Expedition Unknown

1 00:00:01,570 --> 00:00:04,050 Many archaeologists could make an entire career out of finding 2 00:00:04,130 --> 00:00:07,200 one shipwreck, and yet you guys have found, what, like 50? 3 00:00:07,370 --> 00:00:09,646 58 to be precise. 4 00:00:09,670 --> 00:00:12,700 I've never seen such a collection of shipwrecks 5 00:00:12,870 --> 00:00:14,170 in one place. 6 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:19,270 So the million dollar question is, why is a place that should 7 00:00:19,430 --> 00:00:20,760 be safe consuming ships? 8 00:00:24,070 --> 00:00:28,500 Wind just picked way up. From five miles an hour to 20. 9 00:00:28,670 --> 00:00:31,300 Just, I think there are other forces at work here. 10 00:00:31,470 --> 00:00:33,646 So you're talking, what, gods and monsters here? 11 00:00:33,670 --> 00:00:35,900 Out there, there is something very real. 12 00:00:37,670 --> 00:00:39,546 So you think there could be more wrecks out there? 13 00:00:39,570 --> 00:00:41,000 No question. 14 00:00:41,170 --> 00:00:42,846 Ok, dye pack is away. 15 00:00:42,870 --> 00:00:44,346 Whoo! Look at that. 16 00:00:44,370 --> 00:00:45,770 Are you ready for the fun part? 17 00:00:45,930 --> 00:00:47,050 Driving through the straits. 18 00:00:47,130 --> 00:00:48,146 Through the cape of death. 19 00:00:48,170 --> 00:00:49,300 Cape of death? 20 00:00:52,170 --> 00:00:53,646 We are in a vortex. 21 00:00:53,670 --> 00:00:56,300 The anemometer is literally spinning in circles. 22 00:00:56,470 --> 00:00:58,470 Everywhere else, it's a paradise. 23 00:00:58,630 --> 00:01:00,700 - Whoo! - Here, it's hell! 24 00:01:00,870 --> 00:01:02,270 Hang on! Whoa! 25 00:01:10,770 --> 00:01:14,446 This is the temple of Poseidon, Greek god of the sea, 26 00:01:14,470 --> 00:01:16,400 and protector of sailors. 27 00:01:16,570 --> 00:01:19,846 And beyond these weathered columns are the vast waters 28 00:01:19,870 --> 00:01:21,670 of the mediterranean. 29 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,246 For more than 2,500 years, this sanctuary has stood 30 00:01:30,270 --> 00:01:32,846 south of Athens at the last point of land 31 00:01:32,870 --> 00:01:34,900 that sailors glimpsed before departing 32 00:01:35,070 --> 00:01:37,870 on perilous voyages across the aegean sea. 33 00:01:42,270 --> 00:01:45,470 But it seems that no amount of offerings or sacrifices 34 00:01:45,630 --> 00:01:49,600 made here fully appeased Poseidon's wrath, as evidenced 35 00:01:49,770 --> 00:01:51,970 by the recent discovery of a stretch of water 36 00:01:52,130 --> 00:01:54,300 as deadly as the Bermuda triangle. 37 00:01:55,770 --> 00:01:59,076 Astonishingly, the remains of more than 50 shipwrecks 38 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:03,100 have been found surrounding the tiny Greek islands of fourni. 39 00:02:03,270 --> 00:02:06,300 It may be the largest concentration of ancient wrecks 40 00:02:06,470 --> 00:02:09,470 found anywhere on the planet, with vessels that span 41 00:02:09,630 --> 00:02:11,076 thousands of years. 42 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:13,746 Their crews and cargo mysteriously dragged 43 00:02:13,770 --> 00:02:16,300 to the bottom of the mediterranean. 44 00:02:16,470 --> 00:02:20,146 And now archaeologists want to know how they ended up there. 45 00:02:20,170 --> 00:02:22,670 The team that uncovered this nautical graveyard thinks 46 00:02:22,830 --> 00:02:25,660 that the answer to the mystery could lie in the cargo 47 00:02:25,830 --> 00:02:29,700 of a newly discovered wreck more than 100 feet below the surface. 48 00:02:29,870 --> 00:02:31,400 Can state of the art technology 49 00:02:31,570 --> 00:02:33,446 provide a logical explanation, 50 00:02:33,470 --> 00:02:36,846 or could the culprit be right out of Greek mythology? 51 00:02:36,870 --> 00:02:39,770 To find out, I'm embarking on an epic odyssey 52 00:02:39,930 --> 00:02:41,346 to the treacherous shores 53 00:02:41,370 --> 00:02:43,370 of Greece's island of shipwrecks. 54 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:52,470 The past is all around us. 55 00:02:52,630 --> 00:02:54,100 My god! 56 00:02:54,270 --> 00:02:55,446 It goes on forever! 57 00:02:55,470 --> 00:02:57,270 A world of mystery... 58 00:02:58,570 --> 00:03:01,000 Come on! Look at that! 59 00:03:01,170 --> 00:03:03,370 Danger... Hang on! 60 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:06,470 And adventure. 61 00:03:06,630 --> 00:03:08,000 It's just straight down! 62 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:11,100 I gotta get a new job. 63 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:15,670 I travel to the far corners of the earth 64 00:03:15,830 --> 00:03:19,546 to uncover where legends end... We got it! 65 00:03:19,570 --> 00:03:20,547 Yes! 66 00:03:20,571 --> 00:03:22,070 And history begins. 67 00:03:22,230 --> 00:03:24,060 Whoo-hoo! Here we go! 68 00:03:24,230 --> 00:03:28,760 I'm Josh gates, and this is "expedition unknown." 69 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 70 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:41,346 Welcome to Athens, the oldest capital city 71 00:03:41,370 --> 00:03:43,870 in Europe and the beating heart of ancient Greece 72 00:03:44,030 --> 00:03:45,446 during its golden age. 73 00:03:45,470 --> 00:03:47,546 That's when the Greeks came up with some pretty important 74 00:03:47,570 --> 00:03:49,000 stuff we still enjoy today. 75 00:03:49,170 --> 00:03:52,270 The Olympics, theater, formal geometry, 76 00:03:52,370 --> 00:03:56,060 big fat weddings, overly thick yogurt, philosophy, 77 00:03:56,230 --> 00:03:59,000 an alphabet with vowels, John stamos, 78 00:03:59,170 --> 00:04:02,246 not to mention a little old thing called democracy. 79 00:04:02,270 --> 00:04:04,900 So next 4th of July, maybe put down the hot dog and pick up 80 00:04:05,070 --> 00:04:08,746 a gyro to celebrate the Greek gift of western civilization. 81 00:04:08,770 --> 00:04:10,000 Opa! 82 00:04:10,870 --> 00:04:13,870 So what made Athens so influential and powerful? 83 00:04:14,030 --> 00:04:16,760 Location, location, location. 84 00:04:16,930 --> 00:04:19,860 It's the southernmost major city on the European continent, 85 00:04:20,030 --> 00:04:23,100 with access to sea routes that connect to Western Europe, 86 00:04:23,270 --> 00:04:27,400 north Africa, the middle east, Asia, and the Balkans. 87 00:04:27,570 --> 00:04:29,500 This is the port of piraeus. 88 00:04:29,670 --> 00:04:30,746 You know, in the ancient world, 89 00:04:30,770 --> 00:04:34,470 Greece was a shipping powerhouse, and they still are. 90 00:04:34,630 --> 00:04:37,400 Despite being a relatively small country, with a population 91 00:04:37,570 --> 00:04:39,646 that's roughly the size of north Carolina, 92 00:04:39,670 --> 00:04:43,270 Greek-owned companies control a staggering 20% 93 00:04:43,430 --> 00:04:45,900 of the world's merchant fleet. 94 00:04:46,070 --> 00:04:49,546 Today, we stuff everything into 40-foot steel containers. 95 00:04:49,570 --> 00:04:52,170 But back when the ancient Greeks ruled the shipping lanes 96 00:04:52,330 --> 00:04:55,300 on the mediterranean, their most valuable goods 97 00:04:55,470 --> 00:04:59,570 wine, oil, exotic spices, even preserved fish 98 00:04:59,730 --> 00:05:03,346 were transported in ceramic vessels called "amphorae." 99 00:05:03,370 --> 00:05:06,246 Along with commercial shipping, modern piraeus is also 100 00:05:06,270 --> 00:05:09,100 a travel hub for cruise ships and ferries 101 00:05:09,270 --> 00:05:13,000 that travel between Greece's more than 200 inhabited islands. 102 00:05:13,170 --> 00:05:15,270 And this is where my adventure begins. 103 00:05:15,430 --> 00:05:17,960 You see, a few months ago, I received this mysterious 104 00:05:18,130 --> 00:05:20,460 invitation to a Greek wedding from an old girlfriend, 105 00:05:20,630 --> 00:05:21,906 and I gotta say, I'm thinking I'm 106 00:05:21,930 --> 00:05:23,300 we are not doing "mamma Mia!" 107 00:05:23,470 --> 00:05:25,070 Right, sorry, no "mamma Mia!" 108 00:05:25,230 --> 00:05:26,760 Scary shipwreck island. 109 00:05:26,930 --> 00:05:29,260 Can we at least afford some knockoff abba music? 110 00:05:30,630 --> 00:05:31,660 There it is. 111 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,270 Life is short, the world is wide, 112 00:05:35,430 --> 00:05:37,546 and I have a boat to catch. 113 00:05:37,570 --> 00:05:39,970 To reach Greece's answer to the Bermuda triangle, 114 00:05:40,130 --> 00:05:43,976 I board this massive ferry capable of carrying 1,800 115 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:49,270 passengers, over 400 vehicles, and one intrigued adventurer. 116 00:05:49,430 --> 00:05:52,700 Our voyage to the shipwreck island of fourni isn't exactly 117 00:05:52,870 --> 00:05:54,076 a quick commute. 118 00:05:54,100 --> 00:05:57,546 We'll be sailing for nearly 10 hours as we navigate through 119 00:05:57,570 --> 00:06:01,746 some of the nearly 200 islands that make up the cyclades 120 00:06:01,770 --> 00:06:04,170 and steam through legendary waters. 121 00:06:05,870 --> 00:06:08,446 Fourni, with barely 1,000 residents, is a tiny 122 00:06:08,470 --> 00:06:10,976 cluster of islands that sit near the eastern edge 123 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:12,346 of the aegean sea. 124 00:06:12,370 --> 00:06:15,746 Few tourists make it there, as most hop off on better known 125 00:06:15,770 --> 00:06:17,746 and more mythic islands. 126 00:06:17,770 --> 00:06:20,000 Our ferry will stop first at syros, 127 00:06:20,170 --> 00:06:23,800 the home of the messenger god hermes, then to mykonos, 128 00:06:23,970 --> 00:06:27,170 where Hercules himself defeated a race of giants, 129 00:06:27,330 --> 00:06:28,760 and on to ikaria, 130 00:06:28,930 --> 00:06:32,300 where the doomed fly boy icarus flew too close to the sun 131 00:06:32,470 --> 00:06:34,076 and plummeted to earth. 132 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:37,770 These tales are woven into the very fabric of Greece, 133 00:06:37,930 --> 00:06:39,160 but in a split second, 134 00:06:39,330 --> 00:06:42,060 the only deity I'm worried about is Poseidon. 135 00:06:43,300 --> 00:06:45,976 Well, the forecast called for good weather, 136 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,300 but in the last 10 minutes or so, 137 00:06:48,470 --> 00:06:50,846 these winds have just picked up out of nowhere, 138 00:06:50,870 --> 00:06:54,300 are probably blowing 40 miles an hour or more. 139 00:06:54,470 --> 00:06:57,500 And as you can see, the sea is just churning. 140 00:06:57,670 --> 00:07:00,970 So, I don't know if the gods are angry, but I think 141 00:07:01,130 --> 00:07:02,860 we're gonna have rough waters ahead. 142 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:08,970 As the storm racks our ferry... day turns to night, 143 00:07:09,130 --> 00:07:11,000 and night brings a howling Gale. 144 00:07:26,370 --> 00:07:29,370 The sea churns. The wind screams. 145 00:07:29,530 --> 00:07:32,846 And I imagine riding this out in an ancient wooden vessel, 146 00:07:32,870 --> 00:07:35,500 a fraction of the size of this ferry. 147 00:07:35,670 --> 00:07:37,976 Just before I decide to relocate to a lifeboat, 148 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,700 though, the tempest suddenly and mysteriously stops. 149 00:07:42,870 --> 00:07:44,976 The wind has died down, the seas are calm, 150 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,470 kind of an eerie welcome to the island. 151 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,070 In ancient times, ships would vanish without a trace 152 00:07:52,230 --> 00:07:53,760 off the coast of fourni. 153 00:07:53,930 --> 00:07:56,260 But tonight, the fates have calmed the seas, 154 00:07:56,430 --> 00:07:58,100 and allowed us ashore. 155 00:07:58,270 --> 00:08:01,146 Ok, welcome to fourni. 156 00:08:01,170 --> 00:08:04,146 Under cover of darkness, I find my way to a waiting bed 157 00:08:04,170 --> 00:08:05,846 and a good night's sleep. 158 00:08:05,870 --> 00:08:09,070 In the morning, I awake to, well, paradise. 159 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:15,070 This is fourni. 160 00:08:15,230 --> 00:08:19,500 Sleepy, sun-kissed, and awash in Greek hospitality. 161 00:08:19,670 --> 00:08:21,300 Not at all the kind of place that looks 162 00:08:21,470 --> 00:08:24,076 like it violently consumes ships. 163 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:27,400 So, to learn how this place has suddenly leapt to the forefront 164 00:08:27,570 --> 00:08:31,100 of an ancient mystery, I head to the far side of the island, 165 00:08:31,270 --> 00:08:34,500 where I find a compound of archaeologists hard at work, 166 00:08:34,670 --> 00:08:36,500 and the man directing their efforts, 167 00:08:36,670 --> 00:08:38,470 Dr. George koutsouflakis. 168 00:08:38,630 --> 00:08:40,446 First of all, many archaeologists could make 169 00:08:40,470 --> 00:08:43,846 an entire career out of finding one shipwreck, and yet you guys 170 00:08:43,870 --> 00:08:45,370 have found, what, like 50? 171 00:08:45,530 --> 00:08:47,460 Well, 58 to be precise. 172 00:08:47,630 --> 00:08:49,076 - 58, sorry. - And still counting. 173 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:50,230 And still counting. 174 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:51,946 So you think there could be more wrecks out there? 175 00:08:51,970 --> 00:08:52,976 No question. 176 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,970 These are like Bermuda triangle numbers. 177 00:08:55,130 --> 00:08:57,076 That's a huge amount of wrecks in one place. 178 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:59,200 It's the largest concentration of shipwrecks 179 00:08:59,370 --> 00:09:00,700 in the mediterranean. 180 00:09:00,870 --> 00:09:02,670 It's a good 20% of the shipwrecks 181 00:09:02,830 --> 00:09:04,160 ever recorded in Greece. 182 00:09:04,330 --> 00:09:07,100 - 20% of all wrecks in Greece are here? - Yeah. 183 00:09:07,270 --> 00:09:09,200 So, did people know there were wrecks here? 184 00:09:09,370 --> 00:09:12,470 Not really... this place was completely 185 00:09:12,630 --> 00:09:14,260 archaeologically uncharted. 186 00:09:14,430 --> 00:09:16,870 And historically, this was not considered an important place? 187 00:09:17,030 --> 00:09:20,760 No, they're hardly ever mentioned by ancient writers. 188 00:09:20,930 --> 00:09:23,500 - No major ports here? - No major ports here. 189 00:09:23,670 --> 00:09:25,770 Nothing really of an historical importance 190 00:09:25,930 --> 00:09:28,260 is recorded to have happened here. 191 00:09:29,500 --> 00:09:32,370 George got involved in this mystery thanks to chance, 192 00:09:32,530 --> 00:09:34,076 or maybe fate. 193 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:36,870 A few years ago, while sitting in his office in Athens, 194 00:09:37,030 --> 00:09:38,500 his phone rang. 195 00:09:38,670 --> 00:09:42,470 On the other end of the line, there is this guy from fourni 196 00:09:42,630 --> 00:09:46,260 claiming that he dove around the islands and collected 197 00:09:46,430 --> 00:09:50,746 information from fishermen, and he made up a map with spots 198 00:09:50,770 --> 00:09:55,170 in several sites that are indicative of the presence 199 00:09:55,330 --> 00:09:56,606 of shipwrecks. 200 00:09:56,630 --> 00:09:59,146 The local fishermen reported they were getting their nets 201 00:09:59,170 --> 00:10:00,846 caught on sunken hazards, 202 00:10:00,870 --> 00:10:04,000 and those reports changed George's life. 203 00:10:04,170 --> 00:10:06,500 And using this guy's map and his information, 204 00:10:06,670 --> 00:10:07,900 you found how many shipwrecks? 205 00:10:08,070 --> 00:10:11,076 22 shipwrecks in just 11 days. 206 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:13,700 You found 22 wrecks in 11 days? 207 00:10:13,870 --> 00:10:14,976 Yeah. 208 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,146 So the million dollar question is, why are they there? 209 00:10:19,170 --> 00:10:20,770 Let's go out, and I'll show you. 210 00:10:20,930 --> 00:10:22,746 - Out on the sea? - Yeah. 211 00:10:22,770 --> 00:10:24,470 - Is it safe out there? - Maybe. 212 00:10:25,730 --> 00:10:26,900 Perfect. 213 00:10:28,170 --> 00:10:31,070 The answer to this riddle must lie among the shipwrecks 214 00:10:31,230 --> 00:10:35,100 George has discovered, so that's where we're going next. 215 00:10:35,270 --> 00:10:37,200 We walk out to a rib boat that will bring us 216 00:10:37,370 --> 00:10:39,200 to one of his research vessels. 217 00:10:39,370 --> 00:10:41,900 And there, I meet a member of his team who first put 218 00:10:42,070 --> 00:10:44,000 this place on the map, literally. 219 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:47,100 - Hello, manos. - Hello, guys... welcome. 220 00:10:47,270 --> 00:10:49,546 Let me introduce you to manos mitikas. 221 00:10:49,570 --> 00:10:50,670 He's the local guy. 222 00:10:50,830 --> 00:10:53,700 He's the one on the other end of the line, 2015. 223 00:10:53,870 --> 00:10:55,446 - He's the guy who called you. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 224 00:10:55,470 --> 00:10:57,000 So are you still adding to this map? 225 00:10:57,170 --> 00:10:59,346 Continuously, we still hear stories from fishermen. 226 00:10:59,370 --> 00:11:00,500 Wow, amazing. 227 00:11:00,670 --> 00:11:02,500 Ok, so you've got a map full of wrecks. 228 00:11:02,670 --> 00:11:04,246 - You wanna take me to one? - Of course. 229 00:11:04,270 --> 00:11:05,300 - Let's go. - Let's go. 230 00:11:05,470 --> 00:11:06,470 Come on. 231 00:11:09,230 --> 00:11:11,560 With manos at the helm, we speed around the coast 232 00:11:11,730 --> 00:11:13,960 of fourni to hover over one of the wrecks 233 00:11:14,130 --> 00:11:15,900 that's recently been discovered. 234 00:11:17,370 --> 00:11:20,900 To figure out how it ended up here, we quickly get to work, 235 00:11:21,070 --> 00:11:24,270 suit up, and splash in. 236 00:11:36,670 --> 00:11:40,300 Our mission is to try to identify what sank this ship. 237 00:11:40,470 --> 00:11:43,400 But at this depth, we only have minutes to investigate 238 00:11:43,570 --> 00:11:46,246 before risking dangerous decompression sickness, 239 00:11:46,270 --> 00:11:48,470 also known as "the bends." 240 00:13:05,870 --> 00:13:08,870 Off the coast of the Greek islands of fourni, I'm exploring 241 00:13:09,030 --> 00:13:12,360 a shipwreck discovered by Dr. George koutsouflakis. 242 00:13:12,530 --> 00:13:15,846 Ancient Greece was filled with myths of gods and monsters, 243 00:13:15,870 --> 00:13:17,770 luring sailors to their doom. 244 00:13:17,930 --> 00:13:20,600 And now, 58 wrecks have been discovered 245 00:13:20,770 --> 00:13:22,270 around this tiny island, 246 00:13:22,430 --> 00:13:24,146 and archaeologists want to know who 247 00:13:24,170 --> 00:13:25,700 or what took them down. 248 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,900 The complete lack of cargo is a compelling clue 249 00:13:42,070 --> 00:13:43,970 that this ship was pillaged. 250 00:13:44,130 --> 00:13:47,660 Pirates were once a very real threat in the mediterranean. 251 00:13:58,130 --> 00:14:01,346 We carefully ascend, and once we're back on board, 252 00:14:01,370 --> 00:14:04,076 I'm eager to explore the idea that piracy 253 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:07,470 may account for the nautical graveyard around fourni. 254 00:14:07,630 --> 00:14:09,846 And it turns out, I'm in the company of someone 255 00:14:09,870 --> 00:14:11,800 who has piracy in his blood. 256 00:14:11,970 --> 00:14:15,446 Manos? Wait a minute, descended from pirates? 257 00:14:15,470 --> 00:14:19,600 Yes, my great great grandfather was a famous pirate 258 00:14:19,770 --> 00:14:23,500 of this area. They executed him in 1863. 259 00:14:23,670 --> 00:14:25,346 You're not taking up the family business? 260 00:14:25,370 --> 00:14:27,770 - I hope not. - Yeah, I hope not, too. 261 00:14:27,930 --> 00:14:29,970 I didn't know we had a dangerous man on board here. 262 00:14:30,070 --> 00:14:32,200 Yeah, they don't do that stuff anymore. 263 00:14:32,370 --> 00:14:36,200 So, in terms of this wreck, from the piracy, no cargo. 264 00:14:36,370 --> 00:14:37,976 So is this the answer to our mystery? 265 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 All these shipwrecks are here because they've been 266 00:14:40,030 --> 00:14:41,176 preyed upon by pirates? 267 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,000 That would be an easy solution to a complicated problem. 268 00:14:45,170 --> 00:14:47,770 But it's not so simple because most of the other wreck we've 269 00:14:47,930 --> 00:14:50,660 - found so far are full of cargo. - Full of cargo? 270 00:14:50,830 --> 00:14:52,470 - Do you wanna see? - I would love to see. 271 00:14:52,530 --> 00:14:54,000 - Yeah, let's go. - Let's go. 272 00:14:56,270 --> 00:14:59,070 So, if nearly all the other wrecks here are loaded 273 00:14:59,230 --> 00:15:02,460 with cargo, that means pirates aren't to blame. 274 00:15:02,630 --> 00:15:05,560 Manos pilots the boat around fourni to a strait 275 00:15:05,730 --> 00:15:07,300 in between two islands. 276 00:15:07,470 --> 00:15:09,870 It's in this channel where the team has located 277 00:15:10,030 --> 00:15:12,000 half of the wrecks found to date. 278 00:15:13,070 --> 00:15:14,846 So this is fourni here, and this is what, 279 00:15:14,870 --> 00:15:16,846 - another island? - Agios minas, yeah. 280 00:15:16,870 --> 00:15:18,500 Agios minas. And so, we're what? 281 00:15:18,670 --> 00:15:19,717 We're in the channel between them? 282 00:15:19,741 --> 00:15:22,200 We are in the opening of the channel between them. 283 00:15:22,370 --> 00:15:24,270 We call this area the white cape. 284 00:15:24,430 --> 00:15:25,860 The white cape. Got it. 285 00:15:27,170 --> 00:15:29,400 This area also has another nickname 286 00:15:29,570 --> 00:15:32,370 because of the concentration of wrecks here. 287 00:15:32,530 --> 00:15:33,760 The cape of death. 288 00:15:38,330 --> 00:15:41,100 Below the towering cliffs, we arrive at George's other 289 00:15:41,270 --> 00:15:44,170 research vessels with a team of underwater archaeologists 290 00:15:44,330 --> 00:15:47,246 below carefully excavating and cataloging 291 00:15:47,270 --> 00:15:49,400 this graveyard of shipwrecks. 292 00:15:49,570 --> 00:15:52,746 We've had a long enough surface interval after our last dive 293 00:15:52,770 --> 00:15:55,146 for us to safely get back in the water. 294 00:15:55,170 --> 00:15:58,146 So we gear up once again and jump in 295 00:15:58,170 --> 00:15:59,446 to get a firsthand look 296 00:15:59,470 --> 00:16:01,900 at one of the mysterious wrecks below. 297 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:33,500 I'm absolutely stunned by what I see. 298 00:16:33,670 --> 00:16:37,100 Thousands of ceramic containers everywhere where I look, 299 00:16:37,270 --> 00:16:39,200 a treasure trove of ancient history 300 00:16:39,370 --> 00:16:41,000 littering the sea floor. 301 00:16:46,770 --> 00:16:50,200 Amphorae were the Amazon boxes of the ancient world. 302 00:16:50,370 --> 00:16:52,600 Some form of them was used by every culture 303 00:16:52,770 --> 00:16:56,746 on the mediterranean to ship oil, wine, and precious goods 304 00:16:56,770 --> 00:16:58,246 across the sea. 305 00:16:58,270 --> 00:17:01,146 Their design made them deceptively strong and easy 306 00:17:01,170 --> 00:17:03,746 to pack into a ship's hold, where they could be 307 00:17:03,770 --> 00:17:06,300 stacked tightly for transport. 308 00:17:29,870 --> 00:17:31,700 These wrecks are so close, 309 00:17:31,870 --> 00:17:33,870 they're practically on top of each other. 310 00:17:34,030 --> 00:17:36,760 Another one is only a short swim away. 311 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,846 The amphorae offer a ghostly outline of the ships that once 312 00:18:04,870 --> 00:18:08,146 carried them, ships that disintegrated long ago, 313 00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:11,570 leaving only cargo behind as a clue to their fate. 314 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:36,900 The wide span of time these wrecks encompass is proof 315 00:18:37,070 --> 00:18:40,670 that whatever took them down was not a fluke event. 316 00:18:40,830 --> 00:18:43,200 Something has been a threat here for millennia. 317 00:18:56,100 --> 00:19:00,046 Once again, our bottom time is up, so we carefully ascend, 318 00:19:00,070 --> 00:19:03,500 stopping to make sure we avoid decompression sickness. 319 00:19:03,670 --> 00:19:05,246 Once we eventually surface, 320 00:19:05,270 --> 00:19:07,900 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. 322 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:16,146 I've never seen such a collection of shipwrecks 323 00:19:16,170 --> 00:19:17,746 in one place. 324 00:19:17,770 --> 00:19:20,076 Yeah, for the first time, fourni is now 325 00:19:20,100 --> 00:19:22,870 on the archaeological and historical map. 326 00:19:23,030 --> 00:19:24,700 Absolutely, in a big way. 327 00:19:24,870 --> 00:19:27,100 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 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,146 I thought it was not a major stopping place. 332 00:19:36,170 --> 00:19:37,470 It's never mentioned. 333 00:19:37,630 --> 00:19:39,670 So why are all these ships from all these different 334 00:19:39,770 --> 00:19:41,346 time periods here? 335 00:19:41,370 --> 00:19:44,546 For what we have learned, fourni itself was never 336 00:19:44,570 --> 00:19:46,976 - a final destination. - Ok. 337 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:50,970 It was used as an intermediate stop, as a stepping stone 338 00:19:51,130 --> 00:19:53,860 - 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 340 00:19:59,370 --> 00:20:01,800 - 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! 343 00:20:16,230 --> 00:20:19,400 I'm looking at a rare map that shows the islands of fourni 344 00:20:19,570 --> 00:20:22,076 as they appeared more than five centuries ago, 345 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:25,870 before this became the Bermuda triangle of ancient Greece, 346 00:20:26,030 --> 00:20:29,546 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 348 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 350 00:20:37,470 --> 00:20:39,700 and Asia minor, what is today Turkey, 351 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 357 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,870 doesn't get mentioned by name very much, we do see it 358 00:21:02,030 --> 00:21:06,346 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 366 00:21:28,870 --> 00:21:31,300 in fourni's many small bays. 367 00:21:31,470 --> 00:21:32,900 In fact, the name fourni means 368 00:21:33,070 --> 00:21:35,400 "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, 376 00:22:02,930 --> 00:22:04,646 and by extension, fourni, 377 00:22:04,670 --> 00:22:06,976 have been infamous for millennia. 378 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,800 Homer himself references them as being particularly 379 00:22:10,970 --> 00:22:14,200 tumultuous, making fourni an appealing lifeline 380 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 382 00:22:19,170 --> 00:22:20,570 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 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:38,200 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 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm