The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s03e10 Episode Script

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Tonight 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?
How long has he been in now?
32 minutes.
-Uh. This is a big hit.
Do you want to dig it?
What's that? Oh, wow.
Here's what you've
been waiting for, gentlemen.
All right. Let's see it.
-Whoa!
-What is it?
A Roman sword.
That is phenomenal.
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.
I can hear you.
Can you hear me?
Michael, do you copy?
For Rick and Marty Lagina
and their partners,
a day that started
with the promise of
exciting new discoveries
has quickly turned
into one of possible danger.
Comm check, Michael.
Can you hear me?
After months of
searching for underwater divers
with both the experience
and courage
to risk the perilous
235-foot dive
to get to the bottom
of Borehole 10-X,
they decided to engage
professional divers
Harvey Morash
and his safety backup,
diver Michael Gerhartz.
We're going to try to be
as efficient as possible,
but as safe as possible.
We can't eliminate risk,
but we can mitigate it.
But now, just minutes
into the much-anticipated dive,
they have suddenly
lost all communication.
We started with high hopes
and now they're
they're not even
to ten feet in the shaft
and problems.
Comms test, Michael,
can you hear me?
The only communications system,
linked between Michael
and dive supervisor Janine
Goyetche on the surface,
is suddenly not working.
Michael, can you hear me now?
I don't think we've got comms.
How come we can hear him
breathing, then?
You can hear him breathing.
Because exploring
the mysterious chamber
that lies at the bottom of 10-X
involves not only a descent
down a 181-foot-deep shaft
made of both
steel casing and concrete,
but also a 44-foot descent
through a narrow,
27-inch-wide tunnel,
Harvey Morash decided against
wearing a comms system
in order to prevent
any possibility
of becoming tangled.
But now safety diver
Michael Gerhartz's comms system
is malfunctioning,
and the fate of both divers
is frighteningly unknown.
Mike doesn't know
whether we can hear him.
Let's say he's trying to say,
um, "My leg is caught"
or, you know, "Send down
another tank of air."
He doesn't know whether
we can hear it, so that's
very bad.
(rattling, hissing)
How about now
Michael, can you hear me?
At that point we have no input,
and for me that's very
frustrating. I'm hands-on.
I want to get involved.
I want to get things done,
but you have
to take a step back
and let the professionals
deal with this issue.
15 minutes.
Surface comms check Michael,
do you read?
(rattling, hissing)
He's not hearing me.
I can hear him, but I
I think he said abort the dive.
He did.
Okay, he's coming back up.
It's the classic
"oh, crud" moment.
They're aborting the dive.
At the time
I was thinking, "Big deal.
He's gonna come up,
fix the comms, and go back in."
That's what I thought.
I did, too. I thought,
"Well, this isn't a
"this isn't gonna
stop things proceeding.
It's just a glitch."
I see light.
There he is.
-He's at the surface.
-He's at surface.
Up.
Now that the dive
has been aborted,
Michael Gerhartz
will be removed
from 10-X first.
No comms, huh?
Right.
Great.
Of great concern
to Rick and Marty Lagina
is the fate
of diver Harvey Morash,
who, with no means
of direct communication
with the team at the surface,
remains below.
Did you ever see him,
were you ever by him?
No, I didn't even see his light.
So Mike comes up,
he tells us
he never saw Harvey.
Even He knows
he was just above him
and never even saw his light,
that's how bad
visibility is in there.
Making the situation
with the dive
not just problematic
but possibly dangerous
is the fact that, since
the communication malfunction
happened immediately after
Michael was in the water,
he didn't have a chance
to connect
his tether line to Harvey.
And now the team at the surface
has no idea
if Harvey is in trouble.
So Mike says
pound six times on the pipe
so Harvey knows
that the dive is off.
That he should hear.
That should ring really loud
in the water, shouldn't it?
Should go down that pipe.
He knows by now
you're out of the hole
or he'd see you, right? Yeah.
It has been almost 30 minutes
and still no sign
of Harvey Morash.
Could he have decided
to explore 10-X on his own?
Or could it be that something
has gone terribly wrong?
He's not surfacing.
You know, in the back of my
mind, I'm thinking if this
goes too long, then
I'm gonna start worrying
he's caught somehow
and he can't communicate.
Harvey's in the shaft
all by himself,
no way to communicate.
So, look, I'm concerned.
We don't know where he's at.
We don't know
if he's tied up with something.
We don't know
if he's able to surface.
There's lots of things
going through my mind.
Let's get this guy
out of the hole.
How long has he been in now?
30 minutes, 32 minutes.
Suddenly, a light is seen
just below the water's surface.
-Okay, there he is.
-There he is.
He's up.
Hey, Harvey, welcome back!
About time.
Yeah, I'll bet it is.
You can feel the tension drop.
You can feel it, you know.
Nobody wants to lose
the guy in the hole.
I mean, it's just,
it's not worth it.
Did you see anything?
The visibility is
unbelievably horrible!
-Hmm.
-(laughter)
Okay!
There we go.
When Harvey comes
to surface and he says,
"Hi, guys," you know,
I'm like that.
Okay, he's fine, he's safe.
Okay, the eagle has landed.
Or maybe the duck.
But then reality
comes back to,
well, what happened?
Where were you?
Where did you go?
Why didn't the comm lines work?
How do we address it?
I mean, there's 55 questions
that come to mind.
Could you see what
is on the bottom at all?
-Is it?
-It's just a whole crapload
of everything that's
raining down from up top.
Like, it-it
I had probably
about five feet of vis, maybe.
And it was, like, milky vis.
And then all of a sudden
it was just like somebody took a
shroud and just went right down
over it. But, uh, I heard
the banging. And as soon
as I heard that, I said, "Okay,
well, dive's over."
But I wouldn't call it
a complete failure,
because we did learn something
about the hole.
No matter how careful you are
No, no, no, no, no.
I wouldn't call it a failure.
We called it a tie, Harvey.
We
I asked David on the way up.
I said, "Who won?" He said,
"I'd call it a draw."
-Well,
-we came out of the hole alive,
-Yep.
-safe, warm, comfortable.
-Yeah, that's huge. Okay,
I'll tell you what. You guys
de-kit, get comfortable.
Meet us in the war room
we'll plan tomorrow's dive.
-Awesome. Okay.
-Okay.
-Great.
-Knowing that Harvey Morash
is safe allows
the Oak Island team
to finally breathe
a sigh of relief.
At least, for now.
All right, guys,
you were in the hole.
You made it to bottom.
Tomorrow's another day.
What are we gonna do?
After their aborted
attempt
to explore Borehole 10-X,
Rick, Marty, and members of
the Oak Island team meet
in the war room with divers
Harvey Morash
and Michael Gerhartz.
Also present
are dive supervisor
Janine Goyetche
and safety diver John Tapper.
The dive, okay.
I did go to bottom.
I went down. It was an easy
ascent down. Just stopped
around 125 and got myself nice
and horizontal as you can
in that confined space
and then just eased on down.
Since the water in 10-X
is approximately 50 feet below
ground level,
Harvey Morash's
125-foot descent
only reached the part
of the shaft where it narrows
to a very tight 27-inch width.
We now know
that no matter what we do,
be as careful as you want,
it's gonna be zero visibility.
I had less than a minute
that I could actually see
some stuff on the bottom.
What about comms?
The full face mask,
from what I understand,
worked very well
communicating from the diver
to the surface.
-Right. -Unfortunately,
from the surface down
to the diver,
I was not able to hear.
I may be able
to get another mask,
earpieces, and mic,
along with some other parts.
So depending
on where the problem
was at, we may have a fix for it
tomorrow.
I can pick it up in-in Halifax
around 7:30.
-I'll be here
around 8:30, 9:00. -Okay,
so you would be willing
to dive again?
What I'm really
wondering is he gonna say,
"Hey, no problem.
Let's keep going"?
Or is he gonna say, "Look,
this is too big a nut to crack"?
Yeah.
All right.
So let's talk about the dive.
What's your timeline
for tomorrow?
We should be able
to get in the water
by noon 'cause we don't have
to rig up everything
-that we had.
-Okay, so we have a dive
at noon and maybe one at 5:00.
Yeah, because daylight or dark
doesn't really matter to us
down there.
At the end of the meeting,
I think everyone
got all
the information necessary.
So we learned a lot of things,
and that was part of this dive,
this initiation dive,
was to learn these things.
Well, we knew today was gonna be
a learning day, so we learned.
Oak Island did not win today.
Neither did we.
But we're content
and set a plan for tomorrow.
You guys have
to understand a draw
is huge on Oak Island.
-That's good enough.
That's good enough.
Let's be done.
-All right. See-see you
in the morning. -Cool.
As a new day begins
on Oak Island,
Rick, Marty, and their partners
are eager to get back to 10-X
and make another attempt
at finding out what,
if anything,
lies at the bottom.
So, we're rolling
across the causeway,
we're full of expectations,
and we're excited because we
have not just one but
probably two dives scheduled.
And we're gonna get a person
into the chamber in 10-X.
David's here.
Although the combination
of sediment
and rusty ocean water
presents a formidable challenge
to visibility,
Marty, Rick, and their partners
are afraid
that draining the shaft dry
would make it
dangerously unstable.
They are equally convinced
that only human intelligence
can determine if the objects
that Dan Blankenship believes
he saw more than four decades
ago really do exist
at the bottom of 10-X.
Rick.
Morning, guys!
Huh?
You guys ready to get wet?
-Good morning.
-Good morning.
-Not quite.
-No?
-No.
-What's up?
We came upon a technical problem
with the full face mask
that we had.
We have two issues with it.
One issue
is the communications side
that wasn't working
the way it is designed to work.
And the other issue is the work
of breathing of the mask.
We think we have
the communication issue settled.
But the work of breathing,
we cannot fix this here
right now.
It's not a short-term fix.
With the mask not working
the way it is designed,
we do not have a safe piece
of equipment.
And without a safe piece
of equipment, I can simply
not guarantee for the safety
of the dive.
And for that reason, we decided
that it is better
to call the dive for today.
I don't think it was
-an easy decision
for Mike to make. -No,
it is not an easy decision, but
I know it is the right decision
-at the moment, so
- Then that's fine.
-You like breathing.
-I like
-breathing very much, yes.
Well, look, guys,
the deal has always been
you call it, you call it for any
reason, so I-I'm not gonna say
-I'm not disappointed.
-We're disappointed, too.
-We're disappointed, too. -I'm
very disappointed, okay? But
I think it's courageous
to make a decision like this.
At the end of the day, all
of us, we're on the same page.
Safety, safety, safety,
safety, safety.
It's a team effort,
and that's the goal, right?
Any dive is come back
to surface safe.
In my opinion, the most
courageous thing you did
of all the things you did
was being honest with us.
That's important.
So here's the deal:
-you guys get comfortable.
-Yeah.
Um, uh, keep in touch
-with us, and we'll decide
what we do next, okay? -Yeah.
-I mean, again Perfect.
-Perfect. Yeah. Yeah.
-Thank you very much. All right.
-Thanks, guys. -Thank you.
-All right. See you, guys.
-Thank you. -Thanks, guys.
Although Rick, Marty,
Craig, and the other members
of their team have become used
to setbacks
while trying to solve the
220-year-old mystery, this one,
which has once again frustrated
their attempt
to get human intelligence
from the bottom of 10-X,
has dealt them
an unusually bitter blow.
Look,
it's Oak Island. You never
expect things
to go completely smooth.
We got a glitch.
They discerned it.
They'll figure out how
to deal with it,
and by the morrow,
we'll-we'll be on track again.
While the Oak Island team waits
for divers Harvey Morash
and Michael Gerhartz
to return to the island
and try, once again,
to reach the mysterious
underwater cavern
at the bottom of 10-X,
Rick Lagina,
along with researcher
and fellow treasure hunter,
Jack Begley,
are determined
to make up for lost time
and explore the area
on the island known
as Nolan's Cross.
Well, Jack,
I don't know about you,
but you see that sign
right there?
JACK (laughing): "No
Trespassing. Private Property"?
For the first time,
we can turn that around
and have it say "welcome."
-I'm serious.
"Welcome. F.G. Nolan."
We have the right to
jointly look for things
on on Nolan's land,
which basically gives us 95%
of the island to explore now.
You get geared up
and find me something,
I'll dig till
I'll dig till whenever.
All right.
We wanted
to put the island back together
in terms
of the discovery processes.
And I think this agreement
gets us down that road.
In 1981,
while surveying his property
near the center of the island,
Fred discovered five large,
cone-shaped boulders
that formed a megalithic,
perfectly symmetrical cross.
Believing there could be
something of great value
buried at the center,
Fred dug down several feet and
unearthed a sixth boulder
one which appeared to be carved
into the shape of a human head.
Now look right here.
That looks like
it's been chiseled.
-Yup.
-Here. Here. Here.
Here. Here.
Yeah, it looks like somebody,
you know, sha-shaped it.
-Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
-Mm.
-Right through here?
-Yup.
I mean, I see the eye,
the forehead,
the shape of the forehead,
the nose.
I see the the mouth.
That's a chin.
Definitely an interesting
shape. I mean, did you
recognize this,
the face, right away?
-Once we checked the distances,
you know? -Mm-hmm.
That's when it showed itself.
It's very curious.
My first time seeing it,
it's-it's
it's intriguing.
This is the arm
of the cross. We
Right through there,
I suspect, is the
bottom of the cross.
I've never I've seen it
but one time.
In addition to the boulders
that form Nolan's Cross,
Oak Island researchers have
also discovered a number
of smaller, flat-sided stones
which lie buried
at several precise locations.
The placement of these stones,
when viewed in context
of the larger ones,
eerily corresponds
to what are referred to
as "the ten Sephirot"
the markers that make up what
is known in the Hebrew Bible
as "Kabbalah," or what is
otherwise called
"The Tree of Life."
But for Oak Island theorists,
the presence of
The Tree of Life suggests
that what is buried on
the island could actually be
sacred treasure, especially
as the ancient symbol
was considered important
in the rituals
of the Knights Templar
and was later adopted
by the Rosicrucians
and even the Freemasons.
You know,
I've always wanted to do this
'cause you know,
I always thought, someday
-maybe we can put the island
back together. -Yeah.
Heal it emotionally or put it
back together physically.
Well, and you've worked
really hard on doing that.
Well, we all have,
but I, for my part,
even in my old age,
I'd kind of like to climb
on here and stand on it.
Now if only I could see,
"X marks the spot,"
I'd be I'd be doing good.
-The thing is,
is, you know, you stand on this,
and you realize, if
if these really were put in
position for a specific reason,
that reason was very, very
important to a lot of people,
and I want
to know the reason why.
I hope we get that chance.
Let's go find something.
I think
it's right through there.
All right.
You lead the way.
Tide's coming in fast.
That's the one. That's the one.
Look, it's already
half underwater.
Yeah, well, we'll do the half
that's exposed.
All right,
I'd better do this quick.
-(beeping)
-Good thing this is waterproof!
What stone
on the cross is this again?
This is the left arm
as you're looking
towards the top of the cross.
Using the Minelab CTX
30/30 metal detector,
which can isolate shallow
nonferrous or precious metals
up to a maximum depth
of two feet,
Jack Begley begins scanning the
ground around the stone marker.
(beeping)
There's a bunch of iron
all along the front of here.
How deep?
Six inches!
Worth looking at.
Will Rick and Jack
find evidence
that will help them identify,
not only
how old the arrangement
of cross-shaped boulders are,
but who placed them there?
(beeping)
Yeah, I'd
I'd say it's along this edge.
Right there.
What's that?
I don't know.
Whatis that, Rick?
Washed up from a ship maybe?
Looks like, a, uh
some type of pulley.
See how this is recessed?
A pulley?
In 1795, after seeing what
they believed to be a number
of strange lights emanating
from Oak Island,
area teenagers Daniel McGinnis,
John Smith and Anthony Vaughan
gathered together
in a small boat and traveled
from the mainland
to investigate.
At the spot where they believed
the lights had come from,
they found an old oak tree,
at the base of which appeared
to be a large,
circular depression
in the ground.
But what made them believe
something had once been buried
there was the discovery
of a large pulley hanging
from a branch of the oak tree,
just over the middle
of the strange depression.
Could there be a connection
between the pulley
hanging from the oak tree
220 years ago
and the one just discovered
by Rick Lagina and Jack Begley?
Show it to Dan
and see what he thinks.
Now let me bag and tag it.
For Rick Lagina,
the discovery of a pulley
near one of the strange,
megalithic boulders
that make up Nolan's Cross
has provided him
a small victory.
But, for him, there is a more
important battle to be waged.
The one to find out what,
if anything,
lies at the bottom
of Borehole 10-X.
Today,y, finalally,
for r the first t time a all ,
-today is the day of answers.
-Hopefully.
After a delay of four days,
Harvey Morash and his safety
diver, Michael Gerhartz,
have returned to Oak Island.
Where do you want this, Harvey?
Just lay it beside me for now.
Unfortunately,
Marty Lagina
has been called away
on important business
and will have to miss
what could be
one of the most important days
in the history of this
220-year-old treasure hunt.
As far as 10-X
is concerned, maybe tomorrow
we'll have something.
That'd be good.
I had put my businesses on hold
for as long as I could.
Had to go back
to Michigan,
attend to business.
I feel bad leaving
with Rick here,
but I couldn't leave it
in better hands.
Get yourself back up here,
you and Craig,
-and we'll, uh, we'll
make 10-X happen. -Okay, Rick.
-To the bottom.
-To the bottom.
Let's make it happen
today, right?
We'll try to get you
some answers.
After making
the necessary repairs
that will ensure that
their communication system
will be fully functional,
the divers
can now concentrate
on getting safely
to the bottom of 10-X
and finding out if objects,
like a wooden post
man-made tunnels
wooden chests
and the remains
of a human body
really do lie
235 feet underground.
Okay, we've
already gone over the dive plan
with our comms operator
and Mike and myself, so
we're not gonna go
into that anymore.
Just, for me you're going
-to the bottom
of the bar, right? -Yeah.
-All right?
-Let's make it happen.
Let's go have some fun.
Oak Island hooks people
in different ways,
and I think the hook
for them has been,
we're technically
skilled enough
to conquer this and I think
they were defeated last time,
if you want to know the truth.
I think they were beaten,
and they don't like
being beaten.
Even though Rick,
Marty and their partners
have spent a great deal
of time and money clearing 10-X
of dangerous obstructions,
there is still
one remaining obstacle
that diver Harvey Morash
will have to contend with
an approximately
20-foot-long drill bar
that became wedged
in the narrow, 27-inch portion
of the hole after it
was accidentally dropped
some 40 years ago.
You don't think
the bar has moved at all?
I don't think it has.
Because I think the bottom
is on the bedrock
where the chamber opens up,
and she's wedged
against that top edge there,
and the top of the bar is
on the opposite side.
-Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
-That's what I tried
to explain to him,
make damn sure
-he didn't panic, you know?
-Mm-hmm.
MICHAEL (over radio):
Test, one, two, three.
I gotcha.
MICHAEL (over radio):
Okay. Loud and clear.
Harvey will be inserted
in the man-basket.
He'll dive ten, 12 feet.
Basket comes up, gets Mike.
Mike goes down,
and then they tether up.
And then they dive in tandem
all the way to 181,
and then, at that point,
they separate.
Once again,
only Michael Gerhartz
will be in direct voice contact
with surface dive supervisor,
Janine Goyetche.
As Harvey Morash makes
the perilous 44-foot dive
down the narrow,
27-inch portion of the hole,
his sole means of communication
will be through a tether line
attached to Michael.
One pull on the line
will indicate
that everything is okay.
How's your visibility?
Eh
Copy that.
Because 10-X was dug
through layers of porous
anhydrite stone,
the slightest movement
created by the divers
kicks up thick, murky clouds
of silt and sediment.
Visibility
is now virtually zero.
Harvey's at 181?
As far as we know;
we can't see him.
How far has he got to go?
We don't have much of this left.
All right, Michael,
you're almost at the end
of your tether here.
It is now approximately
20 minutes into the dive,
and the team on the surface
is growing anxious.
They have no way to know
exactly where
Harvey and Michael are,
or how they are doing.
I don't like sitting back
and not being
a part of something.
He's just tugging on the rope
to let Michael know
that everything's okay.
Every time
I got a little worked up,
I thought: just settle down.
You know, this is gonna evolve
the way it's gonna evolve.
Has Harvey successfully made it
past the drill bar
and into the chamber
at the bottom of the shaft?
If so, what, if anything,
did he find?
Divers Harvey Morash
and Michael Gerhartz
have been submerged in 10-X
for almost 30 minutes.
Because Harvey can
only communicate with Michael
by pulling on a tether line
while attempting his dangerous
descent down the narrow,
27-inch portion of the hole,
Rick Lagina and the team
are starting to grow
more than a little anxious.
-How deep is Harvey?
-We can't say for sure.
-We don't have any comms
with Harvey, so -Right.
-What depth was he?
-I don't know how deep
Harvey actually was
until we actually get him up
-and see his computer.
-So he's on his descent?
No, he's still kind of
messing around in there.
He's just tugging on the rope
to let Michael know
that everything's okay.
Copy that.
Copy. You have Harvey with you.
Excellent.
Although the divers
have completed their dive,
Rick and the team will have
to wait several more minutes,
while the divers decompress,
to find out what, if anything,
they discovered at the bottom.
As the guys, Harvey and Mike,
are going through
their decompression stops,
I'm thinking,
well, what do they know?
And what am I hoping to hear?
And I couldn't wait for them
to get to surface.
Basket down!
Whoa!
-Whoa, whoa.
- Ready to come up?
-Yes, sir!
There you go.
How cold are you?
Wasn't till the very end there
where it started getting cold.
-Give me a second, guys.
-Yeah.
Well, that was interesting.
Did you make it? I have to ask.
Did you make it?
I got in the pipe.
It was unbelievable.
I've never That's black.
As soon as I went into the pipe,
it went like that.
As soon as I went in.
Were you all the way in?
In other words
Oh, my body was completely
I was down inside it.
I was a good,
I'm gonna say,
two body lengths, at least, in.
-I could see the pipe
-Mm-hmm.
and then I just put my fin to it
and basically got myself in.
-Mm-hmm. -And that's
when the lights went out,
before my head even went
into the pipe
So you don't know
where your head was
in relation
to the top of the casing?
I was below the surface
'cause when I came out,
I grabbed I reached up,
and I could feel
So you were at least
a couple, three feet in.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I was more than that.
Did you get past the casing?
I think.
-You don't know? -I think.
I don't know for sure, Rick,
'cause I was trying to feel,
and it all felt the same, right?
All rough, and
I couldn't tell.
I couldn't see anything.
Anything.
It was just like cave training,
and it was, like, well, okay,
I've done this,
but this is snugger
than that other pipe
that I went into.
-Really?
-Yep.
Did you feel the drill bar?
Yeah. But I had
no wiggle room whatsoever.
Like, to get up
to get back up,
I was basically
I don't even know exactly what
I was doing, but I was kind of
trying to push with my elbows
and that may have been
That's where you
breached. -I breached my suit.
I don't know, right?
But I didn't really feel
any water coming in
until I was on the ascent.
Although Harvey Morash
was unable to bypass
the drill bar and reach
the mysterious
underwater cavern,
he was able to get closer
than anyone has
in the last two decades.
At the end of the day,
my hat's off
to Harvey and Mike
and Janine.
They had come to the island
with a plan
to get the answers we sought,
and I can't fault them
in any way, shape, or form.
Look, the island
can be a real tough nut,
as my brother says, you know?
And and today it was.
The question which
begs to be asked is
is this accomplishable?
Is it doable?
To do this on scuba?
I don't know.
All right, so it sounds like you
guys need to talk it over.
Um, I know he wants
to talk it over on our end
as well, so, uh, we'll do that
and get in touch with you guys.
-Thank you. No problem.
Thank you very much.
-I appreciate everything
you've done. -Yeah, no problem.
For Rick, Marty
and their partners,
the promise of getting answers
from the bottom of 10-X
which appeared to be very much
within their grasp
now seems, more than ever,
out of reach.
But will they finally give up
and focus their attention
on other, more accessible areas
of the island?
Or will they keep trying?
We're gonna get this solved.
We're gonna find out
what's at the bottom of 10-X.
I want to, my brother wants to,
Craig wants to.
All of us want to.
And, specifically,
I made a promise to David
and to his mom and to Dan.
We are gonna find out,
this year,
what's in the bottom of 10-X.
Shortly after
Rick's brother Marty
returns to Oak Island,
the team calls a meeting
in the war room
to discuss important next steps
in their goal
of getting human intelligence
from the bottom of 10-X.
They have also been baited
by the promise of being shown
an exciting piece of evidence
evidence that could totally
change everything they knew
or thought they knew
about the history
of the island, and what,
exactly,
they may be looking for.
Where's Charles? Let's talk
about where Charles is.
They're about
to show up with something that,
they say, is going to be
of extreme interest to us.
- And here he is.
-ALEX: I can't wait to see it.
-Gentlemen.
- Hey, guys.
Hey, Charles. You got it!
I got it. This is what
-you've been waiting to see.
- All right.
Here's what you've been
waiting for, gentlemen.
-ALEX: All right, let's see it.
- Let's see it.
-Holy crap.
-Wow.
Whoa.
All right, let's see it.
-ALEX: Holy crap. -ALL: Wow.
Whoa!
During a meeting
in the war room,
Charles Barkhouse
has just revealed to Rick,
Marty and the team one of
the most incredible objects
they have ever seen.
What is it?
It's a sword, a Roman sword.
That is phenomenal.
This is something
that was found in the 1940s,
in Mahone Bay, in the vicinity
of Oak Island.
Well, wait a second,
I mean, let's back up
before we get into detail
on this thing.
How did you come into
the possession of this?
What-what
How did we get this?
There was friends of Dan's,
isn't it?
-Yes. That originally
started talking about it
-and then Charles
found out about it. -Yes.
A Roman sword
found in the waters
of Mahone Bay,
just off the coast
of Oak Island? But how?
Where did it come from?
And what does it mean?
When I first saw that sword
I thought that's-that's unique.
I've never seen
anything like this.
It looked old. It's patina'd.
Uh, you know,
it's not detailed anymore.
And I suppose the salient point
is how heavy it is.
It appeared to be
made out of bronze.
Appeared to be well-weighted.
What year
would have this been made?
Somewhere between the, uh,
second and third
cen-century AD.
It's a ceremonial gladius
that was presented
by the emperor Commodus
in honor of
the secutor gladiators.
A ceremonial sword
from the time
of the Roman emperor Commodus?
Ruling from 180 to 192 AD,
Lucius Aurelius Commodus
was a flamboyant
and ruthless leader
who, according
to contemporary accounts,
believed himself
to be the reincarnation
of the divine hero Hercules.
Although most Roman leaders
were content to enjoy watching
bloody gladiator battles
from their throne
at the Colosseum,
Commodus actually participated
in the carnage himself.
Could this sword actually have
a direct connection
to the infamous
second-century Roman ruler?
-Was that singularly a gift
from the emperor? -Yes.
-Supposedly.
-Yeah, supposedly.
If it is real, does it
authenticate any one theory?
It doesn't, really,
because we don't think
it sounds like we don't really
think the Romans were here.
Which means that
somebody else had it.
-Wait a minute
Yeah, why not?
Look, we've had
the Phoenicians here,
we've had the, uh,
the Templars here.
Let's just put them
put 'em on the list.
All right. Romans, too.
Romans, too. I love it. Let's
put I'd love it to be Roman.
Although there has, to date,
never been
any credible evidence
linking ancient Romans
to North America,
over the years,
a number of ancient coins,
dating as far back as 200 AD,
have reportedly been discovered
in Nova Scotia
just a few hundred miles
north of Oak Island.
It has also long been theorized
that the intricate system
of underwater booby traps
and the man-made box drains
discovered at Smith's Cove
reveal a sophisticated
knowledge
of water displacement,
similar in engineering to that
used by the ancient Romans
in the building
of their famous aqueducts.
Is it possible
that the flood system
believed to be on Oak Island
was not simply
inspired by the ancient Romans
but was actually built by them?
You know, I'm already thinking
the usual Oak Island what if's.
What do you think, Alex
what's it mean?
I don't know what it means.
It depends, like you said
if it's if it is
what we think it is
it's original
it depends how it got here.
I mean, we do know
pirates operated all along here
from the coast of Brazil
to Newfoundland.
I mean, it could have been
stolen off another ship.
It doesn't necessarily mean
that the Romans were here
or the Templars were here,
the Visigoths,
or anybody else was here.
You're gonna get this
analyzed, right?
Yes. We've found an expert
in, uh, Roman antiquities
uh, Dr. Myles McCallum
at St. Mary's University,
and, uh, we're lining up
a meeting to bring this to him
and have him look at it and see
if he thinks it's real or not.
Well, hey, look, if it's real
and, probably more importantly,
if it can be really documented
that it was found here,
this is potentially
a huge game changer
for what happened around here.
I mean, I'll give it to you,
Rick, that's weird.
It's really weird. I never
You know, I like it, I love it.
-It's pretty cool, ain't it?
-Romans were here, perhaps.
After a week that has
taken the Oak Island team
from the emotional highs
of anticipation
and possible discovery
to the lows of disappointment
and bitter setback,
Rick, Marty and their partners
may have finally just been
handed the breakthrough
they have been
hoping for all year.
But will the discovery
of an ancient Roman sword
retrieved from the waters
off the coast of Oak Island
help the team solve
this centuries-old mystery
once and for all?
One fact is certain:
In their determination
to uncover the history
of Oak Island,
Rick and Marty Lagina
have made history themselves.
And whether the final chapters
will be written in ink or blood
is up to the island to decide.
Next time
on The Curse of Oak Island
There's your artifact.
We did some tests on it.
I think it has an interesting
story to tell.
We're gonna try one more diver
and if he can't do it,
we're done with divers.
I'm telling you
it's zero visibility.
We will get to the bottom.
This is Laverne's model.
Where he thinks the money is
is right here.
You put an X,
we'll punch a hole.
Let's get steel down hole
and figure this thing out.
I hit something.
- Hunk of wood.