• Preview intro: first words we hear “FIRE UP THE PUMP”

  • FIRE IT UP!! Draining something??? Hmmm Danny? Noonan?

  • It’s SHOWTIME

• Smith’s Cove:

  • Gary, Rick, Peter F looking at the big old timber/log/beam uncovered in the Cove, they note if it has Roman Numerals

  • Gary notes “his toes are tingling” with what could be next to or under the huge beam that has been discovered, again these are from items that may have dropped off the vessel or human activity in this area… they want to get the big digger out…but

  • Laird needs to provide the official OK to dig/proceed, and I quote Rick: “HE IS IN CHARGE AT THE END OF THE DAY” (Laird)…GAME…SET…MATCH to any questioner of our man Laird

  • In episode they refer back to Onslow Comp. 1804 dig finding oak beams and packing material, blue clay, used to possibly seal away water ingress in these areas, as here in Smith’s Cove they find this massive log structure with packed dirt I believe…but similar type design is the question? Are the two structures related?

  • Laird enters the scene, first comment: “Wow. That’s MASSIVE”

    • Wonders if this is associated with the slipway? A part of the 1700s slipway

    • Billy G. is there, ready to dig away near this massive beam..creating spoils for Gary to scan with Big Bertha

    • Here is where Gary gives a great outline of what could be happening with this massive beam near the slipway: he describes it as a dog leg that would be at the end of the slipway (or what many people probably call a “dock”) where ships would pull up along side this massive structure and offload, take on, drop, etc etc

    • Gary is bloody well excited to start searching this area but..NO SO FAST MY FRIENDS LEE CORSO DROP… Laird says stop and will only allow a hand dig to proceed at this point..this time with Billy G sitting right there..

  • Rick shown next with Gary and Peter and a shovel and Big Bertha- they want to be at the end of the slipway/wharf, Rick wants a quick once over from Gary

    • And he is off..Gary Drayton in Smith’s Cove in newly exposed territory to hunt for what may be left behind…he has that big coil on the detector, gets a signal over the big log, finds a piece of black metal? Stumped? Gary? Could be silver he ends up exclaiming…is there a design on it or is my mind playing tricks on me? (Bushwick Bill insert)

    • Looks like a silver tag? Fits in their palms..Gary thinks it could have been next to that log for a long time..did they find an artifact connected to the Lead Cross Gary found? Need to clean it up and see if there is a design…Gary says he is excited and is going for a swim he is so excited..gotta test this artifact out

• SWAMP:

  • Jack Begley is beck!! With Craig Tester, unloading equipment at the Swamp! there is Scott Barlow, noted as the project manager for Oak Island Tours (we don’t speak a heck of a lot or at all of him, the missing key to it all)

  • Starting a major project in the Swamp, pumps, hoses, couplers…time to drain that thang

    • Permits approved to dig in swamp! Excavate swamp time!

      • Will we see what the seismic anomaly that you guys foolishly think is a boat? Or more about the Paved Wharf? Will they go to The Eye?

      • Refer back to Dr. Spooner’s data being disturbed in the sample reviewed from the Eye and swamp created almost 800 years ago

      • Marty says he is looking forward to digging in swamp

      • Next comment from Craig Tester to Scott Barlow on pump types

        • 6” trash pump

        • Then smaller 4 inch pumps at specific target sites

        • Takes about 2 days to drain it, but the muck left behind wil be sticky situation

        • Jack excited to be there digging in swamp finally

  • Tom Nolan and team meet with John Skierka from Great Excavations Inc, specializes in heavy digging equipment, may have equipment that go can in the drained swamp to excavate

  • John says no worry about sinking in swamp as long as mud is displaced, you can run normally, so they show the 6ft wide tracks that are used..called pontoons, allowing the equipment to maneuver in this type of environment, and a long reach boom that can dig up to 70ft below ground

  • John says if he had to remove the top 3 feet of the swamp, it would only take him a day, but Rick says this is not a get in and get out type project, will take time, but, and huge comment here..between Billy G, John from Great Excavations, Tom Nolan..should be able to put to bed the three areas of interest in the swamp. Based on that..we should know by the end of this season, what may..or may not be…in the swamp

  • But Tom says..if it is there it’s in the Swamp

  • Next scene in Swamp is the huge digger being transported in, this is no fake equipment, even Robert Clotworthy noted he wondered how this large equipment made the logistical trip to Oak Island, 36 TON machine en route to swamp to dig, most extensive investigation ever attempted in swamp, if you notice on the rig driving it it its Gerhardt logo, Billy G heavily invested in this as well

    • Each track has its own flatbed, and they can float!

    • Last scene is saddle up, turn the key Billy G..time to dig the SWAMP!!

    • It is drained and no visible water…going after flat stone walkway first

    • Operator and Buddy Seat in Cab, Marty and Billy going at it

    • Fred Nolan spent 5 decades in swamp,

    • You see the huge excavator rolling in swamp! After 225 years of work, the Oak Island mystery is close to possibly being solved??

    • But the Island may have surprises up the sleeve still….

• MONEY PIT:

  • Doug and Terry overseeing the core samples from the drilling, want to still find tunnel from Shaft #2 to Money Pit, need to pinpoint this

  • Closest point they have ever had to original Money Pit, Terry says knocking at Money Pit door

  • Dan Henskee joins the team at the Money Pit area, core sample at 98 to 108 foot mark..could be tunnel remains..and they find sawn lumber, could be the edge of the tunnel, notices sand packed in clay…near cave in back flash back, could be a tunnel, a flood tunnel that they have intercepted

  • Marty and Rick, along with Alex, get on scene to review findings, Terry is a good geologist Marty notes, and his summary is interesting, gotta be near Money Pit

    • Need one more sample to review

• WAR ROOM:

  • Marty and Gary, Gutill…and Barkhouse..silver tag data review time, Dr. Brouesseau calls in to share the chemical composition of the tag found, Gary notes at first he thought it was POOOTHUH (way Gary says Pewter) but thinks oxidization on it makes him think silver

    • Dr reports…impure lead! Gary is shocked..Dr. notes tin and antimony are found in ancient leads..added intentionally to improve durability..like the duct tape of the day

    • Gary makes comments on broggling it out..and Marty has a great comment here to Gary after POOOTHUH and BROGGLING….please speak English in conversation

    • Laser analysis, produces microscopic cuts to review possible geographic origin on WHEN AND WHERE

      • Back to business, outta the War Room back to work

  • Few scenes later Rick, Marty, Craig, Dave B and Gary D, with Dr. Chris McFarlane Professor of Geochemistry to review information…it is lead, it tested well, results show tin large portion of the artifact is made up of this tin

    • Not of NAFTA origin, publication of complication of 6k measurements of lead isotopes from across Europe, EMEA is a good bet, Italian French or Spanish, not in Eastern…more Western Mediterranean flavor, and Gary says we all know who travelled in this area (INSERT TEMPLARS BABY SOUND CLIP HERE)

    • Marty notes first time Italians have shown up on the Island, and maybe there is a connection as the Italian smiles

    • Craig wants to reach out to Europe and check on tin content, more info desired to pinpoint a European region, French, Spanish..Italian…answers a possible WHY is that piece there…gotta put the pieces together notes Rick

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