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« on: September 20, 2011, 08:12:30 am »
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this is a hypothetical scenario about some burried treasure in australia can people please give there opinions after they read the "story".

ok a ship gets wrecked on an island on the coast of australia somewhere the crew and the captain are able to rescue one chest of coins and their belongings, they are also able to make it to the mainland in a small boat they bury the chest and all of the crews belongings on or near the beach. they walk for a few days (one of the men could not keep up so they left him to walk by himself) till they reach a town or city. the captain after a while gets to go back and retrieve the belongings and the chest but after a extensive search he can only find the belongings and not the chest. so the chest is never found. 

Now i ask you, why could he not find the chest, and would he not bury the belongings with the chest???

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« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2011, 08:19:22 am »
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A. He did find it and Re stashed it.

B.  The Straggler Went back and Got it.

C.  They did in fact loose track of the spot?

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« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2011, 04:40:19 pm »
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You don't mention how long it was from the time of burial to the time of attempted excavation. 

There are many things that can happen in between.  The first assumption would be that "one" or more of the crew went back and retrieved it (I know I would have).

and no, you would not necessarily bury it in the same spot.  The chest would be heavier and therefore more likely to be buried first. They may have attempted to carry thier belongings and later buried them.

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« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2011, 06:09:07 pm »
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And what happened to the small boat they arrived on?

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« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2011, 07:25:05 pm »
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The guy that couldnt walk fast enough(he played dumb) went back dug up the chest took all the cash he could carry took the rest of the chest to bury it somewhere else then someday he would go back for the rest in the future and live happily ever after.... Grin....DW

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« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2011, 07:55:59 pm »
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The guy that couldnt walk fast enough(he played dumb) went back dug up the chest took all the cash he could carry took the rest of the chest to bury it somewhere else then someday he would go back for the rest in the future and live happily ever after.... Grin....DW


LOL!  I thought I said that!

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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2011, 06:07:57 pm »
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You did....I just put it in a paragraph.....DW

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« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2011, 07:21:43 pm »
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Even being a hypothetical scenario more facts are need to make an educated guess.

A timeline would be of help. How much time pasted between the burial and the try at recovering it?

If buried between the high water mark and the dunes a small heavy container can and will sink very quickly, if the beach is sand. If buried in the dunes a few days of wind can change the landscape making a recovery very difficult.

All that being said I still think the others are on the right path. The crewman reburied it and may or may not have recovered it later or the captain recovered it and keep it his self.

If this is a true scenario I would research the captain and crewman's fineness and life after the wreck and rescue, that will tell you a lot.   

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« Reply #8 on: September 22, 2011, 09:37:45 am »
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B-- Addendum.  And he took it away in the small boat.
D.  There was someone at the beach watching them bury the coins and he/she/they took them.
E.  You said the chest was never found. You didn't say anything about the coins inside not being found.  Maybe it was years later  (they had been all locked up for entering the country illegally without their papers).   And maybe it was so long that the chest had rotted and only the coins were left. 
F.   The captain lied and took the coins himself (which is basically what seldom said).
G.  There was never a chest of coins; it was added to the story in the retelling.
H.  They were all too drunk from Rum (one of the crew's possessions) when they buried it and could not find it.  (basically modified from seldom.)
J.  AND PROBABLY THE MOST LIKELY point is that an island can't be "on the coast."   It can be off the coast, but not on it.   So it would be hard for any of this to happen. Grin

Don't know why they didn't bury them together, but in the story you never said they were buried separately.   You said they were both buried on the beach or near the beach.  But if they were buried separately, maybe it was because they 1st began by burying the treasure because it was so heavy.  Then once they walked their first mile or so, they decided their belongings were too heavy and buried them at the separate location. 

Fun story. 

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« Reply #9 on: September 23, 2011, 07:47:41 am »
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firstly thanks for the replys i did not think i would get that many.

Secondly back to the story, i believe that no more than three weeks between burial and trying to retrieve it and the chest was buried "on the Beach"

and i am guessing that by "fineness" you mean see if they were dodgy or not.

and obviously the islands was off the coast

and dont you think if you are going to bury a chest of coins on a beach you would put the crews belongings in the same hole no point in diggin 2 holes. but since the captain found the belongings and not the chest i would think that they would have been buried seperatly otherwise if they were buried in the same hole and he "said" he only found the belongins the other crew members would know that he stole the coins.

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