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NARRATOR: Tonight on "The Curse of Oak Island." RICK: Here we go. RICK: They're in the dark. MARTY: They can't see. RICK: Your imagination takes over. What's happening down there. J. HUTTON PULITZER: You're saying you're fine? Call the dive off. Abort the dive. And he just came over the pipe? They're down in the chamber. That looks like steps. MARTY: There's a chamber. Yes, with man-made objects. RICK: Those are boxes.
MARTY: What's the thing to the right of it? It looks very square. RICK: It sure looks like a tunnel. It does look man made. MARTY: We found it. NARRATOR: There is an island in the North Atlantic where men have been looking for treasure for more than 200 years. So far they've uncovered booby trapped flood tunnels, carved stones with strange symbols, 17th century Spanish coins, and evidence of a wooden vault covered in concrete. Six men have even lost their lives trying to solve the mystery. And according to legend, one more will have to die before the treasure can be found.
[suspenseful music] MARTY: You all good, Rick? Just keep talking to us. Good? RICK: Yeah. Good? RICK: Yep. J. HUTTON PULITZER: And there she goes, she's clear. You ready to come up? RICK: Yes. Comms go next. We gotta get the cage out so we don't pinch the lines, and comms go next.
NARRATOR: It is an important day in the history of Oak Island, as brothers Rick and Marty Lagina may be on the verge of one of the greatest breakthroughs in the more than 200-year-old mystery. Dan Henskee, be ready to start pulling lines. NARRATOR: They and their partners have arranged for a pair of professional divers to try and make it all the way to the bottom of 10X, some 235 feet underground. Once there, they are hoping the divers can find what treasure hunter Dan Blankenship claims he discovered more than 40 years ago.
Antique tools, a wooden chest, and even what appeared to be a tunnel leading in the direction of the Money Pit. MARTY: Somebody, get him a towel. He's gonna be frozen. You gotta get dunked in 50 degree water, big boy. NARRATOR: After a lifetime of reading and studying and two years of active searching, Rick and Marty are more convinced than ever that the legends about the island and the notion that something of enormous value is buried beneath it are true. This summer alone, they and their partners have found three more ancient coins, one of them possibly dating as far back as the days of the Knights Templar.
A tree stump buried in the Oak Island swamp and dated to between 1450 and 1640. What is it? That's what we're looking for. NARRATOR: A petroglyph of an eight pointed star, one matching ancient symbols believed to be more than 2,000 years old and evidence of a mysterious wooden vault covered in concrete and buried some 140 feet down in the infamous Oak Island Money Pit. You got cement, wood fibers running this way, wood fibers running that way. Wow, guys, do you think you're on the vault?
You did a great job, that's for damn sure. NARRATOR: But with all of the breakthroughs and all of the discoveries-- Take your shirt off and get that on. NARRATOR: --one persistent problem remains, and it's the same problem every treasure hunter on Oak Island has faced and been defeated by for two centuries-- water. Salty water. The one big problem with Oak Island, you know, is it's just a rabbit warren of incoming water from various old holes, shafts, tunnels.
How do we get down there? How do we do it? NARRATOR: Now, Rick and Marty are determined to find out if there could really be a back door into the Money Pit through 10X because finding it could literally save the team millions of dollars in challenging and risky excavation costs. The problem is, no one has risked diving down the 235-foot borehole in more than 20 years-- that is not until now. I got you on comms, but I got some horrible feedback. I got you on comms. NARRATOR: Today, with the help of author and treasure Hunter J. Hutton Pulitzer and divers Dan and Kathy Misiaszek, Rick and Marty are hoping that a dive to the bottom of Borehole
10X might prove to be the key to solving the Oak Island mystery. I've got the videos on. I've got-- I can see Flash in yours. OK, I've got you, Frog. I can see them both. I don't want you to descend yet. I want to make sure we got these comms worked out, standby. NARRATOR: Although Dan and Kathy, also known as Frog and Flash, are both experienced professional divers, no chances will be taken.
Emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, are on site. And safety diver John Tapper is standing by just in case there's an emergency. J. HUTTON PULITZER: We got a feed? MAN: OK, man. She's got 'em. KATHY: Yeah. NARRATOR: Using their communication lines, otherwise known as comms, the team at the surface will stay in constant contact with Dan and Kathy. They will also be able to monitor what is being recorded by the divers' underwater cameras in real time. Frog, we got a comm line, it looks like it's looped on you.
We've got comms wrapped up in something there. RICK: The prime directive is, of course, keeping people safe. The important thing is, getting people in the hole, achieving the objective, and getting people out of the hole. Safety first, objective second.
MARTY: The mission on the first dive was to get to the bottom, the first bottom, if you will, of 10X, 181 feet, see what the junk is on the bottom, see if the 27-inch hole is enterable. NARRATOR: Dug by Oak Island treasure hunters Dan and Dave Blankenship and their friend Dan Henskee in the early 1970s, 10X began as a 27-inch wide shaft that eventually reached the staggering depth of 235 feet. But after a collapse in 1976 that almost killed him, Dan Blankenship widened the hole to eight feet in diameter, down to a depth of 181 feet.
J. HUTTON PULITZER: Roger that. NARRATOR: Unfortunately for Dan and Kathy, the hole remains a tiny 27 inches wide from 181 feet all the way to the bottom. It's dark, it's wet, and the North Atlantic seawater that floods the shaft is just above freezing. And if all this wasn't challenging enough, just before the dive, the team was informed that four feet of debris may be covering the entrance to the 27-inch-wide hole. RICK: The first thing going through my mind is that this is dangerous. They're bobbing around inside an 8-foot steel column. So rapidly the concern level goes high.
Give me line. Roger that. NARRATOR: While Dan and Kathy make their way down the shaft, the ground crew helps feed the communication lines. It's a delicate task. Too much line could cause the divers to get tangled, while not enough could cause a deadly emergency if their breathing system fails. Now those are the lines that could pull their mask off if they're pulled too hard. Too much line. Standby. Call out your depth.
Thank you. OK. A little more line. It's more murky all of a sudden. Yikes. They're in the dark, basically, they're feeling around, just tactile. It was troubling, to say the least. It says 50, so you're 92 from top. Are you keeping track of time? They have it? Yeah, but if they can't see, I was just wondering. OK, guys, here's what I want you to do.
Turn your cameras at each other. Let me get just a good visual. Just turn your lights and cameras at each other. Let me get a peek. Holy [bleep], they can't even see each other four feet apart. Can you see your face visual? Do we have three greens? Frog, I can see your three greens. Flash, I need to see your three greens. Hold on, almost, just a little more, go up. OK, three greens, you're good. RICK: I honestly wouldn't be scared of that dive myself, except for one thing, getting stuck. That is so scary underwater.
Invisibility, it doesn't matter. But getting stuck is just catastrophic feeling. Frog, confirm you're OK. Flash, can you hear me? RICK: What was that? We've lost comms. Frog, confirm you're OK. Flash, can you hear me? NARRATOR: J. Hutton Pulitzer has just lost audio communication with his dive team, who are now submerged more than 60 feet underwater in 10X.
J. HUTTON PULITZER: Get me some comms. Come on, guys. Their comms go out. At that point, your imagination takes over. What's happening down there? NARRATOR: Even though Rick, Marty, and the team still have a video feed working, the murky conditions in 10X offer almost zero visibility. I see her hand, she's going to him. OK. Come on, guys, get me some comms. OK. Got comms.
come Flash, Frog, stand by for a minute. Look, when we lose comms, we need to work out a signal. Would it be appropriate to give you a gentle tug? OK. I'm not a diver, so when I see them on camera diving through, you know, water with no clarity, I mean, they're in the dark basically. And the fear factor goes way up because I can't relate to what they're doing. Flash, confirm you're OK. I don't like that cough. Guys, before you descend, I need to know you're OK, what's that cough?
OK, you sound-- you sound muffled. What's going on? OK. Thank you, very nice, very nice. I like that a lot. NARRATOR: With communications back up and working again, the divers continue their descent. They will first need to make their way down all 181 feet of 10X, before reaching the point where the hole shrinks from 8 feet in diameter to a mere 27 inches. But once down there, will they see what Dan Blankenship claims he saw more than 40 years ago-- antique tools, wooden chests, man-made tunnels? J. HUTTON PULITZER: I need a depth check. 83.
We're coming. It's coming through. NARRATOR: As the team feeds the divers more comms and breathing line to continue their descent, they must do so with extreme caution. With all the debris, old drill pipes, and a rusted ladder to contend with, a tangled breathing line could have deadly consequences. J. HUTTON PULITZER: We've got comms wrapped up in something there. As you go past that pipe, check if you see the line loop.
Feel if it's captured there. He's got too much line on him. I see slack in it, so that has to be one of the places it's caught up. OK. I had been nervous because when I went down there to the cut the ladder, I knew the riser pipe had fallen over. And I was concerned that it was the riser pipe because there is movement in that pipe.
So we lost communications, that was scary. But much more scary to me are the words that send a shiver up my spine, which is "I am stuck." I can't go up I can't go down. Frog, confirm you're OK. Frog, confirm you're OK and you're untangled.
Frog, confirm you're OK. NARRATOR: The dive team's greatest fear has happened. After diving more than 100 feet down into 10X, diver Dan Misiaszek has become trapped in a tangle of breathing cables and debris. NARRATOR: His wife Kathy must now make an agonizing decision. Oh, dear.
Guys, here's what we've got. If we've got one diver calling the dive, we need to abort. That's fine. Confirm, abort the dive. Flash, confirm that's OK and you're untangled. J. HUTTON PULITZER: Frog, confirm you're OK and you're untangled. NARRATOR: Although Dan got untangled this time, the next time he might not be so lucky. His wife Kathy fears the conditions in 10X are just too dangerous right now to continue the dive safely.
The dive is being aborted. OK, now we're pulling line. Hang on to your lines. MAN: OK, divers on the surface. J. HUTTON PULITZER: OK, we've got Flash on surface. Let's go with the bucket then, right? J. HUTTON PULITZER: We got Frog on the surface. Flash, we're extracting you first. NARRATOR: Luckily, no one was injured. And even though Rick and Marty didn't get the answers they were hoping for, they now know more about 10X and its current state than they
did when they started. They also know they will need to address some safety issues before attempting a second dive. That's the whole point of the first drive, figure out what needs to be addressed, what problems might arise. That was my feel about the first dive, it was just an acclimation dive, figure out what needs to be done. NARRATOR: Later that evening, Rick, Marty, and the Oak Island team meet in the war room with J. Hutton Pulitzer and divers Dan and Kathy Misiaszek.
Here, they will discuss the day's progress and also make some critical decisions. OK, you two. Phew, what a day. I don't know about the rest of these guys, but I was thinking, "come on up, come on up, come on up," through most of that dive. But I think we learned a whole lot. When Flash and I started going straight down side by side, we got jammed up. So we had to go straight down in single file. We also learned about temperature. And Flash got it on her computer. It's cold. It was right at 43. OK, but I don't know who was shaking more, you when you came out or me when you were down there.
I already know if I said, are you gonna go back in there, I know what you'd say. - Oh, absolutely. - Hell yeah. I knew it. Another dive, wanna go? Absolutely, let's go. All right, all right. We know so many of the hazards right now. And we can correct them. So now it's a much easier dive. That's what these people do, they dive to find out flaws in drilling rig platforms and to look for sunken treasure. And it's inherently dangerous. OK, we've talked about a lot of the obstructions and a lot of the difficulties. But the one thing we haven't addressed is the first scan showed four to five feet of sediment
and problems down there. What are we gonna do to address that? NARRATOR: Rick, Marty, Craig, and Dave are concerned that even if the divers can reach the 181-foot level on the second dive, there is still no guarantee they'll be able to make their way through the estimated four feet of sediment and debris which still blocks the 27-inch-wide shaft. We have decided, right? We have decided to try and put the mechanical gizmo down first. What is it? It's scanning sonar. I think it might fit down that 6 inch hole, you know, the one that Jordan drilled. Which one?
It was one of the casings towards the front. We put it down there last year to help clean up the bottom to bring up samples. And that goes all the way to the cavern? Clean shot. NARRATOR: One year ago Rick, Marty, and the team set up an extraction system which was designed to flush any loose debris, including evidence of treasure, out of the bottom of 10X. Although the operation did not produce any compelling evidence, outside of a few bits of metal and what appeared to be animal bones, Rick and Marty are now hoping that the drill casing that was left in the hole will allow a scanning sonar device to travel all the way to the bottom of 10X
and without encountering the four-foot-thick obstruction. To me, this is a no-brainer. It's two human beings versus a piece of equipment. Yeah, well, I agree with you 100%. OK, guys, we'll run the scans first thing in the morning. We'll make our decisions accordingly. Agreed. Everybody on board? Yep. Good. Thank you very much. NARRATOR: Although today's dive was not as productive as the team had hoped, the possibility that scanning sonar will accomplish the same thing has everyone's spirits renewed.
But could the team really be just hours away from finding out that what Dan Blankenship claimed he saw at the bottom of 10X is true? Are they finally close to solving the Oak Island mystery? NARRATOR: It's another morning on Oak Island, day two in the team's attempt to get information from the bottom of 10X. All this debris, if we gotta get them down in there-- Yeah. What I really want to do is just try to focus how to get this sonar down, especially if we don't know what even the further obstructions are.
I mean, this thing is designed to go where the divers can't go. NARRATOR: But unlike yesterday, before Dan and Kathy Misiaszek attempt their second dive, Rick and Marty have arranged for underwater visualization experts Nick Burchill and Brian Abbott of Kongsberg Maritime to drop the MS 1000 scanning sonar device down a 6-inch-wide drill hole that was dug into 10X the previous year. It should be able to bypass the four feet of sediment and debris that blocked the 27-inch portion of the shaft and go all the way to the bottom.
OK, Nick, you got it all doctored up? Yeah, come on over for a second. What we've done is we've taken the protective cage off. And I've just basically put some rubber around this to protect it. When it goes down, we're probably going to have some settling. And we may not even get it to settle at all. We may not be able to get the data. Don't say that. Let's go. NARRATOR: The MS 1000 scanning sonar device sends pulses that echo and can help to create a three dimensional image of environments and their features. In other words, if all goes well, the team may be able to get their first look at the bottom of 10X, since Dan Blankenship recorded his findings nearly 40 years ago.
We want data so badly we can't stand it. I mean, poor David's been this far away from that cavern for what, 30 years now? Yeah. Time to do. Let's do. Cable's coming. I've got the cable. Send her down. OK. NARRATOR: As the MS 1000 scanning sonar device makes its way down the 235-foot shaft, the team waits anxiously for evidence that something man made could be lying on the bottom. All right, here we go. Who's the best screen to look at, his? They're both the same. They're both the same? Are you able to record this? Or-- Yeah we're recording everything. So we're looking at some stuff here.
Nick has dropped the sonar through the pipe. Wait, wait, wait, wait. I gotta get oriented, guys. We just came out of the pipe. Where are we? This is a void. We're in a void. Really? Yeah. What are the dimensions? Well, hang on here. The sonar is moving a little bit. But one of the things, Brian, I think I'm still at the end of the pipe. So if I drop it down a couple more inches-- Yeah, let's do that. --with any luck, that void will get larger. It's just peaking out the end of the pipe. So what this is doing right now is it's scanning and it's looking at the walls with a very narrow beam. So you're not seeing floor to ceiling,
you're only seeing a slice of it near the ceiling. So we're gonna lower it down and it's gonna take another slice that's further down. Come on up, Dan. Is Dan here? Dan. Dan, come here, sit right here. In the 27? No, they're down in the cavity, in the chamber. Sit down, Dan, then you can see the screen. NARRATOR: Of all the people on Oak Island, no one is more invested in 10X and what does or doesn't lie at the bottom of it than Dan Blankenship. At 91, Dan considers 10X his legacy.
And he remains convinced that the things he claims he saw down there, like antique tools, wooden chests, and even a man-made tunnel leading toward the Money Pit are real. His only regret is that he ran out of money before he could prove to the world that he is the one who found the key to solving the mystery. OK, the sonar is starting to settle out. Look at this, guys. Oh my goodness. Look at that.
Look at this, gentlemen. What's that? It's an opening. But that's also rectangular in shape. That's the way it's cutting back, its rectangular. I'm an engineer, I deal in square, rectangular, and round. And this is rectangular. Mother Nature doesn't make rectangular things. NARRATOR: Brian Abbott has been investigating and helping to visualize underwater objects for more than a decade. In addition to finding everything from shipwrecks to underwater cities, he was one of the first to fully map the wreckage of Titanic in 2010.
So it's like a doorway or another tunnel? So there's two tunnels, one coming-- It could very well be. --in, as you say, on the opposite side, one going out. NARRATOR: Man-made tunnels? Could this be the first indication that what Dan Blankenship claimed he saw at the bottom of 10X was true? NARRATOR: But if there really are man-made tunnels, who built them? And where, if anywhere, do they lead? What is that thing sticking right there in the middle of this rectangle like?
What is that? I don't know. I mean, it's a rectangular object. How big is that? 4.3 feet wide. And from this point back here to back here is 7 feet. It does look man-made. And there's multiple objects. I told you that. NARRATOR: Man-made objects at the bottom of 10X, 235 feet beneath the surface of Oak Island? OK, so what do we know for sure? There's a chamber, for bloody sure, right? Yes, with man-made objects. You're willing to say that for sure?
Yes. If I was to send a diver down on targets like that, I would feel comfortable. I think that's enough information to have a diver check it out. Because the best way is with the human eye. You got another dive in you? Hell yeah. We're ready to go. Hell yeah, we're ready to go. Let's go. - Let's get this over with. - Yeah. It's time. If I was to send a diver down on targets like that, I would feel comfortable. NARRATOR: It is a tense situation on Oak Island.
A sonar scan has just revealed that there could very well be man-made objects lying at the bottom of 10X. Suit up? Yeah. OK. NARRATOR: Now professional divers Dan and Kathy Misiaszek will attempt a second dive down the 235-foot shaft in an effort to verify this incredible discovery with their own eyes. There you go. NARRATOR: But even if they can safely make their way down the portion of the hole that is 8 feet wide, they will still have to make the final 54 feet of their descent through a narrow shaft that is only about two feet wide.
Hey. Where's Dave? We need to talk to you guys. Got a minute? I got all kinds of minutes. What's the matter, boss? All right, here's the deal. I find it hard that I'm even saying this because I want to get in that chamber more than I ever have. And I'm going a downer Yeah, we know that. Right. I want to cancel the dive. Why? They got stuck up in the big hole. Right, so in the little hole, they're really gonna get stuck.
Yeah. Yeah, and then what? You gotta get somebody to go after 'em. In goes a third man. Right. You know, there's a thin line between brave and foolhardy. And I don't want to risk three people's-- No, I agree with you 100% on that. I'm on board. Let's go break the news to 'em. All right. Are you ready for a tuck in? Yeah. Hey, guys. Hey. This is not gonna be easy for me to say, OK, but we just had a sidebar there. We want to call the dive off. You want to call the dive off? We do. Let me tell you why. And by the way, it's no reflection on either one of you. But I'm not risking your lives.
I'm afraid you're gonna go down there and try and get in that hole and I know you can't do it. It would be a dangerous dive without the unknowns. There's a lot of unknowns. It was an easy decision to abort the second dive, real easy from my standpoint. The sort of risk/reward ratio was no longer in place. You have a significant risk and you have no chance of the reward. You know, why do it? Let's unpack you from these ovens.
Yeah, I'm sure you're dying in there. Thank you two. We think it's the right decision. NARRATOR: For Rick, Marty, and their partners, it has been a day filled with mixed emotions. Although they are disappointed they had to abort Dan and Kathy's second dive, they have just found evidence that Dan Blankenship really did discover a lost treasure chamber at the bottom of 10X more than 40 years ago, a treasure chamber that might also lead directly into the Money Pit. OK, gents, this is gonna be good. Hutton tells me that we're ready to look at the data down in the cavity 10X. It's been at least partially processed. So we got Brian on the line.
Brian, good to see you again. Good to see you, guys. How we doing today? Well, we're on pins and needles, yeah. So we've got preliminary results of our sonar work down 10X. NARRATOR: Since finding what appeared to be man-made objects at the bottom of 10X, geophysicist and sonar expert Brian Abbott has spent the last few days translating the raw sonar data into a more understandable, three dimensional format. Now, remember that we're taking individual slices like the page of a book and we're stacking them together to give us a representation of what the cavern kind of looks like and the perspective of it.
We'll go to a view. We'll zoom in a little bit. And so we're dropping down through the shaft into the 27-inch hole that was drilled. Then, we're into the cavern. And our widest point here is about 12 feet. And this is about eight and a half feet across. One of the things that just sticks out is this right angle, as you see right through here, which is unusual, a lot of times, in nature. Well, we've got this really unique feature here. It's about two feet long, a foot wide. You can see two things put together like clay pots, baskets.
I don't think it's geological. It's too elliptical in shape. But it's, I think, one of the unique features that we were able to pick up on the sonar there. What's the thing due to the right of it? It looks very square. BRIAN ABBOTT: It's one of those square features, maybe man-made. It also looks like there's a side tunnel possibly coming into this room. What are those dimensions, Brian, of those openings?
BRIAN ABBOTT: It's probably about 7 feet across. It's about 5 feet wide. I mean, it sure looks like a tunnel. NARRATOR: At last, Brian Abbott's interpretation of the sonar data confirms what Dan Blankenship claims he discovered at the bottom of 10X more than 40 years ago. But now it looks as if there isn't only one man-made tunnel that enters the underground chamber, but two, one that appears to lead to the Money Pit and one that might lead to the ocean or perhaps another part of the island. BRIAN ABBOTT: The other thing that was really intriguing to me, I can't figure this thing out for the life of me, is this right here.
It's 14 inches, I think it is. It shows up on every scan. It's a stand alone thing. So whether it's a column, a load-bearing beam. Brian, that column, the column you see, you mentioned if it's metal, you might see harmonics. Did you see any harmonics in there to indicate it could be a steel pipe? Or do you think it's wood or something? It could be wood. If there's a great big column of wood, this is a man-made deal. A tree didn't fall in there. Wood wins. If we know that's wood and it's a column-- BRIAN ABBOTT: The cavern is very unique.
I see right angles, I see squares, I see rectangles. I think there's targets down there. Again, if I could put divers on these targets, I would. Sounds great, thanks, Brian. Thank you. OK, take care. One thing's for sure, the data we now have, to me, is the best data that's ever been obtained on Oak Island. Well, look, here's the deal. We have some things we gotta decide. Yes, sir. You have contributed an enormous amount to our quest here. And we've gotta kick it around and see where we go. That's understandable.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity. I want to thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you so very much. I appreciate it. RICK: Finally, we've got very accurate, analyzable data. It's an impetus to further explore 10x. And that's the whole question, isn't it? What's in the bottom of 10X? Anyway, so that leads us to, what is the enthusiasm level for getting to the bottom of 10X?
NARRATOR: Rick, Marty, and their partners may finally have definitive evidence that in 10X, Dan Blankenship found, not only a short cut into the Money Pit, but what could be a second, perhaps even larger treasure vault. But now the team faces an even greater problem. How can they get to it, some 235 feet below the surface? What is the enthusiasm level for getting to the bottom of 10X? I'm 100%, you know that. 100%, and this only just makes you more-- Yes, we've gotta do it in the dry. Because you can't see your hand in front of your face down there.
We're gonna figure out how to get to the bottom of 10X. I'm not sold on a dry entry yet and I have some thoughts about that. I'm with you. Trying to pump it dry and send people down there scares me that something could implode. And so we just need to-- Dan? --think it through. Do you think that 10X is safe, the shaft, if it was pumped dry. In my opinion, it's safe to 181 feet, down to bedrock.
Beyond that, I would not say. You wanna drill a four-foot hole? Drill a four-foot hole. OK, no problem. And then we'll just maybe send a diver down. And if that doesn't work, then when we dry it out, he can put a ladder down. There and what's great How about you, big brother? Look, I've always been in, and I'm all in. I always was and I always will be. We're gonna find the answers. Look, come spring, we're down there. The fact that we're going to do it is a certainty. Everyone agrees, we're absolutely, positively, for the final time get to the bottom of 10X and find out what's in there.
We spent two years acquiring data every which way we could. I mean, it's sort of like Churchill said about the first battle they won at El Alamein. He said it's not the end. It's probably not even the beginning of the end. But perhaps, it's the end of the beginning. So I think that's where we are right now. We've gathered all the data. Next season, I think it's gonna be a lot more about moving dirt. To the dig. Dan. [laughs] To the dig.
We're on a quest, my brother and I and our team. We're trying to do something that no one else has been able to do. It's a challenge. It's fun. It could be rewarding. We're lucky to be able to do it. You know, this is an adventure. Who could have thought that an eight-year-old and a 10-year-old reading the "Reader's Digest" would turn into a worldwide hunt for the greatest treasure on Earth? Well, who could have guessed that? You can't write that stuff. You can't make it up. But it seems to have happened. Whoa. If there's retrievable artifacts or treasure, the thrill, for me, is simply going to be this.
It's not gonna be about retrieving those things, it's gonna be about giving Dan Blankenship the satisfaction of knowing that his life's pursuit has been real. The man labored for years on faith, faith that his work here was at some point going to mean something. And I'm hoping for a little validation for myself, as well, in terms of my belief in this place. Look, who doesn't want a long lost fabled treasure? I'm in on that. But to see a life's pursuit and here's the proof, you were right, you were correct.
Those are the answers we're really looking for. No, no, me either. We'll be back. Is that a threat or a promise? That is both. NARRATOR: Marty, Rick, and the Oak Island team have had an incredible year. They have done and discovered more than any team in the 200-plus years since men started hunting for treasure here. But when they return next spring, will they finally be able to solve the mystery? Or will they simply write another chapter in a saga that has captivated millions and has claimed six lives-- so far?
