99thpercentile
Full Member
- Nov 2, 2006
- 146
- 107
- Detector(s) used
- Geonics EM61-MK2, Geophex GEM-3, GapEOD UltraTEM III, Minelabs F3, Foerster MINEX 2FD 4.500
- Primary Interest:
- All Treasure Hunting
I get requests on a regular basis to come help someone look for a treasure at my expense with me bringing all of the equipment. I am promised some share of whatever is found.
I regularly turn these offers down because they would constitute a fairly large expense on my part, with a low probability of success. I also would have the opportunity cost of not being able to do real paying work when I would be volunteering my time.
After filming a reality TV show last year where we didn’t find anything because we weren’t really looking, I had an idea.
I would love to get people to submit ideas for a treasure to look for to me. I would sign some form of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with each submission. I would make a lost of all of the submissions that would be anonymized that could be shared with a lot of people. I would make a presentation on each potential target. Then there would be a voting period to rank the list.
We would then select the top ranked idea and do a 2-3 day survey on the site. The person who proposed the idea would be involved and 1-2 other people who voted could be selected to assist with the work. The work would be recorded to create a ~40 minute episode that could be posted on YouTube or something similar.
I would like to make it like Time Team was on the BBC. Each site visit was 2-3 days of field work. It was really entertaining to watch. Most of the reality TV shows about treasure hunting are stories that they try to drag on for seasons. I want each episode to stand alone and ideally find something.
My goals for this would be:
-Make an entertaining show that was also educational
-Demonstrate how to properly plan the project, perform the surveys, interpret the data
-Find something
Any feedback?
I regularly turn these offers down because they would constitute a fairly large expense on my part, with a low probability of success. I also would have the opportunity cost of not being able to do real paying work when I would be volunteering my time.
After filming a reality TV show last year where we didn’t find anything because we weren’t really looking, I had an idea.
I would love to get people to submit ideas for a treasure to look for to me. I would sign some form of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with each submission. I would make a lost of all of the submissions that would be anonymized that could be shared with a lot of people. I would make a presentation on each potential target. Then there would be a voting period to rank the list.
We would then select the top ranked idea and do a 2-3 day survey on the site. The person who proposed the idea would be involved and 1-2 other people who voted could be selected to assist with the work. The work would be recorded to create a ~40 minute episode that could be posted on YouTube or something similar.
I would like to make it like Time Team was on the BBC. Each site visit was 2-3 days of field work. It was really entertaining to watch. Most of the reality TV shows about treasure hunting are stories that they try to drag on for seasons. I want each episode to stand alone and ideally find something.
My goals for this would be:
-Make an entertaining show that was also educational
-Demonstrate how to properly plan the project, perform the surveys, interpret the data
-Find something
Any feedback?