How would you smuggle it home?

[nakinate]

Those islands have boat rentals, or you could max out your credit and buy a boat. Then just boat on over to the caymans. And definitely buy a gun with lots of ammo.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I am guessing it's not easy to come across a ton of elemental tungsten in the Bahamas, though I admit I've never tried.

It would hardly take a ton of elemental tungsten to coat 300 lbs. of gold bars. The real effort would be finding a vacuum chamber that can melt the tungsten for the sputtering or vacuum deposition process.

 

[CathyInBlue]

You have so done this before.

Maaaaaaybe.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

I'd put it in my bags, and when the Canadian border says "Do you have any...." blah blah, I say "No."

Then I enjoy smoking them when I get home.

 

[ThatOneKid]

It would take some time, but... On a cruise ship you don't go through a metal detector when re-boarding the ship. tape the bars to your self and re-enter the cruise ship. return to the states and put in your carry off luggage... take to your car & drive home. Then give me 1/2.

The last cruise I went on everyone had too. But gold won't set off a metal detector (or at least most of them) unless it has iron in it. I dig the scuba weight idea

 

[hoosierdoc]

It would hardly take a ton of elemental tungsten to coat 300 lbs. of gold bars. The real effort would be finding a vacuum chamber that can melt the tungsten for the sputtering or vacuum deposition process.

By a "ton" I meant "oodles", which means "more than you can find in a lightbulb". Your backup point goes way beyond my metullurgical skills (that stop at knowing lead melts), but further says that would be difficult in the Bahamas

 

[indygunguy]

You guys are all missing the obvious first step here: Call the boss and quit your day job.

The rest is just details.

 

[MDave]

Why not just stay where you found it? Provided it's a nice tropical location.

Ding ding ding. Winner. For me the correct answer would be to disappear. Put myself in the personal witness protection program.

 

[gundog60]

Sun, sand, and surf-with NO Boss on my back versus snow, sleet, and slush and the pecker wood always hollering about how slow I am at work while he sits on his fat arse and tells everyone else the same thing, over and over, all day long: Yes I am so buying stock in sun tan lotion, sunglasses, and surf wear and will be as slow as I want for the rest of my days.