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Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island.

We're going to put the camera in. I'm on it. Let's see what this thing is.

We come through all that undisturbed ground and then hit something man-made.

It's filled with water!

Damn it.

Look at that. Oh my goodness.

It's a little keyhole. That's clearly a keyhole.

Oh.

This was how they smuggled gold. There was gold under this cross and the cross

was covered with lead. So there's a chance that they're out in Smith's Cove

still. You want to rewrite history, we're rewriting it now.

there is an island in the north atlantic where people have been looking for an

incredible treasure for more than two hundred years so far they have found a

stone slab with strange symbols carved into it mysterious fragments of human

bone and a lead cross whose origin may stretch back to the days of the knights

templar to date Six men have died trying to solve the mystery and

according to legend One more will have to die before the treasure can

be found

Okay, Mike, what's the good word?

I don't know if we have any good word right yet, but that's not what I'm

looking for.

For Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team, excavating the massive

shaft known as DMT has proven to be more difficult and frustrating than expected.

Yeah, see it? That's what they're beating there.

You can see where we're beating the s*** out of it.

That's where that piece is right there. Yeah.

Yeah.

That really picked up on me there.

Yeah.

One day ago, after getting the massive 60-inch-wide drilling caisson down to a

depth of some 77 feet, the team from Irving Equipment Limited hit what

appeared to be a large and mysterious obstruction, an obstruction which not

only caused the powerful rotating oscillator to malfunction,

but also broke off a number of the steel caissons' cutting teeth.

Son, look at the state. That's been chewed up.

11 out of 36. We ain't going to have no teeth on it.

In an effort to break through the mysterious barrier, the team next used a

four-ton chisel bit, repeatedly dropping it into the shaft.

It's strong enough to slow that thing down on a pre-pull.

That's crazy. Lots of crazy things happen. Yeah, I know. I'm learning that.

But even with an estimated 62 tons of force bombarding it, the obstruction

couldn't be breached.

Yes, if it's tearing this up, that's not good news.

Nope. And you found the teeth.

Yeah. So we're just going to be gumming it to death.

But you don't want to move it.

I don't want to move it.

We spent too much time deliberating as to where to put that.

they think we're on to a target you know why did it have to be this hole though

why couldn't it have been like that they just grab onto it and pull it up

yeah because nothing comes easy i know god nope that's for sure you know that

i'm hoping you get through this and start delivering some good stuff over

there

In their effort to find the exact location of the original Oak Island

Money Pit, and with it, the so-called Chapel Vault, the seven-foot tall wooden

structure first reported by treasure hunters William Chapel and Frederick

Blair in 1897, the Laginas and their partners have spent months of planning

and millions of precious dollars in an effort to pinpoint the most likely drill

sites.

Two weeks ago, While excavating the shaft known as H8, Rick, Marty, and the

team were convinced they had located the vault at a depth of some 170 feet.

But after attempting to carefully drill into what they believed to be the

surface of the mysterious wooden structure, the entire object appeared to

vanish, as if it had been pushed out of the way and sent even further below

ground.

important and expensive as this is, I would like to see the hole just vacuumed

out, and then we can actually get a visual of a dry hole. Oh, I have no

question about that, but can you do it? We use a camera to go down.

If we get the water out to see exactly what the casing's sitting on and where,

and then we'll just, that'll be a guarantee. So you drop that submersible

in there?

Yep. I suppose if you can do that, yeah. See with our own eyes. But I think what

we're going to do here first.

obviously we got to bring it up because we got to get that section off and put

the 10 foot back on so we can work out a comfortable height there's nothing

better than eyes and boots absolutely in order to examine the nature of the

obstruction firsthand the oak island team will next pump water and sludge out

of the dmt shaft so that it can be explored with a remote camera we need to

determine the orientation of the obstruction

if not determine what it is and address it somehow.

But I've always believed that the best way to make that type of determination,

it's eyes and boots on the ground.

We can all believe that it'd be all the sweeter finding something after all this

hassle.

And I hope it pays off.

It will. I can feel it in my bones.

Later that day...

As the Irving team prepares for pumping operations at the dig site... Well, look

who's here.

Hey!

Rick and Marty Lagina, along with metal detection expert Gary Drayton, welcome

author and Knights Templar researcher Kathleen McGowan Coppins to the island.

Hi, Rick. So good to see you.

Welcome. Every time I see you, it's raining. What is this?

Gary Trey.

Very, very nice to meet you, Gary.

Gary's our metal detector guy who happened to find the cross along with

Rick. Well, look, I know you have a bunch of information for us. I do. I'm

excited to show it to you. Do you want to go right on into the war room and get

into it? Absolutely.

Let's do that then. Okay.

It was three years ago that Marty and Alex Lagina first arranged to meet with

Kathleen McGowan Coppins in Montségur, France.

While investigating possible connections between the Knights Templar and the Oak

Island mystery.

Well, this is it, huh? This is. This would have been the main part of the

castle. It's been rebuilt since the Cathars were here.

So what I'm going to show you is that this is where they took the treasure

down the mountain on a pulley system and landing safely in Templar hands.

It was during this trip to France.

that Kathleen presented the team with compelling evidence that members of the

Knights Templar, facing persecution under King Philip IV of France, fled

first to Scotland and later sailed to the New World, taking with them

priceless religious artifacts, such as the Holy Grail and the Ark of the

Covenant.

It is her belief that these sacred objects along with the Templars' vast

accumulations of gold and jewels, were buried on Oak Island for safekeeping.

In the wake of Rick Lagina's recent discovery of a lead cross at Smith's

Cove, a cross that is nearly identical to a 14th century Templar carving in

Dome, France, the team has invited Kathleen to come and see the cross in

person in the hopes that she can shed more light on the artifact's true

origin. So happy to see you all. It's great to be here.

Kathleen has a wealth of knowledge about Templars and castles and medieval

connections to things.

We obviously have something we consider to be very important to show you.

I'm dying to see it. It's time to blow you away.

I'm hoping you feel the same way I felt when I first held this in my hand.

There you go.

Oh, my gosh.

Oh.

Wow.

While waiting for operations at the Money Pit area to resume... Stunning. It

is stunning.

Author and Templar researcher Kathleen McGowan Coppins has come to Oak Island.

to make an in-person evaluation of the mysterious lead cross that rick lagina

and gary drayton found buried at smith's cove just two weeks ago you know

obviously i saw photos of it and i was working from a photo but um holding it

is a completely different experience isn't it yeah it's unbelievable there

are There are a lot of representations of lead crosses that span a large time

frame, and that can be anywhere from, you know, the early 3rd, 4th century

through the, you know, 12th, even into the 13th, 14th century for lead. So

there are a lot of different kinds of crosses.

Nothing exactly like this, but there are some similar versions out there.

And all of them really old from those days.

Well, and I believe that this is really old, potentially.

Alex and I and my nephew Peter had been to France. We had gone to Rochefoucauld

Castle and also Dome, where Templars were held in a prison there.

And it is more than similar. It is an exact representation of that figurine. I

believe, Alex, you have some photographs. I have a photo right here,

so I can show you the similarity.

This is, on the left, is a carving in the wall at Dome, which was the Templar

prison.

And on the right, obviously, is a photo of that artifact. But the side-by

-side... It is amazing.

Dramatic. Yeah, it is amazing.

As usual, Oak Island gives us a lot more questions than it gives us answers.

Of course.

But I think that we're being led to some really amazing questions.

So what I did when I was sent pictures of the cross is I got in touch with our

Templar friends in Europe, some of whom you know, you've met.

Toby Dobler, who is the Grand Master of the Knights Templar in France.

While visiting Rennes-le-Château in southern France three years ago,

Kathleen arranged for Marty and his son Alex to meet with modern-day Templar

Grand Master Toby Dobler.

It was his extensive knowledge in the ancient order that gave further credence

to Kathleen's theory that a large number of Templars escaped persecution in

Europe. and eventually made their way to Oak Island more than seven centuries

ago.

If you were going to look for the treasure of the Knights Templar right

now today, you would look on Oak Island.

That's for sure.

I sent him a picture of this and I said, what do you think?

And he sent me an explanation in this very interesting drawing here.

His first thought was that perhaps there was gold under this cross and that the

cross was covered with lead.

What Toby showed me was that the Templars would create these sort of what

they called pastilles, these sort of rhomboid shapes, which they would create

out of gold and then they would cover it with lead.

And they would wear them on cords around their necks. And that sometimes they

would wear a central piece in the middle. So imagine this.

as a cross on a Templar cord and then surrounded by these pastilles, these

rhomboid shapes.

This was how they smuggled gold and got it out of the country in a very safe way

without being detected by guardians.

Toby was very excited when he saw this because the shape of a hole is the same

shape that was used in the rhomboids that were found.

And so that was one of the first things that he looked at.

So I just thought it was very interesting that his first thought was

that this might have been part of a Templar necklace that was used to move

gold.

So there's a chance that there's some of those gold rhomboids that are out in

Smith's Cove still.

I certainly think so.

Are they going to be lead or are they going to be gold?

They're going to be lead over gold, we hope. All right.

Now you're cooking, Gary.

It is heavy for a song. It is heavy. It really is.

I think it's time for us to go back out there, Gary. I hope so.

As far as Oak Island is concerned, I've always tried to keep a very open mind,

and Kathleen has provided us with some information that appears to be highly

relevant. She's a wealth of knowledge about medieval everything, and in

particular, she's been fascinated with the Templar. She has read a lot, she's

researched a lot, and there's a possibility that it's gold inside this

little lead cross.

At this point, we have to take her word for it. And she is, as Marty said,

eminently qualified to speak on such subjects.

Now, you were just in Dom.

But are you aware that the neighboring town is called Sarlat-le-Canada?

I did not know that when we were there. No, we did not. We are sitting right now

in Nova Scotia, a place known as New Scotland.

Are we also sitting in a place that is essentially New Canada?

This idea that there is essentially a Canada right next to Dom, which is where

the Templars were, I think is something worth looking at.

What if we're looking at a potentially different idea for how Canada becomes

Canada?

It has been widely accepted that Canada first got its name from the 16th century

French explorer, Jacques Cartier, who reportedly began referring to the area

using the Iroquois word, Kanata, meaning village or settlement.

By the 1700s, fueled by the spread of the fur trade, the area known as Canada

had grown to refer to all French-controlled lands in North

America.

But could the name actually have a much different origin, as Kathleen McGowan

suggests?

One first given to the region by members of the Knights Templar.

I did not realize that we were so close to Canada when we were in Dome. It's

amazing, isn't it? Yes.

I'm willing to buy that.

Sure. The alternate origin story for Canada's name. You know, the connection

with the French is strong enough that I don't have any trouble with that. So if

we're looking at a different timeline and we're saying that the region was

discovered much earlier than that, say 300 years earlier, then I think we have

to start looking at... possibly different origin stories for some of the

etymology.

Rick, you want to rewrite history, we're rewriting it now.

Exactly. It's an interesting fact that this word Canada appears there.

It's one of the strange things about Oak Island that somehow you can make these

quasi-coherent, quasi-logical connections to so many things that it

just boggles the mind.

So, those are my...

initial thoughts obviously there's a lot more research to be done and and more

digging to do literally and figuratively but i think it's so exciting i think

this is an amazing artifact and i think it's a potential missing link to a huge

part of what this island is and what it means let's see where it leads us right

yeah although determining the exact origin and age of the cross will require

weeks of further testing

Kathleen's research has provided Rick, Marty, and the team with information

that helps to validate their gut instinct that it is both very old and of

Templar origin.

Her visit also assures them that they may be close to a breakthrough, one that

supports all the reasons they came to Oak Island in the first place.

When I was a little boy, I believed that there was a wonderful story here.

Far and away exceeds the value of any temporal treasure.

I think the treasure is the story, but I believed it then and I believe it now.

Well, listen, I am positive. I speak for everybody when I thank you profusely for

coming here, sharing all this research you've done. But here's the part I think

I know you're going to want to hear.

Now is the good part. Let's go back.

Let's have a look at all these things. I'm certain you're eager to do so.

Rick and Gary and I will show you around the island, and I would love to know

your feelings.

about it as we do so music to my ears let's go let's do it let's do it

before kathleen departs the

island rick marty and gary take her to smith's cove to visit the site of their

potentially history-changing discovery the hole should be there somewhere yeah

careful be very careful where was we It's probably changed a bit now. I think

it was somewhere around here, wasn't it, Rick? Somewhere around here, yeah.

Didn't you do significant digging in this region the last year?

We did a bunch, Kathleen. We dug all over here, and it's entirely possible

that we unearthed that cross.

We would never have seen it. We weren't metal detecting then. That's not what we

were looking for. Right. But all this entire area, I'm going to go over again.

So how challenging is this? What kind of plan do you have to create to really

exhaust this area?

Well, superficially it's easy, but the problem is if we put any kind of

machinery in here, which it may come to if we want to move this stuff around, we

got some pretty significant permitting issues to jump through. The problem

comes down to permitting, as Marty just said, and David's issue with that little

pond that's out there.

The Atlantic Ocean. How do we address that? Oh, that bond.

There's no doubt in my mind that there's more here. That cross is so important,

but it's also, I think it's the beginning, not the end.

Good. We're gathering little bits of information, collating them,

assimilating them, putting the Templar clues here, putting the Rosicrucian or

Freemasonry clues here, putting these puzzle pieces here.

And with...

People's help, like Kathleen, I think we're all compiling the proper puzzle

pieces. I think together we will finally get there.

It's amazing.

There's more stuff here, gentlemen. I know it. I feel it.

Keep digging, Gary.

I like the way you think.

As a new day begins on Oak Island, Jack Begley and island historian Charles

Barkhouse oversee the team's pumping operation to clear an estimated 7,300

gallons of water out of the DMT shaft.

We're going to put the pump in and try to dry it out.

If successful, the team is hoping to expose and hopefully identify the

object that has so far blocked their efforts.

to drill beyond some 77 feet.

Heads up.

Got it. We're on the bottom now. Sweet.

We're ready to rock.

While the pump begins to empty the water out of DMT, Rick and Marty Lagina, along

with metal detection expert Gary Drayton, arrive at Lot 8, near the

middle of the island.

Hey, Gary, the sun has come out. We got a little bit of time. Let's find

something. That's a good sign.

I think so. You got your lucky digger. Yep.

Today, they are continuing their search of the area surrounding property owned

by Tom Nolan, son of the late Oak Island treasure hunter, Fred Nolan.

These are basically 50 years of his work, you know, his survey work down on

the island.

it was just two weeks ago that Tom agreed to work in concert with the Oak

Island team, granting them unprecedented access to both his father's detailed

maps, as well as the Nolan property, where Fred made some of his most

intriguing discoveries.

There's just something I wanted to show you.

It's a key.

I've never seen anything like that before.

We have no understanding of the skeleton key.

I don't know what it means.

I never got to speak with Fred about it, but Fred has gone on record as saying

that he has found, at least it's his belief, that he found 11 places on the

island where he thought that subsurface treasure had been recovered. What else

might be out there?

It was Fred Nolan's belief that the key to solving the Oak Island mystery could

be found by examining clues located on the surface of the island, as opposed to

dozens of feet below ground.

In his efforts to survey and map all 140 acres of the island, he marked several

areas where he believed near-surface treasures were once deposited and later

retrieved.

After carefully studying one of Fred's elaborate maps, Rick has identified Lot

8 as an area that may yield significant finds.

What a pretty day this turned into. It is.

Any time we can go along with Gary, it's fun.

You know, it's like it's a mini treasure hunt in the big treasure hunt. In every

chance we get, we're going to do it.

Any day you go, metal detecting's a good day.

I've never used any metal detector, except that green one I have to find

nails in trees.

Yeah, this 17-inch core makes a difference.

You get better depth and coverage as well.

Ah, that's a scrappy iron signal.

I'm using a little bit of discrimination. We'll just go for the

good targets.

Well, this is a good sign we're getting into some iron.

Because often, you've got to find the trash before you can find the treasure.

That should be up on the wall.

Well, that doesn't sound too bad, does it?

I'll try pinpointing it.

I'm getting it now.

Scrappy piece of metal.

Oh, no, it isn't.

Look at that.

It's a little... Oh, my goodness.

Lock plate?

Like a keyhole plate? That's clearly a keyhole.

I mean, we're looking for treasure chests. That clearly was an embossed

keyhole. Very ornate, isn't it?

Yeah, beautiful.

And, oh yeah, this is like a little flower.

See that?

That's a flower. Yeah, see the flower on the left-hand side?

Where? Right there.

Oh, yeah. It's like a rose.

Huh.

Just right here in the middle of nowhere.

What's it doing here? I mean, really, what's it doing here? I don't know.

It's not something a farmer would have dropped or a trader or a fur trader or

anything. I mean, it looks like it's part of a chest.

A chest?

Could this lock plate have come from one of the three missing chests that once

belonged to Captain James Anderson and rumored to have been buried on Oak

Island?

And if so, could it also be connected to the mysterious skeleton key found by

Fred Nolan and given to Rick Lagina just two weeks ago?

Honestly, I was quite excited about the key cover that Gary found because...

If I can equate them to mundane things like farmers and tradesmen and things

like that, you know, the utilitarian stuff, then it doesn't really mean much.

But it's hard to picture a farmer having an ornate key lot cover.

So, you know, you immediately jump to this. This was on a chest.

It's somewhat asymmetrical. This does not match that at all.

The significance, I think, of being... asymmetric is that i i think this is

handmade yeah i mean somebody hammered this out right it's very cool i know

that fred had said to many people over the years that he had found up to 11

sites where he thought that subsurface treasure had been recovered something

had been dug from underground he always claimed that he had an actual piece of a

chest reinforced with iron rods let's keep this in mind you need to search

this area real well we need to find out what was what was in there yeah yeah

okay great oh my top pocket fine top pocket fine good job all right let's see

if there's anything else in the area

for

rick lagina and members of the oak island team today brings high hopes that

they will finally be able to find out just what it is that has been blocking

their progress in the dmt shaft

How deep are you?

So 74 feet.

And you've got to get to... 77 feet.

The Irving drill crew has spent the past two days disassembling the steel

caissons and draining water out of the 77-foot shaft in order to lower a camera

down and identify the barrier.

Danny, this is Marty's son, Alex.

How you doing, brother?

Good. Good to meet you. Good to meet you.

We've got about four more feet of water in here we're going to try to get out.

I mean, this is great. We'll know what we're looking at.

Once we figure out what this obstruction is, its orientation, if we feel like we

can get past the obstruction, whether or not we go down there and maybe somebody

goes down and puts a proper sling on it, we might be able to pull it.

Watch this out.

If we can latch onto it, if we can see it, even if we can just determine

orientations, I think there's something down here.

X marks the spot right there, and that's where we are.

I don't want to move because I believe that we're in the area of investigation,

i.e., where is the vault?

Hey, Daddy.

We're showing 87.3 in the center.

We'll dip out as much of the dirt as we can, take more water out.

The obstruction is right at the water level.

Definitely have a visual really quick here. Because right at the water surface

is where it is.

So it's almost like we can almost see it. I know for a fact we'll be able to

see that from up here.

And if you wanted to put the camera down. I think we should put the camera

down. Because it's going to be, you know, there'll be no water. That'll be

really, really interesting.

Yep.

Assisting the team are remote camera specialists Tony and Nick Peverell.

They will be using the Spectrum 120 high-definition camera, which offers a

360-degree view of underwater environments to depths of up to 1,000

feet.

Any more water we take out, that's going to be really, really helpful.

We have a plan. Let's do this, dewater, camera, and then make some decisions.

Very good, very good.

Because the water in the bottom of the shaft is full of silt and sediment,

It must be cleared out before the camera can be inserted.

Is that a hard bottom?

That's something hard, and we don't know if it's steel or rock.

It looks as dry as it's going to get.

I think we should go in with the camera right now.

Oh, you want to take a look-see first?

I think so. I think so right now.

All right, let's get it rigged up.

Dan, we're going to put the camera in. Right.

I'm on it.

I'm hoping for wood.

We've encountered zero wood.

So it sounds like we're aware of shafts never been.

Yes. We want to find out what this obstruction is.

Is it wood? Is it steel? Is it something else? If it's not searcher, it's

original. It would have meant that there was a human presence at those depths.

And today we will come to a greater understanding of what the obstruction

is. Well, I'm hoping that at this point, we're not looking for clues. We're

looking for the one thing.

Yes. Yes.

If we encounter wood, it has to be a tunnel.

Right. Right.

Could the obstruction be the top of a hidden chamber?

Or the cover to some kind of tunnel?

Perhaps one built to access the original money pit?

Going down.

Go down.

Of all the holes we did, Other than H8, which showed us things, this is the most

promising location.

Yeah.

Danny, put it down a bit more. Yep.

There.

All right, let's see what this thing is.

There's not much water there.

Does that look like a clump of mud, or does it look like the end of a timber?

Can you pan around?

Yep.

It's just a rock. That's a rock, yeah.

Amazing how that clay keeps all the water on, doesn't it?

Mm-hmm.

What is this thing?

We have clay bottom.

We have rock.

I saw it.

Nothing down there that would give us some understanding of what this

obstruction is. I don't know how you guys think, but I think we've seen

enough, or at least what we're going to see. I think we need to go down there

and check it out.

Although the team is getting a high-definition view of the DMT shaft,

the large amount of mud and clay still lying at the bottom of the hole has made

visibility difficult.

And to make matters worse, the shaft is starting to take in water.

See, there's water coming in right there.

Oh, yeah.

I've seen the bottom of the casing.

Are those the holes for the teeth right around the sides?

There aren't any teeth. Yeah, we're gumming it.

I see nothing.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Pull up, camera.

Pull her up.

Wow, look at that.

That ain't good.

Nope.

Cans filled up to the water table right now. What?

Damn it.

In a matter of just seconds, the 87-foot-tall DMT shaft has filled to the

level of the water table or tideline.

But is it really coming from the ocean or somewhere else deep underground?

In 1804, members of the Onslow Company excavated the money pit through nine

platforms of oak timbers.

down to a level of 90 feet.

It was here that they reportedly encountered a grayish-green stone slab

covered with strange hieroglyphs.

Upon removing the stone, the pit flooded with seawater from a tunnel later found

to originate at Smith's Cove.

Since then, every attempt to get to the bottom of the money pit has been

thwarted by what many believe to be an elaborate network of flood tunnels and

booby traps, all designed to protect whatever lies at the bottom of the pit.

Could this be what is happening now?

Could the drilling caisson have penetrated one of the original booby

trap flood tunnels?

Can you measure it, Mike?

Scott measured it. It's 33 feet from the ground or something like it's always

been. Wow, that was quick.

It's disappointing.

Oak Island is a tough adversary, if you will.

But as we always do, we move forward.

The problem is we're no further along in terms of where is this thing.

Well, hopefully by probing, it would have been nice to have been probing in

the dry, because you could have physically seen where it was going

exactly.

Let's see what this probing does.

The team from Irving Equipment Limited.

will now use a 25-foot-long piece of steel known as an H-beam to investigate

the bottom of the DMT shaft.

Using a process known as probing, the team will use the beam in the bottom of

the shaft in order to determine the size, surface area, and orientation of

the obstruction.

Let's go to the center, and if it's there, we're going to go 12 inches to

the left.

Good and solid there.

So then the question is, what is this? Yeah, exactly.

You know, it could be a piece of cast steel.

After probing the bottom of the DMT shaft, it is Mike Jardine's assessment

that the obstruction is most likely made of steel.

If true, it could mean the object was placed there deliberately.

And hundreds of years ago...

as no existing records mention the use of steel by previous treasure hunters.

We've been talking about this, Rick. I mean, undisturbed ground down to there,

and you hit onto something that big that he feels is certain is cast iron or

steel?

Is this shoring up the roof of a tunnel?

Could be something other than that.

You're in the vicinity of the 90-foot level that the original money pit was

supposed to have flooded in. With this elevation change.

Yeah. What, I mean...

If that is indeed a big piece of cast iron or metal at that depth, how would

it get there?

What do you think, Danny?

Now I know why the loader bucket had hot material in it.

That much friction.

Do you think this is solid metal?

The teeth are all gone in my can. I'm going to say, yeah.

I don't know what to make of this assessment that they are encountering a

steel plate at 90 feet.

Well, 90 feet is where the stone was found in the money pit, where they were

just above the treasure vault.

So it's an interesting concept, but prove it.

So that's where we're at. That's what we need to assess.

So if it is, it's intriguing.

It is very intriguing. Why is it there?

As the sun sets on Oak Island... Okay, well, look, guys, we have a decision to

make. Rick Lagina and members of the Oak Island team gather in the war room for

an emergency meeting.

The shutdown at the Money Pit site is costing in excess of $20,000 per day.

and they must now decide whether to abandon the dig or find another way to

keep the operation going.

Our options are somewhat limited, so I think we should give Marty and Craig a

call. All right. Find out what their opinion is. I'll get them on the screen.

Joining the meeting via video conference from their offices in Traverse City,

Michigan, are Rick's brother Marty and their friend and business partner, Craig

Tester. Hey, guys.

Ah, the fellowship.

Indeed. The reason for the call is, you know, we're kind of

stymied right now.

We're on this obstruction.

The question is, is it on a steel plate?

At pre-done field, we would be right around 90 feet.

Okay. Here's the problem. We dropped the camera down there, and we don't see this

supposed steel plate.

We could see...

from the camera that there were no teeth on the can any longer.

But almost immediately, mud came in, and then water poured in, and in a matter of

seconds, it came up to static water level. So we lost the opportunity to go

down there in the dry.

So the question is... Your back pool of water?

Yes. So the question is, what are our options right now?

We have preliminarily looked into getting a diver, Mike Huntley, to go

down hole.

Over the past few years, veteran diver Mike Huntley has made a number of

exploratory dives on Oak Island. Hey, take her down.

Including one conducted earlier this year in the C1 shaft.

We have zero visibility now. We're totally reliant on what you find. Over.

His knowledge and experience.

especially when navigating zero visibility situations has proved

invaluable to the team's underwater search efforts i

would do that look rick to go

down there and quote in the dry i think is mondo dangerous very very dangerous

to go down with the static fluid level on the inside i don't think is dangerous

at all i mean not any more than a normal dive right so i think his task is very

simple what is it stopping this can yeah mike basically said he's available

whenever but of course it's logistics here he needs to to mob and get here

yeah well tell him to get after it as soon as possible would be great well i

think it's going to be very interesting if the diver can prove it to be a plate

i think it's going to be a very interesting target yes hey look if it's

a plate it could be hugely significant

It could be the plate that covers the catch, what we're looking for.

All right.

Not giving up.

Not at all. Not in the least.

I still believe we'll be successful. I still believe there's something there to

be found.

Not giving up.

We'll get on arranging the dive, and we'll keep you up to date.

Thanks. All right. See you. See you later.

For Rick, Marty, and the team, what started as a summer of incredible

opportunities

has once again been threatened by a severe setback but one thing experience

has taught them giving up is not an option and that just when the island

seems unwilling to unlock its secrets something unexpected is bound to happen

something like the discovery of a human bone or a mysterious

lead cross whose origins may lead to a treasure Far greater than any ever

imagined.

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

You did work out in Smith's Cove. That was put in by the original people.

There are pictures, there are measurements, but no one has been able

to solve the mystery.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, right there.

That's old. That has a 45 cut in it. This is a structure. There's no doubt

about that. What the heck is this?

look at that wow that is a bobby dazzler that's a fantastic gemstone this is

treasure congratulations guys