The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s03e02 Episode Script

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Previously on the curse of Oak Island
we've got tunnels we've got gold we've
got silver rubies diamonds x marks the
spot right there that's the gold
signature we need to cut the riser pipe
there's a lot of stuff on the bottle
it's to the right there that's the post
we did some really good sonar we can see
it's a man-made object is it possible
chest really we did find something
unique it sits right here there's an
object down there that looks like human
remains
there is an island in the North Atlantic
where people have been looking for an
incredible treasure for more than 200
years so far they have found bits of
gold chain a stone slab with strange
symbols carved into it even a 17th
century Spanish coin to date six men
have died trying to solve the mystery
and according to legend one more will
have to die before the treasure can be
found
four brothers Rick and Marty lagina the
lifelong dream to solve the Oak Island
mystery may finally become a reality
let's be careful with this yeah let's
get it done roll off that edge because
that would be
look at this guy's it's a rectangular
object after completing this series of
sonar tests which indicated that
everything from wooden posts chests
man-made tunnels and even a dead body
might be lying at the bottom of the
235-foot deep borehole known as 10x they
are more determined than ever to send a
diver down to the bottom to find out if
the test results are true
but getting to the bottom of 10-x will
be both expensive and dangerous as more
than 40 years of harsh weather churning
saltwater and falling debris have taken
their toll if we're gonna get to the
bottom of 10-x we had to get the junk
out of it there's a bunch of stuff
laying in the bottom of the hole we
don't even know what it is but the first
things to remove are all the things
sticking up from the bottom that come
either to the top or near the top we're
gonna venture back down that hole those
things have to be there to remove the
obstructions yes all right these are
arranged reasonably well yeah let's just
play it right across and we'll put two
screws into that to hold it
over the railways oh yeah before
clearing out 10x the team must first
secure the working platform that has
been constructed over the 8 foot wide
hole we want people to be as safe as
possible but also they could be able to
see you know the various pipes and
things
an 8 inch wide riser pipe one of three
placed there over the years to pump
water out of the hole will be the first
to be removed
that's enough to get audited but since
the pipe is approximately 180 feet long
a boom truck with a 100-foot crane has
been brought in to lift it up okay it
will then be held in place with steel
bracing also known as ears
finally it will be cut with a welding
torch and taken away in 20-foot sections
yeah here's the deal guys I think you
should clear off there if that chain
breaks it's gonna spring
would get
I don't think he don't get it well one
thing's for sure Tinian hydrate
anhydride or anhydrous calcium sulfate
he's a hard rock like substance usually
formed by the evaporation of salt water
when digging 10x in the 1970s treasure
hunter dan Blankenship had to drill
through approximately 44 feet of it
before reaching what he believes is a 10
foot high
man-made treasure chamber
if the drill pipe is stuck in anhydride
it will be even more difficult to remove
come on just switching around to the
other side right now so it rocks it the
other way
yeah
by the balls now yeah whenever you're
pulling a string of pipe you pull it up
like this and it's hanging in the
derrick and then there's a thing down
here called the slips it
yeah we had that clamp to hold all the
pieces if you will still left in the
hole and then we could cut this off and
lay this piece down okay we're ready to
cut that was just a matter of David
torching them off we've got the clamp in
place so it's pulled 20 torch pull 20
torch
lamed all right over there
we got the first piece Oh everything
worked fine procedure seems to work then
we come back and get on to the next one
and just keep following that process
till we get that pipe out of the hole
as rick marty and dave blankenship work
to clear away rusted pipes and debris
from 10x Craig tester and his stepson
Jack Begley along with veteran Oak
Island treasure hunter dan henskee
arrived near the islands fabled money
pit to test an incredible theory one
that suggests there isn't only one
treasure buried on Oak Island but
several when the Laird's came here they
this map using satellite technology it
seems a little far out you're saying
that you can find objects within tunnels
we can through the magnetic resonance
imaging a few weeks ago father-and-son
treasure hunters Robert and Bob Leonard
came to Oak Island to present evidence
that using highly advanced satellite
based technology they had identified a
vast network of underground treasure
tunnels we've got tunnels we've got gold
bronze silver rubies ivory diamonds and
one part of me says this is completely
impossible on the other hand right
absolutely
if we're able to dig up one of these
hits today it should put me at a hundred
percent that this technology works so
what I did I examine the map before
leaving the island
the Leonard's gape Jack and the team a
number of GPS coordinates indicated were
both precious and non-precious metal
targets should lie buried I picked out a
bunch of small targets
that are about two to three feet down on
this map and there's one that's over
here by the money pit and I got a GPS
unit that should get us within a cup of
feet well why don't you lead us there
Dan
Wow this is the red line north okay all
right well you want to lead us there
okay here we go
getting too old for this we better find
something soon we really weren't looking
for a treasure at this point in time we
were looking for accuracy of this map
that the Leonard's presented to us okay
now it started near the money pit there
was supposedly a piece of metals that
was buried anywhere from two to three
feet down what do you think that's
pretty close we located it based on GPS
right about here and then ran a metal
detector determined where it might be
looks good within seconds Craig tester
gets a reading so it's right on the edge
could they really have found a metal
object buried in shallow ground right
were Robert and Bob Leonard indicated it
would be
bigger back at 10x Rick Marty and the
team continue their efforts to clear one
of the corroded metal riser pipes from
the shaft
we're ready to cut
well looks like we lost their pipe boys
how the hell did that happen the team's
plan to pull a riser pipe from 10x has
just gone terribly wrong after cutting a
second 20-foot section of the 180 foot
pipe the weight of the remaining 140
feet has slipped through its brace and
fallen back down the shaft landing far
below the water level what started as an
operation to remove obstructions has
just become much more complicated my
concern is that you know it did fall
straight down I'm worried that it might
have gotten tangled with the ladder if
it did then that's much more difficult
for the divers is it hung up is it just
balanced somewhere might it fall when
they're in 10x we simply don't know
so we need a diver to go down hook the
chain onto it or a cable and pull it up
and throw it all over again it's
something that weighs several thousand
pounds dropped 40 feet it was cooking
when it hit bottom and that pipe is
docking we needed to come up with a
different plan the island was another
one when did we win
there's a bunch of rocks meanwhile back
near the money pit Craig tester Jack
Begley and dan henskee have just
detected a metal target run for the
Leonard's nuclear magnetic resonance
imaging map indicated they would find
one still not all they have to do now is
dig it up it really makes me understand
how tough it is to dig this stuff that's
why you could dig the money pit without
putting in cribbing or safety liner the
ground is sturdy tough yeah although the
object they're looking for is not likely
to be treasure
it could help prove the theory that
there are dozens of treasure tunnels and
treasure sites line deep underground and
all over the island we kept on digging
deeper and the signal got stronger but
in a bigger area I'm really starting to
eat this clay it was such a big clean
target but oh my gosh I think I thought
this was gonna take tea all day well
used to talk about digging down to China
but I don't think Jack here is in much
danger of reaching China
if there is something two to three feet
down I'm gonna make sure that I get to
it and find it there you go all right
that looks like a rough stretch yeah
there it is
now what is it that's what we're gonna
find out hopefully
it is it's a big piece of metal is that
all metal coming this way yeah
yeah it is basically there's a wide
range of things that might be and none
of them valuable it's just the way
things my hopes up as one of the three
men who dug 10x more than 40 years ago
dan henskee knows Oak Island like the
back of his hand
he's also experienced his fair share of
helpful excitement followed by bitter
disappointment nevertheless the 76 year
old treasure hunter refuses to give up
yeah more than anyone on the island he
believes that the legends about deadly
curses and buried treasures are true
don't want to get in front of their
table down there wouldn't you know I was
under the cabling this wasn't common
there you go it's all yours you work for
it hey you guys they took an old man to
do a young man's job what the heck is
this looks like a tubing looks like a
piece of pipe that's split from one end
to the other which is interesting
according to the maps applied to the Oak
Island team by Robert and Bob Leonard
this exact spot is where their satellite
based technology indicated the presence
of a ferrous metal like iron
we found the pipe exactly where they
showed it was supposed to be I think it
gives really good validity to their
whole technology but if the Leonard's
map spotted the iron could the readings
on gold silver and jewels which are
allegedly buried much deeper be accurate
as well that looks like it's been there
quite a while and a little salt water
too booth I say they cool though I feel
like it's kind of my responsibility to
help prove that this technology is
something worth noticing instead of just
kind of throwing it away yeah all right
okay so what gets credit for locating
this you do you brought it up who gets
to carry all the gear back thank you Oh
later that same day members of the Oak
Island team gather in the war room okay
guys back on point where else do we want
to drill once you bring up your thing no
Jack I want to put the Leonard's to rest
I dug up that piece was that the depth
they said it would be
although Marty Rick and Dave have
experienced setbacks during their
attempts to clear the riser pipes out of
10x Jack and Craig's news that the
Leonard's map may actually lead them to
treasure has rekindled their eagerness
to keep digging I really like for this
spot to get why do you believe it jack
it seems to me to be somewhat feasible
this is supposin technology and I think
that drilling it is the best way to find
out you know they're giving us a map
that shows where jewels and rubies and
stuff are it seems way too good to be
true
quite honestly well Jack usually that is
because to drill well yeah yeah but I am
looking to prove or disprove theories
that come to us I am but I might say
some Jack I don't I just absolutely do
not buy at all the photographic NMR and
MRI I don't buy it but this to me I mean
just be candid there's this want to
believe thing that yes you join cavity
go get it it's the latins cave touch
nothing just bring me the lamp
right but the reason I'm it made me make
sense to still drill that well is the
resistivity at least but resistivity is
a known technology whether their device
worked I don't know right here's what
I'm willing to do if you will if you're
willing to vote with me okay yeah where
are you
I'm 5050 I we don't make them right to
be this or the right then I'll go up
let's do it right no I don't yeah
two thumbs
I vote like this with me okay way I want
what out of respect for the fellowship
then it would carry well well thank you
hey we're going on Thank You own all
right jack we're all going in on this at
least partially from your enthusiasm
okay
way to go Jack it's not drilled yeah
well you got your hole I know
it is the start of a new day on Oak
Island a day of new opportunities new
information and new challenges hey Rick
I do have a bit of a wall kind of feels
like bad news I was on the phone all day
with my office and I need to go back
Saturday and be gone next week
and I'm kind of disappointing I mean I
know I know because the whole thing
about this was for you and I'd have fun
together
all right next week is fun but next week
is the busy week yeah I know that's what
I feel bad about
I you know I woke up not this morning
but yesterday and I said our luck has
changed we're gonna make progress we're
gonna get to the bottom of 10x and it's
gonna happen expeditiously that's how I
feel I do I feel real bad about leaving
look you know like you know here's my
thing about that you know if we don't
make significant progress next week I
want to promise from you that we will
legitimately revisit the drawdown
intention
look it's a personal agenda call it
flawed but I would like to stand in the
bottom last spring the Oak Island team
held a meeting at Marty and Craig's
offices in Traverse City Michigan there
Rick lagina made it known that rather
than send divers in wetsuits down 10x he
favored an approach that would pump the
shaft dry a strategy that would offer
broader access and visibility I think it
can be done cheaply it's my belief that
it can be done safely and we'll learn
certain thing is gonna be real clear I
don't want to do that
I think it's undefinable dangerous
problem is when you evacuate a Danny
sort of tube if you have water pressure
on the outside and there's nothing
inside just air pressure on the inside
then that force becomes enormous tries
to collapse Rick I hate the idea you
going down the hall hey TD of anybody
going down that hole I'm willing to take
the risk and I believe that the shaft
will stand
I'm not asking you for a promise that we
will do that I'm asking you for a
promise that we will legitimately
revisit that issue
you got my promise fine I will in good
faith sit down and we'll discuss it
right you've got it brother
promises mutual promises done oh yeah at
the bottom of 10-x
and it will reveal its secrets
while Marty Rick and the rest of the
team returned to the task of clearing
the riser pipes out of the shaft Craig
tester along with his son Drake and
stepson Jack Begley have traveled to the
middle of the island northwest of the
Oak Island swamp
meeting with them he's Jordan Rogers and
his assistant Cody penny Oh from Valley
well drillers well let's show them where
the spot is you got it right yeah
it was at this same spot that Robert and
Bob Leonard indicated there could be a
large treasure cavity containing gold
lying approximately 140 feet below the
surface
pretty much right here this is pretty
much the middle of the cavity and then
it's even longer that way okay all right
let's get going today's the day the
cavity should be around 140 feet down
that's what they're projecting the slate
should drill quite fast I would think
three hours and we should be down to
that depth so you should know something
by noon today the first 10 to 15 feet of
earth that Jordan will be drilling
through is hard glacial till composed of
soil gravel and boulders steel casing
will then be inserted to ensure that the
hole doesn't collapse during the process
once through what is called the
overburden the ground changes to hard
solid slate
at a great pace we should be there in no
time what we're looking for is for that
bit to also drop down into the hole we
wanted to drop into that cavity slates
don't have cavity so if we find
something here it should be man-made
so this one
next section should hit it should be
real easy to see the drill drop because
it will literally drop
congratulations out we hit it water
the presence of water is not a good sign
it could mean that instead of a man-made
treasure vault containing gold there is
nothing more buried here than a natural
underground spring can we keep going the
extra 20 pizzas see if we can hit that
supposin cavity though yeah
Jackson Susie azzam has been sky-high
but he was the one out here when they
ran the resistivity he saw where they
indicated the cave was and seeing is
believing Jordan and his team drilled
through the water an additional 10 then
20 feet down in hopes of finding the
cavity but still nothing only water
you can
start breaking down here appreciate it
we did hit a water zone that may be
proving that the resistivity part of the
test they had run was working that maybe
it's not a cavity they were saying it's
just fractured slate and we're getting
water from that for the fractured slate
I'm not done I'm done searching with the
NMR I there's a couple more hits that we
can drill and I might be able to talk
you guys into it if I find those other
subsurface hits I think after this one
it's gonna be much tougher the talking
the group into the drill could finding
only water really be an indication that
the Leonard's treasure map is flawed or
is it possible that the maps numerous
treasure sites just like the original
money pit have been booby-trapped by
means of an ingenious network of
underground flood tunnels it's
chief by any means to drill wells we
need to focus our money on finding the
treasure and if this could have led to
it great but but we spent the money here
and we need to move on to other areas
other technologies that'll take us to
the treasure let's go let everybody know
all right okay let's get this thing down
hole with his brother headed back to
Michigan on business Rick lagina returns
to the task of clearing away the riser
pipes from 10x
first people need to partially drain the
235-foot deep borehole in order to
expose the pipes and allow easier access
to do so he will insert a high-powered
water pump into another borehole known
as 201 X this is a hole that dan
Blankenship drilled more than 30 years
ago when he needed to flush water and
debris out while widening the shaft it
is connected to 10x through tunnels that
are approximately 235 feet deep
underground today mark verge is here
he's gonna do the pump install
in addition to the 140 foot section of
riser pipe that fell down the shaft
there are also two others that will need
to be removed all right we get a 40
horsepower pump that will allow a
drawdown of 30 feet and keep it at 30
feet so we'll get that going a 4 inch
discharge line unto the beach
you're ready to hook that up yeah in
order to draw the water out of borehole
2 or 1x Rick and the team have laid more
than 200 feet of hose down to Smith's
Cove they've also built a burner or
embankment to ensure the pumping doesn't
cause erosion to the beach good job boys
okay
we've got our fingers crossed on the
boreholes can it perform as as we hope
with the pump in place and running the
water level in 10x slowly begins to drop
the goal is to remove the three pipes
simply because it allows the divers a
less obstructed diving so we remove the
three pipes and it's three less things
they have to encounter on their way down
get your horses in here let's go
what's your problem what do you think
you can latch on to that six inch I
think so
Dan the torch it up and unload them
right here give me 40 foot of hose
we pull up we tie off we can torch them
off at surface lay the pipes down and
just keep pulling up and extracting the
obstacles you got the best job you want
to take this seat now that the water
level has been drained down the team has
been able to locate the 140 foot section
of Weiser pipe that fell down 10x but
before they can remove it there is
another pipe that will have to be taken
out first
I'll do it
when Charles suggested that he would
like to go down I was a little worried
because before today the one thing that
he had never done was put himself in 10x
watch the lips that's where you're going
to get hung up
it can't be a real tough nut you gotta
correct its confined space you have to
make sure the basket is properly
oriented I want to go down and also make
sure that all the equipment to
accomplish the task it's at hand
but that guy lives and breathes this
place and he knows sometimes you just
want to get your feet dirty and get it
done so far everything is going
according to plan but on Oak Island the
only thing that can be expected is that
the unexpected will happen that fell as
Rick Dave Charles and their partners
know all too well the island lures those
who would know its secrets with the
promise of treasure you trust that Joker
the Joker die juden island the one I'm
worried about but when the seeker gets
too close tragedy strikes and usually
without warning
such was the case on March 26 1897
Maynard Kaiser one of the men hired by
Frederick Blair to help excavate the
money pit was being lifted out of the
shaft when a hoisting rope mysteriously
slipped off a poet sending him to his
death some hundred feet below when he
starts coming up
everybody off
bring back out
and while baby you can do it
the weight of the second riser pipe has
snapped the cable dealing Rick lagina
and the Oak Island team another serious
setback have to go down and get that one
again won't we mm-hmm hi Charles and
think that want to try that one who'd go
on that yeah harness yourself up and see
if he can put this back in the bucket
the pipe we lost the fact that it was
still vertical was great what do you
want Charles the bucket up a bit David
that's good right there halt it Charles
went down hole and latched on to it got
in taos okay pull me up
it was a bit of a struggle you want to
get through the shackle there yeah we'll
try one last pull on that riser pipe
hopefully it'll come
yep nice cut
Oh God another three or four feet yeah
but we got to put that i-beam across
okay well drag it over here
I push over far as you can't beat
finally progress is being made
now there are only two more riser pipes
left to be removed Erica
once done professional divers will be
called in to clear out the debris that
lies deeper down under the murky water
for dan blankenship the man who dug 10x
more than 40 years ago the sight of all
the discarded riser pipes is a
bittersweet one because for him each one
represents decades of back-breaking work
personal struggle hopeful planning and
chronic disappointment
but now if all
goes well Dan may soon have the answers
and the validation he has been seeking
for half a century
there is only time to remove one more
pipe before nightfall the pipe that
slipped the team's grasp two days ago
and Dave Blankenship is up for the task
I can tip them over no you can't just
get us some pipe up the surface there
that's all you have to do
he's caught take me up a little bit
all that
right now and easy
I'll be right there
hold everything right there
oh nothing on that page
okay good get me out of here
there she comes well the truth of the
matter is what hadn't been a very
successful day and we thought okay we're
gonna get even coming up easy alright
we're gonna take one punch at this thing
and that was the punch get that riser on
it a whole
watch your finger prick
that's free coming at you
what's important is that we're actually
working together as a team
oh I see Jack that's part of the fun of
Oak Island
so between us David Peter myself dan
henskee Charles and Jack we were able to
get those pipes out of the hole and we
felt pretty good about it beautiful
is that something hydrated at the bottom
then there's a hunk about ten inches
long of anhydride right here yeah that's
a mystery when dan Blankenship dug 10x
in the 1970s he hit anhydride at the 181
foot level he continued to drill through
the rock hard substance for another 44
feet until he reached what he believed
to be a 10 foot tall man-made treasure
vault when she dropped when we lost it
maybe she drilled itself a nice little
plug that dropped too hard for that too
hard for that have absolutely no
explanation is it possible that the
riser pipe managed to fall past the 181
foot level and through the 27-inch wide
hole if so could we be looking at a
piece from the floor of an ancient
treasure vault
are you doing out there good so far you
know you didn't drop any pipe did you
get that out of the whole house that
kind of typical Oak Island we were able
to pull the 10 inch but we broke the
wire cable pulling on it really yeah but
we got it all out and then the pipe that
you dropped the 8 inch we actually got a
core out of the end hydrate with it
because it went rocketing down yeah that
wasn't went in the cavity is weird then
you took a core of the floor not a core
of the cap well it's easy it's easy
enough we'll go measure it again I can't
yeah it's gonna be interesting to see
that right it might tell us a little bit
about rock property we got our am i
coming to clear the bottom of the hole
on it right now we have two pipes out of
the hole I think they have plenty enough
room to do their work so when are you
coming back your days
yeah well make it sooner rather than
later because you know what I want to do
I want to get down there all righty
see ya all right it is the end of
another long day on Oak Island
a day of setbacks but also possible
breakthroughs
two of ten exes old riser pipes have
been removed and it won't be long before
another attempt is made to reach the
mysterious cavern that lies 235 feet
beneath the surface of the island but
once there what will be found ancient
tools treasure chests a dead body or
will it lead to even more questions
questions that will only be answered if
and when the island is ready to reveal
them next time on the curse of Oak
Island I'll move some dirt
that's a nice machine right baby it's
time to dig and you told me that you
know where 30 rods to their lands right
on that line x marks your spot right
there I claim this spot
we're digging on Oak Island
x marks the spot
you can see something wait what's that