03x10 - The Legend of Oderin Island

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- Tonight...
- Let's go. -Yeah.

On Beyond Oak Island...

There's
oral traditions that

have been passed down
of an oak-bottom pond

on Oderin Island.

He got a hit. Yeah,
he's got timber.

- Whoa.
- This might be a hidden location

where Peter Easton
stashed a treasure.

We might
have some information

on an authentic Peter
Easton shipwreck.

- Wow.
- This sounds fabulous.

- Eyes and fins.
- Find us a ship, Tony.

We're after a legend
and we're after a treasure.

Right next to that pond.

All the while we
were growing up,

my brother and I were
fascinated with finding treasure.

Pirate treasure,

cursed treasure.

Civil w*r gold.

Since then,
our work on Oak Island

has shown us there's
a world of mysteries...

- Whoa.
- Waiting to be explored.

So, we like to reach
out to other treasure hunters.

X marks the spot,
right there. Brilliant.

- We want to hear their stories...
- That's right.

- And share our insights.
- "Ill-gotten gains."

- And who knows...
- I got it.

Maybe we can help
them with their search.

Not only in America.

Wow. That is gold.

- But all over the world.
- Yeah!

Beyond Oak Island.

Matty Blake,

we are in a pretty
country right now, sir.

Man, this is some of the most
beautiful area I've ever seen

in the world. I thought it
last year when your brother

- and I came to Newfoundland.
- Yeah.

Oh, Rick gushed about it.

He just... he just
loved Newfoundland.

I'm just seeing it
now, but I-I agree.

In Placentia
Bay, Newfoundland,

Marty Lagina and Matty Blake

are on their way to
meet with Bill Smith,

a researcher who believes
he has found the location

of buried treasure
connected to the infamous

17th century
pirate Peter Easton.

We are once again hot
on the trail of Peter Easton,

your... one of your
favorite characters.

I'm very excited
about this, Matty,

because this guy, he was

probably the most
successful pirate ever.

Took on the English
Navy, for goodness' sake.

Called him the Pirate Admiral.

Plundered several
Spanish galleons.

But then he knew when to quit.

Yes.

Born in
England, Peter Easton

was an esteemed
admiral in the English Navy

who became one of the Crown's

most valuable assets
in North America

during the early 17th century.

In 1602, Queen Elizabeth

commissioned Peter
Easton to be a privateer

in the Royal Navy,

and sent him to Newfoundland

to protect the fishing fleets.

As a privateer,
meaning he was a naval officer

with the authority
to plunder ships

belonging to rival nations,

Peter Easton amassed
a sizeable fortune

and earned the loyalty
of thousands of men

under his command.

However, after just two years,

the British Crown
outlawed privateering.

In 1604, when
King James essentially

made privateering ill*gal,
Easton had a choice to make.

He could go home,

forfeit everything
that he has acquired,

or he could continue
doing what he was doing,

cut the Crown out,
and keep everything

for himself and his crew.

He made the choice
that he was going to

continue doing
what he was doing:

ravage the seas worldwide,

taking as many
ships as he could.

With an established
base of operations in Newfoundland

and with a loyal crew

of more than 5,000
men and 40 ships,

Peter Easton became

one of the most
successful pirates in history.

In terms for other pirates,
Peter Easton kind of set a bar

in that he really showed how
a pirate could be successful,

especially by attacking
other very powerful nations.

A pirate could
command his own fleet

and could retire wealthy

and powerful in his own way.

In 1612,
Easton made an agreement

with the Duke of Savoy

to end his lawless plunder

on the high seas.

In exchange for a full pardon

and yearly payments of £4,000,

he dismissed his crew,

married a wealthy heiress,

and retired as an
esteemed nobleman.

What did he do with all
these goods and all these cash?

It's possible he may have
also offloaded some of the cash

in Newfoundland, but
it's never been found,

and this is one of the things
that has made Peter Easton

such a fascinating figure,
because not only has he set

a massive gold
standard for piracy

but he amassed
a massive fortune,

and a lot of it is a mystery
as to where it went.

To see, last
year, with your brother Rick,

the geography, uh,
of Harbour Grace...

- Mm-hmm.
- And how Easton

used that geography
to his advantage.

There are all
these little shoals

and places where
you can hide a ship.

You could go around
the backside and hide,

and so it all made sense.

Permission to
come aboard, Captain?

Hey, come aboard.

In 2021, Matty,

along with Rick Lagina,

traveled to Harbour
Grace, Newfoundland.

There, they joined
diver Tony Sampson...

Hey, good to see you, brother.

His friend Bill Smith,

and their team,
to search for a ship

believed to have been
from Peter Easton's fleet,

which sank in early 1612

during a battle with
Basque Spanish pirates.

We have a cannon,
we have a cannon.

That's what he just said.

Although the team

investigated two cannons, which
archaeologist Scarlett Janusas

believed could have
possibly been connected

- to Peter Easton...
- Well done, guys!

- Wow.
- No valuables were found.

This is going to be

- an awesome adventure.
- Yes, sir.

Now, Marty and Matty

have returned to rejoin
Bill and Tony for a search

at a new location,
where Bill believes

much of Peter
Easton's missing riches

remain hidden today.

Last year we were
in Harbour Grace.

We're now kind of around
the bay, as they say,

we're in a totally different
part of Newfoundland.

Peter Easton again, but
a new part of the story.

You know, we could
be talking that this guy

had several billion dollars

- in today's...
- Billion with a "B."

- With a "B."
- Yeah, not... Yeah.

That's incredible.

Which means it would
have been nothing

- to leave 500 million behind.
- Right.

Well, I think
we're almost there.

I can't wait to
see Bill and Tony.

Yeah.

I think it would be hard

to overestimate the magnitude

of Peter Easton's
potential treasure

because he's rumored, or
maybe more than rumored,

to have taken
all kinds of ships,

including at least
three Spanish galleons.

I think I see 'em down there.

Some of the known
sunken Spanish galleons

are reported to be
worth several billion each.

So, I think his fortune

was enormous by
today's standards.

- Aw, geez, look who's here.
- Scallywags.

Hey, brother, how are you doing?

Good to see you. Good
to see you. Welcome back.

My name is Bill Smith.

I'm a chiropractor in practice

for about 25 years
in Nova Scotia,

and I'm a pirate researcher.

My fascination with Peter
Easton started about 25 years ago.

I was living in Toronto,

and I was going to school,

and I couldn't afford to
go home for Christmas,

and I was given a book

called As Near to Heaven by Sea

by a fellow named Kevin Major.

And there's a story
about Peter Easton,

and I started reading and
I haven't stopped since.

Well, guys, welcome back

to-to Newfoundland,
and Marty for the first time.

- First time, yeah.
- Yeah.

I should call it,
uh, "Eastonland."

- "Eastonland."
- what we're going to now.

So, guys, we're in a different
part of the province this time.

We were in Harbour
Grace last time.

This time we're in a
place called Placentia Bay,

and we're going to go
to, uh, Oderin Island,

- which is a Peter Easton hideout.
- Mm-hmm.

Located some
100 miles east of Harbour Grace,

Oderin Island is a remote,
1,200-acre land mass

known by historians
to have been a location

where Peter Easton established

one of his strongholds
during the early 17th century.

Although it was once home
to several hundred residents,

today it is virtually
uninhabited.

The target is
a mysterious pond

on the north end
of Oderin Island.

It's about 114 feet
long, 65 feet wide,

and some accounts say that it
goes down as much as 18 feet

to these oak-bottom planks.

And there's historical accounts,
there's written accounts,

and there's oral traditions
that have been passed down

through hundreds of years

of an oak-bottom
pond on Oderin Island.

There's no oak that's
indigenous to this area,

and an oak-bottom pond,

it could be related
to a buried treasure.

The other thing they talk
about are flood tunnels

which never allow
this pond to drain.

So it's being protected
for some reason.

Uh, Captain John Murphy here

is from Oderin Island.

Was there pirate lore

about the island that
you heard as a kid?

- Okay, what are we waiting for?
- Let's go.

Let's get up to that island.

Let's go get it.

I think it's almost
always the case

on treasure hunts that
you're chasing a legend.

So, the legend
is, there's a pond,

it's really hard to
drain, it supposedly

has oak planks.

We're going to find out
all about that, that's...

that's one of the reasons
Tony Sampson is joining us.

We're going to see if
any of that stuff is true.

Show us the way.

Arriving on
Oderin Island, the team heads

to a fishing hut at the home
of Captain John Murphy.

Boy, this is the
real deal, Bill.

Yeah. Oh, guys,
the guys are here.

- Hey, how's it going?
- Come on in, guys.

There, they are
meeting with lidar scanning experts

Steve Priestley and
Jordan Bannister,

who have recently conducted

a survey of the mysterious pond

in preparation for
Tony Sampson's

investigative dive.

There's 400 years

of oral tradition and
history that says that

there's an oak-bottom
floor in this pond,

and there's drainage tunnels,

similar to what has been
reported on Oak Island.

- Wow.
- So, we've invited these guys in,

uh, to see if we could find

any anomalous
structures. And, Steve?

So, yeah, we've been
out here the last little while

with drone-based technologies

using lidar scanning.

Lidar, or laser
imaging, detection and ranging,

works by emitting
rapid laser pulses

that reflect off the ground.

The collected data
is then processed

to create a 3D model
of the target area,

revealing natural,
as well as potentially

man-made, features
near the surface

that are not visible
to the naked eye.

So, what we found
originally doing our lidar scan

was, there's two
parallel lines that run

from the mountain range
right up to the pond there.

Those two parallel lines,

they run in unison
with one another,

and those are impressions
from the lidar survey alone.

What we think that it might
be is, we think they might be

some type of fill tubes

from maybe a natural
spring or something

- to keep that pond full all the time.
- Hmm.

We-we love the idea
because it fits the lore

of these things
designed to keep this full.

But rather from the sea, this
is coming from upland, right?

- Absolutely.
- The idea would be

that if somebody tried
to drain this little water

to get to the bottom
of it, they couldn't do it

because it would
keep filling from this.

It would keep full,

and the way those
lines are running parallel,

- it's not normal. They're man-made.
- No.

It wouldn't be noticeable,
really, to the naked eye,

and we've actually
scanned the entire island,

and this is the
one major anomaly

- that we found.
- Now I'm getting excited.

- Yeah. Me, too.
- We were hoping to hear that.

- We really were.
- Shall we go and get wet, then?

- Yes, I think so.
- Targets. We have targets.

All right,
let's get after it.

Okay, boys, we're
on the northeast side

of Oderin Island.

I know it's been
a bit of a walk,

but we're gonna
head up this way now.

We're coming up on

the place that I've been
really excited to show you guys.

On Oderin
Island, some ten miles

off the southern coast of
Newfoundland, Canada,

researcher Bill Smith

has led Marty Lagina,

Matty Blake, and diver
Tony Sampson to a location

rumored to contain
millions in looted treasure

connected to the 17th century
English pirate Peter Easton.

Oh, wow. This is it?

- This is it?
- This is it.

Wow.

I believe
that this is the pond

that hides Peter Easton's
treasure from 400 years ago.

Is there
any doubt amongst,

let's say,
conventional historians

that Peter Easton
was here on this island,

that he had this as
part of his dominion?

There's a consensus
amongst all...

all parties that
have been involved.

The historical accounts
have been handed down.

- Here?
- Verbal and oral traditions,

plus the written accounts.

And then, with some of
the finds in the local area,

I'd say I'm 99% certain.

- That's certainty?
- Yeah.

- Conjecture is what's in that pond.
- Yup.

Mr. Conjecture,

get suited up.

Looks like I got
another pond, doesn't it?

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

The pond is
exactly as I pictured it,

except that the island itself is
way more rugged and barren.

If this pond is actually
lined with oak planks,

well, for one
thing, look around.

There are no oak trees here.

That would mean
they were brought there

specifically for some reason.

I think if that particular
legend is true,

that this pond is
lined with oak planks,

I think we're on to something.

While
Tony investigates

the muddy, shallow pond

for signs of valuables,

he will not only
attempt to confirm

that the feature's bottom
is lined with oak planks,

but he'll also look for evidence

of possibly man-made
flood tunnels

that Bill believes are connected
to a nearby natural spring.

So, that anomaly
will be coming down

here somewhere, feeding in.

- Way over there.
- It stops abruptly at the bottom of the hill.

- Got it.
- Just, it starts and stops at the same spot,

- which is really peculiar.
- Wow.

- Interesting.
- Yeah.

There's no way
something should be there.

There are
so many legends about

hiding things underwater,
and it-it appears to work.

Let's do what we came here for.

- Let's go.
- Let's go.

I'm impatient.

Mud diver.

I've heard so much
about this pond from Bill.

I'm so excited to
get in this pond,

and actually prove or disprove

that this might be
a hidden location

where Peter Easton might
have stashed a treasure.

Another day in the muck.

When diving
in, basically, mud,

it's the usual
challenge for Tony.

You know, you've
got water on top of

a lot of muddy, silty nastiness,

so, you know, it's difficult.

Tony's up for it, though, and
if anybody can figure it out,

I think he can.

Go get 'em, buddy.

Once entering the pond,

I realized this is going
to be a braille dive.

There's zero visibility,

and I have my metal detector
going from side to side,

and I'm slowly moving forward.

Tony's probably
touching bottom right now.

What I'm
feeling on the bottom

is silt.

I can penetrate through

up to my shoulder in this silt,

and I'm still not
touching a hard bottom.

Is that a piece of wood?

- That looks like a piece of wood to me.
- Yeah.

Another piece of
wood. That was definitely wood.

So, I'm feeling
my way through the silt.

I can feel timber planks,

almost like they've been
part of a box system.

So maybe some sort
of drainage system.

So, I don't know what
these artifacts are,

so I can't wait to get
something up to the surface

and let the guys
have a look at it.

- He's found something.
- Yeah.

- Look at that.
- Oh, look at that.

- Yeah, he's got timber.
- Whoa.

Whoa. Wow.

What on earth is that?

- I don't know.
- That's quite a collection.

- Yeah, some...
- That's quite, that's quite a bit, eh?

Looks like planking to me.

It stinks
like the swamp, Marty,

back on Oak Island.

Oh, good.

Huh, that is
definitely planking.

- Look at that.
- Look at that.

Good job, mate.
I'm shutting off the air.

There was timber on the bottom.

- Wow.
- So, I don't know if it's oak,

but, um, and then this, you
can see, has been worked.

Look at that. Yeah,
that definitely has.

You see, she's cut on
the end there, as well.

- Both ends, yeah.
- It's beautiful.

Notice, they're notched out.

They almost fit
together like a puzzle.

Yeah. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. So, whether...

Piece of crate.
Looks like a crate box.

That could be an
old crate. Yeah.

Or it felt like it was

in the mud, so maybe it
was boxing something in.

Ah. The question is,
do those grooves there on the end

look fabricated or hand-done?

I mean,
what they used to do

with the old fret and
coping saws, eh?

Look at the beautiful
French furniture

that was done by hand.

- Who knows, buddy?
- Yeah.

Although
varying styles of joinery

have existed in woodworking
for thousands of years,

the dovetail style,

which Tony has just
found an example of,

was widely commonplace
in Western Europe

during the 16th
and 17th centuries.

Is it possible

that the team has just
recovered evidence

of a legendary treasure
that many believe

Peter Easton buried in this area

sometime around 1612?

I mean, you
wanted an oak-lined pond.

I don't know if it's oak, but
it's definitely lined in that.

How much of it is down there?

Uh, there's still heaps.

- It's a start.
- Yeah.

So, I'm not
an expert in wood,

but when we look at the wood,

there's patterns of
cutting, there's dovetailing.

There's so many questions
that need to be answered.

Plan B is, we'll do some more

magnetometer
work with the drone,

so we're still optimistic.

- Good job, mate.
- Good job, Tony.

Matty to lidar team,

we've called the dive
in the pond for now,

so if you want to run
a full scan on the pond,

that would be a great
time right now. Over.

Due
to the lack of visibility

and thick muck on
the bottom of the pond,

drone expert Jordan
Bannister will now scan it

with a magnetometer in
order to look for signs of metal

beneath the wood planking.

Once the scan is completed,

it will then take several days

to process the collected data.

If Peter Easton

left any significant
part of his treasure

under that pond,
under those planks,

they could find it
with this technology,

give us a clear picture
and a real GPS-located

spot to dive on, which
would be really cool.

Great job, guys.

Talk soon.

Ah! -MARTY: Oh, baby.

Perfect.

Looks like
we've got a perfect day

- for this again, mate.
- Everything seems perfect.

The air seems perfect.

In Placentia
Bay, Newfoundland,

Marty Lagina,

Matty Blake, and
diver Tony Sampson

prepare to journey once again

to nearby Oderin Island

with researcher Bill Smith...

Look at
the grin on this guy.

And continue searching

for a legendary
treasure connected

to the 17th century
pirate Peter Easton.

We have something
that has potential

to be a little bit exciting.

- Okay.
- Um,

I got a tip from,
uh, Captain John,

and, uh, we might
have some information

on an authentic Peter
Easton shipwreck

just offshore from the pond.

I think we should change
gears and go have a look for it.

- Wow.
- That sounds fabulous.

See, I love when we get

local knowledge like this.

- Let me go get him for you.
- Please do. Please do. Yeah.

In 1612, while
still operating a stronghold

for the looting of
ships in this area,

Peter Easton is known
to have commandeered

numerous treasure
galleons belonging to

rival Spanish Basque pirates,

only to have some of them
sunk during ensuing battles.

This is, uh, Wayne Rogers.

Hello, Wayne.

I'm Marty Lagina. How
are you, Wayne? Pleasure.

- Matty Blake.
- Hi, Matty.

- Nice to meet you.
- Thank you.

And Tony Sampson.

- Tony.
- Nice to meet you, Wayne.

What you got for us?

It's a little rude, I know,
but we're dying to hear.

Well, that's pretty good.

I can put you
dead on it, really.

- Really?
- Yep.

In terms of where we were
yesterday, are we close,

- were we close to the site?
- Yeah.

Right behind
the pond is a cliff.

- Yeah.
- Right from the rock,

as you go off,

the ship's out farther
in deeper water,

maybe 40, 50 feet.

I've dove it... multiple times.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, took some stuff off it.

And what, uh, vintage
of the ship, do they...

do you think?

I took
what I brought over

to the head archaeologist
for the island at that time.

I took out

what I knew was
an Iberian olive jar.

And they're big.

They originally came, I suppose,

with olives in
them, or olive oil.

- Uh-huh.
- First thing he told me,

the interesting thing about

the Iberian olive
jar that I have...

This is fascinating
news, mate. Like, really.

Would this have been a
ship that Easton would have taken,

a Basque ship that he
would have taken, possibly?

Yup, who says
someone didn't come

- to surprise him?
- Yes.

So, that's all I can
tell you right now.

I want to get in the water.

I was just about to say,

let's... let's go have a look.

What are we
waiting for? Let's go.

Yeah, exactly.

This information
is a game-changer

because now we can shift gears.

Right now we have
a huge opportunity

to verify that Peter
Easton was on this island

if we can identify this ship.

Right through here, this way.

I feel a tremendous amount

of confidence that we're
gonna find something here.

It would be lovely to
put a name to this girl.

That's what I was gonna
say. He could be the one to

identify it with your help,

identifying this part
of the Easton story.

What are we waiting for?

Okay, let's get this
show on the road.

Okay. Eyes and fins.

Look at the
two components here:

we're after a legend
and we're after a treasure.

Sealed.

Let's take
the legend component.

If we get this tip
and we find this ship,

and the ship can be identified

as Peter Easton's,
then we know for sure

that one of Peter Easton's ships

was at Oderin Island

and was right next to that pond.

So, if we can identify
that ship, it would be huge.

While Marty and Tony
prepare for the underwater investigation

from the dive boat,

Matty, Bill and Wayne

will monitor the dive

from another vessel
50 yards away.

All right, Bill, this is our
underwater comms system

that, hopefully,

will allow us to talk
to our good friend.

Wayne's put us on
what he thinks is the spot,

and that's very hard to do.

In the days that he dove
this, he didn't have GPS.

So, it's a triangulation
system, and it can be off.

So the first dive is
an exploratory dive.

We're gonna head down

and see what we find,
and being ever optimistic,

I hope we land
on it first time out.

Tony's in.

We're going
into this first dive,

we've got a wealth
of experience,

world class divers, we've
got a ton of technology,

and we've got an expert
now who we've recruited

who's been on the bottom there.

We're gonna find something.

Find us a ship, Tony.

Descending
down, I'm really excited

because the water visibility
here is actually good.

I've got to about ten, 15 feet,

maybe even around
20 feet in places.

So that's making
me extremely happy.

Water temperature
is not too bad at all.

But I'm quite excited

that this is going to
be a productive dive.

Tony, Tony. Matty,
surface. Do you copy?

-Ah! -All right.

Tony, I hear you
loud and clear, mate.

Happy hunting, buddy.

Here if you need me. Over.

I get to the bottom,
and what interests me here

is, it's a gravelly,
shingly bottom,

so that means any artifacts
are not gonna be buried

under feet and feet of silt.

They're gonna be sitting
on top of the gravel there.

And it's just going to
be a systematic search

across the bottom here to
try and find an old artifact

that would give
credibility to these stories.

How's the visibility? Over.

Nice.

Whew.

Great, let's go find a ship.

I'm going to let you work

for a little bit, okay, buddy?

You let me know if you
need me. Over and out.

Does he realize how hard
this is on us right now?

- Yes, he does, he does.
- Yeah? He does?

That's the only reason
he's answering me.

It's not about comforting
him, it's about comforting me.

- Yeah.
- He just wants to get to work, and I know that

so I'm gonna let him work.

This is the hard part.

Ooh. Oh, Oh.

Copy. 24 feet. No
viz on the wreck.

Confirmed. Roger that. Over.

Wayne, how, uh,
based on your eye,

- do you think he's in the right spot?
- Right there? No, no.

- Okay.
- They're not in the right spot.

So, which direction
would you like him to head?

- Towards us.
- Towards us.

Tony, it's Matty topside.

If you could orientate
yourself westbound,

towards us, topside of the boat.

Wayne says that's
the way to head.

Hey, Matty, it's a little
quiet. What's going on there?

Wayne thinks he might be

a little outside
the target zone,

so we're having him head back

towards our boat again.

Roger that. Over.

Go for Matty, topside. Over.

- Ooh.
- Oh!

I can feel it, Matty.

There's something
big right here.

In Placentia
Bay, Newfoundland,

diver Tony Sampson

has just made a potentially
important discovery

while searching for evidence

of a 17th century
shipwreck connected

to the legendary English
pirate Peter Easton.

- Pottery?
- Confirmed. Pottery. Great find.

Does it look period
to you? Over.

He's searching around,

and boom. I hear "pottery."

And Bill and I just
immediately high-five

'cause we're like, okay,

that could be evidence
of a wreck. No doubt.

Due to the
maritime laws of Newfoundland,

Tony is able to touch objects

and artifacts that he
finds on the ocean bottom,

but unfortunately
he is not permitted

to bring them to the surface.

Hey, I heard you guys kind of

cheer over there a
little bit. Fill me in.

I'm dying out here.
What's going on?

He's found a piece
of pottery. Over.

Piece of pottery.

That's a good start. Over.

That's great. Good start.

Even though this was a
good dive as far as visibility,

I'm getting low on air.

He's covering a lot of ground.

So it's time to
go back to the surface

and plan for the second dive.

Oh.

Copy that. Diver leaving bottom.

We're looking for
you to come up.

Over. Out.

Having
found what he believes to be

evidence of a
possible shipwreck...

I'll take
the metal detector.

Tony returns to the surface

to debrief the team
on what he observed

on the ocean floor.

- Back to the mothership?
- To the mothership.

After a brief rest,

he will then conduct
another dive to search

for more clues that
could validate the legend

that Peter Easton hid treasure

in a mysterious
oak-bottomed pond

located just yards away on
the shore of Oderin Island.

Gentlemen.

How you doing, bud?

That was
quite a dive, Tony.

I mean, since we've
been doing this,

that's one of the largest
areas you've ever covered

on a dive.

I mean, you covered
a football field,

- it looked like.
- Yeah.

Yup. No, we
were trying to find it

somewhere in here.

Um, the only interesting piece

was that piece of
pottery over here.

I still think what
we're looking for,

as far as wreckage,
was... is pretty much

- over the side, here.
- So, if you

stretch out a little further
that could be the breadcrumb

- that you follow.
- Exactly.

Right now
we're really excited

because Tony has
found some pottery,

and now we've got a huge
opportunity for a shipwreck.

This shipwreck could
lead us to something

that's even more substantial.

There may be a link
here with Peter Easton.

Okay, so we got a
drop line here now,

we'll cut a pattern this way...

- Great.
- And let's see what we find.

- Great diving. All right.
- Thanks, mate.

- Nice going, Tony.
- See you soon, guys.

Good luck, buddy.

- Buddy, good luck.
- No pressure, buddy, but...

- Last one.
- Find it.

Heading down to the bottom

this time, optimism is high.

Enthusiasm in
my heart is hopeful

of finding a
shipwreck or parts of.

We're just hoping that
he's gonna find something.

Down about ten feet.

Any treasure hunter's hoping

to find gold doubloons,

pieces of eight, silver bars.

I would be happy with

completing another piece

of the Easton picture.

Diver on the bottom. Copy.

Happy hunting, my friend.

I reach the bottom and, again,
I've got the same structure.

I've got a gravelly,
shingly bottom,

and I'm really excited
about the visibility.

- They're going the right direction.
- Yup. All right.

Your bubbles
look great, keep heading

in that setting. Over.

Confirmed. Roger that.

Thank you, Tony. Over.

Come on, Tony.

Be good to us.

Come on, Easton,
it's time to give us a little sign.

Tony, Tony, it looks
like you're on a target.

What do you see? Over.

Come on, baby.

Topside, this is Tony.

While searching
for a 17th century shipwreck

connected to the English
pirate Peter Easton,

diver Tony Sampson has just
made an exciting discovery.

Coming
over a group of rocks,

I now look down to
the bottom in the gravel,

and there on the
bottom, covered in weed,

is part of an olive jar.

My heart just almost
jumps out of my chest.

It's just like what
Wayne told us.

Matty, go get your
wet suit on, will you?

I'm so... I'm so about to.

It's the nicest
one I've ever found.

Both of the handles are intact,

and the lip is
perfectly intact as well.

Without archaeological
input, it looks to me

something from the mid-1500s
through to the end of the 1600s.

Typically
made of quartz,

and originally used
for storing olive oil,

olive jars were widely present

on 16th and 17th
century treasure galleons,

used for the transport
of different types

of wet and dry goods.

Although Tony may not
have found a piece of treasure,

he has likely found
more evidence

of a possible shipwreck.

But unfortunately,
until the team

can obtain permission
from the authorities,

Tony must leave the artifact

where he discovered
it on the ocean floor.

- I'm feeling really good about this.
- Mm-hmm.

With excitement
in my heart, I move.

I'm now looking at
clay sailors' pipe stems.

And there, just out of view,

and it's coming into my view,

is this weed.

And I find another
couple of bits of pottery.

I'm excited to see
this stuff on the bottom

because that would give
credibility to these stories.

- He's been there a while.
- He's found something there.

Yeah, he's
been there a while.

I'm running
low on bottom time,

so it's time to go
back to the surface

and give my report to the team.

He's coming back towards
the boat now again, huh?

Oh.

-Oh. -Diver's up.

All right.

All will be revealed
in a few moments.

All will be revealed.

Come on, Tony Sampson,

what do you have to tell us?

So, right now we're
really excited because

Tony has found
something off Oderin Island,

but we don't know what it is.

- Tony.
- Yup.

I don't want to rush you,

but give it to me
in two sentences.

- What did you...
- Okay. Possible shipwreck.

- Possible? Pretty likely?
- Yup.

- Old?
- Old?

I think she's old.

Eh, that's not bad.

Nice.

- Let's find out why.
- Hot dog.

So, coming
back to the surface,

the excitement
on deck is-is large.

And the reason being is, now

we're on the trail of what
I believe to be a ship.

Well, what do you think, mate?

Well...

we go down to
about 50 feet there,

and we're going back and
forth in and out of there.

- A lot of modern debris.
- Yeah.

Um, but then the
interesting thing is

that I started to find a
lot of clay pipe stems.

Okay. That's not modern.

-No. -No, so that's not modern.

It was all in this sort of
area exactly like Wayne said.

From here towards
the rock over there.

Tony has
found old clay pipes,

and you don't see
a lot of clay pipes

right out in the ocean.

You usually see them
near the shoreline,

so it tells me that
there might be

a ship there, and these clay
pipes were thrown overboard.

I'm thinking, "We're
on it. We've got it."

I didn't find any
cannon on that dive,

but the interesting thing

- was old pottery.
- Hmm.

So, like the tops
of old olive jars

and there was actually,
uh, almost like a beautiful

pottery bowl down there.

- Mmm.
- Oh, wow.

So, you saw the
bottom stem of it,

and then she came up
into a beautiful bowl as well.

- No kidding.
- Yeah.

I definitely think this is
the site of an old wreck.

I agree with Tony.

We observed period
pieces that are consistent

with a ship, uh, from
Peter Easton's time,

right on the island
where-where we think

he may have left some treasure.

This-this could be one
of Peter Easton's ships.

I mean, we're quite sure

- he had a hideout here.
- Yeah.

We're quite
sure he controlled this area,

and we're quite sure we have

a very old wreck here.

- Well, come on.
- I'm pretty... I'm pretty excited.

Those are really nice
pieces. Those are nice pieces.

- I'm pretty excited.
- All right, that's good stuff.

Everything we've
come across so far...

The artifacts on the bottom
of the ocean, the pond...

All leads me to believe

that this needs
further investigation

in the Peter Easton story.

And let's not forget,

we have some
imagery to look at...

- Yeah.
- Also...

- Yes.
- That is being processed

that could really, really
drive this point home

that there is something here.

Yeah, for sure.

You know,
for me, like, history...

You always want to
see a gold doubloon

or a gold bar or
a piece of eight,

but, you know,
history is olive jars.

- History is...
- Of course.

Finding something in a
different part of the world

that it's not supposed
to be in, right?

Uh, you know, clay pipes.

I mean, clay pipes out
in the middle of a bay,

not near a wharf.
There's a reason.

There's a ship out there, so...

Uh, it's just another
piece, you know,

and it's, uh... Thanks for
making me a part of it, guys.

- Yeah.
- Well, I'm-I'm pretty happy, buddy.

I mean, I would love to
come back here again.

There's probably a cold beer

sitting on a bar
for us somewhere.

- To our next adventure.
- Well done, team.

Well, Rick,
your brother and I,

along with Tony, had
quite an adventure.

As you... as you
know, with Bill here.

And, man, what a time.

- What a time we had.
- For sure.

There's also
evidence that we found

as to your trail

on Peter Easton, and
it started in that pond.

And that pond was
really cool to see.

It vaguely reminded me, Rick,

of a smaller version
of the swamp, in a way.

You know, 'cause
you have the beach,

you have a small land
divide, and then you have this

little bit of an
anomalous water feature

that does seem odd in some ways.

The guys who did
the drone lidar with us,

their magnetometer actually
has data that there is actually

an anomaly in the pond.

And since we've been there,

there has been some new findings

that I would... I
brought with me,

I'd like to show you
guys today. Sound good?

- Yeah.
- Of course.

Can't wait to hear.

There has been
some new findings

that I brought with me,

I'd like to show you
guys today. Sound good?

- Yeah.
- Of course.

The guys who did
the drone lidar with us,

their magnetometer,
what they did extract,

there is actually

an anomaly in the pond.

Okay, so we all know
that this is, uh, the pond.

So, Tony spent

a considerable amount of time

over in the central
portion of the pond,

and right where we
see the lines right here,

where they come into the pond,

which could potentially
be drainage tunnels

coming from the hill,

there is a magnetic
anomaly found about

three feet below
the sediment layer,

and it's a significant
magnetic anomaly,

we've been told
by the lidar guys.

- I'm sorry. Metallic?
- Metallic, yeah.

This has been
a legend that his treasure

is in this pond for
a long time, right?

Yeah.

Which means I'd like to

get that magnetometer data

fully processed and have
them do us a written report.

I mean, I'm just suggesting

- 'cause it's worth following up on.
- Yeah.

Here, we don't really know
for sure there's a treasure.

It makes sense,

and he and I go through
role reversal all the time,

but for me this one is
more about the story,

uh, which is not normal for me.

- What?
- Yeah, you heard me.

It is. I just find this guy

incredibly interesting.

These stories are
being lost by the day.

That's the other thing
we've learned about

all these treasure
hunts we've been on.

These stories are being lost,

to the detriment of humanity.

- Yeah. Yeah.
- Right?

Stories that are unique.

So, I-I'd like us to
somehow get together...

Well, I think... I think
the province of Newfoundland

would be quite excited
if you were successful,

one way or another.

I mean, it would be a big deal,

and they're... you
know, 'cause it's-it's-it's...

it's their history.

On many levels,

this treasure hunt was a success

because we have new data
that we didn't have before.

We now have another link

that says traditional,
oral traditions, folklore,

that these are based in reality.

So that means some
of the other traditions

that we have in this area
will also be based in reality,

and we're gonna find more.

I think this
is one of those cases

where the sum of the
parts, the disparate parts,

start to add up to, "We've
got something here."

When you look at
the anomaly of those tunnels

and now this
new anomaly in the pond,

potentially,
looks like one to me.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

And then you have what he saw
on the bottom of the ocean.

I think we have something here,

and I think you have
a lot to pursue,

and you should. It's worthy.

It's a great story.

- Yeah.
- I can't say it

any better than that.

That was a good
summation, Matty.

- Thanks, buddy.
- You're welcome.

I've learned from the best.

Thanks for... thanks for
coming to Newfoundland.

- It was quite an adventure.
- Yes.

Thanks for helping my brother

to advance his appreciation
of the story.

- Yes.
- Yes.

All right.

We got our own treasure
here to go after.

Yeah, you do.

Let's go find

that Oak Island treasure, boys.