02x01 - Once In, Forever In

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Previously on The

Curse of Oak Island...

There it is.

Is this the spot where

they d*ed?

Several generations risked life

and limb and d*ed, looking for

something here on Oak Island.

Here we are-- Borehole -X.

My brother and I want to see

just what is down there.

Whoa, whoa!

Stop!

There's something here.

Look at the films we

took.

That could be the top

of the tunnel.

We need to try and

bring up all the stuff that's

down in that cavity.

Wait, that's metal, Rick.

Inside a rock.

Very peculiar.

There's more and more evidence

of man-made formations

underground.

All right, guys, this

is Petter Amundsen.

I found the treasure

map leading to Oak Island.

It is concealed in codes in the

manuscripts of William

Shakespeare, and it also tells

you what the treasure is.

You believe that the

menorah from the Temple of

Solomon could be buried on Oak

Island?

Yes, in the bottom

of that swamp.

I'm actually getting

multiple signals.

This is the most

sophisticated equipment that's

ever been on this island.

Wow, this could be it.

This could be the find.

Oh, .

What is it?

This could be

something big.

Whoa!

What the hell is that?

Well, it's copper.

It's a Spanish

maravedí, probably from the

s.

Unfortunately, the date is

obscured, but possibly predates

the Money Pit by at least

years.

That's the first real

evidence I've held in my hands

since I've been here, almost

years.

This is the most

valuable thing that's ever been

found on Oak Island.

Yes!

There is a

mysterious island in the North

Atlantic, where for more than

years, people have been

looking for treasure.

It began in , when three

young men discovered a strange

indentation in the soil, which

when excavated, revealed bits

of gold chain...

a small piece of paper with

writing on it...

even a large stone slab with

curious codes and symbols carved

into it.

Dubbed "the Money Pit," the

strange hole was eventually

excavated by treasure hunters to

a depth of feet when one of

them hit a booby-trap, which

flooded the shaft with seawater.

What was down there?

Nobody knows.

But this much is certain--

the island becomes an obsession

for all of those who try and

solve the mystery.

Six men have already lost their

lives in the process.

And according to legend, one

more will have to die before

the treasure can be found.

Subtitled by Diego Moraes
www.oakisland.tk

Well, we've got a lot

riding on this little coin.

Let's take a look on

the microscope.

So there's the coin.

This is a typical

Spanish eight maravedí.

They were typical coins.

They were minted for almost

years or actually more...

Since discovering

an ancient Spanish coin in the

swamp last summer, brothers Rick

and Marty Lagina are convinced

they are on the right track to

solving the mystery of Oak

Island.

Now, along with their friend and

business partner Craig Tester,

they have traveled to Tampa,

Florida to visit the offices of

Global Marine Exploration, a

company that specializes in

salvaging artifacts from

shipwrecks.

So, here in the center

of the coin is an eight, which

was for eight maravedís.

And a maravedí was

worth what?

It's-it's-it's a

penny, just like a hundred

pennies makes a dollar to us

today.

But a penny?

I mean,

you could buy a piece

of bubble gum with it?

Although the

Laginas already knew that the

object they found was a th

century Spanish coin, they have

come to Global Marine to find

out if it had really been buried

there for nearly four centuries

or if it had been planted more

recently.

What about that band

coming up off the top?

In the cracks there's

this white sediment from

wherever the coin sat.

Jason might be able to scrape it

out of there and we could

analyze it.

Yeah, do what you need

to do.

For the information.

We're thinking, "What

is this coin going to tell us?"

I'm positive the coin is valid

in the sense that that's an old

coin.

I don't believe it's a

counterfeit or anything like

that.

The question is, when was it put

there?

One thing that we can

do now is, if I zoom in really

close on this.

See the green and the white all

together right there?

To me, that looks like

oxidation.

And now I can compare this with

some other coins we found, which

I know this is oxidation.

You can see how that kind of

looks...

Very similar.

It's very similar.

Clearly this leads me to believe

that this thing did spend

several hundred years in the

swamp.

For years, treasure

hunters have believed that the

islands off the coast of Nova

Scotia were a haven for Spanish

and Portuguese pirates.

Finding a th century Spanish

coin might verify that not only

had there been human activity

on Oak Island before ,

but that the numerous legends

and stories about pirate gold

being buried on the island

might actually be true.

Okay, so what exactly

are we doing?

Well, right now I'm

gonna pour in here really

mild citric acid.

Just need a little bit.

And then we're just gonna

drop it in.

And this will slowly dissolve

the oxidation off that coin.

So in about an hour we should

know something.

Great.

Cleaning the coin.

That is probably the most

exciting thing.

The chance of finding out when

was that coin made?

We need to know the date.

All right!

We've been in here for about an

hour and a half, it looks pretty

good to me.

It looks way

different.

Yes.

Let's pull it out of here and

see what we got.

We'll give her a little brush.

Let's go ahead and take a peek.

There is some sort of a scroll

around the outer edge.

Is there anything else

on that?

Let's look and see the

other side of this thing.

There is some sort of a date.

Tell us what it says.

It's really hard to

make out-- .

Pretty sure?

I'm pretty sure.

?

More than one hundred years

before three area teenagers

found evidence of possible

buried treasure on Oak Island?

But was the coin left behind by

one of the people who buried the

treasure?

Or could it have been dropped by

someone who came to the island

looking for it?

Here's today's really

good news-- it's and it is

exhibiting the characteristics

of something that was lost in a

swamp, and you're sure of that.

I would agree with

that, yes.

It was more corroded than you

would expect from a land find.

A brackish swamp makes sense.

A brackish swamp makes

sense.

You want to know what

it is?

You remember Charles' statement

of a thousand-piece puzzle with

pieces missing?

Yeah.

Now there's only...

BOTH: .

Rick, Marty and

Craig are now convinced that the

coin found in the Oak Island

swamp had been lying there

undisturbed for nearly

years.

But still another nagging

question remains.

Zero start.

Ready?

Yep.

The test they had

conducted using the Lorenz

Deepmax X revealed that a

large amount of nonferrous or

precious metal-- like gold and

silver-- might be buried beneath

the place Norwegian researcher

Petter Amundsen called "the

Mercy point."

Ready to dive?

But when diver Tony

Sampson explored that area of

the swamp, no evidence of

nonferrous metal could be

found.

This is crazy.

You get a hit, it goes away.

Yeah, and you come up with

nothing.

How is that possible?

Eager to find out

why, the team travels some

miles northeast to the

headquarters of Kellyco Metal

Detectors in Winter Springs,

Florida-- the place where they

acquired the Deepmax X .

So, Stu, I have a

question.

Because last year, we kind of

had this sort of mystery hit

thing going on, right?

We hired this diver, he's

getting these hits, and he comes

up with nothing.

You... has that ever happened to

you?

Yes.

Yeah, it's-it's not... it's not

unusual.

If objects, for example, are in

the ground or in the water,

they-they start developing a

matrix.

It's almost as if the... the

metal down there bleeds and if

you have different particles

around, eventually the matrix

builds and builds.

It becomes larger.

That's what we had.

So you get a big hit

on it.

Right.

According to

Kellyco CEO Stu Auerbach,

nonferrous metal objects-- when

placed in water over an extended

period of time-- can begin to

deteriorate and form a type of

metal cloud underwater,

resulting in false readings that

suggest the presence of

something even larger.

Well, you go and you

start digging and the first

thing that happens, you've

disturbed the soil.

And it breaks the entire

contact.

So now your diver broke it.

Well, actually, I find

that encouraging, 'cause we-we

thought it was just a glitch,

a-a phantom, a... something.

I believe, if that's

happening, there's probably

metal down there.

You're going to run that area

again?

Yes, I think that,

uh, we've got a real good

opportunity to go up if we can

get out on the ice...

Yes.

...and you can walk

over the swamp.

Well, look, let's...

let's get up there and do it.

I mean, we appreciate your help,

your willingness to have another

go at this.

Yes, sir.

By returning to the

now-frozen swamp in winter, the

team hopes they can once again

use the Deepmax X to gather

more accurate data... data which

may confirm that the legends of

an incredible treasure being

buried on Oak Island...

are true.

It is winter on Oak

Island.

A time when the island is

determined to keep its secrets

hidden beneath layers of ice and

snow.

Okay, let's get the

sled.

Yes, like that...

Should we see how it slides?

Yeah!

That should work.

Should be good.

This-this thing sits

right up on the bed.

One week after

their meeting with Kellyco in

Florida, Rick and Marty Lagina

have returned to Oak Island to

get more accurate scans of the

now-frozen swamp.

Big brother is going

to sit back here and make sure

everything stays together.

Right?

Guaranteed, on my

honor.

For Rick, finding

treasure on Oak Island would

fulfill a lifelong dream-- one

the retired postal worker has

had since he first read about

the island in ... when he

was just years old.

For Marty-- a successful

businessman and engineer in the

energy industry-- it would prove

that the countless hours and

millions of dollars he and the

team have invested so far have

not been in vain.

Feast your eyes.

Isn't that lovely?

Over where you have

land like that, we can, we can

get in there with a CTX ,

right up along the bank.

I think that'd be well worth

going out and looking at.

Kellyco

representative Dave Spencer has

come to Oak Island from Florida

with the latest in metal

detecting equipment.

GARY: I like the look of that

ridge.

That's a great vantage point.

Really looking forward to metal

detecting in there, yeah, for

sure.

And with him are

fellow treasure hunters Gary

Drayton and the father and son

team, Bob and Robert Leonard.

I think the first

priority is getting the...

getting the swamp cleaned out,

so we can actually do some

detecting with the VLF machine

on that spit of land over there,

with the trees.

Being out here in the

swamp brings back the memories

of finding the coin and that

changes everything.

I was getting pretty close to

fed up last summer, until we

found that.

Now I'm ready to keep going.

Plus, it's nice to have the

whole team here now.

This sort of fellowship of the

dig.

The group that's out

here now, I'm glad that they're

here.

Everybody brings in a little

piece of help.

I've got, you know, a brush hog,

which is designed to do the

work.

And here's Dave Blankenship.

He's got a lawn tractor, for

God's sakes, in the swamp, over

the ice, cutting down

vegetation.

As the son of

veteran treasure hunter Dan

Blankenship, Dave Blankenship is

considered a key member of the

Oak Island team.

He has been working on the

island with his father for

nearly years, and knows the

island like the back of his

hand.

While they're

putting the coil together, we'll

go out and, uh, start marking

these grids.

By gridding and

scanning the frozen swamp, the

team hopes they will get more

precise data than they collected

last summer.

Trying to scan through layers of

muck while walking on slippery

plywood had made the task nearly

impossible.

Once the data is collected, it

can be analyzed in a

three-dimensional map.

If all goes well, the map should

indicate exactly where items of

interest-- and possibly

treasure-- could lie hidden.

I want to get four

people in the corner, and

lift... lift this thing up.

Need to do the ground balancing

on that.

Although the team

is using the Deepmax X -- the

same high-tech metal detector

they used last summer--

Kellyco's Dave Spencer has now

equipped it with a larger frame

coil and mounted it to a sled.

As the team pulls the coil along

the ice, it sends a powerful

magnetic pulse into the earth,

enabling it to find metal

objects up to feet deep

underground.

Get me some data!

Ready?

Go.

I'm not getting

anything.

Stop.

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

The numbers aren't coming up.

We've got nothing over there,

and I mean nothing.

We've started running the

Deepmax X equipment...

Ready?

...and we're not

getting anything.

Go.

I mean, I'm watching the graph.

I-It's kind of disappointing.

You know, will that turn around?

I don't know.

So?

Results?

Nothing spectacular.

Let's do A- and just

keep on going.

We'll do A- , A- , A- , A- .

But that's why we're

running the whole swamp.

'Cause I believe that there's

something in this swamp, and

this equipment is gonna confirm

whether I'm correct or I'm not.

There are those who

believe what lies deep beneath

the Oak Island surface may not

just be one treasure, but

several.

During the Elizabethan era,

Oak Island was thought to

be rich with deposits of gold

ore, but after a British mining

expedition returned with ,

tons of iron pyrite sulfide,

or fool's gold, the island's

extensive maze of underground

mineshafts was quickly shut

down... or was it?

According to this theory, a

handful of the mine's original

investors believed the abandoned

tunnels might serve another,

possibly more strategic

purpose.

It would become a virtually

impenetrable vault for the

world's most priceless

treasures.

Treasures that would include

everything from the golden

menorah of Solomon's Temple to

the Ark of the Covenant...

the Holy Grail...

and even the lost manuscripts

of William Shakespeare.

And now it's at

complete zero.

Oh?

Yep.

What the hell's going on?

Now I'm getting a little here.

Just a tiny, little bit.

Another bar.

Two more bars.

Big brother's

relentless over there.

There he is, no hat, no gloves,

freezing cold out here.

But he's intense, and I think

that's a good thing.

Little bit, little bit

more, now she's climbed up quite

fast.

Got to be something here.

That's as high as it's gotten so

far.

Look, see?

Look at that.

Look at it-- it just keeps

climbing.

Big spike here!

Big spike.

Still spiking!

That's exactly the way it was

last year.

What's going on then?

See for yourself.

It went to over .

The hell does that

mean?

On these graphs in

here, if it hits, like, a % of

the potential graph, you're in

maybe a ferrous material.

And if it goes beyond , up to

, , you're in, uh, you're in

highly conductive metals-- gold,

silver.

Finally, the team

has found signs of something

buried beneath the ice.

But what?

Gold?

Silver?

Precious historical artifacts?

This is exactly the way

it should be reading compared to

last year's data.

Rick!

Did it repeat?

Yes.

Yeah.

Keep going!

Rick was over the moon because

he's getting big numbers out

there in the swamp, which is

what we were hoping for.

But I'm not sure that means

anything till it's processed

through the computer.

I'm excited, but I'm cautious

about getting too excited.

It confirms everything

I believed last year.

That that data was good and this

data confirms it.

I'm happy as I can be.

Let's go back and run it.

We'll find out where

we stand.

And then we dig.

And then we dig.

After concluding

another day's work, Marty,

Rick, and the Oak Island team

bring Kellyco's Dave Spencer to

the home of Dan Blankenship in

order to share with him the

results of today's scanning.

Hey, is somebody at

the door?

Daniel!

Hey, Marty.

How you doing?

Man, good to see you,

sir.

Yeah, it's good to

see you, too.

I got a whole crew.

Hi, Jack.

Good to see you.

At years old,

Dan Blankenship enjoys the

status of a living legend.

He has spent nearly years

looking for treasure here and

remains an important source of

information to Rick Lagina and

the entire Oak Island team.

All right, Mr.

Spencer.

Yeah, I'm just getting

the data where I can access it.

So, we were running this data

all day.

We had some interesting hits

that we were wanting to look at.

We got some pretty deep

indications that I want to go

over.

Can you differentiate

between ferrous and nonferrous?

Absolutely.

We want nonferrous.

That's correct.

Want them little

gold bars about the size

of this table.

Let's have a look

here.

Enough foreplay.

Let's get going.

Okay, hang on.

This anomaly is of-of

significance.

The two smoke stacks,

the fact that they're darker,

does that mean that you got

higher readings in them?

No, all this

is doing is giving you a

reference of depth and then

whether it's ferrous or

nonferrous.

What you're looking for

is the color at the tip.

That is the buried object.

And the red is a large,

nonferrous object.

You definitely have something

here with the reds.

The one that's of interest is

this nonferrous target here.

It looks like it's about to

feet long, and it's, like,

about three feet wide.

Close to the size of this table.

David, seriously?

Hey, you asked me to

run the data.

I know, I know, I

know.

I'm not getting paid

to explain it.

I know, I know.

Um, but wait a second, so what

would that be?

Bob had some thoughts.

He was thinking it could have

been a shipwreck.

And if they wrecked a ship on an

island, they would abandon the

ship, take treasure off the

ship, and bury it, and then put

indicators then at someplace

else, with the intent of coming

back, uh, to pick up treasure.

A shipwreck?

Buried in the island swamp?

There are some who speculate

that Oak Island was at one time

two separate islands, but were

joined together in order to hide

something of great size.

Could a pirate horde contained

in a hidden shipwreck really be

the answer to this -year-old

mystery?

It's been well-documented that

the waters surrounding Oak

Island were frequented by

pirates and privateers from

Spain, Portugal, England and

Scotland.

One notorious privateer, Captain

William Kidd, even claimed to

have hidden a fortune somewhere

east of Boston before his

execution in for piracy.

At this stage of the

game, what would you do if you

were us, David?

I would be

attempting to drill down.

Really?

Why not?

Because we can't get

in there and dig it.

We're in a friggin' swamp.

Just in my experience,

in oil and gas, when you get an

anomaly like that, that lines up

with the way you're running

stuff, you know, I get concerned

it's-it's fake.

Okay, keep going.

It picked up

somebody's metal shoe or

something.

You're suspicious?

I'm suspicious.

No, you're

objective, and you want to see

more data, but I'm telling you

right here, we have an

indication that we have a hard

target, um, that it's absolute,

there's a target there.

Yeah, but to get it

out and spend it is a hell of a

problem.

You're thinking of

pursuing this?

Well, of course we

pursue it, Dan.

If I believed with %

certainty that there's a

nonferrous object, I'm-I'm

gonna find out what it is.

All right, look.

It's late, it's been a really

long day, we got more data to

get.

We got more analyzing to do.

Then we make a decision.

We got a lot of work.

Let's go.

Let's call it a day, guys.

Okay.

Rick and Marty

Lagina have made major progress

with their winter exploration.

They are eager to return in the

spring...

and find out, once and for all,

if there really is a mysterious

vault buried deep beneath the

Oak Island swamp.

But the island has been

frustrating treasure hunters for

centuries, and isn't likely

to give up its secrets

without
a fight.

Spring has come to

Oak Island.

But though the island's surface

has thawed, its reception to

anyone trying to unlock its

secrets is anything but warm.

Is this it?

Are we gonna do it this summer,

Rick?

Is it gonna get done this

summer?

If there's answers

there, we're gonna get 'em, and

that's that.

I don't care if we gotta wade

through feet of muck.

The data the

Laginas collected last winter

has led them to one conclusion:

they must once again dig in

the swamp, but it won't be easy.

Permitting process

should be fairly simple.

We know exactly what we need

to do.

First, they must

secure permits from the

government in Nova Scotia,

a process which could take

several weeks or months.

We're gonna get the

permits.

It's looking good.

And once the

permits are secured, they must

find a way to drain out the

water from the target areas.

Okay, Oak Island.

You've been winning so far, but

the Lagina boys and their team

are back.

We have a plan?

We have a plan.

All right, let's go

get dirty.

Yeah.

Rub a dub-dub...

four men in a tub.

While waiting for

the necessary permits, Marty

Lagina has called in Tony

Sampson, a professional diver,

to see if there is any

additional information that can

be gathered in the swamp during

a conventional underwater

exploration.

One, two, three!

We want to verify that

these hits we're getting are

real, and then we want to

excavate but we need more

permits to excavate in the

swamp; we'd probably need to

drain it again.

So if we can locate some

objects with a diver by going

underwater we want to do that

first.

Come on, Tony, find something.

Okay.

While Marty Lagina,

Craig Tester and Tony Sampson

prepare to explore the swamp,

Rick Lagina and the rest of the

Oak Island team have arranged to

meet at the home of Dave

Blankenship.

They are trying to develop a

method of draining just enough

swamp water from their target

areas so they can excavate.

Hey, guys, what's

going on now?

Try and pick up one of

those things and put it in the

truck.

Okay.

We ultimately might

need two of them.

One stacked on top of

each other.

Yeah.

In order to drain

the Oak Island swamp,

environmental regulations

require that, rather than being

poured into the nearby ocean,

the swamp water must be diverted

to another area on the other

side of the island.

We got a ton of water

up in the upper part; we're not

draining it at all.

No.

But when they

attempted it last year, Rick and

Marty found that the swamp kept

refilling almost as fast as they

could drain it.

But how?

Could it have been caused by

Oak Island's vast network of

underground booby traps?

If so, how will the Laginas get

around such an ingeniously

designed obstacle?

Last year we had some

insight into how difficult the

digging was in the swamp, so

David actually brought up the

idea that his father had

constructed wooden caissons, and

he thought that they might be

used perfectly in the swamp.

The wooden caissons

would work like tall, waterproof

shafts which, when placed over

a target area, could be

drained.

If successful, this would

allow the treasure hunters

to dig in the swamp without

having to drain the entire area.

There's eyehooks in

here, so let's hook the two

eyehooks and pick it up then

like that, eh?

All right, here

it comes.

The idea behind the caissons is

we have targets in the swamp

based on the metal detecting

we've done.

Okay, have a go at it.

And there's no way to dig in the

swamp without isolating the area

that we want to dig in.

Get out of there.

Always stay on the backside

of it.

The cool thing about

this is we're using caissons

that Dave and Dan Blankenship

both built years ago.

Grab that other small one!

Okay.

We use very quickly,

things they built with their

own hands.

It doesn't get any better than

that, plus it's good karma.

And we could use some good karma

on this island.

Come on, Tony.

Come up with it.

As the caissons

make their way to the swamp,

Marty's team has begun a

preliminary investigation near

the area known as "the Mercy

point," the same area of the

swamp where the th century

Spanish coin was found last

summer.

He's going deep.

I wonder if he's got something.

It is also the area

where the Deepmax X indicated

there could be large deposits of

nonferrous or perhaps precious

metals.

Anything, Tony?

Some weird shape under

the mud.

I can't quite tell what it is.

I'm gonna feel around first

to see if I can find anything

metallic around it.

Come on, Tony.

Come up with something for us.

All right, he's on to something

there.

What the hell is that?

All right, he's onto

something there.

Diver Tony Sampson

has just indicated that he has

found something interesting at

the bottom of the Oak Island

swamp.

But what could it be?

Another Spanish coin?

Evidence of a buried pirate

ship?

Or could it be something of even

greater significance?

What the hell is that?

It's a big tree stump.

Well, that's weird.

What's that doing out

in the middle of nowhere?

Tony finds this big,

massive piece of wood that looks

like a piece of a stump.

That could be significant,

because I don't know how a tree

could grow underwater, if this

is a natural swamp and has been

here a long time.

For years,

researchers have speculated that

Oak Island's strange,

triangle-shaped swamp was

man-made, and possibly created

to conceal a vast underground

treasure vault.

The evidence of an oak tree

stump at the bottom of the

swamp could be a significant

discovery, as oak trees cannot

grow in water.

Could this be proof that the

claims about the swamp being

man-made are true?

I can swim it over to

the shore if you want it, Craig.

Yeah, we want it.

Let's get that tested for age,

and we'll see what happens.

Although Tony

Sampson's dive of the swamp did

not yield evidence of precious

metals or priceless artifacts,

the discovery of what might be

an oak tree stump at the bottom

of the swamp has added fuel to

Rick and Marty's efforts to

explore the area.

Let's set one right

here.

Right there?

Drop 'em both right

here.

They are now more

eager than ever to see if the

caissons they obtained from Dan

and Dave Blankenship will help

them find out, once and for all,

if the stories and legends about

a secret treasure vault are

true.

Good?

Yep.

Finally, the

caissons are carefully set to

rest near the edge of the swamp.

But before they can be used,

Rick and Marty must wait for the

necessary permits.

It is a slow-- and at times

frustrating-- process.

We all done, buddy,

or what?

No.

Now we have to use 'em.

Oh, yeah.

That's the next step.

That's the next step.

That's the big step.

There it is, out there.

At the end of

another long day, Rick, Marty

and the team adjourn to what

they affectionately call "the

w*r room."

Lorenz is indicating

that there are four significant

anomalies that we should dig.

And that's from the

deep metal detector?

Yes, the X .

You know, I'm a little

reluctant to think we're going

to dig all over in the swamp.

Tony got nothing in here, Rick.

Nothing.

And I mean, Tony did a nice job.

But we have to look at

that.

We have to.

Well, here's the deal,

Rick.

I'm kind of sick of the swamp.

I mean, how long have we been

slogging around in this swamp

and are almost at square one?

Not that long.

What do you mean "not

that long"?

I think we've probably--

Well, in the context of

the discovery processes, we've

not been in here hardly at all.

How long were you in -X?

Years?

Years, yeah.

We always agreed-- all

of us, we always agreed, "Let's

put the swamp to bed."

Oh, what does "put it

to bed" mean, Rick?

What does it mean?

It means exploring them

to the point where they're

explainable.

This isn't going

anywhere.

It's silly.

Uh... you know, we have

a difference of opinion.

Okay.

You get any sibling

situation, there's always

rivalry.

So typically, you know, it's

gonna be a little "push and tug"

kind of affair to decide who

gets to do what.

Well, let's say we're

going to have a go at something,

probably.

Let's just say that for right

now, not for sure but probably.

Let me ask you a question, big

brother.

Can I at least do this?

Can I put an "X" through these

two?

Well, let's just put an

X through this whole thing.

Yay!

Okay?

But then GPR the four Lorenz

targets.

That's what I want to see before

I'm willing to say, "Okay, we're

done."

All right, we'll give

it a try, if... if we can all

agree that there's something

worth digging.

Yeah.

When I was young and

I was certain about something,

I was sure I was correct.

Now that I'm older, I realize I

could be wrong.

And you have to listen to other

people.

And so I look around the table

and I've got infinite respect

for this character here, and he

says, "No, we're not done."

And basically, I say, "Okay,

I'm going to listen."

'Cause if it was just my

decision, I would say, "No,

we're done with the swamp."

Yeah, you would have

been done.

I've had enough

stinky, nasty,

mosquito-ridden...

That's the reason why

you...

Yeah, I don't want to

go in that swamp anymore.

All right, we'll look.

Let's have a look.

But-but before we go to do that,

on the possibility that we will

dig, we don't have any permits,

right?

The permitting process

is taking place as we speak.

Is this a permit to

drain or a permit to dig?

Both.

Both.

You know, as soon as

they are willing to approve it.

That's where it sits right now.

Right, but the point

is, we're not gonna be digging

till we get those permits and

that could be a while.

Absolutely not.

All right, okay.

So that sort of concludes the

swamp.

Hey, guys.

Peter!

Hey, Peter!

How you doing?

You won't believe

this.

They want to take away

whatever you find on the island.

What?

What are you talking about?

That's today's paper?

Yep.

A bill they want to pass.

Who's "they"?

The MLA.

What's an MLA?

Somebody enlighten me, here.

Member of the

Legislative Assembly.

Member of the

Legislative Assembly.

Yeah, okay.

"Would establish a

heritage research permit and

scrap the existing treasure

hunting paperwork."

Can I see this?

Oh, my God.

News that pending

legislation could shut down Rick

and Marty's efforts on Oak

Island comes as a shock to

everyone on the team, especially

since they spent years securing

all the necessary archaeological

studies and permits required by

law.

We feel we've been good

partners with the province.

We came to the island and to the

discovery process with an intent

to leave a positive footprint,

so it's-it's disappointing, to

say the least.

Passed in , the

Oak Island Treasure Act

currently gives the Laginas and

their partners special

permission to access and keep

a percentage of any treasure

they find buried on their

property, provided that all

historical artifacts are turned

over to the government.

Although it might take years for

the proposed legislation, if

passed, to take effect, the new

law could make any serious

efforts to dig on Oak Island--

and thus solve the -year-old

mystery-- prohibitively

expensive.

So this adds a whole

nother wrinkle to everything.

This could also impact your

permits.

Yeah, that I would

say, definitely.

So, in the meantime,

let's go out of the swamp and

let's go and do a little

exploration at the Money Pit.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yup.

Yes.

Marty Lagina's

willingness to temporarily shift

the team's efforts from the

swamp to the Money Pit

represents a huge milestone in

the search for treasure on Oak

Island.

After it was located in ,

the Money Pit became the focus

of all treasure-hunting activity

on the island.

In -- at a depth of

feet-- a large stone slab with

strange, hieroglyphic markings

was discovered.

Using a simple deciphering

method, it was translated to

read, "Forty feet below two

million pounds are buried."

But when the stone was removed

from its resting place, the

shaft quickly flooded with

seawater, thwarting the efforts

of treasure hunters ever since.

To locate and re-excavate the

Money Pit will cost the Oak

Island team millions of

hard-earned dollars.

It will be both time-consuming

and extremely dangerous.

Look, I've always been

skeptical as to whether we

should dig up the Money Pit, but

on Oak Island, you need to

explore every avenue out here.

The Money Pit has never been

properly excavated.

Plus, it has been a childhood

dream for the both of us.

It singularly started

the obsession of Oak Island,

'cause there's so much mystery

about this place.

It's that big unknown.

That's what we're chasing.

For more than two

centuries, hundreds of men and

women have come to Oak Island in

an effort to solve the

-year-old mystery.

And now, it is Rick and Marty

Lagina, armed with modern

equipment and a broad range of

technical know-how, who are

determined to succeed.

It won't be easy.

The Money Pit has devoured the

fortunes of many would-be

treasure hunters.

It also comes with an infamous

curse that seven will have to

die before the mystery can be

solved.

This season on The Curse of Oak

Island...

The Money Pit-- I want

to see what's down there.

It's time to dig.

What you're looking for is

another shaft in the swamp.

There's gonna be more

danger.

We're about to dive -X.

Are you saying you're caught?

Yeah.

Abort the dive.

I cannot hear you.

We're gonna run a

side-scan sonar.

Those are boxes.

There is a chamber there.

Yes, with man-made objects.

...is this top of the vault.

Looks like we might have
been, right.