The Curse of Oak Island: Underwater Cave Reveals New Treasure Location?! (Season 11)

In the Money Pit area,
brothers Rick and Marty Lagina are about to get their first opportunity of the year
to personally inspect the ongoing renovations
that are being made in a mid-18th-century structure known as the garden shaft.

“Before we get dressed, I just want to show you a little something.
When you go down there, when I talk about something,
you guys have a good idea, okay?
So towards the bottom of the shaft, this is set 16 here.
This is where we’re seeing that infiltration of water.
This is the bad area where all the water’s—
you’ll see when we get down there, okay?
That is very puzzling. It is, it is, it is just this area.
You’ll see as you go down. It’s not undermining your shaft, is it, Roger?
No, that’s why I want to try to stop it or at least contain it.
Anyways, we’ll get you guys dressed. You’ll have a good idea.
We’ll talk—have a great idea.”

“Yeah, uh, this is yours, this is me, yeah,
and this is Rick; this is for you, okay?
As we all know, for 200 some years, water’s always been the problem.
Well, now we’re encountering it ourselves,
and we have to devise a way to shut it down or at least diminish it.
The bottom of the garden shaft could be incredibly important
to solving the mystery. It needs to be dealt with.”

“All right, I feel like Ghostbusters.
Since returning to the island three weeks ago,
representatives from Duma’s Contracting Limited
have extended the refurbished 82T deep shaft down to 87 ft,
with the ultimate goal of reaching a total depth of nearly 100 ft.
It is here that the Oak Island team hopes to breach
a mysterious 7T high tunnel that they have discovered
during their strategic core drilling operation—
a tunnel that has been carbon-dated to as early as the 17th century,
which runs east to west toward the so-called baby blob,
where high concentrations of gold, silver, and other metals
have been detected in groundwater between depths of 80 and 100 ft.”

“All right, here we go. Let’s go, guys.
Care needs to be taken to try to understand
what’s happening inside of the shaft in a number of ways.
This water issue has to be dealt with.”

“So this is 60—oh yeah,
so starting from this set here, this is where our water starts right here,
and then it comes in along the side.
So our plan today is we’re going to go one set above this.
We’re going to punch nine holes in here,
and we’re going to get some urethane in there
to stop all this water that we see coming in.
What they want to do is use this fast-setting urethane.
They’re going to grout it and try and stop the water.
You see those two 2x6s? See the crack?
They use a specialized compound, expanding foam, if you will,
in layman terms—spray it under pressure,
and as it expands, it will seal off that intrusion of water, possibly completely.”

“Okay, I’ve landed.
Okay, Roger, I have lots of questions.
Yeah, where are we compared to where we were last year at the bottom?
Are we below that depth?”

“That’s right. So we were about four or five ft lower here.
Yeah, so right now we’re at 87 ft from the top,
so we’ve gone down about 4 ft, roughly.
Right, but how far is that down there?”

“Uh, it’s not very much further. I’ll just open this up,
this little hatch here, to give us a better idea.
Okay, so we’re looking at dirt that nobody else has ever seen, ever.
That’s right, right there for sure.
I’ll say this, Roger, you’re very close to that tunnel that we hope—
it’s just a few feet below here.”

“Yeah, yeah, it’s pretty cool.
Oh yeah, I’d say just a tunnel we didn’t know anything about.
It’s not described in the narrative.
Yeah, we got to get down there, and that’s what I’m hoping—
like when we start this pro drilling and we start punching away,
yeah, short of artifact recovery,
yeah, gold, silver, the most important relevance of this shot
is that horizontal drill.”

“Yeah, depending on what the team finds once they reach
the believed tunnel below, Dumis will also be able to use
a probe drilling device to search for evidence of valuables
up to 40 ft in every direction.
Should any important clues be discovered during this process,
and the existing tunnel is inaccessible,
Dumis can construct a new tunnel in order to reach them.”

“Later that morning, if you’re right there, that’s good.
Okay, as Dumis continues their work on the garden shaft.
Hey Terry, he—M, thanks for coming out.
KL 14.5, we’re down 138, nearly 60 ft to the southwest.”

“Geologist Terry Mat and archaeologist Moya McDonald
supervise the core drilling operation in borhole KL 14.5,
a borhole that is on target to penetrate the center of Aladdin’s cave,
nearly 150 ft underground.
This is a very interesting area to all of us.
Hey Scott, guys, how you doing?”

“M, so we’re going to put the enting camera down in cas L 14.5.
I think we’re all hoping to see some evidence that men
actually excavated this cave. What did we hit here?
Basically, we have 10 ft of open space,
is what I’m understanding. That’s big; that’s bigger than anything we’ve seen.
We have never seen anything like this.
Paul, let’s get it in a hole and see what we can see.
Okay, please, okay Paul, so line it up at the top,
going into the con right now.”

“The Anton Spectrum 20 high-def camera that the team is using
to investigate the massive cavern is not only designed
to operate in low-light conditions—there’s the water—but is also
able to pan and tilt for a 360° view of its surroundings.”

“Okay, that’s right at 142 at the top of the casing.
We should be inside the cave now.
You can see silt kind of moving past there.
Paul, just take her down incrementally.”

“Okay, there it is right there.
Oh my God, look at that!
We see something that looks square—
like a square-headed bolt, which would clearly be a man-made thing.
That’s what we’re looking for in Aladdin’s cave.
We’re looking for some evidence that human beings were inside it.
So I guess it’s possible, but I would not call it definitive.
We need a miniature Gary to go down there and metal detect now.
I would lower—take it down further, Paul.
I think that was not the bottom; I think that’s potentially a sidewall—
just trying to get any kind of an indication of where we are,
if there’s something, i.e., a man-made something underground
that might have significant importance to what the island is trying to tell us.”

“They almost have some kind of a current or something
pulling sediment across the lens.
See kind of a shadow there?
It looks like something through the mist.
There, oh, you can see stuff now.
Okay, that’s interesting—trying to rotate around.
There’s definitely a current down there.
Seems to be—it looks wide open,
but you can’t see through that silt to the wall.”

“I mean, if anything, we’ve proven it’s a wide open cavity.
This is a good opportunity for us to really map up with the sonar.”
“I agree. We’re in the cave, and what we see is very interesting.
I mean, it could be man-made, and so for us,
if this proved anything, it’s worth getting the sonar in,
and so we’re going to do that in a few days.
The sonar is going to tell us the dimensions,
where it’s coming from, where it’s going to—we can look for openings,
and we can use this to really map out the underground of the cave,
and I’m really excited about that
because to me this is potentially a treasure location.”