This is beyond laughable. Where do you get this in
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They had to work to identify the wreck and then hope to locate a manifest that hopefully had a list of contents of the ship that would possibly contain treasure of some sort in that list. That way, they would know what they were looking for and thus when to stop or to move on altogether. If the manifest showed treasure then the long labor intensive process of going after non-treasure targets in the hopes of finding treasure next to it would begin. It is slow, expensive and terribly inefficient. But that's what some people are used to. They just didn't know any better.
Wrecks have been identified with a simple sonar scan, and what it contained was known long BEFORE the scan.
Keep the laughs coming though. It certainly explains the mindset of these amateurs.