MARTY LAGINA: Sure.
We catch you drinking, huh?
When we're out working, catch you guys drinking.
Hey, guys.
There they are.
I hope you have good news for us.
We do.
NARRATOR: Following their meeting
with blacksmithing expert, Carmen Legge, Marty
and Alex Lagina, along with Gary Drayton,
arrive at the Mug and Anchor Pub in nearby Mahone Bay,
where they are eager to share his report with Rick Lagina
and other members of the team.
Any time you go show stuff to Carmen, you get a surprise.
RICK LAGINA: Yeah.
JACK BEGLEY: What did you end up showing him this time?
I kind of knew he would be excited about this.
And he turned it over and over and over.
According to Carmen, this is a brace from a typical nine-inch
diameter ship's timber.
[WHISTLES]
DAVE BLANKENSHIP: Yeah.
And it's broken.
And it would have been all the way around.
And he was really excited about this.
And then he measured it, which was interesting.
He measured the distance.
And he went like this, and he said,
this is off a sailing ship.
Yep. JACK BEGLEY: Wow.
That's what he said.
An old ship, as well.
So you know what I'm going to ask you, Gary.
How old was it?
He said this was typical 1710 to 1719.
JACK BEGLEY: Wow.
What's the ship part doing there?
Well, we have got that ship anomaly in that area.
MARTY LAGINA: That's true.
This seems to have come under significant stress.
He didn't say anything about that?
It was burned as well.
It's signs of being burned.
He was certain it had been burned.
And he said in a fierce fire.
What if it just ran aground?
What if it's carrying a bunch of treasure, and it runs aground,
and you need to offload it and hide it
because you can't get it off?
And what better way to hide it, set fire to it.
One of the theories about the swamp
is that the treasure ship was brought in, offloaded
of treasure, and either became grounded,
or they, for some reason, they couldn't get the ship out
and either burnt the ship or blew it up.
You say they needed the paved area,
a working platform, to offload.
Well, you're not going to get it precise, right?
It just needed to be a working platform.
So they don't fashion it perfectly.
They were in a haste to get whatever is on the ship
off and laid on a bunch of rocks.
Doesn't have to be smooth.
Look, the swamp, to me, was always interesting, right?
There's certainly something there.
There's some work yet to be done.
Maybe we find something that is highly definitive.
Agreed.
Well, Jack, I bet you're anxious to quit sitting around
and get back to digging.
Well, there's got to be more pieces
of the ship in the swamp.
That sounds like an end to this meeting to me.
- Yes. - Cheers.
Cheers.
NARRATOR: For the Laginas and their partners,
another week of hard work has ended.
But unlike most, this time, they not only
believe they might have found the location
of the original money pit, they've
also obtained physical evidence that a ship, possibly filled
with treasure, could have been deliberately
sunk and then hidden in the triangle-shaped swamp.
Could Rick, Marty, and their team
finally be on the verge of solving a 225-year-old mystery?
Or will they find that they've only just scratched the surface
of a much larger and more profound history, one that will
challenge everything they think they
know about a small 140-acre island
off the coast of Nova Scotia?