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@@KIDD80 You are probably right! The shoreline at that location drops off sharply to a depth of 7.9 metres (about 26 feet) referencing "Lowest Normal Tide". So even 400 years ago, for example, taking the changing sea level into account, it still would have been deep enough at that spot to bring a ship to the shore.
@@zabriskie21 If you are in Brasil, check out the people at Discovery Brasil for an excellent 1997 (Portuguese) Oak Island Documentary! It was here on RU-vid but has long-since been deleted.
the curse says one more will have to die.. who will it be Alex, Jack or Billy? my boy Billy said I want a large pizza if I'm going to go out driving a excavator
Rick dismissing finding a chain with grab hooks as “cool” and moving on is hilarious to me… but I guess 80 years of him and his brother digging has bought him to a lack of enthusiasm… 😂😂😂😂🍻
It was a dry dock facility to clean and repair ship bottoms, the gravel road was to keep workers from walking in mud muck, the tunnels etc were to drain "swamp" once a ship came in for repairs. Ships back then could get a foot of growth on bottom and also worms and big leaks, you have a fleet of ships it has to be addressed where to maintain them
You would think the archaeologists with the team would figure that out and announce it on the show, but I guess that doesn't fit the show's treasure narrative.
I watched 10 seasons of this show, but I finally hit the wall. I just can't watch it anymore. I watch the nightly news so if they find something important I may hear about it.
No way they're still digging this place up. The chance of finding anything is basically zero. There could be 100 treasure pits on the island but if you're 3 feet off you'd miss it. They'd have to dig the top 20 feet off the entire island to actually have a chance at finding something. Guess the ad revenue is the real treasure.
I know I read the readers digest the same day Rick and Marty read it. I hope they find every artifact and solve the mystery. My problem is all those deep tunnels 100 feet deep. Some of them look more like medieval mining tunnels than deposit. The engineering skills are definitely from mining ⛏️
🦋it’s been quite some time since I watched you guys. I don’t watch TV anymore but I found you on this channel. I hope you’re still making good progress
I'm pushing to Lagina Brothers. You should dig up the whole island, from beginning to end, at a depth of 50-60 meters, and then you will have the treasure. You just have to proceed systematically.
Wouldnt it be funny after all these years they find out that oak island was a rest stop a porta potty island if you will. A place for travelers to stop and use the bathroom or disgard their waste before continuing on to the americas. 😅
Very interesting view at 5:57 into this video of the southeast shoreline adjacent to where they are working. Notice that the water at the shoreline is relatively clear so you can see bottom features beneath the water's surface. The shoreline at this spot drops off sharply to an "average" depth of 7.9 metres (nearly 26 feet) [SOURCE: CHS Nautical Chart 4381: Mahone Bay]. In the very distant past when the sea level surrounding Oak Island was lower, much of that seabed/slope would have been above the mean high water line and it has been long suspected that there could be one or more cave/niche crevices "now submerged" at locations along the Oak Island shoreline that could lead to the cavern(s)/voids deep beneath the island. They should consider investigating that further if they are permitted to do so and if it would be safe.
I love the mystery of all this but progress is too slow. If they were building apartments there they’d have the entire island stripped down two hundred feet and flattened in a week.
100% fact! Mr. Samuel Ball will be the gentleman you are referring to. His family has no idea where he got his wealth, a poor dirt farmer. He left that island with the treasure and kept his mouth shut. As any red bloodied soul should do if you find "treasure"
Indeed....In his era, he became one of wealthiest men in Nova Scotia. Without finding the treasure, this would have been impossible for him as he was a mere cabbage farmer.
Better than that, they should bring the Trailer Park Boys down to Oak Island from up in Dartmouth and bring Conky with them. THAT would be interesting!
@@joeshoe6184 This is nothing! You should have seen what was done to Oak Island back in the early to mid-1960's when the top of the island was literally bulldozed off and also when the causeway was constructed.
I think that sometimes there are people who are like dogs...they like to bury things, then spend time and effort finding them again, or other things...it's maybe the curiosity of it all...
What they call the Stone Road also has large skulls in it too. Who were those people? What is the " who what and where" of them? Maybe they told about those skulls in a different show but I want to know whose skulls they used when they repaired the stone road right at the swamp.
Same here! The show has become boring, mundane and moves at a snail's pace all in the name of dragging out and prolonging this top-rated Number One money-making History Channel show. That's unfortunate as I am sure that something of unimaginable value was buried/concealed at the bottom of the Money Pit in the very distant past that was never meant to be recovered.
I am so happy that other people feel the same way this bobby dasler and other remarks after they find something is getting on my nerves twenty minutes to find something twenty minutes of commercials 2 minutes for the narrator to explain the piece of wood and Greg tester and Alex to say it could be important guess what the show is over
Seems like the only ones making any money at this effort are the advertisers on the History Channel. Always a "Shocking Discovery'- clickbait of the streaming media.
Gary, the English alphabet contains an additional two letters you are clearly unaware of. In addition to the 24 letters you have nearly mastered, there is also an H and a T.
If large ships came into this area before it was back filled how much draft would they need ? therefore how deep was the cove ? My Point - how deep should they dig down to to fine the real bottom of the cove where any thing that fell off the unloading dock and ships be ??
They are only licensed to search out to the shoreline of the island and cannot search or retrieve anything that is beyond the shoreline that is on or in the Mahone Bay seabed. In regards to your question regarding the water depth at that spot, taking into account the slowly-rising sea level surrounding Oak Island, the "current modern-day", shoreline at this spot drops off sharply to an "average" depth of 7.9 metres (nearly 26 feet) [SOURCE: CHS Nautical Chart 4381: Mahone Bay]. Therefore even 400 years ago, for example, taking the changing sea level into account, it still would have been deep enough at that spot to bring a ship to the shore.
I've watched every show from the beginning. I really don't think they will ever find treasure as gold,silver. They have drilled so many holes. How can you miss something. I think they would of brought up something. Not just wood. Plus don't like when they go metal detecting and find 1thing and then stop. I think it's more of just a show now. I believe what Treasure was there had been found already by it's Ball his name. When he lived there.
Hi Everybody - Cheers from Hungary. To me, this whole island looks like a place where medieval pirates landed on the island with their ship and built a "sort of" dry dock to repair the pirate ship. The looted treasures were carefully hidden in the money pit.
Hello from Canada! It does appear that Oak Island was used as a repair facility for ships over the past thousand years. When Oak Island was platted into lots back in 1762, possibly two (2) of the lots were purchased by privateers ("legal pirates") who were commissioned by the King of England to plunder ships in the Atlantic Ocean that were enemies of the Crown. Any treasure and/or goods were brought back to Oak Island and stored. Treasure (i.e. silver or gold) was buried by the privateers in shallow holes on the island for safekeeping. This is probably what Samuel Ball found while farming the land. Regarding the Money Pit, this is something that was constructed in the very distant past before the era of pirates. What is buried/concealed deep in the Money Pit was never meant to be recovered. I believe it is an ancient (religious) tomb. Sorry so lengthy!
Thanks for the summary! So why is this place synonymous with the Templars. I have proof that a small group of people went to this area...as did the Vikings earlier...but is there any direct evidence that treasures of the Templars were hidden in this vicinity? I'm going to start buying the books in a few months...and see what some of the writers say...such as in the Sword and the Grail. I know from my own resources that some kind of Celtic people settled there before Columbus...albeit only a sml group.@@johnwoa
@@nialloneill5097 Columbus was nowhere near that area and he didn't discover anything. Be cautious with what you read. There's a lot of "snake oil" out there. Even with books re Oak Island, I will only look at books, etc... that were written PRIOR to this Reality TV show and not influenced by it. One clue regarding what originally happened at Oak Island is the "missing" 90 foot stone. I have researched it extensively and I believe it existed and is genuine. The carved symbols that I am convinced are genuine and which first appeared within a crude sketch in a 1949 treasure publication are of the Berber/Tifinagh alphabet with its origin from before (B.C.) to shortly after the time of Jesus Christ. That alone could imply ties to the Knights Templar, but who knows?.........
@@nialloneill5097 Hi! I hope you received my Reply to your inquiry re the Knights Templar, etc.... It appears to have been "censored" by the YT A.I. Algorithm but I believe it shows up if you click "Newest First" on this Comment thread.
Great observation! Rick (and Marty) just want to completely solve the Oak Island mystery in all of its six (6) aspects but the show has literally blossomed out of control with its international popularity and there is so much money involved with it.
@@ME143-c1d And the bone that was Middle Eastern was confirmed by a forensic scientist to that of a FEMALE. This fact was not revealed on any of the regular episodes.
They've found quite a lot, and although it isn't "buried treasure" it does show that certain people, e.g. the Templars, were well aware of Canada long before the "discovery" of the Americas, and active there. I think there were more important things going on there than just hiding treasure. There were rumours that during the Knights' time in Jerusalem they were searching for the Ark of the Covenant, and if they did find it, as some suggest, they would have wanted a really remote and secure hiding place for it. Much more interesting than gold and silver coins, in my view!
I’m sure this shop is mostly scripted like most reality shows. I think there is nothing there or they already found something. And just milking the show while they have ratings and sponsors
I’m sure this shop is mostly scripted like most reality shows. I think there is nothing there or they already found something. And just milking the show while they have ratings and sponsors
I’m sure this shop is mostly scripted like most reality shows. I think there is nothing there or they already found something. And just milking the show while they have ratings and sponsors
I’m sure this shop is mostly scripted like most reality shows. I think there is nothing there or they already found something. And just milking the show while they have ratings and sponsors