Abstract: A system for recovery of relatively small items such as treasure located on and beneath the bottom of the sea or other body of water in the form of a head having a shaft with attachment at the upper end for suspension from a ship or the like, compressed-air and oscillatory means for driving the shaft into the sea-bottom and a circular net supported by chains and by ribs radiating from pivots at the lower end and deployed outwardly by upward movement through the bottom material when the shaft is drawn upward on retrieval of the head.