Hunting sunken treasure in the Bahamas

As a child Carl Allen came to the Bahamas, to the small island of Walker's Cay for the fishing. Today, the retired businessman is fishing for gold, silver and gems from the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1656. Correspondent Lee Cowan takes a deep dive into the lore of hidden treasure, and the drive of a man living a dream. (This story was originally broadcast April 16, 2023.)
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[@mattwalter6207]

This man has the best retirement job ever

[@MarvinStorr]

As a Bahamian, I'm glad that I have heard the story told from this perspective. It is great to see this story being told.

[@thecrafty1586]

Just came back to the states from there. Absolutely stunning country!

[@bradr2142]

Hes a blessed man. Nice family and he's doing great things in the community.

[@tea98988]

Can’t blame him wanted to leave Dallas. This is so much more fun and doing a good deed with a passion and sharing the results with the world.

[@Bachconcertos]

Those are real dreamers who follow their dreams

[@coffeeisthepathtovictory1290]

Man, that's a true dream job. 😍

[@investorbettor505]

Walkers Cay is the most beautiful and abundant ocean environment that I have ever seen in my life. 5 pound lobster, snapper, and grouper everywhere you look in only 10-20 feet deep water. Thousands of wild dolphin and some mighty curious sharks !

[@mototaco2132]

Its amazing how records were kept in 1656.... i can't recall what I had for dinner last night.

[@bzamski17]

If only politicians kept such good records 😂😂😂😂

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

The Germans keep meticulous records yet they kept no records of 6M jews. Pretty strange.

[@MrNick-]

That’s why you need to keep records!

[@srreventon]

Seems to me that in that century all the manifests on the ships had to be 100% or the record keeper walked the plank🤓

[@djdollase]

Love this! Some people who aren’t just out to exploit the Bahamas.😊

[@Insane_Logic]

Love the treasure hunters in the ocean.

[@georgiadavis7694]

I’m happy that he decided to make a museum and keep that treasure in its native country

[@omidtebyani9786]

Loved this! Good for them and may they see all the success they seek to their hearts content.

[@wiz7190]

Phenomenal story. Wishing them nothing but the best of luck.

[@bigacefilms]

This is awesome!

[@thealanford4780]

Must be nice to be rich!! At least they are doing something with it.

[@howardjuliewiley5629]

How fun!

[@ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723]

Wow what a incredible finds

[@srreventon]

The atocha treasure is still under mel fishers company amd they will allow you to search and get to keep a small % of what you find. I know 2 families found a gold chain very long and the other 7 gold coins. The amazing thing is they both found that treasure under 10 feet of water Paul allen had his mega yacht also searching for sunken treasurs.. thats when they found the old japanese wwii sub🤣

[@steven.h0629]

❤Carl's the real deal 👍😎✊

[@Nickyb40]

Love this!

[@RayCasey2010]

Beautiful and hopeful.

[@lovepeace8918]

I like this story, normally I hate rich people for their greed and selfishness, but something about this story is different, sure the guy is rich and finding lost treasure, but this footage of this story is so beautiful I can not blame him, he is not polluting or destroying the environment he is actually cleaning up lost jewelry and making jobs for the locals, I really like this operation, I think its a awesome lifestyle and adventure.

[@johnjacobs1625]

Very NicE! Good luck Allens & Crew!!

[@DanaDaley-cy7lh]

Thank you mister allen for what you doing i'm a I was born January 4th 1991. I always tell people the Bahamas is the richest place ever. The Bahamas get the most gold. Nobody get no gold and the problem of everything that people are trying to score is Uncle.

[@srreventon]

The best way to find sunken treasure is to rent an under water magnetometer.. you go back and forth over large areas waiting to get a hit on the screen Rememer even though mel fisher took over 15 years to find the 700 million dollar treasure..not many realize he only searched for a few months per year.. usually april 1st he hit the water Plenty of treasure to be found in st augustine area

[@jaytrumpwins5739]

CBS GOT THAT 🔥

[@kamakoa]

Beautiful treasure

[@philcavallini9657]

Awesome story ❤

[@martinvera5962]

So Cool

[@debbralehrman5957]

Cool👍🏼

[@DePalma.]

Governments would rather the wealth rot than you have it, but if you work to find it they say it’s theirs😂.

[@brandonwilliams5144]

It’s like the movie ‘ Fools Gold’

[@AY-nr5uy]

Good Folks

[@worldwidebirthdaycelebrations]

From The Bahamas! Yes! There's more to us, than Sun, Sand, Sea, and Food! Treasure too!....Always wondered what's opposite Fort Charlotte, in Nassau! The Cannons are facing the sea! The fort was established to keep the pirates away! Always wondered how many of their ships got blasted, and what type of treasure might have been on them, at the time!

[@deannachristensen964]

Happy to see he doesn’t want to just take all of the salvage for his personal gain. Most foreigners just take and never contribute. Thank you Allan

[@julienrockingham-ip4co]

Good for them....

[@steveconn]

We have a family phobia about scuba diving since a cousin died doing it but this looks safer and less karmacally damaging than scavenging the Titanic.

[@danpearson9355]

Will be buy me too. Would love to find treasure! El Passion

[@jacktastick]

This is going to be something good to fall asleep to.

[@pamelamays4186]

Time for me to take up scuba diving 🤿💰

[@franksnyder1038]

Mike Nelson...muy macho.

[@pismorichy]

Hey Lee, what did you flip off the end of your fins? Looked like keys to me😂 well 👍 done

[@TL-iu7vc]

Wondered the same thing.

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

"Lifted the moratorium" = Bahamian government officials got enough offered in payoffs

[@madArt1981]

That’s what and how the USA operates in the Caribbean, Latin America and other places around the world. The US gov ok’s US banks to “Loan” local governments money for their socioeconomic institutions, for the people and after the local elites take their cut They soon discover they can’t pay it back. sSo American companies move in buying the loans and buying natural resources extremely cheap. The us companies end up running, indirectly, the local government and the people slowly but surely get more indebted. Then they have to sell more and more. Gentrification starts and the country that was home to strong local indigenous population now becomes a minority in their own land. But that land isn’t theirs anymore.

[@jdh23h]

Walkers Cay is a fisherman dream

[@iontwos]

He deserves to be rich

[@bobkirk942]

The Bahamas government don't have the resources to do it but should help him out for his good deeds

[@fsoto2900]

That’s bc they are too busy funneling the money to themselves leaving the bahamian citizens with Zero Infrastructure. They don’t care.

[@jaytrumpwins5739]

Oooh

[@PDZ1122]

At last, a rich guy who knows how to spend his money .

[@Krohe01]

Where do I sign up?

[@ogdvb]

Oh dear people at CBS why not to make some great documentary on this very subject?

[@gregoryfuzi4745]

I think it belongs in the Bahamas to.

[@situated4]

* too

[@gregoryfuzi4745]

@@situated4 ok two

[@matthiasphillips6007]

5:24 is that a key on the narrators flipper, that then flies overboard? who wants to go treasure hunting for a 2007 corrola

[@anthonyp2312]

Looks like that movie that has Paul Walker in it

[@brandonleesanders]

Want to be a treasure Hunter…? Already have some treasure to spend

[@NINJUNK00]

These are the kind of rich people I care about

[@taxpayer6079]

… these people…

[@sherylcrowe3255]

INDEED! 👋 👋 WHERE DO YOU SIGN UP FOR THAT??

[@jeg5438]

Im going to need a map location.

[@janetf23]

🌞🌊💰

[@samanthab1923]

Glad the Bahamian gov’t. lifted the law of treasure hunting. FL went after Mel Fischer

[@carolsopinski4549]

Let’s see what they do with the treasure

[@GalXE06]

There's never enough money in the world to satisfy these guys.

[@kimberlyault9242]

Except he isn't selling any of the artifacts. He built a museum for them.

[@shable1436]

​@@kimberlyault9242I call bs

[@vandie9759]

ok her name is GiGi Allen ?? .,., wow .,

[@justayoutuber1906]

I believe "cay" is pronounced "key"...as in the Florida Keys.

[@maxlinder5262]

Sounds Great 👍..... but he was in plastic's.. He should have done something about that..... just my opinion 😮

[@LAXERJK]

Says the one that’s using plastic garbage bags right now.

[@rr7firefly]

Yes, maybe dedicate some of his money to cleaning up the oceans. He certainly had a part to play in creating the mess that endangers marine life.

[@bromethiustrilbotbromeldeh6625]

If you haven't worked smart enough to be able to fund your own scuba diving adventures, I hope you'll be humble and hold your tongue. You don't compare if you dont

[@pismorichy]

Your right sir! He's a greedy old Rich dude

[@rr7firefly]

@@LAXERJK I should inform you that some of us refuse the offer at the checkout for a plastic bag, especially if the item already comes in a box or bag. And many of us take our own tote bag(s) when we go shopping.

[@theylied1776]

This how dirty the State of Florida is. They recently denied a treasure hunter a claim on a Spanish treasure ship but are allowing Spain to lay claim to it. There is a weird Florida law that claims if it was a military vessel within Florida coastal waters, then its "known" country of origin can take possession. This treasure hunter spent two years and almost $3 million searching and will receive NOTHING in return. It's not a lot of treasure compared to the Billions that have been found, but this treasure hunter would have recovered at least $90 million.

[@Mark-xv5lb]

That's not a Florida law. It's universal. A naval ship of any country remains the property of that country forever.

[@theylied1776]

@@Mark-xv5lb no, that's not true. There have been billions claimed from Spanish flag ships carrying gold that were lost in hurricanes off of the coast of Florida. Those treasure hunters were allowed to keep 30%.

[@Mark-xv5lb]

@@theylied1776 Check out the Spanish frigate off Assateague, MD. That's an older case. If it's a merchant, it's one thing, but if it's naval it's not. A more recent example is the looting of British WWII wrecks in the Pacific.

[@theylied1776]

@@Mark-xv5lb The United States has its own salvage laws. There have been Billions recovered from Spanish flag galleons that sank during hurricanes off of the East Coast which were carrying gold.

[@bzamski17]

Complete horse crap it should never be allowed. If the government thinks they own it, they should go get it if they don’t, it’s not theirs.

[@sandools]

Mel fischer got it all

[@TL-iu7vc]

Yep! And not a one to compare since the Atocha. He deserved it, life spent searching, sacrificed so much for his dream.

[@grahamfloyd3451]

I learned something new today, white collar pirates exist.

[@octaviobarajas3980]

Agreed

[@markwgundert4251]

Pretty sure pirates wouldn't get permits and build a museum to publicly display the artifacts..

[@giovannidelgado284]

So sic of these multi millionaire/ billionaire conveniently propped up by big oil from Dallas to boot

[@grahamfloyd3451]

@@markwgundert4251 wow, you've just discovered the "white collar" part.

[@amorkunas9071]

I thought they were called 'stock brokers'

[@jongusanders1938]

Ironic that the beaches of the Bahamas are littered with plastics.

[@abc-se6xd]

2:36 he is the pirate what makes him no different from the rest? 🤬🤬

[@loadedfun4764]

Life is so much easier easier when you have a ton of cash to throw around.

[@jimmieeddieschwenk3117]

JUST LIKE THE MOVIE WITH PAUL WALKER...

[@d.h.601]

He’s obsessed. Probably keeps a lot for himself.. who knows 🤙

[@tomas23x]

As they Say Money Makes Money and peasants will be peasants .. 😂

[@00700556]

I wonder what country or continent the spanish stole all that gold from.

[@SaulHoodman]

bahamas gdp 12 billion, also what this guy keeps in his billfold. LOL

[@mackman3294]

I was angry at first watching this because once again foreigners trying to capitalize off the Bahamian people and country but I'm glad he decided to keep the artifacts in the Bahamas The government needs to be cautious of this because he could easily walked away with all of it. Glad he has integrity.

[@mannyrodriguez5453]

Better a foreigner than a Bahamian, we all know the Bahamian's would have never found any treasure.

[@StingraySativaCo]

We’ll really the artifacts belong to the pirates and ships who lost them who most definitely were not native to the Bahamas

[@frankmorris6765]

If I’m a treasure hunter there is no way I’m inviting cameras or telling the country in which I find treasure what I found! Be safe out there my fellow Nathan Drakes!

[@frankm8533]

Excalty

[@lamargriffin8696]

There are thousands of shipwrecks in the bahamas if we could only get a real government that could go get the treasure and benefit us. Don't worry the coalition of independence is already fighting for that Soo this is about to get interesting and if the spanish think they coming for this treasure they actually stole in the first place they tripping they haven't met the bahamas and it's residents as yet!

[@elainerussell924]

😴

[@jimdellavecchia4594]

I used to date a thin girl who was a prates dream-SUNKEN CHEST!!

[@whodey2112]

I like how these guys don't think that THEY are pirates.

[@racheeerach]

Yeah, that comment made me “laugh” at the clueless audacity.

[@shable1436]

​@@racheeerachthey probably paid off the government to keep the treasure

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

Most gold and silver in the world has been attained through illicit methods.

[@PDZ1122]

The difference is, they didn't steal it, they salvaged it. If they hadn't, it would eventually disappear.

[@alcazar123456]

How are they pirates?

[@Floridamancan]

“If we do not get it somebody else will” - Rich greedy men

[@artistsomewhere3030]

It is interesting that the plastic bag empire nightmare family does not put the money into remediation of coral reefs and are instead feeling self entitled and playing games in the Caribbean instead of remediation of the damages they did for personal ends.

[@racheeerach]

Right? All these people on here talking about how selfless this man is are clearly not the smartest monkeys in the barrel.

[@PDZ1122]

He isn't sending any of it, is he? He's keeping it in a museum in the Bahamas. He doesn't need the money.

[@Tom_Samad]

You sound jealous. He built a legitimate business empire and no doubt employed many, many people. He is doing something that he is very passionate about (and legal) but i guess haters gonna hate. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@n9amiwavelengthradio]

Yea if I find it it goes in my pocket and I don't tell anyone.. Must be nice to be a millionare own an island etc etc..

[@b.visconti1765]

Southwest corner of the Bermuda triangle??? Sunken treasures? Geez wonder if there's a connection with the disappearance of so many??

[@Christoph-sd3zi]

That area of "The Bermuda Triangle" has no more wrecks per sq mile than any other heavily traveled sealanes in the world.

[@Don55443]

And the rich keep getting richer

[@Bachconcertos]

Wealth goes to wealth nothing new under the sun.

[@FloridaMan69.]

🚮

[@Luisventuralaw]

I don't feel so jolly about this. It strikes me as another wealthy person continuing to make a disproportionate environmental impact. First, it was the plastic bags, now, it's taking out these large ships to search for lost treasure. Imagine the amount of fuel alone these things use. It appears he's done some positive things for the island, but the world is not bettered by finding sunken treasure. It's just an amusing side show that comes at the cost of needless environmental impact for the pleasure of a few.

[@LAXERJK]

Rich people are good

[@KeVonBouVie]

Wow, CBS Sunday morning can we please get people who are down to earth humble, and have some humanity where are the selfmade minority individuals that you guys are interviewing I don’t see them can we start doing that or some minority groups not wealthy individuals who come from wealth and class please it really shows the character of your program

[@ekop1778]

this is a repeat from months ago

[@bennoble2049]

How about cleaning up the 🇧🇸 of all the plastic you helped produce?

[@maggie9312]

Went u got money u can do anything Money talk

[@zp2575]

HE RESEMBLES RICHARD NIXON

[@525Lines]

Can you trust the Bahamian government not to pilfer their own museum? It happens.

[@adiaj9228]

What TF do you know

[@zoraneale8903]

This is disgusting!! These “riches” are from ships trafficking enslaved Africans. How about turn all these riches over to the descendants that suffered so he could hunt for these treasures.

[@arimax888]

Notice how they didn't mention this or the conditions that the ship would've been in when in capsized!! This felt like a paid pr clip

[@Bachconcertos]

Oh grow up.

[@situated4]

Reparations all. Down with the Government!!!

[@octaviobarajas3980]

Plundered treasure stolen by killing, in slavering and raping the people and the land. SMH ya it’s interesting but it all comes from great sadness on people’s souls.

[@blogintonblakley2708]

If your treasure isn't at home, you aren't doing it right.