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NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

MARTY: Wait! Whoa, whoa!

-What is that? -RICK: Stop.

-MARTY: There you go! -That is exactly

-what Fred found. -MARTY: Ooh, baby!

Any idea on an age?

-TERRY: Whoa! Whoa! -STEVE G.: We have some wood here.

-Look at this. This is cut with an ax. -MARTY: It's wood

-from the original Money Pit. -DAVE: We found it.

-RICK: There's a huge storm coming. -MARTY: Category 1.

-It's headed right for us. -RICK: Anything that can become

a sail has to be tied down. It could be catastrophic.

NARRATOR: 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 a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it,

mysterious fragments of human bone,

and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back

to the days of the Knights Templar.

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.

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MARTY: All right. Let's get after it.

Well, let's clean that up and see what we got.

-Let's do it! -BILLY: All right.

NARRATOR: After obtaining scientific evidence

that the Oak Island swamp is not only man-made

but also could date back to the time when members

of the Knights Templar are believed

to have visited the island,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their partners have redoubled their efforts

to excavate the area

and find out what may lie buried within it.

They are particularly interested

in exposing the mysterious stone walkway

discovered by diver Tony Sampson

earlier this year.

I'm excited about digging in the swamp and getting answers.

Every time hard, scientific data

pushes human, substantial activities

back behind 1795, it moves the dial for me.

The data says there's something worth digging there,

and so that means we have to dig it.

Absolutely.

MARTY: Hey, Rick?

I'm gonna back up and take another trench load.

RICK: I'd say yes.

NARRATOR: Unfortunately,

they will have to work fast,

as the team has just been informed

that a powerful Category 5 hurricane

known as Dorian

is making its way up the Atlantic coast

and is expected to hit Oak Island

in a matter of days.

Dorian laid a beating on the Bahamas,

particularly the eastern part of Grand Bahama.

Today the area is bearing the scars

of this ferocious system.

More than 70,000 people have been left homeless.

(wind whistling)

NARRATOR: With 185-mile-an-hour winds

and heavy rainfall,

Hurricane Dorian has already caused

catastrophic damage in the Bahamas

as well as widespread flooding and power outages

across the eastern coast of the United States.

A direct hit on Oak Island could cause extensive damage

and cost the Laginas millions of dollars.

It seems every forecast looks more like

a direct hit. It's weakened somewhat, but here's the thing.

It's gonna impact the activity.

It's gonna impact the swamp.

My guess is, it's gonna fill it right back up.

You know, it-it does look a bit ominous.

MARTY: If a worst-case scenario happens,

I think the exploration effort would turn into

a clean-up effort for the rest of the season.

I think we'd be done.

NARRATOR: With time running out,

Rick, Marty, and their partner Craig Tester are determined

to make one more breakthrough discovery in the swamp.

Can you pull it back a little further?

-This, right here. -MARTY: Yeah.

I would leave the rock.

-It's huge. -Yeah, that's a big rock.

Can you pull this back a little more that way?

Yep.

Stop.

-He sees something there, Marty. -Stop.

MARTY: What is that?

I think we got something right here.

BILLY: Looks like a piece of wood.

-MARTY: Isn't that a survey stake? -RICK: Yeah.

One, two, three, four, five, six.

There's six cuts on this one.

That is exactly what Fred found.

MARTY: Whoo, baby! There you go!

NARRATOR: After draining the swamp in 1969,

Oak Island treasure hunter and landowner Fred Nolan

was astonished to discover several uniform lines

of wooden survey stakes, which, when later carbon-tested,

were found to date back as far as the 16th century.

How far from the beach were these items found?

Do you recall?

They were pretty well in the middle of the swamp.

And we found a number of survey stakes in the swamp.

What do you make of that?

Well, the swamp is important. No question about it.

NARRATOR: As a professional land surveyor,

Fred believed the stakes had been used

to artificially create the swamp.

Could the wooden stake the team has found

be another one of these ancient markers?

And could it be connected to the paved-stone area

the team has located?

If so, the burning question is,

what, exactly, was their purpose?

It's not as big as what Fred found,

but it's certainly worth--

-I mean, we'll keep it and we'll test it. -Exactly.

You're on the post line, so that's a good thing.

All right, bag it and tag it. Let's keep going!

Sure. Let me grab a tag.

MARTY: It's a great start.

It was almost unbelievable.

I mean, drive right out with that big old excavator,

-take a few scoops, survey stake. -RICK: Yeah.

It couldn't have gone any better.

When Fred first mentioned that he thought he had found

some survey stakes in the swamp,

that was intriguing and compelling.

And this looks similar to what Fred found.

MARTY: Billy, why don't we switch out? You can keep going.

-BILLY: We'll do our best. -Yep.

So then, Billy, if you could just scrape the top.

-And then we'll take a look. -Yep.

-So we'll keep going along at this depth, right? -Yeah.

There's one in the bucket.

-Here's one. Craig. -Oh, yeah? Much longer.

These have to be the ones.

CRAIG: Yeah.

MARTY: You got another one?

RICK: Look at that.

-Isn't that nice? -MARTY: It sure is pretty.

-That is just really pretty. -Mm-hmm.

MARTY: Okay.

I'd say maybe we do a little bit more that way just because

in the grand history of Oak Island,

guess what's bearing down on us. I know you know.

A hurricane.

This could be underwater again.

-We could be right back to square one in days. -Yeah.

-MARTY: All right, then, let's dig. -CRAIG: Okay.

NARRATOR: As the excavation of the swamp continues...

-GARY: All it takes is one good find, mate. -JACK: Yep!

...Jack Begley and metal detection expert Gary Drayton

continue searching the spoils

recently excavated at Smith's Cove.

I think we're pretty much done with this pile.

-Mm-hmm. -You know what?

We should go for that good stuff,

'cause that was underneath that structure.

Mm-hmm.

So, let's see if we can get lucky, mate.

Oh, man, this is interesting.

NARRATOR: It was while investigating the structure one week ago

that the team discovered a decorative piece of lead,

possibly connected to the medieval cross

found two years ago in Smith's Cove,

which was dated to be over 700 years old.

If this lead, this piece of lead Gary found

at the end of the slipway

had the same origins as the cross,

from the same mine in the same time period,

it lends credence to the whole thing.

You connect the cross to the slipway,

it's the same construct by the same people.

We're always looking for the who, what, when, where,

why and how of things,

and this might connect those disparate dots.

Let's go for this good sandy stuff.

For Billy to dump this here, it must be of interest.

JACK: This whole area's been really turned up.

GARY: Yeah.

(metal detector beeping)

-Signal here, Jack! -All right.

GARY: It's a screamer.

JACK: Is that it?

GARY: Wow.

GARY: Wow.

Nice one, mate.

NARRATOR: While metal-detecting the spoils

excavated from the end of the slipway at Smith's Cove,

Gary Drayton and Jack Begley have just made

what could be a potentially significant find.

GARY: One of those small cribbing spikes.

All wrought iron.

No mistaking that.

Very well wore.

They're all-- s-share the same...

kind of shape.

They all have that little--

one little area that's corroded more than anywhere else.

Mm-hmm. I think it's exciting.

-It's a couple hundred years old, most likely. -At least.

That's the same date as the slipway

or maybe even older.

NARRATOR: In the past four weeks,

the Oak Island team

has discovered a number of similar objects

in this same area.

But could the cribbing spikes that the team has been finding

at Smith's Cove also be connected

to the recently discovered lead artifact?

And could it offer evidence

that the newly unearthed wooden structure

is actually much older than the slipway discovered last year,

which was scientifically proven to have been built in 1769?

GARY: This is a really cool spike.

And it's an oldie as well.

This has been sitting at the side of the slipway

for hundreds of years.

But I am a little bit dismayed

by the lack of artifacts and coins

from the guys who built

the structures.

JACK: It baffles me

-that we're finding so little. -Yeah.

-It's bloody head-scratching, mate. -(groans) Yep.

GARY: I'm still not giving up, mate.

NARRATOR: As Jack and Gary continue their search for artifacts

at Smith's Cove,

-in the Money Pit area... -(whirring)

TERRY: We're on the new hole.

FG-12 it is.

...Alex Lagina and geologist Terry Matheson,

along with other members of the Oak Island team,

are continuing an exploratory drilling operation

to trace the Shaft Two tunnel back to the original Money Pit.

Constructed in 1805 by the Onslow Company,

the shaft featured a horizontal tunnel at a depth of 110 feet,

which had been dug in a failed attempt to bypass

the area's legendary flood tunnels.

Because Shaft Two was documented to lie 14 feet away

from the original Money Pit,

the team is hoping to use it to pinpoint the exact location

of the fabled treasure vault.

The hole Alex picked is to the southeast

of a proposed caisson.

-TERRY: It's a good position. -Yeah.

-Where's it gonna end? -(chuckling)

Whoa! Hold the phone!

NARRATOR: One week ago,

while drilling near this same area

at a depth of 108 feet,

the Oak Island team found promising evidence

of a man-made flood tunnel suspected

to feed seawater into the original Money Pit.

We got to put down a big can right here.

NARRATOR: Believing they are closing in on the fabled treasure shaft,

the team is now searching for evidence to help them

pinpoint the best location for a large-scale excavation.

RICK: I think we're close to the original workings.

I think we need to continue to look

to all aspects of-of this trai--

information trail that we're currently on.

That's exactly what we're doing with these, with these clues.

I think we're doing everything humanly possible

to close in on it, and we're certainly very near

to the original Money Pit.

TERRY: What have we got, Colton?

-18 and a half. -18.5. Thank you.

-TERRY: Stick of wood. -ALEX: You still got wood?

TERRY: Wood is good.

What's this black darkness going on here?

It's disturbed.

ALEX: Hmm. What does that mean?

TERRY: That could have come up and out of Hedden

or Shaft Two.

It means that, you know, people dug down into that.

-Right? -Okay.

-We still got hope. -CHARLES: You got that right.

NARRATOR: Later that afternoon,

Rick, Marty, Craig, and Billy Gerhardt

are continuing their effort

to fully expose the mysterious paved stone area.

It is a goal they are anxious to achieve,

as Hurricane Dorian continues to make its way up

the Atlantic coast toward Nova Scotia.

The hurricane is bearing down on us.

You know, we're watching it closely,

you know, through weather apps and things.

But we got just a little window of time

before that thing hits hard, so we're gonna keep digging.

You're gonna start from the far end?

BILLY: I'm gonna almost go right straight,

and we'll dig a little trench to join our sump

behind the paved-in area.

-Pull these all out right through here. -That's where I'll go.

-Yeah. -Okay.

I'll get up with him for the time being

'cause I can help him observe.

The paved areas is one of the prime targets in the swamp,

and we hope to find out:

is it really a paved area, first of all,

and is it man-made, and what might be its function?

There may be two stories here.

May be the Money Pit mystery, the Oak Island--

traditional Oak Island mystery,

and this paved area might have something to do

with something previously unknown.

MARTY: All right, come on. Let's go. Fire up!

Any water in that, Craig? Or dry?

Dry.

RICK: Can't be much deeper.

MARTY: You want to jump down in there to see how far it is?

You want to try to go down there?

Sure.

MARTY: It's right there, eh?

RICK: This isn't exactly "walk around" material.

MARTY: Sorry, Rick.

RICK: A lot of rock.

It's kind of...

-Flat? -Yeah.

You can stand basically on a level surface

once you get past that.

Definitely on the bottom.

RICK You just, you can't see anything.

But if you put your hand here,

you can feel stones.

Is it feeling like what you're hoping?

Well, there's a lot of stone down there.

-Yeah. -You're definitely on the bottom, though.

I think if we can get it close, and then clear out an area.

RICK: That is a lot of water coming in there.

Yeah. That's what we're just thinking.

It's getting deeper as we're watching it.

How in the heck are we gonna be able to actually look at that?

RICK: I think you have to dig a ditch

and get all this water to fall into the ditch.

Well, I just wondered about bringing the other excavator

to try and dig into that pit.

And get this to go there?

-MARTY: Yeah. -BILLY: Yeah.

MARTY: Because the hurricane, you know,

that's gonna make this a mess.

CRAIG: Yeah.

Well, we have to do something, so...

MARTY: All right. I'll go get that.

NARRATOR: Although the team has done extensive work

to drain the swamp, the thick mud and vegetation that covers

the area is making it nearly impossible to fully dry it out.

Because of this, the team will need to dig a trench

alongside the mysterious paved area

in order to siphon off the water and muck obstructing it.

They will need to work quickly if they want to expose

the structure before Hurricane Dorian hits the area.

RICK: I thought it would be possible just to physically go in there

and shovel it off or sweep it off,

but that's proving not to be the case.

So we're gonna have to, uh,

think outside the box, if you will,

and-and try to come up with a way

to really get a close look at it.

If you could just enlarge that a little bit.

CRAIG: That's flowing good into here now.

See, there's just too much water in there. That's all.

All you got to do now is pump that down.

MARTY: I think it's opened up.

It's just, it's flowing back that way.

CRAIG: I think we can just go ahead

and get the pump going.

RICK: Okay, well, let's get after it.

ATOR: As the team continues to draw water away

from the mysterious paved area in the swamp...

STEVE G.: I'll grab the next one.

This is 98.

...Marty Lagina joins members of the Oak Island team

at the Money Pit area to check on the progress

of the drilling operation at the end

of the Shaft Two tunnel.

Everyone knows that they must work quickly,

as a powerful Category 5 hurricane is making its way

up the Atlantic coast toward Oak Island.

A hurricane that, depending on how hard it hits,

could destroy months of progress,

if not shut down operations altogether.

-Hey, Marty. -Talk to me, guys. What did we find?

-TERRY: That's at 74 feet. -MARTY: Wow.

-That's a chunk of wood. -We got straight,

-straight saw marks on it, though. -Seems to be straight saw.

-Well, straight is okay. -Same as we saw in-in Shaft Two.

DOUG: That's good news,

that it could be quite old.

MARTY: How deep are we now?

-Uh, we're down to 104. -DAVE: 104.

-MARTY: 104. -TERRY: Yeah.

Is there one more laying there?

-Can we get that one? -TERRY: Want to pull it in? Okay.

STEVE G.: I'll go grab it.

All right. Bring her down.

DOUG: This is around 106.

TERRY: That's bedded sediment.

-Oh! Whoa! -We have some wood here.

-TERRY: Look at this. -MARTY: How about that?

TERRY: This is hand-cut.

This is cut with an ax.

-How can you tell? -Look at this. Look at this, right here.

Can you see the reflection on the ax cut? You see that?

-MARTY: Yeah, I do. -Looks like the saw...

-Looks a lot older than the Hedden Shaft. -Oh, wow, yeah.

-TERRY: That's very old. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: Ax-cut wood?

Found at a depth of 106 feet

near the suspected end of the Shaft Two tunnel?

Could it be part of that structure?

Or could it actually be part of the original Money Pit?

There's a cut from this side as well.

So somebody's been at this with an ax.

That's really interesting.

We haven't seen that in any of the, uh, timbers

from any of our intersections in Hedden or Shaft Two.

DOUG: And we know Hedden used a circular saw.

He had one on-site.

Any of this stuff that came out

when you knew we were in the Hedden Shaft,

did any of it look that dark and old?

TERRY: No. The key thing is they're relatively thin beams.

Hedden is very uniform in six by six.

DOUG: This being so competent

makes me think maybe we're just skimming down

the outside of the potential Money Pit shaft.

MARTY: Wow.

It's the Money Pit!

Yeah. Everything's lining up for this to be

the original Money Pit area.

MARTY: That is quite remarkable.

DOUG: I think we almost have to certainly C-14 this.

Oh, absolutely.

NARRATOR: For Marty Lagina

and the Oak Island team, finding what could be

hand-cut wood from the original Money Pit treasure shaft,

the location of which has been lost for over a century,

would be nothing short of a historic development.

One that makes them both excited

but also cautious until they can prove it.

MARTY: This wood that doesn't look like Shaft Two and doesn't look

like any of the more modern shafts--

Hedden, uh, Chappell, any of those--

you know, uh, we want to believe

that perhaps it's wood from the original Money Pit.

And see if we can find out what that is

'cause that could be original works.

RICK: Hopefully we can get proper samples

and submit them for scientific analysis

and come up with a definitive date

because it could be original. It's possible.

TERRY: We're deeper than any shaft

or tunnel that we've hit in that era to date.

Deeper than the Shaft Two tunnel, deeper than Shaft Two.

DOUG: This is good news.

MARTY: Stay with it. This is pretty cool.

NARRATOR: As another day begins on Oak Island,

Hurricane Dorian continues to close in

and is now projected to make landfall in one day.

ANTHONY FARNELL: A hurricane warning in effect for Halifax

all the way off towards Cape Breton.

There's also a hurricane watch for the rest of the province

with winds of 150 kilometers per hour in gusts.

So the strongest winds will be on the right side,

and the heaviest rain on the left,

where up to 150 millimeters of rain could fall.

That's the very latest from Halifax.

NARRATOR: As the core-drilling operation

in the Money Pit continues,

some 20 miles north of Oak Island,

Alex Lagina and metal detection expert Gary Drayton arrive

at the Ross Farm Museum,

located in the nearby town of New Ross.

ALEX: Here we are.

That's good. I love this place.

ALEX: All right.

NARRATOR: They have arranged

for blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

to examine the cribbing spikes found this year

at Smith's Cove, in hopes

of learning whether they may have been used to build

the 18th century slipway, or possibly,

during the construction of a different

and much older structure.

ALEX: Hey, Carmen.

How you doing?

Pretty good. Brought you some more stuff.

We've been busy in Smith's Cove.

And we brought lots of iron to show you.

And hopefully you'll give us some good IDs on this.

Move this out for you?

See if we've got any hidden gems in the box.

GARY: These all came out of the same area--

bottom of the slipway.

All same kind of size.

Yeah.

But these three, they've all got that same curve to 'em.

That's unusual, isn't it?

-Right. -GARY: Any idea on an age just by eyeballing 'em?

Before?

Old.

OR: At the Ross Farm Museum

in New Ross, Nova Scotia,

blacksmithing expert Carmen Legge

has just given his assessment that the cribbing spikes

recently discovered at Smith's Cove

could date as far back as the 17th century.

ALEX: Hmm.

-Well, that's unusual, isn't it? -So...

And they've been there a long time.

That was in the bump-out.

That was from the bottom of the slipway.

-Mm-hmm. A ways out. -Yeah.

Saltwater environment, which, you know,

the reason why they're so badly corroded.

GARY: Um, I think we was as deep

-as eight feet below sea level. -ALEX: Mm-hmm.

Yep.

So, this is, like, an older form of rebar?

-Makes sense. -Yeah.

ALEX: Every time we visit Carmen Legge,

I come away really, really impressed.

I never would've guessed that these artifacts

could tell you so much.

He's looking at the striations in the metal.

He's looking for wear points.

Looking at the little nuances and saying, "Okay,

well, this was designed this way for this purpose."

And these spikes are pretty interesting.

It's definitely old.

There's always a chance it's related to the initial deposit.

Well, I think what we really need to do is keep looking.

We'll come back if we find anything else.

-All right, mate. -Thanks again, as always.

Thanks, mate. Cheers.

NARRATOR: Later that day,

Rick Lagina and members of the team continue to work swiftly

at Smith's Cove,

especially now that Hurricane Dorian

is expected to hit Oak Island in less than 24 hours.

FARNELL: Dorian is accelerating.

It's also growing in size.

Tomorrow at this same time, winds could be gusting

upwards of 150 kilometers per hour.

So the latest, well, this is a Category 1 hurricane,

but the, uh, National Hurricane Center has it intensifying

as it approaches back up to Category 2 strength.

And we are expecting to deal with these winds,

but it's really the surge and the waves

that are gonna be a factor as well.

And you can see off, uh, in the distance,

visibility's still great, the system is far away,

but residents are preparing.

Billy!

We want to get a piece of dendro off of it for dendro testing.

The spike that was found right at the end of the slipway.

Well, any time you find an artifact

next to a, what we know is a human construct,

well, that's important. It might tell a little story.

So we'll dendro-sample this,

and, uh, we should get a really firm date.

The hope is we'll come to an understanding

of the full extent of the slipway

and why it might have been constructed.

-Perfect! -There you go.

NARRATOR: Also known as "tree ring dating,"

dendrochronology studies the size and pattern

of growth rings which develop during the course

of a tree's lifetime.

This data can be used to determine not only how old

a piece of wood actually is,

but also when it was cut for use in construction.

SCOTT: Knock this off here and then take

a slice off here. That'll give us a good piece.

-The less damage the better. -Okay.

RICK: We've now all come to believe that dendro

is a-a very precise tool...

...which may give us very specific answers

to very specific questions.

And so, having this piece of wood

and being able to send it off is critically important

to coming to an understanding as to the,

the date range that the structure was built.

-It looks like a fair size. -All you need is 50 rings.

You know, I mean, we have the slipway we know already is 1769.

I would love to see this data inconsistent with that.

That would mean that this is obviously

-not contemporaneous with that. -SCOTT: Yeah. Two separate...

Too many strange things down in Smith's Cove,

and so we got to utilize every science there is.

-Yeah, we need some answers. -Dendro appears to be one of the most accurate.

So, we'll see what happens.

I very much look forward to the answers.

NARRATOR: It is a new day on Oak Island.

Hurricane Dorian is expected to make landfall

in a matter of hours.

But even though it has been officially downgraded

to a Category 1, its 90-mile- an-hour winds and heavy rain

are still capable of causing major damage.

Now that things are closing up and people are preparing,

are there evacuations at this point?

FARNELL: They are being asked to leave,

but it is not a mandatory evacuation.

Basically, the worst of it will be later this evening,

and they are expecting

widespread power outages as well.

MARTY: Hurricane Dorian, it's headed right for us.

I mean, directly for Oak Island.

That gives me a queasy, sort of, I don't know,

sense of foreboding.

I've never been through a hurricane before,

but I'm about to be.

NARRATOR: In a race against time,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina arrive at the swamp,

where their partner Craig Tester,

along with surveyor Steve Guptill

and heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt,

have resumed efforts to excavate

the recently drained paved area.

-Hey, guys. -Gentlemen.

STEVE G.: Man, it's some calm before the storm.

MARTY: Isn't it something?

-This could be underwater again. -CRAIG: Yeah. I know.

Do you see any evidence of paving, Craig?

A lot of these rocks, you step on 'em,

and they, they tip right-- they almost sink.

There's not flagstones. I can tell already, right?

-There's not. -No.

I mean, thi-this one's pretty flat, but...

Um, it's not what I was imagining

-the paved area would be. -Exactly.

So there's an elevation change.

We started about two and a half feet under sea level

on the east side,

and we move up about a foot in total.

BILLY: There's an edge.

It is linear a little bit for sure.

Ah, yes.

What kind of day would it be without trekking around

in the fetid swamp?

So, what Tony was feeling were these.

CRAIG: Potentially, yep.

And they are right at the same level.

CRAIG: Also, I think, like here, we started digging

and in two seconds you don't know

-what you're looking at. It just fills in too fast. -MARTY: With water.

CRAIG: Yeah. So,

there's a lot of muck that's got to be cleared out by hand

-at some point in time. -Yeah.

I mean, cleaning this off is easy to say,

but in two days we don't even know

if we can dig here again for a long time.

RICK: I agree. There's a huge storm coming,

and it's gonna cause significant problems here.

MARTY: Anything can happen

when a giant storm is bearing down on us.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Although the team

was hoping to fully uncover the mysterious stone-paved area

before the hurricane hit the island,

they are now out of time.

Even at a Category 1, Hurricane Dorian

could still cause significant damage

and jeopardize what remains

of this year's search operation.

What do we need to do to prepare, Rick?

All the gear needs to be put in areas

that trees won't crush them.

I'll deal with the logistics on the island,

and you have to think about the, the center and...

But you want to pick up all the plywood.

You don't want it floating all over the hill.

-RICK: All the plywood has to... -It'll go airborne, too.

RICK: Exactly.

Anything that can become a sail

-has to be put away or tied down. -All right.

We're wasting what little time we have left.

Okay. Get after it.

(thunder rumbling)

(wind whistling)

FARNELL: The full force of Hurricane Dorian now being felt here

in downtown Halifax.

Winds are whipping upwards

of a hundred kilometers per hour,

and they are bringing down entire large trees,

littering the streets,

and that's only gonna go up

as the full force is felt over the next few hours.

That is undercut there.

There's no road under here.

You see that, right?

-There's no road under here. -MARTY: How far, though?

-At least to here. -MARTY: Oh, yeah.

We got to let this die down and mark all this.

But nobody should come here, right.

I find kind of a...

foreboding.

-(thunder crashes) -I mean, I've never been

a believer in the curse or anything,

but how can you help but feel

that there's something weird about that?

After all the stories on this island,

and the curse, and this and that. And then

here comes the storm right on time. Amazing.

There are some strange things that happen on this island;

I'm not gonna say there aren't.

But we have things in front of us that we need to do

because if we don't,

it could be catastrophic, it really could.

JESSE THOMAS: By mid-afternoon, high tide saw strong storm surges

pounding the Halifax harbor and rocking ships at the dock.

Late in the afternoon, a construction crane collapsed

onto an unfinished building downtown,

a clear example of the danger with this kind of wind.

(thunder crashes)

(wind whistling)

MARTY: It's coming right across here.

It's getting worse. We're done.

It is hard to believe that just yesterday evening,

the eye, the center of Dorian, was directly overhead.

Since then, the sky has cleared out.

The sun has been shining all day, and the full context

of the damage that Dorian caused

is, uh, finally being realized here in Halifax.

(wind whistling)

NARRATOR: Two days after Hurricane Dorian battered

the eastern coast of Nova Scotia

with winds of nearly 100 miles per hour,

Rick Lagina and project manager Scott Barlow

return to Oak Island to assess the damage.

Of particular concern is how the storm

may have affected the team's ongoing search operations,

especially with regard to the swamp.

RICK: We didn't get the worst, but we certainly got hammered.

SCOTT: Yeah. The force of nature is nothing to be reckoned with.

RICK: Yeah.

The road here is in really, really bad shape.

And we do need to stake this...

-Yeah. -...and figure out exactly

what the footprint needs to be.

I think we might as well stop here and start staking.

Let's get out there before the tide comes in.

-I think there are stakes in the back. -SCOTT: I'll grab them.

Let's start staking right here.

We don't need to go that far,

because all we really have to do

is recreate what we once had.

It looks like the shoulder was

-that ledge line, right? -Yeah.

Really what happened was,

this stone that was here wasn't high enough.

Yep. Waves just chewed it apart.

NARRATOR: Hurricane Dorian's powerful winds and storm surges

have washed away more than two feet of surface area

from the causeway that connects Oak Island to the mainland.

It is now too dangerous for any heavy equipment

to be safely transported onto the island.

-The causeway took a pretty good beating. -Oh, yeah.

Uh, it, it needs repair, without a doubt it needs repair.

-It's... -Unsafe at this point.

Yeah. Had that storm gone on another couple hours,

I think it would have, it would've made it impassable.

Yeah, we might've lost it.

MARTY: Yeah, we might've lost it.

RICK: I think that's plenty, right?

SCOTT: Oh, yes.

RICK: Well, we have a plan.

Just got to implement it.

Wow. You take stock of what the weekend might have been

and what it has turned into.

You know, there's good news and bad news.

-Not, not a whole lot of good news. (chuckles) -(chuckling): No.

RICK: We got somewhat lucky

because there was concern

that the weather was coming in from the north.

Yeah.

(Rick sighs)

RICK: Wow.

That's not good.

Let's go see what's happening.

(clears throat)

-Bill. -Morning.

-RICK: This is underwater. -BILLY: Exactly.

RICK: We've got water up to the road in the swamp.

-That's bad. -Yep.

NARRATOR: Finding the Oak Island swamp completely flooded with water,

while not surprising, presents a frustrating setback;

one that will take precious days to overcome.

For today, you know, we're gonna reconfigure these hoses.

Get that swamp down as fast as possible.

So in the meantime, what do you want us to tackle?

The trees that are across the road?

RICK: I think some of the trees,

and there's some of that cleanup on the road,

and if you can get those things done,

and we'll get that swamp drained down.

-Yep. -All right?

-Very good. -Okay, thanks.

RICK: The hurricane has been a huge disruption.

Smith's Cove did not suffer any damage per se,

but the swamp is full of water.

It's gonna take at least a week to drain it,

get it back to the point where we can actually

access the areas in the back.

But I will never give up, never, believing in Oak Island.

I want to be certain that the search continues

until answers are absolutely known.

-I'll start this one. -(pump running)

RICK: There she goes.

NARRATOR: For the Oak Island team,

a week that began with promising new discoveries

has ended with yet another frustrating setback.

But regardless of the obstacles placed in their path,

Rick, Marty, Craig, and the other members of the team

will remain undaunted.

Theirs is a true fellowship

based on a collective determination

to solve a centuries-old mystery.

And as with every such fellowship,

nothing will succeed in stopping them,

especially when they are convinced

they are closer than ever

to finding the truth about what happened

on an obscure island off the coast of Nova Scotia

more than 200 years ago.

And whether a vast vault filled with priceless treasure

lies right beneath their feet.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

JACK: Whatever this is, it's been here a while.

-GARY: Ooh! -It's an old ax head.

GARY: This ax could be a weapon.

That sample came out to be 1741.

Whoa. What the hell does that fit with?

DOUG: The raids on Fortress Louisbourg.

Oh, Rick, look at this one.

RICK: The drain system looks like flood tunnel or box drains.

IAN: Whoa. We're uncovering something here

that people haven't seen for hundreds of years.

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