Guilty! We are obsessed with the History Channel show Curse of Oak Island about the search for treasure on that island off the coast of Nova Scotia by our own Northern Michiganders Rick (lives in the Upper Peninsula) and Marty (lives in Traverse City) Lagina.
Read our interviews with Rick and Marty Lagina about their historic quest to solve the 200-year-old mystery!
Q & A with Oak Island’s Marty Lagina & Craig Tester
Oak Island Update: Q & A with Rick, Marty & Alex Lagina
Oak Island Update Part 2: Q & A with Rick, Mary & Alex Lagina
Curse of Oak Island, Season 3: Rick Lagina Interview
Each week we turn off the television with the how, what and why’s of the evening’s episode spinning through our brains. And always, we have more questions. So … with the History Channel’s help, MyNorth.com is launching a MyNorth.com Curse of Oak Island Question of the Week. We’ll watch each episode, ask the folks at the History Channel our question for the Laginas, then we’ll post their answer.
On December 1, 2015, we watched the Season 3 episode, “The Overton Stone.” Again we were wowed by the history we learn from this show. Or re-learned. Because somewhere between the paper Pilgrim hats we made in Kindergarten and the World History classes we slept through in high school, most of us never really thought about the Portuguese flitting around the Atlantic Seaboard in the 1500s–with treasures from the Knights Templar no less.
But we digress. The MyNorth Oak Island Our Question of the Week is about getting down the notorious borehole 10x. For all of you Oak Island newbies, that’s a water-filled shaft that was dug decades ago next to the original dig site, known as the Money Pit. The idea for the digging of 10x being that it might be a lateral way into the money pit. More backstory here: 10x was drilled by treasure seekers in 1970. In 1971, they lowered a camera that delivered murky pictures of what looked like treasure chests and a human hand. Then when Rick and Marty lowered high-tech radar down it seemed to pick up a chamber 235 feet down–which looked like it contained two treasure chests. On “The Overton Stone,” the Laginas sent a professional diver down on what is a very deep, dangerous dive with almost no visibility. Things got dicey and they called the dive. But as the episode closed, the brothers were discussing how to find a diver qualified enough to make the dive. So here comes the MyNorth.com Oak Island Question of the Week for Rick and Marty Lagina:
MYNORTH.COM: With next to no visibility in 10X, what information can a diver bring that super-high-tech cameras and radar don’t?
The Laginas: The basic answer is that underwater cameras and ROVs have, so far, failed to give a complete picture of what is down at the bottom of 10-X. It has also been difficult to get a sense of space and dimensions — and much of the sonar images are conflicting. We [Marty and Rick] strongly believe that only a human can fully explore the cavern and identify if it contains man-made artifacts.
So there is your answer folks! Tune in Tuesday, December 8, 2015, to see if the Laginas found their diver on the Curse of Oak Island. And then get ready for the next Oak Island Question of the Week.
I know they live in Traver’s City Mich. In the winter and go out to the Island in the Spring to the Fall. What I was wondering is have they ever thought of doing talks with exhibitions of the items they have found around Michigan?? I know that there are People that would Love to learn more and hear more up close and in person from them… I live in a small town called Onaway not far from Traver’s City and I know there are huge number of people that live here who watch the show. I am sure that there are many people like myself, in other towns and cities who would not only welcome the Lagina Brothers and Tester’s. It’s something to think about to help fund and promote the show.
I have a simple question.. have any of you ever thought to close up the water passage on the south side so that no more water would be able to enter the cavern’s. or are you going to continue to allow the sea water to control whether or not you empty out each passage or not. I mean common sense would dictate that if they want to stop the water from keep filling each of the wholes then close up the entrance for the sea water into the chambers. Once they are found and the main section has been located then either plug it up or collapse it. but at least it wont allow any more sea water into the bore wholes to cause you any more problems. And if there is more water entering you know there is another waterway on some other part of the Island. Common Sense.
Flood tunnels have long been ruled out by geology. That they exist on Oak Island is a lie. Water comes in from miles out to sea, quite naturally. I mean… if you dig deep enough on nearly any island, you’re bound to hit water. Right? Please, I beg you. Go to the critical enquiry site I linked to below. You’ll find quite a bit of dishonesty with the current Prometheus Entertainment/Oak Island Tours, Inc. production.
The dig site for 10X was discovered by dowsing. Yeah, that’s right. Walking around with two sticks. Truth is, with the Windsor Formation beneath the island, nearly wherever you dig you’ll eventually hit an open space within the sandstone, or be flooded out by water not from a “flood tunnel”, but from the ocean miles away. For real research regarding this hoax, see Richard Jolte’s site: https://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/index.shtml
why not pump out 10x and get clear water in there ?
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I have a few questions / suggestions of my own. Do you remember the claw games kids play to retrieve stuffed animals, etc.? Put a quarter in and try your luck. Why can’t the Lagina’s put something like that down 10x (along with a small camera to see what they are grabbing) to help clear the bottom of debris? Then send someone down there to double strap the drill bit that dropped into the smaller shaft. By double strap, I mean 2 straps attached several feet apart from each other with equal tension on them to pull the bit up and out of the hole. Here’s my other question. With all the technology we have, isn’t there something non-toxic that can be used to clear the water?