I finally watched the show and I was disappointed. The first thing about was this Marty guy who scammed investors out of millions for a wreck that many think doesn't hold any value. He destroys his marriage, attempts or succeeds in shooting his former friend along with harassing and bribing him. Then has the balls to scam people again with this show. Being a wreck hunter, I know the determination along with the money and skill to search for lost wrecks. I know 99% of them a worthless in monatery value but I have been bitten by the bug and will continue to hunt them. People like this guy gives us a bad name.
Secondly the diver getting "bent" is ridiculous. Any of us who has experience with a hard hat knows full well to switch to back gas with the valve on your right. He'll you can use the defogger blast to breath is necessary. When they supposedly sent the backup diver in, he was not geared up and how was he going to help the diver? I did not see another umbilical in his hand to switch out with the supposed blocked or unoperating umbilical. It also seemed funny that surface support was not going through a check list to find out what was wrong or to fast change banks. Then what the heck was the guy doing in a 280ft dive with no mixed gas experience at all? No salvage company I know would even consider doing that lest they get a massive lawsuit if something was to go wrong which apparently they did. This cannot be for real as many people who work in the industry who have seen the show are appalled at the way they are operating things. If the diver was in that bad of shape, I would assume that the boat rolling the cameras around the main salvage vessel would take him to the nearest land for medical treatment instead of him taking up the entire chamber for 70+ hours while another diver is "working" 300ft down an may need it for emergency.
Third, the wreck seems to be in worse shape than the depth charged and torpedoed Lusitania. The divers descend down to the wreck with nothing but a basket and a ROV. What work is going to be done on a wreck that is so badly collapsed that there is only 18 inches of space between decks and the supposed gold in near the bottom deck? I would be taking torches and explosives down to blow that thing wide open and them sending divers down to move debris out of the way or a clam bucket dredge to break through the decks like Odyssey.
Fourth and finally many know that this wreck has no billions in gold on it. Even the scam artist called it a rumor, so he decides to waste more money and time to hunt something that is not there. He failed in the 80's, wreck divers have probably dove the wreck numerous times after the discovery and pulled any loose artifacts off. I won't even start on the conspiracy part.
It's not that I do not appreciate a show that has something each one us does along with a quest for riches, but I find it insulting on how fake this show is just to get viewers to watch it. The History channel has sure went down the tubes in the last decade or so. Now what is absolutely awesome on that show is the wreck model. I want to build one!
Secondly the diver getting "bent" is ridiculous. Any of us who has experience with a hard hat knows full well to switch to back gas with the valve on your right. He'll you can use the defogger blast to breath is necessary. When they supposedly sent the backup diver in, he was not geared up and how was he going to help the diver? I did not see another umbilical in his hand to switch out with the supposed blocked or unoperating umbilical. It also seemed funny that surface support was not going through a check list to find out what was wrong or to fast change banks. Then what the heck was the guy doing in a 280ft dive with no mixed gas experience at all? No salvage company I know would even consider doing that lest they get a massive lawsuit if something was to go wrong which apparently they did. This cannot be for real as many people who work in the industry who have seen the show are appalled at the way they are operating things. If the diver was in that bad of shape, I would assume that the boat rolling the cameras around the main salvage vessel would take him to the nearest land for medical treatment instead of him taking up the entire chamber for 70+ hours while another diver is "working" 300ft down an may need it for emergency.
Third, the wreck seems to be in worse shape than the depth charged and torpedoed Lusitania. The divers descend down to the wreck with nothing but a basket and a ROV. What work is going to be done on a wreck that is so badly collapsed that there is only 18 inches of space between decks and the supposed gold in near the bottom deck? I would be taking torches and explosives down to blow that thing wide open and them sending divers down to move debris out of the way or a clam bucket dredge to break through the decks like Odyssey.
Fourth and finally many know that this wreck has no billions in gold on it. Even the scam artist called it a rumor, so he decides to waste more money and time to hunt something that is not there. He failed in the 80's, wreck divers have probably dove the wreck numerous times after the discovery and pulled any loose artifacts off. I won't even start on the conspiracy part.
It's not that I do not appreciate a show that has something each one us does along with a quest for riches, but I find it insulting on how fake this show is just to get viewers to watch it. The History channel has sure went down the tubes in the last decade or so. Now what is absolutely awesome on that show is the wreck model. I want to build one!
