I think I see Mel there.
I think it's Mel.
Mel, how you doing, bud?
Hey, guys.
Tony, Matty.
Good to see you again, brother.
Great to see you again.
NARRATOR: Two days after their meeting
at the Oak Island War Room.
You guys ready to go out, find some treasure?
Oh, yeah.
NARRATOR: Matty Blake and Tony Sampson
have arrived in Key West, Florida.
They're heading some 40 miles out to sea with treasure hunter
Melvin Abt to a location, where the Fisher family's salvage
vessel known as The Magruder is anchored
over a debris field related to a famous shipwreck known
as The Atocha.
We're about 15 minutes further north of where
we were the last time you guys were here
in a little bit of shallower water,
an area we call the Bank of Spain.
They've recovered so many silver coins there,
it's like visiting the bank. - Wow.
Fantastic.
It's unreal, when you pick up a first silver coin in 400 years,
the feeling, genuine surprise, genuine shock, and a part
of the history of that coin.
Last time I was here we were at Emerald
City looking for emeralds.
And now, we've come here to the Bank of Spain.
It's shallower diving.
It's a little further out though.
But the hope, of course, is to find that stern castle.
And if we find the Stern Castle, then you're finding
what could be untold riches.
Let's hit it.
Let's do it.
Captain, full speed ahead.
We move several miles away from Emerald City, further
down the Atocha Trail to an area where we're
likely to find artifacts that would
have been in the Stern Castle.
The Stern Castle is the rear section of the ship that housed
the wealthy passengers, the clergymen,
some of the more valuable artifacts of The Atocha.
Ah, Sea Captain Tim.
Let's go.
Let's go!
From what I understand now, is the bow section and midships
is what's been recovered over the years
and the part that now is still unfound
as the Stern Castle part.
NARRATOR: Matty!
Captain!
I hope you brought the good vibes, brother.
I hope you brought the good vibes.
NARRATOR: Having arrived at the Fisher family's salvage vessel,
The Magruder, Melvin, Tony, and Matty
are greeted by Captain Tim Meade, an expert salvage diver
in his own right, who has spent the past 13 years
serving aboard The Magruder.
Well, yeah, you know Tony.
He's an expert diver, adventurer extraordinaire,
and he's the right guy to help you guys out today.
Birds of a feather flock together, bro.
You're more than welcome.
It's good to have you on board.
This is an all-star crew on The Magruder,
and now we've just added Tony Sampson
to the mix, one of the best divers in the world.
So I'm very excited.
I want to know more about how you found this spot.
Yeah, we go into the chart room
and I'll show you right there where we're at exactly.
Tony, you just hang on a little bit longer,
brother, little bit longer.
I am very optimistic.
But I'm also very hopeful that we can come up with something
on this, what's been an incredibly
successful treasure salvage operation for a very long time.
I don't want to come here and report back to Rick and Marty
that we were empty handed on this trip.
All right, Captain.
I remember a map last time.
Is this different?
This is different.
This is where we are excavating.
We're currently right here.
Oh, so this is us here.
OK.
TONY SAMPSON: When the wreck sank, and she started breaking
up in the second hurricane, she was
getting shoved this direction.
Her mid section was all together here, breaking up, breaking up.
And now she's getting tossed around in the storm.
Her treasure is falling out, falling out, falling out.
And the interesting part about this
is, you can see there's all these circles represent
holes that we've excavated.
And of course, here's the legend.
Everything's color charted.
Yellow means gold.
Last year, my engineer Zack Moore recovered
a two escudo gold coin.
Here's the gold coin that we recovered last year,
and right in line, the same denomination.
Holy moly, it's a straight line.
So we're right on the treasure trail.
We're right on what I dubbed it the gold line.
So when you start seeing gold in a line like this,
do you think you could be a pawn that Stern Castle, the thought
is that it might be a lot of wealth
hidden in that Stern Castle?
There's going to be a ton of wealth in that Stern Castle.
And why?
Well, there is 35 chests of cargo registered to the church.
So the church didn't have to tell the registry what they
were putting in their boxes.
It was just 35 chests of gifts.
All right, great.
Well let's continue this trail of gold, shall we?
I think it's a great idea.
Let's go ahead and get the yellow coloring
pencil out in preparation.
Let's go ahead and sharpen it up, and let's do it.
OK, let's go get wet. I'm happy.
Get in the water.
Here she goes.
NARRATOR: In order to prepare the search area for the dive
operation, the team will utilize a method
designed by Mel Fisher in the 1960s known as mailbox blowing.
They are in .
Clear to go.
NARRATOR: Using two large steel tubes,
The Magruder's engine wash is redirected 90 degrees downward,
creating a powerful jet stream to clear sand and silt away
from the ocean bottom.
TONY SAMPSON: Starboard engine fire up.
NARRATOR: It is this method that has helped the fishers
recover more than $800 million in Treasure from The Atocha
so far.
- Let's put on our dive gear. - Let's get the gear on.
Let's go do this. Let's make today the day
Today's the day.
I'm super excited to go out there and dive with Tony
and see what he and I can find.
Hopefully, we'll find a bunch of gold, bunch of silver,
bring up some really cool artifacts.
Tony and I will systematically search
the hole visually and work our way
left or right around the hole.
And Matty should be topside on comms.
On this dive, we're using scuba gear,
but with comms masks.
And so the comms is wireless.
It's run by a transducer dropped in the water.
So as we get our gear ready, everything's prepped.
Comms units prepped.
We've got the right team, the right tools, the right place.
Today's the day.
Divers good?
Divers are clear.
Good hunting.
Diver one.
Go get them, baby.
Diver two.
Divers in.
Tony, Mel, I can hear you guys.
I got ears and eyes on you.
I can see your bubbles, fellas.
Everything looks good.
Great day for treasure hunting.
Let's find some gold.
Over.
Mel, this is Matty on the surface.
Did you say wood?
Confirm. Wood?
Over.
Mel, it's Matty.
Were you able to get your hands on that wood?
Over.
What do you got, fellas? Over.
What do you got?
Divers coming up.
Every day underwater's a great day.
Yeah, we'll shuffle you right here.
So first impressions, buddy.
What happened when you got down there?
We were doing a grid search around in a circular pack,
and we found some interesting tidbits down there,
but nothing shiny.
But that just means that the shiny stuff's
a little bit further over.
So we did find this.
It was some sort of bone on the bottom.
Definitely not human.
Really?
NARRATOR: During European colonization of the Americas
between the 15th and 18th centuries,
it was common for livestock and other kinds of animals
to be transported on galleon ships
from Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean.
Some of these animals would serve as sustenance
during the long journeys, while certain species,
such as monkeys or wild cats, were brought along to serve
as uniquely exotic companions.
We found stones on Oak Island and they turned out
to be way older than anyone expected,
from the Middle East at depth.
So, if that's an animal that was on The Atocha,
how cool would that be?
Extremely.
There were animals on The Atocha, mainly pigs and cows.
They were using them for food on their journey back.
The bone will be thoroughly checked
over and inspected against different types
of animal bones.
Our conservation lab will keep it in a stable condition.
Can't get discouraged.
The next hole we dive in further down the Atocha Trail
could be $1 million hole.
Just got to move over, excavate again, and keep diving.