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Sep. 09, 1971 - Seabed Treasure Hunt: LT-CDR Jack Gayton, 38, leaving no moveable rock unturned 85 feet down as he searches the seabed off the Isles of Scilly for the wreck of a Dutch East Indiaman, as he searches the seabed which sank in 1743 with several million pounds worth of Silver coins on board.Cdr. Gayton, who is married with two children, left the Royal Navy in February to continue the treasure Hunt he began a year before with a team led by Mr. Rex Cowan, a London Solicitor. He has since spent about two hours a day at the bottom of the sea and his treasure chart covers an area of 10 square miles. He is on the look-out for cannon- first sign of a possible wreck. Although the driver has only marine life for company, he has the skiful assistance of an proton magnetometer, a detecting device designed by Mr. Anthony Lonsdale, a Banbury scientist. This is trawled at 50 feet beneath the surface and can detect ferrous metal ojects at depths of up to 100 feet. So far in his search, Cdr. Gayton has located two shipwrecks- both previously uncharted

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