"Tonighton The Curse of Oak Island..." "Have you ever seen anything like this?" "No." "That's very odd." "There's an opening in the ground." "Isthisthebackdoor ?" "That's not natural." "Wewantto takealook  at the well." "Down to the water!" "Mighttherebe clues down there?" "What the hell's that?" "Do you see that?" " Wow." " Down slow." "Thiswellmaybe associated with the Templars." " Whoa!" " What do you got, Tony?" "Right here on these rocks, I've got a triangle." "This thing's amazing." "Thereisan island in the North Atlantic wherepeoplehavebeenlooking for an incredible treasure formorethan200 years." "Sofar,theyhavefound bits of gold chain, astoneslabwithstrange symbols carved into it, evena 17thcentury Spanish coin." "Todate,sixmen havedied  trying to solve the mystery." "And,accordingto legend, onemorewillhavetodie beforethetreasure can be found." "Jack,whydon'tyou hack that tree out of the way." "Wow." "That's my big discovery." "Well, honestly, David, that is quite odd." "Afewdaysago , duringa meeting in the war room," "Rick,Martyandmembersofthe Oak Island team were introduced toNewYorkbasedwriter and researcher Zena Halpern by area historian Doug Crowell." "Hello?" "Hi, Zena, it's Doug." "I just gave everyone here a little overview on what your research involves, and that you have some pretty interesting documents." "Duringtheirmeeting, Halpern shared withtheteamher discoveryof three ancient documents, whichshebelievesprove a connection between theKnightsTemplar and activities on Oak Island goingbackas far as the 12th century." "We have a map that shows Nova Scotia." "We have a map of Oak Island." "And then we have the cipher." "Oneofthemaps,dated1347,  showedvarioussites and landmarks on Oak Island thatmatchseveralof the places well known to Rick," "Martyandtheteam." "The hand-drawn map is clearly Oak Island." "Andthenthereare several things, named in French, whichhavebeentranslated for us." "Oneiscalledthe basin." "Well,thatclearlycorrelates to the swamp." "Andthenthere'ssomething on the map which points rightaboutto where the Money Pit is." "And then we have two or three things that we don't know anything about." "One'scalled"TheAnchors," one's called "The Valve,"" "andone'scalled"TheHatch."" "WhenOakIsland treasure hunter Jack Begley laterlaidacopyof Zena Halpern's map overa satelliteimage of the island..." "Look at the top of that." "It follows it perfectly." "...theso-called"hatch"" "matchedthelocationof what Dave Blankenship rememberedasthesite ofa strangedepression near his property." "This hatch lands kind of where David said..." " The hole is." " Yeah." "What would cause it to sink in like this?" "Something below." "Something gave way below." "If this is a hatch, it would be a way in, a vertical shaft to enter something." "That's very, very odd." "It'shardto explain what that is." "It's clearly, I think, a hole that's been chiseled into the bedrock by humans." "I don't see any other explanation for it, geologically." "All right, Jack, if you don't mind, shovel off that gunk down there, and let's see what's underneath there." "See that rock directly ahead of you?" "Does that look placed or is that just part of the bedrock?" "This looks like bedrock for sure." "This isn't laid rock; it's been, you know, chiseled away." "It sure looks like it's been chopped away." "It was kind of an "aha" moment, you know?" "Here-here's an opening in the ground." "Isthisthebackdoor ?" "That's pretty solid there." "It doesn't sound like rock though." "No, it sounds sandy or something." "That almost sounded hollow." "Almost sounds like wood." "Holy smokes." "Ahollowwoodensurface?" "Ina squarehole cut through bedrock?" "CouldJackbe standing on a secret doorway, perhapsonethatleads directly to the Money Pit?" "Does it seem to be solidifying at all?" "Are you hitting a bottom or is it just bottomless there?" "I'm standing on something solid, but I-I honestly can't tell until we dig up the rest." "It's just mud in this top part, and could be anything." " Yeah, okay." " Keep going, Jack." "As you look around the sides, does it appear that they're nice and solid anywhere?" "Well, besides breaking off." "Besides knocking the rock out." "But no, no large holes or anything that you can see?" "Yeah, that's solid." "Yeah, pretty much." "The middle part kind of seems to go further." "It's too muddy to be able to tell if this is the bottom." "It seems to be narrowing, but at the same time," "I almost feel like it's slate mixed with mud continuing on." "I don't know if we want to come back with a different method, 'cause it-- this is, this is gonna be real slow from here on out." "The shape is strange;" "I mean, that's a given." "Everything's strange about it." "It's not natural." "You know, even taking an excavator in here, it would be difficult because that's been chiseled down through." "You try and dig right there, an excavator isn't gonna pull that up." "It might break it up, get underneath of it." "It might." " Well..." "You can lose a tooth, too." "Not only lose a tooth, but if it really is something, do we really want to go that route?" "I honestly think we should have that archaeologist guy" " look at it." "Yeah, I mean..." " Come look at it?" "I don't know what that is, but an archeologist might." "To me, that is absolutely man-made and, um, obviously old." "Yeah, I agree." "I totally agree." "We should, we should get an opinion." "Becausethisso-called"hatch"" "couldbe an important discovery," "MartyandRick's decision to bring in anarchaeologistto examineit is a prudent one." "We're not done here;" "we-we need to figure out what's going on, but, Jack, for right now, you're done-- nice job." "Canada has certain requirements for archaeological excavations." "Thishatchcouldbe significant, archaeologically, so we want to follow the rules, so we bring in an expert." "We're not sure what this thing is." "So,that'sonereason to make sure we'redoingtheproperthing." "Andtheotherreasonisto see if he can explain it." "That was not a pleasant job and you did a nice job." "I don't mind getting dirty, Marty." "That is why I like having young people around." "Whiletheteam waits for the archaeologist" "toarrive..." "Here they are right now." "...RickLagina and Jack Begley meet withrepresentativesfrom Irving Equipment, Limited." "How's it going?" "Lorne Flowers." "Lorne, nice to meet you." "Havingalready removed all of the old casings fromthisyear's two major target sites, theLaginasandtheirpartners are now ready tobeginthenextphase of their operation:" "theclearingandpreparation oftheMoneyPit area for what promises to be amassiveexcavation." "Okay, so, guys, this is the Money Pit." "This is where the activity is gonna start." "So why don't we get down and you guys can do what you need to do." "You want to go first?" "We going down here?" "There'slargeequipment coming in." "Different types of equipment need to be staged in different areas." "There'sa lotof things to consider." "BecausetheMoneyPit  issusceptibleto flooding, the Laginas and their partners havedecidedto drilltwo  approximately40-inch-wide steel-reinforced holes deepinto the most promising sites." "Itisan ambitious and risky strategy, andonewhichwill cost the team inexcessof $2 million." "That angle of incline getting down into the Money Pit I think has to be addressed." "And do we have a large enough area here for you to construct a crane?" " Like I say, you level that off a little bit. " "Level that off there." "How far back do you think?" "There's an old trail that comes in up over the hill right there." "If we come up that hill there..." "Right." "...that'd be just wonderful for us." "We could come up here..." "But we'd-we'd have to push this bank out," "wouldn't we?" "Well, take this stuff off the top, the stuff that's no good, and kind of push it to the corners." "Well, we got to set up a 100-ton over there," "and other stuff, too, so..." "Yeah." "Okay, wait, I just-- hang on, then." "100 tons sitting where?" "That could be a problem for a 100-ton set up." "Becauseexcavating the Money Pit willrequirethedrillteam  to bring in massive" "100-and300-toncranes," "RickLaginais understandably concerned about the stability ofthegroundinthearea." "Twoyearsago, when trying to find thelocation of the original Money Pit," "Rick,Craigandthe team encountered serious problems after a drill rig began sinking into the marshy ground." "That ain't good." "Whatwillfurther complicate their efforts isthefactthat the Money Pit area hasbeendugup,  filled in and re-dug for most of the last 220 years." "So there's a concern about putting the 100-ton crane over here, then." " Absolutely." " Yeah, if we set the 300-ton right where we're standing and set the 100-ton perpendicular to it, they can work that hole simultaneously." "You're gonna need some surge rock, and maybe even like a..." "a geogrid, you know, to support the weight of the crane so it doesn't sink into this stuff." "Theenormityof  the task facing Rick Lagina isbeginningto sinkin." "The ground around the Money Pit will need to be leveled andthenreinforced with layers of gravel." "Anewaccessroadleading to and from the Money Pit willalsoneed to be constructed." "The idea of bringing the road in and coming in here, that's probably the best plan right now is, this is all your-your heavy lay down area." "So, this whole area here is gonna be a parking lot." "I'd like to keep this as less invasive as possible." "The troubling aspect, for me, is:" "theyneedalargefootprint." "So,wewanttomake sure that  we do things expeditiously, but also respectfully." "Look, we're not gonna inhibit the process, but I would ask you to be good stewards of the history, of the story, of the property." "We'll keep the footprint as small as possible..." "Yeah." "...to do our work." "If you stripped all the topsoil off here, stockpiled it off to the side, when they're done, just pull it back and replant it." "So it'll eventually look like this again." "Wedon'twanttorepeat the Dunfield escapade andmakeabombingarea  out of this." "We don't." "Wewantto be environmentally sensitive, but..." "I'm ready to get into it." "We're gonna dig there." "I think we have a general outline, a general understanding of what we need to accomplish." " I think it's workable." " Excellent." "It sure is gonna look different, I'll say that." "Okay, guys, today really is the extension of the trip wetookearliertoNewRoss." "Imean,we 'reallexcited about the well." "When you put the camera down," "I didn't see much in terms of the sides of the well, but the floor, to me, looked very interesting." "Whilewaitingfor the team at Irving Equipment to begin prepping the Money Pit area for excavation," "RickLagina,CharlesBarkhouse andarearesearcher Doug Crowell aretraveling,onceagain, to the town of New Ross, approximately20milesnorth of Oak Island." "I definitely saw what I thought was a-a straight line, and it almost looked like it was engraved," "you know what I mean?" "Yes." "Lastweek, basedoninformation provided by Zena Halpern," "Rick,CharlesandDoug visited a site believedtocontainthe ruins ofanancientTemplarCastle." "Atthesite,theyfound whatappearedto be  a weathered carving of a cross." "On the face of the stone, you can see a very faint outline of a cross." "No ordinary cross, but the cross of the Knights Templar." "Andwhentheyput acamera downanancientstonewell  on the property..." "That look like flagstone floor?" "...they found possible evidence thatcouldlinkNew Ross to the Oak Island mystery." "Now, didn't they find flagstone" "at the Money Pit?" "Yeah, they did, at two feet down, they did find flagstones, yes." "Maybe it's a ceiling and there's another chamber beneath?" "Mighttherebe afalsebottom?" "Might there be a carving in that flagstone, if you will." "Very, very much looking forward to Tony's..." "Tony's dive today." "Now,heretheyare , all set to go." "Tofurther investigate the well," "Rickhasenlistedthe help of professional diver" "TonySampson and his support team." "If there's information down there, this is the guy and the crew to take care of it." "Well, we're curious if the well has something that's not visible-- just like the Money Pit had things underneath that were not visible on the surface." "If something is indeed hidden here, the well could be one way to-to reach it." "Okay, in my perfect world," "I would fall into the chamber below it-- full of gold." " Okay?" "Why don't we head up there and take a look." "Yeah, let's get started." "Althoughproof of Knights Templar activity inNorthAmerica has never been established, there are many who believe that not only was there activity, butthatthereisevidence thattheTemplarsmighthave  visited the New World asfarbackas the 12th century," "morethan300years before the journey ofChristopherColumbus in 1492." "InScotland'sRosslynChapel-- which was built by the grandson of suspected Templar Knight" "HenrySinclairin 1486-- thewallsareillustrated with images of corn, alongwithrepresentations of a plant known as trillium, bothuniqueto NorthAmerica." "Butevenmorecurious are the testimonies oftheFirstNationspeople of Nova Scotia, theMi'kmaq." "Theirlegendstellstories of a mysterious stranger knownasGlooscap, whomanybelievetobe Henry Sinclair himself." "Butperhaps even more astounding istheeeriesimilarity between the Mi'kmaq flag andthebattleflagof the Knights Templar." "Theyarenearlyone  and the same." " So, Tony, we'll probably have to remove this lid. " "And the water level looks a little lower than it was before." "Awesome." "Can you see the cut marks on the stones on the bottom?" "My impression was there was a couple stones down there, and it almost looked like a-a milled edge that sat really tightly together, and maybe was indented along the seam." "That was my impression of what was down there." "So, it looked like two fitted stones, with a crease quite a ways down the middle of it." "I mean, look, there's not a lot of space down there, so..." "how are you gonna orient yourself to take a look-see?" "What we're gonna do, Rick, is we're gonna set a frame up here and we're gonna have a beam across the top, and we're gonna set up a Bosun's chair." "So, I've pretty much got my ass on the chair, going down." "I'm gonna video 360, going down the whole way." "Okay, what say you?" "Let's make this happen." "Okay." "Tosafelydescend down the stone well," "Tonyandhisteam are constructing what is known asa Bosun'schair." "Attachedtoapulleysystem, thechairis manually controlled to stop, raiseandlowerTony, as needed." "Itwillalsoenablehim to rotate 360 degrees, allowingfor a complete inspection ofthewell'sinterior." "So, Tony, what's-what's the rig set up here?" "It-it kind of looks similar to what Dan went down in-- in 10-X." "Fill me in here." "What's..." "Okay, so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna go down there," " have a 360 around, just doing a chair check... - ...before I get the hard hat on and suited up." "Checking out to see if there's any foreign objects, debris that might come down on top of me." "And then, once-once I've checked her out, top of the water level, um then I'll, come back up and get suited up." "Okay." "Jump on." "Fantastic." "Okay." "Cool, buddy." "Let's give it a go." "Yeah." "Okay, up." "Okay." "Lower down." " Down slow." "That's good now, yeah." "Down four." "Slower four." "What do you got there, Tony?" "Loose one?" "Yeah, I've got a loose rock here, mate." "I want to take that out, um, before we go any further." "It's...if that comes down, it's, it's bad news, man." "Got it." "That could make a good day go bad really fast." "Okay, I'll take that hard hat back." "Here you go." "Thanks, Mike." "Take me down probably another two feet, Mike." "Roger." "Okay, hold fast there." "All stop." "Well, that's kind of weird." "What did you find down there, Tony?" "These, right here on these rocks here..." "Geez." "Rick?" "I've got, um... what could be a triangle." "It's got a line across the bottom, pointing straight up at you from here." "It's got some little pattern in the middle." " You got that light, Nick?" " All right, here you go." "This thing's amazing." "Some20miles from Oak Island, inthetownofNewRoss,  diver Tony Sampson hasjustfound a mysterious triangle carvedinside an old stone well." "Let's get a picture." "Let's get a real clear photograph of it." "Itislocatedona property believed to have been inhabited by members oftheKnightsTemplar, more than five centuries ago." "Whoa, beautiful." "Okay, camera up, buddy." "There's something there." "You don't put a mark on a stone, you know, halfway down a well." "why in a well?" "Yeah, exactly." "Yeah." "Right?" "TIM:" "Right." "Okay, Mike." "Bring us up, buddy." "Up slow." "Wow." "Rick, take a look at this." "Look at that." "What?" "No way." "That's carved, without a doubt." "Yeah, I would say so." "That's..." "doesn't look natural to me." "There's no doubt in my mind that that's etched in there." "It certainly has the appearance of being cut into the stone." "Yeah, it does." "Well, what is that in there?" "Like a little dot?" "Yeah." "It's like it's got an eye in the middle." "My God, yeah, I can see it." "Acarvedtriangle?" "Withaneyeinthecenter?" "Therearelotsof triangular shapes associatedwithOakIsland." "The triangle shape meant something to the Templars." "Isthataconnection?" "Perhaps." "Thesymbolof atriangle-- orpyramid--withaneye depicted in the center isknownas  "The Eye of Providence,"" "orthe"all-seeingeye ."" "Itwasadoptedby the Freemasons inthelate18thcentury, althoughtherearemany who believe that it dates back muchearlierto thedays of the Knights Templar." "In1935," "U.S.President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aFreemasonwhohad actually searched for treasure onOakIslandasa youngman, instructedthattheall-seeing eye be added to the design oftheone-dollarbill." "Itisalsothe shape of a triangle that appears inthecarvingson the mysterious 90 Foot Stone, andwhichcanbe seeninthedimensions of the Oak Island swamp, whichmanybelieve to have been man-made." "Okay, yep, she's good, buddy." "So, next step, you're gonna get geared up?" "Yep." "Perfect." "Comms check, one, two, three, four, five." "Loud and clear on this end, Tony." "Roger that, buddy." "Let us know what you need." "AssistingTony at the surface is safety diver andcommunicationssupervisor Mike Huntley." "IfTonyencounters any kind of danger, or needs assistance underwater," "Mikewilldescendthe well to help him." "You got to plant your ass on that board." "Okay." "Roger that." "Down slow." "Roger, down to water." "Down to the water!" "Yeah, roger, we have visual on the camera here." "Lower Tony down." "Down two more feet!" "Diver's in the water." " All stop." " All stop." "Actually, visibility's great." "Lower Tony down!" "Lowering down." "AsI 'msittingthere watching the monitor, youknow, you're always hopeful." "Nomatterwhere the search takes you, you want so desperately to see something that answers a question." "Justgiveus aclue." "Justoneclue." "Where is he in relation to the bottom?" "Are his feet on the bottom?" "Are you touching bottom yet?" "Roger, on bottom." "Is the bottom rough, smooth?" "Hey, Tony, can you feel with your feet at all whether or not the bottom is smooth or rough?" "Roger that." "How deep?" "Can you tell how deep it is?" "Okay, roger." "Two feet." "Okay, roger." "Visibility's not that great." "It that the same down there?" "He lost visibility because he's stirring it up." "Clouded up just like 10X." "We lost all visibility." "Whenthewellgot murky, itwasmoreasense of "not again."" "Another dive where we can't see anything." "BecauseI wasabsolutely convinced that ithadbeen a fitted stone bottom." "Up five feet!" "All stop!" "DiverTonySampson has just found anotherpossibleclue in an old stone well, whichsomeresearchersbelieve to have been built bymembers of the Knights Templar." "That's a Broad Arrow!" "I see something." "Do you guys not see that in there?" "Show... show me..." "show me what you're seeing." "Right there." "But when he comes at a different angle..." "Okay, okay, there I see it." "Yep." "You see it now?" "Yeah, yeah." "I see it there." "Right here, here and there." "You got her." "Whenitcametome, then I could see it." "The left side of the point, ifyouwill, saw that well-defined." "Sawthe-thestem,ifyouwill,  or the shaft of the arrow." "And you think that's the King's Mark?" "Yeah." "What they call the King's Mark?" "Yeah, no mistake." "TheBroadArrow, alsoknownas  "The King's Mark,"" "wasfirstused in the early 14th century byKingEdwardIII ofEngland." "Itwaslateradopted by the British government andusedto mark government property." "Butwhywould a Broad Arrow carving appear ata sitebelieved to have been established bymembers of the Knights Templar?" "Roger that." "Up slow on turnbuckle." "All the way up." "Okay." "All stop." "If it's a King's Mark, legitimately, thenI thinkwhereIwouldgo at this point would be:" "isthatsymbolinanyway associated with the Templars?" "And that demands further research." " Welcome to the surface." "Thanks, guys." "So you saw the feed on from the camera up there?" "Yeah." "We did." "But I need a firsthand account here." "What'd you see?" "She's definitely, um..." "That's not a flat bottom down there." "There is hard, large rocks on the bottom." "And I'm guessing..." "Not flat though?" "No, no, not flat." "But there is a lot of debris down there." "Sure." "Most interesting thing probably was, um, what appeared to be that broad head arrow mark." "But it's one of those universal characters" "that, you know, it stands for the King's Mark." "Yeah, exactly." "What else can it stand for?" "A directional symbol?" "It may be an arrow that was used for a different purpose." "Exactly, yeah." "I mean that's..." "All that is, is my take on it." "That's my part of history that I-I know." "But, I mean, symbolically, is that symbol used by other people?" "I don't know." "Well, it's a symbol on the 90 Foot Stone." "Is that right?" "Yeah." "A triangle is on the 90 Foot Stone, an arrow symbol is on the 90 Foot Stone." "Isitpossible that what appears to be acarvingof aBroadArrow, or the King's Mark, issomethingquitedifferent?" "Coulditbe , as Doug Crowell insists, anotherimportantclue-- onelinkingthecarvings found at New Ross tothe90 FootStone found buried intheOakIslandMoneyPit?" "Tim, you've taken the first step on a longer journey." "Yes." "Congratulations." "Welcome to Oak Island." "Okay, let's gear up and go home." "Onedayafter the team's productive investigationatNewRoss," "Rick,Martyandmembers of the Oak Island team meetwitharchaeologist Laird Niven." "Hello." "Hello." "They'veinvitedhim to investigate the strange square-shapedholefoundnear Dave Blankenship's property." "Okay." "Laird, we got something we think" "really peculiar." "Excellent." "A theorist named Zena sent us an old French map that has a bunch of locations that correspond to the island," "that are known." "Okay." "And one of them that's unknown is a hatch." "Themapis avery rudimentary sketch, if you will, of the island." "You know, I mean, are we hoping that it's a trap door?" " Absolutely." "But perhaps you have an explanation of it." "And, really, the only way to do it is to set eyes on it, so..." "Yeah." "Why don't..." "why don't we take a look." "Couldtheso-calledhatch reallybeevidence of an underground tunnel onOakIsland?" "Perhapsonethatleads directly to the Money Pit?" "It'dbeincredibly intriguing if he says," ""Youguysreallyare  onto something here." ""It's a possibility that it's a shaft, a tunnel, aman-madeopeningtothearea below Oak Island."" "Idon'tknowwhathe's gonna say, but perhaps he can give us some insight." "Just a hole in the ground." "It's odd." "Has it collapsed in, did you say?" " Some." " Here's the thing." "This is all flat, then sometime later," "all this earth goes somewhere." "Yeah." "That's what puzzles us." "It's just not a natural phenomena." "Yeah." "I don't believe it." "Definitely." "Not-not in slate." "I definitely agree with that, yeah." "So, it could have been a lot deeper." "Maybe there was a wood hatch, and then it rotted away, and that's what made it slump all of a sudden." "Jack, we can "what if" till the cows come home." "Exactly." "Have you ever seen anything like this?" "That's exactly what I was gonna ask." "No." "No." "that'sstrange." "Yes, it is strange." "Onthewesternside of the island," "Rick,Marty and members of the team have invited area archaeologist Laird Niven tohelpin theirinvestigation of a strange, square-shapedhatch." "Ifthehatchcan be identified as man-made, andofancientorigin, thenthebrothersmay have found another important clue tohelpthemsolve the Oak Island mystery." "It does seem like rocks have been removed." "That's been cut." "That's not natural, and this..." "this is pretty loose fill." "It keeps going for a bit, you can see." "You... so, you think it goes off to the side?" "At least for a little bit." "Thethingwe obviously want it to be is the entrance to a tunnel." "Andtherewere some evidence of that." "Hethoughtthreeofthesides  were solid, but on... at least on one side, he thought it might go off, somewhat." "It warrants further investigation." "So, where should we go?" "Who should we notify?" "How do we do this?" "Well, if I was to investigate it as an archaeologist," "I'd get a permit, probably remove" "some of these small trees." "Right." "Is there any prohibition against if you're just digging it out with a hand shovel?" "I mean, we just don't want" "to get afoul with the rules, you know." "Right." "I couldn't do it without a permit." "Right." "I think this is a disclosure deal, then." "We just tell whoever in the government." "Yeah." "Yeah." "We'regonnago ahead and disclose it to the authorities, so we have some permitting issues to work our way through before we dig over there." "RickandMarty'sdecision toinvolve the Canadian government willcostthemtime, butwillbe beneficialto the process in the long run." "Therearemanywho believe thatOakIsland is a national treasure, andquitepossibly a sacred archaeological site." "Althoughtwocenturies of treasure hunting haveseentheislanddugup, bulldozed and even detonated, theLaginasandtheirpartners have been determined totakeamoreresponsible and scientific approach." "All right, I think we've done what we need to do here." "Well, we have a... you know," "a logical way to pursue it." "Right." "Thank you very much." "All right, no problem at all." "Wegot the three engineers here." "So, there are some logistical issues, I think, with... you know, boring down into the Money Pit." "You know, we have the targets, right?" "Yeah." "IntheWarRoom, Marty Lagina, his partner" "CraigTesterandMarty'sson Alex have gathered todiscussthenextphase in their exploration of theOakIslandMoneyPit." "So, once we get close to the target zones, I mean, they're gonna be bringing up a lot of material that we're gonna have to get a... at least a real quick look at... right away." "Yeah, I could calculate that." "Have you calculated" "how many yards per foot?" "I have not." "Let's do that." "We'vegottheresources, we've got the ability, and we have the drive." "Wereallyhope this is the year." "Wewantto get to the bottom of this." "So... if you're interested from say... 115 to 135?" "Hey, Rick. 'Sup?" "Hey, guys." "RICK:" "Hey." "We're just going over, casing logistics." "So it's about... yeah, about a yard every three feet." "So, 30 feet would be ten yards." "It's not that bad." "I mean, it's a lot of material." "It's not if you're looking at... for a chest." "Yeah, that's the key." "Now, a different sized casing down hole will have a bit of a gap between, but that's where I'm starting to get concerned is that we're just gonna get too close." "What's up with you guys?" "It's...it's sad news." "You know..." "I just got an e-mail from Tom Nolan and..." "Fred Nolan has passed away." "Thesuddennews that 89-year-old landowner andfellowtreasurehunter Fred Nolan hasdiedsendsshockwaves through the Oak Island team, especially in light of the fact that they had hoped toworkmoreclosely with him this year." " How do you feel about that?" " I'm sad." "You know, I'm deeply affected by it, by the news." "I..." "You know, we came here-- all of us-- came here with this sense of putting a stamp to the story." "Then, I think, you and I specifically, we came here with the quest." "Part of the quest, if you will, was to give the aging lions-- your father and Fred-- a sense of completion, a sense of: here's the proof for, between them, 110 years of search," "legitimate, hard-won, hard-fought search." "Alandsurveyorbytrade," "FredNolanspent more than six decades lookingfortreasure on Oak Island." "ItwasFred who first discovered themysterious collection of boulders knownasNolan'sCross." "Hedidextensiveexplorations oftheisland's strange triangle-shaped swamp." "Andhealsomeasured and analyzed numerouscarvings, artifactsandotheranomalies thathecollected over the years." " I've been at it for so long now... - ...that if I didn't relate this kind of stuff," " who'd put it together again?" " Exactly." "You know, I'm not sure how your father is gonna take it." "Speaking of which, does he know?" "Not yet." "I think we should go tell Dan." "I'd like to." "Let's do that, guys." "Hey,Daniel." "Hey,Marty!" "Howareyou,partner?" "Good." "So, Dan..." "I have some, um... some... what I consider to be sad news." "Fred Nolan has passed away." "Formostof theirtime onOakIsland,Dan Blankenship and Fred Nolan were engaged" "inanintenserivalry." " Sit down." "Onewhichonlyseemed to grow even more bitter withthepassageoftime ." "Imean,it waslike the Hatfields and McCoys outhere,so now,regretfully," "Fred'spassedon , and it will bring change." "Imean,thishas alwaysbeen  the Fred Nolan and Dan Blankenship story for 60 odd years and now it won't be anymore." "Do you remember when you first met Fred?" "Yeah." "I came up here in '65." "Fred had been on the island several years earlier than I was." "I had quite a few conversations with him over the period of time." "He's like..." "I guess like all treasure hunters, I mean, a little bit on the secretive side, you know." "Youknow, I don't know how Dan reallyseesFred'spassing." "But, look, they both persevered intheface of all kinds of adversity." "Theyrisked,theysweated, they worked, they labored towards the common goal." "You don't get any closer than that." "So,tothatend ,Iguess, theywerecloser than they thought." "You know, whenever Rick would talk about this place, it was always about, well," "Blankenship's doing this and Nolan's doing that." "But we always thought, or it was our hope," " that we could work together." " Yeah." " It was my belief that we could." " Well, we did." "We did work together." "Sounds like, to me, that you see it, and I think we all do really, we see Oak Island as a big giant puzzle." "I know that Fred told me once that that's how he saw it," "a big giant puzzle." "That's why they call it" " the Oak Island mystery." "Exactly." "So, you know, we got to get busy and start putting pieces into the right places." " Amen." " Amen." " All right." " Okay, Dan." "Okay, off we go." "We'll get back to work." "Yeah." "Hey, remember, you're not going anywhere." "Okay." "See you, Daniel." "See you later, Dad." "Okay, Dave." "Well, all I can say is, you know, it's a partial passing of the old guard, and I'm gonna miss him." "Okay, but we got to move forward." "We got to move forward." "Siempre avante." "Mymomwouldalwayssay "siempre avante"-- always forward, keep going." "How many years' work is this map represent?" "40, 50 years." "Wow." "Fred'spassing affected me in two ways." "One,itwasthe fact that he is now gone andI 'llnever shake his hand again." "I'll never know what he knew, and... it's impactful with Dan because now there's but one remaining." "AndI wantto refocus and re-energize and recommit." "Becauseoutof respect for both of them," "Iwantanswers." "ForRick,Marty and their partners," "Fred'spassingis areminder thatlifeis short, progressmustcontinue, andthatthetimetosolve  the Oak Island mystery isnow." "Nexttimeon  The Curse of Oak Island..." "It'stheactualstart of this Money Pit dig." "The story of Oak Island revolves around this spot." "You'rea partof historynow ." "So, these are the interesting targets in the swamp." "Let's get out there and get some answers." "Theeasiestthingis to put a diver back in there." " I've got something!" " What is that?" " Wow, it's huge." " What is this?" " What does that look like?" " It looks like an X, with a hook." "Isthatsymbolthe Templars?"