SW. As you can see from my forum name, I like treasure stories. Can you please lead me in the direction of a better treasure tale than this one? Preferably one where the excavations have already begun, like this one.
I was under the impression that a future excavation (speaking in terms of the year 2000 or so.) was realized to be too expensive for investors to back the project strictly on the grounds that they would be compensated by whatever treasure they might find. If they were compensated by Tide, Digiorno Pizza, and Nascar, however, the project was financially reasonable. I used to cut grass for a rich community when I was a kid. Rich people are the stingiest people on Earth. In my eyes, the Laginas are rich. Certainly rich enough to buy Oak Island. So to think they aren't going to try to minimalize expense, and perhaps even profit from an empty excavation is unrealistic. Watching the progress now is much more intriguing than the previous 10 years when nothing was done. And with DVR, I don't have to watch the fluff, and commercials. I am very receptive to a more intriguing tale though, if you have one.
Also, to stir another turd. The Dunfield excavation. I have yet to see a picture of a hole he dug that looked deeper than 30 feet. The deepest ones actually appear to be filled with water. All that is left from Dunfield is accounts. Some say he dug 135 feet. Some say 150. Regardless, the Laginas found wood at 140 feet or so. I'm not sure what the buoyancy of different woods are that have been buried for x-amount of years, (then perhaps dried out during excavation) but I would assume any Dunfield logs would've been found nearer sea level as his hole was flooded when he backfilled it. And if the Laginas found wood that Dunfield was just getting to at the 135-150 mark when the pit flooded, it's still an extraordinary find. It did seem most of the wood was found in the first section of caisson, along with the bullet shell. Floating wood during backfill, and a later target-practice session seem pretty realistic to me. I realize how easy it would be to plant that wood, but is it really that easy to keep everyone quiet about the conspiracy? There are a lot of people involved now, including the Canadian government. I'm assuming a conspiracy of that magnitude would involve some jail time for someone. The well-drillers from last years episodes would seem the most approachable, and have the best information if they are trying to mislead the audience. I know there is a large portion of posters on this thread who think the believers in Oak Island are naïve dreamers. However, I believe the naysayers are naïve conspiracy theorists. Keeping in mind there is no conspiracy about keeping drama going on TV shows. That is a well known requirement of any TV show for the entire history of the television. I would sooner believe that the Laginas are withholding key information than making stuff up. What was the incentive to buy the island before the TV show? Dan Blankeship's incentive? Like I said, get me Johnny-well-driller's testimony that the show is a fraud and I might believe you. I won't accept testimonies of fired crew members, because their incentive is clearly to make the History Channel look bad. (Which I don't need any more evidence of.) Johnny-well-drillers incentive was to get paid for drilling some holes. Until then, we are both in theory land. And I must say that the evidence that man has been 140 feet underground on Oak Island (Chappell's account as well) is much stronger than the theory that all evidence was either planted, or a natural phenomena.
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Please do not just say rubbish. The Laginas and there guests are doing enough of that..
