Actual Video of Capt. Greg recovering these amazing coins!

WOW Felt like I was right there with him,thanks
 

Amazing, and just a few steps off the beach! How many people have been swimming over a small fortune, and didnt know it!!
 

Great video, sure put a smile on my face. I know the feeling you get pulling up gold coins, there are no words that can discribe it but when you hear the guys laughing under the water you kind get that same feeling.
ZDD
 

Here on the treasure coast there probaby is a very good chance one is swimming over treasure!

ZDD, yeah it was just so crazy that the coins just kept coming that I couldn't help not to laugh.

The first diver in the hole, Tony Gil's exact words were, "there's hits EVERYWHERE"!!

Normally in the back of your mind you're hoping it's treasure, but typically you're thinking damn all this trash and
about 8-9 pieces of trash did come out of the hole before the first gold!

With the reblowing of the hole to get more sand out of the cracks we were literally picking up gold coins "for hours"!!

At times Greg had the detector coil on it's side and would shove it in the cracks. The "main spot" which we got coins from started with coins just a little bit into the crack, but later Greg was up to his shoulder pulling out gold coins!

Greg had said at one point about a very narrow crack, if the detector had went off I don't know how I would have gotten to the hit, BUT I would have found a way!!
 

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huh, seems that if there are any larger pieces of metal ,they may not have traveled as far as the coins that looked to be washed into those cracks.
 

WoW so cool!!

I wonder what those people who own those beach condos thought? they must have snorkelled over there plenty!!

Any idea what detectors was used??
 

Do you guys have to break through that hard pan or are those holes naturally occuring? On the WHYDAH we have to move 15-20 feet of sand. BTW: outstanding finds!!


WHYDAH Diver
 

We propwash excavate the sand away and then search the hard bottom, but there's often cracks, pockets.
The sand depth varies throughtout the sites from inches to 20+ feet.

That's some deep sand! We tend to work in less sand, based on the boat the excavation may not be practical or possible depending on blower size and engine size.
 

thanks, the entire Cape Cod National Seashore where the WHYDAH is located has deep and highly mobile sand that often fills in overnight if tides are really running. After artifacts make it through the sand they hit a layer of clay and cobbles which is where we find all the stuff.
 

I trust you will be cleaning that area for weeks if not months. For us up here in the Great White North to get the gold it is hammer and chisel time. We spend hours just sitting on the bottom chiseling away. There is iron every where as well as tons of other metal so a MDer is out of the question. Here is a pic of a good day. 8 gold full sovereigns from the 1800s. But the best day we had was when one of the Zodiacdivers found a brass tube that had 19 or 23 gold sovereigns stacked in it. (I can't remember exactly I wasn't on that dive and we didn't get a pic)
Good luck down there, I am sure you guys left the best behind now go get it.:laughing7:
ZDD
 

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Yeah...if that doesn't make you happy enough to laugh out loud there's just not much hope for you. :)
As much overburden as you have to move out there to get to the hard layer that will stop the heavy stuff, those coins were as safe from casual snorkelers as the gold in the vault is from people going by on the highway. So near yet so far...
 

Dang! So close yet so far away, having detected on that beach many times over the years. Congratulations... any closer to the beach and you would be digging pounds of fishing weights. Great video.
 

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