02x09 - A Dangerous Dive

Episode transcripts for the TV show "The Curse of Oak Island". Aired: January 5, 2014 to present.*
Watch/Buy Amazon  Merchandise

Follows brothers Marty and Rick as they search for the infamous treasure on Oak Island.
Post Reply

02x09 - A Dangerous Dive

Post by bunniefuu »

Tonight on the curse of Oak Island

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 a tenant according to

legend seven people need to die and I'm

not gonna be number seven we're not

gonna get somebody k*lled in that hole

Rick or I should go with

there is an island in the North Atlantic

where men have been looking for treasure

for more than 200 years so far they have

uncovered tunnels booby-traps

carved stones with strange symbols a

17th century pirate treasure coin even

evidence of a wooden vault

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

let's do this

it is another day on Oak Island

no no no we're on the ladder

a day that will directly connect the

islands past with its future

after locating the original money pit

earlier this year Marty and Rick lagina

have hatched a bold plan

they will attempt to send a pair of

divers down to the bottom of borehole

10-x in hopes that they can find what

dan Blankenship insists he saw when he

dug the 235-foot shaft more than 40

years ago a man-made tunnel leading to

the money pit but first Rick lagina must

clear the entrance of any rusted metal

or other debris that could break off and

cause serious damage

it is a dangerous operation the metal

casings that line the shaft are more

than 40 years old and more seriously

corroded than anyone anticipated

you gotta watch we're catching up on

okay let's go up

what began as a simple plan to ensure

safety has become extremely dangerous

like most things on Oak Island if

something can go wrong it probably will

the section of ladder is much heavier

than Rick anticipated now he has to

figure out how to safely remove it from

the shaft

come here you

little thing hang on one second

don't you

all right bring me up a close call but

for Rick lagina it wasn't nearly close

enough for him to call it quits

who's happy

damn thing wouldn't cut well I didn't

say it was gonna be easy down there

knowing you were right going down tell

you one thing I was always impressed

that you and your father Dan did this

but I'm even more impressed I learned my

lesson but all the while no matter what

I was doing down there I was constantly

thinking what needs doing must be done

in order to get the answers and so we

will now as they wait for the dive team

to arrive Rick Dan and Dave Blankenship

and Jack Begley gather in the w*r room

they have scheduled the teleconference

with Marty and Craig tester who are in

Traverse City Michigan and who claimed

to have some exciting information to

share with them I am Marty okay so

you've got test results for us right

1450 and 1640

before I like that

earlier this year diver Tony Sampson

pulled a large hardwood tree stump out

of the Oak Island swamp if as the data

indicates the stump was growing sometime

between 1450 and 1640 ad then it would

help the team pinpoint the date the

swamp was created and when a possible

treasure could have been buried on the

island

that's impressive

what about the muddy

pit core that we drilled out what about

that both pieces of wood analyzed the

one the horizontal piece that came on

the core and the vertical piece and

they're both coming about the same time

range 1665 to the 1900s 1665 to 1900 if

the results of the carbon-dating are

correct it means the so-called Chappell

vault could be anything from a 17th

century treasure vault to the remains of

a 19th century searcher tunnel

and unfortunately it's a huge range

original people could've been surges

1690 is old enough for some theories but

it doesn't fit at all with the coconut

fiber age or some of the other things

that are much more ancient so I think

the frustration is that the your puzzle

pieces don't fit right no no's

particularly do not fit no so what is it

Dundee or 95% belief I would say drop

down from there multiple times according

to researchers it is entirely possible

that folk Island was known as a

repository for gold treasure and other

valuables as far back as the 14th

century this may have been due in part

to the islands strategic placement off

the Nova Scotia coast near the principal

Atlantic sea lanes in 1897 shortly after

finding the wooden vault William

Chappell kept drilling at a depth of 171

feet his

it what he described as an iron plate

one that the drill bit could not

penetrate could this have been another

even older treasure vault one buried

centuries before coming up what do you

think is down at the bottom two chests

and one body unknowns we're gonna make

it dangerous according to the legend

seven people need to die and I'm not

gonna be number seven

before members of his team attempt to

dive to the bottom of 10-x author and

treasure hunter J Hutton Pulitzer has

returned to Oak Island he is here along

with Dave Blankenship to make a few

last-minute modifications to the diving

platform Rick and the team recently

constructed what I want to do is

reinforce this let's grab our screws and

screw g*n and I'm gonna pull off a

couple pieces here and we'll just start

putting braces on earlier this summer

Pulitzer came to the island and shared

his theory that the Oak Island mystery

dates back much earlier than most

researchers believe there is an ancient

legend about an Ancient Mariner society

traveling from the Holy Land to Nova

Scotia with the Ark of the Covenant here

we talk about 582 to 596 BC

when Hutton learned of the laginas plan

to have experienced divers try and get

to the bottom of 10x he recommended a

team he has worked with for several

years so now I got a base to work for

them to put up video and comms here

okay thanks oh and watch the team

what's the story of the one diver I know

one diver came close to dying in this

what happened his divemaster we didn't

read his chart breakers in 1993 veteran

Oak Island treasure hunter dan

Blankenship hired a diver to repeat the

dive Dan himself had done several times

during the 1970s he wanted to confirm

that would he believe he saw in the

frigid darkness 235 feet underground was

still there things like wooden posts

antique tools chests and even the

remains of a dead body

but when the diver Dan hired attempted

the dive

everything went terribly wrong

he lost but to go below 200 feet and he

went to 235 and he was down there for

probably about 15-20 minutes although

the diver was able to reach the bottom

visibility was virtually zero he could

not see or photograph anything he also

attempted to ascend to the surface much

too fast and in doing so nearly became

the seventh casualty of the infamous Oak

Island curse so he had a serious

decompression issue yeah and he didn't

know it no and he came straight to the

surface of yep decompression sickness

also known as the bends could pose a

serious threat to the divers in 10x it

occurs when gases like nitrogen become

highly compressed in the body when a

diver is underwater when they rise to

the surface they must do so in short

stages allowing their body to decompress

failing to do so can cause the gases to

expand and form bubbles in the

bloodstream

this in turn leads to intense joint pain

vertigo seizures and in some cases death

we went back in the decompression game

about four times he's lucky he's lucky

he didn't die yeah

[Music]

now we got us a crow's nest and we're

lined right up over it good thank you

sir no problem

shortly after returning to Oak Island

from Michigan Marty and Craig tester

have joined Rick and other members of

the team for a meeting with J Hutton

Pulitzer and diver Dan misiaszek

gentlemen we've got some exciting stuff

to get prepared for we are going to get

to the bottom of 10x it looks like we're

gonna do it with the help of these

people want to introduce you

you've already met Hutton this is Dan

dan is a professional diver technical

diver Dan misiaszek also known as frog

is a former US Army infantryman and

police officer

he has died all over the world in the

most dangerous environments from open

water to underwater caves

what we really want to do like my

brother just said is we want to get to

the bottom of 10x and so these are the

three gentlemen who built 10x Dan

designed it and David and Dan worked in

that chamber dan was down in dive she's

dive suit several times sir how many

times were you in the 27-inch dent

too many about a dozen well obviously

it's a good design because you came back

here let me show you something the

equipment looks something like that look

at that that's him going down the

27-inch first dive was probably in 74 75

one of Dan's dives in 1976 convinced him

to widen 10-x from 27 inches to the

gaping 8-foot diameter hole it is today

dan was down there in the 27-inch he's

in a saddle they had lowered and thought

they were torching holes in the side to

figure out if they had gone past voids

when they were driving the casing down

is they suspected at 140 and 165 that

there might be a side tunnel

suddenly as Dan was being lowered 150

feet down into the shaft on an electric

hoist pressure from one of the supposed

flood tunnels made the borehole begin to

collapse above his head

operating the hoist at the surface was

his son Dave who could hear his father's

desperate calls for help over the radio

acting quickly Dave got his father up

above the area of the collapse just in

time five seconds later and Dan would

have become the islands seventh victim

to ensure something like this would

never happen again dan dave and dan

henskee spent the next several years

widening the shaft to eight feet down to

a depth of 181 feet they then reinforced

the shaft with concrete for 90 feet and

then stacked the bodies of three

hollowed-out railway tanker cars all the

way up to the surface

unfortunately dan ran out of money to

finish the project leaving the hall from

181 feet to the cavern at 235 feet only

27 inches wide

[Music]

here's our plan to make this as safe as

possible before we put any diver in the

hall we're deploying a special type of

sonar for the first time 10x is gonna be

mapped in super-high detail in hi-def so

it's gonna tell us exactly what's down

there so we know what we're dealing with

so the thousand-dollar question is what

do you think is down at the bottom I

thought I saw two chests down there and

I saw a post that supposedly was left by

the original people and one body

divers beware well we all know the

history of this Oak Island we know how

many people have died here and according

to the legend seven people need to die

and I'm not gonna be number seven

if it's clear if frog can get through we

want to put human eyes in the cavern and

hopefully put our hands on something

enough talk

action

[Music]

hey guys they're bringing it up scans

you all here to looker we're gonna be

I'm gonna be able to see very good

detail radar goes around and all of a

sudden it's the first block we have

if today isn't one of the biggest days

in the 220-year search for treasure on

Oak Island it will certainly be one of

the most dangerous

after days of planning and preparation

Rick and Marty lagina have invited two

of the world's most experienced divers

to the island to dive to the bottom of

10x

if all goes according to plan they will

be the first people in more than 20

years to risk a descent into the

235-foot deep shaft but if they make it

down there will they find what Oak

Island treasure hunter dan Blankenship

claims he saw more than 40 years ago

ancient tools boat chests filled with

pirate gold a dead body

or will they find an underground chamber

one which leads directly into the money

pit

jump up there hook hook the basket up

because the latter in 10x needed to be

removed for safety reasons Rick and

Marty have arranged for the divers to

each be lowered into 10x using a steel

bucket suspended from a boom truck

safety is paramount in putting people at

risk people we don't know people who are

willing to you know quite literally

endanger themselves to achieve the goal

which is to get into the cavity and find

out information so we've provided them

with two boom trucks one to insert dive

teams into the hole any other in case of

catastrophic failure there's another

boom truck available to extract the

divers

yeah we're just doing final assembly

right now and then we're gonna go

through our checklist which is quite

extensive we do this every time because

it's it's too vital okay one misstep

here and could be fatal on water could

be failed dan and Kathy misiaszek are

former police officers and professional

search and rescue divers over the years

they have conducted dozens of dives

together recovering everything from

objects and artifacts to human remains

this is capper this is back up in safety

and triage in addition to Dan and Kathy

Hutton has invited John tapper to serve

as the backup safety diver it's his job

to monitor Dan and Kathy's vital signs

and to get them to safety if anything

goes wrong this is called a rebreather

if this is basically the top of line you

can get to rebreathe

okay so you're gonna breathe 70% oxygen

well it depends on our depth okay so

it's a computer sort of deal depending

on your breath it's gonna feed you the

right moment yeah atmospheric air is

mostly made up of nitrogen and oxygen so

the divers breathing equipment known as

a rebreather must supply the correct

mixture of the two gases in order to

sustain them underwater too much or too

little of either could have deadly

consequences

nitrogen narcosis taking them on too

much nitrogen which is like getting

drunk underwater yes when we're adding

that much oxygen we're reducing the

amount of nitrogen correct I understand

that completely but then there's oxygen

toxicity too we're gonna keep track of

our oxygen toxicity units and there's

actually a formula for that oxygen

toxicity which could cause seizures and

nitrogen narcosis are just two more

potential dangers the team were faced

these must be the sonar guys

hey how's it going guys alright Rick

lagina David to help identify any

unusual objects that might be found at

the bottom of 10x the team has enlisted

to help a Brian Abbott and Nick Burchill

of Kongsberg maritime a global company

that specializes in deep underwater

navigation surveying and investigation

along with the dive team they're

bringing in a scan team what's been

thrown in that hole what's down that

hole how might that endanger them so

that's why we need to insert that

scanning equipment okay so debris is the

issue I'm good to look are we gonna get

at that well this is an excellent sonar

because it's got different frequencies

so we're gonna be able to see some very

good detail then if there's piping or

debris or cables that stuff we'll be

able to see that when we put the sonar

down there modifying that taser yeah the

ms1000 scanning sonar device works by

sending out fan-shaped pulses of sound

waves if all goes well it will generate

a computerized picture of the interior

of 10x all the way from the top of the

shaft to the bottom 235 feet below the

surface

okay guys y'all ready Nick you ready

having your a boy yeah we're ready

awesome let's get going through it Brian

Abbott is a leading expert in using this

device and devices like them he worked

getting sonar images on the Titanic okay

heads up behind you

it's not very heavy what we're doing we

got the transducer going south here and

we're gonna scan up and down in this

shot

it'll help with the diet because we can

visualize the conditions in the big part

of 10x the eight-foot diameter part and

we can also hopefully if we can get that

camera in there visualize the conditions

in the 27-inch hole that then goes down

to the chamber

you know deploy to what 110 110 okay

okay that's where it's 60 just come up

at 80 90 come down to 100 you add it

secur okay I'm secure over here it's

great that we'll get the sonar up and

start getting an image

the radar goes around and all of a

sudden this picture materializes on the

screen and it's the first look we have

at 10x okay so what I'm seeing on the

bottom that's shown up nice and white

that's debris that's the bottom yeah

down here's the debris so we're looking

at 4.1 feet roughly
so we have over four

feet of debris burden at this location

yeah according to Brian Abbott there is

four feet of debris covering the area of

10x that is only 27 inches wide could

this mean the dive is over before it

even begins

coming up right on off the stairs will

load you right there for the first time

somebody's gonna go down in 10x and

actually go into the cavern watch the

band what

[Music]

so we got over four feet of debris

burden at this location yeah after a

scanning sonar device confirms that over

four feet of debris appears to be

covering the 27-inch wide hole in

borehole 10x Rick and Marty lagina fear

the dive they have gone to great trouble

and expense to set up could be in

jeopardy before it even begins

any idea what that would be throw it

away

I don't know where it's coming from

what could have been rigged here that

somebody missed that could have fell

down in the hall nothing we cleaned the

whole bottom of the hole was clean when

we left and everything from on top would

move

once again a well-planned operation on

Oak Island is met with a serious

challenge there was a bunch of junk on

the bottom but they couldn't because of

the way that thing focuses they couldn't

make out what it was

although the scanning sonar device is

designed to generate precise images of

the objects it scans the debris at the

bottom of 10-x appears to be so fine and

so dense that it's showing up as a

single mass but what is it what is it

made of and more importantly can it be

removed so what are we doing so let's

just scratch this we can't get a look

it's just abort test pull it up with

wasting time frog flash I need you for a

minute

J Hutton Pulitzer believes there is only

one way to find out what the debris is

and hopefully remove it what I'm gonna

do is we're just gonna get them suited

up and let's go in that's we just need

eyes wouldn't agree on cameras and guys

on third but again we're trying to we're

trying to read this debris but it's not

reading very well okay get suited up

we're gonna go in alright okay we're

gonna be flying blind a little bit but

get going in we gotta get eyes on it

yeah

go ahead dive it's pretty apparent it's

the dangerous dive so you're concerned

about safety issues and your goal get

into the 27-inch and get into the cavity

there's danger and everything there's

gonna be more danger in going into 10x

but there's an objective we're gonna

take every reasonable safety precaution

because human lives are longer we're

gonna have a guy in the surface that's

gonna be monitoring the dive also a

trained diver who can go in and get

these people if they're in trouble we're

going to have an EMT team standing by

we're not gonna get somebody k*lled in

that hole or injured we got it covered

the truth is we ramped up I mean it's

exciting look for the first time

somebody's gonna go down in 10x and

actually go into the cavern if

everything goes according to plan divers

Dan and Kathy misiaszek should be at the

bottom of 10x within the hour but will

they see the large wooden boxes and

antique tools dan Blankenship claims he

saw back in the 1970s or perhaps an

actual tunnel leading directly to the

money pit

stairs will load you right there hey

watch your feet

due to the amount of gear each diver

needs for the operation they will need

to be lowered down one at a time

frog giggin calm no calm

[Applause]

okay don't we have calm I don't have

comms until we get them both in there's

no other way to do it to ensure safety

and offer a constant flow of information

the communication system or comms will

keep the divers in constant touch with

each other as well as the team on the

surface

the divers comms will be tethered by

means of a six-foot-long cable while

another much longer Cable will run from

the divers all the way to the surface

this tethered system is considered more

reliable than a wireless one but no one

will be sure if it's working correctly

until both divers are in 10x

we're lined up tell me when Marty tell

me when we do it clear here okay

your left side left side make sure you

don't hit the lips he's good okay

we're gonna have to pay attention to

your left side you gotta look at that

riser although you watch you watch the

metal you're gonna get down frog right

as you get close that riser over there

okay problems gonna be watch your hands

on that rust watch your hands we got to

get a left back in the left he's got a

steer himself and all at this point you

gotta come off of that channel and spit

himself there you go

okay frog we got to do our best to keep

you left all he's got to do is stay on

those ten thirty feet of water watch the

band's watch it

coming up I'm on the edge of my chair

I'm worried I'm a diver myself director

I should go with him

let's go down let's go down

get your take inside your right tanks

hanging over the right side the dive

down 10x is finally getting underway you

got it you're fine but now the team must

deal with a major issue watch behind you

just I would catch that lip there was

very little clearance between the steel

cage that diver Dan misiaszek is being

lowered in and the rusted metal inside

the shaft

did you hear him shouldn't you be here

what he said let you get on your

communication deal I don't have that

feel he's hooked in the water mm-hmm he

says go

because their communication system won't

be functional until both divers are in

the water 40 feet below J Hutton

Pulitzer he's unable to help Dan safely

navigate his way down watch it's right

there watch the lip on the front hold on

hold on

we had state-of-the-art communication

devices but they couldn't be connected

until the divers were in the water so

really we had the most primitive of

communications going on we had people

hollering at each other down a 40-foot

hole and there was a lot of hollering

going back and forth and not a lot of

communication good plus the divers

communicating through a mask yes Dave

watch a guy now look you got risers

underneath you and a cage you see them

okay you got let's go down let's go down

then you get this issue going on between

hot and cold these people are basically

frying in their wet suit until they get

in the water and then it gets really

cold you could tell by the muffled

screams get us in the water get us in

the water they were they were basically

cooking in their own juices

okay let's go watch your elbow watch

your right elbow clear your right elbow

clear it go down he wants to go down

let's go down we're going let's go down

we're in stop

finally after several tense minutes

diver Dan misiaszek also known as frog

makes it into the water

okay come on oh you know it occurs to me

we should send a regular person down

with them because that person can

communicate so much better and spit it

Rick or I should go with him

Rick is writing down with you will take

there's no way to have comms we need a

person in the basket cuz you're not

connected so Rick's riding with you plus

he can spin the basket right because he

knows

with Rick lagina riding in the cage with

Kathy not only will he be able to help

keep the cage stable he will also be

able to relay any communications to

Kathy from the team above

okay let's go

for me it was easy because you realized

that they're about to do what they're

gonna do that is dive in there and so

you just do what you have to do to

alleviate that problem so there's more

about them than it was about me okay

Dave you need to pull it your way and

turn because they were gonna kick those

left's otherwise

Rick cause he's fearless and when he's

on a quest you know he'll do what it

takes which way do you want to face Rick

towards Dave

okay we're twist them this way yep spin

him that way perfect right above the

Frog coming down water

though there's a history of danger

associated with 10x lean look Dan almost

lost his life twice in that hole and now

that danger is magnified in this dive

because there's so much equipment things

tossed in the ladders rusted broken

riser pipes so we have to be very very

careful

we got a twisted Twitter the slip and

clear these tines it's got to go this

way this way the tines are okay there

you go there you go there you go okay

Rach be careful huh yeah we just got to

clear these lips we're pushing down I'm

worried you know these two people are

going into this hole we know it's got

hazards in it I'm on the edge of my

chair I'm worried I'm a diver myself

there are no one hazards and unknown

hazards I would have a hard time going

in that hole put your hands on the Rings

Rick

[Music]

coming down

for the first time in more

than 20 years

divers are going to attempt a descent to

the bottom of 10x if successful they

might find everything from ancient tools

and treasure chests to man-made tunnels

that lead directly to the bottom of the

infamous money pit put your hands on the

Rings wreck and to make sure diver Cathy

mashuk gets into the water safely Rick

lagina has volunteered to be lowered

down in the steel cage basket with her

you gotta move we gotta get him in we

gotta get him in

okay

okay say when

don't how much

another fourth day the cage must be

lowered completely into the water to

allow Kathy who goes by the nickname

flash to climb out and begin the dive

good but to do that means at least for a

while Rick will need to also be

submerged in water that is only 41

degrees Fahrenheit he has to go down and

get dunked in ice-cold water I mean that

water it was 40 degrees then he just he

went right in up to his neck and I'm

worried you know she was cooking a

minute ago he's freezing she's not clear

yet No

I think she's gonna get it here her

tamed her tanks looped on that one bar

she won't come out her tanks looped over

barnacle suit

I don't know he came out on the right

side he came out on your left he came

out backward turn her tanks against the

wall okay right there right there right

there

she's got what's what's holding her up

is that side extra t*nk she's got a push

it down push it down

you know what we should get rid of wet

suit yeah he's gonna freeze okay now

she's got to get out and slide to her

left

there she goes she's cleared you ready

to come up

somebody get him a towel he's gonna be

frozen I didn't really feel the water

because I was concentrating on getting

them out but then when the water crept

up to here I realized just how cold that

water was you did a great job that's for

damn sure it was 41 degrees that's cold

water it's cool water in anybody's book

got it

we got a feed

I've got the videos on I've got I could

see flash and yours okay I've got you

frog I can see it both now with both

divers in the water their comms or

communication and video lines can be

activated this will allow the team at

the surface to stay in constant contact

and monitor every second of the dive

myself my brother we've put a lot of

time and energy into this Island and you

know for the first time hopefully we can

get real data with highs on target and

get information that's been denied

everyone for almost 40 years that's

pretty exciting stuff
for brothers Rick

and Marty lagina a 50 year old

fascination with the Oak Island mystery

has led to an historic moment

by sending divers down borehole 10-x

they may be on the verge of finding out

if there really is something of

incredible value buried at the bottom of

the money pit but if so what could it be

gold and jewels worth millions of

dollars

priceless religious artifacts ancient

documents containing knowledge that has

been lost to man for centuries for his

10x simply a trap

a trap that will cost the brothers not

only their time

but possibly someone's life next time on

the curse of Oak Island they're in the

dark they can see your imagination takes

over what's happening down there

you staying your fire call the dive all

aboard

you just came out of the pipe they're

doing in the chamber that looks like

staff as a chamber yes with man-made ugh

get those are boxes what's the thing to

the right of it looks very square sure

looks like a tunnel

it does look man me we found
Post Reply