What Just Emerged At An Underwater Cave In Oak Island SHOCKS Rick Lagina!
What Just Emerged At An Underwater Cave In Oak Island SHOCKS Rick Lagina!
The Oak Island crew have just discovered a new underwater cave that could change everything we know about history.
For as long as they can remember, they have been desperately searching for the truth of the island and now they may have found the location of the fabled treasure!
Follow as they find more clues leading them into the depths of the island’s most secretive areas.
Rick and Marty Lagina get their first opportunity to inspect the renovations that are being made in the 18th-century structure known as the Garden Shaft.
They are welcomed into the temporary offices of Roger, the contractor from Dumas Contracting Limited, whom they have hired to renovate the Garden Shaft.
However, before they can descend into the dark and dangerous shaft, they are being instructed by Roger about what exactly they are getting themselves into and what to keep an eye out for.
This lessens the possibility of confusion when they are down there.
Roger gestures to a whiteboard and on it, he has written a few different figures and sketches.
The board shows a green drawing of vertical sticks with five different bolts sticking out of them.
Roger explains that toward the bottom of the shaft, it is what he has labeled as “Set 16.”
Roger continues to gesture to the drawing, saying that they are seeing the infiltration of water through this area.
Set 16 is the bad area where all the water is entering; he promises that the brothers will see exactly what he is describing when he takes them down there.
Marty shakes his head as he hears Roger’s description, very confused by the water damage going on down in the shaft.
Roger reminds them that it is only happening in one area, as he will show them once they go down the shaft.
Marty wants to know whether this water leak is undermining Roger’s shaft.
Roger tells them that it is not undermining the shaft but he does let the brothers know that he wants to stop and contain it as quickly as possible to make sure it doesn’t ruin the shaft.
Roger then says it is time to get the brothers properly dressed for their inspection of the Garden Shaft.
The clothes are a bright orange pair of jumpsuits and a blue hard hat with the Dumas branding on the side.
Rick describes the water in the shaft as a well-known problem that has plagued the island for over 200 years.
For Rick, this is just another obstacle the Oak Island team is forced to encounter if they wish to continue their hunt below the surface of the island.
He wants to shut down or diminish the water that is blocking their progress in studying the bottom of the Garden Shaft.
He believes that this could be incredibly important to solving the mystery, so he is determined to deal with this problem one way or another.
Dumas Contracting Limited returned to Oak Island three weeks ago to continue their work in extending the refurbished 82-foot-deep shaft down to a deeper level of 87 feet deep; however, their main goal is to reach a total depth of 100 feet.
It is at that depth that the Oak Island team wishes to breach a mysterious 7-foot-high tunnel that they discovered during a strategic core drilling operation.
This seven-foot tunnel was carbon-dated to as early as the 17th century.
To add to the mystery of the tunnel, they have found that it runs East to West toward what they call “the baby blob,” where high concentrations of gold, silver, and other metals have been detected in the groundwater.
The first person to begin climbing down into the Garden Shaft is Roger.
The brothers are shown very carefully climbing down the ladder, and Rick comments that care must be taken to understand what’s happening inside of the shaft and that the water issue needs to be dealt with.
The three men are now 60 feet below ground; the shaft is dark and crowded and the lights on their hard hats are the main light source for them.
Roger leans forward on the wooden railing he is leaning against and begins to gesture with his gloved hands toward the eastern wall of the shaft, saying that the water starts there, from the top, and then it begins to drip down the sides as well.
Roger explains that the plan is to move one set above Set 16, make nine holes in the eastern wall, and get some urethane in there.
Roger wants to use the urethane to create a protective barrier around the shaft and keep it from falling apart due to the excess moisture the water has created.
Marty explains that the fast-setting urethane will be used as grout to try and stop the water.
He then points out the two-by-sixes, gesturing to the wooden structure keeping the shaft clear for exploration, and points to a giant crack that has formed from the water.
Rick explains that the specialized compound they plan to use is an expanding foam that they plan to spray under pressure, which will expand and seal off the intrusion of water; they hope that it stops the issue completely.
As the group climbs down another ladder, Roger lets them know that they are four or five feet lower than they were last year.
He tells the crew that they are 87 feet from the top.
As they stand in the middle of the shaft, Roger lifts the top of a small hatch, exposing the wooden planks below.
Marty is impressed by the dirt beneath the wooden flooring because no one has ever seen the dirt beneath their feet since the original creation of the shaft.
Rick hopes that the treasure they are looking for is buried in the dirt under them.
Marty and Rick explain to Roger how this mysterious tunnel, just a few feet away, has never been mentioned in the narrative of the pirate’s treasure before, and they repeat their desire to get into the tunnel by any means necessary.
Roger mentions that his team’s great hope when they began probe drilling was to find something valuable.
Rick agrees that at this point the goal needs to be artifact recovery, as well as finding any gold and silver.
To Rick, the most important thing about this shaft is that it allows them to drill horizontally.
Depending on what the team finds once they reach the mysterious tunnel below, Dumas will be able to use a probe drilling device to search for evidence of valuables up to 40 feet in every direction.
If anything important is found during this process, and the tunnel is inaccessible, that will give Dumas the green light to build a new tunnel to reach them.
Sixty feet away from where the Dumas crew are working on the Garden Shaft, we see geologist Terry Matheson and archeologist Moya McDonald, where they are supervising the core drilling operation of Borehole KL 14.5, which is on target to penetrate the center of Aladdin’s Cave almost 150 feet underground.
The plan is to stick a camera down this hole, in the hope of seeing evidence that men had excavated this cave.
Marty jumps right into the discussion, asking what the team hit in their drilling.
Terry informs the whole crew that they have ten feet of open space and that they have never seen anything like this before.
Marty comments that this find is bigger than anything they have seen.
Marty is eager to get this operation going and he requests that Paul get the camera in the hole as fast as possible.
The camera is designed to operate in low light and can pan and tilt to give a 360-degree view of its surroundings.
Paul uses a blue rope to lower the camera into the hole and informs the team that they should be inside the cave now.
The men describe to Paul that they see a ton of silt as the camera descends, and they ask Paul to start lowering the camera incrementally, hoping for a fuller and more stable view of everything in the hole as the camera gently settles.
As the camera comes to a standstill, it points right at what looks to be a square-headed bolt.
This is exactly what the team wanted to find.
Marty explains that this is what they have been looking for from the beginning of the exploration of Aladdin’s Cave.
He now has some possible proof that humans had been inside this tunnel before, but he does not think it is definitive proof just yet.
They decide to move the camera lower and Paul slowly lets more rope fall down the hole.
Terry does not believe what the camera is capturing is the bottom; he believes it may be a sidewall.
The camera does not give them any indication of where they are.
Rick hopes that if there is something man-made underground, it will have significant importance to what the island is trying to tell them.
The camera captures water swirling around it and gives the crew the idea that there is an underground current of water that is pulling sediment up and blurring anything the lens is trying to pick up.
They comment on a shadow that they can see through the water, unable to identify it more clearly than that.
The crew all let out shouts as the camera they are lowering into the hole falls rapidly and shows only rocks and dirt.
They decide they can see a current underground and to them, this proves it is a wide-open cavity.
Steve Guptill, one of the Oak Island crew members, believes they have proven their theory that this is a wide-open cavity and it opens the opportunity for them to truly map it out with the sonar equipment.
As they investigate the cave, Steve explains what he thinks about this discovery.
His opinion is that it is very interesting and could be man-made.
For them, this proves that it is worth getting the sonar into the mix.
The sonar will tell them the dimensions, where the currents are coming from, and where it is going; they can look for openings and use it to map the underground of the cave.
To Steve, this is a potential treasure location and makes it crucial to investigate