Billion Dollar Wreck

First of all I must say that although the show is very weak it was still interesting. I have decades of experience wreck diving and I have to say that the methods being used to dive the wreck are not good. If they were serious they would use saturation dives and mechanical grabs to dismantle the wreck. They should be using re-breathers or other self contained equipment so that the divers may swim freely. An observation chamber to direct operations as used on the famous salvage of gold from the Niagra would be another option. The umbilical cables are very cumbersome and don't do the job efficiently.

The wreck itself is collapsed and and cannot be entered, say, as the Andrea Doria. I think that along with natural decay it was also depth charged during WWII. There is also no solid evidence that the gold exists.

I do wish them luck, however.