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Interesting new program series being brought out by the BBC One called "The Treasure Hunters":

In this episode, Ellie ventures down one of the deepest gold mines in the world in search of the gleaming metal that was once thought to be the skin of the gods and the sweat of the sun. Dallas free-dives for lustrous pearls in the waters around north west Australia and, using one of the largest treasure hunting machines, he seeks out diamonds from the bottom of the ocean. Dallas and Ellie reveal how you could make your fortune - on the beach. Lumps of ambergris can wash up on almost any shoreline in the world. Although it starts life in a sperm whale's stomach, it ends up as a costly raw ingredient in the most expensive perfumes.

To be able to watch it online here in NZ you will need to download an app like https://hola.org/ for your browser which tricks the website into thinking you're local and register a UK address in the BBC's iplayer (any UK address will work). Direct link for the first episode is below, it will be available on demand for a couple of weeks:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b040r3bv/The_Treasure_Hunters_Episode_1/

It was great to watch an informative treasure program that doesn't feature "actors" jumping around and screaming all the time.... :)

Edited by user Tuesday, 8 April 2014 11:10:43 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Episode 2 is now available for the next 6 days:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b040zb5q/The_Treasure_Hunters_Manmade_Treasure/

Thanks Shilo - Downloading both episodes and cant wait to see them -

Have you seen Digfellas?

Very informative & presented by a couple of metal detectorists & NOT actors, whose excitement IMO brings the show to life. Lets face it, anyone bringing this hobby to the attention of the others, actors or not, has to be good for our hobby -

However I know what you mean about the cartwheeling clowns who blow their load pulling out an old chewing gum rapper (opps wrapper)