The Curse of Oak Island: Flood Gates Open at Smith’s Cove (Season 6) | History

As a new day begins on Oak Island, the
water is coming right here for sure,
under the crane, fat yeah.
Brothers Rick and Marty Lagina, along
with Charles Barkhouse, arrive at Smith’s
Cove. They are responding to news that
heavy equipment operator Billy Gerhardt
may have made a potentially important
discovery at the beach.

So that water was
leaking out more like there than here,
right there, but the source is somewhere
right in this general area. See a port
right there, yeah.

I knew your left foot, and there’s some
timbers in there too. Obviously, we get
into something here though, right?
Definitely something good. The crane pad
came out to Billy about right here. No
idea where that foot-and-a-half boulder
is. There’s a bunch more boards in
there. It looks like the wood is a foot
deep under the crane bed.

Wood buried as much as one foot deep beneath the crane pad. Could it be
the remnants of yet another man-made structure? If so, is it
one put there by a previous searcher or
by someone much earlier? And could it be
associated with the flood tunnel
believed to lead directly to the money
pit treasure vault?

There’s another board here. It looks like
a structure.
Yeah, right in here. Yeah, I suppose it’s a
possibility someone thought they’d fall
in the flood tunnel and tried to block it
right here.

Yeah, well, I would say keep digging.
Yeah, just dig it real slow.
I would. Let’s keep digging, Billie.
Hope springs eternal. Every time somebody
says, “Hey, we got a new structure, we got a
new find, you better come here and look,”
it’s always exciting.

I think it’s reasonably likely that the
crane pad was obscuring some significant
answers, Gary.

Anything exciting going on?
We just pulled a bunch of planks over there, so
we’re thinking it may be time to do a
quick sweep.

Okay, oh, look at there!
You can see a cross piece on it now. Then
there’s one going in that way, yeah, and
all that water behind it. The thing you
got your answer there—the water’s
running. They’re trying to stop the water.
That’s a brace; that’s not the wall. So
probably goes back farther.

Yeah, I don’t know what to make of it.
Why so many structures in a very confined space?
It is, it’s hard to fathom, and there’s still
one yet to uncover that may give us a
little more insight as to what actually
occurs between Smith’s Cove and the
money pit.

Things really opened the floodgates now.
Maybe it’s a floodgate.