The Curse of Oak Island

Tonight, on the Curse of Oak Island...

Here it comes. The Garden Shaft project

is finally underway.

This way a bit.

Time to open Pandora's box.

Oh, boy. -Wow. -Wow.

I'll tell you, Jack,

it's the first time in 40 years of fieldwork

I have seen something like this...

buried.

They're hiding something.

Ooh, interesting.

Brilliant.

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.

All right, guys, D.5N-27.

-Yep. -We've moved east

of where we last hit the tunnel,

hoping to intercept it again.

Yep.

Another exciting morning

has begun on Oak Island

for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina

and their team as they continue their quest

to solve a mystery

that has captivated treasure hunters

for more than two centuries.

This is an attempt to hit the furthest east extension

of our tunnel, which in this area

will hit it at over a hundred feet.

-Yep. The tunnel that

we are following today

that emanates from the Garden Shaft,

it could be a conduit through which the water

with the high metal concentration is flowing,

bringing it to the Baby Blob.

That's a very good point.

Today, the team is drilling

a new borehole on their strategic grid

known as D5N-27,

located several feet east of the 82-foot-deep,

mid-18th-century structure

known as the Garden Shaft.

Here, they are hoping to once again encounter

a mysterious seven-and-a-half- foot-high tunnel

located some 100 feet underground,

which they have previously drilled into

numerous times over the past year.

A tunnel which has yielded high trace evidence of gold,

and which runs westward directly below

the Garden Shaft and into

another possible treasure zone

known as "The Baby Blob."

-53. 53? A broken run. Okay.

Let's pull it down and I'll drain it.

-Gentlemen. -Hey, fellas.

-Well, look who's here. -Morning.

Hi, guys. How are you doing?

Good. What are you finding?

Well, it's...

We're down 53 feet,

and as you can see,

-it's relatively soft. Soft? Okay.

It's always been an omen

that we're fairly close to a structure

when you hit soft material like this.

We're definitely close to a tunnel.

Well, I mean, it's going to be a little bit

before you guys get down to the 100-foot level.

So, we're gonna go run and do some stuff.

-Okay. -But if you get wood...

-Yep. -...or anything else,

-give us a call. -Yep, will do.

See you, guys.

This is gonna be the time we find something.

As the core-drilling operation

continues in the Money Pit area...

Hey, guys. Hi, guys.

Morning.

The Garden Shaft project

is very, very critical this year

and this will certainly push the search forward.

Agreed.

...Rick Lagina and Craig Tester,

along with operations manager Scott Barlow,

have gathered in the war room.

Thank you very much, Rick,

for accommodating our request for the meeting this morning.

They are meeting via videoconference

with Marty Lagina and representatives

from a mining and construction company

known as Dumas Contracting Limited.

So, Cameron and Tony,

they asked for this meeting.

I'm hoping this is

the much-anticipated code of practice

because we've got to get going on that project.

Right.

While the Oak Island team

continues core drilling

in an attempt to pinpoint new targets

around the Garden Shaft,

Rick, Marty and Craig are eagerly waiting

for Dumas to have a code of practice,

or new permit, approved by the provincial government

to vertically extend the Garden Shaft

by as much as 20 feet.

This operation would not only breach

the tunnel running below it,

but also allow the team to personally explore it

or build a new tunnel, if necessary,

in order to reach new targets

identified by the current core-drilling process.

Cameron, I'm going to turn it over to you.

I hope you have good news for us.

Uh, we do have favorable news to report.

Great.

We did receive notice

from the Ministry of Labor in Nova Scotia

that our code of practice has been approved and granted.

It's a culmination of an awful lot of engineering work

led by Mr. Linton

and his technical team, um, at the Dumas group.

And the ministry is confident

that we have the right means and methods

to go forward with the deepening of the Garden Shaft.

Great.

Further, we are actively

mobilizing to the island,

and look forward to getting

the shaft deepening work underway.

Excellent.

That was fabulously unrelenting good news.

The good news is

the work in the shaft can begin.

We have to take advantage of this time now,

in terms of the sonic drill program in the Money Pit,

because when Dumas arrives,

the areas we have interest in will be off limits,

so it might provide some answers to the overall mystery.

We couldn't ask for any better news,

so we're exceedingly grateful.

And, uh, we'll have everything ready

and in place and ready to start.

See you out there.

Looking forward to it.

-Thank you. -All right, take care guys.

-Bye, guys. -Thank you.

Let's get out there.

As Rick, Marty, Craig and Scott

conclude their meeting in the war room...

I'm really confident, mate.

The beach has got our money.

...metal detection expert Gary Drayton

and Peter Fornetti arrive at the shoreline

of Lot 5 to expand their search of an area

that has proven to be rich with important clues.

You pick the lucky flag, Pete.

Let's go right in the slipway.

Okay.

And notice where these flags are, mate.

They're dead opposite those two features,

the big round one,

and then that feature there

where all the archeologists are working further up the hill.

-Perfect line for a ship. -Oh, yeah.

Since Rick, Marty and Craig's purchase

of Lot 5 one year ago,

they have made compelling discoveries here

that suggest multiple secretive operations

may have taken place on Oak Island

before the discovery of the Money Pit in 1795.

These finds include three Roman coins

dating back as much as 2,000 years

and a 14th-century lead barter token that,

just like the lead cross that was discovered

at Smith's Cove in 2017,

may be connected to the medieval order

of the Knights Templar.

Near the center of the lot,

they have unearthed a rectangular foundation

that was deliberately buried

and could date to the same period in the 1700s

as the Garden Shaft.

And nearer to the shore,

they are also currently investigating

a mysterious circular depression

that may have been created sometime in the late 1600s.

All right. You picked this flag, mate.

Let's make it lucky.