Treasure Hunting?

now thats a good warning sign

>Lizard people aren't in that cave.

Better bring the shotgun.

Just pretend construction sites are ancient ruins and copper wire are gold chains.

Coastal digging in water? The government will shut you down, for environmental concerns, and if you find anything, the government will claim it, as they own the coastal waters. The only 'fair game" treasure would be in international waters, where you could make salvage claims, otherwise you need permission to dig or remove anything from the owners - which in the case of coastal waters is the Federal government, and the state will be next in line. I believe in the US any shipwreck in US coastal waters is the property of the Fed, and they might give you a small percentage as a "finders fee".

There aren't large piles of gold just sitting around where you can just cruise out and pick it up, or go on a hike and find it. LIke I said, there are people who have dedicated their lives to this, and have gone broke.
Just go for a hike, and stop larping about treasure hunting.

There used to be guys out at Sebastian Inlet down in florida that had a huge magnometer on their boat. There's definitely billions in gold still waitting to be found but it'd only be a fun hobby if ou'd already made it. Probably not for poorfags, unfortunately. Mel Fischer's museum used to be in town down there and he found a fuck ton of treasure. My dad's buddy found a cannon once and people find peices of eight on the beach all the time.

one time on the beach a tin can washed up, it was badly rusted. I poked with with a piece of driftwood and it went right through and what looked like creamed corn came out.

I do not know what was originally in the can.

how would a magnetometer find gold?

Or, you can be like the guys who found a sunken Spanish ship with a bunch of gold and silver on it, and Portugal took them to court for ownership, and won.

>a huge magnometer on their boat
is this custom equipment?
I think I would buy a house in the keys and just drink rum and drift around scanning for metal
when I get a hit I would dive in and bring bags to float up the wreckage with my scuba air
If I don't get anything for a couple hours I could fish and then go home

What kind of fines would I be looking at for salvaging pirate treasure on federal land?

>The government will shut you down
Wrong, and I did research into this. They will not. You WILL have to go to court though, and you are going to have to pay someone.

my friend's dad knew mel fisher and everything thought he was crazy
his son died when their boat sank hunting for treasure
he wasn't respected until he found the big one
and that could be you user

I'd trade it all for my son to be alive again

If it's protected coastal waters, they will shut you down, hard.

maybe he killed his son so he could keep all the treasure
his son was the one who initially found the anchor and cannons

IDK my dad told me that's what it's called and he's pretty smart about shit.

Yeah. It was a custom treasure hunting boat. It certainly didn't look cheap.

I can recall a dredging operation doing treasure hunting as well but I'm not sure. But if you were smart and rich, you could make a dredging company to make those bullshit 'beach renourishment' contracts or to move sand after big storms, and check the sand you're moving for gold.

I think if you're just a small timer you can steal it nobody will know.

How did you hear that story? That used to be the meme in my town back in the day

You're dad's a punter

Look into the Fenn treasure. High unlikelihood that you could find it or possibly it could not exist at all, but it's still intriguing.

the treasure is out there bud waiting to be found.. like the resting palce of ghengis khan for example

Dude. The odds of a shipwreck or loose gold being found in shallow waters where dredging is being done is astronomically high, if not impossible.
'What you "recall" is probably the Uncharted video games.

unironically go to a river which has been used over the centuries near a historical town throw magnet into river and profit.

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You dont know what you are talking about. Treasure hunting around the coast is perfectly legal, people have been doing it for decades here in Florida. If you are referring to international waters, its a different story.

There is an exception if its a shipwreck 3 miles out from US coastal waters. That belongs to the State. The rest, about 200 nautical miles, are Federal Waters, and fair game.

International waters is actually riskier, because the US government doesn't protect its citizens like it used to. Look to the $500 million bounty of the Spanish shipwreck, which SHOULD have gone to the Odyssey, but instead went to the thieves in the Spanish Government, for obvious political reasons. Counties can claim them to be a "part of their heritage" and steal the property from you.

Is that skeleton flipping me off?

Maybe they just didn’t go far enough in the cave to find the real treasure....

Also your not allowed to plunder warships as they are classed as burial sites

The only treasure you should be hunting is oil.

I'm a type of treasure hunter but I'll never tell you what I do or how much money I make :)

come up to the beautiful canadian rocky mountains and find the lost lemon gold mine.

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I grew up in a part of Florida that's literally called the treasure coast. There's plenty of gold still out there.

I'm not trying to give you the impression that it's easy to find or anything.