"NARRATOR:" "Previouslyon The" "CurseofOakIsland..." "DANH.:" "Thereitis." "MARTY:" "Isthisthe spotwhere they died?" "Several generations risked life and limb and died, looking for something here on Oak Island." "Here we are" " Borehole 10-X." "My brother and I want to see just what is down there." "Whoa,whoa!" "Stop!" "JACK:" "There'ssomethinghere." "MARTY:" "Lookat thefilmswe took." "DANB.:" "Thatcouldbethetop of the tunnel." "MARTY:" "Weneedtotryand bring up all the stuff that's down in that cavity." "Wait, that's metal, Rick." "JACK:" "Insidearock." "MARTY:" "Verypeculiar." "There's more and more evidence of man-made formations underground." "ALEX:" "Allright,guys,this  is Petter Amundsen." "PETTER:" "I foundthetreasure map leading to Oak Island." "It is concealed in codes in the manuscripts of William" "Shakespeare, and it also tells you what the treasure is." "MARTY:" "Youbelievethatthe menorah from the Temple of" "Solomon could be buried on Oak" "Island?" "PETTER:" "Yes,in thebottom of that swamp." "STEVE:" "I 'mactuallygetting multiple signals." "MARTY:" "Thisis themost sophisticated equipment that's ever been on this island." "RICK:" "Wow,thiscouldbeit ." "This could be the find." "STEVE:" "Oh,(bleep)." "MARTY:" "Whatis it ?" "STEVE:" "Thiscouldbe something big." "MARTY:" "Whoa!" "TONY:" "Whatthehellisthat?" "MARTY:" "Well,it 'scopper." "CHARLES:" "It'saSpanish maravedí, probably from the 1600s." "Unfortunately, the date is obscured, but possibly predates the Money Pit by at least" "150 years." "DANB.:" "That'sthe firstreal  evidence I've held in my hands since I've been here, almost 48 years." "MARTY:" "Thisis themost valuable thing that's ever been found on Oak Island." "RICK:" "Yes!" "NARRATOR:" "Thereis a mysterious island in the North" "Atlantic, where for more than 200 years, people have been looking for treasure." "It began in 1795, when three young men discovered a strange indentation in the soil, which when excavated, revealed bits of gold chain... a small piece of paper with writing on it... even a large stone slab with" "curious codes and symbols carved into it." "Dubbed "the Money Pit," the strange hole was eventually excavated by treasure hunters to a depth of 90 feet when one of them hit a booby-trap, which flooded the shaft with seawater." "What was down there?" "Nobody knows." "But this much is certain-- the island becomes an obsession for all of those who try and solve the mystery." "Six men have already lost their lives in the process." "And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found." "MARTY:" "Well,we 'vegotalot riding on this little coin." "JASON:" "Let'stakealook on the microscope." "BILL:" "Sothere'sthe coin." "JASON:" "Thisis atypical" "Spanish eight maravedí." "They were typical coins." "They were minted for almost 300 years or actually more..." "NARRATOR:" "Sincediscovering an ancient Spanish coin in the swamp last summer, brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are convinced they are on the right track to solving the mystery of Oak" "Island." "Now, along with their friend and business partner Craig Tester, they have traveled to Tampa," "Florida to visit the offices of" "Global Marine Exploration, a company that specializes in salvaging artifacts from shipwrecks." "BILL:" "So,hereinthecenter of the coin is an eight, which was for eight maravedís." "MARTY:" "Andamaravedíwas worth what?" "JASON:" "It's-it's-it'sa penny, just like a hundred pennies makes a dollar to us today." "MARTY:" "Butapenny?" "Imean,  you could buy a piece of bubble gum with it?" "NARRATOR:" "Althoughthe" "Laginas already knew that the object they found was a 17th century Spanish coin, they have come to Global Marine to find out if it had really been buried there for nearly four centuries or if it had been planted more" "recently." "RICK:" "Whataboutthatband  coming up off the top?" "BILL:" "Inthecracksthere's this white sediment from wherever the coin sat." "Jason might be able to scrape it out of there and we could analyze it." "MARTY:" "Yeah,do whatyou need to do." "RICK:" "Fortheinformation." "MARTY:" "We'rethinking,"What is this coin going to tell us?"" "I'm positive the coin is valid in the sense that that's an old coin." "I don't believe it's a counterfeit or anything like that." "The question is, when was it put there?" "JASON:" "Onethingthatwecan do now is, if I zoom in really close on this." "See the green and the white all together right there?" "To me, that looks like oxidation." "And now I can compare this with some other coins we found, which" "I know this is oxidation." "You can see how that kind of looks..." "MARTY:" "Verysimilar." "JASON:" "It'sverysimilar." "Clearly this leads me to believe that this thing did spend several hundred years in the swamp." "NARRATOR:" "Foryears,treasure hunters have believed that the islands off the coast of Nova" "Scotia were a haven for Spanish and Portuguese pirates." "Finding a 17th century Spanish coin might verify that not only had there been human activity on Oak Island before 1795, but that the numerous legends and stories about pirate gold being buried on the island might actually be true." "RICK:" "Okay,so whatexactly are we doing?" "JASON:" "Well,rightnow I'm  gonna pour in here really mild citric acid." "Just need a little bit." "And then we're just gonna drop it in." "And this will slowly dissolve the oxidation off that coin." "So in about an hour we should know something." "MARTY:" "Great." "Cleaning the coin." "That is probably the most exciting thing." "The chance of finding out when was that coin made?" "We need to know the date." "JASON:" "Allright!" "We've been in here for about an hour and a half, it looks pretty good to me." "MARTY:" "Itlooksway  different." "JASON:" "Yes." "Let's pull it out of here and see what we got." "We'll give her a little brush." "Let's go ahead and take a peek." "There is some sort of a scroll around the outer edge." "MARTY:" "Isthereanythingelse  on that?" "JASON:" "Let'slookand see the  other side of this thing." "There is some sort of a date." "MARTY:" "Tellus whatitsays ." "JASON:" "It'sreallyhardto make out-- 1652." "MARTY:" "Prettysure?" "JASON:" "I 'mprettysure." "NARRATOR:1652?" "More than one hundred years before three area teenagers found evidence of possible buried treasure on Oak Island?" "But was the coin left behind by one of the people who buried the treasure?" "Or could it have been dropped by someone who came to the island looking for it?" "MARTY:" "Here'stoday'sreally good news-- it's 1652 and it is exhibiting the characteristics of something that was lost in a swamp, and you're sure of that." "JASON:" "I wouldagreewith that, yes." "It was more corroded than you would expect from a land find." "A brackish swamp makes sense." "MARTY:" "A brackishswampmakes sense." "RICK:" "Youwanttoknow what  it is?" "You remember Charles' statement of a thousand-piece puzzle with" "400 pieces missing?" "MARTY:" "Yeah." "RICK:" "Nowthere'sonly..." "BOTH:399." "NARRATOR:" "Rick,Martyand" "Craig are now convinced that the coin found in the Oak Island swamp had been lying there undisturbed for nearly 400 years." "But still another nagging question remains." "RICK:" "Zerostart." "Ready?" "WILL:" "Yep." "NARRATOR:" "Thetesttheyhad conducted using the Lorenz" "Deepmax X6 revealed that a large amount of nonferrous or precious metal-- like gold and silver-- might be buried beneath the place Norwegian researcher" "Petter Amundsen called "the" "Mercy point."" "STEVE:" "Readyto dive?" "NARRATOR:" "ButwhendiverTony" "Sampson explored that area of the swamp, no evidence of nonferrous metal could be found." "TONY:" "Thisis crazy." "You get a hit, it goes away." "Yeah, and you come up with nothing." "MARTY:" "Howis thatpossible?" "NARRATOR:" "Eagerto findout  why, the team travels some 100 miles northeast to the headquarters of Kellyco Metal" "Detectors in Winter Springs," "Florida-- the place where they acquired the Deepmax X6." "MARTY:" "So,Stu,Ihave a question." "Because last year, we kind of had this sort of mystery hit thing going on, right?" "We hired this diver, he's getting these hits, and he comes up with nothing." "You... has that ever happened to you?" "STU:" "Yes." "Yeah, it's-it's not... it's not unusual." "If objects, for example, are in the ground or in the water, they-they start developing a matrix." "It's almost as if the... the metal down there bleeds and if you have different particles around, eventually the matrix builds and builds." "It becomes larger." "That's what we had." "MARTY:" "Soyouget abighit on it." "STU:" "Right." "NARRATOR:" "Accordingto" "Kellyco CEO Stu Auerbach, nonferrous metal objects-- when placed in water over an extended period of time-- can begin to deteriorate and form a type of metal cloud underwater, resulting in false readings that suggest the presence of" "something even larger." "STU:" "Well,yougoandyou start digging and the first thing that happens, you've disturbed the soil." "And it breaks the entire contact." "So now your diver broke it." "MARTY:" "Well,actually,Ifind  that encouraging, 'cause we-we thought it was just a glitch, a-a phantom, a... something." "STU:" "I believe,if that's happening, there's probably metal down there." "You're going to run that area again?" "DAVID:" "Yes,Ithinkthat , uh, we've got a real good opportunity to go up if we can get out on the ice..." "MARTY:" "Yes." "DAVID:...andyoucan walk over the swamp." "MARTY:" "Well,look,let 's... let's get up there and do it." "I mean, we appreciate your help, your willingness to have another go at this." "DAVID:" "Yes,sir." "♪ ♪" "NARRATOR:" "Byreturningtothe now-frozen swamp in winter, the team hopes they can once again use the Deepmax X6 to gather more accurate data... data which may confirm that the legends of an incredible treasure being buried on Oak Island... are true." "♪ ♪" "NARRATOR:" "Itis winteronOak" "Island." "(wind whistling)" "A time when the island is determined to keep its secrets hidden beneath layers of ice and snow." "MARTY:" "Okay,let'sget the  sled." "Yes, like that..." "Should we see how it slides?" "Yeah!" "RICK:" "Thatshouldwork." "Should be good." "DAVID:" "This-thisthingsits right up on the bed." "NARRATOR:" "Oneweekafter their meeting with Kellyco in" "Florida, Rick and Marty Lagina have returned to Oak Island to get more accurate scans of the now-frozen swamp." "MARTY:" "Bigbrotherisgoing to sit back here and make sure everything stays together." "Right?" "RICK:" "Guaranteed,on my  honor." "NARRATOR:" "ForRick,finding treasure on Oak Island would fulfill a lifelong dream-- one the retired postal worker has had since he first read about the island in 1965... when he was just 11 years old." "For Marty-- a successful businessman and engineer in the energy industry-- it would prove that the countless hours and millions of dollars he and the team have invested so far have not been in vain." "MARTY:" "Feastyoureyes." "Isn't that lovely?" "DAVID:" "Overwhereyou have land like that, we can, we can get in there with a CTX 3030, right up along the bank." "I think that'd be well worth going out and looking at." "NARRATOR:" "Kellyco representative Dave Spencer has come to Oak Island from Florida with the latest in metal detecting equipment." "GARY:" "I likethelookofthat ridge." "That's a great vantage point." "Really looking forward to metal detecting in there, yeah, for sure." "NARRATOR:" "Andwithhim are  fellow treasure hunters Gary" "Drayton and the father and son team, Bob and Robert Leonard." "DAVID:" "I thinkthefirst priority is getting the... getting the swamp cleaned out, so we can actually do some detecting with the VLF machine on that spit of land over there, with the trees." "♪ ♪" "MARTY:" "Beingouthereinthe swamp brings back the memories of finding the coin and that changes everything." "I was getting pretty close to fed up last summer, until we found that." "Now I'm ready to keep going." "♪ ♪" "Plus, it's nice to have the whole team here now." "This sort of fellowship of the dig." "RICK:" "Thegroupthat'sout here now, I'm glad that they're here." "Everybody brings in a little piece of help." "I've got, you know, a brush hog, which is designed to do the work." "(engine revs)" "And here's Dave Blankenship." "He's got a lawn tractor, for" "God's sakes, in the swamp, over the ice, cutting down vegetation." "NARRATOR:" "Astheson of veteran treasure hunter Dan" "Blankenship, Dave Blankenship is considered a key member of the" "Oak Island team." "He has been working on the island with his father for nearly 50 years, and knows the island like the back of his hand." "(wind whistling)" "DAVID:" "Whilethey're putting the coil together, we'll go out and, uh, start marking these grids." "NARRATOR:" "Bygriddingand  scanning the frozen swamp, the team hopes they will get more precise data than they collected last summer." "Trying to scan through layers of muck while walking on slippery plywood had made the task nearly impossible." "Once the data is collected, it can be analyzed in a three-dimensional map." "If all goes well, the map should indicate exactly where items of interest-- and possibly treasure-- could lie hidden." "DAVID:" "I wantto getfour people in the corner, and lift..." "lift this thing up." "Need to do the ground balancing on that." "NARRATOR:" "Althoughtheteam is using the Deepmax X6-- the same high-tech metal detector they used last summer" "Kellyco's Dave Spencer has now equipped it with a larger frame coil and mounted it to a sled." "As the team pulls the coil along the ice, it sends a powerful magnetic pulse into the earth, enabling it to find metal objects up to 40 feet deep underground." "MARTY:" "Getme somedata!" "RICK:" "Ready?" "ROBERT:" "Go." "(beeping slowly and steadily)" "RICK:" "I 'mnotgetting anything." "Stop." "Stop, stop, stop, stop." "The numbers aren't coming up." "We've got nothing over there, and I mean nothing." "We've started running the" "Deepmax X6 equipment..." "ROBERT:" "Ready?" "RICK:...andwe 'renot getting anything." "Go." "I mean, I'm watching the graph." "I-It's kind of disappointing." "You know, will that turn around?" "I don't know." "MARTY:" "So?" "Results?" "RICK:" "Nothingspectacular." "DAVE:" "Let'sdo A-2and just keep on going." "We'll do A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4." "RICK:" "Butthat'swhy we're running the whole swamp." "'Cause I believe that there's something in this swamp, and this equipment is gonna confirm whether I'm correct or I'm not." "NARRATOR:" "Therearethosewho believe what lies deep beneath the Oak Island surface may not just be one treasure, but several." "During the Elizabethan era," "Oak Island was thought to be rich with deposits of gold ore, but after a British mining expedition returned with 1,100 tons of iron pyrite sulfide, or fool's gold, the island's extensive maze of underground mineshafts was quickly shut" "down... or was it?" "According to this theory, a handful of the mine's original investors believed the abandoned tunnels might serve another, possibly more strategic purpose." "It would become a virtually impenetrable vault for the world's most priceless treasures." "Treasures that would include everything from the golden menorah of Solomon's Temple to the Ark of the Covenant... the Holy Grail... and even the lost manuscripts of William Shakespeare." "RICK:" "Andnowit'sat complete zero." "ROBERT:" "Oh?" "RICK:" "Yep." "What the hell's going on?" "Now I'm getting a little here." "Just a tiny, little bit." "Another bar." "Two more bars." "(beeps)" "MARTY:" "Bigbrother's relentless over there." "There he is, no hat, no gloves, freezing cold out here." "But he's intense, and I think that's a good thing." "RICK:" "Littlebit,littlebit more, now she's climbed up quite fast." "Got to be something here." "That's as high as it's gotten so far." "Look, see?" "Look at that." "Look at it-- it just keeps climbing." "Big spike here!" "Big spike." "Still spiking!" "That's exactly the way it was last year." "MARTY:" "What'sgoingonthen ?" "RICK:" "Seeforyourself." "It went to over 90." "MARTY:" "Thehelldoesthat  mean?" "ROBERT:" "Onthesegraphsin here, if it hits, like, a 60% of the potential graph, you're in maybe a ferrous material." "And if it goes beyond 60, up to 80, 90, you're in, uh, you're in highly conductive metals-- gold, silver." "NARRATOR:" "Finally,theteam has found signs of something buried beneath the ice." "But what?" "Gold?" "Silver?" "Precious historical artifacts?" "RICK:" "Thisis exactlythe way  it should be reading compared to last year's data." "MARTY:" "Rick!" "Diditrepeat?" "RICK:" "Yes." "ROBERT:" "Yeah." "MARTY:" "Keepgoing!" "Rick was over the moon because he's getting big numbers out there in the swamp, which is what we were hoping for." "But I'm not sure that means anything till it's processed through the computer." "I'm excited, but I'm cautious about getting too excited." "RICK:" "Itconfirmseverything" "I believed last year." "That that data was good and this data confirms it." "I'm happy as I can be." "Let's go back and run it." "MARTY:" "We'llfindout where we stand." "RICK:" "Andthenwedig." "MARTY:" "Andthenwedig." "NARRATOR:" "Afterconcluding another day's work, Marty," "Rick, and the Oak Island team bring Kellyco's Dave Spencer to the home of Dan Blankenship in order to share with him the results of today's scanning." "DANB.:" "Hey,issomebodyat the door?" "MARTY:" "Daniel!" "DANB.:" "Hey,Marty." "How you doing?" "MARTY:" "Man,goodtoseeyou, sir." "DANB.:" "Yeah,it'sgood to see you, too." "MARTY:" "I gotawholecrew ." "DANB.:" "Hi ,Jack." "JACK:" "Goodto seeyou ." "NARRATOR:" "At91 yearsold ," "Dan Blankenship enjoys the status of a living legend." "He has spent nearly 50 years looking for treasure here and remains an important source of information to Rick Lagina and the entire Oak Island team." "MARTY:" "Allright,Mr." "Spencer." "DAVE:" "Yeah,I'mjustgetting the data where I can access it." "So, we were running this data all day." "We had some interesting hits that we were wanting to look at." "We got some pretty deep indications that I want to go over." "DANB.:" "Canyou differentiate between ferrous and nonferrous?" "DAVID:" "Absolutely." "DAVE:" "Wewantnonferrous." "DAVID:" "That'scorrect." "DAVE:" "Wantthemlittle gold bars about the size of this table." "MARTY:" "Let'shavealook  here." "Enough foreplay." "Let's get going." "DAVID:" "Okay,hangon." "This anomaly is of-of significance." "DANB.:" "Thetwo smokestacks, the fact that they're darker, does that mean that you got higher readings in them?" "DAVID:" "No,allthis is doing is giving you a reference of depth and then whether it's ferrous or nonferrous." "What you're looking for is the color at the tip." "That is the buried object." "And the red is a large, nonferrous object." "You definitely have something here with the reds." "The one that's of interest is this nonferrous target here." "It looks like it's about 15 to 20 feet long, and it's, like, about three feet wide." "Close to the size of this table." "MARTY:" "David,seriously?" "DAVID:" "Hey,youaskedmeto  run the data." "MARTY:" "I know,Iknow,I know." "DAVID:" "I 'mnotgettingpaid to explain it." "MARTY:" "I know,Iknow." "Um, but wait a second, so what would that be?" "DAVID:" "Bobhadsomethoughts." "He was thinking it could have been a shipwreck." "And if they wrecked a ship on an island, they would abandon the ship, take treasure off the ship, and bury it, and then put indicators then at someplace else, with the intent of coming back, uh, to pick up treasure." "NARRATOR:" "A shipwreck?" "Buried in the island swamp?" "There are some who speculate that Oak Island was at one time two separate islands, but were joined together in order to hide something of great size." "Could a pirate horde contained in a hidden shipwreck really be the answer to this 200-year-old mystery?" "It's been well-documented that the waters surrounding Oak" "Island were frequented by pirates and privateers from" "Spain, Portugal, England and" "Scotland." "One notorious privateer, Captain" "William Kidd, even claimed to have hidden a fortune somewhere" ""east of Boston" before his execution in 1701 for piracy." "MARTY:" "Atthisstageofthe game, what would you do if you were us, David?" "DAVID:" "I wouldbe  attempting to drill down." "MARTY:" "Really?" "DAVID:" "Whynot?" "DAVE:" "Becausewe can'tget  in there and dig it." "We're in a friggin' swamp." "CRAIG:" "Justin my experience, in oil and gas, when you get an anomaly like that, that lines up with the way you're running stuff, you know, I get concerned it's-it's fake." "MARTY:" "Okay,keepgoing." "CRAIG:" "Itpickedup somebody's metal shoe or something." "RICK:" "You'resuspicious?" "CRAIG:" "I 'msuspicious." "DAVID:" "No,you're objective, and you want to see more data, but I'm telling you right here, we have an indication that we have a hard target, um, that it's absolute, there's a target there." "DAVE:" "Yeah,buttogetit out and spend it is a hell of a problem." "(laughter)" "DANB.:" "You'rethinkingof pursuing this?" "MARTY:" "Well,of coursewe pursue it, Dan." "If I believed with 100% certainty that there's a nonferrous object, I'm-I'm gonna find out what it is." "All right, look." "It's late, it's been a really long day, we got more data to get." "We got more analyzing to do." "Then we make a decision." "DAVID:" "Wegotalotofwork." "MARTY:" "Let'sgo ." "Let's call it a day, guys." "CRAIG:" "Okay." "NARRATOR:" "RickandMarty" "Lagina have made major progress with their winter exploration." "They are eager to return in the spring... and find out, once and for all, if there really is a mysterious vault buried deep beneath the" "Oak Island swamp." "But the island has been frustrating treasure hunters for centuries, and isn't likely to give up its secrets without a fight." "NARRATOR:" "Springhascometo" "Oak Island." "But though the island's surface has thawed, its reception to anyone trying to unlock its secrets is anything but warm." "(crow cawing)" "MARTY:" "Isthisit?" "Are we gonna do it this summer," "Rick?" "Is it gonna get done this summer?" "RICK:" "Ifthere'sanswers there, we're gonna get 'em, and that's that." "I don't care if we gotta wade through 30 feet of muck." "NARRATOR:" "Thedatathe" "Laginas collected last winter has led them to one conclusion:" "they must once again dig in the swamp, but it won't be easy." "RICK:" "Permittingprocess should be fairly simple." "We know exactly what we need to do." "NARRATOR:" "First,theymust secure permits from the government in Nova Scotia, a process which could take several weeks or months." "MARTY:" "We'regonnaget the  permits." "RICK:" "It'slookinggood." "NARRATOR:" "Andoncethe  permits are secured, they must find a way to drain out the water from the target areas." "MARTY:" "Okay,OakIsland." "You've been winning so far, but the Lagina boys and their team are back." "We have a plan?" "TONY:" "Wehaveaplan ." "CRAIG:" "Allright,let 'sgo get dirty." "TONY:" "Yeah." "MARTY:" "Rubadub-dub... four men in a tub." "NARRATOR:" "Whilewaitingfor  the necessary permits, Marty" "Lagina has called in Tony" "Sampson, a professional diver, to see if there is any additional information that can be gathered in the swamp during a conventional underwater exploration." "TONY:" "One,two,three!" "MARTY:" "Wewanttoverifythat these hits we're getting are real, and then we want to excavate but we need more permits to excavate in the swamp; we'd probably need to drain it again." "So if we can locate some objects with a diver by going underwater we want to do that first." "Come on, Tony, find something." "TONY:" "Okay." "NARRATOR:" "WhileMartyLagina," "Craig Tester and Tony Sampson prepare to explore the swamp," "Rick Lagina and the rest of the" "Oak Island team have arranged to meet at the home of Dave" "Blankenship." "They are trying to develop a method of draining just enough swamp water from their target areas so they can excavate." "MONTY:" "Hey,guys,what's going on now?" "DAVE:" "Tryandpickuponeof  those things and put it in the truck." "MONTY:" "Okay." "RICK:" "Weultimatelymight need two of them." "One stacked on top of each other." "MONTY:" "Yeah." "NARRATOR:" "Inordertodrain the Oak Island swamp, environmental regulations require that, rather than being poured into the nearby ocean, the swamp water must be diverted to another area on the other side of the island." "MARTY:" "Wegotatonofwater up in the upper part; we're not draining it at all." "RICK:" "No." "NARRATOR:" "Butwhenthey attempted it last year, Rick and" "Marty found that the swamp kept refilling almost as fast as they could drain it." "But how?" "Could it have been caused by" "Oak Island's vast network of underground booby traps?" "If so, how will the Laginas get around such an ingeniously designed obstacle?" "RICK:" "Lastyearwehadsome insight into how difficult the digging was in the swamp, so" "David actually brought up the idea that his father had constructed wooden caissons, and he thought that they might be used perfectly in the swamp." "NARRATOR:" "Thewoodencaissons would work like tall, waterproof shafts which, when placed over a target area, could be drained." "If successful, this would allow the treasure hunters to dig in the swamp without having to drain the entire area." "MONTY:" "There'seyehooksin here, so let's hook the two eyehooks and pick it up then like that, eh?" "RICK:" "Allright,here it comes." "The idea behind the caissons is we have targets in the swamp based on the metal detecting we've done." "Okay, have a go at it." "And there's no way to dig in the swamp without isolating the area that we want to dig in." "DAVE:" "Getoutofthere." "Always stay on the backside of it." "RICK:" "Thecoolthingabout this is we're using caissons that Dave and Dan Blankenship both built years ago." "Grab that other small one!" "MONTY:" "Okay." "RICK:" "Weuseveryquickly, things they built with their own hands." "(indistinct shouting)" "It doesn't get any better than that, plus it's good karma." "And we could use some good karma on this island." "MARTY:" "Comeon ,Tony." "Come up with it." "NARRATOR:" "Asthecaissons make their way to the swamp," "Marty's team has begun a preliminary investigation near the area known as "the Mercy point," the same area of the swamp where the 17th century" "Spanish coin was found last summer." "MARTY:" "He'sgoingdeep." "I wonder if he's got something." "NARRATOR:" "Itis alsothe area where the Deepmax X6 indicated there could be large deposits of nonferrous or perhaps precious metals." "MARTY:" "Anything,Tony?" "TONY:" "Someweirdshapeunder the mud." "I can't quite tell what it is." "I'm gonna feel around first to see if I can find anything metallic around it." "MARTY:" "Comeon ,Tony." "Come up with something for us." "All right, he's on to something there." "What the hell is that?" "MARTY:" "Allright,he'sonto  something there." "NARRATOR:" "DiverTonySampson has just indicated that he has found something interesting at the bottom of the Oak Island swamp." "But what could it be?" "Another Spanish coin?" "Evidence of a buried pirate ship?" "Or could it be something of even greater significance?" "MARTY:" "Whatthehellisthat?" "TONY:" "It'sabig treestump." "MARTY:" "Well,that'sweird." "CRAIG:" "What'sthatdoingout in the middle of nowhere?" "MARTY:" "Tonyfindsthisbig,  massive piece of wood that looks like a piece of a stump." "That could be significant, because I don't know how a tree could grow underwater, if this is a natural swamp and has been here a long time." "NARRATOR:" "Foryears, researchers have speculated that" "Oak Island's strange, triangle-shaped swamp was man-made, and possibly created to conceal a vast underground treasure vault." "The evidence of an oak tree stump at the bottom of the swamp could be a significant discovery, as oak trees cannot grow in water." "Could this be proof that the claims about the swamp being man-made are true?" "TONY:" "I canswimitover to the shore if you want it, Craig." "MARTY:" "Yeah,we wantit." "Let's get that tested for age, and we'll see what happens." "NARRATOR:" "AlthoughTony" "Sampson's dive of the swamp did not yield evidence of precious metals or priceless artifacts, the discovery of what might be an oak tree stump at the bottom of the swamp has added fuel to" "Rick and Marty's efforts to explore the area." "RICK:" "Let'ssetone right here." "MONTY:" "Rightthere?" "RICK:" "Drop'embothright here." "NARRATOR:" "Theyarenow more eager than ever to see if the caissons they obtained from Dan and Dave Blankenship will help them find out, once and for all, if the stories and legends about a secret treasure vault are" "true." "RICK:" "Good?" "DAVE:" "Yep." "NARRATOR:" "Finally,the caissons are carefully set to rest near the edge of the swamp." "But before they can be used," "Rick and Marty must wait for the necessary permits." "It is a slow-- and at times frustrating-- process." "MONTY:" "Wealldone,buddy, or what?" "RICK:" "No." "Now we have to use 'em." "MONTY:" "Oh,yeah." "(laughs)" "That's the next step." "RICK:" "That'sthenextstep ." "DAVE:" "That'sthebig step." "RICK:" "Thereit is ,outthere." "NARRATOR:" "Attheend of another long day, Rick, Marty and the team adjourn to what they affectionately call "the war room."" "RICK:" "Lorenzis indicating that there are four significant anomalies that we should dig." "CRAIG:" "Andthat'sfromthe deep metal detector?" "RICK:" "Yes,theX6." "MARTY:" "Youknow,I'm alittle reluctant to think we're going to dig all over in the swamp." "Tony got nothing in here, Rick." "Nothing." "And I mean, Tony did a nice job." "RICK:" "Butwe havetolook at that." "We have to." "MARTY:" "Well,here'sthe deal," "Rick." "I'm kind of sick of the swamp." "I mean, how long have we been slogging around in this swamp and are almost at square one?" "RICK:" "Notthatlong." "MARTY:" "Whatdo youmean"not  that long"?" "I think we've probably" "RICK:" "Well,in thecontextof the discovery processes, we've not been in here hardly at all." "How long were you in 10-X?" "Years?" "DAVE:" "Years,yeah." "RICK:" "Wealwaysagreed--all of us, we always agreed, "Let's put the swamp to bed."" "MARTY:" "Oh,whatdoes"put it to bed" mean, Rick?" "What does it mean?" "RICK:" "Itmeansexploringthem  to the point where they're explainable." "MARTY:" "Thisisn'tgoing anywhere." "It's silly." "RICK:" "Uh...youknow,wehave a difference of opinion." "MARTY:" "Okay." "RICK:" "Yougetany sibling situation, there's always rivalry." "So typically, you know, it's gonna be a little "push and tug"" "kind of affair to decide who gets to do what." "♪ ♪" "MARTY:" "Well,let'ssay we're going to have a go at something, probably." "Let's just say that for right now, not for sure but probably." "Let me ask you a question, big brother." "Can I at least do this?" "Can I put an "X" through these two?" "RICK:" "Well,let'sjustputan" ""X" through this whole thing." "MARTY:" "Yay!" "RICK:" "Okay?" "But then GPR the four Lorenz targets." "That's what I want to see before" "I'm willing to say, "Okay, we're done."" "MARTY:" "Allright,we'llgive  it a try, if... if we can all agree that there's something worth digging." "RICK:" "Yeah." "MARTY:" "WhenIwas youngand" "I was certain about something," "I was sure I was correct." "Now that I'm older, I realize I could be wrong." "And you have to listen to other people." "And so I look around the table and I've got infinite respect for this character here, and he says, "No, we're not done."" "And basically, I say, "Okay," "I'm going to listen."" "'Cause if it was just my decision, I would say, "No, we're done with the swamp."" "RICK:" "Yeah,youwouldhave  been done." "MARTY:" "I 'vehadenough stinky, nasty, mosquito-ridden... (laughing)" "RICK:" "That'sthereasonwhy you..." "MARTY:" "Yeah,Idon 'twantto go in that swamp anymore." "All right, we'll look." "Let's have a look." "But-but before we go to do that, on the possibility that we will dig, we don't have any permits, right?" "RICK:" "Thepermittingprocess is taking place as we speak." "MARTY:" "Isthisapermitto drain or a permit to dig?" "RICK:" "Both." "MARTY:" "Both." "RICK:" "Youknow,assoon as they are willing to approve it." "That's where it sits right now." "MARTY:" "Right,butthe point is, we're not gonna be digging till we get those permits and that could be a while." "RICK:" "Absolutelynot." "MARTY:" "Allright,okay." "So that sort of concludes the swamp." "PETER:" "Hey,guys." "MARTY:" "Peter!" "DAVE:" "Hey,Peter!" "How you doing?" "PETER:" "Youwon'tbelieve this." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪" "PETER:" "Theywanttotake away  whatever you find on the island." "MARTY:" "What?" "What are you talking about?" "RICK:" "That'stoday'spaper?" "PETER:" "Yep." "A bill they want to pass." "MARTY:" "Who's"they"?" "RICK:" "TheMLA." "MARTY:" "What'san MLA?" "Somebody enlighten me, here." "RICK:" "Memberof the" "Legislative Assembly." "CHARLES:" "Memberof the" "Legislative Assembly." "MARTY:" "Yeah,okay." "RICK:" Wouldestablisha heritage research permit and scrap the existing treasure hunting paperwork."" "♪ ♪" "MARTY:" "CanIsee this?" ""If the bill becomes law, it means discoveries, such as coins, would become the property of the province." "The province would call dibs on some discoveries made at Oak" "Island, cutting open the pockets of treasure hunters."" "Oh, my God." "NARRATOR:" "Newsthatpending legislation could shut down Rick and Marty's efforts on Oak" "Island comes as a shock to everyone on the team, especially since they spent years securing all the necessary archaeological studies and permits required by law." "RICK:" "Wefeelwe'vebeen good  partners with the province." "We came to the island and to the discovery process with an intent to leave a positive footprint, so it's-it's disappointing, to say the least." "NARRATOR:" "Passedin 2010,the" "Oak Island Treasure Act currently gives the Laginas and their partners special permission to access and keep a percentage of any treasure they find buried on their property, provided that all historical artifacts are turned over to the government." "Although it might take years for the proposed legislation, if passed, to take effect, the new law could make any serious efforts to dig on Oak Island-- and thus solve the 200-year-old mystery-- prohibitively expensive." "MARTY:" "Sothisaddsawhole  nother wrinkle to everything." "This could also impact your permits." "CRAIG:" "Yeah,thatIwould say, definitely." "MARTY:" "So,in themeantime, let's go out of the swamp and let's go and do a little exploration at the Money Pit." "CRAIG:" "Yeah." "CHARLES:" "Yeah." "DAVE:" "Yup." "RICK:" "Yes." "NARRATOR:" "MartyLagina's willingness to temporarily shift the team's efforts from the swamp to the Money Pit represents a huge milestone in the search for treasure on Oak" "Island." "After it was located in 1795, the Money Pit became the focus of all treasure-hunting activity on the island." "In 1804-- at a depth of 90 feet-- a large stone slab with strange, hieroglyphic markings was discovered." "Using a simple deciphering method, it was translated to read, "Forty feet below two million pounds are buried."" "But when the stone was removed from its resting place, the shaft quickly flooded with seawater, thwarting the efforts of treasure hunters ever since." "To locate and re-excavate the" "Money Pit will cost the Oak" "Island team millions of hard-earned dollars." "It will be both time-consuming and extremely dangerous." "MARTY:" "Look,I'vealwaysbeen  skeptical as to whether we should dig up the Money Pit, but on Oak Island, you need to explore every avenue out here." "The Money Pit has never been properly excavated." "Plus, it has been a childhood dream for the both of us." "RICK:" "Itsingularlystarted the obsession of Oak Island, 'cause there's so much mystery about this place." "It's that big unknown." "That's what we're chasing." "NARRATOR:" "Formorethantwo centuries, hundreds of men and women have come to Oak Island in an effort to solve the" "200-year-old mystery." "And now, it is Rick and Marty" "Lagina, armed with modern equipment and a broad range of technical know-how, who are determined to succeed." "It won't be easy." "The Money Pit has devoured the fortunes of many would-be treasure hunters." "It also comes with an infamous curse that seven will have to die before the mystery can be solved." "This season on The Curse of Oak" "Island..." "RICK:" "TheMoneyPit" "Iwant to see what's down there." "MARTY:" "It'stimetodig." "Whatyou'relookingfor is another shaft in the swamp." "RICK:" "There'sgonnabemore  danger." "We'reaboutto dive10-X." "Areyousayingyou 'recaught?" "Yeah." "Abortthedive." "Icannothearyou ." "MARTY:" "We'regonnarun a side-scan sonar." "Those are boxes." "There is a chamber there." "Yes,withman-madeobjects." "...isthistopofthevault ." "Looks like we might have been right."