Treasure Quest (TV series)
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| Treasure Quest | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 44 minutes (per episode) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Discovery Channel |
| Original run | January 15, 2009 – Present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Treasure Quest is a one-hour weekly American reality television series that premiered on January 15, 2009 on the Discovery Channel. The program follows the employees of Odyssey Marine Exploration as they search the English Channel for various lost ships. The team is led by company CEO Gregory Stemm and Tom Dettweiler (operations director of Robert Ballard's team that discovered the RMS Titanic[1]).
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Notable shipwrecks discovered [edit]
- Merchant Royal- a 1627 trade vessel that sank in the English Channel.
- Marqise de Tornay - A French privateer.
- HMS Victory - A first-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy.
- RMS Laconia - An ocean liner transformed into an armed merchant cruiser during World War I, sunk by a German U-boat. Also known as the Silver Queen due to the precious metals on board when sunk.
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References [edit]
- ^ Meet Tom Dettweiler. The show also included a failed search for the Merchant Royal, a 17th century ship wreck that went down with an estimated $1 billion worth of cargo, and HMS Victory, a British warship codenamed "Legend" on the show. Treasure Quest was produced by JWM Productions, LLC.
