Treasure Quest (2009) User Reviews

Great Documentary Style Show on Sunken Ships

[kfelon · 10/10 · 11 September 2009]

Treasure Quest is a great documentary style show about a company called Odyssey Marine Exploration searching the bottom of the ocean for lost sunken ships. They are mostly in search of fabled galleons and ships that carried large treasures that were lost at sea. This show Treasure Quest documents the crew involved with Odyssey, their time spent preparing for dives, the troubles encountered with dives, and actual point of view footage from their small unmanned submarine Zeus as they explore the bottom of the seas looking for treasures and trying to fill in the final resting places of these ships into the history books.

I've seen a few documentaries on locating shipwrecks and it's always been quite a fascinating thing to me. If you enjoy documentaries such as those about the Atocha, The Queen Anne's Revenge, the Titanic, U-boat submarines, and other lost and sometimes legendary shipwrecks, then you will without a doubt love this one of a kind series. Some people may not enjoy this series based on the fact that once the proper paperwork is filed on some of the bigger shipwrecks with treasure are excavated. I personally find this to be just as exciting and entertaining as the actual stories behind the ships themselves and seeing the remains of those ships, but some people do have a moral belief that many of these wrecks are tombs and should be left untouched.

If you like documentaries on shipwrecks then you owe it to yourself to watch Treasure Quest.

BS

[cliffrmow · 4 September 2018]

FAKE!!! Just another crappy treasure hunting show that never finds NOTHING

Amazing show

[adampadum · 10/10 · 31 March 2019]

I love these kind of shows it's a shame there arnt that many around these days.

Promotional documentary, but still interesting to check out

[JohnyKova · 5/10 · 19 August 2012]

** WARNING SPOILERS ** Following the Odyssey's crew in the few voyages filmed, is fairly interesting however, some parts about their equipment and techniques are repeated over and over again which could get really annoying after a while.

Also what caught my eye was that in the beginning of the series they uncovered few cannons that suggest that they found a huge treasure wreck. In every later episode, those cannons are mentioned and displayed as if the find will be revisited – but instead, they end without even mentioning it, and take of with the Black Swan story.

My final conclusion is that this is first and foremost a promotional material that Odyssey filmed for themselves and not a documentary. A high grade of 5 is a compromise of my love for marine excavation on the other hand, and the frustrations about the show on the other. There are indeed parts that are informing and really exciting, but the focus on the promotion of Odyssey as a business is guarantied to provide frustrations to any viewer that is trying to find a good documentary about the marine excavation.