Seafarer Exploration has been searching for sunken treasure off Florida’s coast for years.
Now they’ve developed a technological breakthrough that changes everything.
And a treasure hunting company just unveiled one game-changing device that could revolutionize underwater archaeology.
Seafarer Exploration introduces handheld underwater metal detector that can identify historic artifacts
Finding historic shipwrecks and their valuable cargo has always been a needle-in-a-haystack challenge, especially in deep waters with strong currents and poor visibility.
Divers typically have to excavate everything that might be metal, which is inefficient and can damage historically significant sites.
But Tampa, Florida-based Seafarer Exploration (OTCQB: SFRX) has just announced the full deployment of their Sand Shark™ handheld metal discriminator after successful field testing.
The Sand Shark™ is a technological breakthrough that allows divers to identify valuable historic metals from modern trash without excavation, saving time and preserving archaeological sites.
“The Sand Shark™ represents a meaningful advancement not just in our operational capabilities, but in the way underwater rescue archaeology technology can integrate seamlessly with the human element,” Kyle Kennedy, CEO of Seafarer Exploration, said. “By reducing the burden on divers and increasing precision, we are able to move closer to our goal of setting a new industry standard for responsible, efficient, IP-driven underwater rescue archaeology.”
New technology means divers no longer need to dig up every piece of metal
The Sand Shark™ is essentially a handheld version of the company’s larger SeaSearcher system, designed specifically for the challenging conditions at Juno Beach, Florida.
At depths exceeding 90 feet with regular strong currents, divers need equipment that can provide immediate information about what’s buried beneath the sand.
The device features a real-time display that uses advanced signal processing methods and algorithms built into custom hardware.
This allows divers to make informed decisions about what to excavate while underwater, rather than bringing up every metal object they detect.
John Cavanaugh, Principal Scientist for the Sand Shark™ project, explained how the device was developed through collaboration between different specialists.
“The Sand Shark™ is the result of a multi-disciplinary team effort involving Engineers, Archaeologists, and divers to develop a solution which combines leading-edge applied physics and algorithms with historic archaeology,” Cavanaugh stated. “Having access to actual historical artifacts during the development process has allowed the Sand Shark™ to focus on the unique characteristics of historic shipwrecks with the goal of minimizing excavation of modern objects.”
Technology that could transform underwater treasure hunting
Seafarer Exploration has been pioneering what they call “underwater rescue archaeology,” which focuses on recovering historically significant artifacts from shipwrecks before they’re destroyed by natural elements or looted by unauthorized salvagers.
Seafarer’s been quietly building up a treasure trove of their own underwater tech patents.
The Sand Shark™ is just their latest gadget to help divers work smarter, not harder, when hunting for buried treasure.
Let’s face it – the old way of hunting for shipwrecks basically meant digging up tons of seafloor muck, hoping to find something valuable.
It’s messy, slow, and often wrecks the very treasures they’re trying to find.
With this new handheld gizmo, divers can basically “see” what’s worth digging up before they move a single grain of sand.
They first tried out the Sand Shark™ in the easier-to-work shallow waters off Melbourne Beach before beefing it up for the rough-and-tumble conditions at Juno Beach.
That’s smart business – build something that works in the kiddie pool before jumping into the deep end.
The company’s been pretty tight-lipped about exactly which sunken ships they’re hunting right now.
But Florida’s waters are basically a treasure hunter’s dream.
The Spanish hauled gold and silver up from their colonies for centuries, and plenty of their ships ended up at the bottom of the sea during hurricane season.
We’re talking about genuine Spanish doubloons, gold bars, and silver pieces of eight – the stuff of pirate legends.
No wonder companies like Seafarer are investing in cutting-edge tech to find these underwater gold mines.
If gadgets like the Sand Shark™ keep getting better, we might be on the verge of a new golden age of shipwreck discoveries.
Imagine what’s still sitting on the ocean floor just waiting to be found after all these centuries.
