the
dig.
The group that's out
here now, I'm glad that they're
here.
Everybody brings in a little
piece of help.
I've got, you know, a brush hog,
which is designed to do the
work.
And here's Dave Blankenship.
He's got a lawn tractor, for
God's sakes, in the swamp, over
the ice, cutting down
vegetation.
As the son of
veteran treasure hunter Dan
Blankenship, Dave Blankenship is
considered a key member of the
Oak Island team.
He has been working on the
island with his father for
nearly 50 years, and knows the
island like the back of his
hand.
While they're
putting the coil together, we'll
go out and, uh, start marking
these grids.
By gridding and
scanning the frozen swamp, the
team hopes they will get more
precise data than they collected
last summer.
Trying to scan through layers of
muck while walking on slippery
plywood had made the task nearly
impossible.
Once the data is collected, it
can be analyzed in a
three-dimensional map.
If all goes well, the map should
indicate exactly where items of
interest-- and possibly
treasure-- could lie hidden.
I want to get four
people in the corner, and
lift lift this thing up.
Need to do the ground balancing
on that.
Although the team
is using the Deepmax X6-- the
same high-tech metal detector
they used last summer--
Kellyco's Dave Spencer has now
equipped it with a larger frame
coil and mounted it to a sled.
As the team pulls the coil along
the ice, it sends a powerful
magnetic pulse into the earth,
enabling it to find metal
objects up to 40 feet deep
underground.
Get me some data!
Ready?
Go.
I'm not getting
anything.
Stop.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
The numbers aren't coming up.
We've got nothing over there,
and I mean nothing.
We've started running the
Deepmax X6 equipment
Ready?
and we're not
getting anything.
Go.
I mean, I'm watching the graph.
I-It's kind of disappointing.
You know, will that turn around?
I don't know.
So?
Results?
Nothing spectacular.
Let's do A-2 and just
keep on going.
We'll do A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4.
But that's why we're
running the whole swamp.
'Cause I believe that there's
something in this swamp, and
this equipment is gonna confirm
whether I'm correct or I'm not.
There are those who
believe what lies deep beneath
the Oak Island surface may not
just be one treasure, but
several.
During the Elizabethan era,
Oak Island was thought to
be rich with deposits of gold
ore, but after a British mining
expedition returned with 1,100
tons of iron pyrite sulfide,
or fool's gold, the island's
extensive maze of underground
mineshafts was quickly shut
down or was it?
According to this theory, a
handful of the mine's original
investors believed the abandoned
tunnels might serve another,
possibly more strategic
purpose.
It would become a virtually
impenetrable vault for the
world's most priceless
treasures.
Treasures that would include
everything from the golden
menorah of Solomon's Temple to
the Ark of the Covenant
the Holy Grail
and even the lost manuscripts
of William Shakespeare.
And now it's at
complete zero.
Oh?
Yep.
What the hell's going on?
Now I'm getting a little here.
Just a tiny, little bit.
Another bar.
Two more bars.
Big brother's
relentless over there.
There he is, no hat, no gloves,
freezing cold out here.
But he's intense, and I think
that's a good thing.
Little bit, little bit
more, now she's climbed up quite
fast.
Got to be something here.
That's as high as it's gotten so
far.
Look, see?
Look at that.
Look at it-- it just keeps
climbing.
Big spike here!
Big spike.
Still spiking!
That's exactly the way it was
last year.
What's going on then?
See for yourself.
It went to over 90.
The hell does that
mean?
On these graphs in
here, if it hits, like, a 60% of
the potential graph, you're in
maybe a ferrous material.
And if it goes beyond 60, up to
80, 90, you're in, uh, you're in
highly conductive metals-- gold,
silver.
Finally, the team
has found signs of something
buried beneath the ice.
But what?
Gold?
Silver?
Precious historical artifacts?
This is exactly the way
it should be reading compared to
last year's data.
Rick!
Did it repeat?
Yes.
Yeah.
Keep going!
Rick was over the moon because
he's getting big numbers out
there in the swamp, which is
what we were hoping for.
But I'm not sure that means
anything till it's processed
through the computer.
I'm excited, but I'm cautious
about getting too excited.
It confirms everything
I believed last year.
That that data was good and this
data confirms it.
I'm happy as I can be.
Let's go back and run it.
We'll find out where
we stand.
And then we dig.
And then we dig.
After concluding
another day's work, Marty,
Rick, and the Oak Island team
bring Kellyco's Dave Spencer to
the home of Dan Blankenship in
order to share with him the
results of today's scanning.
Hey, is somebody at
the door?
Daniel!
Hey, Marty.
How you doing?
Man, good to see you,
sir.
Yeah, it's good to
see you, too.
I got a whole crew.
Hi, Jack.
Good to see you.
At 91 years old,
Dan Blankenship enjoys the
status of a living legend.
He has spent nearly 50 years
looking for treasure here and
remains an important source of
information to Rick Lagina and
the entire Oak Island team.
All right, Mr.
Spencer.
Yeah, I'm just getting
the data where I can access it.
So, we were running this data
all day.
We had some interesting hits
that we were wanting to look at.
We got some pretty deep
indications that I want to go
over.
Can you differentiate
between ferrous and nonferrous?
Absolutely.
We want nonferrous.
That's correct.
Want them little
gold bars about the size
of this table.
Let's have a look
here.
Enough foreplay.
Let's get going.
Okay, hang on.
This anomaly is of-of
significance.
The two smoke stacks,
the fact that they're darker,
does that mean that you got
higher readings in them?
No, all this
is doing is giving you a
reference of depth and then
whether it's ferrous or
nonferrous.
What you're looking for
is the color at the tip.
That is the buried object.
And the red is a large,
nonferrous object.
You definitely have something
here with the reds.
The one that's of interest is
this nonferrous target here.
It looks like it's about 15 to
20 feet long, and it's, like,
about three feet wide.
Close to the size of this table.
David, seriously?
Hey, you asked me to
run the data.
I know, I know, I
know.
I'm not getting paid
to explain it.
I know, I know.
Um, but wait a second, so what
would that be?
Bob had some thoughts.
He was thinking it could have
been a shipwreck.
And if they wrecked a ship on an
island, they would abandon the
ship, take treasure off the
ship, and bury it, and then put
indicators then at someplace
else, with the intent of coming
back, uh, to pick up treasure.
A shipwreck?
Buried in the island swamp?
There are some who speculate
that Oak Island was at one time
two separate islands, but were
joined together in order to hide
something of great size.
Could a pirate horde contained
in a hidden shipwreck really be
the answer to this 200-year-old
mystery?
It's been well-documented that
the waters surrounding Oak
Island were frequented by
pirates and privateers from
Spain, Portugal, England and
Scotland.
One notorious privateer, Captain
William Kidd, even claimed to
have hidden a fortune somewhere
east of Boston before his
execution in 1701 for piracy.
At this stage of the
game, what would you do if you
were us, David?
I would be
attempting to drill down.
Really?
Why not?
Because we can't get
in there and dig it.
We're in a friggin' swamp.
Just in my experience,
in oil and gas, when you get an
anomaly like that, that lines up
with the way you're running
stuff, you know, I get concerned
it's-it's fake.
Okay, keep going.
It picked up
somebody's metal shoe or
something.
You're suspicious?
I'm suspicious.
No, you're
objective, and you want to see
more data, but I'm telling you
right here, we have an
indication that we have a hard
target, um, that it's absolute,
there's a target there.
Yeah, but to get it
out and spend it is a hell of a
problem.
You're thinking of
pursuing this?
Well, of course we
pursue it, Dan.
If I believed with 100%
certainty that there's a
nonferrous object, I'm-I'm
gonna find out what it is.
All right, look.
It's late, it's been a really
long day, we got more data to
get.
We got more analyzing to do.
Then we make a decision.
We got a lot of work.
Let's go.
Let's call it a day, guys.
Okay.
Rick and Marty
Lagina have made major progress
with their winter exploration.
They are eager to return in the
spring
and find out, once and for all,
if there really is a mysterious
vault buried deep beneath the
Oak Island swamp.
But the island has been
frustrating treasure hunters for
centuries, and isn't likely
to give up its secrets
without
a fight.
Spring has come to
Oak Island.
But though the island's surface
has thawed, its reception to
anyone trying to unlock its
secrets is anything but warm.
Is this it?
Are we gonna do it this summer,
Rick?
Is it gonna get done this
summer?
If there's answers
there, we're gonna get 'em, and
that's that.
I don't care if we gotta wade
through 30 feet of muck.
The data the
Laginas collected last winter
has led them to one conclusion:
they must once again dig in
the swamp, but it won't be easy.
Permitting process
should be fairly simple.
We know exactly what we need
to do.
First, they must
secure permits from the
government in Nova Scotia,
a process which could take
several weeks or months.
We're gonna get the
permits.
It's looking good.
And once the
permits are secured, they must
find a way to drain out the
water from the target areas.
Okay, Oak Island.
You've been winning so far, but
the Lagina boys and their team
are back.
We have a plan?
We have a plan.
All right, let's go
get dirty.
Yeah.
Rub a dub-dub
four men in a tub.
While waiting for
the necessary permits, Marty
Lagina has called in Tony
Sampson, a professional diver,
to see if there is any
additional information that can
be gathered in the swamp during
a conventional underwater
exploration.
One, two, three!
We want to verify that
these hits we're getting are
real, and then we want to
excavate but we need more
permits to excavate in the
swamp; we'd probably need to
drain it again.
So if we can locate some
objects with a diver by going
underwater we want to do that
first.
Come on, Tony, find something.
Okay.
While Marty Lagina,
Craig Tester and Tony Sampson
prepare to explore the swamp,
Rick Lagina and the rest of the
Oak Island team have arranged to
meet at the home of Dave
Blankenship.
They are trying to develop a
method of draining just enough
swamp water from their target
areas so they can excavate.
Hey, guys, what's
going on now?
Try and pick up one of
those things and put it in the
truck.
Okay.
We ultimately might
need two of them.
One stacked on top of
each other.
Yeah.
In order to drain
the Oak Island swamp,
environmental regulations
require that, rather than being
poured into the nearby ocean,
the swamp water must be diverted
to another area on the other
side of the island.
We got a ton of water
up in the upper part; we're not
draining it at all.
No.
But when they
attempted it last year, Rick and
Marty found that the swamp kept
refilling almost as fast as they
could drain it.
But how?
Could it have been caused by
Oak Island's vast network of
underground booby traps?
If so, how will the Laginas get
around such an ingeniously
designed obstacle?
Last year we had some
insight into how difficult the
digging was in the swamp, so
David actually brought up the
idea that his father had
constructed wooden caissons, and
he thought that they might be
used perfectly in the swamp.
The wooden caissons
would work like tall, waterproof
shafts which, when placed over
a target area, could be
drained.
If successful, this would
allow the treasure hunters
to dig in the swamp without
having to drain the entire area.
There's eyehooks in
here, so let's hook the two
eyehooks and pick it up then
like that, eh?
All right, here
it comes.
The idea behind the caissons is
we have targets in the swamp
based on the metal detecting
we've done.
Okay, have a go at it.
And there's no way to dig in the
swamp without isolating the area
that we want to dig in.
Get out of there.
Always stay on the backside
of it.
The cool thing about
this is we're using caissons
that Dave and Dan Blankenship
both built years ago.
Grab that other small one!
Okay.
We use very quickly,
things they built with their
own hands.
It doesn't get any better than
that, plus it's good karma.
And we could use some good karma
on this island.
Come on, Tony.
Come up with it.
As the caissons
make their way to the swamp,
Marty's team has begun a
preliminary investigation near
the area known as "the Mercy
point," the same area of the
swamp where the 17th century
Spanish coin was found last
summer.
He's going deep.
I wonder if he's got something.
It is also the area
where the Deepmax X6 indicated
there could be large deposits of
nonferrous or perhaps precious
metals.
Anything, Tony?
Some weird shape under
the mud.
I can't quite tell what it is.
I'm gonna feel around first
to see if I can find anything
metallic around it.
Come on, Tony.
Come up with something for us.
All right, he's on to something
there.
What the hell is that?
All right, he's onto
something there.
Diver Tony Sampson
has just indicated that he has
found something interesting at
the bottom of the Oak Island
swamp.
But what could it be?
Another Spanish coin?
Evidence of a buried pirate
ship?
Or could it be something of even
greater significance?
What the hell is that?
It's a big tree stump.
Well, that's weird.
What's that doing out
in the middle of nowhere?
Tony finds this big,
massive piece of wood that looks
like a piece of a stump.
That could be significant,
because I don't know how a tree
could grow underwater, if this
is a natural swamp and has been
here a long time.
For years,
researchers have speculated that
Oak Island's strange,
triangle-shaped swamp was
man-made, and possibly created
to conceal a vast underground
treasure vault.
The evidence of an oak tree
stump at the bottom of the
swamp could be a significant
discovery, as oak trees cannot
grow in water.
Could this be proof that the
claims about the swamp being
man-made are true?
I can swim it over to
the shore if you want it, Craig.
Yeah, we want it.
Let's get that tested for age,
and we'll see what happens.
Although Tony
Sampson's dive of the swamp did
not yield evidence of precious
metals or priceless artifacts,
the discovery of what might be
an oak tree stump at the bottom
of the swamp has added fuel to
Rick and Marty's efforts to
explore the area.
Let's set one right
here.
Right there?
Drop 'em both right
here.
They are now more
eager than ever to see if the
caissons they obtained from Dan
and Dave Blankenship will help
them find out, once and for all,
if the stories and legends about
a secret treasure vault are
true.
Good?
Yep.
Finally, the
caissons are carefully set to
rest near the edge of the swamp.
But before they can be used,
Rick and Marty must wait for the
necessary permits.
It is a slow-- and at times
frustrating-- process.
We all done, buddy,
or what?
No.
Now we have to use 'em.
Oh, yeah.
That's the next step.
That's the next step.
That's the big step.
There it is, out there.
At the end of
another long day, Rick, Marty
and the team adjourn to what
they affectionately call "the
war room."
Lorenz is indicating
that there are four significant
anomalies that we should dig.
And that's from the
deep metal detector?
Yes, the X6.
You know, I'm a little
reluctant to think we're going
to dig all over in the swamp.
Tony got nothing in here, Rick.
Nothing.
And I mean, Tony did a nice job.
But we have to look at
that.
We have to.
Well, here's the deal,
Rick.
I'm kind of sick of the swamp.
I mean, how long have we been
slogging around in this swamp
and are almost at square one?
Not that long.
What do you mean "not
that long"?
I think we've probably--
Well, in the context of
the discovery processes, we've
not been in here hardly at all.
How long were you in 10-X?
Years?
Years, yeah.
We always agreed-- all
of us, we always agreed, "Let's
put the swamp to bed."
Oh, what does "put it
to bed" mean, Rick?
What does it mean?
It means exploring them
to the point where they're
explainable.
This isn't going
anywhere.
It's silly.
Uh you know, we have
a difference of opinion.
Okay.
You get any sibling
situation, there's always
rivalry.
So typically, you know, it's
gonna be a little "push and tug"
kind of affair to decide who
gets to do what.
Well, let's say we're
going to have a go at something,
probably.
Let's just say that for right
now, not for sure but probably.
Let me ask you a question, big
brother.
Can I at least do this?
Can I put an "X" through these
two?
Well, let's just put an
X through this whole thing.
Yay!
Okay?
But then GPR the four Lorenz
targets.
That's what I want to see before
I'm willing to say, "Okay, we're
done."
All right, we'll give
it a try, if if we can all
agree that there's something
worth digging.
Yeah.
When I was young and
I was certain about something,
I was sure I was correct.
Now that I'm older, I realize I
could be wrong.
And you have to listen to other
people.
And so I look around the table
and I've got infinite respect
for this character here, and he
says, "No, we're not done."
And basically, I say, "Okay,
I'm going to listen."
'Cause if it was just my
decision, I would say, "No,
we're done with the swamp."
Yeah, you would have
been done.
I've had enough
stinky, nasty,
mosquito-ridden
That's the reason why
you
Yeah, I don't want to
go in that swamp anymore.
All right, we'll look.
Let's have a look.
But-but before we go to do that,
on the possibility that we will
dig, we don't have any permits,
right?
The permitting process
is taking place as we speak.
Is this a permit to
drain or a permit to dig?
Both.
Both.
You know, as soon as
they are willing to approve it.
That's where it sits right now.
Right, but the point
is, we're not gonna be digging
till we get those permits and
that could be a while.
Absolutely not.
All right, okay.
So that sort of concludes the
swamp.
Hey, guys.
Peter!
Hey, Peter!
How you doing?
You won't believe
this.
They want to take away
whatever you find on the island.
What?
What are you talking about?
That's today's paper?
Yep.
A bill they want to pass.
Who's "they"?
The MLA.
What's an MLA?
Somebody enlighten me, here.
Member of the
Legislative Assembly.
Member of the
Legislative Assembly.
Yeah, okay.
"Would establish a
heritage research permit and
scrap the existing treasure
hunting paperwork."
Can I see this?
Oh, my God.
News that pending
legislation could shut down Rick
and Marty's efforts on Oak
Island comes as a shock to
everyone on the team, especially
since they spent years securing
all the necessary archaeological
studies and permits required by
law.
We feel we've been good
partners with the province.
We came to the island and to the
discovery process with an intent
to leave a positive footprint,
so it's-it's disappointing, to
say the least.
Passed in 2010, the
Oak Island Treasure Act
currently gives the Laginas and
their partners special
permission to access and keep
a percentage of any treasure
they find buried on their
property, provided that all
historical artifacts are turned
over to the government.
Although it might take years for
the proposed legislation, if
passed, to take effect, the new
law could make any serious
efforts to dig on Oak Island--
and thus solve the 200-year-old
mystery-- prohibitively
expensive.
So this adds a whole
nother wrinkle to everything.
This could also impact your
permits.
Yeah, that I would
say, definitely.
So, in the meantime,
let's go out of the swamp and
let's go and do a little
exploration at the Money Pit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yup.
Yes.
Marty Lagina's
willingness to temporarily shift
the team's efforts from the
swamp to the Money Pit
represents a huge milestone in
the search for treasure on Oak
Island.
After it was located in 1795,
the Money Pit became the focus
of all treasure-hunting activity
on the island.
In 1804-- at a depth of 90
feet-- a large stone slab with
strange, hieroglyphic markings
was discovered.
Using a simple deciphering
method, it was translated to
read, "Forty feet below two
million pounds are buried."
But when the stone was removed
from its resting place, the
shaft quickly flooded with
seawater, thwarting the efforts
of treasure hunters ever since.
To locate and re-excavate the
Money Pit will cost the Oak
Island team millions of
hard-earned dollars.
It will be both time-consuming
and extremely dangerous.
Look, I've always been
skeptical as to whether we
should dig up the Money Pit, but
on Oak Island, you need to
explore every avenue out here.
The Money Pit has never been
properly excavated.
Plus, it has been a childhood
dream for the both of us.
It singularly started
the obsession of Oak Island,
'cause there's so much mystery
about this place.
It's that big unknown.
That's what we're chasing.
For more than two
centuries, hundreds of men and
women have come to Oak Island in
an effort to solve the
200-year-old mystery.
And now, it is Rick and Marty
Lagina, armed with modern
equipment and a broad range of
technical know-how, who are
determined to succeed.
It won't be easy.
The Money Pit has devoured the
fortunes of many would-be
treasure hunters.
It also comes with an infamous
curse that seven will have to
die before the mystery can be
solved.
This season on The Curse of Oak
Island
The Money Pit-- I want
to see what's down there.
It's time to dig.
What you're looking for is
another shaft in the swamp.
There's gonna be more
danger.
We're about to dive 10-X.
Are you saying you're caught?
Yeah.
Abort the dive.
I cannot hear you.
We're gonna run a
side-scan sonar.
Those are boxes.
There is a chamber there.
Yes, with man-made objects.
is this top of the vault.
Looks like we might have
been, right.