(Kansas City Star) For more than two years, veteran steamboat hunter David Hawley spent two or three days a week walking mid-Missouri farmland toting a magnetometer, a machine capable of detecting metal deep underground.
He trudged back and forth in a grid pattern, eventually covering 300 miles, determined no matter how long it took to locate a 177-year-old sunken steamboat called the Malta.
All that walking gave him plenty of time to ponder and plan the future.
