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EPISODE #11: PIRATES AND GOLD

Our hosts are on a real treasure hunt this week when Tyler joins the search for a sunken pirate ship and then dives to the bottom of the ocean where he finds a buried ship loaded with pirate treasure. He gets a chance to do some underwater detective work with the archeologists who regularly excavate these buried ships.

Look out matey, Tyler's on the prowl for pirate treasures. When he comes up for air, Tyler heads west to join a troupe of professional sword fighters who stage pirate fights on an old-fashioned tall ship. First, he'll find out if he has what it takes to be a genuine swashbuckler after learning all the right moves and mastering the use of the swords and daggers. After rehearsing for three hours with the pirate pros, Tyler will get the chance to strut his swashbuckling stuff in a real fight with his pirate partner. This will be one adventure Tyler will never forget!

Elisha finds out if she has the Midas touch when she gets lowered more than 3,000 feet below the earth into a real gold mine. She then gets the chance to set off the explosion which breaks the gold-filled rocks off the walls and helps crush it so it can be turned into gold bars. She'll discover how the giant underground jaw crusher takes rocks up to two feet in size and crushes them down to just five inches.

After refining the rock, the gold is turned into a bar weighing about 50 pounds and worth nearly half a million dollars. No wonder the mine makes only two a week, but Elisha better make sure her pockets are emptyÉthe guards at the front door of the mine have machine guns for protection!

Charlie gets in on the pirate action when he gives us a few lessons in the physics of a cannonball fight.

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