1 00:00:16,983 --> 00:00:22,979 They lived by wind and wave, and knew these waters well. 2 00:00:24,190 --> 00:00:26,488 Their people were lords of the sea. 3 00:00:27,761 --> 00:00:29,991 Few built finer craft. 4 00:00:30,797 --> 00:00:33,823 Few sailed faster... or farther. 5 00:00:37,704 --> 00:00:40,468 But none of that could save this ship. 6 00:00:41,141 --> 00:00:46,602 The sea would rise up and conceal its fate for nearly an eternity. 7 00:01:52,212 --> 00:01:54,146 Summer 1997. 8 00:01:54,481 --> 00:01:56,745 The US Navy's nuclear submarine, 9 00:01:56,983 --> 00:02:00,885 the NR-1 is on a mission in the eastern Mediterranean. 10 00:02:05,425 --> 00:02:08,883 The sub's advanced sonar detects several large objects in deep water 11 00:02:08,962 --> 00:02:12,398 that appear to be shipwrecks. 12 00:02:13,233 --> 00:02:17,101 Though pressed for time, the crew decides to take a quick look. 13 00:02:22,375 --> 00:02:23,865 A rough set of coordinates 14 00:02:24,110 --> 00:02:27,637 and a shadowy videotape are recorded on the fly. 15 00:02:31,217 --> 00:02:35,119 Later, the crew will send word to a former naval officer- 16 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:40,019 who is also one of the greatest undersea explorers in the world. 17 00:02:41,427 --> 00:02:43,987 The man who discovered the Titanic, the Bismarck, 18 00:02:44,230 --> 00:02:49,190 and many other shipwrecks, Robert Ballard is immediately intrigued. 19 00:02:52,238 --> 00:02:55,435 The sheer number of ceramic jars is impressive- 20 00:02:55,675 --> 00:02:59,372 but their meaning escapes this marine geologist. 21 00:03:00,013 --> 00:03:01,480 Well, not being an archaeologist, 22 00:03:01,714 --> 00:03:04,649 all I could tell was is an ancient ship, 23 00:03:04,884 --> 00:03:07,182 but I didn't know anything more than that. 24 00:03:07,420 --> 00:03:11,288 It lies at a forbidding 400 meters depth. 25 00:03:11,524 --> 00:03:13,890 Is it worth investigating? 26 00:03:14,127 --> 00:03:17,290 Ballard will seek the advice of an expert. 27 00:03:22,602 --> 00:03:23,933 Throughout the Mediterranean, 28 00:03:24,170 --> 00:03:27,697 most shipwrecks have been discovered in shallow water. 29 00:03:28,074 --> 00:03:31,703 But this one was found nearly 50 kilometers off shore, 30 00:03:31,945 --> 00:03:37,850 opposite what was once a thriving seaport: The city of Ashkelon. 31 00:03:40,420 --> 00:03:43,048 On the southern coast of present-day Israel, 32 00:03:43,289 --> 00:03:47,817 Ashkelon's roots reach back nearly 6,000 years. 33 00:03:49,128 --> 00:03:52,529 Crusaders and Muslims fought over this place. 34 00:03:52,865 --> 00:03:54,389 Romans claimed it. 35 00:03:54,734 --> 00:03:56,895 Babylonians destroyed it. 36 00:03:57,670 --> 00:04:01,766 In the Bible, it was a stronghold of the Philistines. 37 00:04:02,008 --> 00:04:05,637 Its earliest known inhabitants were the Canaanites. 38 00:04:08,648 --> 00:04:12,243 Since 1985, archaeologist Lawrence Stager, 39 00:04:12,485 --> 00:04:16,319 of Harvard University has directed excavations here. 40 00:04:19,425 --> 00:04:22,758 His knowledge of ancient pottery is renowned. 41 00:04:22,996 --> 00:04:27,228 In a tiny shard, he can 'see' an entire artifact, 42 00:04:27,467 --> 00:04:30,300 and pinpoint the culture that produced it. 43 00:04:31,237 --> 00:04:35,970 Oh, now this is great. This is Cypro-Geometric III. 44 00:04:36,209 --> 00:04:40,202 This is most probably an import from Cyprus. 45 00:04:40,446 --> 00:04:43,904 But things were not so clear in the Navy's videotape. 46 00:04:44,317 --> 00:04:47,548 Well, when I first looked at it, I was a bit disappointed 47 00:04:47,787 --> 00:04:53,817 that it was so fuzzy, and couldn't really make out these jars very well. 48 00:04:54,060 --> 00:04:59,020 Because that, of course, was the key to determining the age of the shipwreck. 49 00:04:59,265 --> 00:05:04,862 But it seemed to me that they might be early, 50 00:05:05,104 --> 00:05:10,736 and possibly even 9th, 8th, 7th century BCE. 51 00:05:13,379 --> 00:05:17,145 These two-handled storage jars, called amphoras, 52 00:05:17,383 --> 00:05:19,578 were first used throughout the Mediterranean 53 00:05:19,819 --> 00:05:23,550 around 4,000 years ago. 54 00:05:23,823 --> 00:05:27,054 Distinctive styles evolved in various locales- 55 00:05:27,293 --> 00:05:30,262 a boon for archaeologists who can use the jars 56 00:05:30,496 --> 00:05:33,932 as 'signatures' of time and place. 57 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:38,596 But sometimes two amphoras from vastly different eras 58 00:05:38,838 --> 00:05:41,466 can be deceptively similar. 59 00:05:44,177 --> 00:05:47,874 These might be from the 5th Century AD. 60 00:05:48,114 --> 00:05:51,982 But Stager has a hunch they're much older. 61 00:05:52,385 --> 00:05:55,286 He tells Ballard that if this wreck dates to the Iron Age, 62 00:05:55,521 --> 00:06:01,426 as he suspects, it is the first of its kind ever found in the Mediterranean. 63 00:06:01,928 --> 00:06:06,456 It was a gamble but one that I was at least confident enough 64 00:06:06,699 --> 00:06:10,032 in that I would have put down a good-sized bet. 65 00:06:13,072 --> 00:06:15,632 More than money would be wagered. 66 00:06:15,875 --> 00:06:21,973 In the summer of 1999, the 'Northern Horizon' sets out from Malta. 67 00:06:22,215 --> 00:06:23,978 Ballard and Stager lead an expedition 68 00:06:24,217 --> 00:06:28,415 to relocate and study the mysterious wreck. 69 00:06:29,288 --> 00:06:32,519 At stake is their conviction that the combined strengths 70 00:06:32,759 --> 00:06:36,991 of oceanography and archaeology can make history. 71 00:06:37,630 --> 00:06:41,657 You know, when we found the Titanic, we found the Bismarck, 72 00:06:41,901 --> 00:06:43,528 we knew they existed. 73 00:06:43,770 --> 00:06:45,237 They really were not a discovery. 74 00:06:45,471 --> 00:06:47,268 They were a relocation. 75 00:06:48,141 --> 00:06:49,699 These are true discoveries. 76 00:06:49,942 --> 00:06:53,173 These are chapters of human history we don't know about, 77 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:56,940 and I actually think they are more important. 78 00:06:57,417 --> 00:07:02,184 Still, this expedition begins like any other. 79 00:07:06,492 --> 00:07:08,687 Okay, ladies and gents! 80 00:07:08,928 --> 00:07:12,489 Make sure your life jackets are right before I shout you out 81 00:07:12,732 --> 00:07:14,723 else I'll give you to Albert! 82 00:07:15,768 --> 00:07:20,398 Safety training is mandatory for everyone on board- 83 00:07:20,807 --> 00:07:24,106 forty-nine scientists, engineers, programmers, 84 00:07:24,343 --> 00:07:27,471 ship's mates and graduate students. 85 00:07:29,849 --> 00:07:32,613 When you jump in whas the correct way to hold your life jacket? 86 00:07:32,852 --> 00:07:35,912 Yeah, and your nose. Smashing. 87 00:07:37,323 --> 00:07:40,588 Landlubber or seadog, no one is exempt. 88 00:07:41,260 --> 00:07:42,488 No one. 89 00:07:45,598 --> 00:07:46,292 Larry! 90 00:07:52,672 --> 00:07:54,196 Can't get it any tighter! 91 00:07:57,710 --> 00:08:00,543 The Northern Horizon has been transformed into 92 00:08:00,780 --> 00:08:03,112 a floating research facility. 93 00:08:03,349 --> 00:08:07,945 Over 55 tons of equipment were shipped from the United States. 94 00:08:08,321 --> 00:08:11,779 Several larger items have been welded to the deck. 95 00:08:15,428 --> 00:08:16,918 For nearly two decades, 96 00:08:17,163 --> 00:08:19,791 Ballard has worked with an expert team 97 00:08:20,032 --> 00:08:23,263 out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 98 00:08:23,503 --> 00:08:28,202 Martin Bowen and Andy Bowen have been key members of many expeditions. 99 00:08:31,310 --> 00:08:36,509 Inside, Stager's archaeology team has established its own 'headquarters'. 100 00:08:36,749 --> 00:08:41,846 Hey, team, excuse me, I just got some interesting information from Bob; 101 00:08:42,088 --> 00:08:44,454 he just gave me the coordinates. 102 00:08:44,690 --> 00:08:47,523 They're right on the ancient routes 103 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:52,356 that some have predicted between the cedars of Lebanon and Egypt. 104 00:08:52,598 --> 00:08:55,431 His team includes four graduate students, 105 00:08:55,668 --> 00:08:59,866 as well as an expert on ancient ships, nautical archaeologist 106 00:09:00,106 --> 00:09:03,872 Shelley Wachsmann of Texas A&M University. 107 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:09,512 These ships might have had pretty wide beamy hulls and so forth? 108 00:09:09,749 --> 00:09:12,445 Wachsmann: They seem from all the iconography we have from this period 109 00:09:12,685 --> 00:09:17,816 that the merchant ships were extremely beamy and broad hulled. 110 00:09:18,057 --> 00:09:18,921 Yeah. 111 00:09:19,158 --> 00:09:20,648 If this dates to around 700 BC 112 00:09:20,893 --> 00:09:25,455 this is the first ship ever found that dates to that time period. 113 00:09:25,698 --> 00:09:28,428 You have to remember that ships tell the story of history. 114 00:09:28,668 --> 00:09:30,659 I mean, there is nothing that man ever made 115 00:09:30,903 --> 00:09:33,736 that was not carried on a ship, including the pyramids- 116 00:09:33,973 --> 00:09:37,101 stone by stone, not in one shot! 117 00:09:39,545 --> 00:09:42,036 And each one of these are literally a time capsule. 118 00:09:42,281 --> 00:09:44,044 They went down in one moment, like that, 119 00:09:44,283 --> 00:09:48,049 and everything they were carrying on it at that one time 120 00:09:48,287 --> 00:09:50,448 went down together, and that tells us a story. 121 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:59,826 To reach the coordinates provided by the Navy will take about five days. 122 00:10:00,099 --> 00:10:03,193 This is the calm before the storm. 123 00:10:04,570 --> 00:10:07,300 We are very relaxed now, which is great. 124 00:10:07,540 --> 00:10:10,509 People are charging their batteries, getting sleep, 125 00:10:10,743 --> 00:10:12,267 we just did the testing of the ship. 126 00:10:12,511 --> 00:10:15,173 Everything's proceeding smoothly. 127 00:10:15,414 --> 00:10:19,646 But once we get on site ill kick in to around the clock. 128 00:10:19,952 --> 00:10:22,682 And you will see people break up into three watches, 129 00:10:22,922 --> 00:10:26,722 and there will always be a team at work 24 hours a day. 130 00:10:26,959 --> 00:10:30,019 Susan and Michael have the most difficult schedule in some ways 131 00:10:30,262 --> 00:10:33,322 because they work from 12 noon to 4 p.m. 132 00:10:33,566 --> 00:10:36,694 And then from 4 p.m. To midnight, 133 00:10:36,936 --> 00:10:38,267 they have to sleep and thas a tough time 134 00:10:38,504 --> 00:10:40,267 to go to sleep at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. 135 00:10:40,506 --> 00:10:41,302 But the reason they have to do 136 00:10:41,540 --> 00:10:43,508 that is because at 12 midnight they have to get back up 137 00:10:43,743 --> 00:10:45,210 and work the 12 midnight to 4 a.m. Shift. 138 00:10:45,444 --> 00:10:46,206 And go to the van. 139 00:10:46,445 --> 00:10:47,207 Exactly. 140 00:10:47,380 --> 00:10:49,075 And thas where everything is happening? 141 00:10:50,149 --> 00:10:51,548 Well it sounds like, from what they said, 142 00:10:51,784 --> 00:10:54,378 that the midnight to 4 a.m. Shift actually is a time 143 00:10:54,620 --> 00:10:55,917 when a lot of things do happen. 144 00:11:02,061 --> 00:11:06,964 On the Northern Horizon, 'navigation' involves a Global Positioning System 145 00:11:07,199 --> 00:11:10,032 and computer-controlled propulsion. 146 00:11:12,405 --> 00:11:14,168 But a few thousand years ago, 147 00:11:14,407 --> 00:11:19,140 a sea captain had to rely on somewhat 'higher' powers. 148 00:11:23,182 --> 00:11:25,150 The very heavens were his guide. 149 00:11:27,853 --> 00:11:32,847 He probably spent a lifetime committing constellations to memory, 150 00:11:33,092 --> 00:11:35,390 observing the shifting angle of the sun. 151 00:11:38,898 --> 00:11:43,858 The special temper of each wind, and the season of its coming. 152 00:11:44,203 --> 00:11:47,764 The powerful currents hidden beneath the waves. 153 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,641 All these may have been the secrets of his trade. 154 00:11:54,413 --> 00:11:59,578 Surely he watched for seabirds, heralds of an approaching shore, 155 00:11:59,819 --> 00:12:03,778 and for landmarks familiar as a friendly face. 156 00:12:04,356 --> 00:12:08,690 But the nearness of land was not necessarily a comfort, 157 00:12:08,928 --> 00:12:12,557 and he likely kept his ship at quite a distance. 158 00:12:13,332 --> 00:12:15,857 Well, generally the common wisdom has it that, 159 00:12:16,102 --> 00:12:18,502 for safety, the ancient mariners hugged the coast. 160 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:20,171 But when you think about it, 161 00:12:20,406 --> 00:12:24,570 the last thing an ancient mariner ever wanted to see during a storm 162 00:12:24,810 --> 00:12:27,608 was a quickly approaching the shore. 163 00:12:28,647 --> 00:12:29,739 Plus there was piracy. 164 00:12:29,982 --> 00:12:33,418 Piracy wasn't the type that you see in the movies, 165 00:12:33,652 --> 00:12:36,849 in the Caribbean where you're just sailing around in the middle of nowhere 166 00:12:37,089 --> 00:12:38,750 and suddenly another ship comes out. 167 00:12:38,991 --> 00:12:41,084 Rather, they would watch from shore. 168 00:12:42,528 --> 00:12:44,291 So you don't want to stay too close to shore, 169 00:12:44,530 --> 00:12:45,497 and if somebody comes out to attack, 170 00:12:45,731 --> 00:12:48,495 you want to have that leeway to get out of the way. 171 00:12:51,237 --> 00:12:56,641 Is Day Five and nearly midnight when the Northern Horizon arrives on site. 172 00:12:56,876 --> 00:13:00,778 The coordinates provided by the Navy are only approximate. 173 00:13:01,013 --> 00:13:04,278 Margin of error might be up to a kilometer. 174 00:13:06,852 --> 00:13:11,380 Ballars team deploys a deepwater side-scan sonar. 175 00:13:11,624 --> 00:13:14,218 The hope is it will pinpoint the same pattern 176 00:13:14,460 --> 00:13:17,623 of large objects detected by the Navy. 177 00:13:18,798 --> 00:13:20,789 Slip his line, slip his line! 178 00:13:23,502 --> 00:13:27,495 As the sonar is towed, its fiber optic cable carries signals 179 00:13:27,740 --> 00:13:31,574 to the 'Control Van', nerve center of the expedition. 180 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:38,438 Sonar screens are not inherently exciting. 181 00:13:38,984 --> 00:13:43,683 As the first watch hunkers down, everything starts to go wrong. 182 00:13:44,790 --> 00:13:47,384 Okay, this course is going to take us into deep water. 183 00:13:48,127 --> 00:13:49,219 It already is increased. 184 00:13:50,930 --> 00:13:56,061 The ship can't seem to stay on track, and the sonar is pitched at an angle. 185 00:13:57,069 --> 00:13:58,400 Pull up the winch. 186 00:14:02,341 --> 00:14:06,607 The generator is not going to survive a lot longer. 187 00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:08,575 They have to shut the generator off now. 188 00:14:08,814 --> 00:14:09,644 This is the ship's? 189 00:14:09,882 --> 00:14:10,849 Now. Yes, the ship's. 190 00:14:11,884 --> 00:14:13,545 The ship has lost a generator. 191 00:14:14,286 --> 00:14:15,719 Our speed over the ground is 5 knots. 192 00:14:16,088 --> 00:14:21,151 Five knots? I'm shocked! 193 00:14:22,962 --> 00:14:26,796 If there's a current like 4 knots, we're not doing this site. 194 00:14:28,734 --> 00:14:31,066 That could be a real showstopper right there! 195 00:14:32,671 --> 00:14:36,767 Unless the winch is rewired to another source of power on board, 196 00:14:37,009 --> 00:14:39,239 the expedition is dead in the water. 197 00:14:41,547 --> 00:14:42,571 Time to improvise. 198 00:14:43,549 --> 00:14:47,815 There's no way we can feed any power from below 199 00:14:48,053 --> 00:14:49,816 through the Scania circuit, right? 200 00:14:50,489 --> 00:14:53,117 Because I have someone now disconnecting the cables. 201 00:14:57,663 --> 00:15:01,258 No estimated time on repairs. 202 00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:05,594 Okay. Got the hand crank? 203 00:15:07,006 --> 00:15:08,769 No... 204 00:15:16,215 --> 00:15:19,548 Such are the risks of trying out a brand new winch. 205 00:15:21,053 --> 00:15:22,782 We're doing things we've never done before. 206 00:15:23,022 --> 00:15:24,148 But thas why we're here. 207 00:15:25,591 --> 00:15:27,115 We're always pushing the envelope. 208 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:31,227 The challenge is always the desire on the part of the scientists 209 00:15:31,463 --> 00:15:33,158 to do things that have never been done before 210 00:15:33,399 --> 00:15:38,564 and the operator's side not wanting to change anything, 'cause it works. 211 00:15:42,007 --> 00:15:44,703 4 a.m. Mission accomplished. 212 00:15:45,577 --> 00:15:48,671 Is a miracle thas the only guy thas a problem. 213 00:15:50,916 --> 00:15:54,511 Power has been re-routed- and the hunt is on. 214 00:15:57,356 --> 00:15:59,449 That looks pretty good now. 215 00:16:01,193 --> 00:16:03,457 Do you see something that you believe? 216 00:16:04,797 --> 00:16:08,961 The sonar displays targets as subtle smudges. 217 00:16:09,201 --> 00:16:12,534 It takes a trained eye to tell a shipwreck from a rock heap. 218 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:16,605 There dead ahead. 219 00:16:16,842 --> 00:16:18,309 Zero three seven 220 00:16:18,711 --> 00:16:19,700 Is on the screen now. 221 00:16:19,945 --> 00:16:20,912 Just startin' to appear. 222 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:30,420 There's something comin' in but is on the right. 223 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:34,987 There's something there. 224 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,128 There's something there 225 00:16:43,335 --> 00:16:45,769 You're certainly within the range of Jason to see it. 226 00:16:47,172 --> 00:16:51,700 Is about the right length; it looks like is maybe 30 meters. 227 00:16:51,944 --> 00:16:53,639 Is roughly in the right place. 228 00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:54,743 It smells right. 229 00:16:56,115 --> 00:16:59,209 Within twelve hours, the team locates three targets 230 00:16:59,451 --> 00:17:02,511 that line up in a similar configuration to the Navy's - 231 00:17:02,755 --> 00:17:06,191 but offset by half a kilometer from their coordinates. 232 00:17:09,695 --> 00:17:10,889 Back to you, Larry. 233 00:17:13,065 --> 00:17:14,157 I think we did it. 234 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:15,697 We did it. 235 00:17:15,934 --> 00:17:17,868 Okay. The weather's nice. 236 00:17:20,172 --> 00:17:22,072 I think we'll go to 'Phase Two'. 237 00:17:25,544 --> 00:17:27,273 Is a conditional victory. 238 00:17:27,679 --> 00:17:29,943 Until they actually look at the targets, 239 00:17:30,182 --> 00:17:32,207 they won't know if they've hit pay dirt. 240 00:17:34,787 --> 00:17:36,311 There's plenty of work ahead. 241 00:17:37,089 --> 00:17:38,556 Better get something to eat below. 242 00:17:40,692 --> 00:17:45,356 As one shift gives way to the next, notions of time begin to blur. 243 00:17:49,635 --> 00:17:50,659 Day 6. 244 00:17:52,104 --> 00:17:56,598 The team prepares to launch an extraordinary robot named Jason, 245 00:17:56,842 --> 00:17:59,037 designed and built at Woods Hole - 246 00:17:59,278 --> 00:18:02,076 and championed by a man with a life-long dream. 247 00:18:03,282 --> 00:18:07,946 Robert Ballard can't remember a time he wasn't obsessed with the deep sea. 248 00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:15,820 I mean my idol, as a kid- perhaps still is... was Captain Nemo. 249 00:18:17,396 --> 00:18:20,695 He first dove in a submarine in 1969. 250 00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:26,533 Later, he was part of the historic expedition 251 00:18:26,772 --> 00:18:28,899 that discovered hydrothermal vents 252 00:18:29,141 --> 00:18:32,770 and surprising life forms on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. 253 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,278 But he's always had a healthy respect for the deep. 254 00:18:38,217 --> 00:18:41,152 Diving in a small submarine can be very dangerous. 255 00:18:41,386 --> 00:18:42,614 Pressure is a funny thing 256 00:18:42,855 --> 00:18:44,083 'cause you look out the window and you can't see it. 257 00:18:44,623 --> 00:18:50,027 But is there and the slightest mistake and the failure of your porthole 258 00:18:50,262 --> 00:18:52,025 or anything would be a catastrophic implosion - 259 00:18:52,264 --> 00:18:55,631 just pfft - you'd just vanish. 260 00:18:58,637 --> 00:19:02,596 Ballard began to think that remote- controlled robots might be the answer. 261 00:19:03,775 --> 00:19:07,575 The idea led to a prototype called 'Jason Jr.', 262 00:19:07,813 --> 00:19:09,508 rigged with four motors, 263 00:19:09,748 --> 00:19:12,774 a thirty-meter tether, and an electronic eye. 264 00:19:18,157 --> 00:19:24,926 In 1986, on the Titanic, Jason Jr. Proved himself a nimble explorer. 265 00:19:26,899 --> 00:19:29,663 Maneuvered by Martin Bowen from within a submarine, 266 00:19:29,902 --> 00:19:33,463 the little robot descended the grand staircase 267 00:19:33,705 --> 00:19:35,900 and danced beneath a chandelier. 268 00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:44,380 That success launched a flurry of innovation at Woods Hole. 269 00:19:46,151 --> 00:19:50,713 By the 1990's, Jason had become a technological wonder weighing 270 00:19:50,956 --> 00:19:52,355 just over two tons. 271 00:19:55,928 --> 00:19:58,795 In a sense, he remains a work-in-progress- 272 00:19:59,031 --> 00:20:00,760 forever refined and improved. 273 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,228 But even his standard features are impressive. 274 00:20:04,636 --> 00:20:08,834 Seven thrusters allow for precision maneuvering underwater. 275 00:20:09,408 --> 00:20:13,538 Titanium components can withstand depths of 6000 meters. 276 00:20:14,413 --> 00:20:17,007 Get it here and move the whole thing back. 277 00:20:21,420 --> 00:20:26,585 Jason's video, film and electronic cameras can be remote-controlled 278 00:20:26,825 --> 00:20:28,190 by an experienced pilot. 279 00:20:29,461 --> 00:20:34,421 Likewise his articulated arm, which can lift up to 15 kilos. 280 00:20:37,469 --> 00:20:39,027 You know, right about here, Andy. 281 00:20:39,271 --> 00:20:40,932 By about my foot. 282 00:20:41,173 --> 00:20:45,906 To fire up such a complex machine takes teamwork and time. 283 00:20:47,279 --> 00:20:50,806 Jason won't be ready to launch until well after dark. 284 00:21:03,061 --> 00:21:06,292 Is a breathless moment just before Jason hits the water. 285 00:21:06,965 --> 00:21:08,796 If a single component leaks, 286 00:21:09,034 --> 00:21:12,128 it could short-circuit the entire electrical system. 287 00:21:23,815 --> 00:21:25,043 Okay, pins released. 288 00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:28,048 But tonight is 'all systems go.' 289 00:21:30,889 --> 00:21:35,349 Jason dives toward the most promising of the three sonar targets. 290 00:21:38,430 --> 00:21:39,624 And we're off. 291 00:21:39,865 --> 00:21:41,594 Roger, make it slow. 292 00:21:43,869 --> 00:21:46,804 You're 110 meters out to the target. 293 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,541 At the controls is pilot Will Sellers. 294 00:21:52,010 --> 00:21:55,673 He adjusts Jason's buoyancy by dropping ballast weights. 295 00:22:00,886 --> 00:22:01,910 Amazing! 296 00:22:03,121 --> 00:22:07,114 Jason's own forward-facing sonar now scans the bottom. 297 00:22:09,328 --> 00:22:10,659 A hundred and five meters. 298 00:22:10,896 --> 00:22:12,693 Okay, is off to the left. 299 00:22:13,065 --> 00:22:15,465 Forty meters off to the left. 300 00:22:15,967 --> 00:22:19,198 Is that it coming in? 301 00:22:24,109 --> 00:22:25,201 Thas it. 302 00:22:29,815 --> 00:22:30,679 Les see what we've got. 303 00:22:31,783 --> 00:22:32,909 Lot of pits 304 00:22:33,618 --> 00:22:35,449 Thas just noise 305 00:22:38,156 --> 00:22:39,282 There it is. 306 00:22:45,831 --> 00:22:47,264 Thas not geology. 307 00:22:55,674 --> 00:22:56,641 There it is. 308 00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:58,467 Whatever it is. Thas it ahead. 309 00:22:58,710 --> 00:23:00,268 Off to the right slightly. 310 00:23:05,350 --> 00:23:06,647 Thas an anchor. 311 00:23:09,121 --> 00:23:10,179 There's the chain. 312 00:23:10,422 --> 00:23:11,616 Yup, there's the chain. 313 00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:14,821 Follow that chain, Will, to the right. 314 00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:19,292 Come right. Thas the chain. 315 00:23:22,667 --> 00:23:25,067 Metal chain, modern anchor. 316 00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:28,631 This is no ancient ship. 317 00:23:29,608 --> 00:23:30,540 So is the other guy. 318 00:23:30,776 --> 00:23:32,607 Yup. Thas the Queen Victoria. 319 00:23:33,678 --> 00:23:35,646 That was target AA, right? 320 00:23:35,881 --> 00:23:38,076 Yeah so it means is AC. 321 00:23:38,316 --> 00:23:42,878 The brightest one is gonna be the oldest. 322 00:23:44,089 --> 00:23:46,216 Well, there you are. 323 00:23:46,858 --> 00:23:48,018 Anyway it was a hit. 324 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,228 Okay, so we don't care about this guy. 325 00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:57,535 We want to drive to AC as fast as humanly you know, just head over there. 326 00:23:57,769 --> 00:24:00,033 Ill take us a while, we'll go have coffee and celebrate. 327 00:24:01,373 --> 00:24:04,001 We've got a ship, the wrong one. 328 00:24:04,242 --> 00:24:05,709 But it means we know where the right one is. 329 00:24:09,714 --> 00:24:11,705 Stager: My knees are weak. 330 00:24:12,384 --> 00:24:14,352 From standing or the excitement? 331 00:24:19,391 --> 00:24:21,416 And then the anchor and then the chain. 332 00:24:21,827 --> 00:24:24,523 Those apparently don't start before 1820. 333 00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:29,491 So we might have a Victorian ship, we may not. 334 00:24:29,734 --> 00:24:30,166 Who cares? 335 00:24:33,171 --> 00:24:39,076 Is two hours transit to the next most likely target -for some, 336 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:41,108 a very long two hours. 337 00:24:56,628 --> 00:25:00,325 Day 7. 5 a.m. Jason is back in action. 338 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:07,404 The Control Van is flooded with anticipation, exhaustion, and adrenaline. 339 00:25:08,573 --> 00:25:11,133 That must be it. That bright spot. 340 00:25:11,943 --> 00:25:13,240 The bright spot, is it. 341 00:25:13,478 --> 00:25:13,807 Thas it. 342 00:25:19,818 --> 00:25:20,716 Magic. 343 00:25:20,952 --> 00:25:22,613 Brightest thing on the screen. 344 00:25:26,024 --> 00:25:27,616 Thas gotta be the big one. 345 00:25:27,859 --> 00:25:29,486 Thas the mother lode. 346 00:25:30,362 --> 00:25:32,227 The mother of all ships. 347 00:25:34,266 --> 00:25:35,563 Eighty meters. 348 00:25:48,079 --> 00:25:51,014 Remember that movie when the alien is being tracked? 349 00:25:51,416 --> 00:25:53,111 And is coming towards you? 350 00:25:55,587 --> 00:26:00,957 'The alien is approaching our cabin, captain.'45 meters. 351 00:26:02,527 --> 00:26:04,392 And closing... 352 00:26:04,763 --> 00:26:11,430 Eighteen meters... There she blows! 353 00:26:12,304 --> 00:26:14,431 All right! 354 00:26:19,844 --> 00:26:21,038 Look at that! 355 00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:28,045 Fantastic! 356 00:26:32,157 --> 00:26:33,055 There we are! 357 00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:34,087 Oh, yeah. 358 00:26:34,326 --> 00:26:36,817 Now we can see that they're not Byzantine, 359 00:26:37,062 --> 00:26:40,156 thas 8th Century. Thas... 360 00:26:40,632 --> 00:26:41,792 Is now your problem, Larry. 361 00:26:44,035 --> 00:26:45,297 Is a problem I like. 362 00:26:46,004 --> 00:26:51,135 This is the first iron age ship thas ever been found in the Mediterranean. 363 00:26:51,376 --> 00:26:53,367 All right! 364 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:56,812 And is the biggest one. 365 00:26:57,048 --> 00:26:58,879 I mean, there's nothing bigger. 366 00:26:59,117 --> 00:27:02,143 Look at the corks. Are they corked? 367 00:27:02,420 --> 00:27:03,409 No, no. 368 00:27:03,655 --> 00:27:05,145 There's something in them. 369 00:27:05,390 --> 00:27:07,085 They can't sediment that way. 370 00:27:07,325 --> 00:27:10,886 But they can't sediment that way, unless they've been excavated. 371 00:27:12,597 --> 00:27:13,894 I don't think so. 372 00:27:14,132 --> 00:27:16,032 You can't fill them that way. 373 00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:20,232 Look at those thing, still stacked. 374 00:27:20,472 --> 00:27:23,270 And cooking pots too. 375 00:27:23,508 --> 00:27:27,274 We didn't see those... Oh my. 376 00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:33,010 Those are absolutely perfect 8th Century. 377 00:27:38,189 --> 00:27:41,681 I was nervous that we were gonna relocate it, 378 00:27:41,926 --> 00:27:44,053 and then when I saw those amphoras, 379 00:27:44,295 --> 00:27:46,286 I stopped looking at the ship at that point, 380 00:27:46,531 --> 00:27:50,228 and I'm looking at Larry,'cause he's the one who knows what we have. 381 00:27:50,468 --> 00:27:55,428 And then when you saw that big smile that we got the ship we wanted- 382 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,608 as far as I was concerned the cruise was over. 383 00:27:58,943 --> 00:27:59,637 Look at that. 384 00:28:01,012 --> 00:28:02,741 Is the anchor. 385 00:28:05,383 --> 00:28:06,645 The stone anchor! 386 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,718 More than a night to remember. It was ecstasy. 387 00:28:13,525 --> 00:28:18,656 I haven't been so happy about an archeological discovery in years, 388 00:28:18,897 --> 00:28:19,829 maybe a lifetime. 389 00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:22,932 Look at that, you can see the ridges on the high neck. 390 00:28:23,501 --> 00:28:25,992 You know, when you have those kind of moments you never forget them, 391 00:28:26,237 --> 00:28:26,965 and this was mine. 392 00:28:32,811 --> 00:28:36,372 For me, something that was incredibly evocative were the two cooking pots 393 00:28:36,614 --> 00:28:41,108 with, you know, maybe the last supper in them before the ship went down. 394 00:28:42,087 --> 00:28:44,647 Yeah, I do think about people who went down. 395 00:28:57,869 --> 00:29:02,602 Like a messenger from the future, Jason sheds light on a vessel 396 00:29:02,841 --> 00:29:07,141 that set sail around the time Homer is said to have written the Odyssey... 397 00:29:08,213 --> 00:29:11,740 when the Greeks began to celebrate the Olympic games... 398 00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:15,085 and a pair of twin brothers, according to legend, 399 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,050 founded a city called Rome. 400 00:29:29,134 --> 00:29:32,433 The archaeologists need a detailed, overall view, 401 00:29:32,670 --> 00:29:35,696 but Jason's lights can't illuminate the entire wreck. 402 00:29:36,941 --> 00:29:41,275 To map the site, the robot moves over the ship in small increments 403 00:29:41,513 --> 00:29:44,380 and takes some 800 electronic close-ups. 404 00:29:50,855 --> 00:29:53,517 On-board computers help merge these images 405 00:29:53,758 --> 00:29:57,216 into a black-and-white high-resolution 'photomosaic.' 406 00:29:58,763 --> 00:30:02,995 It speaks volumes about the worls oldest deep-sea shipwreck. 407 00:30:05,436 --> 00:30:10,396 Some 300 amphoras preserve the shape of a long-vanished hull. 408 00:30:11,075 --> 00:30:15,409 About 18 meters long, it was heading west when it sank. 409 00:30:16,247 --> 00:30:20,581 A stone anchor marks the bow, cooking pots the stern. 410 00:30:21,653 --> 00:30:24,213 All this, plus the style of the amphoras 411 00:30:24,455 --> 00:30:27,117 suggests it may be a Phoenician merchant ship, 412 00:30:27,358 --> 00:30:30,794 broad in the beam, with a curved horse-head bow. 413 00:30:34,432 --> 00:30:37,333 Such ships are known from Assyrian carvings, 414 00:30:37,569 --> 00:30:42,734 and from a detailed description in the Bible, in the book of Ezekiel. 415 00:30:49,314 --> 00:30:52,977 Of the Phoenicians, little tangible has been unearthed. 416 00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:57,412 They lived along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean 417 00:30:57,655 --> 00:31:00,590 from before 1200 BC through the Roman period. 418 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,485 But their real domain was the sea. 419 00:31:06,397 --> 00:31:09,161 The greatest maritime merchants of the ancient world, 420 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,460 they traded with Pharaohs, Greeks, and Romans, 421 00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:17,232 and left traces of colonies as far west as the Strait of Gibraltar. 422 00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:24,347 Their rich purple dye was much prized, as were their cedars of Lebanon. 423 00:31:25,717 --> 00:31:29,244 It was the Phoenicians who provided lumber and expertise 424 00:31:29,487 --> 00:31:32,183 when Solomon built his temple in Jerusalem. 425 00:31:34,158 --> 00:31:38,026 Their skill at carving wood and ivory was unrivaled. 426 00:31:46,371 --> 00:31:50,205 Sadly, only shreds of Phoenician literature survive. 427 00:31:50,441 --> 00:31:53,535 But their simple alphabet was widely adopted, 428 00:31:53,778 --> 00:31:57,236 and would evolve into the Roman alphabet we use today. 429 00:32:00,852 --> 00:32:05,312 Still, it was as seafarers that the Phoenicians most impressed the world. 430 00:32:07,859 --> 00:32:11,625 A Greek historian claims they first circumnavigated Africa. 431 00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:15,122 Others believe they even reached England. 432 00:32:18,536 --> 00:32:22,233 Is as if the Phoenicians entrusted all their secrets to the sea. 433 00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:24,166 Until now. 434 00:32:27,445 --> 00:32:28,343 Day 8. 435 00:32:28,947 --> 00:32:32,314 The team drops a rig called an 'elevator' to the bottom. 436 00:32:34,986 --> 00:32:38,217 Later, it will raise precious cargo to the surface. 437 00:32:52,170 --> 00:32:56,504 So, there are the pots right there. 438 00:32:57,141 --> 00:32:59,006 Today's goal is 'retrieval'. 439 00:32:59,243 --> 00:33:01,177 With hundreds of amphoras to choose from, 440 00:33:01,412 --> 00:33:04,472 the two lone cooking pots are top priority. 441 00:33:07,418 --> 00:33:08,908 It won't be easy. 442 00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:12,919 Pilot Matt Heintz is first to test Jason's new 'han- 443 00:33:13,157 --> 00:33:15,990 nicknamed 'Deep Spank' by the team. 444 00:33:22,033 --> 00:33:24,001 You get it just like that, and hold it like that, 445 00:33:24,235 --> 00:33:26,396 so the weighs sitting on that. 446 00:33:26,871 --> 00:33:28,498 Okay, we'll see if we can nudge it under there. 447 00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:29,866 And avoid the handles. 448 00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:32,237 Yeah. 449 00:33:32,477 --> 00:33:35,139 They're not up to taking weight like that. 450 00:33:35,780 --> 00:33:38,749 No one is quite sure how the pot will hold up. 451 00:33:45,056 --> 00:33:47,718 First time that one's been moved in 2,700 years. 452 00:33:47,959 --> 00:33:52,521 Yeah? I think is the foos ready. 453 00:33:55,733 --> 00:34:01,831 Is lost. Okay, we gotta recover and change out. 454 00:34:08,279 --> 00:34:10,770 For now, 'Deep Spank' disappoints. 455 00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:19,020 It was a new modification that didn't work. 456 00:34:19,490 --> 00:34:20,980 Engineering on the fly. 457 00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:25,359 Is back to an old die-hard. 458 00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:28,759 Scoops in underneath and then you close down on top. 459 00:34:29,667 --> 00:34:32,329 We call it the cowcatcher. It works. 460 00:34:35,273 --> 00:34:37,537 Within hours, Jason is back on the bottom, 461 00:34:37,775 --> 00:34:41,267 with a priceless cooking pot in his 'cowcatcher.' 462 00:34:43,681 --> 00:34:47,139 Now this is archaeology. Quick and beautiful. 463 00:34:56,294 --> 00:34:57,955 That dog can hunt! 464 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:03,861 Is a triumph of technology 465 00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:07,333 each time Jason deposits an artifact in the elevator. 466 00:35:09,807 --> 00:35:12,571 But it also means the wreck site has been altered. 467 00:35:13,644 --> 00:35:15,441 Careful records must be kept. 468 00:35:17,348 --> 00:35:19,043 Archeology is a destructive science. 469 00:35:20,084 --> 00:35:21,915 Is like tearing pages out of a book. 470 00:35:22,153 --> 00:35:23,347 Once you've removed something, 471 00:35:23,588 --> 00:35:27,080 if you haven't recorded it you've lost it forever. 472 00:35:32,897 --> 00:35:35,559 Work continues until the elevator is full. 473 00:35:37,101 --> 00:35:41,663 Then begins a slow ascent that will bridge nearly thirty centuries. 474 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:54,311 There it is right here. 475 00:36:05,296 --> 00:36:06,991 Bob, we made a mistake. 476 00:36:07,231 --> 00:36:10,200 We shouldn't have put both cooking pots in one load 477 00:36:10,434 --> 00:36:11,628 since there are only two of them. 478 00:36:11,869 --> 00:36:12,460 Yeah. 479 00:36:13,704 --> 00:36:16,696 Is that the right place? Is that the right place? 480 00:36:16,941 --> 00:36:17,965 The center! 481 00:36:20,411 --> 00:36:22,879 Okay, undo yours. Let him just come straight up. 482 00:36:23,114 --> 00:36:24,445 Take the slack off 483 00:36:28,085 --> 00:36:29,609 Don't tilt it. 484 00:36:29,854 --> 00:36:31,879 Just stop it when it starts to swing. 485 00:36:34,358 --> 00:36:38,886 Okay, don't pull hard guys. Let him try to get it vertical first! 486 00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:41,291 Oh those beautiful cooking pots. 487 00:36:41,832 --> 00:36:44,027 Ha Ha. Oh they're so glorious. 488 00:36:46,938 --> 00:36:48,838 Okay, watch the guys. 489 00:36:49,340 --> 00:36:52,207 Make sure the objects don't come down on anything hard. 490 00:36:54,278 --> 00:36:55,870 Thank god they're here! 491 00:37:00,251 --> 00:37:04,847 I'll tell you, I was really happy to see those cooking pots arrive. 492 00:37:05,556 --> 00:37:07,581 The amphoras, we've got more of. 493 00:37:08,726 --> 00:37:09,784 What would they cook in that? 494 00:37:10,027 --> 00:37:10,959 What kind of meal. 495 00:37:11,195 --> 00:37:13,356 Thas the one you'd do your one pot stew in. 496 00:37:13,598 --> 00:37:16,465 It isn't as though you made one thing here and one thing there. 497 00:37:16,701 --> 00:37:18,066 Just throw it all in. 498 00:37:18,302 --> 00:37:21,396 Refrigerator soup. My wife's mother calls it. 499 00:37:21,839 --> 00:37:25,366 Whatever is at the end of the week in the refrigerator. 500 00:37:26,344 --> 00:37:28,437 Well, this is in beautiful shape. 501 00:37:30,381 --> 00:37:33,509 There's something special about touching something 502 00:37:33,751 --> 00:37:37,187 that has been untouched by humans for almost 3000 years old, 503 00:37:37,421 --> 00:37:39,514 I mean, to the time of Homer. 504 00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:42,624 Wow. Thas, thas pretty far back. 505 00:37:43,894 --> 00:37:46,260 Here comes the pot, so don't jump up, Dan. 506 00:37:51,235 --> 00:37:54,170 Two years after scrutinizing a fuzzy video, 507 00:37:54,405 --> 00:37:57,238 Stager finally enjoys a close encounter. 508 00:37:58,976 --> 00:38:02,343 Few little sea creatures attached to it. 509 00:38:07,018 --> 00:38:12,684 Well, my great wish came true that it was 8th Century 510 00:38:12,923 --> 00:38:14,686 and not something Byzantine. 511 00:38:16,894 --> 00:38:20,762 You know the other possibility for it was that it could date, 512 00:38:20,998 --> 00:38:24,866 oh, maybe 1100, 1200 years later. 513 00:38:25,102 --> 00:38:30,096 In which case we have lots of wrecks and lots of material from that period. 514 00:38:30,341 --> 00:38:34,903 But you rarely if ever find this on land complete. 515 00:38:35,146 --> 00:38:38,206 Even if they're more or less complete they've all been shattered 516 00:38:38,449 --> 00:38:41,441 and you have to put them together to make up the whole. 517 00:38:41,686 --> 00:38:46,089 But out here, a whole shipload of them intact. 518 00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:46,983 Is marvelous. 519 00:38:49,694 --> 00:38:52,857 Bathed in a solution of fresh and salt water, 520 00:38:53,097 --> 00:38:57,090 the artifacts are now the concern of conservator Dennis Piechota, 521 00:38:57,335 --> 00:39:01,704 his son James and assistant conservator Catherine Giangrande. 522 00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:06,571 Sampled and sifted for future analysis, 523 00:39:06,811 --> 00:39:11,441 sediments might yield traces of a meal, or fragments of the ship's hull. 524 00:39:17,288 --> 00:39:19,279 I'm getting 7.2 millimeters. 525 00:39:20,458 --> 00:39:22,824 Preservation of this pot will take months, 526 00:39:23,060 --> 00:39:26,359 but its digital doppelganger is ready for study. 527 00:39:28,833 --> 00:39:32,496 Is equally possible the amphoras contained olive oil or wine. 528 00:39:33,471 --> 00:39:35,371 I think I'm almost at the bottom... 529 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,207 Then Giangrande spots the residue of tree resin, 530 00:39:39,443 --> 00:39:41,843 used for sealing amphoras of wine. 531 00:39:43,948 --> 00:39:47,145 Is as fine a discovery as any to toast. 532 00:39:47,385 --> 00:39:48,409 Not a bad millennium. 533 00:39:48,652 --> 00:39:49,949 Terrific wine. 534 00:39:53,257 --> 00:39:55,987 The superb condition of the amphoras leads Ballard 535 00:39:56,227 --> 00:39:59,321 to a theory about the fate of the ship that carried them. 536 00:40:00,931 --> 00:40:03,559 The ship is not busted up. 537 00:40:03,801 --> 00:40:05,996 There's very few amphoras that were broken. 538 00:40:06,470 --> 00:40:09,871 So it wasn't like they were tossed around and flipped around. 539 00:40:10,107 --> 00:40:10,766 They were swamped. 540 00:40:13,577 --> 00:40:16,512 You know, when you get in trouble you tend to run with the sea, 541 00:40:16,747 --> 00:40:19,773 hoping you can outrun the storm and get away from it, 542 00:40:20,017 --> 00:40:22,645 but you can then have a very powerful wave come over 543 00:40:22,887 --> 00:40:24,878 the stern and just swamp you. 544 00:40:25,122 --> 00:40:26,487 We call'em rogue waves. 545 00:40:26,724 --> 00:40:28,783 I've been in two of them in my life. 546 00:40:29,026 --> 00:40:31,119 We took one head on- right over the bridge, 547 00:40:31,362 --> 00:40:33,489 took off the ridge, took off the mast, all but sank us. 548 00:40:33,731 --> 00:40:36,529 So my first expedition, 40 years ago this summer, 549 00:40:36,767 --> 00:40:39,531 I almost went down in a storm! 550 00:40:41,639 --> 00:40:42,970 Understanding the wreck site 551 00:40:43,207 --> 00:40:46,734 has also consumed the computational energies of the team. 552 00:40:48,512 --> 00:40:50,207 So we've got the map crunched. 553 00:40:51,749 --> 00:40:55,515 Using data collected by a sensor on Jason, Dana Yoerger 554 00:40:55,753 --> 00:40:58,085 has produced a three-dimensional map. 555 00:40:58,956 --> 00:41:03,552 It shows the wreck is sitting in an oval depression nearly two meters deep, 556 00:41:03,794 --> 00:41:06,888 and helps explain something thas been puzzling Ballard. 557 00:41:07,164 --> 00:41:08,893 'Cause you know one of the thing we've been, 558 00:41:09,133 --> 00:41:11,328 the problem is the amphoras are full of mud. 559 00:41:11,569 --> 00:41:14,436 And you figure out, how could they be full of mud? 560 00:41:14,672 --> 00:41:16,640 But what you've done is, it was buried. 561 00:41:18,843 --> 00:41:21,869 When the ship was swamped, it probably sank to the bottom 562 00:41:22,112 --> 00:41:26,412 like a weight, and buried much of its hull in the soft mud. 563 00:41:30,087 --> 00:41:35,150 In time, wood-boring organisms ate away any exposed hull or mast. 564 00:41:37,194 --> 00:41:40,652 The amphoras' unbaked clay stoppers simply dissolved. 565 00:41:41,365 --> 00:41:44,562 As wine escaped, water and sediments poured in. 566 00:41:48,005 --> 00:41:52,442 Over the centuries, deep-water currents scoured the surrounding sea floor, 567 00:41:52,676 --> 00:41:56,112 excavating the wreck, and laying bare its amphoras. 568 00:42:02,453 --> 00:42:05,445 So much revealed in so few days. 569 00:42:06,757 --> 00:42:08,918 The team has earned a bit of fun. 570 00:42:20,871 --> 00:42:22,771 Feet were still a little apart. 571 00:42:23,007 --> 00:42:26,238 I don't know, about an 8, something like that... 572 00:42:37,154 --> 00:42:40,920 Ballard: Time to get all the children out of the water and get back to work. 573 00:42:46,797 --> 00:42:47,491 Day 9. 574 00:42:48,432 --> 00:42:51,959 The team heads for the coordinates of the third sonar target. 575 00:42:52,636 --> 00:42:54,934 Three two seven... 576 00:42:55,172 --> 00:42:57,140 Three two seven and a hundred ninety one meters. 577 00:43:00,444 --> 00:43:04,437 The expedition leaders have been keeping nearly 24-hour shifts. 578 00:43:05,349 --> 00:43:09,410 But there's no sign of fatigue when a target appears on Jason's sonar. 579 00:43:17,528 --> 00:43:19,325 Down 75 on the range. 580 00:43:28,706 --> 00:43:30,936 Thas a 55-gallon drum. 581 00:43:31,809 --> 00:43:32,798 That was a decoy. 582 00:43:33,043 --> 00:43:35,773 They always drop drums to throw people off their trail. 583 00:43:36,013 --> 00:43:40,950 Les, uh, go back to 400, just do a simple turn and see what you've got. 584 00:43:41,485 --> 00:43:45,319 As Jason rotates, he picks up something far more promising. 585 00:43:51,795 --> 00:43:53,456 Is trash 586 00:43:53,697 --> 00:43:54,664 Straight ahead. 587 00:43:57,501 --> 00:44:04,498 Okay. There it is! Is amphoras! Yes!! 588 00:44:04,742 --> 00:44:06,232 All right! 589 00:44:11,215 --> 00:44:11,738 Is the same. 590 00:44:12,316 --> 00:44:13,044 The same! 591 00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:14,382 Is a fleet! 592 00:44:14,618 --> 00:44:15,778 Is another bunch of them. 593 00:44:18,455 --> 00:44:19,945 Is the same guys. 594 00:44:21,058 --> 00:44:25,256 They had a bad day. Look at that. 595 00:44:25,663 --> 00:44:27,631 That wine company went bankrupt. 596 00:44:29,133 --> 00:44:33,433 Is exactly the same. 8th Century. 597 00:44:33,671 --> 00:44:37,163 Same guy caught the same storm, heading the same direction. 598 00:44:40,611 --> 00:44:43,705 This one is more laid out, more spread out. 599 00:44:43,947 --> 00:44:45,346 More scattered. 600 00:44:53,624 --> 00:44:54,215 Bonus! 601 00:44:55,159 --> 00:44:56,421 Definitely! 602 00:44:58,896 --> 00:45:04,493 A survey reveals a ship earily similar in size and shape to the first wreck, 603 00:45:04,735 --> 00:45:07,533 facing west, and carrying the same cargo. 604 00:45:09,606 --> 00:45:13,201 But here, more small personal items seem to be exposed. 605 00:45:13,444 --> 00:45:16,038 Ah, Now, there's a bowl. 606 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:17,907 There's a dish or something. 607 00:45:18,148 --> 00:45:21,049 These could help confirm the homeport of the crew. 608 00:45:21,285 --> 00:45:23,276 Zoom down, zoom. 609 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:26,421 Keep going. Focus stop. 610 00:45:28,859 --> 00:45:30,850 Boy have we got some work to do! 611 00:45:35,599 --> 00:45:39,126 For the next few days, Jason's busy as a bee. 612 00:46:39,963 --> 00:46:43,956 Oh, thas a beauty, a little cooking pot... 613 00:46:45,135 --> 00:46:46,295 This is terrific. 614 00:46:46,537 --> 00:46:53,204 I thought this thing was too big to be a bowl and is actually a mortarium 615 00:46:53,443 --> 00:46:57,539 and is for grinding different kinds of spices and herbs 616 00:46:57,781 --> 00:46:59,874 and putting it in the stew. 617 00:47:02,886 --> 00:47:04,012 Great! 618 00:47:10,327 --> 00:47:12,090 Is swinging. Don't go overboard. 619 00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:21,566 Now we're getting slightly different sizes. 620 00:47:22,873 --> 00:47:26,866 Yeah, this one looks like about a gallon more than that one. 621 00:47:27,110 --> 00:47:30,238 I'm not an archaeologist and Larry's not an oceanographer, 622 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:35,008 but maybe our students can be half archaeology, half oceanography. 623 00:47:35,252 --> 00:47:36,446 Are these the ones you want 624 00:47:36,687 --> 00:47:38,052 or should we put them back and get some different ones? 625 00:47:38,288 --> 00:47:40,279 I think we like these! 626 00:47:40,524 --> 00:47:42,515 You've got people who wanna study shipwrecks 627 00:47:42,759 --> 00:47:46,354 and people who wanna build stuff to study shipwrecks coming together. 628 00:47:47,631 --> 00:47:50,395 And of course the technologies that are available 629 00:47:50,634 --> 00:47:52,795 lend themselves beautifully to this. 630 00:47:59,576 --> 00:48:01,134 Let me look at that. See this? 631 00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:02,845 Looks like a candlestick holder. 632 00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,379 Yeah, well, you're looking at it upside down. 633 00:48:07,351 --> 00:48:12,618 See, actually the way this would stand, Bob, is like that. 634 00:48:12,856 --> 00:48:18,590 This is most likely a little chalice for burning incense, 635 00:48:18,829 --> 00:48:23,596 incense to the protectors, the protective deities of the sailors. 636 00:48:23,834 --> 00:48:27,600 They may well have held it this way, added their incense, 637 00:48:27,838 --> 00:48:30,568 and others would be raising their arms like this, 638 00:48:30,807 --> 00:48:35,608 to Baal -Baal Hadad or Baal Zafon, the Baal of the North. 639 00:48:37,247 --> 00:48:38,339 Day 14. 640 00:48:39,049 --> 00:48:43,281 Jason's final load yields a distinctly Phoenician 'calling car. 641 00:48:48,926 --> 00:48:50,223 So thas the clincher. 642 00:48:50,827 --> 00:48:55,355 We've been looking for something really decisive -well thas it. 643 00:48:55,599 --> 00:48:58,762 That cinches is for a Phoenician ship, 644 00:48:59,002 --> 00:49:02,904 a Phoenician crew, Phoenician origins for this cargo. 645 00:49:05,108 --> 00:49:10,045 This wine decanter, with its fanciful wide lip, is uniquely Phoencian. 646 00:49:11,248 --> 00:49:16,447 It crowns the final act of a drama that began nearly 3000 years ago. 647 00:49:21,591 --> 00:49:25,083 They may well have set sail from the great city of Tyre, 648 00:49:25,329 --> 00:49:29,231 two ships laden with fine wine from the hinterland. 649 00:49:31,802 --> 00:49:33,235 Their destination? 650 00:49:33,470 --> 00:49:35,495 Perhaps the Egypt of the Pharaohs. 651 00:49:35,739 --> 00:49:40,733 Or their wine-thirsty compatriots in the newly founded colony of Carthage. 652 00:49:46,049 --> 00:49:50,213 To bless their journey, they would have performed age-old rituals, 653 00:49:50,454 --> 00:49:55,118 invoking the gods and perfuming the air to attract their favor. 654 00:49:58,161 --> 00:50:02,427 For a time, they may have felt protected by divine grace. 655 00:50:03,033 --> 00:50:06,059 A gentle sea guided the rhythm of their days. 656 00:50:27,457 --> 00:50:30,949 Then suddenly it seemed their gods abandoned them. 657 00:50:32,396 --> 00:50:35,854 And no prayer, no offering could win them back. 658 00:51:10,801 --> 00:51:15,295 For those who waited on the home shore, there was no end to this voyage. 659 00:51:18,308 --> 00:51:20,105 No matter how hard they prayed, 660 00:51:20,343 --> 00:51:23,506 the ships would never reappear on their horizon. 661 00:51:24,114 --> 00:51:28,016 The fate of their loved ones would remain a mystery. 662 00:51:34,391 --> 00:51:35,858 Yet centuries later, 663 00:51:36,093 --> 00:51:40,086 two modern-day explorers have raised their story from the depths, 664 00:51:40,330 --> 00:51:44,266 and added a new chapter to our understanding of the past. 665 00:51:47,337 --> 00:51:49,396 As future expeditions are planned, 666 00:51:49,639 --> 00:51:54,235 the promise of deep-sea archaeology seems brighter than ever. 667 00:51:55,846 --> 00:52:00,249 For who knows how much history lies hidden on the bottom, 668 00:52:00,484 --> 00:52:03,476 just waiting to be discovered?