The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s02e10 Episode Script
The Big Reveal
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Tonight on The
Curse of Oak Island
Here we go.
They're in the dark.
They can't see.
Your imagination takes
over.
What's happening down there?
You saying you're
caught?
Call the dive off.
Abort the dive.
We just came out of
the pipe?
They're down in the chamber.
That looks like steps.
There's a chamber.
Yes, with manmade
objects.
Those are boxes.
What's the thing to
the right of it?
It looks very square.
It sure looks like a
tunnel.
It does look man-made.
We found it.
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
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.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before
the treasure can be found.
Still good, Rick?
Just keep talking to us.
Good?
Yeah!
Good?
Yup!
Yup so!
There she goes.
She's clear.
You ready to come up?
Yes.
Comms go next.
We got to get the cage out so we
don't pinch lines and comm goes
next.
It is an important
day in the history of Oak
Island, as brothers Rick and
Marty Lagina may be on the verge
of one of the greatest
breakthroughs in the more than
200-year-old mystery.
Dan!
Henskee!
Be ready to start pulling line!
They and their
partners have arranged for a
pair of professional divers to
try and make it all the way to
the bottom of 10-X, some 235
feet underground.
Once there, they are hoping the
divers can find what treasure
hunter Dan Blankenship claims he
discovered more than 40 years
ago.
Antique tools, a wooden chest,
and even what appeared to be a
tunnel leading in the direction
of the Money Pit.
Somebody?
Get him a towel.
He's going to be frozen.
How do you like getting dunked
in 50-degree water, big boy?
After a lifetime of
reading and studying, and two
years of active searching, Rick
and Marty are more convinced
than ever that the legends about
the island and the notion that
something of enormous value is
buried beneath it are true.
This summer alone, they and
their partners have found three
more ancient coins one of them
possibly dating as far back as
the days of the Knights
Templar a tree stump buried in
the Oak Island swamp, and dated
to between 1450 and 1640
Come over here.
That's what we're
looking for.
a petroglyph of
an eight-pointed star one
matching ancient symbols
believed to be more than 2,000
years old, and evidence of a
mysterious wooden vault covered
in concrete and buried some 140
feet down in the infamous Oak
Island Money Pit.
You got cement, wood
fibers running this way, wood
fibers running that way.
Wow, guys.
You think you're on the vault?
You did a great job, that's for
damn sure.
But with all of the
breakthroughs and all of the
discoveries
Take your shirt off
and get that.
one persistent
problem remains, and it's the
same problem every treasure
hunter on Oak Island has faced,
and been defeated by, for two
centuries water.
Salty water.
The one big problem with Oak
Island, you know, it's just a
rabbit warren of incoming water
from various old holes, shafts,
tunnels.
How do we get down there?
How do we do it?
Now, Rick and Marty
are determined to find out if
there could really be a back
door into the Money Pit through
10-X, because finding it could
literally save the team millions
of dollars in challenging and
risky excavation costs.
The problem is, no one has
risked diving down the 235-foot
borehole in more than 20 years.
That is, not until now.
I got you on comms,
but I got some horrible
feedback.
I got you on comms.
Today, with the
help of author and treasure
hunter, J. Hutton Pulitzer, and
divers, Dan and Kathy Misiaszek,
Rick and Marty are hoping that a
dive to the bottom of borehole
10-X might prove to be the key
to solving the Oak Island
mystery.
I've got the videos
on, uh, I've got
I can see Flash in yours.
Okay, I've got you, Frog.
I can see it both.
I don't want you to descend yet.
I want to make sure we got these
comms worked out.
Stand by.
Although Dan and
Kathy also known as "Frog" and
Flash are both experienced,
professional divers, no chances
will be taken.
Emergency medical technicians,
or EMTs, are on site, and safety
diver, John Tapper is standing
by just in case there's an
emergency.
We got a feed?
Okay, she's got 'em.
Using their
communication lines, otherwise
known as "comms," the team at
the surface will stay in
constant contact with Dan and
Kathy.
They will also be able to
monitor what is being recorded
by the diver's underwater
cameras in real time.
Frog, we got a comm
line.
It looks like it's looped on
you.
We've got comms wrapped up in
something there.
The prime directive is,
of course, keeping people safe.
The important thing is getting
people in the hole, achieving
the objective and getting people
out of the hole.
Safety first, objective second.
The mission on the
first dive was to get to the
bottom, the first bottom if you
will, of 10-X 181 feet see
what the junk is on the bottom,
see if the 27-inch hole is
enterable.
Dug by Oak Island
treasure hunters Dan and Dave
Blankenship and their friend,
Dan Henskee, in the early 1970s,
10-X began as a 27-inch wide
shaft that eventually reached
the staggering depth of 235
feet.
But after a collapse in 1976
that almost killed him, Dan
Blankenship widened the hole to
eight feet in diameter, down to
a depth of 181 feet.
Roger that.
Unfortunately for
Dan and Kathy, the hole remains
a tiny 27 inches wide from 181
feet all the way to the bottom.
It's dark, it's wet, and the
North Atlantic seawater that
floods the shaft is just above
freezing.
And if all this wasn't
challenging enough, just before
the dive, the team was informed
that four feet of debris may be
covering the entrance to the
27-inch wide hole.
The first thing going
through my mind is that this is
dangerous.
They're bobbing around inside an
eight-foot steel column, so, you
know, rapidly, the concern level
goes high.
Giving line.
Roger that.
While Dan and Kathy
make their way down the shaft,
the ground crew helps feed the
communication lines.
It's a delicate task.
Too much line could cause the
divers to get tangled, while
not enough could cause a deadly
emergency if their breathing
system fails.
Now those are the
lines that could pull their mask
off, if they're pulled too hard?
Too much line!
Stand by.
Call out your depth.
Thank you.
Okay.
Little more line.
More murky all of a
sudden.
Yikes.
They're in the dark,
basically.
They're feeling around just
tactile.
It was troubling, to say the
least.
It says 50, so you're
92 from top.
Are you keeping track
of time?
Yeah, but if they can't see, I
just wondered.
Hey, guys, here's
what I want you to do.
Turn your cameras at each other.
Let me get just a good visual.
Just turn your lights and
cameras at each other.
Let me get a peek.
Holy (bleep).
They can't even see each other
four feet apart.
Can you see your face visual?
Do we have three greens?
Frog?
I can see your three greens.
Flash, I need to see your three
greens.
Hold on.
Almost.
Just a little more.
Go up.
Okay, three greens.
You're good.
I honestly wouldn't be
scared of that dive myself,
except for one thing: getting
stuck.
That is so scary underwater.
Invisibility, it doesn't matter,
but getting stuck is just a
catastrophic feeling.
Frog, confirm you're
okay.
Flash, can you hear
me?
What was that?
We've lost comms.
Frog, confirm you're
okay.
Flash, can you hear me?
J. Hutton Pulitzer
has just lost audio
communication with his dive
team, who are now submerged more
than 60 feet underwater in 10-X.
Get me some comms.
Come on, guys.
Their comms go out.
At that point, your imagination
takes over.
What's happening down there?
Even though Rick,
Marty and the team still have a
video feed working, the murky
conditions in 10-X offer almost
zero visibility.
I see her hand.
She's going to him.
Okay.
Come on, guys.
Get me some comms.
Got comms.
Flash, Frog, stand by
for a minute.
Look, when we lose comms, we
need to work out a signal.
Would it be appropriate to give
you a gentle tug?
Okay.
I'm not a diver, so
when I see them on camera,
diving through, you know, water
with no clarity
I mean, they're in the dark
basically, and the fear factor
goes way up, because I can't
relate to what they're doing.
Flash, confirm you're
okay.
I don't like that
cough.
Guys, before you
descend, Flash, I need to know
you're okay.
What's that cough?
Okay.
You sound you sound muffled.
What's going on?
Okay.
Thank you.
Very nice, very nice.
I like that a lot.
With communications
back up and working again, the
divers continue their descent.
They will first need to make
their way down all 181 feet of
10-X before reaching the point
where the hole shrinks from
eight feet in diameter to a mere
27 inches.
But once down there, will they
see what Dan Blankenship claims
he saw more than 40 years ago?
Antique tools?
Wooden chests?
Man-made tunnels?
I need a depth check!
Eighty-three.
We're coming.
It's coming through.
It's coming through.
As the team feeds
the divers more comms and
breathing line to continue their
descent, they must do so with
extreme caution.
With all the debris, old drill
pipes and a rusted ladder to
contend with, a tangled
breathing line could have deadly
consequences.
We've got comms
wrapped up in something there.
As you go past that
pipe, check if you see the line
looped.
Feel if it's captured there.
He's got too
he's got too much line on him.
I see slack in it.
So that has to be one of the
places it's caught up.
Okay.
I
had been nervous,
because when I went down there
to cut the ladder, I knew the
riser pipe had fallen over.
I was concerned that it was
the riser pipe, because there is
movement in that pipe.
So we lost
communications; that was scary.
But much more scary to me are
the words that-that send a
shiver up my spine, which is,
Frog, confirm you're
okay.
Frog, confirm you're okay and
you're untangled.
Frog, confirm
you're okay.
The dive team's
greatest fear has happened.
After diving more than 100 feet
down into 10-X, diver Dan
Misiaszek has become trapped in
a tangle of breathing cables and
debris.
His wife Kathy must now make an
agonizing decision.
Oh, dear.
Guys, here's what
we've got.
If we've got one diver calling
the dive, we need to abort.
That's fine.
Confirmed.
Abort the dive.
Flash, confirm that's okay and
you're untangled.
Frog, confirm you're
okay and you're untangled.
Although Dan got
untangled this time, the next
time, he might not be so lucky.
His wife Kathy fears the
conditions in 10-X are just too
dangerous right now to continue
the dive safely.
The dive is being aborted.
Okay, now we're
pulling line.
Hang onto your lines.
Okay, divers on
surface.
Okay, we got Flash
on surface.
Let's go with the
bucket, then.
Ready?
Yeah.
We got Frog on
surface.
Flash, we're extracting you
first.
Luckily, no one was
injured.
And even though Rick and Marty
didn't get the answers they were
hoping for, they now know more
about 10-X and its current
state than they did when they
started.
They also know they will need to
address some safety issues
before attempting a second dive.
That's the whole point
of the first dive figure out
what needs to be addressed, what
problems might arise.
That was my feel about the first
dive it's just it's a
acclimation dive.
Figure out what needs to be
done.
Later that evening,
Rick, Marty and the Oak Island
team meet in the war room with
J. Hutton Pulitzer and divers
Dan and Kathy Misiaszek.
Here they will discuss the day's
progress and also make some
critical decisions.
Okay, you two.
What a day.
I don't know about the
rest of these guys, but I was
thinking, "Come on up, come on
up, come on up," through most of
that dive.
But I think we
learned a whole lot.
When Flash and I started going
straight down, side by side, we
got jammed up.
So we had to go straight down in
single file.
We also learned about
temperature, and Flash got it on
her computer.
It's cold.
It was right at 43.
Okay, but I don't know
who was shaking more, you when
you came out or me when you were
down there.
I already know if I said, "Are
you gonna to go back in there?"
I know what you'd say.
Oh, absolutely.
I knew it.
Dive.
You want to go?
Absolutely.
Let's go.
All right, all right.
We know so many of the
hazards right now, and we can
correct them.
So now it's a much easier dive.
That's what these
people do.
They dive to find out flaws in
drilling rig platforms and to
look for sunken treasure, and
it's inherently dangerous.
Okay, we've talked
about a lot of the obstructions,
a lot of the difficulties, but
the one thing we haven't
addressed is, the first scan
showed four to five feet of
sediment problems down there.
What are we gonna do to address
that?
Rick, Marty, Craig
and Dave are concerned that even
if the divers can reach the
181-foot level on the second
dive, there is still no
guarantee they'll be able to
make their way through the
estimated four feet of sediment
and debris which still blocks
the 27-inch-wide shaft.
We have decided,
right?
We have decided to try and put
the mechanical gizmo down first.
What is it?
It's scanning sonar.
I think it might fit
down that six-inch hole.
You know, the one that Jordan
drilled.
Which one?
It's one of the
casings towards the front.
So, we put it down there last
year to help clean up the
bottom, to bring up samples.
And that goes all the
way to the cavern?
Clean shot.
One year ago, Rick,
Marty and the team set up an
extraction system which was
designed to flush any loose
debris, including evidence of
treasure, out of the bottom of
10-X.
Although the operation did not
produce any compelling
evidence outside of a few
bits of metal and what appeared
to be animal bones Rick and
Marty are now hoping that the
drill casing that was left in
the hole will allow a scanning
sonar device to travel all the
way to the bottom of 10-X, and
without encountering the
four-foot-thick obstruction.
To me this is a
no-brainer.
There's two human beings versus
a piece of equipment.
Yeah, well, I agree
with you a hundred percent.
Yeah.
Okay, guys,
we'll run the scans first thing
in the morning, and we'll make
our decisions accordingly.
Agreed.
Everybody on board?
Yep.
Good.
Thank you very much.
Cool.
Although today's
dive was not as productive as
the team had hoped, the
possibility that scanning sonar
will accomplish the same thing
has everyone's spirits renewed.
But could the team really be
just hours away from finding out
that what Dan Blankenship
claimed he saw at the bottom of
10-X was true?
Are they finally close to
solving
the Oak Island mystery?
It's another
morning on Oak Island.
Day two in the team's attempt to
get information from the bottom
of 10-X.
All this debris, if
we got to get them down in
there
Yeah?
What I really want to
do is just try to focus how to
get this sonar down, especially
if we don't know what even
further obstructions are.
I mean, this thing's
designed to go where the divers
can't go.
But unlike
yesterday, before Dan and Kathy
Misiaszek attempt their second
dive, Rick and Marty have
arranged for underwater
visualization experts Nick
Burchill and Brian Abbott of
Kongsberg Maritime to drop the
MS 1000 scanning sonar device
down a six-inch-wide drill hole
that was dug into 10-X the
previous year.
It should be able to bypass the
four feet of sediment and debris
that block the 27-inch portion
of the shaft and go all the way
to the bottom.
Okay, Nick, you got it
all doctored up?
Yeah, come on over for
a second.
What we've done, we've taken the
protective cage off, and I've
just basically put some rubber
around this to protect it.
When it goes down
It's gonna spin.
we're probably gonna
have some settling, and we may
not even get it to settle at
all.
We may not be able to get data.
Don't say that.
Let's do it.
The MS 1000
scanning sonar device sends
pulses that echo, and can help
to create a three-dimensional
image of environments and their
features.
In other words, if all goes
well, the team may be able to
get their first look at the
bottom of 10-X since Dan
Blankenship recorded his
findings nearly 40 years ago.
We want data so badly
we can't stand it.
I mean, poor David's been this
far away from that cavern for
what, 30 years now?
Yeah, at least.
Time to do.
Let's do, let's do.
Cable's coming.
I've got the cable.
Send her down.
Okay.
As the MS 1000
scanning sonar device makes its
way down the 235-foot shaft, the
team waits anxiously for
evidence that something manmade
could be lying on the bottom.
All right, here we go.
Who's the best screen
to look at?
His?
They're both the same.
Are you able to
record this or
Yeah, we're recording
everything.
So we're looking at some stuff
here.
Nick has dropped the sonar
through the pipe.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, I-I got to get oriented,
guys.
We just came out of the pipe?
Where are we?
This is a void.
We're in a void.
We're in a void.
Really?
Yeah.
What are the
dimensions?
Well, hang on here.
The sonar's moving a little bit.
But one of the things,
Brian
I think I'm up
I'm
still at the end of the pipe.
So if I drop it down a couple
more inches
Yeah, let's do that.
With any luck, that
void will get larger.
It's just peeking out the end of
the pipe.
So what this is doing right now
is it's scanning and it's
looking at the walls with a very
narrow beam.
So you're not seeing floor to
ceiling.
You're only seeing a slice of it
near the ceiling.
So we're gonna lower it down.
It's gonna take another slice
that's further down.
Come on up, Dad, and
take a look at this.
Is Dan here?
Dan.
Dan, come here.
Sit right here.
In the 27?
No, they're down in
the cavity.
Oh.
In the chamber.
Sit down, Dan, then you can see
this screen.
Of all the people
on Oak Island, no one is more
invested in 10-X and what does
or doesn't lie at the bottom of
it than Dan Blankenship.
At 91, Dan considers 10-X his
legacy, and he remains convinced
that the things he claims he saw
down there like antique tools,
wooden chests, and even a
man-made tunnel leading toward
the Money Pit are real.
His only regret is that he ran
out of money before he could
prove to the world that he is
the one who found the key to
solving the mystery.
Okay, the sonar's
starting to settle out.
Look at this, guys.
Look at this, guys.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at that.
Look at this,
gentlemen.
What's that?
It's an opening.
But that's also
rectangular in shape as the way
it's cutting back.
It's rectangular.
I'm an engineer.
I deal in square, rectangular
and round and this is
rectangular.
Mother nature doesn't make
rectangle things.
Brian Abbott has
been investigating and helping
to visualize underwater objects
for more than a decade.
In addition to finding
everything from shipwrecks to
underwater cities, he was one of
the first to fully map the
wreckage of Titanic in 2010.
So it's like a
doorway or another tunnel headed
out.
There's two-There's
two tunnels one coming
It could very well be.
in and, as you
say, on the opposite side, one
going out.
Man-made tunnels?
Could this be the first
indication that what Dan
Blankenship claimed he saw at
the bottom of 10-X was true?
But if there really
are man-made tunnels, who built
them?
And where if anywhere do
they lead?
What is that thing
sticking right there in the
middle of its rectangle?
Buried there?
Like, what is that?
I
I don't know.
I mean, it's a rectangular
object.
How big is that?
4.3 feet wide.
And from this point back here
to back here is seven feet.
It does look man-made.
Here
And there's multiple
objects.
I told you that.
Man-made objects?
At the bottom of 10-X?
235 feet beneath the surface of
Oak Island?
Okay, so what do we
know for sure?
There's a chamber.
For bloody sure, right?
Yeah.
Yes, with man-made
objects.
You're willing to say
that for sure?
Yes.
If I was to send a
diver down on targets like that
I would feel comfortable.
I think that's enough
information to have a diver
check it out, because the best
way is with the human eye.
You got another dive in
you?
Hell, yeah, we're
ready to go.
Hell, yeah, we're
ready to go.
Let's go.
Let's get this out.
It's time.
If I was to send a
diver down on targets like that,
I would feel comfortable.
It is a tense
situation on Oak Island.
A sonar scan has just revealed
that there could very well be
man-made objects lying at the
bottom of 10-X.
Suit up?
Yup.
Yup.
Okay.
Now, professional
divers Dan and Kathy Misiaszek
will attempt a second dive down
the 235-foot shaft in an effort
to verify this incredible
discovery with their own eyes.
There you go.
But even if they
can safely make their way down
the portion of the hole that is
eight feet wide, they will still
have to make the final 54 feet
of their descent through a
narrow shaft that is only about
two feet wide.
Hey.
Where's Dave?
We need to talk to you guys.
Got a minute?
I got all kinds of
minutes.
So what's the matter, boss?
All right, here's the
deal.
I find it hard that I'm even
saying this, because I want to
get in that chamber more than I
ever have.
Mm-hmm.
I've been a doubter.
Yeah, we know that.
Right.
I want to cancel the dive.
Why?
They got stuck up in
the big hole.
I know.
Right, so in the little
hole, they're really gonna get
stuck.
Yeah.
Yeah, and then what?
You got to get somebody
to go after 'em.
In goes a third man.
Right.
You know, there's a
thin line between brave and
foolhardy.
Yeah.
And I don't want to
risk three peoples' lives.
No, I agree with you
100% on that.
I'm on board.
Let's go tell them.
Let's go break the
news to them.
Go break the word to
them.
All right.
Are you ready for a
tuck in?
Yeah.
Hey, guys.
Hey.
Hey.
This-This is not gonna
be easy for me to say, okay, but
we just we just had a sidebar
there.
We want to call the dive off.
You want to call the
dive off?
We do.
Let me tell you why.
And-And, and by the way, it's no
reflection on either one of you.
Exactly.
But I'm not risking
your lives.
I'm afraid you're gonna go down
there and try and get in that
hole, and I know you can't do
it.
It would be a dangerous
dive without the unknowns.
There's a lot of unknowns.
It was an easy
decision to abort the second
dive.
Real easy, from my standpoint.
The sort of risk-reward ratio
was no longer in place.
You have a you have a
significant risk and you have no
chance of the reward.
You know, why do it?
Let's unpack you from
these ovens.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure
you're dying in there.
Thank you two.
Okay.
We think it's the
right decision.
For Rick, Marty and
their partners, it has been a
day filled with mixed emotions.
Although they are disappointed
they had to abort Dan and
Kathy's second dive, they have
just found evidence that Dan
Blankenship really did discover
a lost treasure chamber at the
bottom of 10-X more than 40
years ago.
A treasure chamber that might
also lead directly into the
Money Pit.
Okay, gents, this is
gonna be good.
Hutton tells me that we're ready
to look at the data down in the
cavity in 10-X.
It's been at least partially
processed.
So we got Brian on
the line.
Brian, good to see you
again.
Good to see you guys.
How we doing today?
Well, we're on pins
and needles.
You tell us.
Yeah.
So I've got, uh,
preliminary results of our-our
sonar work, uh, down in 10-X.
Since finding what
appeared to be man-made objects
at the bottom of 10-X,
geophysicist and sonar expert
Brian Abbott has spent the last
few days translating the raw
sonar data into a more
understandable three-dimensional
format.
Now, remember that
we're taking individual slices
like the page of a book and
we're stacking them together to
give us a representation of what
the cavern kind of looks like
and the perspective of it.
We'll go to a view.
We'll, uh, zoom in a little bit.
And so we're dropping down
through the shaft into the
27-inch hole that was drilled,
then we're into the cavern.
And our widest point here is
about 12 feet.
And this, about eight and a half
feet across.
One of the things that just
sticks out is this right angle,
as you see, right through here,
which is unusual a lot of times
in nature.
Well, we've got this really
unique feature here.
It's about two feet long, a foot
wide.
Uh, you can see two things put
together like clay pots,
baskets.
I don't think it's geological.
It's too elliptical in-in shape.
But it's, I think, one of the
unique features that we're able
to pick up on the sonar there.
What's the thing due
to the right of it?
Looks very square.
It's one of those
square features.
Maybe man-made.
It also looks like
there's a side tunnel possibly
coming into this room.
What are those
dimensions, Brian, those
openings?
It's probably about
seven feet across.
It's about five feet wide.
I mean, it sure looks
like a tunnel.
At last!
Brian Abbott's interpretation of
the sonar data confirms what Dan
Blankenship claims he discovered
at the bottom of 10-X more than
40 years ago.
But now it looks as if there
isn't only one man-made tunnel
that enters the underground
chamber but two, one that
appears to lead to the Money Pit
and one that might lead to the
ocean or perhaps another part of
the island.
The other thing that
was really intriguing to me
and I-I can't figure this thing
out for the life of me is-is
this.
Right here.
It's 14 inches, I think it is.
It shows up on every scan.
It's a stand-alone thing.
So whether it's a column, a
load-bearing beam
Brian, that column
the column you see, um, you
mentioned, um, if it's metal you
might see harmonics.
Did you see any harmonics in
there to indicate it's a
could be a steel pipe?
Or-or do you think it's wood or
something?
It could be wood.
If there's a great big
column of wood, this is a
man-made deal.
A tree didn't fall in there.
I mean, wood wins.
If-if we know that's wood and
it's a column
The cavern's very
unique.
Uh, I see right angles, I see
squares, I see rectangles.
I think there's targets down
there.
Again, if I could put divers on
these-these targets, I would.
Sounds great.
Thanks, Brian!
Thank you!
Okay.
Take care.
One thing's for sure,
the data we now have is, to
me is the best data that's
ever been obtained on Oak
Island.
Well, look, Hutton, here's the
deal: we have some things we've
got to decide.
Yes, sir.
Uh, you have
contributed an enormous amount
to our to our quest here, and
we got to kick it around and see
where we go, so I want
I understand.
Thank you for just giving us
the opportunity.
I want to thank you.
I want to thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you so very
much.
Finally, we've got very
accurate, analyzable data.
It's an impetus to further
explore 10-X.
And that's the whole question,
isn't it?
What's in the bottom of 10-X?
Anyway, so that leads
us to, what is the enthusiasm
level for getting to the bottom
of 10-X?
Rick, Marty, and
their partners may finally have
definitive evidence that in 10-X
Dan Blankenship found not only a
shortcut into the Money Pit but
what could be a second perhaps
even larger treasure vault.
But now the team faces an even
greater problem: how can they
get to it some 235 feet below
the surface?
You know, what is
what is the enthusiasm level for
getting to the bottom of 10-X?
I'm 100%.
You know that.
100%.
And this only
just makes you more
Yes.
We got to do it in the dry.
'Cause you can't see your hand
in front of your face down
there.
We're gonna figure out
how to get to the bottom of
10-X.
I'm not sold on a dry entry yet.
I have some thoughts about that,
but
I'm with you.
I
Trying to pump it dry and send
people down there scares me,
that something could implode.
And so we just need to
think-think it through.
Dan?
Dan?
Do you
do you think that 10-X
is safe?
The shaft?
If it was pumped dry.
If it was pumped dry.
In my opinion, it's
safe to 183
181 feet, down to
bedrock.
Beyond that, I would not say.
Want to drill a
four-foot hole?
Drill a four-foot
hole
Okay, no problem.
and then maybe send
a diver down.
And if that doesn't work, then
when we dry it out, you can put
a ladder down there and walk
right down.
How about you, big brother?
Look, I've always been
in, and I'm all in.
I always was and I always will
be.
We're gonna find the answers.
Look, come spring, we're down
there.
The fact that we're going to do
it is a certainty.
Everyone agrees.
We're absolutely, positively,
for the final time get to the
bottom of 10-X and find out
what's in there.
We spent two years
acquiring data every which way
we could.
I mean, it's sort of like
Churchill said about the first
battle they won at El Alamein.
He said, "It's not the end.
It's probably not even the
beginning of the end.
But perhaps it's the end of the
beginning."
So I think that's where we are
right now.
We've gathered all the data.
Next season, I think it's gonna
be a lot more about moving dirt.
To the dig!
To the dig!
JACK: To the dig!
To the dig!
Dan?
To the dig!
To the dig!
We're on a quest, my
brother and I and our team
trying to do something that no
one else has been able to do.
It's a challenge.
It's fun.
It could be rewarding.
We're lucky to be able to do it.
You know, this is an adventure.
Who could have thought that an
eight-year-old and a
ten-year-old reading the
Reader's Digest would turn into
a worldwide hunt for the
greatest treasure on Earth?
Who could have guessed that?
You can't write that stuff.
You can't make it up.
But it seems to have happened.
Whoa.
If there's retrievable
artifacts or treasure, the
thrill for me is simply gonna be
this: it's not gonna be about
retrieving those things.
It's gonna be about giving Dan
Blankenship the satisfaction of
knowing that his life's pursuit
has been real.
The man labored for years on
faith, faith that his work here
was at some point gonna mean
something.
And I'm hoping for a little
validation for myself as well in
terms of my belief in this
place.
Look, who doesn't want a
long-lost fabled treasure?
I'm in on that.
But to see a life's pursuit and
here's the proof you were
right, you were correct those
are the answers we're really
looking for.
No, no.
Me either.
We'll be back.
Is that a threat or a
promise?
That is both.
Marty, Rick and
the Oak Island team have had an
incredible year.
They have done and discovered
more than any team in the
200-plus years since men started
hunting for treasure here.
But when they return next
spring, will they finally be
able to solve the mystery?
Or will they simply write
another chapter in a saga that
has captivated millions and has
claimed six lives so far?
Tonight on The
Curse of Oak Island
Here we go.
They're in the dark.
They can't see.
Your imagination takes
over.
What's happening down there?
You saying you're
caught?
Call the dive off.
Abort the dive.
We just came out of
the pipe?
They're down in the chamber.
That looks like steps.
There's a chamber.
Yes, with manmade
objects.
Those are boxes.
What's the thing to
the right of it?
It looks very square.
It sure looks like a
tunnel.
It does look man-made.
We found it.
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
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.
And according to legend, one
more will have to die before
the treasure can be found.
Still good, Rick?
Just keep talking to us.
Good?
Yeah!
Good?
Yup!
Yup so!
There she goes.
She's clear.
You ready to come up?
Yes.
Comms go next.
We got to get the cage out so we
don't pinch lines and comm goes
next.
It is an important
day in the history of Oak
Island, as brothers Rick and
Marty Lagina may be on the verge
of one of the greatest
breakthroughs in the more than
200-year-old mystery.
Dan!
Henskee!
Be ready to start pulling line!
They and their
partners have arranged for a
pair of professional divers to
try and make it all the way to
the bottom of 10-X, some 235
feet underground.
Once there, they are hoping the
divers can find what treasure
hunter Dan Blankenship claims he
discovered more than 40 years
ago.
Antique tools, a wooden chest,
and even what appeared to be a
tunnel leading in the direction
of the Money Pit.
Somebody?
Get him a towel.
He's going to be frozen.
How do you like getting dunked
in 50-degree water, big boy?
After a lifetime of
reading and studying, and two
years of active searching, Rick
and Marty are more convinced
than ever that the legends about
the island and the notion that
something of enormous value is
buried beneath it are true.
This summer alone, they and
their partners have found three
more ancient coins one of them
possibly dating as far back as
the days of the Knights
Templar a tree stump buried in
the Oak Island swamp, and dated
to between 1450 and 1640
Come over here.
That's what we're
looking for.
a petroglyph of
an eight-pointed star one
matching ancient symbols
believed to be more than 2,000
years old, and evidence of a
mysterious wooden vault covered
in concrete and buried some 140
feet down in the infamous Oak
Island Money Pit.
You got cement, wood
fibers running this way, wood
fibers running that way.
Wow, guys.
You think you're on the vault?
You did a great job, that's for
damn sure.
But with all of the
breakthroughs and all of the
discoveries
Take your shirt off
and get that.
one persistent
problem remains, and it's the
same problem every treasure
hunter on Oak Island has faced,
and been defeated by, for two
centuries water.
Salty water.
The one big problem with Oak
Island, you know, it's just a
rabbit warren of incoming water
from various old holes, shafts,
tunnels.
How do we get down there?
How do we do it?
Now, Rick and Marty
are determined to find out if
there could really be a back
door into the Money Pit through
10-X, because finding it could
literally save the team millions
of dollars in challenging and
risky excavation costs.
The problem is, no one has
risked diving down the 235-foot
borehole in more than 20 years.
That is, not until now.
I got you on comms,
but I got some horrible
feedback.
I got you on comms.
Today, with the
help of author and treasure
hunter, J. Hutton Pulitzer, and
divers, Dan and Kathy Misiaszek,
Rick and Marty are hoping that a
dive to the bottom of borehole
10-X might prove to be the key
to solving the Oak Island
mystery.
I've got the videos
on, uh, I've got
I can see Flash in yours.
Okay, I've got you, Frog.
I can see it both.
I don't want you to descend yet.
I want to make sure we got these
comms worked out.
Stand by.
Although Dan and
Kathy also known as "Frog" and
Flash are both experienced,
professional divers, no chances
will be taken.
Emergency medical technicians,
or EMTs, are on site, and safety
diver, John Tapper is standing
by just in case there's an
emergency.
We got a feed?
Okay, she's got 'em.
Using their
communication lines, otherwise
known as "comms," the team at
the surface will stay in
constant contact with Dan and
Kathy.
They will also be able to
monitor what is being recorded
by the diver's underwater
cameras in real time.
Frog, we got a comm
line.
It looks like it's looped on
you.
We've got comms wrapped up in
something there.
The prime directive is,
of course, keeping people safe.
The important thing is getting
people in the hole, achieving
the objective and getting people
out of the hole.
Safety first, objective second.
The mission on the
first dive was to get to the
bottom, the first bottom if you
will, of 10-X 181 feet see
what the junk is on the bottom,
see if the 27-inch hole is
enterable.
Dug by Oak Island
treasure hunters Dan and Dave
Blankenship and their friend,
Dan Henskee, in the early 1970s,
10-X began as a 27-inch wide
shaft that eventually reached
the staggering depth of 235
feet.
But after a collapse in 1976
that almost killed him, Dan
Blankenship widened the hole to
eight feet in diameter, down to
a depth of 181 feet.
Roger that.
Unfortunately for
Dan and Kathy, the hole remains
a tiny 27 inches wide from 181
feet all the way to the bottom.
It's dark, it's wet, and the
North Atlantic seawater that
floods the shaft is just above
freezing.
And if all this wasn't
challenging enough, just before
the dive, the team was informed
that four feet of debris may be
covering the entrance to the
27-inch wide hole.
The first thing going
through my mind is that this is
dangerous.
They're bobbing around inside an
eight-foot steel column, so, you
know, rapidly, the concern level
goes high.
Giving line.
Roger that.
While Dan and Kathy
make their way down the shaft,
the ground crew helps feed the
communication lines.
It's a delicate task.
Too much line could cause the
divers to get tangled, while
not enough could cause a deadly
emergency if their breathing
system fails.
Now those are the
lines that could pull their mask
off, if they're pulled too hard?
Too much line!
Stand by.
Call out your depth.
Thank you.
Okay.
Little more line.
More murky all of a
sudden.
Yikes.
They're in the dark,
basically.
They're feeling around just
tactile.
It was troubling, to say the
least.
It says 50, so you're
92 from top.
Are you keeping track
of time?
Yeah, but if they can't see, I
just wondered.
Hey, guys, here's
what I want you to do.
Turn your cameras at each other.
Let me get just a good visual.
Just turn your lights and
cameras at each other.
Let me get a peek.
Holy (bleep).
They can't even see each other
four feet apart.
Can you see your face visual?
Do we have three greens?
Frog?
I can see your three greens.
Flash, I need to see your three
greens.
Hold on.
Almost.
Just a little more.
Go up.
Okay, three greens.
You're good.
I honestly wouldn't be
scared of that dive myself,
except for one thing: getting
stuck.
That is so scary underwater.
Invisibility, it doesn't matter,
but getting stuck is just a
catastrophic feeling.
Frog, confirm you're
okay.
Flash, can you hear
me?
What was that?
We've lost comms.
Frog, confirm you're
okay.
Flash, can you hear me?
J. Hutton Pulitzer
has just lost audio
communication with his dive
team, who are now submerged more
than 60 feet underwater in 10-X.
Get me some comms.
Come on, guys.
Their comms go out.
At that point, your imagination
takes over.
What's happening down there?
Even though Rick,
Marty and the team still have a
video feed working, the murky
conditions in 10-X offer almost
zero visibility.
I see her hand.
She's going to him.
Okay.
Come on, guys.
Get me some comms.
Got comms.
Flash, Frog, stand by
for a minute.
Look, when we lose comms, we
need to work out a signal.
Would it be appropriate to give
you a gentle tug?
Okay.
I'm not a diver, so
when I see them on camera,
diving through, you know, water
with no clarity
I mean, they're in the dark
basically, and the fear factor
goes way up, because I can't
relate to what they're doing.
Flash, confirm you're
okay.
I don't like that
cough.
Guys, before you
descend, Flash, I need to know
you're okay.
What's that cough?
Okay.
You sound you sound muffled.
What's going on?
Okay.
Thank you.
Very nice, very nice.
I like that a lot.
With communications
back up and working again, the
divers continue their descent.
They will first need to make
their way down all 181 feet of
10-X before reaching the point
where the hole shrinks from
eight feet in diameter to a mere
27 inches.
But once down there, will they
see what Dan Blankenship claims
he saw more than 40 years ago?
Antique tools?
Wooden chests?
Man-made tunnels?
I need a depth check!
Eighty-three.
We're coming.
It's coming through.
It's coming through.
As the team feeds
the divers more comms and
breathing line to continue their
descent, they must do so with
extreme caution.
With all the debris, old drill
pipes and a rusted ladder to
contend with, a tangled
breathing line could have deadly
consequences.
We've got comms
wrapped up in something there.
As you go past that
pipe, check if you see the line
looped.
Feel if it's captured there.
He's got too
he's got too much line on him.
I see slack in it.
So that has to be one of the
places it's caught up.
Okay.
I
had been nervous,
because when I went down there
to cut the ladder, I knew the
riser pipe had fallen over.
I was concerned that it was
the riser pipe, because there is
movement in that pipe.
So we lost
communications; that was scary.
But much more scary to me are
the words that-that send a
shiver up my spine, which is,
Frog, confirm you're
okay.
Frog, confirm you're okay and
you're untangled.
Frog, confirm
you're okay.
The dive team's
greatest fear has happened.
After diving more than 100 feet
down into 10-X, diver Dan
Misiaszek has become trapped in
a tangle of breathing cables and
debris.
His wife Kathy must now make an
agonizing decision.
Oh, dear.
Guys, here's what
we've got.
If we've got one diver calling
the dive, we need to abort.
That's fine.
Confirmed.
Abort the dive.
Flash, confirm that's okay and
you're untangled.
Frog, confirm you're
okay and you're untangled.
Although Dan got
untangled this time, the next
time, he might not be so lucky.
His wife Kathy fears the
conditions in 10-X are just too
dangerous right now to continue
the dive safely.
The dive is being aborted.
Okay, now we're
pulling line.
Hang onto your lines.
Okay, divers on
surface.
Okay, we got Flash
on surface.
Let's go with the
bucket, then.
Ready?
Yeah.
We got Frog on
surface.
Flash, we're extracting you
first.
Luckily, no one was
injured.
And even though Rick and Marty
didn't get the answers they were
hoping for, they now know more
about 10-X and its current
state than they did when they
started.
They also know they will need to
address some safety issues
before attempting a second dive.
That's the whole point
of the first dive figure out
what needs to be addressed, what
problems might arise.
That was my feel about the first
dive it's just it's a
acclimation dive.
Figure out what needs to be
done.
Later that evening,
Rick, Marty and the Oak Island
team meet in the war room with
J. Hutton Pulitzer and divers
Dan and Kathy Misiaszek.
Here they will discuss the day's
progress and also make some
critical decisions.
Okay, you two.
What a day.
I don't know about the
rest of these guys, but I was
thinking, "Come on up, come on
up, come on up," through most of
that dive.
But I think we
learned a whole lot.
When Flash and I started going
straight down, side by side, we
got jammed up.
So we had to go straight down in
single file.
We also learned about
temperature, and Flash got it on
her computer.
It's cold.
It was right at 43.
Okay, but I don't know
who was shaking more, you when
you came out or me when you were
down there.
I already know if I said, "Are
you gonna to go back in there?"
I know what you'd say.
Oh, absolutely.
I knew it.
Dive.
You want to go?
Absolutely.
Let's go.
All right, all right.
We know so many of the
hazards right now, and we can
correct them.
So now it's a much easier dive.
That's what these
people do.
They dive to find out flaws in
drilling rig platforms and to
look for sunken treasure, and
it's inherently dangerous.
Okay, we've talked
about a lot of the obstructions,
a lot of the difficulties, but
the one thing we haven't
addressed is, the first scan
showed four to five feet of
sediment problems down there.
What are we gonna do to address
that?
Rick, Marty, Craig
and Dave are concerned that even
if the divers can reach the
181-foot level on the second
dive, there is still no
guarantee they'll be able to
make their way through the
estimated four feet of sediment
and debris which still blocks
the 27-inch-wide shaft.
We have decided,
right?
We have decided to try and put
the mechanical gizmo down first.
What is it?
It's scanning sonar.
I think it might fit
down that six-inch hole.
You know, the one that Jordan
drilled.
Which one?
It's one of the
casings towards the front.
So, we put it down there last
year to help clean up the
bottom, to bring up samples.
And that goes all the
way to the cavern?
Clean shot.
One year ago, Rick,
Marty and the team set up an
extraction system which was
designed to flush any loose
debris, including evidence of
treasure, out of the bottom of
10-X.
Although the operation did not
produce any compelling
evidence outside of a few
bits of metal and what appeared
to be animal bones Rick and
Marty are now hoping that the
drill casing that was left in
the hole will allow a scanning
sonar device to travel all the
way to the bottom of 10-X, and
without encountering the
four-foot-thick obstruction.
To me this is a
no-brainer.
There's two human beings versus
a piece of equipment.
Yeah, well, I agree
with you a hundred percent.
Yeah.
Okay, guys,
we'll run the scans first thing
in the morning, and we'll make
our decisions accordingly.
Agreed.
Everybody on board?
Yep.
Good.
Thank you very much.
Cool.
Although today's
dive was not as productive as
the team had hoped, the
possibility that scanning sonar
will accomplish the same thing
has everyone's spirits renewed.
But could the team really be
just hours away from finding out
that what Dan Blankenship
claimed he saw at the bottom of
10-X was true?
Are they finally close to
solving
the Oak Island mystery?
It's another
morning on Oak Island.
Day two in the team's attempt to
get information from the bottom
of 10-X.
All this debris, if
we got to get them down in
there
Yeah?
What I really want to
do is just try to focus how to
get this sonar down, especially
if we don't know what even
further obstructions are.
I mean, this thing's
designed to go where the divers
can't go.
But unlike
yesterday, before Dan and Kathy
Misiaszek attempt their second
dive, Rick and Marty have
arranged for underwater
visualization experts Nick
Burchill and Brian Abbott of
Kongsberg Maritime to drop the
MS 1000 scanning sonar device
down a six-inch-wide drill hole
that was dug into 10-X the
previous year.
It should be able to bypass the
four feet of sediment and debris
that block the 27-inch portion
of the shaft and go all the way
to the bottom.
Okay, Nick, you got it
all doctored up?
Yeah, come on over for
a second.
What we've done, we've taken the
protective cage off, and I've
just basically put some rubber
around this to protect it.
When it goes down
It's gonna spin.
we're probably gonna
have some settling, and we may
not even get it to settle at
all.
We may not be able to get data.
Don't say that.
Let's do it.
The MS 1000
scanning sonar device sends
pulses that echo, and can help
to create a three-dimensional
image of environments and their
features.
In other words, if all goes
well, the team may be able to
get their first look at the
bottom of 10-X since Dan
Blankenship recorded his
findings nearly 40 years ago.
We want data so badly
we can't stand it.
I mean, poor David's been this
far away from that cavern for
what, 30 years now?
Yeah, at least.
Time to do.
Let's do, let's do.
Cable's coming.
I've got the cable.
Send her down.
Okay.
As the MS 1000
scanning sonar device makes its
way down the 235-foot shaft, the
team waits anxiously for
evidence that something manmade
could be lying on the bottom.
All right, here we go.
Who's the best screen
to look at?
His?
They're both the same.
Are you able to
record this or
Yeah, we're recording
everything.
So we're looking at some stuff
here.
Nick has dropped the sonar
through the pipe.
Wait, wait, wait.
Wait, I-I got to get oriented,
guys.
We just came out of the pipe?
Where are we?
This is a void.
We're in a void.
We're in a void.
Really?
Yeah.
What are the
dimensions?
Well, hang on here.
The sonar's moving a little bit.
But one of the things,
Brian
I think I'm up
I'm
still at the end of the pipe.
So if I drop it down a couple
more inches
Yeah, let's do that.
With any luck, that
void will get larger.
It's just peeking out the end of
the pipe.
So what this is doing right now
is it's scanning and it's
looking at the walls with a very
narrow beam.
So you're not seeing floor to
ceiling.
You're only seeing a slice of it
near the ceiling.
So we're gonna lower it down.
It's gonna take another slice
that's further down.
Come on up, Dad, and
take a look at this.
Is Dan here?
Dan.
Dan, come here.
Sit right here.
In the 27?
No, they're down in
the cavity.
Oh.
In the chamber.
Sit down, Dan, then you can see
this screen.
Of all the people
on Oak Island, no one is more
invested in 10-X and what does
or doesn't lie at the bottom of
it than Dan Blankenship.
At 91, Dan considers 10-X his
legacy, and he remains convinced
that the things he claims he saw
down there like antique tools,
wooden chests, and even a
man-made tunnel leading toward
the Money Pit are real.
His only regret is that he ran
out of money before he could
prove to the world that he is
the one who found the key to
solving the mystery.
Okay, the sonar's
starting to settle out.
Look at this, guys.
Look at this, guys.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at that.
Look at this,
gentlemen.
What's that?
It's an opening.
But that's also
rectangular in shape as the way
it's cutting back.
It's rectangular.
I'm an engineer.
I deal in square, rectangular
and round and this is
rectangular.
Mother nature doesn't make
rectangle things.
Brian Abbott has
been investigating and helping
to visualize underwater objects
for more than a decade.
In addition to finding
everything from shipwrecks to
underwater cities, he was one of
the first to fully map the
wreckage of Titanic in 2010.
So it's like a
doorway or another tunnel headed
out.
There's two-There's
two tunnels one coming
It could very well be.
in and, as you
say, on the opposite side, one
going out.
Man-made tunnels?
Could this be the first
indication that what Dan
Blankenship claimed he saw at
the bottom of 10-X was true?
But if there really
are man-made tunnels, who built
them?
And where if anywhere do
they lead?
What is that thing
sticking right there in the
middle of its rectangle?
Buried there?
Like, what is that?
I
I don't know.
I mean, it's a rectangular
object.
How big is that?
4.3 feet wide.
And from this point back here
to back here is seven feet.
It does look man-made.
Here
And there's multiple
objects.
I told you that.
Man-made objects?
At the bottom of 10-X?
235 feet beneath the surface of
Oak Island?
Okay, so what do we
know for sure?
There's a chamber.
For bloody sure, right?
Yeah.
Yes, with man-made
objects.
You're willing to say
that for sure?
Yes.
If I was to send a
diver down on targets like that
I would feel comfortable.
I think that's enough
information to have a diver
check it out, because the best
way is with the human eye.
You got another dive in
you?
Hell, yeah, we're
ready to go.
Hell, yeah, we're
ready to go.
Let's go.
Let's get this out.
It's time.
If I was to send a
diver down on targets like that,
I would feel comfortable.
It is a tense
situation on Oak Island.
A sonar scan has just revealed
that there could very well be
man-made objects lying at the
bottom of 10-X.
Suit up?
Yup.
Yup.
Okay.
Now, professional
divers Dan and Kathy Misiaszek
will attempt a second dive down
the 235-foot shaft in an effort
to verify this incredible
discovery with their own eyes.
There you go.
But even if they
can safely make their way down
the portion of the hole that is
eight feet wide, they will still
have to make the final 54 feet
of their descent through a
narrow shaft that is only about
two feet wide.
Hey.
Where's Dave?
We need to talk to you guys.
Got a minute?
I got all kinds of
minutes.
So what's the matter, boss?
All right, here's the
deal.
I find it hard that I'm even
saying this, because I want to
get in that chamber more than I
ever have.
Mm-hmm.
I've been a doubter.
Yeah, we know that.
Right.
I want to cancel the dive.
Why?
They got stuck up in
the big hole.
I know.
Right, so in the little
hole, they're really gonna get
stuck.
Yeah.
Yeah, and then what?
You got to get somebody
to go after 'em.
In goes a third man.
Right.
You know, there's a
thin line between brave and
foolhardy.
Yeah.
And I don't want to
risk three peoples' lives.
No, I agree with you
100% on that.
I'm on board.
Let's go tell them.
Let's go break the
news to them.
Go break the word to
them.
All right.
Are you ready for a
tuck in?
Yeah.
Hey, guys.
Hey.
Hey.
This-This is not gonna
be easy for me to say, okay, but
we just we just had a sidebar
there.
We want to call the dive off.
You want to call the
dive off?
We do.
Let me tell you why.
And-And, and by the way, it's no
reflection on either one of you.
Exactly.
But I'm not risking
your lives.
I'm afraid you're gonna go down
there and try and get in that
hole, and I know you can't do
it.
It would be a dangerous
dive without the unknowns.
There's a lot of unknowns.
It was an easy
decision to abort the second
dive.
Real easy, from my standpoint.
The sort of risk-reward ratio
was no longer in place.
You have a you have a
significant risk and you have no
chance of the reward.
You know, why do it?
Let's unpack you from
these ovens.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure
you're dying in there.
Thank you two.
Okay.
We think it's the
right decision.
For Rick, Marty and
their partners, it has been a
day filled with mixed emotions.
Although they are disappointed
they had to abort Dan and
Kathy's second dive, they have
just found evidence that Dan
Blankenship really did discover
a lost treasure chamber at the
bottom of 10-X more than 40
years ago.
A treasure chamber that might
also lead directly into the
Money Pit.
Okay, gents, this is
gonna be good.
Hutton tells me that we're ready
to look at the data down in the
cavity in 10-X.
It's been at least partially
processed.
So we got Brian on
the line.
Brian, good to see you
again.
Good to see you guys.
How we doing today?
Well, we're on pins
and needles.
You tell us.
Yeah.
So I've got, uh,
preliminary results of our-our
sonar work, uh, down in 10-X.
Since finding what
appeared to be man-made objects
at the bottom of 10-X,
geophysicist and sonar expert
Brian Abbott has spent the last
few days translating the raw
sonar data into a more
understandable three-dimensional
format.
Now, remember that
we're taking individual slices
like the page of a book and
we're stacking them together to
give us a representation of what
the cavern kind of looks like
and the perspective of it.
We'll go to a view.
We'll, uh, zoom in a little bit.
And so we're dropping down
through the shaft into the
27-inch hole that was drilled,
then we're into the cavern.
And our widest point here is
about 12 feet.
And this, about eight and a half
feet across.
One of the things that just
sticks out is this right angle,
as you see, right through here,
which is unusual a lot of times
in nature.
Well, we've got this really
unique feature here.
It's about two feet long, a foot
wide.
Uh, you can see two things put
together like clay pots,
baskets.
I don't think it's geological.
It's too elliptical in-in shape.
But it's, I think, one of the
unique features that we're able
to pick up on the sonar there.
What's the thing due
to the right of it?
Looks very square.
It's one of those
square features.
Maybe man-made.
It also looks like
there's a side tunnel possibly
coming into this room.
What are those
dimensions, Brian, those
openings?
It's probably about
seven feet across.
It's about five feet wide.
I mean, it sure looks
like a tunnel.
At last!
Brian Abbott's interpretation of
the sonar data confirms what Dan
Blankenship claims he discovered
at the bottom of 10-X more than
40 years ago.
But now it looks as if there
isn't only one man-made tunnel
that enters the underground
chamber but two, one that
appears to lead to the Money Pit
and one that might lead to the
ocean or perhaps another part of
the island.
The other thing that
was really intriguing to me
and I-I can't figure this thing
out for the life of me is-is
this.
Right here.
It's 14 inches, I think it is.
It shows up on every scan.
It's a stand-alone thing.
So whether it's a column, a
load-bearing beam
Brian, that column
the column you see, um, you
mentioned, um, if it's metal you
might see harmonics.
Did you see any harmonics in
there to indicate it's a
could be a steel pipe?
Or-or do you think it's wood or
something?
It could be wood.
If there's a great big
column of wood, this is a
man-made deal.
A tree didn't fall in there.
I mean, wood wins.
If-if we know that's wood and
it's a column
The cavern's very
unique.
Uh, I see right angles, I see
squares, I see rectangles.
I think there's targets down
there.
Again, if I could put divers on
these-these targets, I would.
Sounds great.
Thanks, Brian!
Thank you!
Okay.
Take care.
One thing's for sure,
the data we now have is, to
me is the best data that's
ever been obtained on Oak
Island.
Well, look, Hutton, here's the
deal: we have some things we've
got to decide.
Yes, sir.
Uh, you have
contributed an enormous amount
to our to our quest here, and
we got to kick it around and see
where we go, so I want
I understand.
Thank you for just giving us
the opportunity.
I want to thank you.
I want to thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you so very
much.
Finally, we've got very
accurate, analyzable data.
It's an impetus to further
explore 10-X.
And that's the whole question,
isn't it?
What's in the bottom of 10-X?
Anyway, so that leads
us to, what is the enthusiasm
level for getting to the bottom
of 10-X?
Rick, Marty, and
their partners may finally have
definitive evidence that in 10-X
Dan Blankenship found not only a
shortcut into the Money Pit but
what could be a second perhaps
even larger treasure vault.
But now the team faces an even
greater problem: how can they
get to it some 235 feet below
the surface?
You know, what is
what is the enthusiasm level for
getting to the bottom of 10-X?
I'm 100%.
You know that.
100%.
And this only
just makes you more
Yes.
We got to do it in the dry.
'Cause you can't see your hand
in front of your face down
there.
We're gonna figure out
how to get to the bottom of
10-X.
I'm not sold on a dry entry yet.
I have some thoughts about that,
but
I'm with you.
I
Trying to pump it dry and send
people down there scares me,
that something could implode.
And so we just need to
think-think it through.
Dan?
Dan?
Do you
do you think that 10-X
is safe?
The shaft?
If it was pumped dry.
If it was pumped dry.
In my opinion, it's
safe to 183
181 feet, down to
bedrock.
Beyond that, I would not say.
Want to drill a
four-foot hole?
Drill a four-foot
hole
Okay, no problem.
and then maybe send
a diver down.
And if that doesn't work, then
when we dry it out, you can put
a ladder down there and walk
right down.
How about you, big brother?
Look, I've always been
in, and I'm all in.
I always was and I always will
be.
We're gonna find the answers.
Look, come spring, we're down
there.
The fact that we're going to do
it is a certainty.
Everyone agrees.
We're absolutely, positively,
for the final time get to the
bottom of 10-X and find out
what's in there.
We spent two years
acquiring data every which way
we could.
I mean, it's sort of like
Churchill said about the first
battle they won at El Alamein.
He said, "It's not the end.
It's probably not even the
beginning of the end.
But perhaps it's the end of the
beginning."
So I think that's where we are
right now.
We've gathered all the data.
Next season, I think it's gonna
be a lot more about moving dirt.
To the dig!
To the dig!
JACK: To the dig!
To the dig!
Dan?
To the dig!
To the dig!
We're on a quest, my
brother and I and our team
trying to do something that no
one else has been able to do.
It's a challenge.
It's fun.
It could be rewarding.
We're lucky to be able to do it.
You know, this is an adventure.
Who could have thought that an
eight-year-old and a
ten-year-old reading the
Reader's Digest would turn into
a worldwide hunt for the
greatest treasure on Earth?
Who could have guessed that?
You can't write that stuff.
You can't make it up.
But it seems to have happened.
Whoa.
If there's retrievable
artifacts or treasure, the
thrill for me is simply gonna be
this: it's not gonna be about
retrieving those things.
It's gonna be about giving Dan
Blankenship the satisfaction of
knowing that his life's pursuit
has been real.
The man labored for years on
faith, faith that his work here
was at some point gonna mean
something.
And I'm hoping for a little
validation for myself as well in
terms of my belief in this
place.
Look, who doesn't want a
long-lost fabled treasure?
I'm in on that.
But to see a life's pursuit and
here's the proof you were
right, you were correct those
are the answers we're really
looking for.
No, no.
Me either.
We'll be back.
Is that a threat or a
promise?
That is both.
Marty, Rick and
the Oak Island team have had an
incredible year.
They have done and discovered
more than any team in the
200-plus years since men started
hunting for treasure here.
But when they return next
spring, will they finally be
able to solve the mystery?
Or will they simply write
another chapter in a saga that
has captivated millions and has
claimed six lives so far?