NEW DISCOVERY CHANNEL SERIES ‘TREASURE QUEST: SNAKE ISLAND

[jeff of pa]

Well, I'm with you Dave. I like the treasure thing too.
Here's my take: Most producers didn't have a normal childhood, roaming around in the woods and swamps like us. So, why would they have the faintest idea what would make a treasure show go together or who to cast? I could tell inside of 2 minutes whether I would want someone in the woods with me or not. Not them.

My understanding (guess) in this case the majority were a Treasure hunting Team
And Snake guy was hired for obvious safety reasons.

Bikini Girl was the producers idea. Eye Candy to bring in the 30's crowd,
and equal opportunity for women, type people.


My guess if the producers dreamed the whole thing up, there would be a
Bank robber, a Pregnant woman ready to pop any minute that it is the worst time possible,
a Blond Bimbo & Gilligan type, an of course someone to save the world
who bullets seem to curve around, on the team.
then of course plenty of pirates & crooked government officials

 

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[Simon1]

We have not seen the entire entourage behind the scene, Meghan may not be the only female there.
Don't worry about it, truth doesn't offend. I was wondering about the foot/light switch thing, thought maybe she was telling the cameraman to get lost.

Guess I had not considered the cameraman in her cabin angle, I just assumed it was another security camera mounted to the wall.

 

[Msbeepbeep]

That invincible guy would be snake guy, he hasn't managed to do his self in yet even with all the "oops!" moments. Guess even the snakes are trying to avoid him!

Wonder what the clincher is going to be in Friday's episode?

 

[Frankn]

The drones operate on the new frequencies allotted for radio control which are much higher than the old. I think they are 2GHz or something. They are not affected by interference as the hand held, lower frequency units are.
I saw the announcement last night and it said Final Episode! I think that means they find something, or someone gets snake bit and they call it off.
After all it is just entertainment with a small bit of basis in fact. Hay, It beats dig and shag a tree any day. Frank

 

[jeff of pa]

The drones operate on the new frequencies allotted for radio control which are much higher than the old. I think they are 2GHz or something. They are not affected by interference as the hand held, lower frequency units are.
I saw the announcement last night and it said Final Episode! I think that means they find something, or someone gets snake bit and they call it off.
After all it is just entertainment with a small bit of basis in fact. Hay, It beats dig and shag a tree any day. Frank

I think it's just Final Episode for the season, unless they gave up completely
after finding pieces of wood, instead of Treasure.

I'm pretty confident if they Found Treasure or someone was seriously injured
We would already know.
It would be the biggest & Best advertising coo of a TV show ever.
50% of America would tune in to see the Treasure Being Found.
90% of America would tune in to see someone Bleeding from their Eyes & ears as their flesh melts from a snake Bite. even though they wouldn't show anything but the person
being consoled on a stretcher, allot would watch and hope for a peek.

There lucky if .05% tune in to see the Last episode out of Blind curiosity.

 

[Bum Luck]

The drones operate on the new frequencies allotted for radio control which are much higher than the old. I think they are 2GHz or something. They are not affected by interference as the hand held, lower frequency units are.
I saw the announcement last night and it said Final Episode! I think that means they find something, or someone gets snake bit and they call it off.
After all it is just entertainment with a small bit of basis in fact. Hay, It beats dig and shag a tree any day. Frank
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2.4GHZ and 5.8GHZ.

I don't know what the w/t freq is, it depends on what the government allows there, but probably 462 and 467 MHz, the FRS bands.
I like the old 151 MHz VHF channel, it will "curve" around hills and penetrate buildings nicely. They could also use the marine channels 156.0 and 162.025 MHz with the same characteristics.

 

[Simon1]

Season finale, Snakeman will once again become sick. This time from ink poisoning from that backwoods Tattoo parlor. I would have waited until I was back in the states for that tattoo, I have seen what a "dirty" needle can do to a friend, ( requires a liver transplant, if they are lucky enough to get a donor ). Snakeman must think he is immune to danger because he sure takes more risks than is neccessary. ( Or he is trying to show off and impress a certain you know who, I've seen some of their eye contact

 

[Msbeepbeep]

I'm in the .05%, I'm hoping they find at lest something we would call treasure before the last show of the season...or final episode.

I have a need to see bling or I'm gonna feel like it's just another one of my hunts...minus the boat, drone, TV crew, snakes, etc.

It is a curious thing that we haven't seen copies of the treasure map bandied about. I know there is one in the entro pics of every show with an X on it, but if they had one with an X on it, wouldn't you start looking there first?
First they had to prove there were ships from the correct time period there. They started at one end of the Island and found the broken rock with treasure signs, found the Jesuit ring, square nail, rock with the Southern Cross...pointing south, the wooden pieces of a box

I feel like the answer is right in front of me but I've been so enthralled looking at what the show producers what me to look at that I haven't seen the forest for the trees.
Well I hope the last episode is at lest surprising, treasure would be nice.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Snakeman must think he is immune to danger because he sure takes more risks than is necessary.

Maybe he's just naturally stupid?

 

[Msbeepbeep]

Lol! In that case mr cub holder better be able to fly!

 

[New Orleans Relic]

Enter clean shavin Todd Hoffman minus 66lbs, buffed to enter the river expedition in Season 2. Maybe there's diamonds?

 

[cw0909]

i dont get it, leave clues on a deadly island to a mainland river
season 3: oh its not a river, its what the deadly island coast line
looked like when the treasure was stashed

 

[jeff of pa]

i dont get it, leave clues on a deadly island to a mainland river
season 3: oh its not a river, its what the deadly island coast line
looked like when the treasure was stashed

it's the Schuylkill River here in PA .
or maybe its the little Swatara Creek

seriously though . There are about 165 major rivers in the world.
that is just the Major ones known Today. if indeed this map goes back that far
you would need to know what rivers small & large existed then,
Their actual flow lines back then, & be able to narrow just one of them
down to fit the chart.

& who said River ? there are also Canyons & creeks, walking Paths and cave systems that
move(d) in that direction.

I agree . They should consider comparing the Holes to a Map of the Cave system they are in
first. which mapping the cave could take years itself unfortunately.

and perhaps in their off season using them to a Map of the island.
see if each hole corresponds to a cave on the island.

personally though, I would want to excavate where they found the piece of wood,
if it wasn't a Plant by Production for drama.
perhaps there was a cave-in & the treasure is just out of range of the detector.
or the cave flooded at some point in the last 500 years & that piece of wood floated there from another part of the cave system.

If the treasure was removed, Why was the Rock pile Built to make it difficult to
get where it was ?

Excellent show last night in spite of all the off topic Fill to make it last an Hour.
and there is a good possibility the Treasure was found by someone smart enough to
keep their mouths shut . But That's why we are known as Treasure Hunters.
if there is still a chance, best to keep Hunting

When does season 2 Start ?

 

[BosnMate]

I nodded off early, and missed the part where they get out of the hammocks without getting snake bit. Woke up just in time to see them find the cave. Because I missed the first 15 minutes of fluff, I thought the show last night was great. I've crawled down in holes like that when I was a kid, and finding the wall and part of the box sure got my interest. I also thought it was noteworthy that from 15 minutes in, and to the end there were no snakes. The hike all the way out to the boat, not one snake. So evidently the snakes only come around when there is need for drama and danger. Oh yeah, the last snake was just fill, so snake guy could say "good bye."

 

[mjak]

I was both disappointed and excited by last nights episode. I felt the authenticity of what we were watching was questionable at times. The editing is really annoying. I really want to believe that the crux of the show is legit but for the first time last night I felt like I was watching actors with a bad script at times when there were exploring the cave. Only Megan seemed to realize the value of the piece of chest and the need to preserve its integrity. The exciting part is it seems likely there will be another season. Irregardless of how authentic and I need a lot of popcorn to get thru the editing/ repetition I love having a fun treasure show to watch and the idea of a series where they will go on various hunts is A okay with me. I can swing both ways, hard core science treasure hunt and just plan old entertainment! There is room for both in my world.

 

[G.I.B.]

Season 2 depends entirely on the profits made in season 1.

They are not doing this as a public service announcement or college course on treasure hunting. It's meant as entertainment, to make a profit.

So, if they made enough, and the producers think they can extract a sufficient amount of cash from advertisers by producing season 2, then it will happen.

It's all about the money.

I hope they make season 2. I was entertained enough in season 1 to point out a lot of the mistakes and BS, which was again, entertaining.

 

[Frankn]

Well, as I stated in the beginning, that boat is rotted thru. They only painted it to the waterline. I saw that in the first episode.
I like the show, but it lacked substance. They were running on vapor as far as the clues were concerned.
I would go for the cave system theory on the last rock 'carving'.
Hay, I would have at least left there with a snake skin belt. LOL Frank.

 

[TreasureCDave]

Season 2 depends entirely on the profits made in season 1.

From starcasm.net - "Last week more than two million viewers tuned in for the series premiere of Treasure Quest: Snake Island, making it Discovery Channel’s most watched and highest rated non-spinoff series premiere of 2015."

You can read the whole piece here.

Don't forget, Discovery also brought us Mermaids: The Body Found and Megalodon: The New Evidence

 

[Argentium]

Ok , so they find that cave (south of the marker ) they don't even bother to get the metal detectors out - to hit that entire flat area
approaching the cave - unbelievable !

 

[Msbeepbeep]

They all had happy as heck looks on their faces when discussing further adventures seeking the Trinity treasure...either they knew there would be a season 2 or their pay checks all cleared the bank!

The boat was only sea worthy (as Frank said) for season 1. No boat, they have to go inland ( hope the treasure got that script meno!)
I didn't see them use the detector in all the rest of the cave system, but they were scouring all the walls with flash lights looking for symbols. The cave system is crumbling so it is reasonable that treasure could still be in there & there may have been other etchings on the now collapsed walls. I'm still puzzled about why the lid piece was left where it was.

They have interpreted the last 2 symbols by star charts.
Did they ever say what happened to all the notes from the guy that had studied the clues and symbols, we don't know if he told anyone what he knew, before he died. Maybe the boulders were blown up and put in the new house foundation to keep people from getting them.
I'll keep watching tho.