If there’s one drilling project that could use the high-tech advantages of award-winning sonic drilling, it’s the long-standing treasure hunt on Oak Island — an island in Nova Scotia, Canada, and home to a captivating legend about sunken tunnels, unexplained artifacts, strange stone markings and buried treasure.
The earliest published account of Oak Island treasure first appeared in 1856 and referred to a man named Daniel McGinnis (the island’s first settler) who discovered a depression in the ground around 1799. The depression was believed to be proof of a dying sailor’s confession that millions of dollars of Captain Kidd’s treasure had been buried on the island. Digging into the depression, McGinnis discovered a layer of flagstones two feet below and promptly named the bore hole the “money pit” thinking that there was money in the bottom of it. Unfortunately, McGinnis failed at finding any treasure when the pit unexpectedly flooded with sea water.