Oak Island

[scorpio264]

It would be highly unlikely, most stories of the Knights Templar are nothing more than legend. Most knights never left Europe, they simply changed the name of their order to the Knights of Christ, while many more joined and were accepted into the Knight Hospitallers, which also received all the Templars property. The Knights also only owned about 4 ships, all transport ships used to bring Pilgrims across the Mediterranean, they rented more ships if needed but they never had a massive fleet nor did they ever have a fleet that vanished, on top of that the ships would not have survived the Atlantic, they were small shallow draft vessels made for the calm and shallow waters of the Mediterranean. I wish the legend were true but even back then it was seen as just a legend. If anyone wants to know were the treasure went, it mostly likely went into the pockets of the many thousand other Templars who continued to live as noble knights all throughout Europe.

Oh. Since you were there I guess we can all stop speculating. I would wager a single ship could have done the job. If the Templars were as rich as everyone says they were I bet they could afford to rent a ship to take them across the sea. And where is all the treasure they were reported to have? Obviously a tit for tat forum exchange will not answer the question. Thankfully there are well funded and driven people out there who are willing to take a risk to find out what IS down there. Something is. It may not be the Templar treasure but it sure is fun to speculate.

 

[Ferrous Bueller]

Sorry to say the treasure is gone. Bigfoot found it dowsing and aliens took it away.

 

[kelpike]

I watched the first 2 episodes. It annoys me that they aren't even exploring the main tunnel...

What they should do is spread some dye in the water in the main tunnel, then pressurize the tunnel and dive down and find where the dye is escaping into the tunnel to the ocean. Then plug that hole to the ocean and finally pump all the water out of the tunnel.

I could get that treasure in a week if I had all that equipment...

I was kind of surprised they weren't exploring the main tunnel too. I remember reading or seeing somewhere that they have dumped dye into the tunnel just like someone else mentioned, I guess thats how they found out there was more than one tunnel.

 

[Chris R]

Its an old outhouse for marooned pirates.lol

 

[itsaring!]

stop pooing on the treasure!

Why would anyone bother to put all those layers there and dig that pit if not to hide something?

If you study it, it appears it may have been to dry dock ships. In the old days you had to manage the wood repair. Got a manmade lagoon with 5 filter legs leading to a deep hole with tiers which you could bail water down in. You wouldn't want to do it close to the lagoon you seal off or the water would simply runback in the lagoon. Just one theory

 

[CoiltoSoil]

Oh. Since you were there I guess we can all stop speculating. I would wager a single ship could have done the job. If the Templars were as rich as everyone says they were I bet they could afford to rent a ship to take them across the sea. And where is all the treasure they were reported to have? Obviously a tit for tat forum exchange will not answer the question. Thankfully there are well funded and driven people out there who are willing to take a risk to find out what IS down there. Something is. It may not be the Templar treasure but it sure is fun to speculate.

Don't get me wrong, it would be great if they found something but at 200+ feet and still nothing it's highly unlikely. Like I said, they should stop focusing on the money pit and start focusing on the surrounding landscape, assuming such a large scale project went on to dig the pit which would have involved hundreds of men and tons of supplies then the island should be full of relics lost by the crew, as well as evidence of their quarters, fire pits, bones from food, etc. I can't imagine so many people doing such a large project on the island and not leaving any trace or artifacts behind. Is it just me or is it no logical to first find evidence of occupation, then worry about the pit.