[foreboding music playing] [Rick] Hey, Paul. Good morning, guys.
How's it going? Oh, we're hoping for an update. So, uh, we sent a drill in.
A couple holes. Good man. [narrator]<i> As a new day begins
on Oak Island,</i> <i> for brothers Rick
and Marty Lagina,</i> <i> they arrive in the fabled
money pit area</i> <i> to check on the progress
of an operation</i> <i> that they hope
will finally reveal the answers</i> <i> to a 229-year-old
treasure mystery.</i> [Paul] Getting close. First hole, uh,
kinda seemed like it was deflecting off a wall. Where are we again? Sorta-- it would be
the north side. [narrator]<i> One week ago,</i> <i> after extending
the mid-18th century structure</i> <i> known as the Garden Shaft</i> <i> down to a depth of 90 feet,</i> <i> representatives
from Dumas Contracting Limited</i> <i> used a corm drill</i> <i> to penetrate
a mysterious tunnel</i> <i> located at a depth of 95 feet,</i> <i> which is believed
to run due west</i> <i> toward an area
known as the Baby Blob.</i> <i> It is in this region
where water testing,</i> <i> that was conducted in
previously drilled boreholes,</i> <i> had detected high trace
evidence of silver,</i> <i> gold, and other metals</i> <i> between 80
and 120 feet underground.</i> There's a structure
of some sort down there, a wooden structure of some sort, and you're about
to enter there, right? That's right. Okay. That's enough said for me. [Paul] So, today,
we put in the landing. We're adding another set. [narrator]<i> Now,
after unsuccessfully drilling</i> <i> into the bleak tunnel
for a second time,</i> <i> over the course
of the next week,</i> <i> Dumas will proceed
with constructing</i> <i> the final level, or "set,"</i> <i> to extend the Garden Shaft</i> <i> down to a total depth
of some 95 feet,</i> <i> where they hope to intersect</i> <i> the mysterious passageway</i> <i> and find out
what it may contain.</i> We've invested a lot
of time and energy... <i> delineating this tunnel,</i> <i> and I think
there's great anticipation</i> <i>on everyone's part to try to...</i> <i> well, not only
to put eyes on it,</i> <i> but to see where it may lead.</i> [Rick] If the tunnel
predates the shaft, it makes the tunnel
far more interesting than just finding
a "previously unknown" tunnel. -So it's all good news.
-Yes. I'm starting to get eager now. -[laughing]
-Got my toes tickling there! So close you can smell it
there now. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-All right. Let's let him get back to work, because we're poised
to finally do this. -Okey-doke. Let's go, guys.
-Yeah. -Thanks, Paul.
-Okay. Thank you, Paul. [narrator]<i>
The following morning...</i> -Ready?
-Yep. [narrator]<i>
...while representatives</i> <i> from Dumas Contracting Limited</i> <i> continue their efforts
to deepen the Garden Shaft</i> <i> in the money pit area...</i> -Are we gettin' our core?
-Here it comes right now. [narrator]<i> ...several feet
to the southwest.</i> God, I hope something good
is in this. [narrator]<i> Marty Lagina
and his son Alex</i> <i> join other members of the team
at borehole H8...</i> <i> where they hope
to find evidence</i> <i> of the chapel vault</i> <i> somewhere below a depth
of 180 feet.</i> It's a long one. [Marty] They're ready
to slice and dice. <i> We know we had
the canister H8 go down</i> <i> and it hits something big,</i> <i> that moved around underground
and went somewhere.</i> We're sure of that. Yeah, there's a lot
of water in there. <i> It is possible that H8</i> <i> is very near
the original money pit,</i> so we'd have to look deeper. How deep are we in? We're at 211. [Marty] 211?
It's gonna be a mess. Let's get our hands dirty,
gentlemen. Ready? This is the silt, and the clay, and there's a few little
clumps of material that might have fallen
from above. There's a little chunk of wood
right there. Just below all our silt
and whatnot. And this sits
just on top of bedrock. It's that right there, Charles. [Charles] Come on, be something. -[beeping]
-We got something. [Charles] I got something
right here. [Marty] Excellent. [beeping] [Marty]
Aaron, will you wash it down? [foreboding music playing] Okay, guys. -What is that?
-Pretty solid chunk of metal. That could be a piece
of the treasure vault. [mysterious music] -Oh, my goodness.
-Cool. And this material to here, that could be part of the plug. No question. The plug
could have disintegrated and fallen off the one side
and all that stuff. That's right. The plug
that fell out was nine feet, -or a little over nine feet.
-Right. And they chewed down
one side of it, so we could still get
a significant-sized plug on one side of the other
of the vault. Yeah. [narrator]<i> If the team has found
a portion of the plug,</i> <i> or the spoils,</i> <i> that may have pushed
the chapel vault</i> <i> deeper underground,</i> <i>when the H8 case was originally
excavated in 2017,</i> <i> could that mean that
they are close to pinpointing</i> <i> the legendary
chest of valuables?</i> -Hey, Rick.
-Hey. -Rick, how are you doing?
-Hey. How deep are we in? Well, we're at 211 down there. [Marty] But here's the thing, that little bit
could've been our plug. Because if there was
a plug in there, it probably didn't stay intact, it probably broke up. Well, that,
and it probably slid the treasure vault
to one side of the other. Slid to one side or the other.
Right. So... we need to move the rig and come down
in another location. I do believe that material, whatever was contained
within it, has fallen
to a far greater depth. <i> To what side
and what cardinal direction,</i> <i> we don't know.</i> <i> I think at this point,</i> <i> the only way to exploit</i> <i> this possible clue</i> is to continue to do
some drilling. Okay. We need to figure out
where the next hole is. Okey-doke. [Rick] That sounds like a plan. [Marty] Yep. Thanks, guys. [narrator]<i>
Later that afternoon...</i> [Rick]<i> Hey, Roger.
How are you doing?</i> [Roger]<i>
Soggy, but otherwise good.</i> Come in and sit down, guys. [narrator]<i> Rick and Alex Lagina,</i> <i> along with Scott Barlow,</i> <i> join Roger Fortin</i> <i> inside the Dumas trailer
in the money pit area,</i> <i> where they're about to receive
a carbon dating report</i> <i> regarding a wood sample</i> <i> that was obtained one week ago</i> <i> from the possible
treasure tunnel</i> <i>located below the Garden Shaft.</i> I got to call Craig and my dad and get the info
right from Craig, so... [Rick]<i> These guys from Dumas
bought into this process.</i> <i> This is not a job to them.</i> They're excited, they're
interested, they're invested. I see that somebody's
been down there a long time. [Rick]<i> They have a right to know</i> <i> what the fruits
of the labor has been.</i> <i> So I hope the results
are informative.</i> -[Craig]<i> Hey, Alex.</i>
-[Alex] Hey, Craig, um, I got Rick, Scott,
and Roger here, and my dad's on the other line. So, we are looking forward to the carbon dating results. [suspenseful music playing] [Craig on speaker] That is, yeah.
That is something. Yep. [narrator]<i> A carbon dating test</i> <i> that was conducted
on a wood sample</i> <i> collected one week ago</i> <i> from the possible
treasure tunnel</i> <i> below the Garden Shaft,</i> <i> has indicated that
the seven-foot tall structure</i> <i> could be nearly 400 years old.</i> [Craig on speaker] [Marty] [Alex] So there's a chance
this is connected to the original money pit. [Marty] Right. [narrator]<i> Incredibly...</i> <i> this is the second wood sample</i> <i> taken from the mysterious
tunnel this year</i> <i> that has been dated
to as early as the 1600s.</i> <i> This means
that it was likely constructed</i> <i> more than a century
before the discovery</i> <i> of the original money pit.</i> [Marty]<i> Dates are well,
well, well before</i> <i> any searcher should have been
in this area, tunneling.</i> [worker] I think that's in everybody's... you know, vision right now. To deepen that Garden Shaft, and find out what's down there. [Rick]<i> You have a tunnel,
previously unknown.</i> Heading in the direction where these high metal values are being derived, so, <i> if this is the original work,</i> <i>then you're a small step closer</i> <i> to the ultimate solution.</i> We have every reason to continue the process
of trying to understand what this tunnel represents. We have to get down there. Oh, absolutely. And that's pretty well
our next step, where we're at now, is just getting to it, exposing it. I think it's gonna answer a lot of questions -that we have right now.
-Yep. These results tell me
you need to work faster. -Yeah. Yeah.
-[all laugh] [Marty] Okey-doke. We'll let you
get to work, Roger. Okay. [Roger]<i>
Thank you, gentlemen.</i> [Rick]<i> Great news.</i>
