Shipwreck Hunter Unearths Lost History and Treasures | Best Job Ever

When I tell people what I do, there's a sort of complete silence till they process what does that mean and how could somebody actually have a job like that.

"Get the metal detector! I'm David Mearns and I'm a shipwreck hunter. In terms of the significance of this site, it's that it's the earliest pre-colonial ship ever discovered.

Everybody is diving nearly four times a day, so it's well over a thousand hours underwater in my career. I think the number is about 25 major shipwrecks that I have found.

We're just dying to get to work because, you know, there's going to be a new discovery almost every day. It's just fun! You start bringing in experts who can look at these finders, start putting them together.

Archaeology is not about individual finds; it's about determining what life was on board, trading patterns, the people that they met. The biggest turn-on to this whole thing is really bringing that history to life, breathing new air into stuff that is just on the pages of papers and archives and libraries.

We're going into a submarine right now because it allows us to go deeper to an area that's never been explored before.

Oh, fantastic!"