06x12 - Slipway When Wet

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Tonight on the curse of Oak Island
look at that tip this is almost w*apon light

Wow Go down we have to have a look
at h8 so we're gonna run so our owners

know there's a clear right angle is it
possible a here at the side of a rather

large cavity yeah it's a cool no design
I've ever seen it could be incredibly

old its concrete the Romans had come
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

mysterious fragments of human bone and a
LED cross whose origin may stretch back

to the days of the Knights Templar to
date six men have d*ed trying tosolve

the mystery
and according to legend one more will

have to die before the treasure can be found
it is another new and exciting day on

Oak IslandI've always thought h8 is the
money pit do you believe that's possible

Craig it absolutely brothers Rick and
Marty lagina along with their partner

Craig tester continue to make progress
not only in their quest to locate the

original money pit but in the excavation
of other places on the island where

treasure might be buried
last week while searching Smith's Cove

for the remains of the stone box dragons
that have long been believed to feed

sea water deep into the money pit the
timber right there

Wow Rick and the team uncovered a series
of not wooden beams kind of signifies

there's quite a load quite a load
expected

beam's which could have been used as
part of an ancient slipway that was

first discovered by Oak Island treasure
hunter Gilbert Heddenin 1936

so far inaddition to finding the
slipway the team has also unearthed what

appears tobe a portion of one of the
legendary box drains the mysterious you

andl-shaped structures that were
previously discovered by Dan Blankenship

in the 1970s and the remains of what
appears tobe a wooden wall

Smith's Cove is yielding structure after
structure after structure most of it

unknown clearly there were massive
efforts by searchers and maybe by

original people over two hundred years
two centuries yeah and even before the

discovery of the money pit so a lot of
people believe that they were doing

something substantive want to tell you
what I'm most excited about that it's

been a long hard slog out here this
excavation Smith's Cove and everything

finally we're back to digging you know
I mean everything's in place we're back to

dig absolutely today before heading No
heading over to Smith's Cove

Marty Rick and Craig
begin their day at the place where they may

be
finally closing in on the team's most

important and elusive target Jared
Marley the original money pit treasure shaft

Marty strongly believes it is located
very near the exploratory or hole they

dug last year age eight it was at this
same location at somethingest area where

the team discovered evidence of
everything from antique pottery pieces

pieces of parchment and bits of book binding
to fragments of centuries-old human bones

I was firmly convinced at the beginning of
this year that we needed to dig a jade

let's see if we can capture some of the
material we missed last year

it's irrefutable that the most
interesting finds and the money pit have

from h8 there are we just starting to
grab what's going on for about an hour

okay we got a foot and a half we're
dancing around 195 again saying that we

starting to get hard and we're just
tarting to get

hard and we're just getting a little

what do you get mud a little bit of
granite granite and some pretty good

granite slabs maybe this was the plug
that it started pushing everything down

last year while trying to excavate the
HHM the team noticed that the drilling

caiss on had hit something which could
have been the legendary Chappell vault

the 7-foot tallwooden chest which was
first identified by treasure hunters

William Chappell and Frederick Blair
back in 1897 right now we were

definitely sitting on something it feels
like I'm on a whole bunch of wood at

once unfortunately just as the team was
making progress anobject that they

thought might be the Chappell vault was
pushed farther down into the mud and

sediment
was in front of the cannon

we're pushing it for a while
now before this year's Dig operation can

resume the T from urban equipment
limited must first scoop outseveral

feet of sediment and debris that is
settled at the bottom of their most

promising target site borehole h8 right
now what we're dealing with is a big

steel cylinder with a plug inthe bottom
so if we can't hammer the plug out we're

certainly not gonna get anything new in
there vanessais there any reason why we

can't start trying to rotate right now
and break that sealI would love your

blessing to start oscillating I don't
see why we wouldn't either yeah you know

that might even help the plug too if we
start moving that can yeah down fire it

be oscillator okay fantastic
thank you hey Dan I got the blessing

let's start twisting that can and try to
break it free let's fire up the

oscillator
using the massive oscillators got her

now the team will now slightlylift the
steel caisson in borehole h8 in an

effort to break up the plug at the
bottom of the shaft

it's catching on something
there it goes so great knock on wood

thatit keeps going you're rotating it's
trying to pick up pretty odds definitely

got pressured we're gonna keep on slow
but it's moving he's looking up for a

breaksoon
be slow first gonna take a minute wiggle

it out but I'm happy it'll come on
maybe we'll get out of here this year

what we didn't last
as Marty and Craig continued to

supervise the operationat the money
fair

Rick lagina has joined geologist Terry
Matheson and archaeologist Laird Niven

as they continued the team's massive
excavation of Smith's Cove

a log across the bottom there's two of
them doing here on there

this is probably part ofthe old truck
yeah so we had this slipway on top of

the slipway
evidence of an ancient slipway at

Smith's Cove is both exciting and
confusing if as Rick and members of the

team suspectit was built and ordered to
haul ships out of the water and onto the

shore was it to repair damage or person
positive who buried something of

incredible value here on the island
hundreds of years ago they're consistent

all across here yeah those are nice and
tight at the same thing that you have

Laird I've got one here one here one
here here and there yep there's

certainly popped inter oh yeah yeah so
packed tightly packed must be a rebuild

over and all yes so let's take this slip
place you know people are slipping

moving pulling boats ashore hard to
believe that something shouldn't be in

here waiting forus hard to believe
there isn't as Rick and the team

continue to expose more and more of the
mysterious slipway tons of excavated

earth and materials have been taken over
to the massive wash plant located nearby

where they will be claimed and sorted
according to size

thank you wow you guys work fast we got
a Rick on the job here things happen

pretty quickthere's a lid found
anything in the slipway anything more

just glass you know relatively fresh
glass have a go okay I'll use no

discrimination we want to dig everything
though

no nothing in there
gota gayou live

there you gotmy
holy crap

this is almost w*apon line
we've got the small ROV with us it is a

scanning fona good to put the ROV down
the cat will start to get returns on the

look at it this is almost w*apon
life look at that tip while

investigating the remains of a possible
ancient Duncan slipway at Smith's Cove

metal detection expert Gary Drayton has
just made what could be the team's first

significant discovery of the day look at
that tip that's almost like a heroin

like the crossbow
almost looks like a Roman peeler it's

wrought iron
a crossbowbolt earlier this year while

searching for artifacts on the islands
south west shore look at this Jack

Begley Gary Drayton and geophysicist
Mike West discovered a strikingly

similar metal object further
investigation however suggested that the

object could not only be much older what
it appears to be is Roman

no way but part of a tip from an ancient
throwing spear known as a pileup which

was used by soldiers of the Roman Empire
as farback as the 1st century BC it

looks like it was shaped thatway Mike
oh yeah we assumed he would have had a

half take a handle yeah you're right
that looks like a the tool or a w*apon

yeah cool no idea no idea
it's really cool

it's hand-wrought Delia point is on
purpose

look at the tip I don't know what to
make of it so certainly we're going to

do scientific analysis is it possible
this is part of that original work of

course it's possible but I want an
answer on definitive answer not modern

I don't know what tomake of it well
this is getting interesting fines are

coming up now let's see whatelse we can
find

later that afternoon Rick lagina joins
his brother Marty in the w*r room or

they have gathered with members of their
team to follow up on another recent and

potentially historic find fellow ship
members alex has been working with this

stone that has the potentially strange
perhaps runic symbols on it two weeks

ago gyro survey expert Tory Martin
discovered an unusual stone slab while

assembling his equipment in the money
pit area and definitely not natural even

more intriguing was the strange
inscription that appeared to be carved

on the rock surface after conducting a
laser scan of the stone the team met

with representatives from azimuth
consulting limited who presented them

with a stunningthree-dimensional
computer model it revealed characters

that Doug Pro believed to be ancient
runes the letters that make up the early

Germanic alphabets used as far back as
the second century AD

this is a very curious stone if this
stone is authentic historically it's

very important because it would be some
of the earliest proof of visitation if

not habitation in Nova Scotiaby
Europeans Alex foundan expert dr. Lila

Coco para yeah we've been looking for
anybody who might beable to help us

with with this stone and you know maybe
tell us if there is or isn't an

inscription so we can call her please
didn't ask her a few questions and see

what she thinks
hi dr. dr. Lila Co parhe's the director

of the Center fo rmedieval and Byzantine
studies atthe Catholic University of

America in Washington DC she is also an
expertin rhinology and has written

extensively about early medieval
iconography thank you for taking the

time to talk with us I've sent you a few
details of this stone but we don't know

for sure whether there is or is not an
inscription and and if there is we don't

know what it could possibly mean so
that's why we're calling you today my

pleasure! have the first question have
you seen at the images at all of this

this stone we have I did see a few
images yes okay do you think it's worth

a closer examination based on that it's
certainly very interesting

it is unusual because of that relatively
straight line in the middleand the

incisions on it
this might be an inscription but I need

to look at ita bit closer and hear a
bit more about the context so what I

would really need is as many close-ups
of the inscription as you can send me

and images of all signs of the object
it's important to see all aspects of it

if you wantto know something about the
job done because the inscription of an

has something todo with the function we
did some measuring of the stone we did

build sort of a 3d model of the stone
that we might be able to send you what's

relevant is the find contact so very
exactly was it found are there any other

objects nearby that may relate to this
this has something to do with what it

could be the confusing thing abou tthis
stone in particular is it was in place

and we never noticed it to be honest
with you it was sitting above ground it

was next to a well that had been used by
searchers over the decades if not

centuries it's in close proximity to the
money pit but we don't know if it came

from undergroundor not it's extremely
flat surface as though it's been

manipulated in order to have achieved
the raised carvings its context it's

been lostin the mists of time so to
speak

I think we understand the task let us
pull all that data together

and
you

with the candor so we have about a 10
foot open pilot hole

Roscoe up higher or say where we're at
my suggestion would be pull up slowly

incrementally to 170 issue wait for the
sonar introduce it okay that sounds good

so we're gonna run
so when our then yes hopefully there's a

big cavitythere or something yeah but
so far so good

sounds good oka having broken through
the compacted earth and materials at the

bottom of the shaft the team from urban
equipment limited

it's made substantial progressin their
goal to raise the massive 50 inch white

caisson from a depth of 213 feet to 170
feet once accomplished they will be able

to use the 3-ton hammer grab tool to
excavate the contents of the hull or

artifacts and hopefully treasure but
before that happens the Oak Island team

has decided to first conduct a sonar
scan of h8 in the hopes of confirming

the presence of an anomaly that recent
seismic scanning has suggested could be

a large underground void or chamber
assisting the team with today's sonar

operation or Mike Roberts and Joey Rolf
of dive tech limited we've got the small

ROV with us
and on the ROV there's a scanning sona

I'm interested to see what we've got
there especially if there aresome void

so stuff I'm sure we'll pick the mup no
problem with this sonar okay well let's

get after it yep because h8 is filled
with over 150 8 feet of water Mike and

Joeywill be using a remote operated
submersible vehicle other wise known as

an ROV equipped with a Tritech micron
sonar he will use sound waves to detect

and obtain images of any voids or
objects within a range of 250 feet

the ROV also features a high-definition
camera allowing the team to monitor a

live video feedof today's operation
just let me know when you're all clear

there and I can start lowering it in
yeah Roger we're all clear good to put

the ROV down the con Roger
here we go the hunt is on

coming up see that now that is a clear
right angle yeah

is it possible that you're at the side
of a rather large cabin that could be

very few explanations for it other than
a lawyer

we're startingto get returns on the
SONA although at the money pit site Rick

lagina his nephew Alexand Craig tester
along with representatives from dive

techlimited are just beginning a sonar
scan of the HHF just check it my

sentence just adjusting the gain and
stuffthey are eager to obtain more

precise imagery of a large underground
anomaly that was recently identified by

seismic scanning and anomaly the team is
hoping could actually be evidence of a

large underground treasure chamber okay
Joey carry it on down

yeah Roger using motorized propellers
operated remotely fromthe surface the

sonar equipped ROV descentsthe 50 inch
wide h8 steel case on toward the soil

and possible void below it we're gonna
use every available technology that has

merit to help solve this mystery so
we're gonna run sonar down there if

there's a void if there's a chamber if
there's something we penetrated or push

past we might beable to see it so maybe
I'll have something to explore so once

we get out of the caisson we should see
that change from a hard yellow to softer

return because the clay will be
absorbing the sonar

make if there's a void ora tunnel or
anything down there what do we see we

would just see an open with no return
there's no pity or now it's just block

water so that's what I expected so we're
down 20 meters now much so we're just

passing 60 feet just like to see it oh
yeah

Marty without nearly 38 meters okay okay
we're coming up to 42 meters but come on

on to 50 meters or 165 and that's gonna
be the bottom I can't let's get a scan

right in here okay Joe coming to a stop
just doing a scan router that might I'm

waiting for a micto PAB the aha moment
I'm waiting for him to say there there's

what you're looking for trying to get a
dead center you know it's amazing does

he watch that little sweep go around
you're looking for the big cavity to

show everytime every sweep did you see
that see the square corner it doesn't go

round it looks like it comes and then
just at an angle zero there let me go go

back to two meters with salt on earth I
think so see that now that is a clear

right angle you can definitely see
that's a 90-degree angle can you go

a head and drive it forward that'd be
going straight upright on this screen

we're gonna go a head a bit more and
there's your angle unless you're moving

I'm not moving but that's a dandy there
a right angle could the team actually

have found evidence of aman-made
chamber located some 170 feet deep

underground is it possible that you're
at the side ofa rather large cavity

that could be angular features in nature
are always interesting to look at

because angles usually are a reflective
of human intervention some sort of human

construct so there's a hope that it's an
association with some sort of room or

cavity void
if a large boy really does exist some

170 feet deep underground has the Oak
Island team finally located the bottom

of the original moneypit
and if zone could they be just moments

away from locating the legendary
Chappell vault

Oh doesn't seem right that's videos
dropping off that'snot good

okay so I'll comfor talso depth on on my
videos flickering for some reason

yeah videos Flickrand really bad yeah
we've lost sonar as wel lno more power

that is odd everything started shutting
down

we got acomms lost along well power
down kind of looks like that's some kind

of massive brain failure going on to me
it's justs preading all over the place

heyJoel just powered down thank you
yeah we don'tI don't want to leave

power on just incase it is getting
water it your chances of survival on

this pull it and take a look at it yeah
yes and if you think it can be fixed

real quick let's go right back to where
we want to be and see if we get some

data
hey Joel just pull a rope okay

disappointing it's not the correct
verbage really I mean it's more than

disappointing we're on the verge of
possibly coming to an understanding of

what's below AJ and then the equipment
fails and not under difficult conditions

designed for many times the depth which
one of those it's Oak Island

explanations the island hides its
secrets well isn'tit

we were just poised above it yeah said
Shakti nope

although the ROV was built to with stand
depths of up to 1,000 feet it would not

be the first time that equipment
suddenly and inexplicably failed on Oak

Island for the past two centuries
treasure hunters have reported bizarre

equipment failures and usually at times
when they believed they were close to a

major break through
could this be another such occasion I

think we all are somewhat used to or
gather than throwingus a curveball mr.

Blankenship encountered that during his
years here

Dunfieldran into the same thing it's
almost like it's a living breathing

entityand it just refuses to give up
its secrets okay you're on surface here

gonna pull you out again let's see if
there's anywater and this hopefully

there isn't
did it flood yeah

if it is let it yeah that's not good
yeah that does it for us that

what are you thinking big because it is
Mike and Joey's assessment that the ROV

has suffered serious water damagethe
Oak Island teamwill be forced to

suspend today's sonar operation
never the less evidence that a large

possibly man-made boy exists at a depth
ofone hundred and seventy feet has made

them more eager than ever to hammer grab
the contents of a cheDanny it's happy

timefor you you get to do something we
would like to hammer grab yet today and

we're running out of time so I
appreciate it unbelievable

coming up what indicates that it could
be a script is the rhythm of the carbon

so there is a set of scripts in the high
medieval period referred to asto cross experience

as the
nt limited

continues to hammer grab the h8 shaft
brothers Rick and Marty lagina gather

with members of their team in the w*r
room today should be one of those very

interesting days we have dr. cope are
again they are eager to hear a report on

the mysterious stone carvings the team
found in the money pit area

two weeks ago hey how are you doing
thank you

good thanks dr. Leela copeour he's an
associate professor of English at the

Catholic University of America in
Washington DCI've got everybody here

again she is considered an expert on
Norse mythology and medieval stone

carvings including rune ology the study
of rome's we're all really excited to

hear ifyou were able to reach any
conclusions regarding thethe may be

inscribed stone that we've been talking
about well I spent some time with this

stone it's immensely interesting for a
variety of reasons you floated the idea

that it might be runes right because
everyone's are characterized by these

nice straight lines the problem however
is the way that this stone is inscribed

if you're in size ruins you ear don't
have any guide lines above or below the

charactersor if you do as in
Scandinavia then you have it on both

sides sothe characters are between two
lines not just one side

so that tome speaks against the fact
that these can be rooms I could not

identify a single character that would
be ruining so my conclusion would be

that these are not relevantthe reason
why you all think that it's an inscribed

stone I think because it has that
straight line in the middle and the

inside characters that seem very regular
what indicates that could be a scriptis

the the rhythm of the carving the next
question is what script are we dealing

withso I started thinking okay what
could it look like if it was scripts o

there is a set of script in the high
medieval period referred to as the

Gothic scriptand the rhythm of these
characters or these markings on the

stone reminds me of this particular
gothic script it looks a little bit like

an inscription inwhat school - text -
Alice rotunda they are widely used from

twelve to fifteen century and they have
a numberof different versions gothic

scrip tfirst developed in Western Europe
in the 12th century AD

gothic script was a popular writing
style used in the Middle Ages for the

very difficult task of reproducing books
by hand known more commonly a sblack

letter the script was also widely
utilized for stone and metal

inscriptionssuch as those found on
graves and in churches

could this stone found near the money
pit really be inscribed with medieval

gothic writing it was interesting that
she mentions the possibility of it being

gothic script because gothic script is
somewhere between the 12th and 15th

century well that's an aha moment
because the trois is believed to be from

the thirteen hundreds when she explained
the dates associated with Gothic script

I think we all went wow the other
interesting feature is that it's like a

littleround thing in the middle like a
raised circle it would be a typical to

see that as a marker to mark our
different segments of an instruction you

don't use bulbs or the little round
things for not normally the markings on

it could be decorative so it would be
worth looking whether there is anything

where you could use an architectural
stone in architecture you do decorate

stones oftenand for that you often use
rhythmic patterns just because they look

pretty so my conclusion would be then
it's probably architectural and the

markings on it are decorative the
interesting thing about that is there's

somebody onthe island
has the urge to create something that

looks like something else because it's
relevant to them for what ever reason

okay the result I was hoping for was
that she would say oh this is such in

such language from such-and-such people
that was used at such-and-suchtime and

here's what it says but what she did say
however is that it was carved so at

least we know we have a mysterious stone
with strange carvings on it well I mean

it's it's good info we know a lot more
than when we started very gratified to

hear that at least you found it
intriguing as well that's great oh yes I

mean we're gonna follow these clues and
if we find something else I think you're

gonna see it yeah please please get back
to me I'm really interested all right

take care
thank you bye although for now the exact

nature of the stone carvings remains a
mystery Rick Marty and the team remain

convinced that they could offer an
important clue in solving the Oak Island

mystery
I believe those are characters on that

stoneI think we all think there's
something on the stone yeah this is a

strange inscription I still think
there's information there begs further

research right yes let's get back to
work

sounds good to me all right
coming up it's a coinit's no design

I've

another day begins on Oak Island and as
the excavation of the mysterious slipway

continues at Smith's Cove Rick lagina
metal detection expert Gary Drayton and

dan henskee arrive at the money pit dig
site what I'd like to do is go down

there and see if we can't find me the
other part of that stone okay after

learning that the large stone fragment
they recently found in the area could be

inscribed with medieval writing they are
hoping that other pieces of the

mysterious artifact can be found nearby
you're always looking for Marty always

refers to as more data let's go have a
look

this stone is certainly broken and it
appears that there's more characters

that continue across the length of it so
that would be a significant find find

the other pieceI'd say it's like that
on that Rick stone I thinkit was that

type of stone well you don't
it should be fairly apparent Gary yeah

make it make that song that I love to
hear I love a little search around okay

as Rick and Dan searched the area by eye
Gary scours it with this metal detector

although it won't alert him to the
presence of anything made of stone he is

hoping there might be equally
interesting metal objects in the

vicinity yeah that one looks a similar
to the Roomster with a mouse on

- wrong that's -way repeatable have no
idea what it is it's not that deep six

inches and it's just in excellent just
here

or something so going for a minute
I did it's a coin

please be old and that is unusual
there's like a webbing kind of design to

it yeah there is it's no design I've
ever seen look at the top I'm going to

token a token dating back to the first
century BC bronze or copper tokens were

used in the Roman Empire as an
alternative form of currency tog old and

silver coins the useof tokens was also
common among merchants selling and

buying goods in the Americas from the
17th to early 19th centuries

could this coin Mike object found on lot
16 be an ancient token zone just how old

could it beand could it be connected to
the carved stone that the team also

found in this area okay thank you but
wow that sounds interesting

alright give mea call if we find any
okay

discoveryit's not wood what is concret
REE

what in the world is that I mean it's
certainly unrecorded yeah how deep does

it go today we don't know yet I've been
ever surprised a bit abit you want you

wanna reconfigure that a concrete wall
buried some eight feetbeneath Smith's

Cove there's a way to date concrete
the Romans had concrete yeah the Romans

had concrete that would set under water
this could easily be incredibly old

known for such engineering marvels as
the Pantheon and the Colosseum the

ancient Romans were the first to develop
and use poured concrete as far back as

the 3rd century BC by mixing volcanic
ash along with other rocks and minerals

they created a unique kind of pipe
drawing cement which actually hardened

when exposed to seawater it has long
been theorized that thiskind of

advanced engineering would have been
required to build the intricate system

of booby-trapped flood tunnels on Oak
Island

there's absolutely no record of anything
like this

it's smits coves so of course your mind goes
to flying like something we absolutely

are certain is original I mean it'd be
very interesting if this goes through

this structure or underneathit then
obviously who ever built this knew about

this right let's stop short then this
could be something entirely separate

from that camera yeah
it's very strange in order to pour this

this is under walk exactly that's then
this is three feet below grade and then

an additional three feet under water I
mean this was not an easy build

if you'd asked me if what five things we
might find in Smith's Cove 10 things 28

this would not be one concrete wall was
one of them yeah I said the only thing

there to surprise me more if it was hot
pink honest

Coughlin's would be on top of this so
it's no wonder tha the didn't see this

sir find it yeah yeah and there's no
mention in 1850 or 1864 sixty six of

them using concrete we need to dig
inside yep

you know respecting that integrity again
if whatever's here goes that way then we

do have to stop okay you've gotta call
the engineers give them the specs of

what we're doing okay and get it okay
but I think one one pull through here is

fine yeah obviously a pull through here
is fine

yeahbut any closer it's a all stop
situation okay so let's kind of just

scrape this and see what see what
happens

for Rick Marty and their team the
discoveries they are making suggest that

the origins of the Oak Island mystery
may date much earlier and be much more

profound than the treasure hunters
before them ever suspected

but as they continue to dig deeper both
at the money pit

and at Smith's calls what will they
uncover a vault filled with sacred

treasure ancient waterways and
architecture dating back to Roman times

or will it be evidence of something even
more astounding something so forbidden

that it had to be protected
by a deadly curse next time on the curse

up O'Connor
now it's time to see what's in that this

is part of the chaplain all we know
there are significant clues in HH

Charles what's this
yeah looks like parchment to me

under the red to that color was used in
really old books if you were in charge

where do you look
I would look at interest there's now

underwater because I think they're
Israel

yeah we found something oh man the hell
could this be