Darrell Miklos Net Worth – $1.5 million
What is Darrell Miklos’ net worth? Is Darrell Miklos married?
Introduction
Darrell Miklos is an American reality television personality and a professional treasure hunter who is best known for starring in the Discovery Channel TV show Cooper’s Treasure.
Miklos has been using secret maps created by former NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper to find shipwrecks in the Caribbean. He said:
“There are three-million shipwrecks all over the world and only one or two percent of those have been discovered.”
Biography
Miklos was born in 1963 in the USA. As a kid, he spent his weekends on the water in Laguna Beach.
His father, Roger Miklos, was a police officer. Darrell said about his dad:
“My father was a strange individual, very much a nomad.”
Roger was also passionate about treasure hunting. Darrell confessed in an interview:
“He was a professional treasure hunter back in the 1960s and he introduced it to me as a child.”
Miklos senior used to be a close friend of Gordon Cooper, an American aerospace engineer and one of the seven original astronauts in the first human space program of the US – Project Mercury.
Cooper helped Roger find a job at The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), finding used booster rockets that had fallen from space back to Earth.
In 1963, Gordon broke the record for the longest solo spaceflight, logging almost 34.5 hours above the Earth.
While he was in space, Gordon recorded dark spots he observed in the waters of the Caribbean. Cooper thought that these anomalies may be possible sunken shipwrecks.
Darrell became friends with Gordon through his dad. He said:
“I first met Gordon in the green room, backstage at The Merv Griffin Show.”
Miklos went on to say:
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“My dad and he were on the show together, an episode about adventurers.”
In another interview, Darrell declared about his relation with Cooper:
“Fast-forward to my 30s, I met him in the Bahamas and we flew back to California together.”
Miklos later added:
“We were working on a project in the Bahamas.”
In 1999, Cooper gave the map with the sunken shipwrecks to Darrell. Miklos stated:
“I knew he was getting ill and he knew it, and before his passing, he sat me down and said, ‘Look Darrell, I’ve got all these files. I’d only seen a portion of them.’”
He continued:
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“’If anything ever happens to me, just make sure you finish what we started here.’”
Gordon died in 2004, nevertheless, Darrell continued to attempt to piece together the work he had done. He said:
“I think we’re about to embark on something so historical it’s definitely going to make the news.”
Darrell said in a later interview:
“Everything that he [Gordon Cooper] pointed out to me on the files, have been proven to be positive, as far as shipwreck material and historical information.”
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Cooper’s Treasure
The complete story of the sunken shipwrecks is detailed in the reality series Cooper’s Treasure that runs on Discovery Channel. In an interview, Milkols declared:
“I think I’m the only man on the planet that, in the business I am – historical shipwreck recovery – received information from an astronaut [with] coordinates that he obtained on a spaceflight.”
In the first season of the reality television series, he has found an anchor that belonged to one of Christopher Columbus’s ships which sailed between the New World and Spain.
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He said about the anchor:
“As soon as I saw it, I knew what it was: an early 1500s anchor.”
Miklos also declared:
“I knew in my mind that we were onto something so historically significant, just by the first line of site.”
Darrell said that filming the reality series lowers the chance of another treasure hunter stealing his findings. He said:
“If we’re lucky enough to find something of commercial value and large historical value, if we’re documenting it, then they’re going to be caught on film trying to steal it from us.”
Miklos and his crew located a pile of six cannons dating back to the 1700s. He said about the cannons:
“One possibility is that the ship dumped the cannons because it was taking on so much water, they needed to get rid of all things heavy.”
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USO
In the second season, he found a huge unidentified submerged object (USO) that has 15,300ft long obtrusions jutting from its side.
Miklos said about the USO:
“I was trying to identify shipwreck material based on one of the anomaly readings on Cooper’s charts when I noticed something that stuck out, that shocked me.”
At the moment, the third season of Cooper’s Treasure was not renewed by Discovery Channel. He said about the possible third season:
“I don’t feel like we have even scratched the surface of what’s in Gordon Cooper’s files, but that’s what we hope to do in the third season.”
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Wife
Darrell Miklos is a married man, but the name of his wife was not released to the public.
Children
Miklos and his wife have two children.
In 2004, when Darrell and his wife had a newborn baby at home, he was caught in a hurricane. For about three days his family thought he was dead.
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Trivia
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Darrell Miklos – Net Worth
So, how much is Darrell Miklos worth?
Miklos earned most of his wealth from starring in Discovery Channel’s reality television show “Cooper’s Treasure.”
According to reports, Darrell receives around $30,000 for an episode.
In 2014, Miklos co-founded a historical Shipwreck Recovery company, called Gemini Marine Exploration.
Therefore, Darrell Miklos has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.
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References https://www.thenational.ae/shipwrecks-from-map-astronaut-designed-in-space https://www.stuff.co.nz/darrell-miklos-uses-map-hunt-for-coopers-treasure
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Paul Wujack
Tuesday 26th of March 2024
PS Darrell, Before your Dad, Roger, made his first radio interview...get this.... I met him at the Laundromat in Georgetown to verify, the WHO'S AND WHAT'S of putting him on my radio show. When I walked into the L he was wearing an outfit that looked like he was an Navy Officer in an "undefinable Navy". Told me he loved my show and then handed me a DVD of him "showing off" EL CAPITAN treasure on the Merv Griffin Show. (The table with the treasure actually collapsed on the tape) and with that I started my "radio relationship" with your Father.....(Yes, I returned the tape to him) He was a giant hit on THE MISS BAE SHOW which was a very big fish in a very small pond....WWII vets could not get enough of the Sub Business!!!
Again, Paul Wujack ] Boca Raton, Fl [email protected]
Paul Wujack
Tuesday 26th of March 2024
Dear Darrell, I just wrote to HISTORY about your TREASUE SUB series. You will want to read this. I ran a VHS radio show in the mid 90's in Georgetown Harbor, Exuma and your Father, Roger, did 4 live interviews (over 5 hours) live on my show. 2 were about the EL CAPITAN (Sebastian inlet) and 2 were mind blowing interviews about the TREASURE SUB he found in the Turks and Caicos. I HAVE IT ALL ON TAPE with that magic voice of you DAD!!!!
I was at his home on Exuma with his wife (school teacher) and also met him at the TWO TURTLES in Georgetown where he showed me the exact location of the TREASURE SUB he found on a chart. I had seen the whole evidence trail on his dinning room table just prior to the two interview shows that BLEW THE MINDS of the 500 + sailboats in Georgetown Harbor.
I HAVE ALL OF ROGER'S TIME ON MY SHOW ON TAPE!!!!
I think you will really want to contact me!!!!! Paul H. Wujack Boca Raton Fl
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John Johns
Sunday 13th of November 2022
Great show watch till end nothing new to replace it need to carry on until gold is found come on Darrel keep at it never give up
Bill
Wednesday 28th of December 2022
@John Johns, the same crap It would be extremely hard from space to distinguish a ship wreck or a pile of rocks They only seem to find anchors a coin or 2 grappling hooks Others have been there band found the treasure
Carla Snook
Saturday 30th of July 2022
I enjoyed this Series. I WISH Discovery would have renewed it. What a loss. Please! How many times can we watch those AK Gold Hunters aka destruction of the Earth people weigh their ill-gotten GOLD Dust???!!!!!
Roberta
Wednesday 27th of July 2022
Just watch the whole series and couldn't stop until the end. We were hoping he would find the gold table. Waiting for more videos of searches.