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The show is really a study of the human condition, you have the dreamer, the enablers, the greedy kid that wants gold, the old guy hoping his life wasn't wasted, and the next generation of fools getting infected. They also bring in a never ending stream of crazys to spice it up.
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I want there to be something just because I want just one crazy theory in the world to have turned out to be right. After watching the preview for next week, I'm doubling down on the idea that "a large military force buried their payroll in a hole and that former slave found it."
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Jan 15, 2018 16:30
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At this point I want them to find a large-ish chunk of wood with a drawing of kilroy on it, with the inscription underneath reading "up yours, baby". Sadly, all the gold bars will be gone. :-D
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Jan 16, 2018 19:24
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Really Disney should have them discover an empty rum bottle from Jack Sparrow that says I will pay you back when I can.
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Jan 16, 2018 20:08
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Latest episode summary: We've gone 10ft with our new caisson drill. ...and... skipped thru the rest of the show because... b.s. meter pegged again. It's getting bad when the actual watchable content of the show is shorter than one of the commercial breaks.
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Jan 19, 2018 19:19
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sunnyboy posted:At this point I want them to find a large-ish chunk of wood with a drawing of kilroy on it, with the inscription underneath reading "up yours, baby". Sadly, all the gold bars will be gone. :-D personally i've always hoped they find a vault that is totally empty save for a 30 year old polaroid of Fred Nolan giving the finger with a note that says 'UP YOURS BLANKENSHIP'
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Jan 19, 2018 19:41
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sunnyboy posted:The only thing that annoys me about the show is the way they got all their ideas and execution from watching Roadrunner & Coyote cartoons. I call it the "ACME" show now, because they try some idea exactly ONE TIME and then give up. Filming is done for 10-12 hours a day over the course of 4-6 months. There's so, so, so, so SO much footage that will never see the light of a tv screen. There are exceptions of course, but most 'work' scenes you see are in fact filmed over multiple days, if not weeks or months. Sorry to ruin the fun for you, but what you're seeing in 1-hour chunks is a highly distilled but incredibly light sampling of everything that happens.
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Jan 19, 2018 19:51
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thunderspanks posted:Filming is done for 10-12 hours a day over the course of 4-6 months. There's so, so, so, so SO much footage that will never see the light of a tv screen. There are exceptions of course, but most 'work' scenes you see are in fact filmed over multiple days, if not weeks or months. Sorry to ruin the fun for you, but what you're seeing in 1-hour chunks is a highly distilled but incredibly light sampling of everything that happens. Yea, I know. It's still frustrating to see how they "slice and dice" for TV. What I'd really love is if it turned out to be Al Capone's REAL vault. (With Geraldo Rivera inside) :-D
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Jan 20, 2018 05:34
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Imagine being the guys who have to look through hundreds of hours of boring rear end video to choose ten minutes of stuff for each episode.
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Jan 20, 2018 22:12
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Tiny Lowtax posted:Imagine being the guys who have to look through hundreds of hours of boring rear end video to choose ten minutes of stuff for each episode. We've handed over literally 80 hours of footage from a single day's shoot before. The assistant editors have the worst job of the entire production.
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Did I miss the team get an answer about the debris pulled up from the GAL1 hole or have they just completely ignored it? I’m talking about the twisted bits of metal that their expert theorized was the hinges to a treasure chest or fasteners to anchor a chest to a ship. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Leginas had an explanation and I just tuned it out. It appears the production simply replaced the 10X side story with the “Gary Dreton metal detects where ever he drat well pleases on the island until the archeologist shuts him down or he finds something to fake impress Marty” side story.
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Jan 21, 2018 04:03
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LaptopGun posted:Did I miss the team get an answer about the debris pulled up from the GAL1 hole or have they just completely ignored it? I’m talking about the twisted bits of metal that their expert theorized was the hinges to a treasure chest or fasteners to anchor a chest to a ship. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Leginas had an explanation and I just tuned it out. They kind of just ignore some things. Like the metal embedded in the wall in C1. They had a camera see it and a diver locate it with a metal detector that was unable to chisel it out. So they never dived again. This entire year they can't dive there because they churned up all the silt with the drilling which makes no sense because 0.002 seconds after the diver gets there the visibility becomes 0 anyway so the silt being stirred up means nothing. You would think that an object that would prove all of their theories correct (man made object in a deep cavern) would maybe call for a second dive? If you found it twice why didn't your ultra HD camera actually find it? Why didn't you keep the HD camera there until you found it if you are certain it's there? The show seems to want to imply that there is a secret underground cave complex from all the talk of man made objects in the caves and the methods that would have been used to dig deep excavations centuries ago but they kind of just ignore the "rectangular openings" or "passageways" in the sides of these caves and dive once before ignoring them completely and trying to find a giant pile of gold by digging other holes. I found a blog from a long time island resident that apparently just watches the road to the island http://oakislandfromtheothersideofthecauseway.com/home/page/2 And a couple months ago, while the season was already airing, they were bringing in divers. So I assume this current drilling hits another cavern they send another diver down to that then finds something inconclusive tune in for season 6. VictorianQueerLit fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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Remind me, if there really was a treasure buried down that deep, how the gently caress were people from the 1800's supposed to recover it anyway?
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Vakal posted:Remind me, if there really was a treasure buried down that deep, how the gently caress were people from the 1800's supposed to recover it anyway? The show gets a little conflicting sometimes with the "could it be....literally anything?" and everyone having a different theory being given screentime but the people doing the digging think that it was a huge undertaking by an organization like the Knights Templar pre-1600. Using ancient mining techniques to excavate almost 200 feet deep the island was used as a storehouse for all of Europe's lost treasures and hidden away for all time. Anyone searching in the 1800s or whoever wasn't supposed to retrieve it and due to the elaborate nature of the excavations I would assume only a large organization with manpower, resources and the secret would be intended to dig it back up, especially if all the talk of booby traps were true. However, I think they are just hitting natural caverns that are in that geology at 160+ feet deep. The way they keep ignoring things that would prove their theories objectively true make me think nothing is there. They have a pretty big financial incentive to lie since they are spending millions and millions of dollars to dig holes. I mean it would be cool as hell if they actually did find some kind of treasure complex but from all the people involved it's obvious that imaginations run wild. Fred Nolan thought it was spanish treasure and that a treasure galleon was hidden at the bottom of the swamp. Other people suggest the British troops staged there hid the payroll for all the troops in the Americas. Other people suggest that it was used as a pirate treasure dump. On and on and on.
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I'm going to preface this by saying that I don't think there's even actually a pit. They've been digging up a sinkhole. But, here's how theories work, especially because my personal favorite was actually covered in the last episode: The Duc d'Anville expedition really was the largest naval force to sail from Europe to North America before the American Revolution. This was a not-kidding-around scale invasion force that terrified everyone in British North America. They had orders to retake Nova Scotia, level Boston, and raid as far south as the West Indies, and they were equipped to do so. They had 11,000 men in the fleet and 64 ships. Importantly, a mixed force fleet like this, at the time, would have carried enormous amounts of cash. You had to pay your own men, of course, but you also needed money for various purposes along the way. For instance, during the march to Yorktown, Washington's army refused to leave Maryland until they were paid one month's pay and they didn't want Washington's worthless paper money. General Rochambeau lent Washington half of his gold coins. Rochambeau's army was walking around the East Coast with so many piles of gold coins that they could finance two armies. So, d'Anville's fleet's crossing is an abject disaster. They're months behind schedule and losing men faster than battlefield losses would do and they're not even in Canada yet. By the time they even get to Chebucto Bay, they're already down close to ten percent of their manpower. Reinforcements are brought in from Quebec and the local population, but its not enough and losses to disease are mounting. They haven't even started military operations. d'Anville eventually has a stroke and dies himself. Eventually, between deaths to disease and men sick enough to be out of action, only 60% of the manpower is available and they've lost a third of their ships. Everything is beyond failure. This is all real, verifiable, actual events that really happened. Now, in this context, the idea is that the captains are sitting around being like "we are completely hosed." They're still going to mount whatever operations they can (one will go so badly in the PLANNING PHASE that the commander tries to kill himself), but they have way more money than they ever need and are rapidly losing the ability to defend or just plain not lose it to the bottom of Chebucto Bay. Sending it back to France is untenable: you could lose it in the crossing and sending it back before the rest of the fleet returns means you are sending word that you have failed. So, logically, you've got to hide it somewhere on land. Pick out somewhere quiet in the area you're operating in (in case you need to get it back soon), dig a hole, put the money down there, and swear the officers to secrecy. You don't have to worry too much about the enlisted men, because they're probably not making it home anyhow. Within a month, the entire invasion is called off and everyone sails for home. It is not outside the realm of possibility that everyone involved in burying the fleet's treasury is now dead or just lost track of where, exactly, they buried it. Besides, you can't go back for it anyhow. Your failure was so massive that you can't attempt a retrieval in hostile territory. Your attempts to safeguard it means you lost it. Good work. Over time, like sunglasses left on a bus bench, no one knows where it went.
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Could it be? A new season? YESSSSSS
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Sash! posted:I'm going to preface this by saying that I don't think there's even actually a pit. They've been digging up a sinkhole. But, here's how theories work, especially because my personal favorite was actually covered in the last episode:  This was a good read. I've been wondering about the metal from the end of last season as well. My assumption is that it was just more "searcher garbage", like the wood they found earlier in the season.
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VictorianQueerLit posted:They kind of just ignore some things. Thanks for the link to the blog. Interesting different perspective. I suppose if something big was found, there would be some speculation/warning ahead of it appearing on the show. This reminds me of the metallic rocks in the walls sure had a passing resemblance to the infamously never found “shiny gold thing.”
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I'll recap episodes 10 & 11. Episode 10: Hey we hit a wooden platform or something. The Drill guy is really excited about how the drill feels and this is something new. It's also at the chapel vault depth. Could it be?! A Wooden platform?! At the depth where the original searchers discovered a seven foot void known as the chapel  Preview of people looking shocked: We are in a void right now Episode 11: How deep are we? 190 feet and we just hit bedrock. Where did that thing we were talking about go?  That's Oak Island for you. Could it be?! did the drilling push the chapel vault out of the way? *grapic of centuries old wooden box soaking in saltwater being pushed, completely intact, away from the drill bit* VictorianQueerLit fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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It looks like there's a (mini?)series started tonight on History Channel about Knights Templar poo poo which I'm going to call a spin-off of Oak Island. Right now they're wandering around some old tunnels and there's a narrator who I don't think has said COULD IT BE yet but he's getting there and I'm getting bor-- OH poo poo LIDAR e: oh, maybe it's a spin-off of the other templar show, lol e2: oh good now they're looking for a templar shipwreck or something that they just made up. actual quote: "There's probably some treasure out there somewhere." eeeee: they found what looks like a single ballast stone in a harbor so... the ark of the covenant is somewhere, probably. History. 
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Episode 12 Recap: "We pushed the chapel vault out of the way" "Yeah, that's totally what happened." "So lets dig a new hole like 30 feet away where we found nothing with regular drilling" Could it be? The chapel vault? Pushed out of the way? in 1895 william chapel Hey this cross looks like other crosses Oh and some guy at a print shop says the purple ink on the parchment they found was only used in Church documents. Could it be? Church Documents? Taken from the location of the chapel vault where in 1895 william chapel
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At this point I spin through everything that's not digging the hole, especially the metal detector crap. I may be wrong, but at this point after this many seasons (and many fruitless episodes of metal detectors seeing nothing), I'm of the opinion that *someone* has started salting the sites with 'stuff' to keep the pretend going.
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At the rate the dig is going, I wonder if the show tries to slow play the same excavation for 2 more years
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sunnyboy posted:At this point I spin through everything that's not digging the hole, especially the metal detector crap. I may be wrong, but at this point after this many seasons (and many fruitless episodes of metal detectors seeing nothing), I'm of the opinion that *someone* has started salting the sites with 'stuff' to keep the pretend going. I learned to live with the metal detector stuff since it's way way way better than the 40 minutes per episode travelling to europe or talking about random hypothetical theories around a table. I'll admit it is a bit suspicious that they can go on the beach that has been searched for decades and find that super old cross in like an inch of dirt. They explained it away though by saying that storms are bringing new items onto the beach and I'm not knowledgeable enough to disagree with that I guess. LaptopGun posted:At the rate the dig is going, I wonder if the show tries to slow play the same excavation for 2 more years Yeah really. There are only 3 more episodes left this season which doesn't bode well due to 95% of the time being wasted. Season 6 will also open with 6 episodes dedicated to draining the swamp for some reason while the team learns about Kevin Bacon possibly carrying on the secret knowledge of Francis Bacon who had secret knowledge of Francis Drake.
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The team used to be so gunho about draining the swamp to find a buried treasure ship but we haven’t heard a peep about that in a while. Are Canadian eco laws that onerous or did History Channel balk at fronting them the money for a second try? Edit So this post has not aged well LaptopGun fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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VictorianQueerLit posted:I'll admit it is a bit suspicious that they can go on the beach that has been searched for decades and find that super old cross in like an inch of dirt. They explained it away though by saying that storms are bringing new items onto the beach and I'm not knowledgeable enough to disagree with that I guess. I do know that the best time to go fossil hunt is after flash floods go through an area, so it makes sense that rough weather could rework something.
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Sash! posted:I do know that the best time to go fossil hunt is after flash floods go through an area, so it makes sense that rough weather could rework something. Especially if you salt it with stuff that just happens to fit the narrative of the moment.
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The episode on the 13th is a Special called "Family" so it's probably going to be milking that kid's death for ratings. We have to wait for the 20th for the next installment of "Holy poo poo look at this cross again, have we told everyone that cares about this cross yet? Seriously this loving cross guys. btw someone is digging probably."
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Sounds like a clip show. Wonder if the Laginas get locked in a Nova Scotia bank vault while searching for the lost stone with the Viking runes on it. Everyone has a big heart to heart talking about their time on the island working for the family business. "Could it be? Did the team hear footsteps outside the vault? Could it be the bank manager here to save them or a descendant of Francis Bacon to doom them to be locked in the vault forever to keep the Templar secrets safe?" Please tell me the old sitcom clipshow episodes went out of style when binge watching became a thing. (I'm perfectly aware this is not the case, especially with this show).
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Saw this on a mining subreddit and thought of this thread:quote:So i'm working on a private project code names "o island" and we are looking at having over 30+ maps with 76,000 data points. That’s the kind of work I do for mining companies. Don’t do treasure hunting because these guys are always crackpots who found a treasure map in a flea market, broke, or at best offer a percentage of profits. Assuming this is the Oak Island, I’m thinking to hit them up for info for shits and grins. Email has to be subject lined “COULD IT BE” right? I won't actually do the fieldwork, because it is a pain in the rear end for Americans to do this kind of work in Canada.
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pumped up for school posted:Saw this on a mining subreddit and thought of this thread: That's probably the Oak Island guys. I was jokingly saying that their ADD would lead them to abandon digging altogether next year and gently caress around in the swamp but something like what you posted actually sounds plausible to me since they got all of Nolan's surveying maps covered in information late this year. Since Fred Nolan died they now have access to his land that has been closed for decades so I bet they are going to spend most of next season dicking around in the woods looking for the entrance to the money pit since most of the maps and theories I've seen have a "Undiscovered access" that is supposed to lead down directly to the treasure. Spending millions on the giant random holes hasn't gotten them anywhere so next season might be entirely theorycrafting and doing something cheap.
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Episode 15 Recap "Hey we sure are having trouble digging this hole" "That's Oak Island" *20 minutes devoted to an "Expert" claiming the lead cross was actually from a Templar Necklace, which counters probably an hour of the last few episodes where a different "Expert" claimed it was a Phoenician idol of an ancient god* "Well we beat the poo poo out of whatever stopped us in the hole with a giant chisel and it didn't do anything" "Yeah it must be a huge steel plate" "Yeah can't be anything else, a giant steel plate" Could it be?! A steel plate at the original depth of the money pit? Near where William Chapel The chapel vault was supposed to be a wooden box covered in ancient concrete and the money pit was supposed to be a cavern full of treasure chests. Not only that they didn't actually find anything near this steel plate with their grid drilling system. I was willing to suspend my disbelief that somehow in ancient times there might have been a hidden underground treasure complex excavated with ancient mining techniques but acting like hundreds of years ago someone put an impenetrable steel plate 100 feet underground that can withstand any attempts to get past it after having soaked in saltwater for over a century? My money is on them hitting an old bulldozer or something that guy just plowed under in the 1950s.
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Does anyone know if they allow people to metal detect on the island. Better yet does anyone know any resident that would let someone metal detect on their property? There is an ancient coin thread in Sa Mart......
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https://www.viewpoint.ca/map#eyJzdW...TgzMzA2ODg1fX19 Here you go call all the land owners and ask. Or just sneak off from a tour they supposedly sell fast http://www.friendsofoakisland.com/home/tickets/ Elephanthead fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Feb 25, 2018 |
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Feb 25, 2018 19:03
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Wow that was a complete waste of an episode.
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Wow that was a complete waste of an episode. Can the mods rename this thread to “Curse of Oak Island : WOW That Was A Waste of an Episode” please
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Wow that was a complete waste of an episode. Yep. First episode I spun through the entire episode without pausing to watch once. God, how I hate the "templar" stuff. Ever since Dan Brown it's been getting worse and worse. I'm still waiting for the discovery channel (or history channel) show where they reveal the templars actually mounted a mission to mars and built that "face" on the planet. Of course inside is the collected works of Issac Newton plus the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Maybe even that book Bruce Campbell got in trouble over in the Evil Dead movies. COULD IT BE???
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Usually a show is supposed to have an interesting episode leading into the season finale. Instead we got the team stalling for time about doing real things while also raising the specter of “winters coming and we are running out of time.” Oh, and a clip show about all the “interesting” family connectionssunnyboy posted:...it's been getting worse and worse. I enjoyed this way too much. Very funny and seemingly par for the course with these guys.
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Here we go with the season finale/set up for another Knights Templar spinoff show
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