Season "3" of Curse of Oak Island

[captain1965]

Water traps do not flow so they do not need to be pre-filtered by coconut fibers. I still am convinced that the money pit (not 10x) is an attempt at desalination. It's a giant sand filter. This is why the money pit is pre-filtered. Plus charcoal was reported in one of the levels. Which is used for filtration. A round depression was reported during it's discovery with a pulley hanging above it.

 

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[captain1965]

Failed attempts at desalination doesn't usually make the historical record. My honest opinion.

 

[cw0909]

thanks,i thought it was an old listing link with date, but its not there, so i
opened one of the featured imgs in new tab/window, and pasted it at jeffery
exif viewer, it says img was taken........
August 31, 2015 8:58:21AM with a Canon PowerShot A2500
http://regex.info/exif.cgi?imgurl=http://villagestore.co/LUGLIO/IMG_6198.JPG

if link dosent work, copy featured img link paste at jeffery
featured
http://villagestore.co/LUGLIO/IMG_6198.JPG
jeffery
http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Here's the link but I'm not sure how you can tell when it was listed.

PARTICOLARE SCULTURA COMMEMORATIVA SPADA BRONZEA ROMANA CON IMPUGNATURA STATUA

 

[jeff of pa]

I can't forget the Scene earlier this season where Rick said when they were younger ,
He made up a Treasure Story just to get Marty to play with him & it worked.
Marty gave rick a Surprised Dirty Look right after.
However now I keep thinking what is to stop Rick
from making up things like a Roman Sword Every time Marty starts wondering if
Oak Island is really worth his Time.

 

[Gold Maven]

When they were explaining the layer of coconut fiber, I didn't understand the eel grass layer below to : "soak up any excess water"

What?

I'm no expert, but I would expect to find all manner of buried vegetative matter on a beach. Digging down a foot, finding some old grass doesn't really impress me.

 

[jeff of pa]

When they were explaining the layer of coconut fiber, I didn't understand the eel grass layer below to : "soak up any excess water"

What?

I'm no expert, but I would expect to find all manner of buried vegetative matter on a beach. Digging down a foot, finding some old grass doesn't really impress me.

right ! Storms over hundreds, thousands (even millions) of years have washed many things around. if you find a piece of 8 on the beach ,
do you automatically assume someone like Blackbeard dropped it there ?
I think Not

 

[gazzahk]

I do not really understand why some other posters here find it difficult to accept that there is evidence found on multiple occasions that smith cove was at some point covered by man in coconut fiber and ell grass. This has now been dated to 13-14th centaury. There has been evidence of ancient coffer dams made there. There are even pictures of this. No one really disputes these findings...

As for the idea expressed that this was some ancient salt making device this just defies logic. That some group of people carried coconut fiber from the other side of the world and built a fake beach, coffer dam and box drains they covered with fiber and eel grass on some isolated island where no body lived to create salt.... really that is just silly...

People you seem to be suggesting that everyone and everything found on oak island over the years has either been a lie or just a myth. You need to accept the evidence that this beach at smith cove is a mystery that is not easy to explain. The brothers last episode at least gives us a closer date to when it was done.

The anal way that this show has been put together and the snail pace of the findings should not be confused with no mystery that needs explanation.

I hope the next couple of episdoes at least give us some more real concrete clues such as the dating of the eel grass.

 

[jeff of pa]

As for the idea expressed that this was some ancient salt making device this just defies logic. That some group of people carried coconut fiber from the other side of the world and built a fake beach, coffer dam and box drains they covered with fiber and eel grass on some isolated island where no body lived to create salt.... really that is just silly...

With all due respect to your opinion

some of us (including Me) believe the idea expressed that this was some Treasure spot defies logic. That some group of people carried coconut fiber and eel grass from the other side of the world in such large amounts & spent how Long
building a fake beach, coffer dam and tunnels for water traps they covered with fiber and eel grass on some isolated island where no body lived to create a safe place to hide a Treasure.

is equally silly in my opinion

unfortunately I believe the Next couple shows will just be a big Build up to a Big surprise.
That surprise will not be known till the second or third Episode of season 4 after all the Rehashing
& re build up.
Then the Big surprise will be another piece of rotted wood from an old root they drilled into,
or something equally as Lame.

But it will get every treasure Hunter to Tune in hoping we are wrong
about them being scammers making money off advertising

 

[Mike Mercury]

With all due respect to your opinion


is equally silly in my opinion

absolutely.

it takes moments of introspection to realize that it's just not everyone else with a "problem". Some never inventory their own thoughts first; haven't a clue of the word "introspect", and upon learning of it... are surprised that their picture is not shown in the dictonary next to the word.

If you take away all the "treasure" portions of this story, the 5 drains leading to the money pit look like an attempt at a filtration system, or a seperation system (salt reclaimation). The treasure stories add additional posibilities to the designs usage; but at face value, to me it's a stretch claiming it was an elaborate attempt to hide treasure.

Now, I do not discount the Oak Island treasure possibilities; I simply think the team is looking in the wrong place for it (that the money pit was not a treasure vault). The longer they spend there, it just delays when the real treasures might be found elsewhere on the island.

 

[jeff of pa]

absolutely ! I am a Treasure Hunter & am willing to listen to all opinions on who , What, Where When & How.
but more then not, On the Money pit thing I keep ending up Laughing to myself as I bang My head against the Imaginary Knights Templar Wall

 

[Steris001]

Can anyone answer a question for me?? in the previews of the show, there is a clip of two guys with logs Prying up a round stone on the island or what looks like the island, they make it look like there might be something under it.. has this already happened?? am I living a pipe dream that something good is going to come out of season 3? I didn't watch season 1 and only stated watching in the middle of the 2nd season.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Note that sand filtration for desalinization is just to remove the grit and particulates so it won't later clog the reverse-osmosis filter. Sand will not take salt out of solution. You would still have to boil/evaorate/condense to distill fresh water or pass the salt-water through a membrane. Just not practical prior to synthetic membranes; especially with a mainland and freshwater rivers so close to the island.

http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs-wm/41153.pdf

 

[treasure1822]

Can anyone answer a question for me?? in the previews of the show, there is a clip of two guys with logs Prying up a round stone on the island or what looks like the island, they make it look like there might be something under it.. has this already happened?? am I living a pipe dream that something good is going to come out of season 3? I didn't watch season 1 and only stated watching in the middle of the 2nd season.

It was in the second season, they were digging under the believed to be "Base Stone" on Noland's Cross. Some believe that the Cross is actually a layout of the "Tree of Knowledge" and the Mercy point lies in the "Swamp".

 

[Roadhse2]

I'll also echo the same thoughts as above....

The drain boxes HAVE been excavated and found to lead to a well type structure next to them, but not to any underground tunnels. Along with another structure to boil off the saline water and reclaim the salt...So that remains the most plausible explanation for me...

As I have already stated, salt was a very valuable resource at that time that had to be brought from long distances at great cost..France mainly and at a high tax rate...so the ability to produce your own, which was a verified way to do it in other countries seems a no brainer. Especially when you needed a lot of it for preserving fish to ship. I am not going to look up the citataions again, but it is verified that the island was owned by a fishery company and used as a processing plant....it is also verified that fresh water was available via shallow wells on the island, so no need for desalination, though that could be a byproduct of removing the salt for the fishery operation...

Finding a handfull of eel grass or coconut fibers is not much compelling evidence of anything to me..no matter what date.

I too believe there WAS some treasure on Oak Island, and that the suddenly rich former slave had found a drifted or storm tossed chest of goodies from a shipwreck....no other treasure story holds out for me...just no proof, where there IS proof this man went from poor to rich very quickly after buying some island land..

 

[petetherocker]

I'll also echo the same thoughts as above....

The drain boxes HAVE been excavated and found to lead to a well type structure next to them, but not to any underground tunnels. Along with another structure to boil off the saline water and reclaim the salt...So that remains the most plausible explanation for me...

As I have already stated, salt was a very valuable resource at that time that had to be brought from long distances at great cost..France mainly and at a high tax rate...so the ability to produce your own, which was a verified way to do it in other countries seems a no brainer. Especially when you needed a lot of it for preserving fish to ship. I am not going to look up the citataions again, but it is verified that the island was owned by a fishery company and used as a processing plant....it is also verified that fresh water was available via shallow wells on the island, so no need for desalination, though that could be a byproduct of removing the salt for the fishery operation...

Finding a handfull of eel grass or coconut fibers is not much compelling evidence of anything to me..no matter what date.

I too believe there WAS some treasure on Oak Island, and that the suddenly rich former slave had found a drifted or storm tossed chest of goodies from a shipwreck....no other treasure story holds out for me...just no proof, where there IS proof this man went from poor to rich very quickly after buying some island land..

Occam's razor - All things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one.

 

[AOTC]

Roadhse,The well type structure,are you referring to the sump box where the drains converged or an actual pit

I'll also echo the same thoughts as above....

The drain boxes HAVE been excavated and found to lead to a well type structure next to them, but not to any underground tunnels. Along with another structure to boil off the saline water and reclaim the salt...So that remains the most plausible explanation for me...

As I have already stated, salt was a very valuable resource at that time that had to be brought from long distances at great cost..France mainly and at a high tax rate...so the ability to produce your own, which was a verified way to do it in other countries seems a no brainer. Especially when you needed a lot of it for preserving fish to ship. I am not going to look up the citataions again, but it is verified that the island was owned by a fishery company and used as a processing plant....it is also verified that fresh water was available via shallow wells on the island, so no need for desalination, though that could be a byproduct of removing the salt for the fishery operation...

Finding a handfull of eel grass or coconut fibers is not much compelling evidence of anything to me..no matter what date.

I too believe there WAS some treasure on Oak Island, and that the suddenly rich former slave had found a drifted or storm tossed chest of goodies from a shipwreck....no other treasure story holds out for me...just no proof, where there IS proof this man went from poor to rich very quickly after buying some island land..

 

[Roadhse2]

" The fishing enterprise could have created a salt works in this manner:



· Build a cofferdam (or “dyke”) on the beach at Smiths Cove, shielding the finger drains area from the sea.



· Excavate the area inside the cofferdam, lay the five finger dams from the cofferdam converging to a common point at around the high water mark, cover the drains with a layer of beach rocks, spread a layer of eel grass and then a layer of coconut husk over the rocks, and finally spread a two foot (60 centimetre) layer of sand over the coconut husk.



· A well would be constructed at or near the point of convergence of the five finger drains (and in fact such a well was excavated by Dunfield in the mid 1960s (3) and he found it to be about 25 feet [8 metres] deep – he found it was a dead end and did not lead to any kind of flood tunnel (15)(16))."

For the full article on the drains and island history concerning a fishing depot....see

Dennis King's article on the "Finger Drains"

 

[Roadhse2]

Just a little something I built to put any treasure in I happen to find...so far only dust bunnies!

 

[captain1965]

" The fishing enterprise could have created a salt works in this manner:



· Build a cofferdam (or “dyke”) on the beach at Smiths Cove, shielding the finger drains area from the sea.



· Excavate the area inside the cofferdam, lay the five finger dams from the cofferdam converging to a common point at around the high water mark, cover the drains with a layer of beach rocks, spread a layer of eel grass and then a layer of coconut husk over the rocks, and finally spread a two foot (60 centimetre) layer of sand over the coconut husk.



· A well would be constructed at or near the point of convergence of the five finger drains (and in fact such a well was excavated by Dunfield in the mid 1960s (3) and he found it to be about 25 feet [8 metres] deep – he found it was a dead end and did not lead to any kind of flood tunnel (15)(16))."

For the full article on the drains and island history concerning a fishing depot....see

Dennis King's article on the "Finger Drains"

Wow. I concede my argument as the money pit being a filter. Great work. Bravo!! Thanks for sharing this.

http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/Dennis_King_Mar_2010.shtml

 

[Cassews]

I am glued to the tv when this comes on ... I still think as I have discussed with hubs (the patient kind man that he is ..somedays!LOL) that I think they need to venture out into the bay and that is where they will find the treasures of sunken ships. They are just finding relics of the bygone eras, the slave could of been very lucky and found a gold bootie washed ashore. Who knows .. Oak Island is a mystery and IF the Lagina Brothers solve it, no more tv show for sure ~LOL~