The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s03e08 Episode Script

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Tonight on the curse of Oak Island
there's a structure in the swamp fred
said it's somewhere between here and on
there let's find it what do you make of
that right there look at this oh yeah we
did find something thumb convinced it's
a record
look at all the targets in your head and
eyeline there's a triangle on top of the
triangle where was the point it's
actually pointing to the stone triangle
on the island
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 more than a 17th
century Spanish coin to date six men
have died trying to solve the mystery
and according to legend
we'll have to die before the treasure
can be found
into the wardroom we go I thought the
war room was a hint open this is the
original war room while the Oak Island
team continues their search for a
qualified diver to help them get to the
bottom of borehole 10x Marty lagina his
son Alex and his business partner Craig
tester have invited side-scan sonar
experts Mike Roberts and Dave Delaney to
join them for an important meeting at
Marty and Craig's offices in Traverse
City Michigan
they had interests in diving around Oak
Island so I thought we'd see what
they're thinking about doing and showing
us and then we can see if we can
incorporate it together I don't see why
we can't mm-hmm so it'd be great to see
what you got yeah well I'll show you in
a nutshell here Craig in addition to
being commercial divers Mike Roberts and
Dave Delaney have more than 50 years of
combined experience in the use of
advanced underwater visualization
technology and you guys ever run
sub-bottom profiler
oh yeah we're in some other profilers
all around okay what would a sub baton
profiler show you well
it's designed to show you anything below
the surface at the bottom you know down
to what depends on the bottom makeup
actually the one we ran was probably
showing us 10 15 feet down sub bottom
profilers send sound pulses that not
only bounce off of the ocean floor but
also penetrate the layers of sediment
below
creating a three-dimensional model of
natural features while also identifying
possible man-made objects a few years
ago this is where we did our diving here
and it's only around 57 feet
we were down scanning it and we did find
something on the bottom unconvinced as a
wreck of something now what it is I
don't know a wreck off the coast of Oak
Island is it possible that the Oak
Island treasure may not be located on
the island after all but just offshore
after we found it like a whole filing
typically does do you skipped here then
we would pack the next year
good annoying record if it couldn't find
it maybe because it gets melted over but
I know it's there self changes on the
bottom all the time then what I'm hoping
is it because of the winter we had down
there with the winds and everything and
live seas maybe it's cleared off the
bottom a little bit that way that would
be worth finding yeah it is well-known
that the waters of Mahone Bay where Oak
Island is located were once part of the
trade route between Europe and the new
world in the 16th and 17th centuries it
was also here during the height of
piracy that merchant ships and the
valuable cargo they carried fell victim
to attack and plunder
could finding evidence of a shipwreck in
these waters offer a connection to the
stories about buried treasure being on
Oak Island Mike and I teamed up and
we're hoping to go back there again this
year and located so what are you doing
different this time well we've got a
higher resolution sooner side scan sonar
we are trying to figuratively leave no
stone unturned out here
the fact that the island how it looks
today is not how it looked a hundred
years ago 200 years ago 300 years ago
the shoreline has changed markedly we
want to make sure we do everything we
legally can to search the seafloor too
and so these guys have state-of-the-art
side-scan sonar and their divers too so
we're going to you know try and gather
that data and see where it might lead us
okay yeah let's do it let's work
together let's figure this out look
forward to it Maceo Nova Scotia
back on Oak Island Rick lagina and
Island historian Charles Barkhouse have
begun the team's second joint drilling
operation with Island resident Fred
Nolan what do we got oh these are the
first course and it's very cool
last week shortly after forging a
cooperative agreement with Fred
which ended more than four decades of a
bitter rivalry between the 87 year-old
treasure hunter and dan Blankenship time
to quit the Rick Marty and their
partners explored a site on Fred's
property where based on his detailed
surveys friend believed a man-made
tunnel or chamber lies buried beneath
several feet of hard slate
although the search for the mysterious
void ended unsuccessfully the team did
uncover something of potentially great
significance a large wooden stake look
how nice and shaped it is definitely
man-made
today Rick has hired Logan drilling from
Stewie act Nova Scotia to drill at a
second spot on Fred's property just
north of the mysterious triangle-shaped
swamp where Fred believes an even
greater discovery could be made the next
hole has a curious history it's what
fred has come to call the old well he
had done some survey working the swamp
once they got out of the swamp
they were probing and they hit a hollow
sound they cleared the material away
there's about an inch inch and a half
two inches of slate covering this
depression it's actually a well rocked
up well
adding intrigue to their search is the
fact that the land they are on once
belonged to Anthony graves a mysterious
mid 19th century landowner who was known
to pay his debts with ancient Spanish
silver coins
that's number one
was that twenty to nine transitions to a
slate clay and then at twenty eight nine
she turns over in just slate and we're
in the slate all the way now these are
the breaks in the course
using a three-inch coring bit drillers
Harold Fraser and Jason pike will be
taking samples every six feet as they
carefully search for evidence of the
ancient Wow
and there really is a room a void a
tunnel it's exactly what we were looking
for void in the slate
fifty to four right there okay
beautiful stuff when it goes through the
slate doesn't
aesthetically it's pretty but pretty
it's not war luck or no Harold no voyage
Eddie
no boys no oh I don't know what a hit
one if I go through a void I'll see it
in in the drill string and plus the
gauge is right
unlike the eastern portion of Oak Island
which is comprised of bedrock made of
naturally porous and hydride the western
portion where the team is exploring
today is made up of hard finely layered
slave a substance not known to have
occurrences of natural voice beneath it
you might have what might have missed
you in her hands
okay let's hop that broke on bottom zabi
we've got a void see that that doesn't
even match Darren right right what's the
possible significance of that well that
tell you it almost tells me that there's
a void or something guys that parish
should match up the back right huh it
doesn't they don't seem to know has the
Oak Island team really discovered an
underground void on Fred Nolan's
property a void just below a layer of
hard slate
while searching for an ancient well just
north of the swamp on Fred Nolan's
property Rick lagina may have just made
an important discovery here we are we're
at 106 feet and then no core out of the
hole and then a small piece at add 111
add it up it's 5 feet of void
oh here's Fred we got some news for you
Fred come on here I hope it's good news
well
we need some for those yes we do
Harold thinks he hit a void between 106
and 111
yeah five foot boy this was the core of
that came out after the void
like that
it was like they took an elixir of youth
in that moment he was animated he was
reaching down looking at the core he
repeated several times five feet five
feet of boy that's incredible that's
incredible
if this turns into something the
breakthrough I know kind of that
everyone is long sought and long desire
that's a pretty wonderful date although
sharing the news of a possible
breakthrough with Fred Nolan brings Rick
lagina great satisfaction there is
another person is eager to tell his
brother Marty hello got something
strange happened here at 106 X it would
seem that we have a five foot boy yeah I
mean I asked Harold his word is it's
very unusual enjoy it for 30 years you
know would have been nice if there were
some kind of human artifact came up
there like you know nothing
look it's curious I mean that's what we
were looking for avoiding this late
great although it will take further
investigation to confirm whether or not
the team has located a man-made tunnel
or cavern one thing is for sure Rick
Marty and the team's agreement with Fred
Nolan is starting to yield results okay
no gold but surely interesting
after receiving evidence that Fred
Nolan's information could very well lead
to even more exciting discoveries jack
begley along with Marty lagina son Alex
and Charles Barkhouse travel 48 miles
north of Oak Island to the Bedford
Institute of Oceanography in Halifax we
got in contact with dr. Bob Gordon and
he's an oceanographer
he's gonna go over a sea bottom map it
supposedly shows artifacts on it that
mr. Nolan was talking about it'd be good
to get his opinion on I think so too
hi welcome to Bedford institution over
in Charles Bob Courtney hooks it's nice
to meet you Bob Alex I'm Jack Jack
pleasure to have you here
no thanks very much we're gonna go down
the library and take a look at the
materials great okay the way dr.
Courtney is an expert in recording and
studying bathymetric s-- the topography
of underwater surfaces Alex Charles and
Jack have come here to follow up on
information about the mysterious
triangle-shaped swamp that was shared by
Fred Nolan during a recent meeting in
the war room is there a point of
interest in the swamp oh yeah there's a
lot of interesting points but they're
hard to get to understand about the
swamp we do understand that yeah you had
made mentioned that at the point at
which you tried to drain the swamp that
you had seen these Timbers a timbered
wall now where exactly did you see that
on the beach itself it's it's back there
we're gonna find the entrance they
appear to be sawn Timbers about that
square one was on top of the other and
they went down for 12 feet did you not
expose any of it just a little top to
see that see that they were square how
wide did you think it was it looked to
me about 12 feet
a timbered wall between the swamp and
the beach could this be the irrefutable
proof the team has been looking for that
the swamp is in fact man-made I believe
this thing is there and it's findable
and if it's findable we corn we did it
has to be original works that
information is invaluable you had
mentioned the other day about your
belief about the salt shore you
mentioned that the shorelines was much
different than it currently is yeah you
look a picture of Oak Island mm-hmm
see presently the elements like that the
island used to be out here like this now
it's all water see this was all dug out
and the flood gate is out here which
floods this wall
what they did was they ripped it all
over and created the beach want it back
of the swamp and there are two berms
that run from me there over towards
Mahone Bay so you're saying that the
whole South Shore was out 300 feet and
they they tore it up and just dumped
land in lines no way from where the
island was yeah so what you see here is
a map of the bathymetry or the seabed
off Oak Island
the bathymetric or underwater
topographical map that dr.
Courtney is
showing Alex Jack and Charles not only
shows variations in the depth of the
seabed it also reveals several curious
shapes and anomalies on the ocean floor
surrounding Oak Island in the offshore
you'll see this colored map and it's
color-coded so the red tones are the
shallow water and the blue are tones are
deeper water but there's some features
here that we don't know when these
features were created we don't know who
did it but we can't recognize certain
features that would you know our
experience tell us they're not natural
for example you'll see ridges were
running perpendicular to the coast and
typically if it was a natural process
they parallel to the coast sort of a
shoreline feature but these would
probably have a man-made origin
that's what we'd be interested in yeah
yeah those are the ones that Fred Nolan
was talking about yeah there are other
features of interest that during this
feature here that would be typically a
shipwreck
at the Bedford Institute of ocean FA in
Halifax Nova Scotia Alex lagina jack
begley and Charles Barkhouse have just
received information from dr. Bob
Courtney that there could be important
evidence located just off the southern
shore of Oak Island this feature here
that would be typically a shipper
Wow really that's interesting that one I
didn't see that one yeah there is
supposed to be a shipwreck 2,000 feet
off the South Col well that would
probably be a good place yeah there are
also some very curious arguer type
features that we see in the in the basin
sediments a softer sediment offshore and
they're quite long there you know 600
meters long and we believe these are
real we don't know the origin of those
as well so that's simply be from an
anchor that could be a mooring field
would be my guess
a Maureen field could the area dr.
Courtney is referring to be the actual
place where ships laid anchor while a
valuable treasure was being buried on
Oak Island these two things here these
are look look like dredge spoils to make
like a skull
it does look like a skull it does look
like a skull yeah that's kind of like a
scone yeah that's a warning obviously
there's a theory that that there's a
mounds of spoils and that soil was
what's probably excavated from the
tunnels taken out and dumped into the
ocean and they're supposed to be - two
large mounds in this area well this kind
of looks like a yeah address falls in me
typically we see those things in
environments where there's a big slide
down the mountain but there's no
mountains here no it looks like somebody
had been dumping something but you'd
have to go that possible could have been
a dumping site possibly it very possible
yes we met with Fred Nolan he his idea
was that this was all land at one time
and it was actually dredged out or
cleaned out by the original depositors
to create this this dike or berm for the
swamp well we certainly land 12,000
years ago right
but was it land 300 years ago 400 or 500
yeah that's another question you look at
the depth chart here it's it's at
something like five meters water depth
and in the past sea level was lower
probably a meter or two lower 300 years
ago or 400 years ago so probably this
shoreline was both somewhat with
corroboree of evidence that several
man-made features lie in the water
surrounding Oak Island Alex Charles and
Jack are convinced that they are on the
verge of another important breakthrough
in the 220 year old mystery
well great I mean that's great it's
really interesting stuff so thank you
very much for showing us and it's my
pipe walking us through it
thank you very much money to meet you
take care thank you I can't you Lance
all good yep yeah oh yeah
excited by the information they learned
at the oceanographic institute Alex and
Jack have returned to Oak Island eager
to verify what they learned from dr.
Courtney joining them are Jack step
father Craig tester divers Mike Roberts
and Dave Delaney local diver Tony
Sampson and marine archaeologists
brought Peterson what are we looking for
first Smith's Cove for sure
and then this side of the swamp well
just did it as they're going across
there it was the high tide I just want
to get as close to the island as we can
okay day we RAM 18 feet of water if you
want to drop the fish okay sounds good
today we're gonna start exploring the
waters around Oak Island we're gonna use
a starfish it's a side-scan sonar and
basically what it's doing is taking an
image of the bottom of the ocean we're
looking for rocks we're looking for logs
we're looking for holes in the ground or
anything we can see that's coming in now
okay both sides yeah yeah
the starfish 990 F side-scan sonar
device will be towed off the back of the
boat using sound waves it will be able
to detect and obtain high-resolution
images of any objects or formations on
the ocean floor within an approximate
range of 210 feet
you gave a good each week we got a big
dead pundits like she's off the bottom
quite a bit can we slow it down I need
to let the fish drop yeah yeah three
point four a day is there any way you
can get to in order to allow the sonar
unit to scan deeper below the surface
Tony Sampson needs to slow down to two
knots or a little more than two miles
per hour
I'm bringing it down down to 49 2.4
how's that looking better much better
c41 how they looking got an amazing
image amazing give me how it's beautiful
think I could take a look
getting some awesome images we're coming
up on the boulderless beach now guys
okay one of the most curious features on
the north side of the island is a
stretch of beach that unlike almost
every foot of coastline has no large
rocks or boulders it has long been
speculated by dan Blankenship that the
so called boulderless beach might be
man-made but if so for what purpose
could it be to conceal another series of
box drains like the ones at Smith's Cove
that's probably a log of something a lot
of boulders in the water here so see
this this is really interesting see the
way we're seeing these lines like yeah
right what do you think that's wrong I
mean if you said what does a boat look
like on the water it looks like that
I mean if you said there's a boat look
like on the wall so it looks like God
just off the northern shore of Oak
Island Jack Begley Craig tester and Alex
lagina along with marine archaeologist
Ron Peterson and a team of professional
divers continue looking for clues on the
seabed
look at this see that oh yeah it's flat
on the back and then work it that that
looks just like a bomb to me during the
two hundred and twenty year old search
for treasure on Oak Island there are
many who believe that the answer to the
mystery lies not underground but
underwater in 1791 during the height of
the bloody French Revolution King Louis
the sixteenth of France and his wife
Marie Antoinette attempted to flee Paris
before they were imprisoned and executed
of the many stories concerning their
plight
there is one that suggests that the
Queen gathered up her jewels and other
valuables and sent him off ahead in the
care of her closest and Megan
the handmaiden is said to have first
taken the jewels to London and later
across the Atlantic to Nova Scotia
is it possible that the ship that was
carrying the jewels never made it to
land
could it have been sunk along with the
jewels
just offshore did you see the image of
symmetrical sides rounded Stan well look
at all the targets to see which one's
their best and go ahead and dive on
as Craig and the team continued their
search for clues by heading to the
southern shore of the island Rick lagina
along with Dave Blankenship and veteran
treasure hunter dan henskee arrived at
the southern border of the swamp in an
attempt to verify another of Fred
Nolan's incredible findings no they are
looking to uncover the wood timber wall
that Fred claims he located after he
partially drained the swamp back in 1969
long ago when he had a parcel brought
out of the swamp he probed the wall of
the swamp and he is saying that there's
a structure in that wall Fred said
between here and that clump of birch
trees down there is where he thinks it
is so well dig from the wetland area and
dig I think since he's saying it's some
work close to the road we'll dig from
there maybe a foot or two into the road
and we should be able to find it
although rick has a 40-ton excavator at
his disposal he must abide by several
very strict environmental regulations
good see again welcome to Oak Island
yeah he also has a permit which only
allows him to dig down approximately six
feet and requires that he stayed no less
than nine feet from the wetlands in
order to ensure that the swamp is not
breached the structures about ten or
twelve feet long my idea is we go every
five feet okay should hit it within this
distance here yeah supposed to be right
there let's find it okay
given the fact that the team has several
hundred feet to cover Rick knows it may
take a number of tries before he finds
what he is looking for
no idea
this is
it's definitely not what we're looking
for in any way shape or form
that's one what's that
after digging the six feet of soil that
is permit allows Rick must stop
so if we can move up to I'm thinking
right here yeah hopefully moving at the
road a few yards will produce better
results my brothers always on about show
me the data show me the proof he's a
hard science guy so today maybe there
really is hard day to hard proof he's on
about he wants to be done with this walk
but I think there's something there and
if this is the door that gets us back in
there I'm happy he's not oh well
Ulric
in this space you don't see anything
nothing there rock I think the next spot
will be right there okay
of that right there it looks like some
kind of a log or something
while excavating in the area near the
shoreline adjacent to the Oak Island
swamp Rick lagina may be on the
threshold of an important discovery
that's manufactured manufactured wood
found buried between the beach and the
swamp could this be part of the ancient
timber dam treasure hunter Fred Nolan
claims to have found more than 40 years
ago
I think it's pressure-treated lumber
because these gouges yeah if it is it's
not old
no it's not old curious that it's at
that depth but this is a modern piece
yeah okay next one I think will go on
the other side of that large pine tree
unfortunately the piece of wood is
clearly a modern piece of timber but
Rick lagina refuses to give up what do
you make of that right there
raisa stop brick
okay so in my opinion we're all four
five once again not yet
I say we do one on the other side of
those birch trees you in let me leave
anyway no I won't do this to you but I
hate giving up oh that's right not what
we've tried on the other side of the
birch trees yeah unfortunately it's on
four five so hoping you can make it one
four five well keep our fingers crossed
I'll keep all my
they'll settle for this last one being
the
it's baseball except over fellas over
definitely not at timber
it's a split log
first off
than I've seen so far after digging a
half-dozen holes along the southern edge
of the swamp Rick Dave and Dan have
found no evidence of the ancient
timbered wall Fred Nolan claims he saw
some 30 years ago could it be that the
wall lies just a few feet deeper than
Rick was legally allowed to dig
a legitimate shot given the fact that he
the city probed it he said he saw it he
could define the size of it
the length of it you know how all it was
I mean given all of that
information I thought we would be
so am I disappointed
Rick remains undaunted and determined to
return once he is armed with the permits
that will allow him to properly excavate
the area I'm thoroughly 100% committed
to finding that thing I can't for the
life of me think it's not there it's
there we have to do what Fred said how
he found it and that was he was in the
swamp so we have to get wet if it's
there I'm gonna find it okay Wayne we
gave our best shot that's right thank
you again appreciate it okay all right
take care
let's go home Brown time get out here
disappointed but just tomorrow
as Rick lagina suspends his operations
at the Oak Island swamp Creek Jack Alex
and their team are still hoping they
will have a breakthrough by searching in
the waters of the islands southern shore
that's good depth there Dave
a couple of good folders there let's
increase the range a little bit
that's probably a Lagos
look at that was that's interesting
look at the triangle to see the triumph
out see yeah yeah
so what we're looking at is see this
triangular shape stone and on top of the
stone is a perfect triangle
I don't think mother nature made that
Wow
I don't know what to say I mean it do
you ever see anything like that no I'm
good where it is it's almost too much of
a coincidence it was pointing pretty
much straight at where the truth stone
triangle used to be a triangle shaped
stone with a second triangle shape on
its surface and pointing to word another
triangle of stones used to live
before it was destroyed during a massive
excavation of the island by treasure
hunter robert dunfield in 1966 the
so-called stone triangle was thought to
be a key piece of evidence because it
pointed on the true North line directly
to the original money pit could this
mysterious triangle-shaped stone
submerged in the waters several hundred
feet off of Oak Island south shore be
another man-made marker
if so how did it get there
coming out to the water we're finished
here
it just made no sense to be natural now
we got to get exact coordinates to find
out for sure but it sure looked like
what's pointing right towards the money
pit okay guys I think we got quite a bit
done today we got a number of hits yeah
we found some pretty exciting stuff
today and you can go through the image
and you get the coordinates on the
latitude and longitude that's right yeah
yeah yeah let's do that
I'd love to get the pictures show them
to Marty and Rick Dan David all the
other guys yeah
pretty exciting
just be the place yep
upstairs up for you after a long day of
recording valuable data and side scan
sonar images in the waters just off Oak
Island Marty lagina joins his brother
Rick their partner Craig tester and
other members of the team at a nearby
pub to share the day's findings so guys
I was thinking we'd share the good news
with my dad here which is that the
technology we got to do the side scan
works really really well really no
glitches we've got some pretty exciting
stuff for you to do and you know how I
am you know I'm usually not super
enthusiastic about these things cuz I
always think oh well there's a
reasonable
I think we got something pretty
seriously it's a really interesting
stuff I do I do it's just one
interesting thing that we found before
you show me I mean you've seen a lot of
stuff near the water right I mean where
is this and this is Galen
Wow what's that it's pretty interesting
I've not seen it before
all right especially where we are
tell explain it to me though what am I
looking at the run in the side-scan
along the island and what we've got here
is what appears to be on the bottom
that's a stone triangle
with a triangle on top and it's all
symmetrical it's a triangle but what's
the dark mean what does the dark mean on
top there's another triangle on top of
the triangle
really that's significant Rick what do
you think of this you describe them as a
triangular like what Dan says pointer
rock yeah what was appointed it's
actually pointing to the stone triangle
on the island seriously
see it's definitely a triangle within a
triangle sort of thing isn't it yeah I'm
always skeptical of whatever we see and
so when I saw that at first I thought
all it's an equipment which it's
something and I just cannot come up with
an explanation for why that is so
perfectly triangular well that is very
odd I mean that is very I was I was sort
of prepared Alex you know we keep
hearing oh you got to see this I was
prepared to think yeah sure guys it's a
rock
well that's the thing is that I didn't
think you know tried to think that I
couldn't think that no it's very it's
very odd and they did come across
something that looked extremely
anomalous to my and I will say untrained
eye because I haven't looked at a lot of
side-scan solar but what they showed was
this triangular shaped rock which is not
that odd but that it has a perfect
inscribed triangle on the top of it well
now now you got something odd you know
that's a horse of a different color so
and it was a very diving depth is it
possible Alex or Craig that it was at
one time exposed there's that too deep
I think it's tinny it seems like it's
little too deep my board erosion yeah
rosin that's a big factor especially on
the south side that's where the most of
the erosion occurred so even though the
might have only been five feet lower
you know erosion will beaten in a way
over time so it could have been out
further yeah that was at high tide yeah
all right we gotta have a look at that
yes we need to we need to do further
exploration we want to do a jump
tomorrow sir what's the visibility we're
looking at the moment from what we were
getting today if we do it at high tide
you'll probably have ten ten maybe
fifteen feet if you're lucky if it's
just all by itself then maybe it'd be
easier to see so we're gonna have to be
right on it
could Rick Marty and the rest of the
team be less than 24 hours away from
locating a critical new piece of
evidence a piece that could help them
finally solve the Oak Island mystery all
right guys look I'm used to being
disappointed on Oak Island but we're
gonna put eyes on that tomorrow and
we're not gonna be disappointed - that -
the dive as another day ends on Oak
Island
several questions remain and several
harsh realities appear certain because
although Rick Marty and the team are
better equipped and better prepared than
any of the searchers that came before
them there is still much work to do many
riddles to solve and many more holes to
do and whether or not their efforts end
in success or failure is up to the
island
to decide next time on the curse of Oak
Island Christopher Columbus was
responsible for the ark coming to old
Island
I went down they got to the bottom I saw
the stone I swear that northerly bearing
and I came across another big triangle
Rock
you good okay let's go two dives away
from getting answers to a 40-year quest
he's under finished 10x what's in the
bottom Michael do you copy