NARRATOR:
Rick Lagina, along with island historian Charles Barkhouse and Dave Blankenship, meet with remote camera specialist Jeff Christopherson in the area of the Oak Island Money Pit known as C1.

In an attempt to photograph every area of the underground chamber, Jeff will be using the Spectrum 120 camera, which can offer a 360-degree view of underwater environments to depths of up to 1,000 feet.

RICK:
OK, hold up. Hold up a minute. Hold up, hold up, hold up. What the heck is that?

NARRATOR:
After putting a high-definition underwater camera some 170 feet down the Money Pit area shaft known as C1, Rick Lagina and the Oak Island team are astounded by the images they are looking at on their monitor.

TEAM MEMBER:
Seeing the shape there.
Yeah, there is a definite shape.
That is, in my opinion, manmade.
I agree. It looks like a piece of metal with another piece of metal going through it.

NARRATOR:
Could it have some connection to the mysterious gold object Rick Lagina and Charles Barkhouse first photographed in the shaft nearly two years ago?

RICK:
Hard to say what it is or where it came from.
Looks like a tangle of little bits of steel.
And there’s even more over this way, I thought I saw.
That’s interesting. Let me just zoom in on there.
There’s something right in there, yeah.
That looks like a bent piece of metal or something.
It looks to me like almost like a hook that had fallen is laying against that rock.
And we’ve got shadows indicating that it’s laying on the surface.
Yeah. There’s a hook there. You see the shadow right there.

DAVE:
It’s like you could stick your finger right under there and pull this thing off the wall.
There are actually a few objects right there.
Is that or is that not real?
Does something protrude from the wall, and is it metallic?

NARRATOR:
Two key questions.
If it is, human beings put that there.

CHARLES:
Can you zero in on–

JEFF:
Yes.
–this? I’ll get you as close as I can. In here.
There’s a little something there, and it goes out.
Grating or something there.
There’s a tangle of something.
That looks almost like, what, wire? Mesh?

RICK:
You can see the– well, you can see the bar there.
Yeah, where it’s kind of interwoven.

NARRATOR:
When Jeff was panning the camera around, we see this kind of a woven mesh affair.
There’s the hook-shaped object.
And we’re seeing what I can only describe as a debris field.

In 1861, searchers attempted to reach what they believed were two stacked treasure chests at the bottom of the Money Pit by digging an adjacent shaft.
Unfortunately, shaft number six, as it came to be known, began filling with seawater at a depth of 118 feet.

Soon after, a number of thunderous underground crashes were heard, leaving workers to speculate that the cribbing at the bottom of the Money Pit had collapsed, leaving whatever treasure that lay below now scattered across a flooded underground debris field.

Is it possible that the chamber at the bottom of C1 contains artifacts from that very same debris field?

CHARLES:
We have the hook.
We have the mesh.
We have something that looks maybe retrievable.
We’ve got to figure out a way to go down there and get something.

RICK:
Yeah. At this point, to me, it’s looking like a possible dive.
There’s a lot down here.
We’ve not given up on it, I guarantee you that.

DAVE:
Nope.

NARRATOR:
For short-term answers, this is the best imagery we’ve ever had.
But I’m of the opinion that it’s always best to have eyes and boots to investigate something.