How Modern Treasure Hunting Works

Thanks!

Sounds like a good way to put a complete stop to any archeological projects. People once again prove we are nothing but advanced mold

AMAZING VIDEO! Very interesting! I have a simple question though, IS THERE ANY WAY TO MINIMIZE THE BACKGROUND MUSIC/SOUNDS, PLEASE!
The BG sounds almost COMPLETELY drowns out the narrative storytelling.
I love watching stories about anthropology, places no one would think to discover fossils, ect. I would LOVE an opportunity to join a team one day and explore near me here in the Pacific NW. 😃

So what you're telling me is that if I ever find a sunken ship(especially if it's a spaniard ship) full of gold, I should just keep quiet, melt the gold, and somehow claim that I mined it?

Black market

Koi asa hai jo india mai ye kaam karna chahta ho

honestly the thrill of finding something is payment enough

At least Stan went to a museum

I have a deep love for history and the respect for those who perished or have been maimed in accidents.. However, man made items (especially) left in the oceans, WILL completely disappear in a few hundred years after being submerged... (With the exception of various temperatures, especially in situations like ships in the Great Lakes = which are fresh water == though the zebra muscles are going to change it).. Titanic is an excellent example... ALL of these ships will become rust stains at the very least in relatively (human) a short period of time.. IN an idea world, everything outside of bones (etc) should be in a museum.. It isn't practical to assume that is going to happen.. I will be long dead by this time... However, I would MUCH rather some very wealthy collector finance or just bid / scoop relics and know that one day, their relatives will almost certainly auction / sell these priceless pieces in history to the highest bidder RATHER THAN these 'items' being lost to time and exposure for all eternity... Whatever that may actually be.. ALL of this legal GABAGE stifles innovations, explorations and the ability (INTEREST) in seeking out things that NOBODY else without the true research / hard work would EVER likely find... Lost in time.. Would you rather that be the case, or eventually seeing it preserved...

Fun fact: there is a life size replica of Stan at the Cerritos library

160 miles off SOUTH Carolina

nice

If you drag my great grandfathers shipwreck out of the sea you best believe its mine😂

Just saying right when you said what the T. rex from the black hills institute sold for you actually had said Sue sold for $31 million dollars and not Stan. I know not a big one and not one you probably plan to fix but just thought I’d throw it out there

''illegally shiphunts''

The academic side for selling fossils seems more ideological than what actually happens

I saw a video about a guy who searches for buried treasure in Bavaria that rumors say the "Nono Germans" buried and never recovered. He seems unaware that anything he finds will be taken away from him.

That institute tried to scam the guy . They knew it was worth millions and offered 5 grand

All this does is incentivize treasure hunters to not report anything

If I was Elon musk , instead of buying twitter I’d have a fleet of treasure ships and just make a massive museum of all my finds . Coins/dinasours , everything . It would be epic

Hell yeah!! I’m so glad that land owner got to auction it himself and keep the money. I was gonna say they scammed him with 5 grand

I am extremely surprised the government let him sell it and keep the money though . Why wouldn’t they just put it in the Smithsonian if the judge ruled it’s theirs

5000 dollars for a full T. rex Skelton! I would have kept it if I was that guy , that would be the ultimate man cave piece

I’m just gonna stick to treasure hunting in Minecraft.

So the risks are “Theoretical” while the gains are already been seen…

Why the fuck did they let Williams, of all people, sell it? Tax-free no less. Especially as he already sold it.

Government retardation at its finest!

Taking away the monetary incentive to declare archaeological relics by making sites only accessible to researchers is definitely a mistake. Plenty of people would rather destroy relics than have their land seized and unfairly compensated. Any country where the government seizes fossils you're better off just smashing them and finishing your garage. Because you better believe they will seize the rest of the property to search for more.

There is more to the Odyssey Marine story. Th the US State Department provided Spain assistance in their case in exchange for help recovering a painting that had been pilfered by Nazis. This came out as part oftentimes the diplomatic cables leak by Wikileaks.

CHICAGO MENTIONED RAAAHHHHH 🦖🦖🦖🦖 WE HAVE ONE OF THE BEST NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS IN THE COUNTRY 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅 WTF ARE HUMAN REMAINS 🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴🦴

The federal government recently arrested and charged some people for illegally collecting dinosaur bone from Utah and getting it shipped to China to get turned into jewelry to sell at gem and mineral shows.

In Germany there is quite an...interresting...solution for this problem: if one finds (nearly) any archeological remains, they have to be allowed to be researched - of course one would not get any money, because it's obviously owned by the state. This means, that when one is building a house and finds anything of historical value, it's much cheaper to just destroy it, than let a team of archeologists recover it for months - if not years - while the house one planned to life in, cannot be finished and still needs to get payed, as workers and material are still available.
Yet that's not completely onesided, there are historical remains one can still keep and keep all the money it's connected to: unexploded bombs. If such a bomb is found on ones private real estate, one not only is the official owner - no, the owner now also has to take care of it, which means: pay a lot to get it off his land or to start a controlled explosion.

Life liberty and property right that's core 🙏

Dont you love it when government and institutions prevent academia and research from gaining more knowledge about our past by making sure no one can get their hands on it without having to pay immense fortunes....

Its always amusing when the Odyssey story gets retold by an american, you can feel the pain in the narrators voice... xD

I wish my car got more valuable as it ages

Azenhas do Mar!

It doesn’t make sense. There are so many things to explore, we should provide incentives to do so. The treasure hunter might spend years to find something. If they didn’t find anything they take the lose. No one cares. If they found something they are not guaranteed any cut and might even go to jail for that lol. Doesn’t make any sense. Don’t know why someone would waste his time on this.

Really? The ships in deep sea gives better research than getting it out of the deep ocean ?

Stickermule is selling lookalike stickers to your channel logo. Its not an exact copy though.

A successful treasure hunt for me is finding matching socks!!

As long as museums get these items, i I'm totally fine with it

Lol, what a joke the fbi is swarming in like they did. Did they think the Black Hills Institute people were going to flush the tyrannosaurus rex down the toilet? F*ckin clowns, lol.

If i go through the effort of recovering a shipwreck from 200 years ago and some agency wants me to give it to them and pay a fine. I'm throwing it back in the ocean. If they want it that bad they can get it themselves.

I solved both Forrest Fenn's riddle and Max Valentin's treasure hunt by using Google.