The Curse of Oak Island (2014) s04e06 Episode Script

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Previously on
The Curse of Oak Island
We're poised on the vault.
How prophetic is that?
We're feet away from what we've
labored for for eight years.
Come on, baby.
Wood!
Wood!
I'll be damned.
We found it. Let's dig it up.
Now, we have to be very careful
- at this point.
- No, we don't.
We need that thing back
in the hole.
Box, vault, whatever,
it's tangible now.
We mustn't make a mistake.
We need to proceed slowly.
Well, let's just quit then.
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.
Here we are again.
Joyful, but puzzled.
We have what you call
a problem going on here.
Because, you know what?
We've bingo'd this vault.
Thanks to
- Thanks to all these people.
- Yeah.
And now we don't know
what to do.
It is the end of a long,
hard day on Oak Island.
A day that saw the emotions
of the Laginas
and their partners
turn from anticipation
I can't believe
we haven't hit something yet.
It's okay, it's there.
To excitement
Wood.
Wood!
I'll be damned, look at that.
And then,
to uncertainty.
We found it, let's dig it up.
We need clarity and right now,
we don't have clarity.
We need to proceed slowly.
Rick, it's already been breached
with drill holes, several times.
I know. -We're not gonna
wreck anything.
It's been breached.
After three years
of careful planning,
and an investment
of millions of dollars,
there is reason to believe
that Rick and Marty Lagina,
along with their partners,
may have finally reached
what they believe
to be the so-called
"Chappell Vault,"
the mysterious wooden box
that was first discovered
some 143 feet deep,
beneath the so-called Money Pit,
by treasure hunters
Frederick Blair
and William Chappell in 1897.
I'd be lying if I said
I knew what was in the vault.
I don't know.
I do believe it's something
of significant historical
and archeological importance,
and almost certainly
irreplaceable.
While trying to
determine its contents,
William Chappell drilled
a series of boreholes
which, although filling
the box with mud and seawater,
revealed the presence of gold,
and even a tiny portion
of a handwritten document.
But now,
even though the box was breached
more than a century ago,
Rick and Marty Lagina are
faced with a difficult dilemma:
How to find out if they have
really found the Chappell Vault
without causing further damage
to whatever may be inside.
We're quite sure we're scraping
on horizontal planks of wood.
Everything ties,
it's in the right spot.
But, you know what,
there's a problem nonetheless,
because there's several
different ways we could proceed.
We don't know, folks,
whether we are on a couple of
planks of wood with nothing
beneath them.
It doesn't seem likely,
- but it's possible.
- Yeah.
I mean, does it feel more
like a platform,
or is there no way to tell that?
I think it's safe
to say we feel as though
we certainly are on something.
- Yes.
- Is there any way to tell
if this is a structure
- at all?
- We haven't been able
to hook on so far,
enough to actually
pick something out.
We're just scraping the top.
Are you cutting through it
- with the oscillator?
- No.
Right now, we currently are not.
We're monitoring it very closely
and we can tell that it
wants to build torque,
and wants to cut something.
But the pressures have been
very minimal.
In order to
dig a 40-inch-wide hole
down to a depth of 143 feet,
and still avoid
the maze of flood tunnels
that invade the Money Pit,
the Oak Island team
has been using a system
involving a number of large
steel caissons,
which are literally
ground into the soil
by means of an enormous device
known as an oscillator.
But because the first
drilling caisson
is rimmed with a series
of steel teeth,
which literally rip and tear
their way through the ground,
the team's concern is
that continued drilling
will not only damage
the Chappell Vault,
but may also destroy the
potentially priceless artifacts
it could contain.
Artifacts which some believe
could be everything
from stolen pirate gold
to the lost folios
of William Shakespeare,
and even
the Ark of the Covenant
The golden chest
that holds the original
Ten Commandments.
If the Oak Island story is real,
there's something very
significant in there,
- and it's irreplaceable.
- Show me proof.
Show me proof.
I say drill a hole
through the thing.
That wouldn't scare me.
I would probably
turn him loose tomorrow
and dig through that thing.
We could continue
to hammer grab.
You know, we could
continue to take
small little bites of wood out,
like we have been doing.
And I know that's
not a preferred option.
I think there's something there.
The caveat, of course,
is if this is a structure.
If this is a structure
"if."
Oak Island is fraught
with "ifs," as you well know.
I would say, at this juncture,
we got to
make some progress here.
We have to find something.
Are we really gonna destroy
whatever's down there?
You might hear a big difference
here. There's really not.
The difference is
in what are perception is
of what's there.
I believe that it's
If there's something there,
it's already been flooded
with salt water,
it's already been breached.
And that's the difference,
really.
It's not that we
have a difference in
how we would treat it
if we had the same
mental picture.
I always pictured it as a box
inside of a cavity.
I think it is a void, it's a
void in the sense that
- But it's filled with soup, now.
- I guess
I guess I'm thinking
of what could be in there,
and I'm, I'm not there.
Well, it's already got a
hole through it, now.
Yeah, but it's a small hole,
David.
I'd just be concerned
about what, you know,
jeopardizing or compromising
what's in that, you know, vault.
Whatever's in here,
if you keep advancing
down like this,
and grabbing and advancing it,
won't you pick up,
at least, bits and pieces
of whatever this is?
You would damn well hope so.
You would, but we would
fail the struct
We could fail the structure,
if there is a structure there.
And then,
we could ultimately destroy
whatever we're
trying to seek out.
It's possible
that even though
it has been compromised,
and I totally agree that it has,
it's possible that it's still
quote, unquote intact.
And I don't want to do anything
that may compromise that
further.
There's something there.
That needs some gentle attention
at this point.
We got an airlift
out there now,
so we can draw the water down
and see what the refresh rate
is. Introduce new water,
and try and clear it up,
and get the camera down there.
By pumping air into the shaft
using the airlift method,
the team will be able
to determine
just how quickly the target area
refills with water
from below the ground.
It may also be an effective way
of forcing any possible
contents of the vault
to the surface,
without damaging them.
You know, we could try
and airlift that hole
to see what
the infiltration rate is.
See if we get lucky and bring up
anything that's significant.
Right? Maybe?
I mean, I know
it's gonna be a risk,
but that factor makes it
not as risky, in my mind.
This is ultra-cautious.
This is way more cautious
than I would be,
but I'm not the sole say here.
I have reservations
about how we do this
and I want to proceed slowly.
It's not a matter of
who carries the day,
or what methodically wins out.
It's getting answers.
Okay, I guess that's the plan.
Is that a plan?
Is everybody happy with that?
- Agreed.
- Good.
All right,
I think we're done here.
The next day,
after their meeting
in the War Room,
Rick, Marty
and their partners return
to the Money Pit,
where they will see
if their plan
to use the airlift system
will prove successful.
We want to know
everything about this hole.
One of the things that is
what is the rate of water inflow
if we try to evacuate it?
Just crack it till he says
shut it off,
- and just go slow.
- Yeah.
So we're not gonna run it
very long,
maybe 30 seconds,
we'll see what happens.
Cool? All right.
Here we go.
There she is.
Coming alive!
We think there's almost
3,000 gallons in that hole.
- Right now?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- I'd say
at least for every gallon you
took out, a gallon came in.
The fact that water is
rushing into the borehole
as fast as Marty and the team
are trying to flush it out,
is not entirely surprising.
You think there's 3,000 gallons in there?
Yes, I do.
Problems caused
by underground water
have plagued treasure hunters
on Oak Island ever since members
of the Onslow Company
dug the original Money Pit
down to a depth of 90 feet
back in 1804.
Upon removing
a large stone slab,
on which were carved
a series of strange,
hieroglyph-like shapes,
the shaft suddenly
filled with seawater,
as if its removal
triggered an underground
booby trap.
It was this same system
that was believed
to have caused the flooding
of the Chappell Vault
in 1897.
I think we should do it again.
I don't think
dropping it 15 feet's
hurting your stability at all.
It's your shaft.
- Andrew!
- Marty!
- Let's go!
- One sec. Ho!
Hit it.
As water is forced out
from within the steel caisson,
there is always a risk
that the change in pressure
around the hole could cause
a catastrophic collapse.
That pipe can take it.
I know what
the collapse resistance is,
and I know what
the collapse pressures are.
So I feel real comfortable
with evacuating that pipe,
that it could be done
from a collapse standpoint.
Minute 30 right there.
- A minute 30?
- Yeah.
Let's go see what, we got going.
How far did it drop?
It came up seven feet.
Yeah. So it took back everything
you just took, plus
Yeah, and then another foot.
Unfortunately,
the hole is refilling
with underground water
almost as fast
as it's being pumped out.
The amount of water coming in
as we tried to pump it out
was enormous.
Thousands of gallons a minute,
I would say.
The Laginas and their partners
must now face
a sobering reality.
The inability to force water
from the hole means
that they will probably
not be able to bring
any objects or artifacts
up and out of the hole
by means of the airlift method.
So, I would like to do one more.
The good news in everything's stable.
Right.
The bad news in that we probably
didn't bring anything up.
I'd go for five minutes,
try and drop it 30 feet,
check the recharge again,
and then maybe we're done.
Five minutes!
In one final frustrated attempt
to pump the contents
of the so-called Chappell Vault
to the surface, Marty has made
the difficult decision
to increase
the power of the airlift
and run it
for an extended period.
The move is a risky one,
as it adds additional
pressure to the area
surrounding the steel caisson.
- Was that five minutes?
- Yep.
What do we got there now, Kent?
We just put probably, what,
4,000 gallons in there.
What came out of the pipe
was only 15 feet 900 again.
So 3,000 gallons
came from somewhere else,
in that little bit of time.
We're actually gonna
pull that airlift out
and break it down,
if you guys are good with that.
- I-I think we're done.
- Yeah. We're good.
You know, we know
this is connected
to an enormous source of water.
The fact that it's coming in
at an enormous rate
just verifies that we're
connected to the ocean,
which, you know, if you're
a believer in the flood tunnel,
is yet another check mark
to say, "This is it."
But now the Laginas
have a difficult
and potentially risky
decision to make.
If they cannot force objects
from the vault
up to the surface,
they need to find another way
to retrieve them.
Look, we're not gonna sit on it.
The dilemma here is whether
or not to grab
a large amount
of whatever's in there,
or to surgically remove
some material.
Do an arthroscopic surgery now.
I-I'd rather do that
than brain surgery
with a pair of pliers
blindfolded.
Well, I'm all for surgical.
Then great. Decision made.
I guess we'd like to
Continue hammer grabbing.
Yeah.
Just two inches.
You can go two inches.
Kind of get back to where
you're scraping wood again.
I'm gonna go check
that measurement and get back.
At some point,
you're gonna be very happy.
I'll be happy if you're happy,
big brother.
That's what would
make me happiest.
Although hammer grabbing
will be effective
in getting more wood
and perhaps other materials
out of the Valley Three hole,
it could also damage or destroy
whatever lies within
the so-called Chappell Vault.
Plan was to scoop out
the last little bit
of fill in there,
which would give us
plenty of time to do this
noninvasive investigation
in this hole.
Okay. Let's drop it in,
see what happens. -Yeah.
Here we go.
If the structural
integrity of it has been
severely compromised,
maybe we do have to
retrieve it in piecemeal.
My perfect world scenario
would be
we gingerly set down on it
and it grabs
just something that says,
"Here you go. It's real."
Something that's
kind of interesting,
and it just started happening
as of late,
- you can feel when it strikes.
- Really?
Which we haven't felt before.
Does that mean, wood?
It could possibly
be something hollow.
- Sure. Hell yeah.
- Yeah.
Suddenly,
as the hammer grab is extracted
from the steel caisson
My goodness.
It is obvious
that it has done much more
than pick up loose debris.
That ain't good.
I just can't believe it.
Wow.
I'm choosing to be impressed.
Absolutely.
Although the
hammer grab was only intended
to skim the surface of
the underground structure
discovered at Valley Three,
it has brought up
several large chunks of wood.
After a brief inspection,
it becomes obvious
that what Rick,
Marty and their partners
have discovered is
the very same wooden structure
they found
and took a core sample from
two years ago.
You core it from a hole
that's wandering off,
and then you put
this big can down
and you get it.
Man, did we bingo that!
I mean, come on,
that's pretty impressive.
I am extremely gratified
from a technical standpoint.
I mean, we did it right.
We took our measurements right,
and we came down vertical
right over this thing.
You know, that's gratifying,
'cause that wasn't easy.
What does the other side
of this one look like, Rick?
But as impressive
as the discovery is,
the team is concerned that the
hammer grab may have damaged
not only what they hope
is the Chappell Vault,
but whatever contents
the vault may contain.
I'd say we kind of up the
surgically removing it,
didn't we? -
No! Initially,
I thought that, David,
but we didn't bash it down.
We just opened the hatch, man.
Now we got to decide
what this means.
I think we should know
absolutely
what we're looking at.
Well, I say let's take
another grab
- and see what we come up with.
- I mean, we have a shot.
It's worth a shot to take
something down and take a look.
I mean, it's open now, right?
And that gives you a little more
insight as to how to proceed.
Go down once more,
very gingerly, and
I mean, at this point.
Some of the potential ways
to proceed are now eliminated,
because the die has been cast.
The top has been pulled off.
So, we're still going
to proceed with caution,
but we want to look
in there somehow.
You're gonna want to probe,
I know you are.
So let's go probe.
Because the wooden
structure has already been
accidentally breached,
the Oak Island team
has no choice
but to send the hammer grab
down the hole a second time,
in an attempt
to retrieve any artifacts
that may be contained within it.
It's a proper plan,
because whether it's
fully compromised, whether the
structural integrity remains,
I want to prove to my own
satisfaction whether or not
something is down there.
Could the contents
of the next hammer grab
contain the final clue
to the Oak Island puzzle,
the one generations
of treasure hunters
have been trying to find
for more than 200 years?
We need answers, and so
we anticipate what's there.
You know, we're on the edge
of our seat.
Boy, look at that thing.
Nice grab.
Have Rick, Marty
and the Oak Island team
finally come face-to-face
with an actual section
of the legendary
Chappell Vault
Looks like clay
between the two pieces of wood.
The mysterious wooden structure
which was first discovered
and then lost
more than 100 years ago?
That's quite some clay, Marty?
That's incredible.
The excitement level
just gets higher,
because the two pieces of timber
are the exact thickness,
the correct thickness,
as described
in the previous records,
and they look ancient,
so everything looks perfect.
I think that's oak.
Isn't that something?
According to historical records,
the so-called Chappell Vault
was estimated to be
seven feet high
and was constructed
of oak timbers,
each seven inches thick.
It sure seems to be the vault,
because the timbers
look very ancient.
They're the right thickness.
And I walk up to it
and I think, "What's that?"
Are we seeing saw marks
on there?
Yeah.
- What does that mean?
- I don't know.
That is odd.
- Both directions?
- Both directions.
I see it cutting this way
and cutting this way.
They're circular saw marks,
and my heart drops
to the bottom of my stomach
because I'm pretty sure
that the circular saw
for milling timber
is a relatively new invention.
I see the marks.
Yeah, well, that would be
a circular saw cutting.
The presence of
circular saw marks on the wood
may offer an unwelcome bit
of bad news,
because if the wooden structure
the team has located
in the Money Pit is
the Chappell Vault,
how could it have been made
utilizing a tool
that was not widely used
in North America
until the early 19th century?
If that really is
a circular saw,
then it's surely not 1600.
Correct.
What I would do is
go down and see Dan.
Yeah, we'll do that.
It's actually classic
Oak Island, right?
We thought everything
was lining out,
but we see it with our own eye
and it's distinctly
and uniquely troubling.
- You want another grab?
- I think we're done.
- Kill it?
- Yeah.
'Shell, that's it.
Look, we got to go
where the evidence takes us.
Of course we do.
And we can't let the island
keep beating us.
No.
We got to kick her
in the ass once.
Yep.
Okay, I'll be back.
Okay, Rick.
With the excavation
of the Valley Three shaft
temporarily halted,
Marty Lagina's son, Alex,
along with Jack Begley,
have brought metal-detection
expert Gary Drayton
to the area on the island
known as "Lot 6."
It is also one of the lots
once owned by Samuel Ball,
a former American slave
who once lived on Oak Island.
So this is the property line
right here.
Okay.
What do you say, about 20 feet?
Right in here would be,
probably, a good place to start.
Let's see if
the first target of the day
could be a Spanish coin.
Cross your fingers.
Having traveled to Oak Island
from his home in Florida,
Gary Drayton brings over
25 years of experience
detecting near-surface
artifacts and treasure.
Is that a good hit?
Yeah, that's a good hit.
All right.
Over the years, he has recovered
more than $1 million worth
of everything
from ancient jewelry and coins
to priceless historic artifacts.
Wow, straight on it.
- It's a nail.
- Yeah.
Okay, so let's keep looking.
Using the Minelab.
Gary will be able to detect
up to three feet underground.
He will also be able
to distinguish
between ferrous metals,
such as iron,
and non-ferrous metals,
such as gold or silver.
Wow, I'm getting targets
all over here.
Yeah?
Wow.
Yeah, there's a big hit.
- Right there?
- I think we should start here.
- All right.
- Dig it up, Jack.
Dan?
Come on in!
Got something to show you here.
- Yes, you have.
- Yep.
Don't know how important it is,
and don't know
the relevance of it,
and that's why we're here.
If anyone on the island
might be able to identify
the strange pieces of wood
the team recovered
earlier this morning
at the Valley Three borehole,
it's Dan Blankenship.
He has lived on the island,
and been searching it
for treasure,
for more than half a century.
What do you have, Rick?
Well, the caisson is down
to about 142 and change.
This item came up
inside the casing.
Yeah.
We think that that's the core.
Yeah.
That's pretty good indication
that you're in the right spot.
- Right.
- Here's the thing, Dan.
We're trying to figure out
what these marks are.
Definitely saw marks.
Probably about
a three-foot circular blade.
This wood here
would have been made
somewhere after 1750, we'll say.
Right.
So do you think
this is searcher,
as opposed to
original depositor?
In all probability,
just by the texture of it,
it's probably part
of Chappell's shaft.
Chappell's Shaft?
In 1931, more than three
decades after the location
of the "Chappell Vault" was
lost due to a cave-in,
William Chappell's son,
Melbourne, began constructing
a lateral, or horizontal tunnel
leading in the last-known
direction
of his father's historic find.
Unfortunately, Chappell was
only able to build
about ten feet of his tunnel
before being plagued
by a series of underground
cave-ins due to flooding.
Is it possible that Rick,
Marty, and the team have found
not the legendary
"Chappell Vault,"
but Mel Chappell's abandoned
searcher tunnel?
It now appears that Oak Island
has once again
played a cruel trick
on those who seek to uncover
its centuries-old mystery.
The target that Rick, Marty,
and the team have been
so eager to reach,
and have had such
high hopes for,
is not the Chappell vault.
They will now have to decide
whether to dig deeper
or begin excavating
their second planned hole
at the Money Pit.
Unfortunately, I think we have
some information, Charles,
that we need to relate
to everybody up top.
- Okay, we're gonna go.
- Yeah.
Well, thanks for the info, Dan.
Yeah. I'm gonna give you
my honest opinion,
whether you like it or not.
That's all we want.
That's the one thing
I absolutely know
I can count on, Dan.
- Okay, thanks, Dan.
- Thanks, Dan.
Still got your work
- cut out ahead of you.
- Yep.
Well, I'm getting
targets all over here.
Yeah?
Back on Lot 6,
Gary Drayton is continuing
to get numerous hits
from his metal detector.
I think we should start here.
This is most likely proof
that the area the team
is searching
was once a place
of human activity.
You got other hits over here.
Should we look over here, too?
Yeah, just there.
It's under there.
Well, you think it's connected,
or just some
of the same sort of stuff?
It's the same kind of stuff.
Let me try and open this area up
a little more.
Well, I'm getting targets
all over here.
- That's a good sign.
- Yeah.
- Whoa, Alex!
- What?
I saw something move in there.
Wow, look at that!
- It's a chain.
- Is it?
Yeah, it's got the round eye.
Does it look like
a logging chain?
Yeah, I don't know.
It looks really old, though.
Or a nautical chain.
Um, it's tough to tell.
Back in the day,
the old pirates and stuff,
when they used to bury treasure,
they used to lay a chain
so they could follow the chain
- to the treasure, yeah.
- What? Really?
I know it sounds crazy,
but yeah.
A piece of chain,
found on property
that once belonged
to Samuel Ball?
In 1776, Samuel Ball was
an 11-year-old American slave.
After running away from the
South Carolina plantation,
where he was forced to work,
he made his way to New York,
where he promised to fight
for the British cause
in exchange for his freedom.
In 1786, the young man moved
to Nova Scotia,
where he eventually purchased
a four-acre lot of land
on Oak Island.
Although Ball was known
to his neighbors
as a simple cabbage farmer,
at the time of his death
in 1845,
he was revealed to be
one of the richest men
in the area,
owning a total of 36 acres
on Oak Island,
and several more
on the mainland.
- Hey, guys.
- Hey, Charles.
- Just in time.
- What'd you find?
Check it out.
We got an old chain here.
- Yeah.
- Really?
Don't you think it's weird
how it's in a straight line?
Wouldn't you think
it would all be in one
- Like just clumped up together.
- Yeah.
I'm just trying to expose
this end of it.
- There's a little bit there.
- Right, right.
I'm hoping
it's a treasure chest.
I'm hoping you're right.
Could Gary Drayton and
members of the Oak Island team
have found an important piece
of historic evidence?
- It's a hook.
- It's a hook.
One that could explain
how Samuel Ball was able
to acquire his vast wealth?
- There it is.
- Tag it and bag it.
Okay.
Well, it was a nice try.
But we'll keep going
in a straight line.
And that's
a nice-looking one, too.
Yeah.
- There's something.
- That sounds like a good target.
- Yeah, it does.
- You hear that tone?
- It's not iron, right?
- No, it's not iron.
- Well, that's good.
- Mid-tone.
If I was guessing,
I would say it was a coin.
It's, eight or nine inches down
under the center
of the search coil.
Directly under the center.
It may be pinpointed, Jack.
Please, be a Spanish coin.
Here it is.
- Wow.
- What is this?
It looks like a ring!
On Lot 6,
near the middle of Oak Island,
on land once owned
by a former American slave,
turned wealthy landowner
named Samuel Ball
I think it's copper.
Members of the Oak Island team
along with metal detection
expert,
Gary Drayton, have just
made an interesting,
and perhaps significant,
discovery.
We'll take it. -Well,
see. See if it fits, Alex.
Pretty irregular.
- What do you think?
- Yes,
I do.
Sure enough,
we pulled up a really old ring.
It's like a copper,
bronze, and real deep
in the ground.
Over a foot, at least.
It had been sitting
under this root of a tree
for probably over 200 years.
It's real exciting.
We know we're in
the right spot
to find more really old hits.
Next is the chest.
I'm thinking positive.
- Yeah!
- I'm here to find some treasure.
Things are picking up.
We're in an area
that has been unexplored,
especially by someone
as talented as Gary, and
it's boosted our
morale to the point to where
we're ready to just
keep digging and digging.
- Nothing so far?
- No.
All it takes is one good target.
Yeah. There's a lot
of iron in this area,
which means people have been
there. Man-made stuff.
- That's not iron.
- Yeah, it has good sound.
Yep, straight in the middle.
Gary gets, what he thinks
is possibly an exciting hit.
And he thought it was great
because it was so deep.
I started getting down there
and digging a bunch of dirt up.
So, dirty as heck, but
we're sticking to our guns.
- You want to check?
- All right.
That's a good target.
You got it, Jack.
- See how good it sounds now?
- Yeah!
We got clearer readings,
it's not moving around.
Hopefully, it's something good.
- It's a coin.
- It's a coin!
We've got a coin!
A coin?
Could it possibly be one
that was once in the possession
of Samuel Ball?
Perhaps even one he found
while searching
for treasure on Oak Island?
A face on that side.
Now, that's exciting.
- Way to go, Jack.
- Good job.
Way to go, all of us.
Can you see any milling
around the edge,
the little, little lines
around the edge?
They milled the coins
because it was made in a press.
You see a little milling around the edge?
Yeah. It is.
So, it's, you know, could be
up to 200 years old,
- over 200 years old.
- Wow.
- Great find.
- Way to go.
What we're gonna have to do
- is recheck this area.
- Yeah.
And go in spirals just
in case there's some more.
Yeah. -Unless you'd
rather dig some more nails.
- Well, those are my favorite.
- No? We're happy with the coin.
You know, what I would
like to do, if you don't mind,
just dig this out
a little bit more,
because you never know,
there might be some
- another coin.
- You mean, widen the hole?
Hey, guys.
What'd you find, Gary?
A coin, just the wrong color.
I'm still looking
for that gold-colored coin.
I'm hoping you're going
to find the gold one.
Here's a coin.
Nice.
And then, Jack
found a ring.
- Here?
- Yeah, look at
- Just over there.
- Way to go, Jack.
- What do you make of that?
- If we're finding
copper rings, copper coins,
I'm sure there's other
items we can find.
So, this is a hot little
area you've put us in, Rick.
I'd love to watch you
find a gold one.
I, I want that big grin
on your face.
- And see my gold dance.
- Exactly.
I don't want to spoil it, but
Although today began
with disappointing news
for Rick, Marty
and the Oak Island team,
the small but potentially
significant items
found on Samuel Ball's property
offer hope that bigger
discoveries still lie ahead.
Well, look, guys,
it's getting late.
I say we call it a day.
Good job, I mean,
the coin is amazing.
It's-it's been a good day.
- All right.
- Sounds good. -Okay.
As a new day
begins on Oak Island
Craig, you want to tee it up?
Okay. Sure thing.
Get this up here.
Rick Lagina and Craig Tester
begin focusing their attention
on the second of
the team's two target sites:
Borehole C-1.
These are video clips
that we ran last year,
and this should
give you some sense of what
you're about to
encounter as the drilling
process proceeds.
Maybe you can glean
some information from it.
This one we saw, there
will be nice shiny objects.
So we definitely want
to show that to you.
Yes. I've heard
a lot about that.
Here we go.
Last year,
Rick Lagina supervised
the drilling
of an exploratory borehole
in an area of the Money Pit
chosen by.
Island historian,
Charles Barkhouse.
That right there.
After putting a camera
down the hole,
they spotted a mysterious
gold-colored object
embedded in rock
some 170-feet deep
underground.
It looks metallic.
Look how yellow that is.
It's your gold color, David.
Yeah, there it is, David.
Yeah. Okay, here we go.
You can see, this is
the shiny object
we're talking about.
Definitely.
It does not look like rock.
No.
I see the hook.
- Yeah.
- I didn't see that before.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Right there. Right there.
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
- Right there.
It's got a curvature to it,
like you said, like a hook.
Goes up like this.
Yeah.
It does indeed look
like something.
What it is,
I wish I knew.
So, this is what
we need you bring up.
Do you feel comfortable
doing that or not?
Putting the hammer grab down.
Now there is another
challenge facing Rick,
Craig and the Oak Island team.
Not only must they locate the
mysterious shiny object again,
but assuming they can,
they must figure out a way
to retrieve it.
I got to go look at the, the
geometry of the hammer grab,
and when the jaws open and close
and see what we could
weld a shroud to that.
Very similar to our drill bit,
you know, we can
go down into the socket
without fear of collapse.
There's nothing fancy
about it, but
if it's effective, I mean
that's all you're looking for.
That's for sure.
I'm glad you didn't see anything
that puts you off.
Yeah. No, I think we're still
in pretty good shape.
So, yeah. Let's go
get David's shiny thing.
Let's go get David's shiny thing.
Okay.
- Sounds good.
- All right, thanks, guys.
Thank you.
Hi, guys.
Charles, what's going on?
Looks like they're just
ready to drop
the first can into C-1.
Yeah, baby! You got to be
excited about that.
Well, I'll be more excited
if we actually find something.
This is called C-1 for a reason.
I know.
- You picked this hole.
- I did.
I respect Charles' knowledge
of the Money Pit,
of the Oak Island story.
He was tasked with, "Put
an X on the ground, Charles."
Based on your information,
your knowledge base,
your instinct,
your gut feeling
about Oak Island.
Put an X
on the Money Pit ground.
And we'll drill it.
He did.
Gentlemen. You ready to slam can?
Hey, guys.
We're ready to slam some can
- Kent?
- My brother.
We're gonna have a little
better luck this time? -Yes.
We're set up on C-1.
The oscillator's ready to go.
We got the pipe hooked up
and we're ready
to load it right now.
- Slam can.
- Let's do it.
All right, here we go, boys.
Workin' down. Workin' down.
Lookin' good. Lookin' good.
All right about two feet
to thread. Here we go.
Coming down. We threaded over there, Beb?
Yep.
All right,
here we go. We workin'.
There she is.
All right here we go,
workin' down.
Once again, the giant,
15-ton drilling oscillator
grinds the massive steel caisson
into the rocky ground.
If all goes well,
it should reach its target depth
of 170 feet within a few days.
He's already starting
to oscillate, man.
- There you go.
- Yeah, right now,
we're gonna put it in.
Do a little
at a time, leveling it
and making sure
it's exactly where you want it.
Well, Andrew, just don't miss
the shiny, gold thing,
- okay?
- That's all we have to hit now?
- That's it.
- Okay.
- Consider it done.
- All right.
I love that attitude, man.
Our hopes for C-1 are that
it's an explorable cavity,
and that there is a physical
connection between
some type of man-made work
in the traditional Money Pit,
which connects to this void.
Some 170 feet
below the surface of Oak Island
lies a mysterious, golden object
embedded in stone.
Is it simply another piece
in an enormous puzzle
that has confounded
treasure hunters
for more than 200 years?
Or is it a glimpse
of the treasure itself?
One thing is certain.
The Laginas and their partners
have dedicated
millions of dollars
to solving
the Oak Island mystery.
Giving up is no
longer an option.
Next time,
on The Curse of Oak Island
- Here we go.
- As soon as that
drops in, you're 15 feet
away from the void.
There's a shiny
gold thing down there.
- David!
- What?
Drain the swamp!
- Here we go!
- We can finally start
excavating in the swamp.
Look at that!
This is a piece
of the Spanish galleon.
Six people have lost their lives
trying to do what you may be
able to do this afternoon.
It's definitely
inside the cavity.
There you go, the door's open.