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    Quote Originally Posted by Okeanos View Post
    I have a twin engined rib with magnetometer, a side scan is due shortly. I have 2 underwater metal detectors and also have a portable petrol engined hydrovane compressor running an airlift pump for excavating.

    I have some amazing friends who have access to all sorts of information regarding last known positions, naval records, U-Boat kills, Time newspaper databases etc.

    I also have some very experienced UK diver friends who will join me on any trip for fun.

    The hardest bit is lifting 64kg copper ingots from a wreck 90m down, solo, by hand.

    I bet in about 10 lifetimes you could pay off about a tenth of the cost of all of that equipment with your findings. I am glad that someone has the money to burn to do these things, but for the majority of divers even an underwater metal detector is going to be a big cost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by acelockco View Post
    I bet in about 10 lifetimes you could pay off about a tenth of the cost of all of that equipment with your findings. I am glad that someone has the money to burn to do these things, but for the majority of divers even an underwater metal detector is going to be a big cost.
    That comment isn't 100% accurate in several aspects.

    Equipment hasn't got to be expensive, the Hydrovane was an ex-railways machine, the airlift pump I made out of plumbing bits, the magnetometer and one of the metal detectors was from a dive club, the other detector was from ebay. Sidescan isn't going to be cheap and the boat is a charter boat that generates enough income to buy it and run it.

    If I exclude the boat cost, my rebreather cost more than the rest put together and I bought that 2nd hand!

    If the weather was good I could recover the total cost in about 3-5 weeks.

    p.s. I even built an ROV for under £200, only goes to 20m but it can save a lot of mucking about when hunting for things.
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