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Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

Right here is where we're going to start. I'm just so sick of this swamp.

Something right there.

You just got a reading. He's saying we got multiple hits in the same area.

We got some divers coming in. And we'll concentrate on 10X.

You ready to go? Let's do this.

What's in the bottom of 10X?

Holy... We're getting into analysis paralysis. I am wanting to quit.

What do you mean you want to quit?

There is an island in the North Atlantic where men have been looking for treasure

for more than 200 years.

So far, they've uncovered booby-trapped flood tunnels, carved stones with

strange symbols, 17th century Spanish coins, and evidence

of a wooden vault covered in concrete.

Six men have even lost their lives trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure

can be found.

Well, that's pulling mud.

Should I get repositioned? Try it, Rick. See what happens.

For the second year in a row, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are attempting to

drain the island's mysterious pyramid-shaped swamp.

It is here, many Oak Island theorists believe, the 200-year-old mystery will

be solved once and for all.

It's going to be swamp.

to the sequel rick here has it drained and i would like to be able to at the

end of this season either cross the swamp off or say no there's something to

excavate here the difference between this year and last year of course is we

have very specific sites we want to investigate with some fairly

sophisticated equipment and it sounds like a lot like last year

Okay, finally the troops arrived.

To confirm the locations of the various target sites, Craig Tester has hired Pat

Campbell and Matt Zavelle from Canadian Seabed Research Limited, a geophysical

company that specializes in the detection of underground structures and

man-made objects.

They will be using a ground-penetrating radar device, the Mala rough-terrain

antenna system.

that sends electromagnetic pulses through the Earth to detect structures,

objects, and voids up to 30 feet below the surface.

This whole investigation is coming down to using ground penetrating radar. We

didn't use that last year.

We use metal detection equipment.

And if there are structures of significance,

and they go on deeper, the metal detecting equipment would have

completely missed a stone structure or even a wooden structure.

Okay, so, Craig, really, you should take the lead and explain what the, you know,

GPR, GPS is doing.

Sure. You know, from this wintertime, we had the different hits from the

different surveys we ran, and now we want to run ground-penetrating radar.

You mean we're going to know exactly where we're at this time?

Exactly where we're at.

This is the conductivity survey, the EM31, that ran on the ice.

And right along here, we have a number of different anomalies. And so we're

going to run right parallel to the shore going along here.

We think it's a good area. And then we should get a better idea if it's

something natural, if there's a stone walkway or something.

Okay. Let's go.

While Marty and Matt Savelle head over to the money pit, Craig Tester... Rick

Lagina and Pat Campbell begin scanning the southeastern area of the swamp,

where this past winter, the team received indications that non-ferrous or

precious metal objects may lie below.

Big spike here.

You see anything at all? There's some odd stuff going on, definitely.

We can see where the flat rocks are.

It doesn't say...

Vault here.

Doesn't say that? No.

Well, that's too bad.

Something's happening.

Craig, is there anything on there?

See that right there? Looks like it's where those rocks were.

There's something odd with this.

It looks like it's flat across there.

A flat surface, right where the team detected possible precious metals this

past winter?

Right in here, you start to see these dipping reflectors this way, but there's

also a reflector just cutting across there, which is, if this was the bottom

of the swamp, then you wouldn't see this one going right through it.

Could this be the so-called mystery box?

that treasure hunter Bobby Restall searched for back in the 1960s?

Or could it be something else, like the entrance to a vast underground treasure

vault?

Although it will take further processing of the data to be able to tell what the

large flat object might be, Pat and Craig are finding it difficult to

contain their excitement.

Well, imagine that.

If the object in the swamp turns out to be man-made... You're good? Yeah. ...and

more than 200 years old, then they may have just had another important

breakthrough in solving the Oak Island mystery.

Okay, Matt, here we are.

At the money pit, Marty and GPS expert Matt Savelle head over to the spot where

the team located evidence of the mysterious wooden vault first

discovered... and then lost in 1897.

They are here to get a precise geographic location of the drill hole

using satellite-based global positioning technology.

Right over there, we just drilled a well that we think may have gone into one of

the original chambers.

Okay. So that's what I want you to cite, because here's the plan.

We're going to get that for a reference point.

Yeah. And we're going to then go due west, because we have a theory that we

find somewhat credible.

at least worth searching.

During their recent fact-finding trip to Scotland, Rick, Marty and their partners

met with researchers Kathleen McGowan and Alan Butler, who believe that the

swamp hides the entrance to a sacred chamber that links directly to the money

pit. If it's ever possible to say that X marks the spot, what you're looking for

is 996 feet due west of the money pit.

the prophecies about the new jerusalem say that the new jerusalem will be built

on an island of swamp according to mcgowan and butler the oak

island money pit was constructed by freemasons sometime in the 15th century

and was intended to be an exact copy of what they call the enochian chambers

the ancient treasure vaults found deep beneath the temple of king solomon

As the chambers were originally designed to conceal objects of great importance,

McGowan and Butler believe the Freemasons built the Money Pit to hide

the sacred religious treasures of the Knights Templar.

They also believe that if this theory is correct, there would need to be a tenth

chamber, one built according to strict measurements and located exactly

996 feet due west of the Money Pit.

on the edge of the Oak Island swamp.

So you get me a reading right there, and then we're going to go find 996 due

west, and we'll run the GPR there.

Yeah. Or we'll dig. Okay.

Right here.

All right. See if we can get as level as possible.

Oh, does that mess you up because it's too high? No, we're good. I can see it.

All right.

All right.

That's it. Good. That easy.

Yeah, that easy. High accuracy.

Precision. Precision. Yeah. Good.

Head back that way? Yep.

Excellent.

We've got to name this point, I think.

We don't have a name for it yet.

This is the Enochian Chamber.

Enochian Chamber? The Enochian Chamber, sir.

Now that they have an exact geographical reference point for the Oak Island Money

Pit, Marty Lagina and underground detection expert Matt Savelle are

attempting to test the theory that the Money Pit was built as a copy of the so

-called Enochian Chambers, or ancient treasure vaults.

If so, then according to information that Laginas received during their

recent trip to Scotland, a so-called tenth chamber should exist precisely 996

feet due west of the money pit on the western edge of the swamp.

We're going to have a hard look at this Enochian chamber. If I buy it enough to

look, I mean, why not?

What do you got?

Uh... Another...

40 to 50 meters north, 16 meters west.

Oh, yeah, this is fun.

Let's see it on the map here.

Three and a half, getting pretty close.

So, yeah, I'd say right there.

That's it, right there? Yeah.

Does it feel like you're standing on something important? I hope. I hope I

am. I didn't ask you that.

I'm not a psychic, but I feel good about the spot. All right.

That's what I'm looking for.

If Marty can verify the existence of an underground chamber or tunnel under the

swamp, it may serve not only as an incredible archaeological find, but a

shortcut directly into the money pit.

We're going to at least run.

GPR here, it should pick it up, right? Yeah, I think so, yeah. If there's a

chamber under here, it should pick it up, right? We just got to get it out

here, that's the big struggle. Yeah, well, if it was easy, it'd be gone by

now. Okay, so now I bring in the real muscle, big brother Rick.

Nothing he loves better than an X marks the spot.

While Marty and Matt Savelle double-checked their GPS data at the

western edge of the swamp, Rick Lagina... Charles Barkhouse and Jack

Begley decide to check out another key area of the swamp, known as the Mercy

Point. Okay, as my brother would say, oh no, the swamp.

The point is located near the apex of the triangular-shaped swamp, on the spot

Norwegian researcher Peter Amundsen identified as corresponding to one of

the points on the so-called Tree of Life.

Based on clues believed to be embedded in the first printed volume of William

Shakespeare's collected works, the Mercy Point is thought to mark the location of

a vast underground treasure vault, which, like the Enochian Chamber,

contains sacred treasures from King Solomon's Temple.

Oh, what is it?

It was also here... Whoa!

...where last summer, Rick...

Marty and the team found the 17th century Spanish pirate coin.

Get excited.

You need to immerse yourself in this project right away, Jack. Go for it.

Where are we placing them, though? We're going now. Through there.

I got a bit of debt paying out, guys.

when conducting a preliminary investigation of the mercy point area

earlier this year diver tony sampson found a large flat stone

slab below the murky brackish water she's three feet by two feet could it

have been the entrance to a hidden underground tunnel perhaps the same one

marty was looking for earlier oh we're going back there so if there really is a

vault or some type of underground structure buried in the swamp, Rick

Lagina is hoping that ground-penetrating radar can confirm it once and for all.

There's a lot of water back here.

Is that good news?

Nope. To do so would require getting the Mercy Point area of the swamp drained

enough so that a plywood walkway can be set up for the GPR unit.

Well, right now, it's no good even trying to plank this.

Because it's too soupy. It's just going to sink down.

Come over and take a look.

See what I mean?

Because right now, you put plywood on that, you're just going to sink down.

That wasn't smart.

How's that feel?

OK, there's our answer.

So you're right. I mean, that's not going to work. Nope.

Even though multiple pumps have been running for several days, the Mercy

Point area refuses to drain.

Here's a plan.

We'll take the little submersible. It's got 100 feet on it. Okay.

Put it in here and take the blue hose for the discharge.

Once again, just as it did last summer, the swamp is filling up as fast as the

pumps can drain it.

The island, it seems.

is determined to protect its secrets but rick lagina is just as determined and

for him giving up or giving in is never an option yeah you gotta pull me some

slack draining the back side of the swamp didn't go well but we dealt with

that issue last year we'll deal with it again my brother's not going to be too

happy because he does he has an intense dislike of the swamp but look at the end

of the day it's not going to deter us okay plug her in

I want to continue.

I want to figure out once and for all, is there something in the swamp?

That's what I want to do.

That's what we're going to do. Let me see how it goes.

It's going to be a tough slog going out there.

You want to walk along the edge first?

No, just take that right there, right by those rocks. Just go right across those

rocks. After gathering GPR data at the area known as the Mercy Point... Where

are you taking me, Rick? Rick Lagina and Craig Tester, along with GPR expert Pat

Campbell, joined Marty Lagina to see if Alan Butler and Kathleen McGowan's

theory about a so-called Enochian chamber located 996 feet west of the

Money Pit is correct.

Okay, right here is where we're going to start.

All right.

That's the spot you found, right? Yes. Right out by Craig. That is it. I put

that stake in myself.

I don't know how many different people are adamant that there's something

buried in the swamp. A lot of them do research and connect dots.

I want an aha moment.

Okay.

All right, let's try. Are you ready, Pat? Yeah. Go.

Jeff, put these lines in the worst possible spots.

What we've always wanted to do, what you want to do, is cross things off, okay?

The swamp has never been explored to the extent we've currently done it, and it

needs to be investigated.

All right. That's a bad spot.

I'm not willing to walk away without trying everything.

Just one sec.

What's that?

I'm not sure if that's where I stumbled.

Right there?

Nothing, anything?

An anomaly, but he didn't know if it was where he stumbled.

That's exactly where we went up. No, you don't know that. And over that hump.

Was it?

It was.

How do you know? You don't know where he saw it.

We saw it between when he looked, I'm just gauging by, when he looked back.

Okay, well, you know what? Let's make stuff up. Let's do all the lines and see

what they say. We do each one back and forth.

Oh, we do this one back and forth? Oh, great.

Stop there for a second.

Something right there.

Maybe just some diffractions. Yeah.

He just got a reading. He's saying right here he wanted.

When? Right here?

No.

Back three and a half meters from the center of the antennas. That's exactly

where it should be.

A positive reading?

Right where Rick and Marty were told they'd find the Enochian chamber?

It's amazing, but it's right here with a stake. Yeah, well, that's good. Let's

repeat it.

Proof's in the repetition of it, though.

Although the initial readings are encouraging, Rick and Marty have learned

from experience that good news on Oak Island, especially with regard to the

swamp, may be too good to be true.

Suddenly... Okay, I see.

Same right around there.

A second positive reading.

Right between the two?

Yeah. Okay.

About five meters.

Multiple targets in the same area.

Could it be the Enochian chamber?

I mean, it's interesting, right? We got multiple hits in the same area. That's

never happened anywhere else.

What if there was a hollow chamber 10 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet? What would

you have seen?

You would have seen a hyperbolic diffraction.

A big one. Yeah.

And we've not seen anything like that. Not a big one, no.

How about these?

No. We need to look at the data.

Whatever.

It's probably the worst thing that could happen to us.

The worst thing, but, you know... Yeah, it is the worst thing. It's like

duplication, duplication, duplication. We did duplicate this. We've got

duplication, and we've got a baseline here where we got no hits on two runs.

I mean, if we had nothing there, we can't put an X through anything!

Read my lips. I hate the swamp.

I'm tired of the swamp.

I don't want to be in the swamp anymore.

But Rick had some very valid reasons for being in there last year, and then again

this year. In your mind, is this diggable? I want to see the process

data. Fine,

then in a day and a half we'll have to make a decision.

I'm done.

There comes a point of diminishing returns, and he's aware of it too.

It's just I think sometimes there has to be a reality check.

For Marty Lagina, if there really is an Oak Island curse, then it is located

right here at the Oak Island Swamp.

For the past several months, he and the team have gathered miles of data and

conducted numerous tests.

And all have indicated the presence of something strange beneath the acres of

dark, brackish water.

But when the data is tested, the results are often inconclusive.

or disappear altogether.

This is crazy.

You get a hit, it goes away, and you come up with nothing.

How's that possible?

This is a situation that has been a source of conflict between Marty and his

brother, and a situation that, as far as Marty is concerned, can't go on much

longer. Here's the deal, Rick. I gotta ask you something, okay? Yeah.

Granted, we don't have the GPR yet, okay?

Data's not in. Data's not in.

But, I mean, it can't help it. I'm getting a little discouraged about the

swamp, okay?

Yeah, okay.

Hear me out. Yeah, all right.

I want to ask you this from my heart, okay? All right.

You're the guy that's carrying us all, Rick. Sort of like Frodo in Lord of the

Rings, you know? You're the one who has to keep us all going. You're the one who

has to be the believer.

Are you sure?

Do you really want to keep going?

I'll make it simple.

Yes, I'm still all in.

And I hope that we are all in.

Marty is also concerned that just like last year, time is running out, and that

the precious few weeks the team has left to spend on the island this summer would

be better spent by exploring other potential treasure sites.

I wish this were the treasure path, and it might yet be.

You know, we've run two types of GPR, and we've run the X6.

Let's go out here, and we can see all the targets.

At the point we're at right now, give me your top four. Show me where they are.

You know, the top four are, well, this one for sure.

And then there was a hit there on those recessed areas, you know, the earthen

berm. And then we have Mercy right there where the flags are waving.

And then we have the new theory, the Enochian chamber right out there. We

have hits on each of these.

But inconclusive data on any of them, right, so far?

Really?

We're confirming hit here, confirming hit there, and only one hit off of the

GPR there.

And we have data. We have data in the can which we have yet to receive.

You know, basically, Rick, two years in a row, we kind of did the same thing

with slightly different devices and slightly different methods, slightly

different targets.

But, you know, I mean, that's why I'm ready to say stop.

I am sick of the swamp.

And I am wanting to quit.

What do you mean you want to quit?

Well, here's the deal, Rick.

I am sick of the swamp, and I am wanting to quit.

What do you mean you want to quit?

For much of this year, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina have had a serious

difference of opinion regarding the Oak Island Swamp.

Marty believes the team has been repeatedly excited by encouraging data.

You definitely have something here with this non-ferrous target here.

only to have that data lead to yet another in a series of dead ends.

Unfortunately, there are only one or two ferrous metal objects we could see. All

the others are of no interest.

Rick Lagina believes... Big spike here.

...that not all of the data the team has been receiving can be wrong.

Still spiking.

If anything, he is more convinced than ever that the swamp may hold the key to

the entire Oak Island mystery.

I want to confirm those two targets.

I do want to quit, but only to this extent.

I don't want to run any more data. We're getting into analysis paralysis.

If you want to keep going on this swamp, let's dig something. Let's do it right

and let's dig something. And I'm going to leave it to you as far as I'm

concerned. Where?

Do you agree?

Yeah, I agree.

I use the Q word.

He hates the Q word.

I say, I want to quit.

I mean, it's like I hit him with a 2x4, right?

I don't want to quit investigating.

I just want to quit with the remote sensing.

And he was fine with that. He's right. I don't like the Q word. He doesn't like

the Q word. In anything.

We're not quitting. No, and we're a team, so we're not quitting. Okay, we're

not quitting. I'm with you.

I am 100% with you. Okay, fine. We'll look at the data. That's in the can.

That's in the can. We'll pick two sites.

Let's do it. Let's dig. It's time to dig without question.

Right at the given. All right, good.

Now that Rick and Marty have agreed to refocus their efforts on exploring the

money pit and the so-called chapel vault.

They need to figure out a way to do it and avoid the flooding that has

prevented digging any hole deeper than 140 feet.

For this reason, Rick, Dave Blankenship, and Jack Begley have scheduled a meeting

in the war room to talk with someone who has offered to help them.

Hey, guys.

Hey. How are you?

So we've got your proposal, and it reads very interesting.

During his visit to Oak Island earlier this year, author and treasure hunter J.

Hutton Pulitzer shared his incredible theory that a priceless treasure was

buried on Oak Island more than 2,500 years ago.

There is an ancient legend about an ancient mariner society traveling from

the Holy Land to Nova Scotia with artifacts from the first temple.

What year are we talking?

We're talking about five...

82 to 596 BC.

Now Jay Hutton Pulitzer has offered to help Rick, Marty, and their partners get

to the bottom of the money pit.

To do this and avoid hitting the so-called booby-trapped flood tunnels,

he has offered to send two members of his team who are professional scuba

divers.

They will attempt to go in through what is considered the money pit's back door,

10X.

It's an ambitious plan that is both difficult and dangerous.

This is not a simple dive, guys. Look, we go down and we get in this hole.

We just got to do it right.

So are you inspecting the whole hole?

We have to inspect the entire place.

Metal doesn't last underwater.

Nobody truly knows what's in there. Hell, Jack, you probably weren't born

when this was put in there, right?

Located 180 feet away from the money pit, 10X was dug in the 1970s by Dan

Blankenship with the help of his son Dave and treasure hunter Dan Henske.

It was dug in the hope that it would offer a way of getting to the money pit

without encountering ocean water.

But at a depth of 60 feet, 10X flooded too.

Still, Dan Blankenship refused to give up.

Deeper and deeper, he and his team dug.

Until, in 1971, they reached a staggering depth of 235 feet.

I had always been in awe of the construction of 10X. It's 18 stories

straight down, dug by hand, by basically three people.

Dan Blankenship, David Blankenship, and Dan Henske. You look at the equipment

that surrounds that shaft, and you realize how ingenious they had to be.

They MacGyvered that shaft, really. That's what they did.

It had to do with what they had on hand.

Once at the bottom, Dan discovered a large man-made chamber where, using a

video camera, he believed he recorded images of ancient tools, wooden posts,

treasure chests, and even tunnels, one of which appeared to go in the direction

of the money pit.

But during one of his dives, Dan was nearly killed when one of the steel

casings collapsed from the enormous pressure.

Diving down into 10X has rarely been attempted since.

The island is a killer. We all know it. Definitely.

We have to prepare for the worst, right? We have to be able to pull anything from

the bottom, but God forbid we have to.

hoist a diver up, we've got to be prepared, and it has to be engineered

and planned for the worst possible circumstances.

Okay, well, on our end, what do you need us to do?

We're going to have to make sure somehow that we stabilize that metal holder, so

we're going to have to build a platform.

Can we simply build a deck?

Yes. So we're talking roughly a 12 by 12, if not probably... If not bigger.

if not bigger and from the look last time uh that old ladder that's in there

is a death trap waiting to happen right as far as that safety issue is concerned

with the ladder and the the loose metal we intend to cut off the ladder but only

to water level is that will that be sufficient for you that should be fine

Hutton has expressed some of his needs in terms of what he requires, and now

we're bringing in a dive team, putting people at risk.

It makes you take pause and think, are we doing the right thing?

Okay, well, you know, we've got our marching orders, and you've got a lot of

planning and trial dives to do, so let us get to work on our end, you get to

work on your end, and we'll keep in touch.

Thanks, Hutton. Thanks, guys. Take care. Take care.

Rick and the team are now convinced that sending divers into 10X could be the key

to solving the entire Oak Island mystery.

But what will they find?

Ancient tools?

Pirate treasure chests?

A secret tunnel leading to the money pit?

Perhaps, after more than 200 years, Oak Island will finally be forced to

divulge its secrets.

It's a new day on Oak Island, and with it comes a new plan and a new

enthusiasm for solving a 200-year-old mystery.

Keep coming.

Good. Good.

In preparation for next week's dive, Rick Lagina and Dave Blankenship, along

with Charles Barkhouse and Jack Begley, are building a 12-foot square safety

platform around 10X.

When completed, it will serve as both a staging area and a monitoring center,

allowing the team to track the divers' movements during every inch of their 235

-foot descent.

We had some concerns for the divers in terms of water clarity. I mean, the dye

is still in 10X.

Of course, it's in 10X when it should be in the ocean, but it was, and we needed

to flush it out. So we need to get the dye to the point of dilution where it's

not an issue anymore.

Yeah, it's still green.

Because 10X is still filled with phosphorescent green water left over

from the team's recent dye test, it will need to be pumped out so that the divers

will have maximum visibility.

All right, here's what's on the agenda.

We'll put our blocks down, we'll square it up, make sure it's absolutely square,

cut them four by fours, and pin the corners.

No, Rick. Once we get this square and tacked together, we raise it up.

We get this thing fairly level to begin with, and then we'll measure our 4x4s.

Okay. You're the engineer on this job. Okay, come on, let's do this.

For the Oak Island team, working at 10X is both an exciting and an emotional

experience. Good, right there.

Exciting, because it represents progress, the anticipation that the

answers they have been looking for are only a few feet below.

and perhaps only a few days away.

But for Dave Blankenship, who has spent the majority

of his life living and working with his father on the island and who helped dig

10X, the experience is bittersweet.

For him, the 235-foot-deep borehole represents a big part of his father's

legacy.

Finishing it, and hopefully finding the treasure, will assure him that his

father's life, as well as that of his mother, was not lived in vain.

For David, it's important. He's articulated it before. He wants to

finish that shaft for his mother.

His mother spent many years here, believed in Oak Island, but at a cost,

sacrificed probably some of her interests, her passions.

to Dan's wanting to solve the Oak Island mystery.

And David is passionately devoted to that cause.

He will see the end of 10X, and we will do that. Is he pretty excited about this

deck? He's absolutely excited. When he was building the deck, it was one board

after another. Come on, let's get going.

He's committed to it.

You can put three screws in it, that's plenty.

I'm over-engineering it. Over-engineering? You're going nuts!

They're just wasting nails now.

There.

The one on the end of them is done.

We're done.

Perfect.

200 pounds of sh**. Bouncing up and down and it ain't moving.

There's only one question left.

What? Is there anything down there?

Yeah. But what?

I hope.

Pick the gear up and go home.

The wooden deck is finished and all the preparations for the dive have been

made. Except one.

Rick Lagina and the team.

We'll need to find someone who will climb into 10X and clear away 40 years

of rusted metal and crumbling debris from the inside.

I didn't think we'd get done, did you? Yep. You did? I should listen to you

more often.

You did give me too much grief, though.

Ah, you'll get over it.

Keep coming.

10 feet.

Good, good, good, good, good.

We're going to put the tanks on the deck.

Now we'll leave them on the truck. We've got 200 foot of hose.

You're trying not to kink that all the hell.

In 1971, Dan Blankenship decided to widen 10X to a diameter of 8

feet. After digging by hand, he and his team lined the upper portion of the 235

-foot shaft with steel casings made from hollowed-out railroad cars.

They also used concrete to reinforce the area from 90 feet to 181 feet.

Unfortunately, before he could widen and reinforce all of 10X, Dan ran out of

money and had to abandon the ambitious project.

Come on.

it has now been more than 20 years since anyone has dove down to the bottom of

10x and in that time the one sturdy steel and concrete line shaft has become

rusted and full of debris what are you going to do first well you got to get me

down there in preparation for next week's dive rick lagina will have to

enter the eight foot wide hole and clear away layers of crumbling metal and

rotting timbers

There's a ladder right there.

Lean over. See it? That ladder, that rusty ladder?

That's got to come out down to water level.

So we're going to torch our way down.

Should be about 40 feet to the water.

So three or four pulls and we should be good.

Now, this is Oak Island and things never go good. Right, Dave?

Yep. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong.

Rick is going to be lowered into 10X by means of a specially designed steel

cage.

Once inside, he will use a blowtorch to cut away any loose steel that could

potentially break away and injure the divers during their upcoming operation.

You ready to go?

Let's do this.

How much room you got?

We're right on the ladder.

I'm going down a little bit, Rick.

No, we're on the ladder.

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

You got to go, if it goes at all, it's got to go like that.

Ah.

We're good here.

That's almost like it was made for it.

Whoa! Okay.

I don't want this stuff falling on my head either.

Well, we're going to give you a hard hat in a minute.

Tighten it up.

Yeah, right there for now.

You're not going to be able to tie off on the rungs though, they're shot.

You can break them off with your hand.

The inside of 10X is even more rusted than Rick previously thought.

He will need to do a lot more cutting with the blowtorch before the inside of

the shaft could be considered safe.

One foot down.

There was a little bit of sadness because here I am deconstructing it to

gain answers.

They constructed it to get the answers, and here I am taking it apart to find

the answers.

Rocks are going to splatter on you, Rick.

they burn their heart when they're red and yellow ever since 1795

people have been trying and failing to get around

the booby traps that are believed to surround the money pit getting a dive

team to the bottom of 10x could finally prove that dan blankenship was right all

along he had found the back door into a vast underground treasure vault

What do you want?

Go down!

Perhaps Rick Lagina's boyhood dream of helping to solve the Oak Island

mystery... Right there.

...really will come true after all.

Or will it be, like so many other things on Oak Island, plagued by a curse?

A little more. Okay.

A curse... Hang on, hang on, hang on. ...that could put yet another life...

Wait, wait, wait, stop!

...at risk. Holy... Whoa!

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

For the first time, somebody's going to go down in 10X and actually go into the

cavern. What do you think is down at the bottom? Two chests and one body.

It's the first look we have at 10X. According to the legend, seven people

need to die, and I'm not going to be number seven. We're not going to get

somebody killed in that hole. Rick or I should go with him.

Let's go down. Let's go down.

Whoa, whoa.

Stop.