But I think one of the problems mentioned was that Dan Blankenship's shaft could potentially collapse onto itself if the water is removed. Perhaps someone could get stuck down there if this happens during a dive. I doubt if they'll pump out the water, unless they can drill another shaft close by.
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But I think one of the problems mentioned was that Dan Blankenship's shaft could potentially collapse onto itself if the water is removed. Perhaps someone could get stuck down there if this happens during a dive. I doubt if they'll pump out the water, unless they can drill another shaft close by.
how about only airing searches and results,
and forget the interviews and fawning all over hundred year old ladies,
pretending they just showed up, when it's obvious they sent a limo to go get them
at the airport.
how about no visiting other countries and libraries and all the other filler crap.
How about since the Show is Supposed to be reality,
How about doing something original & stick to the reality of the Search.
I'm expecting to hear them announce tonight that the RR spike is a RR Spike
& Not discuss how they are going to dig up an Imaginary Ship from the swamp.
As for the Gold Shine they Saw. Could be anything at this point.
Light bends Color. I'll hold off on that till I watch.
If they find the Mask or something else found on the Snake Island Show in the Pit,
I'll have a stroke from disgust
and forget the interviews and fawning all over hundred year old ladies,
pretending they just showed up, when it's obvious they sent a limo to go get them
at the airport.
how about no visiting other countries and libraries and all the other filler crap.
How about since the Show is Supposed to be reality,
How about doing something original & stick to the reality of the Search.
I'm expecting to hear them announce tonight that the RR spike is a RR Spike
& Not discuss how they are going to dig up an Imaginary Ship from the swamp.
As for the Gold Shine they Saw. Could be anything at this point.
Light bends Color. I'll hold off on that till I watch.
If they find the Mask or something else found on the Snake Island Show in the Pit,
I'll have a stroke from disgust
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Stay calm, do not have a stroke, because we will miss you.
how about only airing searches and results,
and forget the interviews and fawning all over hundred year old ladies,
pretending they just showed up, when it's obvious they sent a limo to go get them
at the airport.
how about no visiting other countries and libraries and all the other filler crap.
How about since the Show is Supposed to be reality,
How about doing something original & stick to the reality of the Search.
I'm expecting to hear them announce tonight that the RR spike is a RR Spike
& Not discuss how they are going to dig up an Imaginary Ship from the swamp.
As for the Gold Shine they Saw. Could be anything at this point.
Light bends Color. I'll hold off on that till I watch.
If they find the Mask or something else found on the Snake Island Show in the Pit,
I'll have a stroke from disgust
I'm still not sure why the previous episode was called "All that Glitters". What did they actually find that glittered? It tells me that it was just a ruse and that nothing will come of it in today's episode titled after "Samuel Ball". What concerns me about today's episode is that they'll probably tarnish this guy's legacy by making it seem that the only way he was able to buy all these lots on the island was by finding the treasure. Never mind that the guy worked really hard to earn his freedom and had a good business sense to build his wealth over time with lots of dedication. The narrator will probably reduce this much more promising story, to basically saying "a slave, buying multiple lots on Oak Island? Surely, he found some of the treasure!".
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It is reported that Samuel Ball lived on the island from 1808/09 till his death in 1846...so a coin from that era is no big deal...but it also calls into question why he is even mentioned in the Oak Island treasure story when he didn't move there until 10 years or so after the Money Pit 'discovery'. He would have been on the island when the Oslo company was trying to find the treasure, but he was not involved with any treasure related activities.
It is like they use his name and background as a former slave to add spice to the story when in reality he had nothing to do with it.
He was able to amass enough money to buy 36 acres of Oak Island for his cabbage and cattle farming, plus Hook Island. So in that he may have found a small cache or, washed up from a storm, box of treasure he converted to cash, but nothing to do with the Money Pit or other hidden treasure.
It is like they use his name and background as a former slave to add spice to the story when in reality he had nothing to do with it.
He was able to amass enough money to buy 36 acres of Oak Island for his cabbage and cattle farming, plus Hook Island. So in that he may have found a small cache or, washed up from a storm, box of treasure he converted to cash, but nothing to do with the Money Pit or other hidden treasure.
"But I think one of the problems mentioned was that Dan Blankenship's shaft could potentially collapse onto itself if the water is removed"
As long as there was air pressure in the shaft, it would replicate the water pressure and not allow a collapse...
Risky of course, but so is the diving...got to hand it to those that have been down there.
As long as there was air pressure in the shaft, it would replicate the water pressure and not allow a collapse...
Risky of course, but so is the diving...got to hand it to those that have been down there.
But will the air pressure replicate the water pressure by dispersing uniformly down and around a 100+ foot shaft?
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Yes, the air pressure remains the same no matter where or what configuration it is in....
Since the top of the water column in the shaft is at 1 atmosphere, just over 14 PSI, there would actually be more air pressure throughout the shaft than the water presents now as it increases in pressure at the bottom the taller the water column, while the air pressure stays the same no matter the height.
Since the top of the water column in the shaft is at 1 atmosphere, just over 14 PSI, there would actually be more air pressure throughout the shaft than the water presents now as it increases in pressure at the bottom the taller the water column, while the air pressure stays the same no matter the height.
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30 workers died of dysbarism ("the bends") tunneling to Manhattan for the railway working in pressurized caissons. They were only 76 ft deep. Much less than 68psi. Sea level is an ambient 15 psi. They would have to spend three times more in decompression chambers than in the shaft. Unless they segmented the shaft with air-locks and lowered the pressure as they went up - and still it would require hours to decompress.
Hardly worth the effort for nothing of value.
Hardly worth the effort for nothing of value.
Yes they would. but if they truly believed, as Rick seems to, that 'something' is down there.....decompression would just be part of the search
The divers sent down would also be subject to decompressing as the psi at the bottom would be in the 70's to mid 80's range. less so as they moved up the water column in the shaft.
The divers sent down would also be subject to decompressing as the psi at the bottom would be in the 70's to mid 80's range. less so as they moved up the water column in the shaft.
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I just posted this in another thread... Bears repeating here where it belongs... Even though it's been said before by others, it bears repeating. Because repeating is what the show is about. Insanity. Repeat: Must summarize all I've said so far so you don't get lost &, God forbid, learn something new. So, to repeat, the below is a repeat of what I've already written elsewhere, & of course which many of you have stated in other ways, but it does bear repeating...
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Oak Island is insanity inducing for viewers on many levels. It's 20 minutes of commercials. 20 minutes of original filming. And 20 minutes of reviewing/reshowing everything because it's assumed we viewers are so stupid we can't remember what we saw 5 minutes ago before the 4-minute commercial break.
Of the 20 minutes of "original" stuff, probably a third or more is spent with the narrator repeating things & going to diagrams. Every time anyone says ANYTHING, the narrator comes in with a conspiratorial question mark:
BLANKENSHIP: It looks like wood from a roof.
NARRATOR: Wood from a roof? Could it be...?
While I was typing this my entire cable system went down. I think it's a sign. Time for OI to come off my DVR schedule if the cable box ever finishes rebooting.
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By my math, I'd say each 1-hour episode offers about 14 minutes of original material each week.
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Oak Island is insanity inducing for viewers on many levels. It's 20 minutes of commercials. 20 minutes of original filming. And 20 minutes of reviewing/reshowing everything because it's assumed we viewers are so stupid we can't remember what we saw 5 minutes ago before the 4-minute commercial break.
Of the 20 minutes of "original" stuff, probably a third or more is spent with the narrator repeating things & going to diagrams. Every time anyone says ANYTHING, the narrator comes in with a conspiratorial question mark:
BLANKENSHIP: It looks like wood from a roof.
NARRATOR: Wood from a roof? Could it be...?
While I was typing this my entire cable system went down. I think it's a sign. Time for OI to come off my DVR schedule if the cable box ever finishes rebooting.
...
By my math, I'd say each 1-hour episode offers about 14 minutes of original material each week.
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Saw the show Tuesday night. It is interesting to see a man put his hand into mud and come up with old wood. I doubt that the brothers will find any treasures this season or this year.
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Just watched the latest ep. My opinion. C1 is a bust. No evidence of timbers. No timber roof. No timber struts. To me the whole camber is nothing but a natural cavern connecting to the ocean.
I think Marty and Rick both now know that they are chasing ghosts to keep the show running. Look how drained and tired they are. Almost no motivation in there eyes anymore.
Just my take on it of course
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I think Marty and Rick both now know that they are chasing ghosts to keep the show running. Look how drained and tired they are. Almost no motivation in there eyes anymore.
Just my take on it of course
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I enjoyed watching the detecting, & seeing the Finds.
But found the Speculation, Interviews & reruns of old interviews useless as usual.
From here on out though, I will never believe them on what they Found.
Shakespeare's manuscripts & Francis Bacon (named after a Breakfast Dinner ?)
could the guy have been that much of a moron to bury manuscripts
written in ink in a Chest in Underground Water ? or did he use
a Hard Drive in vacuum sealed Tupperware ?
all though Finding King George Coppers there is as normal as finding them here in Central PA.
Since they didn't show them, I'm going with he had a handfull of Canadian Large Cents
& the Tag was probably a tag from a Sears coffee pot.
the Lead ingot was probably from a Fisherman
and the tiny "Dandy Button" ?
a Knob off Blankenships's Scooter maybe ?
These speculations fit in with their Ships Spike originally Plucked from Railroad,
And shipped by Time machine Back to be used on a Ship.
at least they didn't try to B.S. us with a piece of gold plated chain last night
But found the Speculation, Interviews & reruns of old interviews useless as usual.
From here on out though, I will never believe them on what they Found.
Shakespeare's manuscripts & Francis Bacon (named after a Breakfast Dinner ?)
could the guy have been that much of a moron to bury manuscripts
written in ink in a Chest in Underground Water ? or did he use
a Hard Drive in vacuum sealed Tupperware ?
all though Finding King George Coppers there is as normal as finding them here in Central PA.
Since they didn't show them, I'm going with he had a handfull of Canadian Large Cents
& the Tag was probably a tag from a Sears coffee pot.
the Lead ingot was probably from a Fisherman
and the tiny "Dandy Button" ?
a Knob off Blankenships's Scooter maybe ? These speculations fit in with their Ships Spike originally Plucked from Railroad,
And shipped by Time machine Back to be used on a Ship.
at least they didn't try to B.S. us with a piece of gold plated chain last night
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I would have thought they would have dropped their findings into a plastic bin so they could use their metal detector on it like they usually do everything else.. Off camera one of them probably went thru the muck better then they showed us though.. My guess is the shiney stuff they saw last year is the same stuff they saw last night, just got a better view of it all this time...
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I thought the finding of the possible British military camp site was interesting. I think the British naval engineer story is the most plausible of a deep complicated man made pit (Not saying I think there was such a thing just that if there was naval engineers certainly could of built it)
The major problem with that theory for the treasure hunters is if rouge generals buried a treasure there then they certainly came back and got it later. No way was it left behind if so many people new it was there. Probably only sat there for a few weeks/months until the generals went back and got it.
The wood is pretty obvious that it has fallen from the sides of the pipe when it went through the earlier left over rubbish.
That cavern looked pretty natural to me.
The major problem with that theory for the treasure hunters is if rouge generals buried a treasure there then they certainly came back and got it later. No way was it left behind if so many people new it was there. Probably only sat there for a few weeks/months until the generals went back and got it.
The wood is pretty obvious that it has fallen from the sides of the pipe when it went through the earlier left over rubbish.
That cavern looked pretty natural to me.
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I won't believe the British military camp,
Because I will no longer believe any of their Speculation.
as anything more then fantasy.
I'm also having a hard time believing they actually found so much in such a small area,
in such a short time.
Because I will no longer believe any of their Speculation.
as anything more then fantasy.
I'm also having a hard time believing they actually found so much in such a small area,
in such a short time.
I'm really reaching the end of my limit with this show and can't fathom watching Season 5 at this point. Over 4 seasons, absolutely nothing of significance has been found in 10X, the swamp or the money pit area. They keep using these diversionary tactics by telling stories based on crackpot theories, and finding coins that were naturally dropped by the inhabitants of the island over the past 300 years. I'm waiting for them to show these coins to Dan Blankenship, and have him pull out a bag from under his desk with 100 old coins and say "who cares, they're all over the place on this island, just like every other neighboring island."
After all the major digs have concluded at the end of this season, what will they explore next? My gut tells me that Giorgio Tsoukalos will make an appearance next year to work the alien angle. I can just hear the narrator stating, "Aliens? On Oak Island? Using British Currency? Can this be?"
It's frustrating watching them fumble their way through the search. How about asking Fred Nolan about the 3 chests he supposedly discovered in the swamp before he sadly passed away. Instead, we have to sit there and listen to that writer talk about his Francis Bacon theory based on zero evidence. How about reading a couple of excerpts from your library search, which led you to believe Francis Bacon was involved? From the very beginning the guy has looked shady to me.
In all honesty, the only way I'll be back for Season 5 is if Marty throws a temper tantrum and drags Rick (who looks like is in deep depression) into the swamp by the beard for getting him into this mess. Every time the digger comes out without a chunk of gold or a soaked parchment with the word "Hamlet" written on it, I want Marty to slam his glasses onto the ground and yell out a bunch of expletives. That at least would be real and fun to watch.
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I`ll keep watching i`m a sucker for heavy equipment, metal detectors and treasure.
I just wounder if any of those guys are members here,after all any treasure hunter worth his/her salt is here i think.
I`v herd of this Gary Drayton might be spelled wrong...is he a member here ?
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I just wounder if any of those guys are members here,after all any treasure hunter worth his/her salt is here i think.
I`v herd of this Gary Drayton might be spelled wrong...is he a member here ?
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