12x11 - Best Caisson Scenario

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

RICK: It's the perfect size
for a treasure chest.

KATYA: There's
something there. We'll find it.

[detector beeping]

We found something already.

EMMA: The presence of
arsenic could push the date

-back to the 1600s.
-Wow.

TEDFORD: It got loose
halfway through that run.

-ALEX: Could we be in a void?
-Yeah.

That's tantalizing.

We could be heading
through a treasure zone

-right now.
-CHARLES: Absolutely.

STEVE: I'm gonna propose
we put a caisson right there.

Let the caissons roll in.

-Proceed.
-Let's go.

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.

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TERRY: Okay. Here we go.

CHARLES: Let's
hope it's a good one.

NARRATOR: A new day

of energized optimism has dawned

on Oak Island for brothers Rick

and Marty Lagina and their team.

TERRY: So, Charles,
based on the success

of the previous hole,

you know, we've got a
whole lot of more work

-to do in this area.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: After more
than a decade of searching

for the answers to a


they may finally be on the
verge of a breakthrough discovery

in the fabled Money Pit area.

Intersecting wood at
about 153 feet below grade.

That's incredible. It
didn't put itself there.

-No.
-It didn't get there on its own.

Oh, Charles, we have wood!

NARRATOR: Just last week,

while drilling a borehole
known as H.5-10.5

in search of the
original Money Pit...

TERRY: I'm seeing some
serious chunks and slivers of wood.

CHARLES: Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...the
team was stunned

when they obtained evidence

of a wooden structure
some 150 feet deep

near the same depth
where back in 1897

treasure hunters Frederick
Blair and William Chappell

reportedly drilled into a
seven-foot-high wooden chest

and recovered shavings of gold.

To bolster the team's
spirits even more,

their latest discovery
was made in the same area

where recent groundwater
tests have identified

a large source
of precious metals

more than 100 feet
below the surface.

-Hey, guys.
-Hey, Alex.

-Alex, how you doing?
-It's going great.

-Where are we?
-TERRY: This could be

a really, really important hole.

NARRATOR: Now, they are
drilling borehole H.25-10.75,

less than three
feet to the northeast

where they hope to once
again encounter this structure

and hopefully confirm

that it is the legendary
Chappell Vault.

If successful, they will install

a large-diameter steel
caisson in order to retrieve it.

MARTY: My thoughts as
we approach the target depth

where this so-elusive
Chappell Vault

may have been encountered...

We got gold and silver in
the water, so here we go!

Everything is adding up

that this could be it.

God, I hope so.

TERRY: I mean,

the idea that we caught
the edge of something,

that's tantalizing.

We saw some shreds of
wood and out-of-place material.

Well, what's the rest of this

potential treasure
chamber look like?

No, this is good.

CHARLES: Well,
I'm looking forward

to getting to the
bottom of this.

TERRY: Absolutely.

NARRATOR: As the core
drilling operation continues

in the Money Pit area...

...on Lot 4, located

on the western
side of the island...

-GARY: Back to these spoils.
-PETER: Alrighty!

You know what, mate?

There's only one way to
find out what is in the spoils

and that's to get the old
magic wand struck up.

-[detector chimes]
-NARRATOR: ...Peter Fornetti

and metal detection
expert Gary Drayton

are continuing to search
through a large pile of spoils

that were recently removed

from a mysterious
rounded stone foundation

located nearby on Lot 5.

A foundation near the shoreline
where the team has uncovered

a number of
potentially critical clues.

These include

valuable 17th century
Venetian trade beads,

a mortar-like material
that matches soils

that have been recovered
from over 100 feet deep

in the Money Pit area,

and iron tools that have
been scientifically linked

to the birthplace
of Sir William Phips:

the 17th century
English politician

and naval officer
who some believe

buried a massive
horde of Spanish silver

on Oak Island back in 1687.

Keep back on the line.

-I was going this direction, wasn't I?
-Yeah.

MARTY: Lot 5 could be

an absolute integral
part of telling the story

-on Oak Island.
-[detector chiming]

-That's a great signal.
-Sounds good.

-And it is just there.
-Right there.

MARTY: We have
a lot of artifacts

that support that,

and that is why
we continue to look.

[detector beeping]

GARY: Let me try pinpointing it.

Okay.

It sounds great.

[pinpointer beeping]

[beeping rapidly]

It's this.

-Ooh! What have we got here?
-It's copper?

-Yeah, copper, yeah.
-Copper, right?

That's what it looks like,
mate. A piece of copper.

And you can see,

some reason or
other, it got broke.

PETER: It's snapped. Yeah.

Oh! Look at that.

-See those rivets on the back?
-Yeah.

Yeah. This is, I believe,

-some kind of belt plate.
-Hmm.

Now it could've been
off a bag, a satchel.

It could have been on a
solider or sailor's uniform.

-Mm-hmm.
-Back in the day,

a lot of military forces,
they used to have

a lot of decorations
on the uniform

and especially

on the bags that
they used to carry.

Okay.

NARRATOR: A possible
decorative military plate?

If so, could it be
connected to the iron tools

that the team has found in
the nearby foundation on Lot 5?

And potentially offer
the team more evidence

of who created the feature,

and perhaps buried
valuables in the Money Pit?

GARY: There's a
really good chance

that there could be
some military insignia

or regimental numbers on this.

Okay, mate, we'll
put it in the bag

and we'll find those
answers out back at the lab.

I know that we've found
other military buttons

and things in and
around the feature itself.

So, if that ties in

and we're able to get
a regiment number,

-it might tell us who was there.
-Yeah.

Okay, mate, that's in the
bag and I'm looking forward

to seeing what Emma
tells us about this.

-Perfect.
-All right, mate.

-Let's keep grinding and finding.
-Okay.

NARRATOR: As Gary and
Peter continue searching the spoils

from the round
feature on Lot 5...

KATYA: I would
love to dig inside of it.

-CRAIG: Dig even deeper?
-KATYA: Mm-hmm.

Since I've seen
this, the only thing

-I've wanted to do is go inside.
-Okay.

NARRATOR: In the northern region

of the triangle-shaped
swamp, Craig Tester,

Billy Gerhardt and Gary
Drayton's daughter, Katya,

are searching deeper

into one of the most
extraordinary structures

that the team has ever
uncovered on Oak Island.

A brick and slate
vault-like container

that was hidden beneath
the brackish water and muck.

RICK: Okay. Here's something.

NARRATOR: Last week,

shortly after
uncovering the feature...

-What's that?
-NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina

and members of
the team discovered

three iron
artifacts inside of it.

-A hook.
-NARRATOR: One of which

may have been used to
lower and raise heavy objects.

Okay.

NARRATOR: This has
made the team believe

that the structure
may have been created

to keep something
of great value hidden.

Now, they are draining
the remaining water from it

in order to look for more clues

that could solve the
Oak Island mystery.

RICK: This square-shaped
box-- we'll call it--

built out of slate and
brick, I believe it was built

for hiding something.

And hopefully we will find

something more definitive.

Maybe even the one thing.

Hello.

Hey, guys.

[whirring]

[whirring stops]

-It looks really good.
-Yeah. It's cleaned up nicely.

There are two things
apparent here, to me.

One is this is, uh, someplace
that you would put something

possibly valuable,
because it's hidden.

And the other
thing is that we have

a very mysterious individual
possibly associated with this,

given the fact that
Anthony Graves' house

was very approximal
to this, right?

Yeah.

RICK: If you are
watching over something

that you think is valuable,

you're gonna make certain
that nobody comes snooping.

Well, Anthony's house
is there. This is here.

NARRATOR: In 1857, a
farmer named Anthony Graves

purchased most of Oak
Island and built his home

near Joudrey's Cove,
just north of the swamp.

While little is
known about Graves,

curiously, after living on
the island for several years

he reportedly began buying
goods on the mainland

using Spanish silver coins.

Could Rick's notion be correct

that this vault-like
structure may be connected

to Anthony Graves and
his mysterious good fortune?

If so, might he have created it

in order to hide a
cache of treasure?

Or could this be
where he found it?

So I can get in there...

[detector beeping]

There's definitely something
super shallow in here.

-Do you want to get in there?
-Oh, I'll get in there.

That's the fun part.

If there's something
there, we'll find it.

[pinpointer beeping]

Here we go.

CRAIG: Nonferrous hits.

LAIRD: Nonferrous is good.

[sustained beep]

I think we found
something already.

-[pinpointer beeps]
-CRAIG: What is it, Laird?

It's lead.

-Lead? Oh, okay.
-KATYA: Definitely lead. It's heavy.

-Yeah.
-NARRATOR: While investigating

the mysterious
vault-like feature

in the northern region
of the Oak Island swamp,

Katya Drayton has just made
a possibly important discovery.

It's almost like the
end of a lead weight.

Like a long counterweight.

-CRAIG: It's got a hole right there.
-Yeah.

RICK: It's a strange thing
to be in what I certainly think

is a place where
treasure was kept.

-Right?
-NARRATOR: A lead counterweight

found inside of a potential
vault in the swamp?

In 2020,

the team discovered
a lead trade weight

just 50 yards from this area,

which was designed for
measuring amounts of coins.

-RICK: Here, Craig.
-NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the team has found
another type of lead weight

that may have been
used for a similar purpose?

If so, could it be connected

to the Spanish coins
that Anthony Graves

was rumored to have
found on Oak Island?

KATYA: Yeah, that
big signal is gone.

I think we got it.

Is there any reason to think

something might
be deeper, or not?

My professional opinion

is that that bottom is
not the actual bottom.

I still would love to dig it.

RICK: Hmm.

What do you
think of that, Laird?

Oh, yeah, that's fine with me.

Craig? What do you think?

I-I'm fine with doing it.

-It's not gonna be easy.
-[laughter]

KATYA: What a find.

NARRATOR: While Rick
Lagina and members of the team

look deeper into the
possible vault in the swamp...

...over a quarter of a
mile to the west on Lot 5...

MARTY: Well,

-shiver me timbers.
-Hi.

What on earth do
you got going now,

-Fiona?
-Well,

this is actually looking
pretty interesting,

with the soils here.

NARRATOR: ...Marty Lagina joins

archaeologist Fiona
Steele and Todd Langseth

at the rounded stone
foundation near the shoreline.

Even an amateur such as myself

can see that
that's ash, isn't it?

Yeah. This has
got charcoal in it.

We actually just
found a clinker in it.

And a clinker is
evidence of very high heat.

MARTY: Right.

There was a fire here.

There are folklores
of people seeing lights,

-you know, from Chester.
-I remember that.

-Yeah.
-Could that have been the fire

-that was happening here?
-Could be.

NARRATOR: In 1795,

when a young man
named Daniel McGinnis

discovered the Money
Pit with his two friends

Anthony Vaughan and John Smith,

it was reported that what
lured them to the island

were local legends about
mysterious nighttime fires

that had been seen
from the mainland

more than a century earlier.

Is it possible that the
team has found evidence

of those reported fires in
the rounded feature on Lot 5?

And if so, could
it be another clue

that whoever
constructed this feature

may have also
created the Money Pit?

MARTY: Well, I'll
tell you what, Fiona,

I wouldn't mind
helping out a little bit

if you got something
you need work on?

FIONA: Actually, I do.

This does need to be cleaned
out because we've been

trying to define the
wall a little bit more.

This side of the wall
or that side of the wall?

Well, if-- it's probably easier

if you access it from this side

-and-and...
-Mm-hmm. What, are you trying to dig out

-the soil between the rocks?
-Yeah.

FIONA: We've got buckets
over there if you want

-to do that.
-I'm on it.

MARTY: This feature could be

an absolutely
crucial, essential part

to the whole Oak Island mystery.

We need to keep digging.

We only have so much time,

and that's where we'll
get the real answers.

-Hey, Fiona?
-Yeah.

I think there might be a big
charcoal sample right here.

See that?

-FIONA: Oh, that is a good chunk.
-I think that is a good chunk.

Mm-hmm.

FIONA: That's evidence
of a really high heat source.

This actually could give
us really good information

and some proper dates with this,

even after the
construct of the building.

MARTY: Yeah. You know,
that would be a great way

to hide this when
you're done, right?

If you never wanted
anybody to see it,

you burn it down.

There appears to be
quite a widespread area

outside of the structure,

or the foundation
of the structure,

of charcoal.

Burnt stuff.

And that could be very old

and it could be instructive
and it could be why

it might be there.

It needs to go back to the lab

and get Emma to
have a look at it.

You know, you probably
could get a bit more.

MARTY: Okay, I'm a
charcoal-digging fiend.

Let me at it.

NARRATOR: While Marty
and the archaeology team

continue the investigation of
the round feature on Lot 5...

-TERRY: Look what we got.
-ALEX: Whoa!

-We got wood.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...in
the Money Pit area,

Alex Lagina, along with
geologist Terry Matheson

and Oak Island historian
Charles Barkhouse,

have just encountered
more evidence

of a man-made structure

some 130 feet deep

in Borehole H.25-10.75.

ALEX: We could be heading
through a treasure zone

right now, as we suspected.

-Yeah.
-TERRY: Exactly.

NARRATOR: The question now is,

could it be the
legendary Chappell Vault,

which may contain not
only a vast cache of gold

but also the long-sought
answers to the Oak Island mystery?

In the next core, we
should be into what we saw,

hopefully, in H.5-10.5.

We're hot on its heels here.

-The next core is gonna tell us.
-Yeah.

CHARLES: We have a core.

ALEX: We're approaching
target depth, and I'm pretty excited.

Hopefully, this borehole is
the one that brings up treasure

from the original Money Pit.

LEIGHTON: There's 139 there.

Thank you. Oh, wow.

All right. Get a look at this.

We're getting into
cobble and gravel here.

All right.

Look at this. More wood.

TERRY: Oh, wow.

-More of that wood, absolutely.
-Yeah.

TERRY: Let's have a look here.

That's very much in situ.

But this is basically a
broken run right at the bottom.

It's not very much recovery,
so that is kind of odd, too.

I mean, I'm very
surprised to see that.

Uh...

I think maybe we should
have Mike talk to us about that.

-Yeah.
-Mike!

ALEX: When we lose
a stretch of the core,

that's very interesting to us

'cause there's a
few possibilities.

It's either an open
void or a soft area

that's indicative of
a structure, a tunnel,

something that was excavated,
which is exactly what we wanted.

It could be related
to a treasure deposit.

-Hey.
-TERRY: Hey, Mike.

TERRY: What do you make of this?

The bottom of this fell out.

So that's why you
have a short run here.

TERRY: Oh, okay. I see.

TEDFORD: It got very loose

probably, you know,
halfway through that run.

ALEX: Could we be in a void?

-Oh, yeah.
-Yeah.

CHARLES: Wow.

ALEX: That's awesome.

-ALEX: Could we be in a void?
-TEDFORD: Yeah.

It got very loose

halfway through that run.

-That's what we want, right?
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: It is
an exciting moment

for the Oak Island team
in the Money Pit area.

-Great stuff.
-NARRATOR: At a depth

of some 140 feet

in Borehole H.25-10.75,

they have just drilled
into a possible void.

And in the same area where
they may have encountered

the legendary Chappell
Vault just one week ago.

ALEX: So, can you
case the borehole

to 149 before you pull out?

I could do that, yeah.

ALEX: We want recovery

-rather than pushing through.
-Right.

If there's wood in there at all,

it would be pretty exciting.

Yeah.

-All right.
-ALEX: Thanks.

Recovery is critical.

We're in a potential void.

There could be material in
here indicative of a structure.

But also there's a
chance that this core

is gonna bring up treasure.

So, with all that said,
uh, we're not gonna know,

one way or the
other, what's here

until we finish this borehole.

Here it comes.

ALEX: Hope for material.

Thanks, Leighton.



Go ahead.

Look at this, Terry.

Oh, wow.

That's deep.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

CHARLES: What do you got, more?

There's another chunk there.

ALEX: Is this material

loose in situ or is
this loose disturbed?

TERRY: This looks
disturbed right here.

This is really interesting.

CHARLES: We
might've nicked it again.

NARRATOR: Could
Charles Barkhouse be correct

that the coring drill
may have once again

just cut through another edge
of the fabled Chappell Vault?

This is probably
meaningful enough

that I should give
my Uncle Rick a call.

-Yeah.
-Tend to agree.

ALEX: We're so
close to the activity

of previous searchers, but
this is unexplored ground

in an area that
many qualified people

believe to be the location
of the original Money Pit.

If it's not anything that
we know of that's searcher,

then there's a much higher
chance it's original works,

and that would be very exciting.

-CHARLES: Hey, Rick.
-TERRY: Hi, Rick. How you doing?

I've heard a little
bit of excitement

-up here.
-Come on over.

ALEX: Mike advanced
this casing down,

and just the bottom
of that fell out.

If there was an empty
space down there,

it's now full of
stuff like this.

-My gosh, if you've hit a void...
-Yeah.

It makes this area,

again, just based on this alone,

an area for a possible caisson.

This could be where we find it.

I'd like to go back

to the previous searchers' notes

because they denoted,
roughly, where they were drilling.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

-It's all good news.
-ALEX: And we have wood to test.

RICK: Yeah. Really good.

Kudos to everyone. Great job.

Let's see what tomorrow brings.

NARRATOR: The
following morning...

-TEDFORD: Casing's at 149.
-TERRY: Great.

That's perfect. Let's
see what happens.

NARRATOR: ...as the
team plots their next move

in the Money Pit area...

CRAIG: Want to take over?

RICK: Sure.

NARRATOR: ...Rick
and Craig Tester

lead the effort to
reach the bottom

of the mysterious
vault-like structure

in the northern
region of the swamp.

There's some serious
rock down there, eh?

Yeah, it's...

RICK: We've reached the bottom.

I don't see much
falling through that.

LAIRD: No.

RICK: Think maybe, Katya,

you might want to come
down and have a scan.

-CRAIG: Give her one last try.
-KATYA: Can always try.

KATYA: I can say that
there are no more signals.

RICK: All I know is

it's the perfect size for a
nice, little treasure chest.

Mm-hmm.

RICK: But unfortunately, it
appears as though we came

-a little bit too late.
-CRAIG: Yeah, it's gone.

-RICK: It's a curious thing.
-LAIRD: Oh, yeah.

I mean, think about it, right?

Look at what we've
found within, what,

a hundred-foot radius? The Eye,

the log platform,
the cobble path,

and this storage site.

I mean, what else is

another hundred-foot
radius away?

NARRATOR: In addition
to the vault-like structure,

the team has also
discovered several other

man-made features in this area,

including a platform of
logs, a cobblestone pathway

that is still yet to
be fully uncovered,

and the so-called
Eye of the Swamp,

a circular feature that
bears an eerie resemblance

to the Masonic symbol
known as the All-Seeing Eye

and which geoscientist
Dr. Ian Spooner believes

was created in the
late 17th century.

I would like to track
back to the cobble path

and see where it's heading

because my suspicion
is, there are two or three

of these around somewhere.

BILLY: I would agree.

If you don't have a bank,

you would spread
it over multiple spots

for fear that... because if
somebody found your cache,

you would be in
big trouble, right?

Yep, maybe we find
another one 20 feet away

-that is still full.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR: Could
Rick Lagina be correct

that if the team continues

to uncover more of
the cobblestone path,

it could lead them to
other vault-like structures

in the swamp where
hidden valuables

are still waiting
to be uncovered?

KATYA: It's pretty
big that something

this huge could stay
hidden for so long,

so it begs the question,
what else is here?

RICK: Yep. But in
order to find that out,

we've got to get going.

-Right, Bill?
-That's right.

CRAIG: Let's call her quits here

and move on to the stone path.

BILLY: Yep.

NARRATOR: Later that morning...

CRAIG: Hey, Carmen.
Welcome to the lab.

-Welcome back.
-Please. -Hi, Jack.

-Gary.
-All right, mate.

NARRATOR: ...in
the Oak Island lab,

Craig and other
members of the team

meet with blacksmithing
expert Carmen Legge.

He has come to examine
the mysterious copper plate

that was found one day ago

in the spoils from the
round feature on Lot 5.

To me, this copper
one looks like

it's a-a belt plate.

CRAIG: What can
you tell us about that?

Well, it is copper.

You can see it has

-two little rivets on there.
-GARY: Yep.

It doesn't look like

a uniform curve, so it could've
got bent in the later years,

but it looks like a
nameplate to me.

A riveted nameplate.

-Have you scanned this one, Emma?
-Um, yeah.

NARRATOR: Earlier this morning,

Emma Culligan
analyzed the artifact

with the Skyscan


a device that emits
nondestructive X-ray radiation

in order to reveal an
object's finer details.

She also scanned it

using the X-ray
fluorescence spectrometer

to identify the elements
in its composition,

which can help determine
when it was created.

So, it is a, is a copper alloy.

It's a copper alloy
of copper, zinc,

some iron, lead,
arsenic is also in there.

CARMEN: The
metallurgy indicates dates?

That arsenic does make it older.

-So, the presence of arsenic...
-Good.

...as an alloying element

could push the date
back to the 1600s.

JACK: Wow.

EMMA: So, the
presence of arsenic

could push the date
back to the 1600s.

I'm not 100% on
that. However, it is

in the realm of possibility

because it is a metal that

starts to fade
out, uh, throughout

-the later 1700s.
-JACK: That's great.

NARRATOR: It is a potentially

historic moment for
the Oak Island team.

According to the
composition of the copper plate

that was unearthed
in the rounded feature

on Lot 5, archaeometallurgist
Emma Culligan

believes that it may predate

the discovery of the Money
Pit by more than a century.

I mean, if we are
saying that that is

late 1600s, does it not
fit in with the possibility

that Phips was on
Lot 5 doing something?

Phips had discovered
the Concepción,

which was a
sunken treasure ship.

CARMEN: Yeah, seems like

you're finding more
artifacts to lend to that theory.

Yeah, there is definitely
plausibility for it.

CLARKE: Many people
are actually familiar with

William Phips's discovery
of the Concepción

back in 1687.

We know that Phips found
silver on the Concepción,

and I believe some
of the treasure

from the Concepción
was secreted to Oak Island.

NARRATOR: Thanks to the research

of 32nd-degree
Freemason Scott Clarke,

the Oak Island team
has found a prime suspect

for who may have been behind

the 230-year-old mystery:

Sir William Phips.

In 1687, the English
politician and naval captain

made two successful salvages

of the famed Spanish treasure
wreck known as the Concepción,

which sank off the coast of
the Dominican Republic in 1641

while carrying
more than 100 tons

of silver, gold and jewels.

However, after recovering

more than 34 tons
of the valuables

during his first mission,

when he returned to the wreck

with the help of a Freemason
named Captain Andrew Belcher,

Phips delivered less than

five additional tons of
treasure to the English Crown.

CLARKE: I strongly
believe that Belcher

and his comrades were
actually transferring treasure

from the Concepción
to the Oak Island area.

-That is remarkable.
-ALEX: Yeah.

If he was here
in the late 1600s,

that's not out of the
range of possibility

for construction of the feature.

The construction
style seems hurried,

and it also seems
like an older-style build.

NARRATOR: If the team can prove

that Sir William Phips
and Andrew Belcher

are connected to the
rounded feature on Lot 5,

could that also
explain who constructed

the vault in the swamp,

where former landowner
Anthony Graves

may have discovered a
cache of Spanish silver?

And if so, might
that also reveal

who created the Eye of the Swamp

as a secret calling card?

You know, to
me, if this treasure

is associated with, uh, Phips,

it's an odd story
that's going on in Lot 5

and in the swamp.

Mm-hmm. Absolutely.

To have all these significant
clues, or important clues,

it certainly encompasses the
Sir William Phips expeditions,

but there's no smoking g*n here.

We don't have that yet,

but finding more
vaults in the swamp

or on Lot 5 could be proof.

There's certainly
more work to be done,

and-and that, in and of itself,
is a little bit of the treasure.

CRAIG: Carmen,
thank you very much.

Thanks, everybody,
and let's get back after it.

-Yep. -Very good.
-Let's go.

GARY: Thanks.

JACK: Thanks, Emma.
Thanks, Carmen.

NARRATOR: Later
that afternoon...

PETER: Hey, guys.

-You need help with anything?
-KATYA: Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...Peter
Fornetti joins Billy Gerhardt

and Katya Drayton in the
northern region of the swamp,

approximately 20 feet from
an empty vault-like structure

and just several yards south

from where 19th century
Oak Island landowner

Anthony Graves
built his homestead.

KATYA: We have a lot more to do.

PETER: Where you digging from?

BILLY: Going to do
some where you are there.

NARRATOR: It is their hope

to find an extension of
the cobblestone pathway,

as well as more
man-made structures

that hopefully contain
hidden valuables.

RICK: We may have
found an empty vault.

So, hopefully, we can
find more of the pathway,

and then there might be a vault,

either in the area or nearby,

that has treasure in it.

That's a big piece of pottery.

PETER: Oh, yeah.

It was beautifully designed.

Yeah. This is, uh,
a piece of pottery,

but I think this is a print

and not hand-painted.

Look. There's a pile over here,

-if you want to come.
-All right.

[Peter sighs]

KATYA: These are...

PETER: Got some blue glaze.

KATYA: This is what
Laird called yellowware.

PETER: I mean, this is near the
area of Anthony Graves' home.

If Anthony Graves
was here in the 1800s,

as we go deeper, we might
be able to find earlier stuff.

NARRATOR: Could Peter be
correct that this pottery is connected

to 19th century Oak Island
landowner Anthony Graves?

Beautiful.

NARRATOR: If so,
might that also be a sign

that other buried structures
containing valuables

are hidden in this area?

-KATYA: Let's move on.
-PETER: Okay.

RICK: We found some
clues that strongly hint

that Anthony Graves was
doing something in this area,

and we hope to find some clues

that might lead us to a
location of his supposed silver.

So I think we just need
to continue to follow

this cobble path
through to the end.

There's more work
that needs to be done.

Send it over to
the archaeologists.

-Okay.
-As soon as we can.

-Keep on metal detecting.
-Let's do it.

BILLY: While I'm on good bottom,

-I'll scrape the sod off here like Rick wanted.
-Okay.

NARRATOR: While the
search for clues and valuables

continues in the
Oak Island swamp...

MARTY: Gentlemen,
we are approaching

the real treasure hunt.

We set out at the
beginning of this year

with the idea being that we're
trying to locate a treasure.

NARRATOR: ...Rick
and Marty Lagina,

Craig Tester, and other members

of the team gather
in the w*r room

for a critical meeting
regarding their search

for the legendary
Money Pit treasure vault.

It's time to decide whether
we have enough data

to bring in the caissons

and try and unearth this
thing that's been eluding us

and everybody
else for 230 years.

Or whether we don't.

So, with that, I'll
just turn it over

to whoever wants to start.

Well, I think it's worth doing.

There are areas where the drills

just can't provide you
with the information.

Okay. Dr. Fred, same question.

I think so.

You're getting

a-a larger sample and-and...

we're getting a better idea

of what's there geologically.

MARTY: Okay. Sounds good.

NARRATOR: In order
to conduct the proposed

large-scale excavation
in the Money Pit area,

which would cost
millions of dollars,

a massive machine
known as an oscillator

would be used to
grind steel caissons--

with diameters of seven feet--

into the ground,

reaching more than 200
feet below the surface.

An 18-and-a-half-ton tool
known as a hammer grab

would then be used
to remove tons of earth

and hopefully the
legendary treasure

that people have
sought for 230 years.

MARTY: We know, ideally,
we'd like to do five or six caissons.

And then, of course,
the next question,

the obvious
question-- if so, where?

IAN: If it's metal underground,

it's got to be in a
shaft or a tunnel.

It's not just sitting
in the-- in the dirt.

So, what we're interested
in, I think, at this point

is, um, where did
that metal come from?

Is there a connection to
the shafts that we know--

the-the--the
Chappell, the Hedden.

MARTY: Okay.

Let's talk about
the drill program.

Scott, let's talk about
possible targets.

Yeah. We have done
some exploratory drilling

in and around here,
and we did have

a few interesting results.

One of the big discoveries
is potentially tunnels,

which is what
you're looking for.

-STEVE: We have some good areas.
-Okay.

So let's zoom in
the area of interest.

Those two red circles
are the soil samples

that Moya and Emma
did very early in the year,

which matched
the soils on Lot 5.

Really close to one of
the most successful holes

in this area is E.75-5.6.

I believe we had
wood at vault depth.

In that 156 feet,
did we not hit wood?

We went all the way
down to 159 with wood.

So, no treasure yet but
potential vault location.

TERRY: Oh, yeah.
This is a lot of wood.

We could be catching
the edge of a tunnel.

NARRATOR: In recent
weeks, while drilling boreholes

in the region of
the Money Pit area,

where Dr. Spooner and Dr. Michel

believe a large source
of precious metals

are buried deep underground,

the team has made a series
of promising discoveries.

TERRY: This could be the
bottom of our tunnel right there.

NARRATOR: One is a
previously undocumented tunnel

located some 109 feet deep.

And on several occasions,
including just one day ago,

at a depth of nearly 150 feet,

they have repeatedly
recovered possible evidence

of the legendary Chappell Vault.

STEVE: All right. So, based
on everything we've done...

So, the yellow circle is where

I'm gonna propose
we put a caisson.

Okay.

NARRATOR: Is it
possible that the team

has now identified
one or more locations

where the answers and reward

that they have sought
for over a decade

will finally be recovered?

DOUG: It's not just the
soil samples, though.

And I keep coming back to
the highest anomalous gold

we ever had that I'm aware of,

where this spot sits.

-Absolutely.
-MARTY: All right.

So, I happen to
have in my hand here

a Canadian two-dollar coin.

And it is about
the right diameter

for a seven-foot caisson.

So, would you place
your first one, please?

-Sure.
-I'd like to see where it fits on this.

STEVE: All right, so I'm
gonna take the best shot

at the treasure being at depth

anywhere between


-right there.
-MARTY: Right there.

So, there we are.

I think that's, potentially,
that's worth a caisson then.

-CRAIG: Yeah.
-MARTY: All right, well, we've heard a lot here.

Here's what I heard
is, um, I think there's a--

quite a lot of enthusiasm
to bring in the caissons.

-Absolutely.
-RICK: Yep.

I agree that we should do this.

There is real enthusiasm
around the table.

A-And so, heartfelt
appreciation to everybody

for the teamwork
and the ability to focus

on the greater good,
the greater good being

trying to solve this mystery.

MARTY: Okay. Well,
then, do you agree

with bringing in the canisters

and do you agree with this
as at least a primary location?

You know, we do tend to
look at things differently.

-Hmm.
-RICK: Is caissons the right application?

In all honesty, I would
tunnel my way around

the Money Pit ad nauseam.

RICK: Is caissons
the right application?

In all honesty...

I would tunnel my way around
the Money Pit ad nauseam.

But we're limited by reality.

NARRATOR: In the
Oak Island w*r room,

Rick and Marty Lagina,

their partner Craig
Tester, and their team

are debating how best to explore

deep in the Money
Pit to finally recover

a vast and fabled treasure.

At the end of the day,
we've put Xs on the ground

and now it's time
to get this started.

MARTY: Okay.

We'll do it.

Yep.

It was a good year of drilling.

We've collected
a lot of good data.

Not only the samples
we've brought up

but all the water
monitoring we've done.

We're constantly going back
over the historical records

to tie into the new wells.

We've got a lot of information.

Now we need to take
the next step: big caissons.

RICK: This has come as a result

of 230 years

of hard-won,
hard-wrought search.

We have built upon all
the previous searchers--

Onslow, Truro, Restalls.

This is a puzzle
here in front of us.

It's eloquent. It's beautiful.

It speaks to 230
years of raw emotion.

And so my hope
is that, as we apply

the science and technology,

we have real respect not only
for the history of Oak Island

but for each and every one
of ours' participation in this

'cause it has cost
us all something.

And yet we persevere.

And that is emblematic
and emphatically states

how important this is to us.

And I am grateful for
each and every one of you

sitting around the table.

Because in order to
complete this puzzle,

we'll all have to
be at our best.

Do I want to find the treasure?

Yes, but

I want the story told.

And-and if the treasure
helps us do that,

then let's get to it.

Let's get the caissons
down there and find this thing.

MARTY: We've talked
about the one thing--

Rick's favorite expression
for 12 years now--

I want to find it.

I want it for Rick,
I want it for me,

I want it for everybody
on this quest,

I want it for the fellowship.

Maybe, finally,
after all these years,

we'll solve this mystery.

You know, from the human
heart hope springs eternal.

RICK: We're a part of
something that will endure

forever.

We are a part of something that,
hopefully, speaks to something

about history that we
currently don't understand.

So, let the caissons
roll in. Let's get after it.

Let's get it done.

MARTY: All right, so we're
doing something important.

-Absolutely.
-It sure feels like it.

Okay. I love it. Proceed.

STEVE: All right. Let's go.

MARTY: Let's go.

NARRATOR: As boys
growing up in Northern Michigan,

Rick and Marty
Lagina were tantalized

by the tales of all the people

who tried to unearth
a vast treasure

in the Oak Island Money Pit.

And now, after
more than a decade

of building on the progress of
those brave men and women,

can the Laginas and their team

overcome the mysterious forces

that have guarded
the island's secrets

for more than two centuries?

They are about to
conduct the biggest

and most strategic dig ever

in order...

to find out.

Next time on The
Curse of Oak Island...

RICK: Come here, look at this.

-KATYA: Oh, my gosh.
-There's something here.

ALEX: Could this be a
continuation of the stone path?

This is the Blair treasure map.

From what we can gather,

there were three
separate treasure caches.

-I say we get after it.
-Yeah.

Look at this.

So, this has got
to be the stone.

There's an X here.

GARY:
Ringing loud and clear.

Oh! Got it.

-JACK: Wow!
-[Gary laughs]

JACK:
Come see this.