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The gold chain and coin could have been a plant. In the parlance of these kind of ‘treasure hunting’’ expeditions it's called ‘’salting’’. My whole point here is that , logically thinking a bunch of these 18th. century sea faring criminal types or even someone with half a brain weren't about to go digging enormously time consuming and deep digs just to hide a ‘’treasure’’. Certainly not in the case of pirates. They'd take the loot and quickly blow it on whores and booze. Considering that just in the last few years in Britain at least two British guys, out on their own little farm plots, unknown to each and in different parts of Britain just walking along with a simple hand held metal detector have come across a treasure drove of fabulously made gold amulets, bracelets, rare gems and other incredible stuff just inches below the surface and it appears, some of it to date back to the time of the first Viking invasions with, I think were some time in the 5th. or 6th. century(around 400 or 500 a.d.) I can't swear to the exact time line but the London museum verified the stuff as the real deal and these two guys ended up well off. What I'm getting at is the whole show is con game.

Agree!!

The History Channel any more is to history what the WWE is to the sport of wrestling.

South Park had a episode that was a good spoof of the History Channel!

It’s a shame, I love history.

I think some of the stuff would be pretty difficult to fake - the old timbers at depth, etc.

But yeah, planting a coin to be found on the last show of the season makes for a good story.

If you just view it as a fun story it helps. Heck, just the history of the hunt for what it is about is interesting going back to colonial times.

What was Mark Twain’s comment about gold mining?

A gold mine is nothing but a hole in a ground with a liar at the bottom and a sucker at the top? Or vice-versa??

And no doubt the brothers are making whatever money they have spent exploring back on the TV revenues.