Florida family of explorers discovers treasure from 1715 shipwreck
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2015
- A family found $1 million dollars in gold and other artifacts off the Florida coast from a fleet of ships that sank 300 years ago. Vladimir Duthiers spoke to the Schmitt family to find out what it takes to excavate underwater.
Lesson here: do NOT speak a word, simply sell your find one coin at a time discreetly
And definitely no posting vids online
that's super illegal
@@nwesterbeckmaster does this look like the face of concern?
Nick why do people who dont find the stuff get a part of it?
@@NonstopGam3r2250 because the gov't wants THEIR cut, kinda like the MAFIA
When the pirate was asked, "Why do you keep a steering wheel in your pants?' He replied. "Aargh, it's drivin' me nuts!" lol
I'm happy for them.
I live in Southwest Florida myself.
Its pretty much every Floridians dream
You implanted here.
State of Florida should pay 20% of their expenses too
I would of just went to pawn it I wouldn’t told them😂
The news reporters look so pissed off LOL
they’re liberals,that comes natural
I have an assortment of items from the same wreck: an 8 reale, half reale, musket ball, a copper spike, and a few cannonball shards, but I hope to one day get a hold of an escudo from the wreck
I’m a Spaniard fascinated by dreaming bout these treasures of my ansestors
Me too
Treasure that you stole from somewhere! how can you even be proud to say something like this 😂
@@NoNameBoys92EXACTLY!!
Holy crap thats the coin we have, but pewter
whatever happened to finders keepers.........
That’s why he showed them so little 💡 they found more than that
@@daymaker2288 how would you know?
@@moneyblue8466 if you knew how greedy the government is you’d do the same.
law says you can keep what is above the tide line and below the protected dunes,( on the beach)
Awesome find !!!
Ok so don't tell them how much you actually found. Easy fix...
Little late reply but I feel like there was probably a lot more and they didn’t tell
@@LukeTee little late reply but I agree
what a great find,
The IRS will be along very soon to take THEIR cut.
'Land of the Free my hiney
how is the public area owned by anyone??...the people share it
"AARRRR", matey, shiver me timbers, pirates.
Family: Guess what I found!?
Government: what ever it is, you technically don’t own it 😈
Great video
Going to buy a diving gear right now!! say hello to the new treausre hunter.
you have to pay the finders of the wrecks money first to search that area, otherwise you could be arrested and your gear and boat seized. But if you find an undiscovered wreck some where else, that would be good too, you have to know which sites are claimed and which are not.
The biggest problem, as I see it, is getting under TEN FEET of sand!! These heavy coins aren't floating on top of the sand, they've been SINKING for centuries!!! So even IF you have a boat and equipment and the blessing of one of the greediest states in the union, you STILL need to get ten feet down to even look!
We all should own the rights to own.
Best of luck brother
Amazing! :-)
1715 Queen's Jewels.
I'd bet there are a LOT of metal detectors on the beaches around Panama Beach right about now
Congratulations! You found golf artifacts, sell them to Mel Fischer's museum or any museum for the public to see.
Lol that illustration of the prop wash deflector was hilarious , like it has 100 ft of pipe hanging off the back down to the seabed , what the guy dropped off the back of the boat is it the wash does the rest
Why would the state get anything you found from 300 years ago in the sea? Wouldn't give them one red penny!
"company that owns the rights to the wreckage" lmao. Easy way for future discoveries to go unreported.
That would so cool bro
I couldn't afford the diesel to even take the boat out.
Wow.
where he fucked up is by telling everyone about his discovery. he ain't too smart.
It belongs to Spain. There is a code regulation and by law whatever is found from a sank boat belongs to the owner of the boat not the country or anyone else.
Yes, but the empire where the sun does not set, the Spanish empire no longer exists, nor does the British empire exist either.
we know the woman who found the treasure that's my brothers teachers awesome
My families old gold
The coin looks like a dutch guilder on the side of the shield stamp
2:14 wow.
How much do the finder's get paid for finding it gold etc....
DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW WHY THE WORD; GANGPLANK would be etched into a Peru Philip V 2 escudos coin? With the numbers 88 underneath, This appears to be machine engraved possibly, right across the cross on the coin. Thank you in advance!
All that to take home 30%
Man they should have just kept there mouth shut.
ppl need to stop talking and hide what they find..
I say what they don't know won't hurt them... Don't tell anyone...
People, if it were not for the treasure salvors, the state museums and others would never have the opportunity to see these treasures. The expense that goes into this type of work is beyond words. Spain under its Warship legal argument should have claim to the treasure, but it would not be fair to the salvors after all the hard work and expense. Spain, or the State of Florida can put their money into discovery, but they don't.
I don't get why you broadcast like this to the world. Find it, keep it, shut your mouth.
this is my 4th grade teacher😂😂
Forreals?
How do you own rights to a shipwreck??
They don't this is fake..
Need to buy the permits and only one family owns them all and its not this one.. Fake news..
So your correct in the fact that we don’t (my family) own the rights to the 1715 fleet. Howeverrr 😁 my family does have the proper certification and licensing from the company and the state of Florida who does “own” the rights to dive and recover artifacts from this historical site. And yes we aren’t “that” family (which is the Fishers family to be exact) but we work for them and absolutely have the right. So no fake news here 😊
@@hillaryschmitt2946 it's absurd that you're not given full rights and ownership to what you found.
It's called a rights to a shipwreck
A French Royal Coin. The Royal Arms of France.
I wanna find a think gold necklace to where for the rest of my life
Dutch gold from VOC ship
How can someone own the rights to a shipwreck that happened 300 years ago?? Crazy me, big money of course like everything else.
Treasures have curses for fringe benefits.
That my teacher Whit the shorts on
Gangster sharks be shootin underwater
lol
First rule. Don't say anything until you have to.
Could of been one of the ships my forefather sank.
Aye, ye be of a pirate strain I see😁
It would be great if the greedy bastards of the state didn't take FIFTY percent of all findings when You already have the owners of the wreckage taking profit. Vice versa
They should have not spoken a word, melted each gold coin to hide the markings, and sold 1 coin at a time.
the value is not only the gold, but the history of the coins, so, a coin is worth more than a piece of gold (same weight)
You don't melt down antique coins and ruin the numismatic collectable value unless you were born without a brain.
Only 10 ships sank in what was call the plate fleet. the entire fleet and it was originally discovered by Kip Wagner, and that was close to Sebastian Inlet. this has to be from a different time and not part of the one's that sank in 1715.
Ron Bowman same fleet I’m afraid to tell you. As you said there was 10 (actually 11) ships and you’re correct that there is several by the Sebastian Inlet. However one of those 10 wrecked just a few miles south of the St Lucie Inlet which is where we found this haul from 😊
met kip in a whole foods in pompano beach spotted the eight on his neck he found the jupiter wreck original finders were the real eight who sold their rights to queens jewels kip found spanish silver from a wreck in jupiter from 1659
Or just say you didn't find anything and sell it privately and keep 100% of the sale.
Don't tell nobody just sell it
I FOUND ( 31 PEARLS, 1 GOLD NECKLACE, 1 GOLD BRACELET, 1 GOLD RING , 4 OTHER RINGS , 1 GOLD COIN , A COIN FROM THE YEAR 1752 ) THATS IT ....
HOW MUCH WOULD THAT BE ???
a lot
turn you caps off btw
miss smitth is my techer
Forreals
I ain't opening my mouth if I find a treasure like that. If I have to I'm melting the coins even if I just sell it for the value of the gold.
I would keep the gold and tell no body!!! I'd melt it down and sell it for the price of gold. Of course, if I'd make more $$ by reporting it then I would report it.
Poor guy was so stupid he told the government about it
So if the govts dont seek discovery they dont reap discovery. One oiece at a time to private collectors.
Of course the state keeps 20% -___-
The ending ruined it for me.....
So 400k then probably 100k in taxes...300k among at least 3 people with overhead....nobodies gettin rich
Spanish war fleet from France trying to get to America, were ambushed on arrival, world war 1. Maybe
I found a lot of things and it’s my secret I found it first it’s mine now
Not any more
Uh so uuh yeah uuh i am from 1715 and I just happened to drop those in the water while swimming so uuuhhh
I would have kept it and said nothing.
Chris Rivas from San Antonio Texas I will be coming to Florida this summer Herman's Bay Beach
Just purchase brand new Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II will be staying at my hotel right on the beach about 7 or 8 days I have some very strange look in my life you probably won't believe me but I'm telling you the God's honest truth about 9 years ago I found an alien life-form Rock it was 3.6 million years old this rock came to life and show me his images pretty scary stuff I'm telling you the God's honest truth so when I get to Florida I know I will probably strike gold can find things that most people can't so I will find some golden doubloons or golden coins I have pinpoint accuracy me and my Garrett Sea Hunter Mark II will find it from the 1715 Fleet
Did you find your gold coins?
Unfortunately he found them but was robbed then shot and killed.
Did you almost drown 2 different times
Who and where are you I’m on my way to help
I thought there were rules on using metal detectors offshore?
es para España!!!!!
Ok in
50% for the finder, 50% for Spain 🇪🇸 it’s the law
Lmao what, that's gold from the America's. Spain stole all that from, if anything it'd be property of Latin American counties but we know the modern world doesn't work that way and the US will not allow that.
@@deanpedroza9243 oh ok so give back Hawai and California and more and more and more unlimited list
i came here to see the gold, but WTF is that headline about trump . . lol
After state of florida gets 20 percent and then half to the people who own the rights then I R S wants it share too your lucky to keep 5 percent.😣
The government suc
Owning rights to wreckage lmao that sounds made up lol
The fishers own all the wrecks right to salvage.
Americans doing business with treasures and historical heritage of Spain. this should be returned to Spain or being in a historical museum in Florida.
+Josep M. Lol the Spanish are part of US history dumb-a**
+Josep M. return gold to spain????? like spain did not take it from inkas
Josep- The artifacts recovered from Spanish shipwrecks in Florida are part of Florida’s history, too.
Why? Spain stole it in the first place and abandoned it when the ships sank.
Yea Right.
This is all fake .........
Whatever you do, don't give it to the Spanish!
It belongs to Spain dude
Nothing like the greedy rich getting richer. Sickening
Vote trump !!!!
Nice socialistic thing going.......let someone else work for it and I get my cut for doing nothing. Might as well just say you have to split it with everyone in the us. So heres your .0005 of a cent for all your hard time consuming work. Then you'll probably have to pay taxes on the .0005 of a cent. If I ever find anything of value its going to be shultz all over again.....I hear nothing, I see nothing, I say Nothing............
Just smelt all your finds into gold nuggets and say you found them on public land!!!🤔😉..DUMMIES