Oak Island Treasure - the world's greatest treasure hunt - Oak Island Treasure

An idea taken from the Channel Tunnel between France and the UK

Richard A. Walker

The first time I read about Oak Island was 1937 and it has fascinated me ever since. I currently have 6 different Garrett metal detectors that I play with in retirement.

Let me preface what I am going to discuss with the comment; "you don't have to be smart to think outside the box"

I believe that since the original efforts to dig out the buried items at Oak Island, the searchers have played into the engineers' hands that originally buried what ever is there.

Instead of digging holes and trying to pump the water out, which up to this time has been impossible, we take a different tack.

1. Completely fill and SEAL all past efforts of digging. A great deal of weight must be placed upon all closures to prevent a "blow-out" for the following reasons.

2. We will reverse on Mother Nature and not fight her; lets make her fight us.

3. After all areas have been filled and sealed we are ready for the "new" assault on the Oak Island Treasure. If we can tunnel under mountains, under oceans, under rivers and under lakes, why not do the same on Oak Island??

4. Lets take the methods used to tunnel under the English Channel and several other bodies of water and do the same?? with a few modifications. The shaft will not be as vertical as we would like but it will suffice. It will be close enough to vertical to hit the treasure vault at X feet.

The key to this operation of course is the shaft being heavily weighted in place, and having air pressure to hold the water back; and the air lock area at the top of the shaft to take out the material that is dug out and bring concrete and rebar in to build a vertical tunnel. As the tunnel goes deeper the air pressure to hold the water back will increase. With personnel out of the tunnel after it reaches a certain depth air pressure can be increased in the vertical tunnel to blow air bubbles into the ocean to find and permanently seal the water channels flooding the pit. At that point it shouldn't be that difficult to locate and carefully unload the treasure vault.