The Curse of Oak Island: Borehole DE-6 Produces Results (Season 6) | History

NARRATOR: On Oak Island, Rick Lagina, along with his nephew, Craig Tester, and other members of the team, gather at the Island Visitor’s Center.

CRAIG: Hi, are you Bren?

BRENNAN: I’m Brennan. Craig Tester.

CRAIG: Nice to meet you, Craig, finally.

BRENNAN: Nice to meet you.

NARRATOR: They have scheduled a meeting with representatives of Choice Drilling, a company that specializes in sonic drilling.

CRAIG: So that’s the rig?

BRENNAN: This is the rig.

NARRATOR: Unlike regular or more traditional rotary drills that use powerful drill bits to literally grind beneath the ground, sonic drilling uses vibrations to create sound frequencies which literally pulverize objects, allowing them to extract core samples from as deep as 500 feet.

CRAIG: I think we’re all curious how this rig works. We’ve never seen one before.

BRENNAN: Well, we’ve got several targets for you. We’ll see.

CRAIG: Well, I’m eager for the challenge.

BRENNAN: Well, this is Oak Island.

CRAIG: It is.

NARRATOR: Assisting with their drilling is area geologist Terry Matheson.

TERRY: OK, so the surveyor marked the D line, D2.

NARRATOR: Using the geotech grid as a guide, the team has decided to dig their first hole at a location known to have a possible structure about 100 feet deep, and approximately 170 feet in length.

CRAIG: Well, there it goes. Is it through?

TERRY: Yeah, it went through.

CRAIG: Excellent.

TERRY: Well, who knows what we’ll find?

CRAIG: Alright, take the big bit right there.

TERRY: Oh!

CRAIG: Bring it on over.

TERRY: Here it comes.

CRAIG: That’s 83… or 93 feet.

TERRY: Wow. That’s interesting.

CRAIG: And that’s the way it goes. I love it.

TERRY: It was laying like this.

CRAIG: Yeah, not standing up. It was laying flat. Could it be the top of a tunnel?

TERRY: Wow.

NARRATOR: Wood from a tunnel? But from what period? Could it be remnants of a search, one of the dozens that have been done on the island? Or could it be from an original structure, put there centuries ago by the people who hid something incredible?

CRAIG: Yeah, man.

TERRY: Hey, guys.

CRAIG: Wow. Look what we’ve got.

TERRY: This is what we came into at 93 feet. We came right out of the material into a horizontal beam. It sure looks like a tunnel.

CRAIG: What we believe we’ve encountered to be a tunnel, based on the seismic data. But we don’t know what that means yet.

TERRY: It could be original. We don’t know. And that’s what we’re trying to decipher. It’s exciting.

CRAIG: It can’t be just a coin.

TERRY: Definitely get this carbon dated. If it comes back really old, we know it’s original.

CRAIG: Exactly.

NARRATOR: The discovery of a possible tunnel adds to the excitement of the team. It means that the seismic data they received from Eagle was able to accurately pinpoint the existence of a structure 93 feet below ground.

NARRATOR: It also means that as they continue to drill down, the team may also find another crucial chamber, one that they believe could hold the legendary Chapman’s vault.

CRAIG: Is this interesting?

TERRY: Absolutely.

CRAIG: You know, it means we need to continue. And we’re going to continue the process until we get down to those anomalies.

TERRY: Yeah.

CRAIG: Exactly.