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| 0:07 | · | the sea for me has a Fascination I like being on the sea I |
| 0:13 | · | sleep better on the boat I like the smell of it the taste of |
| 0:18 | · | it so it's somewhere where I'm [Music] |
| 0:24 | · | happy yeah the depth here is 261 M 261 well do |
| 0:33 | · | as the rav moves in there's always this moment the green Haze of water gradually |
| 0:41 | · | resolves into this shape and you start seeing |
| 0:51 | · | Timbers I feel that this uncontrollable sort of surge of |
| 0:57 | · | excitement finding shipwrecks like that is breathtaking you thinking I wonder what |
| 1:03 | · | this this going to |
| 1:11 | · | [Music] |
| 1:19 | · | be sailing East at 6 knots the 3,000 ton strill Explorer heads into the |
| 1:26 | · | mysterious Waters of the Black Sea |
| 1:32 | · | she's making for a set of coordinates off the Bulgarian [Music] |
| 1:40 | · | Coast on board an international team of scientists led by John Adams one of the |
| 1:46 | · | maritime archaeologists who raised King Henry VII's Flagship the Mary [Music] |
| 1:53 | · | Rose we have some good target areas that we would like to get a little bit more |
| 1:58 | · | information but these are the select locations and what we've done is we've given the coordinates to the bridge |
| 2:05 | · | we're steaming off to do the first one |
| 2:10 | · | now more used to battling the storms of the North Sea for the oil industry the |
| 2:15 | · | high Scandinavian survey vessel will be the operational centerpiece of the |
| 2:22 | · | [Music] Expedition yeah SEC |
| 2:28 | · | on 105 okay we're heading straight towards where we said we'd |
| 2:34 | · | [Music] be Explorer this incredible oceangoing |
| 2:42 | · | survey vessel with all the systems that anybody could possibly need if I was to design a vessel and |
| 2:50 | · | equipment to do deep water archaeology this is [Music] it for the next 4 weeks home family life |
| 3:00 | · | on land will take a back seat in a quest to uncover the story of the Black |
| 3:06 | · | [Music] |
| 3:14 | · | [Music] Sea this vast sea was once a prehistoric |
| 3:22 | · | Lake unconnected to the world's |
| 3:28 | · | oceans how it then flooded remains disputed some scientists have argued |
| 3:35 | · | there was a catastrophic Deluge which inspired the biblical flood |
| 3:45 | · | story along its Shores they found evidence of early humans who settled |
| 3:50 | · | here worked the land discovered gold |
| 4:00 | · | in the Sea's hidden depths archaeologists believe there may be evidence of ancient sea |
| 4:06 | · | fairing ships from Long lost |
| 4:11 | · | Empires that could date back 3,000 years to when the Greeks first landed on the |
| 4:18 | · | Black Sea Shores until now this sea has remained |
| 4:24 | · | little explored flanked by six countries the Black Sea was for much of the 20th |
| 4:30 | · | century hidden behind the Iron [Music] |
| 4:38 | · | Curtain for the next 3 years John Adams and his team will search for evidence of |
| 4:44 | · | the Lost civilizations and the ancient peoples who lived and sailed on this |
| 4:51 | · | mysterious Sea and the whole area is an |
| 4:56 | · | archaeological Hotpot in terms of what we know about ancient civil Iz ations along its |
| 5:03 | · | Shores and in theory we would expect tremendously exciting remains from past |
| 5:09 | · | cultures underwater as |
| 5:17 | · | well Adams's right-hand man is kro bachvarov one of the few Maritime |
| 5:22 | · | archaeologists ever to have worked on a Black Sea shipwreck this is really going to sound |
| 5:28 | · | cheesy but we really are making history the ship res that we likely to find |
| 5:33 | · | there are thousands upon thousands of years of seaf fairing in this region and we know virtually nothing about |
| 5:42 | · | it Helen far specializes in prehistory uncovering the worlds in |
| 5:48 | · | which ancient peoples lived understanding that human |
| 5:54 | · | narrative against the backdrop of this changing landscape of sea level rise |
| 6:00 | · | it's really important for understanding where we've come from who we are what makes humans humans it's something that |
| 6:07 | · | people really engaged with managing the team's state-of-the-art Imaging systems is |
| 6:14 | · | maritime archaeologist Rodrigo Pacho Ruiz the Black Sea has never been |
| 6:20 | · | explored this way it's it's Virgin Territory there's is very very little |
| 6:25 | · | archaeology done here you know this is the biggest Museum in the world and he's |
| 6:31 | · | all on the water so a lot of exciting |
| 6:41 | · | stuff ah here's John are we are you ready fish my estimate is about another |
| 6:50 | · | 30 35 minutes excellent good all right |
| 7:01 | · | Joy Jo Explorer Explorer uh just information we're |
| 7:09 | · | conducting subse operation can you keep clear of us one noal mile please thank |
| 7:14 | · | you very okay I will be clear of you the strill reaches the coordinates where |
| 7:19 | · | sonar has located a signature at 300 |
| 7:25 | · | M but what's down there no one is sure |
| 7:38 | · | alongside the scientists is a team of deepsea surveyors equipped with the latest laser and sonar technology and |
| 7:46 | · | six Pilots for the remotely operated vehicles or |
| 7:53 | · | rovs linked to the ship by a fiber optic cable the supporter ROV can reach depths |
| 8:00 | · | of nearly 2,000 M gliding through the water with a touch |
| 8:05 | · | of a joystick you ready yes ready ready take it away |
| 8:14 | · | guys all stations are off deck |
| 8:21 | · | [Music] |
| 8:49 | · | Bridge uh confirm I have a green light for diving yes you have thank you con |
| 8:59 | · | Adams's command post is the ROV Pilot's cabin the supporter's eight cameras will |
| 9:06 | · | open a window to an Undiscovered World calibrating the camera getting the lights right |
| 9:13 | · | something Okie doie I'm |
| 9:26 | · | out as it descends the reporter gets closer and closer to what makes the |
| 9:32 | · | Black Sea unique at a depth of 150 M oxygen in the |
| 9:38 | · | water disappears The Sea becomes a dead |
| 9:47 | · | zone yeah the dep here is 261 M 261 |
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| 10:53 | · | [Music] |
| 11:09 | · | stunning my God look at that oh this is beautiful oh this is absolutely |
| 11:20 | · | beautiful much of the wreck has been preserved the wooden ballustrades around |
| 11:27 | · | the quarter deck the ropes for working the |
| 11:35 | · | sails in other Seas most of this wreck would not have survived that's quite a long a rope oh |
| 11:42 | · | yes that's |
| 11:49 | · | brilliant look at the M leaning against the |
| 11:55 | · | beam yeah absolutely absolutely but have you seen the carving oh The Carving it's all over the |
| 12:04 | · | place absolutely |
| 12:11 | · | beautiful the carved patterns of flowers and Vines are |
| 12:17 | · | Islamic the ship would have sailed during the Ottoman Empire probably around 300 years ago |
| 12:30 | · | it's just unbelievable it's just unbelievable I just have you ever seen no no no not not |
| 12:39 | · | life not not doing it now it's it's down there 300 |
| 12:45 | · | M we are discovering it we are looking at it now for the first time |
| 13:04 | · | three centuries ago the Black Sea was a prized possession of the Ottoman Empire |
| 13:10 | · | Merchant ships plied their trade along its Coastline a vital supply line for the |
| 13:16 | · | ottoman Capital Constantinople today's |
| 13:25 | · | Istanbul within a century of its capture close to 7 100,000 people lived in this |
| 13:31 | · | teeming City feeding the growing population was a priority for the ottoman |
| 13:41 | · | rulers ports at the mouths of the Great Rivers that fed into the Black Sea from Russia and Europe were vital trading |
| 13:49 | · | posts and were quickly captured an armada of small Traders |
| 13:55 | · | began to Ferry vital supplies back to Constantinople some ships their hulls Laden with grain |
| 14:03 | · | from the bulans precious metals from the Caucasus never made it |
| 14:22 | · | home the theory shipwrecks that come to rest on 300 M of water should be well |
| 14:28 | · | preserved but we didn't really know so the first time we started to see |
| 14:35 | · | that timan wreck that was a moment it really is like this and we can |
| 14:42 | · | see wonderful things all over the bottom of this sea potentially |
| 14:52 | · | [Music] |
| 15:03 | · | the expedition to the Black Sea began 12 months earlier on a Greek survey ship |
| 15:09 | · | the |
| 15:15 | · | EO Adams's mission was to settle a scientific argument that has divided |
| 15:20 | · | archaeology for decades how the Black Sea flooded |
| 15:26 | · | [Music] |
| 15:34 | · | using a sonar device called a toe fish which emits powerful pulses of sound the |
| 15:39 | · | team surveys the sea |
| 15:52 | · | floor the sound pulses penetrate the seabed feeding back a detailed profile |
| 15:57 | · | of the prehistoric landscape than once |
| 16:08 | · | existed 20,000 years ago the Black Sea looked very |
| 16:14 | · | different in the grip of the last ice age Global sea levels were much lower |
| 16:19 | · | and the Black Sea was a smaller freshwater lake early humans probably lived and |
| 16:27 | · | hunted on its Shores |
| 16:33 | · | at the moment we're more or less steaming over the Paleo |
| 16:40 | · | Shoreline in other words from here in that way towards the land of Bulgaria |
| 16:46 | · | which we can see in the Horizon everything was dry land Once Upon a Time |
| 16:51 | · | [Music] |
| 16:58 | · | for decades most geologists agreed that as the Ice Age ended fresh water from |
| 17:04 | · | the surrounding Rivers poured into the lake over thousands of years it slowly |
| 17:12 | · | filled up eventually the lake reached the |
| 17:18 | · | Bosphorus and began to mix with seawater from the Mediterranean creating the Black Sea |
| 17:24 | · | that exists today then in 19 97 the theory was |
| 17:30 | · | challenged by two American scientists Walter Pitman and William |
| 17:36 | · | Ryan they argued that there was little change to the prehistoric Lake until a few thousand years ago when the rising |
| 17:44 | · | seawater level of the Mediterranean burst through the Bosphorus the theory sparked huge public |
| 17:50 | · | interest recalling Noah and the biblical flood |
| 18:08 | · | two in 3 weeks of surveying with the toe fish the team creates a map of the |
| 18:13 | · | ancient buried landscape the first step in uncovering how the Black Sea |
| 18:26 | · | formed using a second toe fish the team begin a new |
| 18:34 | · | search this time they're looking for |
| 18:40 | · | shipwrecks in most oceans ancient ships have long disappeared their wooden Timbers eaten |
| 18:47 | · | by shipworm as on this 2,000-year old Greek |
| 18:52 | · | wreck but in the Black Sea because oxygen below 150 meters |
| 19:00 | · | disappears the water is anoxic it doesn't support life such as |
| 19:06 | · | [Music] shipworm it could mean that ships from |
| 19:13 | · | Long Ago Empires still might exist on the seabed |
| 19:20 | · | [Music] |
| 19:33 | · | sh probably to |
| 19:39 | · | large this is the first one that really sprang out of the screen after |
| 19:46 | · | screaming shipwreck even if it's recent this could actually be a really really interesting |
| 19:53 | · | find and this is the deepest one almost 300 M 2 |
| 19:59 | · | 78 this one's very interesting that's really good you've got collapsed beams and all |
| 20:05 | · | sorts of things you've certainly got what looks like structural Timbers all the way around yeah in a way I think |
| 20:11 | · | it's the most interesting one |
| 20:24 | · | [Music] |
| 20:31 | · | the strill is heading further out to sea to deeper water where the team hope that older |
| 20:38 | · | recks may still lie untouched for perhaps thousands of |
| 20:43 | · | years you can never tell where the ancient shipwrecks will be but if we go down below 150 M the preservation |
| 20:50 | · | becomes dramatically better and so if you're looking for ancient shipwrecks look in the deeper water you might get |
| 20:57 | · | lucky and find some really early |
| 21:08 | · | stuff online and ROV this is Bridge vessel in position ready to start |
| 21:13 | · | whenever you are |
| 21:19 | · | copy copy open stand by stand standby |
| 21:31 | · | the rec signature they'll inspect will take the ROV deeper than it's ever been |
| 21:38 | · | before 18800 m a 40-minute Journey to the |
| 21:49 | · | seabed my personal favorite on the wish list is the medieval Byzantine shipwreck |
| 21:56 | · | if we find one of those ships I'll be very |
| 22:03 | · | [Music] |
| 22:19 | · | [Music] |
| 22:26 | · | happy there is there is |
| 22:35 | · | yeah this definitely looks like a the 17th century Eastern Mediterranean |
| 22:41 | · | carago vessel that would explain the straight STM |
| 22:47 | · | post like the earlier find the ship is from the ottoman period from 2 to 300 |
| 22:54 | · | years ago okay |
| 22:59 | · | cathx ready for cathx yeah cathx is one of the R's highdef |
| 23:05 | · | cameras which photographs the wreck in minute detail and it's part of a revolutionary |
| 23:12 | · | method of surveying wrecks in deep water called photogrammetry we capture a |
| 23:18 | · | series of Stills at a frame rate of 3 every second so from these wreck we |
| 23:23 | · | managed to get 700 photos so that's a lot of high |
| 23:29 | · | resolution photography the software Stitch it together basically and you start getting |
| 23:36 | · | a much better idea of details of the ship the levels of Technology have |
| 23:42 | · | become so Advanced the things that we used to dream of as methods of |
| 23:47 | · | three-dimensional recording things underwater with speed and accuracy now |
| 23:53 | · | they're here so to a certain extent you can do an awful lot sitting in a control ground with a a cup of coffee in one |
| 23:59 | · | hand and a joystick in the other it's fantastic with the image now stitched |
| 24:04 | · | together the team have the precise dimensions of the ship can record every Timber and in this case identify every |
| 24:12 | · | artifact that might otherwise stay hidden from the photogrametry model |
| 24:19 | · | there appears to be an object wedged under a Timber near the stern of the |
| 24:25 | · | wreck you see him yes sir stand by |
| 24:31 | · | stand using the fiber optically controlled manipulator arm the ROV Pilot |
| 24:37 | · | Brien gar Begins the challenging process of retrieving the |
| 24:48 | · | artifact there's an old expression that archaeologists don't dig up things but |
| 24:54 | · | people but it's the things that allow us to get to the |
| 25:02 | · | [Music] |
| 25:10 | · | people we are faced with the material evidence the immediacy of that is what |
| 25:15 | · | fills your brain initially and then you start thinking |
| 25:21 | · | about the people and wondering what happened [Music] |
| 25:29 | · | most of those shipwrecks out there there's no obvious reason that they sunk they're on the bottom of the sea they |
| 25:34 | · | probably went down in bad storms it would have been a very Dar |
| 25:39 | · | situation to be in well |
| 25:47 | · | [Applause] |
| 25:56 | · | done what we looking at is two Clay brazers on the left one we see traces of |
| 26:04 | · | burning and traces of concreted ashes and charcoal which comes to show that |
| 26:10 | · | you the brazer was actively used in fact when we discovered it it was still full of Ashes so yeah this brazer probably |
| 26:17 | · | contained the remains of the last meal that was eaten on board the boat |
| 26:23 | · | [Music] |
| 26:32 | · | [Music] |
| 26:39 | · | you're talking to these people they suddenly become |
| 26:45 | · | live they are right next to [Music] |
| 26:54 | · | you for kro bov ships are the the closest possible connection to long lost |
| 27:03 | · | Empires a way to understand the past and its people for more than 2 years he's been |
| 27:10 | · | working on the Vasa a 17th century Swedish |
| 27:16 | · | warship if you study the Timbers properly you're going to see the marks from the tools you will learn to |
| 27:23 | · | recognize their signature on the by the way they use their tools |
| 27:30 | · | bov has been painstakingly examining each Timber of the ship's frame |
| 27:35 | · | carefully reconstructing how the Vasa was |
| 27:42 | · | built this is the first time that we really developing and understanding how the Shiites put her |
| 27:50 | · | together they're not two Timbers that are exactly the same aboard the ship or |
| 27:56 | · | that are even universally squared the capability of dealing with |
| 28:04 | · | complicated engineering problems this is telling us something about the mental state of these |
| 28:11 | · | people how much they understood the forces that were acting upon their ships how did they solve the problem of |
| 28:18 | · | creating regularly operational vessel that was safe that made it sure that it will |
| 28:26 | · | bring its cargo and preferably also crew back home at the end of The |
| 28:35 | · | Voyage in the case of the Vasa disaster struck on its maiden voyage human error |
| 28:41 | · | causing it to sink before it had left Stockholm Harbor when it was raised 60 years ago |
| 28:49 | · | archaeologists found that the ship buried in sediment had been largely |
| 28:55 | · | preserved seeing the ship the fste was the closest to a religious |
| 29:01 | · | experience that I've ever had to me it was entering a cathedral medieval |
| 29:07 | · | Cathedral Gothic Cathedral that sense of |
| 29:13 | · | all that overwhelming feeling has never left |
| 29:23 | · | me S Bridge just good we okay to start operations and we whle |
| 29:32 | · | in position for over two weeks the drill has been at |
| 29:38 | · | Sea scientists surveyors and ROV Pilots Working Day and |
| 29:47 | · | Night must be hard to keep in touch with your daughters y yeah this is life at |
| 29:54 | · | Sea sort of it's when you have the time to call uh they might be doing something else there's nothing you can do about |
| 30:02 | · | it Mommy hello you miss |
| 30:08 | · | me I dud you miss me yeah I heard that a auntie dandelion came and painted your |
| 30:15 | · | fingernails she's tired to be honest it's kind of normally when she'd be asleep at the moment |
| 30:21 | · | but okay okay by right |
| 30:31 | · | the hunt for shipwrecks goes on right 10 me to |
| 30:38 | · | go but the team is struggling to find anything older than Ottomans from around |
| 30:43 | · | 300 years |
| 30:48 | · | ago not another one oh yeah same old dear oh |
| 30:56 | · | dear it's yet another one it's another one to add to our Fleet I think it's a |
| 31:01 | · | it's a smaller example than some of the bigger ones that we've seen but it's the same generic time it's |
| 31:15 | · | disappointing none of the discoveries are the ancient wrecks Adams had hoped the deeper anoxic water would hope |
| 31:28 | · | his survey go ahead survey we not just |
| 31:36 | · | [Laughter] this you hear the official designation |
| 31:42 | · | of this of this sort of ship the AA wreck because it's they're all the same when they come virtually flat |
| 31:49 | · | [Music] packed each inspection takes time as |
| 31:55 | · | much as 6 hours it's eating into the |
| 32:00 | · | schedule they can't take shortcuts every wreck could be the |
| 32:06 | · | ancient ship they're looking |
| 32:11 | · | for priced at $20 million the Expedition has high expectations of making ancient |
| 32:18 | · | discoveries in this case there's so much money involved there's so many people involved as well and there's a lot of |
| 32:24 | · | stress there's a lot of tension there's only one chance it's uneconomic to get it wrong |
| 32:31 | · | basically at this scale it's a lot of press there's a lot of pressure to get it right |
| 32:50 | · | yeah right same stuff bloody |
| 32:55 | · | hell that's what it is our kilog is like like that you just have to work with what you have but |
| 33:02 | · | um it'll be nice to have have uh something |
| 33:10 | · | else dear dear okay time to leave the crime scene |
| 33:16 | · | y time is running out John Adams needs more than Ikea Rex |
| 33:40 | · | he also still has to determine exactly how and when the Black Sea flooded it |
| 33:46 | · | will take much of the str's resources and many days of ship |
| 33:51 | · | time surface thank you you can lower them |
| 33:58 | · | cover D go down armed with last year's map of the |
| 34:04 | · | buried landscape the team select specific sites on the seabed to |
| 34:12 | · | [Music] |
| 34:17 | · | core 6 M Long Hollow tubes are lowered onto the seabed then pushed into the |
| 34:23 | · | soft mud |
| 34:33 | · | once extracted they'll contain a core of sediment that could date back tens of thousands of |
| 34:51 | · | years this is fantastic a full 6 M of consolidated |
| 34:58 | · | that's |
| 35:03 | · | great what you're looking at here contains all the evidence for how the environment was at the time and how it |
| 35:09 | · | changed over time and that will hopefully help us to address some of the big |
| 35:14 | · | debates when it happened how it happened and what effects it had on the human populations living in the region at the |
| 35:22 | · | time 73 sites have been selected along the shallow Coastal shelf and further |
| 35:28 | · | out in deeper water the team hop the cause contain evidence of the prehistoric Lakeshore the first step in |
| 35:36 | · | understanding when and how the inundation |
| 35:43 | · | [Music] |
| 35:55 | · | happened there you go not too bad look it's a nice shell |
| 36:01 | · | material in this core thick mud sits at the top but further back in time towards |
| 36:07 | · | the bottom mixed in with the sediment are pieces of shell they could be |
| 36:13 | · | evidence of the Lake's prehistoric Coastline oh yes so we see that and we |
| 36:19 | · | GOA that looks familiar that looks like a beach why is that underwater it's |
| 36:25 | · | ancient Beach from before it got submerged so if I can understand where |
| 36:31 | · | that Coastline was then we can start looking at that Coastline thinking about |
| 36:36 | · | it what was the geography in the past of the Black |
| 36:45 | · | Sea with 73 cores to extract every hour of daylight is precious and that means |
| 36:52 | · | the search for Rex has to go on through the night |
| 36:59 | · | R online can you uh just set up the r on the on the line heading in the early |
| 37:06 | · | hours of the morning after 3 weeks at Sea the team finally finds a new wck |
| 37:18 | · | signature I'd given up and gone to bed i' been up for about 24 hours and lone |
| 37:24 | · | behold the phone rings so they said John John do you want to see something different |
| 37:36 | · | do a couple more flyovers with the sulet just to just to indulge me wide angle |
| 37:42 | · | please yeah sure and just a touch |
| 37:49 | · | higher perfect perfect okay off we go |
| 38:03 | · | that eeriness of the mass just sticking out of the darkness |
| 38:16 | · | incredible beautiful stuff Ken yes |
| 38:29 | · | do I see tool marks on that stem can we just can we just take a little bit of a lower look down the as |
| 38:37 | · | we come |
| 38:45 | · | around the new wreck isn't an ottoman it's |
| 38:51 | · | older 500 years older |
| 38:58 | · | a merchant ship most likely built in |
| 39:04 | · | Italy we're looking at a date I me I think probably 1 1200 to 14400 something |
| 39:10 | · | like that and we find pictures of them or |
| 39:15 | · | reliefs carved in churches and things but this is the first time anybody's seen anything like this the thing for |
| 39:21 | · | real almost intact it's amazing it's the sort of that Marco |
| 39:27 | · | po might have sailed |
| 39:34 | · | on when the Great medieval explorer Marco Polo returned in 1295 to Venice |
| 39:41 | · | from 24 years in the East he traveled home by sail his last sea leg was across |
| 39:48 | · | the Black Sea on a ship much like |
| 39:55 | · | this then you start thinking well the last time that that ship was |
| 40:01 | · | seen was probably the last time those people saw |
| 40:08 | · | anything what would that have been like for [Music] |
| 40:13 | · | them must been |
| 40:20 | · | terrifying suddenly it becomes about a group of people's very real demise |
| 40:28 | · | and then we were finished and the ROV just drew |
| 40:40 | · | back suddenly I thought there but the grace of God go |
| 40:45 | · | away |
| 40:57 | · | [Music] lifting a wreck of this age to the surface would cost tens of millions of |
| 41:04 | · | dollars 3D photogrametry means they don't have |
| 41:12 | · | to archaeologists now have digital tools with which to explore the |
| 41:17 | · | Rex long after the ROV has left the seed that little Mediterranean ship |
| 41:24 | · | probably built in Venice or somewhere like that gives us a way into history that we can't get by any other |
| 41:30 | · | means if you look at the ships in northern Europe in the 1500s like the marry Rose that's the other end of the |
| 41:36 | · | process so the Mediterranean ship that we found is the before and the merry Rose is the |
| 41:44 | · | after s the J West jib West Roger stand |
| 41:50 | · | by J West yeah that's that way |
| 41:57 | · | John Adams began work on raising the marry Rose in the late 1970s it quickly became the biggest |
| 42:04 | · | Maritime archaeological project ever undertaken and revealed the ship as a unique document detailing life in |
| 42:12 | · | medieval |
| 42:21 | · | England I can picture myself as though it was yesterday being inside this amazing |
| 42:34 | · | structure all the guns were still in place at the time we found them and there were shot and ropes and long bows |
| 42:42 | · | and all sorts of other stuff lying around in fact you could swim at one |
| 42:47 | · | point from one end of the main deck to the other past all these guns looking down at the guns still pointing out |
| 42:53 | · | through the gun ports and it was just the most amazing |
| 42:59 | · | experience the more we learned about the ship the more it surprised us the Ingenuity of the way in which the |
| 43:07 | · | internal space was organized and that the fixtures and fittings and the rig and all the other equipment including of course the |
| 43:15 | · | guns the Ingenuity of how to create this complex floating Society in this |
| 43:21 | · | structure of thousands of components um you know this was a this this was a new thing for you Europe at the |
| 43:30 | · | Time Medieval Europe was changing from a patchwork of small city states to |
| 43:35 | · | powerful Nations ruled by monarchies Henry VII personally paid for |
| 43:42 | · | the construction of the Mary Rose a potent symbol of his and |
| 43:48 | · | England's status ships can be seen at this period |
| 43:53 | · | as the tobs of State Building because they're now the new form of Castle they're floating castles |
| 43:59 | · | you can take your power where you want them now when we look at that Italian |
| 44:05 | · | ship in the in the Black Sea that is the stage of Maritime |
| 44:10 | · | technological development before this process of technological change happens 19,000 artifacts were uncovered |
| 44:19 | · | from the merry Rose each one adding to an intimate |
| 44:24 | · | portrait of Life lived 500 years |
| 44:34 | · | ago a shipwreck is an accident and it's a floating Society |
| 44:39 | · | therefore it contains not only the ship ITS Technologies its fixtures its fittings it rig the personal possessions of the crew |
| 44:47 | · | uh their equipment you've got this whole complex |
| 44:53 | · | structure and all the objects of those people on board |
| 45:00 | · | when you look at a ship Road you have the best way of getting at the people that is possible |
| 45:12 | · | really 332 very 55 M at 332° to move to |
| 45:21 | · | Mo back on the strill something's gone wrong with the latest dive you come to |
| 45:27 | · | stop on the vestel and we'll see if it gets it in |
| 45:36 | · | again now there is a really really bad cover so I will try to |
| 45:43 | · | turn yes guys yeah could you do a fix on me now y sure Bri say again please yes |
| 45:50 | · | Brien brid shall we yeah yeah you need to know this is a critical situation we're trying to get up and I need you to |
| 45:56 | · | speak up on the com's place 500 M down there's a problem with |
| 46:04 | · | the ROV we lost our Hydro acoustic uh |
| 46:11 | · | positioning is there but it's not coming up it's red and it's Z dep so not too |
| 46:17 | · | sure what that's happening don't trust this position because it definitely we're not getting anything in |
| 46:25 | · | anymore the supporters positioning Beacon has broken there's several million dollars worth of submersible out |
| 46:33 | · | there |
| 46:41 | · | somewhere we have a loot of 760 M of cable now and we are only 470 M under |
| 46:49 | · | the boat so the current is pulling on the L the current has dragged the ROV |
| 46:55 | · | nearly half a kilometer out to sea but in which direction no one |
| 47:02 | · | knows can't really see the cable there |
| 47:08 | · | [Music] uh can you get one of the guys on the bridge to go out and uh have a look on |
| 47:15 | · | the umbilical cable and tell me which direction it's uh |
| 47:20 | · | going if the supporter is lost it'll put a stop to the expedition's hunt for rest |
| 47:30 | · | Sur yes yeah we have your positioning about 400 m from the V we need to track |
| 47:36 | · | back to the |
| 47:42 | · | vessel Flying Blind all Brien gar can do is slowly reel the ROV back on |
| 47:50 | · | board without crashing it into the ship's Hull |
| 47:59 | · | you see now I'm coming up quite fast oh no we will lose it we will lose it |
| 48:39 | · | alls all the open back I'm so |
| 48:46 | · | relieved I had this horror of sort of going along with these sort of millions and millions of pounds worth of |
| 49:04 | · | you take that end the cing of the Black Sea in search of the prehistoric coastline is nearly |
| 49:12 | · | complete most of the 73 cores have been extracted from the shallow Coastal shelf |
| 49:18 | · | and from deeper waters they've all been sorted they now need to go back in the crate and |
| 49:23 | · | away one will attract particular interest core |
| 49:34 | · | 59 at the UK's National oceanography Center scientists from the Expedition |
| 49:39 | · | have found evidence of the prehistoric Lake as you can see we've got almost 4 M |
| 49:45 | · | of pure shell if we take a sample from here we have a real mixture it you can see that we have some slightly more |
| 49:52 | · | intact shells some that slightly broken and then we have this complet ground down uh shell within it and this is |
| 49:59 | · | really where what's happened is wave energy and the dynamic environment has basically churned this around breaking |
| 50:05 | · | them down into almost what looks like in some places like a sand and that's really good evidence that we're on the |
| 50:11 | · | edge of the Black Sea Lake as it was [Music] then taken 60 km off the present day |
| 50:19 | · | Coast the core gives a precise location of the prehistoric Lake its shores would |
| 50:25 | · | have been surrounded by tens of thousands of square kilom of dry land that is now |
| 50:32 | · | submerged that takes you to pretty much where it begins to start dropping off into the real |
| 50:39 | · | depths for Helen far the results could be evidence of how early humans might |
| 50:45 | · | have existed on this land so that's a large ANC continental |
| 50:51 | · | shelf here that would been possibly inhabited crossed by people that were |
| 50:57 | · | looking for the resources that they needed to live the Black Sea was a great |
| 51:03 | · | environment you've got rich areas which would have had game and things to hunt |
| 51:08 | · | you've got fish resources you've got Stone so you've got all the things that you really need to be |
| 51:15 | · | successful now the scientists need to resolve how this vast expanse of prehistoric land |
| 51:21 | · | flooded slowly or catastrophically would people notice it would that affect |
| 51:29 | · | people's lives what about if it was catastrophic how quick is |
| 51:53 | · | catastrophic all stations are way off deck |
| 51:59 | · | there's a new find sitting in the shallow Waters of |
| 52:05 | · | the Bulgarian Coastal shelf It looks |
| 52:12 | · | interesting I'm refusing to get excited until I know that it's not a fiberglass replica that's fallen off a container |
| 52:18 | · | ship on its way to a fair ground in Georgia or somewhere say I'm just you know not going to allow myself to get |
| 52:23 | · | excited I mean it it could be all sorts of things it's just that it it looks as |
| 52:29 | · | it could be |
| 52:37 | · | [Music] |
| 52:55 | · | special right we want to be in there somewhere |
| 53:02 | · | cheers I will be copy stand |
| 53:15 | · | [Music] |
| 53:21 | · | seconds there is a big something looming |
| 53:27 | · | yeah here we go knew |
| 53:37 | · | it when we came into the wreck you immediately got the feeling that this there's a wreck that had been down there |
| 53:42 | · | many [Music] |
| 53:49 | · | centuries so we had a ship on the seabed with structure still poking through the seabed more or less upright because the |
| 53:56 | · | shapee that we could see in the multibeam was symmetrical so it wasn't on one side it |
| 54:04 | · | wasn't smashed up and the shape of it looked unlike |
| 54:10 | · | sort of post medieval ships so we suspected it could be |
| 54:20 | · | earlier okay so if we just pull back again and look at look down at the whole |
| 54:27 | · | [Music] thing and what's this coming up |
| 54:36 | · | here a yes we go embedded in the sediment is an |
| 54:45 | · | [Music] AA an ancient clay vessel used for |
| 54:52 | · | transporting wine and olive oil |
| 54:57 | · | as we looked at it from more and more angles it became more and more obvious that it was some sort of Byzantine type |
| 55:04 | · | which immediately puts it into the sort of you know maybe a thousand years old or something it's the oldest wreck they've |
| 55:12 | · | found a merchant ship from the Byzantine |
| 55:18 | · | Empire totally new paging history that we just turned |
| 55:24 | · | today I could not be happy here it might be a thousand years old |
| 55:30 | · | but no one can date the wreck |
| 55:35 | · | precisely the aera could hold the answer if they can retrieve it they can |
| 55:42 | · | date it more closely where we're all of us for John |
| 55:47 | · | Adams the bantine at 95 m is close enough to touch to small details like |
| 55:54 | · | which gases we would use how we and Diving onto the wreck would give the |
| 55:59 | · | maritime archaeologist the chance to inspect the ancient ship Firth |
| 56:06 | · | hand you can do a lot with RS these days and of course you know |
| 56:12 | · | photogrametry is a fantastic way of recording these things in three dimensions incredibly |
| 56:18 | · | quickly but as an archaeologist to actually dive on a shipwreck site I always learn more than I could |
| 56:28 | · | remotely um and I always understand more as a result going down there yourself just |
| 56:35 | · | gives it an extra element there's an extra sort of ah I see I understand |
| 56:42 | · | that but such a deep dive is dangerous |
| 56:49 | · | [Music] |
| 56:59 | · | let's go into small details like which gases we would use how we going to at the safety meeting there are worries |
| 57:05 | · | that the dive is too risky um 95 M substantial dive we have of course a |
| 57:11 | · | medic on board for for any Earth damage people divers and we have the safety divers |
| 57:17 | · | that will also assist in this if the safety divers are hovering in 20 and a diver needs to be recovered from the |
| 57:23 | · | bottom or assisted what do we do between 60 and 20 M yeah that's that's the problem it's a bit tricky in this kind |
| 57:30 | · | of situation the first thing you have to do is just to make the guy breathing then we'll see and go up a little bit |
| 57:37 | · | because even we are full of ilium if you go up so fast |
| 57:45 | · | body you're talking about the diving equivalent of having a heart attack driving a car at 7 |
| 57:54 | · | m if John Adams eyes and anything goes wrong the entire Expedition will be |
| 58:00 | · | jeopardized |
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