NARRATOR: As a new day begins in Sebastian, Florida--
Good morning, team.
Hey, good morning, Matty.
How are you doing this morning?
NARRATOR: --Matty Blake once again joins treasure salvager
John Brandon and his team.
So what's the plan for today?
What you guys--
So where we were yesterday, we had a lot of targets,
and so I want to keep following this trail
and see what else is on it.
MATTY BLAKE: Very good.
Let's go get it.
All right.
MATTY BLAKE: All right.
NARRATOR: They are continuing their search
in a previously unexplored area for wreckage connected
to the famed 1715 Spanish treasure
fleet, which may be hiding millions
in lost gold and silver.
MATTY BLAKE: Day two, you know, they're ready to go.
I'm definitely ready to go.
I think we're all very encouraged by what was found
yesterday in just a short dive.
GREG BOUNDS: And looks like we're pretty good.
MATTY BLAKE: It looks real good.
JOHN BRANDON: Right on it.
Today's the day.
GREG BOUNDS: All right, let's dig a hole.
NARRATOR: Having reached their target area
and anchored the salvage boat--
GREG BOUNDS: Going in gear.
NARRATOR: --Captain Greg Bounds once again
employs the high-powered mailbox blowers to clear the silt
and sand from the ocean bottom below so the divers can
begin their search.
All right, Matty.
We're over big boy target here.
It's a little bit more mass to it.
All right. We like that.
Than what we got yesterday, so we should
uncover it on our first hole.
All right.
Let's get him in the water. What do you think--
- All right, let's do it. - --captain?
All right.
JOHN BRANDON: Find something.
All right.
So we're getting targets.
That's great.
All right, great.
See on the surface. Great.
Great. Over.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that.
Yep. JOHN BRANDON: --on the shells.
GREG BOUNDS: Looks like some reggae [inaudible]
or something.
Could this be a blunderbuss?
No.
They all looked like they--
Kind of in the shape of a blunderbuss.
JOHN BRANDON: --they all look like ship spikes.
OK.
[inaudible] spikes.
This is probably the head of the spike, the tail.
All of these.
But they all look like they could
very well be period material.
MATTY BLAKE: That's good.
That's good.
JOHN BRANDON: This is excellent.
This is a great find.
It looks like Captain Craig has put us on the trail.
MATTY BLAKE: All right.
Any ballast stones or anything else down there?
No, I didn't see no ballast or anything.
Didn't get any other real hits.
OK.
Well, we got a lot more in here to dig up.
Let's get to the next spot.
GREG BOUNDS: OK, let's move on over.
NARRATOR: In order to track the debris
field of the possible wreck, Captain Greg and his team
are now adjusting their anchor lines
in order to reposition the boat over the next nearby target
area.
- So you're just swinging it? - Yeah.
I thought you were going to get up there and drive it over.
You're just-- - No, no.
I see. Wow.
Usually, all we have to do is anchor one time for the day
and-- - Incredible.
--move the boat wherever we need to move it to.
That's a great system.
Divers are wet.
Is this normally how it kind of, goes?
You start following these breadcrumbs, this trail,
and then you hit gold?
It's putting all the clues together.
On the shipwreck, the Atocha, we followed a debris field
for 8 linear miles--
Wow.
--and yet it led to $500 million worth of treasure.
GREG BOUNDS: You got something big?
You need a rope?
All right, the ropes in the water.
Are they are they acquiring the target now?
GREG BOUNDS: I see it.
I see it.
MATTY BLAKE: Wow--
[inaudible].
--look at that.
Look at that bad boy.
MATTY BLAKE: What's that?
Incredible.
What are you thinking?
Well, it's kind of difficult to tell right now.
Probably the best guess is it's a ring
off of spar off one of the cross beams on the galleon.
NARRATOR: On early 18th century galleons,
spar-rings were fitted around the horizontal crossmembers
attached to masts.
They secured the rigging that controlled a ship's sails.
Bag it and tag it.
Oh, hold it.
Hold up.
There's more.
Oh, wow.
Look at that.
Man, oh, man.
Is it a little bit smaller than the other ones?
Definitely smaller than the--
GREG BOUNDS: Kind of like step, going down the spar as it
got it smaller and smaller.
MATTY BLAKE: OK.
Couple this with the three iron spikes that
were found a little bit earlier, you can't
get clues any better than that.
I mean, that's what you're out here looking for.
The only other clues you get that are better
is that you actually find the treasure in the hole.
MATTY BLAKE: I love it.