[motor whirring]
Uh-oh.
This is either good or bad news.
Yeah?
Yeah, I think we're beyond the boat on this hole.
OK.
Well, you know, but it's here, right?
It's here.
Well, it was last time we were here.
ANNOUNCER: In the town of Malta Bend,
Missouri, Marty Lagina and Matty Blake
are helping treasure hunter David Hawley and his team
locate the wreck of a historic riverboat known as the Malta,
which today is buried some 40 feet beneath a cornfield
near the Missouri River.
So Jared, you think we're-- we're past target depth,
and you're getting nothing?
Yeah, we're past target depth, and we're not getting anything.
So--
OK, it's what we do.
We'll move over this way. - OK.
- Let's go a little bit further. - I'll follow your lead.
Yeah. It's-- yeah.
Let's dig another one.
OK, sounds good.
If you think about the mission to delineate the edges of this,
if you never miss, you haven't accomplished the mission.
If you never miss, you don't know where the edges are.
So you have to miss.
You have to find it, and you also have to miss.
And then, in between, that's where the edge is.
This is basic trial and error at this point.
We miss here, we know it's over there,
so you just move a little bit closer.
We're at about 29 feet right now.
We're getting close, guys.
Yep.
David knows the boat is somewhere down there.
We're gonna hit this.
That's what he keeps telling us.
We're gonna hit this, and I believe him.
Dave, you know what's funny is like I'm nervous now.
I can only imagine how you feel. How do you feel?
Oh, I do.
I always get nervous.
Really?
Yeah, because I know we're going to touch
something that's almost sacred.
And so I don't want to break it.
But number two, I don't want to miss it.
Right.
You can't make an omelet without cracking eggs.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
You've heard that before right, I'm sure.
Woo!
All right, come on, baby.
[music playing]
That it?
You seeing stuff?
Where?
Show me.
Can you grab it?
Yep.
Right like this?
Yep.
Oh, my gosh!
Yep.
Holy moley!
Oh, look at this.
We're get little pieces of deck!
- Hey! - What do you say about that?
Yeah!
Oh, wow, look at that!
When I started to see that blond would come out,
I was in shock at how pristine it was, how clean it was.
It literally looked like brand new boat
decking that just got wet.
Now we know we've got a boat.
What you see there, the blond wood is pine.
But you'll hit the pine first, because that's the deck.
And just think, someone's foot walked right on that last time
it saw air.
Isn't that crazy?
Might have been Mark Twain!
[laughs] Yeah!
Man, I got the chills.
Here's another very interesting
piece we just pulled out of it.
Oh, that's a finished edge.
That's a finished edge right there.
- Yeah. - Yes.
So would that be like a railing, or--
Yeah.
So right there. - Wow!
That is really good.
That's a really nice piece!
That is the best piece of wood I've seen.
There's no doubt that that's a piece
of the deck off of the Malta.
Oh, it's just beautiful.
The preservation, the natural preservation
is just breathtaking.
Yeah, it's just amazing how nature
naturally preserved that.
Being socked into the silt and the mud, and no air,
that makes all the difference.
The frustrating thing is on Oak Island,
we get this all the time, but we don't know
what the hell we're looking at.
Here, we do.
Yeah, here, we do.
Here, we do.
This is an unqualified success.
So this is what we've established.
We know that that's a miss.
It's a good thing to know that's a miss.
It is a good thing.
And we know that this is a hit.
This gets close enough to establish the west side.
What we need to do now is find the front of the boat.
Then, what we're going to do is lay it out, put a chalk on it,
and there's your boat.
So we can actually kind of see the boat, in essence.
Before the sun sets, we'll see the boat.
All right, let's get after it.
ANNOUNCER: Now that the team has located the western edge
of the Malta, they will move the drill rig 50 feet north,
the known distance between the boiler
and the bow, or front, of the riverboat.
That's our spot, right there, Jared.
All righty.
Dig a hole.
If they can successfully locate the bow,
then Dave Hawley will be able to determine the exact orientation
of the Malta.
I think we're here.
OK.
That's it!
Woo!
Yeah, that's it.
Let's go!
Now that they've determined where
the bow, the western edge, and the boiler of the ship
are located, some 40 feet underground, the team
has the data points they need to draw
a chalk outline of the Malta on the surface of the cornfield.
We know historically, the boat's 140 feet,
and we know it's 22 feet wide.
So we're gonna go that way 22, we're gonna go that way 140.
Draw us a boat.
There's your boat!