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Theres more sunken gold and silver
in the waters of the Philippines

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than anywhere else on earth

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Centuries of trade have littered
the sea-bed with treasure

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And I can see at least forty
boxes of gold

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This is a story
of tragedies of the past

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and one mans journey in search
of his fortune

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Youve got to keep going and going
you never quit

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If youre a quitter
dont apply for a job in this game

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Steve Sargison a commercial diver
from Sheffield has packed in his

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business and put his house
on the line

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Hes leaving behind a 25 year
career as a salvage expert

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for a shot at the big time

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Hes going to the Philippines
to search for one of the greatest

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treasure ships that ever sailed

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Its a fair trek but it is a place
where there is more opportunities

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to find sunken vessels
old sailing ships clippers

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schooners Manila galleons
- Its all there

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Weve already found
a couple of targets

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Were going straight
- All the way from England

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- Straight onto a target then well
be into the really enjoyable bit

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which is locating all the things
and recovering all the artefacts

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Steves first destination

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is the tiny Philippine atoll
of the Panagatan Cays

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In this remote spot hell join a
team on the hunt for the Esperanza

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a ship which sank in 1806
on her way to Mexico

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Its believed she carried a cargo
of almost unimaginable wealth

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Ten years ago

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the discovery of valuable
porcelain by a seaweed fisherman

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came to the attention of ex-US
Navy officer Dempsey Pagan

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His research suggested that

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forty-four Manila galleons had been
lost in Philippine waters during

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the time of the Spanish Empire

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and that the Esperanza had sunk
near the island

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Oh weve got some more pieces here
of the porcelain that weve been

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picking up for the last
ten years off that reef

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And its amazing theres still
a lot of it left I tell you

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It was a major discovery
to tell you the truth

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That told us now that definitely
there was a big shipwreck here

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somewhere and the age of the
porcelain is of the same era

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of the Esperanza

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which meant
that this could be cargo

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from the Esperanza
so I was excited Very excited

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Inspired by the discovery
Dempsey has now gathered together

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an international team of adventurers
determined to find the Esperanza

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Not far from where the porcelain

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lay a meticulous search is being
led by oil man Daniel Jason

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The Esperanza herself was carrying
approximately we believe somewhere

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in the order of 450 to US$500
million worth of cargo and some

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of that was certainly spices and
silks but the majority of it would

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have been bullion being shipped
out to Acapulco in Mexico

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A ship like this would have carried
exquisite gold jewellery;

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huge amounts
of fine Chinese porcelain;

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silver coins
and the finest silver tableware

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It was the most lucrative
trade in the world

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The team have hired the Vasco
an old KGB spy ship from Vietnam

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Fitted to this relic
of the Cold War

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is some of the most advanced
American scanning equipment

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This caesium gas magnetometer
recently declassified by the Pentagon

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is only one of a handful
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and it will detect
any iron debris on the sea-bed

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In a few weeks these waters will be

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among the best mapped in the world

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The magnetometer has found metal
in a shallow site

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Two of the team
decide to investigate

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5 metres down the sea-bed is strewn
with dead coral

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Fishermen have dynamited
it in the search for food

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Through the gloom the divers scour
the debris for any sign of a wreck

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After a few minutes the first
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A piece of metallic sheeting
encrusted with coral

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A short distance away the divers
find a massive iron anchor

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from a large ship

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Could it have been dropped by the

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Esperanza as she struggled on the
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A promising wreck site
and just in time

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Now that Steve Sargisons finally
arrived after a battering voyage

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Itll be his first priority

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This is the closest ship design and
structure to the one were actually

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Iooking for at the moment

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The Esperanza started life as
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bought by Manila merchants in 1806

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Steve is anxious that everyone
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Just to give you an idea on the huge
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Iooking at even for a small vessel

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like this so youve got the masts

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there they would be huge I mean

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they would be made of several trees
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But Im just trying to work in
comparative scale with the guys

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in the bottom left-hand corner there

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Just look at the huge sail area

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All that is down there somewhere

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And it just depends on whether

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youre lucky that its all sunk
in one piece

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or whether shes been smashed
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But somewhere on the sea-bed whether
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or miles its down there somewhere
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At the nearby port of San Jose

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Steve is taking on a team of fifteen

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Filipino divers

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For the next few weeks theyll
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on an intensive archaeological excavation

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Apart from the anchors the wreck
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sand and coral

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But before they can start digging up
the sea-bed every inch of the site

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must be mapped

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If it is the Esperanza it could
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According to the archives
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in 1806 as the richly laden Esperanza
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run across the Pacific across to Mexico

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Unusually she had orders to detour
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At 3 oclock in the morning
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the watch sighted water breaking
on a reef directly ahead

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The crew struggled to turn the
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and the Esperanza ran aground

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The survivors took refuge on the
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But when morning broke
the Esperanza has vanished

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Using an air-lift a basic tool of
maritime archaeology Steve

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is now ready to start
uncovering the wreck

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When youre air-lifting youre
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now somethings gonna produce
and it could be absolutely packed

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with beautiful porcelain silverware
gold jewellery

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its just completely the unknown

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This particular site we only got
some basic indications as to what

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it may be we dont know whether
its English Spanish Portuguese

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We dont know whats on it

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As they excavate fragments of
charred planking begin to emerge

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from the site a suggestion of
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Surprisingly even some of the
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Back on the Vasco each artefact
will be painstakingly recorded

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So were logging everything in a
digital photograph form

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Oh this is actually
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Yeah so what do you reckon
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Larry Alba an archaeologist from
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may be a clue in the glassware
similar dark green glass bottles

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from an 18th Century

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So this is a heavy boom

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So this is obviously the wooden
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Muskets Military hardware will
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who was on this ship
the underside and that may be the cleaner

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Then another tantalising clue

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Steve finds a piece of coral
with an impression of a cannon-ball

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But theres no sign of a cannon

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Looks to be a rifle sight

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And on the other hand yeah looks like
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buckle-piece

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Yeah Could always be the signature
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The divers are now bringing up
military badges

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and a variety of musket parts

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Evidence that this ship carried troops

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The question is were they Spanish

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Many of the artefacts have been
bent by force again suggesting

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a violent wreck

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What tragedy befell these people

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And who exactly were they

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Right Were sending these pieces back
now to the UK back to some experts

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so presumably weve got some
interesting pieces that may bring information

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side-Iocks of the firearms weve got
the trigger guards off the firearms

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they might be able to give us
some glean of information

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But this is what Im most pleased
about finding Were almost certain

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theyre gonna find information out
about the wreck from this

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There must be somewhere information
relating to the regiment

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that this cap badge was designed for

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On the other side of the world in
London two leading authorities

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on military artefacts attempt to
identify the wreck

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With so little to go on its quite
a challenge for historians David

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Harding and Doctor DeWitt Bailey

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David owns a collection of muskets
originally used

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by the private armies of
the British East India

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Company during the last century

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The pieces from the wreck
match exactly

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This musket is one made specifically
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in London known as Bakers Pattern

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because the gun-maker most involved
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was called Izikhil Baker

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It was first manufactured for
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and last in 1839

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So this wreck cant be before 1819

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So the wreck cant be the Esperanza

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The muskets were made at least
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Its a disappointment for Steve
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While the experts try to work out

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what the British were doing here
the search for the Esperanza must

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now move to the next target

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But theres more bad news a typhoon
is heading their way

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At the moment the divers are
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The weathers on the turn

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Weve got a typhoon warning coming in

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This particular areas gonna get
quite lively over the next few days

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and also weve been shown another
site around to the north

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which looks extremely promising

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Site two is on the other side of the reef
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Its another intriguing target

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and fits in with the Esperanzas
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The typhoon rumbles on

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A costly hold-up for the project

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Back in the milder climate of England
one mystery has at last been solved

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Well the good news is that weve
had a positive identification on

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these waist-belt buckles that there
have been several examples recovered

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from the wreck and it appears that
they were worn by the Madras Native

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Infantry regiments just
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The British Empire in Asia depended

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on mercenary soldiers like these
fighting for British interests

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And theres another clue on a tiny
fragment of rifle butt the letters

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GR -short for grenadier
and the top half of the number 37

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Its unmistakable

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And this ties in perfectly with
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who were one of the regiments sent
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The British Library archives reveal

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that the 37th Grenadiers sailed from

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Madras on the 20th August 1840

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On board a ship called the Golcondah

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500 men were on their way to attack

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China to protect Britains highly
profitable trade in opium

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It was a war the Empire
would win easily

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But a shameful chapter
in British history

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Before the Golcondah reached China
a fierce typhoon blew up

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and the ship was never seen again

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It now seems that she was blown off
course and ended up on the remote

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Panagatan Cays

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Lost for 160 years the Golcondah
has finally been found

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Two weeks later the hunt for the

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Esperanza moves north to site two

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The new site is close to a much deeper
target picked up by the survey

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They could both be part of
the same wreck

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The position of the anchors fits with
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first hit the reef then drifted out
and sank in deep water

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Dempsey is checking the data again

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There appears to be a trail of debris
leading out from the site

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to a large object
120 metres down

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In the wake of the typhoon the sea is
still rough and work is slow adding

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to the projects mounting costs

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Every single man dive at the moment
is costing US $700 per man per dive

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So at the moment every time you guys

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put a bottle on your back thats 700
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We have to get that figure down

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It should be more like US 200/250
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And at the end of the day if we don't
become more efficient

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then obviously as you already
heard the whole thing will be off

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So its in your own interests
weve got to make the effort

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Desperate for new evidence the team
decide to investigate a report

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that the locals have already found
artefacts from the site

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Its not very much at all actually

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Whats the first letter - C

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G G G

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G G G

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A A

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I think this is a Z for zebra

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Zebra

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Its cast in one single piece with
definitely some gear wheel relief here

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Okay Weve got something called

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Galbraith and something that looks
like Dundee So its not Portuguese

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These look suspiciously like
maybe boiler doors

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In which case maybe weve got
an iron-clad vessel or

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certainly after
the Esperanza Interesting

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And another mystery

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Its a mystery

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When they return from the island the
divers have some interesting news

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Alright anything new

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00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:37,432
Surprisingly we found a plank of
wood near where the encrusted with

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Evidence of a wooden ship could mean
there are wrecks

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from two different periods
on the same site

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How wide did you get to work
so far

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We did somehow about roughly
75 centimetres

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Oh fantastic

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Cos Im gonna get my outfit
and Im gonna go diving

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Okay Good

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00:20:57,120 --> 00:20:58,553
Have I still got my dive gear there

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00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:00,671
Oh they dont have my dive gear

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Anyway you guys go ahead

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The Philippines leading maritime
archaeologist Doctor Eusabio Dezon

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has now joined the project
and is keen to see the new find

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He is here to safeguard the interests
of the Philippine government

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and to check that the work is
done correctly

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That planking is about 3 to 4 metres long

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and about 2 metresabout
1 metres wide

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It could be a part of a keelson

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Sure enough there is a sizeable
section of planking

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It seems possible that this
could be part of the Esperanzas keel

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the area which would have been struck
first as she smashed onto the reef

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Theres a large wooden structure
about that wide

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and about 3 metres long
something like that

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That is the keelson

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00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:24,514
I think you might be right

284
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,869
She broke her back do you remember

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00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:26,477
Yeah

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She broke her back

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That could beand that one curves

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in so that could be like
a bow part that comes in

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I am 95% now its Esperanza

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No longer 90% now its 95%

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00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:49,353
Its a promising sight with the woods
and now some metals

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00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,988
Yeah We were disappointed when we
saw the rivets

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in a steal plate but then

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That could be from another
boat I think

295
00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:56,996
Yeah Yes

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00:22:57,120 --> 00:22:59,714
It may not be a part of
these wooden parts

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00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:00,670
No No

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They must now follow the debris trail

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into the deep But in order to excavate

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at a depth of 120 metres theyll need a
sophisticated Remote Operated Vehicle

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at a cost of $15000 a day

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We are now first week of August
the projects been running

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since the last week of
March effectively

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so a long
long haul into the project

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Weve expended to date

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about US $800000 out of a total budget
of 185 million for this phase

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At the moment we have two vessels here
both of which are operating

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at an efficiency of less than 50%
and some fairly serious decisions

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have got to be made

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Were going to probably end up
downsizing the diving operations

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As I say the money to bring in the ROV
to do the deep water excavation

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The financial situation
doesnt improve

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In September the entire operation
is suspended

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Steve and all of the divers
are released

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00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,353
Daniel and Dempsey will go back
to their day jobs

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and try to raise the $800000 needed
to investigate the deep targets

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00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:29,356
But what of Steve Sargison

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Far from home he must now try to
find a lucrative wreck of his own

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We actually packed our entire business
in as a commercial diving company

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and everything to come here

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We have no other income

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We have to be successful of
what we do

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because moneys draining arterially
from my account

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and we need to find something to
keep my bank managers sense of humour

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00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,833
Steve has information about
a wrecked Manila galleon

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on the other side of
the Philippines

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But the search permit wont be
available for four months

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00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,630
He urgently needs to
find something now

329
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,676
Locals tell of an unusual
wreck from World War II

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In the early 1940s as war engulfed
the Philippines the Japanese

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were transporting huge amounts of
stolen allied gold to the islands

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One of these ships-the Cudamaru
was bombed by American planes

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and sank in deep water off the
island of Cebu

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There were no survivors

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00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,476
A few years ago three local divers
were killed as they tried

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to recover the gold from the wreck

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00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:53,236
Steve needs more information so

338
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:57,234
Henry Kamara a friend of the dead
divers is taking him

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00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:59,476
to visit a man who saw
the ship sink

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00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,836
As a little boy
Damshu Kolonya stood

341
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,714
petrified on this beach while
the fierce battle raged overhead

342
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:22,110
So Henry your friend was actually
here and saw everything happen

343
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:22,877
Yeah

344
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:28,632
So if you can just ask him
just to explain

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00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,716
in his own words the story
of what he saw

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00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:32,632
and how the ship came down
and everything

347
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,951
The Japanese ship was disguised
as an island with trees on its deck

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00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,592
But the American plane saw it
and dropped a bomb

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00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:50,748
There was a huge explosion

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00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,480
Then two other American planes
started machine-gunning

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00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,952
The ship began to sink as it
made for the shore

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00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,274
Japanese soldiers tried to escape

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00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,351
but the Americans shot
them all down

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00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:04,678
The sea turned red with blood

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00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,629
In less than twenty minutes
the ship had sunk

356
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,033
But this is the Philippines

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00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,238
And Steve cant dive on any wreck
that he wants to

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00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:25,515
He must now travel to Manila to begin
the long process of obtaining permits

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00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,310
Its January 2000

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00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:49,548
After months of waiting Discovery
is at last under way

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00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,789
Steve and a new band of hopefuls
now have the go ahead to dive

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00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,798
on what they believe to be
the Cudamaru

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00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,398
But if there is gold on the wreck

364
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,229
why did the locals share
the secret with Steve

365
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:11,035
Well although the locals
are quite good divers

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00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,634
and quite tenacious this one is
just a little bit too deep

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00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:20,029
for them to get at and the story
is that a Chinese man financed

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00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:23,391
an operation here and they got
fifty bars of gold off

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00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,309
And the day before one of
the local guys died

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00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,836
on this wreck he turned round
to all of them

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00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:33,873
and he said were all millionaires
Ive just opened the door

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and its full of boxes

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And he smashed a box open
and inside

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00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:43,199
out of one box came
ten 65 kilo bars

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Its US $650000 a box

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00:28:56,520 --> 00:29:00,991
And they can see at least forty
boxes of gold

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00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,591
One bar would just do nicely now

378
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:11,230
And the rest like a millionaire
friend of mine said

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00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,517
The first couple of millions are okay
the rest is just for show

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00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,028
Henry will help Steve to manoeuvre

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00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:20,798
Discovery directly over the wreck

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00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,313
Steve has all the government
paperwork he needs

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00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,996
But before he starts bringing up
gold bars he must ensure

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00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:50,111
that the local police are
on his side

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00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,030
Otherwise he could lose the lot

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00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:07,030
Armed with his permit he must convince
them everything is legitimate

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00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,908
Perhaps a little grudgingly
the paperwork is accepted

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00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,149
Later at a local bar Steve takes
the opportunity

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00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,995
to grill the policeman for more
information about the Cudamaru

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00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,157
then he draw the name of the boat

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00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,236
Cudamaru

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00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,754
This boat was loaded with hundred
boxes of gold

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00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,112
It would be a fantastic haul
if its true

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00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,874
But theres another reason why the
locals are frightened of the wreck divers

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00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,191
or superstition about the ghosts
of the Japanese soldiers

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00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:24,951
Yes yes yes

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00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,394
The Japanese soldiers told us that

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00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,957
because there are many people there
are many ghosts watching them

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00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,635
that is why they are making request

400
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:37,595
because there are many ghosts of the
Japanese

401
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:42,788
because that boat there were many
all Japanese crew was

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00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,349
The locals are terrified of
the ghosts of the Cudamaru

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00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,312
Either way with the wreck lying over
70 metres below them diving

404
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:56,919
will be dangerous

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00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:02,393
So first Steve must send down a
Remote Operated Vehicle or ROV

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00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:06,912
Its camera should send back

407
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,675
the first pictures of
the Cudamaru for 58 years

408
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,474
So lets see whats down the rope shall
we chaps

409
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,319
Oh see the wreck down below

410
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,431
See it Okay
slack on the umbilical

411
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:32,599
The final resting place of the

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00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,676
Cudamaru is a forbidding one

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00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:40,033
The ships mangled remains
graphically retell a violent end

414
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,559
Oooh big explosion

415
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,836
Slack away All stop

416
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,991
The bomb from the American aircraft

417
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,272
has left a gaping hole behind the
bridge blown off the ships funnel

418
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:03,150
and burnt out the entire rear end of
the wreck leaving just a frame

419
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,555
But most sinister were the ropes

420
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,713
and rubber tubes festooning the wreck
it seems they belonged

421
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,469
to the Filipino divers that died here
a few years ago

422
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:24,590
So one pipe goes to the bow and
the other pipe goes to the stern

423
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:31,757
The divers who died were never
recovered so it is quite possible

424
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:36,950
that at the end of this you might
find the remains of the divers

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00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:52,315
Steve is using the ROV to search
for a box or a bag left here

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00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,475
by the divers

427
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,998
If the story is true it could
contain ten gold bars

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00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,670
With great precision Steve attempts
to get the ROV inside a doorway

429
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,792
One wrong move could leave
it trapped in the wreck

430
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,356
The silt here is like talcum powder
even the gentlest touch

431
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,351
Once the silt is cleared plates

432
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,353
and bottles suggest hes found
the ships galley

433
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:29,879
But there are no boxes

434
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,988
Steve is now forced to explore deeper
into the sunken hulk

435
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:42,277
In the dark of the hold the ROV
drops below 80 metres

436
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,551
Ah its looking very boxy
to me boys

437
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:07,073
What say you

438
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:08,156
Looks like a box

439
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:09,838
Now I can go on here only once

440
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:12,989
Would you believe that

441
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,549
Its been lashed on and tied
on ready to be sent up

442
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,709
so its a box that the other people
who recovered the fifty bars

443
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,869
have obviously deemed worthy
enough to lash up to send up

444
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,313
An exciting discovery

445
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:33,872
But at a depth of 84 metres they
now face a real challenge

446
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,230
to bring the mystery box
to the surface

447
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:44,237
Tomorrow Steve himself will attempt
to retrieve the box

448
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:47,240
But tonight he must be vigilant

449
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,672
In the part of the world were in

450
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,436
there is a considerable problem with
pirates and all the people along

451
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,676
this area know that this ship

452
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,712
that were sat on has got
gold on it

453
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,359
So they have no idea whether weve

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00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,790
recovered anything or not at the
moment but just the thoughts of the

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00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:14,596
fact that we possibly have got a
bar of gold or a dozen bars of gold

456
00:36:14,720 --> 00:36:19,191
or a thousand bars of gold is enough
to cause us a problem

457
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,872
So we have to take these preventative
measures to defend ourselves

458
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:33,193
After a trouble-free night the team
prepare to dive down to the wreck

459
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,590
The plan is that Steve will attempt
to reach the bottom of the hold

460
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,716
roll the box into a sack and send

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00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:42,638
it to the surface using
an inflatable lift-bag

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00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,948
The other divers will work from above
the hold

463
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,633
They will try to do the whole job
breathing just air

464
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,152
Even for an experienced commercial
diver this is very risky

465
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:01,272
I quite like deep diving because of
the challenge but you know

466
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:04,273
sometimes when you get narcosis bad

467
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,994
it dont matter who you are how
experienced you are how many

468
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:09,230
thousands of youve done once you get

469
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,591
gripped by a narcosis thats it
its game over and up you come

470
00:37:53,720 --> 00:37:56,359
Air consists mainly of oxygen
and nitrogen

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00:37:57,520 --> 00:37:59,317
Below 40 metres nitrogen

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00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,950
becomes a narcotic and can send
the mind into a trance

473
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:08,756
Below 66 metres oxygen becomes
poisonous and can disable the body

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00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:13,559
To most divers the idea of going
to 84 metres on air is madness

475
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:17,550
But for Steve its a calculated risk

476
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,319
Back on Discovery the stand-by diver

477
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:28,194
uses the ROV camera to watch for
any sign of Steve

478
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,357
Limited by the amount of air they can

479
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,836
carry the divers will have
only 12 minutes on the bottom

480
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:42,998
So they must work fast

481
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,237
While Steve approaches the hold

482
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,717
the other divers must prepare
the lift-bag above the wreck

483
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,119
But somethings gone wrong

484
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:19,390
Visibility has deteriorated badly

485
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:21,590
and the lift-bag has been abandoned

486
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:27,836
It looks like the mission
has been aborted

487
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,471
After two long hours waiting for

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00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,633
the divers to decompress they will
soon find out what went wrong

489
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,874
If the divers were to come up too
quickly they could get the bends

490
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:03,799
Classic nightmare dive
Too dangerous really

491
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:09,834
My torch jacked which is just what
you want when youve got blackness

492
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,837
and zero visibility
I put me torch on and nothing

493
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:17,955
The bad visibility has led to one of
Steves worst nightmares coming true

494
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,431
Ive now started having problems
cos I was speeding around everywhere

495
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,758
breathing really heavily
the narcosis effect started to

496
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,115
come on and which is especially like

497
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:31,233
prone to zero visibility and then
I started having trouble with me hands

498
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:36,713
I couldnt actually press me inflation
and I tried to get off the bottom

499
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,873
and I couldnt get off the bottom
cos I was over-heavy and I couldnt

500
00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,508
grip the rope to haul myself back up

501
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,993
So in the end I had to sort of just
use both hands to press

502
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,312
the inflation-button
to get myself off the bottom

503
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,551
Steves narcosis is a chilling

504
00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:00,037
reminder to the team of the men
who died 5 years before

505
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,838
He decides to call for a group of
Filipino technical divers who worked

506
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,991
with him on the wreck
of the Golcondah

507
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:13,755
Theyll be using helium to reduce the
risks of deep water diving

508
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,515
Steve runs over the plan
Because they cant rely

509
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:24,752
on the old rope thats already round
the box theyll have to push it

510
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,872
into a sack and attach
that to a lift-bag

511
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,958
Heather Steves wife has now
joined the boat

512
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,592
If they find the gold today their

513
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:43,796
house in Devon will
at last be secure

514
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,678
Mixing the helium with oxygen and

515
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,713
nitrogen should give the divers up
to 25 minutes on the wreck

516
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,788
Despite the helium the dive is
extremely dangerous

517
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,914
They hope
the prize will be worth the risk

518
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,790
In the light of the ROV two divers

519
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,669
prepare to venture deep into
the hold of the Cudamaru

520
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:49,550
Theyre following the string
right down so thats good

521
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,233
From above the wreck all the can be
seen through the haunting blackness

522
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,789
is the faint glow of
the divers torches

523
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,588
Theyre now slowly ascending out of
the hold so it looks like theyve

524
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,511
done it Thats the rope that

525
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:31,989
theyve got for the actual box
in their hands see

526
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:34,949
Thats the one

527
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,318
If this turns out to be
a machinery part

528
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,193
thisll be the most expensive
machinery part ever lifted

529
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,557
Its now time to inflate the lift-bag

530
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,078
Thats the first sniff of air
going in there

531
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:51,589
Has it gone

532
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,356
Oh its going
Somethings happening

533
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,319
Thats a bluel cant see

534
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:04,032
Im going up very fa Oh stop
oh stop on everything

535
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:08,389
The ROV is climbing rapidly Steve
has lost control

536
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,910
Now why am I still going up
I think Im stuck to the lift-bag

537
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:14,674
The lift-bag has shot straight to

538
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,037
the surface but has it brought
the box with it

539
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,238
Come on Come on Double double

540
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:23,557
double quick on everything
we do Knife Come on double quick

541
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:24,710
Everything

542
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,277
Steve needs to secure the box

543
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:31,315
but the stand-by divers already
in the water and out of contact

544
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:37,755
Where the fhas Daryl got to

545
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,509
The box
that were after is there Suspended

546
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,318
Its not in the bag
And the support divers in the water

547
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,349
and I cant tell him
what the hells happening

548
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,791
The operation has gone badly wrong

549
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,870
Steves fortune now hangs on
the end of an old piece of rope

550
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,911
that could break at any moment

551
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,677
The only diver available to bring in

552
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,793
the box had taken the day off sick
But now duty calls

553
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:26,477
Together the divers bundle
the box into the sack

554
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,318
Remarkably the old rope has held

555
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,990
This is the bit where nobody dares

556
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,549
Iook in in case its a large bar
of Cadburys Dairy Milk

557
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,228
What we need is that sack

558
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:11,235
Im gonna pick it up with this but
whilst its on the fast craft okay

559
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:27,030
With all the divers safely back
on board its time to open the box

560
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,118
Choose your weapon sir

561
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:39,275
What we need to do is to try
and separate maybe down there

562
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:46,037
If you see there look see the steel
and then wood on the outside

563
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:53,318
Its a reinforced banding all the way
round it so we presume that it

564
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,630
was you know something
thats well protected

565
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:01,272
and a public valuable
because the box is quite unusual

566
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,078
being metal and timber

567
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:27,749
No gold

568
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:34,358
Well it certainly looks like its
a lighting unit of some description

569
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,358
But thats the only penetration
into the top of the lid

570
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,988
So maybe it was some sort of
paraffin lamp

571
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:48,469
There you go

572
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:55,873
That may be one copper lamp
each for the collection

573
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,672
For now the ghosts of the Cudamaru

574
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,637
will hang on to their riches

575
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,558
As for Steve Sargison after five

576
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,830
months of waiting he was at last

577
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:15,991
awarded a permit to dive on a Manila

578
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:18,430
galleon twice
the size of the Esperanza

579
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:24,072
Hes also planning a second more
intensive search of the Cudamaru

580
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,552
Perhaps the genie of the Japanese

581
00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:29,996
lamps will finally grant him his wish