The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s02e08 Episode Script

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Tonight on the curse of Oak Island
here's where we're gonna start I am just
so sick of this swamp something right
there you just got a reading he's saying
we got multiple hits in the same area
you got some divers coming in and we'll
concentrate on 10x you ready to go let's
do this what's in the bottom of 10x
we're getting into analysis paralysis I
am wanting to quit what do you mean you
want to quit
there is an island in the North Atlantic
where men have been looking for treasure
for more than 200 years so far they've
uncovered booby-trapped flood tunnels
carved stones with strange symbols 17th
century Spanish coins and evidence of a
wooden vault covered in concrete six men
have even lost their lives trying to
solve the mystery
according to legend one more will have
to die before the treasure can be found
well that's forward mud
should I get repositioned try Rick see
what happens for the second year in a
row brothers Rick and Marty lagina are
attempting to drain the islands
mysterious pyramid-shaped swamp
it is here many Oak Island theorists
believe the 200 year old mystery will be
solved once and for all it's going to be
swamp 2 the sequel Rick here has a
drained and I would like to be able to
at the end of the season either cross
the swamp off or say no there's
something to excavate here the
difference between this year and last
year of course is we have very specific
sites we want to investigate with some
fairly sophisticated equipment something
a lot like last year
yay finally the troops arrived to
confirm the locations of the various
target sites Craig tester has hired Pat
Campbell and Matt Savelle from Canadian
seabed research limited a geophysical
company that specializes in the
detection of underground structures and
man-made objects
they will be using a ground penetrating
radar device the mala rough terrain
antenna system that sends
electromagnetic pulses through the earth
to detect structures objects and voids
up to 30 feet below the surface this
whole investigation is coming down to
using ground-penetrating radar we didn't
use that last year we use metal
detection equipment
and if there are structures of
significance and they go on deeper the
metal detecting equipment would have
completely missed a stone structure or
even a wooden structure
okay so Greg really you should take the
lead and explain what the you know GPR
GPS is doing this is the conductivity
survey the m31 that ran on the ice and
right along here we have a number of
different anomalies and so we're gonna
run right parallel to the shore going
along here we think it's a good area and
then we should get a better idea if it's
something natural if there's if there's
a stone walkway or something there yeah
okay let's go
well Marty and Matt Savelle head over to
the money pit Craig tester Rick lagina
and Pat Campbell begins scanning the
southeastern area of the swamp where
this past winter the team received
indications that non-ferrous or precious
metal objects may lie below
you see anything at all there's some odd
stuff going on definitely we can see
where the flat rocks are it doesn't say
vault here doesn't say that now oh
that's too bad
something's happening kargh is there
anything on there see that right there
looks like it's where the those rocks
were there's something odd that this
looks like it's flat across there a flat
surface and right where the team
detected possible precious metals this
past winter right in here you start to
see these dipping reflectors this way
but there's also a reflector just
cutting across there which is if this
was the bottom of the swamp then you
would wouldn't see this one going right
through it right
could this be the so-called mystery box
that treasure hunter Bobby Restall
searched for back in the 1960s or could
it be something else like the entrance
to a vast underground treasure vault
although it will take further processing
of the data to be able to tell what the
large flat object might be Pat and Craig
are finding it difficult to contain
their excitement well imagine that
if the object in the swamp turns out to
be man-made you're good yeah and more
than 200 years old
then they may have just had another
important breakthrough in solving the
Oak Island mystery
okay here we are at the money pit Marty
and GPS expert Matt Savelle head over to
the spot where the team located evidence
of the mysterious wooden vault first
discovered and then lost in 1897 they
are here to get a precise geographic
location of the drill hole using
satellite-based Global Positioning
technology right over there we just
drilled the well and we think may have
gone into one of the original chambers
okay
so that's what I want you to site
because here's the plan we're gonna get
that for a reference point yeah and
we're going to then go due west because
we have a theory that we find somewhat
credible at least worth searching during
their recent fact-finding trip to
Scotland Rick Marty and their partners
met with researchers Kathleen McGowan
and Alan Butler who believe that the
swamp hides the entrance to a sacred
chamber that links directly to the money
pit if it's ever possible to say that x
marks the spot what you're looking for
is 996 feet due west of the money pit
the prophecies about the New Jerusalem
say that the New Jerusalem will be built
on an island of swamp
according to McGowan and Butler the Oak
Island money pit was constructed by
Freemasons sometime in the 15th century
and was intended to be an exact copy of
what they call the Enochian chambers the
ancient treasure vaults found deep
beneath the temple of King Solomon
as the chambers were originally designed
to conceal objects of great importance
McGowan and Butler believe the
Freemasons built the money pit to hide
the sacred religious treasures of the
Knights Templar they also believe that
if this theory is correct there would
need to be a tenth chamber one built
according to strict measurements and
located exactly 996 feet due west of the
money pit on the edge of the Oak Island
swamp so you get me a reading right
there and then we're gonna go find 996
due west and we'll run the GPR there
yeah or we'll dig okay right here all
right see if we get as level as possible
how does that mess you up cause it's too
high no we're good I can see it all
right all right that's it good easy yeah
precision yeah good head back that way
yep excellent
coming out well right now it's so good
to even try to flank this just gonna
sink down
I'm getting a little discouraged plug
the swamp do you really want to keep
going
we're gonna name this points we're on
the name for it yet this is the Enochian
chamber Enochian channel Qian chamber
cancer we're gonna have it or hard look
at this Enochian chamber i buy it enough
to look i mean why not
what do you got
but another 40 to 50 meters north 16
meters west getting pretty close
so yeah
I'd say right there that's it yeah does
it feel like you're standing on
something important I hope I hope if
Marty can verify the existence of an
underground chamber or tunnel under the
swamp it may serve not only as an
incredible archaeological find but a
shortcut directly into the money pit
we're gonna at least run GPR here you
should pick it up right yeah if there's
a chamber under here you should pick it
up he's gotta get it out here yeah it
was easy be gone by now yeah okay so now
I bring in the real muscle okay big
brother Rick nothing he loves better
than an x marks the spot
while Marty and Matt Savelle double
checked their GPS data at the western
edge of the swamp Rick lagina Charles
Barkhouse and Jack Begley decide to
check out another key area of the swamp
known as the mercy point yes my brother
would say oh no the swamp the point is
located near the apex of the
triangular-shaped swamp on the spot
Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen
identified as corresponding to one of
the points on the so called Tree of Life
based on Clues believed to be embedded
in the first printed volume of William
Shakespeare's collected works the mercy
point is thought to mark the location of
a vast underground treasure vault which
like the Enochian chamber contains
sacred treasures from King Solomon's
Temple
it was also here
where last summer Rick Marty and the
team found the 17th century Spanish
pirate coin get excited you need to
immerse yourself in this project right
away jack go for where are we placing
them no we're going now
I got a bit of dick handout guys when
conducting a preliminary investigation
of the mercy point area earlier this
year diver Tony Sampson found a large
flat stone slab below the murky brackish
water his three feet by two feet further
could it have been the entrance to a
hidden underground tunnel perhaps the
same one marty was looking for earlier
if there really is a vault or some type
of underground structure buried in the
swamp Rick lagina is hoping that
ground-penetrating radar can confirm it
once and for all there's a lot of water
back here is that good news
nope to do so would require getting the
mercy point area of the swamp drained
enough so that a plywood walkway can be
set up for the GPR unit all right now
it's no good even trying to plank this
because it's too soupy it's just gonna
sink down low and take a look see what I
mean cuz right now you put plywood on
that you're just gonna sink down
that wasn't smart
does that feel okay
there's our answer so you're right I
mean that's not gonna work nope
even though multiple pumps have been
running for several days the mercy point
area refuses to drain here's a plan
we'll take the little submersible it's
got a hundred feet on it okay put it in
here and take the Blue Hose for the
discharge once again just as it did last
summer
the swamp is filling up as fast as the
pumps can drain it the island it seems
is determined to protect its secrets but
Rick lagina is just as determined and
for him giving up or giving in is never
an option yeah we gonna put me some
slack draining the backside of the swamp
didn't go well we dealt with that issue
last year we'll deal with it again my
brother's not gonna be too happy because
he does is an intense dislike of the
swamp but look at the end of the day
it's not going to deter us okay plug
I want to continue I want to figure out
once and for all is there something in
the swamp that's what I want to do
that's what we're going to do we see how
it goes
coming up
something right there
he said we got multiple hits in the same
area three and a half meters from the
center of the antenna that's exactly
where it should be
it's gonna be a tough slog going out
there you want to walk along the edge
first just take that right there right
by those rocks just go right across
those rocks after gathering GPR data at
the area known as the mercy point where
are you taking me Rick lagina and Craig
tester along with GPR expert Pat
Campbell join Marty lagina to see if
Alan Butler and Kathleen McGowan's
theory about a so-called Enochian
chamber located 996 feet west of the
money pit is correct okay right here's
where we're gonna start all right that's
the spot you phoned right yes right Oh
bye Craig that is it I put that stake in
myself I don't know how many different
people are adamant there's something
buried in the swamp a lot of them do
research and connect dots I want an
ah-ha moment okay all right let's try
you ready Pat yeah go
just put these lines in the worst
possible
what we've always wanted to do what you
want to do is cross things off yeah okay
the swamp has never been explored to the
extent we've currently done it and if it
needs to be investigated yeah all right
yeah it's a bad spot I'm not willing to
walk away without trying everything one
sec huh I'm not sure if that's where I
stumbled right there huh nothing
anything an anomaly but he didn't know
if it was where he stumbled that's
exactly where we went up no you don't
know that I know over that hump is it it
was yeah how do you know you don't know
where he saw it you saw it between when
he looked I'm just gauging by when he
looked back okay but you know what let's
not make stuff up let's do all the lines
ooh this we do each one back and forth
so if we do this one back and forth oh
great
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stop there for a second something right
there
he's just some diffractions yeah he just
got a reading he's saying right I want
it when right here no back three and a
half meters from the center of the
antennas that's exactly where it should
be a positive reading right where Rick
and Marty were told they'd find the
Enochian chamber it's amazing but it's
right here with us down well that's good
let's repeat it proofs in the repetition
of it though although the initial
readings are encouraging Rick and Marty
have learned from experience that good
news on Oak Island especially with
regard to the swamp may be too good to
be true
suddenly same breed around there a
second positive reading right between
the two yeah okay close five meters
multiple targets in the same area could
it be the Enochian chamber I mean it's
interesting right we got multiple hits
in the same area that's never happened
anywhere else what if there was a hollow
chamber ten feet by ten feet by ten feet
what would you see oh you would have
seen a hyperbolic diffraction a big one
yeah and we've not seen anything like
that not not a big one now about these
no we need to look at the data whatever
it's probably the worst thing that could
happen to us
the worst thing but you know yeah it is
the worst thing
it's like duplication duplication we did
we did got duplication and we've got a
baseline here where we got no hits on
two runs I mean if we had nothing there
we can't put an X through anything
read my lips I hate the swamp tired of
the swamp and want to be in the swamp
anymore but Rick had some very valid
reasons for being in there last year and
then again this year in your mind is
this diggable I want to see the process
dad I mean fine then a day and a half
will have to make a decision I'm done
there comes a point of diminishing
returns and he's aware of it too it's
just I think sometimes there has to be a
reality check for Marty lagina if there
really is an Oak Island curse
then it is located right here at the Oak
Island swamp
for the past several months he and the
team have gathered miles of data and
conducted numerous tests and all have
indicated the presence of something
strange beneath the acres of dark
brackish water but when the data is
tested the results are often
inconclusive or disappear altogether
this is crazy you get a hit it goes away
and you come up with nothing
how's that possible this is a situation
that has been a source of conflict
between Marty and his brother and a
situation that as far as Marty's
concerned can't go on much longer here's
the deal Rick I gotta ask you something
okay down granted we don't have the GPR
yet okay they does not invade us not in
but I mean it can't help but I'm getting
a little discouraged but too swamped
okay yeah okay
Oh hear me oh yeah I want to ask you
this from my heart okay all right you're
the guy that's carrying us all Rick sort
of like Frodo in Lord of the Rings
you know it you're the one who has to
keep us all going you're the one who has
to be the believer
are you sure do you really want to keep
going
don't make it simple yes I'm still all
in and I hope that we are all in
marty is also concerned that just like
last year time is running out and that
the precious few weeks the team has left
to spend on the island this summer would
be better spent by exploring other
potential treasure sites I wish this
were the treasure path and it might yet
be you know we've run two types of GPR
and we've run the x6 let's go out here
and we see all the targets at the point
we're at right now give me your top four
eyes show me where they know the top
four are well this one for sure
and then there was a hit there on those
recessed areas you know the earthen berm
and then we have mercy right there where
the flags are waiting and then we have
the new theory the Enochian chamber
right out there and we have hits on each
of these but inconclusive data on the of
them right so far really of a confirming
hit here confirming hit there and only
one hit off of the GPR there and we have
data we have data in the can which we've
yet to receive
you know basically Rick two years in a
row we kind of did the same thing with
slightly different devices and slightly
different methods slightly different
targets but you know I mean that's why
I'm ready - I'm ready to say stop I am I
am sick of the swamp and I am wanting to
quit what do you mean you want to quit
coming up this is not a simple dive guys
the island is a killer
well here's the deal Rick I am sick of
the swamp and I am wanting to quit what
do you mean you want to quit for much of
this year brothers Rick and Marty lagina
have had a serious difference of opinion
regarding the Oak Island swamp Marty
believes the team has been repeatedly
excited by encouraging data and you
definitely have something here with this
non-ferrous target here only to have
that data lead to yet another in a
series of dead ends unfortunately there
are only one or two ferrous metal
objects we could see all the others are
of no interest Rick lagina believes big
spike here that not all of the data the
team has been receiving can be wrong
still spiking if anything he is more
convinced than ever that the swamp may
hold the key to the entire Oak Island
mystery I want to confirm those two
targets I do want to quit but only to
this extent I don't want to run any more
data we're getting into analysis
paralysis if you want to keep going on
this swamp let's dig something let's do
it right and let's dig something and I'm
gonna leave it to you and as far as I'm
concerned where do you agree
yeah I agree I used the Q word he hates
Q word I say I want to quit I mean it's
like I hit him with a two-by-four right
I don't want to quit investigating I
just want to quit with the remote
sensing and and he was fine with that
he's right I don't like the Q word it
doesn't like the Q in anything we're not
quitting no and we're a team so we're
not quitting okay we're not quitting I
I'm with it I am 100% with you okay fine
we'll look at the data that's in you can
day that's in the can we'll pick two
sites let's do it let's dig it's time to
dig with all questions given all right
good now that Rick and Marty have agreed
to refocus their efforts on exploring
the money pit and the so-called Chappell
vault they need to figure out a way to
do it and avoid the flooding that is
prevented digging any hole deeper than
140 feet for this reason Rick Dave
Blankenship and Jack Begley have
scheduled a meeting in the war room to
talk with someone who is offered to help
them so we've got your proposal and it
reads very interesting during his visit
to Oak Island earlier this year author
and treasure hunter J Hutton Pulitzer
shared his incredible theory that a
priceless treasure was buried on Oak
Island more than 2,500 years ago there
is an ancient legend about an Ancient
Mariner society traveling from the Holy
Land to Nova Scotia with artifacts from
the first temple
what year are we talking we're talking
about 582 to 596 BC
now J Hutton Pulitzer has offered to
help Rick Marty and their partners get
to the bottom of the money pit to do
this and avoid hitting the so-called
booby-trapped flood tunnels he has
offered to send two members of his team
who are professional scuba divers they
will attempt to go in through what is
considered the money pits
backdoor 10x it's an ambitious plan that
is both difficult and dangerous we go
down and we get into this hole we just
started doing right so are you
inspecting the whole hole we have to
inspect the entire place nobody truly
knows what's in there located 180 feet
away from the money pit 10x was dug in
the 1970s by dan Blankenship with the
help of his son Dave and treasure hunter
dan henskee it was dug in the hope that
it would offer a way of getting to the
money pit without encountering ocean
water but at a depth of 60 feet 10x
flooded
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deeper and deeper he and his team dug
until in 1971 they reached a staggering
depth of 235 feet I had always been in
awe of the construction of 10x it's 18
stories straight down dug by hand by
basically three people dan blankenship
david blankenship and dan henskee you
look at the equipment that surrounds
that shaft and you realize how ingenious
they had to be they macgyver'd that
shaft really that's what they did it had
to do with what they had on hand
once at the bottom Dan discovered a
large man-made chamber where he was in a
video camera
he believed he recorded images of
ancient tools wooden posts treasure
chests and even tunnels one of which
appeared to go in the direction of the
money pit but during one of his dives
Dan was nearly killed when one of the
steel casings collapsed from the
enormous pressure
diving down into 10x has rarely been
attempted since
we've got to be prepared and it has to
be engineered and planned for the worst
possible circumstances okay well on our
end what do you need us to do we're
gonna have to make sure somehow that we
stabilize that metal holder so we're
gonna have to build a platform can we
simply build a deck yes so we're talking
roughly a 12 by 12 if not probably
bigger if not bigger and from the last
time right as far as that safety issue
is concerned with the ladder and the
loose metal we intend to cut off the
ladder but only to water level is that
will that be sufficient for you that
should be fine
Hutton has expressed some of his needs
in terms of what he requires but now
we're bringing in a dive team putting
people at risk it makes you take pause
and think are we doing the right thing
okay well you know we've got our
marching orders and you've got a lot of
planning and trial dives to do so let us
get to work on our end you get to work
on your and it we'll keep in touch
thanks Hutton Kerr Rick and the team are
now convinced that sending divers into
10x could be the key to solving the
entire Oak Island mystery but what will
they find
ancient tools pirate treasure chests a
secret tunnel leading to the money pit
perhaps after more than 200 years Oak
Island will finally be forced to divulge
its secrets coming up you're ready to go
let's do this
what's in the bottom of
it's a new day on Oak Island and with it
comes a new plan and a new enthusiasm
for solving a 200 year old mystery
in
preparation for next week's dive Rick
lagina and Dave Blankenship along with
Charles Barkhouse and Jack Begley are
building a 12 foot square safety
platform around 10x when completed it
will serve as both a staging area and a
monitoring center allowing the team to
track the divers movements during every
inch of their 235 foot descent we had
some concerns for the divers in terms of
water clarity I mean the dye is still in
10x of course it's in 10x when it should
be in the ocean but it was and we need
to flush it out so we need to get the
dye to the point of dilution where it's
not an issue anymore
yeah it's still green because 10x is
still filled with phosphorescent green
water left over from the team's recent
dye test it will need to be pumped out
so that the divers will have maximum
visibility
here's what's on the agenda we'll put
our blocks down and square it up make
sure it's outfit custom four by fours
and pin the corners no rectum once we
get this Square and tacked together we
raise it up we get this thing fairly
level to begin what then we'll measure
our full before okay you're the engineer
on this job okay come on let's do this
for the Oak Island team working at 10x
is both an exciting and an emotional
experience exciting because it
represents progress the anticipation
that the answers they have been looking
for are only a few feet below and
perhaps only a few days away
okay Jack we put them to my friend there
now but for Dave Blankenship who has
spent the majority of his life living
and working with his father on the
island and who helped dig 10x the
experience is bittersweet for him the
235-foot deep borehole represents a big
part of his father's legacy finishing
him and hopefully finding the treasure
will assure him that his father's life
as well as that of his mother was not
lived in vain for David it's important
he's articulated it before he wants to
finish that shaft for his mother his
mother spent many years here believed in
Oak Island but at a cost
sacrificed probably some of her interest
her passions to Dan's wanting to solve
the Oak Island mystery and David is
passionately devoted to that cause he
will see the end of 10x and we will do
that is he pretty excited about this
Doug was absolutely excited when he was
building the dock he could it was one
board after another come on let's get
going
you know he's committed to it he's gonna
put three screws in it that's plenty I'm
over-engineering you go nuts there just
wait to bail now
perfect yeah but what I hope the wooden
deck is finished and all the
preparations for the dive have been made
except one Rick lagina and the team will
need to find someone who will climb into
10x and clear away 40 years of rusted
metal and crumbling debris from the
inside
I didn't think we'd get done did you yep
you did I should listen to you more
often you did give me too much grief so
you coming pensee good good good good
good we gonna put the tanks on the deck
now would leave on the truck got 200 for
the hoes try not to kink that all to
hell
in 1971 dan blankenship decided to widen
10-x to a diameter of 8 feet after
digging by hand
he and his team lined the upper portion
of the two hundred and thirty-five foot
shaft with steel casings made from
hollowed-out railroad cars
they also used concrete to reinforce the
area from 90 feet to 181 feet
unfortunately before he could widen then
reinforce all of 10x Dan ran out of
money and had to abandon the ambitious
project Mon it has now been more than 20
years since anyone is doped down to the
bottom of 10x and in that time the one
sturdy steel and concrete-lined shaft
has become rusted and full of debris
we've got to get me down there in
preparation for next week's dive Rick
lagina will have to enter the eight-foot
wide hole and clear away layers of
crumbly metal and rotting timbers
there's a ladder right there moving over
to see it that's got to come out down
the water level so we're gonna torch
torch our way down should be about 40
feet the water so three or four pulls
and we should be very good now it's
still Kyle and things never go good hey
Dave yep if it can go wrong it will go
wrong rick is going to be lowered into
10x by means of a specially designed
steel cage
once inside he will use a blowtorch to
cut away any loose steel that could
potentially break away and injure the
divers during their upcoming operation
how much room you got we're right on the
ladder going down a little bit Rick no
we're on the ladder nope nope nope nope
nope you got to go if it goes at all
it's got to go like that
we're good here almost like it was made
for
okay
I don't want this stuff falling either
we're gonna give you a hard hat in a
minute
tighten it up
they're shot
the inside of 10x is even more rusted
than Rick previously thought he will
need to do a lot more cutting with the
blowtorch before the inside of the shaft
could be considered safe
there was a little bit of sadness
because I hear I am deconstructing it to
gain answers they constructed it to get
the answers and Here I am taking it
apart to find the answers they burn
their heart when the red yellow
ever since 1795 people have been trying
and failing to get around the booby
traps that are believed to surround the
money
getting a dive team to the bottom of 10x
could finally prove that dan Blankenship
was right all along he had found the
back door into a vast underground
treasure vault what do you want
perhaps rick lagina's boyhood dream of
helping to solve the Oak Island mystery
right there really will come true after
all or will it be like so many other
things on Oak Island plagued by a curse
little more okay a curse that could put
yet another life
next time on the curse of Oak Island
for the first time somebody's gonna go
down in 10x and actually go into the
cavern what do you think is down at the
bottom two chests and one body it's the
first look we have infinite according to
the legend seven people need to die and
I'm not gonna be number seven
we're not going to get somebody killed
in that hole Recker I should go with