Seafarer’s SeaSearcher isn’t the first underwater drone, but it’s the only one we’ve seen capable of precisely detecting and identifying metals buried up to 33-feet (10 meters) beneath the seabed, while also transmitting a three-dimensional digital map of the object’s location. Seafarer received an official permit from the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research to explore an area south of Cape Canaveral.
Over the next few months, SeaSearcher will be scouring the area for old Spanish shipwrecks and other treasures along the Florida coastline using the drone. These Spanish ships used to dock in what is now known as Havana, Cuba and were packed to the brim with gold from the New World. Seafarer CEO Kyle Kennedy claims that there are over a thousand of these shipwrecks and there hasn’t been available equipment or technology that would accurately pinpoint where the treasure was buried under the sand. If you need an underwater drone to shoot cinematic footage in 4K, then look no further than the Geneinno T1 Pro.
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I’ve been given the rights to salvage old Spanish and other types of wrecks along the coastline, here in Florida. All these ships used to dock in Havana, they would load up with gold from the New World, and head up the Gulf Stream before heading across the ocean. Storms would sink them, on their routes. There’s over a thousand of these shipwrecks, but the problem is, there’s never been equipment that would show you where gold and silver was, under the sand,” said Kyle Kennedy, Seafarer CEO to New Atlas.
