"NARRATOR:" "Tonighton The" "CurseofOakIsland..." "MARTY:" "Herewe go ." "RICK:" "They'rein thedark." "MARTY:" "Theycan'tsee ." "RICK:" "Yourimaginationtakes over." "What's happening down there?" "HUTTON:" "Yousayingyou 're caught?" "MARTY:" "Callthediveoff." "HUTTON:" "Abortthedive." "MARTY:" "Wejustcameoutof the pipe?" "They're down in the chamber." "NICK:" "Thatlookslikesteps." "MARTY:" "There'sachamber." "NICK:" "Yes,withmanmade objects." "Those are boxes." "MARTY:" "What'sthethingto the right of it?" "It looks very square." "RICK:" "Itsurelookslike a tunnel." "BRIAN:" "Itdoeslookman-made." "RICK:" "Wefoundit." "NARRATOR:" "Thereis an island in the North Atlantic where men have been looking for treasure for more than 200 years." "So far, they have uncovered booby-trapped flood tunnels, carved stones with strange symbols, 17th century Spanish coins, and evidence of a wooden vault covered in concrete." "Six men have even lost their lives trying to solve the mystery." "And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found." "JOHN:" "Stillgood,Rick?" "Just keep talking to us." "MARTY:" "Good?" "RICK:" "Yeah!" "MARTY:" "Good?" "RICK:" "Yup!" "MARTY:" "Yupso !" "HUTTON:" "Thereshegoes." "She's clear." "MARTY:" "Youreadytocome up?" "RICK:" "Yes." "HUTTON:" "Commsgo next." "We got to get the cage out so we don't pinch lines and comm goes next." "NARRATOR:" "Itis an important day in the history of Oak" "Island, as brothers Rick and" "Marty Lagina may be on the verge of one of the greatest breakthroughs in the more than" "200-year-old mystery." "HUTTON:" "Dan!" "Henskee!" "Be ready to start pulling line!" "NARRATOR:" "Theyandtheir partners have arranged for a pair of professional divers to try and make it all the way to the bottom of 10-X, some 235 feet underground." "Once there, they are hoping the divers can find what treasure hunter Dan Blankenship claims he discovered more than 40 years ago." "Antique tools, a wooden chest, and even what appeared to be a tunnel leading in the direction of the Money Pit." "MARTY:" "Somebody?" "Get him a towel." "He's going to be frozen." "How do you like getting dunked in 50-degree water, big boy?" "NARRATOR:" "Afteralifetimeof reading and studying, and two years of active searching, Rick and Marty are more convinced than ever that the legends about the island and the notion that something of enormous value is buried beneath it are true." "This summer alone, they and their partners have found three more ancient coins-- one of them possibly dating as far back as the days of the Knights" "Templar-- a tree stump buried in the Oak Island swamp, and dated to between 1450 and 1640..." "RICK:" "Comeoverhere." "HUTTON:" "That'swhatwe're looking for." "NARRATOR:...apetroglyphof an eight-pointed star-- one matching ancient symbols believed to be more than 2,000 years old, and evidence of a mysterious wooden vault covered in concrete and buried some 140 feet down in the infamous Oak" "Island Money Pit." "MARTY:" "Yougotcement,wood  fibers running this way, wood fibers running that way." "Wow, guys." "You think you're on the vault?" "You did a great job, that's for damn sure." "NARRATOR:" "Butwithall ofthe breakthroughs and all of the discoveries..." "MARTY:" "Takeyourshirtoff and get that." "NARRATOR:...onepersistent problem remains, and it's the same problem every treasure hunter on Oak Island has faced, and been defeated by, for two centuries-- water." "RICK:" "Saltywater." "The one big problem with Oak" "Island, you know, it's just a rabbit warren of incoming water from various old holes, shafts, tunnels." "How do we get down there?" "How do we do it?" "NARRATOR:" "Now,Rickand Marty are determined to find out if there could really be a back door into the Money Pit through" "10-X, because finding it could literally save the team millions of dollars in challenging and risky excavation costs." "The problem is, no one has risked diving down the 235-foot borehole in more than 20 years." "That is, not until now." "HUTTON:" "I gotyouoncomms, but I got some horrible feedback." "I got you on comms." "NARRATOR:" "Today,withthe  help of author and treasure hunter, J. Hutton Pulitzer, and divers, Dan and Kathy Misiaszek," "Rick and Marty are hoping that a dive to the bottom of borehole" "10-X might prove to be the key to solving the Oak Island mystery." "HUTTON:" "I 'vegotthevideos on, uh, I've got..." "I can see Flash in yours." "Okay, I've got you, Frog." "I can see it both." "I don't want you to descend yet." "I want to make sure we got these comms worked out." "Stand by." "NARRATOR:" "AlthoughDanand" "Kathy-- also known as "Frog" and" ""Flash"-- are both experienced, professional divers, no chances will be taken." "Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, are on site, and safety diver, John Tapper is standing by just in case there's an emergency." "HUTTON:" "Wegotafeed ?" "BRIAN:" "Okay,she'sgot 'em ." "NARRATOR:" "Usingtheir communication lines, otherwise known as "comms," the team at the surface will stay in constant contact with Dan and" "Kathy." "They will also be able to monitor what is being recorded by the diver's underwater cameras in real time." "HUTTON:" "Frog,we gotacomm  line." "It looks like it's looped on you." "We've got comms wrapped up in something there." "RICK:" "Theprimedirectiveis, of course, keeping people safe." "The important thing is getting people in the hole, achieving the objective and getting people out of the hole." "Safety first, objective second." "MARTY:" "Themissiononthe first dive was to get to the bottom, the first bottom if you will, of 10-X-- 181 feet-- see what the junk is on the bottom, see if the 27-inch hole is" "enterable." "NARRATOR:" "Dugby OakIsland treasure hunters Dan and Dave" "Blankenship and their friend," "Dan Henskee, in the early 1970s, 10-X began as a 27-inch wide shaft that eventually reached the staggering depth of 235 feet." "But after a collapse in 1976 that almost killed him, Dan" "Blankenship widened the hole to eight feet in diameter, down to a depth of 181 feet." "HUTTON:" "Rogerthat." "NARRATOR:" "Unfortunatelyfor" "Dan and Kathy, the hole remains a tiny 27 inches wide from 181 feet all the way to the bottom." "It's dark, it's wet, and the" "North Atlantic seawater that floods the shaft is just above freezing." "And if all this wasn't challenging enough, just before the dive, the team was informed that four feet of debris may be covering the entrance to the" "27-inch wide hole." "MARTY:" "Thefirstthinggoing through my mind is that this is dangerous." "They're bobbing around inside an eight-foot steel column, so, you know, rapidly, the concern level goes high." "HUTTON:" "Givingline." "Roger that." "NARRATOR:" "WhileDanand Kathy make their way down the shaft, the ground crew helps feed the communication lines." "It's a delicate task." "Too much line could cause the divers to get tangled, while not enough could cause a deadly emergency if their breathing system fails." "MARTY:" "Nowthoseare the  lines that could pull their mask off, if they're pulled too hard?" "HUTTON:" "Toomuchline!" "Stand by." "Call out your depth." "HUTTON:" "Thankyou." "Okay." "Little more line." "MARTY:" "Moremurkyall ofa  sudden." "MARTY:" "Yikes." "RICK:" "They'rein thedark, basically." "They're feeling around-- just tactile." "It was troubling, to say the least." "HUTTON:" "Itsays50, soyou're 92 from top." "MARTY:" "Areyoukeepingtrack of time?" "Yeah, but if they can't see, I just wondered." "HUTTON:" "Hey,guys,here's what I want you to do." "Turn your cameras at each other." "Let me get just a good visual." "Just turn your lights and cameras at each other." "Let me get a peek." "Holy (bleep)." "They can't even see each other four feet apart." "Can you see your face visual?" "Do we have three greens?" "HUTTON:" "Frog?" "I can see your three greens." "Flash, I need to see your three greens." "Hold on." "Almost." "Just a little more." "Go up." "Okay, three greens." "You're good." "MARTY:" "I honestlywouldn'tbe scared of that dive myself, except for one thing: getting stuck." "That is so scary underwater." "Invisibility, it doesn't matter, but getting stuck is just a catastrophic feeling." "HUTTON:" "Frog,confirmyou 're okay." "(static buzzing)" "HUTTON:" "Flash,canyou hear me?" "RICK:" "Whatwasthat?" "HUTTON:" "We'velostcomms." "HUTTON:" "Frog,confirmyou 're okay." "Flash, can you hear me?" "NARRATOR:" "J.HuttonPulitzer has just lost audio communication with his dive team, who are now submerged more than 60 feet underwater in 10-X." "HUTTON:" "Getme somecomms." "Come on, guys." "RICK:" "Theircommsgoout." "At that point, your imagination takes over." "What's happening down there?" "NARRATOR:" "EventhoughRick," "Marty and the team still have a video feed working, the murky conditions in 10-X offer almost zero visibility." "HUTTON:" "I seeherhand." "She's going to him." "Okay." "Come on, guys." "Get me some comms." "(static buzzes)" "HUTTON:" "Gotcomms." "HUTTON:" "Flash,Frog,standby for a minute." "Look, when we lose comms, we need to work out a signal." "Would it be appropriate to give you a gentle tug?" "Okay." "RICK:" "I 'mnotadiver,so when I see them on camera, diving through, you know, water with no clarity..." "I mean, they're in the dark basically, and the fear factor goes way up, because I can't relate to what they're doing." "(Kathy coughs)" "HUTTON:" "Flash,confirmyou 're okay." "HUTTON:" "I don'tlikethat cough." "HUTTON:" "Guys,beforeyou  descend, Flash, I need to know you're okay." "What's that cough?" "HUTTON:" "Okay." "You sound... you sound muffled." "What's going on?" "HUTTON:" "Okay." "(laughter)" "Thank you." "Very nice, very nice." "MARTY:" "I likethatalot." "NARRATOR:" "Withcommunications back up and working again, the divers continue their descent." "They will first need to make their way down all 181 feet of" "10-X before reaching the point where the hole shrinks from eight feet in diameter to a mere" "27 inches." "But once down there, will they see what Dan Blankenship claims he saw more than 40 years ago?" "Antique tools?" "Wooden chests?" "Man-made tunnels?" "HUTTON:" "I needadepthcheck!" "Eighty-three." "HUTTON:" "We'recoming." "It's coming through." "It's coming through." "NARRATOR:" "Astheteamfeeds the divers more comms and breathing line to continue their descent, they must do so with extreme caution." "With all the debris, old drill pipes and a rusted ladder to contend with, a tangled breathing line could have deadly consequences." "HUTTON:" "We'vegotcomms wrapped up in something there." "HUTTON:" "Asyougopast that  pipe, check if you see the line looped." "Feel if it's captured there." "HUTTON:" "He'sgottoo ... he's got too much line on him." "I see slack in it." "So that has to be one of the places it's caught up." "HUTTON:" "Okay." "RICK:" "I hadbeennervous, because when I went down there to cut the ladder, I knew the riser pipe had fallen over." "I was concerned that it was the riser pipe, because there is movement in that pipe." "MARTY:" "Sowe lost communications; that was scary." "But much more scary to me are the words that-that send a shiver up my spine, which is," ""I'm stuck." "I can't go up, I can't go down."" "HUTTON:" "Frog,confirmyou 're okay." "Frog, confirm you're okay and you're untangled." "HUTTON:" "Frog,confirm you're okay." "NARRATOR:" "Thediveteam's greatest fear has happened." "After diving more than 100 feet down into 10-X, diver Dan" "Misiaszek has become trapped in a tangle of breathing cables and debris." "His wife Kathy must now make an agonizing decision." "MARTY:" "Oh,dear." "HUTTON:" "Guys,here'swhat we've got." "If we've got one diver calling the dive, we need to abort." "MARTY:" "That'sfine." "HUTTON:" "Confirmed." "Abort the dive." "Flash, confirm that's okay and you're untangled." "HUTTON:" "Frog,confirmyou 're okay and you're untangled." "NARRATOR:" "AlthoughDangot  untangled this time, the next time, he might not be so lucky." "His wife Kathy fears the conditions in 10-X are just too dangerous right now to continue the dive safely." "The dive is being aborted." "HUTTON:" "Okay,nowwe're pulling line." "Hang onto your lines." "JOHN:" "Okay,diverson surface." "HUTTON:" "Okay,we gotFlash on surface." "MARTY:" "Let'sgo withthe  bucket, then." "Ready?" "JOHN:" "Yeah." "HUTTON:" "WegotFrogon surface." "Flash, we're extracting you first." "NARRATOR:" "Luckily,no onewas  injured." "And even though Rick and Marty didn't get the answers they were hoping for, they now know more about 10-X-- and its current state-- than they did when they started." "They also know they will need to address some safety issues before attempting a second dive." "RICK:" "That'sthewholepoint of the first dive-- figure out what needs to be addressed, what problems might arise." "That was my feel about the first dive-- it's just... it's a acclimation dive." "Figure out what needs to be done." "NARRATOR:" "Laterthatevening," "Rick, Marty and the Oak Island team meet in the war room with" "J. Hutton Pulitzer and divers" "Dan and Kathy Misiaszek." "Here they will discuss the day's progress and also make some critical decisions." "MARTY:" "Okay,youtwo ." "(heavy sighs, laughing)" "DANM.:" "Whataday." "MARTY:" "I don'tknowaboutthe rest of these guys, but I was thinking, "Come on up, come on up, come on up," through most of that dive." "DANM.:" "ButIthinkwe learned a whole lot." "When Flash and I started going straight down, side by side, we got jammed up." "So we had to go straight down in single file." "We also learned about temperature, and Flash got it on her computer." "It's cold." "KATHY:" "Itwasrightat43 ." "MARTY:" "Okay,butIdon'tknow who was shaking more, you when you came out or me when you were down there." "(laughter)" "I already know if I said, "Are you gonna to go back in there?"" "I know what you'd say." "DANM.:" "Oh ,absolutely." "MARTY:" "I knewit ." "DANM.:" "Dive." "You wanttogo ?" "KATHY:" "Absolutely." "Let'sgo." "MARTY:" "Allright,all right." "KATHY:" "Weknowsomany ofthe hazards right now, and we can correct them." "So now it's a much easier dive." "MARTY:" "That'swhatthese people do." "They dive to find out flaws in drilling rig platforms and to look for sunken treasure, and it's inherently dangerous." "RICK:" "Okay,we 'vetalked about a lot of the obstructions, a lot of the difficulties, but the one thing we haven't addressed is, the first scan showed four to five feet of sediment problems down there." "What are we gonna do to address that?" "NARRATOR:" "Rick,Marty,Craig and Dave are concerned that even if the divers can reach the" "181-foot level on the second dive, there is still no guarantee they'll be able to make their way through the estimated four feet of sediment and debris which still blocks the 27-inch-wide shaft." "MARTY:" "Wehavedecided, right?" "We have decided to try and put the mechanical gizmo down first." "What is it?" "HUTTON:" "It'sscanningsonar." "MARTY:" "I thinkit mightfit  down that six-inch hole." "You know, the one that Jordan drilled." "HUTTON:" "Whichone?" "CRAIG:" "It'soneofthe casings towards the front." "So, we put it down there last year to help clean up the bottom, to bring up samples." "HUTTON:" "Andthatgoesallthe way to the cavern?" "MARTY:" "Cleanshot." "NARRATOR:" "Oneyearago ,Rick," "Marty and the team set up an extraction system which was designed to flush any loose debris, including evidence of treasure, out of the bottom of" "10-X." "Although the operation did not produce any compelling evidence-- outside of a few bits of metal and what appeared to be animal bones" " Rick and" "Marty are now hoping that the drill casing that was left in the hole will allow a scanning sonar device to travel all the way to the bottom of 10-X, and without encountering the four-foot-thick obstruction." "MARTY:" "Tome thisisa  no-brainer." "There's two human beings versus a piece of equipment." "DAVE:" "Yeah,well,Iagree with you a hundred percent." "MARTY:" "Yeah." "Okay,guys, we'll run the scans first thing in the morning, and we'll make our decisions accordingly." "HUTTON:" "Agreed." "MARTY:" "Everybodyon board?" "DAVE:" "Yep." "MARTY:" "Good." "Thank you very much." "KATHY:" "Cool." "NARRATOR:" "Althoughtoday's dive was not as productive as the team had hoped, the possibility that scanning sonar will accomplish the same thing has everyone's spirits renewed." "But could the team really be just hours away from finding out that what Dan Blankenship claimed he saw at the bottom of" "10-X was true?" "Are they finally close to solving... the Oak Island mystery?" "NARRATOR:" "It'sanother morning on Oak Island." "Day two in the team's attempt to get information from the bottom of 10-X." "HUTTON:" "Allthisdebris,if we got to get them down in there..." "MARTY:" "Yeah?" "HUTTON:" "WhatIreallywant to do is just try to focus how to get this sonar down, especially if we don't know what even further obstructions are." "NICK:" "I mean,thisthing's designed to go where the divers can't go." "NARRATOR:" "Butunlike yesterday, before Dan and Kathy" "Misiaszek attempt their second dive, Rick and Marty have arranged for underwater visualization experts Nick" "Burchill and Brian Abbott of" "Kongsberg Maritime to drop the" "MS 1000 scanning sonar device down a six-inch-wide drill hole that was dug into 10-X the previous year." "It should be able to bypass the four feet of sediment and debris that block the 27-inch portion of the shaft and go all the way to the bottom." "MARTY:" "Okay,Nick,you got it all doctored up?" "NICK:" "Yeah,comeonover for a second." "What we've done, we've taken the protective cage off, and I've just basically put some rubber around this to protect it." "When it goes down..." "MARTY:" "It'sgonnaspin." "NICK:...we'reprobablygonna have some settling, and we may not even get it to settle at all." "We may not be able to get data." "MARTY:" "Don'tsaythat." "Let's do it. (laughs)" "NARRATOR:" "TheMS 1000 scanning sonar device sends pulses that echo, and can help to create a three-dimensional image of environments and their features." "In other words, if all goes well, the team may be able to get their first look at the bottom of 10-X since Dan" "Blankenship recorded his findings nearly 40 years ago." "MARTY:" "Wewantdatasobadly  we can't stand it." "I mean, poor David's been this far away from that cavern for what, 30 years now?" "DAVE:" "Yeah,at least." "MARTY:" "Timeto do ." "Let's do, let's do." "BRIAN:" "Cable'scoming." "NICK:" "I 'vegotthecable." "Send her down." "Okay." "NARRATOR:" "AstheMS1000  scanning sonar device makes its way down the 235-foot shaft, the team waits anxiously for evidence that something manmade could be lying on the bottom." "NICK:" "Allright,herewego ." "MARTY:" "Who'sthebestscreen to look at?" "His?" "NICK:" "They'reboththe same." "HUTTON:" "Areyouableto record this or..." "BRIAN:" "Yeah,we 'rerecording everything." "So we're looking at some stuff here." "Nick has dropped the sonar through the pipe." "MARTY:" "Wait,wait,wait." "Wait, I-I got to get oriented, guys." "We just came out of the pipe?" "Where are we?" "NICK:" "Thisis avoid." "We're in a void." "BRIAN:" "We'rein avoid." "MARTY:" "Really?" "BRIAN:" "Yeah." "MARTY:" "Whatarethe  dimensions?" "BRIAN:" "Well,hangonhere ." "The sonar's moving a little bit." "NICK:" "Butoneofthethings," "Brian..." "I think I'm up..." "I'm still at the end of the pipe." "So if I drop it down a couple more inches..." "BRIAN:" "Yeah,let'sdothat ." "NICK:" "Withanyluck,that  void will get larger." "It's just peeking out the end of the pipe." "So what this is doing right now is it's scanning and it's looking at the walls with a very narrow beam." "So you're not seeing floor to ceiling." "You're only seeing a slice of it near the ceiling." "So we're gonna lower it down." "It's gonna take another slice that's further down." "DAVE:" "Comeon up ,Dad,and  take a look at this." "MARTY:" "IsDanhere?" "RICK:" "Dan." "MARTY:" "Dan,comehere." "Sit right here." "DANB.:" "In the27?" "MARTY:" "No,they'redownin the cavity." "DANB.:" "Oh ." "MARTY:" "Inthechamber." "Sit down, Dan, then you can see this screen." "NARRATOR:" "Ofallthe people on Oak Island, no one is more invested in 10-X-- and what does or doesn't lie at the bottom of it-- than Dan Blankenship." "At 91, Dan considers 10-X his legacy, and he remains convinced that the things he claims he saw down there-- like antique tools, wooden chests, and even a man-made tunnel leading toward the Money Pit-- are real." "His only regret is that he ran out of money before he could prove to the world that he is the one who found the key to solving the mystery." "BRIAN:" "Okay,thesonar's starting to settle out." "NICK:" "Lookat this,guys." "BRIAN:" "Lookat this,guys." "HUTTON:" "Oh,my goodness." "BRIAN:" "Lookat that." "NICK:" "Lookat this, gentlemen." "MARTY:" "What'sthat?" "NICK:" "It'san opening." "HUTTON:" "Butthat'salso rectangular in shape as the way it's cutting back." "It's rectangular." "BRIAN:" "I 'manengineer." "I deal in square, rectangular and round and this is rectangular." "Mother nature doesn't make rectangle things." "NARRATOR:" "BrianAbbotthas  been investigating and helping to visualize underwater objects for more than a decade." "In addition to finding everything from shipwrecks to underwater cities, he was one of the first to fully map the wreckage of Titanic in 2010." "HUTTON:" "Soit 'slikea doorway or another tunnel headed out." "DANB.:" "There'stwo-There's two tunnels-- one coming..." "BRIAN:" "Itcouldverywell be." "DANB.:...inand ,asyou say, on the opposite side, one going out." "NARRATOR:" "Man-madetunnels?" "Could this be the first indication that what Dan" "Blankenship claimed he saw at the bottom of 10-X was true?" "NARRATOR:" "Butif therereally are man-made tunnels, who built them?" "And where-- if anywhere-- do they lead?" "HUTTON:" "Whatis thatthing sticking right there in the middle of its rectangle?" "BRIAN:" "Buriedthere?" "HUTTON:" "Like,whatisthat ?" "BRIAN:" "I ..." "I don'tknow." "I mean, it's a rectangular object." "HUTTON:" "Howbigisthat ?" "BRIAN:4.3feetwide." "And from this point back here to back here is seven feet." "NICK:" "Itdoeslookman-made." "HUTTON:" "Here..." "NICK:" "Andthere'smultiple objects." "DANB.:" "Itoldyouthat." "NARRATOR:" "Man-madeobjects?" "At the bottom of 10-X?" "235 feet beneath the surface of" "Oak Island?" "MARTY:" "Okay,so whatdowe know for sure?" "There's a chamber." "For bloody sure, right?" "BRIAN:" "Yeah." "NICK:" "Yes,withman-made objects." "MARTY:" "You'rewillingtosay that for sure?" "NICK:" "Yes." "BRIAN:" "IfIwas tosend a diver down on targets like that" "I would feel comfortable." "I think that's enough information to have a diver check it out, because the best way is with the human eye." "DAVE:" "Yougotanotherdive in you?" "KATHY:" "Hell,yeah,we're ready to go." "DANM.:" "Hell,yeah,we're ready to go." "Let's go." "MARTY:" "Let'sgetthisout." "It's time." "RICK:" "F" "BRIAN:" "IfIwas tosend a diver down on targets like that," "I would feel comfortable." "NARRATOR:" "Itis atense situation on Oak Island." "A sonar scan has just revealed that there could very well be man-made objects lying at the bottom of 10-X." "KATHY:" "Suitup ?" "DANM.:" "Yup." "HUTTON:" "Yup." "KATHY:" "Okay." "NARRATOR:" "Now,professional divers Dan and Kathy Misiaszek will attempt a second dive down the 235-foot shaft in an effort to verify this incredible discovery with their own eyes." "HUTTON:" "Thereyougo." "NARRATOR:" "Butevenifthey  can safely make their way down the portion of the hole that is eight feet wide, they will still have to make the final 54 feet of their descent through a narrow shaft that is only about" "two feet wide." "CRAIG:" "Hey." "MARTY:" "Where'sDave?" "We need to talk to you guys." "Got a minute?" "DAVE:" "I gotallkindsof minutes." "So what's the matter, boss?" "MARTY:" "Allright,here'sthe deal." "I find it hard that I'm even saying this, because I want to get in that chamber more than I ever have." "DAVE:" "Mm-hmm." "MARTY:" "I 'vebeenadoubter." "DAVE:" "Yeah,we knowthat." "MARTY:" "Right." "I want to cancel the dive." "DAVE:" "Why?" "CRAIG:" "Theygotstuckupin  the big hole." "MARTY:" "I know." "DAVE:" "Right,so in thelittle hole, they're really gonna get stuck." "CRAIG:" "Yeah." "MARTY:" "Yeah,andthenwhat ?" "RICK:" "Yougottogetsomebody to go after 'em." "MARTY:" "Ingoesathirdman." "DAVE:" "Right." "MARTY:" "Youknow,there'sa thin line between brave and foolhardy." "DAVE:" "Yeah." "MARTY:" "AndIdon 'twantto risk three peoples' lives." "DAVE:" "No,Iagreewith you 100% on that." "RICK:" "I 'monboard." "Let's go tell them." "MARTY:" "Let'sgo breakthe  news to them." "DAVE:" "Gobreakthe wordto them." "MARTY:" "Allright." "HUTTON:" "Areyoureadyfora  tuck in?" "DANM.:" "Yeah." "MARTY:" "Hey,guys." "HUTTON:" "Hey." "DANM.:" "Hey." "MARTY:" "This-Thisis notgonna be easy for me to say, okay, but we just... we just had a sidebar there." "We want to call the dive off." "DANM.:" "Youwanttocallthe dive off?" "MARTY:" "Wedo ." "Let me tell you why." "And-And, and by the way, it's no reflection on either one of you." "RICK:" "Exactly." "MARTY:" "ButI'mnot risking your lives." "I'm afraid you're gonna go down there and try and get in that hole, and I know you can't do it." "RICK:" "Itwouldbea dangerous dive without the unknowns." "There's a lot of unknowns." "MARTY:" "Itwasaneasy  decision to abort the second dive." "Real easy, from my standpoint." "The sort of risk-reward ratio was no longer in place." "You have a... you have a significant risk and you have no chance of the reward." "You know, why do it?" "HUTTON:" "Let'sunpackyou from these ovens." "MARTY:" "Yeah,yeah,I'm sure you're dying in there." "Thank you two." "KATHY:" "Okay." "MARTY:" "Wethinkit'sthe right decision." "NARRATOR:" "ForRick,Martyand their partners, it has been a day filled with mixed emotions." "Although they are disappointed they had to abort Dan and" "Kathy's second dive, they have just found evidence that Dan" "Blankenship really did discover a lost treasure chamber at the bottom of 10-X more than 40 years ago." "A treasure chamber that might also lead directly into the" "Money Pit." "MARTY:" "Okay,gents,thisis gonna be good." "Hutton tells me that we're ready to look at the data down in the cavity in 10-X." "It's been at least partially processed." "HUTTON:" "Sowe gotBrianon the line." "MARTY:" "Brian,goodtoseeyou again." "BRIAN:" "Goodto seeyou guys." "How we doing today?" "MARTY:" "Well,we 'reon pins and needles." "RICK:" "Youtellus." "MARTY:" "Yeah." "BRIAN:" "SoI'vegot ,uh,  preliminary results of our-our sonar work, uh, down in 10-X." "NARRATOR:" "Sincefindingwhat appeared to be man-made objects at the bottom of 10-X, geophysicist and sonar expert" "Brian Abbott has spent the last few days translating the raw sonar data into a more understandable three-dimensional format." "BRIAN:" "Now,rememberthat we're taking individual slices like the page of a book and we're stacking them together to give us a representation of what the cavern kind of looks like and the perspective of it." "We'll go to a view." "We'll, uh, zoom in a little bit." "And so we're dropping down through the shaft into the" "27-inch hole that was drilled, then we're into the cavern." "And our widest point here is about 12 feet." "And this, about eight and a half feet across." "One of the things that just sticks out is this right angle, as you see, right through here, which is unusual a lot of times in nature." "Well, we've got this really unique feature here." "It's about two feet long, a foot wide." "Uh, you can see two things put together like clay pots, baskets." "I don't think it's geological." "It's too elliptical in-in shape." "But it's, I think, one of the unique features that we're able to pick up on the sonar there." "MARTY:" "What'sthethingdue to the right of it?" "Looks very square." "BRIAN:" "It'soneofthose square features." "Maybe man-made." "HUTTON:" "Italsolookslike  there's a side tunnel possibly coming into this room." "MARTY:" "Whatarethose dimensions, Brian, those openings?" "BRIAN:" "It'sprobablyabout seven feet across." "It's about five feet wide." "RICK:" "I mean,it surelooks like a tunnel." "NARRATOR:" "Atlast!" "Brian Abbott's interpretation of the sonar data confirms what Dan" "Blankenship claims he discovered at the bottom of 10-X more than" "40 years ago." "But now it looks as if there isn't only one man-made tunnel that enters the underground chamber but two, one that appears to lead to the Money Pit and one that might lead to the ocean or perhaps another part of" "the island." "BRIAN:" "Theotherthingthat  was really intriguing to me-- and I-I can't figure this thing out for the life of me-- is-is this." "Right here." "It's 14 inches, I think it is." "It shows up on every scan." "It's a stand-alone thing." "So whether it's a column, a load-bearing beam..." "CRAIG:" "Brian,thatcolumn... the column you see, um, you mentioned, um, if it's metal you might see harmonics." "Did you see any harmonics in there to indicate it's a... could be a steel pipe?" "Or-or do you think it's wood or something?" "BRIAN:" "Itcouldbewood ." "MARTY:" "Ifthere'sagreatbig column of wood, this is a man-made deal." "A tree didn't fall in there." "I mean, wood wins." "If-if we know that's wood and it's a column..." "BRIAN:" "Thecavern'svery unique." "Uh, I see right angles, I see squares, I see rectangles." "I think there's targets down there." "Again, if I could put divers on these-these targets, I would." "CRAIG:" "Soundsgreat." "HUTTON:" "Thanks,Brian!" "RICK:" "Thankyou!" "BRIAN:" "Okay." "Takecare." "MARTY:" "Onething'sfor sure, the data we now have is, to me... is the best data that's ever been obtained on Oak" "Island." "Well, look, Hutton, here's the deal: we have some things we've got to decide." "HUTTON:" "Yes,sir." "MARTY:" "Uh,youhave contributed an enormous amount to our... to our quest here, and we got to kick it around and see where we go, so I want..." "HUTTON:" "I understand." "Thank you for just giving us the opportunity." "MARTY:" "I wantto thankyou ." "I want to thank you very much." "RICK:" "Thankyou." "HUTTON:" "Thankyousovery  much." "RICK:" "Finally,we 'vegotvery accurate, analyzable data." "It's an impetus to further explore 10-X." "And that's the whole question, isn't it?" "What's in the bottom of 10-X?" "MARTY:" "Anyway,so thatleads us to, what is the enthusiasm level for getting to the bottom of 10-X?" "NARRATOR:" "Rick,Marty,and  their partners may finally have definitive evidence that in 10-X" "Dan Blankenship found not only a shortcut into the Money Pit but what could be a second perhaps even larger treasure vault." "But now the team faces an even greater problem: how can they get to it some 235 feet below the surface?" "MARTY:" "Youknow,whatis... what is the enthusiasm level for getting to the bottom of 10-X?" "DAVE:" "I 'm100%." "You know that." "MARTY:100%." "Andthisonly  just makes you more..." "DAVE:" "Yes." "We got to do it in the dry." "'Cause you can't see your hand in front of your face down there." "MARTY:" "We'regonnafigureout how to get to the bottom of 10-X." "I'm not sold on a dry entry yet." "I have some thoughts about that, but..." "CRAIG:" "I 'mwithyou." "I..." "Trying to pump it dry and send people down there scares me, that something could implode." "And so we just need to think-think it through." "RICK:" "Dan?" "Dan?" "Do you... do you think that 10-X is safe?" "The shaft?" "MARTY:" "Ifit waspumpeddry." "RICK:" "Ifit waspumpeddry." "DANB.:" "In my opinion,it's safe to 183... 181 feet, down to bedrock." "Beyond that, I would not say." "DAVE:" "Wantto drilla four-foot hole?" "MARTY:" "Drillafour-foot hole..." "DAVE:" "Okay,no problem." "MARTY:...andthenmaybesend  a diver down." "And if that doesn't work, then when we dry it out, you can put a ladder down there and walk right down." "(Dave laughs)" "How about you, big brother?" "RICK:" "Look,I'vealwaysbeen  in, and I'm all in." "I always was and I always will be." "We're gonna find the answers." "Look, come spring, we're down there." "The fact that we're going to do it is a certainty." "Everyone agrees." "We're absolutely, positively, for the final time get to the bottom of 10-X and find out what's in there." "MARTY:" "Wespenttwo years acquiring data every which way we could." "I mean, it's sort of like" "Churchill said about the first battle they won at El Alamein." "He said, "It's not the end." "It's probably not even the beginning of the end." "But perhaps it's the end of the beginning."" "So I think that's where we are right now." "We've gathered all the data." "Next season, I think it's gonna be a lot more about moving dirt." "To the dig!" "CRAIG:" "Tothedig !" "JACK:" "Tothedig !" "RICK:" "Tothedig !" "Dan?" "(Dan B. laughs)" "MARTY:" "Tothedig !" "RICK:" "Tothedig !" "MARTY:" "We'reon aquest,my brother and I and our team trying to do something that no one else has been able to do." "It's a challenge." "It's fun." "It could be rewarding." "We're lucky to be able to do it." "You know, this is an adventure." "Who could have thought that an eight-year-old and a ten-year-old reading the" "Reader's Digest would turn into a worldwide hunt for the greatest treasure on Earth?" "Who could have guessed that?" "You can't write that stuff." "You can't make it up." "But it seems to have happened." "Whoa." "RICK:" "Ifthere'sretrievable artifacts or treasure, the thrill for me is simply gonna be this: it's not gonna be about retrieving those things." "It's gonna be about giving Dan" "Blankenship the satisfaction of knowing that his life's pursuit has been real." "The man labored for years on faith, faith that his work here was at some point gonna mean something." "And I'm hoping for a little validation for myself as well in terms of my belief in this place." "Look, who doesn't want a long-lost fabled treasure?" "I'm in on that." "But to see a life's pursuit and here's the proof-- you were right, you were correct-- those are the answers we're really looking for." "MARTY:" "No,no ." "Me either." "(laughter)" "We'll be back." "DANB.:" "Is thatathreatora promise?" "MARTY:" "Thatis both." "(laughter)" "NARRATOR:" "Marty,Rickand  the Oak Island team have had an incredible year." "They have done and discovered more than any team in the" "200-plus years since men started hunting for treasure here." "But when they return next spring, will they finally be able to solve the mystery?" "Or will they simply write another chapter in a saga that has captivated millions and has claimed six lives... so far?" "Captioned by" "MediaAccessGroupatWGBH  access.wgbh.org"