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“We might not be the ones doing the
job, but our people are often in place
training those that are.”
– Vanessa Lucido
Phone: 604-798-4275
Email: sales@cwmetals.ca
what is under Oak Island. Armed with engineering knowhow
and the muscle of heavy machinery, the popular show
follows brothers Rick and Marty Lagina in their quest to finally
crack the code of Oak Island and unearth the treasure that is
rumoured to exist below.
“The Oak Island team kept calling our Salt Lake office and,
in all honesty, I didn’t believe it at first,” said Lucido. “We had
never received a request like this before and the idea of chasing
treasure just sounded completely out of my element. So –
I am embarrassed to admit – we just kind of ignored their
phone calls for a while.”
However, at the encouragement of an industry colleague,
Lucido eventually picked up the phone and, as they say, the
rest is history – television, that is.
Straight shooters
Being part of the search for treasure on Oak Island was a
completely foreign experience for both Lucido and ROC,
which had never been asked to use its equipment in a
situation such as this. Before taking on the role, the company
conducted exhaustive research on what had been previously
attempted on Oak Island in order to better assess whether or
not the company and its equipment would be up to the task.
The one thing that Lucido felt that ROC could provide the
project, and that had so far stymied the search, was the ability
to drill a completely straight shaft. All of the earlier drilling
attempts had resulted in shafts that were out of plumb, where
the drill rod would spur to the side and result in the top of
the hole being askew from the bottom by as much as 40 feet.
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“We knew that they had a target down at the bottom of the
hole and that the Oak Island team needed to make sure that,
whichever company was drilling, they could drill a plumb
shaft,” said Lucido. “We felt that doing this fell well within
our expertise at ROC, so I was very confident that we could
accomplish what they were asking, and that made me pretty
excited to go up and help. And for me, it was also exciting to
hear talk about all the history at Oak Island and all the potential
‘what-ifs’ that we could find.”
During the course of filming, ROC provides the complete
drill spread and New Brunswick-based Irving Equipment
brings in the crane to perform the dig operations. In all
three seasons that ROC has been involved with the search,
the company has relied on one of its specialty oscillators. In
Season 4, ROC used a smaller oscillator while, for the last two
seasons, the company has put down five-foot diameter shafts
using one of its larger oscillators.
Overcoming challenges
Many of the challenges presented by working on Oak Island
are related to the remoteness of the location. Should any of
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