The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s02e09 Episode Script

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Tonight on the curse of Oak Island
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 a tenant according to
legend seven people need to die and I'm
not gonna be number seven we're not
gonna get somebody killed in that hole
Rick or I should go with
there is an island in the North Atlantic
where men have been looking for treasure
for more than 200 years so far they have
uncovered tunnels booby-traps
carved stones with strange symbols a
17th century pirate treasure coin even
evidence of a wooden vault
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
let's do this
it is another day on Oak Island
no no no we're on the ladder
a day that will directly connect the
islands past with its future
after locating the original money pit
earlier this year Marty and Rick lagina
have hatched a bold plan
they will attempt to send a pair of
divers down to the bottom of borehole
10-x in hopes that they can find what
dan Blankenship insists he saw when he
dug the 235-foot shaft more than 40
years ago a man-made tunnel leading to
the money pit but first Rick lagina must
clear the entrance of any rusted metal
or other debris that could break off and
cause serious damage
it is a dangerous operation the metal
casings that line the shaft are more
than 40 years old and more seriously
corroded than anyone anticipated
you gotta watch we're catching up on
okay let's go up
what began as a simple plan to ensure
safety has become extremely dangerous
like most things on Oak Island if
something can go wrong it probably will
the section of ladder is much heavier
than Rick anticipated now he has to
figure out how to safely remove it from
the shaft
come here you
little thing hang on one second
don't you
all right bring me up a close call but
for Rick lagina it wasn't nearly close
enough for him to call it quits
who's happy
damn thing wouldn't cut well I didn't
say it was gonna be easy down there
knowing you were right going down tell
you one thing I was always impressed
that you and your father Dan did this
but I'm even more impressed I learned my
lesson but all the while no matter what
I was doing down there I was constantly
thinking what needs doing must be done
in order to get the answers and so we
will now as they wait for the dive team
to arrive Rick Dan and Dave Blankenship
and Jack Begley gather in the war room
they have scheduled the teleconference
with Marty and Craig tester who are in
Traverse City Michigan and who claimed
to have some exciting information to
share with them I am Marty okay so
you've got test results for us right
1450 and 1640
before I like that
earlier this year diver Tony Sampson
pulled a large hardwood tree stump out
of the Oak Island swamp if as the data
indicates the stump was growing sometime
between 1450 and 1640 ad then it would
help the team pinpoint the date the
swamp was created and when a possible
treasure could have been buried on the
island
that's impressive
what about the muddy
pit core that we drilled out what about
that both pieces of wood analyzed the
one the horizontal piece that came on
the core and the vertical piece and
they're both coming about the same time
range 1665 to the 1900s 1665 to 1900 if
the results of the carbon-dating are
correct it means the so-called Chappell
vault could be anything from a 17th
century treasure vault to the remains of
a 19th century searcher tunnel
and unfortunately it's a huge range
original people could've been surges
1690 is old enough for some theories but
it doesn't fit at all with the coconut
fiber age or some of the other things
that are much more ancient so I think
the frustration is that the your puzzle
pieces don't fit right no no's
particularly do not fit no so what is it
Dundee or 95% belief I would say drop
down from there multiple times according
to researchers it is entirely possible
that folk Island was known as a
repository for gold treasure and other
valuables as far back as the 14th
century this may have been due in part
to the islands strategic placement off
the Nova Scotia coast near the principal
Atlantic sea lanes in 1897 shortly after
finding the wooden vault William
Chappell kept drilling at a depth of 171
feet his
it what he described as an iron plate
one that the drill bit could not
penetrate could this have been another
even older treasure vault one buried
centuries before coming up what do you
think is down at the bottom two chests
and one body unknowns we're gonna make
it dangerous according to the legend
seven people need to die and I'm not
gonna be number seven
before members of his team attempt to
dive to the bottom of 10-x author and
treasure hunter J Hutton Pulitzer has
returned to Oak Island he is here along
with Dave Blankenship to make a few
last-minute modifications to the diving
platform Rick and the team recently
constructed what I want to do is
reinforce this let's grab our screws and
screw gun and I'm gonna pull off a
couple pieces here and we'll just start
putting braces on earlier this summer
Pulitzer came to the island and shared
his theory that the Oak Island mystery
dates back much earlier than most
researchers believe there is an ancient
legend about an Ancient Mariner society
traveling from the Holy Land to Nova
Scotia with the Ark of the Covenant here
we talk about 582 to 596 BC
when Hutton learned of the laginas plan
to have experienced divers try and get
to the bottom of 10x he recommended a
team he has worked with for several
years so now I got a base to work for
them to put up video and comms here
okay thanks oh and watch the team
what's the story of the one diver I know
one diver came close to dying in this
what happened his divemaster we didn't
read his chart breakers in 1993 veteran
Oak Island treasure hunter dan
Blankenship hired a diver to repeat the
dive Dan himself had done several times
during the 1970s he wanted to confirm
that would he believe he saw in the
frigid darkness 235 feet underground was
still there things like wooden posts
antique tools chests and even the
remains of a dead body
but when the diver Dan hired attempted
the dive
everything went terribly wrong
he lost but to go below 200 feet and he
went to 235 and he was down there for
probably about 15-20 minutes although
the diver was able to reach the bottom
visibility was virtually zero he could
not see or photograph anything he also
attempted to ascend to the surface much
too fast and in doing so nearly became
the seventh casualty of the infamous Oak
Island curse so he had a serious
decompression issue yeah and he didn't
know it no and he came straight to the
surface of yep decompression sickness
also known as the bends could pose a
serious threat to the divers in 10x it
occurs when gases like nitrogen become
highly compressed in the body when a
diver is underwater when they rise to
the surface they must do so in short
stages allowing their body to decompress
failing to do so can cause the gases to
expand and form bubbles in the
bloodstream
this in turn leads to intense joint pain
vertigo seizures and in some cases death
we went back in the decompression game
about four times he's lucky he's lucky
he didn't die yeah
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now we got us a crow's nest and we're
lined right up over it good thank you
sir no problem
shortly after returning to Oak Island
from Michigan Marty and Craig tester
have joined Rick and other members of
the team for a meeting with J Hutton
Pulitzer and diver Dan misiaszek
gentlemen we've got some exciting stuff
to get prepared for we are going to get
to the bottom of 10x it looks like we're
gonna do it with the help of these
people want to introduce you
you've already met Hutton this is Dan
dan is a professional diver technical
diver Dan misiaszek also known as frog
is a former US Army infantryman and
police officer
he has died all over the world in the
most dangerous environments from open
water to underwater caves
what we really want to do like my
brother just said is we want to get to
the bottom of 10x and so these are the
three gentlemen who built 10x Dan
designed it and David and Dan worked in
that chamber dan was down in dive she's
dive suit several times sir how many
times were you in the 27-inch dent
too many about a dozen well obviously
it's a good design because you came back
here let me show you something the
equipment looks something like that look
at that that's him going down the
27-inch first dive was probably in 74 75
one of Dan's dives in 1976 convinced him
to widen 10-x from 27 inches to the
gaping 8-foot diameter hole it is today
dan was down there in the 27-inch he's
in a saddle they had lowered and thought
they were torching holes in the side to
figure out if they had gone past voids
when they were driving the casing down
is they suspected at 140 and 165 that
there might be a side tunnel
suddenly as Dan was being lowered 150
feet down into the shaft on an electric
hoist pressure from one of the supposed
flood tunnels made the borehole begin to
collapse above his head
operating the hoist at the surface was
his son Dave who could hear his father's
desperate calls for help over the radio
acting quickly Dave got his father up
above the area of the collapse just in
time five seconds later and Dan would
have become the islands seventh victim
to ensure something like this would
never happen again dan dave and dan
henskee spent the next several years
widening the shaft to eight feet down to
a depth of 181 feet they then reinforced
the shaft with concrete for 90 feet and
then stacked the bodies of three
hollowed-out railway tanker cars all the
way up to the surface
unfortunately dan ran out of money to
finish the project leaving the hall from
181 feet to the cavern at 235 feet only
27 inches wide
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here's our plan to make this as safe as
possible before we put any diver in the
hall we're deploying a special type of
sonar for the first time 10x is gonna be
mapped in super-high detail in hi-def so
it's gonna tell us exactly what's down
there so we know what we're dealing with
so the thousand-dollar question is what
do you think is down at the bottom I
thought I saw two chests down there and
I saw a post that supposedly was left by
the original people and one body
divers beware well we all know the
history of this Oak Island we know how
many people have died here and according
to the legend seven people need to die
and I'm not gonna be number seven
if it's clear if frog can get through we
want to put human eyes in the cavern and
hopefully put our hands on something
enough talk
action
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hey guys they're bringing it up scans
you all here to looker we're gonna be
I'm gonna be able to see very good
detail radar goes around and all of a
sudden it's the first block we have
if today isn't one of the biggest days
in the 220-year search for treasure on
Oak Island it will certainly be one of
the most dangerous
after days of planning and preparation
Rick and Marty lagina have invited two
of the world's most experienced divers
to the island to dive to the bottom of
10x
if all goes according to plan they will
be the first people in more than 20
years to risk a descent into the
235-foot deep shaft but if they make it
down there will they find what Oak
Island treasure hunter dan Blankenship
claims he saw more than 40 years ago
ancient tools boat chests filled with
pirate gold a dead body
or will they find an underground chamber
one which leads directly into the money
pit
jump up there hook hook the basket up
because the latter in 10x needed to be
removed for safety reasons Rick and
Marty have arranged for the divers to
each be lowered into 10x using a steel
bucket suspended from a boom truck
safety is paramount in putting people at
risk people we don't know people who are
willing to you know quite literally
endanger themselves to achieve the goal
which is to get into the cavity and find
out information so we've provided them
with two boom trucks one to insert dive
teams into the hole any other in case of
catastrophic failure there's another
boom truck available to extract the
divers
yeah we're just doing final assembly
right now and then we're gonna go
through our checklist which is quite
extensive we do this every time because
it's it's too vital okay one misstep
here and could be fatal on water could
be failed dan and Kathy misiaszek are
former police officers and professional
search and rescue divers over the years
they have conducted dozens of dives
together recovering everything from
objects and artifacts to human remains
this is capper this is back up in safety
and triage in addition to Dan and Kathy
Hutton has invited John tapper to serve
as the backup safety diver it's his job
to monitor Dan and Kathy's vital signs
and to get them to safety if anything
goes wrong this is called a rebreather
if this is basically the top of line you
can get to rebreathe
okay so you're gonna breathe 70% oxygen
well it depends on our depth okay so
it's a computer sort of deal depending
on your breath it's gonna feed you the
right moment yeah atmospheric air is
mostly made up of nitrogen and oxygen so
the divers breathing equipment known as
a rebreather must supply the correct
mixture of the two gases in order to
sustain them underwater too much or too
little of either could have deadly
consequences
nitrogen narcosis taking them on too
much nitrogen which is like getting
drunk underwater yes when we're adding
that much oxygen we're reducing the
amount of nitrogen correct I understand
that completely but then there's oxygen
toxicity too we're gonna keep track of
our oxygen toxicity units and there's
actually a formula for that oxygen
toxicity which could cause seizures and
nitrogen narcosis are just two more
potential dangers the team were faced
these must be the sonar guys
hey how's it going guys alright Rick
lagina David to help identify any
unusual objects that might be found at
the bottom of 10x the team has enlisted
to help a Brian Abbott and Nick Burchill
of Kongsberg maritime a global company
that specializes in deep underwater
navigation surveying and investigation
along with the dive team they're
bringing in a scan team what's been
thrown in that hole what's down that
hole how might that endanger them so
that's why we need to insert that
scanning equipment okay so debris is the
issue I'm good to look are we gonna get
at that well this is an excellent sonar
because it's got different frequencies
so we're gonna be able to see some very
good detail then if there's piping or
debris or cables that stuff we'll be
able to see that when we put the sonar
down there modifying that taser yeah the
ms1000 scanning sonar device works by
sending out fan-shaped pulses of sound
waves if all goes well it will generate
a computerized picture of the interior
of 10x all the way from the top of the
shaft to the bottom 235 feet below the
surface
okay guys y'all ready Nick you ready
having your a boy yeah we're ready
awesome let's get going through it Brian
Abbott is a leading expert in using this
device and devices like them he worked
getting sonar images on the Titanic okay
heads up behind you
it's not very heavy what we're doing we
got the transducer going south here and
we're gonna scan up and down in this
shot
it'll help with the diet because we can
visualize the conditions in the big part
of 10x the eight-foot diameter part and
we can also hopefully if we can get that
camera in there visualize the conditions
in the 27-inch hole that then goes down
to the chamber
you know deploy to what 110 110 okay
okay that's where it's 60 just come up
at 80 90 come down to 100 you add it
secur okay I'm secure over here it's
great that we'll get the sonar up and
start getting an image
the radar goes around and all of a
sudden this picture materializes on the
screen and it's the first look we have
at 10x okay so what I'm seeing on the
bottom that's shown up nice and white
that's debris that's the bottom yeah
down here's the debris so we're looking
at 4.1 feet roughly
so we have over four
feet of debris burden at this location
yeah according to Brian Abbott there is
four feet of debris covering the area of
10x that is only 27 inches wide could
this mean the dive is over before it
even begins
coming up right on off the stairs will
load you right there for the first time
somebody's gonna go down in 10x and
actually go into the cavern watch the
band what
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so we got over four feet of debris
burden at this location yeah after a
scanning sonar device confirms that over
four feet of debris appears to be
covering the 27-inch wide hole in
borehole 10x Rick and Marty lagina fear
the dive they have gone to great trouble
and expense to set up could be in
jeopardy before it even begins
any idea what that would be throw it
away
I don't know where it's coming from
what could have been rigged here that
somebody missed that could have fell
down in the hall nothing we cleaned the
whole bottom of the hole was clean when
we left and everything from on top would
move
once again a well-planned operation on
Oak Island is met with a serious
challenge there was a bunch of junk on
the bottom but they couldn't because of
the way that thing focuses they couldn't
make out what it was
although the scanning sonar device is
designed to generate precise images of
the objects it scans the debris at the
bottom of 10-x appears to be so fine and
so dense that it's showing up as a
single mass but what is it what is it
made of and more importantly can it be
removed so what are we doing so let's
just scratch this we can't get a look
it's just abort test pull it up with
wasting time frog flash I need you for a
minute
J Hutton Pulitzer believes there is only
one way to find out what the debris is
and hopefully remove it what I'm gonna
do is we're just gonna get them suited
up and let's go in that's we just need
eyes wouldn't agree on cameras and guys
on third but again we're trying to we're
trying to read this debris but it's not
reading very well okay get suited up
we're gonna go in alright okay we're
gonna be flying blind a little bit but
get going in we gotta get eyes on it
yeah
go ahead dive it's pretty apparent it's
the dangerous dive so you're concerned
about safety issues and your goal get
into the 27-inch and get into the cavity
there's danger and everything there's
gonna be more danger in going into 10x
but there's an objective we're gonna
take every reasonable safety precaution
because human lives are longer we're
gonna have a guy in the surface that's
gonna be monitoring the dive also a
trained diver who can go in and get
these people if they're in trouble we're
going to have an EMT team standing by
we're not gonna get somebody killed in
that hole or injured we got it covered
the truth is we ramped up I mean it's
exciting look for the first time
somebody's gonna go down in 10x and
actually go into the cavern if
everything goes according to plan divers
Dan and Kathy misiaszek should be at the
bottom of 10x within the hour but will
they see the large wooden boxes and
antique tools dan Blankenship claims he
saw back in the 1970s or perhaps an
actual tunnel leading directly to the
money pit
stairs will load you right there hey
watch your feet
due to the amount of gear each diver
needs for the operation they will need
to be lowered down one at a time
frog giggin calm no calm
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okay don't we have calm I don't have
comms until we get them both in there's
no other way to do it to ensure safety
and offer a constant flow of information
the communication system or comms will
keep the divers in constant touch with
each other as well as the team on the
surface
the divers comms will be tethered by
means of a six-foot-long cable while
another much longer Cable will run from
the divers all the way to the surface
this tethered system is considered more
reliable than a wireless one but no one
will be sure if it's working correctly
until both divers are in 10x
we're lined up tell me when Marty tell
me when we do it clear here okay
your left side left side make sure you
don't hit the lips he's good okay
we're gonna have to pay attention to
your left side you gotta look at that
riser although you watch you watch the
metal you're gonna get down frog right
as you get close that riser over there
okay problems gonna be watch your hands
on that rust watch your hands we got to
get a left back in the left he's got a
steer himself and all at this point you
gotta come off of that channel and spit
himself there you go
okay frog we got to do our best to keep
you left all he's got to do is stay on
those ten thirty feet of water watch the
band's watch it
coming up I'm on the edge of my chair
I'm worried I'm a diver myself director
I should go with him
let's go down let's go down
get your take inside your right tanks
hanging over the right side the dive
down 10x is finally getting underway you
got it you're fine but now the team must
deal with a major issue watch behind you
just I would catch that lip there was
very little clearance between the steel
cage that diver Dan misiaszek is being
lowered in and the rusted metal inside
the shaft
did you hear him shouldn't you be here
what he said let you get on your
communication deal I don't have that
feel he's hooked in the water mm-hmm he
says go
because their communication system won't
be functional until both divers are in
the water 40 feet below J Hutton
Pulitzer he's unable to help Dan safely
navigate his way down watch it's right
there watch the lip on the front hold on
hold on
we had state-of-the-art communication
devices but they couldn't be connected
until the divers were in the water so
really we had the most primitive of
communications going on we had people
hollering at each other down a 40-foot
hole and there was a lot of hollering
going back and forth and not a lot of
communication good plus the divers
communicating through a mask yes Dave
watch a guy now look you got risers
underneath you and a cage you see them
okay you got let's go down let's go down
then you get this issue going on between
hot and cold these people are basically
frying in their wet suit until they get
in the water and then it gets really
cold you could tell by the muffled
screams get us in the water get us in
the water they were they were basically
cooking in their own juices
okay let's go watch your elbow watch
your right elbow clear your right elbow
clear it go down he wants to go down
let's go down we're going let's go down
we're in stop
finally after several tense minutes
diver Dan misiaszek also known as frog
makes it into the water
okay come on oh you know it occurs to me
we should send a regular person down
with them because that person can
communicate so much better and spit it
Rick or I should go with him
Rick is writing down with you will take
there's no way to have comms we need a
person in the basket cuz you're not
connected so Rick's riding with you plus
he can spin the basket right because he
knows
with Rick lagina riding in the cage with
Kathy not only will he be able to help
keep the cage stable he will also be
able to relay any communications to
Kathy from the team above
okay let's go
for me it was easy because you realized
that they're about to do what they're
gonna do that is dive in there and so
you just do what you have to do to
alleviate that problem so there's more
about them than it was about me okay
Dave you need to pull it your way and
turn because they were gonna kick those
left's otherwise
Rick cause he's fearless and when he's
on a quest you know he'll do what it
takes which way do you want to face Rick
towards Dave
okay we're twist them this way yep spin
him that way perfect right above the
Frog coming down water
though there's a history of danger
associated with 10x lean look Dan almost
lost his life twice in that hole and now
that danger is magnified in this dive
because there's so much equipment things
tossed in the ladders rusted broken
riser pipes so we have to be very very
careful
we got a twisted Twitter the slip and
clear these tines it's got to go this
way this way the tines are okay there
you go there you go there you go okay
Rach be careful huh yeah we just got to
clear these lips we're pushing down I'm
worried you know these two people are
going into this hole we know it's got
hazards in it I'm on the edge of my
chair I'm worried I'm a diver myself
there are no one hazards and unknown
hazards I would have a hard time going
in that hole put your hands on the Rings
Rick
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coming down
for the first time in more
than 20 years
divers are going to attempt a descent to
the bottom of 10x if successful they
might find everything from ancient tools
and treasure chests to man-made tunnels
that lead directly to the bottom of the
infamous money pit put your hands on the
Rings wreck and to make sure diver Cathy
mashuk gets into the water safely Rick
lagina has volunteered to be lowered
down in the steel cage basket with her
you gotta move we gotta get him in we
gotta get him in
okay
okay say when
don't how much
another fourth day the cage must be
lowered completely into the water to
allow Kathy who goes by the nickname
flash to climb out and begin the dive
good but to do that means at least for a
while Rick will need to also be
submerged in water that is only 41
degrees Fahrenheit he has to go down and
get dunked in ice-cold water I mean that
water it was 40 degrees then he just he
went right in up to his neck and I'm
worried you know she was cooking a
minute ago he's freezing she's not clear
yet No
I think she's gonna get it here her
tamed her tanks looped on that one bar
she won't come out her tanks looped over
barnacle suit
I don't know he came out on the right
side he came out on your left he came
out backward turn her tanks against the
wall okay right there right there right
there
she's got what's what's holding her up
is that side extra tank she's got a push
it down push it down
you know what we should get rid of wet
suit yeah he's gonna freeze okay now
she's got to get out and slide to her
left
there she goes she's cleared you ready
to come up
somebody get him a towel he's gonna be
frozen I didn't really feel the water
because I was concentrating on getting
them out but then when the water crept
up to here I realized just how cold that
water was you did a great job that's for
damn sure it was 41 degrees that's cold
water it's cool water in anybody's book
got it
we got a feed
I've got the videos on I've got I could
see flash and yours okay I've got you
frog I can see it both now with both
divers in the water their comms or
communication and video lines can be
activated this will allow the team at
the surface to stay in constant contact
and monitor every second of the dive
myself my brother we've put a lot of
time and energy into this Island and you
know for the first time hopefully we can
get real data with highs on target and
get information that's been denied
everyone for almost 40 years that's
pretty exciting stuff
for brothers Rick
and Marty lagina a 50 year old
fascination with the Oak Island mystery
has led to an historic moment
by sending divers down borehole 10-x
they may be on the verge of finding out
if there really is something of
incredible value buried at the bottom of
the money pit but if so what could it be
gold and jewels worth millions of
dollars
priceless religious artifacts ancient
documents containing knowledge that has
been lost to man for centuries for his
10x simply a trap
a trap that will cost the brothers not
only their time
but possibly someone's life next time on
the curse of Oak Island they're in the
dark they can see your imagination takes
over what's happening down there
you staying your fire call the dive all
aboard
you just came out of the pipe they're
doing in the chamber that looks like
staff as a chamber yes with man-made ugh
get those are boxes what's the thing to
the right of it looks very square sure
looks like a tunnel
it does look man me we found