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201944 minPGdocumentary

5.5/ 10(10 ratings)• TMDB

River Hunters

201944 minPGdocumentary

5.5/ 10(10 ratings)• TMDB

Beau Ouimette and Rick Edwards search UK waterways for archaeological finds using advanced technology and historical maps, conducting underwater digs in challenging conditions.

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Beau Ouimette and Rick Edwards search UK waterways for archaeological finds using advanced technology and historical maps, conducting underwater digs in challenging conditions.

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US Youtube sensation Beau Ouimette, a river detectorist with over 30 years’ experience, and presenter and keen swimmer Rick Edwards search the UK’s waterways for archaeological finds. Using state-of-the-art technology, archive maps and contemporaneous accounts from the period, Beau and Rick perform the first underwater archaeological digs in some of the most exciting and iconic historical sites in Britain, often in dangerous and fast-flowing water.

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