The Curse of Oak Island: Rick Ventures Inside the Money Pit

Hey Rick, hey Jack, good morning.

Good morning.

That hammer grab is fun to watch.

Yeah.

Dumas seems to be moving along quite quickly.

Good. As a new day dawns on Oak Island for brothers Rick and Marty Lagina and the members of their team, the hope that they may be on the verge of solving a 228-year-old treasure mystery has never been higher.

How’s it going?

I see you guys. What’s the depth?

Well, right now we’re about 23 feet. We’re going to be marking a little bit more, blowing that in, and then we’re going to be installing another two sets.

Okay.

Although a number of investigations are currently being conducted all across the island to search for critical clues and valuables, their most promising operation is underway in The Money Pit area with Dumas Contracting Limited, a mining company that is reconstructing the so-called Garden Shaft.

The material is still just really mucky right now.

Yeah, yeah. So it’s kind of—you can tell that it’s backfilled clay, but you’re right—they were careful as to what they dumped in there.

Correct.

Based on numerous recent discoveries this year, the team has good reason to believe that this 80-foot-deep decayed wooden structure may be connected to the original Money Pit. Wood samples from the shaft have not only been dated to 1735, but water testing within it has also revealed high trace evidence of gold. In addition, it is also located in close proximity to a potential void or chamber that the team drilled into earlier this year at a depth of just 55 feet.

There are some pretty concrete signs that say this might be the original Money Pit, or it could be right next to it. It could have been the original attempt, one of the original attempts. I really would like to see what’s at the bottom of that shaft, so the hope is that once we get down 50 or 60 feet, we’ll be able to drill horizontally, vertically.

Yep.

And hopefully we do find a tunnel from this shaft, at least in some directions. Some of our better water sample tests have been from here that had the gold and the silver.

Yeah. We would love to find original work, so there are all kinds of hopes here. We just have to learn as much as we can about this location.

Yeah.

Having already rebuilt the first two sets or eight-foot sections of the Garden Shaft, in the coming weeks, Dumas will complete a new vertical structure down to a total depth of approximately 80 feet. During the process, they also have the ability to probe outside the shaft and even build lateral tunnels in order to let members of the team search for evidence of treasure.

Heads up, guys!

Here we go.