One ambitious Californian by the name of Bill Warren, who has spent decades hunting, but never really finding, treasure at the bottom of the sea, has declared that now Osama Bin Laden's body, not gold, is his everything. Warren has been looking for the body of Bin Laden for about a year, and
The late, great Kip Wagner found a fortune in about ten feet of water, a hundred yards or so from shore.
I'm told that after a hurricane, those coin beaches look like Coney Island on the Fourth of July. Far more Spanish silver (and a little gold) was lost than has ever been found.
When I worked in St. Thomas, we would spend our lunch hours crusing the reef off Honeymood Beach on a Sunfish, looking for a nylon jacket with a brand new Rolex and a couple of hundred in cash in the pockets. A hotel guest had lost it while sailing.
When the oil producing nations in the rest of the world wanted for formalize their monopoly, they looked around for a business model.
OPEC is structured along the lines of the Texas Railroad Commission. It regulates oil in Texas because the product moves through pipelines, just like a railroad runs on tracks.
I know you may find this a wee bit hard to believe, but I'm not making it up.
In this world there are a whole lot more treasure hunters than there are treasure finders. Real treasure finders don't put there names in the papers - and they never compare themselves to Indiana Jones.
The failure rate increases dramatically when they start looking in salt water. And, those expeditions have a burn rate in the tens of thousands of dollars per day.
Lots of people find watches, jewelry (often rings), etc. at the beach and at playgrounds. It's so popular here, the local park maintenance guys scatter steel washers under the swings to discourage folks with metal detectors.
A $30 machine isn't going to find much, if anything. But for a couple of hundred bucks you can get an excellent coin finder - and it really doesn't take too long to earn that back with what you find.
Most people who find class rings do their best to return them to the (former) owners.
It's good exercise, as you point out. Learn the rules and where you can and can't hunt. And you do have to be careful and look out for yourself - but that's true of just about everything in life.
The late, great Kip Wagner found a fortune in about ten feet of water, a hundred yards or so from shore.
I'm told that after a hurricane, those coin beaches look like Coney Island on the Fourth of July. Far more Spanish silver (and a little gold) was lost than has ever been found.
fuck you talkin about. the MURICAN ocean is the big one.
So, over 35 years of doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Sounds completely sane.
That's a moray! And that's a sea star! And over there, that's a sea urchin...
Not to be picking a nit here, but isn't "douchey investment banker" redundant? And repetitious?
When I worked in St. Thomas, we would spend our lunch hours crusing the reef off Honeymood Beach on a Sunfish, looking for a nylon jacket with a brand new Rolex and a couple of hundred in cash in the pockets. A hotel guest had lost it while sailing.
We never did find it - kinda like Mr. Warren.
Don't drown, fool.
When the oil producing nations in the rest of the world wanted for formalize their monopoly, they looked around for a business model.
OPEC is structured along the lines of the Texas Railroad Commission. It regulates oil in Texas because the product moves through pipelines, just like a railroad runs on tracks.
I know you may find this a wee bit hard to believe, but I'm not making it up.
Really.
Memo to Liz:
In this world there are a whole lot more treasure hunters than there are treasure finders. Real treasure finders don't put there names in the papers - and they never compare themselves to Indiana Jones.
The failure rate increases dramatically when they start looking in salt water. And, those expeditions have a burn rate in the tens of thousands of dollars per day.
Lots of people find watches, jewelry (often rings), etc. at the beach and at playgrounds. It's so popular here, the local park maintenance guys scatter steel washers under the swings to discourage folks with metal detectors.
A $30 machine isn't going to find much, if anything. But for a couple of hundred bucks you can get an excellent coin finder - and it really doesn't take too long to earn that back with what you find.
Most people who find class rings do their best to return them to the (former) owners.
It's good exercise, as you point out. Learn the rules and where you can and can't hunt. And you do have to be careful and look out for yourself - but that's true of just about everything in life.
Vodka.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Shallow End of Gene Pool
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