Speaker 1: More.
Speaker 2: I think I figured it out.
Speaker 3: Yes, let's hear it. Avery, After that stunt you pulled
Speaker 3: last night, this better be good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sorry, I'm like guys, Oh, you would not
Speaker 4: believe what a morning I've had. First the flooded shower
Speaker 4: house last night. Then a group from my cabin decided
Speaker 4: it would be a good time to have a mud
Speaker 4: fight with all the overflow water. Everyone was disgusting, and
Speaker 4: I just managed to go down to the little creek
Speaker 4: and rinse myself off by the campfire site. The only
Speaker 4: problem was, well I soak my shoes in the process.
Speaker 2: Well I can't see.
Speaker 3: You smell much better, Oh, Jack, you smell like a
Speaker 3: wet dog.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that flood was a great distraction, But did you
Speaker 4: actually have to flood the boys showers? I mean that
Speaker 4: building is still closed and most of the guys aren't
Speaker 4: any better than me.
Speaker 5: Well, hopefully that gets figured out soon, but I still
Speaker 5: think it was totally worth it.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 5: When I grabbed Thatch's book, I opened it up to
Speaker 5: the first page and I found a dedication page. Dedication page,
Speaker 5: come on, you know the page where authors share a
Speaker 5: special name of someone who they wrote.
Speaker 2: A book for.
Speaker 6: Huh, never knew that was a thing.
Speaker 4: Ugh.
Speaker 5: Just listen to what it said for Elizabeth Thatch, my
Speaker 5: beloved daughter. Made this lead you to the truth? Signed Blackbeard?
Speaker 6: Whoa Blackbeard was a dad. He had a daughter.
Speaker 3: Did you say Elizabeth Thatch? So the initials e T
Speaker 3: engraved on the compass they stand for Elizabeth Thatch yep.
Speaker 4: And Blackbeard wasn't really named Blackbeard man, my whole life,
Speaker 4: I thought it was that guy's real name.
Speaker 5: I did some digging. Well, actually, Jim, the grounds guy
Speaker 5: did some searching for me, and Blackbeard's real name was Edward.
Speaker 5: So Edward that the same name as our camp director.
Speaker 3: Wait, mister Thatch is like Blackbeard's grandson?
Speaker 6: You mean great great great great great great great great.
Speaker 5: We get the point, Jack, Yes, all these stories of
Speaker 5: Blackbeard's heroism, the scuba diving, the obsession, it all makes sense.
Speaker 5: Thatch believes Blackbeard was a good guy and the treasure
Speaker 5: is rightfully his.
Speaker 6: But why keep it a secret?
Speaker 5: Because he wants to keep up the excavation project in secret.
Speaker 5: If that's trying to go about this like any other person,
Speaker 5: he wouldn't have the free labor, the funding, or the
Speaker 5: right to whatever he finds. He wants it all for himself.
Speaker 2: With the campus his.
Speaker 3: Front, He's gotten endless amounts of money and tons of
Speaker 3: fresh eyes searching the entire coastline. But what about Professor Hayes.
Speaker 3: Why's he helping him?
Speaker 5: He probably gets a cut of whatever they find. He's
Speaker 5: definitely in on the plan, which only makes him more
Speaker 5: of a threat.
Speaker 2: We are up against both of them.
Speaker 6: Hmmm, so now what we'll even believe us?
Speaker 3: I can say for sure this guy's not going down
Speaker 3: without a fight. He's too deep in. There's no way
Speaker 3: we're gonna get a straight up confession out of him.
Speaker 2: Not yet. We need more evidence.
Speaker 5: But I have an idea. I think we should test
Speaker 5: the compass.
Speaker 6: Ooh, I like it.
Speaker 3: Test the compass, like, see if it always points north?
Speaker 5: Kind of what if this compass isn't made to point north,
Speaker 5: but points to where the treasure is hidden? If I'm right,
Speaker 5: then it should lead us to whatever treasure thatches after.
Speaker 6: No hurt in trying. But what if we actually find it?
Speaker 5: I don't know, Jack, Maybe we just leave it there
Speaker 5: until we figure out what to do with that, and
Speaker 5: then go back for it.
Speaker 3: Guys, Look, at the time we're supposed to be on
Speaker 3: the boat in like three minutes.
Speaker 2: We gotta go.
Speaker 6: Oh good, Hopefully some ocean water will wash the smell
Speaker 6: off me.
Speaker 2: But hey, wait up, sh.
Speaker 7: Alrighty, alrighty, my Scoopa point winning team is at it again.
Speaker 7: Let's get out there and make it count. We are
Speaker 7: looking for anything and everything that could lead to more discovery.
Speaker 7: Remember the honor you'll receive if you find the best
Speaker 7: loop I mean discoveries.
Speaker 3: Well there's another clue or guy can't seem to keep
Speaker 3: this mission undercover very well?
Speaker 2: Here's sure right about that?
Speaker 7: Divers Here we go, Avery, your first Morgan, second Jack
Speaker 7: bringing up the rear.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, Avery, is it moving?
Speaker 2: Yes? Over there, it's pointing down there.
Speaker 1: Come on, look.
Speaker 4: Behind those rocks shipwreck.
Speaker 5: When we did make it down to the wreck, it
Speaker 5: was like a step back in time. There was no
Speaker 5: denying the outline of what used to be a ship.
Speaker 5: The dye felt eerie and exciting. It seems strange that
Speaker 5: it hadn't already been discovered. Then again, it wasn't as
Speaker 5: big as I would have imagined. I'm guessing that the
Speaker 5: biggest ship he learned about in class was at least
Speaker 5: twice the size of this one, almost like a decoy
Speaker 5: or something. The small vessel just sat here all these decades,
Speaker 5: totally under the radar, totally safe from people like Thatch.
Speaker 5: After a few loops around the debris, I followed the
Speaker 5: compass down under what seemed to be the bow of
Speaker 5: the ship. I reached under a few old wooden boards,
Speaker 5: and right there, with an arm's reach was one gold coin,
Speaker 5: as shiny as ever.
Speaker 2: But just as I grabbed it.
Speaker 5: In my hand, I started to feel something pulling me
Speaker 5: up further and further from the ocean floor. I'm being
Speaker 5: pulled away, Avery, I get out of there.
Speaker 2: It's the current. I'm drying. I got you, Avery, grab.
Speaker 3: My hands, I got you?
Speaker 1: Okay there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 3: Where's Jack?
Speaker 8: Jack?
Speaker 4: Jack?
Speaker 5: Jack?
Speaker 2: Jack?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 5: Guys, Jack, don't scare.
Speaker 3: Us like that. What are you still doing down there?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: Just grabing this by guy. Might not be mister Thatcher's treasure,
Speaker 4: but a sure will give us something to test out.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see what Professor Hayes and Thatch
Speaker 4: do now that we actually found something.
Speaker 2: Over here.
Speaker 8: Fucks call today, Avery, Yeah?
Speaker 3: Where's Jack?
Speaker 2: Not sure? Wasn't he bringing that lock to that?
Speaker 3: You don't think they Hey, guys, oh where have you been?
Speaker 3: We've been worried sick about you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what happened Jack?
Speaker 5: What did that say?
Speaker 4: Well? He started off pretty excited, especially because Professor Hayes
Speaker 4: couldn't contain his excitement, But then he started rambling questions
Speaker 4: about where I found it and everything. He didn't even
Speaker 4: take a breath to hear my answer, though, then he froze.
Speaker 4: It's like something on that lock flipped a switch in him.
Speaker 4: Just can't really figure out what.
Speaker 2: Well, was he happy about it or mad?
Speaker 6: I have no idea, just pat in my back, said
Speaker 6: good lad and sent me out. It's like he was
Speaker 6: stuck in his head.
Speaker 3: Weird, Avery, What do we do now? You said you
Speaker 3: saw more treasure down there too, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm just not too sure what to do yet.
Speaker 5: We have to figure out this next move.
Speaker 1: And so, dear friends, remember this tale of Blackbeard the Pirate,
Speaker 1: not as the villain of legend, but as a hero
Speaker 1: of the high seas, whose noble deeds live on in
Speaker 1: the hearts of all who hear his name. In the end,
Speaker 1: it was Blackbeard who emerged victorious, his courage and righteousness
Speaker 1: shining like a beacon in the darkness. Will you carry
Speaker 1: on the truth? Will you carry on the legacy of
Speaker 1: this noble man, the one to whom the treasures of
Speaker 1: the sea were owed?
Speaker 6: Listen to this? Doesn't anyone else around here see the
Speaker 6: red flags?
Speaker 1: I'm counting on you to join the cause. I deem
Speaker 1: tomorrow the first ever scuba escapade. Let's carry on the
Speaker 1: name of Blackbeard and hit the high seas. We begin
Speaker 1: at dodd Well.
Speaker 3: I guess we know that Locke meant something to him.
Speaker 6: He's planning a master excavation and we're his like.
Speaker 2: We're his pirate crew.
Speaker 5: How Thatch managed to get everyone else at this camp
Speaker 5: on board with his ridiculous stories.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'll ever know.
Speaker 5: Just looking around, campers just seemed to blindly smile and
Speaker 5: agree with literally anything that comes out of his mouth.
Speaker 5: Come on, how I know is that I have about
Speaker 5: twelve hours to actually get some campers on our side.