"Here we are digging in the Money Pit." "Nothing like this has been done since 1801." " Wait until we hit something." " You better believe it." "The treasure of Tumbes is the biggest missing treasure of gold." "I think it's on Oak Island." "This could be the year, Dan." "We're poised on the vault." "How prophetic is that?" "We're feet away from what we've labored for, for eight years." "Come on baby." "Wood." "Wood!" "Well, I'll be damned." "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 bits of gold chain, a stone slab with strange symbols carved into it, even a 17th century Spanish coin." "To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery." "And, according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found." "All right, slammin' can." "Oscillate, baby." "For brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, what began as a dream more than fifty years ago, has finally become a reality." "They and their partners are digging in the Oak Island Money Pit." "Andrew!" "Making hole!" "Hey guys." "Yes, making hole." " I love that." " Sinking casing." "You know, when we first started doing this," "I'm thinking "man, this is painfully slow."" "But you know what?" "It's not." "It's almost 20 feet buried there." "Already 15." "Yeah, so we're probably 2 hours into it and we're down 15 feet." "13 feet inside." "So things are going well." "With the help of a device known as a casing oscillator, the first of several five-foot wide," "30,000 pound steel caissons is driven down into the ground." "It is a method strikingly similar to the one Dan Blankenship employed 45 years ago when he dug borehole 10-X by using old railway tank cars welded end-to-end." "And, just like 10-X, the Valley 3 borehole will be both wide and safe enough for a diver, should one be required when the team reaches their target:" "The Chappell Vault." "In 1897, treasure hunters," "William Chappell and Frederick Blair located what they believed to be a seven-foot-tall wooden box." "It was covered in a type of concrete, and located approximately 143 feet deep beneath the surface of the Money Pit." "What made their find even more astonishing was that their coring bit also pulled up bits of gold, along with a small piece of paper, on which was written the letters, "V.I."" "Definitely got wood." "See what else we might have." "It was this same wooden vault that Rick and Craig believed they located two years ago." "Concrete and then wood." "That's the description." "That discovery, coupled with several weeks of painstaking research, have suggested to the Oak Island team that this is the best location for their first major excavation." "We're going to go pick up the next extension, 24 feet long, put it in place, bolt it on, 16 bolts, and we're sinking can, driving can." "Driving can, sinking can, making hole." "You know what?" "We made substantial progress here." "And it's basically historic." "Nothing like this has been done, in my opinion, since the original Money Pit." "Because everybody else was guessing." "We know exactly what we're heading for." "I mean, even Chappell and Hedden, they were guessing." "So this is the first time someone has actually drilled with a target," "I'd say, since 1801 or so." " Yep." " It is historic." "Here we are digging in the Money Pit." " Finally." " Yeah, finally!" " Wait until we hit something." " You better believe it." "As Kent says, keep slamming can." "It's pretty exciting!" "You know, nothing's falling apart." "We seem to be on target." "Something is actually all coming together on Oak Island." "As the 24-foot long steel caisson grinds slowly into the ground, an 8-ton digging tool known as a "hammer grab" excavates the earth." "Each extraction, also known as "spoils,"" "is then loaded onto a truck and transported some 1000 yards away near the middle of the island on Lot 25." "First, the spoils are unloaded." "Hey Jack, why don't you grab the back hoe, and let's spread these spoils out." "Then, Jack Begley, and island historian Charles Barkhouse, will carefully examine them for artifacts or bits of debris that could provide important evidence." "Down more, there you go, now just back up." "That's better." "Perfect." "As we dig in the Money Pit, we have to look at what we are digging up." "Do you want to pick out any wood that you see?" "I'll go over and take a look, before you go over there." "So we need to keep those spoils separate, and we will make sure we analyze them." "Guess what!" " What?" " Another dowel hole!" "I'm coming out." " What?" " I got one with a dowel in it, right here." " Are you serious?" "Wow." " See?" "There's the dowel right in it." "Wow." "Great." "I mean, we gotta do some research, see if we can find how these shafts were constructed, and maybe we'll know where these came from." "That's why it's important to save all this stuff." "Although the team's first target in the Money Pit, the mysterious, "Chappell Vault,"" "is approximately 140 feet deep underground, there is no telling what a search of the spoils might turn up." "We're finding a lot of wood from other tunnels, from other shafts." "It's a possibility it could be what we call "the Dunfield spoils."" "When Robert Dunfield undertook a massive excavation of the site in 1965, the spoils were never properly examined." "Although much of the excavated material was later used to fill the 135-foot deep hole back in, valuable evidence and possible treasure was lost or destroyed." "You want to get you metal detector, start going over this stuff?" "There's a possibility that there could be something in those spoils, and the fact that area's gonna change dramatically, we have a perfect opportunity today, to go through it and hopefully find something." "Anything, Jack?" "Maybe." "Using the Minelab CTX 3030 hand-held metal detector," "Jack Begley begins scouring the area for evidence." "Look at that." "Wow, that's way above the line, there." "What do ya' got, Jack?" "Is it a nail?" "There it is." "It's a bullet!" "You know what?" "You're right." "It's a shell casing." "A shell casing?" "From a bullet?" "Could this have been left behind by someone hunting on the island decades ago?" "And, if so, what was the prey?" "Was it animal... or human?" "And we know it came from down in the Money Pit area." " Yeah." " All right." "I'm going to see if there's anything else." "That sounds different, Jack." "Yeah, we got something." "Yeah." "This is very curious." "What ya' got, Jack?" "Take a look at that." "I got a really weird hit off this." "When you say "weird," you mean weird good or just weird?" "Well, it started off looking like silver." "It could be." "A silver object?" "Found in the spoils of the Money Pit excavation?" "I mean, look at how perfectly round it is." "Could Jack Begley and Charles Barkhouse have just found an important clue?" "Something previously overlooked by Robert Dunfield?" "It looks really weird to me, though." "It does look weird." "Or could they be looking at something even more significant?" "Perhaps even a small piece of the treasure itself?" "I have no idea what that is." "It's very curious, no question about that." " It's very dense." " Yeah." "Whatever it is, it's very heavy." "Wow, it is." "Okay, Jack, I'm going to put this in a bag." "Alright, we're almost done with this first pile, Charles." "Yeah, I know." "Like all of the artifacts found on the island, the metal object Jack discovered must be cleaned, photographed, weighed, and analyzed to see if it has any significance, either geologically or historically." "Charles, we're done with pile one." " Okay, man." " Let's move on to pile two." "Sounds like a plan." "Let's do it." "Coming up... momentous operation at the Money Pit continues..." "Rick, Marty and their partners gather at the nearby Atlantica resort and await the arrival of a special visitor." "So, Randall Sullivan," "I think Charles, do you know of him?" "Yeah, he wrote the article in Rolling Stone magazine a number of years ago, and he's doing a little research in the area." "In January of 2004, investigative journalist and author, Randall Sullivan, published an article in Rolling Stone Magazine entitled "The Curse of Oak Island."" "It featured a detailed history of the search for treasure on the island, as well as compelling interviews with rival treasure hunters." "Fred Nolan and Dan Blankenship." "Now, more than a decade after his article's publication," "Randall Sullivan has returned to Nova Scotia in hopes of writing the Oak Island mystery's final chapter." "Five or six feet per day." "Randall!" "Nice to meet you, finally." " Good to meet you." " How are you?" "This is my brother, Marty." " Hi, Marty." " Nice to meet you." " Have a seat." " Have a seat." "So, I just, I just want to say one thing:" "I loved that article." "I thought it was absolutely phenomenal." " It was well done!" " Well done, very concise." "I have two copies still at home." "Thank you." "Investigative journalist is the way to describe yourself?" "Well, yeah, I'd say my books either fall into one of two categories, investigative journalism, or literary journalism." "What was the response to that article?" "You know, it was..." "it astonished me how many people didn't know about the story and were completely entranced by it." "The story just didn't go away because the mystery's not gone away." "It's never been solved, and the feeling that you walked away or I walked away from something, it wasn't done and I wasn't done with it." "Finally, I had a free moment and my publisher was finally ready to say," ""Hey, you should do a book."" "Which is why I'm here." "Really, you're writing a book now?" "I am." "Well, I'm not writing it yet." "I'm researching it." "You're researching it!" "What do you find is the most intriguing aspect of the search, from an informational point of view?" "You know, I completely dismissed the pirate theory because, you know, pirates would dig a hole maybe 10 feet deep and come back when they were ready." "But I didn't know then about what the pirates did in Tortuga, where they created a system of tunnels that rivals what's been done on Oak Island." "So there were pirate engineers." "Of the many theories concerning treasure being hidden on Oak Island, perhaps the most popular and persistent is that it was most likely the work of Spanish or Portuguese pirates, who were known to sail the waters in and around Nova Scotia during" "the 17th and 18th centuries." "But those who doubt that a sophisticated system of underground flood tunnels and booby-traps could be engineered by rowdy, rum-soaked buccaneers, might be in for a surprise." "The popular notion that pirates were swarthy illiterates who sported peg legs and eye patches is largely a fiction." "Some, like Francis Drake, were highly respected noblemen." "Others, like Henry Morgan and Captain Kidd, were educated seamen and shrewd businessmen." "Just as sophisticated, were many members of their crews, who often included doctors, masons, carpenters, and experts in almost every profession." "What tags into people about this mystery?" "I think it's 'cause Oak Island's not just a search for treasure." "It's also a search for meaning." "And nothing engages people like the search for meaning." "And that's actually what engages me in terms of writing the book." "I mean, I hope you find the treasure, but to me it's the story and the mystery of it that is really compelling." "Well, you two share that." "Yeah, my impression is you feel the same way." "Your story was named The Curse of Oak Island." " Yeah." " Do you believe in the curse?" "Well actually, one of the things that really struck me deeply when I was here those years ago, on Oak Island, it was misty and foggy and damp the whole time, but I just..." "The place felt haunted." "The reason for, you know, the Curse is that so much has been lost there and when Dan first took me to the Money Pit area, the first thing that struck me was all the wrecked equipment," "'cause back then it was just..." "Scattered all over." "All over the place, you know?" "And it's sort of almost like the history of the failures of these different expeditions, which in many cases, you know, devastated lives." "I mean, people couldn't let it go." " Yeah." " I'm hoping that we're gonna have a, a mutual assistance league here." " Of course!" "Yeah." " So, I'm picking up that the Money Pit is the focus of what you're doing?" " Absolutely." " Yep." "I mean, we have to..." "You can't leave that island without digging in the Money Pit." "I understand, I understand." "It's got so much history." "If I was you guys I would wanna find out what's down there." "It's hard to overlook it." "Yeah, you gotta know what's down there." "I tell you what, why don't you come on over to the island and have a look around." "You haven't been, yet, right, not in how many years?" " 13 years." " All right, it's time." " It's time." " You will find the Money Pit much changed." " Much changed." " I'll bet." "This goes up to our big project, where we built this big platform." "This is where things are going to look a lot different to you." "Here you go, this is it." "I mean, and it's-it's big." " Let's go have a look." " Not even close to recognizing..." "You know, I'm thinking that Randall's going to have a little gasp, or a little hiccup in his voice, because it's radically changed." "Man..." "I mean, it's..." "I'm just looking at it," "I mean when Dan brought me back up here 13 years ago, this was, you know, patches of grass." "But you did feel all this history, you know." "You did feel the layers of all these things that happened." "Stop now, right?" "You're gonna get right to him if you do that." "That's what I hope." "We have not, quote-un-quote, "buried history."" "Nature will reclaim that so fast, and it'll look just the same." "I mean, you have a choice, you're either going to preserve a museum, or, you know, dig." "Enact a search agenda." "Absolutely." "Not to put you in the same category with Dunfield, but this is the biggest excavation, first major excavation since him, right?" "It is." "Absolutely." "This is so much different than Dunfield." "Dunfield's methodology, this is surgery compared to what he did." "Just imagine if the ghosts of the 19th century could see this." "I mean, it would be..." "There is something here." "Call it what you will, but there's a wonderful story written beneath our feet." "I want to follow that story, and hopefully some of what I learn will be of use to you." "As far as Randall is concerned," "I think it's going to be helpful." "He comes from an investigative journalistic background, and, you know, you set, you set his nose to something, and he's going to follow the trail as far as it goes." "So, that's gonna be very, very helpful." "Randall Sullivan is clearly a good writer and a talented researcher and if he can unearth something that's helpful to us, we're..." "Wide open arms, bring it!" "Okay, well here's the deal, when you write it, make us look good, okay?" "The tough-mind..." "The tough-minded Marty, and the chivalrous Rick." "I think it's going to lead us somewhere." "I think we're all going to be very, very surprised." "I'm already very surprised." "The massive amount of work you've already done, and the massive amount of work you're still gonna do;" "I sure hope it pays off." "Me, too." "I like that thought." "Coming up... ur sledg?" "Yeah, I grabbed some rebar, and some mallets, and a sledge." "Okay." "Let's go see if it pounds through." "As operations at the Money Pit site continue," "Rick Lagina, Craig Tester, and his step-son Jack Begley, return to the area on the western end of the island where just a few weeks earlier..." "Yeah, think this is it here." "They found what appeared to be a mysterious hatchway carved in stone." "Holy smokes." "If this is a hatch, it would be a way in, a vertical shaft, to enter something." "That's very, very odd." "The hatch was located with the help of what is reportedly an ancient map, which was provided to the team by New York based writer and researcher," "Zena Halpern." "It was during this meeting that." "Halpern shared with the team, not only the map, but two other documents that she claims were hidden in a book, and which she believes connect Oak Island to the activities of the Knights Templar, as far back as the 12th century." "When Jack Begley later superimposed Zena's map with a photograph of Oak Island..." "Look at the top of that." "It follows it perfectly." "The location of the hatch lined up almost exactly to a place on the island where Dave Blankenship had noticed a deep impression in the ground near his property." "This hatch lands kind of where David said..." " The hole is." " Yeah." " Well, it's not sunk." " Yeah, surprisingly." "Ever since Zena's map surfaced about the hatch, we need to decide, does it lead somewhere, is there really a tunnel underneath that or not?" "Is it a doorway to an underground complex?" "We need to decide that, yes or no." "After obtaining a permit to dig at what might very well be an important archaeological site," "Rick, Craig and Jack have returned to see if the hatch might possibly be a back door or gateway into the Money Pit." "I'm an old man." "You understand that, right?" "Yeah." "You see it slip, you let her go." " Is it still going down?" " Nope." "Nah, it's kind of stopped there now." "I'd say he got close to a foot down before it really hit something hard." "If a man dug here, it would've had to be at least a couple feet wide," "I mean two or three feet in length or something, so let's probe around." "So we got to here, right?" " Somewhere in there?" " Yeah." "Why don't we try a couple more little holes?" "Yeah, there it's looks like it's stopped." "Same depth." "We got to here." "It could be stopping because it's hitting a solid piece of slate like this." "If this fills up with water, which it should every time it rains, it's going to deteriorate the bottom, so it's going to be softer to start off and then you'll hit the hard stuff." "You have to have a way down." "You have to have a man-size opening, and..." " At least!" " It's only going uni..." "That depth and no further, everywhere you've put it so far." "I think we found the bottom." "I mean, I definitely think this is man-made." "Yep." "I do, too." "I mean, you want something to be something so badly, i.e., I want it to be soft material, and we dig our way down into something." "But it sunk uniformly across the bottom of the so-called hatch." "At that point you have to assume that it's just bedrock." "Is there a possibility there was already something here, and it was dug out?" "There is theories," "I mean Fred felt there was chests all around the island." "Multiple treasure chests that had been retrieved." "I think he thought there were eleven sites where shallow treasures were recovered." ""Shallow treasures?"" "Is it possible that what the team believed could be an entrance into the Money Pit was actually a hole where treasure was once buried, and later filled in after the treasure was retrieved?" "Could it be?" "Yes." "Do I want to say that?" "No, because that's one less thing we can recover." "But again, it's the "why" of it." "This whole... the whole island is a one big question mark." "And the biggest question is, "Why?"" " Yeah." " Well, we're due answers soon." "Today we surely didn't say, okay, this isn't worth exploring, this isn't worth pursuing." "We surely didn't cross it off our search agenda, so you know, again not to use a pun, but the door on the hatch is not closed." " Okay." " Great attempt, time to move on." "You need to keep doing your work." " A-A right." " Okay." "This island, I've said it innumerable times, if this island is about nothing else, and it's about many things, one of which surely is:" "This is an island of possibilities." "Might that be the hatch?" "Sure, it might." "Coming up... and the team from Irving Equipment Ltd." "Arrives on schedule." "As the giant casing oscillator continues to grind the steel caisson into the rocky ground, the Oak Island team is now just a few precious feet away from reaching their target:" "The mysterious wooden structure that lies 143 feet beneath the surface of the Money Pit." "Meanwhile, on the western side of the island, author and investigative journalist, Randall Sullivan, along with Charles Barkhouse..." "After you." "Have arranged a meeting with veteran treasure hunter, and local legend, Dan Blankenship." " Hey." " Hi, Dan." " How are you?" " I'm good." " It's good to see you." " Long time no see." " It has been." " You look as good as ever." "It is the first time Randall and Dan have met since Randall's story about Oak Island first appeared in the pages of Rolling Stone more than ten years ago." "Long time no see." " 13 years." " Right." "Lot of water's gone under the dam," " that's for sure." " Yeah." "When I was out here before, it was just you and me and your wife." "And now so much has happened and Rick and Marty have opened new doors." "I was really happy to see what Rick and Marty were doing in the Money Pit." "Hopefully, this year we'll maybe get you some conclusions." "Hopefully!" "I've been here for a long time." "I'd like to have some positive" " answers one way or the other." " Well..." " This could be the year, Dan." " Yes." "What brought you here?" "Well, the article wasn't enough." " I decided I need to do a book." " Yeah." " So I've come back to..." " You still in the business?" "That's what I do." "Dan, I was always really dismissive of the pirate theory." "What-what exactly do you mean?" "From the coast of Brazil all the way to Newfoundland, there were pirates all along here." "Yeah, they used... they used the northern hemisphere." " Yes." " This part of the northern hemisphere." "Would any one pirate group have accumulated enough treasure to be worth what was done on Oak Island?" "You know, I've always had a hard time believing that this amount of work was done to keep it secret, unless there was something really profound and important." "Well, that-that observation you made is a good one." "How much research have you really done on the ancient history of the possibilities of whatever was done on Oak Island?" "A fair bit." " Have you?" " Yeah." "Well, then you're well aware of, of Pizarro coming back from... from Spain to sack Peru." "And, at that time when he left, they were eating out of gold plates in Peru." " Yeah." " And when he came back, even though he left a Spanish missionary there," " everything was gone." " The treasure..." " You aware of that?" " Yeah, I'm very aware of it." "That-that treasure, the treasure of Tumbes is the biggest missing treasure of gold." "There's no doubt there was an enormous fortune in gold." "In 1524, Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro led led an expedition to Peru, where he encountered the people of the great Inca Empire in the ancient city of Tumbes." "Pizarro was astonished by the Inca's vast amounts of gold and silver used to make everything from dishes to garments by the native people." "Pizarro returned to Spain and convinced King Charles V to allow him more ships and men to conquer the city of Tumbes and bring the vast riches back home to the crown." "However, it has been reported that when the conquistador and his fleet returned to the Inca city several years later, they found it in ruins, and the vast treasures of Tumbes had vanished without a trace." "There's a lot of credence in it, because according to what I've read there had to be a sizeable fortune, you know." "There's a convincing historical record that that treasure existed, because Pizarro wasn't the only one who saw it, there were other witnesses." "I mean, I don't think there's any question that there was basically a city of gold in Tumbes." "It is the single greatest missing treasure, but it's hard for me to believe they could have gotten that from Peru to Nova Scotia." "Why would it be any harder to believe that than to believe whatever is-is-is out there, you know?" "Well, I'm not ruling it out." "It does defy the imagination, don't misunderstand me." "There's a lot of very possible theories of what could be buried here." "I know, you have your theory, Fred had his theory, there's a lot of theories out there." "I have no conclusions, though." " No, but just a theory." " There's still theory." "Absolutely." "Dan, grateful for your time, you know so much, you are living history." "Always a pleasure, Dan." "Always a pleasure." " Any time, Charles." " Okay." "You take care." "You, too." "Nice meeting you again." "So where are we?" "How close are we to target?" "Um, about four feet I think." "From our old ground level, we are at, 137 with the casing." "If Craig Tester's calculations are correct, the Oak Island team is within minutes of reaching the place where two years ago he and Rick Lagina found what appeared to be wooden planks which matched the descriptions of the so-called," "Chappell Vault, first discovered more than 100 years ago." "Look, we're very close." "We're feet away from what we've labored for." "This is as close as anybody has gotten." "You know, we're on the edge of our seat." "Didn't get a hell of a lot that time." "The first sign that we have reached the vault should be that we start bringing up some significant quantities of wood." "That's what we expect, um, that's what we anticipate." "So far, Rick, Marty, Craig, and the Oak Island team are justifiably anxious." "We better find some wood." "The Money Pit operation has cost them more than $2 million so far, and the spoils brought to the surface by the hammer grab consist only of soil, rocks, and other, natural materials." "So right now, we're 22 inches with our casing, from vault, and 14 inches with our excavation." "14?" "Okay, you gonna lower the casing one more time?" "We're going down 12 inches now, so that'll put the two at the same elevation, and then we're gonna be roughly a foot away." "Okay." "It's moving pretty quick through here." " We'll see." " Let's let 'em do it." "Now that the massive caisson has nearly reached what could be the so-called "Chappell Vault,"" "the team from Irving Equipment Ltd." "Is drilling, and digging, at a slower rate." "This is done so that potential damage to the target will, hopefully, be minimized." "But, if located, what could the mysterious box contain?" "Pirate gold?" "Priceless religious artifacts like the Ark of the Covenant, or the Holy Grail?" "Or could it contain the lost treasures of the ancient Incas?" "It's the deepest..." "Deep as 14 inches." " Yeah." " 14 inches away from an answer or another question, why didn't we hit it?" "Yeah." "As the hammer grab emerges from the hole with only mud, the Oak Island team becomes increasingly concerned." "Come on, bring up a skull or something." "Could they have miscalculated the precise location of the mysterious wooden structure they located two years ago?" "Okay look, here's what I think," "I think this is going perfectly." "I mean, I know we're on pins and needles because 12 inches or so we should set down on wood." "That's what we're hoping, right?" " Yeah." " It's almost inconceivable to think that we're not going to touch wood." "We're going to, Rick!" "We're going to, I have confidence." "You know what, I'm usually the skeptic, but we're going to find something made of wood at 140 feet, because we know it's there." " Yeah!" " And I think that's what's going to happen, I do." " I love your attitude." " I do!" " Yeah." " There." "You feel better?" "I don't feel bad." "This is typical Oak Island." "There will be an answer there or there won't be." "The drill has now reached its target depth, but there is still no sign of the mysterious wooden structure." "How you feeling?" "I'd-I'd be willing to go to one, like, 145." "145, there's nothing there, then, then you gotta say you know what, we misinterpreted, we mis-calculated." "Yeah." "We believe, we certainly believe that there's something there." "Now, is it the vault?" "I don't know." "I mean, I've been on this roller coaster," "Oak Island, right, we all have, for a long time." "But we believe at this point that we're very close to..." " An answer." " An answer." "Exactly." "See any wood, do you?" " No wood, no wood." " No wood." "Come on, man, where's my wood?" "Just more sludge." "Thinking we should have already hit the wood?" "I can't believe we haven't hit something yet." "It's okay." "It's there." "Come on, baby." " Wood!" "Wood!" " We got wood." "I'll be damned." "Look at that." "Yeah!" " Yeah, I think it is." " I think so." "Has the steel caisson finally reached its target, and located the mysterious wooden structure Rick Lagina and Craig Tester discovered two years ago?" "When that hammer grab gets past the casing, all eyes are on that target." "I think everybody's going, "My goodness."" "Because you can see the wood coming off of it." "There it is." "It's right there." "I'll be damned." "Look at that." " Wood!" " We got wood!" "We got wood." "It's within a foot of where we believed it to be." "Where the historical record says it should be." "And there's wood." "Okay, so the wood is right on schedule." " Did anybody doubt it?" " Never for a minute." "Yes, it's exciting." "But, I want to be absolutely certain we've hit the vault." "I'm positive at this point we've hit what we cored, whatever that is." "We're about to find out if it's the vault or not." "Okay, let's dig." "Wait, we want to keep digging now?" "Yes!" "We found it, let's dig it up." "Now we have to be very careful at this point." "No we don't." "We need that thing back in the hole." "Rick, it's already been breached." "We know it's been breached with drill holes." "Several titis." "I know." "We're not going to wreck anything." "It's been breached." "At this point I'd like an "all stop" moment, because I do not want to blow into this thing." "I believe in my heart of hearts that it's something that is very significant historically and archeologically." "And I think we need to take a deep breath, a long deep breath." "It's all elementary is my point," "I'm not expecting to enter like a nice, pristine cave, are you?" " I don't want to be a smart-ass." " We need... we need clarity, and right now we don't have clarity." "We need to proceed slowly." "Well, let's just quit, then." "Right now we fall into two camps." "Should we aggressively excavate this thing or shall we try and be less invasive?" "And it bears saying, this is hideously expensive." "We have a lot of equipment, people, and they need to get paid whether they're running or not." "That's the rub." "What do you think?" "What do you need to say, "all stop."" "Or go to a different method." "I-I think if you have some definitive proof that you're sitting on cement." "I don't think we got that." "There's never been a better time to keep digging than right now." " You say?" " It's your call, so..." "After making a discovery that they hope will help solve the Oak Island mystery, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina now find themselves at a crossroads." "Should they use the giant hammer grab to lift up whatever lies within the wooden box?" "Or should they wait, and explore the area more cautiously, so that the possible contents of the box might remain intact." "What would you do?" "You know the historical context, you know how important this is, you know, you have a sense." "It's been breached before, though, you need to know that." "By an inch and a quarter core." "There's no way there's an intact vault there." "I would suggest that we push on it first, before we keep cutting, and see what it does, see if it gives us that resistance, and if it does, then we know we need to look at other options of excavating out," "or, you know, protecting it." "That's you guys, make that call." "Many people disagree sometimes, and Rick has a long history of disagreeing with me." "But I learned a long time ago that what Rick said is wise, is smart, and that is to stop, don't worry about the expenses for a little bit, take a deep breath, and think." "If you have to walk off and be by yourself or with our group in our case, and think it through, that's just smart." "My angst comes from where it has always come from." "That I think something amazing happened here and I don't wanna just brute force it." "The wonderful thing is that we have, obviously, several options." "That's where I'm at." "You know, we could think about it, so..." "Okay, so I say we go kick this around." "Yup." "Yeah." "So let's go back and talk about it." " Okay." "All right." " Let's be done." "I'm happy with that decision." "It's an emotional roller coaster, and I try not to let myself ride it." "But, we do ride it, because we're just humans." "All right, shut down for tonight?" " Done for the night." " Good day." "Excellent day, man, well done." "Well done, you guys." "It is a time of both excitement and satisfaction on Oak Island." "Okay, let's go." "As Rick, Marty, Craig, and the team decide to suspend operations after making what looks to be a huge discovery." "This is the most momentous decision we need to make." "It's tangible now." "We're within arm's reach of a box, vault, whatever." "We mustn't make a mistake." "Up until now, the goal of the team has been to find out what lies buried in the Money Pit." "Now that they may have found something, they have yet another problem to solve:" "What do they do next?" "Next time on The Curse of Oak Island..." "There's something very significant in there, and I want to proceed slowly." "I don't wanna do that." "We have to find something." "I say drill a hold through the thing." "That wouldn't scare me." " Whoa!" " It's a coin!" "Wow, look at that." "It's over 200 years old." "There's a lot of uncertainty." "Are we really gonna destroy whatever it is down there?" "That ain't good." "We think there's almost 3,000 gallons in that hole." "And now we don't know what to do."