Season 13
The team launches their most ambitious drilling campaign yet, targeting the solution channel at depths below 200 feet where water testing has revealed elevated concentrations of silver and precious metals. A drill rod fragment recovered from 174-178 feet correlates to the 1849 Truro Company operation when James Pitblado reportedly recovered a 14th-century Portuguese coin. On Lot 5, Gary Drayton discovers a sixth Roman coin (Claudius II, 250-270 AD) whose composition matches trace metals found in Money Pit water.
On Lot 8, attention turns to a giant boulder held in place by smaller stones arranged evenly around it. Excavation beneath the formation reveals large voids, a wool textile fragment with red dye dated by context to the medieval period, and a 700-year-old English bag seal bearing the Leeds sheepskin symbol. Dr. Ian Spooner's soil analysis shows lead levels of 140 parts per million beneath the boulder compared to just 12 elsewhere on the island, with the lead migrating through ash and coal consistent with burning or smelting activity.
Plans are underway for a massive caisson operation using a telescoping method to reach 230 feet, deeper than any previous excavation.
Key Discoveries
Sixth Roman coin discovered, drill rod fragment links to 1849 Pitblado incident, giant boulder excavation reveals voids and elevated lead levels, medieval wool textile at Lot 8, Leeds bag seal (1300s), deepest drilling campaign planned, silver concentrations confirmed in solution channel.
Key People
Rick Lagina, Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, Alex Lagina, Gary Drayton, Billy Gerhardt, Scott Barlow, Charles Barkhouse, Doug Crowell, Steve Guptill, Laird Niven, Fiona Steele, Dr. Ian Spooner, Emma Culligan, Vanessa Lucido (ROC Equipment), Adam Embleton (Soletanche Bachy Canada)
All Episodes
25 episodesThe Comeback
Rick and Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, and their team gather at the Interpretive Centre to launch a new season with a clear mission: systematic drilling to the bo...
Billion Dollar Baby
In the Money Pit area, the team continues drilling borehole J-9 into the solution channel, targeting the zone between 150 and 220 feet where they believe the or...
Medieval Intentions
In the Oak Island lab, Rick and Marty Lagina and members of the team gather to hear Emma Culligan's analysis of a coin that Marty and Katya Drayton discovered o...
The Smoking Gun
In the Money Pit area, Rick and Marty Lagina and the team begin drilling borehole F-5.5, located just seven feet from borehole F-4 where the highest levels of g...
Keep On Rockin'
In the Money Pit area, Rick and Marty Lagina and the team drill borehole G-4.5, targeting the solution channel between 168 and approximately 212 feet below grade.
The Heat Is On
In the Money Pit area, the team recovers a 30-foot core from borehole F-8.5, spanning 178 to 208 feet with bedrock hit at 205, in an area where previous water t...
Walk The Line
In the Money Pit area, the team drills borehole I-9.5 targeting the deepest sections of the solution channel at 210 to 230 feet, an area where new water tests conducted by Dr.
Into The Fold
The team begins drilling borehole H-9.25, located in the southwest corner of the former Chappell Shaft and just five feet south of the H-8 shaft, where in 2017 ...
So Close, Yet Sonar
Rick and Marty Lagina and their team begin drilling borehole BN-13.5 in the area Marty has dubbed the Peacock, 45 feet northeast of recent drilling locations an...
Boulder And Wiser
In the Money Pit area, the team drills borehole DN-13 in the Peacock, a few feet northwest of borehole BN-13.5, where a possible man-made cavity was discovered at 150 feet one week earlier.
A Knight's Journey
In the Money Pit area, Rick and Marty Lagina and their team drill borehole BN-14 in the Peacock, just three feet west of where a ten-foot void was discovered at...
A Fort Knight
In the War Room, Rick and Marty Lagina and their team review snake camera footage captured beneath the massive boulder on Lot 8, where archaeologists Laird Nive...
Testing Their Metal
On Lot 8, Rick and Marty Lagina and Craig Tester join archaeologists Laird Niven and Fiona to continue investigating the massive boulder feature, beneath which ...
The Shining
In the War Room, Rick and Marty Lagina, Craig Tester, and their team meet virtually with Vanessa Lucido of ROC Equipment and Adam Embelton of Soletanche Bachy C...
Swamped
Teams from ROC Equipment and Soletanche Bachy Canada arrive on Oak Island with a 135-ton telescoping drill rig to begin excavating the TPF shaft, a seven-foot-d...
Raising the Stakes
The season's most ambitious Money Pit operation runs into an immediate obstacle when the TPF-1 caisson seizes up at just 25 feet, pinned in compacted backfill g...
The Missing Links
Armed with new information about the elusive stakes in the swamp, the team redoubles their search efforts with thrilling results.
Breaking the Seal
After raising the 40,000 pound boulder from Lot 8, the team is astonished to find a manmade feature that may be hiding a shaft or tunnel
Axis of Medieval
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The Sands of Time
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