NARRATOR: As a new day begins on Oak Island, Rick Lagina,
along with his nephew Peter Fornetti, Craig Tester,
and other members of their team, gather at the Oak
Island Visitor's Center.
- Hi, are you Brennan? - I'm Brennan.
Craig Tester.
Nice to meet you, Craig, finally.
Nice to meet you.
NARRATOR: They have scheduled a meeting with representatives
of Choice Drilling, a company that specializes in a process
known as sonic drilling.
So that's the rig?
This is the rig.
NARRATOR: Unlike regular air or mud rotary drilling, which
uses powerful drill bits to literally grind
beneath the ground, sonic drilling uses
vibrations to create a high frequency sound which can
literally pulverize obstacles.
A coring barrel is then used to extract
samples of earth and objects from areas
as much as 500 feet deep.
I think we all are quite curious how this rig works.
We've never seen one before.
Should be a treat for you.
Well, we've got some real targets for you.
We'll see.
Well, I'm eager for the challenge.
Well, it is Oak Island.
It is.
CRAIG TESTER: Let's head on back so you guys can set up.
All right.
Sounds good.
Good luck.
I've always been against just guessing.
I mean, the whole point of the seismic program
was to find anomalous features underground in the Money Pit.
Well, they targeted an area that's worth investigating.
And thus we're going to drill there.
If you can't get excited about that, it's time to go home.
NARRATOR: Assisting the team with their drilling operation
is area geologist Terry Matheson.
OK, so the surveyors put in the D line, D2 to D6.
So there's our spot.
So it's halfway between D and E, right on line 6.
So DE6.
DE6 it is.
NARRATOR: Using last year's geotech grid as a reference,
the team has decided to dig their first hole
at a location known as DE6.
Here, they hope to find not only a possible system of tunnels
some 100 feet deep, but also a 30-foot wide chamber
at a depth of approximately 170 feet.
Well, there it goes.
Is it through?
Yeah, it went through fast.
Excellent.
Well, who knows what this is?
All right.
Take the bit right over.
Oh!
Bring it on over.
Here it comes.
That's, uh, 83--
or 93. Sorry.
93.
Wow.
That's interesting.
And that's the way it's cut.
I love it.
It was laying this way.
Yeah.
Not standing up.
It was laying like this.
So it could be the top of a tunnel.
Wow.
NARRATOR: Wood from a tunnel?
But from what period?
Could it be little more than the remains of a searcher tunnel,
one of the dozens that have been dug
on the island over the years?
Or could it be physical evidence from an original underground
structure, one that may have been put there centuries ago
by the people who came to the island looking
to hide an incredible treasure?
Yeah, man.
Hey, guys.
Hi.
Wow.
Look what we got.
This is what we came into at 93 feet.
We came right out of the material
into a horizontal beam.
So it sure looks like it's a tunnel.
We've encountered what we believe
to be a tunnel in an area where we have our target
based on the seismic data.
But we don't know what that means.
It could be original work.
We don't know.
And that's what we're trying to decipher.
It's exciting.
It can't be just a coincidence.
Definitely get this carbon dated.
If it comes back really, really old, then
we know it's original people.
Exactly.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: The discovery of a possible tunnel directly
connected to the Money Pit offers
exciting news for the Laginas and members of their team.
It means that the seismic data they received from Eagle Canada
was able to accurately pinpoint the existence
of a structure located some 93 feet below ground.
It also means that as they continue to drill down deeper,
the team may also be successful at finding another critically
important chamber, the one which they believe might contain
the legendary Chappel vault.
Is this interesting?
Absolutely.
You know, it mandates that we continue.
And we're going to continue the process
and get down to the where the anomaly is featured.
Yeah.
Exactly.