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NARRATOR: Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

-ALEX: That's deep. -IAN: If it dates to 1200

on those logs, that's the same

as the paved area.

AARON S. (over Zoom): The Money Pit samples

are the most interesting samples that we have.

Where do you think that sample comes from?

Southeast France.

Remarkable.

We're on it. Oh, oh, I see something round, mate.

-Oh, it's got a design on it. -It does.

RICK: The hurricane is coming.

There's no denying it.

This could be the most dangerous day on this island.

NARRATOR: 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 a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it...

...man-made workings that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose origin may be connected

to 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.

♪ ♪

JACK: Ah, this is a perfect day to be in the swamp,

-isn't it? -ALEX: Yeah.

This is a deep part of the swamp here.

IAN: Yeah, it's complicated, too.

RICK: And that's exactly why you're here.

-(laughter) -To uncomplicate this for us.

NARRATOR: Despite the ominous weather,

as a new morning begins on Oak Island,

the hope for a breakthrough discovery

that could help solve a 229-year-old mystery

remains far from dampened for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team as they continue investigating

near the middle of the triangle-shaped swamp.

Billy, can you fill us in on what you've seen here?

What we're seeing is we have a high layer of stumps.

Trees wouldn't grow that big

unless the environment was somewhat dry.

We could probably take a cut through there,

a cut through here, we'd probably find more.

-Okay. -IAN: It's a beautiful section

to understand how this area developed.

So, why don't we see if we can expose one?

-CRAIG: Okay. -All right, let's step back.

Whew! That's a big stump.

NARRATOR: One week ago, while excavating

in this deep region of the brackish bog...

GARY: It's all uneven, like it was axe-cut.

NARRATOR: ...members of the team

uncovered several axe-cut tree stumps.

BILLY: If that broke off, the log should be laying

right there beside it, I think.

NARRATOR: Curiously, because trees are unable to grow naturally

in swamp environments,

these finds offered critical evidence

to support the belief of geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner,

that the swamp could be an artificially made feature.

RICK: There's your other layer of stump there.

There's a big something.

NARRATOR: Now, as the team unearths

more potentially ancient stumps from the middle of the swamp,

Dr. Spooner will collect samples for carbon-14 testing

in order to hopefully determine

just when this area of the swamp was created.

IAN: So, the question, I think, for me, is whether or not

those stumps date out to the same as the paved area.

Remember, we found wood that dated at 1200

-within the paved area. -Right.

NARRATOR: In recent years,

the Oak Island team has uncovered

numerous stone structures in the swamp.

These include the potentially 500-year-old stone road

and a stone walkway leading to a massive boulder

in the southeast corner,

as well as a massive paved area in the middle of the bog

that Dr. Spooner was able to carbon-date

to approximately 1200 AD.

These discoveries have made Rick Lagina believe

that the Oak Island mystery may be connected

to a generational conspiracy

that was carried out in stages over a number of centuries.

RICK: What happened here?

Obviously, the stumps can be dated,

and hopefully those dates

will align with the man-made constructs that we have found.

Stone road, stone path, paved area,

because we have retrieved dates from those.

We need to do our homework and be patient.

I think there are some answers here.

IAN: If we get dates to 1200

on those logs at the bottom,

that would equate to the paved area.

That means that there's a forest

at this location at that time, so...

-ALEX: Yeah. -At this stage,

what we've got to do is get dry weather

to actually effectively sample this.

-Yeah. -RICK: Well, all I know is,

-good luck with the dry weather. -Yep.

RICK: We have a hurricane on the horizon and, uh,

-bad weather this weekend. -Yep.

RICK: Hurricane Lee is on the near horizon,

heading towards Nova Scotia.

We have no need of a hurricane visiting the island.

The potential problems are quite extensive.

We don't know how impactful it will be.

Will it be Category 1? A tropical storm?

Category 2, 3, 4?

We'll have to wait and see.

I'm just gonna grab my tools, get some sample bags

-so we can get these samples. -ALEX: Yep. -CRAIG: Okay.

IAN: Yeah, this will be very interesting,

to see what happens here.

NARRATOR: While Dr. Spooner

collects his samples in the swamp...

-SCOTT: Hey, Roger. -ROGER: Hey, Scott.

-Little bit of excitement around here. -Yeah.

The boys have actually now found,

uh, the wood that we're looking for.

-Yeah. -NARRATOR: ...in the Money Pit area,

Scott Barlow meets with Roger Fortin

of Dumas Contracting Limited for an update

on an operation that the team hopes

will soon lead them to a vast cache of buried treasure.

From the pictures I saw from Ronnie, it's, uh,

it looks like, uh, those timbers a-are pretty old.

They're all rounded out.

It really motivated the guys. Once they had...

-Oh, yeah. -Once they, once they saw that,

they were just like tunnel rats down there.

They were moving clay like you wouldn't believe,

-trying to get a visual on it. -Oh, yeah.

COTE: Definitely wood.

-You can see the end. -NARRATOR: Last week,

after nearly two years of tireless effort,

the team from Dumas was finally able to extend

the mid-18th century structure known as the Garden Shaft

down to a depth of 95 feet, where they exposed the top

of a believed seven-foot-high wooden tunnel.

A tunnel that runs due west into the so-called Baby Blob,

where water testing in previously drilled boreholes

has identified high traces of gold,

silver and other metals

between 80 and 120 feet underground.

RODNEY: Hold it there. That's good.

NARRATOR: Now, in the coming days,

the team will install one additional section, or set,

to the base of the Garden Shaft to breach the tunnel

and find out not only where it leads but also

what it might contain.

RICK: This is all about anticipation.

I mean, we're close.

We have physical evidence that the tunnel is real.

It's been a long process, almost two years' worth

of effort, uh, between the planning and the execution

and, ultimately, the successful completion of the task at hand.

Now we need to understand its relevance to the mystery.

We've got a lot to learn from this tunnel.

-Sounds good. -See how it goes.

Looking-- I'm anxious to get down there.

-(laughs): All right. -Right on.

-Talk to you after. -Yeah, I'll talk to you later.

NARRATOR: As the operation continues in the Garden Shaft,

later that afternoon...

-DOUG: Good day. -RICK: Good day, sir.

Hello, Dr. Satkoski. Welcome to the war room.

We really appreciate you coming to us.

We look forward to what you have to say.

AARON S.: Thank you for having me.

I'm-I'm really happy to be here

and-and share these exciting results with you today.

-Yep. -It's our pleasure.

NARRATOR: Rick, Marty, Craig Tester

and other members of the team have gathered in the war room

for a meeting via videoconference

with Dr. Spooner's colleague

geoscientist Dr. Aaron Satkoski.

Today, we're gonna learn about a new science and new data,

and the doctor was kind enough to run some analysis,

specifically about where certain artifacts came from.

Exactly.

NARRATOR: Over the past several years,

between the team's core-drilling operations

-MARTY: Make hole. -NARRATOR: ...and the installation

of a number of large steel caissons

all across the Money Pit area,

they have recovered evidence

of two potentially man-made chambers

outside of the Baby Blob

that also contain traces of precious metals.

One is located some 180 feet deep

in a large void between boreholes H-8 and RF-1,

where a possibly ancient pickax was also recovered

and the other was found at a depth

of approximately 150 feet,

which the team has dubbed Aladdin's cave.

RICK: Uh, Dr. Satkoski,

please proceed.

AARON S.: Okay, so, isotope tracer work

is slightly more nuanced than o-other type of analyses

that might be done.

NARRATOR: Now, after conducting isotope testing on wood samples

that were unearthed from these locations,

Dr. Satkoski has prepared a report that he believes

could offer new clues

to help the team solve the Oak Island mystery.

The main isotopes that I wanted to focus on

are the strontium and the oxygen isotope composition

in the wood samples that you sent.

So, strontium is a metallic element

that can be used like a fingerprint

in combination with oxygen to identify

where objects come from in the, in the world.

Wow. (chuckles)

-That's kind of interesting. -Yeah.

Yes.

AARON S.: So, if we look

at the Money Pit samples...

So, these two samples, 0328 and 013, came from RF-1.

DOUG: Yeah, that's where it gets really interesting,

because RF-1, we still believe,

was closest to the original Money Pit.

-Yep. -AARON S.: The next slide I have

is the isotope values,

so we can really look at the data.

And what you can see is, we're measuring oxygen

and strontium in the wood samples that I've plotted here.

So, these two wood samples,

0328 and 013,

they both plot in a very similar spot.

These samples, I would argue,

are the most interesting samples that we have.

They plot furthest away from maritime Canada

and Northern Canada.

So, our only option is Europe.

Dang.

That's really interesting and baffling.

So where do you think that sample comes from?

Southeastern France,

Northern Italy or, you know,

coastal Norway. In those areas, that's where it overlaps.

That sounds good enough to me.

(laughter)

RICK: That sounds remarkable.

AARON S: Our only option is Europe.

Southeast France.

Northern Italy or, you know,

coastal Norway. In those areas, that's where it overlaps.

That sounds good enough to me.

RICK: Good enough.

-Sounds very good. -Sounds remarkable.

(laughter)

NARRATOR: In the war room, geoscientist Dr. Aaron Satkoski

has just shared a stunning scientific report

that the wood recovered nearly 180 feet deep

from borehole RF-1 in the Money Pit area

likely originated in Europe.

A lot of old-looking timber came out of that caisson.

Yeah. It's really interesting to note

that the areas that Dr. Satkoski are giving us for the possible

origin of these samples is Southeastern France.

And the idea that the mines where the lead

from the lead cross came from.

And then Italy. I mean, we saw a lot in Italy

that we feel could relate to the Oak Island mystery.

Yes.

When we went to Viterbo,

Gianluca told us that a lot of holy relics

came from Jerusalem through Italy,

and then off to other regions, like France.

RICK: Buongiorno.

NARRATOR: Over the last decade,

as Rick, Marty, Craig and the team...

This way.

...have been digging into both the ground and the past,

in their efforts to solve the Oak Island mystery,

they have visited numerous sites

in both France and Italy...

Hey, guys. Come take a look at this.

NARRATOR: ...that served as strongholds between the 12th

and 14th centuries for the Knights Templar.

It is the belief of numerous researchers that members of this

medieval Christian order were the ones who carried out

a generational conspiracy to hide vast riches and priceless

religious relics on Oak Island.

ALEX: Hey, Rick, check this out.

That's cool.

ALEX: We have seen this symbol before.

-RICK: H+O Stone. -PETER: Yeah.

NARRATOR: In addition to seeing many stone carvings

on these journeys

that were identical to symbols

that have been found

over the last two centuries

by searchers on or near Oak Island,

astonishingly, in 2017,

the team also unearthed a lead cross on the island itself,

made from lead that was scientifically traced

to a 14th-century mine in Southern France.

Those are really provocative locations,

considering everything we found on the island,

and everything we've been researching.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the team

has found more evidence

right in the Money Pit area that the Templar order

really could be connected to the Oak Island mystery?

This has opened our minds to the possibilities

of even revisiting the areas

that these samples have been retrieved from,

like RF-1.

I think it puts a renewed interest in that location.

Yeah. Back to-- back we go.

We just need to go deeper.

RICK: Even though we're in the Garden Shaft

and even though we're drilling around the 95-foot tunnel

and the Baby Blob,

this information is exceedingly important because

you have incredibly interesting samples from RF-1.

And you have some clarity about where they might have come from.

Different geographic regions associated with Templars.

Could it possibly reflect multiple treasure depositions?

It may change the search agenda as we currently understand it.

Thank you and we look forward to our next communication.

Absolutely.

I look forward to it. Thank you.

NARRATOR: The following morning...

...as the operation to breach the possible

treasure tunnel continues in the Garden Shaft...

TERRY: F.75-8.25.

Pretty much what we expected.

Backfill all the way down to 88 feet.

NARRATOR: ...more than 50 feet to the southwest...

-Hey, guys. -Hey, Marty. -Hi, Marty.

-How you doing? -What's going on today?

-Well, we're trying to get to the bottom of RF-1. -Oh, okay.

NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina joins other members of the team

where a new borehole,

known as F.75-8.25,

is being drilled within

the previously excavated eight-foot diameter

RF-1 caisson, in the hopes of finding

additional clues, and hopefully evidence of valuables.

The key to this whole drill program, or this endeavor,

is to get down and see what's between 205 and the bedrock.

-Yes. -Yes.

The initial results drilling

the original RF-1 were very interesting.

All kinds of things that made me think

at the time we were in the original Money Pit.

But we did stop somewhat short of the bedrock.

There's, like, ten feet or 15 feet of material

we never got to.

So we're gonna sort of re-drill RF-1 to see what

we might've missed with the canister.

Maybe this re-drilling in RF-1 would give us a place to

put down a canister that goes even deeper.

We need to find the best target because

we are running out of the usual things.

Money, time...

So, okay. Steve, I know you have to go.

And I got some stuff to do, too.

-We'll be back. Thank you. -Okay, guys.

-We'll keep in touch. Take care. -See you later.

NARRATOR: As the core-drilling operation proceeds

in the Money Pit area,

on Lot 5, located near the shore

on the western side of the island...

JACK: We have a hurricane on the way,

so let's try to get as much work done as we can,

and then we'll see what we can do

-after the hurricane's passed. -JAMIE: Yeah.

-Gary! -Hello, mate.

NARRATOR: Metal detection expert Gary Drayton joins Jack Begley,

Jamie Kouba and Fiona Steele

as they continue investigating

the large foundation that was discovered

earlier this year beneath a circular stone structure.

We're trying to figure why they brought deep Money Pit soil in

and packed it into this portion of the wall.

Like, 104 feet down.

-That's crazy. -Yeah.

NARRATOR: Since the team purchased Lot 5

and began searching for clues in this feature one year ago,

they have made astonishing discoveries

that include metal tools

and various kinds of pottery.

A lead barter token

that is a compositional match

to the 14th-century lead cross...

It reminds me of, like, a crude mortar or cement.

...and a man-made cement-like substance

that has also been found approximately 100 feet deep

around the tunnel below the Garden Shaft.

(device chimes)

NARRATOR: Now, Gary is going to scan

the rocks and spoils

that have recently been removed from the feature...

I got my big coil on, so depth is not a problem.

NARRATOR: ...in order to look for more clues as to how

it might be connected to the Money Pit.

-(device chiming rapidly) -GARY: Oh!

That sounds great.

We have got a hit right on the top here, Jack.

Do you want me to dig it out,

or do you just want to pinpoint it?

-It's loose stuff. -Yeah, I'll try pinpointing it.

That sounds really good. That is not iron.

That's nonferrous. Let's see what we got.

What have we got waiting for us?

(beeping)

Yep. It's in my hand.

-(device beeping rapidly) -All right.

-It's in my hand. -Oh.

Make sure that is it.

Yep. And I see the edges of it, mate.

Let's see what we've got.

(laughing): Oh!

Oh! Oh! Oh!

I see what it is, mate!

RICK: 54.1%, 1346 to 1396.

14th century.

41%,

1296 to 1328.

NARRATOR: In the Oak Island Research Center,

Rick Lagina has just revealed

an astonishing carbon-14 report,

which suggests that the axe-cut tree stump

that was found in the middle of the triangle-shaped swamp

could be more than 700 years old.

This is meaningful if it came from a bona fide,

-cut stump. -It did.

Well, if it's from a cut stump, then somebody cut it.

We're coming to believe that the swamp was

artificially manipulated.

And we know-- from Dr. Spooner's work

on the paved area-- that construct, is 1200.

Rick, you've come to the belief that there's been

substantial periods of activity here.

Daisy-chaining each other with gaps.

This would support that.

This would, very much so.

So I think it's appropriate at this point in time,

that we build off of what Professor Gaspani

told us last year in terms of Nolan's Cross, right?

NARRATOR: One year ago, during their visit in Italy

to investigate possible connections

between the medieval order of the Knights Templar

and the Oak Island mystery,

Rick,

along with members of the team

and researcher Emiliano Sacchetti

met with archeoastronomy expert Professor Adriano Gaspani.

NARRATOR: Based on Professor Gaspani's

more than three decades of expertise,

the megalithic formation of six boulders on Oak Island

known as Nolan's Cross was likely created centuries ago

by positioning the massive boulders on the surface

to align with specific stars in the night sky.

And by studying the historic positions of those stars,

Professor Gaspani was able to calculate the approximate date

when the cross may have been created.

Wow.

We have Professor Gaspani's assessment

that someone was here in the 1200s building something.

And now we have other human activity

that date to the same timeframe.

It's very possible then, that human beings were here.

What is being

understood by these processes is that

the work in the swamp perhaps did start very, very early,

i.e. 1200s.

And if that is the point of beginning,

it opens up the door to all kinds of possibilities

in terms of theory

and the who, what, when, where, why and how of things.

There was a determined effort on the part of groups to conduct

some enterprise here that it may have been done incrementally.

It stretches the mind to think that something was

that important to have been done over centuries.

So in order to properly, I'll say, utilize

Professor Gaspani's expertise and his knowledge,

I think it's imperative on our part that we expand

upon that information.

And one of the ways we can do that, in my opinion is,

we know there are two other stone constructs on the island.

The stone triangle and the stone cairns

is what Fred delineated on his map--

he called them "pirate piles."

NARRATOR: In 1897,

treasure hunters were astonished

to discover an equilateral triangle

composed of beach stones located on the south shore

which pointed due north toward the original Money Pit.

While the feature's exact position was

plotted on numerous surveys,

unfortunately, it was later destroyed

during the massive digging operations

conducted by Robert Dunfield in 1965.

However, the remnants of several other man-made stone features

remain nearly a half mile to the northeast on Lot 15.

First documented by Fred Nolan in the 1960s,

the so-called stone cairns, or pirate piles,

were five pyramid-shaped constructs,

that Fred believed pointed directly

toward the triangle-shaped swamp.

What's left up there?

-Refresh my memory. -RICK: Very little.

The features themselves, the bases

-of the features are there. -The bases are there.

I think we should provide Professor Gaspani

with GPS coordinates for the stone cairns

and the stone triangle.

And ask him, "Can you make any alignments to the stars?"

MARTY: Rick, I couldn't possibly agree more.

I'm wholly on board with this. Let's do it.

NARRATOR: Could Rick's notion be correct

that if Professor Adriano Gaspani analyzes

the positions of the stone cairns

and the stone triangle,

that may be able to determine

just when those features were originally created?

EMILIANO: So if you guys provide me

some data, some measurements,

I'm more than happy to share it with Professor Gaspani

as soon as I see him.

We'll send you on the information ASAP.

Please thank him upfront for all of his work to date,

and we look forward to continued interaction with you.

That's great.

MARTY: Perfect, thank you.

-JUDI: Goodbye. -RICK: Ciao.

NARRATOR: Later that afternoon...

-CRAIG: Hey, guys. -TERRY: Hi, Craig.

No gold?

Not yet.

NARRATOR: ...in the Money Pit area, Craig Tester

joins geologist Terry Matheson

and Oak Island historian Charles Barkhouse

as they continue monitoring the core-drilling operation

in borehole F.75-8.25.

-How deep are we? -Uh, we're down 178 so far.

We hope to follow it all the way down to the bottom, Craig.

But we've been in and out of a little bit of wood.

And that wood, we have right there.

-That came from... -CHARLES: 155 and a half to 157.

TERRY: Right.

Okay.

And we did get a little bit of wood from 178, too.

-Well, that's deeper than normal. -Yes.

So, where did it come from?

NARRATOR: Possible evidence of a wooden structure?

Unearthed at a depth of 178 feet?

Could it be related to the wood sample

previously recovered from this area,

which originated in Europe?

If so,

what else might they find as they drill

deeper underground?

CHARLES: We have a core.

TERRY: Hey, Adam. What do you got?

Ooh. Here we go.

199.

-199. Thank you. -CHARLES: 199.

I'm just gonna drain this.

Thank you, Adam.

TERRY: So...

Oh, wow.

A lot of PVC pipe.

F.75-8.25 down 199.

It's discouraging, the idea

that we're passing through an old borehole.

NARRATOR: Unfortunately, the fact that the drill

has encountered fragments of PVC pipe

means that it has veered off target

and into a previously drilled borehole.

But just what did the drill hit that changed its course?

Was it simply a large rock in the soil?

Or could it have been an impenetrable object,

or container, that holds something of great value?

So, anyway, uh, we'll check the map

and see what boreholes we might be able to identify

and get to the bottom of the RF-1 caisson.

All right.

CHARLES: Okay, Terry, we'll move on.

ALEX: Hey, Roger.

-Hey, how's it going, Alex? -Good. Good to see you again.

NARRATOR: Before another productive day

comes to an end on Oak Island...

I think we're just coming down on the tunnel, right?

Well, exactly.

NARRATOR: ...Alex Lagina arrives in the Money Pit area

for a progress update

on the operation to extend the Garden Shaft

into the possible treasure tunnel

located more than 95 feet underground.

So, we're right now...

The shaft bottom is at 95. -ALEX: Mm-hmm.

And we dug about two and a half feet,

so I'd say 97, 98 feet.

So we just finished installing the staging in there

to make it safer for the guys.

Yep, that looks like part of the shoe going down now.

-Is that right? -That's right, yep.

So, they've got the two panels,

the two end panels that go on the wall plates.

We're gonna add a shoe section to it.

So, what we're trying to do is stop anything from coming in.

Right.

It's like building a ship in a bottle.

Yeah, it is. That's a good, that's a good metaphor, yeah.

NARRATOR: In order to safely extend the Garden Shaft

to the top of the mysterious tunnel,

the team from Dumas is constructing and installing

a protective steel and wooden frame, known as a shoe,

which will secure the base of the structure

into the earth around the tunnel

and protect it from caving in.

So we've got a couple of days of just

-getting all that stuff done. -Mm-hmm.

And then we'll be back into digging.

The best-case scenario is if the tunnel is open,

it might lead us to the Money Pit and this treasure.

I mean, from the-the look

of what I saw on that timber, it looks pretty original.

-It looks old? -Oh, yeah.

It's definitely not something that came out of a mill, there.

Right. And all of it means we're a step closer

to finally actually visually seeing

some of these, uh, structures

-that have been underground for hundreds of years. -Well, exactly.

Well, we're all anxious and we're all excited

and-and we all appreciate the work you guys are doing.

Oh, absolutely. And I'll let you know as soon

as I see something in there that looks like,

"Whoa, okay, guys, you need to come and see this."

-Sounds good. Perfect. Thank you, Roger. -Right on.

See you soon.

ROGER: Absolutely, we'll talk to you later.

NARRATOR: The following morning...

RICK: Thanks, everybody, for coming around

the war room table today.

And we've got nothing but bad news.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina has called

an emergency war room meeting with members of the team.

Hurricane's coming. There's no denying it.

BILLY: The problem with Hurricane Lee that I see

for the island is the speed that the storm is moving.

And this storm, the directions

are going 360 degrees of wind, right?

So, everybody is going to feel a piece of it.

Yeah.

NARRATOR: Over the past 24 hours,

Hurricane Lee has rapidly intensified

into a Category 5 storm system

with wind speeds that could exceed 150 miles per hour.

After already causing damage to Bermuda

and the Northeastern United States,

it is now projected to reach

the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia in the coming days,

bringing with it torrential rains, flooding

and potentially grave danger to the province.

So, and we can just cross our fingers

and hope that it all goes well,

that we stay safe here and that everyone

in the area stays safe.

And if anybody in the local area needs help,

you know, and they ask for help,

they should know that we'll be there for them as well.

-SCOTT: Yep. -Right? So...

We've all been here during the storm before in 2019.

I think we all remember the waves

breaking over the causeway.

There's no road under here.

NARRATOR: Four years ago,

Hurricane Dorian battered Oak Island

and the surrounding areas,

which severely damaged the causeway

and structures across the island.

With Hurricane Lee now fast approaching,

the team is fearful of the damage it could cause,

not only to the ancient structures

in the swamp and on Lot 5,

but also to the Garden Shaft.

This could be the most dangerous day on this island.

Yeah. Exactly.

RICK: The possible negative effects on the search agenda

are quite extensive.

The swamp will refill and we will be delayed.

We know that there's been a problem

with water intruding within the Garden Shaft.

Trees come down, power is lost, uh...

it-it affects everything.

I-I don't know where to go with this discussion,

to be honest with you.

I think it's pretty apparent.

We're going to have to shut down.

You know, we're going to have to stop all the activities

to keep everybody safe.

CRAIG: I mean, they're, you know,

shutting down each night when it might rain,

and then there's this, this is completely different.

Mm-hmm.

This is the first time in war room history

that I'm going to say this, and...

I-I don't want to be here.

RICK: I don't want to be here.

I don't see anything helpful about the hurricane coming.

NARRATOR: In the war room,

Rick Lagina and other members of the team

are regrettably planning to temporarily shut down

all search operations on Oak Island

due to reports that Hurricane Lee,

a Category 5 storm system,

will reach the eastern coast of Nova Scotia

in a matter of days.

Bottom line is first and foremost,

-everybody be safe, right? -Yes.

The next thing that's paramount of course,

making sure that we try to protect the work

that's already been accomplished.

Keep all the infrastructure that's in place

up and ready to function when the "good" weather comes back.

-Yeah. -RICK: So, Laird,

why don't we start with you?

So, you'll take care of your sites,

all your tools, everything?

Yeah. Exactly.

All we can do is batten down our two sites with tarps,

so we can just protect them as much as we can

but there's very little we can do

to prevent water getting in them.

We're just going to be eyes-and-boots guys.

You need us to help, we're at your disposal

to say, "You go do this. You go do that."

Then, Roger, you're up next.

-What do you do? -Yeah.

Uh, on our side, it's not so much the wind,

it's the amount of rain.

That rain, obviously, we're in a hole.

Water goes down the hole.

So, it's going to be like Niagara Falls down there.

We're going to put the lids on.

We don't want the water to fill up in the shaft

and go up to a height that's maybe

going to cause us grief.

I will have a couple of guys here keeping the water down.

Just pumping out every two hours.

Start the pumps and let the water go down.

Okey doke.

Billy, not much you can do about water in the swamp.

No. Probably my biggest concern

is for the-- for the island overall.

We have a couple sections of the swamp road

that are still narrow.

So, we have to make sure that those are shored up

because we want to make sure that the ocean doesn't breach.

I hope the island doesn't take too much of a pounding

because we don't want to continue to lose shoreline.

But it's going to be-- the wind is going to be a big thing here.

So, we'll-we'll cover the whole island

and we'll just go area by area.

Just one other thing, from the, uh,

you know, the big rain we had months ago,

it washed out a lot of roads.

This storm may wash them out again. So, even...

You know, you're thinking about the island, you're driving here,

uh, there's a number of places where this road

has been undercut and it could give out on you.

So, really watch out for that when you're coming back.

Yeah. If you don't need to be up during the storm, stay home.

I guess we do have a full day ahead of us.

So, we should get started.

-Let's get some stuff done. -Okay.

Sounds good.

-RICK: Everybody, stay safe. -ROGER: Yes.

RICK: There's no question that safety is paramount.

You can't do anything about Mother Nature.

What you can do is say, you know what?

We're gonna deal with these issues

and we're gonna keep moving forward.

And that's what we intend to do.

GARY: You can see this weather closing in, mate.

MARTY: It's certainly been a topsy-turvy year.

Bad luck happening right at the right time

where it hampers your efforts.

I don't believe in curses.

But here we are in the Garden Shaft,

maybe only feet above some real answers.

ROGER: All right, guys, we're good to go.

MARTY: I don't know why mysterious setbacks

seem to occur at very inopportune times, but they do.

It's just incredible, isn't it?

And it seems to be when you're close to the treasure

is when it becomes really impossible.

-(thunder rumbles) -CRAIG: Let's get going.

NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty, Craig and their team...

That's the way to do it.

NARRATOR: ...it has already been an especially challenging year.

However, it has also been one

in which they have made astonishing new discoveries

all across the island.

And now, if the mysterious forces

that some believe guard the island's secrets

are once again emerging in order to try and stop their efforts,

perhaps it is yet another sign of just how profound

the ultimate discovery that awaits them

could actually be.