I strongly expect that he isn't finding the more spectacular items at all. They are probably added for dramatic effect.
Pat Garrow
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>From: Harding Polk <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: May 10, 2012 7:02 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: American Diggers again (oh no, not again!)
>
>Well they've done it again. AOL/HufffingtonPost posted another article on
>American Diggers (see below). Arrrgh!
>On the latest episode of “_American Digger_
>(http://www.aoltv.com/show/american-digger/9057067) " (Wed., 10 p.m. ET on Spike), Ric Savage and his crew
>headed to Jamestown, Va., in search of colonial relics. But perhaps more
>exciting than America’s origins was Ric Savage himself!
>
>Savage stopped by the TVReplay studio to chat about his trip and the
>amazing discovery he and the American Savage crew made: a British cannon from
>the 1700s.
>
>After a freezing-cold dive, crew member Rue discovered it at the bottom of
>a lake. The cannon, combined with a glass onion bottle and a grenade
>fragment, got Ric a whopping $10,000. He called the weapon one of the most
>important finds in his company’s history.
>
>Watch our interview with Ric above – we talk British accents (he even did
>one) and, of course, his “Boom Baby!” catchphrase. Indeed, Ric belted his
>signature catchphrase for us – a priceless find in itself.
>
>“American Digger” airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on Spike.
>
>Interesting they don't mention what lake, I'm suspecting maybe Lake
>Champlain because of the cold and British references.
>More curious is that he is heading to Jamestown VA. Now I know that the
>entire Jamestown Island is owned by NPS, except for a ca. 10 acre parcel
>owned by the Assoc. for Pres. of VA Antiquities where Jamestown Discovery has
>been excavating the original fort for the past 10 years plus. Adjacent on
>the mainland is Jamestown Fort operated by the Jamestown/Yorktown
>Foundation. I don't think any of them is interested in Ric Savage coming to savage
>their properties. Is he going to work offshore in the James River (like
>Joel Shiner did in the 1950s) and thumb his nose at NPS and APVA? Even in
>the river I'm sure he needs a state permit. There is a little private land
>on the adjacent mainland.
>
>Its unfortunate that they are getting continued national press, but I
>suppose it is to be expected when they continue to find such "important"
>artifacts (read: most $ for any one artifact). One wonders what the disposition
>and, more importantly, its condition is now that it is out of its mostly
>stabilized underwater environment. I'm sure as we sit here and read, it is
>popping, fizzing, flaking, and exfoliating as the oxidation process
>(rusting) has been so suddenly accelerated.
>
>My rant for today.
>
>Harding Polk II
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