Man... to HELL with that diving business, that old man was NUTS.

It seems like if they just did another big dye release and had divers stationed at the various places offshore, they could find the inlets and plug them up.
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Yep...that's what I said earlier.
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the old man was obsessed, :-). even admitted it himself.

and admitting it is the first step.
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How do you find the inlets for the water though? This isn't a bucket you can hold up to find the hole.
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I think what you're asking is how do you pinpoint the openings, if you have divers offshore they should be able to get a pretty good fix on where its coming in based on where the dye is strongest.

I think thats what you're asking...
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I think it'd be very hard to do. To see the whole shore of water turn red, yes, but to see a particular spot? I'd think you'd need to be below water to see it, and as murky as the water is, I don't think you'd be able to catch it before you were immersed in it. Not without assistance anyway.

Maybe a infrared camera could detect something quickly, or backlight with some sort of solvent, or hot water and a thermal camera.

Even then, it'd be hard to stop water from getting in. I guess you could pump hydraulic cement in. But with five box drains, just cut off the main shaft. Which is likely just a trench they dug and filled with gravel covered with coconut fiber and buried.
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I'm not sure why this is so nuts.

Is it more nuts than free diving? Or scuba diving in deep ocean water? What is so nuts about it?

What he did, with that gear that was likely primitive THEN, sure, a bit nuts, but with modern means?
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sounds like a hardy boys book
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Yeah, but suppose you have to dig further. Digging underwater doesn't work so well.

Hell, if all they need is someone crazy sign me up. I'd gladly die for a share of the spoils.
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yeah that's true...


fuck I don't know then.
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Shut off the water.

My solution is to use the corrugated steel flood walls they used to shore up New Orleans.

They stand them up straight, have a vibrating attachment for a backhoe, or a cool vertical ranking rig, and drive them well into the ground.

Do that close to the shore, where the flood shaft would be at its shallowest depths. Boom. Pump out the shaft. Profit.
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crazy that the whole bay is man made too.
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My bad, I seen your post, wasnt trying to steal it as my own idea.

Yeah, I mean c'mon... something is weird about the whole damn thing, theres gotta be something down there, something crazy important.
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It's cool...I was just agreeing with you.
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http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/whoi.shtml
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