If Treasure Hunting was Easy…

…everybody would be doing it. And the real star of the show is our big nasty engine. It turns out the nautical term: First Mate…actually means “Guy who gets to clean the bilge a lot.” Never knew gold and oil had such a strong relationship.

Here’s how much force we exert on our hooks when we dig:

They usually look like this:

And sometimes we yank the reef right up, so you might not want to keep your hand right there near the winch while we are blowing sand. Anybody got a big hammer?

If you love treasure hunting (and cleaning the bilge) as much as I do, then check out my armchair treasure hunt game on the Home page link above. I bet you can’t crack the code, and find my buried pirate treasure! Yes, really.