The Sunken 17th-Century Dutch Treasure Ships Found In The Great Barrier Reef | Absolute History
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Much of the west coast of Australia was discovered by accident when Dutch treasure galleons crashed into its fringing coral reefs and left chests of gold and silver on the coral floor.
Ben Cropp has discovered hundreds of shipwrecks, including the famous Pandora of Bounty fame but there are thousands more still hidden in a watery grave. For example, its believed the Japanese pirate Yamada Nagamasa buried his enormous loot on Magnetic Island. It is rumored to be worth $100 million, and has never been found. Ben finds a strange symbol carved in a prominent rock on Magnetic Island, opposite the only bay a ship could safely anchor in. Is this symbol the proverbial x marking the spot?
So what became of all the gold and silver that fate often cruelly snatched from its rightful owners? Some were recovered, some lost forever, but much still remains for the intrepid treasure hunter who is prepared to research the facts, sift through the legends, and give it a try.
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Todd, a few years ago I was detecting on the home farm where my daddy was born and I grew up. My dad had a single shot 22 rifle when he was a teenager. He would tell me stories of throwing up ink bottles and pennies and hitting them with the 22. My dad is still living and is 96. Three years ago I was detecting in the field behind the main house and dug up a penny. Not any kind of penny, but a 1940 wheat penny that had been bent by a 22-shot. When I took it to him and told the story of it, he was kind of silent, then said "I guess this was one of mine. "
Awesome find and sweet story. I own a home and the property it’s on that was built in 1923 or so. It was the first doctors home so it served as a place where patients must have come in addition to house calls. It’s rural Florida still:) the house is a treasure, the guest house (what I call it..could have been used for patients I have no clue) I put farm gates in where wood gates would originally have been- the place is surrounded by an amazing hand made river rock stacked fence or enclosure except for a front entrance and 2 side entrances..the rest is secured by trees and plants then the river..so just post digging became an adventure like the whole place is haha found glass bottles that were from early 1900’s to the 20’s and 30’s. Medicine bottles. I have some coins that I cherish like buffalo nickels and wheat pennies. Funny the coins I have gotten from getting change! I’ve got old silver dollars, other old coins that have defects so they are rare but I keep them. My husband has a 2 dollar bill collection:) if my health wasn’t in bad shape I’d so geek out with a metal detector. Your dad. As a darn good shot..we have a 22 from early 1900’s..I had my husband shoot it bc I didn’t know if it was safe ha. It shoots but not like the modern counterparts we have that we mount with scopes that could make it possible to hit a penny..with practice. That is talent! God Bless y’all!!
Detecting is awesome fun! Respect bros!
That’s cool
It looks like videos taken from some guys RUclips channel and just cut/stitched together.
We're at some wreck! We're at a university. Now we're in an unrelated island. Now to a different wreck.
What's going on?
What is going on is a description of the Great Barrier Reef over time and the artifacts collected. No rocket science here! Did you read the introduction of the video?
I always wonder why there aren't underwater metal detectors to use in these situations? Wouldn't it make it easier to find gold, silver , metal plates, etc.?
They do have underwater metal detectors available, for some reason these guys just decided not to bring one I guess. You can get a decent fully waterproof one for like $900. Seems kind of a waste of time not to take one!
Honestly there are probably a ton of restrictions and whatnot regarding using certain tools in situations like this and probably a ton of red tape to get the required permits for things like this. There is only certain things your allowed to do regarding shipwrecks and different laws in different parts of the world. ALOT of the time your not even allowed to brush off historic relics because of reefs and wildlife concerns...it's crazy
Its ok im tabled
I think one of the main challenges with salvaging shipwrecks might be the question of "salvage rights", you find something and there's BOUND to be some nation that's saying "that's a historical artifact that WE have the right to (because we say so), hand it over, for free of course", while someone else might try to say "it was found in OUR national waters, so we have the right to it".
Whenever you find something, beware of those who want to take it from you without working for it, i'm not saying "I found it, it's MINE", but I would not hand anything over to anyone who tries to ORDER me to, if they would have more of a "that's an artifact of national history importance to us, we're willing to compensate you for its return" attitude then I might be open for negotiations.
And I belive there are MANY historical items "lost" because of such rules and attitudes, fx. in some nations if you have a building project and finds historical artifacts, the goverment can force you to start an archeological digs site AT YOUR EXPENSE, there have been cases where they demolished houses and found things like pipes laid through ancient buildings and human remains because it would've been too expensive to report it, so they just kept their mouths shut and build over and through it.
It really is sad how men kill each other for treasure, money, love, etc. Finding those skeletons on that island is a sad reality of it. Some things in human nature never change.
@BergamoMen make my head hurt.
He had me interested until he consulted a psychic. Maybe it was Ancient Aliens 🤷🏼♀️.
To suggest that because the bullets came from a later era the wreck he's looking for cannot be there is a bit misleading. There are many locations where multiple wrecks have landed on top of each other and strewn over the same area. One might have to look through the strata and coral to find older ship wrecks.
Listen folks, if 18th century dutch ships ran aground on the great barrier reef, then the only treasure they were likely to contain, would have been peppercorns and other sundry spices. Lol.
Not true. They also acted as a way to deliver payment to both trading partners, company personal, and military personal in whatever colonies they were operating in around the world..
No, they controlled a lot of the spice trade to be able to trade in anything. But if they ended up on the barrier reef they were probably exploring looking for new trades or were lost.
Every ship that left any port anywhere had several lists for everything they carried by name, by each, by weight and by worth that they carried. That is precisely why everyone is searching for the famed Madigascar.
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Of course you are quite correct. Please forgive my tongue-in-cheek peppercorn remark. The Dutch East India Company were fastidious in their record keeping.
You do realise they're not diving the Great Barrier Reef? They're on the top of Australia between Qld and WA. Well those are the reefs I know that they went to.
Willem van Oranje started the 80-years war, the 30 years war was for the French and Germans mainly about who's religion was the best, the protestants or the catholics. The 80-years war started because the Dutch wanted relgious tolerance and their king, Philip II of Spain wanted to torture and burn all protestants. So after over a decade into the rebellion the Dutch declared the king a tyrant who denied them their inalienable rights instead of serving the people like he had to, and therefore independence. The revolt became a war between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Empire for independence.
The 80-years war ended together with the 30-years war at the peace of Westphalia, but that was kind of a formality for the Dutch Republic because they where well established as an independent nation by then, they had become the supreme economic power, ended the supremacy of the Spanish Empire and had been fighting the Spanish and Portuguese mostly overseas.
There was a Chinese ship that go stuck in the Great Barrier Reef. It was abandoned.
Sounds like there was Sum Ting Wong.
@@bitcoinkang nice!
Insurance must have been very expensive in the 17th century I just paid £2,000 to ensure RS Twingo what a rip-off😊
Ummm 🤔….. can’t see the treasure?? Y not a metal detector?
RIGHT?!!
Damned treasure hunters ruining perfectly good archaeological sites is what these people are. They didn't document anything properly if at all and took things!
You don't know they didn't
And moved lots of things from their original context. 😒
I read recently a team of American treasure hunters found a French ship loaded with treasures. The French fought to take the treasures for 7 yrs and eventually won the treasure from the American hunters. My only thought was don't the French have in their possession many treasures that they stold and refuse to give back?
Completely absurd that the things that are found must stay down there so that they can rot to nothingness and be lost to time.
Australian government and nanny state at its best.
Finders keepers. No way I d put it back . 😂
Divers helmet...old ?, the copper underneath didn't look too tarnished after all that time. Also never mentioned again or shown.... thats abit odd.
Divers helmet! F****** awesome find! So envious!
Great finds. I love the pipe you found at the end. Cool.
@42:12 He went to a psychic to determine what these supposed symbols mean???
He said he helped recover them, and he also hid some.
Underwater metal detectors alert strongly on gold. I think it would have helped to find some under the sand and coral even many inches down.
Why doesnt that bottle have coral growing on it??
39:47 A Japanese Pirate says ARRR more than any other Pirate
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Great video that guys a mad man I would never drink that stuff made me shudder
Sorry, folks. I stopped watching when he damn near stubbed his toe on a 130 yr old deep sea diver's helmet.
Is it RUM ??
How Many Ships Have Sank?
To spend your life hunting sunken treasure....😊
The spice trade was nothing compared to the opium trade.
cool stories --
Why must things over 75 years old be put back to rot? I don’t understand?
Good
Ya know,they make these things called metal detectors.
That's your opinion on the aboriginal paintings. I bet there's a better more truthful one too
I would keep everything that I found! Finders keepers! The greedy government bureaucrats can kiss my behind!!!😊
Selfish.
They always try to get their mitts on anything of value.
Same
Indiana Jones trembles with rage reading this. "It belongs in a--!"
Dutch ships were wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef were they? Did you listen to the narration ?
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This is badly labelled. There was no gold or silver treasure in Australia in the 17th Century.
The east coast of Australia and the Great Barrier reef were not mapped until Capt Cook surveyed in 1770.
Dutch traders are believed to have landed on the West / Northern coast in the 1600' (17th Century).
The Aboriginals had never developed gold smelting.
Gold was discovered by the whites around 1850 in Victoria, starting a gold rush that made its way up the eastern Great Divide ranges and founded the port of Cooktown in 1873, followed by Port Douglas and Cairns as gold became important and ports were needed. Ships of ths time were mostly coastal steamers.
17 Century Dutch Teasure Treasure Ships on the Great Barrier Reef... NONSENSE
How lucky to find all that treasure 🙄
..what treasure would the Dutch have found in Australia?..
It was a transportation route. Nobody said the Dutch mined the gold in Australia. The Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) was where the gold came from.
Interesting
I’m divorced after 25yrs
Boxed professionals @39yrs old
When can I dive with you
I can swim
Take a number mate 😂
Are you okay
@@cutefairy297 I’m probably better then u ever be Ran a 7 minute mile last week.
@@johnnyh5969 So mean, thanks.
Every thing should have been reseached before disturbing it from it's natural place. Every ship has a History to be Chronicled for History's sack.
Indeed, although these wrecks are probably too disturbed for serious archeology already.
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Please how and why to use a question mark, ffs!
Am I the only one who felt like that lady was yanking that shark out from it’s hiding place? 😂 Looked like it was being handled so rough the poor thing
Over all impression about the "lady", not the brightest candle on the cake.
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I'm sorry you lost me at psychic .
Sick of the woke revisionist language in history hit videos.