just off the shores of poverty island
in lake michigan marty laguna along with
historian and treasure hunter bob kremke
are leading a sonar scanning operation
in search of some 400 million dollars in
civil war
gold believed to have been dumped in the
area back in 1864.
you just tell me when you will yeah yeah
getting close getting real close
having performed numerous scans and
receiving no promising data
they are now about to search an area
that bob krepke believes to be nearest
to where an eyewitness saw five chests
connected with a chain
dumped into the lake yeah this should be
good
this should be good we'll do that okay
okay go ahead throw it
okay this is the spot right here
my research suggested that they were
passing
poverty island and i believe that this
is where they would have scuttled the
stuff
and it made sense this is the big clue
those kids that lived in that lighthouse
said to me
bob we stood on the short and could hear
them
talking so they've got to be right out
in here
wow just slowly let it go
slowly let it in the water okay
here we go yep okay in the water
after successfully lowering the ms-1000
sonar device to the bottom of the lake
brian abbott will now begin scanning in
a 360 degree pattern
that's it yup on bottom if the treasure
is anywhere in the vicinity
the team could be on the verge of making
a historic find
it's a pretty barren bottom we're kind
of out of the rocks and stuff
what's your radius of investigation
right now uh the radius is 120 feet
and we're just trying to look for
something that's a line or a chain or
boxes in a row or anything
this is a really good target right here
see this that's
interesting to me
what is that it's square
we'll walk it in closer we'll get better
detail on it
that's i find that unique so that's
intriguing you brian
yeah it's got a nice acoustic shadow
behind it and a square
but that would definitely mark that as a
target
nature doesn't make things that are
square rectangular and round
nature has different angles and
perspectives on things
i'm going to drop it down in range so we
get better resolution
so we're able to go in there look for
targets on bottom
and see that it's out of characteristic
at the natural bottom so we're able to
look at things
and possibly identify those so that
thing is
three feet tall down there how big are
these boxes supposedly that we're
throwing over
they couldn't have been too big they
couldn't have lifted them yet
so we're going to mark it on here and
then then what well we'll come back here
with divers
and then if we find something really
interesting we're going to call the
state of michigan at what point do you
decide to send the divers down
to me diving is the last resort and i
don't mean that in a bad way
let's get all our data our position
points put the divers over position
put the scanning cylinder in the water
watch the divers go down and i can put
them right on the target
so i think we're intrigued enough to
keep after this so what what would we do
next ryan i mean how would you do this
how would i do it i would get a side
scan i would also think about maybe
doing multi-beam out here
you know you can get some of that better
detail with a multi-beam and so forth
but
you're looking at a lot more money a lot
more time has that ever been done out
here
ah not to my knowledge there we go so
we'll multi-beam it
yeah there you go well bob you know what
it's an intriguing story
we had a little uh poke and hope here
sure you're gonna mark this right
absolutely it is like looking for a
needle in a haystack
but we took a chance and you know what
we still know more than we knew before
i think that this poverty island
treasure if it is still there and nobody
has gotten to it yet
i believe we're going to find something
all right well he gets to keep it
secrets for right now i think we're done
for this mission all right
you know what does my brother always say
eyes and boots on the ground right i
mean
until you get a sense of it like we did
today you don't know what you're up
against you don't know whether it's
worth adding resources i mean
is there a chance there's a treasure out
there big enough to be worth the effort
sure sounds like it
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