Would you go here to find lost treasures?

[pepperj]

I read this in the morning paper and I would take a pass on this type of treasure hunting because I don't need to find articles to simply survive the day to day living. Though I would if simple survival came down to it, but it takes it to a whole different level of searching for lost treasures (divining "Treasures"anything worth money). I'll post the general search engine link to the article and you can choose what news feed to read the interesting article.

scott smith associated press article on scavengers in the guaire river

It would be interesting to hear from the folks that do water detecting and if they would traverse these muddy/polluted waters to get the treasure fix.

 

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[Blak bart]

Are you kidding......south miami on a stagnant , hot, summer day is just as bad. Beaches close to swimming regularly. Flesh eating bacteria can attack along with brain eating amoeba that enter the ears mouth and nose. Dont forget sea lice, man-o-war, and moon jellys to name a few. When we get the tropical rains all the run off from the city flows out the drainage system and then gets trapped on the coast by east winds.nasal and sinus infections are common along with ear infections from contaminated water. Ive had everything float by including poop, and condems, to tampons and dead animals. You just never know. Dont even think about hunting in the mangrove swamps, everything is locked in that quagmire !! Dont tell me theres gold in that river or id be in in a heart beat.

 

[pepperj]

Are you kidding......south miami on a stagnant , hot, summer day is just as bad. Beaches close to swimming regularly. Flesh eating bacteria can attack along with brain eating amoeba that enter the ears mouth and nose. Dont forget sea lice, man-o-war, and moon jellys to name a few. When we get the tropical rains all the run off from the city flows out the drainage system and then gets trapped on the coast by east winds.nasal and sinus infections are common along with ear infections from contaminated water. Ive had everything float by including poop, and condems, to tampons and dead animals. You just never know. Dont even think about hunting in the mangrove swamps, everything is locked in that quagmire !! Dont tell me theres gold in that river or id be in in a heart beat.

Oh you're a dirty digger aren't you.

 

[Blak bart]

Sometimes you got to do what has to be done !! That is pretty nasty down there. I do know a guy that was bottle digging in the mangroves and got cut. He quickly succumbed to the flesh eating bacteria. It disfigured him for life. The water gets in the 90s and some strange things start to happen. Its like a polluted science project, after a while you can tell that its just not good and have to get out. They are very smart to protect there hands from cuts. Infections can blow up from the smallest cuts. The amount of pollution that flows out the miami river alone would disgust most people on the planet !! On the plus side the gulfstream can flush it out and its like paradise again !! You know its bad when you have to get out of the water to cool off !!

 

[civil_war22]

Are you kidding......south miami on a stagnant , hot, summer day is just as bad. Beaches close to swimming regularly. Flesh eating bacteria can attack along with brain eating amoeba that enter the ears mouth and nose. Dont forget sea lice, man-o-war, and moon jellys to name a few. When we get the tropical rains all the run off from the city flows out the drainage system and then gets trapped on the coast by east winds.nasal and sinus infections are common along with ear infections from contaminated water. Ive had everything float by including poop, and condems, to tampons and dead animals. You just never know. Dont even think about hunting in the mangrove swamps, everything is locked in that quagmire !! Dont tell me theres gold in that river or id be in in a heart beat.

I’ve hunted in the stagnant before and yes you’re right you can severely sick. I got a stomach virus and a ear infection. Luckily no brain eating amoeba. I’ve heard of it and had one case here in Arkansas. I’ll stick to the water that moves a little more

 

[Blak bart]

How about the gangis in India ? I dont know if I spelled that right ? Anyway millions swim bathe and have religious ceremonies there. Just about every man woman and child ware gold no matter how poor they are in india. Got to be a lot of treasure there, its pretty bad with pollution too.

 

[pepperj]

How about the gangis in India ? I dont know if I spelled that right ? Anyway millions swim bathe and have religious ceremonies there. Just about every man woman and child ware gold no matter how poor they are in india. Got to be a lot of treasure there, its pretty bad with pollution too.

We backpacked in India 25yrs ago and visited the Ghats in Varanasi on the Ganges River. Most interesting seeing how it all worked the bathing ghats, followed by the clothes washing ghats, followed by the cremation ghats. Women wear the wealth of the family, so its costume jewelry, then silver, then that's traded for the gold jewelry. I bought kilos of silver much of it was the traded in silver and being really old (hundreds) I was in heaven so to speak.

The cremation ghats were interesting as the size of the pyre built to cremate the body was based also on what the family could afford.The cremation ghats were owned by the same families for ever also they being very wealthy from recovering the melted silver/gold from the ghat cremations.

In the week or so staying there we witnessed partially burnt bodies floating past in the river from a city above Varanasi as it was common to just dump the remains that hadn't completely burnt into the river.
This photo was taken at the bathing/washing ghat, dried cow sh** made into fuel patties. The hand print was the makers mark like a finger/thumb print to ID the maker of the item for payment later.

 

[pepperj]

How about the gangis in India ? I dont know if I spelled that right ? Anyway millions swim bathe and have religious ceremonies there. Just about every man woman and child ware gold no matter how poor they are in india. Got to be a lot of treasure there, its pretty bad with pollution too.

How about 110 million at one festival.
Millions of Hindus plunge into Ganges River in India to wash away their sins - Telegraph

25yrs ago 14% of the population used inside toilets the rest on the ground everywhere that space provided. Not a good smell in 100 degree weather I can say.
In the article it said 20,000 toilets do the math.
10,000 to keep thing clean-These folks are of the population of "no Castes" where a person has no Caste in social standing, their life is cleaning up sh**/garbage from other people. The movie "Slum Dog Millionaire" was pretty funny and it got the message across also on the basic way life works there.

 

[Blak bart]

Well there you have it......just exactly what I was thinking of. Ill bet you didnt see any shallow water beach guys hitting it with excals !! Lol. Ive had dreams about metal detecting in india. Imagine bumping into a half burnt and rotting corpse while searching. Creepy thought !! There has to be a fortune in unrecovered wealth in the metropolitan areas of that river !! No reward with out risk though. Sounds like an incredible trip of a lifetime. I like the part about old silver.

 

[Blak bart]

One thing I did notice in those pics was not one person was wearing there gold in the water duting there ceremony. Cant help wonder what else but the peoples sin is getting washed down stream. The poor people at the mouth of the river are swimming in sin polluted waters. They must call there town hell !!

 

[Blak bart]

I get the feeling that not to many coils have ever been put to the soils of india. Got to be some great hunting.

 

[pepperj]

One thing I did notice in those pics was not one person was wearing there gold in the water duting there ceremony. Cant help wonder what else but the peoples sin is getting washed down stream. The poor people at the mouth of the river are swimming in sin polluted waters. They must call there town hell !!

In the Indian culture the women wear the gold, the men might have a small band, or chain with a god on a medallion. Nor do you see women openly going to relieve themselves in public. Never saw it two months and we joked that they must have amazing bladders.
The backpacking for 14 months in SE Asia was amazing, it also turned into a buying trip of silver and other things.
The jewelry brokers were amazing and couldn't get over the fact I wanted the scrap silver in the drawers, stuffed in hidden spots, instead of the new stuff in the showcases. I watched many families trading up the silver for the gold. I bought ankles weighing many oz. each.

 

[pepperj]

I get the feeling that not to many coils have ever been put to the soils of india. Got to be some great hunting.

There still to this day my drool lines around many of these countries. I could just imagine trying to detect in India, a person would have a circle of watchers instantly, by the hundreds.

 

[Tommybuckets]

You'd probably need some security. In Peru my head was on a swivel and thieves eyed me up and occasionally followed me but I managed to stay ahead of them. It didn't make for good detecting and I paid a security guy $5 bucks to escort me off the beach once when some guys had me hemmed in and my friends were at the casa. My friends were always armed and had their guns registered to their vehicles (weird but that's how they do it there) to make them less easy prey for the narcos and highway robbers.
When I finally got to some decent beach where wealthier people would go I was informed that two guys had pounded the area with excals for a week and a half right before my arrival. They didn't leave me any good targets. The poor people beaches are loaded with trash and junk jewelry since there are no trash cans and they just bury their foil, cans etc.
The last day I let my guard down for one minute while hanging in the park. I set a Gucci glasses case with my $1 dollar tree glasses in it beside me as I was playing music with the local urchins. When I turned to pick them up the case was gone and I had to laugh. Someone thought they were snatching some designer sunglasses and got my +2 junk glasses out from under me. It was a good lesson. Never let down your guard.
I would go back in a heartbeat and I think I could pull some serious Spanish silver. Its there I just didn't look in the right places.

 

[pepperj]

You'd probably need some security. In Peru my head was on a swivel and thieves eyed me up and occasionally followed me but I managed to stay ahead of them. It didn't make for good detecting and I paid a security guy $5 bucks to escort me off the beach once when some guys had me hemmed in and my friends were at the casa. My friends were always armed and had their guns registered to their vehicles (weird but that's how they do it there) to make them less easy prey for the narcos and highway robbers.
When I finally got to some decent beach where wealthier people would go I was informed that two guys had pounded the area with excals for a week and a half right before my arrival. They didn't leave me any good targets. The poor people beaches are loaded with trash and junk jewelry since there are no trash cans and they just bury their foil, cans etc.
The last day I let my guard down for one minute while hanging in the park. I set a Gucci glasses case with my $1 dollar tree glasses in it beside me as I was playing music with the local urchins. When I turned to pick them up the case was gone and I had to laugh. Someone thought they were snatching some designer sunglasses and got my +2 junk glasses out from under me. It was a good lesson. Never let down your guard.
I would go back in a heartbeat and I think I could pull some serious Spanish silver. Its there I just didn't look in the right places.

I think India there is a lot less a problem as you had in Peru, touching my wife was a bigger concern than being robbed for us. I imagine there would have to be the customary payments going to the local cop that would say that one was breaking some rule. Then again mailing a parcel wasn't going to happen without the bribe $$$.

 

[against the wind]

I already looked into some water hunting in the Allegheny River .
Of course, I always wear a wet suit and shampoo it when I get home. For many years, and even today, the homes along the waterway, dumped their human waste into the river.

 

[pepperj]

I already looked into some water hunting in the Allegheny River .
Of course, I always wear a wet suit and shampoo it when I get home. For many years, and even today, the homes along the waterway, dumped their human waste into the river.

I just don't get it, why are humans such pigs when it comes to getting rid of waste. I have a hard time believing that it still happens today as far as the dumping into the river. SLOWLY around here Eastern Ontario the restrictions on how close one can build to the water now it's 100-150 ft. There is restrictions on how close septic fields have to be away from the water, it can be as far as 1000ft on some waterways. Swimming in human/industry waste isn't good in any concentration.