The random stuff they're finding is old under hundreds of years of deposits. That implies that hurricanes don't deposit debris in the swamp during modern storms.
The scuttlebutt is that work on Oak Island continued up through November. And the viewership numbers seem to remain high. So I'm hopeful that they'll continue with a typical number of episodes.
The show isn't "new". Beyond Oak Island's first season was last year. Matty Blake, like a poor man's Josh Gates, goes to existing searches and digs, and he interviews the treasure hunters, and Rick and Marty provide a few minutes of commentary. One of the more interesting epi's last year was about Marty and Craig losing a lot of money in the Global Marine vs Florida disagreement.
Dropping 4 x 10 foot cans into an area that has been completely dug up over the past 200 years with absolutely nothing found just proves the hoax will continue as long as advertising dollars continue to roll in.
That's unknown. Often people suggest that a single 200X200 would definitively answer the question. But the probability drops as more of the area is honeycombed and nothing is found but fragments of the Chappell Vault.
Chappell did not find a vault. He too made up a tale to milk investors out of money.
The "legend" of Chapell vault find like most things to do with the money pit has very limited evidence.
They've been putzing around for 10 years. They could have just dug the whole place up layer by layer long ago for less money if they had just skipped the obsession with drilling. Also, when they find what they think might be a collapsed shaft, why don't they put a can down to that depth then start excavating horizontally to follow it and prove it. They can shore it up as they go, just like any other mining excavation.
The writing along the right side of that image of the Hedden Map looks like the writing on the Zena map.
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