5 Hazards of Digging the Yamashita Treasure Aside from the natural dangers of treasure hunting on the field, there are hazardous dangers that you need to be aware about especially when it comes to the hidden Yamashita Treasures in the Philippines. You have to know that the Japanese Imperial Army had their own engineers who carefully planned and genuinely hid their treasures. This was to make sure that no one can easily recover them. On this post, lets discuss the 5 common hazards of digging the hidden Yamashita Treasure. 1. Poisoned Layer of Soil Poisoned layer of soil has already been discussed a couple times in the past previous posts. When you dig a certain positive treasure site, you will encounter layers of soil with different colors. Sometimes they smell pretty bad (like a rotten corpse of a dead animal) or very sweet (like perfume). Being exposed digging on the spot for a certain prolonged period of time, it makes you feel very hungry. If you are not wearing any boots or gloves, your skin that makes contact with the soil tends to get itchy. Those are the signs that the soil was contaminated with poison. Anyway, if the place or site often experiences rainfall then there are chances that the poisons on those soils already got washed away. But if the place or site is often dry, there are chances that the soil is still contaminated with the poison. Thus, its best to wear your complete gear as you dig. 2. Cyanide Capsules Some of you might have already encountered strange glasses of capsules containing some kind of liquid or powder. The most common capsule is the cylinder glass which is divided into two chambers. One of the chamber contains the liquid while the other chamber contains the powder. The liquid is actually a Sulphuric Acid while the powder is a Potassium Cyanide or Sodium Cyanide. When these two components mixed up, they produce Hydrogen Cyanide (HCN) gas. A type of gas that is invisible to your naked eyes. And once inhaled, you will have trouble breathing. In just a matter of seconds, you can feel the effect of difficulty in breathing. At one minute period, your respiration stops and at about five minutes, your heart fails which means that you are dead. These cyanide capsules are often mixed on the soil that when the digger is careless, he may accidentally hit and break any of them. You have to know that it is impossible to detect these capsules unless you found a sign indicating about it as a poison trap. Thus, always be very observant and cautious as you attempt to dig. You may also want to wear your gas mask (a type of mask with respirator impregnated with metal salts) every time that you are about to do some diggings. 3. Water Trap Encountering water trap is only possible near a source of water such as the river, pond and lake. So if the location of your treasure hunting site is at a dry place then rest assured that there isnt any water trap involve on it. What the Japanese Imperial Soldiers (engineers) actually does in setting up their water trap was that, they dug beneath the water table during dry season. During the dry season, the level of the water actually tends to go low. This allows them to dig beneath the water table with minimal risk. The Japanese soldiers would then dug a path for the water to flow right into the buried site of their treasure. They will then completely seal it to prevent the water from flooding the buried site. Assuming that you and your crew had found the site and dug it but then, one of your diggers had unsuspectingly broke the seal. The tendency for the outcome is that, the weight and velocity of the continual flow of the water can abruptly break the entire seal drowning all the diggers inside the hole. In order to avoid water traps, you have to check any possible signs that you come across around as they can give early warnings of dangerous traps. And also, always proceed with caution and be very observant. 4. Dangerous B-ombs Some treasure-hunters are saying to themselves that b-omb traps are no longer a threat. Its because throughout the years that the Japanese Imperial Army set it up to protect their treasures, it is for sure that they were already rusty and chances are, they no longer work. Well, this is a wrong notion. The Japanese soldiers (engineers) who hid their treasures and setup traps were also professional b-omb experts. To prevent their b-omb traps against rust, they actually used cosmoline which was a type of thick grease for protection from corrosion or rusts. There were many different ways on how the Japanese soldiers had genuinely setup their b-omb traps. But, there is only one thing in common among them. This is when you get to move a certain object (particularly the treasure item), the trap will get triggered for explosion. 5. Suspended Rocks or Soil Suspended rock or soil is a type of Japanese treasure trap that had already caused countless number of injuries and even death among treasure hunters in the Philippines. In fact, I had an old friend who went digging all by himself during the rainy season. From that point onwards, he never came back making his friends and family worried. A search and rescue operation was immediately set out where they had found him dead caught under the bottom of a huge rock.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:21:09 +0000
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