The Curse of Oak Island: Uncovering Aladdin’s Cave of Wonders (Season 11)

A new day
of fresh excitement
and anticipation
has begun on Oak Island
for brothers Rick and Marty
Lagina and their team.

I guess we’re gonna get
a look down the hole?
Yes, we are.
We’ll see what
the camera has to say.

[narrator] They, along with
underwater imaging expert
Blaine Carr,
are about to begin
a two-step operation
in the Money Pit area
that they hope will reveal
the answers
that could help solve
a 228-year-old
treasure mystery.

So we’re gonna enter the cave
today at 140 to 142 feet.
Aladdin’s Cave,
as you deemed it last year.
So what do we hope to see
once we get to the bottom?
Treasure chests, doubloons.
We want to know
whether this cave is natural
or whether it’s been influenced
by people.
Secondarily to that, we’d like
to see a way in and a way out.

The primary targets we were
looking for were tunnels,
vaults, and of course,
any high-density anomalies
that could reflect treasure.

[narrator] One week ago,
representatives
from Ideon Technologies
presented a stunning report
on data that had been collected
deep underground
over the past two years
all across the Money Pit area.

Today, what we’re gonna be discussing
are results
from the Money Pit,
targets of interest.

[narrator] Five devices
known as muon detectors
had been placed
at various depths
in previously drilled boreholes
to scan for possible voids,
tunnels, and large objects.

Incredibly, a number
of potential targets
were identified,
suggesting that there could be
multiple treasure deposits
buried in the Money Pit area.

Now, after drilling
a new borehole
into Aladdin’s Cave,
the team
will first investigate it
using a high-definition camera
to look
for more definitive evidence
that it may have been
artificially created
and also what it might contain.

Okay, lights are on.
-You good?
-You’re good. Just go for it.

[narrator] If they are successful,
Blaine will then conduct
a comprehensive sonar scan
to create a detailed map
of the feature.

Okay, we can see the water.
[Rick] I mean, we’re gonna run
the camera down first.
Why not put eyes
on that void
and see if we see anything,
because
if we happen to see
a feature down there
that we could orient off of
with the camera,
it will be helpful
to the 3D mapping sonar.

We should almost be to the water
by the look of it.
Okay.
-Now you’re right there.
-Keep going.

[Rick] So hopefully,
this photographic imagery
will help us come
to a greater understanding
of what this cave represents.

We’re still seeing
the side of the caisson.
This is going down.
Where are we at?
Okay, right there. Stop.
-We’re right into it now.
-Yup.
-There.
-That’s the edge of the caisson.

Okay, rotate around.
Yeah, those are
the teeth right there.
You want him to lower it
another foot?
Yeah, can you go down
another six inches to a foot?

There we go.
A little bit more.
And…
stop there.

So this would be
the actual cavity here.
Gotta be a couple feet in
by now.
Yeah, well, there’s the wall.
-Isn’t that the ledge?
-Yeah.
It is a ledge.

[Marty] As we break
into the cavity,
we can start to see the walls,
the sides of this cave.
So I would think
there’s something else there,
but that something else
could be covered with silt.
It might not be obvious.
I want to get under that ledge.
Steve, can you really slowly
lower it like three inches?
There you go.

[Rick] That looks like
it’s open, to me.
[Blaine] Yeah. Now you have
a much bigger opening.
Good that it’s open
because that means
you can map it.
Yeah.

[Rick] The expansiveness
of Aladdin’s Cave,
it’s-it’s quite interesting,
very exciting.
We’d see some features.
It’s certainly very plausible
that the camera
is not seeing something
which may be
on the floor of the cave.

Do you want to lower it down
a little more
and see what you can see
on the bottom?
We need to see exactly where
the bottom is without any doubt.
Go.
I think we’re facing down now.
So, Steve, just very slowly,
another six inches or so.
-Six?
-Yup.
That’s good. A little bit more.
Same again, please.

-There. What– whoa, whoa, whoa.
-Hold up.
Spin it around, 360.
-There. What’s that?
-What’s that?

I can’t tell if that’s
the bottom or…
-I’ll wait for it to settle out.
-There we go, there’s something.
Visibility is actually
better than we’ve seen.

What’s this over here
on the right?
There’s something sticking out.
-Right there.
-This piece right in here.
The way the shape is.
It’s kind of angular.

-That flat thing, you mean?
-Yeah.
That’s a piece of debris
or something.
This is a very exciting thing,
and it’s important to see
whether it’s manmade or not.
I think there’s a chance the
treasure might be placed there,
which would answer
a lot of questions.

[narrator] After obtaining video
one day ago
of possible manmade workings
some 150 feet underground
in a large cavern
known as Aladdin’s Cave…

We can tie a rope to it.
Let’s do that.
Start putting it
down the hole that way.
Yeah.

[narrator] They are now
scanning it with a sonar device
in order to determine
its exact dimensions
and to also see
if there are tunnels
leading into the feature.

Okay, Scott. Good.
Okay, going in.

[narrator] The EchoLogger
DASS710 sonar device
emits high-intensity
radar pulses
that reflect off of objects
and barriers,
such as the walls of a cavern,
in order to produce
a three-dimensional map
of the underwater environment.

One hundred and forty feet
down hole right now.
Going in and let’s look at this.
[dramatic music playing]
[Blaine] Got it in a position
where it’s getting returns.
-Starting to spit out data.
-I see it. Yup.

[man] What we’re seeing looks
like the outline or perimeter
of the cavity.
How long will it be
before we have
kind of a picture to look at?

I think what we’ll do
is we’re gonna let it run,
and when we come back
in the morning,
hopefully everything
will be finished
and we’re gonna see
up into this cavity.

[Marty] All will be revealed.
I can wait till tomorrow
to get good data.
Let’s let it do its thing.

[narrator] The following morning…
-Hey, Rick.
-Hey, Rick.
-Hey, everybody.
-We’re all eager to see
what you’ve got to show us.

Okay, so the view
that we’re looking at here
is looking straight down.
-Okay.
-So we’re gonna try
to just slide it up
into a 3D image.
-Oh.
-You can see the yellow-green.
-Mm-hmm.
-[Blaine] That’s sloping down.
This darker red is the wall
in between us and the floor
of the cavern.
That being said,
we can’t see the bottom.

Uh, the aspect of the sonar
looking out,
the wall is blocking us
from seeing any further down.
-Mm-hmm.
-What I can see,
see this blue line’s
crossing over
what look like two gaps?
-Yeah.
-Mm-hmm.

[Blaine] Looks like an opening
through here.
So I think you have
the potential
for manmade ingress
into a natural cavern.
Right.

What’s the size of the cavity?
Without being able
to see the bottom,
I just don’t know
the right answer,
’cause it’s on a slope.
So, it varies.

It does slope off
in one direction,
about 30 degrees.
But if anything
was gonna be there, I mean,
gravity’s gonna take everything
to the bottom of that slope.
Right. Something
could be buried in there.
-For sure.
-Maybe the treasure.
I suppose it’s quite possible.

[Rick] I’m pleasantly surprised
that there might be
a way into the cave.
It’d be even more interesting
if we