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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

There's no doubt at all

that somebody was digging here

‐a long time ago. Wow.

Sir Francis Bacon did experiments

in preserving documents in mercury.

We're gonna take this down as deep as you can go.

See that, right there, Rick?

They're all hand‐hewn.

And that's 1769.

We struck something there, Marty.

There's wood on the left

and it looks like a tunnel going that way.

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.

The Curse of Oak Island Season 7 - EP 17 - To Boulderly Go

Subtitles Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk

Welcome back.

‐ Good to be here. ‐Yeah.

Hopefully, you're about to see something that you

not only are intrigued by but can't explain.

It is a new morning on Oak Island,

as the Laginas and their partners are eager

to investigate what they believe to be

another breakthrough discovery

in the mysterious triangle‐shaped swamp.

Today they have enlisted the help

of geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner,

whose previous efforts on the island have convinced them

that the swamp is man‐made,

and was deliberately constructed as far back

as eight centuries ago.

Hi, chaps.

Hey, Gary.

So, there's huge boulders in here,

sitting on top of what looks like

‐the so‐called paved area. ‐ Right.

After draining the area one week ago,

Rick and members of the team

along with fellow Oak Island landowner Tom Nolan,

discovered a strange circle of boulders

which had traces of blue clay on them,

similar to that reportedly found deep in the Money Pit

by searchers in 1804.

Even more intriguing was the fact

that the largest of the stones

appears nearly identical to the massive boulders

that make up the megalithic formation on the island

known as Nolan's Cross.

I'm just gonna take a look down there right now.

If we get anything, it'd be in there.

And this is swamp mud.

We certainly have sticks.

You know what? I have to say, it doesn't look much different.

‐What's that? ‐Doesn't look much different than the paved area.

Over the past five weeks,

Rick, Marty and the team have been gradually uncovering

a massive stone‐paved feature

beneath the muck and mud of the swamp

that Dr. Spooner has concluded was man‐made.

Could this formation of boulders that the team

has discovered near the so‐called Eye of the Swamp

also be part of the stone‐paved area?

Hey, guys.

Hello, mate. Thanks for coming down.

‐What do we have? ‐ You know,

I've seen boulder pavements, but usually there's soil

or there's sediment that's embedded

from 8,000 years of wind, and...

‐Yep. It's inevitable, right? It has to... ‐Yeah.

‐Is that it? ‐T‐This was deposited

and then filled in by the swamp

‐relatively quickly. ‐Yeah, yeah.

Wow, really?

I know when I've examined

the filled‐in cellars, it looks exactly like that.

It's very odd, and I can't find

a natural process that would lead to this stratigraphy.

Yeah.

So, some disruptive event happened here?

Yeah.

The level where there's going to be activity evidence

‐is underneath this... ‐Yeah.

‐...this not yet composted layer. ‐Yeah.

So, you can pull that stuff back, right?

‐Yeah. ‐ Billy!

We're talking about

‐taking this off. Right.

Yeah.

Dr. Spooner made a‐a...

what I thought was an astounding statement, and that is

that these stones may have been placed there.

We're always looking for corroborative evidence,

so hopefully it will render some more information.

I just find it, incredibly I hate to say it weird.

Whatever the truths are

here in the swamp, that's all that matters.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

As Rick Lagina and members of the team

continue their investigation in the swamp...

some 1,000 miles west of Oak Island,

at Mari Vineyards in Traverse City, Michigan...

‐Hey, Mark. Good morning. ‐Morning, Marty. How are you?

...Marty Lagina has arranged

for an important telephone call regarding the steel cofferdam

that currently surrounds Smith's Cove

with Mark Monahan of Irving Equipment Limited.

Thanks for taking the time, because this is kind of just

a, uh, make sure we're on the same page call, you know?

There's a lot of stuff happening on the island,

‐as you know. ‐Absolutely.

Because the government permit that allowed

the steel cofferdam to be installed one year ago

is set to expire in just one month,

the Oak Island team must not only have it removed,

but in accordance with environmental regulations,

they must also backfill and restore the entire area

to its original condition.

Honestly, we would love

to keep the cofferdam in place indefinitely.

‐Yep. ‐But we're running up against

that old enemy: time.

Our permit will expire in about a month,

and the‐and the sheet piling, the cofferdam has to come out.

‐Okay. ‐And so, can you do it?

Can you get that thing removed,

and what logistical issues might we have, uh, to do that?

‐It's certainly gonna be tight. Um... ‐Yeah.

We're gonna need, uh, a good three weeks

to‐to get that, uh, that cofferdam at a place off‐site,

loaded out.

Uh, we would take steps today

to‐to get moving, to‐to mobilize the site,

to get set up so we can, we can achieve that, uh,

‐that deadline. ‐Okay.

Because removing the cofferdam

will require Irving Equipment Limited to stage a number

of massive cranes and other heavy equipment

around the entire area for several weeks,

Rick, Marty and their partners will soon be forced to suspend

their search activities in the Uplands and around Smith's Cove

for the remainder of the year.

Yeah, Mark, you know, I'm pretty sure that all

of the Irving personnel get invested in this.

This isn't just the average job, is it?

You know, we're heavily, heavily invested.

All right, well, then, I got something to share with you.

As we came upland from the cove, we dig one hole

with a long‐reach excavator, okay,

and we get just an absolute gushing flow of water.

‐Oh, really? ‐Yeah.

Oh, yeah!

You can see it squirting up

‐like a geyser. Oh, yeah.

That's friggin' awesome!

One week ago, while excavating

in the area known as the Uplands,

where recent seismic testing had identified the presence

of a possible underground tunnel, the hole the team was

digging suddenly filled with water and began to cave in.

Oh, wow, that whole edge is about to go.

‐ Oh, man. ‐Yeah...

Yep, it's going. ‐ Yep.

Although the team's excavation efforts

were temporarily halted,

they remain encouraged that their discovery

may be evidence that they did, at last,

locate the main flood tunnel.

The sheet piling has to come out,

and it has to come out in an environmentally‐prescribed way

so that we don't get silt into the ocean.

We better find out what's find out‐able

in Smith's Cove, because we're running out of time.

It's gonna be an interesting, uh,

dance of equipment out there, but...

‐It's gonna be a‐a busy site, so... ‐Yeah.

We got to meet that, Mark, and I‐I appreciate

the can‐do attitude to do it.

We will. Absolutely.

Okay. Good deal, thanks.

All right.

‐Thanks, Marty. ‐ Cheers.

Hey, Bill.

The plan is you're gonna take this down as deep as you can go.

And then, if it's a tunnel,

‐that would be fantastic. ‐Yeah.

One day after learning

that their time to investigate the Uplands of Smith's Cove

has nearly run out,

Rick Lagina and heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt

are now focusing their efforts on attempting to pinpoint

and shut off the believed man‐made flood tunnel

that feeds seawater into the Money Pit.

We've got a lot of work to do,

so you keep going, I'll station myself over there.

Yep.

‐Okay. Thank you. ‐Try it out.

This year, as last year,

the Oak Island team has found impressive evidence

of numerous wooden structures

at both the Uplands and at Smith's Cove...

What is that, mate? It looks like a tunnel.

...some of which appear to be from mid‐19th century

searcher efforts to intercept the main flood tunnel.

Oh, yeah.

After finding coconut fiber

inside a wood structure just two weeks ago...

Wow.

...the team now has good reason to believe

they are close to achieving their goal

of locating the main flood tunnel, and shutting off

the legendary booby traps

that are believed to guard the Money Pit.

There might be a shaft wall there.

I can't tell if it's the boards imprinting on the clay,

‐or actual wall. ‐Yeah.

It would be nice if you could define the shaft.

Yeah. We'll expand everything out a little bit,

and then we'll keep cleaning that out.

Okay.

Definitely shaft wall.

There's certainly an intact wall on that side.

Yeah.

I mean, look at that.

I have a great suspicion this is not a tunnel.

‐Oh, yeah. ‐Hello, gentlemen.

Hey, Terry. How are you?

Not too bad. What have we here?

Just below that clean stuff was all wood.

And you encountered wood at approximately what depth?

‐Six feet below this point. ‐Okay.

We got a lot of activity in here.

Very important to now take another look at that

‐with a little more information. ‐Yeah.

Although the team

is encouraged by the discovery

of yet another wooden shaft,

they must carefully expose more of it

in order to find out for sure if it was built by the people

who may have buried treasure on Oak Island long ago,

or by searchers who came there trying to find it.

‐Just put your teeth on that, and hold it over. ‐Yeah.

‐Dig that so Terry can take a look. ‐Yep.

Let's have at her.

As Rick Lagina

and members of the team continue their investigation

in the Uplands area...

All right, let's see how they're doing.

...Alex Lagina and Peter Fornetti arrive on Lot 21

to check on the progress of archeologist Laird Niven

and conservator Kelly Bourassa

as they continue to investigate the site

that was once the home of Daniel McGinnis

one of the three young men who first

discovered the original Money Pit in 1795.

How's the dig going, guys?

Excellent, actually.

‐Are we okay, here? ‐Yeah.

‐Yeah, just step in between them. ‐Cool.

It's time to dig.

After obtaining

a government permit two weeks ago,

Laird, along with Marty Lagina and members of the team,

began to systematically dig in three‐foot grids

known as test pits.

They are carefully and forensically looking

for any important artifacts or clues

that could indicate what, if anything,

McGinnis might have found on the island

during his decades of searching.

Most intriguing is a possible sub‐basement

beneath the foundation, which was identified

by recent ground‐penetrating radar scans of the area.

This development gave further credence

to the theory recently presented to the team

by author James McQuiston,

who believes McGinnis didn't just happen upon

the Money Pit in 1795,

but that he had prior knowledge of its existence,

due to his association with freemasonry.

We have a feature.

‐Oh, yeah? ‐Where's that?

This is a wall.

So, this would be the wall to what, I mean?

Well, actually, if you pass me that notebook, I can show you.

We're lucky, uh,

on this site

that we have lots of photographs.

Oh, yeah.

So...

here's the wall, and if you stand at that corner,

and look over here,

you'll see this building here,

‐which is what I think we have. ‐Mm‐hmm.

Yeah, you've got the‐the wall without the window

‐on that building right now. ‐Yep, yep.

So, this kind of physical evidence,

this structural evidence for us, it's,

‐it's a, it's a key, right? ‐Right.

‐We'll get one side of the story from this, right? ‐Yes.

‐Potentially. ‐It gives us a place to start, right?

Absolutely.

And, hopefully, it's the beginning of us

telling the whole story of the McGinnis family and

‐their time spent on this lot. ‐Cool.

We will keep our fingers crossed.

‐Mm‐hmm. ‐Yeah, absolutely.

And we'll get our trowels in the ground.

‐Sounds good. ‐Perfect.

‐All right? ‐Thanks, guys.

‐See you. ‐See you guys later.

Later that day...

as Laird Niven and Kelly Bourassa

continue their investigation of the McGinnis Foundation,

and while digging continues in the Uplands area

near Smith's Cove...

We have some laser ablation results

from UNB and Professor Chris McFarlane.

...Rick Lagina joins Craig Tester and other members

of the team in the war room to hear

an important scientific report concerning the lead

artifact that he and Gary Drayton discovered one week ago

on Lot 17 near the Money Pit area.

Doug, can you bring him up?

Certainly.

Hey, Chris. How's it going?

‐Uh, hi, guys. It's going well. ‐Good.

Joining the team via video conference

is Dr. Chris McFarlane, a professor of Geochemistry

at the University of New Brunswick.

We've got a little bit of everybody here today

to‐to hear the results

‐of this lead testing. ‐Yeah.

Using laser ablation testing,

a process which employs

a high‐powered laser to take microscopic samples

of an object, the chemical composition

of lead artifacts, as well as their unique isotope values,

can be identified to help pinpoint

their geographic origin.

Yeah, that's a weird piece of lead.

The odd thing is that it... it gave a big kick with

mercury and tin.

Wow.

What could make that happen?

Part of the ore body itself, or has it been introduced?

Probably not from the ore body.

Mercury is one of the most volatile elements,

so if you heat it up to eight, 900 degrees

to smelt it, that mercury would be gone.

So... that had to have been introduced

by some other process.

I've never seen anything like it, honestly.

Mercury?

Found on a lead artifact in the Money Pit area?

We've had some theorists

specifically one, Petter Amundsen

he talked about how

Francis Bacon had different

writings of preserving documents

in mercury.

Mm‐hmm.

Numerous researchers

and Oak Island theorists

believe that Sir Francis Bacon

the English 17th century scientist,

philosopher, and nobleman

was not only the leader of a secret society

with ties to the Knights Templar,

known as the Rosicrucians,

but that he may have also orchestrated

the burial of priceless treasures on Oak Island.

Perhaps even more incredible,

some believe that not only was Sir Francis Bacon

the secret author of the works

attributed to William Shakespeare,

but that the original manuscripts,

which have been missing for more than four centuries,

were also hidden on Oak Island.

Sealed in a vault filled with mercury

a method of protecting documents

that was detailed in Bacon's scientific work,

Novum Organum.

Could the mercury found on the lead artifact

be evidence to support this audacious theory?

And might it also be related to the pieces of parchment

and leather bookbinding that the team has

discovered deep in the Money Pit

over the past two years?

What about in document preservation

with mercury, uh, old documents?

Uh, it'll certainly prevent molds

and bacteria and any type of, uh, organism

from attacking, uh... pretty much anything.

I guess an obvious question would be...

have you had a sense of where this lead

came from in the world?

That was, um...

Greek mainland, Greek archipelago,

uh, Cyprus and Turkey.

Who do we know used to hang out around those areas?

You're kind of saying all the places

where the Templars have been.

Yep.

It's friends of the cross, in a sense.

This is unbelievable.

A lead artifact?

Scientifically traced to Southeastern Europe

or the Middle East?

Could it be connected in some way

to the 700‐year‐old lead cross found two years ago

at Smith's Cove,

which was also proven to have come from an area

in Southern France that once served as a stronghold

for the Knights Templar?

It's great if you're thinking

theory‐wise, I guess, about Oak Island.

Those countries were

highly Templar‐influenced regions.

I mean, we're both big fans of history and...

it's a page of history that we could help fill in.

Okay. Well, thank you very much.

And, we'll be talking to you again soon.

All right, thank you, guys and good luck.

Thanks, Chris.

‐ Bye, now. Appreciate it.

As a new day begins on Oak Island,

and while the team rushes

to complete their efforts to locate

the main flood tunnel in the Uplands area,

before they are forced to suspend their investigation...

Rick Lagina and Craig Tester arrive on Lot 21

after being alerted by archeologist Laird Niven

to a potentially important discovery

near the foundation of the home

that once belonged to Daniel McGinnis.

Hey, Laird.

Hi, guys.

What's happening?

Just working inside the...

be the second entrance to, uh...

to the root cellar.

You can see this is

the natural soils coming up this way.

If they were digging a stair, I think that would be gone.

‐Yeah. ‐So, I think

this is probably a trap door.

A trap door?

Possibly leading to a secret basement

beneath the McGinnis Foundation?

Could this trap door have been a way for McGinnis

to hide something of great value

that he discovered in the Money Pit?

Well, here's the bottom of the kind of the sill.

I mean, it was, the cellar is quite...

You know, was quite deep, really.

It wasn't‐wasn't just a crawl space.

‐Mm‐hmm. ‐And it was just loaded with rocks.

This is the first time I've seen one with the...

you know, a trap door kind of entrance.

But one thing we found way down here

was this, uh,

bone‐handled knife.

Which is

probably the oldest artifact we‐we have

from here.

I don't know if you can see.

These‐these are bone‐bone scales

on the knife.

And, the tang would have come down like this,

and the knife would have been you know, probably that long.

And the‐the scales are riveted.

You know, fairly elaborately decorated.

So, what is the year of that?

It's probably, you know, 1750s

to the end of the 1700s.

Oh, wow.

A bone‐handled knife?

Could it be something

Daniel McGinnis brought with him to the island?

Or did he find it here?

So this is kind of like,

not an a‐ha moment, but it was...

this is completely different

‐from what we're finding in general. ‐Mm‐hm.

I was really very excited to find this.

Anyway, yeah, so we're just finishing up here,

but the final part turned out to be

‐one of the more interesting ones. Hmm.

Yeah.

It's fascinating the more time you spend in here.

The most significant find was the extent

of the size of the residence, or the home.

The home is much larger and the artifacts

are a bit older than Laird had anticipated they would be.

Although Laird has found a potential clue

that something of great value might still lie hidden

beneath the McGinnis foundation...

because it is a protected heritage site,

the permit he was able to obtain

from the provincial government

will not allow a more aggressive excavation.

To do so will require him to apply for an expanded permit

based on the evidence he has collected,

which could take weeks, if not months, to secure.

‐Any human activity, it's all about the why. ‐ Mm‐hmm.

It's part of the overall Oak Island story,

and‐and, you know, we want to

‐make sure that every page is written. ‐ Yep.

This is one of those pages.

Yep. And this is someone, you know,

directly connected to the story, as well.

Mm‐hmm.

All very interesting. ‐Yeah.

Anyway, good find.

‐ All right. ‐Thanks, Laird.

All right.

Later that afternoon...

Down we go.

Rick Lagina, along with geologist Terry Matheson,

arrive at the Uplands area near Smith's Cove,

where heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt

continues to excavate the mysterious wooden shaft

that they hope to be connected to the main flood tunnel

leading to the Money Pit.

‐You can see the wall. Can you see that? ‐I can see a wall, yeah.

I can see a wall.

It's well‐defined. ‐Yeah.

So, Bill, if I direct you, can you come across the top

of that wall or shaft wall and dig into that bank,

and then we might get a better idea

of how far that may go there.

Yeah.

That was a pretty substantial beam

brought up directly from the bottom.

See that, right there, Rick?

They're all hand‐hewn. That's hit with an ax.

You see that a lot in the, uh, U‐shaped structure.

And that's drilled in the same fashion

and they're both the same diameter

as those oak pegs we, uh, saw down

‐in the U‐shaped structure. ‐Yeah.

It may be the same technology, the same group.

1769.

Ax‐cut wood? And similar to that found

as part of the massive U‐shaped structure

the team discovered buried beneath Smith's Cove last year?

A structure which was scientifically determined

to have been built more than 25 years

prior to the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795?

Could that mean that the team is once again

on the verge of intercepting the legendary flood tunnel?

Okay, let's get this done. Drop the bucket.

You're gonna have to bring me over,

center me on the hole, I'll take a look.

Softly, gently.

Further back, Billy.

Right there. Stop!

Can you just go down just a‐just a little bit more?

I want‐I just want to see if it's wood or not.

That's getting to be pretty nearly enough, Rick.

That stuff could cave right in on you,

‐almost from there. I can't tell

if it's wood or just clay.

You'd have to go right to the bottom to tell.

Getting awful close.

There's something starting to cave away!

There's something there.

‐ You're coming up, Rick. ‐Okay.

Right, Billy? Up. Up.

When you're down there, eyes and boots,

when you're in the moment,

you get a little different feel for things.

Is there really a tunnel?

It certainly looks like it.

That'd be huge.

Look, any original tunnel on Oak Island,

is probably the a‐ha moment of the day.

Look, whoever this was,

if this is searcher or original depositors,

they were highly motivated.

I‐I can't imagine digging, timbering at those depths

‐with that material. ‐ No, no.

I was hoping we would get to the bottom of that structure.

You know, we all want easy answers.

‐There's not too many easy answers on this island. ‐No.

‐But those answers will wait for tomorrow, so... ‐ That's right.

Although Rick, Billy and Terry have made great progress

in their attempt to find the flood tunnel

connected to the Money Pit,

they are rapidly running out of daylight.

They will have to wait until morning

to continue their efforts.

Oak Island is full of little successes,

‐and we had some today. ‐ Absolutely.

As a new day begins on Oak Island...

Whoa! You guys have been busy.

...Marty Lagina and Craig Tester

join Rick and other members of the team

as they continue their efforts to intercept and shut off

the main flood tunnel, believed to feed ocean water

into the Money Pit.

That looks like a big hole. Geez.

Unfortunately, today is the team's final opportunity

to make what would be a historic breakthrough,

as tomorrow, all search activities

in the area must end, in order to allow

for the removal of the massive steel cofferdam

surrounding Smith's Cove.

What do you got there, Rick? Look.

This came up about ten feet above where we currently are.

‐This is cut. ‐ Oh, yeah.

And then this is saddle notched in a weird way.

Well, I'll tell you what,

in my opinion, that's old.

This is how you made stuff a long time ago.

I'd say that's either the turn of the century,

or else that's original, because I don't know of anything

that was dug here that is this old.

No workings this deep.

Obviously, we need to do analysis.

I mean, we're wondering whether this might be original,

we can find out, we think, with dendro.

‐Yeah. ‐That's a pretty unique piece, right there.

They all are. ‐ Are there a lot like this?

There are lot of logs. Lots of them.

There's some anomalous wood, very deep,

looks very old.

It looks like the U‐shaped structure.

That's the positive stuff. That's really exciting.

The U‐shaped structure dated to 1769,

so prior to the Money Pit.

Could it be the flood tunnel? Is that what we're seeing?

You know, it just makes you want to dig.

Billy, are you sure that you've gone deep enough

that there's no more wood below that?

Certainly, with some eyes, we could take, you know,

two or three more buckets,

and that would probably tell the tale, really.

Well, we might as well do that.

‐Move on. ‐ Okay.

It's time to dig.

I suspect that there are structures in there

that we have not found.

We struck something there, Marty.

That's it?

Yeah.

I'd like to know if it's a rock or...

big wood in this corner. I think it's a rock at the bottom.

Well, one of us should lean over and take a look.

We need a harness, yes.

So, this harness I'm gonna put on you

‐is a full arrest, right? ‐Yeah.

I think we're all quite excited that it could be

the so‐called flood tunnel booby trap system.

Of course, we're going to investigate.

We have to see what it looks like.

That's amazing.

Two things. I'm gonna look,

but he's done. He's undermining right there.

There's hardly anything left.

Aw,

That's not good.

Where's your rock over in that corner?

No, it was right... it was...

It was right here, right?

‐I heard you hitting on it. ‐ Yeah.

‐I'm pretty sure it was a rock. ‐I'll look.

Well, you basically got a slit down below.

There's wood on the left. Your left.

And it looks like a tunnel, to me,

going that way.

But it's probably

15 feet off bottom, at least.

Has the Oak Island team finally found

the main flood tunnel, the one which searchers

have been trying to locate and shut off

for more than two centuries?

This is obviously not very stable.

Yep.

I don't like the looks of it.

All right, well...

maybe we should try mounting the camera

on the side of the bucket right now.

I think that's a great idea.

‐Can you rig that up, Scott? ‐Yeah.

The problem with doing this the simple way, which

with a long reach excavator

is that we do not have a stable hole.

I mean, if we had dug a big pit with stable sides,

then we could go down and look at it.

But it's not safe to do that.

So we're gonna lower a camera on the excavator arm itself.

The object is to find out what's going on here.

Tell me which way you want to go.

Billy... in a little, towards you.

Yeah. Now down.

Still on the wall. He's got to go lower.

Okay, down.

Look at that.

There's all kinds of wood everywhere.

There is definitely structure on the left wall.

Yep.

He's got to go this way.

Stop!

Doesn't that look

like it's a hole?

It's a hole, but is it a tunnel?

Well, it looks like it's braced with wood to me.

If it's a tunnel, it'd be great.

Well, I think it is.

Man, it doesn't look good under there.

Let's get out of here.

I think we got what we need to get, Billy.

Come on up.

All right, Rick, we got the data.

We need to put our heads together

and see what the heck this means.

Let's convene in the war room and discuss all this.

Okay, pretty cool.

Real cool.

Gents, we're here to talk about the Uplands.

And, uh, what we've done, what it means,

where we go from here.

So I think we're gonna start out with that

video that we took.

Here we go.

This is down 30 feet.

There's a lot of rock in between those.

Yeah.

Let's pause that.

Okay, so, what are we looking at?

What is that?

Is it a tunnel that's been filled with rock?

Could've been a collapsed tunnel or shaft.

That's what it looks like to me.

That's wood on either side,

and you have this, this piece right here.

That looks like a beam.

I mean, you can see the wood at the bottom coming out, so...

I'd say it's probably a shaft or a tunnel.

Wow.

You see the that...

‐You can see the double layer there, Rick. ‐The double wall.

That looks like a tunnel to me.

I mean, it goes in there.

It seemed like you followed wood the whole way down.

How thick are those boards two inches, plus?

Yep. The ones on the right were.

The ones on the left were a little bit narrower.

The ones on the right were much more substantial.

‐Which one? This one? No. To your upper right.

‐Keep going, yeah... ‐This, this one right there?

What I've got tagged this year, we've got this little

you can see up on the screen.

Right here.

You can see it lines up.

Calculated by Craig.

Purely going off the U‐shaped structure,

assuming that the U‐shaped structure

was put in there with a specific purpose.

It looks more tunnel‐like than shaft‐like.

Yeah, 'cause, like, it's hard to picture that

being a searcher effort, isn't it?

What I'm getting at is the 1769,

which means that if it comes back old, it almost has to be

original works.

That's right.

The dendrochronology, if it puts that...

wood that we got, if it says

that's, you know...

pre‐Money Pit discovery, then, yeah,

then you pretty much have to say it, geez.

Very good chance it's part of the flood tunnel.

If that data comes back old, we're right back at this thing.

That's where the bad news comes in.

We have to pull the sheet pile.

We have a timeline for that,

a very specific timeline.

But there's still great hope for Smith's Cove.

I don't think we can put an "X" through it.

So, you know, Smith's Cove isn't done.

Although the team has found promising evidence

of the main flood tunnel, they are faced

with a disappointing and unfortunate reality.

In less than 24 hours,

representatives from Irving Equipment Limited

are set to arrive and begin staging

heavy equipment at the Smith's Cove area

in order to remove the massive steel cofferdam.

Because this operation will take several weeks

and will make working at Smith's Cove

and the nearby Uplands virtually impossible,

Rick, Marty, and the team will now have to suspend

their search activities in the area for the rest of the year.

Look... you know, it's obvious, isn't it?

If‐if you have, uh, undisturbed soil,

and then a bunch of wood, and then undisturbed soil,

that sure sounds like a tunnel to me.

It's about where the so‐called flood tunnel needs to be.

We aren't going to give up on something like that.

But having said all that, our permits aren't gonna

allow us to do any more excavation this year.

We're done.

Okay, guys, well, here's what I heard.

Lots of interesting stuff,

but the key piece of data is yet to come.

We're all keenly interested in the dendro results

on the question mark shaft.

And, that could lead us, well, it could lead us

just about anywhere, but in the meantime,

I know, Billy, you got a lot of work to do,

because that sheet pile has to come out.

So, back at it.

Good meeting.

As another day dawns on Oak Island,

one of Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team's most extensive,

as well as historic,

investigations is, for now, coming to an end.

According to our permit,

uh, we have to remove all the sheet, and

without the sheet pile system in, um...

at least for now, all of the work associated

with Smith's Cove has to be terminated.

Well, guys, he's made it in time.

Are you ready to pull?

Yeah, that's the first one

coming out there now, so...

So, Mike, what's the process here?

Are you gonna pull from here all the way around?

Yeah, we'll start here,

and we'll pull up to pretty much

where the power pack is because

the dirt from the pad is being supported from the wall.

And then we're gonna go on

all the way around over to that far corner.

You know, as I stand here, it's somewhat bittersweet.

Right? We're glad that this project

is coming to an end.

It was a lot of work.

We found a lot of things, but...

there's that little question mark,

as there is with everything about Oak Island.

Did we go out far enough?

Did we find everything there was to find?

And that's what keeps drawing you back, right?

Here we go.

Although the removal of the 600‐foot‐long steel cofferdam

will allow for Smith's Cove to once again be restored

to its natural setting,

it is nevertheless a solemn moment

for Rick and Marty Lagina,

as it also marks the end

of a two‐year operation

that produced some of the greatest discoveries

in the 225‐year Oak Island mystery.

You find any Roman numerals on that, Craig?

Yep.

Yeah, there's the four right there!

This is awesome!

From numerous wooden structures...

The slipway at this point becomes

an area of significant interest.

...one of which dated back

more than half a century before

the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795.

That sample came out to be 1741.

Whoa, what the hell does that fit with?

A concrete wall...

It's very strange.

This is totally undiscovered.

...one of the five legendary stone box drains...

‐Whoa! ‐ You hit a gusher.

...as well as evidence further inland of the main

flood tunnel connected to the original

Money Pit treasure shaft.

‐Another one here, Rick.

And, of course, the find made two years ago

by Rick Lagina and Gary Drayton that inspired

the entire operation.

Holy...

Holy schmoly, all right!

It's a cross.

That's a cross.

A lead cross

scientifically verified

to be more than 600 years old

and from a region of Southern France that once served

as a stronghold for the Knights Templar.

At considerable expense and effort,

we revealed what was revealable.

That's‐that's a successful operation.

I find it significant, I do.

Hopefully, with all the work

that was uncovered, we can make sense of it.

I think the Smith's Cove work,

certainly for now, is

maybe not at an end, but we certainly

‐gave it everything we had. ‐Yeah.

For Rick, Marty,

and their Oak Island team,

a mystery that began 225 years ago

with the discovery of the Money Pit

has proven to be much bigger,

more complex, and more expensive

than they could ever have imagined.

And with each new, exciting clue

the brothers find, comes yet another in a series

of new and equally puzzling questions.

Just what was it that was so precious,

so significant, or so dangerous

that it had to be so elaborately

and ingeniously hidden

more than 100 feet deep underground?

And guarded by a deadly curse that warns

that seven must die before its secret

can at last be revealed?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island...

Now, we've got

the largest can possible.

So, it's a little bit bigger this year.

‐Yeah, much bigger, wow. ‐ The cores show

high lead and mercury at the base.

The eye was excavated to extract clay.

We have two anomalies here.

It's like treasure chest anomaly.

We got five different experts saying this is man‐made.

‐Wow! We're gonna start slamming can.

‐ It's time to dig! ‐Here we go.

Does this one come with a guarantee?

Oh, 100% treasure guaranteed, yep.

‐Okay!

Subtitled by Diego Moraes / Ewerton Henrique www.oakisland.tk https://www.facebook.com/groups/amaldicaodeoakisland/