Treasure Quest: Snake Island

As a brazillian, this is actually the first time i was bothered enough to write a review! First of all, the island is 30km away from the beaches of São Paulo and there are no pirates whatsoever in the área. We keep our crimes inland! The island is run by the navy and although inhabitable, there are plenty of biologists and scientists that work there, with navy's approval! I get u have to tune things up to make good tv, but that was a bit over the top!

A show which clearly jumps to the most (il)logical conclusion that ANYTHING found on the island MUST be related to hiding treasure (as opposed to the thousand of other more practical reasons), is made for the idiots who believe it. The saddest thing is that budding archaeological aficionados (like my 6 year olds) may believe that this is how science and theory works - fitting every finding to your conclusions.

As far as filming goes, it's godawfully slow, with implied cliffhangers before every commercial and way too much recapping, to hide the lack of content. All the stars are probably interesting in their own rite, but are cheapened by the inauthenticity of the program.

Utterly flawed, if not entertaining for that very reason.

Have a little self-respect Discovery Channel.

An absolutely terrible show. The Legend of Croc Gold was another horrid gold show and this is no better. Fake. Made up drama. Scripted parts. Too much recap and very little substance. "Experts" behaving like idiots and assuming that the audience is naive and gullible.

Don't waste your time. There are better gold shows (Gold Rush, Bering Sea Gold, White Water, etc. all are/have become pretty formulaic but they're still miles ahead of this drivel).

Way too much repition....after every commercial do we really need a update of what we just saw 5 minutes ago????

I just started watching this show from the beginning. I understand editing to make something more exciting but editing can also make something look real when it is not.

I think this series is at best a re-enactment of what happened and possibly is all made up. The "galleon" anchor is a 19th century one not 16th. We never see any artifacts in place (the Spanish coin cookies). The anthropologist, Meghan, doesn't seem to contribute anything but visual candy. She should have been able to look at the pottery shards they brought up and identify type/era and figure out the age of the wreck. Unglazed earthenware is terribly common and has been used for centuries.

There was no attempt to conserve the silver coins that were in coral matrix. The size of the anchor could be used to calculate the size of the vessel. The fact that there was a flimsy iron chain on the anchor reinforces the fact of its recent age. My guess is that a ship had to cut an anchor loose to either get away from the coast quickly or it had become wedged and couldn't be recovered.

I won't be watching the remaining episodes.