AquapulseBill
Newbie
Hi, I have been working with Bobby Pritchett on this project for the past two years. Initially I met him as the Aquascan agent, and was just giving advice on equipment questions about metal detectors and magnetometers. Beginning April of this year I have been working as a member of the ARS team.
I have worked with many of the treasure hunters over the years in my role as an Aquascan agent in the US, and I have also worked with quite a few of the different groups on projects throughout the world. I must say that working with Bobby on this project has been like a dream come true. He is serious about doing the whole job properly, not just finding treasure. He has spent a lot of time and money doing research and getting his lease. He wants to do things correctly and by the rules, and give the Dominican government the archaeological information from each site and employ appropriate techniques to minimize disturbing the ecology.
Of course this takes a lot of money and I think Bobby would be the first to admit that he is in it for the money and artifacts, but NOT JUST THE MONEY AND ARTIFACTS. He loves spending hours researching information about how the old ships were built and trying to identify things he has photographed on various sites. He sincerely wants to help the communities here in the Dominican Republic, and has plans for community cleanup projects, a T-shirt program to help enforce the fishing seasons, a museum, etc.
He has made this work his lifestyle and wants to be able to continue doing it for many years to come. To accomplish that goal, he MUST do the work correctly, keep the various government agencies happy, keep the communities happy, so they work with us instead of resenting our presence.
One GREAT thing about Bobby is his lack of greed. I have met so many people in this business that are driven by greed. Bobby is the opposite, he wants to succeed, but he wants to share his success with all that help him and all that make it possible.
So, although we really like all the great comments, we are definitely doing it for the money, BUT we are also definitely doing it for the archaeological information, to help put some great recoveries in local museums, to build a new museum, and to do some ongoing community projects to help the local communities.
We just finished an initial survey of part of our area and I am totally amazed at the number of discoveries we made.
I have worked with many of the treasure hunters over the years in my role as an Aquascan agent in the US, and I have also worked with quite a few of the different groups on projects throughout the world. I must say that working with Bobby on this project has been like a dream come true. He is serious about doing the whole job properly, not just finding treasure. He has spent a lot of time and money doing research and getting his lease. He wants to do things correctly and by the rules, and give the Dominican government the archaeological information from each site and employ appropriate techniques to minimize disturbing the ecology.
Of course this takes a lot of money and I think Bobby would be the first to admit that he is in it for the money and artifacts, but NOT JUST THE MONEY AND ARTIFACTS. He loves spending hours researching information about how the old ships were built and trying to identify things he has photographed on various sites. He sincerely wants to help the communities here in the Dominican Republic, and has plans for community cleanup projects, a T-shirt program to help enforce the fishing seasons, a museum, etc.
He has made this work his lifestyle and wants to be able to continue doing it for many years to come. To accomplish that goal, he MUST do the work correctly, keep the various government agencies happy, keep the communities happy, so they work with us instead of resenting our presence.
One GREAT thing about Bobby is his lack of greed. I have met so many people in this business that are driven by greed. Bobby is the opposite, he wants to succeed, but he wants to share his success with all that help him and all that make it possible.
So, although we really like all the great comments, we are definitely doing it for the money, BUT we are also definitely doing it for the archaeological information, to help put some great recoveries in local museums, to build a new museum, and to do some ongoing community projects to help the local communities.
We just finished an initial survey of part of our area and I am totally amazed at the number of discoveries we made.
- we are all enriched by what is recovered from the sea.
