I'm not saying there ever were flood tunnels but even if there was, with all the digging/back filling over the years they'd be blocked off/crushed by now.... I did notice when they talked about the last time they did the dye test, they didn't mention that Bore Hole 10x was pretty much capped off at the bottom so there was no way for the dye to get out...
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Ok - tin most likely based on 19th or early 20th century searcher objects.
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gazzahk, very well put guy. i will not watch them anymore unless you guys say the actually found something. my wife watches and tells me if she feels it was highly significant that i view that episode. i was a believer once. for over 40yrs, now, i want to believe again. perhaps someone found whatever may have been there and kept their mouth shut. if they can prove there was an original tunnel system and not just searcher tunnels i may come around. i so want to say i was wrong. if you went to all the pains and really went that deep and booby trapped it, even you were afraid of what you buried and wanted no man to possess it. this is what i believe if, the tunnels exist. perhaps they felt that they had the ark or grail.
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Show summary from this week’s episode:
A) The brothers yet again prove that there are naturally occurring underground water tunnels on the island
B) The money pit are has been dug up many times over the years hundreds of feet deep and the poorly filled previous holes are unstable
C) The was never a treasure or flood tunnels on the island
D) The hoax continues....
A) The brothers yet again prove that there are naturally occurring underground water tunnels on the island
B) The money pit are has been dug up many times over the years hundreds of feet deep and the poorly filled previous holes are unstable
C) The was never a treasure or flood tunnels on the island
D) The hoax continues....
Thought I had whilst on the long drive home today. IF you go to all the trouble of setting up an detailed, elaborate booby trap system to protect what I would assume to be a treasure worthy of such an feat, (ignoring the fact that the more eyes and hands you have on the project the greater the risk for those secrets to be divulged), then you must believe that there is a risk of someone actually attempting to get far enough to the alleged treasure to set off those traps. You certainly wouldn't create a trap that would destroy said treasure, and wouldn't you make it so that you could reset the trap or at least disarm it so that it could be retrieved later? Not just just flood and collapse.
Like I said, passing thought on a long country drive.
As for the dye test. I think the whole island is not only naturally swiss cheese, but also chewed up by earlier searchers.
The bucket found "this week" on a quick glance looked like it had had holes all over the sides, like either a large live fish bucket or a giant version of my sand scoop.
I think some of the animations they show lead people to believe that they are known fact and not based on speculation and stories.
Like I said, passing thought on a long country drive.
As for the dye test. I think the whole island is not only naturally swiss cheese, but also chewed up by earlier searchers.
The bucket found "this week" on a quick glance looked like it had had holes all over the sides, like either a large live fish bucket or a giant version of my sand scoop.
I think some of the animations they show lead people to believe that they are known fact and not based on speculation and stories.
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I always believed that the story is true, but, due to flooding problems, the brothers will never recover any treasures that is there. Best of luck to the Brothers.
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A further interesting point re dye test. I was pretty amazed they had never spoken to Dan about his own dye tests in relation to how long it took the dye to show on the other side of the island. They had their drones up straight away but when asked Dan he said it took three days to show. There may be miles of winding caves, porous ground etc that the dye needs to get through before making it to the ocean. They seem to think it would be there in 2 or 3 hours. I hope that does not mean they just now give up looking because they believe they have evidence of a link to Smiths Cove.
Also I would think you would want to keep adding dye for a much longer time that one small container of dye does not seem much if there is miles of caves etc under OI.
It is a shame with all the money they are spending they seem to do things so slap dash and not well thought out or researched at all.
I am hoping we will see more about the dye tests on the next episode but what they showed did not seem to be taking the whole test very seriously.
Also I would think you would want to keep adding dye for a much longer time that one small container of dye does not seem much if there is miles of caves etc under OI.
It is a shame with all the money they are spending they seem to do things so slap dash and not well thought out or researched at all.
I am hoping we will see more about the dye tests on the next episode but what they showed did not seem to be taking the whole test very seriously.
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now that Smiths Cove is drained and if it's the only source of flood water to the treasure pit would it not make sense to drain (pump out) the test dill holes to see if they fill with water again ?
I agree with you on A & B. C & D have not been proven to be fact either way... other then the original company that claimed to have found them ( granted may not actually lead to money pit )... Guess you are saying they lied...
Thing is they had talked to him about his dye test back when they first tried to duplicate it from Bore X. It failed because the hole was blocked off where it narrowed.. Something to keep in mind their first test ( and I think Dan did on his test as well ) they also used air to force the dye water down the hole. This time they just used a hose to pour water in and used a different hole so could easily get different results..
If it appears that this episode with the dye test bombed, you are right however, you are being set-up.
Also, remember that the finger drains were blown to bits by dynamite. There won't be much around Smith's cove. However deeper inland...
Also, remember that the finger drains were blown to bits by dynamite. There won't be much around Smith's cove. However deeper inland...
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You would think they would check 10X too now. If all these tunnels are linked the dye should be in 10X and the cave in pit as well. Still no way have they used enough dye... There must be massive amounts of water through all those big cavaties/caves. If Dan found the dye come out on the other side of the island that one little can of dye will be pretty diluted...
Plus with no force behind the water it is just sitting in there with just mainly the natural flow of the current in there to flow it out anywhere.. could easily take days like Dan said to show up anywhere...
Not so. There is a special "flash freeze" method they will use once they are ready. They will be able to dig the ice up like it was rocks and dirt.
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While I did enjoy the dye test, the attempt left a lot to be desired. The dye is very highly concentrated and one bottle is a lot of dye, but for the best possible results you would need a multiple day feed. Dan is spot on with 3 days for the dye to show. It can take a week to work thru and that is why a multiple day feed is necessary. The reason - water doesn't run uphill. If the bore hole is 180' deep, my guess is a part of that is below sea level and since water doesn't run uphill, the dye is very slow in working it's way up and out into open water. The trickle in Smith's Cove came from the top of the water column. You could speed things up by rigging a dye release in the bottom of the bore hole. Another point - The dye dissipates very quickly in open water and they would need to monitor the open water for a good number of days, another reason for the multiple day feed. I like to believe there was an Oak Island treasure at one time, but I think the flooding of the bore holes is natural water flow.
Oh yea, guess I should mention - I worked in Environmental Enforcement for the government and used multiple colors of this dye for 30+ years.
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You'll Always Be...Number 1!...The Curse Of Oak Island!
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 TV Ratings...The Curse Of Oak Island...Shatters the Competition!
Lock and Load...and...Rack Them Up Again!
Curse of Oak Island (HIST, 9:00 PM, 63 min.)
• 3.511 million viewers (#1)
• 2.18 HH (#1)
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 TV Ratings...The Curse Of Oak Island...Shatters the Competition!
Lock and Load...and...Rack Them Up Again!
Curse of Oak Island (HIST, 9:00 PM, 63 min.)
• 3.511 million viewers (#1)
• 2.18 HH (#1)
• 0.77 A18-49 (#2)
• 0.30 A18-34 (#12)
• 1.05 A25-54 (#1)
Must be all those skeptics tuning in to have a debate with the TV.
True that water doesn't run uphill, but they weren't just waiting for the dye to dissipate; they were pumping in 600 GPM of water. That flow would move quickly unless it had a large volume of water to displace in underwater caverns. I'm with you in that any possible ocean dye appearance could take much longer.
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They were pumping too much water. I doubt six hundred gallons of water per minute leaving the bore hole would contain enough dye to be visible in open water. Maybe you could read it in a water sample, but then how are you going to know where to pull the sample?
