Is anything ever going to be found at the bottom of that hole ? .. unless I had the Star Wars Death Star at my whim, I wouldn't even try it now .. clearly we all need to learn from past lessons? ..Thats 127k per episode. Approx 42 minutes without adverts...so say 20 minutes of adverts.
Big Bang Theory cost about $2mil an episode.
The BBC spends around £10mil a year on East Enders.
Its cheap TV however you slice it.
... and a dildo for good measure ..I would pay for someone to slip some blue, green and orange van panels, some black, square framed glasses and a Great Danes skull into that hole...
Aw come on drbates ! .. everyone taking that hole so seriously for over a century and you get a chance to just chuck a dildo in it for a laugh ? .. why not ? .. it should be done ..I think you must have had a different childhood to me...
Well, I'm 4 episodes in to Season 4 and they're going for it big time. They've brought in 2 huge cranes and are going to bore two holes, encased in steel, to see what is down at the money pit location.
Lol, I am finding it more annoying when they (to me) have proved once and for all that there is nothing in such and such a place and then Rick tents his fingers and says "I'm not done yet!"I'm still enjoying the show but if one more person says "Let's call it a day" just when they're in the middle of finding out something exciting, then I will travel to Oak Island myself and fulfil the prophecy of "one more having to die" before the treasue is unearthed!
What they have done is bore a tiny hole whereupon they have located a cavity deep underground. They then put the casings down to within a couple of feet of that cavity then drill down the next couple of feet to reach the cavity. It seems relatively non-destructive.But what if they encounter a crock of gold? The gold would be ground up by the diamond crusted drill bits (diamond is hard, gold is very soft), and by the time the cuttings reach surface and are identified, the hoard could be mostly destroyed! (When a drill hits softer strata, it's remarkable how fast it can descend!)
New series? I thought the last one was the last one..It's back again on Blaze August the 6th.
Thats Sunday at 7pm.
That's what everyone who's ever ........ you know the rest ..New series? I thought the last one was the last one..
No no, not me. The Oak Island guys get wood. Frequently.hee hee .. Min said "we've got wood" ..
Well there is another new series just started. Even though the last two were the last ones. This time they are going to pepper the money pit area with bore holes to try and pinpoint its location. We are still glued to the screen, despite everything. It is a little like a real life version of Detectorists where a ton of gold lies just within reach but they keep just finding ring pulls. You could probably invent a drinking game where you take a drink every time you find yourself shouting "ringpull" at the screen. Finishing the drink occurs whenever Dave Blankenship shouts "we've got wood!"
Sadly, in the intervening time since the previous series, Drake Tester has died. Nothing to do with the pit but complications following an epileptic fit. He was only 16.
Thank you. That's my evening gone!The "peppering with holes" has been done repeatedly in the past. When I was on the island in 2009 (I was the "guest sceptic" at a fundraising/enthusiast event) there were dozens of capped-off pipes surrounded by crushed black stone. We were told these were boreholes sunk all the way to the basalt bedrock (the black stone) in an effort to locate likely new places to dig. That poor island has more holes in it than a Swiss cheese.
I've been writing about the MP "mystery" for nearly two decades now. It was bunk then, and it's bunk now. The producers are just milking the story for all it's worth and will never find anything of consequence 'cos there's nothing there to begin with!
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Yes, there is no way the production team can be footing the cost. There is also no way the island tours can be paying for it either. Those things can only be recouping a small amount of the money. The drilling rigs, divers and equipment must be costing millions.Rick and Marty are footing the bill and so I suspect they would pull the plug if it was just the production tean trying to get them to continue. They obviously think there is something there. I find it intriguing that they have discovered coins and so forth on the island which do not match known time frames and inhabitations.
Yes, there is no way the production team can be footing the cost. There is also no way the island tours can be paying for it either. Those things can only be recouping a small amount of the money. The drilling rigs, divers and equipment must be costing millions.
I find the coins, nails and so on interesting too. There is obviously some interesting archaeology there. It would be nice if they got a proper archaeologist to investigate Samuel Ball's lot and the one next to it for example.
I am also interesting in Smith's Cove and the old coconut fibre they keep finding there. Where did it come from? Very intriguing. (I haven't finished reading your website yet @djoltes so if the answer is there I will get to it in due course)
Yes, it doesn't seem possible to find any useful information any more as everything has been so churned about. A real shame. The Ball plot would still be worth salvaging as it is far away from dig sites though I am not holding my breath that it will be done properly.I would have loved to see a real excavation of the "slipway" at the South cove, but instead everything was hacked out of the ground and all the context was destroyed in the process. It's criminal, really.
Uh oh, pirates = treasure! Still, that reason is still somewhat different from the box drains system that is supposed to be in place.The coconut fibres most likely have one of two easy answers. One is that the island is known to have been used by wreckers (pirates who looted shipwrecks) and other local pirates for years, and coconut was often used as dunnage for cargo. So the debris on Smith's Cove could just be the remnants of that material. Another is based on a book written by Millie Evans decades ago, where she advocated for the island as the site of a fish processing station (the coconut could have been part of a drying field on the shoreline).
The ridiculousness of the depth of the pit has always puzzled me I must admit! Given how difficult it has been for anyone excavating it, from the 18 mumbles to the modern day, why would anyone have ever gone to such trouble? I suppose that is why the ostentatiousness of the supposed treasure has grown in relation to the difficulty in finding it.The fact that *none* of this appears in the legend is indicative of the story being wholly fictional. If anything happened, it was only at the surface.
Regardless, it's a heck of a concept. What would be so precious that someone would, in essence, rig an entire island to protect it, to an extent that rendered recovery all but impossible? And if you were so keen on protecting this item or items, why then leave clues to its presence and nature? That's a huge dichotomy I can't begin to reconcile, but boy if it isn't thought-provoking.