So basically if i make a crew the main key is TRUST and if i go solo i have to BE QUIET?
Hello Albel Almighty if it was only that easy.
To determine the need for a crew is dictated by the practical needs of the project at hand. The more people you have involved the more diverging opinion's and vested interests and potential problems you have to deal with.
While I have no doubt you as keen as mustard. Your questions betray your age and experience. Nothing wrong of course with that. As least your trying understand what it takes to walk in the world of treasure hunters. That in some respects is a good thing and highly admirable.
I am not technically a treasure hunter as I am archivist and historian, however I have worked with people who some people would claim or label them to be treasure hunters, although they always prefer to call themselves researchers. Their relationship between each other has been built up from many years of adventures all around the world. Even though they themselves of had their arguments between each other, they have a deep respect for each other. While they have their own lives they in respects only come together when they are up to mischief : When they have some viable project that meet all their exacting criteria on hand after years of preliminary research. They themselves have varied range of life skill sets they use. It is those varied skill sets they use to rely on each other. From that they have grown and learned off each other.
While the term "Treasure hunter" might seem exotic and romantic in ones perceptions. The truth of the matter in today's climate in political and academic circles, the word treasure hunter gives it is rather grubby image, of looter and plunder of history and environmental vandal of cultural heritage. So for one labeling oneself a treasure hunter is in some respects is counter productive if one intendeds to legally recover treasure through bureaucratic processes.
For many when one says they want to become a treasure hunter it is seem by many these days a little short of saying I want to be a thief, Under the current perceptions in many countries at present. Your Idea of becoming an archaeologist is noble one, as no doubt many here are in some respects have a little passion for the past at least. However for you to succeed in such a profession you will be alienated from the treasure hunting world if you follow the status quo set among the archaeological profession in which their opinion of treasure hunters in general currently influences policy making in governments.
Amy
