The Curse of Oak Island: COLLAPSED 200+ YEAR OLD TUNNEL REVEALED (PART2) (Season 7) | History

Gents, we’re here to talk about the uplands and what we’ve done, what it means, where we go from here. So I think we’re gonna start off with that video that we took. Here we go.

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This is down 30 feet. There’s a lot of rocking between those.
Yeah, let’s pause that. Okay, so what are we looking at? What is it? Is it a tunnel that’s been filled with rock? It could have been a collapsed tunnel or shaft. That’s what it looks like to me. That’s wood on either side. You have this piece right here. It looks like a beam. I mean, you can see the wood at the bottom coming out, so I’d say it’s probably a shaft or tunnel.
Wow.
You see, though, don’t see the double layer there, double wall. That looks like a tunnel to me.
I mean, it goes in there.
It seemed like you followed wood the whole way down. How thick are those boards? 2 inches plus? Yep. The ones on the right were, the ones on the left, or a little bit narrower. The ones on the right were much more substantial.
Which one? This out to your upper right? Keep going here. Right there. You read this? This one right there. What I’ve got tagged this year, we’ve got this little bit. You can see up on the screen right here. You can see it lines up, calculate by Craig purely going off to the U-shaped structures.
Assuming that the U-shaped structure was put in there with a specific purpose.

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It looks more tunnel-like than shaft-like.
Yeah, ’cause it’s hard to picture that being a serger effort. What I’m getting at is the 1769, which means that if it comes back old, it almost has to be original work, right?
That’s right.
The dendrochronology, if it puts that wood that we got, if it says that’s, you know, pre-money for pit discovery, then yeah, then you pretty much have to say.
There’s a very good chance part of the flood tunnel. If that data comes back old, we’re right back at this thing. That’s where the bad news comes in. We have to pull the sheet pile. We have a timeline for that, a very specific timeline, but there’s still great hope for Smith’s Cove. I don’t think we can put an extra…
So, you know, Smith’s Cove isn’t done. Although the team has found promising evidence of the main flood tunnel, being faced with a disappointing and unfortunate reality, in less than 24 hours, representatives from Irving Equipment Limited are sent to arrive and begin staging heavy equipment at the Smith’s Cove area in order to remove the massive steel coffer dam.

Because this operation will take several weeks and will make working at Smith’s Cove and the nearby uplands virtually impossible, Rick, Marty, and the team will now have to suspend their search activities in the area for the rest of the year.

Look, you know, it’s obvious, isn’t it? If you have undisturbed soil and then a bunch of wood and then undisturbed soil, that sure sounds like a tunnel to me. It’s about where the so-called flood tunnel needs to be. We’re gonna give up on something like that, but having said all that, our permits aren’t gonna allow us to do any more excavation this year. We’re done.

Okay, guys, well, here’s what I heard. Lots of interesting stuff, but the key piece of data is yet to come. We’re all keenly interested in the dendro results on the question mark shaft, and that could lead us, well, could lead us just about anywhere. But in the meantime, I know, Billy, you’ve got a lot of work to do because that sheet pile has to come out. So back at ’em. Good meeting.