we're ready to go right now I just
scraped this off and start digging
sounds good for brothers Rick and Marty
lagina and their Oak Island team the
hopes of revealing the answers to a 223
year old mystery have never been higher
after completing the construction of a
massive 525 foot wide steel cofferdam
around Smith's Cove they are finally
excavating the nearly 12,000 square foot
area I'm feeling sort of a childish
excitement to see what we've only seen
in pictures to dig up and see with our
own eyes what that enigmatic and
peculiar u-shaped structure is it's kind
of nostalgic ie Dan dug it in 71 and we
are going to reveal it in its entirety
and hopefully bring that data to Dan and
show us after researching old
photographs and surveys taken during Dan
Blankenship's excavation the team has
identified an area near the northwest
end of the cofferdam where they believe
the u-shaped structure can be located
I'll tell you this maybe some stuff in
there for Gary to find huh if it's there
he'll find it no doubt about that at all
my own mental detective
big ol spoil pile I get it signally
nonferrous I got a non-ferrous Eric
where is it just
Oh deep um I didn't see me wreck take a
break
yeah we want to see what's going on I'll
do it help him pull it it's right there
oh man oh man now I'm seeing you're
seeing Rios yeah I'm seeing rounds that
must be out
so in this a little that sounds like
you're not in Ferris yeah it does yeah
it is
stomp Ferris whatever it is
oh here he's happy I'll let you do be
honest just in case
well I look at that I can see gold color
yeah me too
is it heavy pretty heavy yeah you can
see it yeah look it looks gold color
yeah it looks go color I think it's good
a milled edge doesn't I'd say it's a
coin yeah I think that's a coin a gold
coin could the team have found their
first piece of actual treasure at
Smith's Cove and this is just the
beginning I don't know about a milled
edge no no I'm not so sure about a mill
they Jeter I think you're you know I
don't think so
fires in the middle veg that's good
that's good
means it's older if the gold-coloured
object is in fact a coin the absence of
milled edges is a likely indication that
it predates the discovery of the
original money pit in 1795 it's not
copper either it's like it's like
gold-plated yeah yeah I can see sparkle
sis's this is gonna be interesting what
this is when it's cleaned up yeah that's
going in the top pocket top pocket fine
all right keep going
proceed to fill this pocket
you