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Bay Curious

Is There Treasure At the Bottom of the Bay?

Bay Curious

KQED

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9999 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

There are dozens of shipwrecks in and around San Francisco Bay. And Bay Curious listener Brian Teaff wonders: Is there treasure down there? In some ways yes, but it may not be the type of treasure you're imagining. Additional Reading Is There Treasure At The Bottom Of The Bay? Read episode transcript Sign up for our newsletter Enter our Sierra Nevada Brewing Company monthly trivia contest Your support makes KQED podcasts possible. You can show your love by going to https://kqed.org/donate/podcasts This story was reported by Anna Marie Yanny. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Katrina Schwartz and Christopher Beale. Additional support from Kevin Stark, Chris Egusa, Paul Lancour, César Saldaña, Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad, Jasmine Garnett, Carly Severn, Joshua Ling, Holly Kernan and the whole KQED family.

Transcript

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0:00.0

From K-QED. Every winter Brian Teff takes a chartered fishing trip from the Berkeley

0:07.8

Marina to go fishing for dungeon crab. They leave before dawn and motor out through the bay under the Golden Gate Bridge.

0:17.0

There's crazy stuff going on. I mean, there's all kinds of water and it's moving in all directions and it's just you can tell if the

0:24.6

bay is just deep there.

0:26.6

This winter Brian stood on the boat and looked into the swirling abyss below.

0:31.7

You know riding on the bay going there's a lot of water that moves through here and what's underneath. I know there's fish. What else is there? So it was just like, you know, what's underneath the water.

0:42.5

Are there maybe shipwrecks down there?

0:45.4

You know, the next question is, oh boy,

0:47.1

I wonder if there's any treasure down there.

0:48.9

Treasure like precious metals, gems, valuable keepsakes.

0:54.7

If you ask Brian to answer his own question, he says.

0:58.3

I think that it's probably just full of mud down there,

1:00.7

but what I'd like to know.

1:05.0

Brian wrote to Bay Curious to learn more about what's at the bottom of the bay.

1:11.0

Today in the show, we'll hear about two shipwrecks that haunt Bay Area lore.

1:15.0

Plus, we'll go searching for treasure and find it in something unexpected.

1:21.0

I'm Olivia Alan Price. We'll be right back.

1:24.0

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1:43.0

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1:47.6

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1:51.6

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