Cocos Island

Hi Seahawke,
I'm not quite sure what you actually mean by dig sand exploration of Cocos?

There are many theories and there have been many expeditions. Are you looking for anything specific or are you looking for one or all of the alleged treasures it is supposed to hide??

Regards Crowsnest1.

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Hi Christian,
I believe I spoke to you many years ago, ref, the Treasure of Capt. William Kidd!!

Coming back to the Cocos Island Treasures, I have been studying this and many other treasures since we last spoke.
Unfortunately a couple of years ago one of my greatest Treasures was Taken from me!!
My eldest son David was tragically killed and for a number of years I could not think or concentrate on anything.
However I remember his words to me when we were watching a TV programme about lost treasure and he said to me Dad, you are just like those adventurers on the television, so I have slowly been picking up my treasure threads and am now pursuing them again.
Coming back to Cocos, I have also heard of the Russian claim to have used satellite imagery.
Although I was informed that they had retrieved a large cache in partnership with the Costa Rican government.

A little while ago I was contacted by a guy in Australia who was also doing research, he gave me a set of directions, which he believes would lead to the Treasure of Lima.
However he believes this treasure is located on the "Tuamatos Islands".
I followed this link and realised that the Tuamatos Islands are very low lying, they do not raise much over 10metres from sea level.

So with this in mind I set to trying to solve the location of the co-ordinates he gave me:
which are as follows;

AFTER BURYING THE TREASURE WE PLANTED A COCO PALM AND MARKED OUR LOCATION BY COMPASS WHICH WAS EAST HALF EAST EAST MOUNTAIN TEN NORTH EASTWEST MOUNTAIN??

As there are no mountains on tuamatos this island group can be eliminated, however the Lima Treasure is alleged to be one of the treasures buried on Cocos, so I first tried to make sense of the directions and then to locate its position on Cocos!!

Obviously I spent a number of months in breaking the directions down and finally came up with the following;

EAST BY HALF EAST TO EAST MOUNTAIN, TEN NORTH EAST OF WEST MOUNTAIN??

But would this match Cocos?, I tried to use the co-ordinates from the common landing point at Wafer Bay, where it is alleged that Capt. william Thompson of the Brig Mary Deare buried it, unfortunately I could not get the directions to fit, as you are probably aware Cocos has six extinct volcanoes which I have classed as the Mountains the directions speak of.

I then tried to locate the directions to any part of Cocos using a combination of the mountains, this also turned up nothing or no matches.

I then remembered that the directions to the treasure were taken by compass, THIS WAS IN THE YEAR 1821.

The Magnetic compass would obviously have changed, so I tried to get a fix without using True north..........................and I got one!!

To get an alignment of the mountains I had to be 10 degrees east of true north.

I contacted the Geo-magnetic centre in Edinburgh Scotland who informed me that the magnetic compass deviation for the Cocos region in 1821 was ......................10 degrees EAST of TRUE NORTH.
This could of course just be pure coincidence!!

Regards Crowsnest1

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Hi Christian,
In 2002 I was working in my home town of Plymouth and chanced to meet a Costa Rican called Flanders.
He was working on my site as a welder for a local company.
I struck up an instant friendship with him and as probably like most of your conversations the topic of conversation turned to Treasure.
He was of course fascinated that I knew so much about his country.

his uncles are fisherman and quite often they fish off the coast of Cocos( their catch being Sharks) which they prize for their fins which they sell to the Asian market, where this part of the shark is highly sought after.
Over the year we invited wach other back to our homes to meet our respective families, our conversations were always about Cocos and its Treasures.
We arranged to make a small expedition to the island, he had been in contact with his uncles who had agreed to take me in the early months of 2003.

However before our trip could take place he informed me that his father had called to say that a Russian team using Satellite thermal imagery had located a cache in the area we had discussed from the directions I have given to your site.
His father went on to say that the Russians were accompanied by some Costa Rican Nationals and that this party were arrested by the Costa Rican authoritys' .
At that time I tried to get information from the Cosat Rican government, the Peruvian government, CNN and the Spanish government, no one answered my Emails or enquiries.
So I decided not to continue with this Quest.
Yours is the first web site to receive this information. I cannot however verify any part of the story.
Best wishes, Crowsnest.

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If you or your fellow members are interested, I will disclose the locations on Cocos where I believe Two of the Treasures are hidden.
The first Location being approx. 500metres' inland of Esperanza/ English bay, which lies in the South of Cocos Island.
The second Location as shown on an old chart of Cocos, depicts the shape of a man holding a lit firebrand torch while appearing to descend into a hole or cave, this figure is hidden around the hatching along the edge of the chart.
His location would be at the northeast end of Wafer bay which shows a small creek which winds around behind this beach, he appears to disappear into a cave or similar in this location.
While I could be mistaken, both of these locations are practical and logical, in the sense that if these treasures are buried on Cocos during the 18th and 19th centuries, then they would have to be landed by hand or winch and hauled to their location.
Given the crew and time available they would not be too far from the high water mark!!

Regards  Crowsnest

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Hi Christian,

If any of your members, or anyone who reads this has an opportunity to search Cocos, then please come back to me as I can define the search in either area to approx 100sq. metres.
Best wishes Kevin/crowsnest

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