There’s very little that is safe about diving shipwrecks for buried treasure. Toss in the pirates, and the plunder can be hardly worth the plunge.
New six-part Discovery series “Treasure Quest: Snake Island” takes viewers to the southeastern coast of Brazil, where adventurers seek lost Incan gold worth millions of dollars.
Here’s the backstory of the booty, per Discovery: In 1524, a horde of Incan gold — known as the “Treasure of the Trinity” — was stolen. For 500 years, Jesuits priests, privateers such as Thomas Cavendish and mathematician Paul Thiry have all searched the coast of Brazil for this legendary bounty, but in all that time, no one has cracked the code as to where the treasure might have been hidden — until now.