Rick Lagina: ”This Is What We’ve ALL Been Waiting For”

So far in the garden shaft, an incredible effort by everybody, but then it ends with this unbelievably dramatic flooding, and that’s kind of the last we’ve really seen of you and the whole team.

Where do things stand right now in the money pit? Oh, it’s just like you, the Oak Island team steps back so that the Deas Contracting Company team can start drilling. In this episode, the business is ready to start the job and has everything it needs. Is it possible that new things will be found? How did the team get past problems to reach their goal? The most important question is, where is the wealth that was buried? Stay tuned as we keep looking for the treasure that has been hidden for a long time.

Early in the morning, the drilling company starts by planning how to dig the yard shaft all the way down. For about 6 hours, the flooded water has to be drained out of the garden shaft. Then debris and artifacts have to be pulled out, sets have to be added, and the tube underground has to be made clear enough to be explored.

The first step in the process seems to be putting together a very strong and useful tool called The Hammer Grab, which weighs more than 3 tons and is used for digging. After the dig, the team plans to build new 8ft tall wooden levels to try to link to the confirmed but still unexplored tunnel. Different artifacts found by the Oak Island team during their past drilling have proven that the tunnel is there.

Some of the water that was pumped out has been seen and studied so far and found to contain gold and other things. But there is one thing that stands out from what they saw: the water that was covered in gold didn’t seem to come from the garden shaft. Instead, it seemed to come from the Baby Blob, which is west of the garden shaft. It was found that the Baby Blob had the most metal and other artifacts compared to other parts of the money pit.

Through past study and excavation efforts, the team has a lot of hopes for both during and after the addition of the shaft area. A lot of people are positive, excited about the discoveries that will be made, and interested in where they came from. The team was able to figure out the right way for their excavation work by looking at maps and past observations of the land.

The garden shaft was the best place to begin the addition at any height and on a flat surface. With this going on, an area of up to 80 ft can be dug up, explored, and watched. This is a large underground area that should yield many artifacts during the process. One thing is certain about this whole operation: good things will happen, even though the team will face some problems along the way.

Another good thing is that some problems are easy to solve with the help of the team’s partners at Dumas Contracting Limited. The drilling company is helpful when there is no way to get to places with a lot of metal materials. They can also help with additions if needed. If we’re lucky, no prize will be forgotten, and the chances of finding the lost treasure are higher than ever.

The Duma team starts the job on a good note, ready to find out more. A few hours into the workday, some team members met in the war room as normal, but this time it was to have a meeting with someone from ID and Technologies. The purpose of the meeting was to go over the scientific reports of the Money Pit. A lot of the Oak Island team seems worried about what the reports might say.

The study was mostly useful, and the Edon Technology team worked hard to make sure it was correct in The Money Pit area. The tech team put about 14 monitors into five boreholes. It’s very, very deep, but most of the sensors were only 80 to 250 ft below the ground. This is very, very close to the tube.

It wasn’t just recently that the investigation was done; it happened as early as 2021, and it took almost 2 years to do all the necessary studies. This means that the reports’ conclusions are not based on quick observations but on thorough study and testing. Based on the story, it looks like the sensors could pick up muons even when they were buried several feet deep.

The representative said there were specific things to look for, like suits, voids, tubes that cross at The Money Pit, and strange things happening underground. The reports were shown, clearly showing how full The Money Pit was. The 3D picture shows that the areas with moderate density are yellow, the areas with low density are blue dots, and the areas with high density are orange and red.

Based on how you look at it, places with high density are more likely to have treasure, while areas with low density are more likely to have tunnels, voids, or vaults. Based on the picture, the result is good overall. What should be the Baby Blob was found about 65 ft below The Money Pit, west of the garden shaft. There was a lot of stuff there, more than 2 ft below the surface.

However, there is a low-density area. The team has a conflict of interest because the results mean they might not be able to get to the high-density area because Duma Limited is still running. Luckily, this isn’t the only place where there are a lot of anomalies. It was found about 85 ft southwest of the garden shaft and 230 ft below The Money Pit. It had a much higher density than other places.

This information makes everyone think of their potential. It looks like Oak Island might have more than one prize. This fact has never occurred to searchers in the past or present until now. The team is willing to learn more about what has been found and agrees to use careful digging to try to find out more about the island.

As the minutes went on, another report was made about an odd low-density area that Oak Island’s team seemed to have looked into. It’s different from other low-density concentrated areas because it seems to cover a mythical, important spot. There have been many attempts to find Aladdin’s Cave, but it has been hidden by the void for a long time.

The L-15 hole was drilled, and a big hole was cut at the stew of the garden shaft just a year ago. The cave was about 40 ft long and 12 ft wide, and there were drawings and other signs of human activity inside. When people were asked about the water in Aladdin’s Cave, they said it was heavily contaminated with heavy metals, and it looks like the water has some gold in it.

Possible that the cave has been found before, but if not, it has now, because all the signs point to it being the right place for the mythological place to be. The report from Edon Technologies has changed the game and taken a big step forward in finding the prize. Right now, they have exact places, clear goals, and a plan for how to drill. This is a great result that shows that the years of study were very useful.

Luckily, L-15 can be drilled right away because it is not near the garden shaft. Drilling can start as soon as it is planned. The meeting went very well because it proved what most of the team already knew: there was more than one treasure at and near The Money Pit. I think we can all agree that technological progress was a big part of solving many of Oak Island’s secrets.

The Duma contracting company keeps drilling deep in the garden shaft in the morning of a new day. This time, though, they are going to dig up L14, Aladdin’s Cave. On the other hand, archaeologists at Lot 5 keep digging deeper into the stone wall of the rectangular depression that was built to hide the treasures. Some finds have been made as expected, some of them go back to before Oak Island and its treasures were found.

The crew found a new object early on: a piece of metal that they thought might be a bolt or a chain link. There could be a few clues as to why the claimed chain link pieces were found. Some people think that the object broke while being moved or bonded with other items, possibly treasure, and was then buried before the stone wall was built.

There’s also a chance that something strange and possibly more complicated happened in the area. Where did the idea come from? What was the point of it? Who were the makers? Anyway, it is likely that the proposed CT scan of the artifact would solve these questions. But one thing is for sure: Lot 5 wasn’t just a neighborhood. There is proof that it was also used for military purposes, either because of a conflict or as a training ground.

The archaeologists keep carefully digging and sorting to find more unique artifacts that might finally give them information about what people did in the area. Back in The Money Pit area, another member of the team starts to work on the trash that was taken away. The expert with the metal detector and the historian on the team worked together to dig through the trash and find metal objects.

Gary found several strong metal signs in the thick, murky water more than a year ago, but he wasn’t able to get much information because the search had been stopped. There was, however, a lot of proof that the place had a lot of precious metals. There are fewer limits on the operation this time, which means it will have more effects.

Not long after the scanning, the detector made a number of beeps, which is expected. It meant that valuable metals were present. In no time, a big metal piece thought to be a wedge was found in the mud and other junk. The metal spike is likely part of an axe, as this is what most people think it is. But why would a piece of metal from an axe be more than 80 ft below the ground? Was it used to build tunnels, or did it break while the valuable metals were being buried?

If this theory is even slightly true, it looks like the metal wedge dates back to at least 1735. It may contain information about the people who lived in that area and their way of life, society, and technology. The item was sealed and kept until it could be scanned and studied in the lab.

The search was put on hold until the debris was dry enough to dig through properly. Drilling for shaft L14 is still going on late into the night, and the team is getting closer and closer to Aladdin’s Cave all the time. Finally, at 142 1/2 feet, the void is reached. The team decides to keep drilling until they find something that points to the high-density area, which is not common in this area.

During the first dig, the metal proof was found more than 160 ft below. However, the hole seems to be much closer and higher than expected now. Could there be a reason for this new growth, or is the empty space just where it should be? The good news is that the answers to the questions could be found in the 3D that Edon technology showed. From the picture, it looks like the cave’s cavern has an odd shape, and it looks like some parts of the roof are much higher than expected.

If you believe Marty Laguna’s idea, there is a chance that Aladdin’s Cave was the first storage vault or that it is an extension of the area where the money pit collapsed. How it happened could have been so many different things. Nevertheless, it is likely that there are some in the area.

As the digging went on, it was said that there was nothing but empty space about 148 ft below. This suggests that the void may have been found. In general, the L14 digging was good enough to make the search go on. The team’s next job is to put camera scanners and sonar devices several feet into the hole to watch and record what’s going on inside the Sun tube found cave and how it’s built to begin with.

The hole will be left empty so that it can dry out and become clean enough for the devices to be put in as soon as the new day starts. People from Dumas start drilling again in the hopes of getting past the empty space, while the rest of Oak Island’s team goes to see how things are going at Lot 5.

As usual, areas that might have artifacts have been marked with flags. The goal is to dig through these areas in the hopes of finding any artifacts. Things went well at the start of the search because the first flagged spot found had a lot of metal materials in it. To get to the goal, a big chunk of dirt and rock had to be pulled out first, and an old coin was found.

After a lot of cleaning and digging, it is thought to be much older than the coins that have already been found. The coin looks and feels heavy enough to be the real thing. Like the other artifacts, this one has been sealed so that it can be tried and studied in the lab. We hope that the results show that the beginning is correct.

Find after F seems to support the idea that Lot 5 is located more than an acre farther west on the island and may have something to do with the money pit area. It might be an extension of it. Each team works hard to finish their jobs at the garden shaft and, of course, the Aladdin Cave.

As the new day begins, other people on the team were given different jobs. Some went to the interpretive center to get reports on the artifacts that had been found the day before. Archaeologist Lard Naen confirmed that the object was, in fact, a piece of LED and most likely a bag sealed from a long time ago, when they were used to seal industry and military packages. This would have been around the 13th century.

Not long ago, on Lot 32, an LED bag seal was found to match the LED trade token from the 1400s and the LED cross from the same year that was found at Smith’s Cove. To back up his claim, L said that the seals were made from two LED circle pieces and pressed on in the 1300s, as shown by the cut section on the metal. Emma also did machine research using an X-ray fluorescent spectrometer, which is a type of radiation used to find out where things come from and what elements they are made of.

The test results show that the LED seal is not completely pure; it has some iron elements and not much copper. Another report was made about the bag seals, but the results do not match up. There was one special find, though, that gave people some hope. Strange letters and marks were written on the top of the object that has not yet been recognized. Among the letters, KR was the easiest to see. The other letters were less clear.

It looks like each member of the interpretive team found a match for the letters in their own way. The sample had the writing “I lovely Parkers in London.” The seal belonged to a cloth parker from the 1700s who packed clothes into bales that weighed about half a ton before sealing and sending them. The seal found in Lot 5 could belong to the same person.

There is a very good chance that things like military uniforms, weapons, maps, food, medicine, and other things like that were packed up, sealed, and sent to Oak Island at some time. It was said that the business was Army Parkers, which could mean that Lot 5 is a military base or a secret arms operation on the island. So far, the company’s century has not been proven, but its location suggests that it was founded around 1808.

The fact that the letter “I” was used instead of “J” in the writing on the seal proves that it is much older than it seems. This way of writing “I” stood for “John” before it became outdated because of changes in language, but it has been used since 1524. It looks like the island keeps giving us clues to help us figure out what’s going on.

There’s a chance that the British military and the Parkers did some things together in the 1500s, though the real question is, what was delivered? The seal could have been left by someone looking for the lost riches. This person could have had tools, supplies, medical care, or whatever they needed at the time. The guess is that it might be hard to figure out who it is; however, literally and figuratively, we might never know.

Back at Lot 5, Jam Kuba says that the archaeologists are making progress in digging carefully into the square depression, but a new project has been started to use genomics M38 B to scan the area near the rectangle feature and look for artifacts. The archaeological department has an electromagnetic induction device. The gadget’s job is to find out how the pressure force changes the ground.

The soil is changed by things like floods, fire, erosion, and the movement of soil layers. It is still possible to figure out what happened at the site, even if the proof has been washed away or is almost gone. The M38 B uses its magnetic PS to find buried metal objects, buildings made of wood or stone, and damage or disturbance caused by people.

While testing M38 B, Gia was told that something strange was going on in a certain place. It’s pretty close to the circular depression, which could mean something and link the two places together in some way. Beforehand, there were set places to explore that were marked with ropes spaced about 50 cm apart. This makes it easy to check the breadth to see how big the problem is, how long it is, and exactly where it is.

With this feature, the team isn’t just searching randomly. They’re searching in places that have been specifically chosen. As another morning sun goes down, the team gets ready for the work of the day. We start the day with a video call with Craig Tester and the rest of the team. The aim of the meeting was to read the carbon dating report of 100 ft deep, with samples that were taken more than a week ago at the C5 and 27 boreholes.