The Oak Island Money Pit
On Oak Island sits the Money Pit, said to hold a legendary treasure. Searchers have gone as far d...
Dynamite line
Era I, Pick and Shovel
Conjectural course
Dynamite line across the flood tunnel (1897)
Recorded 1897 by Oak Island Treasure Company, 80 to 95 ft
Depth80 to 95 ft
As reported by the source
As reported by the source
Years1897
ByOak Island Treasure Company
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Dug to blow the flood tunnel shut. In 1897 the Oak Island Treasure Company, unable to pump the Money Pit dry, drilled five holes 15 ft apart and 80 to 95 ft deep on a line about 50 ft inland from the high water mark at Smith's Cove, crossing the supposed course of the flood tunnel at right angles, and loaded them with dynamite to wreck the tunnel and cut off the sea. Only the third hole struck water, which rose and fell with the tide; charged with 160 lb of dynamite it set the water boiling in both the Money Pit and the Cave-in Pit, proof that hole, pit and cove were connected. The flow was not stopped. The line is placed here from those distances; no plan survives.
The record gives points, not the course between them.
Depth
80 to 95 ft, as reported by the source.
Where It Sits
Connected to Dynamite line across the flood tunnel (1897)
Sources
- Oak Island Treasure Company (1897) in R.V. Harris and William S. Crooker
- Positions and depths: see how we know this on the Money Pit Map.
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Secret Treasure of Oak Island
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