02x08 - X Marks the Spot

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Follows brothers Marty and Rick as they search for the infamous treasure on Oak Island.
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02x08 - X Marks the Spot

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Tonight on the curse of Oak Island

here's where we're gonna start I am just

so sick of this swamp something right

there you just got a reading he's saying

we got multiple hits in the same area

you got some divers coming in and we'll

concentrate on 10x you ready to go let's

do this what's in the bottom of 10x

we're getting into analysis paralysis I

am wanting to quit what do you mean you

want to quit

there is an island in the North Atlantic

where men have been looking for treasure

for more than 200 years so far they've

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

according to legend one more will have

to die before the treasure can be found

well that's forward mud

should I get repositioned try Rick see

what happens for the second year in a

row brothers Rick and Marty lagina are

attempting to drain the islands

mysterious pyramid-shaped swamp

it is here many Oak Island theorists

believe the 200 year old mystery will be

solved once and for all it's going to be

swamp 2 the sequel Rick here has a

drained and I would like to be able to

at the end of the season either cross

the swamp off or say no there's

something to excavate here the

difference between this year and last

year of course is we have very specific

sites we want to investigate with some

fairly sophisticated equipment something

a lot like last year

yay finally the troops arrived to

confirm the locations of the various

target sites Craig tester has hired Pat

Campbell and Matt Savelle from Canadian

seabed research limited a geophysical

company that specializes in the

detection of underground structures and

man-made objects

they will be using a ground penetrating

radar device the mala rough terrain

antenna system that sends

electromagnetic pulses through the earth

to detect structures objects and voids

up to 30 feet below the surface this

whole investigation is coming down to

using ground-penetrating radar we didn't

use that last year we use metal

detection equipment

and if there are structures of

significance and they go on deeper the

metal detecting equipment would have

completely missed a stone structure or

even a wooden structure

okay so Greg really you should take the

lead and explain what the you know GPR

GPS is doing this is the conductivity

survey the m31 that ran on the ice and

right along here we have a number of

different anomalies and so we're gonna

run right parallel to the shore going

along here we think it's a good area and

then we should get a better idea if it's

something natural if there's if there's

a stone walkway or something there yeah

okay let's go

well Marty and Matt Savelle head over to

the money pit Craig tester Rick lagina

and Pat Campbell begins scanning the

southeastern area of the swamp where

this past winter the team received

indications that non-ferrous or precious

metal objects may lie below

you see anything at all there's some odd

stuff going on definitely we can see

where the flat rocks are it doesn't say

vault here doesn't say that now oh

that's too bad

something's happening kargh is there

anything on there see that right there

looks like it's where the those rocks

were there's something odd that this

looks like it's flat across there a flat

surface and right where the team

detected possible precious metals this

past winter right in here you start to

see these dipping reflectors this way

but there's also a reflector just

cutting across there which is if this

was the bottom of the swamp then you

would wouldn't see this one going right

through it right

could this be the so-called mystery box

that treasure hunter Bobby Restall

searched for back in the 1960s or could

it be something else like the entrance

to a vast underground treasure vault

although it will take further processing

of the data to be able to tell what the

large flat object might be Pat and Craig

are finding it difficult to contain

their excitement well imagine that

if the object in the swamp turns out to

be man-made you're good yeah and more

than 200 years old

then they may have just had another

important breakthrough in solving the

Oak Island mystery

okay here we are at the money pit Marty

and GPS expert Matt Savelle head over to

the spot where the team located evidence

of the mysterious wooden vault first

discovered and then lost in 1897 they

are here to get a precise geographic

location of the drill hole using

satellite-based Global Positioning

technology right over there we just

drilled the well and we think may have

gone into one of the original chambers

okay

so that's what I want you to site

because here's the plan we're gonna get

that for a reference point yeah and

we're going to then go due west because

we have a theory that we find somewhat

credible at least worth searching during

their recent fact-finding trip to

Scotland Rick Marty and their partners

met with researchers Kathleen McGowan

and Alan Butler who believe that the

swamp hides the entrance to a sacred

chamber that links directly to the money

pit if it's ever possible to say that x

marks the spot what you're looking for

is 996 feet due west of the money pit

the prophecies about the New Jerusalem

say that the New Jerusalem will be built

on an island of swamp

according to McGowan and Butler the Oak

Island money pit was constructed by

Freemasons sometime in the 15th century

and was intended to be an exact copy of

what they call the Enochian chambers the

ancient treasure vaults found deep

beneath the temple of King Solomon

as the chambers were originally designed

to conceal objects of great importance

McGowan and Butler believe the

Freemasons built the money pit to hide

the sacred religious treasures of the

Knights Templar they also believe that

if this theory is correct there would

need to be a tenth chamber one built

according to strict measurements and

located exactly 996 feet due west of the

money pit on the edge of the Oak Island

swamp so you get me a reading right

there and then we're gonna go find 996

due west and we'll run the GPR there

yeah or we'll dig okay right here all

right see if we get as level as possible

how does that mess you up cause it's too

high no we're good I can see it all

right all right that's it good easy yeah

precision yeah good head back that way

yep excellent

coming out well right now it's so good

to even try to flank this just gonna

sink down

I'm getting a little discouraged plug

the swamp do you really want to keep

going

we're gonna name this points we're on

the name for it yet this is the Enochian

chamber Enochian channel Qian chamber

cancer we're gonna have it or hard look

at this Enochian chamber i buy it enough

to look i mean why not

what do you got

but another 40 to 50 meters north 16

meters west getting pretty close
so yeah

I'd say right there that's it yeah does

it feel like you're standing on

something important I hope I hope if

Marty can verify the existence of an

underground chamber or tunnel under the

swamp it may serve not only as an

incredible archaeological find but a

shortcut directly into the money pit

we're gonna at least run GPR here you

should pick it up right yeah if there's

a chamber under here you should pick it

up he's gotta get it out here yeah it

was easy be gone by now yeah okay so now

I bring in the real muscle okay big

brother Rick nothing he loves better

than an x marks the spot

while Marty and Matt Savelle double

checked their GPS data at the western

edge of the swamp Rick lagina Charles

Barkhouse and Jack Begley decide to

check out another key area of the swamp

known as the mercy point yes my brother

would say oh no the swamp the point is

located near the apex of the

triangular-shaped swamp on the spot

Norwegian researcher Petter Amundsen

identified as corresponding to one of

the points on the so called Tree of Life

based on Clues believed to be embedded

in the first printed volume of William

Shakespeare's collected works the mercy

point is thought to mark the location of

a vast underground treasure vault which

like the Enochian chamber contains

sacred treasures from King Solomon's

Temple

it was also here

where last summer Rick Marty and the

team found the 17th century Spanish

pirate coin get excited you need to

immerse yourself in this project right

away jack go for where are we placing

them no we're going now

I got a bit of d*ck handout guys when

conducting a preliminary investigation

of the mercy point area earlier this

year diver Tony Sampson found a large

flat stone slab below the murky brackish

water his three feet by two feet further

could it have been the entrance to a

hidden underground tunnel perhaps the

same one marty was looking for earlier

if there really is a vault or some type

of underground structure buried in the

swamp Rick lagina is hoping that

ground-penetrating radar can confirm it

once and for all there's a lot of water

back here is that good news

nope to do so would require getting the

mercy point area of the swamp drained

enough so that a plywood walkway can be

set up for the GPR unit all right now

it's no good even trying to plank this

because it's too soupy it's just gonna

sink down low and take a look see what I

mean cuz right now you put plywood on

that you're just gonna sink down

that wasn't smart
does that feel okay

there's our answer so you're right I

mean that's not gonna work nope

even though multiple pumps have been

running for several days the mercy point

area refuses to drain here's a plan

we'll take the little submersible it's

got a hundred feet on it okay put it in

here and take the Blue Hose for the

discharge once again just as it did last

summer

the swamp is filling up as fast as the

pumps can drain it the island it seems

is determined to protect its secrets but

Rick lagina is just as determined and

for him giving up or giving in is never

an option yeah we gonna put me some

slack draining the backside of the swamp

didn't go well we dealt with that issue

last year we'll deal with it again my

brother's not gonna be too happy because

he does is an intense dislike of the

swamp but look at the end of the day

it's not going to deter us okay plug

I want to continue I want to figure out

once and for all is there something in

the swamp that's what I want to do

that's what we're going to do we see how

it goes

coming up

something right there

he said we got multiple hits in the same

area three and a half meters from the

center of the antenna that's exactly

where it should be

it's gonna be a tough slog going out

there you want to walk along the edge

first just take that right there right

by those rocks just go right across

those rocks after gathering GPR data at

the area known as the mercy point where

are you taking me Rick lagina and Craig

tester along with GPR expert Pat

Campbell join Marty lagina to see if

Alan Butler and Kathleen McGowan's

theory about a so-called Enochian

chamber located 996 feet west of the

money pit is correct okay right here's

where we're gonna start all right that's

the spot you phoned right yes right Oh

bye Craig that is it I put that stake in

myself I don't know how many different

people are adamant there's something

buried in the swamp a lot of them do

research and connect dots I want an

ah-ha moment okay all right let's try

you ready Pat yeah go

just put these lines in the worst

possible

what we've always wanted to do what you

want to do is cross things off yeah okay

the swamp has never been explored to the

extent we've currently done it and if it

needs to be investigated yeah all right

yeah it's a bad spot I'm not willing to

walk away without trying everything one

sec huh I'm not sure if that's where I

stumbled right there huh nothing

anything an anomaly but he didn't know

if it was where he stumbled that's

exactly where we went up no you don't

know that I know over that hump is it it

was yeah how do you know you don't know

where he saw it you saw it between when

he looked I'm just gauging by when he

looked back okay but you know what let's

not make stuff up let's do all the lines

ooh this we do each one back and forth

so if we do this one back and forth oh

great

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stop there for a second something right

there

he's just some diffractions yeah he just

got a reading he's saying right I want

it when right here no back three and a

half meters from the center of the

antennas that's exactly where it should

be a positive reading right where Rick

and Marty were told they'd find the

Enochian chamber it's amazing but it's

right here with us down well that's good

let's repeat it proofs in the repetition

of it though although the initial

readings are encouraging Rick and Marty

have learned from experience that good

news on Oak Island especially with

regard to the swamp may be too good to

be true

suddenly same breed around there a

second positive reading right between

the two yeah okay close five meters

multiple targets in the same area could

it be the Enochian chamber I mean it's

interesting right we got multiple hits

in the same area that's never happened

anywhere else what if there was a hollow

chamber ten feet by ten feet by ten feet

what would you see oh you would have

seen a hyperbolic diffraction a big one

yeah and we've not seen anything like

that not not a big one now about these

no we need to look at the data whatever

it's probably the worst thing that could

happen to us

the worst thing but you know yeah it is

the worst thing

it's like duplication duplication we did

we did got duplication and we've got a

baseline here where we got no hits on

two runs I mean if we had nothing there

we can't put an X through anything

read my lips I hate the swamp tired of

the swamp and want to be in the swamp

anymore but Rick had some very valid

reasons for being in there last year and

then again this year in your mind is

this diggable I want to see the process

dad I mean fine then a day and a half

will have to make a decision I'm done

there comes a point of diminishing

returns and he's aware of it too it's

just I think sometimes there has to be a

reality check for Marty lagina if there

really is an Oak Island curse

then it is located right here at the Oak

Island swamp

for the past several months he and the

team have gathered miles of data and

conducted numerous tests and all have

indicated the presence of something

strange beneath the acres of dark

brackish water but when the data is

tested the results are often

inconclusive or disappear altogether

this is crazy you get a hit it goes away

and you come up with nothing

how's that possible this is a situation

that has been a source of conflict

between Marty and his brother and a

situation that as far as Marty's

concerned can't go on much longer here's

the deal Rick I gotta ask you something

okay down granted we don't have the GPR

yet okay they does not invade us not in

but I mean it can't help but I'm getting

a little discouraged but too swamped

okay yeah okay

Oh hear me oh yeah I want to ask you

this from my heart okay all right you're

the guy that's carrying us all Rick sort

of like Frodo in Lord of the Rings

you know it you're the one who has to

keep us all going you're the one who has

to be the believer

are you sure do you really want to keep

going

don't make it simple yes I'm still all

in and I hope that we are all in

marty is also concerned that just like

last year time is running out and that

the precious few weeks the team has left

to spend on the island this summer would

be better spent by exploring other

potential treasure sites I wish this

were the treasure path and it might yet

be you know we've run two types of GPR

and we've run the x6 let's go out here

and we see all the targets at the point

we're at right now give me your top four

eyes show me where they know the top

four are well this one for sure

and then there was a hit there on those

recessed areas you know the earthen berm

and then we have mercy right there where

the flags are waiting and then we have

the new theory the Enochian chamber

right out there and we have hits on each

of these but inconclusive data on the of

them right so far really of a confirming

hit here confirming hit there and only

one hit off of the GPR there and we have

data we have data in the can which we've

yet to receive

you know basically Rick two years in a

row we kind of did the same thing with

slightly different devices and slightly

different methods slightly different

targets but you know I mean that's why

I'm ready - I'm ready to say stop I am I

am sick of the swamp and I am wanting to

quit what do you mean you want to quit

coming up this is not a simple dive guys

the island is a k*ller

well here's the deal Rick I am sick of

the swamp and I am wanting to quit what

do you mean you want to quit for much of

this year brothers Rick and Marty lagina

have had a serious difference of opinion

regarding the Oak Island swamp Marty

believes the team has been repeatedly

excited by encouraging data and you

definitely have something here with this

non-ferrous target here only to have

that data lead to yet another in a

series of dead ends unfortunately there

are only one or two ferrous metal

objects we could see all the others are

of no interest Rick lagina believes big

spike here that not all of the data the

team has been receiving can be wrong

still spiking if anything he is more

convinced than ever that the swamp may

hold the key to the entire Oak Island

mystery I want to confirm those two

targets I do want to quit but only to

this extent I don't want to run any more

data we're getting into analysis

paralysis if you want to keep going on

this swamp let's dig something let's do

it right and let's dig something and I'm

gonna leave it to you and as far as I'm

concerned where do you agree

yeah I agree I used the Q word he hates

Q word I say I want to quit I mean it's

like I hit him with a two-by-four right

I don't want to quit investigating I

just want to quit with the remote

sensing and and he was fine with that

he's right I don't like the Q word it

doesn't like the Q in anything we're not

quitting no and we're a team so we're

not quitting okay we're not quitting I

I'm with it I am 100% with you okay fine

we'll look at the data that's in you can

day that's in the can we'll pick two

sites let's do it let's dig it's time to

dig with all questions given all right

good now that Rick and Marty have agreed

to refocus their efforts on exploring

the money pit and the so-called Chappell

vault they need to figure out a way to

do it and avoid the flooding that is

prevented digging any hole deeper than


140 feet for this reason Rick Dave

Blankenship and Jack Begley have

scheduled a meeting in the w*r room to

talk with someone who is offered to help

them so we've got your proposal and it

reads very interesting during his visit

to Oak Island earlier this year author

and treasure hunter J Hutton Pulitzer

shared his incredible theory that a

priceless treasure was buried on Oak

Island more than 2,500 years ago there

is an ancient legend about an Ancient

Mariner society traveling from the Holy

Land to Nova Scotia with artifacts from

the first temple

what year are we talking we're talking

about 582 to 596 BC

now J Hutton Pulitzer has offered to

help Rick Marty and their partners get

to the bottom of the money pit to do

this and avoid hitting the so-called

booby-trapped flood tunnels he has

offered to send two members of his team

who are professional scuba divers they

will attempt to go in through what is

considered the money pits

backdoor 10x it's an ambitious plan that

is both difficult and dangerous we go

down and we get into this hole we just

started doing right so are you

inspecting the whole hole we have to

inspect the entire place nobody truly

knows what's in there located 180 feet

away from the money pit 10x was dug in

the 1970s by dan Blankenship with the

help of his son Dave and treasure hunter

dan henskee it was dug in the hope that

it would offer a way of getting to the

money pit without encountering ocean

water but at a depth of 60 feet 10x

flooded

#NOME?

up

deeper and deeper he and his team dug

until in 1971 they reached a staggering

depth of 235 feet I had always been in

awe of the construction of 10x it's 18

stories straight down dug by hand by

basically three people dan blankenship

david blankenship and dan henskee you

look at the equipment that surrounds

that shaft and you realize how ingenious

they had to be they macgyver'd that

shaft really that's what they did it had

to do with what they had on hand

once at the bottom Dan discovered a

large man-made chamber where he was in a

video camera

he believed he recorded images of

ancient tools wooden posts treasure

chests and even tunnels one of which

appeared to go in the direction of the

money pit but during one of his dives

Dan was nearly k*lled when one of the

steel casings collapsed from the

enormous pressure

diving down into 10x has rarely been

attempted since

we've got to be prepared and it has to

be engineered and planned for the worst

possible circumstances okay well on our

end what do you need us to do we're

gonna have to make sure somehow that we

stabilize that metal holder so we're

gonna have to build a platform can we

simply build a deck yes so we're talking

roughly a 12 by 12 if not probably

bigger if not bigger and from the last

time right as far as that safety issue

is concerned with the ladder and the

loose metal we intend to cut off the

ladder but only to water level is that

will that be sufficient for you that

should be fine

Hutton has expressed some of his needs

in terms of what he requires but now

we're bringing in a dive team putting

people at risk it makes you take pause

and think are we doing the right thing

okay well you know we've got our

marching orders and you've got a lot of

planning and trial dives to do so let us

get to work on our end you get to work

on your and it we'll keep in touch

thanks Hutton Kerr Rick and the team are

now convinced that sending divers into

10x could be the key to solving the

entire Oak Island mystery but what will

they find

ancient tools pirate treasure chests a

secret tunnel leading to the money pit

perhaps after more than 200 years Oak

Island will finally be forced to divulge

its secrets coming up you're ready to go

let's do this

what's in the bottom of

it's a new day on Oak Island and with it

comes a new plan and a new enthusiasm

for solving a 200 year old mystery
in

preparation for next week's dive Rick

lagina and Dave Blankenship along with

Charles Barkhouse and Jack Begley are

building a 12 foot square safety

platform around 10x when completed it

will serve as both a staging area and a

monitoring center allowing the team to

track the divers movements during every

inch of their 235 foot descent we had

some concerns for the divers in terms of

water clarity I mean the dye is still in

10x of course it's in 10x when it should

be in the ocean but it was and we need

to flush it out so we need to get the

dye to the point of dilution where it's

not an issue anymore

yeah it's still green because 10x is

still filled with phosphorescent green

water left over from the team's recent

dye test it will need to be pumped out

so that the divers will have maximum

visibility

here's what's on the agenda we'll put

our blocks down and square it up make

sure it's outfit custom four by fours

and pin the corners no rectum once we

get this Square and tacked together we

raise it up we get this thing fairly

level to begin what then we'll measure

our full before okay you're the engineer

on this job okay come on let's do this

for the Oak Island team working at 10x

is both an exciting and an emotional

experience exciting because it

represents progress the anticipation

that the answers they have been looking

for are only a few feet below and

perhaps only a few days away

okay Jack we put them to my friend there

now but for Dave Blankenship who has

spent the majority of his life living

and working with his father on the

island and who helped dig 10x the

experience is bittersweet for him the

235-foot deep borehole represents a big

part of his father's legacy finishing

him and hopefully finding the treasure

will assure him that his father's life

as well as that of his mother was not

lived in vain for David it's important

he's articulated it before he wants to

finish that shaft for his mother his

mother spent many years here believed in

Oak Island but at a cost

sacrificed probably some of her interest

her passions to Dan's wanting to solve

the Oak Island mystery and David is

passionately devoted to that cause he

will see the end of 10x and we will do

that is he pretty excited about this

Doug was absolutely excited when he was

building the dock he could it was one

board after another come on let's get

going

you know he's committed to it he's gonna

put three screws in it that's plenty I'm

over-engineering you go nuts there just

wait to bail now

perfect yeah but what I hope the wooden

deck is finished and all the

preparations for the dive have been made

except one Rick lagina and the team will

need to find someone who will climb into

10x and clear away 40 years of rusted

metal and crumbling debris from the

inside

I didn't think we'd get done did you yep

you did I should listen to you more

often you did give me too much grief so

you coming pensee good good good good

good we gonna put the tanks on the deck

now would leave on the truck got 200 for

the hoes try not to kink that all to

hell

in 1971 dan blankenship decided to widen

10-x to a diameter of 8 feet after

digging by hand

he and his team lined the upper portion

of the two hundred and thirty-five foot

shaft with steel casings made from

hollowed-out railroad cars

they also used concrete to reinforce the

area from 90 feet to 181 feet

unfortunately before he could widen then

reinforce all of 10x Dan ran out of

money and had to abandon the ambitious

project Mon it has now been more than 20

years since anyone is doped down to the

bottom of 10x and in that time the one

sturdy steel and concrete-lined shaft

has become rusted and full of debris

we've got to get me down there in

preparation for next week's dive Rick

lagina will have to enter the eight-foot

wide hole and clear away layers of

crumbly metal and rotting timbers

there's a ladder right there moving over

to see it that's got to come out down

the water level so we're gonna torch

torch our way down should be about 40

feet the water so three or four pulls

and we should be very good now it's

still Kyle and things never go good hey

Dave yep if it can go wrong it will go

wrong rick is going to be lowered into

10x by means of a specially designed

steel cage

once inside he will use a blowtorch to

cut away any loose steel that could

potentially break away and injure the

divers during their upcoming operation

how much room you got we're right on the

ladder going down a little bit Rick no

we're on the ladder nope nope nope nope

nope you got to go if it goes at all

it's got to go like that

we're good here almost like it was made

for

okay

I don't want this stuff falling either

we're gonna give you a hard hat in a

minute

tighten it up

they're shot

the inside of 10x is even more rusted

than Rick previously thought he will

need to do a lot more cutting with the

blowtorch before the inside of the shaft

could be considered safe

there was a little bit of sadness

because I hear I am deconstructing it to

gain answers they constructed it to get

the answers and Here I am taking it

apart to find the answers they burn

their heart when the red yellow

ever since 1795 people have been trying

and failing to get around the booby

traps that are believed to surround the

money

getting a dive team to the bottom of 10x

could finally prove that dan Blankenship

was right all along he had found the

back door into a vast underground

treasure vault what do you want

perhaps rick lagina's boyhood dream of

helping to solve the Oak Island mystery

right there really will come true after

all or will it be like so many other

things on Oak Island plagued by a curse

little more okay a curse that could put

yet another life

next time on the curse of Oak Island

for the first time somebody's gonna go

down in 10x and actually go into the

cavern what do you think is down at the

bottom two chests and one body it's the

first look we have infinite according to

the legend seven people need to die and

I'm not gonna be number seven

we're not going to get somebody k*lled

in that hole Recker I should go with
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