Curse of Oak Island coin

Rick Lagina was obviously working the process cheaply and step by step. Why bring in a crane or backhoe team and pay thousands and dig out and maybe find nothing, when they can hire one guy to go down first to confirm something is there, and what. The cost difference being the reason. Rick has been walking through this process for two seasons now, using minimal resources to try to get positive results. They ended Season 2 with "The Find" ... Season 3 starts Tues Nov 10th on History and previews shows major digging with backhoes ... they're finally moving ahead.

 

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Rick Lagina was obviously working the process cheaply and step by step. Why bring in a crane or backhoe team and pay thousands and dig out and maybe find nothing, when they can hire one guy to go down first to confirm something is there, and what. The cost difference being the reason. Rick has been walking through this process for two seasons now, using minimal resources to try to get positive results. They ended Season 2 with "The Find" ... Season 3 starts Tues Nov 10th on History and previews shows major digging with backhoes ... they're finally moving ahead.

 

They also have to be careful with the dig ... remember they're looking for possibly a treasure chest of gold and silver, 'the' Menorah, the Arch of the Covenant, and other treasures ... going into unknown grounds and swamps with backhoes is dangerous to those artifacts. Just like an archaeological find and dig, they have to be very careful.

 

I have the oak island coin with the number 8 and the cross its number 31 on the page but it looks like silver. Can you tell me about this coin.
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Jim

 

Jim? I'd edit out that email addy. There's 'bots' out there in just waitin' to pounce on it and spam ya.

Oh......welcome to the forum.

 

Haven't seen this week's episode yet, but I find the whole concept fascinating; even though I think some of the "consultants" they've brought in on various episodes are really doing a dog and pony show for big bucks.

 

Why don't they just send a submersible down 10x? Marty is an oil guy and I'm sure plenty familiar with the process. It is commonly used to inspect subsea wells. Those things can go down for miles.

 

10x is 27 inch wide at bottom part, and the entrance to that narrower portion is full of junk. There's not much a submersible can do, it would probably not even fit there.

 

They were able to get sonar down there, why not a camera? They have robotic submersBles that are only a few inches long.

 

I've seen them all as well. I am happy that the cut most of the "Could it be..." down to nothing and most of it is them digging in this latest season. In season 1 and 2, it felt like each episode had 5 minutes of new material.

They make it a reality show with random bad things happening like when they go down in 10X, that crane cart always seems to get stuck or bump on something.

I'm with the others, bring in a team and big equipment... finish the journey.

 

It looks like they are going to send down a robotic submersible next week. They must be reading this thread.

 

I sat through the first season (5 episodes) and, like many people here, thought that the entire series would probably make a great 2-hour documentary (just like the recent Hobbit movies would have made a great hour and a half movie). Though it's entertaining it really seems way too contrived for me to take too seriously. Plus, as someone said a while back in this thread, there is no such thing as "reality tv." This is all scripted and done with multiple takes, etc. A friend of my wife's was on a reality show (I don't remember the name but it was a well-known one on a major cable network) and we were invited to the big "reveal" finale. At the scene, the show's producer told all of us to cheer really loudly, but she also added, laughing, "because this is reality television we need to do four takes." They did four takes and the final show featured a very cut together and highly edited version of what I experienced (my wife made it onto the final cut, but I didn't). Of course, some raw footage does make it into the final show, but TV learned long ago that reality as-it-is is not entertaining (see the movie "Quiz Show" from the 1990s). I don't think I'll watch any more "Oak Island," but just wait to see what they find or don't find when the series ends.

 

FYI:
The OP's post says that they used a metal detector that finds silver & gold.

There is no such animal, that is, one that ignores all else and only finds silver & gold.

 

I was in one of the "Amish" reality shows and, sorry to break hearts, but it was scripted also. I was very surprised at how many of the viewing public greeted me absolutely convinced that what they saw on TV was true to life.....NOT!

 

It is all a bunch of posturing to make money by doing a show.
If these people were actually serious about retrieving the treasure in the pit they could have done so long ago.
The Blairmore ring has been around for decades and they could have had complete control of the ground water and water from the access points to sea.
However that does not bring tourists and does not make any money for anyone.

It is sad when we have the technology to solve a mystery, but control of the property is by those who only wish to make money from it and not solve it.

 

I watched the show a week or two ago for a duration of a bit less than 2 hours. I feel like the content i watched in 2 hours could have been said in 20 minutes. Honestly, they just dragged the whole show on and on. The most climactic point of the show was when they were lifting a pipe out of the water, pause for suspense, and it fell back in....
I guess it's just not my kind of show.

 

For years I've been fascinated by the Oak Island "treasure" (I support the Templer theory).
After watching one episode I'm not gonna watch anymore but will watch reruns of the episodes when/if they locate treasure.

 

I wasn't impressed with the show. Didn't In Search Of... do a show on it in the 70s? With Nimoy?

 

If they had found the treasure, we would certainly have heard about it.

 

I used to watch that show all the time but I don't remember an oak island episode.