I have to agree with some of what b3y0nd3r and a few other posts are suggesting. With all Metal Detectors, there is a learning curve and you would need to be proficient at using the MD before you ever contemplate looking for the bars. For example, you might do a thorough search of the area and not find anything. little did you know that a setting had accidentally changed on your MD which you don't notice because of your lack of experience. You arrive at the conclusion that someone had already found the bars or the story wasn't real. Two years later a some teenagers are on a raft and one drops his glasses, dives down to pick them up and he pulls out a bar of solid gold. It's all over the news, lucky for you there are two bars, right?
It doesn't matter who the expert is, yourself or someone else, if the story is fake then you are wasting your time. Research, research, research or have a good swim.
Another thing you need to be aware of is that if someone is doing the search for you there is no guarantee that the individual won't get a hit and fail to divulge that information to you. Greed is a nasty thing. You need to be able to trust the person that does the search for you or do it yourself. I know of a guy that went TH with two other guys on a very large private estate at night and he got a hit on his MD the width and length of a bus he had his headphones on and kept on going never telling his partners. They kept on searching and sometime later that night they woke the people up and were fired at with machine guns. They never went back and he died in his fifties never telling anyone except his wife about the actual find and all she told me was that the location was somewhere in Mexico. So, good luck and I hope you find it. I am not saying or implying that anyone is not honest. I am just saying that you need to be able to trust the individual(s) that you decide to work with. For instance, I have a brother I would not work with and he is family.
