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Many archaeologists could
make an entire career out of finding

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one shipwreck, and yet you
guys have found, what, like 50?

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58 to be precise.

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I've never seen such a
collection of shipwrecks

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in one place.

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So the million dollar question
is, why is a place that should

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be safe consuming ships?

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Wind just picked way up.
From five miles an hour to 20.

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Just, I think there are
other forces at work here.

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So you're talking, what,
gods and monsters here?

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Out there, there is something very real.

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So you think there could
be more wrecks out there?

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No question.

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Ok, dye pack is away.

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Whoo! Look at that.

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Are you ready for the fun part?

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Driving through the straits.

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Through the cape of death.

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Cape of death?

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We are in a vortex.

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The anemometer is
literally spinning in circles.

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Everywhere else, it's a paradise.

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- Whoo!
- Here, it's hell!

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Hang on! Whoa!

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This is the temple of
Poseidon, Greek god of the sea,

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and protector of sailors.

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And beyond these weathered
columns are the vast waters

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of the mediterranean.

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For more than 2,500 years,
this sanctuary has stood

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south of Athens at the last point of land

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that sailors glimpsed before departing

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on perilous voyages
across the aegean sea.

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But it seems that no amount
of offerings or sacrifices

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made here fully appeased
Poseidon's wrath, as evidenced

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by the recent discovery
of a stretch of water

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as deadly as the Bermuda triangle.

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Astonishingly, the remains
of more than 50 shipwrecks

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have been found surrounding
the tiny Greek islands of fourni.

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It may be the largest
concentration of ancient wrecks

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found anywhere on the
planet, with vessels that span

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thousands of years.

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Their crews and cargo
mysteriously dragged

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to the bottom of the mediterranean.

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And now archaeologists want
to know how they ended up there.

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The team that uncovered
this nautical graveyard thinks

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that the answer to the
mystery could lie in the cargo

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of a newly discovered wreck more
than 100 feet below the surface.

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Can state of the art technology

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provide a logical explanation,

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or could the culprit be right
out of Greek mythology?

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To find out, I'm embarking
on an epic odyssey

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to the treacherous shores

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of Greece's island of shipwrecks.

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The past is all around us.

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My god!

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It goes on forever!

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A world of mystery...

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Come on! Look at that!

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Danger... Hang on!

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And adventure.

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It's just straight down!

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I gotta get a new job.

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I travel to the far corners of the earth

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to uncover where
legends end... We got it!

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Yes!

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And history begins.

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Whoo-hoo! Here we go!

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is "expedition unknown."

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Welcome to Athens,
the oldest capital city

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in Europe and the beating
heart of ancient Greece

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during its golden age.

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That's when the Greeks came
up with some pretty important

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stuff we still enjoy today.

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The Olympics, theater, formal geometry,

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big fat weddings, overly
thick yogurt, philosophy,

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an alphabet with vowels, John stamos,

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not to mention a little old
thing called democracy.

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So next 4th of July, maybe
put down the hot dog and pick up

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a gyro to celebrate the Greek
gift of western civilization.

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Opa!

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So what made Athens
so influential and powerful?

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Location, location, location.

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It's the southernmost major
city on the European continent,

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with access to sea routes
that connect to Western Europe,

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north Africa, the middle
east, Asia, and the Balkans.

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This is the port of piraeus.

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You know, in the ancient world,

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Greece was a shipping
powerhouse, and they still are.

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Despite being a relatively
small country, with a population

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that's roughly the size of north Carolina,

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Greek-owned companies
control a staggering 20%

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of the world's merchant fleet.

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Today, we stuff everything
into 40-foot steel containers.

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But back when the ancient
Greeks ruled the shipping lanes

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on the mediterranean,
their most valuable goods

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wine, oil, exotic spices,
even preserved fish

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were transported in ceramic
vessels called "amphorae."

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Along with commercial
shipping, modern piraeus is also

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a travel hub for cruise ships and ferries

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that travel between Greece's
more than 200 inhabited islands.

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And this is where my adventure begins.

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You see, a few months
ago, I received this mysterious

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invitation to a Greek
wedding from an old girlfriend,

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and I gotta say, I'm thinking I'm

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we are not doing "mamma Mia!"

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Right, sorry, no "mamma Mia!"

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Scary shipwreck island.

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Can we at least afford
some knockoff abba music?

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There it is.

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Life is short, the world is wide,

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and I have a boat to catch.

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To reach Greece's answer
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I board this massive ferry
capable of carrying 1,800

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passengers, over 400 vehicles,
and one intrigued adventurer.

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Our voyage to the shipwreck
island of fourni isn't exactly

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a quick commute.

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We'll be sailing for nearly 10
hours as we navigate through

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some of the nearly 200 islands
that make up the cyclades

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and steam through legendary waters.

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Fourni, with barely
1,000 residents, is a tiny

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cluster of islands that
sit near the eastern edge

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of the aegean sea.

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Few tourists make it there, as
most hop off on better known

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and more mythic islands.

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Our ferry will stop first at syros,

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the home of the messenger
god hermes, then to mykonos,

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where Hercules himself
defeated a race of giants,

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and on to ikaria,

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where the doomed fly boy
icarus flew too close to the sun

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and plummeted to earth.

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These tales are woven
into the very fabric of Greece,

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but in a split second,

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the only deity I'm
worried about is Poseidon.

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Well, the forecast
called for good weather,

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but in the last 10 minutes or so,

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these winds have just
picked up out of nowhere,

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are probably blowing
40 miles an hour or more.

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And as you can see,
the sea is just churning.

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So, I don't know if the
gods are angry, but I think

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we're gonna have rough waters ahead.

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As the storm racks our
ferry... day turns to night,

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and night brings a howling Gale.

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The sea churns. The wind screams.

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And I imagine riding this out
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a fraction of the size of this ferry.

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Just before I decide
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though, the tempest suddenly
and mysteriously stops.

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The wind has died
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kind of an eerie welcome to the island.

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In ancient times, ships
would vanish without a trace

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off the coast of fourni.

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But tonight, the fates
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and allowed us ashore.

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Ok, welcome to fourni.

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Under cover of darkness, I
find my way to a waiting bed

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and a good night's sleep.

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In the morning, I
awake to, well, paradise.

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This is fourni.

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Sleepy, sun-kissed, and
awash in Greek hospitality.

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Not at all the kind of place that looks

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like it violently consumes ships.

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So, to learn how this place has
suddenly leapt to the forefront

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of an ancient mystery, I head
to the far side of the island,

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where I find a compound of
archaeologists hard at work,

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and the man directing their efforts,

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Dr. George koutsouflakis.

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First of all, many
archaeologists could make

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an entire career out of finding
one shipwreck, and yet you guys

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have found, what, like 50?

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Well, 58 to be precise.

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- 58, sorry.
- And still counting.

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And still counting.

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So you think there could
be more wrecks out there?

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No question.

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These are like Bermuda
triangle numbers.

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That's a huge amount
of wrecks in one place.

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It's the largest
concentration of shipwrecks

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in the mediterranean.

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It's a good 20% of the shipwrecks

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ever recorded in Greece.

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- 20% of all wrecks in Greece are here?
- Yeah.

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So, did people know
there were wrecks here?

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Not really... this place was completely

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archaeologically uncharted.

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And historically, this was not
considered an important place?

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No, they're hardly ever
mentioned by ancient writers.

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- No major ports here?
- No major ports here.

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Nothing really of an historical importance

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is recorded to have happened here.

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George got involved in this
mystery thanks to chance,

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or maybe fate.

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A few years ago, while
sitting in his office in Athens,

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his phone rang.

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On the other end of the line,
there is this guy from fourni

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claiming that he dove around
the islands and collected

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information from fishermen,
and he made up a map with spots

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in several sites that are
indicative of the presence

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of shipwrecks.

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The local fishermen reported
they were getting their nets

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caught on sunken hazards,

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and those reports changed George's life.

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And using this guy's
map and his information,

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you found how many shipwrecks?

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22 shipwrecks in just 11 days.

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You found 22 wrecks in 11 days?

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Yeah.

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So the million dollar question
is, why are they there?

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Let's go out, and I'll show you.

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- Out on the sea?
- Yeah.

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- Is it safe out there?
- Maybe.

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Perfect.

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The answer to this riddle
must lie among the shipwrecks

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George has discovered, so
that's where we're going next.

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We walk out to a rib
boat that will bring us

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to one of his research vessels.

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And there, I meet a member
of his team who first put

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this place on the map, literally.

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- Hello, manos.
- Hello, guys... welcome.

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Let me introduce you to manos mitikas.

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He's the local guy.

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He's the one on the
other end of the line, 2015.

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- He's the guy who called you.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So are you still adding to this map?

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Continuously, we still
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Wow, amazing.

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Ok, so you've got a map full of wrecks.

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- You wanna take me to one?
- Of course.

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- Let's go.
- Let's go.

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Come on.

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With manos at the helm,
we speed around the coast

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of fourni to hover over one of the wrecks

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that's recently been discovered.

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To figure out how it ended
up here, we quickly get to work,

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suit up, and splash in.

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Our mission is to try to
identify what sank this ship.

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But at this depth, we only
have minutes to investigate

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before risking dangerous
decompression sickness,

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also known as "the bends."

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Off the coast of the Greek
islands of fourni, I'm exploring

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a shipwreck discovered
by Dr. George koutsouflakis.

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Ancient Greece was filled with
myths of gods and monsters,

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luring sailors to their doom.

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And now, 58 wrecks
have been discovered

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around this tiny island,

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and archaeologists want to know who

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or what took them down.

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The complete lack of
cargo is a compelling clue

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that this ship was pillaged.

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Pirates were once a very real
threat in the mediterranean.

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We carefully ascend, and
once we're back on board,

252
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I'm eager to explore the idea that piracy

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may account for the nautical
graveyard around fourni.

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And it turns out, I'm in
the company of someone

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who has piracy in his blood.

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Manos? Wait a minute,
descended from pirates?

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Yes, my great great
grandfather was a famous pirate

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of this area. They executed him in 1863.

259
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You're not taking up the family business?

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- I hope not.
- Yeah, I hope not, too.

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I didn't know we had a
dangerous man on board here.

262
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Yeah, they don't do that stuff anymore.

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So, in terms of this wreck,
from the piracy, no cargo.

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So is this the answer to our mystery?

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All these shipwrecks are
here because they've been

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preyed upon by pirates?

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That would be an easy solution
to a complicated problem.

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But it's not so simple because
most of the other wreck we've

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- found so far are full of cargo.
- Full of cargo?

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- Do you wanna see?
- I would love to see.

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- Yeah, let's go.
- Let's go.

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So, if nearly all the other
wrecks here are loaded

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with cargo, that means
pirates aren't to blame.

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Manos pilots the boat
around fourni to a strait

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in between two islands.

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It's in this channel where
the team has located

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half of the wrecks found to date.

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So this is fourni here, and this is what,

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- another island?
- Agios minas, yeah.

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Agios minas. And so, we're what?

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We're in the channel between them?

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We are in the opening of
the channel between them.

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We call this area the white cape.

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The white cape. Got it.

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This area also has another nickname

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because of the
concentration of wrecks here.

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The cape of death.

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Below the towering cliffs,
we arrive at George's other

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research vessels with a team
of underwater archaeologists

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below carefully excavating and cataloging

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this graveyard of shipwrecks.

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We've had a long enough
surface interval after our last dive

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for us to safely get back in the water.

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So we gear up once again and jump in

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to get a firsthand look

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at one of the mysterious wrecks below.

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I'm absolutely stunned by what I see.

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Thousands of ceramic
containers everywhere where I look,

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a treasure trove of ancient history

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littering the sea floor.

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Amphorae were the Amazon
boxes of the ancient world.

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Some form of them
was used by every culture

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on the mediterranean to ship
oil, wine, and precious goods

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across the sea.

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Their design made them
deceptively strong and easy

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to pack into a ship's
hold, where they could be

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stacked tightly for transport.

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These wrecks are so close,

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they're practically on top of each other.

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Another one is only a short swim away.

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The amphorae offer a ghostly
outline of the ships that once

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carried them, ships that
disintegrated long ago,

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leaving only cargo behind
as a clue to their fate.

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The wide span of time these
wrecks encompass is proof

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that whatever took them
down was not a fluke event.

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Something has been a
threat here for millennia.

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Once again, our bottom time
is up, so we carefully ascend,

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stopping to make sure we
avoid decompression sickness.

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Once we eventually surface,

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I try to make sense
of everything I've seen.

321
00:19:09,970 --> 00:19:13,076
First of all, I wanna thank you
for showing me what's here.

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00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:16,146
I've never seen such a
collection of shipwrecks

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in one place.

324
00:19:17,770 --> 00:19:20,076
Yeah, for the first time, fourni is now

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on the archaeological and historical map.

326
00:19:23,030 --> 00:19:24,700
Absolutely, in a big way.

327
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This is why I'm so confused
about these shipwrecks,

328
00:19:27,270 --> 00:19:29,976
because look at the timescale here.

329
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,000
Why are these ships
all coming through here?

330
00:19:32,170 --> 00:19:33,976
I thought fourni had no major harbor.

331
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I thought it was not a
major stopping place.

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It's never mentioned.

333
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So why are all these
ships from all these different

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time periods here?

335
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For what we have learned,
fourni itself was never

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- a final destination.
- Ok.

337
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It was used as an intermediate
stop, as a stepping stone

338
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- along major trade routes.
- Trade routes.

339
00:19:55,470 --> 00:19:59,200
Ok, Josh, this is one
of the very few maps

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- that show fourni.
- Amazing!

341
00:20:09,370 --> 00:20:13,846
This is a map of the ottoman
period, 16th, 17th century.

342
00:20:13,870 --> 00:20:16,070
Look at this. Amazing!

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I'm looking at a rare map
that shows the islands of fourni

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as they appeared more
than five centuries ago,

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before this became the Bermuda
triangle of ancient Greece,

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with more than 50 shipwrecks
scattered on the ocean floor.

347
00:20:29,570 --> 00:20:32,346
And this map may be
the key to understanding

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00:20:32,370 --> 00:20:33,870
how they got there.

349
00:20:34,030 --> 00:20:37,300
Back then, the most direct sea
route between mainland Greece

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and Asia minor, what is today Turkey,

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00:20:39,870 --> 00:20:42,070
cuts fairly close to fourni.

352
00:20:42,230 --> 00:20:45,660
On this map, we see
islamic ships passing by.

353
00:20:51,700 --> 00:20:53,470
And importantly, they're doing it

354
00:20:53,630 --> 00:20:55,800
by passing directly
through, literally through

355
00:20:55,970 --> 00:20:57,300
- the islands of fourni.
- Yeah.

356
00:20:57,470 --> 00:20:58,976
This is really something,
because even though fourni

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doesn't get mentioned by
name very much, we do see it

358
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in relation to a major,
major fleet passing through.

359
00:21:06,370 --> 00:21:07,770
Passing through, yeah.

360
00:21:07,930 --> 00:21:11,446
So an obvious thought
would be, "is it just storms?"

361
00:21:11,470 --> 00:21:16,000
It would be easy to blame
storms, but fourni was also

362
00:21:16,170 --> 00:21:18,070
a port of safety.

363
00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,246
The ships on this map
aren't just doing a flyby.

364
00:21:22,270 --> 00:21:26,070
Instead, the document
reveals something astonishing.

365
00:21:26,230 --> 00:21:28,700
It shows individual ships seeking refuge

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in fourni's many small bays.

367
00:21:31,470 --> 00:21:32,900
In fact, the name fourni means

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"the ovens," a possible reference

369
00:21:35,570 --> 00:21:38,200
to the many sheltered
coves around the island.

370
00:21:38,370 --> 00:21:41,100
So, fourni is actually... Is
actually a place of safety,

371
00:21:41,270 --> 00:21:42,970
- a place of protection.
- Yeah.

372
00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,670
Wow.

373
00:21:57,770 --> 00:21:59,100
Right.

374
00:21:59,270 --> 00:22:00,670
The treacherous waters

375
00:22:00,830 --> 00:22:02,760
around the nearby island of ikaria,

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00:22:02,930 --> 00:22:04,646
and by extension, fourni,

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have been infamous for millennia.

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00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,800
Homer himself references
them as being particularly

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tumultuous, making
fourni an appealing lifeline

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00:22:14,370 --> 00:22:16,600
to sailors in distress.

381
00:22:16,770 --> 00:22:19,146
So it's not just that fourni
happens to sit at the middle

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of these trade routes.

383
00:22:20,730 --> 00:22:22,760
They may have designed
these trade routes to pass

384
00:22:22,930 --> 00:22:24,346
- right through here.
- Yeah.

385
00:22:24,370 --> 00:22:27,200
So why is a place that should
be safe consuming ships?

386
00:22:29,370 --> 00:22:31,246
That's the million dollar question.

387
00:22:31,270 --> 00:22:32,646
To find the answer,

388
00:22:32,670 --> 00:22:35,076
we reposition our boat beneath the cliffs

389
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and intersect with another
member of George's team,

390
00:22:38,370 --> 00:22:42,270
a fellow explorer's club member
as well as an old family friend.

391
00:22:43,500 --> 00:22:45,400
I believe you know this man here.

392
00:22:45,570 --> 00:22:47,300
Hey! How are you, buddy?

393
00:22:47,470 --> 00:22:49,446
- Hey, Josh... great to see you.
- John Stella.

394
00:22:49,470 --> 00:22:51,270
- Great to see you, man.
- Great to see you.

395
00:22:51,430 --> 00:22:52,800
- How you been?
- I've been great.

396
00:22:52,970 --> 00:22:55,470
John is a dear old family
friend who's been palling

397
00:22:55,630 --> 00:22:57,306
around with my dad
since the good old days.

398
00:22:57,330 --> 00:22:58,860
- That's correct.
- Yeah.

399
00:22:59,030 --> 00:23:03,160
And your dad, Lee, had a
lot of influence on our early

400
00:23:03,330 --> 00:23:06,000
- diving career.
- Yep, my dad's a diving legend.

401
00:23:06,170 --> 00:23:07,400
He sure is.

402
00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:11,570
My dad, Lee gates, spent
his career criss-crossing

403
00:23:11,730 --> 00:23:14,146
the globe as a deep-water
commercial diver.

404
00:23:14,170 --> 00:23:16,446
It's where I get my passion for travel.

405
00:23:16,470 --> 00:23:19,146
John Stella here has been
a dive industry professional

406
00:23:19,170 --> 00:23:22,000
for more than 30 years,
much needed expertise

407
00:23:22,170 --> 00:23:25,400
as we're above one of the
deepest wrecks at the site.

408
00:23:25,570 --> 00:23:27,600
- Ok, should we go diving?
- Let's go.

409
00:23:27,770 --> 00:23:30,170
- Let's go.
- Let's do it, come on.

410
00:23:31,170 --> 00:23:34,300
Our plan is to recover
artifacts from this wreck,

411
00:23:34,470 --> 00:23:38,100
an autopsy to look for
clues as to the ship's identity,

412
00:23:38,270 --> 00:23:40,000
and cause of death.

413
00:24:03,670 --> 00:24:06,570
This is at the outer
edge of safe scuba depth,

414
00:24:06,730 --> 00:24:09,146
so we hurry to descend to the wreck

415
00:24:09,170 --> 00:24:12,200
or at least to its cargo,
which is all that remains,

416
00:24:12,370 --> 00:24:15,570
so we can quickly get to
work exploring its artifacts.

417
00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,646
The team here is using
powerful suction hoses

418
00:24:37,670 --> 00:24:39,800
called "airlift dredgers."

419
00:24:39,970 --> 00:24:42,370
An engine on the surface
gently draws the sand

420
00:24:42,530 --> 00:24:44,076
away from the artifacts,

421
00:24:44,100 --> 00:24:46,970
sends it through a screen
to catch small objects,

422
00:24:47,130 --> 00:24:50,460
and relocates the sediment
away from the wreck.

423
00:24:50,630 --> 00:24:54,600
Then they use mesh bags
to cradle heavy relics before

424
00:24:54,770 --> 00:24:58,346
inflatable lift bags help raise
them safely to the surface.

425
00:24:58,370 --> 00:25:01,000
And at this site, there
are plenty of relics.

426
00:25:22,070 --> 00:25:24,446
These ceramic vessels,
are like fingerprints

427
00:25:24,470 --> 00:25:27,970
and could identify where
this ship sailed from.

428
00:25:34,970 --> 00:25:37,546
To begin excavating,
George offers me the use

429
00:25:37,570 --> 00:25:39,170
of one of the airlifters.

430
00:25:50,700 --> 00:25:52,800
Once it's clear, the team needs

431
00:25:52,970 --> 00:25:55,870
to measure and photograph
it before it can be raised.

432
00:25:56,030 --> 00:25:58,000
Nearby, another artifact is ready

433
00:25:58,170 --> 00:26:00,070
to head topside for analysis.

434
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:19,446
Once we have the
amphora safely cradled,

435
00:26:19,470 --> 00:26:23,146
one of George's conservators
attaches an inflatable bag,

436
00:26:23,170 --> 00:26:27,100
and then it's away and
headed for the topside team,

437
00:26:27,270 --> 00:26:30,770
as I turn the airlifter
back to the debris pile.

438
00:27:17,370 --> 00:27:19,670
These are likely thousands of years old

439
00:27:19,830 --> 00:27:22,260
and therefore extremely delicate.

440
00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:43,870
With no bottom time
left, we carefully return

441
00:27:44,030 --> 00:27:47,100
to the surface, hoping
these bowls and the amphora

442
00:27:47,270 --> 00:27:49,270
can unlock the ship's identity.

443
00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:53,100
Wow.

444
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:58,146
I cannot believe the amount
of artifacts down there.

445
00:27:58,170 --> 00:28:00,370
There are amphorae everywhere.

446
00:28:00,530 --> 00:28:04,060
Every time I go down,
I'm in awe that I'm visiting

447
00:28:04,230 --> 00:28:05,560
an underwater museum.

448
00:28:05,730 --> 00:28:07,076
That's exactly what it is.

449
00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:08,270
It's a time capsule.

450
00:28:08,430 --> 00:28:09,846
And now, can we talk
about what's in my hand?

451
00:28:09,870 --> 00:28:10,870
Yeah, go on.

452
00:28:11,030 --> 00:28:14,060
- So these are...?
- This is red slipware.

453
00:28:14,230 --> 00:28:15,146
Red slipware.

454
00:28:15,170 --> 00:28:17,470
Very common in the 5th century ad.

455
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,646
Red slipware is a
distinctive kind of ceramic,

456
00:28:21,670 --> 00:28:24,846
manufactured during the
Roman era, where red slip,

457
00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:26,970
or liquid Clay, is used to surface

458
00:28:27,130 --> 00:28:29,346
the pottery before firing.

459
00:28:29,370 --> 00:28:33,670
The finish on these bowls
has endured for 1,500 years

460
00:28:33,830 --> 00:28:35,900
and left me astonished.

461
00:28:36,070 --> 00:28:38,100
Holding plates from the 5th century.

462
00:28:38,270 --> 00:28:40,970
- Sure, why not? Valuable items.
- Yeah.

463
00:28:41,130 --> 00:28:44,076
But it's the amphora that
proved truly eye-opening.

464
00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:46,370
The style of these ceramics comes not

465
00:28:46,530 --> 00:28:49,076
from the mediterranean,
but from the black sea,

466
00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:51,570
more than 400 miles away.

467
00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:54,160
So now we have a
positive ID here, right?

468
00:28:54,330 --> 00:28:57,560
A ship that sank a long way
from home, carrying cargo

469
00:28:57,730 --> 00:28:59,846
- from the black sea.
- Yeah.

470
00:28:59,870 --> 00:29:01,870
Awesome. Ok, let's get aboard.

471
00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:09,446
The finds here confirm fourni's
position along a far-reaching

472
00:29:09,470 --> 00:29:12,570
trade route, which explains
not only why so many ships

473
00:29:12,730 --> 00:29:15,546
were passing by, but that
many of them were likely

474
00:29:15,570 --> 00:29:18,076
unfamiliar with these waters.

475
00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:20,846
But their cargo isn't
fully solving the mystery

476
00:29:20,870 --> 00:29:23,100
of why these ships sank.

477
00:29:23,270 --> 00:29:25,400
To figure out what's
going on below the waves,

478
00:29:25,570 --> 00:29:28,300
I decide to get a different
perspective from above.

479
00:29:28,470 --> 00:29:29,870
Way above.

480
00:29:30,030 --> 00:29:31,860
Atop the so-called "cape of death,"

481
00:29:32,030 --> 00:29:34,746
I link up with our local expert, manos.

482
00:29:34,770 --> 00:29:37,346
After all, he's the one
who first alerted George

483
00:29:37,370 --> 00:29:38,970
to the wrecks here,

484
00:29:39,130 --> 00:29:41,500
and he knows these
waters better than anyone.

485
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,770
Let's talk about this mystery.

486
00:29:44,930 --> 00:29:46,246
So, we've seen that there are wrecks

487
00:29:46,270 --> 00:29:47,870
all around these cliffs, right?

488
00:29:48,030 --> 00:29:50,160
We've seen them from
all different time periods,

489
00:29:50,330 --> 00:29:52,546
and we know they're not
all there because of piracy.

490
00:29:52,570 --> 00:29:55,000
We know they're not all
there because of storms.

491
00:29:55,170 --> 00:29:58,900
These bays were considered
safe harbor for ships, historically.

492
00:29:59,070 --> 00:30:01,346
So, you're the local.

493
00:30:01,370 --> 00:30:03,770
What do you think is happening here?

494
00:30:03,930 --> 00:30:07,076
Just, I think there are
other forces at work here.

495
00:30:07,100 --> 00:30:09,300
Other forces? What
kind of other forces?

496
00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:15,670
So you're talking, what,
gods and monsters here?

497
00:30:15,830 --> 00:30:18,600
- In a way, maybe.
- Ok, how so?

498
00:30:18,770 --> 00:30:21,470
Navigating through
fourni is not like navigating

499
00:30:21,630 --> 00:30:23,160
- in other places.
- Why?

500
00:30:23,330 --> 00:30:25,160
There are strange
weather phenomenon here.

501
00:30:25,330 --> 00:30:26,560
Not just storms?

502
00:30:37,670 --> 00:30:39,470
This is something you've experienced?

503
00:30:39,630 --> 00:30:41,260
I have experienced this many times.

504
00:30:41,430 --> 00:30:42,277
Like, where?

505
00:30:42,301 --> 00:30:44,570
Like the channels between the islands.

506
00:30:44,730 --> 00:30:47,646
So, between the islands,
there's phenomenon?

507
00:30:47,670 --> 00:30:49,846
There are strange weather phenomenon

508
00:30:49,870 --> 00:30:52,100
that we don't see anywhere else.

509
00:30:52,270 --> 00:30:54,300
Josh, do you know scylla and charybdis?

510
00:30:54,470 --> 00:30:56,170
Scylla and charybdis from "the odyssey"?

511
00:30:56,330 --> 00:30:57,746
Exactly.

512
00:30:57,770 --> 00:31:00,270
Yes, scylla and charybdis.

513
00:31:00,430 --> 00:31:02,446
Back to high school mythology class.

514
00:31:02,470 --> 00:31:04,646
Scylla is a six-headed, man-eating beast

515
00:31:04,670 --> 00:31:07,770
that lives in a cave on one
shore of a narrow strait...

516
00:31:07,930 --> 00:31:09,646
While charybdis is a huge,

517
00:31:09,670 --> 00:31:12,370
ship-swallowing whirlpool near the other.

518
00:31:12,530 --> 00:31:16,200
In "the odyssey," odysseus
makes a very difficult call,

519
00:31:16,370 --> 00:31:19,846
avoiding the loss of his entire
ship to charybdis by steering

520
00:31:19,870 --> 00:31:23,970
towards scylla and sacrificing
six of his men as a result.

521
00:31:24,130 --> 00:31:25,960
Tough break, guys.

522
00:31:26,130 --> 00:31:28,170
Do you think there's a
couple of monsters out here?

523
00:31:33,170 --> 00:31:35,546
Is this something you
think we can observe?

524
00:31:35,570 --> 00:31:36,870
Does this happen all the time?

525
00:31:37,770 --> 00:31:39,746
We can sail through this channel

526
00:31:39,770 --> 00:31:41,646
and you can see for yourself.

527
00:31:41,670 --> 00:31:44,070
All right, let's go meet a monster.

528
00:31:49,900 --> 00:31:51,600
Are there weird currents here?

529
00:31:51,770 --> 00:31:54,546
Yes, and they are very
strong and unpredictable.

530
00:31:54,570 --> 00:31:57,470
Do you think that could be
associated with these wrecks?

531
00:31:57,630 --> 00:31:59,146
That's what we will find out.

532
00:31:59,170 --> 00:32:00,570
Right, ok, let's do it.

533
00:32:02,670 --> 00:32:04,600
We're on the hunt for a monster.

534
00:32:04,770 --> 00:32:07,970
The culprit behind 58 known
shipwrecks off the coast

535
00:32:08,130 --> 00:32:09,976
of the islands of fourni.

536
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,100
Local sailor, manos mitikas,
believes the waters here

537
00:32:13,270 --> 00:32:16,670
exhibit some sort of mysterious
phenomena, so we're attempting

538
00:32:16,830 --> 00:32:19,560
to mirror the experience
ancient sailors faced

539
00:32:19,730 --> 00:32:23,146
while scientifically measuring
the wind and currents as we go.

540
00:32:23,170 --> 00:32:24,976
We'll use a marine anemometer

541
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,170
to measure wind speed and direction,

542
00:32:27,330 --> 00:32:30,246
but testing the current
is a lot more complicated.

543
00:32:30,270 --> 00:32:33,300
For that, we have Norwegian
scientist Patrick Johansen

544
00:32:33,470 --> 00:32:35,570
from the nortek group.

545
00:32:35,730 --> 00:32:38,000
So, tell me what it is
that you're gonna do here.

546
00:32:38,170 --> 00:32:40,846
- Tell me about nortek.
- We make ad2cps.

547
00:32:40,870 --> 00:32:42,646
- Ad2cps?
- Yeah.

548
00:32:42,670 --> 00:32:44,346
That's a robot from "star wars," right?

549
00:32:44,370 --> 00:32:46,270
What's an ad2cp?

550
00:32:46,430 --> 00:32:48,660
Acoustic doppler current profiler.

551
00:32:48,830 --> 00:32:50,306
- Now I see why you shortened it.
- Yeah.

552
00:32:50,330 --> 00:32:52,160
So, ok, what does this device do?

553
00:32:52,330 --> 00:32:54,146
- We have two of them here.
- Ok, these are them.

554
00:32:54,170 --> 00:32:56,076
They are "star wars"
droids. Look at these things.

555
00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:57,700
So, what do these do?

556
00:32:57,870 --> 00:33:01,670
It sends out short underwater
sound pulses that travel

557
00:33:01,830 --> 00:33:04,360
through the water
column, generating echoes.

558
00:33:04,530 --> 00:33:07,246
Detected back at the
instrument to calculate the speed

559
00:33:07,270 --> 00:33:09,600
and directions of the
particles in the water.

560
00:33:09,770 --> 00:33:11,810
In other words, through a
very high tech mechanism,

561
00:33:11,930 --> 00:33:15,760
calculating the current or the
speed of the water around it.

562
00:33:15,930 --> 00:33:17,006
Yeah.

563
00:33:17,030 --> 00:33:18,706
Where do you think we should
take those measurements?

564
00:33:18,730 --> 00:33:20,860
Definitely between the two islands.

565
00:33:21,030 --> 00:33:22,606
- In the channel, there?
- In the channel.

566
00:33:22,630 --> 00:33:24,800
Ok, so let's get these to the divers

567
00:33:24,970 --> 00:33:26,346
- and rock and roll, yeah?
- Rock and roll.

568
00:33:26,370 --> 00:33:27,576
Let's do it.

569
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,746
To see how the current moves,
the buoys need to be manually

570
00:33:30,770 --> 00:33:34,270
deployed a few hundred
feet apart near the seabed.

571
00:33:34,430 --> 00:33:36,660
Almost 200 feet down.

572
00:33:36,830 --> 00:33:39,660
So, manos has technical
divers from George's team

573
00:33:39,830 --> 00:33:41,500
set them in place.

574
00:33:41,670 --> 00:33:44,446
Once the buoys are
positioned, they begin to measure

575
00:33:44,470 --> 00:33:46,346
the current underwater.

576
00:33:46,370 --> 00:33:49,670
However, because of the depth,
the buoys are unable to track

577
00:33:49,830 --> 00:33:51,446
the currents at the surface.

578
00:33:51,470 --> 00:33:53,770
To cover that, we're going old school.

579
00:33:54,770 --> 00:33:58,170
Ok, so we have this
very powerful, very visible

580
00:33:58,330 --> 00:34:00,460
marine dye that we're
gonna be putting in the water

581
00:34:00,630 --> 00:34:03,300
on a buoy towed behind the sailboat.

582
00:34:03,470 --> 00:34:05,076
This is environmentally friendly, but very,

583
00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:06,370
very bright.

584
00:34:06,530 --> 00:34:09,246
And we should be able to
see what the surface currents

585
00:34:09,270 --> 00:34:11,370
are doing as we travel along.

586
00:34:14,970 --> 00:34:16,500
Ok, dye pack is away.

587
00:34:16,670 --> 00:34:18,370
Whoo! Look at that.

588
00:34:18,530 --> 00:34:20,460
We raise sail and make for the straits

589
00:34:20,630 --> 00:34:23,846
between the islands of
fourni and agios minas.

590
00:34:23,870 --> 00:34:25,900
Dozens of ships have met their fate

591
00:34:26,070 --> 00:34:28,076
in this narrow channel.

592
00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,200
Are you ready for the fun part?

593
00:34:30,370 --> 00:34:32,970
- Driving through the straits?
- Through the cape of death.

594
00:34:34,870 --> 00:34:36,100
Let's go.

595
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,800
As we approach, even on this clear day,

596
00:34:39,970 --> 00:34:42,146
I can feel the barometer falling.

597
00:34:42,170 --> 00:34:45,070
In centuries past,
countless doomed sailors

598
00:34:45,230 --> 00:34:47,846
before me must have felt the same thing.

599
00:34:47,870 --> 00:34:51,070
Now we hope to finally learn why,

600
00:34:51,230 --> 00:34:53,346
preferably without joining them.

601
00:34:53,370 --> 00:34:55,076
So we're approaching the channel here,

602
00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:59,100
and already something
just changed in an instant.

603
00:34:59,270 --> 00:35:01,100
This chop just emerged, and the wind

604
00:35:01,270 --> 00:35:02,770
just totally shifted.

605
00:35:07,470 --> 00:35:09,000
Whoo!

606
00:35:10,670 --> 00:35:12,446
Wind just picked way up.

607
00:35:12,470 --> 00:35:15,646
The anemometer jumped
from five miles an hour to 20

608
00:35:15,670 --> 00:35:17,846
in a heartbeat, and gusting.

609
00:35:17,870 --> 00:35:19,370
25 knots!

610
00:35:20,770 --> 00:35:21,900
That got real.

611
00:35:23,470 --> 00:35:26,146
We're up to almost 30 knots here

612
00:35:26,170 --> 00:35:30,846
on what is a sunny, calm
day if you're not in this channel.

613
00:35:30,870 --> 00:35:33,100
Everywhere else, it's a paradise.

614
00:35:33,270 --> 00:35:36,246
- Here, it's hell.
- It's hell.

615
00:35:36,270 --> 00:35:38,900
Imagine trying to come
through this channel

616
00:35:39,070 --> 00:35:42,270
in really bad weather.
It would be madness.

617
00:35:42,430 --> 00:35:43,960
Absolutely.

618
00:35:44,130 --> 00:35:46,200
We are in a vortex.

619
00:35:46,370 --> 00:35:48,900
The anemometer is
literally spinning in circles.

620
00:35:49,070 --> 00:35:50,800
You can see the dye pack trail

621
00:35:50,970 --> 00:35:53,146
is just swirling in the water now.

622
00:35:53,170 --> 00:35:55,570
Really erratic currents in here.

623
00:35:55,730 --> 00:35:59,100
The wind and water are
churning wildly around us.

624
00:35:59,270 --> 00:36:02,000
Minutes ago, we lived
in a predictable world.

625
00:36:02,170 --> 00:36:05,000
Now, we're at the mercy of the gods.

626
00:36:05,170 --> 00:36:06,570
Everybody hold on!

627
00:36:08,570 --> 00:36:09,570
Whoa!

628
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:12,700
Hang on!

629
00:36:13,870 --> 00:36:15,000
Whoa!

630
00:36:22,570 --> 00:36:24,846
Back in ancient times,
ceramic amphorae

631
00:36:24,870 --> 00:36:26,146
were all the rage.

632
00:36:26,170 --> 00:36:30,246
In modern day Athens, the
tradition of great pottery lives on.

633
00:36:30,270 --> 00:36:33,300
So, I thought I'd get behind
the wheel for a quick lesson.

634
00:36:33,470 --> 00:36:36,770
- What do you want to do?
- Make a beautiful ceramic vase.

635
00:36:36,930 --> 00:36:38,746
- It's your first time?
- It's my first time.

636
00:36:38,770 --> 00:36:40,570
- Be gentle.
- Ok.

637
00:36:40,730 --> 00:36:42,100
- Ok.
- Watch me.

638
00:36:42,270 --> 00:36:45,400
- Try to up and down the piece.
- What?

639
00:36:45,570 --> 00:36:46,840
- Like this.
- Boy.

640
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:48,670
God. It's... no, it didn't happen.

641
00:36:48,830 --> 00:36:50,560
- Something went wrong.
- But it's good.

642
00:36:50,730 --> 00:36:51,930
- Thank you.
- Bravo.

643
00:36:52,100 --> 00:36:53,670
Thank you. Bravo.

644
00:36:56,630 --> 00:36:58,260
Ha-ha!

645
00:36:59,770 --> 00:37:03,370
- Bravo, bravo.
- Ok, now it's condescending.

646
00:37:03,530 --> 00:37:06,846
After a shaky start, I
finally get the hang of it.

647
00:37:06,870 --> 00:37:08,940
Ok, and done.

648
00:37:09,100 --> 00:37:10,846
I gotta say, turned out
better than I expected.

649
00:37:10,870 --> 00:37:12,370
It's not bad, right? First try.

650
00:37:13,570 --> 00:37:14,870
There's even a price tag in it.

651
00:37:16,730 --> 00:37:18,230
Sorry, I'll put this back.

652
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:26,146
So, we're in it. It's gusting to forty!

653
00:37:26,170 --> 00:37:28,846
In the narrow straits off
the Greek islands of fourni,

654
00:37:28,870 --> 00:37:31,870
I'm helping manos mitikas
measure the wind and water

655
00:37:32,030 --> 00:37:35,346
currents to determine if a
unique anomaly is responsible

656
00:37:35,370 --> 00:37:38,470
for the dozens of
shipwrecks found nearby.

657
00:37:38,630 --> 00:37:41,130
Gusts at about 30 to 40 knots.

658
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,670
Then, as quickly as the conditions

659
00:37:45,830 --> 00:37:47,660
kicked up, they subside.

660
00:37:50,370 --> 00:37:53,270
My word. And now, no wind.

661
00:37:53,430 --> 00:37:55,860
No wind. These gusts are deadly.

662
00:37:56,030 --> 00:37:57,560
Yeah, you can see it.

663
00:37:57,730 --> 00:38:01,100
I mean, just under half
sail and we're halfway over.

664
00:38:01,270 --> 00:38:02,600
Nobody expects this,

665
00:38:02,770 --> 00:38:05,400
- when it's out of the channel.
- That's right.

666
00:38:05,570 --> 00:38:07,500
The weather's totally different out there.

667
00:38:07,670 --> 00:38:10,246
- You sail in, it's like a trap.
- Exactly.

668
00:38:10,270 --> 00:38:13,600
- Josh, you see the many rocks?
- The many rocks? Yes.

669
00:38:13,770 --> 00:38:14,940
This is scylla.

670
00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:16,670
That's scylla? The
many-headed monster?

671
00:38:16,830 --> 00:38:18,006
That's scylla.

672
00:38:18,030 --> 00:38:20,760
All the shoals, all the rocks
there that ships could hit.

673
00:38:20,930 --> 00:38:24,000
And behind us, the dye trail is swirling.

674
00:38:24,170 --> 00:38:26,740
- This is charybdis.
- It is charybdis.

675
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:28,930
It is a whirlpool of current over there.

676
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,570
- So, maybe this is the monster.
- Exactly.

677
00:38:33,730 --> 00:38:36,460
Mythical monsters in real life.

678
00:38:38,930 --> 00:38:41,660
Manos, I think we got a good
idea of what's going on here.

679
00:38:41,830 --> 00:38:44,330
We've got the dye pack trail to look at.

680
00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:45,546
We've got your data to look at.

681
00:38:45,570 --> 00:38:48,546
So, should we head for a safe harbor?

682
00:38:48,570 --> 00:38:51,570
- Let's go for a beer.
- God bless this man.

683
00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:54,500
All right, guys, we're headed home.

684
00:38:58,470 --> 00:39:01,246
Soon after our return
to port, nortek was able

685
00:39:01,270 --> 00:39:03,340
to retrieve the data from their buoys,

686
00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,546
which showed something remarkable.

687
00:39:05,570 --> 00:39:07,600
The currents in the
channel actually move

688
00:39:07,770 --> 00:39:09,770
against the prevailing winds.

689
00:39:09,930 --> 00:39:13,400
In other words, a one-two
punch during stormy weather,

690
00:39:13,570 --> 00:39:15,846
potentially dragging ships into the rocks

691
00:39:15,870 --> 00:39:18,470
or capsizing them in a fierce wind.

692
00:39:19,370 --> 00:39:22,146
We discovered earlier that
some of the shipwrecks here came

693
00:39:22,170 --> 00:39:25,870
from faraway places like the
black sea, which might also

694
00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:28,446
mean that the sailors
guiding them were unfamiliar

695
00:39:28,470 --> 00:39:31,100
with these waters and
their deadly temperament.

696
00:39:35,370 --> 00:39:37,646
I've been privileged to
travel through this land

697
00:39:37,670 --> 00:39:39,870
of ancient gods and monsters,

698
00:39:40,030 --> 00:39:43,500
where the islands, the
temples, and even the waters

699
00:39:43,670 --> 00:39:45,400
remain immortal.

700
00:39:45,570 --> 00:39:48,570
They serve as everlasting
monuments to the forces

701
00:39:48,730 --> 00:39:51,230
that the ancient Greeks
believed were in control

702
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:52,570
of their destinies.

703
00:39:53,770 --> 00:39:56,870
The poet homer knew the
waters near fourni well enough

704
00:39:57,030 --> 00:39:58,660
to warn of their danger.

705
00:40:00,100 --> 00:40:02,270
His hero, odysseus, made it home,

706
00:40:03,970 --> 00:40:06,870
but thousands of flesh
and blood sailors did not.

707
00:40:08,170 --> 00:40:11,470
They prayed to Poseidon
and perished in his silence.

708
00:40:12,470 --> 00:40:15,500
Today, though, archaeologists
like George koutsouflakis

709
00:40:15,670 --> 00:40:18,140
and his team are turning the myths of old

710
00:40:18,300 --> 00:40:20,270
into scientific knowledge.

711
00:40:20,430 --> 00:40:21,930
His excavations have recovered

712
00:40:22,100 --> 00:40:23,870
eight different types of amphorae

713
00:40:24,030 --> 00:40:27,560
hailing from across the
aegean, from Greece to Turkey,

714
00:40:27,730 --> 00:40:30,460
but also as far as Syria, north Africa,

715
00:40:30,630 --> 00:40:33,500
Italy, and Spain, remarkable artifacts

716
00:40:33,670 --> 00:40:36,370
that help tell the stories
of ancient mariners

717
00:40:36,530 --> 00:40:39,346
in ways we never imagined before.

718
00:40:39,370 --> 00:40:41,340
It's hard work that progresses

719
00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:43,746
day by day, season after season,

720
00:40:43,770 --> 00:40:46,340
as even more shipwrecks
are discovered here,

721
00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:48,770
including the latest,
which George spotted

722
00:40:48,930 --> 00:40:52,100
with an rov shortly before we left fourni.

723
00:40:52,270 --> 00:40:54,940
That's an amphora! Hey!

724
00:40:55,100 --> 00:40:56,270
Unbelievable!

725
00:40:56,430 --> 00:40:57,746
This could be the tip of the iceberg.

726
00:40:57,770 --> 00:40:59,246
Who knows how many wrecks are there.

727
00:40:59,270 --> 00:41:01,846
Right, there could be untold
wrecks in these deeper waters.

728
00:41:01,870 --> 00:41:03,970
Amazing.

729
00:41:04,130 --> 00:41:06,846
This wreck, the 59th on Georgia's map,

730
00:41:06,870 --> 00:41:10,100
is in the deepest water
yet explored around fourni.

731
00:41:10,270 --> 00:41:12,940
It's a find that radically
expands the territory

732
00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:14,830
where these ships are being found.

733
00:41:16,370 --> 00:41:19,340
So this maritime graveyard
could be even larger

734
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:20,930
than we ever imagined.

735
00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:23,500
A hidden bounty of
knowledge deep beneath.

736
00:41:23,670 --> 00:41:27,370
Greece's now legendary
island of shipwrecks.

736
00:41:28,305 --> 00:42:28,230
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