The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight on The Curse of Oak Island...

All right! Here we go! Let's do this.

We're going underground in the Garden Shaft.

What in the hell is going on here?

It's crazy. We're encountering a lot of water.

I don't like the sounds of that.

Oh! Look at this.

-Oh, wow! -It's pre-Money Pit discovery.

This could've been used in the Money Pit.

Going in right now.

We're gonna run a camera in Aladdin's Cave.

Whoa!

Oh, my God. Look at that!

It could be man-made.

There is an island in the North Atlantic

where people have been looking for an incredible treasure

for more than 200 years.

So far they have found a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it,

man-made workings that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross whose origin

may be connected to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died trying to solve the mystery.

And, according to legend,

one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

Okay. Let's go see Roger. Yep.

A new day of excitement

and anticipation for discoveries

that could help solve a 228-year-old mystery...

Time to look underground.

...has begun on Oak Island.

Let's see what we got.

I want to see how the setup is.

I can't wait to go down there, honestly.

-Roger. -How's it going, guys?

Today's the day.

-Today is the day. -Thank you for taking me up on the offer.

That's good. That's good. Nice to see you, Rick.

We're taking you down on the offer.

Taking me down on the offer. You're right, you're right.

Let's do it, let's do it. We're ready.

In the Money Pit area,

brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are about to get

their first opportunity of the year

to personally inspect the ongoing renovations

that are being made in a mid-18th century structure

known as the Garden Shaft.

Before we get dressed, I just want to show you

a little something, when you go down there, when I talk

about something, you guys will have a good idea.

Okay. So...

towards the bottom of the shaft, this is Set 16 here.

This is where we're seeing that infiltration of water.

This is the bad area where all the water--

You'll see when we get down there.

Okay. That is very puzzling.

It is. It is.

And it's just this area. You'll see as you go down.

-It's not undermining your shaft, is it, Roger? -No.

That's why I want to try to stop it or at least contain it.

Anyways, we'll get you guys dressed.

-You'll have a good idea... -We have a great idea, yeah.

-Uh, this is yours. -This is me?

Yeah, and this is-- Rick, this is for you.

Okay.

As we all know,

200 and some years,

water's always been the problem.

Well, now we're encountering it ourselves

and we have to devise a way to shut it down,

or at least diminish it. The bottom of the Garden Shaft

could be incredibly important to solving the mystery.

It needs to be dealt with.

All right.

I feel like Ghostbusters.

Since returning to the island three weeks ago,

representatives from Dumas Contracting Limited

have extended the refurbished 82-foot-deep shaft

down to 87 feet, with the ultimate goal

of reaching a total depth of nearly 100 feet.

It is here that the Oak Island team hopes to breach

a mysterious seven-foot-high tunnel that they have discovered

during their strategic core-drilling operation.

A tunnel that has been carbon-dated

to as early as the 17th century

and which runs east to west toward the so-called Baby Blob,

where high concentrations of gold, silver and other metals

have been detected in groundwater

between depths of 80 and 120 feet.

-All right! Here we go! Let's go, guys.

Care needs to be taken to try to understand

what's happening inside of the shaft.

In a number of ways,

this, this water issue has to be dealt with.

-So, this is 60? -Oh, yeah.

So, starting from this set here, this is where our water starts.

Right here. And then it comes in along the side.

So, our plan today is we're gonna go one set above this.

We're gonna punch nine holes in here.

And we're gonna get some urethane in there.

It should stop all this water that we see coming in.

What they want to do

is use this fast-setting urethane.

They're gonna grout it and try and stop the water.

And you see those two 2x6's. See the crack?

They use a specialized compound--

expanding foam, if you will, in layman's terms--

spray it under pressure,

and as it expands, it will seal off

that intrusion of water, possibly completely.

Okay. I've landed.

All right.

Okay. Roger, I have lots of questions.

-Yeah. -Where are we compared

to where we were last year at the bottom?

-Are we below that depth? -That's right.

So we're about four or five feet lower

-in here. Yeah. -We're well below.

So right now we're at 87 feet from the top.

So we've gone down about four feet, roughly.

Right, but how far is that down there?

Uh, it's not very much further.

I'll just open up this up, this little hatch here,

so it'll give us a better idea.

Okay. So, we're looking at dirt

that nobody else have ever seen.

-Ever. Right? -That's right. Right there.

-That's for sure. I'll say this, Roger.

You're very close to that tunnel that we hope is

just a few feet below here.

-Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'd say. -Yeah. That's pretty cool.

It's a tunnel we didn't know anything about.

-It's not described in the narrative. -Yeah.

-We got to get down there. -And that's what I'm hoping,

like when we start this probe drilling

and we start punching away.

Yeah.

Short of an artifact recovery, gold, silver,

the most important relevance of this shaft

is that horizontal drilling.

Yeah.

Depending on what the team finds

once they reach the believed tunnel below,

Dumas will also be able to use a probe-drilling device

to search for evidence of valuables

up to 40 feet in every direction.

Should any important clues be discovered during this process

and the existing tunnel is inaccessible,

Dumas can construct a new tunnel in order to reach them.

If you're correct and you can drill 40 feet

off of that face and this face, we'll be able to literally

gain information from an 80-foot cylinder.

-Yes. -That's pretty amazing.

It's why we're here. It's why you're here.

Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

You know what, Rick, I got to praise him and his guys.

I mean, fine, I can stand down here and chitchat,

but this is not a good workspace.

No. No.

You've got it pouring down on top of your head all day.

Eventually, I'd get pretty weary. Yeah. -Yeah. Yeah.

We got a conduit somewhere that we're unaware of.

Oh, yes. If I get 50% of this water stopped

on the guys, I'll be a happy man.

All right. Should we get out of here? Are we all set?

Sounds good. And then we can get the boys down here...

Get the boys down here and let's go!

-Let's go deep. Absolutely.

While the operation in the Garden Shaft continues

in the Money Pit area...

...later that morning...

Okay, gentlemen.

Today, we have an important thing.

...Rick, Marty and Craig Tester have gathered members

of the team in the war room to receive

an updated report on water testing that has been conducted

in the Money Pit area from geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner,

chemist Dr. Matt Lukeman

and hydrogeologist Dr. Fred Michel.

I've always said there's nothing I like better than new data.

So, with no further ado, over to you, Dr. Lukeman.

All right, so we've done florescence testing

on all the water samples that we've run so far this year,

as well as all the ones last year.

We use fluorescence spectroscopy on the water

to see evidence of other things beyond metals,

such as traces of wood or other organic material in the water,

that gives us evidence of human activity.

Okay.

Fluorescence spectroscopy

is a process that uses

a high-powered beam of ultraviolet light

to excite the molecules of elemental compounds

in order to identify unusual materials

that may be contained within a specimen--

in this case, water samples that have been collected

from previously drilled boreholes

all across the Money Pit area.

So, you see, all the wells are listed along the bottom there