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Tonight on the Curse of Oak Island.

It's time to redo the dye tests.

We're going to get everybody lined out here real quick. See if that red dye

comes out and where. We're ready to begin.

Let's do this.

Here comes the water.

Whoa! Cut! Cut! Kill it!

Kill it, Bob! There is no treasure in the world worth anyone getting hurt.

There's some weird anomaly in the water. We're on our way. Oh, what is that? If

we get red dye in Smith's Gold, I might become a believer. There it is. Look.

Oh, I think I see it. That's the red guys.

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.

It is a morning of grave concern on Oak Island.

Morning. Morning. As Rick Lagina...

and Craig Tester investigate the extent of the damage caused by a large sinkhole

that developed in the Money Pit drill site two days ago.

How's it looking?

Vanessa is in there with Irving discussing exactly how we're going to

move forward.

Okay. Is there another problem that has reared its head?

No, she just told me not to do anything just yet until they get some stuff

worked out with the engineer and all that other stuff.

Oh. Yeah, don't look any worse here.

Okay.

Oh, hell no.

See how the ground's gone?

It's caving.

The sinkhole occurred while the team was excavating the borehole known as H8,

which many suspect could be the location of the original Oak Island bunny pit.

So we can definitely continue to dig with the camera graph. Oh, really? But

we want to go forward with caution.

Although at first... it wasn't considered serious enough to threaten

the operation.

Oh, baby.

Be careful.

Within 24 hours, the ground surrounding the 50-inch-wide caisson collapsed much

further.

To the point where it may no longer be safe to continue.

One of these days, we're all going to be standing here and just disappear.

So we'll see what their concerns are. Obviously, there might be a new issue or

two.

Hello. Hi, Greg. Good morning. Have a seat, guys.

You guys had a chance to discuss our problem out there?

Yeah. Didn't like coming to that this morning.

Yeah.

It was a serious concern, right? Yeah. We don't know what's happening.

You know, huge safety concerns.

But we're hoping that we can mitigate the problem and address it and move on.

But obviously, we're going to defer to both of you.

So having said that, what have you come up with?

Really now we're going to be monitoring the whole area of the ground, right?

Because this area has been so heavily excavated and compromised.

And I kind of use the analogy, it's been Swiss cheese, you know. So we're really

not sure what's going on in there.

And that makes us concerned.

For more than two centuries, hundreds of Oak Island treasure hunters have dug

dozens of shafts and holes.

in an attempt to reach the bottom of the so-called money pit because of this and

the fact that the area has been further compromised by water from underground

flood tunnels the ground beneath the money pit is susceptible to cave-ins

I guess as a starting point, you know, there is quite a hole there.

We need to fill that back in, but we want to do it right.

One of the suggestions that came up was to put the vibrohammer on the H8, shake

it up a little bit, and see what happens from there.

Okay.

A vibrohammer is a massive hydraulic tool which will literally shake the

giant 50-inch wide steel case on.

Although this will cause more earth to cave in, the hope is that it will

eventually cause the ground around the HH shaft to settle and become

stabilized.

However, there is also a chance that this process could cause the sinkhole to

become much larger and possibly trigger a catastrophic cave-in.

The one thing that is helping me not...

completely telling you guys, hey, we're out of here, is that this seems to be a

very isolated collapse.

Okay. We're not seeing crowning. We're not seeing spiders. We're not seeing

indication that there's something bigger going underneath.

It doesn't mean something bigger is not brewing.

Okay. So we're really going to have to monitor this and take lots of safety

precautions. Sounds good to me. Yep.

All right, so next step is vibrate. Yes, and we're ready. Thank you very much.

Thanks, guys.

They have some serious concerns.

because they do not understand what's happening underground.

I've gone on record as saying there is no treasure in the world worth anyone

getting hurt.

Can we continue is the greater question and that I still have hope for H8.

Look at that thing. Wow. There's a lot of loose material coming out of that.

Yeah.

I did open it up some more. He's got it wide open.

There she goes.

Oh! As the team from Irving Equipment Limited begins their efforts at the

Money Pit site, Hey, Jake.

Marty Lagina, Dave Lankenship, Jack Begley, and metal detection expert Gary

Drayton meet with heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt to plan the

team's next steps.

in their massive search operation at Smith's Cove.

What is the agenda today, Billy? Because I would like to cut trenches over there

because that's probably my focus is switching to look for the box drain if

it's there.

If we cut some deep trenches, we may intersect something that's outside.

Just leave enough room to cut trenches there.

Since the Oak Island team began excavating Smith's Cove just two months

ago, they have unearthed a number of incredible and potentially important man

-made structures.

In addition to finding both wooden and concrete walls, they have uncovered the

massive U- and L-shaped structures first discovered by Dan Blankenship in the

1970s. They have also unearthed a wooden slipway, which may have been constructed

more than two centuries ago, in order to allow sailing ships to be hauled onto

the island from the shore.

but perhaps the team's most exciting discovery so far has been the finding of

what could be one of the five stone box drains which were built to feed sea

water into the money pit as part of an elaborate booby-trap flooding system

every structure out there in smith's cove you surmise this has something to

do with the supposed flood tunnel and the finger drains or box drains It's

pretty clear from what we're finding that massive efforts went on to build

something.

So what's the plan?

Get rid of this. We want to clear from the wall all the way back. We're looking

for the so-called convergence point.

Okay. Well, I'm going to be your eyes. I'll stay out of the way, but be looking

from another direction.

Okay. Sounds good.

When the box drains were first discovered in 1850, members of the Truro

Company reported that the five finger-like drains appeared to converge

at the beach into a single tunnel it is marty's hope that by digging a trench

west of the possible box drain location they will be able to find the

convergence point and then follow the shaft to the location of the original

money pit just looking for an opening beneath these rocks that's what we're uh

we're hoping for just to see if we could see any opening into the uh The drains,

the box drains. Mm-hmm. That's what I'm thinking.

So, Marty, any box drains yet?

Nope. What I'm probably going to do is position there and dig the rest of this

up. Okay. At Smith's Cove, Marty Lagina, along with members of the Oak Island

team, are searching for the remains of what were reported to be five stone box

drains. that were first discovered by members of the Truro Company in 1850.

Marty, I don't think we ever did fully expose the bottom of the trench that was

right in front of Billy's wall, so we should be sure to get that deep at

least. It's right here.

Marty believes that if they can find more of them, they might find a

convergence point, which could lead them directly to the original money pit and

hopefully a vest.

underground treasure vault you got me some gold to find we do gary

hopefully gary do you want to detect that yeah come in there

hey

yeah that's a good that's a good hit just here fingers crossed is that ferris

gary

Yeah, there's a big metal target here.

So far, it's registering as non-ferrous as well.

That's a good sign. That'd be cool. Do you want me to try and pick it up and

dump it where you can find it? I think that's the best bet. It's just too

difficult to recover in the water.

You're good. You're good.

Oh, look.

He's on. Oh, hopefully he got it.

What's this?

That's it.

Whoa. What is it?

It's a bucket.

A bucket?

Yeah, it looks like a big metal bucket.

What's that doing down there?

You want more dug out of there, Terry?

Uh, yeah.

We're not quite to bottom, but we're getting close.

That's definitely the bottom.

We're on bottom.

Unfortunately, although the team located what they believed to be one of the box

drains five weeks ago, they have, so far, been unsuccessful in finding more

of them.

Should we keep digging this?

No, when you pulled away, you couldn't see. It was mostly sea horizon. I think

we're at the bottom. Okay.

There might be something in the spoils. You never know.

Yeah. Well, Rick said there would be answers in Smith's Cove. Instead, there

are more questions in Smith's Cove.

Exactly.

Where's the answers?

The following morning, and as efforts to repair the cave and surrounding borehole

H-8 continue at the Money Pit site... Hey, Craig. Hey, guys. Hey, Craig.

Rick and Marty Lagina call a meeting in the Oak Island War Room.

What we want to talk about today is, you know, with Smith's Cove all excavated,

we could think about rerunning the dye test because it's actually possible that

not only might we see where it comes out, we might see where it doesn't come

out. You know, in other words, what if we actually blocked off the entrance

with that big cofferdam? Right. When we did it several years ago, we didn't see

anything. Nowhere.

That's why we want to redo it, David.

Everybody's got to keep their heads in the game today because we're only going

to have one shot at this.

Four years ago, the Oak Island team conducted a test at borehole 10X, one

that was first conducted by veteran treasure hunter Dan Blackenship back in

the 1970s.

The test involves putting a colored dye down an exploratory borehole and then

pumping air and water into it.

to see if the dye can be spotted coming out at various places around the island

if so then the test could reveal the presence of underground tunnels most

likely man-made which in turn could lead back to the original money pit treasure

vault unfortunately the test the team conducted earlier

used bright green dye does anybody see any dye coming out because

it was hard to spot Even from the air.

No, man, we don't see a thing out here at all.

No underground flood tunnels were detected.

We all had a consensus back then that we could have done it different. We could

use a different color dye.

And I happen to have with me here today red dye, which we should be able to

see. Fluorescent red.

Yeah. Yeah.

We might see it seep out right into Smith's Cove somewhere and then be able

to follow it back while we got excavators. Yeah.

I think it might be well worth doing.

Yeah.

And Dan, Blankenship has always believed that there was some type of hydraulic

connection between Smisco and the Money Pit area.

So maybe that will connect to one of the flooding systems.

Yes. The goal of the dye test is to try and shed a little light on the constant

question that's in my mind between artificial or natural introduction of

seawater into the Money Pit area.

see whether that flood tunnel really exists.

And that's what this endeavor is all about.

Look, if we find the flood tunnel system, it proves that the old story is

true.

Now we're going to look for the dye out on boats, or are we going to just go to

some eye points around Smith's Cove? That's another good question.

Get a drone so we can fly it up both sides and see. That makes sense, a

drone. Well, let's get a drone.

Yeah, I would say so.

And we're going to need a boat because we see it at two separate locations.

We may want to confirm that. Yeah, I'm all for it. Let's do it. Sounds good.

Okay, I think we've decided what we need to do. Now we need to do it. Thanks for

punching in, Craig. We're going to get after it.

Good luck,

guys.

Later that day.

Here we are. I think this is it.

Marty and Alex Lagina, along with Jack Bagley and Peter Fernetti.

travel some 60 miles east of Oak Island to the city of Lawrence Town, Nova

Scotia. They are eager to meet with members of the Center of Geographic

Sciences, also known as COGS, to follow up on the results of a comprehensive

perimeter scan they recently conducted of the waters surrounding Oak Island.

I hope they have good information for you.

In concert with the team's upcoming dye test, they are hoping the results will

help them pinpoint the location.

of a secondary flooding system which is believed to originate somewhere off the

island's southern shore hey guys hey how's it going guys how you doing

gentlemen we're very excited about working with this group to try and add

some data to our search we understand that the offshore data the ocean data is

has now been processed and they've got some things to show us okay well let's

see what you found

So we'll start off with the LIDAR scans that we collected.

We were able to create a larger point cloud.

If we look at it in 3D, this is looking down from the area you guys are

currently investigating.

These two yellow columns coming up out of the sea floor, based on coordinates

provided me by MGO, are possible vent locations.

Vents located on the ocean floor.

just off Oak Island's southern shore?

Could these vents be the cause of the so-called ice holes, which Dan

Blankenship believed were evidence of a second flood tunnel system leading to

the money pit?

So you picked up two possible vents.

That's right.

To see that the data picked up that there is something just south of the

swamp that's producing these ice holes, it's really cool.

They can't tell at this point if it's man-made, but it's worth investigating.

Anyway, keep going. It's very interesting. So what are all the

triangles? Those are points of interest. Points of interest, okay.

So this is really interesting. It's contact 10.

It's located along the left there.

So there's two features here that are pointed.

And they're not in the shape of most of the rocks that we're seeing. So if you

look at that really bright fellow, he's casting a triangular shadow.

Whoa. A triangular shadow?

Might this be an indication of a connection between the shadow and the

triangle-shaped swamp, as well as other mysterious triangle-shaped carvings and

symbols found throughout Oak Island?

It's something that's laying along the seafloor, but is also shaped kind of

like this. Like this? Yeah.

It's vertical, more or less. It is, yeah.

Why is it so bright?

It's something that's really hard.

Possibly man-made. Yeah.

What's it pointing at?

What's that compass direction?

It is a north-south line.

Yeah, well, interestingly enough, that would be pointing more or less at the

money pit.

The data the students created, I believe, is going to be very valuable to

us. There were targets identified as mysterious anomalies.

Always worth looking at in Oak Island. The data's great. I want more. More

data. Excellent. Thank you for all the hard work.

Absolutely.

Today, to me, is about information confirmation, i.e.

You know, we're trying to prove the old stories the legend, if you will,

correct? Yeah. As a new day dawns, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina prepare

for the operation that they hope will lead them directly to whatever it is

that's buried on Oak Island.

There's an impossible man-made connection from the ocean to the money.

Look, I'm open-minded. This test has never been run with Smith's Cove both

blocked from the sea and partially excavated. Right.

So if we see this dye come out into Smith's Cove, then we could maybe follow

it back, and then maybe I come a believer in a flood tunnel.

The objective of this whole search, and by search I mean injecting the red dye,

is to prove or disprove or at least shed light on the existence of a flood

tunnel, and also help probably locate where it's going, which means where the

money pit is.

Now that the drill site around Boerholt H-8 has been stabilized and reinforced

with the help of a massive vibro hammer tool.

The team can conduct today's dye test without fear that the money pit site

will be further compromised.

Hey, powder man.

That's me, I think.

This is it?

That's all it. That's why you got a magic powder.

I'll tell you what, one touch of that, you will turn red as a beet. All right,

well, we'll be a little bit careful. Here's the thing, Terry. Yeah. I think

you're a perfect guy for this. What you really want to do, too, you want to put

this in 10 minutes after the water. 10 minutes after. Got it. Remember, this is

a different introduction point.

If this is more tied to the flood tunnel, I would be excited if it comes

out in Smith's Cove only. Absolutely.

Don't even let that get in the wind, okay?

Unlike their previous dye test, which was conducted in borehole 10X four years

ago,

the Oak Island team has decided to base today's operation inside borehole C1.

This was the place originally chosen by Charles Barkhouse and where he and Rick

Lagina found evidence of both an enormous underground void and also

a glittering gold-colored object.

What the hell is that?

It's your gold color.

Yeah, it is.

We've chosen C1 because we know C1 has salt water in it, which is good. It

means it's connected to the complex hydrology that exists at the money pit

area. So that's where we're going to put the dye in.

Using a six-inch pump, the team will force 600 gallons of water per minute

down the C1 shaft.

Once a consistent water flow has been established, the team will start adding

a non-toxic... red-coloured dye, which, if the test is successful, will make its

way through any existing underground flood tunnels and out into the ocean.

Gentlemen.

Hey, Marty. Hey, Rick. Hey, guys. Good morning.

Well, things are happening. This is exciting.

I'm actually amazingly excited about this. Yeah, I'm excited. I think it's

going to actually work this time.

Good. Guys, look, we're going to get everybody lined out here real quick. The

drone guys will be here in a minute. We got this covered.

You're in the boat. Charles, why don't you go with him? Okay.

Gary, why don't you be Smith's Cove guy? Okay. See if that red dye comes out and

where. Rick and I will be on the monitors with you, Jack. Okay. So I

think everybody, we're ready to begin.

Because Rick and Marty don't know when or where the dye might appear, they have

arranged an extensive monitoring operation across both the eastern and

the southern areas of the island.

In addition to having team members stationed on land at Smith's Cove and in

boats just off the island's southern shore, may everything we see be red

there will also be three drones equipped with high definition video cameras

scouring the waters from high above they've also set up a remote viewing

area allowing them to see the live feeds from each drone camera hey bill

we're ready up top if you are yep

Are you gonna leave the drain open?

I think I'll leave the drain open so we'll come up with a little less

pressure. Ready to start.

Start it up.

Here comes the water.

Look at that.

Kill the pump. Kill the pump.

It is a tense moment on Oak Island.

Just as Rick, Marty, and the team began pumping water down borehole C1 to begin

a large-scale dye test, the six-inch-wide hose has suddenly become

twisted. If not covered, it could explode with the force of 1,500 pounds

per square inch.

What the hell?

It got 40 twists in it. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Let that dissipate a little because that's going to, as soon as you take

that off, it's going to twist.

Go on and break it down there so we drain it off.

I'll let that little valve go.

Okay. Yeah, it won't take much because we're at the very high point here, but

look at that.

All right.

An inauspicious beginning.

I hate to say typical Oak Island, but I'm going to say typical Oak Island.

You should just break it at the pump and drain all the water out.

It's the emotional roller coaster of Oak Island. You just move forward.

I can't believe that didn't blow.

That looks good.

Ready to start.

There's the hot air.

Now that the hose has been straightened, and a steady flow of water has been

established in sea one the yoke island team will now begin to introduce non

-toxic red dye into the shaft it is the team's hope that they will soon see dye

seeping out from one or more locations along the island's shoreline if they can

trace the dye backwards it should theoretically lead them to the place

that the flood tunnels were designed to protect the money pit treasure vault

Be a little heavy on the first ones and then go with the plan. Thank you. Over.

Roger that.

As geologist Terry Matheson and veteran treasure hunter Dan Henske continue to

port Dai down C1.

Look at that.

Drones in the air, please. Let's go. We're going to release this.

Rick and Marty will monitor the live video feeds of three aerial drone

cameras that are hovering above the eastern part of the island.

How long do you think, Marty, until we see the first little bit of dye?

You know, despite my healthy skepticism, if there really is a flood tunnel and if

it's really packed with rocks and it's really about the size they said, it

should show up over here in about half an hour.

Meanwhile, in the waters just off the island's southern shore, Charles

Barkhouse and diver Tony Sampson are searching by boat.

If they see any dye in the water, they will pinpoint the source with GPS

coordinates. It is quite remarkable how technology has changed in the sort of 10

years we've been at this. Other times when we wanted to look at the island

from the air, we had to run a helicopter.

Now we're going to have three or four eyes in the air all the time. It's going

to be a very well-covered observation to see where that dye comes out.

Hi, Rick.

Still going in?

Yeah, very constant, very steady.

We're loading this charge point here.

We've got to have plug flow all the way down this caisson, and then out into, we

know there's a tunnel down there, and it's got to come out some way. We just

keep eyes on it.

Got to have it, Rick.

Now, what is that?

There's something there.

Hey, Tony, are you there? Over.

Tony, receive. Over.

Can you go over to where the bald spot's at?

There's some weird anomaly in the water I'd like you to look at.

Copy that.

Hitting that way now.

Tony, this is Jack. Do you have eyes on the drone?

There's the drone right off the bow, Charles.

I see it. Yeah.

You guys see anything?

I don't see anything.

Affirmative, Jack. We're right underneath it. We don't see any

discoloration in the water. Over.

Okay. Thanks for checking, Tony.

As the team waits with anticipation for signs of the dye to appear, they receive

a surprise visit from Rick, Marty, and Craig's partner, Dan Blankenship.

Well, look who's here.

Daniel. What do you say, Marty?

Been a while.

How are you, partner?

You can't stay away.

Yeah, you can't stay away. Back to your old stomping ground.

At the age of 95,

Dan Blankenship has spent the last five decades working to solve the 223-year

-old Oak Island mystery.

It is from Dan that Rick, Marty, and Craig have learned much of what they

know now not only about the history of the island but where searches have been

conducted and what search methods have proved successful in 1988

dan and his son dave conducted a dye test similar to the one being attempted

today using borehole 10x the 235 foot deep shaft dan dug my hand

the veteran treasure hunter noticed red dye seeping out not only at Smith's

Cove, but also in the waters just off the island's northern and southern

shores.

Unfortunately, Dan lacked the financial resources that would have enabled him to

follow up on his findings.

Nice to see you, Dan.

How's everything going? Good?

Oh, yeah. Yeah.

What do you think?

We made quite a mess, didn't we?

Your words.

Yeah. In my words, you're right.

Well, we got dye going in again, you know. Yeah.

When you did it, where did it come out? Do you remember?

It came out right here to the left-hand side of your, what do you call it? And

it came out on the south shore.

How long did it take? Do you remember that?

Depending upon how long you were pumping, on the average, I would guess

about three, four days.

Three, four days?

Depending upon how many gallons a minute you're pumping. 600.

That's a lot.

You know, this is all sealed off, so I don't know, that might change the

dynamic, maybe.

You want to come over here and see the monitors?

Yeah, sure.

It's always a pleasure when Dan comes out. I mean, he's still amazingly fit.

He's 95 years old and and it's apparent that that's significant.

We're all sort of getting keenly aware of father time And yeah, it's time. It's

time to to solve this for him for us. So we got three drones up Dan They're live

southern side. Over.

Okay, Tony, thanks. Why don't you head back over to the other side off the

swamp, see if you see anything there. Going over to the swamp area. Copy,

Marty. Over.

Thank you, Tony. Over.

Still have eyes on the south shore beach, but we haven't seen any die yet.

Oh my god.

Look at that.

Holy shmoly.

Rick, this is Gary. Can you come down into the basin?

I've got something interesting to show you.

Say again?

Why don't everybody come? It's interesting.

If we're looking for red guys, I'd say that's Reddy Brown there.

Oh, what?

While conducting a dye test at the Money Pit site in search of the source of the

legendary flood tunnels, treasure hunter Gary Drayton has just found where dye

may be seeping out at Smith's Cove.

And this is all new. It's all started flowing out since this morning.

This was all dry before.

Oh, this is what we're looking for. Great job, Gary.

Yeah, okay, I don't want to be the dog in the manger, but I will.

I think that's just rust-colored, Gary.

Honestly, I didn't think the dye test would work, and I have my doubts, but

it's hard not to get enthusiastic.

In spite of all the setbacks on this island, so I'm hoping that the rust

color means something.

If a dye goes through a certain matrix in a certain material, is it possible if

it would go like a reddy brown?

Right, it kind of gets filtered out to that color.

It's certainly pretty interesting.

Yep. Look at that. There's the stuff coming out from shoreward.

Is it Shorewood or is it running from that same source, that same stream

there? It's coming from yours. That's what I'm trying to say. That's what I'm

trying to say. That's coming from upland.

Yeah.

Although a sudden flow of water is evidence of a possible connection

between Smith's Cove and the Money Pit, until the team can confirm that Dai is

coming out here, they cannot be sure.

We've been checking this area out, Rick.

I've never seen it that vivid orange before. No. And I also noticed the flow

of the water has increased. It seems to be getting faster.

So it's flowing faster and it's definitely getting more orange.

Bleeding out right by the crane pad.

Yeah.

So you don't want to test a little bit of this. I mean, it really, really is a

good deep color.

Yes, that wouldn't hurt. Look at it.

Gary, I'm prepared to be wrong.

Here, here, I'll recover a sample.

You want me to just go up this thing?

Yeah, there is some red there on the left-hand side.

Now.

In order to confirm the presence of dye, the team is collecting water samples to

test for the non-toxic chemical.

So we've got two samples to test and see if that is the dye that's making that

color. Yeah. Okay, let's do it.

As a sudden rainstorm threatens to wash away all evidence gained by this

morning's dye test.

Hey, Jack. I brought the water samples from the dye test. Jack Bigley joins

island historian Paul Troutman at the Oak Island Research Center to test water

samples that were collected at Smith's Cove.

Did you just put some of the dye we actually used into the... Yes, I put

some of the dye into the vial. That's our primary sample. I also need to

prepare a blank sample with this electrically neutral water.

So that we'll know what it looks like with high concentrations of dye and then

also without any dye in it.

Correct.

Using a device known as a fluorometer, Jack and Paul will be able to detect any

traces of the non-toxic red dye in concentrations as small, as one part per

trillion now i'm just going to get a base reading to see what the sample

reads as we're getting 9.689

that'll be our base reference for fully saturated about 9.7 yeah anything that's

one or above would be a positive indicator of the actual dye okay so now

that we have those two we're going to do is go ahead and pour the first sample in

this is smith's cove one for the stream that was leaching out by the crane pad

gotcha um that's good enough okay we're

gonna read the sample here right now come

on let's see what we got

Okay, we're going to read the sample here right now.

After gathering water samples at Smith's Cove, Jack Bagley and Oak Island

researcher Paul Troutman are conducting a fluorometer test in hopes of finding

traces of red dye.

If they get a reading above a 1, they will have proven the possible existence

of a flood tunnel directly linking the money pit to Smith's Cove.

Let's see what we got.

Yeah!

That's a good positive indication.

That's awesome.

Since we've been successful so far, I'm going to call Rick. He's going to want

to hear the good news.

Yeah, he will.

Hello?

Hey, Rick. Paul and I are testing the water samples right now that we

collected during the dye test, and...

We got some results we think that you should come see.

I'll be down. Yes. Okay. See you, Rick. Okay. Bye.

Bye. The positive dye test results means that there was a really strong

connection between Smith's Cove and the Money Pit.

That's just amazing information, and it's a huge breakthrough for our team

this year.

Hey, Rick. Hey, Rick.

Okay, I see Jack smiling.

I see Paul smiling.

Doug? It's interesting.

Interesting? Yeah.

From the samples that we obtained, so far, the Smith's Cove dye test that we

got, it tested positive.

Smith's Cove?

Smith's Cove, yeah, right underneath the crane pad where the water was coming up.

Oh, really, right there? Yeah.

You know what? Gary said that water changed color.

So that's a positive indication that he was actually right from what he saw.

Exactly, exactly.

My brother said, and I concur, that out in the ocean, it's still interesting,

but in Smith's Cove, that's a totally different ballgame.

This could be part of a flood tunnel connection to the money pit.

There's so much we don't know about the money pit and the work that the

searchers did. We don't even know what the original peoples did. The original

depositional work was done.

We could retest this while you're here so you can see for yourself.

Fine, go for it.

I think we're closer than ever to unraveling the money pit.

Yeah, it's even higher.

Yeah. That means even though we can't see the dye in here, it's definitely in

the water. There's some concentration that's detecting. It's exciting. It's

exciting, yes.

Because if there wasn't a flood tunnel, I can't think of any other way that this

dye would have made it into Smith's Cove.

Exactly, exactly.

You know, I fall back on what Fred told me long ago.

Duplication, duplication, duplication.

Retest, remeasure, reaffirm that the data is accurate.

And what it says is all the more reason to dig under the crane pad and try to

follow this back.

We'd be foolish not to follow up. Yes.

There's a trail to follow. And if this leads us to it, it would be a big eye

-opener for me. It's significant.

It's very, very significant.

Great job.

The dye showing up in Smith's Cove is...

I mean, I don't know what to say other than it's great news.

All right.

Thanks, guys.

For the Laginas and their partners, a week that began with a major setback in

the Money Pit area has ended with one of their greatest breakthroughs.

They may have proven once and for all that the legends and stories about a

network of man-made flood tunnels are true.

But if the team has finally found a direct path to the Money Pit treasure

vault, what will they find there?

Something of incredible value?

Or will they learn that with each new discovery, they are only getting closer

and closer to a deadly trap?

Next time on The Curse of Oak Island.

28 feet of water, lads. These are targets that we've identified.

I don't think that's a rock. What is it?

There it is. Finally, we've exposed the entire slipway structure.

It's the biggest mystery, isn't it? They want to keep things secret.

Look at that.

That looks like it's off a substantial treasure chest.

Hello. We're going to find out from the blacksmith how old the hinge is.

That is early 1600s. This could be pre-money pit.