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I love a good treasure show. This is panning out to be a very interesting one.

I'm only a few episodes in, and from the trailers I see the Dad seems to get more involved later on.

However until then... OK so the relationship with the dad is strained. The dad is obviously his own person. So he didn't have time to play baseball with the son, sometimes dads are snowed under, rightly or wrongly, trying to provide for their family, build a legacy for their family etc.

The dad obviously was friends with Cooper first. Without speaking to the father for several years the son turns up with a camera crew, and doesn't make any great effort to not let the conversation deteriorate into an argument. We only really hear one side of the story thus far.

Aside from the daughter in law slating the father on public television, then the son turns up at the fathers yet again, trying to get hold of the master chart.

Yet again, no appeasement. No bridge building. No meeting halfway. Just gimme, like a spoiled brat.

This scene is very telling. The father opens with basically 'if you'd come to me in the beginning we could have done this together'.

The son doesn't go to the father and say, hey, I know we have had our differences but how about we work on this together? Or, how about I split any findings with you, in return for your input of the master chart. Or, I could use your help - as a gesture of respect. No, he starts banging on about how Gordon was a father figure to him. What a dork.

Bottom line, the master chart IS the property of the father. If you can't build bridges with the father, or even show a modicum of respect to another man, then you don't deserve the chart. If that were my son I wouldn't have given it to him.

The father drops clanging hints all through the conversation - "you can't play monopoly without the board"... "money is not as easy to get as it used to be"... "we could have done this together". The son seems to have his head so far up his a** and so determined to follow his own bitter selfish path all of this is going over his head. In the end the father gives the son the chart because basically the guy grows weary of keep having to talk to this guy. I don't blame him.

Who goes to their father after not speaking to him for years and says hey, I want you to give me something for nothing, and by the way you suck. Not literally, but in his general attitude.

Cooper gave the master map to the father, and the individual files to the son. Cooper obviously knew the situation between the father and son. The son suggests that Cooper 'would have told his father to give him the master chart'. Well, I expect if Cooper wanted the son to have the master chart he was perfectly capable of giving it to the son himself, with the rest of the files.

Strikes me that Cooper gave half of the docs to the father, half to the son. Probably in the hope that them working together on a nice project might build bridges between them.

The father is painted to be the bad guy (so far), I ain't buying it. If I was the father I would have thrown him out too.

The premise for the show is interesting.

But the Host and central figure (besides the Astronaut Gordon Cooper) is Darrell Miklos. A man who is in need of some help from various people to proceed with his plan to find sunken treasure ships...

This man is a terrible communicator. Within the first 2 episodes he must ask the help of 2 people, and the way he approaches his request for help is so faltering and coming from the wrong direction that it's no wonder he is not successful.

I am not done this series and am not sure whether I shall continue...

Just like I mentioned in the title, Cooper's Treasure has everything viewers should enjoy in this type of adventure program.

Darrell Miklos has a file of documents assembled by one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, Gordon Cooper.

In 1963, Gordon Cooper flew "Faith 7" and orbited the earth 22 times and was in flight for over 34 hours.

It was the longest one man flight in US space history.

In his time in space beyond just moving the needle forward in the space race, by logging so many hours and conducting experiments, there was allegedly another more clandestine purpose.

As discussed in Cooper's Treasure, Cooper took thousands of photographs of earth for the purpose of locating Soviet military installations and missile silos.

In the Caribbean, Cooper noted a number of anomalies and kept notes of locations. He suspected these were ship wrecks.

He spent years researching and documenting his findings, and prior to his death, shared his findings with Darrell Miklos and his father.

Darrell has determined to continue the research and hopefully find the treasure.

That's what this series is about.

The anticipation, disappointments, and thrills of the hunt is in full force in this series.

When you add the tension that Darrell has with his estranged father (who also has some of the charts) you have real drama.

We don't know if they can put their differences aside and work together, but money talks, so I expect somehow it will be worked out.

But I also expect there will be some real tense times ahead.

Will they find treasure... who knows?

Will we enjoy the hunt, along side them?

Absolutely!

I never have written a review before but I just had to write something about this joke of a show. After suffering thru the first season of just the same information over and over and two specials with all repetitive info. I've come to the conclusion that if you look at it as a comedy you might get some good laughs out of it. This guy miklos or whatever is a complete joke, he hasn't found anything except a cannon at the end of last season, that they are still talking about in the second episode of the second season. I still watched thru all this hoping maybe they would find something interesting and I think they finally did... A SPOON, I thought I was gonna fall off my chair, they found a spoon and acted like it was an important find. This show is a complete waste of time and a complete joke, I find it hard to believe that Gordon Cooper even knew these guys.

If this guy was so close to Gordon Cooper that they shared a man cave together, and upon his death he received this large bundle of documents from Gordon, why would Gordon leave the most vital parts out so you had to scavenge them? It doesn't add up. A more likely scenario is upon Gordons death, he rushed over and grabbed the documents that were lying around and that's why the best, most vital part is missing! Because that wasn't lying around their man cave for him to scarf up.

I'll tell you what is legitimate treasure, the stuff he rifles through in Gordons garage! Those items in that garage are potentially worth millions! If his wife was smart she'd auction off the contents of that garage on EBAY! That would be quite a sum, I'm sure! I'll bet the US government might even want to throw in a $100,000,000 to keep that stuff away from the public.

As far as all this data from 1963 that was probably the best then, but the Earth is now surrounded in space by 1000's of Satellites with really modern high powered cameras, so these maps, if even legit are comparable in quality to what they can see nowadays to you getting excited about having an Early Cell phone that came with a large box beneath it and cost $3 a minute to make a call on. And a little kid walks by holding a galaxy 8 and laughs at you.

I'm was sure MODERN treasure hunters do use satellite imagery and I looked it up and Viola.. https://www.gislounge.com/using-landsat-imagery-find-shipwrecks/ What do you know, they did and do! So basically...this is all romanticized hooey!

SPOILER ALERT...A Hodge bodge of footage taken over a day or 2 edited into one episode giving no time line to what they are doing. Very will organized and thought-out to find what they are looking for in such a short period-of-time. It is only treasure if you get to keep it, of which everything they find is given to the government in power over the shipwreck site, a massive waste of time with no reward....otherwise their paranoia is not giving the viewer enough relevant information to be with-them in this remarkable overall story!?

2 seasons, 16 episodes, more than 700 minutes....and two freaking gold coins??! Seriously, if this guy think he found "the big treasure" he needs a medical examination! What a big waste of money and resources!

They dont find any teasure in all the seasons!!! i hope they find anything but dont force the spectator to watch 2 season of dust and canon findings