Adding to the difficulty, teams travel with up to 10,000 pounds of survival and excavation equipment. To date, teams have traveled to locations as diverse as rice paddies in Southeast Asia, cliff-sides in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, 16,000 foot mountaintops in the Himalayas, and underwater sites off the coasts of Tunisia and England. At any given time, DPAA has a queue of over 200 sites that have already been investigated and validated, and are 'ready for recovery.'

Adding to the difficulty, teams travel with up to 10,000 pounds of survival and excavation equipment. To date, teams have traveled to locations as diverse as rice paddies in Southeast Asia, cliff-sides in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, 16,000 foot mountaintops in the Himalayas, and underwater sites off the coasts of Tunisia and England. At any given time, DPAA has a queue of over 200 sites that have already been investigated and validated, and are 'ready for recovery.'