NARRATOR: It is the beginning of an exciting new day
on Oak Island.
[music playing]
Rick Lagina, Dave Blankenship, Charles Barkhouse,
and Doug Crowell head to the money pit site.
If this is a tunnel and we confirm it with this--
today's drilling, first thing I want to do is run a tape.
Where's the money pit?
NARRATOR: They are eager to continue progress
of their core drilling operation in search
of a centuries-old searcher tunnel, which they believe
will lead them directly to the original Oak
Island treasure shaft.
We do have some data to work with.
If we can confirm a tunnel, we know that Shaft 6 has to be
at the end of that tunnel.
Then we might be onto something.
Yeah.
Uh-oh, that's wood.
That's the edge of your timber.
NARRATOR: Four weeks ago, while drilling at a depth of 109
feet, the Oak Island team discovered evidence
of wood timbers, which they believe
to be part of the Shaft 6 tunnel, whose location has
been lost for over 100 years.
If it is Shaft 6, it's been long sought.
NARRATOR: Since then, the team has drilled two more
exploratory boreholes targeting the shaft
in the hopes of pinpointing the tunnel's
exact position underground.
There's a piece of wood.
We must have clipped the edge--
just the edge of a tunnel.
6.
That's it.
6.
There's Brennan.
Blake and Adam are on the rig.
Let's see how far they are.
Yes.
NARRATOR: Working with a team from Choice Drilling,
it is Rick Lagina's hope that their fourth hole, K-5.5,
will also intersect the long-lost searcher tunnel,
allowing them to accurately map the direction of the original
money pit and possibly find a massive
debris field of treasure.
Morning, guys.
Morning.
How are you?
Good.
OK, so where are we?
We are at 68 right now.
Just came out of the ground.
NARRATOR: Using a process known as sonic drilling, which
employs a high-frequency sound to pulverize through earth
and other obstacles, a specialized coring
barrel will extract samples in intervals of up to 10 feet.
These core samples will then be carefully sifted by hand
for not only evidence of the tunnel,
but also any artifacts or possible
treasure they might contain.
BRENNAN MCMAHON: As long as we get into in situ material
before 104.
Hold the phone, boys!
That looked like wood there now.
We got wood.
If this comes up with all wood, it's the long sought-for,
long-elusive 6.
Right.
RICK LAGINA: Well, here you go.
Well, we have wood.
Where are we here?
So this wood's somewhere between 118 and 124.
You wanted wood, now we got wood.
It's just a little bit deeper than what it's supposed to be,
but we got wood.
It's five feet, approximately.
NARRATOR: Five feet of wood found at the same depth
as Shaft 6 and deeper?
Could this wood be evidence of the money
pit's collapse in 1861?
And if so, has the team located not
only Shaft 6, but also a portion of the suspected debris field?
The money pit collapsed in 1861, and a whole bunch of wood
sort of went missing.
So one plausible theory is we're seeing that collapse.
We're in the collapse zone.
Are we on the extreme edge of the money pit?
I don't know.
But at some point, you release the hounds, right?
It's time to dig.
But I think it strongly advocates for smaller
cans at multiple locations.
This is as good as it could get.
Yeah.
Count this as a win today, I think.