The Curse of Oak Island: THE MONEY PIT IS VERY CLOSE (Season 7) | History

DAVE BLANKENSHIP: What do we got here, Terry?
All in situ, undisturbed down to 89 feet.

DAVE BLANKENSHIP: Yeah?

NARRATOR: Geologist Terry Matheson has joined Dave Blankenship at the Money Pit, where they are supervising the drilling operation at the bore hole known as F 14. They are hoping to find evidence of a horizontal tunnel, which was constructed in 1805 for the purpose of connecting shaft 2 to the original Money Pit.

Hey, Brennan, how you doing?
Good.
Hi, Dave.

DAVE BLANKENSHIP: Hello.
So we’re at 89 right now, right?
Looks the same?
89 feet.
Yeah.
99 to 105 is where we hope to break out into the tunnel.
OK.

NARRATOR: Using a 30-ton sonic drilling rig, which generates powerful vibrations to pulverize earth and other obstacles, the team will extract core samples at intervals of 10 feet. The soils will then be collected into plastic sleeves to be carefully searched for any evidence of the man-made tunnel.
99 to 105.
OK, gentlemen, turn that down here.
Down here, Mike.
Thank you.
This could be it.
What do you think, Mike?

MIKE TEDFORD: I want to see it.
Anything– anything of interest in here?
Felt like I punched through it and then there was like a void.
Let’s operate.
This is where the rubber meets the road.
I’ll tell you what, boys and girls.
Check out that.
That’s the floor.

TERRY MATHESON: That’s the floor, or it could be the ceiling pushed directly to the top.
We just drilled here and hit the tunnel, gentlemen.

NARRATOR: The ceiling of a tunnel found at a depth of some 100 feet? Could the team have found the searcher shaft, the one that could lead directly to the actual Money Pit?

This is going to be good for Rick.
Rick’s going to love to hear about this.
Did I hear we have something interesting going on?

TERRY MATHESON: Yes.
Hey, Rick.
Look who’s here.
Hey, Rick.
Let me guess.
I see a– I see a lot of smiles.
Morale is definitely high.

Right here?

TERRY MATHESON: Feast your eyes.
We’re at 98 and a half to basically 10-foot run here.
Pretty good chunks of beam?

RICK LAGINA: Pretty good chunks of beam.
Truth be known, alls we know is that a tunnel came out towards the west of the Money Pit. We don’t know what the dimensions were on that tunnel.

That’s great.
It’s a win.
This is definitive.
It’s huge.
Everything else was minor wins, right?
They were highly interpretive, highly subjective, highly somewhat suspicious because of all the work that has been done.
You guys narrowed in on the shaft, figured out the orientation, came off.
What you have to do now, though, is find the direction of the tunnel.
Without that, the importance of this find is somewhat limited.
Yeah.

What’s the next proposed hole?
F 15.
Yeah.
It’s– it’s still in line with where this should run.
We came out between our two hits.

RICK LAGINA: We know definitively we’ve located shaft 2.
So if we find the orientation of the shaft 2 tunnel, we should be very, very close to the original Money Pit.
That’s huge.
That’s the holy grail of Oak Island.

Where’s the original Money Pit?
So there’s still a lot of puzzle pieces you have to fit together.
But the puzzle pieces are getting bigger, the picture is getting smaller.
It just ramps up the interest.

TERRY MATHESON: Absolutely.
And the hope.
Maybe, just maybe, this is the year.