The Treasure Experience

About the experience

The Adventure of a Lifetime

The treasure is not what is found, but rather the discovery, adventure and thrill of the hunt.

How it works

You are not reading the report a year later

Membership is built around the timeline of an actual expedition. Here is what you see, and when you see it.

01

Before the expedition

Project planning detail: the historical research, the archival case for the site, the survey plan and the recovery approach. You see how a target becomes an expedition.

02

While we are on site

Real-time updates by satellite communications and internet from the vessel, plus documentation and sonar surveys as they come off the equipment.

03

The moment of discovery

Live-stream feeds from the seafloor. You experience the find firsthand, as it happens, rather than in a documentary cut together a year later.

04

After the recovery

Conservation, cataloguing and context. Artifacts enter the Virtual Museum, where the record stays open to members permanently.

The scale of it

Three million stories,
still on the bottom

UNESCO estimates that more than three million shipwrecks lie on the world's seabed. Together they represent cultural artifacts spanning over three thousand years of human history. The overwhelming majority have never been seen by anyone alive.

3M+
Shipwrecks worldwide
UNESCO estimate
3,000
Years of human history
Spanned by the record
8
Major expeditions
Caribbean & South Asia
1978
First expedition
Silver Shoals, D.R.

Our approach

Reaching what could not be reached

We employ proprietary technology, including Remotely Operated Vehicles and advanced scientific equipment, to locate deep-ocean shipwrecks that were previously unreachable, and to do it in an economically viable way.

Our commitment

The record belongs to everyone

We are committed to sharing both the thrill of ocean exploration and the historical knowledge that comes out of it: through television, internet, educational programs, and a Virtual Museum accessible to the public.

Start your adventure today

Community membership is free, and it opens the Virtual Museum, the forum and every dispatch from the field.