The Curse of Oak Island

[Brody]

The Roman Sword is brought to Halifax for testing. Off camera, the guys supposedly bought the sword for 10K, but that isn't stated on camera.

The sword is determined to be decorative in nature and not used in battle.

The expert determines the sword is fake but leaves open a chemical testing option to determine for sure.

Another clan goes digging for eelgrass to try to find out how old the box drains are that the eelgrass supposedly was used to block. They find some and head off to have it tested.

They next talk to a diver who promises they can get into the 10x cavern. He wants to do a test run to explore the drill bar stuck in the 27 inch hole before trying a full dive.

Another theorist comes and gives his spiel. The guys go right out to try and find the mark. They find a drilled rock and evidence of ground that has been sunken in.

While drilling in the spots marked, they hit bits of wood 35 feet below. The rest is a dud and they give up.

They return to the lab to see the results of the sword tests. It's a modern piece from the last 125 years or so. Dud.

Next time...they hit a cavity underground while drilling and the diver comes in to plunge in 10x!!

 

[Brody]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]We kick right off with the boys drilling some holes looking for "The Money Pit".

They remind us that digging to an underground void would cost millions.

They bring up a bunch of shards of wood - some black, meaning it's really old at 100 feet down.

THEY HIT A VOID. 160 feet down. 7 feet high. Then another cavity is discovered. 21 feet high.

They save the slop they force up in order to root through it with a metal detector. They find a tiny metal object that they feel is shaped like the island. This tiny spect emboldens them to dig dig dig....soon?

They bring in the granddaughter of the man who died in a shaft accident in the late 1800s. They speculate that his body was never recovered and may have been flushed into the 10x hole via flood tunnels.

They next bring in the diver who promises to be able to make it into the chamber in 10x.

They head to the war room to show the diver all the sonar and other models of 10x they have.

Only 15 mins of show left...I smell a cliffhanger into next week's season finale.

Down the hole he goes... hits the drill bar that is wedged in the shaft. His hose gets caught up on the bar and we get some tense moments as he struggles to free himself. Then makes it past.

He climbs into the chamber and we leave this week with clips of next week as the diver finds a box.....[/FONT]

 

[Debi]

OK...I was ready to scream when we hit the "next week" cliffhanger! I wanted to know last night! lol

 

[Kelwatcher]

I think they need a remote robotic camera like for deep sea divers put down the man hole to find the cave, that one diver on first episode squeezing through a small pipe is balls out crazy. Missed todays episode

 

[Mindcrime]

This show makes me want to scream. As with many other of these "I don't even know what to call them" shows, they annoy the crap out of me as they come back from ever-lasting commercials and replay 2 minutes of stuff you've already heard, as if you had just tuned in.
"SPACE FILLER"
I'll watch the show again when they find something.


I will say, they're wasting time as the water is too murky to see ANYTHING.

 

[Brody]

OK...I was ready to scream when we hit the "next week" cliffhanger! I wanted to know last night! lol

I was on the edge of my seat.

I will say, they're wasting time as the water is too murky to see ANYTHING.

They found items. They are showing us next week.

I again noticed that the old guys Blankenship and Nolan were AWOL during this major dive effort. I find it bizarre that during several of these huge undertaking this season, they haven't been poking around to watch their lifes work be uncovered.

Comparing 1971 Dives Down 10-X to the Recent Dives • /r/OakIsland

Here's a good site that explains Blankenship's personal dives, the body parts he saw on camera, and other interesting stuff.

 

[Brody]

They kick start right in the chamber. The diver finds a metal pole stuck in the ground.They figure it is a drill pipe. The bottom of the chamber seems to be clay. Some random debris maybe man made. The area where the body was suppose to be is full of sinkholes and a flow of water.

He finds a rectangular opening on the side of the chamber. The sides feel like clay and the roof is crumbly. The opening is small enough that you'd have to crawl into the hole.

Back at the surface, he debunks the treasure chest as a stone. He didn't see any wooden poles the men felt they found on sonar. The body is suspected to be a illusion created from a sinkhole. He feels the hole is a natural formation. The brothers are disappointed but Rick still wants to drain 10x to prove it once and for all.

They next bring in 3 women who are related to the teenage boys who first saw the lights that started all the treasure talk. They get a tour of the island. The sisters claim that 3 chests were found by their relatives and they produce a gold cross they claim has been dated back 500 years.

Next they send a camera down the Money Pit drill hole they made last week, They see a glint of metal in several places in the void. Rick needs to convince his partners to spend millions of dollars to dig an 8 story hole to figure out what they just saw. They feel 10x has lots of sentiment to dig through before calling it a dud.

 

[Brody]

So on the "Drilling Down" special after the finale they bring back the sonar expert who mapped out 10x and he informs everyone that a "Montreal engineer" has robotic camera images from inside of 10x that clearly show a box made of wood, a locking mechanism and a curved top.

Rick, Marty and Dave B. all claim to have no knowledge of these images existing.

Huh.