I watched the season premiere but have not been watching at all before this. They went 6 years without busting caps for a sound wave mapping of the area? That seems like a season one action. Anyway a couple of months ago I broke out my old metal detector and hit a construction site locally here in Massachusetts. My son and I found a 1723 Hibernia Half-Penny. The stories behind that coin are pretty wild if you search online. Lots of conspiracy theories as it is a colonial era trade piece. Nothing else found at the site approached this find in similarity. It was an awesome find yes, equivalent to what the guy is detecting on Oak Island. My thought was, maybe dirt was trucked into the construction site from somewhere else at one time, that's where the coin originated from not this site where it was found. What if the money pit on Oak Island is just garbage dump from somewhere else?

Did they actually find gold there? I saw a teaser commercial that said so and was the reason I watched the premeire.

I read that they got $3 or 4$ million from the Canadian Government for funding? I could be loose on the details. So it sounds like, whatever they find has to be turned over to the Canadian Feds anyway.

My wife and I honeymooned at a B & B in Chester summer of 2013. Beautiful area you live in. Fog and coastal inlets around every corner. Unique scenery. I think Sydney Crosby is from there?

Well. if they indeed find\found gold that would be noteworthy. The commercial implied it.

I was trying to remember a small place where I had some seafood chowder and my wife reminded me that it was the Seaside Shanty. On the water, good chowder.

Been interesting lately after the siesmic study results and locate from that a new drill hole site. Bringing up horizontal wood and previously human bones indicates a collapsed tunnel. Probably seekers. Also finding a cross bow metallic arrow on the cove site. Cool stuff. Not sure why it took 6 seasons to get here though.

There was a teaser that the crossbow projectile was confirmed ancient Roman.

I think they got 3 to 4 million for this season and the more complex activities, from the Canadian government, So ultimately it's the story's answer they are after since the Canadian government would probably own anything they find.

I get the trepidation, but why not just start bulldozing? If they can hold back the ocean in the cove, they can deal with the pit water as well.

I still am not understanding why they just don't bulldoze the money pit as others have mentioned here. Probably way cheaper too to do it that way and your answer is achieved. I get that there is a water table but that can be worked around. Now it seems that they are going to concentrate on the swamp? Another 6 or 7 years of this snail dragging process they go through in a different location? Yikes!

And that US map was made in China, just like the one I bought yesterday.

Thanks Irony Mike. What do you expect from people who buy an expensive pin just to play it for years, over, and over, and over and over......

Maybe the money pit is just a garbage dump for ships that traveled through the area. That is a possibility. Maybe after all this time, 600 year old garbage is treasure.

That's the way of the Templars. Elaborate secrecy. Shoulda got Indiana Jones on the job years ago, he woulda just destroyed the place to get to the loot.

Maybe it was a treasured Mustang.

Sorry I missed that. How did they locate shaft #2? I just see educated sample drilling that got them there.

Is 1700's history really re-writing the history of North America? It would have to be early exploration than that. That said, it is a very interesting show and even more so since my wife and I honeymooned in Chester, NS around the time the show started by coincidence.

They did refocus to the search on tonite's show and dismissed the 3 person team of archaeologists because of 1st Nation (Native Canadian) restrictions.

To be so white in the beard and brown in the head of hair, hmmmm, there's a lot of unsolved mystery to the show.

What was the coin found? No details on that but lots of wood details it seemed....

What a piece of rebar? Next scene.

Too bad the 15th century gold coin that they've spent millions pursuing, was found by a simple metal detector outing in Newfoundland instead:

https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2022/tcar/1109n05/

You have chosen....to drag this story out for 10 YEARS?

He probably found the items there but was not found video live so they re-staged finding it for the broadcast and by then he already knew what it was. Metal detecting is 95% nothing happens, no way they followed Gary around with a camera the whole time.

If it weren't for a $1200 metal detector, this show would be nowhere. Here's to metal detectorists! Booyah.