Martin Lagina (/ləˈɡiːnə/ lə-GEE-nə, born August 26, 1955) is an engineer, vintner, and star and producer of The Curse of Oak Island.
While pursuing his Doctor of Law at the University of Michigan, he did engineering consulting for petroleum companies.
[3] When he was eleven years old, he learned about the story of buried treasure on Oak Island in a 1965 copy of Reader's Digest, which he had borrowed from the school library.
[4] Lagina and his family started Mari Vineyard in 1999 in Traverse City, Michigan.
The winery is named after his Italian grandmother and features an enclosed tower atop walls of Upper Peninsula dolomitic limestone.