The Curse of Oak Island: EXCITING FIND at Shaft 2 (Part 1) | Season 7 | History

Everybody hold their breath, just getting so exciting.
After finding what they believe to be one of the four corners of shops to Benghazi, members of the Oak Island team had begun drilling a new exploratory borehole in an attempt to locate another wall of the structure.
I don’t see any wood right there, but let’s have a better look. Let’s just see what we got.
You just got a shirt, sir. Wow, oh here we go.
Okay, looks like we got something interesting there. Oh, lots of wood. Well, this is good. Yeah, this could be the day.
That’s a fairly substantial plank. We are right up against the wall here for this, this is our third time.
Yeah, we got three points now. That can’t be just one wall, so we got two walls.
Yeah, this is great news, own because Shaft 2 is the oldest known searcher site on the island and the one closest to the original money pit.
Finding evidence of what appears to be the shaft’s second wall is an exciting development.
If they can verify their discovery and then locate a tunnel running off of it at a depth of 110 feet, the team could lock in an exact location for the fabled money pit and hopefully the Oak Island treasure.
We’re now chasing a tunnel from Shaft 2.
The best thing of all this is it’s pointing to an area that’s never been searched, so it’s all virgin ground.
So, I think this becomes our most important search today. It’s looking really promising.
That makes me want to collect dendro from the shaft.
Yep, in order to confirm that the wooden structure they discovered is, in fact, Shaft 2, the Oak Island team will need to submit wood samples taken from the site for dendrochronology testing.
Also known as tree-ring dating, dendrochronology is a scientific method used to study the size and pattern of growth rings which developed as a tree grows over its lifetime.
The process can accurately determine not only the age of wood but when it was cut for use in construction.
The tool that seems to have worked the best on the island, really, as far as precision and accuracy, is dendrochronology.
So now we have several different samples and we need to test it. If it comes back in a very narrow window, this is when the trees were used.
If it lines up with that information, then we know definitively we located Shaft 2.
We’ve got to pin the next hole, so we’re gonna move off of this shaft.
We’re gonna chase the tunnel. Doug and I are gonna take off to the research center.
I’m gonna put this data into our 3D model. I’ll come back and supply you guys with that.
So, the quest for Shaft 2 continues for at least one more hole.
That’s right, at least.
Yeah, if we’re lucky enough to go into a tunnel, we might just chase the tunnel as far as we can.
Actually, so… oh yeah, that’s the plan.
Yep, all right, we’re gonna go put in the next hole. Thanks a lot.