Look at that.
Pretty cool, eh?
Yeah, it is massive.
NARRATOR: Marty Lagina and
his business partner Craig
Tester arrive at Smith's Cove.
Hey guys.
How are you?
Good.
You both got it.
Pretty much.
Pretty much done.
So pretty quick we'll
be able to remove this,
and then we get
over to that stuff,
and then we can excavate here.
Is that right?
Yeah, exactly.
It's going to be
interesting to get under it.
NARRATOR: Now that the
entire slipway is exposed,
archaeologist Laird
Niven will photograph
and meticulously record the
details of the structure.
The team will then carefully
disassemble it in order
to search the area
beneath it for artifacts
or possible clues.
You can see it
on the other side?
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah.
Yeah, at low tide
it's visible, yeah.
[inaudible].
Yeah, it's pretty big for
a slipway, certainly the ones
we're used to.
For hauling-- just hauling
up your little fishing boat,
It's a lot larger.
Yeah.
The other thing is
they're really too close.
To haul a ship up, you only need
one every three or four feet.
Well yeah, but a
cart full of gold
you'd need them every-- right?
Just to strengthen it?
Yes because the
wheels would be
way closer together and stuff.
I guess my question
is why use a slipway as
opposed to a wharf?
So there are some
people who feel that they
want to keep things secret.
So it's very-- it's a
low, almost no profile.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the slipway was actually
a sort of secret wharf, one used
not for the docking of ships
but rather as a ramp to
offload something of value
onto Oak Island?
And if so, what
else might the team
find buried underneath
this mysterious structure?
The slipway is clearly a
rather massive structure.
It appears to be quite old.
Doesn't have a
lot of iron in it.
It clearly looks like it
was used to load or unload
something for this island.
Well, a whole
bunch of somebodies
thought this was
really important.
It's pretty much the
biggest mystery, isn't it?
It's a massive undertaking down
here and hardly any detritus.
And the majority of it is
actually coming from here--
Right here, yeah.
--as Gary suspected.
Well, it will be interesting
to dig a little deeper here--
Yeah.
--and see what you find.
No, absolutely.
All right, well,
let's keep going.
All right.
Carry on, man.
Talk to you later.
NARRATOR: As
archaeologist Laird Niven
begins to carefully dig
beneath the slipway area,
metal-detection expert Gary
Drayton continues to search
the spoils for possible clues.
[beeping]
Here we go.
Hmm, interesting.
That looks like a hinge.
That looks like an oldy.
What's an hinge doing down here?
It's not gold, but it's
interesting, almost
like an old wrought-iron hinge.
That is cool.
What do you make of the iron?
That's nice.
I don't know if it's off a
door, a chest, or whatever,
but that's a
substantial hinge piece.
What I make of that
is that it's old.
How many verys?
I can give you at least a
couple of very, very olds.
It might even be
very, very, very old.
Really?
NARRATOR: An iron hinge
possibly from a chest
and found more than six feet
deep beneath the seabed?
Could it have been part
of a container used
to bring something
of great value
onto Oak Island centuries ago?
You imagine the pin
that went in there.
I mean, that is cool.
It is cool.
Do you think that's
a square hole?
It's tough to tell, isn't
it, the way its angle.
But this looks broken
off at the end here.
Yeah.
So it had to be
at least this long.
I mean, that's a huge length
to put on even a chest.
Looks like there's a little
more out there somewhere.
Yeah.
Something like this
really opens the door
to finding something else.
Yep.
Well, one thing's for sure.
We can bring this to get
compositional analysis done
on it.
The hinge Gary found
was very interesting.
It did look very old.
I mean, the metal itself seemed
to be hammered at some point
in time in layers like that.
So we can find experts
that might tell us,
you know, what it was used for,
what time period it was used.
So we just got to
follow up on that.
All right, mate, I'll
try and find whatever--
Associated with it.
That's a pretty cool hinge.
It is.
