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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.

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