Shipwreck Hunter Unearths Lost History and Treasures | Best Job Ever

when I tell people what I do there’s a
sort of complete silence till they
process what does that mean and how
could somebody actually have a job like
that get the metal detector I’m David
Mearns and I’m a ship wreck hunter
in terms of the significance of this
site is that it’s the earliest
pre-colonial ship ever discovered
everybody is diving nearly four times a
day so it’s well over a thousand hours
underwater
in my career I think the number is about
25 major shipwrecks that I have found
we’re just dying to get to work because
you know there’s going to be a new
discovery almost every day it’s just fun
you start bringing in experts who can
look at these finders start putting them
together archeology is not about
individual fine it’s about determining
what life was on board trading patterns
the people that they met
the biggest turn-on to this whole thing
is really bringing that history to life
breathing new air into stuff that is
just on the pages of papers and archives
and libraries we’re going into submarine
right now because it allows us to go
deeper to an area that’s never been
explored before Oh fantastic