Oak Island - Design of Secant Piles Proposal

Proposal by McGill Civil Engineering Students, Christopher Ong Tone, Nathan Ramsey, and, Robert Wolofsky to solve the Oak Island mystery and find any buried treasure on Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

Presented on June 20th, 2009 at Explore Oak Island Days in Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Oak
• Island
• Mystery
• Design
• Secant
• Pile
• McGill
• Civil
• Engineering

[chrisongtone]

Google SketchUp, but it did take over 150 hours to get it the way I wanted.

[krystalmanor]

my solution would to make a dam high enough and large enough as well as long enough at the cove to block the water going into the flood tunnels that way the water in the tunnels and easily pump the water out for sure

[boom3rang]

@jxfrost1 Probably because it's private property, and they don't feel like sharing their progress.

[jxfrost1]

why is it so hard to find out what is being done and what the plan is? It seems the plan may be to just make money from tourism. If you dig it up and find its nothing, then no more tourism right? So this has really become a bit of a joke.

[1980cossie]

@forks74 I doubt they would cast the concrete in situ giving it chance to wash away, they would use a 'wet' boring method which incorportaes a temporary casing which is removed after the concrete sets, i personally would bother fucking about with conrete, leave it alone until a better method can be used, whatever is down there is obviously important, there could be large deep underground rooms and tons of concrete and heavy drilling above ain't gonna do them any good.

[mercdriver]

@forks74 Nah, he'll get some pikey to fill it with Tarmac. Lol

[forks74]

When you would fill the pile holes with concrete would the see water not wash the concrete away?

[THEFRANKLINFILM]

so how much would this operation actually cost?

[Oibrigand]

This is great. Very good proposal. I would probably would invest in this project

[redneck01879]

use ground penitrating radar to find the exact locations of the flood tunnels, then follow the branched off flood tunnels to the main vain that feeds to the money pit. Then block the main feed going to the pit, once thats done on both flood tunnels would be free of flow of water, water can then be pumped from the shaft and digging can continue. Its very simple, and would cost less then all the other ideas purposed so far.

[krystalmanor]

impressive but i have a solution that is simple and quite unique in its design.

and the way it works is similar in aim, cutting the water off the flooded pit but in a different location and way to block the water.