The Curse of Oak Island: SLUICE SHAFT FOUND! (Season 7) | History

Well, yeah, there it is. It’s a whole box
right here, while excavating near the
southern shore of Oak Island in search
of the wooden sluice way believed to
connect a shaft. 9 Rick, Marty, and members
of their team have just made what could
be one of the most important discoveries
of the year.

Goes way back in there. Oh,
there’s the top. Yeah, love is woody,
that’s a good sign.
Well preserved. Yeah, that’s a heavy piece
of wood though. Check this.
I’ll play. Look at that.
That’s why the wood’s so well-preserved.
I’d say that’s your sluice still. That’s
a look back in time, boys, 159 years ago,
more or less, and still working.
And still working. That’s amazing.
It still works. Yeah, they’ve engineered it properly.
You can’t say they didn’t know what they
were doing.

So, what are we gonna do with this, Rick?
Well, we need to dig it backwards and expose it.
That’s what I was thinking.
I should mark that.

Dan Henske is the sage. He is the
royalty, if you will, of Oak Island. Now,
it is with his help and his insistence
alone that we have uncovered the sluice.
It will go a long way towards hopefully
pinpointing the location of shaft 9.

It’s not that deep with us. We can hand it,
you know, and try to get it back to where
it’s not all broken and busted, and then
see where it goes.

Yep, that’s pretty cool. That last scoop
is like taking the cork. Oh, yeah. Well,
this is the first step in reestablishing
that landmark up the hill. Yeah, I think
this is a successful day. Good. I have a pin,
so let’s find the other end tomorrow.
Good deal, Steve. Hey, good work. Thank you.

For Rick, Marty, and the team, a week that
began with a frustrating setback now
ends with a discovery that could offer a
major breakthrough in their quest to
finally pinpoint the original money pit.

But once the long-lost searcher shaft is
found, will it really lead Rick and Marty
to a centuries-old vault filled with
priceless gold and jewels, or will it
take them down a different path,
one that will reveal just why Oak
Island’s secrets have been so fiercely
guarded for more than two centuries and
protected by a curse that predicts that
seven must die before an incredible
treasure can be found?