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Yeah, all this time and that goober, Blankenship, never mentions the mysterious depression in the ground that is just a stone's throw away from the house. I would laugh my living ass off if they decide to knock down the house and start digging under it. That would make this whole show worthwhile.

Wow, what a fantastic crab catch. Those things were gigantic. Does El Nino usually affect the fishing this way? Amazing.

Well, that settles it. There is only one definitive way to see what's in all those holes and chambers. They are going to have to drain the ocean. It's the only way to be sure.

Another season. What a hoot. Did you see the size of that digger they are bringing in next episode? If they dig a big enough hole, and they hit a sinkhole, maybe the whole island will fall into it and turn inside out. Then the treasure could be right there on the surface. Problem solved. Seriously, I was rolling my eyes when they spotted that hunk of "stuff" inside the pipe that had broken free and, they theorize, fallen down the narrow shaft and hit bottom in the treasure chamber. Everyone is beside themselves with excitement that they may have a sample of the floor of the chamber. That seems ludicrous to me, it seems physically impossible. What do you think? Oh, and we did find out what happened to the dye from last season - it stayed right where they poured it in and obscured the camera view they tried to get of the chamber. ha Why didn't they try for a camera view before they poured dye down the hole? Well, because then we couldn't spend all of this season trying to get a good look at the chamber.

I would love to see Josh and Elliot marooned on a boat together, just the two of them, in the middle of the Bering Sea, with a crab quota they had to meet before they were allowed to come back. hee hee

I love so many of the people on this show, but for me the star will always be the Bering Sea. Absolutely awesome, and so very scary. And the crab. The little glimpses we get of them on their way down the chute, or flying through the air as they are tossed back into the sea - they are so dang funny.

That Coast Guard rescue was amazing, a heart-stopper. Boy, it sure looked like Wild Bill's boat almost capsized at one point during that engine scare. Yeah, I feel sorry for Casey, too. Hope he can find a better gig. His insides are going to be one big ulcer if he sticks around the Cornelia Marie. Overall, a great opener for the season.

gaPeach, I think they were talking about residual radiation in a lot of those places, and not necessarily bits of the substance itself. However, I wasn't sure whether the teapot had actual bits, or what. It was confusing and they really should have been more specific. They said that the last time the Russian guy who handled the stuff was seen publicly, he had lost all his hair. For me, this was a strong indicator that he probably died soon after that sighting. Yeah, any time they showed anyone sitting at a table and consuming anything, I thought *uh-oh*.

The dog that barks at butterflies - what happened to him? I sure hope he went with Charlie.

Even though the wife got 40 years, she probably won't do all of them - 25 years, maybe. Unfortunately, that's the way the justice system usually works. I can't shake the idea that these murders were not the first murders this guy (and his wife) have committed. In the case we saw here, the victims were probably more prominent, and more easily tied to this guy. But there could be others who angered him over the years, and he dealt with them, but no one else ever knew about his connection to them.

Yes, also wondered about the dog. I think she said she was walking the dog that day. It made me think of the time Pres. George W. Bush choked on a pretzel while watching TV alone in the White House residence. His dogs were with him but never made a sound while he was struggling. Afterward, Laura Bush said something like, "Well, they are watchdogs. They watched." Some of those big dogs are so calm they just take a "huh?" attitude toward anything. This case was so horrifying because of what you said, JudyObscure, it made you question how you can trust anyone. How could you begin to figure out what goes on in the mind of a guy like this? An how can you ever be sure you don't know a guy just like him? Brrr And the parents raised the victim to think it's okay to leave your doors unlocked. Home alone, asleep, with the doors unlocked. Can't fathom it.

My gut feeling about the guy was that he was guilty as hell. Was it proven beyond a reasonable doubt? I don't know because I don't think we were shown enough of the testimony, cross-examination, and re-direct on this to guess. My dh and I thought the guy had a really good lawyer. Still, possibly against my own scruples regarding legalities, I'm glad the guy got nailed.

It's amazing how invested, and how keyed-up, this show can get you.

henripootel: Yes, my dh and I have been yelling about coffer dams since this series started. I would have thought that one of the first things they would do would have been to get a boat out there and take readings underwater to see if there were remains of some kind of coffer dams. How else could anyone have created any kind of flood tunnel? Their thinking process, and the order in which they do things on the show, seem nonsensical. In this latest episode they mentioned that, in the past, the last time Dan had gone down into the hole, the sides above him had started to collapse and rain debris on him, and his son only just managed to haul him out before a lot of debris collapsed down into the hole. Now their readings show some kind of blockage down the shaft of the narrow part at the bottom and they wonder what that debris is. What?! Maybe it's the selfsame stuff that collapsed in when Dan barely made it out? Duh to the max. And all the stupid mistakes they made when trying to lower the divers' bucket down to the water level. I absolutely loved the way Hutton Pulitzer had to show up with a bunch of lumber and do all kinds of reinforcement on that dive platform the gang had built over the hole previously. If he wasn't there, would they all have ended up in the pit because their rickety platform collapsed? Now that would have been some kind of finale.

Yes, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's fiction book "Riptide" has a very interesting take on the treasure and why it wasn't meant to be found. I agree with you about the color of the dye. They kept stressing that it was non-toxic and I wondered if the chemical makeup of it limited the choice of colors it could be. I have no clue about that. Also agree that it may not have been concentrated enough.