Since this is from 2003, I’ll take it that things didn’t pan out with the ark and all............Just surmising :)
They found an old homestead site (foundation at least, other stuff) and eventually (maybe from the same expedition) they found a Byzantine-era wreck with the mast still standing, down in the anoxia depths. The keywords ballard, robertballard, blacksea, noahsflood should turn up later topics. :’)