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This is it, guys.
Treasure central.
Wow.
I can tell you are getting excited, Gary.
I can feel it.
This is cool.
Is this where that initial 1715
salvage attempt took place?
Yeah, this is the area where the "Capitana" bit the dust
on that night, July 31, 1715.
And so we could find anything on this beach,
from way past the condos down there to the second flagpole
to the south.
There's a big, long area where you really could find anything,
any day on the Treasure Coast.
I'm going to show you how to do what I
refer to as painting the sand.
And when I detect, I sweep twice.
Oh, I see.
And then I step.
I never walk.
OK.
Now, anybody else comes down here with a metal detector,
most guys are walking right over treasure.
We're not going to do that.
The hardest thing is knowing where to search.
And then you've just got to take your time
and winkle a good find-out.
So remember, guys, paint the sand.
Got it.
All right, show us where to start.
We want to dig.
Let's do it.
Let's go.
OK, guys.
This is a great area to start, because we've got a shell line,
and we've got hard pack sand on the lower beach.
So this is a good sign.
But the best sign I'm seeing now is this.
It's hard pack?
Hard pack sand.
This hard pack sand traps targets
and holds them in place.
So I think we should split up, two teams.
One go for the shell line, which is going to be shallow surface
finds, one or two inches.
And another team, do the hard pack.
Let's go. Come on, Matty.
Let's find something.
All right, partner.
You want to do the lower, or the higher beach?
- We'll do the low. - All right.
All right, Matty.
Find it, baby.
Whoo, here we go.
One.
It's like the ultimate scratch-off lotto ticket,
when you think about it.
Yes.
We are in, like, treasure hunting mecca,
you know, maybe besides Oak Island.
This is where to be.
[beeping]
That's the signal.
That's not bad.
Yeah.
[electronic signal]
OK, mate.
We're in business.
Come on, lucky digger.
Where do you want it?
Anywhere you like, mate.
See how easy it is, digging with the sand scoop?
You like that scoop, don't you?
It's all right.
It's all right?
All right, mate.
Let me recheck it.
Yep, you got it out.
Do you want to do the honors?
No, no.
You found it.
I see it.
There it is.
It's a little piece of aluminum.
A lot of this aluminum that you find along the Treasure Coast,
it was from the "Challenger" disaster.
Wow.
A heck of a lot of it.
You find these little molten pieces of aluminum.
Yeah, a lot of people take it into the museums and say, oh,
is this treasure?
Say no.
More than likely, it's stuff left over
from the space "Challenger."
ANNOUNCER: At 11:38 AM on January 28, 1986,
the Space Shuttle "Challenger" launched
from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2.
And liftoff.
ANNOUNCER: For its planned 10th mission into space.
Just 73 seconds later, one of the craft's rocket boosters
exploded, causing it to break and disintegrate
over the Atlantic Ocean and, tragically,
taking the lives of all seven crew members on board.
Velocity 2,900 feet per second.
When the Space Shuttle "Challenger" broke apart,
it scattered millions of pieces of molten aluminum
up and down the Treasure Coast of Florida.
And we're still recovering it to this day.
[somber music]
We've got a little piece of aluminum,
a tiny little shredded-- look.
That's from the Space Shuttle "Challenger."
Wow.
The thought that perhaps there were
some remnants of the Space Shuttle that had fallen,
that would be incredible.
Maybe we were literally holding a piece of history,
not treasure as described in a treasure trove license,
but real, historical item.
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