The Curse of Oak Island (2014–…): Season 2, Episode 10 - The Big Reveal - full transcript

Tonight on The

Curse of Oak Island...

Here we go.

They're in the dark.

They can't see.

Your imagination takes

over.

What's happening down there?

You saying you're

caught?

Call the dive off.



Abort the dive.

We just came out of

the pipe?

They're down in the chamber.

That looks like steps.

There's a chamber.

Yes, with manmade

objects.

Those are boxes.

What's the thing to

the right of it?

It looks very square.

It sure looks like a

tunnel.



It does look man-made.

We found it.

There is an island

in the North Atlantic where men

have been looking for treasure

for more than 200 years.

So far, they have uncovered

booby-trapped flood tunnels,

carved stones with strange

symbols, 17th century Spanish

coins, and evidence of a wooden

vault covered in concrete.

Six men have even lost their

lives trying to solve the

mystery.

And according to legend, one

more will have to die before

the treasure can be found.

Still good, Rick?

Just keep talking to us.

Good?

Yeah!

Good?

Yup!

Yup so!

There she goes.

She's clear.

You ready to come up?

Yes.

Comms go next.

We got to get the cage out so we

don't pinch lines and comm goes

next.

It is an important

day in the history of Oak

Island, as brothers Rick and

Marty Lagina may be on the verge

of one of the greatest

breakthroughs in the more than

200-year-old mystery.

Dan!

Henskee!

Be ready to start pulling line!

They and their

partners have arranged for a

pair of professional divers to

try and make it all the way to

the bottom of 10-X, some 235

feet underground.

Once there, they are hoping the

divers can find what treasure

hunter Dan Blankenship claims he

discovered more than 40 years

ago.

Antique tools, a wooden chest,

and even what appeared to be a

tunnel leading in the direction

of the Money Pit.

Somebody?

Get him a towel.

He's going to be frozen.

How do you like getting dunked

in 50-degree water, big boy?

After a lifetime of

reading and studying, and two

years of active searching, Rick

and Marty are more convinced

than ever that the legends about

the island and the notion that

something of enormous value is

buried beneath it are true.

This summer alone, they and

their partners have found three

more ancient coins one of them

possibly dating as far back as

the days of the Knights

Templar a tree stump buried in

the Oak Island swamp, and dated

to between 1450 and 1640...

Come over here.

That's what we're

looking for.

...a petroglyph of

an eight-pointed star one

matching ancient symbols

believed to be more than 2,000

years old, and evidence of a

mysterious wooden vault covered

in concrete and buried some 140

feet down in the infamous Oak

Island Money Pit.

You got cement, wood

fibers running this way, wood

fibers running that way.

Wow, guys.

You think you're on the vault?

You did a great job, that's for

damn sure.

But with all of the

breakthroughs and all of the

discoveries...

Take your shirt off

and get that.

...one persistent

problem remains, and it's the

same problem every treasure

hunter on Oak Island has faced,

and been defeated by, for two

centuries water.

Salty water.

The one big problem with Oak

Island, you know, it's just a

rabbit warren of incoming water

from various old holes, shafts,

tunnels.

How do we get down there?

How do we do it?

Now, Rick and Marty

are determined to find out if

there could really be a back

door into the Money Pit through

10-X, because finding it could

literally save the team millions

of dollars in challenging and

risky excavation costs.

The problem is, no one has

risked diving down the 235-foot

borehole in more than 20 years.

That is, not until now.

I got you on comms,

but I got some horrible

feedback.

I got you on comms.

Today, with the

help of author and treasure

hunter, J. Hutton Pulitzer, and

divers, Dan and Kathy Misiaszek,

Rick and Marty are hoping that a

dive to the bottom of borehole

10-X might prove to be the key

to solving the Oak Island

mystery.

I've got the videos

on, uh, I've got...

I can see Flash in yours.

Okay, I've got you, Frog.

I can see it both.

I don't want you to descend yet.

I want to make sure we got these

comms worked out.

Stand by.

Although Dan and

Kathy also known as "Frog" and

Flash are both experienced,

professional divers, no chances

will be taken.

Emergency medical technicians,

or EMTs, are on site, and safety

diver, John Tapper is standing

by just in case there's an

emergency.

We got a feed?

Okay, she's got 'em.

Using their

communication lines, otherwise

known as "comms," the team at

the surface will stay in

constant contact with Dan and

Kathy.

They will also be able to

monitor what is being recorded

by the diver's underwater

cameras in real time.

Frog, we got a comm

line.

It looks like it's looped on

you.

We've got comms wrapped up in

something there.

The prime directive is,

of course, keeping people safe.

The important thing is getting

people in the hole, achieving

the objective and getting people

out of the hole.

Safety first, objective second.

The mission on the

first dive was to get to the

bottom, the first bottom if you

will, of 10-X 181 feet see

what the junk is on the bottom,

see if the 27-inch hole is

enterable.

Dug by Oak Island

treasure hunters Dan and Dave

Blankenship and their friend,

Dan Henskee, in the early 1970s,

10-X began as a 27-inch wide

shaft that eventually reached

the staggering depth of 235

feet.

But after a collapse in 1976

that almost killed him, Dan

Blankenship widened the hole to

eight feet in diameter, down to

a depth of 181 feet.

Roger that.

Unfortunately for

Dan and Kathy, the hole remains

a tiny 27 inches wide from 181

feet all the way to the bottom.

It's dark, it's wet, and the

North Atlantic seawater that

floods the shaft is just above

freezing.

And if all this wasn't

challenging enough, just before

the dive, the team was informed

that four feet of debris may be

covering the entrance to the

27-inch wide hole.

The first thing going

through my mind is that this is

dangerous.

They're bobbing around inside an

eight-foot steel column, so, you

know, rapidly, the concern level

goes high.

Giving line.

Roger that.

While Dan and Kathy

make their way down the shaft,

the ground crew helps feed the

communication lines.

It's a delicate task.

Too much line could cause the

divers to get tangled, while

not enough could cause a deadly

emergency if their breathing

system fails.

Now those are the

lines that could pull their mask

off, if they're pulled too hard?

Too much line!

Stand by.

Call out your depth.

Thank you.

Okay.

Little more line.

More murky all of a

sudden.

Yikes.

They're in the dark,

basically.

They're feeling around just

tactile.

It was troubling, to say the

least.

It says 50, so you're

92 from top.

Are you keeping track

of time?

Yeah, but if they can't see, I

just wondered.

Hey, guys, here's

what I want you to do.

Turn your cameras at each other.

Let me get just a good visual.

Just turn your lights and

cameras at each other.

Let me get a peek.

Holy (bleep).

They can't even see each other

four feet apart.

Can you see your face visual?

Do we have three greens?

Frog?

I can see your three greens.

Flash, I need to see your three

greens.

Hold on.

Almost.

Just a little more.

Go up.

Okay, three greens.

You're good.

I honestly wouldn't be

scared of that dive myself,

except for one thing: getting

stuck.

That is so scary underwater.

Invisibility, it doesn't matter,

but getting stuck is just a

catastrophic feeling.

Frog, confirm you're

okay.

Flash, can you hear

me?

What was that?

We've lost comms.

Frog, confirm you're

okay.

Flash, can you hear me?

J. Hutton Pulitzer

has just lost audio

communication with his dive

team, who are now submerged more

than 60 feet underwater in 10-X.

Get me some comms.

Come on, guys.

Their comms go out.

At that point, your imagination

takes over.

What's happening down there?

Even though Rick,

Marty and the team still have a

video feed working, the murky

conditions in 10-X offer almost

zero visibility.

I see her hand.

She's going to him.

Okay.

Come on, guys.

Get me some comms.

Got comms.

Flash, Frog, stand by

for a minute.

Look, when we lose comms, we

need to work out a signal.

Would it be appropriate to give

you a gentle tug?

Okay.

I'm not a diver, so

when I see them on camera,

diving through, you know, water

with no clarity...

I mean, they're in the dark

basically, and the fear factor

goes way up, because I can't

relate to what they're doing.

Flash, confirm you're

okay.

I don't like that

cough.

Guys, before you

descend, Flash, I need to know

you're okay.

What's that cough?

Okay.

You sound... you sound muffled.

What's going on?

Okay.

Thank you.

Very nice, very nice.

I like that a lot.

With communications

back up and working again, the

divers continue their descent.

They will first need to make

their way down all 181 feet of

10-X before reaching the point

where the hole shrinks from

eight feet in diameter to a mere

27 inches.

But once down there, will they

see what Dan Blankenship claims

he saw more than 40 years ago?

Antique tools?

Wooden chests?

Man-made tunnels?

I need a depth check!

Eighty-three.

We're coming.

It's coming through.

It's coming through.

As the team feeds

the divers more comms and

breathing line to continue their

descent, they must do so with

extreme caution.

With all the debris, old drill

pipes and a rusted ladder to

contend with, a tangled

breathing line could have deadly

consequences.

We've got comms

wrapped up in something there.

As you go past that

pipe, check if you see the line

looped.

Feel if it's captured there.

He's got too...

he's got too much line on him.

I see slack in it.

So that has to be one of the

places it's caught up.

Okay.

I

had been nervous,

because when I went down there

to cut the ladder, I knew the

riser pipe had fallen over.

I was concerned that it was

the riser pipe, because there is

movement in that pipe.

So we lost

communications; that was scary.

But much more scary to me are

the words that-that send a

shiver up my spine, which is,

Frog, confirm you're

okay.

Frog, confirm you're okay and

you're untangled.

Frog, confirm

you're okay.

The dive team's

greatest fear has happened.

After diving more than 100 feet

down into 10-X, diver Dan

Misiaszek has become trapped in

a tangle of breathing cables and

debris.

His wife Kathy must now make an

agonizing decision.

Oh, dear.

Guys, here's what

we've got.

If we've got one diver calling

the dive, we need to abort.

That's fine.

Confirmed.

Abort the dive.

Flash, confirm that's okay and

you're untangled.

Frog, confirm you're

okay and you're untangled.

Although Dan got

untangled this time, the next

time, he might not be so lucky.

His wife Kathy fears the

conditions in 10-X are just too

dangerous right now to continue

the dive safely.

The dive is being aborted.

Okay, now we're

pulling line.

Hang onto your lines.

Okay, divers on

surface.

Okay, we got Flash

on surface.

Let's go with the

bucket, then.

Ready?

Yeah.

We got Frog on

surface.

Flash, we're extracting you

first.

Luckily, no one was

injured.

And even though Rick and Marty

didn't get the answers they were

hoping for, they now know more

about 10-X and its current

state than they did when they

started.

They also know they will need to

address some safety issues

before attempting a second dive.

That's the whole point

of the first dive figure out

what needs to be addressed, what

problems might arise.

That was my feel about the first

dive it's just... it's a

acclimation dive.

Figure out what needs to be

done.

Later that evening,

Rick, Marty and the Oak Island

team meet in the war room with

J. Hutton Pulitzer and divers

Dan and Kathy Misiaszek.

Here they will discuss the day's

progress and also make some

critical decisions.

Okay, you two.

What a day.

I don't know about the

rest of these guys, but I was

thinking, "Come on up, come on

up, come on up," through most of

that dive.

But I think we

learned a whole lot.

When Flash and I started going

straight down, side by side, we

got jammed up.

So we had to go straight down in

single file.

We also learned about

temperature, and Flash got it on

her computer.

It's cold.

It was right at 43.

Okay, but I don't know

who was shaking more, you when

you came out or me when you were

down there.

I already know if I said, "Are

you gonna to go back in there?"

I know what you'd say.

Oh, absolutely.

I knew it.

Dive.

You want to go?

Absolutely.

Let's go.

All right, all right.

We know so many of the

hazards right now, and we can

correct them.

So now it's a much easier dive.

That's what these

people do.

They dive to find out flaws in

drilling rig platforms and to

look for sunken treasure, and

it's inherently dangerous.

Okay, we've talked

about a lot of the obstructions,

a lot of the difficulties, but

the one thing we haven't

addressed is, the first scan

showed four to five feet of

sediment problems down there.

What are we gonna do to address

that?

Rick, Marty, Craig

and Dave are concerned that even

if the divers can reach the

181-foot level on the second

dive, there is still no

guarantee they'll be able to

make their way through the

estimated four feet of sediment

and debris which still blocks

the 27-inch-wide shaft.

We have decided,

right?

We have decided to try and put

the mechanical gizmo down first.

What is it?

It's scanning sonar.

I think it might fit

down that six-inch hole.

You know, the one that Jordan

drilled.

Which one?

It's one of the

casings towards the front.

So, we put it down there last

year to help clean up the

bottom, to bring up samples.

And that goes all the

way to the cavern?

Clean shot.

One year ago, Rick,

Marty and the team set up an

extraction system which was

designed to flush any loose

debris, including evidence of

treasure, out of the bottom of

10-X.

Although the operation did not

produce any compelling

evidence outside of a few

bits of metal and what appeared

to be animal bones Rick and

Marty are now hoping that the

drill casing that was left in

the hole will allow a scanning

sonar device to travel all the

way to the bottom of 10-X, and

without encountering the

four-foot-thick obstruction.

To me this is a

no-brainer.

There's two human beings versus

a piece of equipment.

Yeah, well, I agree

with you a hundred percent.

Yeah.

Okay, guys,

we'll run the scans first thing

in the morning, and we'll make

our decisions accordingly.

Agreed.

Everybody on board?

Yep.

Good.

Thank you very much.

Cool.

Although today's

dive was not as productive as

the team had hoped, the

possibility that scanning sonar

will accomplish the same thing

has everyone's spirits renewed.

But could the team really be

just hours away from finding out

that what Dan Blankenship

claimed he saw at the bottom of

10-X was true?

Are they finally close to

solving...

the Oak Island mystery?

It's another

morning on Oak Island.

Day two in the team's attempt to

get information from the bottom

of 10-X.

All this debris, if

we got to get them down in

there...

Yeah?

What I really want to

do is just try to focus how to

get this sonar down, especially

if we don't know what even

further obstructions are.

I mean, this thing's

designed to go where the divers

can't go.

But unlike

yesterday, before Dan and Kathy

Misiaszek attempt their second

dive, Rick and Marty have

arranged for underwater

visualization experts Nick

Burchill and Brian Abbott of

Kongsberg Maritime to drop the

MS 1000 scanning sonar device

down a six-inch-wide drill hole

that was dug into 10-X the

previous year.

It should be able to bypass the

four feet of sediment and debris

that block the 27-inch portion

of the shaft and go all the way

to the bottom.

Okay, Nick, you got it

all doctored up?

Yeah, come on over for

a second.

What we've done, we've taken the

protective cage off, and I've

just basically put some rubber

around this to protect it.

When it goes down...

It's gonna spin.

...we're probably gonna

have some settling, and we may

not even get it to settle at

all.

We may not be able to get data.

Don't say that.

Let's do it.

The MS 1000

scanning sonar device sends

pulses that echo, and can help

to create a three-dimensional

image of environments and their

features.

In other words, if all goes

well, the team may be able to

get their first look at the

bottom of 10-X since Dan

Blankenship recorded his

findings nearly 40 years ago.

We want data so badly

we can't stand it.

I mean, poor David's been this

far away from that cavern for

what, 30 years now?

Yeah, at least.

Time to do.

Let's do, let's do.

Cable's coming.

I've got the cable.

Send her down.

Okay.

As the MS 1000

scanning sonar device makes its

way down the 235-foot shaft, the

team waits anxiously for

evidence that something manmade

could be lying on the bottom.

All right, here we go.

Who's the best screen

to look at?

His?

They're both the same.

Are you able to

record this or...

Yeah, we're recording

everything.

So we're looking at some stuff

here.

Nick has dropped the sonar

through the pipe.

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait, I-I got to get oriented,

guys.

We just came out of the pipe?

Where are we?

This is a void.

We're in a void.

We're in a void.

Really?

Yeah.

What are the

dimensions?

Well, hang on here.

The sonar's moving a little bit.

But one of the things,

Brian...

I think I'm up...

I'm

still at the end of the pipe.

So if I drop it down a couple

more inches...

Yeah, let's do that.

With any luck, that

void will get larger.

It's just peeking out the end of

the pipe.

So what this is doing right now

is it's scanning and it's

looking at the walls with a very

narrow beam.

So you're not seeing floor to

ceiling.

You're only seeing a slice of it

near the ceiling.

So we're gonna lower it down.

It's gonna take another slice

that's further down.

Come on up, Dad, and

take a look at this.

Is Dan here?

Dan.

Dan, come here.

Sit right here.

In the 27?

No, they're down in

the cavity.

Oh.

In the chamber.

Sit down, Dan, then you can see

this screen.

Of all the people

on Oak Island, no one is more

invested in 10-X and what does

or doesn't lie at the bottom of

it than Dan Blankenship.

At 91, Dan considers 10-X his

legacy, and he remains convinced

that the things he claims he saw

down there like antique tools,

wooden chests, and even a

man-made tunnel leading toward

the Money Pit are real.

His only regret is that he ran

out of money before he could

prove to the world that he is

the one who found the key to

solving the mystery.

Okay, the sonar's

starting to settle out.

Look at this, guys.

Look at this, guys.

Oh, my goodness.

Look at that.

Look at this,

gentlemen.

What's that?

It's an opening.

But that's also

rectangular in shape as the way

it's cutting back.

It's rectangular.

I'm an engineer.

I deal in square, rectangular

and round and this is

rectangular.

Mother nature doesn't make

rectangle things.

Brian Abbott has

been investigating and helping

to visualize underwater objects

for more than a decade.

In addition to finding

everything from shipwrecks to

underwater cities, he was one of

the first to fully map the

wreckage of Titanic in 2010.

So it's like a

doorway or another tunnel headed

out.

There's two-There's

two tunnels one coming...

It could very well be.

...in and, as you

say, on the opposite side, one

going out.

Man-made tunnels?

Could this be the first

indication that what Dan

Blankenship claimed he saw at

the bottom of 10-X was true?

But if there really

are man-made tunnels, who built

them?

And where if anywhere do

they lead?

What is that thing

sticking right there in the

middle of its rectangle?

Buried there?

Like, what is that?

I...

I don't know.

I mean, it's a rectangular

object.

How big is that?

4.3 feet wide.

And from this point back here

to back here is seven feet.

It does look man-made.

Here...

And there's multiple

objects.

I told you that.

Man-made objects?

At the bottom of 10-X?

235 feet beneath the surface of

Oak Island?

Okay, so what do we

know for sure?

There's a chamber.

For bloody sure, right?

Yeah.

Yes, with man-made

objects.

You're willing to say

that for sure?

Yes.

If I was to send a

diver down on targets like that

I would feel comfortable.

I think that's enough

information to have a diver

check it out, because the best

way is with the human eye.

You got another dive in

you?

Hell, yeah, we're

ready to go.

Hell, yeah, we're

ready to go.

Let's go.

Let's get this out.

It's time.

If I was to send a

diver down on targets like that,

I would feel comfortable.

It is a tense

situation on Oak Island.

A sonar scan has just revealed

that there could very well be

man-made objects lying at the

bottom of 10-X.

Suit up?

Yup.

Yup.

Okay.

Now, professional

divers Dan and Kathy Misiaszek

will attempt a second dive down

the 235-foot shaft in an effort

to verify this incredible

discovery with their own eyes.

There you go.

But even if they

can safely make their way down

the portion of the hole that is

eight feet wide, they will still

have to make the final 54 feet

of their descent through a

narrow shaft that is only about

two feet wide.

Hey.

Where's Dave?

We need to talk to you guys.

Got a minute?

I got all kinds of

minutes.

So what's the matter, boss?

All right, here's the

deal.

I find it hard that I'm even

saying this, because I want to

get in that chamber more than I

ever have.

Mm-hmm.

I've been a doubter.

Yeah, we know that.

Right.

I want to cancel the dive.

Why?

They got stuck up in

the big hole.

I know.

Right, so in the little

hole, they're really gonna get

stuck.

Yeah.

Yeah, and then what?

You got to get somebody

to go after 'em.

In goes a third man.

Right.

You know, there's a

thin line between brave and

foolhardy.

Yeah.

And I don't want to

risk three peoples' lives.

No, I agree with you

100% on that.

I'm on board.

Let's go tell them.

Let's go break the

news to them.

Go break the word to

them.

All right.

Are you ready for a

tuck in?

Yeah.

Hey, guys.

Hey.

Hey.

This-This is not gonna

be easy for me to say, okay, but

we just... we just had a sidebar

there.

We want to call the dive off.

You want to call the

dive off?

We do.

Let me tell you why.

And-And, and by the way, it's no

reflection on either one of you.

Exactly.

But I'm not risking

your lives.

I'm afraid you're gonna go down

there and try and get in that

hole, and I know you can't do

it.

It would be a dangerous

dive without the unknowns.

There's a lot of unknowns.

It was an easy

decision to abort the second

dive.

Real easy, from my standpoint.

The sort of risk-reward ratio

was no longer in place.

You have a... you have a

significant risk and you have no

chance of the reward.

You know, why do it?

Let's unpack you from

these ovens.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure

you're dying in there.

Thank you two.

Okay.

We think it's the

right decision.

For Rick, Marty and

their partners, it has been a

day filled with mixed emotions.

Although they are disappointed

they had to abort Dan and

Kathy's second dive, they have

just found evidence that Dan

Blankenship really did discover

a lost treasure chamber at the

bottom of 10-X more than 40

years ago.

A treasure chamber that might

also lead directly into the

Money Pit.

Okay, gents, this is

gonna be good.

Hutton tells me that we're ready

to look at the data down in the

cavity in 10-X.

It's been at least partially

processed.

So we got Brian on

the line.

Brian, good to see you

again.

Good to see you guys.

How we doing today?

Well, we're on pins

and needles.

You tell us.

Yeah.

So I've got, uh,

preliminary results of our-our

sonar work, uh, down in 10-X.

Since finding what

appeared to be man-made objects

at the bottom of 10-X,

geophysicist and sonar expert

Brian Abbott has spent the last

few days translating the raw

sonar data into a more

understandable three-dimensional

format.

Now, remember that

we're taking individual slices

like the page of a book and

we're stacking them together to

give us a representation of what

the cavern kind of looks like

and the perspective of it.

We'll go to a view.

We'll, uh, zoom in a little bit.

And so we're dropping down

through the shaft into the

27-inch hole that was drilled,

then we're into the cavern.

And our widest point here is

about 12 feet.

And this, about eight and a half

feet across.

One of the things that just

sticks out is this right angle,

as you see, right through here,

which is unusual a lot of times

in nature.

Well, we've got this really

unique feature here.

It's about two feet long, a foot

wide.

Uh, you can see two things put

together like clay pots,

baskets.

I don't think it's geological.

It's too elliptical in-in shape.

But it's, I think, one of the

unique features that we're able

to pick up on the sonar there.

What's the thing due

to the right of it?

Looks very square.

It's one of those

square features.

Maybe man-made.

It also looks like

there's a side tunnel possibly

coming into this room.

What are those

dimensions, Brian, those

openings?

It's probably about

seven feet across.

It's about five feet wide.

I mean, it sure looks

like a tunnel.

At last!

Brian Abbott's interpretation of

the sonar data confirms what Dan

Blankenship claims he discovered

at the bottom of 10-X more than

40 years ago.

But now it looks as if there

isn't only one man-made tunnel

that enters the underground

chamber but two, one that

appears to lead to the Money Pit

and one that might lead to the

ocean or perhaps another part of

the island.

The other thing that

was really intriguing to me

and I-I can't figure this thing

out for the life of me is-is

this.

Right here.

It's 14 inches, I think it is.

It shows up on every scan.

It's a stand-alone thing.

So whether it's a column, a

load-bearing beam...

Brian, that column...

the column you see, um, you

mentioned, um, if it's metal you

might see harmonics.

Did you see any harmonics in

there to indicate it's a...

could be a steel pipe?

Or-or do you think it's wood or

something?

It could be wood.

If there's a great big

column of wood, this is a

man-made deal.

A tree didn't fall in there.

I mean, wood wins.

If-if we know that's wood and

it's a column...

The cavern's very

unique.

Uh, I see right angles, I see

squares, I see rectangles.

I think there's targets down

there.

Again, if I could put divers on

these-these targets, I would.

Sounds great.

Thanks, Brian!

Thank you!

Okay.

Take care.

One thing's for sure,

the data we now have is, to

me... is the best data that's

ever been obtained on Oak

Island.

Well, look, Hutton, here's the

deal: we have some things we've

got to decide.

Yes, sir.

Uh, you have

contributed an enormous amount

to our... to our quest here, and

we got to kick it around and see

where we go, so I want...

I understand.

Thank you for just giving us

the opportunity.

I want to thank you.

I want to thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you so very

much.

Finally, we've got very

accurate, analyzable data.

It's an impetus to further

explore 10-X.

And that's the whole question,

isn't it?

What's in the bottom of 10-X?

Anyway, so that leads

us to, what is the enthusiasm

level for getting to the bottom

of 10-X?

Rick, Marty, and

their partners may finally have

definitive evidence that in 10-X

Dan Blankenship found not only a

shortcut into the Money Pit but

what could be a second perhaps

even larger treasure vault.

But now the team faces an even

greater problem: how can they

get to it some 235 feet below

the surface?

You know, what is...

what is the enthusiasm level for

getting to the bottom of 10-X?

I'm 100%.

You know that.

100%.

And this only

just makes you more...

Yes.

We got to do it in the dry.

'Cause you can't see your hand

in front of your face down

there.

We're gonna figure out

how to get to the bottom of

10-X.

I'm not sold on a dry entry yet.

I have some thoughts about that,

but...

I'm with you.

I...

Trying to pump it dry and send

people down there scares me,

that something could implode.

And so we just need to

think-think it through.

Dan?

Dan?

Do you...

do you think that 10-X

is safe?

The shaft?

If it was pumped dry.

If it was pumped dry.

In my opinion, it's

safe to 183...

181 feet, down to

bedrock.

Beyond that, I would not say.

Want to drill a

four-foot hole?

Drill a four-foot

hole...

Okay, no problem.

...and then maybe send

a diver down.

And if that doesn't work, then

when we dry it out, you can put

a ladder down there and walk

right down.

How about you, big brother?

Look, I've always been

in, and I'm all in.

I always was and I always will

be.

We're gonna find the answers.

Look, come spring, we're down

there.

The fact that we're going to do

it is a certainty.

Everyone agrees.

We're absolutely, positively,

for the final time get to the

bottom of 10-X and find out

what's in there.

We spent two years

acquiring data every which way

we could.

I mean, it's sort of like

Churchill said about the first

battle they won at El Alamein.

He said, "It's not the end.

It's probably not even the

beginning of the end.

But perhaps it's the end of the

beginning."

So I think that's where we are

right now.

We've gathered all the data.

Next season, I think it's gonna

be a lot more about moving dirt.

To the dig!

To the dig!

>> JACK: To the dig!

To the dig!

Dan?

To the dig!

To the dig!

We're on a quest, my

brother and I and our team

trying to do something that no

one else has been able to do.

It's a challenge.

It's fun.

It could be rewarding.

We're lucky to be able to do it.

You know, this is an adventure.

Who could have thought that an

eight-year-old and a

ten-year-old reading the

Reader's Digest would turn into

a worldwide hunt for the

greatest treasure on Earth?

Who could have guessed that?

You can't write that stuff.

You can't make it up.

But it seems to have happened.

Whoa.

If there's retrievable

artifacts or treasure, the

thrill for me is simply gonna be

this: it's not gonna be about

retrieving those things.

It's gonna be about giving Dan

Blankenship the satisfaction of

knowing that his life's pursuit

has been real.

The man labored for years on

faith, faith that his work here

was at some point gonna mean

something.

And I'm hoping for a little

validation for myself as well in

terms of my belief in this

place.

Look, who doesn't want a

long-lost fabled treasure?

I'm in on that.

But to see a life's pursuit and

here's the proof you were

right, you were correct those

are the answers we're really

looking for.

No, no.

Me either.

We'll be back.

Is that a threat or a

promise?

That is both.

Marty, Rick and

the Oak Island team have had an

incredible year.

They have done and discovered

more than any team in the

200-plus years since men started

hunting for treasure here.

But when they return next

spring, will they finally be

able to solve the mystery?

Or will they simply write

another chapter in a saga that

has captivated millions and has

claimed six lives... so far?

Subtitled by Diego Moraes
www.oakisland.tk