"Previously on The Curse of Oak Island..." "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!" "I'll be damned." "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." "Box, vault, whatever, it's tangible now." "We mustn't make a mistake." "We need to proceed slowly." "Well, let's just quit then." "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." "Here we are again." "Joyful, but puzzled." "We have what you call a problem going on here." "Because, you know what?" "We've bingo'd this vault." "Thanks to..." " Thanks to all these people." " Yeah." "And now we don't know what to do." "It is the end of a long, hard day on Oak Island." "A day that saw the emotions of the Laginas and their partners turn from anticipation..." "I can't believe we haven't hit something yet." "It's okay, it's there." "To excitement..." "Wood." "Wood!" "I'll be damned, look at that." "And then, to uncertainty." "We found it, let's dig it up." "We need clarity and right now, we don't have clarity." "We need to proceed slowly." "Rick, it's already been breached with drill holes, several times." "I know." "We're not gonna wreck anything." "It's been breached." "After three years of careful planning, and an investment of millions of dollars, there is reason to believe that Rick and Marty Lagina, along with their partners, may have finally reached what they believe to be the so-called "Chappell Vault,"" "the mysterious wooden box that was first discovered some 143 feet deep, beneath the so-called Money Pit, by treasure hunters Frederick Blair and William Chappell in 1897." "I'd be lying if I said I knew what was in the vault." "I don't know." "I do believe it's something of significant historical and archeological importance, and almost certainly irreplaceable." "While trying to determine its contents," "William Chappell drilled a series of boreholes which, although filling the box with mud and seawater, revealed the presence of gold, and even a tiny portion of a handwritten document." "But now, even though the box was breached more than a century ago," "Rick and Marty Lagina are faced with a difficult dilemma:" "How to find out if they have really found the Chappell Vault without causing further damage to whatever may be inside." "We're quite sure we're scraping on horizontal planks of wood." "Everything ties, it's in the right spot." "But, you know what, there's a problem nonetheless, because there's several different ways we could proceed." "We don't know, folks, whether we are on a couple of planks of wood with nothing beneath them." "It doesn't seem likely," " but it's possible." " Yeah." "I mean, does it feel more like a platform, or is there no way to tell that?" "I think it's safe to say we feel as though we certainly are on something." " Yes." " Is there any way to tell if this is a structure" " at all?" " We haven't been able to hook on so far, enough to actually pick something out." "We're just scraping the top." "Are you cutting through it" " with the oscillator?" " No." "Right now, we currently are not." "We're monitoring it very closely and we can tell that it wants to build torque, and wants to cut something." "But the pressures have been very minimal." "In order to dig a 40-inch-wide hole down to a depth of 143 feet, and still avoid the maze of flood tunnels that invade the Money Pit, the Oak Island team has been using a system involving a number of large steel caissons," "which are literally ground into the soil by means of an enormous device known as an oscillator." "But because the first drilling caisson is rimmed with a series of steel teeth, which literally rip and tear their way through the ground, the team's concern is that continued drilling will not only damage the Chappell Vault," "but may also destroy the potentially priceless artifacts it could contain." "Artifacts which some believe could be everything from stolen pirate gold to the lost folios of William Shakespeare, and even the Ark of the Covenant..." "The golden chest that holds the original Ten Commandments." "If the Oak Island story is real, there's something very significant in there," " and it's irreplaceable." " Show me proof." "Show me proof." "I say drill a hole through the thing." "That wouldn't scare me." "I would probably turn him loose tomorrow and dig through that thing." "We could continue to hammer grab." "You know, we could continue to take small little bites of wood out, like we have been doing." "And I know that's not a preferred option." "I think there's something there." "The caveat, of course, is if this is a structure." "If this is a structure..." ""if."" "Oak Island is fraught with "ifs," as you well know." "I would say, at this juncture, we got to make some progress here." "We have to find something." "Are we really gonna destroy whatever's down there?" "You might hear a big difference here." "There's really not." "The difference is in what are perception is of what's there." "I believe that it's..." "If there's something there, it's already been flooded with salt water, it's already been breached." "And that's the difference, really." "It's not that we have a difference in how we would treat it if we had the same mental picture." "I always pictured it as a box inside of a cavity." "I think it is a void, it's a void in the sense that..." " But it's filled with soup, now." " I guess..." "I guess I'm thinking of what could be in there, and I'm, I'm not there." "Well, it's already got a hole through it, now." "Yeah, but it's a small hole, David." "I'd just be concerned about what, you know, jeopardizing or compromising what's in that, you know, vault." "Whatever's in here, if you keep advancing down like this, and grabbing and advancing it, won't you pick up, at least, bits and pieces of whatever this is?" "You would damn well hope so." "You would, but we would fail the struct..." "We could fail the structure, if there is a structure there." "And then, we could ultimately destroy whatever we're trying to seek out." "It's possible that even though it has been compromised, and I totally agree that it has, it's possible that it's still quote, unquote intact." "And I don't want to do anything that may compromise that further." "There's something there." "That needs some gentle attention at this point." "We got an airlift out there now, so we can draw the water down and see what the refresh rate is." "Introduce new water, and try and clear it up, and get the camera down there." "By pumping air into the shaft using the airlift method, the team will be able to determine just how quickly the target area refills with water from below the ground." "It may also be an effective way of forcing any possible contents of the vault to the surface, without damaging them." "You know, we could try and airlift that hole to see what the infiltration rate is." "See if we get lucky and bring up anything that's significant." "Right?" "Maybe?" "I mean, I know it's gonna be a risk, but that factor makes it not as risky, in my mind." "This is ultra-cautious." "This is way more cautious than I would be, but I'm not the sole say here." "I have reservations about how we do this and I want to proceed slowly." "It's not a matter of who carries the day, or what methodically wins out." "It's getting answers." "Okay, I guess that's the plan." "Is that a plan?" "Is everybody happy with that?" " Agreed." " Good." "All right, I think we're done here." "The next day, after their meeting in the War Room," "Rick, Marty and their partners return to the Money Pit, where they will see if their plan to use the airlift system will prove successful." "We want to know everything about this hole." "One of the things that is what is the rate of water inflow if we try to evacuate it?" "Just crack it till he says shut it off," " and just go slow." " Yeah." "So we're not gonna run it very long, maybe 30 seconds, we'll see what happens." "Cool?" "All right." "Here we go." "There she is." "Coming alive!" "We think there's almost 3,000 gallons in that hole." " Right now?" " Yeah." " Okay." " I'd say at least for every gallon you took out, a gallon came in." "The fact that water is rushing into the borehole as fast as Marty and the team are trying to flush it out, is not entirely surprising." "You think there's 3,000 gallons in there?" "Yes, I do." "Problems caused by underground water have plagued treasure hunters on Oak Island ever since members of the Onslow Company dug the original Money Pit down to a depth of 90 feet back in 1804." "Upon removing a large stone slab, on which were carved a series of strange, hieroglyph-like shapes, the shaft suddenly filled with seawater, as if its removal triggered an underground booby trap." "It was this same system that was believed to have caused the flooding of the Chappell Vault in 1897." "I think we should do it again." "I don't think dropping it 15 feet's hurting your stability at all." "It's your shaft." " Andrew!" " Marty!" " Let's go!" " One sec." "Ho!" "Hit it." "As water is forced out from within the steel caisson, there is always a risk that the change in pressure around the hole could cause a catastrophic collapse." "That pipe can take it." "I know what the collapse resistance is, and I know what the collapse pressures are." "So I feel real comfortable with evacuating that pipe, that it could be done from a collapse standpoint." "Minute 30 right there." " A minute 30?" " Yeah." "Let's go see what, we got going." "How far did it drop?" "It came up seven feet." "Yeah." "So it took back everything you just took, plus..." "Yeah, and then another foot." "Unfortunately, the hole is refilling with underground water almost as fast as it's being pumped out." "The amount of water coming in as we tried to pump it out was enormous." "Thousands of gallons a minute, I would say." "The Laginas and their partners must now face a sobering reality." "The inability to force water from the hole means that they will probably not be able to bring any objects or artifacts up and out of the hole by means of the airlift method." "So, I would like to do one more." "The good news in everything's stable." "Right." "The bad news in that we probably didn't bring anything up." "I'd go for five minutes, try and drop it 30 feet, check the recharge again, and then maybe we're done." "Five minutes!" "In one final frustrated attempt to pump the contents of the so-called Chappell Vault to the surface, Marty has made the difficult decision to increase the power of the airlift and run it for an extended period." "The move is a risky one, as it adds additional pressure to the area surrounding the steel caisson." " Was that five minutes?" " Yep." "What do we got there now, Kent?" "We just put probably, what, 4,000 gallons in there." "What came out of the pipe was only 15 feet... 900 again." "So 3,000 gallons came from somewhere else, in that little bit of time." "We're actually gonna pull that airlift out and break it down, if you guys are good with that." " I-I think we're done." " Yeah." "We're good." "You know, we know this is connected to an enormous source of water." "The fact that it's coming in at an enormous rate just verifies that we're connected to the ocean, which, you know, if you're a believer in the flood tunnel, is yet another check mark to say, "This is it."" "But now the Laginas have a difficult and potentially risky decision to make." "If they cannot force objects from the vault up to the surface, they need to find another way to retrieve them." "Look, we're not gonna sit on it." "The dilemma here is whether or not to grab a large amount of whatever's in there, or to surgically remove some material." "Do an arthroscopic surgery now." "I-I'd rather do that than brain surgery with a pair of pliers blindfolded." "Well, I'm all for surgical." "Then great." "Decision made." "I guess we'd like to..." "Continue hammer grabbing." "Yeah." "Just two inches." "You can go two inches." "Kind of get back to where you're scraping wood again." "I'm gonna go check that measurement and get back." "At some point, you're gonna be very happy." "I'll be happy if you're happy, big brother." "That's what would make me happiest." "Although hammer grabbing will be effective in getting more wood and perhaps other materials out of the Valley Three hole, it could also damage or destroy whatever lies within the so-called Chappell Vault." "Plan was to scoop out the last little bit of fill in there, which would give us plenty of time to do this noninvasive investigation in this hole." "Okay." "Let's drop it in, see what happens." "Yeah." "Here we go." "If the structural integrity of it has been severely compromised, maybe we do have to retrieve it in piecemeal." "My perfect world scenario would be we gingerly set down on it and it grabs just something that says," ""Here you go." "It's real."" "Something that's kind of interesting, and it just started happening as of late," " you can feel when it strikes." " Really?" "Which we haven't felt before." "Does that mean, wood?" "It could possibly be something hollow." " Sure." "Hell yeah." " Yeah." "Suddenly, as the hammer grab is extracted from the steel caisson..." "My goodness." "It is obvious that it has done much more than pick up loose debris." "That ain't good." "I just can't believe it." "Wow." "I'm choosing to be impressed." "Absolutely." "Although the hammer grab was only intended to skim the surface of the underground structure discovered at Valley Three, it has brought up several large chunks of wood." "After a brief inspection, it becomes obvious that what Rick," "Marty and their partners have discovered is the very same wooden structure they found and took a core sample from two years ago." "You core it from a hole that's wandering off, and then you put this big can down and you get it." "Man, did we bingo that!" "I mean, come on, that's pretty impressive." "I am extremely gratified from a technical standpoint." "I mean, we did it right." "We took our measurements right, and we came down vertical right over this thing." "You know, that's gratifying, 'cause that wasn't easy." "What does the other side of this one look like, Rick?" "But as impressive as the discovery is, the team is concerned that the hammer grab may have damaged not only what they hope is the Chappell Vault, but whatever contents the vault may contain." "I'd say we kind of up the... surgically removing it, didn't we?" "" "No!" "Initially, I thought that, David, but we didn't bash it down." "We just opened the hatch, man." "Now we got to decide what this means." "I think we should know absolutely what we're looking at." "Well, I say let's take another grab" " and see what we come up with." " I mean, we have a shot." "It's worth a shot to take something down and take a look." "I mean, it's open now, right?" "And that gives you a little more insight as to how to proceed." "Go down once more, very gingerly, and..." "I mean, at this point." "Some of the potential ways to proceed are now eliminated, because the die has been cast." "The top has been pulled off." "So, we're still going to proceed with caution, but we want to look in there somehow." "You're gonna want to probe, I know you are." "So let's go probe." "Because the wooden structure has already been accidentally breached, the Oak Island team has no choice but to send the hammer grab down the hole a second time, in an attempt to retrieve any artifacts that may be contained within it." "It's a proper plan, because whether it's fully compromised, whether the structural integrity remains," "I want to prove to my own satisfaction whether or not something is down there." "Could the contents of the next hammer grab contain the final clue to the Oak Island puzzle, the one generations of treasure hunters have been trying to find for more than 200 years?" "We need answers, and so we anticipate what's there." "You know, we're on the edge of our seat." "Boy, look at that thing." "Nice grab." "Have Rick, Marty and the Oak Island team finally come face-to-face with an actual section of the legendary Chappell Vault..." "Looks like clay between the two pieces of wood." "The mysterious wooden structure which was first discovered and then lost more than 100 years ago?" "That's quite some clay, Marty?" "That's incredible." "The excitement level just gets higher, because the two pieces of timber are the exact thickness, the correct thickness, as described in the previous records, and they look ancient, so everything looks perfect." "I think that's oak." "Isn't that something?" "According to historical records, the so-called Chappell Vault was estimated to be seven feet high and was constructed of oak timbers, each seven inches thick." "It sure seems to be the vault, because the timbers look very ancient." "They're the right thickness." "And I walk up to it and I think, "What's that?"" "Are we seeing saw marks on there?" "Yeah." " What does that mean?" " I don't know." "That is odd." " Both directions?" " Both directions." "I see it cutting this way and cutting this way." "They're circular saw marks, and my heart drops to the bottom of my stomach because I'm pretty sure that the circular saw for milling timber is a relatively new invention." "I see the marks." "Yeah, well, that would be a circular saw cutting." "The presence of circular saw marks on the wood may offer an unwelcome bit of bad news, because if the wooden structure the team has located in the Money Pit is the Chappell Vault, how could it have been made utilizing a tool" "that was not widely used in North America until the early 19th century?" "If that really is a circular saw, then it's surely not 1600." "Correct." "What I would do is go down and see Dan." "Yeah, we'll do that." "It's actually classic Oak Island, right?" "We thought everything was lining out, but we see it with our own eye and it's distinctly and uniquely troubling." " You want another grab?" " I think we're done." " Kill it?" " Yeah." "'Shell, that's it." "Look, we got to go where the evidence takes us." "Of course we do." "And we can't let the island keep beating us." "No." "We got to kick her in the ass once." "Yep." "Okay, I'll be back." "Okay, Rick." "With the excavation of the Valley Three shaft temporarily halted, Marty Lagina's son, Alex, along with Jack Begley, have brought metal-detection expert Gary Drayton to the area on the island known as "Lot 6."" "It is also one of the lots once owned by Samuel Ball, a former American slave who once lived on Oak Island." "So this is the property line right here." "Okay." "What do you say, about 20 feet?" "Right in here would be, probably, a good place to start." "Let's see if the first target of the day could be a Spanish coin." "Cross your fingers." "Having traveled to Oak Island from his home in Florida," "Gary Drayton brings over 25 years of experience detecting near-surface artifacts and treasure." "Is that a good hit?" "Yeah, that's a good hit." "All right." "Over the years, he has recovered more than $1 million worth of everything from ancient jewelry and coins to priceless historic artifacts." "Wow, straight on it." " It's a nail." " Yeah." "Okay, so let's keep looking." "Using the Minelab." "Gary will be able to detect up to three feet underground." "He will also be able to distinguish between ferrous metals, such as iron, and non-ferrous metals, such as gold or silver." "Wow, I'm getting targets all over here." "Yeah?" "Wow." "Yeah, there's a big hit." " Right there?" " I think we should start here." " All right." " Dig it up, Jack." "Dan?" "Come on in!" "Got something to show you here." " Yes, you have." " Yep." "Don't know how important it is, and don't know the relevance of it, and that's why we're here." "If anyone on the island might be able to identify the strange pieces of wood the team recovered earlier this morning at the Valley Three borehole, it's Dan Blankenship." "He has lived on the island, and been searching it for treasure, for more than half a century." "What do you have, Rick?" "Well, the caisson is down to about 142 and change." "This item came up inside the casing." "Yeah." "We think that that's the core." "Yeah." "That's pretty good indication that you're in the right spot." " Right." " Here's the thing, Dan." "We're trying to figure out what these marks are." "Definitely saw marks." "Probably about a three-foot circular blade." "This wood here would have been made somewhere after 1750, we'll say." "Right." "So do you think this is searcher, as opposed to original depositor?" "In all probability, just by the texture of it, it's probably part of Chappell's shaft." "Chappell's Shaft?" "In 1931, more than three decades after the location of the "Chappell Vault" was lost due to a cave-in," "William Chappell's son, Melbourne, began constructing a lateral, or horizontal tunnel leading in the last-known direction of his father's historic find." "Unfortunately, Chappell was only able to build about ten feet of his tunnel before being plagued by a series of underground cave-ins due to flooding." "Is it possible that Rick, Marty, and the team have found not the legendary "Chappell Vault,"" "but Mel Chappell's abandoned searcher tunnel?" "It now appears that Oak Island has once again played a cruel trick on those who seek to uncover its centuries-old mystery." "The target that Rick, Marty, and the team have been so eager to reach, and have had such high hopes for, is not the Chappell vault." "They will now have to decide whether to dig deeper or begin excavating their second planned hole at the Money Pit." "Unfortunately, I think we have some information, Charles, that we need to relate to everybody up top." " Okay, we're gonna go." " Yeah." "Well, thanks for the info, Dan." "Yeah." "I'm gonna give you my honest opinion, whether you like it or not." "That's all we want." "That's the one thing I absolutely know" "I can count on, Dan." " Okay, thanks, Dan." " Thanks, Dan." "Still got your work" " cut out ahead of you." " Yep." "Well, I'm getting targets all over here." "Yeah?" "Back on Lot 6," "Gary Drayton is continuing to get numerous hits from his metal detector." "I think we should start here." "This is most likely proof that the area the team is searching was once a place of human activity." "You got other hits over here." "Should we look over here, too?" "Yeah, just there." "It's under there." "Well, you think it's connected, or just some of the same sort of stuff?" "It's the same kind of stuff." "Let me try and open this area up a little more." "Well, I'm getting targets all over here." " That's a good sign." " Yeah." " Whoa, Alex!" " What?" "I saw something move in there." "Wow, look at that!" " It's a chain." " Is it?" "Yeah, it's got the round eye." "Does it look like a logging chain?" "Yeah, I don't know." "It looks really old, though." "Or a nautical chain." "Um, it's tough to tell." "Back in the day, the old pirates and stuff, when they used to bury treasure, they used to lay a chain so they could follow the chain" " to the treasure, yeah." " What?" "Really?" "I know it sounds crazy, but yeah." "A piece of chain, found on property that once belonged to Samuel Ball?" "In 1776, Samuel Ball was an 11-year-old American slave." "After running away from the South Carolina plantation, where he was forced to work, he made his way to New York, where he promised to fight for the British cause in exchange for his freedom." "In 1786, the young man moved to Nova Scotia, where he eventually purchased a four-acre lot of land on Oak Island." "Although Ball was known to his neighbors as a simple cabbage farmer, at the time of his death in 1845, he was revealed to be one of the richest men in the area, owning a total of 36 acres on Oak Island," "and several more on the mainland." " Hey, guys." " Hey, Charles." " Just in time." " What'd you find?" "Check it out." "We got an old chain here." " Yeah." " Really?" "Don't you think it's weird how it's in a straight line?" "Wouldn't you think it would all be in one..." " Like just clumped up together." " Yeah." "I'm just trying to expose this end of it." " There's a little bit there." " Right, right." "I'm hoping it's a treasure chest." "I'm hoping you're right." "Could Gary Drayton and members of the Oak Island team have found an important piece of historic evidence?" " It's a hook." " It's a hook." "One that could explain how Samuel Ball was able to acquire his vast wealth?" " There it is." " Tag it and bag it." "Okay." "Well, it was a nice try." "But we'll keep going in a straight line." "And that's a nice-looking one, too." "Yeah." " There's something." " That sounds like a good target." " Yeah, it does." " You hear that tone?" " It's not iron, right?" " No, it's not iron." " Well, that's good." " Mid-tone." "If I was guessing, I would say it was a coin." "It's, eight or nine inches down under the center of the search coil." "Directly under the center." "It may be pinpointed, Jack." "Please, be a Spanish coin." "Here it is." " Wow." " What is this?" "It looks like a ring!" "On Lot 6, near the middle of Oak Island, on land once owned by a former American slave, turned wealthy landowner named Samuel Ball..." "I think it's copper." "Members of the Oak Island team along with metal detection expert," "Gary Drayton, have just made an interesting, and perhaps significant, discovery." "We'll take it." "Well, see." "See if it fits, Alex." "Pretty irregular." " What do you think?" " Yes," "I do." "Sure enough, we pulled up a really old ring." "It's like a copper, bronze, and real deep in the ground." "Over a foot, at least." "It had been sitting under this root of a tree for probably over 200 years." "It's real exciting." "We know we're in the right spot to find more really old hits." "Next is the chest." "I'm thinking positive." " Yeah!" " I'm here to find some treasure." "Things are picking up." "We're in an area that has been unexplored, especially by someone as talented as Gary, and it's boosted our morale to the point to where we're ready to just keep digging and digging." " Nothing so far?" " No." "All it takes is one good target." "Yeah." "There's a lot of iron in this area, which means people have been there." "Man-made stuff." " That's not iron." " Yeah, it has good sound." "Yep, straight in the middle." "Gary gets, what he thinks is possibly an exciting hit." "And he thought it was great because it was so deep." "I started getting down there and digging a bunch of dirt up." "So, dirty as heck, but we're sticking to our guns." " You want to check?" " All right." "That's a good target." "You got it, Jack." " See how good it sounds now?" " Yeah!" "We got clearer readings, it's not moving around." "Hopefully, it's something good." " It's a coin." " It's a coin!" "We've got a coin!" "A coin?" "Could it possibly be one that was once in the possession of Samuel Ball?" "Perhaps even one he found while searching for treasure on Oak Island?" "A face on that side." "Now, that's exciting." " Way to go, Jack." " Good job." "Way to go, all of us." "Can you see any milling around the edge, the little, little lines around the edge?" "They milled the coins because it was made in a press." "You see a little milling around the edge?" "Yeah." "It is." "So, it's, you know, could be up to 200 years old," " over 200 years old." " Wow." " Great find." " Way to go." "What we're gonna have to do" " is recheck this area." " Yeah." "And go in spirals just in case there's some more." "Yeah." "Unless you'd rather dig some more nails." " Well, those are my favorite." " No?" "We're happy with the coin." "You know, what I would like to do, if you don't mind, just dig this out a little bit more, because you never know, there might be some..." " another coin." " You mean, widen the hole?" "Hey, guys." "What'd you find, Gary?" "A coin, just the wrong color." "I'm still looking for that gold-colored coin." "I'm hoping you're going to find the gold one." "Here's a coin." "Nice." "And then, Jack found a ring." " Here?" " Yeah, look at..." " Just over there." " Way to go, Jack." " What do you make of that?" " If we're finding copper rings, copper coins," "I'm sure there's other items we can find." "So, this is a hot little area you've put us in, Rick." "I'd love to watch you find a gold one." "I, I want that big grin on your face." " And see my gold dance." " Exactly." "I don't want to spoil it, but..." "Although today began with disappointing news for Rick, Marty and the Oak Island team, the small but potentially significant items found on Samuel Ball's property offer hope that bigger discoveries still lie ahead." "Well, look, guys, it's getting late." "I say we call it a day." "Good job, I mean, the coin is amazing." "It's-it's been a good day." " All right." " Sounds good." "Okay." "As a new day begins on Oak Island..." "Craig, you want to tee it up?" "Okay." "Sure thing." "Get this up here." "Rick Lagina and Craig Tester begin focusing their attention on the second of the team's two target sites:" "Borehole C-1." "These are video clips that we ran last year, and this should give you some sense of what you're about to encounter as the drilling process proceeds." "Maybe you can glean some information from it." "This one we saw, there will be nice shiny objects." "So we definitely want to show that to you." "Yes." "I've heard a lot about that." "Here we go." "Last year, Rick Lagina supervised the drilling of an exploratory borehole in an area of the Money Pit chosen by." "Island historian, Charles Barkhouse." "That right there." "After putting a camera down the hole, they spotted a mysterious gold-colored object embedded in rock some 170-feet deep underground." "It looks metallic." "Look how yellow that is." "It's your gold color, David." "Yeah, there it is, David." "Yeah." "Okay, here we go." "You can see, this is the shiny object we're talking about." "Definitely." "It does not look like rock." "No." "I see the hook." " Yeah." " I didn't see that before." " Yeah, yeah." " Right there." "Right there." " Yeah, yeah, okay." " Right there." "It's got a curvature to it, like you said, like a hook." "Goes up like this." "Yeah." "It does indeed look like something." "What it is," "I wish I knew." "So, this is what we need you bring up." "Do you feel comfortable doing that or not?" "Putting the hammer grab down." "Now there is another challenge facing Rick," "Craig and the Oak Island team." "Not only must they locate the mysterious shiny object again, but assuming they can, they must figure out a way to retrieve it." "I got to go look at the, the geometry of the hammer grab, and when the jaws open and close and see what we could weld a shroud to that." "Very similar to our drill bit, you know, we can go down into the socket without fear of collapse." "There's nothing fancy about it, but... if it's effective, I mean that's all you're looking for." "That's for sure." "I'm glad you didn't see anything that puts you off." "Yeah." "No, I think we're still in pretty good shape." "So, yeah." "Let's go get David's shiny thing." "Let's go get David's shiny thing." "Okay." " Sounds good." " All right, thanks, guys." "Thank you." "Hi, guys." "Charles, what's going on?" "Looks like they're just ready to drop the first can into C-1." "Yeah, baby!" "You got to be excited about that." "Well, I'll be more excited if we actually find something." "This is called C-1 for a reason." "I know." " You picked this hole." " I did." "I respect Charles' knowledge of the Money Pit, of the Oak Island story." "He was tasked with, "Put an X on the ground, Charles."" "Based on your information, your knowledge base, your instinct, your gut feeling about Oak Island." "Put an X on the Money Pit ground." "And we'll drill it." "He did." "Gentlemen." "You ready to slam can?" "Hey, guys." "We're ready to slam some can..." " Kent?" " My brother." "We're gonna have a little better luck this time?" "Yes." "We're set up on C-1." "The oscillator's ready to go." "We got the pipe hooked up and we're ready to load it right now." " Slam can." " Let's do it." "All right, here we go, boys." "Workin' down." "Workin' down." "Lookin' good." "Lookin' good." "All right about two feet to thread." "Here we go." "Coming down." "We threaded over there, Beb?" "Yep." "All right, here we go." "We working'." "There she is." "All right here we go, workin' down." "Once again, the giant, 15-ton drilling oscillator grinds the massive steel caisson into the rocky ground." "If all goes well, it should reach its target depth of 170 feet within a few days." "He's already starting to oscillate, man." " There you go." " Yeah, right now, we're gonna put it in." "Do a little at a time, leveling it and making sure it's exactly where you want it." "Well, Andrew, just don't miss the shiny, gold thing," " okay?" " That's all we have to hit now?" " That's it." " Okay." " Consider it done." " All right." "I love that attitude, man." "Our hopes for C-1 are that it's an explorable cavity, and that there is a physical connection between some type of man-made work in the traditional Money Pit, which connects to this void." "Some 170 feet below the surface of Oak Island lies a mysterious, golden object embedded in stone." "Is it simply another piece in an enormous puzzle that has confounded treasure hunters for more than 200 years?" "Or is it a glimpse of the treasure itself?" "One thing is certain." "The Laginas and their partners have dedicated millions of dollars to solving the Oak Island mystery." "Giving up is no longer an option." "Next time, on The Curse of Oak Island..." " Here we go." " As soon as that drops in, you're 15 feet away from the void." "There's a shiny gold thing down there." " David!" " What?" "Drain the swamp!" " Here we go!" " We can finally start excavating in the swamp." "Look at that!" "This is a piece of the Spanish galleon." "Six people have lost their lives trying to do what you may be able to do this afternoon." "It's definitely inside the cavity." "There you go, the door's open."