NARRATOR: Rick Lagina, Dave Blankenship, Charles Barkhouse,
and Doug Crowell head to the Money Pit area
where the team from Choice Drilling
has begun a new coring operation.
It's exciting thinking about whether we're going
to find a debris field today.
You know, I'm pretty much absolutely
convinced that it is a tunnel.
The tunnel leading from Shaft Six?
It's as good a chance at Six as we've
encountered up until now.
NARRATOR: In an attempt to avoid the booby traps that thwarted
efforts to dig deeper down into the original Money Pit,
in 1861, a team of treasure hunters
dug a second shaft some 18 feet west of it.
They hoped that by digging deep down in dry ground
and then digging back toward the Money Pit
and under the treasure vault they
could successfully retrieve whatever lies hidden there.
Unfortunately at a depth of 118 feet and just one foot
shy of their target the tunnel, known as Shaft Six,
suddenly filled with seawater.
Shortly thereafter, a number of thunderous crashes
were heard deep underground, leading the workers
to speculate that the tons of wood
cribbing in the original Money Pit had collapsed
and that its treasure must now lay
scattered across a massive flooded debris field.
Three weeks ago, while searching for possible tunnels,
the Oak Island team made a discovery
at a depth of 109 feet--
That's wood.
NARRATOR: --a discovery that suggested
they had located shaft six.
That's the edge of your timber.
Yeah.
Good morning.
Morning.
And it should be a good morning.
Yeah, let's hope, for sure.
NARRATOR: If the team can verify that the wood they found
came from Shaft Six, they may be closer than ever to locating
the original Money Pit and hopefully
an underground debris field littered
with incredible artifacts and treasure.
Using a specialized sonic drilling rig which generates
powerful vibrations to pulverize earth and other obstacles,
the team will extract core samples
at intervals of 10 feet.
The spoils will then be collected into plastic sleeves
to be carefully searched for any important clues
or valuable objects.
What are we at, 118?
Yeah
118, Charles.
118.
This is the critical one right here.
Show me the money.
That's a piece of wood.
There's a piece of wood.
Oh.
It's somewhat vertical.
Ah.
Check that out.
That's wood.
Hey, Rick?
Yeah?
Come take a look at this.
Well?
I hope you got good news.
A big piece of wood.
Vertical too.
We've must have clipped the edge--
just the edge of a tunnel.
Say, there's your tunnel.
Six.
That's it, Six.
That's the saving grace of the hole.
Yeah.
NARRATOR: Finding what the team believes
to be the western-most edge of Shaft Six
has offered a much-welcome breakthrough.
It suggests that by continuing to drill east of the site
they will be able to follow the tunnel
to the Money Pit's precise location
approximately 18 feet away.
Today was a good day on Oak Island.
It's obvious that it's the end of a beam.
So we're in a tunnel, and I'm very
excited to exploit this find.
I'm happy we found evidence of a tunnel
at a proper depth, which correlates
to the previous hole.
Well, now we have three data sets that indicate
there is indeed a tunnel there.
This needs to be investigated.
Which means we got to go back and scrutinize what
geo tech there is around where this suggests
the Money Pit would sit.
It supports further investigation.
So it was a good day.
This was a a win today.