Original subtitles

Tonight, on The Curse of Oak Island.

I'm sorry, I am on the bus.

Wow. What's that?

We have hits in the cavity in the money pit. It doesn't get any better than

that. How many hits does he have?

Three hits. Wow, is that for real?

This is a Mi'kmaq relic. The face is pointing at Oak Island.

We have financial constraints at this point. We need to make a decision today.

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.

Have him describe it again, Howard, if you can. Hey, Mike, John just got here.

Can you tell him what you felt?

For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, every day on Oak Island is a day that

could forever change their lives.

Let me see.

Sorry, two areas just above the clay silt down there that are two of her

hits. Another hit.

And so far, today has proven to be no exception.

This is a different hit?

Yeah, it's just above the clay.

Once again.

They have brought acclaimed divers, John Chatterdon and Mike Huntley, along with

John's diving partner, Howard Ehrenberg, back to the island, this time to explore

a mysterious cavern that lies at the bottom of borehole C1, some 170 feet

deep beneath the area known as the Money Pit.

How many hits does he have?

Sounds like three to three. Three hits.

Really? That's what he said. Yeah.

Here we go. It was at this same location that Rick Lagina and island historian

Charles Barkhouse first discovered evidence of a shiny gold-colored object

which appeared to be embedded in the walls of the cavern. The hell is that?

It's your gold color, David.

Since then, Rick, Marty, and the team have increased the width of the borehole

to 40 inches.

and lined it with a series of one and a quarter inch thick steel caissons.

They have also attempted to excavate the bottom of the cavity by means of a three

-ton hammer grab tool.

Unfortunately, the debris collected did not contain evidence of the mysterious

metallic object, prompting Rick and Marty to invite John Chatterton and his

team to make a more thorough investigation.

Let me ask you this.

Could you have been picking up the casing?

Negative, no way.

Roger.

Another hit?

Could diver Mike Huntley have finally located the mysterious golden object?

If so, could it be part of the mysterious Oak Island treasure that

people have been searching for and dying for?

for more than two centuries.

We're all on the edge of our seats. It's exciting.

We have hits in the cavity, in the money pit. It doesn't get any better than

that.

Well, the differentiating factor is, you know, it could be natural geology or it

could be man-made. Man-made is what we're looking for. It doesn't matter man

-made what.

Man-made would be great. Game changer.

You could find some real cripping down there.

Game changer. Game changer, absolutely.

Yeah, I mean, I think at this point, we got to bring up whatever set the metal

detector off.

Absolutely. Well, there could be things embedded in the walls.

That's where the shiny gold thing originally was. Right. You know, let me

just say this. How do you walk away from that?

You want to go back down?

No, but I came to, you know. He wants to go back.

Oh, yeah.

Right.

Hey, Mike.

Go ahead.

Yeah, I think it's time for you to come home.

Diver leaving bottom.

Unfortunately for the team, Mike Huntley has nearly exhausted his available time

at the bottom of C1.

In order to prevent potentially deadly decompression sickness, he will now need

to begin a slow and steady ascent to the surface.

Here,

why don't you sit in?

Up on the slack.

Up on slack.

All stop?

All stop.

Hey,

there's a shiny gold thing down there. If anybody's going to find it, John

Chatterton and Howard Ehrenberg are going to find it, so... Bravo Tango

might be forthcoming.

All right,

take care.

Faster.

After a period of some 60 minutes, Mike Huntley has made it back safely.

And Rick, Charles, and the team are more eager than ever to find out firsthand

what he encountered at the bottom of C1.

How you doing, buddy? Cold?

Yes. Sorry.

Good dive. So, what's the situation?

Right at the bottom, about here.

And that would be here.

Right here.

That is a smooth sort of wall, almost like a stucco wall. It's kind of smooth.

Yeah. And then I had two hard hits there. It was like... In the wall. In

the wall.

And then you said two words, round and curvy. What's that about? Yeah, it was

sort of smooth and sort of wavy. The wall itself.

The wall.

Okay, the wall itself. Not an object.

No, no, no. Sorry, no.

No, it's just the wall itself, and that's why there was nothing from there

for me to grab and pull off. Here's the thing.

You're freezing.

Get out of that.

Get him warm.

There are legitimate metal hits in the cavity, but they're in the wall.

We got to take the hose out so John can get in.

It's the typical Oak Island roller coaster ride. First you're on a high,

then you're on a low, then you're back up. I just want to find one thing that

tells the story of Oak Island to the most hardened skeptic.

For the Oak Island team, the next course of action is clear.

John Chatterton will make the next dive, one which should determine once and for

all. if some sort of man-made metallic object is really located somewhere deep

below the surface of the money pit. Where is the focus of your search?

I'm working on the wall with the metal detector.

Any of the floor, any of the hammer grab hole? When I get past the wall, you

know, whatever time's left over, I'll work that. That's phase two of my dive.

Let's go.

Let's do this. Good luck.

After two previous attempts to locate the mysterious gold-colored object at

the bottom of borehole C1, acclaimed diver John Chatterdon will now make a

third dive, more than 170 feet beneath the surface of the Oak Island Money Pit.

Two things need to happen. They need to confirm that these hits are real, and

hopefully they can set eyes on target.

All good, John?

Are you good?

Any process we endeavor to undertake on the island, the hope factor is through

the roof that the target, whatever it is, is actually there.

Because the original borehole at C1 was only six inches wide, the Laginas hired

a team from Irving Equipment Limited to widen the hole to a width of 40 inches

and then reinforce it.

with a series of solid steel caissons stretching all the way down to bedrock

at a depth of approximately 160 feet then a massive 39 inch

wide drill bit was lowered into the hole in order to make the remaining 11 feet

wide enough for a human diver yes

we can actually see it now

There's a rock.

Copy that. On the bottom.

Now, are you trying to metal detect in the place that Mike was metal detecting

last time?

The whole idea is to prove that the hope factor is real, that we can replicate

the hits. At that point, it's a matter of retrieval.

What are you seeing?

The previous dives into C1 have stirred up the clay silt in the cavern.

Just like John Chatterton's dive in 10X last year, his visibility at the bottom

of the shaft is now virtually zero.

We're not really seeing anything on the video. It looks like you're in a cloud.

I turned the light up. Does that help or hurt?

There's no question that it's difficult for John to have a complete and thorough

understanding of where Mike got the hits.

What's that?

You may have a hit.

Not sure?

Yeah, not sure.

I'm frustrated because I'm sitting on a bench when somebody else is in active

search mode, if you will. It's frustrating.

Are you picking something up, John?

Nothing that I can determine in that area.

With this allotted time running out, John Chatterton spends the next several

minutes exploring the ceiling and walls of the underwater cave with the metal

detector. On the one hand, he's not found it yet. On the other hand, he's

not covered the whole cavity.

Could Oak Island once again be up to its old tricks?

tantalizing treasure hunters with promises of gold and riches, only to

have important clues and evidence mysteriously disappear.

What the hell is this? No.

Three years ago, just after finding a 17th century Spanish coin in the Oak

Island swamp, diver Tony Sampson detected a number of underwater metal

targets, only to have them vanish moments later.

It was weird because initially I got a hit two-thirds of the way down and I did

a test on my ring.

Yeah, and it's the same sort of sound, obviously gold. I was getting it and

then gone.

Wait, gone? Exactly, just gone.

Slack the diver three foot!

The absence of any hits on John Chatterdon's metal detector has the team

deeply puzzled. Do you feel like the vis is getting any better, worse, or staying

the same?

It does seem like it's getting markedly worse.

Could the thick clouds of sediment kicked up from the two previous dives

now be preventing John Chatterton from receiving the same signals Mike Huntley

was getting less than two hours ago?

Or could the cause be something even more bizarre?

I hear interference.

Is it possible there is some sort of mysterious energy at the bottom of the

C1 shaft?

The same energy that has caused many of the electronic equipment failures that

have plagued Oak Island treasure hunters for more than a century.

That's certainly one thing about the island. Electronic stuff seems to fail

like crazy. The answer is simple. It's Oak Island. We see it all the time.

Yeah, but I mean, are you willing to say that there's really a curse?

that there's really something here that causes things to malfunction.

Things don't work here. That's where I end up. Things don't work here. Not as

advertised.

Hey, just so you know, we're at 30 minutes.

Okay.

John Chatterton's allotted time underwater has now expired.

He must return to the surface, having found no trace of the metal targets

reported earlier today by fellow diver Mike Hudley.

Although the situation offers bitter disappointment to the Oak Island team,

Rick Lagina refuses to be anything but optimistic.

It's disappointing that John has not gotten any hits from the metal detector,

but you don't put the cart before the horse on Oak Island. I'm not going to

prejudge whether or not this dive is successful.

Tell you what, you get warm, Marty and Craig are coming in, we go to the war

room, we sit down, we talk about it.

not only what we've learned, but where the possibilities may lead. We'll figure

it out. We'll try to make sense. Yep.

Awesome. We should get Warren Bird. Okay.

After a long day of both excitement and uncertainty at the Oak Island Money Pit.

Nothing but good news, right?

Knowledge is good. Knowledge is good.

Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along with Craig Tester and Dave Blankenship.

have gathered in the war room for a final debriefing of the dive operation

at borehole c1 now that we're all around the table you know the issue at hand of

course is what happened in c1 i would like to think we got lots of answers

when we looked at our objectives for this i think number one was natural and

man-made yes and number two was shiny gold object

When you did have some visibility, you think you've exploded 100%? With the

exclusion of the clay on the bottom, I would say we're probably 90% on the

walls and the ceiling.

Yeah, I would agree with that. It's a good number.

This is from above, looking down. This is our 40-inch caisson. We've got a wall

that comes around here.

And I would say around 1 o'clock, we've got a fissure that runs back, something

like that.

When you first mentioned the fissure, I thought it was only like a crack, but

you're saying it extended the hole.

It's irregular, but, you know, I could have my arm in there from the top down

to the bottom. This then comes across down to about here, but it's overhung.

And over here, we've got the smooth wall, the section where... mike had the

possible hits and then over here we're up high we've got an opening

that runs back here but it's kind of like that and that it's not a straight

shot it's very irregular in no sense of how wide open that is after that second

obstruction no none and here we've got a

funnel here underneath this from the grab we've got another little overhang

here and underneath it you've got rock on one side rock on the other side and

you have clay and it basically runs as far down into the bottom as there is

clay on the bottom so this here is not more than two feet wide this way so mike

when you got those hits and you were extremely excited what were you doing i

was standing in where the hammer grab was that's what i was using to try to

maintain my stability and i kept getting hits

In the same spot, which kept trying to extend my arm and go slowly back and

forth in a cross position to try to replicate those hits.

I feel pretty good about the survey that we did on the walls up into the

overhead. Chances of it being man-made.

Chances of it being man-made. Very small.

Same, small, small chance.

Mike Huntley and John Chatterdon are reporting on the dives they each

performed earlier that day down to the bottom of the C1 shaft.

They went in there. They metal detected.

They tried to repeat the metal detection. They probed.

It's so typical Oak Island, you know. I mean, it's just so damn typical.

We don't know where the shiny gold object was. Was it in the wall, the

ceiling? But I was hoping you'd get some hits in the floor of the cavity. It

really was.

Is it possible that by widening the hole and then digging with a three-ton hammer

grab tool, the strange metallic object became dislodged and now lies buried at

the bottom of C1, beneath several feet of clay sediment?

It begs the question, what else can we do, given that we still believe that

that is something?

If you can flush that chamber out, get better visibility in it, this is a

visual image that you're chasing.

Do it in a visual way.

We've got this conduit, a human-sized conduit down into that chamber. Are we

done with that hole? I don't know. We might have another go at it.

For Rick, Marty, and the team, until the sediment in C1 settles sufficiently and

visibility is restored, it is pointless to have John Chatterton or Mike Huntley

continue diving.

The shiny gold-colored object that the team photographed last year.

will have to remain a mystery, at least for the time being.

In this moment, we can't say thank you enough.

It's been a real honor to be part of this.

I mean, right back at you on that one. We appreciate the effort, and we may be

calling you back.

Thank you very much. Job well done. In my mind, the C1 hole was really

conclusive in the sense that we're not done there.

I agree. You know, we have to, again, don't give up, you know?

Keep going until you get an answer, and we don't have that answer yet.

Terry DeVoe contacted me, and he wants us to come out to the Peggy's Cove area

and take a look at a very interesting rock he's found.

Art. Well, he didn't give me too many details. He just said he's quite excited

about it.

After being bitterly disappointed by the lack of a breakthrough at borehole C1,

Rick Lagina has agreed to join area historian Charles Barkhouse on a trip

which will take them some 50 miles east of Oak Island to an area known as

Peggy's Cove.

They have been invited there by fellow researcher Terry Duvaux, who believes he

has made an important discovery.

Charles! Hey, Terry. How are you doing, Charles? Good, good. Good to see you.

Terry, how have you been?

How are you? Good to see you again.

So I really want to show you this stone that I think could be pretty important.

Now, this is a stone that is not widely known.

Myself and a few other people, as far as I know, are the only ones who know about

it. So this is something new for you guys to take in. Well, if it's half as

intriguing as what you showed us last year, I'm on board.

One year ago, Terry Duvall invited Rick, Marty, Craig Tester, and Dave

Blankenship. to the town of Overton, some 144 miles west of Oak Island.

There, he showed them an incredible series of carvings, which are believed

to be hundreds of years old.

You have the cross with the circle that obviously is a Christian symbol.

That is quite remarkable.

And isn't that a Templar cross?

Could Terry have found another important clue?

one that connects Peggy's Cove to the Oak Island Mystery, several miles away.

So, Terry, when exactly did you discover this stone?

Yeah, about four years ago.

Just scouring the area around here, looking for any old

walls or foundations.

Always on the lookout for petroglyphs.

You don't find them very often.

So when I noticed that this particular stone had been worked, as opposed to

just being a purely natural boulder, obviously that really caught my

attention. In recent years, Rick, Marty, and the team have found a number of

strange and potentially significant stone carvings, both on and around Oak

Island, from New Ross to the Bedford Barrens.

Is it possible that a number of these carvings were deliberately created to

form a series of clues?

Clues that would help solve the Oak Island mystery?

There we have it, gentlemen.

What do you think?

Do you see the features?

Definitely features.

Yeah.

See where the mouth, the nose...

And it faces this way? It faces out to sea, yeah. I'm also intrigued by, do you

think that that was manipulated into that position?

Because I see little rocks underneath. Exactly, yeah.

It does look like there are some shims under there that were put down to make

sure it stayed in that configuration.

And there are some modifications to the outline to make the facial features

more prominent.

There was a face on it, a carved face.

When you first look at it, there's a definite shape to it.

There's something that says, well, that's strange looking.

Get up closer, you look at the things that Terry points out, then your mind

opens up to the possibilities.

If you look carefully, there's a difference in texture from this surface

to this surface.

It's rougher, which means it's younger.

I mean, if you look here...

Right here. Yeah. This has been hacked off, right, to make the shape better.

And it's not here. No. As though it were, you know. Or even here. I mean,

these surfaces appear to be natural weathering, the result of glaciation.

But these surfaces look like they've been subsequently worked. What else

could have subsequently shaped it other than the hand of man?

Near Peggy's Cove, some 50 miles from Oak Island, stone carving expert Terry

DeVoe has just shown Rick Lagina and Charles Barkhouse a giant boulder which

he believes has been carved to resemble a human head.

You know, Terry, we have a headstone on Oak Island, too. Oh, that's right, at

the center of the Nolan Cross, yes.

In 1981...

While surveying his property near the center of the island, Oak Island

treasure hunter Fred Nolan discovered five large cone-shaped boulders that

formed a megalithic, perfectly symmetrical cross.

Believing there could be something of great value buried at the center, Fred

dug down several feet where he came upon a sixth boulder.

But this one, instead of being round like the others, was different.

Because this one, appeared to be carved into the shape of a human face.

It's the same thing, you know, not from every perspective because it's laying

flat right now, but I think if it were standing up like this, surely there were

similarities. Kind of a rough carving, outlined the prominence of the nose and

the nasal features and the mouth.

Yeah, and the eye socket, you know, where it would be.

When Mr. Nolan found it, it was actually buried.

Right.

On Oak Island, there is, of course, Nolan's Cross.

Kind of the same angularity to it. Are they similar? Perhaps. And might there

be a connection?

Perhaps. But it's curious, like everything Oak Island, unfortunately.

One of the first things that came to mind when I first saw this, as far as I

can tell, this is a Mi'kmaq relic.

But not only that, I mean, we know that the Mi'kmaq were very active in this

area.

The Mi'kmaq, also known as the First Nation people, are the original native

inhabitants of Nova Scotia.

Although much of their actual history is unknown, it is widely documented that

they began trading various goods, including fish and furs, with European

explorers as far back as the 15th century.

The features of the face, to me, jump out as uh a migma style of feature that

you will see in in migma art even today now for me these

distinctly migma features absolutely look like a

depiction of the migma god kluska do you mean prince henry sinclair

prince henry sinclair the templar knight who many believe came to nova scotia

nearly 100 years before christopher columbus discovered the new world in

1492 according to the folklore of the mi'kmaq people in 1398

a mysterious white traveler arrived on the shores of nova scotia along with an

army of men and large sailing ships after proving that he meant them no harm

The stranger taught the Mi'kmaq new ways to fish and navigate the surrounding

waters. In time, the Mi'kmaq came to worship this mysterious visitor as a god

and gave him the name Glooscap.

Over the years, many theorists have speculated that Henry Sinclair came to

Nova Scotia on a Templar mission to hide priceless religious treasures rescued

from the Holy Land.

including the Ark of the Covenant and the golden menorah of King Solomon.

Could this large stone carving really be a depiction of Prince Henry Sinclair?

And if so, might it connect to the mysterious face found at the center of

Nolan's Cross, some 50 miles away?

I have long believed that Glooscap was a representation of Prince Henry Sinclair.

Of course, Prince Henry Sinclair has ties to the Templars.

Templars, of course, tie to many theories, suggest that they have a

connection to Oak Island. So my ears perked up at that mention of that.

I think, I truly believe there's a maritime connection here. The

orientation of it, how it's set up on a high prominent point, you know, was

there some island, some bay, some land, landing, some

area that...

This allowed peoples, the Mi'kmaq, to sail to. What we should do is take a

bearing on the direction that the face is pointing.

You've been very convincing about the gloose cap, but I still have this, you

know, maybe it's a reach, but I still want to know the orientation of Mahoan

Bay to St. Margaret's Bay and how this is oriented in that relationship.

So, I would say that the face is pointing pretty much due west.

Yeah, within about five degrees of due west.

So, it's pointing in your direction, Rick.

Is it possible that the carved boulder at Peggy's Cove was deliberately

positioned so that it would point in the direction of Oak Island?

And if so, does it provide additional evidence?

that the Knights Templar really did hide a sacred treasure there several

centuries ago.

You know might it be a bit of a stretch?

Yes.

But there's so many unknowns and that's part of what you're trying to do is

uncover history.

Yes. The unknown history.

Leave no stone unturned.

I've said ad nauseum this is as much information hunt as treasure hunt. The

information hunt perhaps will get you to the treasure hunt.

and indeed the treasure, the mystery, the story of Oak Island.

Well, Terry, look, I congratulate you on your find.

It's intriguing, as always, the amount of work you've dedicated to the pursuit

of either revisiting history or changing history. You're to be applauded. But the

damning part of it is, if I may say so, is you've just given us more questions.

Always more questions. Rick, it's a pleasure. I'm glad you were able to come

visit our stone here. Good to see you again. Thanks, Charles.

After a year that has seen breakthroughs in the swamp.

It's a large port.

It may be a ship's plank.

And on property that was once owned by former American slave Samuel Ball.

I think this is an encampment. This is quite a haul.

Wow, Gary.

1700s, that changes a lot.

The Laginas and their partners are frustrated that their enormous

engineering efforts in the Money Pit area.

have not produced similar results.

We need to get Craig on the line. Yeah, I agree. I totally agree.

Hey, guys. How's it going?

Hey, Craig.

We got some big decisions to make.

You know, we're kind of up against it now. There's only so much in the budget,

and there's a couple competing projects.

In an effort to regain momentum and make the most of this summer's rapidly

shrinking operating budget, the Laginas have invited their partners, Craig

Tester and Dan and Dave Blankenship.

to join them in the war room for an important meeting.

The core of this meeting really is that we have financial constraints at this

point. And the decision to be made really is, where do we go from here?

There's only so much money.

There's only so much that we can do. And the two looming things that should be

done are jetting 10X, which we've talked about many times, and digging a third

hole in the money pit. And it's going to be tough to decide what we do.

We have the gear, we have Irving up at the money pit, and we have to make a

decision today.

10X.

When you say 10X, what do you mean by that?

Blow the water out of it. We'll airlift it all out and see what's down there.

And if it doesn't collapse, then we go down there and see what is down there.

Okay, but as I understand it, even to airlift 10X is relatively the same cost

as digging this next hole.

in the money pit where are we going to put it we've got no data no hard

evidence on where we should put it yeah well let's go around the table for me

it's 10x wait a minute wait a minute you're saying if it's got to be one or

the other you want to take the remaining budget and go to 10x with it i want

answers in 10x this year that's right i've always had a desire to

Do what my brother says. Put an X through things, and we still have

ambiguity in 10X after all kinds of attempts.

Perhaps this will decide once and for all, yay or nay.

I got an objection to that, Rick, because we will never, ever be able to

dig as cheap as we can right now with all that equipment mobilized up there.

You, Craig, you want to weigh in on that?

I'm definitely for the money pit.

To do it sometime in the future, it's just really high cost.

You know, I just think we should put one more in the money pit and hold off on

10X. If one has to be sacrificed, I don't think we can give up the

opportunity to dig. Yeah.

I see your dilemma.

You're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

Right, but if there has to be a sacrificial lamb, I'd rather give up

10X. Nah.

Hey, Dan.

You've never lost faith in 10X, have you? You believe there's something

there? I believe in what I see. I believe in what I can look at. I believe

in what can be analyzed.

You saw what came out of 10X.

And in my opinion, I would stay in 10X.

Because, I mean, that's where the actual tangible evidence came from that we sent

away and had tested.

And you also know by this time that basically what I think is that the

original site of the so-called money pit has been lost over the years.

The money pit area is a crapshoot. It's a real crapshoot. I understand that.

Kind of like 10X.

You have to honor people's position in the hunt. But I think a lot of these

decisions out here are emotional.

We coach them in terms of logic.

I'd like to think that I apply logic, but... you know i'm probably as

emotional as anybody else in my own way and and the decisions are a combination

of logic and emotion hell it's like star trek all over again i agree we need to

make a decision today and that's that's that's difficult given our uncertainties

here and our differences in terms of what the agenda well you know what

that's where i'm in what way i'm going to offer up something myself and you're

going to be surprised

I find myself somewhat outvoted at this point. Which is very unusual.

It is kind of.

In a meeting in the Oak Island War Room, Rick, Marty, and their partners find

themselves at a logistical crossroads.

Having already exhausted most of their finances for the year, they are

struggling to come to an agreement.

on whether to dig a third large hole in the money pit or return to their

exploration of borehole 10X.

How close are we, budget-wise? Are we close?

The optimist in me says we can do both.

That's what the optimist says.

But we may not be able to have our cake and eat it, too. We might have to reach

in our pockets a little further. Yeah.

You know what? Here's what I think.

Basically, if I was searching my soul at this point, in the end, I'm going to

decide because of Dan, because I respect him. He wants to do 10X. We owe it to

him. Right.

You know what? I say, oh, hell, let's go for broke. Let's do them both, even

though we don't really have the budget. Let's do them both. Shake the dice and

shoot them.

You know, I think that's where we're at, Dan.

One condition.

Oh, here we go now.

First, we airlift.

Airlift the hell out of it, okay? Before we put a person in there. I'm with you.

You're with me? I'm with you, yep. I think we should do it. What do you say,

Craig? I'm game for doing both of them if we can keep the cost reasonable.

You know, hopefully the airlift gets rid of the doubt. You know, we come up with

anything that, I mean, anything, a hinge, a strap, a piece of gold, that

shiny stuff.

Then, yeah, then it justifies the risk and the means and everything else. I

agree. Yeah, okay.

I'm relieved.

You know, I mean, it was agony, really, trying to decide what to do. But you

know what? By God, we're here to try and get something done this year. And what

the heck? We're going for broke. We'll get them both done.

All I have to do is do this.

And we're here to solve it. Okay, it sounds like we've rallied to a

consensus. Yep. Okay, the fellowship of the dig goes for broke.

Finally break Oak Island.

Yep. And we're going to win this one. All right.

You in now, Scott?

Yep. That didn't take much.

Just as if another year had begun.

Good.

The Laginas and their partners are once again re-energized and re-dedicated to

solving a 221-year-old mystery.

That's quite impressive.

Today's operations will begin at borehole 10X, where, with the help of

the crew from Irving Equipment Limited, the team will use an airlift system to

pump hundreds of pounds of sediment and hopefully evidence of treasure from 235

feet underground.

A little more ahead.

It looks like they're only a step or two away from starting up.

Let's go up there and talk with Andrew.

see where they're at up and down and swing a little more you're good

hey adrian morning morning how are you boys good good

good you're just about there yes the airlift's in the hole there now so far

so good we just got to make this connection to the cyclone here now right

once that's done we'll start the compressors and start drawing some water

okay great

I think airlift is an appropriate agenda, if you will.

Mr. Blankenship has long advocated that position.

There's sediment in the bottom of 10X, and that's why we don't have visual

objects on the floor, which he believes are there.

Mr. Blankenship deserves this opportunity, so we have to find

something. Morning.

Hi. How are you? Good. Good.

So, what do you think?

That's a massive machine you got.

It's not like anything I ever had. I guarantee you.

So we lowered the pipe down in the cavity today.

Never felt any resistance whatsoever.

So once we turn on the air compressors, the air will go down. It'll force its

way back up. It's going to draw the water and the spoils.

It's all going to come out through that black hose into the yellow cyclone.

and then from there we got these two pumps right here that's going to draw

the water back into 10x well with your permission we'll turn it on right now

we'll see what happens all right you guys good to go yep all right thanks

andrew thank you good luck to all of us amen amen all right

let's start them up

Is it exciting?

Yes. Because if something comes up from this airlift that we hold in our hands,

some man-made object, whether it's a coin, an implement, a tool, part of a

chest, something that screams further investigation, at that point I am

absolutely 100% committed to drying it up and going down there.

There we go.

With the airlift operation at 10x, and the promise of a third major excavation

at the Money Pit to soon follow.

Rick, Marty, and the team are more determined than ever to solve the Oak

Island mystery.

But will their latest go-for-broke strategy pay off with the discovery of a

vast treasure?

Or will the island manage to keep its secrets hidden?

One fact is certain.

A mystery.

that has so far claimed six lives will not be solved without a sacrifice

next time on the curse of oak

island everything's going in that dumpster there's something that comes

from below we'll find it oh i think there's something in the airlift look at

that that's a boom dan believes that there is a body down there we're back on

the hunt in 10x We know that FDR was interested in the treasure hunt here on

Oak Island. I was able to find the president's personal file. Guess what I

found in that folder?

That's remarkable.