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Don't panic. Don't panic.

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-I'm not panicking. You're not.
-Let me see.

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I was making some tinder,
and I slipped.

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A lot of blood.

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I got-- I got myself to the bone.

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So we're going to want to clean it first.

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-Going good. I got a vein.
-I saw it shoot over here.

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-You want one of these and a wrap?
-Yeah.

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Careful. I may spray.

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Ouch.

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Need pressure.
We wanna stop bleeding.

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This could turn into
a very serious situation.

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It's significant, and

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we'll see what happens tomorrow.

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In 1892, seal poacher
and pirate Gregory Dwargstof

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buried 150 cans
filled with gold coins

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on the remote island
of Adak, Alaska.

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Adak saw action during World War II.

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Now, it's riddled with unexploded bombs.

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When you dig on Adak, you may get rich…

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We got a big hit over here!

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…or just die trying.

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You awake?

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I think, overall, I would have
slept really good last night.

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But, um, every time I rolled over
on my thumb, I woke myself up.

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We're on the far side of the island.

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We're a long ways away from first aid.

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If I even touch the thumb,
it hurts. And it hurts bad.

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But time's going real quick.

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We got to get going.

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This is a surprising place.

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If I had millions in gold,

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I'd hide it here.

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Dr. M and Brian Weed
have made the difficult journey

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to Adak's treacherous southern coast

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because they believe
pirate Gregory Dwargstof

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buried one last stash of gold

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at the Bay of Waterfalls
before he left the island.

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The plan today is

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Weed needs to sweep with the detector,

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and then I'm digging.

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I have to say I'm a little daunted.

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This area is a lot bigger
than it looked last night.

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-Yes.
-I'm worried for your hand.

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This was no kitchen accident.

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If that wound opens up,
he's in big trouble.

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-I'll turn my sensors all the way up.
-Yeah.

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So even if we detect a nail,
it'll tell me from about three feet away.

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I don't see any evidence

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that there's any military presence
on this side of the island.

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There's no junk.

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There was never any seal hunting out here.

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We have no record
of any military presence.

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So just looking around out here,

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it seems like it hasn't changed
in the last 150 years.

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It's untouched.

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I think any metal out here
is worth digging.

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Yeah.

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We'll start our search
at the high ground of the target area

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because if you think about how Dwargstof
would've looked at this place,

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he would have considered the high ground
more secure from the elements.

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We'll start there
and work our way down to the coast.

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All right, let's turn this thing on
and start searching.

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Okay.

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More than ten miles
from the Bay of Waterfalls.

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Jay, Burke, and Thom
are hiking to Lake Betty,

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a rugged region
deep in Adak's backcountry.

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-It's a cold one today.
-Yeah.

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Okay. Now we're just
watching where we walk.

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I mean, it's private.
It's a tough place.

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The team is following
the final footsteps of Samuel Arrington,

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a Navy veteran
who had been stationed on Adak.

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Arrington was searching for gold
at Lake Betty when he perished.

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Jay, Burke, and Thom

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are hiking from the location
where Arrington set up his camp

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to the nearby ravine where his body
was discovered seven years later.

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It's no easy trek out here.
This guy was committed.

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The area surrounding Lake Betty
contains countless places

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where Dwargstof could have hidden
the treasure.

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So to narrow their search,

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the team tries to locate the exact spot
where Arrington was looking for gold.

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-There's no visibility out here.
-No, I know.

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We're getting real close to
where they found Arrington's body,

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and this frigging fog rolls in.

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It's cold.

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The hair on the back of my neck
just started standing up.

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We were always warned as kids
when we're out there about the fog.

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It can roll in on you quick,
and it's thick as pea soup.

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We're coming up on the ravine,

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which we won't want to get too close to.

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-He was down in there?
-Yeah.

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Arrington ended up
in the bottom of this ravine

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so badly injured
that he couldn't pull himself out.

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If we can figure out what he was doing
when that happened,

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we'll have a place to start searching.

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He must have come off of here somewhere,

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ended up right down
on just on this side of the creek.

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I'm trying to understand
what happened.

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Did this guy fall and tumble
and break his leg?

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He couldn't get back out?

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-Did he hit his head?
-It's possible.

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God, that's brutal.
I wonder how long he laid down there.

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I guess we gotta do some searching,
but, wow, this is not a good spot to be.

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Because Arrington's body
was found at the bottom of the ravine,

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Jay and Burke believe
that he may have died after a fall

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while searching
the flat plateau above the ravine.

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So they will start
by scanning that area first.

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I think if you cover
this little section and

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Thom can work through that…

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Keep an eye out
as you're going.

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Don't get so into your detector
that we're going over the edge.

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We're gonna use
our detectors to check around here

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for any sign of the gold.

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At the same time, we're gonna
keep our eyes open for any clues

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that Dwargstof was even here.

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Anything distorted,
any rock stacking, any rock marking,

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maybe something
like we found back in Army 1.

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It's a quiet spot.

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Must've been pretty eerie
and pretty lonely to be out here.

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Yeah.

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I'm going to search every inch of this.
He was here for a reason.

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And if he did know something,
I'm going to find out what he knew.

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If I was a pirate,

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I would pick a bay like this.

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A more tucked-away cove, right…

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Yeah.

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…than Kuluk Bay,
which everybody knew?

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If I was Dwargstof,

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I've got practically a 360 view

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of burying my gold
and watching for anybody.

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And at the same time, anybody coming in

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is never gonna be able to see me in here.

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Not only is the Bay of Waterfalls
the perfect spot,

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but I have another theory
about it as well.

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There's something I've been
thinking about for a while now.

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Everything I've researched
about Dwargstof,

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I mean, this guy is just totally ruthless,

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didn't really care about his crew,
maybe had one friend among the officers.

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You know, he's gonna do everything
he can to either protect the treasure

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or run off with it.

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Dwargstof worked for a criminal syndicate

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called the Sealing Association.

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It sounds innocent enough, but they were
like the mafia of the Aleutian chain.

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The gold that the Dwargstof
buried on Adak

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belonged to an illegal seal poaching ring.

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The US Navy had launched
a massive campaign

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to destroy the organized syndicate

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by seizing their ships and assets.

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Desperate to preserve their fortune,
the poachers asked Dwargstof,

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captain of their fastest vessel,

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to make a run from the Navy warships
with all of their gold.

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Dwargstof then made a daring escape
to far away Adak Island

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with the agreement he would return
the treasure once the coast was clear.

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But Dwargstof may have had another agenda.

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I don't think he had any intention
of giving it back

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to the Sealers Association.

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The association made a deal with Dwargstof

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that he would hold onto
the gold for safekeeping,

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but I think he tried to keep
some of the gold for himself.

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I agree with you. It doesn't make
any sense that he would,

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"Yes, Sealers Association,
I'll be your bank account."

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"Let me hide all your gold for you.
I'm a perfectly upstanding fellow."

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I think Dwargstof buried
a good chunk of the gold at Army 1,

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and he intended to give
the Sealers Association a map

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so they could claim it later.

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But I think he also took a large portion
and hid it here at the Bay of Waterfalls.

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So he could secretly return to take
the rest of the spoils for himself.

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And it makes sense
because if you remember,

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his ship ended up wrecking
on the south side of the island chain,

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so it does stand to reason
that he left Adak from a southerly route.

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All he had to do was dodge
the Navy long enough,

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dig the treasure back up, and take off.

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Which he would have done
if it weren't for the shipwreck.

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After two hours,
the search has not yielded any hits.

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This place meets some of the criteria
for Dwargstof hiding his gold here,

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but here's my concern, this stuff.

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Everywhere I'm digging, it's bedrock.

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We're never going to make a dent in that
unless we get a jackhammer or dynamite.

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I really don't think
he'd have hidden his gold in a place

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that he could not bury it.

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You're right.
He can't bury anything there.

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We need to find the places
on this bench that aren't bare bedrock,

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and we need to use science to find it.

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There's a reason this whole little island
is shaped like it is, right?

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Ice dragged her belly across this
and didn't leave much more.

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I have a PhD studying glaciers.

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When we look at a landscape like this,

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you can see how a glacier flowed,

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they're like bulldozers,
and they're scraping away the land,

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but all that scraped-away land
has to go somewhere,

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and typically it's downslope
at the bottom.

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So let's move down
where there's some sediments

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that he could bury something in.

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How's it look down there?

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There's a lot of soil
that's about a foot deep,

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but there's a lot of grass.

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You okay?

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What the…

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Holy cow!

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-What is that?
-You didn't hit it?

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No, just caught the tail end of that.
Jesus.

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That's a Rommel spike.

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World War II anti-personnel.

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These were horrible devices.

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If the Japanese were invading the island
and they fell on these,

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it basically starts
cork*ing through you.

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It's-- It's really hard to get off
one of these things.

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If these guys are here,
the military was in this area.

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If there's one, there could be more.

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I heard about these spikes from Thom.

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They were used all over the Aleutian chain
to protect the military installations.

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Ten years ago, there was a cleanup,
and they picked up about 2,800 of them.

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But clearly, they didn't get them all.

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God, that's effective. I did not see that.

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The tip is incredibly sharp.

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I'm really lucky.

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If I had gotten anywhere near
the business end,

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we'd be having a different conversation.

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Do you think that we should pull this?

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I think we should not pull it

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because sometimes multiple Rommel stakes
were connected by razor wire.

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If we started to un* this, you could
have razor wire get you in the face.

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Let's see what this guy sounds like
and see if there's any razor wire.

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I think there's something down there too.

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All right. Let's mark it.

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Whoa, hold on a second.

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-Seriously?
-I have something. Yeah.

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Should I dig?

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You got to be kidding.

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I have a broken-off Rommel here.

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That's a sharp one, too.

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So we got to watch out where we step

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'cause we got spikes
coming up from the ground.

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Oh my God.

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This is ridiculous.

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The whole point is literally
to stab you in the foot.

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Right.

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Even though we have no record
of the military being here,

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these stakes show
that they definitely have been.

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It's horrific. It's just horrific.

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I hate this.

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Everything seems like
it's stacked against us.

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Brian is already injured,

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and now we're dodging *y traps

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that were designed to stop entire armies.

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These are some big hazards.

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-I just have to… I have to…
-This…

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Do we want to
consider walking out of here?

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-You'll have so much doubt.
-It's perfect. I know.

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I'm-- I'm feeling a little bit jittery.

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We have the metal detector.

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I was able to detect this. Very easily.

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As soon as I was anywhere near it,
the whole thing lit up.

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I was like,
there's something else here.

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Is there any other

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anti-personnel stuff that potentially
your detector can't find?

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UXO of any kind, it will show up. Stakes…

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Rommels?

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-Rommels.
-Razor wire.

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-Yep.
-All right.

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Then, let's just proceed with the idea
that there is a ton of them out here

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and just be freaking careful.

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I'm going to go behind you.

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Something over there…

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…and there's something there.

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-You getting anything, Jay?

00:14:48.125 --> 00:14:49.250
Zero hits.

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We've searched
the whole top of this ravine.

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We haven't had one hit,
not one ring. Nothing.

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We haven't found any sign
or any clue that Dwargstof was even here.

00:15:01.666 --> 00:15:04.458
Maybe it's not up here.
Maybe it's down in there.

00:15:05.958 --> 00:15:09.750
So maybe he was down there looking.
He didn't fall. He went down there.

00:15:10.250 --> 00:15:13.791
That's what I'm thinking.
He wasn't out here for nothing.

00:15:15.833 --> 00:15:17.333
One way to find out.

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What do you mean?

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Let's go down in there.

00:15:23.916 --> 00:15:26.041
I mean, I'm not necessarily
feeling that.

00:15:26.125 --> 00:15:28.458
I understand we worked hard
to get out here,

00:15:28.541 --> 00:15:31.333
but, I mean, the last time
Thom was down here,

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he was pulling out
somebody who was deceased.

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Dwargstof wasn't gonna
make finding his gold very easy,

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and by putting it down
on the bottom of that ravine,

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if that's what he did,

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that's like the ultimate hiding spot.

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I didn't come out here
to leave any stone unturned.

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Jay, if you're not feeling it,
you stay up here.

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If two people go down
and one person stays safety,

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if something happens, at least I'm here.

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That's the only way I'd buy off
for you guys doing it.

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All right.

00:16:01.041 --> 00:16:04.416
If Dwargstof could have got his treasure
down to the bottom of that ravine,

00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:06.958
nobody's coming in there to get that out.

00:16:07.041 --> 00:16:08.958
But how did he get down there?

00:16:09.041 --> 00:16:11.416
He had plenty of materials
on his boat.

00:16:11.500 --> 00:16:14.875
He would've easily had 1,000 foot
of rope he could spare.

00:16:14.958 --> 00:16:17.500
That was hemp rope back then.
That stuff was strong.

00:16:18.083 --> 00:16:19.708
Yeah, I could kind of picture it.

00:16:19.791 --> 00:16:21.916
There's really no trees
anywhere to tie off to,

00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:24.208
but you could get
some guys to help anchor,

00:16:24.291 --> 00:16:27.375
have a guy kind of
rappel down on all that rope.

00:16:27.458 --> 00:16:29.166
Once you had a guy down there,

00:16:29.250 --> 00:16:33.166
you could easily wrap that treasure up
in a tight woven net

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or maybe an old sail,
and just feed it down to that guy.

00:16:37.875 --> 00:16:41.416
Thom and Burke will rappel
into the ravine using specialized

00:16:41.500 --> 00:16:43.583
10-millimeter mountaineering rope.

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But it's anchored to Thom's climbing ax,

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which relies on the strength
of the tundra to support their weight.

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I'm just gonna go down, and if it feels
all right, you know, you just follow me.

00:16:55.291 --> 00:16:57.875
We don't have much margin
for error, but…

00:16:58.583 --> 00:17:00.250
…we've got to look at it.

00:17:06.916 --> 00:17:09.500
Rappelling isn't something I do every day.

00:17:10.333 --> 00:17:13.791
It's very unlikely that Dwargstof
buried the gold on a hill like this.

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It's just too steep.

00:17:15.208 --> 00:17:18.125
So I'm looking for a flat area
near the bottom to search.

00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:20.916
How's it looking down there, Thom?

00:17:21.583 --> 00:17:23.041
There's a little spot down here.

00:17:23.125 --> 00:17:24.000
Okay.

00:17:24.625 --> 00:17:26.750
-Find me something.
-All right.

00:17:28.625 --> 00:17:30.958
-Whoo! She's steep, Thom.
-Yeah?

00:17:31.750 --> 00:17:36.000
I think Arrington was obsessed
about this treasure just as much as I am,

00:17:36.083 --> 00:17:37.791
but he lost his life.

00:17:38.708 --> 00:17:41.375
This obsession can grab hold of you.
It's pretty deep.

00:17:42.083 --> 00:17:45.416
So sometimes I have to ask myself,
how obsessed am I with this?

00:17:45.916 --> 00:17:48.458
Am I crazy? Am I nuts to be doing this?

00:17:53.666 --> 00:17:54.500
You good?

00:17:55.416 --> 00:17:57.083
-We're good, bud.
-Yeah.

00:17:57.166 --> 00:17:59.000
What's it look like down there?

00:18:00.166 --> 00:18:02.541
There's a little area to search,
not a lot.

00:18:02.625 --> 00:18:03.875
Just a few ledges.

00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:07.291
If you find that gold,
tie it to the end of this rope.

00:18:07.375 --> 00:18:11.125
I'm hoping for treasure, for cans,
or some kind of a clue about

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what happened here.

00:18:13.708 --> 00:18:16.708
There are only a few ledges
on either side of the stream

00:18:16.791 --> 00:18:19.875
where Dwargstof could've possibly
buried the gold.

00:18:20.416 --> 00:18:23.958
I'll go check out down here
if you want to do this little bench here.

00:18:24.041 --> 00:18:25.125
Yeah.

00:18:30.291 --> 00:18:33.291
@

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Dr. M and Brian Weed
have scanned almost all of the parts

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of their search area

00:18:38.291 --> 00:18:40.208
that aren't covered with bedrock.

00:18:40.291 --> 00:18:43.541
There is only one
small sliver of land remaining.

00:18:48.666 --> 00:18:50.833
Right here, there's a high tone.

00:18:50.916 --> 00:18:52.458
Can you dig right there?

00:18:52.541 --> 00:18:55.166
High tones, that's where the money is at.

00:18:55.250 --> 00:18:58.416
If I'm scanning a gold coin,
it's going to be a high tone.

00:18:58.500 --> 00:19:01.416
But unfortunately, brass,
that UXOs are made out of,

00:19:01.500 --> 00:19:03.041
they're going to sound the same.

00:19:03.125 --> 00:19:04.875
We need to see what it is.

00:19:05.958 --> 00:19:07.750
I think it bears…

00:19:09.208 --> 00:19:11.125
mentioning that Thom is not here.

00:19:11.208 --> 00:19:15.333
So I don't know if we end up
peeling away a UXO.

00:19:15.416 --> 00:19:18.583
Why don't I have you scan this area?

00:19:18.666 --> 00:19:22.125
And then why don't I have you just
break out a little bit wider around us

00:19:22.208 --> 00:19:24.541
in case something decides
to spring out and stab me?

00:19:24.625 --> 00:19:26.416
Right, I will be able to scan and see

00:19:26.500 --> 00:19:28.750
if there's any wires
or anything like that.

00:19:28.833 --> 00:19:30.041
Let's get scanning.

00:19:35.208 --> 00:19:38.458
-It definitely goes to there.
-Does it go past the moss?

00:19:39.041 --> 00:19:39.875
Yes.

00:19:41.916 --> 00:19:44.083
And then I'm getting a high tone here.

00:19:45.416 --> 00:19:48.291
Brian's metal detector
indicates multiple hits

00:19:48.375 --> 00:19:49.583
very close together

00:19:49.666 --> 00:19:54.500
and organized in a linear pattern
12 feet long and two feet wide.

00:19:54.583 --> 00:19:57.666
It's possible Dwargstof
put the cans all in a row,

00:19:57.750 --> 00:20:00.166
and it is going to be
a huge stash of gold.

00:20:01.458 --> 00:20:03.208
Well, we know it's not nature.

00:20:03.291 --> 00:20:06.375
Nature doesn't make straight lines,
and we have a straight line here.

00:20:10.250 --> 00:20:11.083
Please.

00:20:12.750 --> 00:20:14.750
-Give me a hand here.
-Yes.

00:20:15.250 --> 00:20:19.166
We're just going to have to
peel this.

00:20:19.250 --> 00:20:20.083
Okay.

00:20:25.750 --> 00:20:26.750
This is wood.

00:20:27.541 --> 00:20:31.083
Do you think Dwargstof could have
buried his treasure under

00:20:31.166 --> 00:20:33.541
boards and stuff that might
have been on the ship?

00:20:33.625 --> 00:20:34.708
Absolutely.

00:20:35.875 --> 00:20:36.958
Wait a minute.

00:20:37.750 --> 00:20:39.541
There's something underneath here.

00:20:39.625 --> 00:20:40.791
Did you hit metal?

00:20:40.875 --> 00:20:44.583
I did.
There's definitely something down here.

00:20:45.583 --> 00:20:47.166
Holy! What is that?

00:20:48.250 --> 00:20:49.916
-It's a chunk of metal.
-Flat.

00:20:50.583 --> 00:20:52.625
-What the heck?
-Um, it's iron.

00:20:52.708 --> 00:20:54.458
-Pull that whole thing out.
-Okay.

00:20:55.416 --> 00:20:57.333
It kinda looks like a bolt head.

00:20:57.416 --> 00:20:59.041
I'm looking at a bolt here.

00:20:59.125 --> 00:21:00.625
So this is a steel plate.

00:21:01.291 --> 00:21:03.458
I think that's more than
a steel plate.

00:21:03.541 --> 00:21:06.583
I guess there could have been,
like, a small building or like

00:21:06.666 --> 00:21:08.375
a radar tower or something.

00:21:09.250 --> 00:21:13.125
I think we can assume this is
some sort of building ruins,

00:21:13.208 --> 00:21:15.833
and for some reason,
they needed to protect this thing.

00:21:17.041 --> 00:21:19.583
I think this might be part
of a surveillance tower.

00:21:19.666 --> 00:21:22.208
It's rumored Adak
was used as a listening post

00:21:22.291 --> 00:21:24.791
to spy on the Russians
during the Cold War.

00:21:25.458 --> 00:21:27.000
If this is part of that,

00:21:27.083 --> 00:21:30.625
it would make sense why they would
keep it secret and well protected.

00:21:31.916 --> 00:21:36.250
And if I'm getting a high tone here,
it's likely copper used for the wiring.

00:21:36.333 --> 00:21:38.416
But it's not Dwargstof's gold,

00:21:38.500 --> 00:21:42.791
and we are out here to find his gold,
not to uncover old infrastructure here.

00:21:43.291 --> 00:21:46.083
This is the last section
in the Bay of Waterfalls

00:21:46.166 --> 00:21:49.666
bwhere Dwargstof could have
buried his gold, which *s.

00:21:50.166 --> 00:21:52.375
I really thought we were
going to find something.

00:21:53.083 --> 00:21:54.125
I'm disappointed.

00:21:54.208 --> 00:21:57.041
We've searched this whole area,
and there's nothing here.

00:21:57.541 --> 00:21:58.916
I still firmly believe

00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:01.833
that Dwargstof would have
set aside some gold for himself.

00:22:01.916 --> 00:22:03.583
And if it's not here,

00:22:03.666 --> 00:22:04.958
I hope it's at Lake Betty.

00:22:05.041 --> 00:22:07.041
And I hope Jay and Burke find something.

00:22:07.125 --> 00:22:10.125
This was a bust.
Dwargstof's gold's not down here.

00:22:31.708 --> 00:22:32.958
That's a hit.

00:22:37.083 --> 00:22:38.125
Oh, that's solid.

00:22:41.166 --> 00:22:42.875
Hey, you guys got something?

00:22:42.958 --> 00:22:43.791
Yeah.

00:22:44.583 --> 00:22:47.375
We got a pretty solid target.
We're gonna go ahead and dig it.

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.375
This is actually kind of exciting.
This place doesn't really have any trash.

00:22:53.458 --> 00:22:55.791
If they got a hit,
this is going to be something.

00:22:55.875 --> 00:22:56.833
Hit it again.

00:23:00.791 --> 00:23:02.416
-You're on it.
-Okay.

00:23:06.375 --> 00:23:09.000
-This stuff's like an old carpet.
-Oh, man.

00:23:15.375 --> 00:23:16.333
What the hell?

00:23:22.375 --> 00:23:24.583
It's definitely metal,
some kind of cylinder.

00:23:27.791 --> 00:23:29.541
No, frigging way.

00:23:30.458 --> 00:23:33.416
Jay! I think we might
have found something!