The Curse of Oak Island: FIRST MONEY PIT EXCAVATION (Season 4) | History

NARRATOR: After
more than a decade
of exploration, research,
and persistence, and after
an investment of
millions of dollars–
Oh, there it is.
There it is right there.
Here it comes.
Big gray truck.
The oscillator.

NARRATOR: –brothers
Rick and Marty
Lagina are about to witness the
beginning of a lifelong dream.
They are ready to begin
the first excavation
of the Money Pit in more
than half a century.

You guys about ready?

• Yeah, we’re ready.
• Yes, absolutely.
  All Right.
  So we got the crane rigged up.
  It’s going to take that
  first piece of can,
  place it inside the oscillator.
  At that point, we’re
  going to need someone
  to turn this thing on, and–
  We want Dan to do it.
  It’d be great if Dan– if
  his dad could be part of it,
  it would be great.
  Wonderful.
  Yeah.
  Let’s do it.
  Here we are, right here.
  All ready to go.
  He’s all geared up.

NARRATOR: Now that the final
piece of equipment, known
as the oscillator,
has arrived, it
will be used to
slowly grind a number
of massive 60-foot-long steel
caissons into the ground
above the team’s first
target, a possible wooden box,
known as the Chappell Vault.
Once located some 140 feet deep
underground, an eight-ton
excavating tool called
a hammer grab will
then remove the earth
and hopefully treasure from
inside the 40-inch-wide hole.

So right now, they
have the starter can
suspended in the air.
That can is about 30,000 pounds.
Yes.
So there’s the
teeth on the bottom.
That’s going to go down and
start cutting the earth.
So you’ll see the guys right
now, they have the leads,
and they’re just guiding
that can right in.

[MUSIC PLAYING]
Looks like we’re ready to go.
You guys ready?
Who wants to fire
this bad boy up?
We were born ready.
Let’s do it.
Time to let the big dog eat.
Come on, Dan, show
us your stuff.

Daniel, this is Kent.
He’s a big fan of yours.
Mr. Blankenship.
What a– what a pleasure.
What a pleasure, sir.
What I do with a big iron like
this and to see a man do it
bare-handed and with just as
hard, it’s– it’s pretty neat,
brother.
Pretty neat.
We didn’t do it bare-handed.
We had a pick and a shovel.
[LAUGHTER]

All right, get ready.
Dan, if you can go ahead and
turn that on for us please,
sir.
Beautiful.

RICK LAGINA: We’ve got the
stage set, the gears set,
the players are set.
It’s go time.
All at the same time.

• All at the same time.
• Awesome.
  Here we go.
  1, 2, 3.
  Let’s make holes.
  Here we go.
  Pull down, Dan.
  Dig in.
  Dig in.

[CRUNCHING]
That’s it.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Good day.

NARRATOR: For Rick,
Marty, and the team,
the hope of a great discovery
and possible answers
to the Oak Island mystery
has never been higher.

All right, slamming can.

NARRATOR: But once they reach
their targets deep underground,
what will they find?
A chest full of untold
riches and treasure?
A vault filled with
priceless religious objects?
Or will it be something
even more incredible
and mysterious than anything
they or anyone living
could ever have imagined?