There's most likely a commercial operator but how entertaining would watching competent divers be?
Either that or it's an insufficient return to be commercially viable...
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There's most likely a commercial operator but how entertaining would watching competent divers be?
Either that or it's an insufficient return to be commercially viable...
There's most likely a commercial operator but how entertaining would watching competent divers be?
just thought I would ask on here to get some ideas about it.
There is more gold in a ton of cell phones then there is in a ton of rocks.
Gold mining tears the heck out of some beautiful country. Nothing like seeing a beautiful valley completely dead with nothing but rock exposed on the surface after a dredge passed thru.
On the other hand in places like the California Sierra's they completely stripped the forest in the gold rush for wood fuel, yet it has come back.
I suspect that there is not enough gold there to make a large commercial operation viable. Plus, these shows are in large part scripted. I bet the producers went up there and said, "OK, we want you guys to to put together the most slapdash POS boats you can and we'll film you diving for gold. Plus, we'll enhance and/or make up drama for you to enact to make the episodes interesting."The Bering Sea Gold show is fascinating for the most part because the divers are generally inept. Makes you wonder why there are not larger commercial operators up there with real hard hat divers working?