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Previously on The Curse of Oak Island.

We're poised on the vault. How prophetic is that? We're feet away from what we've

labored for for eight years.

Come on, baby.

Wood. Oh, wood.

We'll all be damned.

We found it. Let's dig it up. Well, we have to be very careful at this point.

No, we don't. We need that thing back in the hole.

Box, vault, whatever.

It's tangible, though.

We mustn't make a mistake.

We need to proceed slowly.

Well, let's just quit then.

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

incredible treasure for more than 200 years So far they have found bits of

gold chain a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it even a 17th

century Spanish coin to date six men have died trying to solve the mystery

and according to legend One more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

There we are again, joyful but puzzled. We have what you call a problem going on

here.

Because you know what? We bingoed this vault.

Thanks to all these people.

And now we don't know what to do.

It is the end of a long, hard day on Oak Island.

A day that saw the emotions of the Laginas and their partners turn from

anticipation. I can't believe we're having hit something.

It's okay.

It's there.

to excitement wood yeah wood all be damp look at that and then

to uncertainty we found it let's dig it up we need clarity and right now we

don't have clarity we need to proceed slowly rick it's already been breached

with drill holes several times you know we're not going to wreck anything it's

been breached after three years of careful planning and an investment of

millions of dollars There is reason to believe that Rick and Marty Lagina,

along with their partners, may have finally reached what they believe to be

the so-called Chapel Vault, the mysterious wooden box that was first

discovered some 143 feet deep beneath the so-called Money Pit by treasure

hunters Frederick Blair and William Chapel in 1897.

I'd be lying if I said I knew what was in the vault. I don't know.

i do believe that something of significant historical and

archaeological importance and almost certainly irreplaceable while trying

to determine its contents william chapel drilled a series of boreholes which

although filling the box with mud and sea water revealed the presence of gold

and even a tiny portion of a handwritten document but now Even

though the box was breached more than a century ago,

Rick and Marty Lagina are faced with a difficult dilemma.

How to find out if they have really found the chapel vault without causing

further damage to whatever may be inside?

We're quite sure we're scraping on horizontal planks of wood.

Everything ties.

It's in the right spot.

But you know what? There's a problem nonetheless.

because there's several different ways we could proceed.

We don't know, folks, whether we are on a couple of planks of wood with nothing

beneath them. It doesn't seem likely, but it's possible.

I mean, does it feel more like a platform, or is there no way to tell

that? I think it's safe to say we feel as though we certainly are on something,

yes. Is there any way to tell if this is a structure at all? We haven't been able

to hook on so far enough to actually pick something, and we're just scraping

the top.

Are you cutting through it with the oscillator?

No. Right now, we currently are not. We're monitoring it very closely, and we

can tell that it wants to build torque and wants to cut something, but the

pressures have been very minimal.

In order to dig a 40-inch-wide hole down to a depth of 143 feet

and still avoid the maze of flood tunnels that invade the money pit, the

Oak Island team has been using a system involving a number of large steel

caissons. which are literally ground into the soil by means of an enormous

device known as an oscillator.

But because the first drilling caisson is rimmed with a series of steel teeth,

which literally rip and tear their way through the ground, the team's concern

is that continued drilling will not only damage the chapel vault, but may also

destroy the potentially priceless artifacts it could contain.

Artifacts, which some believe could be everything from stolen pirate gold to

the lost folios of William Shakespeare, and even the Ark of the Covenant, the

golden chest that holds the original Ten Commandments.

If the Oak Island story is real, there's something very significant in there, and

it's irreplaceable. Show me proof. Show me proof, because I said drill all

through the thing.

That wouldn't scare me.

I would probably turn him loose tomorrow and dig through that thing.

We could continue to hammer grab.

You know, we could continue to take small little bites of wood out like we

have been doing. And I know that's not a preferred option.

I think there's something there. The caveat, of course, is if this is a

structure. If this is a structure. There's that little word again, if. Oak

Island is fraught with ifs, as you well know.

So I would say at this juncture that we've got to make some progress here. We

have to find something.

Are we really going to destroy whatever's down there?

You might hear a big difference here. There's really not. The difference is in

what our perception is of what's there.

I believe that if there's something there, it's already been flooded with

saltwater. It's already been breached. And that's the difference, really. It's

not that we have a difference in how we would treat it if we had the same mental

picture. I always pictured it as a box inside of a cavity. I think it is a

void. It's a void in the sense that it's filled with soup.

I guess I'm thinking of what could be in there.

Well, it's already got a hole through it now.

Yeah, but it's a small hole, David.

I'd just be concerned about jeopardizing or compromising what's in that vault.

Whatever's in here, if you keep advancing down like this and grabbing

and advancing down, won't you pick up?

at least bits and pieces of whatever this is. You would damn well hope so. We

would. But we would fail the structure. We could fail the structure if there is

a structure there. And then we could ultimately destroy whatever we're trying

to seek out.

It's possible that even though it has been compromised, and I totally agree

that it has, it's possible that it's still, quote-unquote, intact.

And I don't want to do anything that may compromise that further.

There's something there.

That needs some gentle...

attention at this point. We got an airlift up there now, so we can draw the

water down and see what the refresh rate is, introduce new water and try and

clear it up and get the camera down there.

By pumping air into the shaft using the airlift method, the team will be able to

determine just how quickly the target area refills with water from below the

ground. It may also be an effective way of forcing any possible contents of the

vault to the surface without damaging them.

You know, we could try and airlift that hole to see what the infiltration rate

is, see if we get lucky and bring up anything that's significant, right?

Maybe. I mean, I know it's going to be a risk, but that factor makes it not as

risky in my mind.

This is ultra-cautious. This is way more cautious than I would be, but I'm not

the sole say here.

I have reservations about how we do this, and I want to proceed slowly.

It's not a matter of who carries the day or what methodology wins out. It's

getting answers.

Okay, I guess that's the plan. Is that a plan? Is everybody happy with that?

Agree. Aye.

All right, I think we're done here.

The next day, after their meeting in the war room...

Rick, Marty, and their partners return to the money pit, where they will see if

their plan to use the airlift system will prove successful.

We want to know everything about this hole.

One of the things that is unknown is what is the rate of water inflow if we

try to evacuate it? Just crack it until he says shut it off and just go slow.

All right. So we're not going to run very long, maybe 30 seconds. We'll see

what happens.

Cool? All right.

Here we go.

Oh, there she is. Coming alive.

We think there's almost 3,000 gallons in that hole.

Right now?

Yeah. Okay. I'd say at least for every gallon you took out, a gallon came in.

The fact that water is rushing into the borehole as fast as Marty and the team

are trying to flush it out.

is not entirely surprising.

You think there's 3,000 gallons in there? Yes, I do.

Problems caused by underground water have plagued treasure hunters on Oak

Island ever since members of the Onslow Company dug the original money pit down

to a depth of 90 feet back in 1804.

Upon removing a large stone slab on which were carved a series of strange

hieroglyph-like shapes, the chef suddenly filled with seawater, as if its

removal triggered an underground booby trap.

It was the same system that was believed to have caused the flooding of the

chapel vault in 1897.

I think we should do it again. I don't think dropping it 15 feet is hurting

your stability at all.

It's your shaft.

Andrew! Marty!

Let's go!

One, sack, ho!

Hit it.

As water is forced out from within the steel caisson, there is always a risk

that the change in pressure around the hole could cause a catastrophic

collapse.

That pipe can take it. I know what the collapse resistance is, and I know what

the collapse pressures are.

So I feel real comfortable with evacuating that pipe, that it could be

done from a collapse standpoint.

Minute 30 right there.

Minute 30?

Yeah. Let's go see what we got going.

How far did it drop?

It came up seven feet.

Yeah, so it took back everything you just took. Oh, yeah, and then another

foot.

Unfortunately, the hole is refilling with underground water almost as fast as

it's being pumped out.

The amount of water coming in as we tried to pump it out was enormous.

Thousands of gallons a minute, I would say.

The Laginas and their partners must now face a sobering reality.

The inability to force water from the hull means that they will probably not

be able to bring any objects or artifacts up and out of the hull by

means of the airlift method.

So I would like to do one more. The good news is that everything's stable.

The bad news is that...

We probably didn't bring anything up. I'd go for five minutes, try and drop it

30 feet, check the recharge again, and then maybe we're done.

Five minutes.

In one final frustrated attempt to pump the contents of the so-called chapel

vault to the surface,

Marty has made the difficult decision to increase the power of the airlift and

run it for an extended period.

The move is a risky one as it adds additional pressure to the area

surrounding the steel caisson.

Is that five minutes? Yep.

What do we got there now?

We just put probably 4,000 gallons in there.

What came out of the pipe was only 15 feet, 900 again.

So 3,000 gallons came from somewhere else in that little bit of time.

We're actually going to pull that airlift out and break it down if you

guys are good with that.

I think we're done. You know what we know?

This is connected to an enormous source of fire.

The fact that it's coming in at an enormous rate just verifies that we're

connected to the ocean, which, you know, if you're a believer in the flood

tunnel, is yet another checkmark to say this is it.

But now the Laginas have a difficult and potentially risky decision to make.

If they cannot force objects from the vault up to the surface, they need to

find another way to retrieve them.

Look, we're not going to sit on it. The dilemma here is whether or not to grab a

large amount of whatever's in there or to surgically remove some material.

I'm doing arthroscopic surgery now.

I'd rather do that than brain surgery with a pair of pliers blindfolded. Well,

I'm all for surgical.

Then great.

Decision made. I guess we'd like to... Continue hammer grabbing?

Yeah.

Just the two inches. You can go to two inches.

Trying to get back to where you're scraping wood again.

Let me go check that measurement and be back.

At some point, you're going to be very happy.

I'll be happy if you're happy, big brother.

That's what would make me happiest.

Although hammer grabbing will be effective in getting more wood and

perhaps other materials out of the Valley 3 hole, it could also damage or

destroy whatever lies within the so-called chapel vault plan was

to scoop out the last little bit of fill in there which would give us plenty of

time to to do this non-invasive investigation in this hole okay let's

drop it in see what happens here we go if the

structural integrity of it has been severely compromised maybe we do have to

retrieve it in piecemeal

My perfect world scenario would be we gingerly sit down on it, and it grabs

just something that says, here you go.

It's real.

Something that's kind of interesting, and it just started to happen as of

late, you can feel when it strikes.

Really? Which we haven't felt before.

Does that mean wood?

It could possibly be something hollow. Sure, hell yeah.

Suddenly, as the hammer grab is extracted from the steel caisson, Oh my

goodness. it is obvious that it has done much more than pick up loose debris.

That ain't good.

I just can't believe it.

Wow.

I'm choosing to be impressed.

Absolutely. Although the hammer grab was only intended to skim the surface of the

underground structure discovered at Valley 3, it has brought up several

large chunks of wood.

This is a six-inch hole. That's our core. That is your core from two years

ago? Good Lord.

After a brief inspection, it becomes obvious that what Rick, Marty, and their

partners have discovered is the very same wooden structure they found and

took a core sample from two years ago.

You core it from a hole that's wandering off and then you put this big can down

and you get it. Man, did we bingo that.

I mean, come on, that's pretty impressive.

I am extremely gratified from a technical standpoint.

I mean, we did it right. We took our measurements right and we came down

vertical right over this thing. You know, that's gratifying because that

wasn't easy.

What does the other side of this look like, Rick?

But as impressive as the discovery is, the team is concerned that the hammer

grab may have damaged.

Not only what they hope is the chapel vault, but whatever contents the vault

may contain.

I'd say we kind of f***ed up the surgical removal, didn't we? No,

initially I thought that, David, but we didn't bash it down.

We just opened the hatch, man. We've got to decide what this means, right?

I think we should know absolutely what we're looking at.

Well, I say let's take another grab and see what we come up with. I mean, we

have a shot. It's worth a shot to take something down and take a look.

i mean it's open now right and that gives you a little more insight as to

how to proceed go down once more very gingerly and i mean now at this point

some of the potential ways to proceed are now eliminated because the die has

been cast the top has been pulled off so we're still going to proceed with

caution but we want to look in there somehow you're going to want to probe i

know you are so let's go probe

Because the wooden structure has already been accidentally breached, the Oak

Island team has no choice but to send the hammer grab down the hole a second

time in an attempt to retrieve any artifacts that may be contained within

it.

It's a proper plan because whether it's fully compromised, whether structural

integrity remains, I want to prove to my own satisfaction whether or not

something is down there.

Could the contents of the next hammer grab contain the final clue to the Oak

Island puzzle?

The one generations of treasure hunters have been trying to find for more than

200 years.

We need answers.

And so we anticipate what's there. You know, we're on the edge of our seat.

Boy, look at that thing.

Nice grab.

Have Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team finally come face-to-face with an

actual section of the legendary Chapel Vault.

Looks like clay in between the two pieces of wood.

The mysterious wooden structure, which was first discovered and then lost more

than 100 years ago.

That's quite some clay, eh, Marty?

That's incredible.

And the excitement level just gets higher because the two pieces of timber.

are the exact thickness, the correct thickness, as described in the previous

records. And they look ancient, so everything looks perfect.

I think that's awesome.

Isn't that something?

According to historical records, the so-called Chapel Vault was estimated to

be seven feet high and was constructed of oak timbers, each seven inches thick.

It sure seems to be the vault because the timbers look very ancient.

They're the right thickness, and I walk up to it, and I think, what's that?

Are we seeing saw marks on there?

Yeah.

What does that mean?

I don't know.

That is odd.

They're both directions?

Both directions, yeah. You can see it cutting this way and cutting this way.

They're circular saw marks, and my heart drops to the bottom of my stomach

because... I'm pretty sure that the circular saw for milling timber is a

relatively new invention.

Oh, I see the marks.

Yeah, well, that would be a circular saw cutting.

The presence of circular saw marks on the wood may offer an unwelcome bit of

bad news.

Because if the wooden structure the team has located in the money pit is the

chapel vault, how could it have been made utilizing a tool?

that was not widely used in north america until the early 19th century if

that really is a circular saw then it's surely not 1600 correct

what i would do is go down and see dan yeah we'll do that it's actually

classic oak island right we thought everything was lining out but we see it

with our own eyes and it's distinctly and uniquely troubling you want another

grab i think we're done yeah kill it yeah shell that's it

look we got to go where the evidence takes us of course we do

and we can't let the island keep beating us no we got a kicker in the ass once

yep okay i'll be back okay rick with the

excavation of the valley 3 shaft temporarily halted

Marty Lagina's son, Alex, along with Jack Begley, have brought metal

detection expert Gary Drayton to the area on the island known as Lot 6.

It is also one of the lots once owned by Samuel Ball, a former American slave who

once lived on Oak Island.

So this is the property line right here. Okay.

What do you say, about 20 feet? Right in here would be probably a good place to

start.

Let's see if the first target of the day could be a Spanish coin.

Cross your fingers.

Having traveled to Oak Island from his home in Florida, Gary Drayton brings

over 25 years of experience detecting near-surface artifacts and treasure.

Is that a good hit?

Yeah, that's a good hit.

All right.

Over the years, he has recovered more than $1 million worth of everything from

ancient jewelry and coins.

to priceless historic artifacts.

Wow, straight on it. Yeah.

OK, so let's keep looking.

Using the Minelab CTX 3030, Gary will be able to detect up to three feet

underground. He will also be able to distinguish between ferrous metals, such

as iron, and non-ferrous metals, such as gold or silver.

Wow, I'm getting targets all over here. Oh, yeah?

Wow. Yeah, there's a bigot.

I think we should start here.

All right. Dig it up, Jack.

Dan?

Come on in.

Got something to show you here.

I guess you have.

Yep.

Don't know how important it is, don't know the relevance of it, and that's why

we're here.

If anyone on the island might be able to identify the strange pieces of wood the

team recovered earlier this morning at the Valley 3 borehole, it's Dan

Blankenship. He has lived on the island and been searching it for treasure for

more than half a century.

What do you have, Rick?

Well... The caisson is down to about 142 and change.

This item came up inside the casing.

Yeah. We think that that's the core.

Oh, yeah.

That's a pretty good indication that you're in the right spot.

Right. Here's the thing, Dan.

We're trying to figure out what these marks are.

Definitely saw a mark.

They're probably about a three-foot circular blade.

This wood here would have been made somewhere after 1750, we'll say.

Right. So do you think this is searcher as opposed to original depositor?

In all probability, just by the texture of it, it's probably part of chapel

shaft.

Chapel shaft?

In 1931.

More than three decades after the location of the Chapel vault was lost

due to a cave-in, William Chapel's son, Melbourne, began constructing a lateral

or horizontal tunnel leading in the last known direction of his father's historic

find.

Unfortunately, Chapel was only able to build about 10 feet of his tunnel before

being plagued by a series of underground cave-ins due to flooding.

Is it possible that Rick, Marty, and the team have found not the legendary Chapel

Vault, but Mel Chapel's abandoned searcher tunnel?

It now appears that Oak Island has once again played a cruel trick on those who

seek to uncover its centuries-old mystery.

The target that Rick, Marty, and the team have been so eager to reach, and

have had such high hopes for, is not the Chapel Vault.

They will now have to decide whether to dig deeper or begin excavating their

second planned hole at the money pit.

Unfortunately, I think we have some information, Charles, that we need to

relate to everybody up top.

Okay, we're going to go.

Yeah. Well, thanks for the info, Dan.

Yeah. I'm going to give you my honest opinion whether you like it or not.

That's all we want. That's the one thing I absolutely know I can count on, Dan.

Okay. Thanks, Dan.

Thanks, Dan. They'll get your work cut out ahead of you. Yep.

I'm getting targets all over here. Oh, yeah?

Back on lot six, Gary Drayton is continuing to get numerous hits from his

metal detector.

Yeah, I think we should start here.

This is most likely proof that the area the team is searching was once a place

of human activity.

We've got other hits over here. Should we look over here, too?

Yeah, just send another.

Wait, you think it's connected?

Or just some of the same sort of stuff?

It's the same kind of stuff.

Let me try and open this area up a little more.

Wow, I'm getting targets all over you.

That's a good sign. Yeah.

Whoa!

Alex, I saw something move in there.

Oh, wow, look at that.

It's a chain.

Yeah, it's got the round eye.

Does it look like a logging chain?

I don't know. It looks really old, though. Or a nautical chain.

It's tough to tell.

Back in the day, the old pirates and stuff, when they used to bury treasure,

they used to lay a chain so they could follow the chain to the treasure. I know

it sounds crazy, but yeah.

A piece of chain?

found on property that once belonged to samuel ball in seventeen seventy six

samuel ball was an eleven-year-old american slave after running away

from the south carolina plantation where he was forced to work he made his way to

new york where he promised to fight for the british cause in exchange for his

freedom in seventeen eighty six the young man moved to nova scotia where he

eventually purchased a four-acre lot of land on Oak Island.

Although Ball was known to his neighbors as a simple cabbage farmer, at the time

of his death in 1845, he was revealed to be one of the richest men in the area,

owning a total of 36 acres on Oak Island and several more on the mainland.

Hey, guys.

Hey, Charles.

Just in time. What'd you find? Check it out. We got an old chain here.

Really?

They think it's weird how it's in a straight line. Wouldn't you think it

would all be in one clump? Just clumped up together.

Just trying to expose this end of it so there's a little bit there.

I'm hoping it's a treasure chest.

I'm hoping you're right.

Could Gary Drayton and members of the Oak Island team have found an important

piece of historic evidence?

Oh, it's a hook. It's a hook.

one that could explain how Samuel Ball was able to acquire his vast wealth.

There it is.

Target and buggy.

Okay.

Oh, well, it was a nice try.

I will keep going in a straight line.

Oh, and that's a nice looking one too. Yeah.

There's something. That sounds like a good target.

Yeah, it does. Hear that tone?

It's not iron, right? No, it's not iron.

Well, that's good. It's a mid-tone.

If I was guessing, I would say it was a coin.

It's eight or nine inches down under the center of the search coil.

Directly under the center. It may be pinpointed, Jack.

Oh, please be a Spanish coin.

Here it is.

Wow.

What is this?

Looks like a ring.

On Lot 6, near the middle of Oak Island, on land, once owned by a former American

slave turned wealthy landowner named Samuel Ball.

I think it's copper.

Members of the Oak Island team, along with metal detection expert Gary

Drayton, have just made an interesting and perhaps significant discovery.

Doesn't look like it. We'll see. See if it fits. Very irregular.

What do you think?

Yes, I do.

Sure enough, we pulled up a really old ring.

It's like a copper bronze and real deep in the ground, over a foot at least.

It had been sitting under this root of a tree for probably over 200 years.

It's real exciting. We know we're in the right spot to find more really old hits.

Next is the chest.

I'm thinking positive.

I'm going to find some treasure.

Things are picking up.

We're in an area that has been unexplored, especially by someone as

talented as Gary.

It's boosted our morale to the point to where we're ready to just keep digging

and digging.

Nothing so far, huh? No.

All it takes is one good target.

There's a lot of iron in this area, which means people have been there. Man

-made stuff.

That's not iron. Yeah, that's good sand.

Yep, straight in the middle.

Gary gets what he thinks is possibly an exciting hit, and he thought it was

great because it was so deep.

I started getting down there and digging a bunch of dirt up, so dirty as heck,

but we're sticking to our guns.

All right.

That's a good target.

See how good it sounds now? Oh, yeah.

It's not moving around.

Hopefully it's something good.

Oh, it's a coin. It's a coin.

We've got a coin.

A coin?

Could it possibly be one that was once in the possession of Samuel Ball?

Perhaps even one he found while searching for treasure on Oak Island?

Face on that side.

Now that's exciting.

Way to go, Jack.

All of us.

Can you see any milling around the edge, the little lines around the edge? They

mill the coins because it was made in a press.

Can you see a little milling around this? It is.

So it could be up to 200 years old, over 200 years old.

Way to go.

What we're going to have to do is recheck this area and go in spirals just

in case there's some more.

Unless you'd rather dig some more nails.

Well, those are my favorite.

You know what I'd like to do if you don't mind? Just dig this out a little

bit more because you never know. There might be another coin.

You mean white in the hole?

Hey, guys.

What did you find, Gary?

A coin just the wrong color.

I'm still looking for that gold-colored coin. I'm hoping you're going to find

the gold one.

There's a coin.

Nice.

And then Jack found a ring.

Here? Yeah, look. Just over there. Way to go, Jack.

What do you make of that? If we're finding copper rings, copper coins, I'm

sure there's other...

items we can find so this is a hot little area you've put us in rick i'd

love to watch you find a gold one i want that big grin on your face and see my

gold dance exactly i don't want to spoil it for you although today began

with disappointing news for rick marty and the oak island team the small but

potentially significant items found on samuel ball's property offer hope that

bigger discoveries still lie ahead look guys it's getting late i say we call it

a day you know good job i mean the coin is amazing it's it's been a good day all

right good okay great

as

a new day begins on oak island Craig, you want to tee it up? Sure thing.

Get this up here.

Rick Lagina and Craig Tester begin focusing their attention on the second

of the team's two target sites, borehole C1.

These are video clips that we ran last year and this should give you some sense

of what you're about to encounter as the drilling process proceeds.

Maybe you can glean some information from it.

It's when we saw the nice shiny object, so we definitely want to show that to

you. Yes, I heard a lot about that.

Here we go.

Last year, Rick Lagina supervised the drilling of an exploratory borehole in

an area of the Money Pit chosen by island historian Charles Barkhouse.

That right there.

After putting a camera down the hole, they spotted a mysterious gold-colored

object embedded in rock some 170 feet deep.

underground it looks metallic how yellow that is it's your gold color dude

okay here we go

you can see this is this shiny object we're talking about definitely it does

not look like rock no i see the hook yeah i didn't see that before

right there right there right there yeah okay

It's got a curvature to it, like you said, like a hook.

It goes up like this.

Yeah. It does indeed look like something.

What it is, I wish I knew.

So this is what we need you to bring up.

Would you feel comfortable doing that or not, putting the hammer grab down?

Now there is another challenge facing Rick, Craig, and the Oak Island team.

Not only must they locate the mysterious shiny object again, but assuming they

can, they must figure out a way to retrieve it.

I got to go look at the geometry of the hammer grab and when the jaw is open and

closed and see what we could weld a shroud to that.

Very similar to our drill bit. You know, we can go down into the socket without

fear of collapse.

There's nothing fancy about it, but if it's effective, I mean, that's all

you're looking for, I think. That's for sure.

I'm glad you didn't see anything that puts you off.

Yeah, no, I think we're still in pretty good shape.

So, yeah, let's go get David's shiny thing. Let's go get David's shiny thing.

Okay, sounds good.

All right. Thanks, guys.

Thank you.

Hi, guys.

Charles, what's going on?

Ah, it looks like they're just ready to drop the first can into C1. Yeah, baby.

You've got to be excited about that.

Well, I'll be more excited if we actually find something.

This is called C1 for a reason. I know.

You picked this hole. I did.

I respect Charles' knowledge of the money pit, of the Oak Island story.

He was tasked with putting an X on the ground, Charles, based on your

information, your knowledge base, your instinct, your gut feeling about Oak

Island. Put an X in the money pit ground and we'll drill it.

He did.

Gentlemen, you ready to slam cans? We're ready to slam some cans.

We're going to have a little better luck this time.

Yes.

We're set up on C1.

Fossil is ready to go. We got the pipe hooked up and we're ready to load it

right now.

Slam can.

Let's do it.

All right, here we go, boys.

Working down, working down.

Looking good, looking good.

About two feet to thread. Here we go.

Coming down.

We threaded over there, babe?

All right, here we go. We working.

There she is.

All right, here we go. Working down.

Once again, the giant 15-ton drilling oscillator grinds the massive steel

caisson into the rocky ground.

If all goes well, it should reach its target depth of 170 feet within a few

days.

It's already starting to oscillate, man.

Yeah, right now we're going to put it in a little bit at a time, leveling a lot,

making sure it's exactly where you want it.

Well, Andrew, just don't miss the shiny gold thing, okay?

That's all we have to hit now? That's it. Okay. Consider it done.

All right.

Love that attitude, man.

Our hopes for C1 are that it's an explorable cavity and that there is a

physical connection between some type of man-made work.

in the traditional money pit which connects to this void some 170 feet

below the surface of oak island lies a mysterious golden object embedded in

stone is it simply another piece in an enormous puzzle that

has confounded treasure hunters for more than 200 years or is it a

glimpse of the treasure itself

One thing is certain. The Laginas and their partners have dedicated millions

of dollars to solving the Oak Island mystery.

Giving up is no longer an option.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

There we go.

As soon as that drops in, you're 15 feet away from the void. There's a shiny gold

thing down there. David!

What? Drain the swamp!

Way to go.

We can finally start excavating in the swamp.

Oh, look at that. This is a piece of a Spanish galleon. Six people have lost

their lives trying to do what you may be able to do this afternoon. It's

definitely inside the cavity. There you go. The door is open.