Lost U-Boats of WWII

These guys are pretty clueless when it comes to salvage diving.

No retrieval/find bags on their dives? No system for floating finds for others to pick up? Instead - find a single item and rush to the surface and back to the boat. How many hours did they waste diving down their guide lines only to rush back with a single item? Total Amateur Hour.

Artificial deadline. These guys could be diving nearly year round outside hurricane season. So, of course, they don't start diving until just before hurricane season...

No sidescan sonar to zero in on targets? Total low budget operation.

Oh, and by all means, pull unknown, unexploded ordinance out from reef systems. That's a career limiting move. All it takes is one unstable shell and you get instant chum.

This is a mildly interesting story, and I can see the plausibility of their theories, however, there is a very real flaw in their approach that makes it less credible in my eyes. Repeatedly, they are finding and casually handling, what they believe to be munitions from WWII. In reality, this would be an incredibly DANGEROUS thing for them to do!

Any such unexploded ordinance, submerged for 70-plus years, would be highly unstable and unpredictable. It might be totally inert and safe to handle... it might explode in your hand with the slightest jar! You simply can't know, which is one of many reasons why diving the wreck sites of military ships is often controlled or discouraged.

That they repeatedly do so, without any comment on the potential hazard, leads me to wonder if they are simply uninformed, reckless, or well aware that what they are handling is not real?

I guess Darrell Miklos got tired of looking for "Cooper's Treasure," his previous show on the History Channel. He's moved on from lost Spanish treasure galleons seen from outer space, to "lost" Nazi U-boats, supposedly refitted to haul stolen European wealth to South America.

Seeing that his previous series was pretty much a bust, it makes one wonder what possessed the execs at History Channel to fund another of his pipe dreams?

A lot of this is the same sort of stuff you saw in "Cooper's Treasure." Guys riding around in a boat dragging a magnetometer. Guys scuba diving, sweeping the sea floor with handheld metal detectors. Guys not being able to do anything due to weather conditions.

Nothing new. Nothing interesting. Nothing to see here, that you haven't seen before.

This has to be the dumbest show on TV. These guys are totally not credible. As divers, they are terrible and have no respect for the environment. The so called experts on the show have very little credibility. It's a shame, because I love WW2 history and I'm a dive instructor. I don't think I've yelled at the TV this much ever. I keep hoping it will turn around, but alas, it doesn't appear that it will. I also metal detect and laughed at the archeologist who obviously had no clue how to operate one. I also watch the diver's on the Bermuda Triangle show. Those guys are legit and know how to dive and research what they find. Maybe The idiots on this show could take some lessons from them! Lol.

Does anyone actually believe this rubbish, totally scripted and fake. Just another version of the usual twaddle history channel pumps out but tbis time under the water, watch this space and mark my words they will find just enough planted artifacts to justify future seasons, whoever directed this series seriously needs sacked. Oh we found a plate with a swastika on it, oh we just happen to find a knife handle with a swastika on it amongst 1000 nails, and oh we found a towing eye that some expert says was used to tow a trailer possibly carrying loot, lol come on pull the other one its got bells on it.