The Curse of Oak Island (2014–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - What Lies Below - full transcript

Somewhere

around here...

Yeah, there it is.

Is this the spot...

where they died?

Well, that's what I was

asking Dan.

You know, the shaft that the

Restalls died in...

Yeah?

Do you know where that



is?

Uh, there may

be some pictures

from 1965, cause there's news

coverage.

In February

2013, brothers Rick

and Marty Lagina traveled from

Michigan to an island in the

North Atlantic,

in an attempt to solve a 200-

year-old mystery.

Several

generations of people



spent an enormous amount of

money, risked life and limb, and

died, looking for something here

on Oak Island.

There's been a constant history

of people doing that.

I mean, it seems like each

person or group that gets

involved just doesn't give up

until they either die or they go

bankrupt.

There's the famous Oak Island

legend-- six people have died,

then a seventh has to die...

In search

of the treasure.

In search

of the treasure.

And that's when all will be

revealed.

When I was

11 years old, I read

the story of Oak Island and

I was hooked, and brought it

home and read it to my brother.

Yeah, he shows it to

me and of course it had all the

things people like-- treasure,

mystery, booby traps.

It had all the stuff that

interests a kid.

Adventure.

Yeah, it's your big

brother talking to you, too,

you know, and he knows, he's...

look what he's found, you know,

wow, this is gonna be great!

200 years ago, some

kids find an interesting spot on

Oak Island off the shore of Nova

Scotia.

They dig.

They find some stones laid in,

they find some planks, things

that would have to be man-made.

So they're sure they're onto

something.

It was the end of the piracy

era, right?

So everybody's thinking buried

treasure.

No matter how deep they get,

they keep finding more planks

that appear to be concealing

something.

They give up at about 20 feet

deep because they're digging by

hand.

Then a succession of people come

back and they keep digging.

They find more platforms every

10 feet.

They find more odd stuff.

A bit of chain, all kinds of

wood that shouldn't be there.

Down about 90 feet they find a

stone that's inscribed with

strange engravings.

Finally, someone else comes in

and they find that the shaft was

actually booby-trapped, that

there's a flood tunnel to the

ocean and, all of a sudden,

water floods it.

So then different people keep

trying and trying, mining

engineers, business people.

President Franklin Roosevelt was

involved.

John Wayne was involved.

Everyone wanted to get down to

the bottom of this so-called

Money Pit.

As each successive treasure

seeker goes through the years,

they kept finding things that

kept them going.

Each time, it appears like

there's more and more evidence

of man-made formations

underground.

One of the participants

noticed this little pea-sized

little round ball, and he

unfurled it, and it turned out

to be a little piece of

parchment with an inscribed "VI"

on it.

And we're leaving out

coconut fiber.

There's been...

Massive amounts

of coconut fiber.

Yeah, I mean, what

the hell's that doing on Oak

Island?

We wanted to know what

really happened.

There's all kinds of theories.

Certain people say that it's

Knights Templar treasure.

Another theory is that it's

something from the Spanish

plundering of the New World, and

then there's some people who

credibly believe that it's the

lost manuscripts of Shakespeare.

But the real core of

the Oak Island story is who,

why, when, where, how-- that's

what really got me, that's...

for me...

I was more interested

in the treasure.

I woke up this morning

thinking: this is kind of

a big task.

Yeah!

I'm a little daunted

this morning.

Today, if we find something

man-made at depth that we can

definitively date prior to--

give me a number-- 1790, then.

Go with 1800.

All right, 1800.

Then we've got something nobody

else has gotten.

Yet.

There's the rig.

Can we actually get

into the second riser pipe from

the same direction?

It's kind of

a trial and error thing

to try to see which one's

gonna work the best for the

scenario, right?

Personally, for me,

this is the opportunity of,

literally, a lifetime.

You know, Dan really

wants to go back up there.

I worked for the Postal

Service in the US and just

retired.

Maybe do that hillside by the

Triton shaft?

Yeah.

Hopefully now I can

devote full time to the study

of the Oak Island mystery.

I think as long as we

drill anywhere in this vicinity

here, I think we're fine.

I've been in the energy business

for 35 years.

Let's get to it.

I started a company.

We drilled a lot of oil and gas.

In oil and gas, you're looking

for giant geologic formations

underground, so we think we

might be able to adapt some of

those techniques to help us

here.

You know, we should

be doing this in ... August

and July when we're not

freezing our ... ... off.

Whose bright idea was this

anyway?

Well, you gotta do

'er when you gotta do 'er,

you know?

All right, what do we got?

That's just cuttings-- I don't

see anything.

Can you get another one?

Yep.

How much money do we

have invested in this?

We have millions of dollars

invested in this.

Which we will recoup at

some point.

Rick, he's a hopeless

romantic.

I mean, my brother is driven by

ideals.

There's right and there's wrong.

Honor without question.

Bring you another one.

He would have made the

ultimate Roman Centurion.

He would've gone in and did what

he had to do.

How deep?

155.

We disagree less about

course of action and more about

likelihood of what the outcome

is.

This gets tedious, you know?

Looking through drill cuttings.

Skepticism on my

brother's part plays into it.

You always need a foil to bounce

something off of.

There's some anhydrate in there

right there.

No, you're not,

you're not to bedrock yet.

From a purely business

standpoint, I'm not sure this is

a good investment.

By the time he drives

that bar down we're gonna be at

about 170.

But it's not just an

economic investment.

I'm motivated by curiosity, I'm

motivated by the hunt, I'm

motivated by doing something

with my brother that he's always

dreamed about doing.

It's about family, it's

about love.

And I love my brother.

I mean, I wouldn't want anybody

in this with me other than him.

165.

Okay.

If, at some point,

we're not successful, we know we

tried together.

Whoa, whoa.

Here's something.

Something, Rick.

Whoa!

Whoa!

Pottery.

That's significant, man!

Is there more of that?

If we can date this to before

1800, we've got our proof.

Hey, guys.

We're almost there.

Oak Island.

Although the test

results on the pottery

they found were

inconclusive, Rick and Marty

Lagina have returned to Oak

Island, determined to find out

if the tales of buried treasure

are true.

Where we going?

10-X, right?

10-X.

10-X.

Let's go.

Six years ago,

they bought a controlling

interest in the

corporation that owns most of

Oak Island.

We can go down that

road now, right?

We have access there,

yes.

Since then,

they have spent

thousands of hours doing

research...

securing permissions...

and making plans to conduct the

most extensive and

scientifically-based exploration

of the island in more than 200

years.

What's the deal, Rick?

We're either gonna come back

with our shields held in triumph

or dead on them, right?

Isn't that your centurion

analogy?

Oh, no, that's Spartan.

That's Spartan.

Yes.

Okay.

Here we are.

Fabled borehole 10-X.

10-X.

Located just 180 feet away from

the site of the original Money

Pit-- it was dug by hand, 40

years ago, to a depth of 235

feet, by island resident

Dan Blankenship.

Dan hoped he could avoid the

booby traps that flooded the

Money Pit in the early 1800s.

With the help of his son Dave

and another local treasure

hunter, Dan Henskee, Dan lined

the eight foot wide hole with

steel cut from old railroad

tankers.

But at a depth of 90 feet,

one of the metal casings

collapsed and nearly crushed Dan

to death.

His son David rescued him

in the nick of time.

Eventually, 10-X flooded, too,

and Dan later abandoned it when

he ran out of money.

But not before he took this

amazing video of what he saw

down there.

When he examined it closely, Dan

was convinced he could identify

wooden beams...

antique tools...

tunnels...

and what appeared to be

treasure chests.

On another dive, he thought he

saw the remains of a dead body,

remarkably preserved in the

frigid waters that lie at the

bottom of the 235-foot hole.

Could that evidence still be

down there, some 30 years

later?

(laughter)

Ah, here comes David.

Speed Racer.

Dave

Blankenship has lived and

worked on or near Oak Island for

more than 40 years.

He came up here back in the

1970s to help his father Dan dig

10-X.

He never left.

Nice ride.

Did you do a little

four-wheeling today, David?

Yeah, right.

All right.

Let's get to work.

David's a great guy.

He had an accident, and he's

disabled on one side somewhat.

But he still can outwork any

three guys because David has,

basically, done physical work

his whole life.

You know, work to him

means you get out there and

start shoveling, you get out

there you start welding.

Okay.

Grab those heavy ones.

Come on, Rick!

Are you excited?

Yeah, let's go.

Come on, get it over here.

This has got

to be the monitor.

Craig Tester is my

long-time business partner.

We went to engineering school

together, we both learned the

oil business independently...

Here are the instructions...

We got back together,

company, and he brought along

his son Jack, he's going to help

us with the brute work out

on the island.

My brother and I want

to see if these stories about

strange caverns and tunnels are

true, so the first thing we're

gonna do is send this robotic

camera down 10-X and see just

what the heck is down there.

This is the camera.

Oh, yeah.

Look at that.

He's saying hello to you.

No, that's a beauty, isn't it?

The camera

is the Spectrum 90--

a high-def robotic camera that

has been tested to withstand

depths of 1,000 feet.

This head must spin

off of here for panning.

It will allow

Rick and Marty to pan,

tilt, zoom, and enlarge

images to as much as 40 times

their size.

All right, we ready?

Go find us something.

His name is Probert the probe.

Come on, baby.

Go find it.

Are you recording?

Start?

Sure.

Yup, we're about to

hit.

It's right about to touch the

water.

There's a very strong

connection between Borehole 10-X

and the Money Pit.

We pump air down one, bubbles

come up in the other.

And also, those are the only two

holes that have salt water on

top of fresh water.

That doesn't usually happen,

which means there has to be some

kind of extraordinary way that

it got there.

Splashdown.

We're at 90 feet.

What are you seeing?

It's kind of dirty.

Any mermaids?

No mermaids.

Let's go to bottom.

We're at 181.

The bottom's got to be pretty

doggone close.

Oh, oh, whoa, whoa!

Rick, why don't you

come look at this.

What's, uh...

Whoa!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop!

Just, yeah, hold it.

There's something here.

(bird cawing)

What did Rick,

Marty and their fellow

treasure hunters find at

the bottom of borehole 10-X?

Go ahead

and pan it around.

Could it be one of

the keys they need to help them

solve the 200-year-old mystery

of Oak Island?

Let's pull up three

feet and do a spin-around.

Evidence of

man-made structures?

Antique tools?

Treasure chests?

Whatever it is, it's exciting

enough for Rick and Marty to

share with the man who dug 10-X

almost 40 years ago--

Dan Blankenship.

Hopefully, he's as

excited as we are.

(knocking on door)

We might have to...

Oh, no.

I see him now.

Hello.

Hey, Daniel.

Marty and Rick.

How are you doing,

sir?

Good.

Good to see you.

Great to see you.

Good to see you

always.

Good to be seen, right?

Oh, yeah.

Well, after a fashion.

Hey, we've got some

footage from 10-X that we

want you to look at.

I'd like to bring you over to

this meeting room we got.

It's pretty exciting.

I'd very much

like to see it.

Okay, great, Dan.

To Rick

and Marty Lagina, Dan is

something of a living legend.

He's the type of man other men

call "tough as nails."

Dan's 90 years old now, but in

his younger days, he was known

to be able to clear out an

entire bar with just his bare

fists.

20 years ago, he looked

just like that.

Incredible.

That's him in the dive suit?

That's Dan.

That's Dan.

That's the suit he wore when he

dove in 10-X?

That's 10-X right

there.

You wouldn't catch me

in that dive suit going down

that hole.

Brave stuff.

Hey, Daniel.

You ready to go?

Ready as I'll ever

be.

Perfect.

Let's go.

Rick, Marty and Dan

head over to Dave Blankenship's

house, where the Laginas have

set up what they call The War

Room.

Here the team plans

strategy, as well as reviewing

and analyzing the results of

each day's progress.

Right now, the subject is the

material they shot at the bottom

of 10-X...

Here's how I think

we go...

A place Dan

Blankenship hasn't laid eyes on

since he last climbed down the

235-foot hole more than 30

years ago.

Okay.

I think we have something we can

talk about here.

What we ought to do is go ahead

and look at the films we took,

and then I'd love Dan's

comments.

All right?

How's that sound?

Okay.

Sounds good.

Play it Rick.

We'll watch it right

now.

There you go.

All right, we're going down.

When Dan was watching

it, you could see him actually

reinvest himself in the

process, reconnecting with 40

years ago.

I honestly think that

could be the top of what I say

is a tunnel there.

I've spent six years

with Dan, and I've watched time

take its toll-- the passing of

his wife-- but in that moment,

you could see him just kind of

lean forward in the chair, and

he was back in 10-X again.

What depth is that?

There's that damn anchor or

something there.

Back in the 70's, Dan

had seen what he to this day

believes were treasure chests

down there.

So he's standing on

this rock, he's convinced

that 30 feet below him are

chests-- he can't get them.

I mean, that'd be maddening.

What's that?

That.

Wait till you see the top

of it.

The top of it is what's really

weird.

It looks like it goes into the

roof.

We're gonna follow it up.

Could the

strange vertical

object at the bottom of 10-X

be an ancient support beam, one

left there by the builders of

the alleged treasure tunnels?

What the hell

happened?

What the heck was that?

What's going on, Jack?

I don't know.

We're not getting any video.

It didn't record.

N.F.G.

Wait a sec-- whoa,

whoa, everybody, whoa.

What's going on here?

What's going on here?

What happened to our screen?

They're not opening.

They're not playing.

They're at zero, zero, zero,

zero time.

Low-tech men

in a high-tech world.

You're not going to be able to

see anything, Marty.

Oh, man.

All of a sudden--

poof-- like many things about

Oak Island, it's there, and then

it's gone.

Is it the Oak Island curse?

I don't know.

It showed we had an

hour's worth of recording left

when we quit.

In other words,

you have another roll?

Yes,

but we can't find it.

Oak Island.

Oak Island.

Where's my definitive

proof?

I want proof.

Losing the footage

from the bottom of 10-X is a

frustrating setback for the Oak

Island team.

But for Marty, the footage

is replaceable-- time

and money are not.

He and his brother have to keep

going.

Where do you want it?

Right here.

Right here?

Yeah, right here.

Their ultimate goal

is to re-excavate the original

Money Pit.

Can you hop out and

take a look?

I'll show you where we want it.

But because of all

the previous excavations and

blasting that have been done

over the years, the cost of

doing that is estimated to be in

the millions of dollars.

Right about

right in there.

That would be all right,

wouldn't it?

Yep.

And Marty isn't

going to come up with

that kind of money,

unless they find proof--

something substantial, that

means that the legends about Oak

Island are true.

We want to get down to

the bottom of borehole 10-X.

Looks good right there.

So I'm convinced we

need to pump water out of there

and try and bring up with the

water all the stuff that's down

in that cavity.

Are we cutting a hole

in the side of this thing?

We're gonna use this as

a sedimentation tank.

If Dan

Blankenship's reports of antique

tools and chests are correct,

Marty and Rick are going to try

and force evidence of them to

the surface with the aid of an

old oil drilling technique.

The process goes like

this-- the driller drills down

into the cavity that we know is

below 10-X.

Then he runs some casing down

into it, too.

Then he has a very high-velocity

air pump.

He'll pump high-pressure air

down into those casings, which

will then come back up, bringing

with the air, water and all the

bits of things that are down

there in that cavity.

Those things go into the

sediment tank, it settles there,

the bits and pieces go to the

bottom, water goes off down into

the ocean.

Good with that?

There's two quests

here, right?

The big quest for the treasure,

and my quest to be convinced

that there's really something

here worth looking for.

Why do people think

there's treasure or something of

great value buried deep below

the surface of Oak Island?

Back in the 1800s-- shortly

after a large stone slab was

discovered in the Money Pit at a

depth of 90 feet, the strange

markings on the stone were

translated using a simple

deciphering code.

It read, "Forty feet below...

two million pounds are buried."

But some now believe the code

used was more complex and gave

secret instructions for shutting

off the water to the

booby-trapped flood tunnels.

Although the stone mysteriously

disappeared in 1919-- and no

pictures or rubbings of it have

ever been found-- it was all the

evidence treasure hunters needed

to keep digging...

nearly 200 years later.

You sure this isn't

gonna be a safety issue here?

No, it's not.

Huh?

I'm positive.

If you get

electrocuted...

Bare wire and it

means absolutely nothing.

Why don't we tape that?

It goes bzzz!-- and I

only been welding for about 20

years, so it doesn't bother me

any.

You want to tape it?

Tape it, I don't care one way or

the other.

You got tape?

Nope.

So we ain't gonna tape it.

If you get hurt,

I won't feel a thing.

That's my one piece of advice

today.

Whose idea is this?

Ours.

Pretty damn good.

This is what you're gonna use

when you pump out the sediment?

Yes.

Dan Blankenship and

Rick Lagina share a special

bond.

They are united in their

determination to solve this

200-year-old mystery.

Incredibly, both men were

inspired by the same article

about Oak Island that was

printed in the Reader's Digest

in 1965.

Dan was a successful building

contractor living in Florida,

Rick was an 11-year-old kid

growing up in northern Michigan.

But that's all it took to fuel

their imaginations.

And the fire hasn't gone out

since.

You're only

gonna get one shot.

And we're hoping it'll

be successful.

You don't do

things half-assed on Oak Island.

Exactly, exactly.

You'll get

screwed every ... time.

You're not going to try and

close up that...

Yeah, yeah.

Take a break for a minute.

Well, we trying just to get this

thing finished.

Mom would be happy getting it

over with.

She wanted it done.

Yes, she did.

She put in a lot of time on the

island.

Yep.

Hopefully we can finish it now.

I don't have

a reputation for giving up.

Go ahead, pull it.

Here's where we're at.

Everything's in place.

Let's get it done.

You're hoping against hope that

nothing goes wrong, and then the

water-- you hear the "whoosh"--

and you think, "Okay, we're five

minutes from finally getting

answers."

It's going great.

Never say that

on Oak Island.

Oh, yeah.

It's going okay.

You ain't

done nothing yet.

Nothing.

Look.

No water.

Nothing.

Hit the air!

Let's go!

Watch it!

Watch it!

Whoo!

Marty, Rick and

their Oak Island partners have

begun pumping ocean water and

debris out of 10-X.

If successful, they will collect

objects that lie at the bottom

of the 235-foot shaft.

But will it be pirate gold?

Treasures from the days of the

Knights Templar?

Or will they find the human

remains Dan Blankenship insists

he saw when he was last down

there 30 years ago?

We got a little rig

here, and we're trying to use

airlift to get some of the

cuttings and silt and stuff out

of there.

We're gonna use that

old Dumpster that we're rigging

up as a settling tank to make

sure that when this airlift

occurs, anything solid coming

out of there will fall to the

bottom before the water drains

off down into the ocean.

Oh, my God.

That ... stinks.

It's like offshore

drilling, 'cause we're drilling

in 140 feet of water and 40 feet

of air.

It's almost trickier than

offshore drilling.

There's seawater that

floods 10-X and floods the Money

Pit.

And that's very strange,

geologically, because when you

drill wells on Oak Island you

find fresh water.

Tell you what, some

pretty dirty water.

So, those are the only

two holes that have salt water.

All the other wells around that

are drilled to a similar depth

have fresh water in them, and

that's very suspicious.

Salt water?

From the ocean?

Could the stories of elaborate

booby traps using ocean water to

protect the treasure vaults be

true?

You know what?

I don't think we're down

far enough.

Huh?

I don't think we're far

down enough.

There's nothing coming up.

Rick, we're only just

starting.

We're not down far enough.

Patience.

Relax.

Just gonna see if the

water works.

You mean if it's

draining out?

Yeah.

Well, I don't know if

we're that high yet.

Yeah, we're that far

away.

We only put a two-inch

hole in the sediment catcher

because we wanted the water to

drain slower than it was coming

in, so that there would be some

settling time.

Unfortunately, I think we're too

slow.

And we could reach a point where

we might actually need to

increase our ability to eject

water out of that thing faster.

Whoo!

Good time to come over.

It just boom!

As far as the sediment

tank, we knew there was gonna be

timing issues in terms of the

volumes of water.

So, I went down to Smith's Cove

to check the drain hose to see

if it was operating properly.

Everything worked perfectly,

just had to maneuver it a little

bit, but so far, so good.

Smith's Cove.

A stretch of rocky beach located

just about 500 feet from the

original Money Pit.

It doesn't look like much except

for one strange thing--

Smith's Cove is man-made.

But why?

One widely-held theory is that

Smith's Cove is where five stone

box drains-- like fingers on a

hand-- were built centuries

ago.

Drains that supplied ocean water

to the booby traps that flooded

the Money Pit and, later, also

flooded 10-X.

Who built them?

No one knows.

What the hell?

What the hell's that?

I come to the end of the beach,

and I look up and there's this--

I don't know any other way to

describe it-- it looked like an

elephant tusk coming out of the

water.

Holy ...

Yeah, Rick!

I'm down at Smith's

Cove and it's low tide and

there's real curiosities down

here.

Give Charles a call real quick.

Dan Henskee, too.

Yeah, all right.

I'll see if I can find them.

Good, be right down.

Be right there.

Yep.

Dan!

Charles!

Can you come here a sec?

Rick just said he's found

something.

It's ultra low tide...

I called in Charles

Barkhouse who's very versed on

the history, and Dan Henskee who

worked on the island for 30

years as Dan's helper.

See that?

You ever see that?

No.

I've never seen that.

Amazing how fast the

tide comes in.

That was above water a

minute ago?

Yeah.

Look at this.

Give it

a tug, big brother.

I've never seen this

before.

Never have either.

As many times I've

been in Smith's Cove, I've never

seen that.

Been here a lot, too,

and I've never seen it.

A wooden tusk...

sticking straight out of the

water?

But how did it get here?

Is it a natural formation?

A marker?

Or could it be a booby trap,

meant to puncture the hull of

any boats that came ashore

looking to steal Oak Island's

mysterious bounty.

According to historical records,

the waters near Oak Island were

frequently visited in the

1500 and 1600s by Portuguese,

Spanish, English and Scottish

explorers, during their trips to

the New World.

It was also known to have been a

haven for pirates, like Captain

Kidd, as late as the 18th

century.

Could it be that some of them

hid a percentage of their

plunder on the island?

It's just one theory among many

on an island that knows how to

keep its secrets.

This thing rises out

of the water one week after

we've been here.

Like that?

The island is giving us the

finger.

Is that what's going on here?

I mean, that is just bizarre.

It was like the island

was taunting us.

Here's piece of what might be

here.

Explain it for yourselves.

What's it trying to

tell us?

Well, we may have to do some

diving to see what else is out

there.

After finding the

strange wooden tusk sticking out

of the water at Smith's Cove,

Marty Lagina has decided to

explore the waters in the area,

and has invited his 27 year-old

son Alex, an experienced diver,

to join him.

So, hey, what's going

on, what are we doing?

Well, we're going to

be diving on some interesting

stuff; stuff that was found by

side-scan sonar and never

checked out.

How's Rick doing?

Rick is doing great in

the sense that he's on Oak

Island and he's digging at the

mystery, but I think he's sort

of frustrated by the rate of

progress so far-- but we're

going to keep working at this

until we find that definitive

proof or the treasure itself.

That's the plan.

There it is.

Wow, look at that.

Okay.

Here's where you're

going to spend the rest of your

summer.

Hopefully, not the rest

of my life.

Okay, here we are.

That's Jordan's rig.

Hey, Jack!

Hey, Jack!

Hey, Alex.

It's been awhile.

How are you doing?

Good to see you.

Alex.

Good to see you.

It's been a long time.

Alex.

David Blankenship.

Hey, David, I'm Alex.

Nice to meet you.

What's going on up here?

We're evacuating 10-X.

We're rigged up to airlift out

of the cavity.

We got a sediment tank back

there.

A discharge chute down to

Smith's Cove.

It's just a time thing now.

Pump the rest of the day.

Check the sediment level.

Eventually, we'll pump that

down, and then we'll get a metal

detector.

We'll metal detect it first and

then we're just going to have to

slowly work our way through that

sediment pile.

And now, with you here, we can

get on a boat tomorrow and find

out what's really going on at

Smith's Cove.

That's what we're going

to start with?

Yeah.

>> MAN: Hey, welcome aboard!

Good to see you.

How are you, skipper?

Okay, here's the deal:

We're going to look at Oak

Island from the water.

I don't know if you've ever seen

it from the water, have you?

You know what, I don't

think I have.

I haven't seen it

from the water, either.

First time for

everything.

See that?

Whose house is that?

Fred Nolan.

Who is that?

Fred's a treasure

hunter, same as Dan, but they've

had an ongoing contentious

relationship over 48 years.

Ask David.

They don't believe each

other.

And they don't like

each other.

'Cause they're trying

to beat each other to the

treasure?

Mm-hmm.

So they maybe even try

to mislead each other.

That laugh speaks

volumes.

Yeah.

In 1981, Oak Island

treasure hunter Fred Nolan

noticed five large, cone-shaped

boulders on his Oak Island

property.

After measuring the

distance between them,

he discovered they formed a

perfectly symmetrical cross--

720 by 867 feet.

Even more astonishing,

at the intersection

of the arms of the cross, Nolan

unearthed a sixth large boulder

with a human face carved into

it.

Although digging beneath the

other boulders produced nothing

conclusive, the cross itself is

thought to be a clue-- one of

many that suggest that what lies

buried on Oak Island might very

well be a priceless religious

artifact.

So, we'll move up the

beach.

Alex, where's that map?

Right here.

Okay.

These are real locations that

are very interesting which you

guys can dive on.

See this?

This square-shaped object right

here?

That's what I think we should

dive on, but there are all kinds

of strange anomalies on here.

There it is.

Smith's Cove.

Smith's Cove.

Where everything started.

Let's have a look at

it.

That's where the so-called box

drains were.

And the flood tunnel over to the

Money Pit, if it exists or

existed, originated there.

That area, Dan

believes, that maybe, just maybe

there are still remnants of the

artificial beach.

One of the five fingers of the

drain might still be partially

intact.

To prove that the

water that flooded the Money Pit

was coming from the ocean, in

1898, treasure hunter Frederick

Blair poured red dye down

into the 90-foot-deep hole and

then pumped water into it.

To his astonishment, the dye

began to seep out into the sea

at Smith's Cove.

But then he noticed that it was

also seeping out at several

other points on the south shore

of the island.

It proved that there was not one

but at least two separate

booby-trapped flood tunnels

preventing access to whatever

lies at the bottom of the shaft.

But who built them, and why,

are just two of the many

unanswered questions about Oak

Island.

Well, we should dive

there then, right?

Yup, that's the place

to look.

Yeah, Alex and I

should be able to dive there and

see if we can see where the

water comes in that floods 10-X

and the Money Pit.

Okay, let's move on.

Skipper, let's go.

Turn the boat around.

Let's head back.

Will a future dive

off Smith's Cove help Marty,

Rick and their team crack the

mystery of Oak Island?

Or will it only open the door to

more clues...

and more questions?

One thing is certain...

the answers lie below.

Far, far below.

The short trip

around Oak Island has convinced

Rick and Marty that the key to

getting to the bottom of 10-X--

and eventually the Money Pit--

is to trace the source of the

seawater that fuels the flood

tunnels.

If they can stop the water,

they will have cleared a

path for a full-scale

excavation.

But it isn't going to be easy.

Come in.

Daniel.

Dan.

How you fellas making

out?

Well, we just want to

give you an update.

The airlift in 10-X, you know,

we got the pipe down in there.

Right.

We're down in the

cavity and we're jetting it with

air... and it's working.

We're bringing up lots of stuff,

bits and pieces of stuff.

You gotta

clean it out, you know.

I think so.

But in the meantime, my son Alex

is here.

We're gonna go ahead and get

some dive gear.

We're gonna dive off of Smith's

Cove.

I think

it's a good idea.

And we're going to

finally, this year, hopefully,

within a week or two, we're

gonna definitively answer the

question, what's in the bottom

of 10-X.

Well, that's good.

As long as there's progress,

Rick, you know?

You can't quit, can

you?

Well, you can call it

an obsession.

I mean, after all,

I've been here for 48 years

and if I can't admit to it

being an obsession then I'm not

being very honest, am I?

Well, let's do it.

Let's go back out there.

We're not giving up,

you know that, right?

Right.

And you better be

around to see it.

I'm gonna try and be.

You will be.

Thank you, Dan.

See you.

Take care.

You know, it occurs to

me that the common denominator

on Oak Island is, is... ready

for it?

Yeah, I'm ready.

Obsession.

And I think you, big brother,

have a little bit of that set in

already.

What do you think?

That's the common denominator.

I don't think that's

the right word.

But do I want to finish this

for us?

Yes, I do.

And I'm gonna give it everything

I've got.

And if that's

obsession, then I'm obsessed.

Obsession is the

fuel that powers Oak Island.

It's what latches on to those

who get close to the mystery,

and then never lets go.

Why can't we get a

faster flow rate?

Because, honestly, I

don't want a faster flow rate.

I want it to settle.

It's kinda like pump and dump.

You know, pump...

let it settle a little...

It's working great.

It comes down in 10 minutes.

Kill the air for a minute!

Thanks.

Dig some out of there, let's see

what we got.

This will settle out overnight.

There's a lot in there?

There's a lot in there.

Good.

You know, best case

scenario, we find gold, we find

some manmade artifact that tells

us we're on target.

This is the plan, it's working,

par excellence.

Well, I mean, we're

gonna...

We're gonna have to go over this

with a fine-tooth comb.

That's what this is all about.

It's exciting.

Lord knows what you're going to

find.

I don't see a lot, but

I mean, the bottom line is we're

getting a lot of stuff.

Yup.

Wait...

Now that...

that is very peculiar.

That's metal, Rick.

Yeah, I know.

Inside a rock, too.

Could it be a clue?

The first real sign of proof

that there is treasure buried on

Oak Island?

Perhaps.

But anyone who knows Oak Island

knows the island doesn't share

its secrets willingly...

or without a price.

Oak Island changes lives.

It can also destroy them.

And the questions that remain

unanswered can even make a

strong man go crazy.

What lies below?

Who put it there?

Should it be dug up?

Or is it best left alone?

Subtitled by Diego Moraes