The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s03e09 Episode Script

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Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island
The plan is: go in the water
to find the anomalous stone.
I swam that northerly bearing
and I came across
another big triangle rock.
Christopher Columbus
was responsible
for the Ark
coming to Oak Island.
-You good? Okay.
-Let's go!
We're two dives away
from getting answers
to a 40-year quest.
-He's under.
-Finish 10-X.
What's in the bottom?
Michael, do you copy?
Você pode me ouvir?
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.
It is the start of another
challenging week on Oak Island.
And brothers Rick and Marty
Lagina remain determined
to reach this year's
biggest goal:
to get a human being
to the bottom of Borehole 10-X.
Okay.
Time to talk to Harvey.
After weeks of searching
and several setbacks,
they believe
they have finally found
someone who is both qualified
and courageous enough
to attempt the perilous
235-foot dive.
Now, have we decided
he's going to do it?
Well, I think
he has to decide that.
So, Harvey, good morning!
-Morning.
-Morning.
Morning, gentlemen.
Wait, who are you talkin' to?
Yeah, we use that,
that term very loosely.
Harvey Morash
is a certified deep wreck diver
from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
who has nearly
25 years of experience
exploring dangerous
and confined environments,
from shipwrecks
to underwater cave systems.
Where are you at,
emotionally, on the thing?
Um
it's definitely
very interesting.
-Okay. -I mean,
who-who doesn't want to explore?
-Yeah.
Who doesn't want to go
on a treasure hunt?
Well, to me,
it's not even about treasure,
-it's just the exploration.
-Right.
It's not so much the dive
as to deal with problems.
-Right. -You know,
for technical diving, that's
that's the key, being able
to deal with a problem
and keeping a cool head.
-Yes.
-Right.
Because the second you panic,
it's-it's game over.
You're going to make
a bad situation much worse.
I think Harvey
is a good candidate.
He's a cave diver.
This is very akin to a cave
with a shaft going to it.
You know,
so cave divers are used
to being in closed spaces.
They're used to visibility
being an issue.
Coming up easy.
Although the team has spent
the last several weeks
clearing debris and
obstructions from 10-X,
all the way down
to the 181-foot level,
Marty and Rick remain concerned
that an old drill bar
that fell down 10-X
some 30 years ago
is still wedged somewhere
in the 27-inch portion
of the shaft.
It could present
an insurmountable obstacle
especially if
Harvey is uncertain
at exactly what depth
the drill bar is located.
The exploration part would be
to see or feel
the top end of the bar.
-Yep. - The other thing
you'd want to do
when you get on the bottom
is give that pipe a good tug
and push down on it and
everything before you go in it,
because I wouldn't want to be
underneath it if it let go.
That would make for
a very bad dive.
Real bad.
-It's either going to be
doable or not. -Yeah.
If I could even get in
that, uh, restriction.
You can get in.
We know that's been done before,
but Harvey uses tanks.
If squeezing himself through
the 27-inch wide portion of
10-X weren't difficult enough,
Harvey will be attempting it
while wearing two air tanks
on his back.
I can't say how tight it is,
but I'm assuming
a 27-inch hole
you don't have
a whole lot of room
to deal with something, right?
-Yep.
-From a logistical standpoint,
I believe it makes
much more sense to do a test run
of similar size
in 20 feet of water
to make sure I can actually fit,
as opposed to 181 feet.
Well, we can lay it
down flat then,
you can just swim
swim right through it.
-Yeah.
- That makes sense.
And we want to do this
as safely as possible.
Yes, I agree.
If we set up the practice dive
and it seems feasible
after that,
then you are very interested
in doing this.
Is that a fair statement?
That is a fair statement.
So, Harvey,
we will rig up a pipe
and call you back
with the details.
We'll see you in a few days.
Okay, looking forward to it.
-Good enough. Thanks, Harvey.
-Thanks
-Thanks a lot.
Thank you. -Take care.
There's no point
in this proceeding
if he can't get
into the 27-inch shaft.
Can he do it or can't he?
Good morning.
Here, skipper,
can you stow this?
As Rick, Marty
and their partners
wait for Harvey Morash
to arrive,
they once again
turn their attention
to the waters
surrounding Oak Island.
Okay, good morning, folks.
Welcome back to Blue Phoenix.
What we're going to do
is we're gonna head out
and we're gonna look at
the triangle stone anomaly
that we, uh, came across
the other day.
-Let's get this show
on the road. -Yeah.
Last week,
while the team collected
side-scan sonar data
some 300 feet off
the southern shore
That's interesting.
Look at the triangle.
-See the triangle?
Oh, wow!
professional diver
and sonar expert Mike Roberts
located what appears to be
a mysterious
triangle-shaped object
lying at a depth of
approximately 20 feet
on the ocean floor.
I don't think
Mother Nature made that.
Wow.
Now, Marty Lagina,
his business partner,
Craig Tester,
and their sons
Alex Lagina and Jack Begley
have joined divers
Tony Sampson, Mike Roberts,
Dave Delaney
and marine archaeologist
Rod Peterson
in an effort to find out
if the strange,
three-sided object
is, in fact, man-made.
What a beautiful day, eh?
It's flat-[bleep] calm.
Mike, if we can't find it
on a day like today,
then we're not going to find it.
I would say if we don't find it
now, it's going to be forever
covered in silt,
and the next treasure hunters
will maybe find it
in a thousand years.
Okay, we're going to come
around to starboard, guys.
Beautiful, Jack.
Let's get it all the way, buddy.
You ready?
- You're good!
Yeah.
"X" marks the spot, my friend.
Okay.
The arse end
of Blue Phoenix, here,
is sitting right on
the "X" marks the spot.
So the deal is, Rod,
you're running the,
um, XO mask today.
Mike's going to be, um,
your dive supervisor, there.
-We got live comms.
-Yep.
So, hopefully,
in a perfect world,
you're going to jump over there,
and you're gonna see
this beautiful triangle rock,
glowing out of the seabed.
Get the gear on, get in,
let's go see what's there, eh?
Go have a look.
The, uh, plan is for Rod,
the marine archaeologist,
to go in the water first,
find the anomalous stone,
and then we'll go in
and look at it afterwards.
Diver's ready for the water.
Diver is clear to go?
-Yep.
-All right, okay.
- Diver in the water!
Approximately 300 feet
off the south shore
of Oak Island,
Marty Lagina, his son Alex,
Craig Tester,
and other members of the
Oak Island team are searching
for a mysterious
triangle-shaped object
that might be an important clue
in solving
the Oak Island mystery.
Hello, Rod?
-Diver leaving surface!
- Copy!
As marine
archaeologist Rod Peterson
begins a careful exploration
of the ocean floor,
his communication system
will allow him
to keep the team
informed of his progress.
Diver on bottom.
Uh, Rod, what's
the visibility like?
Roger that.
Roger that.
Systems are all
working good, right?
So now where's the object?
Rod's on the job.
So far, Rod has been unable
to locate the strange
triangle-shaped object.
Is it possible
that it's been covered
by silt and underwater
vegetation?
Or, as with so many
other anomalies
associated with Oak Island,
has it, too,
mysteriously disappeared?
Are you seeing anything
of interest yet, Rod?
Roger that, Rod.
Suddenly, Rod sees
a strange stone formation
just a few yards away.
Yeah, there were actually
little rocks around it.
Roger that.
What have you found, Rod?
Roger that.
-Well, we found it.
-We found it.
We found the rock.
Now to decide
if it means anything.
See if you can see any
markings on top of the rock.
If this rock
really does have markings
or evidence
that it is man-made,
it may also offer
the team clues
as to what the treasure is,
who buried it,
and, more importantly,
where it might be found.
Does it look possibly man-made?
Now that Rod has found
the triangle-shaped rock,
he will make a thorough
inspection of it.
Roger that.
Okay, Rod, we need you
to mark that, uh, location.
Okay.
Rod then deploys an SMB,
or submersible marker buoy,
to temporarily mark
the location of the stone.
Roger that.
Okay, deploying the SMB.
SMB is gonna be deployed.
There it is.
Beauty.
While Marty Lagina
and members of the team
wait for Rod Peterson
to return to the boat
for a full debriefing,
his brother Rick
and fellow treasure hunter
Dave Blankenship
begin making
the final preparations at 10-X
for Harvey Morash's
potential dive.
They are also trying
to determine
the exact location
of a 20-foot-long drill bar
that is wedged in the 27-inch
portion of the shaft.
Look, if we're gonna send divers
down into the cavity,
they need all the information
we can give them.
This probe will tell us when
it comes in contact with metal.
To aid them in their efforts,
Rick has obtained
the dipper-
well casing indicator--
a probe that
can detect and record
the depth of underground
metallic objects.
As the probe
is lowered down 181 feet
and into the 27-inch portion
of 10-X,
the magnetic tip will be able
to locate any objects
that have a magnetic field--
in this case,
a steel drill bar.
Okay, so I'll drop it
in the 27-inch.
You eyeball the measurement.
As soon as it comes in contact
with the top of the bar,
we'll know where it is-- if
we can get right on top of it.
What's, um
what's 181 in meters?
-Roughly, I believe it's 55.
-55. Okay, eyeball that.
- What do we got right now?
-I got 59.
58 right there on top.
We're in the 27-inch.
Okay, at this point,
it should ring as soon as it
comes in contact with the steel.
62
63 on top
64 coming up.
-(beep) -Ooh. Ooh.
-What was that beep?
Could that be the bar?
That's a good question.
Hang on to that.
Let me get in there and
kind of wave it around.
We don't like that.
Remember when
when your father came up
on that 90,
-when she collapsed?
-Yeah.
And what was
the first thing he said?
-"Don't tell your mother."
-Don't tell my brother.
Do you think
-it's on this side of the 27?
-Yep.
- There it is.
-It can't be anything but.
-Okay, there you go.
Okay, I'll I'll just
I got it.
62, 30 30
- 30?
-62, 30.
That's where she is.
The probe has located
the drill bar
at approximately 62 meters--
or 204 feet--
meaning that
it's 23 feet below the mouth
of the 27-inch portion
of the borehole.
We now know,
after all this time,
it's at 204 feet.
We've never known that.
Given the difficulty
of reaching
the bottom of 10-X
through a narrow,
27-inch-wide hole,
knowing the exact location
of the drill bar
might help Harvey maneuver
around it more successfully.
It could also make
the critical difference
between the dive's
success or failure
and if Marty and Rick
are ever going to find out
if there really is
a man-made treasure vault
lying some 235 feet
below the island's surface.
Okay, let's go.
has located
what he believes to be
the mysterious
triangle-shaped rock
some 300 feet
off of the southern shore
of Oak Island,
Marty Lagina and the team
are eager to hear
his professional analysis.
Debriefing time.
Tell us, what did you see?
What does it mean?
You know, are you excited
about it? Is it man-made?
Are their chisel marks?
Is it golden idols?
-You know, anchor points? What?!
I definitely think
it's the object
we saw on the sonar survey.
It's a larger rock
in a field of smaller ones.
Definitely triangular in shape,
with indentation
-on the top; that's probably
the shadow we picked up. -Right.
I took, uh, bearings
off all points on the triangle,
and one of the points
on the indentation
runs directly zero to 180, that
bearing that we were looking for
heading back towards the island.
Fantastic.
Zero degrees points
exactly back to that,
um, orange marker
on the land,
which is the stone triangle.
Before the dive,
Tony Sampson marked the place
on the island's south shore
where a mysterious
triangle of stones
was first discovered
back in 1897.
Although various excavations
and treasure searches
caused the stones
to be lost over the years,
it is believed
that they pointed
directly at the Money Pit.
All right. I think we got
something to look at, Alex.
-Yeah. -I mean, now that
we know what we're doing.
- You want to do a jump?
-Yes! Let's get in the water.
-You know? Let's give it a try.
-Okay. Fantastic.
The marine archaeologist
thought that it could have
some man-made features to it.
Hey, that's exciting.
I want to see it.
Okay, you ready?
-Yep. -Okay.
If the stone triangle
in the water can be identified
as pointing in the direction
of the old stone triangle
and the Money Pit,
it could be evidence that it
was deliberately left there
as a marker,
perhaps centuries ago.
We'll see what
Marty and Alex see
and decide what to do.
I went down just fine.
I descended just right.
I got to the bottom,
I saw the stone.
It was not that big.
But it was certainly
triangular.
After spending several minutes
looking at
the strange-shaped rock,
Marty and Alex
return to the boat.
Meanwhile, diver Tony Sampson
continues searching
for a possible connection
between
the triangle-shaped rock
and strategic areas
on Oak Island.
You saw it, right?
Oh, I saw it.
It's this big.
-Okay. -I looked at the rock
pretty carefully.
It's definitely
triangular-shaped, you're right,
but it was only
I mean, does this sound
about right to you?
-About like that?
-Um, maybe
Like that and like that?
Yeah, it was definitely
-elongated on one side.
- Yes.
You know, it's triangular.
I see why you said this is it.
-All right, well, mystery is
still a mystery. -Yeah.
-Yup.
-Yeah.
Although, as far
as Marty Lagina is concerned,
the results of the dive
have proven inconclusive,
Tony Sampson continues his
search along the ocean floor.
He is not convinced
that the rock Rod Peterson
located earlier is
the same triangle-shaped object
the team has been looking for.
Suddenly, Tony spots
an unusual stone object
covered with vegetation.
- Tony!
- Yeah, Marty.
Let me help you with your kit.
So, where the hell did you go?
-Oh, I took a bit of a swim.
-All right.
I got something
to tell you when I get up, huh?
Well, get up here and tell us.
Tony had logically decided
to follow the magnetic north
bearing from the first stone
all the way to shore
to see if there was anything
lining up.
-All right.
-Whoa.
So what I did was,
when we went down
on that initial
-triangular rock there
-Yeah?
I swam that, um, northerly
bearing like we talked about.
-Yeah.
-And from the little rock,
it was approximately 20 meters,
and I came across
another big triangle rock.
-Okay. -Well, the strange thing,
or the weird thing,
Marty, is, uh, both those
rocks-- the ones you
and Alex dived on and the, um,
and the bigger triangle
rock, as well-- they're both
on that same 360 heading,
you know, going north,
pointing straight towards
the stone triangle on the shore
and the Money Pit.
You make heads
or tails out of that, Craig?
No. I mean,
it's getting shallower, right?
-Like the big one?
-Yeah. Yeah.
Shallow enough
to have been aerially exposed
if you throw in erosion?
-Maybe.
-Maybe, yeah.
-You'd have to throw in erosion
for sure. -Yeah.
On a recent trip
to the Bedford Institute
of Oceanography in Halifax,
Alex Lagina, Jack Begley
and island historian
Charles Barkhouse
were eager to find out if,
several hundred years ago,
the Oak Island shoreline
could have had
a much different shape.
BOB COURTNEY: And in the past,
sea level was lower,
probably a meter or two lower
300 years ago or 400 years ago.
-Okay. -So, probably
this shoreline was out somewhat.
So the Bedford Institute
added validity
to the shoreline issue.
Not only did
the sea level come up,
but it's highly erosional,
apparently,
near where we're working.
So, the stone that Tony found,
if it was placed by humans,
would have been above sea level
at the time,
or probably above
the low tide mark.
So if you think about it,
that would be a great way
to conceal a marker
for only those who know.
One stone you can see, one stone
you have to find underwater,
and then, you just set
a buoy on that one,
and then, there you go--
there's your sight line.
The team has now
found two more possible clues
that might help them solve
the 220-year-old mystery.
Clues that might provide
further evidence
that the treasure really can be
found at the exact place
where the stone triangles
point--
in the Oak Island Money Pit.
-I guess I have high hopes
for this. -Yeah, I do, too.
I think he's going
to go in one end,
come out the other end,
and say "No problem."
Wow. That would be fabulous.
Then he still has to, you know,
get his courage up
-to do the actual dive, though.
-Yeah.
Well, here we are.
After weeks of preparation
and an exhaustive search
for someone willing and able
to attempt the dive down 10-X,
the team is hopeful
they have finally
found the right person
for the difficult
and dangerous job--
professional deep wreck diver
Harvey Morash.
This pipe is one inch
less in diameter.
It's 26 inches in diameter.
The real pipe
in the hole is 27 inches.
If he gets through there,
he should easily get
through the other one.
-I'm ready to go.
- Okay.
-We want to see
that big thumbs-up. -Okay.
I hope I can give it to you.
For Rick, Marty and the team,
the stakes of this test dive
could not be greater.
They are determined
to send a diver down
to the bottom
of Borehole 10-X to see if
as their friend and partner,
Dan Blankenship, maintains
there really exists
a man-made treasure vault,
complete
with a mysterious chest
and possibly the remains
of a dead body,
lying 235 feet
below the island's surface.
We have some trepidation because
if he doesn't fit
through that pipe,
then this method is basically
off the table.
I mean, it's pretty much
as simple as that.
He has to fit through,
and he has to fit through
comfortably enough
to attempt the dive.
So, you know,
we're a little concerned.
He's trying it first
with his full normal setup,
but then he's got different
stuff if he doesn't fit.
I'm hoping he fits
with his normal setup,
because
that would be the safest.
Harvey has made it
into the 26-inch-wide
steel casing.
However, he will still need
to maneuver
through the narrow hole
without damaging his equipment
or getting stuck.
I can't see him.
Well, I see them bubbles
come out the other end.
He's close right now.
He's out.
Yeah, still, I want to see
that big grinning thumbs-up.
Then I'll say it's a done deal.
ALL:
There he is.
Thumbs-up? Did you do it?
Does that just mean
-you can breathe?
-Put it this way,
I'm glad I didn't have
a big lunch.
Really? That tight?
-It's snug.
-Mm-hmm.
Is that your full kit you got
on there? That would be your
That's what I would be wearing.
Do you have enough to
where you want to do this dive?
We want to cross 10-X
off the list, and
the exciting part will be
if he says he's willing
to go down there, I think
we'll accomplish our goal.
Um
Yeah.
All right!
So that's the plan, anyway.
That's great.
We got a guy who can do the job.
Yeah, I think so, too.
Go in, have some more fun.
Thank you.
Let's move on.
Come on, guys.
It is the end of
another long but productive day
on Oak Island.
And now, less than 24 hours
before Harvey Morash attempts
his critically important dive,
Rick, Marty,
and their team meet
with Oak Island researcher
Jeff Irving.
He has traveled all the way
from New Brunswick, Canada,
at the invitation
of Jack Begley,
who, after hearing
Irving's compelling theory,
thought it plausible enough
to share with the entire team.
Thanks for having me, fellas.
I think one
of the hardest challenges
in any conversation
is to get to the truth.
I dig like a dog with a bone,
'cause I want the truth.
You know, I've been at this
eight hours a day.
This is all I've done
for the last year and a half.
Basically,
I've connected the dots.
Well, start with your first dot
and bring us down the dots.
Well, I was
researching treasure, but then,
you know, I said,
"What's all the effort about?
It can't be about pirate gold."
Too much effort, too many people
involved over time,
too much secrecy.
What I think we're looking for
is the Ark of the Covenant.
The Ark of the Covenant?
The gold-covered chest which
held the Ten Commandments?
Every time somebody says,
you know, "I've done this study,
"and I've determined that the
Ark of the Covenant
is buried over here,"
you get this sort of
little frisson of excitement,
because, you know, he
does believe
and I want to believe.
And so you get
these people telling you
there's these immense riches
on Oak Island,
and you get kind of excited
about it.
To me, everything's together,
all these religious artifacts.
If they've been guarded up
until, you know,
the time of the destruction
of the temple,
then there's 1,500 years' worth
of successful guardianship.
One of the aspects is
who is involved.
Okay? There's a lot
of people involved.
Templars are involved.
Masons are involved.
You know,
there have been other theories
-that have proposed
that Henry Sinclair, -Yeah.
-that his voyage supposedly
over here, -Yeah. Right.
-do you buy into that?
-Personally, I believe
in the Sinclair coming in 1398,
because it makes sense.
I support it,
just not that he brought
anything with him.
Okay? I think he was the scout.
At this point,
I will tell you that I believe
Christopher Columbus
was responsible for the Ark
coming to Oak Island.
Christopher Columbus
was responsible for the Ark
coming to Oak Island.
Christopher Columbus?
The famed Italian explorer
credited with discovering
the New World on behalf
of Spain in 1492?
Could Columbus' mission
to the New World have also had
a secret motive,
to hide one
of the world's most sacred
religious treasures
on Oak Island?
The only known portrait
of Columbus with any accuracy
shows him showing the symbol
meaning "the word of God."
Christopher Columbus
was supposedly related
to the Sinclairs.
Of course, the Sinclairs have
the Templar connection.
Christopher Columbus has other
Templar connections as well.
According to Jeff Irving's
incredible theory,
Christopher Columbus
was directly connected
to the Knights Templar
through his wife,
Filipa Moniz Perestrelo,
a Portuguese noblewoman.
Her father,
Bartolomeu Perestrelo,
was a Grand Master
in the Knights of Christ,
which was
a Portuguese incarnation
of the Knights Templar.
Perestrelo
was also related
to Henry Sinclair by marriage.
Although
both the Knights Templar
and the Knights of Christ
were frowned upon
by the Roman Catholic Church,
many
of the Portuguese explorers
of the New World were members,
including Vasco da Gama,
the Corte-Real brothers,
and Henry the Navigator.
It is for this reason
that they, along with Columbus,
sailed across the Atlantic
to the New World
with the Portuguese version
of the Templar cross
on their sails,
the same cross
that area historian
and stone carving expert
Terry Deveau identified
as being similar
to the one carved
on the so-called Overton Stone
located 144 miles southwest
of Oak Island.
This particular shape of cross
is not all that common,
where you have the flaring
outwards of the arms.
You mainly see it
in Portuguese crosses.
Is it possible that, based
h hisonononnections
to the Knights Templar,
Christopher Columbus knew
of an island
inin the North Atlantic
that had secret tunnels
designed
to hide sacred treasures?
Pretty much every step he made
was documented.
And who'd he bring it here with?
A gentleman by the name
of Juan Pérez.
Juan Pérez was the accountant
of Queen Isabella.
She was one of two people
that convinced the Spanish crown
to fund the expedition.
But he disappeared
once he got here.
All trace of him was lost.
You're not gonna lose
the main guy that
helped you get
all your financing.
Marty, would you lose track
of Rick?
-No.
-Exactly.
No matter what,
you're gonna cover his back.
What was he doing
while he was lost?
- I-I don't know.
-He was up here
burying the treasure.
Who helped?
Who also disappeared
shortly thereafter?
Long about 1503.
The Real boys from Portugal.
In 1501, Portuguese explorer
and Knight of Christ
Gaspar Corte-Real
reached what he called
Terra Verde,
oror whahat is known
as Greenland.
It has been reported
that he then sailed south,
never to be heard from again.
One year later,
Gaspar's brother Miguel,
who was also a member of
the Portuguese Templar order,
reportedly went to find him,
and he, too,
mysteriously disappeared.
Is it possible,
as Jeff Irving believes,
that the two brothers
did not go missing,
but instead were part
of a secret Templar plan
to hide sacred religious
treasure on Oak Island?
If you guys buried
the treasure here
-Yes. -are you just gonna
walk away and leave it?
Assuming that the ground
is gonna look after it?
And nobody's gonna find it?
You just gonna walk away,
sail away into the sunset?
Matters what our intent is,
I suppose-- why we're there.
If it's the hiding spot,
why would you?
You're gonna stay,
and you're gonna guard it.
You're gonna disappear
from history. You're going
to make friends
with the aboriginals,
you're gonna blend in with them,
you're going to marry 'em,
and you're just gonna disappear
into the new guardians.
You have the cross
with the circle,
the eagle feather,
and behind the eagle feather,
there are a pair
of tobacco leaves.
There you have
a friendship treaty
between Europeans and Mi'kmaq.
It is my theory
that what you're looking for
is actually
the Ark of the Covenant,
and I believe
it was smuggled out of Jerusalem
by the Knights Templar,
where it went to Scotland,
and then it was brought here
by Columbus and company,
you know, in 1500.
Well, you know, Jeff,
I mean it, it's always
-interesting to meet a theorist.
-Yes.
Somebody who has spent the time
and due diligence
in terms of research.
I think we've all learned
something today, and,
-so let us look into it. It's a
lot to digest. -Sure. It is.
But we're very, very grateful.
I think we all are.
Might it be Jeff's theory?
Maybe,
but it's like all theories.
Could it be? I suppose.
Could be.
But it's a theory.
Right now,
as we sit here, it's a theory.
JEFF:
I appreciate the time, and
hopefully,
it will be good for you!
- Thank you very much.
Okay. Thanks.
It is the start
of what could be
the most important day
in the history of Oak Island
as Rick, Marty, Craig
and the other members
of their team once again
shift their focus to getting
a diver to the bottom of 10-X.
We're off to put divers
in the hole. Rick, it happened.
It's not happened yet.
No, but it's happening.
Make it so, then.
We got the right guy, I think,
the right crew,
the right backup team. We got
everything right.
With any luck,
we get a human being
into the 10-X cavity.
You kept everything warm
and ready for us, have you?
-It's no problem.
-Nice to see you again.
-Good to see you.
You know,
what do you think, Charles?
I mean, today, you know,
this is the beginning
of the end of 10-X.
Explore that cavity completely.
And then?
Then then call it a day.
Who's not excited?
We're getting answers
to a 40-year quest.
I thought every time
we got inside this, uh, fence,
-we're supposed to be wearing
a harness, Rick. -Yes.
What's in the bottom? You know?
Thumbs-up-- which I believe
it will be-- or thumbs-down.
It's the beginning of the end
of 10-X.
e ten-inch there, Harvey?
-Yeah, the ten-inch over here?
-Right, and it's shackled
to here. See that? The ten-inch
in the middle of the hole.
Yeah. Yes.
After months
of backbreaking preparation
and years of planning,
Rick, Marty and their team
could be just minutes away
from finding out
if a man-made treasure chamber
really does lie
at the bottom of 10-X.
Can we get everybody over here
for a minute? We're gonna have
a little safety talk.
Okay, guys,
the objective of this dive is
to give it our best.
We can't make any promises.
Assisting Harvey
Morash will be Michael Gerhartz
on the audio
communications system
and dive supervisor
Janine Goyetche.
However, only Michael
will have the comm system
connected to his dive helmet.
Everything comes through Janine.
Everything comes
through Janine.
What she says goes.
End of.
Any questions on that?
Okay. Now,
we do have some hazards,
and pretty much any of these
will end the dive immediately,
and we'll begin our ascent.
Some of the hazards
are equipment malfunction--
our scuba gear or the comms.
Anything like that,
dive is over.
Where's the comms person
going to be?
I The comms person, I guess
she should be under cover here.
- Okay. -As close as she
can get, really, under cover.
If we have to move the tent
closer than that, that's fine.
Who's going in first?
-Apparently, I'm going in first.
-Okay.
The plan is
that Harvey's the guy
who's gonna go in the 27-inch.
Michael is the backup guy,
the communications guy,
the safety guy who's gonna
be there to help, I guess,
literally pull Harvey out
if it comes to that.
So we're gonna try to be
as efficient as possible
but as safe as possible.
We can't eliminate risk
but we can mitigate it.
Hopefully
we've set ourselves up
for success
and we have a good dive,
'cause I want
I want to get in there
and see what's going on.
To help prevent him
from getting tangled up
in possible debris
or other obstructions,
Harvey will not rely
on a surface supply
breathing system.
He will also not be wearing
a comm system,
which would allow him
to talk to the surface.
Instead,
he will wear two scuba tanks
with a tri-mix air supply
and will communicate directly
with his safety diver,
Michael Gerhartz.
Harvey is lowered
into 10-X first.
Michael will follow him down
but will remain
at the 181-foot level,
attached to Harvey by means
of a single tether line.
Going down.
Yeah, that's what
I'm concerned about
his tanks hitting on anything.
As Harvey descends
and explores the shaft,
he and Michael will communicate
with each other
by giving short tugs
on the line.
Watch your back, Harvey,
for that ten-inch!
The only thing
we have is Mike's
communication to the surface.
Harvey will not have
any communication devices.
So we're gonna really kind of
get a second-hand blow-by-blow,
and we're anticipating
low visibility.
So, we don't have real good,
real-time feedback.
All stop!
Stop!
Good?
Just-just give him a minute.
Okay.
David, have 'em up.
You good? Okay.
Let's go!
Keep going down.
Both divers are in the water,
and Harvey Morash is on his way
to being the first person
to successfully reach
the bottom of 10-X
in more than 20 years.
But once down there,
what will he find?
Man-made tunnels?
A treasure chest
filled with pirate gold?
Human remains?
Let me know
when he's fully under.
Or will he find
that Oak Island's secrets
really are protected
by a deadly curse?
He's under.
Janine, can you hear me?
I can hear you.
Can you hear me?
Do we have communications?
Michael, do you copy?
Janine, can you hear me?
Next time
on The Curse of Oak Island
-Up.
- Harvey's in the shaft,
all by himself,
no way to communicate.
We don't know where he's at.
Did you ever see him?
-JOHN: How long has he been
in now? - 32 minutes.
-Ah. This is a big hit.
-Do you want to dig it?
-What's that? Oh, wow.
Here's what you've b
waiting for, gentlemen.
All right, let's see it.
Whoa! What is it?
-A Roman sword.
-That is phenomenal.