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I am wondering if anyone knows if past OaK island drilling results are on display or accessible at a Museum or anywhere else? In particular I would like to know more about the drilling that took place in 1955 by George Greene, and in 1967 by Becker drilling at the request of Dan Blankenship and George Tobias. These results were discussed in various articles and books but I would love to see detailed specifics on them.
According to the book "The Oak Island Mystery" in 1955 Greene drilled 4 holes, two, six, ten and fourteen feet in a line from the north side of the Chappel shaft. In the first 3 holes, layers of oak timber were encountered at 10 foot intervals, and in the 4th hole encountered an extensive cavity of 40 feet (though the depth of this cavity was not explicitly stated here it was stated as 40-45 feet by other sources).
These drill holes were also mentioned in a newspaper article that I found here (2nd link down, though it is also mentioned in the 3rd and 4th link):
Oak Island Treasure - the world's greatest treasure hunt - George Greene
The article states "In the four holes that Greene sunk into the island he found platforms of oak every 10 feet down to the 111.7 foot level".
So it would seem from the above article that Greene was possibly drilling through the original oak platforms every 10 feet that must have extended further into the sides of the money pit wall on at least one side, and they were left there by the searchers in 1803, because they were so far embedded it may have been easier just to saw or break them off than to try to pry them out. The big question is, how many layers of oak platforms did Green actually hit every 10 feet? I can't find the answer to this published anywhere.
Then in 1967 Becker drilling (Triton's hired crew) drilled into what is described in D'arcy O'Connor's book as a 30' X 30' clay filled chamber, at the original depth of 172 to 202 feet down. This is said to be almost directly below the Hedden shaft. This chamber has hand worked blue puddled clay that was poured in to it in 18 inch layers. They could tell it was poured in in layers because small stones in the clay sunk to the bottom of each poured in layer, and so showed up stratified in the clay every 18 inches. Since the small stones were reportedly evenly spaced at 18 inches, this suggests that the cavity had even (or fairly even sides) and is likely to be a room with straight walls (because a cave with uneven walls would have caused the poured in layers of clay to be at different thicknesses. In regards to all of this, I would really like to know how many 18 inch layers of clay they drilled through? It would seem that they must have went through 20 layers, and if so were the layers every 18 inches exactly?
I am wondering if anyone knows if past OaK island drilling results are on display or accessible at a Museum or anywhere else? In particular I would like to know more about the drilling that took place in 1955 by George Greene, and in 1967 by Becker drilling at the request of Dan Blankenship and George Tobias. These results were discussed in various articles and books but I would love to see detailed specifics on them.
According to the book "The Oak Island Mystery" in 1955 Greene drilled 4 holes, two, six, ten and fourteen feet in a line from the north side of the Chappel shaft. In the first 3 holes, layers of oak timber were encountered at 10 foot intervals, and in the 4th hole encountered an extensive cavity of 40 feet (though the depth of this cavity was not explicitly stated here it was stated as 40-45 feet by other sources).
These drill holes were also mentioned in a newspaper article that I found here (2nd link down, though it is also mentioned in the 3rd and 4th link):
Oak Island Treasure - the world's greatest treasure hunt - George Greene
The article states "In the four holes that Greene sunk into the island he found platforms of oak every 10 feet down to the 111.7 foot level".
So it would seem from the above article that Greene was possibly drilling through the original oak platforms every 10 feet that must have extended further into the sides of the money pit wall on at least one side, and they were left there by the searchers in 1803, because they were so far embedded it may have been easier just to saw or break them off than to try to pry them out. The big question is, how many layers of oak platforms did Green actually hit every 10 feet? I can't find the answer to this published anywhere.
Then in 1967 Becker drilling (Triton's hired crew) drilled into what is described in D'arcy O'Connor's book as a 30' X 30' clay filled chamber, at the original depth of 172 to 202 feet down. This is said to be almost directly below the Hedden shaft. This chamber has hand worked blue puddled clay that was poured in to it in 18 inch layers. They could tell it was poured in in layers because small stones in the clay sunk to the bottom of each poured in layer, and so showed up stratified in the clay every 18 inches. Since the small stones were reportedly evenly spaced at 18 inches, this suggests that the cavity had even (or fairly even sides) and is likely to be a room with straight walls (because a cave with uneven walls would have caused the poured in layers of clay to be at different thicknesses. In regards to all of this, I would really like to know how many 18 inch layers of clay they drilled through? It would seem that they must have went through 20 layers, and if so were the layers every 18 inches exactly?
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