The Curse of Oak Island: Important New Evidence Found at 170 Feet (Season 6) | History

NARRATOR: Marty Lagina and his partner Craig Tester meet with Marty’s brother Rick, his son Alex, and other members of the team at the Money Pit site.
MIKE?
Have you calculated in the fall of the plug?
This morning, the plug’s right at the bottom of the…
OK.
And then we went down within a foot of the bottom, and we’re up in the can two feet.
OK.
So technically, there’s three feet of material.
OK.
Charles.
Marty.
Craig.
One thing is coming out right now.

NARRATOR: Working with representatives from Irg Equipment Limited, the Laginas and their partners are continuing the excavation of the H8 shaft that they believe may have intersected the original Money Pit.
It was here, last year, that the team discovered incredible clues below a depth of 160 feet, including bits of paper and leather book bindings, 17th century human bones, and even evidence of the seven-foot high wooden structure first reported by treasure hunters in 1800.

Unfortunately, when the team attempted to penetrate the mysterious object using a 50-inch wide drilling caisson, they believe it was actually pushed off to the side and into a large, muddy void located at a depth of some 170 feet.
Something was in front of the can, and we were pushing it for a while.
And it’s pushing all the clay out of the way.
Well, it’s still in there, then.
Exactly.

HELLO.
So are you doing five up and down a few times?
OK.
Yeah.
We’re bringing it down, and then back up and kind of just working it down the can.
John’s up there monitoring to see if he feels something different on the tape, if anything’s coming.

CRAIG TESTER: OK.
But we’ll probably come down about… we’re working up and down, come down about 15 feet, and then get a good measure, see if anything is coming, and then continue the process.
OK.
Yeah, I think once we get down, even if we don’t measure anything, we’ll go and take a couple of hammer grabs.
For sure.
Just in case something did fall in.
Yep.

CRAIG TESTER: Because it did fall somewhere, you know.
Yep.
We need whatever was pushed out to come back, so…

NARRATOR: It is the Oak Island team’s hope that by lifting the caisson up several feet, more valuable clues, or perhaps the vault itself, might move back into its path, which they can attempt to retrieve using a three-ton hammer grab.
We are at 194 caisson depth, and we have a two-foot plug.
Two-foot plug??
Want us to go back up and try to get more?
Let’s take a—
Let’s take a grab.
I mean— I mean, it wouldn’t take that much stuff to fall in to be interesting.
Yeah, let’s go ahead and do that.
Let’s take a grab.
Then we might want to come up and work it.

• That’s fine.
• Yeah.
  Yeah, we can do that.
  Little on the muddy side.
  What’s up, buttercup?
  That’s amazing.
  I got a bag here.
  Some more right here.

CRAIG TESTER: These are rare chunks to be at this depth.
At what depth, though, Craig?
This—
It’s got to be below 168.
168.
I thought we were too deep for the Chappell Vault, but I’m wondering if this part is part of the Chappell Vault.

NARRATOR: Wood from the Chappell Vault found more than 170 feet deep in H8??
Could the team have successfully located the legendary box believed to contain the Oak Island treasure?

RICK LAGINA: These are all puzzle pieces, clues.
Look, every clue is important, so to find it, especially in H8, which again, is confirmation that there’s something going on here, is positive news.

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