The Curse of Oak Island: NEW EVIDENCE OF FLOOD TUNNELS (Season 7) | History

Maybe while searching for the elusive
flood tunnel system at Smith’s Cove,
there you go, right there,
right in here, there’s some man-made
stuff right there.

Rick Lagina and other members of the Oak Island team have made
a surprising discovery.

“That’s a piece of dynamite right there. That’s incredible!”

“Oh, what a find! It’s what generated this
blast—dynamite found buried some 95 feet
deep below the beach at Smith’s Cove and
in the same area as the island’s
legendary flood tunnel. But what does it
mean?”

“Look, there’s the paper wrapping. I would
say I’m a chunk of that dynamite. Look at
the cut edge. Yeah, and there… yeah, it’s on
the end because there’s a square edge.”

“Okay, yeah. Wow. Is this another piece here?
Wow, look at that!”

“More than just a piece, it’s like that’s a chunk
of the tube that they must have put it down in.”

“Yep. Good. Hi Paul. Wow!”

“So we got the paper from the dynamite, we’ve got the tube
or something or other that they put it in,
and we’ve got evidence of the blast.”

“This helps validate, from 1897-1898,
within those two years, for Oak Island
Treasure Company for setting off the
dynamite.”

In 1897, nearly 50 years after the stone
box drains were first discovered, members
of the Oak Island Treasure Company, led
by Frederick Blair, devised a plan to
permanently disable the flood tunnels.

Approximately 50 feet above the
high-tide mark, they drilled five bore
holes in a line down to a depth of some
90 feet and then set off between 50 to
75 pounds of dynamite in each one.

If the plan had worked, they would be able to
dig in the money pit without the threat
of massive flooding.

Unfortunately, it didn’t, but shortly
after the operation, water began boiling
up and out of the money pit, leaving the
workers to speculate that the flood
tunnel must lie somewhere in the
vicinity of the blast holes.

Could the evidence of dynamite mean the Laginas
and their partners are close to locating
the fabled flooding system?

“We found the blast hole, certainly, but what does that
tell us?”

“Now we’re searching for what they were
searching for: the flood tunnel. Now it’s
a matter of how much more do we want to
search around to try and find the tunnel?
The tunnel should go more or less in
this direction, so if you want to find
that, you want to go up and down the hill
on that side to side.”

“Yeah, so chase it towards the uphill. Maybe try to find
wood to make an assumption that that’s a
structure, a tunnel.”

“Okay. Okay, yeah, chase
the path of where we know it is.”

“All right, okay. Good luck,
Carrick. Failure.”

Thanks for the Laginas
and their team finding evidence that
they may at last be closing in on Oak
Island’s legendary flood tunnel has them
more hopeful than ever that they will
soon make a breakthrough discovery.

But as they continue to drill beneath the
beach at Smith’s Cove, where will it lead?
To a treasure vault filled with vast
riches, or will they find out that the
island’s secrets are more complex and more
dangerous than they could ever have
imagined?