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i was just re-reading on how the sunken steamboat arabia was found and dug up. superb recovery. look it up and gander at the size of the hole they dug. oak island anyone.
Not possible digging that deep.
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Difference is - First something has to be before that something can be found.
and they supposedly did all that over the course of 1 winter.. Doubt they could get permits to do something to that scale on OI anyway.. But that is what needs to be done. They need a hole atleast 50' wide at the bottom since no one knows for sure where the old MP actually is now... Dunfield might have been 100' wide at the top but he was no where's near that at the bottom..
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you are very correct. i would love to see this done though on oak island. i know they will not as the tv show would have been over in one more season and they could not have gotten the permits. i want to believe in them but i cannot.
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Pity the History Channel wouldn't do a few seasons on this site and finds. To much reality for "reality TV", I guess.
The digging of the tunnels must have been an enormous challenge. But in my opion not impossible. I wonder how they could ever have managed to connect the moneypit with the the flood tunnels. Even today it is pretty difficult to find clues of existing tunnels wether they are original or made by searchers. This is shown in the show, with all modern equipment. Making a vertical pit on one place and constucting a tunnel for flooding starting from another place. Not much information about that. In the end I am still attracted to the show. I think it inspires people to search for the unknown. The process of searching is at least as exciting as finding something I guess.
Not saying it did happen., but it would have been made easier to do if your the first people digging. As everyone started digging pits and tunnels later on, it just turned into a mess underground with everything being flooded out, possible cave ins etc....
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My Theory...Has the Royal Navy Freemasons working with the Jesuits and the American Freemasons, as the Depositors.
Working with Depositors the likes of Francis Bacon, Issac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and others...you can only imagine how important it is for Laypeople like us to...Think Outside The Box!
From my Theory...here is how I presumed they would have Easily and Somewhat Safely built the Flood Tunnel out to South Shore.
At the 170 foot mark a Tunnel ran from the Money Shaft out some distance out in South Shore.
At the end of this Tunnel, Four Smaller Tunnels ran spread out in the Bay.
The “Ice Holes” seen out in South Shore may be the openings to these Tunnels.
At about Ten Feet from the end of these Four Tunnels and Still Under The Ocean Floor “Powder Charges” were placed within. Powder and the Royal Navy go together like Bread and Butter.
"To ignite the end of each tunnel, they fed an ignition "sausage" out of each tunnel. This sausage was a tube made of linen and filled with granulated black powder that led back to the point of ignition. The ignition sausage, a predecessor of the modern time fuse, was normally laid in a 6-centimeter-wide wooden duct and covered with a board to protect it from moisture or other damage. At the appointed time, the miner ignited the powder in the ignition sausage with an ignition sponge and then retreated quickly before the sponge burned to the powder."
Workers quickly returned to the Money Pit, after lighting the fuse.
The end of each of these Tunnels were detonated, exploding and opening each to the Ocean’s Sea Water.
The Workers in the Shaft quickly constructed a sealed air tight barrier at the 100 foot level, preventing the rushing sea water from filling it up.
Workers were allowed the necessary time as the Ocean’s Sea Water quickly running down the tunnel would first start filling the bottom Cavern at the 170 foot level and then climb up the Shaft’s 70 foot distance.
They then sealed a further 10 feet between the 90 foot level and the sealed Air Lock with tar, clay, coir fibre, and dirt
My Theory...Has the Royal Navy Freemasons working with the Jesuits and the American Freemasons, as the Depositors.
Working with Depositors the likes of Francis Bacon, Issac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and others...you can only imagine how important it is for Laypeople like us to...Think Outside The Box!
From my Theory...here is how I presumed they would have Easily and Somewhat Safely built the Flood Tunnel out to South Shore.
At the 170 foot mark a Tunnel ran from the Money Shaft out some distance out in South Shore.
At the end of this Tunnel, Four Smaller Tunnels ran spread out in the Bay.
The “Ice Holes” seen out in South Shore may be the openings to these Tunnels.
At about Ten Feet from the end of these Four Tunnels and Still Under The Ocean Floor “Powder Charges” were placed within. Powder and the Royal Navy go together like Bread and Butter.
"To ignite the end of each tunnel, they fed an ignition "sausage" out of each tunnel. This sausage was a tube made of linen and filled with granulated black powder that led back to the point of ignition. The ignition sausage, a predecessor of the modern time fuse, was normally laid in a 6-centimeter-wide wooden duct and covered with a board to protect it from moisture or other damage. At the appointed time, the miner ignited the powder in the ignition sausage with an ignition sponge and then retreated quickly before the sponge burned to the powder."
Workers quickly returned to the Money Pit, after lighting the fuse.
The end of each of these Tunnels were detonated, exploding and opening each to the Ocean’s Sea Water.
The Workers in the Shaft quickly constructed a sealed air tight barrier at the 100 foot level, preventing the rushing sea water from filling it up.
Workers were allowed the necessary time as the Ocean’s Sea Water quickly running down the tunnel would first start filling the bottom Cavern at the 170 foot level and then climb up the Shaft’s 70 foot distance.
They then sealed a further 10 feet between the 90 foot level and the sealed Air Lock with tar, clay, coir fibre, and dirt
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The LIDAR mapping of the island gives a pretty good look at all the work that has been done on the money pit side of the island.
The LIDAR map below is exaggerated along the Z axis to emphasize depressions in the money pit area.
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“Working with Depositors the likes of Francis Bacon, Issac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and others...you can only imagine how important it is for Laypeople like us to...Think Outside The Box!”
Depositors? What deposits? The only deposits found in the island to date are the garbage dumps and old outhouse holes. Benjamin Franklin was too busy womanizing in France and at home, as well as making money, to go around chasing fictional treasures...he certainly was too smart for that....of course he may have printed and sold “Treasure Maps” to a mysterious lost treasure......
Depositors? What deposits? The only deposits found in the island to date are the garbage dumps and old outhouse holes. Benjamin Franklin was too busy womanizing in France and at home, as well as making money, to go around chasing fictional treasures...he certainly was too smart for that....of course he may have printed and sold “Treasure Maps” to a mysterious lost treasure......
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Demonstrates what 200 years of digging over wide areas down several hundred feet will do to an area.....all that and nothing found.....
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