NARRATOR: Rick Lagina, Craig Tester,
and Charles Barkhouse head over to the area
known as the Money Pit.
They are in the early stages of finding out if recently
conducted seismic testing has allowed them to pinpoint
the precise location of the original treasure
site first discovered in 1795.
Well, got through here.
We're down to 129.
NARRATOR: Just one day ago, the team from Choice Drilling
began a new 6 and 1/2 inch wide borehole known as DE6.
There's your wood.
Bring it on over.
NARRATOR: At a depth of 93 feet, they
discovered evidence of a horizontal wooden beam
followed by a 3-foot void.
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.
NARRATOR: It was at this same depth
that recent seismic scanning of the area
revealed what could be a network of underground tunnels.
That carries on into what looks
like a larger network around the 100 to 110 footish range.
Flood tunnel?
Could be.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Rick, Marty, and their partners
have actually located one of the legendary booby-trapped flood
tunnels, the tunnels which many believe
were constructed in order to prevent
searchers from finding the centuries-old treasure vault?
What are you calling the depth?
164.
You getting anything?
It's really soft.
Right.
So you want to keep-- drill another whatever
until you hit something hard? - Sure.
OK.
NARRATOR: Although the team is encouraged by locating
a possible tunnel, they're even more
hopeful to reach another one of the intriguing anomalies that
was detected by seismic scanning,
a nearly 30-foot-wide void at a depth
of approximately 170 feet.
It was at this depth last year that the team, while drilling
with a 60-inch-wide steel caisson,
encountered what they believed could be the legendary Chappell
vault, a 7-foot-tall wooden box first discovered
by treasure hunters William Chappell
and Frederick Blair in 1897.
However, instead of penetrating the vault,
the caisson is believed to have actually
pushed the mysterious object further down into the mud
and off to the side.
When we were doing the big can on H8,
we had a plod where the bottom of the hole
kept on being pushed to the side.
So what was being pushed to the side?
Drilling this well might indicate
what was pushed aside from H8.
So we're looking for any kind of evidence in that area.
Fingers crossed we hit the vault or a debris field
from the treasure itself falling.
So it was an excellent place to be.
Well, I hope we have something.
I hope so.
What would that something be that you'd like?
I'd settle for silver.
I don't need gold right now.
One step at a time, right?
Yeah.
We're on something really, really hard.
Wow.
NARRATOR: The Oak Island team has just struck an object
at a depth of some 200 feet deep underground, an object that
seems impossible to penetrate.
What's your guess?
It looks like we tagged something
hard, which we assume to be interface,
bedrock of some sort.
A serious problem for you?
I think this should stop.
We hit something around the 204, 205 range, so.
NARRATOR: Despite the fact that the team had previously
recovered promising evidence from this same borehole,
leading them to believe they might have located
the original Money Pit shaft, hitting bedrock offers
a disappointing development.
It means they may have missed the large underground anomaly
that was indicated on the 3D map created by the team's
recent seismic scanning.
It also means they will be forced
to choose a different site in the hopes of locating
the legendary Chappell vault.
We certainly didn't hit the center of the anomaly.
And, you know, that's good and bad news.
But as long as the drill is down hole, there's hope.
As usual, with all the things we've done to date on Oak
Island, there's things to be learned,
a few more questions, a few disappointments.
Well, you know, the tunnel to me, very interesting.
Either if it's an original, it's fantastic.
If it's a searcher, it helps us define where the money pit is.
And we need to get back and look at all
the different maps, interpretations
of where those tunnels were.
Definite disappointment.
You know, we were hoping to find, you know, a cavern
at this area, and we didn't.
It's just part of the process.