Triton Shaft

Cribbed shaft on a steel shoe, begun November 1973. Shoe bottom 98.5 ft below the deck; below it a small tunnel-like void running north with salty water; a 7 ft side tunnel at 80 ft; soft red clay at 100.5 ft below original ground, then blue clay like that holding the wire. Stopped by water in spring 1974.

No public source gives this hole's position.

What the Drill Found

1. 0 ft
   SurfaceTop of the shaft
2. 80 ft
3. 80 ft
   Tunnel7 ft exploratory tunnel north from the 80 ft level; ground getting softer; stopped by a boulder
   Dan Blankenship (Apr 1974)
4. 18.5 ft
5. 98.5 to 101.5 ft
   TunnelAbout 3 ft below the steel shoe: top of an apparent tunnel running north (void 4 to 5 in high, 12 to 14 in wide) with salty water at 12 to 15 gpm; followed 6 to 7 ft
   Dan Blankenship (Apr 1974)
6. 100.5 ft
   Soil / claySoft red clay 2 to 3 ft thick, then blue clay like that holding the wire
   Dan Blankenship (Apr 1974)
7. 110 ft
   MetalDrawn wire at 110 ft (Triton borehole, 1973)
   Artifact Vault
   Drawn wire at 110 ft (Triton borehole, 1973) →

Rows are in depth order; the column on the left is the hole, and a figure between rows is the stretch with nothing logged. Depths as reported by each source.

Sources

• Drilled by Triton Alliance (Dan Blankenship, David Blankenship, Gerald Dorey, Dan Henskee)
• Blankenship reports (1965-94) p80-84; Harris and MacPhie (2013) p110
• Blankenship reports (1965-94) p84
• Blankenship reports (1965-94) p83
• Artifact Vault: Triton Alliance borehole about 660 ft north of the Money Pit, 110 ft depth; later site of the Triton Shaft
• Positions and depths: see how we know this on the Money Pit Map.