Oak Island

I just don't get the appeal of the series. If anyone ever actually found the treasure, it'd be a national story. Ergo, we'd know well before the episode ever appeared as they tape this stuff well in advance of airing.
 
CB3UK said:
I just don't get the appeal of the series. If anyone ever actually found the treasure, it'd be a national story. Ergo, we'd know well before the episode ever appeared as they tape this stuff well in advance of airing.
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For me it is more about the mystery solving and far more about rewriting the history of America than finding gold/silver. I am quite jaded with all Templar/Mason theories in pop culture, most of which are pure speculation, but would love to find some more proof that Europeans were traveling to North America centuries before they are credited.
 
batchaps4me said:
For me it is more about the mystery solving and far more about rewriting the history of America than finding gold/silver. I am quite jaded with all Templar/Mason theories in pop culture, most of which are pure speculation, but would love to find some more proof that Europeans were traveling to North America centuries before they are credited.
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I do find archeological stuff fascinating. Archeology and anthropology were my fields of study before I finally said eff it and decided to jump into the work force full force.
 
CB3UK said:
I do find archeological stuff fascinating. Archeology and anthropology were my fields of study before I finally said eff it and decided to jump into the work force full force.
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I don't understand why we still teach that the Americas were discovered in the 1400s. L’Anse aux Meadows is proof that the Vikings were here with a near constant presence during the Dark Ages. I read somewhere that the floorplans of those buildings indicate they were built over a few centuries. I would be willing to bet that it is not the only settlement the Vikings made. It also opens up the possibility that more than the Chinese and Vikings have sailed here.
 
The man trying to keep them down again this week. What I don't get is why not go to the other end of the projected new path/road down by the money pit and excavate there? That's not in any red circle.
 
Spoiler alert I suppose.










OK, watched Tuesday's episode yesterday. Intro turned into a nothing sandwich as far as the money pit......made it look like something special was coming out of the bore hole and it turned out to be air. @OldDevilDawg I see what you were getting at regarding the swamp. They pulled out lots of wood from there this week. However, it doesn't really seem to me that they're digging where the "ship shaped anomaly" is located. Am I looking at the maps and stuff wrong?
 
MarineUKFan said:
Spoiler alert I suppose.










OK, watched Tuesday's episode yesterday. Intro turned into a nothing sandwich as far as the money pit......made it look like something special was coming out of the bore hole and it turned out to be air. @OldDevilDawg I see what you were getting at regarding the swamp. They pulled out lots of wood from there this week. However, it doesn't really seem to me that they're digging where the "ship shaped anomaly" is located. Am I looking at the maps and stuff wrong?
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Looks the same to me. Curious whether they can get the excavator close to the anomaly. I have experience on those machines in wet places. It's not as easy as it looks. With such a short boom, they would almost have to put it on top of a potential collapse. They may need to bring in an excavator with an extended boom of 75' or more. That is super expensive and I can see why they would want more confidence of a financial return before spending that kind of money.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
Looks the same to me. Curious whether they can get the excavator close to the anomaly. I have experience on those machines in wet places. It's not as easy as it looks. With such a short boom, they would almost have to put it on top of a potential collapse. They may need to bring in an excavator with an extended boom of 75' or more. That is super expensive and I can see why they would want more confidence of a financial return before spending that kind of money.
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Pretty sure they said this season's excavator has an 80' boom.....then that one season they used the excavator that had the crazy wide tracks for swampy land. I think they have the means to get to the area and are just screwing with us lol.
 
MarineUKFan said:
Don't recall the depth, but I can't imagine it's that deep. It's been a while on that one though. I'm actually considering binge watching the entire thing again just so I can remember some of the stuff.
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Speculation has always been that it was 2 separate islands until the dam was built to make it a "man made" swamp. If true, it's not a stretch to think the water was 100 feet deep between the two islands.
 
OldDevilDawg said:
Speculation has always been that it was 2 separate islands until the dam was built to make it a "man made" swamp. If true, it's not a stretch to think the water was 100 feet deep between the two islands.
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Guess it depends on how much building they had to do to make the swamp. I don't think they dropped well over even 50 feet of dirt in the thing. No way 100 or so feet of sediment happened along there naturally either in just a few hundred or so years...... My assumption all along has been it was a shallow harbor kind of area and they just dammed up the opening.
 
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